mr. cheney and others to sort of go in a way that is not deliberate as the president has shown?nd is not cautious that we don't make the mistakes that was made obviously, at least obvious to some of us in iraq? >> listen, all they want to do is move back into the same direction. if you listen to cheney, he is complaining that we don't have more combat boots on the ground in afghanistan, in iraq, he gave a speech to the republicans in the united states senate. i was not in that room but i can tell you that the ranking member of the armed services committee certainly has a bill that he has introduced with no holds barred. doesn't even mention an international coalition. says everything is on the table. a declaration of war. the same old same old. and for them to criticize president obama and say he is disengaged when he has been working so hard to get this right. listen, we have suffered so much because of the war in iraq. we have suffered. 4,000 dead americans, tens of thousands of wounded, not to mention the iraqis. we walk into the middle of a civil war. it was a nightmare, a m

mr. cheney and charles krauthammerer to do a documentary. >> we just need some more rush limbaugh. >> that next. >> we couldn't have a show without these -- i think that the -- it was a small part of the speech said yesterday. he should not have said ferguson. but i don't agree about weakness, i think to show where there have been past weaknesses is strength. i have always tried to convince candidates of that. they never accept the importance of that, okay, we accept the fact you made some mistakes. as a country that we have been pure and not made mistakes is silly. >> yeah, but your family, i'm not going to go out to the neighbor and complain about my family, that is weird. >> the torture, how is that an unresolved crime like ferguson -- >> right after eisenhower said after the war to our allies that we had made some serious mistakes. and we had not -- we should not what we had done in france, a lot of things. a lot of people have done that. and i don't see the problem with it. we also did not focus on what probably was way more of a strong statement about terrorism than obama has ever gi

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mr. cheney, you're in town, and i would suggest you're here talking to the leaders you've gotten to knowuse you do stay in contacts. >> i do stay in contact, although i usually don't hang out at the united nations. >> i'm not particularly a fan, either. >> especially in the middle east. liz and i traveled through there last spring and those are people i dealt with for 25 years going back to the days of desert storm. >> you're talking about egyptians, saudis, emirates, jordan. i'm just guessing. >> that's right. >> what are they saying? some did join in this coalition. europe is not, for the most part. what are they telling you about this president and this campaign. >> i think with respect to the current air campaign that having the participation of the emirates, saudis and so forth is a plus. i would not want to discourage that. a lot of them have u.s.-trained personnel, they're using u.s. equipment. we've used their bases over the years. that's a good addition. it doesn't get you over the goal line, though. it's just sort of the beginning of the campaign. and while it is politically si

mr. cheney who condoned torture. after thehad gone people on wall street who stole equity out of my house. they were able to take away from people what they worked so hard for. i want to thank him. there are some things i wish he had done. i wish people would get past their ignorance and their partisanship. check it out before what you are saying is correct. thank you. nebraska ons is in the republican line up. i wish the same thing that lady just wished. started and first was under the obama administration. runnings a gun operation under the bush administration. force them into the united states to sell them. those gunment forced dealers to sell them. if you like to know about eric the border agent can tell you something about what she thinks. 250 mexicans are killed with those guns. host: this is the -- "the hill" newspaper. michael is in california on the independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. eric holder did some good things. but what about the wall street fiasco? he did not prosecute anybody. no

mr. president, there is some pushing hard here in congress. right now. dick cheney was here yesterday. i guess that is too they are following. mr. president, wouldn't it be a good idea for us to stand back a little bit and see what the president of the united states has to say tonight. he's addressing the nation. let's allow him to speak to our country, to our fellow citizens that lay out his plan. it is absolutely critical that the american people and congress here directly thank the president of the united states. here in the senate we are going to have an often under spree fiends tomorrow afternoon. the administration all come to a classified in the complex and layout to us in detail what is going on that is not in the news. so every number whose body will have a chance to get as much information as possible. to make a mature afternoon at the briefing. mr. president, it is clear the president has said publicly. the administration has said so publicly to work directly with the white house. he just returned from europe and much of the time they spent their lives what they were going to

mr. president, there are some pushing hard here in congress to authorize the use of military force right now -- right now. dick cheneywas here yesterday. i guess that's who they're following. but, mr. president, wouldn't it be a good idea for us to stand back a little bit and see what the president of the united states has to say tonight? he's addressing the nation. let's allow him to speak to our country, to our fellow citizens, and lay out his plan. it's absolutely critical that the american people and congress hear directly from the president of the united states. here in the senate, we're going to have an all-senators briefing tomorrow afternoon. the administration will come to one of our classified rooms here in the capitol complex and lay out to us in detail what's going on that's not in the news. so every member of this body will have a chance to get as much information as possible. the president speaks tonight. tomorrow afternoon there is a briefing. mr. president, it's clear -- the president has said so publicly, his officials has said so publicly, different officials that work with the white house -- he is

cheney was here yesterday, giving republicans a pep talk. he's going to-- he gave them advice on foreign policy. please, mr. president, please! e from dick cheney on foreign policy? that's a terrifying prospect. we should be learning from our past mistakes, not repeating them. cheney answered with equally tough talk, in a speech today at the american enterprise institute in washington. >> in a few hours we will hear what he has in mind for the terrorist onslaught currently in iraq. we can hope for and we should look for signs of a forceful, bold and immediate strategy to defeat isis. we can say already, however, that such a plan would mark an abrupt and dramatic departure from his record thus far. >> ifill: back in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell took up that same theme, saying the president has been a rather reluctant commander in chief. >> it's pretty clear to me at least that the american people fully appreciate the nature of the threat. after the beheadings of two american citizens, they don't want an explanation of what's happening. they want a plan. they want some presidential leadership. >> ifill: at the whi

mr. ashcroft, the attorney general on the left, on the far side, there is the president. andy card. george tenet from cia. richard clarke, the counterterrorism czar. we had cheney, powell, rice, and transportation, mr. mineta. the president sat down, and we were watching him through a one-way window. here he is, eight months as a president, untested. we just went through a whole day of these unprecedented events, and he sat down, and the vice president starts talking. "if you know something, say it." everybody is giving the president their assessment. he's messing with his tie. we are like, ", on, mr. president -- "come on, mr. president." he looks up and says, "fema, where are you at? bring your checkbook, get to new york. you can go. i want planes, trains, and automobiles up and operating by noon tomorrow. the cities you figure it out, let me know. you can go. i want to see my national security team upstairs in five minutes. the rest of you, thanks for coming." the president read the intel reports. we knew al qaeda was responsible. we knew about osama bin laden. we knew where he was. the nation was going to war, and the president just needed to figure out whe

mr. president, amazed that some members of congress want to rush to war. because that's what they're talking about is a war. how did that work out for us last time? not so well. the bush/cheneyk. it didn't work then and it won't work now. let's be cautious, let's be deliberate. >> we have a duty as a superpower without imperialistic aims to help maintain international order and balance of power. and in my view that international order is maintained by american military might. indeed, american military might is its backbone. but that is not a view this president seems to share. >> and, carol, mitch mcconnell talked about the fact that the americans don't need a lecture tonight, a clear allusion to the fact that republicans think the president is too professorial and said he doesn't think the president is comfortable as commander in chief. already strong words from these two leaders who just about 12 hours ago were sitting in n the aufl offi oval office. >> here's the thing. our country in n danger. don't we have to come together? why not wait until after the president's speech, ron, to criticize? >> i absolutely agree with you, carol. this is a time we need to come together a