the obama administration didn't see things that way. so it wasn't about the net result about whether somebody can gather information from my phone. it's who has the authority to make the decision and under what legal authority do they collect this information. >> i think that's right. i mean i would be even more charitable to dick cheney, it wasn't just that they wanted that power for themselves. they wanted that power for white house going forward for all future presidents, for future president barack obama it opportunity out because they felt the executive in the modern world needed more authority to protect ourselves in a complicated dangerous world. coming out of the '70s part of the history there's nothing like that in barack obama, joe biden, hillary clinton, they weren't coming out of the postwater gate church era, and yet they end up entrenching some of those things, not the notion that the president as commander in chief can routinely violate statutes. we are not acting like them -- >> joe biden barack obama, hillary clinton al

and it varies from administration to administration. but the other point, and i don't mean to embarrass or panelists here, but remember their names. i guarantee you they will be big parts in future administrations. because that's how it works. and they had very central roles in the white house, in the federal reserve, and so on, and i think you'll hear their names again and again. and i think they're tremendous assets to the country. and i really feel good that people of this caliber are at the point of decision-making and policy making. it makes me feel good and sleep well at night. so thank you all for coming. thank you. [ applause ] >>> wednesday night here on c-span3, gun rights activists discussing the 2016 election. here's a brief preview. >> let me start off by saying we all owe hillary clinton a very big thank you. why? her anti-gun rights rhetoric and record are going to ensure that the result is going to be a record turnout of gun owners in the 2016 elections. [ applause ] she's already decided to double down on barack obama's

is what about the new administration in canada, the trudeau administration coming in, new prime minister in canada supports the project. so what's the message to canada if the administration says no, we're not going to honor the company's request for a stay or a pause, extension on the project now and instead goes ahead and turns it down? the administration's own quadrennial energy review dedicates a whole chapter to the benefits of integrating north american energy markets. the administration states have -- quote -- energy system integration is in the long-term interests of the united states, canada and mexico as it expands the size of energy markets, creates economies of scale to attract private investment, lowers capital costs and reduces energy costs for consumers. end quote. right out of their own quadrennial energy review prepared by their own department of energy that says we need to work with canada on energy. so what will they do? in spite of all that, will they turn the project down now or will they treat the company fairly and give them due process? well, regardless, regardles

and of course he's talking about the kennedy administration, johnson administration and the people who are still in the white house. and of course this must have been music to richard nixon's ears. and he's very effusive in his praise for the shah. he comes back to the united states and makes a very complementary speech about the shah. and i think that really lays the ground work for the kind of relationship that's going to exist once richard nixon assumes the presidency. >> seven months or six months after he assumes the presidency, president nixon, he watches the apollo 11 astronauts splashdown in the south pacific. right after that on july 25th, 1969, he goes to the island of guam and pronounces his first or his foreign policy doctrine articulates it. there was no news, there's only news reporters, there's no television coverage, but he rearticulates that vision again on november 3rd, 1969 when he rallies support for his policy in vietnam called, properly known as the silent majority speech. it we cue that up? >> another leader of an asian country expressed this opinion to me when i

administrator the of the transportation security administration at the u.s. department of homeland security. honorablened by the john ross, inspector general of the u.s. department of homeland security and mrs. jennifer grover, director of homeland security. we welcome you all. all witnesses are to be sworn before they testify. if you will please rise and raise your right hand. do solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to get will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? thank you and let the record reflect the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. we would appreciate if you limit your verbal testimonies to five minutes. you written statement will be entered as part of the record. good morning, chairman. i thank you for the opportunity to testify on my vision for evolving the transportation security administration will stop my perspective is a shape -- to administration. approach is a my well-defined statement of admission, clear standards of performance, training and resourcing, appropriate measures of effectiveness, and a

get a more sympathetic administration in after the 2016 elections. the obama administration signalling early this week that it would not pause. it would, in fact, move ahead with that decision making process. now the president and the administration ready to reject the keystone pipeline. that is sourced dow jones ace sources, and we have not been able to independently -- >> thank you for that. >> s&p back. keystone the headline right now, but following the jobs number earlier today it is 8:00 a.m. at square headquarters in san grifk. it's 11:00 a.m. on wall street, and squawk oolly" is live. ♪ >>> welcome to "squawk alley." josh steinberg. kayla is here as always. john enswroig a friday off. got the jobs number. got keystone. then we got square. first trade before thanksgiving, but perhaps what's most surprising is the valuation for square which came out very early this morning. the price range of $11 to $13 has an implied valuation of up to $4.2 billion. that compares to the previous private round valuation of $6 billion. clearly, the company is try

and democrat administrations. my oversight and my investigation unit is involved in many investigations. the vast majority of them have nothing to do with secretary clinton. looking out for the public interest is not a waste of time, and i'm going to keep at this constitutional responsibility of oversight regardless of misguided attacks on my motivations andments characterizations of my work. i will continue this investigation because the american people have a right to the truth and government officials have an obligation to answer to we, the people. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: before long a highway bill and government funding bill will come to the floor. it is like ringing the dinner bell for wall street bangs. they want to roll back financial regulations and they're working every contact they can to attach these rollbacks to anything that moves. now it's a pretty neat trick. they probably can't get a rollback of financial regulations passed out in the op

this has been a seven-year tsonga, one that pitted the obama administration against the former administrationinister stephen harper. there was some tension between the white house and canadian officials over whether keystone would, in fact, proceed. it seems that will not be the case. phil mattingly covers the white house and he joins me now with more. phil: good almost afternoon, i guess you could say. some tension between the white house and stephen harper's administration is an understatement. a point of tension between the two countries. a seven-year process, one that many in the obama administration got way out of hand area it became much more of a figurehead then maybeth sides what it actually merited based on the economic and environmental impact it would have had. the president, and about five or 10 minutes, will officially reject the application from transcanada to build the keystone pipeline. delayanada attempted to their application a week ago. the reason expected was that they wanted to wait until 2017, maybe they would get a more friendly administration. the president, after his

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not this administration. it's time to recognize the good muslims, the moderate muslims in the world with whom we can be friends, who want to be our friends who want to work with us and recognize those like the muslim brotherhood who want to destroy our way of life. nd it's time to stop the political correctness that got 13 people killed at fort hood six years ago today and got so many more wounded. so, what is, since this administration doesn't want to properly recognize efforts to keep the middle east peaceful and out of the hands of radical islamists like the muslim brotherhood, well, we had the iran treaty that this dministration pushed and the senate refused to take up and vote on as a treaty. the corker bill clearly didn't apply because it -- the iranian about id include terms ballistic missiles, about weapons buying, about release of money under the sanctions. it did change the terms of the nonproliferation treaty. it was clearly a treaty. it really will be another blot reputation that they did not stop

historically, from administration to administration, but i do is go through each administration and goey events and assumptions strove responses to those key events. one of the key assumptions you will see is typically what kind leaders is the occupation of what mattered to them. i am not saying that relationship to the united states is immaterial to them, but it never drove how they -- from theirheir standpoint, the one thing that was critical, especially those who would been friends with those in the region, was how reliable are we? would you pay this i demonstrate this in one relationship after the next. one of the things that i do throughout the book is show the echoes that reverberate over time. how you see the same behaviors on the

there was an attempt by the administrator or deputy administrator who worked with me. i want to make sure this doesn't have to come off on your watch since you're new. mr. neffenger, i have sat, for example, and seen what we have experienced at the airport mentioned with respect to screeners who try to get -- who sit -- who sit, for example, at the capitol or federal buildings. i must say, i think this needs a study by psychologists, people who know something about the human mind, and how it operates. because all you have to do is ask and you will always get that they in fact, don't catch bombs, don't catch pistols. we need to learn more instead of just trying to catch people. because we are getting the same results no matter where they are. whether they are magnetometers or tsa. for example, for tsa we have had people bring bombs in shoes to try to detonate their shoes. we have had a so-called underwear bomber. and it's interesting to note that with respect to those items that they went through multiple layers of security. and it was passengers, not tsa, who in fact,

+++ioe >> in danger by not being protected or is the administration going to protect them? despite the disappointment with a couple recent court rulings the legal underpinnings of the law have not been called into question. okay? justice? >> first i want to ask if there was at all a silver lining to this timing of the immigration appeal. obviously you would have preferred to side with you but if the supreme court takes it up it will be in the middle of the election season and so i am wondering you said republicans have been trying to stop this and any advantage for you and democrats in general in the timing of this? >> justin, i think it is fair to say republicans have maximized the political problem they have leer when they blocked the passage of common sense bipartisan legislation here two or three yours ago. and their continued assistance in refusing to bring it up does create a problem for them. you know, as it relates to what the political dynamics will be in the midst of a presidential election and supreme court hearings i will be reluctant to speculate on that primar

carson was confused about the administration's foreign policy. but before we start, let's take a listen to one of his recent interviews, this from fox news sunday because he did sound a little bit confused. >> my point being that if we get out there and we really lead, and it appears we're making progress, then all of the -- the arab states and even the nonarab states who i think are beginning to recognize the jihad movement is global. it is not just local in the middle east. charles: all right. i can see the wheels turning as he was speaking, and you can see him struggling, and it felt like he peace mailed an answer together. >> yeah. first of all, let's not under estimate that the new york times will go to -- >> consider the source. consider the source. >> consider the source big time. he may need to go about how little the candidate goes, that's bad campaign 101. but when you hear his gut he's on the right place. in his instincts he seems elsewhere and he's overthinking it. he knows every utterance is going to be overanalyzed so he goes how am

criteria for a surveillance and will harm the surround properties first, the the zoning administrator. said it will not please be advised the surrounding property century sun study determines 94 percent of lynch additional is in shadow to reduce the sunset to thirty percent putting all of the additional into a shadow and zoning administrator claims no area of shadows this should strengthen an argument more open space is obviously need in fact, lynch is among the narrow it israel to the country and section 134 requires a setback over 25 of the area depending on our interpretation of we take the lessor setback both building is setback 15 feet as opposed to the discretionary review process an exception on top of an exception to exclaim inform pattern of open block middle school mid space the zoning legislation that was passed and signed by mayor newsom requires a 20 percent setback how does make sense it inspired legislation and predata justification for going against this legislation after the fact nothing could be further from the truth the two proposed building will tower over the are

transfers took place and the administration -- the u.s. administration as indicated working towards additional transfers out of guantanamo by the end of the year. we welcome these efforts in the report, but we also call for further increased efforts in transferring detainees out of guantanamo. the current pace of transfer remain insufficient to significantly progress towards the closure of the detention facility. regarding transfer the report also underscores the obligation of the united states to ensure that detainees are not transferred to country where they may be at risk of torture or ill treatment. the u.s. has indeed take actions in that regard and in some cases as we said of detainees in third countries rather than in their own country because they could have faced risk of torture or persecution. however, our findings indicate that the united states still relies heavily on diplomatic assurances when concluding transfers and also in some cases forcibly transfer detainees to states allegedly practicing torture and ill treatment. and t

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the big question to administrators was that cocaine going to be used to plant on this village administrators well? because there are allegations about that also. that village administrator also addressed that concern only by saying she did not know if that cocaine was going to be planted on her desk. again, a lot of disturbing revelations. john, christine. >> i'll say. rosa, thank you. >>> 24 minutes past the hour. severe storms heading east. let's get to meteorologist derek van dam. >> good morning, john and christine. that's right. the storm system responsible for severe weather on thursday continues to advance eastward. you can see the development of the storm which began on monday. as it moved across the plain states, allowing for thunderstorms to develop from texas into oklahoma. in fact, there was confirmed report of a tornado as well as several reports of hail and wind damage. here comes the cold front. severe weather threat today extends from northern louisiana through mississippi as well as central tennessee. look out nashville. the possibility of damaging winds and isolated tornad

one of the differences between the bush administration and at least the early obama administration -- i think things are changing now -- is that the president himself and the national security council were very much in favor of a very serious communications effort. i think that the obama administration -- my sense is that they have come kind of late to the game, but yes, they now may understand the success of that. unfortunately this happens with the change of every administration, the new administration comes in and says those guys did not know what they are doing, we will dismantle that. and that as time goes on they realize, that was not such a bad idea. my hope is that as this administration changes, as it 2017, we not dismantle the things that this administration is doing that are good, and we rebuild the apparatus. we just do not have a great tradition of this kind of thing, and what we did have that was dismantled at the end washe 1990's when the usia subsumed within the state department. host: here is john from temple, texas, hide. there are just a couple of simple things that

these are facts that the obama administration are slow ting journalists. foot dragging has contributed to some of the confusion. syrian refugees go through a vetting process that can take two years or longer before they set foot here. the process usually starts with the united nations high commissioner for refugees determining if someone is a valid refugee. that refugee faces extensive overseas background and security checks as well as interviews involving the state department and the department of homeland security. a biometric one of a kind system, help weed out criminal past and immigration issues. finally, refugees go through the syrian enhanced review process. but despite all of this governors in these 31 states have compres expressed their unwilling iness to take in syrian refugees. republican house speaker paul ryan intends to bring up a tboil effectivel billto effectively pause the syn refugee program, requiring the fbi and the department of homeland security that he each syrian or iraqi refugee admitto the united states is not a security threat. n

they said administrators did little or nothing to repair a racially hostile atmosphere.ow just a few weeks later, the president is out, the chancellor is out, and the university's football team realized his power goes far beyond sacking quarterback. >> reporter: lying down for racial respect in new york demanding the oweser of a dean of a small college in california, and the college president at the university of missouri. students are reaching back to the days of mass demonstrations. >> i was in college during the iraq war, and saw student activism, and there hasn't been enough student activism. i think it's great to see the students rallying around these big issues. >> reporter: but there are no grand plans to change the world, no chants of end the war or ban the bomb. these are more personal rallies with immediate demands, and when it comes to racism on campus, the head of african american why. >> students in the late 1960s, had an easier time raising the issue of racism, because they were part of the black liberation movement. i think today there is this widespread n

the administration has tried to extract america from the middle east. instead, we created a massive power vacuum that has been filled by isil, al qaeda, and affiliates on one hand and he round its proxies on the other. into this vacuum has stepped vladimir putin. his intervention in syria began in the ukraine. the administration's failure to impose greater cost on russia, by allowing defensive arms to the ukraine allowed russia to annex the crimea and then pivot to syria. it is confirmed putin believes the administration is weak. to putin, weakness is provocative. the administration's response of the spar to russia's intervention into syria has only made this problem worse. it urged russia not to build up its forces in syria. putin ignored these. the administration then tried to deny russia the airspace in syria. and failed. putin responded by bombing moderate syrian forces, many partnered with the united states. what has been the result? the number of airstrikes has dropped. the train and equip program was halted just as it was starting to show battlef

star developer build into the code which was enacted in 2007 why does the zoning administrator simply want to set the legislation aside i strongly believe that the legislation passes in 2007 by the board of supervisors and the planning department and signed by mayor gavin newsom should be adhered to you ask you deny this variance thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> is there any additional public comment please step forward. >> good evening board members i live at lynch street directly across from the proposed project in my property i've been there 20 years i don't understand why were we required to go through this process we're being subjected to current legislation that requires a 5 percent setback in the neighborhood why is that not been forced the developers are building a structure that will be close to 6 feet high on lynch street i left to understand it allows them to do so i'll live with the confidence but even though this will be taller than the small alley why should they can granted to build under the setback i think i don't understand how this can, allowed i still a

their view is the administration is preventing its release because the administration was hell bent onuclear deal. >> a quick question to you, at the time the cia was sitting on this treasure-trove of osama bin laden documents, who was the director at the cia? >> david petraeus. he was on two sides of the dispute. early he was in favor of allowing sent com access to the documents. but at some point along the line he flipped. late spring, early summer of 2012, he flipped. and no longer wanted these -- this other -- >> let me interject was that at the time when rumors were surfacing he was having an affair? >> the official story is he didn't find out and nobody found out until the fall. of course he wasn't let go from the cia until after the election. so we don't know about that. but, you know, there are people who have raised those questions. >> next up, who gets to decide whether the syrian refugees come into your neighborhood? nt >>> we're back with the panel now. there are 31 governors in the united states who say that syrian refugees should not be allowed in this country, at least f

he is driving it more than anyone else inside his administration.gress is not going to revoke that statute and clearly not going to revoke that statute -- and they are not going to revoke that statute. he is going to be faced with two league options -- bleak options. one is policy failure. the other is, what if he makes a claim that he's the commander-in-chief and congress, under the constitution, has no authority to tell him where it is best to hold wartime prisoners during a war. the lawyers call that an article to override. he has clearly gotten more aggressive on using executive power and it has shifted from not wanting to be like bush and cheney to trying to get things done this fight the republicans in congress. host: christopher from georgia, hello. caller: how are you doing? fork you charlie savage letting me on. this will take 20 seconds. as far as the paris and u.s. it will security, happen again if we do not do something about isis. that is all i have to say. one of the fingerprints taken from one of the suspects inside of a french -- is

the administrators were trying to make sense of it. one talked about having black and white students in their office, and whenever they would ask white student ifs they needed a pass to get back to class, the white students would say, oh, no, i never get stopped. black students would always ask for the pass. so not only were black students talking about this, white students, administrators and others in the community were talking about how discipline was not meted out fairly. and we saw similar patterns in classrooms with regard to how students were disciplined, how they were referred to discipline and how they were expected to achieve -- >> host: but, professor diamond, what does that have to do with test scores or academic achievement? >> guest: yeah. so, you know, when students come to school, they're looking for a number of things, right? particularly adolescents, because we are talking about a high school here. they want to belong. they want their peers to accept them, but they also want to be able to navigate the school context a

the administration resigned. reading writing and race this time on the program.ts are still with me. and stacey earlier in the program, you brought up the football team. didn't they show in many ways they are the most powerful black students on campus? >> well, with good reason. they waited to lodge their demand. i think he should have come back to them and said anyone who is not at practice tomorrow night and is here on a scholarship has their scholarship revoked and those students won't be on campus anymore. that would have made a distinct choice for those students, because it's not fair to use something that is not yours, namely scholarship activity, playing football, to impress upon the university president a point about whether or not he is dealing with race. i think they should have had other means of approaching the situation. and he admitted he hadn't been addressing their needs in a timely fashion, but to have him resign, i don't think that was handled properly, and there was a lack of leadership when he was there, and now there is a lack of leadership b

we have administrations like the current administration that's tried to enforce the rule and effect of law through administrative rules and executive orders, not through legislation. and he didn't just point out that being a democratic situation. that's republican as well. if you look over the last 35 years, there has been a growth of the number of edicts that have come down regulatory-wise rather than legislatively. it's important for us to return the legislative branch of government to its appropriate place so we have a balance between legislative, executive and judicial. and i use the waters in the u.s.a. rule to explain to you why that's so important. this is a horrible rule. it's a rule that's going to be litigated in court for the next 30 to 40 years. why? because the clean water bill, which is its predecessor, has been litigated for 3040 years and eventually we've come to good policies where we have good water policies. not because that's where we started but because that's where we ended. i want to take a few experiences i have working under the clean water act of the 1970's, 1

he was told by an administrative folk to go and wait in the office for them. i don't know why they didn't get the administrator who wanted to talk to him and defuse the situation. >> what have you done now to make sure that something like that does not happen again? >> we have 90 school security officers that are stationed throughout the school system. fremont had five or six at the time. they have gone through department of justice training and restorive justice training but they are held accountable. i have two full time supervisors that oversee the officers on a day-to-day basis. they are talking to the school administrators and there is an accountability now much higher than it was back in 2014 when that occurred. >> maaika you talk to young people all the time, what can be done to build better trust between students and police officers? >> at ryse we run a program called justice rising which is a know your rights program for young folks to get information and have conversations about different interactions and experiences with police officers and recogniz

, be the carter administration, clinton administration, obama administration, we have seen a worseningsituation on the ground and also see an immigration crisis, in 1980 with mariel, and there is a dictatorship in cuba, that dictatorship systematically denies the rights of cubans and that leads for cubans wanting to flee. before the cuban adjustment system in 1966, there was a cuban exit that necessitated, but the castro dictatorship. >> stay with us. will this rising tempo of attempted crossings to the united states prompt a governmental response from either side of the florida strait as the national debates over immigration and syrian refugees heighten further the contrast ever american policy from cuba an the rest of the world. still running away, it's the "inside story." story." >> welcome back to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. this time on the program we're looking at the jump in people trying to make their way to the united states from cuba, many of them heading out into the open sea in all kinds of small boats, hoping to make it to american soil to get permanent resident status

star developer build into the code which was enacted in 2007 why does the zoning administrator simply want to set the legislation aside i strongly believe that the legislation passes in 2007 by the board of supervisors and the planning department and signed by mayor gavin newsom should be adhered to you ask you deny this variance thank >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> is there any additional public comment please step forward. >> good evening board members i live at lynch street directly across from the proposed project in my property i've been there 20 years i don't understand why were we required to go through this process we're being subjected to current legislation that requires a 5 percent setback in the neighborhood why is that not been forced the developers are building a structure that will be close to 6 feet high on lynch street i left to understand it allows them to do so i'll live with the confidence but even though this will be taller than the small alley why should they can granted to build under the setback i think i don't understand how this can, allowed i still a

into a strong pro-business administration.ithout cheney's clear vision for how to control the federal bureaucracy, bush would have been far less successful in shifting governmental priorities to the right. but i should also note that bush never articulated the strong anti-regulatory, often very pro-business positions that became the hallmark of his presidencies. that was all dick cheney. when we assess the political ideology of george bush, who is not conservative, not really, not in the ronald reagan way where you want smaller government -- ronald reagan actually argued for smaller government. nothing george bush did argued for smaller government. in fact the federal budget increased more under george w. bush than any other president in history. and bush was not a neo-conservative. there were a lot of neo-conservatives in his administration, but he was not one of them. the only real connection that george bush had to ronald reagan was on taxation. bush championed tax reductions. he got them. bush had no problem with an activi

it is not unique to this administration and it has been in every administration from truman until today and what i want to highlight in the book is that perspective that sees if you don't partner with israel, somehow you are better off and it is one that i try to show analytically and repeatedly doesn't serve your interests with the arabs. it doesn't benefit you there and it makes the israelis more suspicious and the very behavior is something that we don't want is the unease that the israelis will act unilaterally. the israelis have many more thets about you and about nature of your readiness to work with them and what is striving you in the nation. embodied was an exemplar of how the most senior officials ought to be working with the israeli counterparts in the irony that i show is it also pays off in terms of the israelis affecting those haters you would prefer to see. >> lastly, this book is titled doomed to succeed. when you look at american politics and changes in american attitudes and changes in the middle east, is the relationship doomed to succeed? >> if you look at the fundam

and the administration. americans do not deserve this unnecessary confusion and job-killing red tape. thank you, mr. president. mr. cardin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: thank you, mr. president. in a few moments, we'll have an opportunity to vote on the congressional review act on the final rule under the clean water act on waters of the u.s. and yesterday we had i thought a rather robust discussion and debate about this. and in the barrasso bill that would have not only prevented the final rule from going forward but also would have changed the underlying bill. and the cloture was not invoke. now we're on the c.r.a., the congressional review act, that would stop the rule from going forward. and yesterday on the floor of the united states senate i explained to my colleagues why i would hope that they would reject this -- this motion and allow this rule to go forward. and my main reason for saying that is that congress since 1972 has had a proud record on behalf

and clearly less than the administration is hoping for. tonight correspondent rich edison explains and examines the latest with obamacare. >> to help those without health coverage afford insurance, obama health care customers offers tax credits. only about a third of those eligible are actually using them. >> we need twice as many people signing up in order to be assured of getting a good spread of risk and therefore a sustainable cost for people. >> the robert wood johnson foundation and the urban institute estimate 24 million in the united states were eligible last year. the study says by march only 41% had elected a plan. by june, only 35% of them enrolled. half the people without insurance and who qualify have never heard of these tax credits. >> clearly there is a lot more that, to be done. in getting people who are eligible for these tax credits, to even know that it's a choice for them. >> another problem? cost. the administration says the second cheapest plan on the federal exchange will cost $7.5% more next year. >> consumers are

there's a lot to learn from as it relates to even the clinton administration or my dad's administrationhe biography of the elder bush comes as jeb bush attempts a campaign reset this week and he continues to struggle in the polls. joining us now from new hampshire, msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt. and join something us here in new york, john heilemann, managing editor of bloomberg politics. the new slogan is jeb can fix it and my guess is this is not exactly how he intends to fix it, talking about george w. bush. >> it is never a good moment when you have the bush family dynamics being played out in this way. i actually thought today he seemed more at ease actually talking about than he has almost all year. that's the bright spot. the dark side is that even for republicans who like george w. bush and who revere george her b herbert walker bush, even those people say three is too many. i like those two but a third one, i'm not so sure. >> kasie, jeb's had some awkward moments on the trail whether asked about the legacy of his brother specifically on iraq. what did you sense with

i will say this with the administration and frankly with the critics of the administration, i for one did not see the value of pursuing with a vetting of the syrian rebel army. i can say that myself looking at what happened. the one thing i want to have emphasized in this hearing is that you can't have things both ways. you can't say we should be putting in u.s. troops on the ground there and you can't do that and do even a modicum of security for the troops unless you are willing to hold that troop and have a huge investment of our troops. the people that say, the president didn't come in and he should have come in with troops, you just can't come in, drop them in, pull them out. we didn't have intelligence on the ground in syria to make that safe for those troops at the time. number two, we have to be prepared for those people that say that that those troops have to have the support of tens of thousands of other troops. so let's not have it in this hearing both ways. if you are going to take that tack with the president, you have to be able to say, well i support ground troops for t