>> this is as close as i ever get to interviewing liz and dick cheney many. >> hi, rachel. >> i thinkt was it. >> i don't know what she said. she smiled at me. >> at cpack that was 2010, after giving me that nice smile and chaki shaking my hand and never returned my calls, she went on to give a speech how horribly dangerous and wrong it was for the obama administration to try the underwear bomber that kid who tried to blow up a plane on christmas day in 2009, how dangerous it would be to try him in a civilian court. >> wants to give terrorists constitutional rights, including the right to remain silent. >> liz cheney sort of made a little cottage industry for a while after -- out of telling everybody when a disaster and danger it would be to what she described as setting the underwear bomber free by trying him in civilian court. because she implied that is what civilian courts do. they look at people and set them free. >> military court. >> not effective tool for fighting terror. >> telling the world we are going to try terrorists in the civilian court system. you want to talk about a

well rand was on the list that tony blair said dick cheney had that wesley clark said the pentagon had a decade back it's been on the list of the project for the new american century and the neo cons in this country it's been a target since the one nine hundred fifty s. and since the revolution in the late one nine hundred seventy s. it is not at all new that iran is the target but we have successfully persuaded the american public that it would be another iraq that we were being lied to for many years now and this campaign to get us into iran again has failed you public relations terms for several years now we have to keep up that campaign david swanson author of war as a lie joining us from charlottesville virginia thanks so much. well we sort of tune in in thirty minutes you're not going to want to miss this one occupy the prison system from oakland to new york and our nation's capital to chicago protesters rallied outside of prisons to shed light on inhumane treatment and injustice inmates in ohio actually went on a hunger strike to bring awareness to the issue and coming up at eig

nuclear weapons and the public was convinced in the united states that iraq had nuclear weapons dick cheney would occasionally say it outright condi would warn of mushroom clouds and they would in various other ways imply that iraq was about to hit us with nuclear weapons and was behind nine eleven we even got our buddy over in egypt to torture a man until he said iraq was linked in linked up with al qaeda and behind nine eleven it's the same thing we've recently heard that iran was actually behind nine eleven iran has nuclear weapons we have the majority of the american public believe me iran has nuclear weapons while in reality they avoid saying so they fudge they talk about its possible nuclear capabilities and so forth it's almost identical and of course replace dick cheney who as you said a vice president at the time going on and on about the threat now even in the family still his daughter is of course on all the networks saying the same thing it's so interesting we see these pictures pictures of the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad in a lab coat and all the sudden the case is ma

had some kind of similar background check done on them right so can you imagine what's in like dick cheney's f.b.i. file why that's what i mean different though because you know jobs and even he was pretty private is still more of a public persona than most actual government officials at this point right like i think that we know more about jobs and his drug use in the past because he's part of like the tech crowd like nobody cares nobody is going to judge you for it because he doesn't go out and preach certain. solace a certain values or certain policies but. good point point. ok. i don't know how to use this clip right now new hampshire new hampshire has been doing some weird stuff lately they try to pass legislation that said that you don't follow school curriculums anymore they try to pass legislation that all laws should be based on the magna carta not the constitution but the magna carta and now they want to take a hit your lunch break. so barely if this is what they want workers to do from now on is to have to ask for a lunch break because they want to basically ban. businesses from h

the fractures and halliburton which was a company that was nearly in bankruptcy because because dick cheney when he was c.e.o. acquire dresser industries before he became vice president now this giant corporation that's making a billion one point six billion dollars a year of fracking you get these big corporations they could either punish these members of congress by running people against them in primaries and things or they could contribute to them they can give the massive campaign contributions. this is just another example in my mind this is just another example of the corruption of our political process by big money they've got the carrots hey you want to campaign contributions and they got the sticks oh you don't know you don't want to go is ok we'll support your your opponent and it shouldn't be we used to call this bribery and corruption it's time to get money out of politics. when it comes to a single payer health care system we have to look toward canada the canadian government didn't just one day say it's time for a single payer system and everyone was covered. instead it was a

was on the show and there are a couple of cameras and talking on the radio and i said dick cheney sitting right next to whom what i want to do and people in my script were just like screaming at me in giant letters and look behind you and i turn around there's a secret service guy woods and his gun right there. whatever you do don't go quail hunting with me here so there but there's an example sir sean hannity who said the other night just couple of nights ago that if barack obama had his way osama bin laden would still be alive and he said he has the tape to prove it or else it's just total nonsense i mean who went after those who gave the directions who gave the orders to get them who approved the plan it was brought obama's am no mood.

was on the show and there are a couple of cameras and talking on the radio and i said dick cheney sitting right next to whom what or what i should do and people in my script were just like screaming i'm in giant letters and look behind you and i turn around there's a secret service guy woods and his gun rights. whatever you do don't go quail hunting with me here so there but there's an example sean hannity who said the other night just couple of nights ago that if barack obama had his way osama bin laden would still be alive and he said he has the tape to prove it or else it's just total nonsense i mean who went after who gave the directions who gave the orders to get them who approved the plan if it was brought obama's and well who twice said i don't think so much about bin laden i don't really care about bin laden george w. bush and there's this idea that there's a tape out there that proves that barack obama didn't really want to go get as far as i'm going to share with this you know exactly you know what it is it's like the way the tape remember michelle obama and why the tape during

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remember who the vice-president is. 3% supplied the incorrect name and 3% said our vice-president is dick cheney. (laughter) >> well, he certainly made an impression. >> jon: made a name for himself and i-96 to take likes the media. >> religion over conscience and the constitution. >> attacks on religious freedoms, forcing contraception coverage and komen pulling funding from planned parenthood. which receive the most from the mainstream media and why. the president makes an about face, flip-flopping on big political pacs, saying, show me the money. are the media passing the hats? next on news watch. prescribed lipitor, i won't go without it for my high cholesterol. why kid myself? diet and exercise weren't lowering my cholesterol enough. now i'm eating healthier, exercising more, taking lipitor. numbers don't lie. my cholesterol has stayed down. and here's another number you might be interested in. lipitor may be available for as little as $4 a month with the lipitor co-pay card. terms and conditions apply. visit lipitor.com for details. [ female announcer ] lipitor is not for everyone, includi

remember the whole crowd that was complaining about dick cheney and halliburton and all the supposeds between the white house and energy? now all of a sudden we've got a white house that's actually peddling energy to their political friends, and there's a deafening silence from all those critics on the left. megyn: the post finds, leslie, that $3.9 billion of federal grants and financing flowed to 21 companies backed by firms with connections to at least five obama administration staffers and advisers. almost $4 billion in federal grants to 21 companies that have firms, have connections to the obama administration. unusual? >> actually, no. because, lars, hello, lars. i'm speaking, so it's not deafening silence. in 2001 you and your buddies were very silent when former president bush and dick cheney were meeting with the american petroleum organization, etc. , and you know what? you keep mentioning solyndra when you're talking about approximately 40 companies that is the federal government invested in for green and clean energy as the president promised in campaigning that he was goi

york times" best-seller, so if you would like to keep jacqueline kennedy ahead on that list over dick cheney, we encourage you all -- to buy a copy or two or three of the book at our book store. i ask to you remain in your seats, if you will. we'll get caroline. the book signing will be right outside this door. those of you in the satellite, there will be a line coming in from the front. those in this room, the line will form literally around the back of this wall. but most of all what i want to do is to thank caroline kennedy for her comments and for this terrific panel. michael beschloss and mr. donahue. >>> lisa kathleen graddy is the curator for women's political history here at smithsonian. so when you were putting together this latest exhibit, how did you decide how the gowns would be placed and what it would say about the history and the role of these first ladies? >> well, we picked a series of gowns. partly just based on what we thought was pretty, and what hadn't been out in a while. sometimes it's nice to be the curator. you get to just choose things. we also wanted an array of co

hard to imagine a contemporary public figure writing such a forthright book, but she did knock dick cheneyout of the number one spot on the best seller list. so i think she deserves a lot of credit for her honesty. one of the difficult decisions i faced was whether to edit the interviews. there are repetitions, issues that haven't stood the test of time, comments that can be taken out of context, and views that she would later change. it didn't seem fair to leave them in, but on the other hand, these were formal interviews, not accidentally recorded conversations, and both participants understood that they were creating a primary source document. so although there are good arguments on both sides of the issue, i felt that i didn't really have the right to alter the historical record. i also wanted people to see what and how my mother thought at a particular moment in time. it's sometimes difficult for me to reconcile that people feel they know her, because they have a sense of her image or her style, but they've never been able to appreciate her intellectual curiosity, her sense of mischie

bush who cut taxes on the rich again dick cheney famously said deficits don't matter they had two wars and the poison pill and medicare in the post office and then the radicals in the zero eight election they lost power again they lost the house the senate and the white house and then in two thousand and ten the tea party better so i guess the question now for two thousand and twelve is what's going to happen with the moderate republicans is going to be romney is going to become a moderate republican how is this cycle going to play out i'm not sure but i think our guest might have an idea. so with radical republicans on one side and president obama on the other side how might this budgetary battle shake out and what does it mean for our still very fragile economy for more on this as well as what we can learn from budget woes across the atlantic in greece i'm joined by max fraud will economist instructor at new school university and senior analyst with green crest capital max welcome. thanks for having me great to see you we've seen some good economic signs in the last month but can our

every president generally has an ha heir apparent when they leave office, george bush had dick cheney who did not want to run, and typically what the base does, they have a referendum on the president's legacy by choosing their heir apparent or someone else. because he left the void there, we went all the way back to 2000 and started over again, a lot of us having some of the same fights we've had and we're now at the situation where all of the candidates including romney to a degree are a bit of a victim of this void that was left by not having an heir. i think the republican party has yet to reset itself from the bush years to be able to move forward. >> ralph, on this intensity issue, has the obama administration helped the republican party in general, and more specifically, is this recent issue about the contraception mandate going to provide some of the intensity for republicans and conservatives? >> well, i think that whoever ends up being the republican nominee -- and i would guess -- take issue a little bit with my fellow ralph on the panel and say that -- >> what a shock. >>

and pushing through the civil liberties killing act and self described medieval sort of guy and dick cheney's buddy david wurmser look at all these guys they played very important roles in in the bush administration they don't seem to be particularly humbled from all the massive failures that they that they were responsible for while their track records are far from enviable how could any self respecting person bring in any of these people that brought us that great day whether the afghan war oh that wasn't good enough how about the iraq war i got another one for you how about the war rods there are these people are losers you are right it's convenient so no surprise is one provocation resurfaces the president should have built credible threat of military action maximum covert operations. to block and disrupt the iranian program including taking out their scientists most americans don't know the man behind the scenes they're not thinking about john bolton and what a weirdo he was at the un and how he. almost destroyed america's international reputation or you know or for that matter really an

and dick cheney, that was his driving goal to bring back what he thought they had given away under jerry ford and richard nixon. and he started that with george w. bush. and in many ways the obama presidency has continued some of those -- almost super powers of the presidency in terms of when we go to war, the use of drones, without getting any approval from congress. i think they're very, very troubling questions about super powers of the presidency under this president and the last president that all americans ought to be concerned about. >> and one of our tweeters, it is the democratic party. not the democrat party. >> it is. you know, that's such a silly thing to hang on to. but republicans think they're being so cute, following rush limbaugh's lead by saying democrat party. i mean, it's childish. >> did you see the cpac conference over the weekend? >> i didn't go down there, but i saw certainly a lot of clips of it. you know what surprised me about that? is that mitt romney won the straw poll. the last two years, ron paul won the straw poll at cpac. these are the true believers. the

analysis for that but i mean two thousand and seven we all thought the through john bolton and dick cheney that iran was going to be attacked it wasn't in two thousand and ten we all thought iran was going to be attacked and it was now it's a little different because you have that layer of presidential. campaign you have candidates shooting their mouths off without really not understanding the facts to feed red meat to their constituents so you have you have an administration that again is trying to find a course in a message so when all those things are in play you know that's time to worry chris pleasure to have you on the thank you so much of that was christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university that's going to do it for now but far more of the stories we covered you can head on over to our to dot com slash usa can also check out or you to pay to see you tube dot com slash arts america and follow me on to.

analysis for that but i mean two thousand and seven we all thought the through john bolton and dick cheney that iran was going to be attacked it wasn't in two thousand and ten we all thought iran was going to be attacked and it was and now it's a little different because you have that layer of presidential. the you have candidates shooting their mouths off without really understanding the facts to feed red meat to their constituents and you have an administration that again is trying to find a course in a message so when all those things are in play you know it's time to worry chris pleasure to have you on the you know as always thank you so much of that was christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university well thousands of afghans enraged today after reports surface of americans burning korans at the back room air base and afghanistan their reports suggest that the books were taken from taliban prisoners after they were suspected of using them to send messages to each other now protesters thousands of them are demonstrating outside of the base and the protest turned quit

analysis for that but i mean in two thousand and seven we all thought the through john bolton and dick cheney that iran was going to be attacked it wasn't in two thousand and ten we all thought iran was going to be attacked and it was and now it's a little different because you have that layer of a presidential campaign you have candidates shooting their miles off without really understanding the facts to feed red meat to their constituents so you have you have an administration that again is trying to find a course in a message so when all those things are in play you know that's time to worry chris pleasure to have you on the nose always thank you so much that was christopher chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. well another day of deadly violence in syria. it's alleged heavy shelling by government forces in the city of homs has left over a dozen dead and there are reports the army has fired on demonstrators and the capital of damascus but president bashar al assad's regime is promising change and in the form of a referendum so will this be enough to bring the country tog

guys he's fighting on wall street this is are these guys going to go out to fight fire with fire dick cheney said after nine eleven the gloves are coming off i guess is how we have to go after wall street you've got to you've got to know if they're wrong something or i argue gregory and we're almost out of time but you just want to add the final word i'd say two wrongs don't make a right thank you two to one the meter you are over old you were not only had time for i want to tell you that's all we have time for our show's over thank you so much for watching though kids can feel free to follow me on twitter at lauren lester you can give us feedback at youtube dot com slash capital account and you can come back tomorrow for a very exciting show including a video you didn't get to see me with no make up but it's also interesting ok well see you tomorrow thanks for watching good night. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't k

and so we had talked to dick cheney a couple of times and then i said later on in the day, we want to go back. send the helicopter, and he said no. i didn't appreciate that very much, but he said, no, we don't know if it is safe yet, but later on he said that the helicopter is on the way, and the helicopters were together, and we went around to the front, and tom spoke, and dennis h hastert spoke, and then when we could look down and literally see the pentagon on fire. another example and -- well, the anthrax issue. after that happened, you can't imagine how that affected you, too. you had staff people who were exposed to it, and it was tom's office and pat leahy's office and we ended up meeting together, republicans and democrats in the dining room in the capitol talking about the threat and what that meant, and how to deal with it, and everything. there was, you know, a guarantee you there was no partisanship, and we were trying to figure out what to do with the situation. the other one that is a little lighter and one of my favorite ones is that i called tom after christmas after t

dick cheney's experiences. [applause] especially at the university of wyoming which would make mine pale. [laughter] no, i tell you, this -- we ran together in 1978, he ran for the congress, i ran for the senate, and lynne and dick and annie and i have run -- every time one of us was running and neither of us ever lost an election. so that's a tribute to you, cheney. [applause] and then back there standing right next to him is this little rascal i met behind barbed wire. he was in the japanese war relocation center in hard mountain, wyoming, as a 12-year-old boy, and our scout master said we're going to go to heart mountain and meet the boy scouts. well, i'll tell ya, nobody wanted to go to heart mountain. it had wire all around it, guard towers, machine guns, and it was one of those of the ten relocation centers. and we had a scout master, he said these are guys just like us, they're boy scouts. i ran into this guy from san jose, and we really -- oh, he was a smart aleck just like i was. [laughter] and we had

. >> i agree with you, and that was dick cheney saying we don't negotiate with evil.idn't attack iran to give him credit. real quick, guys i got to ask you, if israel attacks and iran obviously counterattacks, do you think there's any chance in the world that the u.s. does not step in to help israel with that war? david? >> it's clear we step in. there's no question about it. >> yeah, go ahead, jimmy. >> another interesting fact there's 25,000 jews that live in iran? the third-biggest country that hosts jews in the whole world? plus jews are protected in the iranian constitution. did you know that? >> that's interesting. i did not know that. look at that the power panel brings us information i did not know. so all right. at the conclusion is we are screwed. we're going to war whether we like it or not. oh, boy. okay. thank you, guys. when we come back. ana was at the naacp image awards and asked some interesting questions. >> of all of the republican candidates, who do you think would be the most destructive to >> 97% of those services that help women are going to be

whenever james carville is dick cheney son-in-law? what do you think.o share political philosophy to be in love with them. >> to be in love with them, yes, but friends, but a dating relationship, i don't know mary and james do it or ma we ree yeah and -- they are gone. >> if you vote republican, there is the couch. if you vote democrat. >> 51%1%1% of american people ie latest poll, yes you have to share the same political beliefs. 47% ses say no, it doesn't matter. >> i think it's misleading. >> they were all women because you women want us to agree on everything. three lovely women and i'm outnumbered. >> you are very nice to spend your valentine's day here. i don't know what the alternatives were. >> i'm in love. >> that is all we have time for. thank you for being with us. we toss it to greta van susteren who is standing by live to go on the record.

in 2001 you and your buddies were very silent when former president bush and dick cheney were meetingh the american petroleum organization, etc. , and you know what? you keep mentioning solyndra when you're talking about approximately 40 companies that is the federal government invested in for green and clean energy as the president promised in campaigning that he was going to do and lay the foundation for one out of all those investments went belly up. do you know what i think this is, lars? this is the six degrees of separation of kevin bacon because i ask you, lars, how many clean and green energy start-ups do give money to republicans? quite frankly, any of these companies probably donates to the democrats, and last time i checked president barack obama's the only democrat running this year. megyn: well, that is the question. if you're barack obama and you want to find people to advise the white house in which companies to invest in on the energy sector, you've got to get somebody that knows what their talking about. >> with of course not. and, in fact, leslie's objection to dick

. >> and i wonder, the thing that surprises me is that you read something like dick cheney lobbying forame-sex marriage. >> quietly. >> quietly in maryland. ken mehlman, former chair of the republican party, being integral to that effort in new york state and other states working on same-sex marriage rights. afer, americans for equal rights, the group that has been mobilizing high-profile republicans, really high-profile republicans. not pundits, former elected officials. people high-ranking in the party. >> ted olson. >> all these people you'd think would be able to really swing not just lip service, but power. but then when it comes to the republican nominating contest it's gone off the charts right wing, well to the chart of what george w. bush was campaigning on in terms of being anti-gay. what's the relationship in terms of what republicans do? i don't understand the disconnect. >> there's a complete disconnect and i guess it's just a kind of dispratt, craven relationship to the base of that party. look, we now have a base, the republican party, that is so radical that they can be

he does the same thing in utah that dick cheney did for halliburton, that is give them no-bid contractsm overnight millionaires. the guy out there supporting you when you look at clip what's he had to say about this national disgrace, it's a problem for mitt if somebody will take those clips and make them in good 30 second spot. one thing after another for mitt, it's cumulative after a while, like water torture for mitt. if he doesn't pull through michigan he's in big trouble. >> i think he is. romney said this to a michigan crowd, "i've taken on union bosses before and i'm happy to take them on again. i sure wouldn't give in to the united auto workers." why would he talk like that, goldie, in michigan? he doesn't understand the culture of labor and certainly doesn't follow the news because anybody that does follow the news knows the uaw took a financial hit to make this deal work so they could get back to work under the government loan. sort that out for us. >> you know the fact is the bail outs of the auto industry did work. the fact is big labor came to the table with management, neg