that wherever bill clinton arrives it is an event. a happening, to be experienced and remembered. >> he is i superstar, isn't he. >> you can do it here, i can figure out how to put it everywhere and get it funded for you. i will really help you. >> did you ever have a pause where i thought i don't know what i'm going to do next. and then this began to develop this almost glob role you play now? >> it is global. >> well, in the middle of my second term as president i began to think about what i would do. and in general, i thought the two things. i thought number one i want to keep being very active in the things i cared about as president, where i can still have an influence. and the second thing i wanted to do was to try to explain the world we're living in to my fellow americans and the people around the world. >> so everything is sort of grown out of that. >> this special on bill clinton airs on msnbc on monday february 21st at 10 p.m. i'm pleased to have chris matthews back at this table, welcome. >> right before charlie rose. we s

in fact, if you look at the front of the book, you see bill clinton's face, but from the back it's not evident, and if you hold it six feet away, you see it's a mirror image of ken starr's face. so people did witness these events and felt very strongly in different directions as to who was responsible for this mess, and i do think that, certainly, when you look at the progression of events, there are a lot of things--and there is a lot of new information, as you know, in the book never before disclosed--but certainly a lot of things do support president clinton's assertion that, to a certain extent, folks were out to get him, people were out to destroy him politically, and they lost their compass in doing this, and really went overboard. for instance, you have the starr report that really backfired because it just went into so much salacious detail-- it really helped president clinton, because people were horrified by this. so i do think that president clinton, although not unscathed, can point to certain aspects of this story and say that they vindicate him, but likewise, ken starr an

bill clinton was a peacock. when he lost his temper with me in the jockey club in '96, '95, in 1995, he started -- he was exorcised about a piece we did in the american spectator. came over, wanted me to talk and schmooze. he turned the whole conversation to my daughter because he thought he could kind of chat her up and get past this difficult moment. and i asked him instead what'd you think about the mean airport piece? he went off like a rocket, and he immediately called out of the card catalog of his mind, he called back l.d. brown. l.d. brown was an arkansas state trooper involved in the maine airport, and he went through the whole litany of criticisms he had of l.d. brown. and i was astonished at how the president of the united states could bring back this crisis of ten years before and bring back the talking points that he had on that. [laughter] on that particular crisis. but, and also i was astonished that the president of the united states was screaming at me in public, and yet i wasn't the least bit a

in "the clinton crack-up," i have bill absconding from the white house. clinton didn't so much leave the white house as absconded from it. and they

. >> just to correct some things so i don't want poor bill clinton to be a bike -- bill clinton to be responsible for me, i advised bill clinton, but not on libya. colonel gaddafi and his regime after his decision to yield his weapons of mass destruction did become an ally in going after al qaeda. the colonel himself was on the hit list of al qaeda and hundreds of people were arrested in islamic fighting fronts representing al qaeda who were imprisoned by gaddafi. he was an ally of the west against al qaeda. i don't think it is true to say al qaeda has much to do with what is going on now. it might be natural for him, as a revolution me -- revolutionary founder, to claim we are ganging up against him. when we are dealing with gaddafi, we are not dealing with mubarak, a third-generation bureaucratic general, but a first generation revolutionary leader on the level of castro. he has memories of himself as a revolutionary founder and as somebody who has taken on the fight against islamic fundamentalism and al qaeda. to that degree, there is a kernel of truth in the colonel's fears of al

his msnbc special on bill clinton's post presidency airs monday night. we're all looking forward to that. welcome to today. and with us "the washington post"'s howard fineman, kelly o'donnell, constitution cynthia tucker and politico's jon harris. first up, america broke? the urgency of our debt crisis is long talked about but now is really hitting home. on the state level we seen the face-off between governors and public employees. most dramatically out in wisconsin. on the federal level, there's a growing sense of the fury that brought in the tea party might lead to a bipartisan deal on entitlements. here's a graphic that shows the urgency. lovente edge you see the current year, social security, medicare and medicaid are still below total federal revenue. but look at what happens every year from now on. every cent of annual federal revenue will be engulped by entitlements by the year 2050. is the time right to find a fix? one of the biggest voices on the republican side is their new house budget chair, paul ryan, who said this to politico's mike allen

in "the clinton crack-up," i have bill absconding from the white house. clinton didn't so much leave the white house as absconded from it. and they were found, you know, they were accused of stealing flat ware, and they had to pay back some of the money on the flatpair and silverware and sofas. they were criticized for "the new york times" and the new york observer for stealing as they left the white house and for pardons that they, that they gave not just puerto puerto ricans, but a whole lot of people. in fact, "the new york times" or, no, the new york observer said if we knew now what the clintons were like, what was it, if hillary had any shame, she's retire from public office. that was said in '01 as the clintons left the white house. the end sodic -- end sodic apologists as i call them had once again turned their back on the clintons, and they were in high dungeon over the misbehavior of the clintons. in a very short period of time, the new york observer and new york times were calling for hillary to stay in office and run for president, as a matter

he said this to remind us had we been praying for bill clinton like we should have been maybe monica let's he never would have made it to the oval office. >> host: you race to great points. first of all, just to go back. do you regret the personal and public nature of that? >> guest: i do. yep. i really, really do. that was of bad -- it was a bad reaction. i said it because it made me angry. dealing with this disease, as i do and don't give it to my dad earlier than when he really had it. >> host: you tell the story about going to pray for bill clinton and everyone from bush to read to you believe, you know, the current political environment so polarized, a lot of anger directed at barack obama in particular. do you ever pray for barack obama? >> guest: i really do. it's interesting. i might have written this in the book. you know, i like the fact. i disagree with is politics. i like the fact that he still did his wife. i do like that. when you look at a community in the world we live in today, 40 million children would go to bed in fatherless homes. that is a huge amount of children

bill clinton was more like abbling. when it came to the battle of the personality, bill clinton is cool. >> cool in temperment, yes. >> and this likable guy who has his said against the wall, boehner, the speaker, he has to do it, dan, right? >> the person who comes off as cool hand luke is president obama. i'm not sure that boehner comes off that well. on this business of shutting down the government, we are talking about the political effects of it. there is a country here to run. whoever gets the blame for shutting down the government, we are a country at war. we have people at war in iraq and afghanistan, and you are going to shut down the government? the public at large is going to be very negative and it is vital which side gets the blame for shutting it down. >> you are 65, 70 or 80 years old. you go to the mail box and your check hasn't come in for social security. who do you blame? >> i think they are going to blame whoever is in office. people are set up. they are saying i cut back on my spending. my family is

they are immune to that, and bill clinton, i went with him to gaza and beth lee ham -- bethleham and jerusalem and the israeli sides get people to do what they would not do on their own. he has an incredible ability to move public opinion, and right now we have to change opinion on the palestinian side and on the israeli side. you have to change policy here, but you have to change opinion there, and if you can change opinion and bill clinton can do it, jorge mitchell, that's not the style he brings. they would actually be a great team. clinton levins the -- doe, and mitchell brings people together. >> host: back to the book and a couple things that surprised me. just things that, you know, even covering this that kind of went right by me. i didn't realize during the 2006 lebanon war that it was a u.s. official, a state department official -- sorry, not the lebanon war but after the asis nation when you saw the demonstrations in beirut that they called it the cedar revolution and that was the actually lebanese calling it the independence which doesn't ring as well because of its assoc

here is bill clinton first talking about how he saw the choices. here it is. >> had you not had that surgery you might not have been able to walk your beautiful daughter down the aisle. >> you know, wherever i get discouraged about first one thing then another i think of the enormous gratitude i feel for that. that was one of the best days of my life and one of the most important days of my life. >> and someday, mr. president, some little child may look up and say "hello grandpa." >> i hope so. because that's my next big goal. i want to hang around here to have grandchildren. >> rose: what happened? >> well, first of all the fact that david letterman would doll this interview, you know he almost never does interviews and we've been asking him for a long time to come on specials and he did this because he thought it was so important. if it's a very personal interview. he went to the doctor to have a routine checkup and the doctor said "you're having this operation now." he said "now?" "now." and we talked to this about whether this changed his life.

the president has taken a strategy like bill clinton done with republicans when newt gingrich was the speaker. bill clinton came out, the question is not whether we're going to balance the budget it's how fast we're going to balance the budget. >> president obama says -- said the question aren't cuts that damage the ability our future. the question of tax increases and health care are likely to comb punted in the next two years. >> does that play out in the presidential field? we're relatively late for people to decide whether we're going to run especially against an incumbent president. do you see these same arguments or is it different? >> you see most of the same arguments but the dynamic that exists in the presidential nominating battle is one that pushes the candidates more to appease the tea party side of the party as opposed to tea party leadership here in washington. i was in iowa talking to a lot of different people and one person who was a local activist volunteered the idea. we do not want our people back in washington cooperating with president obama. that's not what this

ansel of and he said to us and reminded us had we christians been praying for bill clinton like we should have been maybe monica lewinsky never would have made it to the oval office reva >> host: you raise it to great points. first to go back, do you regret the personal and public nature of that tweet at your brother? >> guest: yeah, i mean i really, really do, and that was a bad -- the was a bad reaction. because it really made me angry. dealing with this disease as i do, and don't give it to my dad earlier than when he really had it. >> host: you tell the story about three am skilling up to pray for bill clinton and everybody for george bush in your congregation. do you believe the current political environment has been so polarized and there has been a lot as anchor director of barack obama in particular. do you ever pray for barack obama? >> guest: i do, and i talk about that -- it's interesting. i said -- with all the things i write in the book i might have even written this in the book, the fact that, you know, i like the fact that -- i disagree with his politics, as you know in the

if you listen to barack obama speeches and bill clinton's speeches you hear a lot of reaganesque terms in those speeches. and you wish gosh it would be nice if the republicans could pick some of those things up that it is not stupid to pick up a lou cannon book and probably the best biographer of ronald reagan was lou cannon because he came to the full spectrum buddy started with ronald reagan. and you got to see the man all the way through the system. he is just a great great guy but it was good to feel the sea that and i think it is wise for presidents or others to study those that went before them. read about them and learn from them. ronald reagan was a great great reader of those who went before him and he was in awe when he walked into that white house and of those who went before him and to keep that or a of respectability through at all. he learned a lot from others. >> host: in that spirit of civility your father always reaching out and talking about our democratic friends. who are some of the democrats if you think are good americans who you look to and say you know what? tha

he spoke in oxford after bill clinton was just arrested. george herbert walker, his running mate was just defeated. he spoke about the state of the country. a speech that you helped to write. >> in my country those -- in some countries those who hold fashionable ideas are sent off the stage. what a perversion of the great chaoti yet essential marketace of ideas that we call decracy. but then i have always believed at home and abroad that the only cure for what ales democracy is more democracy. >> in couries like egypt and tunisia, what are your thoughts? guest: i think ronald reagan's words are prescient. they bowl center -- bolster the case for those whose values will endure long after he is not around. republican leader, left, right, great leaders, they don't only speak to us, they speak for us. they give voice to essentially american values. i think many ronald reagan did that better than anyone of his time. host: one other point from your "time" magazine piece, "ronald reagan like president jackson was anything but. but this refusal to

but bill clinton ran ahead of schedule. barack obama ran ahead of schedule. if you run earlier than everybody says you should run, you win. >> but when your name is bush, the timetable is different. and especially -- he can appeal to the tea party but some time has to elapse between the bushes running i would think. chris: but confuse jeb with george w. after you met the guy for five minutes? >> in 2008 we talked about the dynasties. nobody would confuse hillary and bill clinton. chris: are brothers as tight as married people? >> obama has already run against a bush once in 2008. and i think he would win again. and i think jeb knows that. chris: -- >> i don't think the establishment is hungry as it is for an attractive man who can unite the party will convince jeb bush to move up his timetable. 2012, he thinks, and i think he's right. chris: there you are. is that a statement he doesn't think they'll win and that's why he's not running? >> right now obama is strong much that this would be a suicide mission. chris: does he read it that way? jeb bush as smart a

everybody's hands go up and he said to us had we christians been praying for bill clinton like we should have been, maybe monica lewinsky never would have made it into the oval office. >> you race to great plans but first of all, just to go back, do you regret that personal and public nature of that tweet about your brother? >> guest: yes, really, really do come and that was just a bad reaction because it really made me in three dealing with this disease as i do and don't give it to my dad earlier than he really had it. >> host: you told a story about the three hands coming up to prefer bill clinton and everyone for bush in your congregation. do you believe of the current political environment is so polarized the has been a lot of anger directed at barack obama in particular. do you ever prefer barack obama? >> guest: i do and i even talked about that. it's interesting. i've said called the things i write in the book and i may have written this in the book, i disagree with his politics as you know in the book but i like the fact he still dates his wife. when you look in the community we

like, they had a bill clinton character referring to me, thinking i was a guy. like, alex borstein, who does an amazing impression of me which i think is hilarious, and bill clinton-- we were doing politically incorrect in the sketch. and he kept saying, "you be quiet, fella," like that, like he was-- now, that's very funny, and i really loved it. and i think that that's great. it was creative, and it was funny, and-- but when joan rivers makes fun of people--not just me. i take issue with the fact that she makes fun of everybody. it's not just me. i'm not--i don't care, you know? but when she oinks at me and camryn manheim and rosie o'donnell and all these other wonderful women, she really feeds into the sexism of our culture. thank you for joining us today. as long as i could get my own nasty comments in. that's what this is all about. we still think you're topical and talented. topical, talented, and terrific. oh, great. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. captioning provided by the first amendment center, funded by the freedom forum. captioning by e

my comment about the book is compared to say bill clinton's my life autobiography, i found the bush book to at least take a lot more responsibility. when i read clinton's book it seemed to me there was a lot of blaming other people where bush's book even if it didn't convince me that he made everything being the right decision that at least he took responsibility. my question is, in evaluating a president how long -- i mean, when i think about when i was in high school, i was taught that eisenhower liked to play golf. he really didn't get involved. when i read stuff about the cold war today, there was a lot more to his relationship with khrushchev. when i was in school, we read reagan read a script and he was a dumb actor but now how involved he was in his presidency and a role he played in the cold war. even truman when he fired macarthur and now he's a top president. how long will we know president bush was and what he really did? >> dr. brown? >> well, i will say this, most historians dislike political scientists like me. most of the historians i know think that 50 years is really a g

. >> you share one thing in common with bill clinton. euro from hope, arkansas. describe the town. >> when i grew up there it was a town of about 8000 people. i grew up in the old deep south culture, seeing jim crow laws and segregation. i remember -- it was a great time to grow up there. people knew each other and look after each other. i used to say that if i got in trouble eight blocks from home, before i could get my bicycle home, six people would call my parents and tell them what i had done. there was a sense in which the village was involved. it was a good community, good schools, teachers that inspired us. there was a sense of civic life there that was very admirable. i also saw that community grow and change. one of the things i am proud of is seeing that in my lifetime, i have seen an african-american elected president. i said that right after the election. i write about it and make it very clear that my home town was a very good place to grow up. >> you refer to -- barack obama refer to the unprecedented economic crisis. you said that the word you are

i review i mean if she looks like she could be totally and you know i bet bill clinton that i love that this is my favorite day of the big you know deal i sent this to my mom my dad my grandma or grandpa and my brother granted all fans of obama and biden but still i think this is delightful this should have come out of the d.n.c. rather than in the r. and c. i agree why aren't celebrate a little cussing every now and then you know it was a big deal at the sign at the start treaty and i with. me i support him all the way or health care excuse me now i want to talk about yesterday the grammys were on. i stayed up way too late watching them and then later regretted it but justin bieber didn't win the best new artist award which. i made his band totally came out and attacked and they have to the website or the wikipedia page of the girl speranza spalding who actually did win and they put things like changed her middle name to case a dia racist. they said she now has the two thousand living grammy for being the best new artist even though no one has ever heard of her yeah that's true and thi

he spoke in oxford after bill clinton was just arrested.rge herbert walker, his running mate was just defeated. he spoke about the state of the country. a speech that you helped to write. >> in my country those -- in some countries those who hold unfashionable ideas are sent off the stage. what a perversion of the great chaotic yet essential marketplace of ideas that we call democracy. but then i have always believed at home and abroad that the only cure for what ales democracy is more democracy. >> in countries like egypt and tunisia, what are your thoughts? guest: i think ronald reagan's words are prescient. they bowl center -- bolster the case for those whose values will endure long after he is not around. republican leader, left, right, great leaders, they don't only speak to us, they speak for us. they give voice to essentially american values. i think many ronald reagan did that better than anyone of his time. host: one other point from your "time" magazine piece, "ronald reagan like president jackson was anything but. but this refusa

bill clinton revealed this week that he only sent two e-mails while he was president. [ light laughter and then he added -- [ imitates bill clinton ] "it turns out those pills are just a scam." [ laughter ] get this, a man in florida was arrested for hitting a guy with a bo flex machine he was selling. it's weird. you imagine a guy with a bo flex would just think about hitting the guy and never actually do it for like months and then abandon the thought altogether. but he did it. he actually did it. check this out, you guys. a video game developer asked his girlfriend to marry him in the video game minecraft. yeah, it was really cute. they even know what they are going to play for the first dance. ♪ [ super mario bros theme plays ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: then the party got really crazy. ♪ [ super mario bros theme plays ] [ cheers and applause ] "grandma, get up here! grandma, come on up! go crazy! come on!" ties around the side of my head. this isn't good, you guys. a man in colorado dropped an engagement ring down a sewer drain while he was proposing to his girlfriend. yeah

otherworldly event-- the alpine setting, the concentration of global rock stars, including the three bs: bill clinton, bill gates, and bono. this year, something else made it seem out of touch with reality-- the almost complete lack of panel discussions on the rolling revolts in north africa and the middle east. none had been planned. here was the world's premiere gathering of risk managers of all sorts-- bankers, diplomats, consultants, policy analysts. but none foresaw the events that are now roiling markets and upsetting the established political and economic order. instead, there were plenty of talks about how to prevent the next banking crisis or the next ireland. and this isn't new. in january 2008, when sub-prime first exploded, davos man was similarly caught unawares. global risk managers, it seems, always prepare for the last big debacle. so my big takeaway from davos 2011? when it comes to figuring out where the next big risk lies, the rich and powerful are rather poor and impotent. i'm daniel gross. >> susie: and finally tonight-- pretzels, peanuts, and facebook? starting today, seven majo

ball instead of needing a warrant each time the national security agency has even intercepted bill clinton's private e-mails later said to be an inadvertent mistake among millions of other pieces of correspondence snooped on a privacy watchdog suggest that since two thousand and one the f.b.i. has intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of american citizens far more frequently and to a greater extent than was previously assumed supporters of the act say it's needed because of the terrorist threats that we've had thirty six stored in terrorist attacks since nine eleven well do you know for a fact that it was thanks to the patriot act that the attacks were prevented it's difficult to say that for sure because when you look at.

bill clinton was spending a% of our gross domestic product, we would be a lot better off. host: you use that in. no. 5 in your peace. guest: right now is 23.8% of our gross domestic product, the second-highest a percentage that we have had since world war two. the president's budget would increase that to about 24.8%. the republicans right now are supposed to be getting tough and having draconian cuts. that would bring it back to 23% of gross domestic product. under bill clinton, we were at 18%. we have enormous groh in government over the last 10 years. host: our guest isichael tanner from the cato institute. you can read his article at "national review." we have a call from winston, north carolina. caller: i keep hearing people talking about discretionary spending is only 18% of the budget. 80% is still pretty good chunk of money. it should be cut. i do not want to see people hurt but there is a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse out there. the thing i do not hear from a lot of the comments coming in is that people do not realize that both parties have done this year. and bo

with regan he still maintained his core convictions i think. >> bill clinton. >> the master. >> continues to be. >> continues to be. >> i have heard him and you have heard him he goes on for 40 minutes you go can he stop he loses trot he goes all over. he swamps you with details. >> you always learn something what i love about clinton's speeches he is constantly thinking about tomorrow and he talks about that. he talks about the future business. he is always trying to be contemporary in terms of tomorrow not necessarily reflecting on the past. i always want to stop but i get it, it goes on and on heck i am the worst of the worst i get it. >> the best of the best you are known to listen to speeches you study them, you are a student of political history who is your favorite. >> bobby kennedy. hands down. >> because? >> he wasn't a particularly gifted speaker he was quite nervous on the stump famously so. uncomfortable giving speeches, goes to conviction, values, sense of purpose. >> it was interesting i was talking toga vein newsom after wars not just -- toga vein newsom afterwards and it i

you bill clinton was in the oval office.s was shut out. the league announced its all- star reserves this afternoon. ellis, despite being fifth in the nba in scoring, did not make the list. manu ginobili and deron williams. he leads all shooting guards with over five assists per game. if the warriors had a winning record instead of being seven games under 500 it might be a different story. >> just going to focus on it like i have been doing the whole season. like i said, it is just a situation that you can't control. just got to move on. >>> three days to go until super bowl xlv. and it is clear by now that two weeks of build-up is simply too much. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: the piano man ben roethlisberger is defending himself for a paparazzo report that said he was out late drinking tuesday night with his teammates. the steelers say he went to dinner with his linemen. >> it is normal for guys to eat dinner, believable it or not, every now and then. >> the cracked tmz staff that they are they say i was out past 1:00 a.m. curfew

. >> por su parte, dice que haber trabajado para bill clinton y barack obama le permite entender mejors hijos y de las serias preocupaciones de desempleo y educaciÓn de chicago. >> para declararse ganador un candidato este martes va a tener que obtener mÁs del 50 % de los votos, de no ser asÍ, sin embargo, estÁ pautado que el 5 de abril ocurrirÍa la segunda vuelta. en chicago, illinos, univisiÓn. >> andrÉs manuel lÓpez obrafrador excandidato presidencial ha decidido alejarse de su partido. aunque hace meses ha venido trabajando en una especie de movimiento que ya reÚne a diferentes sectores, hoy afirmÓ oficialmente que se dedicarÁ a construir una alianza para apoyar una candidatura presidencial que represente un cambio. queremos recordar que a partir de maÑana lunes noticiero univisiÓn presentarÁ una serie sobre los presidenciables. al final de la serie, tendremos una encuesta exclusiva de univisiÓn para ver quiÉn podrÍa ser el prÓximo presidente de mÉxico. >> primera pausa. acapulco es cenario de nuevas masacres. >> atribuyen a un ajuste de cuentas una matanza. registrada en puerto ri

it includes former president bill clinton. they were all given two years to live throughout the surgery. but it's not all doom and groom. >> i had an aortic valve and we have a cow valve and robins says he gives good milk now. >> women are especially at risk and she wants everyone to know what they can do to prevent the diseases. a matter of life and death tonight at abc 7 at 10:00. >> mike ahead with the super bowl forecast. >> one of the things you can do this weekend, walk. a great way to get some exercise. >> you can do that sunday, as long as you walk a couple more miles in the sunshine on saturday. eat all you want sunday as long as you exercise on saturday. how warm and if we threaten records this weekend. >> the verizon i-phone is breaking records before it even hits store shelves. >> and listen to this. football, fans could spend as much time ♪ >> giants fans, tomorrow you get to be up close and personal with the team. the annual giants fanfest will be held at at&t park. during the four-hour festival, a chance to get

he came in ahead of abraham lincoln and bill clinton. >>> the latest storm that dumped about a-foot of snow in michigan and new york is now getting its share paid drivers sometimes wound up in a ditch. >>> air travel is also an traveled. thousands of flights were canceled at the minneapolis airport. there are also delays at chicago o'hare, newark, and laguardia. >>> people are looking to check out the flakes today and got turned away. >> tonight we are tracking a new storm along the coast. that was a possibility of a record -- with record cold air. what you can expect for tomorrow, coming up. >> those who made a trip to the sierras for the long weekend had plenty of fresh snow. we gave you a live look along interstate 80. traffic is going westbound toward the bay area. >>> atop some of the bigger your's piques you can see the aftermath of recent storms. maureen naylor shows us how the winter weather was fun for some people but dangerous for others. >> reporter: newschopper2 captured these images. >> this is probably the biggest snowfall we have had in 10 years. >> reporter: he works at

that's former president bill clinton. he will spike this afternoon to a computer security conference at moscone center in san francisco. he plans to talk about the challenge of globalization and the growing interdependence between nations. clinton charges, get this, as much as $350,000 a speech. >> i guess we should say good morning mr. president times two. >>> two men had once worked together as antioch police officers go to court this afternoon to face charges that they worked together on stealing and selling drugs. norman wielsch is commander of the contra costa county's narcotics enforcement team. he is accused of stealing and selling drugs confiscated by his officers. private investigator chris butler is also under arrest. >>> pg&e is sharply raising its estimates of what it will cost to deal with last year's deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno. the utility may ask for permission to pass some of that cost on to the customers. christin ayers is in san bruno with a look at the numbers, joins us now. good morning, ch

governor mike huckabee was born in 1955 in hope, ark., nine years after bill clinton was born there. his father was a firefighter and a mechanic, but the son was to become a congregational pastor, and head of the southern baptist state convention. in 1974, he man in -- he married his high-school sweetheart, and they have three children. he was elected lieutenant governor in 1993 and was governor from 1996 until 2007. he is also an author of such books on character-building, and one on beginning a healthy lifestyle. he also hosts the fox news channel show how to be. he is an honorable member -- huckabee. he is also a member of the fraternity that incidentally was also the fraternity of ronald reagan. i give you mike huckabee. [laughter] [applause] >> i might also mention it is the honorary fraternity of elvis presley. where i come from, the three people speak of our jesus, elvis presley. i was almost the same. i have a phone call this morning, that lasted 20 minutes, and i was finally able to break loose and be with you. i wanted to correct one thing i was not third in the republican