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Speaker 1: We must move on to Richard Donald Stateside burning mate,

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Speaker 1: good morning, he might Dick Cheney eighty four.

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Speaker 2: He was one of a kind. Dick Cheney was not

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Speaker 2: simply the vice president to George W. Bush for eight years.

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Speaker 2: He was virtually co president. That put the stamp on

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Speaker 2: the Bush years. Bush Junior could have been a very

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Speaker 2: different leader if Cheney had not taken the reins in

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Speaker 2: the way he did. Cheney had started out as the

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Speaker 2: youngest presidential chief of staff ever for Ford, then in

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Speaker 2: the Congress for a while, and then as the events

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Speaker 2: secretary for Bush Senior. So he wasn't lacking in confidence,

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Speaker 2: and that is one of the key points in his story.

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Speaker 2: In the year two thousand, the younger Bush asked him

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Speaker 2: to lead a national search for a possible running mate

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Speaker 2: should they be elected, and Cheney, after lengthy deliberations and investigations,

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Speaker 2: found that the best possible person in the country was himself.

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Speaker 2: That's when he became known as the Nemesis from Star Wars.

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Speaker 3: They wouldn't call me Darth Vader for nothing.

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Speaker 2: Now, that and his endless health issues. He had his

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Speaker 2: first heart attack at age thirty seven, and four more

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Speaker 2: following in all sorts of heart treatments, finally undergoing a

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Speaker 2: heart transplant at seventy one, thirty years back. He's dead

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Speaker 2: now at eighty four, from heart and other issues. As

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Speaker 2: the most powerful vice president in American history, Cheney pushed

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Speaker 2: for the War on Terror and the invasion of Iraq

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Speaker 2: a the liberation of Kuwait in ninety one.

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Speaker 3: He said, simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam

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Speaker 3: Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no

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Speaker 3: doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends,

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Speaker 3: against our allies, and against us.

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Speaker 2: Simply stated that was flat wrong. Cheney unrepentant, however, he said.

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Speaker 3: We got rid of one of the worst dictators of

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Speaker 3: the twentieth century.

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Speaker 2: They also gave power to the oppressed po Iranian Schiites,

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Speaker 2: which led to years of my backlashes. Cheney is well

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Speaker 2: favored tough treatment for wartime detainee.

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Speaker 3: I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a

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Speaker 3: big support of the enhanced interrogation techniques.

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Speaker 2: Waterboarding course where you pretend to drown people for long

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Speaker 2: periods until agreed to talk, as regarded as torture. En Hans.

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Speaker 2: Interrogation includes forcing people on their knees to steer into

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Speaker 2: the sun for endless hours, as they did at Camp

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Speaker 2: X Ray at Guantanamo Bay, which I visited back in

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Speaker 2: the day as a reporter. Dick Cheney then made some

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Speaker 2: late life reversals, openly supporting gay marriage. One of his

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Speaker 2: daughters is gay. He then took a stand against Trump

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Speaker 2: and made this anti Trump campaign commercial for his daughter,

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Speaker 2: Liz Cheney, as they both slammed Trump's actions on January

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Speaker 2: the sixth of twenty twenty one. Here is part of

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Speaker 2: what they put together.

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Speaker 3: Liz is fearless. She never backs down from the fight.

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Speaker 3: There is nothing more important she will ever do than

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Speaker 3: lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never

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Speaker 3: again near the Oval office.

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Speaker 2: Well, we know how that turned out. It's far right

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Speaker 2: warrior though wound up voting for Kamala Harris. So it's complicated,

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Speaker 2: as they say on social media. But asked not so

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Speaker 2: long ago if he had any regrets, he said, quote,

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Speaker 2: not really.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what do we recommend Armie today?

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Speaker 2: Looks like it? But how is this subtle? Its election day?

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Speaker 2: Of course for the off terms with a few of

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Speaker 2: the governor's races, as you've been mentioning in the California

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Speaker 2: redistricting measure and this vote for her top job as

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Speaker 2: mayor of New York City. Leading the mayoral race is Mandami,

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Speaker 2: the thirty four year old agand And born and self

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Speaker 2: described Democratic socialists who was running on the Democratic ticket

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Speaker 2: this after former Governor Andrew Cromo, who was accused of

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Speaker 2: textual harassment by a number of women, was ousted and

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Speaker 2: forced to run as an independent in the mayor's race. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: then you'll post. The Murdoch owned pro Trump tabloid in

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Speaker 2: the Big Apple has a front page out today, big letters,

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Speaker 2: headline reading, keep this commie out. So that's subtle if

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Speaker 2: if that is too subtle for some. Trump has given

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Speaker 2: Cuomo a last minute endorsement, So that'll really help the

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Speaker 2: one time Democratic governor. Not Mandami already as mocking Cromo

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Speaker 2: mercilessly for the Trump backing. Polls have him about ten

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Speaker 2: points ahead of Croomo. Trump posted, whether you personally like

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Speaker 2: Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. Democrats

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Speaker 2: are hoping to begin mounting some kind of political comebat

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Speaker 2: with today's voting. The results of the governor's races in

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Speaker 2: New Jersey and Virginia will be very interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yes they will. All right, mate, We'll see your Friday.

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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold state, So, just a couple of polls out.

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Speaker 1: The NBC poll tied in with the Trump appearance, of course,

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Speaker 1: on sixty minutes, sixty six percent says fall and shild

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Speaker 1: of expectations on inflation and cost of living. Sixty three

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Speaker 1: percent blame the administration, also falling short on expectations around

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Speaker 1: the economy. CNN this morning their poll has at an

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Speaker 1: approval rating of thirty seven, which is the lowest level

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Speaker 1: in the second term so far. Sixty eight percent think

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Speaker 1: things are going badly for the country. Seventy two percent

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Speaker 1: so the economy is in poor shape.

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