mcconnell: to put those eight tiebreakers in context, dick cheney broke eight ties in eight years. mike pence broke eight ties in one year. things are tight. >> [applause] sen. mcconnell: so we all appreciate the leadership of the vice president who acutely understands life and congress. fortunate to have an ally that is a consummate legislator in his own right. he put that to work on behalf of the president's agenda and american people. he meets with our members. does more of his share of the hard work to keep our government united. mr. vice president, we are looking forward to working with you more in the year ahead, and hopefully we can make a little senate history in the process. the vice president of the united states, mike pence. >> [applause]

branch can cut like a machete more than seven decades ago a country was split into rebated with dick cheney and now the time bending show to being off the bench all it took was a pen a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. the human cost of war almost two hundred syrians are killed in just three days as the government and its russian backers increase their attacks from the. world.

to do we in the room with dick cheney. and now all the time come when we showed you the big at the front of the midnight hour when they will leap into our window we don't like when we don't. but the very morning after independence celebrations hindus in pakistan and muslims in india began to flee their homes muslims headed for pakistan well hindus set off for india. enormous convoys of people moving in opposite directions the greatest mass migration in history. ten million people with displaced many were attacked by robbers and militants along the way a million people lost their lives. no one took responsibility for the tragedy but hindu nationalists accused gandhi of allowing muslims to steal part of the hindu nation. we went to the delhi headquarters of the rightwing hindu muss about organization. there we spoke to its then president he maintained that his was the only group that sought to defend india's integrity. of i was the only one major son in india richard lugar. with the great journey explorations there. really s

dick cheney was giving a speech at gettysburg. i don't know where the hell baker was an : powell was new in the job and didn't have a process. we want to think through systemically how they appoint their cabinet that make the administration to have those priorities that they can do by executive action. and how they manage that too difficult miles of those relationships we heard jimmy carter tell us to be elected as an outsider he didn't need the support of his political party. and then similar to and this was on the outside. and so look back across presidential history not just the structure but the opportunities and threats for the incoming president to help shape the understanding for the incoming administration or the public in general as they themselves had to plan for this moment sometimes every four years or every eight years. we want to bring together researchers with practitioners and what we were able to accomplish is extraordinary. almost exceed essays which today we are releasing this book crucible which was the best of

these are situations where the marshallese people are almost are you dick cheney piigs or they're just seen as disposable we're seen as disposable in both of these situations we're disposable our lives don't matter the war matters nuclear bombs matter our lives don't matter money matters gas now. profits. from satellite technology to three d. printing and recycled waste to solar powered classrooms africa is transforming young innovators opera pelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems they're challenging systems and shaping new one it's about creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. this is a really fabulous news for one of the best i've ever worked in there is a unique sense of bonding where everybody teams in but something i feel every time i get on the chair every time i interview someone we're often working around the clock to make sure that we bring events as i currently as possible to the viewer that's what people expect of us that's what i think we really do well. well if we cannot have pales

mcconnell: to put those eight tiebreakers in context, dick cheney broke a ties in the years. -- eights in eight years. mike pence broke eight ties in one year. things are tight. >> [applause] sen. mcconnell: so we all appreciate the leadership of the vice president who acutely understands life and congress. fortunate to have an ally that is a consummate legislator in his own right. he put that to work on behalf of the president's agenda and american people. he needs with our members. does -- meets with our numbers. does more of his share of the hard work to keephe needs with . our government united. mr. vice president, we are forward to working with you more in the year ahead, and hopefully we can make a little senate history in the process. the vice president of the united states, mike pence. >> [applause] v.p. pence: leader mcconnell, speaker mcconnell, speaker ryan, members of the house and senate, and your families, it is a joy for karen and i to be back, to the house and senate retreat, this congressional institute gathering with the men and women mostelped make 2017 the accompli

more than seven decades ago a country was split into rebated with dick cheney and now at the time. being myopic all it took was a pen a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time news has never been more i think but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera.

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more than seven decades ago a country was split into a good race with dick cheney and now. they all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled its servant to the never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. adrian for getting here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera a confidential united nations report says north korea almost two hundred million dollars last year by.

you remember dick cheney? bipartisanship is the worst. if democrats vote for this, they us taking resistance from here they are going along with trump. schumer is in new york looking for a deal for trump. democrats are losing resistance, losing everything that we built up. they are going along with trump. host: we got you. guest: you make a good point in that there have been presidents of both parties that have added to the debt. in fact, the only administration where we paid down the debt in the last several decades was the clinton administration when there was a republican congress and democratic president. we had several years where the debt went down. most other demonstrations -- of their administrations, it has been a steady increase. most parties have the spending or the tax side adding to this. was ax plan republican-driven up rent that added to the debt by all objective analyses. the plan now is a bipartisan deal, so both parties are signing on to the debt increases. when our policy makers going to make the difficult choices for t

didn't go out on the streets not because they're not so many people who for the day that he hates dick cheney are saying sort of people went on the streets only two thousand people it's really not in there now defunct of thousands of people in russia would love to go on the streets but they're not allowed because government i think if you. in russia if you go over years if you give them credit for in jail this is what government always says they don't give sanction to those meetings they say no this is not confirmed as a meeting so they do everything to make people frightened all of them what do you hold on to and let me ask you all of it for our country and for the king of all of the politics of our country one of your very consistent criticisms of the current current government is that it hasn't done something for example it hasn't rained in corruption there it hasn't invested in the one hard hydrocarbon industry hasn't done much of that but this is the same argument. decision due argument could be equally apply to you then and not apply here and i know you haven't run and your fight is a s

didn't go out on the streets not because they're not so many people who thought they did states dick cheney strange sort of people went on the streets only two thousand people it's really not there now defunct of thousands of people in russia would love to go on the streets but they're not allowed because government i think if you go in there. if you go three years if you give them credit for it to jail this is one. government always says they don't give sanction to those meetings they say no this is not confirmed as a meeting so they do everything to make people frightened all of them what do you hold. and let me ask you all of it for our country and for teaching about the as a politics of our country one of your very consistent criticisms of the current government is that it hasn't done something for example it hasn't rained in corruption there hasn't invested in the heart hydrocarbon industry it hasn't done much of that but this is the same argument. decision do argument could be equally apply to you and not apply here and i mean you haven't run in and. you haven't started an innovative

representative called cheney dick cheney had was it was general scowcroft there who just quit being the national security advisor for reagan are pretty you know and civil less than having their shrimp cocktail right and box in a pretty good cocktail so so general scowcroft i don't know are says you know on tuesday the successor admiral poindexter sest if i before congress and i would tell him if i were telling him and i will be advising him. then we should tell tell them that we never told ronald reagan anything about iran contra now kerry not used to this company see drops is for it shatters the last ice little just crystal thing and and without thinking he says joe scowcroft. we aren't doing it correctly you would bite your success should perjure himself to congress now. this is sad about what it is like and our bet was probably about a half a minute and then that it is weak for his arm around him and he said now sometimes you have to do what's best for the country that it and that i'm not bad. this is just gentlemanly banter. or else i'm not and there aren't that truly you have a lot

because there are not so many people who say that they that he hates dick cheney strange sort of people went on the streets only two thousand people it's really not going there in the few hundreds of thousands of people in russia would love to go on the streets but they're not allowed because government so i think if you go in there. if you go three years if you hear them credit for in jail this is what government always says they don't give sanction to those meetings they say no this is not confirmed as a meeting so they do everything to make people frightened all of them what do you hold. and let me give you all it's of our country and for taking him out of the politics of our country one of your very consistent criticisms of the current government is that it hasn't done something for example it hasn't rained in corruption there hasn't invested in the long hard hydrocarbon industry hasn't done much of that but this is the same argument. decision due argument could be equally apply to you and not apply here. you haven't run in and. you haven't started an innovative disney you haven't d

remediate with dick cheney. and now that i am when we showed you the marc rich and all of the midnight hour when they were leapt into our window week in light and heat up. but the very morning after independence celebrations hindus in pakistan and muslims in india began to flee their homes muslims headed for pakistan well hindus set off for. india. enormous convoys of people moving in opposite directions the greatest mass migration in history. ten million people were displaced many were attacked by robbers and militants along the way a million people lost their lives. no one took responsibility for the tragedy but hindu nationalists accused gandhi of allowing muslims to steal parts of the hindu nation. we went to the delhi headquarters of the rightwing hindu muss about organization. there we spoke to its then president he maintained that his was the only group that sought to defend india's integrity. ok got it in the ass of all of us with only one major son in india. richard. with. a german explorations there. r

powell on one side and dick cheney on the other, hand he said don't trust the north koreans. and theyalled it off started their nuclear program because they were called the axis of evil. trump doing a sword dance with the saudis. how fast people forget that 3000 americans died a horrible death. 15 of the 19 hijackers were saudis. they had safe passage that day on 9/11. there were some official saudi officials and george bush gave them safe passage out of the country. host: a little off-topic, but thank you. robert, republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to thank you for your program. you're the only thing that i trust for verification. regarde of questions in to a couple of guest that made the example that north korea and the iran agreement are different. i tend to differ with you that when clinton negotiated with north korea it was similar to what obama has done with iran i believe. i could be wrong. he said that the iran verification of nuclear weapons is undeniable. how can it be undeniable when we don't have access to the military sites? i await you

more than seven decades ago a country was split into we began with dick cheney and now. been shown to be myopic all it took was a pen a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. welcome back to al-jazeera so rob a reminder of our top stories syria's a rebel held region of eastern guta as a jod its deadliest day in more than a month russian and syrian government air raids killed at least seventy one people there on tuesday and estimated one hundred thirty eight people have now been killed in eastern cuba and province in the last forty eight hours also a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit eastern taiwan killing at least two people injuring more than two hundred others on the island the quake has brought down a hotel and several other buildings were severely damaged. lawyers for the kenyan opposition politician good and big have

more than seven decades ago a country was split into rebated with dick cheney and now the time come. to dean off the bench all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled its seventh who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition the borders of blood at this time. recent elections.

more than seven decades ago a country was split into we began with dick cheney and now. being myopic all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. you want you are just here a reminder of our top stories this hour us congress has released a memo that alleges the f.b.i. and the department of justice abused their power when investigating russian meddling in the presidential election democrats said the memos aimed at the railing the below probe into the trump campaign's alleged links to russia. the u.s. military says it will modernize its nuclear weapons arsenal in response to concerns over russia's expansion of its capability nuclear review has also expressed concerns over the nuclear programs of china iran and north korea. al-jazeera has obtained a un report which accuses the saudi led coalition in yemen of killing

we were probably dick cheney has this wonderful ability to go from being very self-confident to also being very self-critical he said on paper we may be the best national security team ever. and he might be right. the president of the united states had already had eight e years as vice president, had been the director of the cia has been ambassador to the united nations. vice president -- secretary of defense cheney had already been a white house chief of staff and a senior member of congress. secretary of state james baker had already been secretary of the treasury, had been a white house chief of staff and colin powell the new joint chief of staff had already been national security advisor. and the list went on and on bob gates was a deputy national security, and national security easers kept teasing him that he was going to keep having to do the job until he got it right. and he said we were great on paper until we were presented with a crisis that failed cue in panama and we totally screwed it up. i was giving speech in gettysburg i don't know why the hell baker was and they hadn

if dick cheney had called biden a joke or obama joke, there would have been hell to pay.'t think it was keeping with presidential or vice president joe protocol. the elder statesmen have been in the gutter recently. president obama kind of hinted that donald trump was like hitler. john kerry was interfering. hillary accused president trump of being a ration trader. vp biden calls him a joke. they might be desperate, testing the waters. they might need a heavy hitter to come out and throw some punches after the bad news the democrats have endured over the last couple weeks. if you want to get into a schoolyard contest with president trump, i don't think biden is going to win that battle. >> dana: he will have a nickname before long. >> juan: tom, the most surprising thing from the interview. he's as if it was one of tom's lawyers to me would advise the president not meet and be interviewed by robert mueller. >> tom: that was the least surprising thing in the interview. i think everybody would give them that advice. i think the most depressing thing was this, a full throate

democrats used to say that a lot when george bush and dick cheney got caught spying on americans withoutoing to the fisa court, thegu argument of the busht' administration was it's so burdensome, it's so easy, they never turn you down. now democrats are trying to say it's a very rigorous process. they almost never say no. >> tucker: and glenn greenwald has been a brave a voice from the left, thank you for that, i appreciate it. >> tucker: what exactly in this memo was so dangerous that you want to supposed to it? it would endanger this country for you to readul it. we'll have that next ♪ i'm walkin♪ wow! nshine ♪ i'm walking on sunshine ♪ wow! ♪ applebee's handcrafted burgers. any burger just $7.99. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. can this much love be cleaned by a little bit of dawn ultra? oh yeah one bottle has the grease cleaning power of three bottles of this other liquid. a drop of dawn and grease is gone. small business, internet providers promise you a lot. let's see who delivers more. comcast business offers fast gig-speeds across our network. at&t doesn't. we offer mo

dick cheney pushed through trillions of dollars for the iraq war and where did much of it end up? pi burton which he used to run. it's a joke. when it's about enrich, their cronies, there's no problem turning on the tap pu be but when doing it for the working americans, the money isn't there. i'm steamed up about this, amanda. what did you make of the plan? >> yeah, roads, bridges, except it's california. who knows if we'll see it manifested. in as conservatives we believed in limited government. when you have a large scale infrastructure plan, it's typically a one to one ratio with the federal government matching 100% of the state's investment. this is four-to-one with 100 burden on the states, 25% matched by the federal government. but here in california, i guess i've just lost hope of ever seeing anything improved here. be we're so broke. but our state ag is blowing money suing the president 23 times. we just had a wreck in california last week that tore up the freeway. i'll probably be in gran fi diapers by the time they fix it. steve: it shows their priorities. ann, i want to

more than seven decades ago a country was split into we begin with dick cheney and now the time. to be myopic all it took was a pen a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's that's what this job. in twenty twelve al-jazeera traveled to iraq people here are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of a country ravaged under us occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq turned into a battleground between the mahdi army and the americans six years on rewind returns to iraq after the americans at this time on all g.c. . this is al jazeera. hello i'm citizen this is the news out live from london co

the republicans had deficits under reagan, under w when dick cheney famously said it doesn't matter. but their position now is deficits don't matter unless there is a democrat in the white house. this decade began with a decade of a freakout, they stormed the party angry about deficits in the face of a stimulus bill passed in a massive economic crisis. now in combination with the tax cuts and this spending bill is something far greater than that. we are looking at trillion dollar deficits. as rand paul pulled out, this is rank hypocrisy. >> and our colleagues say the republican party that you are describing is now dead. it is now a return to what it was under president bush, under wartime, afghanistan, and iraq. but let's remember the tea party revolution starts because of bush, because of what happened under his watch. it was just extended when obama became president. >> here's the number. let's put it up because it is staggering. $20.6 trillion. what does it mean? >> let that sink in. it is only going to get bigger. much bigger now. >> if you're a conservative who said excessive di

used to have a military parade after the first gulf war and then dick cheney and general norm norm norman schwarzkopf reviewed the troops. right now they say there's more planning issues and planning a parade is not one of them. >> shepard: he could see them at a military base. >> and they have parades on the bases. they have video of the 82nd airborne. they have annual parades there and shows of military hardware across the country. >> shepard: the airborne one, that's one to see. it's incredible. they could give him replicas. he wants to see what he has. they can give him little -- i had some of those when i was a kid. >> years ago we did a story from moscow how russians used to put out balloons as missiles and tricking the u.s. they were fake missiles through red square. >> shepard: you can get the plastic ones and lay them out on the table and say here you go. >> we can play strategy and risk. >> shepard: we could. why not? jennifer, have a great day. great to see you. >> thank you. >> shepard: thank you. approaching the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. the secretary of sta

but when george bush and dick cheney got caught spying on americans without going to the fisa court theument in the bush administration it is so burdensome. democrats say it's so easy they never turn you down, now democrats are saying to say it's a very rigorous process they almost never say no. >> tucker: glenn greenwald a voice from the left. thank you, appreciate it? >> good to be with you, tucker. >> tucker: what was in this memo was so dangerous that you weren't supposed to see it? would endanger this country for you to read it. we will ask someone who has been making that case next. ♪ you hit me like fire, shot me like a bullet. ♪ ♪ burned me up and down, no way to cool it. ♪ ♪ every time you kiss me it's like sunshine and whiskey ♪ applebee's handcrafted burgers. any burger just $7.99. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. [seen it. covered it. n. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ people are fighting type 2 diabetes... with fitness... food... and the pill that starts with f. farxiga, along with diet and

more than seven decades ago a country was split into we began with dick cheney and now the dynamic then been shown to be myopic all it took was a pen a map and a collapsing empire and when the british had to draw a line they pulled it is a servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time the nature news as it breaks the u.s. cut the funding has cemented the feeling here that the u.s. is now part of the problem and has picked the israeli side with details coverage the nigerian government insists negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of the girls and hundreds of others. from around the world to a decades long chileans are still thinking about abuses but this time those committed by the church. welcome back you're watching all this there is news arms a whole robin a reminder of our top stories syria's rebel held region of eastern and jordan's deadliest day in more than a month russian and syrian government raids killed at least se

. >> dick cheney said things that weren't true. the "washington post" also reportedness that house speaker paul ryan actively backed congressman nunes in his request for documents from the justice department and the fbi. ryan did so despite objections from the fbi director wray picked by the president and deputy attorney general rosenstein hob earlier this month waged a last ditch effort to avoid giving republican lawmakers access to intelligence they considered so insensitive that it could not leave their control. yesterday, ryan, the speaker also backed the release of the documents but insists it has nothing do with the special counsel's investigation. has nothing to do with bob mueller. here we go. >> this is a completely separate matter from bob mueller's investigation. and his investigation should be allowed to take its course. there may have been malfeasance at the fbi by certain individuals. so it is our job conducting transparent oversight of the executive branch to get to the bottom of that. >> the president wants to fire

walls is a republican candidate for congress to for from florida counter terrorism vice president dick cheneyus tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. i appreciate it. >> hey, thanks, tucker. >> tucker: i realize these things are really complicated. that's the nature of them there are upsides and down sides. if you take a few steps back. life expectancy in the united states just went down reported today for the second year in a worl row. a lookout of hurting people in this country. how does getting involved in a war in syria and we're involved in a war in syria. >> yeah. >> tucker: help americans in any way? >> well, tucker, first i think we need to take a step back and kind of go macroto micro. the world has enjoyed this longest period of prosperity post world war ii led by the united states. defended by the united states military. the system that i think we often take for granted of relatively free trade, of democratic values of individual liberty, not all countries are perfect but out united states has to lead. so, in this case since specifically, you know, i think what we saw in the last 8

nile but this time on al-jazeera more than seven decades ago a country was split into rebated with dick cheney and now at the time come. to dean off the bench all it took was a pen a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled its seventh who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent but of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. a russian fighter jet is shot down in a rebel held area in syria's province.

what's stunning is everyone -- you know, i worked for controversial figures from george bush to dick cheneyo sarah palin. you were asked to argue and defend your boss. they do incredibly polarizing things and sometimes they are accused of mishandling the truth. with the iraq war and wmd, i have heard this critique before. i'm not saying it's rare for communicator to be charged with lying. it's rare for a communicator to testify that she has been required to tell white lies for the president. it's a different -- because the president is calling in the lies and the little white lies about little things. i have a 6-year-old. kids that lie about little things grow up and lie about big things. this gets to the fundamental lack of credibility this white house has. >> there is a big difference between being a communicator and spinning. >> right. thank you, that's what i was trying to say. >> that it is to say to your boss, the president of the united states, knowing that you have to, i don't know, spin him or lie to him. is it to prevent him from having a reaction? adds to the narrative of his sta

he came to washington in 1986 o join the staff of congressman dick cheney as a legislative assistant and press secretary. in 1989 when cheney was named secretary of defense, williams was appointed assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. he served as pentagon spokesman during the persian gulf war and military operations in panama and somalia. the national association of government communicators named him communicator of the year in 1991. ladies and gentlemen, pete williams. [applause] >> thank you thank you very muc. a pleasure to be here today. are these still working? i'm sure something will happen soon. [inaudible] >> we are off to a great start. does anyone know sign language? let me just use my big boy voice -- [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> you we go. he was elected in 2016 with a commanding 62% of the vote but as based on television, but wait, there's more. it's the total number of votes he got, and correct me if i'm wrong, it's the largest total that any candidate has ever gotten in the history of indiana politics. he served four terms as prosecu

. >> smith: the bush administration sent vice president dick cheney to saudi arabia to get their t forn. but crown prince abdullah warned against it.ch >> .ge in the saudi stance. >> abdullah, in particular, felt that we were actively workingai t saudi national security interests. >> smith: to destabilize the neighborhood and allow for iran to move in. >> yeah, and not to heed saudi counsel, which was, "don't do th." >> we do not want people to rush into something that could have disastrous consequences. endo you know what will hahe day after? what if... i saudi arabia knew that if you smash the state q, you thuld open up a pandora's box. they just knew i iraq would implode. and then it would offer an s opportunity to the irani take it over, which is exactly what happened. >> smith: but u.s.-saudi relatis were tense. 15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks were saudis. >> the relationship between the iaited states and saudi ar re that point was so poisoned by 9/11, there was ally very little willingness on the american side to heed this advice. they felt that the saudis, while maybe

you remember dick cheney? bipartisanship is the worst.f democrats vote for this, they us taking resistance from here they are going along with trump. schumer is in new york looking for a deal for trump. democrats are losing resistance, losing everything that we built up. they are going along with trump. host: we got you. guest: you make a good point in that there have been presidents of both parties that have added to the debt. in fact, the only administration where we paid down the debt in the last several decades was the clinton administration when there was a republican congress and democratic president. we had several years where the debt went down. most other demonstrations -- of their administrations, it has been a steady increase. most parties have the spending or the tax side adding to this. was ax plan republican-driven up rent that added to the debt by all objective analyses. the plan now is a bipartisan deal, so both parties are signing on to the debt increases. when our policy makers going to make the difficult choices for the

former green bay commander and counter terrorism advisor to dick cheney, michael, good morning to you. a lot to examine here, a long time since we've had an olympic games where you have had this level of political tension that rides underneath the games. what do you think of the vice president mirroring leaders in south korea and north korea as well for the next week? >> it is interesting. you mention the visual of him sitting next to a member of the kim family. the first time the kim family has sent someone to south korea in decades. they are doing it to reemphasize the interkorean relationship and try to drive a wedge between south korea and the united states. i think the vice president and the president's strategy is absolutely right to maintain maximum pressure to tell and send the signal to both china and north korea that we are not going to let up. that this isn't going to work in terms of north korea's playbook. as soon as the pressure is dialed up to a point that they don't like it, then they reach out a hand and try to extend their hand for talks. the olympics provided an ope

he came to washington in 1986 to join the staff of congressman dick cheney as a legislative assistant and press secretary. in 1989 when cheney was named secretary of defense williams was appointed assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. he served as pentagon spokesman during the persian gulf war and military operations in panama and somalia. the national association of government communicators named him communicate of the year in 1991. ladies and gentlemen, pete williams. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here today. can you hear is all right? i'm sure we will have it soon. [inaudible] we are off to a great start. does anyone know sign language? let me just use my big boy voice to introduce our panel. erin nealy cox -- [inaudible] this is this is a return for hee justice department because use their from 1998 and she knows her way around -- [inaudible] [inaudible] >> here we go. he was elected in 2016 with a commanding 62% of the vote but as of this on television, but wait, there's more. the total number of votes he got, and correct me if i'm wrong, i

powell on one side and dick cheney on the other, hand he said don't trust the north koreans.nd theyalled it off started their nuclear program because they were called the axis of evil. trump doing a sword dance with the saudis. how fast people forget that 3000 americans died a horrible death. 15 of the 19 hijackers were saudis. they had safe passage that day on 9/11. there were some official saudi officials and george bush gave them safe passage out of the country. host: a little off-topic, but thank you. robert, republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to thank you for your program. you're the only thing that i trust for verification. regarde of questions in to a couple of guest that made the example that north korea and the iran agreement are different. i tend to differ with you that when clinton negotiated with north korea it was similar to what obama has done with iran i believe. i could be wrong. he said that the iran verification of nuclear weapons is undeniable. how can it be undeniable when we don't have access to the military sites? i await your

dick cheney say the chief had more power than the vice president.t when cheney was vice president. you can't overstate the importance of the position. he's the guy who helps the president execute his agenda and tells him. it's hard for min to medical leave that could be true. you got a lot of good stuff. including preinaugural meeting with the former chiefs. give us your best reince priebus, best story. he obviously defined a lot of the first year. >> in fair rns to reince, ness s never empowered by donald trump to carry out the job. a really telli ing scene in the book ten former white house chiefs came to the white house, sat down to give him advice. barack obama walked into that meeting. looked at his former chiefs and said to priebus, these guys often told me stuff that made me mad. that's the most important thing a white house chief does. that's what you have to do for donald trump. those white house chiefs sorry to say the vast majority of them came away saying god help him. god save him. not only is trump impossible, but priebus really doesn'

maria: policy obviously dick cheney behavior as well. the president unveiled his long-awaited infrastructure plan. $125 trillion includes private money expected to call for federal spending of $200 billion over 10 years intended to spark state, local and private investments resulting in a new spending bill. the white house as president trump will be traveling to promote the initiative after it unveiled. perception from the people you're speaking lands. >> it's really important to president out there is sharing his message. the photo shows an opposite message and when he talks to the american people about what it's going to do for them, it only helps with numbers and helps people feel more confident. infrastructure is something he promised he was going to do and something the american people want and democrats agree is important and to do. a lot of criticism on the budget and is this the right thing to do? he's got a story to tell to make people feel comfortable and confident in a loss to stick through tough times. maria: last week he was

where's dick cheney when you need him? >> oh, my god!i think he would -- he's wrong on everything but on this he would come up with some way of getting at putin that would send the message we've been trying to send which is yes, we need to work together but you have to cut this out. you do this again and -- i don't know what that is but i think he would. >> how is it, gene -- we're to go, but isn't it remarkable in the 21st century we have had three presidents who've played vladimir putin completely wrong. george w. bush that looked into l his eyes and saw his soul, you saw barack obama whispering let me get elected and then we'll have more space to work and then you have donald trump who obviously knows that putin has something on him and he's compromised. we've had three presidents in a row that have misplayed this guy. >> during the cold war we knew how to play russia. since the cold war we're learning and we haven't learned. >> eugene, thank you very much. >> thank you, gene. >>> coming up, what should we make of president trump's en