. >> this will be dick cheney's book, which comes out in august.you think that will be the trump card? >> it's the final one in all of these memoirs. chris: does it say bush was to the side or i was the number two man? or will he lay back and say i was with this from the beginning? >> he did. cheney believed in it and bush quotes cheney at his memoir at one of their lunches cheney saying are you going to take this guy out or not? which is kind of an incentive to do it? cheney was very influential. but, look, we do know and in a sense most of the history of this has been written and from what i can tell in rumsfeld's memoirs, there's not much new except semi-denial and justification. >> i think history's been written but i still don't see it. i still don't -- chris: why we went to iraq. >> why we went to war in iraq. >> it was a feeling of hube russ. we had to show the islamic world we weren't going to be able to get away with supporting groups like al qaeda. chris: what does a bomb have to do with al qaeda? >> nothing. >> and this mystery linger. i

bush because it into a car driven people it's dick cheney it's filled as dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memo was this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met a cameraman for a canary satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in going to animal for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old died a few days ago after being gone time of a nine year. old's without charge of course and tortured by the international law has proved pretty useless when it comes to torture will any of these come to pass to actually indict all these people including of course tony blair here in britain very doubtful in the hague won't touch the people that really are responsible for torture in such a major scale and training torture is at the school of americas and of course we must remember that the obama administration still is going to open so people are being tortured to this day specter from journalist offshore tansey turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe tunisia rema

. >> and dick cheney is the featured speaker at the closing banquet, of the birthday of president reagan. live coverage begins tonight at 10:15 eastern. >> sunday, janet napolitano on how the u.s. is dealing with security threats. she is interviewed by eric clapton of the new york times, what's this tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> the politics had come apart, and this was destroyed and violent. >> on monday, a documentary producer on the amount of the possible. >> we wanted to show another side of this. people did not understand the pressures that he ever humphrey was under. >> this is sunday night at 8:00 on c-span. >> president obama previews the speech that he will give next week to the u.s. chamber of commerce, and he calls on businesses to hire workers. there is a criticism of his economic policies, that have been said to create unsustainable deficits. >> this week, we were told that we were moving in the right direction but we need to get there more quickly. the bipartisan tax cuts that we passed in december will add to job creation and economic growth. this is making the paychec

bush because it's an entire car drew of people it's dick cheney it's called rumsfeld is dick cheney's chief of staff we don't have rumsfeld's memoirs this is about illegal wars and so on but this case i think centers around two individuals in particular one of whom i've met a cameraman for a qatari satellite t.v. channel who was incarcerated in guantanamo for years and we mustn't forget forty eight year old guy a few days ago after being in guantanamo for nine years also without charge of course and tortured but so with these human rights groups really have had any realistic chance of making a successful arrest or was this more about papa thirty. i mean published he comes into it my feeling is that the swiss authorities were more frightened that when george w. bush appears at this. organization in geneva that a lot of demonstrators would be throwing shoes at george w. bush perhaps you wouldn't catch them this time marking of course or miss them like you did in baghdad i think international law has proved pretty useless when it comes to torture i think most people would agree that the

but ron paul's people are very very well organized and they were able to make a lot of ruckus dick cheney's a donald rumsfeld speech as i've heard from this is this is definitely true they really really did and during donald trump's also donald trump had to sort of fire off a shot there about how ron paul is essentially an electable which they don't like very much there are a lot of people who are major fans of ron paul who were there and he will be voting i think it's also his time because time i mean frankly i suspect that he is probably still not quite mainstream enough to make a real go of it but i'm also always interested to see how somebody like ron paul plays in an early primary state like new hampshire that has a little bit more of a libertarian bent to it i think what's also interesting is how hard the gary johnson folks are pushing all of their material immaterial and urging people to vote for him in the presidential rival our governor and i got to wrap it up you guys and thank you both for being here and to your day. it's so on saturday hopefully we'll find out where you go throu

dick cheney was one of the guest speakers at the reagan ranch in santa barbara. >> reagan himself was acouple of ted -- accustomed to political battles. he expected it. >> alan: the conservative young americans foundation is sponsoring the evefnlt it was founded to promote conservative ideas on college campuses and bought reagan's ranch in 1988. >> facebook may be moving thumb the peninsula. they have scheduled a news conference on tuesday. they may be preparing to move into the pauling -- sprawling campus, the bayfront site has been vacant since oracle bought sun last. >> bank of america is going to pay money to challenge a federal lawsuit. the first financial settlement by a large bank involving overdraft practices. there are lawsuits against 30 other lending institutions including wells fargo, city citigroup, and chase. new regulation prevent banks from charging overdraft fees for debit card transactions. >> tomorrow a 30-second commercial during super bowl xlv will cost $35 million. see how a company in berkeley is helping. >> we're a nation of consumers, come barded by an army of

former vice-president dick cheney will speak at a celebration this evening at the reagan ranch in santaarbara. the conservative young america foundation is sponsoring the event. it was founded to promote conservative ideas on college campuses and bought reagan's former ranchin' 1998. that's it for this edition of abc-7 news. thanks for joining us. see you tonight at 11:00. good night. captioned by closed captioning services inc.

>> reporter: just before the election of 2006, his friend of 38 years, vice president dick cheney calledmake it clear the president had decided it was over. did it feel like being fired? >> no, it was the right thing. and i told the president that the next day when i met with him. >> reporter: today rumsfeld says his critics including barack obama have had a reality check. >> for all the criticism of president bush and the people working around him, for the things he put in place, the patriot act, the guantanamo bay, you know, a lot of people criticized them and fussed at it. the fact is they're still there. why are they still there? they're there because they make sense in the 21st century. they need it and the new administration has not been able to figure out a better way to do it. >> reporter: when we come back we ask him one more time about the price of long wars and whether he has regret. well, hotels know they can't fill every room every day. like this one. and this one. and oops, my bad. so, they give expedia ginormous discounts with these: unpublished rates. which means i get an

. >>> former vice president dick cheney weighed in on the crisis in egypt while he was in california this weekend. speaking in santa barbara, cheney stressed while the will of the egyptian people should prevail, the obama administration should move cautiously in embracing a change of power there. he was quick to defend president hosni mubarak. >> he's been a good man, he's been a good friend and ally to the united states. we need to remember that. >> cheney talked about how helpful mubarak was in the 1991 gulf war, committing troops to fight alongside u.s. forces. >>> the family of perhaps the most well-known hmong lead history died last month is speaking out against the obama administration tonight. today is the third day of the six-day funeral in fresno. yesterday members of his family said it was disgraceful the u.s. army denied their request for vang to be buried at arlington national cemetery. when many hmong people sought asylum in the united states, he became a cultural leader here as well. his arlington burial request was denied after unanimous recommendation of a board made

host: dick cheney worked for ronald reagan and gerald ford? guest: yes, ronald reagan is associated with the 11th commandment, thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow republican . then he ran against ford. whatever the circumstances of the end of the nixon era, it was the end of his term. i don't think he had difficulty convincing himself that he was, at least in some ways, entitled to run. host: can i ask you one of the great what if's? guest:: sure. host: what if jerry ford had selected ronald reagan as his running mate? guest: it is my understanding from multiple sources that the condition of a ford-reagan meeting following the nomination, the condition was, that ford not offer the vice presidentsy -- presidency. only if the ford camp was guaranteed that, could the meeting go forward. there are those who heard from ronald reagan's own lips subsequently, that reagan was such a soft touch that if ford had asked him, he probably would have said yes. they probably would have won. you have to remember, the -- ohio, mississippi, mississippi was 11,0

vice president dick cheney was about to introduce him but shouting crowd members put that on hold.ened on the first day of the conservative political action committee convention. a chance for gop leaders and potential presidential candidates to meet over 10,000 party activists. one of the big highlights of c-pac is the straw poll. everybody takes a vote on which of the potential candidates they like best. the hopefuls try hard to win. but it doesn't mean much. mitt romney won the straw poll back in 2007. a year later john mccain won the party's nomination. >> ready for mccain, cross out palin. >> reporter: two years later it's mccain's former running mate who is getting a lot of attention at c-pac. >> sarah palin has several of my pins. >> reporter: sarah palin turned down her invitation, citing scheduling conflicts. heidi lasher is pulling for palin to run in 2012. >> for me i'm really upset. i would love for her to be here. but i know she's got a lot going. >> reporter: conservatives are far from united on a favorite but do agree on one thing. >> a second term of obama would be d

revolutions i'm joined by david morse are in washington he's a former senior adviser to vice president dick cheney in irvine we go to mark le vine he is a professor of modern middle eastern history culture and islamic studies at the university of california irvine and in brussels we have read brody he is counsel and spokesperson for human rights watch and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right if i can go to mark first in irvine i'd like to look at a trend the last ten years and then since the time of the statehood of arab countries after the second world war primarily what has gone terribly wrong and i want to look at explicitly first at the last ten years ago so called war on terror why has that just been a total utter failure because you don't need to fight terrorism all we needed to do was support democracy as we've seen over the last few weeks. i think that's a really good characterization i think if we had been supporting democracy all those years before the last ten years we would never have had the terrorism and the war on terror and the disasters that have befall in

diplomat said this was during the bush administration remember when cheney kept on dick cheney kept on flying over there to saudi arabia and set out all hussein he told them that iran twelve point five million barrel a day capacity needed to keep a lid on prices could not be reached yet they don't have the oil to pump now this is going to be interesting going forward because america doesn't have the money to buy higher priced oil china however does because china has all of america's money they've got three trillion dollars in reserves so they can afford to pay out for oil and gas the u.s. so ever cannot so this is part of the dynamics and of course the saudis who have been america's good buddy friend for years will start you know entertaining hu jintao more often and obama and the whole white house gang will be in the short bus trying to make their way down to the coast for a little r. and r. because they're flicked in on a ploy well i have another chart here to show you that the u.s. is not looking for a solution. to this problem of saudi arabia running out of oil are indeed spending

senator john mccain's daughter, megan, and dick cheney's daughter, mary, are all outspoken supporters for marriage equality. >>> okay. we want to check in with sal. he's gonna tell us about a new crash in oakland. i just mentioned it a few minutes ago. northbound 880, it's a flipped over motorcycle in the two left lanes. in fact if you look at the left side of the screen you can see that one emergency vehicle has arrived. oakland fire was dispatched with paramedics. this was northbound 880 at fifth. two left lanes blocked. a van is also involved and several people have stopped to help out. one of our producers has said the accident is relatively new. it just happened a few mets ago. let's take a look at 580. it's a mess. we had a couple of earlier crashes on the altamont pass. and you can see is busy in downtown san jose getting into the valley. less-- let's go to steve. >>> up above, it's sunny and it will be a nice day, once the fog burns off. it looks like high pressure is here for a while, probably for the first ten -- ten or 15 days. but cold and foggy if you are in the fog bank.

have turned out of lyndon johnson one allowed to swing a dog around by the ears or nine eleven if dick cheney can go to an undisclosed location and shoot somebody in the face so we have all americans mr president i'm going to light up for the first time ever in order to help entice you into taking a well deserved smoke break yourself. come on sir. don't you wanna join me on a high speed rail to flavor. ok it appears never actually lit. back to you alone a. ok break thanks for your thoughtful analysis now aside from showing us they have absolutely no idea how to handle light or do you have a little bit of a point there that during stressful times everyone needs advice now and i'm not going to tell obama to pick smoking back up but i am dying to know what happen it's going to turn to next so let's let the investigation begin. now it's the twenty first century and times have changed in the past a student with a college degree was guaranteed a job with a good salary and benefits but nowadays that's not necessarily true thanks to tough economic times and a harsh unemployment rate so with all this

tomorrow, dick cheney is the featured speaker at the closing than what marking the 100 per day of ronald reagan. -- marking the 100th birthday of ronald reagan. >> sunday, janet of soliton now on how the u.s. is meeting current security threats. -- judge andrew napolitano >> the whole environment had become polluted and destroyed and violent. >> a documentary producer on hubert h. humphrey, the art of impossible. >> the whole reason was to show this side of this. everyone remembers him as someone looking lyndon johnson's boots. people did not understand the pressure he was under. >> listen to historic supreme court cases on supreme court radio. the court considers the fair housing act, racial discrimination. >> the complaint says that he should be liable as an individual and he owns the corporation and because he was the officer broker. >> listen to the argument on c- span radio, in washington d.c. on 90.1 and online at c- span.org. >> robert mandel says the fcc recent decision on net and net neutrality would likely go down in flames. this is almost an hour. -- rober >> okay, we would li

. >> we heard from former vice president dick cheney in conversation with the chairman of the reagan ranch for of governors. the former vice president talked about witnessing president reagan's path to the presidency and the gulf war. he also mentioned his looming deadline as he mentioned his rent -- his memoirs. >> you can see the vice president's remarks later tonight at about 1:30 a.m. eastern time here on c-span. c-span is a private nonprofit company created in 1979 by the cable television agency as a public service. tonight, we will bring the madeleine albright, tom ridge, and microsoft chairman bill gates on foreign assistance. then, another look at the 100th anniversary of the birthday of ronald reagan. first-come attributes from the senate floor and then live coverage of dick cheney at the banquet in santa barbara, california. >> sunday, when newsmakers, janet napolitano on border issues. that is at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> the whole environment of politics have come apart. it had become polluted and destroyed and violent. >> q&a on sunday, the art

and -- not haineafplt dick cheney. and i love him as a human being and he was a great actor and a great speaker. however, he did not know what he was doing. host: the house is set to extend the vote on the patriot act. long island, new york. you are next. cindy on our democrat's line. good morning. caller: good morning. i'm calling to directly address your question. i do not think ronald reagan, who is a charming delightful man, a terrible president, i don't think he would approve of these, of today's republican party or at least the one whose have high jaked them. there are lots of good republicans. but ronald reagan for all the flaws that i know of him was a gentleman. can you imagine ronald reagan shouting at a guest speaker in our house of representatives shouting, you lie? these are just not people who are proper peeple. ronald reagan, for that man that called several calls ago from virginia, not the more recent one from west virginia, said well these democrats, they can't stand the truth. they don't want to hear

, to remind american people of what strong, principled, conservative leadership looks like than dick cheneyin case you were wondering, i think there's probably still time for you to file some paperwork for iowa and new hampshire. [applause] now, my thanks to david and to the american conservative union and for your invitation, for your years of dedicated leadership of the conservative movement. you're committed to the concepts of ronald reagan and bill buckley i and to the free exchange of ideas. i commend you for standing up for those time-honored principles. it's good to be here. i have been around so long that i remember a time when cpac did not exist, when ronald ray began was still an -- ronald reagan was still an actor, when barry goldwater was our candidate for president, and we only worried about socialism outside of the united states. [cheers and applause] now, i'm honored the receive this defender of the constitution award and especially to be with so many people who understand how important it is for us all to defend the constitution. people in this room, i know, keep that flame

. >> but dick cheney said surveying has chief of staff as a successor so many times president -- presidents were constrained in the congress was moving him and when he became vice president he hoped to expand presidential power and a move that the other way. did you feel that? >> when you have the embattled president functioning in a white house at that point* was deemed illegitimate, watergate had drained the reservoir from our country for the first time a president of the united states had to resign. it was a stunning events. in our country, and the world and we don't govern by a command but by persuasion and through leadership and if you have to persuade people don't respond and the white house was in a terrible terrible terrible circumstance. of should we go for continuity to reassure the american people that he, a total unknown who has never been elected no platform, no campaign staff, and no knowledge about the country have been campaigned, no base of support, he felt the need to reassure the country there would be continuity. the alternative the alternative is to favor a change but t