jeb bush could be. that spring of -- string of debates gives a lot of opportunities for someone to get on a role. -- roll. mark: theoretically you are right but you can't be the front runner unless you go up in the polls and i don't think any one yet has a chance to get above 20% except maybe walker. and anyone who rise up is going to get scrutiny and get beat back down. it's -- they don't have a front runner and it's just freaking them out john: total lay degree. i realize as we discuss this why jeb bush heights hypotheticals so much. they're hard to get to, if this happened, if that happened. jeb bush could be in the lead in the polls in iowa and new hampshire, or scott walker could be. mark: bush i don't think could be the front runner. his poll numbers aren't going to go up very much -- john: that's a big concession on your part. monarch even if they go up people are going to say, voters aren't going to vote for a bush. the other thing is he's going have -- to have $100 million in the bank and he's

the bush and administration -- the bush and mr. administration and the unbelievable way that they never caught osama bin laden, but did immense damage. we are still living with that now. the responsibility for the mistakes no longer rests with us after, but with all of us in the audience. if we forget, or minimize the gravity of the mistakes that we made over those years, people will continue to make those mistakes on into the future, and many more people will die. thank you. [applause] prof. knott i too: i would also like to thank hofstra for hosting. they give for coming today. let me begin by saying that the accusations frequently leveled against this president are certainly nothing new. people will tend to criticize the sitting president, whether he is a member of their party or not on partisan grounds. putting that aside, i would say that george w. bush has been subjected to some of the worst demagoguery, and unfortunately comes from a number of my scholarly comrades especially historians and law professors, who consider thems

anyone who has worked for jeb bush or covered him, they recognize that version of jeb bush.ion got elected governor of florida and could in the end look like the most presidential. one argument last night he spoke , to the r.n.c. meeting pretty late last night after we were off the air. he's making the argument, pick someone who can win in the general election, who is not caught up in the party drama. if he can be more like that, i think that could carry him to the nomination. john: it could but in the end, i think at some point he's going to sit down for interviews, do a long profile as is the custom of every presidential candidate. he is going to sit down with a writer, george packer, or one of our friends, and he's going to have an interview and someone is going to dig in to what he really thinks. we will find out eventually what he thinks. on the basis of what we now know, if he is in a position to posture, on the basis of what he said yesterday and the questions he answered in the reporters' scrum, i think he's in a bad position. it's untenable to be in the position of

hejeb bush has just one house. john: this puts in the firmly in the bush image. with the bush clan she doesn't want to be associated with 100% of the time at this moment. matt: we know his last name, but literally there is a foundation being built in his parent's property and paid for by his parents. john: great piece, thanks for doing this. if it turns out to have a lot of legs, the metaphor here is fairly rich. again, thanks so much and we will be right back. mark: we have been hearing from clinton allies about this new company we have been hearing about. this is going to get a lot more scrutiny in the aydsdays ahead. john: qed, is all i will say about that. until apple named jony ive its chief executive officer. and everything about the two people that will fill his shoes. i am emily chang and this is " bloomberg west." charter makes a big move to become the number two cable provider in the midwest. but is a $55 billion deal really about to controls the internet? what co-owner of snapchat evan spiegel tells of the. go pro gets more condition. i-- more conditio

bush.isenberg is a professor at hofstra, author of a prize-winning book on the american occupation of germany. she has written and spoken widely and has served as a consultant to several members of congress, and in 2004 chaired a task force on the u.s. occupation of iraq for a bipartisan coalition for a realistic foreign policy. her articles have appeared in the journal of american history history news network, diplomatic history, radical history review and she is presently completing a book entitled "never lose: nixon, kissinger, and history." and then at the united states naval war college, serving as cochair of the oral history program and directing the ronald reagan oral history project. professor knott received his phd from boston college and is part of the united states air force academy and the university of virginia. he is the author of " alexander hamilton and the persistent of myth" and an examination on the use of covert operations by early american presidents. he is a co-author

by the way, if you went to new hampshire and started talking about, ken bush when? -- can bush win?nk he would've for those same things and likewise with the iowa voters some of them didn't really know what common core was but if you explain it to them and understood it better, i think it would -- of the voters everywhere. remember, the iowa caucus attendees on the republican side is very conservative, the caucus produces winners like rick santorum and mike huckabee, not exactly people who are mainstream republicans or who can win a general election. so they would all be troubled by george bush's record as a governor. mark: a lot of nice things, i think -- a lot of nice things -- steve: a lot of nice things said about marco rubio. mark a lot of nice things said : about marco rubio. they have never known somebody his age, with his experience what is driving, do you think, based on the group, and what is driving this attraction to rubio? steve: it is really interesting i will say this, i am not try to marco rubio although it might have that effect. i will say that he is the barack oba

bush. a panel of authors academics and former national security council staff member discuss how 9/11 impacted the creation of the domestic security apparatus and strategic staffing decisions. this was part of a three-day conference on the nation's 43rd president hosted by hofstra university. it is one hour 20 minutes. >> welcome, everyone to this afternoon session. my name is robert brinkmann director of sustainable studies that hofstra university. welcome all of you to our beautiful campus. hopefully get a chance to see some our great efforts underway. thanks for all of you for being here today we have a very interesting set of papers and very esteemed panelists will be discussing it. afterwards i hope we'll get a great conversation going from the audience. today with us we have david cohen from university of akron. dane egli from johns hopkins university. terry o'sullivan from university of akron. justin vaughn from boise state university. would also have stephen knott from u.s. naval wa

bush presidency. and we won't agree here on everything that is said, i'm sure. but i bet there's one thing about which we can agree and that is that whatever is said here tonight about the george w. bush presidency will look different to us in 20 years and different again 20 years after that. george w. bush's presidency must be declined by the etchts of september 11, 2001 when the united states of america was viciously attacked by an enemy who's leader osama bin laden stated as far back as 1983 that the united states was the mortal enemy of islam an must be destroyed. a 9/11 president bush declared to the president of america an to the world that he would do whatever was necessary toe protect our country to keep it safe and to keep it free. this became the mantra of the g.w. bush presidency. president reagan had his mantra that was to bring down the soviet union and to shut down the cold war. so did president bush. his global war on terror kept us safe and kept us free. so let's start with that. presi

bush came here after he got his wings, he got them in corpus christi. he was here in 1943, probably may to september of 1943. he was in this room. he has not been back to this building since then. he has been back to the base and the building he lived in across the street, has been torn down in 1988. he lived there, and when he was going for reelection in 1992, he visited the building. he went around and said yeah this is the room i lived in. a were tearing the building down, he knew it was anti-by then, so people around the organization later took all of the flooring out and fixtures and this and that andriy and re-created that room of the museum, and we call it the bush room. we are now entering the george bush room. this is a re-created barracks room. and the actual flooring and the closets and the desk and the water heater, the sink, all of these were in the room that president bush lived in when he was here on the base in 1943. this is a picture of the building where president bush lived when he was stationed here at the junior bachelors officers q

governor bush takes that idea on very directly, as do other republicans, but i think governor bush has taken it on more effectively. he is a great record as governor , and is the best candidate and will be the best president. host: let me get your reaction about atlantic magazine saying, "barring some ripped from space-time consortium, hillary clinton will be the democratic nominee in 2016. she should be an easy target. but the one republican least able to attack her is jeb bush, who shares almost everyone of her vulnerabilities.

i pulled the records on the town, and sure enough, it's identified as jed bush -- jeb bush's house.t was how we came across the story. it's two stories, four bedrooms 4.5 bathrooms, not super extravagant by wealthy standards, but the setting is incredible. it's right there on the water overlooking the ocean. along with his parents and some other homes there. mark: why is it that jeb bush who's a pretty rich guy, and his parents, why are they building the house for him? matt: this is something the parents have done. walker's point has been in their family for more than a century, and parents want to pass down to their kids something on walker's point, so they have in building other properties. jeb bush's younger brother marvin had a house built their teen of years ago. he is the last person who does not have a dedicated property for him. mom and dad wanted to build jeb e-house. it comes at a completely inopportune time given that he's running for president, though. john: that brings us to the political component. made the point this is not a very large property by rich people standar

mark: jeb bush. >> yes, i'm sorry.k: a lot of nice things, i think -- a lot of nice things -- steve: a lot of nice things said about him they are all bushes. mark: -- a lot of nice things said about marco rubio. they have never known somebody his age, with his experience what is driving, do you think, based on the group, and what does -- what is driving this attraction to rubio? steve: it is really interesting -- i don't -- i will say this, i am not try to marco rubio although it might have that effect. i will say that he is the barack obama of the republican party right now. his life story is captivating to people when he stands in front of a room and he talks about his immigrant parents and his father came from cuba and sit behind a desk stood behind the bar in the back of the room so that marco rubio could stand in front of the podium on a stage in front of the room, that just melts our heart, it melts my heart. so, i mean, i think, he has a compelling story and people are drawn to him and i would say marco rubio is

jeb bush: thank you. [applause] rich: we have some journalists here with the news hole to fill. i am trying to think the question of sufficient gravity to drive the news cycle of the next two or three hours. this what i came up with your has. if elected, we you consider having "w" do your official portrait? jeb bush: heck no. i think his early work was a little too primitive, i would like to wait for his postmodern era for he paints me. he is ask a gotten a little better. he stood with dogs, now he does landscapes and gives paintings to people who are his friends because they know they will have value. rich: let's talk about the news this week, the situation in baltimore. it has become less a debate over specifically what might have happened and the death of freddie gray, less about the handling of the riots, and more the bigger question of who or what is responsible for the state of baltimore and what we can do about it. what is your take about that big question, who or what has failed baltimo

president bush trained here. there are probably 3500 aviators that came through this space and trained. the space was built in april 1942, and shortly after that they received their first avenger torpedo bomber, which was just -- it just began its production for the military in 1942. by october of 1942, this base was fully built and operational. it stayed open and in commission until october 1946. the property they built the base originally was a small nine-hole golf course. in fact, president hard and played -- president harding played golf in the 1920's heard after the sourness of the economy, the golf course closed and got overgrown with weeds. the united government was interested in building a base here. the county sold land to the navy, and a build the base. the avenger replace the devastator, which was a torpedo bomber that was slow, poorly armored, got shot down every time they try to sink a ship pretty much. the navy kept -- and long island, which was another company to develop a torpedo bomber, and gromi

just ask jeb bush. by now he would probably be glad to answer any question other than would you have gone to war in iraq knowing what you know now? he said yes, and then it was time for damage control. >> i admired the men and women, mostly men, that made the ultimate sacrifice. so going back in time and talking about hypothetical what would have happen and what could have happened, i think does a disservice for them. >> so no hypotheticals, try again. >> of course, you know, given the power of looking back and having that, of course anybody would have made different decisions. there is no denying that, but to delve into that and focus on the future is where i think i need to draw the line. >> and the yes had crossed the line to become a no. >> if we are all supposed to answer hypothetical questions, knowing what we know now, what would you have done, i would not have engaged or gone into iraq. >> so knowing what we know now, would you say this represents a serious stumble for the jeb bush campaign? is

i am for governor bush. think our system has a flaw and we have to fix it to restore people's confidence. host: berkeley, california, republican line. a republican in california -- [laughter] caller: a minority. hello? it seems to me that the divisions within the parties say the democratic -- the dianne feinstein part of the party. and the john mccain side of the republican party where jeb bush basically is versus the rand paul syrian side of the republican party, these divisions are becoming so much more evident and possible that having more people on the stage i think, if i am seeing what you're saying, seems to be a desperate attempt to catch up to the political currents that are actually happening in this country. i think what you're doing is late. i think the people are far ahead of you and certainly ahead of frank who is of the old-school thinking that if we have this kind of a center-right, centerleft, two-party system that we can promote -- that there can be a promotion of the basic ideals of what i

john: coming up, what is jeb bush thinking?will be right back. ♪ john: it's getting hot in the republican party and not just because of those presidential announcements. our man might enter is in phoenix right now. mike, you were out on the trail with jeb bush when he made his comments today on the fourth consecutive day in a row when he was trying to answer the questions about the iraq war. set the scene for us. mike: this was supposed to be a standard, campaign style in bed, a local brewery in tempe, arizona. it was supposed to be a platform for jeb bush to talk about innovation, regulation, but the iraq question was actually literally hanging over him today. he came out of his tour, spoke to a crowd of about 100 chamber of commerce type folks. there was a tv of in the corner with a view on. you could not hear the sound, but they were talking on "the view" about his answer on iraq. he goes through the normal 10 minutes some -- stop speech. and he says before i go, i want to add one more thing and gives his explanation full su

bush: do me a favor and don't tell mother. [laughter] mr. bush: i know how much the trustees love and care for this great university. if i have seen it firsthand when i attended bring your spouse night dinners. i drop by classes on occasion. i am impressed by the intelligence and the energy of the faculty. i want to thank you for your dedication and for sharing your knowledge with the students. some of the your parents love you so much they are in the overflow section across the campus. i congratulate the parent to make this moment possible. it is a glorious day when your child graduates from college. it is a really great day for your bank account. i know the members of the class of 2015 will join me in thanking you for your love and your support. [applause] mr. bush: most of all, i congratulate the members of the class of 2015. you worked hard to reach this milestone. you leave with lifelong friends and fond memories. you will always member how much you enjoyed the right to buy a required campus meal plan it. [laughter] mr. bush: you rememb

john: this does illustrate the bush guy image.ts him firmly in kennebunk lord with the other members of the bush family clan. that he does not necessarily want to be associated with 100% of the time at this moment. that: it's the image of it. we know his last name, but literally, there's a foundation being built in his parents' property right now. i think that's the image of him as a bush guy, trying to be his own man, independent from his father and brother in a campaign setting. john: thank you so much. great piece. thank you for doing this. if it turns out to have a lot of legs, the metaphor here is fairly rich for those who want to see metaphors. again, matt thanks a lot. , we'll be right back. ♪ john: while we've been on the air, we've been hearing from clinton allies about this new company we heard about today. people are playing it down saying this is the way all passed through companies are organized. it will get a lot more scrutiny in the days ahead, i'm convinced. mark: standard pastoral rule -- qed is what i will say to

bush. >> and bush -- george w., and i've talked to him about it, is, well we're better off because saddam is no longer there. he still feels he made the right decision. the problem here is not the gasp and he said yes, no, maybe, and all of the above essentially. it is how do you deal with foreign policy issues like that how do you decide to go to war and who do you rely on. it's shaky. >> and for republicans, sam tine, who have been looking to jeb bush for the big money people as the competent candidate who could win, their confidence also shaken this week. >> i agree. i think bob nails it. the question -- the real question is not knowing what you know now would you have done it it's knowing what you knew then would you have done it. if you had been in george w. bush's shoes which even if the biggest boosters of the war admitted it wasn't convincing, would you authorize that invasion. and from everything i can tell regardless of the theatrics of the past four days the answer to that probably was yes. and i think f

jeb bush, marco rubio, ted cruz rick perry, you get the idea.oday, scott walker spoke first written he delivered a new argument for why he is different. >> there are a lot of great people think about the race on the republican side. there are some people, some of those folks, particularly folks in washington who are fighting the good fight, waving the flag. but they haven't won a whole lot of victories. then there are other folks that have done an effective job of winning elections, a lot of them are friends of mine. they won a lot of elections but they haven't taken on a lot of those fights. the reason why i am thinking about what i am thinking about, we won't announce anything until the end of june, i have yet to see anybody in the emerging field who has done both. going forward, we need somebody who can fight and win the battles we need to move this country forward commonsense reforms, that is what we need to move america forward. mark:john: you can catch all the action for the next couple of days. how politically potent do think that argumen

on the one hand this is a good find for jeb bush -- sign for jeb bush and on the other hand, depending, he could feel the affects of this going forward. >> does the money and how people are raising money also mean that there could be a big plausible field very late in the game? >> yeah. i am so happy you mentioned the money, because i think this is one of the big question yes marks we are in the first real campaign because in 2012 we had an incumbent president. but the first real campaign which is open for both parties in which we have citizens united the mccutchen ruling out of the supreme court, you have this unrestricted fundraising going on. big, big money. and i think that's part of what is going on in the republican side in particular. because what is happening is that those big money donors that have taken the power away from the party establishment, so to speak. they are controlling. so if you are a scott walker and the koch brothers say listen if you run we will support you. that's a big incentive to run in this kind of -- in this kind of, you know, time in american history. s

jeb bush.o le preguntan si Él, con la informaciÓn que tendrÍa, invadirÍa nuevamente a irak como hizo su hermano. primero dijo que sÍ y ahora rectifica. ¿quÉ piensa de todo este episodio y cÓmo ha sido manejado? >> es una buena pregunta. yo creo que dice mucho, la forma en que lo manejÓ dice mucho de quiÉn es jeb bush. y dijo que Él calculÓ mal la pregunta y la respuesta. o sea, no estÁ diciendo que no entendiÓ la pregunta, no estÁ inventando pretextos, simplemente estÁ diciendo: "calculÉ mal mi respuesta". y dijo: "mira, no irÍa a irak sabiendo hoy lo que sabemos, que no tenÍan armas de destrucciÓn". pero--pero es curioso que no mintiÓ, lo que dijo fue "calculÉ mal", y eso es rarÍsimo, rarÍsimo en la política. pero estamos viendo quiÉn es jeb bush y el carÁcter del hombre. >> y a propÓsito de eso, ¿no le parece que para Él va a ser un constante responder por las acciones de su hermano en la presidencia? >> sÍ, no hay duda que sí va a tener preguntas y hay gente que le va a seguir preguntando, p

his last name is bush. he had to know they were coming. questions about his brother's decision to invade iraq. today -- former florida governor jeb bush finally gave a definitive answer. has he finally found an exit strategy from this issue? >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the national lead and breaking news. the death toll regrettably rising after that amtrak train flew off the tracks in philadelphia. the mayor of philadelphia michael nutter announcing an eighth victim was pulled from the wreckage thanks to a rescue dog with at least 200 injured, six remaining in critical condition, many with rib cage injuries and fractures from being thrown around a train going 106 miles per hour around ap 50 mile-per-hour curve according to the national transportation safety board investigators. minutes ago we learned the identity of another victim laura finamor, just 56 years old. and remaining a mystery up to today, now all accounted for. meantime the lawyer for the train's engineer is speaking out s

bush did in 2008. and then you know i agree with michael o'hanlan that the obama administration can be criticized for some things and he wanted to get the troops out by 2012. undoubtedly partly for electoral purposes. but look at that another way, chris. he campaigned in 2008 on getting those troops out. that was a campaign promise he made to the american people. the other guy, john mccain was promising something else. the american people fairly decisively, chose the guy who promised he would get the troops out and he got the troops out. isn't that keeping a campaign promise? isn't that what we always complain these guys never do? >> there's a certain value in sticking to your word. thank you, michael hanlan thank you, michael tomasky, this is something we've been debating for years. >>> coming up, do hillary clinton supporters really care about her e-mails and finances and what friends she keep? will any of this stuff keep her out of the white house? i doubt it. >>> plus jeb bush was supposed to save

i am for governor bush. our system has a flaw and we need to fix it to restore confidence in the system. host: dan in california. good morning. republican line. host: a republican from berkeley. i want to point that out. caller: i want to figure out hello? host: yes. caller: it seems to me that the divisions within the parties sebi elizabeth warren side of the democratic party versus the dianne feinstein side of the democratic party, and the john mccain neoconservative wing of the republican party and the jeb bush part of the party versus the rand paul libertarian side of the republican party, these divisions are becoming so much more evident and palpable, that having more people on the stage i think, if i am seeing what you are saying, it seems to be a desperate attempt to finally catch up to the political currents that are actually happening in this country. i think what you are doing is pretty late. i think the people are far ahead of you, and certainly far ahead of others, the old-school thinking that if

bush. speakers include former veterans affairs secretary james nicholson and new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker. this is part of a conference at hofstra university. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] host: welcome. i am an associate professor here at hofstra and i am pleased to be serving as moderator for this distinguished forum. a wars in iraq and afghanistan are arguably the most controversial and consequential decisions of the bush administration. the decision to go to war, how to get out of the wars, and related issues have not only dominated the bulk of president bush's time in office, but have also shaped current u.s. foreign-policy options in and around the regions. they will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. there is very little doubt that the wars in afghanistan and iraq will continue to be measures by which the legacy of the george w. bush foreign policy will be measured. with that in mind, the conference organizers have

jeb bush is going to fight it out. it could be that there is a lot of koch money spent against her now. john: we will see. there is no doubt, she will take it from all sides. in the end, i have never seen a situation where the clintons have ended up on the short end of a money war. it has never happened before. mark: wake up early on sunday for our number politics college poll of new hampshire voters. a lot of intrigue stuff -- interesting stuff will come out of that. our not to keep government. who in the world of sports is the worst person in the world? your choices are arods, john skipper or whoever made this horrible video for the cleveland cavaliers. [video clip] ♪ i had the time of my life ♪ mark: so much to choose from. who is the worst person in the world? john: you were giving me the choice between a cheater and a scumbag i guy who didn't have much patience for simmons' moments. i got to say, the worst person in the world is the cleveland cavaliers. if there is anything that sports teams should be responsive t

because bush was in arizona. and they gave us their talking points on how awful this was and bush would be the third -- and jeb bush would be the third george bush term and what not. the only questions they got were about, well, what about hillary clinton? there would be silence on the phone as they tried to come up with an answer. and their basic answer is she has explained it. she apologized. this guy not only couldn't apologize it but is being advised by people who helped put that war together. if that doesn't bring you cause for concern, then what would? >> i was going to say, sorry ed, jeb, has not been on the ballot for years and questions about his viability as a candidate. can he handle the spotlight? how much concern is there in bush world and among the donor class that he may not be ready for prime time and this could actually have a lasting impact? >> donors and it comes as no surprise are skittish and when things are bad did they put the money in the right place and they've been expressing that concer

i loved working for president bush.n the book is i was asked if i would ever do it again. absolutely. i would. i would. but i wouldn't do it for anybody else. i wouldn't do for anybody but president bush. >> he seem to strike a balance between preparedness, planning and really taking on whatever comes. when an opportunity comes. >> that's a good way to put it. that preparation and being willing to make a move or take a risk is good. i've not always been good at it. in fact, a lot of people had to push me. president bush was one of them in the postpresidency. i had joined the big pr firm after the white house and i was terribly unhappy. i went to visit him just to say hello. i didn't want to tell him i was onion happy and he said, why don't you start your own business. and i said is 100 reasons why i shouldn't. and he said here is one reason why you should. if your business doesn't work out, you'll be fine. i knew that he was right and he was. and about three months later, i had my own business going and that big pr firm

bush. it's not jeb bush but lindsay graham. >> president bush w.information everybody else in the world did and made the best decision he could. and if anybody thinks saddam hussein was a good guy, then you need to go back in time and check out the facts. >> so there it is. there's the flip side of it you will hear from lindsay graham. they say look there may not have been wmd but there was a tyrant, a butcher. so something positive came of it. >> and you will continue to hear that line from him. no doubt he and mccain are very closely aligned on these. when pambarack obama was considering military force? the phone lines on capital hill melted down because people in republican and democratic districts were saying please don't do this. we are war we're ree. i think both parties are really aware of this and they are looking at all of the same polls we are. and people are afraid when they see somebody beheaded on television. >> yes, while you may have people distances themselves right now from decisions made in 2003 and 2004, if you listen to the spee

that has bush people nervous. they think because of their money and their organizational advantage they can survive. >> that was getting a reaction from you. are surprised or not surprised? >> he reminds me of the mitt romney people being surprised and shocked that they lost. it seems going into this any smart political operative would have to realize that jeb bush had a tremendous amount of baggage. and that he was also out of step with the base of his party. and thus -- they should know after citizen's united even if they raised $100 million it wouldn't matter. because every candidate as their own billionaire. marco rubio has a billionaire, ted cruz has a hedge fund guy from long island. it seems to me to indicate they're dimwits. >> what do you think of it? the resistance to bush on the right, where it comes from? >> it comes from his brother. president bush was seen by an overspending by the right. the tea party was in response to president bush's overspending. it's so early in the race right now, it's too soo

bush presidency. and we won't agree here on everything that is said, i'm sure. but i bet there's one thing about which we can agree and that is that whatever is said here tonight about the george w. bush presidency will look different to us in 20 years and different again 20 years after that. george w. bush's presidency must be declined by the etchts of september 11, 2001 when the united states of america was viciously attacked by an enemy who's leader osama bin laden stated as far back as 1983 that the united states was the mortal enemy of islam an must be destroyed. a 9/11 president bush declared to the president of america an to the world that he would do whatever was necessary toe protect our country to keep it safe and to keep it free. this became the mantra of the g.w. bush presidency. president reagan had his mantra that was to bring down the soviet union and to shut down the cold war. so did president bush. his global war on terror kept us safe and kept us free. so let's start with that. presi

for laura bush and karl rove from president bush thought lot of people and i was asked by a publisher if i ever intended to write a book. i said no but i had a piece of paper that was in my wallet i captive around and they said that would never sell. [laughter] i hope they're watching now. but typically they will take a jab at somebody ben i didn't have any bad things to say nor would i. but this book dancers to basic questions how this of the you grows up in wyoming with no political ambitions to end up as the first woman political press secretary? [applause] and the second saying is the missing puzzle piece to the short-term history that has been written so far on the bush administration because historians to look back dash up of public record what everybody else has written but there is very few people from my personal perspective i was a deputy for a long time always take the job to work holidays and weekends but that is how you get to know the boss. we would always say we were a the. >> host: team he said that is the best team. so really a makes people go behind the scenes of lea

instead the deficit grew and exploded under president bush and so jeb bush is in a damned do and damned if you don't situation here >> the polls in iowa and new hampshire paint two different pictures of jeb bush's candidacy right now. a quinnipiac university poll of iowa republicans this week found that jeb bush had slipped into seventh place with support from just 5% of likely caucus-goers. that's way at bottom and a new wmur poll shows jeb bush just narrowly leading the back up in new hampshire with 15% which is not very good if you consider the fact, coming back to you, david, you know that president reagan went up there, bill clinton went up there, leaders tend to win in new hampshire. >> right. >> and the fact is he's been around a long time jeb bush. fact that he's barely ahead up there and way in the back in iowa means he's got to push a couple of buttons. looks like he's pushing the hawk button. >> i don't think that's going to win him votes. other hawks in the race whether it's marco rubio and ted cruz in a way and i think he has -- he's hitting the early ceiling. if you talk t

bush.he former florida governor instead is going to be giving a commencement speech at liberty university in lynchburg, virginia. the school famously founded by jerry falwell and also where ted cruz announced he was running for president a couple of weeks ago. the setting matters a lot and so do the words of bush's speech. he has rehearsed this speech, carefully written it. it's a big one. one of the exerts released this evening, advanced excerpts tell you how big a deal the bush people think this is. bush is going to say, quote, whatever the need, the action or the injustice, there's no more powerful or liberating influence on this earth than the christian conscience in action. why is this jeb bush speech so important to his candidacy? john: i want to ask bill what he thinks about this. crucial question, bill doesn't have a view. so i'm going take bill's proxy and say, we've seen in polling recently that bush has a problem with conservatives. we know that on a lot of fronts. we've seen it

bush. >> your brother. >> yeah.st for the news flash to the world if they're trying to find places where there's big space between me and my brother, this might not be one of those. >> according to a cbs news poll, 75% of americans, three quarters of us say the iraq war was not worth it. and this latest bombshell came just after jeb name his brother as a top adviser on foreign policy when it comes to israel. a former spokesman. i want to go to you, david. you and i have been watching from the beginning. i never thought it was about that. the reason we went to iraq had to do with this whole theory about the road runs through baghdad. it seems like now, w. and bush are locked together permanently saying they would have done it any way with regard to the sales pitch. >> i feel jeb bush's pain. there is nobody, very few people now who would say they would go into war based on false, not faulty but false intelligence. hillary clinton has said she was sorry to give bush the authority to make the decision. >> plain and sim

i'm a fan of jeb bush. i'll give him credit for candor and consistency, he is running based on his views, his views are different from that of a lot of republican primary voters. he's honest about it we're going to have a clear straightup debate about what's the right direction for the republican party to go and what's the right direction for the country to go. >> what about that? looking at the records, most of the candidates can be hit on position changes. you don't have many. i'll say that because i looked at your record closely. jeb bush doesn't. he stands by even the most controversial things. do you believe he deserves credit for that. >> i think it is important for someone to stand by what they believe. and you know what i've tried to do in the senate has been simple tell the truth, and do what i said i would do if i'm with you, i'm really with you, if i'm not with you, i'm not with you. i think people respect that. >> obviously we spent a lot of time on immigration and common core which is are the b

bush: wow. love -- i actually when i was governor -- i'm not a lawyer i learned to appreciate the law is little bit more and made a lot of appointments to the florida supreme court which were really important. i started reading about people who were lawyers would send me rulings that i found interesting things. scalia is the most interesting opinion writer. it informs his views in the most eloquent way. he would be on my list. i actually admire and like the opposite of that would be clarence thomas, who is quiet and speaks with great clarity when he opines, and there is a consistency there i admire, i like and i generally share his views. mr. lowry: an author says he's coming after you next. are you worried? mr. bush: no, but i hope he gives me a heads-up. mr. lowry: you seem to suggest if the press reports are accurate that law needed to be fixed. what was wrong with it? mr. bush: i supported pence. i think he needed to create clarity this was not an intent or attempt to discriminate against pe

bush is foreign-policy was a disaster.ery few people this side of the dick cheney want a reprieve. mark: it is easy within a campaign to react to the events of the day or the week. in the long arc of the quest to be president, what is the significance of what happened this week? >> i think he has the same foreign-policy views as his brother and cannot differentiate. i think that is a far greater problem than whether he fumbled on monday or tuesday. mark: was it a problem getting the nomination or just in general? it is a problem for both. republicans jumped on him for this. democrats were salivating. it was not just a donor class, but the other candidates. they said this is an opportunity to go after him. who among us other than dick cheney says we do it again? and to say this justified? it is hard to make that case when you see what a debacle iraq has become. mark: one of the things that hurt him this week is every other republican feels like their nomination is stronger if they can get jeb out of the race. there is very

bush. at noon, commencements pieces across the country with former secretaries of state condoleezza rice and madeleine albright and philadelphia mayor michael nutter. saturday on c-span2 events from this year's expo -- book expo and segments with authors throughout the day. on "after words," the case hollingsworth v. perry which looked at the constitutionality of proposition eight, which restricted the right of same-sex couples to marry in california. on american history tv on c-span3, saturday 7:00 eastern a conversation with white house historian william seal on first ladies who have had the most impact on the executive mansion. just before 2:00, the life and death of our 20th president james garfield, who served almost two decades as a congressman from ohio and was assassinated 200 days into his room as president. get our complete schedule at cspan.org. >> conversation about u.s. wars during the george w. bush administration with one of the advisors to the coalition provisional authority

we call it the bush room. we are now entering the george bush room. this is a re-created barracks room. the actual flooring and the desk and of the water heater, the sink -- all of these were in the room that president bush lived in when he was in the base in 1943. this is the picture of the base where president bush lived when he was stationed here in a bachelors office quarters. that later became the navy service workers assigned. that piece of property is now empty grass across the street from us. we have autographed things here. this is a picture of president bush during his graduation. this is his flight instructeror and squadron. they began to practice in the great lakes and then went off to fight the war. the president signed this picture. this room has a lot of little mementos. here is a picture of our brought when she was 15. -- barbara when she was 15. this is what they wore when they trained. this is a navy aviator jacket, made of leather. small carrier his squadron was assigned to the carrier. it was off of that carrier that the president

that trust issue may not be a problem for mr bush.y expect mike murphy to run the right to rise pact. a veteran strategist. >> we have to modernize conservatism in a way to appeal country. >> reporter: and is a trusted political confidante. if a donor or group doesn't want them. there's an alternative. right to rise and others can establish a nonprofit organization where donor identities are never revealed. >> the right to rise super-pact can list the donor as the right to rise nonprofit. who is that money coming from? we'll have no idea. >> jed bush supporters say the design of the financial strategy is fluid, given that mr bush has not yet officially announced the 2015 presidential campaign. david shuster joins us now. i don't want to sound naive, but how do you have a super pact run the campaign when the law requires no accord in addition? >> you ensure there's no direct or indirect discussion, and you try to make sure that somebody who might be running the campaign is making those crucial decisions about advertising. that is where