a lot of us remember september 11th, a story that former vice president dick cheney told many, many times about how the secret are service burst into the room and picked him up and shoved him off to undisclosed location. there's a whole history behind that, and we're excited garrett that you'll be able to speak it that, why it came about and what its legacies are or its legacy is to the current administration and to future practices that we all sit around thinking god i'm not one of the magic numberses that going to survive incase somebody starts bolling the united states or something like that. but enough that. i want to thank some of our good people that put this, put tonight together. our headliners team chaired by betsy fisher martin and members was team who helped us tonight and heather weaver, and press club lindsay underwood we're all appreciative of the hardwork that they do that we are bringing terms all of speakers to the club whether morning, noon or night and making sure that headliners come here are in the best interest and wonderfully newsworthy like garrett. so with the nuc

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the prosecutor was able to get a conviction of dick cheney's aid scooter libby on that count.these investigations, you know, do have a way of sprawling out and, you know, that could well happen in the mueller case. >> well, the intent there, i think, that we learned from comey's testimony and not talking directly about flynn could take us down that lane, the perjury issue of what he did -- >> no question. >> what he did and didn't do in interactions with sergey kislyak. thank you for your time, matthew. great article. >> appreciate it. thank you. >>> so we have this sad news to pass along that we just got in as we have learned that the actor adam west who played tv's batman has died after a battle with leukemia. as so many of us remember, he starred in the tv show batman with his wham, bam, pow, the flamboyant villains. west's portrayal of bruce wane made it harder for him to get roles. got a little typecast. adam west, died. he was 88 years old. ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century.

we'll talk to dick cheney about this and the message it sends to north korea. plus, new developments in the casino attack after a gunman opens fire, killing dozens, but get this. none of them were shot. will explain only come back. >> i can hear gunshots. oh, my god, . we are right behind resorts world. you can see the smoke and there's gunshots >> heather: defense secretary jim mattis announcing today that the u.s. will stay committed to its policy toward asia. he will discuss north korea and china. one u.s. officials traveling with mattis is speaking. >> there's a lot of concern in the region over the rising nort. there is concern china's rise in the assertive behavior. >> heather: let's bring in bob wells, former national security advisor to vice president dick cheney. thanks for joining us. when you listen to a wide array of experts, they say north korea will likely be able to strike the american homeland with a nuclear weapon before the end of president trump's first term. that's scary stuff. how do we stop them? >> it's very serious and i think the way yo

if you don't agree with that, you have a complaint with him. >> tucker: i don't think dick cheney isuing that the macedonians stole the election from hillary clinton but she is arguing that. i have to be honest with you you've been around a long time, i know a ton of democrats here in washington, i don't know one of them who isn't shocked by what hillary clinton said yesterday, attacking the democratic party, attacking barack obama it to mike dnc, when she had twice the money of donald trump on the sitting president of the united states put everything on the line for her and she attacks barack obama yesterday? far be it for me to up defend obama but that's insane pretty tried hard to get her elected and failed and she's attacking him now. >> charles just said what a horrible candidate this was. got more primary votes than barack obama. >> tucker: she lost and there are a lot of reasons why. but to turn around and blame the democratic party which was all in for hillary clinton, this is a horrible thing to do. as a democrat, how can you defend that? >> her principal beef is with comey.

cases that involved dick cheney. that was impropriety. we should have been removed. the same thing with clarence thomas when he ruled on the citizens united about what kind of groups can buy elections. later on that day his wife went out and started such a group. that is not a crime someone can be convicted of but it is an appearance of impropriety. any other judge in the united dates would have been removed for what i just described of scalia and thomas. supreme court justices should also be removed but the senate would have to impeach them. i don't know why it hasn't happened. it should happen every time there is such an appearance of impropriety. norman, thank you. one of the decisions or at least the court watchers are looking for today is what decision will be made about the travel ban. that was desired by the trump administration, stopped in the lower court, asked for review by the supreme court. the possible options the court could apply to this request, saying that with the votes of five justices the court co

it is sometimes said when you have dick cheney around and colin powell around, who would prevail?first of all, the chief of staff has to have peripheral vision and know where the people with tunnel vision arm -- are. any helps to make sure that word to the president is not out of context. you want the words to be within context. a strong personality in the white house, it is a team of rivals in every white house, because they are very competent staffers who are legitimately hired because they have great expertise. many have type a personalities and they think they are the only one with great expertise, and you have to manage that process and make sure the playing field is in fact, level, and not skewed one way because a dominant staffer is dominating the process. found, therd i president would frequently seek me out as the last word. but it was not for much about the decision, it was the process by which the decision was being made by the president. and i would be able to say, sally may have been too aggressive in that meeting and jane was ready to speak up, but she was intimidate

when justice scalia visited personally with dick cheney he was judging cases that involved dick cheney, that was appearance of impropriety. he should have been removed from the court. same thing for clarence thomas when he ruled on the citizens united about what kind of groups can basically buy elections. then later on in that day, his wife started such a group. that's not a crime somebody can be convicted of. it's an appearance of impropriety. any other judge in the united states would have been removed what i just described scalia and thomas done. supreme court justices should also be removed but the senate would have to impeach them. i don't know it hasn't happened. it should happen every time there's an appearance of impropriety. host: one of the decisions, at least things court watchers are looking for today, what decisions will be made about the travel ban. that was desired by the trump administration stopped in the lower court as for review by the supreme court. abc news takes a possible options that the court should apply this request. saying with the votes of five justices the

and then what about you want to declassify. >> but for donald rumsfeld for dick cheney. in getting into the sports legacy which is the extent to which so the highest classified s of plans is called the enduring constitutional part. the way the three branches of government would interact with one another with a catastrophic attack of washington. and something along the lines of the preservation of the constitution but not the letter of the constitution. that is the hint of what we could gather with suspension of habeas corpus so almost to the suspension of congress with congressional officials that might be as small as water for members of congress chivvy designated to act as of congress and tell it could reconstitute itself so one of the things everything in washington knows there is also a designated for congress has started in the wake of 9/11. so there is no point under any ordinary circumstance for one member of congress to survive. it gives it to make it worthwhile to be one member on the night of the "state of the union". >> so this is where it gets interesting tha

dick cheney put it to me when he was with jerry ford, terrific chief of staff for jerry ford, he said you can't have a tough thing to tell the president and have eight or nine guys sitting around and saying no it is your turn to tell him. >> rose: just one person goes in there. >> it has to be one person to do it and unfortunately we do not have achieve of staff as we speak in the white house who can tell the president no. >> >> is there anybody in the white house that can tell the president no? >> well, you know, i sometimesÑi wonder if donald trump could find the civilian equivalent of jim mattis who evidently has the gravitas to change the 43's mind on torture, for example. >> rose: right. >> and tell him no. >> he needs to find somebody like that, because history is littered with the wreckage of presidencies that tried to govern this way, including jerry ford's .. >> back to your first question, what makes a good chief of staff, i completely agree with john. the role of the chief of staff is going to vary from president to president and vary dract, drastically it would be hard to

so then i did the same thing that dick cheney did i was the head of the search committee putting my name ond the list so i got the job and moved at the end of the second term bin i started this interest in food writing and then that led to this book. what i love about the roosevelt presidency in encapsulates so many things -- themes to have this celebrated:berry artist tolt keep them healthy also the interplay where presidents want to play hooky from their diet normally it is the first lady that keeps the president from himself mende african-americans caught in the middle so i will primarily focus on three personalities equity roosevelt administration one was named alonzo in one wast named the lizzie she was a maid but also help to cook and then another who would cook over long periods of time in georgia.with so because i deal with so many people i eventually found 150 people food cooked from our our presidents i finished during the obama administration but there are holdovers now into the trump whitehouse i decided the best way to tell a story was to create different categories and then

reporter: the potential threat was concerning enough that some years ago former vice president dick cheney wireless capability on his pacemaker turned off. >> have you ever had a high heart rate before? >> we need to intubate. >> reporter: to combat this problem doctors, security experts, and government employees recently converged upon the university of arizona in phoenix to witness the first ever simulated hack of a hospital. the event was organized by jeff tully and christian demet, both doctors here. they're also both self-proclaimed hackers. >> when you say a hacker, everyone instantly think about darkly lit rooms, hooded characters that are variously typing and hacking the pentagon. there's a lot of great hackers out there. they do good. when they find vulnerabilities in systems, they fix them. >> what here is vulnerable to hacking? >> everything that's plugged in. >> why are devices like pacemakers and ventilators connected to the internet at all? >> because there's incredible functionality that can be used to the benefit of our patients. pacemakers can be connected to things that m

so you have everyone from harry truman to joe biden to al gore to dick cheney. that you sign it at the end of your tenure. so i expect i'll be signing this drawer in seven and a half years. ainsley: your son is a marine. what does freedom, what does the flag, what does our country mean to you? >> well, i never fail to remember that whatever the challenge is of being in public life, we all have the second hardest job. we're only able to serve here. and because men and women at this very hour are in euphemism of the united states defending our freedom and making it possible. i added that list of brave men and women of law enforcement and first responders across this country. and what i try to do every single day is live up to the courage that they demonstrate in a democracy. ainsley: wow. what a view. washington monument, the white house. >> you know, it's amazing when you think about it. every president since our second president has lived in that home. it's remarkable. presidents who are no longer with us walked these halls. it's unbelievable. how did you get fr

cheney, dick cheney. >> president obama was asked just on friday about edward snowden, as you probablyeady know. there's a big movement afoot, and i suspect it's going to grow in the coming weeks, to press president obama to pardon edward snowden before he leaves office. don't laugh, but there's going to be a huge pressure for him to do that before he leaves office. president obama was asked about this on friday, and this is a direct quote -- "i can't pardon somebody who hasn't gone before a court and presented themselves, so that's not something i would comment on at this point." that's president obama on friday when asked about whether he would pardon edward snowden. i guess the question is whether you think there is any chance that obama obama before he leaves the white house would pardon edward snowden. >> i wish he would, or at least prepardon him, you know? i mean, make the conditions such that he could be pardoned. no, it'd be the merciful thing to do and a graceful thing for him. i mean, he's done many good things, but he's also -- he hasn't changed this system, this surveillan

and vice president dick cheney said water—boarding is fine, it does not constitute torture.ew that says water—boarding does constitute torture — we know, for example, barack obama said it did constitute torture. so, by extension, therefore, your critics would say, that you are a perpetrator of torture, or, to put it another way, you are a torturer, yourself. what is your response to that? well, fortunately, what matters is what the justice department says. the office of legal counsel is the highest law enforcement agency in terms of making these decisions. torture has a legal definition. right? and so the colloquial way that we use the word torture, i can see why people might think that. and that's the way that barack obama used it. i, personally, think late term abortions are torture. but it doesn't matter whatjim mitchell thinks is or isn't torture. it matters what the justice department thanks. and it matters what the people who have done the investigations think. you know, there was a several year—long criminal investigation into whether or not anyone involved in the enh

that the readers understood that was a beta situation and position was far more complicated than dick cheney or the opposite way to defense attorneys would have you have you believe i was a bit it was not the number three and that was just simply not true i don't think that cia officers and white house policy makers were lying at the time that they said he was number three i think the intelligence was so bad that they just didn't know and they made an assumption that turned out to not be true on the other hand the defense attorneys would have you believe that this poor poor man was mistakenly captured that the intelligence was so faulty that. his life was essentially ruined for something that he didn't do and that's just not true either it's something down the middle i was a beatle was the largest station for al qaeda even though he did not ever formally join the group and never pledged fealty to osama bin laden he was the group's largest he ran the house of martyr safe house and push our he opened and ran the. al qaeda training camp in southern afghanistan if you were an al qaeda fighter an

there is zero doubt that starting with vladimir putin on down that there was meddling interference dick cheney called it an act of war so that's what there's no doubt about so you know people can talk about it in these terms of oh it's this big nothing it's not a big nothing and you know why he said what stupid thing he said you know you'll have to ask him again. if you're on your air it's just stupid ok that's the explanation let me go to you line i want to correct the record here we had james clapper say in front of a congressional committee it wasn't seventeen agencies it was three and those three agencies that came out of their assessment meeting their guesstimate cherry pick the people that wrote that report here so let's clear the air ok i suggested everyone go to robert perry. consorting news dot com and he has a very good explanation of it here finally lionel you've been very patient jump in . the project very ty's video is the zapruder film for c.n.n. . and is dad dad zucker dad predict you will see the ultimate freezing out this is the denouement the epilogue the coda and stopped rep

knowing there was no crime and knew who leaked, and they did so for the purpose of going after dick cheney. this whole thing is sick and we ought to understand how sick it is. if you look at who mueller is hiring, it gets even sicker. judge jeanine: the speaker gets tough on his critics. hear who he likened to a prostitute coming up a little later. next amy holmes is here live. we'll talk more about the people trying to take down the president. later, street justice asked why a president trump look alike being stabbed to death is appropriate for shakespeare in the park. justice rolls on in a moment. >> i think they always try to push the envelope a little bit. push the envelope a little bit. that's wha if you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what? you could apply for a medicare supplement insurance plan whenever you want. no enrollment window. no waiting to apply. that means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. medicare doesn't cover everything. and like all standardized medic

he looked for somebody specifically to try to get dick cheney, the vice president and the only got mr. libby on event that had nothing to do with -- he asks questions and if you make a mistake in one of them, karl rove said he almost got indicted for forgetfulness. one briefen conversation two years earlier and they almost indicted him. you get these kind of headhunters, the sheer power of the federal government and every word you say is taken down. you get every single piece of paper you've ever done brought in and every word everyone else said. i'm confused, he said this and now this person said that, did you perjure yourself? are you objecting justice? i'm very worried by mueller and the people he is surrounding himself are very dangerous and i think it's a great disservice to america. the original question was russia. and if we're going to look in russia, let's do it at a bipartisan basis and look at bill clinton's half-million dollar speech and that podesta's brother is a registered agent for russian bank and the iranian deal when hillary was secretary of state. i'm happy to look

. >> many people call this russian act of war, dick cheney i think among others. and obama did nothing. >> most fundamental thing is person who will chair this committee chuck grassley is as tough, as, he has been there 30 years, he has tough as anyone in u.s. senate, i promise you, if he goes after this bone he will get the dog and the bone, i don't know. i am very pleased it is moving forward. lou: and moving forward it is against all odds, ed rollin, michael goodwin. >> thank you. lou: we're coming right back with a lot more, quite a day in washington, stay with us. >> president trump said he remains confident that senate will pass healthcare reform. >> we don't have too much of a choice because the alternative is the dead carcass of obamacare. lou: we take up the dems dangerous strategy of obstruction. >> and supreme court slapping down fourth and 9th circuits enforcing all of president trump's travel ban. judge andrew napolitano calls this a substand shall liberty mutual stood with us when a fire destroyed everything in our living room. we replaced it all wit

joining me now is former counterterrorism adviser to vice president dick cheney. we have listened to police all night talk about how this went down, the van runs over people in the attackers get out with knives. you know in about two hours or so the prime minister, teresa may will meet with her cobra group. they're going to want some answers and there are not many answers right now to get. >> it is interesting that tresa may end mi five organization give a warning just to the wake of the manchester attack that more attacks were eminent. i be curious to see if the cells were related. right now the police and an eye five are going through pocket litter. fortunately the suspects did not blow themselves up so they can see what is on the attackers, where they came from, where they lived if they had cell phones on them, with a talk to and begin trying to take down the rest of that network as fast as possible. that's what's going on tactically on the ground. if we think back it's worth bringing up edward snowden who exposed to the world the different types of software pr

it was vice president dick cheney that was not shy about coming out, gave speech after speech, the dual speeches against president obama. >> are you saying send joe biden out there to clear it up? >> i am. send vice president biden -- if the president ends and went to do it himself, i think that vice president biden is an excellent choice to explain what they were digging at the time. >> i have a better suggestion. they should appoint mitt romney to look into the russia connection because it was president obama who mocked the candidate when he brought up russia. >> of the 80s called, they want their foreign policy back. >> exactly. president obama, he painted himself in a corner. he said russia was no threat. same thing with isis. so his ego forces him never to admit that he is wrong. he can't -- these are all really big mistakes. it's hilarious that the more that you dig into this russia story, it becomes the democrats try, not a republican story, and it makes president obama into the world's worst renter. he leaves the place in a far worse estate than he found it. if you look at russi

knowing there was no crime and knew who leaked, and they did so for the purpose of going after dick cheney. this whole thing is sick and we ought to understand how sick it is. if you look at who mueller is hiring, it gets even sicker. judge jeanine: the speaker gets tough on his critics. hear who he likened to a prostitute coming up a little later. next amy holmes is here live. we'll talk more about the people trying to take down the president. later, street justice asked why a president trump look alike being stabbed to death is appropriate for shakespeare in the park. justice rolls on in a moment. >> i think they always try to push the envelope a little bit. that's what they are doing. i never miss an early morning market. but with my back pain i couldn't sleep or get up in time. then i found ave pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back! aleve pm for a better am. you can request a one-timehe access code to use the atm. [customer] just my phone. [team member] yeah. [customer] that'll come in handy when you go out for

knowing there was no crime and knew who leaked, and they did so for the purpose of going after dick cheney. this whole thing is sick and we ought to understand how sick it is. if you look at who mueller is hiring, it gets even sicker. judge jeanine: the speaker gets tough on his critics. hear who he likened to a prostitute coming up a little later. next amy holmes is here live. we'll talk more about the people trying to take down the president. later, street justice asked why a president trump look alike being stabbed to death is appropriate for shakespeare in the park. justice rolls on in a moment. >> i think they always try to push the envelope a little bit. that's wha it's ok that everybody ignores me when i drive. it's fine. because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months i'm accident free. because i don't use my cellphone when i'm driving. even though my family does, and leaves me all alone. here's something else... i don't share it with mom. i don't. right, mom? i have a brand new putter you don't even know about! it's awesome. safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate.

he appoints fitzpatrick anyway, and he goes after dick cheney's chief of staff, because what he wantsdo is coerce libby in turning on the president. libby is an honorable man and refuses to do so. that is what i worry about. the team that mueller is assembling. i don't think they're going to get trump, but i think they are going to get other people, because when you are involved in this kind of criminal investigation, people who have the power of the government can set you up for all sorts of secondary charges and can ruin your life and can bankrupt you, and i think this is a bad deal. >> sean: this is a bad deal, i think there is great danger here, there is also investigative creep here. he ends up with somebody falling into a perjury trap because they don't remember, they made a mistake. nobody gets to revise or extend their remarks. the question is, what the republicans do now, knowing there is no obstruction, knowing there's no collusion. should they shut this down? >> i think the two intelligence committees have an easy task. you bring in mueller, and you say to him, how often do

he appoints fitzpatrick anyway, and he goes after dick cheney's chief of staff, because what he wants to do is coerce libby in turning on the president. libby is an honorable man and refuses to do so. that is what i worry about. the team that mueller is assembling. i don't think they're going to get trump, but i think they are going to get other people, because when you are involved in this kind of criminal investigation, people who have the power of the government can set you up for allt sorts of secondary charges and can ruin your life and can bankrupt you, and i think this is a bad deal. >> sean: this is a bad deal, i think there is great danger here, there is also investigative creep here. he ends up with somebody falling into a perjury trap because they don't remember, they made a mistake. nobody gets to revise or extend their remarks. the question is, what the republicans do now, knowing there is no obstruction, knowing there's no collusion. should they shut i this down? >> i think the two intelligence committees have an easy task. you bring in mueller, and you say to him, how o

. >> you wrote an op-ed with vice president dick cheney in which he warned about defense spending.rite... america today faces an array of threats, more serious, more complex than the past 75 years. president obama and his policies are largely to blame. >> you get into a situation where people are just talking numbers. we felt it was really important, this isn't about if you're going to have plus up defense. why do we need to do more and why do we need to do more over the coming years? why do we need to do things -- america's adversaries have really used the last eight years to build up their own defenses. like the russians and the chinese. really targeting our capabilities. as a congress, at the people, we got to look at this and say what is it going to take to begin to rebuild our military and undo the damage? >> president trump's budget, it was submitted to congress. you are saying the 3% increase is nowhere near good enough. >> not even sufficient. the senate, armed services committee, mccain, they have both worked very diligently over the course of the last year to look at what

but vice president dick cheney was not. he was extremely effective. he had against president obama? he's going to want to defend his legacy. even if it's veiled, it still hurts. on foreign soil, it's still hard to take. >> kimberly: greg, proper or improper? and what is it expected? >> greg: has there ever been any topic that has warranted and caused more conversation in our modern lifetimes and donald trump? not even the weather. people talk about trump as though it is a separate weather event. wherever you go, people are going -- the house the trump over there? we had a lot of trouble last night. we had to dig it out and shovel to tromp out of our driveway. it keeps piling up. i wasn't upset with that stuff because it's just what people talk about. president obama talking about the parents of course, we need to give our children a fighting chance. it's not predictable, cheap happy cliche that the left always uses. if you come out against something, kids are going to die. but if you look at the pairs accords, that would be more harmful to children be

we know that even republicans like dick cheney and john mccain are worried about climate change.you know, these climate change individuals like al gore, they make these alarming predictions but then they never back down when they turn out to be false. why is that allowed to happen? >> it's been happening since at least the 1960s. back then, we had overpopulation who made very specific predictions by the year 1980, all of them failed to materialize population exploded, economic growth exploded, people were fed -- humanity prospered. and most of them learned you make a prediction, make sure you're long dead after the time it came true. al gore, unfortunately, made that ten-year prediction and of course we had done nothing. obama didn't do anything until his second term when he started regulating through executive order. liz: the point is you make a lot of money being alarmists. you give a lot of speeches, get invited to a lot of conferences, you go on junkets, you go on limo rides. here's the thing. if you really want to talk about climate change, maybe start talking about al gore'

golfing with dick cheney? it's a public act. >> greg: juan, respond to this.hether or not ginsburg should have to recuse herself -- this is judge napolitano talking about whether she should have to recuse herself. roll it. >> if she were a federal trial judge and had said about thea president what she did, she would be compelled by a higher court not to sit on a case in which the president was personally involved. if she sits in the case and herd animus towards him as a person and human being is manifest in the questioning or the decision of the case, it will damage the reputation of the court. >> greg: what do you think, juan? >> juan: but justice scalia, who favored a conservative point of view -- nobody thought that. you asked me, "what is the analogous situation?" and i'm telling you it doesn't hold water. let me finish up with what i was saying. >> kimberly: did scalia ever made comments like that about president obama? >> juan: if you befriend people in the administration, how can you render a fair verdict to your friend? >> jesse: the code of conduct do