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,

international what do you think of the prospect of saddam hussein's former operatives leading leisel. well i believe the this could be a probability especially that isis was in first infiltrate the actually by ford motor company saying regime elements especially after the fall of the regime because the. some bumpus and relied heavily. on consent related heavily on the tribes of western iraq and on the sudanese of. western iraq so after the fall of the regime there was that reshuffling all of the political structure in. iraq as to integrate mainly the shia on the kurds into the state. institutions and the americans dismantled the army. and in this month and all other institutions. that were dominated by the ba'ath regime this. coupled with the breaking up the spread it all of these people especially after they were captured and put in prisons and the humiliation they were subjected to like in the case of abuja for example in two thousand and three made them ripe for being invested in especially by saudi arabia and by radical groups coming from saudi arabia so that's why they got tried

blige. >> trevor: turns out saddam hussein was a big fan of mary j.lige. ♪ i'm going down ( laughter ) remember how awkward hillary clinton was looking last year when mary j. blige was singing to her? that would have been saddam's dream. ♪ it ain't no secret ♪ it ain't no secret ( laughter ) snits not uncommon for dictators and strong men to be fans of pop divas. all performed at parties for dictators. muammar gaddafi was a fan of mariah carey. ♪ and you will always be my baby ♪ ♪ 'do-da and vladimir putin listens to -- ♪ dust it off and try it again > ( laughter ) enough about the old school dictators. let's talk about future hall of famers. last reek week was probably one of the worst weeks of donald trump's presidency which is something we say every week now. trump's presidency is basically like global warming, every week is the worst and republicans are trying to hard to deny it. we know former f.b.i. director james comey testified in the senate that trump pressured him into dropping the flynn thing. the other side came out the very next day. >> i

to miley both served as security officials under saddam hussein after the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sunni insurgency part of which later transformed into islamic state let's to discuss this with military analyst. thanks for joining us to use the good to have you with us what do you think the prospect of saddam hussein's former operatives leading also. i mean from a very tactical perspective it could make sense as you said earlier a new introduction when the army of saddam was disbanded a lot of the baath is for disgruntled to join the sunni insurgency it is use forces and also against iranian backed militias a lot of them are not ideological supporters of vices or radical islam but they're feeling aggrieved that they're out of the iraqi government u.s. was very heavy handed again to sunni tribes so they could make sense somebody could fill the void after both daddy but a lot of the scene near tactical fighters have always been. and members of saddam's former republican guard looking back at two thousand and three an

here is saddam hussein sending all the smoke signals that he has weapons of mass destruction becausehe wantss to keep iran at bay. we think everything is about us and we never acknowledge maybe some of it is about the regional politics. when we give weapons or sell weapons to saudi arabia, there will be for every action a reaction. there will be significantly more pressure on iran to come forward and have more weapons. what does it do to our ally, israel? there have been reports that israel believes every time we give a dollar to saudi arabia they need to respond with a dollar and a half. a quote from one of their government ministers saying he worries about their qualitative edge. i have a quote from a colleague of mine, friend of mine who is a rabbi and friend of the constitution. .. the president's intentions, we must proceed with great caution due to the challenges and the history of the region. at this time i don't see the benefits of the arms deal for the united states or israel. this is coming from someone who believes with every fiber of his being that israel should be defend

by the end i add algy widely both served as security officers under saddam hussein and following the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sun the insurgency part of which later transformed into islamic state. well let's discuss this issue further with nicholas davis got on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq thank you very much indeed for joining us this evening well the speculation over isolator abu bakar al baghdadi is replacement as we just heard if his death from a russian as strike is confirmed was related contenders off or operatives of saddam hussein i mean what do you think about that. while i think in the big picture it's not really going to make much difference who replaces baghdadi . essentially where we're going to still be dealing with. what with an endless proliferation of these jihadi groups. you know whatever form it takes it's assuming that. the us led. forces are able to recapture mosul and graca albeit at the expense of tens of thousands of civilian casualties. i as we've seen. the people that the us is fighti

addition to that excuse me if i if you would allow me to continue this saudi regime supported saddam hussein after the revolution which invaded iran i think your your guest should look at history and then i think if we had a discussion that would go better we would move forward more easily because the facts are there for everyone to see we had eight years of war with saddam hussein he initiated the war the saudi regime provided him with up to two hundred billion dollars to help them obtain chemical weapons from western governments and that's a stated fact so in with regards to pilgrimage of course the saudis have a history of killing iranians just a year two years ago the saudis killed six hundred iranian pilgrims and never even expressed remorse or regret but most importantly.

addition to that excuse me if i if you would allow me to continue this saudi regime supported saddam hussein after the revolution which invaded iran i think. your guest should look at history and then i think if we have a discussion that would go better we would move forward more easily because the facts are there for everyone to see we had eight years of war with saddam hussein he initiated the war the saudi regime provided him with up to two hundred billion dollars to help them obtain chemical weapons from western governments and that's a stated fact so in with regards to pilgrimage of course the saudis have a history of killing iranians just a year or two years ago the saudis killed six hundred iranian pilgrims and never even expressed remorse or regret but most importantly is the saudi regime being inherently weak is completely reliant on the united states and this without this so really the biggest blame goes to the united states what happened in libya couldn't have happened without the the united states what happened in syria the extremism that the saudis said that is in the others exp

they tried to sell to iraq under saddam hussein except saddam hussein wanted to pay on credit. he didn't want to pay on cash. it's a whole list, right. and so they have sold every system they've ever developed. in a containment scenario i would be very worried about horizontal proliferation. the last thing on going after nukes in a -- i hate to throw data at you, but we did a study where we actually surveyed experts, u.s. experts about this, and asked them what was the number one issue in a unification scenario in terms of the cross between priority and how much we knew, right. so the big blind spots are where you have high priority and we have no knowledge. those are the big blind spots. what we actually found surveying american experts was the number one issue was actually not wmd. the number one issue was domestic stabilization in north korea. not because we don't care about the nuclear issue but i think relative to domestic stabilization we feel like we know more about the wmd situation than we know about domestic stabilization in the north. it was an interesting finding ba

many years ago every country's law said it was legal to buy iraq's oil from britain supported saddam hussein he did her good and then but let me just say when isis took over some of those same wells it became legal to buy iraq's oil from isis that's the law that incentivizes authoritarians and civil war years to take control of the oil over seas and that's what gives them unaccountable power oil is the largest source of countable power in the world if you can keep controls over those holes in the ground you get a huge funnel of money from the world and that money comes in with no strings attached it never has to be paid back and of course the money comes in completely unaccountable to the people of the country who have to watch from behind fences as the natural resources of their country are sold off ok but the british government which wanted to bomb syria the syrian government in effect full the mist in syria the moderate rebels so-called there's no oil in that war was there is it was worth syria in fact an interesting fact about the popular uprisings that we've seen in the last ten years i

august 2, 1990, saddam hussein invaded kuwait. this is a remarkable historical coincidence, that saddam hussein chose to go into kuwait on the same day the united states -- given that it's such a powerful coincidence, given the fact that gps is arguably -- the thing spaceade the war -- command and the ground antrollers did improvise considerable amount during the war. they altered some of the satellites orbit to give later time, greater availability in the satellite so the ground forces could use gps almost 24 , -- during the war on number of the satellites experienced problems. solar panels broke, mechanical arms the normally operate mechanically judge broke. these guys were in the control room in newly adjusting these things around the clock during the war, turning things off, the satellite women to the arts shadow. came, the u.s. had only two gps guided munitions. both of them or modified versions of existing web. the one on the left here was a new era christmas. it took the nuclear bomb off, cut -- but a conventional bomb on.

execution of saddam hussein and the the station -- disdain he shows for executions.order runnings orde through him. the other major character is a woman from the south. she is also a person of indeterminate origin as far as india is concerned. now a kashmiri fighting with the national border. it is not conceptual. what happens is india as a society of such minute divisions , such institutionalized caste is a where mesh that oppresses people and holds them down in a grid. somehowf these stories are about people who just don't fit into that grid and who eventually create a little community and a kind of solidarity emerges, which is a solidarity of the heart. it is not memoranda i or academic discourse, but a solidarity that is human which is based on unorthodox kinds of love, not even sexual love or anything, just based on humanness. amigo you say the characters are kind of -- who don't fit into the grid, the places, the principal places where the novel delhi, andold kashmir. so is the focus -- did you focus on these places also because they stand somehow outside the g

military, you are familiar etc., whichqi war, led to the toppling of saddam hussein.any would say this laid the foundation for what has happened, the islamic state group and all of the fighting necessary to get the situation and control. can you talk about the mistakes that were made? >> yes. one of the biggest problems in afghanistan and iraq is the lack of continuity. even though the u.s. has been there for a long time doesn't mean we have been doing it right from the beginning. >> what mistakes were made? >> we take a horse, a proxy to partner with and it alienated sunnis, kurds, and christians. sunnisn we empowered the to rise up against al qaeda only to have that same shia government that we empowered dismantle that effort and put them in prison. now we are working with the iranian proxies on the ground. the only time we got iraq right was 2007 and 2008. and thatt, we left, led to the security void that led to isis. even know we have been there for 10 to 13 years, if you'd change strategy every year, you'll never get anywhere. >> to talk about the situation now,

immediate afterword of the rack, we saw chaos and this rise of an insurgency that is fueled by a saddam hussein so calm are called in to do man hunting and find saddam and his sons and they do track down both of them and here is saddam after he is captured by the special operators and he's hurt initially that the decapitation strike is going to put a lid that it will fall apart now that saddam is gone but unfortunately there are others who are ready and willing to take up the charge then we find ourselves in a prolonged insurgency campaign and around the time we have general stanley coming in as a commander in tact for 714 is the task force he sets up in a rack and at the time it was not particularly active and there was not elite forces should be doing the daily operations and they should the. saddam has shown us not that i can work and he looks for a way to ramp up their operations and does so very effectively. you can see from here that there was only ten operations. month when he comes in 2004 and it goes up to 302,006. this is made possible by advantage in communications technology, also b

the us senate against the war in iraq or in two thousand and three i did say that if you remove saddam hussein you get and the key civil war and not democracy i was. not only ali by the way but the second should be friends mr gates was a ganster of the attack on the daffy in libya believing the americans actually listened to the talents and the talents said that if you remove gadhafi you don't get democracy you get our hundred tribes fighting each other for ever and that's what we have in libya so in other words where we have discovered between moscow and washington we have learned something in the muslim world you either have the faith to ship or anarchy therefore i don't think there is any interest in the movie any more dictators the problem is syria is that makes it hard hard to be critical you told me back in two thousand and eleven that real politics is in the pacific and not in the middle east and it's now twenty seventeen and it's been six years since the war in syria broke out question u.s. led coalition of more than a dozen countries are fighting isis there to still stick to their opi

that army defeated saddam hussein. without direct israeli assistance. as we recall, the united states insisted not only that israel not be part of the anti-saddam coalition, but that it refrain from retaliating militarily against iraq, even when iraq fired missiles into israel. this second yet, in response to a bid for hostile hegemony in the middle east, israeli military power was crucial. for a decade before saddam to -- invasion and occupation of kuwait. conducted aome -- raid on its nuclear facilities, theyor at the ceric three destroyed it. at the end of the 1991 war, americans discovered saddam had come closer, much closer to getting a nuclear weapon than the western intelligence communities had believe. what is really done a decade saddam/1991,21 -- saddam hussein may have well had nuclear weapons, in which case the crisis would have proceeded differently and not to the advantage of the united states. now, this -- the israeli role in bolstering american interest has been largely unappreciated. the reason is, it is by its nature, invisible. israel

baby and i add maybe both served to security officials under saddam hussein and following the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sunni insurgency part of which later transformed into a islamic state military analyst thanks thinks a disaster could be avoided if the u.s. led coalition didn't destroy iraq institutions when they're on the of saddam was disbanded a lot of the baath is for disgruntled to join the sunni insurgency against u.s. forces and also against iranian backed militias a lot of them are no ideological supporters of isis and radical islam but this feeling grief that the iraqi government have to us is very heavy handed again to sunni arabs trying certainly united states and united kingdom ignoring all the advice given to them about dismantling the iraqi state specially the rocking the train security forces because one thing getting this destroyed you are the state system that. led to this disaster. you know the news this hour there has been a number of protests in central london members of the english defense league took to the str

when it was itself exposed to a military attack by an arab state saddam hussein's iraq i think it's created regional alliances to prevent that sort of thing happening again on don't think that the iranians themselves who are i think realistic the whole have a more grandiose ambition than that you know it christopher you know it's interesting how western media the western narrative is that you know the movies are out of control there are there are crazy and you know they're rational no no they're not i mean they're very they're probably one of the most rational of the group they want their regime to survive they want their sovereign state to survive and if you demonized ental sleeper decades by the west well why wouldn't you want to extend your influence i mean everybody needs to hedge their bets here i mean what i'm just saying is that overall is that the west creates its own problems in the middle east it should get out of the middle east and let the middle east take care of itself we would probably have fewer wars and probably a lot fewer arms go ahead christopher. well i think i think fi

and i add algy might both served as security officials on the saddam hussein and following the us led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sunni insurgency part of which later transformed into a islamic state military analysts come all i'm saying so disaster could be avoided if the u.s. led coalition didn't destroy iraqi institutions when they're on the of saddam was disbanded a lot of the baath is for disgruntled to join the sunni insurgency against us forces and also against iranian backed militias a lot of them are not ideological supporters of isis some radical islam but they feel aggrieved that they're out of the iraqi governments and that the u.s. was very heavy handed again to sunni arab tribes certainly united states and united kingdom ignored all the advice given to them about the. managing the iraqi state specially the iraqi military and security forces was one thing getting rid of saddam which destroyed you on the state system that he had led to this disaster. now there have been more protests in central london members of the english defense leagu

both to security officials under saddam hussein after the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sunni insurgency part of which later transferred into islamic state but mr thinks the disaster could be avoided if the u.s. that coalition didn't destroy iraqi institutions when they're on the of saddam was disbanded a lot of the baath is for disgruntled to join the sunni insurgency has used forces and also against iranian backed militias a lot of the no ideological supporters advice is radical islam. but this feeling green the iraqi government saying that the u.s. was very heavy handed if you had to say they are trying certainly united states and united kingdom need all the advice given to them about dismantling the iraqi state specially being walking on a train security forces because one thing getting us down destroyed you want to stay a system that had led to this disaster. seeing as another day of protests members of the english defense league took to the streets to find out of spite of islamist terror attacks. g

big fossil fuel going to blame us as consumers in the west for propping up the dictates is from saddam hussein to the gulf pushing gulf oil talk receives surely no i don't blame consumers of course we don't want to send our money to ruthless autocrats and violent civil war years and oil producing states the problem is deep the problem is an old archaic law left over from the days of the atlantic slave trade that forces us to send our money essentially to whoever can control by force in foreign countries this old law in every country says that for the oil of other countries might makes right so for example years ago when gadhafi took over libya in a coup british law said it was legal to buy libya's oil from get off the and then years later when rebels took over some of those same wells british law every country's laws that it was legal to buy libya's oil from the rebels that's the law that puts us into business essential with whoever has the most guns overseas we are an educator why is it you think every time british servicemen and women or indeed all nature's service whether women i mean us to

specter of iranian influence the shield arc of influence that was created by the us knocking off saddam hussein but between what happened in libya what happened with with the muslim brotherhood in egypt what happened it's happening in yemen what's happening in syria this conflict with gets or everything that saudi arabia does to kurds hero iranian influence all of these grazes am. i going to maybe i just really lazy back there if the radio you know someone in the middle east will winchell thing a country like saudi arabia could do to its benefit is do nothing ok well let me play devil's advocate for devil's advocate here for a second from the point of view over israeli security i'm going to pay attention to the fact that when these really bomb briefs attacked syrian tanks a few days ago they did it from an occupied territory from the golan heights despite the fact that the syrian syrians did not destroy a single building in israel did not kill a single person but ok let's talk about it from the position what was already security who has been is radius the more slim the division of muslim brothe

through the news media they commit convinced americans that saddam hussein was involved in the 9/11 thingnd it was a lie. that was a whole security system, the same people clap her, all of those people worked under obama. all the people that said that in the beginning they worked for obama clinton. i don't buy any of it. to tell me after a whole year they have not been able to show any kind of direct least dump that information. podesta, podesta never said anything. he didn't try to fight back or anything. backon didn't try to fight when he was asked who authorized these? >> when the report comes out before i leave office that will have drawn together all the threats. theirt want to step on work ahead of time. the intelligence i have seen gives me great confidence that the russians carried out this of john podesta and the hack of the dnc. but again i think this is why i want to report out so that everybody can review it. briefed and this has been provided on a bipartisan basis. you have seen the evidence, the folks don't dispute it. >> martha, i think what i want i give thee of it is inte

howie: saddam hussein or o.j. simpson. and that's always controversial.o you think it's something about megyn, nbc, the passion alex jones has that made this radioactive? dan: i think alex jones is stoking the fire. i think he want to get more attention for this. i think he's using every piece of the cow that he can and part of that versus him demanding that nbc not air the interview. he hasn't seen the interview. what is he talking about? she even makes clear in the pre-interview she does with him, i'm going to have to ask you the tough questions. he makes it seem like he had no idea there would be tough questions. the only true winner from this is alex jones. megyn kelly is getting beaten up from both side on this. alex jones supporters are saying look how unfair you are. people on the left are saying how can you give him any time. >> we have a little bit of time left. but ultimately is this about nbc and megyn confronting alex jones about alleged falsehoods or is it about generating buzz and ratings for her magazine show? dan: every magazine show is ab

they got 97%, the kind of numbers putin jealous and saddam hussein green with envy if he wasn't dead already. the reason they got 97% of the vote is pretty much the same reason, only one political party participated. others thought it was so rigged and so predetermined for the outcome the sponsors wanted they didn't even think it was worth taking and participating. and the vast majority of puerto ricans agree, only 23% of the people voted. 77% boycotted the election because they didn't think it was worth their time. and they were absolutely right. but i guess in the era of alternative facts and made up statistics about how many people attend your inauguration you can try to make a one-party vote of 23% of the people look like a mandate for statehood. but i'm here to warn my fellow democrats not to believe the hype for one second. those who are pendling the fantasy of statehood sometimes call themselves democrats but we should be ware of an elephant in donkey clothing. let's look at the party here in washington. our res. department commissioner is a republican who caucused with the re

she said saddam hussein did not make his bed either. does that make you a bad person? make you saddam hussein. >> but when you recovered the first thing you did was make your bed. >> it was instilled into me at a young age and reinstilled to me in the s.e.a.l. training. a little task, it helps you do the next task and reaffirms the fact that little things matter. >> the most important thing is don't quit. >> never quit. i think this is true. regardless this isn't about s.e.a.l. training but about life. i see great students going through the university of texas system. they have the same amount of strength and personal courage and dedication to get through the world of academia which is tough today. >> thank you so much for coming. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> and "make your bed" is on sale now. >>> two members of fleetwood mac teamed up to make their own ♪ noeft don't stop thinking about tomorrow ♪ >>> that is of course fleetwood mac "don't stop" from the album "rumors." not guitarist lindsey buckingham and christy mcvie are joining up for the first duet album and i