blackwater now xe he is evil incarnate when ronald reagan talked about the axis of evil it was dick cheney his mirror image and the mirror image of his mirror image he is the father son and holy ghost of evil dick cheney and he's absolutely right king yes wrecked i should say the american economy and this is absurd tony blair remember is dick cheney's little pool remember dick cheney goes down to washington to washington avenue you know we're in washington and look at the end of the least there's little tony blair. yes i'll spend british money on your wars yes i'm a little blue he's disgusting blair is why is why blair mom for the thai people looks like well he says it's not stupid cheney's view but let's look how stupid it is because the other thing the it's a scandal you forgot there was that cheney was the head of the scandal of nine eleven ok what america has lost it's clear we overreacted to nine eleven this is for. newsweek now and he's discussing this vast warfare state which is bigger than any sort of social welfare state one can imagine so he's talking since nine eleven that the a

. >> by the way, when dick cheney said you better vote for republicans here, we're not going to be safe. we night get attacked again. was that a threat? >> can i get colmes saying -- i think he is such a pure idealogue that his ideology his progressive ideology trumps everything includes polls, colleges and each re-election. his fundamental duty, according to himself and his ideology was to fundamentally remake america in a socialist model and he has got one turn to do it. >> bill: isn't that something that should be admired. >> if you are a progressive idealogue like colmes. >> bill: if you are a right winger like you. >> bill that would be okay except he is on the wrong side of 70% of the american people and the constitution. >> bill: if the american people are getting hurt if by his policies. >> and they. >> dick cheney threaten the united states. >> what are you talking about, colmes? >> the threat? hey, you better vote for republicans or we will get attacked again. >> did he not say that nut case. >> bill: if the former vice president -- would you please send colmes an autographed

but also, it was not the horror story that dick cheney and george bush was trying--were trying to tell us. and i think he, uh, barack obama, really, and his policies of reset, uh, really put russia back into perspective that it deserves. so we deal with them on certain issues, we don't deal with them on others. >> we'll come back to that in a minute. but let's--we spoke to some other experts as well. let's see what they said about the question of why russia's trying to reassert itself. >> under its czar, under stalin, under brezhnev, the russian economy was always a cripple. and yet, they were a major global power, uh, fearsome and terrifying. and the reason is because in russia, the economy is dominated by the only institution that efficiently works, the kgb, the nkbd, and so on. and they're able, therefore, through the use of force and terror, to transfer from the economy to the military economy any resources that they want. and so you have an asymmetry in russia, a weak economy and a very strong military. and that's exactly where putin and medvedev are going again. >> you certainly

they did it to dick cheney, to dr. condoleezza rice.at president of the united states needs to lead example. people want to hear the president talk in very confident tones and he sounds like a very thin-skinned individual. >> ron, you're amazing, sir. >> i'm sorry. he is. >> you definitely got it down, ron. i'll give you credit. ron and jack rice. >> say it like you mean it. >> good to you have with us, fellows. >>> coming up, i can't believe that are there americans who don't want their kids to were president obama's back-to-school tomorrow speech. some conservative nut jobs are raising hell that he's going to indoctrinate their kids by their message to them next in "the playbook." hi, folks. hi. we're ready to switch our car insurance to progressive. today just seemed like a great day to save. oh, it's not just today. with our free loyalty program, you earn great stuff like accident forgiveness and bigger discounts just by staying with us. oh! ooh! so, what you're saying is, it gets even better with age. oh! tell me we're still talkin

is a dramatic earth shaking difference between barack obama and joe biden versus george bush and dick cheney it is a dramatic and earthshaking difference and it's hard and it's tough but the difference is real very quickly we just have one more minute left this kind of speech is this given only for international audiences because americans that are struggling with the recession right now they're not happy with the way that their country is going do they want to hear hillary talking about how we offer everything up to the rest of the world but they can't give americans jobs well they want to hear how we're going to get jobs it's a different show we could do for four hours but i will say in american politics barack obama is being criticized by republicans and the right wing for actually saying that america is not always right i mean remember he's on the attack at home because he is trying to be more honest the point is these are tough brutal issues and he is trying and to some degree succeeding and to some degree he has a lot more work to go but it took george bush eight years to never really

. >> rose: dick cheney and others. >> they had... there was this idea which blair had about this was something very important and he was right in there and he also had that instinctive desire to stick by america, which i think makes a big difference. and that's... the problem for blair in some ways is the consequences of all these things. amazingly bright, clever, articulate supreme politician is many of the things he loved most in the world-- like the desire to push middle east peace, like weirdly the european union-- he came in as one of the most pro-europe prime ministers ever. the idea of having a foreign policy which was about more than just money. he wanted to really establish goodness as he saw it. all those things. in some ways by the time he left it had all gone backwards and so it's that curse of politics all political careers end in failure >> rose: your magazine has generally been supportive of tony blair. >> we supported tony blair in not his first election but the other ones afterwards. to be honest, he built up this ne

. >> you mean i have to lay off neo cons and dick cheney. >> neocons. >> i like these guys.ey may all be evsmile neo cons is a really descriptive adjective. it starts to become a judgment call. >> scooter, libby, can i keep naming some of these guys. >> i don't think that anyone convicted of perjury you can call a liar. >> jon stewart will not stop chris matthews of talking about scooter, libby and dick cheney. >> you are guys coming, bringing dates? >> oh yeah. we're each other's date. lawrence and i are hing down for the weekend, yeah. >> no better date i remember from the old days in the '60s it's the coolest social gathein the world. nothing like a rally in washington when the grass is green and you walk out there. the weather's great. it's fall weather in d.c. it's perfect. so i'm going to boost this thing. we're going to boost to and you know he was really tough on me one time, jon stewart. and i like him. what can i say? >> chris, i just wish that weekend go to this thing with you and norm mailer. >> well you can go with me. >> oh good enough. >> you acted irrevlently

was risking full moon just as dick cheney his wife was writing. well it seemed safe enough. to make me feel better this may be. a stupid thing. but alright it's. this is what real. and they tell me that these are a bit of a crazy bunch. of me by some distance. close to twenty two minutes ago. and my stripes and for sure the troops have a special reward for that. i think i have down. my legs get the feeling. that. he's going to address the long line to you. here oh i think i need a stiff drink. it was definitely time for a well deserved break and luckily the house just the place to get away from it all . for the total bill but i'm the cossacks. every month we give you the future we help you understand how to get there and bring the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world technology update on our. 1930's. friends tried to reason with hitler germany. since way. to safety net for themselves nineteen thirty nine the whole of the. war efforts to establish a system of collective security nine hundred thirty. if trading with doesn't inspire a love of h

on the day dick cheney and the make more business. we need to be independent intending to. do need to market represents okinawa in japan's house of representatives and is looking to bring about change. it has been sixty years since world war two seventy percent of u.s. bases in japan are in okinawa now that there are security measures and programs in place in asian countries we want the us to reduce their bases. aside from noise pollution and space concerns one of the arguments against u.s. military bases on okinawa is crime according to the treaty american citizens attached to the base can't be tried under japanese law now most of the crimes about ninety percent involve drinking and driving or are traffic related but there are a few high profile crimes which include rape and murder which have put a strain on japanese u.s. relations see them with us if crimes do happen the japanese security cannot deal with them directly they must go through the u.s. military base command then you have to simply trust them it becomes very difficult the u.s. military declined an interview wi

from a lot of the cases in this at all and your sadness and other matters are not on the bench dick cheney is got a case going before the supreme court where he's been essentially prosecuted and scalia is the swing vote he goes duck hunting with scalia and they ask are you going to recuse yourself because why sure do i can do whatever a law but a landmark a body is going to that is be a lot of you say no i'm going to recuse myself in this case and probably if this were you know if this were going to be a split decision she made and of having been the swing vote i think it is there you know what i think she should follow the liberals are focusing on here she was the fact that you're saying well this is already law but if we look at the recent actions of perhaps corporations if we look at the actions of banks on wall street if we look at the actions of the government there are also two cases coming before the supreme court that to deal with the over use in my opinion of state secrets privilege is right and makes you start questioning whether just because something is a law if that means you

that set up their own intelligence agency under the guidance of dick cheney and george bush cooked up this intelligence and convicts members of congress to support a war that was unnecessary as credit is that if they did come. this information that they did try to pick and choose not to find one story that they could sell and that is history and there were stories that they sold to the press sold to the new york times for a small intelligence for a child would be for god sakes i'm going to be a criminal nobody's and we really need a job to sort of the road ok with the japanese bombed pearl harbor started world war two american intelligence thought the germans were behind it and overwhelmingly all americans thought the germans behind it and if germany had declared war on the united states we would have declared war injury and we would have been just as wrong about that as one word a would or could or should i don't hear so why are you talking about the past going on you want to seven years so let's talk about the future you know enough about the past combat mission supposedly over in i

don't know why he has to care about chris dodd and outgoing snar with an approval rating that makes dick cheneys a move to try to appease the base, not upset the banks by appointing someone they don't want. i'm told she wanted to be economic adviser to the president. she's a pretty smart cooky and she's in there and hopefully she'll be able to do some good. >> in one splits the baby like o obama. here's a good idea. upset the banks. i don't understand the republican objection to this. she would protect the consumers. i think even right wingers agree to that, so why not make her the director? >> it's politics as usual. you have symptoms in place with checks and balance. as much as the president talks the banks need to loosen up credit, since regulators are saying and doing something else with the banks, it's not necessarily the banks fault. it had to do with regulators, they're set on making sure they hold their feet to the fire. mrs. warren would like to have senate confirmation because of the credibility it would give her and yes, the president will have difficulty in what we call, creating an

the president dithered, that was the phrase being used by dick cheney, myself and other people.0 troops. he put a timetable in place. he wants them out the president in this new book of woodward hopes he will leave it better off. then he made a statement, we can absorb a terrorist attack. if we don't defeat them isn't that the whole purpose defeat them there so we don't get attacked here? >> one of the key things two pay attention to is the pakistan nuclear program. taliban and al-qaeda have said their objective is to obtain one or more weapons from the program. you and i both know a nuclear device going off in the homeland would make 9/11 look like -- i'm not belittling 9/11, but it would be far worse. and the president keeps talking about the cancer being in pakistan. >> sean: do you think the way they are waging this war, not at full strength that the military is asking, is it winnable? >> he split the baby. what you have is a dead baby and no objective of peace. >> sean: that's why he won't talk about victory. >> military gave him options. i heard there was a bait and switch

transatlantic relations, the war in iraq, and blair's personal thoughts on everyone from lady di to dick cheney look it up. now for "the last look." i bet these photographs will bring most of you back, back to the 1980s, the great decade of excess, this was, of course, the amazing shoe collection of imelda marcos, she was the wife of ferdinand marcos, who declared martial law and flaunted wealth while his people starved. she had over 3,000 pairs of shoes. flash forward some

relations, the run-up to the war in iraq, and blair's personal thoughts on everybody from lady di to dick cheneyarack obama to the queen. pick it up. now for the "last look." i bet these photographs will bring most of you back. back to the 1980s, that great decade of excess. this was of course the amazing shoe collection of imelda marcos. she was the wife of ferdinand marcos, the president of the philippines, who declared martial law and flaunted his elaborate lifestyle while his people starved. emblematic of that lifestyle, imelda's almost 3,000 pairs of shoe

or that george bush let 9/11 happen to help pad dick cheney's halliburton stock portfolio. >> then hisague, stephen colbert, announced a countereraly that made the whole thing feel like schtick. >> tonight, ladies and gentlemen, to fight jon stewart's creeping reasonableness, to restore truthiness, i am announcing my rally. nation, are you ready? [ cheers ] >> good! because i am announcing it! >> both mimicking or mocking glenn beck's lincoln memorial gathering laugh month. what does stewart hope to gain from his march and will it boost or blemish his reputation as a cultural critic. joining us, dick cavett, long-time late night talk show host and writes a column for "the new york times" web site. dick cavett, jon stewart has always been sharp edged and political and loves to skewer us in the news business who need to be skewering. is it hard to take this seriously? >> i take it seriously. i think it's a swell idea comedically -- dreadful word -- they're my laurel and hardy and make me laugh. the only thing i would criticize about jon stewart's idea is that it's hard to recall when we

bush dick cheney and george bush. >> nice to see you. >> i've wanted to go face to face with you on soany issues for so long. i'm in new york, now we're in washington. >> we're here, let's do it, ed. >> all right, jim demint in many respects is the leader of the party right now, is that a fair statement? >> i think he is the leader of the conservative party, no question. >> has he had more victories than mcconnell? >> i think that he's been very successful along with governor palin of recruiting people, as you said, long-shot candidates. people that were ignored by the mainstream and ignored by the establishment republicans. and they won. if you look, been very impressive, alaska, south carolina, what we saw in delaware, jim demint has been time mobilize people, get them to the polls and make sure that these candidates have the money to win. i think he's been very successful. >> but now you're stuck with nease candidates and they're saying some pretty outlandish stuff, very radical. how do you mix them into the gop? >> i think that a lot of these people who ran and won represented a mo

if you look for example at the last decade we had george bush and dick cheney starting an aggressivehat killed 100,000 people at least and instituting a worldwide torture regime and instituting powers that are tyrannical and probably before that newt gingrich was the leader of the republican through the 1990s. he was speaker of the house. before that reagan radicals. reagan was elected on a platform of eliminating federal agencies like department of education. he tried to put robert bourque on the supreme court. is this current crop of candidates radical and extremists? absolutely. are they significantly more so than prior republicans? i don't think so. >> the fight over "don't ask, don't tell" today, one of the other issues with that was the dream act. so this dream act is an immigration measure. the last time -- one of the things i pointed out in talking about republican hypocrisy on that today was orrin hatch and bob bennett of utah who tried to put the dream act on the defense authorization bill the last time around. the idea that republicans would do that now, that orrin hatch w

dick cheney says he's already out, speaking about you. i may be out of their version of the republican party, but there's another version of the republican party waiting to emerge once again. that was a year ago. is the tea party what you had in mind? >> i have to point out that mr. cheney pulled that comment back a few weeks later and said maybe i should stay in the party if i chose to remain in the party. i'm kind of like a mike bloomberg in that he has shifted back and forth. i consider myself a moderate republican. i have very, very moderate social views and are pretty strong on defense matters and i think there's a party in there that wants to come out. if the republican party is going to come out in a way that mike bloomberg is talking about and others are talking about, they've got to take a hard look at some of the positions they've been taking. we can't be anti-immigration, for example. immigrants are fueling this country. without immigrants, america would be like europe or japan with an aging population and no young people comin

and ron christie, former assist ant to president bush and dick cheney and a republican strategist.ou with us tonight. >> thank you. >> good evening. >> ron, don't you kind of need to know what the minimum wage is before you come out against is it? what do you think? >> well, i think that you should. i think that everything that the government does taken in context should be looked at and make sure, are we doing the right thing to help people? when you look at the minimum wage here in the district on columbia nearly 40% of the people who are high school graduates couldn't get a job this past summer and a lot of people said, did -- did raising the minimum wage put a barrier in place, people said you know what i want to hire these kids but it's too expensive for me as a business owner. i think that everything that the government do it, be it minimum wage we need to make sure that we're putting people to work. >> what do you think? >> i think it's ridiculous. the fact is that, look, big corp rations, major corporations are not hiring. the problem isn't minimum wage. if you take the min

. >> rose: and part of that is where you come down agreeing with dick cheney. >> i don't... >> rose: no, but you've said it. you have said yourself in this book cheney would have gone... marchd from country to country to country and part of you understood that. >> yeah. i understood that the... what he was trying to say. >> rose: and agreed with his analysis of the issue. >> well, i agree with this: that his view that was, i think, the world had to be remade as a result of september 11 and i agree that it does have to be. although i think i would do in the a different way where there's a far greater... as i say in the book, a far greater combination of hard and soft power. that's why for me, for example, the middle east peace process is a central part. >> rose: i'm going to come to that. >> that's probably where i would differ but i do say and i think it's important debate to have that for many progressives simply to dismiss the view of people like president bush's "oh, that's neoconciergive the" well, we need to be careful woof that means and what it represents. because... >> rose: t

democrat and running with this ticket then running with george bush with a 32% or 29% and with dick cheney with a 22% kind of favorability rating. this election is going to boil down whether joe biden or barack obama saying this is a choice, do we want to go back to the same policies that built bill clinton's prosperity. the answer is quite clearly is going to be no on election day. >> the president may be unpopular but his wife is enormously popular. she has favorability rating close to 70%. is she out there campaigning with california, colorado, several other states. that is a shrewd and wise move, isn't it? >> i have the mind that third party is good for fund-raising but i don't think they make people to move to make a decision. they like when michelle obama and get to meet her but they then they decide on the candidate. there is a clear difference between whether we are going to fund obama care and cap and trade are going back to fiscal restraint. >> let me ask you something about rich just said. he brought up george bush. look, look at the polls as well and more americans blame george

dick cheney, i remember the vice president of the united states, i see he made the statement that deficits don't matter. i strong will i disagree with him. of course chaney it doesn't make any difference. now they are complaining about the size of the tow truck. get us back on the road. you know, mr. speaker, i think the american people are not going to be fooled. i also find it a little bit astonishing that, again, while my friends are talking about the importance to focus on the deficit that they have embraced a tax plan that will double the projected deficit by adding $4 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. what they are trying to do is make sure that millionaires and above get at least $100,000 in tax breaks. that's where their priorities are. the purpose of this bill is to not only help families lower their utility costs, the purpose of this bill is to create american jobs. and to buy products made in the united states of america. not buy them from china, not buy them from india or some other country. but made here in the united states. i'm sorry that my colleague from nort

we're all best children, bob, and fewer to talk to dick cheney's daughter who is a lesbian to tell youshe is being who she was, who she was born as. that was the most memorable line of any of the debates may be in the entire campaign and i don't think if kerry and that's blind to do over again he would use it. but social issues are very often not as prominent as they were in these two presidential races which also happen to be the last two presidential elections in which republican presidential candidate won a popular vote. two out of the last five has social issues, and the same two also had republican pluralities or majorities in popular vote. but in a cycle where there hasn't been a major social issue of such as 2008, voters are still socially conservative, they vaguely know the republican party is better on quote on quote aborti up receive six marriage, but on the republican side that they feel very free to wander over and make their decision based on economics and national security. that was unhelpful for the republican party on economics in 2008. the social issue voters are kind

. >> what the president is concerned about is what dick cheney was concerned about.s -- i think they are both realists in that sense. that, should it happen, and in the simulation they ran last spring about indianapolis, thousands of people were killed. there were questions about food and water and communication. it would be chaos. and in the history books, 9/11 might be a footnote. >> hey, ben, how do we rebuild our cities? how do we rebuild our infrastructure? how do we rebuild our schools? how do we move forward and bring all of americans into the 21st century workforce if we have this constant specter of fear over our heads of a looming nuclear attack from a terror group? >> i think fear is something we can handle in this country. i grew up during the cold war. we had to jump under our desk like every six days it seemed like. so we are a tough people. with that said, we've got to make our cities a priority. we've got to make our schools and the rural areas a real focus. this is a country that expects to lead the world in college graduation. we're not doing that r

just over the past year and a half, he's had very public disagreements with dick cheney and rush limbaughing again. again, i don't think the tea party is what he had in mind. >> and concerns with barack obama now trying to do too much at once. he's issued warnings. i'm eve going to be intrigued to see what he has to say about barack obama. he's got to be disappointed. >> also afghanistan. i've been in my own research looking at his comments early on after 9/11 talking about how quickly troops would come out of afghanistan. i think thing have changed significantly. but really talk about the president's leadership and the future of the republican party at such a critical time. >> there's talk of him being chief of staff. >> david gregory, thanks very much. there might be a new party in the white house. "the daily show" is running short on material. "new york magazine's" chris smith joins us next. we'll be right back. [ woman ] nine iron, it's almost tee-time... time to face the pollen that used to make me sneeze... my eyes water. but now zyrtec®, the fastest 24-hour allergy relief, comes in

so if you were to click on that, you would see a short video of former vice president dick cheney breakingie in the senate. now, that's a very simple example, but there are many other videos available that are much more detailed. this is really designed to be used at any level, anywhere from fifth or sixth grade, all the way up to government. caller: this is a free membership site, so you have to be a member, but it's free. host: do you envision constitution clips as a static thing, or do you anticipate that it will grow over time? caller: the goal is to definitely have it evolve, and we're encouraging teachers and even students to add additional clips to it. each we'll we'll have a menu. if you click on something, you might have a choice of several different clips. c-span has an amazing video library, so there are a lot of examples out there that could be added. host: how do you envision a teacher using it in the classroom? caller: i was using it today with my students, my eighth grade middle school students, and it can be used in a number of different ways. one way is for a teacher to sh