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Magnitude of world war -- could have the magnitude of a world war, so many countries involved. >> on this point, do you have evidence that the saddam hussein was planning to go into saudi arabia back then? >> i know that there were enormous fears at the highest levels of the government. the president of the united states government. what you heard there was august 5th, 1990. you remember well on august second, the president said i'm not contemplating intervention of any kind. what is so fascinating about this diary, this audio diary, is you can hear him on the second, the third, the fourth and...

>> i know that there were enormous fears at the highest levels of the government. the president of the united states government. what you heard there was august 5th, 1990. you remember well on august second, the president said i'm not contemplating intervention of any kind. what is so fascinating about this diary, this audio diary, is you can hear him on the second, the third, the fourth and culminating. he was worried the saudis wouldn't hold up and make a deal. he said the prince has been double dealing them with the turks trying to get the turks not to be as strong against saddam in the fir...

Bush recorded a note in his audio diary expressing his concern that the situation would spiral out of control. here is his private recording from that day in 1990 which he dictated as he travelled back to the when you say. >> this is a terribly serious problem. it's perhaps the most serious problem that i have faced as president. because the down side is so enormous. if indeed the iraqis went in and got ahold of saudi arabia and our objective was to free saudi arabia we'd be involved in something that would have the magnitude of world war -- could have the magnitude of a world war, so many cou...

That worried president bush 41 enormously. >> he later became -- the first president bush became skeptical of cheney and was uneasy about the gulf war that he waged. this was back with george bush sr. was president. bush recorded a note in his audio diary expressing his concern that the situation would spiral out of control. here is his private recording from that day in 1990 which he dictated as he travelled back to the when you say. >> this is a terribly serious problem. it's perhaps the most serious problem that i have faced as president. because the down side is so enormous. if indeed the ...

Can feel her. we hope she'll stay in our house for a long, long time. love pop. when i asked the president to read that letter out loud in the interview he broke down long before he finished sobbing very hard. his chief of staff came in the room and said why did you want him to do that. i said well, if you want to know someone's heart and before i could finish the sentence, the president said you have to know what breaks them. >> such deeply personal insights are what moved him to write destiny and power, a new biography of george h.w. bush. among the material he drew from was a trove of the p...