shots at con di with an almost condescending tone, she tearfully did this or that and also at george tenet and indicated he didn't always approve of what president bush was deciding. there's nothing wrong with saying you disagree, but it is not necessary to take these kind

george tenet was saying to the white house saying to the president as he briefed him every morning a major elec fact is going to happen against the united states somewhere in the world in the weeks and months ahead he said that in june july august so what's behind clark's new take on nine eleven and could it be true for more on this i'm joined by phil shannon investigative reporter for newsweek and the daily beast as well as the author of the book the commission the uncensored history of the nine like nine eleven investigation phil welcome thank you for having me great to have you here with us first of all latest allegation your your take on this is which is the latest he actually said this in two thousand and nine and these documents areas have been sitting on this information for two years for a court gave an interview in two thousand and nine in which he said that after many years of thought on the subject he'd come to the conclusion that the cia probably tried to recruit two hijackers who were living in the united states beginning in two thousand and hid that information from the

we didn't know it was false, we've been vowed safe that information by the dci, george tenet and his deputy, john mclaughlin, but nonetheless we presented false information with regard to wmd. >> on secretary of state powell's presentation at the united nations in february, cheney actually writes, "when it turned out that much of what ap mass destruction was wrong, i think embarrassment caused him and those around him to lash out at others. scooter libby seemed to be a particular target of their ire, they excoriated the material he and the national security staff provided while at the same time boasting they had thrown it in the garbage. as it happened, much of what they discarded focussed on saddam's ties to terror and human rights violations, charges that would stand the test of time." he's talking about you there, colonel, what do you make of that? >> let me give you the facts there. on the very first day colin powell handed me the script from vice president cheney's office, it was all about wmd, nothing about human rights, nothing about terrorism. the terrorism portion was to com

use the presidents that women were present in the story were and so george tenet but the hist of dick cheney served up what the senate intelligence committee later called intelligence that was uncorroborated contradicted and sometimes nonexistent now let's not exist in the thousands look like this it's always the case for dick cheney and it got us into trouble deep in the middle east and the insane just hang on to candy for us for one more question on it not just a book that that's going on here at dick cheney is now making the rounds i think mostly on n.b.c. it seems like he's defending his book promoting it and i want to take a look at just a piece of an interview he did this morning with n.b.c.'s matt lauer on that show and given the fact that it severely damaged our reputation around the world and there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction you still think it's worth it you know sure i don't. think that damage our reputation around the world i just don't believe that i think you know the critics or don't want to argue that but in fact i think it was sound policy that d

he thought his job was to use the president's the whim of the president to start a war and so george tenet but the history of dick cheney served up at the senate intelligence committee later called intelligence that was uncorroborated country take to the air and sometimes existing. what's not exist it's always been slow but that's the approaches that came from dick cheney had a sense of trouble deep within the middle east and they've been saying just staying on dick cheney for us for one more question it's not just the book that that's going on here it dick cheney is now making the rounds i think mostly on n.b.c. it seems like he's defending his book promoting it and i want to take a look at just a piece of an interview he did this morning with n.b.c.'s matt lauer on this day so given the fact that he had severely damaged our reputation around the world and there were no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction you still think it's worth it you know sure i don't. think damage her reputation around the world i just believe i think you know the critics here at home are are you there but in

>> well, of course, they should not have, in fact, george tenet had communicated to condi rice and stevey three times before a september speech in cincinnati telling them do not use this niger information, we don't believe it, and then articulated the reasons they don't believe it. indeed, just a couple of days after the president's state of the union address, according to george tenet's book, mike morel, the presumptive director of the cia now told a staffer we're not going to use that because we don't believe it, so they had lots of time, and it was never an apology, i don't think, anybody needed out of an administration that wasn't prone to apologize in the first place. it was just an admission they were wrong, which hopefully at that time would have encouraged the investigative journalistic press to look into other things they might have the misled the american public about. >> i want to read another passage from the book. this is cheney after rice's apology. rice realized she had made a major apopgy. she came into my office and tearfully admitted that i had been right. in an intervi

. >>> on george tenet, the former director of the cia, the one that promised the intelligence on wmdseney criticizes him for leave when the going got tough and condoleeza rice's apology after president bush wrongly stated that iraq had tried to buy uranium in his 2003 state of the union address. "rice realized she had made a major mistake by issuing a public apology. she came to my office, sat down in a chair next to my desk and tearfully admitted i had been right." and on colin powell, cheney said he pushed for his resignation in 2004 and "it was as though he thought the proper way to express his views was by criticizing administration policy to people outside of the government." . colin powell's response -- >> mr. cheney's had a long and distinguished career and i hope in his book that's what he'll focus on, not these cheap shots he's taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability. >> you label them flatly as cheap shots. >> yes, they are cheap shots. several he targeted at me, he takes great credit for my red ig nation in 2004. president

he is very tough on former cia director george tenet.quit when the going got tough. he says of senator john mccain that during the financial crisis, that the senator offered nothing of substance. and there are devastating criticisms about former secretary of state colin powell who he says undermined the administration, never actually expressed the fact that he didn't approve of the war of iraq. but i will tell you i think the most devastating criticism in the book is about the second secretary of state, former secretary of state, condoleezza rice. he uses words like train wreck, naive, utterly misleading. >> that's not score settling. >> and he tells the story about when she may have had a disagreement and she made a mistake and she came into his office and tearfully is the word he uses apologized. that's going to be very provocative. >> yes, we'll be hearing more about that. so, dick cheney goes through a lot of people who either wronged him or he thinks were in the wrong. does he ever think about when he might have been in the wrong in

support the case of strengthening our relations with russia what kind of methods can we expect from george tenet's attempts of restoring official police equals the country's three tauriel integrity or not over the past years we've lost a lot of people to violence at the border including over one hundred russian peacekeepers as well as oborne accounts customs offices reservists and civilians and it's certainly georgian politicians that if the plane even today regretfully the georgian. filling gaijin assaults and sabotage operations you probably remember when there was a russian border troop and a young lieutenant colonel who was killed in action a few months ago it was in the news reports but despite that russian gota troops keep settling down in abkhazia i believe that in a year or so our border will be sufficiently fortified and the situation will change drastically if we are really looking forward to that sort of is it possible for georgians who are prepared to recognize a pause there is an independence day to return to their homes not only in the boarding gali district but also let's say in the

and he is taking the same shots at george tenet. and he is also, in some ways, indicated he didn't always approve of what president bush was deciding. and there is nothing wrong with saying he disagreed. but it's not necessary to take these kind of barbs, and then try to pump a book up by saying heads will be exploding. i think dick overshot the runway with that kind of comment if that is how he plans to sell his book. >> so you know, russ, sometimes people come on face the nation and you wonder why he came there but there was no question why colin powell was willing to come in during a hurricane today. he had something he wanted to say and he said it. >> mitchell: as you pointed out today, general powell voted for barack obama in the last election. you asked him who he is going to vote for next time. what did he say? >> well, he said that he hadn't made up his mind yet. he did vote for barack obama the last time out. but he said he thought there was some interesting people in the republican field. but he's playing it very close to

cheney had started by his constant visits to the cia i got caught up in the same ethos around george tenet and his deputies in the hand selected team he had of analysts to brief me and i should have known better i should have been able to break out of that and i should at least resign and as i said this morning i regret that for the greater good i didn't resign but i don't see i mean if i were you are the first to cry get your hands on the people who at that point when you decided not to resign i should make that decision i made the decision principally because i'd been with colin powell for a long time and i felt like i was doing him a service and i want to continue doing that service he needed he needed what i was doing for him and we all tell ourselves that we all rationalize our performance that way if colin powell of course i think can also admitted that he tried to have colin powell removed for expressing doubts about the iraq war. and he thinks that the state department did serve in the administrative action of our subserve colin powell called me into his office in my office in two

george tenet, colin powell, condoleezza rice. we knew he'd gotten into disputes with them in the past and kind of gives his side of it here. and democrats i think, are going to be somewhat delighted that he's bringing up these old issues like waterboarding and standing by them. his own admission, he feels, polish his image and avoid indictment, i guess, but being firm, he's been firm all along on this, and i think going into the presidential campaign, the obama administration can help him. >> happy that he's reviving the aspects of the bush years most folks would like to put behind them. >> speaking of that, nbc news jamie gangel had an exclusive interview with vice president cheney. here she asks him about torture. let's have a listen. >> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be waterboarding terror suspects? >> i would strongly support using it again is if circumstances arose where we had a high-value detainee and that was the only way we could ge

he stabbed john mccain in this book, colin powell, kondy rice, george tenet, stabbed them all in the t. he is settling scores. what i find more surprising is he seems to re-enforce the theory at the time that he and not george bush was making the decisions in that administration. he brags about it. >> and what do you have to make of that, gentlemen? >> well, for me, i mean, again, particularly in the first four years when dick cheney says on the decision whether to go into iraq or not that bush threw everybody else out of the room and turned to dick and said what do you think you should do? we didn't elect dick cheney as president. we elected george bush. >> it's not just that, cheney making it clear he had no intention of backing off some of his controversial policies take water boarding for instance. let's listen. >> you know though if we were to conduct a poll in this country right now and ask people if water bofrding is torture, the vast majority of people would say it is. >> i would argue, matt, that it's important for us not to get caught up in the notion that you can only have

cia posting in beijing, but after 9/11, just after 9/11 he is drafted personally by cia director george tenet effort instead. >> that is one of my most vivid memories. he said to me we're behind the eight ball, and the reason he said that, which i didn't know what he meant at that precise moment, was because we had information about this meeting with the pakistan scientist and bin laden before 9/11. >> november 2001 moet larson and tenet at the direction of president george w. bush are dispatched to pakistan to confront pakistan's president pervez musharraf about the fireside chat that's turned up in u.s. intelligence reports. the possibility that pakistani nuclear scientists are assisting al qaeda in pursuing a nuclear bomb. sfroo president musharraf's initial reaction was men in caves can't do this. that's what we expected. it's the same incredulity we all felt. >> it's part of a two-part series that starts next tuesday night. it's called day of destruction, decade of war. been working on it for a long time with richard, and we're both really proud of it. hope you'll watch. be right back. [

he said george tenet's decision to resign when, quote, the going got tough, was unfair to the president. he takes credit for helping to push out secretary of state colin powell after the 2004 election. and he throws secretary of state condoleezza rice under the bus for trying to get a nuclear weapons agreement with north korea. even throws in a condescending line about how she, quote, came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted i had been right. he also defends torture, or what he calls tough interrogations. >> if you're view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be waterboarding terror suspects? >> i would strongly support using it again if circumstances arose where we had a high value detainee, and that was the only way we could get him to talk. >> even though so many people have condemned it, people call it torture, you think it should still be a tool? >> yes. >> when i saw the article yesterday about cheney's book, i dashed off an email in a fit of pique to friends in publishi

crit calf many form bush administration officials including colin powell, condoleezza rice, and george tenetey knew that he was an objective controversy and he offered his resignation several times prior to bush's re-election. but he writes that after a few day's consideration, bush said that he wanted him to stay. in june of 2007, if cheney's view had prevailed, the united states would have bombed a suspected nuclear reactor in syria. the president asked, "does anyone here agree with the vice president?" not a single hand went up around the room. let's bring in the host of the ring of fire radio show, mike papantonio. and "the dailily show" co-creat lizz winstead with us as well. mike, with you first. what strikes you about what's coming out of the cheney book, the tell-all, what do you take from it? >> what strikes me, ed is sometimes a shady character like dick cheney, he can clear his conscience by writing this confessional opus but he'll never clear his idea. never be able to clear this idea that 18% -- he's a meager 18% approval rating in the united states. but here's what i would like

condi rice, george tenet, for example.ly not done by vice presidents or presidents. it is not a time for score settling and i think that is-the only thing you can say in his defense is he had a lot of scores to settle. he had been beaten up a lot. so i guess there is a reason why liz, who worked with him, his daughter, probably persuaded him to do some of that. i'm not surprised at the candor. i am surprised at the shots. >> let's talk about that score settling. i want to read you something that he wrote about colin powell. he said, quote, i was particularly disappointed in the way powell handled policy differences. time and again i heard he was opposed to the war in iraq. indeed, i continue to hear it today. but never once in any meeting did i hear him voice objection. when president bush after his re-election in 2004 accepted powell's resignation, i thought it was for the best. does colin powell have a right to be pretty upset at dick cheney? >> absolutely, of course. he basically, the vice president accused the secretar

and look, dick cheney is also very complimentary of colin powell and of condoleezza rice and george tenetthese are -- he's giving both sides of the story. there are going to be things in there that are going to get people very upset. i think one of the things that will be most interesting and revealing is there are differences between how former president george bush describes events and how former vice president cheney describes events. for example, on the eve of the iraq war, president bush writes in his book that he looked around the oval office and said to his advisers let's go. in former vice president cheney's book, he writes that the president cleared the room and turned to his vice president and said what do you think we should do, dick? >> wow, that's kind of a big difference. >> i don't know how you split the difference. in the movie portrayal. >> it's a huge difference. now, you know, vice president cheney then goes on to say that, yes, but president bush made the decision. but you really do see in the book how much, at least in the first term, president bush relied on vice pre

he takes on former cia director george tenet, said he quit when the going got tough, goes after johnafter powell and is withering in his criticism of condie rice. there are words like trainwreck and utterly misleading. i do think in the end, though, what may be most surprising are the differences that he airs with former president bush and the fact that he went public at all. dick cheney is known as the man who would never write a book. so, just the fact there are numerous differences between bush's account, cheney's account, private conversations that i think are going to be stunning. >> i want to ask, as the teh anniversary of 9/ approaches, an historic interview on this program that tim russert did with then vice president dick cheney aired september 16th, 2001, and mr. cheney writes about it. first off, i'll play you the exchange and then show you what the vice president wrote about it. >> we also have to work sort of the dark side, if you will, 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 discus

reveals, apparently, all of these personal conversations with condoleezza rice, colin powell and george tenettics say he is rewriting history and he wants it portrayed the way he wants it portrayed. what is your take? >> winston churchill once said history will be kind to me because i tend to write it. . i think that is the motivation of any memoir. love him or hate him, he has has a successful career and probably a lot to learn here. but always take it with a grain of salt. this is going to be dick cheney's version of events not an objective historian's account. >> talk out there that cheney was the one calling the shots on crucial decisions, not george w. bush. and he was actually challenged on that point in an nbc interview. let's take a listen. >> i turn to the team gathered in the oval office and said, let's go. you write, the president kicked everyone else out of the oval office, looked at me and said, dick, what do you think we ought to do? >> that's the way i recall it. and i was getting advice. i wasn't making the decision. he was making the decision. >> do you think these revelation

president dick cheney's book criticizes colleagues including colin powell, condoleezza rice and george tenet cheney of taking cheap shots. >> i hope he will focus on his long career not taking cheap shots at others who served to the best of our ability for president bush. >> in the book cheney claims credit for forces powell to resign at the end of his first term. powell disputes that saying he never planned to serve a second term. >>> the fbi joined the serve for an nba player wanted in a murder investigation. atlanta police have an arrest warrant out for javaris crittendon, saying he shot and killed 22-year-old jullian jones ten days ago. she was hit by several bullets from an assault rifle in a drive-by shooting while she was just walking down the street. she was not the intended victim. police say crittendon was robbed in april and looking to retaliate against a man on the street at the same time at jones. >>> warren jeffs is now in a texas hospital, he is in critical condition, state prison official say jeffs got sick during a fast, they say he wasn't eating, wasn't drinking. jeffs appa

that we have the legacy of this book already, cheap shots at khro*upb powell, condoleezza rice, george tenet. the bottom line is this, bush had great adviser, they weren't yes men, they were very knowledgable and they didn't all agree, so they agreed to disagree, and i think for powell and cheney to have this public disagreement, it hurts the bush legacy, it hurts the republican party and it hurts the outreach of diversity for the party. there's really no win here except for alan! martha: i was waiting for alan, if you wouldn't mind waiting one second, we'll get your thoughts on that: >> he says that i went out of my way not to present my positions to the president, but to take them outside of the administration. that's nonsense. the president knows what i thought about every issue of the day. mr. cheney may forget that i'm the one who said the president bush -- it president bush if you break it, you own it. martha: yeah, you know, you can't listen to all of this back and forth without remembering, you know, that testimony in front of the united nations, and khro*upb powell says in this inte

he reveals internal battles within the bush administration and criticizes one-time colleague george tenet, colin powell, condoleezza rise and praising president george w. bush as an outstanding leader. a promotional tour by the vice- president is the topic of of the phone segment. we invite you to phone in. here are the numbers to call this morning -- here is the front page of the drug report -- "the drudge report." the headline -- some of the details, if you are interested. "the new york times" lead headline, page 16. cheney says he urged bush to bombs. back in 2007 but, he writes, he opted for a diplomatic approach after other advisers, still stinging over the bad intelligence over iraq's stockpiles of wmd's expressed misgivings -- "the times" goes on to write -- here is one of them. he wrote -- we look forward to your calls on what you are hearing so far. here are the numbers again -- first call this morning from sarasota, florida. democrat. good morning. caller: how are you today? i am doing ok. i am glad to see this book out. i think if there is any honesty whatsoever in it, it will

a very senior cia officer was dispatched by cia director george tenet to be his personal representativeence gathering, supervised the intelligence gathering and that's relationship that continues today. recently the cia sent one of its most senior undercover officers to work out of one police plaza in new york as a covert officer. >> so, we're talking about former cia agents now working within the new york police department, traveling -- >> they're current cia officers. >> on the cia payroll, working with the new york police department, traveling abroad and using intelligence to work in conjunction with the nypd. we should point out the new york police department has put out a statement saying the new york police department is doing everything it can to assure that there's not another 9/11 here and more innocent new yorkers are killed by terrorists. we have nothing to apologize for in that regard. that from nypd spokesman paul broune. what's the biggest complaint with this program that you found in your investigation? >> one of the things that is little known that they do, they have thi

he goes after colin powell, goes after condi rice, goes after george tenet and in the clip we have --nd says again i believe in what we did with waterboarding. i do it again. here's what he said. >> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be waterboarding terror suspects? >> i would strongly support using it again if circumstances arose where we had a high-value detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk. >> even though so many people have condemned it, people call it torture, you think it should still be a tool? >> yes. >> reverend sharpton, what do you think about dick cheney coming out with a memoir at this point in which he goes after a lot of people he worked closely with who are still around obviously? >> well, i think several things. one, i think it's interesting that he would say he's going to make a lot of people angry. he always did make a lot of people angry. >> well, he's making some other people angry. >> what i think is interesting is he uses his memoirs to really go after pe

the first to admit as the director of the c.i.a., i had $2 under my control for every one dollar george tenetblishment over the last ten years. but we in turn have been very effective. we've had great success. bitter fighting in iraq, but success. we had the potential for victory in afghanistan. we've certainly put al-qaeda in a different position. we've been very effective. we also recognize we have this other problem and we're going to have to give as well. we just want it to be done prudently. >> dave: prudently and the american people wondering can we fight the war on terrorism effectively? can we take care of the threats that we're going to talk about in a second, home grown terrorism and otherwise, with these cuts? >> well, you have to look and you have to make good judgments. i see three things we have to be able to do. continue the war on terrorists. this is not a peace dissident. we're at war now. we'll be at war in a year. second, make sure our force is capable of handle emerging threats, read north korea and iran. then, you've got this kind of long-term arc to be prepared for to de

almost condescending tone, she tearfully did this or that and he's taking the same shots that george tenetdidn't always approve of what president obama was deciding and there's nothing wrong with saying he disagreed but it's not necessary to take these kinds of barbs and try to pump a book up by saying heads will be exploding. i think it's a bit too far. i think dick overshot the runway with that kind of comment and if that how he plans to sell his book, it was clear by 2004, that the team is not functioning as a team. and we had different views, and not views to be reconciled so i said to the president that it was -- i would be leaving at the end of the year after the election and he ought to take a look at his whole team. >> dana, what do you think about that? >> a couple of things. the book doesn't even go on sale until tuesday so i think admittedly most people who are commenting on the book at this point haven't read it yet. i look forward to buying it and reading it because i've always admired and a deep respect for dick cheney and having watched him in that leadership role. i also do

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