Undoubtedly satisfied, then he would not have had the rationale to go in and to conduct the invasion and might have been ugly but Saddam Hussein might have stayed in place. But nevertheless he felt it was necessary for based on the intelligence we had about those weapons he thought it was in the interest of the world in the absence of that kind of agreement that an invasion was appropriate. I supported him in that because we tried the u. N. And i supported him when that didnt work on the invasion. Greatest disappointment was we did not do it well. We made strategic mistakes. The president was told for months that we were going preserve the iraqi army and not deestablish the baath positions. Suddenly one morning it happened and it was not well coordinated. We had not considered the implications of what we were doing and chaos ensued. And there were other mistakes that were made. Im a great believer in my own doctrine the powell doctrine not an army doctrine, its something i made up one
Should immigration be tied to this spending bill . This is a subject at hand for the week. This is the number for republicans. You can land by six social media. You can send us an email. This immigration story is front and center as you can imagine on a lot of the papers this morning. This is usa today. Friday is the deadline for congress to act. This is wall street journal. Deadline nears on security funding. There is the setup this morning on what should be an interesting and active week on this topic. Join us by phone is jeff mason from reuters. What is the president s posture on this bill . Is it likely to change . Guest i think it will not change. His posture is he believes the congress should fund dhs. He believes he was within executive authority to issue the orders announced last year. That would shield up to 5 Million Immigrants or undocumented immigrants from deportation. Right now, he is in your in curious to see where congress will go. Its not going to change his position o
And they fear that there could be a second potential wave of coronavirus victims if more governments open too prematurely. Right now 37,000 of fellow americans have died of coronavirus. The states down south and west have not even hit their peaks yet. Dr. Anthony fauci, National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases says social distancing does play an Important Role in stopping the spread. If you get a test today, that does not mean that tomorrow or the next day or the next day or the next day as you get exposed perhaps from someone who may not know they are infected, that that means that are negative, which means if you take that to its extreme in order to be really sure you would almost have to test somebody either every day or other day or every week or what it is to be absolutely certain. Eric steve harrigon in atlanta with the very latest, hey, steve. Steve 6 states have held protests to try to reopen the economy, more of them happening today, the most visible effect of loo
Right now. Good morning, you are watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning. Im carley shimkus. Rob im rob schmitt. Thanks for getting up early with us today. The u. S. Nearing the peak, the fda making that declaration as new york, the pandemic epicenter of the world, does report a drop in new cases. Todd piro us live as the white house hopes to reopen the economy next month. Todd, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, carley. Good morning to you, rob. With so many of those prepeak hospitalizations sadly becoming deaths, the numbers are truly staggering even if theyre well below the initial worst case scenario. Nearly half a Million People infected throughout the done aty with 22,000 dead, new york seeing almost 10,000 of those deaths alone. Youre also seeing a recurrence of the terrible news, which is the number of lives lost. Somebody asked the question once, can you ever get numb to these seeing these numbers . Unfortunately, no. Every one is a face and a name and a fam
People being tested positive as well as some fatalities. We know that in the south we have the lowest resilience to coronavirus. In the south we have the highest poverty rates, we tend to have older populations and younger populations that are vulnerable. We have one of the weakest health care infrastructures and because half of the states that have not expanded medicaid in the southeast, we do not have the infrastructure to take care of and serve those in need. We have had some of the highest rates of hospital closures in the south, especially in rural communities. But we also know we have some of the lowest coverage rates of public benefits. Yes, everyone can get access to snap and other programs, but in the south, especially in georgia, we have some of the weakest coverage rates, meaning that the amount that you receive, even if you qualify, tends to be not enough to meet the needs that you have. In georgia, specifically, albany, georgia a few weeks ago was number four world wide in