. >> george herbert walker bush met barbara pierce at a high school dance in 1941 a few weeks after the december 7th attack on pearl harbor. >> george asked someone there, you know the girl in the red and green dress. >> beautiful girl. >> he didn't say that. yeah, i grew up with her. go cut in on her. then you can bring her over to introduce me to her. they played a waltz. waltzing matilda didn't waltz. i said do you mind if we sit down for a minute? we did and we talked. then i went over to the andover dance with him. first person that ever kissed me. kissed me in front of 15 people who didn't seem to notice. i almost fainted. 16, 17 -- you were 17 then. >> 17. you were 16. >> 18 the next day. it's like a song. you were 16 i was 17. >> i don't think they are interested. >> two teenagers in love with wars in europe and the pacific, the future did not look bright. bush joined his fellow americans and enlisted as soon as he turned 18. he earned his wings, became the youngest pilot in the navy at the time. >> we wouldn't hear from him forever. his mother and father were wonderful. i had a

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can you imagine if this were george w. bush? we would be talking about a presidential crisis, front page, splashed across the front. george bush, dictator president. it is a big deal when you change the laws. it should be treated as a big deal by the media. >> and steve hayes, tackling another issue that comes up when discussing these power grabs. the issue of how the media is covering them. and while we've seen issues from some republicans and some legal scholars, some have even defended the president's use of the power. the washington's editorial page, obama's justifiable "power grab." and the rational response to an increasingly grid locked congress. and why obama's use of executive power is justified. howard kurtz with me now, and i'm sure that "the huffington post" would have defended george bush equally. >> had this happened when george bush was in office, they would have gone wild. now with a few exceptions on had you noti-- they're not even hav the debate. >> why? >> well, i think part of the reason has to do with not be

can you imagine if this were george w. bush?sidential crisis, front page, splashed across the front. george bush, dictator president. it is a big deal when you change the laws. it should be treated as a big deal by the media. >> and steve hayes, tackling another issue that comes up when discussing these power grabs. the issue of how the media is covering them. and while we've seen issues from some republicans and some legal scholars, some have even defended the president's use of the power. the washington's editorial page, obama's justifiable "power grab." and the rational response to an increasingly grid locked congress. and why obama's use of executive power is justified. howard kurtz with me now, and i'm sure that "the huffington post" would have defended george bush equally. >> had this happened when george bush was in office, they would have gone wild. now with a few exceptions on had you noti-- they're not even hav the debate. >> why? >> well, i think part of the reason has to do with not because the media are in love with

bush. followed by an interview with the former first lady at the george w. bush presidential center in dallas, texas. and later the 70th annual washington press club foundation dinner. featuring members of congress, journalists and other dignitaries. >> i'm here to voice my strong support for the courageous people of afghanistan. women and men who have suffered for years under the taliban regime. each and every one of us has the responsibility to stop the suffering caused by malaria. because every life in every land matters. and all of us can do something to help. >> after studying first ladies and knowing some of them well like my own mother-in-law or one that i admired very much, a fellow texan lady bird johnson, is that we benefit our country benefits by whatever our first ladies' interests are. >> she is the wife of one president and the daughter in law of another. laura welsh bush became first lady after a controversial election brought her husband george w. bush to the white house. laura bush helped comfort the nation pursuing interests including educat

can you imagine if this were george w. bush? t a constitutional crisis, front page "new york times" splashed above the fold, george w. bush, dictator president. you're seeing none of that now. it's a big deal when you change the laws and it should be a big deal. >> another major issue comes up in discussing these power grabs, the issue how the media is covering them. while we've seen criticisms from republicans and liberal scholars, some news outlets have ignored the story, others have even defended the president. "the washington post," obama's justifiable power grab. "the l.a. times" said, rational response to an increasingly gridlocked congress. and then there's the huffington post. necessary roughness. why obama's use of executive power is justified. howard kurtz is with me now. i'm sure the huffington post was just as vocal in defending president bush with his executive authority uses. >> had this been george w. bush, megyn, changing unilaterally several times over and over the law, the main stream media would have gone balli

. >> hello and welcome to the texas book festival discussion of the great texas wind rush how george bush, ann richards and a bunch of tinkerers helped win the race to win the power. with authors kate galbraith and asher price. my name is hillary olson and i will be moderating the discussion this afternoon. ayman geologist at texas austin and before we start i want to say a few words about the festival although the mission of the festival was to celebrate books and authors i want to emphasize that it also benefits texas public libraries and literacy across the state. proceeds from the sale of all books and merchandise benefit these efforts and since 1995, the festival has contributed more than $2.5 million to libraries throughout the state. you can participate in the work through purchasing this dhaka at festival today. so, 15 minutes after the end of the session, the authors will sign their books on congress avenue between tenth and 11th street. now it's my honor to introduce the authors of this very interesting book. kate galbraith is an energy and environmental journalist who's worked

george bush endorsed the dni in concept 10 days later. so this speaks to the tremendous force, the incredible forces that were outplayed at this particular time. however, while a lot of members of congress and the two leading individuals of each political party endorse the 9/11 commission's recommendation nearly immediately, it inspired tremendous bureaucratic opposition. and this is really the heart of "blinking red." it is a tale of bureaucratic power and jockeying for influence really over the $80 billion intelligence enterprise who would be able to control the intelligence assets of the united states. .. >> next on book tv this mail talks about his novelo

it began with clinton and carried on with george w. bushas carried on with president obama. >> it has almost become a standard weapon. >> and that is, for all the divisions of nixon, johnson, all andhe way back to burr hamilton, the legitimacy question feels new. it feels at least more urgent in recent years. >> i think it has got something to do with the media, with the partisan nature of the media, people contemplating their own little groups and not being willing to go over the side, but the animus towards our recent president, and you are right, there are swords or debates or thereact in the day, but is something since clinton that is really scary, that if we cannot accept the person we have elected, given that chance to be president for a while, give him the chance, but not hate him, but we hate them now, and that is the scary thing with all of our recent presidents. >> there is no doubt that there are some folks who really dislike me because they do not like the idea of a black president, he said. but the flip side, there are some whi

i think the republican party, george bush and karl rove, lost the senate and house in 2006. who gave them the house in 2010? i think the tea party. and they're holding on the establishment with their fingertips on to the senate, trashing conservatives, making -- sleeping in bed with the u.s. chamber of crony capitalism. >> they're saying now, whether they got their funds, they're saying the hell with you, eat it. >> i don't work for them and they mean nothing to me. if i had my way they're gone. i've seen leaders and worked for leaders, and leaders change evens. leaders affect the future, and they have arguments. they don't stand there and talk with marbles in their mouth, trash their own party and so follower. look, it's a party right now. we need a new republican party. new leaders. i've seen it. i've seen it with reagan and gingrich. there are men and women out there who are waiting in the wings who can lead this party and make a case. but i want to say this because it happens a lot on your

reflected in the argued aggressively throughout august of 2004 in the national security council is george bush's advisers try to color in exactly what president bush's believes would be in a piece of legislation that he laid your -- later sent to the bill on what the future intelligence communities would look like trait i won't go into this in great detail but the congress embraced the 9/11 commission recommendations. the dni and nctc the dni separate from the cia and really tried to in the united states enact the will exactly in the 9/11 commission's report. i was there at the time as the white house legislative affairs staff are and people carried around the 9/11 commission book as if it were the bible. and try to interpret it as faithfully as possible what they thought the 9/11 commission meant. this is really the reason for my argument in 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 caused the congress to immediately endorse the respective presidential nominees to immediately endors

george w. bush mentioned to me one time, that kind of country bronzer are rising. you see people for who they are. there are no trees. the sky's the limit. >> well, in the 1950's may lend was supportive, but it also could be insulating. >> well, she was an only child. i think that is insulating in a way. it's a lonely existence. there were about a lot of folks who came in from the outside. when they did and came into the oil business and took the little time to get adjusted. i think that people have their own hydro ways of doing end their armed divides as to where you were in the social stratus, whether your wildcat -- odessa, you know, you raise tell in the desert, but you raised your kids in maryland. there was a certain way of behaving in a propriety for that you went to methodist church, a paschal church. but i think people also dependent on each other and had to because it could be kind of harsh. >> midland today is a large hispanic population. what was it like with those minorities? >> well, i

i mean you take george bush, 41, he had a great resume to be president. i mean, everything, war hero, you know, and later leader of the party, vice president, congressman,, un, in ambassador that is like a resume -- >> right. >> he was the first sitting vice president since martin van burr recommend to succeed a sitting president, and actually he said when he won, well, story, marty we broke the curse. >> he is, in fact, the only man to have addressed martin van burburen as marty. >> i think george herbert walker bush in many ways embodies what we are talking about, deeply competitive, his mother expected them to climb all the trees in the yard in grove lane in greenwich and just knew they were supposed to, that was the expectation. >> rose: you could not, not do it. >> you could not, not do it, so he was driven by, at once, this ambition to do well, but then not to talk about it, not talk about himself. so he had these somewhat disinformant traditions, disso informant traditions which is being number one, but if you get to be number one, don't tell anybo

george bush campaigned unsuccessfully. y got to know each other so well that in these endless hours of riding around west texas talking about their lives really helped their marriage. >> what attracted laura to george? they seem so different in their younger years. herhe always say he made laugh. she said she wanted somebody who would make her laugh. she had grown up as a lonely only child. she did not have a brother or a sister. her mother had miscarriages. she always wanted a sibling. boisterous, cut up in nature. he wanted somebody steady. so by to settle him down. i see that in him still. you never know what is in somebody else's marriage. i was struck when i saw the recently. he said something and she tossed her head back and i giggled and laughed. bond that have that he is funny. >> where the great moments for when she was as the white house for the correspondents dinner i think in 2005 and she took the podium in place of her husband and talked about the fact that he goes to bed at 9:00. and she stayed up to watch sai

bush well it also happens if. the annual deficit right now is one third of what it was when george one when obama came into office during bush's presidency was continuously going up during obama's presidency it's going to continuously going down i mean i think a lot of it has been tested with the beltway media itself i think you know the so-called liberal media welcomes these sort of endless crises because it lets forces you know tune into what c.n.n. watch and less twenty four hour coverage in the next crisis all oddballs forever to exactly where the press engages you i'd actually suggest that in general the frame of reference by which we view these fights in the way republicans are considered to be obstruction is not is necessarily the right way to look at it the press often accuse inaction of actually being obstructionism and in general and nobody ever says well actually there may be some value in stopping the way the government is acting i mean if the republican party's goal is to stop the obama agenda because they think it's wrong for the country shouldn't they use the mechanisms of government to try and do t

the tea party started not because of obamacare, not because of barack obama, but because george w. bush bailed out the banks and got ready for the auto industry bailout and that infuriated his base. democrats accepted it. will democrats now say thank you? will any tea party voter in america believe the government is actually going to make a profit on this? >> you can put all the facts and figures and reports but your average american hears "bailout" and all they think is the government putting out money. they never think about the money coming back in. i think that's a really hard case to make even if facts are on your side. >> what's it mean for them? the tea party was more than just bailouts. it was you bail people out, they're supposedly sush lly suc. it hasn't translated down to me. i still don't have a job. >> the great philosopher barney frank had a quote in 2010. he said he wanted a bumper sticker that would have read -- 2010, things that would have sucked worse without me. that's one heck of a bumper sticker. >> it's baked in. no matter what the data shows, people think it was a

jim moore, communications expert, co-author of "bush's brain: how karl rove made george w. sh presidential." john, i'll begin with you. your nominee for worst president ever? >> got to be andrew johnson. i'm not willing to give an inch on this one. and, look, i advocated for some pretty tough action against george w. bush and i certainly have no taste for herbert hoover and some of these other folks, but andrew johnson, who became president of the united states because of the assassination of abraham lincoln, opposed the bureau which was going to allow african-americans to begin to have some sort of economic stake in the country where they had just been released from slavery. he blocked the civil rights act which was to allow african-americans basic citizenship rights. he fought against the 14th amendment which brought african-americans into full citizenship. and he actually vetoed allowing states to enter the united states because they might have tipped the balance in favor of civil rights. >> yeah, we should -- >> he also -- >> the context here is johnson is basically a st

i think the george w. bush administration was very clever, putting the vote just before the midterm election, to get these guys on record. even though he would not invade for another five months. that is kind of unprecedented for the equivalent of the declaration of war. >> where do you think you will end up in the future? >> i think i will remain independent, because ideologies limit thought. you become to the extent you are ideological or partisan, you become an automaton who is mouthing propaganda. your brain is not engaged. >> your book is called "the party is over: how republicans went crazy, democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted." if folks want to read your critique of the book i robert gates, they can go onto truthout.org. mike lofgren, thank you very much for joining us. >> i enjoy being here. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q-and-a.org. programs are also available as c-span podcasts. [captions copyright national cable satellite co

there may have been only one thing that george bush and john dingell, like prescott bush and john dingellagreed on. however it was done, the banking system pumps the economy's life's blood and had to be protected. how do economists view banking regulation? we asked economic analyst richard gill. how do economists view banking regulation? with ambivalence. it can be and has been argued that it was deregulation that threw s&ls and and commercial bankservision into disarray. or it can be been argued that the real problem has been government intervention-- raising the level of deposit insurance to $100,000 and thus encouraging high-risk loans and investments. in the final analysis, the real issue isn't so much regulation versus deregulation as it is how to protect depositors without giving a green light to the reckless and imprudent. everybody agrees that a sound economy requires a reliable banking system and that it's the government's job to guarantee that reliability. that's why the government supported the banks after the panic of 1907 and why the bankinsaty net was reinforced in the great

>> the chairman of the public utility commission, the electric regulator under george bush when george bush was governor and he tells a wonderful story. in 1996, la leaving george bush's office, walking out the door, we like wind. get smart on it. it is the thing that people in california have done and not done very well, and it launches a deliberative polling process. and to learn about the pros and cons about different energy sources. at the end of the session, people come out with wind power because wind is free and it is low and doesn't admit pollution. this helps lay the foundation for the renewable energy mandate jewish bush ultimately signed in 1999. >> quick comment, then one question. the comment is my ex-wife is an environmentalist and has done wind study, bird kills studies in vermont, she has gone to the settlement in vermont. a lot of northeastern states don't want them because what you were talking about seeing them on a mountain ridge is disturbing to many landowners and tourists, tourism being big up there. the question is who is going to take and down? i have heard the

yes, george bush was elected. we're depressed about that.be buoyant in our music. >> and the flame of idealism was still not put out, which is remarkable. part of the way to get musicians excited about politics is to believe change can happen. i have to ask you this. the last we saw of bob dillon was this last weekend in a chrysler ad. when you talk about believing in the power of change, when you saw dillon do that, what was your response? >> dillon has had an ambivalent relationship around his fame of being a protester. he's at times said he's not a little figure right now. i wasn't particularly surprised about that. the music remains and endures. whatever he conceives of himself now, the music of the 60s will remain forever. >> which musician would you most like to see delivering a message at your candidate's next rally? >> springsteen is pretty powerful. he was great for john kerry and barack obama in 2008. one of the worst moments on the hillary campaign was when arcade fire came out for barack obama. i knew we were in trouble. >> next

and the answer is really no. >> former president george w. bushking some big-time appearances. here tossing the coin at a season-opener for his beloved dallas cowboys, but mostly it's tackling his new passion, oil painting. or golf and good causes. sometimes golfing for good causes. like america's returning veterans. >> up to this point in time, we have honored our vets through sporting events. riding mountain bikes or playing golf. >> but the president decided that wasn't enough for the men and women he sent to war. this week announcing a massive study of post-9/11 veterans through his george w. bush institute and syracuse university on how to reintegrate returning veterans into the civilian world and work force. the former president and i sat down in dallas, joined by veteran and non-profit entrepreneur jake wood. >> we have a problem. too many vets are unemployed. and, you know, there's what we call a civilian-military divide. in other words, returning vets think one thing, the civilian population thinks another. and our aim is to get people to

and george bush -- i mean, what is the impact of this man?i think that this is contributing to obama's relationship with congress. the way that i see it is obama says that i want to be known for something positive. and he knows it, everybody knows it, the people know it. you can't go anywhere without people complaining about it. but enough that this is for him. lou: is there any way to rationalize his performance is accessible? what would be the success that he would point to on this? >> i think that what they might be saying is if i had congress working with me and not presenting so many hurdles, then i be able to get across my vision. >> i don't know if he considers himself a successful president. i think that he feels castrated on some levels and quite insidious. >> is that some kind of thing going on? >> you can feel that way emotionally. you can feel castrated emotionally and you can feel like this emotionally. and i do believe that obama struggles with some of those feelings. it's to say that, you know what? i'm just going to use this a

wholesale bugging of american citizens communications began under president george bush in two thousand and six the deal is made towards ending a lengthy budget dispute as the stalled project to expand upon them up can know it is also potential for insurance is your to transfer to a t bones into texas a financing mechanism to go part way into covering an end to complete the work. the chief of the panama canal authority wants to find a way to fund one point six billion dollars of cost overruns. blair have them. we still have some topics to resolve and we're working in the direction of the patients is no finite at the entrance was thinking that this house to a fine new daycare next week it that we now know that i can match them up. a consortium led by spain's sophie and eight of the three billion dollars for the contract to build two new sets of oxford canal which connects the atlantic and pacific oceans. the fees paid to post one billion less than its nearest competitor visiting european parliament president monson chill to sound itself at the center of the political storm in israel is c

circa 1999, 2000, than george h.w. bush circa 2004 when he was talking about democracy. >> hold on, please. should the united states restrict its humanitarian aid to north korea bearing in mind that humanitarian aid is what keeps their government going? >> if i could make sure two million north korea anxiety were fed by sending them food and it would get to them, i would agree with you. i would do it. i think rich is correct, though. we have a tremendous battle coming in the republican party between those who would like to intervene in syria go, after iran, intervene in ukraine. the rand paul and the pail owe conservative wing, i'm not so sure -- >> this is eeferl we're seeing in north korea thanks to this report. a different level that far out stripped anything we -- we have been covering this issue for years. >> mort is right. there are only a limited number of ways you can tighten the screws. i would not tightant screws further on the people by withholding humanitarian aid. >> did the people get the food? they get some o

i think those numbers thus far have come in below what president george w. bushnd president bill clinton did. the matter president was discussing in his campaign in 2008 was not the number. it was the quality. and the type of executive actions that he believes were not appropriate. >> so i have to put you on that. what he saying is, the quality was in his words, will were executive actions george w. bush did involving the war on terror and the president -- president obama when he came in his first weeks and months in office did overturn. we checked the numbers and president bush had far more executive actions than president obama had. he has a few more years. the numbers will come up. we can bet. on that point i will push you. republican presidents says he used the power more than president obama did. what do you say to had a? >> he has. that's absolutely the argument the white house will continue making. but what they have to be careful of is overreach with the executive actions. that was the criticism that candidate obama was making of president bush. so they h

reflected in the argued aggressively throughout august 2004 in the national security council as george bush's advisers tried to color in exactly what president bush's beliefs would be in a piece of legislation that he later sent to the hill on what the future intelligence communities would look like. i won't go into this in great detail but the congress embraced the 9/11 commission's recommendations the dni and the nctc, the dni separate from the cia and really tried in the united states senate to enact the will exactly of the 9/11 commission's report. i was the carrot that time as a white house legislative affairs staffer and people carried around the 9/11 commission book as if it were the bible and try to interpret as faithfully as possible what 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 and cause caused the congress to immediately endorse respective presidential nominees to immediately endorse t

it. >> you have about a minute and-a-half left. >> look, ronald reagan had 381 executive orders, george bushthey dealt with very big things in some cases like did he regulating oil production, crude oil production and petroleum refining. i think the president's going to find some very big areas to exercise authority. there are a lot of republican crocodile tears on this. the presidents can do a lot with executive orders. john f. kennedy deseg rated all federal housing which was a lot of housing with a a stroke of a pen and harry truman deseg rated -- >> it's about agency regulations. there's a lot. >> we have one minute left, it's super bowl sunday so we're going to go around the table. who is going to win and what's the score. >> i'm not going to do a score. i'm from seattle, i'm from the pacific northwest so i've got to be a seattle fan. >> lopsided victory or close. >> close. >> michael. >> with men who are past their prime i have an alluding interest. i'll go with denver in this case like many in my situation. >> if you're a middle aged man -- >> look, i think denver going to win. i thin

when he was campaigning in 2007 said that the $4 trillion under the eight years of george bush was unpatriotic. unpatriotic. that's what your president said -- our president said. and when he got into office, he ran up $6.7 trillion in 5 1/2 years and you guys are saying congress' job. you know what congress' job is, to do what's in the best interests of this country. not just to pay the bills. but to say, enough, we need to address the bills. >> let's look ahead and talk about the repercussions of what just happened this week. to me, mo, it seems like without the republican brinksmanship and obstructionism that you guys like to complain about, we kind of just took the wind out of your sails. how will you win another election if you don't have republican obstructionism to blame for obama's failed policy? >> there isn't enough republican obstructionism for us to run. time and time again. they passed it this time only because democrats helped them pass it. not because republicans did. 200 members of the republican house voted no. not one member of the senate voted to increase or pay our bills. >

george h.w. bush?> that is going a little far. >> the fall of the iron curtain people in poland a and the czech republic and hungary and russia would name their kids ronald reagan. >> do you think they uh appreciate it? >> i like it. you know why? he named his kid after george h.w. bush. it could be worse by one letter. dubbya. >> i saw that one coming. >> we know nobody remembers history. >> what if everyone was named after another person? >> like margaret thatcher? that would be cool. >> i am naming my first daughter margaret thatcher. >> are you? >> no. >> it is like the show on abc called "the neighbors" and the aliens took names like larry bird. it is other people called by other people's names. >> andy, what famous name could you give your child if you decided to pro create. it would have the same effect in the united states. i am thinking jack efron. >> i am thinking not greg gutfeld. >> i helped your career, young man. >> you would say hi, i am not greg gutfeld and they would be happy. back to

houseorked in the white in the george w. bush administration and presidential historian and i'm haved by the question of what influences presidents. my first book was on presidents and intellectuals. i started to lineback at the and found out that throughout the history back to the days of george washington thomas jefferson the culture influencing presidents and now a proliferation of all new media including tv and twitter and radio and everything else and presidents paying attention. >> when you say the culture is influencing presidents give me example of sometime when that maybe had a politic effect? >> go back to the founding heavily read in the works of the enlightenment the ideae classics and that they read in the books again i will say the works of locke helped influence jefferson's writing of the declaration of independence. >> what kind of a pop culture or event maybe had the biggest impact on a president's policy making? >> well, that is a good question. uncle tom's cab bin written in 1850 at a time when of abolitionists

president obama once mocked everything george bush said.ow he's reduced to majorizing it just to fill the gaps in his ever shrinking legagy. his one new idea was one which seems he was so familiar, he stumbled on it like an old man would stumble on a downhill cobblestone street. that was his proposal for something called a m.y.r.a. more letters than the government alphabetical suit, helping individuals set up an individual retirement account. i was ready for him to promise us, if you like your nest egg, you can keep your nest egg. one had to wonder if this was his version of the conservative concept of a allowing americans to have more personal empowerment in how they plan for retirement. surely, he wouldn't propose something that would entrust decisions to mere citizens? surely he knows how popular government-run health care is, how much we trust him to get to the bottom of the irs scandal in which this behemoth federal crime syndicate punishing its enemies or how much we believe four americans in benghazi is because islamist extremists go

imagine a core electing george bush instead of letting the total recount continue that was ordered by the florida court and then of course he didn't get his home state of tennessee that alone would have put him in the a no why does he didn't get arkansas with clay and that alone would have put him in but i think if we all have a right and equal right to run for election larry then were either we're all spoilers of one another trying to get each other's vote or none of us are spoilers third parties are not third class citizens do you remain a strong critic of hillary yes i think she hasn't accomplished much she won't even come out for a higher minimum wage which even right wingers know have come out for phyllis schlafly has come out but bill o'reilly has come out run ons run ons this point a california initiative for twelve dollars minimum wage we've read and then other people have asked the clintons in new york city come out for a minimum wage for thirty million people at least equal to the minimum wage in one nine hundred sixty eight adjusted for inflation and as no big deal thirt

really we're talking about the drug policy of george w. bush. george w. bush was the preemptive was drake concept to destroy a little bit is indeed a preemptive strike. who. they are disagreed. allegations for doing corruption clips and such surveys or does day out from now they get to. prepare to launch to launch a stream good. dive so it's i'm sort of jumping to you do you think though do you think this is a this is this is politically motivated here the prime minister out of the one he's been in power for eleven years is it. definitely as you said right lissette. turkey is oligopolistic to thousands of size a live event. you tube struggled for years for months to get. a good government is getting. from parliament to clamp down on the internet the duduk or truly so what do you what do you expect is a number that we've we've already seen a couple days worth of clashes here some getting very violent in d.t.g. do you think the government's maneuver is going to do anything to help bring peace back to the streets now version of the david hug al-kindi this peo

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>> absolutely not. 40 percent of the hispanics supported george bush. and i am a guy wo believes that the only answer for america is not the document but the agenda of the lamb. but with that context there are conservative values that resonate in the hispanic community. 27 percent supported romney. and it is an opportunity for hispanic to come back and confirm the conservative ethos in the community. >> and both chambers of commerce approved a increase to the nation's debt limit without curving spending. this is what house speaker boehner had to say about it. >> it is a lost opportunity for america. we are on a spending trajectory that is unsustainable. the president knows and every republican and democrat in this town knows it and it has to be dealt with and it is a desappointing moment. >> it was a disappointing moment. raising the debt seouling. and david web you are a tea party guy. how frustrated were you and was this a real failure? >> i am frustrated with the spending problem in congress and frustrated with speaker boehner and the republicans on