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25 years ago the presidency was just getting underway for president george bush. the home of defense secretary robert gates is weighing in on the threat for the u.s. and you'll hear from the obama
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side of the debate. and the question of the hour, will he run in 2016? but first, the search for malaysian flight 370. could the signal deep in the ocean be coming from the jetliner? we are live in washington with is developments. >> the australian officials say the reports need to be treated carefully because the signals have not yet been linked to the missing plane. meantime, an australian ship using more sophisticated equipment than the chinese also heard something in a different location. this on sunday. here's the latest on that from the epicenter of the search operation. >> we just know that there has been an acoustic detection by
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ocean shield which has highly sophisticated equipment, and the word i have got is it is something that needs to be investigated. >> a candlelight vigil was held in malaysia by the family and friends of missing passengers. their agony continues as the search turns up nothing. and the battery box on the black beacon is about to expire. here in the u.s. one congress member says the malaysian government has bungled this investigation. >> the chinese, australians, indonesians, they all have the ability to work together to combine evidence. >> a british vessel with advanced detection equipment has arrived in the search area where the chinese ships picked up that signal and we'll see what that turns up. shannon, back to you.
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despite the oppressive violence from the taliban, there was a strong turnout for afghanistan's national elections. millions of afghans crowded into mosques and schools to cast their votes, but it will be at least a week before the ballots are tallied. members of the international community including president obama have applauded the afghan people for this democratic milestone. a 1-year-old girl who fell ill on a disabled sailboat is in stable condition after a heroic rescue by the u.s. national guard and navy. domenick is in los angeles with that story. >> reporter: hey, shannon. absolute drama at high seas hopefully with a happy ending at first light this morning. the 1-year-old and her family were taken to safety by the u.s. ship 900 miles off the coast of mexico. this is an incredible story. her parents sent out an s.o.s. to the u.s. coast guard after sh developed a fever and discovered a rash all over covering most of her body.
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that sailboat had been crippled so last night the california air national guard parachuted in four rescuers, landed in the ocean, they swam to the boat and managed to stabilize her. around 8:00 a.m. this morning, they managed to bring her, her parents, the 3-year-old sister and the rescuers aboard the shape using an inflatable boat. the rescue team lead er had to weigh out a lot of options. >> a couple things we are trying to do is either provide air lift or get to land. and it just depends on the the child is to deteriorate. one of the main issues, especially with children, is they do well for a long time and they crash. >> reporter: now, the family from san diego has been on a trip two weeks into a journey down to new seeland. no indication what lara is suffering from, but now the family is heading back to san
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diego where they are from. back to you. domenick, thank you very much. this weekend has been all about remembering george h.w. bush's presidency and celebrating his birthday. coming up, he'll be 90 in june. coming up, the democrats and republicans have been talking about his presidency. here at home he signed the americans with disabilities act and laid the groundwork for balancing the budget. and he paved the path for his family's political dynasty after serving just about every job in washington, he became president for one term. his son george w. bush was president for two terms. now another one of his sons former jeb bush is getting a lot of attention from supporters and detractors as speculation about whether he'll make a run for the white house continues to mount. i sat down for an exclusiver into interview with jeb at the presidential library and we
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talked about immigration, education and a whole lot more. >> so the senate bill attempts to do that. i think it was a good effort to try to do exactly what you're saying, which is that the rule of law requires us to be able to, for example, 40% of illegal immigrants come with legal visas and overstay their bounds. a great country aught to know where those folks are and politely ask them to leave. so now you've cut out 6 million people. if you did that from the, you know, kind of as it occurs, it would restore people's confidence. there are means by which we can control our border better than we have. and there should be penalties for breaking the law. but the way i look at this, and this is not, you know, i'm going to say this and it will be on tape, and so be it. the way i look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn't come legally, they come to our country because their family's
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dad who loves their children was worried that their children didn't have food on the table. and they wanted to make sure their family was intact. and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family, yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony. it's kind of -- it's a -- it's an act of love. it's an act of commitment to your family. i honestly think that's a different kind of crime that should be, there should be a price paid, but it shouldn't be, it shouldn't rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families. and the idea that we're not going to fix this but with xre comprehensive reform traps these people. so i think we need to get beyond the harsh political rhetoric to a better place. the great number of people who come to this country come because they have no opportunities in other places. they may love their country, but they come here because they want to provide for their families.
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and they can make a contribution to our country if we actually organized ourselves in a better way. [ applause ] >> let's talk about something else. you are very passionate -- >> can i mention something else? >> sure. let's go to education. >> i wanted to mention there's another element of comprehensive reform that i think aught to be considered and taken seriously. and that's this idea of a set of common values. we're not as -- the set of values today has erroded, so if immigrants come here they need to embrace our values. we need a much broader civics education in this country, a sense of our history, learning english aught to be part of the
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process of cullturation. >> education is definitely a passion of yours, so you have spent a lot of time many years working to change things to open up other options, we increasingly see charter schools, you were instrumental starting the first one in florida. conversations about vouchers, conversations about common poor, tell us what you think needs to happen. >> i think we should say rising student achievement for all students is the goal and that the system we have today with over 13,000 government-run politicized unionized monopolies is probably not the best thing for 2014 and going forward. if we can agree on that, then, i mean, look, we spend more than any country in the world, other than lex um bourg, and we have results not acceptable for a great country. so there's a lot of reasons, and people excuse the way the
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numbers exist within the system, but if you start with the premise that's not acceptable, then at least we should be open to nor drmore dramatic reforms tinkering on the edges. that's what i believe we should do. have higher expectations, higher standards is really important. you can't -- you can dumb down standards as we have done and all children are above average, and that makes their children maybe feel better, but if they get a high school diploma and it means that they have to retake high school math and reading to start their community college or they have no career skills because high school hasn't given them that, who are we fooling? >> talk a little about common core, because i want you to answer the concern that is some parents and critics have that it is in some way a nationalization or federalization of education. it takes away some of the local and state autonomy with respect to the school boards and parents and their choices and puts everybody on the same track for
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education outcomes. >> well, first of all, if you want more choice for parents, then you need to open up the law in 50 states to allow the choices to take place. and anybody that's for that, i welcome them to the fight. because i have tire marks on my forward advocating across the country more choices, public and private across the board. and if that's their interest, fantastic. join the battle. because many states only allow one option. the option that the monopoly dictates to their kids. and that is not a dynamic response to the challenges that we face. common core state standards are standards that were -- that 45 governors and 45 state school officers in this country voluntarily agreed to build. they are higher by most accounts. they are higher than all but a handful of states. there are fewer, so a teacher in the classroom can teach all the standards in a given year. they don't require a national curriculum, which is the main
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argument that is used against this. of course they don't. that's not the point. the point is to have one higher lofty expectation and a thousand different means by which you deliver the content to achieve it. not the other way around. right now we have a tower of babble in terms of standards and a much more standardized means of delivery. and we can change that, but if you don't have high expectations, high standards, you're not going to go anywhere. the idea that it's a federal program is based, it is just not true. it's just not -- it was voluntarily created by governors. and the only argument you can make is that the obama administration used the race to the top waivers to say, if you're going to embrace this, you're going to take the money to create the assessments and other things. you have to accept something already did. in other words, the states that already agreed to these standards, that was a mistake. you know, so when it's something
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to call it obama core amongst conservatives, and that's where we are. but if people don't recognize the dumbed down standards are going to yield the same result that we've had, then we're really missing the chance to move forward as a country. so i'm totally committed to this. i guess i've been out of office for a while, so the idea that something that i support because people are opposed to it means that i have to stop supporting it, if there's not any reason based on fact to do that, i just -- maybe it's stubbornness, i don't know what it is, but i don't feel compelled to run for cover when this is the right thing to do for our country. and others have. others have supported the standards and now are opposed to it. i don't get it. high standards matter. and i hope that people rejoin in the effort to try to persuade people this is the right thing to do. >> i also asked ability the
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administration's announcement that it reached 7 million new obamacare enrollments. governor bush said he's one informed that his insurance plan is substandard, despite the fact he's been happy with it. here's more of his response on the health care law. >> these companies offering these health care plans are going to lose money because a mix of healthy and unhealthy people on these plans isn't what they had hoped for, and the net result is that they are going to have to increase premiums. and so you're going to have maybe on a net basis of 7 million people likely to be far less. the majority of whom will be the people getting insurance policy, many will be medicaid, which doesn't help the health care system at all with the low reimbursement rates. we have 40, we used to have 48 million people uninsured. doing a victory dance, 7 million people signing up seems rather absurd. >> much more from the bush library in a few minutes, including jeb's answer to the
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question that his supporters and detractors are asking, is he going to run in 2016? his answer is coming up, plus a whole lot more. during world war ii president bush served as a navy pilot. after being shot down, says he wondered why he had been spared and what plans god had for his life. he went on to become the country's 41st president and had bob gates the head of the cia. he went on to become the secretary of defense. coming up, we'll talk to him about the numerous foreign policy challenges the u.s. is facing now. his legacy is coming into clearer focus now as i have said on a number of occasions. there's no press debcedent in h for the collapse of a major empire like the soviet union without a major war, and only now is he beginning to get the credit that he deserves. marg you know, there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies.
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he's worked for eight different presidents including bush 41 and 43. and i asked him what he thinks of russian president vladimir
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putin and how the u.s. is handling his aggression. >> i think it's actually very serious of a situation. i've told pressure president bush that i've looked into putin's eyes and seen the a stone cold killer. i think he's trying to create a pro-russian block out of the independent states once part of the soviet union. he wants them economically, politically, for security, looking to russia, tied to russia. i think that in the process, the invasion of georgia, the invasion of crimea, trying to get ukraine and armenia to break their relations with the eu, what he is doing is, first of all, he's doing two things that have long-term impact. and to which we need to react strongly. the first is up in the post cold war order in which everybody in europe agrees that borders can
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only be changed through negotiation and the consent of everybody involved. and the second is that old scores have to be settled through negotiation, not by force. so his taking of crimea, this territory that was associated with russia for a long time, but has been part of ukraine, by force, sets a precedent. and it's not unlike the first president bush not wanting saddam to set the precedent of an aggression against kuwait and letting that stand as the first major act after the cold war. so we have two major developments upending the post cold war order of how borders get changed, and settling old scores by force. there are plenty of opportunities for those kinds of conflicts all around the world, including in asia, where you could say that the chinese claim
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on the senkaku islands as opposed to japan could lead to the exact same kind of action. so people who just want it to go away who don't think it's that big of a deal and so on, i think they don't understand the full ramifications for years to come of the actions that putin has taken. >> how do you think the u.s. has managed that situation so far? what can we do? what should we do? >> i think that the reinforcement of the baltic patrols and putting more forces into the baltic states is important. i think figuring out how to forward deploy more nato forces into places like poland and the baltic states are important. but i think the real leverage is economic in terms of the russians and in terms of sending the message that these kinds of actions that putin has taken will ultimately weaken russia, not strengthen it.
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and there i think so far that the economic actions that have been taken have been very weak. the problem is, it's very difficult for the united states to impose economic another international hot spot, iran, which never really cools down. there are fights on capitol hill about rounds of sanctions and the president asking lawmakers to wait until there's more time for this particular strategy to
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play out. president obama himself said earlier this year he thinks there's only a 50/50 chance we actually get a binding, valid good agreement on iran's nuclear program. how do you see it? >> i think he may be optimistic at that. i have two worries. the first is this is reportedly a six-month negotiation. the iranians, the persians, if you will, are past masters at slow rolling in negotiation. six months becomes eight, becomes ten, becomes a year. well, we are very close if we can just take a little more time and so on. and that's the proclivity of diplomats. as long as there's a glimmer of hope, not to shut down a negotiation. so i think having a deadline for these negotiations is important. the other problem that i see is negotiating a common position with our partners in the p5 plus
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1 because that includes russia and china. what kind of mood is putin going to be in at this point to be as tough minded as i think we and the french are in terms of what needs, what iran must do to have a valid agreement. so i worry that we're going to end up in two negotiations. one, with our p5 plus 1 negotiating partners and the other with the iranians. the iranians can see through that. and i think they see many opportunities to keep the western side, if you will, divided. >> we thank you very much for your perspective and insight on this. and it doesn't seem like you're resting much during your retirement, so we wish you all the best. >> thank you very much. still ahead, as afghanistan counts the ballots in the presidential election, the u.s. watches from the sidelines l. afghans elect a president willing to work with the u.s.? coming up live for a fair and balanced debate, over jeffrey and the white house chief of staff former governor john sununu.
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imagine being a target of the federal government even if you're innocent. tonight, we go in depth in a one-hour documentary entitled "enemies of the state." that's at 9:00 eastern tonight hosted by jon scott. you don't want to miss that. more from texas in just a minute, but right now we'll look at your top headlines. we are standing by in washington with doug. hi, doug. >> thank you very much. searchers in the indian ocean are racing to the location of pulses heard by a chinese ship. there are hopes this could be linked to the missing malaysian jet. investigators have determined the plane briefly skirted into air space but never showed up on radar whether deliberately or accidentally is still unknown. in other top stories today, the united states will deploy two additional destroyers to japan by the year 2017 in an effort to counter the north korean missile
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threat. defense secretary chuck hagel made that announcement today in tokyo. the u.s. already has five warships in japan. and lawmakers in kansas have approved a bill that would make it legal to openly carry firearms. the legislation would essentially strip local officials of their power to regulate guns. for final approval, this goes to governor sam brownbeck a strong supporter of gun rights. and march madness is nearing the end. kentucky and connecticut, monday night for the championship game. neither team was expected to make it this far. the highest total seed since 1979. those are the top stories. back to shannon at the bush library in college station, texas. >> where everyone's brackets are in shambles. thank you, doug. the white house counts to tout the benefits of obamacare, but polls show more and more benefits disapprove of the law. joining us for fair analysis and
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debate is joe trippi and john sununu, good to see both of you. the administration marks that milestone as they were working to more than 7 million signing up through obamacare. do you give them credit? >> they should be embarrassed with 7 million as the number they argued for obamacare was 48.6 million. and there's another 40 million over the next year that are going to lose their insurance or see a huge rate increase as the small business waiver fades out. and even though 7 million is a phony number because 20% of those haven't paid. so that's down to 5.6. and when you take out the ones, the 3.5 to 4 million that were just switching insurance, they've helped about 1 million, 1.5 million people out of a 90 million person problem. they aught to be ashamed of themselves for talking about
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that. >> joe, you have quite a skeptic here. >> yeah. >> but democrats have said -- for you, you hear this all the time. >> we've been doing this for a while. >> but democrats have said they will run on this in the fall. midterms are critical. what do you thi? >> look, it was a disaster launch. everybody knows that. it's actually pretty amazing that they got to anywhere near 7 million given they flew past a couple months with the website debacle, but the fact of the matter is in midterm elections, first of all, it's a really good, positive thing they have, that the democrats got there and obamacare got there. but the problem is people tend to be motivated in midterm elections to turn out by anger and things they are upset with, not unhappy they got health care. those people just don't tend to turnout. so i think you're going to see a lot more intensity on the republican side because of obamacare. that is going to make a
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difference in some of these races. and in a midterm election, it particularly in the second term, is always better for the party that doesn't have the president. that's the case every single election, and maybe reagan was the only one that -- maybe you can correct me on this, governor, but it doesn't usually work out too well for the party with the president. >> it sounds like you're setting expectations. >> i think joe is covering tracks for the president internally. look, i think the democrats are going to talk about running on obamacare. and pretty soon you're going to see it fade away from their vocabulary. >> we don't have much time, the midterms are upon us. we have active primaries going on, and it's in full force. >> i really think that the 2014 election is going to be decided in a lot of republican primaries, you know, they really should pick up enough senate seats to make a run at the majority unless, like we have seen in the last two elections, 2010, 2012, they nominate the
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wrong person to get the nomination. we saw that in nevada with sharon engle. those things happen. they are going to have to -- republicans have to squander the opportunity because i think they should -- this should be a good year for republicans. >> let me translate that for you. he's saying the only way the democrats cannot have a disaster in 2014 is if the republicans screw up. and i just hope that the republicans that are out there understand it's theirs to win. i think they will win it. i think they have learned their lesson in the past. and yes, obamacare is going to be a great issue to run on. >> another very important election, this one international. the afghanistan elections yesterday. and joe, by most accounts they went relatively well. >> they went well, and the turnout seems very high. i mean, a lot higher than people thought given the threat of violence at the polls. so look, i think it's a good
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sign that democracy is happening and the citizens of afghanistan are stepping up as america steps away from trying to build a nation there. so i think it's a good -- we'll see what the results turn out to be, but i think it was positive. >> it was very good. and i just hope that the obama administration doesn't make the same mistake in afghanistan that it made in iraq walking away without a status of forces agreement. and this election is important in that respect, but the administration cannot, cannot have us have skanderred our treasure and the blood, sweat and tears of the young men and women by walking away without a status of forces agreement. they have to work with whomever comes out of this afghanistan relation and get that signed. >> it's been a tough problem without hamid karzai, not getting him to sign it. how much, joe, do you think the afghan people, and we are doing guesswork, how much do you think they factor in when electing a new leader, speaking of how much
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that person may or may not be willing to work with the west? >> well, i'm sure that's a factor, but i don't really think that's front of mind for them. i think, look, you've got tribal -- you've got all kinds of other things going on that are much bigger than that. i think it makes sense, though, to not cut a deal with karzai and try to do it with whoever wins this thing is a much better shot at having something lasting and an agreement that may work. >> final word to you, governor. >> look, this is going to be a very interesting election year. i think people are beginning to understand the value of leadership. and i think leadership will itself be an important issue in the next election and in the 2016 election. >> should be. that should be important in all elections, right? >> and agree he gets the last word. he always gets the last word. >> all right, gentlemen, we'll let you work that out. in the meantime, more coming up from the george herbert walker bush library after the break. keep it here.
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i'm doug mckillway back in washington. storms have temporarily interrupted our signal from texas. in the meantime, we'll resume here. will another bush run for president? in the path, jeb bush has resisted those who urged him to run, but this time the idea around is gaining steam as the former florida governor gets the hard press from some big gop donors. >> in february of last year, was were asked about whether you might want to run for president. and you said, it will be at least a year before i make the decision. >> right. >> we're now past february 14, march, april, anything you want to tell us? >> i was asked the same question about in the fall, and i said at least a year as well. >> i'm not paying attention to that one. >> i'll make up my mind at the end of this year. >> what for you are the critical considerations you'll have to make? >> two simple things.
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one, because i can't figure out the politics. it's pretty crazy right now. we are in a very volatile world. so if you spend a lot of time and energy, well, how am i going to win the muscatine pork roast straw poll or something like that, which dad won, by the way n 1980 when i was there on his behalf. how do you -- all the tactics of a campaign are not nearly as relevant because i don't think you can predict what the world, the context of a campaign is this far out, so for me it's two simple things. and it relates to kind of what our conversation is about here, can a candidate run with a hopeful optimistic message, hopefully with enough detail to give people a sense that it's not just idol words and not get thrown, not bet back into the vortex of the mudfight. can you do it, in my case, that means can one do it joyfully without being tied to the convention of the politics of the here and now. and another thing is, is it okay
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for my family? is it something that isn't a huge sacrifice for our family? and that's, you know, that's a different set of datapoints, if you will, that relates to a lot of love and emotion. and i just don't want to go through that until the right time. and it turns out that not running has generated more interest than if i said i was running. it's kind of weird. i'm not that smart, i promise you, it just kind of happened that way. so i go about my business each day trying to avoid having to think about it. you know, i've got a lot of work to do. and i have a fulfilled life. and at some point, you know, maybe a year from now -- >> i'm marking it down. >> end of the year, i'll make a decision based on those two simple things. >> a colleague of mine, megan kelly, who many of you know, was interviewing governor chris christie a few days ago and asked him about 2016 and said, who do the republicans need to support in who do you think are
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the first frontrunners, and the first name out of his mouth was yours. what do you make of that because a lot of people have him in the mix as well? >> he's the real deal. he's spoken here, hasn't he? if he hasn't, you need to invite him. he's a spectacular guy, and there are a lot of candidates. rather than say -- there are a lot of really good potential candidates. rather than speculate about that, i think maybe the answer is we need to elect candidates that have a vision that is bigger and broader. and candidates that are organized around winning the election. not making a point. winning the election should be what we're about. whipping allows the big things to get solved. w winning gets the country back on track n my mind. so the candidates that have a bigger vision and can connect well with people are the candidates. chris christie certainly would be on that list as would other
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people as well. if you want me to go through the list so i don't take anybody off, i can do that, but i think you get my drift. >> much more coming up from the george h.w. bush presidential library. >> former first lady barbara bush is well-known for her efforts to promote literacy. dr. ben carson told me it's one of the things he admires most about her because it made such a big difference in his life. and coming up, i talk to him about obamacare. what he thinks makes a big difference and what happens now. where you've learned youa thing or two. age this is the age of knowing what you're made of. so why let erectile dysfunction get in your way?
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whether doctors are fleeing and moving into concierge practices, not whether people are going wait for extended periods of time when you throw more people into a system that isn't prepared -- i could go on and on. but those aren't even the issues. the issue is the most important thing that we have, our health care, do we want that under our control or do we want that under the government's control? this is the thing that i'm trying to get people to understand. when you turn over something like health care to a bunch of government bureaucrats who mean well and who think that they can do everything and they know better than everybody else, you end up with a system that is not america. that is not for of and by the people, that doesn't look it personal responsibility, that doesn't bring the whole medical establishment into the free market economy which is what really controls price and what really controls quality and what has worked so well for us.
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why would we trade that for what everybody else has? the -- to do that, you kind of have to admit that america really isn't exceptional, there really isn't anything special about us. the fact of the matter, there is. before america came on the scene, 100 years, 200 years, 1,000 years, 3,000 years, everybody did the same way. within 2 hundred people of america appearing on the scene, american were walking on the moon. there is something special about the country and the way we do things. let's have confidence in the people and create a system that i'm talking about even more, it's going to be out there, you know, utilizing things like health savings accounts which put people in charge of their own care and -- and there are a number of ways that can be founded for much less money than we're spending now. >> let me ask you because there are those who say the administration is touting these important mailstones and that this is now what we're going
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to -- milestones and that this is now what we're going to deal with. lawmakers on the hill have voted on a number of things, had news conferences. are there going to be any substantive changes to this law as we know it today? >> you know, the fair thing, quite honest, would be let's say are there some things that are good about this bill, and the answer is yes. do we all want to have health care for everybody, the answer is yes. is there a way that we can sit down together, wipe the slate clean, understand that, yes, we want health care for everybody, let's do it the right way together, let's not have a my way or the highway, and this is the law. that just does not sound like america. >> well, we know you have a lot of proposals out there, and we'll continue to watch and see as you continue as a very strong voice in this conversation, doctor. >> absolutely. thank you very much. >> thank you. good to see you. >> absolutely. you, too. it's no secret, president bush 41 is a country music fan. what was unexpected -- a country
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nobody sang "happy birthday" yet, we should do that, don't you think? ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday mr. president ♪ happy birthday to you [ applause ] >> talk about a surprise guest. country music legend garth brooks shocked everybody last night by taking the stage at a barbecue in honor of bush, 41,
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his presidency and ahead of his birthday this summer there. he wasn't the only celeb to give the president a shout out. "tonight show" host jimmy fallon shared a secret musical talent that nobody at the barbecue knew that president bush 41 had. >> happy anniversary, hope you're having a great night. i'm a fan of the job you did as president. but clearly, i'm also a fan of your music. here's just one of my favorites. ♪ you can't touch this ooh ♪ ♪ my my hear my music hear hit so hard ♪ ♪ oh my lord thank you for blessing me ♪ ♪ with two right foot super homeboy ♪ ♪ from the hometown this is -- you can't touch homeboy ♪ ♪ you can't stop this stop hammer time ♪ >> happy anniversary, buddy!
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>> who knew? all right. that's it for us here at the george h. with bush library in college station. it was a wonderful weekend, and we were honored to cover it and bring it to you. mr. bush turns 90 in june. when he turned 72 -- i'm chris wallace. pulse signals from deep in the indian ocean offer new hope in the hunt for that malaysian airplane. and searching for a motive after a soldier opens fire at ft. hood again. [ siren ] >> we have an active shooter on scene. multiple gunshot victims. >> we believe that the immediate precipitating factor was more likely an escalating argument in the area -- >> the investigation has s focused on a dispute with other soldiers as well as the shooter's psychological history. we'll have a live report with the latest and discuss the security on military bases with

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