. >> interesting, colin powell and condi rice both took issue with things in the book, they were cheap shots. condi disputed she once tearfully apologized about a bush state of the union speech. >> when you're being booked for an hour on date line and two hours on hannity, you get the lion's share of the coverage and your critics get maybe one argue. >> that's how it worked. colin powell had a best selling book, part had to do with the expectation he was going to run for president. condi rice had her books out. this is how it works. i think president bush actually comes out looking the worst in cheney's account because cheney is quite aggressive about adding to the narrative that all the press wrote during the bush years that he was really pulling the strings, and i don't think that helps president bush's image. >> i'm stunned that every auto biography out of the bush administration makes the writer sound like genius, the one who knew what was going on the whole time. >> if only everyone else would have listened to me. >> what's interesting, the media coverage of this, it focuses on th

. >> condi rice. >> absolutely. and you really saw the tension in the republican party.hat gave the press something to talk about. other than dick cheney. >> the disclosure that he wanted to bomb syria doesn't endear him to some folks probably. according to the media research center, the media treatment of cheney has not gotten any friendlier ince he left washington. jim, is the book going to change that? >> i don't think so. at all. in friday's "usa today," the former publisher of the chain said you know cheney grew up in nebraska. and said some people out there never outgrew their suspicion of people of color. talking about colin powell. and he never hired him to be the right arm. this is nitwit commentary. they don't care because it's abbott cheney and they it up. >> i'll read a twit here. this is a tweet: cheney's memoir will be the ultimate example of criminal profiting from his crimes. what do you think? >> not an example of what jim is talking about. we are seeing a little bit of bush. just a little bit. but they will never, ever, they will never ever be. >> not f

positive the images show a lot of important people and governor schwarzenegger and steve balmer and condi rice so you know. there's been a good job of press relations this is it's fun the real issue is not what goes into the system the issue is what comes out do you get started companies can you commercialize research activities can you grow and diversify the russian economy in the high tech area unless all of that happens that skolkovo is not a success independent of how many important people you have for a person would have said recently quote skolkovo. has become one of russia's best known and best understood brands everyone must know and quote the world skulk ago is it a brand is it already recognised abroad in the united states for example. quite a few people in the us recognise coca-cola in when i was with the president today he was a company in that only forty percent of the russians recognizable people and he thought that that was poor brand recognition i tried to remind him that the intel was trying to create the intel inside brand we spent billions of dollars to create that brand sko

. >> schieffer: what you said about condi rice, at one point you came into the office and you described her as tearfully making a statement. she says that's not her, that that never happened. >> well, i've got to disagree with her. i do remember it very well. it had to do with valerie plame case. we had had debates internally. she went out on her own unilaterally and apologized to the so so-called 16 words that have been included in the president's state of the union speech. in reality those words were true. they were correct. what it did was it set off a fire storm among the press. part contributor to this whole atmosphere for the prosecution of scooter libby. she did come in and said she had done wrong. >> schieffer: we have about 20 seconds left. is this book it for you? are there any oral tapes, oral histories? i think of because of the jacqueline kennedy tapes that have come out. or will this be your legacy? >> well, right now it's the only one i've written. will i do another one at some point? i don't know, bob. i haven't given any thought. i'm basquing in having the number one be

. >> chris: the point i want to get at is, it want just condi rice and a rogue state department. october 2008, you report the fact that president bush agreed with rice to take north korea off the list of state sponsors of terrorism. you write this in the book. it was a sad moment, because it seemed to be a repudiation of the bush doctrine and reversal of so much of what we had accomplished in the area of nonproliferation in the first term. here was the administration, in your mind, going back on its own principles. >> the president made a decision, based on the advice he got. he obviously got conflicting advice from me and secretary rice. it was his call, he's the president. >> chris: why do you think he changed? >> i think he believed that was the right thing to do. i disagreed. >> chris: why do you think he believed it? >> i can't, you know, speak for him obviously. i think he sat down and looked at it and concluded he wanted to take secretary rice's advice, follow the lead of the state department and made that decision. >> chris: i wanted to start with these two examples. they

. >> and condi rice said she didn't like her integrity being attacked. >> cheney attacked just about to, because honestly, if you noticed, he really never told any stories. he never told the storiesç we wanted to know like how much did haliburton make after they engaged us in a war that cost 500,000 american lives or lives in afghanistan? what are you talking about with that duck blind supreme court judge? what did you say to that judge when you had that judge rule for you that was clearly no precedent at all, when he covered up what happened between closed doors when he met with the energy industry? there are a lot of questions we'd like answered they never even touched in that book. honestly, this was a book looking for forgiveness and redemption, and again, the guy needs to see a priest, not a book publisher. >> you know what we did learn this week, a lot of creepy men are obsessed with condi. >> muammar gadhafi, maybe jamie is obsessed or something, but that's a strange pair. we've got speaker boehner listening to rush limbaugh saying, you can't let the president come over and a

the president has written a book many secretary rumsfeld has written a book, george tenet, condi rice is writing a book. this is my contribution. and i wanted to record, if i can put it in those terms for my kids and grandkids, what it is i spent my career doing over the last 40 years. how i did it and why. the kinds of decisions that i participated in. and that's the basic thrust of the book. it is a broad gauge. it does cover 70 years of my life. i think it is a good book. >> sean: i do too. one last question on colin powell. you write that powell felt embarrassed as it relates to the presentation before the united nations. and he went out there wrongly, and that caused him to lash out at others. in retrospect, knowing what we know now does that change your opinion about saddam hussein, about iraq, about whether or not this was the right thing to do and whether or not the world is better off? >> it doesn't sean. partly because the sort of shorthand that says we didn't find any wmd. if you go back and look at the report of the iraq survey group that was put together by the experts th

. >> you also write about condi rice after the two of you had a disagreement.my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted i had been right. was she crying? >> she was tearful. that's why i wrote it. if i wanted to say she was crying, i would have said she was crying. >> you know that tearfully is a loaded description for powerful women in high office. it's going to be seen by a lot of people as provocative. could you have left that word out? >> it is an accurate description of what happened and what i saw. >> in an interview with reuters, rice says the claims were an attack on her integrity and cheney is taking cheap shots at her and other bush administration officials. (announcer) everything you need to stretch out on long trips. residence inn. i've tried it. but nothing's helped me beat my back pain. then i tried this. it's salonpas. this is the relief i've been looking for. salonpas has 2 powerful pain fighting ingredients that work for up to 12 hours. and my pharmacist told me it's the only otc pain patch approved for sale using

president went the diplomatic route and asked about the push back to his comments from colin powell and condi ricend talk about president obama and hillary clinton and whether she'd be a more formidable democratic candidate than barack obama and talked about mitt romney and rick perry and it is a different dick cheney and i promise you will see stuff and very much enjoy it. >> jamie: chris, there is not much he doesn't talk about with you. i think this is probably his most open interview. he talked about the military strategy and september 11th. he talked about, as you said, the relationships with colin powell and condoleezza rice. what surprised you about the sit-down with him? >> i don't know that it surprised me because i have interviewed him a lot over the last 30-some years. but, you know, at one point i say to him, i talked about the things that colin powell said back and these are cheap shots and do you want to take anything back and he goes, nope! that is classic dick cheney. and one thing that is also really great in the interview is we talk in very personal terms about his health problem