and shame on bush. and i have no evidence that bush did it. but, you know, shame on bush. and as a result, it was the hole mindset. it wasn't just this one evidence. that kind of add to and made itself evident in other says that's south carolina than i talk in the book and lost the primary and hence lot the nomination in the presidential election. >> you also had an incident to meet john mccain later on. >> yeah, in 2004, mccain offered through a long-time aide and person that i knew mccain would campaign for us. and they appear in washington state which was nonpolitical and campaign rally. the president said on the first sort of swing, i don't want you along. you can work out your problems with mccain later. he laughed. he thought that was funny. so the first trip that i spent with mccain was in florida. we flew to pensacola, florida and end the the day in panama city. when we got an air force one at andrews, the president had a cia briefing. he said go back and talk to mccain. entertain mccain until i'm ready. this is awkward. look mccain's campaign and even mccain's wif

bush. one is that he viewed this as a government decision not a political decision because he called the next day and said you are right on most or all that stuff that's all politics you can deal with that. my job is to worry about if something happened to me what the country have confidence in. and second of all the showed bush style which is he likes to have people around him who have strong opinions and may or may not agree with his and are willing to lay them out in a respectful and straightforward way in front of others who might have a different opinion. it was quite an experience. years? >> guest: well, my opinion of him when i left the room i said great as irritated the guy who will be the next vice president. and then we became friends. he never help it against me. he said that was my job. my job was to go to those questions and not take it personal. >> host: with a roving campaign? >> guest: is not what is normally depict it. the ugly things that people say are at the heart of cam

instead he said bush did this and shame on bush and i have no evidence pushed it but shame on bush. as a result was the whole mind set. it wasn't just this one event. this attitude made itself evident in other ways in south carolina that i talked about in the book and lost the primary for the can and lost the nomination in the presidential election. >> host: you also relate an incident he had a chance to meet with john mccain later on. >> guest: in 2004, mccain offered through a longtime aide and person that i knew that mccain would campaign for and they made an appearance with president bush in washington state which was non-political and in a campaign rally and the president said on this first swing i don't want to belong but you can work out your problems with mccain leader and he laughed, he thought that was funny. and so the first trip by spend with mccain is in florida. we flew to pensacola florida, then took a bus to riceville ansi site at the end of the day in panama city. when we got on air force one at andrews the president had a cia briefing so he said go back and talk to

than bush. i was supposedly responsible for this e-mail from a professor at jones university that let john mccain had fathered an out of wedlock black baby and it was ugly, a vicious little smear. but a couple things. one if i had nothing to do with it. even jonathan karl working at cnn got a hold of the professor who basically said, i did this on my own and so what. i have a right to do it. but it was a vicious, a gated smear on john mccain. the kind of things that look come to south carolina voters are not attracted by that. it was the thing that on the surface didn't help anybody who didn't want john mccain made president. it was the kind of thing that people naturally reject. then, what happened if mccain stood up and said george bush is behind this. south carolina republicans like mccain and bush and liked them both. not one in a thousand would believe george bush was capable of doing that. my personal viewpoint it happened was i was afraid because i thought mccain with these upon it to tal

, a chill you bush -- h. w. bush, he was in my mind one of the best and underrated foreign policy presidents we have with it was how she handled cautiously and successfully the demise of the soviet union, the end of the cold war, the fall on the berlin wall or likewise how he handled the middle east, the persian gulf and kuwait. tell me a little bit about george h. w. bush the person and his philosophy of foreign policy. >> guest: the person first, a guy i believe if people saw him in private as i did often would have thought much better of him. this guy got dana carvey, you know the guy on saturday night live to imitate him in public but in private he was naturally eloquent. i told the story in portland oregon we were out there to dedicated police memorial and we were going to job. he used to jog with me and very generously he would slow down. >> host: i've read particular in a hotel room and he wants to go jogging with you and with all due respect, built i didn't think of you as the type of jogger -- >> gue

kill you bush -- george h. w. bush and his philosophy. >> guest: a guy if i believe people saw him in private as i did often would have thought better of him. this guy got dana carvey, the guy on saturday night live who imitates him in public but in private he was naturally eloquent. i tell the story of portland oregon. we were out there for a dedicated police memorial when i was the drug czar and we were going to jog. he used to jog generously he would slow down. >> host: i meant to say i read the part you were in a hotel room and he wants to go jogging and with all due respect, bill, i didn't think if you as the type of shocker. >> guest: you know i climb mountains in coloradan. no, no, he slowed down and actually what happened is we ran in houston and when we finished, the press corps there said how is the drug war to going, mr. bennett, and she's all that i was out of breath. she took the first question until i got my breath. now that's a good boss, that's a good president. but back to portland, we were going

bush always worked on the distance.owever, sitting in the room we will refer to it as off the oval office, it got another name during the clinton administration. we were watching the today show and ross perot was on and he was reeling about president bush and president bush disrupting his daughter's wedding in the secret service. these were these kind of crazy things. and president bush turned to me and said where does he get this stuff? just a nice matter-of-fact off the cuff. i agree about the foreign policy. this experience showed i do say in the book because again i try to be fair, i tried the business. i think it was not good. i think that i know people made a lot of the toast and there was more going off and brent scowcroft toast to the chinese leadership, but trademark and square was a horrible -- >> host: what should we have done at tannin square because that was the downside as you see of the realism which was if you are an ideal stand timmerman square happens, you react and you push back on china. if you are a

bush chose yes. imagine what would have happened if he had said, well, i don't know if i can trust him? what if he said, no, i can't trust this guy? what kind of personal relationship and what kind of diplomatic relationship would the united states have with this major power? i think the president took the right tone, which was to say, i think we can have a good relationship with him. i looked in his eyes and i believe we can trust him. that's how you establish a personal relationship, which will help further the diplomatic relationship of the major power. did we think he was our friend and ally on each and every moment in no. were we weary of his intentions? you bet we were. but in diplomacy it's important to establish that on a strong a footing as possible. that was the right thing to do. >> host: you write about president bush's management style. it left the impression he was board when the truth was that the meeting needed to end. it >>'s interesting. al mentioned history. bush was a history majo

and of course president bush is here too. >> reporter: that would be bush 43. >> will, to the best ofability. >> reporter: the president whose election olson successfully defended before the supreme court in 2000, a memory that wasn't lost on chad griffin. >> i knew i was in foreign territory, but i saw enough in that office to know just how republican, you know, of a world that ted olson comes from. my world could not be more different than that. >> reporter: also on display was olson's extraordinary legal track record, with 44 supreme court victories under his belt. >> here areal kwils. now, you get one of these every time. >> every time you argue a case in the supreme court, at the desk is the kwil. >> reporter: weeks later, rob reiner says the deal was signed at his home. here you are sitting talking to ted olson whom you probably regarded as -- >> the enemy. >> the devil, they say. the devil. >> now, what are you? >> i'm a devil to a different group of people. >> it really is a betrayal of everything ted olson has purported to stand for. >> reporter: ed wailen feels betrayed. it

the exception was bush after reagan. after that it was clinton, then bush, that obama. it is difficult for one party to stay in for 12 years. coast of florida, good morning. caller: i have a question for the republican and democrat, as i am an independent. they used to be 67 votes? if you recite the pledge of allegiance that says we are a republic, not a democracy. to the democrat, i heard something very interesting. my parents used to be democrats, they have actually turned republican. something very interesting on c- span, the jfk said asked not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. now democrats say that you have a right to education, and house, and a job. from what i heard on c-span, that was the constitution of ussr. the democrats not understand what this country is about? guest: i do not want to get into a philosophical debate, but there is a difference between the parties. democrats generally believed in a more activist role and republicans. -- activist role than republicans. that is what elections are about. there is a feeling a

that was the position of the bush administration. if it is unacceptable, we have to be prepared to do something about it. to defend against this general islamic threat, we need a grand strategy, and that grand strategy has three components. one, conceptual clarity about the threat. two, good intelligence to deal with the threat, and three, the mobilization of the entire scope of powers, political, economic, military and, to deal with the threat. how are we doing? i think there are reasons to be concerned about the of ministration's approach. first, lack of clarity. now to his credit, after he took office, president obama continued a number of essential elements of the fight his predecessor had put in place, continued most aspects of the patriot at, wiretaps, and e- mailed intercepts. the indefinite detention of the extremist killers. and he continued president clinton's policy of rendering terrorist extremists to third countries. those things he has done, but the president admitted in his state of the union address last month that "w

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second, during the bush years, when there was all kind of hate speech, accusations of bush being a nazi war criminal, "the new republic" starting an article with "i hate george bush," i don't remember anybody here talking about hate speech or over the top language. >> it is beside the point. what did happen was that you had members of congress cheering demonstrators disrupting the floor of the house, and those were republican congressman. >> the point is not who gets the recon. the point is that there are these kinds of threats. it can get very much out of hand. is going in that direction at the moment. >> evan thomas's grandfather told anti-war protesters at the height of that fancy, "don't burned the american flag, wash it." that is wise counsel. >> let's all agree on that. >> cutting the gas line is a violation, a criminal act. >> who disagrees with that? >> nobody. last word. see you next week. for a transcript of this broadcast, log on to insidewashington.tv.

the bush to arrangement syndrome which was formed during the bush and administration no of mamadou arrangement syndrome. what are they and what gave rise to them and how our they manifested in today's political climate and? >> guest: it is a contagious political virus. the bush and obama derangements and dumb pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism. it is important to understand the interplay because we saw some processors comparing president bush to hiller, a terrorist one of the things i detail in a book here is a surprising winner of nobel prize winners comparing bush to hitler and did not get a lot of condemnation and politics follows the lines of physics their reaction creates the opposite in equal reaction. anytime somebody carries the helpers when they say they started it. they called our guy first and nobody complains and now we just get back. so they inside each other but now with obama we have seen something that is more prevalent that has metastasized much chrysler. obama's was announced on day one they called out for the obama resistance and we sought a major upti

year of the bush administration. and then we lost all of these jobs and we were under two wars and then we had two sets of tax cuts and drug entitlement and wall street bailout, all of that blamed on george bush. well, i would like to think they could get over this and quit revising history. yes, we have two wars. which one would they have avoided? both? would anyone say we shouldn't have gone into afghanistan and slugged your soldiers and pointed your finger and said this is a job for the attorney general. shurnl we couldn't be against people that killed 3,000 americans on a single day, the worst attack on american homeland in the history of our country and i see it listed on the poster as something we should not have been engaged in. mr. speaker, it was nearly unanimous here in the house of representatives to grant the authority for the president of the united states to engage in this -- in these operations. there was only one exception. so that's the only person that would get to come here to the floor and say, i

bush administration. he also served in the ronald reagan administration as assistant secretary of state for international organizations, assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian organizations where i actually interned for him in the summer of 1984 and latin american affairs as well. and he has served, i'm proud to say he's an alumni of numerous organizations including our own, he was a senior fellow here at hudson institute in the 1990s before going on to become president of the ethics and foreign policy organization. elliot is currently senior fellow on middle east studies at the council for foreign relations here in washington. our other speaker is ambassador jeffrey feltman who is assistant secretary of state for the bureau of dip plomatic affairs. given the focus on it in this book, prior to his assignment in lebanon, he headed the coalition provisional authority's office in iraq serving simultaneously as deputy regional coordinator for the cpa's northern area. from 2001 until 20

bush. the two men are raising the fund-raising efforts for haiti following the january earthquake. president bush says he hopes that their visit reminds americans that the country needs help. >>> in a battle watched by many,

so that's their argument, some of those numbers reflect the outgoing bush administration. and also, the point about

, president bush. it was the tarp. they wanted to make sure the financial institutions did not collapse, that people didn't have to have fear and a run on the banks or something of that nature. when it came to the stimulus, it was money to help our economy. things have started to stabilize now and they're getting better in florida. >> chris: mr. rubio? >> i don't know how you define stability, having the highest unemployment in florida's history is certainly not stability, especially to the one out of ten floridians can't find a job. stimulus is a failure. we established the critical difference in the campaign in this conversation. if i had been in washington, d.c. as senator i would have voted against the stimulus and fought on behalf of republicans that were alternatives to cost less money, promoted more jobs. if charlie crist had been in the senate he would have voted for the stimulus. for the florida republicans, the choice is clear. do you want your next senator to be someone like me or the gentle

bush, but the bush administration never funded it. in fact, they starved nasa so that the building of the new rocket is not ready when the space shuttle is now being set -- now being set for retirement. now, why is that? well, that decision on the space shuttle really came as a result of the destruction of colombia over the skies of texas on reentry back in 2002. and the investigation commission headed by a navy admiral named gamon called the gamon commission. otherwise known as the columbia investigation, it's c-a-i-b, colombian investigation board. they said after a decade -- at the end of the decade, if you're going to continue to fly the space shuttle, you're going to have to recertify all of these orbiters that have been going on since the early 1980's. so the decision was made to shut down the space shuttle program at the end of the last decade, and we find that that shuttle program is, in fact, coming to an end without the new rocket being ready, and therefore you had the angst that is in this aerospace community, this close-kn

it was back during the bush administration. that was back when hank paulson came and told everyone that he was going to save the nation and the republicans bought into it and many of my good conservative republican friends and voted for a $700 billion bailout. i did not. and a few others didn't. but the vast majority did. that's kind of interesting. that $700 billion is the same figure that we're using right now that it would cost people in -- by the year 2020 just the interest alone. but the $700 billion that we could spend on interest in 2020 happens each and every year. and we don't get anything for it. it's just the cost of living having this much debt in the first place. at this rate, it will become more and more difficult for government to fund priorities that we truly think are important like national infrastructure spending. for some reason nobody around here wants to spend money on infrastructure. i know i get criticized because i know i'm considered to be a conservative. i've been rated as the number one most conserva

george bush made tough decisions. everybody supported him. then over time the demonization begins.when it comes time to cut medicare, deal with social security. when it comes time to deal with budget deficits and you is the country going to accept that? we are at a cross roads, right? >> i think the tea party movement is showing you that and the next couple of years -- >> sean: will they sustain it not the tea party movement. >> i don't though we'll have a choice. this is tough medicine. >> sean: nobody wants that >> nobody ever wants that but that's how we to this problem this irresponsible behavior by the politicians and by wall street. >> sean: this is the whole point to tie this together, different mentality of my parents and my grandparents which had nothing. >> they had the responsibility. they knew if they didn't earn the money they couldn't buy the car, the house. >> sean: where did we get to this point where whether you can afford a house or not -- >> narcissism, culture revolution of the 60s. we had this narcissistic behavior where the self became everything it becomes th

bush and the republicans in congress at that time. and we got left with an aftermath where we had to bail out the banks, where we had to bail out the economy. mr. obama was left with a $1.6 trillion deficit on the day he took office. those are undisputable facts. and i am proud to stand on the democratic record on economic policy and i'm proud to stand on this bill where we're going to reduce the deficit while rebuilding america and cutting taxes for taxpayers that live in the united states and not for foreign corporations. i'll take that record to the bank every single day, madam speaker. madam speaker, at this point i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas -- the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: let me thank the distinguished gentleman from texas and i thank his good friend from florida for managing this bill and their leadership on these issues as well as the ways and means committee. just a few minutes ago t

and they won, and george bush became president in '89. >> guest: yes. c-span: when was he struck -- first day, when did he know the first time that he had a brain tumor? >> guest: on march 6th of 1990 he had a seizure what -- during a fund-raiser for phil gramm in washington. and it occurred in the morning. he'd been feeling ill for several days, but it came out of nowhere. and he had a limp for about six months in his left leg, but they attributed it to his -- his heavy schedule of travel and -- and normal fatigue, plus the fact that he ran six miles a day. and he was -- he was struck with a seizure in march of 1990. he knew at the end of the next day that it was a -- a high-grade tumor. and by the end of that month he was talking with medical specialists who were estimating that he had a year or two to live. then he decided to go for this interstitial procedure that i mentioned earlier. c-span: and they -- you actually -- somewhere you say that you got some record -- all the records at george washington hospital? >> guest: yes. c-span: did they just g

look what happened to bush during -- there was all this press now. >> bill: we saw the bush die and this, that, and the other thing coming from the far left. they ignore that now. that's a good point to be made. i think there has to be a code of some kind, you can't go up to somebody and verbally assault them with words. there has to be a line. >> somebody came up to me on the streets and said are you john stossel? yes. i hope you die soon. that. >> bill: that i wouldn't say is a crime because i kind of agree -- no, i'm not -- that is simply not the case. i would have a segment open on tuesday and we certainly don't want that. if the guy said look, you are john stossel and here are your children and your children are with you. and i want you to die and i want these children to die and everything like that, you have a right to protect yourself against that person. yet, if you use physical force to restrain them, then you get charged with the crime. i think there has got to be a balance there. >> i think it's despicable if someone does that but i think -- >> bill: okay. you and i disagree.

barbara bush is 84 years old. released from the hospital, just a little bit ago. >> you're supposed to say hello for my little friend? jane: "scar face" you need to work on your impression. trace: is "scar face" what you'd choose for a play? this video shows children taking a violent movie about a drug lord to the stage. many internet users have mixed reactions, wondering if the school actually allowed these kids to reenact the scenes from this very salty film. here are some of the highlights. watch. >> you drink coke and kill people, that's wonderful, tony. >> i got a buddy, just for that. >> thank you tommy! >> say goodbye to my little friend. trace: it turns out these kids, by the way, were actually child actors, and it's not a school play, it was produced by a real deal music video director, his name is mark glass demand -- or mark plasfelkd, it was vid owed to demonstrate the sex and pervasiveness in culture. >> i'm going to be on orilely on did you see that. it will be interesting to see what mr. o'reilly's

bush? will they ever been prosecuted or could he be prosecuted for them and what consequences would be resolved? >> in the old-- there was no criminal problems are penalties if you pile they did international law the starting with nuremberg it had become the case of individuals can be prosecuted for ordering or crimes committed genocide, the torture and among others. this is because they have treaties that say there is a duty to prosecute those people and in the u.s. has federal statutes to implement the treaty and give authorization. kors it is headed by an attorney general and sometimes he'll use his discretion not to prosecute sometimes those of very controversial like the political decisions to fire surgeon prosecutors because they were or were not prosecuting search and prosecutors who the current obama administration has a real conundrum obama wants to be nelson mandela and look ahead but not behind he knows politically will be divisive and hurt his chances for reelection in the congr

. >> there's so much about bush that i disagreed with and there's so much that obama's doing exactlyhe same. the corporate bailouts, the signing the patriot act, the continuing wars, it just seems awful to me and i'm so upset that there's really no anti-war movement anymore. the anti-war movement was the anti-bush movement and if obama keeps doing the same stuff, some of us who disagreed with bush have to continue disagreeing with obama even though he's so much better spoken and so much more pleasant. >> larry: nancy? >> i think that president obama came in at an incredibly bad time. there were so many big, big, big issues at play, the economy was tanking, the war had depleted so much money and so many lives and him being the first african-american president is truly a big deal and i think that he's handled it with quite a lot of grace. >> larry: the jury's still out, too early. >> yeah, it's 14 months. >> larry: the 66th annual radio and television correspondent's dinner is being held in washington, a black tie gathering, press, pundits and politicians. vice president joe biden is t

president bush actually did the same thing. he had about the same amount at the seem time in his presidency as well. we want to highlight a few of the 15. we mentioned the becker going through the national labor board. mark pearce appointed as well. a couple more serving in the treasury department. eric hirschhorn. secretary of commerce. the president also nominated some three people to the equal opportunity commission. so they'll start serving through this recess appointment as well. these people now, at least these 15, will be in their jobs, will be able to serve now through the end of 2011. that is when the senate is going to finish its next term. >>> now the white house aide, david axelrod also talked about the fallout from the health care bill passing. you can watch all of that interview on the state of the union coming your way at 9:00 eastern this morning. >>> another story we're following closely, the tea party express will roll into phoenix and flagstaff. two more stops on the tour that ends on tax day, april 15th. yes

to be open to the bush and administration for not implementing them correctly. i do think there are some issues we did not quite understand and the issues, the main issue is for the kind of revolution because that is precisely what the bush of ministration is calling for, a cultural, societal and political revolution and the grounds are not prepared for that yet and it takes a lot of groundwork i am doubly made the bush administration for not doing the proper groundwork pressure had a better idea of a lot of things need to happen. one more thing fact a point* i do make and the book gas well and the different places that were perhaps more ready for this kind of transformation, lebanon it has at least the colonel of a democratic policy of not more and research and they said paul lot of right things. the assistant secretary feldman and the way use to them from lebanon was exemplary. however, i think without protecting that lebanese democracy, the small colonel from the campaign of terror raised by the syrian regime, if we were not ready to use those tactics of our

that during the bush era, the g.w.h era, there was no spending and more spending and more government. it was just less than the democrats. and that kind of idea that we're not going to stand were principles, we're going to be pragmatic, and just try and shoot for a little bit less, i think is a very dangerous thing and doesn't really show a lot of leadership. >> david? respond there. i mean, we know your point there. respond to that, that, you know, did you guys not show enough leadership when you were running things? >> i was not a very important part of the bush administration. i don't think i can claim any responsibility for strategic decisions. that is a statement of pure will power and ideology. that i think i have principles. i think president bush had principles. they happened to be different principles. having some willingness to pay, for example, for the spending we do, that's a principle, too. i think we need to focus on today's problem, and what we are doing is substituting our wishful thinking about the way

bush was not an easy extraneous speaker. >> he made words that, yes. misunderestimate was one. >> yes. >> we are ready for a contribution from president obama beyond "we lead up." is it somehow fit. >> well, he is really careful with his language. he really, as a lawyer, but said it in a very lawyerly way, and he tends to be choosing very precise words. >> i am not necessarily saying that -- both obama and bush had very good speech writers. i have watched bush just stumbling around before he got to the speech. i once was in germany and he was not doing well. when he got the speech, it was very good because he read it well and he was comfortable. when he had that teleprompter, he had a degree of comfort that he would not have had otherwise. and obama does both. he always has a teleprompter, and he seems quite comfortable without it. at the press conferences there is a big teleprompter that is close to a shield. he reads the first few remarks even as they sound quite informal of that, but then he is into questions and he is on his own and he does just as

and kill bush and this and that.e didn't hear a word in the media about that. it was almost ignored. i always said. you know i have said this from the jump that the media is very corrupt. this is another example of the media overlooking the far left. zeroing in on what they see is success on the far right. am i wrong? >> i think -- look, i think you are right about that, bill. i think even some of those hateful sounding signs that were mounted by bush were undoubtedly exaggerations by people who were not intending to kill the president. not very attractive thing and suggests intolerable spirit and suggesting you are taking the policy differences all too personally when you see things like that. i would go so far to say those things are inciteful to violence. we have a rowdy debate in this country and we have since its inception and all kinds of things have been said and through the years unflattery car tunes there is a double standard as you suggest. >> bill: we saw signs that said kill bush. if you put up a sign tha

the senate, not so much [laughter] if you guys do nothing, then the bush tax cuts expire.give you leverage to play harder game to get things done? if president obama said that he will veto any bill that extends the bush tax cuts unless it balances the budget over a period time, wouldn't he have a hard leverage that would be needed to build the trust, the bipartisan trust we meet? need? i think there needs to be a health -- a helpful push to bring the republicans to the table. >> first of all, let me address briefly the concern that house members have americans should have with the senate. let me say this in a constructive way. the senate was designed as a more the erotically -- theoretically more thoughtful body. it was supposed to represent not the citizens of america but the states of america and selected by a representative of each state. it was converted to a direct- elected body in the early part of the last century. culturally, it conceives itself, however, in my view, as a group of one of the people each of whom has the opportunity to stop progress i don't think the

bush was responsible for 9/11.right -- and you as a true conservative have to concede, it seems to me, that the machinery on the right, the powerful elements of the right, use language on the left or progressive community, this language was not part of the central piece of the progressive community. we're talking rush limbaugh. we're talking glenn beck. these are major figures. >> air america, we can talk about what people said on air america. i could talk about what people have said on other networks, some very, very harsh things about -- again, i'm not saying -- >> but in terms of the larger issue today, i do think that the civilizing advances of our time, and i'm talking about civil rights movement, women's right movement, civil rights movement, equality, social justice, ending child labor, the republican party in almost every case has opposed those reforms. >> i thought it was southern democrats that opposed civil right in the 1960s. i thought -- >> i'm talking about late in the game. who was opposed to the civ

the question would be to president bush as president obama, pursue policies that you feel would help to revive the american economy because that is a pillar of global spending? >> we are facing short-term economic distress and long-term economic weakness. and a combination is particularly troubling. the short-term crisis that we face is a result of many people and many failures. is popular to say it is only wall street but wall street is certainly to a large degree to blame for what happened but so is main street and the mortgage bankers decade mortgages to people that had no capacity to pay them and so are the individuals far in excess of what they could pay. so are the regulators who did not see what was happening to blow the whistle. so were the rating agencies that said these instruments that wall street was selling were somehow highly secure. and even the president i am sure he said the buck stops here and shares responsibility as well for president bush for the economic distress which has occurred. i think this president, president obama, has not been effective as he could have

>> well, let me just say the fact that george bush i endorsed something hardly makes it conservativer particularly wonderful. this is the man who dave us david suter. we don't look to him those of us not on the left do not look to him as a hero. secondly, cap and trade is a terrible idea. it is a left wing idea because it supports the notion that carbon monoxide is a toxin. one of the silliest notions. you have to be on the left to believe that or you have to have had a graduate degree. one of the two. because it's so silly the food of earth is carbon monoxide. living beings cannot live without it. and now it's declared toxic. >> no it's not, dennis. that is not true. >> the epa declared it that way. >> you know what? the idea -- >> that's what the epa says. >> the idea of cap and trade is this that the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere changes all our weather. look at massachusetts. look at the historic flooding going on today in massachusetts. this is -- it changes the whole climate. and this, you know what else, david, that the president did very well? he's framing this as

it lost 7,500 points in the last 18 months of the bush administration. so we are not -- anywelfare reform we need to be, but i say to my friend who is complaining about the laws of economics, that those laws seem to be working in a positive sense now. i'd like -- madam speaker, to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey who will actually speak about the bill. before us, which is about fema funding and job training. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> i rise today in strong support of the rule and the underlying legislation, h.r. 4899, the disaster relief and summer jobs act of 2010. i want to commend the rules committee, chairman obey, and the rest of the appropriations committee for their work in bringing this to the floor. this legislation further shows the democratic majority's commitment to supporting jobs for the american people. jobs for over 300,000 young people this summer are supported and fully offset in this legislation. last weekend, the eighth congressional district of new jersey, along with many other commu

andy bush, i'll say this. if you look rat personal income and spending report today, consumer spending was pretty good up 3/10 of 1%. about 3.3% annual rate. but here's the thing. durable goods spending up 7/10 and nondurables up 8/10. that's pretty good. i want to ask you about that. in the light of some very worrisome job figures, is it snow or a mini economic down snurn. >> no, no. i don't think it's a downturn. we had two big snowstorms. one hit at the beginning of the the survey week and one hit at the end so i think you should go to 19d 94 are where you can see an example of this where only one storm hit during a survey week and really impacted. i think the market will look beyond the numbers on friday. the payroll can probably hit the unemployment rate i expect to go down. so i believe we're in the beginning stages of really a very strong economic recovery. we're already seeing it for the fourth quarter and it's continuing into the first quarter. job creation should begin sometime in march with numbers

-- the no child left behind bill under president bush. we're talking about major programs. you mentioned the big dig. that was a horrible mess. what happened there? guest: there were a lot of things that happened to their, but what we talk about -- what that happened there,, but what we talk about in the book was when the tunnel collapsed and killed a woman driving in to logan airport. when you read the ntsb report on what happened is that engineers had been seeing these bolts that held up the ceiling pulling out time and time again. rather than looking at the systemic underlying cause of this problem, they kept contributing it to, oh, a worker must have put in wrong. there must have been some dust on the bolt. there was one bold that they found that had a lot of superficial flaws on it. they attributed it to poor workmanship. the reality is when you see a recurring pattern of failure, it helps to look at underlying systemic causes as opposed to individual failures. when we look at the big dig, we said, there are lots of problems with res

bush in terms of pledging our support? >> we had to make the diplomatic process work or there was a danger that we would be at war with iraq. our effort right to the last minute were to try to make a diplomatic solution work and even in that last weekend where i talked in detail to tony blair and was working very closely with him, we were trying to see whether we could get some of the countries who had indicated they would support no action under any circumstances to change their position. i would say that the decision was made only after the diplomatic course was fully exhausted. >> because we have heard from a number of witnesses, we have told the white house privately in the first half of 2002 that we couldn't make the diplomatic -- what was obviously the preferred route for us and them, couldn't get a peaceful resolution to this issue, that we would stand with them in taking firmer action. r well, we had to prepare for war, as i said, because from june, we were in the -- the treasury and i was looking at options that w

i think what happened with president bush is after six years they said you know what, president bushdid not deliver and i think they soundly rejected him and couldn't wait for the change. with president obama, this is only a year. up the charts aren't headed in the right direction but the problems are big. he knows you have to reverse these by the midterms or things are things will continue to snowball. if you take a look at this party, you see that well, democrats, the blue line up there, they started out pretty happy and they are still pretty happy. they were at 90% approval and they are at 80% approval. republicans were at 42% approval and they have dropped to 19% approval, so more than half. and perhaps most important and independent line was that 62%, which you remember 62% was about where the president started on average and that is dropped to 38%. so that means that where democrats are relative to the president, it has dramatically separated from where republicans and independents back our. and that of course means that there is tremendous possibility for on the one hand a uni

in all candor, president bush took that to a new level. even after president obama had come in and fixed theucñ major differences that existed between the two parties, like climate change and change in the practices with respect to the treatment of prisoners and supporting international control agreements, we did something that nobody had ever heard of before. we unsigned a treaty. i guess they had an eraser or pen and the race did. [laughter] -- and you raised it. [laughter] -- and erased it. [laughter] >> too often, other countries are willing to put their head in the sand and hope the problem will go away or live in the knowledge that somebody else will take care of it, whether it is the united states or the israelis. this is a good example. you talk to moderately arab countries and you get this funny moment where moderately arab countries basically admitte that they would like the israelis to block the iranian nuclear reactor. -- to blow up the iranian nuclear reactor. in the recent case went israel attacked the hezbollah operations in

. >> you worked with ronald reagan and president bush. in 1993, that was the first year of the bill clinton's presidency . what did you want to accomplish? >> i had been in washington for almost 20 years. what do you do after working for president reagan and president bush? i finished law school in 1980. you could go and work for another organization, but as i looked around the conservative movement, it seems to me that there were two areas that i care the most about. there were a lot of groups working on issues. it seemed to me that there is a need to work with women. we figured out long ago how important women are to advance the movement. as conservatives, not that we did not have women leaders, but promoting them and acknowledging them and celebrating them, and focusing on the next generation of women leaders, that is what we decided was needed. we started the organization and there were so many organizations. the first thing that i did was to write a letter and i poured my heart out and i put some pictures of me with important people.

george bush and dick cheney vae vetoed the idea. that disturbed me. number one, did they want this guy to escape so they left him an out? number two, what are these two bozos doing making a combat decision to an elite delta force member or delta force commander when you got dick cheney who got five deferments from vietnam and you got george bush who couldn't make it to one year's national guard meetings? these guys are making a command combat decision to the elite delta force, and then all you heard from them was, we let our generals call the shots. well, it clearly wasn't that case in the book i read by dalton furey, who was the commander of the u.s. forces chasing osama bin laden in tora bora right after 9/11. >> larry: did you agree with us going to afghanistan? >> initially i did, because i felt that, you know, they were the people, al qaeda was the people who attacked us, and that we needed to go get these people if they're going to continue it attack us, absolutely. i did not agree at all with iraq. they told us there were these 19 hijackers, la

bush, bebenetanyahu was here in washington.did go to the white house yesterday, we're not showing you a picture because it's missing. the white house did not allow the cameras in. i can tell you from talking to our senior white house correspondent, ed henry, he said the four visits that president obama had with netanyahu had, the white house is not opening up other meetings with allies, the greek prime minister, the king of spain, so they're trying to deal with precedent at the white house, but this particular issue with the israelis, there's no question that this is because things are very bad between the two countries. >> there is another picture we're not missing but we're also not going to show it to your viewers. this is a white house released photo because this is an event they didn't want us to see. >> no. what happened at the white house, the president signed the much talked about executive order essentially restating what he says and everybody believes is law, which is that there can be no taxpayer funding for abortion

houd should bush be held accountable for a lot of things they messed up?>> you can't hold him accountable for it, because he's out of office now. unless he absolutely broke the law on something and violated a law to indict him, and they don't do that to former presidents, you know. when a president leaves office, they kind of leave everything behind and nothing -- they're not responsible for anything they did from the point they leave office. there's really no way that he's going to be held accountable for anything he did. >> larry: what do you make of former illinois governor rod blagojevich? he's going to be a contestant on "celebrity apprentice." >> that's because i turned it down, i guess. they wanted me on there, and i wouldn't do it. maybe they got him. i don't know. every time i travel to o'hare and the people of illinois see me, they always always say, hey, we need a governor. i said i don't want to be your governor. when i was in, it was -- who was the governor? he went to jail right before the current one. now this one looks like he's going to ja