mr. cheney was unhappy with me at that point. anyway -- [laughter] that is what we did. we did it in a way that was sensible. competente a very force. he had to come up with a plan that is achievable and satisfies this balanced perspective. if you do not come up with a plan, congress will figure out how to do it. you have to give congress something for your supporters to defend and make your opponents attack on your ground. had to your plan. right now we are in it it -- they have to attack your plan. right now we are in idiot land. there it is. hopefully congress will see it in their wisdom to change that. it is not the way to do it. toell the young officers take care of the sailors and marines that are entrusted to your care, let us worry about .hat the country will look like you start off your careers by taking care of those young and trust did to your care. that is how i started out as a young lieutenant years ago. my mission was you take those 40 soldiers who are in germany. trees. in these two when the russian army comes, you stop them. [applause] no problem. i'm fr

mr. cheney was not happy with me that morning. anyway, that's what we did. we took i would down 25%, but we did it in a way that was sensible and that force became a very competent force and fought the gulf war in panama just a few years afterwards. you have to come up with a plan that's achieveble and that satisfies this balanced perspective. if you don't come up where a plan out of the pentagon, congress will figure out how to do it. you have to give congress something for your supporters to opponents ake your attack your plan. idiotland.e are in the fiscal is the baddest thing i've seen coming out of congress. hopefully congress will see it in their wisdom to change it. not sequestration that thurts military. it thurts whole government. it's not the way to do it, but we have a congress that seems incapable of doing the kind of compromising and planning and structuring that they're expected to do once they've been elected to office, so i would tell the young officers to be up there as young sainsd your job is to take care of the things that are entrusted t

mr. cheney. bad things happen when we do get involved too. cheney made some disastrous decisions as vice president, but he's spent his retirement trying to divide and scare the country even more. when it comes to offering national security advice, dick cheney, your time is up. nice try, but we gotcha. you notice a few things. like the fact that you're pretty attached to these. ok, really attached. and that's alright. because we'll text you when your package is on the way. we're even expanding sunday package delivery. yes, sunday. at the u.s. postal service, our priority is...was... and always will be...you. so ally bank really has no hidden fethat's right. accounts? it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees, from the bank where no branches equals great rates. i was out for a bike ride. i didn't think i'd have a heart attack. but i did. i'm mike, and i'm very much alive. now my doctor recommends a bayer aspirin regimen to help prevent another heart attack. be sure to talk to your doctor before y

mr. cheney, cheney was particularly concerned the were secret facilities for building a weapon, which areh different than the enrichment. there is enrichment. they have inspectors and cameras there, etc. iran is a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty. no one is accusing them of cheating. the latest report also says, once again, we find no evidence iran has diverted any uranium that it is enriching. it is also enriching very low levels for peaceful purposes, so they say, 3.8%. there is a small percentage being enriched, 20% for medical use, but that is quite small come also under cameras and inspection. days,ou have, in those even until the end of their term in office, cheney kept on having the joint special operations force command, j sock, they would send teams inside iran and work with various dissident fanaticeven a very sunni opposition group, and they would do everything they could to try and find evidence of an .ndeclared underground facility we monitored everything. we have incredible surveillance. in those days -- what we did then, we can even do better now. some of the stuff

[laughter] but perhaps to note that mrs. cheney never appeared in front of the congress on this. that made it particularly hard. i do not know if you remember or not, but on a staff basis, we had to promise the reagan administration -- i am sorry, the bush administration, over and over again that no democrat would ask a question about financial support or new legislation of mrs. quayle, the democratic members would only talk about breast and cervical cancer. and you stuck to the deal and open to the questions and talked about what a hard problem breast cancer was. and republicans had question after question after question for mrs. quayle about why the administration do not support your legislation. it was an embarrassment, but we stuck with the deal. >> i remember that and your involvement. i want to share an anecdote about you. >> oh, dear. [laughter] >> he came to work for me when i first became chairman of the subcommittee. was this your first job? like my first job out of law school. >> he was working on public health issues. he said to me, i am worried about all these budget

you know, secretary, i think it was vice president cheney who was the most outspoken critics particularly in regard to isil or isis. you're a fine one, mr. president to be judging or criticizing anyone on how you act in a war or conduct a war. so their view was had it not been for you and president bush, we wouldn't even be in this pickle and our actions wouldn't even matter. you started it. >> i think you can't conjecture about history. >> neil: that's what they did. >> of course, it's an excuse. one of the things that is at work here is a battle between two branches of the islam between sunni and shia. that was before iraq. it was before bush and cheney and it will be there for a long time achievement you just raised my point, whether involved or not in troops or not, it's always going to be a mess over there. so what do we do? >> well, it's a very messy situation. for sure it's a to the best of your ability area. it's prone to violence. what we need to do is (?) what we can effectively to mitigate the consequences for us. and that means, if you see the gathering momentum of a radical islamist movement emerging in the syrian context,