bush institute. -- the permanent home of the george w. bush institute.rvice on issues they are interested in. for the last three years, we have launched a program to eradicate cervical cancer on the continent of africa. we have work to empower women in the middle east to be an agent of change there. we have worked to inspire and document the work of dissidents who are trying to bring freedom to their home countries. today, we launched our continued to launch our economic growth perspective in the four% -- 4% growth area. i would like to recognize a couple of members who have helped bring the institute and the center along. our chairman, board members, and a couple of people on the panel. smu has been a great partner of ours. ours. at this time, i would like to introduce to you the founding director, a smart man. [applause] >> thank you. this conference was conceived and organized by a senior fellow at the bush institute and director of our 4% growth project. we launched the project year- ago at a major conference in dallas that included four winners of t

bush institute. republican governors of maine, oklahoma and ten seep, talked about their efforts to cut tax rates and state government spending. ynbcs, larry kudlow hosts the discussion. just under an hour. >> i don't know if you heard the question about new york city, okay, good. i want to introduce my very good friend for more than 30 years, larry kudlow. larry is the host of the kudlow report and -- in a distinguished career also served as -- as a budget official under president reagan. i once did a kol acolumn about , where i called him the most optimistic man in america, which i think he proves every night on cnbc. larry kudlow, you have the governor's panel. >> thank you. all hooked in, all doing good? sound on. i'm larry kudlow, it is a great pleasure to boo here. so we will talk tax reform, tax competition and economic growth among the distinguished governors and the deputy mayor. and we have heard already, i think from the prior panel and from governor christie that low tax states grow faste

there would be no bush institute without president bush and his participation today has just been stunning. and i really, really appreciate you being here, sir. and everyone just merely assumes that a kchbs like this runs just incredibly smoothly all by itself but it doesn't. and i wanted to thank andrea while and kristin king and all the people on our events team for making this work and thank stacy who makes the entire institute work. so thank you all. and i should finally, this is sort of the part after the opera is over and the curtain comes down, somebody comes out with roses for the diva, and as we all know, the diva is amity schlaze. we have no roses, but we do thank am fi for everything she's done. and thank you all for being such a wonderful and tremendously engaged audience. one of the things that we do at the bush institute is we do this little survey, you know, after the conference is over because we're big on metrics and goals and that sort of thing. one of the things we've learned as we've done conferences before is that people really like the times when they can mingle with

. >> this year the bush institute or this july the bush institute is publishing a book. it's got to be a staggering thing for some of the cynics. they didn't think i could read much less write a book. >> good humor. the former president out talking tax policy, making a different case than the current white house. >> and after giving props to fidel castro the manager of the marlins is apologizing to fans. then call it "titanic" 2.0, cruise ship tracing the course of the famous ship wreck. just in time for the 100th anniversary. that's why i take colace®. [ male announcer ] for occasional constipation associated with certain medical conditions, there's colace® capsules. colace® softens the stool and helps eliminate the need to strain. stimulant-free, comfortable relief. no wonder more doctors recommend it. say yes to colace®! [ male announcer ] we're giving away fifty-thousand dollars worth of prizes! enter weekly to win! go to colacecomfort.com to enter! >>> president obama is on the road today making his case that the richest americans should pay their fair share of taxe

bush institute. the institute has also been working for three years, started by the president and the first lady to be a platform on the continuing service issues they are really interested in. for the last three years we have launched a program to eradicates cervical cancer on the continent of africa. we have work to empower women in the middle east, to be agents of change there. we have worked to document the work of dissidents for trying to bring freedom to their home countries. and today we continue to launch our economic growth perspective in the 4% growth area. i would like to especially recognize a couple of members that have brought the institute along. donald evans, our chairman of the board is here. karl rove, and edward lazear, who were on the board of the institute, guiding what happened at the institute, and [unintelligible] who will be here later and has been a great partner in this. i would like to introduce to you the founding director of the george w. bush institute, a smart and busy

the bush institute is an opportunity to be engaged in public policy in a positive way. the building is not open but the institute is. every day the scholars and directors come to work to advance this mission -- how do we promote freedom? how do we honor traditional values, timeless not use? -- timeless values. our programs are designed with clear goals in mind. we want people to note that we are going to achieve concrete results that have an effect on our country and on the world. to have a prosperous and more free america, we have an education system that works. the bush center is part of reform movement. we're focusing on a key component on educational excellence, how to better recruit and train our nation's principals. we believe that all human life is precious. we have a calling to help save lives in the developing world. i believe we are better people when we serve the admonition -- we will act out that call. we have the pink ribbon, red ribbon campaign diagnose and treat server cancer on the continent of africa. isre getting after it measurable results. we believe

bush at bush institute conference in new york today talking about those bush tax ut c cuts. >> i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they're called some other body's tax cuts they're probably less likely to be raised. >> ron mott, we haven't seen him in a while. he hasn't been very outspoken, but it's really interesting he's appearing today and talking about the bush tax cuts, the tax cuts which are of course going to be big campaign issue, as we head towards the potential of expiration. >> reporter: absolutely, andrea. one of the things, too, with rick santorum, after the loss last week to -- in wisconsin to mitt romney it seemed that mitt romney made a hard pivot away from really campaigning against rick santorum and now is focused almost solely on president obama. so in some ways symbolically, losing wisconsin last week for rick santorum seemed to be the beginning of perhaps the end here because it was yet another defeat in the industrial heartland. this part of the country that may decide this election in november, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, states that he's all lost to

speaking at the bush institute conference on taxes and economic growth, christie said the u.s. is becoming a personalistic society that will bankrupt the country. he also said "we'll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check. "here is your "first look" at some other news going on around america. in california, there was a bear scare. a 400-pound black bear made its way out of the mountains and into a residential neighborhood. it crawled across cars and could be seen attempting to climb a fence. fish and game wardens were finally able to use a tranquilizer dart on the bear, capturing it and sending it back into the wild. >>> in oregon, more than 20 people swarmed into a convenience store in a suspected flash mob robbery. they stole hundreds of dollars of merchandise and there was little the clerk could do about it similar robberies nationwide may have been organized through social media. >>> in los angeles, a freeway chase came to a violent end last night. officers shot the driver after the man stumbled out of his vehicle. the suspect was

bush institute held a -- in new york city. this panel on taxing the energy industry in capital mafrkt markets includinging former commerce secretary, don evans, a former white house associate budget director and moderator, rich carlgard. this is an hour.

but made a brief appearance at a conference put on by the bush institute yesterday in new york.d in case you're wondering, he's still got it. >> and i'm taking a bunch of us mountain bike riding in the canyon. i love to mountain bike ride. what i don't like to do is be beaten on a mountain bike ride by a one-legged veteran. but it's likely to happen. >> he said -- i miss him so much. i really do. >> oh. >>> that is what's making news in america this morning. stay with us for "gma." m closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc

so the bush institute is an opportunity to be engaged in public policy in a positive light. the building is not open, but our institute is. every day, our scholars and directors come to work to advance this mission. how do we promote freedom? and how we honor traditional values, timeless values? our programs are designed, i think you will see, or if you study our institute, our programs are designed with clear goals in mind. we want people who contribute to our institute to know that we are going to achieve positive results that have any effect on our country and on the world. in order to have a prosperous and more free america, we have to have an education system that works. so the bush center is part of the reform movement that insists upon accountability as the key to educational excellence. one of the things we are doing is focusing on one of the key components of educational excellence. that is how to better recruit and train our nation's principles. we believe that all human life is precious, and now that we have a calling to help -- know that we have a calling to help

bush institute advisory board. and next to him is governor sam brownback of the great state of kansas. and next to him is larry lindsay, whom you've already heard from today who is president and chief executive officer of the lipped say group. now i'm going to kind of move down here. so this session has been called by amity who is our -- actually, i sort of figure, this is amity's world, we all just live in it. so amity, we call it blitz solutions, right, amity? so i've been asked to start this off by going around or down and asking everyone, what is the one quick, and i mean quick like 20, 30 seconds, don't worry we'll have plenty of time to talk about things that they would f offer as a tax policy solution to help us get to 4% sustainable real growth. so i'm not going to start with john stossel. i'm going to start with larry lindsay. larry? >> 20 seconds. abandon income based taxation, move to business cash flow taxation with border adjustability. it's called a vat. you're not allowed to say that word. >> okay. w

bush institute. and later, the u.s. institute of peace looks at the future of afghan security after the withdrawal of american troops. >> on thursday, defense secretary leon panetta will give an update on syria's human rights organization. he'll be joined at the house armed services committee by martin dempsey. you can watch live coverage beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern time here on c-span3. >> from a colonial era, prohibition to today, drinking for better or worse has always been a part of the american landscape. saturday night live on american history tv. a history of alcohol in america. watch our simulcast back story with the american history guys, host ed ayers regail with tales of beer and spirits in america. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> this senate special committee on aging looked into the finances of long term care for seniors, and its effect on the medicare program. several witnesses argued for allowing more states flexibility in providing long term care. this hearing is 1:20. >> good

because the bush institute just announced the initiative in last fall and then early december. we went to africa for george to speak at the international conference on aids in africa in ethiopia. and announced the -- our global health initiative which is adding the testing treatment and vaccine for cervical cancer to the platform that was already set up. the aids platform already set up. malaria initiative. >> i shouldn't have to be stumping you. >> thank you. >> lincoln said one of the great things about the -- sort of the regular routine of the white house being so demanding was that you didn't have time if you got mad at somebody to keep it up. gist have sufficient time for a temper. was this true if hurtful things were done, where there were things bad happening outside, were you able to just put them aside or did they hurt? >> no. i mean, they -- you know, of course, you didn't like to have your husband be criticized. but i knew from the way the election was in 1992 that what happens in the united states is that our presidents and our first ladies for that matter get chara

bush at the bush institute's conference on taxes and economic growth and york city to defend you guessed it the republican economic vision and following a speech by w. himself new jersey governor chris christie took the stage with a rousing speech on the country's future and shocker the media ate it right up. chris christie saying that we have a big problem in this country saying that we are essentially in some ways we're becoming a nation of cowards potatoes. never seen a less optimistic time in my lifetime in this country and people wonder why we're going to the sound bite from romney surrogate chris christie because he did the president's politics with a one two punch let's listen. we're turning into a paternalistic entitlement society we have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for the next government check. so it's interesting president obama is going to be he's going to be holding a little news conference is going to be sitting down with millionaires and their secretaries to push the buffett rule and mitt romney is going to go to what kinetic hit well now that he has some

but he made a brief appearance at a conference put on by the bush institute yesterday in new york. d in case you are wondering, he's still got it. >> the bush -- the center gives me an laura an opportunity to repay, as best as we can our vets. so, to this end, for example, i'm taking a bunch of vets mountain bike riding. and, you know, i love to mountain bike ride. what i don't like to do is be beaten by a one-legged veteran. but it's likely to happen. >> jimmy: i miss him so much. i really do. it's harder now. [ applause ] and one more thing, spring is in full bloom and with it, so are flowers, you know, fresh flowers brighten up any room. they don't have to be expensive. you can pick them from your garden, if your neighbors aren't home, pick from their garden. and arrange them yourself. my aunt chippy has expertise in the area. tonight, we asked her to show you how to do it yourself. so, here she is. it's time for a special edition of "chip's tips." >> hi, this is aunt chippy and we're going to have some chip's tips on how to make a -- >> wait a second. cut. you don't look happy a

there would be no bush institute without president bush to his participation today has just been stunning, and i really, really appreciate you being here. [applause] >> and everyone just assumes a conference like this runs and currently smoothly all by itself, but it doesn't. and i wanted to thank all the people on our events team for making this work. and i also want to thank stacy, who makes the entire institute work. so thank you all. and i should finally, here's -- after the operas over and the curtain comes down, some comes out with roses for the diva. and as we all know, the diva is amity shlaes. we have no roses. we do thank her for everything she has done. [applause] >> and thank you all for being such a wonderful and tremendously engaged audience. one of the things that we do at the bush institute is we do this little survey after the conference is over, because we are big on metrics and goals and that sort of thing. one of the things we've learned is where done conferences before is people really like the times when they can mingle with the other people who were at the conferenc

. >> yesterday, i moderated a panel at the bush institute of governors here in new york.ary fallon, paula le page from maine. you've got 5.7 income tack. 6% corporate tax, but i know we've talked through years about getting them down further. >> any plan, any hope? >> we've created a number of additional target codes, more targeted as opposed to across the board. we're looking at doing a more comprehensive tax reform, looking at preferences to see if they work. i've talked to paul ryan and others. they're looking at a similar thing to see if 40 years still makes sense for many of those, probably no. particularly that corporate income tax. highest in the world. got to get rid of some of that. >> i don't have time to talk b about obama's millionaire's tax. up or down. is the tax real tax reform? >> no, larry, it's class warfare. you and i have talked about this. we're double taxing things that people have paid taxes on and turn around again. it's antiinvestment. >> just reform the whole code. >> but there's no average american or lawyer that understands the code and it's re

the president went on to say that raising -- [indiscernible] the bush institute is actually coming out with a tax policy book this summer that they're billing as progrowth. [indiscernible] >> he's nothing if not self- deprecating. >> especially when he goes to bed so early as the first lady used to remind us. >>> our time right now is 6:40. still ahead what every school in maryland will be doing today to make sure students stay safe. >> how about a beautiful sunrise shot to start your wednesday. there you go. breezy, another cool day today. highs in the 50s. it's going to feel like it was a month ago instead of now. chance of rain this afternoon. straight ahead we have a sneak peek of the weekend, too. keep it here. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk 60 miles. (woman) the fund-raising was the easiest part. people were very giving. complete strangers wanting to help. i knew someday i was gonna do this walk. if i can do this, you definitely can do this. we can do this. we can all do this together. (man)

this july the bush institute is publishing a book, it's got to be a staggering thing for some of theynics there, and i publish a book and the institute is publishing a book and they didn't think i could read, much less publish a book. >> that's why he's in fine form. he stepped in saying i wish it were aren't called the bush tax cuts and he stumbled and he said i wish they were called the everyone tax cuts and he had a lot to say about the current president, president obama who is in boca ratton, boosting the taxes for the millionaires and billionaires. actress ashley judd with the media making a big deal about her appearance. one recent experience really crossed the line. we'll speak live with model and actress emmy. here she is, beautiful girl. we're back in 60 seconds. >>> not sure if you saw this. it's considered to be ashley judd's puffy face. kind of a silly headline, but it sure got a lot of people talking and in a new opinion piece ashley judd wrote for "the daily beast," she's firing back of those people that are critical of her appearance. we have the before and after pictu

. >> i'm here at the new york historical society at the bush institute conference.nd i'm sitting with governor mary fallen of oklahoma and paul lepage of maine. we appreciate your time very much. can i get a quick take? rick santorum has suspended his campaign. what's your take? >> senator santorum is a great guy, and he helped the debate about why it's important to go back to the principles that made this nation great. spending, reform, and standing up for constitutional principles. standing for life. all things he talked about on the campaign trail. how do we create a better business environment in our nation, and he added so much to the debate. but i also understand that there comes a time when it's time to move on and he's decided to do that. >> big plus for governor romney, don't you think? >> big plus for governor romney. he needs to pull all republicans and all former candidates together, unify the party, let's move on and take the white house. >> let me ask both of you. you are two prominent republican gubernatorial tax reformers. you are leading the way. in

today we were at a bush institute senate talking about the economic policy. what states are doing to grow their economies. i think governor christie was expressing a general sense that we have got to get economy back on track. reduce the federal spending, the government we had in washington, d.c. and what the states are trying to do to grow economy and get americans back to work. no doubt there are americans that are struggling, looking for jobs. no doubt that entitlement spending is out of control in the nation. we're bankrupting the nation with the debt and deficit we have. those are the policies that we are talking about. he expresses it in a different way. >> greta: one thing he said in part he has seen a less optimistic period the country in his lifetime. i am curious, i hear republicans say we have to fete rid of regulation and cut taxes, cut spending. i hear all of that. but beyond that sort of usual comments how do you -- how do you get the optimism back? how do you provoke it? >> well, i think americans are concerned about our debt, deficit. those wh

shep, the former president was speaking at a tax conference sponsored by his foundation, the bush instituteing back the upper income tax cuts that passed in his administration. and then said they would have a better chance if they weren't named after him. >> and if the goal is private sector growth, you have got to recognize that the best way to create that growth is to leave capital in the treasuries of the job creators. secondly, if you raise taxes, in other words, if you let the -- i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they were called somebody other body's tax cuts, they are probably less likely to be raised. >> the obama administration says rolling back the upper income tax cuts is a fairness issue, not to mention one that would cut the deficit by about $40 billion a year, shepard. >> shepard: the buffet rule, wendell, what are the chances that will make it through congress. >> it has no chance of passing the republic controlled house. it might not be able to get the 60 votes republicans would surely require in the senate. but it is politically popular. mr. obama says democr

. ♪ >>> i publish a book and now the bush institute's publishing a book. i could read, much less write a book. >> yes, he's back! the man who mitt romney tries to pretend doesn't exist appeared in new york, of all places today, and helped remind the country how he piled budget deficit on top of budget deficit and dramatically increased the national debt. >> if you raise taxes -- in other words, if you let the -- i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they were called some other body's tax cuts, they were less likely to be raised. but if you raise -- if you raise taxes, you're taking money out of the pockets of consumers. >> but they are not called the some other body's tax cuts, and as it happened, former president bush perfectly teed up the tax issue for president obama today in florida. >> we've got to choose which direction we want this country to go in. do we want to keep giving those tax breaks to folks like me who don't need them, or to give them to warren buffett. he definitely don't need them. or bill gates. he's already said, i don't nee

i publish a book and now the bush institute.hink i could read much less publish a book. do i miss the presidency? i really don't. i enjoyed it. it was an interesting experience. it was inconvenient to have to stop at stop lights coming over here. i guess i miss that. >> good to see the former president. he also said though he is going to be careful he doesn't think it is helpful for him to undermine the current president. >> the first thing off the bat is we haven't seen him in a while or seen much of him at least. he is looking very well. those jokes were pretty funny, the self afacing humor. he still has that charm. >> leave the stress of the white

i publish a book and now the bush institute.hink i could read much less publish a book. do i miss the presidency? i really don't. i enjoyed it. it was an interesting experience. it was inconvenient to have to stop at stop lights coming over here. i guess i miss that. >> good to see the former president. he also said though he is going to be careful he doesn't think it is helpful for

. >> the bush institute is publishing a book. got to be a staggering. i publish a book. they didn't think i could read must less publish a book. we are publishing a book 21 experts have provided the content on how to achieve 4% growth in the private sector. we recognize this. but most of the experts believe it's doable. and i hope policy makers take time to read what the experts think. cutting wasteful spending or entitlement reform or immigration reform, increasing trade and what we are here to discuss today is pro-growth tax policy. what's the best tax policy. you notice i have been emphasizing private sector growth. if it was public sector growth it would be a short conference, which is raise taxes, but we believe that the best policy is that which creates a robust private sector. and what does it mean? well, first of all, it means that an understanding of how jobs are created. who creates job. 70% are created by small business owners. it makes the economy so vital. most small businesses pay tax at the end income tax level. therefore, if you raise taxes on the so-call

bush institute recently posted a conference in new york on taxes and the economy. one discussion focused on the connection between tax rates of the state level and economic growth. this is one hour. we have a panel on state government and taxes. i am not going to name them all, but they will be here. i do want to introduce the been of the cox school of business at southern methodist university. we will have the governors on after this panel. we wanted to do a panel where we have experts taking a look at what is happening in the state. i cannot think of a better person to do that than the person who is dedicated his career to looking at which state succeeds and why. we're also very proud to have as our partner in so many things southern mr. -- southern methodist university. >> i like our position as being the first panel. i did not know we had to follow gov. christie. we have got a tough act to follow. it is the first time i have seen gov. christie on television. he is awfully impressive. what he had to say about the growth of government, i teach a course on the evo

july, of the 4% solution which is the book, president bush alluded to earlier today that the bush institutelishing that has 21 chapters and a foreward by president bush, five nobel prize winners. as well as a terrific, canractive mpa thap where you see where everyone is going from they leave california to go to low-tax states. it is my pleasure to introduce our next speaker. who camae te to "the wall street journal" in 1980 and is now emerged as probably the most harmful man in america. [laughter] as the the editor of the "the wall street journal" editorial page. in 2010, he won the prestigious bradley award, which goes to somebody who has made major contributions to the promotion of liberal democracy. take it away. [applause] >> thank you very much, jim. and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. it is great to be here with so many friends and people i admire and contributors to the journal. i might add, special resources. [laughter] we are especially grateful for our sources. it is a pleasure to be here at this really important and timely conference and especially to introduce our next speaker,

bush was speaking in new york on behalf of the bush institute in which he talked about taxes and the onomy and where economic growth primarily comes from. there is more with former president bush. [video clip] >> for stall, it means work and understanding of -- first of all, it means understanding where jobs are created. one thing that makes the economy so vital is most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax level. therefore, if you raise taxes on the so-called rich, you are really raising taxes on the job creators. if the goal is private sector growth, you have to recognize that the best way to create that growth is to leave capitol in the treasury's of the job creators. host: former president george w. bush speaking in new york in that event is available on our website at c-span.org. it was a rare public event because former president bush has primarily done events closed to cameras but this was on behalf of the bush institute. a cover story in "time magazine." the secret society of presidents. it is co-ridden by nancy bids and michael duffy. nevada, democrats line, w

this conference is quoted by the george zogby bush institute, a think tank that is part of the george bush center based at southern methodist university in texas. this is one hour. >> governor christie alluded to strong leaders in every state in america and we are beginning this conference with what is going on in the states. we have a panel on state governments and taxes. michael cox is coming up. i want to introduce albert nie mi, the dean of the school of business at southern methodist university. we will have the governors on after this panel. we wanted to do a panel where we have expert taking a look at what is happening in the states. i cannot think of a better person to moderate that panel than al niemi, who is devoted his career to asking this question -- which states succeed and why? we are excited to have as our partner in so many things, southern methodist university. dean niemi. >> thank you, jim. i like our position of being a first panel, but i did not know we would have to follow governor christie. panelists, we have a tough, tough act to follow. it is the first time i'