george w bush did, under the pressure from dick cheney and are also george w bush did. that's what really turned me off the administration off us policy and company to be outspoken about that policy. you described, they, the intervention afghanistan has been compatible to the great game of the 19th century with the protagonists. now effectively being the main protagonist, the united states and china, it is not a valid comparison. do you think that's where we know that that's gonna stand still if that strategic significance between the, the 2 dominant, what all power? i think central asia is and i've kind of just happens to be central, the central asia. if our playing the ground strategies, i would say forget state building, forget nation building, all those things are cooter months of your presence there. and maybe you can do some things for women and education and so forth. really are there for geopolitical and strategic reasons. and you just described them briefly, you're there because you're right next door to the potentially most unstable nuclear stockpile in the wo

we got robert mueller, the fbi director but we couldn't get dick cheney.was being moved into the west wing office and they were told they had to move him to the peoc, the bunker. i had a weird day because when we, we were sitting there. the president is sitting at a table meant for kindergartners. all the adult furniture is gone from the room. he's sitting at a little table meant for kindergarteners about this far off the ground in one of those little plastic chairs writing what he is going to say to the country. and three of us are there talking with him about what he's going to say. and eddie, the head of the secret service came in. a little guy. not very tall. very slim. very soft-spoken. comes in and says mr. president, we need to get to you air force one and airborne as quickly as possible. they were afraid that the president's whereabouts were known and they were worried that somebody would crash a plane into the elementary school and they wanted to get him the hell out of there. we went to the motorcade. normally i would be in a car two or three beh

bush didn't -- dick cheney and george w. bush didn't. they chose not to prepare adequately for what would come after that invasion and hundreds of thousands of iraqis paid for that arrogance with their lives. host: let's talk to arnold, who is calling from some or not, tennessee -- calling from sy merna, tennessee. caller: i am a democrat. can i still go ahead and speak? host: i will let you go this time. i didn't dial 8000. host: go ahead. caller: i want to share, the last segment was about the result of 9/11. there is a documentary on youtube and it was free and made by the firefighters of new york city. it is called "calling out bravo seven: the 2020 edition." you can watch it and this will greatly bring about the legacy of 9/11, which will be truth and justice for all. the last time i called in last month, i recited the first verse of the poem by kipling called "the gods of the copybook headings." i want to recite it now. it is a very long poem. it is also on youtube and online. calling out bravo seven, the 2020 edition made by the f

mary matalin former aide to vice president dick cheney. how did the morning of your september 11, 2000 will begin? >> you know, there was a feeling of almost back-to-school. we'd not been out for the summer but generally we take the last week of august bill offered he passed an energy bill, we felt like we were settling in well proved there is a sense of, okay, now back to business permit economic issues at the time, where on the front end of a recession. it was a clear beautiful day, and i distinctly remember being so happy to be working at the white house. and relative to the energy issue, my plans for that day were to meet with the labor leaders -- some later on hand labor leaders, the team's jurors were supporting our energy plan because of such a job creator. and that is what i had planned for that beautiful day. >> host: so as you walked through the gates of the white house on that morning, do you remember what time you entered in some of the first things you did? >> guest: well, senior staff had to be there every day at 6:30 a.m. or

and people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld, who were 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 pill program cheney that 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 the 2 others handle 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 is what i told you. it was our witness this morning is mister robert mcfarland, the former national security adviser to the president. mr. mcfarland, we welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. mr. mccall, and did you have any discussion about the possibility of an effect farming out the whole contra support operatio

um, dick cheney leaves the defense department and goes and has halliburton himself. and he spent the entire 1900 ninety's, building up the halliburton war empire. well, if we're going to talk about star wars, we might as well invite darth vader. happy to accept it. then he comes back into power as vice president. and then they start hiring halliburton too, you know, in advance, even of us troops going into iraq, halliburton, personnel and equipment was being deployed to the golf. it's hard to, to look at this and not say, these guys had a very long term plan for how they were going to increase the powerful infrastructure of private companies. what we've essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the fire power of small nation states that could, you know, over throw some small governments around the world. nations we in the united states have privatize the ultimate public function. ward. you know, bombs, i've got a time limit delay food emissions to us. so by that through the in iraq, the f sixteens. and as a teens were firing 6000000 dollars wi

mary matalin former aide to vice president dick cheney. how did the morning of your september 11, 2000 will begin? >> you know, there was a feeling of almost back-to-school. we'd not been out for the summer but generally we take the last week of august bill offered he passed an energy bill, we felt like we were settling in well proved there is a sense of, okay, now back to business permit economic issues at the time, where on the front end of a recession. it was a clear beautiful day, and i distinctly remember being so happy to be working at the white house. and relative to the energy issue, my plans for that day were to meet with the labor leaders -- some later on hand labor leaders, the team's jurors were supporting our energy plan because of such a job creator. and that is what i had planned for that beautiful day. >> host: so as you walked through the gates of the white house on that morning, do you remember what time you entered in some of the first things you did? >> guest: well, senior staff had to be there every day at 6:30 a.m. or

but this proximity of power probably started for you when your husband, dick cheney, became chief of staff to gerald ford. >> and i didn't see him for two years. >> is that right? >> that's just the way it is but i was so interested in what he was doing that he learned to come home tonight and tell me what he had done all day. so that's a really fascinating inside look. you and i were joking before, if you are the president of the united states, you are called potus. if you are the first lady of the united states, you are called flotus, first lady of the united states. if you are the wife of the vice president, you are called slotus. and my family had an enormously good time with that, i had to finally shut it off before they did it in public. we'll have you attempted to turn it into a twitter handle? >> i don't think that i really feel comfortable with twitter, i'm always afraid i would send something i don't know i sent and that's not a good idea. >> good point. that's right. so carl, you have been in an enormously powerful position the white house, and i have to ask both of you, i

tim, on that sunday morning interviewed vice president dick cheney on "meet the press."ginate from there. >> you face the full wrath of the united states of america. that we will, in fact, aggressively go over these nations and making sure they cease and assist. >> full wrath, that's a strong statement this morning. >> it is indeed. >> days earlier the president led a service at the national cathedral drawing on all faiths, including to help bring the nation together. ♪♪ >> and mr. bush continued the following week visiting the islamic center of washington. again, trying to extinguish attempts to blame the attacks on the muslim community. america was, indeed, traumatized. until 9/11, we had felt protected from overseas terror by two oceans. but the country united behine of our leaders no talk of red or blue state america after those hijackers hit washington, shanksville, pennsylvania. at the end of the day democratic and republican members of congress stood together on the capitol steps and spontaneously broke into song singing a hymn "god bless america." ♪ god bless ame

bush and dick cheney on 9/11. >> when i saw the look on the president's face, i knew that there was something that was bad. >> o'donnell: domestic violence in the military. what a former army lawyer tells us needs to happen to protect survivors. monumental change: removing the nation's largest confederate statue. and welcome to cooperstown. derek jeter takes his place among the best baseball players in the hall of fame. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. we want to begin tonight with troubling news for parents as we send our kids back into the classroom. for some it's the first time in a year and a half. across the u.s. kids now account for more than one in four new cases, and even more concerning, more than 1,500 children have been hospitalized for covid in recent days. health officials in mississippi today reported the death of a seventh child from coronavirus, and in texas, so many kids have been infected, that schools across the state are returning to

guest: one example of a dick cheney lie. he said repeatedly that mohammed atta, who led the attack on us on 9/11, the key operator, had met with saddam's intelligence people. that was the big connection. there was no such meeting. he was told repeatedly by the cia there was no credibility but he kept using it. host: let him finish. guest: the second point is in terms of weapons, we had weapons inspectors. they were still working on the job and finding nothing and guess what, they were right. there was no reason not to continue with those inspections for another couple of months or longer because they had the right answer. so bush and dick cheney decided to cut out the inspections. people can read my book and we go into all this in great detail. they made misrepresentations knowingly. i call that lying. host: at this point, let remind everyone that our viewers are going to take part in this conversation. we are going to open up our regular lines, which means democrats, you can call (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001.

it is not a war started by dick cheney. i was in washington, d.c., on 9/11 in 2001 when we had two aircraft hijacked and flown into the world trade center and an aircraft flown into the pentagon and some brave passengers on flight 93 managed to stop the plane probably heading to the capitol. it crashed into a field in pennsylvania. all 3000 were killed in new york. it was carried out by bin laden. the biggest attack, most deadly attack on the u.s. homeland in american history and that is the reason why the country was united. one member of congress voted against military force. it was backed by the united nations. it i do not think -- i do not think it was anything to do with oil. host: toby harnden is our guest. about 20 more minutes. he is the author of first casualties. the cia was mentioned in an editorial in the wall street journal this morning bringing up the modern-day events. the u.s. will also be counting on the taliban to help with counterterrorism operations. guest: the cia has no station in kabul anymore. it is

two days later, vice president dick cheney gave the nation a preview what the u.s.ld involve, a fight that would later be dubbed the global war on terror. >> we also have to work sort of the dark side if you will, we have to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies, if we're going to be successful. that's the world these folks operate in. >> and joining me, cnn contributor and author of the book "the only plane in the sky, oral history of 9/11." garrett, you've done such a service to the u.s. with all your hard work on this topic. you believe that response from cheney about the dark side, the so-called dark side came to define the u.s. response over the next two decades. let's talk about that. can you explain that? >> yeah. i think looking back now with 20 years of hindsight, what we see is that the u.s. made a series of choice in the wake of 9/11 about how to pursue the so-called global war on

and i was upstairs— president dick cheney.bout north korea or china because those were the big issues _ china because those were the big issues of— china because those were the big issues of the day. this was only a few months— issues of the day. this was only a few months past when china forced down _ few months past when china forced down on _ few months past when china forced down on a — few months past when china forced down on a p3 plan we really thought that the _ down on a p3 plan we really thought that the big issue were going to have _ that the big issue were going to have to — that the big issue were going to have to deal with was china. we were at the _ have to deal with was china. we were at the tv— have to deal with was china. we were at the tv on— have to deal with was china. we were at the tv on and on the first plane hit at _ at the tv on and on the first plane hit at our— at the tv on and on the first plane hit at our first reaction was that's awful. _ hit at our first reaction was that's awful. i_ hit at our

bush didn't -- dick cheney and george w. bush didn't.chose not to prepare adequately for what would come after that invasion and hundreds of thousands of iraqis paid for that arrogance with their lives. host: let's talk to arnold, who is calling from some or not, tennessee -- calling from sy merna, tennessee. caller: i am a democrat. can i still go ahead and speak? host: i will let you go this time. i didn't dial 8000. host: go ahead. caller: i want to share, the last segment was about the result of 9/11. there is a documentary on youtube and it was free and made by the firefighters of new york city. it is called "calling out bravo seven: the 2020 edition." you can watch it and this will greatly bring about the legacy of 9/11, which will be truth and justice for all. the last time i called in last month, i recited the first verse of the poem by kipling called "the gods of the copybook headings." i want to recite it now. it is a very long poem. it is also on youtube and online. calling out bravo seven, the 2020 edition made by the firefig

vice president dick cheney is there along with national security adviser condoleezza rice. meanwhile, the president leaves florida. his destination at takeoff a secret. we later learned he has landed at louisiana's barksdale air force base. there he pledges the u.s. will retaliate. >> make no mistake, the united states will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts. >> a rare and welcome bipartisan gathering of the republican and democratic leadership of the united states senate and the house of representatives. ♪ land that i love, stand beside her and guide her ♪ >> this is wild. ♪ through the night with the light from above ♪ ♪ from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam ♪ ♪ god bless america, my home sweet home ♪ ♪ god bless america, my home sweet home ♪ [ applause ] >> on the steps of the u.s. capitol, men and women, black, white, and asian, conservatives and liberals and independents from all corners of this country, the spontaneous demonstration of unity, a declaration of support for the president of the united states, and a v

she publicly opposed same-sex marriages in 2013 that broke from her father dick cheney and her sister mary who is gain. in an interview with "60 minutes" she addressed the family rift her position caused. >> i love my sister very much. i love her family very much, and i was wrong. it's a very personal issue, and very personal for my family. i believe that my dad was right, and my sister and i have had that conversation. >> cheney says she and her sister have since reconciled. the wyoming republican is now facing a primary challenger backed by president trump after voting to impeach him. >>> police are investigating the suspicious deaths of a mother and her son at a major league baseball game in san diego. police say the 40-year-old and her 2-year-old son plunged from a concession area on the third level of petco park. investigators are trying to determine if the fall was an accident or intentional. authorities say the child's father witnessed the incident. >>> the scene on la palma in the canary islands intensifies. 7,000 people have been evacuated as hundreds of buildings have been d

million a year in afghanistan, and i think the best example i would have of the afghan army is dick cheney and donald trump paid when i was drafted in 1970, them were the two that would not -- trump. when i was drafted in 1970, they were the two who would not serve. when trump got his papers, he said my bone spurs, my bone spurs. he could dance all night long. >> from the new york times, and the federal jobs a cuts lifeline to millions. she has a masters degree and is applying for a receptionist job. one is considering giving up his visit career. amanda reinhardt is considering borrowing money from her grandmother or selling blood plasma to feed herself and son. unemployment has staved off -- for millions. an estimated seven point 5 million people will lose their benefits with federally funded emergency unemployment programs ending and millions more will see their checks cut by $300 a week. democrat line, margaret in mansfield, wisconsin. good morning. >> good morning. there are so many stories almost every day of important things in the united states, but the one that has bothered me most

when the vice president starting the war, dick cheney is the former c o, one of the companies making money from the war. bush and blair didn't invade afghanistan for the sake of women's rights or democracy. stop white washing their imperialist crimes. they started the war and tara, based on lies. did the nation build? no, did counter terrorism work? no. was the taliban defeated? no. did western corporations make lots of money? yes. the telephone is back in power. even including people who are portraits one time a baby. and we're back to square one except lots of people died and suffered. and so this idea that you can fight terrorism and impose democracy on others by invading them is a lie which falls flat on its face. when confronted with the fact that terrorism and deaths from terrorism increased after 2001, this either indicates extreme malice, or at best, enormous incompetence, an abject failure, and other weight. no one should have ever invaded afghanistan, just because the war and i've got to stand has ended. does not mean the war on terror. has the war machine isn't going anywh

peak of cable news and the peak of political, you know, fortunes post 911, he saw a member like dick cheney, and george bush all are there. favorability ratings went up. the ratings for cable news went up, and then there was a bit of a down period, and now we're turning that around. for more tara threats more, mostly domestic now. but having to ramp up the military spend. so in the data they looked at in the decade following the terrorist attacks military spending more than doubled an absolute terms to $700000000000.00 or about 20 percent of total government spending. and 2011, the nation's military spending peaked at 19.6 percent of total federal outlays, and represented about 4.6 percent of g. d. p. by 2020, it had fallen to 11 percent of total federal spending and represented 3 and a half percent of gdp. now our guest micro hudson of course, disagrees with that number that it ever peaked at 20 percent. that's because if you're only looking at the military part of the budget, not the whole apparatus of their surveillance state of the intelligence community, of the cost of the veterans adm

vice president dick cheney said that waterboarding was fine, it didn't constitute torture.o make that clear. however, there is an alternative point of view that says waterboarding does constitute torture. we know, for example, barack obama said it did constitute torture, so by extension, therefore, your critics would say that you are a perpetrator of torture, or to put it another way, you are a torturer yourself. what's your response to that? well, fortunately, what matters is what the justice department says. the office of legal counsel is the highest law enforcement agent in terms of making these decisions. torture has a legal definition. and so the colloquial way that we use the word "torture"... i can see why people might think that, and that's the way that barack obama used it. i personally think late—term abortion is a torture, but it doesn't matter whatjim mitchell thinks is or isn't torture, it matters what the justice department thinks, and it matters what the people who've done the investigations think. you know, there was a several—year—long criminal investigatio

department and elsewhere, and the administration may have been to to resign for george w bush to resign. dick cheney to resign and realize that they haven't protected the homeland. well, i don't think they were contemplating resigning. i think they were contemplating the fear that the american people would react adversely towards their ministration after all, they had no political mandate. their political mandate was a supreme court decision. they were still being questioned all across the land and indeed is still be in question today. fear and rate was how they made the decisions they made in the aftermath. that's not a good environment in which to make national security decisions for fear, as i indicated was they will get rid of us. but then there was a quick realization really coming after the debrief owl. and the megaphone in new york where the president said, and the people who did this will hear from us that is, polls would skyrocket and they did. they went towards 90 percent and beyond. and that he could as call row of told him be assured of reelection, unlike his father in 2004 if only he pl

i mean, dick cheney as his protege, not the other way around. people forget that. he represents a strand of american conservatism. that when hyper imperialists in the most old school sense and was sort of on jet about it. and he was a disaster for us politics for the pentagon and for the world. and his ill should be rejected, horribly and emphatically. but instead in the polite circles where they go to the same schools and cocktail party, country clubs and their kids go to after school programs together at the club. you see as a club, northern virginia is a club. and i think that drives some of the polite, you know, media memory issues the, i think the class war dimension comes through in, in your history very, very powerfully. but if anyone thinks is all about foreign policy, you say in the book, american imperialism comes home. often, poisoning any hope for meaningful democracy. what do you mean by that? well, james madison had said that prolonged war is the greatest enemy to a republic or democracy. george marshal the 5 star general, who really was the architect

. >> that was a decision made or action taken in the bunker by dick cheney's product the president. president approved it is issue of the sequencing of that decision. i think the decision was first made in the bunker and got passed up to the president, the president authorized it. the communications on air force one that day, one of the little-known stories, was terrible. the phone from the president down to the bunker cut out on several occasions which is amazing. air force one should be designed so in a moment of heightened crisis everything works perfectly, communications kept cutting out. laura: the final question, when you see the taliban in control of the us relying on them for security, getting planes out on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 i got to get your take on that. >> when i saw the pictures, the taliban government, the snapshot pictures my first thought was those are the same pictures the president x through his we arrested them or brought them to justice and now president biden restored them to power. that was my first. we took those power out, and president biden b

. >> reporter: despite criticism of her father, dick cheney's tenure as vice president, when he pressede for the broadly discredited war in iraq and harsh interrogation techniques, he's been long admired here, having been wyoming's congressman for ten years. did you go to your father and ask for his advice on this, and did he encourage you to wage this rebellion? >> well, i talk to any dad probably just about every single day, and he sees things the way that i see them. >> you can see the full report on our website, cbsnews.com. the "overnight news" wil [♪] if you're only using facial moisturizer in the morning, did you know, the best time for skin renewal is at night? add olay retinol24 to your nighttime skincare routine. it combines hydrating moisturizers with powerful retinoids to renew millions of surface skin cells while you sleep. plus, it hydrates better than a $100 retinol cream. wake up to smoother, younger-looking skin with olay retinol24. learn more at olay.com this has been medifacts for olay. hey, i just got a text you mber r herghr? mstil, ri an. wow. so sudden. um, we're

. >> so the end of february 2007, vice president dick cheney made an unannounced trip to the region becauseban suicide attack that drives a toyota corolla to the front of the base and sees suvs coming out of the base and blows himself up and kills 23 people. the taliban goes online and calls the journalists to claim this was a suicide attack intended to target dick cheney. immediately, the u.s. military denies this. >> it was completely coincidental that he was here at the same time this attack occurred. >> where it had leaked out about his travel plans in that they actually came pretty close to targeting cheney when he was planning to leave. they missed him by about 30 minutes. >> that's remarkable that the taliban version was the true one and the u.s. version was the lie. >> that's right. >> actually the strength of the taliban in afghanistan. >> i'm not sure it says anything because you've got an isolated attack. >> the facts boar out just the opposite. and the years preceding the violence, road side bombs more than doubled. suicide attacks had risen at least five fold. meanwhile, some g