but cheney went out and made the case. was not telling the truthful he had reason to believe that was not good intelligence. he said mohammed aat a had that. even though they said that was not true. >> here's more of this. >> about what the leaders do. klann and bush believe. let's hear more about what cheney said he believed. in march right before he said that saddam hussein had reconstitution its nuclear weapons. >> we know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons and we believe he has reconstituted nuclear weapons. >> so this claim doesn't show up in the intelligence whempl did you find it? >> i didn't find it. i'm a domestic adviser. they are trying to do the best they can to protect america. i believe that. i don't think they lied. >> why did they say things that were false again and again and again? wasn't that they are reading bad intelligence given to them they were ignoring bad intelligence given to them. >> that's your belief. >> that's not my belief. that is a fact. >> let's take a look

donald rumsfeld, vice president dick cheney,chene cheney's chief of staff, elliott abrams among others. the members had a reputation around washington and explained by a retired cia analyst as was talked about earlier the presidential daily brief. mcgovern did it for vice president george h w bush, but he observed when we saw these people -- he is talking about the members -- coming back in town saying all of a sudden, the crazies are back, mcgovern said their wild-i geopolitical schemes would to the go right into the circular file. in september 2000, they called on the united states to dominate global forces, for some catalyzing event like pearl harbor. and so you have the allegation of weapons of mass distraction and iraq itself, the pretext for a larger scheme. while the unresolved conflict with iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial american force presence in the gulf transcends the issue of the regime of saddam hussein. and so on the morning of september 12, 2001, donald rumsfeld reacted to the world trade center and pentagon attacks by declaring to

cheney himself. saddam hussein possessed nuclear weapons.eptics that we had no choice but to invade concur and occupy a country that had no nuclear weapons or a role in 9/11. how do we know this? the deputy director of the cia never once said that it possessed nuclear weapons. never once. he made that clear here last night. the next time someone says that we made a mistake going into iraq. please correct that person, say yes, yes, some of us made a mistake believing dick cheney, and the rest, and some of us believed him when the president said saddam hussein had nuclear weapons. i guess we weren't smart enough to believe he would make something up like that to go into a war. the next time he says going into a war was based on bad intelligence. i don't believe a word you say. you took us into a war that never existed. go away and stop doing damage to a country i love. that's hardball for now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> that's what the president did when he left iraq, i think it was wrong. >> jeb bush attempts a pivot on iraq, a day after the

here's what we said. >> cheney said nuclear weapon. >> chris, here's what we said. we said he has chemical weapons. we said he has a biological weapon production capability and we said he's reconstituting his nuclear weapons. >> that's not what dick cheney said. >> i'm telling you -- >> you're briefing these guys to no effect then. you're telling them one thing and they tell the country to sell their war. >> i'm telling you what we told the american people. >> was cheney telling the truth? >> you've got to tell me exactly what they said and i can tell you -- >> just before the invasion in march of 2003, former vice president dick cheney said that saddam hussein had reconstituted nuclear weapons. here he is. >> we know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons and we believe he has in fact reconstituted nuclear weapons. >> he has in fact reconstituted nuclear weapons. is that true or not? >> so we were saying -- >> was that true? >> we were saying -- >> can you answer that question? >> that's not true. >> why did you let him get away with it?

but i recall you saying earlier that you don't want to do bush and cheney haliburton but you said it is all about chasing the money. if you go back too far you are dealing with cheney bush and iraq and all of the weapons of mass destruction and trying to find them but they were not there. no more fox news and you guys like you, all you do is create hate and discontent in the country like ambulance chaser lawyers and hustlers making money off hate and discontent. >> peter schweizer? >> guest: well i am not sure the caller heard the part of the conversation. we are doing an investigation of jeb bush and unlike dick cheney he is thinking about running for president and we think this is relevant. i would encourage him in september to see what our reporting and what information comes out. on this larger point, i mean i would encourage him he probably obviously doesn't want to buy the book go to the library and read it. there is not a hateful word in the book. there is a column today talking about it recounting the facts and laying out the narrative. you have guys like professor jeffrey sa

but vice president cheney said it anyway. said it was pretty well confirmed.who are we to question him. the bush administration made a decision that they wanted to go to war in iraq they built a public case that they thought would provide a good pretext for going to war in iraq. it was not the cia that cooked up, right? it was the political folks. i mean they told us the smoking gun was going to be a mushroom cloud, if we didn't invade iraq, there was the possibility of an atomic blast in the west. saddam had nuclear capability. when they wanted to sell that story about saddam buying aluminum tubes that he was supposedly using for his nuclear program, that lie was leaked from vice president cheney's office. to a reporter at "the new york times" named judith miller. she wrote the article based on what his office told her. after his own office had given her that information, dick cheney went on "meet the press" and went it's been reported in the "new york times" saddam has these aluminum tubes in his nuclear program. but all of that history is known now. it's do

dick cheney suggested -- mike: he did.the things i don't do in the book is i say what people did and what they said and i don't try to analyze their motivation. that is very dangerous doing that. i don't know what he was thinking, but i'm speculating out -- i think dick cheney feared there was a connection. there's this idea of the 1% -- if there's a 1% chance, we have to act. charlie: did you think there was a connection? mike: as i talk about in the book, there was this time when we thought mohammed atta might have met with an intelligence officer -- -- an iraqi intelligence officer in prague. charlie: he was the leader that went in to the world trade center. mike: the lead hijacker. he organized the whole thing. we thought we found a connection and we had to run that down. at that moment, we thought there might be a connection, but by the time we worked through all of that, we didn't. charlie: did dick cheney ever say -- mike: i don't think he's ever stood up and said there's no connection. what of the things i want to

dick cheney said.u know it's reported in "the new york times" that saddam has these aluminum tubes in his nuclear program. all of that history is known now. it's documented. it's well-understood history that the bush administration got us to go to war in iraq. it t wasn't the cia, it was the bush administration. the bush administration was not passively lied to. they were not duped by the cia. they made the case they thought would be most persuasive even though it wasn't true. they made that decision to go that way. at a political level. and in many cases, the case that they made was a made-up case. they picked little true things and cast them in a way that made the case because they wanted that war. the people that did it did not want to admit it because it would be a terrible thing to admit.u2ñ people like judith miller got fired and the country turned on bush and cheney with a vengeance. the country realized that the iraq war was a mistake but we went there for reasons that were not what we were tol

. >> it was misrepresented by the bush/cheney administration. >> elizabeth warren. >> she is the [ bleep ] champion of the american people. >> this country isn't working for working people. it's working only for those at the top. >> there's a passion and a centment that she represents. >> we can whine about it. we can whimper about it, or we can fight back. me, i'm fighting back. i'm fighting back. are you ready? >>> richard clark, the former senior white house adviser is help to help us analyze the presidential candidates answers to the first big question of the campaign. know whag you what you know now, would you as president have gone to war in iraq. the city of ramadi has been taken over by the islamic state after iraqi troops gave up fighting and fled. >> the retreat from ramadi was fast and humiliating. iraqi troops in a race for their lives. forcing them out, isis fighters who shot this propaganda video showing a city abandoned by the army. isis gunmen controlling the hospital in the city center. iraqi troops fought for just two days leaving behind american supplied weapons and ta

vice president cheney said, we are going to liberate the people of iraq.e bush administration exploited 9/11. the blueprint for what happened, and i think it is important to go back, even not so far in history, was drawn up years earlier by the project for the new american century. i am reading from my first book "the exception to the rulers" -- a think tank was formed in 1997 to promote american global leadership. its founders are a who's who of the neoconservative movement which seamlessly morphed into the top officialdom of the bush 2 administration. donald rumsfeld, vice president cheney's chief of staff, elliott abrams, among others. the members had a reputation around washington and explained by a retired cia analyst as was talked about earlier the presidential daily brief. mcgovern did it for vice -- president george h w bush but he observed when we saw these people -- he is talking about the members -- coming back in town, saying all of a sudden, the crazies are back, mcgovern said that while died

do you think it is a joke that cheney said that? michael: that is not my job.hris: they are using your stuff saying you made the case when you did not, using your credibility. mike -- michael: i am just telling you -- chris: they gave a false representation of what you said to them. amy: that was mike morel being questioned by chris matthews. on tuesday, democratic hopeful hillary clinton was asked about her senate vote to support the iraq invasion. mrs. clinton: there have been a lot of questions posed to candidates. i made it clear i made a mistake plain and simple. i wrote about it in my book talked about it in the past. what we see is a very different in danger situation. the united states is doing what it can, but ultimately this has to be a struggle that the iraqi government and the iraqi people are determined to win for themselves. amy: four u.s. cancer charities are being accused of massive fraud. the federal trade commission says the groups funneled some $187 million dollars into top officials' pockets. the charities are the cancer fund of america, can

very few people this side of the dick cheney want a reprieve.ark: it is easy within a campaign to react to the events of the day or the week. in the long arc of the quest to be president, what is the significance of what happened this week? >> i think he has the same foreign-policy views as his brother and cannot differentiate. i think that is a far greater problem than whether he fumbled on monday or tuesday. mark: was it a problem getting the nomination or just in general? it is a problem for both. republicans jumped on him for this. democrats were salivating. it was not just a donor class, but the other candidates. they said this is an opportunity to go after him. who among us other than dick cheney says we do it again? and to say this justified? it is hard to make that case when you see what a debacle iraq has become. mark: one of the things that hurt him this week is every other republican feels like their nomination is stronger if they can get jeb out of the race. there is very little sniping among anybody else. everybody wants jeb out. jo

bush and cheney? i actually called for prosecution in the book those involved under the surveillance programs a you make my case. i do not restricted to barack obama but the fact is they did dramatically upscale the amount which is fascinating in light they declare the up more on terror is supposed to be ending a set of ratcheting up the information. it is contradictory. bush and cheney ellis' try to give us an excuse to get those that were dangerous but the obama administration refuses to read knowledge people are dangerous we will sign the nuclear deal with iran even though the revolutionary guards said they will not allow concessions selfie says no threat and it doesn't exist but yet they have to check emails i start to get suspicious. >> host: editor-at-large for bright burt and co-host in the los angeles morning cancer best selling author of several books including his most recent police and "the people vs. barack obama" we have about 58 minutes left with our guest and washington and. good aftern

at least bush and cheney are trying to give us an excuse. we were trying to see folks are dangerous. they refuse to acknowledge folks are dangerous. we're in the middle of signing the nuclear deal even today they will not allow inspection of nuclear facilities. many say there is no threat i get little bit suspicious. >> host: cohost k. rla 870 los angeles, the warning answer. sln author of several books including his two most recent, always and "the people vs. barack obama." at 15 minutes left with ben shapiro. kerry coming back,, washington. good afternoon. >> caller: hi, how are you. i wanted to talk to mr. shapiro about the drought in california. i wanted to give him my suggestion that we at washington state that transferred after he graduated from college in california and my fellow mother was snow skiing. they have lots of water appeared. with thousands following on people. i am also a child -- i'm an army corps of engineers family kid. i grew up in australia all over the world for the army corps of engineers. they are third world count

ever call you saying earlier that bush-cheney halliburton it's all about chasing the money. you want to chase the money but you don't want to go back to farc it if you go back to far you will get only cheney and bush and halliburton in iraq and all that and weapons of mass destruction trying to find weapons in the first place but you guys, guys like you all the while to is -- like ambulance chaser lawyers and hustlers making money over hate and discontent. >> host: peter schweizer. >> guest: i'm not sure the caller heard the investigation about jeb bush. he is actually contemplating running for president we think it's relevant in people ought to see what information is there so i would encourage him in september if he is so inclined to see what our reporting and what information comes out. on this larger point i would encourage him he obviously doesn't want to buy the book, it go to the library and read it. there is not a hateful word in the book. the book is very dispassionate. there's a column in "the wall street journal" today from peggy noonan talking about the fact that

dick cheney said they did. thank god for videotape.dn't say maybe. >> so go after dick cheney on it. >> who was president? >> president bush. let me tell you -- >> on this -- >> we can go back and talk about the iraq war. in the case we're talking about is jeb bush. >> jeb bush is talking about it. >> when he was talking about it was specifically that it was faulty information that they received. the fact that they needed to create, to have security there for iraq going in there. i think for president bush who said it clearly in the book was an opportunity to have democracy in iraq and get rid of a dictator as well. >> oh, that was the goal. >> was it effective? no. now we have a vacuum. >> did he tell the american people we were going in to get rid of a dictator? >> he said it was to get rid of nuclear women's. >> we can talk about nuclear weapons. we were never going to the middle east to change over a dictator. here's my concern. jeb bush says knowing what we know now. >> he did not process that question correctly. i think you're go

environmental protections agency in 2001 through 2003, and was part of the bush-cheney campaign. he is a hofstra alum as well graduating with a degree in political science and he was named the 2007 hofstra young alumnus. ambassador james nicholson is currently senior counsel at brownstein hyatt farber schreck counseling clients in health care, regulatory law international relations, oil and gas, and alternative energy. from 2005 before this appointment he was u.s. ambassador to the holy seat during which he was knighted by john paul ii for his human rights. ambassador nichols has been the director of the new community development corporation commissioner and the commissioner on the defense advisory on women services. he was the chairman of the national committee from 2007 to 2001. lawrence wilkerson is distinguished adju

one of the things that made the post 9/11 theories of dick cheney and george bush so extremist is there is no more limitless power that a president han the power he can exercise during a theater of war. on a battlefield, there really is no law. everybody acknowledges that. terrorist say when men take up arms, law false. more is the ultimate expression of lawlessness in limitless powerful stuff on the battlefield, people shoot each other without having trials or due process. everyone agrees that is war to nobody thinks soldiers have to give opposing soldiers a trial before shooting them. that is what war is. what made these post-9/11 theories so radical is the assertion was made for the first time theaters of war were no longer confined to find a physical faces, the battlefield. it was now the case the entire planet was the battlefield. including u.s. soil. therefore, the limitless power that the president can exercise on a battlefield are now no longer confined to physical spaces. essentially the president is omnipotent everywhere because that is where the battlefield is found. what you

a few weeks ago, dick cheney says, he thinks i'm the worst president of his lifetime. interesting, because i think dick cheney is the worst president of my lifetime. quite a coincidence. i mean, everybody has something to say these days. mike huckabee recently said, people shouldn't join our military until a true conservative is elected president. think about that. it was so outrageous, 47 ayatollahs wrote us a letter trying to explain to huckabee how our system works. >> president obama at the white house correspondents' dinner last week making a pretty good joke about dick cheney and a less funny but more specific joke about mike huckabee. specifically about mike huckabee saying this. >> there is no greater heroes to our country than our military but i might suggest to parents, i'd wait a couple of years until we get a new commander-in-chief. >> parents, don't let your kids enlift in the military while president obama is in office. never mind the myriad of wars around the world. just wait until it is president huckabee in a couple of years. former arkansas governor,

but marco rubio, you have nothing to lose -- unless it's cheney. oh, are you afraid of cheney?ticizing iraq because you're afraid of dick cheney, give me a signal. i don't know, just take a drink of water. but be subtle about it. >> nothing has frustrated me more than false choices like the one the president laid out tonight. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: oh, no! oh, no! just as telling as what rubio said on sunday were his comments at the south carolina freedom summit last week, where he summarized his foreign policy with the reference to the film "taken." >> what should our strategy be on global jihadists and terrorists? i refer to the movie "taken." have you seen the movie "taken?" liam neeson? >> seth: yes? [ laughter ] what, pray tell, does that have to do with politics? [ laughter ] >> he has a line, and this is what our strategy should be. we will look for you. we will find you. and we will kill you. [ applause ] [ audience ohs ] >> seth: that's what you call a crowd pleaser! [ laughter ] at least it was a crowd pleaser for two out of three rows. the front row does

is isis the result of bush and cheney's misguided invasion of iraq in the first place? we'll get to that with former cia director, james woolsey. and we saw a different side of hillary clinton yesterday. >> i may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but i have one big advantage. i've been coloring my hair for years. they're not going to see me turn white in the white house. >> that's authentic. it's relatable, and we'll get to it with the roundtable tonight. finally, let me finish with hlry's bright new political appeal. this is "hardball," the place for politics. you know i tried one of those bargain paper towels. but the roll just disappeared. bounty is 2x more absorbent so one roll lasts longer. bounty. the long lasting quicker picker upper. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're doing to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. plus cialis treats the frustrating urinary symptoms of bph, like need

self-defense has now gotten to the point where that great international lawyer dick cheney said 2% of the possibility of a country harming us would be enough for us to attack that country. that is what self-defense means these days. it's the same thing with ferguson and baltimore and staten island. "i saw the guy reaching for something in his pocket, and i thought it was a gun, so i killed him." it's the same thing at the world stage. i want to take a minute to tell you about the caroline affair. you may think that that was a sex scandal, but it wasn't. it was a very important incident in american history. in 1840, when the british troops in canada where there was a rebellion going on, and the britts suspected the united states was backing the rebellion, they attacked under the cover of night. they said it on fire and let it flow down over niagara walls. daniel webster negotiated a treat her with -- treaty with his counterpart in the u.k. which established the only legitimate defense -- i'm sorry, the only legitimate definition of self-defense which has been part of international law

what they said, and i can tell you whether -- >> just before the invasion of march of 2003, dick cheney said that saddam hussein reconstituted nuclear weapons, here he is. >> we know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has reconstituted nuclear weapons. >> reconstituted nuclear weapons. >> we were saying. >> is that true? >> we were saying. >> can you answer that question? >> no, that's not true. >> it seems weird that we have to come back and relitigate this 12 years later, but your reaction? >> i thought chris matthews was far too easy on mr. morell. all you needed to do was go back and take a look at the u.n. inspectors reports from the 1990s to know that it had been dismantled. as well as listen to what the other intelligence people were saying around the community, including the department of energy and the state department's office of intelligence and research. >> ambassador joe wilson, thank you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure. >> i found the debate on the campaign trail about iraq back in 2003 clarifying and useful. i also t

does this mean dick cheney has his bags makd and is heading back into the war room? i'm joined by msnbc political analyst david corn of "mother jones" and jonathan cape hart. you're chuckling. jeb bush has named his brother, former president george w. bush as his lead thinker on foreign policy when it comes to israel and as the "washington post" pointed out, quote, embracing george w. bush as a foreign policy confidant is a risky and unexpected move. while the former president's approval ratings have improved since he left office in 2009 his foreign policy legacy particularly the long war in iraq, remains deeply unpopular. got that right. according to a cbs/"new york times" poll conducted last year, 75% of the american people three-quarters of it say that the iraq war wasn't worth it. by the way, bush dropped this bombshell at a tuesday night fund raise we are republican mega donor paul singer. up until now jeb bush had been trying to distance himself from his family. he's been careful to emphasize that he's his own man ever since he first expressed an interest in ru

is isis the result of bush and cheney's misguided invasion of iraq in the first place? we'll get to that with former cia director, james woolsey. and we saw a different side of hillary clinton yesterday. >> i may not be the youngest candidate in this race but i have one big advantage. i've been coloring my hair for years. they're not going to see me turn white in the white house. >> that's authentic. it's relatable, and we'll get to it with the roundtable tonight. finally, let me finish with hlry's bright new political appeal. this is "hardball," the place for politics. you wouldn't buy a car without taking it for a spin and it's...well...just a car. test-drive our full lineup only at your local john deere dealer. >>> former speaker of the u.s. house, dennis hastert, has been indicted on criminal charges. late today, hastert was charged with illegally transferring funds in an effort to avoid detection by the irs, a scheme known as structuring. he's also been charged with making false statements to the fbi. each charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison an

i think many of the people like cheney and others believed their own rhetoric. they have no experience in the middle east at all. and they are historically and linguistically ill literal. i think what is good for corporations is good for america they think. but i would say it is based on a frightening misunderstanding of the region and in particular of the country and what invading would do. they always would say who is worse than saddam hussein and isis and and we created isis in the way we did al-qaeda. >> revolutions when they begin are invisible at least the it wider society starting with the discrediting and dismantling of an old language used to interpret power. you write the keystone pipeline is part of the final phase of extreme exploitation. >> i think carl marx's analysts of the inner working of capitalism and where it is going is correct. and he argued unfettered or unregulated capitalism was a revolutionary force. there is no internal force of gathering profits and once the external elements are removed that is free to exploit everything. human labor

unlike dick cheney, he is contemplating running for president.we think that is relevant and people ought to see what information is there. i would encourage him in september, if he is so inclined, to see what our reporting and what information comes out. on this larger point, i would encourage -- he probably does not want to buy the book. go to the library and read it. there is not a hateful word in the book. it is very dispassionate. there is a column in "the wall street journal" talking about is just basically recounting the facts and laying up the narrative. you have guys like professor jeffrey sachs from columbia university who is hardly a conservative who heads up the institute, and is on msnbc this morning talking about the fact that yeah, it is right. the clintons are lowering the lines. there are some trouble some things going on. i am not sure what to tell the caller. i do not think it is helpful -- hateful to bring up concerns about foreign money flowing to the family of the secretary of state while she is making decisions that affect t

it is spearheaded by mary cheney. she wants fairness and transparency when it comes to complaints of assault. she has a four-part plan to make that happen. >> one is to change the definition of what assault on a police officer is. it is far too broad. it increases the level of discovery between both sides when there is a criminal prosecution. it provides a greater protection against skewing an eyewitness projection. sam: she says the plan was in the works long before the riots last week in baltimore. the situation in baltimore will help fuel the bill into law. she says the introduction to city council is the first of many hurdles before this would be signed into law. that should not happen until after summer recess. reporting live, sam sweeney. jummy: loretta lynch is in baltimore today to look at the situation in the city in crisis. she will meet with baltimore officials and faith and community leaders. she has been monitoring the unrest in baltimore following the death of freddie gray in police custody. six police o

this is dick cheney. no -- maybe i will start at a different beginning.his is my house in the middle of the woods. tucked away on a dirt road in pennsylvania. the house was built in 1972 when i was born. my parents and their hippie friends built it and my family and brother and sisters and i grew up little by little. there is a stream that runs down the property and connects to the delaware river. i've been learning about how water is off collect it -- all connected. in 1972, pete seeger reminded new york city that if it polluted the upper hudson especially the watershed, new york city's drinking water would be ruined. >> ♪ this land is made for you and me ♪ josh: in 19 72, richard nixon signed the clean water act into law. an era of environmental progress. the cold war was on. there was a concept of leisure time and leisure states. computer use and technology were supposed to bring about the 4- day work week and everyone was going to have time swimming in the rivers. in new york city they were building this. 100 miles up in north milanville , pennsylvani