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And abroad and most important he was a family man and friend. laura and i send our sincere condolences as his family remembers the life of a great man. we expect a statement from president biden. white house press secretary jen psaki likely to address it during her briefing today. >> dana: thank you for getting us started. >> bill: well scan the u.s. and the world. chris wallace, thanks for joining us today and your reflections on the life of colin powell and his contribution to america. >> like...

Willing to publicly say when he was wrong and break with orthodoxy. what are your reflections, and how much do we need it now? >> we need it enormously. weve always needed it. and i think general powell did represent the best of the political general tradition. he was not perfect. he would be the first person to tell you that. he actually loved the washington game. he was a great gossip. and understood personalities, understood how the human nature of institutions is often, if not totally decisi...

Factory sweeping out the floor of the factory every evening. he said i swept so well that the next summer they offered me a job running one of the machines. i think that points out first his at today and second why he became so successful. he had a pleasing personality, but he had an ethic of fitting in to the work projects of this country and fitting into the society of this country. i never heard him say anything bitter and so many people who have the right to be builter about their treatment ...

Think he probably still believed that he could do a better job and use his influence within the tent than upsited. whether he came to regret that later in life, i dont know but again, im going to miss him greatly. >> you might say hes a man from a different time, right, someone who garnered the respect of republicans and democrats, and went through his own transformation, not happy with the direction the republican party ended up campaigning for barack obama for the white house. aaron david mill...

Of westminster. we touched on this, the reflection of some of those on their own safety and security and we have been hearing the stories of the every day levels of abuse and hate that some mps have had to endure and clearly reflections will be on what can be done by the likes of the home secretary, leader of the commons to protect mps going about their daily business. , ., , protect mps going about their daily business. , ._ ., ., business. yesterday for that debate come to the — business. ye...

People really mourning that personal loss this morning in addition to the fact that this is a major loss for the country. what are your reflections this morning when it comes to your friend, colin powell? >> its a huge loss. weve lost a great american. we really have. i worked for colin for a long time. i first met him back in the reagan administration. i was his deputy on the national security council at the end of the reagan term. he was beloved by his staff then. ive never known colin to be o...

An old friend. you have a situation, you have a flat tire, youre going to fix the flat. >> there was a connection between the two of you. >> yeah, because once i saw the leg, i wasnt sure whether it was blown off or whether he had an infection. it turned out it was a combination of the two. and so i knew he was one of me. he was one of my guys. >> he was one of my guys. just two military men doing what they were trained to do, to serve. joining me now is former secretary of defense, leon panetta...

Weve had controversies - in the past with great britain, but as good friends we have always found a good - and lasting solution. concorde bows out in style after almost three decades in service. an aircraft that has enthralled its many admirers for so long taxis home one last time. this is newsday on the bbc. im karishma vaswani in singapore. our main story this hour... the world remembers soldier and statesman colin powell, who has died at the age of 8a. more on that story now. mark kimmitt is ...

People should talk differently. of course, this is an absolutely extreme event, but i think the hope is that somehow if you change the common discourse then maybe the extreme events become fewer. you have spent — extreme events become fewer. you have spent quite a lot of the last 48 hours in essex, in leigh—on—sea in particular and southend as well, and what are your reflections on the kind of mood you have encountered from people? it is kind of mood you have encountered from maple?— fro...

It is accompanied with a headline quoting sir david: "my family pay a big price for me being an mp." plenty of reflections on the inside pages of the newspapers about sir david as well, as youd expect. we will have the weather in a couple of minutes, but some lighter elements we have spotted on those inside pages the sunday papers. i’m pages the sunday papers. im startin: pages the sunday papers. i“n starting with lucy, lucy in the sky with diamonds, on a quest to jupiter. this is a good sto...