Lawrence O'Donnell joined the panel on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Thursday and got into a heated debate with host Joe Scarborough over Dick Cheney's recent remarks accusing the Obama administration of dithering while America's armed forces are in danger and putting politics over security and turning the guns on our own guys.Scarborough tried to defend Cheney, stating that while he personally disagrees with the former vice president's comments, Cheney speaks for a large chunk of America who is far more aggressive in foreign policy than those of us that live inside this bubble.O'Donnell jumped into the conversation, leveling heavy criticism at Cheney:An upset Scarborough replied that every major Democrat on the national scene, including Joe Biden, believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. O'Donnell countered that no Democrats had access to the high-level intelligence available to Cheney, evidence that painted a far more skeptical picture of Saddam's nuclear capabilities than
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Posted: 10/22/2009