that donald rumsfeld gives us all a lens to view what's left in the hush money trial. the known knowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns. so first the known knowns all those bad fats. so the prosecution took painstaking care to get in front of the jury so that they did not hear them for the first time and cross-examination, that cohen was a jerk, that he was a bully, that cohen was designated a thug, that michael cohen cashed in on donald trump's name all of them facts that the government's attorney put on the record to make the cross case a little bit less of a rough and tumble affair. second, you haven't the unknown knowns how the j. will actually choose to react to everything they've seen and heard from cohen. well cross-examination began with cohen's tiktoks and got for combative from mares snaking through public statements about trump ones like donald trump belonged in a cage. not very nice. the questions probe cohen's inability to stay away from social media, including by the way, his podcast schedule. how is memory about trump calls is perfect and but less s

then secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld in the department of defense almost 20 years later. do you believe you were actually given a true look at the facility at that time? or were you just showing the image the di or do you want it? americans to see i think i saw exactly what was there, you know what we were seeing from the media at that time where these pictures of, of the grassy stance lines in and out door facilities. but in reality, it was the most modern and present in facility in the world. so what the media was showing was dramatically different and then what we were actually seeing in terms of the, the conditions is the treatment of the, of the chinese and others. i do think that it's a moral ethical conundrum of what you do now that you've had them. how do you let them go and nobody wants to take them? how do you let them go when they are highest of likelihood of recidivism back into the terrorism? the activities that got them there in the 1st place and, and the challenges you can't really bring them to the united states where they are going to be subject to the pr

you 808 to one 4,000 and now for the last look, more than 20 years ago, us secretary of defense donald rumsfeld, poised to helm the american invasion of iraq over vociferous french and german objections dismiss the outcry is coming from old europe he said, if you look at the entire nato europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east rumsfeld was wrong about iraq, but right about europe more than ever before political power and energy is shifting eastward towards new europe. >> as historian timothy guard nash told the new york times the voices of central and eastern europeans are being listened to more and taken more seriously in the councils of europe mader was growing and deploying resources eastward. >> the catalyst is of course, eastern europe's belligerent neighbor, russia look at poland. it has beefed up its own defenses, pledging far more than the nato target of 2% of gdp in fact, it's president proposes a new 3% target for all nato members this year, poland will spend around 4% of its gdp on the military. it also plans to nearly double its land forces to 300,000 soldiers it'

whether to keep donald rumsfeld at the defense department. middle east peace. syria, russia. federal spending, all of these things. bush and cheney in the second term were in opposite sides of who wins when a vice president is on the opposite side of a president, the president does now, cheney, of course, was a convenient boogeyman and so when joe biden comes in as the next vice president, i remember he told me an interview, said, i'm going to be less influential than my predecessor. that's a first for me, by the way. i've never had a politician tell me i'm going to be less influential than my predecessor. but of course, he was trying to make a point. he's trying to say, i'm going to stay in my lane. i'm not going to get passed. i'm not going get or too big for my britches. obama is the president. i'm just the vice president. but in fact, actually, obama needed biden in the same way that bush needed cheney. he needed somebody to help him understand washington. he needed somebody who had some gray hair, who had some experience on the hill, who could be an ambassador to the est

so that he could come on the stand in more sorrow than anger that's but as donald rumsfeld once said, you go to war with the army, you have not the one you want yeah you know, some little kids saves you get what you get. you don't get upset. they've got donald apartment pecker cohen used two years. i think they should have or at least tried and i'd like to believe they did try to get him under wraps much better. it's opposed to allowing him to go on these rehabilitation redemption tours and tiktok and podcasts. but he has created this of his own making and one of the problems that they have now is i don't think they did the job. they should've on the director bring everything out so clearly, and now on the defense, they really needed to hammer home michael, just say yes or no stopping chasiv, stopping equivocating, just to own up to it. yeah. was angry. >> yeah, i tried to get a better deal. i don't want to be in jail that time. who would want to be in jail that time so i think that he's not doing himself any favors then and he's really not doing himself any favors. now, even if it's

i think of this, you know to quote donald rumsfeld, these are unknown unknowns, right? we can't know. so i can put that to eli and novo notice. what can they say? we don't know. right? they can say we monitor safety very carefully and they're telling the truth. but so so i think there's a there's a huge amount of indeterminacy around these drugs, although doctor sean oliver, who's a brilliant obesity specialist at tulane university's school of medicine, said to me, we don't know the long term risks these drugs. we do know the long term risks of obesity and the long term risk of the drugs would have to be staggering to outweigh the risk of obesity. now, that question only becomes more when you think about the issues relating to children. right. you know, i interviewed parents who are facing an agonizing decision. they've got very obese children. they've not been able to reverse their child's obesity. the child is unwell. we know obese children find it really hard to ever become an obese. and we know that if you are obese at age of 18, you have a 70% chance of becoming di

i think of this, you know to quote donald rumsfeld, these are unknown unknowns, right? we can't know. so i can put that to eli and novo notice. what can they say? we don't know. right? they can say we monitor safety very carefully and they're telling the truth. but so so i think there's a there's a huge amount of indeterminacy around these drugs, although doctor sean oliver, who's a brilliant obesity specialist at tulane university's school of medicine, said to me, we don't know the long term risks these drugs. we do know the long term risks of obesity and the long term risk of the drugs would have to be staggering to outweigh the risk of obesity. now, that question only becomes more when you think about the issues relating to children. right. you know, i interviewed parents who are facing an agonizing decision. they've got very obese children. they've not been able to reverse their child's obesity. the child is unwell. we know obese children find it really hard to ever become an obese. and we know that if you are obese at age of 18, you have a 70% chance of becoming di