colin powell was outstanding today.i don't see how anyone cannot support this effort. >> he made a wonderful presentation and a great case for the purpose of disarmament. >> it was devastating and overcoming. overwhelming abundance of evidence. point after point after point, flooded the terrain with data. >> america has made its case. >> an excerpt from "were made easy." he may recognize some of those namevoices. norman solomon, this is from your film, based on your book, "war made easy: how presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death." you had colin powell pushing for war and as colonel lawrence wilkerson said, he believes what are not the speech were made the u.s. would have to attack iraq. you have the media, which is supposed to be the fourth state, not part of the state. talk about its role. >> we just heard colonel wilkerson say that we were all wrong, >> in him from a few minutes ago. in fact, we were not all wrong. as a matter of fact, many experts and researchers from the get go in 2002 were saying that th

i mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities. >> stephen: how dare colin powell charge the gop with intolerance, when it is the party of such prominent black republicans as colin powell and-- others, one imagines. [ laughter ] but the definitive proof that we're in a post-racial america is that the ku klux klan, maybe the group most identified with racism-- aren't racists anymore! jim? >> the ku klux klan is out to change its image and promote a new agenda. >> the klan says it's now under christian based leadership, stressing that it's not a hate group anymore, but a group that wants to call attention to issues like illegal immigration and outsourcing of jobs. >> everyone thinks that we're a hate group. we're not a hate group. we don't hate anyone. i mean, we want to see good things come to our race. [ laughter ] >> stephen: see? they are not a hate group. they just want to see good things come to their race-- through eyeholes cut in a pillowcase. [ laughter ] and this new kkk is spreading its positive message the way any open-minded group would: door-to-door in the dea

talking about weapons of mass destruction is tomorrow what kind of legacy are we learning from colin powell and from the u.s. intelligence agency coming out now you know well that was a very sad performance that we could tell that even if part of what he said was true that was no reason to go to war with iraq the war going to war was decided in the intelligence was manufactured so that fabricated actually rockefeller the head of the senate intelligence committee said that the intelligence was uncorroborated contradicted or even nonexistent but we only have about a minute let me finish i have to ask you what role did colin powell play well he was a willing participant in this charade now how much he knew about the lies is really the jury. he knew enough to be very suspicious but this curveball character the fellow talked about the biological weapons labs unit remember those artists renderings and all that it looks like the head of the cia george tenet and his deputy john mclaughlin really really just sheaves powell on that and there's lots of circumstantial evidence that's the case that's co

secretary of state colin powell and his senior staff who unlike their counterparts at defense are allormer military men, they press to give a chance for sanctions to work, for inspections to keep saddam in check. >> the concern was we hadn't finished in afghanistan, and if we went to war in iraq, we would take the emphasis off afghanistan, which is subsequently exactly what happened. >> the administration has saddam squarely in its sights. the time has come to persuade congress to squeeze the trigger. >> one of the most serious responsibilities the congress has is to cast a vote to send a young man or woman to war to die. ♪ [ jen garner ] what skincare brand is so effective... so trusted... so clinically proven dermatologists recommend it twice as much as any other brand? neutrogena®. recommended by dermatologists 2 times more than any other brand. now that's beautiful. neutrogena®. ♪ >>> i'm milissa rehberger. here is what is happening. nike and oakley are distancing themselves from troubled olympic athlete oscar pistorius. pistorius is charged with killing his girlfriend. >>> burger

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and live colin powell, i'm also uncomfortable with the more extreme elements of the republican party.hink it's fair to characterize an entire party by the extreme elements. if the general wants to play that game, there are plenty of extreme elements in the democratic party that he could be concerned about, and i don't think he is. but the thing that interested me the most, bill, about the interview and the general, he portrays himself as a moderate republican, but yet in 2008, he had the opportunity to vote for a moderate republican and he chose to vote for the liberal democrat. and in 2012, he had another opportunity to vote for a moderate republican and again he decided to vote for the liberal democrat. i don't think it's about the extremists. i think that general powell is simply more comfortable being part of a liberal democratic party than a conservative republican party. and not the extremist part of the party. i think that he's not comfortable with the ru the run-of-the-mill part of the republican party >> bill: thank you, and we're asking, was my interview with colin powell to

before that, colin powell had the job. kerry is the first white man to hold the job of secretary of state since warren christopher 16 years ago. >>> now to the 15-year-old girl who became a global inspiration after she survived an assassination attempt by the taliban in pakistan, because she spoke out for the rights of young women. her name, malala, now being mentioned for the nobel peace prize. and tonight we're hearing from her for the first time since her remarkable recovery. our report from nbc's keir simmons in london. >> today you can see that i'm alive. i can speak. i can see you. i can see everyone. and i'm getting better day by day. >> reporter: malala yousafzai's first words on camera were to thank others. >> because all the people, men, women, children, all of them have prayed for me. and because of these prayers, god has given me this new life. >> reporter: she almost died. shot in the head last october by islamic extremists, because she fought for the right of young women to have an education. on saturday, she

and last week alone we saw it from colin powell, brian williams and president obama himself. colin powell went on the sunday show talking about the dark vein of intolerance that was running throughout the republican party. what evidence did he provide for that assertion? we are not left wing. we don't believe in anthropogenic climate change or we don't believe there should be redistribution of wealth or we don't believe in obamacare. if we would just move to the left that would make us not racist. colin powell above all should know how not raise our party is considering selling in our party were considering supporting him despite his liberalism in 1996 for presidential run and secretary of state under president bush obviously, somebody who is treated well by the republican party but that didn't stop him anyway because now colin powell is on the left and that means we are the bad guys. president obama did in his inaugural address just last week also, there's a peculiar line in his speech where he said absolutism is not printable and name calling is not discussion. he then proc

we saw it from colin powell, brian williams and president obama himself. colin powell went on the sunday shows and talked about the so-called dark vein of intolerance that was running throughout the republican party. now, what evidence did he provide for that assertion? that we're not left wing, that we don't believe in climate change or that we don't believe in redistribution of wealth or that we don't believe in obamacare, and if we would just move to the left, suddenly that would make us not racist. now, colin powell above all should know how not racist our party is considering how much of our party were willing to support him in 1996. this is somebody who's treated very well by the republican party. now colin powell is on the left, and that means that we are the bad guys. president obama did it in his inaugural address just last week also. he said there was a peculiar line in his speech where he said absolutism is not principle, and he said that name calling is not discussion. he then proceeded to spend the rest of his speech name calling and avoiding

i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set the ten years ago today former secretary of state colin powell laid out his case before the u.n. for an all out war against iraq under the pretext that saddam hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction here's a clip to jog your memory. in a teaspoon of dry anthrax a little bit about this amount this is just about the amount of a teaspoon less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an envoy shutdown the united states senate iraq declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax but unscom estimates that saddam hussein could have produced twenty five thousand liters it should come as no shock then that since saddam hussein forced out the last inspectors in one thousand nine hundred eighty we have amassed much intelligence indicating that iraq is continuing to make these weapons we know that iraq has at least seven of these mobile biological agent factories what followed this anthrax fear mongering was operation iraqi freedom that cost over eight hundred billion u.s. dollars thousands of american casualties over a million dead iraqis and of course n

i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set to ten years ago today former secretary of state colin powell laid out his case before the u.n. for an all out war against iraq under the pretext that saddam hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction here's a clip to jog your memory. less than a teaspoon of dry anthrax a little bit about this amount this is just about the amount of a teaspoon less than a teaspoon full of dry anthrax in an r.v. shutdown the united states senate iraq declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax but unscom estimates that saddam hussein could have produced twenty five thousand liters it should come as no shock then that since saddam hussein forced out the last inspectors in one thousand nine hundred eighty we have amassed much intelligence indicating that iraq is continuing to make these weapons we know that iraq has at least seven of these mobile biological agent factories what followed this anthrax fear mongering was operation iraqi freedom that cost over eight hundred billion u.s. dollars thousands of american casualties over a million dead iraqis and of co

but the american role and the french role, colin powell's role was indefensible. >> host: why do you- think the change? >> guest: you'd have to ask ron dellums. >> host: had you known ron dellums for a while? >> guest: for years and years. twenty years. >> host: we have another hour and a half today in our "in depth" program with randall robinson, the author of five nonfiction books including this one, "the debt: what america owes to blacks." and mr. robinson begins this book talking about the u.s. capitol rotunda. we're going to show you just a little bit of video from c-span archives of mr. robinson talking about it. >> guest: when i was writing about the book that we will talk about many times ago. and denial, i think, operates for the victims as well. and i came down, and she said look up. and i looked up and saw a painting on the eye of the rotunda. it's called the apotheosis of george washington. it represents to us all the ideals and objectives of of american democracy. george is surrounded by 60 robed figures, all of whom are white. on the rum of the dome -- on the rim of the

but the american role and the french role, colin powell's role was indefensible. >> host: why do you- think the change? >> guest: you'd have to ask ron dellums. >> host: had you known ron dellums for a while? >> guest: for years and years. twenty years. >> host: we have another hour and a half today in our "in depth" program with randall robinson, the author of five nonfiction books including this one, "the debt: what america owes to blacks." and mr. robinson begins this book talking about the u.s. capitol rotunda. we're going to show you just a little bit of video from c-span archives of mr. robinson talking about it. >> guest: when i was writing about the book that we will talk about many times ago. and denial, i think, operates for the victims as well. and i came down, and she said look up. and i looked up and saw a painting on the eye of the rotunda. it's called the apotheosis of george washington. it represents to us all the ideals and objectives of of american democracy. george is surrounded by 60 robed figures, all of whom are white. on the rum of the dome -- on the rim of the

general colin powell and condoleezza rice.have instudio here the models who portray condoleezza rice and colin powell. will you come on in? how cute. what do you think about this? can i get your name? >> gabrielle. >> what do you think about being condoleezza rice? was it fun? >> yes. >> it was? >> you must be the cutest general in the whole world. what is your name? >> jacob. >> jacob? so handsome. what was it like to be general powell? for the picture. was it fun to get your picture taken? good luck to both of you. no doubt you'll be the next anything you want to be. how can folks see the photos? can we buy them? >> yes. >> what can we do? >> the photos are available as posters, and there's also an 18- month calendar for shipping in may. it will be from july 2013 to december 2014. it's on the facebook fan page. so it's face book.com/unique jones photography. >> local photographer. now national photographer. world wide web indeed. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> i really enjoy your work. tony, back to you. thank you. >> i

from the iraq debacle from the faulty intelligence to 50 tons of mustard gas on a turkey farm to colin powell and his vile of confectioners anthrax that they all must be held accountable was was this? >> every intelligence agency in the world believed saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. thing goes bad in wars. mistakes happen. when things go bad, things go bad. the war of mismanaged. we are where we are now. mistakes have been made. they've been well chronicled in covert to and fiasco. >> jon: a lot of books fiasco, (bleep) brain adventure. there was that book "boy where we wrong." there was "fist shades of wrong." that was book "oops based on the novel wrong by sapphire. oh, yeah the five people you meet in heaven who knew you were wrong. i get it things go bad. we are where we are. the only thing that wol make this worse would be if not only was mccain hypocritical about his level of outrage but if the level of outrage fueling the hagel filibuster was with a hint of junior high school level pettiness. >> it goes back to there's a had the of ill will towards senator hagel because

former secretary of state colin powell, laura bush not happy about her a parns. group behind the ad to remove her and the group has done so. they have changed the ads, taken her out and anyway, about the power that one has to be included or excluded from an ad, especially when they are a person on the public stage. it comes as the u.s. supreme court prepares to tackle same-sex marriage this spring. let's bring in the panel. the editorial project director, good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> lloyd webr, good to see you too. jacob, host of huff post live. the author and psychologist, this is interesting. this group acted fast to take laura bush out of the ad, but let's talk about how one, especially on the public stage is able to say take me out of it after your comments have been broadcast and made public. do you still have the power of how the image is being used? >> especially if you are the former first lady of the united states. about to make a judgment on the issue. laura bush is on the right side of history and any number of conservatives came out wi

laura bush, colin powell and former vice president dick cheney.an only wonder which of them would ask to be removed from the ad first. if you guessed laura bush, you're the unlikely winner of the office pool. the former first lady asked the respect for marriage coalition to remove her remarks which she originally said on larry king back on 2010. let's have a last look. >> none of white house want to be told we can't marry the person we love. that's why growing majority of americans believe it is time to allow marriage for gay and lesbian couples. >> when couples are committed they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has. >> john: it is disturbing not because it reminds us all that larry king used to have a tv show on five nights a week but she said it. presumably, she still believes it. she's written she believes it but she won't help out a group that's fighting for it. let me bring in my panel of nonexperts, three of my favorite comedians. i'm happy to welcome elon james white, managing director of this week in blackness and contr

in another part of the film, lawrence wilkinson, chief of staff to colin powell, said he and colin powell participated in what he called a hoax. unintentionally, but he called it a hoax. >> one of the things i could never understand, at the time i didn't either, the hawks in the middle east believe somehow if you could break apart one of the arab front line states were rejectionist, the road through -- to jerusalem goes through baghdad. if you broke one of them, they [ female announcer ] going to sleep may be easy, but when you wake up in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it's hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can't get back to sleep. it's an effective sleep medicine you don't take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep. do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing zolpidem, such as ambien. allergic reactions such as shortness of breath or swelling of your tongue

me and colin powell campaigned for president obama. i love president obama and i love the first lady. when are you coming on our show. >> when you invite me. >> they have anchors come from other affiliates and you sit at the table with us. >> i can? >> what i would love for you to do is get all of you to come and we put you in a sex and be on camera. you could bring us some ben's chili bowl. the cbs checks don't bounce, baby. you go right to the bank. >> i know we're not -- i'm going to come back and we can do a whole thing. can i tell you something. you are icon. i just need to know how do you get a tv job as baby? because they say how long you been doing it and i was like she was a baby. she was a little baby. >> 43 years. can you believe it? >> you look fantastic. >> make-up, honey. >> that is genetics. >> where is your grand father. >> he lived to be 09-something years old. >> who is the old he have single man in your family. >> uncle, i do. -- who is the oldest single man in your family? >> uncle, i do. >> i want to come back. >>

colin powell saying there's a dark vein of intolerance in the party.ing maybe electing crazy is not the best strategy for the party. have been cut down basically by members of their own party. >> we're seeing the infighting very clearly now. i think to me, at any rate, as someone who looks at all this from the policy percent penkt, what you really are seeing is a party that does really two things. one, when they don't like the numbers, they make them up, and, the other is they infight. what they're not doing and what i think colin powell in particular is pushing them towards and condi rice, some of the martyr folks are pushing them towards, that what they're needing to do is they about what the american people need to hear if their political parties right now because we have one party that's struggling to get its message through, the democrats on the economy, on emgregs, on guns. another party that's engaged in all this that you are just describing. again, i said this earlier. i'll say it again now. we are not a country at a moment where a political pa

we're talking laura bush, colin powell, the president? >> these are thoughtful leaders from the president right through, they choose words carefully and take stands carefully. they weren't all there before but they all have spoken out and supported the freedom to marry and they're voices matter -- >> they like being used in the campaign? did they say have you reached out to them saying we're using your voices in this fashion? >> they are already on the record and there in public and we want the country to hear it and embrace the leadership. >> the "washington post" ruth marcus calls this obama's marriage equality test in a new op-ed she penned saying a president who spks so eloquently cannot allow his administration to remain silent before the court where words are translated into reality. so should minority rights be put up to statewide vote for majorities to vote on marriage equality? the president basically said in the interview with robin roberts, that's the way he supports this, that states can figure this out. >> what the president

also signing their names, mary cheney, nicolle wallace, ben ginsberg, and michael powell, colin powell's's chairman -- was of the bush administration fcc back then. and in the biggest turnaround, meg whitman, who supported proposition 8 barring gay marriage when she ran for governor of california. now supports gay marriage. joining me is jimmy lasalvia, president of go proud, and msnbc contributor ron reagan. gentlemen, thank you for joining us. jimmy, you have been involved in this fight and i think on the republican side. when did the turn begin? when did you start meeting people who at least said privately we got to change on this from what the platform has been saying? >> well, i think this issue has been moving faster than any issue we've seen ever in my lifetime, and it's been the last few years. i think that certainly -- i think before then we started a lot of movement. i think especially now that we've had the 2012 elections where four states passed the marriage issues and it's just the new political reality, and people are thinking about the issue differently. everybody has got

really diverse personalities together, and so in her case, it was dick cheney, vice president, colin powell, secretary of state, and donald rumsfeld, secretary defense, really different personalities, really strong personalities come a lot of tension in the room as you will read in this book, but she got a consensus, and under her leadership and the president's leadership they've led some of the important decisions of this century and because of that some of that ability to team build. she also used that as the secretary of state and dealt with problems in palestine and israel on one hand and then was pakistan and india on the other and then day after day with countries that have really diverse and fundamental differences again no one was better in bringing anyone to get there than dr. condoleezza rice. at age 38, she was named the provost of stamford and as you heard that's the normal moderate. she was the first woman, the first minority and first provost in stanford history. she showed exceptional leadership skills at stanford is that since the time the universities all over the country a

last week a lonely side for colin powell, brian williams and president obama himself. colin powell went on the sunday shows and talk drop the so-called dark vein of intolerance that was running throughout the republican party. what evidence did he provide? that we are not left wing, that we don't believe in anthropogenic climate change or we don't believe that there should be redistribution of wealth so we don't believe in obamacare. if we would just move to let suddenly that would make is not racist. now, he should know how not racist our party is considering so many in our party were considering supporting and despite his liberalism, and he was secretary of state under president bush obviously. somebody treated very well by the republican party, but that did not stop him because now he's on the left which means that we had the bad guys. president obama did it in his inaugural address just last week also. he said a peculiar line in his speech very said that absolutism is not principal and he said that name-calling is not discussion. he then proceeded to read avoid pri

former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, colin powell, republican did all of them have endorsed chuck hagel. who lost benghazi -- next it will be lost china, who prpromoted and is from captain to major? joe mccarthy will find out about it. >> go ahead, charles. >> and have as long a list of endorsements as you want and leave your lying eyes. -- believe your lying eyes. it is less about ideology or any thing is about competence. there's a democratic senator quoted after that disasters day of hearings in which hagel did not even understand what containment of iran and -- he said, "chuck hagel will not be bringing the potato salad to next week's to connect." -- next week's pettitte." he had a performance that was a total embarrassment. you talk about discipline among republicans? the discipline among democrats .s shocking and embarrasseing his performance was so bad that at the end he said, "don't worry, senators, i will not be a decision maker at all, don't worry about me." here is a guy who wants to be secretary of defense who does not want to make decisions. it is the democrats

in another part of the film, lawrence wilkinson, chief of staff to colin powell, said he and colin powellarticipated in what he called a hoax. unintentionally, but he called it a hoax. >> one of the things i could never understand, at the time i didn't either, the hawks in the middle east believe somehow if you could break apart one of the arab front line states were rejectionist, the road through -- to jerusalem goes through baghdad. if you broke one of them, they would all break, and you'd be able to get a treaty, get peace in the middle east which is a dream of everybody. was that ever the driving force or not? >> that was the sort of ideological preconception of where all the people who were driving this were coming from. cheney, wolfowitz -- >> where did they lose that? we did go into iraq, did what they wanted us to do. why didn't it lead to that sort of nirvana -- >> can i just say one final thing on this point. chuck hagel in his confirmation hearing the other day said, when he was pressed by mccain, history will make the judgment on the iraq war and whether it was a good thing or