with the condi rice was going to you know the i mean national security advisor. your number one priority is going to be nine eleven is going to be the al-qaeda and they are going to attack us here at night states and that he had personal knowledge that al gore had said the same thing to take cheney and that bill clinton had said the same thing to george bush at that they had heard the message and that they all appeared to have taken it seriously. did is it literally that they just you know i know that dick cheney was put in charge of the counterterrorism task force in march and they didn't even meet until september was that really just because they're saying this is another thing i mean you know these are. it was telling us the attacks were coming london was telling us attacks are coming russia was i mean i think it's going to take even if you go back and look at the performance of the first year of the of the bush white house it just seems that they were much more concerned about iraq and good he ran the you know the axis of evil the axis of evil that george bus

of pictures of condi rice who could avi once referred to as his darling woman even had a pet name for her leaves i'm sure mine's me as anyone checked rice's basement for get off the ball because well it got elisa rise photo shrine is a bit disturbing i have a feeling fringe desperate gadhafi has other skeletons in his closet tragically literal. coming up congressman paul ryan is that again screwing over his constituents why is he hiding behind police to avoid doing his job. drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians.

tony blair went there, condy rice went there, embraced him. the british even returned the prisoner who was the only man convicted in the pan am 103 shootdown. so it wouldn't be surprising if some of those people who have now liberated libya as they see it on the ground with nato air support of which they are very grateful may well begin to ask questions later on about our complicity with the gadhafi regime. which of course had a great deal to do with the fact not just that he had weapons of mass destruction but that he had oil. >> john burns, always good to have you on. nic robertson as well. >>> up next you'll meet the cnn producer who helped negotiate the release of 36 journalists including herself from that tripoli hotel. for days they were held there by armed gadhafi loyalists. very emotional ordeal. >> she's not talk on camera. she's not doing it. >> it's the cnn camera. hi! >> we'll talk to her in just a moment. we'll have more also on hurricane irene threatening to be the biggest storm to hit the new york area in decades. checking in ag

secretary of defense rumsfeld particularly vice president cheney but also national security advisor condi rice drummed up the idea of a reconstituted nuclear capability and picture particularly the notion that i think has some resonance among the american people of the mushroom cloud leaders will use worst case assessments. that point to nuclear weapons to generate political support because they know people fear nuclear weapons so much the evidence was simply not there. wolfowitz would be asked to explain you know how good is the evidence can you tell us more about it this in nato mind you and he'd say well it's like this it's like pornography. hard to describe but i'll see you recognize it when you see it. white guy and we're going to go to war and that if someone is waiting for a so-called smoking gun it's certain that we will have waited too long we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud and we cannot wait for the final proof. the smoking gun. that could come in the form of a mushroom but. a lot of people who supported the war in iraq actually believe that iraq had it billet he f

and condie rice beat him again and again within the white house, and i think that's why he's so hostileltimately, the contract between working the dark side and the obama administration's approach, i mean, the proof is in the pudding of bin laden is killed under the obama administration's attempt to extricate information in a reasonable fashion without resort to waterboarding and torture, and the consequences pay off and the dividends pay off hugely, versus the kind of dark side, of which the consequences are still unclear. >> jamie, quickly there was a light moment in the interview and i just want to play that exchang >> during the transition to the obama white house, you apparently gave some very sage advice to theincoming chief of staff, rahm emanuel. you told him? >> well, we had a meeting convened by josh bolton, our chief of staff, of all the people that previously held that job. at the meeting, we went around the table and asked each person to give a crucial piece of advice to rahm, who was about to take over as president obama's chief of staff. when they got to me, i said look,

well let's go back ten years to one condi rice and the bush administration introduce the greater middle east in the g. eight in two thousand and four well in seven years and. this is part of a long planned scenario the pentagon is involved in at the state department is involved in it i think the reason that we're seeing these these riots the i.m.f. cause the food crisis in tunisia just at the time that the hedge funds and wall street were pushing prices up using the biodiesel and the harvest failures in russia and such things but the there's a geo political trigger to this that is coming out of washington they're trying is there one person in washington turned it creative destruction in the middle east to upset the chess board and make sure that in fact what has been happening since two thousand and one is many of these arab countries are fed up with washington's militarization of the middle east they're fed up with the mess in iraq they're fed up with the heavy handedness that's coming out of washington and they're looking to china they're looking to russia they're looking to the europ

secretary of state condi rice following that visit my georgian colleague simply dropped all communication with us he simply stopped talking to us. he stopped writing letters and making phone calls it was apparent that he had some new plans now and those plans were implemented later mr president am i correct to assume that the way you see it that visit by the u.s. secretary of state who is meant to urge president saakashvili into war. almost no i don't think so the united states is a very large country headed by pragmatic people but in politics connotations and nuance is a very important as it is i don't believe the american said george is president to invade but i do believe that there were certain subtleties and certain hints made statements like it's time to restore constitutional order or it's time to be more assertive which could effectively feed saakashvili apparent hopes that the americans would back him in any conflict that they would stand up for georgia and even go to war with the russians therefore i do see a relation between ms rice's visit to georgia and the events that follow

presidential administration when i paid a visit to the white house and met with none other than condi rice and the then head of the president's executive office and at some point we were joined by george w. bush he simply walked in in a common casual manner like hey hello and the first thing he told me was you know misha really is a great guy i said to him mr president i don't know i've never met him maybe i will one day. unfortunately his words have proved to be darkly prophetic mind you know those were the very first words i heard from george bush during our personal meeting. as it is i don't believe the american said georgia's president to invade but i do believe that there were certain subtleties and certain hints made statements like it's time to restore constitutional order or it's time to be more assertive which could effectively feed a parent hopes that the americans would back him in any conflict that they would stand up for georgia and even go to war with the russians therefore i do see a relation between ms rice's visit to georgia and the events that followed just as i see a lin

do you think that condoleezza rice was a competent secretary of state? >> i once offered condy a job when i was a board member before the bush administration got elected -- >> that's not a yes or a no. do you think she was a competent secretary of state? >> in some regard. i didn't make the attack personal, but there were fundamental differences in policy. and i laid those out. >> you also write about condy rice after the two of you had a disagreement. "she came into my office, sat in the chair next to my desk and tearfully admitted i happen right." was she crying? >> she was tearful. that's what i wrote. if i'd wanted to say she was crying, i would have said she was crying. >> you know that tearfully is a loaded description. >> right. >> for powerful women in high office. it's going to be seen by a lot of people as provocative. could you have left that word out? >> it is an accurate description of what happened and what i saw. >> okay. >> huh. >> nicole, you're in the communications department. went after the communications department for softening up some of the speeches. i w

. >> remember from condi rice, al qaeda to attack within the united states. >> exactly. >> talk about getting it from western union. let's talk about a few presidentes who had vacations interrupted. here is george w. bush flying over new orleans, with the aftermath of katrina. bush was forced to return to washington after katrina hit in louisiana in 2005. in martha's vineyard, there you are, in '94, clinton had to delay the trip in 94 to monitor his healthcare bill which eventually failed of course. here is a photo of george herbert walker bush in kennebunkport maine. he had to monitor a standoff over nuclear inspections in iraq. this has been going on and on. i remember one of mark panner's advisors said go west, young man. don't do martha's vineyard. >> he went to the tee tons. >> i heard that helped him. >> helped him. but he never went back after he was re-elected. he went to martha's vineyard. >> well, we're doing the snake river. we are doing a graduation present. >> well, after the election, back to martha's vineyard. >> okay, will we be talking about this in a month? >> will w

but what you also see in the book is that in the second term, condi rice is winning battles and dick cheney is losing them. and he's very up front about it. >> it does seem as if the cheney/powell battles, cheney won them all, and rice picked up the same battles and having the same issues. but rice, when she got to the state departments did start to win. is that a fair description? were they the same battles? >> i think they're different battles that happened. but it's interesting. the former vice president won't say that he was marginalized in the second term. that said, he points out in the book, he says there are meetings i wasn't -- that i found out about that i probably wouldn't have been invited to. and there's this striking story about what he wants the u.s. to strike a syrian nuclear plant and he makes a case for it. and the president has his top advisers in the oval office and says, anyone here agree with the vice president? and not a single hand gets raised. >> that's a way of dressing down the vice president. i guess that's what's striking me about the book. basically vice

>> well, of course, they should not have, in fact, george tenet had communicated to condi rice and stevey three times before a september speech in cincinnati telling them do not use this niger information, we don't believe it, and then articulated the reasons they don't believe it. indeed, just a couple of days after the president's state of the union address, according to george tenet's book, mike morel, the presumptive director of the cia now told a staffer we're not going to use that because we don't believe it, so they had lots of time, and it was never an apology, i don't think, anybody needed out of an administration that wasn't prone to apologize in the first place. it was just an admission they were wrong, which hopefully at that time would have encouraged the investigative journalistic press to look into other things they might have the misled the american public about. >> i want to read another passage from the book. this is cheney after rice's apology. rice realized she had made a major apopgy. she came into my office and tearfully admitted that i had been right. in an intervi

liberal reservation you are no longer female, you no longer black, conde rice is neither black nor -- condi ricet an angry republican male. why don't women never mind blacks, hispanics or anybody else, resent the strait-jacket that the democratic party and liberals try to impose? >> i think a lot of women do. the elite groups like national organization for women which is a misleading title. it should be national organization for democratic women if you are pro-life, you better night dare to apply, because we will reject you out of hand. most of these women's groups on the far left are devoted only to one issue. it is abortion. somebody like michelle bachmann who have five biological children and raised foster children is definitely pro-life as is sarah palin. [ unintelligible ] without that gender gap they cannot win. back in 2010 the last national election we had, women voted republican by i think it was 52, 53%. this represents a real threat. that's why women like bjorkman and palin need to be destroyed. >> mark: fascinating point. the slogan used to say you can have it all. sarah palin has ch

condi rice went there. embraced him.he british even returned al ma ra hi who was the only man convicted in the pan am 103 shootdown. it wouldn't be surprising if some of those people who have now liberated libya, as they see it on the ground, with nato air support, unfortunately they are, i know, very grateful, may well begin to ask questions later on about our complicity with the gadhafi regime. which, of course, had a great deal to do with -- in fact, having to do with weapons of mass destruction, but that he had oil. >> john burns, always good to have you on. nic robertson, as well. be careful. >>> the producer who helped negotiate the release of 36 journalists, including herself from the tripoli hotel, for days they were held there by gadhafi loyalists. very emotional ordeal. >> we'll talk to her in just a moment. more on hurricane irene, said to be the biggest storm to hit the northeast in decades. [ male announcer ] what if that hemorrhoid pain is non-stop to seattle? just carry new preparation h totables. discreet

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condi rice, george tenet, for example.ly not done by vice presidents or presidents. it is not a time for score settling and i think that is-the only thing you can say in his defense is he had a lot of scores to settle. he had been beaten up a lot. so i guess there is a reason why liz, who worked with him, his daughter, probably persuaded him to do some of that. i'm not surprised at the candor. i am surprised at the shots. >> let's talk about that score settling. i want to read you something that he wrote about colin powell. he said, quote, i was particularly disappointed in the way powell handled policy differences. time and again i heard he was opposed to the war in iraq. indeed, i continue to hear it today. but never once in any meeting did i hear him voice objection. when president bush after his re-election in 2004 accepted powell's resignation, i thought it was for the best. does colin powell have a right to be pretty upset at dick cheney? >> absolutely, of course. he basically, the vice president accused the secretar

condi rice went there. embraced him.n returned al ma ra hi who was the only man convicted in the pan am 103 shootdown. it wouldn't be surprising if some of those people who have now liberated libya, as they see it on the ground, with nato air support, unfortunately they are, i know, very grateful, may well begin to ask questions later on about our complicity with the gadhafi regime. which, of course, had a great deal to do with -- in fact, having to do with weapons of mass destruction, but that he had oil. >> john burns, always good to have you on. nic robertson, as well. be careful. >>> the producer who helped negotiate the release of 36 journalists, including herself from the tripoli hotel, for days they were held there by gadhafi loyalists. very emotional ordeal. >> we'll talk to her in just a moment. more on hurricane irene, said to be the biggest storm to hit the northeast in decades. [ male announcer ] finally, the showdown everyone has been waiting for -- the dodge durango versus the ford explorer. two titans of t

he goes after colin power, condy rice and do we have the water boarding clip? he comes out and says i believe in what we did with water boarding. >> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be water boarding terror suspects? >> i would support using it if we had a high valued detainee. >> even though so many people condemned it and called it torture, you think it should be a tool? >> yes. >> reverend sharpton, what do you think about dick cheney coming out with a memoir where he worked so closely to people that are still around. >> it's interesting he would say he's going to make a lot of people angry. he always did. >> he's make other people angry. >> what i think is interesting is he used the memoir to go after people that served in the administration and who were loyal to the administration and to policies that he really helped engineer and the gratitude they get is be attacked in his memoir. that means they have to roll out and defend themselves. it gives a lot of the mentality o