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here is former defense secretary donald rumsfeld. hard to believe it is 10 years since 9/11. >> it is amazing. it is a good thing we are marking that day. because we can remember the people who were lost there. their families, their friends. and how fortney we have been that we've passed a whole decade almost where we -- haven't had a successful attack on america. >> greta: in the media, how do you honor the day, not exploit it and not tell the terrorists that they got us? >> i suppose there is a there in one's mine. it was the -- in one's mind. i was the largest attack on america inside of our country. it lead to a new set of steps to try to protect the american people. a different way of looking at it, instead of thinking we can defend what you can't defend against a terrorist, every place at every moment of the day or night against every conceivable technique. but we had to put pressure on them. thus far, it has been quite successful. >> greta: that's the bush doctrine, the preemption, pretty much? >> i wouldn't use the word preem

joining me now is the former secretary of defense twice dover donald rumsfeld. what memories do you have now of that day when american airlines 77 crashed into the pentagon? what's the most vivid recollection? >> i was in the pentagon when it was hit, and we had the two planes hit the world trade center before that, minutes before. and the first plane hit, it was obviously an accident, and the second plane hit and it obviously was not an accident. and then the pentagon shook, and the it was clear that america had been attacked. and i went down the hall and -- until the smoke was so bad i couldn't go any for the. i went downstairs and outside, and there out on the lawn, the apron around the pentagon, were just, you know, thousands of pieces of metal, little pieces, not -- it's not like that plane stayed together. the plane just was pieces everywhere. and people coming out with burns, and people going in and helping them out. i ran into a lieutenant colonel who said to me that he saw an airplane hit the pentagon. i had no idea if it was a bomb or what had happened

our fareed zakaria asked donald rumsfeld that very question. listen to what he saw and felt inside the pentagon. >> what memories do you have now of that day when american airlines 77 crashed into the pentagon? what's the most vivid recollection? >> i was in the pentagon when it was hit. and we had the two planes hit the world trade center before that. minutes before. and the first plane hit, it was obviously an accident. and the second plane hit and obviously was not an accident. and then the pentagon shook and it was clear that america had been attacked. and i went down the hall and the smoke was so bad, i couldn't go any farther, and there out on the lawn, the apron around the pentagon were thousands of pieces of metal. little pieces, not like that plane stayed together. the plane just was pieces everywhere. and people coming out with burns, and people going in and helping them out. i ran into a lieutenant colonel who said to me he saw an airplane hit the pentagon. i had no idea if it was a bomb or what had happened. but it was a day we'll a

even former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld had something to say he tweeted this morning after reading crewman's repugnant piece on nine eleven i cancelled my subscription to the new york times. so i really felt that point or perhaps returning to us where realism isn't allowed any any critique as labeled as unpatriotic or discuss this with me is jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger at black net thanks so much for being here tonight pleasure now for starters i will get into the reactions but let's get your take on what is the current wrote today do you think there is some shame in the way that people reacted afterwards in the way that some politicians capitalized on it in the way that nine eleven was used to get us into a war in iraq that really had nothing to do with nine eleven ok let's go with the first half i think there was definite sheen involved with the reaction some people had in see the west bank of palestine where they were dancing in the streets over those deaths and i think there was some shimon what rick krugman said because he is a re

rumsfeld of all people called quinn's remarks repugnant and even canceled his subscription to the new york times so why are we back to this then some say the chance of a greek default or up to ninety eight percent of our investors suffering from a relying on bailout mentality and i'm sure we've heard a lot about the evils of illegal immigration at tonight's republican tea party debate but what about illegal immigration let's have a talk about this important group of job creation we have all that and more for you to night including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. now over the weekend we saw a violent attack take place in afghanistan that injured seventy seven u.s. soldiers so in response the mainstream media once again decided to remember that hey we're war. patella been screaming responsibility for a massive explosion that injured seventy seven u.s. troops a suicide truck bomber attempts to kill as many american troops as possible a massive truck bomb rocked a u.s. military base in afghanistan over the weekend the insurgent

donald rumsfeld was the one so visible out there, refusing to leave. they were trying to get him to a safe location. he refused. 184 people killed at the pentagon. former president george w. bush laying a wreath there along with mike mullen and leon panetta. this is at what's called the 9/11 stone. this is the area that had to be rebuilt, the point of impact at the pentagon. president bush is expected to take part in ceremonies throughout the weekend. this is just one in d.c., but the other in new york that so many eyes will be on tomorrow because so many lives were lost there, the former president expected there as well. this is what many people have been waiting to get an eye on. this has been in the process for literally ten years. and now ten years after the 9/11 attacks, that is one of two reflecting pools. this is the official 9/11 memorial which will be dedicated officially tomorrow. but will be open to the public starting on september 12th. they wanted to have this ready on the ten-year anniversary. indeed, they do. you're seeing one there. the

even former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld had something to say he tweeted this morning after reading crewman's repugnant piece on nine eleven i cancelled my subscription to the new york times. so i really thought the point or perhaps returning to us were real isn't isn't allowed and any any critique is labelled as unpatriotic or discuss this with me is jim hansen retired special operations master sergeant and military blogger. it should thanks so much for being here tonight pleasure now for starters i will get into the reactions but let's get your take on what it is that crew wrote today do you think that there is some shame in the way that people reacted afterwards in the way that some politicians happy lives on in the way that nine eleven was used to get us into a war in iraq that really had nothing to do with nine eleven ok let's go with the first half i think there was definite shame involved with the reaction some people had in sea west bank of palestine where they were dancing in the streets over those deaths and i think there was some shimon what group krugman said because he

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also don, the donald rumsfeld will be by. he doesn't have to go to the end of his driveway and pick up "the new york times" anymore. he'll drop by and tell us why. >> and cloris leachman will be here and will she do to brian what she did last time? don't give it away, brian. >> i think it's too late if you watched the second hour. kristen chenowith is here. she did a sound check and she sounded perfect. gout to hear it. >> she's gone country for the first time! >> once you go country, you never go back. >> that's what i've heard. >> let's get the rest of the headlines right now. on a serious note, it could be a ticking time bomb on wheels. authorities searching desperately this morning for a stolen fuel tanker loaded with 3,000 gallons of gasoline. tanker a little bit bigger than the one you've seen in the picture here. it was stolen from kent county, maryland. police say there's a small chance this could be a terror attempt. the tanker has a maryland license plate in case you see it number 310e03. call police if you know any

defense secretary donald rumsfeld says he bush administration's war on terror has kept the u.s. safe for the past decade. rumsfeld spoke at an organization ahead of the tenth anniversary of the september 11 attacks. >> i surprised. i would not have hoped or dreamt that we might have lasted a decade without a major successful attack in america. >> rumsfeld said the united states has managed to avert another major terror attack on its soil thanks to key programs of the bush administration's war on terror. he said president obama initially opposed the guantanamo bay prison camp but continued them because he realized they're the best options for keeping america safe. rumsfeld was applauded by the mostly conservative audience. but police threw out several people protesting the treatment of detainees. rumsfeld was pivotal to taking u.s. to war in afghanistan and iraq. he resigned in 2006 and due partly to revelations to abuse of terror suspects. >>> interpol has issued the arrest for muammar gadhafi and other people z wanted for crimes against gadhafi. now on the alert to capture gadh

looking on is former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. 184 people died at the pentagon in the 9/11 attacks. >>> we're going live to washington, d.c. now. that's where the visible police presence is much higher today and will be tomorrow, of course. cnn's athena jones is at the fbi field office to fill us in on the high security in and around washington. athena? >> reporter: that's right. there's a lot of law enforcement presence all around town. every department. we've spoken to the capitol police, the park police, secret service, metro transit and of course the police department. there are more officers out, all kinds of officers, specialty teams, officers in plainclothes and in uniform, on foot, on horseback, on motorcycles. they've really got it covered. the d.c. police have added 200 to 400 additional officers to the schedule, depending on the time of day. they're doing 12-hour overlapping shifts. one of the things they're emphasizing for the public is general vigilance, to pay attention and to report any suspicious activity. we spoke

the bush administration with donald rumsfeld being there earlier throughout the weekend, seeing the vice president there earlier today and now the president of the united states at the pentagon. >> reporter: yeah, you know, fred, i think here at the pentagon at a moment like this as we look at the flag, the point of impact when that plane slammed into the building, for the pentagon today it's really family business, not politics. so many of these families have been out here every year. today they were out here of course early in the morning for the earlier ceremonies and have waited for hours in the sun to see the president of the united states as he previously had been in shanksville and in new york. this is sort of wrapping up today's events. the memorial is actually open to the public. if people come to washington, they can't go inside the pentagon necessarily but they can visit this memorial, walk amongst the trees and small water ponds and benches, memorializing each of the 184 souls lost that day. ranging in the age from 3, a toddler on the airplane to some of the older people that

also, leon panetta and donald rumsfeld. now to the show of law enforcement today in new york and washington. police and federal agents remain on alert taking no chances as investigators look for proof of a possible terror plot involving car or truck bombs. for the latest, we want to turn to our justice correspondent, pete williams, with the latest. >> three days after receiving that second hand report that men were coming here to set off car and truck bombs, the intelligence community has yet to find any indication that there was a real plot behind that tip. traffic on some busy new york streets was choked down to one lane so police could check cars, trucks and vans. as part of a heavily armed show of force. a clearly stepped up police presence in washington, too, and places where tourists gather, including the national mall. >> you just got to go on with business as usual and hope for the best. >> some of this was planned frl 9/11 weekend, but has been tightened up more because of word that three men flew here to set off v

at the pentagon, by 2002, donald rumsfeld was waging his own covert campaign inside the defense department. >> priest: the cia was very much in front of the military, and that bothered rumsfeld greatly. and he would write memos saying, "this cannot stand. we have to create a capacity ourselves." >> rumsfeld: the only defense against terrorism is offense. you have to simply take the battle to them. how do you do that? you don't... you don't do it with conventional capabilities. you do it with unconventional capabilities. >> immerman: rumsfeld was something of an empire builder, you know-- to create as much power in his department as possible. >> narrator: quietly, rumsfeld expanded the pentagon's most secret group: joint special operations command, jsoc. >> immerman: it provided a capability within the pentagon that the pentagon didn't have before and was not considered appropriate for the pentagon to have before. >> narrator: buried deep inside the pentagon bureaucracy, rumsfeld anointed jsoc with power and money. >> macgregor: one of the reasons that secretary rumsfeld became very enamore

bush, admiral mullen, leon panetta and donald rumsfeld as well as their spouses. all of them coming to pay a very quiet tribute. we know former president bush will be traveling up to new york. he will take part in the commemorative events tomorrow at ground zero. we'll be covering it as of 8:00 a.m. there's certainly a profound sense there, just in the solitude of that lone beautiful white wreath at the impact site there in the pentagon. >>> you know, we go back now to roger cressey. roger, i spoke earlier and you referenced it as we spoke with homeland security chairman peter king. he was talking about the incident and we thinks things stand right now. let's listen to what he said with me earlier this morning. >> the most important thing is getting such a specific plot plan. i've been doing this for a number of years. i've never seen a plot that was laid out so specifically. usually you get bits and pieces and you have to worry about connecting the dots. that's not the case here. >> is that what's so disturbing about this? that the specificity? >> it's disturbing

. >>> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld talks about military life and promoting his brand-new book. he spoke to the reserve officers association at george wash university tonight about his transition from the military to -- george washington university tonight about his transition from the military to pun life. >>> the military's -- public high. >>> the military's brac movement leaving some scrambling to stay a float. >>> here's april look at some of the other stories in our rundown. -- a look at some of the other stories in our rundown. not news edge at 11:00 is coming right back. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 11:00.  >>> more headaches from the military's base realignment plan. fox 5 money reporter melanie alnwick has more. >> reporter: lunchtime apt toledo pizza on georgia -- at toledo pizza on georgia avenue still busy but lighter. kelly shy is one of about two dozen business owners just outside the gates of the former walter reed army medical center. when she opened in 2005, more than 5,000 people worked at the campus and the facility served about

appointing donald rumsfeld. rice saying we don't need the 802nd airborne taking kids to kindergarten, and that was reflected to some extent in the way the united states went into iraq initially. the shock and all more surgical strike. there was now a lot of attention to remake domestic institutions in iraq in the beginning. price gives an interview in the beginning or she says the idea that we will take off the head and the plea the institutions in place. later on we had a much more transformative coal. rebuilding iraq from the ground up becomes part of the policy, but the fact that was not the way the united states went in has profound consequences for the next couple of years as the u.s. struggles to catch up with this new, transformer that policy and build the resources to do it. it is really not until 2006 we get a strategy for her clear, cold, and belt. obama is a bit of a tricky case. you might think that someone who spent a lot of time during committee organizing would be an institution building a broad,

rumsfeld and rice saying we don't need the 82 nd airborne taking kids to school. the shock and awe, surgical strike getting rid of saddam, but no intention to remake domestic institutions in iraq in the beginning. the ideas that we're going to take off the head, but leave the body in place, and the institutions are going to hold. it's, of course, later on when paul brenner arrives, there's a much more transformative goal and the goal of rebuilding iraq from the ground up becomes u.s. policy, but the fact that's not the way the united states went in has profound consequences for the next couple of years as the u.s. struggles to catch up with the new policy and build the resources to do it. it's not until 2006 that we get a real strategy for clear hold and build and so forth in iraq. obama is a tricky case. you might think that someone who spent a lot of time doing community organizing would be an institution builder abroad, but i actually, you know, from what evidence we've seen, i think the more useful pieces of information from his previous background is his oppo

iraq and even donald rumsfeld the secretary of defense was perplexed by this and has said so is it based in reality has it ever been because saudi arabia is an ally and evidence has come out that saudi arabia would have had some kind of a role supporting the hijackers or involved in nine eleven they've never been named as the axis of evil. correct it's a very selective naming libya is an interesting situation because and we've done quite a bit of reporting on this on who what why dot com taking a careful look at the origins of the uprising in libya and we found that basically khadafi has been very very cooperative with the west for a number of years but with the arab spring there was some sort of the terminations made that they could do better i think that it's not just the united states it's the french and the italians all of these countries the russians the chinese everybody is looking for resources or looking for minerals there's a mad scramble all over the world and so in order to justify when you're doing it in a military way such as the united states and nato is doing it they've go

their exploded after nine one one in donald rumsfeld had a bill passed immediately that allowed easy planes contracts to be spread around billions and billions and billions of dollars so in terms of us the pentagon and some of the big businesses it's been a very successful war but in terms of peace truth and basic human why we're in survival and everything that's right in just in the world it couldn't be more wrong. than snow will correspond to talk of pretty good credit investigates joining us from williamsburg usa tonight is a lot more we could talk about with this one for a times for the world over thanks to be on the program thanks so much take care. well as the u.s. prepares to withdraw its troops from afghanistan some already counting all the cash little be say but with record unemployment in the states of the military industries being one of the last stable employers maybe more beneficial to keep those troops where they are what you think about that but discussions coming up in just a few minutes in fact also. there was i saw he community grieves the loss of the locomotive tea

rumsfeld had a bill passed immediately that allowed these defense contracts to be spread around billions and billions and billions of dollars so in terms of the u.s. the pentagon and some of the big business says it's been a very successful war but in terms of peace truth and basic human why we got in survival and everything that's right in just in the world it couldn't be more wrong. keith allen snow will correspond photographer to pet investigate said joining us from williamsburg usa tonight is a lot more we could talk about with this from fred times out for the moment thanks to be on the program thanks so much take care. well as the u.s. prepares to withdraw its troops from afghanistan some already counting all the cash that will be saved but record unemployment in the states of the military industry being one of the last stable employers maybe more beneficial to keep those troops where they are what you think about that but discussions coming up in just a few minutes in fact also. the world's ice hockey community grieves the loss of the locomotive team with many international stars s

rumsfeld who were directly responsible for the torture and lowest attention to which he was subjected and the obama administration vigorously defended those bush officials and insisted that they not be held liable in a court because they were immune as government officials beyond that it was the bush administration that originally appealed to seventeen year sentence to which could be subjected but it was the obama administration once the the d.p. was perfected that pursued the appeal and argued it in court and in the end demanded that he be given an even greater sentence you know and let's be very clear the seventeen year sentence is on top of the five years that he spent in prison with no charges so it's really twenty three years there's seventeen years and he was sentenced to a supermax president forms colorado which is the worst how a whole that the world knows in terms of how the persons function and even that was twenty three years of torture and being in the supermax was too lenient for this appellate court and the reason why so few people care is because once you accuse somebod

rumsfeld who were directly responsible for the torture and lowest attention to which he was subjected and the obama administration vigorously defended those bush officials and insisted that they not be held liable in a court because they were immune as government officials beyond that it was the bush administration that originally appealed the seventeen year sentence to which could be was subjected but it was the obama administration once the the d.p. was perfected that pursue would be appealing to argued it in court and in the end demanded that he be given an even greater sentence you know and let's be very clear the seventeen year sentence is on top of the five years that he spent in prison with no charges so it's really twenty three years this seventeen years he was sentenced to a supermax president forms colorado which is the worst household that the world owes in terms of how persons function and even though i was twenty three years of torture and being in the supermax was too lenient for this is how a court and the reason why so few people care is because once you accuse somebod

well i think i mean i think that this was sort of you know donald rumsfeld's wet dream was having a world where you know the united states was able to pummel whomever it wanted whenever it regardless of what international law says about a regardless of what the home country says about it and i think that if you had had a president mccain in the white house instead of a president obama i think you would have had ludicrous ridiculous policies that would have been rife with opportunity for blowback you know mccain may have been much much worse on a foreign policy level in terms of large scale military deployments but to me the concern is that president obama has made it acceptable for many liberals who otherwise would have been protesting it or objecting to it so it my concern is going forward we've now set a precedent where democrats and republicans both embrace the idea that the united states has a right to bomb any country that wants whenever it wants or to assassinate people around the world even its own citizens with no indictment and nothing even vaguely resembling due process figure t

well i think i mean i think that this was sort of you know donald rumsfeld's wet dream was having a world where you know the united states was able to pummel whomever it wanted whenever it wanted regardless of what international law says avowed regardless of what the home country says about it and i think that if you had had a president mccain in the white house instead of a president obama i think you would have had ludicrous ridiculous policies that would have been rife with opportunity for blowback you know mccain may have been much much worse on a foreign policy level in terms of large scale military deployments but to me the concern is that president obama has made it acceptable for many liberals who otherwise would have been protesting it or objecting to it so it my concern is going forward we've now set a precedent where democrats and republicans both embrace the idea that the united states has a right to bomb any country that wants whenever it wants or to assassinate people around the world even its own citizens with no indictment and nothing even vaguely resembling the process fi

. >> apparently donald rumsfeld did not like the 9/11 blog jib. he called the piece, quote, repugnant and canceled his subscription. did you hear that ad sales department? we are no longer permitted to deliver our award-winning journalism to the following address. 205 cherry street. saint my will kas, maryland, 21663. you are welcome. >> that was completely unfair. >> you are completely unfair. >> i will take that. >>> was it a risk or a trist? were they carrying a bomb or just geting it on. on sunday the fighter jets were scrambled. not sure how you can scramble fighter jets. bomb squads were called and fbi was on alert after two passengers on a ken -- denver to detroit flight were allegedly behaving suspiciously. but the threat was not legit. they were swapping spit. officials later acknowledged the suspicious behavior was two people making out in the bathroom midflight. that's romantic. kissing in a small space that stinks of stale urine and industrial air freshener. that wasn't the only incident. fighter jets were activated after a flight from

rumsfeld. why as is that? i thought that i wrote aue pretty good book. [laughter] i thought it was relatively balanced. i chose not to dwell at length on what transpired in the immediate aftermath ofe our going into h iraq. there has been a lot written about the policy of setting upas new government in iraq.n i took the approach i could focus on a few things and i really wanted to but what we put in place at the beginning 2007 so there is a lot in my book but i did not lot of time for with the spate -- state department did but thens outside normal military and serious and read the book and and talk to people on the staff to said you were asking questions u about the u.s. militaryq strategy in, iraq. during those years when things were obviously not going well, asking tough questions, what is our strategy? why do we do the same thing? is the trainee effective? i guess i am interested on a personal level, when did you start asking those questions? >> on a personal level three will sit down and ta

rumsfeld and senators mccain and joe leiberman and mike rogers. that's it for today, have a great week. see you on next week.

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"new york times" columnist paul krugman led the way, angering former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld. it's so outrageous for a once great newspaper to pedal that kind of repugnant nonsense that i just gave up and i hope and trust other people will as well. i can live without the "new york times" that's for sure. >> bill: joining us from los angeles the sage of southern california dennis miller. ducan sell your subscription as well, miller. >> i knew rum any would. he hasn't been solid with the times since they cancelled march that duke. i had to talk him off the ledge then. he loved that pooch. i knew rummy is going to be out of there. what does the "times" matter anymore. i line my parakeet cage with it and my parakeet wouldn't take a dump for three months. what's in it all already. the "times" has big problems. >> is that how the parrett talks? >> that's my interpretation of my parity squawking. squawkysquawk parrett. >> bill: it doesn't matter. then should we ignore it? >> come on, krugman is a nerd out in princeton and all of a sudden women dig him. guys are listening to him at t

. >> donald rumsfeld has declared war on bureaucracy. >> reporter: that would soon be the least of his worries. yes, it was a different time, a different era. there was no facebook, no twitter, no ipods even. but in terms of our daily concerns there were no ieds, no anthrax, no threat levels. no department of homeland security. most americans have never heard of kandahar in afghanistan, many never of shanksville in pennsylvania. you kept your shoes on at airports and didn't put your toothpaste in little bags. closing moments before tragedy and before heroes. monday, september 1010, 2001. two towers still stood, and more than 2,000 of our friends, first responders and countrymen still lived. it was the last day then before the first day of now. for "good morning america," john berman, abc news, new york. >> so fascinating to look back. our thanks to john berman. bianna, that really reminds me something i heard recently from experts who study memory. which is that traumatic events are remembered in a way by us in a way that's much more vivid than nontraumatic events which is why 9/11, te

former secretary donald rumsfeld, on the left side of the picture, at this point he's taking part in a 9/11 national day of service event with military families in virginia. >>> in new jersey a 9/11 memorial is being dedicated. the empty sky memorial displays the names of 746 new jersey residents killed in the 9/11 attacks. this is in liberty state park in jersey city just across the hudson from the site of the world trade center. u.s.s. new york built with steel recovered from the trade center is in new york harbor this weekend as well. it arrived from norfolk, virginia thursday, carrying about 200 members of the 9/11 family association. this afternoon there will be a memorial service at st. patrick's cathedral to honor the 343 new york firefighters who died at the world trade center site. >>> also coming up next hour, an emotional ceremony in thanks ville, pennsylvania, the dedication for the first phase of a memorial honoring the 40 passengers and crew who died on united flight 93. former presidents bush and clinton will be there along with current vice president joe biden. a live

former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and his wife were also present. president bush will be attending the flight 93 memorial dedication later on today near shanksville, pennsylvania, and he'll also be joining in tomorrow's service at ground zero here in new york. >>> the official dedication ceremony for the national memorial to the victims of united flight 93 take place this afternoon. 40 passengers and crew members died there. we are live in shanksville. mara, tell us what's planned there, just starting in a couple of hours? >> you can see the final preparations are under way behind me here for this event. the crowds are just starting to stream in. the event starts at 12:30 today. we'll be hearing from former presidents bill clinton and george w. bush and then there will be the presentation of memorial itself. that will be unveiled by vice president joe biden. the memorial is a white marble wall that's inscribed with the names of those 33 passengers and 7 crew members who fought back on september 11th. flight 93 was the only hijacked plane on 9/11 tha

we've had donald rumsfeld and indeed george w. bush's. i've read two of those. what is interesting is there is a marked lack of contrition i would say about the decisions that were taken. do you believe as george bush clearly beliefs that history will judge him more fairly? that when you see the arab spring uprisings, for example, this is all an extension of what went on in iraq and so on. do you subscribe to any of that theory? >> not really. but of course, we don't really know. i think that we could have -- if there was to be an arab spring, it could have happened by keeping the focus on the taliban in afghanistan instead of losing that focus and moving on to iraq. and we don't know how the arab spring even in libya is going to turn out, or in egypt. so it's too early to say. what i do know is america worse off in most ways, and the country has been interrupted by, you know, these tax cuts and not paying for the wars, by the prescription drug benefit. this economy was left in a complete mess when the new president came in. most of the problems we have today go

. >> schieffer: on that day, the secretary of defense donald rumsfeld was at his massive desk at the pentagon when the planes struck there. >> the building shook at the pentagon. we had been hit. i didn't know if it was a bomb or an airplane or what. so i went out of my office and ran down the hall until the smoke was so bad that you couldn't get any farther. i went downstairs and outside. there on the apron outside the pentagon there were just thousands of pieces of metal. small pieces not big chunks of an airplane. >> schieffer: if i remember, you actually helped some of the first responders to get people on the gurneys. >> well, at that point the first responders hadn't gotten there. these were just people from the pentagon who came out and starred helping and bringing people out of a burning building. the flames were leaping up. and the smoke. at that mopt, i just gave somebody a hand and then when the first responders did come in, i went back to my office and got about my business. >> schieffer: i thought one of the more interesting things is you did not close down the pentagon

"new york times" columnist paul krugman led the way, angering former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld. it's so outrageous for a once great newspaper to pedal that kind of repugnant nonsense that i just gave up and i hope and trust other people will as well. i can live without the "new york times" that's for sure. >> bill: joining us from los angeles the sage of southern california dennis miller. ducan sell your subscription as well, miller. >> i knew rum any would. he hasn't been solid with the times since they cancelled march that duke. i had to talk him off the ledge then. he loved that pooch. i knew rummy is going to be out of there. what does the "times" matter anymore. i line my parakeet cage with it and my parakeet wouldn't take a dump for three months. what's in it all already. the "times" has big problems. >> is that how the parrett talks? >> that's my interpretation of my parity squawking. squawkysquawk parrett. >> bill: it doesn't matter. then should we ignore it? >> come on, kgman is a nerd out in princeton and all of a sudden women dig him. guys are listening to him at the

rumsfeld, paul wolfwits. they talk about what they were doing that day and the ten-year arc since that day. >> richard stengel. it is an amazing issue. thanks so much. the portraits, the photographs and the essays. >>> stay with msnbc for special coverage of all this weekend's commemorative events. the tenth anniversary of 9/11. no, this is new bayer advanced aspirin... clinically proven to relieve tough pain twice as fast as before. what, did you invent this or something? well, my team did. i'm dr. eric first, from bayer. wow. look. it has microparticles. it enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief right to the site of pain. better? great! thanks. [ male announcer ] new bayer advanced aspirin. extra strength pain relief. twice as fast. test our fast relief. look out for your coupon in this sunday's papers. ♪ [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you don't back down from a challenge. this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why would you let something like erectile dysfunct

you go downstairs and open the door and there is colin powell or donald rumsfeld pretending to be the fedex deliveryman. and imagining that he's going to get away with the disguise. hamilton ultimately publishes a 95-page pamphlet admitting to the affair because his enemies said that money he was paying to james reynolds was for illicit speculation of treasury securities. hamilton says, no, no. he says it in 95 pages, that was adultery that the money was for. suffice it to say even some of hamilton's closest friends thought a couple nice, discreetly worded paragraphs would have done the trick. i please please know all of this intrigue and back stabbing runs counter to our preferred image of the founders and may remind us more of the state of our fallen tabloid political culture today than of the men ensidelined in our school textbooks. let me stress so there is not any misunderstanding my attempt here tonight and in the book is in no way to deny the greatness of the founders. the very best thing about spending five years on alexander hamilton, i got on a daily basis just to drink in h

rumsfeld. why is that? >> guest >> well, i thought was relatively balanced. i chose not to dwell at length sort of on what transpired in the immediate aftermath of our going into iraq. there had been a lot of books written, some of them pretty good i think about the policy in terms of setting up the new government in iraq. jerry has written one. several other books have been written. rumsfeld has written pretty extensively about, and basically took the approach that i can focus on a few things and what i really wanted to focus on was the surge in the counterinsurgency doctrine that accompanied the surge that was put in place of the beginning of 07. so there is a lot written about that in my book, but i didn't spend a lot of time going back over what the state department did with respect to managing the situation of with the pentagon did outside of the normal military activities. but i talked to people on your stuff and elsewhere who said that you are asking questions about the u.s. military str

. >> there's the other side of this, which is donald rumsfeld, which warns against cuts to the defense budget in an interview he did with cnn. take a listen. >> today with the debt crisis and deficit crisis, we're about to ready to make the same mistake we made off world war ii, after vietnam and korea and then after the cold war. pare down our intelligence, cut the budget in the defense department, and think we can get away with it. >> you know, jon meacham, you can't compare what happened after world war ii to what's happening now. after world war ii, we were living in a bipolar world, we had many reasons to fear the soviet expansion of the military machine. today, we have no fears. we spend more money than all of our closest rivals combined militarily. we're spending $2 billion a week in afghanistan, we've tripled the number of troops there, we are now engaging in wars, dropping drones on at least three, four, five countries which we haven't even declared war against. the war inc. has exploded and expanded over the past four years. we are now, again, we are fighting wars in many cou