Dick to finally come clean
It took some pressure but DICK will finally talk about the incident to Fox News.
The announcement occurred after Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the top-ranking Democrat in the House, emerged from a White House breakfast meeting with President Bush and Cheney to say the vice president needed to come forward. (Watch why secrecy has been Cheney's modus operandi -- 1:43)
"I guess I'm kind of old-fashioned," Reid said. "He hasn't had a press conference in three and a half years."
Said Pelosi: "Open government demands that the vice president come clean with what happened ... There's probably a very simple answer to it, but we have to break this habit of the administration, of closed government without the openness that is healthy to a democracy."
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A number of Bush's fellow Republicans have been urging Cheney to come forward as well. The vice president's press office had no comment on whether he would make a statement, but top White House aides were believed to be discussing whether he should do so.
"I think Cheney operates in his own world and really doesn't care what the press and the public think about him because he's serving the president. But in this case, this strategy is beginning to damage the president," said a prominent Republican in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity.