saddam hussein was a bad guy. they had one thing in common. they killed terrorists, okay? we would have been better off if we never looked at the middle east for the last 15 years. >> let's get to another question. >> mr. trump, i have jamie eckman, registered republican, married, three kids. still undecided. >> my relative is a natural-born american in the military, deployed. his father and stepmother are undocumented citizens here in the -- undocumented people here in the united states for the last 25 years without any way of adjusting their status. if you're president, what will you do for those members that are the fabric of our country that have been here for 25 years

well, pervez, you have to remember that, for saddam hussein, may his name be whispered with lasting reverencetion. i mean, saddam is running against, well, nobody. but the nobody he faces this year

supporting saddam hussein in the first, kicking him out of kuwait in a second, overthrowing saddam husseinnd the third, then occupying that country for eight years, hoping that when we departed in 2011, iraq could stand by itself. that has not happened. so we are back in it again. adversary isis. yes, isis needs to be destroyed. one of the lessons it seems to american power, american military power, does not fix the problem. it tends to worsen the problem. so the responsibility for the destruction of isis should fall on the shoulders of those who -- most threatened by isis that happens to be the countries in the region. were they to recognize that they have a common interest in destroying isis, they could in fact do so. but our insistence, that somehow it is our responsibility that american leadership, so-called, needs to be the decisive element , simply lets them off the hook. , we are inl bacevich new york right now, though we are headed out on a 100 city tour around the country, but right now new york is ground zero for the presidential race in a both for the republicans and the democra

he's talking about saddam hussein. he's talking about moammar gadhafi.did not mention hosni mubarak, but he should and could. the fact is we have destabilized the middle east through our policies, both some that are controversial to this day, some people will argue about for decades. your thoughts? >> well, start with iraq. once we removed saddam hussein and finally after three years changed our strategy and finally got peace in that country, it was a huge mistake of barack obama to withdraw the troops. you have to have a force to keep that place from blowing up. lou: mubarak? >> the big one. gadhafi i don't care what happened to him. mubarak was egypt, most important arab country in that part of the world. to not stick by him, obama can say america, america. >> it was a capricious, unnecessary act on the part of the u.s. government. libya, the same, again -- >> if you start something, you better know what you're going to do with it. there was no follow through. lou: i think there's a fair criticism here that the united states foreign policy elites, by t

in the end with saddam hussein. but on a final note in the where at a time that we never should have been their allies in the way. but what is happening in the royal family and also one final thing. i was born the year the u.n. was founded. they will change but you also had yugoslavia to be better off where they are now. are they better off? things are going to happen and did you think what might be better? they have the intermediate stage the what we have to do is think really big to stay at current course to be even more imagine the problems we have today. >> we have less than 10 minutes for questions. >> first appalled they call this was an inspiring panel. what is striking is an incredible amount of perplexity but one state has a dimension to this point that is potentially alarming to some. does israel matter in any of this? and then to discuss to that point. >> i have a list of questions. >>. >> if there is no nato efforts. israel always matters to the united states between obama added to netanyahu's and the sp

the problem is we still had to go into a rock to give of saddam hussein, and to distill a problem. --nd it is still a problem. that makes us responsible for what happens next great that really is a slippery slope geographically there are not areas in syria there were in a rock. -- iraq. there and you do not find areas in northern syria where people could go back. it is not like refugees want to go back to an area where they would be displaced, living intense, and so forth -- living in tents, and so forth. i think that it when it comes to andting the alternatives helping solve the civil wars and so forth, but we are going to be increasingly involved in what they call advise and assist, and we are likely to be sending more and more forces i think you will see an announcement in the next two or three weeks about hundreds more truly. and i think, again, this is something because the operation is a yeare mosul away. right that strawman don't work for the work, but people really want stability. and you see nothing on the horizon except for a small comment from john kerry rising over the num

the assad family, saddam hussein, and it was established and locked in place. but like the row houses it was a lot of appearance. there was a lot of rot which was ignorance, corruption, religious tension kept at bay by strong activities like those carried out by saddam hussein, and liken in these old houses you contain the rot but if you don't open the windows or the doors or spend any money on it you make it worse. that was the situation. this very fragile pardom. you could put your finger through the wall but the united states put their shoulder through the wall of iraq and started a sequence of events we are still living and experiences to this day. so eight years of direct military action started to destroy this status quo. and unlease all of the rot and these demons -- unleash -- and the very soon to be eight years of the obama administration we saw inconsistent policies. they were supporting the revolution in egypt and then days later not supporting it next door. and supporting uprising in libya but not in syria. so zigzagging through the middle east. and

one was saddam hussein had nuclear weapons, the second was that bashar al assad would be gone in a matter of weeks. when the administration said he's going to be gone in a matter of weeks and we were accused by the "new york times" of being a little slow, we're going to pick up for lost time and be fast with assad. he is not gone in a matter of weeks. there were other countries with a stake in syria. i think it's the wrong stake. i think syria needs to reflect its sinai majority, even though i would rather people be democrats and republicans

ever said to the administration meaning cheney or "w" that saddam hussein had nuclear weapons. >> a was not true. >> what did powell say. >> do you just believe people like that? >> colin powell? >> yeah. >> did -- >> did he actually say nuclear weapons or use the phrase weapons of mass destruction and confuse it a little bit? >> here is what i would tell you. when reagan had troops in lebanon, i voted against having them there. i said you don't get in civil wars. i now believe we need to get out of afghanistan. if i was president i wouldn't be announcing the time line but i would give the aircraft that the afghans need and i'd get out of there, and if we saw, you know, people acting up in there, we'd use special forces to take them out. let me go on. i have never been for being in the middle of civil wars. i'm not in favor of using u.s. forces on the ground against -- >> why were we in iraq? >> because we thought he posed a danger to us and the world. >> what was the danger exactly? >> nuclear weapons. >> who told you he had nuclear weapons? >> i just wonder who told you -- >> yeah

. >> bets on the prediction market in trade even predicted when saddam husse saddam hussein would bet date tripled in price. >> when saddam hussein was found hiding at the bottom of the hole. >> in-trade accurately predicted "american idol" winners, and oscar winners. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> part of what makes prediction markets work is the wisdom in crowds. some people betting here may be fools making bad bets, but the crowd of people probably won't. you see that on the tv show "who wants to be a millionaire." >> can i ask the audience? >> you want to ask the audience? >> contestants can ask the audience, or an expert. >> the experts do pretty well. they get the answer right 65% of the time. but the audience gets it right 91% of the time. >> yes! $50,000! >> political prediction markets have a long history. 100 years ago, they were popular. >> they weren't really legal for the most part, but they reported. newspapers reported on them because it's what they had to report on them. these were bookies, i guess. >> yes. >> in fact, there was more money trading back and forth

kasich: i was also there when i saw the arab muslims lined up with the west to push saddam hussein outit. and i remember when we won so decisively and people said we should of gone into baghdad to complete the job, and a remember how smart george h.w. bush was with his advisers in not going to baghdad and the getting the job done and coming home. i was called into the pentagon after 9/11 by secretary rumsfeld, with the former secretaries of defense, and from that meeting forward for a number of years i led technology experts into the pentagon to deal with technology problems. think about that arc. all the way from defeating the soviet union, the berlin wall collapsing, to a united coalition of arabs and westerners to defeat saddam hussein, all the way to 9/11. that is why am prepared today. six years into my term as congressman i found myself on the budget committee. i was complaining that the republicans and democrats were not serious about balancing the budget. i wanted balance the budget for two reasons. the immorality of leaving debt to the children, and i knew that if you could ba

armed forces to remove saddam hussein hussein's forces from kuwait. opposed it because i felt the economic and diplomatic sanctions i just voted for should have been given more time to work. i was not ready to give up on sanctions in favor of war. in the end, i was one of just two republicans, along with senator hatfield of oregon, that opposed the resolution. i was under pressure from president bush, vice president quayle, white house chief of staff john sununu. i even was pressured by then-iowa's governor, terry branstad, no once again iowa's governor. i heard from a lot of iowans, particularly republicans, who were disappointed and even angry with my position. some were even considering a public rebuke because of my vo vote. being one of just two republicans, it was difficult to differ with a republican president on such major issue, but as i stated at the time, my decision was above any partisa partisanship. it was a decision of conscience rather than a matter of republican versus democrat. after a tremendous amount of soul-searching, i did what i

mosul dam built by saddam hussein's regime on weak foundations has fallen into disrepair. and dangerously so. engineers warn that it could break at any time. what would happen if the dam broke? >> large part of mosul will be flooded. anything on the way all the way to baghdad would take a few days to reach baghdad. it would be -- flooded all over, everything, you know, on the way. >> the u.s. says it could trigger a 45-foot high flood wave on the river tigress endangering the lives of 1.5 in a part of the world already suffering the effects of another man made catastrophe. holly williams, cbs news, erbil, iraq. >>> the reopening of a major oil refinery and the neighbors against it. >> an escalator sends fliers fans flying. and we're off off to the drone races. continues. geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. plumpify your lashes with new plumpify mascara a ginormous lash lifting brush boosts lashes to 50 times the volume new plumpify mascara from easy breezy beautiful covergirl >>> an exxon mobile refinery has the go ahead to reopen after an explosion last year. n

he met with iraq's prime minister at one of saddam hussein's former palaces. >>> the u.s. is condemning air strikes that killed dozens in northern syria the past 24 hours. a children's hospital took a direct hit. rescuers carried young victims from the rubble. they believe the as sad lead government and proof that the partial cease-fire has collapsed. >>> sources tell the associated press 16 u.s. service members have been disciplined for mistakes that lead to the bombing of a civilian hospital in afghanista they received administrative punishment. the pentagon is expected to release a full report tomorrow. >>> pat roberts is blocking a vote on the nomination of eric fanning to be the next army secretary. he won't allow a vote until president barack obama promises no detainees from guantanamo bay will be moved to fort levinworth kansas. senator john mccain said it's unfair to block the nomination over an unrelated issue. if confirmed, he would be the first openly gay leader of a u.s. military service. >>> you will need a jacket and umbrella tomorrow? >> topper shutt is trac

look, gadhafi, saddam hussein are brutal murdering thugs, no debate about that. but what we have got to do and what the president was saying is we didn't think thoroughly about what happens the day after you get rid of these dictators. regime change often has unintended consequences. in iraq and in libya right now where isis has a very dangerous foothold. and i think if you studied the whole history of american involvement in regime change, you see that quite often. >> secretary, we're going to let you respond. >> well, i -- i would just point out that there was a vote in the senate as to whether or not the united states should support the efforts by the libyan people to protect themselves against the threats, the genocidal threats coming from gadhafi and whether we should go to the united nations to seek security council support. senator sanders voted for that and that's exactly what we did. >> no. >> yes, we did. we went to the security council we got support of the security council and we then asked for support of our european allies. and this was a request be

saddam hussein was a bad guy. they had one thing in common. they killed terrorists, okay? we would have been better off if we never looked at the middle east for the last 15 years. >> let's get to another question. >> mr. trump, i have jamie eckman, registered republican, married, three kids. still undecided. >> my relative is a natural-born american in the military, deployed. his father and stepmother are undocumented citizens here in the -- undocumented people here in the united states for the last 25 years without any way of adjusting their status. if you're president, what will you do for those members that are the fabric of our country that have been here for 25 years undocumented? >> won't they be deported? >> when you say natural-born citizens, that's interesting. i assume you were born here. why do you mention that? because you know who always says that? ted cruz. he was born in canada and lived there for four years. i'm a natural-born citizen when, actually -- >> i'm not for cruz. >> born in canada. but, you know what? he has no path right now -- >> what's your pl

out saddam hussein, we cut off the head of the hydra on bold, now we have a ran to deal with.ut it is on and on and on when it comes to the unintended consequences of our military intervention. amy: you're part of a lawsuit going after the presidential debate commission? >> yes, on the basis of the sherman act that politics is a business, that democrats and republicans collude with one another to exclude everybody else. we think the discovery phase of this lawsuit is going to provide national insight into just how rigged the system is. i come back to the fact that 50% of americans right now declare themselves as independent. where is that representation? amy: that is interesting post up it certainly is what bernie sanders talked about, talking about the fact that 3 million new yorkers did not vote and saying that if he were the democratic nominee, that he is the best chance of beating, for example, donald trump because of all of the independents that could vote in november that have not been able to vote in closed primaries. i want to turn to senator jerry ortiz y pino. you ar

three or four years, and then saddam hussein would hit someone. they moved 10 feet. 10 feet. what did we do? we went in and destroyed, destroyed the military capability of one of the two nations. and now iran is taking over a rack as sure as you are standing aq as sure asand ir you are standing air. and so many of you are standing. it is amazing when people have seeds and they still want to stand to see trump. isn't it? i appreciate it. so we are going to change. we are going to be so great for the military and on or in policy and we're going to do things right. we protect many, many nations and we are not reimbursed properly for the protection. many of these nations are very wealthy. we protect germany. we protect japan. i love germany, i love japan. many friends. we have 28,000 soldiers on the line. there are a dangerous position to be in. they are making a fortune. thousands of televisions every year for different projects. where did they come from? south korea. that's fine. they are moneymaking behemoths. we take care of them. we protect saudi arabia. i have many friends

. >> were we wrong to go to war with saddam hussein? mr. brown: i did oppose it. i do not feel i know the full facts. i don't have the full information. somethingt be saying more comic -- know the: i don't relationship between bush and saddam hussein and the encouragement he was given and the ambiguous signals in those days before he invaded. the efforts that bush made to get foreign credits for saddam. the use of information they made available. they made the impression that they encouraged him in ways whether intended or not and i think that were could have been stopped and had bush listened to some of the congressmen telling him he's moving in the wrong direction. with the extent of the nuclear utility i think you have to take it out. i supported the attack on the research reactor -- reactor and i'm not about to see that men have weapons of mass destruction. >> do you think that bill clinton has the character and integrity to be president? thatrown: i think clinton's record of compromise and accommodation with what i would call the politics of usual positiongiv

republican congressman steven russell, a decorated combat soldier who helped hunt and capture saddam husseinhas stood up to his own party, appealing for america to not turn its back on muslim refugees fleeing syria and iraq. it was four days after the islamic extremist terrorist bombings in paris last november. republican speaker of the house paul ryan called for a halt to the u.s. accepting refugees from syria -- predominantly muslim groups that isis terrorists threatened to infiltrate. speaker ryan: this is a moment where it's better to be safe than sorry, so we think the prudent thing to do is to take a pause in this particular aspect of this refugee program in order to verify that terrorists are not trying to take advantage of these laws. infiltrate the refugee population. sharyl: according to gallup, 60% of americans approved of stopping the program. >> there was a massive call for immediate cessation of people coming in on visas. sharyl: and, specifically, from syria, right? congressman russell: well, named specifically from syria and iraq. some wanted to extend that to certain religio

mosul dam which was built by saddam hussein's regime on weak foundations has fallen into disrepair. and dangerously so. engineers warn that it could break at any time. >> reporter: what would happen if the dam broke? >> a large part of mosul will be flooded in a matter of a few hours. and then anything on the way, all the way to baghdad t would take a few days to reach bag everything, you know, on the way. >> reporter: the u.s. says it could tricker a 45 foot high flood wave on the river tigris, endangering the lives of 1.5 million people, in a part of the world already suffering the effects of another manmade catastrophe. holly williams, cbs news, erbil, iraq. >> the reopening of a major oil refinery and the neighbors bens it and an escalator sends flyers fans flying. and we're off to the drone races continues. to you, they're more than just a pet. so protect them with k9 advantix ii. it kills fleas, ticks and mosquitoes. k9 advantix ii. it's the little things in life that make me smile. spending the day with my niece. i don't use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit we

after 12 long years, the iraqi regime of saddam hussein still refuses to honor its obligations underlution 687. it is clear that, absent the threat of force, it has no intention of ever doing so. the time for delay is past. it's time to act. thank you. [ speaking german ] woman: thank you, secretary powell, for a very compelling presentation. after hearing it, no member of this council can doubt the gravity of the situation in iraq. clearly the most important thing right now is to do nothing and the sooner the better. does the delegate from france wish to comment? [ speaking french ] man: i too commend secretary powell on his program here today. very enjoyable. and those weapons of mass destruction, so unnecessary. but to conclude our business here today, my government would like to propose the following, that we adjourn this special session of the security council and all go to lunch

he touched on saddam hussein and moammar gadhafi, bad men but. >> they were great at killing terroristere great. we are not good at killing terrorist. >> reporter: in the middle of talking about trade, trump shift todd playing golf as a wharton student at philadelphia's cobbs creek course. >> you met people at cobbs creek that were actually, very, very sophisticated hustlers and if you can survive on cobbs creek, you could practically survive every where. we love philadelphia, let me tell i folks, we love it. >> shout out to philadelphia there. jim, trump touched on a lot of topics. there was one he did not touch on. did he not repeat earlier remarks he made this morning concerning the so-called bathroom law in north carolina and how it impacts transgendered people. trump had been critical have the law saying it caused an uneasy strive. ted cruz camp blasted trump immediately claiming he was in the league with politically correct leftist elite. live from harrisburg, john rawlins for channel six "action news". >> thanks, john. >>> john kasich made two stops in the delaware valley today.

i'm glad saddam hussein is dead. i'm glad that gaddafi is dead. having said that, we're going to have to understand that when the dictator falls and the taliban are taken down, the hard work begins. sharyl: graham's marshall plan 2.0 envisions a germany-led global effort to pour upwards of $150 billion worth of humanitarian and economic aid into middle -eastern countries that are teetering on the edge. graham: what i would want to do is create a new pot of money, low interest loans, preferential treaty agreements with this fragile states only if they'll change. we're not going to write checks to people who are just throwing folks in jail they don't like. we're not going to write checks to countries where people who run the government rip off their own populations. sharyl: where does the pot of money come from, because other republicans might say, and probably are saying, we're broke. graham: pay now or pay later. you know, we are in debt, but we're not too broke to defend ourselves. and here's what i, i've learned. the military part of it only tak

administration began a sustained effort to rid the world once and for all of the threat posed by saddam husseinns of mass destruction. throughout this process, as we attempted to use diplomatic means to achieve our goal, we met steady resistance, not only from the iraqi regime,

bush bashan ofob a rock as horrible as a dictator that saddam hussein was, it kept it as a stable country without isis emerging, so if that iraqi war had not happened and if george w bush and dick cheney had not invaded iraq or app al gore had won a new member 2000 and there was no iraq war-- host: okay. i think we got the point. guest: bill, that's a good question and as a journalist i try to avoid putting political labels on it, but the book argues and i strongly believe that the iraq invasion was the original sin, not just the invasion itself, which gave the jihadists this cause they had been looking for particularly zarqwi who wanted to fight america and predicted the fight would take place in iraq and was ready for the americans when they arrived in 2003, but as a sin of omission not having secured apparatus in place, displaying the party which essentially anyone that was a professional inside iraq in the early 2000 had to be read-- member of the party and is now in the armed forces, said governor knight a country with a huge security vacuum and eight angry disenfranchised elite popu

operation, a humanitarian operation rescuing from aone million kurds human stampede caused by saddam hussein. from that came the region we now call kurdistan. but it was security. it was followed by economic development and international organizations rule of law. those three things it seems to me are important. on the refugee problem, if you think the middle east is interesting now and a challenge, you have the entire african continent that is ready to explode one way or the other. there will be 60 national elections in africa this year. most polls show young africans are not looking to stay in africa. they want to go somewhere else because they don't believe they have any future. that should motivate our european friends to join with us in this partnership. lastly, i would like to make a point that there is an established, growing nexus between organized crime and terrorism. organized crime and terrorism have figured out ways to cooperate together. you have an extreme rise in illegal drugs, illegal traffic, illegal cigarettes, illegal people traffic in arms. there is an unholy alliance the

one line represents the genocide that saddam hussein took against them in the late 80's, and the secondopeful i'm looking towards the future of less conflict. those two lines organize the format 12. david: how does this museum plan to address what the kurds have been fighting against? liz: when the museum was conceived, the islamic state must not on the radar. now it is. interviewers have been on the ground, interviewing kurds coming back to collect material for the exhibition. this is part of the larger strategy. the filmmaker that is involved has been documenting kurdish history for the past 30 years. his done a lot of films, and so as soon as i says invaded most ul, they have been they're doing a regular documentary work. the point at which they thought the museum would and, the story that it tells around 2014 when they started building now that the construction has been delayed, the story will continue. david: beyond every issue of "bloomberg businessweek" is a design team. carol: i spoke with the team behind this cover page. the greatest challenges overcame with the look and feel o

thatepresents the genocide saddam hussein took against the kurds in the late 1980's and the second ispeful, looking toward the future of less conflict. so those two lines organized the form as well. >> how does this busy implant to address with the kurds have been fighting the last two years? washen the museum conceived, the islamic state really wasn't on the radar. now it is. interviewers have been on the kurds, interviewing coming back to collect material for the exhibitions. this is part of a larger strategy of what the museums will document. involved has been documenting kurdish history for the past three years. film andne a lot of has film crews on the ground. as soon as isis invaded moses, they have been there doing the regular documentary filmmaking work. it was a point at which they thought the museum would end around 2014 when they started building. hasthat the construction been delayed, the story will continue. >> behind every issue of "bloomberg businessweek," there is a team behind the images. >> what we saw is the look and feel of the typography in this issue. is, we were