colin powell didn't want to do that. he believed in being a good soldier. he tried to slow the march to war to iraq, but he never actually flat out opposed it. when the president said to him, okay, i'm ready, are you going to be with me? he id, es,sir tnk tt waa scring momnt f hihe u. prestati tha tured o to be fll ointeigen tha didt paout. t, you know, i think for all these people, you mentioned treating them as humans. i think they are human beings who tried to do what they thought was the best. we can all agree or disagree with their points of view. i think they were doing what they thought was the best thing for the country. and we need to look back at why things happen and how they happen, and we can judge from there. >> journalists too often covering of the white house, covering politics in washington have given short thrift to the bushnd altering the course of the events, at least the direction they were headed before those reinforcements. and the role of hank paulson, the treasury secretary, in moving forward with t.a.r.p. if you listen to some of t

to foreign policy, colin powell's approach is the approach ronald reagan took, it is where george h.w. bush too many and we need to take in the future. we engage. >> 41 not 43. >> bush 41 we engage military adventurism and we tried to be, you know, the 911 to the world, colin powell believed and the powell doctrine was, you know, a great whether it is a weinberger doctrine or the powell doctrine. >> rose: he built on the weinberger doctrine. >> he built on the weinberger doctrine an he had the idea of overwhelming force, ever we have to fight a war, if we fight a war, it is the last possible option and then when we go in, i love the way you say that we don't want a fair fight, we will show everything at them. >> rose: and with the popular support of the people at home you go in to win and you put everything in and you win it as quickly as you can. >> quickly as you can. >> rose: the support was a central part of it and knowing what your objective was was a central a part and not an endless war. >> the objective was the most important thing there is a trigger point, and when you -- you

to foreign policy, colin powell's approach is the approach ronald reagan took, it is where george h.w. bush too many and we need to take in the future. we engage. >> 41 not 43. >> bush 41 we engage military adventurism and we tried to be, you know, the 911 to the world, colin powell believed and the powell doctrine was, you know, a great whether it is a weinberger powell doctrine. >> rose: he built on the weinberger doctrine. >> he built on the weinberger doctrine an he had the idea of overwhelming force, ever we have to fight a war, if we fight a war, it is the last possible option and then when we go in, i love the way you say that we don't want a fair fight, we will show everything at them. >> rose: and with the popular support of the people at home you go in to win and you put everything in and you win it as quickly as you can. >> quickly as you can. >> rose: the support was a central part of it and knowing what your objective was was a central a part and not an endless war. >> the objective was the most important thing there is a trigger point, and when you -- you had a specific

colin powell didn't want to do that. he believed in being a good soldier. he tried to slow the march to war to iraq, but he never actually flat out opposed it. when the president said to him, okay, i'm ready, are you going to be with me? he said, "yes, sir." i think that was a scarring moment for him, the u.n. presentation that turned out to be full of intelligence that didn't pan out. but, you know, i think for all these people, you mentioned treating them as humans. i think they are human beings who tried to do what they thought was the best. we can all agree or disagree with their points of view. i think they were doing what they thought was the best thing for the country. and we need to look back at why things happen and how they happen, and we can judge from there. >> journalists too often covering of the white house, covering politics in washington have given short thrift to the bush administration's contribution to sending reinforcements in 2007 and altering the course of the events, at least the direction they were headed before those reinforcements

colin powell didn't want to do that. he believed in being a good soldier. he tried to slow the march to war to iraq, but he never actually flat out opposed it. when the president said to him, okay, i'm ready, are you going to be with me? he said, "yes, sir." i think that was a scarring moment for him, the u.n. presentation that turned out to be full of intelligence that didn't pan out. but, you know, i think for all these people, you mentioned treating them as humans. i think they are human beings who tried to do what they thought was the best. we can all agree or disagree with their points of view. i think they were doing what they thought was the best thing for the country. and we need to look back at why things happen and how they happen, and we can judge from there. >> journalists too often covering of the white house, covering politics in washington have given short thrift to the bush administration's contribution to sding reinforcements in 2007 and altering the course of the events, at least the direction they were headed before those reinforcements.

h consideredt, bus getting rid of dan quayle and getting colin powell. but they were thinking it raises questions about my initial judgment in choosing a person. >> i agree with that. but we have heard since then is it ever got to the president for serious consideration but it would have looked like weakness and disloyalty. >> this goes way back. >> we talk about congressional gridlock here occasionally, it occasionally endlessly. on thursday senate republicans got together to block the nomination of former congressman mel watt. was summa cum laude and wh a cum laude. why are these people not qualified? ask theould have to republicans. the votes are there to confirm her. >> people are angry, they are talking about the nuclear option. d.c. circuit is one of the most important circuit and there are three judges who have been held up. it is not individual judges they're going after some much as the importance of the position. that circuit handles all the regulations coming out of the government. they do not want to have good judges of particular persuasion

in a letter to this committee last month, former secretary of state colin powell said it best. he wrote, "if the senate does not approve this treaty, the united states will continue to be excluded from the most important global platform for the implementation of best practices in disability rights abroad." this is about something very real. look at the numbers of people who are here today and the numbers of groups represented behind me here today. every one of them represents thousands more people for whom this is very real. it is about things that you could see and you could touch and then make a difference to people's lives. i'm talking about sidewalks without curb cuts. try managing that. public buildings with no accessible bathrooms. restaurants, stores, hotels, and universities without ramps or elevator access. buses without lifts. train platforms without tactile strips that keep you from going over onto the tracks. we cannot afford to ignore these barriers as problems that somehow affect other countries and do not affect us. they are present all over the world, including

in a letter to this committee last month, former secretary of state colin powell said it best. he wrote, "if the senate does not approve this treaty, the united states will continue to be excluded from the most important global platform for the implementation of best practices in disability rights abroad." this is about something very real. look at the numbers of people who are here today and the numbers of groups represented by me here today. every one of them represents five thousands more people for whom this is very real. is about things that you could see and you could touch and then make a difference to people's lives. i'm talking about sidewalks without curb cuts. try managing that. public buildings with no accessible bathrooms. restaurants, stores, hotels, and universities without ramps or elevator access. buses without lifts. train platforms without tactile strips that keep you from going over onto the tracks. we cannot afford to ignore these barriers as problems that somehow affect other countries and do not affect us. they are present all over the world, including so

bush in 1991 considered getting rid of dan quayle and getting colin powell. but they were thinking it raises questions about my initial judgment in choosing a person. >> i agree with that. we have heard since then is it never got to the president for serious consideration but it would have looked like weakness and disloyalty. >> eisenhower was always picking about dumping nixon. this goes way back. >> we talk about congressional gridlock. on thursday of this week senate republicans got together to block the nomination of former congressman l watt to be the next rector of the federal housing finance agency and the judge of the district circuit court of appeals. she was some cum laude from the diversity of illinois and magna cum laude from harvard law school. why are these people not qualified? why are they an acceptable? wrecks you will have to ask the republicans who refused to bring up her nomination, allow her nomination to be voted upon. >> people are angry, they're talking about the nuclear option. -- the d clem is circuit is one of the most important cir

. >> i attended this conference by colin powell, he said get out there and do something for everybody else and use your relationships, technology and money and make the world better, just don't reap the harvest here and around the world and i took that back and said, when i start my own company, i'm going to take 1% of equity, 1% of profit and 1% of employee's time and put it into a 501 c 3 charity. that was easy because we had no profit, equity and time. >> now you got to put up. you were with oracle in '97 and there was that desire but it wasn't part of the corporate culture. >> that's insightful. when we started the sales force we said we would integrate it. so on the first day you come in and see the kitchen and toilet and at noon you go and do something for the city of san francisco. you go to a homeless shelter, you go to a soup kitchen go and do something else. >> you recently got a lot of attention for giving a 2.7 million dollar gift to the 12 middle schools in san francisco. they will get tablets, wi-fi access and the teachers will get i think $100,000, principals, rather to

frankly colin powell is above the recommend to at my class at city college is in new york. we had three textbooks in to and i think house supported our society was to us now the guest the area around usc and the breakdown of society and to the abandonment and the whole population in the division division, if i think back the idea to go to work for a bank was lowe's some. and extending into religion we lost the of restraint of a concern for the other the could samaritans. we have lost any accountability with the real concern is looking at the statistics of it come the gate and of all the money that we have spent has almost all gone to the top 1 percent. if you want to the description for disaster the somebody cable law to say i am subversive to be sure you how to destroy america that we can totally deregulate the banks let agreed to run wild they will package them in a securities stock and then to get out of it we will make the banks hold to protect the 1% in the of the society is so severely divided to have alienation as the norm. that is truly frightening while the optimis

i have an additional letter from general colin powell and i ask unanimous consent to have this included in the record. >> without objection. >> for a couple of quick questions. attorney general there is misinformation regarding the impact of this impact on children. as the image and take away children's rights and allow courts to interfere with parents decisions regarding their children? article vi does that require a national registry of children born with disabilities? >> the registry is anticipated by the treaty is similar to the laws we have in this country which require birth certificates and it's taken note of in enrolling. interestingly enough many countries around the world have lacking that kind of procedure. it poses a real threat and many of the worst situations around the world. improper abortion techniques or infanticide so i view this as a signal advanced not to the u.s. because they think it's at the federal state and local level we have those but when you've read in the headlines about the kinds of things going on in lesser developed countries with dictators who flout th

chamber of commerce, colin powell, and chairman menendez, i have a letter from general colin powell and rather than read the whole thing i ask unanimous consent to have it included. >> without objection. >> just a couple of quick questions. attorney general, there has been some misinformation regarding the impact of this legislation on children. does it take away parents rights? doesn't allow courts to interfere with rights with children? this article six specifically requiring national registry of children born with disabilities? >> the registry anticipated is pretty similar to the laws we have in this country which require birth and death certificates be taken note of and enrolled. interestingly enough, many countries around the world are lacking today that kind of procedure. it poses a real threat in many of the worst situations around the world for improper abortion techniques or infanticide even. i view this as an advance not in the u.s. because at the state of local level we have these, but when you read in the headlines about the kinds of things that are going on in lesser develo

colin powell supports the convention. as i have an additional letter from general colin powell rather than read it. i ask unanimous consent to have it included. >> without objection. >> thank you. for a couple of quick questions. attorney general, there's been misinformation, i believe, circulating regarding the impact of the convention in children. does the convention take away parents' right? allow courts to interfere with the parents' decision concerning their children. does the provision require a national registry of children born with disabilities? >> the registry is anticipated by the treaty as very similar to the laws we have in this country, which require that birth certificates and death certificates be taken note of enrolled. interestingly enough, many countries around the world have lacking today that kind of procedure. it poses a real threat in many of the worst situations around the world of improper abortion technique or -- even. i view it as a signal advance not for the u.s. because i think both the federa

anthology this committee last month, former secretary of state colin powell said it best. he wrote, if the senate does not approve this treaty, the united states will continue to be excluded from the most important global platform for the implementation of best practices in disability rights abroad. so this is about something very real. look at the numbers of people who are here today and the number of groups represented behind me here today. every one of them represents thousands more people for whom this is very real. it's about things that you can see and you can touch and that make a difference to people's lives. i'm talking about sidewalks without curb cuts, try managing that. public buildings with no accessible bathrooms. restaurants, stores, hotels and university without ramps or elevator access. this is without lives. train platforms without tactile strips that keep you from going over onto the tracks. we cannot afford to ignore these barriers as problems affecting other countries but don't affect us. they're present all over the world, including in some of the top

powell in the government and robert rubin on wall street and they didn't understand until it was too late that they were part of the problem and that their institutions were actually working directly to undermine what they had. the other is of the celebrities are more institution breakers. and i think that that is kind of the role that the elites play today. and they got where they were breaking the rules moving fast, breaking things, jc is one of the subjects of the book and his whole career from drug dealer to corporate rock star is a story of don't simply hold down a job and finish school because that is a sucker's game. the way you make it is the way the mafia lords make it, which is to be tough and want to win and winning is its own justification. so the north carolina boy clutching a bible is a man named dean tries who is the son of a fire and brimstone teacher in north carolina and his family farmed tobacco for generations and he grew up with the ambition to be an entrepreneur and his heroes were people like andrew carnegie and henry ford and they were older americans and he h

because he had the ted cruises and the colin powells. >> i talked to republicans who say let's have this fight. is it going to be that or is it going to be a fight. >> do they want to win or lose? i'm an alabama fan. there is a reason why nick saban keeps winning national championships. he obsesses on winning national championships. >> the book tour continues. chicago today. we will be there. that's it for "morning joe." here's chuck. >> temperature rising. president obama gets an earful from fellow democrats as secretary sebelius stays out of sight and more democrats go behind congressional intervention. virginia is for lovers. counting that is. a deep dive into the razor thin margin that separates them for attorney general in virginia with with a man who helped correct the count. also this morning leader are are turning on each other. faction of the party breaking off, we are not talking about the gop of today, but a century ago and the lessons teddy roosevelt and his frenemy have for today's republican leaders. all that with the story from washington. it's november 14th, 2013. a very

that means we're going to need a nominee that both ted cruz and colin powell can both support. that nominee is out there somewhere. we've got to find his or her. and when we do, we'll have a great shot of taking back the white house for the first time in eight years. >> it's great having you on joe scarborough. you are my doppelganger. >> thank you so much. >> the book's called "the right path." i'm holding it up. that's what you do. this is how republicans can win. if that is your cup of tea, having republicans win. >>> up next, would progressives stick with hillary clinton if elizabeth warren challenged her in 2016? a little battle between left and middle left or left and center left? this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ mixer whirring ] my turn daddy, my turn! hold it steady now. i know daddy. [ dad ] oh boy, fasten your seatbelts everybody. [ mixer whirring ] bounty select-a-size. it's the smaller powerful sheet, that acts like a big sheet. look! one select-a-size sheet of bounty is 50% more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. [ humming

ronald reagan won 49 states because he had the ted cruises and the colin powells. >> i talked to republicans who say let's have this fight. is it going to be that or is it going to be a fight. >> do they want to win or lose? i'm an alabama fan. there is a reason why nick saban keeps winning national championships. he obsesses on winning national championships. >> the book tour continues. chicago today. we will be there. that's it for "morning joe." here's chuck. >> temperature rising. president obama gets an earful from fellow democrats as secretary sebelius stays out of sight and more democrats go behind congressional intervention. virginia is for lovers. counting that is. a deep dive into the razor thin margin that separates them for attorney general in virginia with with a man who helped correct the count. also this morning leader are are turning on each other. faction of the party breaking off, we are not talking about the gop of today, but a century ago and the lessons teddy roosevelt and his frenemy have for today's republican leaders. all that with the story from washington. it's nove

colin powell suggests make it easier to vote and then give them something to vote for that they can believe in. it's a novel idea. republicans, if you aren't moved by the moral case against disen chan friesing voters, perhaps you'll listen to the pragmatic one. want to win elections again, stop trying to suppress the vote and start trying to win it. all right. that does it for "the cycle." and speaking of winners, martin bashir, et cetera all yours. >> thank you so much. i wish. it's tuesday, november the 12th. and why don't we just cut to the chase? ♪ >> insight into what a head-to-head match-up of chris christie and hillary clinton would look like. >> the numbers are really interesting. >> clinton leading by ten points nationally. >> clinton was never this dominate in 2005 and 2006. >> christie leads among whites, seniors and rich people. >> old white guys, stay alive. >> he starts the 2016 race very close to where rudy guiliani did. >> 18 million cracks in it. >> nobody wants to listen to the loser. >> the split is far more stark among african-americans. >> if you want to triple your a

colin powell suggests make it easier to vote and then give them something to vote for that they can believe in. it's a novel idea. republicans, if you aren't moved by the moral

powell on the ticket? did it happen'? of course not. because bush would have admitted he made a big mistake in 1988 in putting quail on the ticket. >> susan, your thoughts. >> i will add to that, larry had he replaced quail he may have perhaps won re-election. that was one of the factors. people didn't like dan quail. i also think if the president's approval ratings got lower or stayed low that i think those low level discussions would have become high level discussions. this is all political calculation here. i think the president would have done anything to hold on to his seat. and i think in the end he didn't need hillary clinton on the ticket. but, if he had really needed her, he would have used her and he would have dumped biden and he would have won. >> i guess you would have loved to be on that ticket. move on to the next one. next race in my home state new jersey. let's talk about chris christie. it looks like is he going to be an overwhelmingly huge winner so to speak. >> he absolutely is there is

we have to have the ted cruz wing of the party and the colin powell part of the party. there is a reason they won, and there is a reason they won against michael dukakis and that's because ted cruz was under the big tent. you're either fiscally conservative or you're a member of the tea party and you're too idealogically driven. in is this not a kumbaya talk. this is about winning. this is about how nick sabin wins football. >> this is really the thesis of your book and we'll focus on the book in a little bit. let's broaden this out. mark halperin, this is the fight in the two wings of the republican party. >> it's a huge fight and the parties have to sort it out. it has to be done by leaders. it can't be done by cable tv or twitter. chris christie is someone who is magical in the way politicians can be magical. people like having him on tv, he's a good talker. he won. joe said winning is what really matters. he loves to win. he's going to take over the republican governor's association and see if he can win there. and he wants to be a leader to change the party. you ca

whitaker, who has been cast to play colin powell in an upcoming movie was apparently offered the role of barack obama in the movie "my name is kahn." why did he say no? he said he thought there were other suited actors for that role. >>> caroline kennedy is expected to head to japan tomorrow. yesterday she was sworn in as the newest ambassador. and former governor sarah palin is dishing out opinions right and left on her book tour, even about the pope. >> i'm trying to follow what az agenda is and i'm surprised that he came out with a couple of things in the media. but then again, i'm not one to trust the media's interpretation of somebody's message. but having read through media outlets that he's had some statements that to me sound kind of liberal, has taken me aback. has kind of surprised me. we got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the subaru forester. (girl) what? (announcer) motor trend's two thousand fou

powell. good to see you as always. we have secretary kerry in geneva, the head of the international atomic energy agency meeting with iranian leaders on monday. what do you think a deal would mean for all the players involved? how big of a deal would this be? >> well, on one level, any deal is a big deal, given the last three decades plus of tension or open hostility between the united states and iran. that said, any deal at most would be a kind of interim arrangement. we would maybe have a specific time limit on it, six months or something like it, and it would simply be to buy some time to set the stage, if you will, for a much more ambitious agreement that would be negotiated during that time span. >> here's what president obama said last night about the easing of sanctions and that being on the table. >> there is the possibility of a phased agreement in which the first phase would be us halting any advances on their nuclear program, rolling some potential back and putting in place a way w

that means we're going to need a nominee that both ted cruz and colin powell can both support. that nominee is out there somewhere. we've got to find his or her. and when we do, we'll have a great shot of taking back the white house for the first time in eight years. >> it's great having you on joe scarborou scarborough. you are my doppelganger. >> thank you so much. >> the book's called "the right path." i'm holding it up. that's what you do. this is how republicans can win. if that is your cup of tea, having republicans win. >>> up next, would progressives stick with hillary clinton if elizabeth warren challenged her in 2016? a little battle between left and middle left or left and center left? this is "hardball," the place for politics. at red lobster, we pull our seafood from the best waters on earth... like the cold alaskan seas. it's the cleanest, clearest water. a haven for crab. [ male announcer ] and the unspoiled coast of maine. maine lobster is the tastiest, the sweetest. [ male announcer ] we serve it the only way seafood should be... prepared to order by experts. i

we have to figure out how people can vote for ted cruz and colin powell. we used to win land slides. we won land slides because we expanded instead of contracted. we didn't moderate we broadened and made sure our conservative values applied to middle class americans. we got to stop fighting each other. >> shouldn't he have shown a little humility there? >> here's the deal. >> there's a much deeper problem. this is a fundamental philosophical split in the party. you won't get young people if you're anti-gay, anti-youth, anti-muslim, all these groups. there's a fundamental philosophical divide not a personal battle between john mccain and ted cruz. >> i think we're good. i don't have time to tell you why we're good. i think we're good. you get the right leader. you get a uniter, mike allen and i talk a lot about it in the book. nobody would believe that a 69-year-old guy that people like howard dean were calling right-wing fascists -- >> i was not. >> they said ugly nasty things about ronald reagan. but fascist, fastest gun in the wembgts radical right-wing

but then to prove how tough we , and as went in there colin powell years later said in .nother context, we broke it we broke vietnam. jack kennedy, president kennedy, plots inned off on two vietnam. once in august of 1963 and then again on november 1 of 1963 when we told the general in saigon that we would not interfere if , whichied to overthrow they did immediately and killed him immediately. all of this is forgotten in history largely because kennedy weeks later. as the years went on, the war became more unpopular. some journalists would say kennedy intended to get out. maybe he did. but it is a hell of a lot easier to get in then get out of situations like that, as we have learned over the years in other countries. one final thing about it, there was a book called "the ugly " which was about vietnam. and itfictionally-told was a book saying america should straighten us out and this is how we should do it. kennedy gave that book to every member of the senate and every member of the house when he was still a senator. without knowledge of that part of the world, and he made a huge mis

ronald reagan won 49 states because he had the ted cruz is of the party and colin powells. >> you say they're under the same tent. i've talked to republicans who say let's have the fight. they've had a fight where business interestis went out. the business interests won. they're using that to say this can be a model for the national election. is it going to be that or is it going to be a fight as part of the republican party? >> it depends. does the republican party want to win or lose? there's a reason why nick saban keeps winning national championships because he obsessors on one thing, winning national championships. >> and then along coming florida state. >> yeah. and then along comes florida state and we beat them too, even though i'm from southern florida. you change america when you obsessor about changing america. we can't change america if we're having ideological fights. >> it's inevitable when you've got ted cruz and rick perry out of the same state. >> i'm not too considered about rick perry's footprint in the future. >> are you about ted cruz? he had a baptism by fire. he

we need somebody who would vote for cuccinelli and colin powell all under the same tent. reagan got the cuccinelli vote and got the colin powell vote. that's why he won 49 states. ike did the same thing and nixon did the same thing. we have to expand the tent. there was a time in our party when getting people on the other side to vote for you was actually seen as an asset. instead of a traitorist move. independents and democrats wanted to vote for ronald reagan? that must mean he is a rhino. he won 49 states. that's how small minded people think now. because there is an economic model. that's how you sell books and people listening to you on the radio and watching ow certain tv programs. they have to move past that. it has to be about winning. if we want to make the world a better place and make it a more conservative place, we have to speak to the hopes and dreams of middle class americans and reconnect. >> more on how, read the path and to get information of joe's book tour. we are going on book tour. >> it's like the grateful dead. >> msnbc.com. joe and meachem will be

bush came in, colin powell wanted to continue and wanted to pick up where clinton left off. he was publicly humiliated for making that statement. bolton went about leaking information that the north koreans might have a secret program to enrich uranium. then there was a confrontation in 2002. the whole deal fell apart. the north koreans started up the reactor again. there were other agreements that were reached with the north koreans. in 2005, there was an agreement that was reached. the north koreans broke it. the nature of that agreement was that they would stop the plutonium reactor. in return, they would get various concessions. yes, the regimes are different, but north korea is a bizarre dictatorship that relies entirely on support from one country, china. the food aid that it has been able to cage out of the united states over the years. the deal that we are discussing now with iran is quite different. the nature of the sanctions is quite different. i do not see that they are comparable. at some point, yes, we made promises to build reactors. i do not see that situatio

you know ronald regan won 49 states because he had the ted cruzs of the party and the colin powells of the party under the same big tent. >> you're talking about under the same tent. i talk to republicans who i know you know this said let's have this fight. let's have the fight. they had the fight in the alabama special elections where business interests went out and they backed someone to defeat the tea party candidate and the business interests won. and they're using that as you know, the republican party saying this can be a model for the national elections. is it going to be we all live in the same tent? is it going to be a fight? >> it depends. does the republican party want to win or lose? i'm an alabama fan. there's a reason why nick sabine keeps winning national championships. he obsesses on one thing, winning national championships. >> then along comes florida state. >> and we beat them too! even though i'm from northwest florida. but i am partially serious. you win when you obsess about winning. you change america when you obsess about changing america. and we can't change am