get the clinton administration part 3. if you feel it was such a crisis and panic at that time as many say it was coming out of the calamitous bush administration into the tar, bringing in a team of rivals as obama talked about, all you had was larry summers and tim geithner. both of them have their control over the policies that led to the crisis. in my mind, that opened the door to the tea party. it opened the door to right-wing populism. people saw in this white house favoritism towards goldman sachs and the banks. the problem was the left populism has not emerged until now. for too long, many felt with the bomb in the white house that things would be sorted out. that is where movements become important. every administration in modern times has had to deal with insurgency's or movements on its left and right. reagan in many ways was a movement president. i say that with contempt for what he did in damage to this country. you need to see the pendulum has now swung. the tea party in many ways has lost a lot of this mojo be

bush admin it administration as well as the clinton administration so what role did that have in the g.s. he's taking on this arrest and the sub problem prime mortgage loans right that's exactly where they had to meet certain homeownership goals and so both the clinton administration and the bush administration would give the g.s. these credit toward meeting these portable housing lending goals by picking up the mortgages but. basically. crime are lower quality higher risk mortgages and so it helped fuel the bubble and now interestingly one hundred sixty billion dollars later that's what taxpayers are already on the hook for and what we're kind of missing here is that if you look at fannie and freddie and then you bald federal housing administration more almost like nine in ten mortgages now being originated all have some sort of government i.e. taxpayer backing and so have we really learned our lesson i'm not sure it doesn't appear that congress has learned its lesson administration still doesn't want to do anything about fannie and freddie because like everything else in washington

golf and he will find discussions from officials in the nixon administration, one for the clinton administration and one for the george h. w. bush administration etc. and these are on the record and available for stock. we had one of the national security advisers and to that she attacked when interviews. we also had an interview with brzezinski i should add but we were not able to get into the degree to publish to read estimate we've been talking with i.m. destler, the author inn chateau the oval office profile of the national security of pfizer's when the presidents they served from jfk to george w. bush. thanks for your time. >> it's been a pleasure. thank you for having me. the making of africa and america is the name of the book. professor year the university of maryland is the author and the subtitle for great migrations i gave the title greater recourse the trans-atlantic slave trade in the first middle passage, the movement of some 400,000 african to the mainland north america. second, migration is the internals late trade the movement over a million the old south as it is sometimes call

you can see in a sense, the north koreans have been trained because whether it's the clinton administration or frankly the bush administration, when in the aftermath of the discovery they had been building a nuclear reactor, state removed them from the terrorism list in exchange what steps they were supposed to take. i don't know many people were surprised that it was clear they broken those promises and we had approximately 2,000 centrifuges spinning at their site. i do worry what happens is the west is so anxious to try to open relations, we end up giving them benefits which just frankly buys them more time and space to develop their programs or their people starve. we should send a tough message to cline. we need to make clear that stopping the north korean nuclear program is top priority for us. if the chinese wants to be responsible, they need to get on board. they certainly have not in the past helped us in the way they ought to help us. it's clear we need leadership in this country that will bring back american prestige around the world, bring back american credibility. put us back i

during the clinton administration, a lot of the problems will take care of themselves. when you look at europe, what do you see? guest: we can see that having an austerity program is not necessarily -- is going to lead to having your economy turned around. when i look at europe and the position of the united states, i am saddened that we did not take the great opportunities that we had for an up or down vote to make sure that a nation that can claim the mightiest military in the world and the greatest patten security could not demonstrate that we could deal with our deficit and most importantly by putting americans back to work. that would have led to not only europe but the asian markets saying this is the place where we want to invest and put our money. china, europe, and brazil, as they struggle, the u.s. should be a port for economic investment and growth. we should do everything we can to spur on our own manufacturing and one of the ways is by putting people back to work and drawing the kind of investment in this country that i believe would result from that. host:

. >> what about his achievement during the clinton administration? e was a balanced budget. >> he says he balanced the budget four years in a row. he did not do any such thing. the budget was balanced because of bill clinton and the tax increase imposed on some of the rich. >> he did get the house of representatives to vote to cut medicare, almost impossible to do that in modern politics. you cannot write it off as being a joke. he did accomplish a lot of things as a speaker. >> andy was the first republican speaker in 40 years. >> he did all of that, and took a lot of credit for his, but there are people that give him a lot of credit. he was the classic, charismatic figure that can also be characterized as a demagogue. we live in an area where everything is on videotape. we played that, and it can make him look -- to have a face that is very unattractive. >> some democrats are begging for newt gingrich as the candidate. is this a case of be careful what you wish for? >> one of the problems that newt gingrich heads is that like all republicans he wrap

. >> what about his tenure during the clinton administration? he says he balance the budget four years in a row. he did no such thing. the budget was balanced because of bill clinton and the taxes imposed on some of the rich, which newt gingrich opposed. >> he did dead the house of represent -- he did get the house of representatives to vote to cut medicare. that is almost impossible. you cannot write him off as a joke, as we tend to do. >> and, he was the first republican speaker in 40 years. >> he did all of that. you have to give some credit for that, but people give him credit for poisoning the water. he is the classic, a charismatic figure that can also be characterized as a demagogue figure. whenever we say is on videotape. you play that, and is being used by his opponents to make him have a face that is very unattractive. that is the way is being used. >> some democrats are begging for newt gingrich as the candidate. is this a case of be careful what you wish for? >> that is always the case in politics. newt gingrich wraps himself in the

in the clinton administration, we try to find a lot of other mechanisms. there were a lot of informal confrontations. i have to say, i am not here as a representative from the obama administration. the president call the leadership got to the white house three days before he made the decision. we had extensive conversations. the senate concern -- confirmed i testified a number of times to the foreign relations committee. is a sense in congress that was not enough engagement. i know who will the senior republican was? he is referring to. it is legitimate for congress to expect that whether we have succeeded, i think the white house administration always feels we are doing a better job in congress does. i do not dispute that there has to be engagement, there has to be dialogue. "i agree with that. it is important to rememr that our constitution provides checks and balances. it does that for a reason. a good brake on presidential action when it works is a functioning congress that has bipartisanship and seriousness. when that relationship works well, i think i

frankly, i knew the world trade center had been attacked during the clinton administration. >> in theallway you thought ubl. osama bin laden. did this go to the now-famous report that dr. rice had seen and others that there was a possibility that they were going to fly a plane? >> hat was contributing. we had briefings about osama bin laden and the al qaeda network long before that memo, which i think was august 8. >> you know, so we knew of his, evil intent. he had been active in targeting american enter all arouud the world. i was not -- i don't think it was unusual for me to think oo him at that time. >> that was a controversial period of time in our lives. -pobviously, the country was focused on what happened and the horrific result of the attacks. but as you know, it began then a great debate in this country about what response to be, going into iraq versus going into afghanistan, did we make the right decisions on those matters. then roll it forward to 10 years. we just passed the anniversary of afghanistan and unprecedented number of people on both sides democrats and are still

. >> he also is touted his own success as house speaker during the clinton administration. he said that congress could get things done with a bipartisan group bent. texas governor rick perry has failed to qualify for the republican presidential primary in virginia. they are required to have at least 10,000 ballots from nominating institution. perry did not have enough signatures to qualify. that means his name will not appear on the ballot for the march 6 republican primary election. virginia is just one of 11 states holding a primary on march 6. more u.s. troops returned home from iraq just-in-time for the holidays. we will show you the emotional reunions. and city police leave their feet to offer some holiday chief. ridge -- holiday cheer. >> heat and light are just as essential as housing. it does not help a family as much to have a house without heat in it. >> the troubled economy creates a challenge for some families as temperatures fall. how you can help those in need stay warm this winter. >> getting colder as we go into the holiday weekend. we will check the seven-d

well that's unclear i would i would expect that the clinton administration if they were me the obama administration was serious about these these talks are trying to have an honest restart again on the nuclear issue if they're serious about that they will make some you know reach out to the new regime not necessarily to this new successor but people they have been dealing with already and say you know they're ready to talk on the food aid in the uranium and so on and i think that's that's kind of what i expect to see but i'm but clearly the military the u.s. military is watching the situation very very closely and they've already said they've seen no unusual movements north of the d.m.z. which by the way it's important emphasize that that line was drawn right after world war two not after the korean war that that division has been there since one thousand nine hundred forty five when since it was drawn by the former u.s.s.r. and the united states thought so thanks been on the program tonight to a shark independent journalist thank you. thank you syria has signed an agreement to allow

to go back to reach it would be under, even with the surtax, what they were paying in the clinton administration. the surtax would apply only to millionaires and only through that part of their income in excess of $1 million. we think that is still a way to pay for it. but the revenue would then come in over a 10-year period. >> but is it true you do not have the vote for the millionaire tax? >> we think it is important to have that conversation going forward. we thought it was important to go forward and extend the tax cuts for 160 million americans. it would be a little more money in their pockets. that is why it is so important that we get to work right away. is the pay freeze off the table? >> let's remember, federal employees are held there working every day, whether it is on board security, fda, folks checking to make sure our drugs are safe, folks all across the country. they have party had a two-year pay freeze. and they're willing to do their part as part of a large deficit reduction package. clearly, those issues were discussed as part of a multi- year-long deficit reduction plan. i do

in the clinton administration, we tried to find other mechanisms. there were a lot of informal consultations. all libya, the president called leadership of the congress down to the white house days before he made the decision to intervene. we had extensive conversations. i testified in number of times to the senate foreign relations committee. i understand. there is a deeply felt in congress that there was not enough engagement. i know exactly who the senior republican is. it is legitimate for congress to respect that. i did not dispute that there has to be engagement. there has to be dialogue to reflect and respect the confidentiality and to respect the role of the congress. >> i agree with that. it is important to remember that our constitution provides checks and balances. it does that for a reason. a good brake on presidential auction, when it works, it is a functioning conference that has bipartisanship. and great expertise. when that relationship works well, i think it helps the country and it helps us make better decisions. just a couple of c

with an estimate that said the clinton health care reform rather than saving money which the clinton administration said would actually cause the money that was one of only many aspects people could look at to import whether there was a good or about reform but the people that oppose the reform grab on to that particular conclusion and try to use it to their best and which was to try to see if they could kill the clinton health care reform. >> this is book tv on c-span2 and we are talking with professor philip joyce here at the university of maryland about his book, quote crowed the congressional budget office." recently with the super committee how is the cbo joost? >> it is in two ways, actually one way it should have been used in two ways. the one way that was used was to try to help the super committee to set the parameters of what they were going to do. so director elmendorf went and testified multiple times before the super committee on the nature of the problem that was facing the country and what kind of things we need to happen, would be a reasonable trajectory for getting the deficit down

you will find the discussion of former officials for the next demonstration, one for the clinton administration, one for the george h. w. bush of ministration. and these are in debt giving people a real sense of how the process worked, and they're totally on the record. end and the -- we had one of the former national security advisor, and to that the attached the text of our interviews. kosinski, i shouldn't, but i think we were not able to get him to agree to publish the interview. >> host: we have been talking with ibm kestler, the co-author of in this shadow of the oval office. doctor, 84 your time. >> guest: it has been a pleasure. thank you for having me. >> every weekend book tv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors of books. what's it here

estimate that said that the clinton health care reform, rather than saving money, which the clinton administration said, would actually cost of money. that was only one of many aspects that someone could look at in order to judge whether that was a good reform or a bad reform. but the people who oppose the reform grabbed onto that particular conclusion and tried to use it to their best end, which was to try to see if they could kill the clinton health care reform. >> this is booktv on c-span2 and for talking with professor philip joyce here at the university of maryland about his book, "the congressional budget office." recently with a supercommittee, how was the cbo just? >> the cbo was used in two ways. actually is a use in one way. it should have been used in two ways. that one way that it was used was to try to help the supercommittee to set the parameters of what they were going to do. so, director elmendorf went and testified multiple times before the supercommittee on the nature of the problem that was facing the country and what kinds of things would need to happen, what would be a reasona

>> it was asked what is different now from the 1990's and the clinton administration got things done with republicans. one of the reasons is congress is much more polarized because you have more and more members who come from districts that are drawn to specifically republican or democratic districts. the redistricting process is made safer for partisans. the way to get those seats is to be a partisan warrior and a way to keep those seats is to vote to the party line and speak to your base in your district. the california statistic is that in the last four elections in california which has 53 house seats, 53 elections * four, only one of those races in which one of those seasons change party hands. in every other case, the party held onto the seats it had originally. that is a very partisan arrangement and locks people into their partisan channels and keeps them there and that is what i think we are seeing in congress now. >> if the president is reelected he will deal with at least one chamber of commerce that will be in republican hands. will anything change in 2012 or in 2013 if th

as we went from an economy that had a surplus and millions of jobs being created under the clinton administration we pursued policies that created tremendous deficits and didn't add any overall value to the average worker since the beginning of the george w. bush administration the average person saw their income decrease at the same time. the wealthiest one percent among us have had it actually better than ever so it makes it very obvious sam the right wingers would say well it's because nine eleven nine eleven changed everything you know george bush didn't ask for nine eleven to let it happen and well this isn't anything new here i mean we saw the same thing happen in play out in the one nine hundred twenty s. and roosevelt then called these people economic royalists and what he what he did is he. he redefined the purpose of government and he said government isn't isn't here to make sure the capitalist can make as much money as they want or as he called them economic royalists government is here to create a middle class to create a good prosperous life for the majority of people in the way you

way that he can force them into a recess yes so there's a tradition that goes back to the clinton administration that the senate has to be out for three days a congress be out for three days but it's only really a tradition there's even a u.s. court of appeals decision saying no it doesn't matter how long and on top of that there's the roosevelt precedent theater roosevelt recess appointed someone during a very brief one day recess when the congress broke at the end of the year it's about to be the end of the year congress is about to break president obama need to invoke the roosevelt prasad it and he needs to recess appoint richard cordray. thanks so much for showing up thank you always great to be well informed on these issues and you do a great job but republicans further put the screws to the middle class today again filibustering an extension of the payroll tax cut for one hundred sixty million americans once again just to protect millionaires and billionaires from a tiny surtax meanwhile house republicans are moving forward with their own plan to extend the payroll tax cut by attaching it

power in the hands of the president and they try to do what they can especially since the clinton administration to hand it over to the official pardon attorney's office so it doesn't look like there's any political involvement here because at the end of the day you're always going to get judged for who you did pardon who you didn't pardon but itself is this is going to process that you think can be removed from being seen as a political move it's tough to you know get some of the pardons. i think under-utilized presidents the united states has a gigantic prison population we have two million people behind bars we have five percent of the world's population twenty five percent of those prisoners there's a lot of injustice throughout the system especially based on race and so if the president really wanted to use the pardon system to to create justice to be a lot more aggressively using is currently being used it wouldn't be used for people who happen to have a political connections that so often happens but in that sense do you think that by using the presidential pardon system you know gives th

. >> leon pineda also served in the clinton administration.visor leon panetta what did he do? that is the correct answer chief of staff. mckel lan leads by one. could be the new york mets i am sure. >> the night before the bin laden raid they made a joke about the terrorist leader at the white house correspondence dinner. he said he had a soft chill on msnbc, c span, the weather channel, cnn. where did bin laden have a talk show? cards up. stop chuckling. >> people think bin laden is hiding in the hin beau curb. you notice every day for 4-5 he hosted a show on c span. >> he got it right. one question to go. very, very exciting tonight. >> they have a pretty good idea on where bin laden is now. how about osama bin laden. everybody is still talking about that. oh my god. yeah. i got together with a group of clergymen and they told me just about now he should be arriving in hell. >> according to a new cnn pole what percentage of americans think osama bin laden is now in hell? they did a poll on that? a 26 percent, b 45 percent, c 61 percent, d, 8

they are separate glass steagall came about after the depression and was repealed during the clinton administration now as for the volcker rule the framework came in october and several agencies have to vote on it and of course now we're seeing calls for delays now there are some exceptions to the rule too so it's pretty unclear how this would work out in implementation now on wall street. banks like goldman sachs j.p. morgan chase morgan stanley are against it because it eats into their profits and consequently it was one of the most intensely lobbied parts of dogs frank and now that it's going through this whole regulatory phase the trade industry's behind the banks have been lobbying regulators to extend the comment period along with some lawmakers like we see now now it's supposed to go into effect in july two thousand and twelve so we shall see but now you basically know what the volcker rule is and a little bit of trivia it's named after paul volcker who is behind it he's a former federal reserve chairman he has championed this and incidentally he does need for an interview once on the ground

immigration i don't think is the achilles heel of the clinton administration. but since then, he has been saying the way we combat aging population, japan has a big problem is to allow some amnesty for illegals here. in some staggered meth but amnesty. >> andrea: that has always been the trick of democrats. the amnesty is the carrot to get republicans to go along with it. this is what the democrats try to do recently. offer amnesty and put it together. why don't they just close the border? you couldn't get republicans to come along in an amnesty unless you have both together. >> eric: sorry, they want to pull another sound bite. this is great for greg. listen to bill asking bill clinton about the candidates. watch how it ends. watch. >> if you had a vote between romney and gingrich, snuck up to new hampshire because anybody can vote in primary, you go for? >> i am not getting in the republican primary. i like huntsman. he arguably has the consisten consistently conservative economic record. >> he did well in utah. no doubt about it. when your wife is running ag

that seems to be a result of the mark rich scandal that happened at the end of the clinton administration, that clinton had pardoned somebody who did not go through the regular justice department process. >> ifill: and was a big campaign donor, right. >> right. it ended up proving embarrassing for the president and for the white house and led to hearing on the hill about it. president bush and his legal add advisors. president bush was inaugurated just hours after that pardon was put through. they hoped to avoid that. they put all their kind of effort into the judgment of the pardons office and the justice department. and having examined those judgments, this is where we learn that whites are favored by a factor of four. >> ifill: and the last high- profile pardon or non-pardon in this case was scooter libby under george w. bush's administration. he refused to pardon him. is is there a list? is there a check box that the judicial office, this justice department office uses in making its recommendations to the president? >> scooter was another example, scooter libby was a good example of s

bush administration, the clinton administration, the bush administration and the obama administration. george h.w. bush ran for re-election in here. look at the record here. plus 872, 872,000 jobs they created. he lost his re-election campaign because of the economy and again the unemployment rate was up shy of 8%. come into the clin years, this number is the envy of every president, plus 8.2 million in november 1995, the year before his re-election. president clinton running with a low rate, in his re-election campaign. president bush, it was not positive. he was minus, net 2.1 million jobs in his presidency but that was 345,000 up from his low. the bush administration lost jobs early on, started to come back a bit. he managed to win re election, despite that. take a look where president obama is a year out. minus 1.1 million job is the net. if you add up the obama administration from beginning to now. slight reason for optimism at the white house, that's off the low. that's 2.4 million up off the low. i showed you the beginning, all of the jobs bleeding out. this is not a great numb

woodward said he asked gore how much the public knows about what went on in the clinton administrationre said 1%. woodward says i kind of died inside and have to confess to having an unclean thought. woodward asked gore if gore were to write memoir how much would americans know then? gore's response 2%. finally, the battle against terrorism continues in western michigan. one snow cone at a time. 13 counties received $900 snow cone machines. courtesy of a homeland security grant. local media reference a senate document claiming the machines have a variety of uses, among them making ice to treat injuries. prevent heat-related illnesses in emergencies. and to provide snow cones during promotionm events. one county reportly requested a popcorn machine and was turned down in the homeland security grant process. >>> californians may soon get a chance to decide whether nuclear power is worth the risk. correspondent adam housley reports on a new effort to get rid of a major source of energy and concern. >> the nuclear plant once produced enough energy to power hundreds of thousands of homes. n

then we had a blow-up in the years of the clinton administration. president bush and mrs.s and had two lovely daughters. i remember when president elect obama came to the white house to meet with president bush for the first time after the election. they privately and then i had a chance to watch with the president later. he saidvy to tell you, the first thing he asked about was advice for raising his daughters in public. they had a bond over their families. that is where they started. so yes, character matters. gingrich has to deal with the facts. but he already has. he is not hiding it. hep has been open about it. there will be brutal stories. but he will get through that. >> greg: did you remit to the bush daughters? >> dana: i didn't. i'm old. >> andrea: in a country that most americans are divorced do they care now? ronald reagan was divorce. most presidents we expect to be perfect. but the economy is not doing well. most of the country is divorced, whether it's good or bad thing, a reality. that i look at newt gingrich to say don't care. i can't find a job. who cares