talk about it during the clinton administration. there are a number of things you mentioned in the book that i was unaware of. i don't think a lot of americans knew this was occurring the beginning of the clinton administration. they didn't exit the party right away. other politicians understood this game bill clinton comes in and 92. one of the ways you signal to white working-class voters is he rebukes jesse jackson. he used his convention. that wasthat was not a message to black people but white voters. because of the needs to do compromise. republicans taking advantage gearing to the right who does the crime bill. reverend al sharpton was protesting when the crime bill passed. it is seen by civil rights leaders as the beginning of war. he does the welfare reform bill, trying to get the worst bill through that had real consequences. so this clinton path which on the one hand was a golden economic age for african-americans, and they loved bill clinton in a lot of ways. there was a lot of tension, to. >> host: fascinating. i know y

clinton administration, did not win out to well. heavy have this conversation seems that many people want? >> president obama said it needs to have the individual level, i think he has learned the lesson. itit is really difficult to see who would have the stature, he was not able to make it happen. and so many figures in the african-american side of the ledger have been commission is a race man, raise person. so i don't know. i don't mean to be pessimistic. i think it is going to have to happen on an individual level. >> well, there is an old saying, you have given us a whole lot today. i am very appreciative. thank you very much for your wisdom, knowledge. the book is fracture. barack obama, the clintons, the racial divide and i encourage everybody. >> thank you so much. ..

i was in the clinton administration. democrats controlled the house and senate. now we see the republicans have. now we see president bush really having a bit of troubles, lots of scandals and issues. is there a danger that unified government breeds a form of arrogance or people don't reach out? is there maybe something admirable about divided government? or is it just a matter of encouraging people to essentially pretend there is divided government even if you control everything? >> there is a growing sense in the country that divided government isn't so bad. i tell a story in the book about a lady who saw me the week before the election and was hyperventilating saying what happens if john kerry becomes president. and she said what would happen? and i said they will be okay. i said if he is elected, there is less money spent because the government would turn down a ba bunch of programs and i was right. the idea of divided government when parties start to lose their way i think it is a good thing. but if a party inherits a platform or program i would like to see

talk about the clinton administration. their number of things you mentioned in the book that i was unaware of that highlight this fracture and i don't even think a lot of americans knew that this was occurring in the beginning of the clinton administration. >> guest: wanted things people assume is we want the civil rights and voting acts to exit the party. didn't exit the party right away but you had southern politicians including jimmy carter and including bill clinton who understood this wishful game where you have to keep wide rural voters in line and behold us at their hands at the same time. bill clinton comes in the 92 and one of the things he signals to white working-class voters that he is their guy as he rebukes jesse jackson whose movement change the party. this incredible voter registration movement. he goes to his convention and rep nukes him. that wasn't a message to black people. that was a message to white voters. he comes in bill clinton and because of the need to compromise because you had republicans take

done is a continuation of work that had been done previously by the bush administration, the clinton administration. the office of faith-based organizations are working on an ongoing basis around a whole host of issues. my brother's keepers reaching out to churches and synagogues and mosques to try to figure out how do we reach young boys and young men in a serious way. but the one thing i want to say is that, when i think about my own christian faith and my obligations, it is important for me to do what i can myself, individually, mentoring young people or making donations. in some ways, impacting whatever circles of influence i have. i also think it is important to have a voice in the larger debate. and i think it would be powerful for our faith-based organizations to speak out on this in a more forceful fashion. this may sound self-interested, because there have been -- these are areas where i agree with faith-based groups and issues where we have had disagreements around reproductive issues or same-sex marriage or what have you. maybe it appears advantageous for me to focus on these issues of p

people that are fools or they like rouhani, then don't know or just lying about it, during the clinton administration, president clinton's policies were to run help persecuted muslims wherever we -- wide receiver we found them around the worldle while we were -- whenever we found them around the world. while we were busy helping muslims, they were planning the attack on new york city and washington, d.c. and hoping to wipe out the entire american government here in washington, d.c. and but for the heroic act of people on a plane that took it down in pennsylvania, they may well have. we don't need to hear any of these lies about oh, if america just hadn't invaded afghanistan and iraq, regardless of whether you agree with what president bush ordered with iraq, the fact is, 9/11 was a terrorist attack before and so was the attack on the u.s.s. cole. and so were the attack on our embassies around the world during the 1990's. and so was the first world trade center attack in 1993 that apearntly had some planning back during the former president bush's administration. and that was an administration that st

, president bill clinton's administration.e t-mobile phone line, switch your business today. sandy, thrilled to speak to you this morning. i would suggest not only is syria unraveling, but the dialogue on syria is unraveling right now. what do you look for from washington as we see refugees and migrants in europe, and we see the warfare continue in syria? tody: number one, we have step up to the plate. time for us to lecture them about taking the refugees. we took in a tight -- 1800 last year, so we have some credibility. number two, ultimately, we have to go to the source of the bleeding in syria. until that bleeding is stopped in some way, this will pour into europe and the on. europe itself will have to work out a structure of processing and sharing the refugees. it will be very difficult for europe, all sorts of strains thomas fears of cultural changes, fears of economic threats. but this is really a test of whether europe stays together as a united europe. michael: i want to ask about the refugees and a moment. first, the

force officer, susan shirk, she was a deputy assistant secretary of state for china in the clinton administrationchairs the 21st century china program at the university of california, san diego and christopher johnson, a senior adviser who closely watches china at the center for strategic and international studies. welcome all three to the program. let's talk first about what was accomplished, china signing on to this climate change agreement, so-called cap and trade system. susan shirk, where they limit how much an industry can pollute. how significant is this? >> very significant because air pollution has become a domestic political problem in china and the chinese leadership has, therefore, gotten very serious about its commitments on climate change because these two issues are very much related, and to see china and the united states both making strong commitments on climate change going into the u.n. climate summit in december is -- sends a message that the two countries can cooperate when their interests are as aligned as this one. >> woodruff: chris christie, yocrist --christopher johnson,

and he was just at the end of a clinton administration. and he ran into somebody who was part of-- part of the incoming administration. and he basically said, the bush 43 administration, and he said the most important thing you can do is fix fannie mae and freddie mac, that's the most important thing you can do. >> one of the really interesting things is that these companies are widely perceived as democratic companies. but it was actually under the clinton administration that larry summers, treasury first took them on in an official way back in the 1990s. and they, took them on meaning summers began to criticize them publicly and questioned the u.s. government's ties to these companies, therefore weakening them. and it became a huge political brouhaha in washington back in the late '90s. but i think it's fascinating that it was a democratic treasury secretary who first started trying to reduce their power. >> rose: so what are you going to do? what is the solution? >> the solution we think is actually to restore fannie mae and freddie to

clinton demonstration. he ran into someone part of the incoming administration.aid the most important thing you can do is fix fannie mae freddie mac. areany: these companies widely perceived as democratic companies. but it was actually under the clinton administration larry summers first of them on an official way. meaning you begin a criticize him publicly in question the u.s. government's ties. it became a huge political brouhaha. i think it is fascinating that it was a democratic treasury secretary. charlie: what you going to do? bill: solution is to restore fannie and freddie do what they were 30 years ago, very safe businesses. why is that important? the u.s. economy is the only finance market the world where you can borrow money at a 30 year fixed rate. to borrow 80% of the night of a home. you can borrow money at something less than 4% on a first mortgage on a $250,000 home, it really enables the dream of owning a home. it is a very good way to save for retirement. that is what we need to go back to. when we get back there, was happened, they took risks th

billf the agreements that clinton's administration signed. we talked about the negotiations that went into that in the book. limiteds still cooperation. a case-by-case cooperation. there are opportunities to expand that into joint planning, exercises, intelligence sharing, that would make that cooperation much better. otherwise, cuba is a blind spot when it comes to stopping narcotics traffic. there is the issue of environmental protection. before the deepwater horizon accident, the united states government did not talk to cuba about environmental protection. the only dialogue was between cuban government institutions and u.s. nongovernmental defensetions like the fund. outdated deepwater horizon accidents, when the cubans began to drill in their own zone not far off the coast of florida, there still was not a dialogue like that. and the obvious situation that had it there been an accident in cuban waters, all of the assets that converged on deepwater horizon to try to contain the cuba, couldn't go to because of the embargo. that has been cha

since the internet was invented in this country, the administration at the time, clinton administration, vice president gore, ira magaziner. i can speak of many people who are heroic in creating the original foundation of what government and public policy would look at this new thing called the internet. >> including michael powell, by the way. >> including me at the fcc. and there was a recognition of some amazing things. in essence the national ethos was let entrepreneurs, innovators and engineers and everyday people determine the growth, path and evolution of this phenomenal infrastructure and let's not adopt a model of a central regulator who is a set of attorneys and bureaucrats acting not from the bottom up as the internet works but from the top down as we try to do in the history of the phone system. that was a major national commitment, and it has been the ethos that has governed the policy of the united states for the last 20 years. written and enshrined in the statute itself. it is the national policy of the united states for the internet to grow unfettered by state and federa

split betweenial hillary clinton and the obama administration. clinton says she opposes restrictions on the keystone xl pipeline. president obama has not said that he will approve the pipeline. supporters argue that it will boost energy up and create jobs. up and say the environment the risk is too grateful stop a government review of the project began when clinton was secretary of state. ministers have agreed to a plan for them to take in 120,000 refugees. four countries in central europe -- hungary, slovakia, and the czech republic among them, voted no. they are dealing with their worst refugee crisis since world war ii, as tens of thousands of people fully the war in syria. -- the people flee the war in syria. today, a first of its kind honor flight featuring only female veterans. in world war ii as well as the korean war and vietnam war were welcome to d.c. today. 70, most ofrs than them paired with younger female veterans. they were taken to arlington national cemetery and the women in military service to america memorial. and the weather coo

and here is one of her as first lady in the clinton administration. hillary's top ad man says the pictures of her early years are important in telling her story, where she came from and the moiments that shaped her life. but republicans disagree. one advisor saying her ads and the photos are making her more tired and more dusty. oh, dusty? >> says a guy who is like negative 20 in the polls. the advisors should work with jindal. >> do you think jindal is old and dust ay? >> no, i think his campaign advisor would be advised to make his campaign -- >> he hides go pros all over his house. >> can you imagine those kids? can you imagine the trauma those kids will face and what they will find on their mom and dad's go pro one day when they are not looking? >> do you think it will help her? it seems her ancient those old photos. >> i do think it is nice she kept something from her e-mail server. >> that's right. it is nice to see that happen. >> it says a lot about a campaign that you can't show anything current. people associate it with negative thoughts and

bush and clinton administration. they are saying this is to deconflict, saying these moves are defensive in nature to help the assad regime. but it sounds like an awful lot of equipment for merely defense. >> if we see more equipment flood in this becomes less and less believable. we in iraq where we have a not dissimilar force posture, if we wanted to put advisors out in the field with the iraqi forces we would build up a very similar infrastructure. we would have attack helicopters, we would have armored personnel carriers to go out and rescue our guys if they need it, we would be putting in a hospital, flying in all types of equipment like this. this does resemble the defensive measure for their advisors for assad's forces. >> if it is true defense is the focus it would seem to signal that assad is in bad shape. >> you can look at this one of two ways, certainly he was in bad shape, they lost palmyra to i.s.i.s. not longing a, other losses, on the other hand they are backed up by a superpower. his odds of staying

released moments ago and more than 60% say they are concerned that scandals would disrupt a clinton administration if hillary were to become president. let's be clear. if hillary won the presidency, the feeling among voters is scandals would hamstring her administration. but hill sear on top in the polls at 44%, lead dropping steadily since june. as for the republican nomination, more news on this front. donald trump remains on top followed by ben carson. carly fiorina and marco rubio tied for third, all of the latter are all gaining in the polls. to break it down for us tammy bruce, fox news political contributor, joe trippi democratic strategist and we want to get into right now mr. trippi, what about the poll's findings on hillary clinton, what do you make of that? >> you know, look, it's clear self-inflicted wound and hurting her but the other side of the coin is she still maintains a sizable double-digit lead over sanders and is defeating joe biden, the sitting vice president of the united states. even though he's not in the race, i don't think that's why he's there right now, shows how stron

that all of a sudden iran has given assurances, the same assurances that they gave to the clinton administrationrly part of the obama administration and north korea violated all that. bragging about it saying it's ready to start up the nuclear engines. more importantly, volatility, when it comes to the great interest rate debate. jared follows closely the market swings, and we have a big swing up here today, jared. do you know what's behind it? because you think they'd all be on tenterhooks ahead of the fed decision. >> typically, it's quiet time ahead of the fed decision, everybody hunkers down and waits two, piece of data that came out this morning, industrial production and retail sales, both missed the mark, and i was watching fed funds futures in my models actually changed. what i thought was a 50% shot of a hike later this week is now about a 25% shot. so that's what's fueling a little of the buying here. probably not going to see the rate hike this week. and 25-40% chance is what i believe. but by december i see that more of a 70% chance or 75% chance now, and again, i think it's a philos

when the bush people came in, particularly after the feeding frenzy that went on during the clinton administration, and i agree he is the most gifted politicians i have seen in my lifetime, he understood politics for a well, but he did not control his message all the time very well. a lot of what the bush people wanted to do was to really control the message and make sure we thought was important, not writing a press release or your story, but what we thought was important with get out there. underestimate this, george w. bush would go nuts about leaks. they had a newly policy. there was greater discipline and that white house about not leaking stories. , one time there was a leak time bill casey came into the senior staff of the white house, to complain about cia stuff getting linked. 15 minutes after he left, the white house correspondent of the washington post said that 8 meeting people had a call about a link. i think the team was good, i think a lot of the problem, the press had dreams dramatically -- changed dramatically. we have lost a lot the greatest fears and entities that used to be. we

i served as governor during the clinton administration. i worked with her when she was a senator. i worked with her as secretary of state. i trust hillary clinton. i believe she is the most experienced person best able to do the job as president. that's why i'm supporting her and, again, i think we're going to see a lot of partisan attacks. we're going to see a lot of accusations go back and forth, but i want to elect the person who i think is most capable of doing the job as president, and that's why i'm supporting hillary. >> but just to follow up, some of these attacks on the handling aren't partisan in the sense they are coming from fellow democrats. >> well, again, i've been a democrat for a long time and i can tell you that sometimes my biggest critics are members of my own party, so people are always going to criticize. you can't please everybody. i think she needs to continue to work hard. she needs to point out why she's different than her opponents, what she thinks we need to do in this country to make sure the middle class has opportunities again to make sure we invest i

he served on the national security council staff during the obama and clinton administrations.welcome you both back to the program. let me start with you, steven simon. is this an occasion for the u.s. to be pleased that it has a partner in going after isis or alarmed that the russians are in syria helping their friend president assad? >> i think on balance, there's cause for some satisfaction, and the presence now in syria of a powerful military player with a serious strategic stake in defeating isis. it's really the only, i would say tacit partner. it's certainly not an explicit partner of the united states in this battle against isis. so at least the united states has a partner, even it's not official. on the other hand, it does mean that there is a serious friend of the assad regime also present in syria, and this is undoubtedly a cause for concern for the administration. >> woodruff: well, let me turn to you, andrew weiss, more cause for concern or a cause for some satisfaction? >> i think the cause for concern here is that russia is plunging head-long into a military adve

the clinton library is being planned and the latter part of the second term of the clinton administration i can't figure out why they weren't focusing on character issues in the exhibit at that time. there is what i called an old-time museum table, upstairs in the balcony, in, in the corner there are three tables. two of them have built clinton's book and report card. the rest of the museum is not about his governorship, his all about his eight years of presidency. it's all facts, all data, all the time. it's a very big contrast to the reagan library which is all about character. i encourage you to get involved. i have a list in the book of things we can do to reform the library system. my favorite is that the national archives opens the presidential museums an average of four years after the presently's office. it takes 100 takes 100 years to open the records. so we just make it small change and inhibit the archivist from accepting a museum until 75% of the items are open. if that were the law, people would get together and figure out a way to put the money and resources, and effort and

next.,, >>> the giants and dodgers burning the midnight oil and their longest game since the clinton administration 12:49 adrian gonzalez delivers a walk-off hit in the 14th inning. dodgers, a four and a half game lead over the giants, longest game between the two rivals since 1995. five hours, 29 minutes. 42 of the 50 eligible players were used and the two staffs combined to throw 452 pitches. i had two cold ones to watch the finish. game two won't last as long with a battle of aces tonight. madison bumgarner against greinke. 5-0 with a 1.43 e.r.a. in august. other notes, angel pagan has been activated from the disabled list and will bat lead-off. newly acquired alejandro de aza will play right field and bat sixth. i'm wondering if bumgarner can play offensive line. jim tomsula is hopeful he's found the right combination. returning starter joe staley and alex will be joined by marcus morton, jordan devy, and eric peers when the regular season begins. rather than talk about them as five guys, tomsula thinks of the then as one. >> offensive linemen, they move like a herd of cattle. any group of offe

since the report first aired, washington has taken notice, the house aviation subcommittee on clinton administration as well as the air traffic controllers association have demanded answers from the faa. aviation subcommittee chairman commented on the faa scandal. >> the chairman of the committee and i sent a letter to the inspector general. we got a response that because of thar our request, they will be investigating this. >> though the faa has refused to speak with us -- we were able to reach joseph teixeira, vice president of safety and technical training about the testing and cheating scandals, he said -- and this is a quote -- it's not my area of expertise. it's not my problem. it's a strange response. after all, the faa website describes teixeira's job as one in which he leads the agency's technical training and certification of air traffic controllers and technicians. >> the fact that you've got a senior official who basically is saying it's not my area, it's not my responsibility what does it mat centre in so many words what does it matter, what does cheating matter? america gets that that'

he was defeated by one guy named bill clinton, and i don't think was -- got into the clinton administrationho knows what the motives are or why he said what he said. melissa: alan colmes, i think that democrats are coming out and trying to knock the legs out from under hillary clinton right now, while it's still relatively early, they smell blood in the water, want to see somebody else come in. they think she's weak and sending people out whether it's leaking to the "new york times," you look at stories we saw this week about her doing the focus group to test her apology before she did it. that came from someone inside her campaign and also from a democrat. most of the really deadly blows are coming from other democrats. what do you make of that? >> may be so, may be individual people gone rogue. i don't think it's coming through the democratic party, and i think her, that old mark twain line, reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. the so-called liberal media has not been pro-hillary, certainly the "new york times" hasn't, and most people who are not paying attention now, if you like

>> iran has deals with al qaeda since the 1990s, the clinton administration founded, the first federalictment, the 9/11 commission found it, president obama's treasury department referencing these deals since july of 2011, get as much information as possible about these deals so we can see what happened and the wall street journal editorial, those referencing iran shelled be released to the public. that is right and very few people calling for that. the house until chair, a big strong push to do so. >> will al qaeda be empowered by the iran deal? >> i don't think funds will flow to al qaeda because of the deal but it is telling that iran, even if the negotiating is with us, began according to the obama administration so even as they are trying to negotiate with iran, they have this agreement with al qaeda that is telling. >> they said that is not part of the terms of the agreement, they wanted to be separate when the administration talks about terror. we have seen with the court documents the release papers the connection between al qaeda and iran that usama bin laden dead and his sepa

i should disclose my children's father was in the clinton administration.s with her loves her, she's a lovely person in person, but i object to her war mongering, i object to her endorsing the police state, i object to her buying into hyping terrorism as a way to build the military industrial state, who are her donors, she's not my girl, sorry. >> wow! naively i would have believed you would have looked at this as an opportunity to break that glass ceiling? >> i would rather vote for a man or woman who represents a peaceful world -- i'm not the kind of feminist who believes in sexism. just because they share my gender doesn't mean they're the best person for the job. >>> what do you think? tweet me during the progr program @smerconish. and i'll read some of the best and worst a little later. >>> this undercover cops unprovoked tackle of james blake was the latest in a series of bad news for the latest in the nation's police forces. i'll ask ray kelly the man who ran the nypd after 9/11 what he thinks. remember when we used to raise the roof, diane? oh, quie

if you look at recent administrations, both republican and democrat if the clinton administration hadork, you know, i worked on north korea human rights issues in the bush administration, we were trying to make life harder for the regime but chris hill wins with another february 13, 2007 agreement. it was a huge amount of sanctions relief, of economic assistants. so, you know, they see a new administration that's on its last year, the obama administration, one that's willing to make deals with countries that break nuclear agreements and as i say, wants a piece of the pie. charles: well, as long as north korea is run by this lunatic, a dictator, a string of lunatics, kim jong-un's grandfather. don't they present a clear danger to the world that maybe one day that he believed the president they would be crazy enough to actually launch one of these nuclear weapons? >> there is that risk and of course they have been getting better at rocket launches. we tend to make fun of them when, for example, their first nuclear test wasn't that good or their rocket test failed but look at our own roc

jon: rich, in an earlier clinton administration it was a vast right-wing conspiracy. there something like that going on these days, maybe even a left-wing conspiracy that is causing hillary clinton's problems? >> yeah. the media is not -- the conspiracy is now so vast, jon, that it includes "the new york times." and i never would have thought we'd have "the new york times" being included in the right-wing orbit that's allegedly out to get hillary clinton. look, the coverage has been tough, and there are a couple reasons for that. one, no one believes her explanation on the e-mails, especially reporters who are following it closely. that matters. reporters also get the sense that she can't stand them, and she tolerates them at best. and then finally, a lot of the coverage is always driven by the polls. and her poll numbers have been sinking like a stone which is a natural formula for negative coverage. jon: lynn, let me just ask you about one part of that. you know, if you're a judge, if you're an attorney, even if you don't like your client, you're supposed to give hi

and where bill's desk would be in a new clinton administration. you'll get it all there. next, clinton on what went wrong with the country's syria strategy and how she'll tackle foreign policy challenges. >> if he had been able to move in and help organize and support those people on the ground, maybe we could have made a difference. well, we got to deal with where we are now. it's obviously now a different set of circumstances. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep it all digital. we're looking to double our deliveries. our fleet apps will find the fastest route. oh, and your boysenberry apple scones smell about done. ahh, you're good. i like to bake. add new business services with at&t and get up to $500 in total savings. [laughs] irresistible moments deserve irresistibles treats. [meows] new from meow mix with real salmon chicken or tuna. the only treat cats ask for by name. >>> by the way, today is a big nbc news/"wall street journal" poll release day. here's one headline you should know. the new poll shows that vice president joe biden's possibl

the '94 framework which was entered into by the clinton administration, neil, was the very same thingagreement they talked about north korea giving up its entire nuclear infrastructure. we knew from '92 to '94 that the north koreans were doing all sorts of things at the highly classified level. my fear here, neil, based on reporting coming out about intelligence being cooked, we may well know the iranians are up to no good, have completely avoided telling congress that. >> it seems a little disjointed. i want to explain to viewers. we are showing headlines at the time of the north korea deal. if it seems, to your point, a little deja vu-ish. >> you're correct. i'm glad you did that. what i am saying is that it's all very earaly similar. the negotiators who negotiated the '94 deal negotiated this deal. the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result or maybe not. in this case you're talking about $100 billion thrown into the iranian coffers immediately. i'm telling you, we'll soon find out the reason the north koreans are ramping up is becau

i knew because i was in the middle of shutting it down, i knew that we would get the clinton administrationend because there were too many people there who said, yeah, we really need that to pursue a balanced budget. so you don't want to do this all the time. but there are times when it really can matter as long as you can get a win. but you can do it by sending pieces of legislation and having the president veto it like we did on welfare reform. we didn't have to shut the government down, but we got welfare reform through. >> you did shut it down on the issue of balancing a budget with cbo numbers in seven years and you did it. >> right. >> so this is my next question for you. i know your background and record as well as anybody. you have a very impressive conservative record. you were the architect -- >> right. >> -- as the house budget chair of the last balanced budget this country had. you created a surplus with your budget and you fought the president, president clinton at the time, to get it. as governor you inherited huge deficits, huge surpluses -- excuse me, huge deficits, you turn

. >> not enough democrats acknowledge, though, both in bill clinton's administration and in the present administration the fact that the triangulation led very much forward the reagan revolution, if you will, which maybe we shouldn't call it the reagan revolution because the revolution of 1800 and then later with jackson were the real revolutions then roosevelt's was an aberration not a revolution and shouldn't -- and reagan's was furthering the real origin story. but my point or question in the context of this last audience question about someone who wanted to know what the jefferson rule was, how do you see clinton and obama fitting into this story? i think you just told us how you see obama. a perfect vehicle thh which the message could be anything, right? that's how he was elected in 2008, change. a very abstract concept. >> and hope. >> right, and hope. and certainly he's been more progressive than conservative in executing policy, sure, but it was clinton who said the era of big government is over. >> yeah. >> and so if that wasn't paying homage to jefferson, i don't know what wou

. >> joining us with reaction is former adviser for the clinton administration, ambassador nancy sodenberg state department and intelligence agencies have stated, quote, that they believe that isis and al qaeda will attempt to infiltrate the refugee population in an attempt to get to both europe and here. that means the likelihood is that they very well could get here. why would we take one person and put one american at risk based on what they're telling us is likely to happen? >> well, first of all, they're already doing that. we've had them trying to get americans to go over there, some americans have gone over there. the issue of the refugees, you have to remember, we have the best screening process in the world. and i am confident that as we let these refugees into this country -- >> you're confident of that, but i can tell you that -- you can say that, but we've had refugees before, for example, we took uzbeks into boise, idaho, and some were terrorists. excuse me, but my own question is considering they probably have very little documentation, probably don't have a driver 's license

you know, in the entire bill clinton administration inning ayears, one person was ever convicted of anythingd i think it was a deputy, a chief of staff or secretary of agriculture that involved super bowl tickets. and that's all that they have at the end of the day. but it's not going to stop 'em from taking trey gowdy, who's a tool of the koch brothers, just feeds "the new york times" stuff and they put it in the paper. just like the neocons fed "the new york times" a bunch of bunk that they put on the front page of the paper and basically helped start is a war. you would think at some point people who are supposed to know better would learn their lesson. but they never do, and so therefore, i have to keep coming out of retirement to point this kind of stuff out. >> let me ask you this. one thing that does come through in the e-mails that we've seen is just the degree to which, if hillary clinton has a life and career that is so distinct, so abnormal, in certain ways, partly because it's so accomplished and extraordinary, but there is just this universe of people through 30, 40 years in pub

. >>> in february last year, the bill clinton presidential library released some clinton administrationers to the public for the first time. the trove of stuff they released included this memo from 1995 which was prepared for then first lady hillary clinton and it was about the notable qualities of the press corps that was going to be traveling with the first lady on her big trip to china. including someone named andrea mitchell from nbc news about whom the first lady was warned in 1995 "she is a very aggressive and a very good reporter." hillary clinton warned about andrea mitchell's aggression 20 years ago today. the warning still stands. >> why did you wipe the server clean even after you knew that a congressional committee or more committees were investigating? you've said it was because it was convenient. clearly from the e-mails released it wasn't convenient. are you sorry? why do that? were you trying to keep reporters or investigating committees away? are you sorry? do you want to apologize to the american people for the choice you made? the first words that came to mind when as

back in the states a few days later i shared as much with the clinton administration. negotiations that ensued over the course of the next year ultimate lit presented arafat with the best land-for-peace proposal the palestinians would ever receive. in the end, they turned it down. i was later told that "arafat simply could not take yes for an answer." 16 years have passed since then, 16 years. another transformative opportunity has presented itself. this time to america and to our five negotiating partners -- the british, the french, the germans, the russians, the chinese, as well as the people of iran. we have a chance to ensure that the iranian hopes of developing a nuclear weapons program are put on the shelf for years, maybe forever. iranians have a chance to bring to an end the crippling sanctions that the coalition we lead has imposed on iran for years. the iranians have an opportunity -- another opportunity. that is to shed their status as a pariah among the nations of this world and assume a position worthy of their history and their culture. over the past two

he served on the national security council staff during the obama and clinton administrations.el baev, what do we know of the extent of the russian involvement right now in syria? >> very little is actually known for fact, and what is known doesn't make much sense because what russians are saying is, yes, we are supplying small arms and munitions and personnel carriers and some military advisors and some technical personnel. this sort of military weapons doesn't need any technical advisors and personnel. they're elementary. so the feeling is that the russian military delivers produced political spin and that was deliberate. >> ifill: steven simon, do we think we're talking about advisory help or combat help? >> well, we know that the russians are worried about this -- the viability of the syrian regime right now. the syrian regime has absorbed pretty serious losses in the past year. 2014 hay that did a good year. 2015, not very good. they're under pressure in the south and now in the east, lost palmyra. they've got a demographic problem. it's not clear how long they can actuall

or was involved in the history, look carefully at it, the situation we inherited from the clinton administrationresponse to the bombing of the uss cole the year before. >> who has been the mortgage forceful on the dish. >> part of it wash does. >> christie said he'd do it again but the others not so much. >> the dedecision was before 9/11, terrorism was a law enforcement problem. after 9/11 it's a war, and that's the decision we made and that moved us interest the direction of going with these programs and you have to treat that seriously or you're not doing your job as president. >> when you hear -- you have been asked this before -- all those who died in these battle, did they die for the right thing seeing what is healing now in iraq and afghanistan and now in syria? >> people i find most supportive as i get out around the country, and i travel a lot and do things with wounded warriors and so forth -- the people whose opinions i respect the most are the ones who served, who were proud of their service, and felt very strongly that what we did was justified. >> i think when you were advising pr

this started in the clinton administration. i was part of a team and we failed.this four years ago. what's important to remember is this is not the first time this has happened. they're trying to put this happy face on -- it's notable, he said the president wants good information. he didn't say he wants exact information. that's what the intelligence commission should be producing. let me be clear on this. there's three areas that have being manipulated according to my sources. when we go and bomb isis, the results of the bombings are being overly emphasized as being successful and they're not. secondly, the actual conclusions of the reports -- some of these things are voluminous. we're talking about inches deep. the actual content may not be changed but the conclusions are. when you read the conclusion, you think everything is good. when you go into the report, things are not as good. and third most importantly -- let me be clear. these are good analysts. they're trying to do their job, be clear concise and truthful in their assessments. when they nominate infor

that we got a federally balanced buget because we knew there were a number of people in the clinton administration that believed it needed to be done but you have to be very careful when it comes to shutting down the federal government. >> health me put this up because back in 1995 as you point out, when you were chair of the house budget committee you were proud of the facts you took part in a government shut down. here is a much younger john kasich. >> this is one of the best times in our in addition's history because -- in our nation's history because we are fighting over deeply held principled. >> what some people would say that is about money, about the budget, and in this case we are talking about what planned parenthood is doing to fetuses. >> no, i understand, but here is the thing. we suspect that if we did fight and not just about the budget but our children's future and debt and economic growth, we had a if sense if we stood our ground back then we could actually move a balanced buget forward. in this case, the president made it clear he will not sign it. i am willing to fight all day l

. >> the former employee also reference an incident that happened in the clinton administration where contractor was hired and they accidentally struck a line with a backhoe and contaminated some water. the supervisor was off duty and had subcontracted the work. the epa pursued criminal charges against him. he was sentenced to six months in prison because he was ultimately responsible for the safety on the site. do you take personal responsibility? >> the only question i would make is the department of justice is the one that pursued criminal action here. >> someone should go to jail for this incident than? >> i am not at all aware that there is negligence or we didn't do due diligence and those of the things the department. >> i would beg to differ. we knew there was a problem and and we should of alerted everybody along these lines. >> what actions with the epa take against a private company who is responsible for spill of this magnitude. >> we would be doing the same thing with that company at this stage in looking to independently identify whether or not there was negligent or cri

final years of clinton administration when you had tremendous growth.s anything to celebrate, do you. >> this is the worst recovery in history because the fundamental trends are disadvantageous, demographics, i've said this for year. greatest debt bubble in history created by the fed. this recovery since obama got in office. he got in office because the economy was bad in late 2008 and bad when he entered and gone up, 90% because the fed poured $4 trillion of free money, zero interest rates, short term and long term adjusted inflation, expectation on wall street and affluent getting richer without the economy making real progress. yes we hired back people. but only people we lost and fewer people are in the workforce. david: julie, we're a middle class economy. we pride ourselves and we should. the typical household we learned from the census bureau is making less than it did before the recession. that is not a reason to celebrate? >> it is no reason to celebrate. he inherit ad recession 20 times worse than ronald reagan inherited in the 80's or bill cl