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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 rockefeller, a ranking member on the committee. >> i understand all that. is tenet -- was he the cia director...

Person in the white house. wolf, i must tell that you after we went in and couldn't 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 in iraq based on intelligence. the intelligence -- we had here a massive intelligence failure. whil...

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, that's 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 i'm asking, do you wish you personally as the deputy white house chief of staff had gone and reviewed the intelligence more closely? >> wolf, it was carefully examined from top to bottom. >> i know that others did. i was wondering ...

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 out to the cia and parked himself for days in which he brought the analysts and the experts in and ...

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 didn't want to blame george tenet, it's 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 rove's involvement in that. we'll assess that as well. stand by. the last kennedy serving in the united states congress launched an angr...