it was a minor one. but a bump in the road for an already tumultuous transition. bush and cheney had lost the popular vote but won the electoral college and the presidency. after the supreme court ruled in their favor in a series of decisions on the florida recounts. as the new administration settled in, cheney helped get his longtime friend and mentor donald rumsfeld, a job. his old position, secretary of defense. enormous surprise. i had no more idea of going back into government fulltime than the man in the moon. bret: january 2001, when you are sworn in, in the oval office with cheney again. did you look at each other and say here we go? he wrote it on a piece of paper. bret: there it is. r rummy, who would have thought. dick. 31 years later. he faced his first
generally considered accessible, easy to deal with. bret: do you think you ve changed since you ve been in this administration? have i changed? i hear that from time to time from old friends that say, gee, what happened to the old dick cheney i used to know? people who don t walk in my shoes, don t sit down every morning and go through the intelligence reports, which i do. bret: you don t mind the characterization? i m not here to polish my image by any means. i m here to do a job. bret: that job was getting tougher everyday. bad enough that u.s. troops did not find weapons of mass destruction in iraq. even worse, a bloody terrorist insurgency began killing americans by the day. even one of cheney s old friends joined the ranks of his critics. i never suspected the occupies would be so incompetent. and i was dashed with that. and i couldn t stand the
sense. cheney never became a campaign issue in 2004, but his daughter, mary did in a debate. if you were to talk to dick cheney s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she s being who she was. cheney was furious. saw a man who will say and do anything in order to get elected. in the end, voters stuck with bush and cheney over john kerry and john edwards. they won by a bigger margin than in 2000, the second term would prove more difficult for the country. that story, after the break. with nationwide insurance ? watch this. on one hand, you have your home insurance with one company. and on another hand, you have your auto with another. and on another hand, you have your life with another. but when you bundle them l together
i decided it didn t make sense. bret: cheney never became a campaign issue in 2004. his daughter mary did in a presidential debate. if were you to talk to dick cheney s daughter who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she is being who she was. bret: cheney was furious. you saw a man who will say and do anything in order to get elected. bret: in the end end voters stuck with bush and cheney over kerry and edwards. the second term would prove more difficult and divisive for the country. that story, after the break. thanks to the venture card from capital one, we get double miles on every purchase, so me and my lads earned arip to san francisco twice as fast we get double miles every time we use our card. i ll take these two. .no matter what we re buying. .and all of those. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it s hard to beat double miles!
dick cheney revealed. bret: welcome back. the 9/11 attacks chained the world. america s response to them would define the bush administration. if anyone was prepared for such a shattering crisis, it was dick cheney. i was in my office in the west wing in that first hour. radar caught sight of an airliner heading toward the white house. secret service agents came into my office and said we had to leave now. a few moments later, i found myself in a fortified white house command post somewhere down below. bret: president bush