bush administration, bush 43.hat time, he even had a more exalted post as a professor and dean at the school at johns hopkins, so he also has academic chops as well, and today, he is currently a visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute. we are going to kick off our session -- he will make a couple of introductory remarks, and then, mel will start off by interviewing him with a few questions, and then we will turn the discussion open for q&a. mel is a faculty associate here at the miller center. he is the edwards the tinias professor in the department of history at the university of virginia. as most of you know, he is a superb scholar. for those who do know him, he is even a better person. i just want to say that nell had the idea for this event, and he has been the main force behind it. as always, it has been a pleasure and privilege to work with him, so, paul, please. >> you did not mention the job that was most fun and in some ways i was still had, which was being u.s. ambassador to indonesia, whic

undersecretary of the treasury under bush -- there ain't nobody more republican and he hated the bush administration. as i do. as far as afghanistan, i disagree with our being there. i have a solution to ending the war on verbally. -- ending the war honorably. it is too much to ask the rich to send their pampered children over there to fight the war, but let's ask them to pay for it. i will tell you, that war will be over in a heartbeat. thank you. host: john sends us this message by twitter. you can send us a message. it is easy to sign up, free to do. let's go to our next telephone call, bonnie in houston. caller: i definitely believe this is a mistake. they say that afghanistan is where empires go to die. that has been true in the past. i think we're going down the same road. we are not an exception to that rule. also, the karzai government is very corrupt. i definitely think we need to get out. host: the lead story in "the new york times" -- it says that in the news conference with the indian prime minister, the president signaled he would break from the policies he inherited from

bush. i'm glad shopper was -- costco is cited as a company that treats its employees well, but costco is in a different business. it looks like the same business but it's not. the citizenshipical costco sells 4,000-6,000 different products. they sell diapers but one kind that they got a good deal on. wal-mart sells 140,000 different products. so they are definitely different business models. the stores look and feel the same, but the actual mechanics of running the business is much different. . guest: of never had the opportunity to interview the ceo of wal-mart -- if i could ask him any questions, that is where i would start, why you let 6000 people a year quit, and wouldn't it help your business to have people who knew the stores better? the typical employee may not know the store as well as you as a shopper knows it. host: to the typically offer the 40-hour workweek? guest: i don't know the answer the question, but i would speculate that the answer is no. wal-mart labels 32 hours a week

bush. >> good morning and welcome. it is my great pleasure to help open the third national conference sponsored by the national archives and by our nation's 13 presidential libraries, from herbert hoover to george w. bush. it could not be more appropriate as of this conference is being held in boston and hosted at the john f. kennedy presidential library. president kennedy understood the power of history to an leighton our national leaders as they faced the unique -- to enlighten our national leaders. as they faced the unique challenges of our time. now his deep interest in history as carry forth by his daughter, the wonderful caroline kennedy, and i am so pleased to accept her invitation to share a few words to open this historic conference. i understand this event is helping to mark the kennedy library 30th anniversary, and i salute that remarkable institution as well as the other 12 presidential libraries for the important work they all do. i should note that the current director of the

bush the former soviet president, mikhail gorbachev and former german chancellor helmet coal attended this ceremony. president bush said the wall's collapse had more to do with the determination of everyday people than the power of governments. >> the historic events we are gathered to celebrate were set in motion not in bonn or moscow or in washington but rather in the hearts and minds of people who had too long been deprooiched their god-given rights. and the wall could confine them from loved ones and lock them in a failing economic system, but in the end it could not extinguish the embers of their undying hope or harness their human desire for freedom. >> kohl called the fall of the berlin wall his proudest moment as chancellor. >>> two men accused in a terrorism investigation face an

they're going to run against bush and cheney in 2010.you know, this is -- they love having things to run against. we have to get rid of the mercenaries, we have to get rid of much of the standing army, we have to get rid of the idea that you can take the state militias, the national guard and send them off on wars of empire. we have to get to the point where you have to have a draft, and you have a fair draft, which men means you have no wars, and you have a volunteer military, without a court system, separate from our court system, a military in which you can say no to an illegal war and not participate, as you can in some militaries, and a military that you can unionize, that can be democratic within a democracy. which is extremely far from this imperial military that we've got right now. but we also have to get rid of things that are deep in the bottom of our brains. like the idea that if somebody killed somebody, it's ok to go kill the first guy. if you don't -- [applause] >> if you don't have revenge in your being, then you never co

bush. bush hurt sarah palin. the country went through eight years of george w. bush, two unpopular wars. bush's on popularity was extremely high. we entered a recession in december 2007. there are similarities between her political profile and the political profile of george w. bush. the bush hang over is going to continue for some time, limiting her ceiling as a political future. otherwise i was fascinated with the reaction to my book, her book, her as a person. she is not going anywhere. that is for sure. everyone has an opinion, she seems to like to be in the middle of things. host: her book comes out tomorrow, officially. matthew continetti has been talking about his b matthew continetti has been talking matthew continetti has

in terms of the bush administration 34 did have a doctrine after, a while afternoon 9/11 by the fall of 2002 that seemed to guide things and seemed to be problematic. walter slocombe has discussed how the one strategy the clinton administration did have that was kind of long term led to poor results. eric adelman has made the case that the d.g.p. was a success and guided the administration but as hesitanted at by the questions this morning perhaps part of that focus of that document blinded us to the rise of radical islam and terrorism. so the question is maybe these doctrines and long-term planning things are not that great. do you agree with that? i have some sympathy for bob zelikow's suspicion about grand strategies. if you look at the list of the nine points, they are not bad plaidç attitudes but they are l platitudes. being flexible, conflicting interests, so on. they are good guidelinesç but they are no at vandal. i think strategies involve choices. my classic example is the real strategic decision of roosevelt's decision in 1941 and 1942 to first establish and then stick to

now, we have a bush baby. >> this is a bush baby. >> larry: that mean it lives in the bush? >> on his shoulder. >> larry: okay. >> larry, is this a bush baby. we filmed the bush baby in africa. it's nocturnal. you see the eyeballs at nighttime out in the trees. they're not really big trees. they're pollenated, they defecate and pollenates is what it does. the push babier it's amazing mechanism. in the daytime, they sleep. what do they do? they sleep in a big ball, like 30 or 40 of them all together get in a big ball together like this, looks like a big blob. therefore, predators like birds of prey -- are you comfortable? >> larry: yeah, he's light. >> larry, this is a presimien, by the way. look at the hands on this. you see on larry's shoulder, little hands. just like your hands. an incredible shot. if you can get the hands of this animal. i love the bush baby. >> larry: there he is, wow. they grip, too. >> look at those hands. look at this. just like your hands. isn't that amazing. "national geographic" again. >> larry: we have great shots on this show. and now the world's

bush is. and to that extent i think she was hurt by the bush hangover which i think it's going to continue for some time. they limit her ceiling, if you will, the political future. otherwise, i'm just fascinated with the reaction to my book, with reaction to her book, reaction to her as a person. she's not going anywhere. that's for sure. everyone has an opinion about sarah palin and she seems to like being in the middle of this. >> host: her book comes out tomorrow, officially. but matthew continetti has been talking about his book, "the persecution of sarah palin". we appreciate your time. >> guest: thank you. [applause] >> we want to start off by thanking everyone it's nice to see all the faces. the question we've been getting a lot of how the book came out about him throughout the campaign it was only two months, but it seems like a lot longer, especially now. we saw there was a lot of disorganization, but it wasn't until election night that we realized the fighting and tension that was re

that resulted from a lot of work scooter did for others, and it was provided by cheney-bush and bushaid this is great idea. i need to give this in a speech. so the speech was to be give engine aspen colorado unfortunately the speech which was give than day you can find in the bush library got cop meetly lost in the noise of saddam's invacation of can you wait and in their memoir, president bush and another mention the speech in aspen but never actually talk about the subject nor do secretary baker or another >> what produced was -- the important part, the united states would be ill served by forces that represent nothing more than a scaled back or shrunken down version of the forces we present right now. equally cut across the board we could easily end up with contingencies and less than we might need for emerging challenges. and then he summarizeed the defense plan as follows -- we want to have a frame work to guide our deliberate reductions to no more than the forces we need. went forces to be able to exercise in key areas. to retain the forces to rebuild and then president bush ta

i remember when george bush was promoting the war. someone asked, one of the news people ask what would pay for it and he said iraq has a lot of oil. they never bring that. actually, it is a losing battle. those people have been away for thousands of years. they continue to be what they are. we should get our men out of there, bring them home. if you want to invest in $70 billion per month, put it into our country to defend ourselves and our allies. otherwise it is a waste of our time. host: either of you? guest: i think that the caller made his point quite well. host: from this section of the paper this morning, talk about the public option. she says surveys so that -- show that a majority of the public supports it. but it is not considered as important as lowering costs. guest: certainly the first part of that is right. depending how you ask the question is either an unimportant -- if you simply ask it in terms of choice, sure, one not? if you ask it in terms of the government substituting for insurance companies, i think people are

was exported by the bush team. -- exploited by the bush team. one man said that what paul bremer tried to do was more of an extreme method. i happened to be in iraq when the first quarter scandals broke -- torture scandals broke. i try to understand what these different forms of shock -- i tried to understand what these different forms of shock meant. these non metaphorical shot -- these non-metaphorical shocks. i read the declassified documents. the manuals talk about the need to put a prisoner into a state of shock. they become compliant and a regress. they go into a childlike state and they are more likely to cooperate with their interrogator. when i read that, i felt it was a description of what i have witnessed in iraq. the idea was that the war strategy was that iraq would be so shocked and so awed that they could easily be marshalled from point a to point b. iraq would be this person -- this perfect free-market economy. the first summer, it was all about economic reform. id allowed -- it allowed foreign investors to come in. donald rums f

people believe there is a difference between a first bush clinton and a second bush and obama? >> guest: first of all, there has not been a change in the new regulations that come on to the financial world between any of the to administration changes. >> host: i will back up. raising an interesting point*, not a democratic republic in body essentially would you are saying the differences everyday, the key financial issues how we do with wall street and who is head of the fed. >> it seems like one of the least partisan things in washington because if you look at the sheer regulations that are passed the continuation of the fed chairman under the changes from republican to democrat both times, there is not a tremendous amount of difference. there is more financial deregulation done under clinton. >> host: and secretary of treasury? >> guest: who also was associated with goldman sachs. this has to do with wall street and it comes from the presidency webber not there is a democratic republic 10. >> host: paulson was also there it. >> guest: he was there and ahead of goldman sachs j

bush 2004 election campaign. i have some of that slightly wrong, but it is right in the biography, right? right. hilary rosen was in the recording industry association of america. she is also a member of rock the vote. ted devine, i saw him on the moon walk this morning. he was getting done its on jackson square. i think you have 17 winning democratic campaigns. you worked for kerry and gorda. -- gore. we have kiki mclean. president callan nasa may -- president how one asked mcowen t influence do they have on what the candidates will say or are you just a hired gun who is not there to provide the device? -- provide the advice? >> the fact is that sometimes we work for candidates. i think we believe in all of the candidates, even if they are people we just met and have not known long time before we work for them. but, in some cases, we do work with somebody we have known for many years. in which case, we may have influence on them. there are a lot of public policy issues that are not clear, black and white issues.

bush would both out gore by an elect form margin of 320-218. he earlier in the day picked 305-320, much closer. his long hand betting card, then 10 days after the bet, he sent me a letter on supreme court stationery, one of the few formal letters i ever received, asking to be excused from a $1 bet, because, and i'm going to quote, it is remotely possible that the florida election case might come to our court. i will point out to you that the long hand betting card with the corrections and the letter are reproduced in my book. i think one of the more interesting parts of it. i also explained why he believed that he and his colleagues acted couragely and patriotically when they decided twice to get involved in the bush-gore disputed elections. he knew that taking on the case would be a thankless assignment, regardless of which candidate won, the justices would be vilified, harassed and subjected to vitriole. he and my wife went to the movies two to three saturday nights out of every month and only once in the course of 15 years of doing this did

a second bush and ann obama. how does this happen? >> guest: first of all there has not been a change in any of the regulations that come on to the financial world between any of those to administration changes. we hope there will be. >> host: let me back that up. this raises a very interesting point. not a democrat or republican. what you are essentially saying, are these kind of key financial issues of how we do with wall street into is head of the fed? >> guest: it seems like one of the least partisan things in washington because if you look at just the two regulations that were passed, the continuation of fed chairman under the changes of republican to democrat both times there is not a tremendous amount of difference. in fact there is more financial deregulation done under clinton than there was under the first. >> host: and the secretary of the treasury. >> guest: yes, who happens to also be a cozy zero of goldman sachs which is this whole whole, the revolving door from wall street and ultimately into the p

bush how people just chose to believe what they wanted to. -- during the bush administration.hat is where it led us. one of the interesting things going on today is that president obama is sorting through the intelligence. there is a real disagreement right now. both internally and a externally -- as to the threat from the afghan taliban, the pakistani taliban, and from groups in afghanistan who are just plain gangsters and drug dealers. it is a very complex issue. you have to sort through it to decide what your policy will be. i think that is going on now. host: the me ask you about iran. over the weekend it staged war games and sits on the nuclear offer from the west. guest: what you are seeing is iran acting in a nationalistic way, not to our best interests, but to theirs. we have been threatening a iran for a decade now. in their effort to get their nuclear power and potential for a nuclear weapon we have been through the bush administration when we wanted with policy to overturn their government. they are being threatened militarily by the israelis to blow up these sites.

and bush said, well, like what sort of questions? and he said when i was interviewing for a foreign minister, i asked him the question, who was your father's son who is not your brother? and bush said, what did he say? and gorbachev said he said that to me. and bush thought about this for a bit, and he got back to washington, and he called in dan quayle and said dan, then he said, i've got a question for you. yes, mr. president. he said, then who is your father son who is not your brother? let me get back to you on that, mr. president. out he went. a day or two went by and he was thinking who is your father son who is not your brother? and then he was walking down the hall past henry kissinger's office and he said henry knows everything there so he knocked on the door and said henry, i've got a question for you. yes? who is your father son who is not your brother? kissinger said that to me. really? sure. well, down the hall he goes to the president. mr. president, you know the question you asked me, who is your father son was not you

bush was so weak and some bush and rove understood the importance of hispanics. the problem wasn't just the failed policies but also the missed opportunities which are very real tragedy for his presidency and this was one and hispanics got that message. they voted democrat tim big numbers putting a hispanic judge on the court was important and immigration reform also matters in terms of sustaining it. >> the other question about the cuban boat, may be affected by the generation? >> exactly because of the fidel castro came to power in 1959. we are now to the second into the third generation. that issue has less resonance and as it does the importance of that vote in florida for the republicans has diminished, is diminishing in part because the issue itself seems to be fading and certainly the latest generation cuban-americans off to other things. >> how will the demographics affect the rise of a third-party , an effective third-party? >> obama's biggest problem is of the republicans -- this problem is populism. and it comes from the implosion of the republican par

i worked for president bush ii as well as the first president bush before that -- there was a big tax cut and then an enormous surplus. it is hard to remember that now. the debate was that republicans wanted to spend -- mines version was not to spend more than $400 billion over the next 10 years democrats want to spend $1 trillion. we did a modest version of the public debate back them. but at the time we had a massive surplus. in hindsight maybe someone not again. at the time the issue was whether to spend $400 billion over 10 years or more. now when you have a $1.50 trillion deficit -- in the biggest advocate for coverage, but look at this deficit. host: the donohoe was a way to save money? guest: it was designed for two reasons. we had a budget that had to be acceptable to the president and congress. it was designed to save money. we would have put a hole in there anyway to make people more cost sensitive. it is a huge, new benefit people did not have before. i think it has worked well. the cost which we estimate it at the time to be $400 billion over 10 years -- by all accounts th

they were sick of bush's wars. but if you look at his policies, he did say he would ask the late in afghanistan and he did say he was one to draw down in iraq but not pull out completely. his base is in an awkward position. he did not break its promises. people do not know how to respond to this particular kind of a campaign which is so much like the world of marketing. >> if we followed you around on a day-to-day basis, what would you be doing? >> mostly writing. it would not be a terrifically interesting. >> i guess i should ask, you are always in front of audiences and you travel a lot and you and your husband are in separate worlds. >> when my last book came out, "the shock doctrine," things went pretty crazy for me. i had only written two books and seven years passed between the two books. i go into hibernation when i am writing. when i wrote "the shock doctrine," i had no distractions. my husband came with me but had to go back because he was hosting tv shows. i did a lot of research for "the shock doctrine."

i worked for president bush ii as well as the first president bush before that -- there was a big tax cut and then an enormous surplus. it is hard to remember that now. the debate was that republicans wanted to spend -- mines version was not to spend more than $400 billion over the next 10 years democrats want to spend $1 trillion. we did a modest version of the public debate back them. but at the time we had a massive surplus. in hindsight maybe someone not again. at the time the issue was whether to spend $400 billion over 10 years or more. now when you have a $1.50 trillion deficit -- in the biggest advocate for coverage, but look at this deficit. host: the donohoe was a way to save money? guest: it was designed for two reasons. we had a budget that had to be acceptable to the president and congress. it was designed to save money. we would have put a hole in there anyway to make people more cost sensitive. it is a huge, new benefit people did not have before. i think it has worked well. the cost which we estimate it at the time to be $400 billion over 10 years -- by all accounts th

it was not just the bush years. democrats and talking about what gives me a little bit of a different perspective is because i do not live in the u.s.. i am much less partisan. i am not driven by a desire for democrats to win elections. that is not what drives my riding. -- my riding. -- during that election campaign, we knew damn well that the key pieces of legislation that created the economic crisis had been created during the clinton years. -- that is not what drives my writing. it was dishonest. we knew that this was a better political message to claim that the ideology was bush policy. the problem with the intellectual dishonesty is that it comes back to bite you. if you are lying to yourself and everyone else, then what is to prevent larry summers from coming back and being given the keys to the treasury once again? >> what weight -- what grade would you give on this issue? >> what grade? the problem with the u.s. economy is that it has been in this cycle of bubbles of baubles and busts -- this cycle of bubbl

bush how people just chose to believe what they wanted to. -- during the bush administration. that is where it led us. one of the interesting things going on today is that president obama is sorting through the intelligence. there is a real disagreement right now. both internally and a externally -- as to the threat from the afghan taliban, the pakistani taliban, and from groups in afghanistan who are just plain gangsters and drug dealers. it is a very complex issue. you have to sort through it to decide what your policy will be. i think that is going on now. host: the me ask you about iran. over the weekend it staged war games and sits on the nuclear offer from the west. guest: what you are seeing is iran acting in a nationalistic way, not to our best interests, but to theirs. we have been threatening a iran for a decade now. in their effort to get their nuclear power and potential for a nuclear weapon we have been through the bush administration when we wanted with policy to overturn their government. they are being threatened militarily by the israelis to blow up these site

other people during the bush administration, myself included, took many shots at george bush for beingumb. okay, the truth hourturts, but still. >> wiell, i think bush is latin because he lived in a house that wasn't his and english wasn't his first language. >> see, that's my point. >> catch joy behar at 9:00 testimony p.m. >>> it seems like sarah palin's new book has had a life of its own since it came out this week. so what would "going rogue" say if it had a voice of its own?

bush and ann obama. how does this happen? >> first of all there hasn't been a change in the regulations that come on to the financial world between any of those to the administration changes. we hope there would be. texted me back that one up. not a democrat or republican. but what you are essentially saying collodi's kind of key financial issues and how we do with wall street, it's not safe to be a heck of a lot different. >> this seems like one of the least partisan things in washington. if you look at just the two regulations that were passed, the continuation of the fed chairman under the changes from republican to democrat bill * there isn't a tremendous amount of difference. in fact there is more financial deregulation done under clinton than there was under the first. >> and the secretary of the treasury. >> the secretary of the treasury to happened also to be affiliated with goldman sachs. this revolving door from wall street and goldman sachs into the presidency. whether or not there is a democr

bush and -- william jefferson clinton. [applause] and what they did together, aside from freaking everyone out, they raised awareness and the funds for the victims of tsunamis and hurricane katrina and struck back against the unnatural toll that natural disasters take on the least fortunate members of society. ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor, my pleasure, i really, really like this man. please welcome past liberty member awardee, the chairman of the national constitution center and the 42nd president of the united states of america, william jefferson clinton. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you very much, governor, mayor, superintendent mcleod, the officers and the board members of the constitutional center and my colleagues and everyone who made this night possible. i would like to thank wonderful musicians who played the theme from ask the schindler's list." and my friend whoopi goldberg. mostly i think all of you for being here tonight and i'm grateful for the opportunity to actually present the liberty me

it was not until the bush administration inc.ea it in the axis of evil and until we challenge part of their behavior on nuclear matters and did not keep our engagement going. the agreed framework fell apart and we had no backup strategy. it did not collapse. >> they've violated it. >> no, that was not quite. we cannot prove that they violated it. there was no way that we can have a negotiation over whether or not they were producing uranium or not. we knew that they were not producing plutonium. when he challenged them, we had no backup strategy. they said that they were going to break out of the free market. they did that. they threw out the inspectors and they began throwing out enriched uranium. >> do you think that strategically they made a decision to suspend the nuclear weapons program during that time? >> yes, i do. the known program which is that we knew about it being frozen. it was under inspection for that 8 your timyear time. >> i believe with the proposition. there is a statement which people like to say is that no o

bush was trying to react or maybe be different from his own father, george h.w. bush pieno and i think when you look at bill in senator clinton, they are all sorts of interactions there. one of the reasons they became so famous and so well-known was their family problems. they marched on the scene really talking about the problems in their marriage and in some ways the problems in their marriage dominated president clinton's to terms, so personal issues are huge when you talk about presidential decision-making so when you share the presidency and immediate families that really brings in a lot of personal baggage that the prime-- country probably doesn't need and if hugo back in look at the history of a lot of our presidents even though they may not have shared president among-- presidency among the immediate families except the addams family, again family issues are huge. a lot of their decision-making and a lot of their issues. so with hubering family issues and multiply it with the fact that a son is trying to follow a father or a wife is trying to follow a hus

43 administration is to some extent during the bush 41 administration. this is what i was talking about when i talked about the problems that would come out of the late-and 90 +. they wanted to seize opportunities by interpreting history and hands-on manner and acting. there is nothing wrong with that. those things are hon. instincts. the problem is when somebody has to read what kind of circumstances they are that they are working in. what can and cannot be done. there are some issues the bush 43 administration got wrong. there were deficiencies, quite a few. walking away from afghanistan was a big mistake. i can understand where that mistake was made. the talon will not leave the country under any circumstances. it is a much more international islamic organization than the taliban will avert the -- ever be. so many afghans helped, specifically had a task for hoping and reconstructing the country. there was support provided for some of the most radical islamist groups. walking away from all that was a mistake that they could put forward. suddenly, all t

bush said, well, what sort of questions? he said when i was interviewing shiver banowsky for foreign minister and i asked him to is your father's son who was not your brother? boys said, what did he say? gorbachev said schaub janofsky said, that is me. bush thought about this for a bit and the got back to washington and he called in dan quayle. he said dan, danny said i have got a question for you. yes mr. president. danny, who is your father's son who is not your brother. let me get back to you on that mr. president so out he went and the day or two wind by. who is your father's son who is not your brother? then he was walking down the hall pass henry kissinger's office. he said ah-hah, henmon knows everything. he said henry, i have a question for you. he said he was your father's son who is not your brother? that is me. really? sure. down the hall the goes to the president. he said mr. president you know that question you ask me who is your father's son who is not your brother, it is kissinger. [laughter] sometime later bu

bush from the invasion of iraq.t's something we have never done, invade a country like that, a small country. what do you think about that? host: well, you're ron, so thanks for the call. guest: yes, george bush did those things and yes, we were left with a huge debt. but you can only say blame bush for so long and you have to cope with what you're left with. and that's where we are. but back to the previous caller. there is a principle of capitalism. you spend money to take money. there's an economic principle at work in the health care bill, which is you spend money to save money. if everybody isn't in the system, once you get everybody in the insurance pool, your overall health care costs will go down. now, that's a long process. but that is the principle that is embraced by most economists. guest: i get that. i just think there are two assumptions that are wrong that. the government is the federal organizer of this system. and the second is that there is no cost to the overall economy by hiking taxes to pay for

bush's -- george w. bush's administration, and you may remember her from the coupon program. kim hart is a reporter with the the hill newspaper, writes the silicon valley column. next question, please. >> host: i guess following up on the spectrum question, we know senator kerry and congressman waxman have introduced spectrum inventory bills that they'd looking at to try to get a better sense of what the agencies themselves have. since you're familiar with that, is there a possibility that maybe reallocation of what the defense department, for example, has or the military has says to in terms of maybe some sharing of that spectrum as you mentioned before, or do you have any ideas on that? >> guest: i think that's a valid question to ask. there was a executive order from president bush that actually called far strategic plan, and ntia actually did do a federal strategic plan looking at the spectrum that the federal agencies used. we need to do the same thing at the fcc, and then we need to bring those two plans together and see if there's some room for us to, you know, possibl

bush, the last soviet leader and former german chancellor were honored in berlin.h said the wall's collapse had more to do with the determination of everyday people than the power of big governments. >> the historic events we are gathered to celebrate were set the in motion not in moscow or washington but rather in the hearts and minds of people who had too long been deprived their god-given of rights. and the wall could confine them from loved ones and lock them in a failing economic system, but in the end it could not extinguish the embers of their undying hope or harness their human desire for freedom. >> germany's former chancellor said the fall of the berlin wall was his proudest moment. >>> the suspect in a deadly iraq bombing managed to kill someone during a police interrogation. the iraq's interior ministry says he grabbed a gun from a guard and shot an investigator. the investigator wrestled the gun back and shot the suspect. both died from their injuries. the suspect also wounded the guard he took the gun from. the investigators were questioning him in la

bush. even the conservatives who don't favor gordon brown as their potential leaders still see the majority is the case. i apologize for the distortion with this, but what is this all part of? this is a part of clearly the way that in europe they view our country's capacity for foreign policy and global leadership. this was a survey not just of brits but 17,000 adults in 17 countries. world public opinion survey. it shows '70s -- summit 2% of global citizens deal -- 72% believed dealing with the global financial crisis -- the party, followed by war in iraq, the climate change, and in the middle only, improving relationships with respondent's country. and then very little concern actually with the afghan government and the taliban. in conclusion, i have lots of other thoughts i could share in the q&a about this, but it is very important that we realize that all of the concern we have with the groups within our own country and our racial and ethnic makeup and priority and issues have very bro

there are advocates in the bush administration, president bush among them again along with some of the activists felt if we encourage ownership this is going to give a new birth. >> host: in home ownership is a good day, what would be wrong with wanting to see increased level of homeownership among people who have been apartment dwellers? when that be a good thing that the pride of home ownership and bucking up the economy with all the things? >> guest: there's nothing wrong with it is but the problem is the difference between home ownership and giving mortgages they can afford because you give people mortgages no money down, they don't have to show proof of income . >> host: for the force? >> guest: no, they were encouraged and what is interesting. >> host: these people shouldn't have been encouraged which were saying that the cra not only encouraged banks during the loans but said you are mandated, you have to have a quota. >> guest: and the things would actually go out and promote. >> host: that doesn't make sense -- why would the clinton administration and the bush administration p

nothing like this ever occurred during the bush administration. >> the desk has just sent over to me here, mahmoud abbas' comments. he's pressing the necessity that israel put an end to illegal settlements on palestinian territories, which he says bluff the viability of the future palestinian state, which must have east jersey lum at its capital. could you talk to what you think it is in this announcement today by mr. netanyahu that you think the palestinians should find some optimism in or some hope in. >> anyone who opposes settlement construction, continued settlement activity, as does the united states, should, of course, take into account that under the moratorium announced today, there will be much less settlement housing construction activity than there would have been if there were no moratorium. that's a fact. support of the parties, encouraging them in their direct talks to move forward. and we believe that's the best way to achieve what is the common goal, not just of the leaders, but more importantly of the people they represent on both sides to be able to live in peace a

everyone is very happy that this year is india. >> president bush -- host: president bush favored having state dining room, which would see typically 140 or 150 guests. you are no stranger to the south lawn tense during the clinton administration and they are back now. total guests are around 400. what led to that decision? guest: i'm not sure what led to it, but usually it is that the first lady would like to be able to accommodate more people for the state dinner. india is a very large country. we have a lot of people in the united states from india. we would like to be able to cut -- to showcase our country and the white house and what we do here for other countries. a tent is just like room when you actually go into it. it is very, very beautiful. you would probably not know that you are not inside the white house. it is not advertise that it is a tent. most administrations and enjoy doing this. more people can get to know each other, visit, and it does promote relationships between the two countries. host: the other closely watched by respect to this is the guest list we have a prev

the obama administration is taking a page from bush administration and saying, no, we do not want them here, and have encouraged the supreme court not to intervene. they said there are only 13 left of these people who fear persecution, and we are making headway trying to find homes for them. the supreme court rejected the obama administration's advice and said we will hear the case anyway. that will be scheduled to the weeks to come. even though it will not really affect so much of what is going on in guantanamo, it goes to the power between the executive branch and the judicial branch over who will say and under what circumstances foreign detainees can be freed, foreign detainees who are no longer being held as enemy combatants. the second case which is related to that, which i will refer to my notes, a statutory participation case, and has to do with a challenge to a federal law intended to prevent international terrorist groups from raising money in the u.s. the statute itself is what is at issue. as part of the 2001 patriot act, the question is whether this group violated the mater

extent during bush 41 administration. problems came out from late- 1980s and 1990's. it seems to me that the most recent administration was interested in overcoming all of it by acting quickly, by seizing opportunities while they're there, by interpreting history directly and acting on the. there's nothing wrong with that. those things are good and honorable. the problem is that one has to read with the kind of circumstances are that one is operating in. understanding that crucial policy difference in what can be done and what cannot be done. i think this is where the bush 43 administration got wrong. the question from the organizers are deficiencies with regard to foreign policy in the 1990's. they're quite a few. walking away from afghanistan was a big mistake. i can understand. we have some historical resources on a wide that mistake was made. afghanistan is not an easy country to cooperate in. having the political situation that was there and the movement. the radical movements in terms of the interpretation of islam

>> -- how involved was the former first lady laura bush?> every first lady should take that seriously and they have enjoyed it. speaking for mrs. bush, to answer your question, she was intimately involved in the details. she would set the direction of things, expectation she might have of how she would like it to look and what meal she might like to serve. and the staff would come back with recommendations. they would do tastings of foods. there would put table settings together, with the florist, the social secretary, with a variety of people who helped to execute these events. she would make final selections. the president is involved to particularly on the guest list. it will be the president and first lady that will review the guest list and make a final decision. working with a great staff and with the tone and directions set by the first lady, the ultimate result is a beautiful the event. >> how do they go about deciding where people are going to set for this evening, and were there ever political calculations that go into that config

to the obama likes >> guest: it was the obama ticket up in the first place. >> host: the bush? >> guest: the obama ticket up in the first place. though i'm sure during the bush administration never watching it and are often times i have on the staff level where they're looking at different issues. but as far as us knowing before law review that happened during the administration. i would say general the way that, this is not a direct answer to your question, but the way that the obama administration is approaching antitrust appears to be different. they appear to be very interested in issues that revolve around technology, the technology industry, both at the justice department and the federal trade commission. and that's a tricky thing. i read a story in the paper on sunday how some interest in the high-tech sector has engaged washington and the valley more than it ever has been. but again at the delicate balance. google will tell you and other companies, too, that you don't want to be overburdened some with the rules and regulations that would hamper innovation, that could po

it happened during the bush administration. it happens very rarely.i've talked to the fbi about this. there was some misreporting about the notion that people captured on the battlefield were automatically be read their miranda warnings. there are thousands of people captured and a very small number have been read miranda warnings. after military lawyers, civilian lawyers, investigators from both sides made the determination that there was some reason to give miranda warnings to those captive. >> and you support that decision to give miranda rights to some suspected terrorists? >> well, give them, you know, miranda warnings if that means it's going to preserve an option for us. i think that's why it's done. >> and you support it? >> well, i would support it into the limited extent that it is done. i defer to the people in the field who make these determinations, and i think, you know, are capable of making those determinations given the facts that they have to confront that are right in front of them. >> and should khalid shaikh mohammed have been rea

to do with anyone having anything to do with george bush.and the obama administration read that as an endorsement of massive expansion in health care, in raising taxes to do it. he promised he would do it and he is moving through. just reading it as an endorsement of everything rather than stopping and taking a moment to check in and see how everybody is doing. i think there's a moving dynamic of the economy that popped up at the very end of the campaign. obama i think has demured during that time is part of why he ended up doing that well he came through as doing through as the solid leader as opposed to mccain. guest: mccain got sucker punched. he's a foreign defense guy and he gets side swiped by the economy. and that's the way it should have gone honestly. it's important but when you have unemployment at double digits what are you supposed to do? guest: and the problem is that most primary concern right now is jobs, the economy. there's still an enormous amount of economy. anywhere you go, unemployment at at 10% and rising. and health ca

wrment bush. and -- george h.w. bush. and john mccain and alongside you steve schmitt who was the manager of the mccain company and the george w. bush 2004 election campaign. i have some of that slightly wrong but is in the bio right. hillary rosen was for a long time chair of the recording industry of america. also a founder of rock to vote, a democratic strategist. teddy vine who i saw on the moon walk this morning getting his coffee and do nuts in front of jackson square. think you've had 17 winning independence campaigns and you work for kerry and gore, helping the senior strategist on their campaigns. and kiki mclean senior advisor to hillary clinton. and you were the advicer for d.n.c. president cow went asked me to -- off our lunch, said, i've got one question. if a political consultant really feels strongly about something for the good of both the campaign and the government or whatever, what influence do they have on what the candidate will say are you really just a hired gun who's not there to provide the advice

bush gorbachev and helmut cole were there. bush said the collapse had more to do with the power of everyday people than the power of big governments. >> the historic events we were gathered to celebrate were set in motion not in bond moscow or washington, but rather in the hearts and minds of people who had too long been deprived their god-given rights. and the world could confine them from loved ones, lock them in a failing economic system, but in the end it could not extinguish the embers of their undying hope or harness their human desire for freedom. >> helm kohl said the fall of the wall was his proudest moment. >>> an iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter because she was too westernized has been extradited. he was arrested in the atlanta airport on thursday. he tried to fly to the united kingdom but was denied entrance and returned to the united states. he's accuse of running over his daughter withes i h car because he didn't think she was living according to traditional values. almaleki remains in the hos

bush. what is your comment on that? >> guest: i think the red it definitely made those who are against the geeky nerd already feel justified in the way they felt. and i think it moved many of them forward to commit physical violence or emotional, verbal violence certainly. i am there with you. i think the rhetoric definitely created a charge at mr. against the geeky beauty. >> host: three more calls left for judy shepard. >> caller: my best wishes to you. i am sorry i missed you in san francisco that i am on the phone here with my partner of 25 years. and we just celebrate our 20th 25th anniversary with getting married at city hall in front of city hall when that was permitted. i just want to say what a great speaker you are, and your comment about the language people use. i am so tired and so sick of the constant produced that people exhibit towards people they don't understand and don't really want to understand that they just act rude towards them, and i think your idea that if we could teach people to be civil in th

bush urged iraqis to overthrow their dictator. >> bush: to take matters into their own hands... >> pelley ma'dan and other shiites in the south supported an uprising to topple saddam's regime. the marshes, known for ages as a smuggler's paradise, turned out to be a perfect place for the rebels to hide, with their endless maze of waterways, like these on the iranian border. but in 1991, when the allies withdrew, saddam turned eden into hell. >> alwash: the united nations environmental program called it the biggest engineered environmental disaster of the last century. >> pelley: saddam tried to wipe out the marsh arabs by destroying their world. he built six canals to divert the waters of the tigris and euphrates out into the desert and the persian gulf. in a five-year project, 90% of the marshes were drained, an area of more than 3,000 square miles. >> alwash: as an engineer, i'm telling you, drying of the marshes is definitely not an easy task. it's a monumental engineering project. he put every piece of equipment available in iraq under his control at the services of the projects needed