there is no donald rumsfeld that this president can fire. he is not going to let valerie jarrett go. >> he should. >> maybe that's what you think. but that's not what the problem thinks. they don't have big ticket names that attract attention. valerie jarrett is no donald rumsfeld. >> national security team is a disaster. >> i wouldn't agree as well. she's not going anywhere either. >> economic anxiety is a top concern in tuesday's election. 214,000 jobs, healthiest in eight years. total jobs in nine straight jobs, exports fell in september widening trade definite. 6 # 0% of voters thought economy was stagnating or worsening. 60% thought economy was stagnating or worsening. 1/3 thought it was improving. lower interest rates to stimulate economic growth. average income grew 10% for the wealthiest 1/10. over the past six months economy has grown at 4.1%. u.s. manufacturers are expanding at the fastest pace. >> are we going to be tested on that? >> there are a lot of good numbers there but the problem is that ordinary people aren't feeling it i

the questions, but this again -- it looks like we are going down the same road that secretary donald rumsfeld told us we had to do. we had to do, and we had no end point. >> congressman if i might respond very briefly. you very accurately described my position when i was in the united states senate, but it's basic as you have noted to the responsibilities of congress. and aumf comes out of congress. the authority of military force for a president, that -- that authority comes from the congress of the united states, and i too hope that congress will engage in this, and i have great confidence that congress will. they need to, they must. it is the responsibility of the congress. i'm with you on that point, and i'll give you my best thoughts on your other question as well. >> thank you. >> thank you. ms. bordelo. >> thank you mr. chairman for holding this important hearing. secretary hagel and general dempsey thank you for your time today. as i stated before, i believe that isil could become a direct threat to the united states or our allies in europe, and we must make efforts to avoid that thre

but -- to paraphrase donald rumsfeld, you got to manage the politics of the town that you have, not thehat you want. >> what do you think president obama does in a post presidency? >> i think he become

there goes donald rumsfeld, and he finally left. chuck hagel was drawing down the military. the situation calls for something different. mike, thank you. nick schifrin, did this demand in the case of isil? >> what you hear from this region is an echo of what secretary hagel tried to deliver to the white house. jamie and mike were talking about how thisser there is a notion that white house has meddled in the isil situation in iraq. it was echoed by the very allies who the u.s. has signed up in order to fight isil inside of syria. you talk to commanders on the grouped or head of the syrian national coalition, who we sat down with in turkey a couple of weeks ago. everyone says the same thing that none of the u.s. airstrikes designed to defeat and degrade isil and to encourage the u.s. allies on the ground, the so-called moderate operations. none of those airstrikes were coordinated with the free syrian army. there is a lot of criticism of the pentagon's policy which is really the white house policy and that falls more on president obama rather than secretary hagel. >> nick as

a couple days later, donald rumsfeld is out. >> i thought it was the first personal decision obama made the entire time. i thought hagel did not get along well with the white house and was being overridden by top bureaucrats. i honor his service. i think he has done great things in public life. he cannot play nicely in the white house. too much to have on the plate. >> at the same time, i still think this is part of the new postelection imperial it obama -- imperial obama, who is going to get his way on immigration and climate study, show he is not a lame duck. >> do you think secretary lieberman of defense? >> i would say the first female defense secretary. other names we heard bandied about -- carter, possibly jack reed, who is democrats went back to the senate -- >> we will have our first secretary of defense, i bet, and she will get confirmed. negotiations on iran's nuclear program were extended seven months, hours before the deadline set for the talk. secretary kerry is meeting in vienna, where talks have been pushed into next year. still negotiating over how much power iran can pr

my progressive friends lament the fact there is no donald rumsfeld this president can fire. he is not going to let valerie go. >> he should. >> maybe that is what you think, but not what the president thinks. the problem with this white house is they don't have very many big ticket names that attract a lot of attention. valerie jarod i doubt has a lot of name recognition. >> what about susan rice? >> i wouldn't agree with that as well. and she is not going anywhere either. [ laughter ] >> the economic anxiety is the top concern in tuesday's elections. unemployment, 5.8%. the lowest since 2008. october jobs, 214,000 jobs. the healthiest in eight years. the labor department added 31,000 jobs. total jobs, nine straight months. exports in september widening the trade deficit. 60% of voters thought the economy was stagnating. one-third thought it was approving. 60% of people thought it was worsening. one-third that it was improving. federal reserve will end the bond purchases program. average hourly pay rose 0.3% benefiting the wealthiest. average income grew 10% for the wealthie

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nancy pelosi said, i want donald rumsfeld fired. president bush did bring him over after the election and said he was gone. >> chuck hagel himself is a republican and now republicans control congress. and we're already getting signs of the republican controlled congress flexing its muscle and certainly with regards to the iran talks. we've heard from john boehner for instance. so what exactly do you think will happen now, in terms of how policy, national security policy is going to be conducted? >> you know i don't think a lot will change. but what's interesting about chuck hagel being a republican, he was one of the most antidefense senators there was. the only reason he's a republican is he's pro-life, from nebraska, strong on social issues. but what does pro-life have to be with being secretary of defense? here is a republican, president obama said i'm bipartisan but a republican who is very soft on iran and very antiisrael. we're better off chuck hagel not being there frankly. >> j.d. gordon, thank you so much indeed, because we

. >> i think that's an easy pundit thing. 2006, donald rumsfeld got fired, it wasn't just a personnel change. that was a change in iraq. >> the war. >> the war broke for vice president -- >>> the other day, politico said obama is fed up, he is resentful, he has a bad mind-set, he has resignation of being trapped in a system that's broken and that he cannot fix it. what does that say to you that some of these sources are telling reporters? >> i think they're trying to get his view out there and his view in part is he's taking a beating over weeks about nobody wants him out on the campaign trail. you didn't have to wait for that politico story. he has himself on the record weeks ago when he gave that speech and then he did an al sharpton interview where he said they've all been runners from me, but they've been big supporters in my pocket. the president wanted to say, you guys have been with me and after this election, i'm going to pick up the piece pes but is this orchestrated, or is it possible the aides themselves are frustrated? >> well, some of it has been -- more in the sense that

defense secretary donald rumsfeld once proclaimed seems as divided as the old one. the only difference is russia seems willing to throw its weight around, in places where it still wields power. >> up next, the new cold war continues as i go man on man with the person who helped end soviet dominance, answers two minutes away. o. >> feu countries are more suspicious of russia's actions than poland. in 1980 a new independent trade union called solidarity led protests that challenged poland's communist regime. by 1990 poland was able to transition to democracy and pivot itself towards the u.s. and nato. a quarter century later, former polish president lech walesa says, his country is on the borderline with another cold war with moscow. rchg 1980 a young electrician climbed this gate and rallied the 17,000 striking workers who had barricaded themselves here in the gadansk shipyards. the solidarity movement was born. poland's solidarity movement exposed poland's first contraction in europe, and that young leader was lech walesa, galvanizing support which brought poland's

the question that donald rumsfeld issued the task force to ask is what is the cause of terrorism and are so many people in the world to want to do violence to the united states come he can go on my to read. it seems what i said in interviews with somehow controversial. it isn't treated as self-defense evidence. the report in 2004 concluded this. it said that key cause of terrorism aimed at americans as quote american direct intervention in the muslim world. american direct intervention the muslim world. then identified three different policies that comprise this direct intervention. one is support for the regions worst tyrants giving economic aid and drowning in weapons, their regimes in egypt and saudi arabia. second link was steadfast support for israel which is viewed as enabling all sorts of aggression in that part of the world and third was actual wars and occupations, principally the invasion of afghanistan. canada plays a role in all of those policies and what they report concluded and this is not me saying this. this is an actual quote. it repudiated the u.s. government state

defense secretary donald rumsfeld once proclaimed seems as divided as the old one. the only difference is russia seems willing to throw its weight around, in places where it still wields power. >> up next, the new cold war continues as i go man on man with the person who helped end soviet >> a conflict that started 100 year ago, some say, never ended... revealing... untold stories of the valor... >> they opened fire on the english officers... >> sacrifice... >> i order you to die... >> and ultimate betrayal... drawing lines in the sand that would shape the middle east and frame the conflict today >> world war one: through arab eyes only on al jazeera america >> protestors are gathering... >> there's an air of tension right now... >> the crowd chanting for democracy... >> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... >> feu countries are more suspicious of russia's actions than poland. in 1980 a new independent trade union called solidarity led protests that challenged poland's communist regime. by 1990 poland was

defense secretary donald rumsfeld once proclaimed seems as divided as the old one. the only difference is russia seems willing to throw its weight around, in places where it still wields power. >> up next, the new cold war continues as i go man on man with the person who helped end soviet >> on tech know. >> that is immense... >> there a misunderstood... ...vital part of the ecosystem >> ...is a tiger shark... ...first one of the expodition >> can they be saved? >> sharks don't eat people... >> tech know, every saturday go where science meets humanity. >> this is some of the best driving i've every done, even though i can't see. >> tech know. >> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. >> feu countries are more suspicious of russia's actions than poland. in 1980 a new independent trade union called solidarity led protests that challenged poland's communist regime. by 1990 poland was able to transition to democracy and pivot itself towards the u.s. and nato. a quarter century later, former polish president lech walesa says, his country is on the borderli

he went almost immediately to donald rumsfeld and said we're taking you out of this job.e reason that mattered and the reason that's different than this time around, gretchen, is because it wasn't just removing the secretary of defense, it was changing the whole strategy toward iraq. >> right. will that happen now? >> now the problem is it's not chuck hagel. chuck hagel was not the problem. was he the best secretary of defense of all time? no. he had some real vulnerabilities. but he was in there making the case to take on isis more aggressively, to reinstitute at least some ground troops in iraq. he was resistant to the president releasing gitmo prisoners. he was taking a much harder l n line, and you know it's bad in this administration when chuck hagel is the voice of reason. i think the president had enough of that and decided remove him, but he is not going to change the strategy. >> right. >> that's why you've had nobody stepping up saying i would like to have this job. >> if you thought that was the only problem, not so. democratic senator chuck schumer just now bl

. >> the new europe that defense secretary donald rumsfeld once proclaimed, seems divided from the old one, places where it still wields power. ali velshi, al jazeera in gadansk poland. >> you'll want to see more of ali's series, the new cold war, on saturday. she's known for taking photographs of celebrities and politicians, annie liebovitz talks about her career, her subjects and her life. >> a gradual warmup in areas that have been freezing cold for the last week. that's problems in the way of freezing drizzle, freezing rain, 10th of an inch of ice accumulation on some spots, slippery travel, slippery walking. our advisories are in place, we could see this specific area expand a little bit a little further to the south. aware of, minnesota early morning activities even over into the dakotas. the bik story, lake effect show shutting off, ontario advisory in place for lake effect snow, through saturday, then the warmup gets underway. we're expecting a lot of warm air very quickly. add that in to wind gusts and will be problems for folks around lake erie lake ontario. tonight we're in

that president obama is changing his strategy at exactly the same time that george bush did when donald rumsfeldo what can a new secretary get done before he or she is forced to leave office when obama leaves. >> clearly when there are so many challenges abroad, a shrinking military budgets, and conflicts within the country, it's about the direction and policy moving forward. military budgets, and moral. how does any new person tackle all of that? >> well i don't think they do. i think the problem you have ultimately tony is the pentagon is an unmanageable beast in many ways. and the secretary of defense reports to the president. he responds to the president and ultimately it's the administration headed by the president who will decide where the budget lies. the defense secretary can petition and lobby for as much of the cut of the pie as they can claim, but the president and the administration has to make decisions about where to give allocations. and both this defense secretary, and two predecessors before that wasn't putting sufficient strength behind america's fighting men and women. >> jame

final -- firehe donald rumsfeld. he got it. this is about obama. this is about obama personally. not an issue of in -- agenda. it is two sides. on my side, their israel disappointment. that drove the collapse in turnout. percent whenrom 53 and on election day, his favorable was better in the polls that had been, it was 44%. one in five. they lost faith in him. it's fine to random rave about the tea party. the truth is if he held his own, he would have one or the democrats would have one. you first have to look it yourself. what it we done wrong. how lovely alienated one in five obama voters. he did say something telling drove usaid the voters off the cliff yesterday. i hope he did. presidential's are so different from the midterm. here is why. a vote for president is that active self-definition. it is to you are. it really defines you. i voted for barack obama by god. this is repeated millions of times. people in the middle who took a leap of faith on this guy. the second term has been atrocious for him. those voters paid to. not just on the issue agenda. on the republican side,

what donald rumsfeld might call the known unknown? >> people are not happy with either party.there an inanti-incumbent wave. governorships, many losing or come close to losing. the moderately republican mood with the anti-incumbent mood? pat roberts may lose, even though republican haves a good night overall. it's a multi-dimensional sort of election. makes it a bit more complicated. but overall signs look poor for democrats. a >> joining us tuesday as well and presidethe roundtable. matthew dowd and cokie roberts. jonathan karl, republican bill kristol, and democratic strategist, donna brazile. and one of the questions is this, the voters are angry and upset with washington. hurts democrats disproportion that tly but not solely. >> it's the dynamic they have become. we realize there's no static quality where the voters are. in 2004, they predicted a realignment for the republicans. 2006, democrats win, 2008, barack obama, predict realignment, 2010, lose. 2012, barack obama reset the country. the demographics say republicans can't win. now the republicans are facing a great ni

the second president got close to donald rumsfeld and that's why he made a change.it should start with valerie jarrett. i doubt he'll do it, but that's where it should be first. >> the takeaway from "the washington post," top seven post racial race woman and that she is never ever going to be fired, ever. ever. going to be fired. and the first rule of valerie jarrett is don't talk about valerie jarrett. i made that one up. good to see you, bret. >> good to see you, megyn. >> well, as my daughter says when i catch her doing something, well, i did it. >>> up next, our interview with former defense secretary robert gates on the president's new plan to send more u.s. troops to iraq and where the united states now stands in the world. >> what we're seeing is that when the united states steps back and speaks softly, nobody listens. ♪ i thought it'd be bigger. ♪ ♪ (dad) there's nothing i can't reach in my subaru. (vo) introducing the all-new subaru outback. love. it's what makes a subaru,a subaru. >>> just days after a disastrous midterm election for democrats, the preside

bush fired donald rumsfeld. ronald reagan appointed new chiefs of staff.onough will stay there. will there be any shakeup? >> i don't know about shakeup. andll serve as a pleasure we are honored to be able to report to duty their everyday. i don't want to front run. i will tell you about the president's view and how i try to operationalize. the way i see the white house is you have no general manager for a professional football team in this country that would say let's keep somebody in here for two years and then after the end, we will refresh. refreshing,e bringing in new blood and talent and ideas every day. when we find it, we will bring it in. that is why when i got this job i started to recruit. he has been a good help to us. over the course of the last several months, we had added bob mcdonald ou. stro.ve added julain ca we have added megan smith as the chief technology officer. very senior technology group from google. we will add people like ron klain and john allen. asnew voices but a continuum opposed to any sort of sense that ok, we had an elect

bush, after his six-year midterm debacle, he comes out, he hands donald rumsfeld his walking papers andhat does signal a shift. i don't think this is the same thing. it's superficially the same. it's not substantively the same. because the rumsfeld firing signaled a change of thinking and a dynamic change in power structure within the bush administration. i think this is more of a one-off. i think secretary hagel and presidentby ma didn't necessarily click, secretary hagel didn't necessarily click with the white house staff. i think it tells us a lot about how they operate. i don't think it's a philosophical or ideological or power shift so much as it is he didn't work in this particular moment. >> karen, what's interesting though, here, is really the commentary was split along two lines. the president needs somebody aggressive and what peter is saying, which is they didn't get along so it doesn't really mean much other than they didn't get along. >> the job chuck hagel was in fact pulling out of wars. they needed a republican in that spot so that he could sell a smaller military to the

but this, again, it looks like we're going down the same road that secretary donald rumsfeld told us we had to do, we had to do, and yet we had no end point to that as well. so, thank you very much. >> congressman jones, if i might just respond very briefly, you very accurately described my position when i was in the united states senate. but it's basic, as you have noted, to the responsibilities of congress. and an aumf comes out of congress. the authority of military force for a president, that authority comes from the congress of the united states. and i, too, hope that congress will engage in this. and i have great confidence that congress will. they need to. they must. it is a responsibility of the congress. so i'm right with you on that point, and i'll give you my best thoughts on your other question as well. thank you. >> thank you. ms. bordallo. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for holing this important hearing. secretary hagel and general dempsey, thank you for your time today. as i have stated before, i believe that isil could become a direct threat to the united states or our a

, and it was given to the defense task force and the question that donald rumsfeld commissioned that task force to ask was, what is ultimately the cause of terrorism? why are there so many people in the world that want to do violence to the united states? and you can go online and read it. it seemed as though what i wrote this week or what i said in interviews was somehow controversial. it isn't. it is self-evident. the report in 2004 concluded this. this is what it said. it said, the key cause of terrorism aimed at americans is, quote, american direct intervention in the muslim world. american direct intervention in the muslim world. it then identified three different policies that comprised this direct intervention. one is support for the regions' worst tyrants. giving economic aid and drowning in weapons the regimes in egypt and saudi arabia. secondly was steadfast support for israel which is viewed as enabling all sorts of aggression in that part of the world. and third was actual wars and occupations, principally the invasion of afghanistan. canada plays a role in all of those p

, which it was given to the defense task force, and the question that donald rumsfeld commissioned thattask force to ask was, what is ultimately the cause of terrorism? why are there so many people in the world that want to do violence to the united states? and you can go online and read it. it seemed as though what i wrote this week for what said in interviews was controversial. it isn't. it is self-evident. the report in 2004 concluded this. it said, the key cause of terrorism aimed at americans is, quote, american direct intervention in the muslim world. american direct intervention in the muslim world. it then identified three different policies that comprise this intervention. one is support for the regions' worst tyrant, giving economic aid and drowning in weapons the regimes in egypt and saudi arabia. secondly was stead fast report support for israel, which i viewed as enabling all sorts of aaggression. and third was actual wars and occupations, principally the invasion of afghanistan. canada plays a role in all of those policies and what the report concluded -- this is not me sa

george bush fired donald rumsfeld. bill clinton and ronald reagan appointed new chiefs of staff.omething? >> albert: no, sir, i'm not. (laughter) will there be any shakeup? >> i don't know about shakeup. obviously, we all serve at the pleasure. as the president himself said we're honored t to be able to report to duty there every day. so i don't want to speak on announcements one way or the other. the president's view and how i try to operationalize the view, the way i see the white house is you have no general manager for a professional football team in this country that would say let's just keep somebody in here for two years and then we'll refresh. our theory is we have to be refreshing, bringing in new blood, new talent, new ideas every day. when we find it, we'll bring it in. that's why, as soon as i got this job, i started to recruit john pedesta. he's been a great help to us. bob mcdonald veterans administration, in the last few months. julio castro at housing urban development. megan smith, senior technology guru from google. we'll keep adding people, ron claim and john a

right at that point when he pushed out donald rumsfeld. he was ready. he was ready immediately with bob gates as his nominee. there was no space there. and president obama's now set up a situation where the person he's pushed out is going to be in this office for some time while they try to find somebody new. and get them confirmed. that's not a position of strength when you're dealing with foreign leaders, dealing with countries that already have problems with the united states and its policies. >> what about ray mavis? former governor of mississippi, strong supporter of president obama? >> he'd be an interesting choice because he's been in the building since 2008. campaigned for the president since 2008. he's very close to the white house. he's not seen as an overly strong figure and don't seem like they want that. you're also hearing jay johnson, the current secretary of homeland security, also close to the president, served as the general council for the pentagon. on the other hand, tied to the executive order. but i think ash carter, potentially, b

>> then there's the interview with former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld, believes he let him offange about the 200 invasion of iraq. >> in the effort that it took to sell us this that we lost our -- >> let me back up. >> in the effort it took the administration to present you were selling it. you presented the positive. you didn't present the negatives. you presented our case. okay, fine. then i moved on. i should have just stayed there. i lost a lot of sleep on that one. he didn't. >> rumsfeld's former boss is one big name who hasn't appeared. >> in this very episode of "sunday morning," george w. bush is on. if we had magical device where you could jump from this interview in to that interview and ask him anything. >> sure. tell me about -- painting cats. jimmy carter is like 108. he's out in africa like pulling worms out of children's feet trying to cure them. bush is at home. bring me my fruit bowl. >> do you like interviewing politicians? >> no. i despise it. as most creatures would. imagine having to interview sales people. they're sales people. they live in a world of deni

if you look at donald rumsfeld and robert gates, they were really, for better or worse towering figurest dominated the voice of the building and really dominated the discussions at the national security council, and i do not think you have seen that with hagel. i and my colleagues at the press room, and i talked about this a lot, secretary hagel and chairman dempsey will come out and do a joint re-think to reporters in the press room, and they will and that basically write what chairman dempsey said, because he seems to articulate the current situation a little bit more forcefully and that is just -- we are not making any value judgment. it is just as we type up a story and it only can be 12 inches long we end up using his quotes other than the secretary's. host: the secretary's profile is a little bit lower. guest: right when we compare it, and that is a little unusual. it used to be the secretary primarily articulating a policy and the chairman and much more of a supporting role. host: on twitter, what does the administration want to do with the military? guest: i think those are real

what donald rumsfeld might call the known unknown?think it's the fact that people are not happy with either party. is there an in anti-incumbent wave? for governorships, probably a lot of incumbents lose or come close to losing. how do you square this moderately pro-republican mood with the anti-inup bent mood? pat roberts may lose, even though republicans have a good night overall. it's a multi-dimensional sort of election. makes it a bit more complicated. but overall signs look poor for democrats. >> joining us tuesday as well and the roundtable. they're all part of the election eve tuesday night. matthew dowd and cokie roberts. chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. republican bill kristol, and democratic strategist, donna brazile. picking up on the last point from nate, we know that voters are angry and upset with washington. hurts democrats disproportionally but not solely. >> it's the dynamic they have become. we realize there's no static quality where the voters are. in 2004, they predicted a realignment for the republi

you have to add a donald rumsfeld or dick cheney and put it in the executive office of the mayor after the '60s, realising that he saw the transformation of the washington d.c., the city that burned to this city that we now know. at one time the national bird of washington b.c. was the crane because there were so many building cranes, he was combative, feisty, but got the job done. one of the things people didn't realise is he was brilliant, three hours shore of a ph.d. and chemistry. a small-town boy rose to power. >> it's interesting you say that. he was the son of a share cropper. he had an infamous drug arrest. he went on to become mayor again. do you tink that people were able to overlook some of the short comings because they were able to youse demons to political advantage. the demons were something they battered early on. they would recognise there would be a personality. the thing that speaks a lot is 24 years after the arrest in vista hotel, he died in office, serving the people. they are still getting ready for the annual turkish give away. he gives turkey to the needy. he w

donald rumsfeld under the leadership of president reagan -- i have a picture of donald moms felt thanking saddam hussein and shaking his hand. it would have been easier if saddam, we would have slapped him down instead of taking them out and creating these jihadist running around the world. our fallen policy has felt for the last 25 years. host: some believe that a winning strategy of isis is to get rid of by sheer al-assad in syria. guest: yesterday i heard that six or seven syrian military were beheaded. i have a feeling that assad is an evil man but i think he is also anti-isis as well. host: bedford, ohio, democratic caller. that how want to say the war started was the republicans -- it was a lie and that's what it's always been. all of this is him president obama now is he is trying to get a set of something. -- to get us out of something. guest: i would agree that i have said many times that we were manipulated and basically made our decisions based on information that had been manipulated which is basically a lie to go into iraq. i agree with him totally on that. the presidentg oba

but this, again, it looks like we're going down the same road that secretary donald rumsfeld told us we had to do, we had to do, and yet we had no end point to that as well. so, thank you very much. >> congressman jones, if i might just respond very briefly, you very accurately described my position when i was in the united states senate. but it's basic, as you have noted, to the responsibilities of congress. and an aumf comes out of congress. the authority of military force for a president, that authority comes from the congress of the united states. and i, too, hope that congress will engage in this. and i have great confidence that congress will. they need to. they must. it is a responsibility of the congress. so i'm right with you on that point, and i'll give you my best thoughts on your other question as well. thank you. >> thank you. ms. bordallo. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for holing this important hearing. secretary hagel and general dempsey, thank you for your time today. as i have stated before, i believe that isil could become a direct threat to the united states or our a

that country there is a remarkable 2004 report commissioned by the george bush pentagon run by donald rumsfeld given to the defense task force and the questioned the past what old delhi was the cause of terrorism where there's so many people in the overall to do violence in the united states? go online to read it. it is self-evident. the report concluded the key causes of terrorism aimed at americans '' american direct intervention in the muslim world. and then identified three policies. number one. support for the region's worst tyrant's giving economic aid and drowning in the regime's weapons. number two steadfast support for israel to enable all sorts of aggression. number three. actual wars and occupations with the invasion of afghanistan and canada plays of role but this is not me but an actual quotation repudiated the government's statement to its own citizenry wide terrorism happened. muslims do not hate our freedom but rather they hate our policies. it is so tempting to see ourselves as victims as pure and innocent victims'. we all want to use your cells that way to a visitor cells the

but this, again, looks like we're going down the same road that secretary donald rumsfeld told us wed to do. yet we had no end to that as well. >> congressman jones, if i might just respond briefly. you very accurately described my position when i was in the united states senate. but it's basic to the responsibilities of congress. an aumf comes out of congress. the authority of military force for a president. that authority comes from the congress of the united states. and i too hope the congress will engage in this. i have great confidence the congress will. they need to. they must. it is the responsibility of the congress. so i'm right with you on that, on that point. and i'll give you my best thoughts on your other question as well. thank you. ms. bordallo? >> thank you, mr. chairman, for holding this important hearing. secretary hagel and general dempsey, thank you for your time today. as i stated before, i believe that isil could become a direct threat to the united states or our allies in europe. and we must make efforts to avoid that threat. while i believe that we must keep a

donald rumsfeld actually said or retaking now more than we are racking up against us us?is it question mark and it has to be debated. >> we have been doing this for 13 years and i don't think we have answered that question. as bad as it seems it may be the least bad. >> a sobering thought. >> we will take a few questions together. since we have 10 minutes to go we might do something of a spin around. there's a woman behind you that has a hand raised and we can do a couple at once. >> i am from american university. there are two issues that you raised initially to have an authorization for isil but also what to do with 2001 aumf. it could imagine that there could be a targeted argument to go after isil. it seems harder to do something with the 2001 aumf so i was wondering if jack would speak to the implications of allowing that to linger not only for the president's legacy but for the future, for the next presidency. >> before we get to that we would get if you end and we will do with them one by one if you don't mind. >> good morning. my name is veronica. i quite agree wi

fired donald rumsfeld the next day. he heard the message loud and clear. the place what did you make of it. >> kind of like that commercial that guy says can you can hear me now? obviously the president doesn't hear. i think with hearing aids in both ears he couldn't hear this. it was unbelievable that he was going to the podium and almost acting like, well, you know, two thirds of the voters had had shown up. well, that's the whole point, mr. president. they didn't show up. why didn't they show up? because they have lost confidence in you. this was a wipe out election. the thing that was most surprising was the margins. i have been campaigning all over the country for various republican candidates. and i really thought a lot of these races were going to be very close. georgia. we all expect, including the candidate david purdue thought it would go into a run jaw. iowa, joni ernst thought it was going to be close. mike rockie mountains thought his close was going to be close. he they were blowouts not even close. >> not even close. nancy pelosi doesn't see

donald rumsfeld.l was not making the big decisions that lead to those bad poll numbers and he is the one clearly being pushed out. we'll have all eyes on who that replacement might be. right now the names are michelle flornoy who was at the pentagon before and ash carter. both obama loyalists. >> thanks very much. we're going to return to regular programs. if many of you that is "gma" and there is a complete wrap up yel orange, and even bluish tint. >> reporter: he's heard of people >>> he's even heard of people running color ox bleach on their teeth. >> it's good for surfaces. not in the mouth. or the skin. it's very caustic. >> reporter: the american dental association recommends if you choose to use a bleaching product, you should on the do so after talking to a dentist. overbleaching with cause irreversible damage. >> once the enamel has been chemically eroded away, it's gone forever. >> to say i'm no longer obsessed with my teeth would be a lie. but i have it under control now. >> reporter: hopin

but this, again, looks like we're going down the same road secretary donald rumsfeld told us we had to do. we had no end to that as well. >> congressman jones, if i might briefly.ond you very accurately described my i was in the senate.tates but it's basic to the responsibilities of congress. congress.mes out of the authority of military force president. that authority comes from the congress of the united states. the congress will engage in this. i have great confidence the will.ss they need to. they must. it is the responsibility of the congress. with you on that, on that point. and i'll give you my best other questionr as well. thank you. ms. bordallo? >> thank you, mr. chairman, for hearing.his important secretary hagel and general dempsey, thank you for your time today. as i stated before, i believe that isil could become a direct the united states or our allies in europe. and we must make efforts to avoid that threat. while i believe that we must open, itour options must be a joint effort with our coalition and allies to stop isil. secretary hagel, what additional military suppor

people were sick of bush, and the next day after the election, he fired donald rumsfeld and got it, it was about iraq. in 2010, it was about obamacare. this was not. this was about obama, obama personally, not about an issue agenda, which is how you reconcile all the referendum passing, and on my side, there's real disappointment, and i think that dro some of the collapse in turnout and some to switch, but when you go from 53 two years ago when reelected, 53% of the country voted for himming and on election day, actually, his favorable was better in the pollings than it had been, 44, still one in five, who lost faith in him. i'll rant and rave about the tea party, the races, but the truth is if he held his own, he would have won, the democrats would have won. look at yourself. what are we doing wrong and alienate one in five obama voters? i'm not sure what the president meant, but he said something telling when he said the voters who, like, drove us off the cliff the other day, i heard you, and the two-thirds who did not vote, i heard you too. i hope he did. because i think they are sa

think or believe, and if you think about president bush's final two years in office, he fired donald rumsfeldin iraq, and at the end of that two years, you dealt with the financial collapse. there can still be a lot going on, and in that sense you will be relevant for whatever comes your way. >> you're the president of the united states, you're relevant no matter what. i mean, i think when people talk about, you know, president obama potentially beinger vel rant, what they mean is he no longer has really a governing agenda. the kinds of things he came into office to do, to change america in a fundamental way, to make the american electorate embrace big government, activist government the way that he had hoped, that's over. so in that sense the age of obama is over. his big project hasn't worked out for him. but that doesn't mean that he's irrelevant at all. he's still highly relevant for the reasons you suggest. he's talking about this nuclear deal with iran. that's, that could be, you know, huge -- bill: enormous. >> significant in the way that the region operates, an arms race there, the wa