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ari fleischer, thank you. paul begala and general marks. we'll be right back. i'm an expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. massmutual. we'll help you get there. i have a great fit with my dentures. i love kiwis. i've always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free -- it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc free. with just a few dabs, it's clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. super poligrip free made the kiwi an enjoyable experience. [ charlie ] try zinc free super poligrip. >>> we're following a number of other stories. isha's here with a news and business b
ari fleischer, thank you. paul begala and general marks. we'll be right back. i'm an expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. massmutual is owned by our policyholders so they matter most to us. massmutual. we'll help you get there. i have a...
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it's interesting to have ari fleischer on because his former boss, president bush, ran a race in 2004hat was very much about, you know, who the challenger was. and how important it was to define senator kerry and make that what the race was all about. on the map overall, -- >> and did a pretty good job of that. >> i mean, they won. you can't deny that they made some good decisions. i was on senator kerry's campaign, he was an awesome guy. it was a tough race to lose. i would say the map is big, but it's getting a little bit smaller. i think you look at the states that president obama won that senator kerry didn't win in 2004 and that's where you start with those nine states. then you add in, you know, watch wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan. states that could get competitive. right now we're up in colorado. colorado, ohio, pennsylvania, florida and virginia, we think that those are very close states and other states that are close as well. iowa, new hampshire obviously are going to be a tough battleground. but i think, you know, it's early. people are just starting to engage. as peopl
it's interesting to have ari fleischer on because his former boss, president bush, ran a race in 2004hat was very much about, you know, who the challenger was. and how important it was to define senator kerry and make that what the race was all about. on the map overall, -- >> and did a pretty good job of that. >> i mean, they won. you can't deny that they made some good decisions. i was on senator kerry's campaign, he was an awesome guy. it was a tough race to lose. i would say the...
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pewe'll get answers from james carville and ari fleischer.s not a distraction, but a centerpiece of the campaign. and how governor romney would govern as president. is that smart for him to double down on this, james? >> well, yeah. understand, what happened here is romney made his experience at bain central to his candidacy. he said he created a net 100,000 jobs. so of course it's not a tackle private get but tackle what romney said he did. wait a minute, these are other things that happened there. i don't understand the whining about this. romney is a man who has resources. go people find whose job you saved and put them on television. this is unbelievable. in any opinion, it's a very legitimate thing to talk about. not an attack on a free enterprise system or anything. it's one guy saying i just want to credit all the good things that happen. if you say anything bad things happen then you're a terrible person. just answer the ads and go on about your business. >> ari, what about that? isn't romney's record fair game? >> i hope they continu
pewe'll get answers from james carville and ari fleischer.s not a distraction, but a centerpiece of the campaign. and how governor romney would govern as president. is that smart for him to double down on this, james? >> well, yeah. understand, what happened here is romney made his experience at bain central to his candidacy. he said he created a net 100,000 jobs. so of course it's not a tackle private get but tackle what romney said he did. wait a minute, these are other things that...
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with us, ari fleischer, white house press secretary for george w. bush. he's had an inside view to trips like this one. paul begala. he's advising the pro obama super pac right now. and gloria borger, peter bergen and a fascinating read, taking you inside this search. let's get a quick reaction from everybody about this speech. >> i think you have seen the power of incumbency. but i have to add also, i think in the best communist, post-9/11 world both parties are split about foreign policy. there's an ambivalence about fighting and winning and we want everyone to come home. we want our troops home. this is a difficult time in foreign policy. it's hard to see this being a significant issue in the election. >> paul begala? >> i think you're right the power of incumbency. but when barack obama took office, there were 32,000 american troops fighting in afghanistan and now there are almost 90,000 and there were 160,000 fighting in iraq and and now a very few. he's put a stamp on the military conduct in the region and he's responsible for every one of the troop
with us, ari fleischer, white house press secretary for george w. bush. he's had an inside view to trips like this one. paul begala. he's advising the pro obama super pac right now. and gloria borger, peter bergen and a fascinating read, taking you inside this search. let's get a quick reaction from everybody about this speech. >> i think you have seen the power of incumbency. but i have to add also, i think in the best communist, post-9/11 world both parties are split about foreign...
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ari fleischer and james carville square off next. "ñfÑ >>> raw politics now.he continuing battle over mitt romney's record at bain capital. they're trying to use each other as surrogates. democrats showing up in republican ads, republicans showing up in democratic ads. cats and dogs living together. that's actually a line from ghost busters. the rest is pure raw politics. today a day after republican supporters use barack obama in an ad. now opponents show rick perry attacking romney on bain. >> they sit there and they wait until they see a distressed company then they swoop in and pick the carcass clean and fly away. >> companies leave behind companies, people, broken towns. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> it's the ultimate insult for mitt romney to come to south carolina and tell you he feels your pain. he caused it. >> now not long ago abc news is reporting a top obama donor, a guy named jonathan levine, is a longtime bain executive. president obama has hired a number of private equity employees. last night i asked obama c
ari fleischer and james carville square off next. "ñfÑ >>> raw politics now.he continuing battle over mitt romney's record at bain capital. they're trying to use each other as surrogates. democrats showing up in republican ads, republicans showing up in democratic ads. cats and dogs living together. that's actually a line from ghost busters. the rest is pure raw politics. today a day after republican supporters use barack obama in an ad. now opponents show rick perry attacking...
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bush press secretary ari fleischer. so obviously all poll numbers a snapshot in time.ut romney has closed the gap significantly in some states. how concerned are you about the numbers? >> i would say very concerned. we're on what you would call the poehler coaster, right now. they'll go up and down. but for the most part, very, very tight. republicans have consolidated behinds romney pretty quickly and i think what you're seeing is the makings of a very close race. so i look at the polls and i think, it's going to be a very close race and it's going to come down to a very tough fight on the economy. the president does seem to have had the majority in most of the balthss ground states. >> kudos to bill, that's a frank acknowledgement. i think he's reading it right. but you don't folkous today's polls. you look ahead to the long-term trend. the long-term trend is we're locked in on a close race. what you look at is the challenger is that the incumbent, president obama is below 50. a point of vulnerability. for mitt romney, can he decrease the gap. with the registered vot
bush press secretary ari fleischer. so obviously all poll numbers a snapshot in time.ut romney has closed the gap significantly in some states. how concerned are you about the numbers? >> i would say very concerned. we're on what you would call the poehler coaster, right now. they'll go up and down. but for the most part, very, very tight. republicans have consolidated behinds romney pretty quickly and i think what you're seeing is the makings of a very close race. so i look at the polls...
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hopefully we'll get answers from james carville and ari fleischer. is not a distraction, it's going to be the center piece of the campaign, the attacks on mitt romney's record at bain and what that means, how he would govern as president. is that smart for him to double down on this, james? >> well, yeah. understand. what happened here is romney made his experience at bain central to his candidacy. he said he created jobs. he never talked about being governor of massachusetts or anything else. of course it's not an attack on private equity. it's an attack on what romney said he did. and other things happened there. i don't even understand the whining about this. romney's a man who has resources. go find people whose job you saved and put them on television. this is unbelievable. in my opinion, it's a legitimate thing to talk about. it's one guy saying i just want the credit for all the good things that happened but if you say any bad things happened then you're a terrible person. answer the ads and go about your business. >> ari? isn't romney's recor
hopefully we'll get answers from james carville and ari fleischer. is not a distraction, it's going to be the center piece of the campaign, the attacks on mitt romney's record at bain and what that means, how he would govern as president. is that smart for him to double down on this, james? >> well, yeah. understand. what happened here is romney made his experience at bain central to his candidacy. he said he created jobs. he never talked about being governor of massachusetts or anything...
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instead, republican strategist ari fleischer, he's with us by phone and also paul begala who is now advisingthe obama superpac. now he's using it in his own campaign ads. isn't that a flip-flop? >> sure, but there's a difference. there was an accomplishment. back then it was simply a hypothetical debate. he didn't like hillary clinton saying he would be tough enough. he said on friday, august 3rd of 2007, these are his words, if we have actual intelligence about high value terrorist targets and president musharraf won't act, we will. when he said that, he was attacked by senator clinton, senator mccain and governor romney. governor romney called those remarks ill timed and he attacked obama for saying, they would go into pakistan if there was actual intelligence locating bin ladin. i think senator mccain is a very honorable guy. i think for some of my friends from the bush administration who have a problem with this, one of their first ads, which showed a flag draped body carried out of the world trade center, if they knew that, that was really beyond the line. this is a legitimate triumph t
instead, republican strategist ari fleischer, he's with us by phone and also paul begala who is now advisingthe obama superpac. now he's using it in his own campaign ads. isn't that a flip-flop? >> sure, but there's a difference. there was an accomplishment. back then it was simply a hypothetical debate. he didn't like hillary clinton saying he would be tough enough. he said on friday, august 3rd of 2007, these are his words, if we have actual intelligence about high value terrorist...
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. >>> the political impact of the debate with ari fleischer and hilary rosen. do you think it's accurate for moveon.org and i even the white house to be saying this specifically, this idea of, you know, the student loan bill by offsetting it by -- eliminating the preventative health services is part of an attack on women specifically? >> no you know, i looked at factcheck.org i think they're right. but i sympathize with moveon.org because it's hard to get into a discussion about how the republicans are screwing up the program and taking programs from the needy to serve ore programs for the needy. if you've decided that student loans is something that we ought to do to help, then don't do what y did two weeks ago which is pass $45 billion worth of tax cuts for the wealthy. fund student loans. >> but does it help your argument -- but to your point, but does it help the argument to be stretching the facts on this particular branch? there's plenty of things you can argue about if you want to argue about assault on women's health or war on women or whatever. this pa
. >>> the political impact of the debate with ari fleischer and hilary rosen. do you think it's accurate for moveon.org and i even the white house to be saying this specifically, this idea of, you know, the student loan bill by offsetting it by -- eliminating the preventative health services is part of an attack on women specifically? >> no you know, i looked at factcheck.org i think they're right. but i sympathize with moveon.org because it's hard to get into a discussion about...
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. >> i want to ask you about the conversation we had with paul begala and ari fleischer talking about techniques and whether that led to the raid on the compound. >> wikileaks is a good source on this. we have the summaries of the interrogations of the key people who gave up information. and two al qaeda sort of senior people gave information that indicated the courier was important. two said that the courier wasn't important after they'd been interrogated. and they produced very conflicting information. so i mean, i think it's a very kind of gray picture. a lot of the other -- the ways that the courier was found getting his real name from another country was vital. he had a variety of aliases. getting his cell phone and able to locate it. getting a human spy on the ground where he was to follow him back to the compound. all those things were vital. coercive interrogations are a small part of this as are uncoerced interrogations. there's a bit of ammo for either side. >> and -- i mean, you spent a lot of time in pakistan researching the book. it really takes you inside both the compou
. >> i want to ask you about the conversation we had with paul begala and ari fleischer talking about techniques and whether that led to the raid on the compound. >> wikileaks is a good source on this. we have the summaries of the interrogations of the key people who gave up information. and two al qaeda sort of senior people gave information that indicated the courier was important. two said that the courier wasn't important after they'd been interrogated. and they produced very...
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joining me now is contributor ari fleischer, former white house contributor. cornell, the fact that they releases this video slamming romney for his time at bain, the same day a fund raiser by a private equity giant, isn't that kind of hypocritical? >> first a couple things. first you refer to a vampire and that language. vampire and vulture capitalist is not something that comes out of our mouth. that comes from the republican primary. look, so -- and the president and -- >> wait, you have somebody in that ad saying vampire and that's the -- obama campaign made that ad and they had that person say vampire whether or not they came up with it on their own. >> you've never heard anyone from the obama campaign say -- call a vampire or vulture. vulture capitalism. but bottom line is this. if mitt romney is going to make the predicate of his run that he's going to fix the economy, going to create jobs and the primary -- his time was spent at the head of bain, we have a right to examine that. we have a right to look at what he did at bain to make his money and unfol
joining me now is contributor ari fleischer, former white house contributor. cornell, the fact that they releases this video slamming romney for his time at bain, the same day a fund raiser by a private equity giant, isn't that kind of hypocritical? >> first a couple things. first you refer to a vampire and that language. vampire and vulture capitalist is not something that comes out of our mouth. that comes from the republican primary. look, so -- and the president and -- >> wait,...
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. >> i want to ask you briefly about the conversation we had before with paul begala and ari fleischery were squaring off over enhanced interrogation techniques and whether that led to the raid on the compound? >> wikileaks is a very good source on this. we have the actual summaries of the interrogations of some of the key people who gave up information. two al qaeda senior people gave information that indicated the courier was important. and the courier led to bin ladin. two senior al qaeda leaders said that the curier wasn't important after they had been coercively interrogated. in four cases there were coercive interrogations and they produced conflicting information. it's a gray picture. a lot of the other -- the way that the courier was found, getting his real name from another country was vital. he had a number of aliases. getting his cell phone and locating it, was huge. following him two and a half hours back to the compound was vital. coercive interrogation is a asmall part of this picture. there were a lot of other things that came up along the way. >> both sides can use it a
. >> i want to ask you briefly about the conversation we had before with paul begala and ari fleischery were squaring off over enhanced interrogation techniques and whether that led to the raid on the compound? >> wikileaks is a very good source on this. we have the actual summaries of the interrogations of some of the key people who gave up information. two al qaeda senior people gave information that indicated the courier was important. and the courier led to bin ladin. two senior...
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i'm joined by ari fleischer, former press secretary for president bush. and eric aronson. eric, you came out last year supporting senator lugar's challenger when he was down by 20 points or more. what happened? how did the senator lose? >> a couple of things. it wasn't just tea party activists asking richard to run. it was two-thirds of the indiana republican party asking him to run. richard lugar got disqualified from voting in indiana because he doesn't live there anymore. he just grew out of touch with indiana. that's a problem that politicians have. completely lost touch with indiana. the tea party saw the opportunity to pick up a seat and move it to the right, and they did with richard mourdock. >> any lessons in the lugar detaet? >> i think eric nailed it. i'm a hoosier. i live in the state with my wife. you forget who you are back home. is he really a hoosier anymore, or has he forgotten about us? he didn't return home often enough. that sends a signal. when two-thirds of the establishment republicans in indiana turn against you, from the very beginning of the campa
i'm joined by ari fleischer, former press secretary for president bush. and eric aronson. eric, you came out last year supporting senator lugar's challenger when he was down by 20 points or more. what happened? how did the senator lose? >> a couple of things. it wasn't just tea party activists asking richard to run. it was two-thirds of the indiana republican party asking him to run. richard lugar got disqualified from voting in indiana because he doesn't live there anymore. he just grew...
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i'm joined by ari fleischer, and erick erickson.ou came out last year supporting senator lugar's challenger a at time when he was done by 20 points or more. how did the senator lose? >> well, there are a couple of things, remember, it wasn't just tea party activists, it was about two thirds of the republicans asking murdoch to run, but others asking him to run. and dick lugar doesn't live in indiana anymore. he grew out of touch with indiana. he completely lost touch with indiana. the tea party saw an opportunity to pick up a seat and move it to the right. they did with richard mourdock. >> ari, any larger lessons in the defeat? >> i think eric nailed it. i'm married to a hoosier. this is the problem when you live in washington for so long, you forget who elected you. he didn't return home often enough. and sends a signal. when two-thirds of the establishment turn against you from the very beginning of the campaign, that really shows you have been away too long. less ideology, much more an older statesman who got out of touch. >> co
i'm joined by ari fleischer, and erick erickson.ou came out last year supporting senator lugar's challenger a at time when he was done by 20 points or more. how did the senator lose? >> well, there are a couple of things, remember, it wasn't just tea party activists, it was about two thirds of the republicans asking murdoch to run, but others asking him to run. and dick lugar doesn't live in indiana anymore. he grew out of touch with indiana. he completely lost touch with indiana. the tea...
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joining me is ari fleischer and paul begala. boehner is saying the next cut has to have dollar for dollar cuts. but the budget office increases the debt by $5 trillion over ten years. why is that okay? >> right. well, you have to ask the speaker that. i think -- first, let me just say, john boehner's patriotic american, he's a good man, he's a good congressman. he leads his party ably. but what he is proposing is to purposefully damage our country, to take the full faith and credit of our nation to the brink. and they did this once and as you noted it hurt the country. it didn't just hurt the democrats or the republicans, it hurt a lot of middle class families and we should never do that again. the debt ceiling has been raised for 95 years. we used to not have a debt ceiling and there's no real need to have it. it's a contrivance that congress put in in 1917. but every time we've done it for 95 years until this past time, it's been done in a bipartisan way because no one has ever wanted to risk our full faith and credit because
joining me is ari fleischer and paul begala. boehner is saying the next cut has to have dollar for dollar cuts. but the budget office increases the debt by $5 trillion over ten years. why is that okay? >> right. well, you have to ask the speaker that. i think -- first, let me just say, john boehner's patriotic american, he's a good man, he's a good congressman. he leads his party ably. but what he is proposing is to purposefully damage our country, to take the full faith and credit of our...