think that he speak to >> i'm not going to answer the question directly but i'm going to tell a dick cheneystory. it's june of 200 and he's thinking of who the vice presidential running mate should be there looking at people. the head of the process is richarprocessesrichard cheney o. he's become convinced that cheney ought to be the guy and he knows i'm against it so he calls me up and says okay, i'm coming home tonight and he says i want you to be at the governor's mansion tomorrow at 10:010:00 and take the case whyi shouldn't go with cheney so i show up at 10:00 into the governor's mansion in 1854 when there were a comanche indians off to the west, so not very big. big. here in austin library which is about maybe twice the size of the stage and i'm sitting on one side of the room and bush is on the other side of the room about 4 feet of a. he says okay, tell me why we shouldn't go with cheney. i said well, number one, wyoming. three electoral votes. haven't lost them since 1964 and now worried about it. we need to go with somebody from a battleground state. number two, cheney had his fir

dick cheney's cardiologist. would you approve him of taking this drug if you were his doctor? >> what i should say with absolute certainty is no. it's unproven. having been there, it's not such an easy decision. the white house has the ability to take away the risk. if i tell you you have a therapy with no risk but maybe upside and you're worried the president will get the virus and could die from it. now you see what the doctor writes in the note. it doesn't weigh as bad as it does for the public. the public doesn't have what the president has. so there's no confusion, the public should not take post exposure proef prof lax sis until we have date to to to prove it's safe and effective. the rules don't apply to the president. history of treating the president, vice president differently. after 9/11, the president and vice president were vaccinated for anthrax. the public wasn't. they were treated with antibiotics to prevent botulism and plague. this all sort of road under the radar. we wrote about it in a book a few years ago. healthcare is different for the president and vice

and people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld who are relatively new to government at the time did not like when congress had 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 this 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. that you had to let me. be. our witnesses morning is mr robert mcfarlane the former national security adviser to the president. and his mcfarlane we 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

since w m d's and dick cheney's iraq war and you can find no better example of this than from our very own brand name in chief u.s. president donald trump who took to the airwaves tuesday night and laid bare just who the american people are to him and the business interests that he represents and why.

since w m d's and dick cheney's iraq war and you can find no better example of this than from our very own brand name in chief us president donald trump who took to the airwaves tuesday night and laid bare just who the american people are to him and the business interests that he represents and was created by take a listen. up doing. great citizens of this country to a certain extent and to a large extent as warriors. there warriors we can't keep our country close we have to open our country. warriors yes a we are all of us we are soldiers and love fight in the great war against. wages who exactly are we fighting or more importantly what exactly are we fighting for are we fighting the virus that threatens us are we fighting for the health and safety of our friends and loved ones well my friends the president answer of those questions as well take it away donald i created with a lot of other very talented people and the people of our country the greatest economy in the history of of the world the best numbers we've ever had the best stuff markets i think with 144.

planet and you know they will because they are everywhere they're in our farms they're in our food dick cheney was vice president for steak and since we've so much force we can't deny that each of us is about 50 percent pig right now i probably am too even though i don't eat meat i mean they likely found another way and they're clever like that clever like a fox hog fox the point being there are tens of thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of pigs that were supposed to get the death penalty and now are just running around tragically own lives the farmers have begun killing some of them and just burying them dumping them in landfills well i got a better idea you've got a 100000 hog you don't need i happen to need a 100000 hogs run around rampaging through small american towns in a comical way we are a perfect match you give the hogs to me i will then set them to work getting in the way of everything just to get the benefits they'll eat the garbage on the curves they will cause funny traffic jams those scare them out of dogs and old people and they'll serve as a food source for the tribes of fe

refer to the 2000 election so al gore and i got 5 and 40000 'd more votes than george bush 'd and dick cheney we lost electoral college with 3 votes. hillary clinton got almost 3000000 more votes the tramp in 2016 i forget the numbers when he went to electoral college but 030 or 40 votes so that's the way it is that's that's the kind susan and. there are big population states in new york california which is or prove predictably democratic so that's a good head start of the numbers with those states you say are the ones that are are going to be the the the battleground states 'd and when i said before the election were held today i think joe biden would when it's based on reading polls in those states was and every one of those states to the. joe biden is ahead some are quite closely floor some like michigan is built of some one to 10 point lead well i don't know if that a whole but if it does biden is or makes president finally joe give us your outlook once the new normal developed like. i don't quite see it i mean i hope we were journalists march to the old normal as we as it was pretty good

since w m d's and dick cheney's iraq war and you can find no better example of this than from our very own brand name in chief us president donald trump who took to the airwaves tuesday night and laid bare just who.

since w m d's and dick cheney's iraq war and you can find no better example of this than from our very own brand name in chief u.s. president donald trump who took to the airwaves tuesday night and laid bare just who the american people are to him and the business interests that he represents and was created by take a listen. i'm doing. great citizens of this country to a certain extent and to a large extent as warriors. there warriors we can't keep our country close we have to put our country.

since w m d's and dick cheney's iraq war and you can find no better example of this than from our very own brand name in chief us president donald trump who took to the airwaves tuesday night and laid bare just who the american people are to him and the business interests that he represents and was created by take a listen. i'm doing. great citizens of this country to a certain extent and to a large extent as warriors. there warriors we can't keep our country close we have to put our country. warriors yes we are all of us we are soldiers and love fight in the great war against. wages who exactly are we fighting or more importantly what exactly are we fighting for are we fighting the virus that threatens us are we fighting for the health and safety of our friends and loved ones well my friends the president and sort of those questions as well take it away donald i created with a lot of other very talented people and the people of our country the greatest economy in the history of all of the world the best numbers we've ever had the best stuff markets i think with 144 days of wreckage st

one of his first hires was a young ambitious congressional is intern from wyoming, a guy named dick cheney so 1981, the office of economic opportunity, oto was finally abolished altogether. you can give rumsfeld and cheney credit for ending att least one war, that was the war on poverty. too soon? [laughter] finally a couple statistic was one is that poverty is reduced from 1959 it was 22% of poverty that's pretty95 crazy. it's like don't make me do the math, what 14, one and five. in 1973 was 11% it was cut in half and the space of 14 years. when you look atpa a graph of a chart of where poverty was headed, from 1959 to 1973, it's just straight down. since 1973 when the effect of putting the brakes on world poverty took effect, it is held steady up until about 11 to 15%. in some ways i think the war on poverty was a success in other ways it was not. have be happy to take any questions if anybody's got them to step up to the microphone and let it rip. somebody has to have a question. >> thank you for being here and for your talk i look forward to reading the book. i wondered if you could s

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there's a cool of thought and when they look at the changes, two members of the staff was actually dick cheney and donald rumsfeld, and both worked in the white house opposed this. antonin scalia, was a scholar and then went on to the supreme court, the watergate oversight committees and creators of the inspectors general and that's a lot in terms of the emergency spending funds for coronavirus. those were independent, apolitical positions created by congress and they were supposed to investigate spending and abuse and corruption in the executive branch. and there was a school of thought and bill barr is a big member of this that essentially the presidency was being weakened too much. there was too much oversight by congress. too much subpoenas from the congressional committees about what the executive branch was doing and then bill barr ga i ha have-- gave a speech about this and felt there was too much activism and he's an opponent of abortion rights and saw that as going too far. in terms of the president's power he felt, he complained about just recently under president trump, these immigr

very powerful. >> host: barack obama, donald trump, post bush presidents and bush, gw, through dick cheney and rumsfeld and that idea, became very powerful, had very many powerful tools. did barack obama -- was barack obama continuing to expand that power using it at the same level or given what you said about the drone strikes or was he seeing ways to reduce the power of the presidency? >> guest: he ended up -- he was much more focused, obama, on obeying the law. so i think is a mentioned earlier, the -- we'll just jump right into the snowden example. what snowden revealed, every program he talked about had been approved by the federal -- the foreign intense gel surveillance court, the fisacourt. the obama administration -- it was secret and people didn't understand the extent of it but web web obama was very careful about following guidelines set up in the 70s, and the problem was that he realized that he did not want to get u.s. troops forever in iraq and afghanistan and he embraced drone strikes as a way to protect the country would be very vulnerable politically if there there was ano

about this, the director at george washington university hospital and the former vice president dick cheney's card l cardiologist as well. >> as we look back and get more information, now than four months later. over 100,000 deaths. the president of the united states said nothing about 100,000 american lives loss and no doubt that it could have been avoided. >> right. there were two unforgivable errors made early on in this epidemic. the first i was the incredibly slow march to testing. the first positive test was january 20th. at a time that south korea was doing many times that. the second really unforgivable error made in the early days and continuing up until now is our horribly mixed messages. counter messages about wearing masks. on february 29th the surgeon general of the united states scolded the american public about buying masks. told them not to. we were facing a respiratory pathogen. we have known for a century that masks prevent the spread of disease. photographs from the 1918 flu pandemic everyone in the photograph is wearing a mask. during that time it travelled the highways an

he turns to guy next to him and says, dick, in the questions to karl? cheneylistening to me kick his ass around for 30 minutes. after we walked out of the room he said i agree with what you said. that night bush says, really good today. he came was there are no six or seven hours, met with the vice president and then left. calls me that night. 10:00, and he says, really good today. really good you outlined ten serious political problems. and i hadn't thought of some of them and it was really good. so, figure out what are you will do but them because i'm going cheney. he said your job is politics. so these are all political problems. figure out what to do about them. the said that's not the job system job is to figure out who would be best partner to me in the oval office and if something terrible happened to me, whom would the country have immediate confidence in, and that's dick and i'm going with it. don't tell anybody i made the decision or i'll kill you. but figure out what you are going to do and then a come of days when i get bake want you to be prepared

and one of his first tires was a young ambitious congressional intern from wyoming, a guy named dick cheney so in 1981, the office of economic opportunity oh eo, was finally abolished altogether. we couldn't give rumsfeld and cheney credit for ending at least one war, and that was the war on poverty. [laughter] what to soon? finally, we took a couple statistics one is poverty was reduced, 1959 poverty was 22%, that's pretty crazy. let me do the math that's one and four, one and five? and in 1973, it was 11% so is cut in half. in the space of 14 years. when you look at a graph a chart of where poverty was headed, from 1959 to 1973, it's just straight down. but since 1973, when the effects of putting the brakes on the world poverty took effect, it is held steady. it's been about 11 to 15% since then. in some ways i think the warm poverty was a success in other ways it was not. i'd be happy to take any questions if anybody's got them, you can step up to the microphone and let it rip. somebody has to have a question. >> thanks for being here, thank you for the talk. i look for to reading your b

the son of george romney and the daughter of dick cheney rose up and came out against the president andame out for decency. i'm tempted to ask if there are any non-scion first generation republicans that you know of who have risen up and done the same thing. >> i doubt it. i doubt it based on experience. and, you know, what a confluence of story lines and narratives coming from the white house. the tweet, if you will, on george floyd and the recommendation to have the fbi investigate and deliver their findings to the u.s. attorney's office is what we would expect of a president and in normal times would be given greater credence. but that is being done in the midst of the chaos that he has sown with the conspiracy theory about the loss of life in the pensacola area now 15 years ago or so, the attacks on joe scarborough, and it leaves a republican party wondering how do we defend this president going into november and what is our message? because the president is woefully off message. it is good to hear the romneys and the cheneys condemn what is despicable behavior by the president. we

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>> if you look at dick cheney's background, one of the most extraordinary records of any man who everascended to the vice presidency. his before and after vice president is a very different narrative. no doubt he was one of the most influential vice presidents in history, particularly in the first term but then you see those limits by evaluating the second term as vp. >> thank you. [applause] >> we have copies of the book available at the register. please fold up your chairs. thank you. [inaudible conversations] ideologies of father and son presidents john adams and john quincy adams. thank you. welcome, everyone. good afternoon. i am president of the massachusetts historical society and i'm so happy you could be with us today as we welcome the two celebrated historians as they present their books the problem with democracy president adams confronts the personality. as many of you here in the room no it's hto