. >>> and for some reason, dick cheney thinks the world needs to hear his views on foreign policy. >> how close do you think iran is to a nuclear weapon? >> very close. i don't see anything that's been done by this administration that's going to stop that program. >> tonight, my commentary on why the former vice president needs to leave the stage. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. republicans want to return to the destructive economic policies of the past. but their own personal histories may knock them out first. today, a video from 2002 is being circulated by both republicans and democrats. it shows a side of mitt romney he doesn't want republicans primary voters to see. >> i think people recognize that i'm not a partisan republican, that i'm someone who is moderate and my views are progressive and that i'm going to go to work for our senior citizens, for people who have been left behind by urban schools that are not doing the right job. they're going to vote for me regardless of the party label. >> did he say his views are progressive? well, the romn

it was dick cheney, george bush, and a far right wing extremist that shifted us from afghanistan and invested in iraq, which had nothing to do with 91/11. let me tell you something, those words gave me goose bumps. let me tell you, there's 4400 sons and daughters not coming home and about 32,000 that were wounded that didn't come home with their arms or legs or with some type of disability. >> and as you say that, and i can imagine how you felt, as you got goose bumps and other people that are veterans would have felt, i looked at it as one who would never believe the engagement should have been undertaken in the first place, in the first marches that i was part of, speaking at the rallies, look at the climate that was set, richard wolf. let me show you some of what the republicans were saying about this war. some were being attacked or questioning why we were in iraq in the first place. >> but we don't want the smoking cloud to be a mushroom cloud. >> suddam hussein significantly south large amounts of uranium from africa. >> the allies have prevailed. and then as it grew it became

brent scrocoff said i don't know dick cheney anymore. explain this transformation, first of all, and how tough has it been for you and your family to deal with that transformation? >> well, it wasn't tough to deal with the transformation. after being vice president for a few years subject of all the jokes on leno and letterman, fodder for the late night comedians, you need to have a pretty thick skin just to get up every morning and function. i never let it bother me. and we used to joke about it. i've got a great picture that the staff took of me one day and they didn't know -- i didn't know they were there. but they snuck in with a camera because i had a darth vader mask on.ç darth vader sitting behind the desk in the president's office. part of it had to do with the fact -- the nature of the job. i was doing something that hadn't been done very often as vice president. i wasn't really in charge of anything. it's not like running the defense department with 4 million people or running the white house. but there were things that neede

one is dick cheney, of course. thank you, jack from georgia. joining us for a look at newt's chances in iowa is john heilemann. he's an msnbc political analyst. mitt romney released the dogs to attack newt gingrich. if he doesn't do it himself, he's going to look like pawlenty. will he be a pawlenty in the debate? john heilemann? >> we'll see, chris. i think the folks up in boston know the truth of what you are saying. i think they know, if this narrative is going to get changed and they are going to hold newt back and break the moment momentum, it's going to have to be mitt romney that does it. >> thank you. >>> remember rick perry? he's so debt pratt to get back on track, he's attacking gays and lesbians. there are nine members in the supreme court, not eight. your watching "hardball" on msnbc. >>> back to "hardball." now for the side show. first up, lesson learned? not the right lesson in this case. earlier this week, we showed an ad release d by rick perry's campaign. a war on religion, it slams letting gays serve openly in the military. le

stored dard and ron brownstein. >>> then, condoleezza rice on iraq and her relationship with dick cheney. >> i think the vice president was disappointed that in the second term we did a number of things with which he didn't agree. >>> and the best of our getting to know series. >> i didn't want to be a nun and i didn't want to be a congresswoman. >>> i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> the politics of the battle over the extension of the payroll tax goes something like this -- the president won, republicans lost. >> may not have been the politically smartest thing in the world but let me tell you what -- i think our members waged a good fight. we were able to come to an agreement. >> some democrats suggest the payroll tax cut battle was a turning point for the president they feared had lost his spine, his magic and his chance for re-election. republicans worry their tea party wing which wanted to fight this one out has become a weight. earlier i spoke to one of the longest serving republicans in the senate, dick lugar of indiana, who faces a tea party challenge in his

. >> former vice president dick cheney get in a dig at president obama over the downed drone in iran. back to talk about it, former homeland security secretary tom ridge and former democratic national committee chairman, howard dean. tom ridge, i've got ask you about this tweet that's come in to me. you guys are always banging on about gingrich and romney and huntsman. what about ron paul? he might win in iowa? >> i must tell you -- >> it could happen. >> it could very well happen. one thing i know about ron paul, he's been a consistent individual, espoused that philosophy for a long, long time and his support is -- it's very strong. i don't know how large it is but we'll find out. he's playing well. he's consistent. that's one of the reasons i like jon huntsman. john says on monday he says on friday and both occasions he means the same thing. >> let's turn to iran. obviously, dick cheney there doing his usual position on this kind of thing, go in, blow it all to pieces, no holding back. did he have a point, do you think? should america just allow this drone with all of the technology

former vice president dick cheney said on cnn last night we should have dropped a bomb on iran last week. after one of our drones crashed there. personally, i have to say, it is striking to be in washington in this context. today having this face to face conversation with the democratic administration, this vice president, about his pride in ending the war, which you could see in the way he talked about it there. his pride and their satisfaction in finally extricating us from iraq after 8 1/2 years there. and then to have the parallel republican political conversation in the country be about how upsetting it is that the iraq war is ending. questioning how soon can we start another one next door in iran? ron paul is the only republican presidential candidate who dissents from that view, who doesn't say he wants to start another war and let's not end the iraq one either. ron paul is the only one among the republican candidates which gives you a counterintuitive politically incorrect angle, why no one in the beltway takes him seriously, the latest ppp poll out today says ron paul is only on

>> we have an exclusive conversation with former vice president dick cheney. perfect time for it when you've got al maliki in washington about u.s. troops pulling out of iraq. dick cheney, one of the people who put those troops into iraq. we talk about this moment. what he thinks the u.s. should be doing in syria. we also talked about hillary clinton and the drones. something great on that. here is what he had to say about the republican field and newt gingrich. >> i have not endorsed anybody on either side. the thing i remember about newt. we came to congress together tame, '78. when newt showed up, he said we can become the majority. we can take back the house of representatives. we hadn't had the house since the 1940s. and initially, none of us believed it. but he was persistent and tenacious. he kept it up, and kept it up and kept it up. finally by '94, he is the newly elected speaker of the house of representatives with a republican majority. so i wouldn't underestimate him. >> that's the headline. don't underestimate newt gingrich and we'll of his full c

(laughter) i'm not going to name herman cain and newt gingrich and all those folks because dick cheney... >> jon: i'm going to name them for you. >> well, everybody has done that. but i think it's kind of exciting that i can just go... the only one little drawback is i'm going to be 90 in january... (cheers and applause) it isn't anything i accomplished. it just happened. (laughter) but i... when you get to be that old you can't remember the guys you've had. (laughter) i go back and think i remember the where but who was that? i think i'm going to change my whole approach thanks to you. >> jon: you're very, very welcome. you know, you could always work with just head shots. just have them leave a head shot, put it up and then you'll always have it. like a comedy club. that's what we used to do. >> oh, yeah, that's good. but i don't always want to have it. >> jon: (laughs) i'm excited. you got your television show, the "hot in cleveland." you have this book you've written. me, i work 22 minutes a night i'm exhausted. but the book is... you've written an exotic cook book... (laughter). i

. >> dick cheney is not out this with them is he. >> reporter: oh, no. >> last week should have said newt was in the lead in iowa now i heard he got bad news over the weekend. tell us about that. >> reporter: in fact this actually isn't iowa it's out of the state of virginia. but newt gingrich got some big news over the weekend. the fact is he didn't gather 10,000 required signatures to get on the ballot out there. the primary ballot and voting takes place on march 6th but his campaign director issued a statement over the weekend that statement says, voters deserve the right to vote for any top contender we'll work with the republican part of virginia to pursue an aggressive write in campaign to make sure all the voters of virginia are able to vote for the candidate of their choice. here's why that's unlikely. state law prohibits any write in candidates on primary ballots in virginia. this is raising kind of a bigger question. how disorganized is newt gingrich and his team if they can't get all these signatures together especially in virginia which is where he lives. >> torre dunham

cheney. the agents say they should be sheltered by a lawsuit filed by a man who claims he his -- his rights were violated. the appellate ruled he was given a reason to arrest him but they can -- but he could still sue him -- sue them. >>> investigators say an oakland man ran out of the nordstrom with $10,000 worth of purses. he's also reported to have used pepper spray on those who tried to attack him. they are looking for him and his female accomplice, a getaway driver. >>> women received a big surprise this morning that will help them expand their program working with at-risk women. >> all right! [ cheers ] >> we were at the aerial outreach mission when the coworkers received $15,000 from illinois-based royal neighbors of america. they say the money will be used for food, cloebllthing, transportation -- clothing, transportation and other resources to help their clients change their lives. >> right now, we have some very current needs to keep the shelters open. we were actually struggling to

then condoleezza rice and her relationship with dick cheney. >> i think the vice president was disappointed that in the second term we did a number of things of which he didn't agree. >> and a holiday special. the best of our "getting to know" series. >> i didn't want to be a nun and i didn't want to be a congress wam. >> i'm candy crowley. and this is "state of the union." the politician of the battle over the extension of the payroll tax goes something like this -- the president, one, republicans lost. >> may not have been politically the smartest thing in the world, but let me tell you what, i think our members waged a good fight. we were able to come to an agreement. >> some democrats suggest the payroll tax cut battle was a turning point for the president they feared had lost his magic and his chance for re-election. republicans worry their tea party win, which wanted to fight this one out, has become a weight. earlier, i spoke to one of the longest serving republicans in the senate, dick lugar of indiana, who faces a tea party challenge in his re-election bid. let me talk a little bit

it was all the non-combatants -- paul wolfowitz, donald rumsfeld, george bush, and dick cheney -- who were the champions of this war, sadly. >> and it was the generals on the ground, the ones who are there right now, who had asked the president to leave residual american force, around 20,000 troops. remember, we have had forces in there the last year and half in and non-combat role. simply the presence of americans filled a vacuum. it helped to mediate between the abs in the north and kept the peace between shiites and sunnis. nobody has commented on the amazing coincidence that this happened at two days after the last americans leave. this is a direct result of the decision by the president, against the advice of the generals on the ground. the surge succeeded, al qaeda had been defeated, and even maliki produce and defeated the shiite militias, who are out resea and -- are now resurgent. we had the beginnings of a national government, and what we needed was continuity. as soon as it was removed gratuitously, all the unraveling has begun. >> most americans want to believe this is beh

dick cheney had been secretary of defense and chief staff and vice president, and colin powell and i had been in the white house before so we had a lot of expertise. i'm really to this day not quite sure why sometimes the personalities didn't gel, and i don't actually think it was observable in -- before we got to washington. that's why i say i think it was the times that perhaps tested us. but i would say to a president who is choosing a foreign policy team, think about talking to people about internal dynamics, bus -- >> think about the team part. >> about the team part -- have strong views because strong views are important. you don't want a president who is just hearing one side of the story. but think about the team dynamics as well. >> let's talk a little about latin america and the caribbean. do you think it makes sense to focus on latin america and i the caribbean as a region begin the fact the countries differ in their stage of development and so many of them, their issues are global issues? >> well, there's one sense in which i think we want to think about latin america and

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as the horse race continues, former vice president dick cheney offered his take on the latest gop front-runner. >> the thing i remember about newt, we came to congress together at the same time. >> right. >> '78. and when newt showed up, he said, we can become the majority. we can take back the house of representatives. we hadn't had the house since the 1940s. initially, none of us believed him. but he was persistent and he was tenacious. he kept it up. he kept it up and kept it up. finally, by '94, he's the newly elected speaker of the house of representatives with a republican majority. so i wouldn't underestimate him. >> new polling points to a shifting dynamic in several key battleground states where eroding support for democrats could spell trouble for president obama. "usa today" and gallup surveyed voters in 12 key swing states around the country, all of which were carried by the president in '08. since then, the number of republican leaning voters in those places has jumped by five points while the democratic ranks have thinned by nearly the same amount. in those swing states, the pres

david addington, former chief of staff to dick cheney known as dick cheney's dick cheney and intellectual force as maximalist on torture is comfortably ensconced at heritage foundation where he's vice president of economic and domestic policy. cnn had them see fit to ask a presidential questions. wolfowitz, was made president of the world bank. his relationship with a subordinate ended his tenure there and now chairman of u.s.-taiwan business council and scholar. cindy sheehan, anti-war activist who camped outside george bush's crawford home after her son was killed in iraq, unsuccessfully chal ended nancy pelosi. she blogs now. general eric sen seccy called out by donald rumz field after telling congress occupying iraq would require several hundred thousand troops is now secretary of veteran affairs. ari fleischer who told americans to watch what they say after 9/11 has his own company, cnn contributor and is advising the rnc for the 2012 presidential campaign. jessica lynch, army private captured by iraqi forces and rescued by u.s. special forces from iraqi hospital later said the hospi

bush, who said a lot of this-- and dick cheney, whether you like their policies or not. they set this hunt for bin laden in motion. the cia, a lot of people were involved in this, but obama seemed to take the credit all himself. >> and confirmed the conspiracy theory that cheney ran the-- >> time for another break, if you see something that you think shows evidence of media bias, e-mail us at news watch@foxnews.com. up next, a tragic shooting and now the media reaction. >> a mass shooting near tucson. 19 people shot. six people died. congresswoman gabby giffords one of the victims. the answer stream media views this as a tragedy to blame the right which ended up wrong. from shakeups to meltdowns, some big media stories from 2011 all next on news watch. so we earned a holiday trip to the big apple twice as fast! nner! [ garth ] we get double miles every time we use our card. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it's hard to beat double miles! i want a mace, a sword, a... oww! [ male announcer ] get the nture card from capital one and earn doubl

here's what former vice president dick cheney said. they are going ore respond by not giving it back to us, i would assume. >> i would assume that's the case or send it back in pieces after they have gotten all the intelligence they can out of it. the right response to that would have been to go immediately after it went down to destroy it. >> so what's the white house reaction to that line of thinking? >> reporter: certainly, secretary of clinton and panetta don't expect iran to return this. but allies of the white house would say it is not surprising to hear dick cheney criticizing this president. he's been a vocal critic for a long time of everything that the white house does, so they would say this is political posturing and not at all unexpected. >> all right. athena jones at the white house. thank you. >>> in the lifetime of glamour and beauty, tonight more than 250 jewels and other personal items from elizabeth taylor's legendary collection go on the auction block. we have the details coming up in showbiz. i'm kind of a fixture

former vice president dick cheney says the iraqis have made major progress in the past few years. >> i've got a democracy established. it is not perfect by any means. there is a lot of work to be done. but they've clearly much better off than when saddam hussein was in charge. >> both the bush administration and the current white house wanted some u.s. troops to stay behind for security but the iraqis ultimately said no. >> it is important for us to continue to have a security partnership with iraq but it is not going to be with our folks based inside of iraq. >> reporter: the last few thousand remaining troops are packing up equipment, many are hoping to be home by christmas. susan mcginnis, cbs news, washington. >>> former penn state university assistant coach jerry sandusky waived a preliminary hearing just moments before it was about to begin. the move means he will not have to face his accusers any time soon. sandusky faces 52 criminal counts for a series of alleged sexual assaults on children. his lawyer said he waited until the last minute because he wanted prosecutors to agre

. ♪ >>> dick cheney, you know anything about dick cheney? he was vice president for eight years. and best known for shooting a buddy in the face. and he's saying now that the united states now is the time for us to invade iran. yeah. now is the time. and here's my prediction. we will get ourselves into another war in the mideast when monkeys start riding dogs, you know what i mean? hey, no wait a minute. is this the greatest country in the world or -- >> 27 past the hour. time now to take a look at the morning papers. we'll start with the "new york times." it's being called the biggest women's demonstration in modern history. several thousand women marched in cairo yesterday. anger has brewed over recent images showing soldiers beating, stripping, and kicking female demonstrators in tahrir square. >> and a photo in the boston globe shows the son of kim jong-il leading procession yesterday past the coffin of his father. south korean intelligent officials indicated that north korea's tightened security and putting troops on alert during this transition of power. >>> the los angeles

bush dick cheney and of course those who came after him. including those from the obama administration that was their policy and you know earlier we're presented these statistics. portrays the way that the iraqis feel about the war after the u.s. has pulled out and a very very small percentage of iraqis feel that they benefited from the war who did benefit from this war well of course american military contractors hello burton those who got the big contracts for the reconstruction during the occupation forces they made a lot of money the pentagon generally made a lot of money spent two trillion dollars i think that's the real budget then all that money goes to american contractors and corporations they profit but four thousand five hundred plus american soldiers died tens of thousands had life changing rooms you know as you'll report there are rising tide of american suicides among some american military people who've been deployed over and over again and the big losers are of course the iraqi people they lived at peace they had a nationall

one's dick cheney, of course. but anyway, thank you, congressman jack kingston of georgia, the state of newt gingrich. joining us right now for a look at newt's chances in iowa is new york magazine national appearance editor john heilemann, he's also on msnbc political analyst. mitt romney has unleashed his dogs, his surrogates, john sununu and jim talent to attack newt gingrich. if he doesn't do it himself, he's going to look like pawlenty, a guy that was a wuss when he's expected -- will this guy be a pawlenty this saturday night in that abc debate, john heilemann? >> we'll see, chris. i think the folks up in boston know the truth of what you're saying. i think they know that if this narrative is going to get changed and if they're going to hold newt back and break this momentum he has right now, it is going to have to be mitt romney that does it. >> thank you, john heilemann. geronimo! remember rick perry? he's so desperate to get his campaign back on track he's attacking gays and lesbians. i think it's pretty

cheney those who authorized torture what have bradley manning do he told the truth he helped to tell the truth about war and about torture that's why i do believe the american people will remember him in history as one of the great heroes. report a bit earlier an opinion from someone that said quote his country foreign policy doesn't mean you get to the rest of the planet and quote can you see that side of the argument toll. i really can't if the foreign policy of the united states government is in fact an organized institutionalized execution of war crimes i mean when people went along with hitler's invasions and aggressions in europe in germany they were accused of being quote good germans and just following orders people have they take an oath to defend the constitution against enemies beyond the country and inside the country those who are committing wars of aggression against people who are at peace with the united states in order to pursue a geostrategic political agenda such as the agenda of the neo conservatives they in fact are the ones committing treason against the laws of

bush dick cheney and of course those who came after him including those from the obama administration that was. their policy and you know earlier we presented these statistics. portrays the way that the iraqis feel about the war after the u.s. has pulled out and a very very small percentage of the rockies feel that they benefited from the war who did benefit from this war well of course american military contractors hello burton those who go to the big contracts for the reconstruction during the occupation forces they made a lot of money the pentagon generally made a lot of money spent two trillion dollars i think that's the real budget then all that money goes to american contractors and corporations they profit but four thousand five hundred plus american soldiers died tens of thousands had life changing rooms you know as you'll report there are rising tide of american suicides among some american military people who've been deployed over and over again and the big losers are of course the iraqi people they lived at peace they had a nationally unified country they had relative afflu

cheney and those guys can say whatever they want it's all smoke and mirrors i think that's a really good point i think it's also a good point that you brought up. what did we learn what did we really learn and i think back i remember where i was when that announcement that i showed at the beginning my report was made by george bush on march nineteenth two thousand and three i was living in d.c. i was celebrating st patrick's day you know at an irish bar and there were hundreds of people in this bar watching the guy playing tunes on this little guitar and just a couple of us were looking at the small t.v. on the other side of the bar and it was the president announcing something that would change our world forever jake you were there will you ever be the same can americans understand what exactly you went through without having you know the ones who didn't go like you did. now this i mean this this iraq war and this afghanistan war has been the bloodiest war that united states has ever fake not in terms of casualties but in terms of the amount of deployments i mean we've gone on you

former vice president dick cheney said today on the cbs early show the u.s. should have avoided any potential intelligence loss by destroying the downed drone. >> for us to go in and take out the drone that crashed would have been, i think, a fairly simple operation and it would have denied them the value of the intelligence they can collect by having that aircraft. >> reporter: u.s. officials say they rejected a destroy mission as impractical. as for iran's, attempt, scott, to duplicate the drone, it could seek help from china, a country that has had some success with stealth clones. >> pelley: bob, is there any idea why the drone came down in sneern. >> still a bigamistry. it was programmed to return to return to its base in afghanistan but u.s. officials say something went wrong. iran claims it used some kind of electronic jammer to bring it down. the u.s. government flatly rejects that explanation but i have to tell you some independent analysts say it is a possibility. >> pelley: bob, thanks very much. it's in secret that the economy is picking up a litt