ross perot was on and ross perot was writing about president bush, president bush, you not disrupting his daughter's wedding and the secret service. kind of crazy things. and president bush turned to me and said, was to get the stuff? you know, it was just kind of nice matter of fact off-the-cuff. i agree with that part about foreign policy. his experience showed. i do say in the book because again i tried to be fair, the china business i think was not good. i know people made a lot out of the does and it was more going on to the chinese leadership. at tiananmen square was a horrible thing. >> host: because that was as you say the realism which is if you are an idealist in tiananmen square happens you act and you push back on scheppach if your a villas you say that's internally there's. >> i have tended to been critical of democrat and republican presidents both on china. i don't think the case can be made that when we cooperate with china it's getting better. i think if you look the tally of the sheet, i don't think that case can be made. i was one of the only people in my organizati

bush. not a bad strategy. he had three criticisms of bush. the first was that the iraq war was unnecessary. that it was a mistake, and that it created problems that the united states didn't need to have a. the second argument he made was that the war united states should be fighting was in afghanistan. this is where al qaeda originated, this is where the threat appeared, and this time spent in iraq was taken away from afghanistan. and then he made a third argument, which i think was at the heart of his presidency. which is that bush would not have made the mistake he made had he embedded himself in the traditional american alliance system. had he, instead of charting his own course, engaged our traditional allies, had he not been unilateral but multilateral, he would've had more international support. he would have been more effective even if you chosen to go into iraq, and above all, he would have been guided away from the errors he made. and when he spoke about our traditional lives, obama meant the europeans. and when he meant the european

bush v. gore arrangements in durham obviously which was first formed during the bush and administration and obama the arrangements of this debate cousin durham. what are they and what gave rise to them and how are they manifested in today's political climate? >> it is a contagion virus. bush the arrangement centum and obama the frenchman syndrome i define as pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism and it's important to understand the inner played between the extremes because neither side is immune and in the bush years we saw people, some protesters not a lot but definitely there and some very prominent ones comparing president bush to hitler. and this wasn't placards and protests. one of the things lady to yell in the book there's a surprising line of nobel prize winners comparing bush to hitler and the bush administration to fascists. they didn't get a lot of condemnation. politics follows the line of action. one of the things severin interviews someone at a protest killin

caller: please, don't ask me about bush. i don't consider him a republican and a true sense of the word, either. as far as i'm concerned with bush, he was nothing but a little bit more precise -- democratization of the world empire building. he had very little regard for americans and for foreign policy. it was just do what is expedient and what will make him look -- what is going to maybe put some money in his pockets. host: thank you for calling in. baltimore, kenny from baltimore on our democrats library caller: good morning. i just wanted to say this is what happens when we prop up governments in other countries because, you know, bush had put him in their and he has just been corrupt and now he knows what americans' mission is over in afghanistan. it is not about killing the caliban, it is about oil. and we have to remember that our country cannot talk about no raid in elections because we have no credibility over here. our government is just as corrupt as afghanistan government. thank you very much. host: here is a twe

notice of the drug, when bush first went in there -- or after bush went in there, the drugs, the horror when growing, went up twentyfold. i think -- 20 times as much heroin is being grown. host: thanks for calling in. indianapolis, good morning to jennifer on our republican line. caller: i just wanted to say that i actually agree that he is a credible partner, karzai. i think we should work with as many nations as possible, in many different kinds of nations, and i also think that you personally are a racist republican. that's all. host: jennifer, thanks for the call. the white house, going back to the group referred be his administration, the easter egg roll -- going back to the ross refeutherford b. hayes administration, the easter egg roll. and this story inside "the wall street journal." the pope said on sunday he did not explicitly address the allegations of sexual abuse by priests that have ripped through europe in recent months and reignited controversy in the u.s. some scenes from yesterday's in rome on eastern -- easter sunday. the democrats' line. go ahead. caller: forgive me,

more time where as bush was more impatient. he's willing to spend more time in order to build agreements together. so i reject the notion that he's not tough enough. i think he is. i think he is a fairly skillful politician but we'll see how that plays out down the line. the american people do want him to succeed. and one of the interesting things as the president's approval rating in the presidency declines in the fall of the year and as we approach the health care debate, his policies were far less popular than he was personally. on most of the personal traits. understands the issues, can make decisive decisions and cares about people like us, cares about american very lose and he continues to do very well across the board. host: next phone call comes from pennsylvania. bill on the democratic line your on the air. government professor at george tt ssor at george t georgeto georgetown. go ahead. caller: hello? yeah, why you - host: we'll move on. cory, on the republican line. go ahead corey? host: hi.. nice tie by the way. one

bush did in the entire eight years of office. my generation will have to pay for this that is why i wrote to "obama zombies" hopefully to wake them from their slumber. >> host: can they rely on obama's fatigue on 2010 and 2012 ford you have to get candidates out there? >> you have to get candidates who will win. it cannot just be anyone but obama but a clear juxtaposition of opposite of the liberal philosophy. he thinks there is a government solution to every problem. he has shown his cards. we need to show here the solutions. >> host: it is early yet but if you look at 2012 who is that presidential candidate that could do that or the independent? >> guest: i don't know at this point* i am not willing to anoint a candidate but i will take everyone what they have to offer. good morning mike call for republican. >> caller: how were you? i am very grateful for what he is saying but i worked on the mccain campaign in over seven counties in western virginia. i am understand where you are coming from about mccain not being a conservati

the challenge we faced under ron alt reagan and under bush. part of the other deal was that the administration would make whatever is necessary to protect that money. that deal wasn't upheld. we have a problem on the budget side that is now spilling over to special security. it's not a problem created by social security. we node to get a hand l and start looking at this in a serious fashion. host: we have a twitter message, the problem is when you suggest entitlement cuts, democrats suggest that republicans -- republicans whine that democrats are killing old people. guest: really? if there is that rhetoric, it's certainlyly going both ways. i don't think healthcare reform has to mean dying sooner. i'm skeptical about the current cuts they need to see more of these costs. we think about what we are getting with our money. as long as they have a system where people are not baring a cost of the healthcare. no, we don't need to die sooner. host: i just want to ask you, if the numbers hold up going into 2010, how is that going to affect this admini

is concerned at least with the beginning of the clinton had been a station and then from the second bush administration. you clearly disagreed with the direction u.s. foreign policy director during this period. that is why i was struck with the last sentence in the book and the last sentence says i began in close despair and one of encouragement and hope. if the nation can face up to its mistakes and correct them, it will prove that the faith in america shared by ronald reagan and abroad, is not displaced. why more optimistic now? >> guest: i'm still optimistic for the last year the months since i wrote that have seen some setbacks but mainly i was impressed by the fact that obama during his campaign and also so far in the administration has placed the nuclear issue back in the forefront of our attention. the issue that reagan and gorbachev dealt with and i thought headed us in the right direction toward bringing nuclear weapons under control and eliminating them as a final thing. so his espousal of that early on and the negotiation with russia to give me encouragement. also in other are

again i'm not blaming the bush administration for not having done the proper groundwork but maybe we all should have a better idea if there's a lot of things that need to happen and one more thing i will say is a point that i do make in the book as well in the different places that were perhaps more ready for this kind of transformation for instance lebanon where lebanon certainly has at least the kernel of a space poverty if not more, and we certainly said a lot of the right things. assistant secretary feltman who was ambassador and you, the way they used it up for lebanon was exemplary. however, i think that without protecting that lebanese democracy, that small kernel from the campaign of terror waged by both of the syrian regime and the iranian regime in other words if they were not ready to use strong horse tactics above or own it was going to be a very vulnerable and very fragile experiment. and we saw secretary rice at the time pointing every time the syrians were doing something saying we know you are involved, we know something is involved. that is fine to so we know you wer

bush era, and quite frankly, george bush and eight years of operating a war that turned out to be highly successful despite harry reid and barack obama claiming we have already lost it while we were still fighting at -- bush only ran up $800 billion in debt in that entire time and barack obama in one year has quadrupled that that -- debt. i don't see how people can defend it. i'm thankful we have the internet so we can talk about this openly without a stint -- spin we are getting from the mindless democrats. host: i want to let you know at 11:00 today you can see a live broadcast of the first lady michelle, as she presents a town hall forum child abuse in which will feature one of ourc ofam winners, matthew shimura from honolulu. columbia, north carolina. good morning. on the democrats' line. caller: hello? host: think i got the wrong line. go ahead, sir. caller: i just want to say that the fcc can't regulate the internet. host: because? caller: hello? host: tell me why. caller: it is too corrupt. there is so much corruption and people are getting paid off under the table that it can nev

concerned at least with the beginning of the clinton administration and then of course the second bush administration. you clearly disagree. was the u.s. foreign policy talk in the spirit that is why i was struck in the last sentence of the book. the last sentence i began in the mood to close to this buyer and in one of encouragement and hope is an nation can face up to its mistakes and correct them it will prove the faith in american shared by ronald reagan and barack obama is not misplaced. why are you more optimistic now? >> guest: i'm still optimistic of those the last year the might since i wrote that have seen some setbacks. but mainly i was impressed by the fact that obama during the campaign and also so far in the administration placed the nuclear issue back in the forefront of our attention. the issue that reagan and gorbachev dealt with and i thought headed dustin the right direction toward bringing nuclear weapons under control and even eliminating them as a fine thing. so his espousal of that early on and the negotiations with russia to bring that about give me encouragemen

bush did in his entire eight years. office. i mean, my generation is going to have to pay for this and that's why i wrote "obama zombies" to hopefully zoel many of these zombies from their slumber. >> host: do you have to get candidates out there -- >> guest: you have to get candidates who are going to win. we can't just -- it can't just be any one but obama. it has to be a clear juxtaposition of conservative to liberal philosophy. obama showed his cards. he believes there's a government solution to every single problem. we have to come in and say no, this country formed on free market ideas. >> host: it's early yet. if you were looking at the 2012, who is is that presidential candidate that could do that for the republicans or independents? >> guest: i don't know. at this point i'm not looking to anoint a candidate. the field is open. i'm going to take everyone at -- to see what they got to offer. >> host: let's go to virginia. michael, good morning. a republican. >> caller: yes, how are you this morning? >> host: doing fine.

. >> host: when you hear that criticism of the bush and administration to find weapons of mass destruction of our diplomacy being too aggressive or too high handed come and get them and all that kind of thing don't you think there are those who might be wary of aggressive foreign policy? >> host: there is a middle posture where one does not have to be seen as being timid and the defense of american values. or moving to access. you don't want to speak loudly and carry a small stick and there is a posture are showing american strength and ideals fall by their our commitments and standing with our friends and allies and i think president bush did so time and again made it clear we would stand with our allies and people who oppose us would receive was strong response of america we were hit on 9/11 and he took out the taliban in afghanistan. we believe we were receiving threat from sadam hussain who by the way could have removed the threat instantly by saying, and all facilities are open in the international inspectors can look in the palace or go anywhere they would like to go and take all loo

. : obviously president bush knew it. it was -- it isn't merely that the counsel defined torture in the memo. it also asserted that the president of the united states has the authority to override the statutes, and that was the feature that impelled jack goldsmith -- john yoo was the head of it -- to withdraw the enemy moment but there can be no doubt that torture was the official policy of the bush administration. and we shouldn't engage in a collective denial here. my concern is not so much -- my concern is what's going to happen after the next terrorist incident in the united states. is there any reason to think that the extreme reaction, as exemplified by the bush administration, will not be repeated? i do not think there is any reason to think that the next time around will be better. unless we take -- also we think constitutionally about the problem and create new structures. i believe in the period after the attack there's an -- after a terror attack in the united states, there is a good reason to have a new statut

bush, leslie sanchez is back.channel, the one and only growing gutfeld who has the nicest hair in the history of television do. i really? i thought you had great hair. >> sean: stop it. people ask is it real? it is real. >> you have a low hairline you are blessed. my hair could be gone in five years i'm going to keep it in a box. >> sean: more than i want to know democratic party have an enron problem? president is going to lecture wall street about the evils and corporate malfeasance and mismanage doesn't begin to compare to government malfeasance and mismanage and corruption, but that's another issue you got all the presidents, daschle, gephardt, reid, obama, rahm rahmbo dead fish ed to goldman sachs who are they to lecture anybody? >> the government for whatever since they committed never took us into a near depression, wall street did that second, big money is all around. the recession was caused by failures, the housing market bubble that exploded on wall street, bad, bad mortgages that became bad securities.

very frankly, i was not supportive of the bush economic policy. mr. boehner, mr. kantor -- they work. it has led to the deepest recession in 3/4 of the century. each member of congress of both parties, irrespective of their view on an issue, ought to encourage their supporters -- members of their party, the public to whom they speak -- encourage them to participate and basically engaged -- and be civically engaged. i am not sure we are doing that. it creates an environment were those who are not as restrained or -- it creates an environment where those who are not as restraint, where things can happen with violence. no one should be promoting or inciting that. >> we have to leave it there. thank you for being our "newsmakers." let me turn to you to wrap it up. let's start with unemployment. what did he say to you about -- the viewers know that they have been passing these one-month extensions for awhile. where does this issue stand? will there be a permanent extension? >> both the house and senate have passed bills that would extend it through the end of the year,

george bush the elder and george bush the younger. and in my mind they had the most divergent philosophy of foreign policy. george bush the elder being very much the realist who, after iraq sees no reason to try to nation build in iraq. sees no reason to go to baghdad. and very, very carefully choreographed the end of the cold war. i think you quote him as saying to his press secretary look, there will be no dancing on the berlin wall. in other words, we're not going to be trying to go and celebrate. we'll be careful, cautious and realistic. the younger george bush seems to be much more than idealistic, a crusader, somebody who wants to promote democracy. and that tension between realism and idealism, both of which are audible strand in american foreign policy, seems, i noticed that this book, this contrast between the two george bushes. >> guest: certainly different styles, different approaches. i had the opportunity to say in the book to the home office for both of them. i work for the first president bush as his first drugs are. bu

bush, mifs included. the end of his administration just went totally off the reservation, deciding he was going to define conservatism as something it wasn't. big government conservatism. there's no such thing. he went for t.a.r.p. he made that weird statement that he was going to tear down the free market to support the free market. obama came in after and was worse to a lot of conservative minds. abraham lincoln, the first republican, said the reason the country was great is because every man could make himself. a lot of people, conservatives, myself included, don't think that's very much the case any more. you have to rely on the government instead of yourself. >> so cornell, this affects your party, the governing party more so, a, because you are the governing party, but, b, because some say that it can be an instrument for good. 10% approve of his job. look at these here. public's view of institutions. banks and financial institutions. do they contribute positively to society? 22%. negative 69. the c

bush. george w. bush, i had an off the record dinner with him.overed him the first time he ran against anne richards. the first woman governor of texas. it turns out she wasn't. she said i'm not the first woman governor of texas. the first one was mary ferguson. she was elected -- she came to the governorship in the early 1930's. she was a western of very little education. she took on the ku klux klan. the big issue was a raging public debate over the teaching of foreign languages in the public texas schools and whether the schoolchildren could study in spanish. she came out against teaching in foreign language. this was her statement according to anne richards. no more teaching our children dirty french or spanish. if english is good enough for jesus christ, it is good enough for texans. people that ask where great accomplishments and achievements come from, i'll tell you about a story, one of the greatest where you and your brothers and sisters were deeply and intimately involved in and without your involvement it would have come to pass. july

anger, -- bush term. that anger come by and large, was from liberals. host: is this sort of thing normal, but when you see power change hands? guest: yes, but they keep on getting higher with each succeeding administration. the swings are greater. host: president obama's promise to change washington, did that feed into this anger? guest: i think it played into the idea that there would be more of bipartisanship in washington. host: next phone call. caller: basically, i agree with everything that has been said. it is about a lack of accountability. of course, the big issue that people understand is this issue of terrorism. a majority of commissioners knew that it was fake, now why can't -- host: next phone call. caller: the government is not trusted. nobody is doing the right thing. somebody made some interesting comments about bush. but obama is not keeping his policy promises either. wiretapping is still continuing. things are not getting better. you put obamacare in and the federal government continues

very frankly, i was not supportive of the bush demick policy. mr. boehner and mr. canter and mr. mcconnell were. that policy has led to the deepest recession that we've seen in this country in three quarters of a century. so there are very significant disagreements but they ought to be sil disagreements. and each member of the congress of both parties, irrespective of their view on an issue, ought to encourage their supporters, members of their party, the public to whom they speak, encourage them to participate to be siveically engaged but do it in a civil way. i'm not sure that all of us are doing that. and i think to that extent it courseance the debate but also creates an environment in which those who are not as perhaps restrained or as had the kind of good judgment that some others do where things can happen in a democracy, with violence that no one should be either promoting, condoning, or inciting. >> mr. leader, we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much for being our "newsmakers." >> thank you. i enjoyed it very much. >> thank you. >> now, let me turn to both of y

bush, and because you expressed some strong views about that as well. how do you view both of those scenarios and it what point, given all that you have seen and all that you now no, at what what.should a president impeached? >> not only a very timely but i think the last time i was here was with bruce time. bruce fein and i were here i think it was a couple of years ago, and we were talking about that very issue. bruce proposed at the time, i think, some steps in that direction in regard to impeachment. i was very disappointed in the last congress's, both when republicans were in charge and then after the 2006 election when the democratic party regained the majority, that neither of those congresses held any hearings that delved into or acquired into whether or not impeachable offenses had occurred under president bush. certainly, there were sufficient evidence out there to have at least launched an inquiry and some hearings to get to the bottom of these very serious issues, whether it is surveillance of u.s. citizens in violation of the law, whether i

on the side of the road there is bush meat for sale, snakes, monkeys. markets selling bush meats are packed with people. >> would you check the blood of these monkeys. >> absolutely. >> dr. wolf estimates 4 tons of bush meat are taken from central africa's forests every year. the bush meat trade is the single biggest threat to animal species and making mitt or a threat to humans. >> contact with an animal in a remote village that previously would have infected a few people, infected one person probably would have died out. now all of a sudden that remote village is immediately connected to the major city and through air transportation and ships to the rest of the world. something that is in the middle of nowhere, here for example can be in new york in the course of 48 hours. >> health officials aren't sure how many humans -- >> jumped to 30 humans. >> there may be other individuals with ill animals. >> in 2003 americans were shocked when monkeypox affected dozens in the midwest. turns out it was caused by african rodents imports into america as pets. th

clinton was the perfect counter pert board george herbert walker bush where bush says i will ask jimbaker to take up domestic policy and due for a domestic policy and president clinton said what are you worried about? i will do domestic policy in my administration. for that and other reasons the most policies that george bush pursued were good he was the most underrated and underappreciated president i wish you would have 13 he did not have run ask it of a campaign this is another thing about american politics and history that people like a change. let's try the other guy. >> let me push back the dead triumphant of george hw bush with tip o'neill doing so security that is what made our country strong? data is what we lack kin washington the past 10 years you don't celebrate that the neff. you make it seem they give up their principal with and sometimes can make great democracy. >> and the willingness on the principle to compromise is on principal and i could certainly live with the first. reagan could do this. >> host: and gorbachev. >> guest: and dan rostenkowski. [laughter] not the

bush. but, it is not a good way to start off in wendy was not much happier with me. 's be one of the most interesting things i found in the book and i had not heard a word about this before, was your account of how some top russian officials had gone to some top chinese officials with the suggestion essentially that they start dumping their bombs up probably freddie and fannie at that time. that almost sounds like a bear raid. i thought that was the sort of thing that just the evil guys on wall street did you tell me about that. >> it never happened, but we are very, very concerned about stabilizing fannie and freddie because as warren said, there were 5.4 jillion dollars of securities that were either insured or issued direct we buy these institutions. they were highly leveraged institutions, and the securities were held i think about 1.7 trillion.ñr the biggest portion was inside the u.s., and we had gone-- i have been trying to get reform legislation from congress beginning in 2006, and to get the kinds of reforms we needed, but we were unable to get action until

we've had no domestic attacks under bush. we had one under obama. >> under bush we had 9/11. the worst attack in our country in its history on its homeland. under obama we had an attempt by a guy on an airplane who got caught doing it. david corn, how could you say we were never struck under bush? how does somebody say something like that who's a new york mayor? >> you can't. political language is designed to make lies sound like truth and murder respectable. as long as there's no payback other than being poked fun at by chris matthews, john mccain and rudy giuliani and sarah palin will keep saying these things. if voters don't care about some fundamentals like getting it right, then there is a gain for them to say things that aren't true because it sounds good. >> you guys keep bringing up magic names. sarah palin talking again this week about death panels. all they had was a provision, one congressman suggested, which is you can get payment if you want to get counseling on issues like deciding what you're going to do at the end of your life and what treatment you want at th

and president bush had threatened to veto this bill.t hasn't been brought up since considering the current president is not president bush, but is president obama and it's been a year and a half. joining us now ellen smith, publisher of "the mine safety and health news." she's been covering mining issues since 1987. why has this "s" miner act not been brought for a vote in the senate? >> dylan, that's a question for the senate. i mean, one of the things that the "s" miner act deals with is a lot of health issues that weren't addressed in the 2006 miner act. that was passed. that actually has led to us having these rescue chambers that they're hoping -- these four miners got to down in this mine. but dylan, earlier, you know it was interesting, your guest was talking about banking oversight and holding directors personally reliable, and it got meaninging i wonder if we need to do this with mining companies at this point? i mean, massey has had problems, and who goes to jail? who gets the criminal sanctions? it's foremen, it's supervisors

i was under the understanding that the 2005 comprehensive bush agreement was signed. was so hopeful for that. and the united states helection stake for the united states and the foreign policy. is this just going to be a failure? >> the election is a central piece of the ongoing peace. the problem with the election is it's coming so close to when the referendum will be held in january 2011. in the comprehensive peace agreement, it was presumed that it would come almost midway in this interim period of six years. so it should have happened a good year, two years ago. but i think that, as happens in sudan, often they will muddle through. i think it's extremely unfortunate that the sudan people's liberation movement is withdrawing. i was very confident that their candidate,i candidate, yasir armand would be able to give the people a choice so they wouldn't be left with an indicted war criminal like el bashir. so in my position, it's upsetting the opposition is dropping out and leaving the people hanging. >> that's a tough indictment of what you're doing just now. you're

but, you know, president bush made a speech in key of an august 91 endorsing the union treaty.and among other things condemnincondemning suicidal nationalism. having in mind george at the time. and making the point that they should choose freedom, and freedom and independence are not synonymous. these were important thoughts. so we were not trying to bring down the soviet union as such, but support gorbachev's democratization efforts. what we hope to see was a voluntary federation, one that would be voluntary that would be democratic or can we thought that would be totally consistent with american interests. >> host: what was clearly totally consistent with american interests was the image of the united states in the soviet union at that time. you were very popular. president reagan was very popular. george shultz was popular. and i think there was a feeling, that the united states was a force for good in the world, and was specifically that the united states was a special friend of the soviet union, as long as the soviet union wanted to have democratism reforms and want to be

look, i voted for bush and was not happy with bush. when bush left that office our debt was $5.80 trillion. obama has taken it to $14.60 trillion in just one year? we are killing our children's future. i support the tea party. your caller earlier from maryland mentioned above all the silent majority -- it is ludicrous about people saying the tea party is racist and that there are no hispanics. it is absurd. host: here is an e-mail from of your in tennessee. -- from tennessee. this a viewer says that the so- called tea party is going nowhere, drinking the kool-aid of negativity. the next caller is on the democrats' line from illinois. caller: good morning. my thoughts are clear and in a democratic and human being. yes, the tea party is not what the country was made from, according to being a human person. i think that sarah palin has made a terrible mistake. she is trying to bring back the people of the 1960's. she resigned her job, left her job, left alaska it in a terrible situation. how she get out and try to tell people what to do n

president bush nominated two people. justice roberts, and justi just alito who had records generally thought to be conservative, but not shall we say provocatively conservative. the same was probably true of sotomayor, justice sotomayor. and i would expect here that to avoid a conflict, threat of a filibuster, a real knock-down/drag-out battle in an election year, that president obama may also want to nominate a justice who has the kind of capability he will feel comfortable, but will not have a record on the court or off that will provoke a filibuster. this is a fascinating moment, because it may be for all these reas reasons and acknowledging the fact that justice stevens became the leader of the liberal wing of the supreme court, that president obama may nominate someone, in fact, who makes the court slightly less liberal, at least for a while. >> chris: well, let's talk -- and obviously, we don't know. but there is a conventional wisdom here in washington, and there are according to that conventional wisdom there are

bush took that risk. i think when reagan lowered taxes -- i mean, look what happened in great britain when margaret thatcher lowered taxes. it freed the economy and great britain was much better shape and it's happened in america as well. i think raising taxes is just not the way to go. you're going to put a cap on the people who are the entrepreneurs, the producers, the people who are going to create the jobs of the future. >> do you see a way to do this without some tax increases? and in this environment where there's mistrust over financial reform, the hangover of health care. this commission has to have almost a unanimous view for the congressional leaders even to commit to voting on what they recommend. is this going to work or a great exercise that gets us nowhere? >> i think these commissions have a hard task because they can have a great bipartisan feel to it. but when it comes to the end of it, congress has to vote. senator hutchison and i agree on some things. we both agreed to have a sales tax

we're both following men hunting for animals or bush meat. patrice and patty, the two hunters we've been with for the last couple of hours haven't been able to find any game today. they've been unlucky, but today we did come across this group of hunters who have several packs full of animals that they've caught. >> this monkey is potentially is infected with retroviruses. >> nathan wolff is concerned about what unknown viruses these animals might carry, viruses that could make their way into the human population, touching off a pandemic. >> there's at least three viruses that you know about, which are in this particular monkey? >> this species, yeah, yeah. i mean, there's many, many more pathogens that are present in these animals. these individuals are at specific risk. particularly, you know, depending on the level of contact. if there's blood contact, they're at risk for transmission and possibly infection with novel viruses. >> as the hunters display their kills, something surprising happens. they show us filter paper they've used to coll

bush lied, people died. vicious.ple of the world who rung their hands around oklahoma city harsh rhetoric could lead to this sort of thing didn't utter a peek. >> bill: john mccain on the program basically tacking to the right. again, is he sincere or is he in a tough campaign against hayworth and that's why he is doing it? >> i think it's a lot of both. a lot of john mccain's record is quite conservative. he is not wrong to say that. at the same time, he is running against a more conservative challenger. the race is getting tight. mccain is emphasizing as he could be expected to his conservative credentials. this is what we see here. so i think -- i mean i think this is standard politics. mccain is in a tough spot out there. >> bill: now, the racial profiling question rattled him a little bit. because certainly when arizona and i believe they will, gets this law, we are going to have the governor on tomorrow but she apparently cancelled. i guess she heard about the racial profiling question already. but it is going

the bush tax cuts will expire. there are tax hikes included in health care reform. look -- >> health care reform is enormously important and will be enormously important and effective in helping bring down the long-term deficits. >> there's debate about even though that is certainly the assertion about how it was passed. >> again, in our country we turn to the independent analysts to make those judgments. this is why we have health care reform today, because the president wouldn't have it any other way, in their judgment health care reform will bring down long-term deficits dramatically overtime. >> why don't you have to consider additional tax hikes when you have the likes of alice rev lynn, republican senator dom niche chi saying something has to give here and tax hikes have to be on the table in this environment. >> you said the important thing which is the president is going to extend the middle class tax cuts, but he is also going to let expire the tax cuts that president bush put in place for the 2% of the most fortunate americans in our country. that will pro

if we compare the 2011 budget of president bush and president obama, president bush's outlook and budget for this year was $2.9 trillion. the 2011 budget of this president is $3.6 trillion. we could simply cut the deficit by 50% if we just lived within president bush's 2011 budget. and madam speaker, i would say to the gentleman if you cut out all the emergency spending caused by the recession -- mr. hoyer: will the gentleman yield? mr. cantor: i'll yield in a minute if you cut out the emergency spending caused by the recession and looked at discretionary spending, since congress votes on that every year, president obama will increase discretionary spend big $319 billion over president bush's budget for 2011. so, madam speaker, i would say, again, we've got to do better. the american people are waiting for this body to step up in a responsible way to stop the spending, which brings on the need for yet even more debts, which ultimately will lead to higher taxes, despite what the gentleman said, there's been enough tax relief and get back to a fiscal path that makes sense so we can see sma

bush traveled to haiti this week. watch what bush does to clinton after they get through shaking hands. and a little wipe. has a woman ever resisted your advances? >> actually, yes. >> jimmy: for real? >> when i was 15 or 16, i fell in love a couple of times in my high school. you bitch! >> nadya suleman could be facing foreclosure. so, she's selling the kids! come on down to crazy octo-mom's baby blowout sale-bration. >> jimmy: do you go to the games? i do. >> jimmy: do yell things out? >> no. at times i -- there's hand signals. >> jimmy: what kind of hand signals do you give him? really? jamie cullum. ♪ oh oh oh ♪ this is something ♪ something that i never had >> dicky: "jimmy kimmel live" back in two minutes with gerard butler. gabrielle union. and music from jamie cullu so what are you going to have? i'm going to have one of these under 550 calorie meals. [ male announcer ] applebee's new unbelievably great-tasting and under 550 calories menu. it's all the taste and none of the trade offs. that's under 550 calorie

let's go back to bush. he went into afghanistan and a of -- no, iraq' first and does't he know it is a travel people? -- tribal people? why? because he was looking for oil. host: and the views of by agreeing to my republican caller from texas. guest: most of the problems of washington rohrer too much overreaching -- problems from washington are too much over reaching. my solution is simple. you have to cut back on these government programs. people know best how to spend their money and govern their own lives. liberalism and for many years now has tried to increase the power of washington and minimize the individual's power. we need our leaders to make the difference is plain and simple. for young people, -- the book is not just about young people in particular. that is why it is important to stand up to the obama zombie. host: eureka, calif., this is mark. caller: i voted for obama and i am a little disappointed in him. but if we would have put mr. mccain in dara we would be bombing -- in their blue would b

i consider myself what you call the bush did loose syndrome? >> are you recovered? >> i am slightly recovered. [laughter] i still don't like him but i think i fell into it. might question is, this is going to be maybe philosophical or whatever, but if people think that this country has shifted so far right, say compared to the last 40 years and i've not saying it is right. i kind of went into that at but the more you back in history to shifting back and forth. if you think it has shifted so far to the right, so the center right now is not a true center. it is the center between what is left and right. do you know what i'm saying? >> the point is and this is one of the arguments against the center. it is not a true position. it is always relative to where the extremes are at any time. >> typically a slightly to the right of center. >> america is a center-right nation but only slightly. may be a center-right nation but it is a center-right nation, not a right nation which is why they always lose elections. to your point, to your second i think which was about the drif

bush who really didn't care much about popular opinion. truman had the lowest in-office favorable rating of 22 percent, which was even beneath richard nixon's, which was 24. so i think there's a very good chance -- i mean, history is a great arbiter more than the frame we look at in the present tiles. i think there's a very good chance that history will look favorably on george w. bush. martha: let's take a look at the polls you mentioned. they are interesting. these are presidential job approval numbers at the time of -- at the present time of their presidency, truman, the lowest of all time, he hit the lowest, 22 percent, richard nixon, under the cloud of watergate at 24 percent and president bush at 25 percent. now let's look at the next one which is a c-span poll which kind of takes a look back in history and asks people to rank presidents in terms of leadership, abraham lincoln, george washington, fdr, teddy roosevelt, no surprise but he moved up to number five, harry truman and we show where the two president bushes are, one for the

bush's way of saying, "he's sorry"? at any rate, thank you, president bush, for your timely memoir. any chance you could schedule your next book for, say, november 2012? >> republicans have been trying so hard to make this a referendum on obama. the democrats thought the best thing they could hope for it would be a choice between obama and the republicans. no democrat dreamed it would be a referendum on obama v bush again. >> who would show up suddenly? >> that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow night. >> "hardball" is next. good night. >>> bordering on trouble. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, border wars. call it the battle no one wanted to fight. immigration reform. democrats in swing districts worry about facing a tough vote. republicans worry about facing a future without hispanic support. but two things. the new arizona law and harry reid's need to galvanize hispanic voters in his own re-election bid are forcing the issue. >>> plus the heads i win, tails you lose battle. the democrats are only too sligh

the bush tax rebates here. we are talking about no taxation with representation. so we are talking about people who get to use federal government services like the federal highway system. they get security provided for them by armed forces. talking about two of the preexisting condition of the u.s. government to make itself bigger. you have complicated tax code where congress can meet out the tax breaks to the favored interest that the regular taxpayer doesn't get. einstein even said it was complicated. congress itself had an i.r.s. office on capitol hill for years to help them. >> david: neil, bottom line, when you are not paying for something, you don't care how much it costs or whether you put more in the basket. >> true. this isn't a nanny state. this is a deadbeat state. >> david: what is the difference? >> we're living beyond our means and running a deficit to 10% of the gross domestic product. if you look at the last 20, 30 years, it's true, the rich have gotten richer and the poor got poorer. right now -- >> david: the only thing that is getting everything

that's weird for george bush because he's not been in one before.and on which the library is supposed to be built is a home for feral cats. some cat loves are upset. the cats themselves have started to organize on youtube. ♪ ♪ there comes a time for all the cats on the internet ♪ ♪ to come together as one ♪ bush doesn't need a library he doesn't even read except that stupid book about a goat ♪ ♪ we are the cats we are on youtube let's stop the george bush presidential library ♪ ♪ drum solo ♪ we are the cats the cats on youtube we are the cats who do adorable stuff just to amuse your ♪ ♪ we will stop at nothing just to let those kitties be please stop george bush's presidential library ♪ ♪ oh, meow >> jimmy: that's amazing. we assembled every great cat. i liked it better than the new version of "we are the world." last night on "american idol" tim urban was voted off. i apologize for making another volcano joke. coming up with funny stuff to say about "american idol" nine seasons in is getting hard. we're outsousing outsourcing 30 k writers. are row

a bush-clinton show down with a twist.resident bush on the today's show landed an interview with former president bill clinton. >> thank you so much president clinton i'm sure this is a rarity at least for me a bush interviewing a clinton. >> i was thinking if your family fed questions i would be cook . >> no way, they love you. they joke your my grandfather's stepson. he talks about you more than he talks about anybody else in the family. >> but your -- your grandmother says every family has a black sheep. >> political scandal it looks like former president george washington is the middle of. in 1789 washington checked two books out of the new york library. an partnershiply washington liked the books -- apparently washington liked the books. the library is still waiting for the to be returned. late fees add up to $300,000. the two books are international affairs. the library is willing to waive the fine but does want its books back. no word from the former president but we don't expect it. we know the cause of earthquakes

it was the right decision by the bush administration, let me add that, too, on brenda warnings.ink you're well aware and we should say on the record there's a lot of questions about using article iii courts for fear of giving emma ran the warning to a person but what was appalled of the bush administration when it came to miranda warnings or suspected terrorists arrested in the united states the? it was fundamental to from the policy that we now have in place. one thing i think people have to understand is the giving of miranda warnings is not necessary mean that the flow of information stopped against us, i think a good case can be made that once people get miranda warnings the information flow continues, or that if it stopped temporarily want to lower is introduced in a defense lawyer is introduced into the mix, that lower than councils his client, especially terrorism cases and getting the real lincoln sense is that some of faces in an article iii proceed, that lower works to convince the client to cooperate with the government. so miranda warnings are not necessarily ones th

it was the right decision by the bush administration. let me add that to me.miranda warnings, i think you are well aware and we should say on the record that a lot of question here about using article trained courts for fear of giving a miranda warning to a person. what was the policy and the bush administration when it came to miranda warnings were suspected terrorists arrested in the united states? >> it was fundamentally different from the policies we now have in place and one thing i think people left understand is giving a miranda warning is not necessarily mean the flow of information stops. in fact i think a good case can be made that once people get miranda warnings the information flow continues or if it stops temporarily, once a lawyer is introduced, a defense lawyer is introduced into the mix, that lawyer then counseled his client especially in terrorism cases and given the lengthy sentences somebody faces in an article iii proceedings that lawyer works to convince the client to cooperate with the government. so miranda warnings are not necessarily