david boies is one of the nation's preeminent trial lawyers. he's founder and chairman of the law firm boies, schiller, and flexner. in addition to "bush v. gore", he's perhaps best known as the justice department's special trial counsel in its successful antitrust suit against microsoft. ted olson is a partner in the washington office of the law firm gibson, dunn, and crutcher. he was president george w. bush's solicitor general, and acted as the government's principal advocate in the supreme court. during the reagan administration, he served as assistant attorney general. welcome to both of you. >> thank you, bill. >> moyers: many people in this partisan and polarized country have been hoping to see conservatives and liberals unite on at least one principle that they could agree upon. but just about everyone i have talked to was surprised to see the two of you show up in the same court arguing for gay marriage. what do you have in common on this? >> i think one of the things we have in common on this issue is respect for the rule of law, respe

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then, there were summer visits in maine, where dad and david would play with their world war ii vintage walkie-talkies like two adolescent boyst to each other. the portrait of this man would not be complete without a mention of data as the grandfather. in -- of dad as the grandfather. in a word, he was wonderful. he took great joy in experiencing the joy of our children. from the day of their birth, he treated each one with love and chris -- with love and with love. always with a lollipop in his pocket, he greeted them each with a hug and a squeeze and rejoiced in the pursuit -- in the reciprocation of that act. from early days at the farm and there were babies to more recent times when he would surrender old trinkets to their young in curious hands, dad always welcomed his granddaughter's into his life, sharing what he could, always offering more. our children to their grandfather, and for this, i am forever grateful. but dad's life was not a one-man play. he had a wife of 51 years, a devoted son charlie, of whom he was so very proud, an extended family that supported him always, colleagues and friends who advised him wisely

david abshire, well done. as we say in the navy, atta boy.but you know as long as i've known you, you've made one mistake in life. rather than west point you should have gone to annapolis. [laughter] >> i want to go back to these many years. i'd gone to the sixth fleet in the mediterranean. and i met burke. burke had a protocol -- he would -- when you joined the navy secretary, there would come a time he would send a little note. now is the time i would like to meet you and you would go to his home and meet his lovely wife and that's where i first got to meet him. so i did a little research. my aide at that time, a wonderful man, was tom hayward who later became chief of naval operations. but this one incident might have cost him that. i found that the ship that burke had -- his squadron was part of a more active fleet. and there was a boy who transferred the cruiser over to the ship and it's a custom that i always went down to the engine. and i was just with the senior chief down there. there was no chief petty officer boilerman down there o

david hicks is back in yemen and his wife has just given birth to a baby boy and he is a proud fathermes before military commissions. host: what is he doing? guest: he is trying toÑi find wk as a driver. he is having trouble finding steady employment because tourism is not what it used to be in yemen. a journalist came to the capital not long ago and he had covered his face and he had managed to get a job driving her around yemen. it is an interesting postscript on what was an enormous legal battle that what all the way to the supreme court in the bush years. the guy is now free man. people think that military commissions would be so -- a far tougher than civilian courts. look of a trucker occurred today and see to out of three of the guys are free -- look at the track record today and see that that two out of the three guys are free. host: we've seen as president biden respond to the previous vice-president repeatedly. but we have not seen the president respond to buy as president cheney, or maybe we just have not seen as much. is there a -- respond to vice president cheney, or maybe

then there were the summer visits in maine where dad and david would play with the world war ii walkie-talkies. like little boys war horse one to war horse two, even when they were sitting next to each other. the portrait of this man would not be complete without a mention of dad as a grandfather. in a word, he was wonderful. he took great joy in experiencing the joy of our children. and from the day of their birth, he treat thed each one with love and with warmth. always with a lollipop in his pocket, he greeted them each with a hug and squeeze and rejoiced in the reciprocation of that act. from early days at the farm when they were babies to more recent times when he would surrender told trinkets to their hands, dad always welcomed claire and katie into their liar. -- their lives. our children knew their grandfather. for this, i am forever grateful. but dad's life was not a one-man play. he had a wife of 51 years whom he loved with awful his heart, a devote thed son charlie of whom he was so very proud, and an extent the family that supported him always. colleagues and friends who adviced him wisely, and the

my own personal involvement but also because you have mike boies and the chiefs of staff committee, you have the officials meeting, you had davidovernment problem in the sense that if we had a different machinery, we would have acted differently. i don't think that. that's a judgment. >> one thing i want to put to you because david bowman who we saw last week, he emphasized the importance of structured decision-making so you're simply not swept away along with the pace of events in like military operations and did you -- do you think we had the ability and the rule to pause and look at our strategy. in the event this didn't happen, did we actually think, did we actually stop and re-evaluate our strategy at that stage? >> we would have entirely re-evaluated our strategy had, as i say, and i'm using this as a short term, saddam hussein done a -- he said i'm finished with all this i'm dish want to join the international community on proper terms. but he didn't. and what he did, and this is where, as i say, the iraq survey group, unfortunately people have only looked at one part of their findings and not the other part of their fin