war in iraq was then vice president dick cheney. regular between this comment, hope dick cheney is watching this morning. reaction? >> i hope he is as well. i hope his daughter who is currently the house republican chair is also watching because she seems to be continuing his foreign-policy legacy in the house. >> guillermo is joining us from brownsville, texas. good morning. >> a couple questions. the first one is to mr. caldwell. i want to know if he's a veteran. my other question is why now. why pull out now? is it because of the elections? third is why did they send us over there in the first place? terrorists have no rules of

then you have dick cheney. --ice that bush is portrayed you can barely see him in his seat in comparison to cheney. there you are. one of the interesting things to me as i reach this in march 2007 is actually that on the inside, cheney's power is actually waiting a lot in the second term. public image has not caught up to reality yet. in this particular episode, it did not help. bush himself had to go out and publicly state that he thought the firings had not been handled well. that famous expression was uttered, mistakes were made. no one involved in this came out looking good. they did not go viral. >> the next step that happened ,fter that in the aftermath was there was somebody at the justice department interviewing new u.s. attorneys and saying, how much do you love your president, please tell me. there was a loyalty question added to the job interview that hit the washington post. there were rogue line prosecutors who saw an opening because they felt the justice department was on the rocks little bit. they

he went from dick cheney to this guy. so he had to lose 70 pounds. >> 70 pounds?i had to get in the car. >> reporter: does it get harder to do that physical transformation? >> yes. >> reporter: yeah? >> i keep saying i'm done with it. i really think i'm done with it. >> reporter: now? >> you know when you're on set and he's like oh, hold on, it's my cardiologist. i have to take this. you better take that call. >> reporter: talk about heart-stopping. in the film, you actually get the sense that you're in the car with him, thanks to some pretty creative camera work. you'll also get the sense of just how dangerous auto race asking be when drivers push themselves and their cars to that place where there can only be victory or disaster. we won't spoil the ending for you, but to paraphrase ernest hemingway, all true stories end in death. and "ford versus ferrari" is based on a true story. >> if a movie work, you end up feeling a lot of gratitude for all the people who worked on it because it's hard work. >> reporter: much like putting a ce we're not rking our lives. >>

then you have dick cheney. notice bush per trade -- portrayed as -- you can barely see him in his seat. he has a brilliant idea. one of the interesting thing to me as i read this and march of 07 -- 2007, cheney's power is actually really waning a lot of the second term. the public image has not caught up to that reality yet. actually, my view is actually waning. this particular episode did not help. bush himself had to go out and publicly state that he thought the firings have not been handled well. that famous expression was uttered, mistakes were made. no one involved in this did not go viral. mary kate: they were saying, how much do you love our president, please tell me. it was a loyalty question added to the job interview. and hit the washington post there were rogue line prosecutors who saw an opening because they felt that the justice department was on the rocks a little bit. they indicted senator ted stevens. of hows the beginning that indictment got through because they thought nobody justice departmen

and people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld who are relatively new to government at the time did not like when congress had we need to step in and confront the national security state and what's become a very out of control pill program cheney then went on during the reagan years in the eighty's to serve in congress and when the iran contra scandal broke out into the open cheney did not like. congress being involved with anything that the executive branch was doing. you had to see understand that emanated from the highest echelons of power and the reagan administration was acting as though it had nothing to do with it i've told you all that i know and you know the truth of the matter is for quite some long time all that you knew was what i told. you with. our witness this morning is mr robert mcfarlane the former national security advisor to the president. mr mcfarlane we welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. mr mcfarlane. did you have any discussion about the possibility. of in effect farming out the whole contra support operations in nicaragua to a

. >> quite the key player in the war in iraq was then vice president dick cheney. regular between this comment, hope dick cheney is watching this morning. reaction? >> i hope he is as well. i hope his daughter who is currently the house republican chair is also watching because she seems to be continuing his foreign-policy legacy in the house. >> guillermo is joining us from brownsville, texas. good morning. >> a couple questions. the first one is to mr. caldwell. i want to know if he's a veteran. my other question is why now. why pull out now? is it because of the elections? third is why did they send us over there in the first place? terrorists have no rules of engagement and that war is not going to end now. >> our guest is a marine corps veteran who served in iraq. you want to respond? i think the president, i wish the president would follow through on his first order to pullout at the end of 2018 and that we would have pulled out in a more orderly manner and allowed the kurds to make a deal with russia or the assad regime which would have allowed the issues we

this scene where the young dick cheney, by jan i think you may have been 36 and he was chief of staff at the white house, he goes intimate the young nina scalia at the office of legal counsel and they talk about this new nefarious. that will allow them to take over the world and it's called the unitary executive theory area and some of you may recall when i was up for confirmation all the democratic senators saying how concerned they were about my adherence to the unitary executive theory. in reality the idea of the unitary executive does not go so much to the of presidential power, it's rather the idea is that whatever the executive power may be, those powers must be exercised under the president's supervision . this is not new and is not a theory. it's a description of what the framers did an article to area and after you decide to establish an executive unction that independent of the legislature, naturally the next question is going to perform that function ? the framers had 2 potential models, they could insinuate checks and balances into the executive branch by conferring power

she's, of course, the daughter of former vicepresident dick cheney. a member of congress and a member of the leadership in at is significant and a warning, i think, to owher fe republican and fellow conservatives not to go there. don't queson the patriotism of these people. question their interpretation. question their information. say maybe they are a secret democrat. but don't question their patriotism when they are wearing their decorations on their uniforms sitting before you and they have served so honorably for their country. >> right. do you feel she drew hethat lin insand for the other republicans to say hey, maybe we s shouldn't crthis line here moving forward in >> and there are many ways to try to undermine the veracity or the credibility of her particular witness. this is just not the avenue that will be most fruitful for them. >> right, do you think impeachment will happen before the the year or in 2020? >> i think the house is trying very hard to get public hearings going in ofthe month november to have that house judiciary commite act i

. >> dick cheney. dick cheney is behind it all. we don't have time to go into it but just trust me. he's in a bunker beneath the earth. we are just his puppets. so this idea is something that obviously you disagree with what i want to go back, in the '70s you have shouted experience of somebody that you knew was murdered by the black panthers. how long did it take before you realized i was with the wrong story with the wrong narrative? >> it was almost instantaneous. first of all, because my closest friends, when i told them the panthers had murdered betty, they said it was the white power structure. you know, we have this today where actually time he dan coats is a a big icon of the left on race relations says there's no such thing as like on black crime, it's white people heart behind it. crazy stuff but an awful lot of intelligent people -- >> it's fascinating because you're talking about when this book "mortality and faith" it's about stories. .. with reality, will only get into that. were talking david horowitz, mortality and faith it is the new book journey through time, good

well a 1000001 side and one side the whole ward stand by dick cheney politically in public announcement but under the table many of this country's are supporting this militia and that's why we have the problems we want to clearance from the rest of the world and the country who are helping us in 2011 that there really stand by the governor rest of my world is peeling new to cut your links with these corrupt militia groups so you continue to ally with yeah but still we're going to show them something in this country is they make the will of the militia strongest and this is exactly what we're looking for that in berlin process they'd stop helping different than the government of libya who's helping who's up. in this many countries which european countries our neighbor countries and some arab countries so so you're blaming it on the on the europeans that you have close ties with murdering militia groups who extort who fire off their weapons against civilian areas it's all europe's fault is it and that they are deeply involved in the corruption of your administration when they don't trust

a doctor from george washington university hospital who treated former vice president dick cheney. given your obvious connections to the white house over the years, you have spoken with folks, what are you hearing? >> yeah, i reached out to some contacts inside the white house a little earlier. i wanted to let them know i was actually going to come on the air today and talk a little bit about how unusual the saturday visit to walter reed was. and they were eager to share a little bit of data with me. >> what can you share with us? >> a person at the white house authorized us to talk about the president's medical condition, said this had been something they had been thinking about for a while, the president had some down time, he went over to walter reed to get some of this done. according to this source, there was no sophisticated testing done. it's a little bit unusual. almost everything that is usually done in a presidential physical like this, can be done in the white house at the white house medical unit. so it doesn't really make a lot of sense why the president would travel t

some of you may have seen the horrible movie, vice, about vice dick cheney. he was chief of staff at the white house. non--- in to meet the the young nina scalia, and they talk about this new nefarious theory that will allow them to take over the world. it is called the unitary executive theory. [laughter] attorney general barr: some of you may recall when i was up for confirmation, all these democratic senators say how concerned they were to the unitary executive theory. [laughter] inorney general barr: reality, the idea of the unitary does not go so much to the breadth of the executive power. whatever the executive power may be, those powers must be exercised under the president's supervision. it is a description of what the framers did in article two. [applause] attorney general barr: after you decide to establish an executive function that is independent of the legislature, the next question is, who is going to perform that function? the framers had two potential models. they could insinuate checks and balances into the executive branch by dividing the po

dealing with dick cheney, i thought it was appropriate. they can't smear him.f you smear somebody in corporate america or cia or state department, the boss is supposed to stand up and say, you can't do that to my subordinate. if the story keeps going to the whistleblower and naming him, the cia director will be on the hook to say, mr. president, you can't shame my people in public. he has to speak. a lot at stake. >> unfolding just ahead, we take you inside the federal criminal investigation of rudy guilliani and his ukraine connections. was he looking to advance his own interests as well the president? tax-efficient investing strategies, and a dedicated advisor to help you grow and protect your wealth. fidelity wealth management. when you're looking for answers, it's good to have help. because the right information, at the right time, may make all the difference. at humana, we know that's especially true when you're looking for a medicare supplement insurance plan. that's why we're offering seven things every medicare supplement should have. it's yours free ju

navy bob wells, national security adviser to vice president dick cheney, bob, it's gotten worse sincee regime, some of the young students run the control, what have we learned in this time? >> we've learned that iran is going to be continued challenge to the united states ever since the hostage crisis as preview just provided, it really was a point of departure for traditional diplomacy, we have revolutionary iran now, eric, many of those protestors are now in the government of iran, still revolutionary iran that continue to frustrate the community, flout international norms and the united states is looking at it from the universery time to how to actually deal with the revolutionary, when is iran returning to be a national state and we have a dialogue, that's yet to be seen. eric: do you think that's even possible that they can return to peaceful international community of nations that respect the human dignity and not human suffering and executing their opposition? >> at this point with this particular government especially with iotola as well as regardless of what the foreign minis

i think some of you may have seen that horrible movie "vice" about vice-president dick cheney. and he goes in to meet the young scalia and they talk about what will allow them to take over the world and it's the, you know, unity executive theory. and you heard some concerned about my adherence to the, you know, unteary executive theory. >> it's not to the breadth, but goes to whatever the executive powers may be. those powers must be exercised under the president's supervision. it's not new and it's not a theory. it's a description of what the framers did in article 2. [applaus [applause] >> after deciding to establish an executive function that's independent of the legislature, naturally the next question is, who is going to perform that function? the framers had two potential models. they could insinuate checks and balances into the executive branch by conferring power on multiple individuals, such as a council and thus dividing power within the executive. alternatively they could vest executive power in a solitary individual and the framers quite explicitty and uniformly cho

when dick cheney said what the russians did was an attack. >> tucker: i don't care. >> more like annual attack on the u.s. i think if donald trump gets off the hook on, this is he going to put the arm on the chinese and everybody else. >> tucker: hold on a second, we should put a strong arm on the chinese colonizing the world and beating us economically. soon militarily if we don't watch out. why should i root for ukraine against russia. i'm sincerely confused. latvia against moldova. why should i care at all. >> russia is trying to undo our democracy. ukraine is not. they actually want our democracy to succeed and theirs to succeed. >> tucker: are you kidding? so you really last sentence. you really believe that russia. >> yeah. >> tucker: is a greater threat to the united states than china? just say it. just say it? >> i think russia and china are threats in different ways. >> tucker: um-huh. because i noticed our industry just went to china today and sucking up to xi. what can we do mr. chairman. and that's totally cool. if i don't root for urk in some esoteric border war with russia

we welcome back steve schmidt, former republican strategist who worked for among others dick cheney, john mccain. he has since left the republican party and is now back with us having consulted for the former independent political campaign of howard schultz. my friend, i want to start you off with how consequential you think today was, and then talk about these times we're living in right now. what does this mean? >> what we see right now, what we know happened is in my eyes a profound abuse of power by the president of the united states. who called a foreign head of state, withheld u.s. military aid, asked for the foreign head of state to launch an investigation into a u.s. citizen to aid his campaign for 2020. that citizen happening to be the son of a political opponent. if you can do that to the former vice president of the united states, it means you can do that to anybody. and if that's okay to ask a foreign head of state to investigate an american citizen, that means it's okay for the president of the united states to see someone say on television who doesn't like the criticism

we've got the former national security advisor to vice president dick cheney and susan li. this region quite well. if this seems to be escalating to the point where they are targeting areas where the police told them not to go. >> is that to me, first? >> neil: it is. >> is a city that a lot of people who have ever been to hong kong and live there don't recognize that the violence has escalated and has, after live rounds are fired. when the attention escalated, it's hard to temper down the temperature. it looks like ground zero and the fight is being taken to the university campuses. some of the most prestigious ones. it looks like protesters have been galvanized off of those that have unfortunately met some tragic endings and they are discontent with how the police have been handling the ongoing protests. >> neil: what is interesting is that chinese authorities are not exactly hiding chinese military officers involved in this. and i am wondering what that could mean. >> well, thanks, neil. the situation is growing increasingly dangerous. obviously, violence is a ground for

people like vice president dick cheney and large spaces in the op-ed part of the newspapers were pushing. there was no real evidence iraq had anything to do with the september 11th attacks, but that didn't stop the push for war. and what depressed me was how gullible the country had become. ted kennedy was the one noble exception calling his vote against the iraq resolution the most important of his storied career. we covered the iraq war most innenti inintently in the months leading up to it and most passionately in opposing it. why are we getting a pr campaign being run in the american media pushing us to war with iraq? why is everybody pushing this war attitude, the drum beat? what's causing it if their only number six of a list of dangers? i worry that the united states is going to invade iraq and worry about huge casualties by us, let's find a way to stop the hus tilt and why do we have ambassadors to all those countries? why do have a state department? if we still have to figure out why we're going to war with iraq, don't we a problem right there? i'm totally against this war. i re

. >> and for those who claim this is all politics, you served under former defense secretary dick cheneystration, hardly an outlier. you are a cabinet member when you were the head of nasa under george w. bush. >> yes. at no point do i ever recall on any disciplinary matter either the president or the secretary of defense issuing an instruction on what the directed outcome needed to be before the process ever began. that was not -- that was the furthest thing from their minds. >> in the case, one of those cases, the three cases, lieutenant golstyn had not even come to trial yet. thank you very much, good to see you again. >>> coming up, kavanaugh called out. how the supreme justice came to the president's attention. plus where his accuser's father stands on kavanaugh. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. ndrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. e holidays.♪ ♪'cause no matter how far away you roam.♪ ♪when you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze.♪ ♪for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home.♪ the united states postal service goes the extra mile to bring your holidays home

bus bush/dick cheney state department and likely intercepted with ambassador yovanovitch. i don't know that, but liz cheney was a senior state department official and marie yovanovitch had hardship postings in the kinds of countries where a lot of foreign policy as it rises to the highest level of the white house reaches. it's likely that liz cheney knows her. i'm interested in your thoughts about that, claire. >> she's not afraid of trump. i think she thinks that her pedigree and her standing in her state is strong enough that she could withstand a trump-backed primary. and so that's all the calculation that's going on on the hill for most of these republicans. they'll tell me, you know, we know it's awful, we know what's going on is terrible, but we've got to be here to block his worst instincts and we need to hold onto power so you guys get stuff done. >> i've had people in my life i've disagreed with ideologically but i have complete trust in their integrity. the late charles krauthammer was one of them, you can disagree with him, but he's an honest person. >> the only

dick cheney was vice president at time, the former ceo of the company was that many times the policeumber the protesters here and were not on their best behavior. we would do projects that would help cover those demonstrations. just like in seattle, we knew we could not rely on the corporate tell the story. i learned about how to be a journalist. i learned all of my digital training will much about how i practice journalism today. i practiticed it with a rprpose. i practiced tactical media a and have made great friends and relationships, lifelong relalationships along the way wh people like tish. juan: yemen have an actual exhibition of various artifacts of the indymedia movement of the last 20 years? could you talk about that? >> thank you for having us. it is great to be here. we have an exhibition that is open now through december 9 at the rice media center in houston. we made a call out to indymedia activists around the world to send us things they had stored away in their own archives. it is a great show. interestingly, so much of what we did on indymedia was digital. what we fo

connell: we're joined by john hannah, former national security advisor to vice president dick cheneyhat is the role of the united states understanding there is complexities with u.s. china trade discussions and the like but it has been going on for month now, what we've seen especially the last two weekends is there now a role for the united states to play, if so, what is it in hong kong? >> yeah. hi, connell. listen there is not a whole lot the u.s. can do here. although the trade negotiations are clearly crucial. they're very crucial to china, which has been experiencing real economic difficulties as a result of this conflict with the united states. i think they badly need that deal, and the prospect that it could be killed by a massive military intervention to put down these protests in hong kong, i think might be one of the few things that is really staying china's hand here. so i think it is important that the united states continue to tell the chinese leadership, whether we like it or not, a massive crackdown to see tianamen 2.0 occur in the streets after westernized city like

[laughter] i kept looking around please dick cheney don't come in with another picture. [laughter] i have to go back to the hood. [laughter] but ladies and gentlemen on the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina, barack obama was president and on air force one going home at the president of the united states. what a great honor to get on air force one. the closest i had been as i took the ashtray but in my bag because i knew they made no more. i will give it back soon. [laughter] and then to go with the press secretary to brief the press and i said during george w. bush presidency here is what we did on the rebuilding side. i gave him credit. i talk about his leadership. i talk about what obama inherited and what he had done since then. i gave them both credit. i gave them both credit. and when i go home i tell people do you see that hospital? i remember i went to talk to the president saying it wasn't coming back now we have a level one trauma center. [applause] my dad was a veteran and he said go talk to the president we need a new v.a. hospital. how he likes you now i

. >> with the exception of dick cheney, strong vice president -- >> he was for a brief time.e. >> he was motivated by the theory of the unitary executive. he thought he was restoring powers ha the presidency had lost in the wake of watergate. he and donald rumsfeld were in the white house at that moment when a reassertive congress started putting more shackles on the presidency. he saw this as a great intellectual project. he talked about this, talked about this before 9/11, too. i'm here partly to restore the executive branch. i don't think donald trump was necessarily motivated by that theory of governance before he came into the white house. i think he's, like a lot of his defenses in general, he's grabbing whatever is available and throwing it against the wall. >> just a quick point here about the importance of judges in our process. there's a report on the hill yesterday that the majority of the circuit courts in this country are republican majority courts. so it's incredibly important when democrats go to the polls to be thinking about judges. >> baz ill smikle, matt we

[laughter] >> and i kept looking around, like, please, dick cheney don't come in here in another picture. i will never be able to go back into the hood. [laughter] >> and don't ruin my rap, okay? but, ladies and gentlemen, on the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina barack obama was president. i'm on air force one going home with the president of the united states. what a great honor. this little country girl get to get on air force one. the first thing i did, i took the ashtray and put it in my bag and because i knew that michelle didn't want him to smoke no more. i'm going to turn it back soon. and the president said to me go out with the press secretary and brief the press. the first thing i said was, during george w. bush's presidency, here is what we did on the rebuilding side. i gave george w. bush credit. i talked about his leadership and i talked about what obama inherited and what he has done since this. i gave them both credit. i didn't knock one. i didn't lift up another. i gave them both credit. and when i go home i was born at charity hospital. i tell people i say you see t

kind of the chief of staff for cheney on the campaign. cheney.er to dicka pretty cool customer. phone h w bush is on the and i made the mistake of asking, who was he talking to? said, "i think he was putting $50,000 on gore." this was a another pardon in the elevator moment. that was not funny. that was really unfunny. this is a man seeing his life pass before his eyes. jeb bush had been celebrating a victory and had two or three cocktails. he's very sober at this point. is going to lose the election for his brother. that gives you a tour of history in a still photograph. i know everything i know from ken burns. let's move ahead. that inan't always do one image. here is secretary clinton at the beginning of the journey. what is going on here? clinton, who was a 26-year-old lawyer on the impeachment committee. is nixon impeachment becoming a real thing. i've been there for two, i figure i will be there for number three. i may partial observer. if it was going to happen i will be there. we are going to see the evolution of hillary rodham clinton. this is hil

these were the conventions that take 20 -- dick cheney said were quaint. there were various levels of misconduct. warn -- warren harding's encounter with a chambermaid at the palace hotel in san francisco to other boys areas matters involving public broaden this to have these other issues. to you about talk this were quaint. one of the things i would like to hear you, and then i will turn to eric, think about is are we living in a different paradigm? i know this book lays out presidential misconduct. whether it is about policy or personal life. insays, there is misconduct all of these different administrations. eric will tell us how trump's lying is worse than any other president. before that, i want to ask you, before the war on terror, it changed the presidency and the executive in things we don't understand. that? agree with are we really any different paradigm or are we just going to, in 10 years, issue another book, presidential misconduct, updated once again? or are we living in a different place? because of the national security state? >> i fear tha

host: quite the key player in the war in iraq was then-vice president dick cheney.egular tweeter with this comment, hope dick cheney is watching this morning. reaction? guest: well, i hope he is as well, too. and i hope that his daughter, who's currently the house republican conference chair, is also watching as well, too, because she seems to be continuing his foreign policy legacy in the house republican conference. guest: hope a lot of people are watching. guillermo is watching from texas, a veteran. good morning, thank you for watching. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: we sure can. go ahead, please. caller: i got a couple of questions. first one is to mr. caldwell. i want to know if he's a veteran. my other question is why now? why pull out now? is it because of the elections? and the third is that, you know, if they were going to have us pull out, why go over there in the first place? terrorism, they have no rules of engagement, and that war is not going to end now. it's not going to end. host: thank you, guillermo, and our guest served in iraq. to

the one exception to that was dick cheney. i once asked cheney about this. he always got along well with ronald reagan. i said, i am a little surprised because you started your political life with gerald ford and yet, he and all of his people -- he said, you have to understand that i was more conservative than ford. obviously, i have sympathy for my boss. but it was not a problem for me when reagan became president or became the nominee, to support him. craig: when i interviewed cheney on my book on the 1976 campaign, he said the exact same thing. the reason he said, because i was a westerner like reagan and i understood what he was talking about as far as the populist resentment toward washington. i don't think nelson rockefeller never really got that. reagan loses to ford by the narrowest of margins. this is the last openly contested nomination and it is all being broadcast live. frank: the convention hinged on a rule that required the delegates to vote the way their states had voted. had we won and let the delegates vote their conscience, i think we had a