really get a detailed plan where it is going to happen. there say reason for that. not trying to repeal medicare. trying to save it, right. that one didn t work. save it. right. it is one of those, i tend to share what you re saying, i have to admit, i m thinking back to march 2010 and we re telling people, talk to me in a year or two, and we re still here now saying when is this going to turn around. but it is still survived which is something else. i want to thank beth ryanert, perry bacon jr. and joe conoson. we promised earlier we would show you the dramatic conclusion of up against the clock, our game show, the closest contest in the history of up against the clock. here s how it ended. 400, jonathan, you have 200, joe, you have negative 200. this is a 300 point question. members of congress from both parties expressed concern this week when the u.s. postal service announced plans to raise
well, i don t spend a lot of time thinking about my faults, i guess would be the answer. the american people spend time thinking about his faults. america spent clearly too much for that war. $60 billion spent on reconstruction efforts alone. that s $15 million a day over the past 10 years. that s why this comment is so shocking. this was a wartime situation. it was more important to be successful than it was to be loved. if i had to do it over again, i d do it in a minute. joining me now, cynthia tucker and joe conoson. thanks for being here tonight. good to be here, rev. good to be with you. joe, let me start with you.
31,925 wounded. and he still think he s right, joe. well, the question i would like to ask him, and i ve been able to do that, what do you think this war achieved? the only beneficiary of this war, so far as i can tell, is iran. iran has gained immeasurably. we spent $3 trillion to make iran more powerful in the middle east than they were before. now, cynthia, cheney hammers at former secretary of state condoleezza rice to destroy a nuclear reactor under construction in syria in 2007. listen to. i strongly recommended that we ought to take it out. cheney was just a voice alone saying we have to attack and destroy this reactor. and i thought it would sort of, again, reassert the kind of
security and foreign policy, effectively running the president, george w. bush, it s a wonder we weren t dragged into even more wars. it s clear. he wanted to bomb syria. happily, by that time, bush had begun to give condoleezza rice a little more power and a little more authority. and she said no to that madness. try to imagine what desperate shape the u.s. would be in now if we had gauged in engaged in, yet, another war in the middle east. it would have been awful. you know, joe, when she cynthi aur cynthia talks about what the influence cheney had in the white house, it was interesting. she wrote a scathing piece today titled repent dick cheney. and she responded by saying they re going to say you re a