moment for america s middle clast. the main street message for the white house. america s choice 2012. plus only in america. my d day tribute. heroes of the greatest generation. rare photos from 68 years ago. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story. we ll talk to the man who ran the pentagon twice. with presidential politics heating up, battles raging across syria, who better to talk about this than donald rumsfeld. we ll talk about the cause closest to his part. his support for the american wounded warriors. debbie wasserman schultz joins me for the failed wisconsin recall. she ll tell me what thee thinks went wrong and why she says the vote will send a message to scott walker. we ll begin with donald rumsfeld. he was secretary of defense under gerald ford and george w bush. he s the author of known and unknown memoir now out in paper back. mr. secretary, welcome to the show. thank you very much. good to be with you. let me start, sort of your r
do believe right now is him but they are waiting for fingerprint tests to come back and confirm it. this man himself says he is the suspect. he says he is luca magnata. he was caught in an internet cafe and there were reports that they had seen activity on his account. he still had his own personal mobile phone. they figured this gi sooner or later would give himself up in a sense. because he want doing a good job of trying to cover his tracks. let s bring viewers back it last week when you and i were talking about this case. it plays out like a slasher movie. absolutely chilling, the allegations against this man, and what he s done. and he actually put things on the internet that only helped police lead the investigation toward him and toward these gruesome acts, right? it was quite an internet trail from the beginning. so if we recap according to canadian police and this is what they have put certainly in their document and prosecution documents, that he had a person he
mission accomplished, but it wasn t. the mission was soon parked by scandal and revelations of prisoner abuse at abu ghraib grab. saddam hussein was eventually found in a spider hole. and in 2006, the dictator was hanged. a year later the u.s. sent 30,000 surge troops to halt a civil war. at the height, 170,000 troops served across the country. now two bases left and 4,000 troops. the war cost to the taxpayer nearly $1 trillion. we came in the war divide and we re coming out of it.
were and that put us on the trail with great sectionses early on, and then on the trail of the guy that actually drove is a dam out of baghdad. that was key to finding is a dam. we are on the raid going after is a dad withen 24 hours. how vivid are the memories for you of that day? very vivid. much like everyone that heard the news for the first time, there s few of those moments in your life where you remember where you were when you heard the news. my reaction was much the same as most americans when they heard it at home. so describe the scene, set the scene as you were about to unearth the spider hole he was hiding in. i was not physically at the hole. i was commanding troops as part of the raid, but the team that a guy i ll call john, his special operations team at the hole, you had a hand full of soldiers there. the location is pointed out. they get everybody out of the
table to him to acquiesce his power before during this whole struggle in the last couple of months where he could have gone to other nations without potentially facing so now you got to wonder about the smarts of this guy, was he so power hungry that he didn t want to leave his own nation and potentially be a free man in another country, now he s captured. so what happens to him now? exactly right. it took months to do it but according to newscorp and also reuters, qaddafi captured but hurt. right. hillary clinton was just there 24 hours ago, i m wondering if she got word of it. when sirte put up a fight, you knew there was a reason it was so hard to take down this town. the one last vestige of the old regime and you wonder who they were protecting. if reports are correct, that s the guy they were protecting. this just in, apparently one of those libyan government fighters says qaddafi was hiding in a hole. who does that sound like? spider hole?