bush. cartoonists from the washington post, the atlanta journal-constitution and other media to about the issues that influenced their work. it is an hour and 20 minutes. >> welcome to political cartoonists and the george w. bush presidency. i am from the national center for suburban centers at hofstra university. it has been a long week. is init has been a long week. believe me. for 20 years, i sat on the you andfor 20 years, i sat on the editorial board and it was my distinct pleasure to have adjoining offices with the cartoonist at newsday and to sit with him in editorial board meetings, the only artist among a sea of writers what a treat. he always kept us loose and on our toes. it is my pleasure now to introduce my co-moderator. she spent half of her remarkable career in private law practice and the other half in social service in washington. she represented the association of american editorial cartoonists as friends of the court in the landmark case between falwell and larry flynt, p

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shelley: jeb bush is on the attack. mr. bush: do you want someone who is an egomaniac or someone who have a servant' s heart? shelley: why he says he' s angry with donald trump. >> no one covers new hampshire like we do. shelley: a serious snowstorm is right now with a number of states under a blizzard warning. you' re looking at shot earlier today of driving in north carolina, where as you can see, the roads are slick. tom: i' m tom griffith. as many as 50 million people will likely be affected by this storm. new hampshire won' t see much but we could be brushed with a little bit of snow. chief meteorologist mike haddad is tracking the storm for us. mike: being brushed, if it means a dusting, it is certainly a southern track. you will notice, it is clear all over northern new england. take a look. not only is the cloud cover thicker but the snow is coming down. of new jersey. d.c., baltimore. up to dover, delaware. portions of virginia. take a look at all that blue. indicating the snowfall rates near three inches per hour.

its it right that even own acted like bush when you determine what acting like bush means.with that i'll pause and let michael talk. [applause] block: ... >> >> i believe "power wars" will be the first book historians pick up to the understand the obama administration national security policy. -- the great significance of the book lies in the documentation of the documents of the permanent security state as charlie has just referred to it. the influence is settled in almost always behind-the-scenes but pervasive in the obama administration every bet -- every bit as the bush administration as a powerful force on many occasions to go through the of all warnings counterterrorism actions were necessary. the number of holdovers or officials that held the same similar jobs is quite remarkable. over and over key decisions are made or influenced by ever-present careerist the law governing their conduct is liable giving them broad power that is exercised with little accountability. they thrive on secrecy with the permanent bureaucracy gets nothing from transparency and only with ter

for bush ever.ll available to him, that might not be a bad thing. mark: i want to see 43 all in taking down donald trump. john: 43 and his mom. coming up, a prisoner's dilemma for the establishment candidates. we will talk to about that and show you some video after this. ♪ ♪ mark: in game theory, it is called the prisoner's dilemma, in which individuals are torn between the greater good and trying to save themselves individually. that is the exact situation the four establishment presidential candidates find themselves in, especially in new hampshire before the primary. this sunday, on showtime, at 8:00 the second episode of our p.m., weekly series, "the circus," a documentary look at the presidential campaign that we produce with mark mckinnon and in conjunction with bloomberg politics. this esode is called "the prisoner's dilemma". the winners may turn out to be donald trump and ted cruz. here is a sneak peak. ♪ >> jeb bush is spending the weekend new hampshire, a sure sign of how important this

bush win in iowa big, then john mccain trounced bush in new hampshire.me down to south carolina, south carolina kind of settled the score. >> steve, let's go to senator graham. >> -- who defend us against radical islam and other threats. the only way you can become commander in chief in america is for the american people to pick you through voting. i tried to run a campaign that centered on how to defend america against multiple threats, how to rebuild a military that's in decline, how to re-establish our presence in the world that's so desperately needed, how to create a sense of respect and fear in our enemies and among our friends a reassurance. i fell short. i'm proud of the effort. now i am a citizen having to cast my vote as to who i want to be commander in chief for that 1% fighting for us. i have concluded without any hesitation, without any doubt that jeb bush is ready on day one to be a commander in chief worthy of the sacrifices of the 1% who have been fighting this war. last night, he said "i will have their backs." i believe he will. last ni

obama was acting like bush. distinguished commentator today is michael glennan, profession of international law at tufts university and the former legal counsel to the smart foreign relations committee. his 2014 book "national security and double government" was the most disturbing thing i read that year. in it professor glennan asks the key question, why does national security policy remain constant even when one president is replace i by another who as a candidate repeatedly forcefully and eloquently promised fundamental changes in that policy. he identified three possible causes for this striking degree of policy continuity between the two administrations. one, a rational good-faith threat assessment by political actors, the policies we needed, given the threats we faced. another is the enormous political pressures brought to bear on the presidency, whether rational or not. but professor glennan puns his emphasis on a third cause, what he calls an emergent autocracy made up of national security insiderrers we

bush:4 congratulations -- mr. bush: congratulations. just got out of school, college, that is, and right now we are struggling to be able to pay back, obviously, the school loans and the american dream to own a house. if you get elected, when you get elected, what will you do to help in my situation, you know, to pay off the student loan and to be able to afford the house? mr. bush: how big is the student loans? combine, near $80,000, $90,000 with interest. 9%? mr. bush: this is one of the tragedies, this is part of the legacy of obamacare, the nationalization of the student happened with obamacare. it has doubled in size. $1.2 trillion in debt. $1.2 trillion. this is debt that has to be paid off before you can make your car loans or anything else or pay off your credit card and it is a burden on young people in particular because it is extraordinary. a week ago, i outlined a student loan program to move forward because i don't think it is a proper place for the government to act. if it is the private market, that is fine. that ended th

bush. is another clash involving marco rubio, who has tangled with jeb bush and chris christie to be the establishment candidate. the problem is he is also squaring off with ted cruz, for reasons that are hard to explain. does this make sense to you? joe: there was a long time where they were fighting, and then it died down. the rubio campaign says we are the guy to beat. there is only so much and with a guy has to fight. i don't think on balance that it is good. if marco can emerge third in and he can do well in new hampshire, he is getting some lyrics in on ted cruz. in on ted cruz. all: i have understood along wide ted cruz wants to damage marco rubio. he will have to get through marco rubio if he becomes the establishment candidate. if you talk to the other establishment candidates and their campaign, they sit there and say, i don't understand why it marco rubio is doing so well. i do understand that marco rubio on paper can compete with votes for ted cruz. john: not right now. scenario

by jeb bush. now, one thing you would expect for something like that in this day and age is that people would start photoshopping that because it's really easy to photoshop something that has no pictures, no background, it's just plain white text on a colored background. you're basically begging for people to photoshop it. that's why you might have seen these anti-jeb bush pranks messing with the billboard. instead of saying donald trump is unhinged one person changed the jeb bush quote to "has anyone seen my turtle?" somebody else changed -- i'm sorry about this one. somebody else changed it to this. uh -- yeah. and you might expect people sort of profanely pranking a candidate like that for having put up a billboard like this. what you would not expect is for jeb bush's own donors, the people who are not just supporting him but who are putting money where their mouths are and who are trying to pay for him to become president, their donors would also do this sort of thing. apparently, the way jeb

he is simply trying to be bush, do the same things as bush while insisting that he would not be bushwhile doing it. even if john kerry did want to reverse george bush's policies he would have to deal with the republican congress. it is conceivable that could take the senate. i think the conservatives have the ideas and momentum. go back to bill clinton when he did have a new set of ideas, an attempt to rethink liberalism and buckets of personal charm but by the in that his presidency, many of the great achievements were fundamentally conservative ones, such as welfare reform. by many standards, he was further to the right than eisenhower. from an international perspective, i would suggest that europeans are likely to be disappointed. consider the areas where there were major transatlantic disagreements. on the big question of israel-palestine, the deepest contention transatlantic issue of all, europeans assume that john kerry would open a "more balance to" of the middle east. kerry rushed to endorse the bush iran plan. on kyoto, there is no sign that president kerry would take americ

bush could have a point... polls didn't settle on their caucus candidate until the final few weeks in 2012. but there's also this...rick perry and bobby jindal also chose to come after trump hard during this campaign. it didn't work for them...they're no longer candidates. even with ted cruz out front... his iowa campaign co-chair is questioning his priorities... this is what ttd cruz had to say about the federal reserve during a presidential debate in october... i've got deep concerns about the fed, the first thing i think we need to do is audit the fed and i'm an original cosponsor of ron pauls audit the fed legislation yesterday senator cruz had his chance. for the first time a bill to audit the fed came up for a show. he missed the vote in order to campaign for president. it needed 60-votes to pass and failed 53-to-44. cruz' iowa campaign co-chair joel kurtinitis posted his response of facebook saying, "i am deeply disappointed by his choice to miss the audit the fed vote. i think it was a terrible decision

bush rifled nixon. there's logical reasons this. man stood at or near the pinnacle of power for four decades, from watergate up to 9/11 and iraq and beyond, and you don't stick around at those levels unless you're really good and really effective, and i think that's why the left has had such an obsession with dick cheney, you see this even in barack obama's comments today. called him the worst president of his lifetime and there's a joke there but it speaks to, a., dick cheney's extraordinary influence on our time, and, b., the central role that he occupies in the intellectual universal of barack obama. >> host: dick cheney is in the left head. >> guest: and under their skin for sure. >> host: tell me about getting the interview, because having been the press secretary in the bush administration, at the end there, dick cheney was a reluctant interviewer. so, how did this come about, you had a chance to spend several hours with him, longer than even he had agreed forks he opens up about everything. >> guest: well, there's a back stor

the bush campaign and the bush super pac, they're on a kind of kamikaze mission and they're just -- they're trying to take out everyone. marco's doing the same. marco rubio. and they're all destroying each other in this kind of 9%, 10% new hampshire level that they're at. >> without a doubt. and it makes this a wonderful week and month to be a tea party conservative or a donald trump fan. i don't think there's a sector of the american population having more fun than donald trump voters. it seems delightful. interesting thing about the rubio slide is that his struggles to really get traction with some of these voters typify a theme we've seen over the past years of american politics and that is leaders in the conservative movement and the republican party totally losing control and logs clout over the voters they influenced. in the same way the republican party leadership has lost base voters, the evangelical christian leadership has also lost a lot of influence over conservative evangelical christian voters. world magazine, a small magazine that's very influential among these voters, every

jeb bush attack jump jump. melissa: sure. >> donald trump attack jeb bush. the real battle between ted cruz and donald. melissa: i clearly thought that. >> someone like me who stares at these things, very difficult to find that stuff. and i went back. >> i will say this, does he positive vote. ted cruz, when he tells you is against new york values. he is full of you know. what he takes money from new york firm. not just any new york firm. goldman sachs. melissa: absolutely. tony, who has a target on his back. i would guess marco rubio. he is leading establishment pack and all the guys having trouble getting traction to make name for themselves want that spot. >> rubio problem isn't he has target on the back, his good performance hasn't materialized very much in strong formidable early state lead or advantage. jeb bush again, because all these events are tough for him, he is in single elimination battle all the time because he is trying to fight a two-front war against trump. partly against cruz. what he perceives as right-wing. but against rubio and other es

jeb bush-- smells like george bush. sorry. jeb bush and his reporters have spent more money on ads than any other can the das in this race and the results are surprising. >> and as "politico" reports, multiple advisors from the right to rise superpac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling bush's story yielded no tangible dividends. as one bush supporter told "politico," you might as well light all this money on fire. >> trevor: do you know how messed up [bleep] has to be for someone to say you should have just burned your money. you know what is crazy, that would have been more effective for jeb bush because at least then people would have gathered around him for the warmth of the fire. yeah, no, people notice the fire, not jeb bush. that is such an insane amount of money. 40 million. you know how many things, jeb bush could have been the president of his own island for $40 million. cohave done something krukive, he could have bought the residents of flint michigan a new water system, $40

it is sometimes forgotten in the that the bush administration, president bush, also wanted to close one honeymoon bay. it seems completely forgotten in washington that the bush administration moved over 500 detainees out of what on a guantanamo bay. we had something to build on when i started. i am foreign service. i am not a partisan person. there was a lot of good that the bush administration had done, if i can put it this way, to climb out of the hole it done for itself earlier. we built on that. politically itgh doesn't seem so, it is in fact bipartisan. it is hard to get anyone to admit to that, but i will hold to that position. i ought to know. i remember in the bush ,dministration, when people fairly senior, used to say that the damage the exhibit -- the existence that guantanamo bay it -- did by existing outweighed the damage that the detainees could do by returning to the fight. the bush administration, especially in the second term, wanted to close it. there are many things wrong with guantanamo bay. it is not wrong, in my view, to hold people as prisoners of war when you pick

even bush friends crossed the line with that so there is blow back and one quick point, bush is in very sensitive negotiations trying to get the endorsement of lindsey graham, the south carolina senator that dropped out and the fact that the negotiations continue tell you something. lindsey graham hasn't said yet and so there is an interesting moment here and i would say that, you know, bush is going to stay in at least through new hampshire. >> you think bush is on the curve? >> he's name is bush. he raised $100 million. he's running, i think, fifth in iowa and right now running fourth or fifth in new hampshire. >> out of everybody, you know, in those three names, bush, kasich, christie, the only one that has a team on the ground in south carolina whose got resources whose been working it hard out of those three, the only one that can survive to go on there is jeb. if chris christie does not come on top in new hampshire, he doesn't have the momentum to go to south carolina. >> got to go. >> there has to be passion here. the trump supporters have fashion. the cruz supporters have passio

bush.he panel of administration advisers from the economic council, the treasury department and the council of advisers discussed the president's response to the economic crisis and his approach to issues concerning immigration, trade, tax policy and the national debt free at hofstra university hosted this event part of a conference examining policies and the bush presidency. >>> hello, ladies and gentlemen. i am in the school of business here at hofstra university. welcome to the plenary session on economic policy in the bush administration. working with me today at the session is the provost who will be asking some questions and we are happy to have three presenters although one is still at the airport and hopefully will get here in time but if not people still have two magnificent speakers who can give us some insight on how economic policy development was in the bush administration and you can then extrapolate how it may have been in other administrations. our first speaker today is a c

i love the bush family. >> have a bush with the bush. >> have an anheuser-busch with the bush but >> i don't know if i would want to have a drink with any of them. how do you have a real conversation with someone trying to sell themselves to you? >> better question. would any of them have a beer with us? >> that's true. >> you would have a beer with dr. carson. you've got so many neurosis. >> he could do brain surgery. >> he would have to find a brain. >> did we really learn anything new from any of the candidates last night compared to the last debate? >> well, yeah. i think what you saw was two full hours of them talking policy, going back and forth at each other. and i said it earlier. i think ted cruz had the opportunity to really grab it. ted cruz will be in the top three. no question. he has been there. he will be. people of iowa will put him in the top three. was he going to make it to the number one spot? again, i don't think his answers last night. i don't think his response with rubio and the jokes. i think they fell flat with me. >> yeah. >> i think we learned something ab

but jeb bush, once again make way for jeb bush. jeb bush in iowa right now is minus 23 in terms of his favorable versus his unfavorable numbers. minus 23. one of these kids is not like the others. the gallup organization has stepped away from straight up horse-race polling this year. but even the gallup organization was so shocked about what has been happening to jeb bush and his numbers that they did basically a sort of special report, a special polling report on how bad jeb bush's campaign is, how jeb bush's campaign appears to be working backwards. these are jeb bush's favorable and unfavorable numbers over of the course of the campaign. this is basically since he started running this past summer. the line up at the top that's vaguely going down that's his favorable numbers. the line at the bottom that is going up that's his unfavorable numbers. and you will notice as we get close to now that they have recently crossed, which means his unfavorables are higher than his favorables, and that is a fatal disease for politicians. and

trump knows he rattles bush and bush knows he's rattled by trump.as sort of awol when he was going after trump. it would have helped in the early going of the process if the others rallied around that potentially unifying message of what we are as conservatives, as republicans as opposed to taking a step back. bush was in that lane tonight. clearly thinking about trump. but trump was missing him as well. >> let me go to steve. i think you grew up where i did. it reminds me of muhammed ali trashing son any liston. this is a scary guy to people but muhammed ali coming out of the olympics was just trash talking him. the big ugly bear and all that crappy talk. it got liston mad at him and he thumped him. >> he got mad but ali backed it up in the ring. jeb bush through this campaign has never been tougher on donald trump than when donald trump isn't next to him in the ring. >> that's a problem. >> that's jeb bush's problem throughout the entire campaign. i will say i think jeb bush had a good debate tonight. you look at the internal numbers in the polls.

bush backs them up he says no before the third try.but to go back to your question, which was then about his health. so you know, in addition to having this truly singular political career over four decades, this man has exercised tremendoutremendou s impact on the way we live our lives as americans today, particularly after 9/11. .. i always knew that the cheney's were very generous people, but they don't talk about it. one of the things i knew they did was provide the heart defibrillators to all of the places of worship in washington dc. no one ever knew about that and i always felt he was more generous than anyone gets him credit for being. >> guest: you mentioned his business career and he was ceo of halliburton and that has given rise to just decades now of completely baseless speculation about the vice president having been a profiteer somehow off of the decision to go to war and its worth point out that the most prosecutorial book about dick cheney was published i think in 2009 by a washington journalist. is the kind of book tha

jeb bush made a big decision the past week. said, okay, never mind. i'll let my super pac spend on tv. i'm coming off the air. i'm taking my staff in miami putting them on the ground in iowa and new hampshire. >> we're going to put together a ground game, if you will, in iowa and new hampshire and here in south carolina that i think will be second to none. that's how we'll do -- we'll win. >> he said he's excited about it. this is jeb 4.0 or jeb 5.0. we're having a chuckle. if you talk to people in the crowd. people say they don't rule it out. he has a good organization. >> he has a good organization. the problem for him is you never want to shake up. right. or a fourth shake up, in his case. the real issues in talking to voters on the ground in new hampshire. they want to stop trump. right. they're looking for the establishment lane and they want a jeb or rubio or christie or kasi kasi kasich, but they want someone they believe can win. you hear people who maybe like jeb. if he doesn't pass the threshold of who can win. they go for the second choice

that would be jeb bush. eventgovernor bush has an here. look who's here, it's jeb bush. you know what they .ave here, meat and three you like that? jeb: this is all good and you get to cheat on the paleo diet. mark: how is it going? jeb: going well. a lot of the lindsey graham supporters are coming our way and i feel good about it. talked aboute national security throughout the campaign. do you feel it there are differences between you, marco, ted cruz, on the issues of national security or is it more about leadership? jeb: i think it's more about leadership than anything else, but i do think there are differences and it's healthy to discuss them. america's leadership in the world is important. donald trump says things that are silly and dangerous. they also show a lack of belief that the united states should lead and we have to lead. it is in our national security interest to do so. mark: does the political culture feel different here than in new hampshire? jeb: you cannot find for morerent states -- four different states than the first quarter states of the primary. is

in this case, jeb bush.hink that there's some truth to that, but there's also a line -- there's an argument to be made that if from the very beginning right to rise had been running what they call contrast ads, essentially attack ads, against donald trump, if from the very beginning jeb bush had been contrasting himself, taking on donald trump, you could see at this point the race being a two-way race. you could see it being jeb versus trump already. right? because you would see it as he's the establishment standard bearer and trump is the other guy. instead u have the establishment standard bearer, the guy who thinks he's supposed to be, you know, taking on every other establishment candidate including his former protege, including people who the donors who gave money to his superpac really like as a second choice. >> mckay -- >> this is kind of the argument. >> but it's business. you know what i mean? like, who -- like, you don't -- his former protege. we're in a campaign here. there's no -- >> okay. >> al

it is sometimes forgotten in the that the bush administration, president bush, also wanted to close one honeymoon bay. it seems completely forgotten in washington that the bush administration moved over 500 detainees out of what on a guantanamo bay. we had something to build on when i started. i am foreign service. i am not a partisan person. there was a lot of good that the bush administration had done, if i can put it this way, to climb out of the hole it done for itself earlier. we built on that. politically itgh doesn't seem so, it is in fact bipartisan. it is hard to get anyone to admit to that, but i will hold to that position. i ought to know. i remember in the bush ,dministration, when people fairly senior, used to say that the damage the exhibit -- the existence that guantanamo bay it -- did by existing outweighed the damage that the detainees could do by returning to the fight. the bush administration, especially in the second term, wanted to close it. there are many things wrong with guantanamo bay. it is not wrong, in my view, to hold people as prisoners of war when you pick

bush and dick cheney. in an interview in 2001 cheney shifted his story about a size determine task about it. so i said to him sir, do you understand why? even people who are supporters of yours have a problem with this because it places you in a very unusual position which is asserting something for which there's no record. he said no. this is the one time he gave me the cheney treatment. he said that, there's been confusion, we've never been able to pin down all the calls in the exact times. this is one of the reasons why he said the president and i were interviewed jointly by a 911 commission. >> host: password than to iraq. what does he say about the accusation that he lied or was complicit an ally about the intelligence. >> guest: one of the harshest assessments of dick cheney's role in the iraq war came from condoleezza rice and her memoir. we have staggered our conversations these three days such that the last day would be reserved for 911, iraq, and something i called cheney addresses his critics in

the bush brand and endorsement may help. >> at this point the bush name, the negatives of the bush nameare pretty firmly baked in the cake. anybody not going to vote for jeb bush because they don't like the fact that he is a bush for whatever set of reasons, those people are not voting for jeb bush probably ever. those that are still available may not think it is a bad thing. >> that mild shot at trump, fine. i want to see 43 all in taking down trump. interesting to see. >> 43 and his mom. >> i would love to see that. >>> coming up, a prisoner's dilemma for the four establishment candidates. we will talk about that and show you video after this. >>> the latest on the first major snow storm of 2016. 85 million people are under blizzard watches or warnings including washington, d.c. where more than two feet of snow is possible. nasa just released this dramatic image of the storm bearing down on the east coast this morning. luke rusert is live in the nation's capitol. how is it looking there now? >> reporter: good evening. it is coming down and coming down fast. the worst of this storm is

bush, the majority leader and cheney spoke "after words". at the end of his remarks, he said if anyone walking through the statuary hall in the capital ground should ever call to linger in front of this piece of me for more than five seconds, i hope they come away knowing at least this much, that here was a believer in the united states of america. i think think that is our indication of how he wants to be remembered. >> barb:. >> host: does he worry about his legacy? >> caller: no. he has never had his missing index finger to the wind. >> host: one thing i always think about politicians is you see people who have worked for the first decades, you know there is a strong amount of loyalty there and it goes both ways. did you talk to anybody outside that had worked for him over the years before you talk to him? >> caller: i just signed a bunch of books for someone who bought 32 of them. that is a model for you all to follow. this is a former staffer of cheney's. he is one of four people who is called the old staff which is to say he worked for

the bush-cheney years. [laughter] >> i will talk about the quickest turn-around we ever had. that would be february first, 2003. that was a saturday morning. that was the day i got a call about 9:15, 9:30, from our administrative person at the white house saying that mission control had lost touch with our space shuttle columbia and that the worst was feared and that we should prepare for a presidential statement. o i worked as part of a team with mike and matthew skully and we'd been together since bush had been governor of texas. we assembled, i think we were all in mike's west wing office by 10:00 and i don't know if by then we knew exactly what had happened and exactly what the fate of the astronauts was, but it was as i say the worst was feared and so we got to work on a statement for the president. he was at camp david for the weekend and they were bringing him in. it was kind of a misty, foggy day. so they couldn't take him as would be the custom by helicopter. they had to take him by car. and a moto

bush's campaigns. you helped design george w. bush's immigration policy.rump on immigration, but we're not going to beat hillary clinton with someone who is willing to say or do anything to win an election. >> bob van der plats is a president and ceo of family leader, an evangelical group, and also a ted cruz supporter. i appreciate your time. as we dive into this, i want to bring your attention to this. they reported that your candidate is training all his negative ads on marco rubio. consider ted cruz's performance last night. marco rubio is the momentum there. what is your view of the race now three days out? >> we feel very good about it. we have a great ground game. i've never seen a campaign quite run like this before. it has a strategic, intentional purpose to get people out to the votes -- out to the caucuses on february 1, on monday. i think his debate performance chs so was solid, i think it was exactly what he needed to do to put him over the top. i think trump skipping the debate is going to hurt trump. it's trump and cruz. as people unite arou

i'm george bush.my wife laura bush, and i'm looking for some lone star lemonade. >> you all have any? where is your money? >> it's in my pocket. i have to get the lemonade first. that's for my wife. we're buying some lone star lemonade. can i have for anybody else? senator, would you like some lone star lemonade? >> that's good. that's plenty. >> it's very good lemonade. thanks, y'all. >> who made it? how much do you charge for your lone star lemonade? >> are you going to tell us? >> how much do you charge? >> 25 cents. >> would you take a dollar? >> thanks a lot. >> where is your mother and dad? there's your mom. hi, mom. >> hits9lñ there. how about this? en. >> these guys want to say hi, too. right here. >> do you want some lone star lemonade? >> yes.#z >> would you like to sign the sign? you'll have to take the plastic off. >> what's your name? erin? how do you spell it, erin? what's your name? >> sheila. >> are you sisters? >> laura. >> that's my wife's name. >> my name is laura. are you sisters?

presidential candidate jeb bush ask now banking on his big bro, gw bush, to help boost him on the campaignen helpful. he raised money. we'll get him out, the old boy, dust him off. he is one of the guys that served in that office. he knows what it takes we need leadership right now and he thinks i can do it. david: is this enough to save jeb's campaign? with me, mercedes schlapp, former gw bush spokesperson and roy -- hello to you both. i know about south carolina, gw still polls extremely well. he will be a boost to the campaign. what about places like iowa and new hampshire? >> i think like jeb said, you could probably see george w. bush out in south carolina and the southern states. george w. bush has a 77% favorability amongst republicans. he is obviously from the, for social conservatives in particular, for those fiscal fil conservatives. what happened in the iraq, war those are issues some republicans don't agree with it and how he handled it. this is thing about jeb bush around the president. it is close isn't family. david: yes it is. >> i'm not surprised president bush will come o

martha: jeb bush going after bush on his plan to ban muslims from the united states. bush warning him he believes that could ends up backfiring for mr. trump. >> we have a serious problem and we can't be the stupid country anymore. we are laughed at all over the world. >> donald, i hope you reconsider this. this policy is a policy that makes it impossible to build a coalition necessary to take out isis. the kurds are our strongest allies. they are muslims. you are not going to allow them to come to our country in the other arab countries have a role to play. we can't do this unilaterally. we have to do this in iewn wouldn't arab world. sending that signal makes it impossible for us to be serious about take out isis and restoring democracy in syria. bill: marco rubio blasting hillary clinton on benghazi. accusations she misharmed classified information when she was at the department of state. >> she isn't just a disaster. she is disqualified from being commander-in-chief of the united states. someone who cannot handle intelligence information appropriately cannot be co

governor bush joins us from miami. welcome back to "fox news sunday," sir. >> thank you, chris. >>> let's start where we left off with chris christie. your thoughts about president obama's planned actions on gun control. >> i haven't seen them, but his first impulse is always to take citizens, ands wrong. it's a pattern that's quite dangerous. it's not a surprise that people don't believe our government is working on their behave any more when you have a president that recklessly uses -- the better approach would be when i had as governor of florida, when we focused on people punishing people who committed crimes with guns, but we enhanced the rights for law-abiding citizens. >>> it seems from all the reporting that president obama is likely to propose as early as this week. expand the number of gun sellers who have to conduct background checks. expand the number of accused domestic abusers who are barred from buys guns. governor, what's wrong with those specific ideas? >> well, because you don't know the details, but

bush also made stops today in coralville and ankeny... in yesterday's quinnipiac university poll, bush was at three percent among likely republican caucus-goers. more expert testimony today in the trial of a clive man accused of killing his girlfriend's 20--month-old daughter. joe lopez is charged with first degree murder.. he claims the girl's death was an accident. mike dasilva has the latest. mike dasilva: a trauma surgeon who was in the emergency room with ruby alvarez the night she was brought to the hospital and helped take care of her took the stand today... so the injuries that we know in the emergency room, meaning bad skull fracture, bad brain injury, and broken ribs, that is not consistent with a history of falling from a high chair. falling from a high chair does not produce that complex of injuries". dr. richard sidwell called ruby alvarezs injury situation suspicious for a non accidental trauma...meaning she didnt just fall out of a high chair. the defense pressed sidwell on the floor they say ruby fell onto. the defense arg

jeb bush: he said that negotiator with iran. donald trump: hillary's always surrounded herself with very good people. i think hillary would do a good job. jeb bush: and he gets his foreign policy experience from the shows. chuck todd: who do you talk to for military advice right now? donald trump: well, i watch the shows. i mean, i really see a lot of great, you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows... jeb bush: i don't know if that's saturday morning, or sunday morning. donald, you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. that's not going to happen. if i'm president, i'll be a commander-in-chief, not an agitator-in-chief or a divider-in-chief... that i will lead this country in a way that will create greater security and greater safety. announcer: right to rise usa is responsible for the . >>> we have a tradition around here to have the panel make some predictions for the new year on heading often in error, but never in doubt. politics first. laura? >> i think the highlight of the democr

senator rand paul at 5%, jeb bush at 4%. new jersey governor chris christie and mike huckabee tied at 3%. ohio governor john kasich and carly fiorina are tied at 2%. rick santorum has 1%. three candidates campaigning in iowa today -- santorum, huckabee and bush. bush says the new poll numbers don't scare him. the former governor of florida spoke to a packed room at the machine shed in urbandale this morning. bush also took a jab at donald trump, saying he's not a republican and doesn't share conservative views. bush went on to discuss the importance of electing a message. mr. bush: 53% of people in iowa haven't made up their mind. they have an opinion of who they support today, but 53% of them say they haven't made up their mind. well, that means it's wide open. stacey: jeb bush says his team is focusing on iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and nevada right now. vermont senator bernie sanders has been out-spending rival hillary clinton on ads, just as the democratic presidential race appears to be tightening. sanders's ca