and edward mcclellan on president obama's run for the illinois state. >> tonight we'll talk with formerresident bush about his life and book. >> you're through with politics. >> yeah. >> define that. >> i don't want to go out and campaign for candidates, i don't want to be the money raiser, i don't want to be on talk shows giving my opinion. i think it's bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. look, it's tough enough to be president as it is without a former president undermining the current president. plus, i don't want to do that. in other words, i don't want to be on tv. >> it's about over. >> it is. but i like -- i tell people that one of the interesting things, sacrifice. i don't think you sacrifice to run for president but to the extent you do you lose your anonymity. and i like the idea of trying to regain anonymity to a certain extent. and being out of the press, at least in this stage

edward mcclellan on barack obama's first campaign for the u.s. senate. sign up to get our schedules in mailed directly to your in box with our booktv alets. >>>> a former ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, criticized the obama administration on dealing with iran and north korea. this was at a luncheon on capitol hill. his speech on national security challenge is sharply criticized. that obama's policies on everything from the new start treaty with russia, chinese president hu jintao's visit to washington, relations with north korea, and sanctions against iran. he is considering a run for the presidency in 2012. this is just over one hour. >> i am the president of the defense forum foundation. the ambassador will be joining us shortly. thank you for being here. i know this is a tedious day to get to work this morning. i want to welcome you all, especially those of you come into our forum for the first time. i hope he will become regular participants. the defense forum foundation was started in the 1980's as a bipartisan program where congressi

and edward mcclellan on barack obama's first campaign on the illinois senate. a sign up to get our schedules emailed to your inbox. >> we will tour the home of a statesman frederick douglass. jerry jones tells of the policies of woodrow wilson. then, daniel patrick moynihan. experience american history tv on c-span3, all weekend, every weekend. see the complete schedule online at c-span.org/history. >> 9/11 defined the presidency because it made it abundantly clear that my most important job was to protect the country. i made a lot of controversial decisions to do that. if i had to do them over again, i would have done them again. >> former president george bush talks about his memoir with students from southern methodist university sunday at 8:00 on c-span. >> next, a discussion on federal spending and job creation. this is 45 minutes. ington journal" continues. host: i want to welcome back matt kibbe, freedomworks president and ceo. let's begin with "the washington times." guest: it's a shocking number, $1.5 trillion. longer-term, it is $14 trillion in nation