rumsfeld. three major headliners, only on "this week." u.s. and allied bombs and missiles hammer libyan targets. the rebels gain ground. and the president prepares to make his pitch to the american people. >> it's u.s. policy that gadhafi needs to go. >> what if gadhafi stays? just back from the middle east, defense secretary robert gates and secretary of state hillary clinton come to "this week" for the first interviews since the attacks began to make the president's case. what does victory look like? can it be achieved? and at what cost? >>> then -- >> i don't have any regrets at all. >> what would donald rumsfeld do in a third war. and he'll respond to critics who say he's been rewriting history. >>> and george will and the "roundtable" will debate the libyan mission, the president's message. and why one hopeful is having a tough time agreeing with himself. >> announcer: live from the newseum. "this week" with christiane amanpour starts now. >> good morning, i'm jake tapper. christiane is off today. >>> some major developments in libya. reb

mr you know president bush and vice president cheney in particular and secretary rumsfeld have to be called an accounting. they should be made to stand trial and if they can't be not if not in this country which don't seem you know we're capable of a politically right now they should have to answer to a world tribunals under international law absolutely because otherwise who are we as a nation how can we say a million iraqi lives don't mean anything when we know that lies were told to drag us into war we how do we how do we get that stain off of our our our national conscience so i think that america can move beyond this we can create a new nation but we have to reclaim our honor by causing those who led us into a war based on lies to be held accountable. so it was you know that we have to wrap it up congressman dennis kucinich thanks so much for being as i'm sure still ahead here on the big picture are you ready to rumble break down the top stories of the week. the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions it's time to break through it through the people who c

former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld. author of the recent memoir, "known and unknown." the president does not abdicate regime change. he went so far as taking a shot at you and president bush saying we have been down this road before. is the president being a bit hypocritical? >> i don't think i would use that word. i think the important thing we know is we have u.s. military enforces and we have to hope they are successful and, second, i would say is that the continued ambiguity by the president and the administration about whether or not gadhafi will ultimately be gone is harmful. this is supposed to be a humanitarian effort. i can -- there's no doubt but that as long as the people on the ground are ambiguous as to whether or not gadhafi is going to stay or leave, more people will be killed. second, what is really important, of course, in that part of the world are iran and syria and egypt and saudi arabia, and the signal that we're ambivalent about whether or not gadhafi should go, once we're in there, it seems to me that ambivalence is harmful also in syria, where t

. >> and coming up a little bit later on "the early show," former defense secretary donald rumsfeld onresident obama's strategy in libya. >>> plus, speed traps. do they make the road safer? or are they just money-making schemes? >>> and actor david schwimmer joins us to talk about his new movie that deals with online sexual predators. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching, everyone. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. ,,,,,,

tomorrow morning, secretary gates, secretary clinton and former secretary of defense, donald rumsfeld. all with jake on abc's "this week." >>> there is more unrest in other corners of the arab world. in syria, anti-government protesters set fires and trashed a police station, posing a new challenge to one of the region's most repressive regimes. there are reports that two protesters were shot dead by police today. >>> we turn to the disaster in the pacific. last night we talked about that major crack in one of the reactors. tonight, word that high levels of radiation have now been detected well out to sea. david wright is in japan. >> reporter: today japanese government officials scolded the tokyo power company for not doing enough to protect workers' safety. several of the workers braving the front lines of this crisis received severe radiation burns to their legs, yet the power company sent them in without proper protective gear, including boots that came up just to their ankles. today the power company apologized. if we had given the employees a heads up, we would have been able to

in their memoirs both collin powell the secretary of state back then and donald rumsfeld the defense secretary effectively dock responsibility and point the blame finger at others mainly the cia specifically george tenet head of the sea. at the time he said it was there and it wasn't and they believed him because they wanted to invade iraq and colin powell was digging for information of cia headquarters in langley of course they were digging for it and it was it wasn't clear he was trying to come up with something because he couldn't find it even after this latest revelation about curveballs lies and many western media outlets put the following spain on the story u.s. officials they not lie they were duped but it really reveals here is that contrary to the headline that we saw from the guardian which was that the americans were duped somehow by your story and that really isn't a very accurate telling of what happened in that really the cia wanted to do if you want to use that word at all but really they were looking for an excuse they found one the man who presented the case for war

president bush and dick cheney and secretary rumsfeld and secretary rice and all of those who were involved at that time are in very difficult situation because we went to war in iraq based on lies and frankly there has to be an atonement and at one point so that we can transcend those lies and get back to the truth telling and. right now that's not happening. mr you know president bush and vice president cheney in particular and secretary months ago have to be called an accounting but they should be made to stand trial and if they can't be not if not in this country which doesn't seem you know what we're capable of a politically right now they should have to answer to a world tribunals under international law absolutely because otherwise who are we as a nation how can we say a million iraqi lives don't mean anything when we know that lies were told write us into war we how do we how do we keep it sane off of our our national conscience so i think that america can move beyond this we can create a new nation but we have to reclaim our honor by causing those who led us into a war based on lie

is rumsfeld islam is found in britain is found in europe is failing everywhere now we hope prison has been put in a blanket brought in the problem and so that it doesn't actually directly say who the problem are the problem is islamic the. religion the problem is the islamic faith is not not in cultures and because as an insult to seekers in hinduism judaism is are it's an insult to the west indian community of this country it's an insult to the irish community or different communities that comes this country embraced it and integrate fully it is only and only the islamic community who failed to do that and that's not our fault we can't blame ourselves who can't be ourselves the problem lies there in their community not in ours they need to reform their religion in a way that they wish to live side by side they need to accept british law as the supreme law of this country they need to denounce shariah law stop calling for it's not calling for the spread of it stop asking for the implementation of it stop open show our courts which are against human rights of women stop spread in islam

president bush this enormous leadership step between president bush had had wolfowitz had cheney had rumsfeld had these washington national security elite he couldn't control the pentagon would be going into the iraq war president obama with very little if no foreign policy credentials has almost no control over the pentagon and as a result the pentagon gets to dictate the political policy and they also get to dictate the operational policy that's why we're still there about and you know who do you blame people. who do who do you blame in an administration that's actually overstepping on what should be in terms of foreign policy operations the first thing that has to be set forth is a political objective after politics there's an operation or there's a tactical breakdown in terms of directing our efforts so the top of the class the you have to go into the politics you have to look at with the supreme court sanction this you have to look at where the congress vote giving the money of the appropriations for and you have to say with the president's political goal and basically all three of the p

powerhouse guests, secretary of defense robert gates, secretary of state hillary clinton and donald rumsfeld. >>> and now a followup this evening to the story we broke here on "world news" this week. the sleeping air traffic controller at reagan national airport. well, we caught up with him at his home in virginia today. he's on suspension. all he said to a local reporter at our abc station? "talk to my boss." meantime tonight, the faa is taking more steps to beef up control tower manpower elsewhere in this country. we'll keep you posted. >>> still ahead here on "world news" this friday night, the common but little-known ingredient we found all over this one aisle. and it could be making many children even more hyper. >>> new findings tonight about weight and worship. could going to church be making us gain weight? >>> and, the bravest bride. seeming to climb a mountain before walking down that aisle. and tonight, she is our "person of the week." [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there's motrin pm. n

mean there is a great lie within the american political tradition that neoconservatives bush cheney rumsfeld are really different from liberal interventionists like clinton susan rice and these others in fact they are the same only difference is that new conservatives don't like foreign institutions because they think foreign institutions are going to advance american power and liberals say oh no advance or power because we just use their institutions but they still want to intervene the only people in american political debate that don't want to intervene are strict isolationists noninterventionist than those that are moderates who say that we don't gain anything from it but as far as liberals in new conservatives and foreign policy they're the same which is why barack. obama does not qualify in this regard but that's why i get so frustrated with this entire situation is because everybody paints is as if it's so black and white as if you're either for humanitarian intervention and for saving people and you know you have morals or you're not it's much much more complicated than that and i re

that were told to take us into war and challenging president bush vice president cheney secretary rumsfeld it really does not do the truth any good actually does violence to the truth so i continue to give president bush and his. closest advisers and cabinet people. a free pass on the very serious legal issues that are raised about our illegal intervention into. iraq and i will say why was it illegal because it was based on knowledge of over a million people god based on lies over four thousand u.s. troops tired based on lies over three trillion dollars will be spent based on lies i mean when you think about their words the accountability so the obama administration i think could go a long way to win more support from the american people and from the world community by challenging the lies which took us into war they haven't done that yet but i think there's still time to do that do you think that they will do about the obama administration hasn't shown any interest so far and i'm going to continue to encourage them to do that now some people have also compared the treatment of bradley man

. >>> and why donald rumsfeld is criticizing. president's trip and where he  thinks the president should go instead? >>> we'll talk live with the "american idol" cough -- contestant just voted -- voted off the show last night. ♪ >>> well, "american idol" is now down to 11. the contestant booted off last night is singer karen. she joins us live from los angeles this morning. karen, i know you didn't get any sleep but you're up with us this morning. i know. i'm waving at you, too. thank you for being here with us. you're beautiful, you're talented. i gotta ask you this -- do you think they made the right decision and how do you feel this morning? >> i feel great. hi, how are you? >> i'm great. how are you? >> i'm awesome. back to your question, well, i felt that i did, you know, the most that i could this week, you know, i picked a great, powerful song and i added my little twist of spanish this there and i felt comfortable and i felt like i did great and the judges, you know, there so encouraging -- terrazzo encouraging. i-- the

>> we just cannot was secretary rumsfeld book this week we are very, very excited about. and at the end of the month, we have governor huckabee next book coming out the end of theory and in march we have founder's day a very popular author is standing here right with me at the booth. >> can you tell me about your latest book? >> with founder's day i look at tennis shoes that seem to be at the top of the news today from debt to government bailouts to guns to religion and it went back through the document not what they said what they had written and done and they have a lot to tell us. some of these things are such new problems, what could they possibly learn? but they have dealt with all of these things but there is financial panic that hamilton dealt with and did not bailout and the banks. >> host: where there any surprises in your research or things you have not seen before? >> guest: absolutely as a conservative, i am dead toward private school but what i found is all founders were in favor of public schools. but was important what they thought should be taught was patr

the adult version of fun-dip. [ light laughter ] ♪ [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: thank you, donald rumsfeld'sppears to be either a revealin: memoir or the new spring catalog from l.l. bean. [ light laughter ] [ scattered applause ] ♪ [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: thank you, christina aguilera, for forgetting the lyrics to "the star spangled banner" at the super bowl. everyone knows it's, "bright stripes and bright stars so gallantly" -- well, whatever. i'd learn it if i had to. [ light laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: what are you gonna do? it happened. ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, tiny space between the stove and the kitchen counter, for being an unlucky graveyard for dust bunnies, bottle caps, uncooked spaghetti and old sponges. [ laughter and applause ] i like that space. ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, mark zuckerberg's facebook stalker pradeep manukonda, for having a last name that sounds like the first ever syfy channel porno. [ laughter ] "coming this fall 'manaconda.'" [ laughter ] ♪cc1: >> steve: "is that a snake in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"cc1: >> jimmy: "it's a snak

. >> if you go down the list on the right-hand side besides don rumsfeld and richard perle at the top and bill kristol, you have paul wolfowitz, and he is the number two man at the pentagon. but you say in your book that paul wolfowitz was taught by leo straws at university of chicago. you -- leo strauss, and you talk about carl popper and paul wolfowitz. what would have been the difference of what they were taught? >> i wasn't aware of leo strauss. they should -- they didn't refer to each other. so i discovered leo strauss through wolfowitz and leo strauss talks about natural rights. natural rights. you see, there is the -- the declaration of independence. these -- these ideas they hold to be self-evident. right. and then come the ideas that are wonderful expression for the principles of an open society. but the introduction, self-evident leads to a belief in some truths, which are self-evident, cannot be denied by anyone. so leo strauss took off from that sentence and built on natural rights and carl popper took off from the rest. >> do you think that that group that's on that list

. >> when donald rumsfeld was here i showed him a letter that wolfowitz had signed in 1998 when it wantedo go in and take out saddam hussein and his regime and they actually did what they said they would do. isn't that a plot that we knew what we were going to get? >> they succeeded but a realist would say is what is the cost? we took out saddam hussein and we spent $1 trillion when we were told it would be nothing. i would give wolfowitz the robert mcnamara award. that made him head of the world bank. this is what declining powers do. it is not based on reality paria. that is what happened here. you have spent $1 trillion and you have spent $1 trillion and iraq willlebanon light, mr. malachi is no democrat. how much more evidence do we need a failure? these are facts. >> if somebody wants to read stuff you have written, where is the easiest place to go? >> you can go online go hitogle. i write regularly for the spectator in britain. i write back to everyone rights to made. >> we can find john hulsman in bavaria, soon to be married and he has been our guest for the last hour, thank you ve

brian: whether donald rumsfeld was here i showed him a letter he and paul wolfowitz signed in 1998 where they wanted to go in and take out the saddam regime and they actually did what they said they were going to do. isn't that a plus then? all those people went into the administration and they succeeded. >> well, they succeeded but what a realist would say, what an eisen hour would say always is yes, but what's the cost? we spent a trillion dollars when we were told it would be nothing. i called paul wolfowitz the robert mcnamara reward -- you destroy the country and get made head of the world bank the you reward people who for whatever reason make colossal mistakes. that's certainly what happened here. you've left iran the dominant power in the gufmentir -- mr. malaki is no democrat. and the king maker of iraqi politics is muqtada sadr, the greatest enemy the united states has, who until recently lived in tehran. brian: if somebody wants to read stuff you have written where is the easiest place to go besides these books, the "the godfather doctrine -- a foreign policy parable" and "to

talk about libya with secretary of state hillary clinton and former secretaries of defense donald rumsfeld and robert gates as he just mentioned. diane sawyer anchors president obama's speech to the nation with george stephanopoulos monday night here at 7:30 on abc. >>> we want to turn now to the death of a pioneer politician. geraldine ferraro, the first vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket broke down barriers for women. geraldine ferarro died from blood cancer. linsey davis is here with a look at her life. good morning, linsey. quite a pioneer. >> reporter: exactly. good morning to you. when ferarro stepped into the national spotlight at the democratic convention in 1984, her acceptance speech elicited cheers and tears for eight minutes and went on to change the landscape of women in politics forever. >> my name is geraldine ferraro. >> reporter: in 1984 when the daughter of a seamstress introduced herself to the world as a vice presidential candidate, she ushered in a new era. >> i stand before you to proclaim tonight america is the land where dreams can come true for all

i was met by this man his name is rumsfeld and he offered me a tour of the underpass. ran out of gas so he just left it there to give me a tour. under the overpass, you will find more trash. a lot more trash. plenty of disassembled bike parts. i spoke to a few residents who say there are fights in this encampment at night and a loose pit bull lives here. one homeowner told me she's afraid to leave her home to walk around the neighborhood because of the encampment. the neighbors say they just want the trash cleaned up but they say the city of san jose has been slow to respond. remember rumsin? it turns out the u-haul he was driving was five days over due when it was spotted by the owner. rumsin was forced by san jose police to give up the contents into the street and give the van back. the content of the van turned out to be get this, 2 days old unrefrigerated raw meat. in san jose, stanley roberts kron 4 news. if you have a comment or story idea for stanley, just email him at www.peoplebehavingbadly@kron 4.com. >>pam: the warriors wrap up a long road trip with a nail b

we just came out with secretary rumsfeld's book this week. we are very excited about. he is your signing books today. at the end of the month we have governor huckabee's next book which is coming out at the end of february. and in march we have but what the founders say which is very schweiger's look. he is standing here with me in the booth. >> can you tell us about choice but? >> sure. "what would the founders say?," i look at 10 issues that seem to be at the top of the news today, everything from death to government bailouts, the guns, to religion. and i went back through the documents of the founders, not what it said but what did written and what they have done. and they have a lot to tell us. some of these things you might think of comedies are such new problems, what could they possibly learn from the founders, but, in fact, they dealt with all these things. for example, there's a financial panic in 1791 that alexander hamilton dealt with, and he did not bailout any banks. >> were there any surprises in your research or things that you hadn't seen before? >> abs

he will have an exclusive interview with former defense secretary donald rumsfeld. david. >> we'll be watching jake. thanks, robin. >>> we're going to turn to the alarming story we've been talking about the air traffic controller who was not only alone but asleep on the job in washington, d.c. as two planes were landing at reagan national airport, getting no help from the tower. so, we asked just how many airports out there count on air traffic controllers working by themselves. jim sciutto broke this story. he has new information on that number this morning. how many airports, jim? >> reporter: well, good morning, david. federal officials looking into two things actually. fatigue and staffing at airports. this controller fell asleep on his fourth-consecutive night shift. but crucially, there was no backup in that tower behind me. a situation we found at some 30 airports around the country. this morning faa is urgently reviewing staffing at some 30 airports across the country, with only one air traffic controller on duty on the night shift. just like reagan national

doldrums' felt is featured on our web site -- donald rum rumsfeld is featured on our website at booktv.org. those are some of the books on the new york times best-seller list. our twitter page is down. we apologize. if we get it up and running, we will get your comments via twitter. or do it the old-fashioned way and give us a call. lena from baltimore. caller: good morning. host: ahead with your comments -- go ahead with your comments. caller: i would like to comment on the importance of all of the federal, state, and local governments. i do not see any one of them as being the be all and end all. i think they all have important roles to play. host: thank you for your call. andrea from attenborough, massachusetts. caller: first, i would like to say that school lunches are outdated. look into them. my son got highly educated between the school and between our family teaching him at home, especially. i had to sit down daily with him. he wanted that. he is national honor society, straight a's. he had a lot of problems at home. we had a lot of things going, but he pushed himself. he is teachi

gates and will talk about the involvement in libya and top with a former defense secretary donald rumsfeld fox news sunday begins at 2:00 p.m. with post chris wallace welcoming senator john mccain and joe lieberman and former house speaker newt gingrich. at 3:00 p.m. eastern cnn "state of the union" re0-airs and they will have senator levin. at 4:00 p.m., it is "face the nation." he will have secretary clinton and secretary robert gates. the network talk shows are brought to as a public service by the networks and cspan. that begins at noon. listen to them all on cspan radio, 90.1 in the washington d.c. area. you can listen online at cspanradio.org. >> i'm not interested in developing a strategy to win the primary. not be in a position to win the general. i have want to say that we did well everywhere. >> rick santorum sets down on the white house and a possible presidential bid in 2012, part of a series of interviews with potential gop candidates on c- span. throughout the month of april, we will feature the top winners of this year's cspan studentcam contest. they submitted entries based

trillions of wasteful and fraud dollars that they take from us, including the $2.2 trillion that donald rumsfelds missing that they could not even account for. guest: thank you very much. there is a lot of waste. it's a huge department. the secretary will admit that. there's not a secretary of defense that does not. that's why everything should be on the table. that is the position i've been supporting from the beginning. our subcommittee has done its part. we could do much more. in my opinion, we need to insource those positions, rather than pay contractors. host: thank you for talking to the students and to our viewers. guest: thank you. a wonderful morning. thank you very much. host: one last headline from the associated press, reporting that gaddafi's forces have reached the outskirts of another rebel stronghold after making recent gains in the west of libya. when we come back, we'll take a look at this headline. "burden climbs with alzheimer's cases." the annual report is out. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> current temporary federal spending expiring this friday, the house and spensenate b

they sued secretary rumsfeld in federal court on the grounds but that the military tribunal was not following the constitution and geneva convention. they were, in fact, correct. many years later, after several years of getting the case to the supreme court, justice john paul stevens wrote the opinion on behalf of the majority. consider again, justice john paul stevens, to bring this full circle, the one supreme court justice who was appointed by president gerald ford. i think similar interests, i think similar character, certain similar integrity must have existed all the way through. as we heard mr. ford said earlier tonight, it was an understanding of the need for integrity in that decision. the sense that no man is above the law. that was certainly true as well in the opinion by justice stevens, as he specifically said in the opinion that individual rights and national security have to be upheld -- but may find it. he said, "the executive is bound to comply with the rule of law in this and every jurisdiction." in closing, there is always an ethical question. every ethical question, if you

the most extraordinary and bizarre statement ever made in contemporary was rumsfeld shock and awe.we had shock people and from that they will bow down and consent. what makes the new arab revolutions difference -- different is these were from below. with the international or national conditions. here you had the extraordinary pressure on local economies and arab economies, rising commodity prices, rising food prices, which impacted directly on the dire and stance of living. at the same time, you have a hugely young population wired together more than before with rising expectations. an educational system that works and turned out educated people and educated people driving buses. nothing wrong with driving buses, but finding the roles and occupations lower than the expectations that they have. this produces the blow. that seems to be historicically creates greater conditions for the democracy than anything that the britain or america were trying to do in iraq. >> does the end result and the process to get there? >> i think if you go to iraq and in the process kills tens of thousand

the most extraordinary and bizarre statement ever made in contemporary was rumsfeld shock and awe. we had shock people and from that they will bow down and consent. what makes the new arab revolutions difference -- different is these were from below. with the international or national conditions. here you had the extraordinary pressure on local economies and arab economies, rising commodity prices, rising food prices, which impacted directly on the dire and stance of living. at the same time, you have a hugely young population wired together more than before with rising expectations. an educational system that works and turned out educated people and educated people driving buses. nothing wrong with driving buses, but finding the roles and occupations lower than the expectations that they have. this produces the blow. that seems to be historicically creates greater conditions for the democracy than anything that the britain or america were trying to do in iraq. >> does the end result and the process to get there? >> i think if you go to iraq and in the process kills tens of thousan

and that is that i sincerely believe that president bush, vice president cheney, secretary rumsfeld and others should be held accountable. under international law for waging a war against people who had no quarrel with the united states of america at all. there has to be international laws that have to be followed by u.s. officials, and in fact there are. the geneva conventions, the u.n. charter. there are expressed prohibitions against waging war. it's not what this congress blesses because of what we were told. the president and the vice president and secretary of defense, they all knew better. they are all trying to cover their tracks right now with various books and p.r. tours, but they knew better. they put the lives of our young men and women on the line for a lie. they put the lives of a million and more iraqi people on the line for a lie. they put over $3 trillion of our precious resources here on the line for a lie. i challenge anyone in this congress to prove me wrong on any of this because it is impossible to prove to the contrary the statements that i've made today about ass

home from the second tour in iraq and standing up with the train and equip program and secretary rumsfeldelped me to come to afghanistan to train and equip the mission there with the situation more broadly. at that time levels of violence in afghanistan were very, very low. it was described as the, quote, war that we were winning and so forth. the truth is that i came back after looking at it because of the various challenges, you could just feel how difficult various aspects of this were and you could also sense that the taliban was beginning its comeba comeback. i went back and reported in addition to various observations in the train and equip program they thought this would be the lockest campaign in the long war. now that didn't elicit wild applause in the floor of the pentagon, as you might imagine. it's a sobering assess am, but it's something that i stand by and the reason is why because of the various challenges that occurred over 30 years of war in a country that was when the wars began among the three poorest in the world. so there's no question about the difficulty of this end

the most extraordinary and bizarre statement ever made in contemporary was rumsfeld shock and awe. we had shock people and from that they will bow down and consent. what makes the new arab revolutions difference -- different is these were from below. with the international or national conditions. here you had the extraordinary pressure on local economies and arab economies, rising commodity prices, rising food prices, which impacted directly on the dire and stance of living. at the same time, you have a hugely young population wired together more than before with rising expectations. an educational system that works and turned out educated people and educated people driving buses. nothing wrong with driving buses, but finding the roles and occupations lower than the expectations that they have. this produces the blow. that seems to be historicically creates greater conditions for the democracy than anything that the britain or america were trying to do in iraq. >> does the end result and the process to get there? >> i think if you go to iraq and in the process kills tens of thousan