the vice president shot a man in a hunting incident on saturday. shay any s shotgun pellet remains lodged in the man s heart. three days later does the vice president owe a word of explanation to the american people? let s play hardball. welcome back to hardball. that was one of the most bizarre cold opens. today the washington post brought us back to that wild incident where the vice president shot a man in the face he was hunting with. we interviewing cheney s victim hairy whittington. you know, because i thought it wows be interesting. it s sort of like the motivation for all newspaper articles. maybe somebody wants to read about this. where are they now? where are they now. it wasn t as they used to say in western he didn t just wing the guy. no. he shot him quite substantially
loaded. they re very aware of the angle, they know where peopleรง are an wear red clothes and do things to make sure they don t hit. how do you hit somebody? in this case mr. whittington was looking for a downed bird in the tall grass. they were in a line. cheney followed a quail because that s what they were hunting. quail is flying across. he swings to the right, and there s mr. whittington in his line of sight. now, that s a violation did he see him when he hit him? well, he didn t see him when he hit him or he wouldn t have pulled the trigger. i didn t mean to say that. do you think subliminally i think that was the case. yeah. but you don t fire when someone s in your line of sight. remember the tag from love story, love means never having to say you re sorry? yes. did he ever say i m sorry?
mr. whittington would not say it out loud, but he never said. my problem this is an accident. that wasn t. thank you. paul fahri, thanks for reporting. when we return, something about those 33 miners and how they were trapped underground in chile and what they taught us underground and what they taught us helping them come out. what a season, what a statement. you re watching hardball. [ wind howling ]