leaving office in 2006. yet it s more apparent now than ever just how little he has learned from his mistakes along the way. with us now is the man behind the movie, the documentary filmmaker errol morris and political analyst david corn of mother jones. errol, thank you for joining us. i found this long documentary mystifying, yet it is the donald rumsfeld i have always known, fey, whimsical face that i swear has the look of a car bomber because he has a smile about the most serious, horrible things. 186,000 people died in the iraq war, and he gets sort of chummy about it, and he is sort of friendly to you. does he know what he is talking about morally? does he know the decisions he made and went along with that caused that war? no. i don t think he does. how do you get is that why dick cheney liked him. because he was such a tool that he didn t stop and say wait a minute, are we really going to war with a country, we re going to take it over, we re going to run that place, ki
drafted as she tries to put together this book which is coming out this summer. good. it will be good reading. i do think, though, both sahil and malika, i think some time in the debates coming up in 2016 there will be a moment when somebody like rand paul, whoever is rung against her will just drop that charge right in her face and she ll either come back and explode it in his face, or there will be something else happening that night. but that s bound to come back. thank you so much, nia-malika henderson and sahil kapur. a look at donald rumsfeld, the unknown known, which digs into rumsfeld s decisions which he and bush and cheney took us to war in iraq. errol morris is up next. this is hardball, the place for politics. latte or au lait?
kinds of mayhem, and then we re going to own it because we don t like the fact they fired on some of our airplanes? what was his reason for the war? that s ostensibly what donald rumsfeld wanted to do in a new documentary out next month, but it s not what happened. rumsfeld is the subject of the unknown known by academy award winning director errol morris who spent 33 hours interviewing the former defense chief. the inherent irony of the film was how badly rumsfeld portray himself not as a man haunted by the demons of his past but unrepentant egoist whose account of history is whimsical. marred by smugness and evasion. rumsfeld shows no misgivings about his decision as secretary of defense. despite overwhelming evidence, he remains a contrarian on the defining failure of the bush administration.
doing it. it s one of the scariest interviews i have ever done. okay. compare him to robert mcnamara. mcnamara, thoughtful, reflective, agonized about the past. rumsfeld completely unapologetic, pleased with himself. convinced absolutely in his own correctness, his own rectitude. they couldn t be more different than two people could possibly be. thank you so much. the film s called the unknown known. it will drive you crazy, but you have to see it. thank you, errol morris and david corn for your expertise. the book is hubris. the best book ever on that war. we ll be right back after this. oh-oh, oh, oh, la, la-la, la-la, la-la na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na
(agent) i understand. (dad) we ve never sold a house before. (agent) i ll walk you guys through every step. (dad) so if we sell, do you think we can swing it? (agent) i have the numbers right here and based on the comps that i ve found, the timing is perfect. .there s a lot of buyers for a house like yours. (dad) that s good to know. (mom) i m so excited. we re back. winston churchill once said history will be kind to me for i intend to write it. that s extensively what donald rumsfeld wanted to do. a new documentary out next month, but it s not what happened. rumsfeld is the subject of the unknown known by academy award-winning director errol morris who spent 33 hours interviewing the chief. the irony is how badly he