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Correspondent, john harwood. thanks for joining me, everyone. shayna, i want to go to you first. when we talk about this, is this similar to what was going on under the bush administration? is this an expansion? >> in 2006 "u.s.a. today" reported that there had been a similarly broad event to get phone records from a number of carriers, including verizon, at&t, bell south. but everyone assumed because the story folted on the story of the nsa warrantless wire-tapping program that they were doing it outside of any court oversight. so i think what we've learned today with the release of the docum...

To nominate former bush official, james comey, to lead the fbi. this is not the first republican that he's put in a key position, dana. he's nominated other republicans in key positions. chuck hagel, robert gates as defense secretary, ray lahood as transportation secretary. he even named jon huntsman as ambassador to china. how can republicans claim the president doesn't work across the aisle when he's named all of these republican to key posts? >> it's funny, there may be a republican in good standing but as soon as the president embraces them or god forbid nominates them, they become ryan kn...

Reauthorization. >> except for who happened to be in the white house which is part of the reason why senator reid, a drakt, not saying it was right. >> but freedom should be the bipartisan thing. >> i'm not disagreeing. i'm just pointing out the pure politics and the pure theater of this. so that's what a lot of this congress was. a lot of theater and a lot of bombast and was the least prukive since world war ii. >> and it did specify their agenda as far as blocking president obama from doing anything and it's arguably been successful. >> but it doesn't work in both directions. and this is kwo...

We all know dick cheney does not apologize. he hasn't apologized for iraq, for warrantless wire tapping, for torture. in fact, when cheney shot his friend in the face, the friend apologized to him. but now, the former vice president is getting about as close to an apology as he could ever get. and walking back comments he made about sarah palin. the controversy erupted last week when cheney said putting palin on the 2008 republican ticket was a mistake. >> i like governor palin. i've met her, i know her. she's an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she had only been governor for...

For warrantless wire tapping, for torture. in fact, when cheney shot his friend in the face, the friend apologized to him. but now, the former vice president is getting about as close to an apology as he could ever get. and walking back comments he made about sarah palin. the controversy erupted last week when cheney said putting palin on the 2008 republican ticket was a mistake. >> i like governor palin. i've met her, i know her. she's an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she had only been governor for two years, i don't think she passed the test. >> of being ready. >> of bei...