rumsfeld has served in congress. nakamura had not even that john kennedy before he was appointed secretary of defense, whereas, of course, rumsfeld had a long time relationship with the vice-president, dick cheney. but despite those differences, there were enough similarities. i rode up an op-ed piece for the washington post saying of rumsfeld looks just like max mara. the post did not print it. the september 11th attacks occurred, so i don't have it in writing. it's true. then i was watching as the war in afghanistan and then the war in iraq played out to see whether rumsfeld would follow the same trajectory as mcnamara in vietnam. i'm sad to say that there were additional similarities' once the two secretaries of defense became secretary of war. both of them imposed their own war plans on the military. both of them rejected military advice for more troops at different stages of the conflicts. yet both kept the support of the president, even as the work turned on popular. needless to say, with these similarities i k

. >> priest: the cia was very much in front of the military, and that bothered rumsfeld greatly. and he would write memos saying, "this cannot stand. we have to create a capacity ourselves." >> rumsfeld: the only defense against terrorism is offense. you have to simply take the battle to them. how do you do that? you don't... you don't do it with conventional capabilities. you do it with unconventional capabilities. >> immerman: rumsfeld was something of an empire builder, you know-- to create as much power in his department as possible. >> narrator: quietly, rumsfeld expanded the pentagon's most secret group: joint special operations command, jsoc. >> immerman: it provided a capability within the pentagon that the pentagon didn't have before and was not considered appropriate for the pentagon to have before. >> narrator: buried deep inside the pentagon bureaucracy, rumsfeld anointed jsoc with power and money. >> macgregor: one of the reasons that secretary rumsfeld became very enamored of special operations forces was the readiness of special operations forces to deploy and do w

rumsfeld was applauded by the mostly conservative audience. but police threw out several people protesting the treatment of detainees. rumsfeld was pivotal to taking u.s. to war in afghanistan and iraq. he resigned in 2006 and due partly to revelations to abuse of terror suspects. >>> interpol has issued the arrest for muammar gadhafi and other people z wanted for crimes against gadhafi. now on the alert to capture gadhafi and his son and al-senussi. interpol said its warrants will be a powerful tool in helping to apprehend them. a message by gadhafi was aired on thursday. he denied rumors that he fled libya and urged his followers to keep fighting. >>> one of libya's interim leaders has appealed for national unity in his first press conference in the capital of tripoli. he spoke as efforts were underway to negotiate a surrender by forces loyal to gadhafi. mahmoud jalil said gadhafi loyalists are still putting up proest tests. forces are surrounding gadhafi strongholds including his hometown of sirte. they're trying to negotiate a surrender by

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we have former defense secretary rumsfeld. governor mitt romney is betting president obama to the punch. he laid out his jobs plan two days ahead of the president's speech thursday night. how is he planning to put americans back to work? we asked the government fore. republican presidential contender and former massachusetts governor romney went on the record. nice to see you sir. >> thanks greta, good to be with you. >> greta: governor, everyone is horrified at our unemployment rate 9.1%, 14 million people unemployed. that is only part of it, 8 million under employed and more than two million who have given up, more than 25 million people who are in a hopeless situation. going to your economic plan, first the idea cut corporate income tax. if you cut the corporate tax how soon can you get those people to work? >> i'm not going to be president for at least a year so it going to take a little while before those changes get put in place. if i've president on day one i have five bills to put in place within thirty days and five n

nine eleven in our country's response to it paul krugman called post nine eleven shameful donald rumsfeld of all people called quinn's remarks repugnant and even canceled his subscription to the new york times so why are we back to this then some say the chance of a greek default or up to ninety eight percent of our investors suffering from a relying on bailout mentality and i'm sure we've heard a lot about the evils of illegal immigration at tonight's republican tea party debate but what about illegal immigration let's have a talk about this important group of job creation we have all that and more for you to night including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. now over the weekend we saw a violent attack take place in afghanistan that injured seventy seven u.s. soldiers so in response the mainstream media once again decided to remember that hey we're war. patella been screaming responsibility for a massive explosion that injured seventy seven u.s. troops a suicide truck bomber attempts to kill as many american troops as possible a

because rumsfeld has critique the new york times so many times over the years for reporting on some of the atrocities that were committed during the bush administration and he even considered it treasonous for the new york times to report on these things so why you still have a subscription kind of by everybody it's a comedy relief i think is my right to be honest there have been some ads in post nine eleven america that i think honestly are kind of shameful and i think that the fake new york times releasing the truth you mock is part of that. let's get to where the yes or no do you accept that using nine eleven as one of the justifications to go to. the main reason i thought he was it we can do we were convinced still that they had these every was convinced because. that was tenuous at best and was used as at most tangential what was the number one reason for going to war in iraq was that saddam hussein refused to show that he had gotten rid of his weapons. mass destruction and the programs that support he wouldn't let us do proper inspections and consequently when the guy standing th

joining me now is the former secretary of defense twice dover donald rumsfeld.s 77 crashed into the pentagon? what's the most vivid recollection? >> i was in the pentagon when it was hit, and we had the two planes hit the world trade center before that, minutes before. and the first plane hit, it was obviously an accident, and the second plane hit and it obviously was not an accident. and then the pentagon shook, and the it was clear that america had been attacked. and i went down the hall and -- until the smoke was so bad i couldn't go any for the. i went downstairs and outside, and there out on the lawn, the apron around the pentagon, were just, you know, thousands of pieces of metal, little pieces, not -- it's not like that plane stayed together. the plane just was pieces everywhere. and people coming out with burns, and people going in and helping them out. i ran into a lieutenant colonel who said to me that he saw an airplane hit the pentagon. i had no idea if it was a bomb or what had happened. but it was a day we'll all remember throughout our lives, and

our fareed zakaria asked donald rumsfeld that very question.to what he saw and felt inside the pentagon. >> what memories do you have now of that day when american airlines 77 crashed into the pentagon? what's the most vivid recollection? >> i was in the pentagon when it was hit. and we had the two planes hit the world trade center before that. minutes before. and the first plane hit, it was obviously an accident. and the second plane hit and obviously was not an accident. and then the pentagon shook and it was clear that america had been attacked. and i went down the hall and the smoke was so bad, i couldn't go any farther, and there out on the lawn, the apron around the pentagon were thousands of pieces of metal. little pieces, not like that plane stayed together. the plane just was pieces everywhere. and people coming out with burns, and people going in and helping them out. i ran into a lieutenant colonel who said to me he saw an airplane hit the pentagon. i had no idea if it was a bomb or what had happened. but it was a day we'll all remem

donald rumsfeld was the one so visible out there, refusing to leave. they were trying to get him to a safe location. he refused. 184 people killed at the pentagon. former president george w. bush laying a wreath there along with mike mullen and leon panetta. this is at what's called the 9/11 stone. this is the area that had to be rebuilt, the point of impact at the pentagon. president bush is expected to take part in ceremonies throughout the weekend. this is just one in d.c., but the other in new york that so many eyes will be on tomorrow because so many lives were lost there, the former president expected there as well. this is what many people have been waiting to get an eye on. this has been in the process for literally ten years. and now ten years after the 9/11 attacks, that is one of two reflecting pools. this is the official 9/11 memorial which will be dedicated officially tomorrow. but will be open to the public starting on september 12th. they wanted to have this ready on the ten-year anniversary. indeed, they do. you're seeing one there. the

so rumsfeld as we know said we are not leaving this building. he did declare on tv the night of 9/11 the pentagon is open for business. that was news to the fire chiefs for a while. in the middle of the day on 9/11, a colonel from the joint staff went and found fire chiefs out at the command post outside the pentagon. this is what the colonel said to fire chief. we've got to keep this open to do you really want to people in the making decision under the influence of carbon monoxide? the colonel gave him a puzzled look. he continued to carbon monoxide is odorless and colorless he explained it in a hot smoky bar viciously tons of carbon monoxide. one of the first side effects is imaged the wacky things. in house fires people try to get what walking into applause. you want people making those decisions? as a taxpayer, i don't. the colonel applause upon and the risks and he asked, if we monitor doesn't change the picture? hominy people do have bikes in one has to have a more than 100 but consider operating on fewer than 50. it to me negotiated and s

rumsfeld has written pretty extensively about it. and i basically took the approach that i could focus on a few things and what i really wanted to focus on was the surge and the counterinsurgency doctrine, a surge we put in place at the beginning of 07. so there is a lot written about that in the book, but i didn't spend a lot of time going back over what the state department did with respect to managing situation in iraq but the pentagon did outside the normal military activities. >> be re-jerry bremer's book and i have talked to people on your staff and elsewhere who said that you are asking questions about the u.s. military strategy in iraq during those years. things obviously weren't going well. asking tough questions, what is their strategy? do we know how to win? why are we doing the same thing? is the training effective? and i guess i'm interested on a personal level, when did you start asking those questions? >> well, on a personal level at some point we will sit down and talk about a. >> i thought now was as good a time as a

, rumsfeld tweeted this.bscription to "the new york times" this a.m. how many of you others felt the same way? or didn't? let us know. >> now he doesn't have to go out the driveway to pick up that paper in the blue bag. meanwhile, let's take a look at the weather ahead as you go outside to pick up your newspaper, well, you know what? if you're in porpgss tions of aa and new mexico, it's kind of damp in your driveway. balance of the country is for the most part nice and dry and temperatures not too bad. we have a lot of 50's and 60's in the northern half. 60's and 70's down south. it will be another hot one in dallas. look at that, holy cow, 107 in the big d. 102 in san antonio. they have really melted this summer. meanwhile, mid to upper 80's in the mid atlantic and 70's in portions of new england. all right. let's go outside to find out what happens to brian in this soon-to-be legendary interview. >> former nba star shaquille o'neill who is very scared of the camera and tennis superstar, two time gold medali

people in this campaign i want you to are struggling to nominate general stood like a star even rumsfeld lost his job so is it time for history to repeat itself well obama fights to higher with his new jobs plan many are saying what the president needs to do is fire this during a time where he's fund raising at thirty six thousand dollars a plate and he can't even put food on the table. for about hyperinflation. right now the fact you're great. and well at least someone's excited about the economy we're going to sit down and talk with free money with not you not you lesko famed author and self-proclaimed federal grant researcher. well all free money isn't as easy to come by for some prison contractors that found a way to make big bucks by cashing in on undocumented immigrants ahead here how one man's american dream was crushed after his residency was revoked four years later. it's right is a timer sixteen four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. well the white house has given the green light to the sale of an arms package to taiwan a sale that is leaving a lo

people are scared but how do you tell someone like i'm going to general shit like that far even rumsfeld lost his job so is it time for history to repeat itself while president obama fights to higher with his new jobs plan many are saying what the president needs to do is fire this during a time when he's fund raising thirty six thousand dollar a plate while many can't even put food on the table. about hyperinflation doubling down on the taxpayer and your greed. well if someone's excited about the economy we sat down and talked with free money with mathew lesko and author info proclaimed a federal grant research. well while free money isn't as easy to come by for some prison contractors have found a way to make big bucks i cash in on undocumented immigrants ahead here how one man's american dream was crushed after his residency was brutal. it's friday september sixteenth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine frizz out there watching our t.v. well the white house has given the green light to the sale of an arms package to taiwan a sale that is leaving a lot of world leaders on shaky g

secretary rumsfeld himself did what he did as a young soldier, a young man, and did all his life.st, where death came in an instant, but also where there were some survivors to be found. specialists was a tour guide the morning on the far side of the building, so far away in fact he never heard the plane hit. but he shortly felt the promotion. he could have gone home. no one would have blamed him, but he was also a trained emt who came from a family of firefighters. so when people started streaming out of the building and screaming, he sprinted towards the crash site. four hours, between treating his coworkers and dashing into the inferno, with a team of six men. mickey, a volunteer fire chief in winnsboro maryland 60 miles away, after working all day when he heard that evening at the rescue workers and the pentagon needed a fire truck, a small fire truck, small enough to fit through tight places. he knew he had a 50 4 which was the smallest one around. so fresh off of an all day shift he barreled down the highway and bought the blaze all night with thousands of others. in the daw

i think rumsfeld has set up a straw man here.absolutely right, but i think -- >> i don't know how there can be an isolationist worry in 2011 when we are -- when again, we are all over the place. >> i just don't think anybody who knows anything about the defense and intelligence budgets would tell you that they couldn't be cut without compromising the security of the united states at all. >> you can't do it with a straight face at least. >> most people are talking about coming home from iraq, coming home from afghanistan, closing bases we this need and ending rep wons programs we don't need. we're talking about come home from iraq, come home from afghanistan, stop spending $2 billion a week. >> you go to war with the army you have, as someone once said. >> i'm going to try and get two more news stories in here and then move on because da president obama moves ahead with his plan to tackle the jobs problem in this country. in a rose garden address, the president will push his $447 billion jobs plan calling again on lawmakers to pas

i've got a picture, it was a picture i put in my book, of rumsfeld and i at the camp david. and it doesn't show the president because he's on the other hand in baghdad. we've got a secure hook up during that period of time. he's gone into baghdad, over there visiting, having an important session with then prime minister malachi. he turned his back on it wasn't focused on, wasn't engaged. i would challenge that. >> let me take the prerogative of asking one last question bringing this sort of back to 9/11. you've made the case that 9/11 changed the government. i think that's obvious to everyone. in many respects it changed the country. clearly changed the world. did it change you? >> did 9/11 changed me? well, it was, i don't think it changed me in the sense some have suggested, that, you know, i've got friends out there, used to be friends, who -- [laughter] i knew when he was a nice guy. warm and fuzzy. i don't know him now. and the other night i did jay leno, i don't know if anybody here saw, but they have what they call a cold open, and the program begins with jay leno gre

also don, the donald rumsfeld will be by. anymore. he'll drop by and tell us why. >> and cloris leachman will be here and will she do to brian what she did last time? don't give it away, brian. >> i think it's too late if you watched the second hour. kristen chenowith is here. she did a sound check and she sounded perfect. gout to hear it. >> she's gone country for the first time! >> once you go country, you never go back. >> that's what i've heard. >> let's get the rest of the headlines right now. on a serious note, it could be a ticking time bomb on wheels. authorities searching desperately this morning for a stolen fuel tanker loaded with 3,000 gallons of gasoline. tanker a little bit bigger than the one you've seen in the picture here. it was stolen from kent county, maryland. police say there's a small chance this could be a terror attempt. the tanker has a maryland license plate in case you see it number 310e03. call police if you know anything about it. after 20 hours, afghan forces finally ending that deadly assault o

looking on is former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.ple died at the pentagon in the 9/11 attacks. >>> we're going live to washington, d.c. now. that's where the visible police presence is much higher today and will be tomorrow, of course. cnn's athena jones is at the fbi field office to fill us in on the high security in and around washington. athena? >> reporter: that's right. there's a lot of law enforcement presence all around town. every department. we've spoken to the capitol police, the park police, secret service, metro transit and of course the police department. there are more officers out, all kinds of officers, specialty teams, officers in plainclothes and in uniform, on foot, on horseback, on motorcycles. they've really got it covered. the d.c. police have added 200 to 400 additional officers to the schedule, depending on the time of day. they're doing 12-hour overlapping shifts. one of the things they're emphasizing for the public is general vigilance, to pay attention and to report any suspicious activity. we spoke with th

the bush administration with donald rumsfeld being there earlier throughout the weekend, seeing the vicedent there earlier today and now the president of the united states at the pentagon. >> reporter: yeah, you know, fred, i think here at the pentagon at a moment like this as we look at the flag, the point of impact when that plane slammed into the building, for the pentagon today it's really family business, not politics. so many of these families have been out here every year. today they were out here of course early in the morning for the earlier ceremonies and have waited for hours in the sun to see the president of the united states as he previously had been in shanksville and in new york. this is sort of wrapping up today's events. the memorial is actually open to the public. if people come to washington, they can't go inside the pentagon necessarily but they can visit this memorial, walk amongst the trees and small water ponds and benches, memorializing each of the 184 souls lost that day. ranging in the age from 3, a toddler on the airplane to some of the older people that worke

do you believe that americans should do what rumsfeld said?have a right to disagree with it but we should be respectful. >> they are already doing that they don't have to have rummy lead them out the door. the "times" has circulation problems like a sumo wrestler in a thong of every rest. >> bill: it would be very cold. >> constriction issues. consumer based stuff. >> i wanted to walk through that president obama out on the road for the great american jobs act. and you say? we can all play the game and i don't want the race card dropped on me. this guy's first three years has been a mess. even democrats must know that on some level. it's an absolute mess. i was on vacation last week. i don't pay as much attention as i usually do when i'm on vacation. three strikes, billy. when he came in and said he would take public funding off the bat and he didn't okay. he has trouble with the truth. that's fine. most politicians do. second strike was when he said he wanted unions and this card check thing to vote outloud that's so anti-american to me when

also, leon panetta and donald rumsfeld. now to the show of law enforcement today in new york and washington. police and federal agents remain on alert taking no chances as investigators look for proof of a possible terror plot involving car or truck bombs. for the latest, we want to turn to our justice correspondent, pete williams, with the latest. >> three days after receiving that second hand report that men were coming here to set off car and truck bombs, the intelligence community has yet to find any indication that there was a real plot behind that tip. traffic on some busy new york streets was choked down to one lane so police could check cars, trucks and vans. as part of a heavily armed show of force. a clearly stepped up police presence in washington, too, and places where tourists gather, including the national mall. >> you just got to go on with business as usual and hope for the best. >> some of this was planned frl 9/11 weekend, but has been tightened up more because of word that three men flew here to set off v

rumsfeld has written extensively about it. i basically took the approach that i could focus on a few things, and what i really wanted to focus on was the surge and the counterinsurgence doctrine that accompanied the summer that we put in place at the beginning of '07. so there's a lot written about that in my book. but i didn't spend a lot of time going back over what the state department did with respect to managing situation in iraq or what the pentagon did outside normal military activities in terms of the -- >> host: if you read bremer's book and talk to other people. i talked to people on your staff and elsewhere, who said you were asking questions about the u.s. military strategy in iraq during those years, that things obviously weren't going well. asking tough questions. what is our strategy? do we know how to win? why are we doing the saming? is the training effective? and i guess i'm interested, on a personal level, when did you start asking those questions? >> guest: well, on a personal level, at some point we'll sit

bush, admiral mullen, leon panetta and donald rumsfeld as well as their spouses.ll of them coming to pay a very quiet tribute. we know former president bush will be traveling up to new york. he will take part in the commemorative events tomorrow at ground zero. we'll be covering it as of 8:00 a.m. there's certainly a profound sense there, just in the solitude of that lone beautiful white wreath at the impact site there in the pentagon. >>> you know, we go back now to roger cressey. roger, i spoke earlier and you referenced it as we spoke with homeland security chairman peter king. he was talking about the incident and we thinks things stand right now. let's listen to what he said with me earlier this morning. >> the most important thing is getting such a specific plot plan. i've been doing this for a number of years. i've never seen a plot that was laid out so specifically. usually you get bits and pieces and you have to worry about connecting the dots. that's not the case here. >> is that what's so disturbing about this? that the specificity? >> it's disturbing b

. -- rumsfeld was still in his office. we felt this enormous thump. that was the plane hitting the pentagon. >> did you realize immediately what had happened? were you kind of thinking, the pentagon is such a symbolic building, we might be next? >> we verso focused on the task at hand -- we were so focused on the task at hand. and try to prevent further attacks. you were not thinking about yourself. we were not thinking about the building. when i felt it and fired the explosion, i was not completely surprised. >> i was at the pentagon after the plane went end. i remember talking to soldiers who were visibly shaking. the american military would have to change. whether discussions about that in the days that followed? -- were there discussions about that in the days that followed? >> it was within minutes of the attack. you remember because you were paying attention. in the months leading up to 9/11, the secretary and all of us were talking about for the need to the u.s. military to transform. it was more likely be would have a symmetrical threats. you

. >>> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld talks about military life and promoting his brand-new book. he spoke to the reserve officers association at george wash university tonight about his transition from the military to -- george washington university tonight about his transition from the military to pun life. >>> the military's -- public high. >>> the military's brac movement leaving some scrambling to stay a float. >>> here's april look at some of the other stories in our rundown. -- a look at some of the other stories in our rundown. not news edge at 11:00 is coming right back. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 11:00.  >>> more headaches from the military's base realignment plan. fox 5 money reporter melanie alnwick has more. >> reporter: lunchtime apt toledo pizza on georgia -- at toledo pizza on georgia avenue still busy but lighter. kelly shy is one of about two dozen business owners just outside the gates of the former walter reed army medical center. when she opened in 2005, more than 5,000 people worked at the campus and the facility served about

. >> rumsfeld talks about each other.knew it was an attack on the pentagon. other people didn't know. first person stories are so powerful. in some ways, everything that's been said about 9/11 has been said, just not everyone has had a chance to say it except the people affected by it. >> where do we get the oral histories? >> they are on a sight time.com. we have an episode on 9/called beyond 9/11. you will see the videos of all these folks, including something so compelling and powerful. the four men who survived the impact above the 78th floor and they talk about how they helped each other that day, how they got down, how their lives have changed. it's compelling. it's weaved torgt together in a documentary. >> nancy writes a moving column. >> our original 9/11 issue, a black bordered issue. the first time we have changed that border. she has a reprise of that. we have an essay at the end about how life in america has changed. we have five never before published pictures. the great and legendary war photographer. these

appointing donald rumsfeld. rice saying we don't need the 802nd airborne taking kids to kindergarten, and that was reflected to some extent in the way the united states went into iraq initially. the shock and all more surgical strike. there was now a lot of attention to remake domestic institutions in iraq in the beginning. price gives an interview in the beginning or she says the idea that we will take off the head and the plea the institutions in place. later on we had a much more transformative coal. rebuilding iraq from the ground up becomes part of the policy, but the fact that was not the way the united states went in has profound consequences for the next couple of years as the u.s. struggles to catch up with this new, transformer that policy and build the resources to do it. it is really not until 2006 we get a strategy for her clear, cold, and belt. obama is a bit of a tricky case. you might think that someone who spent a lot of time during committee organizing would be an institution building a broad,

. >> secretary rumsfeld was very mature, very wise, understood the challenges.uring a war. >> the four planes were hijacked by between three and six individuals, per plane. using knives and box cutters, and in some cases making bomb threats. >> it was conceived almost two years before its execution. they were fortunate in that they found individuals the hamburg cell that were age to get visas, technical skills, linguistic skills that could help execute that plan. >> our government has credible evidence that the white house and air force one were targets. a number of suspected hijackers were trained as pilots in the united states. >> we will leave no stone unturned, until we have term determined who was responsible for these attacks on our freedom. >> secretary rumsfeld told me that he felt the blast shake the pentagon. coming here makes me sad on the one hand. it also makes me angry. our country will however, not be cowed by terrorists. >> he was thoughtful and determined and had resolve that the united states would lean forward and not lean back. that we would

building, which i think influenced the decisions he made in terms of appointments appointing donald rumsfeld and rice saying we don't need the 82 nd airborne taking kids to school. the shock and awe, surgical strike getting rid of saddam, but no intention to remake domestic institutions in iraq in the beginning. the ideas that we're going to take off the head, but leave the body in place, and the institutions are going to hold. it's, of course, later on when paul brenner arrives, there's a much more transformative goal and the goal of rebuilding iraq from the ground up becomes u.s. policy, but the fact that's not the way the united states went in has profound consequences for the next couple of years as the u.s. struggles to catch up with the new policy and build the resources to do it. it's not until 2006 that we get a real strategy for clear hold and build and so forth in iraq. obama is a tricky case. you might think that someone who spent a lot of time doing community organizing would be an institution builder abroad, but i actually, you know, from what evidence we've seen, i think the mo

. >> and that was secretary rumsfeld. >> not only that. we got off the air force one.t was near camp david. of course it turned out to be pennsylvania. at that moment we were told there were six unidentified aircraft who did not respond to the signal to land. we thought six aircraft in the skies were missiles. not only to the president say yes to give the order to shoot down. he said that to the secretary. he also later on in that same conversation the order was given to go to defcon three for the first time since 1973. that is how serious the stakes were. now we can look back and say it it was just four planes. at that moment we thought there were six more. people were being told across the country that there was a car bomb at the state department. no one knew the full extent of this. >> what kind of authority did the president need at that moment that he didn't have. >> i remember him, as we handled the instant transcript of the president's directive was standing in the situation room. one of the military personnel that manned the situation room desk immediately the

and cheney and rumsfeld helped start the committee for the present danger and began us lean fear as a way of getting political power and getting rich and since been a curse on this country i'll tell you how i really feel at the end of the show tonight and i still take our next comment is also from twitter i'm sure by now you've all heard that president obama agreed to move his address to a joint session of congress where he'll unveil his jobs plan from wednesday evening of next week to thursday evening after house speaker john boehner decided to show who's really in charge here in d.c. courses just a mere coincidence thursday night is the n.f.l. season opener and it's just a conspiracy theory that the republicans want the president to compete with the saints and the packers in the area romney rob tweeted obama will have to compete was saints vs the socialists i watch the game on new and listen to obama i believe green gold. the republicans may have pulled off an illegal block in the back against president obama but a white house communications director dan pfeiffer acknowledged today

their exploded after nine one one in donald rumsfeld had a bill passed immediately that allowed easy planes contracts to be spread around billions and billions and billions of dollars so in terms of us the pentagon and some of the big businesses it's been a very successful war but in terms of peace truth and basic human why we're in survival and everything that's right in just in the world it couldn't be more wrong. than snow will correspond to talk of pretty good credit investigates joining us from williamsburg usa tonight is a lot more we could talk about with this one for a times for the world over thanks to be on the program thanks so much take care. well as the u.s. prepares to withdraw its troops from afghanistan some already counting all the cash little be say but with record unemployment in the states of the military industries being one of the last stable employers maybe more beneficial to keep those troops where they are what you think about that but discussions coming up in just a few minutes in fact also. there was i saw he community grieves the loss of the locomotive tea

iraq and even donald rumsfeld the secretary of defense was perplexed by this and has said so is it based in reality has it ever been because saudi arabia is an ally and evidence has come out that saudi arabia would have had some kind of a role supporting the hijackers or involved in nine eleven they've never been named as the axis of evil. correct it's a very selective naming libya is an interesting situation because and we've done quite a bit of reporting on this on who what why dot com taking a careful look at the origins of the uprising in libya and we found that basically khadafi has been very very cooperative with the west for a number of years but with the arab spring there was some sort of the terminations made that they could do better i think that it's not just the united states it's the french and the italians all of these countries the russians the chinese everybody is looking for resources or looking for minerals there's a mad scramble all over the world and so in order to justify when you're doing it in a military way such as the united states and nato is doing it they've go

. >> this is at the height of bush and rumsfeld's rendition campaign. it's a dark stain on american history. >> reporter: rendition means that u.s. prisoners captured in iraq or afghanistan were sent to third countries where sometimes prisoners being interrogated were subjected to torture. in one case the americans arrange forward this man to be captured in bankok and transfered to libya as a suspected terrorist. one document apparently from the c. i. s. says we must have assurances from your government that he will be treated humanely and that human rights will be respected. >> it just words on paper. >> reporter: and that did not happen? >> absolutely not. he was tortured, and he was subjected like all of the other prisoners there, so inhumane and abusive treatment. >> reporter: he is now a commander of rebel forces in libya and told reporters he bears no ill will towards the c.i.a.. both british intelligence and the c.i.a. refused to confirm or deny their authenticity. amid the documents, a silly moment, british agents arranging the then prime minist

every single thing the bush administration has asked them to do and right now dick cheney and don rumsfeld brag about it all the time ha we got obama to violate everybody's rights just like we were doing so i honestly i don't have a lot of hope that we're going to a new democrat or certainly not a new republican who's going to come in and say hey this was radical stuff and we should get back to the american norm so i think we've got to do a wholesale change of the system because they rely on the democratic party has been a very false hope so when you think wholesale change in a system what exactly do you mean. look you know i always push for an amendment to clean up our democracy because i think a lot of this is the result of money buying our politicians so there's washington post of course an incredible story on a whole industry that has arisen around homeland security and how it's course they make billions upon billions of dollars doing this so they're not going to let go of their security apparatus because they make tremendous amount of money off of it so the only way that we can begin

bush administration was so sued several bush officials such as john ashcroft and john yoo donald rumsfeld who were directly responsible for the torture and lowest attention to which he was subjected and the obama administration vigorously defended those bush officials and insisted that they not be held liable in a court because they were immune as government officials beyond that it was the bush administration that originally appealed to seventeen year sentence to which could be subjected but it was the obama administration once the the d.p. was perfected that pursued the appeal and argued it in court and in the end demanded that he be given an even greater sentence you know and let's be very clear the seventeen year sentence is on top of the five years that he spent in prison with no charges so it's really twenty three years there's seventeen years and he was sentenced to a supermax president forms colorado which is the worst how a whole that the world knows in terms of how the persons function and even that was twenty three years of torture and being in the supermax was too lenient for

other people in his campaign committee he canceled like and how many generals did like that far even rumsfeld lost his job with the republicans far newt gingrich when saying to not go well he. coached them have you noticed as we go sports he got to do something you gotta change direction here it just looks like the same people doing the same thing over and over again and work and all right so boehner says obama you know should fire people james carville's obama said have you i mean is that the case it is that and musician it is simply change the roster here i mean you've seen in the past i've been in this town long enough you know where they come in after two years and make changes and we're still not going anywhere i mean it's something more systemic than that it may help on the edges but how do we get down i mean to do the critical issues in this country like education there if we don't pay and you can pay more because we're competing or we're not you know marilyn competing with the people who jersey were kids in maryland competing with people all over the world and they're studying harder

know the people in this campaign i want you talk about like i'm going to general feel like even rumsfeld lost his job so is it time for history to repeat itself while obama fights to higher with his new jobs plan many are saying what the president needs to do is fire this during a time when he's fund raising at thirty six thousand dollars a plate many can't even put food on the table. a prison contractors have no difficulty making money they have figured out how to cash in on undocumented immigrants ahead here how one man's american dream was rushed to his residency was revoked four years later. hey there it's friday september sixteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our team well the white house has given the green light to the sale of an arms package to taiwan as they all know is leaving a lot of world leaders on shaky ground all right here's the deal taiwan says it's. fleet is aging and they were hoping that the deal would include new advanced f. sixteen jets the u.s. which has provided weapons to taiwan since world war two and is all dated to help based on a