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interview. david gregory, moderator of meet the press joins me now. that was some interview. i want to throw to the first part of it which was clinton talking about iraq. okay. the former vice president dick cheney said of president obama in an op ed that claims that al qaeda is decimated, is clearly not true. that al qaeda is on the march. the argument that america is less safe under president obama. do you believe dick cheney is a credible critic on these matters? well, i believe, you know, if they hadn t gone to war in iraq, none of this would be happening. mr. cheney has been incredibly adroit for the last six years or so attacking the administration for not doing an adequate job of cleaning up the mess that he made. and i think it s unseemly, and i give president bush, by the way, a lot of credit for trying to stay out of this debate and letting other people work through it. fascinating stuff. just to pull the layers back. he doesn t mention the fact his wife d
diversity of viewpoint. the same way that we see the diversity of viewpoint within the democratic party. even in the last several years. to have that type of diversity from business leaders, from younger people, for having folks who understand and say, well, it is not the way i want to live my life but the law is the law and let s just give them equal protection of the law. and if it is an entry point to curbing and combating other forms bigotry and denial of equal rights then let s go for it. steve schmidt, thank you, sir, out there. is it california or outer space? i m in nevada. nevada. close to california. thank you, steve. thank you to the aclu s anthony ramiro. thank you for having me. we ll have a live report from cairo when we return after the break. being sixteen, alex thinks he s invincible. his dad knows he s not. that s why dad got allstate accident forgiveness. it starts the day you sign up. [ female announcer ] with accident forgiveness from allstate,
it won t be easy. this sunday on the christian broadcasting network, rnc chair rens prebusiness was reminding all the tolerance talk was giving evangelicals the heby jeebies. i don t care for the word tolerance. i don t have a problem with it, i just think it has another meaning that politically that can go the other direction. joining the panel now, executive director of the aclu, anthony ramiro. thanks for joining us. of course. thank you. your pal steve schmidt is somewhere in the ether world. he s working. start with the issue of tolerance. speaking from the vantage point of the aclu and speaking to the issue of gay marriage, given the work at hand i think we have to send haim dictionary so he could look up the word tolerance.
he said he s a political consultant now. his brother no longer involved with politics, really can t stand it. i think it really is sort of binary, you either love it or hate it, particularly when you grow with it from a very, very young age. zeke miller, thanks for your time this morning. that wraps things up for me. now with alex wagner is coming up next. alex, what you got going on? hello, mara. happy friday. today we have hostage takers, bounty hunters and self-styled jedis. house republicans are starting to resemble characters from the star wars bar scene. we will discuss the gop s new government shutdown threat with sam stein, michael crowley, melissa harris perry and josh barrow. we ll also look at new senate bffs, john mccain and chuck schumer. and the far right s war on the right. plus, steve schmidt and the aclu s anthony ramiro tell us about their effort to help republicans evolve on gay marriage. and, he s down in the polls,