War Criminal Bush Embraced As "Lovable Doofus" & Exxon Spent Years Creating Fake Climate Science

We’re finally getting more information about just how badly President Bush screwed up the warnings about 9/11 before it happened. Also, Exxon’s internal documents are being made public, showing how the company has spent 50 years lying about climate change. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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We're finally getting more information about just how badly President Bush screwed up the warnings of 9/11, how he completely dropped the ball and caused the murder of 3000 Americans. But now we're just ignoring it. I've got Farron Cousins with me to talk about it. How, how have we rehabilitated? This guy, the, the facts are overwhelming in this new report that he was an idiot. He was a complete buffoon. He ignored warning after warning. But now his, his approval rating is 74% because the media embraced him. When he was going after Trump, they said, ah, this is our new hero. They forgot about the fact that he killed what, a million people?

Yeah.

A million people along with the three, 3000 murders that took place on American soil. Pick it up.

Well, he, he's become the, the lovable dufus. Not, not the grossly incompetent war criminal. He's the lovable dufus. He wasn't quite right, but hey, he was funny when he did his little dance that time. No, this man, especially now that these new documents have come out from the interview.

Talk about those documents. This is, this is in your face documents.

It, it really is. The 9/11 commission, you know, worked out in April of 2004. We finally get to sit down with Bush and Dick Cheney, find out everything that happened in the run up to 9/11. And what they found out, what George W. Bush told them was, I didn't, I didn't know they were serious about these threats. I didn't, I thought they were talking about he was gonna attack overseas. I, I didn't know any of this. The CIA director was confusing me.

Yeah, Tenet.

It's absolutely absurd that this man continued to pass the buck.

How confusing is this? Osama Bin Laden is coming to America to involve himself in terrorist activity. That wasn't in Europe. Tenet, do you know met with him 40 times, 40 times. Even went to this idiot's ranch where you remember him out there with this saw, sawing logs while America was falling apart. Went and met with this idiot 40 times and said, look, you need to understand this is real. They're coming to America to bomb us or to complete, complete some type of terrorist activity. And what he said was, well, I didn't think it was productive information. I didn't have enough information. It's almost like they needed to put a, a cross. Okay, here's an X, you idiot. This is what they're gonna blow up. You need to do something about it.

Yeah. It wasn't clear where they were gonna be, what they were gonna do. So, so I just ignored it. Listen, we could have, at that time, through the federal government that he was running, instituted very minor changes to airport security.

Mm-hmm.

That could have prevented this. I mean.

They were recommending.

Yeah.

They were recommending these changes.

Yeah. And these, again, super minor things that could have been done that likely could have prevented this massive tragedy on our soil. But this idiot didn't understand it. And I think that's the point. It's not just that he downplayed it. He fundamentally couldn't understand it.

Do you remember they had, Ellen had him on the show. Oh, he's a wonderful, funny little artist. Like, it's okay, man, you only killed a million people. You only allowed 3000 Americans to be murdered on soil because you're too lazy to do your job. All of a sudden he's the darling of the Democrats. Why? Because he took the time to attack Bush, to, to attack Trump. Look, this is not me and you talking. This is not supposition. These are declassified documents that finally are declassified. Talk about how he, how he kept them secret. Yeah.

This, the whole 9/11 commission report, and George W. Bush, none of them wanted to point fingers at anyone. So that played a large role in keeping these documents secret. Obviously it was in an election year.