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tv   Bill Clinton  CSPAN  February 20, 2017 9:55pm-10:01pm EST

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superb. if you ever run for public office you will when. begin your reopener perk of course, he was talking about himself but not long after that president nixon and donald trump spent a weekend together and went to a charitable event in houston texas and barricaded themselves and spent hours together to talk geopolitics fired questions after he after another trump was asking the round the world to were of questions. nixon saw the potential for the trump presidency
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. >> so the thing that learned about bill clinton as i was researching this book that i had known but had kind of forgotten that he had this reputation to be so polled driven all he does this study the polls in what the polls tell him to do. to some extent. yes. but if you dig deeper sometimes i degree without.
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it to find a belief system that he was given credit for at the time. and it was pretty hard to do and should be recognized in that intervention in haiti in 1990 this was a hard thing to do. to be a man of the left to seize all of the oligarchs so obviously he was the pratt and opposed by the military. and was rather bad news and remember that phrase?
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and the people of haiti word desperate to help them do something and really people that could do that is the united states of america. so here was a president using the power of the american and military as the united states had done for a better part of the previous 40 years but install someone that the united states had no such peace. and a person of the left it
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does not necessarily end well but it was the brave thing with the public did not like it but it was the right thing to do. but of the domestic front the veto of the partial birth abortion later in his term 1999 the then to pass a bill to outlaw the partial birth abortion that was still medically intact dilation and extraction. it was normally only used to save the mother's life.
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they were strongly against clinton and the republicans were screaming berger. and lot of democrats. and he made the veto. there were more things like that. because he have this reputation in the governor's mansion. >> ladies and gentlemen, dennis prager and a bright stevens and our moderator. [applause]

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