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something that gets talked about all the time was dick cheney too powerful. bush 43 told you -- >> well, he was talking about the neoconservatives in general and specifically about cheney and rumsfeld and he said, and i quote, cheney and rumsfeld never made one [ bleep ] decision. >> that's the quote. >> that's the quote. i understand his frustration. at the time there was the perception that dick cheney was the acting president. but in fact, george w. bush had a lifetime of making bold decisions. he has this confidence in himself as a leader. if you talk to those around him, they have confidence in his leadership. this notion that cheney ludicro ludicrous. >> you started to write this book, let me guess, the title was not "the last republicans". >> i set out to write this in 2013, it was a very different time. but the last republicans became the right title during what has become the trump era. >> because? >> well, you know, george w. bush himself said, in 2016, privately, and to me, you know, i fear that i'll be the last republican president. >> he confirmed

was dick cheney too powerful? and bush 43 told you? >> well he was talking about the neo conservatives in general and specifically about chainny and rums felled. he said, i quote. chainny and rums felled never made one bleep decision. >> that's the quote. >> i under stand his frustration because at the time there was the perception dick cheney was the acting president but george w. bush had a lifetime of making bold decision. he has this confidence in himself as a leader. if you talk to those around him, they have confidence in his leadership. and so this notion that cheney was making decisions is ludicrous. >> when you started making this booklet me guess, the tight was not the last republicans. >> when i started out to write this in 2013 was a very different time but the last republicans became the right title during what has become the trump era. >> because? >> well, george w. bush himself said in 2016, privately, and to me, i fear that i'll be the last republican president. >> he confirmed that to you. >> he confirmed that to me. i

something that gets talked about all the time, was dick cheney too powerful. 3 told you. >> well, he was talking about the neo concerns in general and specifically, about cheney and rums field. and he said and i quote, cheney, rums field never made one [ bleep ] decision. >> that's the quote. >> i understand his frustration because at the time, dick cheney was the acting president, but george w. bush had a lifetime of making bold decisions. he has this natural confidence in himself as a leader and the you talk to those around him, they have confidence in his leadership. and so this notion that cheney was making the decisions is ludicrous. >> when you started to write this book, let me guess, the title was not the last republicans. >> when i set out to write this in 2013, it was a very different time. but the last republicans became the right title during what has become the trump era. >> because? >> well, you know, george w. bush himself said in 2016, private and to me, i fear that i'll be the last republican president. >> he confirmed that to you. >> he confir

something that gets talked about all the time, which dick cheney too powerful, and bush 43 told you?was talking about the neo conservatives in general and specifically about cheney and rumsfeld, and he said, and i quote, "cheney and rumsfeld never made one [ bleep ] decision." >> that's the quote? >> that's the quote. i understand his frustration, because at the time there was a perception that dick cheney was the acting president, but, in fact, george w. bush had a lifetime of making bold decisions. he has this preter natural confidence of himself in a leadership and those around him have confidence in his leadership, so this notion that cheney was making the decisions was ludicrous. >> when you started to write this book, let me guess the title was not "the last republicans." >> when i set out to write this in 2013, you know, it was a very different time, but the last republicans became the right title during what has become the trump era. >> because? >> you know, george w. bush himself said in 2016 privately, and to me, you know, i fear that i'll be the last republican president.

was dick cheney too powerful. and bush 43 told you? he was talking about the neo conservatives in general and specifically about cheney and rumsfeld. and he said, and i quote, cheney and rumsfeld never made one [ bleep ] decision. >> that's the quote? >> that's the quote. i understand his frustration. because at the time, there was the perception that dick cheney was the acting president but, in fact, george w. bush had had a lifetime of making bold decisions. he had this preternatural belief in himself as a leader. if you talk to those around him, they have confidence in his leadership. the notion that cheney was making the decisions is ludicrous. >> when you started to write this book, let me guess, the title was not "the last republicans"? >> when i set out to write this in 2013, it was a very different time. >> because? >> well, you know, george w. bush himself said in 2016 privately and to me, you know, i fear that i'll be last republican president. >> he confirmed that? >> he confirmed that. it wasn't just about hillary clinton be

he's stayed in close contact with joe biden and dick cheney.on this exclusive story is back with me. carol, i kind of love this club, how does it work? >> mike pence will call former vice president joe biden before going on foreign trips to get advice on who he is going to meet and what the leaders are like and what the issues are. and biden will call him to say, i'm going to meet with this foreign leader, are there any issues that you guys are having? what -- is there any sensitivities? so they have this exchange of information. and similarly with cheney where they talk foreign policy, domestic policy, what it's like to be a vice president, the inner play between the white house and capitol hill. so pence has cultivated these two and really created what one aid described to me as a warm relationship, particularly with vice president biden. >> wise move, yoda. sort of a brotherhood. do they have a secret handshake or code names? >> they have secret service code names, but i don't know they use them. >> they should have a handshake, like blood b

he nominates dick cheney which opens the whip position. new to had always thought about being speaker of the house but the path forward was murky. cheney was very popular. >> you want to be in cheney. >> no. >> there was a question of cheney would've been speaker and 94. would've he created the political conditions that led to the contract? >> like all historical figures it's persistence. how many people run three times? and also a little bit of luck. >> luck, and a belief in his own ability to lead. >> last thing they want is newt gingrich. >> especially when he says i'm willing to be the republican -- in the house. there's never good relations between that and the bush white house anyway. john is on the chief of staff made it even worse. they did not help the cause on capitol hill are the house. at one point there ban from going to capitol hill because every time they went their new enemies were created. >> there's a very selective school in the south. >> it was on economic policy. >> i never read it it's one a few books he did not publis

the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how to go to move big contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left. with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from nine eleven till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a billion dollars off the war there's a great future. defending the woman is no longer about being interviewed the american enterprise institute he says you would be a disaster in fashion these things who are we going to waste it she goes home on a number of you change the vanity and that's one of the many did do you do the work for him over these hundreds of millions of dollars you see. in these. u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their they believe service connected health injuries say that k.b.r. short sighted didn't install center raters when they should have had burned all th

ladies and gentlemen we move to dick cheney the subject of mourning the masterpiece probably not of christ the savior previous in the collections of three kings of england savior of the world a poor traits of jesus christ one of fewer than twenty paintings known to exist by their own a son's master ninety minute looking for ninety five in house christie said the presale estimates at one hundred million dollars but that was soon exceeded ninety five and i gave one third of it why not instead i have it one hundred ten million give me one twenty the bidding via phone just getting going on ninety has been you heard it you place your place with francoise in a fifth place that one hundred ninety for the leonardo at one hundred ninety million give me two hundred one ninety is bit two hundred million is bid at two hundred million two hundred million just how high could it go at two hundred eighty million dollars so we're all down maybe not. don't take a photograph quite the next milestone three hundred we'll give it to ninety six. i thought so the three hundred million. and even though it's was in

in new york it was quite a different story thoroughly ladies and gentlemen we move to the little dick cheney the subject of modern day the masterpiece probably not of christ the savior of previous in the collections of three kings of england savior of the world a core traits of jesus christ one of fewer than twenty paintings known to exist by their own a sense muster at nineteen million a looking for ninety five in house christie said the pre-sale estimate at one hundred million dollars but that was soon exceeded ninety five and i gave one third of it one out and said i have it one hundred ten million go get me one twenty the bidding via phone just getting going on ninety is bit you heard it new place their place with friends who are in a fifth place at one hundred ninety billion otto one hundred ninety million give me two hundred one ninety is two hundred million is fish that you are good million two hundred million just how high could you go at two hundred eighty million dollars so we'll go on maybe not. don't take the photograph quite the next milestone three hundred we'll give it to nine

vice president dick cheney would have killed or died for numbers that good. his numbers were even worse than that when he was finishing his time as vice president. but despite that, despite the way that bush and cheney were going out, this new democratic president kept on one of the bush cheney cabinet members. kept on bob gates. and that had really strong political resonance because of how unlikely it seemed in the abstract. because of what it meant for the politics of the moment. but it also had the effect of making bob gates also kind of a rock star in the obama cabinet. right? and that was a rock star cabinet. it also included hillary clinton. but it was an interesting thing. once they were both sworn in, these two incredibly high profile politically -- bob gates and hillary clinton did what was basically a traveling road show all over the country. they made joint appearances where he as secretary of defense and she as secretary of state, they made this joint pitch that we should stop counting on the military for everything. and we should instead build up

in the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how go to move big contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left oliver with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from nine eleven till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a billion dollars off the war there's a great future. on defending the woman he is no longer about being interviewed at the american enterprise institute and he's seen as you would be a disaster these things who are we going to waste it she goes oh number. of units one for the united do his work for him over mission hundreds of millions of dollars next to the. u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. the veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their they believe service connected health insurance say that k.b.r. short cut it didn't install center raters when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it w

during the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how to go to no bid contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left. with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from nine eleven till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a million dollars off the war there's a great usu the good you cheney ninety nine defending the woman is no longer about news he's being interviewed he didn't earn it rights institute he says you muses that your fashion uses these civil war we had no exit strategy oh no you changed the only advantage in this one for the united. from all over the. u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their what they believe service connected how injuries say that k.b.r. short sighted didn't install incinerators when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it was a guess the o.t. reg

vice president dick cheney is whisked to a secure underground location.overnment went into survival mode. garrett graff: none of these programs worked in the way that we had hope that they were. joce: garrett graff is author of a book called "raven rock: the story of the u.s. government's secret plan to save itself, while the rest of us die." garrett: the only time that we have ever paid real close attention to these plans is they don't work. joce: to you, does that highlight the need for more transparency? garrett: it highlights both the need for more transparency, but also more exercises. pres. truman: all things that we hold dear are in great danger. joce: continuity of government plans have been around since president truman and the dawn of the atomic age. each administration has added their own touches. the greenbrier, the secret bunker built beneath a resort that would have housed members of congress, was built on eisenhower's watch. john f. kennedy's press secretary pierre salinger organized what was called a doomsday press corps. along with additi

the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how to go to move big contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left. with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from nine eleven till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a billion dollars off the war there's a great if you change the phone defending the woman he is no longer. being interviewed the american enterprise institute he says he would be a disaster fast these things who are we going to waste it she goes home a number. of units one for the method. to his work for him over the next hundreds of millions of dollars you see you know. these. u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their they believe service connected health interests say that k.b.r. short sighted didn't install center raters when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste

professional career it's suspicious on how we got a no bid contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left oliver with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from nine eleven till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a million dollars off the war there's a great you do the cheney. defending the woman is not about the interview i think the american enterprise institute and he said it would be a disaster.

and so ladies and gentlemen we move to dick cheney the subject of modern day the masterpiece probably not of christ the savior previous in the collections of three kings of england savior of the world poor traits of jesus christ one of fewer than twenty paintings known to exist by their own a sense master ninety minute looking for ninety five in house christie said the presale estimates at one hundred million dollars but that was soon exceeded ninety five and i gave one third of it why not instead i have it one hundred ten million go get me one twenty the bidding via phone just getting going on ninety has been you heard it you place your place with francois in a fifth place that one hundred ninety for the leonardo at one hundred ninety million give me two hundred one ninety is two hundred million it's bid that so you are good million two hundred million just how high could he go at two hundred eighty million dollars so we'll go on maybe not. don't take the photograph quite the next milestone three hundred we'll give it to ninety six. i thought so the old three hundred million. and eve

witnessed during the course of my professional career it's suspicious on how go no bid contract because dick cheney before he became vice president was c.e.o. of halliburton he left hollow burton with twenty million dollars worth of stock options from nine eleven till two thousand and nine and those stock options quadrupled in price he made about a million dollars off the war was a great the. phone defending the woman he is no longer about the interview i think the american enterprise institute he says it would be a disaster in the fashion he says. we have no exit strategy oh no number. of units one for you invented. to do his work for him over the nation hundreds of millions of dollars the next to. us military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. the veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their.

joined with secretarycr of war, the dick cheney ofcr this day, jefferson davis of mississippi, and to slaveholding wealth and the de facto acting president of the united states, operating behind the weakling franklin pierce. in their collaboration on the kansas the brassica act. that act -- kansas-nebraska act. that act repealed the missouri compromise that had forbidden slavery north of the line through the country that prohibited it in the north except for missouri. but now it's repealed a possible extension of slavery to the west. it made possible the nationalization of slavery. lincoln's nightmare. and in a stroke, the entire old political crack apart. we were thunderstruck and stunned at in confusion that lincoln describing the atmosphere of the early resistance. but we rose, each fighting, grasping whatever he could reach the size, at pitchfork, a chopping ax or a butchers cleaver. we struck in the direction of the sound. in two great autobiographies lincoln depicted himself in his wilderness years as strangely content in a kind of internal exile, becoming merely indifferent to

we have been ponds and dick cheney being the only inside contract in iraq which was a contrived for along with the drug trade, alarm steals is keeping us involved here. so never emptying thing as long as the talk of science the wealthy corporations are controlling everything. >> final thoughts from our guests. there's a lot of people who believe there's conspiracies out there. i don't. my office was created someone who is coming planted by an inspector general of ours is to state facts. were not part of that conspiracy. we understand those of you that there's a grand conspiracy. we live in a country where they create independent inspector general and they we try to let you determine the policy. >> here's a look at it, it's from october of this year you can read it argos guest has been john, thank you. >> it's a pleasure. i enjoyed it. >> "washington journal", live every day with new some policy should that impact too. coming up on tuesday morning, the week ahead with bloomberg stephen dennis. in the nuclear expert talks about the nuclear arsenal. watch live in join the discussion. french

if you go on youtube and search dick cheney behind the music.hat we do at the roast. video we made in 2013. with dick cheney. it's one of the proudest help i was helped along. writing that by the great internet humorous iowa hawk. so this is just to give you a sense that even ponderous nico conservative monthlies can have fun. >> david ignatius, third thing colliding with history is his great new book, the quantum spy. david, go. >> it is colliding with history. i write to columns a week. 750 words here. i wanted a chance to write on a bigger canvas about the issues that interest me and in particular about the intelligence issues that interest me. a book about the race between the united states and china to build the world's fastest most dominant computer. and the bitter battle behind the scenes of their agents trying to recruit ci officers and our agents trying to recruit them. and it's just in this world where you know i can say news is too much with us. it's fun to be a novelist and get outside of that and try to tell a story that has a littl

dick cheney what said it would be unconstitutional to challenge article to authority, which he meant to be unlimited. the constitution was very clear. we are supposed to initiate war. doesn't matter whether it is a state or nonstate war. initiation of war comes from congress. i believe that strongly. we have the ability to our search our power, and we should resist with the administration, any one, republican or democrat, tells us they believe the have the ability to have primitive were anywhere, anytime, and the ability to fight a war against an ideology wherever they perceive it to be. i think it is very dangerous, and this should be a wake-up call to all of us if we can come together. i would say, just passing aumf is not enough for me because it should give us some hope of someday coming to an end, and someday there will be in and to the war. i see no end to this war historically. i think the war and the answers are going to come from within islam. i think islam is ultimately going to have to step out. i think we are a target everywhere we go. we went to yemen, and you guys just

pence in regular contact with joe biden and dick cheney through phone calls and meetings during whichounsel. and exchange ideas. according to each of them, the practice marks a contrast from trump's behavior, but also that of biden and chaeney who did no forge a relationship with each other and had no contact. the association of predecessors effectively positioned him as the highest profile link to trump and the washington establishment. currently frequently at odds with it. it could also change the position for his boss. who places a high value on loyal loyalty. target of criticism from both former. one of the ufrs sthe. >>> excused in the bribery trial of senator bob menendez speaking out about the ongoing deliberation says he feels he's not guilty. replaced yesterday by an alternate juror, spoke outside of the courthouse saying most are in favor of acquitting the senator. says he believes the trial will end in hung jury. jury has been unable to reach a verdict after four days of deliberation. they will resume on monday. senator menendez charged with brey bribery and luxury scheme.

i was in an open forum with vice president dick cheney.m about it and he said take your issue offstage, it was a clear time when president bush had not consulted or informed cheney that this was about to happen. i don't think in donald trump's comments today as you just noted, it didn't sound like they had been previously on that list. >> do you think that this readdition of them on the list that it's going to make a disturbance one way or the other? >> two schools of thought, in u.s. perspective, it doesn't do anything because we're not providing north korea foreign aid, or dual use technology, what this does do is it shoves north korea back on the list of most horrible nations in the world. and the truth is that respectable nations of the world don't want to have people to people exchanges with north korean students, they don't want to come in and spend time. tourism groups don't want to go to a place that's on a state sponsor of terror list. this could increase international pressure in ways that seem innocuous to us but it does do -- i

dick cheney said in 2003 we tried to reform this and barney frank blocked me.n't chairman in 2003, 2004, 2005, or 2006. when we took over in 2007, in the first two years we did do all of these reforms as soon as we had the power. the problem now is that president obama out of office, yes, the trump administration is in the process of trying to weaken it. it is interesting why is he doing this in this unusual way? he is sending the budget director to run it. doesn't it occur to people that the budget director has a couple other things he should be worrying about. >> selling the bill. continuing resolutions so there's no shutdown. >> shutting down the government. the point is this. they would very much like to weaken the law, but they would need enough votes to beat a filibuster. this is too popular. senator republicans apart trying to undermine this by the legislative process because they know it would be unpopular. they are saying, hey, don't make me go out and vote against wells fargo. that's why they are going at it. you're exactly right. nothing could be mor

he's playing colin powell in an upcoming film about former vice president dick cheney. >> i'm studying i look at mannerisms, how he thinks, how he moves. i'm not going to be the guy that goes up, i'm colin powell, hello. you know what i mean? so i'm working on getting it right. >> you don't want to slip into the madea voice when you're part of the u.n. security council? >> god forbid. >> tyler may not like madea's panty hose but he'll be wearing them again in 2018. tyler's book "higher is waiting." despite the abuse he suffered at the hands of his father, emmitt. he provides him with a home and food. those are the only two things emmitt gave him as a child. to hear more on that and more from all of our sunday sitdowns, check out our web extras at today.com/extras. >>> at home with one of the hottest acts in music. chris stapleton and his wife morgan. for years he was the guy who wrote the songs for the stars in nashville, now he's one of them. with a string of number one albums and the awards to go with them. we're on the farm with chris stapleton next week on "sunday today." >>> dylan

dick cheney was lobbying heavily for scooter libby and bush never relented. the question is how much can thes who are putting their record on the line depend on donald trump's word or intentions! mark, you also have flynn, he's not been very cooperative. when you talk about senate intelligence committee, he refused. he hasn't been, declined to comply with the is that the subpoena. that was back in may. in september, he refused. do you think that if the pressure builds, he could go testify in front of the senate swell jensen questi intelligence question? >> if he's able to cut a deal where he could go get immunity, that's quite a possibility. there was talk about immunity if you go back about five, six, seven months ago, but the problem now is and jeffrey and john hit the nail on the head is the unpredictability of trump. will donald trump give him a pardon in in fact he becomes indict ed in what have you. i think that's a tough gamble bable to go o with. given that we don't know. >> how does trump signal that? the last thing ublyou could do a signalling it be