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After leak, bill, is because the white house wants you to know what is happening here. and, remember, the original story about -- >> -- how do you know that though? >> the original story in the "new york times" about six months ago that she had a private email and server came from the white house. >> but the important part is there is such an enthusiasm gap. bernie sanders has 28,000 people at her rallies. hillary at her largest has 5,000. he wants a third term. joe biden is likeable in a way. >...

America -- to world peace? i mean, im not saying they didnt get it all wrong. they got it all wrong. >> do you believe that? did you believe he was a threat to saddam hussein. >> i did. bill clinton in 1998 was passing resolutions saying we had to get saddam hussein how far power. go back and look at the words. all of our words are written down clearly what happened at that time. im just wondering whether we should not just focus on dick cheney as the sinner of evil in the singular puppet master...

Peter baker is the author of "days of fire, bush and cheney in the white house" and i spoke to him earlier here in studio 1. welcome. was your portrait of dick cheney in this book different than the public image he had for eight years? >> i think it is. the public image was cartoonish at times. two dimensional. he was a puppet master. the sinister force running things. like all myths there was some truth. he was an influential vice president. very powerful, no doubt tarynly years. its a relation...

Were doing behind-the-scenes. peter baker is the author of "days of fire, bush and cheney in the white house" and i spoke to him earlier here in studio 1. welcome. was your portrait of dick cheney in this book different than the public image he had for eight years? >> i think it is. the public image was cartoonish at times. two dimensional. he was a puppet master. the sinister force running things. like all myths there was some truth. he was an influential vice president. very powerful, no doubt...

Obama. he just got inaugurated a few months ago. lets get another year under the belt. >> sorry i put you in new york. youre in michigan. you mentioned the president, abcs barbara walters did an interview with him today. they released some quotes and i want to read the first one. he said i have gone up and down pretty much consistently throughout but the good thing about when youre down is that usually youve got nowhere to go but up. i suppose that goes without saying. but do you agree that he s...

Hes trying to adapt himself to it. he agrees with some of the things they say about obama care and current administration. his daughter is obviously running for senate in wyoming. >> ezra. >> in terms of the party cheney wielded inside the bush white house, one way the book is portrayed is george w. bush was in charge. the impression ive taken from it so far was actually that cheney was very, very good at being publicly subservient, sub missive but he was an incredibly good staffer. he understoo...

Bush, then governor bush brings in adviser karl rove and said you dont think dick cheney should be vice president, why not? he has to give his case with cheney in the room. >> remarkable. >> gamely goes ahead and outline, too much like your fathers administration calling him in for the new one. >> so many americans have a cartoonish view of that relationship, puppeteer, puppet master. you dispel that. how did this relationship work? >> exactly right, much more complicated. certainly the vice pre...

About. was vice president cheney influential in the beginning, he yes, he was. was he a puppet master no he wasnt. thats a caricature. he was important. the president relied on him. he was a seasoned veteran. he understood how power and washington worked. as things moved along by the second term president bush began moving away and began looking at things differently. he wanted to repair relations with the allies and rethink some the policies on the middle east and so forth. and vice president k...

This partnership was all about. was vice president cheney influential in the beginning, he yes, he was. was he a puppet master no he wasnt. thats a caricature. he was important. the president relied on him. he was a seasoned veteran. he understood how power and washington worked. as things moved along by the second term president bush began moving away and began looking at things differently. he wanted to repair relations with the allies and rethink some the policies on the middle east and so fo...

Incredibly important role that the president -- vice president played in shaping american history and certainly the policies of the bush administration. >> absolutely. he was one of the strongest proponents of the iraq war as everyone knows now. it was -- what i got from reading the review about peter bakers book, i havent read the book itself, is how dick cheney tried to revolutionize the vice presidency itself. how he expanded that role and expanded that role and used the fact that foreign pol...