>>> also what colin powell thinks.secretary of state opens up about same-sex marriage, the upcoming presidential race and the staying power of al qaeda and a lot more. my interview with him coming up in the hks hour. >> moviemakers delve behind the scene s to tell the story about osama bin laden. some critics complain they were able to dig too deep. stand by. you're in "the situation room." >>> let's get to our strategy session right now. joining us are two cnn contributors and the former bush white house speechwriter david frum. i love polls, all of us love polls who are news junkies and sometimes they're not precise. >> we like them because they can mean whatever we want them to mean. you remember on may 11th, cbs had a poll, romney, obama and women voters. 46% for romney, 44 for president obama. everybody, at least most people in the white house came out saying there were flaws in that poll and our own pollster on cnn said there was a basic flaw there and it was not rea let's wait for the next major poll to comeund

i think colin powell may have wanted the president to do more to reduce the deficit. of a fiscal conservative and you could sort of see where the reticence comes from but in the end i think he'll probably come down on the fact that he believes barack obama has been kind of a muscular president on foreign policy. >> and he also believes the president is right in now supporting same-sex marriage and romney presumably colin powell believes is way wrong on this. when i asked him the question about same-sex marriage, i wasn't sure what he was going to say. he didn't really speak out about it, even though he did have a position years ago about don't ask/don't tell in the military. all of a sudden he went to this robust defense of same-sex marriage. he feels very comfortable with the president on this issue. >> when you look back on colin powell's career, yes, he endorsed don't ask/don't tell. but he's always been culturally a little to the left of conservatives within his own party and he's been very strong on defense, very strong on foreign policy, conservative fiscally. i

and he slammed mitt romney which will sell books to his progressive friends. >> i don't think colin powell has any conservative friends left after endorsing obama in 2008. but you look at romney's foreign policy team. i wrote a story called "mitt romney's neo--con war cabinet." he's surrounded by those powell battled with. and it's no surprise that powell would be freaked out but those who are advising romney. there is no space left for colin powell. the moderate nationalism that he represents has been moved out. >> he does support abortion rights as well. i see mitt romney and it reminds me of dole. it seems he's being pushed so far to the corner to appease the right i don't know if they're trying to solidify the base? do you think he's a neo--con. >> i think he is whatever people tell him to be. don't get me wrong it was fun to watch colin powell say come on, mitt, think. but i don't understand going to someone who royally screwed up in that area and then we're going back to him for advice on that area. he royally screwed up in foreign policy. it's like going to charlie sheen and asking

colin powell is a bitter man. the iraq war but he wanted to keep the job secretary of state. what he should have done was resign. he didn't do that so he has bitterness against the republican party. is romney's team stacked with neo--cons, sure it is but look at the success in iraq. iraq turned out to be a brilliant success. and i'll give you one more. look how incredibly cheap iraq was compared to the money that obama is spending now iraq is dirt cheap. >> cenk: jack, is this a character? is it a put on? >> no, indeed. >> cenk: he pent over an interest dollarstrillion dollar in iraq and it was a colossal mess. vote for mitt romney and we'll have another iraq. >> obama spent as much on the stimulus, one tiny part of his agenda as we spend on years and years of war in iraq 's heap. c ap yoma noy knowhit owbhiut b inn babadatoday etetwhis gogo on ty're building luxury co osco osdan gues ewhswhisying emhe french andndhehe gegeanan the frene aen a the germans the people who criticized the war. >> cenk: andy, is it a g

i do like general colin powell, i have to say. i mean, really, come on. sean hannetie to think he will get someone of general powell's disingsz and honor to play that gut politics shows you how low he is willing to go. i think the general of course'sness answer was per you would expect, distinguish and had very much so from the perspective you would expect, as a military person. he expressed his concerns both for who the real threats are by the way since we're not still in the cold war, but also the overall sort of tone and ten or of the language. >> yeah. professor peterson, he said, come on, mitt, think. is that a bit too much of a challenge for mitt romney on foreign policy specifically? >> he understands that a lot of mr. romney's thinking goes on amongst the people that run his campaign, not necessarily in mitt romney's mind, but it is wonderful to see this exchange. it let's you see, one, that general powell is not going to be sort of caught up in the politics and this is part of the reason why he got out of politics a little bit early, and part of t

colin powell presented harry the award for his charitable work with wounded soldiers. harry urged the americans and the british to work together to support the men and women of the military. >>> time, now, for a look at

so i don't understand colin powell. you supported reagan, how do you support -- >> i have supported jack kennedy and lyndon johnson-- >>> kennedy was like reagan. >> they are democrats. first of all, he is not going around the world apologizing. i take except with that. i don't think we have enough time to get into the details of that. >> sean: yeah. >> all sides of this government, the executive branch and the legislative branch, the president doesn't pass appropriations bills. the bills are signed by the house and the senate and come to him for signature. and so, if the congress doesn't want to see those kinds of expenditures taking place and the numbers going up, don't pass the bills. >> sean: the democrats haven't passed a bill in more than a thousand days. >> more than a thousand days. why does it keep going up? the bills they haven't passed are not cutting things. here's the other challenge that the republicans and the democrats are going to have. the people like what they are getting from their government. when y

you do not understand colin powell. the four star general disagrees entirely with your assertion. a step further on two other shows, calling into question foreign policy advisors tapped by romney and keying in on one of the most questionable statements. >> this is to russia. this is, without question our number one geo political foe. >> governor romney said the russian federation is our number one threat. come on, think. >> come on, mitt think. stand up straight and stop talking nonsense. you have just been disciplined by the general. >> he really needs to think carefully at the statements. they are now on the walls for

we're here with general colin powell. day i will remember forever, but it is seared into your memory. you write, it's burned into my memory as my own birthday. the event will earn a prominent paragraph in my obituary. >> i get asked about that speech almost every day, every appearance i give. the reality is that it was the most visual dramatic presentation of the evidence that we had. and it came out of the national intelligence estimate that had been given to the congress months before. congress used that to pass a resolution supporting war four months earlier. >> but this was the world is taken. >> this was the real show. and worked hard on it, and everything i said that day was testified to by the intelligence community. >> you believed was true at the time. >> yes, so did they. they shouldn't have. there were a lot of people in the agency, in the community that knew some of this information wasn't as solid as it was being presented to me, and it was also presented to the president. there was nothing that i used, the p

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what is colin powell saying now? >> times i watch politics today it seems like it is all about winning, not compromising. let's not even think about -- we just had a gentleman that beat mr. lugar in indiana. his first at the same time is statement is i'm not going to compromise anything. how is the country going to work? down here, folks measure commitment by what's getting done. the twenty billion doars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to support scientists studying the environment. and the gulf is open for business - the beaches are beautiful, the seafood is delicious. last year, many areas even reported record tourism seasons. the progress continues... but that doesn't mean our job is done. we're still committed to seeing this through. bill: here we go again, america. there is a dire warning out there from the congressional budget office, that's the cbo, that the u.s. will likely dip into another recession early next yea

i think colin powell wants to take a closer look. i think as we've just talked about, there's been sort of a move away from the obama of 2008, the obama of 2012 is very different. a lot of people don't necessarily like what they see or have seen over the last three years. so they're re-evaluating where their support is going to go this time. that's a problem for this president. yeah, the polls are up and down all over the place reflecting that sense of, i'm not quite there yet. i think colin powell is an individual who supported obama in '08 who's looking critically at mitt romney in 2008. >> my power panel this morning, thank you. a programming note for everybody, colin powell will be andrea mitchell's guest on "andrea mitchell reports" tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> another thing to pass along, we're following this breaking news out of northern california where a live news conference just getting under way regarding an arrest in the case of a missing california teen. 2 -- this 21-year-old was booked last nig

that's make colin powell uncomfortable. he is a cautious diplomat.on't think he likes the rhetoric coming out of the romney camp. >>i think she's dead right. >> do you think romney is doing that and that's' miscalculation on romney's part? >> is he catering to the far right? he had to win the -- conservative enough to win . >>> next president of egypt will be moussa, yes or no. >> no are the brotherhood man. >> looks like it. >> no. >> yes. >> the answer is yes. the "the mclaughlin group" salutes our fallen heroes this memorial day weekend. bye-bye!

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and at the end of that meeting, colin powell, a relatively new as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, expected that nothing would come of it. it's the weekend. it's the day after the event. he had been through the reagan administration. you have a lot of these meetings where nothing happens. but instead the meeting ends with the president saying, let's do it. it's only going to get worse, this needs to be done. the people who were present in the room report different things that the president said. they all amount to that same message, a really decisive decision. so everything i told you so far has nothing to do with the transcripts that have just been released. let me tell you a little bit about how they help us and what they do for us. following that decision to invade panama, much of the news commentary and many of the scholars who have written about this subject since say exactly the same thing. those events at the roadblock weren't really important. this administration had made its decision well in advance that noriega was going to go. they were just waiting for an excuse. there

night off my name's christine for sound and tonight i will speak with former chief of staff to colin powell colonel lawrence wilkerson on simmering tensions with iran and on the eve of going public the facebook backlash is in full force so we'll talk to the founder of a social networking alternative one that keeps your personal information safe and then we'll speak with chris hedges plaintiff in the suit because of federal court judge to overturn the indefinite detention provision of the n.d.a. just last night i have all that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media decided to miss. over once we can think shows like law and order or even judge judy but there's something about drama in the courtroom that seems to captivate american audiences sometimes it's tearful witnesses sometimes it's those closing arguments that hit home there's the suspense is the jury deliberates even if at the end of the day the ruling in most cases it doesn't really impact most people watching just those few people involved in the case and still

first, colin powell endorsed president obama in 2008. is he ready to do it again?t want to throw my weight behind somebody. the beautiful part of being a private citizen you decide you throw your weight, if you throw your weight. i'm listening to what the republicans are saying to do to fix the fiscal problems, get the economy moving and i owe that to the republican party. >> tomorrow, talking presidential politics and more with former secretary of state colin powell. don't miss it 1:00 eastern, right here on "andrea mitchell reports." [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take away the faces on the trees... take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the storybook narrator... [ man ] you're left with more electric trucks. more recycled shipping materials... and a growing number of lower emissions planes... which still makes for a pretty enchanted tale. ♪ la la la [ man ] whoops, forgot one... [ male announcer ] sustainable solutions. fedex. solutions

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i think colin powell, a friend of mine, is an independent man.e up his mind when he decides to, however, i think what governor romney probably intended was, it is true that we have the most unsettled relationship with russia right now, and we have a leader of russia whose motivations are, to put it kindly, unclear who has a very clear history. >> all right. we're going to leave it there. thank you all very much. we'll take another break here. when we come back, a special conversation about this commencement season and some advice for the class of 2012. joining me, two of the season's most celebrated commencement st selling author michael lewis, right after this short break. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ power surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8. i've been fortunate to win on golf's biggest stages. but when joint pain and stiffness from psoriatic arthritis hit, even the smallest things became difficult. i finally unde

. >> final item here, the question of colin powell, general powell. will he endorse in this race.xt of russia and romney, one of his folks says that russia was the biggest strategic threat to the united states. colin powell was on "morning joe" this week on msnbc and had this reaction. >> when governor romney not too long ago said, you know, the russian federation is our number one threat, well, come on, think. it isn't the case. and i don't know whether mitt really feels that or whether -- >> or someone told him to say it. what? >> i don't know. you ask him. >> so are you -- >> it's been catching a lot of heck from these -- the more regular gop foreign affairs community. we are kind of taken aback by it. >> carly, quickly, is foreign affairs going to be a target of opportunity for republicans against this president? >> well, certainly foreign affairs is on the minds of average americans. especially at memorial day, when we think about the sacrifices of so many men and women in uniform and their families. i think colin powell, a good friend of mine, is an independent man and he'll

he got a greater ovation than colin powell got for the keynote address. and it was a pretty good talk by colin powell, by the way. this is complicated. i've done events in the south, charlest charleston, south carolina, where we dedicated a monument to the first memorial day and a group of black re-enactors were there. these guys are serious. and they -- i no longer crack jokes about re-enactors partly because of this experience. but it also says something about my own attitudes, doesn't it? black re-enactors are the good war. all those confederate re-enactors, eh. but if you really talk to a lot of them, there are different kinds of them. some of them are out to drink beer on a weekend, and some of them are out to just find an authenticity rush, and some of them are out to just find the past because they don't like living in the present. there are a lot of reasons people do this, but black re-enacting is -- i think -- >> is it on the rise, do you think? >> i think we reached a moment in the '90s when doing this was available to african-americans in ways

colin powell getting into things kind of, i think we can say.008. i'm talking about an endorse m. why? >> reporter: well, you know, remember, ashleigh, back just a few weeks before the november election in 2008, colin powell made big news when he came out and endorsed barack obama for president. colin powell, the republican, you know, and still is, endorsing the democrat. that was very big news. but today he wasn't so willing to get right behind president obama. in fact, let's listen to what he said on the "today" show. >> i always keep my powder dry, as we say in the military. i listen to what the president says and what he's doing, but i also have to listen to the other guy. i've known mitt romney. a good man. not a matter of whether you support bam or rom romney but who they have coming in with them. you had colin powell saying he's not ready to make an endorsement for the presidential race. i went back and i listened to the interview he did with "meet the press" when he made that endorsement. a couple things struck me at that time. first of

. >>> coming up, secretary of state colin powell joins us. >> i bet he didn't invest in facebook. >> bill richardson. al sharpton. along with msnbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >>> and up next, a look at politico's top stories of the morning. does president obama have a political problem? we'll look at the results out of arkansas and kentucky last night. >> another inmate beating? >> what? >> did another inmate beat him? >> let's go to bill karins. sometimes i feel like an inmate. >>> good morning, everyone. here's what you. >> need to know before you leave the house this morning. 10 inches of rain at the miami airport in one day alone. so still some flooding problems. a flash flood watch is in effect. not a beach day, not even close in south florida. also watching some rain on the outer banks. heavy rainfall in eastern north carolina this morning. and then as we go throughout the afternoon, some of the wet weather will move northwards. definitely virginia to washington, d.c., to baltimore, it will rain. just scattered hit and miss storms. new york, philly, ha

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colin powell will go down in history as a great military man.ot of people were disappointed when he went conservative endorsed barack obama, the most liberal person we have had run for president thus far. i think he has been a little disappointment in that sense. he is saying compromise now because he is trying to equivocate on his position. >> eric: great, because he is great with the militaryd >> bob: he's bad because he's supporting barack obama. the compromise he talks about, we had "no child left behind," bush, compromise between democrats and republicans. i needed changes but a good piece of legislation. they did it with the democrats and republicans. since the yahoo got in house they refused to sit down and talk to obama. if they won't talk to him. >> greg: he refused to talk to them. >> bob: he invited them all the time. >> dana: actually, senator mcconnell says he did not have a meeting with president obama in the first two years of the presidency. you'ven in legislative affairs. that's craziness. >> bob: i agree. it would have been a b

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