>>> this breaking news just to report that president george herbert walker bush -- i believe those are file pictures of president bush when he was at a healthier time, but he is out of the hospital, has headed home. president bush after being in the hospital since around thanksgiving time for bronx, persistent cough is well enough now. the bush family says to be home, the 88-year-old president has returned home with former first lady barbara bush. in other headlines we are following here on andrea mitchell reports. knocks has declared 23 other states with high levels of this year's strain. >>> president obama revealed sunday the u.s.'s limited technical support to france's failed attempt to rescue one of their intelligence agents being held hostage in smol wra. the friday night mission left one french soldier dead and another missing. 17 islamist fighters were killed. the hostage is believed to have been killed by his captors. the president's notification was under the war powers act. >>> ahead of his interview with oprah today, lance armstrong issued an apology to the cycling communit

experts on the left to lower the climate point zero zero zero zero one degree you know when george herbert walker bushwas president we had this terrible problem of acid rain there has been rain was caused by sulfur dioxide that was coming out of smokestacks of coal power coal fired power plants and so he put together a cap and trade system where the over time the amount of sulfur dioxide you were allowed to have it would decline and you could trade in sulfur dioxide credits. cap and trade worked brilliantly acid rain is not that much of a problem anymore and the banks did well the oil companies did well the power companies did well you know i don't see any opportunity cost lost there why can't we do the same thing with carbon dioxide. there's a huge difference between talking about an isolated problem which was acid rain which occurred in specific areas and this huge hoax that we call the manmade global warming you know five hundred what if there's if there's even a one percent chance that ninety nine percent of the world's scientists are right if there's even a one percent chance that we could be rea

would you kill your cousin i don't know if it's a really good question during during the george herbert walker bush administration there was a company manufactured hot dogs and they turned off their inspector their sanibel inspector machine because it was beeping turns out there was burns up in the rafters pooping down into the they could they couldn't figure is a just turn it off so well that sounds like human error doesn't sound like they want to hire people died across the country into a year for the c.d.c. to do genetic testing to track back where those hot dogs were made and then because this company made huge contributions to the bush administration the bush administration kind of a complete pass on the thing in fact issued a joint press release saying everything's fine but the dead people were still dead . you know this is this is this is what happens when people who think government should be small and shouldn't be if i don't think that that's a terrible human tragedy but done by humans and that could still go on tomorrow this is what the same problem could happen tomorrow to no matter how

worked and sulfur dioxide went down which president was that brought that forward it was george herbert walker bush this is a republic cap and trade was just just like obamacare was a heritage foundation proposal and it worked why can't we do that with carbon emissions and conservatives make mistakes too and so for small slice the economy but damn if progress is want to control carbon economy we do and americans are. getting. we know he in the speech he talked about this is going to be a long and hard road yet and he did his best to disguise how long and hard that was by not talking my gas prices are cylinder american. troops so i'd rather not agree with everything is a lot of that is that the republican the fence not the living room where the cylinder is in cylinder the company the knowns that they took apart the cylinder is the company that the president pumped up with five hundred thirty five million of our money and it's appeared and so on the side of the company the. point is they're talking about us and they're talking about their land and i'm thinking oh my babies that that failed the progra

bush was sworn in using the same bible that george washington used. this is about 25 minutes. [applause] >> raise your right hand and repeat after me -- i, george herbert walkerswear -- >> i george herbert walker bush do solemnly swear -- >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >>@i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. pre-k's and well, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. >> preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states, so help me god. [applause]♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [applause] >> mr. chief justice, mr. president, vice president quayle, senator mitchell, speaker wright, senator dole, congressman michel, and fellow citizens, neighbors, and friends, there is a man here who has earned a lasting place in our hearts and in our history. president reagan, on behalf of our nation, i thank you for the wonderful things that you have done for america. i have just repeated word for word the oath taken by george washington 200 years ago, and the bible on which i placed my hand

implicitly and understands what steps have to be taken as did as you rightfully point out george herbert walker bushi commend president bush. i commend president obama. let's sit down. there are common sense solutions here for us to move forward. but if congress will not act, if it continues to be in the mode that it's in currently and we just saw it with respect to your first segment with respect to sandy relief where we have these recalcitrant republicans, then the president has to act in the interest of the children of this country. >> congressman, i'm going have to leave it there. thank you so much. congressman john larson. thanks for being with us tonight. >> always a pleasure. >>> still ahead, falling short of the dream. why the gop, the party of lincoln, is failing to honor the legacy of martin luther king jr. on his birthday. >>> but first, the miracle on the hudson four years ago today. now we have a miracle in the desert. you won't believe what arizona governor jan brewer has decided to do. ♪ [ male announcer ] there are only so many foods that make kids happy. and even fewer that make mom

i think of george herbert walker bush, who was enormously successful in not just the gulf war but in handling his arab spring, the unraveling of the soviet empire and doing it peacefully in europe. amazing achievement. didn't even get him re-elected. i would be worried as a political consultant can if my top two accomplishments were foreign policy were my top two for domestic. >> jonathan, six weeks ago when we talked about the second term agenda we would have talked about immigration, talked about the economy, spending, budget defic deficits, never would have mentioned guns. a reminder how quickly something gets forced onto the agenda whether you like it or not. >> because events drive the presidency. presidents don't drive events. look, i think we can look into our crystal ball today and talk about immigration reform or gun control or perhaps some kind of a fiscal grand bargain, but there are, as donald rumsfeld famously put it, the unknown unknowns out there that will shape the next four years. we don't have to go too far back into history for comparison. george w. bush takes the

other presidents, jimmy carter, george bush the first, george herbert walker bush, eisenhower. these are presidents who while they pursued health care didn't understand it, didn't like it, kind of pushed it halfheartedly. they got slaughtered every time. too complicated and too big to do halfheartedly. say less than for national health care really is a lesson for any major achievement. either go big or go home because if you go small, if you're not passionate, you're going to fail and fall flat on your face. one thing we really didn't expect to find was republicans have high and large been more successful at health care reform the democrats, that in a sense it's been exciting going to china so when republicans take office, everybody assumes we're going to go into a period of health care drought. but think about it. richard nixon comes in in 1968. he has been a very conservative politician for much of his life. he made his name as a minor-league senator mccarthy and yet right away he begins to think about how we can reduce national health insurance and it comes up with creative

george herbert walker bush came up with new world order which was his. he got that from somewhere else that made it his own and popularized it. george bush came under a lot of criticism for a lot of his terms and i took them all at face value. i look them up. the cheap shot -- and he was entirely off-the-wall. but i did find -- which was one of his. it injured the language in 1583 and the word resonate came into the english language in 1531. one of the words that is always attributed to him is strategy. it was actually a creation of saturday night live. but the one you can really hang on him is mis-underestimate. but there've been several pretty well-known people who write about language on line including one of the top writers in england who said, he said it actually works. to underestimate by the state which he said happens to all of us especially during a building contract or go especially works like normal sea which will gradually become more and more except of old. i guess i have to jump here. invisible government is his and that secret on between go

presidents, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george herbert walker bush, bill clinton, george w.president obama. and his book is now in book stores. six guys, a the lot of presidents, who stands out in your mind. who did you like the most and why did you vote for obama in 2008? >> i had to sneak that in. >> sure. you know, you admire something different about each president and of course, i only got to know some of the latter because i was senior enough to have interaction with them. the day i retired, the ceremony on the day i retired, the elder george bush called me. i'd never met him and he called me as about an hour before the ceremony, just to wish me well and thank me. >> sean: a good man. >> i thought that was an extraordinarily touching move. of course, his son i worked very closely with and i remember when it got difficult, and i cover this in the book, he brought me to d.c. in the summer of 2005. we were in the middle of the fight in the west which was very difficult in iraq and fighting while we were working hard to get abu assad and hadn't gotten him yet. and brought

george herbert walker bush is x expected to be release frd the hospital this week.pokesman said we are hopeful he can be discharged this week, but we're still taking everything one day at a time. president bush went into the hospital on november 23rd for a case of bronchitis and was admitted into the intensive care unit after having a fever. he was transferred back to the regular patient ward late last month. >>> robert f. kennedy junior isn't convinced that lee harvey os wald acted alone in president john f. kennedy's assassination. speaking in dallas on friday night, he said his father, president kennedy's brother, believeded the investigation that looked into the shoot iing was quote a shoddy piece of work manship. rfk jr. says he, too, questions the report. robert kennedy jr. said his father was concerned enough about the warren report that he asked investigators to look into the allegations that oswald had help from the mafia, the cia. the 50th anniversary of that assassination is in november of this year. you going the see a lot of these events and a lot of, t

. >> donald, i want to ask you about your close friend, co-author, the man you served, george herbert walker bush. how is president bush doing? >> i think he is doing much better now. >> that's good to hear. >> he had some respiratory problems that they were very afraid would go into a serious form of pneumonia. i talked to him a few days ago, and is he his old self sdwloosh how are his spirits? >> his spirits are fine. >> well, please convey our very best wishes. the whole country is pulling for him to get out of that hospital and to be back in good form again. >> i would be delight, and i will do it today. >> thank you. thank you again. great to see you, general. >> thank you. >> nbc's atia covers afghanistan for nbc news from kabul, but today she joins us from new york city. atia, you have been traveling in and out of afghanistan since 2005. you've been living there now since 2008. there's a real difference in perspective from president karzai and president obama. it isn't the first time, but there really is a different attitude towards what happens in 2014. >> his chief of staff said that --

increase, and in previous aspects of american history, president reagan in 1985, president george herbert walker bush, and president clinton in 1997 all signed a deficit reduction deal that were continge ebt upon or in the context of raising the debt ceiling. you yourself four times have done that. three times those were related to deficit reduction or budget maneuvers. there's a new adamant desire on your part not to negotiate when that seems to conflict with the entire history in the modern era of american presidents in the debt ceiling ask your own history on the debt ceiling, and doesn't that suggest that we are going to go into a default situation because no one is talking to each other about how to resolve this. >> well, no, major. i think if you look at the history he went through this just last year, but what's different is we never saw a situation as we saw last year in which certain groups in congress took such an absolutist position that we came within a few days of defaulting. we might default unless we get 100% of what we want. that hasn't happened. now, as i indicated before, i'm happy

chronicled the personalities and idiosyncrasies of candidates like bob dole, mike dukakis, and george herbert walker busht read calls it the unofficial textbook of washington. if you haven't read it, then you don't get it. richard ben cramer was 62. we'll be right back. ♪ i have direct deposit on my visa prepaid. my paycheck is loaded right on my card. automatic. i am not going downtown standing in line to cash it. i know where my money is, because it is in my pocket. i got more time with my daughter, we got places to go. [ freeman ] go open a new world, with visa prepaid. more people go with visa. >>> welcome back to "hardball." it's been 25 days since the shooting in newtown, connecticut, and two years since the massacre in tucson that left six dead and injured u.s. congresswoman gabrielle giffords. the vice president is spearheading a gun control task force in response, and outside organizations are organized to make sure this time gun laws are strengthened. gun control advocates are up against a vehement and sometimes incoherent opposition. one example, alex jones, who has called for piers morgan to

the administrations of president reagan and george herbert walker bush had pursued limited engagement with the government of vietnam with the purpose of vietnam answering questions about the feats of many americans listed as pows and mias. that was led by a man we respect enormously, john vesey, who continued as the president's special emissary to vietnam and president clinton's administration. by the early '90s, i think both john and i had come to the view that it would be better for our country to have a relationship with vietnam that served our current and future interests, and one that continued to nourish the haultilities that our recent tragic past. but we both understood that could never be the case unless we knew american soldiers were not still kept against their will in vietnam and until vietnam fully cooperated in helping us account for americans who didn't return from the war. to help find answers to their fates in 1991, then senate majority leader mitchell and minority leader dole appointed a committee which john and bob smith chaired and i was appointed as a member as we

former presidents are almost always in attendance at these events, but today, george herbert walker bushn attendance. the elder mr. bush has recently been released from a month-long stay in the hospital due to a respiratory ailment and so both bush families announced that they would not be able to attend because of the poor health of the elder george bush. the president after taking the oath of office will deliver his second inaugural address. following that, kelly clarkson will be singing "my country 'tis of thee." and these are the supreme court justices being led in, led by chief justice of the united states john roberts jr. who delivered the oath in 2009. here is the first lady as she is coming in to the capitol. as we mentioned earlier, she's wearig a dress and a coat by the american designer thom browne. navy blue we are told. there's justice sotomayor. nominated to the supreme court by president obama. she will deliver the oath of office to the vice president. justice elena kagan following her. the nine justices of the supreme court, filing in to take their seats. jan, you are ins

. >> and when george herbert walker bush broke his pledge in 1990, it was the clinton campaign that spendrunning very effective ads about him breaking the pledge. luckily, i don't have to spend the money to talk about who is breaking the pledge. >> now we have it clear you give your blessing to it. you gave your blessing to plan b last wieeek. there are probably about 50 republicans in the house who actually think their pledge to their constituents is more important or their idealogical position. we heard from rand paul today, is more important than this. there's some chance this doesn't pass. do you believe the damage raising taxes on people who make more than $450,000 is greater than the damage done if we go over the fiscal cliff? >> the question is if you go over the fiscal cliff and have to renegotiate, what is the deal? this deal is better than what would happen if nothing passed. and because this is separating out the spending issue from the tax issue, i think it's very helpful. we have a lot of problems on the spending side. congress, the president, have not reduced spending, stopp

. >> steve: mean mile while a major health update of former president george herbert walker bush. houston with the brand new details from his doctors and his family. >> peter: and pro-america movie disbid the oscars. but "argo" walked away to an award thanks to the hollywood foreign press. what's up with that? "fox & friends" starts right now >> steve: peter johnson, jr., sitting in today for brian kilmeade. you've got some explaining to do. you walked into the studio while gretchen was reading the card -- >> peter: i ran in. i was getting ready for the next segment, joe trippi and the chess set. we lost track of time. i lost track of time. >> steve: you made it just in time. >> gretchen: you're playing the role of brian perfectly. >> peter: he runs better than i do. >> gretchen: he usually comes just after me. now to your headlines this morning. we're learning the u.s. military played a part in france's botched attempt to rescue a hostage in somalia. president obama tells congress we had a limited role in the raid to rescue a french intelligence agent. that likely means intellige

eisenhower jimmy carter do solemnly swear >> i george herbert walker bush reporter: today you can seee site of that first swearing-in. to think that his hand touched that. >> yes and not only that, his lips actually kissed the pages in that book >> reporter: national park service ranger ed pinelle says this bible was actually an afterthought. >> everything is prepared for the event. soldiers were in their best uniform. the city officials were in place to receive him. they come to a point where they're about to give the oath. and there's no bible. >> reporter: the nearest bible they could find from st. john's masonic lodge number one. yes, masonic as in free masons. a fraternal order known for charity, fellowship, and secrecy. 14 u.s. presidents were members including george washington. he's obviously held in particularly high esteem here. he's gold >> indeed. indeed. >> reporter: pierce vaughan is master of st. john's lodge which still owns that bible. he and two fellow masons carried the bible. it must always be escorted by three back to their lodge so that we could take a closer loo

senate when george herbert walker bush picked him to be secretary of defense.there were stories of overdrinking, alcohol, womenenizing, financial impropri impropries. you never know what you're going to stumble into. they'll go after hagel and brennan but in the end probably both confirmed. >> hagel's a veteran. hagel is a republican but you do point -- being a veteran may help a bit. being a republican, you're saying going to help less than you would normally think? in yes, because hagel's not part of the neoconmovement nor part of the modern conservative movement. he's kind of a loose cannon. i like that about him. he's a gut player but you make enemies that way. that's what cost john tower to be secretary of defense, the independent streak. interesting to watch john mccain. mccain part of the group of -- who embraced hagel. vietnam vets together they used to pal around with john kerry and max cleland and chuck rob, vietnam senators but differed in the past few years and there's tension there. mccain's the key person. for brennan, brennan has a weak spot he w

george herbert walker bush is standing in the rope line. he says -- johnson says to bush what are you doing here? bush he said, we just want to pay our respects. johnson was advising bush for the next couple of years about whether or not to run for office. johnson's the one who when bush was going to run for the senate he said what's the difference between the house and the senate? he said what's the difference between chicken and chicken salad? can you imagine now a republican congressman from houston going to see off a democratic president out of respect? >> especially mika the inauguration of a newly elected president in your party when everybody is most excited to elbow their way to the front. for george h.w. bush that's a great example. another great example, william f. buckley. he had liberal friends. in fact, he campaigned for liberals that were his friends even though he knew it upset some on the conservative side. for william f. buckley, it wasn't a blood sport. >> to end this block, to counter it just a bit, and i'm sorry but it h

there are other presidents, jimmy carter, george bush the first, george herbert walker bush, eisenhower these are presidency while it pursued health care did not understand it, it's not the like it, kind of pushed it halfheartedly and got slaughtered every time. this is too complicated and too big to do halfheartedly. a lesson for national health care, it's a lesson for any major achievements. copay go home. if you go small, if you're not passionate going to fail and fall flat in the face. one thing we did not expect to find was republicans by and large are more successful than democrats. innocents it's mixing going to china so when republicans take office everybody assumes are going to go through a time of health care drought. richard nixon comes in in 1968. he is a very conservative politician for much of his life. he made his name in the webs cares as a kind of minor league senator mccarthy. right away he begins to think about how we can read the national health insurance. he comes up with a very creative thinking about national health insurance. he's the first one the sake of people

increase, and in previous aspects of american history, president reagan in 1985, president george herbert walker bushand president clinton, deals contingent upon raising the debt ceiling and you yourself, related to debt or budget related maneuvers. and what many people are curious about the new adamant desire on your part not to negotiate that seems to conflict with the entire hire in the modern era of the presidents and the debt ceiling and your own debt ceiling and doesn't it suggest we're going into a default situation because no one is talking to each other about this. >> no, major, i think if you look at the history. getting votes for the debt ceiling is difficult and votes in in town are difficult. i went through this last year. what is different we never saw a situation like we saw last year in which certain groups in congress took such an absolutist position that we came within a few days of defaulting. >> lou dobbs is the host of lou dobbs tonight on the fox business network. lou, welcome back. what an extraordinary exchange we saw the president have on that issue. basically his position wa

increase and in previous aspects of american history president reagan in 1985, president george herbert walker bushnton, in 1997 all signed deficit reduction deals were contingent mon or in con connection with raising the don't ceiling. you done that four times. three times related to defecit reduction and maneuvers. what chuck and i are curious about that desire not to negotiate, when that contrasts with the modern american presidents and your own history on the debt ceiling because that suggests we will go into a default situation because no one is talking to each other how to resolve this? >> no, major. i think if you look at the history, getting votes for the debt ceiling is always difficult and budgets in this town are always difficult. i went through this just last year, but what's different is we never saw a situation as we saw last year in which certain groups in congress took such an absolutist position, that we came within, a few days of defaulting. and you know, the fact of the matter is, that we have never seen the debt ceiling used in this fashion where the notion was, you know what? w

and in previous aspects of american history, president reagan in 1985, president george herbert walker bush in 1990, president clinton in the 1997, all signed deficit reduction deals that were contingent upon or in the context of raising the debt ceiling. you yourself four times have done that. three times those have been related to budget deficit maneuvers. what chuck and i and i think many people are curious about is this new adamant desire on your part not to negotiate when that seams to conflict with the entire history of modern era presidents on the debt ceiling and your own history on the debt ceiling, and doesn't that suggest that we are going to go into a default situation because nobody is talking with each other about how to resolve this? >> no, major, i think if you look at history, getting votes for the debt ceiling are always difficult. but we never saw a situation as we saw last year in which certain groups in congress took such an absolutist position, that we came within a few days of defaulting. and the fact of the matter is that we have never seen the debt ceiling used in t

>>>/john fitzgerald do solemnny swear. >> i ronald reagan do solemnly swear. >> i george herbert walker bush after me. i i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute. >> that i will faithfully execute. >> the office of president of the united states. >> the office of president of the united states. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> and will to the best of my ability. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> preserve, protect and defend. >> the constitution of the united states. >> the constitution of the united states. >> so help you god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. [ applause ] >> and someday we'll hear what flickered across the president's mind when he was saying president of the united states, a great pageant of the oath of office. again, affirming that we are at a fundamental level, one nation under god indivisible, welcome back. >> we are back covering our inauguration 2013 all day long. the president and congressional leaders now in their lunch in the capitol here discussing before the break discussing the economy with chris cuo

>> there was a statement issued by president george herbert walker bush extending his best wishes to . obama. he is of course recovering in houston. we are told that george w. bush is also spending the day with his father. of course, two other former presidents also in attendance. joanne is joining us from detroit. good afternoon. >> i just want to thank obama and michelle for the beautiful job they have done. >> next is oscar from silver spring, maryland. go ahead. >> thank you for taking my call. today is a special day. this is a day for everyone to get together and join in with the democracy and everything, americans and elsewhere. >> ok, thank you for the call. by the way, one of the voice is your hearing this charlie, the official announcer of the parade, situated directly across from the viewing stand. he participated in his first in 1949, the inauguration of harry truman, the first inauguration to ever be televised. he has been doing? since 1957, when dwight eisenhower was sworn in to a second term. 85 years old, still doing it today. leonard joins us from corona, california. g

the administrations of president reagan and george herbert walker bush, had limited engagement with the government of vietnam for the purpose of encouraging vietnam to provide answers of the face of many americans who were still listed as pow-mia. that effort was led by a man both john and i respect, former chairman of the joint chiefs, vecsey, who continued as the president's special apple sear to vietnam in president clinton's administration. by the early 1990's, i think both john and i had come to the view that it would be better for our country to have a relationship with vietnam that served our current and future interests than one that continued to nurse the hostilities of our recent tragic past. but we both understood that could never be the case unless we knew american soldiers were not still kept against their will in vietnam and until vietnam fully cooperated in helping us account for americans who didn't return home from the war. to help find answers to their fates, in 1991 then senate majority leader mitchell and minority leader dole had a committee that i appointed as well.

george herbert walker bush, the personality was very strong as well. it includes some of the personalities of the second bush of the first term. we got along well. this time around we got along with so many issues. if you look at what we did to expand nato and support the european union, what we did with hiv and aids. what we did to increase the amount of assistance that we give to the rest of the world. a lot of things we did well and in total harmony. the issue of iraq was appealing. but we have different points of view as to how many troops were needed, how we should resolve some of the issues, in early 2004 we realized we want working as well as we should, as a team. it seems like now there are others who have a frequency in regards to this. the president understood the problem. in my view, we were not functioning as a team. so how do you function? everyone needs to have a common purpose or view. they need to trust with each other. i think we could've done a better job with that. and as i say, i was probably one of us the most out of sync with the

. >> and he was the senior president on the platform there, because george herbert walker bush wasn'tresident of the united states. he can be charming. it's not in his nature, but he can do it. he plaid the role of senior sort of president yesterday and i think he probably enjoyed that. and it was, of course, a festive moment. >> remember, also, there was a lot in that speech that carter would like. president carter was the first american president to really make a push on the environment, on environmental reform, famously put solar panels on the white house, that ronald reagan later tore down. but jimmy carter's vision of government is getting a little bit more of a second chance, i think, with obama's second speech. >> reaffirmed, perhaps, even. >> luke, you've covered the hill. what was the hill's response, yesterday, to the president's speech, to the events of -- >> before president obama had even left the luncheon, there was a statement out from cathy mcmorris rodgers, number 4 in the house gop conference who basically said, okay, there's a lot of nice words in this speech, but w

the administrations of president reagan and george herbert walker bush, had limited engagement with the government of vietnam for the purpose of enqurge couraging vietnam to provide answers of the face of many americans who were still listed as pow-mia. that effort was led by a man both john and i respect, former chairman of the joint chiefs, vecsey, who continued as the president's special apple sear to vietnam in president clinton's administration. by the early 1990's, i think both jaurn and i had come to the view that it would be better for our country to have a relationship with vietnam that served our current and future interests than one that continued to nurse the hostilities of our recent tragic past. but we both understood that could never be the case unless we knew american soldiers were not still kept against their will in vietnam and until vietnam fully cooperated in helping us account for americans who didn't return home from the war. to help find answers to their fates, in 1991 then senate majority leader mitchell and minority leader dole had a committee that i appointed a

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and in previous aspects of american history -- president reagan in 1985, president george herbert walker bush in 1990, president clinton in 1997 -- all signed deficit reduction deals that were contingent upon or in the context of raising the debt ceiling. you, yourself, four times have done that. three times, those were related to deficit reduction or budget maneuvers. what chuck and i and i think many people are curious about is this new, adamant desire on your part not to negotiate, when that seems to conflict with the entire history in the modern era of american presidents and the debt ceiling, and your own history on the debt ceiling. and doesn't that suggest that we are going to go into a default situation because no one is talking to each other about how to resolve this? >> well, no, major, i think if you look at the history, getting votes for the debt ceiling is always difficult, and budgets in this town are always difficult. i went through this just last year. but what's different is we never saw a situation as we saw last year in which certain groups in congress took such an absoluti

senate on disability which is basically replicating what has been american policy since george herbert walker bush this with congress, proposed as the treaty by george w. bush, was advocated by john mccain and the wounded warriors and the chamber of commerce and john kerry and bob dole and was voted down including five votes from former colleagues of bob dole, friends and colleagues who worked with him despite his appearance out of bethesda naval hospital in a wheelchair, by his wife, also a former senator and over what the senate foreign relations committee had a full legislative record for hearings indicating black helicopters were not coming and this was not some crazy requirement on america. it was simply 26 other countries had ratified this and it went down. i am still trying to understand the opposition. i think it is fear and that is why dr. jackson -- it is not based on fact or reality but fear and that is what people learn and that is what andrea mitchell used, someone is able to hide this notion that we are somehow agreeing to one world government by ratifying this treaty which is simply

george herbert walker bush helped you with a couple of your books and you talked to him about this asl? >> he wrote me a fan letter a couple of years ago saying he liked one of my novels. he helped me do the research for three of my books. i said to him i can make up whatever i want. this is a thriller, a mystery. i can say whatever i want. we know there are only a few people in the world who know what it's like to live in the white house and know there is an assassin out there or someone who might want to come after him. i said, sir, were you ever afraid of those moments in the white house? he said i can't think of a moment like that. i said what about this moment? he's always quick with an answer; very sharp brain. i realized in that moment that these assassins have a lot in common but so do u.s. presidents. like a sky skraoeurp, a guy -- skyscraper, who works on the girder, it is the same for u.s. presidents. fear is not in the job category. >>steve: check out the novel "the fifth assassin." brad, congratulations. 28 minutes from the top of the hour. a major airline worker told to

divisive nomination fight in the senate since, what was it, 20 years ago when president george herbert walker bush nominated tower for defense secretary. >>brian: he didn't get it. >>steve: he absolutely did not get it. the conventional wisdom is hagel will probably sail through eventually. he won't get borked. but why did the president pick this guy when he could picked somebody like michelle flourney who would be the first female secretary of defense who everybody likes a lot. >>gretchen: who is that? >>brian: she's been in the pentagon. >>gretchen: i never heard her name as an option. for me, there's two reasons why this will not be a problem for chuck hagel in the long run. first of all, are the american people paying attention to this? i mean, i think if you could get the american people involved and they start representatives and say i have a problem with this or i light chuck hagel, then it becomes a hotter topic and you might see some sort of possibility that it doesn't happen. but if you don't get the american people involved, i think it is an easy situation for him. people talk about pol

i was struck by the contrast between this speech and the speech that president george herbert walker bushhls and said to friends in the loyal opposition and i do mean friends and i do mean loyal. there was no such grace note in this speech, bret. >> bret: james, thank you. >> megyn: you watching the folks lining up along the parade route and this is one of the moments everybody has been waiting for and a lot of folks have been waiting for, reminds me of times square on new year's eve, 6 a.m. a lot of people were walking over to make sure they got a good spot on the mall. it's pretty nice day in washington not like four years ago where with the wind chill it was in the teens. they come prepared and knew what they were in for, how badly they wanted to be a part of it. reminds me of a moment we had on fox news channel, four years ago, bret was anchoring, i was out on the mall and ran into a woman about whom our viewers still ask me. and why the people on the streets just stay. and they say, remember this moment? >> but people are ready, they came prepared, they have layers and food and meet

the administration of president reagan and george herbert walker bush pursued limited engagement withthe government of vietnam. many americans were still listed as pow mia. that effort was led by a man both john and i respect enormously, the former chairman of the joint chiefs. he continued as the president's special emissary to vietnam. by the early 1990's, both john and i had come to the view that it would be better for our country to have a relationship with vietnam that served our current and future interest than one that continued to nurse the hostilities of our recent tragic past. we both understood that could never be the case unless the new -- we knew american soldiers were not still kept against their will in vietnam and until vietnam fully cooperated in helping us account for americans who did not return home from the war. to help find answers, appointed a select committee. members of that committee had passionate and conflicting views of the subjects. whether or not vietnam's still kept american pows. the subject was controversial and provoked strong passions of many americ