Cheney Under Fire
NBC Today Show:
Matt Lauer interview with Tim Russert Video
In this interview with Tim Russert(Russert is NBC's Washington bureau chief and moderator of "Meet the Press.") Matt Lauer asked Russert the following,
Q. What are you hearing behind-the-scenes? Why the delay?
RUSSERT: "Matt, it's very straightforward when it comes to the Vice President of the United States. He never believed in the care and feeding the national press corps. He has a constituency of 1: President Bush. This Vice President is not going to run for president. He doesn't seem to worry about his image and unless the White House, the president says to him, Mr. Vice President, you must speak publicly, he will not."
Q. What is wrong with saying I feel awful about this? I wish there was something I could do?
RUSSERT: "By every indication, the Vice President is devastated by this. We obviously all are deeply concerned about Harry Whittington this morning as we talk about did. The concern is obviously the questions that will be asked. The 2 big ones: why did it take so long to report this to the American people? Was there any special consideration given to the vice-president because of his office? What was the distance involved between the vice-president and the victim? A lot of unanswered questions. They realize if there is a full blown press conference it could involve questions about Scooter Libby and the war with Iraq and Katrina and so forth."
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