Cheney VS GM Bankruptcy Protection

Former Vice President Dick Cheney explains why he does not perceive the help GM will receive as the best solution to overcome and recover from the financial crisis. Amongst other reasons, Cheney says that going through the chapter 11 process which allows for the reorganization of a firm might be a good way to start over. (1:02)
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Cheney: "I Don't Believe That We Engaged In Torture"

Former Vice President Dick Cheney explains that the Bush administration acted under the guidance of the Department of Justice at the time when the U.S engaged in waterboarding. Additionally, Cheney says that he does not call waterboarding torture because it was conducted under a legal framework. (0:53)
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Cheney: Obama's In For Trouble With Gitmo Closing

Former Vice President Dick Cheney maintains that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was a good choice for coping with dangerous criminals. Cheney also criticizes President Barack Obama's decision to close the prison by the end of the year without calculating the consequences of such an event, in particular regarding where the prisoners will be kept once they are moved from the Cuba-based facility. (0:39)
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Cheney On "Jihad Business" And Gitmo

Former Vice resident Dick Cheney talks about the Guantanamo Bay prisoners and how 14% of those who have been released after trial have gotten back to the "jihad business". Cheney adds that some of the men who are still currently held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility are some of the most dangerous men for the U.S as they would do anything to kill Americans. (1:03)
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Cheney Defends Gay Marriage

Former Vice President Dick Cheney comes in support of gay marriage. Cheney said that everyone should have a right to choose to enter into any union they want. (0:56)
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Cheney: Pelosi Knew About Waterboarding

Former Vice President Dick Cheney bluntly states that Congress knew about the use of waterboarding, including Speaker of the House Pelosi. (0:21)
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Clinton Does Not Consider Cheney A Reliable Source

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was asked by Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) whether they she would be in favor of releasing documents that Dick Cheney has requested be released with regards to the investigation into tactics used during the Bush administration at a House Foreign Affiars Committee hearing today. Clinton responded, “It won’t surprise you that I don’t consider him a particularly reliable source of information.”

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Hedges: Dick Cheney is a utopian

Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute, Chris Hedges, talks about how the United States is trying to make the Middle East into a "utopia." (0:50)
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Dems to Wall Street: Debt does matter

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) makes a reference to Vice President Dick Cheney's statement "that deficits don't matter." He says that Wall Street must have taken that to heart. (0:41)
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DNC warns against the "next Cheney"

On a Democratic National Committee (DNC) conference call, Brad Woodhouse, DNC Senior Communications Advisor, describes the purpose of the DNC's new website www.TheNextCheney.com. He says any running mate chosen by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) will mean a continuation of the Bush presidency. (0:51)
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Tax cut opponents ignoring details

Vice President Dick Cheney says that an overnight income tax rate increase would have the worst effect on Americans in the lowest tax bracket and that opponents of President Bush’s tax cuts lack the willingness to address harmful details. (0:57)
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Candidates promoting destructive path

Vice President Dick Cheney says that promoting economic protectionism sends the United States down a destructive path and that the United States must engage the global market place and lead the world economy. (1:10)
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US still needs oil

Vice President Dick Cheney says that the United States’s dependence on oil will not fade overnight and that an increase in domestic supply would lower prices and create jobs. Cheney also notes that China is working with Cuba to drill for oil off the coast of Florida. (1:08)

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Cheney: US doesn’t torture

Vice President Dick Cheney says that the United States’s interrogations of al-Qaeda members is effective and has never involved torture. (0:43)

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Cheney: Press less than honorable

Vice President Dick Cheney reprimands the press for revealing US security secrets. (0:29)
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Cheney: Bush decisive like Lincoln

Vice President Dick Cheney compares tough decisions made by President Bush to those made by President Lincoln during the Civil War. (0:43)
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Cheney: Era of oil not ending

Vice President Dick Cheney says that the US economy relies heavily on oil and though the development of alternatives is good, the US’s dependence on oil will not diminish overnight. (0:48)
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Cheney and Obama cousins

Vice President Dick Cheney reveals that he is an eighth cousin of Barack Obama. Despite coming from two different Cheney lines, he adds that his family is not from West Virginia. (1:08)
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