riling your own people up. wilkerson is talking about how there was some decision to get more peaceful, it was not communicated to the troops. the people who riled up the response that they got over the five years in the early 1970s, was the government itself, riling us up. it wasn t no, i absolutely thought that we slu do more, we should be more effective, and have a lot of criticism it didn t always mean more violence. but did did sometimes? no, you re using violence in a con natured way, no, it didn t you want these 20-year-olds to understand your new answer principles of i meant militancy, i didn t mean i want to bomb property, but i don t want to kill people. throughout the left at that time, the catholic left, the barrigans, people were destroying property again and again and again. we should have destroyed more property. i m talking about you.
it came from the vice president s office. it was junk. it was pure junk. i was in charge of putting it together. powell and wilkerson tear up the original 48-page script and start over with a team from the state department and cia. director george tenet suggests they base their presentation on the national intelligence estimate, which unbeknownst to powell is a deeply flawed document. still, he is wary. we went into a room, he slammed the door shut. he said, sit down. and he sat down. we were the only two people in the room. he looked at me and he said, this bull [ bleep ] of contacts with al qaeda has got to be taken out. it s bull [ muted ]. and i said, i agree with you. let s take it out. done. within a half hour, tenet comes in and explosively tells about this high-level al qaeda
script of my presentation at the united nations. it came from the vice president s office. it was junk. it was pure junk. i was in charge of putting it together. powell and wilkerson tear up the original 48-page script and start over with a team from the state department and cia. director george tenet suggests they base their presentation on the national intelligence estimate, which unbeknownst to powell is a deeply flawed document. still, he is wary. we went into a room, he slammed the door shut. he said, sit down. and he sat down. we were the only two people in the room. he looked at me and he said, this bull [ bleep ] of contacts with al qaeda has got to be taken out. it s bull [ muted ]. and i said, i agree with you. let s take it out. done. within a half hour, tenet comes in and explosively tells about this high-level al qaeda operative who s been
calling this guy a deserter. what are you hearing about this? and does that matter in the circumstances of his disappearance? does this play into whether we should have done this deal? no, it doesn t play into that at all. we get all of our men and women back, period. whatever the circumstances was on how he left that post, we don t know. we ve certainly not heard from him about it. we will. we ll learn more about it. i don t know what to make of all those discussions. i think they re rumors at the moment. we ll find out more along the way. but go back to the fundamental ethic of the military, and that is no one gets left behind. congressman john garamendi, appreciate your time tonight, thanks for joining us. let me bring in now colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff of former secretary of state colin powell. good to have you with us, mr. wilkerson. your reaction to the likes of your party members, ted cruz,
into a psychiatric unit where she can go to group therapy sessions, get prenatal care, and exercise with supervision. wilkerson faces charges of attempted murder and child abuse. we ll continue to follow this story. so our business can be on at&t s network for $175 a month?