for example, could valerie jarrett go on tv and say former president dick cheney is hawkish? >> i think comments on policy are allowed. when they talk about somebody who's running for office, a candidate and they're in their official duties, there are restrictions on that. >> mr. kerner, is joe biden creepy? because in your letter to president trump you stated that ms. conway is allowed to -- not allowed to state that. >> it's an opinion. i think the argument was made that she was just stating facts.

and my classmate at yale, dick cheney, just wonderful to have lot of hom deserves a prays. b, milton, justin, george, jack and dick all received the presidential medal of freedom. isn't that amazing? i'm awed by that. but to get the ball over the goal line, committed lip is known for this and we had president kennedy, president reagan, prime minister margaret thatcher and you president trump, to make it all happen. [applause] >> all i can say is wow! president kennedy established the current presidential medal of freedom. and my business partner is here and friends and the fellow dream catchers, a number of whom are here today have allowed all of this to happen today and i'm a ternly grateful. they lived the libes that we talk about. they actually do it. and it is for them that we do what we do. they do keep ap will keep america prosperous. and my final shout out. all six of my children are here today and mike, mike. i'm missing my 13 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren which the white house is eternally grateful. my family gives me very proud to get up and get to wo

invasion of iraq dick cheney said that it would go well my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators but there's been nothing but chaos and civil war in iraq since the usa invaded there are 288000 deaths so far and counting and dick cheney wasn't completely clueless listen to what he said in 1904 when she got to iraq and took it over and took down saddam hussein's government the money going to put into place for take libya hillary clinton was delighted to hear that gadhafi had been put to the sword we came we saw he died but now even barack obama admits that toppling the libyan government didn't come with a game plan for what happens next what he considers his worst mistake as president probably failing to. plan for. the day after. what i think was the right thing to do in. the intervening. libya but who needs planning right after all the people of venezuela would probably love to have their homeland go the way of iraq and libya nothing says freedom and liberation like having regime change followed by civil war and thousands of refugees fleeing for their lives it confirms something t

cheers and applause ] >> she rose to prominence defending the legacyf her father, vice president dick cheney. >> your father said it yesterday. liz, your father said yesterday that 14% of them went back -- >> waterboarding is not torture. >> now, liz cheney has become a national figure in h own right. >> if you are for the people, that has to start with being for the most vulnerable among us. >> the number-three republican in the house of reesentatives is known for her strong views... >> i'm sorry that there are so many anti-semitic members of the house democratic caucus. >> ...sharp messaging... >> i see every day a speaker of the house who is increasingly losing her grip on the leadership of her conference. >> ...and hawkish foreign policy. >> why not bring the troops >> you do not end a war by withdrawing from the battlefield. >> many think she's just getting started and coulbe the first republican madam speaker or the next senator from wyoming. what does liz cheney say now? >> "firing lineth wiargaret hoover" is made possible by... additial funding is provided by... corporate funding isr

you came to prominence i think first in this country defending your dad, vice president dick cheney's reputati in the context of the obama administration. s but you yourself hved in the state department in the bush administration.ls you havefollowed your father's footsteps to the house of representatives, where you have the same job that he had as conference chair. he yeah. >> which makes you highest-ranking republican woman in history in the use of representatives. you're also one of the party's strongest voices on foreign policy and national security. and it'sot a theme that is new to you. i delighted in discovering that siyou wrote your college ton presidential war powers. >> we're going that far back? [ laughs ] >> tell me, as you look at the national-security position of thuunited states today, do believe that we're safer today than we were 2 1/2 years ago when president trump was elected? >> well, i think there's no atestion. i think if you loohe world rlat president trump inherited, it was really a where president obama and those around blm had decided that the p in the world w

and people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld who are relatively new to government at the time did not like when congress said we need to step in and confront the national security state and what's become a very out of control kill program cheney then went on during the reagan years in the eighty's to serve in congress and when the iran contra scandal broke out into the open. cheney did not like congress being involved with anything that the executive branch was doing. and you had to see other scandal that emanated from the highest echelons of power and the reagan administration was acting as though it had nothing to do with it i've told you all that i know and you know the truth of the matter is for quite some long time all that you knew was when i told you. to listen . to. our witnesses morning is mr robert mcfarlane the former national security adviser to the president. mr mcfarlane will you welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. mr mcfarlane. did you have any discussion about the possibility. of in effect farming out the whole contra support operati