long areas of the country. my aunt has spiraled in the power vacuum left -- violence has spiraled into power vacuum left by the toppling of saddam hussein. thomas: for more on their reaction to the chilcot report and we can go live to lend it where our correspondent is standing by. today's findings have really heavily criticized the country's former prime minister tony blair. what do you make of his attempts to defend his actions? reporter: welcome what we can make of his attempt to justify his actions is that he is doing his utmost best to change the image that many people here in the united kingdom and many around the world have tony blair, that of a british prime minister who took his country into war in iraq alongside american troops on the basis of what is now confirmed to be flawed intelligence, with insufficient preparation, insufficient consultation, either with the intelligence services or within his cabinet and civil servants. during the two-hour press conference this afternoon, mr. blair apologized, he said he took responsibility for his mistakes, and that he repeatedly justified himself. he kept on saying he took the right d

one day after the lease of the long-awaited chilcot report, whh blames british prime minister tony blair for deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by saddam hussein in the lead-up to the iraq war. blair was the longest serving labour prime minister in british history. the chilcot report revealed blair had been warned multiple times by britain's joint intelligence committee that the invasion of iraq would increase the threat of terrorism by al qaeda and other militant groups. meanwhile, in news from the u.s. war in afghanistan, president obama has announced the u.s. is once again delaying the withdrawal of troops. pres. obama: i'm announcing an additional adjustment to our posture. instead of going down to 5500 troops by the end of this year, the united states will maintain approximately 8400 troops in afghanistan and the next year through the end of my administration. amy: president obama had pledged to withdraw the majority of the thousands of u.s. troops deployed to afghanistan by the end of 2015, but he has repeatedly changed this timeline. the war in afghanistan is the longest war in u.s. history. in bangladesh, two police -- another attack h

saddam hussein. the arguments have raged ever since into the rights and wrongs of the war in iraq. the report had longeen anticipated. it was 12 volumes. although its findings were strong, it did not have the huge impact originally envisioned. there had been a rush to war without peaceful options looked at and there had been too little planning for the postinvasion timeframe. mps responded to the inquiry report. the decision to invade iraq of flawed the basis intelligence has had a far-reaching impact on us all. it led to a fundamental break down in trust in politics and in our institutions of government. the tragedy is that while the governing class got itself horrifically wrong, many of our people got it right. >> the lack of planning has been todenced since in relation afghanistan, libya, syria, and most recently with absolutely no plan whatsoever in regards to brexit. the then prime minister must take full responsibility for encouraging this house to take the decision that it did with disastrous consequences and destabilizing the world. husseinorrors of saddam were clearly documented. i think we w

hitting hillary clinton on her e-mails but it wasn't long before he returned to his unscripted off the wall dialogue. >> i don't love saddam husseinhe was damn good at killing sqoe mosquitoes. turn your back an go someplace else or knock them on their rear, one or the other. >> reporter: trump told the enthusiastic rally former house speaker newt gingrich will play a role in the trump administration should there be one, hinting he might even be vice president. two others in the vvp stakes took themselves out of that running yesterday. jeff? john heilemann is managing editor of bloomberg politics and co-host and producer of the circus which returns on showtime a division of cbs. major ended there with the vp talk. let's start with that. newt gingrich's name has been thrown around here. >> lots of names have been thrown about. the trump vp process is like other vp processeses and cloaked to privacy. trump is taking people out for a spin. >> kind of like "the apprentice." >> there is quality like that to it. nobody knows how real they are. the short list keeps getting longer. trump, yesterday, said he has a dozen people on the short

speech hitting clinton on her e-mails, but it wasn't long before he returned to his uncrypted, off-the-wall dialogue. >> i don't love saddam hussein. i hate saddam hussein, but he was damn good at killing terrorists. speaking of mosquitos, hello, hillary, how are you doing. >> women are liking me a lot lately, when people treat you unfairly, turn your back and go someplace else. or knock them on their ass. >> reporter: trump also told the ohio crowd that newt gingrich the former speaker of the house will play some kind of role in a future trump administration hinting he might be the running mate. two others involved in the trump veepstakes tennessee senator, bob corker and joni ernst too many themselves out of consideration. >> executive producer of "the circus" on show time. the vp talk, let's start with that. newt gingrich's name has been thrown around. >> lots of names have been thrown about. the trump vp process is like all vp processes, kind of cloaked to secrecy, but trump is doing something unusual, but he is basically taking people out for a spin. >> like the apprentice. >> no one knows how many of these things are head fa

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long, about three times the length of the bible. it blames former british prime minister tony blair of deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by saddam hussein in the lead up to the iraq war. this comes as the interior minister has announced his resignation following the suicide bombing in baghdad that killed as many as 250 people. it was the deadliest bombing in iraq since the 2003 us-led invasion. we'll have more on sunday's bombing and the chilcot report after headlines. in yemen, a suicide car bomber has killed 10 soldiers at a checkpoint near a military base in the southern city of aden. yemini officials say militants went on to raid the military base, leading to hours of fighting. meanwhile, at least six people have been killed by two u.s. drone strikes in southern yemen over the weekend. yememeni officials say the victs were suspected to be members of al qaeda. in south africa, a judge has sentenced olympic and paralympic runner oscar pistorius to six years in prison for murdering his girlfriend reeva steenkamp in 2013. he had been facing a minimum 15-year prison term, but today the judge gave him less than half that sentence, citing

long time before the isis. isis.angerous than historicalin our cities. this issue is very very resolved as ae result during the saddam hussein's government and will continue after 2003 by the government's place in order to realize the region for other minorities. not christians if you go to christian cities and villages to see by yourselves how the government did their best to empty the cities of christians problems. church was 2009 the attacked. just onet happen for time. liekve problems everyday that type. leftis why young people iraq. can i ask a question. it was so common in the conversations if we're leading to the deep distrust by many of the minority communities and also when isis was attacking given the fact there are minority communities and given the fact that many christians from mosul and those referred to their arab brothers to feel a deep distrust towards who are their neighbors also the politicalusts to the actors that were to be entrusted to protect them. how do you tackle that to create an environment with reconciliation but political guarantees of protection? what is the role of religious leaders in the process? haveank you, i think you

saddam hussein is a bad man. you heard this. right? right? you heard this. he's a bad man. now, they wanted me to talk less and i spoke for 106 minutes. a long time. a long time without notes, without papers, without anything standing up in front of four or five networks that are going. so i said last night, i'm not reading. no teleprompters. i do like them actually. it's a lot easier. teleprompters. let somebody come up and do what i do, right? of course, i'd have about 12 people instead of 7,000 people. [applause] mr. trump: but i said very simple, i said, saddam hussein is a bad man. bad guy. and i said it three or four times. really bad. because i know what they're going to do. i said but one thing he's good at, said this last night. they wanted me to talk about hillary for 106, like for hours. i said, you know, i went 15 minutes. i went a lot of time. i wrote a whole thing. she's crooked hillary. she's crooked as hell. that's all you have to know. no. it's unbelievable. [applause] mr. trump: so but listen, listen, listen, so after awhile, we want to talk about terrorism, right? because we'll beat hillary. if we beat her, what difference does

long as you want to ask them. the decision to go to war in iraq and to remove saddam hussein from power, in a coalition where over 40 countries lead by the united states lead by america was the hardest, most momentous, most agonizing decision i took in my ten years as british prime minister. for that decision today, i accept full responsibility. without exception and without excuse. i recognize the division felt by many in our country over the war. and in particular i feel deeply and sincerely in a way that no words can properly convey. the grief and suffering of those that lost ones they loved in iraq and the nations or iraqis and the assessments made at the time of war turned out to be wrong. the aftermath turned out to be more hostile, and bloodied than ever we imagined. the coalition plan for one set of grand facts and accounted another and a nation whose people we want to set free and secure from the evil of saddam became instead victim to terrorism. for all of this, i express more sorrow, regret and apology that you may ever know or could believe. only two things, i cannot say, it's claimed by some that by

year-long investigation was made with flawed intelligence and assessment on weapons of mass destruction and former prime minister tony blair blindly followed george bush into the conflict to remove saddam hussein from power, no weapons were ever found in iraq, today blair called the decision to invade the most agonizing decision he ever made in office. >> for that decision today i accept full responsibility, without exception and without excuse. >> there were protests in london and more than 100,000 iraqis were killed and almost 4500 us personnel. >>> president. obama announced a shift in policy as the president will leave 8400 us troops in the country until at least next year. this is a significant increase. >> reporter kevin clark reports and say this is the right decision. win president. obama -- president. obama -- >>reporter: president. obama came in with a plan for afghanistan and he announced the 8400 troops will remain until at least next year, a significant increase from the end -- amount he announced last summer. this is based on advice from a resurgent taliban threat. >> i will not allow afghanistan to be used as a safe haven to attack our nation. i constantly review our strategy wi

long time and that was most dangerous and isis. historical with the issue is very important as a result during the saddam hussein's government and will continue after 2003 by the government's place in order to realize the region for other minorities. not christians if you go to christian cities and villages to see how the government did their best pushing them out of the city's so we know what happened in 2009 and just for one time we had the problem every day and we have the same problems that is why the people left iraq. >> it was so common in the conversations if we're leading to the deep distrust by many of the minority communities and also when isis was attacking given the fact there are minority communities and given the fact that many christians from mosul and those referred to their arab brothers to feel a deep distrust towards who are their neighbors also the political actors that were to be entrusted to protect them. how do you tackle that to create an environment with reconciliation but political guarantees of protection? what is the role of religious leaders in the process? >> we tested upon a very important aspect which

long as you want to ask them. the decision to go to a war in iraq and to remove saddam hussein in power in the coalition were over 40 countries led by the united taste of america was the hardest, most momentous, most agonizing decision i took in my 10 years as british prime minister. for that decision today, i accept full responsibility. but that exception and without excuse, i recognized the division felt by many in our country over the war and in particular i feel deeply and sincerely in a way that no words can properly convey the grief and suffering of those who lost ones they loved in iraq all the members of our armed forces committee versus another nation or iraqis. the intelligence assessment turned out to be wrong. the aftermath turned out to be more hostile, protect it and bloody than ever we imagine. the coalition planned for one grand attack encountered another in the nation whose people we wanted to set free and secure from the evil of saddam became instead victim to sit. for all of this, i expressed morris laro, regret and apology than you may ever know or can believe. only two things i cannot say. it

long as you want to ask them. the decision to go to war in iraq, and remove saddam hussein bym power, and the coalition over 40 countries by the united states of america, was momentous andst agonizing decision i took in my 10 years as british prime minister. acceptcision, today, i full responsibility. without exception, and without excuse, i recognize the decisions by many of our country over the war, and in particular, i feel deeply and sincerely, in can properly words convey, the grief and suffering of those who lost ones they loved in iraq. of our members armed forces, other armed forces, or iraqis. the intelligence assessment made turned out to be wrong. the aftermath turned out to be more hostile, and bloody than ever with you mentioned. -- we imagined. we encountered another, a nation whose people we wanted to set free and secure from the evil of saddam. it became, instead, victims to sectarian terrorism. express moreis, i sorrow, regret, and apology than you may ever know, or can believe. cannot say.ngs i byis claimed by some that removing saddam because the terrorism today. i profoundly disagree. addam was, hims

saddam hussein. -- the presss is is the son says how. and they said it very strongly. he should have spoken about hillary clinton longer. it point by point by point. after a long time, i don't know, many minutes. people andsands of this really stupid guy, chuck use his name. i won't call him sleepy eyes anymore. he said he had an opportunity to hit hillary clinton. did you see what i did to her last night? am i correct? it got to a point, i was hitting her so hard, and the problem is on a professional and i am hitting her so hard. i know it doesn't mean anything because the system is rigged and broken. i am doing it because i feel i have to do it. -- and i wanted to get on to the military. i am going to experience things -- lots of predictions. i wanted to get onto terror. one of the reasons the women like me a lot lately is because -- thank you. thank you. feel i am going to keep our country safe. i will keep our country safe. ivanka. love a vodk will be speaking at the convention. by the way, i get hit this morning, he had the opportunity to go after -- i'll tell you how bad my speech was last night. cnn covered it from point to point without a commercial. c

saddam hussein is a bad man, you heard this, right? right? you heard this. he's a bad man. they wanted me to talk less, i spoke for 106 minutes. a longout notes, without papers or anything standing up for four or five networks. so i said last night, i'm not reading and no teleprompters. i do like teleprompters. it's a lot easier. let somebody come up and do what i do, right? i would have about 12 people instead of 7,000 people. but i said, very simple, i said saddam hussein is a bad man. bad guy. and i said this three or four times. really bad. i said, but one thing he's good at, they wanted me to talk about hillary for like hours. just crooked hillary, that's all you have to know. she's crooked as hell. it's unbelievable. but listen, listen, listen, after a while we want to talk about terrorism, right? because we'll beat hillary. if we beat hillary, what difference does she make, as she says. what difference does it make? makes a big difference. what difference does it make? remember the famous statement, green dress. okay. so green dress, yeah. green dress. she said green pants suit. so look, listen, last night i said -- and it was

long as you want to ask them. the decision to go to war in iraq and to remove saddam hussein from power, in a coalition where over 40 countries lead by the united states lead by america was the hardest, most momentous, most agonizing decision i took in my ten years as british prime minister. for that decision today, i accept full responsibility. without exception and without excuse. i recognize the division felt by many in our country over the war. and in particular i feel deeply and sincerely in a way that no words can properly convey. the grief and suffering of those that lost ones they loved in iraq and the nations or iraqis and the assessments made at the time of war turned out to be wrong. the aftermath turned out to be more hostile, and bloodied than ever we imagined. the coalition plan for one set of grand facts and accounted another and a nation whose people we want to set free and secure from the evil of saddam became instead victim to terrorism. for all of this, i express more sorrow, regret and apology that you may ever know or could believe. only two things, i cannot say, it's claimed by some that by

saddam hussein is a bad man. you heard this. right? you heard this. he is a bad man. now, they wanted me to talk less. i spoke for 106 minutes. a longe without notes, without papers, without anything, standing up in front of four or five networks that are going. so i'm not reading. teleprompters, a lot easier. let somebody come up and do what i do. of course, i would have about 12 people instead of 7,000 people. but i said, very simple. i said, saddam hussein is a bad man. bad guy. i said it they have or four times. really bad. because i know what they're going to do. but one thing he's good at. they said this last night. they wanted me to talk about hillary for hours. i did the whole thing. she's crooked hillary. she's crooked as hell. it's unbelievable. so after a while we want to talk with terrorism. right? >> what difference does it make? >> it makes a big difference. what difference does it make? remember the famous statement, the green dress. green dress? yeah. green dress. no. she said green pant suit. so last night i said. it was an unbelievable crowd in north carolina. standing ohations all over the place. but i said bad gu

long as you want to ask them. the decision to go to war in iraq and to remove saddam hussein from power in the coalition of 40 countries led by the united states of america, was the hardest, most momentous, most agonizing decision i took in my ten years as british prime minister. for that decision today, i accept full responsibility. without exception and without excuse. >> i recognize the division felt by many in our country over the war. and in particular, i feel deeply and sincerely in way that no word can properly convey, the grief and suffering of those who lost ones they loved in iraq. whether members of our armed forces, the armed forces of other nations, or iraqis. the intelligence assessments made at the time of going to war turned out to be wrong. the aftermath turned out to be more hostile, poe tracted and bloody than ever we imagined. >> the coalition plan for one set of ground facts and encountered another. and the nation whose people we wanted to set free and secure from the evil of saddam became instead, victim to sectarian terrorism. for all of this, i express more sorrow, regret, and apology than you m

saddam hussein is a bad man. you heard this. right, you heard this? he's a bad man. they wanted me to talk less. i spoke for 106 minutes. long time.hout notes, without paper, without anything standing up in front of four or five networks. i said last night, i'm not reading and no teleprompters. i do like them. it's a lot easier. let somebody come up and do what i do, right. i'd have about 12 people instead of 7,000 people. i said, very simple, i said saddam hussein is a bad man, bad guy. i said it three or four times. really bad. i know what they're going to do. i said but one thing he's good at, they said this last night. they wanted me to talk about hillary for 106 or for like hours. i said, i went 15 minutes. i wroel the whole thing. she's crooked hillary. that's all you have to know. listen. after a while we want to talk about terrorism. we'll beat hillary. if we beat hillary, what difference would it make. what difference does it make? it makes a big difference. remember the famous statement green dress. green dress. yeah. green dress. she said green pants suit. so, look. last night i said, it was an unbelievable crowd in nor

long time. had the advantage, the foreign secretary, as we got closer, and the prime minister, mister blair, stressed the revolution caused saddam hussein to comply with un sectors to comply, there would be no military action and point out, this terrible man, war crimes on a mass scale, we would have to accept. >> the house is grateful to the right honorable lady for giving that insight from the front line where this debate started but one of the things that comes out clearly from a reading of the report is misalignment of the position the uk government and the position of the us government which, regime change as an objective, was legally entitled to do under its own regime. >> on the issue of operational planning, the initial invasion, iraqi forces proceeded rapidly, the uk armed forces performed extremely well. a fact of which we should be proud despite the changes in the invasion plan as a result of the government decision to review access to iraq borders through turkish territory. iraq's military, less formidable than many of us imagined. the task that should have been, preparing for the aftermath. in 2003 they do not engage in mil

long as you want to ask them. the decision to go to war in iraq and to remove saddam hussein from power in the coalition of 40 countries led by the united states of america, was the hardest, most moment is, most agonizing decision i took as british british prime minister. that decision today i accept full responsibility. without the exception, and without excuse. i recognize that the decision held by many in our country over the war and in particular i feel deeply and sincerely, in a way that no words can properly convey. the grief and suffering of those lost once they loved in iraq. the memories of of our armed forces, the forces of other nations and the iraqis. the intelligence assessment made at the time of going to war turned out to be wrong. the aftermath turned out to be more bloodied than ever we imagined. the coalition plan for one set of ground facts and encountered another, and a nation whose people we wanted to set free and secure from the evil of saddam. it came instead victim of secondary terrorism. for all of this, i expect more sort of regret an apology then you may ever know or could believe. only two t

saddam hussein was removed. sunnis represent a minority within a rack. -- within your rack. iraq.hin having help our for so longthg been removed from it no structure in place, it's not surprising there was a kind of insurgency. the short answer is that we in iraq contributed health to produce the vacuum there. one of the things we have seen in the middle east is that whenever there is a vacuum, the worst possible forces fill it. in a rack we other ones replacing the regime -- in iraq we are the ones replacing the regime. we didn't do enough to fulfill it. the broad consensus was the mistake in retrospect to disband the iraqi military. you needed to play a role in terms of providing security and preventing a vacuum. in syria by being so hesitant to be involved, we probably contributed to the vacuum. if there is a lesson here, the lesson is that we need, working with others, to ensure a vacuum is not created in the part of the world. it's not that nature abhors a vacuum. it's that in the middle east in particular we see the worst forces fill them. texas, republican line. good morning. ask -- i was going to isis,

reconstitute long-range delivery systems, and those systems potentially were for use with weapons of mass destruction." it's not a simple matter of containment was working. there were breaches. saddam hussein was not trying to take things forward in terms of weapons development, as we discovered once invasion had taken place. the second point on this is the argument that we could have held off. accept thei have to verdict of chilcot, that it was not impossible, but again, appointed to which no one know touches was the circumstances in which by then everyone found themselves. very, veryps in difficult, on pleasant, and incredibly dangerous circumstances. troops who were expecting hourly, daily potential attacks by chemical and biological weapons, which everyone believed he possessed. if it is a simple matter of saying there is no need, if you were going to take action, you have to start military preparations, and by that point they had advanced to such an extent -- of course, ultimately, you could argue, and no doubt people will, that those troops could have been withdrawn, the what kind of signal with that have sent to saddam hussein or the rest of the world? it seems to me that it would h

saddam hussein is a bad man. you heard this. right? right? you heard this. he's a bad man. now, they wanted me to talk less and i spoke for 106 minutes. a long time. long time without notes, without papers, without anything standing up in front of four or five networks that are going. so i said last night, i'm not reading. no teleprompters. i do like them actually. it's a lot easier. teleprompt teres. let somebody cox up and do what i do, right. >> of course, i'd have about 12 people instead of 7,000 people. but i said very simple, i said, saddam hussein is a bad man. bad guy. and i said it three or four times. really bad. because i know what they're going to do. i said but one thing he's good at, said this last night. they wanted me to talk about hillary for 106, like for hours. i said, you know, i went 15 minutes. i went a lot of time. i wrote a lot thing. she's crooked hillary. she's crooked as hell. that's all you have to know. no. it's unbelievable. so but listen, listen, listen, so after awhile, we want to talk about terrorism, right? because we'll beat hillary. if we beat her, what difference does it make as she would say? what difference d

long time ago and they don't want to see clinton become the president. option to the people have? -- do the people have? do you want to donald trump who just said saddam hussein was a good person? what about an option for you? one of the callers said there should be an effort to get bernie sanders to be the nominee or to write in bernie sanders in the general election. caller: that is not an option right now. the democrats have somebody and the republicans have one. that hillary clinton is more qualified than anybody else. my father told me one thing a long time ago -- do not judge anyone when you are angry. republicans are angry about hillary clinton the matter what she does, they will always hate her. columnoe lawrence has a in usa today. she writes -- the speculation continues about vp picks on both sides of the aisle. sheila in connecticut. independent. good morning. caller: hello, john. i'm ecstatic because this came out. "it ain'tthe saying over until it's over." now, bernie has his ace in the hole. bernie should insist that we the do exactly what hillary told the wall street crowd. supporters stuck on stupid? .illary is definitely a hawk if she were to

long and varied. now, he did say zam was bad, and that he doesn't like him, but he had some good qualities, donald trump says, when it comes to his accumin in killing terrorists. watch this. >> saddam hussein know what he did well? he killed terrorists. he did that so good, they didn't read him their rights, they didn't talk, they were terrorists, it was over. >> donald trump repeated again tonight that saddam hussein was bad, but he was good at killing terrorists. this is not the first or second time trump has expressed admiration for some of the behavior of some dictators. >> reporter: they are some of the most powerful and dangerous dictators around the world. and donald trump seems to be impressed. sure, he called north korean leader kim jong-un a maniac, but also called the killing of his political arrivals amazing. >> he goes in, he takes over, he's the boss. it's incredible. he wiped out the uncle, this one, that one. this guy doesn't play games. >> kim's uncle was accused of turning on the government, he disappeared suddenly and was later executed. still, trump has said he'd have no problem speaking with kim jong-un. then there's vladimir putin, he and donald trump have enjoyed a b