and donald rumsfeld, of course, is just amazing as a character. errol morris at one point walks him through how easy donald rumsfeld might very well have ended up being president of the united states had things not gone slightly differently in his own history. had he been picked as vice president at one point which was very possible. it's kind of a throw your popcorn in the air and fall down screaming moment, right? the prospect of donald rumsfeld, president of the united states. i think that's why this film is being billed in some way as a horror movie. beyond just the character issues here, what's fascinating to see about this person who's so important in our history, this film also comes out at a really important time in terms of the larger issue of whether or not we as the american public are going to decide that we ought to know what is true about our recent and difficult history. whether we are going to decide that we ought to know the real truth about bad things our country has done and our government has done. today the senate intelligence

including with paul wolfowitz, donald rumsfeld's second in command.on with just two months until the invasion, attention turns to who will run iraq in the immediate days and weeks after the fall of saddam. retired army lieutenant general jay garner, a man with deep experience in the region, gets the call from donald rumsfeld. >> he said, we need right now is somebody to come in, put a staff together, operationalize the plans we put together. you know, you think if you're going to put that together you'd have office space and desk and computers and telephones and all that. i didn't even have a chair. >> that lack of planning when it comes to basic post-saddam governance stands in stark contrast to the level of planning that's already well under way for iraq's oil sector. >> there's a very strong sense of urgency. it was 12, 15-hour days from what i remember. they knew where every pipeline, where every refinery, gas plant, oil field, gas oil separation plant was. people said we didn't plan very well for iraq. i would take exception to that when it came

how does donald rumsfeld live with himself, sorry deal with it. we'll find now the a clip from the documentary the unknown known. >> what about the so-called torture memos? >> there were what? one or two or three? i don't know the numbers but there were not all of these so-called memos. >> jon: do you see what he did? through sheer semantic will he deflected the question of whether or not we tortured to accuse his questioner of the higher crime: exaggeration of a memo count. at long last have you not shame? i'm sorry mr. rumsfeld. >> they were mischaracterizes as torture people -- people grows and not -- memos and not out of the bush administration but out of the u.s. department of justice a senior legal official of the united states of america having been nominated by a president and confirmed by the united states senate overwhelmingly. little different cast i just put on it than the one you did. >> jon: i'll chalk that one up. [ laughter ] mommy? mommy, i don't want to go to grandpas he's going to do that finger thing again. look at (bleep) prou

including with paul wolfowitz, donald rumsfeld's second in command.h just two months until the invasion, attention turns to who will run iraq in the immediate days and weeks after the fall of saddam. retired army lieutenant general jay garner, a man with deep experience in the region, gets the call from donald rumsfeld. >> he said, we need right now is somebody to come in, put a staff together, operationalize the plans we put together. you know, you think if you're going to put that together you'd have office space and desk and computers and telephones and all that. i didn't even have a chair. >> that lack of planning when it comes to basic post-saddam governance stands in stark contrast to the level of planning that's already well under way for iraq's oil sector. >> there's a very strong sense of urgency. it was 12, 15-hour days from what i remember. they knew where every pipeline, where every refinery, gas plant, oil field, gas oil separation plant was. people said we didn't plan very well for iraq. i would take exception to that when it came to the

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do you get any sense that donald rumsfeld has any res for or regret? sense he has no regret, no remorse. >> at all? >> at all. >> i looked at a quote that came from the documentary when he talks about the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, interestingly quoting carl sagan, who used that in justifying there was life on other planets. was that a nons sequitur? >> obfuscation, whatever you want to call it. here's a guy who doesn't care about evidence. that's a very, very scary thought. >> secretary rumsfeld talks about the so-called torture memos of the bush administration in your film. let's play a clip of that. >> well, there were what, one, two, three. i don't know the number. but there were not all of these, they were mischaracterized as torture memos. they came not out of the bush administration, they came out of the new york department of justice. >> do you think this could trigger a reexamination of the iraq war? >> it would be my hope. i know a lot of people feel this was ten years ago, let's completely put this behind us. i feel othe

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>>> donald rumsfeld is a man of many words. only a lot of those words turned out not to be true.fense secretary sold us the war in iraq, all because saddam hussein supposedly had weapons of mass destruction. well, we know how that turned out. a new documentary out tomorrow by oscar winner errol morris called "the unknown known" features hours with the former defense secretary, and one of his answers in particular gave me pause. >> in 2003 in a "washington post" poll, 69% said they believe it is likely the iraqi leader was personally involved in the attacks carried out by al qaeda. >> i don't remember anyone in the bush administration saying anything like that, nor do i recall anyone believing that. >> hmmm, you don't remember anyone in the bush administration linking saddam hussein to 9/11? no one said iraq ties to al qaeda. really? well, here is the clip the director rolled next. >> in a broadcast interview, saddam hussein said there is only one truth. iraq has no weapons of mass destruction whatsoever. and he went on the say i would like to tell you directly we have no relation

what does he think of rumsfeld? >> host: edward, what do you think of secretary rumsfeld?he delay, unfortunately. bing west, what do you think of secretary rumsfeld? >> guest: i believe that secretary rumsfeld should have resigned after abu ghraib. that that became an albatross around his neck ask around the neck -- and around the neck of the war effort and the president. and at some point, it would have been better simply to say, mr. president, it happened on my watch. that's all you have to say, that's it. give it to somebody else. my responsibility. if you're in the navy and you're in charge of the ship and you go to sleep and that ship runs aground or something, your odds of getting relieved are very, very high. even though you were asleep because it was your vessel. you're supposed to be responsible for everything. i think secretary rumsfeld, it would have been much better for everybody if he had resigned at that time. >> host: prior to abu ghraib, what did you think of his management of the war? >> guest: management of the war. tricky subject. manage, lead, it is my

. >> like donald rumsfeld. >> or gone za less. >> they did not get the same treatment. it wasn't let's move on to the next nominee. >> i have to say in her defense, she gave the obama administration, the biggest embarrassment of the last six years. she also gave them their biggest success. it balances. it wasn't pretty. >> on the one hand, she didn't write the code. so she is not solely responsible for the website batching but she ran that department and failed to warn the administration. did the press make her a scapegoat for all the things that went wrong with this program? >> no, i don't think so. there are some good things about the program. the website was botched. it should never have happened. somebody had to pay the price. >> the nominees or cabinet officers who got pushed out were beaten up by the press. >> i remember a lot of beating up on donald rumsfeld. i don't know where you were. i don't think he was treated gingerly by the press. >> that's not my point. >> the story that came out. "the wall street journal" and "the washington post" focused on the next no

start with a quote from morse amara has come out with this book about rumsfeld. he has investigated very thoroughly and thinks there are a lot of unanswered questions. the quote i use is basically the truth is out there and in principle we can find it. that was my driving force. the truth is out there. i did the best i could. i do not know if what ever get to the bottom of this unless something people really knows what happened or not completely discredited, i do not think they are discredited, but everybody thinks crystal magnum is discredit. just now a convicted murderer in jail for murdering her boyfriend. anything mike nifong -- and they think mike nifong is the antichrist. >> where is he now? urham and livesd on a pension. he has health problems. he had cancer. he has had a heart attack. he was a very quiet, solitary life. he did spend the time to talk to a chance to tell his story that has never been told. as you mentioned crystal magnum. let's take a look at her. this is after she was found guilty of murdering her boyfriend. [video clip] gail magnum. juryh

the website was botched. >> does the administration --. >> i remember rumsfeld and he was beaten up. >> my point. my point. my point. >> the "wall street journal" and the "washington post" both focused on the next nominee, they did not rehash her career. >> in in the "new york times" article she was called a proven manager and they gave that information to the media whether they took it and ran with it, it was difficulty. >> i was struck by the contrast of public words of praise and show was allyibility and we want her from out of there. they come from people in the background whispering to reporters. >> now an interview last weekend that jeb bush talked about immigration and whether he would run for president in 2016. we will look at that and reaction. >> they broke the law but it is not a felony. it is an act of love and commitment to your family. >> and hillary clinton says i am the first woman president and jeb bush said i am the third bush credit. >> saying this is an act of love is we czar. >> i ask you this love billion, if it was a trial balloon to test the water for possible

donald rumsfeld joins us.d evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. >> how serious is what is going on in crimea, ukraine, russia? >> it's very serious because it is a pattern, this is -- russia is an authoritarian state. putin is going to push as far as he can until he sees that the cost is too high and the resistance too great and there is too much to lose. and to the extent that we continue a pattern of words incrementalism as opposed to stiffer sanctions and in my view lethal and nonlethal assistance to countries that he is pushing against. i suspect what we will see is not just ukraine but down the road you can see him doing similar things as he did in the republic of georgia. he can be doing it in other central asian countries. >> should the sanctions that have been imposed. should they be imposed on putin. the saxes are imposed around him not on him personally. he is a very wealthy man, right? >> i assume that he has never shown me his bank book. >> he hasn't shown me either. have you ever met him? >> oh s

e could not overcome the cheneys between rumsfeld axis on the one hand axis on the powell other. he did nothing the president was willing to make that kind of or bridge that divide. rice came to the state department. steve hadley moved up to be a very effective national security advisor. bob gates came in, one of the great team players you're ever going to encounter. in the second bush term had a much better and more effective foreign-policy ordination and execution than the first term. into lessons carried over the obama administration. the reality about the obama administration, there was very intensive policy process, and that continues to this day. from secretary clinton to jim steinberg when he was deputy national or deputy secretary of state, even jack lew as deputy secretary of state, they got pulled into five or six deputy committee meetings on a daily basis. at some point, a couple of my colleagues of the assistant secretary level were saying, do you have any more meetings? we will be able to do what they've told us to do because by the time we get out of a policy meetin

we went through all of the 17 people from michael balloon to don rumsfeld and we found these principles flowed through all of them. even iran brook. these core principles resinate. and i think we get too caught up in trying to fight each other over policy differences. >> you said the american revolution was more of an evolution than a revolution. i think kirk said something similar. are your thoughts on the declaration and is that something the people should be united on? >> that is a good question. my wife is an attorney a believes in black letter law. that is a question beyond my ability. but i will tell you we live in two nations almost. pew research, a great organization, did a piece of work recently and asked people what they felt about abortion in almost all cases. 75% of people in the northeast said abortion should be in almost every case. 60% of people in the south disagreed with that. gay marriage: 62% of northerners. 61% of southerners not for it. and it is just fascinating to see how we are really two nations. if you really pay attention to the declaration of independence you

don rumsfeld, dick cheney, no surprise. and tyler and leave the consistently explained no, that this shouldn't be done. it was a mistake. not that the law shouldn't give authority in exceptional circumstances to the justice system to take such steps, but that the attorney general, weighing the situation, has to take into account our entire political culture. you have to recognize the best part of the american tradition respects journalists and journalist writes you investigate and bring out facts that are painful to the government, even those respecting national security matters. an importantere is element of political accountability, shared by the president and the attorney general. with thism legislation is a tendency to sort of mainstream the process, make it something pretty routine that goes through and then goes to a judge, and the judges making the decision. we can say that judicial check is the hallmark of democracy, alsohe political -- tyler raise with me a very serious concern he had about the way the justice depa

you're the first secretary to go there since don rumsfeld. left and they gave him the gift of a worse. my question is, are you prepared for a similar gift, it is there room on the plane? [laughter] >> i do not know if they would consider giving me a horse, but i would be privileged if they would give me any recognition of our partnership. probably there is no place for livestock that i have seen on that plane. >> take a look at this, this is no joke, or is it? speaking of leadership, guess which big banks have ceos that are underpaid? ♪ >> you are watching "lunch money ." we are also streaming live on bloomberg.com and your tablet and smartphone. bank of america ceo brian monahan made $13 million last year. what if i told you he is underpaid? that is the conclusion in the new study by bud crystal. we discussed that finding with betty liu. >> what he did was crunched numbers in 2013 scales, will return, and their tenure as eeo -- ceo. and created a going rate for each ceo. bryan moynahan's was about 30% lower than what he thought it should be.

michael barone -- don rumsfeld. and we found that these were -- these principles flow through of them, even the head of the iranian society or foundation, i think it is called. these core principles resonate. we get too caught up in trying to fight each other over policy differences. >> another question. >> you said that the american revolution was more of an evolution than a revolution. i was wondering, what are your thoughts on the relevance of that declaration and how we interpret the constitution, and is that something conservatives should be united on? >> that is a really good question. my wife is an attorney, and she believes in black letter law. other people believe in and using the declaration. i think that that is a question beyond my ability, but i will tell you that we live in two nations. i saw there is an organization that did a piece of work recently. they asked people what they felt about abortion. you may have seen there research 75 percent of people of the northeast said that abortion should be avai

>> well, because it's a thank you, and it's the same thing that donald rumsfeld did nine years ago. this is a small country, small as it may be, has had troops go to afghanistan and iraq. for the u.s. military, that's a big deal. and any country that has contributed to those efforts gets a thank you from the defense secretary, and that's one reason they went out of their way to go to mongolia. if i'm not mistaken, fastest growing economy in the world right now in mongolia as well. one reason, two good reasons to make the visit, but mainly a thank you for their contributions in afghanistan. >> bloomberg's "surveillance" from washington. later this morning, a conversation with christine lagarde of the international monetary fund, and then i'm really looking forward to speaking with jim yong kim, former president of dartmouth college, he is the president of the world bank. really looking fwoord that as well. scarlet? >> we will speak with you in a little bit, tom. meantime, we want to introduce our guest host for the hour. nomi prins from gold gold. she also worked at bear stearns befo

. >> you are on your way to mongolia, the first defense secretary to go there since rumsfeld.eft, they gave him the gift of a horse. my question is, are you prepared for a similar gift and is there room on the plane? >> i don't know if they would consider giving me a horse, but i'd be privileged if they gave me any recognition of a partnership with the united states. there is probably no place for livestock that i've seen on the plane. >> he named the nine-year-old horse shamrock after his high school mascot. finance ministers, central bankers, and other officials are gathering in washington for the imf and world bank spring meetings. >> let me start by saying the main message of the report that we are presenting today is that we have begun to turn the corner from the global financial crisis, in the global financial stability is significantly improving. >> i like good news. please tell us more. >> it is too early to declare victory because there is a need to move beyond liquidity dependence by overcoming the remaining challenges to global stability. >> so despite a strengtheni

biggest question now is what happens or doesn't happen between the united states and what donald rumsfeld called old europe, essentially germany, france and old britain. >> bob, when you are in moscow, what is your sense of what moscow's game is? is it a type of crimean style annexation, or are they trying to put pressure on the government and get the best deal they can? autonomy for the east, a pledge that ukraine will never join nato? what is the end goal here for putin? >> almost certainly i think it's the latter. that is, i think they're primarily concerned with producing a ukraine they can live with that protects russian influence within ukraine, and that does prevent it from moving toward the west. the issue of how much autonomy you give to the east is simply instrumental is simply i path to that broader based objective. that objective is no longer in hand, therefore, i think we're in for a long period of what i would call dangerous, suspended animation. >> richard, one of the things that strikes me about this situation is that the prize here, if you win in this little struggle, you

donald rumsfeld appropriately questioned the so-called snowflake or 2003, whether the u.s. strategy was creating more extremist than it was one minute. that remains the fundamental question. the salish aside set off a bomb in 2010 by ongoing germ operations in pakistan. those operations have been instrumental in reducing the threat posed by core al qaeda. of course one with osama bin laden. to be clear, the threat is not disappearing, but represents a danger that can be effectively managed at a reduced level of effort. will we continue to do in pakistan comes at a very high cost. from a policy standpoint appears the obama at industry should not receive an president pledges to increase transparency of drawing operations has respected an arrangement strap to the bush administration and the musharraf government that neither country talked publicly about drawing operations in pakistan. the united states treats john operations that whatever we chose to call them, they're not induce in the media provides regular updates on current operations and a number of organizations, includi

>> donald rumsfeld proves on tax day he's never been big on fact finding. >> this tax system collects much in revenues. >> shut up, take my money. >> and there are unknown unknowns. the ones we don't know we don't know. >> i have absolutely no idea in what's going on. >> today's top trender -- census incensability. >> there are new allegations today that the administration is, quote, cooking the books on the obama care numbers. >> conservatives claim census changes will hide obamacare's effect. >> this, to a lot of people, is awfully convenient. >> watch for the speaker of the house john boehner to say how convenient. >> it might make obamacare seem more successful than it. >> spokesman for eric cantor saying the obama administration changing the census survey in order to hide the failure of obamacare. >> they will, i'm sure, pocket whatever talking point they can get out of this. >> joining me congressman from california, congressman, good to have you with us. what's your response to the right wing claim that the changes in the census is the administration cooking the books to make o

to hear the bush administration in defense donald rumsfeld give his account, made me sick. there's only one side of the coin. pat tillman's legacy survives. courageous americans like his wife marie, give us hope that his life was not in vain. i had the honor to sit down with her this week. so, who was pat tillman? >> you know i think that the great thing about pat is that his life and his memory sort of means different things to different people. but he was definitely someone who lived with passion and purpose. he was one of those people where what you see is what you get. and i think one of the great things about him that even as he started to get attention for playing football and was sort of out there in the public eye, he was always the same guy. i think that's something that people were attracted to. >> you were with him when 9/11 happened. >> mm-hmm. >> how did 9/11 affect him? >> you know i think like a lot of americans, it was a time for him, and for all of us to sort of take a step back and reevaluate what we were doing with our lives. and for him in particular it

i don't want to be donald rumsfeld, but -- [laughter] what we don't know we don't know. [laughter] as much as i tell myself this all comes to the surface, all confess, reach the resolution with their sons, question asking sons, i'm just not sure that it only happens rarely and seize on the moments when the truth does come out because, you know, stories are complete, and the last question before going to the microphones. as the general question for all you on? , the subjects, writing the book for communication, what in the course of doing this research, beginning a project with certain assumptions in their mind? this is what probably will happen, and this is what i'm going to be telling the story about, putt together your book, and somehow, it always happens to through the course of research and writing the subject changes. stories res enate on a personal level. that's mainly because it's too reverse converge, and that starts my strange lessons in which i grew up on both sides of the tracks and came into quack at an early age with america's dirty little secret which is cl

back to donald rumsfeld who did not resign when the iraq war was going really badly but left after anlection. and i look at her now, she is able to write the narrative better for herself now. she -- if she had resigned in the middle of the obamacare problems, the web site problems when even allies from calling the rollout a disaster, that would have been her legacy. now she can go out and claim it's a success. the white house is going to claim it's a success. here's the thing going forward, going towards the 2014 elections, you are looking to a nomination hear, that's going to put obamacare and its problems back in the headlines and i think at the end of the day that's going to be good for republicans. >> maybe i'm the quintessential defense lawyer, wes, if this thing does go belly up, she won't be here, you know, to be the one belly up. but she certainly who's -- has taken loot of hits and deservedly so. >> a ton of hits on this. nina's point is great. the timing on this is really everything. they hit the 7 million mark they said in the beginning that's the goal post. she can lee and

. >> it was mentioned on this panel bush and cheney and i think even rumsfeld.what i wanted to know is what the panelists are doing to prevent the united states from going into another war particularly ukraine where we contributed to overthrow the government and all the other places that were meddling in. what are we doing to prevent this so we don't have more discussions about ptsd and tbi. under a democratic president by the way. i wonder what you're doing. >> to answer that question for me i'm not specifically or politically -- i don't see my role as political activism but there is a political inextricable political element to the ptsd in the sense -- and i think this is where it's good to recognize that there are broken soldiers out there because the soldiers that are suffering are symbolic of all of this suffering that went on and all the suffering that the war inflicted. .. is the symbol that you can talk to someone and you can see there is the symbol of the soldier who paid for his country, that we are forced to pay for his or her treatment and to deal wi

next up, yesterday was the deadline to file income taxes, and along with his taxes, good old donald rumsfeld which says he has no idea if anything he filed was correct. "i can't have any confidence that i know what is being requested, and therefore, i cannot and do not know as i suspect a great many americans cannot and will not know whether or not their taxes are accurate." he's sent a letter like this to the irs every year for at least two decades. >>> also in line, former presidential candidate mitt romney. his son josh tweeted out this picture of romney in line at the post office with the caption, "hey, senator reid, here's a shot of mitt romney paying taxes. does it every year, it's how you get your paycheck." ouch, looks like somebody is still bitter when harry reid claimed romney hadn't paid taxes for ten years, which the former massachusetts governor denied. a former spokesman responded by poking fun at romney's wealth. >>> up next, the so-called objective report that cleared chris christie, we now know the law firm behind the report made a major consideration to the republican gover

a picture of rove, rumsfeld, cheney. that would be intense. and he knows it. he knows it would show too much of how bad it got. >> right. and in a sense, that aspect, coming from a successful politician like himself, is not that surprising, because he's always had an ability to craft a narrative, regardless of the facts or the record. you see that in the libraries, these presidents often build for themselves. you see it in the biographies they write after the presidency. art being something more abstract, but to your point, really hits some of those same themes. jerry saltz, "new york" magazine, thank you. this was an interesting one. >>> coming up, could the civil rights act of 1964, a very important piece of legislation, do you think that could pass today? the answer might seem obvious, but it's not. and we'll look at why, straight ahead. >>> if you've been missing chris hayes on "all in" this week, and who hasn't, check out this video we just found on the internet. ♪ ♪ >> that is odd. chris hayes will be back, we promise, and he'll bring an explanation for

filing those taxes is an incredibly painful process, one filled with so much uncertainty that donald rumsfeld himself considers it a known unknown. writing in a letter to the irs today that he has absolutely no idea whether his tax returns and his tax payments are accurate. for tens of millions of americans, the tax process could be so much easier if only anti-tax ideologues, like grover norquist and the tax prep industry would get out of the way. ezra klein explains. >> there is a very simple way that tax day could stop sucks for tens of millions of americans. the irs could simply do their taxes for them. the irs already knows what you make, and they know what you're probably going to owe. so they do your taxes for you. they send you the tax return and they let you make any changes you want. if you want to make your taxes more complicated, great. if you don't and most people don't, you can simply sign off and that's it, you're done. austan goolsbee, an expert on taxes, he's run the numbers on this plan. he says having the irs auto-prepare taxes would save americans more than $2 billion in ta