he did them with tony blair and gordon brown and merkel. barak -- the prime mr. the prime minister of iraq. >> did the prime minister speaking english? >> no. it was hard to establish a personal rapport. they made a good effort at it. the distance, both in language and culture, was pretty hard to bridge. >> we get into an international situation and you sure the president has talked to foreign leaders. what is the process? described iss i president bush having it as part of the time scheduled. especially during the darkest days of the war, he wanted talk to tony blair. that is real talking. there are a couple of agenda --ms that were stripped out scripted out. for the most part, they are sharing fears and anxieties and giving each other hope. those were real conversations that would last 30-45 minutes. ,he more typical conversation when you hear the news say that president x spoke with prime minister x, it is a scripted event and set up in advance. president, if the it is u.s. initiated, here is what we want to say to this person and we want to get out of them. a

there are stories, i don't know if they are true, tony blair flying to meet rupert murdoch to get the blessing in the first election campaign. does rupert murdoch really hold that much sway over british politicians? >> it is a spectrum. u.k. and the u.s., you have power at that becomes key moments. at times, veering into domination of the media world that becomes incredible influence. >> there is no indication that rupert murdoch's influences about to decline? >> he allows an unusual degree of autonomy because fox news is so wildly profitable. particularly in their opinion shows. the threads are probably further to the right then mr. murdoch himself. mindfulclinton was very of his power at the new york post. we can only imagine that she is gearing to make peace again as she gears up for a 2016 run. he was mindful of democrats supporting and koch -- ed koch years ago. it is part of what makes him so influential and powerful. murdoch's world, the last of the old media empire. with halloween fast approaching, there is one more thing we wanted to show you tonight. it is being carved to ri

there are stories, i don't know if they are true, tony blair flying to meet rupert murdoch to get the blessing in the first election campaign. does rupert murdoch really hold that much sway over british politicians? >> it is a spectrum. u.k. and the u.s., you have power at that becomes key moments. at times, veering into domination of the media world that becomes incredible influence. >> there is no indication that rupert murdoch's influences about to decline? >> he allows an unusual degree of autonomy because fox news is so wildly profitable. particularly in their opinion shows. the threads are probably further to the right then mr. murdoch himself. mindfulclinton was very of his power at the new york post. we can only imagine that she is gearing to make peace again as she gears up for a 2016 run. he was mindful of democrats supporting and koch -- ed koch years ago. it is part of what makes him so influential and powerful. murdoch's world, the last of the old media empire. with halloween fast approaching, there is one more thing we wanted to show you tonight. it is being carved to ri

former british prime minister tony blair roms calling him for advice on his cabinet and they have called him britain'srrel f jobs. here's his speech. >> in the his tray of this club has won five fa cups, four league cups, a european winner's cup, one european super cup. two champion league titles, a world cup and 13 primary league titles. >> it doesn't mean the end of my life with these clubs. i'll be there to enjoy watching them while suffer with them. but if you think about those last minute goals that come back, even to defeat -- unbelievable for all of us. thank you for that. [applause] and also, i would like to remind you that the club stood by me. all my staff stood by me, the players stood by me. steve job knows to stand by their new manager. >> rose: i should say that's a new manager that you chose. >> yes. >> rose: but you left him in a very tough place to be because he's following you. >> yes. >> rose: some would say you don't want to follow the guy who follows alex ferguson you want to follow the guy that follows alex ferguson. let's begin, sitting here at this point before a

pretty darn impressive.howard buffett and his son partnered with former british prime minister tony blairunger. tell us about that. >> it's about $3 billion so far that warren buffett has given to his son's foundation. not chump change. a lot of money. partnering with former british prime minister tony blair in africa, focusing on conflict zones, for example, they're investing $41 million in year in the congo. so they're not afraid to take ricks and go to places where it's certainly not easy to get things like this off the ground. i will tell you though, a lot of people read this book and say it focuses on africa, afghanistan, what about the united states. the foundation is spending about 50% of their money here in the united states where it or not, 48 million americans, one in six americans is food insecure and doesn't know where their next meal is coming from. they're focusing globally but also here in the united states. >> a good cause as always. thank you, appreciate it. several stories caught our attention today. photos, as well. this is in australia. this boar baby wallaby caught in

had other exciting moments, and then it talks a lot about people and individuals, eva longoria, tony blair, ed price, and a guy who is in democratic rubble of congo, joe de frees, they're heroes, they're trying to tackle problems differently. and they're very focused. >> someone in your position and your financial resources does it ever occur to you that you don't have to do this? you can kickback a little bit? >> i don't think of it that way. i have had an amazing life. i'm born in america. i'm male, i'm white. at the time i grew up that gave me every advantage any person could have, and i had two great parents and a dad who made a lot of money. so i can't be any more fortunate. i have a great wife, great kids. why would i not focus my energy and my time on how to solve big problems and issues that i've seen firsthand that affect people. >> later this week i'll bring you more of my interview with howard buffet where we discuss the future of farming in america, and if you're looking for other light reading, alan greenspan's new book is now out. it's called "the map and the territory." if y

. >> it was the election of tony blair's that really bostonned the number of female m.p.'s, he used all tpwhim many of his winnable seats. of male dominated world dublin dubbed them blair's babes but in believe it's time to change things. >> i'm not willing to wait while good intentions bring about very, very slow progress. i want to see change more quickly than that. >> in scotland they have a good record of getting women elected but they say they still face pressures male politicians don't. >> women bring something acceptstive and special to the political debate and the more of us there are the more people will stop focusing on what we wear and how we look. the critical mass is really important. >> a statue of successful rajeth keeps a watchful eye. much has been made since her fight for the right for women to vote. >> live now to the bbc radio where the conference is taking place. lucy hockings is there for us. it's looking pretty busy. >> it's incredibly busy, and can you imagine 100 women in a room, it's literally buzzing with creativity and incredible ideas but i've

there is also the point that one of the defendants here had strong connections to both tony blair and david cameron. >> thank you very much. >>> it has been a year since super storm sandy hit the east coast. coming up on al jazeera america we'll tell you about the struggles that some people there are still facing to this day. grocery bill? can rare minerals in china affect your cell phone bill? or how a hospital in texas could drive up your healthcare premium? i'll make the connections from the news to your money real. all next week america tonight investigates the campus rape crisis. >> serial rape is the norm on college campuses. >> i know that when i did report, i was blamed. >> then this friday at nine eastern, we open up the conversation in a live town-hall event. sex crimes on campus, a special week of coverage and live town-hall on america tonight nine eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> for the first time since storm sandy pounded the northeast almost a year ago. ellis island as you see is reopening its doors to visitors. ceremonies are planned for the popular tourist attr

was planting bombs in parliament and even nine years ago when protesters threw flower bombs at tony blair so these incidents do happen but i have to say that looking out the window we can see westminster from our offices the security i would probably call it discreet there are always police officers outside we've got to remember that it's not really in your face there a crash barrier is installed outside downing street where the prime minister and the chancellor live there are crash barriers outside the palace of westminster but it's not intimidating a few police officers a lot of the u.k. and people in who live in london especially very aware that we have a lot of c.c.t.v. cameras in the city some of called it the most spied on city in the world so security might not be visible on the street in terms of policeman but it's definitely there and you're aware of it of course we know that despite austerity measures and despite the financial financial downturn in the u.k. even though video games the u.k. spent over a billion pounds on security very famously even installing snipers on roofs to

about iraq of course they very rarely want to talk about iraq they always like to claim that well tony blair and george bush wanted well but they've made a few mistakes along the way that's nonsense the whole of the exercise was to destroy iraq as a functioning country to make never again be a threat to regional powers that the us backs in that region the same with syria. those jihadist militants keep up their war of attrition against syria's government a growing number of civilians are volunteering for military service. my family worries not but nothing is more precious than our country their homeland where i was really. coming up we meet a woman who's putting her life on the line to defend her family and her country. president obama is facing some of barassi revelations in the german media reports that say the us president had full knowledge that the n.s.a. was tapping chancellor merkel's mobile phone despite his claims to the contrary he was allegedly briefed by the head of the n.s.a. about the scheme back in twenty ten and even ordered a full dossier on the german leader well merkel made

about iraq of course they very rarely want to talk about iraq they always like to claim that while tony blair and george bush wanted well but they've made a few mistakes along the way that's nonsense the whole thing with the exercise was to destroy iraq as a puncturing country to make sure it could never again be a threat to regional powers that the us backs in that region the same with syria so i think this is all deliberate the what we're talking about is the deliberate destruction of independently minded countries in this region but these western powers have been claiming that the fighting you know again is international terrorism and yet they've now supported the rebels in both libya and syria how would you explain that apparent contradiction. well absolutely i mean is the biggest myth in the whole of international relations the biggest myth is that the united states and its allies or implacably opposed to terrorist groups around the world and particularly al qaeda and islamic terrorist groups they're not they will use al-qaeda terrorist groups like them to help them to topple independent

the iraq war is getting ourselves involved in illegal conflicts you know where you kill leaders tony blair should be visited many european cities perhaps he should have visited the heat for his conduct in iraq starting would not get him into that situation scotland looks to be and wants to be a good neighbor on the global neighborhood and not a neighbor that is a nuisance neighborhood on the social behavior or the put upon it and that is the behavior that the u.k. government has left citizens exposed to and how they behaved in a way that the scottish national party would want them to behave ten years ago we'd all be a lot safer to do scotland will be behaving irresponsibly in a way that the majority of the nations of europe believe and not in the with the we've seen recently from me you could governments which is front frankly shameful right. from the scottish national party mr mcneil thank you very much indeed for your insight thank you thank you a great pleasure thank you. and of course we're back with more news for you after the shot break. if we look at the history of the o.p.c. w. and

the serious fraud office was investigating a slush fund between prince bandar saudi arabia and tony blair regarding the british aerospace slush fund this was covered in the financial times and apparently bandar threatened blared by saying if you don't call off the slush fund as to gas and i can't guarantee there won't be another seven seven terrorist act in the city of london whereupon blair folded like a cheap tent were you shocked by that i was shocked by the fact to the s.f.o. who were forced to back off i wasn't aware by the way but there was a threat of terrorist activity more was covered the aft a bad guy and it he repeated it recently he threatened ok russia with terrorist activity in russia if he didn't get if they're if they it's russia didn't go saudi's way in the syria conflict so once again prince bandar threaten terror as well i believe it's just that i wasn't aware that i mean much my understanding was that the threat was that if you carry on with this investigation you know. super duper good the contracts which you might otherwise when you were in the regular shows he made

former british prime minister tony blair roms calling him for advice on his cabinet and they have called him britain'srrel f jobs. here's his speech. >> in the his tray of this club has won five fa cups, four league cups, a european winner's cup, one european super cup. two champion league titles, a world cup and 13 primary league titles. >> it doesn't mean the end of my life with these clubs. i'll be there to enjoy watching them while suffer with them. but if you think about those last minute goals that come back, even to defeat -- unbelievable for all of us. thank you for that. [applause] and also, i would like to remind you that the club stood by me. all my staff stood by me, the players stood by me. steve job knows to stand by their new manager. >> rose: i should say that's a new

and tony blair, what it means, you have the political establishment on his team, desperate for his approval >> catering to him and trying to come to him to get his approval. and one of the interesting things that you point out in the book, his political leanings have varied substantially over his life. when he was at ox ward, he was a left-wing radical. and how did he go from being a virtual communist to being in charge of the most powerful voices in the world. >> sowing his oats, and he had an anti-authority streak, and there was something that made him take the voyage from being the guy on the left to being significantly on the right. he had a vision and a drive, and you have to give him credit. he forced his way into the table when there were these established newspaper barons in australia and britain and he wasn't good enough for them. and then he did it in television. you used to work for fox tv out west. and he demanded that he made it happen despite regulator. and he did it in britain as well. and he maintained this fiction and illusion that somehow he's apart from the media. politic

and president bush did them in my tenure, he did them regularly with tony blair, gordon brown. act la merkel, and prime minister malachi from iraq. especially our military commander and ambassador in baghdad? >> did prime minister maliki. >> no. it was hard to establish a rapport. they made a good effort at it. the distance in language and in culture is pretty hard to bridge under those circumstance. >> you hear the president has been talking with foreign leaders. what's the process? prime minister x. it's fairly scripted event. and the -- it's -- you know, it's set up a day or two at least a day or two in advance. somebody briefs the president on what it is -- if it's a u.s.-initiated call, here's what you can say to this person and what you want to get out of them. and the prime minister of whatever is getting a similar briefing on the other end. so they -- it's usually a fairly scripted call that has the substantive purpose of underscoring a message which could be delivered through subordinates but probably has been. when the president itself does it comes with extra force a

tony blair took the labor party toward the center in britain. they did it because their party kept losing. maybe there's a republican out there that will lead the republican party toward the center. >> vanessa, your book is about the tea party and remaking of the republican conservatism. what are these people likely to learn? what i'm struck by is they are so deeply dissatisfied with the last 40 years, maybe longer. they really want to undo stuff that happened in the 1960s and beyond. that's 50 years of american history whether you call it progress or not. it's unlikely to happen. >> i think that's a real important point. when i was traveling the country interviewing tea party members, i was struck by a couple things. remarkable level of citizenship. these people are engaged in grassroots level. they go to local committee meetings that no one goes to. they run for school board. they do all of these things that are frankly very admirable but they don't in vision of democracy have much of a sense of compromise. it wasn't a part of what they had in

. >> rose: you've given advice to tony blair, even about some strategic and how to handle people, yes. >> yes, there was sometimes 20 and number 10. i always thought tony was best at question time. i loved him at question time. he destroyed those boys. >> rose: you like the competition. >> i love to see him unite, yes. we spoke of many things. one thing i always said to him at the election time, why don't you take your therapist with you. >> rose: the other thing that's interesting me about you is that is that the as soon as of mission. you know how to infuse the sense of mission. and you know how so that everybody knows they're playing for themselves. they're playing for their person to their right and their left. and they're playing for something larger than themselves. >> the team ethic. >> rose: the team ethic. >> looking at the team beside you and trust him. that's the essence of a team where they can understand the qualities and the failures and weaknesses of the teammates. >> rose: and accountability too. >> yes. so if you were in a game of football always think you need number

here in london because of jpmorgan's global cities initiative when brought together the likes of tony blairbbed mayor and lord koe. i'm here now with another one of jpmorgan's executives, jose menarres. head of the corporate bank. jose, can i ask you a bit about the global cities initiative? we've had hear from today that london is very competitive in europe in terms of entrepreneurship, business friendliness and innovation. how does that stack up against the rest of the world and what will it mean if the uk decides to leave europe? >> well, helia, welcome to our headquarters here in london. london is a global leader, right? it's a renaissance city. if you look at the way it's managed to attract best in class people, capital from all over the world and infrastructure -- and by the way, when i talk about infrastructure, i mean the rule of low. i mean predictabilities, stability, and very important common sense from its leaders. it's, as i said before, a global leader. now, on top of that, you'll put great art, sports, schools, it's hard to beat. we don't think that that is going to change. n

he's the author of "radical, my journey out of islamic extremism tony blair said this book should beread by anyone that understands how the extremism that stalks our world is treated and how can be be overcome. it can only be written by someone who lived this story. also joining me, john miller, formerly of the f.b.i. and my colleague at cbs news. i'm pleased to have both of them here. this is as many of you know who i do many things that john miller says and so you said we should have a conversation here. why? >> this book is remarkable in that it is the story of radicalization written by the person who is being radicalized and you go through the process of his radicalization, into egypt where he's accused of trying to top it will government, into the prisons where he's tortured, among the prisoners where he meets other people and out the other end of that tunnel where he sees a light to say "this is a complex web of half-truths. i just got the other half of the story." and the reason i find this story and maajid fascinating is that, you know, there are others out there like anwar a

well, he can do business with people in the center left like tony blair or when hillary clinton was runningresident in this country as well, in the center left. and as a result, politicians will vie for his support. >> what comes through in the book, particularly the hacking scandal, is the raw sort of instrumentality in which the media outlet is wielded within these certain circumstances. i mean, it is a tool for power. it is a tool for influence that is wielded by rupert murdoch. i want to talk more about the murdoch empire, whether it is a dying empire or not. i think that's sort of an interesting throughline in the book, and talk to someone who worked at fox news and wrote a tell-all book about it along with the great ana marie cox after this break. le. le. to treat my low testosterone, i did my research. my doctor and i went with axiron, the only underarm low t treatment. axiron can restore t levels to normal in about 2 weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women, especially those who are or who may become pre