it's shocking for dick cheney to go down this road. an op-ed revealed negligence by the bush administration when it came to intelligence briefings in 2001. the direct warnings to mr. bush about the possibility of an al qaeda attack began in the the spring of 2001. by may 1st, the central intelligence agency told the white house of a report that a group presently in the united states was planning a terrorist operation. no one can say the attacks of 9/11 could have been prevented and further more democrats didn't attack republicans on national security. one thing republicans proved today, that there is never a day that they will take off from attacking the president of the united states. joining me now is jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst. why do republicans think they are impressing, who they are impression impressing with people around the country doing stuff like this and talking like this? >> i think this is disgusting. i'm not sure there's any other word for it. it's a sacred day. more than 5,000 people lost their lives 11 yea

(laughter) >> since dick cheney nonfatally shot one in the face. (cheers and applause) i mean-- this is-- more, give me more. >> i'm not going to shut up, it's my turn. so anyway-- . >> jon: i'm here to lend my support to mitt romney in his crucial hour. will you not silence me, invisible barack obama. (laughter) i am going to tell you something, back where we work at the daily show on the west side of he'll kitchen in new york city, you don't have to go far to see an old man yelling at an inanimate object. (laughter) but rarely is that object on

right before deciding to hear a case against dick cheney and then ruling in favor of the republican dick cheney scalia also went on a hunting trip with the dean of the kansas law school and then agreed to hear two cases in which that very same dean was the lead attorney and scalia has attended and spoken at political conventions hosted by the koch brothers major founders and supporters of the tea party and the republican party. then there's school heir refusing to recuse himself from the citizens united case despite the koch brothers ties to republican political advocacy groups the benefit tremendously from schoolies decision in citizens united the citizens united case decided by the court's five hardcore right wing justices is the very heart of why americans have lost faith in our governmental institutions and why poll after poll shows america believing the rich have far too much influence in our government a citizens united case that was directly called out in a new report written by the international commission chaired by kofi anon that sends a warning to the world's democracies

george bush and dick cheney are gone. no matter what, we're better off today than we were four years ago. >> let's rephrase the question and see how the audience reacts. how many in this audience personally, financially feel genuinely better off after four years? if you do, applaud. [ applause ] okay. and if you don't, applaud now. [ applause ] so it's probably about 50/50. >> no. i got that at about 70/30. >> let's put it at 60/40. maybe 60/40. but whatever it was, certainly a number of people in the room would agree they're not better off. >> okay. but let's get to brass tacks here. and remember i'm the independent. in the economy, things that are done three, four, five years ago show up today. so when the recession of what we have hit, which barack obama inherited, bush did the first bailout, that was because it hit in '08 because of decisions done in '03/'04, when you had a republican president, republican house, and republican senate. why at the republican convention -- and i ask you this question -- why wasn't georg

well, that turns out to be not true but dick cheney just went even further. now here's what ensaid about the president "if president obama were participating in intelligence briefings on a regular basis perhaps he would understand why people are so offended at his effort to take sole credit for the killing of osama bin laden. >> he didn't take sole credit. he thanked the navy seals intelligence every single time. >> you're talking about getting bin laden? you loser you miserable failure of a human being, dick cheney, what did you do to get bin laden for eight years? not a damn thing. you were a pathetic miserable failure. you never got the guy who killed 3,000 american citizens that day. you never got him so shut your trap! now you're talking about oh, president obama's taking too much credit! here's the amount of credit you should get less than zero! we now find out as buttressed by everything richard clark and others said that he had numerous warnings cheney did bush did and they did nothing! it was pathetic! richard clark tried to tell us about this. remem

not joe biden that al gore had said the same thing to dick cheney and. and the president clinton said the same thing the joys of the bush. that being the case dick cheney was put in charge of the counterterrorism task force right after the inauguration and to the best my knowledge that task force never met until september do i have that right there was a principals meeting. on september sixth of two thousand and one right so basically back was so dating is is. i'm trying to come up with a metaphor that i could see on television. throughout this this entire year of two thousand and one he's been charged with keeping the nation safe they've all been warned that this guy is coming the cia is virtually screaming at them the august sixth memo actually had a human being that a company to do that not who came out the old it all got it ok and bush like your personal briefings ok and and. and yeah george bush took the longest vacation in the history of the presidency that august and then after that he still didn't want to go back to washington d.c. you want to. f

dick cheney allowed to speak? because they just left office 3 1/2 years ago after serving eight years, and it is unconscienceable that they weren't there. why? because the republicans don't want anybody to remember who caused all of this. [ applause ] i said to my wife -- wait, a the the '08 election, i said to my wife, you know, i wouldn't want -- you couldn't pay me to be the next president any amount of money because whomever it is is going to get the blame for all of what george bush and dick cheney did. and that's precisely what you got. now, has obama fixed it? no. he has not. but is mitt romney the answer? going back to the old republican ways that caused it in the first place? americans have very short attention spans. they usually can only remember about a year ago. they need to remember about four, five, six years ago of who caused this. [ applause ] >> let's go to our first audience member question. derek, you have a question. on the basis of rumors still flying around, the gentleman may run for office

the default position is the dick cheney wing of the party. then i won't have to worry about anything and i suspect if elected he will pivot to the center. >> rose: what is the dick cheney wing of the party? >> the dick cheney wing of the arty is i would say... i can describe it by its policies. we should intervene somehow in syria. we should stay in afghanistan until we've finished the job and you and i will be long gone. we should be very aggressive in our approach to russia and to china i would argue foreign policy is not an issue in this campaign because barack obama, has been, i think a pretty good foreign policy president. i think he's taken foreign policy off the table. >> rose: i can remind you of columns you've written. >> i have big issues on afghanistan and others but all in all he's kept the country safe. he was idealistic where he could be in libya, he's been prague mat where i can he had to be, china and russia and i think he's sort of split the baby on afghanistan and what not. but he's kept the country safe. that was bush's cla

dick cheney has come out of his lair and accused president obama for taking full credit for gets binen. first, he has never taken full credit, and second he deserves more credit than dick cheney and george bush. first today's latest update. hi lisa good morning. >> hey, bill. good morning, everyone. bill clinton is keeping his title as president obama's surrogate this week. he is now hitting the campaign trail. blinton spoke to the university on tuesday. >> every student who borrows money under the federal student loan law however much you borrow will be able to pay that loan back for up to 20 years at a small fixed percentage of your income. >> according to a new survey president obama does have the lead in florida right now, at 48 to 44%. president clinton is also taking a stance on libya and egypt yesterday they attacked in both countries killing an officer of the state department all because of a u.s. film they say was offensive to islam. clinton said there is never any excuse for this kind of violence. president obama and mitt romney are also trading jabs over the attacks. romne

(laughter) >> since dick cheney nonfatally shot one in the face. (cheers and applause) i mean-- this is-- more, give me more. >> i'm not going to shut up, it's my turn. so anyway-- . >> jon: i'm here to lend my support to mitt romney in his crucial hour. will you not silence me, invisible barack obama. (laughter) i am going to tell you something, back where we work at the daily show on the west side of he'll kitchen in new york city, you don't have to go far to see an old man yelling at an inanimate object. (laughter) but rarely is that object on stage at a national political convention. and almost never is that old man oscar winner clint eastwood. (applause) not that romney didn't get a chance to-- you know, i think he talked too. >> we americans have always felt a special kinship with the future. >> jon: yes, yes, we americans uniquely among earth's people, move forward in time. look, i don't-- (laughter) i don't care how many marco's rubio you put in between clint eastwood and mitt romney, romney ain't outshining this little playlet i like to ca

. >> my running mate, dick cheney. >> before bush made this announcement, rove wanted to mislead the>> we had a guy on the campaign who was a leaker. >> how do you know he was a leaker? >> well, because he was a leaker. -- said, what's going on with the vice presidency? i said, look, big secret, don't tell anybody, but bush has decided to go with jack danforth of missouri. >> the media ran with the false story. >> felt sort of bad, but i wasn't lying to the media, i was just giving misdirection to the guy who leaked. >> lying to the guy? >> well, yeah. it helps tell a story. when you want to have the story told by an evening anchor or the story told by the candidate who expresses in front of the cameras with as few filters as possible why he made this choice. >> four years later the "new york post" said john kerry had picked richard gephardt to be his running mate. this was of course a mistake. kerry had picked john edwards. john edwards turned out to be another kind of mistake, but that's another story. what the media reported even fooled gephardt's campaign manager. >> i called up

that happen on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 when dick cheney brought out his memoirs saying that the of enhanced zubaydah turn this card interest into a fountain of affirmation that gave information that saved thousands of lives. that was august 30, 2011. a september 12, 2011, former fbi interrogator and intelligence officer came out with his memoirs. it turns out he was the american operative that conducted the interrogation of the zubaydah. he was there in the safe house in thailand there were two teams operating. when you look at what happened in retrospect, the closest you can get to a scientific experiment into the relative effectiveness of empathetic fbi interrogation techniques and see a coercive interrogation, ca torture. through four successive rounds, an arabic speaker when and, established in the the what the zubaydah, and got the name of khalid sheikh mohammed. the cia director grew angry the fbi, his rival and to see, was getting this information -- has rival agency, was getting this information. the fbi was brought back in. more information from zubaydah based on non co

very few people in washington repeat the phrase of dick cheney that deficits don't matter. everybody kind of said that deficits matter. but i can't figure out what forces them to the table to compromise the action. it seems to me it takes a crisis, either a financial one or an artificial one, or could it be a sudden outbreak of leadership? unfortunately, i don't see the latter happening any time soon. so the question is whether or not there is a mood that we have to get things done, and prove to american people that congress divided between the democrats and republicans, can govern after the election. we may get there but we're not there yet. >> does that mean you don't feel that the election will change things when it comes to the deficit? >> i don't think it will change much, i don't think either side will win decisively, president obama if he win -- if mitt romney wins, even if he gets the senate, democrats will have enough votes to block whatever he wants to do. so the only way this gets done is if the loser decides that governing is more important than scoring points f