particularly the clinton administration which dispatched secretary of state -- state warren christopher more than 20 times which was more than he went to moscow or beijing. but these and other efforts in israeli peace failed because damascus was interested in participating in a peace process

i went to work in chicago, and i was also in the clinton administration. t of all, bill clinton, i worked for rodney slater as well, they say remember those who brung you. when hillary was running, i said this is an opportunity i thought to be loyal to the clintons. but at the same time, i was looking at a different form of history, gender history. the first woman president. and i'm a man. i was really gratified by looking at that possibility. so i was really supporting hillary clinton. and then the emergence of barack obama came through, and that was a surprise to some of us. >> sure. >> we were watching that campaign with interest. but at the same time, loyal to hillary clinton. and then when they came together and you saw them in the primary debates, and you start thinking, wow, this is a great ticket, when the ticket wasn't united, some of us didn't know where to go. when the party started to shift towards the left, some of us went right. the title i examined what i learned in chicago, smaller government, lower taxes, and looking at competition and comp

clinton administration delaying and the obama administration delaying and hoping to get through it theyt the sworn testimony. they are willing to take the heat for political purposes. >> judge jeanine: you are say is about the motivation . wouldn't american people say go get them. we keep giving them aid without restriction? >> the obama administration in this thing just like the clinton administration, does not care about what the american people think of this incident. >> judge jeanine: okay. >> they care about power and reelection. >> judge jeanine: gary, you were involved in securing the embassy, talk to me about what you do? >> in east africa after the attacks, we deplayed over two hours when that embassy was attacked we deployed. the decision was made and we moved to an aircraft and loaded it and we were on the ground in east africa in 26 hours >> chris: you were on the ground after an incredible terrorist. >> double bombings of two embassy it is about leadership. i saw the department of the state and heard testimony that said the rationale we couldn't get to benghazi because they

you were talking about the clinton administration that was something acorn housing pushed for. they lobbied in front of bank of america then nations bank in order to get these guarantees and now what we sees bank of america foundation gives millions of dollars to these acorn groups in order to get them on their side. this is -- oo >> to get them off their back. >> this is krohnism. acorn uses it to say had you had, neighbor works all of these government programs that came out of the clinton administration give up money, too. >> thank you, dan epstein, congressman. stick around audience would like to question you. coming up we will talk to the guy in charge of welfare in may town. this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day afr day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] e pill eachmorning. 24 hours. zero heartbur his morning starts with arthritis pain. and two pills. afternoon's overhaul starts with more pain. m

and months and featured in a new ad that is going to connect obama policies to those in the clinton administration of the 1990s. >> some of the things people are saying about president obama sounds familiar. the same people said my ideas would destroy jobs and they call me every name in the book. well, we created 22 million new jobs and turned deficits into surpluses. president obama's got to right. we should invest in the middle class, education and innovation, and pay down our debt with spending restraint and asking wealthy to pay a little more. sound familiar? >> i'm barack obama and i approve this message. >> "the new york times" this morning, matt bye, the writer, suggesting president clinton may have hurt the campaign by giving advice. he writes, mr. clinton counselled that independent voters might forgive am romney for having said whatever he had to say to win his party's nomination. ever since the campaign has been hammering mitt romney as too conservative while essentially giving him a pass for having traveled a tortured path on issues like health care reform and abortion and gay rights.

famous warning about credit default swaps and got squashed by that bipartisan coalition of the clinton administration and alan greenspan and hill graham said that as soon as the f.s.a. got created that leaders the senior leadership of the f.s.a. began coming to the united states to industry conferences and saying you should leave america and do your deals and locate relocate in the city of london because we will give you weaker regulation and then a guy that have been with the securities and exchange commission for many many years said that's exactly what happened on initial public offerings i.p.o.'s that the city of london officials began coming to the united states to the trade meetings and say do your i.p.o.'s in the city of london instead of wall street because we will. look the other way while you do this and so i'd only make what might are you know thinking about your point of course the labor party on finance issues is not a party that is remotely of the left it is was a party of what would be in us terms the extreme right the lib dems were every bit as bad as the conservatives of anything are

that consul flat benghazi and now yesterday the secretary of state hillary clinton coming out to take blame. the obama administration, as you said you joe, understating fire about conflicting statements about what exactly happened last month, now secretary clinton is out, stepping out to take the blame. here is what she said yesterday in peru. >> i take responsibility. i'm in charge of the state department. 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts. the president and the vice president certainly wouldn't be knowledgeable about specific decisions that are made by security professionals. they are the ones who weigh all of the threats and the risks andment needs and make a considered decision. and what i want to avoid is some kind of political gotcha or blame game going on because that does a disservice to the thousands and thousands of americans, not only in the state department and usaid but the military who serve around the world. >> in a joint statement, senators mccain, graham and ayotte said "this is a laudable gesture" talking about what secretary clinton did yesterday, "especially went white house is try

well i did say that the real watershed came under the democrats and it was under the clinton administration that we got out of the glass-steagall act which was the financial blow up that we had in wall street. democrats have gotten plenty of blame. it isn't all republicans. i'm not making a partisan argument. by making the argument that we've got to get down to the basic root of the problems and address them and work together. there's still republicans like to talk to and democrats i can't talk to. and, you know, it's not party. i think it was all caught up in party. we are in the middle of elections, so that's why we did it. but i can assure you that no matter who gets elected in november and no matter which way the congress goes, these problems are going to continue to be there and they are not going to get solved unless the public gets engaged. maybe we better leave it at that. thank you very much. [applause] .. >> guest: this was the way i grew up. it was a reference to the united states, but, to me, because i grew up in this hometown surrounded by mountains, and i didn't know where the

>> i think we should allow the top rate to return to where they were during the clinton administration when the economy was doing just great. and last time that we balance our budget. once you go there, you can talk about additional -- you can point out that the sums involved commission, they assume as their starting point of that additional revenue from allowing the tax rate on the top incomeers to go into effect, they assume that. my view would be, let the rates go up. we are happy to of a conversation about tax reform. and the things we should do, simplify the tax code. but we should not arbitrarily fixed the rate reduction. 20% across the board would cost five trillion dollars and then said, we are going to try to find a way to pay for this. >> was after the election, the president wins, congress is controlled, and there's a negotiation did it turns out that raising the top rate is difficult, but some limiting exemptions and credits to get the money from the top income groups is more possible. is that a possible place to explore? >> yes. i think the starting point for the rates as

undo the repeal glass steagall which happened in one thousand nine hundred nine during the clinton administration so that's a good thing but by itself it's not enough as far as devaluing from gold the problem with the one nine hundred twenty s. and the one nine hundred thirty s. is that gold actually was undervalued a should have had a much higher value so that was probably just an adjustment but you didn't have to confiscate the people's goal which is what roosevelt did you could have had a more honest upward revaluation the price of gold just to get to it was the non equilibrium price will differ from where we are today the kids in policy did no good always try to over and over that's not what got us out of the great depression the best theory i've seen is that actually if you take out war spending obviously the economy and industrial production picked up in one nine hundred forty one one hundred forty two while we were fighting world war two and spending enormous amounts of money deficit spending to do that increasing the debt but that was the existential you had to you had to do that but the

policies put up before the bush administration started in one thousand nine hundred under the clinton administration led to this problem and fannie mae and the other government subsidized mortgage winters which the bush administration tried to stop and the democrats like barney frank tried to prevent so yes kate is so what about when eric schneiderman went after the banks two years in two thousand and five and said what you guys are doing is wrong we're going to stop this because going to lead to a great depression and the bush administration pulled out of their back pocket eight hundred sixty law and said no we're going to use a lot of ways has never been used before to stop a state a.g. from from can from regulating the banks in a way that would have prevented the crash that bad somehow bill had. absolutely a state attorney general had no business trying to regulate the entire american bank exist or you tell me where i am but i think mr born in france was chaminda of the committee with jurisdiction and he had a democrat majority and and most of it as well and said on his butt literally taking this

instances in which a theory of international relations influence national policy because both the clinton administration and the george h. w. bush administration operated under the premise that the movement toward democracy is inevitable throughout the world. it is a neo liberal and neo conservative idea and it does seem to me recent events properly cause us to be skeptical. i am fine with pherae when it exposes patterns in history. i have a big problem with somebody who says those patterns ith your address and we will send you a book bag. we will take some calls for "george f. kennan: an american life" -- george f. kennan. we will see what kind of questions you have for professor gaddis. here is the cover of his book "george f. kennan: an american life". we begin with ramon in laredo, texas. you are on booktv on c-span2. >> caller: a book by lester brown called state of the world's and another book called world on the edge and sustainability and the cold war coming up in the future having to do with fresh water and do you have any comments on the future of the cold war or the survival of humanity for f

that the government did not think this could happen when they changed the rules under the clinton administration. deedooropnhat ru change? >>ar this is how it was supposed to work. >>guest: the banks are supposed to say we police the rules. the f.h.a. doesn't. the government doesn't checkup on y tost yfoo buen they blow up, the government can come back and say we will place a claim on you. >>shepard: that is how the government set it up. when you change the rules that degree, for instance, if you tell the inmates inside the asyl, here are the keys d an tow e r up and start escaping and you act surprised...you are lying. >>guest: everyone is complicity. congress wanted to do this, both lond trers cathad a house for aee or three years and they had to default. we are all worse off to the extent this has destabilized the whole financi sstem pe a srus i ls. re aoss. >>shepard: it could happen yet, the depression. >>guest: it might. >>shepard: a passenger landed at a major u.s. airport with an arsenal in his luggage. an arsenal? s, a smbygs and more. what were the weapons for? how did he make it on th

the clinton administration. that was something that acorn housing pushed for.y lobbied in front of bank of america and nations bank in order to get these guarantees. now what we see is bank of america foundation gives millions of dollars to these groups in order to get them on their side. this is cronyism. this is cronyism. acorn then uses those grants to say, heiden neighbor works, these government programs that came out of it into administration, give us money. john: thank you. stick around. the audience would like to question you. coming up, we will talk to the guy in charge of welfare in my town. [applause] ♪ [applause] john: this show supports limited government. the reason that many in government will not appear on this program. i was surprised to get this e-mail. i have admired your reporting, and if you ever want to talk to someone with experience running government social service programs i would be happy. that came from the boss of a big piece of the welfare state, the new york city human resources administration. the rich array employs 15,000 people

including during clint op administration and -- clinton administration and the bush administration. all of those mortgages given to people that couldn't possibly have paid for their homes. i mean, totally unrealistic, silly -- crazy idea. everybody should have a home. well, that's wonderful to say. here is what you have got to finish it with. everybody should have a home who can afford to pay for the home. otherwise we're going to bankrupt the entire system which is what they did. did wall street add to that? of course it did. but would the banks have made the loans to the people who couldn't pay if the government hasn't jam it down their throat? of course not. banks don't want to lose money unless the government is there giving them encouragement and protection. the major reason for our financial debacle at the core were millions and millions and millions of mortgages given to people that had no ability to pay those mortgages and that was forced by the federal government starting in the clinton administration. there was an attempt by the clinton administration to slow it down once

that's what worked in the 1990s, with bipartisan support under the clinton administration.we had a fair -- fairer tax policy. we were putting millions of people back to work. they were working, earning money, paying taxes, spending money. that succeeded. then president bush came in, slashed taxes on the wealthy. we had very, very slow growth. fought two wars on a credit card, and our record surpluses turned into record deficits, and the policies the kingman has continued to support take us right back there again. same as what mitt romney would do, same at what president bush did. that's the congressman's voting record. so we need policies that put people back to work. that's what is going to imimprove our economy. >> he made a statement but i didn't hear anything that reseptember eled -- resembled a plan. i have plan, it's driving down healthcare costs and repealing the well-intentioned president's bill. i agree with the goals but the law will never live up to the goals of driving down costs. i have a replacement, six point replacement plan. energy, driving down costs for h

administrations did right and did wrong to deal with it? >> well, i think the misstep goesing up to the crisis, both the clinton and bush administration, i thinkig ones are we ddn't raise nk cital requirements, we didn't constrain the ability of large institutions, used leverage, borrowed money to support their risk-taking and instead government took a lot of aptions to allow investment banks in particular to take on even more leverage and expand their operations with borrowed money. the federal reserve board had the authority to set mortgage loaning standards across the board for everyone, banks, nonbank, mortgage brokers. they didn't do that. and then finally, of course, and this is in the clinton administration, congress just said that nobody is going to regulate derivatives. the if, it,-- ftc cldn't regulate them, even state insurance regulators were told hands-off. office change derivatives offices we don't think they need be to regulated. >> woodruff: are you saying government had their own share of responsibility. >> they did. yes, but i would say this is because industry lobbying stopped these kinds of steps from being taken. >> woodru

under the clinton administration rose nearly 60%. more than doubled underneath the george w. bush administration. the president, you know the administration has been canceling lease sales in the western gulf of mexico, atlantic coast. delaying exploration off alaska. pulling leases in utah and places like montana. the president did make a statement. he did say, look we've enacted a use it or lose it policy where we will pull, you from you, oil company, the permit. melissa: that was compelling argument. was it true though? >> it is extremely nuanced. listen, when you call something inactive, when the government says, look your permit is inactive how are you defining that? maybe one out of 100 oil wells will yield oil. there's a lot of dry wells out there. melissa: right. >> they need to basically work on a five, 10, 15 years. sowhat time frame and how do you define that well is inacti before you pull the federal permit to drill? melissa: lieutenant governor, do yougree with that? i had a former oil ceo on another one of my programs who said inactive, define that we're testing i

the clinton administration. that was something that acorn housing pushed for.hey lobbied in front of bank of america and nations bank in order to get these guarantees. now what we see is bank of america foundation gives millions of dollars to these groups in order to get them on their side. this is cronyism. this is cronyism. acorn then uses those grants to say, heiden neighbor works, these government programs that came out of it into administration, give us money. john: thank you. stick around. the audience would like to question you. coming up, we will talk to the guy in charge of welfare in my town. [applause] ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you turn an entrepreneur's dream... ♪ into a scooter that talks to the cloud? ♪ or make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ how do you help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ or turn 30-million artifacts... ♪ into a high-tech mastpiece? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. boring.

john brennan had been involved back to the clinton administration and he had seen video of bin laden afghanistan. sometimes you recognize them by more than just their face. by the way they move and by the way they walk and he saw that picture and was 95% certain that it was him. >> there is something that has to be amazing about watching this guy. >> i don't think that john brennan was prepared to take the burden of choice on himself, but if asked, which he was, he said i am as certain as i could be that, that was bin laden. and the president said look, as far as i'm concerned this is 50/50. >> and he made the decision and he did get bin laden. as he said, that can never be removed. >> it is a remarkable story and one that he deserved credit for. >> and you tell it very well. so thank you very much. go and check it out. it takes you very well. as least when you read the pacer, that was my favorite part. last night i watched the debate with a focus group. but there was one thing they were fashion at about and it was on display. >>> during last night's debate fire bad! just have to fir

the clinton administration. that was something that acorn housing pushed for.hey lobbied in front of bank of america and nations bank in order to get these guarantees. now what we see is bank of america foundation gives millions of dollars to these groups in order to get them on their side. this is cronyism. this is cronyism. acorn then uses those grants to say, heiden neighbor works, these government programs that came out of it into administration, give us money. john: thank you. stick around. the audience would like to question you. coming up, we will talk to the guy in charge of welfare in my town. [applause] this happy couple used capital one venture miles for their "destination wedding." double miles you can "actually" use. but with those single mile travel cards... [ bridesmaid ] blacked out... but i'm a bridesmaid. oh! "x" marks the spot she'll never sit. but i bought a dress! a toast... ...to the capital one venture card. fly any airline, any flight, anytime. double miles you can actually use. what a coincidence? what's in your wallet? [ all screaming

if you put the wealthy and small business back to where they were in the clinton administration. you generate not much money. however, if you do tax capital gains which means your profits on savings and tax wins, if you do that, then investment drops. >> there is a pool of capital in the world and there are tens of trillions of dollars floating around. there is plenty of capital and no shortage of capital. the proof is the return on capital is almost nil and yet there is a tremendous amount of capital flowing into the united states. and $90 billion may seem like little to you, and i am impressed it seems like little, but i have tried to cut it out of the social welfare spending. >> i agree with you. >> if you start to constrict investment into the united states. >> we are not going to. >> well you certainly will. >> we had it during the 40s, i have the ifs, early 70s -- >> but we are in a competitive world. >> we had huge amounts of capital. >> i am an investor and i have a portfolio. if capital gains goes to 25, 30%, i am no not going to invest. i will buy municipal bonds. >> no

remember, after the east african embassy bombings, the clinton administrations launched into trainingcamps in afghanistan and sudan. this is part of the usual process, right? you look at the intelligence and the military will prepare and say what targets do we have, what is our basis for making them a target, that is, capture, kill, target with drones, and what is our likelihood of success. also, there's a secondary process of who would we li to have more on, if we had that information, we could prepare better target packages, and they'll levy requirements on the intelligence agencies to go out and get that information for them. so it's sort of an ongoing process between the intelligence community and the military community as they prepare in case the president asks for options. in the meantime, on parallel tracks, you've got congress, you've got the state department investigation, and you've got the fbi. >> arwa, you spent a lot of time in war zones. is there something about this that surprised you, about what you saw, about gaining access to this site? >> it was that it was really s

. >> from fdr, march of 33 through end of the bill clinton's administration, end of january 2001, 3.9llion in change. a considerable difference. at end of the day people need to vote in their economic interests need toe look at all the facts. ashley: your book gifts strongest and weakest performing presidents. come on. dish. >> well, again some the strongest performers were jfk, lbj, fdr and bill clinton. on republican side, dwight eisenhower and ronald reagan. ones cleaning up bottom of the batting order. ashley: that was my next question. >> george w. bush, richard nixon and gerald ford and herbert hoover was at bottom. ashley: the concept republicans are pro-business and more friendly leads obviously to better for your wallet. and that could be the same said in this current race. now you say that president obama, how is he doing in relation to the economy and in particular everybody's wallet? >> very good question. i actually wrote an op-ed about this comparing how barack obama has done in his first term comparing to ronald reagan in his first term. ashley: okay. >> coincidentally