battle for baghdad looming, air strikes even more? boots on the ground back on table? we ll give you more. and dick cheney with a blistering attack against president obama. what cheney says about the president s handling of the iraq crisis. when folks think about what they get from alaska,
false panic, so there s two fronts. there s what s going on there, and what s going on here about what s going on there, okay? the administration is stymied by fingerpointing right now. for dick cheney to come out with an op ed that says rarely has a president been wrong about so much that has hurt so many, if he s talking about iraq, which president should he be talking about? you re not going to draw me into this political bat. i ve worked with both republicans and democrats. a little surprise that had he wrote it. i ll still out. won t touch that. i m going to stay out of the food fight. you re telling us to hold our horses in saying that iraq is going to be overtaken by isis. you believe they have what it takes to keep security there. i believe they have what it talks to hold baghdad. i think it would be tragic if we allowed them, isis, to maintain an islamic state between iran and syria because that really would be a tragic failure of
using special forces to train and advise the iraqis, but the president has also made clear that nothing is being ruled out except for combat boots on the ground. all this seems to have led to some discrepancy in the reporting this morning. mentioned that some have mentioned that the president has decided against air strikes for now and others that he s considering only very targeted drone strikes similar to what we see in the war on terror in yemen. that needs to be worked out throughout the morning. obviously we hope today, and before i let you go, michelle, former vice president dick cheney knows something about the iraq war. he addressed president obama s handling of the war in iraq in a totally blistering piece in the wall street journal this morning in part writing rarely has a u.s. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many, and he goes on and on to blame the president for turning his back on the situation in iraq. reporter: right, it was
or dick cheney about, liz cheney and the next generation. it s also about rand paul, by the way. criticizing obama. this is about asserting the role of the hawks in their coalition in, their party and making sure 2016 they nominate a hawk. to your point, some of the rhetoric this this op-ed is a little over the top, that president obama is indifferent to al qaeda s threat to the united states. i think that s pretty tough. provocative indeed. and tough to swallow, i think, and that s sort of why maybe some republicans might be, you know, gristling at the fact that you see a lot of paul bremers and wolfowitzes and cheneys talking about this at the moment. they like talking about foreign policy but are these the people you want doing it. the big event last night with the former secretary of state, most likely future presidential candidate hillary clinton here on cnn. a number of interesting statements in the town hall. i find this one perhaps most interesting. not a surprise what
thought that people are dying because of their incompetence. we ve been coming out of the oval office one day cheney said there is only 800 days or something, joking that the administration had a couple years left is all. and i said for you, not me. bret: in november 2006, voters gave democrats control of the house of representatives for the first time in a dozen years. the next day, president bush fired rumsfeld. cheney strongly disagreed with the decision. bush asked him to deliver the news to his old friend any way. don was the toughest boss i ever had. the most demanding and the most commanding. i ve never worked harder for as about and i never learned more from one. bret: even with rumsfeld gone, a growing color russ demanded america get out of the growing chorus demanded america get out of the car. almost 3 americans died in a rack.