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Every day that passes diminishes it. but we do have a common assessment on the schedules, on intelligence. we share that intelligence and we dont have any argument about it. i think its important to state that clearly. i think that people should get to know president obama the way ive gotten to know him. i think youve just heard something that is very meaningful. it may have escaped you but it hasnt escaped me. that is the president announced that in addition to all the aide that his administrat...

It hasnt yet reached the red line that i had described in my speech at the u.n. theyre getting closer. and the question of manufacturing the weapon is a different thing. the president said correctly we have on these issues that are a little arcane, they sound a little detailed to you, but on these matters, we share information and we have a common assessment. we have a common assessment. and in any case, iran gets to an immunity zone when they get through the enrichment process in our view, in o...

Owe top democrat on intelligence said faisal sha zahzad as completely off the intelligence communitys radar and that is concerning because of the case of the attempted christmas day bombing, you see umar farouk abdulmutallab, the nigerian, there were signs in the system he might be plotting an attack on u.s. and this case it was a bomb concealed ins his underwear he tried to detonate over detroit and the most recent case of times square, it was an american citizen, naturalized american, who was ...

Mendacity, i think he very much deserves the benefit of the doubt. i think hes basically right. >> gloria, a lot of critics say there was plenty of other evidence saying there was limited, if any, weapons of mass destruction. really didnt represent a mayor threat to anyone outside of iraq. that intelligence was effectively they say ignored. >> well, and there was also a charge that was made later on which is that the administration essentially cherry-pick the intelligence that was presented to t...

Decisid conscience decision -- it was a mistake for which i am principally responsible. it should sh raised a warning flag. this was discussed. some said if you wres. >> caller: a pig, youll get muddy. dont relitigate the past. some people were simply worn out and wanted to move on but we should have in retrospect treated this with great seriousness and stood up and said, with all due respect, senator kennedy, senator edwards, senator kerry, congresswoman harman, senator daschle, you said yourse...

Who told the president that this is a done deal. >> these were the intelligence professionals who laid out their evidence. not only to president bush and his national security apparatus but also to the leaders of congress. because as you recall, wolf, 110 democrats vote for the authorization of the use of force resolution. 67 stand up on the floor of the house and senate, including john kerry, john edwards, hillary clinton, bob graham, chairman of the senate intelligence committee, jay rockefell...

Person in the white house. wolf, i must tell that you after we went in and couldnt find the wmd, i was very suspicious that the bush administration, the president personally, had lied to us. and then i had the opportunity to talk to several people high up in the clinton administration, both in intelligence and at the white house and i can tell you that those people, these democrats in the previous administration, including the president, clinton himself, believed that there was likely to be wmd ...

Iraq and afghanistan. but i accept your point. >> no, in iraq, 4,373 as of today. >> i think that includes combat and noncombat injuries. >> it includes, yeah, thats the number of u.s. military personnel and about a dozen civilian dod personnel have died in the war in iraq. and as we all know, this is the most important decision a president can make. the only thing im asking, do you wish you personally as the deputy white house chief of staff had gone and reviewed the intelligence more closely? ...

Interim between the fall of the taliban and beginning of the iraq war we found out that western intelligence had underestimated the dangerousness of his programs. >> but you had the highest security clearances. did you just accept that intelligence at face value or did you personally go back and look at the intelligence to make sure it was right? >> look, throughout the administration, key policymakers questioned this all the time. i talk in the book for example how colin powell, a skeptic, went...

He realized that some of the intelligence that was supplied to him was supplied by someone who was unreliable, who in the intelligence community was known as "curveball." so while karl rove didnt want to blame george tenet, its very clear to me that colin powell felt that he believed that he was being fed some bad information. >> i want both of you to stand by. part two of the interview is coming up. we go through the whole valerie plame incident and karl roves involvement in that. well assess t...