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Weather district, the first congressional district in pennsylvania. the scene is always a battleground. hes a moderate republican. one of the few moderate republicans in the house. he is someone who is always seen as a reporter as someone you track f. fitzpatrick is going in a different direction people in tough districts on the gone side always watch his vote. maybe someone like fitzpatrick ahead of 2022 is calculating in my suburban vote-rich middle class, upper middle class philadelphia area ...

Then we saw him dealing with the right wing of the republican party with sean hannitys audience, again, refusing to assign that blame to the president, but believing no "i defend the president" line in there. he mutes that a little bit. >> i dont think sean hannity or many people on the right are willing to defend the bush-cheney administration, because its quite clear they screwed up almost everything that could be screwed up about the iraq war from the invasion to what to do afterwards, to get...

Goes to the bush-cheney crowd. and yet you have people like sean hannity out there to get back to the politics, all they want to do is find a way to use this tragedy, this dilemma, this mess going on in iraq to bash president barack obama. rand paul, as joe biden might say, is not willing to go along for that ride. but its going to be hard to see how this plays before republican primary crowds in the 2016 race if this is still an issue at that point in time, which im afraid it might be. >> david...

Bush crowd, the neo-cons and the cheney crowd that got us in the war. it was people that went along with them. there were business republicans, regular republicans who justñi wanted lowered taxes and less government. they wept along with that. why? maybe because republicans do troop ñialong. they are more regular than democrats. they like to follow the leader. howard said it. that mentality of follow the guys like dick cheney is over. >> we remember what it was like a year, two years after 9/1...

Never thought he was a genius, but i thought he was common sense. somehow he became some kind of new -- i couldnt call him an ideological because that would make him too deep. he somehow got this mission, this obsession. was it because his father was t -- they tried to knock off his father? somehow, i can outdo my father? weve gone through this stuff, the frud yan. was it a way of thinking, going back to the days of sapata oil? i dont get it. i can figure out cheney. i have a theory about him. b...

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This obsession. was it because his father was -- they tried to knock off his father? somehow, i can outdo my father? weve gone through this stuff, the freudian. was it a way of thinking, going back to the days of zapata oil? i dont get it. i can figure out cheney. i have a theory about him. bush, what was his role in this going in early? >> happened here is they believed the united states military was a magic wand. we had obviously been spending more on our military than every other conceivable ...

Or the bush/cheney crowd believed it. it was a selling piece. i believe the war was fought because bush and cheney and the neocons wanted to fight it, overthrow and kill hussein. just as they wanted us knocking off every other leader in the region from iran, to libya, to syria who didnt play ball with us. i think knocking off opponents is in dick cheneys brain suit, how he thinks. bush agreed with the way cheney thinks. the second reality that comes out of rachel maddows title for thursday night...

Former chief of staff to powell. >> powell walked into my office and walked over to the window and said i wonder whatll happen when we put 500,000 troops into iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and find nothing. >> david, do you think the lessons about intelligence, what has been learned, that in todays landscape that insiders will be more prone to blow the whistle? >> one can only hope. they do that at their peril. they would lose their job. back when we were arguing about the ...

Democrats, senate republicans, went along and didnt challenge them even when they had the material with which to challenge them. so, yes. bush and cheney pulled off a hoax in a lot of ways. but a lot of people let themselves be hoaxed. >> thank you so much. just a reminder for everybody. this friday watch the msnbc documentary "hubris, selling the iraq war" hosted by our rachel maddow friday, 9:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. thanks again. one week from now the supreme court takes up marriage e...