literally, i sat down with president bush a week ago, watching this film, george h. bushption in the newspaper said cuba gooding, jr., sits with george bush. so for the first time you actually get to see me and my alter ego at the same time. >> wow! >> one of the amazing things about doing this film has been the fact that it's one of the first times with this size of movie, that a group of -- of black actors have been able to come together and be the center of the story, and what that engendered, you know, there is a syndrome. there is a syndrome i've identified coming from the uk here is that we have pointier, and we have denzel. who will be the next denzel? this symbol that there can only be one. i hope that with the film that we've blown that out of the water. >> if this film is any indication, the legacy will be long, deep and beautiful. thank you very much for spending time with me. >>> up next, cuba gooding, jr., and nate parker. >> i play raymond, they call me junior in the movie, and did you know that the tuskegee airmen that were in the program were from the age

the code-executive producer and iny smith is the go to guru former deputy press secretary for george h. w. bushshe is the real olivia pope. had to ask, did this really did you sleep with the president? absolutely not. >> what is real are the type of crises on the show >> . by my pope is inspired crisis work, but it is television. television. >> the stakes can be enormous. take the clinton scandal. >> it was the monica case, that thea very big case with presidency all tied into it. that was very difficult. and she worked with marion when he was the mayor. >> sometimes clients can either accept the advice or not. marion probably has a lot of the him and makesd its own decisions. >> the show is breaking down barriers. actress kerry washington is the lead african-american in a network television shows since the 1960's. it is almost like she needs own crisis manager for own personal life. she's gonna go and is a real .al the drama gets deeper next week in the second episode. it is salacious. tune in to abc 7 next thursday at 10:00 p.m. in order to support that show. >> i look forward to it. it is 43

. >> do you remember in 1980, george h bush said that. recall between hillary clinton and barack obama. so this goes a long, long way back. lbj and jfk did not like each other at all. so there have been times where republicans and democrats in the primary have beat each other up only to join forces to do one thing and to win. >> joan, today campaigning in pennsylvania, he addressed if his home state is a must win. listen to this and react to it? >> yeah, we have to win here, and we plan on winning here. you know, as i said last night, the people of pennsylvania know me, all of the negative attacks are, i think, going to fall on a lot of deaf ears here, and we have a strong base of support here and we're going to work very, very hard, get into may, and may looks very, very good. >> joan walsh, here is the thing i don't think people are grasping, pennsylvania is a beauty contest. if he wins the popular vote, it does absolutely nothing relative to the delegate count. >> right, and it's all ego, and we understand that's a strong driving force

. >> the romney camp keep turning out endorsements like former president george h. w. bush, pualaul ryan, and johnson. >> santorum is back in pennsylvania. if he loses all three, that may very well be the alamo of his race. >> d.c. voters going to the polls for hotly contested ward races. orange is being contested. alexenader in 4. barry in ward 8. turnout so far has been light. another hot contest, six congressional districts where roscoe bartlett is battling state senator david brinkley for the republican nomination. a group which may be tied to bartlett contained a 911 call made by brinkley's former wife. as for the democrats, the leading are rob garagiola and john delaney. live coverage on news channel eight and a politico.com. we will have a big wrap up on abc 7 news at 11. >> syrian troops are starting to pull out. this is the first step towards selling the ongoing conflict. this is a cease-fire plan to remove troops and the fighters are hoping there will be immediate drawdown. >> president obama lashing out today saying the spending plan amounted to social darwinism

because he knows that pennsylvania does tie the delegates -- reagan benefits four years later when george h bushr anyway. they're listed on the ballot with no tie to a particular candidate. i know, because in 1984 i was an alternate delegate. when usually happens is the gop faithful run for the slots. they include party loyalist and they tend to be influenced by the establishment, which has been reluctant to support santorum. never the less, santorum says he has every intention of winning the keystone state. he and his campaign must know that winning pennsylvania's popular vote won't put him any chose tore the delegate count needed to win the nomination. that means this could be all about erasing the loss in 2006, a beauty contest in deed. that's "hardball" for now,

. >> i think we have started to see him start to relax governors and former president george h. w. bush have endorsed mitt romney. they are saying that santorum made a good run but it is over. they say this is the time for him to leave. >> it got a lot of attention and there is lots to go. thanks for being with us this morning. >> stay with us because politico has lied to uncover some of today's election returns. we will have a full report tonight at 5:00, 6:00, and 11:00. >> we are following a developing story out of california or a man suspected of going on a shooting spree at a christian college of pearlie has ties to our area. police say that suspect killed seven people and wounded three others in oakland, california. the san francisco chronicle is reporting that he once lived in springfield, virginia and has a brother who lives in centreville. he reportedly left behind debts and traffic tickets in the virginia area before moving to california. in the trayvon martin case, and has police video is servicing that shows a new look at the man he said he shot and killed the unarmed teenag

in the past 40 years, gerald ford, jimmy carter, george h. w. bush have all lost their reelect bids. but, richard nixon, ronald reagan, bill clinton and george bush were reelected, we learned something from those elections, and we also find out, that in order for barack obama to get a second term, he has to win in certain districts, win a few key states and win over voters of special interest and specific demographic groups and then has to convince americans to he's both likable and competent. an election involving incumbent is ultimately a referendum on the incumbent and the republican doesn't have to win, he just has to make sure that the democrat loses. how could president obama keep from being a one term president? well he has to keep a solid lead with women which democrats typically do, but, his lead is not as solid as it was four years ago. he currently trails mitt romney in polls as to what would be best to handle the economy which is the main issue concerning voters. and, key states he won four years ago, now appear to be likely states that h

president george h. w. bush cut the nuclear stockpile in half. president george w. bush cut the nuclear stockpile in half. president obama cut it by 7% so far. but we will see how much more time he has. while you have this policy shift going on, suddenly now you have a budget shift that is carrying up with the policy shift. the defense budget is no longer growing, it is shrinking. the budget is coming down and when the joint chiefs have to choose, they do not use nuclear weapons. the choose a weapons the need for their troops to accomplish the missions. they actually have against the real world threats. so, you will see in -- you are seeing it now and will see in the future that the nuclear weapons part of the budget will start to come down. i believe that is also going to affect things like the plutonium fuel facility. this is just a good government business-like approach. you have less latitude to a ford products that you truly don't need and are just doing for political purposes. when you have to have somebody preserve the programs that are actually essentials. t

in the past 40 years, gerald ford, jimmy carter, george h. w. bush have all lost their reelect bids. but, richard nixon, ronald reagan, bill clinton and george bush were reelected, we learned something from those elections, and we also find out, that in order for barack obama to get a second term, he has to win in certain districts, win a few key states and win over voters of special interest and specific demographic groups and then has to convince americans to he's both likable and competent. an election involving incumbent is ultimately a referendum on the incumbent and the republican doesn't have to win, he just has to make sure that the democrat loses. how could president obama keep from being a one term president? well he has to keep a solid lead with women which democrats typically do, but, his lead is not as solid as it was four years ago. he currently trails mitt romney in polls as to what would be best to handle the economy which is the main issue concerning voters. and, key states he won four years ago, now appear to be likely states that h

secretary of state george shultz, brent scowcroft andin president george h. w. bush. all support it and strongly support and get passed to some recalcitrant republican senators. this critically important treaty. unfortunately,gov. romney's apparent determination to take u.s. relations back to the 50's also causes them optimistic the facts. -- causes him to miss state the facts. for example,he charges it to appease moscow. president obama has been complied a missile defense. -- pliant on missile defense and abandoned our missile defense sites in poland. here again,he's either willfully misinforms are totally and misunderstands. as it happens,president obama >> asked me to secure allied support for a missile defense system. in europe, the phased adaptive approach. the first visit i made. was to polandwho do we asked to host these new component? poland. along with turkey, romania, germany, and spain. they all said yes. they approached our new one. -- they embraced our new approach becausethis is more effectively than the missile defense program. it also provides better p

in the past 40 years, gerald ford, jimmy carter, george h. w. bush have all lost their reelect bids. but, richard nixon, ronald reagan, bill clinton and george bush were reelected, we learned something from those elections, and we also find out, that in order for barack obama to get a second term, he has to win in certain districts, win a few key states and win over voters of special interest and specific demographic groups and then has to convince americans to he's both likable and competent. an election involving incumbent is ultimately a referendum on the incumbent and the republican doesn't have to win, he just has to make sure that the democrat loses. how could president obama keep from being a one term president? well he has to keep a solid lead with women which democrats typically do, but, his lead is not as solid as it was four years ago. he currently trails mitt romney in polls as to what would be best to handle the economy which is the main issue concerning voters. and, key states he won four years ago, now appear to be likely states that h

solicitor general under the george h. w. bush and clinton administrations. and here in washington, neal katyal, former acting solicitor general for the obama administration. thank you so much for taking your time today. i want on play for you something obama said earlier when he was talking specifically about the health care ruling. we heard the arguments. we expect a ruling maybe in june. and i want to play for both of you what he had to say about the supreme court. >> ultimately, i'm confident that the supreme court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress. and i just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint, that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. >> what do you think of that same? >> well, i think what the president was saying was something that i think a lot of us feel, whic

the first president to talk about cap and trade was george w. h. bush should not even be thinking about environmental protection. let's gut the epa. healthcare, which is in the news right now, there is the reason why there is a little bit of confusion. in the republican primary about health care and the and did -- and the individual mandate. it originated as a conservative idea to preserve the private marketplace and health care while still ensuring that everybody got coverage as opposed to a single-payer plan. suddenly, this is some socialist overreach. as all of your doing your reporting, it is important to remember that the positions i'm taking on the budget and a host of other issues, if we had been having this discussion 20 years ago, or even 15 years ago, it would have been considered squarely centrist positions. what has changed is the center of the republican party. and that is certainly true with the budget. >> [inaudible] the need for a lower deficit and lower taxes. how do you respond to that? >> she is absolutely right. when i travel around

suddenly you need a president as would meet with george h. w. bushhad lunch with danny who chaired the ways and means said he knew it was on the mind and if we gave him a note of something we wanted to raise he raised it but it was important to him, trade was important and i think we have to elevate because trade ret large is absolutely vital to u.s. prosperity. >> does anybody at this table think that you accomplish these objectives of better coordination, how your priority for trade by folding into the commerce department? [laughter] >> we don't want that. anyone at this table support? no. of course not. >> thank you. [laughter] [applause] >> the initiative will cut german camp on april 26 to talk about the agenda so we would like you to put that on your schedule and appreciate your attendance to date. have a good holiday. [applause] after losing both his eyes and a suicide bombing attack captain scott d. smiley became the army's first blind active officer and the army times soldier of the year. he talked about his autobiography hope and seen at th

. >> jeb bush,h, before it george ran scessfully, was always the oneonsidered the political star.rk out that way. >> if he had a different last name, he would be the vice- presidential -- >> hsays h he's not interested. >> he left the door open. >> change his name. what about jeb ochocinco? [laughter] >> what the spanishsh word f "bush"? >> >> what we said is simple. now is not time to make schools more expensiveor our young peoplele. >> aw, yeah. [laughter] you suld listen to the president. or as i call him preezezy of the united steezy. >> preresident obama on "late night with jimmy fallon." "the wall street journal" says that the president is waging a brilliant campaign to win over incoming college freshmen. was this appropriate for the president? >> i am so close that i did not t it, but it says more about -- about s -- so clueless that i did not get it, but it says more about me. >> the consensus with the chattering classes is that it was undignified, and i think at is just the chattering classes. we are all old. i thought it was kind of funny. it was borderline, but i though

you think about president george h. w. bush saying no new taxes, and he was very affected. presidents don't stick to their propositions how much does it affect the reelection effort? >> george bush's promise of new new taxes and then voting for it, he went different, saying i'm going to try to work with the other side and not show up, not being will to go do that. i think if you look at the polls today, two new polls show president obama far ahead of mitt romney and the reason for that is because mitt romney has taken extreme positions and nobody wants to go back to the solutions of george w. bush. they didn't work. those weren't the good old days. bill clinton was the good old days. shannon: by the way, there are polls that show them neck and neck, and it depends upon -- every day a new poll. brad, final word. >> this is obama's morphing into jimmy carter as we speak, this is 1979 all over again, we have confrontation with iran, high gases prices, economic malaise which i call the obama funk. we can't get out of this because we don't have the leadership, the desire, the wi

fox news sunday was to deliver the message he's not getting out of this race, not listening to george h. w. bushr marco rubio or paul ryan it was message delivered and message received. he made it clear he plans to stay in the race, certainly through pennsylvania and that is, what, three weeks from tuesday, and he's confident he'll win there. and, he's talking about the may schedule and how it turns more favorable, states like texas and north carolina. he's in it for a while, he says until and unless romney gets to 1144, the magic number of delegates, needed to clinch the nomination. >> eric: a few moments ago, bob cusack of the hill suggested maybe he'll drop out, cut bait and save himself for a bright future. does he have a bright future if he continues in the race and racks up delegates. >> we talked about ronald reagan who of course ran all the way to the convention against jerry ford and lost and it didn't seem to hurt him four years later. first of all, he says he is not thinking about 2016, he's thinking of 2012 but, secondly, i don't think he feels, pursuing this a good deal further, may

. >> stephanie: he did not just say the vision thing after the george h. w. bush. >> ron christie. the right wing pundit. >> the cross-eyed bear. [buzzer] >> stephanie: is a little startling when you see him talking about the republicans vision for america. i've talked to him in a green room or two. clearly hasn't heard the radio show. what? >> i was going to make a joke about or two. >> no. >> stephanie: it looked like two to him. [ buzzer ] 29 minutes after the hour. back with eric boehlert next here on "the stephanie miller show." the mainstream media. >>the rest of the media seems like, "ho-hum, no big deal." we've have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] introducing new nature valley protein bars. 100% natural ingredients like roasted peanuts... ♪ ♪ ...creamy peanut butter, and a rich dark chocolate flavor. plus, 10 grams of great tasting protein in every bar. so it's energy straight from nature to you. new nature valley protein bars. find them i

she worked under the administration of george h. w. bush. she was responsible for the blair house agreement, that led --the -- sh she is co-chair of the advisory chair as well as one of our trusties. ambassador clayton yeutter practices law at hogan lovells. he negotiated the u.s.-canada free-trade agreement. in 1989, he was named secretary of agriculture. he steered the farm bill through congress. he has been president of the chicago mercantile exchange. ambassador charlene barshefsky is a senior partner. she was in the clinton administration and was chief negotiator of china's wto agreement and certain telecommunications products. ambassador brock served in the reagan administration and served as president reagan's secretary of labor. he is chairman of the barack offices -- brock offices. susan schwab is with mayer brown and a professor at the university of maryland. she served from 2006 until 2009 and she negotiated -- the bipartisan may 10 deal. she negotiated the u.s. bilateral wto agreement with russia. in addition, she oversaw the gov

in raising money for disaster relief efforts around the world partnering with george h. w. bush and president george w. bush on several. we have been able to support president clinton in these efforts by having teachers in mexico through the global initiative and distributing the schools there. strongly supporting the clinton climate initiative with our focus on energy efficiency, and rebuilding a 40,000 square foot school in haiti. we are very proud of our association with you mr. president. when you have a president who demonstrated support for american business throughout his presidency, who has been hugely impactful after his presidency, and he wants to continue helping american business and the american economy, that is a good way to make that happen. the answer, of course, is to give the keynote speech at the conference. please join me in welcoming our president william j. clinton. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> first i want to thank u. for the introduction. we have become an unlikely group of friends, he and i am a small group, big guys. he has been a trusted partn

the first president to talk about cap and trade was george w. h. bush appeared now we have a party that essentially says we should not even be thinking about environmental protection. let's gut the epa. healthcare, which is in the news right now, there is the reason why there is a little bit of confusion. in the republican primary about health care and the individual mandate. it originated as a conservative idea to preserve the private marketplace and health care while still ensuring that everybody got coverage as opposed to a single-payer plan. suddenly, this is some socialist overreach. as all of your doing your reporting, it is important to remember that the positions i'm taking on the budget and a host of other issues, if we had been having this discussion 20 years ago, or even 15 years ago, it would have been considered squarely centrist positions. what has changed is the center of the republican party. and that is certainly true with the budget. >> [inaudible] the need for a lower deficit and lower taxes. how do you respond to that? >> she is abso

he served under george h. w. bush as the chairman of international broadcasting and in 1996 and 2000 he sought the nomination for president, running on a principle platform, focused on growth, driven by low marginal tax rates. in 2000 he ran third in the primary and second in the caucuses of iowa, and i cannot remember who beat him. speaking of happy, there is no more optimistic campaigner for freedom and growth than steve forbes. steve? [applause] >> thank you very much, jim, for those kind words. thank you to everyone at the bush institute for making today possible. this meeting could not be more timely. even though i tried to do something in 2000, obviously it did not work, which is why i am the introduce her today. -- which is why i am doing the introducing today. [laughter] the big tax cut for president bush, particularly 2003 -- many people do not remember that president bush had inherited a faltering economy when he came into office. for some reason, he did not feel the need to remind us of it for eight years.

security advisor sabrue brzezinski this trend by the national security adviser gerald ford and george h. w. bush this is one hour and 15 minutes. >> good morning. i am to jon alterman the brzezinski chair and strategy here at csis and directed the middle east program. it's a great pleasure to welcome you all here. i want to thank senator mechanic for making to the possible. i want to remind you all to please silence your cell phones. i want to remind you will be life tweeting using gsj2012. that must be meaningful to somebody to and i'm not sure who. [laughter] fall when the panel will take questions from the audience. please refer a microphone, identify yourself and please be sure to ask your question in the form of questions which is not to make a statement and then say to our distinguished speakers would do you think of my statement. >> in the third session starting at 12:30. this panel turkey, russia and iran it arises out of a project we are doing out csis led by steve flanagan to look at this part of the world that is being in many ways interrelated in ways that don't necessarily involve o

host: president george h. w. bush, marco rubio, and others. guest: and ron johnson, a tea party favorite. host: we have scott the independent line. caller: good morning. i have a question and i would like to somebody to explain it to me. if we borrow 42 cents out of every dollar as a federal government, how can we borrow money to give to other countries and then we have to pay it back and they don't? and then you tell us here at home, cut back, cut back, cut back. hillary clinton wants to give $100 million to tunisia, billions to egypt. and we are borrowing this money? host: relate that to the campaign. caller: we are pretty much screwed no matter who we get. left and right are in it together. guest: foreign aid is always unpopular, but it is a very tiny portion of the budget. the real fiscal problem comes in the entitlements -- the fact that my generation is going to put a real stress on the system. people who support foreign aid will tell you that by spending this money in parts of the world we are attempting to create stable government inst

there was a similar but trailed to george h. w. bush when he cut a deal that was supposed to be $2 in spending cuts. we got all the tax increases but never the spending cuts. when you cut a deal with the democrats, you get the tax increases but you never get the spending cuts. that is why i think there is so much skepticism about bargaining. the problem really is on the spending side. if we could get it back down to historical norms, we will get manageable deficit because the economy will be growing again. host: phil kerpen is our guest, vice president for policy at americans for prosperity. also an author of a new book. what is it about? guest: this book is about how president obama and the various bureaucrats in the administration are disregarding congress and the constitution to keep pushing aggressive big government policies without the approval of congress and the implications. host: an e-mail for you. start there. then, how have these tax cuts helped the economy? guest: in 2003 when the capital gains and dividends taxes were cut,

host: president george h. w. bush, marco rubio, and others. and ron johnson, a tea party favorite. host: we have got an independent line. caller: good morning. i have a question and i would like to somebody to explain it to me. if we borrow 42 cents out of every dollar as a federal government, how can we -- we borrow money to give to other countries and then we have to pay it back and they don't? and then you tell us here at home, cut back, cut back, cut back. hillary clinton wants to give $100 million to tunisia, billions to egypt. and we are borrowing this money? host: relate that to the campaign. caller: we are pretty much screwed no matter who we get. left and right are in it together. guest: foreign aid is always unpopular, but it is a very tiny portion of the budget. the real fiscal problem comes in the entitlements. the fact that my generation is going to put a real stress on the system. people who support foreign aid will tell you that by spending this money in parts of the world we are attempting to create stable government institutio

trade representative from 1989 to 1993 and the administration of president george h. w. bush. during the negotiation of nafta she was responsible for the blair house agreement that broke the impasse with europe on agriculture that led to the conclusion of the round. she's currently chair of the committee on u.s.-china relations of the dialogue and is the co-chair of the offensive board here at csis as well as one of ours. ambassador clayton practices international trade and agriculture and served as the from 1985 to 1989 and the ronald reagan administration where he negotiated the u.s.-canada free trade agreement and launched around in the negotiations to include services and intellectual property in the culture. 1989 ambassador kantor, excuse me, was named secretary of the agriculture and he steered the bill in congress and also served as president and ceo of the exchange. ambassador charlene barshefsky is an international partner reserved from 1997 to 2001 and is also in the clinton administration. she was the chief negotiator of the china wto the agreement as well as the gl

he served under president george h. w. bush1996 in 2000, he saw the republican nomination for president, running on a platform focused on growth, driven by low marginal tax rates. in 2000, he ran third in the new hampshire primary and second in the iowa caucuses. i cannot remember who beat him. [laughter] speaking of happy, which is what we want this conference to be, there is no happier campaigner, no more optimistic campaigner for freedom and growth than steve forbes. [applause] >> thank you for those very kind words and i would like to thank everyone with the bush institute for making today possible. this meeting could not be more timely. even though i tried to do something in 2000, obviously, that did not work, which is why i am doing the introducing today. [laughter] it is a great honor and we should recall that president bush's two tax cuts, particularly the big one in 2003. many people do not remember that president bush inherited a faltering economy when he came into office. the economy was falling into recession. for s

in president george h. w. bush. all support it and strongly support and get passed to some recalcitrant republican senators. gov. romney's apparent determination to take u.s. relations back to the 50's also causes them optimistic the facts. he charges it to appease moscow. president obama has been complied a missile defense. he's either willfully misinforms are totally and misunderstands. president obama >> asked me to secure allied support for a missile defense system. the first visit i made. who do we asked to host these new componentcomponent? poland. they all said yes. they approached our new one. this is more effectively than the missile defense program. it also provides better protection for the united states of america. robert gates served in republican administrations said "we are strengthening, not scrapping missile defense in europe." nothing speaks more powerfully to the differences between president obama and governor romney them one of the defining moments of the past four years. the governor romney was

i think the white house just wanted to get a handle on this, so they put in george h. w. bushwho was a friend of a lot of people in congress and he was a politician. congress is made up of politicians. they could deal with a politician. c-span: we found this from peter jennings newscast on the fifth month of the year, 16th day, 1996. it's about a minute and a half. >> the body of william colby was recovered from a marshy area of the river. he was a congressman who masterminded operations and spent years repudiating. he went missing 80s ago. >> colby's wife, sally, continued until the end of hope he was alive, spoke to reporters after identifying his body. there was not much that is left to be done for him. he fought the fascists and the communists, and you can see democracy taking hold around the world. >> there is no indication of foul play. >> colby, a lifelong spy, was the perfect under creditor agent. traditional gray man, so inconspicuous he could never catch the waiters i in a restaurant. he was fired as cia director in 1970s after advocating a retreat from coke and dagg

he's held a number of senior positions at the justice department during the ronald reagan and george h. w. bushand administration including deputy assistant attorney general and the civil rights division and deputy assistant attorney general in the environment natural resources division acting assistant attorney general of the office of legal policy and he's a graduate of the yale university law school. thank you for being here. please proceed. >> if you would turn your microphone on its in the box in front of you. >> thinking very much, sastre durbin for inviting me here today. i'm glad to be here. let me just summarize briefly my written statement. toughest 1i make is that care has to be taken in defining the term racial profiling. and in particular, i think it's important to bear in mind that racial profiling is disparate treatment on the basis of race. a good police activity happens to have a disparate impact on the basis of race or not racial profiling. the second point i make is that the amount of racial profiling that occurs is frequently exaggerated and the care needs to be taken in ana

previously he served as the administrator the environmental protection agency under george h. w. bush, and in the capacity lead the original u.s. delegation to the 1992 earth summit. more recently he has co-chaired what most of you know as the president oil spill division followed the deepwater horizon disaster. as his record and distinguished public service commission is bill reilly is my most respected thought leaders of the energy and environment space. so carlos and bill, please join me on the stage. [applause] >> nice to see you again. >> it's a real pleasure nigel. bill, thank you. thank you to the center for global development, nancy, a pleasure failed to be a part of the session, and thank you to the danish embassy and the danish government for the involvement you've had on the sets of issues. when nigel and i spoke a few weeks ago about participating in this session, one of the things i said was that i could talk quite a bit about sustainable energy for all, if nothing else because i've been latched that they have with this guy vijay hire down here. we been spending a lot of

president george h. w. bush, a republican, was president. we had a very tough time with the budget. it seems so at the time and it lasted for months, a lot of back and forth and a lot of public criticism, just like now. you can go back and look at the papers and much of the current criticism was made then. i used to go back every weekend to hold open town meetings and after about three months of this budget battle back and forth, i went back, had a town meeting on a saturday morning, a big crowd. as they all worked disproportionately elderly because they had more time to attend these things. i got up and i didn't make any comments. i would invite people to make statements, give speeches, ask questions, whatever they wanted. the first guy gets up, and he strongly denounces, harshly criticized me for what he termed my excessive partisanship, the problems we are having with the budget. why don't you go down he said, president bush has a palm a few miles away. why don't you go down there like a gentleman and settle with him and he when he finished the scathing denunciation that view --

the first president to talk about cap and trade was george w. h. bush appeared now we have a party that essentially says we should not even be thinking about environmental protection. let's gut the epa. healthcare, which is in the news right now, there is the reason why there is a little bit of confusion. in the republican primary about health care and the and did -- and the individual mandate. it originated as a conservative idea to preserve the private marketplace and health care while still ensuring that everybody got coverage as opposed to a single-payer plan. suddenly, this is some socialist overreach. as all of your doing your reporting, it is important to remember that the positions i'm taking on the budget and a host of other issues, if we had been having this discussion 20 years ago, or even 15 years ago, it would have been considered squarely centrist positions. what has changed is the center of the republican party. and that is certainly true with the budget. >> [inaudible] the need for a lower deficit and lower taxes. how do you respond to t

the civil rights act and all of that, but then you come forward in time, and i think george bush did pretty -- george h w. bush did pretty well with black voters. i think of congolese a rice. -- onnolly's their rights condoleeza rice. and i think of the tremendous attack on george w. bush in terms of the james bird act. and but in the current environment, is it wrong to assume that because the incumbent is a black guy, that black voters would not respond to him? i have heard so much from people who say he has not performed for black voters. do you buy that? >> i do not buy that necessarily. you have a president comes in it -- this is addressed an -- this is not even a partisan issue. this is an extraordinary time in american history where the economy was going off a cliff, and how you pull that back means you have to make choices, and you cannot sue to everyone's priorities. -- you cannot suit everyone's priorities. where there areas where people felt like he could have done better? of course. i am chief among those. are there places where he did make significant -- i think the affordable health care,

go through all of that, but then you come forward in time, and, of course, i think actually george h. w. bush did pretty well in terms of 15% with black voters, i think colin powell, condoleezza rice, i think of the tremendous attack on george w. bush by the end of the naacp, to make sure the black voters did not go to him. he had done very well with black voters. but in the current environment, is it wrong to assume that, as you put it, because the incumbent is a black guy, that black voters wouldn't respond to him? and i've heard so much from people who say he has not performed for black voters. do you buy that? >> well, no, i don't buy that necessarily. i think that there is, you have a president -- there's no way, this is an extraordinary period in american history where the economy was going off a cliff, and how you pulled back means that you have to make choices, and you can't make choices -- you can't pursue everybody's priorities. so where are there areas where communism people thought he could've done better? of course, i'm chief among them. but are there places where he did make sig