gathering up to that point. >> narrator: cheney seemed to want zarqawi to be the link between saddam hussein and osama bin laden. >> the vice-president's frustrated. his questions are all about zarqawi, his connection to saddam, and whether or not they had discussed 9/11, and if saddam had participated. >> narrator: bakos says the vice-president didn't like the answer. >> we tried to explain over and over again that it would be impossible for him logically to be working with saddam. >> there was no connection between al-qaeda and saddam hussein and iraq that we could find. zarqawi's the kind of guy saddam would kill without a moment's thought. >> and the response to that was met with skepticism, lots of questions, and a lot more frustration. >> narrator: but at the white house, the allegations would not go away. they would appear again as colin powell prepared for a speech at the united nations designed to convince the public to support the war. >> the speech supposedly had been prepared in the white house in the nsc. but when we were given what had been prepared, it was totally inadequate,

it is just crumbling and 20 years ago there was a structure in place mubarak mubarak, as saddam hussein hussein, it was established a year and a locked in placece, but it was a lot of appearance inside there is tremendous rocked nepotism nepotism, corruption, ignora nce cover religious tension kept at bay by those carried out and write in these old houses if you don't open the windows or the doors you make it worse. so that was the situation. of very fragile paradise may and instead united states put the shoulder through the wall of iraq to start a sequence of defense that we still experience to this day so eight years of direct military action started to destroy the status quo to unleash the demons in the obama administration they were supporting the revolution in egypt and supporting in libya but not serious though a way to go through the middle east. so then two of leash with the old system as we knew it is broken. i have never seen it worse as a period of chaos. in to be that physical a embodiment and if you continue this model you can speculate where it will go from here. to see a

was supporting iraq and saddam hussein. then they turn against saddam hussein. he didn't have weapons of mass destruction. why weren't we waiting for the u.n. weapon inspector saying wait, let us do our work. but president bush was intent on attacking iraq from almost the minute, give a day or two, after september 11th. you hear his national security, his national security czar and others saying, he was talking about iraq when we understood full well this wasn't coming from there. another issue that is a kind of sacred cow with the media that must be challenged. the questioning of saudi arabia and the role that it has played over the years. if you ask most people, who was in those planes that went into the world trade center, you would think it was iraqis. fifteen of the 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia? and what did president bush do at the time? he's on the truman balcony smoking a cigar with the saudi ambassador to the united states within a couple days. what are they doing when all planes are grounded? and it's fully documented. brian: what's the motive o

saddam hussein's iraq, not too many options for a reporter there, syria, not much going on. jerusalem, yes, lots going on but probably oversaturated market to cover the israeli-palestinian conflict. i thought, egypt. okay, and it's egypt. even if it doesn't work out, still in egypt, which is great. so, i packed up a couple of suitcases and took a little bit of money, some savings, and i arrived and i rented an apartment there, and i had an incredibly rich experience, people were very welcoming to me. they wanted me to convert to islam constantly. they would bring me to their homes and feed me things. i was never, ever alone, and while that can be tiresome after a while, it was a great way to become familiar with the culture and learn the language and in a matter of months i was having very incorrect but basic conversations in arabic, which i had no choice. bus when you live in an apartment and every is broken and it's a million degrees outside, you have to learn to talk to people. so i started reporting for local newspapers, and then for international radio, and then stringi

khalilzad: that was a machine gun that belongs to saddam hussein. they presented it to me as a token of their appreciation for my service in iraq. host: $60,000 per month, that obviously got your attention. is it worth it for this country to spend that kind of money? mr. khalilzad: i would have preferred that we had taken a beautiful townhouse that is one of the wealthy, and new yorkers wanted to give to the united states to be used by the u.n. ambassador, but the state department, in its wisdom, rejected that, thinking the maintenance and security cost would be, perhaps, significant, but the u.n. secretary-general now lives in that townhouse that was offered to the u.s. it is quite expensive. the president, one reason he said that i should take the u.n. job is that he referred to the accommodation saying that his father had had that job and he used to go for weekends there at times, and the best he said to me is that they are quite comfortable. and they were. he had known that when i was ambassador to afghanistan and iraq, my accommodations were no

was supporting iraq and saddam hussein. then they turn against saddam hussein. he didn't have weapons of mass destruction. why weren't we waiting for the u.n. weapons inspectors who were saying, wait? i mean, saying wait. let us do our work. but president bush was intent on attacking iraq from almost the minute, give it a day or two, after september 11. i mean, you hear his national security, you know, his national security czar and others saying, he was talking about iraq when we understood full well this wasn't coming from there. another issue that is a kind of sacred cow with the media that must be challenged is the questioning of saudi arabia. and the role that it has played over the years. i mean, if you ask most people, who was in those planes that were -- that went into the world trade center? you would think, given the response of the united states, that it was iraqis. 15 of the 19 hijackers were from saudi arabia. what did president bush do at the time? he is on the truman balcony smoking a cigar with the saudi ambassador to the united states within a f

we toppled saddam hussein. we were promised we'd make money on the war. that was testimony from some of the president's advisers. said it'd be over in 60 days and the troops would be greeted with flowers in the street. didn't work out that way. afghanistan. the longest war in the history of this country. we still have troops there. the place is a mess. nation-building. an of ganarrogant policy embraca prior administration, didn't work out so great. do any of you think that afghanistan is on a solid footing for democracy at the moment? just a yes or no, if i can get that from each of you. >> no. >> sir? >> no. >> no. >> sir? >> no. >> all right. so, we have a president who says, you know what, this war approach isn't so great. and he had to make a decision, and he said, look, let's try negotiations. i supported sanctions. every tough sanction that we were able to impose on iran i supported, as did virtually all of the democrats and republicans. you know what? the sanctions worked. it brought iran to the table. and this decision that you're focusing on, thi

saddam hussein's iraq. syria, not much going on.erusalem, what's going on, but probably oversaturated market to cover. i thought egypt, okay. and it is egypt. even if it doesn't work out, i'm still in egypt, which is great. i packed up suitcases and took some money and arrived and rented an apartment. and i had an incredibly rich experience. people were welcoming. they wanted me to convert to islam constantly. they would bring me to their homes, feed me things. i was never, ever alone. while it can. while it can be tiresome after a while, it was a great way to become familiar with the culture in the language end in a matter of months i was having very incorrect but basic conversations in arabic because i have noi have no choice when you are living in an apartment where everything is broken and you need to communicate and there is no water and it is a million degrees, you have to learn to talk to people. a set of reporting for local newspapers and for international radio and then pieces for newspapers. and really have been doing so e

those who -- as someone who helped track down and capture saddam hussein, it is hard to hear members of congress condemn our efforts but it is not surprising. from day one as we sacrificed in the field, members of the congress condemned our efforts even going so far as to declare while wewar was lost buried our friends in the field. that steady drumbeat forced us to bury friends not only there, but should him home and put them in section 60 of arlington and then come home to watch politicians, many still in office, destroy what we fought for. they persist even today, mr. chairman. i will never regret bringing a dictator to justice and i am it.d to played a part in history, should we allow it, will judge us and our efforts accurately. i am not sure the same could be said of congress. now we turn to get another nuclear threat with a ran. -- with iran. nuclear programs, and i quote, share a common weak spot. they need in our international duplicity. rhodes, in this administration, it appears they provided all of it to a ran. two iran. mr. rubin, how and how early did they start talking

za rka wi was not the person between saddam hussein and osama bin laden. but made a rock star.oon as the shock and awe campaign. he pulled the insurgency together. and he is the founder of isis is. >> but he's gone now. why has that organization continued to thrive? >> he left a methodology and a legacy of the civil war and shia killing the sunni. he pulled it together in what we identify and others tell us the jihadi university at the a bu grab and the eventual leader of isis mr. baghdadi were interned and got the lessons of how to practice what zarka wi preached. you notice everything that isis does is the result of method and approach, even though we kill would him in the military, you can't kill an ideal. and this is gone to syria and back in 2014 into northern iraq. >> plenty of fingers are pointed in the obama administration for reducing the troops in the iraqi theater. but you say the bush administration shares the blame? >> i think it is two presidencies, but the obama administration when they pulled out in 2011, they let the chips fall where they may and they did fall

saddam hussein was a u.s. ally. we propped him up and encouraged him to invade iran. a huge slaughter in that war. and then of course, we turned against him. amazing boomerang foreign policy because it is dictatorial ly controlled. we have to overcome it with democratic resurgence. that is what the constitutional hall effort is. breakingee the various through power and how to do it. that is day one. breaking through congress is day four, may 26. breaking through war is day three, may 25. breaking through the press. there are a lot of voices out there that don't get on the evening news. host: final question for you here. what do you make of the debate that happens between hillary clinton and bernie sanders during this primary nominating process over who is a progressive and who is not? is hillary clinton a progressive? guest: by no means. one of the definitions of progressive is curbing corporate power, cracking down on corporate crime. when she was in the senate, she represented new york state and wall street. she did not hold the banner of justice up. she did not ask

why, why, why was the bush administration in such a hurry to focus on saddam hussein? there is a lot of explanation, but i think the ultimate explanation is that the bush administration believed that by invading iraq, overthrowing saddam and bringing about what expected, expected to be a rapid transformation of a rocky to a liberal democracy, that this would be the first step in a larger project, regional transportation that went on to label freedom agenda. so, iraq was supposed to be the start point of a far bigger project and the problem, of course, is that the bush and ministration's expectations of a decisive victory, easily one leading to a very quick political transformation collapsed and what we ended up with, of course, was a very long and brutal insurgency that did not end well and in deed has now resumed in yet another goal for, which, of course. is drying up obama administration ever more deeply into it. >> andrew, go ahead and tell us a bit more about the genesis for this really came about, this transformation of the middle east. it just didn't come from the

you know, for years we used saddam hussein against iran. when i was secretary of state, we worked with saddam hussein. we finally ended up fighting a war with him. we worked with him trying to bring him into the community of nations but he was our buffer against the interest of renaissance iran. you know the most important country today in iraq is, not the united states with our humongous big embassy there, it's iran. most important outside power in iraq today is iran. and i don't think the libya -- i didn't -- not my view that the libyan people were going to be able to throw gadhafi over unless we and the europeans -- of course they were the real movers -- went in and there and did it. >> sure, you would have had a conflict within that country that would have served as a magnet for radical jihadists to come in. >> more of a magnet than now with a failed state? >> sure. the same. that's the point. we should have empowered elements there potentially to provide some level of stability after the fact. that obviously didn't happen. >> we should

the assad family, gadhafi, saddam hussein and it was established, locked in place, like all the road houses there was a lot of appearances, on the inside there was tremendous rut, and the rut was ignorance, corruption, religious tensions that were kept at baby strong man activities those carried out by saddam hussein but if you don't open the windows and open the doors and don't spend any money on it, it gets worse. that situation was very fragile paradigm and you could put your finger to the wall and instead the united states put the shoulder through a rock and started a sequence of events that we are living and experiencing to this day. so eight years of direct military action start today destroy the status quo and unleash all of the rot, all of the demons that have been pent up with it and the very soon to be eight years of the obama administration we saw inconsistent policies and they were supporting to revolution in egypt and then days later not supporting in barain and supporting in libya and then not supporting in syria. kind of decision-stagging through the middle east and th

we go in and take out saddam hussein.ow we're having to deal with iran, something of an unintended consequence of that military intervention. it kind of goes on and on and on. how about a skeptic at the table and involving congress to actually okay these military actions, something that they have advocated to the president and military. we don't have any debate or discussion what is happening in the world regarding these interventions. >> let's turn to domestic politics. as a former two-term republican governor of new mexico, a border state, what do you think of donald trump's plan to build a wall at the border and to deport the 11 to 12 million undocumented immigrants? >> insanity comes to mind. look, this is really rooted in misinformation. they are the cream of the crop when it cops to workers. they are not murders and rapists. statistically, they commit far less crime than u.s. citizens. we should make it as easy as possible for somebody that wants to come into this country and work, to be able to get a work visa. tha

saddam hussein and his people invited cnn to stay. other media were included. but it was cnn that decided to stay in baghdad. why did we do that? one was the vision of ted turner, that believed that cnn could be a vehicle to get both sides of international stories. the other is that we had the technology to actually effectively do live coverage of a war theater. this hadn't happened before with 6-7 satellite. this was from your own tom johnson, who had taken over cnn a few months earlier. he used his contacts to use one of the first cell phones, an 80 monstrosity sent to baghdad. [laughter] when the war started, we were able to cover it despite great objections from the to u.s. government and others. my interview with saddam hussein during the war attracted a lot of criticism. dan had interviewed him prior to the war and did not attract any criticism at all, right? from being ange story to be covered, that the moment american troops were in action, it became a forbidden territory. i was the only reporter for much of the war in baghdad covering with a wonderful

saddam hussein and his people invited cnn to stay and other media were included that it was cnn that decided to stay in baghdad. why did we do that? one was the vision of ted turner who believed cnn could be a get both sides of international stories in particular. we could was effectively do live coverage of a war theater. was helped by your own tom johnson who had taken over cnn and had used this context to have one of the first cell in as, which was 80 pounds box and sent to baghdad. then when the war started, we were able to cover it despite great objection by the u.s. andrnment and others opponents of moving in that direction to get the other side coverage. my interview with saddam hussein attract a lot of criticism but then did not attract any criticism at all. from being a story that was covered to the moment american troops were in action, ,t became forbidden territory but not to ted turner and not to cnn. i was the only reporter for much a the war in baghdad covering wonderful team covering it live. there were 40 other live television units and the whole nature of internation

law that saddam hussein's regime must be overthrown.when bernie sanders wants to hammer away at hillary clinton on this, go ahead. you're 100% right. she is deaf valley the politics of empire right there. -- she is definitely the politics of empire right there. with the policies center supported in the 1990's were the precursor to the disaster of the war in iraq that he hammers on all the time without ever of knowledge and his own role in supporting the legislation that laid the groundwork for it. amy: glenn greenwald, i will give you the last word on this. you also have been writing about these candidates. >> it is kind of amazing there is nobody with a more adept skill at being able to just selectively concentrate on some things while it pouring unpleasant things than the democratic partisan. jeremy is right that bernie sanders has been given a pass, but that is because democrats have largely chosen to ignore foreign policy as part of the democratic primary because they simply don't care. they only pretend to oppose wars when there's

we toppled saddam hussein. we were promised we would make money on the war. that was testimony from some of the president's advisers. that it would be over in 60 days and the troops would be greeted with flowers in the streets. didn't work out that way. afghanistan, the longest war in the history of this country. we still have troops there. the place is a mess. nation building. an arrogant policy embraced by a prior administration. didn't work out so great. any of you think that afghanistan is on a solid footing for democracy on -- at a moment that at the moment? yes or no, i can get that from each of you. >> no. >> no. >> no. >> so, we have a president who says -- you know what? approach isn't so great. he had to make a decision and he said, let's try negotiation. i supported sanctions. every tough sanction we were able to impose i supported, as did all -- virtually all the democrats and republicans. you know what? sanctions worked, they brought iran to the table. you are talking about the public servants because of a newspaper article is something that disr

that yellow cake uranium was going to saddam hussein from niger. you were one of dick cheney's top national security advisors you worked with cheney, scooter libby before he was convicted. surely you discussed ambassador wilson's op-ed with him with vice president cheney, especially since it was contradicting one of your key talking points in selling the war in iraq. did you talk about ambassador wilson's op-ed in the "new york times" with vice president cheney? >> i did not talk to the vice president, but we did talk about it within the office -- >> talk to scooter libby about it? >> i'm almost sure i did, yeah. >> ambassador wilson wrote it did not take long to conclude it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had taken place. he directly contradicted information you put out publicly in response the bush administration retaliated against him by publicly outing his wife, valerie, who was a cia operative at the time. mr. hannah, my question for you is what was your role in outing his wife as a cia operative? >> i had no role in outing her a

saddam hussein tried to do something similar, several others, the mullahs in iran. they've all been taken down when they've done this or threatened that. and just recently some of e-mails, hillary clinton's e-mails have come out that have really talked about that. the edward snowden revelations about what a huge impact that decision of gadhafi had on taking gadhafi out. and so, yeah, the u.s. dollar needs to be -- the whole federal reserve system is terrible. it is an enslavement tool, and be we need to change it. and i think, you know, this is your passion. so here's a great chance for you to go into it. [laughter] i love that. i think, yeah, let's make it happen x. it's going to take a lot of work to make it happen, but let's make it happen. and realize that you're up against a tough system here which makes it even more fun. [laughter] the the bigger the challenge the better, you know? the bigger they are, the harder they fall. [laughter] so go for it, please. absolutely. i'm totally behind you on that. thank you. >> yeah, hi, john. so one interesting thing about

terrorist attacks there, was sentenced to dale -- jail and served there for six or seven years until saddam hussein invaded quite and he broke out and -- kuwait and he broke out and went back to syria. we didn't know many details about him until 2011 when a tribunal was investigating the death of the former prime minister, and they named badreddine and gave details about his background. >> what impact will this have? >> we need to remember badreddine was one of hezbollah's most senior commanders. he attended meetings between to ra and they're going need to replace him with someone who is also a very high level commander the >> what impact do you think will badreddine's death have on the fighting, the conflict overall? >> i have to say badreddine, as i said he was responsible for the deployment and some of the planning but eventually on the ground you have the commanders of the field. he might have a moral impact on hezbollah because they're going to think you know what? if this senior commander was killed in syria and we still don't know who did it, what about our lives there? but -- jane: you just

that you obtained top secret documents on saddam hussein, tracked down osama bin laden's bank accountskim: back in the day, after 9/11, which really affected me, i felt deeply unhappy about that. i was trying to do something, to be part of the effort to stop people from ever doing that again. emily: you did all those things? all that is true? kim: some i did not do myself. there were other things i did. emily: some people would say there is no proof. kim: well, there is no proof. [laughter] emily: when and why did you change your name to kim dotcom? kim: i bought the domain, kim.com. i thought it would be great if my name was kim dotcom, so if anyone wants to know anything about me, i do not have to hand them a business card or anything. they can just go to my website. it is all there. emily: take me back to the start of megaupload. kim: i was a street racer. and i always made great videos about that and shared that in the street racing community, on the forums. the file sizes kept getting bigger and bigger, and you could not send large files over email, so i wanted to solve that probl

of saddam hussein successive iraqi governments have failed to tackle the problem of corruption.iki promise to do something about it, but imprisoned those that complained. when so-called islamic state seized parts of the country, the government was powerless to respond. -- er r body -- crowds loyal to the country's most influential shiite cleric stormed the green zone and occupied parliament. they condemned the latest violent by the islamic state. american officials seem to be urging the politicians to get a grip. >> the recent attacks by daesh is the latest reminder of the danger that it poses to all iraqis from all communities. working together to stop the progress made by daesh continues. correspondent: they have retaken two thirds of the territory they lost to islamic state. but even if they are on the back of striking capable fear far beyond the territory it controls. katty: a miserable day in baghdad. in brazil, senators have been debating whether president dilma rousseff will face an impeachment trial. if the simple majority votes in favor she will automatically be suspend

birkenfeld: he had m illegal oil sales with saddam hussein.e had over $400 million in numbered accounts that were set up for decades. he had his own private phone into my boss's office that only he would call in on. sharyl: birkenfeld says a doj attorney told him they simply weren't interested in non-americans. the agency declined comment for this report. it turns out doj was interested in prosecuting birkenfeld in the tax scheme. they used evidence he provided to build a case against him. you did serve time? mr. birkenfeld: oh, i did. yes, i did serve time. sharyl: while he, the whistleblower, was prosecuted, the government worked behind closed doors to cut a deal with ubs, which was one of president obama's top donors. secretary of state hillary clinton took the lead in negotiations with the swiss foreign minister. do you think it was unusual that the secretary of state at the time, hillary clinton, intervened in this giant criminal case? mr. birkenfeld: she has no right in getting involved in an international criminal investigation. sharyl:

long-time sunni strong hold and gave us a fight in the immediate aftermath of the overthrow of saddam hussein over a year ago. no doubt it would be a step forward for the government in baghdad it take fallujah. how easy it's going to be is another question. >> and whether their forces are up to it. >>> if i may, am bat bass dor wb /* am back dor, the white house talking about killing a major obstacle for the u.s. hopes for ending the war in afghanistan. what does this mean, do you think, for ending the fighting there? >> i think it is good news he's been cold. he was the taliban leader who took over after mullah omar was was killed. although he concealed the fact mullah omar was dead for two years after he announced he was the leader. i'm on the skeptical side as to whether this will mean anything in the operational technical terms. the taliban has been divided. with his inability to get different groups to work together. so i'm not at all sure in terms of events on the grounds it'll make that much difference. but a welcome strike, very targeted, not an assassination because he was a military

this idea that there was yellowcake uranium coming from the african nation of niger going to saddam hussein. ambassador joe wilson who gave the lie to that fiction. he said it was a bunch of nonsense. he wrote an op-ed in the new julytimes in 2003 in debunking the claim that yellowcake uranium was going to saddam hussein from niger. but mr. hannah, you are one of dick cheney's national security advisers. you worked with him and scooter libb he before he was convicted. surely, you discussed ambassador wilson's op-ed with him, with vice president cheney, especially since it was contradicting one of your key talking points in selling the war in iraq. did you talk about ambassador wilson's op-ed with vice president cheney? >> i did not talk to the vice president but we did talk about it within the office -- >> did you talk to scooter libb he about it? said, it was highly doubtful that any such takenction had at -- had place. he contradicted information you put out publicly in response the bush administration retaliated against him by publicly outing his wife, valerie plame, who was a cia operat

we tackled saddam hussein. we would make money on the war. that was testimony from some of the president's advisers. it would be over in 60 days and the troops would be greeted with flowers in the street. didn't work out that way. afghanistan. the longest war in the history of this country. the place is a mess. nation building. arrogant policy embraced by a prior administration. didn't work out so great. any of you think that afghanistan on a solid footing for democracy at the moment? yes or no. >> no. >> sir? >> no. >> we have a president who said this approach is not so great. he to make a decision and he said look, let's try negotiations. i supported sanctions. every tough sanction that we were able to impose on iran, i supported as did virtually all of the republicans. the sanctions worked. it brought iran to the table. in this decision thaw are focusing on, this servant because of the newspaper sarl snag then disregards the fact that we fwlu in iraq and we are blowing it and they got in agreement and had the full support of those allies.

is the system of government that was set up by the americans after the fall of the regime of saddam hussein politics is upon the basis of sectarian affiliation or religious affiliation. initially the americans when they came along, they set up a governing council in iraq which divided power between sunni, shias and kurds and that system has persisted and it is not something many people in iraq are particularly happy about, but the problem is the members of parliament realize that that is where their power comes from and they have been highly resistant to efforts by the prime minister to create a new cabinet to fight corruption, a cabinet where the members are appointed not upon the basis of their sectarian affiliation but rather upon their actual professional qualifications when it comes to the problems iraq has to deal with, whether that's electricity generation, education, economic development, all of which have suffered as a result of corruption of the inefficiencies of a country that's never really gotten back on its feet since the fall of the regime of saddam hussein in 2003. >> ben, i

it is good to get rid of saddam hussein we should've done a better idea of when he left these are fails states primarily because it will upset the order we didn't like the people that were running the show. but we need to do a better job of what comes next. right now my view with respect to syria it may be a little too late it is too bad we did not support what the turks wanted which was the no-fly zone of the border of syria and turkey if we were willing to go along without why couldn't we negotiate and the friends in the region to say we will furnish the intelligence in the logistics' you put the boots on the ground and we will take care of this and we will have the emergency but now maybe it is too late maybe it isn't we could have a coalition but that is what we should have done. >> and i agree with your point. >> it is important to stress governance in and essentially with the situation in iraq it underscores the point because the maliki government was authoritarian government we had a failure of the iraqi security forces and part of that solution i am very worried about iraq to ma

the prime minister of iraq was going to hang saddam hussein.here were you and what role did you play? this was around christmas time and i had taken a few days off and left iraq. ambassador[at that time and -- i was ambassador at that time and i got a call from the person in charge at the time, margaret. she said the prime minister had and saddam wanted to enforce the judgment of the court, which is that he should be hanged. i was concerned by the timing celebrationislamic aj, the visit of muslims to mecca was eminent. talk to maliki. i said are you sure, mr. prime minister, that you want to do it? the gathering takes place and there's a time of festivities and to hang someone at that time, usually you pardon prisoners as part of the festivities, not aime you hang people. thergued with me that difference by one day, the shia celebrating and the sunni celebrating one day. he said he had information that terrorists or extremists are going to take over a few schools to bargain for saddam. let me talk to my management and get back to you, premised

there are a lot of steps in between the overthrow of saddam hussein and where we are today.hreat isis poses to the youth and others, too. direct threat to us, requires action to be taken out quickly before it strikes again in america. judge napolitano: how many troops are you talking about? >> i would like to hear for specifics than i have heard in an unclassified setting. but i think lyndsey graham may be close. i think we should demand that the arabs, the kurd an -- the kl be and the turks put in ground forces. judge napolitano: did you not just describe the foreign policy of hillary clinton? isn't she a super hawk? >> negative. i think her heart has always been on the left. i think her view of foreign policy is essentially the same as barack obama's. i think that's demonstrated -- judge napolitano: the bombing of libya. >> she did not. i have a piece coming out very soon that describes why she is not a hawk. but she was comfortable with obama's policy and in her memoirs she could separate herself from it and she does not. i think what you would see in a hillary clinton pr

photos, the peshmerga now have proof that isis is using chemical weapons against the kurds just as saddam hussein did when he was in power. >> this is one enormous refugee camp. >> thank you very much. >> leland salma is the head of the program that shelters thousands of syrians. >> how many are in this one camp? >> the number of the families, there are about 1,500 families and the individual around 30, 3-0, thousand individuals. >> everything we've seen so far is an enormous burden on the government of kurdish. >> yeah. huge burden. >> the american aid government goes to baghdad, but it doesn't get here. >> yeah. and i think if they directly coordinated with the kurdish government, it would be better. >> the next crucial battle in iraq would be the fight to liberate mosul. >> do you see mosul being takeen in the future? >> i think it's already started. >> if baghdad decides to attack mosul to liberate it, you could have another half million refugees. >> it doesn't matter how many come, we'll be at their service. kurdistans have been a huge part. they understand the situation. that's why we're al

as one of the commanders that helped track down and capture saddam hussein, it is very emotional for me to hear members of this congress condemn our efforts, but it is not surprising. from day one as we sacrificed in the field, progressives in this congress condemned our efforts with progressive leaders even going so far as to declare that the war was lost while we buried our friends in the field. that steady drumbeat forced us to bury friends not only there but ship them home and put them in section 60 of arlington and then we come home to watch politicians, many still in office, destroy what we fought for. they persist even today, mr. chairman. i will never regret bringing a dictator to justice. and i am proud to have played a part in it. history should we even allow it will judge our efforts in iraq kindly. i'm not sure the same can be said of congress. now, we turn to yet another nuclear threat with iran. dr. obidi in reflecting on our security stated that to succeed, quote, illicit nuclear programs share a common weak spot. they need international complicity, end quote. and mr.

now with discovery throw of saddam hussein and a new shia government in iraq, that upset the soon me world, led by saudi arabia, because they see it as enhancing the power of iran, and it's those two -- that dynamic which has really altered the entire region. that's the basic political change we create with our invasion of iraq, that we, by turning iraq from sunni dominated to shia dominated, we upset the geopolitical balance of the region, i argue and that has led to a new cold war between the saudi arabia and iran, and that is kind of running in parallel to the problems of the palestinians and the israelis. so it's added a whole nuther lay of completionplexty to the geopolitical aspects of the region. >> what do you think the effect of our response to global warming, not just the droughts in the area, hour it's -- but the fact that we're now oil producers and not as dependent? you said earlier that oil was basically sort of the seed for a lot of these troubles, and presumably we'll be less dependent because we'll have more solar power and all that. >> right. >> the other question h

saddam hussein was a u.s. ally. we propped him up and encouraged him to invade iran. a huge slaughter in that war. and then of course, we turned against him. amazing boomerang foreign policy because it is dictatorial ly controlled. we have to overcome it with democratic resurgence. that is what the constitutional hall effort is. breakingee the various through power and how to do it. that is day one. breaking through congress is day four, may 26. breaking through war is day three, may 25. breaking through the press. there are a lot of voices out there that don't get on the evening news. host: final question for you here. what do you make of the debate that happens between hillary clinton and bernie sanders during this primary nominating process over who is a progressive and who is not? is hillary clinton a progressive? guest: by no means. one of the definitions of progressive is curbing corporate power, cracking down on corporate crime. when she was in the senate, she represented new york state and wall street. she did not hold the banner of justice up. she did not ask

during the iraq war saddam hussein would give daily press conferences and say the iraqi army is notorious for defeating the americans and the american tanks in the background, he was lying. no relation to reality. that is what he is starting to sound like. we are not defeating them or destroying them. isis is in more places in greater strength than ever before. heather: the amount of area they now control is the size of great britain in the heart of the arab world. >> it is a functioning state, the islamic state, that is where isis is and the islamic state, franchises around the world, in north africa, libya, the sinai peninsula, throughout the middle east all the way to south asia and the isis sponsored attacks were carried out in pay us -- paris and brussels and san bernardino. to say we are succeeding in the strategy we have against isis -- heather: more than 4000 americans died and since then in the past year we have had three american servicemembers killed including the latest navy seal last week. >> the thing that is so frustrating is the bush administration doesn't have clean hands

conflicting messages on bernie sanders' plan going forward, the candidate offered clarity and saddam hussein ascenders joitds me. >>> in the last few weeks from have been conflicting messages about the bernie sanders campaign between now and the convention in philadelphia. it was suggested to rachel maddow the party insiders should follow the will of the voters. but campaign manager jeff weaver has argued superdelegates are free to support the candidate of their choice and even override the will of the voters, giving sanders a potential path to victory even if he's trailing clinton in the popular vote and among pledged delegates. yesterday the candidate himself offered his own thoughts. >> it is virtually impossible for secretary clinton to reach the majority of convention delegates by june 14th with pledged delegates alone. she will need superdelegates to take her over the top at the convention in philadelphia. in other words, the convention will be a contested contest. >> sanders says overall he wants to flip superdelegates who have already endorsed clinton, especially in states where he w

who is this guy saddam hussein or mao tse-tung?have to go, i'll give you the last word if you can give me an answer. what's the bigger answer? taxes or e-mails? >> i think e-mails are a way bigger issue. not even close? >> van? >> listen, i think the e-mails are going to be a problem for her going forward but i think the tax issue very serious. >> thank you, appreciate. >> it thanks, don. >> we'll be right back. is on honors members save up to 25% on brands like hampton, doubletree, hilton garden inn, and waldorf astoria so stop clicking around. book direct at hilton.com now that's satisfaction. walter!anncr): scorching heat today folks, stay cool out there! ♪ stop suffering with hot ac - cool it yourself with a/c pro. just connect the hose, squeeze the trigger and check the gauge. with 2 times the cooling boosters, enjoy the comfort of the #1 selling coldest air. nothing cools like a/c pro. >>> that's it for us tonight. thanks for watching. "ac 360 starts now." >>> good evening, thanks for joining us, donald trump just wrapped up