bush? what seems interesting to me about this is the awkwardness of the eyeball to eyeball communication between these two candidates, who if nobody told you they were in the same party and they had to introduce themselves to you, there's no way you could tell. is that a liability, how much the republican party has changed in its positions? >> i think it is a liability, but probably less than many people think it is and some people wish it would be. american presidential elections are generally about where the country is going, what's ahead for the country, not what's behind us. that's what our elections are generally about. i would be very surprised if this doesn't follow that pattern. therefore, the candidate who can get the optimistic ground, who says, listen, i'm here to tell you that i'm the best person to carry us into the future is the candidate who's going to win. that's what ronald reagan in 1980, and let's keep in mind that president obama, who widely differs with ronald reagan on

family that's not jeb bush you say. you know tom they've been so brilliant at selling bad image and the five years that i spent researching them just staggered me that there could be so much dirty stuff that had never come out about this family and jeb really is cut from the same cloth we see it with his very close relationships with the people in florida some of whom were convicted of terrorist acts his involvement in and getting them very short prison sentences or getting them pardoned or exonerated in doing business with many questionable figures accruing a great amount of wealth himself under a questionable circumstances so if he does run i think suddenly people are going to find that he's a much more interesting character than they realize and listen most there's not enough time for all the news to get out there ross baker thanks so much for being with us. my pleasure still a bit too early to tell of a brokered convention with smoke filled rooms is on the horizon but frankly i'd be shocked if republican party offic

it's george p bush, and it's jeb bush himself recommended -- >> rubio is basically bush's protege.and but to put bush on the ticket would really be back to the future. bush didn't run because he didn't think it was time for another bush. so i think adding himself to the ticket would be another anchor on mitt romney. >> what he has just done has excluded him from being on the ticket. [overlapping speakers] >> he's not angling to get on the tick the he believes it's too early for bush. if he didn't believe that, he would have run himself. >> he wants to shut down the whole process of bidding. >> how does -- that doesn't rule him out as a -- >> look like the world's greatest ego. >> why? >> because he sets this up and really wants to be vice president. >> i don't think romney will pick him and i don't think he wants. >> if he wanted it why have come out earlier. he's made statements about marco rubio because jeb one bush has a waffle way normal stance on immigration and they know that if this election comes down the demographics, the republican party needs to do something. >> the answ

president bush.ion marco rubio. in his endorsement of romney to the daily caller, he said there are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for president but they didn't. i think romney would be a fine president and he would be way better than the guy who's there right now. well, that's hardly. >> kind of backhanded. don't you think? doesn't it feel that way? look, one thing that's interesting about this field, think about it this way. the last time that romney ran for a race in a general election and won was 2002. last time santorum did that was 2000. last time newt gingrich diagnose that was 198. these are not exactly successful current, contemporary coalition-building is successful republican politicians. the one who are all passed on this race. that's one confident things raubiol is talking about. >> one of the interesting parts about the big endorsements over the last couple days is the two folks that made the most news paul ryan and marco rubio are part of the new generatio

bush, barbara bush and jeb bush. all of that raises the question of the other notable bush son. >> george w. bush has been here and have you sought his endorsement? >> i haven't met with him. we speak from time to time. >> we got to get out of here. >> now you see why. >> you speak all the time. >> has he endorsed you yet? >> no. >> not helping. nobody wants to talk about george w. bush. this is not helping the reporters, they are still there. don't ever talk about that again. nobody knows how hard it will be for a republican to beat this president. beating a sitting president is never easy. is this sort of par for the course with mitt romney dealing with this when it comes to his supporters. does he have to worry about a battle with not just the sitting democratic but with his own flank? does he have to worry about the litany of talking points from people he's presented as his own team? from observer campaigns over the time i have observed cam pains, this does not seem to be to a normal problem that should face a fr

bush saved the economy? newsflash?h policies led us to the brink of almost another depression. in the waning days of the depression, bush saved the banks, no doubt and saved his buddies at goldman sachs and obama was looking out, i guess you could say, the rest of the country. 3 1/2 months after t.a.r.p., employment was still in the middle of a steep free fall. then president obama signed this thing called the stimulus package the republicans didn't support and then the autoloan republicans were against and even called it a bailout and then the middle class tax cuts. today, we have had 24 straight months of private sector job growth, unemployment on decline for six months. today, we learned weekly jobless claims fell by another 5,000. they are at the lowest level since february of 2008. sure, t.a.r.p. helped out wall street. president obama went much further when he took office in 2009. i guess mitt romney, he wants you to forget that 2009 ever happened. all gone! let's turn to e.j. senior fellow from the brooks instit

bush paired up, definitely sends the wrong image. and it was definitely effective to a very large degree. >> and the tactic that is no stranger to your research, looking back at what humphrey or what nixon tried to do with humphrey's race in 1968, what reagan did with carter in 1980, what dukakis tried to do in 1988 against reagan. >> you always try and tie your opponent to an unpopular figure. in 2008, george w. bush's approval ratings were low. people thought the country was headed in the wrong direction. there was a lot of unhappiness with the iraq war policies. so obama tried the strange of tying mccain to bush. then at the same time, in his own ads, he's saying, hey, i've been endorsed by warren buffett and colin powell. colin powell is a republican. and so it's a way to, when you kind of look at those three ads taken together, on the one hand you're tying mccain to an unpopular figure, george bush, while also saying, hey, leading republicans support me, warren buffett, one of the most successful businesspeople in the world, als

that's eight years and one bush term. the press particularly were tired of us. they really were tired of us, and we were climbing a high -- a tough mountain. there was another minimum wagon problem. that's reason number one. i think a lot of people were tired of us. we'd been there 12 years. it's very hard to keep the white house for more than eight years, for any party, if you go back and look at history. there's not many times when it's happened, and we had kept it for 12. secondly, we had a little fellow from texas named ross perot that you may or may not have heard of, and -- and he took -- ross perot took 19% of the vote. clinton got 43%. bush got 38% and perot got 19%, and our polling showed us perot was taking two out of three votes and when you take that and you get 51%. when people say he didn't cost you the election i think he did. i'll say it again. i thought he did for 20 years, and i still think he did, but the third thing was our fault, absolutely, and that is instead of going up to capitol hill in january of 1992 when president bush 41 was at 90%

i don't think jeb bush all of a sudden decided today. i think this is an attempt by the romney folks to say this is close to over. folks point to wisconsin as eitheris which is or pennsylvania, his home state which votes later in the month as kind of rick santorum's last stand. i would say though, andrea, rick strum now has a 300 delegate deficit to mitt romney. it's just, from a math point of view, the race is nearly certainly over and has been for several weeks. it's the perception and establishment and when the establishment steps in. that's why and chuck's right. that's why this jeb bush endorsement patters so much. this is sort of two prizefighters going at it. one of the few referees who can step in and declare a technical knockout without fans booing and throw things at him is jeb bush. i took the airplane metaphor and made a boxing metaphor. >> we still have mitch daniels and paul ryanen influential with both wings of the party to the quiet bill kristol down, the weekly standard crowd. >> these are people who could be running mat

bush, also called bush 41, his son being called bush 43. size him up for me as a president. >> somebody said the other day that this is the most underrated president in our history, james fallow sitting here at your table said they was most underrated one-term president we've ever had, which was an interesting comment but since he worked for jimmy carter. i think history will treat george h.w. bush very well. he successfully... he was successful in many, many ways in his foreign policy. >> rose: and you as his secretary of state. >> well, that's why i have to say it very cautiously but it worked. and one reason it works, you know, charlie is people often ask me what... what does it take to be a good secretary of state and i tell them one thing primarily and that is you must have a seamless relationship with your president because you're going to make mistakes and your president has to protect you and support you and defend you and if he doesn't you can't be successful and i've made plenty of mistakes and my president supported me and protec

>> dana: laura bush. >> greg: what about the band bush? you know the brand?: reggie bush. >> dana: the question that the reporter asked was, the one question have you talked to george w.'s endorsement? president bush 43 said he is not going to endorse before the primary. good question. >> bob: you are excited about the block, i can tell. go ahead and end it. >> dana: can i get the bread out? >> greg: please. one more thing is up next. if you leave i won't endorse you for president. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> eric: time for one more thing. do you have one more thing? >> andrea: i do. we talk about the rising cost of tuition on the five and how the housing bubble and then there was a rising bubble in tuition people are talking about ready to burst. now parents take out loans to pay for kindergarten and talk it could be the next part to accelerate the bubble. if you look at the figures, $20,000 for some preschools. the parents don't want them going to public schools, they take $150,000 by the time their kid -- >> eric: don't worry. obama will excuse those, too. >> andrea: t

bush won, maybe. after recounts and the republican so called brooks brother riot to interfere with recounts, after the lawsuit that went to the supreme court, ultimately what got recorded as the final result in florida was george w. bush winning the state by 537 votes. that's it. a nonpartisan independent count of all the votes cast statewide in florida in that election found that al gore got more votes. the independent, nonpartisan count cast statewide gave george w. bush between 60 and 171 fewer votes than al gore. instead of that count becoming the results of america's florida election that year and therefore america's presidential election, that result just became a footnote to the presidency of george w. bush. we don't talk about it much anymore. i'm not sure how clear it is whether or not america is at peace with that election result in 2000. it sort of overtook us quickly there after. if you're not at peace with it, if you think that george w. bush stole florida in 2000 and stole the presidency

deficits because ronald reagan and george bush and george bush ran up a ten trillion dollar debt and when you inherited ten trillion dollars debt and the and you've got a congress that absolutely will not raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires period no way forget it i mean this is this is first year spending spiked over six hundred billion dollars he's the only president our nation's history that has run over a trillion dollar debt in one year and he's done it. three years and you're going to do it again this year if you want to do it and absolutely right absolutely carol and no it's something i did on cross you know that because look at look at one look at what's right eisenhower did you know borrowing money and building the national highway system they look at this is you know when we got when we left world war two our national debt was one hundred twenty seven percent of g.d.p. right now it's not even ninety percent of g.d.p. we have how do we get out of our debt we you know we have we have it now easy we have now the chevy volt to show for it instead of a national intersta

bush.nd andy card, former chief of staff under president bush, and ed gillespie. form counselor to george w. bush. dana, it's been like fingernails on a chalk board for to you watch how the media reacts to president obama having his open mike comment when president obama bush had the following open mike comment with russia. watch president bush. coming. >> what they need to do is get hezbollah and syria to stop doing that [bleep] megyn: he dropped an "f" bomb. >> i remember the press corps went crazy because he dropped the "f" bomb. he was stalking about getting hezbollah and syria to stop attack innocent people. i can understand why some people think it was intentional. i personally don't. yesterday the front page of the "new york times" sort of referenced it. but obama's hot mike moment was page 14. with president bush it was everywhere. but president bush would have been delivering a different message to medvedev and putin if he had the chance. megyn: wait until i get reelected then thin

and if you go back to bush sr.'s race against clinton, actually the economy was getting better, but the perception was that bush hadn't done enough and was out of touch. and so i liked all of these numbers and you got to watch them, but how does the average voter feel when you look at all of the polls and it shows people are concerned about the economy. that means, translate, they're concerned about how obama is trying to manage or fix or stabilize the economy. >> you he hasn't answered that question yet. >> republicans gas prices work they're a larger constellation of grievances against obama. green jobs are a dead end. they put a lot of taxpayer money. that's a waste. he didn't do the keystone excel pipeline, he doesn't want to make american jobs. against him for the environment over jobs and energy production. if they can construct it in a larger narrative against obama, i'm not saying they will, but they're certainly looking at gas prices as a look into that and the president is being preenter tiff as saying no

it's bush and paulson. interesting there, as the economy begins to recover and the romney campaign trying to make sure the president doesn't get as much credits as the public so far has been slowly been giving him. finally, the president will continue his effort to turn this political weakness of late on gas prices into a strength when he visits, actually there now, pushing oklahoma today. it's the southern end of the keystone pipeline. the president will announce an executive order requiring expedited permits in a review what the white house calls vital infrastructure projects including the southern part of the pipeline nap order establish as multiagency task force to identify the most urgent projects by the end of april. the republican candidates are already mocking the announcement. >> apparently the slipping pole numbers convinced him to announce the lower half of that pipeline. if we can get the poll numbers lower we might be able to get the other side, too. >> president obama responded to the criticis

extends the bush tax cuts into perpetuity under paul ryan. there are no spelled-out elimination's of tax expenditures. that would be courageous. are you going to do mortgage, it charitable deductions? make one thg absolutely clear about simpn-bowles that charles referenced, that it had at its guiding principle that it would not agincrse poverty -- >> talk about absence of the spine to read your guys have not introduced anything at all, not done anything on socialecurity or tax reform. that is the definition of absence of spine. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ multiple sounds making melodic tune ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, every innovation every solution comes together for a single purpose -- to make the world a safer place. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. o0 c1 [ baby coughing labored breathing ] [ coughing continues ] [ gasping ] [ elevator bell dings, coughing continues ] [ female announcer ] washington can't ignore the facts. more air pollution means more childhood asthma attacks. [ coughing continues ] log on to fightingfor

jeb bush and the bush family certainly have been supportive of romney. but as far as our campaign, we're doing this without the big name endorsements, without the establishment endorsement. rick is out there to get the endorsement of the american people. and he's doing very well doing that. it's not all about the endorsements from the people who represent the establishment. it's about going door to door, person to person, and that's what rick's doing. that's the important thing here. he's in louisiana right now launching off the big campaign effort there. we're expecting to do very well in louisiana. and that's what it's about, it's about winning over, as you said, the hearts and minds. it's about win over the hearts and minds of the people of this country, the conservatives. rick's the true conservative in this race. he's doing that despite the fact that he's been outspent. we were outspent 21 to 1 in the shilg chicago area. but given the fact that mitt romney has the name id and the money manage, he should be talking away with every state. but he's not