>> i was going to say me talking about his historical legacy with doris kearns goodwin is like goingne with kevin duran, it is hardly fair. >> go ahead. >> george w. bush's legacy if he were to rewrite the magn magna , magna carta it would not overturn iraq. a five years from now is medicare as doris alluded to earlier and if he gets something in iran as i didn't mean said boy he is going to be some kind of -- those are two extraordinary accomplishments. >> i hope doris approves of that. >> i completely approve. you have done great! a genial fighter, a brilliant term. >> that was halperin. >> i said they was reaganesque earlier on. >> rose: so how are democrats going to react to this speech? >> they loved it. >> rose:. >> they loved it. >> i am not going to mince mince words. >> but they want to be -- they want to have common cause in year and al mentioned nancy pelosi on immigration, there are a number of things where democrats are going to have to be willing to be put towards the center, led by the president and i think the relations have gotten better and this speech, there is alm

doris kearns goodwin on what she calls her guide to the country's greatest presidents. neill, how areou? how was the trip? [ male announcer ] with nearly 7 million investors... [ shirle] he's right here. hold on one sec. [ malennouncer ] ...you'd expect us to have a highly skilled call center. kevin, neill holley's on line one. ok, great. [ male announcer ] and we do. it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. ♪ >>> she is one of our leading presidential historians having written about kennedy and fdr and the team of rivals that advised lichb con. she has a new book about the progressive era in the early 20th century. here is our power player of the week. >> it was one of those times the country itself was changing and moving from the guilded age of the late 1890s to a time when government began to dole with some of the problems of the industrial era. i like the fact that there was a lot of energy and turbulence and excitement during this era. >> you could have just written a book about teddy roosevelt. but you expanded it to include a successor william howard taft

once again, my apologies to doris kearns goodwin. (audience reacts) next up, folks -- she's fine, she's fine. next up, folks, winter sports. this is my favorite time of the every four years because the winter olympics are just around the corner. now, i am prohibited from showing you a graphic of the olympic rings due to threats of copyright infringement but i've got a work around. jimmy, just put up five interlocking mickey heads. there you go. (cheers and applause) folks, this year's olympic games are in russia where have had a muir putin's recent law of displaying gay propaganda has gotten the right-huggers' yuan around thes in a bunch. but putin landed himself a huge supporter state side, fox news youth correspondent pat buchanan. (laughter) in an op-ed on downhall.com entitled, "is putin one of us?" he applauds putin's belief that to equate traditional marriage to same-sex marriage is to equate good with evil. and writes "he has more clarity than americans caught up in a cold war paradigm." buchanan is right. the cold war is over

up next, you power player of the week, doris kearns goodwin on what she calls her guys, the country'sreatest presidents. >> he's one of our leading presidential historians, kennedy, fdr the team of rivals that advised lincoln. now she has a new book about the progressive era in the early 20th century, here is our power player of the week. >> it's just unof those times when the country, itself, was changing, moving from the gilded age of the late 1890 to a time when ghast began at least to deal with some of the problems of the industrial era. i like the fact that energy and turbulence and excitement during that era. >> you had could have just written a book about teddy roosevelt. you expanded it to include successor william howard taft, why? >> i realize so many good books have been written about teddy roosevelt i didn't feel i could add a lot if i focus on him. i had the same problem when i decided to meet with abraham lincoln. when i dealt with radios vel, it was franklin an eleanor. i learned within i started doing the research, taft had a stronger friendship over many, many years h

. >> one of my favorite doris kearns goodwin books is the one you write about growing up as a kid inrooklyn a pan of the brooklyn dodgers, and how your dad would come home at the end of the day and you would recount for him what had happened during the game inning by inning. is that how you learned how to tell a story? >> jackie robinson slides into home plate. >> there is no question. it makes you feel there is something magic about history to keep your father's attention. and at first i would blurt out the dodgers won or the dodgers lost. which i realized took much of the drama of the two-hour telling away. so i finally learned you have to tell a story from beginning to mid tool end. >> there are some parallels between the early progressive era and today. there is a concern about income inequality. there is a split once again within the republican party. what lessons are there that people today could draw from what happened 100 years ago? >> you had a huge economic transformation at the turn of the 20th century with the industrial era coming into focus. just as the tech follow logi

and mind is the bully pulpit by doris kearns goodwin focusing on the relationship between william howard taft and president roosevelt or go to booktv.org to see her talk about it at the miami book fair. and finally political commentator glenn beck and his miracles and massacres, to an untold stories of the making of america. these are some of the current best-selling books according to publishers weekly. >> coming up next "after words" with the american society for muslim advancement with our guest ranya tabari idliby in her latest book burqas, baseball, and apple pie. the co-author of the face club talks about u.s. culture while she talks about fellow muslims who she says distorts islam. the program is about one hour. >> when you're on the air. most people when they look at you not think your palestinian because we have this image that we conduct in our mind. so can you tell me about your sword and where you come from? >> often been told they don't know that i'm muslim and so i am told that it is a double whammy that way and originally my father left in 1948 and he came to the states as

. >> me talking about his historic with-- the story: agassi doris kearns goodwin is like going -- hisist oracle -- legacy is like going against durand durand. if health. turns out well, -- if health care turns out well and if he gets something on iran, boy, he those areo be, extraordinary accomplishments. >> i hope doris approves of that. >> i completely approve. you have done great. and genial fighter is brilliant. do you take away more than anything else, he has revitalized his presidency and found his footing and found, if not his theory of the case, found the narrative again. is true, one of the reasons i think the democrats love the speeches they want their leader to be their leader. of his there was a sense leading them and the country. and as was said, in a forceful way, but not competitive, this was the most authentic voice to him. but alled out with it the context made things difficult. now it is back. there is still time. topeems like we are on the of the next election but that is our fault, because we talk about it already. 2016 is a long time away. real surprise would be b

in a few minutes, doris kearns goodwin from florida, and with me in new york, glenn humbert of columbia university. he served as a top economic adviser to both bush presidents. al hunt of bloomberg. mark halperin of time magazine will join us shortly. i am pleased to have all of them this evening. let me go around and in the remote locations and get an assessment. al. >> i would give it an a or a minus. i found the context was not a good one for him. he had a dreadful 2013. his job approval ratings are down, political polarization. and yet he weaved together some different messages. he roused the faithful with a minimum wage and with women, pay equity, but he did not cut off any opportunities and he held out some branches, to glenn hubbard, and the two things that really struck me were on immigration, one paragraph, that was all. he knows very chance to get that done. he did not want to antagonize republicans. on the economic populism, it was not as many had forecast, a red meat, you know, income inequality. it was much more measured than that. it was not what republicans would call cla

yesterday doris kearns goodwin, we had a discussion about woodrow wilson and theodore roosevelt and specific lee wilson. he used to go to somewhere called the presence room in congress and when asked about how gridlock, one of the suggestions from the other speaker was that maybe the president should be finding that room. another suggestion and i wonder if you would comment on what -- with congress. another idea that is been talked about by that panel was members are spending so much of their time raising money, so in addition to what you spoke about having to fly back and not living in washington which was also discussed was this idea that they go home. the question is, is there a campaign finance solution we can put in place? >> the presence room is on the senate side of the capital and you know that question i assume is more symbolic of the larger question, what can president obama specifically due to engage congress more? you know i think the whole notion and criticism of president obama that is out there that he is not engaging with congress is pretty overwrought. you know he can have a

. >> rose: you report that obama told doris kearns goodwin that he wanted to be big. >> i guess they all start out wanting to be big. they don't want to be franklin pierce. >> rose: not just a name on a long list of president whose pictures are lined up on the wall. this is back to the clinton question. they all -- what's his definition of "big," and does he believe in a deep recess of his own mind that the chance of that has slipped away? >> no, i don't. i think he is -- his -- despite all his dramatic doubt, despite that tone of -- that kind of slightly autumnal tone to the -- especially end of this piece. >> rose: meaning he's in the fall of his presidency? >> getting there, sure. it's september. >> rose: yes, okay. >> that the facting that this country didn't fall into a depression, an economic depression which it could easily have done. the fact that we are out of iraq for all the problems in iraq. getting there in afghanistan. the auto industry saved. gay rights more and more ensured. not without help from the president of the united states. the fact thereto that there's been n

the commission's historian was no less than doris kearns goodwin who looked at the entire scope of this problem in american history and what the role of congress and the president should be. and the mission issued a unanimous report proposing the power for the war powers act of 1973, briefed congress and the incoming president obama on the particular act in 2007 and 2008, but at that time the time wasn't yet right for consideration of this bill. but now that we're 40 years into an unworkable war powers resolution and now as the senator indicated we have had a string of presidents, both democratic presidents and republican presidents who maintain that the act is unconstitutional and now that we have had a 40-year history of congress often exceeding to the claim of unconstitutionality by not following the war powers resolution itself, we do think it is time to revisit. let me just state two fundamental substantive issues that this bill presents in the war powers consultation act of 2014. first, there is a set of definitions. what is war? well, the bill defines significant military action