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Recognize the grave nature of the january 6 attacks and the ongoing threat to our nation. end quote. look, dig cheney is a controversial figure but there is no question where he stands on donald trump, on his actions on january 6th, and when he says disappointed, that is an under statement about how he feels about the republican party caving to trump, jake. >> thank you so much. here to discuss republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois and they are both on the house select committee inve...

People that she is very close to who were at the white house that day with the president. just imagine, jake, while his staff, while republican members of congress, his own family were begging trump to say something to stop the riot, he according to grisham was gleefully watching and rewinding, exactly the kind of testimony, jake, that goes to the point the committee has been making that trumps inaction that day, that 187 minutes, speak to what the committee believes is dereliction of duty. >> f...

Weekend. >> it could be the last day on the job for thousands of workers in new york city. and president biden weighs in on the growing number of states that are dropping mask mandates. well have a look at this mornings covid headlines coming up, on "way too early." and as we go to break, a look at this dates in history, youll remember this one, 16 years ago, then vice president dig cheney accidentally shot and wounded harry whitington, a companion, during a weekend quail hunting trip in texas...

20 years on, war on terror, iraq. no one has ever been held to account. paul wofulwitz is writing, dig cheney, no consequences. >> none. and there should be. these are war criminals. we were not attacked by the nation of iraq. we lost lives. they lost lives for no reason. it was wrong. they knew it was wrong. they threw all this money at all the companies like halliburton that cheney used to be ceo of. all of this, president eisenhower warned us, that people like them will take us right down int...

The united states who was prepared to abuse his power, who in fact may run again and just imagine what a second donald trump term would be like if he was completely unchecked by legislation, public opinion, or congress. >> it would be for life. i dont think he would ever leave. claire, here is the challenge is that the idea of the unitarian executive is not exactly new. dig cheney believed in it. we saw manifestations of it during bush 2. the presidency has been getting more and more powerful an...

Decisions. he should be able to live the rest of his life in the united states without this constant threat hanging over him. >> we know there is a history, its happened before, scooter lib by who worked for dig cheney, they were angry, they were angry about the fact there was no uranium in iraq and they ousted valerie plain, they did that on purpose to punish the husband. so we know there has been a po litization and she was vocal that could put peoples lives in danger. in that case it was a li...

He didnt have a chief of staff. he eventually hired one two years into his term. he said not having a chief of staff didnt work for him because theres too much to do as president. i think you agree with that, right? >> absolutely. there was a time republicans believed you had a pyramid structure. this came out of isha seseisenh. the president would have all these different people reporting to him, it was a disaster under carter. jerry ford tried it for a while, it was a disaster. the staff gave ...

Nbcnews.com, pence creates his own presidents club and talks with biden and cheney, he details how they maintain contact with his predecessors, pence spoo exto former vice president on the phone at least monthly, hes had numerous conversations with former vice president dig cheney, including at least one meeting in his west wing office, according to people close to each of them this vice presidents club is a contrast to the bitter breakdown between trump and barack obama. notable distance from g...

The interplay between congress and the white house and a number of things and similarly, those are conversations that pence has had with dig cheney. >> thank you, youve had conversations with joe pence, how do you think they are, two or three hours? >> the biggest issue mike pence, he is used to say, joe, joe, i got to go. as carole points out, this began because of vice presidents affinity for cooperation throughout his career, his love of politics, but his larger love of the country, the unite...

Feed. >> reaction. >> and it seemed that donald trump doused kerosene all over himself and setting himself on fire. then i started looking at the text of the speech and i saw, yes, very strong language towards north korea. language you and i wouldnt prefer and be used. but he also criticized iran. he also criticized venezuela. he criticized rogue regems. he spoke glowingly of the marshall plan. he talked about dig cheney and richard pearl on steroids talking about the righteous many ago ens the ...