and president bush says, good try. keep digging. but he himself, president bush, is not convinced. but he is worried, very worried about the possibility that saddam hussein may have chemical and biological weapons and that those weapons might find their way into the hands se of terrorists. perhaps al qaeda terrorist and perhaps other tears. >> there were al qaeda dudes operating in northeastern rock outside of the control. the no-fly zone of hussain. but looking back on it now it was never expressed to my satisfaction and the american people satisfaction. >> no. >> one more quote from cheney. the cheney hall of fame, if you will. another interview with tim russert if you days before the invasion. we know, saddam is trying to produce nuclear limits. we know that he has a long- standing relationship with various terrorist groups including al qaeda organization. we know he has a long-standing relationship with al qaeda. that wasn't true. and i think cheney knew it. but i can't prove that. >> policy makers if you call them two days before the war, they are mobilizing american opinion f

or bush's advisory. you could find out a lot of information that way. >> history of meetings and conversations and teleconference, the classification process takes decades, sometimes documents are never declassified, do you think another 10 or 20 years we might have the full record or close to it when it comes to iraq? >> no. i don't think so. i myself submitted many mandatory declassification requests to get notes of various meetings of the national security counsel principal advisories like powell and rumsfield and rice and the deputy national security advisories, almost all of my mdr, mandatory declassification requests were denied in full or redacted or still have not gotten the results of them. in the future, i am sure that the formal transcripts of the meetings will be declassified over time. maybe 10 or 15 years from now. >> you could write a sequel. >> most importantly, in terms of understanding the decision- making process for a rook, one really needs to get a comprehensive systemic grasp of the

george w bush and the invasion of iraq. so the book was published to coincide with the anniversary of the war. but you've been working on this book a quite a while. you seemed reluctant, as you stated in your preface, to take on this project to begin with. why? well, i was reluctant for two reasons. first, i was trying to finish up work that i was doing on the evolution of the cold war topic of which i've written a great deal about. and secondly, and most importantly, i was reluctant to take it on because it was really contemporary history and the availability of primary source documents would be very limited. i'm a historian who has spent his career in the archives with hundreds and hundreds of archival boxes of documents. and i knew for certain that i would never have access to such documents. in writing this type of a book. and so i was very reluctant to undertake it until i met a former member of the bush administration who talked to me about the possible kitty of setting up interviews. and i can discuss that further, i

bush. is there a common experience in the loss of power? you said, "they fall hard, fast." a grieving that accompanies the experience of all post presidents? - if i look at the post-presidency, i would say that there's a separation challenge that they all encounter, particularly in those early years. it's very hard to watch the person who comes in after you, whether you were voted out of office or you termed out. there's some element of dismantling your legacy in real time while you're still alive. it's a very difficult thing for ex-presidents to encounter. and then just by nature, as an -president, you're more muzzled than you are as president, right. you're constrained by not having the power and the platform. and so the's a real transition in watching all of them grapple with it, and kind of getting in the heads of these former presidents as they kind of figured out how to make sense of ts new chapter. all of them go through some kind of a struggle. so if i look at the seven presidents t

three months later in the bush presidency, 911 happened. so the best of all time at year one was president george w bush. he had 521 officials in place. that means that at year one he had about 40% of the government in place. and by that time, people start leaving. and so what why chris's book is so important is getting the government and the candidate ready to hit the ground running on day one because you have no time to waste. and that's why all the policy recommendation ones that the miller center chris others have have articulated are so important because literally a president does not have the tools for him or her to run the government because the function of government is is so difficult to set up. chris, you talk in the book sticking with personnel? all right. we go in two directions here. does two, one and hear quickly from you about this. you talk about the year zero leadership team. it reads you got your use, the number zero l.t. comes up time and time again and you're essentially saying that groups should be formed now. what is t

bush, as bush being he was really enjoyed the more casual entertaining at camp david. he would ring heads of state out there and instead of the formal meal he would have cheeseburgers, coleslaw, apple and blue bell, ice cream. and he did the same down at the ranch in texas. he really enjoyed this more informal gatherings and felt it was an easier way to get to know people more on a more personal level in. fact that's one of our most popular right? stuart the recipes the ranch that matt wendel who cooked for them quite a bit now as the manager at blair house. i don't know how many cheeseburgers he's making there fried chicken but that is you know matt talks often about that cooking at the ranch jeremy what of what about mrs. obama had a mrs. obama was very insistent in in a sense that we keep bringing in new people, people that had never experienced the white before. so she wanted there not to be too many repeat i call them repeat offenders people felt that they were entitled to every holiday party, every state dinner. we all had those you know folks we understand no on

george bush. george bush has not one new penny in social security. we in medicare are paying down the debt. my friends, in good times, in good times, we take care of our obligations. we've got obligations to these next generation of americans and we ought to take care of social security, medicare, and paying down the debt along with giving a tax cut to working americans. and right now, not worrying too much about the top wealthiest 1% of americans. i think that's what we ought to do. i have there's a question about who's the reformer, about who is a reformer. i'm proud of my record of reform, proud to have fought pork barrel spending after day. that's why i wouldn't miss congeniality every year in the united states senate, i identify these pork barrel spenders. i put them up on a website and i'll tell you when i'm president, united states, if they continue to pork barrel spend and there's enough of it that they override my veto, my friends, i'm going to make them famous. i'm going to make every one of them famous. you may you may have heard you may h

bush vs. gore.uper scandalous story where a thin george bush became president, with the help of his younger brother. george w. bush, who eventually became president, received this post, despite the fact that the majority of voters cast their votes for his opponent, al gore. his advantage was more than half a million people. the election was decided in florida. this state gave 25 in 2000 electoral votes that are enough. bush, he beat the city by 537 votes. since the election result is determined not by the actual vote, how many voters voted for a candidate, but by the electoral vote, the number of which depends on the size of the state's population, george w. bush won by a margin of only five electoral votes. the reason for this situation was the decision of the state election commission not to count 19,000 ballots cast for al gore. they were also removed because of the torn marks, if they were taken into account, us history could have gone in a completely different direction. al gore's team immediat

bush vs. a super scandalous story where a thin george became president bush, with the help of his younger brother. george w. bush, who eventually became president , received this post, despite the fact that the majority of voters cast their votes for his opponent, al gore. his advantage was more than half a million people. elections were decided in florida, this state gave 25 electoral votes in 2000, which went to bush, he overtook gore by 537 electoral votes, since the election result is determined not by the results of the actual vote, how many voters voted for the candidate, but by the electoral george w. bush won electoral votes, the number of which depends on the size of a state's population, by just five electoral votes. the reason for this situation was the decision to elect. us history could have gone in a completely different direction. al gore's team immediately filed a complaint with the court after the elections, saying that such an approach to counting votes was pure fraud. howeve

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bush won by just five electoral votes.tuation was the decision of the state election commission not to count 19,000 ballots cast for al gore. they were removed due to the marks being torn. if they had been taken into account, us history could have gone in a completely different direction. albert's team. after the elections, the mountain immediately filed a complaint with the court, saying that such an approach to counting votes was pure fraud. however, the florida supreme court found the problem unsolvable. in us law there are no criteria for the passage of the ballot. the court's decision was also supported by je bush, the governor of florida, which has become a major political battleground. the younger brother gave the way to the white house to the older one. classic of democracy. when we have such a small gap, of course. the republican cause was continued by democrat barack obama and his supporters. obama's 2008 election was not without significant problems . at that time, a number of osce members openly announced the o

we got to project the bush approach for that as move move past the past, the reagan era. i'm proud to be here, delighted to with this warm and enthusiast stick, turn out in in your community. you know, any president will make mistakes. i love that. i don't know what any baseball fans in the crowd that remember what yogi berra said when they asked him why the mets lost the ballgame. he said, we made the wrong mistakes. now you got to think about that one. but look, anybody's going to make a mistake. i think i've had enough experience and i know i have enough conviction about the united states of america that i won't make make the wrong mistakes. i came here to ask for your help. i came here to thank your governor, came here to thank those who are working hard in the campaign because it all gets right back. in addition to values and what you believe in, to the fundamentals of politics. and if we do our job properly in this great state of yours, this preview state, the state that's going to occupy a singular place in the national focus when the polls close this coming saturd

and lot to do with the oil prices and economy george w bush. she was really kicking office on, you know, as you set up and 911. if you're not with us, you'll with them. he was a very divisive president in that respect. i mean, let me come back to you if i, if i made all the great comments, by the way, i appreciate that. i mean, it told me about a balance position because basically ever since the october, the 7th, how much that tax and gods are and all that iran as i understand the phone, the telephone from washington to tyrone and it has been ringing. and washington springs signs to her on take it easy. take it easy. don't get all cheated up here right now. and iran has apparently been saying, yeah, okay. all right, we're going to sit back. we're not going to, you know, look, collins with you directly here. but what do you think is iran position now with, with so called a radi and factions? i mean, they may just be groups that are sympathetic to iran. i mean, that goes to west a narrative. all you know, it, you know iranian factions here and he

bush before the supreme court in bush v. gore, tom dupree, and indiana law professor, gerard magliocca. the ghost made an appearance in the argument. i want to get your reaction to this exchange today. >> suppose that the outcome of an election for president comes down to the vote of a single state, how the electors of the vote of the single state are going to vote, and suppose that candidate a gets the majority of the votes in that state, but the legislature really doesn't like candidate a, thinks candidate a is an insurrectionist, so the legislature then passes a law ordering its electors to vote for the other candidate. do you think the state has that power? >> i think there may be principles that come into play in terms of after the people have voted that the state can't change the rules midstream on. >> and so, tom, while the facts of these two cases are obviously different, can you help but view today through the lens of bush v. gore? >> i don't think you can, and look, there's no question that the shadow of bush v. go

bush.case where a state supreme is now through excruciating and prolonged fact-finding, there is a candidate disqualified by section three of the 14th amendment, we were not going to apply that. we would just say that we will leave it up to congress. haven't seen so much difference to congress in decades. [laughter] the clean water act, civil rights act, no problem posting their great traditional graffiti all over the handiwork of congress. you say okay, the republicans control the house. let's get congress -- >> i would like for this court to be afraid of their own shadow. >> congressman, you're not allowed to mention bush versus gore. they said that was only for the one day, and no court could ever cited again. it was not a precedent. shame on you, you know you did there. much more ahead, including the conversation with the lead plaintive of the colorado ballot case. 91-year-old lifelong republican with a story political career. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back to cnn special live cov

i want to mission the bush center. george w. bush and also misses bush. and through the -- mrs.ush in dallas, texas. they have focused on this issue. you know what they have established? they have established in afghan-iranian women's coalition. they are going to try to connect in country and out of country both. why is it important? they feel both movements should unite. the diasporas in both cases and those inside should unite and be very strong. in putting forward ideas, recommendations, and really getting notoriety for what they are trying to achieve for women. they will be having a big launch here in washington in may on the issue. i'm very excited about that initiative. i also might mention the u.s.-afghan women's council also has almost a launch on these university educational network of afghan women. the networks and online can be helpful. there is the georgetown institute for women's peace and security. they are doing phenomenal work. the woman for afghan women -- the women for afghan women. i'm scratching the surface. i don't know if i hit every one. there is a lot goi

and our thoughts are with the family loop, a bar both met bush now doing community service work. when he was stationed in san antonio, texas. she says he grew up on the east coast and a very religious family. i don't think he was mentally ill and she probably thought that as other people have said that the society is if we allow what's going on in god, they refunded with their own tax dollars. that's payments and that's, that's ill. and he was outraged by it. and he could see that it politicians weren't acting, they are going the protesters that are out there every weekend ceasefire. demonstrations are now weekly, hans and many us cities. so many are small and no longer make the news unless protesters blocked traffic or engage and other acts of civil disobedience that need to arrest california to texas tech. here in new york memorial services have been organized like this one to pay tribute to aaron bush now with more than a half 1000000 people in gaza. now at risk of starvation activism, credit him with putting their suffering back in the spotlight. present telling me i'd 0 the

i want to mention the bush center. george w. bush and also mrs.to the bush center in dallas, texas, have really focused very heavily on this issue. and paula, this is especially for you. you know what they have established? established an afghan iranian coalition. they tryey to connect in country and out of country both why is it important? because they feel that both movements should unite. the women, the diasporas in both cases and those inside should unite and be very strong in putting forward ideas, recommendations, and really getting notoriety for what they're trying to achieve for women. they are going to be having a big launch here in washington in may on this issue, and a very excited about that initiative. i also might mention that the u.s.-afghan women's council also has almost a launch on these university educational network of afghan women. the networks and online can be very, very helpful. there's also of course the george kent institute for women's peace and security. they are doing phenomenal work and then the women for afghan, wome