george walker bush was born during that time. it was also at that point that george h.w. sh was playing varsity baseball at yale and barbara was the official scorer for the team. it was a happy time for them. >> they had six children. george, robin, jeb, neil, and dorothy. i want you to tell the story about robin's death. it impacted both parents. >> robin was a little over two years old and woke up one morning. at this point, they were in texas. she said to barbara, i think i will stay in bed or maybe i will go out on the lawn and look at the clouds. that raised red flags. her daughter was very active. she took her daughter to the pediatrician and the pediatrician asked barbara and george to come back a little bit later that day. she said to them, your daughter has leukemia. george bush said, what does that mean? at that point, who knew what it was? the doctor says it means she will not live very long. the doctor's recommendation was that robin be allowed to go home and enjoy things. one of george bush's relatives was a doctor in new york and robin was taken there to try

george bush endorsed the concept ted days later so is speaks to the tremendous force that were at play at this particular time. however while a lot of the empress of congress and the team lead in individuals of each political party endorsed the recommendations do lee immediately it inspired turbid this bureaucratic opposition the and this is at the heart heart, and a tale of bureaucratic power unit jockey for influence over the $80 billion intelligence center tries to control that act of the united states. >> scientology was created as a religion that would use celebrities as established in the los angeles 1954 ian there was a reason for that. l. ron hubbard to the founder realized that americans really do worshiped one thing for sure, celebrities. the space celebrities is hollywood's a scientology is one of the major landlords. early on they set out to recruit celebrities. there was a church publication put out shortly after the founding with a roster of perspective celebrities with people like bob hope, walt disney disney, reduced some of the most famous in the world but that is to t

. >> when did you first meet george bush? >> i met george at a dance.n those days they exchanged christmas dances, and i met him at a christmas dance, and he cut in on me -- he didn't. he asked someone to introduce us, and i had on a red and green dress my mother's great friend had given her and said, i wonder if barbara would like this dress. it had belonged to some friend of hers. it was pretty because george asked to meet me. we came the next night to another dance. he cut in on me. my older brother asked him if he was playing a basketball game. prep school boys against the high school, and they were murdered incidentally by the high school, but george said yes, he would play and ask if i would meet him and go out afterwards. every member of my family came to that basketball game. when i would come home at night my mother would say, i want you to meet, and my father would say, tell her in the morning. i came home and said, i met this heavenly boy, and my mother knew the next morning exactly who he was, who his family was. she should have been the hea

an incredible man. >> bill clinton, when george h.w. bushvery stilted, they didn't get along and now look at them today. it's amazing. >> worked in the administration or want to participate, they will have a big tweet wall thing. if you tweet #bushreunion maybe he'll get to see anything that you want to say to him. >> that's nice. >> next, looking for mountain of youth, some tips that could help you live longer. bob's got those, believe it or not, when "the five" returns. test test flush for the new mattress models but sleep train's huge year end clearance is ending soon. for a short time, save hundreds on tempur-pedic mattresses. get the most highly-recommended bed in america at closeout prices. plus, get interest-free financing and free same-day delivery. why wait for the new models? sleep train's year end clearance is ending soon. superior service, best selection, lowest price, guaranteed. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> what do you mean? >> want to know how to live a longer life, keep a positive attitude accor

we're going to look back on the inauguration of president george h.w. bushrs lat25 years lg right up so stay with us. >> i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> that i will faithfully execute the offers of president of the united states. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. >> congratulations. >> that was president h.w. bush at his inauguration 25 years ago. the anniversary was monday, and there's a celebration later today in washington at the u.s. chamber of commerce. 41 is now 89, and he tweeted that it's still hard for him to believe that he had the honor to serve as president. fox's brit hume was there on that day on january 20th, 1989. he spent a lot of time covering the president's campaign the year before, and here's what he remembers from it. >> it was a bright sunny day which was a great blessing for those of us who were outdoors. i was up on the stand in among the bush family, and i remember the speech -- the speech, if memory serves, is the one in which h

george w. bush had a higher approval rating. >> people are getting health care that couldn't get it before. >> you believe that? >> yes. >> do you really believe that? >> absolutely. >> go ahead and finish. >> more and more every day. the irs, quote/unquote scandal wasn't a scandal. it was the irs doing its job to keep political organizations of both stripes from -- >> hang on. one at a -- >> the fact that you are still justifying the irs scandal targeting conservatives is appalling. i'm not surprised because the president did it, too. he said i think this is outrageous and in no way should the u.s. be used to target political opponent. two weeks ago he said, i can't believe they were outraged that there was a list. there was a list. it's unfortunate we can't come together on the issue of t irs targeting political opponents. what if they did it to the other side? spl wow. all right. i see we are all -- the eggnog kicked in. congressman kucenich. good to see you. i found myself agreeing with you more

were reflected and argued aggressively throughout august 2004 in the national security council as george bush's adviser try to color in exactly what president bush's beliefs would be on a piece of legislation. i won't go in to this in great details. but the congress embraced the 9/11 commission recommendation. separate from the cia and really tried to -- in the united states senate enact the will exactly of the 9/11 commission's report. i was there at the time as a white house legislative affairs staffer, and people carried around the 9/11 commission book as if it were the bible. and tried to interpret as faithfully as possible when they thought the 9/11 commission meant. this is really the reason for my argument of why the 9/11 commission has been the most successful commission in american history. because they were able to dictate the policy agenda in the fall of 2004. cause the congress to immediately endorse and the respective presidential nominees to nearly immediately endorse their rights. the bill did hit some snags. the house of representatives -- the book goes through some of the argum

reflected in argued aggressively throughout an august 2004, and the national security council as george bush's advisers tried to color index that way what president bush's belief would be in a piece of legislation he later said today he'll on what the future intelligence communities would look like your ammo into this in great detail, but the congress embraced the 9/11 commission recommendations. the dni ndn ctc separate from the cia had really tried to in the united states senate, and not the will of the 9/11 commission's report. i was there at the time as a white house legislative affairs staff for. people carried around the 9/11 commission vote as if it were the bible and try to interpret as faithfully as possible what they thought the 9/11 commission met. this is really the reason for my argument if i could 9/11 commission has the most successful commission in american history because they are able to dictate the policy agenda in the fall of 2004, caused the congress to immediately endorse and the respective presidential nominees to nearly immediately endorse the recommendation. the bill t

dpl you really think george bush wasn't sure about his mission? >> i think every day he asked himself if he did the right thing. >> everyone does that. you don't stand in front of the secretary of defense and -- was she secretary of state at the time, hillary clinton? >> she was. >> and say i'm not sure about this. >> he said he had concerns about it. >> bob, he did run on afghanistan being the good war. that was part of his whole strategy. he went after george bush for iraq and argued that we should be in afghanistan. is this so explosive, greg? president obama was never the pro-war guy. i'm just wondering why do it at all? why continue with a war if you're not swres interested in war? >> a lot of it has to do with the fact that people don't trust you. president obama was suspicious of the military. it's a two-way street obama has viewed american power as a flaw, not a benefit. it's like putting peta in charge of mcdonald's. bob, you're going to get angry about this. when your president had a friend who planned to bomb a military officer's dance

that's right i think the presidency of george w. bush is going to be judged based on what happens in iraq and doesn't look very good and the presidency of barack obama will be judged eventually on obamacare and i just like to say i'm hearing the panel talk about the great american economy our economy is in a mess we are we have corruption in washington d.c. on wall street on k. street we have corruption like we've never had in this country i mean we have the audit of the federal reserve our central bank in two thousand and eight in the midst of the economic crisis showed sixteen trillion dollars introduced to the american economy at a time when the entire national debt was twelve trillion that is devastating to the elderly it's devastating to the poor it wiped out a whole generation of middle class it eventually had it devastating impact on real estate our economy's a mess and. so i think you can you can you can say this is a great economy right now it's a great economy if you're rich and were trying to get the wall street cranked up aga

george w. bush had a higher approval rating after year five than obama. >> couldn't get health care ben affleck. >> you believe that. >> yes. >> really? >> of course. >> go ahead and finish. >> hang on. >> the fact that you are still justifying the irs scandal targeting conservatives is appalling. i'm not surprised. the president did it, too. he came out when the irs scandal came out and said, i think this is outrageous. no way should the irs be used to target political opponents. two weeks ago he said i can't believe there was outrage because there was a list. it's unfortunate we can't come together on the issue of the irs targeting political opponents. what if they were doing it to the other side? >> great point. i see the eggnog kicked in. let's go to congressman kucinich. welcome. you are interesting to me. i find myself agreeing with you more this year than ever. we have had heated battles over the years. >> and? [ laughter ] >> i thought you were going to weigh in on this. did obama have a bad

you judge the presidency thoughts far of barack obama is he going to be in the lower ranks with george w. bush in film or in buchanan the most unpopular or in considered least successful failure presidencies well i think a lot is going to depend on several variables whether or not he finds iranian gorbachev whether or not the economy continues to pick up speed what happens with obamacare and the sixty five or ten years to probably evaluate but if you look at past elections as in nate silver did a great job of this to try to predict where obama would come out he comes out being about the seventeenth best president if you run a regression analysis on election results which is just a notch ahead of bill clinton so i think is the possibility to potentially be a democratic reagan and be a top twelve president but if the economy doesn't do too well or some of the foreign policy issues blow up in his face you could definitely find himself to be an average or below average president. you know it's doug it's very interesting that the election his election head to head jumping ahead i was going to say h

because you know he ran to change their ass and benami change were the same country we were under george bush we're still involved in these ridiculous wars we're still we've got everybody under surveillance and all american citizens seem to be potential terrorists that's why they're watching us i guess and that's an amazing thing too larry how can they do that when they do it with my money i don't want them watching me with my money oh gave president obama recently told the new yorker by the way in a fascinating article this is quote there's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president the flipside is that there are some black folks and maybe some whites who really like mean giving me the benefit of the doubt because i'm black your reaction to that. well i'm certain you know i'm certain it's true to some extent for me it's not i could care less black person white person woman whoever runs the united states of america i will be critical of them i will also support them when it's there to support them and many things like that

he went after george bush for iraq and argued we should be in afghanistan. is this so explosive, greg? before he argued this was the good war, look back to his record. president obama was never the pro-war guy. i'm just wondering why do it at all? why continue with a war if you're not interested in war? >> because a lot of it has to do with the fact that people don't trust you. you have to somehow overcome that trust. gates said that president obama was suspicious of the military. it's a two-way street. obama has spent his entire life viewing american power as a flaw, not a benefit. putting him in charge of such power is like putting peta in charge of mcdonald's, and bob you're going to get angry about it, but when your president had a friend who planned to bomb a military officer's place at ft. dix, you can't trust him. gates was kept as a chaperone for the most awkward blind date ever. that was between president obama and our troops. >> who are you talking about? >> bill ayers. >> he was going to bomb -- >> he planned to bomb a military officer at ft. dix.

george w. bushead, the more formal it was, the worse it was. he was never michael bay but isn't it as weird as someone can be as good as george w. bush is as good of a person but it gets in their head and it's tough. >> bush's first debate against john kerry was like that. and i just finished "double down" and what president obama's debate was against john kerry. >> that was one of the worst i'd seen. >> those moments where he said "is my time up yet?" no, no, no, that's not what he'd do. george bush in '04 would talk and he'd ask for more time and they'd give him the time and he'd say "it's hard." >> i think that was the "saturday night live" skit. mika and i were talking about it yesterday, whether was writing musicals or playing in bands or coaching footballs, all those weird things, i'd walk into it and go i can do this. i get on tv in front of a camera for the first year and i was just sweating. >> i saw you yesterday -- >> everybody can deal with screw-ups. the rick perry for me was the most p

phillip merrill has had a long relationship with george h.w. bush, george w. vice president dick chainny. merrill currently serves as the president of the xm bank, an appointment he received from george w. bush. >> guest: i was contributing editor to the washington taupe yang magazine -- washingtonian magazine for over 30 years, and i did notice my name off the masthead. i was never called. i never got a letter. so i called jack, and i asked why. and he said it was because of the bush book and because of the intimate details of their private lives. i said that's what a biography is. you never had any problem with jackie o., you featured it in the magazine. you never had any problem with nancy reagan, with frank sinatra, the british royal family. why this one? click. and so i do think it was because of the connection with the bushs. phil merrill subsequently took his own life, and his daughter is now running the magazine. but it is true, you do pay a price. you cannot expect to write a book like "the family" and then be invited to a white house state dinner. [la

you commit atrocities how does that concept play and to the way that want here is being against george bush or a you know made the terrorists to be evil people who were against the freedoms that we have here they hate us because we're the they hate our freedoms which was not true there was a blowback situation the terrorists acted because there was a definite desire to hurt the united states for hurting them i mean put five hundred thousand troops in mecca saudi arabia the holy land that's what george bush the father did five hundred thousand troops he sent to saudi arabia on the kuwait attack and you have. kuwaiti understand but it's crazy we suddenly commit we did that in vietnam and we went to an agony to do it remember we had five hundred thousand troops we lost we had no business being there we had no business thirty five thousand troops middle east in one thousand nine hundred two and the other thing. at that point all i was going to say about nine eleven you. talk about the august sixth presidential briefing that said you know strike within the us but since that we've known that it's

use it it will be one president will come along will not have the restraint of an obama will be a george bush again and one right of course once his policies are inactive they never go away no matter who you start building the atomic bomb is true even for. he's a little boy on of toboggan according to leslie gross no one was going to stop that bomb from being dropped rose said from the moment we started building that bomb russia was our main. you know you've said in the in the film series that those who control the world technologically it's almost that they will inevitably use it tyrannical do you think that now with the drone wars these mechanize murder weapons out of war and whistleblowers and also just the n.s.a. spying on the world is that just exemplify the tyrannical evolution of the us absolutely once you have a bomb you want to use it so we have put up this system where we were looking for terrorists right there what two thousand and three thousand i don't know it's a small pile band of people but people would now have the right to look at the entire haystack for the needle we get so

so, barack obama has gone from blaming george w. bush to plagiarizing george w. eech? is that why it was familiar to you? >> i was the lead writer and i was listening to obama. >> this is brilliant. he's selling me. >> but of course, now, barack obama and george w. bush and conservatives have a different understanding of opportunity, barack obama believes passed opportunity is more government. and we believe more enterprise. >> what did you think about his tone? because we're told he was going to be defiant. and i heard people saying he was and he gave it to republicans and other people saying kind of lame. >> yes. i thought he was defiant the washington post this morning reported he was going to yaus this to launch a year-long sustained campaign against the republican party. he went after government shut down, he went after the debt limit. told them not to do another 40 repeals of obamacare. and warned them not to undo the cuts. a speech about opportunity supposed to be hopeful and optimistic. he managed to take a speech about opportunity and z.make it combative

this monday, five years exactly after george w. bush left office, the george w. esidential library started accepting freedom of information act requests, that's what reporters call it, we say we are foia-ing documents. individuals, state and local companies can submit foia requests for records. this is a particularly great variety of nerd christmas. you, your grandmother, adoring wanna be george bush biographers, folks needing to settling a longstanding bet about the scooter libby prosecution, all of us, anyone, we can all now file requests demanding to know just about anything about the george w. bush presidency. anything that isn't classified. most of the really interesting stuff is classified, still, he's very exciting. if you want help starting your own foia request, the dallas morning news has published the contact information and steps you have to go through to file your very own foia if you want to. it has been five years this week since george w. bush has been in office. that anniversary also means it's been one year since this happened, since president ob

hurting them i mean put five hundred thousand troops in saudi arabia the holy land that's what george bush the father did five hundred thousand troops he sent to saudi arabia on the kuwait attack and you have to go to the kuwait invasion to understand it but it's crazy we suddenly commit we did that in vietnam and we went to an agony to do it remember we had five hundred thousand troops we lost we had no business being there we had no business thirty five thousand troops in the middle east in one thousand nine hundred two and the other thing is. at that point all i was going to say about nine eleven you. talk about the august sixth presidential briefing that said you know strike within the us but since that we've known that it's not just that it's dozens and dozens of warnings from all over the world and also internal cia warnings to the highest echelons of the department i just find it hard to believe that it was pure nepotism i mean we already know that this government has a track record of just completely not caring about human life is there any in clean in your mind at all that they al

i room for how angry i was at the press secretary for george w. bush who wrote a kiss and tell book about the president while he was still in office. i feel the exact same way about this. the congress is far less interested in getting to the bottom of anything than making sure there quit get played in the legal media -- local media the next morning. host: this is another excerpt. i saw this feature on the wall street journal website. guest: you mean president obama? host: president obama, and bush. guest: that is been one of the big criticisms for president obama. i do wish that he would spend more time reaching across the aisle, and actually having and developing those kind of relationships. it is what it is. he has talked about this himself, he is talked about how he wants to focus on his family life, his two girls come first for him, they are young, so they need a lot of time. as a mother, i understand that. these are criticisms that, in the book, that at the end of the day, i do not think they diminish what this president has accomplished, both dom

bush. could you compare the bubble quality is of george h. debut? and the sun. >> right. i knew we would get that in the question. both of the administrations from start to finish. president bush, the father was elected. he was the right president for the times when he was selected. two and the cold war, the destruction of the berlin wall and so on. very effectively. he didn't take a lot of credit for it. he always with a highly live for my mother not to pay too much attention to that's a great idea. in other words, control your ego. he always took that to heart. that hurt him because a lot of people want the president to explain what he's doing. a lot of political advisers say he has to do that to get the proper credit. bush didn't do that. by midway in his presidency, the country turned again to because the economy in recession no longer wanted a form policy president. and president bush didn't get that. i was like president bush personally. and if you might know him know that he's a gentleman, always decent and generous to people around him. he could never convey those

what's wrong with that. >> there is nothing wrong with that george bush is from texas.us is from texas. come on o, that makes total sense to me. it's ridiculous. >> think about it, we just talked about benghazi. four civilians there with a warning no one sends. president obama doesn't send assets. he still won't answer any questions. questioning george bush when why find out secretary of defense gates. surge in afghanistan. why is there a double standard? >> this is on mission for one thing. that's to position hillary clinton for election in 2016. let me make something very clear. nobody that wears a navy seal trident on their chest. nobody is a fan of obama. nobody is a fan of hillary clinton, period. those four gentlemen that were killed in benghazi should be getting the congressional gold medal right now. and hopefully debbie lee with america's mighty warriors.org can can make that happen. that needs to happen, period. judge, let me tell you. this me and my good friends, all former seals are working on a project right now that is going to expound upon everything that

they were george bush's idea in the first place. >> watching republicans to broaden their appeal has been like trying to cover a bedroom floor with a poorly cut carpet. there you have it. you need mcrogers holding down one part of the carpet and mike lee in another part and rand paul holding another part. >> got to clean up the mess. >> i love the new redecoration. that's all we've got. thank you both, ladies. >>> coming up, there is no quit in john boehner, at least when it comes to his favorite things. we'll talk cigarettes and merlot. and why the gop can stop printing those boehner for president signs just ahead. >>> first, while republicans continue to litigate the right to choose, texas grapples with a real issue of the fate of one woman's body. we'll have that next on "now." [ female announcer ] winter is hard on your face. the start of sneeze season and the wind-blown watery eyes. that's why puffs is soft. puffs plus are dermatologist tested to be gentle and they lock in moisture better. so you can always put your best face forward. a face in need deserves puffs indeed. ♪ ever

back to lee atwater and george bush. bush was behind in the .olls running against dukakis lee atwater came up with this person, willie horton, convicted murderer in massachusetts, released on furlough. dukakis -- >> let's go to the add. especially for people who are young enough to not be familiar with it, the willie horton condy african-american convict who committed rape and assault after being released from prison under we can furlough program in massachusetts. his menacing mug shot was featured prominently on the screen in what was widely seen as an attempt to appeal racially charged fears of white voters. it wasn't directly sponsored by the bush campaign, but many credited the brainchild of campaign manager lee atwater. >> bush and dukakis on crime. bush supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers. two caulk is not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murder staff weekend passes from prison. one was willie horton who murdered a boy and a robbery stabbing him 19 times. despite a life sent

i feel the same way about this, the same way if george bush had done the same thing. with gary b., don't spin taxpayer money on this. >> a little detail, magic johnson did do nate these ads. jonas, what do you think? >> look, it would be great if the government didn't have products and services that had to be marked to the public. that's reality of this health care plan. it need people in it to be cheaper. if the government can sell it to more people, all premiums will go lower because there is more young people in there footing the bill. it can be very effective? probably not. look, as far as the disclosure. we can have the disclosure on the ads, what about the national guard, do we want to disclose years? if advertisement is questionable. at the end of the day, they need soldier, they got to advertise, they need people in the affordable care act to get our premiums down so you want ads. that's the way it is. >> thanks, guys. nsa not okay. president obama calling for reforming the way the spy agency sfoop snoops. but does it go far enough to protect you and your busi

he's criticizing former president george bush. i think it's the career on one hand and political parties on the other. >> how do we solve this as we go forward as a nation to try to have some synergy when these decisions are made? >> i think you have to have serious political leadership, and i think that means a better understanding of national security and the reduction in the amount of politics involved in it. i mean this administration repeatedly has put politics above national security. i think that's a real problem growing forward. i think it will be increasingly a problem over the next three years. you know, you look at iraq. the president's advisers are all out saying his policies are a success when al qaeda ice flag is flying over fallujah and ramadi, where afghanistan will likely fall to the taliban. i think we're in a downward spiral and i think the united states is going have a hard time coping in the next three years. >> you were a member of the administration. how do politics get out of this? do polls really drive thi

george bush rose to power on one of the most impressive campaigns we have probably seen in our lifetime trying to overcome a deeply unpopular congressional republican caucus. it's basically the same challenge that the republican party is today. a great thrill of the book is you are living in this entertaining past while you get to see the future as well so congratulations to peter, to susan and theo and everyone who worked on it. peter is either the nicest great journalist are the greatest nice journalists. thank you all. [applause] >> hi. my name is chris and i'm peter's editor. [applause] as an editor i go to lunch a lot and ever since peter delivered the book i have been buzzing about "days of fire." "days of fire," yes. this brilliant book. but i leave the flat copy words behind when i tell people it's like watching all seven seasons of west wing. but in bizarro world where everybody is a republican. [laughter] you don't just read "days of fire," you binge read it. so as an editor you also believe in a book like crazy and do everything you can to get it ready to launch. and then you

also critical of george bush for not focusing enough on afghanistan. focusing on iraq. he pointed out in a section about bush that during his time with george bush, yes, that's right. not once the domestic considerations weigh in on issues of war and peace. that's actually the big difference. >> did obama's lack of confidence in his own strategy in afghanistan, has that ended up undermining the success, relative success of the troop surge and where we are now as we begin to leave? >> for sure. that's what he is saying. he makes the point that he's always treated nicely by everyone. >> gates was? >> yeah. >> but he says he couldn't get anything done. and i think as you read through his complaints, what you see is really just a lack of leadership on the part of the commander-in-chief. >> i think the big telling point. the part about afghanistan was that he supported the troops but he didn't support his own strategy. he announced the surge in 2009. then against the advice of robert gates and david petraeus. the military commander at the time. he put a deadline on our withd

that's, i think, the problem. >> last question on george w. bushthere's been speculation that the vice president's office isolated him really without his knowing it. is there -- >> yeah. well, yeah. more and more's coming out now on the relationship with george w. bush and dick cheney, his vice president. in the beginning, he leaned very, very heavily on dick cheney because he had no experience many foreign affairs. he didn't know -- i mean, you see the interviews with him during the campaign, he didn't know who the world leaders were. who's the leader of pakistan? oh, it's that muslim guy, he'd say. okay, well, that's not very heartening. [laughter] anyway, he comes into office, and cheney he selected because cheney had been defense secretary, had been white house chief of staff and was very much a veteran in washington and didn't know a lot about foreign policy and defense, which bush didn't. so in the beginning he really deferred to cheney on a lot of things. now, as we've learned, as time went on, bush felt he had learned enough, so he was over

and under george w. bush, who started the current program, we never did, at least in the beginning we didn't. now we care about jobs in this country. everybody does. if we extend unemployment insurance, we would prevent the loss of 240,000 jobs. you'd say why. that's because when folks get their checks, what do they do with it? they go down to the store and they spend it, buying food for their families. they don't hold back. they pay their rent. the landlord gets that check and spends that check. so it's an immediate boon to the economy and an immediate fact that we can definitely prove that jobs are not lost because economic activity in those communities go down. we're talking in my state of 46,000 jobs that will be lost if we don't correct this problem. and the congressional budget office has said another year-long extension if we do this and do it for a year, this particular bill is only a few-month extension, if we did it for a year we would add .2% to our gross domestic product. extending unemployment in

because as both of you have said, this was done as a matter of course under george w. bush. it was a bipartisan fix when the economy was tough. and as congressman cleaver says, this is a very, very uneven recovery. great for wall street. great for the top 1%, but really we still have persistent long-term unemployment. and really, the only time that we tend to cut these benefits back is when the number of long-term unemployed begins to fall. the economy is really starts to absorb more long-term workers. the economy is that good. we never do this. and we also are in a time when the deficit is falling faster than at any time since world war ii. so it's completely disingenuous to say this is a budgetary necessity. >> you know, congressman, you said liberal george bush, and i know you were being facetious. but tea party members, some of them probably do consider him liberal. two weeks ago rand paul notoriously said extending jobless aid does a disservice to workers. now he is saying it's a disincentive. you listen to him, though. >> i'm not against having unemployment insurance.

democrats respond by saying nine eleven george bush because what a lot of talk about george bush anymore and the other thing that we need to remember is that this report that came out the bipartisan portion of the port says nothing about hillary clinton it does talk about the bureaucrats that failed on the job for bureaucrats have been held responsible for this hillary clinton is taking responsibility for these things and the only time hillary clinton's name comes up often enough is in the republican agenda into the report which is what fox news has been zeroing in on all day long if you listen to fox news you think that obama and hillary planned this together in the basement the white house with money from work for us right on how did they want us from and how you know people always you know jumping on fox news for covering the story wall to wall and blending hillary but the fact of the matter is that the other news agencies the other cable news networks have barely said of people about this and i hope that it's not that they haven't said we only had enough as. i said very very little b

his political hero was george h.w. bush. he ran his media campaign in '88. a country club republican like george h.w. bush, and he made him into a fire-breathing, flag-waving conservative. he hammered dukakis as soft on crime, weak on foreign policy. we put that hilarious ad with dukakis in the tank. he made george bush popular with the middle class. it works because it brings that coalition together. >> populism -- good, effective, motivating populism is much harder than it was. >> yes. >> gabriel sherman, author of "the loudest voice in the room," thank you. >> coming up, another way to screw people who don't have photo i.d.'s. that story is next. i was having trouble getting out of bed in the morning because my back hurt so bad. the sleep number bed conforms to you. i wake up in the morning with no back pain. i can adjust it if i need to...if my back's a little more sore. and by the time i get up in the morning, i feel great! if you have back pain, toss and turn at night or wake up tired with no energy, the sleep number bed could be your solution. the sle