to get their hands on our nuclear weapon. dick cheney has zero credibility. it led to over 30,000 american soldiers being killed or injured but republicans listened to him. will they listen again? joining me now is john nickles of the nation and author of the rise and rise of richard b. cheney and ryan grim. thank you both for being here. john, do dick cheney s frantic washings about a potential nuclear strike sound familiar to you? they sound very familiar. 13 years ago in august of 2002, dick cheney was out on the speaking circuit talking about iraq and he was using very similar language to this, and it was really the first signal of how aggressively the bush administration would go to
included, actually, that, you know, if watching the debate as a pundit who knew something about ben carson going in, a lot of people said he didn t get a lot of time to speak. he seemed a little out of his depth and so on. but it seems like he came across to a lot of voters as both very decent and deep and intelligent person and he obviously has a fascinating and inspirational story. i would guess, based on where his appeal has been in the past, that he is getting more a more ideological base of support than trump. he s been a big favorite on the conservative speaking circuit. he s been very vocal in attacking president obama and so on. he may be more case study in sort of the more traditional conservative populism as opposed to trump s mix and match, say whatever i feel like kind of thing. we ll have to wait and see where this all goes. thanks for your time. sure. still ahead, just moments ago, carly fiorina also rising
the question is whether or not this is a serious political candidate? right? so i can offer serious political commentary on serious candidates. but you can t do that for this person. because i don t believe that trump actually wants to be president. and i don t believe that he takes this this whole candidacy seriously. i think it is all brand building for him. there is no separation between trump the man and trump the brand. you don t believe if he actually thought he was going to get to the white house he would continue? i think every candidate has a smidgen of ego, of what if it actually worked out. i also belief a third of the people who run don t actually want to be president. but they want the free publicity, the increased exposure. they don t want to be president, they may not expect it. but they do want. it helps them on the speaking circuit. donald trump doesn t need help on the speaking circuit? i don t know. i think it absolutely helps with the segment of the popula
building for him, there is no separation between trump the man and trump the bran. and i think that you don t believe if he actually thought he would get to the white house he would continue? i think that every candidate has a smidgeon of ego, a smidgeon of what if it actually orkd out? i actually believe that probably a third of the people who run don t actually want to be president. but they want the free publicity, the increased exposure of being a candidate. i don t know that they don t want to be president. they may not expect it but they do want but donald trump doesn t need help on the speaking circuit. i don t know. i think it absolutely helps with the segments of the population who are probably more amenable to his products right? but the maybe going to the golf course or staying at the hotel or buying the tie. there is an aspirational wealth component to it. i don t think so. i m sorry. i wasn t talking to you. there is a brashness component to it. there is
financial ladder as well. in her last disclosure hillary clinton declared she and her husband had made at least $16.7 million in 2012 that of course was before she hit the speaking circuit. the clintons effective federal tax rate in 2014 was 30%, that tax information, by the way, is not part of the financial disclosure form but the clintons are clearly trying to get the information out there as a way of pointing out that they pay taxes on earned income not invested income though the clintons have been criticized for giving highly paid speeches for key players in the financial industry hillary clinton, by the way, claims they were dead broke when they left the white house in 2001 the same year they made roughly $12 million. megyn? trace, thank you. in poll after poll when americans are asked what ails america, their number one complaint is dissatisfaction with government and this clinton controversy captures some of that. as she continues to dodge the