an e-mail in particular caught my eye it's between news corp director andrew knight and colin powell were knight is urging powell to attend the bohemian grove retreat take a look at this says dear colin might you be able to gently slash firmly point out to tony that you rank the bohemian grove in your diary before allowing any other duties to get in the way lack of exposure suggests that tony has not yet got his priorities straight now for those of you who don't know bohemian grove is an all male annual retreat in the middle of the redwood groves in northern california it's a gathering of the richest and most powerful men in the world who spend two weeks getting drunk and pretty much on at their own power and influence but the event is so secretive that countless conspiracy theories have a risen due to the lack of transparency surrounding the gathering so this shed some light on bohemian grove and the recent leak i'm joined by mark dice author of many books including big brother the orwellian nightmare come true and the illuminati facts and fiction mark thank you so much for coming on

and it is colin powell who gets the job of selling it to the world. >> what we're giving you are factsd intelligence. >> anybody who says this was an intelligence driven war, i believe is mistaken. end, stop. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. or settling for wannabes? stop compromising! new vidal sassoon pro series. care and styling from the original salon genius, created to let you have it all at an affordable price. new vidal sassoon lets you say no to compromise and yes to very shiny... very silky... very sexy... very you. it's salon genius in a bottle! now in your store. new vidal sassoon pro series. salon genius. affordable for all. a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. del

so when colin powell gave his speech in february of '03, i thought -- i was just surprised.him the truth. and you know, he was betrayed by the system. >> you know, there was a great story. we talk about the media a few moments ago. after the "new york times" story came out that said tubes, tubes, tubes, and dick cheney cites it in "meet the press" a few days later "the washington post" did a story, again, buried on a-20113, but it said, actually, there's a debate among experts, and i don't know, you don't have to tell me if you talked to him, but he got to either you or some of your colleagues and he got that into the public realm, but the "post quotes was so squared to make it a big deal, and you had condoleezza rice saying the tubes, no question about them. >> houston wood of the university of virginia, thank you so much for joining us. >> coming up, what we haven't heard from the architects of the war, sorry. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three

that was one of the better once i asked. >> what would you say today about colin powell? >> oh, well, who? george bush. >> yeah. >> he would probably say the same thing. certainly there is a rift between them over foreign policy and it opened up while powell was still his secretary of state. >> twitter. fred barnes is on twitter. why? >> my son has convinced me that i have to be on twitter. don't tweet much. but i tweet occasionally. i tweet maybe once a week, ebbs sent for my son nicely will tweet my articles. he sends those out. >> what does he do? >> my son worked for kevin mccarthy, the republican whip in the house of representatives and was, until recently, a floor assistant, the job he loved. >> all right. twitter. i will read some of the twitter messages that you sent out. you a you a you november the 5th, 2012.and >> okay. >> "why romney will win." >> you can say i have been wrong in a a few times. you know, there were a lot of polls. i have always placed great stock in gallop. and the gallop got this election wrong as did some other pollsters.a >> why in this bus

bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld colin powell everyone in the bush administration all of the media c.e.o.'s who propagated all of the lies all of the military commanders who lied and sent us to war knowing that the reasons were fabricated they need to be held responsible not just for the deaths of thousands of u.s. soldiers in the catastrophe created for u.s. soldiers but the complete catastrophe for millions of iraqis over a million who have died become refugees wounded and of course we can't talk about p.t.s.d. for u.s. soldiers without acknowledging that p.t.s.d. for an entire generation of iraqis is a real reality millions and millions of people whose lives have been destroyed and so people want justice for all of these war criminals and people are fighting to win justice and an organization we are forward is working to help get this justice and also help that's opt out thank you so much mike prize the iraq war veteran and co-founder of march forward. i know guys as you know this week marks the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion of iraq but sadly you wouldn't know if you're just

we saw from colin powell, brian williamson president obama himself. the so-called dark and intolerance running throughout the party. we don't believe in climate change or we don't need there should be a redistribution of wealth or obamacare and food move to the left comest admit that would make a sound basis. colin powell above all should know how not racist or party is considering so many were supporting him to spreading liberalism in 1996 for presidential guns and he was secretary of state under president bush obviously, but that didn't stop them anyway because colin powell is on the left and that means we are the bad guys. president obama did is an ideal address last week also. there's a peculiar line in his speech, where absolutism is the principle and name calling is not discussion. he then proceeded to spend the rest of his speech in being an absolutist. she suggested if you disagree, you want people in twilight years to live in poverty and parents of disabled kid to have no recourse. you want black people to stand in line to vote, to be treated

just check out this screen shot from my show just last night as i was covering colin powells allies the u.n. ten years ago c.n.n. was speculating about chemical weapons in syria and at the same time fox was fear mongering about iran's new nonexistent nuclear weapons program man that cartoon bomb never gets old does it but in case you've been tuned out let me fill you in take a look. to syria now where the assad regime and rebel forces are both accusing one another of using chemical weapons syrian state media claimed yesterday that opposition forces as rebel forces launched a chemical attack and aleppo province killing at least two dozen people injuring more than one hundred people other violence to talk about syria's government and opposition are trading accusations tonight about the use of chemical weapons president obama has characterized such activity as a crossing a red line that theoretically would lead to harsh consequences. but of course the latest hot topic is an all too familiar one chemical weapons you know it's fascinating the media seems to do nothing but speculate about the

beabsurd we did this and colin powell -- i voted for had ush and colin powell deep concerns about this and he flipped and he was before the united nations convincing them that we should this. i want to say this has nothing to do with the troops. cynical of as very the bush administration to put the e that were against war, to use the troops as a device device. i'm very sin camp as you can -- detect.as you can host: we showed views earlier of colin powell's testimony before united nations. if you are interested go to c-span c-span.org. guest: don't be cynical. vigilant. don't allow a president to do this again. what is very important and many that we should have learned from iraq is we do not allow your member of congress to authority to any president to use force. you have to insist on a full debate. i can remember during that time that we were part of a movement there were try, hundreds of thousands of people who marched and protested against this war. i think it was important to broaden that base to engage yourself in these protests and it is extremely important that out of this we c

that was one of the better once i asked. >> what would you say today about colin powell? >> oh, well, who? george bush. >> yeah. >> he would probably say the same thing. certainly there is a rift between them over foreign policy and it opened up while powell was still his secretary of state. but i think he would be, he would say he is a great fella. >> twitter. fred barnes is on twitter. why? >> my son has convinced me that i have to be on twitter. don't tweet much. but i tweet occasionally. you know, i hear about people tweeting eight or times a day. i tweet maybe once a week, ebbs sent for my son nicely will tweet my articles. he sends those out. >> what does he do? >> my son worked for kevin mccarthy, the republican whip in the house of representatives and was, until recently, a floor assistant, the job he loved. now he has moved to the nrcc, the house republican campaign committee. >> so he was the floor assistant on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives? >> yes. >> what about the other three kids? >> i have three daughters. they are all married. they all liv

colin powell, that speech he gave february 5th, 2003, everyone remembers that, you know -- >> swayed a lot of people. >> swayed a lot of people. the coverage was over the top. it was like writing about a rock star. then if you turned inside and kept on reading 20 inches in, you would find people saying wait a second, we don't know about this, we don't know about that. yeah. the people that dig deep can find this. i remember at the time there was a tide was hard to swim against. he would give that speech, then go on tv. >> you had some amazing moments on tv those days. >> a lot of fights. i said wait, the post, the times is reporting, i would talk, did my reporting, i talked to nuclear scientists about the aluminum tubes and they would say that wasn't proven. you would be laughed at. >> it was a wise man's view. a serious man's view. >> media consensus, tell you one story. won't embarrass the person, it is someone we both know. he told me his opinion would be determined by what thomas friedman wrote, guy wrote for a major paper we see all the time. there was a consensus that dominated

from the iraq debacle from the faulty intelligence to 50 tons of mustard gas on a turkey farm to colin powell 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 when he

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

and one of the things that's hard to reconcile with is the figure of colin powell in all of this.e is the most sympathetic because he seems to be the least out front engineer in the disaster but in some ways it makes him morally culpable. >> because he went along. if those conversation that we now know are happening in public, come out in public, that would have really arrested the momentum for war in a massive way and i think that has to weigh on his conscience. >> and we know that there are no wmds and you still can't get the right wing to admit that. look at fox this week. look at what they are talking about this week on fox. >> what are the chances of the return address on these chemicals being from iraq. >> we got rid of a brutal who used chemical and biological weapons against its own people, weapons of mass destruction that he exported to sudan. >> what is remarkable to me is the fact that the conservative foreign policy establishment, almost in toto, continues to defend the decision to go to war, there has been no big mea culpas. but the core group, dan senor, bill crystal

colin powell, that speech he gave february 5th, 2003, everyone remembers that, you know -- >> swayed a lot of people. >> swayed a lot of people. the coverage was over the top. it was like writing about a rock star. then if you turned inside and kept on reading 20 inches in, you would find people saying wait a second, we don't know about this, we don't know about that. yeah. the people that dig deep can find this. i remember at the time there was a tide was hard to swim against. he would give that speech, then go on tv. >> you had some amazing moments on tv those days. >> a lot of fights. i said wait, the post, the times is reporting, i would talk, did my reporting, i talked to nuclear scientists about the aluminum tubes and they would say that wasn't proven. you would be laughed at. >> it was a wise man's view. a serious man's view. >> media consensus, tell you one story. won't embarrass the person, it is someone we both know. he told me his opinion would be determined by what thomas friedman wrote, guy wrote for a major paper we see all the time. there was a consensus that dominated

in the wake of 9/11, president bush and secretary of state colin powell made the case that saddam hussein was set to use weapons of mass destruction. the u.s. invasion was easy, but the mission was not accomplished by that may, even though some insist today u.s. forces did succeed. war planner douglas fife. >> saddam was in fact an extremely dangerous guy. >> martin dempsey. >> today we have in iraq a partner, not an adversary. >> reporter: but 2003 to 2008 was a nightmare of roadside bombs and civil war. a hard lesson. >> we went into iraq without a real plan for how to stabilize the place afterwards. >> reporter: 100,000 iraqis died. nearly 4500 americans lost their lives. many tens of thousands more suffered permanent physical and emotional injuries. illinois congresswoman tammy duckworth, a chopper pilot lost both legs. she said today the war is not over for veterans like her. >> suicides and mental health and untreated brain injuries. we will be taking care of these men and women for the next 60 years. >> reporter: 53% of americans now feet it was a u.s. mistake to send troops to ira

colin powell works on sand hill road at the venture capital firm. his old life keeps him in the headlines, even if it's controversial. the former secretary of state spoke us to candidly about a checkered past in american history. as he walked through the news room, you wouldn't know it, but old wounds, especially for a military man die hard. >> saddam hussein and his regime are concealing effortings to produce more weapons of mass production. >> his now infamous speech to the united nations which he outlined the united states plan to attack iraq, an outline based on false information. now, through speeches and a new book, powell is rewriting a controversial chapter in history. >> it was one of my most moe men tus failures. >> how are you misled? >> i don't like the word misled. we don't think we were misled. we had bad information. we had wrong analysis. it isn't as if i was misled by people who, you know, thought they were miss leading me. some people should have known some of the information was bad and didn't pull on our chains and say wait a min

and i've already mentioned those who were officially in charge of the war richard perle colin powell donald rumsfeld on top of all of them dick cheney and president bush but the policy advisors i'm referring to were a group within the defense department effectively assumed the role of intelligence national security community the state department and so on during the period in question strategic decision were made exclusively by a single institution the department of defense the department of state of jet did to their war plan and so did the cia the cia told the pentagon toppling the iraqi regime is the easy part but what's your scenarios for iraq once you remove saddam hussein the d.o.t. replied just let a save or throw him and then everything will stabilize but that's the kind of mind frame that dominated the american war effort there was no sustainable long term strategy and that's why it all ended in chaos now look what happened to iraq after two thousand and three with war in the americans that if the regime would fall iraq would devolve into a jihadist stronghold and iran would

even former secretary of state colin powell said it himself after his award winning performance at the u.n. take a look. 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 eight 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 i think it is doubtful that without the weapons of mass destruction case the president the congress the united nations and those joined us in the conflict the british. and spanish the australians would've found a persuasive enough case to support the decision to go to war yes without the administration's unfounded propaganda nobody would have sup

been very different colonel lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powellt the time of the invasion says iraq has changed the way the world sees the us people look at what we do they do not. judge us by our rhetoric our rhetoric is high and lofty and we talk about human rights and human dignity and freedom and democracy and what do we do we mount a war of aggression in iraq kill a couple hundred thousand people and mess it up majorly including the region much of what is happening now is a result of what we did in the right in the world looks at that and they say this is not something we need in the world this kind of absolutely in a leadership and when this happens in the world of international relations the world stands up and began to balance the hedge among today many of those who cheered for the iraq war on t.v. shows in the in their memoirs struggle to justify the decisions they made and the actions they took yes history will hold them responsible and render some sort of indictment but there is no accountability for people who make grievous errors in h

but laurence wilkinson in the documentary that nbc -- >> the chief of staff of colin powell. >> it will be on later tonight. had a great word for this. describes very simply what ron just said. he called it a hoax. and when you sell a hoax, two things. you have to want it to happen and you have to believe it a little bit. and you have to have somewhat of a psychological imperative, maybe a psychotic personality to make it work. >> yeah, your thought getting into eiran? >> when you have a big lie, you have to have a big denial to follow it, and that denial has to be resist yent. one of this size is the type that people go to the grave with, and it's hard to watch cheney and then the whole gang of neocons sort of smiling at the camera saying, okay, now what do we do? next syria, next iran. because the fundamental principles that's behind this, the big idea, so to speak, of this whole gang is one that they still believe in, that of preemtive war, that the united states is the lone superpower in the world, has the right to invade for whatever they decide. we don't even have to give the noti

redeemed and justified, but lawrence wilkinson in the documentary -- >> the chief of staff to colin powell>> that will be on later tonight had a great word for this. he describes very simply what ron just said. he called it a hoax, and when you sell a hoax you've got two things. you've got to want it to happen and you have to believe it a little bit and you have to have somewhat of a psychological imperative and maybe a psychotic personality to make it work. >> you're thought, ron? >> you know, when you have a big lie, you've got to have a big denial to follow it and the denial's got to be resilient. one of this size is the type that people go to the grave with, and it's hard to watch cheney, and the whole gang of neocons smiling at the camera saying now what do we do? next syria, next iran because the fundamental principle of this whole gang is one they still believe in preemptive war that the united states is the lone super power in the world and has a right to invade any country for any reason we decide. we don't even have to give the reason. that's the notion of preemptive war and they

this is what colin powell was saying when he went out on the news before the election. and he said the same thing. when's the next word after shiftless? workless and no account. all these deeply embedded propaganda things which i applaud them good for being at what they're doing but you have to move on. can't rule from the grave. >> you speak so much sense sometimes. great to see you. >> great to be here. >> i wish we had more time, actually. come back for a longer interview. >> we have to do this. >> amazing, fascinating life. you're 81. you look about 60. i want your secret of eternal youth next time and a boxing fight of the barclay center in brooklyn and airs on hbo. bernard hop kens facing the undefeated ibf champion 31-year-old thunder cloud. if bernard hopkins wins he becomes the oldest champion in boxing history. >> if the bull frog has winged he wouldn't bump his behind every time he hop so you have to understand that. you know what i mean? we have a show -- we want you to come as my guest. you be the guest of me and ken hershalman. >> i'm the same age as berna

secretary of state colin powell and he urges powell to make sure the u.k. prime minister tony blair comes to the bohemian grove he says the event should be a quote top priority for him but these e-mails have yet to be confirmed and our t. has reached out for verification and we haven't heard back yet. these e-mails do open the door for some interesting questions though why is bohemian grove a top priority what really happens there every year and is something this is something the public should be concerned about to discuss i was joined earlier by elizabeth flock a politics reporter at u.s. news and world reports there's very little that's confirmed about what happened inside bohemian grove and part of that is that they're the people who run bohemian grove are so closed about what happens what they will say is that it's a gathering every year of influential people ranging from former presidents to c.e.o.'s oil. and that it's based around art and music and culture and it's among the red which sounds like a good time but who would make this different from othe