donald, it's your network. what is your read on this? >> the decision is incorrect. jay leno was doing very nicely. david letterman is doing fine. they're all my friends over there. they'll put jay back where he belongs, conan will probably leave and go to another network and maybe everybody is going to be happy. >> will jay go back to 11:30 for the tonight show? >> that's what should happen. jay should go back, he was doing very well. conan's ratings are substantially lower. i don't know if that's his fault or if it's because he is proceeded by jay. it's going to work out. it is a catastrophic decision but they're making a comeback. >> larry: you're a veteran of these wars. what do you make of this? >> larry, as a veteran broadcaster, is this not perhaps the jackass move of all time in broadcasting, second perhaps only to arthur godfrey's firing of julia ormond on the air? take a salad, put a fork in it and stir it up, things were going rather nicely. i love the way politicians and network people will always say in a disaster, this is exactly the way we hoped it wou

and donald is a keen student of british politics and of the house of commons. and would from time to time surprise me by the fact that he had been watching events in the house of commons sometimes more assiduously than i have been and would make reference to what had been said and the debates that were taking place. so he was in no doubt of the -- of the constraints that we were under politically. >> by this stage, how good was the relationship? we're talking to them frequently? did you feel you really had some good straightforward relationship with them? >> i always felt i had a good straightforward relationship, because he's a very straightforward man. very clear about what he wants and what he is going to do. certainly spoke on the telephone whenever we needed to. i wouldn't say that it was on -- survey was on a daily or possibly weekly basis. but it was regular. we met frequently. he was not a man to have idle conversations. he didn't sort of sit around chatting about politics or the world, or even what was happening in the pentagon. the conversations, the

as you are probably aware i had a conversation with donald rumsfeld that day indicating to him that if the vote went the wrong way we would not take action and we could not take action. even at that late stage in my own mind we had not unconditionally committed ourselves to using military force. >> campbell described the tenor of this correspondence from his evidence. we share the analysis, we share the concern, we absolutely with you in making sure saddam hussein is faced up to his obligations and that iraq is disarmed. if that can't be done diplomatically and has to be done militarily britain will be there. that is his combination of what the correspondents were saying. were you aware that this was the general tenor of the way the prime minister was putting -- >> that is consistent with what face up to his obligations is conditional. the conditions were his obligations to the united nations and various security council resolution that had been passed. >> you were aware that this was the nature of the exchange? >> i wasn't aware of that specific exchange. what i was aware of was the g

. >> donald tonby one of the greatest historians who lived. you said he has commented that the coming of buddhism to the west would be seen in time as the single-most important historical event of the 20th century. pretty wild statement in it. >> there is wildness in it. whenever you make a global statement like that it is wild. >> you're not a buddhist. that's right. >> this is not religion. exactly. talk mindfulness. it is an areligious concept. the buddhists have practiced this in the course of their religion. but you don't have to do it in any religious context. >> interesting thing about buddhism. the buddha wasn't a buddhist. >> buddha was not a biewdit. no, but jesus was not a christian either. so in that sense -- the way i see the buddha and, say, christ as well as these profound geniuses of their time, who saw very, very deeply into the nature of reality. would you think that -- considering the other propositions that you make rather compellingly in your back -- book about the transformation of society that can be achieved. and the wo

donald payne, our leader -- where -- donald payne, my goodness, what a conscience he is and has been on this subject for a long time and really for eradication of poverty -- alleviation of poverty, eradication of disease throughout the world. madam speaker, obviously the thoughts and prayers of this entire congress are with the people of haiti who are suffering from a devastating earthquake that hit their country on march -- on january 12. members of congress are committed to helping the haitian people recover from this tragedy and to rebuild their homes, communities and lives in the days, weeks and years to come. again, i thank congresswoman lee, congresswoman ros-lehtinen and congressman payne for their leadership today and throughout the years in support of the people of haiti. it is a source of pride when president obama spoke about the subject he said to the haitian people, you will not be forsaken, you not be forgotten. a beautiful sentiment that reflects the values of our country, the concern of the president personally that he had for the people of haiti. the leadership he pr

. >>> carl icon plans to put more money into his bid to buy donald trump's bankrupt casinos.ent company will commit $125 million more to buy trump entertainment resort. trump bondholders also want to buy the casinos, offered $225 million in a deal that gives him 10% of the reorganized company. >>> time for your money saving tip of the day. running the numbers on popular home improvement. if you work from home, a designated work space is a must- have in a potential tax deduction. according to report, overhauling home office will not pay off when you sell your home. that rule especially true if you borrow usable space from bedroom, living room, or garage. treat yourself to the home office if you need it. but you only earn back about 50% of the job's cost. for more money saving tips, check out my blog and follow me on twitter and facebook. not all these projects pay off in the end. >> we will talk about that all week. those that work and those that don't. thank you. >>> local woman past the sent remark shares her secrets etc. to long life. >>> and rise in violence. >>> crossing

when donald rumsfeld said the lights are on it was not because of anything he did but the study generators who were across baghdad in other neighborhoods. look at what the locals do. the locals know what the solutions are. microprojects are the way to go. quick projects that are sustainable and seen and controlled by locals. some one pointed out don't hand out soccer balls. empower the local. don't make them like you. give him the soccer ball. kill or capture, you have to kill or capture a few but fewer than we think. you will not find stronger advocates of the counterinsurgency approach than people who try to kill or capture their way out of iraq and afghanistan. this is why general kristol is such an advocate. he is trying plan a and he knows it didn't work. >> i agree with that. there is the enemy centric view which focuses on the enemy. they are partially correct. we don't need to focus on the enemy at all. there is some language that says that. we have to do some of that. general david petraeus would tell you, you have to be relentless in pursuing the enemy. that can't be all you do b

you can say it was all donald rumsfeld rick only claire short have been getting along better with the prime minister at the time-- what happened was perhaps it wasn't that grip in the immediate aftermath and again i am speaking way out of my knowledge and expertise but there wasn't that grip. the invasion, the people that talk about catastrophic success and it happened very quickly, and then it became a security problem and then once they think, once al qaeda and the iranians in the way they did come alighted upon it in the way they did, a kind of lack of grip security problem became a really serious security problem and that then affected every aspect of what was going on there. again, tim cross, a lot of the concerns he talked about when he first came, i think they were real concerns, genuinely held but probably sort of bull at a fairly short timeframe, once he managed to get people who were capable of sorting. but once the security security situation developed as it did you didn't have this obviously philosophical difference in approach between the british and americans in terms of

defense secretary donald rumsfeld called the report reprehensible. dick cheney said he was offended. . called it absurd. the washington post editorialized that, quote, lately the organization has tended to save its most vitriolic condemnation not for dictators but for the united states and. it was a clear attempt to try to discredit this organization. i have followed washington politics long enough to know that when top officials attack you instead of ignoring you it is because they are scared of you. the white house's attack on the group's credibility for me at that time was a clear affirmation of amnesty international integrity and power. we are talking about look bush administration but it is important to note that president obama signed the national defense authorization act that endorses another attempt by the u.s. government to conduct military commission trial. amnesty international and irene khan are once again pushing and changing the way we see human rights. in a new campaign called demand dignity amnesty international is seeking to leave p

oates in 1977 and david herbert donald in 1995, just to name five. in any case, biographers can hardly sure from infecting lincoln's mind was so much of his revolutionary contribution to american life stemmed from his moral responsibilities. for its nuanced view of such key aspects of lincoln's leadership, ronald c. white junior's new a lincoln, a biography, has been praised expansively. .. >> this helps him understand soldiers that served during the civil war. the tried by war and craig simon's lincoln and admirals both of which won this year's lincoln prize at the college. the illinois historic preservation agency in pursuing it's documentation project of lincoln's life has dispatched to pour over every likely depository in the land. in about 2013, the agency will issue papers covering lincoln's birth to his inauguration. and by about 2020, it will release his presidential papers. not just everything he wrote, but also everything of any importance that was written to him. the project has already casting light on details of lincoln's legacy such as

this company was identified by the city of akron and donald plusquellic's visionary leadership down in akron. but i want to bring this to the united states. i want to bring these jobs -- and this not about money for me. this is about creating jobs. i can feel for that gentleman that wants to work. he should have a right to work. god bless him. >> let me respond -- first of all -- >> is there any -- is there any federal programs that can help me -- i just want to borrow the money to create this factory and create these jobs. >> well, obviously i don't know about the particular situation so i'll just speak generally to it. and if you want to get one of my team your card, then maybe they can follow up with you. but one of the things that we've done -- or one of the things that we've seen coming out of the financial crisis is that banks are still not lending to small businesses enough. the mayor and i talked about this. the business owners that i talked to will confirm this. and if you ask why -- if you ask the banks why, they'll say, well, it's a combination of, in some cases, demand real

. >> mike: rod blagojevich started to tape as contestant on donald trump celebrity apprentice that willtv has become family business in the blagojevich home. last fall, the governor and his wife joined us to tell us why she, too, took part in reality series and she revealed how he would stop as nothing to prove he's innocent of charges. >> at that time, you were in costa rica on a show called "i'm a celebrity get me out of here." that had to have been a crazy experience. they wanted my husband on the show. but he was not able to go. and nbc came to me with an offer, would i take his place. and so we had to think about it a lot and do soul searching because i had never been away from the children for any length of time at all. >> if i could say how great she was to do that. she ate a tarantula in the jungle because she's a loving mother. i was left for month of june with our little girls which is something i never did by myself. >> that is a reality show. >> mike: i've got to ask you a question. there is a possibility that in the trial one of the things you will have to do is bring some

wrap up just to get a few comments and mention also to anyone in the audience who is interested, donaldubert who wrote high cost of free parking, speaking at the university at 7:00 p.m. on january 19th. that is a couple minutes away. >> your first point about how many trips are quite short and why do we do that? it is habit. we hop in a car and don't think twice about it. once we start driving and become sedentary in that way, what seems like a short walk becomes long because we are not used to walking anymore. one of the things we recommend people do is keep a trip diary in their car. that could be as simple as a pad of yellow paper. how far away it is. so that people can see how many troops they are taking. they could walk or bike. it is a high percentage. those are not necessary trips. consider the irony of driving to the gym. my husband is not here because he would say the reason i don't drive to the gym is because i don't go to the gym. i don't have a lot of authority on that but there are a lot of shorter trips that are more helpful than walking and biking. your second point on th

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comments with regard to that and mention also to anyone in the audience who's interested and that is donaldhup who wrote the high cost of free parking is going to be speaking at yale at 7:00 on tuesday january 19th. so it's kind of related to what we're speaking with. >> to your first point about how many trips we're taking that are quite short and why do we do that -- it's habit. we hop in the car. we don't think twice about it. and once you start driving and become sedentary in that way, what seems like a short walk becomes long because we're not used to walking anymore. one of the things we recommend that people do is keep a trip diary in their car. and that can be as simple as having a pad of yellow paper to keep rack of where you're going and how long it takes you to get there and how far away it is. so that people can really see how many trips that they're taking they could walk or bike. and it is -- it is a high percentage. and those are not necessary trips. we can consider the irony of driving to the memorandum. -- gym. and luckily my husband is not here because he would say the rea

a few comments with regard to that and also mention to anyone in the audience interested that is donald and shapiro to the high cost of free parking will be speaking at yale university at 7:00 p.m. on tuesday, january 19th. it is kind of related to what we are speaking with. >> two your first point about how many trips we're taking that are quite short and why we do that it is have it. if we hop in the car, don't think twice about it and want to start driving in become sedentary in that way what seems like a short walk becomes law and because we and i used to walking any more. one of the things we recommend people do is keep a trip wire in their car and i can be as simple as having a pad of yellow paper to keep track of where you're going and how long it takes to get there and how far away it is so that people can see how many trips they are taking they could walk or bike. it is a high percentage of those are not necessary trips. we can consider the irony of driving to the gemma dashed to the jam. luckily my husband is not here because you say the reason i don't drive to the gym is beca

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guest: donald raises a question we have heard a lot from the left in this debate.t the beginning of the debate, you heard the president say he did want a public option in the bill. as the debate went along, he made clear he was willing to comprimise if he doesn't get that. it has been a disa appointment. they don't have enough votes to get public option specifically through the senate. you have a number of key moderates that said they couldn't live with the bill. democrats have been trying to present a system of universal health for decades. you are going to have subsidies. you will have a system that can no longer deny people care when they are sick. democrats say these are so many things we are going to get that even if we don't have a public option, the bill does a lot for the public goal. >> as far as concessions made putting this bill together, is there a positive sense that they can get the votes to pass on this ultimately. guest: that is the sense. there are a couple of issues that could gum this up at this point. one point is how the bill deal was abortion.

i had meetings with donald rumsfeld and others.he state department was completely focused on the need to get a further resolution and for the president to go the un route, as they said. but they were not clear on the ninth as to whether or not he was going to do so. i think his speech was the next day, and the united nations on the 10th. even the american administration was not clear as to what was going to be the outcome. perhaps the best example of all of the prime minister influencing the president of united states into a particular course of action. i doubt that without his efficacy of that resolution that the president would have agreed to it. it was clear -- it was not clear in the administration even the day before. >> this is an interesting line of questioning, as to whether you think the british government would have been able to take this matter any further if it had not been on move to take this back to the u.n. security council? >> to take it further? >> in terms of military action if the president had not agreed to go

he was present at the meeting with donald rumsfeld were discussed these issues. when you say would instructions i gave him, he was our representative, but at that stage it was the office of pose conflict planning. ? he must of been sent there for a reason. >> he was sent there to help with the process. he was a man i knew pretty well who was a brilliant logistician. he ran part of a good logistics operation in his previous position. his job was to be part of -- i was not actually in day to day contact with him. he was our representative, and how we judge that he had the right experience and abilities to help make it work. >> he told us that he was passing information back. was that getting to you? >if you knew there was a proble, what steps did you take? did you alerts the prime minister? that fatal errors in planning were made. if you were being alerted, did you inform the prime minister? >> i did not think the prime minister needed separately alerting by me. i accept that there was a mismatch in our system. the lead on civilian construction and development woul

host: grosse pointe, michigan, donald, on the democrats' line. caller: yes, i do not think the president is doing a bad job. i think he is doing the best he possibly can with the hand he has been dealt. that being said, one of the problems we are having is that the news media -- cnn, fox, msnbc, and even sometimes c- span -- a lot of information comes across the airways and nobody explains it. obama says he will raise taxes. that may be true, but no one explains that he is planning on raising taxes on only people making $250,000 or above. i think that c-span does the american people and in justice and the rest of the news media, too, by not being more specific. and not let certain things hang out there. "he is going to raise taxes." let's get more specific. the news media is becoming in some ways the worst enemy of the american public because you are not giving us the truth we deserve. host: thank you, donald. baltimore, what you think about the president's first year? caller: i am going to touch on what a couple of the last callers said. i think

by the way something donald rumsfeld was doing at the same time.ss now it is much more rational and much more likely to come to a good resolution. what you say about obama not having as much foreign policy experience as joe biden is right. what obama has though, is a deliver tiff gift, which -- is a deliberative gift. whether or not you agree with it they found out this process as well as they could. host: the chief of staff for vice-president biden said that "jamie was his own --chen cheney was his own office of government." has vice-president biden benefited from the vice- president cheney's expansion of the office? guest: enormously. when i was hearing this theory, i thought, when the president decided to nominate sonia sotomayor, biden interviewed all the candidates. no one had done that before, until cheney. so biden who was head of the senate judiciary had a perfectly good rationale for doing something that no vice- president had done before, until the cheney. -- dick cheney. clearly, the role that joe biden played in foreign-policy is highly

guest: donald raises a question we have heard a lot from the left in this debate. the beginning of the debate, you heard the president say he did want a public option in the bill. as the debate went along, he made clear he was willing to comprimise if he doesn't get that. it has been a disa appointment. they don't have enough votes to get public option specifically through the senate. you have a number of key moderates that said they couldn't live with the bill. democrats have been trying to present a system of universal health for decades. you are going to have subsidies. you will have a system that can no longer deny people care when they are sick. democrats say these are so many things we are going to get that even if we don't have a public option, the bill does a lot for the public goal. >> as far as concessions made putting this bill together, is there a positive sense that they can get the votes there are a couple of issues that could come this up. one of them is how the bill deals with abortion. the bills are different on how they would treat insurance cover

against the then actually had four vetoed a bill that would have expanded the eft boy-- foia of word donaldeld in chief of staff for ford and his chief aide named dick cheney. so the battle continues to expose government illegalities, atrocities. those people certainly have their day. they deserve to stay in jail as it was a day running the country. [applause] finally i just want to say when i went to the hampton's apartment years later and ask them, is there any thinker fred's that was personal to him that might be useful in my book? bill went down to fred's olbermann came up with this book. it was a book that fred had in it was called deep in my heart by william kunstler. fred wanted to be a lawyer, and fred believe in justice. he said, in 1969, i don't have time to be a lawyer. there is too much else going on, but fred has affected lawyers. he has been the inspiration for our office, people's law office and some of the things we did and i think what kept me going and it was the irony that here we were pursuing hukill fred hampton but it was fred hampton alive the kept us going who inspir

an ad is part of the reason it is so provocative it is fascinating to me to see the speeches from donald rumsfeld when he was president ford's chief of staff he would say one thing but then gets to the pentagon 1975 and three year four weeks later he comes out with a doctor in a provocative weakness it is what cramer has said for years but when he left office 1977, the farewell speech was that and when he left in 2006 he said i am sorry 1/2 to go back to the same theme of 19772 not display weakness because that will invite our enemies to attack us. is a very seductive and important doctrine and maybe simplistic but that does not mean it does not have a certain kind of power. and it fits in with the view of the world that was quite realistic for kramer and general walker and others who were friends of grand morale and spent their life working as anti-communist as opposed to it today fascist and anti-communist in these were great patriots devoting their whole life. they believed more so and civilians did that this was an absolute essentials strand for american foreign policy. it had to be

iraq and their involvement in the war and they were safe in the fact in 2002 general tony frank and donald rell silda asked the brits to join in the war, to join the american war and they said they could not simply because they had to have a vote on the house of commons but they were very concerned because they knew that saddam hussein had been shooting down their pilots in the no-fly zones. he had already developed long-range missiles which were mobile so that put them in more danger. they could shoot them down prior to the no-fly zone and the other problem they said they believed or at least we believed they were trying to prevent an attack on the u.s.. they said worse than mine 11 because the would-be chemical and biological. >> host: are you familiar with this? >> guest: i am familiar of course with the inquiry under way in the united kingdom bond with all the details of it, but i think again with the caller was noting takes us back to what really was a very difficult decision at the time. saddam hussein was a threat to international peace and security. a dozen u.n. resolutions said so

you can say it was all donald rumsfeld rick only claire short have been getting along better with theme minister at the time-- what happened was perhaps it wasn't that grip in the immediate aftermath and again i am speaking way out of my knowledge and expertise but there wasn't that grip. the invasion, the people that talk about catastrophic success and it happened very quickly, and then it became a security problem and then once they think, once al qaeda and the iranians in the way they did come alighted upon it in the way they did, a kind of lack of grip security problem became a really serious security problem and that then affected every aspect of what was going on there. again, tim cross, a lot of the concerns he talked about when he first came, i think they were real concerns, genuinely held but probably sort of bull at a fairly short timeframe, once he managed to get people who were capable of sorting. but once the security security situation developed as it did you didn't have this obviously philosophical difference in approach between the british and americans in terms of fig

hours and they did understand that and i think some more than others and it's fair to say that under donald rumsfeld's name mentioned a few times of this committee and i think there were times when you thought he could maybe have bought a bit more about the impact of public statements and other countries but -- >> again, almost exactly a month after your september by reentry you note iraq is still tricky and just wish the americans would do more to put over a proper message to the world. did you have -- were you able to put this through? >> i did, and to be fair they were always very -- i go back and actually i would like if i can i would like you to see the papers we did our around kosovo in september 11th that developed in this way because i think there was the basis and those relationships were very good. i spoke most days we had a system whereby if any of us felt difficult requiring immediate attention happened any of us could instigate a confidence call at any time. >> what are the aspects of american presentation that you found disturbing were unhelpful? >> i suppose -- the have a ver

administration had for detail a bill that would have expanded to include intelligence were a fellow named donaldrumsfeld, chief of staff, and his chief aide, named dick cheney. so the battle continues to expose government illegalities, atrocities. those people certainly had their day. pages are a day in jail, as was a day running the country. [applause] >> finally, i just want to say when i went over to the hamptons apartment years later, and asked them is there anything here of trantwo's that was personal to him that i could, might be useful in my book? bill went down into fred alderman came up with this book. it was a book that fred had and it was called deep in my heart that it was by william cussler. fred had wanted to be a lawyer. and fred believed in justice. he said, in 1969, i don't have time to be a lawyer. there's too much else going on. by fred had affected lawyers that he has been the inspiration for our office, people's law office, and some of the things we did. and i think what kept me going and it was an irony that here we were, pursuing who killed fred hampton, but it was fred ha

that in case of the hijacking, no norad commander or air traffic controller could respond, unless donald rumsfeld could respond. of course, on 9/12, he changed the directive. i have met many commanders who said this is an outrage. i was at the hearings. if this directive was not changed, 9/11 may not have happened. host: admiral james loy? guest: i do not know if i have an opinion about the issuance in the cancellation a few days later, nor on the responsibility of secretary rumsfeld and the defense department. those events become extraordinarily ad hoc depending on what you are dealing with in the moment. my sense is we have totally reorganized our structure as a nation to cope with this notion of terrorism, having as one of its favorite targets commercial aviation. one of the ways we deal with it today offers the traveling public better security than it did before 9/11. host: admiral james loy was the tsa administrator from 2002 through 2003. the secretary of homeland security from 2003 to 2005. what are you up to today? guest: i am a senior counselor at the cohen group. we are trying

donald merriman. thank you. i would also like to think of the director the national book foundation, harold augenbraum who has been tireless, for its outstanding leadership, harold. [applause] the terrific staff of the foundation and my fellow board members, especially the board vice chairman who is really inspiring us with his vision and energy, morgan, thank you. [applause] special thanks ovittore board member lananess bet. thank you one, who along with markon-- [applause] is the co-chair of the event, the dinner tonight into our other dinner cochairs. [applause] i thank you for coming coming being part of this great tradition. remind you that the finalists books that form the centerpieces of your table are yours to take it the end of the evening. good luck to our 20 finalists and let me introduce the vice chairman of the national book foundation, morgan entrekin. [applause] >> thank you david. my job tonight is to announce the winner of the best of the national book awards. you have heard this is the 60th nat

and i had meetings with donald rumsfeld, but i also had meetings with armitage and i think colin powell dropped by in the american phrase, and the state department were completely focused on the need to get further resolution. and for the president to go the u.n. track, as they said, but they were not clear on the ninth as to whether or not he was going to do so. and i think his speech was the next day and the united nations on the 10th. so even the u.s. administration was not wholly clear, our parser, as to what was going to be the outcome. again, back to sir roderic's question this morning, perhaps the best example of all the prime minister influencing the president of the united states into a particular course of action. because i doubt that without his advocacy of that resolution, that the president would have agreed to a. it was clear real doubt inside the u.s. administration as to whether he would even the day before. >> we've asked this question of another witness, quite the light of this question, but it's an interesting one. as to whether you think the british government would

they were saying in 2002 a general and donald rumsfeld and asked the rich to join -- asked thebrits toe war. they said they could not because they had to have a vote for the house of commons, but were very concerned because they knew that saddam hussein had been shooting down the pilot and no- fly zones. he had already developed a long- range missiles which were mobile. the other problem they believed was that they were trying to prevent a surprise attack on the u.s. which would of been worse than 9/11 because it would have been chemical, biological. host: are you familiar with this guest: i am familiar with the inquiry under way in the united kingdom, not with all the details. what the caller was nothing there takes us back to the very difficult decision at the time. saddam was a threat to international peace and security. one dozen u.n. resolutions said so. there had been efforts to shoot down u.s. and u.k. aircraft in the no fly air zones. it was a dilemma at the time. we will face further hard choices and dilemmas ahead. i would hope that the debate over iraq would rise above simpl

by the way, something donald rumsfeld was doing at the same time.f you look up the process now, it is much more rational and much more likely to come to a good resolution. what you say about obama not having as much foreign policy experience as joe biden is right. what obama has, though, is a deliver tiff gift, which -- is a deliberative gift. whether or not you agree with it, they found out this process as well as they could. host: the chief of staff for vice-president biden said that "jamie was his own --che cheneys his own office of government." has vice-president biden benefited from the vice- president cheney's expansion of the office? guest: enormously. when i was hearing this theory, i thought, when the president decided to nominate sonia sotomayor, biden interviewed all the candidates. no one had done that before, until cheney. so biden, who was head of the senate judiciary, had a perfectly good rationale for doing something that no vice- president had done before, until the cheney. -- dick cheney. clearly, the role that joe biden played in

i think it is fair to say under donald rumsfeld same it's been mentioned a few times that this committee and i think there were times when you thought he could have maybe thought about a bit more about impact in public statements of other countries but -- is back again almost exactly a month after your september intrigued you note iraq is still tricky just wish the americans would do more to put over a message to the world. you have those you were able to focus two? >> i did and to be fair they were always very -- when i go back and i actually like if i can i would like you to say that he persuaded runge kosovo september 11th that developed in this way because the was the basis and those relationships were very good. i spoke most of today's we have a system whereby if anything -- if any of us felt difficult for equating immediate attention any of us could instigate a confidence call. >> with the aspects of american presentation that you found disturbing war on helpful? >> i suppose they have a very different political system, you can't choose the leadership of another country. but it's j

host: donald on the independent line. caller: good morning.think that things that are fixing haiti can fix this country. we need to use cannibis. host: we are going to move on. next phone call. caller: i cannot imagine what the people are going through. i do not know if you are aware, but right now there are 900,000 people unemployed in the state of florida. we were supposed to get our unemployment checks this today, but they are not there. i have no gasoline, no food in my pantry. the government of florida -- after i have worked for 40 years, has totally let me down. i am just one of 900,000. i saw on the news this morning starbucks made a profit. maybe someone from the government could call them and say, please hire some people. we need jobs. host: i think the message is we need help at home, we should moderate our help overseas. hostguest: i definitely think the people here should get the help they need, but you are asking for help to eat properly. in haiti where there is a catastrophe, we are asking for help to help people dying. i hope th

that in case of the hijacking, no norad commander or air traffic controller could respond, unless donald rumsfeld could respond. of course, on 9/12, he changed the directive. i have met many commanders who said this is an outrage. i was at the hearings. if this directive was not changed, 9/11 may not have happened. host: admiral james loy? guest: i do not know if i have an opinion about the issuance in the cancellation a few days later, nor on the responsibility of secretary rumsfeld and the defense department. those events become extraordinarily ad hoc depending on what you are dealing with in the moment. my sense is we have totally reorganized our structure as a nation to cope with this notion of terrorism, having as one of its favorite targets commercial aviation. one of the ways we deal with it today offers the traveling public better security than it did before 9/11. host: admiral james loy was the tsa administrator from 2002 through 2003. the secretary of homeland security from 2003 to 2005. what are you up to today? guest: i am a senior counselor at the cohen group. we are trying

. >> i will just put to donald. i have got news for him. if i put with love, is that alright? keep it from my wife. >> ladies and gentlemen, we'll come. i am delighted to see you all here at the british embassy and of course a special welcome to harold evans and tina brown. we at the embassy are delighted to be participating in the launch of harry's book, "my paper chase" true stories of vanished times. the book covers, and i started reading it, the book covers a huge amount of ground from harry's childhood in the north of england in for a time, you will know this, you were living in eckels the few hundred yards from where juliet lathrem corrupt. then on to his professional career as a journalist, editor publisher and author, but this isn't just another autobiography. this is also a biography of the newspaper industry over many many significant decades in the book describes that almost industrial process of producing a newspaper over really the best part of the last century. now all of that is decidedly not an obituary for print journalism. mark twain said i'm not an editor of

i can recall being in donald's office, the phone goes, the president wants to see him, he goes, whereas there were always some constraints on our ability to do that, plus but i accept this is equally true for the us, there are lots of other things going on at the same time. so although, we are understandably and rightly focused on iraq for the purposes of this inquiry, at the same time we are still conducting operations in afghanistan, there are a whole range, i'm sure, of issues for the foreign office, for dfid, which are absolutely nothing to do with iraq, but nevertheless people are still having to conduct daily meetings, do the work that is necessary to keep those activities underway. >> thank you. >> sorry, if i can just interrupt, there was a cabinet committee which was very much the equivalent of the committee of principles, the dop, the defence and 80 overseas policy committee, but the problem was that it just didn't meet in the runup to the war for two years. so and then, after the campaign, actually a lot of meetings happened and we had the equivalent structure. so why was it

donald kohn assistant treasury secretary alan krueger and economist martin feldstein are among thosetalking about the economy. >> this is the andrew brimmer economic policy forum. we are described in the handbook on page 81. this for elma was organized in the spring of 2008. the forum itself a start in boston in the year 2000 and since that time the association has been good enough to sponsor this four of every year since so this is the 11th occasion. excuse me is there a light of here? why can't see. [laughter] this year's for rahm was titled the national economic policies of president barack obama evaluation after one year on the trail. the speakers in the book will appear as the order in which they are listed in the book except a few days ago christine a romer sent me an e-mail saying because the work of the council of economic advisers and the president's state of the union message economic reports and so on she couldn't possibly come today. so, she instead asked the program, assistant secretary of the treasury and chief economist was coming to the matter and he would be prepared

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that's what kris christy and bob donald did in their races.hey talked about the issues that they were concerned about and then people responded. host: one person in "the washington times" said that the traditionally large donors were not giving -- they were dissatisfied with your leadership. newt gingrich was quoted of saying, some old timers in the party are uncomfortable with you because you come from a different background. i'm paraphrasing quite a bit there. but i just wanted to get your response from that. guest: i do come from a different background. i come from this background. i grew up here in washington, d.c. i'm an urban kid. i cut my teeth on the politics of this city with the likes of david clark and john ray and marion berry and eleanor holmes norton watching them maneuver and fight for this city. and so my experience is very different that most state chairman and certainly national chairman. but with respect to, you know, our major donors, you know, ralphie boyd doesn't know how this works. i don't know who he's talking to. in t

congressman donald payne of new jersey chairs the international affairs task force of the congressionalnce efforts. the c.b.c. is working to help ensure that the united states can and will continue to do everything it can to provide emergency humanitarian assistance. the president has quickly deployed all available assets and resources to respond to this emergency. over the last several years, haiti has experienced an extraordinary set of challenges from high food prices and food shortages to natural disasters. haiti will need increased attention and resources from the international community to help it recover during this very difficult time. united nations reports say thousands of people may have died in this earthquake. at least 100 people are believed to be buried in the rubble of the united nations headquarters building in port-au-prince. the head of the united nations mission is among the missing. search and rescue teams have been sent to haiti from several countries. a united states military official says tentative plans are under way for the hospital ship to dock off the coast o

well, donald trump builds a casino and whoever it is decides to take the junk bonds from the casino, park them in a savings and loan and the savings and loan is guaranteed. the savings and loan is guaranteed by the american taxpayer. the savings and loan goes bankrupt and so the junk bonds in the savings and loan are now in the resolution trust and the men people end up with junk bonds in a casino. isn't that unbelievable? do we have to learn that lesson again? well, we did then. we learned it a second time after the s&l collapse. we learned it with the enron corporation, which in part was a criminal enterprise. they were manipulating wholesale electric markets on the west coast. schemes like get shorty, fat boy -- just to name a couple -- and then having people in addition to these schemes shut off and turn on power plants in order to manipulate supply so they can fleece ratepayers out of billions of dollars. it was one of the biggest robberies in the history of our country. and i led the hearings. i chaired the hearings over in the commerce committee. ken lay came and raised his ha