you were in the clinton administration and intelligence council and obama administrati administration tell us if you look back on the clinton administration, obama and it may start with bush i. >> host: in my book i discuss since the collapse of the soviet union i should point out i was in policy planning in the last 18 months of the administration and then at the national intelligence in the bush administration. both times when i served in government we were already on a downward slide in the relationship. so i think the first was briefed because president george h. w. bush and with president yeltsin for a year was on the focus and oof course general scowcroft was the national advisor when the focus was on disarmament on the controls into deep nuclear rising say ukraine and making sure after the collapse of the soviet union to nuclear weapons was safe there was probably not enough attention given to helping out the new russian government financially, economically and i know president nixon himself was in favor of that but that was very much a perco where the intent to renew focused o

you were in the clinton administration. you were in the bush administration and in the state department. tell us if you look back, according to the administration, the bush administration and the obama administration if we can start with which one. you seem to be favorably disposed to the whoosh and i'm talking about bush 41. >> guest: in my book i discuss for resets that i count since the collapse of the soviet union. i should point out i was in policy planning in the last 18 months of the clinton administration in six months of the bush and administration and then the national intelligence and the bush of administration but both firms when i served in government we were on a downward slide in the u.s. russian relationship. so i think the first reset was brief because obviously president george h.w. bush overlapped with president yeltsin for about a year but that was very much when the focus of course of general scowcroft was the national security adviser when the focus was on disarmament on arms control issues on denuclear

. >> the policies of the clinton administration i applaud. he made good on that promise and signed what amouned to the biggest capital gains tax cut in american history. he went after entitlement spending. those were great policies. the problem that i see in this budget and administration is it has done the opposite. it has raised taxes. $550 billion annually. it has increased entitlement spending with the obama care entitlements. it has run up record number of deficits. you are doing the opposite and having the opposite results. the revenue ratios are the same as the clinton administration's. >> he was reducing spending. swroo we are -- >> discretionary. >> yeah. >> we are talking about the entire budget which brings me to the final question. you propose no reforms. i'm curious how you plan on doing that? >> the trillion dollars that occurs has been implementation. >> we have to keep this thing runs. miss lee. >> thank you very much. i apologized. i had another meeting. things got dhchanged around. i tonight believe anyone has asked you yet

administration. and i read another book about bill clinton and the survivor. for all the apocalyptic descriptions of our 2013, life is just really hard in the white house. i looked at that and i said you know what? better than almost any other year of the bush or clinton administration. -- our 2013 seemed better than almost any other year of the bush or clinton administration. >> dan, you had heart trouble. >> i was at a dinner with -- it washaving situation.syria had what would be considered a mini stroke. i had loss of feeling in half of .y body it was scary at the time. where io the hospital, have very good health care. >> george washington hospital gave you good care? was -- i was very fortunate. the mistake i made was that i went to work the next day and i was back in the hospital. that gave me a lot of fragile allon how of this is, and the need for care. i have been taking steps to make sure that does not happen again. i am in pretty good health. >> what was that? >> bette quality of life and work. dennis would have done just as well without me there. yo

i was part of the clinton administration for the first 2.5 .ears the economy during the clinton years was at a strength and vigor that people now look back to with nostalgia. it was a time during which 22 million jobs were created, when bill clinton left office, unemployment was below four percent. it was one of the few times in recent american history where the wages of all americans from the bottom of the income scale to the top rose at about the same rate. people gained not only income, but wealth. it was a time in which we delivered four balanced budgets in a row. it is a little hard for me to except the proposition that nafta undermines the economy when its passage appears to me to have coincided with economic acceleration and prosperity that we would be happy to regain. host: democrats line, naples, florida. class everything he said, i was so impressed and so happy to hear people state the way american people actually feel. a longbeen around for time and voted for many presidents. i used the seat the congress put together but the latest fellow just called up to talk about nasa,

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importance of these moves today is sandy berger, former national security adviser during the clinton administration. he was foreign policy adviser to hillary clinton during her '08 presidential campaign and he's currently co-chair of the albright stonebridge consulting group. thank you very much for being here. >> nice to be here. >> president obama announcing this new round of sanctions today. it's the third of those, as best i can tell. we expect there may be more. how tough are these in the grand scheme of things? >> i think these are good steps today. sanctioning rossiya bank i think is important. this, as you pointed out, is really the kremlin bank. it's the bank of the kremlin insiders. authorizing treasury to go after key sectors of the russian economy, mining, banking, defense, i think loads the gun for further actions. i think that's important. i think more needs to be done. i think next week's meetings in europe the president's having with the european leaders are important opportunities to come together around a longer term strategy, because i believe this is a longer term challenge. >>

. >> bill clinton, i'm very proud to be part of the clinton administration, clinton raised taxes. but the other point, and i think it's important to keep in mind that globalization and technological change really hit big in the late '70s, early 1980s. and instead of investing more in education and infrastructure and job training, making our workforce and our infrastructure world class, second to none, we did just the opposite. and we deregulated wall street. and bill clinton and the clinton administration was part of that deregulation. i'm taking some blame here. but the too wbig to fail banks n wall street, degree of corporate welfare, that's really what's happened. >> you know, i think george w. bush deserves some blame for this, too. i think under the bush administration, a lot of these entitlement programs were expanded. the eligibility was lifted. there was some regulation under bush. i mean, steve, i was talking to art laffer about this. weakness at home in the economy is creating weakness abroad with the whole putin story. so you were talking last night on john bachelor rad

this was before obamacare, it was when the clinton administration was trying to reform health care. te house with then first lady hillary clinton. the goal was to get congressman mcdermott on board with the clinton administration's approach to health reform as they tried to get it passed through congress. the day before that meeting, hillary clinton's staff, we now know, sent her this memo prepping her for that meeting with congressman mcdermott, quote, we need to keep him happy and on our side. quote, as staged and pr presumptuous as that is, you might suggest you throw out all the staff at the end of the meeting to have a private relationship with him, this will signal your closeness with him. the efforts by the clinton white house to woo certain members of congress are kind of fascinating to read about in this gritty level of detail. these details are spelled out in documents released today. 33,000 pages of documents from the clinton white house are going to be made public in the coming days. who knows if it's going to be anything substantive that we didn't know already about the

. >> it hasn't changed since the clinton gore administration. climate has not increased since the clinton gore administration. crazy low. >> the measure ♪ between the clinton administration and today. >> you are both falling into ideological trap and it's boring. >> it's not ideological to believe in science. >> of course it. >> no, it's not. >> not going to solve it over here. scientists over here that say global warming is real. >> they there not equal will number of scientists. >> that's true. >> you are acting like kate and i have like an equal argument here and it's not equal in terms of the science. >> i was quite clear when i said more scientists are on your side. but that even makes this more fascinating. so let's stay with fascination. >> okay. so i really do think that a lot of this is not -- there is not the immediate impact. we are talking about something down the road and people to be more concerned with the immediate. >> and they blame sandy and they blame the cold winter and they blame the drought in california. everything is blame

clinton's administration had a move to create icann as an independent, private, nonprofit in season.nstitution. we coordinate these things. regard, we have done this job very well. it has not been down once in many, many decades. it is working very well. we ensure that stakeholders have a seat at the table. the stakeholders are businesses, government -- we have over 130 government thing on the committee. society, we have active organizations, academics, all of them sitting on an equal footing and making sure that these identifiers work. >> are there any competitors to icann? >> this role cannot be ordered by more than one player. managedthan one entity a key identifier of the internet, by nature, the internet will no longer be one that -- one net. at the heart of the matter is the domain name system. very few people appreciate that in order to resolve issues, there is a root system that make that work for the entire planet. in the room, all names are resolved to make sure that when span.org for.c example, or any other website name, you go to the exact i that you want to go to -- site

with that, and prying kosovo away from serbia in the clinton administration, did russia feel humiliated, and through its point of view justified in getting it's own back after all these years later? >> i think this is definitely the narrative that putin and his elites are pronging. for them it's not so much instrumental. i believe they do believe it, that they were humiliated, and that specific situation has to changes. and they do have a right to claim this power status, and to fight for their sphere of influence around the periphery . >> what is the down side of allowing crimea to pass peacefully back into russia's arms? >> well, it address a dangerous precedence. all the neighbors of russia has sizable russian minorities. if we allow this press tense to take placprecedence totake placn none of those countries will feel safe any more. i think very quickly we'll see this problem, this approach of russia to its neighbors spill over in other countries use the russian cards to exert the influence. this is a precedence that is very dangerous for the borders in the entire sel soviet space a

the clinton administration's response to global terrorism, and a number of speeches by then-first lady hillary clinton. joining me now is jim, campaign correspondent for the "national review" with his thoughts. jim, what have you looked at as far as the 4,000 pages of documents? because they were just released about an hour ago. >> yeah, very early on in the process. a couple thousand to go. by the way, these are papers, they're filed a wway, sometimes they're handwritten and scrawled. they're not always typewritten with a to and from. there's one that, scrolled at the top is send to -- we aren't sure if this was related to the u.s.s. cole or other incidences of terrorism during the clinton years. it talks about the idea of the fears in the muslim world of the u.s. targeting muslims and american fears about terrorism flourishing in the muslim world. state department should do this to find some kind of high-profile muslim. it's not clear. they said find a muslim. they wanted a spokesman. fascinating. we don't know who it's from. nobody matched the handwriting yet. more is of interest to

she would quit facebook for politics starting career as a treasury department during the clinton administration. >>> new this morning, forbes manage has the magazine with richest people in the planet and this year more women than ever. the wealthiest person in the world, this honor goes, again, to microsoft co-founder, bill gates with a worth of $76 billion. according to "forbes" magazine there are 42 new female billionaires, including wal-mart heiress the richest worth $36 billion fortune. and number three is another walton family member, ellis worth $34.3 billion. >> parents who use a sleep noise machine to help their baby fall asleep could be doing more harm than good. researchers at the university of toronto say infant sleep machines can reach volumes that can lead to noise induced hearing loss with many machines competing the recommended 50 decibels at the close of distance. researchers say they are concerned because there is limited or no instructions for safe use. >> meteorologist, mike nicco, is ahead with the forecast. >> good morning, again, from the roof. it is very dry but gray look

washington, 3-2, their first win in san jose since the first year of the clinton administration which was? >> 1992. >> excellent. brian hackney, you can never get anything by him. >> stanford, tomorrow morning,. >> back in a minute. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the great american novel. so you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow. so you can finish the great american novel banking for the life you have investing for the life you want chase. so you can >> just like that, that's a wrap for us. we're done right? >> thanks for watching, goodnight. >> that's all folks. ,, [thunder] they said that storm was coming, and they weren'dding. [thunder] oh... how are we? well, you know, it's hard. 't ki thanks. it would have been amy's birthday tomorrow. paul? hmm. 's been a rock. but you know how he is.

. >> allot of the work started by the clinton administration, using satellites to understand climatenge, the program was put on ice. >> the nasa earth science budget was cut by more than 30% to free up space exploration, including a mission to mars. shelled were satellite missions to monitor tropical rainfall, sea levels, glacial movement, soil moisture, permafrost, and improved information on droughts and floods. >> the problem is that you lose the continuity of data. >> you what scientists to look at the past 40 years. you do not want to say here is four years, then seven years missing, now more information. we are not sure what happened during the gap. but your seeing in some cases. satellites the entire time helping us to understand what is one to come next. >> the obama administration took steps to revive a funding. >> the president put out a budget that asked for a fair amount of money to do more research and build more satellites. he is not necessarily getting it. he is getting a diminished form of his budget that does not necessarily have enough money for him to do what scien

. >> the policies of the clinton administration i applaud. he made good on that promise and signed what amouned to the biggest capital gains tax cut in american history. he went after entitlement spending. those were great policies. the problem that i see in this budget and administration is it has done the opposite. it has raised taxes. $550 billion annually. it has increased entitlement spending with the obama care entitlements. it has run up record number of deficits. you are doing the opposite and having the opposite results. the revenue ratios are the same as the clinton administration's. >> he was reducing spending. swroo we are -- >> discretionary. >> yeah. >> we are talking about the entire budget which brings me to the final question. you propose no reforms. i'm curious how you plan on doing that? >> the trillion dollars that occurs has been implementation. >> we have to keep this thing runs. miss lee. >> thank you very much. i apologized. i had another meeting. things got dhchanged around. i tonight believe anyone has asked you yet

i defended the clinton administration that night on the bbc's news night hour, which would be the equivalent of night line-- "night line" here in america. i debated the leader of the u.u.p. later today i'm hosting a briefing with jerry adams and the congressional friends of ireland and i urge our friends to visit with them if they can, and later on to meet the irish prime minister at 3:30 this afternoon. when we contrast where america and ireland were in this special relationship that dates to three centuries, it's important to recall what it looked like in the north of ireland for 30 years ago. there were 30,000 british soldiers in an area the size of the state of connecticut. there was a police force that held the position that nationalists need not apply, the royal constable larry. the british soldiers are gone and the constables are gone today. the watch towers that monitor the activities largely of the nationalist community have been taken down and you can cross rom derry to donagal without knowing you moved from the north of ireland to the republic of ireland without being stopped, sea

the issue here is that the clinton administration very wisely after the 1996 telecom racket started a hands-off policy. we're not going to regulate it like the traditional telephone network we're going to invest it. and that investment that sat on the sidelines that was not going in to broadband. >> $300 billion. >> o since 1996. >> whose money? >> broadband providers, cable companies, verizon and google are investing that money into broadband networks. the point is about reclassification as a legal matter it's just not true that the fcc has to change that classification to regulate that new falltneutrality. the court said it could do this through-- >> this is where i have to jump in and disagree with you. there are shreds of remaining authority that the fcc has, but basically what has happened over the last decade or so, the fcc built its policy essentially out of a house of cards and it's been one decision after another that they've constructed to hold the whole thing together. what happened in january, the whole house of cards--i know that's funny considering the netflix--but the w

there was a great debate at the beginning of the clinton administration about how to deal with what wasceived as a relatively small recession, but nonetheless a recession, what to do. there were those who wanted to spend their way out, and others said no, let's have budgetary restraint. that will be better for the economy, that will keep interest rates down, it will tend to restrain inflationary pressures, and, in the long run, we'll be better off. and that was, i think fortunately, the approach that was adopted. and lo and behold, the economy did so well that we got some productivity increases, that revenues increased faster than expected, budget expenditures were held down, and for the first time in decades, we had budgetary surpluses. schoumacher: there was no inflation when it came to goods and services, t the was a sharp rise was this a problem?ocks. rivlin alan greenspan coid the term "irrional exubance," meaning that pple were buying stocks swe now know, of course, would cthat ty dn't. up and up. schoumacher: e fed played a key role in holding down inflatio in t 1990s, but after

she did a stint on the white house economic council during the clinton administration.ut moving her leg hasn't been her own challenge. there was a tragic childhood experience she tried to forget. >> actually, i was senxually abused from the age of 2 to 7 from my stepfather. it was difficult to deal with emotionally. probably one of the hardest things i ever had to deal with. i just blocked out the memories for years. >> this single mom's life experiences have inspired several of her books including "how strong women pray." >> i want to share a story with you about one of the hardest things i ever did. and you can see i have done a lot of hard things. >> bonnie travels the world as a motivational speaker and makes a special effort to inspire kids like these from reach prep. >> bonnie st. john i believe represents for us determination, a woman who has overcome enormous odds just to be where she is, to accomplish what she has. so we'd like to have people like bonnie come and kind of validate the students but also show them what commitment long term will help them accomplis

i was in the clinton administration at the time of nasa. i think it is a good thing. the president was courageous in supporting it. they needed a lot of republican votes to get it passed. i also think we oversold. the cabinets fanned out and said this is the greatest thing since whenever. it is very dangerous to do that. i think it has been a success but a modest success. >> one more question you go

. >>> the release of once confidential clinton administration documents from the national archives offersnsight into hillary clinton's thinking when she tried unsuccessfully to overhaul the nation's health care system in 1993. the documents reveal that the first lady expressed doubt that any proposal that included a mandate requiring the purchase of insurance could be approved by congress. mrs. clinton is quoted as saying it will be a much harder sell and warning that it could send what she called shock waves through the currently insured population. the affordable care act enacted in 2010 includes just such a mandate, if enactment and -- are -- and the national basketball association says it will donate proceeds from the sale of jason collins' number 98 jersey to two organization that is support gay rights. the league says the donations will total more than $100,000. ♪ >>> now to our signature segment. tonight reported from germany. nearly 70 years after the end of world war ii the government there is intensifying its efforts to educate young germans about nazi war crimes and is still pu

the bill clinton administration documents that come out all about the past or her as first lady. was the secretary of state. do republicans think that's the way to go or do they like more of the bill clinton type in going after hillary? >> when i speak to republicans this past week, they're interested in the story. they're almost surprised by this whole antidote that came out of a fund-raiser. all we've read in articles and books lately about secretary clinton is that she's on message, so disciplined. but this may show she's not exactly on had her a-game yet. they'll continue to look to the player files an other things, let it play out a little bit. see how clinton does when she is back in the field. >> hillary did not come up that much at cpac, by the way. obama is still public enemy number one for conservatives. >> and mccain came to hillary's defense this week on the hitler comment and other folks in the foreign policy hawks -- >> that probably makes her a little nervous. >> no more props that russian reset button? if anyone says where this, carry this, don't do it. >> good ad

i was part of the clinton administration for the first 2.5 .ears the economy during the clinton yearsat a strength and vigor that people now look back to with nostalgia. it was a time during which 22 million jobs were created, when bill clinton left office, unemployment was below four percent. it was one of the few times in recent american history where the wages of all americans from the bottom of the income scale to the top rose at about the same rate. people gained not only income, but wealth. it was a time in which we delivered four balanced budgets in a row. it is a little hard for me to except the proposition that nafta undermines the economy when its passage appears to me to have coincided with economic acceleration and prosperity that we would be happy to regain. host: democrats line, naples, florida. class everything he said, i was so impressed and so happy to hear people state the way american people actually feel. a longbeen around for time and voted for many presidents. i used the seat the congress put together but the latest fellow just called up to talk about nasa, i am

i was in the clinton administration at the time of nasa. i think it is a good thing. the president was courageous in supporting it. they needed a lot of republican votes to get it passed. i also think we oversold. the cabinets fanned out and said this is the greatest thing since whenever. it is very dangerous to do that. i think it has been a success but a modest success. >> one more question you go >> -- one more question? >> i am a principal. are at that stage of social security and we talked to a lot of people. it seems like there are ways to maneuver the system to get more and more if you do it right, which doesn't sound right. there is actually a book written on ways to make more money on this. todoesn't just come right me. i want to do the best thing that i don't want to do something that is going to hurt others. >> i just had a granddaughter graduate. you can design any system whether it is the tax system or medicare or whatever it is that somebody isn't going to write a book on how to gain the system. they probably will make money on it. very careful when you

. >>> new troves of documents from former president bill clinton's administr@dion set to be releasedtime to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly. up first, the good. the moment a deaf woman hears for the first time. >> monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday. >> the 40-year-old who was born deaf had cochlear implants put in last month. the bad. instant karma in florida. reporting an angry driver tailgating her car, watched what happens next. ç >> that's what you get! you're on video, buddy. >> finally the ugly. he's loving it forever, his mcdonald's receipt on his arm after his friends dare him to do it. >> time for your brew on this responses. noah opens to a storm of criticism over the word god being left out. we asked you if you were offended about that. >> patrick says if you're going to make a story from a book of the word of god, you should use the word "god." >> here is what eddie has to say. it's just a movie. >> thanks for watching. have a great weekend. >> bye. >>> good morning to you. it is finally friday, the 28th of march, 2014. i'm anna kooimanç in for elisabeth hasse

look and see what's happening in the world ask yourself after five years of the obama administration, secretary clinton, her administration now new secretary of state, who, by the way, i hope does well. look offer the past five years and see what's happened, good things have in the been bursting out all over. the middle east is in turmoil, auto pack is fragile and may fall back in to a dove stating setting. we're not making the kind of progress in afghanistan that had been promised. and our esteem around the world has fallen. i can't think of a major country, hard to think of single country that has greater respect and admiration for america today than it did five years ago when barack obama became president. that's a very sad, unfortunate state of affairs. >> schieffer: final question, governor. have you been thinking, are you thinking about running for president again? >> i'm thinking about the people i want to see running for president. there's quite a group. we have a very strong field of leaders who could become our nominee. and could stand up for the kind of leadership i think america wants. a lo

in the clinton administration warning that clinton should not go out and say you get to keep your doctor and your healthcare plan because we don't want to get caught overpromising something we know isn't true. excellent. >> >>> this is a fox news alert. the crisis in ukraine growing more urgent by the minute. you crane leaders accusing moscow of invading. russian planes crossing the border. seizing the main airport. ukraine's acting president urging president putin to stop provocations. and pull back military sources. we have a live report from the region in a few minutes. here in the united states, president obama warning russia there will be costs for military intervention in ukraine. from the latest correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. jennifer? >> greta, officials tell us they are seeing military movement by russian forces into and out of the area. they are moving by land and by sea. this video apparently shows some of the dozen or so russian combat helicopters crossing the border into the ukraine today. sources tell us approximately 2,000 russian troops may have l

. >> the two running mates make the case that the clinton administration did not know how to handle the issue of oil, but a george w. bush administration would. >> those gasoline prices are going up. you know why? there have been no energy plan. >> the fact we don't have an energy policy out there is one of the major storm clouds on the horizon for our economy. >> rewind a year before that election. dick cheney is ceo of the oil services firm halliburton, speaking at the institute of petroleum's fall conference in london. he says, for over 100 years we as an industry have had to deal with the pesky problem, once you find oil and pump it out of the ground, you have to turn around and find more or go out of business. looking ahead to 2010 by which time he says world's energy needs will have increased by millions of barrels of oil per day, cheney asks where is the oil going to come from? "the middle east with 2/3 of the world's oil and the lowest cost. it's still where the prize ultimately lies." arguing that oil is the fundamental building block of the world's economy, the future vice pre

he worked in the clinton administration. as he said, the boeing triple 7 planes don't just go missing. and the fact it may have been flying for four hours in another direction with the transponder turned off, which mechanically the pilot has to do it himself. it just gets more odd by the day, catherine, no one can figure it out. >> well, the thing that has my attention tonight is when you look at the not at the white house today this decision also by the navy to send the uss kidd to redirect it from the strait of malacca, that is the waterway, to indonesia, that is not something you do on a hunch. because you are taking that destroyer out of the picture for other operations. you only do that when you have credible evidence that the jetliner may have flown in that direction. that is a key development because it shows that this information is being assessed in a very serious way. >> what about the latest, the sidney morning herald, a lot of reports are obscure. did you hear anymore about that? >> what i heard from tsa official

joining me now, madeleine albright who is, of course, secretary of state in the clinton administration and zbigniew brzezinski who was carter's national security adviser. welcome back, both. zbigniew, let me start with you, this is about as tense a situation. what can washington or the world do to stop putin from doing what phil black was suggesting, which is moving even further and actually moving russian troops into ukraine proper? >> that prospect in my view is by far the more serious one because in effect, putin has claimed the right to intervene in ukraine itself, to intervene militarily by force, and the crimean scenario may be a preview of what he's planning, namely in some of the eastern regions of ukraine, which are inhabited by russian speaking ukrainians, some of whom are favorable to moscow, riots could be staged, could be provoked by moscow, and then russian troops would enter. this is what we have to deter, prevent, discourage. we have to take a stand publicly offering russia some sort of participation in an overall international effort to help stabilize the ukrainian eco

the clinton administration -- and this was coming largely through janet reno, the attorney general then -- there was real concern that this event in laramie could explode into a national catastrophe. there was concern -- remember that oklahoma city bombing happened under bill clinton. the waco incident happened under bill clinton. and there was a concern that the polarizing around this case could perhaps lead to some explosion of violence in laramie. i know that at the very beginning of the case there was talk, the federal government was talking about prosecuting this case as a federal case, and cal aruka was standing in the background. and after a couple of weeks, you know, i don't know if it was two weeks, three weeks, the federal government then basically said we're bowing out, and we want you to prosecute the case. there was also a kind of a promise that was made veryally that the federal government would support -- verbally that the federal government would support the prosecutions. and, in fact, other than a little bit of help with forensic testing, the support from the federal go

ed, the national archive released previously confidential documents from the clinton administration.ugget to come out of the papers? >> there was a fascinating memo that came from early july, 1999. a long-time clinton political aide writing this memo literally the night before mrs. clinton made it official she was going to run for senate. i remember that well. it was fascinating. here is a professional political consultant telling the first lady of the united states that's been on the national stage for years how to behave like a politician, act real, answer the question, but don't be too revealing. be prepared to answer questions like have you ever done drugs. figure out a way to talk about new york issues in a not too dismissive manner. make it clear you care about this stuff. it's fascinating to believe a woman who is a skilled politician need thad advice or felt the need to get it in a performance setting. it's been her trajectory ever since. >> don't be defensive. don't raise your voice, that was another one. my husband did x. stay away from that. talk about you and what you hav

in which congress has become more dysfunctional than the past, but i remember during the clinton administration, all sorts of crazy investigations. so i think this really is par for the course. >> and we should say issa did apologize. democrats clearly want more. but is there more to do and john boehner is standing behind issa. they're obviously not going to take away his chairmanship. >> yeah, they're not. as you said, issa called cummings after the whole incident at that hearing and apologized to him. and democrats last week, they ride to push a similar measure forward to force issa to come to the house floor and formally apologize. this is part of a long standing streak that democrats feel like issa has used his role as chairman of the house oversight committee to wage partisan fights. in 2012 withholding eric holder the attorney general in contempt over fast and furious. but various styles to holding chairmanship. and as josh mentioned, there are chair men who behave this way and run their committee this way. >> good to see both you of. thank you. >>> coming up, we'll talk to a freshman mem

. >> there was also the clinton administration. i know you were around for that one.ent through all of those and i thought we were talking about my column, by the way. >> cry me a river, don't you find -- >> i find it absolutely -- this is the history of democrat presidents which i why i can't bring myself to care about foreign policy when a democrat is president. i know that america will become weaker in the world. i know we'll become more humiliated. the world will become a more dangerous place. and by the way, mr. erstwhile tea party hero paul ryan, number one, he is mr. amnesty now. he wants -- oh, and we don't punish children for the sins of their fathers, because that is what we fought at valley forge for. but number two, he is the one that came and scuttled the -- mitch mcconnell cut government spending for the first time in half a century. >> you want the tea party to back off the criticisms of mitch mcconnell. >> right, because it is ironic, i wrote a book about mobs. and when i wrote the book i could honestly say only liberals have the mob characteristics, t

certainly al gore during the clinton administration. dick cheney for w.ery visible vice presidents. so as woody allen said, 80% of life is showing up. and i think you just get joe biden out there and let joe be joe. >> you know, both of them uniquely qualified, as you say. secretary of state hillary clinton, foreign relations. joe biden spent decades on foreign relations committee in the senate. i mean, they're two highly qualified people. so i don't think, zerlina, there's going to be any split of any base. i think at the end of the day they're going to say when you look at qualifications, when you look at experience, when you look at level-headedness, either one of them. what do you think? >> right. i think this a great place to be if you're a democrat. i think the focus should be on the midterm selections. 2016 is a long way away. anybody who runs in 2016 is going to need a democratic majority in the house and senate in order to be effective. we saw this under president obama. if you don't have that, then you can't get much done. so i think that hillar

a right-wing attack on the civil rights division of the doj going back 20 years into the clinton administration no, that's exactly right. in fact, it really goes back further. i mean, reagan, bush, bush, have all tried to dismantle and weaken this particular part of the doj. every time the republicans have been in power. when the dems are in power, day troy to weaken it as well. let's be first clear on who debo is. debo is the thurgood marshall of our generation. he's simply the best black civil rights lawyer in the country, maybe the best civil rights lawyer in the country, period. he's a man who has defended the voting rights act twice and hails from the naacp ldf which is the firm, if you will, if any firm could be credited with writing the vra, it is them. the only time we've seen this sort of spurullous, shameful attack before is the last time an naacp ldf voting rights lawyer, in that case, was up to head up the civil rights division of the doj. >> that's right. >> you know, and so we should know this game. and we should not allow ourselves to be, you know, swayed by the bs rhetoric becau