. >> george w. bush's administration -- 1/3 say that the obama administration. as long as this goes on, he owns the economy. every one of those presidents, when you talk about pulling this farm out -- gallup shows the president losing to a generic republican right now, even though the nbc poll does not. they show that george h.w. bush had a big lead a year and half ago before the election in 1992. and, of course, he lost. so did ronald reagan. ronald reagan was trailing oil, and i'll -- ronald reagan was trailing walter mondale by 11 points at this point. the enomy went down in bush 41's case. you are a prisoner, a captive of economic events. >> one of the interesting things is that some of this is going on in europe, and some economists are beginning to wonder -- everybody agrees we have to cut the deficit. but people are beginning to wonder whether you put in these kinds of a draconian measures at the time of a recession, that it could exacerbate problems, and that we should perhaps think about doing this in a slightly different way. >> we are not thinking abo

my recollection is that the first year that george bush was president like a couple of months into his presidency there was a major problem of the afghan opium hitting as heroin hitting. streets in europe in the united states prices really low action was going up in russia as well all these countries and george bush went to mullah omar and said we'll give you forty million dollars my recollection will be forty million dollars you pass it along to the opium farmers and as many poor in their fields and a lot of market took the money actually did distribute most of it to the opium farmers and if you look at the spike of opium production from afghanistan there's this huge drop bush's plan actually worked this little tiny bit forty million dollars point zero four of lund billion was enough to shut down the opium and still people had a living that's wanted to sell as well so if that's the case if that small amount of money given that you know just given that way through the local system was able to work why don't we just get all the military i'll get all the foreign aid out and with a fracti

george bush won 10% of the african-american vote.n ohio that year, he won 18% of the african-american vote. it was due to the fact that an issue was on the ballot that was an issue that said there was a difference between john kerry and it was not just a distinction, it was a real difference. and that a basic and fundamental, cultural understanding of what a family is, of what a marriage is, and as many have told you this afternoon, but one of the basic intermediary institutions in our country, marriage and family, what they are and that they were at risk. african-americans came out and voted for bush in numbers greater than the rest of their colleagues around the country. i would suggest to you that issues matter. and that as one of your speakers said this morning, the only way the to get limited government is by having a strong family and strong churches and synagogues that carry forth of the message that it is our responsibility, not the government's responsibility to craft a kind of future that we want. [applause] in the bible th

but we created more jobs this last period, the last six months, than were created on under george bush>> now you have a situation where most of the stimulus, most of the stimulus from the famous stimulus bill from 2009 is running out this year. you have the payroll tax cut that works for the rest of the year. but that is only another six months. the fed is going to stop pushing money into the economy, we think at least, at the end of this month. now that we see the economy slow down, is there a worry that without further stimulus that things could get worse? >> yes. and the secretary of the treasury says that. again, economic growth is an important factor in addressing the deficit. if we do not grow much better, it is going to be hard by any other measure to grab ahold of the deficit. you'd think this was relatively doable. you have been reporting for a long time. i would guess you might be with the public, what is the problem here? why can't we move and find some kind of common ground? the problem in large measure -- not only, but in large measure -- is that the republicans are stuck

outside the extremists yesterday who joined the trial or any other business or trade off during george bush's term yes europe was it was not fair toward us but people who are who are now not living under saddam hussein and allah being under the taliban will tell you if you talk to them that they're happy that we were there so you never see this side of we're building schools or giving people opportunities over there you only hear these videos that we blew up. in half. i understand they would not be ready. to you know that is they're going to school and the fact that you're playing at schools being on holiday i mean i think you know parenting or has been a strategy and i'm sure that if the republican presidential candidates then suggest that it be great if we could be building more schools here in the united states actually than other countries put in donald trump are you know it was not done and i don't think you can be one of them and the two men if you could not romney. leave it there citicorp released a new report this week predicting that india's trade economy will surpass the united stat

change the nature of the relationship we have to the rest of the world when we were hated under george bush we are now in a much better place he certainly tried to rely on diplomacy but it does concern me that i don't want what the world knows about us to be just our soldiers because there's a lot more of who we are as a people and what we have to offer the world community what we were going through in world war two through it through it through the conservation camps and a lot of people saw us with guns and you know what they were happy to see what was going to sometimes you just couldn't live anywhere and i want to talk about the other end of that you never hear from the people who actually respect the united states and respect george bush when you talk to people in iraq and afghanistan who are outside of the extremist yesterday and you know much of any other thing that george bush's term yes europe was it was not fair approach toward us but people who are who are now not living under saddam hussein and allah being under the taliban will tell you if you talk to them that they're happy tha

what's the alternative to george bush's moralism which turned out to be reckless.ition that countries have their own interest and will behave according to their interests and idealism stuff doesn't work. that depends on a careful understanding of other places and recognition of differentness of different places. russia has interest. china has interest. you don't feel that either. when you listen to michelle bachmann or gingrich or any of those candidates, you don't hear either the president's belief in democracy promotion america doing good things in the world nor do you hear the kind of old fashioned traditional sober recognition that it's a complicated world out there with which we have to be engaged in a complicated way. your wouse of the word isolatio is let's have less foreign policy. withdrawal. >> this actually is their perspective that makes sense and is consistent with their premise that less government we have, the better. >> that's what i try. one thing i try to point out in this column i wrote. there's an inherent tension between republican idea that go

what's the alternative to george bush's moralism which turned out to be reckless.ans a sober recognition that countries have their own interest and will behave according to their interests and idealism stuff doesn't work. that depends on a careful understanding of other places and recognition of differentness of different places. russia has interest. china has interest. you don't feel that either. when you listen to michelle bachmann or gingrich or any of those candidates, you don't hear either the president's belief in democracy promotion america doing good things in the world nor do you hear the kind of old fashioned traditional sober recognition that it's a complicated world out there with which we have to be engaged in a complicated way. your use of the word isolation is let's have less foreign policy. withdrawal. >> this actually is their perspective that makes sense and is consistent with their premise that less government we have, the better. >> that's what i try. one thing i try to point out in this column i wrote. there's an inherent tension between republ

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. >>

you have the frat boy aristocrat george w. bush running against an actual b and more veteran and it becomes this. he turns himself into this. he cites al gore's 60s seeming interest in the environment to turn al gore into basically a 60s grown-up yet be. so this continues to play out. a little bit of trivia. some trivia questions. to make it fun. what was the name of the song patrick swayze performed on the dirty dancing sound track? i have three questions for each section just to quiz you. what famous actor played the course in the big chill? christopher reeve, harrison ford, alec baldwin or kevin costner? no yelling out. and here is the third question from this section. what city is the outsiders sit in? omaha, tulsa, amarillo or topeka? i will give you the answer at the end. the second chapter and i will go through three chapters of this and we will have a discussion. how the 1980s deifies the individual. this is obviously an important issue. we are in chicago and our am sure there are a lot of jordan fans out there. this chapte

how many times did you hear george bush say that?oliticians make decisions about war and washington. this throws out separate knife from a in our constitution has civilian control of the military. in the 1980s, the whole idea of friend randall to reagan is the way we wouldn't worsen this country is to micromanage politicians, micromanage or tie the hands of troops on the ground. this is when you talk about war today. when it comes to libya. barack obama is saying i'm not going to tell my commanders and to end the war, what to do about before. it's my job simply to let them do what they do best. it is a fundamentally antithetical story that we are still telling ourselves a new story from an 1880s that we continue to tell ourselves. i want to ask you one more question and i want to because you are popular expert, certainly far more than me. >> so what do you think, is there any are some of the key differences between -- and this is a big question, but between the popular culture of the 1980s? i'll put it this way. as the popular cultur

has given no explanation all said story couldn't as is suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling tool sure is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning rape instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of torture. myself electroshocks because i was not science. i was forced to agree. and i was. the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother owns this lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact with mr corners it's really a shame for the united states what happened. is. concerned that national law and it's simply impossible in the twenty first century to put someone in the next. room. saying you have no right moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners that our people think will be an effective. did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil ministers in the european union were glad

getting just a little bit too close to the illegality of george bush and his cronies well but person is not the only study that's been supporting the us to carry out its illegal treatment of prisoners back in two thousand and one the e.u. leaders gave america a green light to go ahead with its vision of battling terra since hundreds of going through torture without trial. bush watched the story. moron as was arrested on the streets and sent to guantanamo for torture after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given no explanation all said story couldn't as is suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzales for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even death i was one of those who survived those kind of closure on myself electroshocks because i will not sign papers. i was forced to agree that i am the number of. the us refused to even reveal they were holding current as his mother owns this lawyer to find her son i

getting just a little bit too close to the illegality of george bush and his cronies. you would see now ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko is in court to face charges for abuse of power she's accused of losing ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars in a gas deal with russia to use an axe you can use outside the court in kenya for. the atmosphere inside the courtroom and around the court building is absolutely elektra find around fifteen hundred supporters of unity which i question can see here gathered in central kiev to protest what they describe as a farcical hearing of the farcical case against their leader i guess you don't see much angle now the i really give you credit politics herself started this trial with a little bit of controversy she refused to stand up when the judge entered the room and then she said that this judge was completely unqualified call the case and that it needed to be dismissed clearly the tension is rising as this case and has its final stage you to assemble has been summoned to the prosecutor's office for months now for ques

getting just a little bit too close to the illegality of george bush and his cronies. and that was from reprieve is a charity that fights for human rights of prisoners just giving her take on what's happening at u.s. detention camps. well ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko is in court to face charges for abuse of power she's accused of losing ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars in gas to go with russia so let's you know just use outside the court in kiev for. well the atmosphere in the side the courtroom and around the court building in central kiev is absolutely electrifying fifteen hundred supporters of unix machine will gather here since early morning to protest what they describe as a farcical trial and the i related ukraine told the students think of the former prime minister herself already started some controversy in this trial now when the judge and they're doing the room the courtroom she refused to stand up and then said that this trial this judge must be dismissed because she believes the judge has a very low qualification to handle this ve

you know, george bush is not a good rhyme. >> you'd think it would, a lot of things would rhyme with ush... >> exactly, but... >> ...you'd think. >> tush rhymes with... >> not, not a word, by the way, we say in texas very much, tush. >> well, it's disrespectful to the president, so i never used that. >> is it? >> yes, it's not good. so fortunately he had a lot of middle names, george herbert walker bush, so i wrote a poem that was: farewell to you, george herbeet walker. though never famous as a talker, your predicates were often prone to wander nounless, off alone. [laughter] you did your best in our own way, the way of greenwich country day, so just relax and take your ease and never order japanese. [laughter] >> pretty good. that was eight lines, so... [applause] >> that was, i was willing to sacrifice... >> they didn't pay you more for that one? >> no. >> no, no, of course not, crazy. >> they have never paid me more for anything. >> now the molly ivins piece, is that... >> oh, the molly ivins piece was a eulogy... >> ...from, from her memorial service. >> never before published bu

the notion of of of evil we historically in the united states you know maybe maybe maybe george w. bush and the republicans just for a moment let's let's just imagine that possibly they actually went to the dark side . historically. this five pointed star was man it meant man it was a good thing and if you flip it upside down the upside down five pointed star with a goat with his chin chin chin and his ears and his horns was the sign of satan worshipers is that an extra now you can see in the american flag our stars are right side up all across america you'll see symbols with five point stars the stars are right side up the man's. but around the year two thousand the republican party changed their logo from the stars being right side up to the stars being upside down coincided with the coming on the scene of george w. bush and karl rove very strange i think they need an exorcism. but let's exercise appears the actions of the number one and the bush tax cuts number two and the bush wars and number three and the crazy notion that corporations are people of that money is speech and that th

the economy made jimmy carter and george h.w. bush into one- term president. are we giving up for a repeat, nina? >> it is impossible to know that at this point -- >> never admit that on television. [laughter] >> it all depends on how much the opposition is and how much of a santa claus. on economics decanted it is pushing. -- said the cause. on economics at the cannes -- santa claus theory on economics that the person is pushing. you need more money coming in polley for revenue increases, partly from a better economy. i think everybody is pretty scared right now -- >> the basic strategy, as best he has let it out, is to win by default, to hope that the republicans screw up and have the economy improved enough so that he gets elected and not have to actually do anything harder significant -- hard or significant. this economic problem we are having calls into question -- he might have to come out and do something before the election. >> when you state republican its crop, do you mean choosing someone who is unelectable? >> somebody who is too far to the right.

we go into a lot of detail about that, for example with george w. bush and we have a chapter on john kerry and the swift boats so now we're at the third generation with president obama who's too young to serve. >> woodruff: but even with this third generation, as you say, president obama too young to have served in vietnam, he read about it, studied it in school. it has affected these presidents differently and you write particularly democrats. why is that? >> democrats have always been saddled with the responsibility for losing wars. that's what republicans have said and since 1949 richard nixon came in when harry truman was there as president when china turned communist and richard nixon asked "who lost china?" and i flare people at the white house right now that among obama's closest people, one of the reasons why they're so careful with that afghanistan is they don't want to lose it. they lose it, obama loses the election next year. so they are very mindful of the legacy of a lost war like vietnam. >> woodruff: deborah kalb, you all worked on this fo

george bush tried it in '05. it never worked. to think it's going to work now to justify a pullout, i am very concerned about the gains we made in afghanistan. >> let me move you to a different topic in the final couple of minutes. you are one of eight republicans to vote to authorize the u.s. action, which is already taking place in libya as part of the nato contingent. do you sense there is an isolationists trend inside the republican party? >> i think confusion led to the events of this week. i argue this should be one of the most embarrassing moments for the administration going into the week, the fact that they had democrats and republicans all over the map on something that the president has shown leadership, and presented his case, and i believe there are national security interests in libya in a very limited, defined role, there are things to be concerned about. what i think happened, candy, is that lack of leadership and lack of explanation, and his believing he doesn't have to come to congress led to eight republicans a

secretary of state under george bush which threatened most of the developing world and chevron oil corporation but which connally's rice was a member of the board. in fact there was the case her name the congolese. by chevron g. major the only secretary of state who've ever carried thirty five million gallons of oil in addition but the real kicker is that she's going to be co-chairing this committee with. general james jones who is head of the u.s. joint chiefs of staff our military our rifles what do you think this is really about here this is nothing to it probably reduction except that what it has to do with is chevron's projecting its political military might now i was down in ecuador meeting with the president of ecuador and then going to the jungle. to see the damage for myself i also spoke with chevron. and what happened there is that you see you see toys kids poison people in hospitals all over their arms. literally. i saw scores of people were just dying of well toxins it's dumped all over the place was there texaco corp which is bought by chevron a seventeen year trial took place. ch

. >> barack obama has created more new jobs in 2 1/2 years that this george bush did in eight years,ve it up. >> you forget i ran against george bush for heaven's sake. >> i've waited all of my career to say this -- pat, wee out of time. thank you, bill. thank you, pat. >> see you next time, al. >>> thank you for your time. republicans have a president obama for high unemployment, but who is really to blame? nancy pelosi isn't afraid to blame republicans. and all we need to do is change the way we're thinking about them. a couple decades ago, we didn't even realize just how much natural gas was trapped in rocks thousands of feet below us. technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having the idea, and that's where the discovery comes from. the chief operating officer at a national tissue bank, when she decided to get her masters in health care administration. by choosing a university that conn

as george bush used to say, this isn't my first rodeo.ts to get in the pool should jump in the pool. and i believe in the process. i believe you get tested in this process, your character gets tested as well as your ability to read a script or a speech, and so he and all the candidates will be tested. ultimately i'm very confident about the outcome. >> david axelrod, senior adviser for the president, thank you very much for joining us. >> good to see you, candy. >>> up next, a check of today's top stories followed by "fareed zakaria gps." okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. keeps you from getting soft. [ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge! your home and auto

. >> that was george w. bush's defense secretary. should you listen to him when he says you need more time? >> when you go to war you need objectives. i agreed to go to war. our objectives should be to disrupt the terrorists' basis, annihilate al qaeda, and to eliminate their leadership. i think we have largely succeeded in those objectives. will is another reason why you have to reconsider. one, we are not very good at building nationses. it is very expensive. our infrastructure in our country is crumbling. we have bridges and need in louisville and bridges we need in cincinnati. we can't afford to be building bridges in afghanistan. so we do have to reconsider our policy and it is also -- how conservatives and liberals can come togethering to say how can we balance this budget. you can't do it with a foreign policy that's everywhere all the time. we need to obey the constitution and we need to think about some of our interests here in our country. >> congressman kucinich, you have been an anti-war member of congress for some time.

[applause] in the beginning it was all about george bush. we are not hearing much about george bush anymore. unemployment went up again today. you know what? you cannot keep blaming george bush. this is now his economy. the borrowing and spending, the $1.60 trillion deficit, these numbers are his. it is why he is going to lose. we will have a republican house and senate. it is not that we have all of the answers, but one of our answers is to stop spending everything that you take in. [applause] and i will hold the line so that we do not keep adding depth on to the backs of our kids. sir? you do not have to get out, if you do not want to. let's in just a handicapped old citizen. in an ordinary american who has been self-employed my entire life and i really appreciate what medicare has done for me. at the same time, it has been pointed out, and i know that it is full of fraud. the simple idea of coming to washington, no longer will the government pay bills to doctors and hospitals without having received the written approval of the patients. i

[applause] in the beginning it was all about george bush. we are not hearing much about george bush anymore. unemployment went up again today. you know what? you cannot keep blaming george bush. this is now his economy. the borrowing and spending, the $1.60 trillion deficit, these numbers are his. it is why he is going to lose. we will have a republican house and senate. it is not that we have all of the answers, but one of our answers is to stop spending everything that you take in. [applause] and i will hold the line so that we do not keep adding depth on to the backs of our kids. sir? you do not have to get out, if you do not want to. let's in just a handicapped old citizen. in an ordinary american who has been self-employed my entire life and i really appreciate what medicare has done for me. at the same time, it has been pointed out, and i know that it is full of fraud. the simple idea of coming to washington, no longer will the government pay bills to doctors and hospitals without having received the written approval of the patients. i

we demand a payback, and george bush's administration opposed it.almost all the other republicans voted not to pass that resolution requiring the payback, and that was maybe 10 years ago or so, or, excuse me, seven years ago. and the point you're you make in terms of the killing, most of the mayhem we're talking about is caused by -- it's not american tanks going into a community and shooting and blowing everybody up because we've got tanks. no, also, the explosions are happening because people are using the weapons left over from the saddam hussein administration and using it to blow up their people of a different faith, the shiites versus the sunnis. so i don't think that we can be blamed for that. i don't think we can. and one last thing, saddam hussein's army was totally armed by the soviet union. all of their battle tanks, all of their airplanes, everything was armed by the soviet union. do not think that saddam hussein -- and this is another leftist card -- that we were the big power behind saddam hussein. if we were, certainly his army wouldn

back into chevrons payroll the question is did she ever leave sharon's payroll in effect because george bush put the heat and her state department with tremendous heat on ecuador tremendous you know there were over these over these cases and tremendous heat on ecuador for trying to put the. put the would get some justice from the oil companies and they want to make an example of this so what they're saying is our concept of poverty reduction is to is to bring in a military chain to bring in a the secretary of state have brought us the war in iraq and in addition you have to understand the form is very unusual it's not like the u.n. development. operations it's not any known poverty reduction organization it's not a mock family they're using the c.s.i. it i asked which is the most powerful thing came in washington which is basically a kind of privatized cia operation in fact the chief of the cia's orly unit the body because they're angry kissinger. tremendous national security outfit it's basically military intelligence. the way art and that's what they're using for so-called poverty reductio