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>> that would be a public rebuke of the president. >> it would be a very difficult decision for someone serving in the executive branch, all right? now, lets review history here. i have great admiration for director comey, but we have a history. were on different sides of an issue in march of 2004 with regard to the presidents terrorist surveillance program. and if you recall the history at that time, director comey went into president bush and said, if we did not stop this program, he would res...

To formally address and denounce the allegations. you and director comey both served in the bush administration. do you feel he should come forward? again were in uncharted waters. >> exactly right. >> that would be a public rebuke of the president. >> it would be a very difficult decision for someone serving in the executive branch, all right? now, lets review history here. i have great admiration for director comey, but we have a history. were on different sides of an issue in march of 2004 wi...

Things i read while he was doing other things, he had a much broader portfolio than i did and i spent a lot of my time just on national security. but i think he knew everything he needed to know and wanted to know about the program. >> did he know the details? >> i think he knew certainly the techniques that we did discuss the techniques. theres no effort on our part to keep him from that. he was just as with the terrorist surveillance program, he had to personally sign off on that every 30 to...

Time now for hits and misses of the week. brett. >> this is a giant miss to what passes for the so-called international community. chemical attacks continue in syria, just in the last few days. we had a chemical attack on a village, apparently using chlori chlorine incapacitated, 150 people, a number including two children. the world has given a big collective shrug. the late daniel patrick moynihan had a phrase, deafian see going down. this is what we see in syria. >> this is a miss for bill de...

Put pressure on an administration dragging its feet. >> i do believe in operational security for american citizens, whether they are working for the government or not. and i think the state department and cia and other intel agencies have so much responsible in -- responsibility in thinking ahead of the new story, that they used it in order to protect people. im hesitant here because this is a story that i used to get asked about quite a bit and im not able to talk about it a lot in particular. ...

Certainly, i was involved, because i was a big advocate of the terrorist surveillance program. >> did andy card say that words matter? if andy card thinks president obama can even hold a candle to w and candle to w and shooter for misleading the public, he can keep on pretending. so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. weve added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, whe...

Whether its massive data mining or surveillance of allies or, in your cases, black sites or enhanced interrogation techniques, what others believe to be torture. how do you make cost/benefit analysis that this ultimately not just in the short term, but the long term, will save more american lives than it risks costing? >> well, the way -- lets take some of the programs we have talked about and have become public such as the terrorist surveillance program that we set up right after 9/11, or the e...

Heres controversial things and cheney jumps, dont for guest terrorist surveillance and -- >> you know whats so striking in the compact sentence, hes demeaning so much the cheney legacy. nothing is called by its fact youll content. the terrorist surveillance program was a made up thing that they said after the fact to refer to what was actually warrantless wiretapping that several republicans, including robert mueller were willing to resign over because it was so illegal. eventually they brought ...

>> a little surprised. he thought it was a good idea. >> you were instrumental for many decisions in the country including going into iraq. >> and terrorist surveillance program and enhanced interrogations. >> he has had four heart attacks three@cath rideszations at this point defib rate tore and bypass surgery. did you worry about your physical health impacting judgment and cognition? >> no. >> not at all. >> were you the betts that you could be. >> i was as good as i could be given the fact th...

From the former vice president dick cheney about his long history of heart problems. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta interviewed the former vice president on "60 minutes" about his new book entitled "heart an american medical odyssey," and he asked him about this episode of homeland in which assassin kills the vice president by hacking into his pacemaker. cheney he had his doctors disable his wireless capabilities to prevent such a possibility attack. "homeland" wasnt even on the ai...