because george w. bushas invited to the first lunch he had in 1991 at the white house with george h.w. bush. her and barbara bush were at the table. she said i put my texas son at the other end of the table. and she said, is he the black sheep of the family? and of course george w. bush can hear her. then he pipes up, well, maybe. who's the black sheep in your family? so begins the banter between the bush family and the royals. it developed in a friendly way. i think the fact that george w. bush refers to it in those familiar terms, a look a mother with only give a child, reflects how there was a family, almost, connection between the royal couple, between the queen and that bush family, partly because of the history. and just partly because they clicked. they got each other. peter: the cover photo on your book, "royal audience," where was that taken? mr. charter: one thing i would say is that -- one thing i would say is that the two most famous photographs of the queen with an american president is both wi

i think the fact that george w. bushers to it in those familial terms, a look a mother would only give a child, reflects how there was a family almost connection between the royal couple, between the queen and that bush family because of the history and just partly because they clicked. they got each other. >> the cover photo on your book royal audience, where was that taken? >> one thing i would say is that the two most famous photographs of the queen are both with ronald reagan. there is the horse ride we talked about in winter park in 1982 and the follow-up visit, reagan wants the queen to come to california to see his place and to do a return horse ride with his own horses. unfortunately, it rains and rains and the horse ride has to be called off but they still have this dinner in california and the photographers were ready because the speech had been given out and been prepared. there was a joke coming and there was a left line coming for the queen where she says, i know that america has adopted a lot of our british

president george w bush campaigned in the year 2000 as a compassionate conservative. decidedly not focused overseas. >> the bush administration understood itself to be a domestic policy administration prior to nine over 11. there wasn't much of a foreign policy strategy in place. >> bush, of course, wanted to be taken seriously on the international stage. but just three years earlier, he couldn't name the leaders of foreign powers who had nuclear weapons. after nine over 11, of course, all that changed. the most powerful individual on this subject was vice president richard cheney. vice president dick cheney, architect of a neoconservative foreign policy that reshaped the middle east and adding to his menacing public persona, drew comparisons to darth vader. a public image he ultimately embraced. >> if we're going to talk about star wars, we might as well invite darth vader he had developed a reputation as kind of a very acerbic, pithy tough guy. >> if you provide sanctuary to terrorists, you face the full wrath of the united states of america. >> he was arguably the m

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. >>> a statement from former president george w. bush in part: james earl carter jr was a man of deeply held convictions loyal to his family, his community and his country. president carter dignified the office. in his efforts to leave behind a better world did not end with his precedency. >>> after leaving the white house in 1981 carter dedicated his life to brokering international peace. he was recognized around the world for his tireless work promoting peaceful resolutions to conflict in advancing democracy, human rights and social justice primarily through the carter center which he and the former first lady established in 1982. he also volunteered for habitat for humanity for close to four decades working on building homes for those who were disadvantaged. my colleague jose diaz-balart has more. >> my name is jimmy carter and i am running for president. >> reporter: jimmy carter's election in 1976 confounded the presidential wisdom. until that year's iowa caucuses which he took over. he was virtually unknown. he grew up in plains, g

. >> he interviewed bill clinton, george w bush, donald trump, and joe biden. before we get to trump, david, i want to ask you you had a very interesting conversation with george w bush about why he thought there had been the rise of populism in the republican party, the transformation of the republican party, and now trump. he dated it really to 2008. in many ways. right. the financial crisis? >> yes. and the financial crisis. he felt that he had to bail out the banks, and he said the banks were being bailed out. and that's not what he came to washington to do and many people in the country were saying why are we bailing out the banks? they're not the ones who have the financial problems. me, the average person has problems. and so he felt that and they created the, you know, the way people saw it, the banks were the banks were the the the banks had created all this risk and they were the ones getting bailed out. he didn't want to do it. when when his secretary of treasury, hank paulson, came to him and told him about the tarp plan, he said, i don't want to do

domestic policyouncil and the staff's fi for the george w. bush admintration. in 2023 she delivered remarkst the american israeli council summit where she criticized biden administration policies and discussed her own efforts to support israel in congress. thank you for that warm welcome, thank you for that kind introduction. thank you for inviting me to be here today on this historic event. how great was president trump yesterday? [cheering] i was honored, like all of you to spend time with him last night at the heritage historic record israel and the jewish people. we know right now the world desperately needs the bear morally strong leadership president trump brings to the world stage everyday. we have seen the exact opposite from the failed biden has administration over the past four years. just this week their failures came into focus. if it has gotten worse. he would women gracefully leading for sexual violence is coming to pressure anti-semitic pro- hamas mobs. revising the death toll by 50% relying on false information provided by hamas -controlled mini

he's the author of this book crimes against nature how george w bush and his corporate pals are plundering the country and hijacking our democracy. mr. kennedy, a rather strong title. i think it's accurate the book is, you know, i've been disciplined over 20 years as an environmental advocate about about being and bipartisan in my to these issues. i don't think there's any such thing as republican children or democratic children. i think the worst thing that could happen to the environment is if it becomes the province of a single political party. but you can't speak honestly about the environment in any context today without speaking critically of this president. if you go to nrdc website, the natural resources defense council, which is one of the groups that i work for, you'll see over 400 major environmental rollbacks that have been promoted by this administration over the last three and a half years as part of a concerted, deliberate to eviscerate 30 years of environmental law. why do you think that is? well, one of the things that you know, the connections that i make in my book is th

and you know george hw bush is elected and george hw bush yields to bill clinton. bill clinton is elected after eight years, he yields to george w bush who has eight years in office, george w bush, then yields to barack obama. pendulum again, swings back in the other direction. barack obama, of course, yields to donald trump. donald trump, then yields to joe biden. joe biden yields back to donald trump. pendulum swings back and forth and this is a tough moment for us to now navigate. but, you know, if you think about even president obama's journey, which i think is interesting and important for us as we wrap up, you know, in 2000, president obama was then just a state senator who had lost his first congressional race that year to bobby rush by about 24 points, lost his first congressional race just like bill clinton lost his first congressional race. and george w bush lost his first congressional race knocked down on the ground. they get back up. barack obama tells the story. he couldn't even get into the democratic national convention that was in los angeles. travels from chicago to the democratic national convention. can't get

then when haiti was struck by an earthquake in 2010, president obama asked me and george w bush to try to help haiti and had been working there by then for a year again as a u.n. envoy. but he was great. we got together, we raised all this money and we decided could best help the small reconstitute themselves because they were all wiped out. and we did a really good job of, i think. and then later i was able to. almost $500 million for just all my own through the clinton global initiative, in addition to all the money that americans had given about $1,000,000,000 and that. but if you forget about whatever you've been fighting about and you all agree the same goal, then it's amazing how often you come to consensus. and you you say that and you i don't want to trivialize these numbers and. i didn't really know them. you put them in detail here, whether it's the tsunami in asia, whether it's haiti whether it's katrina. you teaming up with these other presidents to the clinton global foundation. is is billions of dollars and what i loved about it is, you didn't just raise the money you wen

you, i've had the privilege of knowing a lot of republicans, including president george w bush, whom i just saw a few weeks ago. john mccain, mitt romney, chuck hagel, in your book this, these are the kind of republicans that you sort of hang out with and that you sort of share a brand with in my view. you know, they're often called reino republicans by donald trump. is it strange that so many people who ran as the republican candidate for president would no longer fit in today's republican party? it seems strange on the face of it that they are. the former leaders of the republican party are now stigmatized as republicans in name only. that's weird. how did that happen? but i think the reality is that the moderates that i was writing about were dwight eisenhower style republicans who believed in the legitimacy of the new deal order. so they were in some sense, new deal order republicans then along comes ronald reagan and brings and what we now refer to as the neo liberal era. and even the democrats came around to that. i mean, bill clinton was someone who actually operated under the

me "the wall street journal" columnist fox news contributor and former chief speechwriter for george w. bushstand not -- considers himself religious artist, so what you just showed cardinal dolan putting up this artwork in saint pat's is a gift for him nothing artist preserves more than works displayed one a at catholic university too getting attention for that trial has been killed a national security charges lasted more than a year, and basically all government approved that energetic meets with high level officials very important opinions so forth, always advancing freedom you know ask people, this christmas to remember the lais, jimmy before arrested took two from that reason he survive in soviet prison so long nine years because he has a wife on outside supporting him a strong faith, jimmy sees that himself his wife is a rock. and he couldn't do it without her. >> unbelievable this story what lai has gone through, over many years, let's move to joe manchin slamming former party on the way out the door listen. >> i am not a democrat in if form what have the democratic party turned itself

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so let's training the daughter of dick cheney the former vice president under george w bush and was a down the line conservative on every issue, including the importance of adhering to law and order and the constitution. and that was the one factor that turned her against donald trump and ultimately cost her for leadership position with the republican conference and then her position in congress altogether. and for this, she was actually a hero to many, never trump republicans, but also to a lot of college educated democrats who liked seeing this example of a principal conservative. but the point is that you didn't have a constituency beyond a fairly small number of college educated voters who already were drifting into the democratic column. so to some extent, she turned off the democrats progressive faction, who remember the iraq war and dick cheney's failures there. but she also didn't really bring a lot to the democrats as it turned out relative to what they lost in terms of working class voters. you, i've had the privilege of knowing a lot of republic const including president ge

george w. bush. [applause] we made the single largest investment in the nation of the world to tackle a single disease, saving more than 26 million lives so far. i'm proud to have authorized last year and i like to call on congress to past the five-year authorization to sustain these gains we've made globally. [applause] in fact later today, i'm traveling to angola and africa where we're -- including and proving outcomes for people living with h.i.v. through pep far. it matters throughout the world. but for all our progress, too many people continue living with h.i.v., including one million americans. that's why my first year in office, i launched a new national h.i.v./aids strategy to ensure treatment and prevention is available to everyone, everywhere all across this country and that includes medications that could prevent h.i.v. infection are affordable and available and without co-pay for people without health insurance. [applause] and the insurance companies can't deny coverage for the medicatio

other documents from 2001 show that the us administration, led by george w bush, was considering designating terrorist organisation. briefing notes to irish politicians warned that the plans might give the dissident republican paramilitary group an unintentional boost by encouraging recruitment. the real ira was responsible for the 1998 0magh bomb, which killed 29 people. it was the single greatest loss of life in 30 years of violence in northern ireland, known as the troubles. ultimately, the us did add the real ira to its list. this release of documents also details a football it was the single greatest loss of life in 30 years of violence in northern ireland, known as the troubles. ultimately, the us did add the real ira to its list. this release of documents also details a football related gaffe from former prime minister tony blair. he's reported to have asked a nationalist politician if his party would be supporting england in the 2002 world cup, after ireland were knocked out. sara girvan, bbc news. more than a thousand critically endangered snails — some of which were bred in captivi

now, i don't downplay particularly the pepfar program that was established by george w. bush. did in office. it saved millions of lives in southern africa with the antiviral drugs. so typically this is a great thing, creating great will for the united states, saved lives. now, of course, it's still awaiting reauthorization, and our congress is unable, really, to consistently keep funding and expanding something is that really is good and is good for the united states as well for africa. >> u eugene robinson, thank you so much for sharing your expertise on this with us. >> so great to be here. >>> coming up, as joe biden now know, africa changes you. no matter what country you visit in africa, you see things there that you will never see anywhere else. and when i go to africa, i see possibility. unlimited possibility. i hope you see some of that next. you see some of tha next can a mortgage move you forward? absolutely. sofi has helped over 130,000 people take the leap toward home ownership. sofi mortgage. verified pre-approval. low down payment options, and a on-time close guar

george h.w. bush excusing george w. bush who was among a governor of texas.mething we are seeing more and more of. we only elected to senators directly from the senate to the presidency. that was a bit of an anomaly. you have people who served in other capacities before. again that was a shift as you say talking about the south, kind of a different type of democrat coming from the south. he ran for governor. he was somebody who said we need to get racism out of the democratic party. that was a pivoting point. this was the evolution of the democratic party in the south. and as he came into office. he said to this you a couple of hours ago this. that jimmy carter when he was in office there was a lot of turbulence on the global stage a reference the comment from mike johnson talking about the accord that was signed from israel to egypt in march of 79. some of the sinks at the table for what we are doing within the middle east. >> senior congressional correspondent thank you very much. >> thank you. stu varney credible three hours resource to do one we did three

sam stein, senior political analyst matthew dowd, also from her george w. bush strategist, and founder of country over party senior writer at the dispatch and author of the book, in trump office shadow. sam, let's start with pete hegseth. he is putting on a full-court press to save his nomination. in the last 24 hours we had not heard from him about his former fox news colleagues seem to be in his corner and pretty vocal, but this thing looks like it is getting tougher and tougher. what are you hearing? >> two things are related. it's tough, and that's the reason he's going with the full- court press. for a while hegseth has basically done this with private meetings one-on-one with senators knowing he can only lose three. but these reports have dripped out painfully for him. his team recognized they either had to ramp up the pressure on republican senators, or they were going to lose the nomination. the last was a key turning point when reports emerged that trump has talked to ron desantis. that doesn't come out unless the trump team lets it come out and wants p

george w bush or george h.w. bush, and bill clinton became close.even former rivals that happened with. and so it's just a moment all of this to think about what it is this institution of the presidency and a reminder about the increasingly older presidents that we're electing. >> all right. thank you so much to all of you for

you look at someone like george w. bushmple who's very unpopular when he left office in 2009. now he seen as a pretty beloved figure. i think in the media aftermath of this election, of course americans wanted to change. they chose donald trump. the biden administration didn't seem to be doing it for them. we've not only saw that change at the top of the ticket. but we sought republicans take control of the house and senate. and do very well in state legislative races across the country. i think this is definitely telling of how much americans really just wanted to try something new and how the status quo wasn't working for them. we will see how that rates joe biden in terms of history. the pardoning of his son as well as the questions surrounding his health and fitness for office going back earlier this year, that's not going to do him any favours going forward. >> most of his presidency, 70 plus percent of people thought the country it was in the wrong direction. former president clinton released from the hospital today b

there is a famous example with bob mueller in 2004, where the george w. bushto get a reauthorized domestic wiretapping program. it's a little more complicated than that, but you both know what i'm talking about. bob mueller set i will not go along with this and i will resign if you proceed with this. that was such a startling moment for george w. bush as president that he backed down. he changed course in the face of an fbi director standing up to him. >> yeah, andrew, you can speak to that. if you are looking for a candidate for this job to be independent and uphold the rule of law, someone who ran from what garrett described, the president being unhappy, that is a reason they shouldn't be in the job in the first place. >> absolutely. when she became u.s. attorney in alabama, obama met with all of the incoming u.s. attorneys and said, you know, i nominated you but you need to know you don't work for me. you have your obligation to the constitution and that is the same principle we're talking about. you picked the clip of obama talking about mueller when he le

all of the statements that you could make about a george w. bush, you could find policy practices that you agree with. trump wants to close the department of education. trump wants to weaponize the justice department. trump wants to fire black generals and others who support diversity from the department of defense. these are not things that you can work with him on. so trump is who trump is, and in addition to the things that he believes, he's also incredibly vindictive and he now has the power to carry forth his appetite for vengeance. the democrats need a wray themselves as the protectors of american people, as the people who are explaining to the country that this danger exists and who are vowing to do everything in their power to protect ordinary people, whether they are journalists, whether they are ordinary election workers, whether they are people who criticize the president in their writing or in their speeches, that they are going to protect our democracy by ensuring that we still live in a country where the citizens have the right to cri

we have had reaction and tributes from former presidents including george w bush, as well as presidenter's legacy both as president, but also his life after the presidency. we have seen the work he has done around the world to promote peace and tackle poverty. president biden was an overwhelming there was an overwhelming reason for it. his character. what i find extraordinary about jimmy carter, though, is that millions of people all around the world, all over the world feel they lost a friend as well, even though they never met him. and that's becausejimmy carter lived a life measured not by words, but by his deeds. just look at his life — his life's work. he worked to eradicate disease not at home — just at home, but around the world. he forged peace, advanced civil rights, human rights, promoted free and fair elections around the word. he built housing and homeless — for the homeless with his own hands. and his compassion and moral clarity lifted people up and changed lives and saved lives all over the globe. jimmy carter was just as courageous in his battle against cancer as he was

our guest was deputy secretary of state for european affairs in the george w. bush administration.d a very unusual sight today in paris. the current president of the u.s. was not there. the president-elect was there and he met with the french president and the president of ukraine. what do you make of that? >> it is very extraordinary to have a president-elect beginning to take the approaches of state, conducting foreign policy while we already have a different administration in place. these are extraordinary times. certainly president-elect trump is taking advantage of this moment and the world's focus on the reopening and restoration of notre dame to begin that important diplomacy. >> we are told that macron really lobbied the president-elect to go. why was it so important to macron show up? >>? he knows that president trump likes pomp and circumstance. he gave it to him in volumes in the first term with the bastille day special ceremony. restaurateurs. he knew this wanted to be the first european leader to engage with trump. his shaped his views on the war in ukraine as events a

here's the book, "crimes against nature: how george w. bush and his corporate pals arecr plundering the country and hijacking our democracy." thanks for your time. >> guest: thanks or having me. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that was health and human services secretary nominee robert f kennedy, jr. back in 2004. up next we skip ahead almost 20 years later when mr. knedy appeared once again on "washingto journal"o discuss his bid for the 2024emocratic presidential nomination. he would later become an independent candidate before suspending his campaign in august of this year. >> host: robert contee junior, democratic presidential candidate, author and' an activist here to talk about his presidential k campaign. thanks for giving us your time. >> guest: [inaudible] trim you launch your campaign in april. what if you learned since then that y only about those are tryg to reach but how they responding to you? >> guest: i think there's a lot of appetite for an alternative right now. were getting enormous crowds in south carolina, in new hampshire and other stat

i can certainly remember some controversy over george bush, george w bush's patterns.has really been exacerbated by trump. the fact is that donald trump not only pardoned people who might have had some justification for having sentences commuted, he pardoned people who had committed serious financial crimes and he pardoned those people who were with him, alongside him, both in his cooperation with russia and in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. and, in fact, i think we are going to see within a few weeks that trump will go as far as to pardon people who were not only involved in that invasion of the capitol onjanuary 6th, 2021, but including some of those who planned that attempt. do you think there are examples of positive pardons, just briefly? absolutely. i think, for example, that you had sentences commuted by barack 0bama, for example, for non—violent offences, for drug possession in particular. i think barack 0bama's pardoning of chelsea manning, the whistle—blower who revealed the abuses of american power in iraq and afghanistan, that can be justified a

george w. bush administration did lie to get us into a government. look at trusting government. you can see the dips. look how it's declined, anglo. it has really declined. iraq war did it. the vietnam war, the lies there. there are reasons to sometimes distrust the government, right? but now we're going to have a government where the incoming represident was found by "the washington post" to have lied, three, 4,000 times. now he's in charge of the whole apparatus. >> yeah. i e mean, this is the part that find threally disturbing. one, it's really profitable. two, they have taken down the safeguards. david noted this before. this has always been a part of america. we had these conspiracies. what was different in the past they wweren't connected. you sthad all these disconnecte conspiracyists that had small t audiences. technology and social media has connected otherwise disconnected audiences. it's supercharged these ideas. s it's found individuals likely to be freseptember i have to it a pushed esit directly to those. and the affect of that is not oonly to spread it but make it

sam steiner is here, msnbc senior political analyst matthew dowd, also a former george w. bush strategist and founder of country over party. and david drucker, senior writer at the dispatch, and author the book in trump in shadow. all right, let's start with pete hegseth . he is putting on a full-court press to save his nomination. in the last 24 hours, we haven't heard from him over the last week, but suddenly his former fox news colleagues seem to be in his corner and pretty vocal. this thing looks like it is getting tougher and tougher. what are you hearing. >> the two things are related. it's tough, that's the reason he's going into full-court press. for a while, pete hegseth like all the other nominees has basically done this with private meetings, one-on-one with senators, trying to get their support. knowing he can only lose three. as these conversations, as these reports have drifted out, painfully for him, his team recognized that they had to either ramp up the pressure on republican senators or they would lose the nomination. last night was a key turning point reports

in 2003 she was the lead house sponsor to authorize george w. bush's presence for aid relief. groundbreaking legislation has saved 25 million lives around the world. before she ran in the primary to fill the u.s. senate seat vacated by the death of senator dianne feinstein, congresswoman lee said she would not run for reelection to the house. she was not successful in that race, but don't think she's going quietly into the night. there's more she wants to get done. joining me now is congresswoman barbara lee of california, former chair of the congressional black caucus, chair emerita of the congressional progressive caucus, and co-chair of the pro choice caucus. congresswoman lee, thank you for coming to "the sunday show." what do you say was your most important accomplishment of your career? >> thanks so much, jonathan, good to see you and be with you. so many challenges and fights i've been in, so many successes and accomplishments, first have to thank my staff because this has been team lead both gc and my district staff, who has helped me along the way to make sure that we

george w. bush called one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country, and i don't think that you can understand what will happen in a second trump term unless you look back and what happened in the first and plainly and simply you mention the signs that we all saw at the republican national convention that i got to see myself that said mass deportation now. i think the baseline thing that everybody needs to understand and remember and sort of internalize is that mass deportation is family separation. it's just family separation by another name. it's not ripping parents away from their children at the border, it's in their homes, schools, communities in the way that are orders of magnitude larger than the 5500 children who were deliberately taken away from their parents according to the aclu at the center there and are traumatized for life. physicians for human rights said this was torture according to the u.n. definition of it. the american academy of pediatrics said it was governme

ultimately finishing it properly is important and has massive massive implications and george w burge -- george w. bush a strategy in this president gave it away. the abandonment of iraq and redline in syria and that hangs on the back of barack obama and hillary clinton. this campaign has been difficult to litigate for a lot of people, jeb bush, took in a week to figure out where he wanted to be on the issue. they have been very few moments i was proud of republicans on their articulation of iraq. i can only think of one. marco rubio was asked about it and he said it was not a mistake and i remember sitting there saying finally somebody won't cave in to that narrative. hopefully the reality is whoever the next commander-in-chief is, whether it is trump or ted cruz is willing to truly unleash total war on the islamic state so what i do take issue with is the way people characterize ted cruz and donald trump weather is carpet bombing or the willingness to and handcuff the enemy. their focus is on doing what it takes to destroy the islamic state, not we want to find a way to kill civilians so carpet bombi

well, former presidents bill clinton, george w bush and barack obama. remembering jimmy carter tonight. former president barack obama said in part, quote, he believed some things were more important than reelection. things like integrity, respect and compassion. whenever i had a chance to spend time with president carter, it was clear that he didn't just profess these values, he embodied them. and in doing so, he taught all of us what it means to live a life of grace, dignity, justice, and service. end quote. in a post on x, former president bill clinton, clinton said, quote, from his commitment to civil rights as a state senator and governor of georgia, to his efforts as president to protect our natural resources in the arctic national wildlife refuge, to his post-presidential efforts supporting honest elections, advancing peace and combating disease, and promoting democracy. he worked tirelessly for a better, fairer world. end quote. and former president george w bush paid tribute to carter's character as a world statesman, saying in part, quote, jame

. >> former presidents bill clinton, george w bush and barack obama are also remembering jimmy carter, former president barack obama saying in part he believed some things were more important than reelection. things like integrity, respect and compassion. whenever i had a chance to spend time with president carter, it was clear that he didn't just profess these values, he embodied them. and in doing so, he taught all of us what it means to live a life of grace, dignity, justice, and service. in a post to x, former president bill clinton saying in part from his commitment to civil rights as a state senator and governor of georgia, to his efforts as president to protect our natural resources in the arctic national wildlife refuge, to his post-presidential efforts supporting honest elections, advancing peace, combating disease, and promoting democracy. he worked tirelessly for a better, fairer world. and former president george w bush, paying tribute to carter's character as a world statesman, saying in part, james earl carter jr was a man of deeply held convictions. he was loyal to his

george w bush said, listen, i don't think this is a great idea. there's this flurry of people with access that want these favors at the and it really kind got crossed the rubicon in the trump administration, where presidents are using the pardon power to their friends for allies donors and to protect themselves from oversight. and there's just no way the framers of the constitution would have endorsed that but they probably didn't anticipate lots of things about the 21st century. yeah i want to get there first. just sort of a side note, is it to say with only slight exaggeration that but for the pardon power australia would not have been settled? oh, i don't know you know more about that. it sounds like that i i'm just that the pardon was used as know to on the condition that criminals emigrate right australia and actually originally to emigrate to our country right exactly so you know we'll put those bad bad guys or whatever over and that that far off landed kind of clean up. i mean there's some vestiges of that in our current political conversat

it's a debate in some ways familiar to other debates i've seen after george w. bushed kennedy worked with him on his signature piece of legislation, which was the no child left behind act. okay, he won. we're going to meet him halfway. mitch mcconnell took an opposite tack when barack obama was elected. we're going to resist. what's striking to me is that all of that is on one axaxis. oh, what should we do about the bill. what are you going to do -- they're just on different axes. whatever conversation is here feels removed from this one, if that makes sense. >> well n a way i think what the democrats should be doing is on the bills, they should be talking directly with their counterparts, which are the republicans in the house and the senate. that's who they should be engaging with. that's who they should be calling out. that's who they should be exposing and demanding they do their job. that's who they should be telling and telling the american people how embarrassing it is that these people have allowed one random billionaire to essentially ly over their job. they

atkins was an sec commissioner under former president george w. bush regulation of financial firms. for more on crypto's soaring values and the trump-atkins connection to all of this, i spoke earlier today with david yaffe-bellany, technology reporter covering the crypto industry for the new york times. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. geoff: so first, for the unfamiliar, explain what it means that bitcoin surpassed the $100,000 mark. why is that significant? >> it's really, it's really an important symbolic threshold for bitcoin. i mean, this is an investment product that started at $0 of value, and you know over the the last 15, 20 years has risen to become one of the most successful assets in the entire financial system. and so it's really the kind of culmination of an extraordinary roller coaster ride that that's been going on for a while, and, you know, it's a sign that this is part of the financial system now. it's not, you know, a passing fad. it's something that is here to stay and that really holds tremendous real world value

next george w. bush chose republican robert mueller to serve a fullredent obama asked republican robert mueller to extend his service in the fbi beyond the ten years, which actually required an act of congress to allow robert mueller to serve beyond the ten-year limit. robert mueller served 12 years as fbi director, and then president obama chose to replace him with republican james comey to serve as fbi director, and james comey served three years, 247 days before donald trump fired him and replaced him with republican christopher wray. president biden never considered tampering with chris wray's ten-year term as fbi director, which was scheduled to end in august of 2027. during this transition period, donald trump decided to do something that no president has ever considered doing, which was select someone as the next fbi director and send that person around to senate offices to meet with senators to discuss being confirmed for a job that was not vacant or available. the president has the legal right t