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There's nothing -- there's 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 don't think so. none of us were in the room and we don't 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 informed. new york was on fire and people were on it all around how successful the terrorists were....

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 weren't prepared to talk about because it is secret, this is something that's 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. let's talk about it. >> we made a huge -- i wasn't in a position of authority at the time, but when the terror surveillance program was revealed by "the new york times," i think the bush administration was way too slow to get off the mark to ...

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 don't 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 bush's presidency you will find, 100 years from now we will look back and see that it was a very consequential presidency. had a big impact. partly because of 9/11 and the aftermath because of a...

On the table if you you were the president. >> if it were my call i'd 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 justice department reopened an investigation of about a half dozen cia officers for whether or not...

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 he's, 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 he's learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate. so i think he's learned from experience. jon: in other words, he says that mr. obama is, in a is sense, llowing in the footsteps of the bush a...