about. was vice president cheney influential in the beginning, he yes, he was. was he a puppet master no he wasn t. that s a caricature. he was important. the president relied on him. he was a seasoned veteran. he understood how power and washington worked. as things moved along by the second term president bush began moving away and began looking at things differently. he wanted to repair relations with the allies and rethink some the policies on the middle east and so forth. and vice president khan saw that as, you know, moving away from the principles that they had shared in the first term and they began fighting about a lot of issues. and by the time they left office, when they ended up sort of having this confrontation over the scooter libby pardon. now i know that they met at the library and you write about that in your book. now, is there any indication that they talk to each other very much. i think they have a very proper relationship. an appropriate relationship. they don
i think that s about right. i think vice president cheney saw his singular mission to prevent another 9/11 and nothing was going to be a higher priority to him than that that stayed pretty constant through the end of his term whereas president bush began trying to adjust to recalibrate, to see where things were going wrong, so if he couldn t find different ways of doing things. he started closing some the secret prisons that the cia was running. he went to congress on surveillance and myrtle tribunals. he decided to give condoleezza rice a chance to try the middle east things. those are things to vice president cheney were objectionable. president bush wanted to try a different way. how painful was it no weapons of mass destruction in iraq how painful was it? sort of a daunting realization. the reporting of this and we interviewed about 275 people including vice president cheney and lots of others. i never found of sort of an ah-ha moment a moment where they said boy it didn t exis
verification so we don t have massive fraud do you think they can or brace ourselves for massive taxpayer relationship off. rip off. that is my off the record comment tonight. if you have an issue you think i can take off the record go to gretawire.com and tell us about it. now to a political partnership put to the test. new book president bush vice president cheney administration. correspondent peter baker is the author of days of fire, bush and cheney in the white house. he joins us. nice to see you, peter. thanks for having me. let me tell you first what i love about the book. is that i covered this stuff and there is so much i learned with the book. it s unbelievable. the depth of the reporting is absolutely magnificent. let me ask you. describe the relationship when they first got together and at the end of the first term and then when they walked out of the white house. that s really interesting thing about this and one of the reasons i wanted to go back and do this boo
verification so we don t have massive fraud do you think they can or brace ourselves for massive taxpayer relationship off. rip off. that is my off the record comment tonight. if you have an issue you think i can take off the record go to gretawire.com and tell us about it. now to a political partnership put to the test. new book president bush vice president cheney administration. correspondent peter baker is the author of days of fire, bush and cheney in the white house. he joins us. nice to see you, peter. thanks for having me. let me tell you first what i love about the book. is that i covered this stuff and there is so much i learned with the book. it s unbelievable. the depth of the reporting is absolutely magnificent. let me ask you. describe the relationship when they first got together and at the end of the first term and then when they walked out of the white house. that s really interesting thing about this and one of the reasons i wanted to go back and do this boo
president cheney did not? i think that s about right. i think vice president cheney saw his singular mission to prevent another 9/11 and nothing was going to be a higher priority to him than that that stayed pretty constant through the end of his term whereas president bush began trying to adjust to recalibrate, to see where things were going wrong, so if he couldn t find different ways of doing things. he started closing some the secret prisons that the cia was running. he went to congress on surveillance and myrtle tribunals. he decided to give condoleezza rice a chance to try the middle east things. those are things to vice president cheney were objectionable. president bush wanted to try a different way. how painful was it no weapons of mass destruction in iraq how painful was it? sort of a daunting realization. the reporting of this and we interviewed about 275 people including vice president cheney and lots of others. i never found of sort of an ah-ha moment a moment where th