remember that image of donald rumsfeld out there in kuwait when that soldier asked him, you know, my god, we have equipment here that cannot stand up against improvised explosive devices, having to go to the junkyard and put pieces on. and rumsfeld made that insensitive statement that you go to war with the army that you have which was an unsatisfactory answer. unfortunately, it is true. now, we can adjust and adapt quickly to what the need is, but you have to have structure. president -- when the cold war when it -- really began at the end of world war ii we decided that we needed a military that could fight two wars, two major conflicts, very expensive engage in a high-technology arms race with the russians and soviet union and red china, the two wars are potentially red china and the soviet union. president kennedy decided it is two and a half worse because he thought the communists had inspired insurgencies around the world, the way they would engage as because no one wants to go to nuclear war, well, now we needed this robust military created in the 60's and on into the 70's tha

part of what goes into dealing with conflicts is a statement made by then-secretary of defense donald rumsfeld was, we were into iraq, and things were not going well. a reporter asked rumsfeld doesn't this look like vietnam? and he bristled at that statement. and he said no wars are like the last wars, no wars are like the next wars. every war is in its own, and it's very different. and i said, you know, i've been in the military 40 years, i see similarities. i see patterns. so that sort of triggered me to look at the patterns. what is it that you can use as a framework to examine this and look at this? well, you know, first of all you can look at reasons we interveeped, you know? we would -- interveeped. we would like to think we intervene if attacked, if our interests are threatened in some way. not so clear. you know, the wmd in iraq that wasn't there, the gulf of tonkin incident that didn't happen. we've had some manufactured reasons for going to war. you know, back in the '20s and '30s, the banana wars in the caribbean were to promote our business interests in there. there are times we've

lou: i thought it was the donald rumsfeld. >> he was talking about the army.: i know he was talking about early, i was building on that, john. >> i did earlier. lou: did you really. i'm sorry, i neglected to give you full credit. >> what should american policy be, whether we have a competent president or not, i think that safety of america, and the safety of our forces, is enhanced if you strike now. and every day that goes by, gives isis a chance to build up defenses to attract more jihadis. lou: lets me ask this nothing would -- well, there are lot of things that would be more important, i don't know -- it is important, i will acknowledge we have retribution for the american citizens who have been beheaded. but if we put that in don text against -- context of number of american lives lost in iran, a third of our casualties causeed by iran, why is there this interest of going to war over the dramatic grous gruesome murf two of our citizens but not a sense of retribution against iran for what they did to our armed forces, our troops our soldiers our marines, w

>> i'm reminded of an interview i did with donald rumsfeld.bout the president's action in libya. he said generally, you define an objective and build a coalition. what president obama did in libya was to build a coalition and later tried to define the mission. i worry that's what's happening here. the president seems far more concerned with building the coalition than identifying a very clear objective. i'm worrying that we're not going to get the support we need from our international actors because they don't know that we are committed to a clear objective. so i think the president still has come work to do in terms of setting out those clear objectives, how long are we going to be there, what is the goal, who are we trying to eradicate and how far will we go to do it before he gets that coalition that he wants and i think should have. >> you know, wolf, the problem with defining the clear objective, which i agree he ought to do, that if you define it as destroying isis, you have to say to the american people, this is open ended. that this i

donald rumsfeld is in the national camilla terry mann center -- national military command center.e asks if anybody can take a shot. we're looking into it. in the meantime i'm going 7, 6, 5, 4 -- we are counting down. all i can do is say, " unbelievable. the largest military superpower in the world does not have an asset to take a shot at this guy." 3, 2. the vice president waves his hand in front of my face and says "stop. if the secret service cannot deal with it on the roof standby for impact." i put my hand on the console and think about all those people who are still upstairs. i did not even know if i would feel it where i was. yet, we have cooks and secret service agents and everybody that maintains the white house people in the situation room giving intel reports all vulnerable. "stand by for impact." at the last minute, those radios blared a life. "that's not a bogey. that's a medical helicopter headed for the pentagon. they are not talking on the right frequency." here was a medical aircrew racing down the potomac to get to the pentagon to respond to those burn victims and

take the risk, what kind of military to step up and be ready, you know, remember that image of donald rumsfeld out there in kuwait when that soldier asked him, you know, my god, we have equipment here that can't stand up against ieds, explacive devices -- explosive devices. we're having to go to the junk yard and put pieces on and rumsfeld made that insensitive statement which was you go the war with the army you have. unfortunately, it's true. now, we can adjust and adapt very quickly sometimes to what the need is, but you have to have some structure. president -- when the cold war really began at the end of world war ii, we decided we needed a military that could fight two wars, two major conflicts. very expensive and engaged in a high technology arms race with the russians and the soviet union and red china. the two wars were potentially red china and the soviet soviet union. president kennedy decided it's two and a half wars, because he thought the communist-inspired insurgencies around the world, the way they would engage us because nobody wants to go to nuclear war, well, now we needed t

and urinating and death are kidding themselves it's a tactic that former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld personally encouraged in two thousand and two same quote i stand for eight to ten hours a day so why is standing limited to four but standing for long periods of time pales and compare. and to what else prisoners allege took place namely rape according to washington post the f.b.i. was told by release detainees that they were quote raped and sexually violated after guards took them not isolated sections of the prison they said an algerian man was forced to watch a video supposedly showing two detainees dressed in orange one sodomized the other and was told that would happen to him if he didn't cooperate other forms of physical abuse included dogs on detainees which is a particularly hostile tactic for muslims but seizing on the cultural sensitivities of the islamic faith was really relentlessly exploited by officials according to a document obtained by the a.p. a former army sergeant says he witnessed a female officer reaching her pans to reveal what appeared to be menstrual blood and

. >> well, it looks like-- >> i think it's tricky diplomatically, and, you know, donald rumsfeld washe one who said there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns. there are lots of moving parts. lots of things can go wrong. by going into syria, we may end up owning that civil war. that's not the good news. the alternative is doing nothing. that was not acceptable. >> there was some thinking that syria would not be aboard. however, listen to this. syrian deputy foreign minister says syrian leader bashar al assad is also an enemy of isis and would be willing to cooperate in any military action against the terror group. here it is. >> we shall cooperate with any country that's combating the menace of terrorism. and when it comes to combating isis, then we have no reservations whatsoever to work together with any real force that wants to eliminate this menace, because now the united states and syria are facing the same enemy. >>> question, is it feasible that the u.s. would team with syria in the fight against isis? i ask you, tom? >> in military terms, it's feasible. but i don't think i

[ laughter ] >> in the words of donald rumsfeld, we don't know what we don't know. >> that was the beginning of the erosion of our society as we know it. >> i make lots and lots and lots of money. and money will somehow trickle down to you. no way, i share my toilet with no man. move it along. >> i am a man of simple needs. the idea of running up the steps and disemboweling royals, i could easily imagine myself doing that. it would not take much convincing. >> now where's my damn toga? ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la >> can you hear that over here? >> i got to begin with the softball questions. >> okay. >> so dad, it's been two years on the road with "parts unknown," how do you feel about the show? has the experience changed? is it still fun? >> that's a hard question! you know, one of the great things about travel is just when you think that i've had enough of this, something really interesting happens

in the words of donald rumsfeld, we don't know what we don't know. we know it's the beginning of the erosion of our society as we know it. i make lots and lots and lots of lots of money, it'll trickle down to you. i share my toilet with no man. move it along. i am a man of simple needs. i have to be disembowelling royals, i could easily manage myself doing that, it would not take much convincing. now where's my toga? ♪ ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha la la la la la la >> can you breathe that over here, buddy? >> i'm going to begin with the softball questions. >> okay. >> so dad, its been two years on the road with parts unknown, how do you feel about the show? have they experienced change? is it still fun? >> it's a hard question. you know one of the great things about travel is just when you think that i've had enough of this, something really interesti

administration there were a group of general officers who started to speak out against what secretary donald rumsfeld was doing at that time. and certainly what general ray odierno said earlier in the day. it is really up to the line. and he talked about the testimony. but if he feels under his prerogative as adviser to the commander in chief, the military advisor, he tells them what he thinks. and we need to make sure that art chairman has that freedom. and obviously the president decided today when he was in tampa that he wasn't going to accept th and as you have been reporting for the last few minutes, i don't think anyone outside of the white house in a few political people that support the president, believe that he has a plan that is going to work. reed if that is the case, is this just the pentagon racing the flag up the flagpole to see what the reaction is of the public? or is this going to lead to some sort of fight where we will see resignations or firings? >> i don't think you're going to find too many resignations. and i can remember talking to some very senior people years later after th

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. >> donald rumsfeld is in saudi arabia tonight. first stop on a four-nation tour of the region preparing allies for possible military strikes in afghanistan. >> the impact that september 11th, the feeling about that, and the threat it poses to the world has been taken aboard, and not just the united states, but country after country afte country, and you can feel it when you talk to the people. >>> with u.s. approval, british prime minister tony blair laid out more details of the international case against osama bin laden. >>> at least three of these hijackers have already been positively identified, and noticed of bin laden. >>> the bombs of the" u "uss co allegedly planned by one of the hijackers. >>> september 11th rallied the country, but it also introduced to america, looks at neighbors diffentl pay be attention to things they didn't pay attention to before and then you had the anthrax attack. >> a businessman in florida, in the hospital. anthrax confirmed by the centers for disease control. the hospital reports it will most l

military options to defeat isis with former pentagon official steve bucci, who served under donald rumsfeld's now a foreign and national security policy expert at the heritage foundation. later, brad sherman, california democrat and ranking member of affairse foreign terrorism subcommittee. we will talk about president obama's speech tomorrow and the u.s. strategy for if eating ices. first, a bit of former andidents george w. bush bill clinton yesterday launching the presidential leadership scholars program. [video clip] , therst, i wanted to do it great test for any democracy at any time is how to have vigorous ,ebate, serious disagreement knockdown, drag out fights -- and somehow come to ultimately a resolution that enables the country to keep moving forward. the founders set our job was to create a more perfect union. they never said our job was to agree on everything. , if you read the constitution, it ought to be subtitled "let's make a deal." [laughter] was studiously designed to avoid dictatorship. therefore, leadership styles, they are all different. in the end, we have to let our d

we get in as chief of staff the former congressman from illinois, donald rumsfeld, who brings in with him a completely unknown kid from wyoming as his assistant chief of staff, dick cheney. you have got ford being brought in at the cia. by the way, they call it the ford foundation, because so many of these people are going to go formork in some shape or for ronald reagan or george bush, and they learned their craft under president ford. but i appreciate that. >> thank you. yes. >> spiro agnew has to resign. >> indeed, he did. >> who championed jerry ford to be vice president? >> excellent question, because the list is actually very long. the first person who championed him was melvin laird, who was a andressman from michigan nixon's secretary of defense. he knew jerry ford very well, and, by the way, this entire list, everything they say to nixon is the same thing. he will be confirmed, because nixon does not want ford. he wants john conley. nixon wants john conley, who is the secretary of the treasury, and who had split from the democratic party. nixon feels a kinship with conley, an

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secretary of defense donald rumsfeld, a few moments ago was refusing to leave the building. no confirmation of the latest threat, but security officials here are taking it very seriously, and we were standing with secretary rumsfeld's security detail who, as soon as they got the report, were running into the building and we were herded away, but they have set up an alternative command site somewhere in the area. the pentagon set up a crisis team to deal with this situation. but, so far, the latest reports are that another plane of some kind may have been hijacked and headed in this direction. katie? >> yeah, we also should tell you, mik, this is tom brokaw, that the faa says that all international flights headed for the united states are being diverted to canada. this at a time when, as jim is telling us, there is an unconfirmed report that there is another hijacking, and all takeoffs were stopped, but there were planes in the air obviously at the time of the first two attacks on the twin trade towers and then on the pentagon. >> let's look at the live pictures at the world

we get in as chief of staff the former congressman from illinois, donald rumsfeld, who brings in with him a completely unknown kid from wyoming as his assistant chief of staff, dick cheney. you have got ford being brought in at the cia. by the way, they call it the ford foundation, because so many of these people are going to go and work in some shape or form for ronald reagan or george bush, and they learned their craft under president ford. but i appreciate that. >> thank you. yes. >> spiro agnew has to resign. >> indeed, he did. >> who championed jerry ford to be vice president?

. >> donald rumsfeld is in saudi arabia tonight. first stop on a four-nation tour of the region preparing allies for possible military strikes in afghanistan. >> the impact that september 11th, the feeling about that, and the threat it poses to the world has been taken aboard, and not just the united states, but country after country after country, and you can feel it when you talk to the people. >>> with u.s. approval, british prime minister tony blair laid out more details of the international case against osama bin laden. >>> at least three of these hijackers have already been positively identified, and noticed of bin laden. >>> the bombs of the" u "uss co allegedly planned by one of the hijackers. >>> september 11th rallied the country, but it also introduced to america, looks at neighbors differently. pay be attention to things they didn't pay attention to before and then you had the anthrax attack. >> a businessman in florida, in the hospital. anthrax confirmed by the centers for disease control. the hospital reports it will m

he and gates and condoleezza rice supplanted the influence of people like donald rumsfeld and paul wolfowitzing the last two years of the second bush administration, but one consequence of his devoting himself to giving advice was that he had less time to give it to management, and he was criticized for this. and whether his replacement was due to the advice that he gave or the need for more management is unclear. but in any event he accepted the job of deputy secretary of state, and where his achievements were essentially two. first, he pressed hard for elections in pakistan, which ultimately were won by the civilian parties which had the effect of delegitimizing the more extreme islamist. and even though they were immediately followed by the assassination of benazir bhutto, and the second achievement was the deepening of relations with china. there were several dozen working groups established that hadn't previously existed, that joint meetings of all kinds of american and chinese officials, that were essentially is the compass but on that and second of the treasury paulson who was very in

. >> my point is, a few -- the last couple year you had donald rumsfeld as a speaker at this luncheon, and after lurch i was able to ask him a question, which he gave an answer which has some nonpublic information, which addresses iraq. and i said to him, before we invaded iraq there was a satellite picture on tv of a very large convoy of russian trucks going from iraq to syria. my first thought was, there go the weapons of mass destruction, his answer was this. we thought so, too, but we couldn't prove it. >> well, the iraq war was fought with two few troops. why is that? because ever since the vietnam war, the democrats had waged a war against america, playing a role in the world. between 1973, when we pulled out of vietnam, and 2003, when we -- our troops entered iraq, the united states had been able to put troops on the battlefield for exactly four days in a war, which was the first gulf war. that is it. so, the way that rumsfeld and bush designed the war, rumsfeld really designed the war, was to avoid democrat attacks for being -- whatever imperialists. they didn't go into the sy

. >> it's a long, hard slog in donald rumsfeld's words. >> i proficient yoappreciate yo. >>> the any minute now the secretary of state john kerry could speak. we're monitoring the state department in washington, d.c. if he does speak. we'll, of course, be bringing you that. it is a ceremony that has already been organized but the secretary could say something about the horrific act on the death of sotloff in his prepared remarks, in the beginning of them. we'll bring them live if they occur. i want to make sure you know we're keeping tabs of everything going on related to the story. >>> president obama will discuss the growing threat from isis at the nato summit in whales tomorrow. when asked about confronting isis, the president was initially forceful in his response, but later softened his position. >> our objective is clear and that is to degrade and destroy isil if we are joined by the international community. we can continue to shrink isil's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, it's financing, its military capabilities to the point where it is a manageable problem. >> let's b

before he could be sworn in, donald rumsfeld who was very adroit in terms of understanding the bureaucracyin fact, when you put rumsfeld and cheney in a room together, i mean, they could control a bureaucracy like no other pair of individuals could do. so, before the director of national intelligence, the so-called national intelligence czar, got his desk at the new building, rumsfeld had already created the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and made sure that the responsibilities stayed with the pentagon. and when you look at the entire intelligence community, 80% to 85% of the budget and personnel belong to the military whether they're civilian or military. it's a military operation. that's why it -- a cia outside of that military process was so important. and if you look at the directors of national intelligence with the exception of one individual, a retired foreign service officer, john negative uponty and served for a while and realized he had no authority and resigned to take a position at state, all of the directors of national state have been retired generals and flag off

that is like a donald rumsfeld answer.depends on where you live. >> thank you for watching in the united kingdom. are they debating and voting still? >> what do you make of all of this, is u.k. support essential? adds one more active member on this coalition of the 40-plus that the president has talked about. ned says, they do not know who sandra van ohchr is. >> that's true, i don't know who that is. ♪ >> good morning, it is friday, september 26. we are live from bloomberg world headquarters. you are "in the loop." i'm betty liu. it has been a terrible week for those long in the stock market. markets are a little calm her today but it raises the question, how low can we go here? we are all over the markets as the countdown to the opening bell. that's good to- our top headlines. stocks in europe are rebounding after yesterday's selloff. futures indicate stocks will be little opened -- little changed at the open. the british parliament debating whether the u.k. should take part in the coalition against the islamic state. br

before he could be sworn in, donald rumsfeld who was very adroit in terms of understanding the bureaucracyt, when you put rumsfeld and cheney in a room together, i mean, they could control a bureaucracy like no other pair of individuals could do. so, before the director of national intelligence, the so-called national intelligence czar, got his desk at the new building, rumsfeld had already created the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and made sure that the responsibilities stayed with the pentagon. and when you look at the entire intelligence community, 80% to 85% of the budget and personnel belong to the military whether they're civilian or military. it's a military operation. that's why it -- a cia outside of that military process was so important. and if you look at the directors of national intelligence with the exception of one individual, a retired foreign service officer, john negative uponty and served for a while and realized he had no authority and resigned to take a position at state, all of the directors of national state have been retired generals and flag officers,

. >> host: steve bucci assistant secretary of defense donald trump -- donald rumsfeld is here takingyour questions and calls. georgetown massachusetts on the independent line. >> caller: thanks for having me. i had then following actions here since 2000 when everything seemed to be put to in the american and citizens face you are with us are the terrorists. that is when i drew a big question mark because that seems to be the most anti-american and things that i have heard as far as who we label terrorist. we seem to not go for the root causes but to react to current conditions. >> host: what is the root cause is your? >> caller: the so-called isis group? >> i would say it is our intervening in the middle east we went into iraq under false pretenses that was sold to the american people because they would send a drones with nuclear stuff to blow us up over here. that scare tactic to get the american people to power down to do as we're told to listen to authority. >> guest: al qaeda as you recall a attacked us september 11, 2001, well before anything we did in iraq. isis originated al q

donald rumsfeld was refusing to leave the building. we ran into the top naval officer, and they were loading him to take him to an alternative command site. they were taking admiral clark to an alternative command site. >> reporter: can you hear me? >> yeah, mik, go ahead. >> reporter: i'm sorry. officials here are taking it very seriously. we were standing with secretary rumsfeld. that have set up an alternative command sight in the area. the latest reports are that another plane may have been hijacked and headed in this trekz. katie? >> we should also tell you, mik, this is tom brokaw, that all international flights headed to the united states are being diverted to canada, this at a time when jim mick la shelf i can tells us there's an unconfirmed report that there's another hijacking. all planes have beea been attac. >> andrea mitchell is standing by. she has more information. >> secretary of state colin p powell is on his way from lima, peru. state department officials and the nsc have been evacuated as well. condi rice was in the

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we get in as chief of staff the former congressman from illinois, donald rumsfeld, who brings in with him a completely unknown kid from wyoming as his assistant chief of staff, dick cheney. you have got ford being brought in at the cia. by the way, they call it the ford foundation, because so many of these people are going to go and work in some shape or form for ronald reagan or george bush, and they learned their craft under president ford. but i appreciate that. >> thank you. yes. >> spiro agnew has to resign. >> indeed, he did. >> who championed jerry ford to be vice president? >> excellent question, because the list is actually very long. the first person who championed him was melvin laird, who was a congressman from michigan and nixon's secretary of defense. he knew jerry ford very well, and, by the way, this entire list, everything they say to nixon is the same thing. he will be confirmed, because nixon does not want ford. he wants john conley. nixon wants john conley, who is the secretary of the treasury, and who had split from the democratic party. nixon feels a kinship with