mr. cheney's had a long and distinguished career and i hope in his book that's what he'll focus on, not these cheap shots he's taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability. >> you label them flatly as cheap shots. >> yes, they are cheap shots. several he targeted at me, he takes great credit for my red ig nation in 2004. president bush and i always agreed we would leave at the end of 2004. he said i went out of my way not to present my positions to the president, but to take them outside of the administration. that's nonsense. president knows i told him what i thought about every issue. >> in some ways, he's no kinder to your successor, condoleeza rice. >> well, he's taken the same shots at con di with an almost condescending tone, she tearfully did this or that and also at george tenet and indicated he didn't always approve of what president bush was deciding. there's nothing wrong with saying you disagree, but it is not necessary to take these kind

mr. cheney and the oil companies. he invited the environmentalists and the people of the left but they threw a hissy fit because they were not given the invitation directly from mr. dick cheney, one of the sobor indicated to them, and they refused to come. that is documented in the united states congressional archives. last, but not least, mr. cheney had nothing to do with the valerie claim -- plame situation. that was done by one of the subordinates. so, sit there and tried to blame mr. cheney for those three things -- and again, he does have a lot of stuff he needs to apologize for, but those three things are not in it and to continuously like -- continuously lot about this, you need to start smacking some heads when they call and try to pull this noise. host: simon and schuster is the publisher. georgia. larry is on the line for democrats. any thoughts, larry? caller: dick cheney and his partner karl rove should have been prosecuted because they committed all kinds of treasonous acts -- little stuff they committed d

mr. cheney and the oil companies. invited the environmentalists and the people of the left but they threw a hissy fit because they were not given the invitation directly from mr. dick cheney, one of the sobor indicated to them, and they refused to come. that is documented in the united states congressional archives. last, but not least, mr. cheney had nothing to do with the valerie claim -- plame situation. that was done by one of the subordinates. so, sit there and tried to blame mr. cheney for those three things -- and again, he does have a lot of stuff he needs to apologize for, but those three things are not in it and to continuously like -- continuously lot about this, you need to start smacking some heads when they call and try to pull this noise. host: simon and schuster is the publisher. georgia. larry is on the line for democrats. any thoughts, larry? caller: dick cheney and his partner karl rove should have been prosecuted because they committed all kinds of treasonous acts -- little stuff they committed dur

mr. cheney is on a legacy building book tour titled "in my time." exploding all over washington. maybe. vice president cheney was apologizing for nothing, certainly not the practice of waterboarding. >> i would strongly support using it again if circumstances arose where we had a high-valued detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk. >> according to "new york times," the then secretary of state konld condoleezza writes -- of powell, he says powell tried to undermine president bush. that sent powell, as cramden would say, to the moon. >> he says i went out of my way not to present my positions to the president, but to take them outside of the administration. that's nonsense. >> of george w. bush, mr. cheney called the president an outstanding leader. if you think mr. cheney will be battle bid critics, when ron paul supporters dared to heckle cheney at a gathering, he seemed to relish it. >> all right. sit down and shut up. the usual spirited exercise. >> what will dick cheney's legacy be? facebook.com/americanmorning. i'll read your

mr. cheney has had a long and distinguished career and i hope in his book that's what he will focus on, not the cheap shots he's taking at me. >> and colin powell angry that dick cheney slams him in a new book. we'll tell you what that's all about. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the great storm of 2011, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. hurricane irene has killed at least 37 americans, caused billions in damage on the east coast. nothing anybody can do about nature. it happens. the good news -- the authorities seem to be pretty well organized. and chaos was kept to a minimum. even though many people got hurt. there were few reports of looting or violence of any kind. and most people seem to cooperate in the evacuations. out on long island where i live, the center of the hurricane was about eight miles to the west of my home. storm wasn't as bad as many people feared. heavy rain and winds about 60 miles per hour where i was. now, during the storm, i didn'

mr. cheney's first interview about his book will air sunday on "dateline" nbc, on the "today" show on wednesday and "morning joe" on thursday. will dick cheney ever be on this show, will he? i very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very hope so some day. now it's time for "the ed show." good night. "first look" is up next. >>> state of emergency, hurricane irene makes a bee line for the north carolina coast. >>> occupational hazard. a car explodes in a los angeles firefighter's space. >>> and a diamond discovery. the girl's best friend just got a whole lot bigger with this latest planetary find. good morning. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with a perfect storm. that is how hurricane irene is being described as she churns towards the east coast, threatening up to 65 million people from north carolina to new england. irene is now a category two storm and a massive scramble is now underway to try and escape its path. for the very latest on the storm, let's get right to nbc meteorol

mr. cheney has had a long and distinguished career, and i hope in his book that's what he will focus on, not these cheap shots that he's taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability for president bush. i think it's a bit too far. i think dick overshot the runway with that kind of comment, if that's how he plans to sell his book. >> schieffer: it was amazing to watch this unfold, scott, it was almost as if he were saying, "look, the vice president, the former vice president's free to say whatever he wants to say, but he should not get the idea that i'm going to just sit here and take it." >> pelley: what does this tell us about the bush administration that we didn't know before? >> schieffer: i think what it tells us, scott, is something a little more about what we probably already knew. we knew that there was a lot of friction between the state department, the pentagon, and the vice president's office. i think this book and the former secretary's reaction to it shows us just how deep those divisions were, and they still have not been resolved

mr. cheney's had a long and distinguished career. and i hope in his book that's what he will focus on.ot these cheap shots that he's taking at me, and these other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability for president bush. >> colin powell on this new cheney book. jamie gangel has conducted an exclusive interview with dick cheney prior to the release of this book. she's with us tonight from our washington newsroom. good evening, jamie. >> reporter: good evening, brian. dick cheney is blunt, unapologetic, but perhaps the biggest surprise is that the former vice president goes public with revelations about his old boss, including private conversations which conflict with accounts mr. bush has given. listen to the striking difference in how the two men describe the eve of the iraq war. president bush writes, i turned to the team gathered in the oval office and said, let's go. you write, the president kicked everyone else out of the oval office, looked at me and said, dick, what do you think we ought to do? >> that's the way i recall it. and i was giving advice,

mr. cheney. when you're a moral midget like mr. don't pick a fight with a real man of towering integrity like colin powell. it's a mismatch. the vice president cheney, the useful thing about this book, and i'm glad mary published, it because it allows us to have an honest debate about the cheney record and bush/cheney record. this is the record. ignored the al qaeda threat before 9/11. warned by national security professionals like richard clarke and others and ignored t.supposed to chair a task force on terrorism and he did nothing. he was warned by his own treasury secretary paul o'neill the policies he was putting in place would explode the deficit and he said, and i quote, deficits don't matter and he helped mislead us into the war in iraq. said we would be greeted at liberators and gave credence to the myth that saddam was involved in 9/11 and says that saddam has constituted nuclear weapons, all that have false, so i'm asking my followers on twitter where i'm at was dick cheney the worst vice president in history or just mayb

i wanted to write what i remembered about these events while mr cheney it seems your recollection very different than everyone else's at least when talking about the war on terror so with the bush administration's a trilogy of memoirs on different pages whose version of history vocal world remember. that we are protected by law which allows us to live according to our customs is the brutal started a lot has changed and it's not the change people in syria are looking for so after years of religious acceptance and serious political unrest paving the way for religious intolerance. play there it's tuesday august thirtieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for is out and you're watching our team. i want to start off today sort of by taking a bird's eye view of america how does this country look from the outside and what's the pulse of the nation these days there are of course a number of factors to consider but let's look first at president obama's approval rating for the third week in a row it's at the lowest in his presidency if you take a look you can see it's at forty percent but

i wanted to write what i remembered about these events while mr cheney it seems your recollection may be a bit different than others when it comes to the war on terror so with the bush administration's trilogy of memoirs on different pages whose version of history will the world remember. it's tuesday august thirtieth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for a sound you're watching our t.v. i want to start his show with us and things going around in the country that perhaps give us a feel for the pulse of the nation these days there are of course a number of factors to consider but i want to look first at president obama's approval rating for the third week in a row it is at the lowest in his presidency you take a look you can see according to gallup forty per cent and that includes this week a two day all time low of thirty eight percent approval and the economy of course primary concern for people from both parties and many cities across america the straw. will is manifesting itself in the form of extreme violence especially from young people who feel they have no prospects for

i wanted to write what i remembered about president well mr cheney it seems your recollection may be different than everyone else's place from talking about the war on terror so with the bush administration's trilogy of memoirs on different pages whose version of history will the world remember. it's tuesday august thirtieth five pm in washington d.c. and christine for sound and watching our team starting off as our i want to talk about something that's been going on for the last several days just a few blocks from our studios outside of the white house every single day a group of protesters has been gathered outside speaking out against a proposed oil pipeline that appears to be in motion to be built it's called the keystone pipeline and would extend about seventeen hundred miles from alberta canada to the gulf coast in texas and would transport oil sands it's a seven billion dollars billion dollar project i'm going to parent we double oil and imports. canada now critics call this the dirtiest project on earth some saying it's yet another example of big oil just getting what they wa

mr. cheney's had a long and distinguished career and i hope in his book that's what he'll focus on, not theseap shots he's taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability. >> you label them flatly as cheap shots. >> yes, they are cheap shots. several he targeted at me, president bush and i always agreed i'd leave at the end of 2004. he says that i went out of my way not to present my positions to the president but to take them outside of the administering. that's nonsense. the president knows what i told him about every issue of the day. >> in some ways he's no kinder to your successor, condoleezza rice. >> he's taking the same shots at conde and taking the same shots at george tenant and in some ways indicating he didn't always approve of what president bush was deciding, and there's nothing wrong with saying you disagree, but it's not necessary to take these barbs and pump a book up by saying heads will be exploding. that's on the headline section of the nixon foundation to sell the book. i think it's a bit too far. i think dick overshot the runway

mr. cheney said unlike other aides he sat knoll. ms. rice eventually came around to his view, she came into my office and tearfully admitted i had been right. condoleezza rice isn't going to be happy reading that. is she? >> i think she has her own memoir scheduled for the pipeline. we'll see whether -- >> she can have her memory. >> whether she cried that he was right about everything. we will to cram a lot of nuggets into that brief space. what cheney was talking about in, the british really did think saddam was pursuing uranium in africa. so the sentence was technically correct and by apologizing for it, em flaming the controversy which he said did happen once the white house admitted it had been wrong to include those words in the speech. he was making a tactical viewpoint, not to publicly apologize compared to what surrounded it. >> i'm sure my copy will be landing on my doorstep right from the vice president's office. thank you, in the meantime with me, "chicago tribune" columnist. welcome. >> i'm waiting for my copy to arrive, to

mr. cheney has had a long distinguished career and i hope in this book that's what he will focus on, not these cheap shots. martha: all right, welcome back, everybody. let's get back to politics for a moment. we've got some troubling news in new polls for the the -- for the the president. take a look at this, his approval ratings is down again, according to gfk poll, where these numbers are coming, from they say that 52 percent of people disapprove of the job that president obama is doing, 46 percent approve, high unemployment and concerns of another recession are believed to be dragging down the president's support. bill: irene's price tag now expected to be enormous, estimates already, already, said to be in the billion of dollars on the east coast. >> we are working very closely, looking at the numbers for what it's going to take, depending upon the damages we get through irene, what it will take for the rest of this year, but also for the impacts of irene on next year. bill: who's going to foot the bill? we've already seen natural disasters in this country which deplete the supply of

mr. cheney has had a long and distinguished career i hope that's what he will focus on not these cheap shotstaking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability for president bush. >> you just label them cheap shots? >> they are. he says i went out of my way not to present my positions to the president but to take them outside of the administration. that's nonsense. who went to the united nations regretably with false information me. i supported the president. >> sean: joining me with analysis, former speechwriter for president george w. bush mark thiessen and kirsten powers. welcome back. i read the book. it is coming out tomorrow. i signed this disclaimer saying i wasn't allowed to disclose the contents. mark i'll work around the edges here. i went out to jackson hole we are going to air the vain you with the vice president tomorrow and then a live audience thursday. here's my point. richard armitage knew, absolutely knew that he was the one that had leaked the information. he didn't say anything. from all accounts now we know that colin powell knew th

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mr. cheney's first interview about his book will air sunday on "dateline" nbc, on the "today" show on wednesday and "morning joe" on thursday. will dick cheney ever be on this show, will he? i very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very hope so some day. now it's time for "the ed show." good night. >>> good evening, americans and welcome to the "the ed show" live in from minneapolis. tonight a state of emergency has been declared in maryland. the president has signed an emergency declaration in north carolina. hurricane irene is getting ready to pound the east coast and we will have the latest with live reports and then there is the latest with the republican front-runner for the presidential nomination. the more we find out about rick perry, the less there is to like. this is "the ed show." let's get on work. >> i dislike washington. i think it's a shady place. >> tonight there, is more on rick perry's seed i record in texas. an expect report in "the huffington post" says rick perry's administration wanted to help wall street investors gamble on how long retire

mr. cheney was one of the main culprits that got us there. >> you said the same thing about for people watching, you have been bitterly disappointed in what the obama administration has done since taking over the bush-cheney team. >> i think it is washington incorporated. it's been the same on both sides. we are doing regime change, but spending incredible amounts of money, not accomplishing u.s. purposes to this point. we are weaker and weaker economically. i don't give either side much credit. i think cheney goes down in history as one of the most dangerous people that served the united states. >> certainly people that go to your cocktail party. >> they have heard it before. look what he did sitting in the oval office as vice president, led us into a disastrous war on phony premises and weakened the united states. >> we are still mired in an endless -- >> we are mired in iraq, afghanistan and yemen. that's a secret war. we are mired in somalia and pakistan. >> all i will say is, if that is going to be the assessment of dick cheney, that also has to be the assessment of barack obama who took m

mr. cheney writes about it.ll play you the exchange and then show you what the vice president wrote about it. >> we also have to work sort of the dark side, if you will, spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies. >> he writes in his memoir -- "my comments on "meet the press" about the dark side have been used by critics over the years to suggest something sinister. i don't see it that way. only five days earlier we had lost nearly 3,000 americans. it was true then and remains ueoday that preventing another attack require efforts that have to be keptsecret, and work that goes on in the shaws, sometimes with less than upstanding individuals, in order to save american lives." katty, we knew he'd be unapologetic about this point. it's taking on people with a darker assessment of the past ten years. >> and more specifically, when asked about wate

cheney says that after mr. as reelected in 2004, quote, getting a new secretary of state was a top priority and that powell's resignation was for the best. there's also some personal information about cheney's heart problems. he says by the summer of last year he was rapidly descending into end stage heart failure, and after surgery to implant a battery-operated heart pump, he was unconscious literally for weeks, but cheney says he is now doing well and that he has, quote, gotten used to the various contraptions that are always with me. rick? is. rick: we're glad he's well, and i read he was dreaming of being in an italian villa during that time as well. >> reporter: during that time, yes. vivid dreams, he says, of being in an italian villa. no bert dream to have -- better dream to have -- rick: i was going to say, sounds pretty good to me. thanks, wendall. jenna: sounds good to all 65 million of us along the east coast. listen, this doesn't normally happen this time of year, but all bets are off in atlantic cit

mr. cheney says that he wrote the letter in 2001 and kept in it a safe in case of a possible health crisisyou may remember that he has a history of heart disease. he says president bush knew about the letter, and so did a cheney staffer. it's all in his new memoir, the book called "in my time" is due ao out august 30th. a new warning from the pentagon. a report suggesting china's rapidly growing military is designed to muscle the u.s. out of the region leaving key u.s. allies to fend for themselves. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the -p pentagon,. >> reporter: the report documents how china has expanded its move into spelt weaponry. it talks about the record number of space launches that china carried out last year and the expanding defense budget which rows by 12% last year with no explanation as to why china is expecting its defense budget. it mentions china's first aircraft carrier which started sea trials a few weeks ago, a sign of an expansion of the navy in the pacific. there is the mention of china's involvement in cyberwar fair. they were the target of

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cheney's allegations yesterday. >> the fact of the matter is when mr. armitage realized he was the source for the column that caused all the difficulty and he called me immediately, two days after the president launched the investigation, and what we did was we called the justice department. they sent over the fbi. the fbi had all the information about mr. armitage's participation and we called the president's council and told him we had information. the fbi asked us not to share any of this with anybody else, as did mr. gonzalez, if the white house operatives had come forward as readily as mr. armitage did, we wouldn't have gone on for two months. there wouldn't have been a special council appointed by the justice department that spent two years trying to get to the bottom of it, and we wouldn't have had the mess we subsequently had. >> joining me again, valerie plame and her husband, former ambassador joe wilson. it sounds to me colin powell and armitage followed their proper procedure on this. >> well, certainly that's secretary powell's explanation,

mr. vice president so good to see you. >> good to see you again. welcome to wyoming. >> sean: it is beautiful here. now i know why you have a will have of this great state. dick cheney, in my time with liz cheney, a personal and political memoir. you have been working on this for a long time. >> we have. we started out on it, spent two years. started it after i left office. i had a lot of material, notes, oral histories that had been done over the years. in terms of working on the book, having a contract, it has been the last two years. >> sean: one of the things that keep coming up, a lot of people are concerned. you had a heart attack in 1978. quadruple bypass. in the course of your life you ended up with five heart attacks. recently you had a tough struggle. i guess they have new technology, mechanical heart pump. i read you don't have a pulse, is that true? >> it is very weak. and the pump, it is called a vlad. at the time they put it in i was in the latter stages of heart failure. it has been a little over a year now and it has worked. i'm a big fan. >> sean: how do you feel now? it struck me. it came up a lot during the book when president bush was asking you

mr. president, if that happens again, somebody is going to have to resign. >> bret: nobody resigned. cheney'shim as a4ia÷ secretive schemer, usig the war as an excuse to shred the constitution. to them his secret service code name, angler, was all too apt. you love fishing. they say you are the angler in more ways than one. is there some truth to that? >> well, the secret service came up with the code name. the code name i had in the ford administration was backseat. maybe i should go back to that one. >> bret: as the 2004 election approached cheney was willing to do more than take a backseat. he was willing to step aside for a new running mate. he offered to step down? >> he did. i was impressed that the vice president, during a lunch would say if you think you can strengthen the ticket, i will move on, no hard feelings. nobel gesture on his part. everybody's vice president ought to do that. >> bret: you gave it thought? >> absolutely. i decided it didn't make sense. >> bret: cheney never became a campaign issue in 2004. his daughter mary did in a presidential debate. >> if were you to talk

cheney recalls, i hadn't been there long. a knock at the door. the camp commander saying, mr.e president, your dog has been banned from laurel. so much for second chances. was dave trying to act on frustration on behalf of his owner, we're never going to know. >>> lastly, an a for effort? mayor bloomberg may have guided new york city through hurricane irene with relative ease this past weekend but didn't think he himself would make it through unscathed, did he? throughout the weekend the mayor addressed new yorkers numerous times to update them on the coming storm, even speaking spanish to maximize the amount of people that got the right information. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> all right. admirable, yes, but safe to say room for improvement with the spanish, and it didn't go unnoticed. so much so a fake twitter account was created to mock the mayor's subpar linguistics. an example, how about this? >> in the end, the fake twitter account garnered 10,000 followers over the course of 64 tweets. pretty funny stuff. >>> coming up, they're back. dick cheney went after colin

darling oh mr human events contributor to red state dot com and director of government studies at the heritage. welcome you all let's get started. that's official it's official there cheney has a new book out in my time he's bashing rice tenent paul he wanted to attack syria. this this is the probably the most aggressive guy who ever got five deferrals from from the draft that i've ever heard of in my entire life here he was in an interview with n.b.c. not only admitted to work right seemingly to brag about this in your view we should still be using enhanced interrogation yes no regrets no regrets should we still be broader boarding terror suspects i would strongly support using the again if circumstances arose even though so many people have condemned it people call it torture when you think it should still be a tool yes. and then george w. bush in his book decision points basically so the same thing he said three people were waterboarding and save lives so is it time to convene a war trying to work crimes tribunal and try these guys for who the crimes that they've confessed to after all we put people to death japanese to death for doing this to our soldiers. are you lo

cheney's now memoir. these were comments that mr. powell made on cps's "face the nation." "it is a new chapter in the story of men who have markedly different styles." florida republican senator -- tea partyers and establishment like what they see in him, but he is pushing off talk of being a vice-presidential candidate. "do not come here expecting optimism. at a time is 13%, foreclosure rates are among the highest in -- unemployment is 13%, foreclosure rates are among the highest in the country these days they are just trying to get by. there is little interest in the coming special election in that second congressional district." not too much, according to the reporter, interest there. that is all for this segment of the program. coming up, we will talk about the movement of conservative women and what role they are playing bit later on we will talk about consumers and federal regulations. we will be right back. >> watch more video of the candidates, see what political reporters are saying, and track the latest campaign contributions with c-span's web site for campaign 2

mr. powell. do republicans care about victims of natural disasters? 8% said yes, 92% said no. >>> the last word with lawrence o'donnell starts right now. we'll see you back to compare dick cheney to darth vader, he does it himself. >> been called skillful, dynamic, you've been called controversial and divisive. >> you left out darth vader. >> dick cheney relishes his ties with the dark side. >> not to get caught up with popular methods of interrogation. >> he's never once accepted responsibility or regret. >> totally unincomebered. >> critics have already called it a rewrite of history. >> pulling the strings behind the scenes. >> president obama is still working to fix eight years of republican mistakes. >> the worst economic crisis since the great depression. >> key pieces of the president's jobs plan are still being debated. >> we have to create more jobs, and we have to do it faster. >> does he go big, does he go tactical? >> he's got to go big. >> you try working with eric cantor. >> while the president is working to create jobs, the republican candidates were working to destroy them. >> you won't have stimulus programs. >> i will slice billions of dollars. >> i'm a perso

mr. vice president thank you for your time. >> great pleasure to see you. >> sean: that is all the time we have left. tune in this thursday night, 9 p.m. eastern my second interview with vice president cheney. we'll have an audience and talk about topics such as the iraq war, valerie plame, scooter libby and much more. thank you for being with us. >> greta: distressing question. is our government covering something up? new information about our government's bizarre fast and furious operation in which our government supplied weapons to mexican cartels. in -- one of those weapons ended up at the scene of the murder of one of our border patrol agents. there's news the acting director of the at if has been reassigned. is he being forced -- forced soe higher up? much more straight ahead. >> meanwhile, mexico's president is slamming the united states saying it is our drug problem that is causing the violence in his country. that's not all he's saying. >> plus, on the record special only right here. we'll show you how your tax dollars are being wasted. we are not talking millions, but billions and billions. we may have to peel you off the ceiling after you watch this one. >> first, have you heard

cheney. he's filling us in on the details of his new memoir. mr. vice president, you weren't always mr. you get over to washington and the first time you have a chance to meet donald rumsfeld he did not hire you. >> he threw me out of his office. >> brian: he wasn't impressed. you're the wrong guy. it was bill bradley that interviewed you who said that donald rumsfeld later on for a position that opened up, go with this guy, another princeton die. >> right. and a democrat. >> steve: you used to be a democrat. >> my family both sides were democrats. >> steve: what happened to you? >> i got started working for republicans. i had opportunity with republicans. but i had the experience of working in some programs like wage price controls, like the antipoverty program where government was trying to do good things and messing them up. >> brian: lbj to nixon, right? >> exactly. in the nixon administration, we learned trying to run the economy with a huge bureaucracy and a lot of rules did more damage than it did good when it came time to fight inflation. you had to let private markets work. the

mr. cheney had a heart attack or a stroke or something that medically left him incapacitated. >> take a looksurveillance video. the clerk that you're looking at is ripping up a winning lotto ticket worth $10,000. >> why? >> it belongs to this woman who bought the scratch ticket and asked the clerk to check if she won. the clerk thought she lost, she ripped it up and tossed it. an hour later, the clerk's husband who owns the store luckily checked again. this seems interesting. i don't know about this. the mystery woman from gresham, oregon is welcome to claim her winning ticket. the store owner said it was an honest mistake. that's true. >> all right. he's one of nascar's best drivers and now he cannot drive. as we told you yesterday, kyle busch's driver's license suspended after going 128 miles per hour in a 45-mile-an-hour zone in north carolina. he pled guilty to speeding and reckless driving and the judge throwing down the hammer. busch loses his license for 45 days. he gets one year probation. he gets a $1,000 fine. but don't worry, nascar fans, he still gets to race! and go over that be