stpwhob >> i remembehim, what advice did you get from your father, bush sr., who had gone to war against saddam in the first gulf war? and bush sat there and he said, well, i rely on a higher father rather then the earthly father. so i -- chris: that's like the hebrew national tv commercial. i answer to a higher authority. >> and he -- i think to a certain extent he did answer it that way. if in your mind you track this and i was able to track it almost day by day and hour by hour in the decision-making process going to war, i think he thought it would be a liberator. i think he thought he was going in and take down those statues of saddam and they're going to actually erect statues of me. chris: anyone else understand the religious piece? >> there was always a sense he was on something -- i don't want to go too far -- of a sacred mission, particularly the freedom agenda. he gave many speeches about this. freedom was given by god and that in to some extent he seemed like he was jahr carrying it out. there were other people who saw that and said let's caboose our agenda on to it. let's ma

say that it goes up as high as a vice pres united states do not disclose a covert operative george bush srcalled that a traitress act and i think it was in that goes up. vice president cheney so i agree with you there but similarly i've got to be consistent john kerry but i mean when you look at it this reducing the torture disclosing the torture is fine but giving the name of an operative that's where crosses the line so i think both john kiriakou and vice president cheney should be in jail gini go ahead the question of . claim the fact is that armitage was with the state department and one of the reasons why they protected him at that time was because it was viewed that the state department might not have been so happy about the iraq war and there for they sat on his name for a while and i think it did you know eventually you're right that cheney as far as i'm concerned cheney and some of the others. clearly need to be held to account for not only the issues of torture but the taking us into an illegal war. mark you want to but i think i don't have letters agreement on that ok mark go ah

. >> john: in fairness, rich little did this when george bush was president--not george bush sr. eorge bush jr. conservatives were smearing this as a way of task paying money. >> i'm jealous of how often as a comedian of how they keep playing obama's set. how come my set on make me laugh laugh.didn't have that. >> meanwhile, he was running that line the strapping young muslim would be used against him. they would take it as fact as keep playing it. >> john: i think it's the swag he brings by taking the worst people have said about him and turning it into a gag makes it flatten. >> i remember the day when i was a strapping young liberal that my base thought i was. >> john: unfortunately the base doesn't care but there was one particular joke in that vain while funny some thought it was in poor days. >> but the problem is that the media landscape is changing so rapidly. you can't keep up with it. i remember when buzzfeed was something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. >> john: mr. frank conniff tweeted about that. mr. president, joking about getting high in college while people are

. >> romney, mccain, george bush, sr., ronald reagan, they all went, ran, lost, came back, ran in a prior campaign and won the nominee. since the primaries were handed back over to the voters from , mcgovern himself was a caretake care candidacy of rfk's tragic assassination. my thoughts are she's going to stay out of the water. but anyone who gets back on the inevitably bandwagon doesn't understand how democrats have historically looked at do-over candidacies. >> if i'm not mistaken, i think he just commented on the future, did he not? >> a little bit. >> promised to never do that. >> i think she's going to sit back as long as possible. but as long as she's sitting back, this sense of inevitability will continue to envelope her. a lot of people say, she was going to in '08. 9 i don't think the inevitability was a problem in '08. she ran against a candidate in barack obama. early on, democratic primary voters who wanted something that didn't make them feel hypocrite call. that's not going to be a problem in 2016 or 2015 when we start this run-up. one of the things it does for hillary this

fight you over they say obama's tried i would argue the president president reagan tried president bush sr tried president clinton tried and president obama tried but in each case they have been they've been they've been rebuffed and they haven't pursued pursued or persisted if they were trying to do so i think we've now reached a point where. a interim supposedly interim solution this palestinian authority which was established back in the mid ninety's has been there for almost twenty years and there has been no resolution of the conflict and palestinians of i think lost confidence not just in this president but in the united states says that mean of the prospects of an israeli palestinian resolution under obama. will not happen will it be eight years wasted when he leaves the white house do you think that what we're four years and counting have been wasted so far i think that is in a sense doesn't change its policy you know it's will not only not help to resolve this conflict it will continue to do what it's done for most of these past thirty five years it will make it worse and it's thi

president bush might back and i looked and president bush sr. and the way he tried to do a little bit of this. unfortunately too little to get it is what has to be done you have to argue with the national interest did and argue different narrative than i am afraid most american presidents have argued in order to get public opinion in the media come and especially the congress which is very hard to move as anybody that has tried to do it can say so that is the first thing you have to do. the second thing you have to do is see what is doable in the president's power in terms of executive authority and some of the things that you said are within the president's power. if i'm not mistaken we are all about to dwi tse folks. the irs has power over what is tax-deductible and what is not. how does funneling money to illegal settlement in the occupied territory which are violations of the policy constitute charitable purposes? may i asked? and i would love to see justice department lawyers coming down like a ton of bricks on the people who are funding to

they were the legacy of president clinton and george bush sr. >> and president reagan.asons that republicans in particular and conservatives harken back to president reagan, but one of them is that he so inspiringly articulated the cause for even though it was imperfectly observed as everything is in politics but he articulated the cause of restraining government, of respecting the taxpayer, of respecting the citizen in that way. that was a powerful message. >> i want to talk a little bit here about the role that these libraries play, these museums play in the legacy of all ex-presidents. you did this piece for american life which was just great. you went to the reagan librarian you watched school kids try to re-enact the 1983 grenada invasion from the perspective of the oval office. >> it's similar to the decision point to bush's thing where the kids, they have a part, a really thorough re-enactment where young children go and flay role, they either play the role of the press or go to the war room or go to the oval office. they have to decide whether or not to invade.

there will be five current or former commanders in chief on hand, including george bush sr., bill clinton, and jimmy carter. that will be an amazing photo-op. >>> television's worst kept secret in tv is now out in the open. nbc making it official. jimmy fallon will replace jay leno february of next year. here's what they had to say about it last night. let's start with jimmy fallon. >> keep working hard and trying to make the best show that we can along with you guys. thanks to jay leno for being so gracious. i know this whole thing means so much for me to have his rapport. >> we all fought, kicked, and scratched to get this network up to fifth place, okay? now we have to keep it there. jimmy, don't let us slip into sixth. we're counting on you. we're counting on you. >> "the tonight show" will be moving back from l.a. back to original home in new york. >>> this home run ball turned into a bean ball. pete smacked into center and hit a woman smack in the head. hit the woman because it might have hit the guy if he didn't bravely jump out of the way. >> did she took one for the team there. >

mix only through bush sr.ow i'm hearing about the coalition of the asent dent for the democrats. i can certainly see the argument that this is going -- could be a decade long thing that would be more than a decade. at a certain point hard for me to see one party is permanently going to have a advantage and other party won't eventually adjust. it is interesting. you know. president obama actually made a point this week i think is worth bringing up. lot of talk this week about george w. bush's legacy because of the opening of his library and a lot in that legacy that -- you know, controversial or disastrous but there is something that he was a little bit ahead of his time on at least within his party and -- president obama did -- you know, talked about it. we are going to show that. >> seven years ago president bush started a conversation about speaking to the american people about our history as a nation of laws and immigrants. even though comprehensive immigration reform has taken little longer than any of us

bush presidential library it's a ceremony that will be good by every living president obama carter george sr clinton and of course george w. himself now for those of you who've never been to a presidential library that's not your typical book depository it's more like a giant pharaoh's tomb boasting a shrine of the most highly coveted presidential artifacts you know like the pen he wrote with or the chair they sat on his library will hold forty thousand of the kind artifacts and a seventy million pages of paper records it's basically a big museum highlighting the most prominent events that have defined his presidency and of course of bush as intimately involved in the planning of the library insisting on an objective presentation of the most controversial policies he oversaw oh that's great well it took a second to go over the timeline that we should expect to see in this a lavish tomb starting with nine eleven the first major event that set the stage for bush's reign of terror this event alone should have brought bush and his cronies to trial for criminal negligence at the very best but mov

bush presidential library it's a ceremony that will be attended by every living president obama carter george sr clinton and of course george w. himself now for those of you who've never been to a presidential library it's not your typical book depository it's more like a giant pharaoh's tomb boasting a shrine of the most highly coveted presidential artifacts you know like the pen he wrote with or the chair they sat on bush's library will hold forty three thousand of these kinds of artifacts in addition to seventy million pages of paper records it's basically a big museum highlighting the most prominent events that have defined his presidency and of course of bush as intimately involved in the planning of the library insisting on an objective presentation of the most controversial policies he oversaw oh that's great well it took a second to go over the timeline that we should expect to see in this a lavish tomb starting with nine eleven the first major event that set the stage for bush's reign of terror this event alone should have brought bush and his cronies to trial for criminal negligence at

deputy solicitor general sr sri srinirasan, who served in a similar role under george w. bush clerked for reagan-appointed supreme court justice, sandra day o'connor. this week he received the support of 12 legal powerhouses among them six very high-profile republicans. including ted olson, ken starr and paul clement. in letter, the legal minds urged a swift confirmation, noting he had an open-minded approach to the law, a strong work ethic and unimpeachable character. he should be as close to a sure thing as you can get, right? with his current republican congress, there is unfortunately, no such thing. more on the war over the bench after the break. and it just hi! that nasty odor coming from your washer. say farewell to the smell with tide washing machine cleaner. it goes straight to the source of the stink to lift odor-causing residues off your washer's drum. tide washing machine cleaner. to lift odor-causing residues off your washer's drum. do we hano.a mower? a trimmer? no. we got nothing. we just bought our first house, we're on a budget. we're not ready for spring. wel