general would be put in front of the cabinet he's the one who discussed with jack straw and with jeremy greenstock what went before the un security council and he's the one look decided what he was going to say to parliament and what he didn't say to prom so yes he's absolutely central to it but this is in a sense the last chance saloon for british public inquiries because we had the foreign office for the first committee inquiry we had the parliamentary process and then gordon brown agreed that this inquiry would be set up and indeed it has been set up if we're to have any reasonable standing as an effective democracy then this inquiry has got to go into some fairly serious detail about it and recommendations about what's going to happen next no it's not a traditional inquiry which many of us wanted but i get the feeling that a legal process could emanate as a result of the evidence that's going to come out. and take a look now at some other headlines from around the world thirty three members of the opposed to using president's family have been arrested while trying to run for country they're co

general would be put in front of the cabinet he's the one who discussed with jack straw and with jeremy greenstock what went before the un security council and he's the one that decided what he was going to say to parliament and what he didn't say to parliament so yes he's absolutely central to it but this is in a sense the last chance saloon for british public inquiries because we have the foreign office for the first committee inquiry we have the parliamentary process and them gordon brown agreed that this inquiry would be set up and indeed it has been set up. if we're to have any reasonable standing as an effective democracy then this inquiry has got to go into some fairly serious detail about it and recommendations about what's going to happen next no it's not a judicial inquiry which many of us wanted but i get the feeling that a legal process could emanate as a result of the evidence that's going to come out and how impressed are you with the inquiry say far even do you think its depth and usefulness has been what you hoped it would be i have mixed feelings about it. i don't. denigrate it i

he saw jeremy greenstock which moved him somewhat because he was aware of the u.k.side of the negotiation. then when he saw the americans it moved him over to the line to the position where he said on balance it is a lawful. malae was not going to be in a position where i was went put the problem before the president of the united states until i was in a position where i knew definitively i had to. >> all the when the period in question, your senior advisor in his conversations with president bush's national security adviser presumably was conveying the message that this was pretty difficult for you. >> i mean, that wouldn't have been a revelation. >> you didn't want to say that to the president? >> he knew it was pretty difficult all the politics. if i started reading to the car raising legal issues at that point with the president, i think it would have started to become concerned as to whether we were really going to be there or not and what was really going to happen. i would have had to have done that by the way because in the end whatever i thought about the l

negotiations and they continued be on the 13th, effectively i think the following monday that jeremy greenstock finally withdrew a draft resolution? was it because you didn't really believe that chirac is statement signaled the end of the process? or were we continuing negotiations at this point that a particular good faith? >> no. it was effectively this, that obviously this was the second best thing now because france had made clear, you're right, on the 10th of march, i think it was dominic that with a statement out on the 13th of march, but what we decided was look, even if you can't get the resolution because they said they will would veto, nonetheless you'd have some greater, if you like, political authority if you could at least get the majority numbers on the security council to say they would agree such a resolution if they don't. so in other words, it wasn't -- >> you mean by voting for? >> yes by voting for it. you would have a veto that resolution. >> that would undermine the authority of in 1441? >> no, it would have undermined that because we believe we have authority anyway in 14