cheney with us for the hour. thank you for being with us. sean, it is great to be here. [ applause ] sean: were you surprised at collin powell s comments? i was a bit. because it is clear that if he read in the book, he only read a part of it. there s a lot of time devoted in the first half of the book to my early career going back to my early days growing up. then also three chapters on my time in the defense department. where general powell was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. i got him appointed at the post and we worked together closely and successfully, i think through desert storm and the break up of the soviet union and did some good work together. by the time we got to me being in the vice president and he was secretary of state obviously the relationship had grown somewhat strained. sean: you wrote powell was disdainful and not supportive of the president s policies. you said he personally confirmed the information when he went before the united nations
in the book the vice president says he was not sad to hear about general powell s resignation in 2004. noting secretary powell went out of his way to criticize the bush administration while serving in it. general powell hit back over the weekend. mr. cheney has had a long and distinguished career and i hope in his book that s what he will focus on not at cheese cheap shots he s taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability. he says i went out of my way not to present my position to the president but take them outside of the administration. that s nonsense. sean: we are honored to have former vice president cheney with us for the hour. thank you for being with us. sean, it is great to be here. [ applause ] sean: were you surprised at collin powell s comments? i was a bit. because it is clear that if he read in the book, he only read a part of it. there s a lot of time devoted in the first half of the book to my early caree
in the book the vice president says he was not sad to hear about general powell s resignation in 2004. noting secretary powell went out of his way to criticize the bush administration while serving in it. general powell hit back over the weekend. mr. cheney has had a long and distinguished career and i hope in his book that s what he will focus on not at cheese cheap shots he s taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability. he says i went out of my way not to present my position to the president but take them outside of the administration. that s nonsense. sean: we are honored to have former vice president cheney with us for the hour. thank you for being with us. sean, it is great to be here. [ applause ] sean: were you surprised at collin powell s comments? i was a bit. because it is clear that if he read in the book, he only read a part of it. there s a lot of time devoted in the first half of the book to my early caree
mrs. thatcher. she was the nancy pelosi of her time. more generally, he was a more progressive leader that we have ever had. he is the one that brought in free comprehensive health care. when you look across a pound at the united states, what when you look across the pond at the united states, what do you make of president obama? it is extraordinary. he did what others could not do. he went on to defeat george w. bush everything you could think of was thrown at him in the media. there were rumors running on the internet. yet he 01. the 91, the speech he gave, the night he won, the speech he gave, he give it in chicago and i was in tears. i was texting people across the world. we were all in tears. it was a fantastically wonderful moment for people of color. what do people say who have followed that, who are minorities, the impact of how people view the united states? first of all, for people of color, minorities around the world, it has made them think better of a
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