bush. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> you will not definitively rule out a run for president the year 2016? >> you know the republican party is in bad shape when this happens. >> i won't, but i'm not going to declare it today either, matt. >> jim moore and jonathan alter will tell us if america could get fooled for the third time. >>> in his first post election interview, mitt romney shares his regrets. >> it was very harmful. what i said is not what i believe. >> katrina vanden heuvel of "the nation" on why the romneys can't lose gracefully. >>> corporate profits soar through the roof as the american worker struggles. tonight i'll break down the numbers and make the case for higher wages. >>> speaker john boehner flat-out lies about the sequester. >> there is no plan for democrats or the white house to replace the sequester. >> the congressional panel will weigh in on the speaker's latest whopper. >>> and dennis rodman visits the rogue state of north korea and brings home a message for the president

bush may count.f hillary doesn't run, i think he's a player. >> there are three top candidates i think. bob mcdonnell of virginia, chris christie of new jersey, and jeb bush. i think they're all governors and fine choices. >> put your hillary head on for a minute. we do focus on this show more than anything else. >> we know this. >> this is your wheel house. in hillary clinton's head and she's been through one loss and a couple wins with her husband. she did well in new york politics. we'll talk about it later in the show. had a great run as secretary of state. what's she thinking about? is she afraid of the unknown or the known established candidate like bush or is she less afraid of him than a guy like christie who might grab the reagan democrats? >> my bet is right now she is not worrying about who is going to be the republican nominee. she still has to get into her own head whether or not she's going to run. a good friend of hers told me just a couple weeks ago she'd like to be president but she

one is jeb bush, the psychology of the bush -- the bush -- of the bush dynasty, but also, you know, his 2016, but the other is actual immigration reform, and to my mind, look, jeb bush has been a leader on this. especially within his own party. there is a sense here that they need to move on immigration reform, but when you have someone like this who has been an outspoken advocate for a more humane series of reforms around immigration and he is sort of tacking back and forth, i think it undermines the work that the senate is doing to get some sort of sensible immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship. >> to some degree i think that's exactly the point. as martin said, now he salgts bit to the right of rubio, and i think there's a tension between rubio and jeb bush here because, you know, they share donors, they share supporters. i do think there's a sense that if jeb decides he is going to get in, that's going to mean rubio. it's going to make it harder for rubio to get in. clearly over the last few weeks rubio is part of the gang of eight. it has taken a lot of heat for ta

bush, let's go back to jeb bush a minute, victoria. about how his brother was more focused on art. now here is jeb's talking about this. >> he's actually become a pretty good painter. i have to admit, this was a surprise to me when i found this out a year ago and he's doing it with a vengeance. >> it struck me when i heard him say this about former presidents. former president clinton founded the clinton global initiative. jimmy carter got involved in habitat for humanity. all the former presidents, including his father, got involved in raising money for haiti. he's going into painting? little difference in your post-presidential interests in life, wouldn't you say, victoria? nothing wrong with painting but most former presidents seem to have some broader, more global, more humanitarian interests. >> you're absolutely right, reverend. but what i'm detecting here is laying low. let's not forget when president george w. bush left office, he left office with a 36% approval rating. a couple months before that he was at 25% approval rating.

jeb bush.brother of former presidents bush is the latest republican to say he'd consider a run for the white house. but is he conservative enough to win over the far right? last year he said he'd support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. >> you can't ignore it. and so either a path to citizenship which i would support and that does put me probably out of the mainstream of most conservatives. or a path to legalization. a path to residency of some kind. >> now, that was last june. but now he's flipped. in his new book jeb opposes a pathway to citizenship. he writes it is absolutely vital to the integrity of our immigration system that actions have consequences. in this case, that those who have violated the laws can remain but cannot obtain the cherished fruits of citizenship. okay. so now jeb opposes a pathway to citizenship. right? wrong. here's what he had to say just today. he's flipped back. >> if you can craft that in law where you can have a path to citizenship where there i

the country had bush fatigue. the question is now -- chris: rested enough for more stpwhush >> and whether they're well rested enough for perhaps another bush/clinton race, which by the way, we could actually have again in this country. >> amazing. chris: andrew, andrew -- >> and would the republican party be ready for another bush? >> i love your -- andrea, i love the fact you relish certain passions here. is one the perception that jeb is doing what it looks like he's doing? >> am i giving you the shakes here? >> the whole idea of a bush/clinton election, another bush/clinton election in a country of 300 million people, something has gone wrong. something has gone horribly wrong here. >> aren't there any other people? chris: is that all there is? >> another generation whose movie stars never age? we keep still having the same election. god help us. i think the word bush is still too closely associated with the worse presidency of the 20th century. and the damage -- chris: will jeb run? >> yes. chris: will he win

there is no bush baggage. jeb bush denying there's bush baggage.says he's proud of his brother's -- this is going to kill him -- accomplishments. there are a lot of accomplishments to choose from. starting a war an false pretenses with a country that had nothing to do with 9 /11. when president bush made a surprise visit to iraq in 2008, an iraqi journalist showed bush how thankful that country was for our input. >> anyway, then there's the budget surplus bush w. left and inherited and squandered by the way that big surplus and gave us the bush tax cuts which mainly benefited the rich and added $1.7 trillion to the federal debt, and then it was bush's passive response to the devastation of katrina when he finally engaged, by the way, he thanked the guy overseeing the screwup this way. >> i want to thank you all for -- and brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. fema director is working 24 -- [ applause ] they're working 24 hours a day. >> poor michael brown, he didn't even think he, himself, had done a good job. the next republican presidential cand

bush, jeb bush left office in 2007, all right. he was florida governor.been out of office in six years. in that time out of office, he has built a national profile specifically on the issue of immigration by taking a relatively progressive stance on immigration, supporting a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. during the presidential campaign, you may remember him staking out that territory, right? i mean, there was mitt romney praising arizona's papers please law saying he thought an appropriate immigration strategy was to help for self-deportation by immigrants. at the time, jeb bush criticized mitt romney. he said governor romney has used this as a means to connect with a group of voters that were quite angry. but now he is in this somewhat of a box. so i think the broader message is how do you get out of that box. well, jeb bush's advice to mitt romney, watching the presidential race from the sidelines is stop pandering to the angry people, mitt. don't box yourself in. but now, now that jeb bush is going to be not just a former elected

which is that it was the bush drone policy yes you're absolutely right it was and this was the bush g.p.s. but and look i think that i think it is ludicrous it's a bit i think kookery to think that the obama administration really wants to target you know your everyday americans just just to track us and make sure that we are doing what they want to control us i don't think that that's a an issue that americans really worry about and trust our big government on on issues of national security i absolutely do interest. interest so even though you for a loop are no no i'm just i'm fascinated by that that you like big government when it comes to they're watching us to they're observing us to they're sticking their nose into our lives it's the thing they do i just don't want the government to help us out who are hungry not look i think look i don't you know when we ship food stamps no i never said oh i want to see what it's like and i never said it was our national security said well you know it was you never said i got it i had anything that i needed to say i'm very uncertain i don't know repu

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of make believe. >> i don't think there's any bush baggage at all. >> the super panel takes on the bushdition of delusion. >>> representative peter king hops into the king. >>> and tiger woods could be slipping on the green jacket in april once again. >>> derek pitts breaks down the new report on life from deep space. >>> welcome back. jeb bush has made all of the rounds on all five sunday talk shows, plus spanish language network telemundo. this happened yesterday. it was an unusual move considering jeb wasn't managing a crisis or declaring his intention to run for office, but, rather, plugging his latest book. good for him. bush had a tough time all week actually articulating his right word lurch on immigration. yesterday, it was -- he was not only asked to defend his evolving views but also explained as family legacy. yet, the former florida governor didn't seem too concerned about the possible negative impact the bush name could have on his future political plans. >> i don't think there is any bush baggage at all. i love my brother. i'm proud of his accomplishments. i am proud of my

here is jeb bush's response. >> do you think that there is any bush baggage?u think that would be a problem? >> no. i don't think there's any bush baggage at all. i love my brother. i'm proud of his accomplishments. i love my dad. i am proud to be a bush. >> julian, that is a point on wish jeb bush absolutely needs to flip-flop. what will voters say to a candidate who says he's proud of george w. bush's accomplishments? even though most conservatives are not proud of them? >> well, i would quote the words of a famous florida governor who just the other day said, what are you smoking? in an interview that occurred subsequently. i mean, the idea that the country, that he does not have bush baggage, when the country is climbing out of two very unpopular wars and the worst recession since last depression, is laughable. you, the only response is, what are you smoking? i think, you know, john kennedy wrote a very important book when he was running for president "while england slept." i think we're beginning to see the death of political books as springboard for runn

bush.hat i'm thinking, if i'm looking into the crystal ball, is that jeb bush thinks that comprehensive reform is going to pass so when 2015 rolls around and it's primary time, he can take immigration reform off the table and not worry about it and he can flip-flop back and say it was implemented and citizenship reform worked well so i support it now, latinos come support me. he wants to have his cake and eat it, too. >> well, but victoria, i think that he should hope that it is off the table because let's look at him on immigration and the path to citizenship, since you brought it up. on june 12th, 2012, he told cbs he supports the path to citizenship. but then on march 4th of this year he claimed he doesn't support a path to citizenship. a day later, the very next day, march 5th, his book is released, which calls the path to citizenship a magnet for illegal immigration. then later the same day, march 5th, he says that he's opened to a path to citizenship. follow me here now, two days late

as it bush? lebs is still a long way off, of course, but the prospect that another bush might at least run for the highest office seemed a bit more likely after a recent round of interviews in which jeb bush was talking about his new book. take a look at what he said to nbc's chuck todd. >> you're being much more open about considering national office than i have ever heard you before. what's different this time? >> well, i'm not saying yes. i'm just not saying no. >> that's what's so different. you used to be pretty definitive. >> so 2008 i was asked about it, and i said heck, no. it wasn't the right time, in 2012 is wasn't either. this may be the wrong time, too, i don't know. it's way too early to go through that process four years out. >> but i guess what is your motivation to at least not shut the door this time? what's different this time than shutting the door before? >> i have accomplished some things in my life that allow me now to have that kind of discretion to be able to think about i

bush iraq al qaeda linked yet just quoting bush and reprinting his claims instead of real investigative reporting think c.n.n. and then there's the guardian saddam talks on alliance with al-qaeda which of course also turned out to be false so when this life the room we were told about iraq's infamous stop piles of weapons of mass destruction again from c.n.n. white house iraq bass destruction weapons once again quoting the white house way to dig deep guys and from fox d.-i a intelligence report supports w m d claims again parroting the establishment narrative but when no w m d's turned up a new story started to surface just saying that saddam had purchased enriched uranium from niger and n.b.c. reports bolster bush iraq you're raney him claim interestingly enough the new york times considered one of the most liberal of publications was also instrumental in helping sell the war here they are saying bush aides now claim now it's a claim on your rainy and was accurate. no because apparently if you can't trust bush aides are the next best source for intel while new york times embarrassingly

bush v gore and put me in bed for a couple of days i was so depressed after bush v gore was interested and in gay rights, i thought let's check it out. >> didn't you have doubts about ted olson? >> they say politics make strange bedfellows. you don't have a stranger bedfellow than me and olson. >> he was at lunch that day and volunteered to make that first call to olson to check him out. >> much to my surprise it was an issue that he clearly thought a lot about, and the moment i hung up the phone i realized that there was a chance that i was talking to someone that overnight could become the most important significant advocate for marriage equality that this movement has ever seen. >> were you kind of shocked to get that phone call? >> no, i wouldn't say i was shocked. i was a bit intrigued. i was disappointed in my fellow citizens where california had adopted a amendment that would prohibit gays and lesbians from getting married. what does that tell them? they are not equal. they are different and less respected. that's harmful. >> olson and griffin met on olson's terms. one of the fi

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bush.is is a war-time situation and it was more successful and if i had to do it over again, i'd do it in a minute. >> and now the former vice president has a problem with the filmmaker. he joins me to respond next. it's been said that beauty is in the ewell...behold. der. behold water so blue it merges with the sky above. behold natural beauty above the sea, and far below. behold smiles so wide they stretch across the face of an entire nation. behold...the islands of the bahamas. a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have something important to say? ♪ snoof still ahead, a stunning new documentary sheds new light on how vice president dick cheney manipulated the bush presidency. the film maker behind it joins me next. manipulated the bush pr. the film maker b

bush and i approve this message.covers remains being pulled from ground zero and used for political candidate but if the library is any guide, it seems that little has changed in how president bush and his supporters are prepared to use the images of 9/11. joining me now is lou dubous. and he's an author. cynthia tucker from a university. is the library an attempt for the bush legacy? >> it seems like a theme park more than a library. you have the bull horn that he used to address the first responders after 9/11. you have suddam hussein's pistol, 9-millimeter glock. it's likethey are pretty shamel about it as you suggested in your lead in. >> cynthia, the bush library includes a think tank that former president bush calls, quote, a results-oriented institute that will have an effect on our country and we think on the world. the programs highlight economic growth, human freedom, and education reform. now, the guy who gave us no child left behind, the war in iraq, and a recession now wants to promote those same ideas,

there's a picture of jeff bush. he was unable to do it.es made the decision to pull him from the hole. he tried to jump in with a shovel, just trying to get his brother. and ultimately they pulled him out of the sinkhole to safety. we will continue -- will we continue to monitor these pictures? we'll keep watching these. this is the demolition crew. this is selfner, florida, near tampa. there's a lot of sinkholes. while floridans are familiar with this happening, it's something very rare for this to happen in a home and to claim the life of someone. we are still waiting, obviously, to see what we can't see inside this home, which is the sinkhole. we understand it's 50 feet deep, about 30 feet wide. it could very likely grow. in previous days as crews were trying to locate jeff bush's body, they used in equipment to tether folks to the ground there in the front yard, so if they went in and they were searching for his body and the sinkhole were to widen, that they would be okay. they would be tethered to safety. obviously even now, that has

bush v. gore to team up and say this is a nonpartisan issue. >> literally you are preparing for the case in here. now the supreme court will decide the case -- >> marriage is a fundamental right. >> that could change a nation. >>> it's a script that could have been written in hollywood. the opening scene, lunch at the famous polo lounge at the beverly hills hotel. at the table, a hollywood fixture. director and actor, rob reiner. >> this was after proposition 8 went the wrong way for us. >> it was november 2008. barack obama had just won the white house. >> there is nothing civil about a man marrying another man. >> but voters approved proposition 8 taking away the right for gays and lesbians to marry in california. >> california has made it very clear. >> we were sitting there and licking the wounds and saying, what do we do now? and serendipitously, a friend of my wife's came by the table and she says, i think you'd be very interested to find out that you might find an ally in ted olson on

but president bush is growing impatient.that if he is going to war, he's got to do it before the blistering desert summer. >> we were moving on the path of getting a good inspection going, that would probably come to fruition, one way or the other, but once you start military forces flowing to the extent that we did for iraq, it's hard to pull them back. >> as the inevitable moves closer, president bush reargues the case. and ups the ante with 16 infamous words in the state of the union address. >> the british government has learned that saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa. >> that would be yellowcake. again. but by referring to a six-month-old british white paper, the president does an end run around a claim discredited by his own intelligence service. >> it wasn't a matter of lying about this or lying about that, but rather, through the artistry of speech writers, and case presenters, conveying an impression to the american people that certain things were true. >> it's a real sleigh

bush or a kid? >> kid. >> bush. >> jimmy: most people say a kid. a couple say bush. a kid did that one. >> all right, another cat painting. >> bush. . >> jimmy: that is right. this is a still life. a cross between two potted plants. painted by a child or president bush? >> bush. that is president bush's work. and one more. participanted by president bush or a child? >> jimmy: that was a kid, that one. that was a kid, yeah. that was fun, right? i would like to own an original bush. they're expensive. some of them go for upwards of $40. if you live here in los angeles, you may remember voting on measure b in november. this was the law that requires actors in pornographic films in l.a. to wear condoms on the job. there's been a lot of opposition to measure b. opponents say it sends jobs out of the city. and film makers are reluctant to shoot here now because they say the condoms make the sex scene less real. there's suddenly a need for authenticity that doesn't extend to breast. i don't know why we need to shoot more -- don't we have another porn to last another 800,000

marco rubio or jeb bush?sed on his previous support of a path to citizenship, it really would go with jeb bush. he has always been very popular in florida. you know, and, again, i'm a democrat. so i would never vote for him. but he has -- i have to admit, he has been popular in florida. but i believe this is a huge mistake. i believe this is a mistake in the range of the 47% mistake that romney made. i don't think he can take it back that easily. i think it's going to stay around. michael eric dyson, annette taddeo, and frank sharry, great to have you on the show. thanks for your time. >>> good news/bad news with rupert murdoch and dennis rodman. taking a seat away from the republicans deep down in south carolina? it's no joke. stick around. two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good pe

bush dick cheney donald rumsfeld colin powell everyone in the bush administration all of the media c.e.o.'s who propagated all of the lies all of the military commanders who lied and sent us to war knowing that the reasons were fabricated they need to be held responsible not just for the deaths of thousands of u.s. soldiers in the catastrophe created for u.s. soldiers but the complete catastrophe for millions of iraqis over a million who have died become refugees wounded and of course we can't talk about p.t.s.d. for u.s. soldiers without acknowledging that p.t.s.d. for an entire generation of iraqis is a real reality millions and millions of people whose lives have been destroyed and so people want justice for all of these war criminals and people are fighting to win justice and an organization we are forward is working to help get this justice and also help that's opt out thank you so much mike prize the iraq war veteran and co-founder of march forward. i know guys as you know this week marks the tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion of iraq but sadly you wouldn't know if you're just

let's play bush iraq and terror, that one just if you have any questions, it's bush, iraq and terror. one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect iraq to the war on terror. i believe it. osama bin laden believes it, but the american people have got to understand that a defeat in iraq if this government there fails. hal: that's one of the hardest jobs pushing the prop began at a. the american people don't believe it, because they're getting too much information. i believe it. why would he say sadaam hussein believes it? i don't know what that means. >> sadaam has sane believes it, that he has connections to the al-qaeda. trying to buy a piece of cake. jacki: using a dial up internet connection. hal: he apparently got a fax of some uranium. we didn't get our facts straight. and of course, who could forget mission accomplished, a lovely bush mission accomplished, there, tony. we really should put numbers on these, because there are so many of them. we should do a countdown. jacki: oh, that would be good. hal: yeah. jacki: is that the mission accomplished applause? hal: yeah, applaus

> daddy bush. >> michael: i think it was poppy bush. >> only went to cpac once. so did brother it's not like the bush versus any lovefest going on with cpac. >> why is that? >> because they're too liberal for cpac. >> michael: that's amazing. donnie, when you look at bush, you look at rubio let's just have some fun here. if they run against each other in 2016, tell me about florida. >> well, it's who is in control of the butterfly ballot. i can't imagine that both of those men will run against each other. there is a generational difference and maybe even a temperamental difference. i can't imagine they'll run against each other. jeb bush has always been a promoter of marco rubio to begin with. >> michael: that's why he's wonder. >> well, governor, you endorsed me before you ran against me. >> michael: another flip flop. before we let you go, we'll stay on cpac, bob mcdonald governor of virginia. >> he worked with democrats to repair the roads in virginia, that gets you kicked off the cpac official, but then necessary he's in an unofficial event with rob reed. he

how do you think views are emerging about the bush presidency, the second bush presidency?to see. i can only attest to how people view my dad now. a lot of his accomplishments were overshadowed by the '92 election. and over time, people began to view my dad in a different light than they did shortly after his tenure as president. now i think everywhere i go, at least, he's a beloved guy. for good reason, pause he's a spectacular human being and his four years as president, a lot of amazing accomplishments took place. so my guess is that history will be kind to my brother the further out you get from this and the more people compare his tenure to what's going on now. i think history will be kind to george w. bush. >> governor, before i let you go, who's the hottest florida politician right now? is it you or marco rubio? who will we be more likely to see in the white house? >> man, you guys are crack addicts. you really are obsessed with all this politics. >> i've been called a lot of things -- >> marco rubio is a great guy. okay, heroin addicts, is that better? put aside the