you have mentioned maliki. exit possible -- is it possible the actions or cooperations of iraqi actors were as important if not more important than the actions of the u.s. government in the process of the surge and its initial successes. thank you. i will address it briefly. brett and doug can talk at greater length. because it is their country, what iraqis did with the most important factor. i agree with doug that we should be humble about what we can do. and werewere there, able to play a particular kind of balancing role, the ethnic communities, i think we could be disproportionately influential in how it came out. is reallygency critical if you are involved in these things. we had to act like terribly against the elements that were committed to the total failure of the entire enterprise. if you have 100 car bombs a month going off in baghdad, there is not going to be much real politics going on. this gets to what we did against al qaeda and iraq. this is president bush again. before the surge, he told malik

some iraqis wanted to get rid of maliki. and we wrote a memo. it is time for maliki to go, as if we could make that happen. doug is absolutely right. we tend to forget about the agency of other countries. the president asked us some hard questions. he asked us the hardest one, who is going to come after maliki? well, the iraqis have not really figured that out. and the president completely shutdown that entire conversation, not just with us, but was some of the iraqis who were maneuvering against maliki. that was the right call. had we lost maliki would have had six months without a government at a critical time. we had some issues with a commander and dave petraeus were tense, which the president helped manage. and the battle of bassar at where maliki went in without planning it, gets himself in trouble. for some reason, doug, you might have been overseas, so i was kind of manning the fort in the white house. ryan, crocker, and dave for -- and dave petraeus told me you have to tell the president that maliki, he bit off more than he can chew, yo

who is maliki and what can we do to change the trajectory of the way he governs? the success of the surge hinged on the president, and steve, and others getting that right, and i think they did get it right. no question maliki, under the surge, governed iraq in a way more effectively in a way that better the u.s. so steve got the analysis right, but it was an intelligence question. at the end of the day, intelligence cannot give us guaranty it would be one of the other. you had to bet. it was not a wild gamble, but it was at that based on the best evidence steve had been able to gather. >> this will be our second to last question. >> i work for the bush administration of the last seven years and i was at the pentagon during the surge during communication the surge doing communications and was detailed to the white house at one point and we were asked by the media for a lot of information we cannot give them. anyway. i'm wondering, looking back at all of the papers, what role did what the media said play? how did that affect the decision-making and moving forward?

no question maliki, under the in a wayverned iraq more effectively. steve got the analysis right but it was an intelligence question. at the end of the day, intelligence cannot give us guaranty it would be one of the other. you had to bet. it was not a wild gamble, but it was at that based on the best evidence we could gather. tim: this will be our second to last question. >> i work for the bush administration of the last seven years and i was at the pentagon during the search during communication -- the surge doing communications and was detailed to the white house at one point and we were outside the media has information we cannot give them. anyway. i'm wondering, looking back at role dide papers, what what the media said play? how did it affect the decision-making and moving forward? this has been: said about president bush throughout the interviews and is fairly well known that the press, obviously we were all aware of the environment we were living in. our families were reading the press. but i think it was remarkable in was notpresident bush dr

who is maliki and what can we do to change the trajectory of the way he governs? the success of the surge hinged on the president, steve, and others getting that right, and i think they did. there is no question that maliki, under the surge, governed iraq more effectively in a way that better suited what the u.s. needed. steve got the analysis right but it was an intelligence question. and at the end of the day, as meghan said, intelligence cannot -- could not give us a guarantee, that it would be one or the other. you had to take a bet. it was not a wild gamble, but it was a bet based on the best evidence that steve could gather. tim: this will be our second to last question. >> hi, i'm julie branson. i worked for the bush administration for the last seven years and i was at the pentagon during the surge doing communications and was detailed to the white house at one point and we were asked by the media for information we could not give them. i am just wondering, looking -- sensitive, or classified, and they wrote stories anyway and came up with their own thought

venezuela is just one piece in a global game of poker the losers in this game of people like maliki hata and tonight as. well if things didn't feel beautiful to me if i had the chance. that i take my children and leave morning just like that's me to go out and they have at the moment if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive . on little rock n roll and thank you so much for spending part of your day to. kick

venezuela is just one piece in a global game of poker the losers in this game of people like maliki hata and tonight as. well if things feel beautiful to me if i had the chance i take my children and leave me just like that me too and. if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive. thank you. for months street protests of rock tom calm and the brutal police response has received heavy criticism the hong kong police officer told b w the criticism is largely justified. when david chan joint to hong kong police force a few years ago he never thought that he would see scenes like these david chan is not his real name base was last november when protesters and police clashed for hours on the university campus. police had come massive attack. and david says it's not only the physical threats that affect morale. they've been working long hours they've been blamed fingers pointed at them it's very exhausting both physically and mentally. this is what he's talking about on calmness criticising and often could sing at the police many officers are on edge they've been accu

iraq's top shiite politicians, close alli of tehran, pay their respects, including nouri al-maliki, once america's choice for prime minister. the older men jumped of revenge. -- dreamt of revenge. there is a l of quite anger and a strong desire to get even, to get revenge. the question is what these iraqis and the leaders of iran do next, and two countries' names are mentioned most, and the flags are down the street, united states and israel. at the mosque, the desire for revenge was everywhere, in cases,-- faces, chants, and conversation. this evening inran, qassem imsoani's coffin was paraded again. among the guardians of his memory, the most powerful men in iran and iraq. rth anger and that of their supporters will not dissipate easily. jeremy bowen, bbcs, ngut. --baghdad. jane: t white house insists soleimani was assassinated to prevent an imminenac aon u.s. interests. on sunday, secretary of state mike pompeo, who has been pushing for a tougher stance on ariran, ap on all five political shows to make the case that this was a risk worth taking. sec. pompeo: we would have been culpabl

at the request of the former prime minister nuri al maliki at a time when i still was at the foot steps of the capital baghdad and there was a request made by the prime minister is that that time to the americans for them to help the iraqi forces to fight i felt and he himself has said that that called went unanswered by the u.s. forces in iraq at the time that is when and so the money really showed up very quickly very fast with a lot of firepower and that is when they started fighting eisel in northern iraq and prevented them from reaching baghdad that is when i asked him some money really became this huge figure this iconic military figure within the. military circles in iraq and iran as well there are videos that circulate of him at his at that time in the battlefields in iraq in northern iraq and since then his relationship has only strengthened these said he had set himself in the past that the iranian outlook force had supplied military training and of weapons to various shia militias within iraq that are not part of the government as of 2018 so his relationship in iraq was not a

venezuela is just one piece in a global game of poker the losers in this game of people like maliki hata and tonight as. well if things didn't feel beautiful to me if i had the chance. that i take my children and leave morning just like that's me to go out and they have at the moment if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive . on little rock n roll and thank you so much for spending part of your day to. kick off. the midterm review hard to. this time the record holders and their self-proclaimed challengers the fire munitions endorsement. of the team has lived up to their expectations what are they doing wrong what's left for these 2 giants of the industry got the 1st kickoff 60 minutes. like right. gentlemen with. any time playing. the kind of. songs to sing along. to be able to. take the exercises. on facebook in the store. carefully. to suit your needs to be. discovered. subscribe to the documentary to. the for. this is. coming up and. that's the choice some think they could be making thanks to a new set of. those facing this real crisis. are general in th

venezuela is just one piece in a global game of poker the losers in this game of people like maliki hata and tonight was. well if things didn't feel beautiful to me if i had the chance. i take my children and leave me just like i don't need to and. if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive. i took a young count of the venezuelan filmmaker who coauthored the documentary and travels between pakistan and germany is welcome to the studio took a what if what if you've been seeing him when you on your travels in venezuela well . it's a humanitarian crisis. for the last i would say since 2014 scarcity of food as medicine. i think only in the year 2018 and average of. 7000000 venezuelans lost. 11 kilos an average of 11 kilos and i mean there's. it's the ravages are like a country that's been at war but it's not a war that's the thing and when you talk to people the people who stayed wrong the millions who fled what sort of stories do they tell you why they stay. i mean some people stay because they have nowhere to go or they don't know where to go also the people th

including nouri al—maliki, once america's choice of prime minister. dreamt of revenge. there's a lot of quiet anger here and a strong desire to get even, to get revenge. the question is what these iraqis and also, of course, the leaders of iran, do next. two countries' names are mentioned most here and there flags are down there on the street — the united states and israel. the desire for revenge was everywhere, in faces, chants and conversation. backin back in iran, qasem soleimani's coffin was paraded again. among the guardians of his memory, the most powerful men in iraq and iran. their angen powerful men in iraq and iran. their anger, and that of their supporters will not dissipate easily. and we can talk to jeremy in baghdad now. given what you were saying a little earlier, jeremy, what is your sense of america's interventions in iraq and the region in the weeks and months ahead? well, in terms of this suppose it possible troop withdrawal, the iraqi parliament has said they have to get out, president trump has said they are not going to go becaus

iraq's top shia politicians, close allies of iran, paid their respects, including nouri al—maliki, onceprime minister. the older men sat and dreamt of revenge. there's a lot of quiet anger here and a strong desire to get even, to get revenge. there's a lot of quiet anger here and a strong desire to get even, to get revenge. the question is what these iraqis and also, of course, the leaders of iran, do next, and two countries‘ names are mentioned most here and their flags are down there on the street — the united states and israel. at the mosque, the desire for revenge was everywhere, in faces, chants and conversation. this evening, back in iran, in the holy city of qom, the qasem soleimani's coffin was paraded again. amongst the guardians of his memory are the most powerful men in iran and iraq. their anger, and that of their supporters, will not dissipate easily. jeremy bowen, bbc news, baghdad. australia's embattled prime minister, scott morrison, has promised us$i.4 billion in aid to help his country recover from the continuing bushfire crisis. over 100 fires are burning in new south

venezuela is just one piece in a global game of poker the losers in this game of people like maliki hata and tonight as. well that if things didn't feel beautiful to me if i had the chance. i take my children and leave i mean just like that need to go out. if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive. all right let's do a deep dive now with my venezuelan colleague and journalist right here at g.w. suspended service johan ramirez in your hand good to see you and it is just so heartbreaking we're just saying watching these people and the people of venezuela suffering so much and having to leave their country in the millions can you just talk to us about you see any like light at the end of the tunnel the situation may be improving it doesn't look like suddenly i mean when you go through that in america you see these millions of people in the streets begging money young people that you you cannot imagine they could back money in venice what i mean they don't much of them go without papers without studies i mean young people and that's the tragedy we see abroad but

venezuela is just one piece in a global game of poker the losers in this game of people like maliki hata and tonight as. well if things didn't feel beautiful to me if i had the chance. i take my children and leave i mean just like that need to go out with a family if they could millions more people would flee venezuela just to survive. one day when he denied the big table by 2 key young who he is even his wailing filmmaker he directed the documentary that we're talking about tonight and he's not in venezuela he's here in berlin to see if he's going to have you on this show you share the stories of a lot of suffering in venezuela right now. the people that you talk to do they say they are aware of why they're suffering do they talk to you about who's responsible for the. some people do a lot of people are not even aware of what all the reasons are but the main reason most people will tell you and they're right is they say there's too much corruption and even very. simple people who maybe don't have access to much information they will give you that reason do you do they blame the you know

military guy but the most important rule was basically in the context of for inter when you're in maliki invited him and ask him to help to fight hard at that point he was a sponsor of forming what so called the has to shabby and the popular forces and he was in charge of pushing to. there are thousands of people and actually creating another another arm of the military arm to. a military institution within the iraqi system and that is military institution actually weaken the government for years that is the same rule he played in iraq he did in syria as well so basically he was in charge of having those kind of federal institutions a parallel military institution within iraq and within syria and that was basically caused a lot of trouble to the americans and particularly let's talk about the u.s. for just a 2nd i mean to speculate what might go on inside the head of the president on this is probably a false errand but nonetheless we see that tweet simply of the american flag is this kind of action straight out of the populist folk you know we've got an election next year hit them hard w

instead maliki got rid of his political opponents and directly led to the rice of isis. that's the truth. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. >>> speaker nancy pelosi accusing mitch mcconnell of a cover-up. will the american public see it the same way? we'll discuss. lysol kills over 100 illness causing germs and viruses. even those that may cause runny noses. lysol, what it takes to protect. little things can be a big deal. psoriasis, that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with... ...an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines and if you're pregnant or

he would go and meet with prime minister nouri al maliki and they would know their lines should be. they do without promptin knew wt he would talk about. it wasn't a state and when crocker left afghanistan and iraq in 2009, immediately they began having disagreements with general ray odierno who was in charge of the military. it just wasn't a natural state. >> one more and then we will start taking questions from you all. all. there's a microphone over here to the right. just please queue up and then we will let you have that. actually, two questions. in the writing of the book, did you learn or stumble across more junior or mid-level officers that you think somebody might be writing a book about in the years to come in terms of their performance and then what would you say to people that are considering the career and who might be a little intimidated and put off? >> i did come across some who rose quickly through the ranks and had incredible talent. when chris stevens was in israel in about 2000 to 2002, he worked for some really talented guys that worked for him. stevens was then

out and we saw sunni resurge ensy and isis take off and we saw rather incompetent government with maliki but the biggest out of all of this may be iraq and the protests themselves. >> we are out of time now. i would like to thank the panelists and thank you. and i would like to say a transcript of this conference will be published in our journal, the spring issue of our journal. it will be posted on the website within a day or two. and visit our website if you want to revisit this conference. thank you very much. >>> they're asking you to tear up the ballots and take that away from the american people and i don't think they spent 24 hours talking to you about the consequences of that for our country. >> more of the opening arguments from our president's legal team when the impeachment trial continues in the senate. watch live coverage today at 1:00 p.m. on c-span2, on demand at c-span3.org/impeachment and listen on the free c-span3 radio app. >>> victory is not winning for our party. victory is winning for our country. >> president trump delivers his state of the union address from the h

is persons really grew up during the height of i saw in iraq at the request of then prime minister maliki and a. number of interviews that was shown around that time by the prime minister where he said he asked for help from the americans to fight because they were very close to reaching baghdad and the americans did not respond to this call and that's when the iranians respond that he said that money was in fact that within 2 hours with has forced us to make sure that not reach the gate back that these are the kinds of images that we've heard seen that we've heard about this figure of also he there was numbers been a number of attempted attacks on his life not only in other countries but also weaken iran just over the summer there was a report from the intelligence ministry here that they caught a network of people who actually purchased property next to the mosque in his hometown where he attended services whenever he's in the country that was a property that was purchased and people there had built a tunnel leading into this mosque and then explosives laid out underneath the surface of

they would go in and meet with the prime minister, nouri al-maliki, and they would each know what their lines should be. certain things were political that crocker would talk about. if it veered into the military, petraeus knew without prompting he would talk it out. later crocker went to afghanistan,ing and he worked the same with john allen. they harmonized closely, agreed on everything, but it was not a natural state. and when crocker left afghanistan -- left iraq in 2009, his successor, chris hill, immediately began having disagreements with general ray odierno who was in charge of the military then. so it requires constant attention.il it's just not a natural state. >> i've just got one more and then we'll start taking questions from y'all. there's a microphone over here ioto your right. just please queue on up when ryou're ready, and we'll let yu have at paul. but, actually, it's two questions. one, in the writing of the book, didng you learn or stumble acros more junior or mid-level foreign service officers that you think somebody might be writing a book about in years to come in

mowaffak al—rubaie, former iraqi national security advisor in the government of prime minister nouri al—malikieling in the middle east. there is a sky—high anti—american sentiment in my country now. where i sit in baghdad i can see it, i can smell war. this is all caused by the uncalled for escalation of violence in the middle east. by the reckless decision by mr trump. this impulsive, kneejerk decision by mr trump. this impulsive, knee jerk reaction. decision by mr trump. this impulsive, kneejerk reaction. this quy impulsive, kneejerk reaction. this guy who is sitting in the white house, he thinks this is a trade game or a trade war like with china. in fairness to him what he said was... he is playing with five. he said the us was provoked by the kind of attacks seen on american bases and other action by iran over the yea rs and other action by iran over the years under the control by qasem soleimani. and he responded by killing a top military leader in my country in iraq and a general who is visiting another country from iran. is this the way the civilised world deals with this incident? i t

when we then prior actually prime minister nouri al maliki requests that they help of their own to actual and us until the money answered the call very quickly since then the relationship has little to choose between the 2 sides there been much much closer and i wouldn't 'd just last week or month and his name is synonymous with anything else to hear him back that. and there is a sense that his presence was. welcomed and. despised you know there are both sides to got present in iraq it depends depends on who you ask really but. the equation and the sea in baghdad is an important point to mention because that is where he would normally stay you know for his own security he would not to be traveling freely around the city. and the embassy in baghdad is one of the only the only a number to see in the walls and that is. # the ambassador 0 from the revolutionary guard bringing a basket or in iraq and not from the foreign ministry this is a very suspicious dissipate exemption because of the security situation in iraq even you decided that this particular embassy has to be staffed by a revolutio

al maliki would become president.unni presence in the government. vice president looked at him and said we are leaving anyway. that's general mattis' account what happened. is that the guy you want as president? steve: it is 7:13 now in new york city. time for some news. and jillian has got that. jillian: some news we are following out of iran. get right to a fox news alert. the ukraine government changes its statement about the deadly plane that killed 176 people when it crashed. hours after iran launched missiles into iraq. new video shows fiery debris moments after the ukrainian international airlines plane went down in tehran. ukraine's embassy originally blamed engine failure and not terrorism; however, the country's new statement does not mention a cause. iranian officials say they will not hand over the plane's black box to boeing. the estranged husband of a missing connecticut mom is charged with murder. dulos and girlfriend michelle and former lawyer will be arraigned on new charges today. jennifer dulos went

aside we will let al maliki stay. al maliki cuts a deal with iran and kicks us out of the country.agazine. book released in 2019. these aren't political hacks. >> if you can't be honest and candid about the advice you gave president obama to go after usama bin laden, i mean, case closed as far as i'm concerned. i just -- i don't trust him and i think there is a reason why he has always failed whenever he has run for president in the past. steve: you know how mainstream media works. not getting a lot of critical attention on the other side. >> donald trump is stronger politically than he has ever been right now. he just is making all the right moves. the economy is singing. i just -- i don't care hot democrats put up, as long as donald trump plays his a game he is going to win. brian: bloomberg says is he going to run on the bad trump economy. [laughter] steve: good luck. >> i don't know where he is looking. brian: i'm just telling you. ainsley: billionaire one of the most richest men in our country. steve: we will be looking at outnumbered today at noon he will be in the center squ

foreign sunni byake out a bad the name of saddam hussein and put in a bad shia by the name of nouri al-maliki, the u.s. gave him his first term and iran gave him a second term. and after losing 4005 hundred american soldiers and spending almost $2 trillion in iraq, it is owned today by iran. that is bad on its face. but in terms of the money that was diverted, that could have otherwise been spent in the growth of the american economy, we have lost considerably. i think that when you look at deficit spending, a war obviously is not a good investment, nor are tax cuts, because tax cuts don't pay for themselves. best case scenario, you get about 32 cents back for each dollar you give away in a tax cut. if you invest in education, you grow your economy, like china has done. if you invest in infrastructure, you grow your economy, like china has done. and if you invest in scientific research, you don't get beat by china when it comes to new technology like 5g, next generation. we are getting clobbered right now, and i would argue it's because we failed to invest in the right things, toward the grow

host: in arlington, maliki, go ahead.r: it is almost laughable that people on the right will be calling soleimani iteris. they have mentioned names like colin kaepernick and black lives leaders ofesta hatred. also, this president for the last three years has gone on a diatribe on how the intelligence agency cannot be trusted and how they were part of a deep state coup and how they are not to be leave. now, the same people are supposed to give credible toormation about a threat justify his assassination of soli money. soleimani. believe that his i don't believe this administration or anything coming out of donald trump's mouth. i will take your remarks. is clear, he's right. "washington post," they have already assessed that this president has lied over 15,000 times. those are facts. don't get confused by the facts, i guess. those are the facts. the facts are that this president, when he talked about charlottesville, he said there were good people on both sides. those are facts. this president said that barack obama wasn't

question was there was any second attack by usama bin laden or al maliki is irrelevant. notion stlaw to have the date, time and place of a terror attack on a list in order to kale terrorist is silly town. but this is the tact that the democrats are choosing to pursue which is that trump didn't actually have an excuse to kill soleimani despite the fact that soleimani again was in iraq, not iran. he was in iraq the day after a burning of u.s. embassy in baghdad but apparently, according to the democrats that's not strong enough. brian: by the way the attorney general weighed in and our attorney general said the president, the administration checked with them. they had every legal right to take him out for past transgressions. steve: meanwhile, let's talk about, this 9:00 this morning. nancy pelosi is going to be talking with her caucus about how to proceed on impeachment. the media research center looked at the network coverage of the first 100 days of impeachment. and 93% of it was negative. that's not surprising. buff,ing what do they talk about the most? take a look at

worked at a as a research scientist and engineer and ibm in emeryville and had ahd anatomic and maliki'suse reay impressive guy th is a war things kind of thingslike have been happening in oakland and berkeley t demick of senseless stupid. a >>police say 22 year-old byron reed was the drer he's been charged with murder with special circumstances, 21 year-old javan eugene lee is charged with involuntary manslaughter. both are also charged with second degree robbery. a neighbor says the james mily is expected to arrive in the bay area today frochina. in the north bay health officials are worried after discovering that joe rideau to trail is infested witrats. they believe it's connectedto a homeless encampment there. this video from the sonoma county sheriffs office shows the rodents roaming through the area. the 8 and a half mile paved off trail links downtown santa rosa. and sebastopol the health department says it plans to use traps and bait to stop the increase in the rat population, stressing that poisons will be used. >>but the interim put up toils 2 of them are 88 compliant. we had r

i get if maliki was the leader, where was the white house vetting it and saying hang on a second, thisst. >> can you imagine if a terrorist was allowed in the white house now, what would be going on at the white house. >> forget about it. >> thank you for bringing that to us. >> turning to other headlines, i.c.e. capturing an illegal immigrant who was released from police custody despite admitting to a fatal hit and run on christmas eve. police say he admitted to leaving the scene in new york state because he didn't have a license. he was released under the state's new bail reform laws. he is now awaiting deportation. >>> agunman arrested after holding a woman hostage for six hours. police say the man entered an illinois credit union and demanded everyone leave the building. the female employee was unable to get out. the man eventually surrendered. no one seriously hurt. it's unclear exactly what charges that gunman will face. >>> and the ohio bobcats celebrated the potato bowl win by dousing their head coach with french fries instead of gatorade. the coach seemed enjoy the foreigfrenc