Economy and social policy. Welfare, education, consumer and Worker Protection and inflation, watch, free to choose saturday on American History tv. On cspan 2. Hello, everyone, welcome to washington times, a special episode of history as it happens. Today we will talk about the iraq war, 20 years on. On march 20th, 2003 bush announced they were invading iraq and getting rid of sad Saddam Hussein. The war killed hundreds of people. We were not greeted as liberators, why . Our guest today for the podcast is the dean of u. S. Foreign policy historian, welcome thank you, i am delighted to be here to discuss this important topic with you welcome to the washington times. And the author of confronting Saddam Hussein george w. Bush and the invasion of iraq the book was published to coincide with the war but you have been working on this book for awhile. You seemed reluctant as you state to take on this project to begin with, why . I was reluctant for two reasons. First i was trying to finish u
Welcome to the Washington Times for this special episode of history. As it welcome to hthe Washington Times. Well talk about the iraq war, 20 years on. On march 20, 2003, president bush announced that the United States was invading iraq and wars of mass destruction. The weapons did not exist. We were not greeted add liberators. Why . Im delighted to discuss this important topic with you. Welcome to the Washington Times. This is the author of confronting saddam hussian and president george w. Bush and the invasion of iraq. Youve been working on this book quite a while. You seemed reluctant to take on this project to begin with. Why . I was reluctant for two reasons. First i was trying to finish up work that i was doing on the evolution of the cold war, topic of which ive written a great deal about. And secondly, and most importantly, i was reluctant to take it on because it was really contemporary history and the availability of primary source documents would be very limited. Im a histo
Television and any fact pleaded donald trump guilty to the charge of attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Everyone except donald trump no is that criminal defendants should not speak publicly about their cases. The same is almost always true for Criminal Defense Lawyers. The most common response from Criminal Defense Lawyers to requests for interviews about their pending cases is one word, no. Most successful Criminal Defense Lawyers never grant Television Interviews, never. Too many of Donald Trumps lawyers are too eager to talk on trump supporting television about their client. And so tonight trump Criminal Defense Lawyer john lauro, in his first interview after donald trump pleaded not guilty to conspiring to trying to get Vice President mike pence to break the law, Donald Trumps Criminal Defense Lawyer actually said this. Professor eastman laid out a series of options that we were discussed with Vice President pence. Vice presid
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Washington Times for this special episode of history. As it happens, im martin di caro. Today were going to talk about the iraq war. 20 years on, on march 20th, 2003, president George W Bush announced the United States was invading iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction, weapons that did not exist. The war killed thousands of american soldiers and contractors and hundreds of thousands of iraqi people. We were not greeted as liberators. Why . Well, our guest today for this special episode of the podcast is the dean of us Foreign Policy historians melvyn leffler, welcome. Thank you. Im delighted to be here to discuss this really important topic with you. Welcome to the Washington Times, Professor Emeritus of history at the university of virginia and the author of confronting Saddam Hussein. George w bush and the invasion of iraq. So the book was published to coincide with the anniversary of the war. But youve been working on
Making some history, perhaps major leaguing donald trump the first former president to be indicted with a federal crime. Nbc news is reporting the Federal Grand Jury that has been hearing in evidence the Justice Departments investigation of former President Trumps handling of classified documents is expected to meet again this coming week in washington. Thats according to multiple people familiar with the investigation. Prosecutors working for special counsel jack smith have been presenting the grand jury with evidence and Witness Testimony for months, but activity appeared to have slowed in recent weeks. That was based on observations at the courthouse and through sources. Another major sign that investigation could be close to wrapping up, trumps legal team was spotted at the Justice Department today. You can see them leaving shortly before noon. This was weeks after they requested a meeting with Merrick Garland to discuss this case. It is unclear who nay met with at doj, but the Wal