george h. kill you bush -- george h. w. bush and his philosophy. >> guest: a guy if i believe people saw him in private as i did often would have thought better of him. this guy got dana carvey, the guy on saturday night live who imitates him in public but in private he was naturally eloquent. i tell the story of portland oregon. we were out there for a dedicated police memorial when i was the drug czar and we were going to jog. he used to jog generously he would slow down. >> host: i meant to say i read the part you were in a hotel room and he wants to go jogging and with all due respect, bill, i didn't think if you as the type of shocker. >> guest: you know i climb mountains in coloradan. no, no, he slowed down and actually what happened is we ran in houston and when we finished, the press corps there said how is the drug war to going, mr. bennett, and she's all that i was out of breath. she took the first question until i got my breath. now that's a good boss, that's a good president. but back to portland, we were going t

what george bush be reelected and all of us yes yes of course. e approval rating was 80% and then the surprise campaign by the surprise governor from arkansas and bush just got a flat on the domestic issues and people changing their minds and there was a big surprise. >> host: the panicky counter argument and that is that compromise he does. one of the great last bipartisan compromises, something we lost the art for in this town and which he does help bring deficits down. with spending and a tax one of the great triumphs in the bush administration and laid the ground of the prosperity of the 90's. >> guest: it very may well have but i don't think it was so much that as his inability to address the domestic challenges in a way that was persuasive to people. i would cite in the debate one of the beats clinton and clinton was the perfect counterpart for george herbert walker bush where president bush says i will ask jim baker to take of domestic policy and do for domestic policy what he's done for and president clinton says that is what we are worrie

i can't remember, to liberals and conservatives and george bush would be reelected and all of us unanimous yes of course. his approval rating was 78%. and the supplies campaign by the surprise governor from arkansas and bush flat on the domestic issues and people changing their minds and it was a big surprise. >> host: let me make a counter argument which was that compromise she does, but the last great bipartisan compromises, something we have lost the art for in this town in which he does help bring deficits down both with spending and tax situation was one of the great triumphs and lead the ground for the prosperity of the 90's. >> guest: a jury may well have. i think it wasn't so much that as his inability to address the domestic challenges in a way that was persuasive to people. i site in the the date and clinton was the perfect counterpart for george herbert walker bush where president bush says i will ask jim baker to take a domestic policy and president clinton says let's see what you're worried about, i will do the domestic policy in my administration and for that and other reason

george bush made tough decisions. everybody supported him. then over time the demonization begins.when it comes time to cut medicare, deal with social security. when it comes time to deal with budget deficits and you is the country going to accept that? we are at a cross roads, right? >> i think the tea party movement is showing you that and the next couple of years -- >> sean: will they sustain it not the tea party movement. >> i don't though we'll have a choice. this is tough medicine. >> sean: nobody wants that >> nobody ever wants that but that's how we to this problem this irresponsible behavior by the politicians and by wall street. >> sean: this is the whole point to tie this together, different mentality of my parents and my grandparents which had nothing. >> they had the responsibility. they knew if they didn't earn the money they couldn't buy the car, the house. >> sean: where did we get to this point where whether you can afford a house or not -- >> narcissism, culture revolution of the 60s. we had this narcissistic behavior where the self became everything it becomes th

and they won, and george bush became president in '89. >> guest: yes. c-span: when was he struck -- first day, when did he know the first time that he had a brain tumor? >> guest: on march 6th of 1990 he had a seizure what -- during a fund-raiser for phil gramm in washington. and it occurred in the morning. he'd been feeling ill for several days, but it came out of nowhere. and he had a limp for about six months in his left leg, but they attributed it to his -- his heavy schedule of travel and -- and normal fatigue, plus the fact that he ran six miles a day. and he was -- he was struck with a seizure in march of 1990. he knew at the end of the next day that it was a -- a high-grade tumor. and by the end of that month he was talking with medical specialists who were estimating that he had a year or two to live. then he decided to go for this interstitial procedure that i mentioned earlier. c-span: and they -- you actually -- somewhere you say that you got some record -- all the records at george washington hospital? >> guest: yes. c-span: did they just g

i mean, the idea that ted olson, this arch conservative, the solicitor general for george bush who hadued bush v gore and basically put me in bed for a couple of days, i was so depressed, was interested in gay rights. i thought let's check it out. >> didn't you have any doubts about ted olson? >> you know, they say politics makes strange bed fellows. you don't have a stranger bed fellow than me and ted olson. >> chad griffin was also at the polo lounge. he and rob reiner are old friends. they met when chad was just 19 and a press aide in the clinton white house. >> good morning, prosecutmr. pr. >> reporter: they decided griffin would be the one to make that first uneasy call to olson. >> much to my surprise, it was an issue he clearly thought a lot about, but the moment i hung up the phone, i realized that there was a chance i was talking to someone who overnight could become the most important, significant advocate for marriage equality that this movement has ever seen. >> we talked for awhile on the telephone and then he said can i come and talk to you in your office in washington, d

then what happened is mccain stood up and said george bush is behind this. south carolina republicans like mccain and bush. liked them both. not one in 1,000 would believe that george bush was capable of doing that. my personal view when it happened was i was afraid. i think mccain would seize upon it to talk about himself. the story behind his and his wife's adoption from an orphanage run by mother teresa. instead of saying hold on, here's what i want the people of south carolina and america to know about me, instead he said bush did this. and shame on bush. and i have no evidence that bush did it. but, you know, shame on bush. and as a result, it was the hole mindset. it wasn't just this one evidence. that kind of add to and made itself evident in other says that's south carolina than i talk in the book and lost the primary and hence lot the nomination in the presidential election. >> you also had an incident to meet john mccain later on. >> yeah, in 2004, mccain offered through a long-time aide and person that i knew mccain would campaign for us. and they

then, what happened if mccain stood up and said george bush is behind this. south carolina republicans like mccain and bush and liked them both. not one in a thousand would believe george bush was capable of doing that. my personal viewpoint it happened was i was afraid because i thought mccain with these upon it to talk about himself. the story behind he and his wife's adoption of a young baby from a bangladesh orphanage run by mother teresa is an incredible story of compassion and love, just the kind of thing in a campaign that would explain a lot about to john and cindy mccain and serve as the norma's plus for them. but instead of saying hold on, let's wait a minute, here's what i want the people of south carolina and america to know. instead, he said bush did this and shame on bush and i have no evidence that bush did it, but you know, shame on bush. and as a result -- it was the whole mindset. this kind of attitude made itself evident in other ways that i talk about in the book. and lost the primary for mccain and hence lost the nomination in the presiden

then what happened is as mccain stood up and said george bush is behind this. south carolina republicans liked mccain and bush. they liked them both. not one and a thousand would believe george bush was capable of doing that. my personal view when it happened was i was afraid because i thought mccain would seize upon it to talk about himself. the story behind he and his wife's adoption of a young baby from a banquet negative orphan run by mother mary teresa is a story of compassion and love, just the kind of thing in a campaign would explain a lot about who john and cindy mccain worry and served as an enormous plus for them but still hold on let's wait a minute. here's what i want the people of south carolina and america to know about me. instead he said bush did this and shame on bush and i have no evidence pushed it but shame on bush. as a result was the whole mind set. it wasn't just this one event. this attitude made itself evident in other ways in south carolina that i talked about in the book and lost the primary for the can and lost the nomination in the

same thing with george bush in his last year in office.ophesies $8,500,000,000,000 deficit which was not true and it was the same thing with obama. he has publicized day $1.3 trillion deficit and that is not true either. if you take the surplus from social security and medicare away from the general fund which even george bush's last year in office with his $500 billion projected deficit, $300 billion in surplus from social security and medicare which made his true projection $60 billion, i don't know how much it is under obama but is approximately $200 billion plus. >> there are different measures of the budget surplus or deficit as the case may be. if you want to blame someone you should blame the media because every budget document i know of includes the deficit both with and without the social security surplus. if anyone wants to find them you can look at the economic report of the president for the congressional budget office or official budget. every document dino includes the budget with and without the social security surplus. i am

domestically the first thing george bush did by taking kennedy and saying, let's make a deal. until 9/11 his first nine months working with democrats. not even talking to republicans. so, that -- >> but post-9/11 that was a huge moment. and i think people got very bitter about that. but, you know, i don't actually think this difference between rhetoric and ruin is dismaying to americans as we keep saying it is. i think ultimately process is ugly to watch. life is so transparent. you hear about it. >> this bill, you can look at this bill, this bill passed with the support of the american left. not the center. not the right. you go back to what we passed -- gingrich is right. we passed those bills with like 70% of the vote in the house. you look at bush going into iraq had an overwhelming number of people. this is one of the most deviss ive -- >> don't you think it was so stoked, though, by the divisive media hype stuff that in the end, people who wanted to be reasonable on the right were also felt they couldn't be, i think. john mccain's comment was ridiculous about how he's ne

so the poster that was hear that said under george bush we lost ail these jobs, the chart only the last year of the bush administration. and then we lost all of these jobs and we were under two wars and then we had two sets of tax cuts and drug entitlement and wall street bailout, all of that blamed on george bush. well, i would like to think they could get over this and quit revising history. yes, we have two wars. which one would they have avoided? both? would anyone say we shouldn't have gone into afghanistan and slugged your soldiers and pointed your finger and said this is a job for the attorney general. shurnl we couldn't be against people that killed 3,000 americans on a single day, the worst attack on american homeland in the history of our country and i see it listed on the poster as something we should not have been engaged in. mr. speaker, it was nearly unanimous here in the house of representatives to grant the authority for the president of the united states to engage in this -- in these operations. there was only one exception. so that's the only person that would get to c

a lot of people thought that george bush, a lot of democrats thought george bush was hitler.thought george bush was the antichrist. a lot of websites were dedicated to that. i think the biggest tragedy in all of this is the decline in civility in our discourse. >> do you think the republicans are feeding it? >> you know what, i think that a lot of this is organic. i don't think republicans are saying barack obama is the antichrist. i don't think republican leaders are saying barack obama is hitler. >> they're not distancing themselves from it. >> they should. they will. i don't think that republicans think that barack obama is the antichrist. >> all right, joan, what about bipartisanship? john mccain says there won't be any. i mean, whatever happened to country first? >> we -- whatever happened to country first? we have not had bipartisanship, ed and john, since barack obama was sworn in as president. he crafted a stimulus bill that was a compromise. liberals wanted a trillion dollars. liberals didn't want the tax cuts. he settled for $780 billion. got to get my math right. a

the same thing with george bush in his last year in office. he publicized in the proximal 500 billion-dollar deficit, which was not true and it is the same thing with obama now. if you take the surplus from social security and medicare away from the general fund, which in george bush's last year in office was a 500-dollar-- there was-- which made his trip projection $860 billion i don't know how much it is now under obama but they know it is probably approximately $200 billion plus. >> host: mr. baker? >> guest: there are different measures of the budget surplus or deficit that's the case may be and if you want to blame someone here you really should blame the media because every single budget document i know of includes the deficit, both with and without the social security surplus, so you know if anyone wants to find and you conducted the economic report of the president, you could look at the official budget, every document i know includes the budget both with and without the social security surplus. i am happy to use either, depends on the

. >> the very people disparaging this executive order overlook the fact that when george w. bush signed an executive order with stanzel research, this was a noble act -- stem cell research, this was a noble act. the emancipation proclamation was an executive order. bart stupak got what he thought was needed, assurance that the hyde amendment would not be affected in any way by anything in this legislation. we can argue back and forth what the nuanced meaning is. the president of the united states's word is on the line. besides -- if there is federal financing of abortions at junior high monday morning, we will know that the president has broken his word and he will play an enormous political price. >> can i make two points? if the executive order is so determinative, how come we need it the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment? secondly, on this particular case, the supreme court jurisprudence on roe v. wade is such that every interpretation of these laws require is a statute that would outlaw abortion spending. otherwise, why would you require the hyde amendment in the first place? >>

we know, for example, that george w. bush was not an easy extraneous speaker. >> he made words that, yes. misunderestimate was one. >> yes. >> we are ready for a contribution from president obama beyond "we lead up." is it somehow fit. >> well, he is really careful with his language. he really, as a lawyer, but said it in a very lawyerly way, and he tends to be choosing very precise words. >> i am not necessarily saying that -- both obama and bush had very good speech writers. i have watched bush just stumbling around before he got to the speech. i once was in germany and he was not doing well. when he got the speech, it was very good because he read it well and he was comfortable. when he had that teleprompter, he had a degree of comfort that he would not have had otherwise. and obama does both. he always has a teleprompter, and he seems quite comfortable without it. at the press conferences there is a big teleprompter that is close to a shield. he reads the first few remarks even as they sound quite informal of that, but th

to day he toured a tent city in port-au-prince with former president george w. bush. the two men are raising the fund-raising efforts for haiti following the january earthquake. president bush says he hopes that their visit reminds americans that the country needs help. >>> in a battle watched by many,

george bush and dick cheney vae vetoed the idea. that disturbed me. number one, did they want this guy to escape so they left him an out? number two, what are these two bozos doing making a combat decision to an elite delta force member or delta force commander when you got dick cheney who got five deferments from vietnam and you got george bush who couldn't make it to one year's national guard meetings? these guys are making a command combat decision to the elite delta force, and then all you heard from them was, we let our generals call the shots. well, it clearly wasn't that case in the book i read by dalton furey, who was the commander of the u.s. forces chasing osama bin laden in tora bora right after 9/11. >> larry: did you agree with us going to afghanistan? >> initially i did, because i felt that, you know, they were the people, al qaeda was the people who attacked us, and that we needed to go get these people if they're going to continue it attack us, absolutely. i did not agree at all with iraq. they told us there were these 19 hijackers, la

george bush is demonizdemonized.re are no easy decisions and popular decisions. the tea party movement is owe powerful. the american people will have to have the back of new generation political lead deers. >>> a watched gingrich up close the contracting of america i think the best thing george w. bush did was kept the country safe. he never waived on the idea we have to be on the offense which we weren't in the 1990s. i don't know, these problems seem worse to me. >> first of all barack obama has taken us back to bill clinton era. look, we can build, even though we have a calamity here, a problem here, we have built on the ashes before after the great depression and after world war ii. we can do it again. this country can do it. we are the greatest country in the world and we can do it. >> we have a time frame. i think the day of reckoning is coming. so much of debt is owned by china and the golf emirates and russia the day of accounting is coming. the further we go down this road without making fundamental changes

well, i did not hear all this anger when george bush was in. all they did was criticized george bush. every day you would hear "he lied, he lied." i do not know how some many of these folks if they are 12% of the population, seems to be 80% of your callers. i do not know what you can do about it, but myself and a lot of other republicans or conservatives are about ready to go somewhere else. host: in tristan your frustration. we open up our phone lines with categories based on party. we hope that folks call in on the line that best reflects their political view. it is tough sometimes to discern that. silver spring, md., an independent. caller: hi. i am optimistic on the war because i trust our government. even more so, i would really like to hear your opinion because -- obviously, you're privy to the opinions of different people. host: i appreciate your asking that, but this program is all for your opinion. a couple of opinions shared by e-mail. what is the plan, what is the strategy? we are left in the dark. this is from new hampshire. another

i believe that history is going to show that george bush was not just a good resume, but he was a great president. >> host: why is that, george? >> caller: well, i believe that he stuck to his conviction. he believed in what he believed and he didn't listen to the polls. he made his decisions anyway were worried. and i really respect that. i actually am from houston, texas and i was on the red raider little league eightball team and i used to play against neil bush who was on the fogs. he was a pitcher and he was a very good teacher. and i really respect you coming on the show today because i know you're going to get a lot of calls that are going to say that you caused them out on by naturally colored that you lied about the weapons in iraq and even that you caused 9/11. and i would like you to know that there are millions of people out here who support you and you are going to listen to those calls and just think, god, here's another person who really isn't informed. i blame a lot of this on the press. i think they have a terrible liberal bias. i mean, come on, george stephanopoulos --

, is more likely the answer to this one, no matter what the problem. >>> next, what exactly did george bushbill clinton's sleeve yesterday? the two former presidents were down in haiti to oversee quake recovery efforts. shortly after shaking hands with some quake survivors, mr. bush, you could see it here, appeared to wipe his palm on mr. clinton's sleeve. now the intention behind the gesture is certainly open to interpretation. former president bush could had been just signalling to clinton that he was ready to move on. it's unlikely any of us will ever know, but one thing's for sure, it kind of looked a little off, right? anyway, i don't know. >>> up next in our "townsquare" the devil's casino at lehman brothers a fascinating look at collapse and help trigger the financial meltdown and why it could happen again as our government continues to legalize wild-risk gambling with other people's money. why there are record bonuses last year on wall street and yet no reform. meanwhile on "hardball," chris matthews talks to congressman jim clyburn about the security of the united states congress f

they believed initially that when george w. bushas defeated and democrats came back things would get better. and people would say why weren't you out on the streets marching because many of our advocates said barack obama will save us on these drought up there. and the bush republicans and when president obama got in office, immediately we got more bailout. we got meddling in the automobile industry and we got the great insurance take-over scheme and we had cap-and-trade looming out there. we had mandatory unionization out there and we these folks, oh, my goodness what have we got here? this guy really scares us. nancy pelosi, speaker pelosi, scares us. we have people who do not cherish america the way we do and would do it destruction with their romantic egalitarianism. they didn't read ayn rand. they didn't read hayek and they didn't read the constitution. they did not read the federalist papers. what did they read? i'm fearful they had a sociology course or even worse an english course at duke university. they don't seem to under

and what has happened during the george bush, w. bush presidency and see how these people go into office, make a mess of it and then when people come in to try -- host: we'll have to leave it there. we're running out of time. guest: she's touched on something that is definitely true. people are angry. conservatives are angry about president obama and his agenda and his health care reform. but they're also angry at george w. bush. he spent a lot of money as president. he started a new entitlement himself. the prescription drug plan. invaded iraq. not paid for. so it's not necessarily just anger at democrats. they're in some ways just as mad at george w. bush. they say he's not a true conservative. in a way this helps sprain why the tea party -- explain why the tea party grew up. they sort of felt the elites on both sides of the aisle were not addressing their concerns and so they had to take action themselves. host: you talk about a poll towards the tail end of the piece that you wrote. and you said that with partisan differences and

when george bush was in, they had stem krl research.ll proet life groups and everybody applauded it and said it was wonderful and how great it is. we have the same thing, an executive order to preserve life. now it is signed by president obama. and suddenly it's not worth the paper it's written on? it's a baby killer? isn't that a bit of hypocrisy here? >> congressman chris smith of new jersey, republican of new jersey, said that executive order is not worth the paper it's written on. >> why it is worth the paper it's written on when it's george bush who signs it on stem-cell research and now it's not worth anything? no. executive order has a full force of law. and embreonic stem-cell research was a great one. right to life, aploweded it. catholic bishops welcomed it. you know, president obama does the same thing on the same principle. >> the catholic bishops don't like this legislation that's about to become the law. >> why? is it more political? if we're really protecting life. whether it's stem-cell research or keeping the hyde amend

george bush and the republicans. >> larry: we're running out of time. sean, is it going to pass?ng to pass? >> i hope so. i mean i think, you know -- >> larry: you think so? >> well, president obama, senator obama when a candidate obama said it at every campaign stop, i can't do this on my own. i need the american people. i need your support to get this done. now it's a moment for anybody who supported him who thinks that maybe, you know, he's telling the truth and is doing what he said and is trying to deliver some health insurance reform. call your senators and call everybody and say good job. had is great. i hope you get it over the finish line. >> larry: thank you all very much. governor jesse ventura, actor sean astin and congresswoman michelle bachmann, republican of minnesota. >>> he played willis on the '80s sitcom "different strokes." actor todd bridges is standing by to tell us about his battle with drugs, physical and sexual abuse he says he suffered growing up and now he has stayed clean for almost 17 years. that's next. it can happen anytime, when you least expect it

let's talk about former presidents bill clinton and george bush.they toured haiti's capital on monday. >> it is hard to describe adequately the devastation. it is profound and it will affect a lot of people's lives. it is one thing to see it on tv and another thing to see it first hand. >> the two leaders are making the trip on behalf of the clinton bush haiti fund which was, the organization is going to focus on rebuilding and work and ebbing no, ma'amic opportunities and improve the quality of life for haitians affected by this earthquake. >>> now, the forecast certified most accurate by weather rate and maryland's most powerful dop lar radar. >>> we look at yesterday's high, 53 a pull back from the 70s we had over the weekend and actually since late last week but still above normal. it did come with rain and we picked up about half an inch of rain and thunderstorms with a few reports of hail. today we would expect 56. spread from 16 in 1934 to 84, neither will be achieved. we will see sun at sun up but the clouds will dominate as we have the col

>> well, let me just say the fact that george bush i endorsed something hardly makes it conservativer particularly wonderful. this is the man who dave us david suter. we don't look to him those of us not on the left do not look to him as a hero. secondly, cap and trade is a terrible idea. it is a left wing idea because it supports the notion that carbon monoxide is a toxin. one of the silliest notions. you have to be on the left to believe that or you have to have had a graduate degree. one of the two. because it's so silly the food of earth is carbon monoxide. living beings cannot live without it. and now it's declared toxic. >> no it's not, dennis. that is not true. >> the epa declared it that way. >> you know what? the idea -- >> that's what the epa says. >> the idea of cap and trade is this that the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere changes all our weather. look at massachusetts. look at the historic flooding going on today in massachusetts. this is -- it changes the whole climate. and this, you know what else, david, that the president did very well? he's framing this as

i would say where were you with all those years of george bush. that aside, it's unfortunate. feathers them. those that have suspicions about racism with obama and expanding this to mr. lewis, barney frank, certainly a legend in the legislature andy the man spat upon. these are un-american. these are the kinds of acts republicans and other conservative people should say we will not tolerate this. we have a beef with the president, the health care bill but we're not going to tolerate bigotry. >> there's so many people that want to say time and time again we're in a post racial society, post sexist society. what happened over the weekend, there's nothing else to say other than it was absolutely disgusting. it started, went all the way through the campaign period. i bring up the feminist part because we saw the same against hillary clinton. holding up the sign, iron my shirt. it's not just about people in the tea party movement but the country as a whole. people are desperate, unemployed and we see the worst of america in harsh times. >> to ling this back to the forum this weeken

to be fair we know these statistics on our changing demographics weren't lost on george bush no one was friendly to the cause of illegal aliens than george w. bush. i mean, we all know that was the hispanic voting bloc the reason that he didn't secure the border? probably. but the guy couldn't articulate it at all. people said, wait a minute, i don't care about politics, i thought we tacked about values, principles and keeping us safe. what i do know is the moral views of minors, black, hispanic, the values of conservatives are far more in line with conservatives than of liberals. like the overall population, african-americans are more likely to describe their political ideology as conservative, than liberal. 61% of african-americans feel there have been too few expressions of faith by political leaders. nearly 2/3 of african-americans, 64% oppose gay marriage. how is it that 95% of all blacks voted for barack obama? how is it that 6 % of hispanics voted for democrats for that matter liberals and progressives continually try to sabotage our relationship with the israelis. how is it that

if george bush had jimmy hoffa coming into his office 20 times a month for 10 months, it would be on the front pages of every newspaper, talk show, and television company in this country. but that andy stern can walk in and out of the white house with no comment from any way -- anyone, that is unacceptable from the current media. the bottom line with that the bashing of the banks and insurance companies, pickup the phone and see if you can get an appointment right now with a surgeon and see what it takes to see a doctor. in our current system. they want to put 30 million people into this system. and he is bashing the insurance company? they're going to generate trillions of dollars from 15 million americans in the ages between 15 and 35, who do not pay health insurance. they're going to mandate to our children that they must buy health insurance, paying $4,000, generating $60 billion at no cost to the insurance company. host: anything there that you can apply to the study? guest: i do not think so. i have to be honest with you. [laughter] the overarching viewpoint is that we are conc

that is part of his problem, it is, and so if you look at how sort of george bush responded once he was elected president the first time even though he did not win that election he had a mandate because he was in office, that's a mandate, it? so that brings us to the second point which is part of the problem is he's not recognized as having a legitimate case, he's not a legitimate president by wide swaths of the country. i couldn't tell you if it is half or not but it's a substantial chunk of the country. the other problem is that i don't have the answer to this, but i agree black people have to do more to make demands on black politicians and all politicians and actual working class people need to make demands on our politicians. i'm not sure it's going to work and this is why. if you will get the sort of antiwar demonstrations they put people in the streets you look at the immigrants movement that put millions of people in the streets of chicago and los angeles arnold the country and that didn't change and so i say that to say this. i'm not convinced we are not at a point this is a fa

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it is interesting that you say critics, but the same crickets, when george w. bushut the executive order out for stem cell research, and remember, limit the stem cell research and the same critics said it is welcomed news and applaud it, and now president obama does an executive order and suddenly, it is no good, but it is. >> you are saying it trumps the law? >> i am saying, this is what it says how the administration is going to implement the law, and president obama has said as he implements the law, there will not be public funding for abortion and it is clear, the restrictions of it applies to the new law and the insured exchange right there on page two, very clear. executive odders are used all of the time. what is the most famous one, anderson cooper, is lincoln's emancipation proclamation, executive order 85 that is the most famous one we know of and they are in evident. they are okay for george bush and talking about sanctity of life, but because it is president obama it is not okay? that is a hypocrisy and afraid to say it, but it rips with hypocrisy. >> t

become be become and george bush will assess the recovery needs. so far the clinton-bush haiti fund has raised $37 million for the effort. >>> victims of chronic child abuse within the catholic church in ireland appear unimpressed with the effort of apology from pope benedict xvi. it refutes irish church officials for not allying church law correctly and they say the secrecy the church tried to impose was worldwide and they predict more people will come forward and the scandal will spread. >>> two baltimore police officers are recovering after shot while making a traffic stop. they found marijuana in in the car. when the officers tried to arrest the driver he pulled out a gun and shot them. the officers returned fire, killing the suspect. one officer was shout in the face and the other in the hands. both are expected too recover. >>> congress basses legislation which may make paying for college easier for several families. >>> and the large -- larger your population the higher your unemployment. we will have more on that coming >>> happy monday. tr

the problem with iraq is that it was a voluntary war, a war of choice that george of the bush and tony decided they would involve -- george w. bush and to enabler decided they would involve saddam hussein. -- and tony blair and decided they would involve saddam hussein. people will be divided for a very long time whether it was right to go to war with the consequence of more than 2000 american soldiers being killed and british soldiers being killed, and at best estimates, 100,000 to 200,000 iraqis. i think that is why this argument will go on for a very long time in britain, we have alwayalready withdrawn our forc. host: i'm not asking who is going to win the election and obviously campaigns make a difference and a lot can happen in the next five weeks. i will ask you what you expect to happen in the course of this campaign and what you are looking for and how this will unfold. guest: in america, you can look back on an election and you can say, the american people or the british people felt it was time for change. orszag you can say that some did not want to take the gamble of a chang

a family spokesperson says a former president george bush drove her to the hospital in houston on saturdaylast few weeks. the doctor said it hadn't been getting better. no big as much as or pain or anything like. that but they just wanted to do testing to see if they could figure out exactly what was going on. >> mrs. bushel hospitalized for nine days after undergoing heart surgery in march of 2009. she was hospitalized in march 2008 for an ulcer. >>> civil rights icon door think wright remains hospitalized in serious but stable condition tonight. the 98-year-old height is being treated in the intensive care unit for an undisclosed illness. she was admitted last week after missing a birthday celebration in her honor at the national council of negro women. dorothy height isn't receiving visitors. a longtime friend says she needs the rest. >> the beginning of holly week marred by demonstrations in washington. protesters showed up thursday complaining about a number of things, including health care reform and the catholic church's sexual abuse scandal sweeping do you remember. ray chen has th

george w. bush in 2002 said and i quote, "all americans should be able to choose a health care plan that meets their needs at affordable prices." bill clinton said the time has come together to pull together to work in a bipartisan matter to deliver affordable health care coverage to all americans. j.h.w. bush in 1992 said, "a universal, comprehensive, national health insurance program is one of the major unfinished items on america's social agenda. the american people," he said in 1992," have waited too long." jeryl ford in 1974 said, "let us affirm that this national legislation is only the beginning of our effort to upgrade and perpetuate this part of our total healthcare system so no individual in this country, said president ford, will lack help whenever or wherever he needs it. " john f. kennedy said in 1962, "whenever the miracles of modern medicine are beyond the reach of many groups of americans, for whatever reasons, economic, geographic, occupational or other, we must find a way to meet t

. >>> a speed limit to president obama from george w. bush architect karl rove. rove, a best selling author and fox contributor spoke with savannah on "the daily rundown." when it comes to getting health care, he tips his hat to president obama sort of. >> anybody, take off their hat and admire it, even if they had to take back the cornhusker kickback or step back from the deal in which they treated a union worker and nonunion worker in different ways if they had cadillac insurance plans. the white house use of political power, raw political power in cutting deals, offering thinly described bribes and pressuring people is pretty amazing. >> well, as the senate continues to debate legislation that would fix and patch certain parts of the health care reform bill, let's check in how things are going with the democrat from new hampshire. senator shaheen, when it comes to this amendment, keeping viagra from sex offenders, what do you do? >> you know, it's unfortunate our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are looking at this as a game, a way to embarrass senato

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when all else fails, they always fall back on the reliable excuses george bush did it or you did it before. as a teacher i never let my students get away with childish excuses like this. this is congress. people elected us to be responsible for the decisions we make. it is true that republicans spent far too much while in the majority, but the democrat response is simply the triple down on the mistakes of the past and return to the same old blame game that's led this government into the budgetary malaise that we are facing today. while they say they are simply responding to the mess made by the previous administration, the democrats would have you believe that this mess was created because george bush didn't spend enough. the american people need strong loweredship. they need effective leadership. they need leadership that ends the petty partisan blame game and accepts responsibility for governance. this bill exemplifies how the ruling democrats fail to offer any of these fundamental leadership traits. that's why this country desperately needs a change in congressional leadership. we need

next week former presidents bill clinton and george bush will travel there to haiti to meet with relieforkers and government officials. >>> we certainly cover a lot of them and you never know how a police chase is going to end. but what happened in arizona tuesday was in way typical. police in phoenix tried to pull over a suspicious pickup. here it is. the driver hit the gas, instead. the helicopter crew of ktvk followed the action. >> at times, he was going about 90 miles per hour. then police decided to back off when he was kind of getting in the residential neighborhoods and stuff like that. they were suspicious of something in the back of the truck. from what i can tell it'sf-150, silver or white. and in the back of t pickup truck, looks like plywood. the chase then continued at 80 or 90 miles per hour. luckily, no one has been hurt. there's been no accidents in this but the police have since pulled off. you can see he's continuing to go just driving around in these residential neighborhoods. police have bacd off and, you know, that the point we know where he is. so so far he's not

it was president george bush's first trip ever to haiti. he said he and president clinton are in it for the long haul. >> our msion is to help fill the gaps of human needs. >> reporter: so far their fund-raising efforts have added up to $37 million. >> our fund was established to do what we could to help in the short run, but to concentrate on haiti's long-term economic development. >> reporter: two months afte the earthquake these once empty streets are starting to show some life again but the country is still hurting and the real road to economic recovery is going to be long and hard. the president saw that when they visited the tent city across the street from the presidential palace, now home to 60,000 people. this had been one of the most beautiful parks in the city. we have seen the haitian people over and over again talk about hope. >> yeah. >> reporter: deep sense of national pride and hope. do you have the same? >> yeah. i believe in humanity. i lieve there is no circumstance that will wipe out hope. the question is what is the gov

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director at hamilton play strategies and the former white house press secretary under president george bush, and obviously, it is a long week fi am calling you two regulators. >>> tony, this is a proposal that the administration has put for war and some say it is proof that you can't fix the housing market other than by free market methods and other says, look, we have been pushing toward loan forgiveness for some time, and about time we do it. >> look, i wrote about this a year ago when they came out with the first it ration of housing, and i said that the difficult problem of coming up with a program to help homeowners and stem foreclosures is that if you use the category of deserving homeowners, you can't fit enough homeowners into that category in a politically palatable way. even in this bill, i think that you are going to have same problem. that is why, i have to disagree with my good friend glenn hubbard in saying it is a good step in the right direction, because i think it is a step backwards, and you will see confusion and resentment among the homeowners who are out there trying to

bush's attempt to reform social security. here's republican senator lamar alexander about that. >> i was thinking this morning of president georgeso hard to have private accounts for social security. he thought he was right. he pushed and he pushed and he pushed. if he'd stopped about halfway through and shifted, he could have probably gotten the bipartisan agreement on social security. i think president obama could learn from that. >> well, dan bartlett was counselor to president george w. bush and communications director. he's currently an analyst for cbs and is good enough to join us this morning. dan, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> so what parallels do you see between the president's health care fight now and your former boss's fight over social security back then? are some of the same mistakes being made, the same obstacles being run into? >> well, it is interesting. at the beginning of this process, there were a lot of comparisons to what this administration was going to do differently from bill clinton's first attempt at health care reform. and i didn't hear a lot of analysis of what w