now tonight going to speak with colonel lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to colin powell about dick cheney's memoir which hit bookstore shelves today should be should he be parading around doing a media blitz or should this man be on trial for some of the actions that really speak to lieutenant colonel tony shaffer about the g.o.p.'s new push to cut u.s. funding for you and bully the un also fred karger is the first openly gay presidential candidate and he's running on the republican ticket for two thousand and twelve and we're going to see why he's being ignored and if he really fits into the overwhelmingly anti-gay republican agenda we have all of that and more for you tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has decided to miss. you know every morning i wake up and then for some reason i just have this little tiny tinge this feeling of hope somewhere in the back of my mind that maybe just maybe i can turn on the t.v. and be dazzled by what i see on the news that day season really tough questions being asked doubtfully i'

to say dick cheney didn't go to new york and give the presentation on the 5 of february, 2003, colin powell did. if powell was opponent to the wars, cheney says in his book, or didn't express his opposition to the war or was someone undermining the president's position outside the government, he certainly didn't show it when he went to new york and gave his presentation on 5 of february, 2003. we essentially presented in key areas some false information. we didn't know it was false, we've been vowed safe that information by the dci, george tenant and his deputy, john mclaughlin, but nonetheless we presented false information with regard to wmd. >> on secretary of state powell's presentation at the united nations in february, cheney actually writes, "when it turned out that much of what powell said about weapons of mass destruction was wrong, i think embarrassment caused him and those around him to lash out at others. scooter libby seemed to be a particular target of their ire, they excoriated the material he and the national security staff provided while at the same time boasting they had t

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that being said, his criticisms of colin powell are criticisms i've heard time and again. that powell was forever covering his backside. he was the ultimate bureaucrat. he never said anything that could come back and blow up in his face in case iraq went well. then when it went bad he was leaking quietly that he'd been against it all along. is that something that others in the bush administration were saying other than dick cheney? i'm -- i've heard this criticism time and time again that he was always covering himself. >> right. look, have you seen the jim carrey movie "liar, liar," where a spell is put on him where he cannot tell a lie? >> yes. >> i have. >> that's how dick cheney was last night. dick cheney is unemcumbered by any nicet. >> no filter. >> and what he lays bare is true. it may be his truth, from his perspective. frankly at a time when everyone is hungering for sincerity, for directness, and for some authentic unshielded, unpolite account of what went on during the bush years, i think dick cheney deserves some credit. >> again, you're saying this -- just for

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

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i want to read you something that he wrote about colin powell. ppointed in the way powell handled policy differences. time and again i heard he was opposed to the war in iraq. indeed, i continue to hear it today. but never once in any meeting did i hear him voice objection. when president bush after his re-election in 2004 accepted powell's resignation, i thought it was for the best". so does colin powell have a right to be pretty upset at dick cheney? >> yeah, absolutely. of course. i mean, he basically -- the vice-president accuses the secretary of state of basically playing outside the lines. and that he was taking his criticisms to people outside, undermining the president. and from colin powell's point of view, he would interpret that as an accusation of disloyalty. there have been a lot of accusations about colin powell playing sort of on a separate team. but he did have some honest differences. and he did express them to the president on one occasion by colin powell's own account he did go to the president to make an argument about do you r

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so badly. >> it isn't only colin powell.t his policy differences with the president of the united states, particularly regarding the pardon of scooter libby. his former top aide. and we knew that there were differences, but to hear it from dick cheney himself about the president takes it one step further. i want you to listen to something he said on the "today" show this morning. >> i felt very strongly that scooter was not treated fairly. i don't think an indictment was appropriate. scooter was the one ultimately who was charged, not with leaking but with allegations about misconduct during the course of the investigation. so i really think he was badly treated. i thought he deserved a pardon. the president disagreed. >> so is there a difference between a memoir and a kiss and tell? >> on that one, i don't think that was kiss and tell. it has been widely known. i think he was being candid about it. in full disclosure, i worked closely with dick cheney in the 1970s in the ford administration. liked him, respected him and con

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plus, cheap shots, that's what colin powell is saying about charges in dick cheney's new book. one of many bush officials speaking out about the former vice president's memoirs. it's monday, august 29th, 2011, i'm chuck todd. it's great to be back. also this morning, president obama losing traction with african-american voters, a lot of voters, but also african-american voters. we're going to talk to kasim reid about that. >>> it's been a story of lessons learned. with the failures of the katrina response shadowing the response to irene. their leaders are already being judged on whether the preparations were worth all of the effort. louisiana governor kathleen blanco never recovered from mistakes made during katrina. appearing in press conference after press conference, east coast governors were determined to learn from the kathleen blanco model and not to fumble the response by underreacting. >> yeah, i saw some of these i've been watching upstairs of people sitting on the beach. get off the beach and get out. you're done. it's 4:30, you've maximized your tan. get off the beac

that said he and colin powell have barely been on speaking terms for quite a long time. i don't think general powell was frankly surprised at what was in the book. i don't think former vice president cheney is going to be surprised at what powell had to say. i think what will be more interesting is frankly what former president bush has to say because he does reveal these private conversations, differences with the president. he says that the differences in the book are that he gave greater detail. but i think it's going to reignite the question of -- it's not who was running things, it's how much president bush was relying on vice president cheney. >> i know in your interview you compared some of the president bush's accounts of certain events with now former vice president cheney's account in some cases there are differences. it's a fascinating interview and reminder to our viewers that they can see jamie's exclusive interview with dick cheney tonight on a special edition of "dateline" 10:00 eastern on your local nbc station. tomorrow matt lauer will interview dick chen

colin powell fires back saying he did not approve of cheney's choice of words saying the book would havexploding. powell responding to his criticism saying cheney took cheap shots. >> he's no kinder to your successor, condoleezza rice than they was to you. >> he's taken the same shots at condi. he's taking the same shots to george tenant and he is always indicated didn't always approve of what president bush was deciding. there's nothing wrong with saying you disagree, but it's not necessary to take these shots and try to pump a book up saying heads will be exploding. i think dick overshot the runway with that kind of comment. >> you know, john heilemann, nobody is more careful with their image than colin powell. are you surprised he ran out to a sunday show to defend himself because of a book cheney wrote? >> the shots are cheap. colin powell tried to undermine the administration not raising his concerns of the iraq war internally and taking them through secret channels to media. to argue powell was undermining is a severe charge to make against the cabinet secretary. >> people give dic

the country's former top diplomat colin powell says that's not good. cheney is now defending this infamous statement. >> the british government has learned saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa. >> joe wilson and valerie plame respond. [ female announcer ] what if your natural beauty could be flawless too? discover aveeno positively radiant tinted moisturizers with scientifically proven soy complex and natural minerals. give you sheer coverage instantly, then go on to even skin tone in four weeks. aveeno tinted moisturizers. we know how to tighten our purse strings. sugar salmon flakes! sorry buddy. even with bath tissue. that's why i buy new charmin basic. it's very reasonably priced. and it holds up so much better than the leading competitive brand. new charmin basic has a duraflex texture... that's soft and durable. plus, it's two times stronger when wet versus the leading competitive brand. new charmin basic works for my bottom line. and my bottom. we all go. why not enjoy the go with new charmin basic? >>> da

he's critical of former secretary of state colin powell. on sunday's "face the nation" powell responded, objecting in particular to the words cheney is using in promoting the book. >> what really sort of got my attention was this way in which he characterized it. "it going to cause heads to explode." that's quite a visual. and in fact, it's the kind of headline i would expect to come out of a gossip columnist or the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write. it's not the kind of headline i would have expected to come from a former vice president of the united states of america. >> pelley: joining us now is bob schieffer, the anchor of "face the nation." and bob, for the nation's former first diplomat, second powell seemed to be visibly angry in this interview. >> schieffer: you know, scott, he had steam coming out of his ears. he was really upset by these things, and he wanted to get his side of it in. just listen to this. >> mr. cheney has had a long and distinguished career, and i hope in his book that's what he

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

sharply critical of a number of top bush administration figures, including former secretary of state colin powellhere's how that sat with general powell. >> mr. cheney's had a long and distinguished career. and i hope in his book that's what he will focus on. not these cheap shots that he's taking at me, and these other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability for president bush. >> colin powell on this new cheney book. jamie gangel has conducted an exclusive interview with dick cheney prior to the release of this book. she's with us tonight from our washington newsroom. good evening, jamie. >> reporter: good evening, brian. dick cheney is blunt, unapologetic, but perhaps the biggest surprise is that the former vice president goes public with revelations about his old boss, including private conversations which conflict with accounts mr. bush has given. listen to the striking difference in how the two men describe the eve of the iraq war. president bush writes, i turned to the team gathered in the oval office and said, let's go. you write, the president kicked everyone

then defense secretary dick cheney and the then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general colin powellring these days, they seemed to be a highly efficient team. we used to talk about a cheney-powell doctrine. flash forward to the years following 9/11, things clearly had changed. cheney, of course, was vice president, powell was secretary of state. i began to hear grumblings from their respective aides during those years that things were not necessarily all that smooth between them, no love lost, in fact, i remember one top adviser saying to me. let's talk about this in our strategy session, joining us our two cnn political contributors, democratic strategist paul begala from the democratic fund-raising group, priorities usa and priorities usa action and also republican strategist mary matlin used to work for dick cheney. how surprised you about the bitterness that developed between dick cheney and colin powell? >> well, full disclosure, my publishing line from simon and schuster published to the vice president's memoirs in my timeb. i'm confident when he actually reads the book that h

colin powell was a general and wore a uniform before, like long before, he became secretary of stateere he actually kind of dressed, you know, basically like me. but nowhere in mike's sales pitch for these dvds does he make any claim of historical accuracy in wardrobe, so i'm giving him a break on wardrobe. >> the u.s. and its allies broke apart al qaeda and cut off his followers and his money. >> i can hear you! and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. [ cheers and applause ] >>> look, i try to be very understanding and yes, even forgiving about what some people have to do to make a living, i mean look what i'm doing, who am i to get all judgmental about how you make a buck, but i know some of you less forgiving types out there are looking at mike's dvd and thinking you're kidding me, former baptist pastor mike huckabee has become a 9/11 profiteer? a former republican presidential candidate has become a 9/11 profiteer? no, no, no. rudy giuliani doesn't count, not in my book anyway because although he's made millions and millions of dollars in lecture

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but you've got two great americans, colin powell and dick cheney, two great americans.he last thing we need are those two great americans who have served their country so wonderfully to be at odds with each other on television shows. megyn: it's interesting you should mention that. i mean, to put it in be perspective historically, you're saying it's not unusual for the secretary of state and the chief executive or his vice president to have this sort of consternation when it comes to certain issues because one mission is all about diplomacy, and one may not have that as his primary mission. and you mentioned your dad's use of the term tear down this wall, right? which he was told by the state department to take out. let's just watch the clip, and then you tell us the story. >> general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. [cheers and applause] mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. [cheers and applause] megyn: i mean, it reall

it off, then we're going to kill it. >> reporter: but in his new book, dick cheney unloads on colin powell, accusing him of undermining president bush as secretary of state and being, quote, openly disdainful of the president's policies. cheney even claims credit for kicking powell out of the administration after the 2004 election. now it's powell's turn. >> they are cheap shots and the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write and it's nonsense. >> reporter: they had been close friends. in november 2000, when cheney was hospitalized with a heart attack, powell's wife, alma, prepared an entire thanksgiving dinner for the cheney family. now cheney portrays powell as two-faced and dishonest. especially on iraq. time and again, i heard that powell was opposed to the war in iraq, cheney writes.s. indeed, i continue to hear it today. but never once in any meeting did i hear him voice objection. 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

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

and colin powell slams dick cheney.eality check and we begin this evening with dick cheney's new book that slams people like condaleeza rice and colin powell. mr. powell doesn't like it. >> mr. cheney has had a long and distinguished career and i hope in this book that's what he will focus on, not these cheap shots that he's taking at me and other members of the administration who serve to the best of our ability for president bush. >> so you, you just label them flatly cheap shots. >> yeah, they are cheap shots. several of the ones that he tosses at me, you know, he takes great credit for my resignation in 2004. well, president bush and i had always agreed that i would leave at the end of 2004. >> bill: we invited both powell and cheney to appear on "the factor" and they've always turned us down in the past but we hope they will reconsider. check two. in addition to causing hurricane irene global warming may be responsible for brand new generation of racists. take it away, al gore. >> explain to me why it's ok to discr

colin powell -- resignation was the best. connedie rice -- tearfully admitted i was right. the news if some of these folks push back, if colin powell says something back to dick cheney? >> i think absolutely. if some of these people react, if they say, no, that's not exactly what happened. why is dick cheney doing this? what's the point? sure, you sell a book, you make money buying copies. >> you assume he doesn't need money. >> you're torching bridges at the end of your career. why do this? >> it is an interesting question. we've seen donald rumsfeld with his memoir, dick cheney with his memoir. do you have to write a memoir? what do they get out of it? do you have any sense? is it to get your side of the story out? is it the first cut of history? >> i think it's some of that. we've seen bush, you know, has not been received well in terms of the reviews of his presidency. i think -- i do think it's interesting, the connedie rice bit, it's only the girl that cries? >> tearfully admitted. that's not the last we've heard of it. i want to play one thing. dick cheney. he writes

. >> what about that from colin powell. "the new york times" got an advanced copy. he goes after colin powell for expressing regrets about the iraq war. >> i think it's clear, dick cheney, above all else, he was a loyalist to the president. i'm not sure any republican candidates are worried about what dick cheney is doing right now. none of them had very strong bush ties. i don't think this reflects at all on them. it's years later. i think dick cheney is a little sick and tired of his name being dragged through the mud. this is his way of saying, look, i have no regrets. i make no apologies. i have a legacy to protect. i did what i did. i'm proud of the record. >> there are parts of the book where he second guesses president bush a bit. >> do you think president bush will feel betrayed that you have revealed project conversations? >> i don't know why he should. >> you don't think so? >> i don't think so. >> you said the president deserves to be able to trust the people around him. by revealing these differences, you don't think you are betraying that trust? >> no.

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of the cia for giving him the wrong information dick cheney colin powell is taken on very directly. at he said about powell. >> difeel that the state department did not serve the president well. i would hear discussing, for example, that powell had objected to or opposed the operations in iraq. that never happened sitting around the table for the national security council. it was the kind of thing that seemed to be said outside to others. >> ouch. that's pretty direct. so the question is being asked, what's the difference between writing a memoire and settling scores. there is a little bit of score settling with colin powell. >> we have come to expect brutal candor, shall we say, from dick cheney. >> that's why this really is in keeping with his character. he provided the president with condit advice. it stayed inside the room. that ves, lots of that advice remains inside the room. i think there is a larger question here for presidents. that is, is anything they do or say with anybody else in the room whether it be in the other situation room or the oval office, is any of that off of

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 interview with vice president cheney. here she asks him about torture. let's have a listen. >> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be waterboarding terror suspects? >> i would strongly support using it again is if circumstances arose where we had a high-value detainee and that was the only way we could ge

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also he differences with colin powell and condoleezza rise.dicating there was a robust conversation almost every single day on issues such as katrina, iraq, and also what's interesting, according to the excerpts i read, the vice president specifically recommended to the president that we bomb syria as it relates to the nuclear power plant. the president then ended the meeting and sets we're not going to do that. what i find very telling, is that the president seemed to be very much in control, very much conciliatory and very much open to ideas, but will to push back when appropriate. >> it seems that cheney was also forth coming when he talked about where he stands today on certainly tactics. take a listen to this. >> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> mo regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be waterboarding terror suspects? >> i would strongly support using it again if circumstances arose where we had a high-value detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk. >> even though so many p

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 waterboarding terror suspects? >> i would strongly support using it again if circumstances arose where we had a high value detainee, and that was the only way we could get him to talk. >> even though so many people have condemned it, people call it torture, you think it should still be a tool? >> yes. >> when i saw the article yesterday about cheney's book, i dashed off an email in a fit of pique to friends in publishing, saying basically, everyone at simon and schuster should be ashamed of themselves. now, upon fu

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