amy: that was donald rumsfeld in 2002. he war in iraq dragged on, he faced intense questioning from troops. in 2004, a soldier asked rumsfeld why vehicle armor was still in short supply three years in. this was his response. >> as you know, you know the war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish you had. amy: many critics, including human rights groups and a bipartisan senate committee, have said msfeld should have faced criminal charges for decisions that led to the abuse of detainees at the abu ghraib prison, near baghdad, and at the guantÁnamo bay detention camp. jameel jaffer, director of the knight first amendment institute, columbia university and former aclu deputy legal director tweeted -- "rumsfeld gave the orders that resulted in the abuse and torture of hundreds of prisoners in u.s. custody in afghanistan, iraq, and guantanamo bay. this should be at the top of every obituary. more than 100 prisoners died in the course of interrogations. investigations were haphazard at best. but the military

i know nobody else who knows more about donald rumsfeld than ron suskind. ron, it's really nice free to be here tonight. thank you for joining. it's >> good to be here. >> so, i did not give any sort of holistic look at defense secretary rumsfeld's legacy. i turn to you for that. i think i'm still quite red eyed [laughs] in every sense of the word, about his legacy with the iraq war. how do you think we should look at his legacy today on his death? >> well you know, rumsfeld crosses iraq. he starts with nixon and ford, during the bipolar world with the soviets and the u.s.. and he reaches all the way to the around that follows it with regret states and terrorists. so he bridges this modern period. you can see and rumsfeld's life how the united states dealt with its place in the world in the earlier period, when the world in a way was neither. two countries of awesome power crossing swords, to the world in which really, i think significant disasters under rumsfeld's guidance are really at the center of his legacy. mind you, under rumsfeld, you have two very,

defense secretary donald rumsfeld, the architect of the invasions of iraq and afghanistan has died. as both the youngest defense secretary ever and oldest when he returned. mr. rumsfeld was inside the pentagon on 9/11. reporter: donald rumsfeld served four presidents for over five decades. charismatic and outspoken. he was a key architect in the response to 9/11. the invasion in afghanistan and war against iraq. a navy pilot in the 1950's, rumsfeld later became an illinois congressman nixon and henry kissinger admired his ruthlessness. >> a strong defense posture gives weight to our values and views. reporter: in 1975, gerald ford made him defense secretary. the youngest ever. ronald reagan sent into the middle east. >> i am submitting the name to be secretary of defense. reporter: george w. bush reappointed him. within months, america came under attack. rumsfeld was in his pentagon office on september 11 wh an airliner hit the building. he helped move the injured and then planned a way to strike back. rumsfeld believed the iraq war would be over in months. the fierce insurrection th

i'm submitting the name of donald rumsfeld to be secretary of defence. ecretary. within months, america came under attack. rumsfeld was in his pentagon office on september 11, 2001 when an airliner hit the building. he helped move the injured and then planned a way to strike back. rumsfeld believed the iraq war would be over quickly, but there was no plan for building a peace. a fierce insurrection followed that claimed thousands of lives. and the pretext for the invasion — saddam's weapons of mass destruction. but none were ever found. and rumsfeld struggled to explain why. there are no knowns. there are things we know that we know. there are known unknowns. that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. but there are also unknown unknowns. there are things we do not know we don't know. in this so—called war on terror, he was prepared to push boundaries, including the treatment of suspected militants. but when these photographs of the brutalisation of iraqi prisoners appeared, there was a backlash. these events occurred on my watch. i a

reporter: donald rumsfeld was brash and abrasive. his critics say it was his undoing during the worst days of the u.s. wars in iraq. his take was he was right in his critics were wrong. he was a survivor of washington politics. he made history as both the youngest and oldest secretary of defense and did the bidding of for republican presidents. in 1983, ronald reagan sent rumsfeld to baghdad to try and broker closer ties with saddam hussein. two decades later, it was defense secretary rumsfeld who argued saddam had to go. >> the iraqi regime has chosen more peaceful disarmament. reporter: in the u.s. led war was to make that happen. he and other officials accused iraq of helping to plan the september 11 attacks which it did not. he also accused iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction which it did not. he was wrong, but rumsfeld refused to say so. >> we believe the intelligence was correct. it turned out it was not correct. reporter: at first, rumsfeld embraced neoconservative ideology, but in his 2013 memoir, he changed his tu

i wonder and i think the challenge is that the donald rumsfeld, we see and have seen as the donald rumsfeld, he wanted us to see he created that narrative and until we can dig more deeply into his records and have those cannon conversations, we won't know whether he was remorseful, let's say in a way that a robert mcnamara was, even if an successfully over the vietnam war, where the rum, so went more deeply. i could even be that room so was not as contract as, as someone like mcnamara and had no regrets. and i think to some degree that that's the rumsfeld we've actually seen for the most part. but again, i think the story has yet to be told. i think this is a complicated man and again, now i'm not sure in the end how can trade, how he was, but there is no doubt that is supported the veterans. once he left the office of the secretary of defense was purposeful, was strong and in reflected his own patriotism. it will be certainly interesting to see what presidents past and present at present have to say in the coming out but for the moment. mark jacobs. and thanks very much for joining us from

donald rumsfeld has died today at the age of 88. he did not die at his home at mount misery, which was the slave breaking site of the life-changing and world-changing torture of frederick douglas, a place he bought as a weekend retreat. he died instead in new mexico at a ranch he had there. and donald rumsfeld's death comes on a die with about five weeks worth of news in it otherwise. we're covering a lot of different breaking news stories tonight. tonight "the washington post" was first to report, nbc news confirmed that a grand jury in manhattan filed criminal indictments today against the company of former president donald trump and allen weisselberg. the post and nbc are both citing two people familiar with the indictments. this means the indictments have been handed down by the grand jury. they are at this point sealed. nbc reported earlier today that the indictments are expected to be unsealed at a court proceeding at 2:00 p.m. tomorrow where we will find out what the charges are and whereupon the defendant or defendants are e

jordan takes a look back at his life and his career donald rumsfeld was brass and abrasive, infamously. so his critic say the combination was the former us defense secretaries undoing during the worst days of the us war in iraq. rumsfeld take, he was right, his critics were wrong and they couldn't stand it. rumsfeld was a survivor of washington politics. he made history as both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. and he did the bidding of 4 republican presidents in 1983 president ronald reagan sent rumsfeld to baghdad to try to broker closer ties with saddam hussein. but 2 decades later, it was defense secretary rumsfeld, who argued saddam had to go in rejecting the president's ultimatum. the iraqi regime has chosen war over peaceful design. and a us led war was the way to make that happen. he and other bush administration officials accused a rock of helping to plan the september 11th attacks, which it did not. rumsfeld also accused a rock as possessing weapons of mass destruction, which it did not. he was wrong, but rumsfeld refused to say so. we believe the intelligence

there you are, donald rumsfeld, heading up the defense department. guess in so many ways, this letter, which was a project for a new american century. rumsfeld: yes. lamb: you were successful. rumsfeld: the - it's interesting because that was in 1998, and the democratic congress passed a resolution that made the policy of the united states of america regime change in iraq, and president clinton agreed with it and signed it. so there was broad agreement in both political parties back in the '90s that there was - i mean, here you had a country that was on the state department's terrorist list. you had a country that had invaded kuwait. you had a country that had engaged in a long war with iran. you had a country that was shooting at american airplanes almost every day, as the u.k. and the u.s. aircraft patrolled the no-fly zones in the northern and southern part of iraq. and you had a country that was - had rejected, i think, eventually, some 17 u.n. resolutions. so i don't think it's surprising that a number of people in both political parties held th

there you are, donald rumsfeld, heading up the defense department. guess in so many ways, this letter, which was a project for a new american century. rumsfeld: yes. lamb: you were successful. rumsfeld: the - it's interesting because that was in 1998, and the democratic congress passed a resolution that made the policy of the united states of america regime change in iraq, and president clinton agreed with it and signed it. so there was broad agreement in both political parties back in the '90s that there was - i mean, here you had a country that was on the state department's terrorist list. you had a country that had invaded kuwait. you had a country that had engaged in a long war with iran. you had a country that was shooting at american airplanes almost every day, as the u.k. and the u.s. aircraft patrolled the no-fly zones in the northern and southern part of iraq. and you had a country that was - had rejected, i think, eventually, some 17 u.n. resolutions. so i don't think it's surprising that a number of people in both political parties held th

and we look at the legacy of former us defense secretary donald rumsfeld who has has died at the age 88. the american entertainer, bill cosby, has had his conviction for sexual assault overturned by the supreme court of pennsylvania. mr cosby, who's 83, has served more than two years of his sentence at a state prison near philadelphia. he had originally been found guilty of drugging and molesting a woman in 200a. but dozens of other women had also publicly accused him of sexual assault, but no further action was taken against him. michelle fleury reports from philadelphia. this is the moment bill cosby left present a free man. he had served two years of a 3—10 year sentence. his fall from grace was sealed in 2018 after he was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault for drugging and molesting andrea constand in 2004. in molesting andrea constand in 200a. in a stunning reversal, pennsylvania's highest court said the entertainer should never have been charged. in a split ruling, judges found that it should not have gone ahead because of an immunity deal he had struck with a previ

remembering donald rumsfeld. as defense secretary he led america's response after 9/11, but drew sharp criticism over his leadership during the iraq war. election chaos: the mistakes that's thrown new york city's mayoral election into turmoil. pill for post-partum depression. the new hope tonight for new mothers. plus how strangers came through for a young man who always goes the extra mile. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on a very busy wednesday. we're going to begin tonight with breaking news about the disgraced comedian and year-old is out of prison and back at his home after pennsylvania's supreme court threw out his 2018 conviction for sexually assaulting a woman in the same house more than a decade ago. now, in a ruling that stunned prosecutors, as well as the dozens of women who have accused cosby of drugging and raping them, the state's highest court argued the entertainer's due process righ

so far, firefighters say they have contained less than 20% of it. >>> donald rumsfeld died today he wase architect of the iraq war that he justified by claiming saddam hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons that were never found in an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons, which proved untrue rumsfeld served the nation for six decades. upon learning of his death, president george w. bush said in part, rumsfeld was a faithful steward of our armed forces and the united states of america is safer and better off for his service. on his life and legacy, here is nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: as secretary of defense donald rumsfeld launched america's wars in iraq and afghanistan. a mission, it seems, he prepared for his entire life. a fierce competitor in wrestling at princeton a navy pilot and instructor. rumsfeld plunged into politics in 1962. elected to congress four times from illinois. >> i, donald rumsfeld -- >> rumsfeld was recruited by the nixon white house, where he earned reputation as the ambitious and skillful political infighter. even presi

on his life and legacy, here's peter alexander. >> reporter: as secretary of defense, donald rumsfeldaunched america's wars in iraq and afghanistan. he prepared for it his entire life, a navy pilot and instructor, rumsfeld plunged into politics in 1962, elected to congress four times from illinois >> i, donald rumsfeld. >> reporter: he was recruited by the nixon white house where he earned the reputation as ambitious and skillful infighter. even president nixon called him ruthless he later became president ford's chief of staff, and in 1975 at 43, the youngest secretary of defense in history 16 years later, rumsfeld returned to the pentagon under president george w. bush as the oldest secretary of defense. on 9/11, rumsfeld was at his desk when al qaeda attacked. laun launching airstrikes in ach afghanistan in less than 30 days, but u.s. claims that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction were false. >> there are known knowns. there are things we know we know we also know there are known unknowns but there are also unknown unknowns the ones we don't know we don't know it is the

>> alex, thank you. >>> and we learned today that former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has died. eld the post twice, once under president gerald ford and again under president george w. bush when he oversaw the u.s.-led wars in iraq and afghanistan. diane sawyer interviewed rumsfeld in 2011 about the failed search for saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction. >> if you had known he did not have them -- >> i didn't know. >> if you had. >> i didn't. >> if you had. >> i have no idea. i have no idea. what you know today can help you on things you're thinking about tomorrow. it can't help you with things you were thinking about back then. back then, there was reasonable confidence that he had these weapons. >> former president bush remembering him as "a man of intelligence, integrity and almost inexhaustible energy. he never paled before tough decisions and never flinched from responsibilities." donald rumsfeld was 88 years old. >>> when we come back, the actress sentenced in connection with the nxivm sex cult. >>> and the shark attack at a boy scout camp. the boy bitten while cano

more and more grades are found at a former residential school donald rumsfeld dyes, aged a be controversial to time defense. secretary orchestrated the us invasion of iraq and afghanistan. ah, hello china is ruling communist party has been celebrating the 100 anniversary of its founding addressing crowds and gentlemen square and beijing president change and paying held china's irreversible course away from colonial humiliation. i said the era of china being bullied and abused by other nations is gone forever. she warned. any foreign forces that dare to oppress china will be on a collision course against the great wall of steel. forged by 1400000000 people. the president praise the party for raising incomes and restoring national pride food, welcome time about the communist party and chinese people have showed the world. the chinese people have stood up the time in which the chinese nation can be bullied and abused is gone forever. the party showed the world that chinese people not only capable of dismantling the old world but can build a new one. only socialism can save china. only socialis

, was both the youngest during the cold war for gerald ford -- >> i donald h. rumsfeld after 9/11, launching the wars in afghanistan and iraq under george w. bush but it is 9/11 and the iraq war that defined his service. today george w. bush recalled rumsfeld running to the fire in the pentagon to assist the wounded. only four days later rumsfeld told a national security meeting at camp david they needed a plan to go after saddam hussein, despite no proof of his connection to osama bin laden. >> there are known knowns there are things we know we know we also know there are known unknowns. >> reporter: then widely blamed after the 2003 invasion of iraq for not listening to advice about how to manage the war fired the day after the president lost both houses of congress in the 2006 midterms, rumsfeld remained defiant rumsfeld, 88, died of multiple myeloma in his memoir, he insisted he didn't lie about saddam having weapons of mass destruction. writing, "the far less dramatic truth is we were wrong." andrea mitchell, nbc, washington andrea mitchell, nbc, washington. >>> up

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the state's highest court says the testimony of the 5 others, tainted the trial. donald rumsfeld, the us defense secretary, who i was all the invasion of afghanistan and was the main architect of the iraq who has died at the age of 88. his career and the republican party spun decades. he served under multiple presidents the death toll in the building collapsed. miami, florida has risen to 18. the search and rescue operation is in its 7th day, almost 140 people were still unaccounted for. such crews, se there's little hope of finding any one alive. ethiopia has warned its military could re enter the capital of the northern to cry region within weeks, despite declaring a unilateral cease to stays ago, the government says it's withdrawn. our train forces and its own troops from mckelly since taking the truce. but the gray people's liberation front says as still in the region that it'll chase the mound out there has denounced what it calls the violent abduction of one of its journalists. in sudan alley abo sharla was detained by sudanese forces while covering an anti government protest in

well, the architect of the us invasion of afghanistan and iraq, former defense secretary donald rumsfeld, has died to the age of 88. rumsfeld's are twice as the gun chief and president gerald ford and george w bush, but it was the 2nd time in the role that turned him into a controversial figure. s u shaped the u. s. war on terror in the wake of 911 to the very end rumsfeld, if you never admitted making any mistake. ah, ask anyone around the world, what image they immediately associate with modern de china. and if they're old enough, many will point to this 1989, stand off on t m and square one man, demanding democracy against one tank and one party, the chinese communist party. well, we know what happened here. a massacre that snuffed out any hope of revolution. but inside china, these images, this history they've been erased will out of existence by the communist party. this week, china's communist party is marking. it's 100 anniversary with nationwide celebrations . festivities and fanfare all approved for public consumption by beijing. of the parties. origins, go back to 1921. a secre

this is the chief criticism of the late donald rumsfeld.on: what is so important, counting the beans of these long wars is the military coming into the fourth of july, a recalibration of what the military does. it seems it will be front and center for general austin to recalibrate what we do. >> certainly, and recalibrate where the troop deployment is, the level of deployment we have and presence we have particularly in the middle east. we also still have a presence in iraq, one of the main criticisms , influential career and a controversial career for donald rumsfeld. in iraq particularly, the criticism was about engagement in leaving. what was the plan to leave these countries and clearly you see the united states has been dealt there in the middle east for number of presidents that have struggled to get troops out. lisa: the long war overseas and back at home has to do with infrastructure. this time, infrastructure week is trying to get something done. the latest is the white house is trying to pressure the gop by talking about how infra

well, the architect of the us invasion of afghanistan and iraq, former defense secretary donald rumsfeld, has died to the age of $88.00 rumsfeld, sort of twice as tend to gone chief under president joe board and george w bush. but it was his 2nd time in the role that turned him into a controversial figure, s u shaped the u. s. war on terror in the wake of 911 to the very end rumsfeld, if you never admitted making any mistakes. i know the ask anyone around the world, what image they immediately associate with modern d china. and if they're old enough, many will point to this 11989. stand off on t, m and square one man, demanding democracy against one tank and one party, the chinese communist party. well, we know what happened here. a massacre that sniffed out any hope of revolution. but inside china, these images, this history they've been erased will out of existence by the communist party. this week, china's communist party is marking. it's 100 anniversary with nationwide celebrations . festivities and fan fair, all approved for public consumption by beijing. of the parties. origins go

donald rumsfeld was 88 years old. i am nick schifrin.essa: now to the pandemic, the head of the cdc dr. rochelle walensky said that mass guidelines will be left to local officials. that is after los angeles county urged a return to wearing masks in indoor public spaces as the indoor -- delta variant spreads. the u.s. house voted to create a select committee to investigate the january assault on the u.s. capitol. it will include 13 members, mostly democrats. all but two republicans opposed the action and traded jibes with democrats over which side is being more partisan. >> most fundamental to any objective investigation is being free from political influence and partisan bias. unfortunately, this resolution fails to meet that basic benchmark. >> give me a break. we had a bipartisan commission equally divided, equal subpoena power. they voted against it. the minority leader whipped against it and convinced of the senate to try to kill it. vanessa: former president trump spent this day at the u.s.-mexico border as he makes his return to pu

well, the architect of the us invasion of afghanistan and iraq, former defense secretary donald rumsfeld, has died to the age of $88.00 rumsfeld's or twice as tender gone chief on the president's job board and george w bush. but it was his 2nd time in the role that turned him into a controversial figure as he shape the u. s. war on terror in the wake of 911 to the very end rumsfeld, if you never admitted making any mistakes. ah, ask anyone around the world what image they immediately associate with modern de china and if they're old enough, many will point to this 11989. stand off on t m and square one man, demanding democracy against one tank and one party. the chinese communist party. well, we know what happened here. a massacre that snuffed out any hope of revolution. but inside china, these images, this history they've been erased will out of existence by the communist party. this week, china's communist party is marking. it's 100 anniversary with nationwide celebrations . festivities and fanfare all approved for public consumption by beijing. of the parties. origins go back to 1921.

possible so the only thing that we learn from this is in the shortcomings and as i was saying, donald rumsfeld in the tradition and i'm glad it is published i think you are too. summa thank you pretty. >> book is on ms. rumsfeld entire life but probably when we begin by talking about the great deal of the book is about iraq. so way to get into this is here we are in the constitution center we just passed by a statue of james madison in the other room and as you know madison gave a lot of talk under thought to war and with the president should do that often americans should get it to work. and if he came back, and just asked to determine what did we go to war in iraq, what would you say. >> the answer would be that the congressman in the united states passed a resolution printed revolution overwhelmingly simmering regime change in iraq in the 1990s. by an overwhelming vote and it was signed by president clinton. united nation issued some 17 different resolutions. advising iraq that they should conform to the resolutions, the request of the united nations security council to allow the inspectors

just before nominated rumsfeld to replace james schlesinger, secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld, 1st became secretary defense and the president, gerald ford. in the mid 19 seventies, one of his 1st task was overseeing the united states strategy during the cold war. i'm not saying was certainly that the russians are coming on say the saying the trends are here. i'm not saying the russians are 10 feet tall. i'm saying they used to be 543, the now 59 and a half and they're growing and we're not in 2001 president george w bush appointed rumsfeld for his 2nd term is defense secretary after the 911 terrorist attacks rumsfeld pushed for war with iraq. as justification, he claimed baghdad with harper and weapons of mass destruction in 2002 when confronted by reported about the lack of evidence. rumsfeld push back, there are no knowns. there are things we know that we know. there are known unknowns, that is to say, there are things that we now know, we don't know. but there are also unknown unknowns. there are things we do not know . we don't know. so when we do the best we can, and we pull a

his look at some other stories making news for us defense secretary donald rumsfeld has died at the age of 88. you served twice in the post under president gerald ford. and george w bush rumsfeld oversaw the 2003 us invasion of iraq. you remained unapologetic about the war, insisting that toppling saddam hussein created a quote more stable and secure world. hundreds of indigenous brazilians have been protesting against a bill allowing commercial agriculture and mining on protected tribal reservations . the legislation advanced in congress on tuesday. the far right president, both the nato and brazil powerful farm lobby have supported the bill. arguing that indigenous communities are blocking development of the amazon authorities in ecuador have seized more than 7 tons of cocaine in the port of quiet here. the drugs were hidden in containers of canned tuna bound for spain. the cocaine has a st value of more than $300000000.00. of most intense heat wave north america has seen in years is sweeping across the pacific northwest, breaking temperature records, and causing hundreds of death. as

. >>> donald rumsfeld died today. he is being remembered as a man of the highest integrity, great intellect, bureaucratic talent. history will remember him as a man who never suffered a day of self-doubt. a man who walked us into an elective war in iraq under false retenses. and sent americans in to fight without the armor they needed. some paid the ultimate price. donald rumsfeld was 88 years old. >>> we're keeping an eye on the latest out of surfside, florida, tonight, and the ongoing search of survivors of that condo building collapse. 18 lives have been lost and 145 soulsunaccounted for. tomorrow, the president and first lady will travel to surfside, florida. >>> let's bring in our leadoff guests. phillip rucker, senior correspondent for "the washington post." his anticipated new book, written with carol leonnig, i fix it, is due out on the 20th of july. paul butler, a former federal corruption prosecutor at the department of justice, these days a professor at georgetown law school. good evening. phil, i would lik

♪ larry: on 9/11 donald rumsfeld spent the entire day hauling larry: on 911 donald rumsfeld spent thentire day hauling injured people out of danger at the pentagon on 911.he successful man he ran defense twice but he was a great mentor to me and many others. may he rest in peace. kennedy: man, look at desperate independence day is almost upon us many americans that means freeing ourselves from the accursed masks, how dare you. i do not condone that. i've heard eating and drink in, eating ribeyes and eating passionfruit marguerite and lighting fire so the mask on. more than 6000 american deaths from this awful pandemic, we cannot lose sight of how we guided who's to blame for it every day it looks like covid leaked from a chinese lab. just this week house republicans held a hearing on the origins of covid. and the experts they brought in to testify they screwed everything up, then cover their tracks for the rest of the world had to pay the price, take a look. >> i believe it's just too much of a coincidence that a worldwide pandemic caused by a novel that coronavirus that cannot be fou

share with everybody what you shared with us earlier what it was like to work for donald rumsfeld onse years. >> unbelievable. i mean, i'm not a fan of this administration but i sympathize with simone sanders. these people complain to politco that they don't feel supported. i'm sorry. it's not the vice president's job to support you. it's your job to support the vice president. serving in government is a privilege at the highest levels. it's hard work. requires enormous sacrifice. the white house, i was on call for the president 24/7 if he wanted me. when i worked with secretary rumsfeld, we traveled 250,000 miles to 50 countries around the world. we would start a workday and put in a full workday in baghdad, then get on a plane and we would travel 14 hours home, put another full workday on the plane and land in andrews air force base at 5:00 a.m. exhausted. he would come back to the staff cabinet and say see you in the office in two hours and he meant it. it was hard, it was difficult work but it was a privilege. i can't imagine complaining about the hostile or difficult work enviro

. >> shannon: former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has died.served under four presidents and work nearly a quarter-century in corporate america. he leaves quite a legacy. youngest event secretary everyone he served under president gerald ford and then became the then oldest under president george w. bush from 2001 to 2006. >> the messages that there are known unknowns. there are things we know that we know. there are known unknowns, that is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. >> your faith and your values and your experiences all contribute to decisions you make and your approached things and your judgments about the kinds of things you're engaged in. i suppose that's true of everybody. >> shannon: he was a member that someone who ran straight to the crash site at the pentagon on 9/11 try to help at the scene while the white house was frantically trying to track him down. donald rumsfeld was 88 years old. that's insane. that's a different car. -that's the same car. - no! yeah, that's before, that's after. oh, that's awesome.

. >>> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has died at the age of 88. he served under four presidents. he was defense secretary under president bush. rumsfeld's family released a statement saying he died surrounded by family. he died after a battle with cancer. >>> the wildfires are raging. president biden talked to climate change today with western governors. governor newsom was one of them and he joins six governors via zoom as the president announced hiring of more firefighters and bonuses to raise their pay to $15 an hour. the new plan will also invest in advance satellite and technology to help crews battle wilds fires. this year's fire season is looking to be one of the worse. >> 21 large uncontained fires are burning. this year there are 36 that are uncontained and burning. there are already about 9,000 firefighters deployed across the country from california to mexico and utah and nevada, it is only june. >> reporter: the president adds the bipartisan infrastructure agreed last week would invest in $50 billion for wildfires and drought preparedn

. >>> i intend to nominate donald rumsfeld as my new secretary of defense. >> today it is my honor to be secretary of defense. >>> we wanted to get a few final thoughts on this independence day from our round table. lz, i want to start with you. this is a day of celebrating our nation's independence. we've come so far since a year ago. a quick assessment of where you see us as a nation today, a divided nation still. >> i think about the 250 anti-lgbtq bills introduced this year, many targeting transgender youth, children. as long as we have elected officials willing to use children as political pawns to gain points, who are willing to use the country's most vulnerable to gain points, we'll always have this division. that's where we need to start addressing that. >> mary? >> people need to remember what's throwing gasoline on the fire for those who are angry at each other and angry at the government, is income inequality. the rich are getting richer and there's more homeless. 50 of the richest people have as much wealth as 165 million americans, people think it's unfair. restoring what

. >>> we want to note the passing of donald rumsfeld, both the youngest defense secretary of presidentd ford and the oldest under president george w. bush and served as ford's white house chief of staff and was an ambassador to nato. he was a navy pilot, a u.s. congressman from illinois, the ceo of two fortune 500 companies and, yes, he had and exploratory campaign for president before 1988. but his career was defined by 9/11 and the iraq war and his push to go after saddam hussein despite no proof to his connection to bin laden. on "meet the press" he conceded that the u.s. faced tough days ahead. but his prediction of the worst outcome proved to be far too optimistic. >> there have to be tough days ahead. wars are unpredictable. there are still a large number of the difficulties and things that can go wrong, there's still ahead of us. the young men and women that are out there are doing a superb job and the outcome is clear. it will end and saddam hussein's regime will be gone and the united states will be a safer place for it. >> donald rumsfeld was 88 years old. voiceover: riders.

. >>> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has died at the age of 88. served under four presidents. he was defense secretary under presidents ford and bush and oversaw the pentagon's response to the september 11 attacks and subsequent wars. rumsfeld's family said he died surrounded by family. he had been battling a type of cancer >>> with the delta variant of the covid virus spreading, there is confusion over masks. >> we're fortunate. we have three vaccines that are safe and effective, two-thirds of the population that are vaccinated. >> now dr. walensky went on to say that we should follow the guidelines of local officials. of course you can always wear masks if you feel comfortable doing that. now moderna wants to assure people about the effectiveness of its vaccine. they tested the samples of eight people after they received their second dose of the vaccine. it produced anti-bodies. hough, moderna says the vaccine3 against the new delta variant first identified in india. >>> covid cases continue to rise in japan with the olympics just over three wee

host: donald rumsfeld? caller: donald rumsfeld. you go to war with what you got. anyway, people have to start realizing, if we go slower or get there faster, i am on disability. i have not gotten my check yet. i have called jill, schumer, i have -- i have called gillibrand, schumer, reid. no answer. i called blank field, the cochair of the people living with disabilities caucus, and one is referred back -- i was happy to hear the woman earlier who said she was optimistic. i am for her too, but let me make the point. we cannot put old wine into new wineskins, or as the kids like, my new update, you don't put old coffee grinds into a new filter. host: we will leave it there but thank you very much. you have been a regular listener and viewer of this program and hope you continue. thank you and be well. dave in orlando saying good morning. i think the economy will come back. hopefully our politicians will work and get the usa back on track. to plano, texas next. good morning. caller: hi. good morning. i would like to chime in on what is going on. i listen to -- i lis

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