let me go chronological order according to presidents, president bush xliii.ittle bit about the fact that you were with him throughout the campaign as head of policy and part of the transition but in a very short window of opportunity because of the bush gore controversy. >> thank you. [laughter] >> thank you for the work you do at brookings and others, it is important. i had the good fortune of being a part of the bush campaign, the bush 2000 presidential campaign which began at the beginning of 19 $99 two 4 years before the election i arrived at the office in texas as policy director of the bush 2000 campaign. you started early in the obama campaign. that is the first way that you start to build the presidency that can withstand the difficult period of transition every president faces. president bush, then governor bush said something interesting to me on my first day i arrived in office and i met him in his gubernatorial office. and he said do a smart thing, put all the policy together and he said just remember one thing. i want to campaign the way i am goi

it almost passed in the bush xliii administration with his strong support. mike at chertoff was strongly for it. and that is not amnesty. i think that's -- you don't like the word islamist extremism, the word amnesty is a very inaccurate label for what president obama was propose will. >> i met the mexican ambassador. he wanted me to send the message that we have a shared interest in security at the border. i do think with the nafta, the discussion that's will take place that there is leverage to get them to, jay mentioned, secure their southern border. it's a choke point geographically very small. and that would actually stop a lot of the flow from central america. finally, to your point and the allegation, i suppose, made against me. it goes to jurisdiction. i passed a very strong border security bill. jail tell you this. jay opposed my bill because i was so strong. it drew a veto threat because they didn't like it. that's important to say. whoever wrote that argue doesn't understand is jurisdiction. the fact is that i -- i have jurisdiction over the borde

former bush xliii state department, what did you think of that comment?> i thought that was totally untrue certainly because the resolution went through, after john kerry's speech today. connell: on the resolution talking about the un, by not exercising veto power, the us abstains from that, john kerry gave his speech today, it was in our interests to do that. we don't and the settlements being built because to paraphrase what he was talking about a situation that makes israel less safe, hurts the interests of the united states and you say what? >> they have it backwards and they have 4 years. this is the first administration that has a lot of resolution to go through that says jews living and working in the old city and at the temple mount area are living illegally. that is what the resolution says. it is devastating. the obama administration and secretary kerry believe the problem is israeli settlements and not abyssinian violence would you can't have a peace agreement with people who do not live democratically, as individual democratic citizens in a co

the reason i think we didn't see it being used and the transition and bush xliii to obama was that it's any rule disapproved using this procedure. the agency so it's a sledge hammer. i was involved in that period, i was part of the team and was really trying not to push him out the door. but i suspect that the regulation definitely at the end of the bush administration. the obama tale would like to have tweaked and modify ied i suspect that's why it's that way. >> so do i have some questions out here? we'll go back and start with katie. >> my question is really is there one avenue the regulation of the water that you get in pds permits. there was a path to be appealed. to undo that regulation and what do they do to voice that? dhauds make sense? >> yes. four of the five option i mentioned apply in more limited circumstances. i think these are water discharge regulations under the clean water act. there must be one that was in this window that could be overturned by congress. i think most will be thinged that and on that rule making. and that's -- there really is a lot of opportunity for