Cheney’s Lightning Round With Chris on FNS (VIDEO)

Well, only partial. I cut out the last segment, but this is the golden part. He talks about the high & low moments of his 40 years of public service, then answers the one pertinent question: Did he tell Patrick Leahy to do something to himself that’s not physicially possible? Dick says yeah, he did – and it was merited. LOVE it!

Here’s the transcript:

WALLACE: As we’ve mentioned, you are ending 40 years on and off in public service here in Washington. We’ve like to do a lightening round of quick questions and quick answers if we could with you. Washington, better or worse over these four decades?

CHENEY: Well, I think there’s some of both. I mean when I arrived here in 1968, we’d had Martin Luther King assassination, the Bobby Kennedy assassination, riots in the city of Washington. There were machine guns deployed on the steps of the Capitol in order to make certain that the rioters didn’t get close to the center of the city.

This town’s much bigger than that when you think about it. We’re about to have an inaugural ceremony down here that will inaugurate the first African-American as president of the United States. Millions of people will come to the city for a tremendous celebration. That’s major progress. So to say that it’s worse now than it used to be, I guess I wouldn’t buy that.

WALLACE: It’s a very good answer. I’m not saying you’re not quite observing the rules of the lightening round.

CHENEY: But these are important questions.

WALLACE: I understand that. Highest moment the last eight years?

CHENEY: Highest moment in the last eight years?

Well, I think that the most important, the most compelling, was 9/11 itself, and what that entailed, what we had to deal with, the way in which that changed the nation and set the agenda for what we’ve had to deal with as an administration.

WALLACE: Can I add, sir, (ph) that’s also your lowest moment?

CHENEY: Sure. Yes

WALLACE: Let’s talk about prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

CHENEY: I’m going to pass on that.

WALLACE: What about the criticism that in the Blagojevich case, as in the Libby case, he doesn’t just stay within the four corners of the indictment, but he makes political comments?

CHENEY: I’m going to pass on that.

WALLACE: Did you really tell Senator Leahy, bleep yourself?

CHENEY: I did.

WALLACE: Any qualms or second thoughts or embarrassment?

CHENEY: No, I thought he merited it at the time. And we’ve since, I think, patched over that wound and we’re civil to one another now.

Rock on, Mr. Vice President…rock on.

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