you didn't particularly like one statement when donald rumsfeld said you were bright. you asked with what's wrong with us? >> we were pretty good friends and still are. >> because he supported you very early in your career, you write about that. and then there was some conflict. what did you see, sent out snowflakes, letters? >> right that's correct were critical, shall we say, of things that we were doing. but these were substantive disagreements. and personalities are -- people are people. everybody has got a personality. when you are working under enormous pressure practically 24 hours a day, those personalities are sometimes going to express themselves more fully than they might under calmer times. >> seems like you were kind of in the middle of it a lot. >> well, i was the national security advisor. the national security advisor is always in the middle because you are the honest broker and you are trying to bring all views to the table. when i was secretary of state i wasn't in the middle anymore. >> one thing you wrote you thought colin powell if he would have wo

. >> i would be neglectlyient if i didn't ask you about the relationship between you, donald rumsfeld, colin powell. you write pretty extensively in the book about it. you didn't particularly like one statement, i think it was donald rumsfeld said you were bright. >> right. >> and you asked him what's wrong with us? >> we were really good friends and we still are. >> because he supported you very early in your career, you write about that. >> right. >> and then there was some conflict. what did you say, hesen out snowflakes, letters? >> yeah, that we are critical, shall we say, of things that we were doing. but really these were substantive disagreements. and personalities are -- people are people. everybody has got a personality. when you are working under enormous pressure, practically 24 hours a day, these personalities are sometimes going to express themselves more fully than they might under calmer times. >> you seemed like you were kind of in the middle of it a lot. >> well, i was the national security advisor. the national security advisor is always in the middle because you ar

saddam hussein was leaving no other way. >> bill: i want to talk about dick cheney and donald rumsfeld and you, all right? you guys will be forming a rock group soon and going out on a road. more on that with dr. rice in a moment. bernie goldberg on hysteria. news busters have compared the coverage to president obama's campaign problems. wait until you hear this. coming right back. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ deep breath] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! >> bill: continuing with now with dr. condoleezza rice "no higher honor a memoir of my years in washington." dick cheney was critical of weapons of mass destruction africa the yellow cake thing. saddam hussein was trying to buy stuff and bum bum bum bum bum. didn't turn out to be true. cheney writes she you. >> bill: cheney referring to a difference of opinion you guys had because you sa

saddam hussein was leaving no other way. >> bill: i want to talk about dick cheney and donald rumsfeld and you, all right? you guys will be forming a rock group soon and going out on a road. more on that with dr. rice in a moment. bernie goldberg on hysteria. news busters have compared the coverage to president obama's campaign problems. wait until you hear this. coming right back. >> bill: continuing with now with dr. condoleezza rice "no higher honor a memoir of my years in washington." dick cheney was critical of weapons of mass destruction africa the yellow cake thing. saddam hussein was trying to buy stuff and bum bum bum bum bum. didn't turn out to be true. cheney writes she you. >> bill: cheney referring to a difference of opinion you guys had because you said we shouldn't have included that into the president's speech when he was explaining to the american public. so were you crying in his office. >> no. billion why he thought i was crying. maybe the tears were in his eyes. >> bill: this is hyperbole on the part of the vice president. >> i have cried. i cried when i saw wounded

this was donald rumsfeld's less-than-complementary assessment of her work. >> she'd never served in a senior administration position. she had been an academic. you know, a lot of academics like to have meetings. >> reporter: and the strong personalities, one in particular, donald rumsfeld. you helped bring him in to the president's inner circle. do you regret doing that? >> oh, no. i think don did a fine job in many ways. he was a very good secretary of defense. and don and i have been friends for years. and we remain friends. but he's a little bit of a grumpy guy. and so, there were times that we clashed. >> reporter: condoleezza rice also writes about her multiple disagreements with vice president cheney, which, at times, got very heated. here's what he had to say when asked if she was a competent secretary of state. >> in some regards. >> he didn't like the turn towards diplomacy in the second term. he has made that very clear. and that was his -- he gave the president his advice. and when the president didn't accept that advice, i think sometimes he was disappointed. >> reporter:

. >> i would be neglectlyient if i didn't ask you about the relationship between you, donald rumsfeld, colin powell. you write pretty extensively in the book about it. you didn't particularly like one statement, i think it was donald rumsfeld said you were bright. >> right. >> and you asked him what's wrong with us? >> we were really good friends and we still are. >> because he supported you very early in your career, you write about that. >> right. >> and then there was some conflict. what did you say, hesen out snowflakes, letters? >> yeah, that we are critical, shall we say, of things that we were doing. but really these were substaive disagreements. and personalities are -- people are people. everybody has got a personality. when you are working under enormous pressure, practically 24 hours a day, these personalities are sometimes going to express themselves more fully than they might under calmer times. >> you seemed like you were kind of in the middle of it a lot. >> well, i was the national security advisor. the national security advisor is always in the middle because you are

so i had here on r t it's a trip down the memoir leg from prague to liza writes the donald rumsfeld indicated the bush administration looks more like a dysfunctional family would be to vote for elliott so as they take turns poking holes at each other's reputations when all is said and done should we expect the same from president obama's cabinet that. the police will wreck any. protest nobody seems to know. that every pepper sprayed the face but hardly argument that they're being overly dramatic. and mr. you know the story and it seems so. easy to understand it and then something else. the part of it i realized everything is. part of the. former secretary of state hardly is a crisis dishing all but there are what really went on behind the scenes during the bush administration her memoir released today reveals a strained relationship with former vice president dick cheney as well as former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld and rice is now maher intitled no higher honor a number of my years in washington and rice admits tensions around so high that it forced her to the brink of a resigning s

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from donald rumsfeld. we need to contextualized the attack on the embassy to remember it was condemned by every single political group and political party inside egypt including the muslim brotherhood. we don't know what happened or how that got out of control. and the anger over the old regime relationship with israel is a potent factor in egyptian politics. it has to be understood. our next speaker is sinan antoon born in baghdad at new york university and the author of a novel also make collection of poetry and a translator. he is also a member of the editorial board would you want to get bad grasp of middle east politics, i highly encourage you to look at it. >> i am going to have to say a few things about the embassy as well. the protesters also attacked the saudi embassy but that never made it to the news so this is not necessarily about anti-semitism and the context is important to israel killed five soldiers on the israel the egyptian border and that was never dealt with properly. and about embraci

this was donald rumsfeld's less-than-complementary assessment of her work. >> she never served in a senior administration position. she had been an academic. you know, a lot of academics like to have meetings. >> reporter: and the strong personalities, one in particular, don rumsfeld. you helped bring him in to the president's inner circle. do you regret doing that? >> oh, no. i think don did a fine job in many ways. he was a very good secretary of defense. and we've been friends for years. and we remain friends. but he's a little bit of a grumpy guy. and so, there were times that we clashed. >> reporter: she also writes about her multiple disagreements with vice president cheney, which, at times, got very heated. here's what he had to say when asked if she was a competent secretary of state. >> in some regards. >> he didn't like the turn towards diplomacy in the second term. he has made that very clear. and that was his -- he gave the president his advice. and when the president didn't accept that advice, i think sometimes he was disappointed. >> reporter: yet, one decision they were all

this was donald rumsfeld's less-than-complementary assessment of her work. >> she never served in a senior administration position. she had been an academic. you know, a lot of academics like to have meetings. >> reporter: and the strong personalities, one in particular, don rumsfeld. you helped bring him in to the president's inner circle. do you regret doing that? >> oh, no. i think don did a fine job in many ways. he was a good secretary of defense. and we've been friends for years. and we remain friends. but he's a little bit of a grumpy guy. there's times we clash. >> reporter: she also writes about her multiple disagreements with vice president cheney, which, at times, got very heated. here's what he had to say when asked if she was a competent secretary of state. >> in some recordgards. >> he didn't like the turn towards diplomacy in the second term. that was clear. he gave the president his advice. and when the president didn't accept that advice, i think sometimes he was disappointed. >> reporter: one decision they were all unanimous on, the decision to go to war with iraq is one

rumsfeld, and you felt a bit sorry for colin powell. how have i done there? >> let's start over. i did indeed admire the president. there's no doubt about it. and i really do believe that he did an exceptional job under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. the vice president i have a high regard for. we simply didn't agree a lot of the time, and particularly in the second term. i think the vice president exhibited some disappointment in the turn that the foreign policy took in that second term and associates it with me and the state department, and that's fine. people can disagree, but i don't have any less regard for the vice president. as to don, don and i have been friends for a long time, and i know that don is a kind of irascible character. i think he did a fine job on many things as secretary of defense. we didn't agree ultimately about the course of the war in iraq, and that was ultimately settled. and colin powell is my friend, and he's a great patriot. he served as secretary of state at a time when we were at war, and the h

rumsfeld, and you felt sorry for colin powell. how have i done there? >> let's start over. i did indeed admire the president. there's no doubt about it, and i really do believe that he did an exceptional job under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. the vice president i have a high regard for. we simply didn't agree a lot of the time, and particularly in the second term. i think the vice president exhibited some disappointment in the turn that the foreign policy took in that second term, and associates it with me and the state department, and that's fine. people can disagree, but i don't have any less regard for the vice president. as to don, don and i have been friends for a long time, and i know that don is a kind of irrasible character. i think he did a fine job on many things as secretary of defense. we didn't agree ultimately about the course of the war in iraq, and that was ultimately settled, and colin powell is my friend, and he is a great patriot. he served as secretary of state at a time when we were at war, and the

she clashed with vice president cheney and defense secretary donald rumsfeld. the relationships were contentious and strained. cheney claims rice tearfully admitted it was a mistake to urge bush to apologize for the incorrect 16 words during his 200 state of the union. >> the british government has learned that saddam hussein sought significant quantities of uranium from africa. >> reporter: did you go to him with tears in your eyes, saying he was right about the iraq speech? >> not that i remember. sort of not like me. >> reporter: it seems like vice president cheney came away from this whole experience, eight years, working with you, with less respect for you, asked if you were a competent secretary of state, his answer was, in some regard. >> i can't speak to that. the vice president and i had our differences. >> reporter: as for the famously brusk rums femd, rice remembers confronting him directly about their distant relationship. >> i said to him, you know, i don't know what's gone wrong between us. and he said he didn't either. that we always got along, w

rumsfeld will also be tried by the kuala lumpur war crimes tribunal now if only we can get the same action story here in the united states the bap orange river elementary school a sheriff's deputy was called the fort myers florida school last week because the assistant principal had an emergency on her hands she saw two students kiss that's right the assistant principal margaret and hearing glanced out a window and saw a little girl walk over to one kiss it and pulled parent immediately called child welfare officials who rather than telling her she was overreacting called told to call the sheriff when she did police arrived on the scene found no evidence of any kind of sex going on and so the case was a complete waste. and a very very ugly meghan kelly until right last night on fox so-called news two talking heads trying to downplay the now infamous. every spring incident you see days. ritual pepper spray that just burn dries right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially but a lot of actors are looking at that and saying is that the real

rumsfeld will also be tried by the kuala lumpur war crimes tribunals for now if only we can get the same actions started here in the united states the bat orange river elementary school a sheriff's deputy was called the fort myers florida school last week because the assistant principal had an emergency on her hands she saw two students kiss that's right the assistant principal margaret and hearing glanced out a window and saw a little girl walk over a little boy and kiss him and call a parent immediately called child welfare officials who rather than telling her she was overreacting will told to call the sheriff which she did police arrived on the scene found no evidence of any kind of sex going on and the case was a complete waste. and a very very ugly meghan kelly until right last night on fox so-called news two talking heads tried to downplay the now infamous. every spring incident u.c. davis leaves. personal pepper spray just burns your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially but a lot of experts are looking at that and sa

president dick cheney as well as former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld and rice is now more in title the no higher honor in now more of my years in washington and rice admits tensions ran so high that it forced her to the brink of resigning joining me now for more is ross baker editor of who what why dot com. rest thanks for joining us the other best book right here family secrets the bush dynasty ross thanks for joining us so this memoir reveals some tension among top political leaders in the white house what do you think it says about politics and what really goes on behind closed doors in washington you know in every administration you have exactly the same thing there are always disagreements and then people leave you want to make their mark they want to be in the book. and it's them because you know. it being this new york times reading it it's really hard to get anything of in there of good interest the primary idea is that condi rice is not as much of a hawk. rumsfeld and that she really didn't have as much influence as they did and that's hardly surprising because she w

must have long memories not just of the intervention in iraq and there was a contingency plan which donald rumsfeld would treat to go off the shelf within hours of nine eleven to present to george bush for attacking iraq but he must remember britain and israel involvement in the su is invasion of one nine hundred fifty six they must remember that britain and america put the shi'a in power they must remember britain's involvement in that region all those that decades ago were getting a lot of rhetoric from the west and of course if a strike were to take place what would that do for president obama in asia. clearly he would be absolutely entitled for some sort of recrimination what does that do for also his support there in iran. i think people in the west seem to underestimate the strength of a reunion nationalism there may be differences in how around however there is a strong national a sense that the remembrances of what happened under foreign intervention into the country and how this has been installed and trained by britain and for america and say a people long memories of the shah th

rumsfeld made a statement to him. along the lines that no one is going to stop the the u.s. from bombing where every wants to bomb and also said that nato would become a very mobile unit a very flexible unit which is what it's become but then whilst he was at the pentagon a guy came up to him a senior officer with a very confidential document to say that we're going to take out seven countries in a period of five to ten years and of course i'm doubtless was libya syria lebanon and yemen somalia and of course the final target was iran so this is a very well the planned exercise and then general clark reflected on a previous visit he had with paul wolfowitz souza a very strong zionist cause a lot of damage around the world in the diplomatic sense and he made a statement to general clark along the same lines that plans were forth back in nine hundred ninety one that they were going to sort of divide and conquer the middle east ok well this is what it's all about it's all about geopolitics it's nothing to do with the rain

rumsfeld which we took off the shelf within hours of nine eleven to present to george bush for attacking iraq but they must remember britain and israel involvement in the su is invasion of one nine hundred fifty six they must remember that britain and america put the shy in power they must remember britain's involvement in that region all those decades ago were getting a lot of rhetoric from the west and of course if a strike were to take place what would that do for president i'm a dad. clearly he would be absolutely entitled for some sort of recrimination what does that do for also his support there in iran. but i think people in the west seem to underestimate the strength of a reunion nationalism there may be differences in how around however there is a strong national sense a member and what happened under foreign intervention into the country and how that was been installed and maintained by britain and for america's long memories of the shi'a the way it's presented no in the west of the shah was a liberal regime there will be a bloody war if there is an attack on iran iran is not i

rumsfeld and dick cheney so is it the nature of politics to insult those you work with and will we see these kinds of hits beneath the belt out of the obama administration some time down the line we'll get the answers from investigative journalist russ baker plus it's the last call list of the arab league demands tank get off syrian streets and that assad talk to the opposition are going have a report out of syria and will key will be keeping an eye on viktor booth the verdict bringing you the very latest from new york now that comes in their own do five pm allow does it for now for more of the stories we covered go to our seed dot com slash usa you can also check out our youth page if you think dot com slash arts humor you can also follow me on twitter at liz wahl be sure to stay right here on our c up next is counsel with counseling or enlist or as more energy companies in the u.s. go bust despite being dropped up by the government can the u.s. avoid losing the global resource grab and speaking of resources is the price of rubber so hard that planes can land on their wheels under mor

there were extraordinary conflicts and donald rumsfeld and dick cheney talked about. did you ever feel like you were the victim of the good old boys club and they had palled around in the ford administration and they saw you as the interloper and new kid on the block, was that problematic? >> we did have disagreements but they were substantive and obviously personalities sometimes make substantive disagreements difficult but they were not personal. i felt like i had a good relationship with my colleagues and no, i never felt like an interloper. the national security advisor's job is not imposing their will and make a big dole of my opinion, but rather to bring to the president the opinions and coordinate the policy. obviously structurally as secretary of state no problem making my views known in a forth right way. there is different ways in which the national security advisors does. >> and everybody understood that you had a special unique and close bond with the president. you had been one of his closest advisors in the campaign . you went with him in the white house

strained relationship with former vice president dick cheney as well as former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld and rice is now more in titled no no higher honor a memoir of my years in washington rice admits tensions ran so high that it forced her on the brink resigning so what goes on behind closed doors in washington earlier i posed that question to ross baker added or who what why dot com and he is also the author of this book right here family of secrets the bush dynasty here is his take you know in every administration you have exactly the same thing there are always disagreements and then people leave you want to make their mark they want to be the. the best it's ever been since they've done it is you know. if you can sneak through times really get really hard to get anything in there of interest the primary idea is that condi rice is not as much of a hawk as cheney and rumsfeld and that you really didn't have as much influence as they did and that's hardly surprising because she was running largely as a kind of figurehead in a sort of a representative of bush's father's group w

rumsfeld are we paying these people or my taxpayer dollars are taxpayer dollars going towards their salaries many when i it's an advisory panel which means they don't pull down a salary they do have a staff that is paid they do have a secretary and a couple of people to keep their records and you know sort of maintain liaisons with with the american public but they themselves you know they're they're already getting six seven eight a bigger salary and from where their day job is. the big thing here is why they still exist this is a candidate had a two year charter when rumsfeld started in two thousand and one it's been renewed every year including two thousand and ten and the question is whether this group it has fundamentally conservative pro corporate point of view is really kind of matching up its rhetoric with what they're all gone administration wants clearly they've got something that the obama administration thinks is of value because they renewed them and they still exist so. you know it's interesting sue i want to go to you know we've got a lot of coverage here on this show

there were extraordinary conflicts and donald rumsfeld and dick cheney talked about. did you ever feel like you were the victim of the good old boys club and they had palled around in the ford administration and they saw you as the interloper and new kid on the block, was that problematic? >> we did have disagreements but they were substantive and obviously personalities sometimes make substantive disagreements difficult but they were not personal. i felt like i had a good relationship with my colleagues and no, i never felt like an interloper. the national security advisor's job is not imposing their will and make a big dole of my opinion, but rather to bring to the president the opinions and coordinate the policy. obviously structurally as secretary of state no problem making my views known in a forth right way. there is different ways in which the national security advisors does. >> and everybody understood that you had a special unique and close bond with the president. you had been one of his closest advisors in the campaign . you went with him in the white house

rumsfeld are we paying these people or my taxpayer dollars are taxpayer dollars going towards their salaries anyway. it's an advisory panel which means they don't cool down a salary they do have a staff that is paid they do have a secretary and a couple of people that keep their records and you know sort of mundane pay liaisons with the with the american public but they themselves you know they're they're already getting six seven eight eight figure salaries from wherever their day job is. the big thing here is why they still exist listen to the panel about how to chew your charter and run so certain two thousand want to extend we knew that every year including two thousand and ten the question is whether this group it has fundamentally conservative pro corporate point of view is really kind of matching up its rhetoric with right there obama administration wants clearly they've got something that the obama administration thinks is of value because they renewed them and they still exist so. you know it's interesting too i want to go to you know we've got a lot of coverage here on thi

rumsfeld and his aides. what's more the "times" suggest tad rmos were cashing in on the new-found fame to hidden ties to private sector companies with pentagon contracts. >> it is an absolute insult. to all of the 19 of us that were on, many were on the other networks. >> it had a long-term effect on me personally and emotionally. i can't be bought. i resent anyone who suggests i was bought. >> the times story won pulitzer prize. though the investigation found no violation of d.o.d. procedures, dito for others. enter carl levin from the chair of the armed services committee who spotted serious flaws in the pentagon i.g. report. >> the report was totally inadequate. four months after it was released, the i.g. withdrew the report. >> levin complaint prompted a second pentagon i.g. probe of the rumsfeld era briefings and now the pentagon sources tell fox news that second probe is complete and it, too, concludes the rumsfeld era briefings did not violate pentagon rules. when fox news asked if he has been working

there were extraordinary conflicts and donald rumsfeld and dick cheney talked about. did you ever feel like you were the victim of the good old boys club and they had palled around in the ford administration and they saw you as the interloper and new kid on the block, was that problematic? >> we did have disagreements but they were substantive and obviously personalities sometimes make substantive disagreements difficult but they were not personal. i felt like i had a good relationship with my colleagues and no, i never felt like an interloper. the national security advisor's job is not imposing their will and make a big dole of my opinion, but rather to bring to the president the opinions and coordinate the policy. obviously structurally as secretary of state no problem making my views known in a forth right way. there is different ways in which the national security advisors does. >> and everybody understood that you had a special unique and close bond with the president. you had been one of his closest advisors in the campaign . you went with him in the white house

in the past, defense secretary donald rumsfeld said it was yemen yemen. others in the past said it was the haqqani network. what is the greatest threat in the middle east right now when it comes to american interest? >> to be honest with you, perhaps from the perspective of those on the ground, the biggest is the lack of stability. that comes from a lack of democracy. if you want to take to look at issues you talked about, pack stage, iran, yemen, stay don't have democratic societies and are unstable societies. if the u.s. worked to promote stability, they would get much more stable governments and perhaps less risky ones. >> appreciate that insight. our newest foreign correspondent, aman, looking forward to working with you. >> pleasure to be here. >>> sidebar now. a man who knows a lot about law from both sides of the tv camera is now weighing in on the herman cain controversy. can we hear it again? did we get it there? former senator fred thompson who, of course, played a district attorney on "law and order" has a new editorial in t "national review."

do you believe that americans should do what donald rumsfeld did? walkway or freedom of speech thing? we can disagree but should be respected for it?. >> you know they're doing that. they don't have to have -- ready to lead them out of the door. they had circulation problems like a assumeo wrestler at the top of everest. come on. they're going under. >> a assumeo wrestler in a thong at the top of everest would be cold. >> he'd have constriction issues. >> all right. >> and muslim vails, illegal in france. >> yes. >> i think they ought to give the french government credit. truth be told, french men would rather see women in the culture walking around in lingerie. just asking them to peel back every day garb. this seems to me they're going halfway. be careful what you wish for. but i just to say men make decisions in that world. who dresses women like this? can you imagine coming over to vegas and going to tao and saying we want all of the women to dress like this. i don't understand guys and this is why they blow stuff up. they're not having enough s

donald rumsfeld of course. i think also we need to contextualize the attack on the embassy and remember for a one thing that it was condemned by every single political group, every political party inside egypt, including the muslim brotherhood. we don't know what happened, how that got out of control. and the anger that is over the old regime's relationship with israel is a very potent fat dirt in egyptian politics. it has to be understood. our next speaker is sinan antoon purity is the author of a novel and john and iraq city and collection of poetry, "the baghdad blues: poems" appeared as a translator of arabic poetry and prose, most recently of the work by mahmoud darwish come in the presence of an absence which has just been published by the brooklyn-based independent archipelago books. lucette is an editor if you want to get a grasp on a deeper grasp on middle east politics, i highly encourage you to look at. thanks, sinan. >> thank you, adam. i'm going to have to say a few things about the embassy as well