card and gonzalez over with some important papers. to believe cheney's account of it, you would have to believe the president of the united states talked about a code word classified intelligence program on an open telephone line that ashcroft was conscious and coherent, and that he changed his mind twice within a period of minutes, because as he lay in his bed, he had already a week before decided he was not going to sign this document. allegedly now he tells the president he will, and as soon as the president's men arrived, he says no i won't. there's no evidence whatsoever to support that account. >> you've read the whole book. is this characteristic of the book? because what i'm getting here is when cheney, when he comes to a scene that's already been dealt with by others in other books and with all sorts of other supporting information, that cheney will find the weakling, the weak character, the person who got in our way who didn't