cheney opposed that.ailed. >> vice president was clear he didn't agree with everything the president decided to do toward the end of the administration. >> bret: while cheney helped vet >> you additional an points president bush did not consult him on his ill-fated choice of harriet miers for the supreme court. >> that was pure george bush. i said, well okay. >> bret: the vice president's biggest disagreement with the president involved cheney's long time friend and chief of staff, scooter libby. libby got into big legal trouble over the leaked identity of cia agent valerie plame. libby was not the leaker, but got 2 1/2 years in prison for lying and obstructing a federal investigation. the president commuted libby's sentence in 2007. after the the 2008 election the vice president pushed his boss to grant libby a full pardon. in one of their last meetings before president obama took office, president bush told cheney, he was letting the conviction stand. >> no question about it. it upset dick. and i was co

it's cheney. i said, well, that's going to be a surprise to everybody. >> i picked him because he is without a doubt fully capable of becoming the president of the united states. >> the man is a congressman, chief of staff to a president, secretary of defense. >> i am proud to announce that dick cheney, a maven great integrity, sound judgment and experience is my choice to be the next vice-president of the united states. >> dick cheney served under president george w. bush and his father. in congress, in the reagan and carter years and before that, under presidents ford and nixon. but to really understand him, you have to go back much further. richard bruce cheney was born in linkon, nebraska, on january 30, 1941. though he was to become one of america's best-known conservatives, it was hardly destiny. >> i grew up in a -- in a democratic family. my grandfather was ecstatic when i was born on fdr's birthday. my dad was a career civil servant, worked for the u.s. department of agriculture. >> in 19

. >>> dick cheney's memoirs go on sale tomorrow. tonight, joe wilson and valerie plaim join me to respond. >> it's going to take time to recover from a storm of this magnitude. >> the president gets a new crisis on top of the old crisis. >> that job's plan will probably include some tax cuts. >> i want people to you said this is not over. >> allen kruger who will be replacing goolsbee. >> the good news is the worst is over. >> of course, republican presidential candidates want you to believe they will do a better job. >> we have a category five economic disaster. >> i'm here to talk to you tonight about our lord and savior jesus christ. >> is that a sign from the lord? >> we've had an earthquake, we had a hurricane. >> we've been comparing this president for the almighty for long enough. >> politico headline is is rick perry dumb? >> he's not the brightest bulb in the box. >> you can call a napkin a car and it's not a car. >> house of representatives and intelligence in the same sentence. >> hurricane irene ends on the anniversary o

cheney is putting forth a preposterous position with regard to iraq. >> let's listen to what cheney had to say when matt lauer asked whether the iraq war was worth billions of dollars in tax money and the lives of 4,477 american soldiers. >> given the fact it severely damaged our reputation around the world and there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, you still think it's worth it? >> oh, sure. i don't think that it damaged our reputation around the world. i just don't believe that. i think critics here at home would argue that, but, in fact, i think it was sound policy that dealt with a very serious problem and that eliminated saddam hussein from the kind of problem he presented. what would have happened this week if moammar gadhafi had still been in power with a nuclear weapon in libya? would he have fled? i doubt it. >> what did i just hear there, how did he just slide from saddam hussein to gadhafi without anything in between there, suggesting what, saddam hussein, if he stayed in power was going to have a nuclear weapon and hand it to gadhafi and gadhafi could use i

go ahid. >> why is it not a surprise to learn that dick cheney's ancestor samuel fletcher cheney wasr marcher. having lost the power to heedlessly bomb the world, cheney turned his attention to heedlessly bombing old colleagues. he takes himself so seriously, flogging his self-image of the rugged outdoorsman even though he shot his hunting partner in the face. he acts like he is america but america didn't like dick cheney. >> okay. i don't think maureen dowd is the person, as much as i like a lot of her columns to talk about people making cheap shots. >> i could move on to another topic. >> let's go to frank. >> this is interesting. it touches on something you said during the break. this summer crystallized a growing sense our countries can do spirit was replaced by a resignation and our best days might be well behind us. i kept finding myself in the same conversation over and over and occasionally was i the one to initiate it. children in america were likely to enjoy lives as privileged as their parents. unsettling erosion of confidence and a pivot in the nation's psyche from optimi

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 retired texas teachers would live. author of the report zach carter and our rick perr

>> well, he felt like he needed dick cheney.ike without dick cheney, he wouldn't be able -- he wouldn't have cover for a lot of the decisions that george bush was making. understand, george bush comes out of there -- out of this with dick cheney really taking most of the heat for a lot of decisions that george bush made. it was comfortable to have dick cheney around and it make good sense to keep him there because he was kind of the lightning rod for all of the bad decisions that all of the republican administration made during those years. so i guess in a sense it was pretty clever. -- excuse me, lizz, go aed. >> no, go ahead, mike. >> well, what i wanted to say, i think what the truth here is the legacy that dick cheney's family has to live with. can you imagine being the children, the grandchildren, the family of dick cheney, and you have to live with that legacy. you have to live with the legacy of lies that actually ended up in the death of thousands of human beings for no good reason. you have to end up with lies that will

president dick cheney and former president george w. bush should be right now on trial that they should be prosecuted for your. crimes seriously let's look at sort of the fact that he isn't being asked about many of those crimes or that somebody asked him he says i fully defended and there's not a whole lot of kickback not a whole lot of pushback there i don't think that you think difficult you describe our culture you described our political culture in particular we do not whole elitists and anyone who treats the oval office or thereabouts is an elitist by definition responsible we say something like this at least since world war two we've said something like this they help our they do the best they could they raped pillaged and plundered everything else but they do the best they could. also go there because if we go there in the future people. i want to serve or my counter to that is my students at william and mary george washington and everywhere else i go good students say do that and we might serve we see the impunity of these peop

powell versus cheney. the vice president warned his book would have heads exploding all over washington. well, president bush's inner circle speaking out about cheney's new memoir. former vice president's exclusive interview with nbc news is next. >>> and still to come, touching base. is president obama losing support among african-american voters? what the white house is trying to do to get back in touch with this key constituency. but first, a look ahead at the president's schedule. he's added an event this morning because he's naming a new head to the council of economic advisers. we'll tell you about that person after the break. you're watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. uh... um... [ bling! ] four score... [ bling! ] ...and seven years ago... [ bling! ] ...i kissed emily costa. ew! [ male announcer ] unlimited talk and text, only $45 a month, add more lines only $25 each. low prices every day on everything for back to school. save money. live better. walmart. but sometimes i wonder... what's left b

>> dick cheney's book. >> oh, my lord. he's been a dick cheney fan if years. >> yes.oud sound. >> so your husband who was covering these hurricanes suffering new the weekend covering these hurricanes. he's an investigative reporter. and you reward him with -- >> dick cheney's book. >> and you can get it signed for him. >> and stevie nicks tickets. >> you need to get it signed for him. i will get it, i will hug it, and i may even kiss the page where he signs it for my followers on twitter who call me awful names for saying nice things about dick cheney. >> i'm going to be here. >> no, because you're disrespectful. if he brings you cupcakes, you can ask him a question. >> okay. anyhow -- >> so the book got released, right? jamie had an amazing interview. >> she's so good. seriously. we've got a little bit of it here. after weeks of speculation, former vice president dick cheney's memoir hits booksters today. the book "in my time" has several jabs at members of bush white house members before cheney discussed his controversial remarks in a date line interview that aired

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

is this sort of vintage dick cheney? the dick cheney we know and love, do you suppose? >> so familiar. wasn't it? keeping track of what the highly placed leakers were saying all along in the bush administration. this will not strike anybody as blockbuster news. it tends to be confirmation on dick cheney's own mouth or a keyboard or whatever of what had been reported in various ways. there are familiar foes, rivals here. george tenet, colin powell, condoleezza rice. we knew he'd gotten into disputes with them in the past and kind of gives his side of it here. and democrats i think, are going to be somewhat delighted that he's bringing up these old issues like waterboarding and standing by them. his own admission, he feels, polish his image and avoid indictment, i guess, but being firm, he's been firm all along on this, and i think going into the presidential campaign, the obama administration can help him. >> happy that he's reviving the aspects of the bush years most folks would like to put behind them. >> speaking of that, nbc news jamie gangel had an exclusive intervi

dick cheney's book is about to hit book shelves. next. >>> "new york times" got an advance copy of former vice president dick cheney's memoir, an assignment which i hope included a hardship pay bonus. according to the writup on the book, cheney gives reader a vision of the world in which he was a lone courageous visionary, surrounded by cowards and imbeciles. he said george tenet's decision to resign when, quote, the going got tough, was unfair to the president. he takes credit for helping to push out secretary of state colin powell after the 2004 election. and he throws secretary of state condoleezza rice under the bus for trying to get a nuclear weapons agreement with north korea. even throws in a condescending line about how she, quote, came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted i had been right. he also defends torture, or what he calls tough interrogations. >> if you're view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be water

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 to be his vice president. you brought up the issues of your he

looks good if he's attacking dick cheney and there's nothing dick cheney can say now that will redeem representation and george bush with the american public. >> you mentioned the nbc news interview with jamie gangel, and the decision to go into iraq is sharply different from the one offered by his boss, president bush. let me play this for you. >> 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. >> lynn sweet, reacted to what you just heard? >> gets the story straight pup don't know. we weren't there. you have two of the principals in the room. i wish we had the video or audiotapes to straighten this out. something about the bad old days. we don't know. i think until one really goes through all the books and does more interviews as time goes on to see if there's any way of being more conclusive about this fact, it's what it -- you know, somebody telling history. what the former vi

cheney praises the bush administration's role during katrina.out selling books, or is this about a legacy? what do you make of it? >> it's about a lot more than selling books, ed. remember, dick cheney left haliburton with a huge number of stock options. back in 2001, haliburton stock was worth around $10 million a share at one point. in 2009, after eight years of favoring the military industrial complex and big oil, haliburton stock was up as high as $30 a share. when he got rid of his stock options, he made a lot of money. he doesn't need to sell books to become a rich man. what he's out doing right now is selling a story line that he thinks will keep him as an elder statesman of the republican party. >> you think it's about future political moves? >> absolutely. if you know anything about dick cheney's life story, it is that he never sees himself as being finished politically. that doesn't mean he's running for president or vice president, but there is simply no question if you watched him at sea cpac, the conservative political action confer

dick cheney has written a memoir. e.j.nne joins us for that next. >>> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> should we still be waterboarding terror suspects? >> i would strongly support using it again if we had a high-valued detainee and that was the only way to get him to talk. >> people call it torture, you think it should still be a tool? >> yes. >> rendition? >> yes. >> secret presence? >> yes. >> wiretapping? >> with the right approval. >> you say it is one of the things you are proudest of and you'd do it again in a heart beat. >> it was controversial at the time, it was the right thing to do. >> no apologies? >> no apologies. >> ladies and gentlemen, the unapologetic 46th vice president of the united states, richard bruce cheney, who's currently promoting his memoir and promising there will be "heads ek exploding all over washington." why? because his memoir throws a bunch of his fellow bush veterans under the bus. one who promised the intelligence of wmds in iraq was a slam dunk,

and with cheney, rumsfeld and cheney were linked together for some many years. rumsfeld had behind-the-scenes stuff and i am sure cheney's will, too. host: comments about what they have heard so far -- indiana, gail, independent. what do you have to say? caller: in reference to dick cheney, i had the real problems with them all during iraq and afghanistan and even before, because this is somebody with five draft deferments. the other caller who said that cheney and rumsfeld were tied together, he is exactly right. you go back to the mid-1970s when in the massacre that happened in 1968 and was covered up and all that, you go back and look up history, and just put in chaney and rumsfeld -- cheney and rumsfeld of the cover up from the 1970's and forward and you look at the two of them and what they have done. i think it would give a pretty good representation of what kind of people most of them are. like rumsfeld, they called the guys who tried to stop -- milai unpatriotic, the same thing they did to the guy who blew the whistle on torture and the pictures and all

let's just be clear about what it is that dick cheney did.rectly participated by his own boastful account in the implementation of a domestic spying program that subjected thousands of americans on u.s. soil to have their emails read and telephone calls listened to by government agents, without the warrants required by the criminal law. the institution of the worldwide torture is he went way beyond waterboarding and included a whole variety of techniques that the u.s. has constantly prosecuted other people and other nations for using. and according to general barry mccaffrey, it was one whereby we, quote, murdered dozens of people in our custody. and then he was the driving force behind a war of aggression, an attack on iraq, that ended the lives of at least 100,000 innocent human beings, and far more. and what is so troublesome is exactly what you just said, which is we decided now to treat those like simple policy disputes, like mistakes that he made, rather than what they are, which is among the most serious and egregious crimes committed

and with cheney, rumsfeld and cheney were linked together for some many years.umsfeld had behind-the-scenes stuff and i am sure cheney's will, too. host: comments about what they have heard so far -- indiana, gail, independent. what do you have to say? caller: in reference to dick cheney, i had the real problems with them all during iraq and afghanistan and even before, because this is somebody with five draft deferments. the other caller who said that cheney and rumsfeld were tied together, he is exactly right. you go back to the mid-1970s when in the massacre that happened in 1968 and was covered up and all that, you go back and look up history, and just put in chaney and rumsfeld -- cheney and rumsfeld of the cover up from the 1970's and forward and you look at the two of them and what they have done. i think it would give a pretty good representation of what kind of people most of them are. like rumsfeld, they called the guys who tried to stop -- milai unpatriotic, the same thing they did to the guy who blew the whistle on torture and the pictures and all of

since dick cheney is on book tour, what will dick cheney's legacy be? must preface this, are not fans of dick cheney. cheney's legacy will be one of cover up, chicanery and torture. he is the poster boy for the failed bush administration. he needs to take the advice he once gave a group he was addressing. just shut up and sit down. from tim, cheney was one of the most influential and powerful vice presidents in the history of the office. as secretary of defense he oversaw the success of desert storm and panama. in my opinion, like him or not, he is a vice president and that has has had more impact on america and american policy than any other vice president in recent history. and this from mike, cheney will be remembered as a man obsessed with power. no lie was too big. no nastiness too petty, no means too cruel if it served his ends. whatever he says in his book must be viewed with deep suspicion and nothing can rehabilitate his reputation. whew! keep the comments coming. facebook.com/"american morning." >> what did he say the book will do? >> make peo

obviously man who chose him after dick cheney led the search for the vice president, he chose dick cheney in this book about george w. bush? >> well, he does say throughout the book that the president was bold and courageous and decisive. but i think what will surprise a lot of people is dick cheney is known as a man of few words. the one guy in washington who would never write a book. >> right. >> but he does reveal private conversations. he does reveal times he thought the president made a mistake. and he does dispute key accounts about the shoot-down order on 9/11 and what happened on the eve of the iraq war. so, that's going to reignite more questions about who was in charge, who was running things -- >> who was the boss. >> -- you know, if george bush was the decider in chief, you certainly feel in this book that dick cheney was the adviser in chief. >> i wonder if he would embrace that role. now, we've talked a lot, some heavy stuff, criticism, condoleezza rice, his thoughts about george w. bush. this book is not totally without some humor and some lighter moments, fair? >> there ar

>>> the exclusive nbc news interview with dick cheney. when it came time to go to war, who was really the decider? >>> and a stunning moment from a stunning woman last night that got the country talking. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. irene hasn't been a hurricane since yesterday. and it's long gone by now. way up and over canada. but you would not believe the damage it's still unleashing over new england. this comes after it already chewed up the shoreline along the eastern seaboard. tonight, in the wake of irene, at least 37 people are dead. five million americans at least are without power from north carolina on up to maine. the estimates at damage begin at $2 billion and go up from there. with so many americans already in the dark from this, the danger tonight is rising floodwaters from upstate new york into new england. we begin tonight with jim cantore of the weather channel in lower bartonsville, vermont. and jim, not only did you grow up around there, last night you predi

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

cheney also takes aim at condoleezza rice. after one heated disagreement on iraq, cheney says rice came into his office and, quote, tearfully admitted i had been right. powell accuses cheney of trying to pump book sales. but there's something else going on here. evidence that president bush's foreign policy team was at war with itself. >> the team was not functioning as a team. and we had different views and not just views -- not views that could be reconciled. >> reporter: we reached out to condoleezza rice for a response. there is none yet. but, diane, rice will have her say soon enough -- she has her own book in the works due out in november. >> all right. john karl with the blow by blow tonight. >>> and we move overseas to libya and moammar gadhafi. increasingly abandoned. his wife, three of his children, and several grandchildren have escaped across the border, seeking refuge in algeria. there is also new evidence of his atrocities against his own people. and we want to warn you some of these images are difficult to watch

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

one who promised the intelligence of wmds in iraq was a slam dunk, cheney criticized him. condoleezza rice's apology after president bush wrongly stated iraq tried to buy uranium. rice learned she had made a mistake and came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk and tearfully admitted i had been right. then colin powell, cheney says he pushed for his resignation in 2004 and it was as though he thought the proper way to express his views was by criticizing administration policy to people outside the government. secretary powell's response to his former colleague. >> 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, 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 administ

and he -- cheney isn't capable of diplomacy.uldn't lisa rice like that, only serves to make him look the better. look, this is man who has never found the war that he didn't like. as lawrence wilkerson said, colonel wilkerson who worked for powell, believes cheney is incapable of diplomacy. he meets with soviet defense tom downy. opening up reduction talks, he is a member of congress at the time, he says that he has none of it, he says capitulation or nothing. downy excess about where are they on red square, and it is an icbn target. there is a draft dodger who ever held elected office in the history of this country. >> let me ask you, as we get ready to go, water boarding, this of course will come up because of his defense and certainly many of us will then raise it to especially the republican candidates, is there any justification, you're the expert here, is there any justification at all can you think of, for water boarding? >> if we look at long-term negative consequences of using water boarding or any types of torture, the

thank you, dick cheney.l up and article 8 of all possible from may 7, 2004? it is from the new york times. >> tell us more about the peace. >> it connection dick cheney to this day and down that was made. for some strange reason, i think another reason, he placed a standout order on any form of those aircraft. those involved on the morning were destroyed about four or five months later. this was a heinous crime committed against the united states. they want to question why the videotapes are destroyed. the connection is, prior to them coming to the vice presidency, he had been under investigation for accounting fraud. what was revealed is that halliburton was in the red and the stock shares, that was the accounting fraud. it seems to me to be a major conflict of interest to have a man that does business. they have a vested interest in the of asian because of the profiteering that has gone on. he needed an event, he needed something to occur that would allow the expansion of the business activity with the gov

cheney was in central command.ically, would be the one to answer the red phone and press the button and do whatever else. it's surprising news. there was a lot of questioning to his immediate reaction. he kept reading. apparently kept on listening to the lesson. to muddy the waters as far as the leadership. >> reverend sharpton, he says he didn't want to create panic. you watch that video and it brings it back, doesn't it? ten years later, it gives you chills. >> it does. to think that he would think, as the commander in chief of the armed services and president he's been told america is under attack and his reaction is to keep going through this intense reading. it's something that is absolutely spectacular, even in his recall it doesn't get better. i remember when michael moore did the movie and he was condemned by conservatives. now you have bush not saying much different in his own recall that we are seeing. cheney's book said i was in charge. it's not comforting to me. we approach the anniversary and the polit

i think cheney felt that in the second term the policy was getting away from him.president bush's foreign policy from something like the cheney policy to something like condoleeza rice's policy. and that's why there's certain continuities between the second half of bush and president obama. there were some interesting revelations in the book. i thought even if colin powell is right in saying that heads are exploding in washington. i thought that was the toughest shot. because the way you sell a book is to get people to believe that heads are exploding. the account of the last meeting before iraq is striking. president bush in his account of the meeting said it ended with his deciding and he said let's go. cheney says that bush threw everybody out of the room and said, dick, what do 0 you think we ought to do? i always thought there was something odd about these heroic accounts of president bush's decision making. this is one of the toughest critiques ever, even though he said he didn't mean it that way. >> look, i do think there is -- clearly vice president cheney

cheney thinks it's fine. let me say this, dick cheney i'm ambivalent about them him.did get one thing right it's that 9/11 was serious and there was not another attack during the bush administration. that was a huge accomplishment. that alone is a great legacy. >> i would just add that, you know, dick cheney is totally unapologetic. it's not whether or not torture is popular it's whether it's legal. it is illegal against american law and international law and dick cheney is its chief champion. >> all right. gentlemen, we appreciate both of your thoughts today. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> we'll be right back now with the youngest member of the white house press corp. you don't want to miss it. robot 1:good morning... robot 1:...female child. sfx: modem dial-up noise woman: are there flaws? yeah, um, maybe. anncr: there's an easier way to save. anncr: get online. go to geico.com. get a quote. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >>> president obama sat down with an exclusive interview with two kid reporters. the sixth graders talk

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so dick cheney doesn't believe that this impacted our reputation i was however one of the statements like this but in pakistan i could have well to the degree they're not contradictory to our i don't know what he said after that but you know when he was interviewing interviewing cheney's boss bush and he said do you still think torture is right and bush said well my lawyer said it was all right and i left it at that you know so you have to chop and change people when i challenged him i'm still in public in atlanta i was i was called immediately very high person and c.n.n. saying she was free and i said. if you're asking me if i. actually was a real hard you know you might want to do your homework good questions a real question as some sort of real question you'll find it's a real high try something. interesting i want to talk now about another book that's getting ready to come out this one written by a former f.b.i. agent ali soufan who's having a different sort of problem his now war it's called the leak they are the inside story of nine eleven and the war against al qaeda he lays o

vice president cheney says he spent the night of september 11 at camp david. that exciting. that's where all the other undisclosed locations where he stayed various times throughout his vice presidency, he showed nbc's jamie gengle around one of them, one of the ranches in washington, d.c.

dick cheney's new memoir is out this week.t reminds us of the old politic he is served up with the bitter charge that democrats were willing to ignore the threats out there. he's trying to keep that alive. >> if you try to walk away from pakistan or after dwan stan or that part of the world generally i'm fearful that we're headed for trouble down the road. i don't think we need to run for the exit. chris: but chaney's -- but cheney's party isn't there anymore. listen to the reception that ron paul got a few years ago. here he is in 2007. >> if we understand that 70% or so of the people in america want the war over with and want our troops to come home. third, senator clinton -- [audience booing." >> i say stay out of their internal business, don't get involved in the wars, bring our troops home. [cheering]. >> you don't hear that in these speeches this month from michele bachmann and mitt romney. >> we can never commit our troops to harm's way without a clear and vital american interest. we use overwhelming force and then we g