dr. strangelove. is he so ferociously for war, for partisan combat in a kind of way that is really not aimed at any positive purpose? >> well, it is a world view in a sense. but it's more -- i think it gives too much credit to say it's a philosophy. cheney sees himself in a bunker, sees himself besieged on all sides. >> when he was there in congress, everybody in congress covering him on capitol hill he was like leon panetta, a regular button-down, he wore button-down shirts. he was a moderate speaking guy. they thought he was a moderate. i said no, he was always the biggest partisan in the business i ever came across. thank you. hi, dick. david corn and thank you dana milbank. up next, the late-night comedians have a little fun with dianne feinstein's fight with the cia. by the way, she is right. they're wrong. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. hey kevin...still eating chalk for hearburn? yea. try alka seltzer fruit chews. they work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. these are good.

dr. strangelove is now out there this weekend, pushing what he calls military action to get the russians out of crimea. this is the same dick cheney whose last push for military action, the lamebrain decision to invade, conquer and occupy iraq cost at least 186,000 lives. is he dick cheney, the meister-sanger of the clown car? is he? or is it the charismatically clueless sarah palin who called this weekend for a nuclear confrontation with moscow. >> mr. president, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke. >> wow. it's hard to get to the right of that thought. yes, this is the talk of the american right as of this weekend from seasoned warhawk to alaskan half governor. and this is, as scary as it is, makes for applause lines in the crazy camp. when governor palin talked of enforcing a nuclear stand-up there, the peanut gallery of the hard right went wild with applause. to this crowd of geeks meeting in washington this weekend, contemplating nuclear war is as close as it gets to a social life. thank god there are sane people in the republican world who can'

dr. strangelove is now out there this weekend, pushing what he

dr. strangelove film.riate in some respects, but appropriate enough based on game theory. theoretic and both sides are beginning to understand each other's positioning. i do not see any incentives for a further escalation. i do not think we will solve the situation any time soon, but we will continue to see needling from the russian side and a slow escalation in the sanctions. in terms of geopolitical events, -- not see >> where will that leave investors? >> if you look at russian assets, i think the ruble is probably bottoming out relative to the dollar. >> would you buy russian equities now? >> i am overweight russian equities at the moment. they are to byrd and the greek market was at the eurozone crisis. cheaper than the greek market was at the eurozone crisis. are not positioned in russia or they have sold their holdings. if you look at russia, it is more about -- it is more than just oil. retail companies, internet companies. growth will probably bottom out at about 4%. i expect the central bank to s

this sounds like a scene from dr strangelove. yulia timoshenko sounds like jack the ripper just wants to send. russian just the ruthie's i mean this is talk about a more mentality you see that things are really getting out of control or going back almost fifty years this is straight. cold war and of course we see words coming from and i don't think she would be able to say these things if she didn't feel like she had support from her western allies. that voice that's allegedly the former prime minister says during the conversation that she will employ all the connections to make the world rise up against russia you've already mentioned that support from others in the west is that an empty threat do you think that she's making. well it's not an empty threat in the sense that she's she's already succeeded of course this wasn't her addition to but she's one of the pieces of the puzzle ever since the coup in kiev. off with twenty second of february we've seen i actually the whole western world through its media and it's all those lea

such statements only because she has the support of western policy this sounds like a scene from dr strangeloveand your team are say what sounds like a promo or jack the ripper just want to send. russian just nuke the risky i mean this is talk about a home or mentality you see that things are really getting out of control or going back almost fifty years and of course we see where it's coming from i don't think she would be able to say these things if she didn't feel like she had support from western allies ever since the coup we have here we've seen actually the whole western world with media and it's all those colleagues you know stirring up and tyrants russian for so this is a self-fulfilling prophecy and i think this was something that was planned all along. two major events have kicked off in the they hate the g seven gathering as focusing on the ukrainian crisis well a key security summit is aiming to reduce the world's nuclear weapon supplies in the course of the meetings that again the broad met with his american counterparts to discuss the situation in ukraine giving a news conference

late rifty sleep late fifty's and it's scared the bejesus out of me and then seeing the movie dr strangeloveyou know so i form my opinions and of course in my generation we did duck and cover drills i mean we lived with the possibility that we could be immolated at any moment in new haven where i grew up every saturday afternoon at noon they were in the air raid sirens and they did a test of the emergency broadcast system so this was real real stuff but i didn't come back as a profession until i joined the staff of the house. this committee in january one nine hundred eighty five and there i was assigned responsibility over a number of nuclear programs what we call oversight responsibility investigations monitoring the budgets particularly of the president reagan strategic defense initiative the missile defense program most times yeah so you were. providing oversight on the star wars you started investigating these and at the time we thought this was it this was going to be the technological solution to nuclear war that's what the president thought but even you know after a year of looking a