interview, he was co-producer of "parks and rec" and he was on your show talking about that his own struggle with that demon. let's take a listen to that for a second. >> what was your experience with hallucinogenics? at that time, what were you chasing? >> i think i've always done drugs recreationally. >> i hope if there's one thing you get out of that listen to that tone of someone who still liked drugs, before they killed him -- tragic."

harris whittles died of a overdose nap is a really good taste of what your podcast does to effectively, marc maron, thank you for being on this evening. >> thank you. >> great to see marc there as well. my old colleague. thank you at home. the last time the republican party won an election with someone not named bush on the ticket was 1962. look at every election since then. these are all of the republican presidential election victories since 1972 and every single one of them there has been someone named bush on the ballot as president or vice president. it is not foolproof. poppy bush did not win reelection in 1992 against bill clinton, even though he was on the ballot but you have to go back to nixon in '62 to find a

winning republican presidential ticket that did not have someone from that one family to win in the number one or the number two spot. on the one hand that bodes well for the william party deciding to put jeb bush on the ballot. on the other hand, governor bush says it might be a little creepy to vote for someone as president that not only was his father president but his brother was too, and not that long ago. so it was sort of the unofficial jeb bush for president campaign launch when he announced last month that he is going to be possibly thinking about, maybe consider running for president but if he does run for president, he will do so as his own man. >> i have also been fortunate to have a father and a brother who

have helped shape america's foreign policy from the oval office. i recognize that as a result my views will be held in comparison to theirs. i love my brother, my dad, my mother as well, hope that is okay, and i admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make. but i'm my own man. my views are shaped by my own thinking and my own experiences. >> i am my own man, that was last month. since then he has put himself on pace to raise more money more quickly than anyone who has ever run for president, ever, republican entirely by tapping the network of donors and contacts his father and brother used to win the white house and stay in the white house. shortly after the speech, jeb bush also tapped his mom to raise funds for a super pac. a fundraising effort on his behalf.

now tomorrow, the dallas morning news reports that former president, george w. bush, will be headlining a $100,000 per couple fund-raiser for jeb bush's super pac. first of all there is ted cruz, right, who has shaken up the presidential race by skipping the exploratory, self-reflective i'm thinking about running for president time and just jumping right in. jumping right in first, and just saying directly that he is running. if there was any illusions that early leap might help ted cruz lock up the base where he was so popular, governor bush hauling out his brother, the former president, and first lady, to raise what will likely be millions of dollars tomorrow

night in dallas for jeb, that should put those ted cruz questions to rest. texas was supposed to be the domain of ted cruz. and in florida he was supposed to be competing for major donors with marco rubio. he is all but monopolizing the big money in the republican race so far. he is stealing everybody's lunch money, even in their hometowns. because of that, even republican voters hate jeb bush simply by the magnitude of his money, we may be on the path of the republican party once again putting someone named bush on the presidential ballot. it worked well so far. it is the only thing that has worked for the republican party for the last 43 years so why not? but george w. bush and his brother, it is also interesting at another level, up until now, the big question would be how he

would distance himself not just from the dynasty concerns about being the son and brother of very recently former presidents but how he would distance himself from the deeply deeply unpopular presidency of his brother george. we now know the answer, he won't. he will not be hiding that light under any bushel. they are going to apparently just run jeb as our nation's fourth opportunity for a fourth term of the bush family presidency. we should have known when he listed policy sages that would be advising him. of the 21 people he named, 19 of the 21 worked in the administration of his father, brother, or both. 19 of the 21. we should have known. but if we did not know then, we

know now, now that he is trotting his brother out openly on the campaign trail. and tonight in washington, d.c., as we speak, i think, former vice president dick cheney is out there, too. he is the keynote speaker tonight at the national republican party's biggest fundraiser of the year. the nrcc annual mardener raises millions of dollars for republican candidates. the republican party's biggest such gig of the year. the man they chose to give their keynote this year, tonight, is former vice president dick cheney. and this follows several high profile meetings with him. they keep inviting dick cheney back to capitol hill to meet over and over with republicans. sometimes they led him in wearing a cowboy hat. dick cheney is also having a big round of press in the conservative media. you might have heard about him

doing that giantly long new interview with "playboy" magazine. that was not conducted by a "playboy" political correspondent -- does that magazine have correspondents? i don't know. i don't it was actually done by a fox news reporter. his interview with dick cheney being discussed on fox news by another fox news reporter, and after they discuss the content of that interview, they turn to someone for the analysis of that interview to carl rove who was the top political strategist for the bush-cheney administration. for a long time i looked forward to missing dick cheney and george w. bush. maybe some day i will, but we cannot miss you if you don't leave. the fact that they're back and

being sort of normalized in republican politics and conservative media right now, it is salient and a little spooky as the republican party starts their new round of presidential politicking. most of the party looks back on the bush/cheney years like this. but in national republican politics, they are mainstream again. they are back. and that is good to know in terms of understanding our national politics. it is also hard to avoid thinking about in terms of policy. especially on days like today when it gets so painfully clear that on policy, neither of the wars that they started in the bush-cheney administration are over, and both of them acutely are not only not over, but

they're getting pretty weird and hard to explain. today in iraq, for example, u.s. airpower, u.s. pilots have started participating directly in the fight against isis in tikrit. that fight on the ground has been a relatively small number of iraq troops, and a large number commanded by a general from iran's revolutionary regard. on the ground it is iran. in the air, it is us. american pilots flying surveillance flights to help iran in it's battle against isis on the ground. us and iran, really? so is the iraq war, this great strategic gift to iran, has now resulted in the united states and iran fighting on the same side in saddam hussein's hometown. the only war that we're fighting that congress likes to talk about less, is the one that we are fighting still in afghanistan but we basically refuse to talk about as a

political matter. and that war took a dramatic turn today. it is also a big deal and it is a little inexplicable. and this dramatic turn happened today on the occasion of what happened to be a really remarkable, and at times a very moving visit by the new president of afghanistan to the united states. this is the afghan official that is the equivalent of their vice president, along with our defense secretary ash cart erer, the four of them laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldiers today.

a very somber and moving ceremony including the playing of "taps." and honoring the service in afghanistan has been the theme. he worked as a u.s. college professor, he worked as a word -- world bank official in washington. he had a home in bethezda. he speaks very good english. this is his first visit as president of afghanistan. what he has come back to over and over again since he has been here this week is striking. he keeps coming back to how thankful and appreciative he is for the sacrifice of american troops and their families for the 13 plus years of war americans have fought in his country.

i think his remarks have been moving in part because of the way he has gone out of his way to not just say it in platitudes, and talk about it as a country to country relationship, but the way he addressed it directly to troops, and the way he said thank you. >> we hope to welcome you to afghanistan as tourists, as civilians, revisiting with your loved ones, the peaks, the deserts, the valleys, the hopes of people that your loved ones touched so dearly. come back to us in some years and at that moment millions of us will be able to say thank you to each one of you personally. shake your hands, and invite you to our homes. i would like to take the

opportunity to pay tribute to the 2,215 american servicemen and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice. more than 22,000 american soldiers have been wounded in action, civilians, numerous contractors. you stood shoulder to shoulder with us, and i would like to stay thank you. i would also like to thank the american taxpayer for his and her hard earned dollars that have enabled us. >> taxpayers. when is the last time that you, as a taxpayer, were thanked for paying for the war in afghanistan. we do not talk about that as a country.

it is remarkable to see a national leader thank the people of the united states for sacrificing over a trillion dollars in addition to what service members and their families have sacrificed from their own lives. we never talk about the war at all in this country. let alone the in fact it is being fought in our name and with our money. to the point where the republican budgets unveiled on capitol hill this week propose going back to the bush-cheney budgeting system, putting it as emergency money every year. but thanking us for 13 years of fighting, and thanking every taxpayer for the trillion tax dollars spent there. you can hear washington saying we don't talk about the fact this actually cost anything. but here he is, saying thank

you, and being so publicly appreciative for what the united states has done in afghanistan. and the reason he is doing that is because he wants more of it. today president obama said yes. today at this joint press conference, he announced a dramatic change in u.s. policy. this had previously been the plan for the end of the u.s. troop presence in afghanistan after more than 13 1/2 years. 2015, 2016, 2017. that blue dot is where we are now, roughly 10,000 troops in afghanistan afghanistan. what the president previously said would happen was a plan to go down by the end of this year to about half that number, about 5,500, down to a residual force of about 1,000 troops by the time he leaves office in the end of 2017 and the new president is sworn in to start 2017. that had been the plan. today he announced that he plans

on keeping that same end date the same, but we're not going to make that said gradual decline. instead we're going to keep 10,000 troops, what we have there now, we're going to keep them there for the rest of the year. that means the decline to that end state will be a much more rapid descent, a much more rapid withdrawal over the course of the final year. it is clear that the afghan president wants more american troops there for longer. the president says we are going to do that but the end game now makes less sense. if you're worried about what happens in afghanistan as the number of foreign troops decline, that decline will be more severe, more drastic, faster, more shocking to the system and it will happen over a shorter period of time. instead of going for 10,000 to 5,000, to 1,000, it is going

from 10,000 to 1,000 in the course of a year. that's a much more dramatic decline in the number of troops. if you are worried that it will shock afghanistan and they won't be able to handle it, well that decline has just gotten much more shocking. are they really going to stick to that? president obama says we're going down to that same end point. we're going down to 1,000 troops by the end of december 2016. you know what will happen in 2016? in december 2016 he will be a lame duck president. someone new will be elected, either a republican president, jeb bush with all the bush/cheney advisers you can fit into one clown car. or it will be hillary clinton. likely. either way you think they're going to be happy with this withdrawal plan? this dramatic withdrawal plan down to 1,000? you think they will let that stand? if the obama administration won't?

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with the kids he works for tv asia during the science fair he suddenly collapsed at the white house. he had a heart attack while he was covering the president at this event and the science fair. because it happened inside the white house, the first responders were uniformed secret service agents. they're trained in life saving techniques. medics were on hand to help, and they called in d.c. fire and ambulance. it was very scarey and very serious. they started an iv line, they ultimately got the journalist >> randy: an ambulance. he was taken to a hospital and he remains hospitalized tonight. no one wants anything like that to happen to them under any circumstances. if it happens to you, you could

do worse than to have it happen in front of secret service agents that immediately leapt to your age. -- your assistance. also the secret service was called for help after the university of maryland got a threatening phone call regarding president obama's niece. she is a student athlete that is a forward on the princeton women's varsity basketball team who was playing in the ncaa tournament against maryland. they notified the secret service saying they got a threat concerning the president's niece at that game. security was upped at the game and there was also two supreme court justices at that game. they are both princeton alums and both of them were there at the same game last night. everything ended up going okay, except that princeton lost. but imagine if you're the secret service, and that was all just in a day's work yesterday. they have responsibilities that are hard to overstate in terms of the high stakes and the main guy they protect, and the

threats they handle on any given day. all of which makes it all more worrying when they get things wrong. this is footage from three weeks ago. this shows a person dropping off a suspicious package outside of the security gate of the white house. after that happened, secret service agents put occupy -- up a temporary barricade while they investigate. this is the part that made news, recently. two senior secret service agents drive up to the scene, they turn on their flashing lights, and they bump the barricade. they believe those agents had been drinking. it's been reported they wanted to arrest the agents at the scene and administer sobriety tests, but the watch commander told them to let the senior secret service agents go home instead. the bomb threat the suspicion package ended up not being a bomb, ended up being nothing. scene, but the person in charge said not to arrest and report

them. so they were driving potentially right through the crime scene. the dc police videotape was released today by the oversight committee as they questioned secret service director joseph clancy on his agency's handling of the march 4th incident. it was an utterly nonpartisan thing today and it was very heated. >> i believe when the chain of command is broken there is no command. it is like a body without a head. and when there is no command, there is vulnerability. again, that vulnerability goes to the safety of the president of the united states of america. >> it takes 27 minutes to secure the scene. 27 minutes. what if that was a real bomb? what if it was a real bomb? >> mr. chairman, i have been at the white house complex when we

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it takes 27 minutes to secure the scene. 27 minutes. what if it was a real bomb? what if it was a real bomb? >> joining us now is congressman jason chaffetz chairman of the senate oversight and reform committee. that was him speaking. thank you very much for your time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> i have been watching the secret service story unfold. the congressional oversight part of it is interesting both because it seems very bipartisan and passionate, but because it seems like it might be the way we actually find out what is going on with the secret service. do you feel like there is something going on with that agency that we are yet to understand? >> yes, we have had too many incidents. we have great men and women out there who serve, but there has been a lack of leadership. when you do the very basics, it is not a partisan issue. i made no secret about being a mitt romney supporter, but barack obama is our president of

the united states and i don't want anything to happen, not on my watch, not on elijah cummings watch. >> in terms of the secret service and the leadership concerns that you were expressing there, do you feel like director clancy is himself the problem? he was brought in to clean up the agency. do you feel like he was the wrong guy to pick and somebody else might be able to clean the place up? what is your perspective on him >> they have a deep seeded cultural problem. they brought in four independent people that unanimously came back and said we need a transformative figure from the outside. the president decided not to follow that recommendation. the president selected director clancy. i can't blame everything on him. but this is a pivotal moment.

how is he going to deal with this crisis when they're not able to detain somebody who drops off a would-be bomb. you two senior people drive through two crime scenes. when they're not able to secure that area for 27 minutes when they don't even call the metro police department for 11 minutes. they don't send a bolo for 30 minutes for the would-be bomber. then it goes to the senior leadership and how they deal with it. that's the concern. >> what do you imagine will be the solution here? obviously you're indicating you may have concern with the top-level leadership. you may want a change in the top-level leadership, presumably that can't be all if the problems have been this deep, this widespread, particularly when there is a few senior leadership ranks among themselves. what do you imagine the fix this agency might need? >> we have thousands of secret service officers and agents in the uniform division and as agents they have got to gain the confidence that they're going to get a workable schedule. they're overworked, under trained. we don't have enough agents and

officers. and they've got to know that senior leadership has got their back and they will treat senior management the way they rank and file. until we gain that confidence we will continue to have these struggles. >> the uniform division, and the difference between the agents and the moral issues around there, one of the things the narrative keeps coming around to is staffing levels how how much they're working, how well they're trained, how well they're equipped. if the solution is significantly more money, do you think the fiscal conservatives in the house, yourself among them would be willing to steer more resources to that agency if it's got to be part of the solution? >> south carolina >> oh, absolutely. the average training time over the course of the year is 25

minutes. 25 minutes! they train girl scouts how to sell cookies longer than that. i support the idea they need to build a mock white house that will be an $8 million expenditure. right now they're going on a ball field with spray paint and trying to teach the officers. that is not acceptable. we have to spend money to do this. it will take resources. we can figure out where to cut somewhere else, but protecting the president of the united states and his family, we can never ever ever let anything happen to them. >> congressman jason chaffetz, it is really hard for me to get republicans to come on this show to talk to me even about nonpartisan things, so extra thanks. >> invite me back, you have always been good to me. >> it's good to get that perspective, when i see both sides yelling with the sane -- same veins bulging on their necks about this issue and base basically getting so hot under the collar about it, it's so

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environmental cops. ten years ago they said they had more problems with john menard and his company than with any other wisconsin company. they cited him and his company, menards menards, at least 13 times over three decades for ignoring or violating problems. he was caught on video dumping arsenic-laden hazardous waste ashes from one of his lumber plants. instead of paying for the stuff to go to a hazardous waste facility, apparently john menard would just bag up the waste, bring it home to his house and put it in his trash at home. it would just go to the landfill. john menard ended up paying a

$1.7 million fine for that which at the time was a record in wisconsin. so that is john menard, jr. here is what was just reported about him and his brand new starring role in american national politics. in 2012, a wisconsin governor, scott walker, was involved in a bitter recall election. he donated $1.5 million dollars that promised they would keep their donors anonymous. they would accept donations from anyone, any corporation, and they would keep them secret forever. he reportedly gave $1.5 million to support scott walker secretly. since then, since scott walker won that recall election, things have gone pretty well for john menard, jr. in his dealings with wisconsin state government. his company has been awarded up to $1.8 million in tax breaks from the state.

that alone recoups the donation. they have sharply scaled back the environmental repercussions that have plagued him more than any other company in the state for years. to be clear, there was no bribery investigation here. scott walker is not being investigated for any sort of quid pro quo. governor walker's spoke american gave us an explanation about how he was treated by the scott walker administration could be explained by normal politics nothing scandalous at all. but the fact that he tried to secretly give $1.5 million, and subsequently he received very favorable treatment from scott walker. and those things may not be connected at all in any way that is criminal and stinky. we were never supposed to know about the donations in the first place. part of the reason we may know about them now is because of the trailing ends of an ongoing criminal investigation into

scott walker's donation. the case will be heard before the state supreme court next month, and governor walker and his campaign team have successfully argued this investigation, the other hometown investigations, they should just be seen as wisconsin issues that will be of no interest to the nation, certainly not the press core. this is just usual hometown enemies going after local politicians for the usual partisan stuff. and that works when you're just the governor of wisconsin. and the national process only mildly interested in you at a distance. but when you are a top-tier presidential contender, investigative reporters with serious national chops start looking at everything trailing behind you as you try to become president. because the investigations are still trailing him, the story of scott walker will be way more interesting in coming months.

particularly if he stays at the top of the pack. joining me is michael istakof. it's great to see you, mike. thank you for being here. >> great to be back on the show. >> let me ask you first if i summarized that in a way that -- did i miss anything important or are those the right basics. >> i think you got it, just a couple points worth emphasizing here. one of the things that has been uncovered in the course of this john doe 2 robe into the walker fund-raising was that scott walker was personally involved in raising money for the wisconsin club for growth. there are e-mails in which this is -- his aids refer to the governor as a wisconsin club for growth as your 501(c)(4), that we should steer donations through this group in order to have correct messaging to defend

the governor's record in advertisements. so this is something scott walker was directly involved in in raising money for this group. there has been a lot of attention in wisconsin in the last year about some of the huge donations that walker himself raised from the likes of donald trump or paul singer the hedge fund billionaire. but what stands out in this matter is this is a guy, menard who is the richest guy in wisconsin who has extensive business before the state government. he was making what appears to be the largest single donation to the group that scott walker was trying to raise money for and the public knew nothing about it. i think that is the part of the story that is getting a lot of attention. why wasn't this disclosed? had the public known about these donations, would scott walker have been forced to answer questions when he ran for reelection?

would the wisconsin press have been pressing him for information about his meetings he might have had with john menard? whatever he knew about these donations? whether he solicited them. but none of those questions have been put to him. i think that's why this story, if nothing else, may prod walker to have to answer some of those questions. >> as this investigation continues, this case continues to work its way through the courts in wisconsin, it's had a wild ride through the courts already. is it likely, if that case continues, that there will be more made known that will get more public information about who were those donors to scott walker back in those days who thought they could make those donations under the cover of anonymity by this arrangement, are we going to learn more? >> presumably if the investigation is allowed to continue and charges are brought, then yes, we could learn lots more. the question that this story

raises is, what else is there in the files? what else have prosecutors obtained about who was funneling donations to this group and what role walker himself played in raising that money. it's unclear whether the investigation is going to go forward. the wisconsin supreme court is going to be hearing arguments on this next month. some of its members have received support from some of the same people who were backing scott walker. so we'll see. but i think if nothing else, there will be a lot more attention on those oral arguments before the court. >> michael isikoff, correspondent for yahoo news, great to see you, mike. miss you here in the building, but you're doing great work for yahoo. i'm glad you're on this. thanks, man. >> thank you. much more ahead tonight. please stay with us.

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