bush because bush never tried to take over the health care system and bush didn't take fifty to seventy five percent of the fourteen million consumers who are buying insurance out of the market and destroy their health insurance policies the woman that the president trotted out in the rose garden as the great success that california woman who was going to pay be able to have obama care she thought she was going to be one hundred thirty dollars a month in premiums she's going to have to pay six hundred thirty seven dollars she's a single mother and she will get no tax credit this is your food stamp president brought to life so there's no comparison here whatsoever ok well maybe there is daniel i mean i want to get back to you're go ok kimberly that you can really going to get it out first go ahead you can jump in this is cross talk going ahead we'll go to daniel and i could go ahead. yeah i'd like to get back to the first point as far as job creation let me tell you and i've been in the business community for twenty plus years you know if there's demand i don't care how many regulations

bush -- was bush gagged? why -- (laughter). why did i not hear anything that i didn't like from bush. >> . >> bush won those fights. >> stephen: he did? where was the gun control bush instituted? >> he didn't do gun control but on the second amendment case before the supreme court the administration put in a middle of-the-road brief that cheney didn't like. he signed on to a different brief saying the second amendment protects the rights to guns and the chief of staff josh bolton went to cheney's chief of staff and said "you can't do this anymore." he said, look, khaeubny is the president of the senate and he said if you do that, take your stuff and go up to the hill and work out of there instead of the white house. >> stephen: is that what happened? >> he did not. in the end he let him stay. >> stephen: there's the door, don't let it hit you where the good lord split you." (laughter) were they ever friends? >> they were never friends. i asked jimmy about it. he said they were never buddies. >> stephen: that'

that it's worse under bush than it was under obama is because bush had he had a small recession in the beginning of his term but in his second term the economy was booming and that's when you want to cut that that you want to have contracts unary fiscal policy when the economy is booming because he kept spending he didn't cut the debt when he should have as far as the business cycle then we ended up not only with a lot of debt by the time we were in the recession which constrained our fiscal policy abilities but we also ended up with a bubble that was much bigger than it ever should have been ok if i go to austin or that's cold comfort if you're unemployed and you've lost your house on what are the comparison and i wasn't really i'm not a big fan of george w. bush as a libertarian myself i could not defend either one and there was a time actually where i would make that argument peter where this was the fifth term of george w. bush but let me just tell you something right now president george w. bush never claimed the right to extradition really assassinate american citizens this presi

bush's -- george herbert walker bush's uncle.een dead for many, many years. now, he was the family's black sheep, there is no question about that. and so it was not in the bushs, it wasn't to their advantage to let this information out. i kept filing and filing and filing for it. he had died, he'd been dead for years, and they would not release it. >> host: so you've never gotten it? >> guest: well, i finally found state department employees who were able to fill in the fact that he died sad, blind, alcoholic and that george bush, who was head of the cia at the time, had the body flown back to connecticut. and i went to the family grave site, and you can learn a lot sometimes by going to a cemetery. it's interesting. prescott bush has this great headstone, and then there's a very humble one for his wife and others. and way down if the corner there's a very small headstone for james bush. but i never got the freedom of information. it's still pending. >> host: in "the family" you write: bearing the brunt of presidential wrath has

bush is still speaking. wow.now, the journalist who broke this story in mother jones, sarah pozner. nice to have you here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> so, former presidents tend to spend their time on global charities and disaster relief and so on. do you have any insight into why president bush is speaking to an apock liptic group like this? >> i was actually surprised to find out he was speaking to this group. his alliances with evangelicals and christian zionists are long standing and well documented, but for jews, these messian messianic jews, this is kind of beyond the pale. i think with christian zionists, they have made peace with them even though they have these ideas, but they're basically saying, look, we're going to identify as jewish, but tell all you jewish people that you've been blind for 2,000 years to the identity of the real messiah and we're going to use all of your rituals and sacred objects and identify ourselves as jews and say we're the real jews because we see jesus as the messiah,

or george bush jr you know in that we have these reactionaries from the federalist society now in the judicial branch which are making it virtually impossible to seek protection from the judicial branch against the unconstitutional conduct of the executive so that a constitutional litigation attorney such as myself find myself right at the center of these types of confrontations between the raw assertion of executive power whether it's rendition or torturing people or asserting the right under the national defense authorization act to unilaterally arrest american citizens and hold them in detention with no right of habeas corpus and the right to counsel and no one would believe that this could possibly have happened in our country but here it is what i do in the book in the people's advocate as i explained from a front row seat that i had throughout these entire last three decades what it looked like seeing this national security state coming descend upon our country that's why the book is so important not because it's all about me because it's not it's about an era when this happened

of barack obama and george bush in the same light whatsoever i think obama is way worse than bush and i am not a big fan of george w. bush there is no compare and contrast between either president whatsoever besides having a spending problem politico just ran a poll showing forty six percent approval for president bush while you have thirty seven percent for president obama it's quite an irony at this point. that's cross talk a little later on now the unrest in ukraine is into its second days riot police to gas demonstrators who are responding with violence the protests are over the government suspending an association deal with the european union let's you know share the skis in the ukrainian capital for are today. still remains in protest mode and we see scuffles between the protesters and police now and then at times they're using tear gas against each other in fact this morning we saw something like dynamite between the protests and the police in front of the government building and again a gas was used against both the protest and police use it against each other clearly these pe

bush military tribunals going. when new jersey governor chris christie decided to veto the 50 caliber gun ban that he suggested it announced it late in the day on a friday. this is how they do it. friday news dumps make the news business the the only business in america where the time you are happiest to go to work is friday night because of all the junk they do on friday night they hope nobody will notice. they let fly an epic friday news dump. one that, in fact, may really be the legacy of this entire congress. as you know, this congress has no record of having passed anything at all. and i don't see that as an epithet. they have passed no significant legislation since they have been in session at all, all year long. nothing. they didn't shut down the government. they did almost make the government default. that's like counting errors instead of runs. in terms of actually accomplishing anything, they have done nothing. the one thing they have just announced they are not even going to try. a year ago this week mit

or george bush jr you know in that we have these reactionaries from the federalist society now in the judicial branch which are making it virtually impossible. to seek protection from the judicial branch against the unconstitutional conduct of the executive so that a constitutional litigation attorney such as myself by myself right at the center of these types of confrontations between the raw assertion of executive power whether it's rendition or torturing people or asserting the right under the national defense authorization act to unilaterally arrest american citizens and hold them in detention with no right of habeas corpus and the right to counsel and no one would believe that this could possibly have happened in our country but here it is what i do in the book in the people's advocate as i explained from the front row seat that i had throughout these entire last three decades what it looked like seeing this national security state coming descend upon our country that's why the book is so important not because it's all about me because it's not it's about an era when this happene

bush. he just had so many.t's like talking about rock 'n' roll without bringing up elvis, gotta respect the king. >> jon: can't we find a bush fiasco that is quite so callous or hyperbolic? >> of course there's guantanamo, my pet goat leek, valerie plame leak. bush left us with presidential terds to choose from. >> i see it as the waterboarding. health care.gov is the towel wrapping around our faces and the board is the failed promise of universal health care. >> jon: ah -- well what is the water? >> i don't know, water is water, jon. what am i robert frost. >> obamacare is obama's 2008 financial crisis. it's the perfect 1 to 1. that was bad. this is bad boom done. >> i have to go with the classics i sat the web site is obama's iraq war because when i think glitchy web site the first thing that comes to my mind is decade long wars started under false pretenses. [ laughter ] and we all remember that press conference. [ laughter ] >> jon: actually that -- if i may, al, that never happened. >> yeah, but it could h

bush had 384. if you look at the number of interviews they have given, obama has had 741 interviews. torture w bush -- george w. bush had 243. clinton had 207, and reagan had 92. n's stopped inn an april. it has to do with changes in the media. you can see in looking at them, "time" anded to "newsweek," and what obama has done with particular correspondents, like columnists, who are running on a subject that is important to him. he brings in people from local areas. there was a day when he brought in five people, five anchors from local stations that were affected by the government shut down. so he could target his communications. and so i think targeting patient to you... all the way through, but i do think it is to that probably he has given fewer speeches, and his press d aserences, he has not ha many press conferences. bush in his second term increased the number of his solo press conferences, like he would stand up like obama did recently and answered questions for almost an hour. >> to respon

and bush thinks about it.ives it a few weeks and comes up with the name of someone who might take his place . and on other reasons he says he is thinking of doing it is because it will show who is really in charge. you begin to see, he has begun to resent the notion that somehow he, the president, is now really in charge of his own administration. >> nextel sherry in dayton beach -- daytona beach florida. >> hi. november 2001 bush overturned the 1978 presidential records act. he signed an executive order permanently flaunting from the public of presidential documents and tapes going back to the reagan ministration. many in congress called this measure for secrecy unconstitutional. my question is, after bush left office, are those presidential records now available to the public? >> that is a very good question. i will not be able to give you a precise answer because i am not as of today on where that stands i no there are amendments and changes. i know that starting in january of this coming year president bus

prescott bush alcoholic? >> guest: and his son, jonathan bush, took umbrage when this book came out, as did come . . . . 2005? >> guest: right. and there was -- is something to be denounced by the president of the united states, be denounced by the chairman of the republican national committee, by the press secretary in the white house, by tom delay. everyone was quite upset by this book, but i remember jonathan bush wrote a letter to the editor of "the new york times" book review, and my response is that alcoholism is not a disgrace. it's a disease. >> host: good afternoon and welcome to booktv's "in depth" program. this is where we spend three hours with one author talking af his or her body of work, and this month its author kitty kelley. she's the author of several books beginning in 1978 with "jackie oh!." his way, "his way: the unauthorized biography of frank sinatra," 87. "nancy reagan: the unauthorized biography" 1992. the royals came out in 1997. "the family: the real story of the bush dynasty," 2004

bush.e signature flavor of his failure as a president was, of course, his inclination to make decisions without necessarily understanding all of the consequences, and then to doggedly stick with those decisions, even when it was clear they were terribly, terribly wrong. do you remember that? do you remember those eight years? the absence of contrition, the refusal to change course, no matter how obviously wrong the course? well, in the 4 years and 10 months of george w. bush's post-presidency, including and especially tonight, it appears that what you remember about the guy really has not changed. now to a whole new effect. and that story is ahead. ♪ [ female announcer ] just about anywhere you use sugar, you can use splenda® no calorie sweetener. splenda® lets you experience the joy of sugar without all the calories. think sugar, say splenda™ for those nights when it's more than a bad dream, be ready. for the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for

and ten signed copies of president bush's recent book.en the cheapest seats for this event costs 100 bucks, but at that rate you are not even guaranteed a seat in the room. since mother jones broke the news that president bush would headline the event in texas, there has been an outpouring of criticism against the president, including people that enjoyed good relations with him, like, for example, the anti-defamation league, whose president says he is disappointed in president bush's decision. there has been a lot of criticism of president bush's decision, from jewish leaders across the country. irving, texas, is kind of near dallas, texas, leading members of the dallas jewish community put this out expressing their concern about the fact that president bush would not just be speaking at this event, he would be helping this group raise lots and lots of money to do what they do. they said the messianic bible institution's message conflicts with the jewish community. quote, we respectfully urge him to reconsider this decision to appear on b

i am so i seen jeb bush speaking number of times and bush has zero likability jenna bush against hillary clinton that's going to be i learned when i was a teenager in the ninety's i don't want to relive their bush and clinton machine fighting it out already will say yes i'm going to throw this out there what about elizabeth warren everyone so certain that hillary clinton is going to be running no one's talking about the dark horse coming from massachusetts a lot. warneke warren has been gaining some supporters up around up there in the northeast i just got to really quickly i think it's an intellectually lazy narrative to say oh we don't want another bush clinton because they're the to see or distort all the tension there the two smartest talk radio horseshit not the two smartest and the two most savvy politically on that note we've just begun to fight through all of my guests and for my viewers i want to hear from you join the conversation on my facebook page and share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting at kings things musingly politicking and don't forget next week dick cheney that's

bush. take it in reverse order. >> sure. >> people here, 50 to 100 million insurance policies cancelled. the evidence for the case that this whole story about how it's just people on the individual market who need to worry and no one in the group market. the employer based market needs to worry. it's unraveling. >> absolutely. this is an obama care time bomb that's about to go off. if you want to know why democrats are panicking look at the anger in the last few weeks. over 5 million people losing plans on the individual market. imagine the mass outrage if 50 to 1 million people lost it in the employer-based market. this is a huge issue. what happened is small business has found a loophole in obama care. if they renewed early they could avoid the mandates pushing people out of the individual market for a year. what that means is they are going to get the cancellations in october 2014 which is a month before the mid-term elections. there is a time bomb going off of all the employer-based pla

bush. flavor of his failure as a president was, of course, his inclination to make decisions without necessarily understanding all of the consequences, and then to doggedly stick with those decisions, even when it was clear they were terribly, terribly wrong. do you remember that? do you remember those eight years? the absence of contrition, the refusal to change course, no matter how obviously wrong the course? well, in the 4 years and 10 months of george w. bush's post-presidency, including and especially tonight, it appears that what you remember about the guy really has not changed. now to a whole new effect. and that story is ahead. (dad) just feather it out. that's right. (son) ok. feather it out. (dad) all right. that's ok. (dad) put it in second, put it in second. (dad) slow it down. put the clutch in, break it, break it. (dad) just like i showed you. dad, you didn't show me, you showed him. dad, he's gonna wreck the car! (dad) he's not gonna wreck the car. (dad) no fighting in the

bush.he signature flavor of his failure as a president was, of course, his inclination to make decisions without necessarily understanding all of the consequences, and then to doggedly stick with those decisions, even when it was clear they were terribly, terribly wrong. do you remember that? do you remember those eight years? the absence of contrition, the refusal to change course, no matter how obviously wrong the course? well, in the 4 years and 10 months of george w. bush's post-presidency, including and especially tonight, it appears that what you remember about the guy really has not changed. now to a whole new effect. and that story is ahead. [ female announcer ] skin looking tired? wake it up with olay regenerist. formulated with a skin energizing complex, it penetrates 10 layers of the skin's surface, because energized skin is younger looking skin. ♪ is younger looking skin. you get your coffee here. you get your hair cut here. you find that certain thing you were looking for here,

debunk claim which bush himself admitted was actually true.ing on an iowa radio program, he made this stunning assertion. >> w. bush, he was accused of 16 words in the state of the union address that they said was a lie, and they're still attacking him for that. and i'll tell you i've had hands-on evidence that what george bush said in that state of the union address was the truth, and he was still punished for it. >> if you're wondering what evidence king has to prove that bush was right all along, you're probably not alone. the question is if he really possessed information that could have proven iraq was indeed seeking uranium, why wouldn't he have spoken up? tylenol cold® helps relieve your worst cold and flu symptoms. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol cold®. \ s clay. mom? come in here. come in where? welcome to my mom cave. wow. sit down. you need some campbell's chunky soup before today's big game, new chunky cheeseburger. mmm. i love cheeseburgers. i know you do. when did you get this place? when i negotiat

i am so i seen jeb bush speaker number of times and bush has zero likability jenna bush against hillary clinton that's going to be a big i live after that when i was a teenager in the ninety's i don't want to relive their bush and clinton machine fighting it out already will say yes i'm going to throw this out there what about elizabeth warren everyone so certain that hillary clinton is going to be running no one's talking about the dark horse coming from massachusetts a lot. warneke warren has been gaining some supporters up around up there in the northeast i just got to really quickly i think it's an intellectually lazy narrative to say oh we don't want another bush clinton because they're the two c. hardest for latisha are the two smartest we have talk radio you know the two smartest and the two most savvy politically on that note we've just begun to fight through all of my guests and for my viewers out there i want to hear from you join the conversation on my facebook page and share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting at king's things i'm using the politicking hashtag don't forget

and laura bush? >> i do, they are wonderful citizens of our state and they do so much good work and laura is also doing a lot to help women in countries where women's rights are not really respected and she has done a lot to promote that. and president bush, i think they have done so much and they keep doing good work and i keep in my book presentation and there is a conversation we are having in october in dallas, texas. and this is something that barbara bush has done to promote literacy, especially among adults and they are still doing good work, all of them. >> eleanor in silver city, maryland. you're on booktv with author kay bailey hutchison. >> hello, i have been watching the first lady's series on c-span and it is an aspect about steel, steel magnolias, steel and the women, and i now wonder if you could comment on this. >> in case you're not familiar, c-span is doing a series on the first ladies lady's and we just kicked off our second season and last week was william howard taft and the stee

bush's were at this point. and there is a lot of fatigue outrs will be open to the possibility of a third democratic term. to me i think these are the dynamics that will drive 2014 and 2016. >> count me skeptical on rapped paul and join me in thanking them. >>> live kufshcoverage continueh the senate banking subcommittee. the heari ining starts live at p.m. eastern. alsole remarks from ben berna e bernanke. you can see it live 7:00. eastern. earlier today, there was a hearing on the health care weap website and security concerns. here is more now. >> i want to talk to you about the topic of this hearing now for a few minutes and that is the issue of security. and i think i heard you say both in your opening and response to questioning by the chairman, i just wanted to ask again, have there been vulnerabilities that have been discovered since the website unveiled on october 1st? >> security vulnerabilities? >> yes. >> have not necessarily been reported in terms of it being a security threat. i think there was so

bush and i am not a big fan of george w. bush ok and you could probably be co-hosting this program i guess i don't need to say very much definitely give you reflect upon what we've heard from give ruby and for a monster america there is no compare and contrast between either president whatsoever besides having a spending problem this president currently has spanned and pulling the debt and deficits out of control more than all presidents combined however george w. bush did spend too much but his governing style foreign policy prowess taking a set of crisis and leadership style are night and day over what president obama's are. one of my favorite parts of the job is given a platform of musicians that use their music to fight for change and to increase awareness about issues that most performers are afraid to. push method a band headlined by dusty your re and have a seat and bodies this notion and uses hip hop and fuse vocals and socio political lyrics order to get their message heard well i invited them on the show to perform

bush is scheduled to keynote this week.proselytizing jews for jesus bible group that tries to make jewish people turn to christ. the group has an apocalyptic end times theology that tells them if they can convince enough jews to convert to jesus, that will trigger the second coming and the rapture and the horsemen and all the rest. george w. bush is raising money for that group this week. so far, the former president's decision has been denounced as "infuriating" by one of the country's most influential rabbis. the anti-defamation league, which loves george w. bush, today put out this statement announcing their disappointment -- "we were disappointed to learn that former president george w. bush has decided to move ahead with his plan to speak at a fund-raising event for an evangelical proselytizing group whose stated goal is to convert jews to christianity. president bush is a friend who has an asbooid biding love and respect for the jewish people. therefore, i wish he would not speak there." yeah, i know, he's still speak

bush speaking tonight for the jewish group.hey found it trouble that they would address an evangelical christian group whose stated goals is convert jews to christianity. media was not allowed. in fact, shortly after posener's piece went live, references to bush's speech was scrubbed from the website. one of the lasting legacy of the bush presidency was the alliance between christians and politically conservative jews. and in some ways, his speech tonight to a somewhat fringy evangelical group is a reminder that the evangelical movement, millions and millions of americans, was front and center during the bush presidency. and while the press doesn't cover evangelicals much anymore, they have not gone anywhere. they are a driving force in the base of the republican party. joining me now, ralph reed. he was a senior adviser to the bush/cheney campaigns in 2000 and 2004. perhaps there's no one in america people associate more with the political muscle of evangelical christianity than you, mr. reed. and my question, first, i want to

bush too many and we need to take in the future. we engage. >> 41 not 43. >> bush 41 we engage military adventurism and we tried to be, you know, the 911 to the world, colin powell believed and the powell doctrine was, you know, a great whether it is a weinberger doctrine or the powell doctrine. >> rose: he built on the weinberger doctrine. >> he built on the weinberger doctrine an he had the idea of overwhelming force, ever we have to fight a war, if we fight a war, it is the last possible option and then when we go in, i love the way you say that we don't want a fair fight, we will show everything at them. >> rose: and with the popular support of the people at home you go in to win and you put everything in and you win it as quickly as you can. >> quickly as you can. >> rose: the support was a central part of it and knowing what your objective was was a central a part and not an endless war. >> the objective was the most important thing there is a trigger point, and when you -- you had a specific goal, you didn't have mission -- c