i like that. >> guys, that's not -- that's not dick cheney. that's not dick cheney.t's christian bale. i mean the man is a master of disguise. i know there's no real news value in this. i can't tell you if the movie is good. all i can tell you is hol holy cow this morning i honestly thought christian bale was dick cheney. the cast looks good. steve curel, amy adams. >> i can see the instinct to go down that rabbit hole and watch that on twitter given the rest of the news. good to see you. are you back today? have a good rest of your day then. >>> i'm ali velshi. the president was stating the facts. that's the explanation for the president's press secretary gave why he chose a campaign rally last night to seemingly mock christine blasey ford. >> the president was stating the facts, and frankly facts that were included in special prosecutor rachel mitchell's report. he was stating facts that were given dr. ford's testimony. and the senate has to make a decision based on those facts and whether or not they see judge kavanaugh to be qualified to hold a position on the su

bale on the left, that's him in his new role as the former vice president, a trailer for the dick cheney: pretty good transformation. the fate of brett kavanaugh maybe determined to ballot box. we bring in independent's women forum and democratic strategists mustafa to discuss. patrice, i want to begin with you, listen to what president trump has said in rally in mississippi. >> how did you get home, i don't remember. where is the place, i don't remember, how many years ago, i don't know. [laughter] >> i don't know. lauren: that's a mockery of dr. ford, how does that resinate with women particularly with suburban women? >> well, i mean, i think the rhetoric is strong but when you look at the polling women and voters overall they want to see whether the fbi will corroborate dr. ford's allegations and 60% of voters say if they don't, if the fbi cannot corroborate her and find out there are really -- there's some stuff going on there that's not true, then they want to see judge kavanaugh confirmed, so, you know, he's speaking directly to audience, he's speaking to sporters but also to the b

there is a book about dick cheney called "angler" that is unusually good.rian: what you think of george w. bush's own memoir. james: i thought it was ok. i thought it was actually, as a memoir, it was better than bill clinton, which was not the best thing bill clinton never did. but i thought it was pretty much, pretty run-of-the-mill. brian: our guest has been james mann, he wrote the book "george w. bush," recently published. thanks for joining us. james: thanks. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] ♪ >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments, visit us on q&a.org. this is also available as a transcript podcast. >> next week on q&a, two-time pulitzer prize winner david lewis on his biography of businessmen and presidential candidate wendell wilkie. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, hamlin university political

more than seven decades ago a country was split into a bit 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 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 borders of blood. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian from again this is the news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes far right contend that is close to an outright win and partial results from the first round of brazil's presidential race. to accuse president says he's personally following the case of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi who disappeared at his country's consulate in istanbul on tuesday. the image that appears to have been a warning from interpol's former chief just before he disappeared in china beijing says the monkey way is under investigation. and the number of people missing after indonesia's earthquake and tsunami rises to five thousand people. partial results from b

dick cheney so let me repeat. dick cheney, to say this is too much for us. dozens of acts of solidarity, solidarity, and then suddenly the executive order number one meanwhile weighing in including republican members of congress and the state attorney general's and i'm happy to say my own and the rise of resistance from bureaucracy attacking the administration's position culture with the modern art exhibited or to be excluded the super bowl that budweiser even founded by immigrants even though i don't like it. [laughter] it resurrected alec baldwin's lagging career by the way a lot more people watch them for news then whoever the old guys are on the mainstream network. and through social media there were a variety of ways. then with a travel ban two .-point zero. the government had modified by the famous name of bill clinton it doesn't matter how much lipstick you put on a pig or if you call it anything a method - - other than a muslim man it is still a muslim band. when you can get a meal in new york less than three hours so now i know what you will say and

more than seven decades ago a country was split into a bit with dick cheney and now at the time. 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. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. for many young adults a coming of age brings greater responsibility. for this young man the responsibility of eight hundred years of family tradition weighs heavy on his shoulders. the choice. but the decision must be made. by blood part of the viewfinder. this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes turkey and saudi arabia agreed to work together to investigate the case of missing journalist jamal khashoggi. it has evidence he was killed. and there is a lift. to the international space station a rocket launch gone bad

. >> yeah, it's -- i think we're ahead of dick cheney but that's about it. the press, in the polls -- >> we may not be. >> dick is winning now? okay. now we're in trouble. no. yes, i mean, congress is worse -- so i -- i think people also have -- i distrust those polls a little bit because i don't know what "the press" means anymore. if i don't, i suspect a lot of people don't. because my mississippi in-laws sure believe what's on fox. particularly when they attack me, they love that. and they don't believe what's on other networks. so to them "the press" -- which is it? can i ask you a question, because you -- you started covering governor carter, right? >> i did. >> so the relationship between the carter white house and the washington press corps was not smooth. there was a lot of class issues, right? there was a lot of resentment there? but do you think, comparing the late '70s to now, so a 40-year cycle -- biblical cycle in a way -- were we better governored in 1978 than 2018? >> i don't know if i'm equipped to answer that question. i will say that the car

limited to so much more than what if oneself it can kind of just push man up and up if that's for dick cheney because with ice well it was illegal because it was on tunnel between groups i don't know enough to do you know going up in a frenzy but i was on month and will focus on doing all night if i want but he's done. find out. what they say you know about your history your mother the mark on their mind of ever feeling . about everything oh yeah i know secrets of my choice it's impossible to mock. a c c c n n proposal grounds of oscar almost all sister news they want the best to be on the recall so it's all about happening now she would mean a whole new law. center killed and he's an icon for them says if i want to be around those objects and it didn't sink on can be passed on fantasy on things i think under the long goodness. to each of us was it true that if you could take the mark on the moon i am going down. and. she said to me music is with uncle see. if it comes out to be want to be. treated by to the monkey lashed or not to do either could two thousand. on the. front of continuity or

running for his third time and then tells republicans he will lead them to the promised land even dick cheney calls him a pastor back then. and with the series of those political tactics against the democratic majority that collision gingrich the republican revolution the shutdown of 95 the clinton come back the emergence of hillary clinton and all of that just builds to the 2000 election the closest thing we have ever seen in this country to a perfect tie in the presidential election and now the divisions are so stark and now it's red the northeast minus new hampshire the pacific coast is blue around chicago the interior of the country is read. but these that had never been taken before. . >>. >> that is like cognitive dissidents. until then we didn't think of the blue states. so he used those two lines of bill clinton and newt gingrich. and how we got to the age to be in deep partisan divide with the supreme court drama and as we sit here politics and prose talk about newt gingrich we had this discussion there are four or five really great answers you say oh my gosh that sounds just like to

. >> reporter: actor christian bale delivers a stunning impersonation of former violent dick cheney while sam rockwell transforms into president george w. bush. the film hits theaters christmas day. and trekkies rejoice! beginning today on cbs all access, the first installment of "star trek" short treks. the four stories which run between 10 to 15 minutes each feature stars from "star trek": discovery. that show's second season premieres on cbs all access in january. that's your "eye on entertainment." chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. >>> time now 4:57. >> the floodgates have opened! days of rain create the dangerous situation. the entire town in harm's way this morning. >> and as senators prepare to view the results of fbi investigation on the supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, we are hearing now from his college roommate what he says about how truthful kavanaugh has been so far. mrs. walker. michael vasquez! come over here. i've heard such good things about you, your company. well, i wouldn't have done any of it without you. without this place. this is for you. michael, you di

finally -- the internet is freaking out about new dick cheney look alike that is actor christian bale is his new roll, as former vice president gained 40 pounds for the role shaved his head every day bleached plucked eyebrows for this a trailer for the dick cheney biopic called "vice" expected later this morning, sam rockwell playing george w. bush. >> show you later. >> we look forward to that thank you. cheryl: you bet that memoriam mentality president hits trail look at odds of republicans holding on to house election preview, fda seeing dominates from the e-cigarette making sure what they were looking for what dangers are next. ♪ ♪ ♪ boy you turn me inside-out and round and round, up and down, boy you turn me, inside-out and round and round ♪ ♪ geico has over 75 years of great savings and service. with such a long history, it's easy to trust geico! thank you todd. it's not just easy. it's-being-a-master-of-hypnotism easy. hey, i got your text- sleep! doug, when i snap my fingers you're going to clean my gutters. ooh i should clean your gutters! great idea. it's not just easy. it's

in the interest payment on the debt no we can't afford it but we seem to have leaders who like dick cheney in two thousand and two believe that deficits don't matter believe that as long as we control the world's transactional currency it's reserve currency the dollar we can do anything we want to and of course i'm fully aware of the dollar is a sure movement in the world led moscow and beijing i'm aware of the speech that president putin made i believe in light of all stock recently and i'm aware of what that might mean ultimately but i'm in a country whose leaders by and large do not seem to understand that do not seem to understand basic economics and finance so to answer your question is they think they can afford it well that and also iran enjoys a good relations with russia and china now that you've mentioned who have borders in their region fido interests there what reaction will a bombing of other hostile action towards iran prevent. i think it will provoke what is already happening with this president and this administration and that is a deepening of the isolation of the united s

of our economy is just house care so we are a hospital masquerading as a nation if you know what dick cheney had said about russia was that they're a gas station masquerading as a nation so just to put into context for the ability to keep inflation jamie in the bottle is evaporating so we see prices going up across the board oil is just one of that we see interest rates rising that's inflationary we see the dollar eventually cracking and have a catastrophic collapse that's usually inflationary so prices across the board go up. saudi arabia venezuela hello their oil based economy is they all benefit wildly from the emerging market takes a benefit of this oil and gold gold started to perk up again but going of course would skyrocket two hundred thousand plus and then just speaking of russia i have this last headline and you know we've just left hollywood here in palm springs and this is such a crazy headline i genuinely genuinely thought this was like from the onion one of the satirical news sites and it's so it's real and it's serving star wars the last negative buzz amplified by russian trol

for us right when he was coming off the best of wild card that's why he couldn't go to vietnam dick cheney said he had better things to do and members said oh i'm going to go into the maryland national guard because we're going to lose in vietnam and i don't want to waste my life and losing effort was true was. so options available to middle class people or affluent people again the military prefers a volunteer army as opposed to a conscripted army because the conscript conscripted army when it's draws in masses of people who don't absolutely want to be there leads to rebellion and one of the reasons why the vietnam war actually ended something people don't know is it was the g.i.'s who helped lead the antiwar movement in one thousand nine hundred seventy one and seventy two that's what the military's is is trying to avoid so yeah let's give people forty thousand dollar bonuses and say will pay off your student debt again a form of bribery is it a mercenary type sort of a arrangement in a way go about signatures and point to because a lot of what these young recruits don't realize that onc

to me he is dick cheney on steroids. >> guest: you've identified a whole bunch of issues that i described van delete democratic party and what iat said was we e not going to put all of our money onth things like climate changein but on things like getting our jobs back. >> host: has he done that do you think? >> guest: the economy is roaring and jobs are coming back from all over including manufacturing >> caller: what about those that are saying you must work in order to get the benefits and if the jobs are so good, you shouldn't need the benefit. >> guest: the work requirements for welfare in general this simple program is the generous to people who need assistancece and if you don't nd assistance, you should be getting a job and that is how it works out in details and the states is something i can't speak to. >> guest: good morning mr. buckley. this is the most important subject and very interesting that he has written a book of this title and a very appropriate title in many ways. when i was in college within 50 years ago, i had a liberal professor of history who had a favorablee opin

makes liz cheney, daughter of former vice president dick cheney, faces three challengers in her reelectionor wildlife at-large seat. she debated democrat greg hunter, dana white cummings, and libertarian richard brubaker in a race

sort of thing would have fun so you're going to have to push may and if i end up it's less for dick cheney because with us well considering what it was it was on time will be old stale old old enough to be able to end up in a frenzy but i was one month an old folk or knew all my friends went by these fires . well you know. what they say you know about your history i'm writing are coming in pretty much of africa. and i didn't even know yet and i was excited about russia it's not possible to make. a scene since you see a number of his organs of oscar almost all sister who's the one for the bus or one of the hostel is full of unemployed and you know old me was. sent to kill the news or. i'm so as if i need to run those are joke it didn't sink on can be passed on in the sink under seven hundred the longer these are live. pictures of what. i'm going to get if he could take a mark on the mound i am going down. the street and. she said to me ms interviews with uncle was he. said to be on the barge be. true to go out to them on the dashboard not to do on your price could two thousand . on the i wo

christian bale will be starring as dick cheney in an upcoming film called vice.cles cheney's life as the former vice president under president george w. bush. the movie will be always amazed what they can do with makeup there, plus bale's talent. british guy playing a guy from wyoming. >> he actually gained 40 pounds for that role. >>> the italian stallion is heading into the wild, wild west, celebrating the start of production, sylvester stallone shared these photos. the actor clearly letting the og fans know there will be a slightly different feel in the new flick. the new rambo is set to debut in the fall of 2019. now, with the upcoming creed movie coming out and this, he's keeping really busy at 72. >> he couldn't be an old rocky, so an old rambo. i like it. >>> still to come, surf's up, way up. the incredible video of a surfer shattering a world record. verytg to you and to us. so at johnson's, we improved everything. we used 50% fewer ingredients. took out dyes, parabens, phthalates and sulfates. beat the top safety standards in the world and added one hand

midterms on al-jazeera more than seven decades ago a country was split into really big break with dick cheney and now at the time common bending show to being off the bench all it took was a pan a map of the collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled these seven to 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. al-jazeera. where ever you. and i you. know somebody like. this is al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is the al-jazeera news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes it's a very sad situation it's a very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom of that u.s. president donald trump says he's discussed jamal khashoggi disappearance with the highest levels of the saudi leadership for the pressure on both trump and riyadh is increasing as twenty two senators sign a letter demanding an investigation of saudi involvement in g.'s disappearance. four hundred thousand people are ordered to leave florida as hurricane mi

as under the control of dick cheney and his father and ignorant about world affairs. an this particular cartoon was actually drawn during the 2000 presidential election. and as you can see in the last life,nd a half of his that mr. block -- again, the ideas are solid. he's expressing an opinion. -- he, with an opinion has come up with an opinion and he is able to conceive of a cogent way to express it, but the drawing style is a lot weaker, he is using paste downs when he can't correct the errors with his pen. anthe white house as institution, as the substitute for the sitting president, appears quite frequently in mr. block's cartoons when he wants to talk about policy rather than personality. and that can be the white house and conflict with congress, because of course they are separate parts of government. and mr. block is quite cognizant of that and brings that up in some of his cartoons. also, it can be in front of the supreme court, although i haven't brought any white house versus supreme court drawings today. the first one we have is from president kennedy's p

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verbal or written criticism of the law, how the war was being waged or calling politicians names, dick cheney and george bush, we did not see the kinds of government prosecutions we did before. a congressman from california, the 2001 authorization of use of military force, she spoke out many times about that conflict, and all sorts of military conflict and she never thought she was in danger. everyone here has been in a meeting where if you're watching the brett kavanaugh meeting, the senate hearing a couple months ago, talking to the capital police, everybody knows what they are going to do, and they start staying stuff, police come over and save you can't behave please leave. they are violating security measures and standards of regulations that apply to everybody. maybe we can get into it later. a lot of things going on and bad things in things like a chilling effect and so on. we have a tomato his history with free speech, we don't always live up to our ideals whether it is pure political interest or out of fear and legitimate concern for the state of the republican. it is hard because ev

pushing for political reforms a clamp down on corruption and we conciliation this is not like you dick cheney any country it's a very special election for the outcome people side by their courage. their will to choose their own future. election officials are using biometric voter verification devices for the first time to prevent voter breaking but technical glitches slowed down the voting. the election has been extended for another day in some areas to allow maximum participation this is actually is only a first step in a long political process it will be followed by presidents elections in april that's when the afghan authorities will decide on the suing political talks with the taliban and forming a national unity government moved back by the u.s. and others who insist there is no military solution to the afghan conflict. covered well officials in india saying inquiry is underway into a train crash on friday that killed fifty nine people and injured dozens more train pout into scores of people gathered on the tracks to celebrate a festival in the city of rights in punjab state victims' fam

. >>> next to our first glimpse of christian bale as vice president dick cheney. of course, is no stranger to extreme transformation. >> it's titled "vice." he has another extreme transformation -- >> which one is -- >> i actually don't know which one is christian bale. >> no way. >> now that he's smiling. "variety" reports the 44-year-old had to gain 40 pounds, bleached and plucked his eyebrows and do special exercises to thicken his neck. "vice" is the name of it and set to premier on christmas day. >>> speaking of transformations, the one thing that michael jackson could not become. >> apparently in his new memoir, longtime hollywood agent says the king of pop told him he wanted to be james bond. >> he told jackson, quote, you're thinly built, too sensitive and won't be credible as a block of stone. >> so he has a shot? so apparently he passed on it. gimme one minute... and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza is your part b medical expenses. this much - about 80% - medicare will pay fo

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joining me, democratic strategist and former chief of staff to jeb bush and dick cheney.was reading about art of the deal to his kids. he broke with donald trump on the maria death count and now trump is not campaigning with him. what's going on? >> we'll see him do a little more campaigning. the race is neck and neck. they are looking to get every single vote they can and following the hurricane, our puerto rico population increased. >> how does that work? ron desantis out trumped a primary opponent. he out trumped the other trump version of the primary opponent. do you go towards the middle. >> he's have to realize that florida is a purple state and he will have to get some of these independent voters. if you look at florida registration, the independents have increased very significantly. he's going to have to get some independents. for him to come out in the first week of a general primary to be talking about the environment and red algae is an anomaly to any other republican that's run statewide. he realized that florida is a bigger complicated state. here is how the

former cia station chief, and former national security advisor to vice president dick cheney. welcome to all of you. numerous previous administrations have been too cozy and easy on the saudis. this is not new. how do you respond? >> i think that's right. i think every single one of president trump's predecessors has had to walk this fine line between dealing with the regime whose values we obviously despise and find medieval. at the same time the u.s./saudi relationship has been a corner stone. and that remains the case today and that's the challenge. >> shannon: what do you make of this? do you feel like there was something that forced their hands? >> it may have been. i'm always trained to look at the timeline and the sequence of events. and what now seems to be a pressing report about the deputy security chief. they had multiple sources saying yesterday that he had been tasked to pick up khashoggi, bring him back to saudi arabia for an interrogation. and the two options that were floated were that he either misunderstood the instructions or he overstepped his bounds of aut

it's worth thinking about mcconnell is -- there is a movie about dick cheney. that's a transformational figure. we will not work with a president so they can lose in this great for the country's democracy. >> mitch mcconnell was on the receiving end of trump tweets and talk about what happened to repeal and replace. other issues are now -- they are buds. >> it's a fascinating marriage of convenience and a rocky road to get there given the legislative bumps in the road they had on health care and other issues. we did see that as phil said, if you have been watching mitch mcconnell, this is how he works. he looks around and there are not many rules that are true rules in the senate except for the filibuster rule and other technical rules he knows very well. he counts his votes and figures out what the traffic will bear. in this case he knew if he led the conference towards pushing the issues at this time about the court that that was going to work for him and that's what donald trump wanted and what the base wanted and that was the one thing that united the base

also happens in the middle of the 2008 campaign, and actually, and this is more in the book of dick cheney than anyone else, you get descriptions of this crucial white house meeting where obama comes -- let me step back. mccain said i am not going to campaign, i am going to stop campaigning. we need to have a major washington meeting to decide what to do about it. bush allows this meeting. obama is also there. you get all the congressional leaders of both parties. and john mccain, from bush's own party, and obama, and mccain really doesn't have a lot to say. he has announced there is this crisis, but comes in and being john mccain, he is very active and sometimes irritable, but he doesn't have a lot to say and obama looks fairly calm and deliberate, as he is. cheney writes that, i think obama was more impressive than mccain. that was -- some of that came through to the public. this was the general perception of the two candidates, and it was a major help to obama. it hurt john mccain. brian: you reference this in your book, that john lewis gaddis was here. this was george w. bush in retire

participated in some very tough conversations with the saudis along with george tenant, vice president dick cheneyhe do that behind closed doors. you go out and you do what you have to do in front of the cameras. >> martha: has we've been talking, abc is reporting that turkey is claiming that he died of strangulation. what do you into that? >> it is hard to see exactly what the common theme is. we've heard a number of different stories about beheadings, fingers being cut off, limbs being cut off. it is very hard to know exactly what this narrative is. i think it is really important for the turks not to come forward with a clear narrative backed up by cold, hard facts. >> martha: now they say it was a eight minute struggle. investor jordan, thank you, great to have you. >> martha: we come back, democrats all but abandon the race, saving new jersey. 18 days left. we'll take a close-up look at that when we come back. ♪ that last place was pretty nice. i don't like this whole thing. i think we can do better. change is hard. try to keep an open mind. come on, dad. this is for me, son? principal. we can

john, senior counselor, served as vice president dick cheney's national security adviser in the bushistration. welcome, john, good to see you. >> thank you, paul. paul: you've heard the story, the saudis say it was result of fistfight. >> that part of the story is incredible, paul, nobody knows for sure what happened inside of that consulate, yet, we've had a stream of leaks from the turkish press over the last couple of weeks that have been reported in virtually every american major outlet in which they say that this was a killed team sent to saudi arabia with the intent to murder jamal khashoggi, not to somehow lure him back to the kingdom. that part of the story still just doesn't pass the last test. paul: do you think that american intelligence would have its own information about what happened here? >> i think they will have information, whether they've got the kinds of goods, surveillance from inside the consulate itself at the time that jamal khashoggi died, that's unclear to me. we may have to rely a lot on turkish intelligence for that specific evidence. paul: of course, the

. >> dick cheney and donald rumsfeld went to president ford and said can you ask betty to tone it down? and your dad said to them, if you want her to tone it down, you tell her. and neither one of them did . they confirmed that story with me last year. the year after your mom became first lady, she agreed to go on 60 minutes and i'm going to play you a little clip of this, it brings her to life and you will see this funky lady. unafraid to answer all these questions. >> this is 1975. >> betty and ford found themselves in the position of first lady. i went to the white house to check with betty ford and they expected to find a black" predictable political wife. >> i told my husband, if they have to go in the house, i will go but i'm going as myself, and if they don't like it, then they'll just have to throw me out. >> your views on abortion which is kind of taboo subject for the wife of a president. >>. >> i felt strongly that we are in that same world. >> to legalize abortion, and in my words, bring it out of the backwoods and put it in the hospitals where it belongs . and that's a gre

it is the famous statement attributed to dick cheney that the goal of the bush administration was to leave the presidency stronger than they found it, and mission accomplished. incentive tos have guard their powers and to even expand them. individual legislators seem to have more of an incentive, at least in the current climate, to delegate vast amounts of power to the executive branch and come in later and decide whether to lame or take credit. or take credit. no, they are not in their lanes. one of the reasons is because the constitution has not developed it as a self reinforcing machine that goes of itself and some of the framers seemed to envision. john: alison, would you add to that? alison: the drafting and the bodies that ratified it left a lot of things underspecified. this is true in separation of powers and federalism -- the sense of conflict would be sort of the norm. of the intention was to have this negotiation or conflict over time. it is hard to come up with an optimal quantum of separation of powers from the mind of madison because he changed his mind of the questions