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With and has been forced to. >> a great point and on hisseth -- health, you spent a lot of time with him over the years. how do you think he's doing. >> he's doing pretty well. he has quite serious heart disease, and, you know, has been thought -- i can remember people were writing during the first bush term that cheney wouldn't make it is, that he would become too sick or might even die, and, yet here he is and he remains vigorous and has a book coming out and remains -- he doesn't -- he's sparing in his public appearances but he always has been and so, he seems to be doing well. we're workin...

Christopher dodd and barney frank and their committees dictating and pressuring banks for a long time to make loans that were too risky and resulted in fannie mae and freddie mac and a lot of the collapse we saw a year and a half ago. that's the big difference. we would not have had government pushing social policy using the financial sector of the economy. the government has a big stick and they were using it then. >> didn't the republicans have an opportunity for most of the bush term -- >> you bet they did. >> have an opportunity to stop that and didn't? >> you bet they did. they fell just ...

They're wanting a shadow cheney presidency. >> right. he's portraying himself as having been more pure on all of these issues than certainly the second bush term was, for example, when president bush was during his second term. and that gets the crowd going. but is that -- even from the conservative point of view, is that waning strategy for -- even for 2010, much less for 2012? is that really what inten dense was, who you have to attract? i won't even get into the question of outreach to the fastest growing segments like latinos and african-americans and the 38% of voters who are not white an...

>> than certainly the second bush term was, for example, than president bush was during his second term. and that gets the crowd going. but is that -- even from the conservative point of view, is that a winning strategy, even for 2010, much less for 2012? is that really what independents want, who you have to attract. i won't even get into the question of outreach to the fastest-growing segments of the population, like latinos and african-americans and, you know, the 38% of voters who are not white and who were not represented really at cpac. >> walking around today, going -- i just walked thr...

Don't want to admit they've been wrong. >> you've been in a fight with these people. >> sean: it's not even a fight. the american people are winning now. look, i'm going to make a present kicks. -- a prediction. donald trump is a transformational president. and i don't believe he's a nationalist. and i don't believe he's a pop uist. i have always -- populist. i have always maintained my entire career, i am a reagan conservative. which you were the chief of staff for ed meese, one of the greatest attorney generals we had. you know reagan's poll i ss. i can cite the economic statistics, doubled ...