Transcript – Cheney on ‘Face the Nation’ – He’d Take Rush Over Colin Powell
(Source: CBS’ Face the Nation)
SCHIEFFER: Good morning again. The former vice president is in the studio with us this morning, as he has been many times over the years.
Mr. Vice President, thank you for being here. You’re obviously here because we invited you here and we appreciate that, but I want to ask you something. President Bush has done what people normally do when they leave the Oval Office — he has remained mum. He said very little. At one point, he said that he thought President Obama deserved his silence.
But you have taken a very different tack, and I must say a very unusual tack for somebody just leaving the vice president’s office. You’ve been speaking out not just frequently, but often very pointedly. At one point you said, for example, the Obama administration has made this country less safe. That’s a very serious charge. Why have you taken this approach?
Transcript: President Barack Obama Interviewed on CBS’ Face the Nation – Bob Schieffer, March 29
(Source: CBS News)
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer: Mr. President, thank you for joining us. This economic crisis has been so severe that it has literally pushed all the other issues off the television, out of the newspapers. But as – when you outlined your program for Afghanistan and the new strategy, it really underlined in the starkest terms that we may not be talking about these serious issues, but there are some very serious things going on out there. So I’d like to start there -
President Obama: Please.
Schieffer: – if I could. This is a hugely ambitious plan. 22,000 more troops. You’re gonna increase spending by 60 percent. You said in your announcement we must defeat al Qaeda.
