it is bill clinton's fault.rong about syria, chemical weapons, so too was clinton about north korea. go to facebook.com/seanhannity, @seanhannity on twitter. let us know what you think. playing some nasty messages for me. >> sean: that is not really hates. i have a movie coming out. it's called "let there be light." it will be out over thanksgiving and i hope you like it. if you have something to say, call the number on your screen. 877-225-8587. that's all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us. we will see you back here tomorrow night. ♪ >> dana: hi, i am dana perino, in for bill o'reilly, who is on vacation. thanks for watching us tonight. let's get to the top story: the escalating crisis with north korea. vice president mike pence stood in the demilitarized zone just feet from the north korean border yesterday.ra he declared a new era in america'se handling of the rogue state. during a visit to seoul, the vice president said this. >> strategic patience has been the approach of the la

it is bill clinton's fault. wrong about syria, chemical weapons, so too was clinton about north korea. go to facebook.com/seanhannity, @seanhannity on twitter. let us know what you think. playing some nasty messages for me. >> sean: that is not really hates. i have a movie coming out. it's called "let there be light." it will be out over thanksgiving and i hope you like it. if you have something to say, call the number on your screen. 877-225-8587. that's all the time we have left this evening. thank you for b >> martha: tonight, nearly 1.5 million americans would have only 20 minutes to prepare for an attack from north korea. tonight, the hawaiian islands, which are within the strike zone are starting to revamp their emergency response plans that they have not even looked at since 1985. this, as the vice president signals a new era. >> it was one of -- a quarter century ago that we first learned of the presence of nuclear weapons on the korean peninsula. in the possession of north kore north korea. there was an

someone, you know, let's remember when bill clinton and paul will remember this, bill clinton suck seated because he embraced what was call the third way. he wanted to take the best from the democratic party and the best from the republican party and built the middle and it helped him govern. i think there's a very practical point about, look, this makes it -- this kind of speech makes it really hard for someone in the senate that's a democrat or in the house to vote with donald trump. >> right. >> because they're going to get killed from their own party. if he's declaring total war on the other party and not reaching out, just as a practical matter, the legislation he needs to pass is going to need democrat votes and he is going to have a really hard time getting them with this kind of rhetoric. >> but i can say for the whole time on this campaign whenever he would do something outageous people will say he'll learn, he'll learn, we'll come back, he'll change. this is 100 days in. he is not changing. when are we going to learn this. >> but is he bringing folks in from the other camp. >> n

bill clinton wanted her to get in front of that and say this is wrong. i denounce that. just like a republican would denounce a donation from the wrong person. but her fear was there is no reason to call attention to this. a lot of people don't even know about it. the news media isn't covering it so let's keep it under wraps and bill clinton said you can't do that. it's out there. it's going from bishop to bishop. you have to get out front and say absolutely not we have nothing to do with it. >> you mentioned some of it came out in that e-mail. 22% of the population are catholic. and this is part of that e-mail, massive amounts of e-mail from the clinton campaign and john podesta and jennifer was part of that both of whom were catholic as i remember which is why they had the expertise to deal they could influence. so how much was the week, how much difference did it make? >> if you think back to when george h. w. bush won with a tremendous landslide and he split the catholic vote 50/50 and yet he won a landslide because of the evangelicals he had, trump took the catholic

so did bill clinton. bill clinton was much more centrist and not ideological the way trump came in but i never really had a clear sense of what trump wants to do other than sticking broadly to the theme he's been speaking about trade and other countries ripping us off. >> rose: that's what amazes me too. two questions, one, did he come to some of these views because it was for him to the whitehouse because he had been a democrat, he had been all over the political map and endorsed people that the republican party, certainly the right and the republican party would find that, that's one question. another question is how much of this has he really believed for a long time. i think china is one example of that. >> that's right. china is definitely one example of that. more broadly that nato members are not paying their fair share in the free rider issue, we actually heard him talk. >> rose: same about south korea just yesterday. >> absolutely. that harkened back he didn't quite say it during the campaign, th

i worked with bill clinton on the speeches. usually presidents do it to poke fun at themselves, say they have a sense of their own limitations. it is a chance to show self-awareness. i have a feeling that's not what trump wanted to do. he'd rather be where he is. >> i think that's right. he knew that by going to the dinner he was going to leave himself vulnerable. the challenge with folks attending the dinner is it is black tie and it is jux posed to where he is in pennsylvania. the media is elite and i'm in rural pennsylvania. translating that. >> michael, president clinton was forced by the elections to start working with republicans after his first midterm and then moved centrist, cut deals with them, some to the right of center. do you think donald trump will be forced to do the same thing to have a legislative agenda and work with democrats or do you think he'll continue to solidify the republican base as polls have shown he's been doing. >> you're right. presidents often make pivots that nobody expects them to do even as

bill clinton micromanaged military. all lawyers micromanaged milita.d trump is saying, they know what his agenda is, they know the dynamic and the general in afghanistan made that choice with that bomb. for syria, is the same situation. they're looking at genuine targets, massive force, it has an impact on the goal, bombing and aspirin factory was more for show with someone like clinton. in this case, you're actually seeing real results at stopping the syrians. we eliminated over 20 of their fighter jets, so you're looking at a real impact of a real military decision making process under which they are in control of. >> jon: even, as you know, there are some journalists who have been setting out tweets, wondering if this is the right course of action and decrying the president's change of heart in using military force more than he seemed to be willing to do as a candidate, but if you have israel and turkey, those governments, right next door to syria, they both expressed admiration for the presidents action. japan, australia, england, a whole bunch of

they put together a great campaign and the candidates bill clinton and al gore. he said the campaign is about a big idea a. big idea. was there a big idea to the hillary clinton campaign in 2016? a big idea? >> no, that's the problem. she had been running for president for so long, at least ten years, she still wasn't able to convince voters in the right places she had a vision for the country, one big idea. >> what about the woman thing? the first woman president? was that something she -- i think she ran on that the first time seemed to hesitate to run on that argument t. majority of people that vote, a president that can be president. >> she actually didn't run on it. >> i didn't think so. >> and overcorrect and thought to do that. in our first book we talked about she was strap dprapling on that in the end. >> she did it in '08. she did in '16. yeah, she wanted to adrisz that actually at the very of 'ol campaign. she wanted to correct it then. she did for the 2016 campaign. she spoke to women and tried to aim towards women. >> my reference to the wild thing ab

my wife at the moment with bill clinton, i settled think the republicans will do here to impeach somebody for sex. my wife said no. think about what this is really about. it is the power. clearly still in her adolescence in somewhat fragile and this is the most powerful man in the world. so don't think about the sex but the disparity of power and how wrong that was. he got impeached for lying about it. not be actual lack. that is my first instinct. >> so remember that is a difficult concept and not until there is a balance of power of congress which could have been. >> you wrote populism is a libertarian and tragedy the greatest danger has been those themselves that democracy doesn't just contain obstruction but the route and the fruit and though for the entry. >> we don't want that because once you get a despot is hard to get rid of . then you have to be caligula. and it still is the worst anybody who has come up with the additive is an indictment and win individuals turn into a mob. that could come from either end of the of political spectrum. an abolitionist, and the economic views wer

former advisor to bill clinton and a fox news contributor and friend, good to see you. you have been traveling about glad to have you back. president clinton probably teaches a few things about dealing with difficult people, right? he had four different congresses, the first all democrat, the next three for the rest of his presidencies he was stacked against republicans. what did you tell him? >> bipartisanship. what was i call triangulation. candidly, with donald trump fighting with republicans, he has to if he is going to succeed, build on the success of last week's raid and begin bipartisan outreach to the democrats. >> harris: last week's raid? what you mean? >> the attack on syria followi following. >> because he has bipartisan support on that. >> yes, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. now, given the fact that republicans on healthcare are divided between the freedom caucus, the establishment, the republicans and moderates, he really has to if he is going to succeed. whether it be a tax reform, healthcare, or infrastructure. >> harris: let's stay with tax reform now.

here is bill clinton in the old impeachment days. >> you don't want to go here, peter.to go here. not after what you people did. and the way you, your network, what you did, with kenneth starr, the way your people repeated every little sleazy thing he leaked. >> so that was, you know, six years on later from the underlying incident. bill clinton, you could see the vigor there that he felt and that he put forward, in a lot of his allies liked that side of him. very different underlying stories, we can all stipulate that. curt, speak to the larger arc. >> i think the larger arc here is, for trump to win this narrative, the media would have to become complacent. if on day 200 the media just begins to accept that, you know, trump is going to say these things, he will call us fake news, and they play into that, while missing the really broader, important stories that need to be told, the broader in-depth investigations that need to happen -- trump puts out a lot of these things really to distract everyone. it's like catnip. he is hoping that the so-called urgent gets in the

to these 12 students, just out of curiosity how many of you voted for bob dole and how many for bill clinton? clinton first. 11 hands went to the eyesight so only one of you voted for bob dole? no, i voted for ralph nader. [laughter] journalism will never fix itself until it addresses the self-selection issue of who goes into journalism. a indiscernible and ronald reagan voters and when pat buchanan voter and i guarantee the definition of ms. itself will change. journalists cannot correct it within the newsroom itself. if the matter the type of person who go into journalism. there's nothing nefarious. people who go onto wall street archive for mcauliffe is a generalized statement. any more ideological ideological balance in newsrooms. any people who are able to think differently and say i think donald trump can win this presidency. you're missing what's going on in the heartland in the ring so wrong because they couldn't understand it. they could relate to it. the "washington post" and sonny purdue was named secretary of agriculture, they put out a story, a headline knocking purdue for prayi

president clinton's fcc chairman, bill canard. and in more recent years, we were told that the title 2 order itself was an economics free zone and the

finally, on bill clinton, i know -- i heard this in real time about a week before the election, bill about the campaign. he wasn't being a yes man or reinforcing her. he was telling her you've got to appeal more to white working class voters. you can't just depend on the college educated and on the traditional democratic constituency. i don't know what the book says about bill clinton, but i do know he was calling people and complaining about the campaign. i don't think he was simply a ra ra guy for hillary. >> give me one second. i think we're getting breaking news. i want to get over to brian stelter right now. he's got some breaking news with regard to the story, the nationwide manhunt that we've all been following so closely since sunday of that facebook murder suspect, here is a tweet that i'm going to read for you from the pennsylvania state police right now. this is the first time. steve stevens was spotted this morning by psp members in erie county after a brief pursuit stevens shot and killed himself. the time stamp on that is almost just before 9:00. the monitor is really f

>> that was a criticism lobbed at him by bill clinton. president clinton was unhappy.was on the ground talking to people. he was feeling a different thing than the analyst i analysts wer back. maybe i should go to this place. not quite. >> why go with robby mook. with all respect, over bill clinton? the titan of politics. >> the modern debate of data and science and art. bill clinton was the art of political persuasion. walking into a room where people disagreed with him. disarming them and pulling a few in his direction. robby mook comes from the generation of people focused on data. the efficiencies created by data . what they found was turn out people who supported her. and it was harder to do was persuade people who were not with her. they abandoned the techniques. a lot of the door knocking you do. there is room for art and science in politics. that is one of the big take aways from the book. not just looking back, but in future. you cannot just slice and dice elections. >> you cannot under estimate hillary clinton herself and what everybody says as a person and p

bill clinton was pissed off. he hollered at john podesta large enough to be heard through the walls. he laid claims to on the tenth floor of the savory hotel in downtown iowa. it was the god damn pendants he was watching on tv. they were getting it all wrong again as a result of the iowa caucuses trickled in. hillary was leading but it would be tight. omg walt blitzer said on cnn. it doesn't get closer than that. that assessment invited parallel to her 2008 loss to barack obama. it was, in bill's view, an absurd comparison or that had been a three-way weigh race and she was likely to come out the winner on this night, not the third-place finisher. dÉjÀ vu was a hard storyline to resist. the outcome tonight ensures this race will go on for months and months on the democratic side they reported from sanders headquarters. the perception all night had been hillary was such a prohibitive front runner heading into the democratic nomination that she should have cleaned up easily. bill had a much different perspective. i

president bill clinton saw the republican judiciary chairman orrin hatch beat nominating justice ginsberg empire then to take the vice of republican senators whenco he picked garland a consensus mainstream nominee. try president trump on either hand only sophy advice and consent of special interest groups when making supreme court ex so to outsource entireo selection process. they will lead admit them themselves. the load and behold to produce a nominee with 60 votes and justice beyer 87. so mr. president we're offering president trump and our friends on the other side a way for word from the battue break the senate confirmation process to begin the constitutional principle to get a justice on the bench to simply consult with members of both parties to try to come up with a consensus nominee to get approved with a threshold and the answer again is not change the rules but to change the nominee. and not to oppose every republican nominee that he is so far out of the mainstream he cannot earn votes to pass the senate. even justices roberts and justice alito were very conservative earned a b

fascinated by the al balloons. >> there was quote that said i just want someone to look at me the way bill clinton looks at balloons. that's how you know. you can't see in this video. even the way hillary clinton was looking. >> we know how bill clinton looks at balloons. specially blue. all right, 6:41. he became a household name after peering on the dave shappell show. now the world's mourning the loss of charlie murphy. what a shock yesterday. the comedian passed away. we take a book back at some of his performances specially from the dave shappell show. we will hear come friends david heart, his brother eddie, in just a few minutes. >> i95 northbound, we have words of a bike laying in the roadway here, i think it fell out of the back of somebody's truck or off their bicycle rack there, again, 95, there you go, southbound on the right head down in toward center city, northbound right near the betsy ross bridge, give us a tour there with the camera sipping around there. northeast philadelphia. >> between three to and the blue route, patching and paving, give yourselves extra time if you use this

this is the final dinner with president bill clinton. >> i wish i could be here more. i really feel bill has everything under control. host: as you look at that and the use of video, has it been effective? >> it has been. we always plan for it, but the white house doesn't usually tell us they have video until the day of or the day before. host: two final moments. the final dinner with president george w. bush in 2008. let's watch. >> i love the band. i'm going to say my farewell to you. and i do it in the spirit of our shared love for this country. [laughter] [cheers and applause] ♪ host: what's the story behind this? >> what happened is colonel mike coburn, the head of the marine band was in the oval office getting his commission, congratulated on being the full colonel and the president said i admire you. i always want to direct it. colonel coburn said we'll make that happen. and the president wanted to do a gridiron and the colonel thought it would be more effective at the correspondents' dinner. they set up in the east room and the president went in for several rehe

bill clinton dropped in on george h.w. bush in houston yesterday. ton gifted bush with a selection of colorful socks. bush is now 92 years old. he's drawn notice for his sock fashion in recent years. how about that? the president, very nice. you see it when he rides around the motorized scooter. the two men were, you know, ran against each other. nice to see the way that they treated each other. good friends in later years. >> uh-huh. >> now for more on the stories we're following for you on "nbc10 news today" at 6:00 -- >> tracking down a hit-and-run driver. philadelphia police say a man struck two people and sped off. what investigators found at the scene that led them to this man's front door. >>> churches bombed. new video shows the blasts going off in egypt. and now president trump is responding to the terror attacks. >>> and lanes closed. fire in camden county causing concern for drivers. >>> a busy monday morning, 6:00 a.m. i'm tracy davidson. >> i'm vai sikahema. if you're doing anything outside today, you're in good luck. let's get to bill h

a punitive four-day campaign ordered by president bill clinton following iraq's refusal to comply withsecurity council resolutions. much of iraq's military infrastublgt tour destroyed and hundreds of troops and civilians were killed. it wasn't first strike designed to punish the iraqi regime. in 1993, two years after the first gulf war, 23 cruise missiles were launched into downtown baghdad, a warning after an assassination plot was uncovered in kuwait and former president george hw bush who was visiting the country he helped liberate and kcolin powell was the chairman. >> we have more than enough force to deal with it. >> reporter: they hit a building believed to have housed iraq's intelligence service and punitive attacks have been used in retaliation for murders of americans. in 1986, libyan strong man moammar gadhafi was said to be involved and 60 tons of munitions rain down on his compound in trip will. >> tripoli. >> air and naval forces the united states launched a series of strikes against the headquarters terrorist facilities and military assets that support moammar gadhafi's

he is also -- and lying is what got bill clinton in trouble, and that is what he was impeached for. >s rarely the act but the lie or the cover-up. >> exactly, exactly. and so, you know, some of these civil losses, and say that he escapes the, and say that the republicans keep control of the congress for four years, and don't want to touch him. but what could? we, some of the civil suits are not all going to the go away and that is one of the big arguments that has to be decided by the supreme court case. and the case against paula jones started before the presidency followed president clinton into the presidency, and that is what he was impeached on is the stateme statements in the deposition in the lawsuit with paula jones. and it looks like supreme court 5-4 for him, but justice kennedy could go either way on many of the issues, but if i see him tripped up on anything, it is going to be on the dissembling that is going to be just -- he is desecrating the office that he is a part of with his lies. >> and what about the business dealings? i take your point. he could get caught lying a

so bill clinton was not alone. host: how are you finding all this for your book? guest: that's why it's taking so long to write it. a lot of research. host: you mentioned aretha franklin. that's significant because she's not a comedian. guest: she's not. several years we have had ray charles and aretha franklin. host: back to 1988, ronald reagan's final white house correspondent dinner president reagan: george bush is doing well. he's been a wonderful vice president but nobody's perfect. i put him in charge of anti-terrorism and the mclaughlin group is still on the air. but with so much focus on the presidential leaks, i have been feeling a little lonely these days. i'm so desperate for attention i almost considered holding a news conference. host: george, as you look at our 40th president, ronald reagan, your thoughts? guest: he was a natural at the dinner. he enjoyed it. the only one he didn't enjoy was -- there was a year, 1982, when he had to go to andrews air force base. he was so upset he told the president of the association he just can't be funny. i'm not

nation's capitol at bus boys and poets where former policy advisor and speech writer for president bill clinton, eric lieu, will share his strategies on how citizens can become empowered. tuesday, we are back in washington, at the burkeing institution for vanessa williamson's talk on america's attitude toward taxes. that evening we will be in fort myers florida to hear former florida congressman tray raidal discuss what let him to resign from the u.s. house of representatives. wednesday, auch to the kansas city public library with david nickels talks about eisenhower's underground campaign against joseph mccarthy. then we will be in columbus ohio, where former cia officer talks on ernest hemingway. and then we will be live in maryland's state capitol with discussions on criminal justice, income inequality, and terrorism and intelligence featuring former director of the cia and national security agency michael hayden. that is a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this week. many events are open to the public and look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> go

it was tough for bill clinton. it's tough for people who have had government experience. if you've had none, it's an acid bath shock and awakening for whoever is president, particularly coming from the business world. >> that's a big admission because when he was warned, even from his competition and the media talked about it it was fake news or it wasn't real, but it is real. he is -- this is on-the-job training and he has a learning curve, you know, probably higher -- a bigger learning curve than any other president before. >> to me this is maybe the most important or one of the two most important temperamental questions. great presidents, great leaders of any kind, people, learn from their mistakes. they have the humility, not not a franciscan sense, the humility to say i was wrong about this and how do i do it better? in 196 is jack kennedy becomes president and launches the bay of pigs and he said if that were a parliamentary system i would resign and calls dwight eisenhower and seeks council and eisenhower says you've got to have people in the room and debate this m

. >> bill clinton, that's a conservative -- >> they're being absolute hypocrites on this. >> bill clinton was -- >> it should have been the same with donald trump. nef have compromised their integrity. >> what bill clinton did was 100% wrong. >> go ahead. >> i applaud what alan said. you look at that "access hollywood" tape. it's disgusting. the comments are despicable. there's absolutely no defense for what he said. if you remember back at the time, they brushed it off as locker room talk. that wasn't a locker room, that was a professional man in a professional setting talking in a disgusting manner. there's certainly no defense for it. and clearly, billy bush was punished because he allowed it to happen and was complicit in it. >> also, if you look at the other part of the tape, he said she looks hot and looked at her legs. there was something there. >> oh, yeah. it was not appropriate comment in any way, shape or form and there's no defense of that. my next point is, the fact that billy bush was punished for, you know, essentially being complicit in this, reminds me what tara mentioned

bill clinton, 100 to $175 a speech.ople had a problem with was this was one of those issues wthat defined who e was. it was part of his dna. that's why we saw bernie sanders and elizabeth warren taking him to task. can you see that part of it? >> i can see that part of it but we don't know what he's saying to wall street. none of that is disclosed. we know with hillary clinton, she didn't turn it over either. they may be asking him questions in these off the record conversations. so i think that's very likely. >> is it likely to pay him and have him criticize the people in the room? >> he's a former president. he is someone they want to have speak. if i ran the organization that could afford to pay president obama what his fee is, i would absolutely have him at my event as a small business owner. we can't afford those rates. but who cares what he's saying? he's the former president. there's nothing he can say that will help wall street. it's not like donald trump is listening to president obama on policy. so who cares?

mook's response to bill clinton was always a variation on the same analysis. liked data but believed it was insufficient. for him politics was just about finding people who agreed with you and getting them to the polls. he felt that it was important to talk to voters individually to get a real sense of what they were feeling. he also believed that a candidate could persuade voters with the right argument and in pursuit of that the on the ground feel for how hopes and fears were motivating voters was invaluable. he was constantly saying this is what i'm seeing, this is what i'm hearing, and it was robbie who was saying, yes but the data shows something else. my point is bill clinton was right in the end, wasn't he? >> yeah, and i think a lot of his advisers were frustrated by that. a lot of aides around him told -- people explained that to us. yes, he was kind of sounding the alarm, raising red flags. he was saying i'm talking to people, i'm hearing different things, i'm on the ground. and of course look what he did for president obama. he basically helped him w

president bill clinton nominated ruth bader ginsburg and david prior to the supreme court. president george h.w. bush nominated justice souter and clarence thomas to the supreme court. either just a face to filibustes even though 48th in the voted against the thomas nomination. they did require a cloture vote when a group of democrat senators attended to block a vote on the confirmation of justice alito's nomination. es 72 and back to invoke cloture,e, or preserving the bipartisan u.s. of filibusters against supreme court nominee is. among those who reject bid the alito filibuster in 2006 with the two democrat senators from my state, senator robert c. byrd and senator jay rockefeller. 72 senators voted to invoketing cloture on justice alito's nomination, but only 58 ended up voting for the final confirmation. the senate has a very clear history of rejecting the use of the filibuster proof court nominations. there's no justification for aoh filibuster on the gorsuch - nomination. neil gorsuch is a mainstream judge with the highest possible rating from the american bar associ

and he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill clinton. at this point in bill clinton's first year, the congress was working overtime. at the same time, congress was working on nafta, a giant tax bill which was inside a giant budget bill. they were also working on a world trade agreement and the beginnings of both clinton health care and clinton welfare reform. along with little things like an emergency extension of unemployment insurance. some of those things made it all the way to the finish line and became law in the first year. some in the second year, and some not at all. but they were all important in the first year. they were all being worked on every friday afternoon of the first year of the clinton presidency. and i don't necessarily mean that the house and the senate were in session every friday afternoon, although they were a lot. what i mean is anyone casually following the news could tell you what the clinton agenda was and what parts of it congress was actively working on. that is not true tonight. well can't tell you that th

bill clinton got his own party to approve a $1.5 trillion budget and franklin roosevelt set the standard, ramming 76 bills through congress. our report tracked executive orders. this is a place where trump has been busier, releasing 25 executive orders, more than obama or george w. bush at this point. while the travel ban is on hold, most of the orders are in effect. we were just reporting on trump's d.o.j., busy putting in the tougher policies on crime and immigration, coordinating with local police. we found some of his orders carried exceptions that cut against his own pledges. in february trump said pipe for the keystone project must, quote, come from the u.s. then his own executive guidance gave the keystone project an exception from the supposed rule. while the president touted on order limiting lobbyists in his administration it includes what's apparently an unlimited number of secret waivers. washington and the political press have obsessedver many of trump's tweets as you probably know by now. here is something important. our review shows that that could be a waste of time. pres

when the house finally came under the control of republicans with newt gingrich and bill clinton was in the white house, that is exactly what happened. we finally got there with balanced budgets. >> how did reagan reduce the deficit? >> by -- he doubled the federal revenues, right? i mean from about 500 billion to -- >> when he left the deficit -- >> right, but he also ended the cold war so bill clinton could reduce defense spending, remember that? >> yes, that just seems a stretch to me. i mean i don't -- idea -- we have to being a september tccep that it led to a deficit. taxes had had to be raised to pay for the deficits. >> because democrats would not cut spending. >> i'm not -- i'm not even making this a democrat versus republican thing. i'm talking about facts of -- that at some point taxes have to be raised, right? >> alexis, is it possible this thing will pay for itself? >> alexis is laughing. >> i am laughing because i don't want to get in the middle of that conversation. look, the way i would characterize this is in two critical, i guess, factions. one is this is all about

bush and 12 for bill clinton. he has also signed 20 laws, compared to 14 for obama, 7 for bush, and clinton's 22. >> no administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days. >> unlike his recent predecessors, the president has no legislative accomplished 2.2. >> it's been a troubled first 100 days, not because he hasn't done anything. he's done a lot. this is not been a do-nothing presidency but he's done almost all of it through executive order. >> and his first 100 days, president obama completed a massive stimulus package and assigned to the fair pay act. president bush made headway on this tax cut. bill clinton made good on a campaign promise, signing the family and medical leave act. president trump's promise to repeal and replace obamacare has gone nowhere, blocked not by democrats but members of his own party. >> the hallmark of a successful presidency is always to get permanent legislation through congress. you really want to put your mark on the statute books of the country. >> it often takes longer

you saw with bill clinton, obviously the huge public face of the clinton foundation. obviously turned out to be problematic for his wife, but he spent a lot of time engaging with the world. i'm not sure what we've seen today is really exactly the answer for barack obama. he needs to -- i think be doing something, not just having a forum. >> the thing that is striking is bill clinton, then george w. bush, now barack obama. he's 55 years old. three terms to leave as young men. >> this is a fairly subdued opener and it should be. i think the people who love him and love listening to him and think oh my gosh, really enjoyed his presidency. the people who are devoteees but annoyed that he did not sort of foster this new generation will continue to be annoyed. i wonder if -- i think he will want to do more and be more active and be more political. >> he's sorting that out as we go. that's it for us. thanks for dealing us through the life event. wolf blitzer in the chair after a quick break. all finished. umm... you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way, i think you mi

so, bill clinton was not alone. >> how are you finding all of this for your book? >> a lot of research. >> host: you mentioned aretha franklin because she's not a comedian. >> she's not. for several years we had ray charles and aretha franklin. >> host: was go back to 1988 ronald reagan's client dinner. >> george bush is doing well. george has better wonderful vice president, but nobody's perfect. i put him in charge of antiterrorism and the mclaughlin group is still on the air. [laughter] but was so much focus on the presidential election i've been feeling lonely these days. i'm so desperate for attention i almost considered holding a news conference. [laughter] >> when you look at our 40th president, your thoughts? >> he was a natural at the dinner. he enjoyed it. dealing when he did not enjoy was you go 82 i think, he had to go to andrews air force base before the dinner and watch coffins come back from beirut. he was so upset when i got there that he told the president of the association, i just cannot be funny, i am not in the mood. he did not to his usual bit

hillary clinton and bill clinton who gave a lot of wall street speeches. their average price tag was something like $200,000. he is getting paid twice as much. this is a decent amount of money. he is going to be selling a book while is he doing that or preparing to sell a book. >> neil: 60 million plus. >> we don't begrudge the president or any other politician engaging in the capitalist process. i actually like that and think it's good for people to make money on their own instead of by the government. president obama has been by the government almost his entire adult life making money when he wasn't a community organizer that is. we have to call him out on the hypocrisy. i will tell you the media story you made earlier, listen, i worked at the "wall street journal" before mr. murdock bought it i have been offered jobs by the "new york times," "the washington post, i worked at "newsweek," i understand the mainstream media the fact is they will write anything about a conflict of interest involving donald trump, anything. >> neil: anything. >> if it's even

even from a bill clinton, i always compare george w. bush to bill clinton. so donald trump also can't come out of a tumultuous year. to be fair to president trump, he hasn't dropped. he's been sort of stuck there. if you're a respect, especially in a state that can swing back and forth, the president's at 40%, you're going to back up a little bit. >> i also think that watching a politician like that is a good barometer for trying to figure out how much real power is in some of these town hall meetings and the sort of -- is the democratic party really as energized as the detective would have you believe. is there real power that will translate in the midterm elections. the fact that politicians like ernst is paying attention. >> she think its's organic and real. >> also remember that number of 39% or 40% approval rating, if you break it down, you look at republicans, republicans support trump overwhelmingly. he's got very strong support. 80% or more among republicans. there's a risk of putting too much distance, because in fact their supporters are his suppor

and bill clinton meanwhile was saying, it looks like brexit. this is real. which shows you that this really was coming at them as a big shock. bill clinton, better than hillary clinton saying earlier in this whole deal, he got to talk to the white working-class voters. this could be bad. >> dana: i thought that that was interesting in the book.e this is by jonathan allen and amie parnes, and they basically. talk to people on background so that their identities would be protected, but they got some pretty blunt talk, and i thought it was interesting to hear how i many people were willing to say on that campaign that bill clinton was trying to make the case that they needed to do something different, but the people in brooklyn were like oh, no, we've got this. we know exactly what we're doing. >> he was ahead of the curve, but then on election night he's basically saying this is brexit. this is real. and that's interesting because donald trump was saying throughout the campaign this is going to be brexit to point out. i think it's fascinating as well is that p

was and there was no violence when bill clinton was president. i didn't like the premise so i pointed out that the violence began in 2000 when clinton put the status of jerusalem on the table. so i continued in an effort to shoot the moon when the violence began. so bush blames clinton for middle east violence. conde called me into her office and said i need to apologize. i said no i don't. after five minutes, i realized yes i do. so i marched myself into the oval, turned myself in to the president the, apologized. and then the second was in the war could be avoided if the iraqi people took it to their own hands in just one bullet there would not have to be a need for any military operation. >> when you make a mistake, you walk through it. i say this as a press secretary and somebody who is very proudly jewish. he should make clear it was a heartfelt apologies. >> what has surprised you? >> i have been surprised that it's relatively conventional actually. i wasn't sure they were going to continue the daily brief but it doesn't seem to be effectiv

. >> and analytics was something that actually really angered bill clinton. he was saying, you know, i'm getting a different feel on the ground. he was reporting back to brooklyn and saying, something doesn't feel quite right. but they were so reliant on data and analytics that they were kind of reporting something back to him. but he was always kind of sounding the alarm, raising the red flags, going this isn't quite right. >> did you notice that your anecdotal was different than the statistics? i kept getting it at the end. wait a minute. i keep hearing things that shouldn't be for trump and they are. this doesn't fit with the numbers we've been getting from the experts. >> that's what we found when we were reporting the book. for a long time, we had difficulty with this gap between the sort of stories that we were reporting and the fact that she was up in the polls, which is why we say -- you know, we expected her to win on election night. >> let's talk about the susquehanna hall in pennsylvania. the guy said if you poll with a real person on the phone, hi

c president bill clinton died and took the advice of republican judiciary committee chairman orrin hatch in nominating o justice ginsburg and justice breyer inside of bruce babbitt. president obama took the advice of republican senators when he picked merrick garland, a consensus mainstream nominee. president trump on the other hand ignored the senate and only sought the advice and consent of right wing special interest groups when making supreme court takes. he had to shore up his support in the higher grades so he said i am outsourced team the entire selection process to two groups who again are not consensus groups. they would admit that themselves the heritage foundation, the federalist society. lo and behold, the process didn't produce a nominee who could earn 60 votes. by contrast, justice ginsburg earned 93 votes. justice breyer earned 87. so mr. president, we are offering president trump and our friends on the other side a way forward. they don't have to break the rules to get a justice on the bench. they don't have to break the senate confirmation process, a fundamentally weaken

republicans thought they would be beats bill clinton on social issues, bill clinton's case the economy they for gave him after impeachment and trump has a lot of latitude if the economy is cooking. >> protesting and called her's speech, the commentator never showed up but didn't stop hundreds from flooding the campus, berkeley blaming threat of violence for nixing her appearance but she's not buying that. >> the theme was going to be a searingly brilliant speech on immigration. we can't have and coulter, there will be violence. call a cop. what is your job? there are ways of dealing with violence which is why we have a police force. >> on the other end of the spectrum and effigy tents provided another safe space for liberal protesters to take a break and get a little bit on the side. a tale of two seasons, summer in some parts, winter and others, the weather center, this mixed up weather forecast. >> it is springtime and sometimes we see snow and sometimes very warm conditions and when we have a mixture of the two we have severe storms and that is what we will be today, when we get sno

paula jones wants to sue bill clinton for sexual harassment.he wants to do it while he is sitting president. his lawyers said, no, that would be inappropriate. it can wait until he's out of office. today the u.s. supreme court said miss jones has the law on her side. she can sue now. no sitting president has ever gone through this before. >> it had never happened before, but it is happening again. twenty years after paula jones won the right to sue a sitting president, donald trump is facing a defamation suit. this week his lawyers claimed he's too busy to be sued right now. unfortunately for the president, who loves his golf game, that's going to be tricky to prove. let me turn it over to retro pete williams to explain. >> today's ruling leaves the door open for the judge to temporary delay the case if the president can prove it's taking so much of his time that it's interfering with official duties. that won't be easy, one said as soon as he announces the vacation, he's a sitting duck. pete williams, nbc news, supreme court. >> vacation. hmm.