1 00:00:49,591 --> 00:00:52,254 (whooping) 2 00:00:54,805 --> 00:00:57,593 (whooping) 3 00:00:59,393 --> 00:01:01,134 (tires screeching) 4 00:01:01,228 --> 00:01:03,220 (engine revving) 5 00:01:20,247 --> 00:01:22,330 (music playing on radio) 6 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,292 (indistinct police radio chatter) 7 00:01:27,462 --> 00:01:29,454 (singing along): ♪ Don't you know ♪ 8 00:01:29,548 --> 00:01:33,918 ♪ That I still care for you? ♪ 9 00:01:35,429 --> 00:01:37,091 ♪ Send me... ♪ 10 00:01:37,180 --> 00:01:38,546 How you doin' tonight, officer? 11 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,560 OFFICER: I'm gonna need you to get outta the car. 12 00:01:42,144 --> 00:01:44,056 (singing): ♪ So darling... ♪ 13 00:01:44,146 --> 00:01:45,557 OFFICER: Come on. Let's get out. 14 00:01:45,647 --> 00:01:49,061 (continues singing) ♪ I can dream upon it too ♪ 15 00:01:51,361 --> 00:01:53,523 (song continues on radio) 16 00:02:00,787 --> 00:02:02,278 (alarm blaring) 17 00:02:07,961 --> 00:02:09,873 - AGENT 1: Move! - AGENT 2: Go! Go! 18 00:02:10,881 --> 00:02:12,042 Move! It's clear. 19 00:02:13,508 --> 00:02:16,626 - Move, move, move. - Clear! 20 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,632 - Let's go, let's go! - Move! Move! Move! Move! 21 00:02:18,722 --> 00:02:20,554 - (panicked shouting) - (horns blaring) 22 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:23,432 (alarm blaring) 23 00:02:23,518 --> 00:02:25,259 A plane just struck the Pentagon. 24 00:02:25,354 --> 00:02:26,845 - (siren wailing) - (horns honking) 25 00:02:26,938 --> 00:02:28,304 (alarm continues) 26 00:02:31,777 --> 00:02:33,689 Let's make sure those phone lines are working. 27 00:02:33,779 --> 00:02:35,065 Phones are go, sir. 28 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:36,817 The SVTC. Let's contact the FAA, 29 00:02:36,907 --> 00:02:37,967 find out how many planes are in the air. 30 00:02:37,991 --> 00:02:39,323 RICE: Yes, sir. 31 00:02:39,409 --> 00:02:41,095 CHENEY: Let's get these televisions working. 32 00:02:41,119 --> 00:02:42,889 RICE: May I get the president on the line, please? 33 00:02:42,913 --> 00:02:44,807 HUGHES: We got planes in the air and nowhere for them to land. 34 00:02:44,831 --> 00:02:46,309 CABINET MEMBER: I still have one plane unaccounted for 35 00:02:46,333 --> 00:02:47,574 flying over Pennsylvania. 36 00:02:47,668 --> 00:02:48,811 RICE: I need permission for them to land 37 00:02:48,835 --> 00:02:50,667 at a Canadian airport. 38 00:02:50,754 --> 00:02:52,774 WOMAN (on TV):...very large plane. It was going fast. 39 00:02:52,798 --> 00:02:54,317 CABINET MEMBER: Flying over Pennsylvania on course. 40 00:02:54,341 --> 00:02:56,207 And three other planes are unaccounted for. 41 00:02:56,301 --> 00:02:58,071 WOMAN: I'm seeing five planes unaccounted for. 42 00:02:58,095 --> 00:02:59,461 No! Scratch that. I'm seeing four! 43 00:02:59,554 --> 00:03:02,046 (indistinct chatter) 44 00:03:02,140 --> 00:03:03,426 MINETA: I have NORAD on the line. 45 00:03:03,517 --> 00:03:05,554 That is correct. He is. That is correct. 46 00:03:06,687 --> 00:03:09,475 Mr. Vice President, POTUS on line one, sir. 47 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:14,396 Mr. President. 48 00:03:16,238 --> 00:03:17,820 (clears throat) 49 00:03:17,906 --> 00:03:21,070 The situation is, uh, extremely fluid. 50 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:22,775 I strongly recommend you stay in the air. 51 00:03:24,121 --> 00:03:27,910 I have, uh, sequestered congressional leadership. 52 00:03:27,999 --> 00:03:29,786 Okay, then. 53 00:03:29,876 --> 00:03:30,978 SCOOTER: Sir, Donald Rumsfeld is 54 00:03:31,002 --> 00:03:32,584 at the Pentagon on line three. 55 00:03:32,671 --> 00:03:35,288 - That? - SCOOTER: Mm-hmm. Yes, sir. 56 00:03:35,382 --> 00:03:37,694 RUMSFELD (on speaker): Dick, are there still passenger planes in the air? 57 00:03:37,718 --> 00:03:38,834 I need rules of engagement. 58 00:03:38,927 --> 00:03:40,607 Let's get the President back on line, sir. 59 00:03:42,389 --> 00:03:45,723 You have authorization to shoot down 60 00:03:45,809 --> 00:03:48,301 any aircraft deemed a threat. 61 00:03:48,395 --> 00:03:49,931 RUMSFELD: Presidential authority? 62 00:03:50,021 --> 00:03:52,354 That is correct. All orders are UNODIR. 63 00:03:52,441 --> 00:03:54,478 "UNODIR," sir? 64 00:03:54,568 --> 00:03:56,525 HUGHES: Unless otherwise directed. 65 00:03:59,990 --> 00:04:02,733 NARRATOR: By all accounts of what people saw 66 00:04:02,826 --> 00:04:06,069 in that room on that terrible day, 67 00:04:06,163 --> 00:04:07,699 there was confusion... 68 00:04:09,249 --> 00:04:10,249 fear... 69 00:04:11,668 --> 00:04:12,784 uncertainty. 70 00:04:15,380 --> 00:04:17,542 But Dick Cheney saw something else 71 00:04:17,632 --> 00:04:18,748 that no one else did. 72 00:04:21,887 --> 00:04:23,378 He saw an opportunity. 73 00:04:27,934 --> 00:04:31,894 As the world becomes more and more confusing, 74 00:04:31,980 --> 00:04:34,017 we tend to focus on the things 75 00:04:34,107 --> 00:04:36,440 that are right there in front of us... 76 00:04:38,445 --> 00:04:41,028 while ignoring the massive forces 77 00:04:41,114 --> 00:04:44,607 that actually change and shape our lives. 78 00:04:46,036 --> 00:04:49,655 And with people working longer and longer hours, 79 00:04:49,748 --> 00:04:51,990 for less and less, 80 00:04:52,083 --> 00:04:53,619 when we do have free time, 81 00:04:53,710 --> 00:04:55,827 the last thing we want is 82 00:04:55,921 --> 00:04:58,334 complicated analysis of our government, 83 00:04:58,423 --> 00:04:59,755 lobbying, 84 00:04:59,841 --> 00:05:02,128 international trade agreements, 85 00:05:02,219 --> 00:05:03,335 and tax bills. 86 00:05:03,428 --> 00:05:05,715 (dance music playing) 87 00:05:08,141 --> 00:05:09,632 NARRATOR: So it's no surprise 88 00:05:09,726 --> 00:05:12,093 that when a monotone, 89 00:05:12,187 --> 00:05:16,022 bureaucratic vice president came to power, 90 00:05:16,107 --> 00:05:17,643 we hardly noticed... 91 00:05:17,734 --> 00:05:20,317 - (shouting, crying) - (dog barking) 92 00:05:20,403 --> 00:05:22,395 ...as he achieved a position of authority 93 00:05:22,489 --> 00:05:23,855 that very few leaders 94 00:05:23,949 --> 00:05:26,908 in the history of America ever have... 95 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:30,973 - Vice President, for your... - WOMAN: These tax cuts are... 96 00:05:30,997 --> 00:05:32,767 - RUMSFELD:...get this started? - That's for your fucking... 97 00:05:32,791 --> 00:05:34,999 SOLDIER (screaming): I'm fucking dying! 98 00:05:35,085 --> 00:05:38,123 NARRATOR: Forever changing the course of history 99 00:05:38,213 --> 00:05:41,047 for millions and millions of lives. 100 00:05:43,176 --> 00:05:46,385 And he did it like a ghost, 101 00:05:46,471 --> 00:05:50,260 with most people having no idea who he is 102 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:51,841 or where he came from. 103 00:05:54,646 --> 00:05:58,515 - (whooshing) - (explosions) 104 00:06:02,863 --> 00:06:04,900 - (birds chirping) - (stream flowing gently) 105 00:06:07,742 --> 00:06:09,324 (birds chirping) 106 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:16,074 NARRATOR: How does a man go on to become who he is? 107 00:06:17,961 --> 00:06:22,501 Well, it starts in 1963... 108 00:06:22,591 --> 00:06:24,082 when Dick's best girl, Lynne, 109 00:06:24,175 --> 00:06:27,043 was getting straight A's at Colorado College. 110 00:06:32,183 --> 00:06:35,472 Lynne had helped Dick get a scholarship at Yale... 111 00:06:37,981 --> 00:06:42,521 where he did way more drinking than class attending. 112 00:06:42,611 --> 00:06:44,523 (music playing) 113 00:06:44,613 --> 00:06:47,151 Pretty soon, Dick got the boot. 114 00:06:54,414 --> 00:06:56,451 (indistinct shouting) 115 00:06:58,460 --> 00:07:00,122 Back then, they would've called 116 00:07:00,211 --> 00:07:02,544 a guy like him a ne'er-do-well. 117 00:07:04,799 --> 00:07:06,791 In today's parlance, 118 00:07:06,885 --> 00:07:08,842 they would just call him a dirtbag. 119 00:07:10,096 --> 00:07:12,179 - (man screaming) - (body thuds) 120 00:07:12,265 --> 00:07:13,551 LINEMAN: Man down! 121 00:07:14,851 --> 00:07:16,092 (man groaning) 122 00:07:18,521 --> 00:07:19,932 LINEMAN 2: Ooh! 123 00:07:24,235 --> 00:07:26,067 His leg looks like an Elvis dance move. 124 00:07:26,154 --> 00:07:27,941 (chuckling) 125 00:07:28,031 --> 00:07:30,444 Somebody give that poor son of a bitch a shot of whiskey. 126 00:07:30,533 --> 00:07:32,115 LINEMAN BOSS: All right, back to work. 127 00:07:33,119 --> 00:07:35,361 I said, back to work. 128 00:07:38,583 --> 00:07:41,326 Take him into town, put five dollars in his pocket. 129 00:07:41,419 --> 00:07:42,910 Find another man for tomorrow. 130 00:07:43,004 --> 00:07:45,496 Somebody help. (groans) 131 00:07:45,590 --> 00:07:47,752 You got a problem, Cheney? 132 00:07:47,842 --> 00:07:49,003 No, sir. 133 00:07:50,762 --> 00:07:52,322 - (music playing) - (indistinct chatter) 134 00:08:02,524 --> 00:08:03,856 Huh? 135 00:08:03,942 --> 00:08:05,433 Are we becoming friends? 136 00:08:06,653 --> 00:08:08,519 Will you stop touching me? 137 00:08:08,613 --> 00:08:09,774 What? 138 00:08:09,864 --> 00:08:12,322 What are you gonna do about it, Mr. Yale? 139 00:08:12,409 --> 00:08:14,196 Huh? Whoo! 140 00:08:15,370 --> 00:08:18,363 The fuck you gonna do about it, Mr. Yale? Come on! 141 00:08:18,456 --> 00:08:19,992 - There you go. - (grunting) 142 00:08:25,547 --> 00:08:28,164 (singing): ♪ Send me the pillow ♪ 143 00:08:28,258 --> 00:08:31,547 ♪ That you dream on ♪ 144 00:08:33,471 --> 00:08:39,138 ♪ Don't you know I still care for you? ♪ 145 00:08:39,227 --> 00:08:41,310 (indistinct police radio chatter) 146 00:08:41,396 --> 00:08:42,396 ♪ Sen... ♪ 147 00:08:51,948 --> 00:08:52,948 Two times. 148 00:08:54,117 --> 00:08:55,824 Two times! 149 00:08:55,910 --> 00:08:57,617 I have to drag you out of that jail 150 00:08:57,704 --> 00:09:01,038 like a filthy hobo. 151 00:09:01,124 --> 00:09:02,240 CHENEY: I'm sorry, Lynne. 152 00:09:02,333 --> 00:09:03,414 What? 153 00:09:05,253 --> 00:09:07,620 - What did you just say? - I'm sorry, Lynnie. 154 00:09:07,714 --> 00:09:09,501 You're sorry? Don't call me "Lynnie." 155 00:09:12,510 --> 00:09:13,717 You're sorry. 156 00:09:16,181 --> 00:09:18,889 One time is "I'm sorry." 157 00:09:18,975 --> 00:09:22,343 Two times makes me think that I've picked the wrong man. 158 00:09:23,688 --> 00:09:25,771 You already got your ass thrown out of Yale 159 00:09:25,857 --> 00:09:28,725 for drinking and fighting. 160 00:09:28,818 --> 00:09:30,046 And now you're just going to be a lush 161 00:09:30,070 --> 00:09:31,505 that hangs power lines for the state? 162 00:09:31,529 --> 00:09:32,940 Are you gonna live in a trailer? 163 00:09:33,031 --> 00:09:34,300 We're gonna have ten kids? Is that the plan? 164 00:09:34,324 --> 00:09:35,593 CHENEY: Can we discuss this later, please? 165 00:09:35,617 --> 00:09:36,927 No, we're gonna discuss this right now 166 00:09:36,951 --> 00:09:38,692 while you smell like vomit 167 00:09:38,787 --> 00:09:39,948 and cheap booze. 168 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:42,905 - EDNA: Does Dick want some coffee? - What? 169 00:09:42,999 --> 00:09:44,581 Mom, get out! 170 00:09:44,667 --> 00:09:46,533 Get out. "Does Dick want some coffee?" 171 00:09:46,628 --> 00:09:48,540 Jesus Christ! (sighs) 172 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:51,421 Okay. Here's my plan. 173 00:09:53,009 --> 00:09:54,009 All right? 174 00:09:55,303 --> 00:09:59,889 Either you stand up straight... 175 00:09:59,974 --> 00:10:02,762 and you get your back straight... 176 00:10:02,852 --> 00:10:05,765 and you have the courage to become someone, 177 00:10:05,855 --> 00:10:07,187 or I'm gone. 178 00:10:07,273 --> 00:10:08,684 I know a dozen guys 179 00:10:08,775 --> 00:10:10,695 and a few professors at school who would date me. 180 00:10:11,444 --> 00:10:12,651 I love you, Lynne. 181 00:10:12,737 --> 00:10:13,818 Then prove it! 182 00:10:15,198 --> 00:10:16,609 Prove it! 183 00:10:19,577 --> 00:10:20,658 I can't... 184 00:10:22,330 --> 00:10:24,322 go to a big Ivy League school, 185 00:10:24,415 --> 00:10:27,158 and I can't run a company or be mayor. 186 00:10:27,252 --> 00:10:29,585 That's just the way the world is for a girl. 187 00:10:29,671 --> 00:10:30,671 I need you. 188 00:10:31,798 --> 00:10:37,089 And right now you are a big, fat, piss-soaked zero. 189 00:10:42,684 --> 00:10:45,017 I've... I've seen my mom waitin' up all night 190 00:10:45,103 --> 00:10:46,264 for my father to get home. 191 00:10:46,354 --> 00:10:49,017 And I've seen my father drunk in this house 192 00:10:49,107 --> 00:10:51,099 and raising his voice and way worse, 193 00:10:51,192 --> 00:10:54,276 and I am not dancing that dance anymore. I'm not. 194 00:10:54,362 --> 00:10:55,944 Do you know why I fuck her? 195 00:10:57,824 --> 00:11:00,237 (inaudible dialogue) 196 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:04,032 I'm not. 197 00:11:05,415 --> 00:11:06,656 So can you change? 198 00:11:07,917 --> 00:11:10,910 Can you change, or am I wasting my goddamn time? 199 00:11:18,469 --> 00:11:20,552 CHENEY: I won't ever disappoint you again, Lynne. 200 00:11:22,849 --> 00:11:25,057 (stream flowing gently) 201 00:11:47,373 --> 00:11:49,786 (cattle mooing) 202 00:11:53,046 --> 00:11:54,912 (inaudible dialogue) 203 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:04,638 (muffled cheering) 204 00:12:49,727 --> 00:12:51,719 (congressman speaking indistinctly) 205 00:12:51,813 --> 00:12:54,647 CONGRESSMAN: You were chosen because of your hard work, 206 00:12:54,732 --> 00:12:56,644 your diligence, and dedication. 207 00:12:57,652 --> 00:13:02,067 Stated simply, you are America's best and brightest. 208 00:13:02,156 --> 00:13:03,647 (coughing) 209 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:06,650 (clears throat) 210 00:13:06,744 --> 00:13:10,408 So let's go forward and learn and be of service. 211 00:13:11,833 --> 00:13:13,324 God bless you all 212 00:13:13,418 --> 00:13:17,833 and God bless this great nation. 213 00:13:17,922 --> 00:13:22,132 And now, I'd like to introduce some... a young man from Illinois 214 00:13:22,218 --> 00:13:23,880 who has done quite well for himself 215 00:13:23,970 --> 00:13:25,302 here in the Capitol. 216 00:13:25,388 --> 00:13:29,052 Representative Donald Rumsfeld. 217 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:31,429 (scattered applause) 218 00:13:34,814 --> 00:13:36,601 (high-pitched feedback) 219 00:13:36,691 --> 00:13:42,358 Did Bob tell you that this internship is a great honor? 220 00:13:42,447 --> 00:13:43,654 Huh? 221 00:13:45,241 --> 00:13:46,441 - Did he? - (interns murmuring) 222 00:13:46,492 --> 00:13:47,608 Huh? Yeah? 223 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,241 Well, it's not. 224 00:13:52,290 --> 00:13:54,907 It's what we called in the Navy a "shit detail." 225 00:13:55,001 --> 00:13:56,537 (all laughing) 226 00:13:56,627 --> 00:13:58,209 NARRATOR: Donald Rumsfeld, 227 00:13:58,296 --> 00:14:00,959 or "Rummy," as they called him, 228 00:14:01,049 --> 00:14:04,417 was the former captain of the Princeton wrestling team 229 00:14:04,510 --> 00:14:07,173 and an elite navyjet pilot. 230 00:14:08,181 --> 00:14:11,140 Most congressmen use their power like an axe. 231 00:14:11,225 --> 00:14:12,636 Best and brightest. 232 00:14:12,727 --> 00:14:15,811 NARRATOR: Rumsfeld, on the other hand, used his... 233 00:14:15,897 --> 00:14:16,897 Where? 234 00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:20,728 NARRATOR:...like a master of the butterfly knife. 235 00:14:20,818 --> 00:14:23,401 And, like any master, if you got in his way, 236 00:14:23,488 --> 00:14:25,070 - he would cut you. - (grunts) 237 00:14:25,156 --> 00:14:26,488 (all laughing) 238 00:14:26,574 --> 00:14:28,907 This can be a great opportunity. 239 00:14:28,993 --> 00:14:31,076 An opportunity to work 240 00:14:31,162 --> 00:14:34,155 in the hallways of decision-making 241 00:14:34,248 --> 00:14:37,116 in the most powerful country in the goddamn world. 242 00:14:38,169 --> 00:14:39,646 And if that doesn't give you a hard-on, 243 00:14:39,670 --> 00:14:41,273 - I don't know what will. - (all laughing) 244 00:14:41,297 --> 00:14:45,132 Sorry to the few ladies in the room. 245 00:14:45,218 --> 00:14:48,006 This program didn't used to have girls, and now it does. 246 00:14:48,096 --> 00:14:50,088 - Anyway, I'm Don. - (chuckles) 247 00:14:50,181 --> 00:14:51,297 Whatever you do... 248 00:14:52,850 --> 00:14:55,684 don't work for Bob over here. 249 00:14:55,770 --> 00:14:58,478 He is the most boring son of a bitch in D.C. 250 00:14:58,564 --> 00:14:59,645 Isn't that right, Bob? 251 00:15:00,858 --> 00:15:02,190 All right, that's it. 252 00:15:02,276 --> 00:15:04,438 Go get a congressman a cup of coffee. 253 00:15:04,529 --> 00:15:07,021 And if his wife calls, he's always in a meeting. 254 00:15:07,115 --> 00:15:09,402 All right, that's it. Scat. 255 00:15:09,492 --> 00:15:11,484 (applause) 256 00:15:13,913 --> 00:15:15,029 Hey, I'm Alan. 257 00:15:15,123 --> 00:15:16,433 You're the other guy from the University 258 00:15:16,457 --> 00:15:18,039 - of Wisconsin, right? - Right. 259 00:15:18,126 --> 00:15:20,413 Uh, so one of us is supposed to start 260 00:15:20,503 --> 00:15:22,290 with a Democrat and the other a Republican. 261 00:15:22,380 --> 00:15:24,588 Do you care if I go with the Dem? 262 00:15:24,674 --> 00:15:27,132 'Cause I did a lot of work with the DNC on campus, so... 263 00:15:28,136 --> 00:15:32,255 Um, what party is, uh, the guy we just heard? 264 00:15:32,348 --> 00:15:34,556 Well, there are three penises walking down the street. 265 00:15:34,642 --> 00:15:36,078 Yeah, you, and who are the other two? 266 00:15:36,102 --> 00:15:39,015 Rumsfeld is a Republican. 267 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:43,106 Perfect. 'Cause, uh... 268 00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:46,153 that's what I am. 269 00:15:54,370 --> 00:15:55,827 (knocking on door) 270 00:15:59,709 --> 00:16:01,996 RUMSFELD: Don't lurk. Come in, damn it. 271 00:16:03,629 --> 00:16:07,839 Um, Dick Cheney, reporting for work. 272 00:16:07,925 --> 00:16:09,336 You're congressional relations 273 00:16:09,427 --> 00:16:11,384 for my Office of Economic Opportunity, 274 00:16:11,471 --> 00:16:13,337 and you will assist me in my job 275 00:16:13,431 --> 00:16:14,717 as counselor to the president. 276 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:17,809 Right. 277 00:16:19,312 --> 00:16:20,519 Jesus Christ, you want me 278 00:16:20,605 --> 00:16:21,957 to pin your mittens to your sleeves 279 00:16:21,981 --> 00:16:23,000 so you don't fuckin' lose 'em? 280 00:16:23,024 --> 00:16:24,140 - Go. - Yes, sir. 281 00:16:25,151 --> 00:16:28,235 Oh, and Cheney, your two DUIs came up on your transcript. 282 00:16:28,321 --> 00:16:29,778 Don't worry. I vouched for you. 283 00:16:29,864 --> 00:16:31,196 Thank you, sir. 284 00:16:31,282 --> 00:16:32,843 No, thanks are when your neighbor Dottie 285 00:16:32,867 --> 00:16:34,574 pulls your pud for the first time. 286 00:16:36,204 --> 00:16:37,536 You owe me. 287 00:16:37,622 --> 00:16:39,113 - Yes, sir. - Go! 288 00:16:42,168 --> 00:16:44,785 The first thing our department did 289 00:16:44,879 --> 00:16:48,043 was to conduct a sweeping audit 290 00:16:48,132 --> 00:16:51,967 at the population distribution across the nation. 291 00:16:52,053 --> 00:16:53,760 You will see that 292 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:56,088 the Office of Economic Opportunity benefits... 293 00:16:56,182 --> 00:16:58,265 You're Rumsfeld's lackey, right? 294 00:16:58,351 --> 00:16:59,842 Make sure he sees this. 295 00:16:59,936 --> 00:17:01,723 We gotta get that on Nixon's desk, huh? 296 00:17:01,812 --> 00:17:04,896 NARRATOR: Roger Ailes, founder of Fox News. 297 00:17:04,982 --> 00:17:07,599 He first pitched the idea as Conservative News 298 00:17:07,693 --> 00:17:10,185 when he worked for Nixon as a media consultant. 299 00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:12,236 CHENEY: Hey, Don. 300 00:17:12,323 --> 00:17:14,815 Roger wants Nixon to start a Republican news TV network. 301 00:17:14,909 --> 00:17:18,448 Forget it. Roger knows TV, but he doesn't know politics. 302 00:17:18,538 --> 00:17:20,996 So I would do this flaming baton trick 303 00:17:21,082 --> 00:17:24,246 And Dick would wait backstage with a bucket of water. 304 00:17:24,335 --> 00:17:25,576 So I'm at the state finals, 305 00:17:25,670 --> 00:17:27,662 and I throw up the baton, and... 306 00:17:27,755 --> 00:17:28,996 it doesn't come down. 307 00:17:29,090 --> 00:17:30,706 (laughter) 308 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,759 Cheney! Oh. Where did you find her? 309 00:17:33,844 --> 00:17:35,551 RUMSFELD: It is doing nothing but damage 310 00:17:35,638 --> 00:17:38,301 to our private health care institutions. 311 00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:40,553 - But I still got second place. - (Rumsfeld laughs) 312 00:17:40,643 --> 00:17:42,475 RUMSFELD: White families. Males. 313 00:17:42,562 --> 00:17:44,474 Women. Hispanics. Minorities... 314 00:17:44,564 --> 00:17:45,930 You're quiet. I like that. 315 00:17:46,983 --> 00:17:49,942 You don't go blabbing about what cards you have. 316 00:17:50,027 --> 00:17:52,519 I missed my flush draw about a month ago, 317 00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:56,316 but everybody still seems to think I have pocket kings 318 00:17:56,409 --> 00:17:57,866 except maybe fucking Haldeman. 319 00:17:57,952 --> 00:18:00,410 Oh, I mostly play Hearts, so I'm not... 320 00:18:00,496 --> 00:18:02,237 No, no, no. 321 00:18:02,331 --> 00:18:04,118 NARRATOR: For a man like Donald Rumsfeld, 322 00:18:04,208 --> 00:18:07,952 he only wanted three things from his lackey. 323 00:18:08,045 --> 00:18:10,253 He had to keep his mouth shut. 324 00:18:11,549 --> 00:18:12,915 Do what he was told. 325 00:18:14,552 --> 00:18:18,011 And always, always be loyal. 326 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:19,713 What it means is Nixon likes me, 327 00:18:19,807 --> 00:18:20,888 but his circle hates me. 328 00:18:20,975 --> 00:18:22,135 No, I'm sure that's not true. 329 00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:23,846 So, what's it gonna be? 330 00:18:23,936 --> 00:18:25,677 Is it a "yes" or a "no"? 331 00:18:25,771 --> 00:18:27,558 It's a "yes." 332 00:18:27,648 --> 00:18:29,418 You don't even know what the question is, do you? 333 00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:32,935 - I'm assuming it's to... - No, no, no. It's okay. 334 00:18:33,029 --> 00:18:34,840 That's exactly the kinda "yes" I was looking for. 335 00:18:34,864 --> 00:18:37,777 NARRATOR: Cheney had always been a so-so student 336 00:18:37,867 --> 00:18:39,529 and a mediocre athlete. 337 00:18:39,619 --> 00:18:44,364 But now, finally, he had found his life's calling. 338 00:18:44,457 --> 00:18:49,669 He would be a dedicated and humble servant to power. 339 00:18:49,754 --> 00:18:50,874 MAN: Here's your new office. 340 00:18:51,756 --> 00:18:53,122 No windows, but all you'd see 341 00:18:53,215 --> 00:18:55,252 are a bunch of hippies flipping off Nixon. 342 00:18:56,886 --> 00:18:58,047 All right, then. 343 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:04,057 NARRATOR: Now, at this point, 344 00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:07,602 you're probably wondering who exactly I am. 345 00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:10,722 Well, let me introduce myself. 346 00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:12,352 My name is Kurt. 347 00:19:12,443 --> 00:19:15,436 My favorite football team is the Steelers, 348 00:19:15,529 --> 00:19:19,113 and me and my son, we love SpongeBob. 349 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,782 And if you're wondering how I know 350 00:19:20,868 --> 00:19:23,360 so much about Dick Cheney, 351 00:19:23,454 --> 00:19:27,164 well, let's just say we're kind of related. 352 00:19:27,249 --> 00:19:28,740 We'll get to that later. 353 00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:33,857 ANNOUNCER (on TV): The Rifleman! 354 00:19:33,881 --> 00:19:35,292 (dramatic music playing on TV) 355 00:19:35,383 --> 00:19:37,170 (telephone ringing) 356 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,219 - Hello? - CHENEY: Lynnie, 357 00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:43,012 guess where I'm calling from. 358 00:19:44,141 --> 00:19:45,632 (Lynne exhales) 359 00:19:45,726 --> 00:19:48,059 I am so proud of you right now, Dick Cheney. 360 00:19:49,105 --> 00:19:51,939 I knew I picked the right man. I knew it even when I didn't. 361 00:19:54,110 --> 00:19:55,772 - We did it. - (Lynne laughs) 362 00:19:56,821 --> 00:19:59,029 Have you seen Nixon? Hmm? 363 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:01,402 - (baby coos) - Hmm? Hmm? 364 00:20:01,492 --> 00:20:03,950 I did. I met him. I shook his hand. 365 00:20:04,036 --> 00:20:07,154 Oh, my gosh. (stammers) And he called you 366 00:20:07,248 --> 00:20:09,017 - He gave me that, uh... - By name, like he actually... 367 00:20:09,041 --> 00:20:10,748 ...that impish smile of his. 368 00:20:11,752 --> 00:20:13,539 I gotta pinch myself. 369 00:20:13,629 --> 00:20:15,370 (baby fussing) 370 00:20:15,464 --> 00:20:17,000 Pardon my French. 371 00:20:17,091 --> 00:20:21,085 It is the best fucking feeling in the world. 372 00:20:21,178 --> 00:20:24,342 (gasps) I can only imagine. I am so proud of you. 373 00:20:24,432 --> 00:20:26,594 - I love you. - We are proud of you. 374 00:20:26,684 --> 00:20:28,495 Your girls are proud of you. Are you proud of your daddy? 375 00:20:28,519 --> 00:20:30,055 Yes. 376 00:20:30,146 --> 00:20:31,853 Can you say you're proud of your daddy? 377 00:20:31,939 --> 00:20:33,271 LIZ: My daddy. 378 00:20:33,357 --> 00:20:34,626 LYNNE: You're proud of your daddy. 379 00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:36,266 Oh, my goodness. 380 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:37,360 (exhales) 381 00:20:47,621 --> 00:20:49,408 - (exhales deeply) - (phone ringing) 382 00:20:54,670 --> 00:20:56,161 Dick Cheney's office. 383 00:20:56,255 --> 00:20:59,669 So, now that I'm not just flipping cards, 384 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:01,170 I have a few ideas. 385 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:02,260 Stop. 386 00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:04,262 See that door? 387 00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:07,304 To Kissinger's office? 388 00:21:07,391 --> 00:21:08,391 That's right. 389 00:21:09,310 --> 00:21:11,163 I happen to know that Nixon is in there right now. 390 00:21:11,187 --> 00:21:12,803 Now, why would Nixon 391 00:21:12,897 --> 00:21:14,854 not be meeting Kissinger in the Oval Office? 392 00:21:14,940 --> 00:21:16,126 CHENEY: He's having a conversation 393 00:21:16,150 --> 00:21:17,419 he doesn't want to go on the record? 394 00:21:17,443 --> 00:21:18,900 Very good. 395 00:21:18,986 --> 00:21:20,397 What is the conversation? 396 00:21:21,655 --> 00:21:22,896 We're going to bomb Cambodia. 397 00:21:22,990 --> 00:21:24,606 CHENEY: Well, that's impossible. 398 00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:26,191 That needs approval by Congress. 399 00:21:26,285 --> 00:21:27,821 I'm over there every day. 400 00:21:27,912 --> 00:21:29,824 Oh, fuck Congress. Unless you're in it. 401 00:21:29,914 --> 00:21:32,372 Then it's the greatest deliberative body on earth. 402 00:21:32,458 --> 00:21:34,165 But we're not, so fuck it. 403 00:21:34,251 --> 00:21:36,104 But didn't the president campaign on ending the... 404 00:21:36,128 --> 00:21:37,960 (shushing) Listen to me, listen to me. 405 00:21:39,548 --> 00:21:40,959 Because of the discussion 406 00:21:41,050 --> 00:21:42,810 that Nixon and Kissinger are having right now 407 00:21:42,843 --> 00:21:44,675 behind that door 408 00:21:44,762 --> 00:21:46,469 five feet away from us, 409 00:21:46,555 --> 00:21:49,138 in a couple of days, 10,000 miles away, 410 00:21:49,225 --> 00:21:51,683 a rain of 750-pound bombs 411 00:21:51,769 --> 00:21:53,556 dropped from B-52s 412 00:21:53,646 --> 00:21:55,057 at 20,000 feet, 413 00:21:55,147 --> 00:21:58,140 will hit villages and towns all across Cambodia. 414 00:21:59,693 --> 00:22:00,774 Thousands will die. 415 00:22:02,071 --> 00:22:04,529 And the world will change, for better or worse. 416 00:22:06,951 --> 00:22:09,364 (woman speaking in foreign language) 417 00:22:12,957 --> 00:22:14,698 That is the kind of power that exists 418 00:22:14,792 --> 00:22:16,658 in this squat little ugly building. 419 00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:21,247 Screw Kissinger. He's overrated. Let's go. 420 00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:23,781 (woman speaking in foreign language) 421 00:22:26,929 --> 00:22:28,545 CHENEY: So, what are we... 422 00:22:28,639 --> 00:22:31,052 - Um, you know, I mean... - Spit it out. 423 00:22:31,141 --> 00:22:33,036 - What are you trying to say? - Are we against spending? 424 00:22:33,060 --> 00:22:34,060 What do we believe? 425 00:22:35,145 --> 00:22:36,431 What do we believe? 426 00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:41,603 (snickers) 427 00:22:42,945 --> 00:22:43,945 (claps) 428 00:22:45,155 --> 00:22:47,112 (laughing) 429 00:22:47,408 --> 00:22:48,990 "What do we believe?" 430 00:22:49,076 --> 00:22:52,160 Oh. That's very good. 431 00:22:52,246 --> 00:22:53,737 "What do we believe?" 432 00:22:53,831 --> 00:22:56,448 (continues laughing) 433 00:23:01,088 --> 00:23:03,250 Oh, shit! 434 00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:12,759 CHENEY: Like that, through there. 435 00:23:12,850 --> 00:23:14,466 - You wanna try? - LIZ: Yeah. 436 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,222 CHENEY: You find out what the fish want. 437 00:23:16,312 --> 00:23:18,429 In this case, it's a worm. 438 00:23:18,522 --> 00:23:21,435 And then, uh, we use it to catch him. 439 00:23:21,525 --> 00:23:22,525 Look it. Look it. 440 00:23:22,610 --> 00:23:24,226 Dada. Dada, look. 441 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,606 The family gets to eat. 442 00:23:25,696 --> 00:23:28,313 Is it a good trick we're playing, for the worms? 443 00:23:29,366 --> 00:23:31,358 It's not good or bad. It's fishing. 444 00:23:32,494 --> 00:23:34,030 I don't want this one hurt. 445 00:23:34,121 --> 00:23:35,737 KURT: Dick had taken a job 446 00:23:35,831 --> 00:23:39,199 as a political consultant for a large financial firm, 447 00:23:39,293 --> 00:23:41,410 where he was finally making good money. 448 00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:45,380 He took the job because Nixon's inner circle 449 00:23:45,466 --> 00:23:48,004 had had enough of Donald Rumsfeld. 450 00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:49,755 I'm out. 451 00:23:49,845 --> 00:23:51,427 They're sending me to Brussels. 452 00:23:51,513 --> 00:23:53,004 CHENEY: What? 453 00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:57,308 Nixon is making me permanent ambassador to NATO. 454 00:23:57,394 --> 00:23:58,805 KURT: Or as he called it... 455 00:23:58,896 --> 00:24:00,387 It's a fuck-off assignment. 456 00:24:00,481 --> 00:24:01,688 Kissinger and Haldeman won. 457 00:24:01,774 --> 00:24:03,140 Why don't you come with me? 458 00:24:03,233 --> 00:24:07,068 I got a four and a seven-year-old, Don. 459 00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:08,816 Tell Don we are not moving 460 00:24:08,906 --> 00:24:11,023 just because everyone at the White House hates him. 461 00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:12,357 - (thumps table) - Good boy! 462 00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:14,534 I taught you well these past couple of years. 463 00:24:14,620 --> 00:24:15,781 I'm sorry, Don. 464 00:24:18,165 --> 00:24:19,281 I really am. 465 00:24:19,375 --> 00:24:20,411 Don't worry. 466 00:24:20,501 --> 00:24:22,117 I'm like bedbugs. 467 00:24:22,211 --> 00:24:24,294 You'll have to burn the mattress to get rid of me. 468 00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:25,871 (laughs) 469 00:24:25,965 --> 00:24:28,378 KURT: Dick was becoming sharper and sharper 470 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:30,424 as a D.C. insider. 471 00:24:30,511 --> 00:24:33,094 And Lynne had started to write articles 472 00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:35,388 and explore ideas for her first novel. 473 00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:36,635 Dick. 474 00:24:37,977 --> 00:24:38,977 Dick. 475 00:24:40,229 --> 00:24:44,644 KURT: Then she received news from back home in Casper. 476 00:24:44,733 --> 00:24:46,474 (indistinct radio chatter) 477 00:24:50,030 --> 00:24:51,396 REVEREND: The Lord is my shepherd. 478 00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:52,526 I shall not want. 479 00:24:52,616 --> 00:24:54,027 KURT: Lynne's mother Edna, 480 00:24:54,118 --> 00:24:56,576 who had avoided the water her whole life, 481 00:24:56,662 --> 00:24:59,871 was found drowned in the local Casper lake. 482 00:24:59,957 --> 00:25:01,357 REVEREND: ...paths of righteousness. 483 00:25:01,417 --> 00:25:04,000 KURT: They said her and Wayne, Lynne's dad, 484 00:25:04,086 --> 00:25:07,124 had had a nasty argument an hour before. 485 00:25:07,214 --> 00:25:08,500 She doesn't swim, Dick. 486 00:25:09,591 --> 00:25:11,833 - My mother doesn't swim. - What happened? 487 00:25:11,927 --> 00:25:15,091 She never swam. I don't... I don't know. 488 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:16,887 She just never swims, and then... 489 00:25:18,308 --> 00:25:20,846 KURT: There was never a serious investigation 490 00:25:20,936 --> 00:25:22,973 into Lynne's mom's death. 491 00:25:23,063 --> 00:25:24,975 You wanna see me do a handstand right here? 492 00:25:25,065 --> 00:25:28,308 - LYNNE: No. Don't. Dad. Dad. - I can do it right here. 493 00:25:28,402 --> 00:25:29,859 WAYNE: They're getting so big. 494 00:25:29,945 --> 00:25:31,481 LYNNE: You're gonna be all right, Dad. 495 00:25:31,572 --> 00:25:33,049 - WAYNE: Yeah. Yeah. - They're big girls. 496 00:25:33,073 --> 00:25:34,234 God, Dad... 497 00:25:34,324 --> 00:25:35,924 WAYNE: So listen, after this we should... 498 00:25:35,951 --> 00:25:37,429 What should we do? Should we go get some food? 499 00:25:37,453 --> 00:25:38,453 Girls... 500 00:25:38,495 --> 00:25:39,723 Dick, they were saying maybe... 501 00:25:39,747 --> 00:25:41,158 Why don't you go to the car? 502 00:25:42,833 --> 00:25:45,951 Come on, girls, let's listen to your father, all right? 503 00:25:47,254 --> 00:25:48,461 (Cheney clears throat) 504 00:25:51,967 --> 00:25:53,458 (exhales) 505 00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:57,216 They're gettin' so beautiful, Dick. It's amazing. 506 00:25:57,306 --> 00:25:58,422 - Mmm. - Just... 507 00:26:02,061 --> 00:26:04,394 You catching any fish? 508 00:26:11,070 --> 00:26:12,231 How are you, Dick? 509 00:26:14,948 --> 00:26:16,439 Things going good in D.C.? 510 00:26:19,453 --> 00:26:22,446 Don't ever go near my daughters or my wife again. 511 00:26:31,882 --> 00:26:32,918 Hmm. 512 00:26:41,225 --> 00:26:42,306 Big shot! 513 00:26:43,644 --> 00:26:45,636 "Big shot in D.C." Dick. 514 00:26:54,822 --> 00:26:55,858 MAN: Sir? 515 00:26:58,117 --> 00:26:59,574 - CHENEY: Thanks. - Mm-hmm. 516 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:00,901 (clears throat) 517 00:27:14,049 --> 00:27:16,257 CHENEY: So, uh, what do you got? 518 00:27:16,343 --> 00:27:17,343 Page eight. 519 00:27:22,516 --> 00:27:24,428 Hassan Mustafa Nasr, 520 00:27:24,518 --> 00:27:26,510 a cleric based in Milan, Italy. 521 00:27:27,563 --> 00:27:30,306 He's a member of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, 522 00:27:30,399 --> 00:27:32,186 the group that killed Anwar Sadat. 523 00:27:32,276 --> 00:27:34,142 That's the blind sheikh, right? 524 00:27:34,236 --> 00:27:35,836 CIA AGENT: There's some debate at Langley 525 00:27:35,863 --> 00:27:38,822 on whether they're a threat or not. 526 00:27:38,907 --> 00:27:40,443 They claim to be peaceful now. 527 00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:45,320 I claim to be eating healthy. 528 00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:48,202 (all chuckling) 529 00:27:55,382 --> 00:27:56,418 Okay. 530 00:27:57,843 --> 00:27:59,004 Go pick him up. 531 00:28:02,514 --> 00:28:05,257 (inaudible dialogue) 532 00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:08,597 (indistinct shouting) 533 00:28:16,111 --> 00:28:18,569 (grunting) 534 00:28:24,536 --> 00:28:25,652 What's the next name? 535 00:28:27,331 --> 00:28:28,788 WOLFOWITZ: Well, Mr. Vice President, 536 00:28:28,874 --> 00:28:32,367 there's been some chatter about, uh, uh... 537 00:28:32,461 --> 00:28:35,044 an engineering student from Berlin... 538 00:28:35,130 --> 00:28:37,543 NIXON: I have never been a quitter. 539 00:28:38,842 --> 00:28:40,959 To leave office before my term is completed 540 00:28:41,053 --> 00:28:43,887 is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. 541 00:28:46,225 --> 00:28:47,966 But as president... 542 00:28:48,060 --> 00:28:51,303 I must put the interests of America first. 543 00:28:53,273 --> 00:28:56,266 America needs a full-time president. 544 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,444 Nixon forgot about the voice-activated recorders. 545 00:29:00,697 --> 00:29:02,233 He got sloppy. 546 00:29:02,324 --> 00:29:04,031 LIZ: Is the president being punished? 547 00:29:04,117 --> 00:29:06,780 No, no. The president has a lot of enemies. 548 00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:08,907 Brussels, please. (clears throat) 549 00:29:08,997 --> 00:29:11,660 You need to remember, Lizzie... 550 00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:14,145 NIXON: The fight in the months ahead for my personal vindication... 551 00:29:14,169 --> 00:29:17,003 ...that if you have power, people will always try to take it from you. 552 00:29:17,089 --> 00:29:18,250 Always. 553 00:29:19,258 --> 00:29:20,374 - Yeah. - Yes, ma'am. 554 00:29:20,467 --> 00:29:22,424 You remember that. 555 00:29:22,511 --> 00:29:23,592 Donald Rumsfeld, please. 556 00:29:23,679 --> 00:29:26,387 This is a tragedy. 557 00:29:26,473 --> 00:29:27,839 That is our president. 558 00:29:27,933 --> 00:29:29,344 This is ridiculous. 559 00:29:29,434 --> 00:29:33,929 I actually think this could be very, very good news. 560 00:29:38,193 --> 00:29:41,652 The way I see it, any Republican not touched 561 00:29:41,738 --> 00:29:44,196 by Watergate is golden right now. 562 00:29:44,283 --> 00:29:47,526 Nice. Well, Ford called me before my plane took off, 563 00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:48,655 and I think we're in. 564 00:29:49,663 --> 00:29:52,576 Oh, still driving this chick magnet, huh? 565 00:29:52,666 --> 00:29:53,873 You can always take the bus. 566 00:29:53,959 --> 00:29:55,040 Therefore... 567 00:29:56,211 --> 00:29:57,747 I shall resign the presidency, 568 00:29:57,838 --> 00:29:59,329 effective at noon tomorrow. 569 00:30:00,882 --> 00:30:03,875 Vice President Ford will be sworn in 570 00:30:03,969 --> 00:30:05,835 as president at that hour... 571 00:30:05,929 --> 00:30:07,340 RUMSFELD: So what's the plan? 572 00:30:07,431 --> 00:30:11,596 Well, the plan is to take over the damn place. 573 00:30:12,728 --> 00:30:14,435 RUMSFELD: Who lit a fire under your ass? 574 00:30:14,521 --> 00:30:16,601 CHENEY: I haven't flipped cards for a long time, Don. 575 00:30:23,071 --> 00:30:26,815 They gave me the keys to the damn palace. 576 00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:29,992 Chief of Staff. 577 00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:32,911 Holy shit. 578 00:30:32,998 --> 00:30:35,786 You salty son of a bitch. 579 00:30:35,876 --> 00:30:37,333 - You did it. - (glasses clink) 580 00:30:37,419 --> 00:30:39,911 All right, we have work to do. 581 00:30:40,005 --> 00:30:42,793 Kissinger is trying to kiss and make up with the Soviets. 582 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:47,631 Well, let's make sure that shit doesn't happen. 583 00:30:48,805 --> 00:30:51,843 (laughing) 584 00:30:51,933 --> 00:30:53,014 Yeah. 585 00:30:58,815 --> 00:31:00,898 (girls laughing) 586 00:31:00,984 --> 00:31:04,603 CHENEY: If I may, I believe I may have a way 587 00:31:04,696 --> 00:31:07,404 to put an oar in the water on Russia. 588 00:31:07,491 --> 00:31:09,653 What if we create... 589 00:31:09,743 --> 00:31:13,407 - Mr. President. - Hold on, Henry, let's hear Dick out. 590 00:31:13,497 --> 00:31:16,410 KURT: One of Dick Cheney's special superpowers 591 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:18,241 was the ability to make 592 00:31:18,335 --> 00:31:21,328 the most wild and extreme ideas 593 00:31:21,421 --> 00:31:24,209 sound measured and professional. 594 00:31:24,299 --> 00:31:26,632 What if, on a unilateral basis, 595 00:31:26,718 --> 00:31:30,302 we all put miniature wigs on our penises 596 00:31:30,389 --> 00:31:33,848 and we walked out to the White House lawn 597 00:31:33,934 --> 00:31:35,470 and jerked each other off? 598 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:40,100 So, like a puppet show, but much more enjoyable. 599 00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:43,058 Hmm. I do like a good puppet show. 600 00:31:43,151 --> 00:31:45,234 I say we do it. 601 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,277 REPORTER: Henry Kissinger has been relieved 602 00:31:47,364 --> 00:31:48,730 as national security advisor 603 00:31:48,824 --> 00:31:50,781 and replaced by Brent Scowcroft. 604 00:31:50,867 --> 00:31:52,699 (girls laughing) 605 00:31:52,786 --> 00:31:55,574 REPORTER 2: They're calling it the Halloween Massacre. 606 00:31:55,664 --> 00:31:56,984 - Mr. President. - Hold on, Henry. 607 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,600 REPORTER 3: Donald Rumsfeld has replaced 608 00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:00,750 Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. 609 00:32:00,836 --> 00:32:02,522 REPORTER 4: And Dick Cheney has been chosen as the... 610 00:32:02,546 --> 00:32:04,208 Youngest Chief of Staff in history. 611 00:32:04,297 --> 00:32:06,257 - It's amazing. It's a dream. - CHENEY: It's real. 612 00:32:07,551 --> 00:32:11,386 And Don is the youngest Secretary of Defense ever. 613 00:32:11,471 --> 00:32:13,178 Well, I'm not talking about Don. 614 00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:14,847 I'm talking about you. 615 00:32:16,726 --> 00:32:18,558 And I'm going to give you 616 00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:20,682 a kiss right here in the White House. 617 00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:24,227 Excuse me, Mr. and Mrs. Cheney, 618 00:32:24,317 --> 00:32:26,212 these girls were trying to enter the Oval Office. 619 00:32:26,236 --> 00:32:28,774 - CHENEY: Oh, dear. Oh, dear. - (girls laughing) 620 00:32:28,864 --> 00:32:31,572 - Girls... - Hey. Hey, there. Hey, you! 621 00:32:31,658 --> 00:32:34,116 Girls, this is not a playground. Please do not... 622 00:32:34,202 --> 00:32:35,943 Hey, you. Hey. 623 00:32:36,037 --> 00:32:38,199 - Is this where Santa lives? - (gasps) 624 00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:41,707 It's even better. It's even better. 625 00:32:42,836 --> 00:32:45,044 This is where... 626 00:32:46,339 --> 00:32:49,423 the leader of the greatest nation 627 00:32:49,509 --> 00:32:51,341 on earth lives. 628 00:32:51,428 --> 00:32:52,697 Are you one of his elves, Daddy? 629 00:32:52,721 --> 00:32:54,178 CHENEY: In a way, yes. 630 00:32:54,264 --> 00:32:56,096 No, he is not, Mary. 631 00:32:56,183 --> 00:32:58,766 Your father is Chief of Staff. 632 00:32:58,852 --> 00:33:00,639 Chief of Staff. 633 00:33:01,855 --> 00:33:02,855 If you're silly with her, 634 00:33:02,939 --> 00:33:04,333 she'll grow up to be a silly woman. 635 00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:07,270 CHENEY: Right, of course. I forgot. 636 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,195 That's just, uh... That's just silly, Mary. 637 00:33:11,281 --> 00:33:13,489 KURT: And as the new Chief of Staff, 638 00:33:13,575 --> 00:33:16,443 and with the presidency weakened by Watergate, 639 00:33:16,536 --> 00:33:18,152 Dick Cheney wanted to find out 640 00:33:18,246 --> 00:33:21,455 exactly how much power did the president have. 641 00:33:21,541 --> 00:33:23,908 I would like to reinstate executive authority. 642 00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:26,039 How? 643 00:33:26,129 --> 00:33:27,961 KURT: Antonin Scalia, 644 00:33:28,048 --> 00:33:29,880 a young lawyer with the Justice Department 645 00:33:29,966 --> 00:33:32,629 who would later go on to serve on the Supreme Court 646 00:33:32,719 --> 00:33:34,176 rocked Dick's world. 647 00:33:34,262 --> 00:33:35,673 Interesting you should ask. 648 00:33:35,764 --> 00:33:37,756 Are you familiar with the theory 649 00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:39,385 of the unitary executive? 650 00:33:39,476 --> 00:33:40,967 No. Tell me about it. 651 00:33:41,061 --> 00:33:42,427 Uh, it is an interpretation 652 00:33:42,521 --> 00:33:44,433 that few, like myself, happen to believe, 653 00:33:44,523 --> 00:33:46,185 in Article Il of the Constitution 654 00:33:46,274 --> 00:33:47,981 that vests the president 655 00:33:48,068 --> 00:33:50,355 with absolute executive authority. 656 00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:52,941 And I mean absolute. 657 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:04,041 (Cole fussing) 658 00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:07,326 - Hey, baby? - Yep? 659 00:34:07,420 --> 00:34:09,036 You wanna take Cole to the high chair? 660 00:34:10,090 --> 00:34:11,297 Come on, buddy. 661 00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:12,749 KURT: I've gotta try and explain 662 00:34:12,842 --> 00:34:14,333 this thing to the people. 663 00:34:14,427 --> 00:34:16,419 Oh, aren't you hungry? (grunts) 664 00:34:16,513 --> 00:34:18,345 KURT: The unitary... 665 00:34:18,431 --> 00:34:19,842 executive... 666 00:34:19,933 --> 00:34:21,049 theory. 667 00:34:21,142 --> 00:34:23,509 Certain legal scholars believe that 668 00:34:23,603 --> 00:34:25,765 if the president does anything, 669 00:34:25,855 --> 00:34:27,096 it must be legal, 670 00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:28,931 because it's the president. 671 00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:31,312 To hell with checks and balances, 672 00:34:31,403 --> 00:34:33,611 especially during times of war. 673 00:34:34,614 --> 00:34:39,951 This was the power of kings, pharaohs, dictators. 674 00:34:40,036 --> 00:34:41,447 - This is perfect. - SCALIA: Mm-hmm. 675 00:34:41,538 --> 00:34:43,746 KURT: Dick Cheney was a foot soldier 676 00:34:43,832 --> 00:34:46,791 in the power games of Washington, D.C. 677 00:34:46,876 --> 00:34:49,869 But with the unitary executive theory, 678 00:34:49,963 --> 00:34:51,420 he could become... 679 00:34:51,506 --> 00:34:55,045 (voice distorts) Galactus, Devourer of Planets. 680 00:34:56,886 --> 00:34:59,879 But then it was election night, 681 00:34:59,973 --> 00:35:01,509 and there was one big problem. 682 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,718 The winner, with 272 electoral votes... 683 00:35:04,811 --> 00:35:06,097 we had wondered which one of us 684 00:35:06,187 --> 00:35:07,290 was going to make this announcement. 685 00:35:07,314 --> 00:35:10,057 James Earl Carter, 686 00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:11,710 the next president of the United States. 687 00:35:11,735 --> 00:35:15,649 KURT: And just like that, it was all over. 688 00:35:15,739 --> 00:35:18,356 Dick Cheney, the president's Chief of Staff, 689 00:35:18,450 --> 00:35:20,112 he does not have a job. 690 00:35:20,201 --> 00:35:21,658 At one point, he was a broker. 691 00:35:21,745 --> 00:35:23,389 It can't be. It's got to be some sort of a mistake. 692 00:35:23,413 --> 00:35:25,450 - A miscalculation. - There goes the neighborhood. 693 00:35:26,583 --> 00:35:28,074 (reporter continues indistinctly) 694 00:35:28,168 --> 00:35:29,168 FORD: Well... 695 00:35:31,087 --> 00:35:32,749 thank you all. 696 00:35:32,839 --> 00:35:35,297 REPORTER 1: The Republicans have lost the presidency. 697 00:35:35,383 --> 00:35:37,625 They are the minority in Congress and in most states. 698 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,961 With America demanding change, I don't see... 699 00:35:40,055 --> 00:35:42,172 REPORTER 2: The GOP is a party in disarray. 700 00:35:42,265 --> 00:35:44,382 Clearly, Watergate, the Vietnam War... 701 00:35:44,476 --> 00:35:45,703 REPORTER 3: President Carter went up 702 00:35:45,727 --> 00:35:47,184 on the roof of the White House today 703 00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:49,353 to show off the new solar water heaters 704 00:35:49,439 --> 00:35:50,805 installed there. 705 00:35:50,899 --> 00:35:52,515 CARTER: Today, in directly harnessing 706 00:35:52,609 --> 00:35:53,969 the power of the sun, we are taking 707 00:35:54,027 --> 00:35:56,269 the energy that God gave us, 708 00:35:56,363 --> 00:36:00,107 the most renewable energy that we will ever see, 709 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,533 and using it to replace our dwindling supplies 710 00:36:02,619 --> 00:36:04,030 of fossil fuels. 711 00:36:05,664 --> 00:36:06,904 There is no longer any question 712 00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:09,243 that solar energy 713 00:36:09,334 --> 00:36:12,668 is both feasible and also cost-effective. 714 00:36:33,525 --> 00:36:35,127 CHENEY:...went on to be Secretary of Defense. 715 00:36:35,151 --> 00:36:37,985 Al Haig, who became Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, 716 00:36:38,071 --> 00:36:41,189 and, uh, Bob Haldeman, who is doing time 717 00:36:41,282 --> 00:36:43,569 in a California penitentiary. 718 00:36:43,660 --> 00:36:45,071 Well, not me. Not me, sir. 719 00:36:45,161 --> 00:36:48,620 I... I will become the gentleman from Wyoming. 720 00:36:48,707 --> 00:36:51,074 Most of all, and hear this, 721 00:36:51,167 --> 00:36:53,409 uh, taxes must go down. 722 00:36:53,503 --> 00:36:55,460 I'll say it again, taxes must go down. 723 00:36:55,547 --> 00:36:57,504 - Talk. Talk. - CHENEY: We must ameliorate 724 00:36:57,590 --> 00:36:59,502 the pain of taxes for the working man 725 00:36:59,592 --> 00:37:01,549 and bring, uh... (clears throat) 726 00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:04,174 perspicacity to the fore. 727 00:37:04,264 --> 00:37:08,053 I'm as much a Wyomingite, our, uh, demonym... 728 00:37:08,143 --> 00:37:10,100 MAN: Blah, blah, blah. 729 00:37:10,186 --> 00:37:12,303 Thank God for name recognition. 730 00:37:12,397 --> 00:37:13,979 CHENEY:...as Jedediah Smith. 731 00:37:14,065 --> 00:37:16,057 Well, um, enough of the horsing around. 732 00:37:16,151 --> 00:37:19,644 Although that is, of course, what, uh, us cowboys do. 733 00:37:19,738 --> 00:37:20,774 Um... 734 00:37:21,990 --> 00:37:25,324 Uh, vote for Cheney for Congress. 735 00:37:25,410 --> 00:37:28,073 I will not let you down, you can count on me. 736 00:37:28,163 --> 00:37:29,654 And, uh, thank you. 737 00:37:29,748 --> 00:37:33,992 Vote for, uh, Cheney in Congress. 738 00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:35,826 (scattered applause) 739 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,582 Either he drinks next time or I do. 740 00:37:39,549 --> 00:37:41,131 CHENEY: Yeah... 741 00:37:41,217 --> 00:37:42,753 I don't want anyone to panic, 742 00:37:42,844 --> 00:37:47,839 but, uh, I do believe I have to go to the hospital. 743 00:37:49,267 --> 00:37:50,267 Now. 744 00:37:54,647 --> 00:37:56,604 (EKG beeping) 745 00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:03,487 DOCTOR: It's an inferior wall infarct. 746 00:38:03,573 --> 00:38:05,860 But that... that can be fixed, right? 747 00:38:06,868 --> 00:38:07,984 If it was up to me, 748 00:38:08,077 --> 00:38:09,409 you'd drop out of the election. 749 00:38:11,581 --> 00:38:12,683 But you've both made that clear 750 00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:14,414 that it's not an option, 751 00:38:14,501 --> 00:38:17,790 so you must have a minimum of two weeks bed rest. 752 00:38:17,879 --> 00:38:20,087 Two weeks off, we'll lose our lead. 753 00:38:20,173 --> 00:38:21,380 Like hell we will. 754 00:38:22,425 --> 00:38:23,745 MAYOR: Dick Cheney has an illness, 755 00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:25,964 so he can't be here today. 756 00:38:26,054 --> 00:38:29,593 But we got his wife, and she's a darn pretty girl. 757 00:38:30,725 --> 00:38:32,182 - Lynne Cheney! - (applause) 758 00:38:32,268 --> 00:38:34,180 (crowd whistling) 759 00:38:34,270 --> 00:38:35,681 - Hello... - (feedback) 760 00:38:35,772 --> 00:38:37,855 Hello, how are you today? 761 00:38:37,941 --> 00:38:39,227 Good, good, good to hear. 762 00:38:39,317 --> 00:38:43,311 Uh, it's really nice to be back in my home state. 763 00:38:43,404 --> 00:38:46,943 See, I grew up in Wyoming, but it seems that, uh, 764 00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:49,116 somewhere along the line, 765 00:38:49,202 --> 00:38:51,034 Washington, D.C. stopped listening 766 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,952 to real folks like us 767 00:38:53,039 --> 00:38:56,532 and started only listening to liberal snobs 768 00:38:56,626 --> 00:38:58,492 who want us all to lose our jobs 769 00:38:58,586 --> 00:39:00,168 to affirmative action. 770 00:39:00,255 --> 00:39:01,255 MAN: Mm-hmm. 771 00:39:02,632 --> 00:39:03,839 Okay, Lynne. Let's... 772 00:39:03,925 --> 00:39:05,336 (applause and cheering) 773 00:39:05,426 --> 00:39:06,507 LYNNE: That's right. 774 00:39:07,929 --> 00:39:10,637 You know, I went to New York City. 775 00:39:10,723 --> 00:39:13,261 Women in New York City are burning their bras. 776 00:39:13,351 --> 00:39:15,092 (chuckles) 777 00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:17,306 Well, you know what women in Wyoming do with our bras? 778 00:39:17,397 --> 00:39:19,514 We wear them. 779 00:39:19,607 --> 00:39:22,725 - (crowd cheering) - LYNNE: We wear them. 780 00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:23,980 Here in Wyoming, 781 00:39:24,070 --> 00:39:25,902 we believe there is a right and a wrong... 782 00:39:25,989 --> 00:39:29,733 Because I'm a mom and a wife from Wyoming 783 00:39:29,826 --> 00:39:33,285 and I know how it feels to make every penny count. 784 00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:35,909 And not only do I speak for you, 785 00:39:35,999 --> 00:39:37,199 but my husband, Dick Cheney... 786 00:39:37,250 --> 00:39:39,037 KURT: A hard wind of change 787 00:39:39,127 --> 00:39:41,039 had been blowing through America. 788 00:39:41,129 --> 00:39:44,748 Civil rights, Roe v. Wade, environmentalism, 789 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,200 but there was a part of the country 790 00:39:47,260 --> 00:39:49,252 that was angry about this change. 791 00:39:50,263 --> 00:39:54,098 Thanks to my amazing wife. 792 00:39:55,393 --> 00:39:58,886 It's good to be joining you all here in D.C. 793 00:39:58,980 --> 00:40:01,222 as Wyoming's sole congressional representative. 794 00:40:03,443 --> 00:40:05,355 KURT: And then, big money families 795 00:40:05,445 --> 00:40:07,402 like the Kochs and the Coors 796 00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:10,071 that were sick of paying income taxes 797 00:40:10,158 --> 00:40:12,400 rolled right into Washington, D.C. 798 00:40:12,493 --> 00:40:15,156 and started writing fat checks 799 00:40:15,246 --> 00:40:16,737 to fund right-wing think tanks... 800 00:40:18,791 --> 00:40:20,123 that would change the way 801 00:40:20,209 --> 00:40:22,576 many Americans looked at the world. 802 00:40:25,131 --> 00:40:29,546 Finally, in 1980, this unlikely revolution 803 00:40:29,636 --> 00:40:32,424 of the super-rich and white conservatives 804 00:40:32,513 --> 00:40:33,799 found its face. 805 00:40:33,890 --> 00:40:35,882 REAGAN: For those without skills, 806 00:40:35,975 --> 00:40:38,558 we'll find a way to help them get new skills. 807 00:40:38,645 --> 00:40:40,728 For those withoutjob opportunities, 808 00:40:40,813 --> 00:40:42,475 we'll stimulate new opportunities, 809 00:40:42,565 --> 00:40:45,683 particularly in the inner cities where they live. 810 00:40:45,777 --> 00:40:48,110 For those who've abandoned hope, 811 00:40:48,196 --> 00:40:50,062 we'll restore hope and we'll welcome them 812 00:40:50,156 --> 00:40:51,818 into a great national crusade 813 00:40:51,908 --> 00:40:53,900 to make America great again. 814 00:40:53,993 --> 00:40:55,404 (crowd cheering) 815 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:01,741 Thank you very much. 816 00:41:03,836 --> 00:41:05,202 God bless America. 817 00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:10,837 KURT: It was the fucking 1980s, 818 00:41:10,927 --> 00:41:13,715 and it was a hell of a time to be Dick Cheney. 819 00:41:15,723 --> 00:41:19,057 Vote on H.R.4445, 820 00:41:19,143 --> 00:41:21,635 the Undetectable Firearms Act, 821 00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:25,097 to ban plastic guns that can evade metal detectors. 822 00:41:25,191 --> 00:41:26,682 CHENEY: Nay. 823 00:41:26,776 --> 00:41:29,644 REAGAN: Well, thank you, Congressmen Cheney. 824 00:41:29,737 --> 00:41:31,729 I hear you've been quite the ally. 825 00:41:31,823 --> 00:41:34,236 CLERK:...establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day 826 00:41:34,325 --> 00:41:35,782 as a federal holiday. 827 00:41:36,786 --> 00:41:42,202 H.R.36441, the Endangered Species Act. 828 00:41:42,291 --> 00:41:45,375 Mr. T is here, right with the First Family. 829 00:41:45,461 --> 00:41:48,625 Vote on H.R.500, the Water Quality Act. 830 00:41:48,715 --> 00:41:49,922 - Out! - WOMAN: Woo! 831 00:41:50,008 --> 00:41:52,216 MAN: Vote on H.R.44... 832 00:41:54,220 --> 00:41:56,337 Someone call an ambulance! 833 00:41:58,141 --> 00:41:59,598 Can you breathe? 834 00:41:59,684 --> 00:42:01,676 CHENEY: I'm having a heart attack, you idiot. 835 00:42:05,356 --> 00:42:07,689 (indistinct chatter) 836 00:42:34,469 --> 00:42:36,238 CHENEY: Thank you, Alex, for your very responsible... 837 00:42:36,262 --> 00:42:37,469 WOMAN: Oh, congratulations. 838 00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:40,389 Thank you. I was very, very excited... 839 00:42:40,475 --> 00:42:42,592 - We are not wolves. - LYNNE: Thank you. 840 00:42:42,685 --> 00:42:44,267 No, thank you. 841 00:42:44,353 --> 00:42:47,687 Oh, they're both brilliant but broke. 842 00:42:50,359 --> 00:42:52,191 - Hey, George. - GEORGE BUSH SR.: Hey, Dick. 843 00:42:52,278 --> 00:42:54,270 - Hello, Lynne. - (kisses) 844 00:42:54,363 --> 00:42:55,799 Congratulations on your appointment. 845 00:42:55,823 --> 00:42:57,906 Oh, well, thank you, Mr. Vice President. 846 00:42:57,992 --> 00:42:59,608 How is your lovely family? 847 00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:02,035 Well, we think our son Jeb seems cut out for office. 848 00:43:04,749 --> 00:43:06,869 We may be asking for your endorsements in a few years. 849 00:43:06,959 --> 00:43:09,372 Well, if he's half as charming as you are, George, 850 00:43:09,462 --> 00:43:10,862 then you'll have both of our votes. 851 00:43:10,922 --> 00:43:12,066 Ah, can I get that in writing? 852 00:43:12,090 --> 00:43:13,331 Oh, yeah, of course. 853 00:43:13,424 --> 00:43:14,960 Dick, I just want to say thank you 854 00:43:15,051 --> 00:43:16,633 for getting the House not to override 855 00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,711 the president's veto on the fairness doctrine. 856 00:43:18,805 --> 00:43:20,512 No, not a problem. 857 00:43:20,598 --> 00:43:22,715 Happy to get rid of any big government regulations. 858 00:43:22,809 --> 00:43:24,550 Thank you. Great. 859 00:43:24,644 --> 00:43:26,497 KURT: The fairness doctrine was a law from the 40s 860 00:43:26,521 --> 00:43:29,685 that required any broadcast TV or radio news 861 00:43:29,774 --> 00:43:32,608 to present both sides of an issue equally. 862 00:43:32,693 --> 00:43:35,652 Its repeal would lead to the rise of opinion news. 863 00:43:35,738 --> 00:43:39,982 Let me tell you something, you skinny human prophylactic. 864 00:43:40,993 --> 00:43:43,610 Love is the only human emotion you can't fake. 865 00:43:43,704 --> 00:43:45,696 Except women. And thank God they can. 866 00:43:45,790 --> 00:43:47,122 (audience laughing) 867 00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:50,079 And eventually to the realization 868 00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:51,751 of Roger Ailes' dream. 869 00:43:52,797 --> 00:43:55,210 Fox News, which would go on to become 870 00:43:55,299 --> 00:43:58,667 the number one news station in the United States 871 00:43:58,761 --> 00:44:00,969 and swing America even more to the right. 872 00:44:02,557 --> 00:44:04,514 Thank you. Great. 873 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,557 - (clattering) - (waitress gasps) 874 00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:09,227 Sorry. Sorry. Hey, it's all right. 875 00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:10,929 Lighten up, sweetheart. It's a party. 876 00:44:11,023 --> 00:44:12,334 GEORGE BUSH SR.: Let me go see if I can see 877 00:44:12,358 --> 00:44:13,585 if everything's okay over there. 878 00:44:13,609 --> 00:44:15,851 Great to see you both. Love to the girls. 879 00:44:15,945 --> 00:44:17,686 - Love to Barbara. - Will do. 880 00:44:18,531 --> 00:44:20,113 - That's his son. - Oh, crap. 881 00:44:21,450 --> 00:44:23,487 George W., black sheep of the family. 882 00:44:23,578 --> 00:44:25,806 - Very boring people. Only in America... - GEORGE BUSH SR.: Let's go. 883 00:44:25,830 --> 00:44:28,038 A little too much unconditional love there. 884 00:44:30,126 --> 00:44:32,288 Can you feel it, Dick? 885 00:44:32,378 --> 00:44:34,335 Half the room wants to be us. 886 00:44:34,422 --> 00:44:36,709 The other half fears us. 887 00:44:36,799 --> 00:44:39,416 I know George is next in line, but... 888 00:44:40,970 --> 00:44:42,381 after that, who knows? 889 00:44:43,973 --> 00:44:46,181 I respect the hell out of Reagan, 890 00:44:47,518 --> 00:44:50,306 but no one has shown the world the true power 891 00:44:50,396 --> 00:44:52,308 of the American presidency. 892 00:44:56,527 --> 00:44:58,189 (indistinct chatter) 893 00:45:16,547 --> 00:45:18,539 (sobbing) 894 00:45:19,717 --> 00:45:21,424 Excuse me, Miss Mary! 895 00:45:21,510 --> 00:45:24,924 You cannot leave the grounds during school hours. Mary! 896 00:45:30,144 --> 00:45:32,227 - (tires screech) - (horn blares) 897 00:45:33,522 --> 00:45:34,933 LYNNE: Well, I don't understand. 898 00:45:35,024 --> 00:45:37,641 You just left school? Why? 899 00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:39,567 It doesn't make any sense. 900 00:45:40,863 --> 00:45:42,104 It was Susan. 901 00:45:43,366 --> 00:45:44,948 LYNNE: Susan, your best friend? 902 00:45:46,661 --> 00:45:49,620 Oh, honey, did you get in a fight over a boy or... 903 00:45:55,086 --> 00:45:56,952 (sobbing) She broke up with me. 904 00:45:58,464 --> 00:45:59,796 (sniffling) 905 00:45:59,882 --> 00:46:02,169 Mom, Dad... 906 00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:05,637 I... 907 00:46:05,639 --> 00:46:06,879 I like girls. 908 00:46:08,140 --> 00:46:09,756 I'm gay. 909 00:46:28,494 --> 00:46:30,201 (sighs) 910 00:46:30,288 --> 00:46:32,029 It doesn't matter, sweetheart. 911 00:46:33,833 --> 00:46:35,324 We love you no matter what. 912 00:46:37,295 --> 00:46:38,957 Daddy. 913 00:46:39,046 --> 00:46:40,753 I love you so much. 914 00:46:43,968 --> 00:46:45,379 This is going to make things... 915 00:46:46,595 --> 00:46:47,711 so hard for you. 916 00:46:53,144 --> 00:46:55,636 (man speaking indistinctly) 917 00:46:55,730 --> 00:46:58,313 When George Bush Sr. was elected president, 918 00:46:58,399 --> 00:47:02,109 Dick Cheney was made Secretary of Defense, 919 00:47:02,194 --> 00:47:04,151 sixth in line to the presidency. 920 00:47:05,281 --> 00:47:07,068 And after a few years, 921 00:47:07,158 --> 00:47:10,071 it was Dick's turn to run for president. 922 00:47:10,161 --> 00:47:13,871 So they decided to do some early polling numbers. 923 00:47:13,956 --> 00:47:15,447 Uh-huh. Guess that's it. 924 00:47:17,376 --> 00:47:19,618 LYNNE: We can move those numbers. Just... 925 00:47:20,755 --> 00:47:22,371 go after the welfare state, 926 00:47:22,465 --> 00:47:24,422 - regulations, government waste. - It'll be war. 927 00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:25,715 LYNNE: No. 928 00:47:25,801 --> 00:47:27,383 I, uh... 929 00:47:27,470 --> 00:47:29,177 I can't put Mary through that. 930 00:47:31,140 --> 00:47:33,382 Every primary opponent will go after her. 931 00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:40,931 LYNNE: And we deny. 932 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:45,477 Shame them for going after the family and... 933 00:48:10,763 --> 00:48:12,720 (wind gusting) 934 00:48:20,606 --> 00:48:23,895 (indistinct chatter) 935 00:48:23,984 --> 00:48:26,351 LYNNE: You let Grandma go. 936 00:48:26,445 --> 00:48:28,402 PERRY: Come on. Good boy. 937 00:48:28,489 --> 00:48:29,489 All right. 938 00:48:31,158 --> 00:48:33,366 No. Oh, my goodness. 939 00:48:33,452 --> 00:48:34,988 (laughter) 940 00:48:35,079 --> 00:48:36,286 (Lynne exclaims and laughs) 941 00:48:40,292 --> 00:48:41,749 MARY: It's great, Philip. 942 00:48:41,836 --> 00:48:44,044 Uh, Coors has me mapping out strategies 943 00:48:44,130 --> 00:48:46,588 for people living alternative lifestyles. 944 00:48:46,674 --> 00:48:48,415 The Coors are a wonderful family. 945 00:48:48,509 --> 00:48:50,171 They're good people. (clears throat) 946 00:48:57,268 --> 00:49:00,386 (inaudible dialogue) 947 00:49:22,418 --> 00:49:25,411 (phone ringing) 948 00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,757 LYNNE: Who is calling on a Sunday morning? 949 00:49:36,390 --> 00:49:37,390 CHENEY: I don't know. 950 00:49:38,476 --> 00:49:40,763 Okay. I'm coming. 951 00:49:40,853 --> 00:49:43,345 (ringing continues) 952 00:49:43,439 --> 00:49:44,475 I'm comin'. 953 00:49:46,567 --> 00:49:47,728 (phone beeps) 954 00:49:47,818 --> 00:49:48,854 Hello. 955 00:49:52,573 --> 00:49:53,814 That's right. 956 00:49:57,244 --> 00:49:58,325 Mm-hmm. 957 00:50:04,084 --> 00:50:06,121 Any way I can be of assistance. 958 00:50:09,048 --> 00:50:11,085 Yep, now that should work. 3:00 p.m. 959 00:50:12,510 --> 00:50:14,217 Of course. 960 00:50:14,303 --> 00:50:15,339 Oh, that, uh... 961 00:50:16,472 --> 00:50:17,929 that goes without saying. 962 00:50:20,226 --> 00:50:21,307 Thank you. 963 00:50:21,393 --> 00:50:22,759 No, thank you. 964 00:50:24,355 --> 00:50:25,562 - Who was that? - (phone beeps) 965 00:50:26,690 --> 00:50:28,682 It was someone from 966 00:50:28,776 --> 00:50:31,610 George Bush's son's, uh, campaign. 967 00:50:31,695 --> 00:50:32,654 Jeb? 968 00:50:32,656 --> 00:50:34,021 No, no, George W. 969 00:50:34,114 --> 00:50:36,197 - Uh, Jeb's Florida. - Right, right. 970 00:50:36,283 --> 00:50:37,945 Oh, I still can't believe they've got 971 00:50:38,035 --> 00:50:40,027 that poor boy running for president. 972 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,077 (chuckles softly) What'd they want? 973 00:50:43,415 --> 00:50:47,250 They want to talk to me about being his running mate. 974 00:50:48,879 --> 00:50:49,960 What? 975 00:50:51,173 --> 00:50:52,789 They didn't say it outright, 976 00:50:52,883 --> 00:50:54,670 but, uh... 977 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,342 I've made that call myself. 978 00:50:57,388 --> 00:50:58,720 That's what they want. 979 00:51:00,432 --> 00:51:02,640 A vice president is a nothing job. 980 00:51:03,936 --> 00:51:04,936 Mmm. 981 00:51:05,854 --> 00:51:07,686 Well, I'll just hear 'em out. 982 00:51:07,773 --> 00:51:09,309 I owe that to the father. 983 00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,642 The VP just sits around 984 00:51:11,735 --> 00:51:13,397 and waits for the president to die. 985 00:51:13,487 --> 00:51:14,819 You've said so yourself. 986 00:51:16,282 --> 00:51:17,523 Yeah, it's a cruddy job. 987 00:51:17,616 --> 00:51:18,616 Yeah. 988 00:51:19,910 --> 00:51:21,071 It's just a meeting. 989 00:51:22,079 --> 00:51:23,695 Is it just a meeting? 990 00:51:25,874 --> 00:51:27,240 It's just a meeting. 991 00:51:32,631 --> 00:51:33,712 Good. 992 00:51:37,636 --> 00:51:39,798 (bubbling) 993 00:51:55,154 --> 00:51:56,270 THERESA: Yes, Governor. 994 00:51:58,699 --> 00:52:00,361 Of course. 995 00:52:00,451 --> 00:52:02,331 The governor will see you now, Secretary Cheney. 996 00:52:03,579 --> 00:52:04,660 (clears throat) 997 00:52:08,626 --> 00:52:09,626 Sure. 998 00:52:12,838 --> 00:52:14,500 GEORGE W. BUSH: Hey! Hello, Dick. 999 00:52:14,590 --> 00:52:15,797 Hello, George. 1000 00:52:16,925 --> 00:52:18,291 It's been a while. 1001 00:52:18,385 --> 00:52:19,626 Last year. 1002 00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:21,928 Foreign policy sessions. 1003 00:52:22,014 --> 00:52:24,006 That's right. Yeah, that's right. 1004 00:52:24,099 --> 00:52:25,590 Those meetings were, uh... 1005 00:52:26,852 --> 00:52:28,935 very engaging. 1006 00:52:29,021 --> 00:52:31,684 I do remember we both agreed 1007 00:52:31,774 --> 00:52:33,015 my dad would've been re-elected 1008 00:52:33,108 --> 00:52:34,599 had he taken out Saddam. 1009 00:52:34,693 --> 00:52:37,356 Right. Yeah, wartime presidents. 1010 00:52:38,572 --> 00:52:39,904 Very popular. 1011 00:52:39,990 --> 00:52:41,652 That they are. That they are. 1012 00:52:42,785 --> 00:52:43,866 So... 1013 00:52:46,497 --> 00:52:47,613 Congratulations 1014 00:52:47,706 --> 00:52:51,120 on a... successful primary. 1015 00:52:51,210 --> 00:52:54,123 I've, uh, been through a few myself, 1016 00:52:54,213 --> 00:52:56,250 and they can be, shall we say... 1017 00:52:56,340 --> 00:52:57,456 Fuckin' exhausting. 1018 00:52:57,549 --> 00:52:59,006 - Right. - (chuckles) 1019 00:53:00,344 --> 00:53:01,460 Yeah. 1020 00:53:01,553 --> 00:53:03,510 (stutters) It's a grind. 1021 00:53:03,597 --> 00:53:04,699 It's a grind, I'll tell you. 1022 00:53:04,723 --> 00:53:06,965 Buses, bologna sandwiches. 1023 00:53:08,227 --> 00:53:09,809 Hell, I like people, but, I mean, 1024 00:53:09,895 --> 00:53:11,682 you know, enough's enough. 1025 00:53:15,109 --> 00:53:16,109 So... 1026 00:53:17,820 --> 00:53:19,061 that call I received... 1027 00:53:19,154 --> 00:53:20,611 I forgot, you're a brass tacks guy, 1028 00:53:20,698 --> 00:53:21,734 aren't ya? I like that. 1029 00:53:21,824 --> 00:53:23,565 (chuckles) 1030 00:53:23,659 --> 00:53:26,322 You surprised I'm running for president? 1031 00:53:26,412 --> 00:53:29,371 CHENEY (thinking): He wants to impress his father 1032 00:53:29,456 --> 00:53:30,697 more than anything. 1033 00:53:30,791 --> 00:53:34,034 After my, uh, shall we say, wild years? 1034 00:53:34,128 --> 00:53:37,838 Well, George, I sowed some oats myself 1035 00:53:37,923 --> 00:53:39,380 back in the day. 1036 00:53:39,466 --> 00:53:42,959 And I still enjoy a cold beer on occasion. 1037 00:53:43,053 --> 00:53:44,544 - I bet you did. - Mmm. 1038 00:53:44,638 --> 00:53:46,174 I bet you did, you rascal. 1039 00:53:46,265 --> 00:53:49,303 I can't anymore. It got bad. 1040 00:53:49,393 --> 00:53:51,225 Yeah. 1041 00:53:51,311 --> 00:53:52,347 Good times. 1042 00:53:52,438 --> 00:53:54,020 CHENEY: What does he really want? 1043 00:53:55,232 --> 00:53:56,518 What does he need? 1044 00:53:56,608 --> 00:53:58,208 GEORGE W. BUSH: It's tough, I'll tell ya. 1045 00:54:00,946 --> 00:54:02,357 I lost my first congressional race, 1046 00:54:02,448 --> 00:54:04,906 and it was not good. 1047 00:54:07,661 --> 00:54:08,947 How 'bout some brisket? 1048 00:54:09,037 --> 00:54:10,153 George, um... 1049 00:54:12,666 --> 00:54:15,534 GEORGE W. BUSH: Hey, Theresa! Hey, Theresa! 1050 00:54:15,627 --> 00:54:17,439 - Yell up, get some brisket. - THERESA: All right, we'll find some. 1051 00:54:17,463 --> 00:54:19,441 - GEORGE W. BUSH: Get the burnt ends. - THERESA: 'Course. 1052 00:54:19,465 --> 00:54:20,626 So listen, I got a... 1053 00:54:22,009 --> 00:54:24,296 "lack of experience" problem in the polls, 1054 00:54:24,386 --> 00:54:26,469 and you are one of the most experienced guys around. 1055 00:54:26,555 --> 00:54:28,922 You wanna jump on board, be my vice? 1056 00:54:30,392 --> 00:54:31,392 I'm honored. 1057 00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:34,719 Don't be honored, fuckin' say yes, Mr. Brass Tacks. 1058 00:54:34,813 --> 00:54:36,475 Mmm. I have to say, uh, no. 1059 00:54:37,524 --> 00:54:39,516 Dick, come on, we're gonna have a lot of fun. 1060 00:54:39,610 --> 00:54:42,694 What are you doin' right now? You're in the private sector? 1061 00:54:42,780 --> 00:54:44,396 CHENEY: Yeah. 1062 00:54:44,490 --> 00:54:46,197 Come on, I know you love politics. 1063 00:54:46,283 --> 00:54:47,740 George. 1064 00:54:47,826 --> 00:54:50,034 - Let's go. - Not gonna happen. 1065 00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:51,782 - Come on now. - (chuckles) 1066 00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:55,789 Well, that's a shame. It is. 1067 00:54:58,086 --> 00:54:59,668 Perhaps I could, uh... 1068 00:55:00,923 --> 00:55:03,916 help you find the right running mate. 1069 00:55:04,009 --> 00:55:05,750 Run my VP search team? 1070 00:55:05,844 --> 00:55:08,006 Mmm. No team. Just me. 1071 00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:13,636 (exhales) 1072 00:55:14,978 --> 00:55:17,061 Yeah, yeah, that could work, that could... 1073 00:55:17,147 --> 00:55:19,639 I have to run it by Rove, of course, but, uh... 1074 00:55:21,485 --> 00:55:22,712 If I lose, maybe I could become 1075 00:55:22,736 --> 00:55:24,443 - commissioner of baseball. - (chuckles) 1076 00:55:24,530 --> 00:55:25,987 You know? 1077 00:55:26,073 --> 00:55:28,406 But the, um, idea... 1078 00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:30,821 is to win. 1079 00:55:33,121 --> 00:55:34,761 I'm gonna keep you in the back of my mind. 1080 00:55:36,375 --> 00:55:38,833 (brushing teeth) 1081 00:55:42,130 --> 00:55:45,339 So, are you going to tell me how it went today or not? 1082 00:55:46,510 --> 00:55:47,717 (Cheney sighs) 1083 00:55:49,096 --> 00:55:50,337 It was very interesting. 1084 00:55:51,515 --> 00:55:52,551 He is, uh... 1085 00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:55,516 (inhales sharply) 1086 00:55:55,602 --> 00:55:56,602 ...green. 1087 00:55:58,647 --> 00:55:59,854 He's very green. 1088 00:56:02,442 --> 00:56:03,683 And you told him "no"? 1089 00:56:04,695 --> 00:56:06,027 I, uh... 1090 00:56:06,113 --> 00:56:09,948 I told him I would help with the, uh... 1091 00:56:11,869 --> 00:56:13,076 with the search. 1092 00:56:17,499 --> 00:56:19,786 (gargling) 1093 00:56:27,509 --> 00:56:28,716 What are you thinking? 1094 00:56:31,305 --> 00:56:33,843 - I can tell you're thinking. - Mm-hmm. 1095 00:56:40,606 --> 00:56:42,347 KURT: What was Dick Cheney thinking... 1096 00:56:43,609 --> 00:56:46,022 I'm thinking I've never seen anything like this. 1097 00:56:46,111 --> 00:56:49,104 KURT:...after his first meeting with George W.? 1098 00:56:49,197 --> 00:56:51,860 We've had a lot of successes, Dick. 1099 00:56:55,287 --> 00:56:58,826 And the vice president is a nothing job. 1100 00:56:58,916 --> 00:57:01,704 KURT: How many steps ahead was he looking? 1101 00:57:02,794 --> 00:57:05,127 How did he feel about the opportunity 1102 00:57:05,213 --> 00:57:06,624 that was in front of him? 1103 00:57:08,133 --> 00:57:11,467 There are certain moments 1104 00:57:11,553 --> 00:57:12,714 so delicate... 1105 00:57:14,056 --> 00:57:16,890 - like a teacup and saucer... - (girls crying) 1106 00:57:20,437 --> 00:57:23,896 ...stacked on a teacup and saucer 1107 00:57:23,982 --> 00:57:27,271 on a teacup and saucer... 1108 00:57:27,361 --> 00:57:28,772 Can you change, or am I wasting... 1109 00:57:31,323 --> 00:57:32,564 KURT: ...and on and on... 1110 00:57:39,039 --> 00:57:42,328 that this moment could fall in any direction... 1111 00:57:43,543 --> 00:57:46,160 and change everything. 1112 00:57:48,882 --> 00:57:50,748 Sadly, there's no real way 1113 00:57:50,842 --> 00:57:52,674 to know exactly what was going on 1114 00:57:52,761 --> 00:57:54,197 - inside the Cheneys... - (inaudible dialogue) 1115 00:57:54,221 --> 00:57:56,713 ...at this history-changing moment. 1116 00:57:56,807 --> 00:58:00,642 We can't just snap into a Shakespearean soliloquy 1117 00:58:00,727 --> 00:58:03,845 that dramatizes every feeling and motivation. 1118 00:58:04,856 --> 00:58:07,269 (chuckles) That's just not the way the world works. 1119 00:58:08,652 --> 00:58:09,652 (switch clicks) 1120 00:58:13,031 --> 00:58:15,648 My sweet Richard. 1121 00:58:15,742 --> 00:58:18,826 Dance'd nimbly round the king's hearth thou hath. 1122 00:58:18,912 --> 00:58:22,496 Even whilst clamored I for more, more! 1123 00:58:22,582 --> 00:58:24,869 - Mm. - Parched maw craned towards 1124 00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,374 the drip, drip of imagined waters. 1125 00:58:28,463 --> 00:58:32,548 But I say to you now, rest, retire. 1126 00:58:32,634 --> 00:58:36,799 Thou hast honored thy vows to wife and crown. 1127 00:58:38,056 --> 00:58:41,140 Has blindness usurped vision in you, my wife? 1128 00:58:42,686 --> 00:58:44,097 (thunder rumbling) 1129 00:58:44,187 --> 00:58:46,850 No mere treaty is our union. 1130 00:58:48,150 --> 00:58:50,813 Thou shared thy torch's flame with mine. 1131 00:58:50,902 --> 00:58:52,985 Revealing halls and spires... 1132 00:58:53,071 --> 00:58:54,187 (inhales deeply) 1133 00:58:54,281 --> 00:58:56,739 ...of long faded empires. 1134 00:58:56,825 --> 00:59:00,660 And now, I may hold aloft 1135 00:59:00,746 --> 00:59:03,159 mine own fiery cresset. 1136 00:59:05,083 --> 00:59:08,451 And make flesh our bond of power. 1137 00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,041 Dare I? 1138 00:59:12,049 --> 00:59:14,632 Dare I let hope's beak place gathered bramble 1139 00:59:14,718 --> 00:59:16,880 upon my heart for future's nest? 1140 00:59:17,888 --> 00:59:21,302 Many winters past hath I let this hope die, 1141 00:59:21,391 --> 00:59:24,930 cruel winds silencing tiny birds' needy cries. 1142 00:59:25,020 --> 00:59:27,888 Now that it hath arrived, I say yea. 1143 00:59:27,981 --> 00:59:29,438 BOTH: Yea. 1144 00:59:30,650 --> 00:59:34,769 Mine own blood and will are yours 1145 00:59:34,863 --> 00:59:36,024 't i I p i e rced be 1146 00:59:36,114 --> 00:59:38,231 the last soldier's breastplate, 1147 00:59:38,325 --> 00:59:40,817 spilling forth its ruby jelly treasures. 1148 00:59:40,911 --> 00:59:43,745 (thunder rumbling) 1149 00:59:43,830 --> 00:59:45,071 (both moaning) 1150 00:59:46,458 --> 00:59:47,744 (switch clicks) 1151 00:59:51,755 --> 00:59:52,755 So? 1152 00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,958 So I think we, uh, proceed. 1153 00:59:58,303 --> 00:59:59,760 What about Mary? 1154 00:59:59,846 --> 01:00:01,712 Mmm. It's VP. 1155 01:00:03,391 --> 01:00:05,383 Not the same scrutiny. 1156 01:00:06,770 --> 01:00:10,480 No. He has allies, Dick. Connections. 1157 01:00:10,565 --> 01:00:13,103 You're new to his world. You don't know the landscape. 1158 01:00:15,195 --> 01:00:16,195 (Cheney grunts) 1159 01:00:18,865 --> 01:00:23,200 Well, I had better conduct a very thorough search. 1160 01:00:24,204 --> 01:00:28,790 Every stone, hell, every grain of sand... 1161 01:00:28,875 --> 01:00:30,311 needs to be looked under for this questionnaire. 1162 01:00:30,335 --> 01:00:33,328 Dick, we're asking for all financials, 1163 01:00:33,421 --> 01:00:35,128 all medical, all interviews, 1164 01:00:35,215 --> 01:00:37,047 press, writings, all legal records... 1165 01:00:37,134 --> 01:00:40,172 Sometimes people use LLCs to hide certain monies. 1166 01:00:40,262 --> 01:00:41,298 CHENEY: And? 1167 01:00:41,388 --> 01:00:44,176 Any more comprehensive and we would need a rubber glove. 1168 01:00:44,266 --> 01:00:46,349 - Sorry, Liz. - That wasn't offensive. 1169 01:00:46,434 --> 01:00:47,720 Should I be offended? 1170 01:00:47,811 --> 01:00:49,143 Well, I'm offended. 1171 01:00:49,229 --> 01:00:50,765 Dave didn't worry if I'd be offended. 1172 01:00:50,856 --> 01:00:53,269 LIZ: Oh, a rubber glove, like a proctology exam. 1173 01:00:53,358 --> 01:00:54,974 - That's disgusting. - (phone ringing) 1174 01:00:55,068 --> 01:00:58,027 Hello? Oh, hello... 1175 01:00:59,281 --> 01:01:01,773 MARY: Dad, I'm taking the cheese off your pizza. 1176 01:01:01,867 --> 01:01:04,029 - LYNNE: Honey? - CHENEY: Mmm? 1177 01:01:04,119 --> 01:01:05,735 LYNNE: Dave. 1178 01:01:05,829 --> 01:01:06,829 David. Thoughts? 1179 01:01:06,872 --> 01:01:09,285 One. A big one. 1180 01:01:10,625 --> 01:01:13,288 KURT: David Addington, Dick's main legal advisor 1181 01:01:13,378 --> 01:01:16,212 and a huge believer in the unitary executive theory. 1182 01:01:17,424 --> 01:01:19,507 He was known for telling people to their face 1183 01:01:19,593 --> 01:01:21,550 that they're stupid. 1184 01:01:21,636 --> 01:01:24,128 So the, uh, vice presidency is part of the executive branch. 1185 01:01:24,222 --> 01:01:26,430 And because the VP casts 1186 01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:28,257 tie-breaking votes in the Senate, 1187 01:01:28,351 --> 01:01:31,185 also part of the legislative branch, right? 1188 01:01:31,271 --> 01:01:34,014 - Right. - That means... 1189 01:01:34,107 --> 01:01:35,894 the VP is also 1190 01:01:35,984 --> 01:01:39,978 not part of the executive or the legislative. 1191 01:01:40,071 --> 01:01:41,312 So, 1192 01:01:41,406 --> 01:01:43,489 one could argue that, uh... 1193 01:01:44,910 --> 01:01:46,617 neither branch 1194 01:01:46,703 --> 01:01:48,285 has oversight of the VP. 1195 01:01:49,414 --> 01:01:52,703 Not only could one argue that, I'm arguing it. 1196 01:01:53,752 --> 01:01:55,118 That's brilliant, David. 1197 01:01:55,212 --> 01:01:57,329 I know. Right? 1198 01:01:57,422 --> 01:02:00,881 GEORGE W. BUSH: Karl Rove wanted me to buy this ranch, 1199 01:02:00,967 --> 01:02:04,256 distance myself from my years at Yale and Harvard, 1200 01:02:04,346 --> 01:02:06,838 make me more of a man of the people for the election. 1201 01:02:06,932 --> 01:02:09,049 Mmm. Smart. 1202 01:02:12,812 --> 01:02:15,082 So we gonna do this thing or what? I mean, is this happening? 1203 01:02:15,106 --> 01:02:20,943 We, uh, have found some very interesting candidates. 1204 01:02:21,029 --> 01:02:22,941 Um, if we could schedule 1205 01:02:23,031 --> 01:02:26,490 a three-hour window to get through... 1206 01:02:26,576 --> 01:02:28,818 I meant you. I want you to be my VP. 1207 01:02:30,163 --> 01:02:32,120 - You're the solution to my problems. - No. 1208 01:02:32,207 --> 01:02:34,620 I'm CEO of a large company. 1209 01:02:35,961 --> 01:02:39,125 I have been, uh, Secretary of Defense. 1210 01:02:40,131 --> 01:02:42,339 I have been Chief of Staff. 1211 01:02:42,425 --> 01:02:47,545 Uh, the vice presidency is mostly a symbolic job. 1212 01:02:47,639 --> 01:02:49,221 Right, right. 1213 01:02:49,307 --> 01:02:50,923 I can see how that wouldn't be, uh... 1214 01:02:52,936 --> 01:02:54,393 enticing to you. 1215 01:02:54,479 --> 01:02:55,479 However... 1216 01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:03,065 the vice presidency is also defined by the president. 1217 01:03:04,614 --> 01:03:06,526 And if we were to come to a, uh... 1218 01:03:06,616 --> 01:03:07,616 (reel whirring) 1219 01:03:07,701 --> 01:03:09,363 different understanding... 1220 01:03:10,870 --> 01:03:12,327 Uh-huh. Go on. 1221 01:03:13,915 --> 01:03:14,951 I'm listenin'. 1222 01:03:16,793 --> 01:03:21,083 I sense that, uh, you're a kinetic leader. 1223 01:03:21,172 --> 01:03:24,791 You make decisions based on instinct. 1224 01:03:24,884 --> 01:03:26,546 I am. People always said that. 1225 01:03:26,636 --> 01:03:28,218 Yeah, yeah. Very different. 1226 01:03:28,305 --> 01:03:30,638 Very different from, uh, 1227 01:03:30,724 --> 01:03:33,091 from your father in that regard. 1228 01:03:34,185 --> 01:03:36,427 Now, maybe I can, uh, 1229 01:03:36,521 --> 01:03:39,184 handle some of the more mundane jobs. 1230 01:03:39,274 --> 01:03:42,062 Overseeing bureaucracy, 1231 01:03:42,152 --> 01:03:44,314 managing military, 1232 01:03:44,404 --> 01:03:47,522 uh, energy, uh, foreign policy. 1233 01:03:53,663 --> 01:03:54,621 That sounds good. 1234 01:03:54,623 --> 01:03:56,534 (reel whirring) 1235 01:03:58,501 --> 01:04:00,709 GEORGE W. BUSH: Never wanna be the kind of team owner 1236 01:04:00,795 --> 01:04:04,038 that, uh, pulls the starter in the fourth inning. 1237 01:04:04,132 --> 01:04:06,374 - Mm-hmm. - That's the manager's job. 1238 01:04:09,179 --> 01:04:10,340 One more thing. 1239 01:04:12,432 --> 01:04:13,673 My daughter, Mary. 1240 01:04:15,393 --> 01:04:17,225 Right. Rove told me she likes girls. 1241 01:04:18,271 --> 01:04:21,890 Now, I know you have to, uh, run against, uh, 1242 01:04:21,983 --> 01:04:25,943 gay marriage in the South, Midwest, and, uh... 1243 01:04:27,405 --> 01:04:29,488 (clears throat) But it's my daughter, 1244 01:04:29,574 --> 01:04:32,783 and that line is drawn in concrete. 1245 01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:34,986 Don't you say another word. 1246 01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,163 So long as you don't mind us pushing that messaging, 1247 01:04:37,248 --> 01:04:39,114 we're okay with you sittin' that one out. 1248 01:04:39,209 --> 01:04:41,166 I think it's important for all the... 1249 01:04:41,252 --> 01:04:42,834 all the Marys in the world, you know? 1250 01:04:42,921 --> 01:04:44,958 (sighs) 1251 01:04:45,048 --> 01:04:46,835 No problemo. We got a deal? 1252 01:04:48,093 --> 01:04:50,551 Then I believe this could work. 1253 01:04:51,554 --> 01:04:53,637 (chuckles) Hot damn! 1254 01:04:53,723 --> 01:04:58,058 Yeah. Well, good. Hey, let's celebrate. 1255 01:04:58,144 --> 01:04:59,538 GEORGE W. BUSH: Secretary Cheney visited me and Laura 1256 01:04:59,562 --> 01:05:01,474 at our ranch in Crawford, Texas... 1257 01:05:01,564 --> 01:05:03,021 - Cheers. - Cheers. 1258 01:05:04,317 --> 01:05:09,483 I realized the best choice was standing by my side. 1259 01:05:09,572 --> 01:05:11,234 Please welcome my friend 1260 01:05:11,324 --> 01:05:14,112 and my running mate, Dick Cheney... 1261 01:05:14,202 --> 01:05:16,785 (audience cheering) 1262 01:05:19,457 --> 01:05:21,790 and his lovely wife Lynne. 1263 01:05:21,876 --> 01:05:23,037 KURT: Dick never filled out 1264 01:05:23,128 --> 01:05:25,586 his own 83-question questionnaire. 1265 01:05:25,672 --> 01:05:28,506 Full medical records were never handed over. 1266 01:05:28,591 --> 01:05:32,005 No tax or corporate filings. Nothing. 1267 01:05:32,095 --> 01:05:35,133 AUDIENCE (chanting): Cheney! Cheney! Cheney! 1268 01:05:35,223 --> 01:05:36,885 Cheney! Cheney! 1269 01:05:36,975 --> 01:05:38,716 KING: To reach more of his senior aides 1270 01:05:38,810 --> 01:05:40,176 to find out reasons. 1271 01:05:40,270 --> 01:05:41,630 But we were told when he came over, 1272 01:05:41,688 --> 01:05:43,179 he had already called Governor Bush, 1273 01:05:43,273 --> 01:05:44,834 he had wished him well, and that he would deliver 1274 01:05:44,858 --> 01:05:45,918 a brief concession speech here tonight. 1275 01:05:45,942 --> 01:05:47,433 LYNNE: I don't know. 1276 01:05:47,527 --> 01:05:48,754 WOODRUFF: I think we're all sitting around 1277 01:05:48,778 --> 01:05:50,519 wondering what it is that, uh, 1278 01:05:50,613 --> 01:05:52,550 - he may be doing backstage. - They just keep going on and on. 1279 01:05:52,574 --> 01:05:54,782 Gore rescinded his concession. 1280 01:05:57,912 --> 01:06:00,871 They're claiming Florida is too close to call. 1281 01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,414 He can't fucking rescind his concession. 1282 01:06:05,503 --> 01:06:07,165 He just did. 1283 01:06:07,255 --> 01:06:08,415 The Russians are loving this. 1284 01:06:08,465 --> 01:06:10,957 There's gonna be a recount, so... 1285 01:06:11,050 --> 01:06:12,050 LYNNE: I don't know. 1286 01:06:12,135 --> 01:06:13,175 SCOOTER: What should we do? 1287 01:06:14,345 --> 01:06:17,133 We play it like we've already won. 1288 01:06:18,475 --> 01:06:21,934 Which means we need to staff the White House. 1289 01:06:23,188 --> 01:06:26,647 All right. Who's leading the transition team? 1290 01:06:26,733 --> 01:06:27,769 I'll do it. 1291 01:06:29,068 --> 01:06:31,355 That's not something a vice president really does, is it? 1292 01:06:31,446 --> 01:06:33,608 Well... 1293 01:06:33,698 --> 01:06:34,842 - It is now. - REPORTER: Vice President Gore 1294 01:06:34,866 --> 01:06:36,823 has called Governor Bush 1295 01:06:36,910 --> 01:06:39,618 and retracted his concession, 1296 01:06:39,704 --> 01:06:41,821 - because he is now... - (all exclaim) 1297 01:06:41,915 --> 01:06:43,642 - LYNNE: What? - ...of the mind that things could be 1298 01:06:43,666 --> 01:06:45,032 turning yet again in Florida. 1299 01:06:45,126 --> 01:06:46,867 LYNNE: You can't do that! 1300 01:06:46,961 --> 01:06:48,748 I mean, that's laughable. 1301 01:06:50,507 --> 01:06:52,214 Uh, Wolfowitz. 1302 01:06:53,801 --> 01:06:55,258 - State? - Mmm. 1303 01:06:55,345 --> 01:06:56,836 Or Pentagon? 1304 01:06:56,930 --> 01:06:59,217 Depends on who your Secretary of Defense is. 1305 01:06:59,307 --> 01:07:00,493 - CHENEY: Rummy. - Hundred percent. 1306 01:07:00,517 --> 01:07:02,224 - Mm-hmm. - Rumsfeld? 1307 01:07:02,310 --> 01:07:04,518 Uh, doesn't Bush Senior hate Rummy? 1308 01:07:04,604 --> 01:07:05,831 CHENEY: Not such a bad thing with W. 1309 01:07:05,855 --> 01:07:08,097 He wants to be his own man. 1310 01:07:08,191 --> 01:07:10,353 Rumsfeld believes in a robust executive. 1311 01:07:10,443 --> 01:07:12,105 That's good for us on war powers. 1312 01:07:12,195 --> 01:07:14,562 Just keep him out of State, he'll start World War Ill. 1313 01:07:14,656 --> 01:07:16,648 - (chuckles) - CHENEY: Look. 1314 01:07:16,741 --> 01:07:21,236 Halliburton just gave us a $26 million exit package. 1315 01:07:21,329 --> 01:07:23,696 Twice what we expected. 1316 01:07:23,790 --> 01:07:24,951 They're no dummies. 1317 01:07:27,252 --> 01:07:29,209 Uh, sorry, gang. 1318 01:07:30,713 --> 01:07:32,170 Yep. 1319 01:07:32,257 --> 01:07:35,796 Think, uh, perhaps I should go to the hospital. 1320 01:07:37,679 --> 01:07:39,887 LYNNE: Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? Oh, come on. 1321 01:07:39,973 --> 01:07:43,387 MARSHAL: Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! 1322 01:07:43,476 --> 01:07:45,718 All persons having business with the Honorable, 1323 01:07:45,812 --> 01:07:47,394 the Supreme Court of the United States 1324 01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:50,223 are admonished to draw near and give their attention, 1325 01:07:50,316 --> 01:07:52,273 for the Court is now sitting. 1326 01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:54,477 God bless the United States and... 1327 01:07:54,571 --> 01:07:59,282 KURT: December 12th, 2000. Antonin Scalia, remember him, 1328 01:07:59,367 --> 01:08:01,905 and the Supreme Court stopped the state of Florida 1329 01:08:01,995 --> 01:08:03,281 from completing their recount. 1330 01:08:03,371 --> 01:08:05,533 MARSHAL: God save the United States 1331 01:08:05,623 --> 01:08:07,810 - and this Honorable Court. - KURT: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney 1332 01:08:07,834 --> 01:08:11,953 were going to the White House by a margin of 537 votes. 1333 01:08:17,010 --> 01:08:19,798 (siren wailing) 1334 01:08:57,925 --> 01:08:59,962 Hey. Hey, little Mary Claire. 1335 01:09:00,053 --> 01:09:02,261 Hey, little Mary, my little Mary. 1336 01:09:03,431 --> 01:09:06,765 Hey, what are you doing? What are you doing? Hmm? 1337 01:09:08,269 --> 01:09:10,010 (chuckling) 1338 01:09:11,105 --> 01:09:13,267 LYNNE: Oh, they're both doing really well. 1339 01:09:13,358 --> 01:09:15,145 Except, I'm trying to make this dinner. 1340 01:09:15,234 --> 01:09:17,066 And it's, uh... 1341 01:09:17,153 --> 01:09:19,816 It's this macaroni and cheese 1342 01:09:19,906 --> 01:09:21,568 that you said was easy 1343 01:09:21,658 --> 01:09:24,947 but it keeps just coming out like a little watery. 1344 01:09:25,036 --> 01:09:26,698 CHENEY: It's the milk. Remember? 1345 01:09:26,788 --> 01:09:28,199 You gotta add more milk. 1346 01:09:28,289 --> 01:09:30,576 Yeah. It'll get thicker. 1347 01:09:31,876 --> 01:09:33,333 No, no, no, no. 1348 01:09:33,419 --> 01:09:35,752 I am. It's much better when you use the milk. 1349 01:09:35,838 --> 01:09:36,838 LYNNE: There's just so much, 1350 01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:38,626 so much I want to say right now, 1351 01:09:38,716 --> 01:09:40,503 and just, you keep doing what you're doing. 1352 01:09:40,593 --> 01:09:42,334 You're doing so great. 1353 01:09:43,596 --> 01:09:45,258 (chuckles) 1354 01:09:45,348 --> 01:09:48,307 You have earned something very special from your wife. 1355 01:09:48,393 --> 01:09:49,759 Listen, listen, listen. 1356 01:09:50,978 --> 01:09:53,971 I'm buying wine, and I'm picking something up. 1357 01:09:54,065 --> 01:09:55,306 Chinese? 1358 01:09:57,026 --> 01:09:59,313 LYNNE: Okay, I really love you. 1359 01:10:01,072 --> 01:10:02,404 CHENEY: I love you. 1360 01:10:02,490 --> 01:10:04,857 - LYNNE: Yeah. - (both laugh) 1361 01:10:06,577 --> 01:10:08,819 (clock ticking) 1362 01:10:11,249 --> 01:10:12,456 (phone ringing) 1363 01:10:13,751 --> 01:10:15,111 RUMSFELD: Good morning to you, too. 1364 01:10:15,169 --> 01:10:16,128 ADDINGTON: We've met a few times. 1365 01:10:16,130 --> 01:10:17,290 - It's nice to see you. - Yes. 1366 01:10:17,380 --> 01:10:18,380 Of course. 1367 01:10:18,464 --> 01:10:19,625 All right. Let's... 1368 01:10:19,716 --> 01:10:21,457 All right. Let's get this thing underway. 1369 01:10:21,551 --> 01:10:23,508 Scooter, why don't you let everyone know 1370 01:10:23,594 --> 01:10:24,630 the, um, lay of the land? 1371 01:10:24,721 --> 01:10:26,508 SCOOTER: Of course. As you all know, 1372 01:10:26,597 --> 01:10:28,088 I am Scooter Libby, 1373 01:10:28,182 --> 01:10:30,139 Dick's chief of staff. 1374 01:10:30,226 --> 01:10:33,264 Uh, I'm also his national security advisor 1375 01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:35,437 and a special advisor to the president. 1376 01:10:35,523 --> 01:10:38,891 Technically, Scooter outranks any of Bush's people. 1377 01:10:38,985 --> 01:10:42,899 Mary Matalin will serve as counselor to the VP 1378 01:10:42,989 --> 01:10:44,105 and assistant to Bush. 1379 01:10:44,198 --> 01:10:45,939 David Addington, 1380 01:10:46,033 --> 01:10:47,444 Dick's main legal counsel, 1381 01:10:47,535 --> 01:10:49,572 will play center field on all matters 1382 01:10:49,662 --> 01:10:51,949 relating to executive power. 1383 01:10:52,039 --> 01:10:55,578 The president has Alberto Gonzales, 1384 01:10:55,668 --> 01:10:57,284 Karl Rove, 1385 01:10:57,378 --> 01:11:00,667 Karen Hughes as his team. 1386 01:11:00,757 --> 01:11:03,124 Quite frankly, Gonzales has no clue. 1387 01:11:03,217 --> 01:11:05,459 Um... Rove is a hack. 1388 01:11:06,763 --> 01:11:09,050 Hughes should be in double-A ball. 1389 01:11:09,140 --> 01:11:12,724 So we will have fairly unobstructed access 1390 01:11:12,810 --> 01:11:14,176 to the Oval Office. 1391 01:11:15,229 --> 01:11:16,936 We will be automatically 1392 01:11:17,023 --> 01:11:19,515 Bcc'd on all e-mails 1393 01:11:19,609 --> 01:11:21,316 that the president receives or sends, 1394 01:11:21,402 --> 01:11:24,270 as well as have access to his schedule 1395 01:11:24,363 --> 01:11:27,322 the second that it is set or changed. 1396 01:11:27,408 --> 01:11:29,070 CHENEY: And we will also be receiving 1397 01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:32,198 the daily intelligence briefing before the president. 1398 01:11:32,288 --> 01:11:34,701 That gets us inside the decision curve. 1399 01:11:34,791 --> 01:11:36,703 Which we'll actually be reading. 1400 01:11:37,710 --> 01:11:39,326 Bush approved all of this? 1401 01:11:39,420 --> 01:11:41,161 Mmm, we have, uh, 1402 01:11:42,256 --> 01:11:43,463 an understanding. 1403 01:11:43,549 --> 01:11:44,835 What about the e-mails? 1404 01:11:44,926 --> 01:11:46,508 Paper shredders don't work for e-mails. 1405 01:11:46,594 --> 01:11:48,506 The entire administration will run off 1406 01:11:48,596 --> 01:11:50,383 the RNC's private server. 1407 01:11:50,473 --> 01:11:53,216 And we've deactivated automatic archiving. 1408 01:11:53,309 --> 01:11:54,309 We're clean. 1409 01:11:55,394 --> 01:11:56,760 Okay. 1410 01:11:56,854 --> 01:11:58,561 So over at the Pentagon, we got Don, 1411 01:11:58,648 --> 01:11:59,833 - Secretary of Defense. - RUMSFELD: Mm-hmm. 1412 01:11:59,857 --> 01:12:01,439 SCOOTER: Paul Wolfowitz, 1413 01:12:01,526 --> 01:12:03,813 who worked with Team B in the Ford days, 1414 01:12:03,903 --> 01:12:05,815 Deputy Secretary of Defense. 1415 01:12:05,905 --> 01:12:09,239 CHENEY: Let's check, see what plans 1416 01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:10,861 they had to invade Iraq. 1417 01:12:10,952 --> 01:12:12,443 It's already in the works. 1418 01:12:12,537 --> 01:12:14,950 Got Ashcroft over at the DOJ. 1419 01:12:15,039 --> 01:12:17,827 State seems to be the only tricky department. 1420 01:12:17,917 --> 01:12:21,160 That's Colin Powell, his guy Lawrence Wilkerson. 1421 01:12:21,254 --> 01:12:23,294 Colin Powell, who never met a camera he didn't like. 1422 01:12:23,339 --> 01:12:24,705 Wilkerson's a true believer. 1423 01:12:24,799 --> 01:12:26,109 WOLFOWITZ: We've got Bolton over there. 1424 01:12:26,133 --> 01:12:27,840 He's a loose cannon, but he's loyal. 1425 01:12:27,927 --> 01:12:30,340 Mmm. I wanna get Liz in there as well. 1426 01:12:30,429 --> 01:12:31,761 Let's make sure that happens. 1427 01:12:31,848 --> 01:12:33,589 - Okay, Dad. - Consider it done. 1428 01:12:33,683 --> 01:12:37,393 And this list of, uh, our people 1429 01:12:37,478 --> 01:12:39,811 does not include about 800 others, 1430 01:12:39,897 --> 01:12:42,640 uh, lobbyists, industry insiders 1431 01:12:42,733 --> 01:12:45,441 that we placed in the regulatory jobs. 1432 01:12:45,528 --> 01:12:46,689 What about Bush's friends? 1433 01:12:46,779 --> 01:12:48,236 Ridge? Pataki? Thompson? 1434 01:12:48,322 --> 01:12:49,654 I haven't heard their names. 1435 01:12:49,740 --> 01:12:52,357 They were not, um, offered jobs 1436 01:12:52,451 --> 01:12:54,943 in this administration, uh, at this time. 1437 01:12:55,037 --> 01:12:56,949 RUMSFELD: Not offered jobs at this time? 1438 01:12:57,039 --> 01:12:59,952 Are you even more ruthless than you used to be there, Dick? 1439 01:13:00,042 --> 01:13:01,749 Or are you just not getting laid? 1440 01:13:07,466 --> 01:13:08,673 All right, moving on. 1441 01:13:08,759 --> 01:13:10,421 Um, got Paul O'Neill. 1442 01:13:15,057 --> 01:13:18,095 You haven't been here in over twenty years. 1443 01:13:18,185 --> 01:13:19,346 Times have changed. 1444 01:13:19,437 --> 01:13:21,599 The, uh, softer touch, 1445 01:13:21,689 --> 01:13:23,430 that's the norm now. 1446 01:13:23,524 --> 01:13:27,063 We have the conservative TV and radio 1447 01:13:27,153 --> 01:13:29,270 - doing the yelling for us. - Mm-hmm. 1448 01:13:30,323 --> 01:13:31,925 RUMSFELD: Is your old friend embarrassing you? 1449 01:13:31,949 --> 01:13:32,949 Is that it, Dick? 1450 01:13:33,034 --> 01:13:34,650 (Cheney chuckles) 1451 01:13:36,329 --> 01:13:39,242 Soft touch. That's all. 1452 01:13:39,332 --> 01:13:40,789 All right, I have to go to my office 1453 01:13:40,875 --> 01:13:41,875 at the House of Representatives. 1454 01:13:41,877 --> 01:13:43,208 You mean the Senate? 1455 01:13:43,294 --> 01:13:45,126 Vice president, tiebreaker in the Senate. 1456 01:13:46,380 --> 01:13:48,497 Nope, I mean the House. 1457 01:13:49,508 --> 01:13:51,500 KURT: Dick Cheney had used an old connection 1458 01:13:51,594 --> 01:13:53,051 with former wrestling coach 1459 01:13:53,137 --> 01:13:55,595 and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert 1460 01:13:55,681 --> 01:13:57,601 to get an office at the House of Representatives. 1461 01:13:57,683 --> 01:14:00,096 The House is where revenue bills originate, 1462 01:14:00,186 --> 01:14:02,553 and he wanted to be near the money faucet. 1463 01:14:02,647 --> 01:14:04,934 Hey, Dick. Will this work for you? 1464 01:14:06,859 --> 01:14:08,475 Two more offices in the Senate. 1465 01:14:09,528 --> 01:14:11,941 Hey, Dick, I found this extra office. 1466 01:14:12,031 --> 01:14:13,272 I hope it works for you. 1467 01:14:13,366 --> 01:14:15,028 And one in the Pentagon. 1468 01:14:15,117 --> 01:14:18,155 Welcome to your new home away from home. 1469 01:14:18,245 --> 01:14:21,329 I got you a little housewarming gift. 1470 01:14:21,415 --> 01:14:23,782 KURT: And later, when Cheney needed intelligence 1471 01:14:23,876 --> 01:14:25,242 to invade Iraq, 1472 01:14:25,336 --> 01:14:26,998 a conference room at the CIA. 1473 01:14:27,088 --> 01:14:29,546 This room is soundproof and secure. 1474 01:14:31,092 --> 01:14:33,550 KURT: Cheney was everywhere. 1475 01:14:33,636 --> 01:14:35,593 But the most powerful place in all of D.C. 1476 01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:38,468 was a nondescript conference room 1477 01:14:38,557 --> 01:14:40,014 at a relatively new think tank 1478 01:14:40,101 --> 01:14:42,809 called Americans for Tax Reform. 1479 01:14:42,895 --> 01:14:45,854 Grover Norquist ran the anti-tax group 1480 01:14:45,940 --> 01:14:48,398 with huge funding from the Koch brothers network, 1481 01:14:48,484 --> 01:14:50,897 big oil, and big tobacco. 1482 01:14:52,029 --> 01:14:53,486 His "Wednesday meeting," 1483 01:14:53,572 --> 01:14:56,986 as it was called, had become the center 1484 01:14:57,076 --> 01:14:58,567 of the Republican world. 1485 01:14:59,620 --> 01:15:03,489 Let's go ahead and start with the estate tax. 1486 01:15:04,625 --> 01:15:06,617 Now, this has been hard to eliminate, 1487 01:15:06,711 --> 01:15:09,670 because the tax only affects those estates 1488 01:15:09,755 --> 01:15:11,417 worth over two million. 1489 01:15:11,507 --> 01:15:14,045 But we've made strides, 1490 01:15:14,135 --> 01:15:17,128 and marketing guru Frank Luntz is here to help. 1491 01:15:18,347 --> 01:15:20,464 (applause) 1492 01:15:23,269 --> 01:15:24,510 Hello, all. 1493 01:15:24,603 --> 01:15:25,844 (clicks tongue) 1494 01:15:25,938 --> 01:15:28,681 Getting regular people to support cutting taxes 1495 01:15:28,774 --> 01:15:29,890 on the very wealthy 1496 01:15:29,984 --> 01:15:32,067 has always been extremely hard. 1497 01:15:32,153 --> 01:15:35,066 We've had some success in the past, 1498 01:15:35,156 --> 01:15:37,819 but the estate tax has always been very difficult. 1499 01:15:38,993 --> 01:15:40,029 However... 1500 01:15:41,162 --> 01:15:42,994 I think we may have had a breakthrough. 1501 01:15:44,165 --> 01:15:47,533 Now, the estate tax kicks in 1502 01:15:47,626 --> 01:15:51,711 on anyone inheriting over two million dollars. 1503 01:15:51,797 --> 01:15:53,584 How many of you have a problem with that? 1504 01:15:55,009 --> 01:15:56,750 Okay. How many of you would have 1505 01:15:56,844 --> 01:15:58,631 a problem with something called 1506 01:15:58,721 --> 01:16:00,383 a death tax? 1507 01:16:05,227 --> 01:16:08,095 Instead of global warming, 1508 01:16:08,189 --> 01:16:10,852 which we all agree sounds very scary... 1509 01:16:10,941 --> 01:16:12,898 (people chuckle) 1510 01:16:12,985 --> 01:16:14,942 we call it... 1511 01:16:15,029 --> 01:16:16,565 climate change. 1512 01:16:16,655 --> 01:16:17,799 RADIO HOST: Folks, the government 1513 01:16:17,823 --> 01:16:19,985 is taking your money after you die. 1514 01:16:20,076 --> 01:16:21,428 LIMBAUGH (on radio): Now, we all know the Democrats 1515 01:16:21,452 --> 01:16:22,888 despise tax cuts, especially for the rich. 1516 01:16:22,912 --> 01:16:24,653 GOLDBERG (on TV): I want somebody to get rid 1517 01:16:24,747 --> 01:16:26,204 of the death tax, that's what I want. 1518 01:16:26,290 --> 01:16:27,601 I don't want to get taxed just 'cause I die. 1519 01:16:27,625 --> 01:16:29,412 LIMBAUGH: I mean, give me a break! 1520 01:16:29,502 --> 01:16:31,063 GOLDBERG: If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. 1521 01:16:31,087 --> 01:16:32,272 Why I gotta pay again 'cause I died? 1522 01:16:32,296 --> 01:16:33,690 It's like being chastised! I hate it. 1523 01:16:33,714 --> 01:16:35,671 The death tax has to go. 1524 01:16:35,758 --> 01:16:38,000 The elite liberals in Washington would tax us 1525 01:16:38,094 --> 01:16:39,960 for laughing or crying if they could. 1526 01:16:40,054 --> 01:16:42,512 So, with one of the biggest media 1527 01:16:42,598 --> 01:16:45,807 and political machines ever created behind him, 1528 01:16:46,936 --> 01:16:50,646 Cheney was able to squash action on global warming, 1529 01:16:50,731 --> 01:16:52,472 cut taxes for the super rich, 1530 01:16:52,566 --> 01:16:55,650 and gut regulations for massive corporations. 1531 01:16:55,736 --> 01:16:57,022 And then there was Cheney's 1532 01:16:57,113 --> 01:16:59,856 National Energy Policy Development Group. 1533 01:16:59,949 --> 01:17:03,989 His first major test to expand executive power. 1534 01:17:04,078 --> 01:17:06,161 I don't understand what the goddamn problem is. 1535 01:17:06,247 --> 01:17:07,847 I want to hear what the energy CEOs need, 1536 01:17:07,915 --> 01:17:09,201 and I'm not allowed to? 1537 01:17:09,291 --> 01:17:11,228 - ADDINGTON: It's called FACA. - The hell is FACA? 1538 01:17:11,252 --> 01:17:13,063 ADDINGTON: It's the Federal Advisory Committees Act. 1539 01:17:13,087 --> 01:17:15,795 Congress got their panties in a bunch that, you know, 1540 01:17:15,881 --> 01:17:18,749 elected officials would just let CEOs roll in 1541 01:17:18,843 --> 01:17:20,709 and, you know, write the laws. 1542 01:17:22,805 --> 01:17:24,512 The act demands that, uh, 1543 01:17:24,598 --> 01:17:28,763 appropriate government employees be present. 1544 01:17:28,853 --> 01:17:30,344 Hold on a second. 1545 01:17:31,981 --> 01:17:33,813 What's your name? 1546 01:17:33,899 --> 01:17:35,106 Doug. 1547 01:17:35,192 --> 01:17:38,105 Doug, how long have you been working reception 1548 01:17:38,195 --> 01:17:39,527 at the Department of Energy? 1549 01:17:40,865 --> 01:17:42,606 Three months. 1550 01:17:42,700 --> 01:17:43,700 Perfect. 1551 01:17:47,329 --> 01:17:49,537 So what am I supposed to do here? 1552 01:17:49,623 --> 01:17:51,910 Just sit there and be quiet. 1553 01:17:52,001 --> 01:17:53,037 Got it. 1554 01:17:57,173 --> 01:17:59,381 - (clears throat) Gentlemen. - Hello. (clears throat) 1555 01:18:00,801 --> 01:18:02,508 Hello... (bleep) 1556 01:18:02,595 --> 01:18:03,595 (bleep) 1557 01:18:04,847 --> 01:18:06,167 How's your business at... (bleep) 1558 01:18:06,223 --> 01:18:09,842 We're good. Our stock... (bleep) 1559 01:18:09,935 --> 01:18:12,894 And California has been really... (bleep) 1560 01:18:12,980 --> 01:18:14,780 - since deregulation. - CHENEY: Great to hear. 1561 01:18:15,649 --> 01:18:18,642 Oh. He's with the energy department. 1562 01:18:18,736 --> 01:18:20,693 (indistinct audio on earphones) 1563 01:18:22,198 --> 01:18:23,985 KURT: The details of Cheney's meetings 1564 01:18:24,074 --> 01:18:27,567 with the energy CEOs were never disclosed. 1565 01:18:27,661 --> 01:18:30,028 But a Freedom of Information request 1566 01:18:30,122 --> 01:18:32,034 did provide some documents, 1567 01:18:32,124 --> 01:18:34,366 including a map of Iraq's oil fields 1568 01:18:34,460 --> 01:18:35,951 with all of the oil companies 1569 01:18:36,045 --> 01:18:38,708 that would be interested in acquiring them 1570 01:18:38,797 --> 01:18:42,711 if somehow they were ever to become available. 1571 01:18:45,763 --> 01:18:48,927 And then, it happened. 1572 01:18:49,016 --> 01:18:51,884 Would you like to lower your monthly mortgage payments 1573 01:18:51,977 --> 01:18:54,094 or use the equity in your home to consolidate 1574 01:18:54,188 --> 01:18:55,850 your credit card or other debts? 1575 01:18:55,940 --> 01:18:57,101 Just log... 1576 01:18:57,191 --> 01:18:58,432 LIN (on TV): Yeah. This just in. 1577 01:18:58,525 --> 01:18:59,936 You are looking at obviously 1578 01:19:00,027 --> 01:19:01,689 a very disturbing live shot there. 1579 01:19:01,779 --> 01:19:03,065 That is the World Trade Center, 1580 01:19:03,155 --> 01:19:05,943 and we have unconfirmed reports this morning 1581 01:19:06,033 --> 01:19:09,026 that a plane has crashed into one of the towers. 1582 01:19:10,037 --> 01:19:11,778 DAHLER (on TV): It... it does not appear 1583 01:19:11,872 --> 01:19:13,955 that there's any kind of an effort up there yet. 1584 01:19:14,041 --> 01:19:15,518 - Now, remember... Oh, my God. - (Matalin gasps) 1585 01:19:15,542 --> 01:19:17,329 - NEWS STAFFER: Oh, God! - Dear God. 1586 01:19:17,419 --> 01:19:18,897 JENNINGS (on TV): That looks like a second plane. 1587 01:19:18,921 --> 01:19:20,440 AGENT: Mr. Vice President, we have information 1588 01:19:20,464 --> 01:19:22,275 that a plane's headed to the White House this moment. 1589 01:19:22,299 --> 01:19:24,110 We have less than a minute to get to the secure underground bunker. 1590 01:19:24,134 --> 01:19:25,796 Let's go! Move! 1591 01:19:27,137 --> 01:19:28,218 Move! 1592 01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:29,305 Move! It's clear! 1593 01:19:29,307 --> 01:19:31,093 Sir, this way. Right now. 1594 01:19:31,183 --> 01:19:33,036 REPORTER: Capitol is being evacuated, we're told, 1595 01:19:33,060 --> 01:19:35,894 and clearly that shot that we have on our screen now, 1596 01:19:35,980 --> 01:19:37,437 this is the Pentagon 1597 01:19:37,523 --> 01:19:40,015 just across the river from Washington, D.C. 1598 01:19:40,109 --> 01:19:41,109 You got to believe... 1599 01:19:41,151 --> 01:19:42,813 I need you to take me to Dick. 1600 01:19:42,903 --> 01:19:45,486 Mrs. Cheney, we cannot go back to the White House, 1601 01:19:45,572 --> 01:19:46,904 I am being told no one... 1602 01:19:46,991 --> 01:19:48,607 Either you take me to the White House... 1603 01:19:48,701 --> 01:19:50,863 - (sirens wailing) - (indistinct chatter) 1604 01:19:57,584 --> 01:20:00,372 Author is on the move. Coming out. 1605 01:20:01,630 --> 01:20:04,498 REPORTER (on TV):...the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. 1606 01:20:04,591 --> 01:20:06,628 STAFFER: Have you gotten the Prime Minister yet? 1607 01:20:06,719 --> 01:20:08,655 WOMAN (on TV):...headed directly into the World Trade Center. 1608 01:20:08,679 --> 01:20:10,090 (sobs) It just flew into it. 1609 01:20:10,180 --> 01:20:12,060 HUGHES: Canada's prime minister is on the phone. 1610 01:20:12,099 --> 01:20:13,493 That's right, we got planes in the air 1611 01:20:13,517 --> 01:20:15,179 and nowhere for them to land. 1612 01:20:15,269 --> 01:20:17,932 RICE: Permission for them to land at Canadian airports, 1613 01:20:18,022 --> 01:20:19,582 international flights into Newfoundland. 1614 01:20:19,606 --> 01:20:21,438 MINETA: I still have one plane unaccounted for 1615 01:20:21,525 --> 01:20:22,525 flying over Pennsylvania. 1616 01:20:22,609 --> 01:20:23,670 SCOOTER: Sir, Donald Rumsfeld 1617 01:20:23,694 --> 01:20:24,796 is at the Pentagon on line three. 1618 01:20:24,820 --> 01:20:26,027 - That? - SCOOTER: Mm-hmm. 1619 01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:27,113 Yes, sir. 1620 01:20:28,657 --> 01:20:30,569 CHENEY: You have authorization 1621 01:20:30,659 --> 01:20:33,197 to shoot down any aircraft 1622 01:20:33,287 --> 01:20:34,949 deemed a threat. 1623 01:20:35,039 --> 01:20:36,621 RUMSFELD: Presidential authority? 1624 01:20:36,707 --> 01:20:37,707 CHENEY: That is correct. 1625 01:20:37,791 --> 01:20:39,498 All orders are UNODIR. 1626 01:20:39,585 --> 01:20:41,896 - RICE: "UNODIR", sir? - HUGHES: Unless otherwise directed. 1627 01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:44,378 RICE: Mr. Vice President, are we sure these are 1628 01:20:44,465 --> 01:20:46,422 the proper rules of engagement? 1629 01:20:46,508 --> 01:20:48,795 The country's under attack, the ROE is fluid. 1630 01:20:48,886 --> 01:20:51,173 - David... Addington, David. - ADDINGTON: Yes, sir. 1631 01:20:51,263 --> 01:20:52,799 KURT: Now, we don't know exactly 1632 01:20:52,890 --> 01:20:55,348 what the people in that room were thinking. 1633 01:20:55,434 --> 01:20:57,471 But it's safe to assume 1634 01:20:57,561 --> 01:21:00,850 that at least one person wondered why 1635 01:21:00,939 --> 01:21:02,771 in the midst of the most fateful day 1636 01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:04,724 in American history 1637 01:21:04,818 --> 01:21:07,526 was Dick Cheney talking to his lawyer. 1638 01:21:07,613 --> 01:21:09,400 And, um, what, um... 1639 01:21:09,490 --> 01:21:11,857 - Mr. Vice President? - ...authority will he need? 1640 01:21:11,950 --> 01:21:13,386 - So, start working on... - (clears throat) 1641 01:21:13,410 --> 01:21:14,410 Mr. Vice President? 1642 01:21:15,662 --> 01:21:17,153 The congressional members you sent 1643 01:21:17,247 --> 01:21:18,808 to Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center 1644 01:21:18,832 --> 01:21:20,949 - wanna leave. - Nope. 1645 01:21:21,043 --> 01:21:22,375 HUGHES: Excuse me? 1646 01:21:22,461 --> 01:21:24,418 (sighs) They're not going anywhere. 1647 01:21:24,505 --> 01:21:28,465 Just, uh, tell them, um, we have all the helicopters. 1648 01:21:29,718 --> 01:21:30,799 Yes, sir. 1649 01:21:32,012 --> 01:21:33,298 I'm sorry, that is a negative. 1650 01:21:33,389 --> 01:21:35,426 They are to remain where they are. 1651 01:21:35,516 --> 01:21:37,473 There's no helicopters available for evac. 1652 01:21:37,559 --> 01:21:39,471 That is correct. 1653 01:21:39,561 --> 01:21:41,974 If you would be so kind to relay that information. 1654 01:21:44,775 --> 01:21:45,775 LYNNE: Are we at war? 1655 01:21:47,111 --> 01:21:48,568 Yes, we are. 1656 01:21:48,654 --> 01:21:50,020 LYNNE: With whom? 1657 01:21:50,114 --> 01:21:52,197 (indistinct chattering) 1658 01:22:02,626 --> 01:22:03,992 RADIO OPERATOR: Depot street. 1659 01:22:04,086 --> 01:22:05,230 Truck pulling in across from Depot Street. 1660 01:22:05,254 --> 01:22:07,496 (indistinct radio chatter) 1661 01:22:11,260 --> 01:22:14,094 Unit 9-3. 0-3-15 negative. 1662 01:22:14,179 --> 01:22:17,138 (radio chatter continues) 1663 01:22:17,224 --> 01:22:19,466 1-5-2-7, Brian. 1664 01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:20,926 God damn it. 1665 01:22:21,019 --> 01:22:22,305 TENET: We picked up chatter 1666 01:22:22,396 --> 01:22:24,513 from well-known Al-Qaeda operatives 1667 01:22:24,606 --> 01:22:26,222 celebrating today's attack. 1668 01:22:26,316 --> 01:22:27,669 RUMSFELD: We shouldn't rule out Iraq. 1669 01:22:27,693 --> 01:22:29,605 RICE: But what's Al-Qaeda's leader's name? 1670 01:22:29,695 --> 01:22:31,903 His name is Osama bin Laden. 1671 01:22:31,989 --> 01:22:33,480 CLARKE: But this is clearly Al-Qaeda. 1672 01:22:33,574 --> 01:22:35,657 I've been tracking their movements for years. 1673 01:22:35,742 --> 01:22:37,137 Their fingerprints are all over this. 1674 01:22:37,161 --> 01:22:38,948 Iraq has all the good targets. 1675 01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:41,516 Iraq has nothing to do with this, Don. 1676 01:22:41,540 --> 01:22:43,184 RUMSFELD: Richard, you don't know that for sure. 1677 01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:44,574 CLARKE: I do know that. 1678 01:22:44,668 --> 01:22:45,728 POWELL: Mr. President, if I may. 1679 01:22:45,752 --> 01:22:46,868 (sighs) 1680 01:22:46,962 --> 01:22:49,921 Afghanistan is Al-Qaeda's headquarters. 1681 01:22:50,007 --> 01:22:51,443 - That is where our focus should be. - CLARKE: Yeah. 1682 01:22:51,467 --> 01:22:54,631 TENET: And the CIA would be capable of taking out 1683 01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:56,006 the Taliban's power structure. 1684 01:22:56,096 --> 01:22:58,088 RUMSFELD: Yeah. All due respect, George, 1685 01:22:58,182 --> 01:22:59,548 Mr. President... 1686 01:22:59,641 --> 01:23:00,973 we are the Pentagon, 1687 01:23:01,059 --> 01:23:02,641 and this is what we do. 1688 01:23:02,728 --> 01:23:03,889 Don. 1689 01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:19,075 Okay. We'll, uh, we'll go with Tenet and the CIA. 1690 01:23:19,161 --> 01:23:21,369 I'll make some calls to our allies. 1691 01:23:21,455 --> 01:23:22,455 RICE: Thank you, sir. 1692 01:23:22,457 --> 01:23:24,573 (indistinct chatter) 1693 01:23:25,751 --> 01:23:29,791 I think, uh, given the current situation, Mr. President, 1694 01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:33,464 it is wise that we not be in the same location 1695 01:23:33,550 --> 01:23:37,089 for COG, Continuity of Government. 1696 01:23:37,179 --> 01:23:39,262 GEORGE W. BUSH: Of course. 1697 01:23:40,265 --> 01:23:42,097 We gonna be all right on this, aren't we? 1698 01:23:43,435 --> 01:23:46,553 Yes, sir. Yes, we are. 1699 01:23:50,484 --> 01:23:52,921 AGENT 1 (on radio): Angler has taken off to an undisclosed location. 1700 01:23:52,945 --> 01:23:54,777 I repeat, Angler is airborne. 1701 01:23:54,863 --> 01:23:56,980 AGENT 2: Angler? That's the VP? 1702 01:23:57,074 --> 01:23:58,593 I thought only the president could land 1703 01:23:58,617 --> 01:24:00,324 and take off from the south lawn. 1704 01:24:00,410 --> 01:24:01,617 AGENT 1: What can I tell you? 1705 01:24:01,703 --> 01:24:02,944 Today's fucked. 1706 01:24:05,123 --> 01:24:07,080 (engine roaring) 1707 01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:30,643 This intelligence has been edited, 1708 01:24:30,732 --> 01:24:33,190 redacted, and reduced. 1709 01:24:33,277 --> 01:24:35,189 Mr. Vice President, usually we vet 1710 01:24:35,279 --> 01:24:36,719 the daily intelligence threat matrix 1711 01:24:36,780 --> 01:24:38,988 to eliminate unreliable sources, non-players... 1712 01:24:39,074 --> 01:24:43,785 Stop. Don't you dare give me a damn disquisition... 1713 01:24:44,830 --> 01:24:46,366 on what I cannot hear. 1714 01:24:46,456 --> 01:24:48,368 FEMALE OFFICER 1: Mr. Vice President, 1715 01:24:48,458 --> 01:24:50,138 a lot of this intelligence is not verified. 1716 01:24:51,461 --> 01:24:52,814 CHENEY: I'm gonna say this for the last time. 1717 01:24:52,838 --> 01:24:53,838 I want to hear everything 1718 01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:56,377 every day, from now on. 1719 01:24:56,466 --> 01:24:57,673 MALE OFFICER: Yes, sir. 1720 01:24:57,759 --> 01:25:00,046 - CHENEY: Proceed. - (clears throat) 1721 01:25:00,137 --> 01:25:02,299 We're tracking the possibility of bio-attacks 1722 01:25:02,389 --> 01:25:05,848 using Sarin gas, cowpox, Ebola. 1723 01:25:05,934 --> 01:25:08,517 There was a post on a dark website... 1724 01:25:09,980 --> 01:25:12,438 about mass beheadings in residential areas. 1725 01:25:12,524 --> 01:25:14,002 MALE OFFICER 1: Movie studios, museums, 1726 01:25:14,026 --> 01:25:17,019 subways, daycare centers may all be targets. 1727 01:25:17,112 --> 01:25:18,398 A source has told an asset 1728 01:25:18,488 --> 01:25:20,445 about fire-bombs targeting hospitals. 1729 01:25:20,532 --> 01:25:21,884 FEMALE OFFICER 1: A video was captured 1730 01:25:21,908 --> 01:25:23,774 describing televised executions 1731 01:25:23,869 --> 01:25:25,826 interrupting American network TV. 1732 01:25:25,912 --> 01:25:27,682 MALE OFFICER 2: Sporting events, tourist attractions, 1733 01:25:27,706 --> 01:25:29,100 New Year's celebrations, religious ceremonies, 1734 01:25:29,124 --> 01:25:30,990 are all hard targets. 1735 01:25:31,084 --> 01:25:32,437 MALE OFFICER 3: Machine-gun attacks at high-profile... 1736 01:25:32,461 --> 01:25:34,105 FEMALE OFFICER 2: Biological agents inside... 1737 01:25:34,129 --> 01:25:35,481 FEMALE OFFICER 1: Coordinated fire-bombings 1738 01:25:35,505 --> 01:25:37,417 of commuter trains across North America. 1739 01:25:37,507 --> 01:25:39,402 MALE OFFICER 2: Water filtration plants targeted with bio-weapons 1740 01:25:39,426 --> 01:25:40,528 and killing a million people. 1741 01:25:40,552 --> 01:25:41,963 FEMALE OFFICER 1: A briefcase nuke 1742 01:25:42,054 --> 01:25:43,966 being driven into a major city and detonated. 1743 01:25:44,056 --> 01:25:45,325 MALE OFFICER 2: Airborne bio-weapons can be put 1744 01:25:45,349 --> 01:25:46,806 into the air conditioning units 1745 01:25:46,892 --> 01:25:49,054 of large shopping malls or casinos. 1746 01:25:49,144 --> 01:25:50,955 FEMALE OFFICER 3: A beloved celebrity has been targeted 1747 01:25:50,979 --> 01:25:52,248 for kidnapping and possibly beheading. 1748 01:25:52,272 --> 01:25:53,638 MALE OFFICER 2: Phosphorus bombs, 1749 01:25:53,732 --> 01:25:55,815 chlorine attacks, mustard gas, cluster bombs... 1750 01:26:04,868 --> 01:26:06,359 I'm scared, Dick. 1751 01:26:14,211 --> 01:26:16,123 I'll always take care of you, Lynne. 1752 01:26:17,798 --> 01:26:18,798 You know that. 1753 01:26:22,052 --> 01:26:23,463 What are you going to do? 1754 01:26:30,602 --> 01:26:32,889 (stream flowing gently) 1755 01:26:44,908 --> 01:26:45,989 (gunshots) 1756 01:26:48,328 --> 01:26:49,910 (gunshots continue) 1757 01:26:57,504 --> 01:27:00,372 (men shout indistinctly) 1758 01:27:04,302 --> 01:27:05,759 SOLDIER: Move, move, move! 1759 01:27:05,846 --> 01:27:07,587 (gunshots) 1760 01:27:07,681 --> 01:27:08,842 (indistinct) 1761 01:27:11,393 --> 01:27:12,429 (gunshots) 1762 01:27:12,519 --> 01:27:14,977 So, while Powell, the CIA, 1763 01:27:15,063 --> 01:27:16,804 and their international coalition 1764 01:27:16,898 --> 01:27:19,311 toppled the Taliban and took Afghanistan 1765 01:27:19,401 --> 01:27:21,017 in a matter of weeks, 1766 01:27:21,111 --> 01:27:23,854 Cheney had found something much more powerful 1767 01:27:23,947 --> 01:27:26,564 than missiles or jet planes. 1768 01:27:27,868 --> 01:27:29,860 BYBEE: Mr. Vice President, this is John Yoo. 1769 01:27:29,953 --> 01:27:31,833 It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Vice President. 1770 01:27:33,957 --> 01:27:35,226 BYBEE: So David told me you're looking 1771 01:27:35,250 --> 01:27:37,492 for executive authority. 1772 01:27:37,586 --> 01:27:38,997 Mm-hmm. 1773 01:27:39,087 --> 01:27:40,148 John here is definitely your guy. 1774 01:27:40,172 --> 01:27:41,583 (Cheney exhales) 1775 01:27:41,673 --> 01:27:44,290 The war we're now fighting 1776 01:27:44,384 --> 01:27:47,798 will require resources and abilities that the, uh... 1777 01:27:49,306 --> 01:27:53,801 the current interpretation of the law... impedes. 1778 01:27:53,894 --> 01:27:55,010 The vice president believes 1779 01:27:55,103 --> 01:27:56,935 it is the duty of the commander-in-chief 1780 01:27:57,022 --> 01:27:58,058 to protect the nation 1781 01:27:58,148 --> 01:27:59,308 and that no other obligation, 1782 01:27:59,357 --> 01:28:00,893 whether to Congress or existing treaty 1783 01:28:00,984 --> 01:28:02,145 supersedes that duty. 1784 01:28:03,528 --> 01:28:04,968 How do you feel about that statement? 1785 01:28:06,364 --> 01:28:07,364 I couldn't agree more. 1786 01:28:09,159 --> 01:28:11,446 KURT: John Yoo's first legal opinion 1787 01:28:11,536 --> 01:28:13,619 allowed the US government 1788 01:28:13,705 --> 01:28:16,789 to monitor every citizens' phone calls, 1789 01:28:16,875 --> 01:28:19,083 texts, and e-mails without a warrant. 1790 01:28:19,169 --> 01:28:20,626 (man screams) 1791 01:28:20,712 --> 01:28:24,046 KURT: It was a giant legal leap 1792 01:28:24,132 --> 01:28:26,249 based on sketchy law at best. 1793 01:28:27,302 --> 01:28:29,760 But John Yoo's masterpiece, 1794 01:28:29,846 --> 01:28:32,384 his Moby-Dick, if you will, 1795 01:28:33,809 --> 01:28:35,550 was the torture memo. 1796 01:28:35,644 --> 01:28:37,476 ...your fucking contact is! 1797 01:28:38,855 --> 01:28:40,141 Where're your fucking hands? 1798 01:28:40,232 --> 01:28:42,269 What about the Geneva Convention? 1799 01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:45,317 The Geneva Convention is open to interpretation. 1800 01:28:45,403 --> 01:28:47,190 What exactly does that mean? 1801 01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,943 - (man shouting, indistinct) - ADDINGTON: Stress positions, 1802 01:28:50,033 --> 01:28:51,552 waterboarding, confined spaces, dogs... 1803 01:28:51,576 --> 01:28:53,256 We're calling it "enhanced interrogation." 1804 01:28:54,287 --> 01:28:55,823 Are we sure none of this fits 1805 01:28:55,914 --> 01:28:57,496 in the definition of "torture"? 1806 01:28:57,582 --> 01:28:58,914 The US doesn't torture. 1807 01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:03,085 Therefore, if the US does it, 1808 01:29:03,171 --> 01:29:06,130 by definition, it can't be torture. 1809 01:29:06,216 --> 01:29:08,003 - (dogs barking) - (man screaming) 1810 01:29:10,262 --> 01:29:11,753 KURT: But torture and privacy laws 1811 01:29:11,847 --> 01:29:14,555 weren't the only laws Cheney re-wrote with John Yoo. 1812 01:29:14,641 --> 01:29:17,759 They had a full menu of legal opinions 1813 01:29:17,853 --> 01:29:19,970 stretching and challenging constitutional 1814 01:29:20,063 --> 01:29:21,725 and international law. 1815 01:29:21,815 --> 01:29:23,602 WAITER: Good evening, gentlemen. 1816 01:29:23,692 --> 01:29:26,730 Tonight we're offering the enemy combatant, 1817 01:29:26,820 --> 01:29:29,278 whereby a person is not a prisoner of war, 1818 01:29:29,364 --> 01:29:31,151 or a criminal, which means of course 1819 01:29:31,241 --> 01:29:33,779 that he has absolutely no protection under the law. 1820 01:29:33,869 --> 01:29:36,452 We're also offering an extraordinary rendition 1821 01:29:36,538 --> 01:29:39,906 where suspects are abducted without record on foreign soil 1822 01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:41,286 and taken to foreign prisons 1823 01:29:41,376 --> 01:29:42,708 in countries that still torture. 1824 01:29:42,794 --> 01:29:44,376 Oh, that sounds delicious. 1825 01:29:44,462 --> 01:29:46,203 We also have Guantanamo Bay, 1826 01:29:46,298 --> 01:29:48,210 which is very, very complicated, 1827 01:29:48,300 --> 01:29:50,007 but it does allow you to operate 1828 01:29:50,093 --> 01:29:52,426 outside the purview of due process 1829 01:29:52,512 --> 01:29:54,925 on land which isn't technically US territory, 1830 01:29:55,015 --> 01:29:57,098 but where we still do have control. 1831 01:29:57,183 --> 01:29:59,550 And also, we have a very fresh and delicious 1832 01:29:59,644 --> 01:30:01,852 War Powers Act interpretation 1833 01:30:01,938 --> 01:30:04,021 which gives the executive branch broad powers 1834 01:30:04,107 --> 01:30:06,474 to attack nations or people 1835 01:30:06,568 --> 01:30:08,810 who it deems still possibly a threat. 1836 01:30:08,904 --> 01:30:11,863 We have the fact that under the unitary executive theory, 1837 01:30:11,948 --> 01:30:13,484 if the president does anything, 1838 01:30:13,575 --> 01:30:15,237 - it must be legal. - (scoffs) 1839 01:30:15,327 --> 01:30:18,195 Which, of course, means you can do whatever the fuck you want. 1840 01:30:18,288 --> 01:30:19,574 So, gentlemen, 1841 01:30:19,664 --> 01:30:20,664 which would you like? 1842 01:30:20,749 --> 01:30:23,583 Hmm. We'll, uh... We'll have them all. 1843 01:30:23,668 --> 01:30:24,954 Excellent choice. 1844 01:30:25,045 --> 01:30:26,045 Thank you. 1845 01:30:27,172 --> 01:30:30,336 WOLFOWITZ: Look, Dick, uh, we've been working 1846 01:30:30,425 --> 01:30:32,667 with these focus groups and advertising executives 1847 01:30:32,761 --> 01:30:34,923 to try and sell the War on Terror. 1848 01:30:35,013 --> 01:30:37,505 WOMAN: I'll reiterate, we are still being recorded, 1849 01:30:37,599 --> 01:30:39,386 and there still may or may not be clients 1850 01:30:39,476 --> 01:30:40,578 back behind the two-way mirrors... 1851 01:30:40,602 --> 01:30:43,265 These guys are pretty sharp. 1852 01:30:43,355 --> 01:30:44,355 Go on. 1853 01:30:45,440 --> 01:30:46,647 There's a problem. 1854 01:30:46,733 --> 01:30:48,373 The results show that people are confused. 1855 01:30:48,443 --> 01:30:50,935 WOMAN: You all support the president, 1856 01:30:51,029 --> 01:30:54,898 you hate terrorism, yet you're still confused. 1857 01:30:54,991 --> 01:30:57,324 Can you tell me why? Anybody? 1858 01:30:58,578 --> 01:31:01,912 MARK: Don't we have to just get Osama bin Laden? He did it. 1859 01:31:01,998 --> 01:31:04,911 So why are they calling it a war? A war with who? 1860 01:31:05,001 --> 01:31:06,412 WOMAN: Okay, thank you, Mark. 1861 01:31:06,503 --> 01:31:08,916 Uh, Jasmine, jump in, please. 1862 01:31:09,005 --> 01:31:11,543 I don't get what this Al-Qaeda is. 1863 01:31:11,633 --> 01:31:14,000 Are they a country, like, why can't we just bomb them? 1864 01:31:14,094 --> 01:31:15,551 WOMAN: That's really interesting. 1865 01:31:15,637 --> 01:31:19,347 Um, is anybody else confused about what Al-Qaeda is? 1866 01:31:19,432 --> 01:31:20,798 Show of hands, please. 1867 01:31:20,892 --> 01:31:23,225 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... 1868 01:31:23,311 --> 01:31:25,928 That's a lot of you. Right? 1869 01:31:26,022 --> 01:31:27,888 Would it be less confusing 1870 01:31:27,983 --> 01:31:29,269 if it was a country? 1871 01:31:29,359 --> 01:31:30,395 MARK: Damn right. 1872 01:31:30,485 --> 01:31:31,771 I'm angry as hell. 1873 01:31:32,821 --> 01:31:35,404 We've gotta fuck someone up. 1874 01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:37,026 WOMAN: Got it. Mark. 1875 01:31:37,117 --> 01:31:39,261 Really strong feelings coming from Mark. I'm interested. 1876 01:31:39,285 --> 01:31:40,805 Does anybody else feel the same or agree... 1877 01:31:40,829 --> 01:31:42,661 They understand we're at war, but... 1878 01:31:43,707 --> 01:31:45,289 they don't know against who. 1879 01:31:45,375 --> 01:31:47,037 They want a country. 1880 01:31:47,127 --> 01:31:48,538 It's cleaner, simpler. 1881 01:31:48,628 --> 01:31:50,231 ADDINGTON: That would certainly help us legally. 1882 01:31:50,255 --> 01:31:51,496 CHENEY: Hmm. Well... 1883 01:31:52,966 --> 01:31:54,923 looks like it's time to take Iraq. 1884 01:31:56,720 --> 01:31:59,133 - (chuckles) - RUMSFELD: It is about goddamn time. 1885 01:32:03,018 --> 01:32:07,558 CHENEY: It's called the Office of Special Plans. 1886 01:32:07,647 --> 01:32:10,685 Tenet is not yet serious enough 1887 01:32:10,775 --> 01:32:13,233 about the threat that Saddam poses 1888 01:32:13,319 --> 01:32:14,776 to the global war on terror. 1889 01:32:16,114 --> 01:32:17,730 But I can promise you 1890 01:32:17,824 --> 01:32:19,861 that this intelligence group will be. 1891 01:32:19,951 --> 01:32:21,032 Wolfie, I got something. 1892 01:32:21,119 --> 01:32:22,360 WOLFOWITZ: Truck transmissions. 1893 01:32:22,454 --> 01:32:24,056 If there's a donkey with a radio up his ass, 1894 01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:25,141 I wanna know what it's transmitting. 1895 01:32:25,165 --> 01:32:26,872 I think that's an excellent idea. 1896 01:32:29,377 --> 01:32:31,522 I've been wantin' to take that motherfucker Saddam down 1897 01:32:31,546 --> 01:32:33,162 - for a long time. - Hmm. 1898 01:32:33,256 --> 01:32:35,213 FEITH: Here's a report that says Mohamed Atta, 1899 01:32:35,300 --> 01:32:36,666 one of the 9-11 hijackers, 1900 01:32:36,760 --> 01:32:39,468 may have met with an Iraqi spy in Prague. 1901 01:32:39,554 --> 01:32:40,990 WOMAN: It's a really strong statement. 1902 01:32:41,014 --> 01:32:42,801 Does anybody agree with that statement? 1903 01:32:42,891 --> 01:32:45,508 Wait a minute. We can't just bomb people. 1904 01:32:45,602 --> 01:32:46,620 - Oh, please. - WOMAN: Yeah, no. 1905 01:32:46,644 --> 01:32:47,804 It's from Czech intelligence, 1906 01:32:47,854 --> 01:32:49,720 and they question its credibility. 1907 01:32:49,814 --> 01:32:51,834 WOLFOWITZ: I've been to Prague. They question everything. 1908 01:32:51,858 --> 01:32:54,771 Who wants to be an anonymous source? 1909 01:32:54,861 --> 01:32:56,523 Make sure you work in the phrase, 1910 01:32:56,613 --> 01:32:59,105 "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." 1911 01:32:59,199 --> 01:33:00,639 That focus-grouped through the roof. 1912 01:33:00,700 --> 01:33:03,033 RICE: There will always be uncertainty 1913 01:33:03,119 --> 01:33:06,032 about when he will acquire nuclear weapons. 1914 01:33:06,122 --> 01:33:08,409 But we don't want the smoking gun 1915 01:33:08,500 --> 01:33:09,832 to be a mushroom cloud. 1916 01:33:09,918 --> 01:33:11,875 There is a smoking gun or a mushroom cloud 1917 01:33:11,961 --> 01:33:13,856 - we have waited too long. - CHENEY: Simply stated, 1918 01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,247 there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein 1919 01:33:16,341 --> 01:33:18,503 now has weapons of mass destruction. 1920 01:33:18,593 --> 01:33:20,334 We gotta get rid of this dictator. 1921 01:33:20,428 --> 01:33:22,073 He's got anthrax, he's got all these weapons... 1922 01:33:22,097 --> 01:33:24,089 There is no doubt he is amassing them 1923 01:33:24,182 --> 01:33:25,718 to use them against our friends, 1924 01:33:25,809 --> 01:33:27,801 against our allies, and against us. 1925 01:33:27,894 --> 01:33:30,728 When, and not if, but when 1926 01:33:30,814 --> 01:33:33,602 Saddam creates and uses nuclear weapons, 1927 01:33:33,691 --> 01:33:35,523 what will we tell the American people? 1928 01:33:35,610 --> 01:33:39,354 Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity 1929 01:33:39,447 --> 01:33:41,484 to wage biological and chemical warfare. 1930 01:33:41,574 --> 01:33:42,781 - Hello? - MAN: Whassup! 1931 01:33:42,867 --> 01:33:47,282 (all exclaiming) 1932 01:33:47,372 --> 01:33:50,035 To show that we will stand up for what we know to be right, 1933 01:33:50,125 --> 01:33:52,333 to show that we will confront the tyrannies 1934 01:33:52,418 --> 01:33:53,909 and dictatorships and terrorists 1935 01:33:54,003 --> 01:33:55,869 who put our way of life at risk. 1936 01:33:55,964 --> 01:33:57,705 BROKAW:...of winning a second UN resolution 1937 01:33:57,799 --> 01:33:59,631 authorizing war against Iraq. 1938 01:33:59,717 --> 01:34:01,299 So tonight President Bush... 1939 01:34:01,386 --> 01:34:03,423 ...and the hopes of an oppressed people... 1940 01:34:03,513 --> 01:34:04,549 The tribe has spoken. 1941 01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:09,967 Polling for an invasion of Iraq 1942 01:34:10,061 --> 01:34:12,144 is at 53 percent. 1943 01:34:12,230 --> 01:34:13,596 Focus groups show people 1944 01:34:13,690 --> 01:34:15,682 still aren't sure about a connection 1945 01:34:15,775 --> 01:34:18,438 between Saddam and Al-Qaeda. 1946 01:34:18,528 --> 01:34:19,968 And France and Germany have both said 1947 01:34:20,029 --> 01:34:21,736 that they will not join our coalition 1948 01:34:21,823 --> 01:34:23,610 And neither will Israel. 1949 01:34:23,700 --> 01:34:26,693 Ariel and I we went to the Wall together with Condi. 1950 01:34:26,786 --> 01:34:27,902 We-we prayed together. 1951 01:34:27,996 --> 01:34:30,079 Israel's one of our closest allies. 1952 01:34:30,165 --> 01:34:33,249 They said an invasion of Iraq would... 1953 01:34:33,334 --> 01:34:35,542 destabilize the region, sir, 1954 01:34:35,628 --> 01:34:37,909 and that they don't believe Saddam is an immediate threat. 1955 01:34:38,423 --> 01:34:39,834 That's not good. 1956 01:34:39,924 --> 01:34:42,541 I really want a strong coalition for this. 1957 01:34:42,635 --> 01:34:44,217 I have an idea. 1958 01:34:44,304 --> 01:34:46,136 Secretary Powell has the highest 1959 01:34:46,222 --> 01:34:48,259 trustworthy ratings of all of us. 1960 01:34:49,392 --> 01:34:51,429 What if he gave an address to the UN 1961 01:34:51,519 --> 01:34:53,260 and the American people 1962 01:34:53,354 --> 01:34:55,346 to push this over the finish line? 1963 01:34:55,440 --> 01:34:57,557 Karl, I have been very vocal, 1964 01:34:57,650 --> 01:34:59,983 very vocal about my reservations about invading Iraq. 1965 01:35:00,069 --> 01:35:03,733 Oh! Colin, you're such a nervous Nellie. 1966 01:35:03,823 --> 01:35:05,860 - We are talking about invading... - A worry wart. 1967 01:35:05,950 --> 01:35:07,678 - ...a sovereign nation... - Sovereign nation? 1968 01:35:07,702 --> 01:35:09,972 - ...without any provocation, Don. - RUMSFELD: Don't give me that... 1969 01:35:09,996 --> 01:35:11,432 POWELL: It is a sovereign nation, Don. 1970 01:35:11,456 --> 01:35:12,933 RUMSFELD:...in any way, shape, or form. You're wrong. 1971 01:35:12,957 --> 01:35:14,226 POWELL: What's the exit strategy? 1972 01:35:14,250 --> 01:35:16,458 What, what about the intelligence? 1973 01:35:16,544 --> 01:35:18,230 - Does intelligence matter to you at all? - The exit strategy. Oh, please. 1974 01:35:18,254 --> 01:35:19,732 - You break it, you bought it. - You know you're wrong. 1975 01:35:19,756 --> 01:35:21,275 - You break it, you bought it. - You're a chicken-shit. 1976 01:35:21,299 --> 01:35:23,165 All right. Hey, hey, hey, all right. 1977 01:35:23,259 --> 01:35:24,795 Ho-ho-ho-ho. 1978 01:35:24,886 --> 01:35:26,047 Let-let's slow down. 1979 01:35:27,222 --> 01:35:28,679 That's enough of that, you guys. 1980 01:35:28,765 --> 01:35:29,926 Well, are you... 1981 01:35:31,351 --> 01:35:34,094 gonna take Saddam down or not? 1982 01:35:35,230 --> 01:35:37,267 You are the president. 1983 01:35:40,068 --> 01:35:43,687 War... is yours. 1984 01:35:45,573 --> 01:35:48,907 Not the UN, not some coalition. 1985 01:35:48,993 --> 01:35:50,950 Do not share powers... 1986 01:35:52,205 --> 01:35:53,787 that are yours alone. 1987 01:35:59,170 --> 01:36:01,457 (inhales deeply) 1988 01:36:01,547 --> 01:36:04,665 George, make sure Powell sees the intelligence. 1989 01:36:04,759 --> 01:36:06,375 TENET: Yes, sir. 1990 01:36:06,469 --> 01:36:08,589 GEORGE W. BUSH: Colin, I want you to make that speech. 1991 01:36:08,638 --> 01:36:10,630 I'm president, and I want this to happen. 1992 01:36:10,723 --> 01:36:11,825 - TENET: Yes, sir. - HUGHES: Yes, sir. 1993 01:36:11,849 --> 01:36:13,556 POWELL: Yes, sir. 1994 01:36:13,643 --> 01:36:15,496 I look forward to being briefed on that intelligence. 1995 01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:18,183 On another note, I've been handed a credible report 1996 01:36:18,273 --> 01:36:21,766 of a small terrorist enclave in North Eastern Iraq. 1997 01:36:21,859 --> 01:36:22,859 If we're gonna invade, 1998 01:36:22,944 --> 01:36:24,651 we suggest taking it out before. 1999 01:36:24,737 --> 01:36:26,537 Let it go, George. We have bigger fish to fry. 2000 01:36:26,614 --> 01:36:28,697 Let me see that intelligence. 2001 01:36:28,783 --> 01:36:30,319 - TENET: Of course. - (clears throat) 2002 01:36:30,410 --> 01:36:33,278 KURT: That classified document 2003 01:36:33,371 --> 01:36:37,706 described a terrorist named Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi 2004 01:36:37,792 --> 01:36:40,034 who had started as a drug dealer and pimp 2005 01:36:40,128 --> 01:36:41,619 before becoming fully radicalized 2006 01:36:41,713 --> 01:36:43,955 in a Jordanian prison. 2007 01:36:44,048 --> 01:36:47,132 Zarqawi went to meet bin Laden in Afghanistan. 2008 01:36:47,218 --> 01:36:49,756 Did he or did he not meet with Al-Qaeda? 2009 01:36:49,846 --> 01:36:54,386 KURT: But Zarqawi had vowed to kill all Shia Muslims, 2010 01:36:54,475 --> 01:36:57,764 and bin Laden's mother was Shia. 2011 01:36:57,854 --> 01:36:59,846 So the meeting didn't go over well. 2012 01:36:59,939 --> 01:37:01,475 They had no operational contact. 2013 01:37:01,566 --> 01:37:02,807 Hogwash. 2014 01:37:02,900 --> 01:37:05,813 POWELL: Larry, have you seen this speech? 2015 01:37:05,903 --> 01:37:07,439 Yes, sir. It's bone-thin. 2016 01:37:07,530 --> 01:37:10,022 I saw at least five pieces of disproved intel in there. 2017 01:37:10,116 --> 01:37:11,152 Who wrote it? 2018 01:37:11,242 --> 01:37:12,574 They said it was the president, 2019 01:37:12,660 --> 01:37:13,971 but I think you can guess who really wrote it. 2020 01:37:13,995 --> 01:37:15,987 Well, there's no need to yell, Larry. 2021 01:37:17,081 --> 01:37:20,370 Yeah, well, we reviewed the speech, 2022 01:37:20,460 --> 01:37:22,076 we gave some notes. 2023 01:37:23,838 --> 01:37:27,377 Powell really doesn't have a clue, does he? 2024 01:37:27,467 --> 01:37:29,880 KURT: After the US invaded Afghanistan, 2025 01:37:29,969 --> 01:37:32,586 Zarqawi set up shop in Iraq. 2026 01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:35,263 It was the only connection Cheney had 2027 01:37:35,350 --> 01:37:37,137 between Al-Qaeda and Iraq. 2028 01:37:37,226 --> 01:37:39,639 The Security Council will now begin 2029 01:37:39,729 --> 01:37:43,643 its consideration of item two of the agenda. 2030 01:37:43,733 --> 01:37:45,645 I call now on the distinguished 2031 01:37:45,735 --> 01:37:47,021 Secretary of State 2032 01:37:47,111 --> 01:37:48,852 of the United States of America, 2033 01:37:48,946 --> 01:37:51,484 His Excellency, Mr. Colin Powell. 2034 01:37:51,574 --> 01:37:54,282 My purpose here today is to share with you 2035 01:37:54,369 --> 01:37:55,655 what the United States knows 2036 01:37:55,745 --> 01:37:58,863 about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction 2037 01:37:58,956 --> 01:38:01,790 as well as Iraq's involvement in terrorism. 2038 01:38:01,876 --> 01:38:04,789 Iraq, today, harbors a deadly terrorist network 2039 01:38:04,879 --> 01:38:07,713 headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 2040 01:38:07,799 --> 01:38:10,007 an associate and collaborator... 2041 01:38:10,093 --> 01:38:12,676 KURT: Powell's UN address was seen by millions of Americans, 2042 01:38:12,762 --> 01:38:15,254 but other people were watching as well. 2043 01:38:15,348 --> 01:38:17,089 POWELL: Collaborator of Osama bin Laden 2044 01:38:17,183 --> 01:38:18,674 and his Al-Qaeda lieutenants... 2045 01:38:19,727 --> 01:38:21,514 Zarqawi's activities are not confined... 2046 01:38:21,604 --> 01:38:22,936 KURT: The great general of America 2047 01:38:23,022 --> 01:38:24,809 saying his name over and over again 2048 01:38:24,899 --> 01:38:27,391 immediately made Zarqawi a star. 2049 01:38:27,485 --> 01:38:29,380 POWELL (on TV): Staying in the capital of Iraq... 2050 01:38:29,404 --> 01:38:30,690 Allahu Akbar! 2051 01:38:30,780 --> 01:38:32,942 KURT: Within a day, he had gone into hiding. 2052 01:38:33,032 --> 01:38:35,866 ALL: Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! 2053 01:38:35,952 --> 01:38:38,865 POWELL:...but these denials are simply not credible. 2054 01:38:38,955 --> 01:38:41,322 They are simply not credible. 2055 01:38:41,416 --> 01:38:43,658 An Al-Qaeda source tells us that 2056 01:38:43,751 --> 01:38:45,743 Saddam and bin Laden reached an understanding 2057 01:38:45,837 --> 01:38:48,079 that Al-Qaeda would no longer 2058 01:38:48,172 --> 01:38:50,505 support activities against Baghdad. 2059 01:38:50,591 --> 01:38:52,207 KURT: By the time we invaded Iraq, 2060 01:38:52,301 --> 01:38:54,463 70 percent of Americans thought 2061 01:38:54,554 --> 01:38:57,012 that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9-11. 2062 01:38:58,891 --> 01:39:02,100 Later, Colin Powell would call the speech 2063 01:39:02,186 --> 01:39:04,849 the most painful moment of his life. 2064 01:39:04,939 --> 01:39:06,430 (whispers) 2065 01:39:07,859 --> 01:39:08,859 Thank you, sir. 2066 01:39:10,653 --> 01:39:12,360 MARY: And what was it? Justin, right? 2067 01:39:12,447 --> 01:39:13,858 LIZ: She can buy her album now, Mom. 2068 01:39:13,948 --> 01:39:15,689 HEATHER: What was the girl's name that won? 2069 01:39:15,783 --> 01:39:17,820 - No, Kelly. And then Justin. - Last year. 2070 01:39:17,910 --> 01:39:19,321 CHENEY: What are you talking about? 2071 01:39:19,412 --> 01:39:21,244 MARY: We're talking about American Idol, Dad. 2072 01:39:21,330 --> 01:39:22,366 CHENEY: What is that? 2073 01:39:22,457 --> 01:39:23,823 We watched it. You've seen it. 2074 01:39:23,916 --> 01:39:26,078 - You've seen it... - I've watched it next to you. 2075 01:39:26,169 --> 01:39:27,876 The singing, and the mean judge, and the... 2076 01:39:27,962 --> 01:39:29,373 CHENEY: I don't like that... 2077 01:39:29,464 --> 01:39:31,191 - MARY: The mean British judge? - LIZ: You liked it. 2078 01:39:31,215 --> 01:39:32,526 - You liked the mean British... - CHENEY: Oh, I like him. 2079 01:39:32,550 --> 01:39:33,550 LIZ: Yeah, you... 2080 01:39:34,552 --> 01:39:36,572 CHENEY: Do you know how to stop a fish from smelling? 2081 01:39:36,596 --> 01:39:38,007 LIZ: Very appropriate. 2082 01:39:38,097 --> 01:39:40,840 ELIZABETH: That's not a... That's a terrible joke. 2083 01:39:40,933 --> 01:39:42,549 Well, I didn't finish it yet. 2084 01:39:42,643 --> 01:39:43,929 MARY: I mean, everybody. 2085 01:39:44,020 --> 01:39:46,307 You cut off its nose. 2086 01:39:46,397 --> 01:39:48,480 HEATHER: Wait, what? 2087 01:39:48,566 --> 01:39:50,478 LYNNE: I know, Grace, cover your ears please. 2088 01:39:50,568 --> 01:39:53,606 - HEATHER: Cheers, honey. - Cheers. Oh, my gosh. 2089 01:39:53,696 --> 01:39:55,187 - We're not. - LYNNE: No, we're not. 2090 01:39:55,281 --> 01:39:56,613 We're not revisiting 2091 01:39:56,699 --> 01:39:59,692 your father's colorful conversations... 2092 01:39:59,785 --> 01:40:01,401 Let's just say that your dad... 2093 01:40:11,506 --> 01:40:13,372 REPORTER: Again, another, 2094 01:40:13,466 --> 01:40:14,582 disintegrating... 2095 01:40:22,266 --> 01:40:24,349 MAN: Is the prompter visible for you? 2096 01:40:24,435 --> 01:40:28,054 Yeah, yeah. Bring it a little closer. Yeah. 2097 01:40:28,147 --> 01:40:30,013 How's my hair? All right? 2098 01:40:30,107 --> 01:40:32,144 - MAN: Looks good. - Tie? 2099 01:40:32,235 --> 01:40:35,444 MAN: And we are five, four, three... 2100 01:40:36,656 --> 01:40:38,818 My fellow citizens, at this hour, 2101 01:40:38,908 --> 01:40:40,900 American and coalition forces 2102 01:40:40,993 --> 01:40:44,532 are in the early stages of military operations 2103 01:40:44,622 --> 01:40:47,740 to disarm Iraq, to free its people 2104 01:40:47,833 --> 01:40:50,075 and to defend the world from grave danger. 2105 01:40:51,254 --> 01:40:54,338 On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking 2106 01:40:54,423 --> 01:40:57,336 selected targets of military importance 2107 01:40:57,426 --> 01:40:59,964 to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability 2108 01:41:00,054 --> 01:41:01,716 to wage war. 2109 01:41:01,806 --> 01:41:03,889 These are opening stages of what will be 2110 01:41:03,975 --> 01:41:07,468 a broad and concerted campaign. 2111 01:41:07,562 --> 01:41:10,350 To all the men and women of the United States Armed Forces 2112 01:41:10,439 --> 01:41:12,351 now in the Middle East, 2113 01:41:12,441 --> 01:41:14,478 the peace of a troubled world 2114 01:41:14,569 --> 01:41:17,562 and the hopes of an oppressed people... 2115 01:41:17,655 --> 01:41:20,193 - (explosions) - (woman sobbing) 2116 01:41:31,711 --> 01:41:34,545 (explosions continue) 2117 01:41:45,141 --> 01:41:47,178 (soldier shouts indistinctly) 2118 01:41:48,436 --> 01:41:50,018 SOLDIER: Guys, over here. Two o'clock. 2119 01:41:50,104 --> 01:41:51,515 Contact, two hundred yards. 2120 01:41:51,606 --> 01:41:53,393 (indistinct shouting) 2121 01:41:54,734 --> 01:41:56,378 REPORTER: This statement from the White House, 2122 01:41:56,402 --> 01:41:59,770 President Bush regards this as an historic moment. 2123 01:41:59,864 --> 01:42:01,526 The scenes on television show 2124 01:42:01,616 --> 01:42:04,984 the thirst for freedom is unquenchable. 2125 01:42:05,077 --> 01:42:06,513 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER: Striker One L-S-O, 2126 01:42:06,537 --> 01:42:07,698 You are clear to land. 2127 01:42:19,508 --> 01:42:23,468 (chanting) USA! USA! USA! 2128 01:42:25,097 --> 01:42:26,133 GEORGE W. BUSH: Good work. 2129 01:42:30,269 --> 01:42:32,226 Hi. Um... 2130 01:42:33,939 --> 01:42:37,023 It seems like they've been shipping men and equipment 2131 01:42:37,109 --> 01:42:39,192 out of Afghanistan, into Iraq, 2132 01:42:40,946 --> 01:42:43,734 and at the moment, we're a little unsure 2133 01:42:43,824 --> 01:42:45,816 of what's going on. 2134 01:42:48,204 --> 01:42:51,447 I don't want you to worry about me. 2135 01:42:53,626 --> 01:42:56,369 (cheering and whistling) 2136 01:42:58,631 --> 01:43:02,250 Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. 2137 01:43:02,343 --> 01:43:04,050 In the battle of Iraq, 2138 01:43:04,136 --> 01:43:07,049 the United States and our allies have prevailed. 2139 01:43:08,307 --> 01:43:10,640 We have concerns over Halliburton KBR's 2140 01:43:10,726 --> 01:43:11,762 billing practices. 2141 01:43:12,770 --> 01:43:14,932 As you know, the no-bid contracts they received 2142 01:43:15,022 --> 01:43:16,979 were quite sizable, and now... 2143 01:43:17,066 --> 01:43:19,353 Well, we're not concerned, are we? 2144 01:43:19,443 --> 01:43:20,443 Not at all. 2145 01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:23,733 The secretary of defense and the vice president 2146 01:43:23,823 --> 01:43:25,314 just said they're not concerned. 2147 01:43:26,409 --> 01:43:27,991 Now, can we please talk about Iran? 2148 01:43:34,625 --> 01:43:35,625 (gunshots) 2149 01:43:35,710 --> 01:43:36,826 (men laughing) 2150 01:43:37,878 --> 01:43:39,210 (man grunts) 2151 01:43:40,256 --> 01:43:43,465 KURT: To this day, Dick Cheney has never apologized 2152 01:43:43,551 --> 01:43:44,837 for this incident. 2153 01:43:44,927 --> 01:43:47,544 - Jesus, Dick! - (man groaning) 2154 01:43:47,638 --> 01:43:49,630 - KURT: But someone else did. - CHENEY: Oh, hell. 2155 01:43:49,724 --> 01:43:52,762 My family and I are deeply sorry 2156 01:43:52,852 --> 01:43:54,764 for all that Vice President Cheney 2157 01:43:54,854 --> 01:43:56,436 and his family have had to go through 2158 01:43:56,522 --> 01:43:58,138 this past week. 2159 01:43:58,232 --> 01:44:00,440 We send our love and respect to them. 2160 01:44:01,736 --> 01:44:04,228 And we hope that he will continue to come to Texas... 2161 01:44:05,489 --> 01:44:07,902 and seek the relaxation that he deserves. 2162 01:44:09,660 --> 01:44:11,572 So, this, uh... 2163 01:44:13,164 --> 01:44:16,953 Joe Wilson asshole... (clears throat) 2164 01:44:17,042 --> 01:44:18,311 ...is questioning our intelligence 2165 01:44:18,335 --> 01:44:19,917 in the New York Times. 2166 01:44:21,756 --> 01:44:23,622 (clears throat) What's his wife's name again? 2167 01:44:24,925 --> 01:44:26,666 Valerie Plame. 2168 01:44:26,761 --> 01:44:29,128 I confirmed it. She's undercover CIA. 2169 01:44:30,389 --> 01:44:31,389 Leak it. 2170 01:44:35,978 --> 01:44:38,595 (indistinct radio chatter) 2171 01:44:42,651 --> 01:44:44,267 (dog barking) 2172 01:44:47,406 --> 01:44:49,022 SOLDIER 1: Okay, okay. 2173 01:44:49,116 --> 01:44:50,719 Like, they don't care about their dogs, man. 2174 01:44:50,743 --> 01:44:52,543 I mean they shoot 'em. They let 'em roam wild. 2175 01:44:52,620 --> 01:44:53,900 What kinda man don't love a dog? 2176 01:44:54,872 --> 01:44:56,141 SOLDIER 2: People in India love cows. 2177 01:44:56,165 --> 01:44:57,576 They look at us 2178 01:44:57,666 --> 01:44:59,269 and how we treat cows and think the same thing. 2179 01:44:59,293 --> 01:45:01,376 SOLDIER 1: Cows. All due respect... 2180 01:45:01,462 --> 01:45:03,662 that sounds like some liberal ass-scratchin' bullshit... 2181 01:45:04,965 --> 01:45:07,628 - (man exclaims) - (woman cries) 2182 01:45:12,515 --> 01:45:13,926 Linda. 2183 01:45:17,478 --> 01:45:18,594 Look at this crap. 2184 01:45:18,687 --> 01:45:19,848 (groans) God damn it. 2185 01:45:19,939 --> 01:45:20,975 CHENEY: Hello, Don. 2186 01:45:22,149 --> 01:45:24,436 That report says Zarqawi, 2187 01:45:24,527 --> 01:45:27,019 the same fucking Zarqawi we talked up for months, 2188 01:45:27,112 --> 01:45:30,230 is now leading a major insurgence in Iraq. 2189 01:45:30,324 --> 01:45:33,442 And the implication is it's because we talked him up. 2190 01:45:33,536 --> 01:45:35,027 Has POTUS seen this? 2191 01:45:35,120 --> 01:45:36,486 No, no, no. 2192 01:45:36,580 --> 01:45:39,664 I... I intercepted it before it got across the hallway. 2193 01:45:39,750 --> 01:45:41,912 SCOOTER: And this is, this is generated by an analyst. 2194 01:45:42,002 --> 01:45:43,002 CHENEY: Get me Tenet. 2195 01:45:44,213 --> 01:45:45,170 This stops here. 2196 01:45:45,173 --> 01:45:47,255 KURT: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi 2197 01:45:47,341 --> 01:45:50,049 had taken his fame from Powell's UN speech 2198 01:45:50,135 --> 01:45:52,502 and turned it into his own new thing. 2199 01:45:53,722 --> 01:45:57,341 - The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant... - (people screaming) 2200 01:45:57,434 --> 01:45:58,925 ...or ISIS. 2201 01:45:59,019 --> 01:46:02,137 And because that intelligence somehow found itself 2202 01:46:02,231 --> 01:46:04,223 on the bottom of a stack of papers... 2203 01:46:05,609 --> 01:46:06,975 Zarqawi had a whole year 2204 01:46:07,069 --> 01:46:09,482 to just do whatever the hell he wanted. 2205 01:46:10,573 --> 01:46:11,780 And what he wanted... 2206 01:46:13,117 --> 01:46:14,358 was carnage. 2207 01:46:16,036 --> 01:46:17,572 Shia versus Sunni. 2208 01:46:19,665 --> 01:46:21,372 The West versus Islam. 2209 01:46:23,919 --> 01:46:26,036 And death versus life. 2210 01:46:27,548 --> 01:46:28,834 And on top of that, 2211 01:46:28,924 --> 01:46:31,291 US forces couldn't find any WMDs 2212 01:46:31,385 --> 01:46:33,968 or nuclear programs in Iraq. 2213 01:46:34,054 --> 01:46:36,091 Turns out that Saddam and his sons 2214 01:46:36,181 --> 01:46:37,717 mostly liked cocaine 2215 01:46:37,808 --> 01:46:40,266 and American movies from the '80s. 2216 01:46:40,352 --> 01:46:41,746 WILLIAMS (on TV): Vice President Dick Cheney 2217 01:46:41,770 --> 01:46:44,228 is being sued by Valerie Plame 2218 01:46:44,315 --> 01:46:45,931 and her husband Joseph Wilson. 2219 01:46:47,067 --> 01:46:48,169 GROSS (on radio): The White House announced 2220 01:46:48,193 --> 01:46:49,855 four cabinet resignations 2221 01:46:49,945 --> 01:46:52,779 including that of Secretary of State Colin Powell. 2222 01:46:52,865 --> 01:46:53,865 LEAHY: Dick. 2223 01:46:54,867 --> 01:46:56,324 Look, I hope there's no hard feelings 2224 01:46:56,410 --> 01:46:59,528 about us investigating the no-bid Iraq contract 2225 01:46:59,622 --> 01:47:00,622 for Halliburton. 2226 01:47:00,706 --> 01:47:03,119 You know, I'm just doing my job. 2227 01:47:03,208 --> 01:47:04,449 Go fuck yourself. 2228 01:47:06,086 --> 01:47:08,544 (tires squealing) 2229 01:47:14,595 --> 01:47:16,552 ANNOUNCER: Dick Cheney emerges from the dugout 2230 01:47:16,639 --> 01:47:18,301 on the third base side. 2231 01:47:18,390 --> 01:47:20,928 There's a lot of energy that follows any opener, 2232 01:47:21,018 --> 01:47:23,385 whether it be the opener to the regular season 2233 01:47:23,479 --> 01:47:25,391 or, in this case, the home opener 2234 01:47:25,481 --> 01:47:27,268 for the Washington Nationals. 2235 01:47:27,358 --> 01:47:30,101 But there's continued buildup, Eddie, for this team 2236 01:47:30,194 --> 01:47:32,527 because of the success they had last year 2237 01:47:32,613 --> 01:47:34,275 in drawing some pretty good numbers. 2238 01:47:34,365 --> 01:47:36,197 (crowd booing) 2239 01:47:42,706 --> 01:47:44,476 ANNOUNCER: Dick Cheney, a little bit low and outside. 2240 01:47:44,500 --> 01:47:47,288 REPORTER 1: Iraq War, now proven to be false. 2241 01:47:47,378 --> 01:47:49,415 There is a chorus of people calling 2242 01:47:49,505 --> 01:47:52,168 for Vice President Dick Cheney to step aside and resign. 2243 01:47:52,257 --> 01:47:54,840 REPORTER 2: These issues may not be resolved for some time. 2244 01:47:54,927 --> 01:47:56,043 Go away! 2245 01:48:04,186 --> 01:48:05,597 (sighs) I swear to God 2246 01:48:05,688 --> 01:48:07,725 this whole place is turning against me. 2247 01:48:09,900 --> 01:48:11,892 (laughs) 2248 01:48:11,986 --> 01:48:13,978 - CHENEY: Where are you? - I'm in an empty office 2249 01:48:14,071 --> 01:48:15,507 just trying to get a clean phone line. 2250 01:48:15,531 --> 01:48:18,740 Listen, if we could just get 2251 01:48:18,826 --> 01:48:20,158 an air bombardment in Iraq, 2252 01:48:20,244 --> 01:48:21,906 I think it would make a statement 2253 01:48:21,996 --> 01:48:23,737 and it would give us some political cover. 2254 01:48:23,831 --> 01:48:25,572 It's over, Don. (clears throat) 2255 01:48:25,666 --> 01:48:26,782 RUMSFELD: What's that? 2256 01:48:27,543 --> 01:48:29,205 What is? 2257 01:48:29,294 --> 01:48:30,580 CHENEY: It's over. 2258 01:48:30,671 --> 01:48:31,951 President wants you to step down. 2259 01:48:32,006 --> 01:48:33,417 He appreciates your service. 2260 01:48:39,763 --> 01:48:40,763 Don? 2261 01:48:43,851 --> 01:48:46,719 Well, does, uh... 2262 01:48:46,812 --> 01:48:48,974 Bush's kid want me out or do you? 2263 01:48:52,568 --> 01:48:54,150 I can't win every fight, Don. 2264 01:48:54,236 --> 01:48:55,818 You are a little piece of shit. 2265 01:48:58,615 --> 01:49:01,358 Wow. How did you become such a cold son of a bitch? 2266 01:49:02,411 --> 01:49:03,447 CHENEY: I'm sorry, Don. 2267 01:49:04,747 --> 01:49:05,863 I really am. 2268 01:49:08,042 --> 01:49:09,882 RUMSFELD: Well, you know how I know you're not? 2269 01:49:11,795 --> 01:49:13,036 'Cause I wouldn't be. 2270 01:49:18,093 --> 01:49:19,379 (clicks tongue) 2271 01:49:19,470 --> 01:49:20,836 Think they'll prosecute us? 2272 01:49:25,809 --> 01:49:26,970 Okay, then. 2273 01:49:30,355 --> 01:49:31,355 Okay, then. 2274 01:49:34,026 --> 01:49:35,642 (receiver clatters) 2275 01:49:53,128 --> 01:49:55,666 I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear... 2276 01:49:56,715 --> 01:49:59,082 ROBERTS: That I will execute the office 2277 01:49:59,176 --> 01:50:01,714 of president to the United States faithfully. 2278 01:50:01,804 --> 01:50:04,296 (no audible dialogue) 2279 01:50:08,977 --> 01:50:10,718 KURT: Few years later, 2280 01:50:10,813 --> 01:50:12,805 Dick's heart trouble started up again. 2281 01:50:13,982 --> 01:50:16,269 And with no donor available, 2282 01:50:16,360 --> 01:50:19,398 he finally found himself at death's door. 2283 01:50:21,990 --> 01:50:24,277 (indistinct chatter) 2284 01:50:26,078 --> 01:50:27,078 LYNNE: Well? 2285 01:50:28,122 --> 01:50:31,160 I wish I had... I had better news. 2286 01:50:31,250 --> 01:50:33,492 Your heart just isn't pumping enough oxygen 2287 01:50:33,585 --> 01:50:34,996 to keep your vital organs alive. 2288 01:50:37,756 --> 01:50:39,463 Should I call for a minister? 2289 01:50:39,550 --> 01:50:42,668 No, no. He's not going anywhere. 2290 01:50:45,347 --> 01:50:46,838 Okay, then. 2291 01:50:50,060 --> 01:50:51,551 Dick Cheney, 2292 01:50:51,645 --> 01:50:54,308 you are not going anywhere, do you hear me? 2293 01:50:55,315 --> 01:50:56,726 You're not going anywhere. 2294 01:50:56,817 --> 01:50:57,933 This may be the, uh... 2295 01:50:59,403 --> 01:51:00,814 one time, I, uh, 2296 01:51:00,904 --> 01:51:01,904 I can't do... 2297 01:51:03,282 --> 01:51:05,242 - what your mother says, girls. - (Lynne sniffles) 2298 01:51:06,660 --> 01:51:08,572 (chuckles softly) 2299 01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:11,787 - (clears throat) - (Mary sniffles) 2300 01:51:13,834 --> 01:51:15,666 (kisses) 2301 01:51:15,752 --> 01:51:17,872 - MARY: I love you, Daddy. - CHENEY: I love you, Mary. 2302 01:51:18,422 --> 01:51:20,584 I love you, Lizzie. 2303 01:51:20,674 --> 01:51:22,711 And we love you so much. 2304 01:51:24,136 --> 01:51:25,593 We love you so much. 2305 01:51:25,679 --> 01:51:26,920 My girls. 2306 01:51:29,099 --> 01:51:30,465 (sniffling) 2307 01:51:33,061 --> 01:51:34,518 I love you, girls. 2308 01:51:39,610 --> 01:51:40,942 (Cheney sighs) 2309 01:51:48,619 --> 01:51:53,239 So Dick Cheney told his family that he was ready to die 2310 01:51:53,332 --> 01:51:55,324 and that he wasn't afraid. 2311 01:51:55,417 --> 01:51:58,581 He told them he had lived a full life 2312 01:51:58,670 --> 01:52:00,002 and that he had zero regrets... 2313 01:52:00,088 --> 01:52:01,168 - (grunts) - (tires screech) 2314 01:52:21,401 --> 01:52:23,393 (sirens wailing) 2315 01:52:46,176 --> 01:52:47,758 (helicopter blades whirring) 2316 01:52:49,471 --> 01:52:52,214 (indistinct chatter) 2317 01:52:52,307 --> 01:52:54,924 NURSE: Vice President Cheney, cross your arms, please. 2318 01:52:56,395 --> 01:52:59,103 There you go. Okay, on a count of three. 2319 01:52:59,189 --> 01:53:00,680 One, two, three. 2320 01:53:04,069 --> 01:53:06,857 They say my heart could give him another ten years. 2321 01:53:08,657 --> 01:53:12,742 Cheney doesn't like to refer to it as someone else's heart. 2322 01:53:12,828 --> 01:53:15,320 He likes to refer to it as his new heart. 2323 01:53:16,999 --> 01:53:19,286 Which, even though I'm dead, I have to say... 2324 01:53:20,711 --> 01:53:22,577 still makes me feel pretty shitty. 2325 01:53:24,881 --> 01:53:28,170 And so, when Liz decided to run for one 2326 01:53:28,260 --> 01:53:30,252 of Wyoming's two Senate seats 2327 01:53:30,345 --> 01:53:33,759 against Republican incumbent Mike Enzi, 2328 01:53:33,849 --> 01:53:35,590 our Dick was right there 2329 01:53:35,684 --> 01:53:39,143 to hopefully see the Cheney legacy of power continue. 2330 01:53:39,229 --> 01:53:42,097 ENZI: Are you aware Wyoming Senate candidate Liz Cheney 2331 01:53:42,190 --> 01:53:43,647 supports gay marriage? 2332 01:53:43,734 --> 01:53:45,396 Her sister is married to another woman, 2333 01:53:45,485 --> 01:53:47,442 and Liz Cheney refuses to support 2334 01:53:47,529 --> 01:53:50,738 a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. 2335 01:53:50,824 --> 01:53:52,065 Instead, she equivocates, 2336 01:53:52,159 --> 01:53:53,946 claiming it's a states rights issue. 2337 01:53:54,036 --> 01:53:55,777 Don't you agree Wyoming deserves 2338 01:53:55,871 --> 01:53:58,204 a senator who believes marriage should be 2339 01:53:58,290 --> 01:53:59,826 between a man and a woman? 2340 01:53:59,916 --> 01:54:01,908 These calls went to every house in Wyoming. 2341 01:54:03,295 --> 01:54:04,752 Every single house. 2342 01:54:08,008 --> 01:54:09,249 I will never win. 2343 01:54:11,845 --> 01:54:13,211 What are we gonna do? 2344 01:54:16,808 --> 01:54:18,845 SURGEON: O2 monitor is steady. 2345 01:54:21,646 --> 01:54:23,854 CHRIS: We're joined here today by Liz Cheney, 2346 01:54:23,940 --> 01:54:26,899 who is running for the Senate from the state of Wyoming. 2347 01:54:26,985 --> 01:54:28,351 According to one poll, 2348 01:54:28,445 --> 01:54:31,062 she is behind by double digits. 2349 01:54:31,156 --> 01:54:32,237 Welcome. 2350 01:54:32,324 --> 01:54:33,468 Thank you for having me here, Chris. 2351 01:54:33,492 --> 01:54:34,858 Great to be with you. 2352 01:54:34,951 --> 01:54:36,012 And may I point out, there are other polls 2353 01:54:36,036 --> 01:54:38,028 that have me much closer. 2354 01:54:38,121 --> 01:54:39,681 CHRIS: Your opponent, Senator Mike Enzi, 2355 01:54:39,706 --> 01:54:42,540 claims that you support gay marriage 2356 01:54:42,626 --> 01:54:44,743 in part, because... 2357 01:54:44,836 --> 01:54:47,419 you support your gay sister Mary's union with her wife. 2358 01:54:47,506 --> 01:54:48,775 LYNNE: I think she's coming off very well. 2359 01:54:48,799 --> 01:54:49,799 CHRIS: How do you respond? 2360 01:54:49,801 --> 01:54:52,634 Let me be very, very clear. 2361 01:54:54,179 --> 01:54:57,763 I do not support gay marriage. 2362 01:54:57,849 --> 01:55:01,684 I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. 2363 01:55:01,770 --> 01:55:03,010 CHRIS: But you've always claimed 2364 01:55:03,063 --> 01:55:04,804 gay marriage is a state issue. 2365 01:55:04,898 --> 01:55:08,107 Your opponent claims this is an equivocation. 2366 01:55:08,193 --> 01:55:09,796 SURGEON: All right, I'm cutting the aorta. 2367 01:55:09,820 --> 01:55:11,172 Do you have the specimen bowl ready? 2368 01:55:11,196 --> 01:55:12,653 NURSE: It's on the field. 2369 01:55:12,739 --> 01:55:14,446 SURGEON: All right. Here's the heart. 2370 01:55:14,533 --> 01:55:15,843 The thing is, Mom, I know that Liz wouldn't have done 2371 01:55:15,867 --> 01:55:17,699 any of this if you and Dad didn't approve. 2372 01:55:17,786 --> 01:55:19,197 So... (sobs) 2373 01:55:19,287 --> 01:55:20,698 I can't believe you would do th... 2374 01:55:20,789 --> 01:55:22,405 I really thought there was a limit to... 2375 01:55:22,499 --> 01:55:25,082 LYNNE: No, now you're just being hysterical, 2376 01:55:25,168 --> 01:55:27,034 and I can't talk to you when you get this way. 2377 01:55:27,129 --> 01:55:30,372 You need to settle down. Okay? 2378 01:55:30,465 --> 01:55:31,876 You're being hysterical. 2379 01:55:31,967 --> 01:55:34,175 SURGEON: Bypass is on standby. 2380 01:55:34,261 --> 01:55:35,843 NURSE: Is it in three? 2381 01:55:35,929 --> 01:55:37,609 ASSISTANT: I'll have it waiting right here. 2382 01:55:38,014 --> 01:55:39,130 (line clicks) 2383 01:55:39,224 --> 01:55:40,224 (phone beeps) 2384 01:56:10,088 --> 01:56:12,296 (breathes deeply) 2385 01:56:12,382 --> 01:56:14,624 SURGEON: All right, some suction. Some suction. 2386 01:56:14,718 --> 01:56:15,925 ASSISTANT: Damn. 2387 01:56:48,668 --> 01:56:50,079 All right. We're almost there. 2388 01:57:03,934 --> 01:57:04,934 Dad. 2389 01:57:20,867 --> 01:57:23,735 (sobbing) 2390 01:57:25,372 --> 01:57:27,705 HEATHER: Just breathe, baby. I love you. 2391 01:58:27,684 --> 01:58:29,300 Patient's heart rate is stable. 2392 01:58:30,562 --> 01:58:31,928 Blood pressure increasing. 2393 01:58:33,148 --> 01:58:35,310 I'm gonna notify the family. What should I tell them? 2394 01:58:35,400 --> 01:58:37,120 SURGEON: Tell them the patient's doing well. 2395 01:58:37,193 --> 01:58:39,005 - NURSE: Okay. - SURGEON: Should be done in a half-hour. 2396 01:58:39,029 --> 01:58:40,895 (EKG beeping steadily) 2397 01:58:42,032 --> 01:58:43,898 (ventilator hissing steadily) 2398 01:59:11,186 --> 01:59:12,518 REPORTER: Mr. Vice President. 2399 01:59:12,604 --> 01:59:14,220 CHENEY: This must be the right place. 2400 01:59:14,314 --> 01:59:15,680 - REPORTER: Yes. - (Cheney laughs) 2401 01:59:15,774 --> 01:59:17,390 - Hello, Martha. - MARTHA: Hi. 2402 01:59:17,484 --> 01:59:18,836 - Nice to meet you. - CHENEY: Pleasure. 2403 01:59:18,860 --> 01:59:21,568 - Have a seat right there. - (clears throat) 2404 01:59:21,655 --> 01:59:26,400 So, um, is it gonna be just, uh, me on camera or... 2405 01:59:26,493 --> 01:59:29,076 Primarily you. We'll cut back to me. 2406 01:59:29,162 --> 01:59:30,473 Eddie's got you with the A camera. 2407 01:59:30,497 --> 01:59:32,454 I'm just gonna be... All right. 2408 01:59:32,540 --> 01:59:35,874 (indistinct chatter) 2409 01:59:54,562 --> 01:59:55,562 (sighs) 2410 01:59:57,315 --> 01:59:59,557 (rubs hands, clears throat) 2411 02:00:02,696 --> 02:00:04,107 - MARTHA: Ready? - Hmm. 2412 02:00:06,449 --> 02:00:07,860 MARTHA: Two-thirds of Americans say 2413 02:00:07,951 --> 02:00:11,285 the Iraq War is not worth fighting. 2414 02:00:11,371 --> 02:00:13,784 And they're looking at the value gained 2415 02:00:13,873 --> 02:00:15,865 versus the cost in American lives 2416 02:00:15,959 --> 02:00:17,416 and Iraqi lives. 2417 02:00:17,502 --> 02:00:18,583 So? 2418 02:00:20,255 --> 02:00:23,339 So, don't you care what the American people think? 2419 02:00:24,801 --> 02:00:28,465 No, uh, I think you, uh, 2420 02:00:28,555 --> 02:00:31,047 cannot be, uh, 2421 02:00:31,141 --> 02:00:32,473 blown off course. 2422 02:00:34,018 --> 02:00:35,179 (clears throat) 2423 02:00:35,270 --> 02:00:36,431 (sighs) 2424 02:00:41,568 --> 02:00:45,437 I can feel your recriminations... 2425 02:00:46,906 --> 02:00:48,022 and your judgment... 2426 02:00:49,117 --> 02:00:50,528 and I am fine with it. 2427 02:00:53,371 --> 02:00:56,239 You want to be loved, go be a movie star. 2428 02:00:58,626 --> 02:01:01,710 The world is as you find it. 2429 02:01:01,796 --> 02:01:04,709 You gotta deal with that reality. 2430 02:01:04,799 --> 02:01:07,382 And there are monsters in this world. 2431 02:01:07,469 --> 02:01:12,806 We saw 3,000 innocent people 2432 02:01:12,891 --> 02:01:15,804 burned to death by those monsters. 2433 02:01:15,894 --> 02:01:17,260 And yet you object... 2434 02:01:18,354 --> 02:01:19,765 when I refuse 2435 02:01:19,856 --> 02:01:22,189 to kiss those monsters on the cheek 2436 02:01:22,275 --> 02:01:24,642 and say "pretty please." 2437 02:01:24,736 --> 02:01:26,193 You answer me this. 2438 02:01:26,279 --> 02:01:30,944 What terrorist attack would you have let go forward 2439 02:01:31,034 --> 02:01:35,199 so you wouldn't seem like a mean and nasty fella? 2440 02:01:36,998 --> 02:01:38,990 I will not apologize... 2441 02:01:40,585 --> 02:01:42,167 for keeping your family safe. 2442 02:01:43,588 --> 02:01:45,295 And I will not apologize... 2443 02:01:46,299 --> 02:01:48,712 for doing what needed to be done... 2444 02:01:50,261 --> 02:01:52,218 so that your loved ones 2445 02:01:52,305 --> 02:01:53,887 can sleep peaceably at night. 2446 02:01:58,561 --> 02:01:59,597 (sniffs) 2447 02:02:01,356 --> 02:02:02,517 Has been my honor... 2448 02:02:04,025 --> 02:02:05,232 to be your servant. 2449 02:02:07,529 --> 02:02:08,690 You chose me... 2450 02:02:10,448 --> 02:02:13,282 and I did what you asked. 2451 02:02:49,696 --> 02:02:51,153 ♪♪ 2452 02:02:53,283 --> 02:02:58,153 ♪ I like the island Manhattan ♪ 2453 02:02:58,246 --> 02:02:59,246 WOMAN: I know you do. 2454 02:02:59,248 --> 02:03:02,490 ♪ Smoke on your pipe ♪ 2455 02:03:02,584 --> 02:03:06,874 ♪ And put that in! ♪ 2456 02:03:06,963 --> 02:03:07,963 (whooping, clapping) 2457 02:03:09,048 --> 02:03:11,040 ♪ I like to be in America ♪ 2458 02:03:11,134 --> 02:03:13,672 ♪ Okay by me in America ♪ 2459 02:03:13,761 --> 02:03:15,923 ♪ Everything free in America ♪ 2460 02:03:16,014 --> 02:03:20,634 ♪ For a small fee in America ♪ 2461 02:03:21,936 --> 02:03:24,553 ♪ Automobile in America ♪ 2462 02:03:24,647 --> 02:03:26,730 ♪ Chromium steel in America ♪ 2463 02:03:26,816 --> 02:03:29,024 ♪ Wire-spoke wheel in America ♪ 2464 02:03:29,110 --> 02:03:32,945 ♪ Very big deal in America! ♪ 2465 02:03:36,701 --> 02:03:39,569 (whooping, shouting) 2466 02:03:56,095 --> 02:03:58,382 ♪ Immigrant goes to America ♪ 2467 02:03:58,473 --> 02:04:00,760 ♪ Many hellos in America ♪ 2468 02:04:00,850 --> 02:04:03,058 ♪ Nobody knows in America ♪ 2469 02:04:03,144 --> 02:04:07,479 ♪ Wall-to-wall floors in America! ♪ 2470 02:04:07,565 --> 02:04:10,057 (whooping, clapping) 2471 02:04:10,151 --> 02:04:12,484 ♪ I like the shores of America! ♪ 2472 02:04:12,570 --> 02:04:14,812 ♪ Comfort is yours in America! ♪ 2473 02:04:14,906 --> 02:04:17,148 ♪ Knobs on the doors in America ♪ 2474 02:04:17,241 --> 02:04:20,951 ♪ Wall-to-wall floors in America! ♪ 2475 02:04:29,837 --> 02:04:31,499 (whooping) 2476 02:04:34,509 --> 02:04:37,092 (indistinct shouting) 2477 02:04:44,060 --> 02:04:45,267 (whooping) 2478 02:05:07,083 --> 02:05:08,619 Sorry to interrupt, But Mark wanted 2479 02:05:08,710 --> 02:05:10,076 to share something with everyone. 2480 02:05:10,169 --> 02:05:12,582 Something's been bothering me this whole movie, 2481 02:05:12,672 --> 02:05:14,664 and I just figured it out. 2482 02:05:14,757 --> 02:05:16,544 The whole thing's liberal. 2483 02:05:16,634 --> 02:05:18,546 It's got a liberal bias. 2484 02:05:18,636 --> 02:05:20,798 Interesting. Does anyone else feel that way? 2485 02:05:22,098 --> 02:05:24,556 One, two, three, four people. Yeah, go ahead. 2486 02:05:24,642 --> 02:05:27,100 It's all facts. Right? 2487 02:05:27,186 --> 02:05:29,269 I mean, they had to vet all this with a lawyer. 2488 02:05:29,355 --> 02:05:30,436 How does that make it... 2489 02:05:30,523 --> 02:05:33,812 - What's liberal about that? - You would say that, lib-tard. 2490 02:05:33,901 --> 02:05:35,608 Okay, I'm sorry. 2491 02:05:35,695 --> 02:05:37,732 So, because I have the ability to understand facts, 2492 02:05:37,822 --> 02:05:38,983 that makes me a liberal? 2493 02:05:39,073 --> 02:05:40,467 WOMAN: Okay, guys, let's just take it down. 2494 02:05:40,491 --> 02:05:42,448 You probably like Hillary. 2495 02:05:42,535 --> 02:05:44,179 - Let's take it down a notch or two, okay? - MAN: Idiot. 2496 02:05:44,203 --> 02:05:46,570 Okay, first of all, Hillary's not president. Okay? 2497 02:05:46,664 --> 02:05:49,532 The-the-the orange Cheeto that you hired 2498 02:05:49,625 --> 02:05:50,853 is the president and he's ruining the country... 2499 02:05:50,877 --> 02:05:52,869 Trump is the best thing in this country. 2500 02:05:52,962 --> 02:05:53,962 You chicken-shit! 2501 02:05:54,047 --> 02:05:55,754 John! Now, come in, please. 2502 02:05:55,840 --> 02:05:57,297 WOMAN 2: Hey, guys, come on. 2503 02:05:57,383 --> 02:06:00,217 - WOMAN: Guys! Guys! - Stop it. Knock it off! 2504 02:06:00,303 --> 02:06:01,947 I can't wait to see the new Fast and the Furious movie. 2505 02:06:01,971 --> 02:06:03,507 That looks lit. 2506 02:12:23,436 --> 02:12:25,428 Subtitled by Point.360