many of us will recall what then-secretary of defense donald rumsfeld, george w. bush's secretary of defense, told the american people on the day before 9/11. never got a lot of attention. the day before 9/11, rumsfeld said, quote, our financial systems are decades' old. according to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions, end of quote. i don't know that the situation has changed very much since 2001 and rumsfeld's remarks. yet, nearly 20 years after rumsfeld's statements, the defense department has still not passed a clean audit, despite the fact that the pentagon controls assets in excess of $2.2 trillion or roughly 70% of what the entire federal government owns. mr. president, i believe in a strong military, but we cannot keep giving more money to the pentagon than it needs when millions of children in this country face hunger every day and 140 million americans cannot afford the basic necessities of life without going into debt. in 1967 dr. king warned us that, quote, a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on militar

he is very involved in the clash of the titans between secretary rice and colin powell and donald rumsfeld heard a mention earlier in team got along the port engine foreign policy the vice president was an important part of that. the vice president i just really liked into a serious situation with the vice president was able to tamp down conflicts. but sometimes he vice president is involved. civic thank you. great, with a lot of questions coming in salt try to get to as many as we can take it we can keep it short so we can get to some more of them. but also like to answer the question or have something to say we are happy to have you share your wisdom as well. i have another question hear from gabby g. which white house has the biggest fight that actually impacted policy? so i would sit with the ford administration on that the ford administration was powerline by the inviting. i some of the instances you had presidential addresses including states of the union that did not get resolved because of of some of the infighting. there is one there is the night before the state of the union and

filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of 16 men and women seeking to bring former secretary rumsfeld and secretary gates to justice. i heard about the lawsuit and decided to become a part of it. because i never wanted another woman to go through what i would. be a lawsuit alleges that they have overseen a system that has deprived the rape survivors of their constitutional rights specifically we allege that they deprived them of their substantive due process procedural due process equal protection and 1st amendment rights. he's sick to see everybody stories. how they kind of closely tied together everybody story somehow has a it's can. the military does to people like us all the things that they put in place are all pretty much intended to help women deal with being raped better that's what they're about. and join the military halfway through my senior year of high school awning to serve my country and do new things and challenge myself in a different way. i was in the army about 7 or 8 years before anything ever happened to me. by another c.i.t. agent who was senior to me. i was cont

it's on the internet signed by bill kristol and donald rumsfeld and all the people involved in the war in iraq. i thought why on earth are people inventing conspiracy theories about what happened when you literally can sit there and say here's a group of people who launched this argument but after the cold where american began to reassert its world power and began to beginning in iraq and then i found about -- heard donald rumsfeld after 9/11 saying -- saddam hussein. and when i did the research he absolutely said it. i was wondered about conspiracy theorists. if you want to get really involved look at the levers of power and look at how things change. it's all right there. you don't have to invent something happening in the basement of a pizza parlor or the idea that somehow somebody planted a birth certificate in hawaii or anthony fauci is somehow has started something with aids that has been uncovered by a failed medical researcher. it's right there. an element of that goes beyond it like you know something that nobody else does. and people feel on empowered. they want to say they k

channelling a bit of donald rumsfeld with the end of the beginning and beginning of the end, he remindedown unknowns. talking about the pain in spain, we had so many people thinking we could have holiday after all and here they are in limbo after all and here they are in limbo after all and here they are in limbo after all and some people got off the plane and two or three minutes later discovered they were going to have to self—isolate for 1h days when they got back. the impact of this is just huge. about 18 million britons go just huge. about 18 million britons go to spain every year in a normal year and it go to spain every year in a normal yearand it is go to spain every year in a normal year and it is the place that we like to escape, it's associated in our minds with gorgeous beaches and sunshine, and indeed the spanish wa nt sunshine, and indeed the spanish want to welcome us back and would like to have exceptions made for the balearic and canary islands. nevertheless, the ban is on and it does have implications for people coming back. they have quarantine and if they're going to

he played football at princeton, and very close to don rumsfeld. ned helped recruit me and gave me a great opportunity to start my career at a great firm. david: you stayed there 10 years before you were ready to do something else? john: i stayed 2.5 years. david: that's enough to learn the business? john: i thought so. i had confidence in my strategy in investing in small and midsized undervalued securities, and they said oh, there are not many people doing that. so we're kind of pioneers in small by you places. there were a few firms like acorn funds, and a couple of others, but not many people like to focus on that area of the market. david: you started your own company at what age? john: 24. david: where did you get the money to capitalize it. john: friends and family. my mom gave me everything she had that was liquid. my dad gave me what he thought he could afford to lose. after that i went to my former clients, my high school buddies, anyone who could give me $10,000 to help me start the company. david: how much capital did it take to start t

phrase sliding down you ask secretary of defense donald rumsfeld who will say there's a new europe and there's an old europe and the old europe according to the washingtonian view was paris and berlin who refrained from driving invasion into iraq and then you had the very recent need to member states such as poland such as hungary the czech republic who were very much in favor of trying the u.s. in that effort do you believe that the e.u. actually needs american military assistance. yes i do believe because it's i mean i'm not at all somebody will have an inside view on. aspects of. it on the information technology level or on the hard core equipment but. there is a very very rock circle of cooperation and you can discuss a lot in an academic in a political environment and on the need for a jewel in our youth or european feel are of need to all whatever damn many of the races on that but the big battle in my opinion is that the real situation of the army of the european armies as somebody who has been teaching at military academies both office of higher ranks chief of staff and others

and the chief of staff with donald rumsfeld and john lofton to be came chief of staff. and then to be in charge of tradition. they were were the transition people would take their jobs. and he says from what i hear her i would not be in this position right now. and then to have a second term so that chief of staff to understand and jim baker who is widely part and to see what a good chief of staff can do. but then to replace jim baker and doesn't get along as well with mrs. reagan. and jim baker so that's a hanging offense. so the chief of staff at the same time they get involved in conflicts. >> if i give advice to the incoming president how we deal with conflict in the white house what is your big advice and what you detail in the book and what we saw with the johnson administration and then to marginalize people and in fact people at the state department that are uncomfortable with that policy and they formed a little group to discuss those alternative actions but they were so nervous and then they met secretly and that is just way too much conflict and then with the

we're going to get that donald rumsfeld. i think a lot of that is i think you always should point to the top and look at leadership when your leadership variables then the country variables and then the country gets torn apart we're divided we're not the united states of america and that all that ultimately falls on in the lap of leader in our leader right now is donald trump in here has not done what we look for and leadership he has not accomplished what most leaders want to do which is to actually you know. night the people behind a common cause not unite house the country behind one person i think there where we look at some of the narratives that we've seen in media i think learn how to correct. you know there is a you know objective for one side or the other whether it's fox or most n.b.c. or some of the smaller networks they all have a merit of that they want to tell him that they want to show him and you know we could talk about the political left but i think it's a very good turn where you've got someone like joe bi

you know, a briefing by defense secretary donald rumsfeld at the pentagon.licopter in the persian gulf. we fired the best of the army's weaponry in the kuwait desert ten miles from iraq. we boarded the most secret surveillance aircraft in qatar. and we targeted a military outpost in the horn of africa, in gentleman budy. i returned home from this program impressed with the men and women who wore the uniform of our country overseas. but i was increasingly disenchanted with the administration because i thought they had taken their eye off the ball with regard to the hunt for bin laden. more than any other issue this is what would event lyle lead me to support obama bom for president. when senator obama first came on my radio program, 2008, he repeated that he would take the hunt for bin laden to pakistan, if necessary. and that was long before anybody knew that bin laden was hiding there. for saying so, he was ridiculed, by hillary clinton. joe biden, john mccain, and others. well we know how that ended. it looks likes for six and a half years we have been out

in the clash of the titans between secretary of the security advisor and then : powell and donald rumsfeldand cheney is the vice president. i mentioned earlier the domestic team got along pretty well the foreign policy team the vice president was an important part. i've not really seen in this situation for the vice president sometimes the vice president is involved so great we have a lot of questions coming in will get there as many as we can. keep it short so you get some more of them. have something to say we are happy to have you share your wisdom as well. i have another question from gaby g. which white house had the biggest fights it actually impact to the of policy? >> i like to go with the ford administration on that it was really paralyzed by the infighting mentioned with robert hartman yet presidential addresses including states of the union that would not get resolved because the inviting. those one place where it was the night before the state of the union his yelling at his staff because they had not resolve the conflicts with the state of the union. there's also a great story

pandemic with the government that you have, not the government you might want or wish to have as donald rumsfeld might say. for us, it has been quite the fatal revelation, the government that we have for this pandemic this, for example, was today as of today, he is still saying this >> mr. president, you've been saying for months that the virus would simply disappear, and now you're saying that it's likely to get worse before it gets better if it does keep getting worse, if americans keep dying, are you responsible for that >> well, the virus will disappear. it will disappear. >> this weekend, as we ran up against that six-month benchmark since the first person in the u.s. tested positive for covid-19, "the new york times" did this big deep dive, scathing review of how the white house has blown it so badly, including the specific scoop that most of the people making the real decisions about federal policy on covid on a day to day basis, quote, are aides who for the most part have no experience with public health emergencies according to "the times," the quote, sole public health professional who

both cheney and rumsfeld were very strong proponents of this point of view.ually had a great deal of impact. there are theorists of it. there are lots of lawyers developing around it and so forth. and then you have the view of it which is trump sink article two of the constitution i can do anything i want. >> they give him the ideology to support. i want to go to further places my time with you is running out. thereto for the things i want to touch on before he opened it up to questions. the first one, you've taken us all the way down in a dark dark hole. what is the way out? you've studied history. how do we get out of this? we are not even going to talk about some of the things anymore or boris johnson but right here in america as i watch let me put it this way as i watch the demonstration develop. i have felt great hope. people are in the streets resisting in the way since the 1960s black america's leading the way. there are literally hundreds of thousands of people out in the streets. how do we get from the mess we are in now to a better america? >> you r

people that were most enter mental and his victory by three votes, one was a young guy named donald rumsfeld and some was a congressman named bob dole. once that election really signified was the republican party was losing the center of gravity of the republican party, moving away from the old establishment. at that point, it was in the midwest but was already beginning to be a significant number of republicans in the south in both houses of congress. a trend that would evaporate. 20 years, later you can argue that the midwestern party has become the southern and western party. >> on twitter, there's this question. despised her familiar disposition, did her alone raise the kids contribute to her drinking? is that correct? and here's some of what she writes. i hated feeling crippled, so i took more pills. now i know that some of the pain i was trying to wipe out was emotional. jerry became minority leader, but i was beginning to fear for myself. it was for me, he gets all the headlines and applause, but what about me? in 1965, about a year after i began mixing pain medication with alcohol, a

victory by three votes over-charlie halak, one was a young congressman from illinois named donald rumsfeldnd the other was a republican from kansas named bob dole. but what that election really signified was the republican party was moving -- the center of gravity of the republican party was moving away from the old eastern establishment. at that point it was in the mid-west. but they're already beginning to be a significant number of republicans in the south in both houses of congress, a trend that would of course accelerate. and you know, 40 years later, you could argue that the mid-western party has become a largely southern and western party. >> allegheny on twitter asked this question, besides her familiar pre-disposition, did her being alone to raise the kids contribute to the drinking. i'll let betty ford's own words answer that question. she wrote two memoirs. here's some of what she writes. i hated feeling crippled so i took more pills. now i know some of the pain i was trying to wipe out was emotional. i was beginning to feel sorry for me. it was poor me. he gets the headlines an

but then we got another one which i cited which is hamdi versus rumsfeld in 2004.look at this case and how it has woven its way through the fabric of america's jurisprudence, what should we learn? >> well i think what we learned is that decisions that were made many years ago were under conditions that are very different than they are now. what justice breyer pointed out and i think quite rightly is that we cannot classify citizens anymore or any person for that matter simply on the basis of ethnicity. that is forbidden by the constitution. the due process clause and equal protection clause. what we can do is individualize and targeted protection of the country against specific threats and dangers. for example, if there is a credible threat that a particular person or even a member of a particular group is planning or about to carry out -- tonight states and this of course is very much in the news now with airplane bombings, the government has the power to detain that person for a reasonable period and if they have evidence that they have committed a crime, a feder

in 2004, handy versus rumsfeld also cited the decision and this case, the concurring opinion, i believe jackson's concurring opinion. 2014, the national labor relations board versus canning, which was a recess appointments case. i will show one more piece of video and we will wrap this all up. talking about the fight between congress and the president on who has authority. let us bring that to the modern age. we have the opportunity to interview theme members of congress in the judiciary committees for the series. next you will see senator leahy -- on the use of executive power by presidents. let's watch. >> any president has used executive power. the easy answer is congress doesn't like, it passed a law. >> i like to see the court step more and make decisions like that when congress or the private sector challenges the power of the executive branch. we have a president today who came to the congress as presidents do with his long list of things. every president does that. that they would liked congress to an act, changed from policies. but he did something different that i had never se

[laughter] i had to focus on rumsfeld he was ahead of the board of trustees they said would you pleasete a column i said it will write about tuskegee so went to encyclopedia that peanut butter was invented by george washington carver so i wrote a column was that i never endeavored a piece of my entire life but i did the first couple i doubt i shall ever see skippy peanut butter and then just like charlton heston is not skippy it is planters. that is the best. then the unidentified company says can you taste ours? it is the best it is called redwing. it is the best. that is what i always eat. you can't say give me redwing. you have to find it. there is a store outside the delicatessen. >> you also had a trip over there? >> >>caller: good morning. first thank you for your many contributions to the intellectual and literary life in this country. second, what thought word you have on the many novels and writings of ayn rand and her legacy in general to philosophy? >> i have a problem because if we go back a long way. when atlas shrugged was published whittaker chambers reviewed it in natio