of the presidential medal of freedom is somewhat debased given all the people who have won it donald rumsfeld tony blair always to the grinning and eager accomplice to the iraq war george tenet who thought the war in iraq would be a slam dunk i can't say that any of these people reflect well on our country that their record of government service is is a good one so perhaps the presidential medal of freedom really isn't the right award for bradley manning now i want to get into some of these chat logs that were released by wired yesterday and i just have two passages that i decided to highlight and i'm going to go through with them with you one by one and so the first one in the first one manning says he's trying to keep a low profile for now though just a warning to which limo responds i'm a journalist and a minister you can take either and treat this as a confession or an interview never to be published and enjoy a modicum of legal protection so obviously it looks like limo lied to manning here i guess some could even say that he manipulated him but what do you think that says especially con

i don't want to know what donald rumsfeld said. we confirmed today, absolutely true. >> rumsfeld says otherwise. >> bill: if he wants to sit here, i will guarantee i will hear a different story. >> he said no. >> bill: the evidence is overwhelming that coerced interrogation did lead to the initial -- >> that is your opinion. >> bill: and you don't believe it? >> i don't believe it. >> bill: you are like a doubting thomas. want to put your hand in the side of -- >> ' cording to timeline, the water boarding took place in 2002 and 2003. it was 2006 at the time khalid sheik muhammad released the names of th kowrier. >> bill: that is not true. he released the information about who the courier was. at the could not find him and that he tracked him down. crawly wants to believe it and colmes doesn't want to believe it. >> let's deal in the facts. let's deal in reality. >> bill: are you able tonight to convince your brother in law that he is wrong? can you do that? >> i will certainly try although it might require water boarding. >> great.

may -- in may that parliament planned sanctions on americans including former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and commanders of the detention center at guantanamo bay, cuba. >>> an apology from exxon/mobil after as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil leaked into the river. exxon-mobile cleaning up the spill. it started leaking near the town of laurel about 100 miles downstream from yellowstone national park. about 200 people were evacuated when the spill was discovered friday. they're now back at home. >>> a new wimbledon men's champion celebrates. center court. today in london, just talking about this. novak djokovic, who just earned the world's number one ranking beat defending champ rafael nadal in today's men's final. djokovic has just lost one match all year. >>> lady liberty looking lovely now on this eve before our nation's 235th birthday. you're looking at a live picture of the statue of liberty. many celebrating enduring serious heat. you can see the haze around the statue of liberty right now. still the parade, showing pomp and circumstance already in full swing this holiday weekend

this here was taken back in one thousand nine hundred nine colin powell the back of donald rumsfeld's head and this is thomas kean two years later he would become head of the nine eleven commission here's a picture newt gingrich henry kissinger and rick and their son and another shot of thomas kean here's a much younger dick cheney at the grove and henry kissinger having a little fun. there are rumors of extreme drunkenness of prostitutes but for the most part is the secret back agreements critics say should be black and white that agreement can be you know occupying the middle east fighting terrorism. and circling china politically and militarily for mary more who's been researching bohemian grove for more than three decades what happens inside is symptomatic of a much larger problem we've all grown up taking civics trying to understand how the world works and we're all told that we elect representatives they go to washington we have total influence over them and they make decisions that are in the best interests of us then we start growing up and if we pay any kind of attention we f

this here was taken back in one thousand nine hundred nine colin powell iraq and donald rumsfeld had and this is thomas kean two years later he would become head of the nine eleven commission here's a picture newt gingrich and reconsider because in your sign and another shot of thomas kean here's a much younger dick cheney at the grove and henry kissinger having a little fun i was also able to get my hands on several programs from previous years outlining the schedule of talks and their topics and what we have here on july twenty second two thousand and eight is the latest. c.f.r. member and trilateral commission member fred starr he gave it all called afghanistan the unexpected there are other connections to be made as well between the lakeside talks and public policy that all of this was a man that was involved in the. oil business george link with the persian gulf crisis this is nine hundred eighty caspar weinberger who was the secretary of defense in the reagan administration on rearming america and that's easily documented the arms build up came in around late eighty one eighty

the website tmz got a hold of this showing donald rumsfeld getting a full-on patdownt o'hare airport. he cooperated fully with the procedure. everybody's got to do it. >> putting his words in action, i suppose. >>> taking a look at this morning's weather from around the nation, severe storms with a chance of tornadoes from denver to the dakotas and also western minnesota. showers and thunderstorms around the twin cities, des moines and kansas city. much-needed heavy rain from florida up to south carolina and scattered thunderstorms from texas to tennessee. monsoon rains again in the desert southwest and showers in the pacific northwest. >> and that means just 67 in seattle. 88 in salt lake city, triple digits in phoenix and dallas. 80s from kansas city to detroit. atlanta heats up to 96 and miami, 90. >>> well, coming up on this thursday, an exciting new development in the fight against aids. >>> and then desperate measures. should severely obese children be taken away from their parents? a new debate raging this morning. >>> and it's not even in theaters yet, but it's already setting

down of her curly hair before going through the porno scanner so how much do we have to and then donald rumsfeld today that's i was a little those of us but. yes rest of the pictures of him getting patted down this discussion that i go see that was actually a code pink citizen's arrest right well the obvious is going to say someone actually probably is responsible for more deaths than outside and that's an entity look this guy some how much more you know how did were we say that before we say the o.t.s. is a security theater is not making us safe although it is making michael chertoff a millionaire look i am happy that if you all want to get patted down and not go to the scanner old make it much easier path for me to get through the airport scanners obviously these ridiculous state things where they're patting down ninety four year old women are absurd to sort of the cancer goes through with their whether it was or resigned last year it wizards behind the t.s.a. probably could do a better job with picking out who are necessary to get these pat downs just like anybody who relies so this isn't sha

. >> bret: former defense officials, including donald rumsfeld has helped set up the meeting and briefingsaustin. they have been going on for several weeks. >> more than a month now. >> he is clearly going up. he is not doing that because he has more time as texas governor. >> he is a good rundraiser. he has had tremendous success as head of the republican governors. so if that is measure, but he is a wonderful mix between establishment and grassroots. >> bret: changes the game in iowa? >> yes, i think he enters the first tier automatically. it becomes something of three-way race, romney, perry and whoever emerges out of the pack that looks like bachmann but it could be somebody else. >> bret: that is it for the panel. stay tuned to see a brand new trend that may be taking the nation by storm. >>> finally tonight, have you heard of planking. it is this internet food in which people take photos of themselves and friends lying face down in unusual places. now, apparently there is a new craze sweeping the web called owling and a few familiar faces are getting involved. >> there is a new trend

. >> in an opinion piece, donald rumsfeld said president obama's proposed defense cuts would be a quoteevous mistakes. >>> under the new rules, employees can listen to music and read while on duty if traffic permits. they can also request to take a leave if they're too tired to work. the new rules are part of an agreement between the federal aviation administration and the air traffic controllers union after several controllers were caught napping on the job. >>> a lot of commuters made other plans after they heard workers were going to stay off the job. as ktvu's claudine wong told us, even though the workers showed up, the strike threat is not over. >> we don't know what's going to happen. okay. >> okay, thank you. >> so if you get on the bus you might not be able to get back here. >> we'll find a way. >> that ferry passenger left the terminal by bus. he had no way of knowing that the strike that had just been announced hours earlier was cancelled. union workers were just as confused. >> you don't see any signs up so i guess we're supposed to work. >> you didn't know anything about a

. >> gates replaced donald rumsfeld under then-president george w. bush to deal with the crisis in iraq. his term ends tomorrow, when leon pinetta gets sworn in. >> treasury secretary says he plans to stay in the cabinet for the for seeable future, both reported he had been thinking about stepping down once there is a deal on raising limits. the senate today cancelled its july 4th recess to continue working on a agreement. standard and poor's said would it assign a low credit rate fgt government gos into default. >> nearly every business will be getting a tax break tomorrow when a tax expires, imposed 35 years ago. it's a modest cut, $14 per year but will save businesses $14 billion over the next decade. and tonight's money matters wall street closes out second quarter in a very big way. dow jones added 152 points today, nasdaq gaining 33. and greece passed another measure helping and there was a good report on manufacturing in the mid west. for june, dow is down by 1.3%, but if gou back to the first of the year, as this graph does, you can see it's

instead, just tried a donald rumsfeld impersonation. >> i'm not saying that somebody should have told me. to my knowledge, certain things were not known. >> there are system things we do not know. >> it's difficult to say the company should have been told something if it's not known that a thing was a known fact to be fold. >> for once we don't know, we don't know. >> joining us now, robert moore of itv news. appreciate your time tonight. >> good evening, hi. david cameron is coming home early from a trip to africa. broad terms, what do you think he's coming home to here? >> well, he's back in london tonight. he cut short an ill-judged trip to africa to a political firestorm. today was all about consuming james and rupert murdoch, but tomorrow there's an extraordinary special emergency session of the house of commons and absolutely the pressure is going to be on david cameron, not in the least to explain his judgment in hiring andy coulson, former editor of "news of the world" as his spokesman. so the scandal is -- no one is talking at this stage of possible resignation, but they are

only donald rumsfeld was older. he retired at age 74. >> and emergency landing in arizona overnight, airport officials say a southwest airlines jetliner kag 139 people made a safe emergency landing in phoenix after one of its two engines failed. the plane was en route from el paso to phoenix. they say the boeing 737 landed just fine and no one was hurt. >> many people are staying close because of the price of gas. that cooksouth going to cost you more. the national retail federation says the cost is up 12% from $54 last year to $61 this year. charcoal, lighter fluid and propane all cost a little more. even the price of beer has gone up due in part to a worldwide shortage of hops. >> they are talking one third of the world's supply of this key ingredient for beer suddenly unavailable or available in less enquantities. >> just another reason to drink wine then. seeing a price increase this year, fireworks. 5:24. scott is excited about patents today. the rest of us are just boring. >> boring patents. if you're like me

he also has called donald rumsfeld, as well as the guy that was fired at guantanamo when he read the list of law firms. he sort of is scraping the bottom of the barrel of disgraced george w. bush former staffers to give him advice on foreign policy. what do you read into that? >> well, i think you can read something about, shall we say, rick perry's awareness of current affairs on the national scale. i mean, you know, he is the governor of texas. he's got his choice basically. if you're governor of texas, you can convene respectable and knowledgeable advisers about any subject that you want. the fact that he hasn't i think tells us something about him and about his capacity for higher office. >> picking those bush advisors and being a governor from texas after the last republican governor from texas, would that put the republican party in the position of finally sort of having to reckon with the legacy of george w. bush and the bush economy and whether or not they like it or they were going to keep running from it the way they have for the last couple of cycles? >> george w. who? wha

donald rumsfeld was given hands-on treatment on his way to first lady betty ford's funeral.sfeld explained op twitter it takes those of us with two titanium hips and titanium shoulder a bit longer to get through tsa. then link to the tmz story. sticking with transportation now, the little nicknames the media give certain events are sometimes imaginative and mildly amusing. correspondent adam housley report few make the point better than what is called carmageddon in southern california. >> reporter: for motorists it feels like traffic to hell, with traffic clogged on one of the busiest section of freeway in the world. >> this is a closer like we have never seen in the area. >> everybody will be impacted. >> july 16 and 17, it will be an absolute nightmare. >> the freeway will be shut down for 53 hours as a $1.3 billion expansion project. southern california is bracing for what is being called "carmaggedon." >> it's a choice that borders on sanity. don't do it. stay the hell away from the 405. >> reporter: a ten-mile stretch of the highway connecting western part of l.a. to t

we expect to see former president bill clinton here, former vice president dick cheney, donald rumsfeldeney actually providing one of the eulogies in the ceremony today. again, a very private ceremony, just family and close friends. then she will return here for her final interment. she will be buried next to her husband here. throughout the day, hundreds have shown up to pay their last respects, to honor a woman who was strong and changed the role of the first lady in the white house. she was not afraid to say what she felt, stood up for women's rights and also very involved with the subjects of addiction and breast cancer, both affecting her and her family's lives. outspoken about that, not afraid to be public. a lot of the women we talked to here today say that it really changed the dynamic for them and really made this place a better place for women to be. that's how she's being remembered right now. >> it's interesting, too, when you're talking about the way she put addiction and treatment for it back on the front burner. this is a great reminder for folks that in terms of personal

specifically, his advisers reached out to the former defense secretary, donald rumsfeld, to ask for advice issues. you know, rumsfeld offered up some names and, in fact, some of the pentagon officials that worked for rumsfeld during his era, during the bush era, went down to austin to talk to him about foreign policy and give him some advice. now, rumsfeld wasn't there and is not advising perry himself on the issue. and in fact, a source close to rumsfeld told our own barbara starr that rumsfeld will actually meet with any serious contender for the republican presidential nomination to talk about these serious issues. the fact that rick perry is reaching out and really looking into domestic issues and talking more about foreign policy is a significant step. >> all right. we're watching this closely because rick perry is polling in recent polls third after mitt romney and michele bachmann and hasn't even declared. a distant third, but he's being talked about. thank you, i love that guy, mark preston. >>> we're following closely, less than 15 minutes from the loftlanding of the -- loftlandin

a source close to donald rumsfeld confirms to cnn several former top rumsfeld pentagon deputies traveled, texas, to brief governor rick perry on national security and foreign policy issues. >>> minnesota's state shutdown is over. the state's democratic governor gave hupp on his bid for tax hikes. the republican legislature gave in a bit also. >>> the federal reserve announced a regard $850 million fine against wells fargo for allegedly pushing borrowers with good credit into more expensive subprime mortgages. >>> michelle obama praised executives of major retailers including walmart and walgreens for agreeing to make fresh fruits and vegetables available to stores in low-income areas. >> a fresh food section in walgreens might be a good solution for one community, while a farmers' market or maybe even a veggie truck might be the answer in another community. >> today's event sparks sol rare criticism of the first lady by big labor. the service employees union and the food workers union took issue with her praising walmart saying its move into urban areas cost jobs. >>> and among the retai

and my other point is, on september 10, 2001, donald rumsfeld came out and said we lost $2.3 trillion at the pentagon. has anyone even checked to see where that money is at? we really need to find that money and straighten out a little bit there. what can we do about it, john? guest: your second question is my understanding is the oversight committee is looking into those statements about misdirected funds or lost funds at the pentagon. that was quite a while back now. buttill, i'm an old judge, if things look like they're bad, you ought to look at it pretty closely because they probably are bad. that definitely needs to be tracked down to find out where the money went. i don't understand the statement that we're giving $800 billion or whatever your nuer was to the top people. i assume you're talking about tax cuts. or tax breaks in some form or fashion. i don't dispe that, but it doesn't sound like something that i know that we're actually giving money to the top bracket. i honestly think we need to -- but now is not the time. we don't have the time to do it now, but we need to compl

i think what we need to do is go after george bush, dick cheney, and donald rumsfeld and let them pay for their wars that they got us into. the second thing is that we need to stop sending our money overseas and start helping our own people. the third thing is that all of these senators and congressmen that are making making $170,000 a year and making these poor choices, if they would be making $40,000, $50,000 a year, every one of their dumb decisions that they make wouldn't only affect us but it would affect them. host: thank you for your call. next up is royal oak, michigan. this is eugene a republican. good morning. caller: yes. i am calling in regards -- i'm very disappointed in boehner. i was going to send him some money, but now i'm not. i gave allen west some money, and i'm getting disappointed in him for him caving. i can't understand why the mainstream press insists on sending the republicans -- saying the republicans are at fault all the time when they try to do something. host: thanks for the call. this debt plan, bob cusack, tied to the speaker. you mentioned earlier the

but to echo bob, he has 4$400 million in cuts to face from the get go, and donald rumsfeld says thatoops. >> and then andrew cuomo could replace biden on the 2012 ticket. does the vp choice matter? >> yeah, a lot. it matters where obama wants to take the country, and it matters who the person is. if the person is unqualified, that would be scary to have that person take a president's place. i would like to see a different president as well. >> robert? >> kyra, this topic is a great source topic to the media and then there is real people that vote for family. >> as far as whacky rumors go, this is high on the list. why would the president replace one brash guy from a blue state with another brash guy from another blue state. if he would replace the president, it would be with a woman. >> all right. vice president biden now joining twitter. what do you think, will a 140-character limit be a good thing for this vice president? >> absolutely not. i love vice president candor's candor. no sound bite can reduce it. >> ron? >> i am worried about the 140-character limit, because any sequence

. >> including the former secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld. >> take a look at this. him getting the pat down here. you'll see he was at chicago's o'hare airport yesterday. tmz caught these photos as rumsfeld was cooperative. they say that he even smiled at some of the agents there. >> they work hard, those tsa guys and women. sometimes a smile goes a long way. >>> a lot of folks traveling might be wondering about the weather. here is a look at your national forecast. hail and high winds from the colorado rockies to western minnesota. showers and thunderstorms from minneapolis to kansas city. a wet day from the gulf coast to the carolinas with the heaviest downpours in the southeast. monsoon rains in the four corners region. >> i stop smiling when they take my lotion or my water bottle. >> they're not all perfect, let's be honest. >> then it's no fun and games. a wet 67 in seattle. 78 in sacramento. 88 in salt lake city. 80s from kansas city to indianapolis. and miami climbs up to 90. baltimore at 85. >>> as a mom of twins, which you are, you have a keen understanding

this morning in the opinion page of the "wall street journal," the whole top half of the page, donald rumsfeld, the peril of deep defense cuts is his piece, and he argues why all those suggesting that earmarks are a potential target among others. then in the "washington times" today, winslow wheeler, we've had him on our program before, defense appropriations, pork and gimmicks as usual. democrats and republicans alike pretend that austerity is the new rule. here's what he writes, it's a $649 billion bill close to another post-world war ii high, pretending reform and frugality, members of the house appropriations committee, democrats and republicans alike, have packed the bill with pork and gimmicks. the bill would spend $17 billion more than last year, but the house is calling it a cut because it's less than the original request president obama sent to congress in february. what's your reaction to all that? guest: well, i would not be surprised if there's plenty of pork in the defense appropriations bill. i mean, that's been a grand tradition for many years. i remember even ted kennedy, who w

the first thing i did was to retain every single senior official i received from secretary donald rumsfeldst of them have been with me through the state. and i have been fortunate enough to get another first-class roster from barack obama, providing with superb council on a range of issues and initiatives. these and other achievements and anything of consequence achieved in this department required successful collaboration between the military and civilian leadership. i have received forthright and loyal council from the leadership of the joint chiefs of staff and i will always be grateful to them for their cooperation and their friendship. i want to thank the chairman of the joint chiefs when i arrived. and my battle body of four years. mike mullen. without his effective leadership the record of the last several years would have been different. he was never shy about disagreeing with me, but never failed to stay loyal to me and the president that he served. he is the epitome of a leader and an officer, a man of supreme integrity and a good friend. the practice in the spirit of collaborati

pictures of donald rumsfeld undergoing the full-on patdown at chicago's o'hare airport although it doesageous brangelina wedding rumors crop up every few months but this time "us" magazine says it is real. they say they have confirmed the story with not one, not two, but three separate sources and are confident enough to put the details on this week's cover. according to the magazine brad and angelina will marry this summer at their home in france. it's their six c cldren that warmed them up to the idea. so our own hollywood royalty. >>> the new breed of celebrity on facebook a new study showing one in ten pets in the uk have their own profiles on facebook and the number in the u.s. is growing fast. so what do you do if you're friended by fluffy the cat? it's a fair question considering the study says animals are more popular than human celebrities on social networking sites and i would say, josh that the bronx zoo cobra would agree. >> long live the bronx zoo cobra. >> if mine gets more followers than me i'll be bummed. all right. you'll love this guys. the fab and proof that age is in