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Theres nothing -- theres no effort on our part to keep him with that with the terror surveillance program. on the terror surveillance program, he had to personally sign off on that every 30 to 45 days. >> did the former vice president throw the former president under the bus right there? >> no i dont think so. none of us were in the room and we dont know the nature of the briefings and so forth. based on my understand, i think president bush was well informed and made decisions. congress was inf...

To alan dershowitz of the daily beast has been allowed, called mail watch, i brought it up before. in my mind, this is something they werent prepared to talk about because it is secret, this is something thats secret. we have to admit, when something is secret, maybe it is secret for a reason, but now it is time to talk about it because it is out there. lets talk about it. >> we made a huge -- i wasnt in a position of authority at the time, but when the terror surveillance program was revealed b...

You said no, these were his decisions. what do you think of his ability what do you think of his presidency? how will history judge the presidency of george w. bush with you being his vice president? >> i think set me aside for a moment, administrations dont rise or fall in or the estimate of historians based on the vice president, not ordinarily. pretty rare occurrence. i think when you look at judge bushs presidency you will find, 100 years from now we will look back and see that it was a very...

On the table if you you were the president. >> if it were my call id have the program ready to go ton at the chance any day we may capture a detainee with a vital piece of information about the next attack anded about a new development, and i think that program, provides us with the kaeft to colle capacity to collect the intelligence and that together with our terror surveillance program i think were the most important steps we took that kept us safe for 7 years. >> chris: as you know, the obama...

Over seven years were being sort of rapidly discarded or he was going to attempt to discard them. things like enhanced interrogation techniques or the terror surveillance program. i think hes, also, i think he, obviously, has been through the fires of becoming president and having to make decisions and live with the consequences. and i think hes learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate. so i think hes learned from experience. jon:...

Got into the business, for example, of health care reform, expanding the size of government, expanding the deficit, those are all weaknesses, as i look at barack obama. and i think hell be a one-term president. >> reporter: but cheneys softened his past criticism of president obamas approach to the war on terror. you said you believe president obama has made america less safe, that hes actually raised the risk of attack. >> well, i -- when i made that comment, i was concerned that the counterter...

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