look at marco rubio's website, it has dick cheney smack in the middle. here's cheney's statement on rubio. here he is knocking troll-like, charlie crist, the other guy. he doesn't say anything positive about rubio. charlie crist has shown time and again he cannot be trusted in washington to take on the obama agenda. because on issue after issue, he actually supports the agenda. i like this phrase, cannot be trusted to even remain a republican. i strongly urge him to stay in the republican primary or drop out of the race. the only winners from an independent bid would be barack obama and harry reid. and here's charlie crist responding to the news. let's listen. >> are you upset that you didn't get dick cheney's endorsement? >> no. do i look upset? >> do you think it helps in your campaign not, that rubio has that endorsement? >> you know, just another washington politician telling florida what to do. i don't think floridians appreciate it. it doesn't matter. >> jon holman, he's not even worth stopping for, governor crist just keeps walking. i do find that

it does not comport with the way dick cheney behaved.ople have authority and power, they don't have to brag about it. >> yeah, yeah. he's verboten sometimes. i like the guy. >> i like him fine. >> i was in south carolina. realize that joe biden gave the eulogy at strom thurman's funeral? people say the politicians they ought to say what they think. there's one politician that says what he's thinking. >> he does, indeed. we appreciate you two for saying what you think. thanks. we need time for pete on the street. after all, it's earth day and he is next. constipation, gas, bloating. that's me! can i tell you what a difference phillips' colon health has made? it's the probiotics. the good bacteria. that gets your colon back in balance. i'm good to go! phillips' colon health. i'm going to own my own restaurant. i want to be a volunteer firefighter. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i'm going to work with kids. i want to fix up old houses. [ female announcer ] at aarp

get a load of the latest from dick cheney. he said his gross remark to senator lay hey in his vice president days was sort of the best thing i ever did. is he serious? i'm kidding. he's been endorsing candidates all over the place, all these republican primaries. it's time to ask, does anybody really care who gets dick cheney's betty crocker seal of approval. >>> if you're wondering why the s.e.c. employees didn't have their eyes on the ball while wall street crippled the economy, wait until you see what they did with those eyes. here is a hint, it's x-rated. triple x rated. >>> finish on tricky issue of immigration reform. let's start with the political fight over wall street reform. chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee, it's his job to get democrats elected this fall. this is a winner for you, isn't it? they are the bad guys. >> it's a winner because it's a winner for the american people. we need to hold wall street accountable. never again should people be held accountable. they made bad decisions. we

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. >>> dick cheney is throwing his support into the florida senate race. before the governor is also running for the seat. rubio is considering running as an independent. >>> talks between u.s. airways and united are over. some are considering mergers because of financial problems. they will not be consolidating. talks between united and continental appear to be picking up. the two considered a merger two years ago. >>> some local critics and belgian students are stranded thousands miles -- thousands of miles from home. >> we are if you -- we are a bit away from the nfl draft. ♪ my country ♪ 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land ♪ of liberty ♪ of thee i sing [ laughs ] ♪ oh, land ♪ where my fathers died ♪ land of the pilgrims' pride ♪ from every mountainside ♪ let freedom ring ♪ >>> thousands of flights are on schedule today taking stranded travelers back home. a lot of flights are backlogged so people will not be able to leave for days. the iceland a volcano is to blame. london marathon organizers spent more than to enter to thousand dollars to get international -- s

. >> hillary clinton, katie couric, dick cheney -- >> the dream team of singing. >> quite the line-upe flu pandemic. people are turning into pigs. michelle obama is wearing a car again. -- a cardigan. >> joe the plumber is making headlines. >> you guys are not making any sense at all. can we please just sing about it. >> [unintelligible] ♪ >> does the baby need a tissue? thinking about the time obama kissed you. ♪ >> you need to change your attitude. attitude, your attitude, your attitude. what can we do to make a change? >> when we talk about personal freedom -- >> you know, you know, you know, you know, you know. you just have to believe. you know, to believe. to believe. >> i just think that either party, right now -- >> [unintelligible] i am the third party in my house. , and over. -- come on over. >> i will be in your crew, i will be in your crew. jumping rope with you. having plans with you. >> we do not believe that either afghanistan or pakistan can achieve progress. without the full participa tion of your citizens, including women and girls. >> the right of women must be perf

former vice president dick cheney says lately it seems charlie crist cannot even be trusted to remain a republican. i strongler urge we either stay in the republican primary or drop out of the race. two things at play here, charlie crist has been contemplating a possible independent run because the political environment has been so difficult, rubio has been leading the polls for some time and this announcement comes a day after the florida republic was barack -- wracked by news there was a preliminary investigation underway, a criminal investigation, potentially, of the possible wrongdoing involved by the republican party of florida which rubio had used its credit card, he was speaker of the house, they had given him a credit card to do business, traveling around the state and he ran up $100,000 worth of bills. there are allegations that that was improper and the republican party of florida's finances were screwed up, so to some extent, today's announcement of cheney's endorsement provides an opportunity for them to sort of turn the page and change the subject. martha: as you point ou

i did not know dick cheney at the nixon white house earlier. i knew people who worked with him when he was white house chief of staff. they were not overly impressed with him then and i must say i find him a rather troubling character. a very difficult conservative and a anxious for his book to to amount to try to justify the just claims it is okay. but it is not likely he will be elected president. >> and my life so far by jane fonda? [laughter] >> guest: i could not resist that. i have known jane for a number of years and when i read her book a of a i had talked to hurt and the book is so honest a wish more people could write autobiographies with that kind of can door. for that reason i had a number of my male friends read that book prices rising police need to understand a woman's point* of view on so many issues and jane is very outspoken. when i sampled less i said i should put to that book because i have recommended to so many people to seven we have massachusetts on the line welcome to book tv's. >> caller: thank you for taking my call.

he's the president of the united states. >> tucker, i'm not -- all i'm saying is dick cheney set a tone and most republicans have followed it by relentlessly attacking the president. bipartisanship requires both sides reaching out hands and in the middle. >> he didn't touch the policy point. he took it immediately to the personal, she doesn't know what she's talking about. next? that's arrogant and -- arrogant and dumb. >> he's going to continue to engage on the policy merits but from a political staint -- megyn: it's interesting you point out you think it was -- it was a conscious decision, because president obama, he knows how to dodge if he doesn't want to specifically respond to hey peara pale -- sarah palin said x, how do you respond, they know how to handle that. very good debate, gentlemen, dan, tucker, all the best. >>> we've been talking about this criminal case where a teenage con is -- son is accusing his mother of harassment because she got into his facebook page. we've got brand new information about what the son was supposedly doing on facebook that got his mother so upset

statement that said americans in the last election rejected radical foreign-policy authored by dick cheney and wholeheartedly adapted by matt romney and this policy would alienate allies and embolden enemies. what do you think? >> guest: i don't have a lot to say about the dnc and what kind of screen they are going to put up at the areas where i think the president disappointed a lot of folks including myself was for instance when the honduran supreme court said that they are anti-american, pro-chavez president violated the constitution and their military removed him from office. our president said put him back which i think surprise folks and i think that was an inappropriate action. when colombia seeks a special status with the united states on a trade basis, colombia standing up to the gauche chavez, we deny him that special status. that i think is a mistake. when he goes before the united nations and speaks for the first time and chastises israel in front of the united nations but has nothing to say about the palestinian group hamas launching 7000 rockets in israel, that is a mistake a

who dick cheney's going to endorse. what the news nugget in david remick's book is. but to find those ten stories, we have to read a thousand stories. so the idea of playbook is we do that for you. we pull out what people are going to be buzzing about, what people are going to be talking about, what's going to be booked on cable. what is going to drive conversation on radio, and put it out there for what the times call your blackberry breakfast. >> rose: that's right. there are people in this piece who say they reach over and they grab their blackberry in bed, and then they check. how many people-- how many people put it together. and give us the sense of day-to-day activity, process. >> charlie, it is a very humble process. a young man helps me with some. links to the major papers. and charlie, it started with an e-mail that i wrote to my friends and bosses, john harris and the founders of "politico" t was just a little e-mail that said what was in the papers that morning, what we should be covering, what i picked up overnight, what people were e-mailing me about. a

went of course if it was, dick cheney would have gone to work everyday in a sequined tutu.so what's the matter with fantasies of female power? haven't the media always provided escapist fantasies? isn't that like, their job? and our many in the media, however belatedly, simply addressing women's demands for more representations of female achievement and control? well, yes. but there's the odd somewhat unintended consequence. under the guise of escapism and pleasure. we are getting images of imagine the power that mask and even erase how much still remains to be done for girls and women. images that make the sexism seem fine, even fun. and insist that feminism is not utterly pointless, even bad for you. and if we look at what is being said about girls and women in these fantasies, what we can and should do, what we can and can't be, we will see that slithering just below the shining barrage of power is the dark, sneaky serpent of sexism. there has been a bit of a generational divide and how these fantasies are presented. older women, and i prefer the term that each females,

statement that said americans in the last election rejected radical foreign policy authored by dick cheneynd wholeheartedly adapted by mitt romney. and that this policy would alienate allies and embolden allies. >> guest: i don't have much to say about the

but from those who knew -- i didn't know dick cheney at the nixon white house in his earlier iterationi knew people who worked with him when he was white house chief of staff. they were not overly impressed with him then. i must say that i find him a rather troubling character. i find him a very typical authoritarian conservative. i'm very anxious for his book to come out to see what he says to try to justify this. probably won't try to justify it. just claim it's okay. but i'm glad that it's not likely he's ever going to be elected president. >> host: speaking of books, your favorite books, among the list ulysses grants memoirs and my life so far by jane fonda. [laughter] >> guest: i couldn't resist that. i've known jane for a number of years. and when i read her book -- i talked to her when she was working on her book. and the book is so honest, i wish more people could write autobiographies with that kind of candor. and so for that reason -- i had a number of my male friends read that book. i said i think we all need to better understand a woman's point of view on so many issues and

as much questioning of the military, or patriotism, or whether joe biden is less patriotic than dick cheney even though they disagree fundamentally. >> guest: i am with you on the. this notion, and i parted from some of my colleagues on the right on this, that people said you shouldn't ask questions about the iraq war and why we are there. if you are in the u.s. senate you are not there to talk about the wisdom of going to war or not. what the heck are you therefore? it's about to go back to the fatah to give your not to ask questions about those, what are you reduced to? absolutely. and if the white house can't defend itself on white it is in iraq will anywhere else, then it will take its lumps. absolutely. broad latitude for people to raise these kinds of questions without any issue of patriotism being raised. >> host: let's get to the subject of education because you mentioned that you and arne duncan spoken together in a few times, and both you were education secretary for reagan. and there's been a major reform movement going on in america that involves common standard so that we all k

in a statement yesterday, former vice president dick cheney said he's backing rubio because he standsthat threatens our freedom. cheney also launched a withering attack at rubio's primary opponent charlie crist saying crist cannot be trusted to stay a republican. then he urged crist to stay in the republican primary or drop out ail together. >> mark leibovich, my home state, once again, a red hot mess. that's what florida does. you were down there for a good while, including my hometown, my beloved pensacola, and you studied this race and it's getting more fascinating, isn't it? >> it's utterly fascinating but it's getting fascinating at the time rubio has passed this inevitably threshold, you had romney, cantor, cheney coming out for him. i haven't talked to a political observer in florida in the last two months who think crist can win this thing. i think obviously the intrigue is behind the scene, where thissist investigation is going to go on -- >> and whether it will bubble over. >> whether it will bubble over and whether charlie crist will run as an independent or not, which is a

. >> hillary clinton, katie couric, dick cheney -- >> the dream team of singing. >> there is a lot ofs, it is happening. there is a swine flu pandemic. michelle obama is wearing a car again. >> jovi plummer is wearing -- is making headlines -- joe the plumber is making headlines. >> you guys are not making any sense at all. >> [unintelligible] >> it does the baby need a tissue? -- does the baby needed to issue? -- need a tissue? >> you need to change your attitude. >> you know, you know, you know, you know, you know. >> i just think that either party, right now -- >> [unintelligible] >> i will be in your crew, i will be in your crew. >> we do not believe that either afghanistan or pakistan can achieve progress. >> the right of women must be perfected. >> take a number please. >> it would be one of those dramatic foreign policies. a bipartisan bill in congress would end it. president obama has already taken a big step. for most of us it is strictly off-limits. >> [unintelligible] >> long gone, long gone, long gone. >> my take on it was that it had already left the party. >> there is an

dick cheney is gone. you have a handful of republicans in the 20% ballpark.hem people on the national stage recently. newt gingrich the former speaker, sarah palin, romney and huckabee all involved in the last campaign. nobody thinks it's a good thing. it allows a debate about philosophy and emphasis. >> more than november. mike huckabee was sitting at 1% three years ago. the course of the debates and winning the iowa caucuses mattered. obviously, it gave him the front-runner status. >> i remember going out with mike huckabee. he had a driver. like a young guy driving him around. >> he had a driver and young kids. they said what was it like in the olden days. i said before blackberries? they said no, we don't want to go back that far. there's no front-runner. romney is getting organized. he was out there with evangelicals. for mitt, he wasn't there. can he win caucuses and conventions and delegates and states. >> is he running differently this time? >> yes, he's definitely running differently. to a certain extent, he won't flip-flop as much as be more compati

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front-runner marco rubio knocked endorsement of former vice president today, dick cheney's support was in the bag for some time but got rolled out now to reinforce rubio following yesterday's revelation that a preliminary federal investigation in the republican party of florida's finances will look into rubio's use of a party credit card for $100,000 in travel and personal expenses when he was speaker of the florida house. the republican party of florida plans a document dumped to the public of receipt and expenditures tomorrow. rubio aides say he will make his own documents public in weeks and they will prove no wrongdoing. governor charlie crist moderate republican soared in the polls a few months ago but for many conservatives who will decide the primary, this embrace literally and figuratively was too much. rubio has become such a rock star, charlie crist told friends and family he may skip the g.o.p. primary and run as independent. the deadline for his decision is next friday. cheney used a written endorsements of rubio to slam charlie crist saying -- >> reporter: crist donors beg

dick cheney had a very clear mission to try to reverse all of what he thought happened to the presidencys a result of watergate. it was strengthened and he didn't like the fact that the congress gained power of its own for oversight and things like this and has done its best to obliterate them. >> worse than watergate. >> guest: that gave me the title. >> host: the second point, in what major ways with the world look different today had nixon not behaved dishonorably? >> guest: fascinating historical counterfactual and i'm not sure i could spend it all the way out. i don't think anybody in the nixon white house with one exception was particularly evil. they were all good men with good intentions trying to do the best they could to run the country. >> guest: who is the exception? >> guest: g. gordon liddy. he got the screws all confused in his brain. just never seemed -- he is totally misguided in trying to sell the half baked approaches he believed should be permissible and they are all beyond the law. the law is irrelevant and i don't think -- or the fact that you should remain silent a

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both to politics though first, senator chambliss, i want to turn your attention to a statement by dick cheney following the florida race, marco rubio in a primary for republicans. in backing marco rubio said this, charlie crist showed time and again he cannot be trupsed in washington to take on the obama agenda. issue after issue, he supports that agenda. lately, the vice president said, it seems charlie crist cannot be trulsed even to remain a republican. check the figures before coming on air. 28% of americans self-identify themselves as republicans. as this a sort of an attack on a registered republican sitting governor as he's not really a real republican. is that helpful to the kind of outreach republicans need to do? >> probably not. and obviously in politics, everybody is entitled to their own opinion. i know charlie crist very well. i live close to the florida line, follow florida politics. i encourage governor crist to run for the senate when senator martinez decided he was not going to run again. he's involve in a very heated primary with a very good man in marco rubio. and, you kno

rush limbaugh responded with the dick cheney method. he put out an e-mail. quote, i think the president is trying to distract me to get me talking about me on my show instead of talking about him and the regime's agenda. it won't work. i'm wise to their tactics. the majority of americans are angry at the regime and the constant attempts of character assassination of their opposition. they went no part of engaging us in the arena of ideas. but they seek to marginalize us. it's gotten old. a columnist at msnbc political analyst as well. richard wolf is an nbc analyst and author of renegade. seems to me the president -- let's start with who started this, naming the names of somebody in the media no matter how prominent is unusual for the president. he did it. >> he made the calculation that these are good opponents to have. it sharpens the contradictions as it were. and you know i think he'd be happy to running against rush limbaugh and glenn beck and sarah palin. >> the ditto heads is a term they used to describe their allegiance -- unusual term for independen

would never pull a gun on me if i were a census worker, although he was a special assistant to dick cheneybout firearms. >> ed, you had to go there, didn't you? >> we're just having fun, ron, you know that. >> of course. >> let's talk about this. i mean, ron, how irresponsible is it for someone to have a microphone and say, hey, i dare them to come to my door, they're not going to arrest me. i'm going to have a gun at the koor when they show up. >> i think it's stupid and irresponsible. you know, i read this clip and he said liberals are taking his comments out of context. i read the entire thing. it's in our constitution we have a census and these individuals, these temporary employees are coming. they're doing their constitutional responsibility and to even joke about bringing a weapon out when someone's coming to do their job is irresponsible. this person needs to grow up a little bit. >> bill press, what planet is cnn on, or any network keeping somebody on that advocates this kind of behavior? >> i don't know, but i have to say, ed, i think ron christie is getting much too rational to

>> well, it depends on whether you talk to dick cheney. >> right. >> and 40 years later, happy earth day. but just what progress are we celebrating? from the white house, carol browner and activist and actor sam waterston. i'm andrea mitchell reporting from washington. the president just blocks from the new york stock exchange warns that changes are coming whether or not wall street is on board. john harwood is cnbc's chief washington correspondent and is on location there, and cnbc's steve leaseman both joining us. first to you, john. the speech, your impression of it. was he tough on wall street, not tough enough? what do you think of the political tone that came out of the speech today? >> i think the tone, and rhea, reflected the evolution of the political debate in washington. you know, when the president gave his weekly radio address last weekend, he was very tough on wall street and republicans talking about cynical and deceptive arguments that were being made. today there was more conciliation in his remarks. we talked afterwards to a prom negligent hedge fund manager who sai

who's right in his warnings about al qaeda before 9/11 and wears as a badge of honor the fact that dick cheney. plus the senate candidate who wants to pay doctors in chickens, and the supreme court of the united states, spectacularly uninformed and depicted by finger puppets. all ahead this hour. but first, about a week ago "the new york times" published a poll of tea party participants across the country. we do not spend a lot of time talks about polls on this show, especially those that don't have membership and loosely defined. but one thing was written up in that poll that has stuck with me that i can't really get out of my head. this is from the end of the "new york times" synopsis of their findings. nearly three quarters said they would prefer government if spending on domestic government would be cut. i cannot get this out of my

during the bush administration, the vice president and of course the president of the senate and dick cheneyld go up to the senate every week to see the republican lunch, and occasionally you have to preside over the close votes. there was a classic encounter with pat leahy, the democratic senator from vermont. they didn't get along very well, and the vice president didn't deny it, dropped the f-bomb in a conversation with leahy. dennis miller was asked about that. he was fan of that comment. >> on the list of things i should thank you for almost kicking patrick leahy's [ bleep ]. thank you very much. i loved that, one of my favorite stories. >> how many people liked that. sort of the best thing i ever did. >> i don't know if i want to talk about this specific moment with pat lay high, but why is it that vice presidents tend to use the f-bomb sometimes. >> exactly. at least vice president biden is sorry for it. and if that's the best thing that vice president cheney ever did, i think that speaks a lot to what he did in office. >> i think the -- >> his mom should have been so proud of him. >>

to whether personalities change in the circumstances, but from those who knew cheney, i did know dick cheney at the nixon white house in his earlier. i knew people who worked with him when he was white house chief of staff. they were not overly impressed with him then, and i must say that i find him a rather troubling character. i find him a very typical authoritarian conservative. i am very ages for his book to come out to see what he says to try to justify this. probably won't try to justify it. will claim it is okay, but i am glad that it's not likely he will be elected president. >> host: speaking of books, your favorite books. among the list you list sets grants memoirs and my life so far by jane fonda. [laughter] >> guest: i couldn't resist that. i have no jane for a number of years, and when i read her book i talk to her when she was working on her book. and the book is so honest, i wish more people could write out her biographies with that kind of banter. and so for that reason it's all -- i had a number of my male friends read that book that i said, i think we all need to better und

rush limbaugh respond third degree weekend with what we call the dick cheney method. e-mail this time to to l tico. >> quote, i think the president is trying to distract me to get me talking about me on my show instead of him and the administration's agenda. i know that americans are angry at the regime and the democrats' constant attempts to character assassination of their opposition. they want no part of engaging us in the arena of ideas. it's gotten old and end quote. who stands to win or lose? eugene robinson and political analyst. richard wolf, a msnbc analyst and author of "renegade." gene, it seems to me that the president, let's start with who started this. naming the names of somebody in the media, no matter how prominent they are is unusual for a president. he did it. >> there he did it and made the calculation that nees are pretty good opponents to have. it sharpens the contradictions at it were and i think he'd be happy to running against rush limbaugh and running against glenn beck and running against sarah palin more that matter. >> the ditto heads, the

several top republicans, including mitt romney and dick cheney this week endor endorsed the former houseer marco rubio in the battle for the senate g.o.p. primary in florida. you have endorsed governor charlie crist. are you taking back your endorsement? >> that was over a year ago and a lot has happened since then. the governor crist says he might be running as an independent. my advice is to compete as a republican. he has been a republican all of his life. and to remain within the party. i hope he will do that. >> chris: are you taking back your endorsement? >> not today. [ laughter ] >> chris: but he has to decide by next friday, right? >> i think if the governor were to decide to run as an independent, he won't have any republican support. >> chris: if he decided to run as a republican, would you still support him? >> i year ago i said i would support the governor. at the time he wanted our support to get in the race and we were not sure we'd be competitive in florida. >> chris: are you troubled by what he has done? >> i would be troubled if the governor decided to run as an indepen

during the transition from hell, dick cheney does the cooking in at family.he was busy with the transition which was being run out of this house. liz volunteered to do the thanksgiving dinner. everybody gasped. the vice president was so busy, he said he would give her explicit instructions. please take the turkey out of the plastic wrap was the first instruction. they ended up catering that year. [laughter] she has five kids. she would have a kid, a week later be on the campaign writing policy. i have to and she has five -- i have two and she has five so if she gives me one, we will both have three. she can do anything with her kids. we had a shower and registered for a wipe warmer. liz said any wipe in this house that is war was used on another kid. she is a patriot, practical, my hero, liz cheney. [applause] >> thank you. i just have a couple words for mary matalin. payback is hell. i want to thank you it all for that warm, southern welcome. it is a real thrill for me to be here with so many friends and so many republicans who are going to work so hard to

even last sunday on the talk shows when you heard dick cheney and joe biden debating, they were debatingis very subject and i think this book sparked a lot of that current debate. >> and what's coming up for 2010? >> ah, what's coming up. well, you see newt gingrich here in our booth. and we have a big new newt gingrich book coming out in april. we pushed his last three big nonfiction political books. and they'vell been best sellers. his last big political book was called "real change" and it came out during the president campaign. so he hasn't had a book since president obama has come in to office and now is his chance to give a report card on how the obama administration has done. and what he feels we need to do to get the country back on track. >> and we see that ann coulter which is one of your writers. >> and human events has been in business for over 60 years. and ann coulter is one of their best loved writers and she writes for human events, participate in h

but he forgot to mention that it started under that private enterprise administration of dick cheneyand george bush. so there's enough blame. and i think we need states people. i'm a little slanted in florida with housing being in such a bad shape, and it just affects so many things. and i would like to see the amount of money sent up to wall street be put into the housing crisis. when you start affecting plumbers and elect rigses and everybody else, contractors, roofers, furniture store owners, everybody, it's such a large segment of our economy that i don't think it's getting quite the -- we're not going in the right direction with it. just helping foreclosures isn't going to solve the problem. and i wish i was smart enough to understand what could. host: some news. tim geithner, the treasury secretary indicated the unemployment rate is going to stay around 10%. but he also said that the economy is growing faster than the administration initially expected. guest: what you've had is that most economists believe that probably the recession ended in the last summer. june or july. and

now right now come on it's everything right now it means everything ♪ >> a little different than dick cheneyn't you think? [applause] thank you vice president biden for that inspiring message of hope for america's working families and thank you for your unwavering support for the building and construction trades. ladies and gentlemen, like many of you, i'm a proud vietnam veteran. [applause] and i have visited the vietnam veterans' memorial wall many times and i'm always deeply moved by the service and sacrifice of those americans who are memorial i'dized in that sacred place. this year we have the opportunity to honor those heroic americans even more by building the education center at the wall sponsored by the vietnam met rans memorial fund. -- veterans memorial fund. >> washington is a city of monuments and memorials but there is one memorial that stands out that is different from all the others. it is the vietnam wall. it is visited by more people than any of the other monuments and memorials. the simple reflection of service and sacrifice. it has touched us all for 25 years. you see thi

this week, dick cheney endorsed marco hub yoe in his bid for the senate nomination. a former florida house speaker. cheney endorsed rubio over charlie crist also running for that nomination. in recent weeks there's been speculation crist may drop out of the gop race to run as an independent. that prompted a memo from a state party lawyer saying if crist does run as an independent, any gop official who publicly supports him will be removed from state and county gop committees. >>> you may get to see a lot more of two women linked to two big sex scandals. the question is, will reality tv give a home to jamey ungers and michelle "bombshell" mcgee. with 4g from sprint, i can download files up to 10x faster than 3g... outside. i can stream the movie "airplane" to my cell phone... at the airport. i can have a crystal-clear videoconference with my clients... ...muffin basket or something... ...while working offsite, or share five high-speed connections for online gaming... while enjoying the great outdoors. [ video game sound effects ] eat it, yoshi! what can you do with 4g

speaking now, liz cheney, daughter of former vice president dick cheney. >> as afghan president karzai whose support we need if we're going to prevail in afghanistan. is being treated to an especially dangerous and juvenile display from this white house. they dress him down on an almost daily basis and within the last 36 hours refused to say whether he was even an ally. you know, i used to work on the middle east and there is a saying in the arab world that it is more dangerous to be america's friend than it is to be our enemy. and i fear very much that in the age of obama that's proving to be true. now, the president's approach to nuclear disarmament which he also unveiled this week confirms the naivity of his views about america's enemies. until this week, any enemy of our country that might be contemplating a chemical, biological or large scale conventional attack against us knew they might face the worst in return, a nuclear response. we have now surrendered that powerful deterent. the new strategy prevents america from building any more nuclear weapons or using our nuclear deterre

how do you decide -- if i called in on the democratic line and said dick cheney is a war criminal orerrorist, i know from listening to c-span, the moderator would never say, no, no, that is just somebody's assertion. if host: i think p -- host: i think we want to make this a public place where people can share their viewpoint so generally that is the guideline that would follow and tried to run the show by. caller: if you are going to start correcting people based on what you think -- i think you should just a out of that. if somebody wants to assert. host: fair enough. you want to weigh in on the topic at hand today? caller: i vote for principle, as some other people have said. often that follows party because i think if you look at the -- i will try to say this without saying the democratic party and corporate communist foundations because i don't want to have to be corrected on that, but if you look at the party positions, you can pretty much see the people who are part of the party tend to go in those directions and those are principles, not the people or the party. host: i think

[applause] [applause] ♪ [applause] >> a little different than dick cheney, do you think? you, vice-president biden, for that's during mission -- stirring message of hope. thank you for your unwavering support of the building and construction trades. ladies and gentlemen, like many of you, i am a proud vietnam veteran. [applause] i have visited the vietnam veterans memorial wall many times, and i am always deeply moved by the service and sacrifice of those americans who are memorialized in that sacred place. this year, we have the opportunity to honor those heroic americans even more. by building the education center at the wall, sponsored by the vietnam veterans memorial fund. please direct your attention to the video screens for more information about this historic project. >> she and is a city of monuments and memorials. but there is one memorial that stands out. -- washington is a city of monuments and memorials. there is one that stands out. the vietnam wall. visited by more people than any money into or more of. this reflection of service and sacrifice has touched us

dick cheney so lower its down payment requirements for subprime and alt-a mortgages? >> not directly in the way that you're describing. the participation in those markets, there were credit grids that had a multiplicity of factors on them that sort of sum total down to a number of out whether a loan would be approved or not, approved in the fannie mae system. so to the extent that an ltd ratio was higher, somewhere else in the underwriting there would have to be a compensating factor that would move those up. >> let me try to, let me rephrase a little bit. did he fannie mae understand that they were guaranteeing mortgages that have higher ltd ratios and lower down payment? >> yes. >> okay. in use at homeownership rates probably rose too high. do you think fannie mae's increase participation in subprime and alt-a markets contributed to these homeownership rates rising too high? >> contributed, i would say so. >> next, in your testimony, different topic you're, you said a model i gse structure asked to perform multiple tasks, cannot withstand a multiyear 30% home price

constituents, among -- well, they're not your constituents yet, but how did you get so lucky to have dick cheneyr opponent? how did that happen? >> i would say it's the perfect storm. it's the perfect constellation of everything coming together at once. the tea party movement is as big as the republican hierarchy. so the republican hierarchy may not all want me but the tea party equals if not outnumbers them in numbers, enthusiasm and even in organizational ability. it just amazes me. people say, are you surprised? i say, no, i'm astounded at what's going on here. and, you know, it also helps that being related to someone famous, i don't run away from that. that's helped me get started, never having run before. i think also i have to present the message and i think i can present that message and i have across this state in over 300 speeches. >> tina brown has a question. >> the tea party movement is so much about generic anger, rand. you know, it's so much about a diffused rage without a focus. what can actually anyone deliver to the tea party? i mean, for you, you're glad at their enthusiasm, b

but he forgot to mention that it started under that private enterprise administration of dick cheney and george bush. so there's enough blame. and i think we need states people. i'm a little slanted in florida with housing being in such a bad shape, and it just affects so many things. and i would like to see the amount of money sent up to wall street be put into the housing crisis. when you start affecting plumbers and elect rigses and everybody else, contractors, roofers, furniture store owners, everybody, it's such a large segment of our economy that i don't think it's getting quite the -- we're not going in the right direction with it. just helping foreclosures isn't going to solve the problem. and i wish i was smart enough to understand what could. host: some news. tim geithner, the treasury secretary indicated the unemployment rate is going to stay around 10%. but he also said that the economy is growing faster than the administration initially expected. guest: what you've had is that most economists believe that probably the recession ended in the last summer. june or july. and

not as much questioning of the military or patriotism or whether joe biden is less patriotic than dick cheneyeven though they disagree fundamentally. >> guest: i am with you apart from some of my colleagues when people said you should ask questions about the iraq war and why we are there if you are in the senate and you're not there to talk about that why the heck are you there? if you're not supposed to ask questions about those issues what are you reduce two? absolutely if the white house cannot defend itself why is in iraq or anywhere else it will take the lumps absolutely. budget to raise those questions. >> getting to the subject of education we mentioned do and arne duncan have spoken together a few times and your education secretary for reagan. there was a major reform movement going on with common standards and involves a little more choice of charter schools and holding teachers accountable and this seems to be the one area that we have done in new orleans a lot we transcend partisanship. >> guest: it is fascinating i talk about katrina in the book but barney down 10 was attacked a c

let's use dick cheney as an example for someone who basically resigned as c.e.o.f a company that did a lot of business before our government, came into office, and then used his power to manipulate certain aspects of our government to bring down the largest military industrial complex on a country called iraq that did nothing to us but comply with 12 years of sanctions and governmental influckses upon those people. i mean, we did everything possible to spy on them, disarm them, and then the guy brought us to war. i mean, that's such a major conflict of interest, and it seems as though this is the primary reason why they're willing to spend a billion dollars to get elect to an office, so they can undermine any government oversight of their activities, whether they be legal or otherwise. host: craig holman? guest: yes, you are reiterating the problem here with what we call the reverse revolving door. by the way, it is not limited to elected officials. what most of these corporations will do is finance the campaigns of elected officials and then, once they get them e

but he forgot to mention that it started under that private enterprise administration of dick cheney and george bush. so there's enough blame. and i think we need states people. i'm a little slanted in florida with housing being in such a bad shape, and it just affects so many things. and i would like to see the amount of money sent up to wall street be put into the housing crisis. when you start affecting plumbers and elect rigses and everybody else, contractors, roofers, furniture store owners, everybody, it's such a large segment of our economy that i don't think it's getting quite the -- we're not going in the right direction with it. just helping foreclosures isn't going to solve the problem. and i wish i was smart enough to understand what could. host: some news. tim geithner, the treasury secretary indicated the unemployment rate is going to stay around 10%. but he also said that the economy is growing faster than the administration initially expected. guest: what you've had is that most economists believe that probably the recession ended in the last summer. june or july. and

or whether joe biden's less patriotic than dick cheney, even though they disagree fundamentally. >> yeah, i'm with you on that. i mean, the notion -- and i parted from some of my colleagues on the right on this, that, you know, when people say you shouldn't ask questions about the iraq war and why we're there, you know, if you are in the u.s. senate and not there to talk about the wisdom of going to war or not, what the heck are you there for? let's go back to the founders. if you are not supposed to ask questions about those issues, what are you reduced to? absolutely. and if the white house can't defend itself, on why its in iraq or anywhere else, it will take its lumps, absolutely. broad latitude for people to raise these kinds of questions without any issue of patriotism being raised. >> dick, let's get to the subject of education. because, you mentioned that you and arne duncan have spoken together a few times and both education -- you were education secretary for reagan. >> president reagan. >> and, there has been a major reform movement going on in america that involves common sta

it was a leadership position was held by vice president dick cheney.e financial services committee where he serves on the capital markets markets, enterprises, economic opportunities sub- committees. he is a graduate of catholic central high, a university of detroit, and the university of detroit law school. he is a bar-admitted attorney by profession. his wife is a registered nurse. he and his wife have three young children, george, timothy, and ophelia. the family lives in his hometown. he travels to and from our capital every single week to serve his community. i want you to give it up for my good friend thaddeus mccotter. [applause] >> thank you. before i begin, i would like to join you in extending our prayers' to our free and faithful friends in poland for the loss of the president in '96 of their fellow citizens with the plane crashed in russia. may god comfort them as they endure this time of anguish and remembrance. i am honored to be here with you. i admit it is an ongoing experience -- it is humbling experience because after all, i am but a

frankly, there's no job like being president, even vice president or muscular vice president, even in dick cheney, you are not president. there are burdens of the presidency which you can only really shoulder when you are president. is it realistic to assume that day one the president is going to have all of the right answers? is it realistic to assume on any day they will have the right answers? i think what will be interesting for all of us to watch is the extent to which barack obama shares his learning process with the public. because, you know, he is after all if you look at his training and if you've read his memory memoir, he's a man that believes in self-discovery and exploration. >> host: what do you hope to bring to the table with your john f.k. book? >> guest: you'll see it when you sigh it. i will be getting more into it. i've just started the research on getting more into it in the next couple of years. there's a lot of material about john f. kennedy that has become available to the public in the last few years. i believe that within the exception of the cuban missile, they have not