lawrence wilkerson is distinguished adju

. >> joining me now is colonel lawrence wilkerson, retired united states army colonel, former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell and adjunct professor at the college of william and mary. sir, is jeb bush trying to box in hillary clinton with this question slyly doing an in-run around her? >> i think he was trying to get out of his answer himself. you know, i flirted with the idea of returning to my party, at least for this presidential election and perhaps even voting for jeb because i thought he was a pretty rational person. but this kind of comment coming from him without any more context is sort of like john mccain's moment when he picked sarah palin to be his vice president, or mitt romney's moment when he more or less disqualified half of the american people for any merit. it's not a good moment. >> so your reaction to jeb bush saying he would have authorized the 2003 iraq war also what do you make of that? besides what you just said is it also trying to retro actively justify what his brother did as well? >> it is. there's no question about that. and i understand f

lawrence wilkerson is distinguished adjunct profess or at the college of limb and mary. he served in the u.s. army from 1966 until 1997 excuse me. while in uniform. he was a member of the faculty of the u.s. naval war college, special assistant to general colin powell when colonel powell was chiefs of staff. from 2001 until 2002 he was associate director of the state department policy planning staff. colonel wilkerson's last position was chief of staff for u.s. secretary of state co len powell from 2002 to 2005. so the journalists and scholars that we have present. first he was a journalist that served as an afghanistan correspondent for "the wall street journal" for "the christian science monitor" and reported in asia and middle east for several other publication. mr. napol has extensively interviewed both sides of the afghanistan conflict. this is cited in his critically acclaimed book "no good men among the living: america, the taliban and the war through afghanistan eyes" which was a final list in the national book award and the helen bernlstein award and recipient o

lawrence wilkerson is distinguished adjunct profess or at the college of limb and mary. he served in the u.s. army from 1966 until 1997 excuse me. while in uniform. he was a member of the faculty of the u.s. naval war college, special assistant to general colin powell when colonel powell was chiefs of staff. from 2001 until 2002 he was associate director of the state department policy planning staff. colonel wilkerson's last position was chief of staff for u.s. secretary of state co len powell from 2002 to 2005. so the journalists and scholars that we have present. first he was a journalist that served as an afghanistan correspondent for "the wall street journal" for "the christian science monitor" and reported in asia and middle east for several other publication. mr. napol has extensively interviewed both sides of the afghanistan conflict. this is cited in his critically acclaimed book "no good men among the living: america, the taliban and the war through afghanistan eyes" which was a final list in the national book award and the helen bernlstein award and recipient o