diane sawyer goes head to head with donald rumsfeld in a tv first. the former secretary of defense opens up as never before. the controversy, the war, the wmds and the big question, what did he get wrong? >>> plus, the man whose public face has been stoney defiance gets emotional for the first time about his private trials at home during his tenure at the pentagon. an eye-opening surprising interview starts right now. >>> good evening, everyone. aisle bill weir. every war has its own signature images and when it comes to iraq and afghanistan, the sight and sound of donald rumsfeld at the pentagon podium is woven into american history. his defiant management of those wars made the former secretary of defense one of the most polarizing political figures of the post-9/11 age but in this his first television interview since 2006 you will see donald rumsfeld as never before. he reveals a tender side and valuable insight into the decisions that have so many young americans still in harm's way tonight. here with the world exclusive is diane sawyer. >> i've

. >>> abc news exclusive, former defense secretary donald rumsfeld, emotional, fiery. why introduce iraq after 9/11? >>> and from missing the words on the national anthem to the contest for the best ad. winners and losers at the super bowl not on the playing field. >>> good evening, and we welcome you to a new week. it was just a short walk across the street from the white house today, but for president obama it was something of a long, tricky journey two years in the making. for the first time since taking office, he spoke to the u.s. chamber of commerce, the powerhouse of american business and his political adversary. he delivered an urgent message to the companies to get in the game, start spending money and hiring workers throwing down a gauntlet but also trying to build a bridge. jake tapper is at the white house. tell us what happened, jake. >> reporter: good evening, diane. president obama is desperate to get the economy moving again, and as you say, it's just a quick hop across the street to the chamber, but the distance on so many issues between the white hous

former defense secretary donald rumsfeld on her turbulent tenure, interrogations and the horror of abu ghraib. >> that was such a stain on our country. >>> health alerts. big news about treating breast cancer. >>> and "world news" investigates a product found in every drugstore in america. >>> and, granny gladiator. thieves no match for a super hero with a handbag. >>> good evening. it was the mystery that puzzled engineers, frightened drivers and dealt a body blow to the first-rate reputation of toyota. and tonight, car owners and the automaker are breathing a sigh of relief. government safety investigators with help from nasa scientists have concluded there was no evidence flaws in the toyota electronic system made the cars accelerate. so, what did happen? our chief investigative correspondent brian ross broke the toyota story more than a year ago and he brings us the latest findings tonight. brian? >> reporter: well, diane, it was very good news for toyota in a year where they had to recall more than 8 million cars for safety defects led to dozens of deaths and thousands of accident

former defense secretary donald rumsfeld's memoir bookstore shelves today titled known and unknown so far the general message everyone's gone from the eight hundred page book is that romney is the sorry about anything and in fact it was everyone else's fault so he's settle scores with the likes of connelly's rice colin powell john mccain both george h. w. and w. bush he regrets not leaving office after the abu ghraib scandal not because of the torture that went on there but because it became a distraction and he's uploaded hundreds of pages of primary source material and documents onto a website where readers themselves have to pore through them if they feel so inclined so going to tell all that's really more of a blame all vindicate rumsfeld in the u.s. and worldwide earlier i caught up with anika sparing from the young turks from our studio in los angeles and i first asked her you know despite the fact that we may have expected rumsfeld to be unapologetic can we still be disappointed. you know i think it's ok for people to feel disappointed about it if they do feel disappointed howe

. >>> and my interview with former defense secretary donald rumsfeld. $700 billion spent on the war in iraq. over 4,000 american casualties. was it worth the cost? >>> plus, if you're getting ready to scratch that travel itch, how you can weatherproof your vacation. protecting yourselfrom mother nature and the airline industry. "the wall street journal report" begins right now. >> this is america's number one financial news program, "the wall street journal report." now maria bartiromo. >> here is a look at what is making news as we head into a new week on wall street. the first shots have been fired in the battle of the 2012 budget. president obama releasing what he calls his cut and invest agenda, which projects an annual deficit of more than $1.6 trillion for the fiscal year. the president's proposal would freeze discretionary spending, reduce pentagon spending and increase education, infrastructure, and clean energy allotments. it does not address the fast growing and expensive programs of medicare, medicaid, and social security. >>> the marks took a breather early in the week, but

you feel that way about donald rumsfeld? >> i saw your show last week and was reminded how aggressive and petulant rumsefeld was. the thing that came to mind this morning was when he used the word "conspiracy" with the initiation of the war in iraq. but behind all of that bluster and tough talk, there is not much there. donald rumsfeld was one of the most unsuccessful secretaries of defense that i have ever observed in 30 years of covering the pentagon. an amazing combination of tough, aggressive talk with a failure to cope with issues as they are. he certainly thinks he understands things, but he has this superficial view about a lot of these issues, and it was a very unfortunate experience for america to have him as secretary of defense. >> the reason that i showed you that letter that was written in 1998 is because all of the people who signed it, almost all of them, went into the administration, and i probably should not use the word "conspiracy," but the point of showing you that letter, it said that saddam hussein shou

donald rumsfeld spoke exclusively with diane sawyer. >> i have answered that question 15 times. i don't have any idea who said she said or said i'm quite you are sure. >> formidable. combative. title of donald rumsfeld memoir known and unknown is based on one of his famous lectures to a confounded press. >> as we know there are known known. things we know we know. we also know there are known unknown. that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. also unknown unknown. the ones we don't know we don't know. >> you were on "saturday night live". >> no i wasn't. >> well, >> not physically. >> remember what i spwaid your question the other day? >> that it was idiotic? >> that's right. >> i thought he was funny. >> 69-year-old secretary had been at the pentagon just 9 months on september 11, 2001. 10 years litter a central question. >> why introduce iraq after 9/11? on that very day about. >> people were trying to figure out what happened. who did it. what was going on. it was their responsibility to raise the question. >> did you drive iraq. >> no. >> into it. >> no ab

what else would we expect it donald rumsfeld to write? he's being a defense of human being. he does score some points against other people. he's actually read that the whole process broke down, that condoleezza rice did not do a good job, that colin powell was not as assertive as he might have been. >> how can you blame colin powell for not being assertive enough when you just take them in the proverbial groin and nature he could not walk? -- and made sure he cannot walk? >> i am a big fan of colin powell, but i think historians will go back and see a period where they wished that colin powell had been more assertive about going -- >> he says that president bush asked for plants differ going to war with iraq to two weeks after the 9/11 attacks, even aware of the invasion of afghanistan, which is where osama bin laden was. >> why wouldn't you? of course you would bid two weeks after 9/11, you would want a plan for all of our enemies in case of the contingencies. there was not an alliance between al qaeda and iraq, but he wanted to have a contingency if there were. i don't thi

defense secretary donald rumsfeld who was one of the driving forces behind the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three has published an autobiography in which he defends his record and also. find out why the legendary russian military helicopter alligator is so formidable all that's coming up in a few minutes here on our t.v. . now russian security forces have detained three people suspected of helping organize the deadly bombing at moscow's main international airport last month two men and the woman were arrested in russia's republic of and are believed to be relatives of the suicide bomber suspect besta gaiters identified him as a twenty year old man from the north caucasus the attack killed thirty six people and injured more than one hundred chechen warlord and russia's most wanted terrorist doku umarov claimed responsibility for ordering the bombing. now a woman dies every forty minutes in domestic violence attacks in russia meanwhile a lack of adequate protection leaves hundreds of thousands of victims unable to report the abuse to authorities while there are help centers for v

defense secretary donald rumsfeld who was one of the driving forces behind the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three has published an autobiography in which he defends his record. now a woman dies every forty minutes in domestic violence attacks in russia meanwhile a lock of adequate protection leaves hundreds of thousands of victims are they able to report the abuse to authorities well there are help centers for victims but they are few and far between and as are going to school discovered too often the victims and up the suffering in silence. it was a vicious cycle that the press we had fights he raised it happened so many times i held on for as long as i could but when i realized that it couldn't have i found out about the center where they help women took my child and ran to save my life. it was at this help center. where he really was finally able to cope with the scars left by years of emotional and physical abuse that he thought of my child witnessed it and it's twice as hard for me to understand that i told the aerated all of it i thought i was guilty for something that i'

defense secretary donald rumsfeld who was one of the driving forces behind the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three has published an autobiography in which he defends his record also. find out why the legendary russian military helicopter the alligator is so formidable that in a few minutes right here on earth. u.s. president barack obama seems to be trying to win over wall street by asking them to help tackle what he calls a burden some corporate tax but with his appointments of high profile business leaders to government positions it has many questioning where his loyalties lie is laura lester has more. for two decades jobs and dollars have flown out of the u.s. and across the pacific meanwhile the american people have suffered high unemployment and a diminished standard of living looking for someone to blame politicians point to asian countries on the rise seemingly at america's expense the american people have also borne the brunt of china's mercantile trade policies which promote trade surpluses to cheap exports based upon an artificial depreciation of china's currency overl

defense secretary donald rumsfeld who was one of the driving forces behind the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three has published an autobiography in which he defends his record and also. find out why the legendary russian military helicopter the alligator is so formidable about zero in a few minutes on our t.v. . the russian security forces have detained three people suspected of helping organize a deadly bombing at moscow's main international airport last month they were arrested in russia's north caucasus. republic of it and are believed to be closely linked to the suicide bomber suspect well let's get the latest from marty's car slaughter some of her now sara who exactly are these people and what are they accused up. to the people believed to be the brother and sister of the suicide bomber and the third person is thought it was someone who stole the suicide of t.v.'s to carry out that it's. no day that police are detained great and they found places on the table of the brother and sister in the same explain that we used to carry out the suicide bombing i know you know that th

secretary of defense donald rumsfeld autobiography many thanks. ok do stay with us because if not they now. going to business are to good to have your company russian energy major gazprom is reportedly in talks with the world at shell to widen the global alliance sources close to negotiations cited on bloomberg say europe's biggest oil company may offer gas from asia though in return shell wants to expand a little five natural gas plant at the twenty two billion dollar sounding to project to win markets in china and india however alexander knows that of for metropol doubts the plans will come to anything well at least for the moment. on one hand there are good very good perspectives for. point of view of gas for expansion. but at the same time current situation in the global energy market is not so favorable for a you know making new energy plans and current trend that the major global energy producers are postponing or canceling its new capacities production get us to. projects saw basically i don't think the timing for expansion of ireland. is t

donald rumsfeld is our guest. thank you very much for being here. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> for a dvd copy of this program, called 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit our website. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> tomorrow, first look at the low energy income plan. then the national taxpayers union outline of hidden taxes that contained in the budget. that contained in the budget.

problem. >> rumsfeld is a different cup of tea, you know. >> reporter: donald rumsfeld was a presidential aide and maybe too big for his britches. nearly three decades later the rumsfeld problem came to the pentagon with orders from president bush to shake the place up. >> change is hard for people. >> reporter: change is hard but did you make it harder than it had to be by alienating people? >> if you don't want to change and someone above you wants to, it's not fun. >> reporter: the former college wrestler grappled with the military establishment he viewed as unimaginative and cumbersome. what started as a bureaucratic battle over the size and speed of u.s. military forces became a matter of life and death after 9/11. rumsfeld wanted small commando teams on the ground in afghanistan to call in air strikes. but when the bombing started they still hadn't made it in. and his famous impatience boiled over. this is how you quote yourself in the book talking to tommy franks the commander. "we are sitting here like little birds in a nest waiting for someone to drop food in our mouths." >> some

alex, stay safe. >>> former defense secondary, donald rumsfeld, remains largely unapologetic about how he handled the war in iraq. he says in his book, the middle east would have been a more dangerous place had saddam hussein stayed in power. he said his biggest regret was not stepping down after the abu ghraib prison scandal. >>> could your drinking water be toxic? the epa is setting some new standards after an ingredient found in rocket fuel was found in 26 states. the ingredient's been linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children, too. republican lawmakers are expected to oppose the epa standards that could take two years to implement. >>> lighting up will soon be offlimits in places like times square, under one of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the entire country. new york city's ban will cover 1,700 parks and 14 miles of public beaches, plus boardwalks, marinas and pedestrian plazas here in the big apple. >>> and now, for some ports. the steelers and packers are likely to hold super bowl practices indoors again today. told temperatures in the dallas area yest

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secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life at the helm of the war on terror by publishing his memoirs and titled known and unknown it charts how he served under two of their can presidents gerald ford and george w. bush or the eight hundred page board defense of the iraq invasion and says one tunnel days detention center provided only effective training intelligence brian becker from the antiwar asser coalition says it's because of what the world now sees america as complicit in the business of torture. he set up an interrogation regime that allowed a starting of course anchoring with a grave that allowed the american government to be understood by the entire world is nothing but torture inc torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the c.i. a not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush an

rumsfeld secretary of defense and in a special report later today the find out about a casualty of war the environment scarred last that wooded lives is coming up next hour. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by earl bombs by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's a sonic boom say tractor marine mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or it's destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for women purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that are shall be taken in the war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage to the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that. now russia has slammed japan over its radical stance of the correll islands which tokyo claims as its own it was a japanese foreign minister visited moscow earlier this week. the peace

defense secretary donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life inside the war on terror publishing his memoirs the book charts as time during the wars in iraq and afghanistan michael o'brien a former u.s. contractor in iraq says wrong rumsfeld still refuses to take full responsibility for his actions. i think it will hurt his reputation because he says he doesn't really take the responsibility for poorly executing the war all it was his war he prosecuted it for and it was carried out by tommy franks who did everything rumsfeld told him to do. he blames paul bremmer well he hired paul bremmer so don't blame the guy that you hired if he wasn't doing the job right then get somebody else he blames all these other people but he was the one responsible for executing the conflict no one else i really do believe that it will like or like robert mcnamara in viet nam i don't think this is going to help donald rumsfeld reputation it's just a book to try and use his selective memory to to describe what happened in his own words the russian foreign ministry says a british journalist was denied entr

defense secretary donald rumsfeld is speaking out about his time at the head of america's so-called war on terror in a new memoir entitled known and unknown rumsfeld's memo was charred he said it's on the u.s. president's gerald ford and george bush he told the fox news agency the detention center at guantanamo bay is one of the walls find a prison sentence. from the aunt who was a coalition as if thanks to iran's feel that they won't see the u.s. as a heavy into the business of torture. it's set up an interrogation regime that allowed a starting of course anchoring with grave that allowed the american government to be understood by the entire world is nothing but torture inc torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the c.i. a not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue t

defense secretary donald rumsfeld has been promoting his memoirs highlighting his years as pentagon chief well in an interview with the fox news channel he not only defended the iraq invasion but also called guantanamo base detention center as one of the finest prison systems in the world well brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition says it's because of rumsfeld that the world now sees america as complicit in the business of torture it's set up an interrogation regime but a lot. starting of course anchoring with grave that allowed the american government to be understood by the entire world is nothing but torture inc torture incorporated that he helped set up along with the cia not only not only the guantanamo bay which is the un described as a torture center but all sorts of black cold prisons and secret detention centers where people were horribly tortured and murdered in fact and now he has to describe this is something that was good so of course from the point of view of rumsfeld and bush and cheney they want to rescue their image they want the american corporate media to treat

. >>> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld's book goes on sale today. he appears on "good morning america" after his exclusive interview with diane sawyer. >>> finally from us, you might be wondering why we're wearing sunglasses. because our futures are so bright. also because for the first time we are able to see a 360-degree view of the sun's surface. >> and as the bbc's david shukman reports, the things we could learn from this could make our future so bright, we'd have to keep wearing our shades. >> reporter: the sun, like we've never seen it. turbulent, constantly erupting, new images revealing a restless power. huge arcs of fire reach into space. in the past few years scientists have been getting ever more detailed pictures. the sun, of course, makes life possible on earth but now and again, these great explosions send damaging clouds of particles our way. until now, we haven't always known they're coming. from earth, we can never get a view all around the sun but it's where some of the biggest eruptions start. now, to try to do this, two spacecra

secretary of defense donald rumsfeld so do stay with us here on r.t. for that. ok let's cross over egypt and now where anti-government protests enter a third week president hosni mubarak has taken steps to reform the constitution in an attempt to diffuse public anger but thousands of demonstrators remain in cairo's main square keeping up the pressure on the president to resign. the latest from the capital. what we've now entered the third week of and mubarak demonstrations and the numbers on the street just keep growing of his square still remaining the focal point here in downtown cairo hundreds of thousands of people on the streets as we speak and also the city of alexandria with you off the course of the day tens of thousands of people have been coming to protest these small stores heard at around midday when government buildings close in the last day also people have received their salaries and just yesterday monday the government announced that it would be giving a fifteen percent increase to the wages of government in four years and pensions but that was g

answer, donald rumsfeld. but he's not in washington. that's right. [laughter] and i got a reputation for being smart instead of lucky. i had no idea what was going on. i mean, richard nixon had just been reelected by one of the biggest margins in the country. he won every state in the union except massachusetts and the district of columbia. and no one could imagine that i would want to get -- excuse me -- the i would want to be away from that as opposed to write in the middle of it. but we did, we took our family had moved to belgium and had a truly wonderful experience representing the country overseas. >> and gerald ford becomes president after the knicks and inauguration. your friend and colleague in the 1960's. he came in saying he wanted the spokes of the wheel everyone would report directed to the president. to were brought in after a month when he thought that wasn't working very well. was that he time -- it has been said a lot people who worked for president ford were a very much impressed with the fact that presidential power was, did you se

donald rumsfeld is our guest. thank you very much for being here. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> for a dvd copy of this program, called 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit our website. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> today, this of the public and private spaces of america's most recognizable home, the white house. we provide a barely seen look at the history of the presidential residence and take you through the, the west wing, local office, and lagan betterment focus on the presidents and first families to most influenced how it looks today, airing in high-definition and newly updated with interviews with president obama and the first lady and comments from georgia and laura bush. that is today a 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> coming up, we will take your questions and comments on "washington journal." later, a look at the white house. this morning on "washington journal." we disc

donald rumsfeld is our guest. thank you very much for being here. >> for a dvd copy of this program, called 1-877-662-7726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit our website. "q&a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> tonight, british prime minister david cameron response to concerns about the recent rise in unemployment and prime ministers questions. after that, look it highlights from question period in the canadian house of commons with prime minister stephen harper. remarks from secretary hillary clinton on afghanistan and pakistan. andue

former us secretary of defense donald rumsfeld has lifted the lid on life inside the war on terror by publishing his memoirs entitled known and unknown charts how you served under two american presidents gerald ford and george w. bush well to discuss the book let's cross our washington studio where joined now by brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition thanks for being with us this evening following bush's own memoirs this is another insider account of recent u.s. foreign policy how big an impact do you think this book is going to have. well you can't help but think about the old cliche that history is nothing but fiction agreed upon and the bush administration figures starting with bush and now with rumsfeld are trying to create a new history based on a fiction the fiction is that the war in iraq was justified that they did the right thing that they spent these hundreds of billions of dollars perhaps up to two trillion dollars in a war that took the lives of a million iraqis according to the lancet medical journal reports and somehow it was all justified i think it will have al

rumsfeld now rummy has done the world a favor and he's built to this digital document archive from his time in the government all the way back to his time in princeton on his new web site also the world can really get inside the head of this terrible man now the site is called the rumsfeld papers and aims to get more information in the people's hands he even went so far as to describe his digital archive as an approved and legal version of wiki leaks which is interesting because i don't really remember rumsfeld or the bush administration being the champions of a free and open internet for free and open information i seem to remember a concerted effort to lie to the american people to get them to go to war with iraq but anyhow while searching around this morning for romney's opinion on libya our friend and frequent alona show guest eric thompson of the atlantic came across a genuinely amazing memo written by rummy to undersecretary of defense for policy douglas feith on april seventh two thousand and three and it reads we need more coercive diplomacy with respect to syria and libya and

. >> i, donald h. rumsfeld -- >> reporter: the 69-year-old secretary was at the pentagon just nine months on september 11th, 2001. he was in his office when suddenly it seemed to shake. [ sirens ] >> reporter: he raced towards the smoke. >> i came around that corner down there. >> reporter: right. >> and it was -- it was just in flames, in smoke. >> reporter: you can see him there helping them carry the wounded. >> this was the first war of the 21st century. i had to impose a sense of

rumsfeld speech as i've heard from this is this is definitely true they really really did and during donald trump's also donald trump had to sort of fire off a shot there about how ron paul is essentially an electable which they don't like very much there are a lot of people who are major fans of ron paul who were there and he will be voting i think it's also his time because time i mean frankly i suspect that he is probably still not quite mainstream enough to make a real go of it but i'm also always interested to see how somebody like ron paul plays in an early primary state like new hampshire that has a little bit more of a libertarian bent to it i think what's also interesting is how hard the gary johnson folks are pushing all of their material immaterial and urging people to vote for him in the presidential rival our governor and i got to wrap it up you guys and thank you both for being here and to your day. it's so on saturday hopefully we'll find out where you go through up and i thought thank you now before we take a break. ok guys it's time for show and tell on our program n

that kent from donald rumsfeld came during -- that comment from donald rumsfeld came when he said he sported the pittsburgh steelers because they are the long-time rival of the raiders and he said, nobody could support the raid, they are evil. i-- support the raiders, they are evil. i know know you said raiders' fans didn't like it but they might consider it a compliment. >> you are right. >>> sal, stop grinning. >> one guy said on twitter, "i love the raiders even more now." >>> the commute, you can call it evil because, you know, we've had some rain. some people cannot drive in the rain. it's not you and me. it's that other guy would want drive in the rain. we're looking at a live picture of 101 in san mateo. i got a tweet from alex who drives on 101 who says it's a cast on southbound coming down to 92. northbound doesn't look so bad. you can see the windshield wipers are going now and the traffic does slow down where the photographer is, northbound 101 and a little bit slow approaching 92. if you are driving on the peninsula, please give yourself extra time. let's take a rook at t

as i was saying, the book of donald rumsfeld is very much in that tradition. the book is on his entire life, but i thought we would begin by talking about in rock. i guess maybe the way to get into this, here we are in the constitution center. we just passed by the stats to a james madison. as you know, madison give a lot of thought to warrant with the president should do and how often americans should get into war. if he came back in nasty to tell him why we went to war, what would you say? >> the answer would be that the congress of the united states passed a resolution overwhelmingly favoring regime change. in the 1990's by an alarming note, and it was signed by president and. the united nations issued some 17 different resolutions advising iraq that they should conform to the resolutions call request of the designation security council to allow the inspectors into their country to provide the inspectors the information are on weapons out of mass destruction. the u.s. the nation's had been repeatedly rebuffed. president george w. bush made a decision when h

george goes head-to-head with donald rumsfeld. the former defense secretary here, for his first live interview since leaving office. answering tough questions on egypt, iraq and what he really thinks of president obama. >>> let the sun shine in. finally, signs that warm weather is on the way. after weeks of being clobbered by this brutal winter. the weather pattern that is not a moment too soon. >>> the real tiger mom? the teenager bringing up this cub, sharing her room and even her bed, with this 100-pound cat. >>> good morning. everyone. what if your girls ask you, can we have a kitty cat? >> i was just thinking, her parents. don't know about that. we have a lot coming up. there she is right now. the tiger looks pretty calm in that picture. i don't know. >> i don't know. that's coming up in our 7:30 half hour. >>> starting in this half hour, donald rumsfeld. he joins us in the studio for his first live television interview since he stepped down as defense secretary. and he takes on his critics in his new memoir "known and unknow

the lawsuit named defense secretary robert gates and donald rumsfeld. sarah said she was raped and made to work along side her attacker. she acknowledges drinking the night of the assault but said what the military fails her. >>> nobody wants to say that there was a rape in their command. looks bad on paper. people that did believe me and had my back and were supportive of me, said do not tell anybody about this or go to the public. some women said that the attackers broke into their rooms. there were nearly 9 hundred assault reports filed by welcome had that wented their identity kept secret. >>> coming up, he is alleged to have given a prostitute thousands of dollars and he said that it can be explained. now he is going to trial. >>> add this to the list of things that are good for you until they are not. zinc is back on tap for people getting a cold but there's more to it. >>> hair loss is a side effect that people taking cancer treatment have to deal with, now maybe a help for those people. >>> we will have road conditions with the k sbs phone 4. ea

and here's jonathan karl with more. >> reporter: donald rumsfeld has a few, very few, regrets. the biggest, not quitting after the abu ghraib detainee abuse scandal. more than anything else i have failed to do, i regret that i did not leave at that point. he writes in his soon-to-be released memoir. rumsfeld did twice write letters of resignation to president bush. both were rejected. on the iraq war itself, however, no regrets. the middle east, he writes, would be far more perilous than it is today, with saddam hussein in power. he says president bush, in a one-on-one meeting with rumsfeld, just two weeks after the september 11th attack, first asked for iraq war plans. this was even before the beginning of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan. rumsfeld does lash out at other members of the bush national security team. condoleezza rice, colin powell, and especially iraq administrator, paul bremer. there were far too many hands on the steering wheel, this, in my view, was a formula for running the truck into a ditch. jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >> we're going to have much m

. >>> also what former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has to say about the oakland raiders. and, boy, this is raising eyebrows. >>> the commute could be evil. northbound 101 approaching the 80 split. we'll tell you more. >>> good morning. a lot of rain out there. some snow down around 3,000 feet. and it's going to be a crazy day today. we have temperatures upper 40s low 50s and some moderate to heavy rain will come in and possibility of more thunderstorms. >>> all right. steve, thank you. besides our continuing coverage of this big storm, here's a quick look at some of the other top stories we're following for you right now at 5:45. one of the bay area's top narcotics officers is in jail himself this morning. he's accused of selling drugs that had been seized on the streets and later stored in police evidence lockers. >>> california supreme court is now right in the middle of the battle of proposition 8, california's same sex marriage ban, as early as september the court will hear arguments to determine if the sponsors of proposition 8 have legal standing to defend that band

. >>> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld reportedly concludes in his new autobiography the war in iraq has been worth the cost, according to the "washington post" which says rumsfeld remains largely unapologetic about his handling of the conflict. >>> nasa says one of its orbiting telescope has found more than 50 planets outside our solar system that could possibly sustain life, meaning they're not too hot or too cold. those candidates are also just a fraction of the more than 1200 possible planets spotted by the telescope in just over a year. >>> archeologists in israel have uncovered a 1500 year old church southwest of jerusalem with an unusually well preserved mosaic floor. the byzantine church will be visible for one more week before experts cover it once again for its own protection. >>> here's an early look at your health headlines on msnbc.com. the associated press reports later today, the obama administration will announce the first drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children. 153 water sourc