the intelligence that sent this country to war in iraq. the chemical weapons presence, the nuclear program and the biological program was wrong. that s the summation of it. it was wrong. colin powell for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. for many americans colin powell is still the face of the modern military, retired four-star general, the first and only african-american to serve on the join chiefs of staff and to secretary of state to george w. bush. he s here to talk about a cause close to his heart, the state of america s military veterans. general colin powell joins me now. general, welcome. thank you very much, piers. thank you for welcoming me to this extraordinary building. we re in the national war college. you were here 35 years ago. i graduated 35 years ago. that s hard to believe. we just had our 35th anniversary. this place has a great deal of meaning for all of us who have been students over the years. when you were here as a young, fresh-f
they need you every day. and what he says now about the intelligence that sent this country to war in iraq. the chemical weapons presence, the nuclear program and the biological program was wrong. that s the summation of it. it was wrong. colin powell for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. for many americans colin powell is still the face of the modern military, retired four-star general, the first and only african-american to serve on the join chiefs of staff and to secretary of state to george w. bush. he s man of many accomplishments, and he s here to talk about a cause close to his heart, the state of america s military veterans. general colin powell joins me now. general, welcome. thank you very much, piers. thank you for welcoming me to this extraordinary building. we re in the national war college. you were here 35 years ago. i graduated 35 years ago. that s hard to believe. we just had our 35th anniversary. this place has a great deal of meaning f
veterans day. that is the summation of what s wrong. colin powell for the hour. this is piers morgan tonight. for many americans colin powell is still the face of the modern military, retired four-star general, the only african american to serve on the joint chiefs of staff and the secretary of state to george w. bush. he s here to talk about a cause close to his heart, the state of america s military veterans. general colin powell joins me now. thank you for welcoming me to this extraordinary building. thank you. we re in the national war college. you were here 35 years ago. i graduated 35 years ago. that s hard to believe. we had our 35th anniversary. it has a great deal of meaning for all of us. when you were here as a young, fresh-faced colin powell, what was the big thing for you. i was doing well in the army, but i had no idea what the army had in store pe for me. i was here with a group of army officers and state officers as well as air force officers.
down 9 1/2%. so what happens next? and is your money safe? these are the questions for legal ber and ali velshi. i ll start with you with the usual entreaty. what is going on, ali? the french economy, actually no growth in the quarter. global economies are slowing down. we re dangerously close to a recession. we may need more intervention from the european bank and more from the fed. you ve been talking about this piers, that rick perry said we can t have more intervention. if the fed intervened it would be treasonous. what s that setup? we have no political agreement in this country and add a few economic reports and i won t bore you with right now that came out again before markets opened this morning that added up into a big mix. people were running into the market, putting their money into gold, which hit another record, and savings bonds. this is pretty serious, isn t it? we ve been talking about the possibility of having some kind of second recession. is this lookin
with the usual. what is going on, ali? look, we started off the day this morning with a rough night in asia. european markets on news that, you know, the german economy, the strongest in europe has weakened to almost a stall, the french economy, absolutely no growth in the quarter. that took u.s. markets downright off the top. but before that, more than 12 hours ago, we got a report from morgan stanley to say what we ve all been saying, global economies are slowing down, that they were on the we re dangerously close to a recession, we may need more intervention in europe from the european central bank and more from the fed. and you know, you ve been talking about this, piers, that rick perry said that we can t have more intervention. in fact, if the fed were to intervene, it would be treasonous, it s that whole set-up, what are we going to do if things are really bad? we have no political agreement in this country. and add a few economic reports and i won t bore you with