>> for the reasons iraq wasn't going to be saddam hussein's iraq. iraq can stand up to iran and fight back against al qaeda terrorists. i will tell you something, the bottom line, i'm very very regretful for all the lives that were lost. you can't help be a part of that but i'm also. >> bill: wish we had done it another way. >> i'm also not regretful that saddam hussein is gone. >> bill: nor am i. >> sometimes you only have choices how can you do something. saddam hussein was leaving no other way. >> bill: timothy dollan enters the no spin zone factor exclusive. donald trump has a few things to say about how he would get america back on track. >> we have to take care of our country from the inside. and we have to fight the people from the outside. male spirit present.trong it's the priceline negotiator. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's new express deals. it's a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding. pick one with a pool, a gym, a great guest rating. >>and save big. >>thanks negotiator. wherever you are. ya, no.

>> for the reasons iraq wasn't going to be saddam hussein's iraq.n stand up to iran and fight back against al qaeda terrorists. i will tell you something, the bottom line, i'm very very regretful for all the lives that were lost. you can't help be a part of that but i'm also. >> bill: wish we had done it another way. >> i'm also not regretful that saddam hussein is gone. >> bill: nor am i. >> sometimes you only have choices how can you do something. saddam hussein was leaving no other way. >> bill: timothy dollan enters the no spin zone factor exclusive. donald trump has a few things to say about how he would get america back on track. >> we have to take care of our country from the inside. and we have to fight the people from the outside. [ manager 1 ] out here in the winds, i have to know the weather patterns. i upgraded to the new sprint direct connect. so i can get three times the coverage. [ chirp ] [ manager 2 ] it's like working in a giant sandbox with all these huge toys. and with the fastest push-to-talk... i can keep track of them all. [ c

iran hostage scenario and working with saddam hussein there is currently a massive lobbying campaign at the state department to remove them from the list. it is a ron's democratic opposition working for a nuclear free iran founded on human rights unjustly listed a terrorist group and u.k. is the victim of violence the radical regime in iraq and their iraqi allies europe has delisted any case and in two thousand and ten a us court order to review iranians u.s. lawmakers and former senior officials demanded listing secretary clinton for democracy and freedom in iran d. list any k. now that i make a fiercely opposes the current regime in iran which coincides of course of american interests in the region so does the us only dealing terrorists to those who are working against its goals in the middle east to break it down i was joined earlier by jamal abdi policy director of the national iranian american council here's his take. i know i know the history of the i mean i know what they have been alleged to have conducted even in recent years as far as conducting terrorist attacks inside of

its close silence city and in so much to a lecture the village that was bombed by saddam hussein and was wiped completely. her. her. it's the history did i think it's one of the calling in our century a leader been doing this to so many people. for. the first there is nothing we can do about it but the membrane collapse we can make you think how to prevent the. her womb what can we do to stop making it happen again as humans not this there's not this iran is not the same world she's you know not as citizens of any country but as humans. or. this is basically the adaptation of ageing from one thousand to twenty my interpretation has been to bring all of these elements in this this moral painting and see how it works in fun temporaries time. as i was working the ransom here on earth taking place in the green movement so a lot of this is his just parts he demands that they're shocked by mobile phones and recorded as rossi's made their patients the detainees and still. there's a reason for this uprising is that people vent on voltaire's and their voice was. told people even though you wa

ok you make an interesting point i have a good friend that is in iraq was a general under saddam hussein who came exile in this country and he's he told me many times that the only way to rule iraq given the diversity that we've just addressed is with iron fist i don't think that even my friend approves of some of the things that maliki is doing today however it is a diverse population that has had a history of warring or fighting amongst one another keep in mind it was the brits we can blame for you know drawing the lines that for modern day iraq it was a bit of an unnatural country that came together so you know some of the geo political you know realities of the future you know with terrans seeking. to maintain syria to maintain its grip on southern lebanon you know route all the way to the med and of course its new alliance of allegedly with. the new government in egypt has the sunni world a bit problematic a bit concerned yes we do face i think long term geo political challenges in that part of the world and as long as they have. control over obviously all that oil under their groun

ific fifteen hundred civilians have been killed in the last six months and then maliki's like saddam hussein to a certain degree in the he's consolidated power taking over the judiciary he's also consolidated six intelligence operations that in a kind of look over one another shoulder something very similar to what saddam had and then of course he controls all of the security forces as well has a special militia the effect. malaki which is something similar to what we heard under saddam as saddam so this is not. much to boast about the iraqi people deserve a lot better and it is i think teetering on being a failed state we'll talk about that in a second douglas it looks like we traded one dictator for another. oh i hardly think that's the case. look iraq has to various serious problems it's in a political crisis largely because the two major parties in the last election. allow always and maliki's state a law party essentially tied actually we got two more seats and then maliki was able to outmaneuver him and forming the government that's a lot of inside politics i'll get into that but essent

syria how did it pulls pretext of weapons of mass destruction similar to the one that toppled saddam hussein but to talk more now on syria's chemical weapons capacity i'm joined live by investigative journalist and academic paul last march the university in london thank you for being with us a lot's being said regarding syria's chemical potential from the u.s. britain israel what's their concern and do you think that the syrian regime is really preparing to use such weapons. well it's part of an escalating psychological warfare because it's been known and suspected that syria has had these weapons for quite some time but this is the first time last week that they've admitted to it but you know what you've got to understand is that chemical and biological weapons are no good against you know rebel units that are fighting door you know house to house combat these are the kind of weapons you used in you know nation against nation of full scale battles so the fact that the americans and other countries are getting so concerned is to put the emphasis on syria as a rogue nation i think that's very

well the situation until two thousand and three of course was saddam hussein had tight control of the country towards the possible chaos and save space of these kinds of terrorist groups to oppose the american presence. that began to wind of only the americans produced democracy in iraq but of course the irony if the americans falls that sixty percent of the iraqis voted coppola to use that now one of them that doesn't want to pursue u.s. policy mr leakey the current or minister of iraq was of course a refugee get us out of syria under saddam hussein so we have the situation but in a certain way the radical islamic groups are engaged in terrorist attacks in iraq running the insurgency to great extent of the south in syria are in no way on the same page as the right states even though only a few years ago they were told think sysadmins find a couple of tracks and so on against the american presence in iraq so we have this very complicated game of international violence international. relations in which for instance america's allies saudi arabia the gulf states are supporting the other

the situation until two thousand and three of course was that saddam hussein had tight control of the country afterwards it was the chaos in space that these kinds of terrorist groups to oppose the american presence there is a danger that the kind of bloody chaos that. will come back and this could also spread across a great present from the mediterranean coast of syria to war with iran and towards her and so we have a very unstable situation and it seems to me western states playing with fire in that we saw you know small scale who i can and i stand in line he's responsible radical really only seem to subscribe to the interest of michael now in a much bigger area with much more thought than your source seems to be the danger of a very severe disintegration or the very least final of the civil wars with officer here or in a way we in the west and in the wider world what's happening in the arab world can come across and of pages but i'm afraid a great you know it is really about who or really just domination between sunni fundamentalists against shiites. as influence is being felt beyo

there were he writes many other valid reasons for taking out saddam hussein among them more than numerous veelations of the u.n. resolutions. he insists america did the right thing in i rake and would do it again. he believes bush 41 should have finished the job on the first go-around but doesn't buy into the oedipal theefry much in vogue, that he upstaged his own man. against the war, likes your book. does that surprise you? >> no. i hope other people who read the book carefully. i've seen negative comments on the book and it sounded like they hadn't read it. but that sounds like a person who -- a serious person who has read it and that's what he thinks, and people can think what they think. that's the way our country works. >> interrupt me at any tooil, i'm going read you the column from last friday, february 11th. did you see that? >> i haven't. >> al new heart's 86, he was the found of usa today, he has a column every friday and says, don rumsfeld, best known and remembered as president george w. bush's secretary of defense before and duringite rack war penned 815-page book released t

, the united states of america has been shameful and disgraceful, as saddam hussein, kofi annan just announced today, that his plan has utterly fade and what do we need to do, we need to show leadership, president of the united states should be speaking out for the people of syria, second of all we should get arms to them so that we can balance the forces, it is not a fair fight, russian arms are pouring in, iranians are on the ground, people are being tortured, raped and murdered as a matter of follow by by ba is that correct as sad we need to establish a sanctuary .. so they can resist and prevail, i believe that some day he, bashir assad will go, my question to the president of the united states is how many more have to die before we take action to help these people with other nations and i don't mean american boots on the ground, it is shameful, the total lack of leadership that the united states has displayed for the last 14 months. >> senator, you talk about getting arms in to help the people. how do we know which rebels to help? because this is kind of a disparate group here,

saddam hussein did that. i don't know if he's going to do it.ks for being on top of this. you're one of the best. i think you are the best when it comes to anything foreign. anything outside this country, you're the best. >> you're nicer to me than on the last guest. at least you didn't call me a young kid that doesn't know anything. >> that's not true. >>> chris christie trash talked obama. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. i knew it'd be tough on our retirement savings, especially in this economy. but with three kids, being home more really helped. man: so we went to fidelity. we talked about where we were and what we could do. we changed our plan and did something about our economy. now we know where to go for help if things change again. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get free one-on-one help from america's retirement leader. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] what's the point of an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon if the miles aren't interesting? the lexus ct hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfectio

if the assassination had succeeded it would have prevented bush from invading iraq and killed saddam husseinhis is really hard. all right, let's try and do this in a simpler way. earlier in the program we learned the bank hsbc works with al qaeda. if there was some way, islamic ter wist-- terrorist money directly to michele back pan let's say through a 2008 campaign donation. let's look at the chart again. (laughter) (applause) i don't know, man. let's try it again. here's huma abedin's islamic terror connection, let's take a look. here's michele bachmann. hmmmm. maybe there should be an investigation. not to mention one more piece of unsettling evidence, michele bachmann is married to marcus bachmann who i think we all know is hiding something. (laughter) that his name is an anagram of arab's mann muncch. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ >> jon: welcome back. presidential candidate mitt romney continues to refuse to release his tax returns from any year prior to the years he was running for, i don't know, the presidency. (laughter) because as his wife ann romney explained today y don't you all shut

i thought it reminded me of an american version of saddam hussein. i had to say to myself, this is a football coach. this is not a big political figure. this is not someone who frankly in the end result really had much effect on our society as americans except for the fact we are so sports obsessed. i think it is the new opiate of the masses. >> i want to say a final word. my comment is the working class kids have been going to penn state for years, middle class kids, regular people from the state of pennsylvania have worshipped that university for so many good reasons. they now have -- they have to live this down now. but they have to understand that whatever is going through them right now, whatever bad news they have to live with, imagine what the victims have to go through to the last day of their lives. think of that and put it in proportion. do they really want to cover up and be part of that. i hope they say we can take a few defeats, we can't take that on the conscious. thank you, the great author of "father's day" and the great sports report

following the fall of saddam hussein's regime, he escaped jordan and made it to the united states. >>> another threat of storms exists tonight. seems like every 4th of july there is always some thoughts about the skies but so far, so good. >> it's right. i don't see any real organized system coming our way. i can say oh, yeah, being here at 8 or 9:00 and there is some spotty showers. this is really, really sticky out there. very, very hazy out there. the humidity stayed away for a couple of days and it's come back with a vengeance. can you see the tower in the distance there? the river in the distance? that is national airport on our tower camera. if it was not real humid and hazy, we could see that crystal clear. reagan national, 99 degrees the high temperature today. the heat index was well over 100 degrees and dulles, 96; bwi marshal was in there and it was a temperature of everyone in degrees. heat advisory with was issued and that is in place until 9:00 tonight. including the district surrounding the metro counties. not extreme northwest counties and this does not include washing

this was not the kind of person you would expect to become a saddam hussein leader, yet for the lasteral months, that's what the inner circle of the government has behaving. >> maybe like the godfather where he became more evil and evil until he was a devil, basically, or a bunch of uncles? he took over, thinking he's a doctor, he ends up on the throne, but he realizes immediately he's surrounded by a bunch of uncles telling him what to do. what happened here? >> a little bit of both. in the beginning, if you remember, bashar al assad was the darling of the international community, and some people in syria were very happy that he had come, and there was talk that he was going to be the new reformist and he was going to change the tone of syria. syria was becoming a hot travel destination, and there were travel magazines writing about the old city of damascus. they were not lying. it was a great place to visit a few years ago. >> what about vogue magazine and building up his family and how glamorous, the superficiality of a lot of journalism? >> exactly, and when pushed and cornered,

as the american troops chose that particular statue of saddam hussein because it was right across the palestine hotel there were hundreds of state used in baghdad but that they chose it because they wanted it to be thurmont it was not like in paris at the end of world war two many see you know when the parishioners who are out in the streets enthusiast agree welcome into liberation forces on the streets of baghdad who are empty they use their only in that square there was some commotion though in this hapless are. journalists who criticize the bush administration war plans got into trouble and some of them even lost their jobs in vietnam had resisted criticism kept the job goal for one hundred resisted criticism and kept the job by gulf war true criticism i'm gone the recipe for military press briefings that was established during the gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one was also used in the two thousand and three war the main difference was that this time hollywood type sets were built and millions of dollars were spent on the image making. that can take movies write stories som

coverage following the government's conception a large number of the american media demonize saddam hussein and discredited all those who are against the war some american sadly not interested in victory and yet they want us to believe that their behavior is patriotic well it's not. for media organizations and it's people the war did not start with the invasion in iraq but from the very moment president bush demanded the withdrawal of all journalists from the area of operations. for their own safety off foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave iraq immediately. the message was clear for all reporters and media personnel who had come to baghdad from all around the world they did not want them to move around and report freely without being monitored. what goes on in a war you know is deeply unpleasant people violate other people's rights people act in very cruel and inhumane way the last thing that military leaders want is to have independent observers of those sorts of violations and that's one of the reasons why you find the journalists were targeted. on the other

that the christian historical christian communities in iraq were virtually liquidated not under saddam hussein but in the conditions of chaos that followed the american takeover before an effective government could finally be established in iraq only within the last four or five years i just want to tell our viewers that you have three pulitzer price nominations for international reporting and you've been covering foreign affairs for so many years and i want to ask you. since you mention iraq what has changed in the media field in the u.s. since since iraq has something changed because i mean at that time as you said the media in general they they were basically cheerleading for war there was nobody to question nothing has really changed not since then the real lessons have not been learned there is a lack of courage and a lack of intellect i believe in the american broadcast media let's say with the regards of the coverage of the arab spring i'm sure it is certainly watching what has been left out of the media attention what would you point out several things first of all the successful democ

officials pounded into our heads that we are inmminent dangersycho pharmt is the new drug from saddam hussein and usama bin laden, the terror alert level stays elevated with the two lowest levels blue and green never having been used at all. is all of this pushing up the demand for psycho pharmaceutic pharmaceuticals? we put that question to our guest, but first here are their born, new york city, 29 years of age, single, jewish, democrat, wes leann university, con net ca ba, engli late night with david letterman, cbs reports researcher, and altogether, six months. new york magazine, intelligencer intern. editorial assistant. book columnist. features writer. co currently author, working on her first book, female chauvinist pig, simon and schuster, free press. hobbies, cooking, traveling, extreme cooking, gym addict ariel levy, born bosto 62 years of age, wife margaret, three children, democrat, harvard college ba, english. ma gill university, montreal, m.d.. massachusetts mental health center, resident in psychiatrist, three years. u.s. army, pentagon major, two years. faculty appointments, h