and i quote -- this is donald rumsfeld, george w. bush's secrety efense, one day before 9/11, he said and i quote, our financial systems are decades old. this is the secretary of defense, 2001. our financial systems are decades old according to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. we cannot share information from floor-to-floor in this building, pentagon, because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible, end of quote. donald rumsfeld, 2001, george bush's secretary of dse saying that then d.o.d. could not track $2.3 trillion in transactions. and yet 17 years after mr. rumsfeld's comments, the department of defense has still not passed the clean audit despite the fact that the pentagon controls assets in excess of $2.2 trillion or roughly 70% of what the entire federal government owns. mr. president, the commission on wartime contracting in iraq and afghanistan concluded in 2011 that 31 -- $31 billion to $60 billion spent in iraq and afghanistan had been lost to frau

increase defense spending, if he had a second term, and he sent out his secretary of defense, donald rumsfeldall over the country and promised that the administration was going to be tough on communism. ford refused to use the word detente any longer, just as his advisor suggested, and he abandoned any talk about a new arms agreement with the soviet union, salt two. the shift helped. he regained his footing, winning in ohio and new jersey. ford, in the end, would win the nomination but barely. even when the primaries ended, neither reagan nor ford had enough delegates to secure the nomination. it took behind-the-scenes negotiations in the months leading up to the republican convention for ford to get enough delegates, and ford hired a lawyer named paul manafort, who led the effort in 1976 to secure ford's victory. we'll come back to him later in the course. besides his national clout within the party, though, as a result of his strong performance, reagan walked away with some victories. the republicans put a morality in foreign policy plank into the republican platform, which articulated a lo

me go to marco and i want to stay with the issue of immigration and i mean if you look at what donald rumsfeld called the new europe and old europe ok i mean i lived in poland for ten years ok the poles the czechs and slovaks the hungary and they don't want these people they say we didn't create this problem why should they come here i mean there's no unity within the european union so he said do you want to have a discussion about it well i mean a large considerable number of countries within the european union already think that discussions over the answer is no ok and so we don't go even in poland we don't have this caution is only scaremongering resonating with the people who as my previous caller said rightly never seen in their lives even in poland. but it's that at the same time to all of you let it all go to marco their. respective if you've seen one or not you seen the effects that it had on other countries and i think that's the demonstration effect that people are absorbing and i think that's kind of a middle ground there ok marco in milan go ahead jump in you know i'm just going to

i think that both jimmy carter and donald rumsfeld in two administrations made statements that said, you know, our -- our military presence there is outdate. we could look at a wider settlement, but you'd have to include china, as well, if the u.s. were to withdraw forces from korea. the south koreans, this is not 1950 anymore. the south koreans had an economic miracle and have 40 times the gdp of the destitute north. they ought to be, over a period of time, ought to be able to wean their defense back to them instead of us providing it. that would be something they could trade away. i don't think the u.s. national security bureaucracies will allow that type of a bargain. >> senior fellow with the independent institute and author of "11 presidents." good to have you. >> thank you. >>> new this morning, the "wall street journal" reports that president trump is planning another meeting. this time with russian president vladimir putin. reportedly on the table here, syria, ukraine, nuclear arms control. president trump has always said he wanted to improve relations with russia. this would

that commission was chaired by donald rumsfeld. that was before he was secretary of defense. there were a bunch of retired generals and admirals from all the services. they studied this. they came back in january 2001 and issued a final report. they said the way the military was organized and how it was managing space is not commensurate with what space had four u.s. interest. think how much more dependent we are in space today. that commission report went on to recommend how to reorganize. they said in the middle term that we should create a space core within the air force, like the marine corps is a department of the navy. we should have a space core that still falls under the department of the air force and in the long-term that report said we should have a separate military department for space, a space force. this was recommended 17 years ago. it has been hotly debated in defense circles ever since then. not a lot of the debate has made it out into public because it is a nerdy thing and it may seem far-fetched and whimsical and even silly. when i heard trump say it it di

that commission was chaired by donald rumsfeld. this is before he became secretary of defense under the bush administration. there were a bunch of retired generals and admirals. some scientists were there as well. they studied this. they came back in january 2001. they issued their final report. they said that the way the military was organized, and the way it was managing space, is not commence or it with the importance that space had for u.s. interests. and that was back in 2001. think how much more dependent we are on space today. to commission report went on recommend how we reorganize. they said in the middle term that we should create a space corps within the air force, like the marine corps is to the department of the navy. we should have a space corps that still falls under the department of the air force. in the long term, this report said we should have a separate alitary department for space, space force. this was recommended 17 years ago. and it has been hotly debated in defense circles and persons then. not a lot of th

what the american military didn't donald rumsfeld did was put the u.s.army at the beck and call of god knows who. from this side of the hill or that side of the mountain, all they have to do shout terrorists and the americans pick fights with people that did not need to be picked. is a famous documentary about -- valley. the entire thing began when someone convinced the army to attack his business competition and kill the paycheck of the valley and take out some of the timber guys. it was simply politics. it was a war that raged on for years. the worst case, no good mental among the living is -- who hopefully you have heard of the -- network. is one of the cia's guys in the war against the soviet union. after the word, he had been a live with the taliban but was not one of them. he thought everything was going to be cool. the americans sided with pkc and convince the americans to attack and bomb them over and over again. try to make peace over and over again. when the cia accepted him. he said will make the militia and use this but the military betrayed

increase was gonna defense spending, if he had a out hiserm, and he sent secretary of defense, donald rumsfeldo all over the country and promised that the going to beon was tough on communism. wordrefused to use the detente any longer, just as his heisor suggested, and abandoned any talk about a new the sovietent with union, salt two. the shift helped. and he regained his footing, winning in ohio and new jersey. the, in the end, would win nomination but barely. even when the primaries ended, nor ford hadn enough delegates to secure the nomination. behind-the-scenes negotiations in the months republicanto the convention for ford to get hired delegates, and ford a lawyer named paul manafort, who led the effort in 1976 to ford's victory. we'll come back to him later in the course. national clout wiin the party, though, as a result of his strong performance, reagan walked away some victories. the republicans put a morality in foreign policy plank into the whichican platform, articulated a lot of the ideas using aboutht were communism. and reagan gave a speech at the convention, which was received

. >> donald rumsfeld stayed there the entire day. it was something he received norman support for an bonded him with the military. he went to the rubble and carry people out of the rubble. it was the exactly wrong thing for the secretary of defense to do and it wasn't until three hours later that he was whisked off by helicopter which is outside the evacuation window that we think these plans operate. >> div any idea what the hourly rate for running and making sandwich inside the facilities. >> i was also wondering if we know anything about people who are brought out to these facilities now, just in case things like i have a family member who always misses the inauguration day because he is always stuck summer. how many people qualify is essentially off-site just to, just in case. >> in round numbers it is about 10000. both incredibly small and incredibly large. that's far more than just the president in the cabinet. the support personnel, military personnel and key figures from across the government. >> so, it is not a matter of if

to quote donald rumsfeld, it is the known and unknown. up, the highest level ever, the shift to online shopping is inexorable, it is happening and happening rapidly, and land values are going up. so the high street on which they went these properties is also at its peak. that is why we have seen so much trouble for the retail sector in the first expansive this year. we have seen carpet right have a cba and mothercare also. all in the hope of preventing even worse. we could see more as the year progresses. our correspondentjoe more as the year progresses. our correspondent joe lynam. joining me now is kate hardcastle, a consumer and retail expert. thank you forjoining us. i will ask you the same question, does... it is a big day for house of fraser, does today's deal secured to some extent what will remain of the business? that is the theory behind it but i think we need to take a very realistic look at the retail marketplace. the ones that have struggled this year sit in the middle market. there are many reasons for that. they are just no

donald rumsfeld, that man, called dead-enders turned out to be the guy -- we're in a civil war endingopped to death. in that december, i went to damascus and there was a two star general. we grabbed most of the generals who served in the iraqi army we grabbed. we either killed them or turn them around and put them in the units that begin to units.s. or use them for intelligence. this guy was missed. he was a linguist, two star. i got him to damascus. i think it cost $700 for him to take a car -- it was safe then. took a car from baghdad to damascus. yet a daughter in med school that had to stay there because she did not know english and the medical school was in arabic. i spent four days with this two star general who was in signals intelligence. i am debriefing him. the third or fourth day said, let me type of the prison abu ghraib. he said, my friends wives and daughters are writing and saying you must come and kill me because i have been defiled. and that part of the world, they deal in shame and we deal in guilt and denial. they said they had been defiled. the gis had done things

knowns, ass, unknown donald rumsfeld would have said. thank you for joining us, priyanka.not miss our conversation with former malaysian prime minister, mahathir mohammed. that is at 8 p.m. for the viewers in sydney. ♪ ♪ watchingthe are "bloomberg markets: asia," i am rishaad salamat in hong kong. the u.s. is leading the race to find these rare -- mother 100 private companies are valued at over 100 billion dollars, but china is catching up, with 70 companies already. have a command valuation of at least $300 billion. they top a list of chinese tech stars, mostly concentrated in the internet service side of things. one start up is. dv, which mayte p file for an ipo in the u.s. next week. sources say that it is valued at $15 billion, 10 times more than where it was a few years ago. one analyst is confident that it can best the likes of alibaba and jd.com. in moreany has invested than 15 in more than 15 unicorns so far, telling us that changing chinese consumer trends are driving his investment strategy. forhe are two main focus is us, the first is the so-called new conceptio

george will writing about gerald ford, our normal president, based on a new book from donald rumsfeld who served as a senior aide and defense secretary in the ford white house. it is well to finally remember our 38 president. that is available in the washington post. the present week did not fully know. booktv, whichn airs 48 hours of book programming every weekend. massachusetts, independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. it is called free speech. my question would be, what about the left's use of the media for the last 60 years? we were told by the new york times that hillary would win alabama and texas. 90% of the media is democrat. i think he is doing a wonderful job for the country. host: thank you for the call. late last week before the markets open and before the official report came out on the low unemployment number, the president tweeting in advance of those numbers, he tweeted about the jobs report before the release. criticism from the wall street journal. therese is joining us on the democrats line. thank you for joining the conversation. caller: thank you for

also have been a trusted adviser to some of the most respected leaders, including robert gates, donald rumsfeld, and secretary mattis. frankly, given his depth of experience, i was pleasantly surprised and proud to have robert accept a position with the newly sworn in senator. it was clear to me he was destined to serve the nation at a higher level. last year, robert received that call from the administration, for personnel and readiness. robert demonstrated his extraordinary skills in just a few short months. it was no surprise that he became the secretary of the v.a. when he was appointed to the acting role as v.a. secretary, he quickly worked to improve moral at the v.a. earning strong reviews and trust and members of congress and the v.a. staff. he moved to execute the electronic health record project, which we know is a critical part of the transformation. he pushed lo the va mission act to the finish line. robert has all the experience required to become secretary of the v.a. what makes robert best suited for the job is his lifelong experience as an army brat and the personal experience a

advisor to some of the nation's most respected leaders including condoleezza rice, robert gates, donald rumsfeld and secretary mattis. frankly, given his depth of experience i was pleasantly surprised to have robert accept a position with the newly sworn in freshman senator. it was clear to me from the start he was destined to serve. he was nominated for the under secretary of defense. he demonstrated his extraordinary skill in just a few short months. it was no surprise to me that the administration identified him as the perfect fit to become the secretary of the va. when he was appointed to the acting role to be va secretary, he quickly worked to improve around earning strong reviews and trust for members of congress and the va staff. he moved to execute the health record project which we all know is part of the va transformation and he successfully pushed through the mission not to the finish line. robert has all the education and professional experience required to be the secretary of the va. but perhaps what makes robert best suited for the job is his lifelong experience as an army brat and

restarting the search for remains of the victims of the korean war this was something stopped by donald rumsfeld because he thought it too expensive so this is really something where i think the lack of preparation, the president's own failure to really crack the briefing book cost the united states dearly. >> secretary cohen, what do you think the significance of suspending exercises would be if it happens >> first, let me comment on the costs involved >> yeah. >> yes, it's expensive to continue to train to be ready to fight the wars you cannot deter, but how expensive is it to lose a war? how expensive is it to lose people in battle we lost thousands in battle in the korean conflict because we were ill-prepared not well-ted or well-equipped. so this is a situation the president, oh, very expensive to fly bombers. yes, it's very expensive to be in shape to be ready to defend our country and our allies in the region >> yeah. >> but to point out how expensive it is misses the point of what what deterrence is and how it protects u.s. interest as well as those of south korea >> if that expense shou

advisor to some of the nation's most respected leaders including condoleezza rice, robert gates, donald rumsfeld andld secretary mathis. frankly given the depth of experience, i was pleasantly surprised and proud to have robert accept a position with the newly sworn in the freshman senator, but it was clear to me from thema start he was destined to serve the nation at a higher level. last year he received a call from the administration when he was nominated to be the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness. robert demonstrated his extraordinary skills in just a few short months, so it's no surprise to me the administration identified him an the perfect secretary off the v. when he was appointed to the acting role to the secretary, he worked to improve morale earning strong reviews antitrust from the members of congress and the va staff. he moved the site to a point of the electronic health record project which we all know is a critical part of the transformation, and also pushed through the mission act to the finish line. robert has all the education of professional experience req

very interestingly, on september 10, 2001, one day before 9/11, former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld said, and i quote -- this was george bush's secretary of defense. quote, our financial systems are decades' old. according to some estimates -- this is rumsfeld -- we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions. we cannot share information from floor to floor in the pentagon because it's stored on dozens of technological systems that are inaccessible or incompatible, end of quote. and yet 17 years after secretary of defense reminded felled's statement -- recommends felled's any statements related to this matter be placed in the record at the appropriate place as if reads, d.o.d. has still not passed a clean audit despite the fact that the pentagon controls $2.2 trillion, roughly 70% of what the entire federal government owns. madam president, the commission on wartime contracting in iraq and afghanistan concluded in 2001 that 31 $-- $31 billion to $60 billion spent in iraq and afghanistan have been lost in fraud and waste. children in america go hungry. veterans sleep out on the street

that commission was chaired by donald rumsfeld. is before he became secretary of defense under the bush administration. there were a bunch of retired generals and admirals. some scientists were there as well. they studied this. they came back in january 2001. they issued their final report. they said that the way the military was organized, and the way it was managing space, is not commence or it with the importance that space had for u.s. interests. and that was back in 2001. think how much more dependent we are on space today. to commission report went on recommend how we reorganize. they said in the middle term that we should create a space corps within the air force, like the marine corps is to the department of the navy. we should have a space corps that still falls under the department of the air force. in the long term, this report said we should have a separate alitary department for space, space force. this was recommended 17 years ago. and it has been hotly debated in defense circles and persons then. not a lot of that de

was that donald rumsfeld. >>> other headlines this morning, new overnight, china is warning it will backe agreement if the u.s. raises tariffs. president trump threatened to increase tariffs on up to $150 billion of chinese imports. there were high level trade talks in china over the weekend. wilbur ross led the negotiations. >>> an off duty fbi agent accidentally shot someone while dancing at a nightclub. you can see the handgun flying out of the holster. when he picked it up off the floor, the gun fired. the man was shot in the leg and is expect todd be okay. the agen agent was turned over e fbi. >>> lava is threatening a key escape route for hundreds of home in hawaii. debris is cutting off access to neighborhoods on the big island. officials issued mandatory orders for residents to leave. the volcano eruptions began last month, evacuating thousands of residents. >>> google is apologizing after search recult results showed thd bigot across trudy wade's picture. >> it's not unusual for us, being conservative. they need to have a procedure in order to take those images down when they're