george mitchell is doing a huge amount of work in the region and he has support as tony blair and efforts some one. >> one of the problems is gaza and the fact that there is a very limited access and some people said it is like they're almost like a prison in the sense that people, in and out and tony blair when you're speaking before massaleit committee a few weeks ago said that the businessmen have not been able to leave a gaza for several months until he managed to make arrangements for that time. and now clearly there are real difficulties. how can we get better access to the border crossings into gaza? >> that has been the difficulty since the conflict. and a large number of efforts have been made by me and other people of persuasion to show that this can be done, and i believe when i talk to dealing with this issue so there is a very common view that we need the access that gaza has got to be able to work economically and with god to persuade people that is the right thing to do. >> but as long as gaza is under the control of hamas and there is the west bank under control of the pal

i do wonder if the war would have happened. >> charlie: you're surprised tony blair took that course, aren't you? >> yes, and i couldn't support him. i was in favor of the war because i felt as a natural american i should be in by america. i didn't realize we were being lied to about our prime minister about thwmd. >> charlie: and you think what should be the consequences for tony blair that he did that? >> i think history will be his punishment. i'm not suggesting he should be sent to the hague. >> charlie: but a much bigger issue. >> yes. >> charlie: and finally the judgment of henry kissinger without legacy, his most influence on history where i in the end be china? >> that was nixon. the opening for china was very much nixon. he was the engineer. i think the -- kissinger's role was with the russians and pushing the door open and established rust. >> charlie: and the idea of datonte. >> and the relationship with dubrenin. >> that's interesting. >> charlie: the long-time soviet ambassador. >> and they talked together as if they're old school chums like bill buckley and me where the

who is based on the idea of al stir campbell who was one of the principal advisors to attorney -- tony blair who sat at this table and talked about the blair. >> yes. >> charlie: and al stir campbell on this show. >> remember her. she took a stand on health. everybody decided she was meant actual because they showed pictures of her with a could you. >> it was particularly powerful. look the prime minister of this country doesn't drink blood. he doesn't go around biting -- >> i know the prime minister isn't a viking. >> he oppose physical violence. >> i was there doing a job where people did some time immemorial and time was changing faster than any part of our life. it was becoming more aggressive and more politically judgmental. and the thing is they talked about me bullying all the rest of it. i can spot a bully when i see it, and i was in a room full of bully's twice a day when i was briefing them. if i hadn't stood up to them, i would have been blown away. >> and malcolm tucker the character who is based on author campbell, it's based on an amalgam of arthur campbell and anonymous enforc

damaged credibity in eupe and this is an open question i don't think dr kissingergrees with suppose tony blair at the time of war said i'm not going in wh you, i'm going in wh the french. i do wonder if the war would have happened. >> charlie: u're surprised tony blairook that urse, aren't you? >> yes, and i couldn't pport him. i was in far of the war becae i felt as a natura american i shod be in by america. i didn't realize wwere being liedo about our prime minter about thwmd. >> charlie: anyou think what should bthe consequences for tony blair that he did that? >> ihink history will be his punishment. i'm not suggesting he should be sent to the hague. >> charlie: but a much bigger issue. >> yes. charlie: and finly the judgment of henry kissinger without legacy, his most influence on history where in the end be china? >> that was nixon. the opening for chi was very much nixon. he was the engineer i thin the -- kissinger's rol was with t russiansand pushing the door open and established rust. >> charlie: d the ide of datonte. and the relationship with dubrenin. that's interesting. >> charlie:

you don't understand me th you're too stupid for me to talk to. >> i'm wasting myxygen. >> crlie: tony blair, the real pern. >> now talki about at ceainty, blair, he said knowledge isn't e same as facts. i only know what i beeve. w that sounds great but if you anyze i only know wha i believe is the exact opposite of how we hav functioned as western cilization for the last two and-a-half thousd years really, ever since artotle really that you ascertain empirical evince d your judgment. ani just thought that w an interesting insigh intohowe worked. he went wh a beliefirst and therefe everything that was present to him was filtered thugh that belief. charlie: at is it you ink made the decisions he made. >> i belve him when he said he thought it was theight thing to do. charlie: i do too. i don'think heet out to trick anybody, he believed it. >> no, no. he believed it was theight thing do but what i would argue i that's not enough. that's notnough if you're sendg people to die. that really isn't enough. government instinct th has to be backed up. especially if you hav not run out of options. >>

you don't understand me then you're too stid for me to talk to. >> i'm wasting my ogen. >> chaie: tony blair, the real perso >> now talking about th certnty, blair, he said knowledge isn't thame as facts. i only know what i belie. nothat sounds great but if you anale i only know what i believe is the exactpposite of how we have functioneds a western civization for the last two and-a-half thousan years really, ever since aristleeally that you ascertain empirical evidee an ur judgment. and just thought that was an interesting insight into w h worked. he went in wit a belief fst and therefor everything that was presented to him was filtered throh that belief. >>harlie: wh is it you thk made the decisionse made. >> i belie him whene said he thought it was the rht thing to do. >>harlie: i do too. i don't ink he s out to tricknybody, he believed it. >> no, no. he believed it was the rht thing to do but what i would argue is that'sot enough. that's not eugh if you're sendinpeople to die. that really isn't enough. government instinct that has to be backed up. especially if you have not run out of op

so far tony blair's office has not commented on his wife's sickness.ay the former prime minister and the couple's four children have shown no signs of this infection. health officials say 29 people have died in britain from the swine flu. >>> a stage being built for madonna's concert this weekend collapsed, killing one worker. this happened t eed at a stadiu the south of france. six other workers were hurt. an official says the roof was about two-thirds complete when it gradually started collapsing on top of these workers. madonna was aitin italy when th happened. as she put it, my prayers go out to those injured and their family as long with my deepest sympathies to all those afengted by this heartbreaking news. and sunday's concert has been canceled because of this. >>> and stick around because we are hoping to get more information, like i said, on that, what happened with the horrible shooting of the five police officers in jersey city. we're keeping an eye on this. we're hoping to hear from the police chief any moment now. so keep it here on "hln n

unlikely -- when former prime minister tony blair -- unlikely he will say, yes, i did mislead you into the run up which many will likely say, at his critics. >> i think he will say we acted on the best information we had at the time and we did the best we could. in fact, most of the circumstances in the run-up to award are fairly well known but have not been abuzz official did one of the grid ironies is there have been at least five reports, three parliamentary reports from the intelligence committee, foreign affairs, defense committee and the two independent reports and everyone of those reports gave the government a clean bill of health. but the public just doesn't believe it appeared the public basically believed they were misled. and this inquiry is probably not going to change that but it will authoritatively say that this is the best judgment that we come a group of five independent analyst, can make. and it has been made with the political authority in the government and the post general election next year. >> i was listening to the chairman of this the few minutes ago and he sa

can the right honorable lady confirm that tony blair promised action, action on this subject to the labour party conference in october, 1997? since then, we've had the review, we had a zero-based review, we've had several comprehensive review and we had had no action. when will the government deliver the action that the prime minister promised 11 1/2 years ago? >> this green paper is going to be a very important next step, but it is not true that we have taken no action since we've been in government, we've recognized the importance of family care. those who go out to work as well as care for older relatives and that's why we brought in the right to request flexible working for those who are caring for older relatives. that is action. that is why we've increased resources for the health services, for the many older people who need healthcare support. that's why we've increased resources for social services so that there is dom sillry care for people available to people who are independent in their own home as well as social services residential care. yes, we will take further steps. we wil

there was a controversy at one point where george bush in a discussion with tony blair allegedly joked about and talked about bombing thal ya al-jazeers office, and i at the time was fascinated by the revelations of this and wrote quite a bit about it. mr. khanfar wrote a great piece saying, mr. bush, why are you trying to bomb me or along those lines. some of you who follow our activities will remember the man who was active in this and who was in london. the u.s. government talk at any level, joking or not joking, about bombing a news bureau of the arab world's largest news network. so we're at a new point. wadah khanfar has been trying to come to the united states every once in a while and has had visa challenges ever since this piece in the guardian. and, luckily, i think the obama administration is pushing reset with al-jazeera, pushing reset with wadah khanfar, he's here in washington, and we have a rare and useful opportunity to hear from him about how running the al-jazeera network matters, why it matters, where it's going and how he looks as an analyst and as a newsman as well

and all of these -- tony blair was there, and the great kenyan nobel prize winner, a great friend of hillary's and mine was there. and they were giving these passionate speeches about what should be in the new climate change agreement in a will be considered -- that will be considered in copenhagen. unfortunately as a anticlimax they asked me to close the meeting. i said, look, i love what they said. i love them. i love what they said. i agree with everything they said. i have nothing to add to it. i came all the way over here to tell you that unless you are going to copenhagen and you have a role there or you have a vote in your local legislative body, you should stop coming to these meetings. and go home and do something. do something. we are going to be tested by whether we do things that change people's lives. [applause] now, i don't feel that way about you because we haven't been doing this like we have in climate change for over a decade now where we've got to broadly -- we've got a broadly shared information base and the person running the local building retrofit building in a

as high,f not higher, than it is in the unitedtates, and that's the reason why former ime minier tony blairand gordon brown and others have ma this comtment reporter: british foreign secretary, david miland, speaking to to in brussels yeerday, echoed mr. obama's assessment. >> though know recent sacrices will not be the last, and we also explain e seriousne of the security tuation in afghanistan. our enemies should ner doubt our dermination to accomplish this mission becausee know the very hh cost of failure. >> ifill: miliband ao urged britain's european allieto put more effo into the fight in afghanistan. we areoined now by foreign cretary david miliband. thank you for jning us. >> goodto be with you. >> ifill: i it is true that july as the bloodies months for the british wars in afgnistan in seven yars, what do you sayo the itish ople who clearly are losing their enusiasm? >> we say tha this missi is in brita's national securi inerest. nearly threeuarters of the terrorism pls that havepl been eitr taken place or foiled against the u. k. hve their liks into thead land betwen afghantan an

if not higher, than it is in the united states, and that's the reason why former prime minister tony blairand gordon brown and others have made this commitment >> reporter: british foreign secretary, david miliband, speaking to nato in brussels yesterday, echoed mr. obama's assessment. >> though we know recent sacrifices will not be the last, and we also explain the seriousness of the security situation in afghanistan. our enemies should never doubt our determination to accomplish this mission because we know the very high cost of failure. >> ifill: miliband also urged britain's european allies to put more effort into the fight in afghanistan. we are joined now by foreign secretary david miliband. thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you. >> ifill: if it is true that july was the bloodiest months for the british wars in afghanistan in seven years, what do you say to the british people who clearly are losing their enthusiasm? >> we say that this mission is in britain's national security interest. nearly three quarters of the terrorism plots that havepl ben either taken place or foi

they really pushed through under tony blair a very competitive way ford, which is resisted by other politicians to drive value out of the service. now it's sort of half and half and i suspect that whatever happens in our next will determine whether we get choice in competition or whether we have more of the same. and i think it's very difficult, the british public love the nhs and have a lot of -- does deliver to many very good care. the difficulty is it finds it difficult to embrace innovation and cancer, sadly pancreatic cancer, there's not been new over the last decade. the speediness of getting the diagnosis, the speediness of which you start treatment really ee lays the psychological problems, you know what's going to happen. we have delays in diagnosis because of lack of imaging capacity. >> let me ask you a follow-up question, doctor, there was a study that was done in brussels and i brought this to the attention of an on kol gift. and if a patient comes to you having discovered a formulary that works that has been proven through clinical trials, if you were in the nhs, would you be free

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nicholas stern, the lead economist for tony blair, did a critical study that showed what the cost are globally in terms of our gdp. it is less than an entire percentage point. the cost of not doing it is up in the double digit. i think we will be able to give the republicans a lot of facts about how other states will be helped. please, go see the steady. they spend millions of dollars on analysis. it is called the carvin cost data curve. it takes every possibility of what people can do to reduce emissions. it factors in the cost. it shows that over the first 25- 30 years, the 25% of these reductions pay for themselves. this man has built a business. he says that he can reduce a company's cost of energy. guess what? i can not only do, i will pay for it. it does not cost you anything. if i do not do any savings, -- if i do the savings, this is what you get. that is how sure a bet it is. i will not reveal his wealth, but this man is very successful. [laughter] doing the right thing. doing the right thing. this is such a winning proposition. it is kind of catching on. major companies, tex

all the way to sweden the other day to give a speech, this big european group, and all these -- tony blair was there, and the great kenyan nobel winner was there. and they were giving these passionate speeches about what should be in the new climate change agreement. that will be considered in copenhagen. and unfortunately it is a total anticlimax they asked me to close the meeting because i said, look, i love what they said. i love them, i love what they said, i agree with everything they said, i have nothing to add to it, i came all the way over here to tell you that unless you are going to copenhagen and you have a role there, or you have a vote in your local legislative body, you should stop coming to these meetings and go home and do something. do something. we're going to be tested by whether we do things that change people's lives. n now, i don't feel that way about you, because we haven't been doing this like we have in climate change for over a decade now where we got a -- a broadly shared information base and the person running the local building retro fit program in a town of 50

speaker this of the damage in the 2006 white paper by tony blair told this house in december 2006 that britain could maintain its minimum strategic deterrent while producing from 200 to one to 160 warheads. less than three years later the current prime minister seems to be offering to reduce this figure below 160 warheads. how can he do this while still maintaining a minimum level of deterrence? >> the prime minister almost made it -- made it very clear that he was committed to maintaining the nuclear deterrent. we need to try to make an appropriate contribution to any small bilateral nuclear proposition that there is made, but we have to have the same time ensure that we have a credible minimum nuclear deterrent and this government in its entirety not only the defense team is committed to doing that. >> mr. speaker, recognizing the impact, recognizing the meeting that president, have less weight with the president of russia committed to reducing 500 nuclear weapons warheads each, isn't it about time of the public says we're not going to upgrade these? >> no, it is not. if my honorable

he was counsel by secretary paul and tony blair -- by secretary powell. you can get your desired outcome but you don't need to go alone. if you go through the un you can bring along the international community. the president was persuaded to do that because the common knowledge was saddam could not comply with the un resolutions which were all written in terms of wmd. so the way he could bring the international community with him, his objective is this is a threat that goes beyond wmd. he was channeled through the un. un -- he had to show that iraq had wmd. for those of us to work in the inspection business, that is a tough thing to demonstrate that, and he is good at slicing his complaints in ways that you did not have a response to. if the security council is faced with a choice about are we worry an inspector can get into the headquarters or go into war because iraq is blocking them, we did that have those options. being tied to this debate on wmd was a consequence of a decision to go through the un. the president has to bring his population with him.

. >> but tony blair told this house in december 2006 that britain could maintain its minimum strategicrrent whiles. reducing from 200 to 160 war heads. less than three years later the current prime minister seems to be offering to reduce this figure below 6 -- 160 warheads. how can he do this while still maintaining a minimum level of deterrence. >> the prime minister also made it very clear he was committed to main taping the nuclear deterrent. we need to try to make an appropriate contribution to any multilateral nuclear proposition that is made. but we have to at the tame -- same time ensure that we have a credible nuclear deterrent and this government in its entirety, not only the defense team, is committed to doing that. >> jim devine? >> thank you, mr. speaker. recognizing the meeting that president obama had last week with the president of russia where he committed to reducing 500 nuclear warheads each isn't it about time the department of public safety tried it? >> no, it's not. if my honorable friend wants to look at the record since we same -- came into power he will see we'v

steve: tony blair was elected leader of the labor party.y for him to become prime minister. number one song back then in 2006, pro-miscuous girl by neflly fratato. . .  [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- steve: i have no idea who that is. republican lawmakers speaking out against a bill that has passed the senate that expands federal hate crimes law. they say that it will make it more difficult to prosecute terrorists. brian: senator john mccain has spoken out against the bill. i know you're passionate by the fact that this crime bill does not belong in the defense bill. >> i have never seen, in the years i have been here, the majority leader of the senate once the defense bill to move forward, which is all about the defense of this nation and the care for the men and women who are serving, he takes an amendment offered which had to do with the funding of the f-22 and put a hate crime amendment on the bill, which has nothing to do w

there was a controversy at one point where george bush in discussion with tony blair allegedly jokedabout and talked about bombing al-jazeera's office and i was fascinated by the revelations of this and wrote quite a bit about it in the washington note. mr. khanfar wrote a great piece asking why you trying to balmy? some of you in the fall into america activities remember he was very active in this and was in london. it was a big issue, the u.s. government talking at any level, joking or not joking about bombing and los news bureau, th arab's largest news network. the obama administration is pushing the set with al-jazeera and wadah khanfar. we have a rare and useful opportunity to hear from him about how running the al-jazeera network matters, why it matters, where it is going and how he looks as an analyst at a newsman at many of the challenges that exist in the middle east today. it is with great pleasure for me to introduce wadah khanfar. we will have discussion afterwards. please welcome wadah khanfar. [applause] >> thank you very much for this introduction. normally people say

there was a controversy at one point where george bush in a discussion with tony blair allegedly joked about and talked about bombing thal ya al-jazeers office, and i at the time was fascinated by the revelations of this and wrote quite a bit about it. mr. khanfar wrote a great piece saying, mr. bush, why are you trying to bomb me or along those lines. some of you who follow our activities will remember the man who was active in this and who was in london. the u.s. government talk at any level, joking or not joking, about bombing a news bureau of the arab world's largest news network. so we're at a new point. wadah khanfar has been trying to come to the united states every once in a while and has had visa challenges ever since this piece in the guardian. and, luckily, i think the obama administration is pushing reset with al-jazeera, pushing reset with wadah khanfar, he's here in washington, and we have a rare and useful opportunity to hear from him about how running the al-jazeera network matters, why it matters, where it's going and how he looks as an analyst and as a newsman as well

wanted to get competition between the independent sector and the nhs and they pushed through under tony blairway to drive pavillion out of the service. now it is sort of half and half. i suspect that whatever happens in our next election -- the british public loved the nhs. it does deliver to many very good care, but the difficulty is innovation. in cancer, there's not been much but is new over the past decade. -- much that is newt over the past decade. but the speed in this -- we still of great delays in diagnosis because of lack of imaging capacity and a lack of an ability to do this. >> there was a study in done in brussels and i brought this to the attention of our oncologist and he made sure that the -- i have been unnecessary combination of drugs. it was too late for him,ç but a patient comes to you having discovered the formulary that works, that has been proven through clinical trials, are you -- if you were in the nhs, would you be free to use the system? >> not unless it has been approved. i can get special example -- exemptions from the primary payers of care. we have 152 pct's th

can the right honorable leader confirm tony blair promised action, action on this subject to the labour party conference in october, 1997. since then we have had the review, zero base review, we've had several comprehensive spending reviews and we have had a royal commission. but we have had no action. when will the government deliver the action the prime minister promised 11 and a half years ago? >> this green paper is going to be a very important next step, but it is not true that we have taken no action since we've been in government. we've recognized the importance of family care. those who go to work as well as care for older they're like to request flexible working for those who are caring for older relatives. that is action. that is why we have increased resources for the health services for the many older people who need health care support. that's why we've increased resources for social services, so that there is a summary care available to people who remain independent in their own home as well as social services residential care. yes, we will take further steps. we will cons

there was a controversy at one point where george bush in a discussion with tony blair allegedly joked about and talked about bombing thal ya al-jazeers office, and i at the time was fascinated by the revelations of this and wrote quite a bit about it. mr. khanfar wrote a great piece saying, mr. bush, why are you trying to bomb me or along those lines. some of you who follow our activities will remember the man who was active in this and who was in london. the u.s. government talk at any level, joking or not joking, about bombing a news bureau of the arab world's largest news network. so we're at a new point. wadah khanfar has been trying to come to the united states every once in a while and has had visa challenges ever since this piece in the guardian. and, luckily, i think the obama administration is pushing reset with al-jazeera, pushing reset with wadah khanfar, he's here in washington, and we have a rare and useful opportunity to hear from him about how running the al-jazeera network matters, why it matters, where it's going and how he looks as an analyst and as a newsman as well