george w. bush had been born. he was their oldest child. he was born before they went to texas, and when they were in texas they unfortunately experienced great sadness. following george w. bush, their son jeb was born. than a daughter named robin. and it was found that robin had leukemia. and there is a wonderful interview with -- it's generally about barbara bush, but one part of the interview is george bush, and he says we were told by the pediatrician to come and talk to her. and she said to us, this child has leukemia. and he said, and according to record, we did not what the hell she was talking about. in the early 1950s, what was leukemia. and he said the pediatrician said, well, your daughter is not going to live very much longer. and they made a decision to take her to new york where she was treated with an experimental protocol, but she died about nine months later. and barbara bush, to no one's surprise at all, had a very, very difficult time with it. she dealt with depression for a while. and then eventually emerged from the. the

george bush instead of barbara bush. she had not had any really significant accomplishments on her own, and that they had been taught to do something quite the opposite. mrs. bush reacted with, really, you know, very good humor. she said, well, even i was 21 once. they are looking at things a certain way, and i am looking at them another. there are some historians to feel that maybe this reaction cal flies to irritation, but i did not get that sense at all when i interviewed mrs. bush. mrs. bush also said to me, when this whole above occurred there were many wealthy graduates who said they would never again give money to the college. she said weaver hundreds of letters saying please tell stop giving. this is just the opinion of some. in fact, over time as the issue was discussed things began to turn. i just want to quickly share with you a "from paramount bought back from that time who wrote a very serious, about the speech. she wrote, if the wealthy students cannot imagine what barbara bush could contribute to their edu

all thanks to one lucky attack on a fateful september day and a corrupt response planned by the george w. bush white house to leverage that attack into political capital bin laden is dead today paid the ultimate price for his crime against america but the bigger crime the crime that george w. bush would wink us all into is still going on the wars are still raging americans and innocent civilians are still dying and now that the super villain is dead and the superhero is long gone and enjoying retirement in texas frankly there's no reason to continue this absurd morality play there's no reason to keep up the orchestrated good versus evil fight there's no reason to let the crime of the century persist let's end these wars now for good. coming up where does the united states stand now in our relationship with pakistan how will this affect our future actions and perceptions in the middle east on our own question of one small. incident american military mechanisms and do the work to bring justice and accountability. i have every right to know what my government's doing you want to know why i pay ta

we ought to be thanking george w. bush for having implemented those enhanced interrogation procedures, which by the way, are not torture but, none the less, were effective in making sure this information got started so we can conduct this operation. >> sean: colonel north, great to sigh. i appreciate your time and insight. coming up tonight, nancy pelosi's attempt to use bin laden's death to benefit her own party is now exposed. we have the tape that is going to have her eating her words. we will check in with ann coulter, michelle malkin, andrew breitbart. all coming up this edition of hannity. we used to bet who could get closest to the edge. took some crazy risks as a kid. but i was still over the edge with my cholesterol. anyone with high cholesterol may be at increased risk of heart attack. diet and exercise weren't enough for me. i stopped kidding myself. i've been eating healthier, exercising more, and now i'm also taking lipitor. if you've been kidding yourself about high cholesterol...stop. 80% of people who have

so thoughts well i think george w. bush did do a great job in starting the process that led to the capture and killing of osama bin laden oh well first of all i'm going to anymore he doesn't invading afghanistan this mission was launched from afghanistan. and starting guantanamo bay going tony mowbray if the president had his way president obama had his way you wouldn't shut it down preemptively and we didn't get a say in the intelligence that we got other got a grant of a bit in the last two years and the fact that we have military bases in afghanistan but it possible for us to go to pakistan and i thought we had gone into pakistan from a base in germany we had to you know you can't take away from the fact that president bush helped start the process that president obama finished both deserve credit and enhanced and interrogation techniques did help get this information is curious should you take i think it's too early to say what exactly got the information we've heard a lot of conflicting things and what i would say is t

we ought to be thanking george w. bush for having implemented those enhanced interrogation procedures, which by the way, are not torture but, none the less, were effective in making sure this information got started so we can conduct this operation. >> sean: colonel north, great to sigh. i appreciate your time and insight. coming up tonight, nancy pelosi's attempt to use bin laden's death to benefit her own party is now exposed. we have the tape that is going to have her eating her words. we will check in with ann coulter, michelle malkin, andrew breitbart. all coming up this edition of hannity. ♪ ♪ when you're resonsible for this much of the team, you need a car you can cot on. ♪ if you have painful, swollen joints, i've been in your shoes. one day i'm on p of the world... the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i'm surprid how quickly my symoms have beemanaged. [ male announcer ] because enbrel suppre

remember george h. w. bush? then there was the other george w. bush. >> the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us since! >> this will be his finest hour. george bush found his voice in the rubble of the twin towers, just as president obama found his voice sunday night. it may define how they will be remembered. >>> to talk about this, jeremy paxton it spoke with columnists from the center of american progress. >> has this transformed the president? >> i think this is big news for him politically, and across the political spectrum, but whether or not a transforms his presidency, how he has received a long-term, remains to be seen.

obama has done george bush did not bomb yemen obama has bombed yemen george bush did not bomb libya obama has been gloopy or you know this is an extension of the george bush policy in my view and that was lowkey musician poet playwright and local activists. well there are so many who believe these strong words may not translate into action and even if they do it's unclear who the winners and losers will be many of the refs the president spoke about randeep and is actually going it's a kind reports now everyone's fight for freedom fits washington's time. words could be about democracy actions are about interests as the wildfire of public rage spread throughout the middle east and north africa at the beginning of this year analysts say america's foreign policy in the region has seen a major crisis this is the way policy has been formally for fifty plus years out of this country that we try to look for somebody we'd like to see in power. but washington's old policies could now be seen unfolding in libya a large portion of the leading population is opposing any foreign meddling in their affai

terrorism i think if we're going to in two respects i think president obama deserves credit in george w. bush because deserves credit too i think george w. bush put the strategy in place to help find bin osama bin ladin but president obama was used cause i had the right tactic in order to actually catch him so i think they both deserve credit for what obama did was fundamentally a police action it's what bill clinton did after the. mcveigh blew up the building and what george bush did was a war action and i don't see how that led to twenty two twenty four guys going into a comma you have to remember that osama bin ladin was in afghanistan he had safe haven with the taliban and because they are added to it as well not to us but to a third country well you know that was before before during the bush era to know you're going to play know right after nine eleven mullah omar said if you can prove if you can give us any evidence that this guy is involved we will arrest him and send him over to a third party then when bush started dropping bombs on afghanistan but no more held another press conferen

has done george bush did not bomb yemen obama has bombed yemen george bush did not bomb libya obama has been happier you know this is an extension of the the children bush policy in my view and that was located musician poet playwright and political activist. well as president obama address the middle east this sunday will actually mark three weeks since the death of osama bin laden remains face of evil in america for the last decade but now the terrorist death also brought an end to the fear of islam in this country are going to start here starting to delve into the struggles of the muslim community after and one that's. getting drunker which is dead but dispelling caster still causing chills if you're islam and muslims come to talk to some not iraq is alive and kicking there is this this stigma there's this bias conscious and unconscious about muslims and you know alina phobia is at its height in the united states muslims i definitely targeted just because of who they are one of the lead targets of discrimination this sixty one year old in march i mean up to lead to death was rece

george w bush always satisfied himself or told himself that it was other people who were doing that. as for him, personally, he'd stay away from it. his father was very much like that. and george w. was a little bit like that, too. he'd as soon let the others argue. and avoid another pageantry of praise or a pageantry of blame. >> are there any other controversial invitations the president might be issuing to this event? who else is he bringing in for this? >> my understanding from talking to white house officials tonight is they did invite former mayor of new york rudy giuliani. and the mayor accepted. the word as of a couple hours the mayor rudy giuliani will be there. that's the key one. there's some talk of perhaps president clinton coming. i think once george bush said no, i think the white house decided not to make it a pageant of the presidents in any sense. but to just keep it to president obama talking in a careful and considerate and compassionate way to families of survivors of 9/11. >> what does the president have to do tomorrow to make sure that doesn't have any campaign

george bush didn't have courage, guts and coolness?e coolness? you want to praise the man for the president for what he did, i'm all for that. a great job. but my god where were they when george bush won the war in iraq? why can't they give him the most minimal praise? because of this man's techniques that they condemned all these years, because of those techniques that man is dead today. >> sean: the only one who came close to admitting it was leon panetta, to his credit. pbs you know those americans celebrating the death of the terrorists that killed 3,000 americans, watch this. >> i have a heavy heart as i look at this. i think that a lot of americans are justified in feeling a sense of relief that bin laden is no longer walking planet earth. but i think the celebration should also be confronted with a deep sense of sorrow at all that has been lost over the past 10 years. >> does that moon your stomach turned by the jubilation and cheering outside the white house? >> i think it is idiotic to treat these kinds of international events

george w. bush to attend the ceremony, but president bush declined the invitation. his spokesperson said, he appreciated the invite but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight. white house press secretary jay carney said the invitation was extended in the spirit of post-9/11 unity. >> this was a moment of unity for americans and a moment to recall the unity that existed in this country in the wake of the attacks on 9/11, and he wanted to -- he invited president bush because he had hoped that if president bush were able to come, that he would join the president in visiting the world trade center site. we completely understand that he's not able to come. >> joining me now is howard fineman, msnbc analyst and editorial director of "the huffington post." thanks for joining me tonight, howard. >> hi, lawrence. >> howard, you know george w. bush as well as any journalist could possibly know him. what do you make of him declining the invitation to come to ground zero? >> we

to president clinton george w. bush and now the obama administration he said we believe the borders of israel palestine should be based on the nine hundred sixty seven lines with mutually agreed swaps. so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states an unusually blunt endorsement of an end to israeli occupation of arab land by u.s. president the idea was immediately rejected by prime minister benjamin netanyahu israel argues peace cannot come at the cost of its security with continued palestinian rocket attacks but there is one thing both sides actually agree on when it comes to the u.s. role as mediator it approaches they say is all wrong american policy is built on misconceptions a wrong view of the causes of the conflict and a prescription that doesn't stand up to even the most rational scrutiny of the question is not why don't we have a solution at this point but why on earth should we expect to have a solution with this system as it is today use of money you are with the jerusalem project says

its freedom in the midst of continuous warfare and yet continuous warfare is essentially what george w. bush set us up for. alexander hamilton seven hundred ninety three this is the guy who wrote after the federalist papers he was the the secretary of treasury in the george washington illustration alexander hamilton seventy ninety three it is the providence and doing of the executive to preserve to the nation the blessings of peace executive course being the president the legislature alone can interrupt those plus scenes in other words ever war but place in the nation in a state of war james madison wrote a letter to his mentor thomas jefferson in seven hundred ninety eight james madison was saying if the constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates that the executive and president is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it and it has accordingly with studied care best to the question of war in the legislature there was we're going to put this in the legislature where it can't be you know it takes a declaration of war and george orwell of cou

so you're preamble this was about bypassing social security this whole starting wars about you george bush inflating ran around in the seventy's leaving it for you and your ideas i mean this this is all i mean not. that's your boy bush believed that in a post nine eleven world the greatest threat was terrorist time got with weapons of mass destruction iraq was a state actor that had the access to build weapons of mass destruction because that's where you were to go there's no question there's no question that they didn't botch the tora bora and no one's going to do that right i mean basically military campaigns are bust all the time. churchill said sent the troops to the dardanelles in the last word about these things and if you don't praise them for that presentation of all i'm saying is that we know now based on member wars that have been produced including by bush that there was this case where bush goes to rumsfeld and says we've got to refocus on iraq this isn't with this is we're. is holed up in tora bora we're under spells that rumsfeld then contacts general franks and says you've g

i saw your preamble this was about bypassing social security this whole starting wars going to george bush inflating ran on in the seventy's waiting if we're going to be in iraq is i mean this this is all i mean not. bush believes that the in a post nine eleven world the greatest threat was terrorist timed up with weapons of mass destruction iraq was a state actor that had the access to build weapons of mass destruction but there's absolutely no word about why they don't question it is no question that they really dodged the tora bora and no one's going to do that right at the moment i have a slightly military campaigns are about all the time. churchill said said the troops to the dardanelles in the last two are that people think that if you don't praise him for it i'm not for all i'm saying is that we know now based on memoirs that have been produced including by bush that there was this case where bush goes to rumsfeld and says we've got to refocus on iraq this isn't this is we're when mom is holed up in tora bora we're always fails rumsfeld then contacts general franks and says you got

. >> last question, does george w. bush deserve as much credit for what happened sunday as president obama? well, the current administration would not have had the kinds of intelligence that was critically important, nor would they have had the special forces in the numbers with the equipment, with the training, with the authorities and with the experience. we increased their budget, i think, four-fold, during the time i was in the pentagon. we increased the numbers in the special operations people, by 50%. their equipment's been improved. those capabilities to deal with asymmetric threats were developed during the george w. bush administration. let there be no doubt about. it we give credit to the current administration for making the decisions they made and clearly, the bush administration is the one that developed and nurtured those capabilities. >> all right. defense secretary, thanks for being with us, sir. >> thank you, sean. >> should the white house release the photos of an executed osama bin laden? karl rove reacts

this exists because of the infrastructure that george bush put in place and that to his credit obama can see it was a very good it was a very bush like move going got going in we have military intelligence and so on but we are world war i wanted you know september eleventh two thousand and one with a massive failure of intelligence was it not. i would say was a mouse everything is ok i know you know you e-mails because george bush was told on august sixth two thousand and one that explicitly was the headline of the memo to the cia so down to specific we're going to be but then i always can determine a strike absolutely nitrates and he was not there back to washington d.c. once he got that memo he wouldn't come back in his town once he got that memo not true that he went to florida i was going to like your interest rate i richard clarke he said it once bush came into office there's nothing actually he could have done to put in place to probably stop the terrorist action from happening i think testified before congress but my larger point is that what he wanted to pakistan that was actu

this exists because the infrastructure that george bush put in place and that to his credit obama didn't mean it was a very good it was a very bush move going got going in we had military intelligence since long before world war i wanted you know september let me see thousand one with a massive failure of intelligence was it not. i would say it was a massive everything there is i feel like you know you know you mean it was just because george bush was told on august sixth two thousand and one that explicitly was the headline of the memo that was the cia so to go down to specific one to the guy but that obama was going to terminate strike until the united states and he was not there riyadh back in washington d.c. once he got that number he wouldn't come back in his town. were not true that he went to florida i was very high richard clarke he said that once bush came into office there's nothing actually he could have done to put in place to probably stop the terrorist action from happening as he spoke for congress but my point is that what he wanted to pakistan that was actually a very bus

you guys say you'll do that to charlotte why is it where you cheering the crap out i didn't hear george bush is ridiculous crackdown on business is i think there should be serious and forstmann at the border but you have to not only bring skilled workers in h one b. visas which we keep our ph d.'s here but also unskilled we're going to be very good point because they create i actually you know the crackdown i'm very ambivalent about frankly i think that we should be cracking down on employers i don't think we have an illegal immigrant problem in this country we have an illegal employer problem this country without a bag and destroying people's country and its people you know exploiting them and making money off them and throw a few c.e.o.'s in jail you can see a few million people on this i didn't do comprehensive immigration reform which i'm in favor of just don't make these political poison pretend like you're doing it when it's so clear that you're actually not the one i want to go get on board with and i don't think they're going to do that and i'm not going to we're going to be exploite

bush and george w. bush served this nation for many decade. president george h.w. bush served starting when he was 18, he became the youngest pilot in the navy when he earned his wings an flew 58 combat missions, and won the distinguished cross for bravery after he was shot down. he served in the house of representatives for two terms he served as ambassador to the united nations, chief of the u.s. liaison office to china and director of the c.i.a. he was later elected vice president in 1980 and stood by president ronald reagan's side for eight years, contributing to policies that brought the cold war to an end and in 1988 was elected the 41st president of the united states. during his time in office, he skillfully navigated diplomacy with the new nations created after the fall of the soviet union an helped to bring to justice the corrupt manuel moryayga regime in panama. a few months ago, he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by president obama. this is the highest civilian honor given for an especially herer tos you contribution to the security of the u

remember george h. w. bush? then there was the other george w. bush. >> the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us since! >> this will be his finest hour. george bush found his voice in the rubble of the twin towers, just as president obama found his voice sunday night. it may define how they will be remembered. >>> to talk about this, jeremy paxton it spoke with columnists from the center of american progress. >> has this transformed the president? >> i think this is big news for him politically, and across the political spectrum, but whether or not a transforms his presidency, how he has received a long-term, remains to be seen. >> what is your reading of it? >> i think there are two aspects that will live beyond the short- term but that he will get from the killing of osama bin laden. first is the courage that it took to make this decision, to not send in a bomb but actually send in a navy seal team 6 with all the inherent risks that entailed. the second is that it was a very confidently, competently executed mission. stret

pakistan, iraq and other countries have suffered both from bin laden and george bush's war on terror which i hope president obama ends because it's time to close guantanamo and time to stop committing the injustices that we should be better than. because we must not descend to the levels -- >> mona -- >> can i jump in? >> before you do so, mona, you raised a host of issues there, that maybe we can revisit another day. hibah, respond how you reacted to what you saw at ground zero, either by being there, more likely given that you're in albuquerque, to watching it on tv. >> i have to say that when 9/11 happened, when i saw these scenes of muslims celebrating in the street, it was so horrific to me and it was completely distasteful. and i think like mona said, americans are better than this. we need to take a higher moral ground. we need to not celebrate death in this way and instead show people we are humbled by these

it may be goes overboard but by the time you have george w. bush running as an outsider for president choose a man who went to an elite school in england, harvard and yale graduate of both of those institutions. the son of a president, yet he runs this very effectively as an outsider some of the things i want to highlight is just how much that means our understanding of outside and inside center and margins has changed if we can see somebody like george w. bush as an alves fighter. >> who do you consider to be outsiders today? >> i don't actually try to think about it in terms of who i think of as an outsider. i am interested in why people see themselves as outsiders and why they position themselves that way in public. so i think it's interesting that obama is one of the recent presidential candidates who hasn't pushed himself or run or constructed in narrative of himself as that much of an outsider especially in his more recent writings and performance during the campaign, and i think that race has a lot to do with it. he's trying to downplay the

pointwhat about charles' that there was an attempt to delegitimize the george w. bush? >> going to consider the request now? we are running out of time. >> you may think it was not nice, but it was not personal -- >> when they called him hitler and said he lied as into a war? lying a country into aar is not personal? >> that is not the same as saying he was not a citizen, you are a chimpanzee -- >> it is a lot worse. there is not a serious, responsible republican in leadership who is not relieved and happy that this is over. the top are sarkoz -- the hypocrisy on the other side is staggering. they call to bush essentially a trader, a man who wants to destroy america and led us into killed our soldiers is orders of magnitude beyond birther conspiracies. >> if people don't feel better about government-run health care, i don't think he can win. if gas prices are $5 or $6, he certainly isn't going to win. >> house speaker john boehner a in an exclusive interview with jonathan karl, abc news. >> $6 a gallon of its everybody -- $6k a gallon it affects everybody who was electe

about it a way to get behind it but there was a gentleman you may have heard of him his name was george w. bush he was president united states and he pushed a strong comprehensive immigration reform back and he got shot down by republicans through back in the senate by john mccain that came to not some say because you know like brock obama had a people trying to stick amendments onto it to ensure its failure but mccain worked hard for it bush worked hard for it so republicans like me support comprehensive immigration reform i'm going to trust this president obama really think that hispanic voters are this stupid or do they think that is he really think if you that they're so cynical he's done nothing about immigration in two thousand and eight actually doesn't he does he's less of your people at the border then i was there i forgot to write he says he three hundred twenty five thousand more people than two thousand and ten than bush he's been normal hard as in two thousand and eight right but sadly this is a strictly political ploy to get hispanic voters the two thousand and twelve campaigns co

george w. bush, what you think would be the shortcomings? >> i'm 78 years old. i've lived a third of our country's history, and almost every republican president was considered not very swift. dwight eisenhower played too much golf they said. he had a poor syntax. mike goodes, gerald -- gerald ford they simply too much football about how it. it didn't matter he went to yale law school picketed matthew for the world's leading experts on u.s. budget, having served on the appropriations committee. >> not to mention the best athlete in the white house. >> exactly. and they continued he was a stumblebum. you go from one to -- while reagan, characterized by clark clifford as an amiable dunce. and then people read his letters and saw that this man was thoughtful, knowledgeable, and wound not a micromanager, a strategic leader. and a superb and highly successful strategic leader. george w. bush was described as not curious, not knowledgeable, and he had gone to harvard business school. yet gone to yale i gu

accomplishment of capturing bin laden killing him that didn't last long either giving credit to george bush and his former torture tactics which actually delayed our getting been lost and sadly enough it's gone from birth to death or worse even with confirmation from the white house many are still doubting the doubt that will solve a lot so it was dragged out into a demand of a corpse reveal. you need to know this bin laden is depp so will our next will our foreign wars be next as in to die to stop more and more democratic lawmakers are lining up to say yeah it's time to get out of afghanistan congressman barney frank said the single biggest reason we went into afghanistan was to get osama bin laden at in kill osama bin laden deprives people who wanted to stay in afghanistan for other reasons of the argument that we would be leaving in defeat. it was the republicans can't use it against the president right now congressman jerrold nadler from new york said we accomplished what we had to do in afghanistan a long time ago we had to stop wasting our troops and our money and our lives and get up

let's hope president obama doesn't repeat the mistakes of george w. bush but there's a bigger picture here and that's focused on the war itself when laden is dead today not because of a war but because of a covert intelligence operation a police operation if you will president obama didn't need to invade pakistan on sunday to kill bin laden as for our military invasions afghanistan and iraq every accomplishment of it are we any closer to realizing bush's dream of a world without islamic extremism actually no we're not if anything it's the opposite which means the question must be raised does war work or just peace work we've seen peaceful efforts throughout history even right here in america with the civil rights and right now in the middle east in tunisia egypt achieved far more than work it ever hoped to do so so the time to put our world machines in the cause of her good joining me now to offer some insight on this issue is joe madison host of the joe madison show on sirius x.m. satellite radio has weekdays six to ten am eastern time on channel one sixt

hip, hip hooray to george bush. >> >> stephen:, yes, three cheers for george bush. unless you're in a gagged position, in which case try three grunts. folks, it went down like this... [cheers and applause] here's how the whole thing played out. we water boarded khalid sheikh mohammed, obviously after this picture was taken because he clearly hadn't touched water for some time. now, at some point, at some point ksm gave up the nickname of one of bin laden's couriers. we followed that courier and that's how we nailed bin laden, therefore validating torture. but the "i want to be able to look my children in the eye" crowd refused to admit torture is the real hero here. >> torture is not moral. it's not legal. it's not effective. >> it was not torture or cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment of detainees that got us the major leads that ultimately enabled our intelligence community to find osama bin laden. >> all of our experience shows you generate better, more accurate information when you treat prisoners humanely, when you befriend them, when you connect with them. >>

nixon did, reagan did, georgee both of the george bush's, george h.w. bush, george w. bush did.d they portrayed judges who were not in fact being faithful to the constitution. i'm not sure if that was true or not. >> well... rhetoric.at was the >> .of course that's the next quustion is, is that an exaggeration? the idea that sommhow rogue judges are running around the country just screwing everything up. >> of course, i think it's a tremendous exaggeration. >> right. >> because in fact there are lots of safeguards in this system. number one, if i do something that doesn't suit the supreme court, they can reverse me. and. ú& there's a backstop. >> sure, there's a backstop. and. >> right. >> .judges on, it depends what you mean by getting it right. if you think judges should overturn legislation a lot, actually some of the so-called conservative justices do that more than the so-called liberal justices. >> yeah. why do you say so-called? >> because it depends what you mean by liberal or conservative. >> yeah. >> you know, some people think ttey can divine that, the meaning of word