colin: hello, general powell. this is ronald reagan. yes, sir. ghter] colin: i really, really want you to come back here -- he's reading the talking points that frank gave him -- i want you to come back here and be the deputy of the national security adviser. yes, sir. i will be right there. david: so you went back? colin: yes. nine months later, frank got assigned to be the secretary of defense and i said, good, i can go back into the army now. and then one day i was chairing a national security council meeting and suddenly the door opens and the president walks in. he gets at the head of the table. frank comes around to the side, and while the meeting is going on, frank rips off a piece of paper, scribbles something on it, and he sends it down the table to me. and i open up the little piece of paper and it says, you are now the national security adviser. no interview, no nothing. so the last year and a half of my time in the white house was with president reagan, became an extremely close and strong relationship. david: when the administration e

david: you invented something known as the powell doctrine. colin: not quite. ented by a "washington post" reporter who came to see me one day and said, i am writing an article about the powell doctrine. i said, great, what is it? [laughter] colin: he said what you always say and what you did when we invaded panama and took out manuel noriega, one, make sure you go to war after all diplomatic and political possibilities have been dealt with, and there has to be a clear political objective, not just a military objective. and then the second part of the powell doctrine is i used overwhelming force once, but i have always said is decisive force, so you don't have a gazillion people. just have what you need to have a divisive outcome. david: you get the order from the president to kick saddam hussein and his troops out. colin: when that decision came down that we could not find a diplomatic solution, i received the order, and i gave the order to norm, and we were ready. david: there was a famous military maneuver, instead of going directly, you went around. whose br

one of the things you did is set up the colin powell school. tell us about the school. ft the state department, i came up here to see a little center, the colin powell center, that had been endowed by a family. i wanted to see what they were doing. the answer was they had not been doing much. it was more of a mini-think tank. i said in the conference room here at ccny and about a dozen new students came in and i saw and incredible diversity among these 12 kids and i saw passion in their eyes. i saw them hungry for a better life. i knew that most of them came from families where nobody had yet graduated from college. this is the first generation of that family. when it got back to me i said, my god, this is me. this is me 50 years ago. i have got to be a part of this. david: i know you are very proud of the school, as you should be. as you look back on your life in public service, did your parents live to see your success? colin: they both saw me make colonel. they were very proud of that. my father was failing, i could see that, and he died about a year and a half later.

colin powell stands before the u.n. to deliver a scathing indictment of saddam hussein he repeats the accusations already presented during debates before congress he stresses the existence of mobile laboratories for producing biological weapons these are the revelations made by curveball the iraqi defector who spoke to german intelligence. finally he accuses saddam of wanting to get his hands on an atomic bomb and he speaks of the are you many i'm tubes that for months have been presented as a refutable proof. we watched colin powell and we said whoa this is really theatrical well done and we gave him an a for presentation and a c. minus for content with. the legal. recourse to the. policeman the vile that. general powell put. nations with the head of the cia behind him was acquired from a man which they named curveball. curveball whose real name was rough feed comment was a knobby would later admit that he made it all up so he could state germany. richard powell who had superficially defended the idea of going to war h

and also we could take a step back and ask is this reminiscent of colin powell showing the alleged proof in iraq of missiles of mass destruction back in two thousand and three is this just a technique that the americans use to get the world on this side do you think. well we have a major propaganda apparatus to dwarf the significance of our chief example and of course colin powell is the prime exemplar but you have people like general petraeus i remember when general petraeus was in iraq and he told the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff that he had discovered in a radian supplied cache of weapons and that there was a us a press conference set up in this part of iraq where they had been found ten days later. the press conference was canceled the chair of the joint chiefs of staff asked patrice what happened so would they turn out to be not a reunion made weapons so the way to success in washington and intel of eve of course is to bring in the arrhenius as violators of this that and the other thing haley said today that our western allies are going to have to rethink their approach to

action colin powell he made his infamous speech on iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction to the u.n. security council in two thousand and three his statements later turned out to be false we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first here's our state department correspondent well enjoyed them. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations making paling travel from an institution devoted to diplomacy to a military base on thursday to point the finger at iran the trumpet ministration is accusing to han of illegally supplying weapons to groups across the middle east explosive boats drones and am short range ballistic missiles haley told reporters she was standing in front of one of those alleged missiles these are the recovered pieces of a missile fired by who the militants from yemen into saudi arabia the mess is the nestles intended target was a civilian airport in riyadh. the november fourth attack on the riyadh airport is one of the many clashes between the saudi backed government and who the rebels trying to conquer the country and the attack is mentioned in the u.n. secretar

it at colin powell you have to wonder whether it is an endorsement based on issues or whether he hasn for preferring president obama. >> what reason would that be? >> well, i think when you have somebody of your own race that you're proud of being president of the united states, i applaud colin for standing with him. >> barack obama won republican colin powell's endorsement like he won other voter's support, on his record and policy. the democrat's second path, again on display last night, builds the coalition with many identities regardless of identity politics. but there's more. before everyone over-interprets what last night means for the nation, let's resist boiling everything down to one polarized narrative. since the moment the race was called for jones, pundits have made some sweeping claims about what this all means for america, many saying jones supports good because it shows alabama rejecting roy moore's lawlessness, extremism and sixism. let's pause on that for a moment. last night alabama backed jones by about 1.5 points. unusual for a democrat, but very narrow. last year

i've seen colin powell undercut by president bush.ariel sharon's house, we were standing right outside the door and as they were walking out, i got a call that the president had just gone into the rose garden and announced back in washington a whole new policy towards israel and settlements. not what the secretary of state was negotiating. then you have a situation where the secretary of state can never be credibly forceful with another foreign leader because they just say, i'm going to call the president, i'm going to call the white house. >> not that this has never happened before. it's that it's never happened with the kind of routine quality that it's happened in the past. >> on twitter, the velocity, the temp mental quality of don't waste your time. >> it's the context pipts the sound and fury, the little rocket man. it's all of that. what you say, andrea, about previous circumstances, absolutely true. it's what happens among grownups in government. but that's not what's happening now. >> when did we have grownups in government?

e-mails which ten days after the e-mail was sent to the trump campaign those hacked colin powell e-mails also were released. now the person who sent this e-mail, someone by the name of mike erickson. we don't know who this individual is. we tried to find a mike erickson and not able to identify this person. congressional investigators don't know who the person is. when donald trump, jr. was asked about this e-mail, poppy, during a house intelligence committee hearing earlier this week, a classified hearing, he said he had no recollection of this and did not know about this and his attorney said he did not act on this afterwards. >> to that point, i mean he says i don't remember this e-mail, et et cetera, given similar answers on other questions about e-mails that look relevant to question, when you look back at donald trump, jr.'s tweets, it seems like there's a question about timing here and, you know, when he first tweeted about wikileaks. >> no question about it. we are just finding out there was a september 4th tweet on the same day of the september 4th e-mail where donald trump, jr.

ambassador next to colin powell, comparing her colin powell comp her to the infamous speech at the unit case for the bush administration's invasion of iraq. and as you can see there, he says, when i was based at the u.n. i saw this show and what it begat. nikki haley's evidence seems thin by different people's analysis. were you convinced by this presentation that iran is, as she said, violating u.n. security council resolutions? >> not necessarily so. i'm not an expert in rockets. i didn't get a close look at it. in all honesty, there's no question at all that the iranians have taken the opportunity to help the houthis in yemen and that continues. what we ought to look at is zarif that he'd be prepared to negotiate with the saudis and it's time that should happen. i think that's right. interestingly enough, just last week when the former president of yemen since murdered unfortunately said he was ready to begin negotiations, the saudis jumped in, too. there's an opportunity here. i'm not sure that nikki haley in fact saw that opportunity or indeed helped to promote it by her actions in

think useful at this point it's useful to remember the prescedent of the iraq war and the famous colin powelloke iraq and essentially europe suffered from the consequences. let's put the us to the side at one moment because president abbas says the us no longer has a political role in the middle east. is there now a chance for countries like france to step in? president macron has said he's very keen to be involved in diplomatic resolutions and to become a diplomatic player. could he step in and become the new international peace broker? well, i think in lots of cases, there are challenges and opportunities and this is an opportunity for president macron but also i think for europe and the uk to really put all their weight in negotiations. and suddenly look as much more credible as an intermediary than the us now is unfortunately. it has the makings of a moving feature film, but the story of kati and the broken bridge is all too true. her chinese parents went into hiding to defy the country's one—child policy and give birth to her,their second child. but they were forced to give her up and sh

we've seen the united states fabricate facts we can and i think the viewers remember the day when colin powell bush as advisor very certainly said that the saddam regime was actually manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and after the war the mass of war that was launched against iraq has proved to be a fabricated fact ok you mentioned the. other. c.p.u. where you were talking of the nuclear deal or we do you think it's reckless to sabotage that is sensually well openly appearing to compile evidence to discredit iran you know especially as the un has been unable to point the finger at iran with enough evidence to correct. of course wall discrediting the nuclear deal is something very dangerous but again we see through evidence that iran has been abiding by the deal and it hasn't reached the deal or its spirit and this is what i am i think has repeatedly at least for nine times said and declared on the other hand the u.s. has been repeatedly breached the deal and has not been keeping its word and promises on the deal with iran and this is due to different reasons first of all back to the ev

colin powell was in peru at the meeting of the organization of american states george tenet as cia director had already gone to a bunker and said we can't reach secretary rumsfeld. his phone is ringing and ringing and we look at the television and a plane hit the pentagon. about that time they said you've got to get to a bunker because planes are flying into buildings all over washington, d.c.. when they want to escort you under the circumstances they don't escort you, they kind of pick you up and carry you. so i kind of jus just one dictad towards the bunker. i said i have to make a phone call. i called my aunt and uncle and birmingham. then i called president bush and i said you can't come back to the united states it's under attack and th that the rest of e day was feeling for the reality that american security would never be the same. >> so on afghanistan, that has been in the news daily. the longest war, 16 years. do you see any solution in the near-term? >> i'm worried about afghanistan. i've always said that the point we have to get them somehow in afghanistan goes for those that are

bushe administration and as an aid to secretaries of state condoleezza rice and colin powell.s us today from washington. good to have you here. you have followed this closely. you just came back from the region. give us a sense of how important a step up this dispute is. michael: sure, david. this missile strike, or attempted strike, seemed to target the saudi leadership and the attempted strike a few weeks ago seemed to target the international airport. together these things mark a real escalation of this conflict and it represents the yemeni conflict spilling over the borders and potentially becoming much more dangerous for the entire region. shery: how well-positioned are the rebels to cause real damage to critical infrastructure? michael: they have these so-called work on missiles that have a 900 kilometer range that puts into range most of the gulf , including oil and nuclear energy infrastructure, civilian targets, and boards and so forth . more important they have now shown a willingness to target those kinds of targets area and david: when saudi arabia went into this c

. >> colin powell, then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, believed in exerting maximum power onund so that you wouldn't be fighting a prolonged war, that this would be quick, decisive. it became known as the powell doctrine. >> the ground war started this morning as the americans and their allies attack with massive fire power that shook the earth. >> we're about 15 1/2 hours into a ground war that from all of the sketchy reports that we're receiving is going well. so far the offensive is progressing with dramatic success. the troops are doing a great job, but the war is not over yet. >> what are your impressions of saddam hussein as a military strategist? >> stormin' norman was out of central casting. >> he is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. other than that, he's a great military man. i want you to know that. >> big and burly and confident. when he came in the briefing room, your chest swelled. it was american military might on parade. >> schwarzkopf's presence was important. it was

iran's foreign minister rejecting the claims, tweeting two photos comparing it to colin powell's speechs of mass de struck shn. >>> let's get a cheng on cnn money treatment. global markets mostly lower. concerns over passing the tax bill. hopes for tax cuts sent stocks to record highs this year. senate republicans have got a thin majority with this legislation and senator marco rubio said he may vote against the. we did see the dow snap a five-day winning streeng. mean time shares of disney and fox jump on the news. wal-mart is letting workers get paid whenever they want. the company announced a new instapay for hit 1.4 million workers, employees can access half the wages before pay day and they can with draw that pay whenever they want. instapay is part of a personal finance app called even which connects directly to a worker's account. wal-mart is footing the bill for the app. >>> ticket sales strong with the last jedi "star wars," landing in theaters last night and ticket sales soaring to a near record for thursday alone. that's according to early estimates, making it the second best

the e-mail indicated the trump campaign could access records from the former secretary of state, colin powell, whose hacked e-mails were made public from a russian front group ten years later, and it was a person that listed his name as mike erickson. cnn was unable to make contact with the individual. it's not clear if the e-mail was a legitimate effort to provide the hacked documents to the trump campaign. trump junior was asked about this before the house intelligence committee behind closed doors, according to sources that told my colleague, they told cnn that his client said he had no recollection of the e-mail and took no action on it. the use of a website and decryption key is a means to provide information, and this is the idea that wikileaks had a data file and was encrypted and impossible to open up with the key. the question is did that happen here? we don't know the answer to that quite yet. >> just to recap, what happened allegedly is somebody sent trump campaign officials essentially the keys to access these wikileak documents, hacked documented in possession of wikileaks, and j

the country's foreign minister even took to twitter to compare haley's presentation to colin powell at the u.n. about weapons of mass destruction in iraq which were never found. ambassador haley said the u.s. hopes to bring more of its european allies on board by focusing less on the nuclear deal and more on iran's destabilizing behavior throughout the region. >> bret: garrett tenney at the state department. thanks. president trump spoke with russian leader vladimir putin on the phone today. the kremlin says they talked about a bilateral relations and north korea. no word from the white house on that conversation yet. meanwhile, earlier today, putin had some advice for americans. back off your president. putin spent some of his annual news conference defending his american counterpart. at the same time here, u.s. intelligence officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say no matter what the russian leader says he and his country are dangerous to the u.s. senior foreign affairs correspondent amy kellogg was there for the event. >> it something of a show, russia's annual present

e-mail also indicated the trump campaign could access records from the former secretary of state, colin powell, whose hacked e-mails were made public by a russian front group ten days later and the e-mail came from somebody listed as mike erickson, and investigators are not certain who this individual is and we were not able to make contact with the person, and it is not clear if this is a legitimate person. trump junior was asked about the e-mail behind closed doors, according to sources, and trump junior's attorney told cnn his client has no recollection of the e-mail and took no action on it. poppy, the use of a website and use of description key, the idea is the wikileaks were supposed to put it on the internet and it's impossible to open without the key. the question is, is that actually what happened here? that's something we don't know the answer to quite yet. >> yeah, when he was asked about it by congress and congressional investigators this week, the answer was, i don't know, i don't recall. we need a lot more answers. >>> meantime, cnn learned previously undisclosed e-mails also sho

offering a dekripgz key and web access and offered the chance to get colin powell documents as well. his e-mails were sent to donald trump jr.'s personal assistant and donald trump jr. was asked about this earlier this week with the house intelligence investigation and he said he had no recollection of this. this came from a senator who we don't know who this individual is. after we reported the story this morning trump jr.'s attorney said we understand the media reported 12 hours prior to the e-mail that the dnc e-mails had been hacked or leaked and we don't know who this is. we have no idea who he is and never responded to the e-mail. on the day of donald trump jr.'s for the first time tweeted about wikilea wikileaks, they understand whether or not he knew about this e-mail. par. >> thanks for the great reporting. i want to remind everyone wa he has done after we learned about this meeting that he had in june of 2016. >> there was nothing there to follow-up. he said i'm sorry for that. in the end there was probably some bait and switch. there is nothing there. >> nothing there. aga

he brought in a new team, howard baker as his chief of staff, colin powell. third chapter. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> george bush played a major role in everything that we have accomplished in these eight years. america needs george bush and barbara bush as first lady. >> george bush will be the 41st president of the united states. >> the election of bush with the american people was we want more reagan, we want more of what we had. bush was the closest thing to a third term for ronald reagan. >> ronald wilson reagan, the 40th president of the united states, in two days he leaves office as our oldest president and as one of the most popular ever. >> ronald reagan was the chief architect of the 1980s. you don't always identify a president with the years, but in this case, reagan should be identified with the '80s. >> that you call it a reagan revolution, i'll accept that. but for me it always seemed like the great rediscovery, the rediscovery of our values and our common sense. as long as we remember our first principles an

you know, colin powell called it the pottery barn rule. if you break it, you own it. we broke the middle east peace process. it wasn't doing well. if donald trump turns out to be right he'll deserve credit and be a hero. if there is violence and people are killed, that's also his responsibility. if there is violence and we have a new anti-fa he owns that. >> house speaker paul ryan said the house gop caucus plans to work on entitlement reform to tackle the debt and deficit. is this a big admission? >> yeah. there are so many things going on. the country isn't focusing. it was attention deficit disorder in this administration. things happen every five minutes and you can't keep your eye on the big prize. the republicans are passing a tax cut and this was important to lower taxes for the corporations in this country. they are passing a tax cut that greatly increase it is deficits. now they are saying because the deficits are big we have to cut back on programs for the poor. you're going to give tax cuts to the rich and cut programs to the poor? >> isn't that supposed to

available documents, hacked documents from wikileaks as well as from the former secretary of state colin powellying that those documents are, indeed, available. now our initial reporting on that september 4th date was based on two sources who had seen this e-mail but that information was incorrect now based on a copy of the e-mail that we have obtained this afternoon. so, brooke, it just shows that perhaps the initial understanding of what this e-mail was perhaps is not as significant as what we know now based on this e-mail. we do know that donald trump jr., when he testified before the house intelligence committee, was asked about this e-mail. he said he had no knowledge of it, which we reported earlier as well. and his attorney said he did not act on the offer to abtain these hacked e-mails. that's a statement they continue to say. but this e-mail came out september 14th, not september 4th as we said earlier. brooke we are. >> okay. manu raju, thank you. back in a moment. (hard exhalation) honey? can we do this tomorrow? (grunts of effort) can we do this tomorrow? if you have heart failure s

resolution, say in '64 which was a pretense to escalate the war in vietnam, let's just say we look at colin powell's address to the u.n. in 2003 about weapons of mass destruction in iraq, how are they different? but yet how many in this room have known someone who has come back from iraq and afghanistan and has a tale to telsim lar to those who came back from vietnam. we learned something. we treat those soldiers differently than we did back then. different?the war >> very similar in a lot of ways. i fighting in a place where you don't know the language or culture or don't know who is a friend or enemy. i think that vietnam didn't have any vietnam to learn that. >> right. >> from that lesson of vietnam i think many people learned to dislike a war but not the soldier who fought in the war, the government that is responsible for that. >> uh-huh. >> so stan parker is your main character. i know he is threw the whole book but, could you take the audience sort of through his evolution from gary, indiana, and then forward, how that conveys the themes of the book? >> yeah. and it's, it's almost a spiritual