george bush is only economic plan is lavish tax breaks for those at the top. he has taken down the road of diminished opportunity, not greater opportunity. under the bush administration in less than three years, 3 million jobs have been lost. this is an astonishing failure and it is an outrage. as a senator, i was proud to work for president bill clinton to turn around the last bush downturn. and i know the people of this country have the courage to do what's right for our economy. if i am president, i will rollback the bush tax breaks for the wealthy so we can invest in education, health care, and the skills of our workers. [applause] some in my own party want to get rid of all tax cuts -- including those for working families. that would mean that a family of four -- with two parents working hard on the job and at home -- would have to pay $2,000 more a year in taxes. that's wrong. we need to be on the side of america's middle class, and i've proposed a tax cut for them because it's the right way to strengthen our economy. let me put it plainly -- if americans

. >> next on booktv, president george w. bush discusses his biography of his father president george h.w. bush with andy card who served as white house chief of staff for bush 43 and secretary of transportation for bush 41. this is about 40 minutes. [applause] >> today is a very special day in the life of the george bush presidential life foundation. it is special because we gather for the national book launch of "41: a portrait of my father." fittingly, on veterans day a. to wit, today we have both the author and subject, son and father, the 43rd and the 41st presidents of the united states here at the bush library center. this morning will consist of a moderated discussion about "41." our moderator served as depp canty chief of -- deputy chief of staff to the 41st president. he also served as chief of staff to the 43rd president of the united states and most recently as acting dean of the george bush school of government and public service here at texas a&m university. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the honorable andrew c

here again, george bush is taking us and the world in the wrong direction. he is poised to set off a new nuclear arms race by building bunker-busting tactical nuclear weapons, smaller and more usable nuclear bombs. i don't want a world with more usable nuclear weapons. i don't want america to turn its back on half a century of effort by every president to reduce the nuclear threat. i'm running to put america where we rightfully belong -- leading the way to a new international accord on nuclear proliferation and make the world itself safer for human survival. at times in the term of the next president, we may well have to use force to fight terrorism. i will not hesitate to do so. but if i am president of the united states, our beloved country will never go to war because we want to, we will only go to war because we have to. that is the standard of the united states of america. and in the war against terrorism, let me state clearly what we all know in our hearts to be true in our hearts. two years after the tragic events of 9/11 we have not made our nation s

george bush, he will tell you to climb that ladder of success, so will i. there's nothing wrong with that. here's the official difference -- essential difference between george herbert walker bush and me. he says once you get to the top, pull the ladder up behind you. what i'm saying is that you should go ahead and climb that ladder, but make sure you leave it down there for others to climb, too. [applause] by making sure that ladder and ramp up opportunity is there, we can reclaim the american dream. the claimant for all of our people. the american dream. if you can work hard, and take every family, you can make it in america. the american dream of my parents and your parents. i don't need to read about it. you will not find a better example of the american dream than this person standing right in front of you. [applause] some of you know my background some of you don't. i was born and raised in the little town of coming, by about 10 miles up the road. my father was a coal miner who didn't even have an eighth grade education. he was an irish man and brag a

there are those that say that bush is so popular he cannot be beat, might as well just call -- we might as well just call the election off. i am here today to tell you that george herbert walker bush is not made of clay and i am going to take a hammer to him. [applause] i am running for president because i believe there is a hunger in america, a hunger for a new vision, a hunger for a new agenda, for a new america, a new vision, a vision based upon values. strong fundamental and enduring values. the kinds of values i've learned as a kid growing up in a small town about 10 miles up on the road. a town where you could walk the street safely at night. a town where you could leave the milk money on the porch and go to bed knowing it would be there in the morning. a town where people worked hard and took care of their families because they knew hard work would have its rewards. fundamental values, fundamental values of hard work and being frugal because we did not have much money. individual responsibility, taking care of your family faith in god and love of country, and care and concern for those less fortunate than ourselves. those are my values, those are your va

it is hard to see the policy difference at this point between jeb bush and george w. bush. circumstances are different and changing and every candidate faces a new time and a new period, and that's what he's arguing here today. >> to casey's point that it was hard to see the measurable differences between jeb and george w. bush how much of that is an issue for him? >> it is more complicated for him in terms of winning the nomination of the republican party. it's been historically a more hawkish party. given isis and all the developments of the last year or so it is moving in an even more hawkish direction. you have the rand paul spot occupied. i think paul is more marginalized on the ground movements in the middle east. i think what we were seeing today was the sort of a start of a narrative that you're going to hear when this comes up from bush that basically tells a story that george w. bush was motivated by the right reasons to go iraq. >> that is fairly nuanced. >> he saved it with a surge and who lost the surge? obama. that's the story they're going to tell. i don't th

george h.w. bush, poppy bush, nominated john tower to be defense secretary in january 1989, and the senate, remarkably, said, no. his nomination was basically doomed by multiple reports of alleged inappropriate behavior by him toward both women and alcohol. he told the ngoc times, when the senate rejected him, quote, have i ever drunk to excess? yes. am i alcohol dependent? no. have i always been a good boy? of course not. but had it not been for that history-making failed nomination to be defense secretary, the senate has only ever rejected nine cabinet nominees in the history of the country, and he is one of them. had it not been for that, what john tower would be most remembered for is what ronald reagan asked him to do after his retirement from the senate, in 1986. in late 1986, this was the front page news all over the country. president reagan, president reagan secretly selling missiles to iran, in a bungled effort to trade american missiles for american hostages. it was a complete screwup. iran

but george bush's only economic plan is lavish tax breaks for those at the top. he has taken us down the road of diminished opportunity, not greater opportunity. under the bush administration, in less than three years, three million jobs have been lost. that is an astonishing failure -- and it is an outrage. as a senator, i was proud to work with president bill clinton to turn around the last bush downturn. and i know the people of this country have the courage to do what's right for our economy. if i am president, i will rollback the bush tax breaks for the wealthy so we can invest in education, health care, and the skills of our workers. some in my own party want to get rid of all tax cuts -- including those for working families. that would mean that a family of four -- with two parents working hard on the job and at home -- would have to pay $2,000 more a year in taxes. that's wrong. the last time i looked, the problem was not the middle class with too much money. we need to be on the side of america's middle class, and i've proposed a tax cut for them because

his time at the white house johnson served as a speechwriter and special assistant to president george bush, a graduate of yale university, and we welcome him to filson historical society. [applause] >> thank you so much for the lovely introduction, judy. as was mentioned used to work as a presidential speechwriter before start writing this book, so you can imagine my shock when i learned that the subject of my new book didn't much care for my old occupation. in fact, robert e. lee was so offended when he heard george washington might accused a

george bush served bravely in america's great war. george bush is a man of graciousness, honor, and integrity, who has given half a lifetime to his nation's service. but the differences between us now are too deep. he is yesterday and we are tomorrow. [applause] he is a globalist and we are nationalists. he believes in some pax universalis; we believe in the old republic. he would put american's wealth and power at the service of some vague new world order; we will put america first. so, to take my party back and take our country back, i am today declaring my candidacy for the republican nomination for the president of the united states. [applause] >> you are watching c-span's special presidents' day program with presidential announcements. remember you can watch all of our coverage on c-span.org. just type, "road to the white house" in the search bar. we are looking the moments in history when candidates announced their intention to the highest office in land. our special program continues with three candidates from the 1996 race. bo

ended with barack obama getting approved at such a landslide and conservatives concluded that george w. bush we sold our souls to go with george w. bush and he sold out conservatism and gave it a bad name and people turned on the republican party and moved to barack obama. and it is bad against barack obama on one part and a battle to keep them from nominating a candidate like bush again. >> and you write that george w. bush when he ran -- and it is interesting, you say he was a candidate of the gop base and that status was success -- impressive to his electoral base. but he was trying to be more compassionate to respond to the clinton moment and to the far right and he was cultivating both. >> and the far right was willing to go along with it. back then the republican party thought that bill clinton had beaten them. he cleaned their clocks in the 90s and they said they cleaned their clocks and that is why compassion at conservatism was exciting to them. and he beat them in 2008 and 2012 but they say we beat them in 2010 and 2014. >> and they think it is voter fraud. can't be real when barac

and even the second george bush.nd george bush brought the war resolutions to congress before he went to war. that's the way it's supposed to work. so there's a lot to be said that republicans have done a better job in the past at leading the country. this president his uncertainty and indecisivism has not made him a good leader. >> senator good to talk to you tonight. >> thank you. >>> still to come, as the "american sniper" trial comes to an end and chris kyle's killer is sent to prison for the rest of his life lone survivor and kyle friend marcus latrell was there and he'll be here for an exclusive. >>> and a well-known democrat facing charges of a cover-up after the deaths of three vets at a v.a. hospital. we're going to bring you the details and speak with one of the congressmen in calling for an investigation next. >> i didn't realize that he was going to pass away. you know, i never thought he was that bad. i mean he was just in a mental health floor you know getting his medication adjusted. i wish i would hav

what i thought was interesting is jeb bush, like george w. bush, wants an idealistic foreign policy. he was also very critical and this was the most direct shot at george w. bush's administration that thinking that elections alone will solve the problem and talked about how in venezuela and gaza they were groups that won election that use the election to take more freedom away from the population. that is a very subtle difference from the emphasis on elections 10 years ago, more or less in the second inaugural address where he said no longer will we tolerate an era where we supported stability at the expense of values and we got neither. now you have jeb bush tweaking that slightly. he said we support the military dictator in egypt. his brothers administration was tough on my baruch -- mubarak. >> there was a lot of discussion about making us solvent -- that would indicate that jeb was leaning more toward his far -- father's foreign-policy. this is more of a realist conception, more like the elder bush or is he trying to mix up and take the be

the republican party is a very different place today because of george w. bush. g his old playbook trying to talk like a moderate but he may find that this republican party that emerged from george w. bush's presidency is not interested in going down that road all over again. that's "hardball." for now. chris matthews returns to the anchor desk on monday. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> you know president obama didn't live through september 11. i did. >> rudy giuliani's nuclear melt dourn continues. >> i feel sorry for rudy giuliani. >> tonight, why giuliani's injective is just a sign of things to come. >> do you think you hurt the republican brand. >> i do not think i did. >>> death panels and predictions of doom and gloom haven't come true. >>> uncle sam says eat less meat. the new government food guide lins. >>> from the "selma" snub to the sniper hype we'll preview all the oscar drama. >> she's been murdered and you

it was passed on september 14, 2001 and signed by president george bush on september 18 2001.ust one week after the terrorist attacks on the 20 hours in new york. that authorization grants the president authority to use all necessary and appropriate force against those who plan on -- planned, authorized, and committed the september 11 attacks. members of congress have dubbed their constitutional authority for warmaking but a meaningful debate on the use of force against the islamic state, nor shown any indication whether or not they will endorse or modify that mission. this was right after the midterm election pass. ed. that's where we are this week as congress takes up the issue. the white house reporter from reuters is following all of this co. thank you for being with us. walk us through what is going on on capitol hill. guest: they have said that they will work on language on an au ums. it is expected in this week. the president has that in the state of the union address that things are stronger when congress worked together. he has already ordered strikes in the islamic r

and even the second george bush. bush brought the war resolutions to congress before he went to war. that's the way it's supposed to work. so there's a lot to be said that republicans have done a better job in the past at leading the country. this president his uncertainty and indecisivism has not made him a good leader. >> senator good to talk to you tonight. >> thank you. >>> still to come, as the "american sniper" trial comes to an end and chris kyle's killer is sent to prison for the rest of his life lone survivor and kyle friend marcus latrell was there and he'll be here for an exclusive. >>> and a well-known democrat facing charges of a cover-up after the deaths of three vets at a v.a. hospital. we're going to bring you the details and speak with one of the congressmen in calling for an investigation next. >> i didn't realize that he was going to pass away. you know, i never thought he was that bad. i mean he was just in a mental health floor you know getting his medication adjusted. i wish i would have never l

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 and lack of adequate supervision that threw s&ls and commercial banks 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 banking safety net wa

even a president bill clinton for the book presidency of plaque and white says i do not think that george bush is a racist. but that his policies just did not help elevate people inspect poverty. now when we talk about katrina president bush got into a lot of trouble for the fact that he was caught up in the state right issues of katrina. states would have to deal with it. so that is what bogged him down because people felt disenfranchised from the government. because people did. and barack obama barack obama is the first probably not the last african-american that president that you would cover are i relayings are just as high as those in bill clinton because of the first term because of the first term i am not going to say the inaction but he did not come out. and the second term. there is two different first term second term we will see more of the african-american president. who happens to be african-american he is comfortable in his skin now. he knows who he is and he is not a shamed of. and have to be strategic and a fight within the white house. and he was the president that did black f

george w. bush rules. we continue in-depth. here's lisa meyers. >> reporter: to win the presidency, the bush campaign needs to suck up cash like a texas twister. and so far, it's on track. other candidates complain bush's turned the republican party into his personal atm. leaving everyone else starved for cash. by the end of this month, bush's war chest may top $20 million. more than the rest of the field combined. opponents complained bush's strategy is to overwhelm everyone else and drive them out of the race. his critics may say george w. bush lacks depth when it comes to his policy positions, but now there's fresh evidence of the incredible depth of his financial support. >> by all accounts the numbers are staggering and unprecedented. the question now is, can other candidates survive. >> the other candidates did not survive. george w. bush locked up basically all the money in the race on the republican side in 1999 and 2000, locked up all that money, really early. and with that, intimidating, s

it was his best round ever at pebble a place he hasn't even made the cut since george h.w. bush >> this was a tournament i come and get a good partner and have some fun. last year the weather was so bad we were just trying to survive. but coming to play pebble like this, shoot 7-under get off to a decent start, it's been a long time since i played that well the first of the week in this tournament. >>> can i change my pick to john daly, ken? jimmy walker an even par 7. >> yes. >> wayne sitting pretty. 18 holes. he has the lead. veronica, mcilroy -- there's wayne. rory isn't even playing the european tour this week. >> if he was he would be doing well. >> next time get somebody in the tournament. [ laughter ] >>> i have a tournament show coming up tomorrow. i don't know if you know about this but it's the par 5 and it's going to come right after the tournament right at pebble beach. highlights and reaction live from pebble tomorrow after coverage. meanwhile, you know what tiger woods is trying to get his game -- oh. maybe not. actually he is spending his weekend in vail to watch

they are bush -- george w. bush's secretaries of homeland security.ou can go through the list and the breakdown that is on the "washington post" website. other publications reporting on that list of advisors. in its wrapup, noting that one name is missing from that list is former secretary of state condoleezza rice. she is still a close ally to the bush family as anyone listed on that list, she has consulted with the former florida governor. the absence of her name suggest that he is sensitive about being seen as a carbon copy of his brother. more on that story on "washington post.com." life for independents. good morning. caller: i am an air force veteran. i do not want any more neocons in office starting wars. we have too much to take care of in our country, the roads are falling apart in the bridges are falling down. i do not want another neocon and do not think it would help us at all. as far as immigration, the people have to get out there and fight for the rights. nothing was given to us just by -- you have to demand your rights. they should be

one of the things that made the post 9/11 theories of dick cheney and george bush so extremist is there is no more limitless power that a president han the power he can exercise during a theater of war. on a battlefield, there really is no law. everybody acknowledges that. terrorist say when men take up arms, law false. more is the ultimate expression of lawlessness in limitless powerful stuff on the battlefield, people shoot each other without having trials or due process. everyone agrees that is war to nobody thinks soldiers have to give opposing soldiers a trial before shooting them. that is what war is. what made these post-9/11 theories so radical is the assertion was made for the first time theaters of war were no longer confined to find a physical faces, the battlefield. it was now the case the entire planet was the battlefield. including u.s. soil. therefore, the limitless power that the president can exercise on a battlefield are now no longer confined to physical spaces. essentially the president is omnipotent everywhere because that is where the battlefield is found. what you

i actually hugh act quite comfortable being george bush's son and george bush's brother. >> nba star efforts to combat malaria earned him a trip to the white house and looks like two of his fans got a meet and greet. look at this. sonny and bo obama, took aliking to him. those are the two presidential pups and donald trump is serious about a 2016 gig. he told the post he is more serious than ever about a white house run, even saying, "i'm not doing it for enjoy many i'm doing this because the country is in serious trouble." how much do you pay for rob ford's old clothes. the former toronto mayor now city council member is auctioning stuff e bay. a football jersey pants and a tie that has a bid of over $2,000 canadian dollars. and beyonce celebrated the five year anniversary of michelle obama's let's campaign. and that is your morning dish of scramble politics. coming up on 22 minutes past the hour and i'm joined by jane tim twice in a week boy, we are lucky, aren't we? >> yeah. ha for having me. >> good to have you today, c-pac starts today, what does it mean for the gop and 2016 spe

people like george bush love politics. and had fun at it. they don't know whether the president likes it or tolerates it. >> i don't think -- i think he loves politics in the sense he loves meeting people, going out and campaigning. i don't think he minds the give-and-take. he gets raw with the politics of washington. >> the cynicism of it all? >> he does believe in more important things than winning an election. it has been a problem because 80% of the people in washington have a different point of view. >> we are talking about how do you get what you want passed through to the congress and that is the issue. how do you build coalitions whether it is international or a political coalition? >> i have said sometimes he does not relate to other politicians in the way that other politicians want to be related to because he tends to make the moral argument. >> is it because he thinks he is the smartest man in the room? a certain arrogance? he is supremely confident? at least two of those three things are right. >> the last thing is true which th

baker was a private adviser to george w. bush. but, look, here's the deal. could make the argument. george schultz one of reagan's top adviser, adviser to george bush and adviser to jeb, there's a limited number of people in the republican foreign policy world and all of these people had a relationship with the -- and most of them have had a relationship with the last three republican presidents or last two republican presidents. so this is not unusual and not to be -- not a surprise, and you could probably pick out, you could make the argument he's going back to the reagan era, he has baker and schultz and hadley. lou: you are answering questions i'm not asking tonight, karl. the truth is i find it interesting he's taken a different tack than his brother, don't you? >> of course that's what everybody does. time moves on, you are who you are, you have a different -- none of susexactly the same as our parents or siblings. what's interesting over the course of the campaign is how he explains who he is. most people assume, look, he comes from the same family, bu

you covered george w. bush, and you covered barack obama three modern-day presidents who got eight years, two terms each. none of them flunk? >> guest: well there's a piece of one who flunks. >> guest: >> host: but none no one comes up with an eight either. you write that you rate president clinton as the reigning champion on diversity. why? >> guest: yes. he has had the most confirmed african-americans in his death cabinet, marshalls judges -- not judges, excuse me. barack obama is not the reigning champ on that one, but as far as u.s. marshals cabinet persons, confirmable positions, they work hard on diversity. when i say that they work hard to do that and i give them the greater give them, it is good that he did that because he brought another group of people who were not at the table to the table in mass. various administrations there were african-americans throughout but in mass he brought people to the table to help make decisions. maybe we didn't all the things we thought we wanted or needed, but there a

george w. bush broad swath of the american people because of the iraq war and katrina. that's the general election challenge. but remember bush is literally a four-letter word to many consecutive primary voters. george w. bush had the stumbles in the iraq war. among conservative activists, the bush name can help you raise money and gives you an infrastructure but in the activist base of the party, there are a lot of minuses as well as the pluses. >> we went back to the archives and took a look at what jeb bush told our candy crowley back in 2010. listen to this. >> publically or privately what's your biggest political disagreement with your brother? >> i will tell you i'm the only republican that was in office when he was in office as president that never disagreed with him. i'm not going to start now. why do that now after two years? >> not one time did you call up and say don't do that? >> i'm not going to start now. until death do us part. >> it's not that they are not political differences be uh

george bush came only twice. but mr. obama has been to the bay area 20 times. >> we're pretty used to the president's fly-by fundraising. he comes in and treats us an atm machine and moves on to the next target. >> reporter: the summit kicks off at 9 a.m. the president is expected to make his keynote address around noon. live at stanford, kiet do, kpix 5. >> mr. obama will attend a dnc fundraiser tonight on russian hill in san francisco then fly back to washington, d.c. on saturday. >>> san mateo, hayward bridge will soon look a little bit different and a little brighter. it's dark outside now. but live look at the bridge, crews are installing lights atop the 200-foot electric transmission towers adjacent to the bridge there. the purpose is to make the towers a little more visible for pilots coming in to land. >>> the san mateo bridge looks okay with the traffic. how about the other roads? >> the bay bridge is starting to see a bit a backup this morning. so we're seeing slow and go conditions. metering lights are on at t

>> guest: he says this when bush was president and he said it last year at this time george w. bush did have the most diverse republican administration and it's interesting that it was a republican who put his men and women of peace in that position who were african-american and that was interesting. it took him to do that so this was the first administration you saw this prominent for an african-american and it followed suit in the obama administration with the attorney general. >> host: but that doesn't counterweight president bush's experience after katrina. >> guest: i don't think president bush was being racist with his handling of katrina. of course affected so many minorities and low for income people who were hurt by the by the start in louisiana and mississippi. tesco particularly in the ninth ward of new orleans where we saw people on rooftops begging for help. even president bill clinton for the buck presidency black-and-white he said i don't think george bush is racist he said i think that his policy just didn't help elevate people in poverty. now when we talk about

and he was there in the neoconservative fold before george bush was. >> i gethy he wants to make a distinction between himself and his brother but can he realistic do that? >> i come from one of seven children. i'm the first to say that you can be different from your siblings and parents. when you look at these group of advisers there are not a lot of people that understand the complexity of foreign policy that understand our world on the world stage. he has folks like tom ridge who are not neocons and some of the smartest minds in the business. i think he said it right. totally he said it the right way. he said look i admire my dad and brother in my service to this country but i am my own man. he's making it clear, regardless of who he surrounds himself with, whether it's his family or add vicersadvisers time changes and he's going to have to identify where those changes are. he hasn't said where he is. >> i'll get back to you on that. joy, he says he doesn't want to talk about the past but look at his advisers. >> that's right. the neocon piece of it is very

jeff mason, let me go back to what we discussed at the beginning of the program congress did give george bush that authorization to fight al qaeda. why do some feel that is irrelevant today? guest: some have articulated that this is a different war and the different fight. president obama has been using that as justification for airstrikes already against the islamic state. it has been a long time, obviously, since that original authorization is granted. this is, at least from capitol hill and lawmaker's perspective, is different. host: this is a quote from nbc news he said, and the current crisis, the authorization does not apply. you touch on this a moment ago just how broad or narrow do you think this authority will be for the president? guest: the president has said repeatedly that he did not want to send ground troops back into iraq. obviously, one of the main reasons he was elected in 2008 was because of his promise to and the iraq war and bring troops home. the legacy that this white house will hope -- hopefully extend to president obama is one that ended wars and not one that continue

it is not that george w. bush had the same posture. they had the same reasoning. their view is that radical islam is not really islam. there are a lot of radical islamic in the middle east that we need for this war that don't believe in terrorist tactics. there is good reason for the precedent. in the end, the substance is what is going to matter. you need to demonstrate strength. >> for the president in this fight, the cnn poll shows the public's view on how he was handling the war on terror. the numbers have got significantly worse. republicans continue to not unite with the president. i think what are the most striking things that happened -- the president wants new authorization to fight this war. john boehner said not. he instead that, wesaid that we will see what happens. this war of words and the president's fitness to fight this is a real problem for the country. it makes cooperation and getting that authorization harder. you know that old political adage? it is a great one. "the boston globe" called new hampshire a must win for chris christie. a town hall

with regard to the placement of how much money is in your account. >> george bush could say the same thing but he was actually going out there to defeat isis with the surge. >> here is the record after 9/11 we declared war on afghanistan and then iraq. u.s. military deaths in iraq totalled more than 4400 people. the iraq war cost $815 billion according to the congressional research service. the u.s. deaths in afghanistan totalled 2200 people. and the total of cost is $86 billion. death on the iraq and afghanistan side are much harder to calculate for various reasons but when civilian deaths are included, number in the hundreds of thousands for iraq and nearly 15,000 for afghanistan, and of course we haven't stopped there. including but not limited to u.s. drone strikes, united states has been involved in yemen and pakistan. and the information has been compiled covering the bush and obama administrations. they estimate that more than 800 people have been killed in drone strikes in yemen, and more than 200 have been killed in pakistan. so it seems we have been doing a lot of killing o

. >> george w. bush, he was, i was young and irresponsible. that is the gold standard.hat is great about that, that was not hypocritical. these i find incredibly hypocritical. >> rand paul went after george bush -- >> i was waiting for a politician to say i did it, i still love it, i'm doing it now. in our latest poll we ask for hundred likely republican caucus goers in iowa if they believe islam is an inherently violent religion that leads its followers to violent acts or on the other hand it is an inherently peaceful religion but there are some that twist its teachings to violence? you can see the results on the big board. 53% believe that islam is inherently peaceful, but 39%, a big number, say an inherently violent. this is a complicated picture for republicans going into a campaign for national security could matter a lot. >> that is the iowa number. i would imagine that the number of republicans is not too far off. it may be different for democrats. it will be interesting to say what republican candidates say to that. we tried to survey them today, but we did not

there was no question he is not simply his father just like as george w. bush was his father.e is taking -- it is a view that is similar to what brock obama argues. he wants nationbuilding at home. he wants to retreat for bigger government. rand paul want to do it for the sake of smaller government. i know that is a caricature. when rand paul makes the case that somehow we are bankrupting ourselves in foreign adventures, that is not true. >> let me move to other candidates. jeb bush. >> does jeb bush have a foreign policy? i don't know. the question is is he going to be so snakebit by the association with his brother. that he is going to seek some other foreign policy or is he going to endorse it? >> it is a pleasure having you here. >> pleasure to be on the show. >> bret stephens, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for "the wall street journal" the book is called "america in retreat: the new isolationism and the coming global disorder." i suspect these ideas will be central to the debate about the next american president. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ >> riccardo muti is he

you covered bill clinton, you covered george bush. and you covered barack obama three modern day president that's got 8 years. two terms each none of them well there is apiece of one that flunked. and the grade race relations and noncome up nobody comes up with the a either you write that you rate president clinton as a reigning champion. of diversity. he has had the most confirmed african-american staff cabinet. and marshals. judges. not judges but barack obama has now the reigning champion that one. and it is as far as marshals. and u.s. marshals. cabinet persons they have confirmed the positions they worked hard on diversity there. and when i say that they worked hard to do that and i give him the grade that i give him this. is good that he did that