president dick cheney and former president george w. bush should be right now on trial that they should be prosecuted for your card and say his potential crimes are insignificant but sort of but the fact that he isn't being asked about many of those crimes or that somebody asked them and he says i fully defended and there's not a whole lot of kickback not a whole lot of pushback there i don't think that you think this again you described our culture you described our political culture in particular we do not a whole elitist and anyone who achieves the oval office or thereabouts is an elitist by definition responsible we say something like this at least since world war two we've said something like this they held power they did the best they could they raped pillaged and plundered everything else but they did the best they could but still go there because if we go there in the future people. i want to serve well my counter to that is my students at william and mary george washington and everywhere else i go good students do that and we m

former vice president dick cheney came "out front."ed him about the top-secret stealth drone the cia lost in iran. president obama said today he wants to prevent that technology from getting in the hands of iran but here's what the vice president told us. >> the right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. you could do that from the air, you could do that with a quick air strike. and in effect make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone. i was told that the president had three options on his desk. he rejected all of them. >> and they all involved removing the drone immediately? >> they involved sending somebody in to try to recover it or, if you can't do that, and admittedly that would be a difficult operation, he certainly could have gone in and destroyed it on the ground with an air strike. but he didn't take any of the options. he asked nicely for them to return it. and they aren't going to do that. >> number two, the supreme court announced it will rul

former vice president dick cheney came "out front."sked him about the top-secret stealth drone the cia lost in iran. president obama said today he wants to prevent that technology from getting in the hands of iran but here's what the vice president told us. >> the right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. you could do that from the air, you could do that with a quick air strike. and in effect make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone. i was told that the president had three options on his desk. he rejected all of them. >> and they all involved removing the drone immediately? >> they involved sending somebody in to try to recover it or, if you can't do that, and admittedly that would be a difficult operation, he certainly could have gone in and destroyed it on the ground with an air strike. but he didn't take any of the options. he asked nicely for them to return it. and they aren't going to do that. >> number two, the supreme court announced it will r

of the unknown. >> joining us now to talk about iraq and other issues is former vice president dick cheneya personal and political memoir." mr. cheney, good morning. >> good morning. >> i wanted to start by talking about iraq and nuri al maliki. there were talks that he's trying to consolidate power. is this to be expected? >> i don't know the details now the way i used to when i was in the loop with the intelligence reports and so forth. i think the iraqis have yet to organize themselves the way they want to organize themselves. they're a sovereign state and that's partly what the struggle is all about. but i think they've made major progress. they've written a constitution, they've had a lot of elections. they have a democracy established. it's not perfect by any means. but they're clearly much better off than when saddam hussein was in charge. >> but do you see them taking a step back before they take it a step forward? >> i'm concerned. the thing that bothers me the most is when we negotiate the status agreements, part of that was that the bulk of the forces would leave at the end of t

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. ÷ oo former vice president dick cheney has a book a political memoir. we have provided ms. heney on the program. his daughter is a different story. >> ms. cheney is the coauthor of the book. your other coauthor he is not here. >> am i chopped liver? >> i have never talked to you father the former vice president. i don't believe he likes you very much. you know i am a little perplexed. >> he could be saving the best for last. >> it is something you ought to be grateful for. >> there are two deficits that went down the drain at the end. cheney was taken by surprise because of all of the sub mortgages. >> snent a lot of time and made efforts during the bush administration to reform fannie mae and freddie mac and the efforts were blocked by most of the democrats in congress. we came to a point that was an economic crisis. >> i still don't understand why there wasn't a louder cry about the danger of selling these sub prime mortgage tajs. >> the crisis is deeper than anybody anticipated or could image. >> they didn't know how bad it was. >> the steps are important. >> i am on the

as dick cheney just pointed out, newt gingrich spent tent years helping get us to the majority. he remained focused on what was necessary to get there. we started with a program in 1984, building the contract with america in 1994. the contract with america was not only a political document it was a governing document that allowed us to take over the house and be successful. 70% of the contract became law. we then balanced the budget for four straight years. we enacted welfare reform. we brought about growth economic tax cuts that helped produce somewhere between 7 million and 11 million jobs. that required a lot of discipline and focus. that's what speaker gingrich provided inside the operation. he had the discipline and folk taos see those things through. >> the hit this morning from the romney campaign has to do with freddie mac. you heard it yesterday from mitt romney. the hit is this. he cashed in on his access. >> i think that's just absolutely wrong. i think that what newt was doing was providing largely contrarian advice to the folks at freddie mac. >> they pay his firm $

you -- dick cheney as much as he is board and i still have some code to adds. why didn't it have a self-destruct button on it? >> you are an expert in drones. does the obama administration look weak at this point by asking for it 1234*. >> have you seen ahmadinejad? forget about it. when you beg and plead makes you look stupid, he is a mean dude that will take your ball and then gets you on the ground and says give me your lunch money. >> it is a kid late to puberty and got the crap knocked out of him, and he is in the woods of the playground field rubbing sticks together to make fire. >> and 40 years later he is running a country. >> i was going to use that as a nuclear metaphor. >> that's a good point. they have all of this oil they they can't pump. you though what will happen? they take apart the grown and you know what is happening, a grown. >> they are saying that it doesn't do any good. >> when they sell it to china it won't be so great. he did have a self-de defunct button. >> they can fuel our flow, but they can't flow like we flow. >> it is self-destru

dick cheney is a board of trustees. you're so glad to have them as a part of our aei family, and we thank them and you all for joining us here today. [applause] speed remember you are a reporter. >> i get paid back. >> i just want to say a word and then i will turn it over to mr. hayes to read the book i wrote as a more that covers all years of my life. the early years with a lot of good stuff to write about in the period of time. but the last half of the book focuses on the ad ministration and lawyers as vice president, and the book opens in the prologue which recounted the defense and i saw them on line 9/11 event it deals with what we had to do during the course of our seven and a half years to keep the country safe, some of the controversies that we were involved in on things like the terrorist surveillance program and enhanced interrogations'. that is a large part of the book is relevant with respect to 9/11 and the aftermath with other subjects as well. i guess there were five republican at ministrations worked cl

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i can't wait to see what dick cheney and feith space is going to look like when with total solder becomes the next brought by mr of iraq because you can bet your boots that the shiite majority of congress inside of iraq is priming him up abseiling him up to do lead the charge when the allowed him to do that we allowed him to get away with murdering american soldiers and american marines and let him take off to iran to study for a couple years and now he's back to his tricks again it's a mess that's an interesting discussion and a really important to have especially as this year wraps up the war is you know sort of over the for the combat troops are gone but there is still a lot that we're going to keep in our eyes on takes over to iraq war veteran in our team blogger joining us from london we do appreciate it and right here with me michael o'brien author of america's failure in iraq thanks guys. also ahead on our team we remember the events that made headlines this year and those that deserve more attention from the mainstream media two thousand and eleven interview coming up next. here t

. >> meantime, former vice president dick cheney is weighing in saying the president's response was a mistake. >> the right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it. you could do that from the air, do it with a quick air strike and in effect make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone. >> cheney says if iran sends it back at all it will be in pieces after getting all the intelligence they can out of it. >>> jerry sandusky faces his accusers in court today. they'll describe abuse suffered years ate at the hands of the former penn state coach. the judge will decide whether there's enough evidence to try sandusky on more than 50 charges of molestation of little boys. outside the courthouse in pennsylvania, susan, how many victims do we expect in court today to take the stand? >> reporter: you know, carol, it's impossible to say at this time. we know that there are ten victims referred to in that grand jury report and the prosecutors are aware of at least eight of them. look, counting up the numbers, there could

well, dick cheney once again leveled that charge last night. not forget that it was under george w. bush that the agreement between the u.s. and iraq to remove our troops was reached back in 2008. also, while troops are leaving the country a strong american presence will remain, including the world's biggest american embassy, the state department will keep a staff of 16,000 in the country, including 5,000 in security contractors. richard engel is chief foreign correspondent for nbc news and joins us now from baghdad. rich, thank you so much. >> give us a sense of residual strength in that region. the power we can project into iraq if we have to. >> reporter: not very much, frankly. and i think based on the interviews i've been doing today, this huge presence that is staying behind here could ultimately be a liability. i spoke to a lot of iraqis who say that they don't believe that u.s. troops are really leaving, that the u.s. embassy and all of its security contractors, 15,000, 16,000, 17,000 people is really just a military base by another nam

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that this evidence would be used against it at trial and quote so why does it seem like everything dick cheney touches turns criminal and the bigger question why does it seem like everything big oil touches turns messy here's shed some light on the tentacles of big oil and its corrosive impact on our environment economy and government i'm joined by investigative reporter b.b.c. contributor greg palast his new book is entitled vultures picnic in. petroleum pigs power pirates and high finance carnivores greg great to see it. again time banks thanks for joining us vultures picknick who are the vultures who are the vultures these are the well actually we these are the guys who grabbed the third world nations dying nations and made billions off it these are the most powerful finance years in america and in the planet in fact the vulture of vultures picnic was a guy named paul the vulture singer everyone's upset about the koch brothers on the left they've suddenly discovered that the number one donor to the g.o.p. is not the coax there are two and three is paul the vultures singer i don't give him t

dick cheney, you know something about dick cheney? he was vice president for eight years and...ughter) best known for shooting a buddy in the face. (laughter) and now he has no pulse because they've got him a mechanical device that keeps him alive and it's labored breathing, like if your pants are too tight. you ever been through that? (laughter) you know what i'm talking about? yeah. so now he just sits at his house and he says ridiculous things and now he's saying that the united states... now is the final for us to invade iran. yeah, now's the time. and here's my prediction. we will get oourss into another war in the middle east when monkeys start riding dogs. you know what i mean? oh, no, wait a minute, hey. is this the greatest country in the world or... (cheers and applause) i'd kind of like to see that again. would it be possible? oh, here it comes! (applause) (laughs) hey, it's another... oh, our prayers have been answered. guess what? there's going to be another republican debate. (laughter and applause) yeah, they're going to have, like, i think 60, maybe 70, and even

dick cheney again levelled the charge last night. let's not forget that it was under george w.so, while troops are leaving the country, a strong american presence will remain, including the world's biggest embassy. the state department will keep a sta staff. richard engel is chief correspondent for nbc news. he joins us now from baghdad. richard, thank you so much. give us a sense of our residual strength in that location, the power that we can project into iraq if we have to. >> reporter: not very much, frankly. and i think based on the interviews i've been doing today, this huge presence that is staying behind here could ultimately be a liability. i spoke to a lot of iraqis who say that they don't believe that u.s. troops are really leaving, that the u.s. embassy and all of its security contractors, 15, 16, 17,000 people is really just a military base by another name. and certain militant groups are certainly going to want to target them. so if the idea is to project power and to maintain influence, you could end up antagonizing a lot of people by doing that. >> but i guess i