directors. he said abhorrent things were done and the cia was unprepared to run such a program. he said at the end of the press conference that he strongly leaved that this was on balance, not a good program for the country because it violated our relationships. it spoiled our relationships overseas with our allies, and the efficacy of the data of the intelligence we got was in question. in fact, one of the points that we apparently derived from some of these coerced was that the war in iraq, that there was a link between saddam hussein and al qaeda, which was one of the pretexts for going into this war. there s not he did not back up the vice president s points here. helene, obviously there are a lot of people, the vice president brought it up. i ve even had some democrats who are in support of the report brought it up said releasing this has put american s intelligence capabilities has
andrea mitchell. and now it is meet the press with chuck todd. and now, no government shutdown this year and perhaps next year as well. now to the big story, the senate report on torture and some called it enhanced e report on technique. some call it the detail and the shocking indictment on the methods used on techniques used on detainees and no more defender of the tactics used former vice president dick chen cheney. thank you for coming back. good to be back. and let me start with a quote, you said that torture is something to be avoided and it implies that you have a definition of what torture is. well, torture to me, chuck,
ba back. good to see you, dick cheney. thank you, chuck. and we will be back with a key member of the senate foreign relations committee, and it is s senator ron wyden and he going to be here.
was a 14-1 vote at the time they started the investigation, no doubt. and there was a lot of pushback and resistance to getting the facts that they needed from the republicans. now, david, you were in the white house when the president essentially decided despite where so many in your base wanted you guys to go prosecute somebody, hold somebody criminally responsible. even some saying you ve got to go get the vice president. do you think president obama did the right thing in not allowing the justice department to investigate, to see if we have rogue agents, perhaps, that went above and beyond? the justice department did look into it, chuck, but i think he did the right thing in rejecting what was the major call, which was for a commission that would go back and essentially accent rauate the rs of every player. we ve had a big national airing of this. his view, as he expressed the otherday, is is that we have to move forward and learn from this. let me just comment on brennan
about, well, as soon as these exchanges get up and running, as soon as there s a viable alternative, in all likelihood we re going to dump every one of our employees. dick cheney feared an assassination attempt by a heart attack. that s according to a new interview. the vice president worried about that possibility so much that he actually had the wireless feature of his implanted defibrillator disabled. cheney s cardiologist worried that a terrorist could hack into the device and send a signal that would send the then vice president into cardiac arrest. coming up, the brain trust is here. is there a hillary clinton and joe biden rivalry already deviling just years before a possible democratic primary? we ll talk about it. i m not happy. sales go down, i m not happy. merch comes back, i m not happy. use ups. they make returns easy. unhappy customer becomes happy customer. then, repeat customer. easy returns, i m happy.