he's sitting with there george tenet and don rumsfeld. not sure, but get your reaction to this. >> no plan ever survived the first contact with the enemy. but in iraq, tommy franks' did. the force defeated saddam hussein's regime and reached baghdad in less than a month. the longest fastest advance in the history of american warfare. today they're building a secure democrat inge future. one of the highest distinctions of history is to be call ad lib ray tore. and tommy franks will always carry that title. >> the other person i think -- it was not don rumsfeld. he was probably no inn the audience. but paul wolfowitz. what's your reaction to that. >> the travesty. the narrative of the iraq war was to put it mildly, incomplete. franks did succeed in toppling saddam hussein. but that was not sufficient. it was not sufficient to our chief political services or to provide the lib rans to the iraqi people. the iraqi people are coming apart as the seams on a hundreds -- on a monthly basis, hundreds of iraqis being killed by the insurgency. >> who

and he's sitting there with george tenet and i think don rumsfeld. i'm not sure. but let's watch this and get your reaction to this. >> the general likes to say no plan ever survived the first contact with the enemy. but in iraq, tommy franks' plan did. a force half the size of the force that won the gulf war defeated saddam hussein's regime and reached baghdad in less then a month. the fastest, longest armored advance in the history of american warfare. e pele of iraq and afghanistan are building a secure and permanent democratic future. enhe highest distinctions of history is to be called a liberator and tommy franks will always carry that title. >> the other person i think was not don rmed -- rumsfeld. probably in the audience. may be paul wolfowitz. medal of freedom to tommy franks, what is your reaction to that? >> travesty. the narrative of the iraq war that's president just gave us, o put it mildly, incomplete, franks did succeed in toppling saddam hussein. but that was not sufficient. that was not sufficient to either achieve our political provide r to del

lation but i'm the decider and i decide what is best and what's best is for don rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense there's an old saying in tennessee i know it's in texas probably in tennessee this is fool me once. shame on. shame on you. if you can't get fooled again. yes you can't get fooled again set in two thousand and eight we were at the height of anti bush sentiment an eloquent young statesman and constitutional lawyer swept america off its feet his name is barack obama and his deliberate diction an extensive vocabulary won the hearts and minds of people desperate for change so far obama is not only continued some of the worst policies of the bush administration but in many cases has exacerbated them so what is it about obama that a licit so much trust from the american people really just by the way he speaks to me now to discuss this chris chambers for communication professor at georgetown university thank you so much for coming on thank you so you teach an entire class devoted to the study of rhetoric and persuasion how much of the way a politician speaks has to d

to share information and this is the key bureaucracies tend to protect themselves and spoke to don rumsfeld secretary of veteran from spelled in the green room of another network about this and i we talked about this he said well you know we feel we were lied to by the bureaucracy and he said that that was a common occurrence so you know as much as i have had to clear the air with him on some of the issues that regarding able danger because i disclosed this during his watch he said the bureaucracy commonly maad to him so let's remember that there's a bureaucracy that's separate from the political parties and i think that's what we have to always remember that there will always try to protect themselves and you say enough congressman curt weldon in two thousand and five that the pentagon pentagon employed in order to destroy yes supine five terabytes this data about able danger before nine eleven absolutely again to the idea of covering up wrongdoing in consistencies in process is something not new as a member n.s.a. this was recently caught again doing some things to say that they're protec

. >> either way sounds lousy but i think actually don rumsfeld had the point right. going to do is a demonstration over chemical weapons and not deal with these other issues which really threaten our core interests even more, then i think it is probably a mistake. i think it's better than the congress preventing the president from acting but if they are going to authorize action, they ought to authorize a kind of action and the president ought to take a kind of action that i described that is actually going to change the correlation of force -- >> he's not seeking to do that. >> he's not seeking to do that and i think it's a mistake and i would hope that the debate under way in the congress would convince the congress and administration they need to do more. >> stephen, always nice to see you. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >>> the president is coming back early from their five-week vacation. sort of. bret hume is joining us. how is the president handling this both capitol hill and internationally? >> poorly, in a word. the decision to go to congress was legally unnec

talk with a man who knows all too well what this process is about, former secretary of defense don rumsfeld, we'll get his perspective what the president is doing and what might happen next. tonight i'm hosting a town hall. we'll have a panel of experts, and they'll be taking questions from me but mostly from people like you discussing the concerns, proof of the chemical attacks, the plan to get in, the plan to get out and what this could mean for families in the united states. critical thinking on the syria crisis, tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. we're also tracking a tropical storm this morning, that's formed in the caribbean, it is unusually late in the year if there had not been a hurricane. we expect a lot of the situation so let's get to indra and find out what's going on. good morning. >> we have tropical storm gabrielle. we're concerned with a large amount of rain. one of the things we look at when we look at tropical storms is how slow they are moving. gabrielle, constant winds only 40 miles per hour, make you think a weak tropical storm, when this moves this slow we could

were there were chemical weapons it's ok or back when back during the reagan administration when don rumsfeld told them to do the whole year for bush to be able to sit there and try to a whole year he did it the right way went through congress during that year they have tapes of the trucks leaving and all the said mysteriously those chemical weapons are gone and those trucks went into syria many countries right now have chemical weapons probably every single one of them i mean as we know we have what are we at least twenty five should we attack all of them well the question. now of course not i do as well i read right iraq was threatening to use them in the us that was the reason why we right now actually ok oh i don't know we're going to really to get the iraq war but the case is this they were actually shooting at our planes almost every single day because they were there not to try and they were in defiance of the u n security council resolution requiring us to come in and make sure that they weren't going after the kurds so let's not talk about they weren't firing upon us but what i want

this is don rumsfeld talking about intelligence is like listening to howdy doody talk about brain surgery me a break. you guys screwed that thing up so badly, it is not even come prehensible compared to this. martha: we'll see what happens tonight. thank you so much, you guys. >> thank you. martha: it's a hot one. he will have to walk a very careful line with all of this evening. we'll be watching, thank you, bob. >> you're welcome. martha: thank you, brad. bill: to our folks at home, be sure to visit our brand new politics page. sign up for our daily political newsletter. you can get that on the road at home or at work. foxnews.com, enter your email address and get the top political headlines every day delivered right to you. >>> remember when mitt romney said 47% of the americans don't pay taxes. turns out he was wrong. he missed it by four points. the new report and how did that many americans get away not paying any federal taxes. that is next. martha: this incredible story. a man's youtube confession goes viral. and now he has been arrested and will head to court. we'll talk to his a

it is so sad that we have forgotten so soon the picture of don rumsfeld and saddam hussein on the iranianorder will be gave saddam the chemicals to use on the iranian people. sad we have forgotten the picture of the small vietnamese girl that was hit by napalm dropped by the united states. how soon we have forgotten the video of john kerry, when he ran for president, showing him chasing down a winded and unarmed vietnamese soldier and murdering him. that was a war crime. it is a shame we have john mccain and john kerry advising us on what to do. these two guys are complete idiots. host: thank you very much for the call. we will get more of your calls and comments over the course of this morning's "washington journal." affairsenate foreign committee takes up the issue on that authorization, the congressional authorization of a military strike against syria, you can listen to it on c-span radio. withn can -- we continue steve clemons in just a couple of minutes. he is the editor at large for the atlantic. syria andur focus on what congress will be taking up this week and -- this week. also