bush. do you have a view of all the others that were winnowed out of the field. was there any particular candidate that really should have had more momentum, had they run a better campaign and ended up there at the finish line beyond bush or was it really bush had run the best campaign next to reagan? >> i think bush had run the best campaign next to reagan. and had run the most aggressive campaign. and probably had the best campaign staff after reagan in some ways. i think that -- i always wondered why bob dole didn't catch fire more. certainly he'd been on the ticket with gerald ford in 1976. he was a national political figure. he was a genuine war hero. he was a very effective, competent legislator from kansas. he had a beautiful story to tell, you know, jack armstrong, all-american story but he never caught on with the voters and i could never really figure out why that never happened. >> now, while you have noted that president reagan obviously ran the best campaign, he was victorious

bush left with a record low numbers. guest: truman left office with lower numbers than george bush.presidents are judged by who came after them, what happened, the fruits of their labor. when the post-mortem of the eisenhower was written, everyone talks about the shah in iran. even now, i think it is too early to write about the legacy about george bush. guest: i think that is a good point, but my point about the bush poll -- that datapoint will be remembered in a larger picture, in the way that truman -- people remember that truman left with record low approval ratings. clinton, i could not tell you. probably positive. guest: truman, he has become this figure that can be invoked by any party now. our memories things happen and it causes us to go back and reevaluate. host: we are talking about defining moment of the decade with carl cannon and robert schlesinger. georgia, on the line for democrats. caller: i think what defines us most is how we treat one another. carl was speaking about filtering. for instance, this year, veterans will not be getting a cost-of-living increase becaus

, so he calls george bush, and george bush is blown away, no idea. he was convinced like everybody in america gerald ford was coming on the ticket with reagan. >> let me ask one more question before i throw it to the audience for any questions. it directly falls on that, and goes back to jack kemp. why did his start off rise at least high enough to be more seriously in consideration for the vice presidency? >> there was a lot of affection on the part of the delegates and governor reagan for jack kemp, and that comes through and all the people i talk to and material i went through. there were probably -- the biggest thing that kept jack kemp off the ticket with reagan is that the aides felt like it would be to match to ask the american people to swallow the ticket of a former movie actor and pro football player. it might have been too much to ask the american people in 1980 and that's probably as much as anything because really the delegates would say the vast majority of the delegates but a great number of the delegates really wanted -- really wanted

bush left with a record low numbers. guest: truman left office with lower numbers than george bush.presidents are judged by who came after them, what happened, the fruits of their labor. when the post-mortem of the eisenhower was written, everyone talks about the shah in iran. even now, i think it is too early to write about the legacy about george bush. guest: i think that is a good point, but my point about the bush poll -- that datapoint will be remembered in a larger picture, in the way that truman -- people remember that truman left with record low approval ratings. clinton, i could not tell you. probably positive. guest: truman, he has become this figure that can be invoked by any party now. our memories things happen and it causes us to go back and reevaluate. host: we are talking about defining moment of the decade with carl cannon and robert schlesinger. georgia, on the line for democrats. caller: i think what defines us most is how we treat one another. carl was speaking about filtering. for instance, this year, veterans will not be getting a cost-of-living increase becaus

if bush had decided to repudiate the u.s. altogether -- the u.n. altogether, i suspect it would have procued a -- produced a crisis for us. >> it was a critical moment? >> it was a critical moment that bush should have agreed to refer to resolutions, and there was a period between 7th of september and the 14th where the needles swu -- needle swung back and forth in the administration. you did not know which draft of the speech was going to prevail. >> and try to influence for the deal stopped, was there warning -- where the needle stops, was there warning that the british enterprise would diminish? >> if we don't get the u.n. in this speech and we don't make a serious effort, the first instance of regime change -- >> that would be assuming that the prime minister continued to support for the policy. people often cite the analogy of vietnam'. he did not go to vietnam, but he supported the americans. >> if you forgive me, it is not a wholly -- it was a bad period for u.k. - u.s. relations. the fact that he smoked a pipe in the u.s. office was offensi

bush. we were very worried that if the americans went gung-ho with the treaty and started dismantling some of the kyoto peace accord, this could unravel the relationship with russia and have all kinds of repercussions. then there was the anxiety that in developing the european defense initiative with the french that we had been seduced in some way by an incredibly fronting -- incredibly cunning friend that would run into a trap of undermining nato. we came up with a joint draft declaration to put these anxieties to bed, and that was finalized at camp david by the foreign policy adviser and by a rice herself. this was the top of the treaty. one of the things i would say, if i remember correctly from one of the briefings, this is something we need it to do to diffuse -- to defuse this well in advance. otherwise, the kinds of things that we need to talk about are the middle east, the middle east much more than an iraq at the time. >> sanctions were on the agenda, but not something that -- >> n

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bush. roe v. wade, alan derek wit, the famous professor from harvard who's to the left, says that was a legal decision. and then you have gore v. bush where the republican justices who had the majority basically cooked the decision, said it could never be used as precedent because, frankly, it was an illegal decision. never before had the equal protection clause been used to invalidate an election. so you have this kind of hypocrisy, and i'll give you one more example. antonin and ally ya, not one of my favorites. i'm basically a populist. scalia says that the death penalty is in the constitution. it's not in the constitution. there's no death penalty there. he gets that mr. the fact that at -- from the fact that at the time the constitution was written, the death penalty was being administered by the states. he reads into the constitution. so what am i saying? the constitution is not a monolithic thing. there's ambiguity in that constitution, and both conservatives and liberals have to understand

thats something i wouldave expected from bush. it has tak me byurprise and i don't agree th >> it. >> we allnow about the youthful oma brigades that turned o during the campaign. how disillusioneof these people going to be as nsequence of this? as i said, i thinkast week, heas a window here. if they don't start to be some real resultsn afghanistan in a year,hink they will be in terriblerouble, democrats will be inorrible trouble in the 2010 eleion. of course, the economy is prably even more important. buto he young men and women fighting and dying i gnificant numbers, and the amount of moy that ts is costing and going to cost, will takets toll further on his popularity. >> t other night on a charl gibson's "abc wor news" prram, george stephanopoulo d a graphic behind himand he showed harry truman's number is going down becau of the korean war, lyndon johnson'because of the vietnam war, and george bush's because of iraq. >> i love the historical analogies, particularly wit vietnam. but we spe more than $1 trillion and 5000 liv chan

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bush but the president before george w. bush, president bill clinton. so i think that we should recognize that there's been a lot of bipartisanship in creating what we all admit have been excesses. unfortunately, mr. speaker, we found that the are regulators were asleep at the switch. the name bernie may dauf was thrown out earlier. the fact of the mat -- may doff was thrown out earlier. the fact of the matter is we know the regulators were asleep at the switch when it came to dealing with that. we con look at a wide range of other areas where inadequate oversight took place. the question right now is, do we want to create what many of us are concerned about, that is unintended consequences. one of the things we found over the past year, plus, is a tremendous contraction in credit. individuals who want to utilize their credit cards or start a business, buy a home, have been having real difficulty gaining access to credit. we've seen this contraction take place. my concern as we look at this legislation is that we're going to take this contraction of cre

and he calls george bush is just blown away. had no idea. he was convinced like everybody else in america that gerald ford was going to go on the ticket with reagan. >> so let me ask one more question before i throw it to the audience for any questions they may have and it directly follows on that and it goes back to jack kemp. why did his star not rise at least high enough to be more seriously in consideration for the vice president? >> there was a lot of affection

i think bush, we will see. he made it possible for the insurgents to lose in his war. >> barack obama?

the bush e.p.a. saying we have found a danger. but vice president cheney found out that they had sent over an email, and the finding was not going to be finalized until the bush white house accepted that email. so what did they do? vice president cheney ordered that the email not be received in the white house. no email, which gives the consensus of the environmental protection agency of george bush that co-2 is a danger. we won't accept that email. there is a scandal. that's a scandal. the american environmental protection agency has made a finding that co-2 is a danger and vice president cheney says we won't accept it. send the email back. once we get it, we'll have to act on it. there is a scandal. that's the cheney-bush years. holding hands with the saudi prince, please send us more oil. denying the science that their own e.p.a. had developed saying that co-2 is a danger to the health and welfare of our country. that is what is the real scandal. that we are denying science, we are denying the evaluation made by thousands of sc

bush, president clinton, and george w. bush. that is 33 years. 33 years. and all of a sudden my colleagues want to change our policy on federal funding of abortion. mr. president, we shouldn't be making this type of sweeping policy change in this health care legislation. and the nelson amendment is necessary -- is a necessary addition to the bill in order to protect our current policy and the unborn. i understand that not everyone in this country agrees with my position on abortion. and, again, i know that this issue deeply divides americans on ethical, moral, and religious grounds. while i have said that i don't agree with abortion and believe roe v. wade should be overturned, the nelson amendment -- and this is really important -- does not prevent anyone from seeking an abortion, it does not overturn roe v. wade and it does not place any new restrictions on access to

bush was in office. all assigning and mr. bush goes to iraq.herited and how president george w. beadle -- bush is viewed in this country and around washington guest: he will be remembered very fondly eventually. he is remembered primarily because of the decision of going into iraq. we shall see what the final line is. he corrected it in terms of the search. we hope the next president will get us out in an orderly way. we forget the importance of iraq in the explosive situation. there may be dissertations written 20 years from now that say it was painful to live through it and it cost american lives and certainly iraqi laws but maybe it was worth it. i think we can afford to be generous. there is no reason not to be. we will see how history plays out for george w. bush. host: the former president has given a couple of speeches off camera. he announced the bush center in dallas. guest: i don't think he wants to stick his oar in this. i don't know why that is. host: his vice president has been very vocal. guest: that is a different story altogethe

bush and justice souter.ed [unintelligible] is completely impossible to have the issue resolved and the controversy resulted time for the federal statutory deadline. we submit that the process has changed. >> if your concern with this -- if you had latigo we might have found exactly how it would have come out, but that was not the intent of mr. olson and governor bush at that particular time. many justices will say that oral arguments don't change their opinions, but that they help them close the gaps and narrowed some of the inconsistencies. i am not sure, but in hindsight, looking at this and listening to the arguments again just the other night, you see justice kennedy in particular trying to wrestle his way to a conclusion that works for him. it was not the more seemingly it to chronicle -- the more seemingly draconian approach it, but the weight to find that the equal protection was not being afforded every voter here, that was a comfort zone for him. >> it is an honor for me to be here as well, it was a

bush when he was the presidential candidate.o texas in early 1999, which was shortly before he declared himself as a candidate, he said to me with much frankness, i don't know much about foreign policy, i'm going to have to learn pretty damn fast, and one of the things i'm going to do is surround myself with good people. and the good people turned out to be this group, called the vulcans, led condoleezza rice and paul wolfowitz, who has become deputy secretary for defense. so my team and i folk tussed on this group. and after 2000 went by, certain policies began to take shape. and i think the most definitive account that i had of where the bush administration was likely to go -- and always bear in mind before 9/11, was a conversation with condoleezza rice at the british assembly, if i remember right, december 6, 2000, followed by a conversation with karl rove, who was president bush's chief political strategist at that time. >> i already had instructions in london to put in a few fixes on how we wanted certain things to develop.

president bush was a way more.anklin roosevelt, who was president for 12 years and passed away at the beginning of his fourth term, he was at his high." for about 500 days. people tend to forget this. in not only wenth home to hyde park more than president bush went to his ranch in texas, he also went to warm springs, ga. which is the retreat he went to for the treatment of polio. if you put that in the number, those records are difficult to pin down, franklin rest of both -- franklin roosevelt was a way more than any other president. host: does he get the kind of criticism other presidents have gotten. he went away during wartime. the second world war and he is going off to warm springs and hyde park. diddy get the kind of criticism that other presidents have gotten? guest: he got some of a bid not nearly as much as today. people in those days gave support to the president because of the endless world crises, particularly in the war years. it was not the same media scrutiny. present roosevelt could get away from t

and bush ii understood. they understood that if you get the -- get off the taxes, the government could take in more money than they would have if the taxes were higher. sounds like making water run up hill. but it doesn't. if you think about the loaf of bread you say, you could tax something so much that nobody buys it anymore that you basically stall the economy. when bush was facing a recession when i came to congress in 2001, he was criticized. in 2003, he reduced dividends, capital gains and death taxes. those things affect the guys that own these small businesses. when he did that, what happened was government revenues went up even though the taxes, rate of taxation went down. how in the world could that be? it's the same principle. it was called the laffer curve, an economist. so the sloogs to this doesn't mean that americans have to sit around with no jobs and suffer tremendously with a lousy economy. the solution is available. the solution has been used time after time in american history. and the th

he starts under the bush administration. ben bernanke was a high ranking george bush appointee. first on the council of economic advisers, then the chairman of the federal reserve. he's the one that initiated the whole intervention. it was his decision, not congress or the bush administration to give the money to aig. the whole question of the intervention or what was called bailouts began in september. so the description of his impact, yes. i think he made a mistake in the way he did the aig thing. on the whole, what he has done has been constructive. i guess i would say this. he gets partial blame for the fact that the crisis arose, although more went to alan greenspan. but he gets a lot of credit for the way he coped with it. >> larry: ron, what do you make of the selection? >> i think it's pretty neat. he is the most important guy in the world. and anybody who can create trillion of dollars behind the scenes and spend it with no oversight, i mean, that's pretty important. and he is a counterfeiter. he's the chief counterfeiter of all history. and i would say that's very good

>> well, we're not in the bush administration. that was a long time ago. we are now in the obama administration and napolitano is in charge of the security of this country. homeland security. and if she can't do the job, and if she's making statements like she has been making not reassuring the american people and letting people on the watch list get on planes because they don't disseminate information that they should she should be replaced. that's it. >> but, congressman, that hasn't been confirmed. we don't know if the cia had information. it's pure conjecture only from you. and if we were to reduce people -- i'm saying the -- you sfad the cia director had information he would have given it and suggest denot have it. we don't know. cnn just reported it, sir. >> we don't know whether it was distributed. we don't know nearly enough to suggest napolitano should resign. >> if we were to reduce people to sound bites george bush said mission accomplished. george bush said brown was doing a good job when people were drowning in katrina. we don't reduce people

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ç bushç presid. andç now the gb@ma administration's, and bush used to capture and imprison people he determined were a danger to the nation. nearly eight years after the first prisoners were shipped to the naval base, the u.s. government still is not completely settled on a clear legal framework for handling them. the obama administrationçç's illegal policy has some distinct offenses from the bush administration. obama explicitly supports the -- obama administration's legal policy has some distinct differences from the persian administration. obama explicitly supports habeas corpus review rights that bush opposed." date on the independent line. -- gave an independent line. -- dave on the independent line. caller: according to the detainees and afghanistan, the attorney general sounded pretty confident, and he mentioned that there would be a conviction. now, i know that the definition of is was a technicality that least somebodyççç, and i do't believe that he has defined that -- that released to

. >> larry: now, we have a bush baby. >> this is a bush baby. >> can you put him on his shoulder? >> larry: that mean it lives in the bush? >> larry: put him on my shoulders. is this a bush baby? >> we filmed the bush baby in africa. this animal here, it's nocturnal. when we film it, we film it at nighttime. you see the eyeballs at nighttime out in the trees. they're not really big trees. they're pollinated, they defecate and pollinates is what it does. eats a seed or piece of fruit. the bush baby, 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: yeah, he's furry. >> exactly. >> larry: he is fooling with my earpiece. >> this is a prosimian. 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: look at that. >> tu

when bush administration said they wanted to are ling wish control of u.s.ts to a dubai company but then we still don't want to inspect containers coming from overseas, yes, it is a crisis. it is not just the airport. i never said that. until we look at this in a global comprehensive way, we'll be nothing but reactive. >> larry: last night on this show, dan burton, the congressman from indiana, said that janet napolitano should resign. should she? >> i don't think so. this wasn't janet napolitano going rogue and making something up. she was given a directive to defend the system. and whoever told her that, that's who should be fired. i think janet napolitano was taking orders. and that's the scary part about this. >> i don't have any basis for knowing that somebody whispered in janet napolitano's ear to say this is what you say on sunday. i'm not that much of a conspiracy theorist. >> larry: you haven't heard the end of this. actor charlie sheen was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife on christmas day. >> larry: welcome back. on christmas morning acto

what the constitutional ruling to the does not work the case of the terms of bush b-girl -- bush versus gore. host: what were the judicial aftermaths of the 2008 ruling? we know the political aftermath. did that change the relationship between members of the court at all? guest: there were certainly hard feelings in the short-term. they say, justice is uniformly say no, it didn't, it did not change the way i work with colleagues. indeed, they are used to on really, really import issues, disagreeing with each other strongly and facing very sharp criticism from one another. there is no, on the surface, reason to think they have not moved fast that case. host: you wrote earlier this month about a case, christian both -- christian group rebuffed by a school. guest: it will be heard this term. a christian group at a public law school that has a rule that if voting members of the officers have to abide by its tenants, and tenants include, of course, faith-based and also say that homosexuality is wrong, read the bacon be recognized as a school group -- whether they can be recognized as a schoo

bush. that is a coalition-builder.s reach across the aisle from working with protecting title 9 to sponsoring the fair housing act with malwalter mondale. he did not care whether the bill was popular or politically expedient, democratic, or republican. he cared about whether it helps people, whether it made a difference in their lives. that is why he fought so hard for medicare and the minimum wage, for so rights and women's rights. that is why he became an advocate for affordable housing, establishing protections that are the standard to the state. it is a record that defies labels and categories for which she had little use. he offered phrases like creative moderate or a liberal with a conservative bent. but in truth, his career was animated by a faith in the people he served. he always got to see the best in people because that was the fact he had. maybe it was his old fashioned manners and warmth. maybe it was his charm and charisma. or maybe it was as genuine interest in people's stories, the way he listened to th

we must be reminded that the terrorist acted under president bush's clock.his coop be an issue of inactivity per sway he and lack of commitment to the homeland, but we have to do better, and i believe we need to have behavioral assessment. there was no reason for him to have a vice sa in place until 2010 for them to travel. there was no reason for him not to be detected because of his behavior. behavioral assessment. we need to make the home security of the nation focused. secretary of homeland security should be the point person, and that person should taeb a road map that then allows us to fund and put resources according. finally the president should put in place -- >> larry: we're out of time. >> put in place the tsa administrator by way of a research pointses taxing and

if the question is terrorism, the answer is george bush. and that simple matrix ultimately worked and sort of in a way that confound so many people. we turned a vietnam war veteran, some guy who was not tough enough to take on the terrorists, that was the work of a political operation. so ultimately the democrats have to find a way to sort of turn this ocean liner in a better direction, you know, by the midterm point if they're going to have some traction. >> congressman, could i come back to you and actually pick up something that joe lockhart said about the tricks of the trade, if you look, going into an election, that somehow in this constantly changing battle of the last cycle the democrats nudged ahead in terms of their use of technology, use of the internet, mobilization and so on. what can we expect in the form of innovation from the republican party in the midterm? >> you know, daniel, i think probably the best place to look is in virginia and new jersey about a month ago in these gubernatorial electricses. i know in my home state o

bush. all got off the taxes, left more money in the pocket of small businessmen and the economy takes off like a rocket in all three instances. the other example, you got thr guy marchingen thaw and here it is, 1939. now we have turned a resession into the great depression. and he comes before the ways and means committee. people should know something about it. and this is what morgenthau. this was the buddy of little lord keynes. he says, we have tried spending money. we are spending more than we have ever spent before and it disdoes not work. after eight years of the administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started, and an enormous debt to boot. this is f.d.r.'s guy that was one of the original stimulus people. when i hear people say stimulus, this is the result of stimulus, it's unemployment. turns the recession into a great depression. what did we try in april or may of this last spring? we tried the same dumb idea. and guess what? we are getting the same lousy resul

isn't it true that president bush had an august 6th memo that might have prevented 9/11? >> that is a little unfair. there wasn't a single branch of the united states g. that get with terrorism that wasn't responsible. the problem this time, you know, it's like reading the same script over again. they talking about the fact that intelligence agencies didn't talk to one another. and that was the major fault we found in the report. if they had talked to each other, there was a possibility that 9/11 would haven't happened. we were lucky this time. >> larry: what do you make of the former vice president dick cheney ice charge that president is trying to pretend we are not at war? >> i don't know. i just just not assume get into that kind of charge. it's not productive at this point. what is productive at this point is getting together, finding out if the director of national intelligence is operating and whether the counterterrorism center is operating as it should and what the mistakes were and whether we can correct those mistakes. these people want to harm us. they are out

i think bush, we will see. he made it possible for the insurgents to lose in his war. >> barack obama? >> i went down to the inauguration. i was doing that for "the newshour." there was a historic quality to that which can never be taken away. it is one thing but it is a very important thing. the quality became more real because he was elected president. there is the rest of his term. what do we do today, mr. president? i think we're seeing problems that he has gotten himself into and i imagine we will see many more of them. he is in an interesting position after his afghanistan speech, which is that his supporters on that will be his enemies, and his opponents are his base. that is a tricky position for a politician and we will see how that plays out. >> sarah palin? >> i will give you cole porter. you have got that thing that makes the birdies for get to get to sing. she has something. i was dismayed when she quit as governor of alaska. she is running -- she has had executive experience but why does she cut i

and a pregnant -- president bush previously had tried to -- and i know president bush previously had tried to nullify the contract between unical and argentina. how much you think the war has to do with protecting that oil pipeline over everythin else? > guest: there's no question in my mind that the iraq war is largely about oil. that is what makes the part of the oil -- of the world important to us. if this course of america -- if this were south america, even cambodia we could walk away from more easily than the middle east. there are always these conspiracy rumors about unocal and so on. there is gas up in the central asian region, but afghanistan is a resource for country. -- is a resource poor country. host: garrett from massachusetts. caller: i was wondering three or writing for the "washington post" -- through your writing for the "washington post" you know if there is a technological of vantagadvantage to try to ger outcome in afghanistan? guest: on the question of technology, the answer is, unfortunately, i do not think so. the job i really doing right now is writing the hi

other than the fact that he pinned this whole thing on president bush.htfully so, that really didn't answer anything in the speech. you know, with vote vets when we talk to our members, there's real concern this administration has done some things for the troops that the bush administration hadn't done. they stopped the stop/loss policy. they want to give you two years of dwell time. if you add up the math here and you add the numbers of the five or six new brigades we'll see in afghanistan, you put us at surge levels from an up-tempo standpoint. the obama administration talk a lot about sacrifices. at the end of the day, someone has to go and fight. and i really believe, you know, the karzai election and the corruption that was evolves was a game changer on the ground. i don't think he's really held that government's feet to the fire. and are we in a situation now where we have young americans fighting and dying, involved in a civil conflict where there's corruption involved with the indigenous government? i would have preferred him to take a much harde

caller: 48 years we listened to bush talk about -- for eight years we listen to bush talk about the reason why we have not found weapons of mass destruction in iraq was intelligence and yet he fired no one, gave george tenet the medal of freedom. the president to distinguish himself by firing napolitano. that is what the he should do. and that would show he is taking a different approach. host: this is because of the specific incident or how she responded so far? caller: both. because of the specificç incidt and how she handled so far. this is obviously a failure on the part of the department of homeland security. and when things like this happen, someone should get fired. host: what do you think it sets about the intelligence gathering and information sharing that was a concern even stemming out of the 9/11 attacks? caller: it shows there is incompetents somewhere along the line. i think the administrator at the top of which ever department is misspoke -- is supposed to be responsible fat -- for that should be fired when anything like this happens. host: the president made a brief statem

president bush was a way more.klin roosevelt, who was president for 12 years and passed away at the beginning of his fourth term, he was at his high." for about 500 days. people tend to forget this. in not only wenth home to hyde park more than president bush went to his ranch in texas, he also went to warm springs, ga. which is the retreat he went to for the treatment of polio. if you put that in the number, those records are difficult to pin down, franklin rest of both -- franklin roosevelt was a way more than any other president. host: does he get the kind of criticism other presidents have gotten. he went away during wartime. the second world war and he is going off to warm springs and hyde park. diddy get the kind of criticism that other presidents have gotten? guest: he got some of a bid not nearly as much as today. people in those days gave support to the president because of the endless world crises, particularly in the war years. it was not the same media scrutiny. present roosevelt could get away from the

they are very, very different, clinton and bush, but i think it would be wrong to see the bush administration simply as an unusual and a typical aberration. it is not like that. >> that brings this question to a close. just to say we will of course be pursuing that to assume there is a documentary said rival, we will have still being added. that concludes the first of our sessions on the dimension, and tomorrow, if we pursue the same thank, it will be on the united states and the interrelated united nations aspects. with that, i think everybody who has -- thank everybody who has spent time here this morning and our witnesses. thank you. c-span3 c-span2 [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> embedded in afghanistan, a freelance journalist observing how the u.s. uses a unmanned vehicles for drones. >> there are two units. one handles the north, one handles the south. the south is the bigger and this year of the two. i would guess 100 predator drone. they look like giant model airplanes, about the size of a small compac

. >> larry: now, we have a bush baby. >> this is a bush baby. we'll put it right -- >> larry: does that mean it lives in the bush? >> right on larry's shoulder? you think? >> yeah. definitely. >> larry: okay. i'm a glutton. put him on my shoulder. >> this is a bush baby. we filmed the bush baby in africa. this animal is nocturnal. when we film it we film it at nighttime. you see all these little eyeballs out in the trees. they're not big trees. it's a pollinator. it goes from one tree to another tree, it defecates and poll naits. it's an amazing defense mechanism. it sleeps in a big ball, 30 or 40 of them get in a big old ball together like this. it looks like a big blob. so therefore, predators like birds and birds of prey -- are you comfortable? >> larry: yeah. he's furry. he's not light. he's fooling with my earpiece. >> larry, this is a presimian, too. this is premonkey, preape. thousands of years. look at the hands on this. i don't foe if you can see them on larry's shoulder. little hands. just like your hands. incredible shot if you can ge

right now we're still living off bush the way bush was living off of clinton's foreign policy, the first year. we're about to move into the obama foreign policy. i think if there's going to be a disaster and i don't know where or how or what it will be, but i know obama will do the wrong thing. >> congress? >> well, congress -- is there something below and ask? the only good thing is they are not really getting things done. date passed that crazy cap-and-trade bill. it went over to the senate that this is just ann coulter speaking that even the senate look at that and said this is insane. so that may not get past that and i like it not been passed. but i mean, and the bill of a recession, in the middle of a housing bust, they have this massive energy taxes on homeowners, many factors that you would have to have an epa inspector of some sort come to your house to make sure it is green before you sell it. this is all in the cap-and-trade bill. this is why when it went to the senate, which is oddly the more sensible body right now, they said i think we wait. the health care bill i think is

bush was a weekend. but the problem was not just the failed policies but also the missed opportunities which opportunities for his presidency and the spanish got that message and voted democrat in big numbers and justice sotomayor his hugely important. to keep that though and immigration vote matters in terms of sustaining. >> also the cuban vote affected by generations? >> exactly. fidel castro came to power in 1959 npr through the second and into the third generation. that has less resonance and as it does the importance of that vote in florida for the republicans is diminishing. in part because the issue what self seems to be fading and certainly the latest generation of cuban americans is off to other things as is fidel castro. [laughter] >> how will the demographics affect the rise of an effective third-party? >> obama's biggest problem is not to republicans but populism. it comes from the implosion of the republican party because what is happening is when they have that old real majority was also a

bush. it was very dangerous for a variety of reasons. theories predicted massive change are almost always associated with war. you saw this as a moment pregnant with the possibility of war. that is what motivated the back to the future arguments. the bipolarÑi divisionñr of eure has maintained peace. rapid unification of germany will in fact and bring that will d -- bring back multi-clarity that will bring war. that was his argument. -- it will bring that multi- polarityw3Ñiçó that will bring . there were a lot of reasons. the bottom line is that scholars were behind the curve and overestimated the risks involved with rapid unification. this is connected to the conduct of style but i am talking about. Ñialmost the clearest case we he is theçó expansion that began to hit the radar screen in the middle of 1990. we had a powerful scholarly consensus against the idea that nato was central to europe. i do recall a lot of historians were not at all shy about applying the historical knowledge to contemporary politics. john dalgattis he had neve

bush to be the person of the year.ver and over.ñr to him and there is çónothing ok they will take çresponsibility for. host: ok, thanks for will call. we showed this headline, çon t front page of the "washington times", çmore koon afghanistan the left xdççóççisç rankle comments. next caller, who should be mst person of year? caller: i think it should be scully that is more universally liked. host: thanks for the call, the senate voted 60-34 on the spending bill, but in order to end the republican filibuster, democrats had to hold the vote for 50 minutes for senator robert byrd and for senate lieberman to walk over. next caller? caller: sidney shien who stood up as a warmonger, and stood up for the war caused by 9/11. host: from the weekly standard, called the quack health care. we have lee joining us. caller: yeah, i think it should be a three way tie, the republican party and rush limbaugh and the insurance industry, of how they have lied to the american public concerning health care and getting national healt

i think bush, we will see.o the inauguration. i was doing that for "the newshour." there was a historic quality to that which can never be taken away. it is one thing but it is a very important thing. the quality became more real because he was elected president. there is the rest of his term. what do we do today, mr. president? i think we're seeing problems that he has gotten himself into and i imagine we will see many more of them. he is in an interesting position after his afghanistan speech, which is that his supporters on that will be his enemies, and his opponents are his base. that is a tricky position for a politician and we will see how that plays out. >> sarah palin? >> i will give you cole porter. you have got that thing that makes the birdies for get to get to sing. she has something. i was dismayed when she quit as governor of alaska. she is running -- she has had executive experience but why does she cut it off? why does she chopped off and foreclose a? because she is seeking the toughest executiv

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hi started with the bush administration. he was a high ranking george bush appointee. he's the one that initiated the intervention. it was his decision, not congress, to give the noun aig. the kbe of intervention of bailouts began in september. so the description of his impact, yes. on the whole, what he has done has been constructive. he gets partial blame for the crisis. but he get ace lot of credit for the way he coped with it. >> larry: ron what do you think? >> i think it's unique. he is the most important guy in the world. and anybody who can create trillion of dallases behind the scenes and spend it with no oversight that is pretty important. and he is a counterfeiter. and it draws attention to the fed. this to me is a real delight. i don't have to have agree for the reasons that they gave him man of the year. >> larry: a negative man of the year. >> yes, it's very important we understand why he is so sbornt powerful. >> larry: tanya, were you surprised at the selection? >> i have to say w all due respect to senator paul, i think that this was -- here is a man w

bush in committee what is defined as treason. i would point out a clear and convincing truth of multiple evidence strains of these buildings been brought down from the architects and engineers of 9/11. numerous civil and structural engineers. this paper discovered in the dust from the 9/11 world trade center. i personally have indicated its presence to the vice president and to my own congress people. none of them have disputed the signs. none of them will respond in a coherent manner. it's time for the american people to do their duty and speak the truth. host: we will check in with a kabul corresponded with the christian science monitor. he is speaking to us by phone from afghanistan. good morning. guest: good morning. host: i assume you're listening last night with some troops in afghanistan. guest: i was not with troops. i was in kabul. host: what has been the reaction so far since the president gave his speech from the people you have talked to? guest: it is a mixed reaction. perhaps the correct message has not gotten out he

in 2005, president bush signed the energy policy act.ults was the energy independence act of 2007. getting through the legislature is a milestone, but you do not get the ticker tape parade until the results actually roll in. if you forget this, you will end up drowning in a river of failure. that is not a place that you want to be. our next phase is the implementation phase. the biggest trap in this phase is overconfidence. this often occurs when really smart, capable people become overconfident in their abilities and they failed to prepare for all the rest. -- prepare for all the rest -- prepare for all the rest this is a lot tougher than it looks. the key to avoiding failure is to take failure seriously. anyone who has ever done every have on your house knows that you should take out a loan for $40,000 and moved in with your in-laws. that is how to be successful. let me give you a quick story. if you are like me, few things get you more frustrated than sitting in traffic. there is one proven way to increase -- reduce traffic congestion