colin powell, to speak to colin powell better than i also had grave reservations and the japanese aregoing to attack america yamamoto said okay if you are going to do that i think we have to attack pearl harbor because the japanese want to control south east asia. they needed the resources of southeast asia so they could prolong the war might in china and become a quagmire? ms. miers can always produce more quiet my ears. there is never an end to this. yamamoto said if you tax asia because the style down there in america in all likelihood will come into the war we have to have preemptive attack pearl harbor so that we can delete the american fleet from coming over and i think if we can pull that off and deily the american response for six months or year that will give time to consolidate in southeast asia and our hope is this will demoralize the americans and instead of pursuing long war against us in asia they will cut a deal and leave us with some of the things for our national security. he made it very clear that he father was a big mistake. once the war had been decided upon he co

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army colonel and former chief of staff to colin powell. thank you so much for coming back on the shelf but i want to. back to it of we were saying this is nine years anniversary since the first detainees are brought to guantanamo bay if we go back to that if we go back to before when they first decided that detainees would be brought there that they know what they were doing what they were going to do with them that they know that they were going to torture them that this was a good way to avoid the law i think they knew a couple of things from very profoundly one was that they were putting them in extra legal territory if you will that is to say outside of any known jurisprudence system specifically outside ours the united states secondly they knew that final disposition was donald rumsfeld said at the time a bridge will cross when we get to it and i think he very well knew that that bridge would be well after his term in office we are approaching something like that now what is final disposition to keep these people in jail for the rest

>> they wanted to put up colin powell. he said no and that was ten years before barack obama.the good news -- >> the way to nominate one. not have one run. >> they will nominate one, won't be because they're black, it's because they're the best candidate and have the right values that the republican platform's -- >> michael steele, purely because he had the best possibility to be a leader or because he were black. >> if president obama was not in the white house michael steele would not be chairman. >> he's a good true -- >> michael steele was more than just being a black man running the rnc. michael steele had at that time he had the media presence at the rnc chairs didn't, he was able to touch the young voters and young people in the republican party. >> he started the hip-hop republican movement. >> but he mentioned it. he had no problem dealing with the tea party. >> the republican party should appeal to the hip-hop generation. >> he's been able to talk to folks in a diverse way the republican party had not been able to do previously. with that said he's been successful in

. >> now that they're in power, house republicans are demanding big cuts, but colin powell says they'reoring the elephant in the room and refusing to suggest specific cuts. you can watch it live here on nbc bay area tuesday night. >>> looking to try out a few restaurants and save money? oakland's restaurant week started today. the nine-day culinary event is designed to show off eateries and lure new patrons. long-time favorite likes yoshi's, kincaid's and the fat lady are among the restaurants offering different promotion. one example, $20 multicourse lunch at pokanova. >> restaurants trying to showcase what they do. in our case we have a panamerican restaurant, which is sort of unusual. so we're trying to feature some of the flavors of south and central america, and give people an idea of what we serve here. >> most of the restaurants are recruited by the oakland convention and visitor's bureau. 20 restaurants are taking part in the promotion. it is part of california restaurant month. >>> now we've all done it before, pulled into a parking garage and walked away to do some shopping, o

this fund was founded by then secretary of state colin powell to be incahoots with forced abortion, coercive family planning in china. it's my opinion that the u.s. should not fund the unfpa, until the unfpa until it pulls out of china. in china, a woman's body is not her own. it belongs to the state. a woman's womb is the most intimate part of her body, physically, emotionally and spiritually. for the chinese communist party to force its bloody hand right into a woman's womb and crush the life in there against her will is a heinous crime against humanity. i call upon you, president obama, if you care about women's rights, if you care about human rights, tell president hu jintao forced abortion must stop. thank you. [applause] >> that was very moving. we'll go to the press and then -- yes, ma'am. >> i know some of them had a chance to talk to president obama before president hu's visit. what's the main message they delivered to president obama? >> can anybody speak about the president? >> to the best of my knowledge, no one here has been granted that opportunity. a letter as carbon monoxide

and senate leadership, all the relative committee shares, and our military leaders, including colin powell. in 2010, before the national hispanic caucus, president obama stated he would do whatever it takes to support the efforts to pass this bill, so he can sign it into law on behalf of students seeking a college education and those who wish to serve in our country's uniform. it is the right thing to do. steve li is a junior in city college who aspires to be a health care worker. he graduated from george washington high school as well as hoover middle school, where he was an editor and reporter for the school newspaper and ran on the track and cross-country team. he is scheduled to graduate in september 2011. he entered the u.s. when he was about 12 years old and was ordered removed from the united states to peru when he was 14. he has no knowledge of the deportation because he was a derivative beneficiary of his mother's political asylum application. when the judge denied that her status, that denied his status in the u.s. where he was a minor. he was never reformed -- he was never infor

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that they choose wisely joining me to discuss it is lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to colin powell jake brewer open government strategist and advocate and anthony rand director of economic research for the reason foundation gentlemen thank you all for being here and you know what we're going to do today is we're going to kind of segment our discussion about obama and his performance so we're going to start off with the economy because this is the number one thing on many americans' minds they want the economy to get back on track but they want to get their jobs back so first i'd like all of you to write down the grade that you believe obama deserves when it comes to how he's handled the economy and you can all just flip him up and show the cameras . are. playing this film from i'd rather. very wily of you guys as an easy it were just a way off the richter scale and a d. who wants to star anthony that's really really low that's bad fail true well i mean what what did we want from the economy when the present time is right in there in trivia who want to jobs back on economic growth w

madam speaker, i think former secretary of state colin powell said it best this weekend and i quote, i'm very put off when people just say, let's go back and freeze to the level two years ago. don't tell me you're going to freeze to a level. that usually is a very inefficient way of doing it. tell me what you're going to cut. as i urge my colleagues to reject this misguided resolution, i ask my republican colleagues, what's the number and what are you going to cut? i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds to say to my good friend, again, that this is the beginning of a process. we have been saddled with situation where for the first time since the implementation of the 1974 budget impoundment act we have no budget. and so what is it we've elected to do? nearly halfway through the fiscal year we're faced with this challenge. we're now in a position where we are going to begin going through regular order to ensure that we have a budget which we didn't do last ye

. >> it is interesting that colin powell basically made out a list of demands to president musharraf, whose government recognize the taliban and said, who are you with? he said, the united states, and that began an important relationship, because pakistan had an affect on what took place in afghanistan, and i describe my relationship with president musharraf throughout the book, and there is attention. on the one half there's a -- tension. a tension, their heire is that they needed our help to deal with extremists and murder, and on the other hand there was the attention of the linguistic the military who -- the problem of dealing with the military. the relationship between pakistan and the united states is a critical relationship, and it is important for the country to recognize it is a democracy. some say, why don't we just send in troops to clean out the extremists? the answer is that pakistan is a sovereign nation that does not want u.s. troops on its soil if people say, we welcome u.s. troops, they would throw them out. the other issue was with india. mine was the first administr

>> i think that colin powell, who believes in making this coalition, very important to have this coalition, which thwarted us in the gulf wa and will thwart us again, but he belies in it and he's convinced bush of it, i guess. and they think that israel is an impediment to the coalition, but the coal sessi crazy. in the first place. >> can we do it by ourselves? >> we can certainly do it with nato and nato is on board. don't know what we need those guys for. >> what i you bombnd take out whatever you have to take out in the situation and you've made all the arab countries mad? >> the saudis wrnt mad when we went to war against saddam hussein. it's -- it's childish to think that. they're not -- they have business among themselves and they're n all friends. they're not -- there isn't a big political unity called islam. and abs are not eve the majority of muslims in the world, you know. and we're big and they depend on us. and we can say, cut it out. but we never do. excuse me. >> at the end of your book at the last page, you say, "i am certain that part of our deep discomfort in this comfort

a point that colin powell made very eloquentfully his endorsement moment. but i think politicians have a huge responsibility and that's why tomorrow will be a very indicative day about barack obama and where we go with this conversation. >> rose: if david... because you've written about the brain and what you have said about mental illness today is it possible that this is where something deeper will come out of it? some sense that we have to recognize when we see this earlier and that somehow this might imprint on all of us the notion that don't leave unnoticed and unconnected when we see someone that clearly seems to be disturbed and might go over the deep end. >> well, first there's a lesson for people in our business which is we are all very attuned to talking about politics. we're not attuned to talking about psychology. and we're not well trained in that and i include myself in that. and so i do think when you looked at the press reaction i think if there were more people on staff who had taken even a month course at a school to sort of get the basic

madam speaker, i think former secretary of state colin powell said it best this weekend and i quote,'m very put off when people just say, let's go back and freeze to the level two years ago. don't tell me you're going to freeze to a level. that usually is a very inefficient way of doing it. tell me what you're going to cut. as i urge my colleagues to reject this misguided resolution, i ask my republican colleagues, what's the number and what are you going to cut? i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds to say to my good friend, again, that this is the beginning of a process. we have been saddled with situation where for the first time since the implementation of the 1974 budget impoundment act we have no budget. and so what is it we've elected to do? nearly halfway through the fiscal year we're faced with this challenge. we're now in a position where we are going to begin going through regular order to ensure that we have a budget which we didn't do last year

colin powell has already been quoted, we're still waiting for the answer of what is going to be cut. the time when getting out of debt, growing the economy and creating jobs our country's defining bipartisan challenges. we need hard choices, not more political theater. now, we passed a budget enforcement resolution which was criticized by the other side because we didn't pass a full budget. i think that's perhaps correct. mr. mcgovern: an additional minute. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding an additional minute. but in that budget enforcement resolution we had a number and when you voted on the rule you knew the number you were voting on as a house of representatives. here you have no idea what you're voting on. you could be voting for 2008 numbers or anything less than that thunder resolution. mr. dreier: will the gentleman yield? i'll yield my friend additional time. let me just say to my friend, mr. speaker, that this is the beginning of a process. this is a one sentence resolution that will allow this house to go on record making a strong commitment to reducing the le

lot of time on pakistan because, well, what's interesting, one of the anecdotes i put in there, colin powell, secretary of state reported in shortly after 9/11 that he basically laid out a list of demands to president musharraf whose government had recognized the taliban and said, "who you with?" taliban or the united states. president musharraf said the united states. and that began a very important relationship because pakistan had an effect on what took place in afghanistan. and i describe my relationship with president musharraf throughout the book and there's a natural tension. on the one hand there's the tension of convincing the paks that they needed our help to deal with the extremists that would murder. on the other hand, there was the tension of president musharraf being both president and commander of the military. in other words, it wasn't exactly the constitutional form of government that the pak -- the pak people expected. and the relationship between pakistan and the united states as far as your security in the future is a critical relationship. and it's important for the coun

former secretary of state colin powell and former bush speech writer. finally at 4 p.m., talking with the republican john mccain and senator chuck shuler of new york. those begin at noon with nbc's meet the press. 1:00, nbc's this week. state of the union at 2 and face the nation on cbs. listen to them all. on xm satellite radio 132 and on line at c-span radio.org. today on c-span's road to the white house. michelle bachmann is in illinois and rick san for um on his eighth visit to south carolina with the first votes of the 20 is it president den hall race a year away. tune in to c-span's road to the white house today 6:30 and 9:30 eastern and pacific. tuesday, a joint session of congress. dpining at 8 p.m. eastern. followed by the president's speech at 9. the republican response from house chairman plus your phone calls and reaction. live on c-span. on line at c-span.org. you can watch the president's address followed by reaction of congress. >> washington journal continues. >> in light of the shooting in arizona two weeks ago, a renewed debate on the

this fund was founded by then secretary of state colin powell to be in cahoots with forced abortion familyplanning in china. it's my opinion the u.s. should not find the unfpa until the unfpa pulls out of china. in china, a woman's body is not her own. it belongs to the state. a woman's will miss the most intimate part of her body, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. for the chinese communist party to force their hand right into a woman's womb and crush the life in there against her will is a heinous crime against humanity. i call upon you, president obama, if you care about women's rights, if you care about human rights, tell president hu jintao forced abortion must stop. thank you. [applause] >> that was very moving. one from the press and then i will go over there. yes, ma'am. >> some of them have already had a chance to talk to president obama before president hu's kovacic. i want to what is the main message to deliver to president obama. >> to the best of my knowledge, no one here has been granted the opportunity to read a letter as congresswoman will said was sent to the presid

only book i can recall in the last 15 or 20 years that i read that was by somebody i knew was colin powell's book. so i tend to read books from an earlier period. for example, right now i'm reading james swanson's second book. his first one, "manhunt" was about the assassination for lincoln and the capture of john wilkes booth. this one called bloody crimes is about the lincoln funeral co quartet and the chase for jefferson davis. and i just finished a book about roosevelt and the court packing period in 1937. and just to give you some other examples if you're interested. before that it was winston grims about the battle of vicksberg. i tend to read -- american history tends to be earlier so that we had some time for a perspective and i tend to stay away from the current books. >> no bob woodward? >> no bob woodward. >> [laughter] >> you recently an ipad. what do you think about it? >> i love it. the most significant my playbook. [laughter] >> which i will soon become addicted to. >> what do you use it for and what do you like about it? >> it's just an incredible device. it's amazing. i use

the bottom of the cable is the secretary of state, whether it's hillary clinton or condy rice or colin powell, mad rin albright and whatever have you. the contents of that cable was generated outside of the state department. it did not instruct diplomats to spy. it simply was a cable that said these are things that are useful to us if you come across them. it didn't change the day to day activity of our diplomats. message like that arrived at post it was ignored. >> david from nicholas college, south of wooster. >> i'm a holy cross graduate, so i know where all of you are coming from. >> far eco-zack rya said it was harmful to the state department and the united states government. how do you react to the suggestion that the american people should take solace in the way that the state department is dealing diplomatically, you know, based on what is in these cables? >> we are not embarrassed. we are embarrassed that confidential communications have been compromised and that means necessarily that the next time one of our ambassadors or one of my counterparts or other assistant secretary is talk

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the bottom of the cable is the secretary of state, whether it's hillary clinton or condy rice or colin powell, mad rin albright and whatever have you. the contents of that cable was generated outside of the state department. it did not instruct diplomats to spy. it simply was a cable that said these are things that are useful to us if you come across them. it didn't change the day to day activity of our diplomats. in fact, in most cases when a message like that arrived at post it was ignored. >> david from nicholas college, south of wooster. >> i'm a holy cross graduate, so i know where all of you are coming from. >> far eco-zack rya said it was harmful to the state department and the united states government. how do you react to the suggestion that the american people should take solace in the way that the state department is dealing diplomatically, you know, based on what is in these cables? >> we are not embarrassed. we are embarrassed that confidential communications have been compromised and that means necessarily that the next time one of our ambassadors or one of my counterparts or oth

the army after a distinguished 31-year career, several of those spent as an assistant to general colin powell as noted in his bio as well as an assistant to ambassador richard hos on the policy planning staff. colonel wilkerson now teaches and has commented extensively on national security policy and again the state of civil military relations. with that, join me in welcoming general dunlap. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, chris. >> could you speak from the podium, please? >> okay. >> thank you. >> that does go up if you need to adjust that. >> chris, thank you very much for those kind words. i'd like to thank the cato institute for sponsoring this very, very important symposium. and, ma'am, it is an honor to have heard your remarks. can i differ with you on one point? you said the remnant of the speech has -- the entire speech still has contemporary value. i think it's one of these things we ought to make every kid, if we can make any kid do anything, read as they're growing up because it has so much relevance to society today. i know we're going to have another panel later this morning

the army after a distinguished 31-year career, several of those spent as an assistant to general colin powell as noted in his bio as well as an assistant to ambassador richard hos on the policy planning staff. colonel wilkerson now teaches and has commented extensively on national security policy and again the state of civil military relations. with that, join me in welcoming general dunlap. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, chris. >> could you speak from the podium, please? >> okay. >> thank you. >> that does go up if you need to adjust that. >> chris, thank you very much for those kind words. i'd like to thank the cato institute for sponsoring this very, very important symposium. and, ma'am, it is an honor to have heard your remarks. can i differ with you on one point? you said the remnant of the speech has -- the entire speech still has contemporary value. i think it's one of these things we ought to make every kid, if we can make any kid do anything, read as they're growing up because it has so much relevance to society today. i know we're going to have another panel later this morning

madam speaker, i think former secretary of state colin powell said it best this weekend and i quote, i'm very put off when people just say, let's go back and freeze to the level two years ago. don't tell me you're going to freeze to a level. that usually is a very inefficient way of doing it. tell me what you're going to cut. as i urge my colleagues to reject this misguided resolution, i ask my republican colleagues, what's the number and what are you going to cut? i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: madam speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds to say to my good friend, again, that this is the beginning of a process. we have been saddled with situation where for the first time since the implementation of the 1974 budget impoundment act we have no budget. and so what is it we've elected to do? nearly halfway through the fiscal year we're faced with this challenge. we're now in a position where we are going to begin going through regular order to ensure that we have a budget which we didn't do last ye

the army after a distinguished 31-year career, several of those spent as an assistant to general colin powell as noted in his bio as well as an assistant to ambassador richard hos on the policy planning staff. colonel wilkerson now teaches and has commented extensively on national security policy and again the state of civil military relations. with that, join me in welcoming general dunlap. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, chris. >> could you speak from the podium, please? >> okay. >> thank you. >> that does go up if you need to adjust that. >> chris, thank you very much for those kind words. i'd like to thank the cato institute for sponsoring this very, very important symposium. and, ma'am, it is an honor to have heard your remarks. can i differ with you on one point? you said the remnant of the speech has -- the entire speech still has contemporary value. i think it's one of these things we ought to make every kid, if we can make any kid do anything, read as they're growing up because it has so much relevance to society today. i know we're going to have another panel later this morning

his relationship with president bush, policy differences he had with people like condy rice and colin powell. critics won't find apologies for tactics like enhanced interrogation. his friend, former wyoming senator alan simpson says the book will be, quote, a hell of a book, dick cheney in full. >> he knows how to tease a book, too, jamie. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> once again, here's matt. >> congress returns to business for the first time since the shooting rampage in arizona. this as sarah palin speaks out and defends her reference to blood libel to critics. kelly o'donnell has the details on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt. political figures are trying to figure out what, if anything, will change in the tone of debate here in congress and more broadly. and sarah palin is answering the first questions about controversy over things she has said and done that have been linked to the tucson tragedy. >> i will continue to speak out. they are not going to shut me up. >> reporter: a defiant sarah palin appeared on fox news channel to defend her words and her polit

the army after a distinguished 31-year career, several of those spent as an assistant to general colin powell as noted in his bio as well as an assistant to ambassador richard hos on the policy planning staff. colonel wilkerson now teaches and has commented extensively on national security policy and again the state of civil military relations. with that, join me in welcoming general dunlap. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, chris. >> could you speak from the podium, please? >> okay. >> thank you. >> that does go up if you need to adjust that. >> chris, thank you very much for those kind words. i'd like to thank the cato institute for sponsoring this very, very important symposium. and, ma'am, it is an honor to have heard your remarks. can i differ with you on one point? you said the remnant of the speech has -- the entire speech still has contemporary value. i think it's one of these things we ought to make every kid, if we can make any kid do anything, read as they're growing up because it has so much relevance to society today. i know we're going to have another panel later this morning

>> i spent a lot of time and pakistan -- colin powell, the secretary of state, reported in shortly after 9/11 that he basically let out a list of musharraf,president asking him who he was with. he said the united states. that became an important relationships because pakistan had an effect on what took place in afghanistan. there is a natural tension. on the one hand there is attention of convincing them that they needed our help. and then he was also president and commander of the military. it wasn't exactly a constitutional form of government that the pakistani people expected. the relationship as far as your security is a critical relationship. it is important for the country to recognize that it is a democracy. for example, some say why don't we send in troops in cleanup the extremists. the answer is because pakistan is a sovereign nation that does not want u.s. troops on their soil. and people would say, we welcome u.s. troops there would no longer be governing in pakistan and the people would for the amount for the other interesting relationship is with india. mine was the first ad

i am hope i am not -- i hope i am not misquoting colin powell. she said -- he said there are as many lunatics in my party as there are in yours. i hope we get more money so we can get some of these people out of these parties. there are extremes in each party. maybe we need to get that out of it. host: thank you for the call. we heard from fbi director robert muller. rep giffords was the target of the shooting. for ast one staff er congresswoman giffords was killed. john boehner spoke outside his district in cincinnati. >> good morning. the thoughts and prayers of the house and the nation are with congresswoman giffords and her family. we are also pressing for the families of judge roll and all of those who were taken from us so senselessly. among them was gabe simmerman. zimmerman. i have ordered that the flags be flown at half staff. an attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. i want to commend the federal, state, and local officials, as well as the capitol police, for all of their efforts. i told the fbi that the house stands re