george w. bush was running for president in 2000, he won the country that year kind of but he lost vermont by ten points. george w. bush ran again he lost vermont by 20 points, fewer votes were cast for george w bush in vermont than any other state that created a little bit of a dilemma for president george w. bush. because while he was president, he made a point to travel to 49 other states in the country. he went to freaking alaska four times. even though george w. bush was born in connecticut, grew up in massachusetts, vacationed in maine during his presidency, even though he had all of those connections to new england. throughout the entire eight years of his presidency, he managed to avoid visiting vermont ever. and by the time his presidency was coming to an end that was becoming an issue. because presidents do now at least try to get to all 50 states as a manner of -- matter of good manners if nothing else. bill clinton only barely did it, he finally made it to nebraska about a month before h

when his son, president george w. bush, when he left vermont for last, he ultimately left it for too long because by the time george w. bush was at the end of his second term as president, and he was facing headlines like these ones about why he hadn't visited vermont by that time in his presidency, the great state of vermont had made george w. bush's decision for him. by that point two vermont towns had taken a vote that if president george w. bush did dare to step foot within their city limits, those towns voted to instruct their local police to arrest him and put him on trial. brattleboro and marlboro vermont said they would tell their local police to arrest president george w. bush if he came to visit. even republican officials said george w. bush should not come. one who did not want to be named, why would he ever come here? just to get a bunch of crowds to boo him? he would be nuts to come up here. and so george w. bush never went to the state of vermont, and as far as i know, he still has never been there. president

c-span: did you ever think george walker bush with the would be president? guest: i think i was surprised when george w. bush and jeb bush both decided to run for governor. the morning of the election my going to starbucks to get my coffee and there is marvin bush. why are you out campaigning. he says, i'm the only smart brother. of course there of course there were all surprised jeb did not win. and i think my greatest moment came when he was still kind of a smart alec playing golf with his father i was the travel pool. and they made it through 18 holes 18 holes in one hour and 53 minutes. he came up to my reporter's notebook and said one hour and 53 minutes. write that down, that's a record. the white a record. the white house doctors is aerobic golf. c-span: 1992 another time we did a presidential debate. what was it it like to be chosen to do this and how much preparation did you do? >> guest: for the 1st debate we were told 36 hours before we had been chosen. i was on his campaign train with julie literally texting for take off and they stop complaining

people were curious why george bush stayed away from washington. he lapsed into the continuity government program to get the president out of town in the event of a threat to washington so he took off on air force one and they went to the louisiana where they landed, taped a message to the nation because air force one did not have broadcast capability for tv and they wanted to go one step further they went into strategic command's bunker in the mountain, had a video teleconference and that is when they came back to washington and the toward needed the pentagon, i told you about the most disturbing signs you have ever seen. and the thing about this crisis is they responded against the taliban and afghanistan to drive al qaeda out of safe-haven is but immediately shifted to iraq, turned their attention to iraq because two hours after the plane hit the pentagon rumsfeld was meeting with his advisor is and told them you need to sweep iraq into this problem because a lot of people believed iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks which they weren't. and so it w

you covered bill clinton george w. bush and barack obama three modern-day presidents who that two times each. none of them for the grade none of them come up with f on race relations but no one comes up with me either. you rate president clinton as the reigning champion of diversity. >> guest: he has had the most confirmed african-american in his staff, marshals, judges staff next marshals, judges -- not judges, excuse me, barack obama has more in that category. as far as us marshals persons that confirmable position. so when so when i say that they worked hard to do that give him a good idea to make did that because he brought another group of people who are not at the table to table. various administrations will put on massey people to table. you know they were at the table and the start of the process. he began change that trickle down into other administrations. >> host: george w. bush had an african-american secretary of state and national security advisor and the 2nd african-american secretary of state at a time when

in 2004, george bush -- george bush ordered fannie mae and freddie mac says atchley and increase thenumber of homes they bought for people below the median income. we said that's dangerous. by 2005 i joined the republican chairman passing a bill in the house in the committee. it passed the house. the senate republicans did. they tried to work it out in the bush administration pulled the plug. so the chairman of the committee of sarbanes-oxley, good legislation, when he was fast when nothing happened coming he said george bush gave me the one finger salute. 2007 i become the chairman of the committee and we pass the bill. hank paulson testifies and i will give you what i am refuting in cheney's memoir. i said at that time i took what some people know as the washington read for your name in your index. i can tell you by the way, but almost every book about politics mentions benjamin franklin. the reason i know that is by the time they get to benjamin franklin, and he's not in it. [laughter] but i turned to cheney spoke in his memoir in 2003 we submitted a bill to reform fannie mae and

. >>> president george w. bushiticize his successor president barack obama. dick cheney has been scathing in his criticism but not a peep from the former president. however a published report says over the weekend president bush unloaded on president obama's foreign policy this private republican event in las vegas. he reportedly said president obama has placed the u.s. quote in retreat around the world. he was especially critical of what he sees as president obama's failure to back up his rhetoric. according to bloomberg view columnist and cnn analyst josh rogan who said he had a source in this room that george w. bush said when it comes to fighting isis quote, in order to be an effective president would you say something you have to mean it. you got to kill them. doug brinkley let me bring you in. good to see you, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> first of all, how unprecedented is it period to have a former president criticize a president especially a sitting president. >> it happens. jimmy carter used to beat up

the george bush presidential library and museum hosted this event. it's about 90 minutes. >> we say howdy. my apologies to johnson and bush 43 but that's what we do here. welcome to the bush presidential library. i am the director here. we've got to staff members each from the bush presidential library 43, our own presidential library

george bush, the first george bush, the second george bush ronald reagan. every single one of these presidents, there was some kind of executive order issued involving immigrants. i know because we have liberians in minnesota that have been there for decades because of unrest in their country under an executive order, something sometimes congress gets involved in, sometimes the president reissues, but that is one example of a group of people that have been able to stay in our country legally, work in our hospitals, work in our industries, raise their families in this country because of executive orders. so to say that it is sometimes lawless, how lawless for her to support the simple idea that a president can issue an executive order and of course we can debate the merit of that. we can talk about the fact that of course we would rather have comprehensive immigration reform, that's why i voted for it. of course that would be better so the president could just tear up his executive action. he said he would be glad to do that. but the point of this is that ev

george w. bush wasn't -- >> worse than george w. bush. >> well, have they gotten that bad? >> i -- >> i think you should check them again, because there's a talking point i need. >> let's fight it to a draw that they're close. they're close. >> close. >> within the margin error, right. >> and, you know, i mean, this -- this happened to bush, not with the sort of pyro tech not with the sort of pyro technics of the shutdown, but you just stopped doing stuff legislatively. and bush -- >> right. >> -- in the second term -- >> was that the case with bill clinton in the last two terms -- >> no. >> -- last two years of the second term? >> well, it was once the lewinsky scandal hit. >> yeah. >> and so there was -- there were deals, but they weren't -- again, they weren't -- they were budget deals, they weren't sweeping -- the big stuff. and welfare reform was the end of the first term. >> end of the first term, right. >> should we just make them leave after six years? isn't that -- >> well, i think -- there's actually a case that there's a four-year term -- you need them to get ree

only six years later, to be able to see the full impact of george bush and laura bush. but i appreciate the podium we had been given to shine a light on laura bush's work. it has been extraordinary. i want to also comment on dana's paper. i love and appreciate the depth you were able to obtain. the only issue i take is the title. not really issue, but something i think is a conversation we can have about traditional conservative women or international activist first lady. why should those be exclusive? that is something that laura bush suffered from. because she was considered a traditional first lady, how could she possibly be an activist? part of it is following in international activist first lady, hillary clinton. i suggest we have to look, the fact that conservative women care about the world, too. we have as much interest in our sisters' progress around the world is our liberal counterparts do. one person who commented on this was the first lady of afghanistan. i raise her because, again, this point of consistency. laura bush said she will work on afghan women's i

bush's running mate? as of the man suffered enough? -- hasn't the man suffered enough? [laughter] president clinton: george w. bush as a brand spanking new campaign strategy. he is moving towards the political center, distancing himself from his own party stealing ideas from the other party. [laughter] president clinton: i am so glad that the morris has finally found work again. -- that dick morris has finally found work again. [laughter] president clinton: of the clock is running down on the republicans in congress, too. i feel for them. they only have seven more months to investigate me. [laughter] president clinton: that is a lot of pressure. so little time, so many unanswered questions. [laughter] president clinton: for example over the last few months i have lost 10 pounds. where did they go? [laughter] president clinton: why haven't i produced them to the independent counsel? [laughter] president clinton: how did some of them managed to wind up on tim? [laughter] [applause] president clinton: some of you might think i have been busy writing my memoirs. i am not concerned about my memoirs, i am concerned

bush giunta want to thank hofstra for putting this topic on the agenda in studying the george w. h presidency because i think from listening to everybody today i'm hoping that it is wanting or appetite as consumers for information about the people who have led our country but this topic of the american first lady the president's spouse because it will change someday and be a male spouse, is so important to understanding our history and understanding this role as a partner for the presidency. and that is a position i hold that american university will hold a series of conferences around the country and other historical institutions to tell the story of the president espouse anti-american first lady and the nude contributions that they have made throughout history to politics and policy and global diplomacy. it's a tough job. there is an expectation to be into world. you are involved in meaningful initiatives. you are expected to be involved in meaningful initiatives and policy issues which are also responsible for taking care of her family and the home life, which is so important t

ronald reagan, bill clinton, george h.w. bush, george w. bush, they all passed a number of trade deals and now it is obama. your perspective changes when you're going from capitol hill where you are one of 100 who gets to vote and essentially makes as much noise as possible without actually acting and being the executive where you actually want more authority and you want to act. host: the trade deal that seems to be hanging over this -- and you seem to be getting this in your piece on "the washington post" is nafta. nafta was a failure and no more jobs killing trade deals. we were joined by a member of the leadership in the house on the democrat side and he talked about his experience with nafta. here's a bit of what he had to say, regretting his support for nafta. [video clip] >> i would say that on the whole that im disappointed with what nafta has brought. we were told that it would help jobs in the country and it came nowhere near close.we have a scene of lot of dissolved businesses. we have seen a lot of american workers in manufacturi

they mentioned with reagan had done, george h.w. bush. george w. bush does some of the same. democrats have tried to embrace this, but they've always been faced with the problem. one, they see this as politics of the right and their voters are called into question. it is seen as self-serving. barack obama has spoken famously in 2008 about democrats believing in an awesome god and things like that. always dismissed as insincere. it seems in some ways the press was the province of the right alone. >> host: kevin kruse is professor of history at princeton. his book is "one nation under god" mse concludes in the book, history reminds us what a public religion is in large measure an invention of the modern era. this is book tv on c-span2. >> host: and now joining us on booktv, tracy k. smith, pulitzer prize winner and has written a memoir called tran 11. professor smith, who is kathy? >> guest: kathy is my mother. in the course of thinking about this book, i realized that person i grew up knowing with such an obvious statement. one of my main wishes and wanting to write about

george w. bush was very involved with the cia, appreciative of what they did. george h. w. was cia director for the year but never got very involved in the intricacies and was not as involved as you might imagine. you asked about why i wrote the books. another reason is with inside the cia, that is the one book as i understand it that the cia recommends to applicants and new employees even though the book came out years ago. the book on the one hand goes into their foolishness and plots, lack of understanding of the need to and cover real espionage and malfeasance and told john martin the person i mentioned before will not put up with that and start prosecuting cia officers, but on the other hand it goes into how they really work. it is not like homeland. and that is why i think it is important for new employees to learn these lessons, same with the fbi, to know what was wrong without a lot of misinterpretation to understand very clearly that hoover was not someone to be admired as many agents did because he did abuse american rights, he did black male members of congress a

the george bush presidential library and museum hosted this event. it's about 90 minutes. >> we say howdy. my apologies to johnson and bush 43 but that's what we do here. welcome to the bush presidential library. i am the director here. we've got to staff members each from the bush presidential library 43, our own presidential library here in college station and the johnson library in austin. since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein -- and barbara klein. christina is the registrar. we have our new archivist and our registrar. what we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three presidential libraries in texas. we are the only state in the country that has three presidential libraries. they will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. if they go too long, they have to leave the stage. hopefully, we will leave a little bit of time at the end. the ideas to leave time at the end for you the audience to maybe ask some questions you have tho

the george bush presidential library and museum hosted this event. it is about 90 minutes. >> as we say here in texas howdy. my apologies to the people from johnson and bush 43, but that is what we do here. welcome to the bush library. i'm the director here. we have two staff members each from the bush presidential library 43, our own presidential library here in college station and the johnson library in austin. since we are already running a little late, we won't do extensive introductions, but michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj. brooke, one of my former staff is the supervisor archivist at the library in dallas and christina oliver is the registrar. here, we have our newly minted supervisor, deborah wheeler and our registrar. so, what we are going to do tonight is a behind-the-scenes look at some of the treasures at these three presidential libraries in texas. we're the only state in the country with three presidential libraries, so they are going to talk. they have 20 minutes each. i'm going to stand in the back of the auditorium and if they g

these were not the people that you had on the screen, you know, dick cheney and george bush.where this information came from. it came from the men and women who had steered me right on al qaeda before 9/11. who had told me that the soviet union, the former soviet union had a huge cache of biological weapons that they had never acknowledged, and they were right. and they had never led me astray. and then i went back to them in this book, and i said, "what happened? how did you get it wrong? how did i get it wrong?" >> jon: right. >> and that's what i've tried to do in this book. >> jon: there was a momentum to take us to war. something took us to war in iraq. would you agree? >> absolutely. >> jon: what took us to war in afghanistan? >> 9/11. >> jon: correct. >> jon: what took us to war in iraq? >> i think 9/11. >> jon: uh-huh. >> it's one of the things i argue in the book. >> jon: i think it was a concerted effort to take us to war in iraq. you had to shift, with energy the focus of america from afghanistan and al qaeda to iraq. that took effort. would you agree? >> it took p

. >> president george w. bushy breaking his long-standing silence on president obama white house policy in the middle east and the nuclear deal with iran. now in a very rare, pointed remarks, reportedly made behind closed doors at a meeting with republican jewish donors, the former president who kept quiet for years, saying at one point i owe that man my silence is now slamming the emerging nuke there are deal with iran and obama's decision to ease sanctions on edge game. he said, quote you think the middle east is chaotic right now, imagine what it looks like for our grandchildren. that is how americans should view the deal. president bush says the u.s. is in retreat around the world and not taking enough action against islamic terrorists like isis. quote, remember the guy who slit danny pearl's throat is in gitmo. now they're doing it on tv. stacy, i heard this line, that the president used in these, in this closed-door session where he talked about the killer of daniel pearl being in gitmo. at some point, it wa

former president george w. bush making some rare comments about that and what he thinks about president obama's policies. >>> and louisiana governor bobby jindal doubling down on his support for traditional marriage. what that topic could mean for the gop field ahead of 2016. >> here's my message to hollywood, to the media elite. the united states of america did not create religious liberty. religious liberty created the united states of america. that's the reason we're here today. >>> former president george w. bush breaking his silence as he questions the current administration's actions on the middle east and the nuclear deal with iran. including president obama's plan to lift sanctions on that country. the rare remarks made during a private off-the-record event come as secretary of state john kerry meets with iran's foreign minister here in new york today. during a summit on nuclear proliferation. chuck nash is a retired navy captain and fox news military analyst. good to see you, sir. so president bush 43 has a

one-time one george h. w. bush was going to give a speech in oklahoma when he was campaigning for reelection he advanced and people went out there, they talk to local law enforcement and law enforcement said no, there is this psychic in town who has been incredibly reliable in the past and let us to a body of the murder victims and she said that she had a vision that bush would be assassinated by sniper at an overpass. the secret service agents were embarrassed to take this seriously, but nonetheless they interviewed the psychic and after if she knew anything more about this alleged plot and she said i know that the motorcade vehicles are out at the air force base. they said can you show us where and they went there and there were five hangars and she pointed correctly to the hangar where the motorcade vehicles were. this was from one of the agents who is actually in charge and asked her a few other questions and she said this is going to come out of air force one wearing a sport jacket and sport coat, and i though

george w. bush was very involved with the cia, very appreciative of what they did. george h. w. bush as you know was cia director for a year but never got very involved in the intricacies and was not as involved as you would imagine. you asked about why i write the books. with inside the cia, that is the one book as i understand it that the cia recommends to applicants and new employees at the cia even though the book came out years ago and the book on the one hand goes into all their foolishness, secret plots, lack of understanding of the need to uncover real espionage, cover up their malfeasance until john martin as i mentioned before, the prosecutor of the justice department would not put up with that and would basically start prosecuting cia officers such as that but on the other hand it goes into how they really work. not like homeland at all. it is quite different. that is why i think it is important for employees to learn from these lessons, with the fbi to know what was right about the hoover era without a lot of misinterpretation, to understand very clearly why hoover wa

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

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even george w. bush'somfortable reelection win in 2004 with 58% of the white vote and 26% of the nonwhite vote would be a losing hand in 2016." . again the demographics guest: it was striking to me when iran the numbers if we have a 69% white 31% nonwhite vote in 2016, the last republican to win comfortably would lose. that is what makes it so critical for the republican nominee to reach out to nonwhite communities. reach out to hispanics asians, those who have not been voting with republicans, and persuade them to join the center-right coalition. it is critical for a republican candidate to be successful in this new america that does not look like the america you and i grew up in. host: whit ayres, republican consultant and author of "2016 and beyond." thank you for being with us. about 20 minutes left in the washington journal. we have talked a lot of public policy issues but have not talked about some. if you have one on your mind and would like to talk on it -- talk about it, there are our phone number

george w. bush was a modern president. did he have a celebrity to him are not quiet >> guest: every president has done to agree when they are elected. fame, notoriety. president bush certainly had that. as time went on he disdained a lot of the communications techniques that modern presidency use. i don't think he ever was offered that he was very good on television. his father felt he was not very good on television. in person, president which was a very engaging guy from a very gregarious. but he didn't convey the message more broadly and that is one problem he had. and he felt it was below the statute of the president to be on the rate night comedy show. he didn't want to do that and so i think he missed a lot of opportunities there. also he had the same problem is to have had that he was not a very good communicator making mistakes and he got a little gun shy about that. as time went on he lost a lot of celebrity. by the end of the presidency with the iraq war, afghanistan more than the economy that went sour, he was a

bush? well, low and behold, yes. george p. bush's son, now the texas land commissioner is also now fund-raising for his dad's run for the presidency. so yes, jeb bush is his own man. when it comes time to consider bush politically don't consider him as the latest member of this very, very powerful political family to seek higher office. and in the meantime every member of his powerful political family would like to have a word with you about sending jeb some money. those recent overtures come at a critical time because today is the last day of the fund-raising quarter. it's only money that comes in by midnight tonight that presidential contenders can count as having raised in this first quarter, and they have to report how much they have raised. the bush running for president pack is going to use this first quarter deadline to try to blow all other mainstream contenders out of the race through sheer financial intimidation. what we're about to hit in 2.5 hours, at midnight tonight is going to be the key test. first key test. in

is -- bush's two wars and taxes on the books. i look at people who voted for george w. bush and dick cheney twice and ruined this country financially, racially, and every other way, around the world. we had hope and change when president obama was elected. for the last six years, the republican party has done everything it can to murder hope and change. you have embraced a policy of keeping america down economically. your governors would not accept stimulus money that was instituted to try and bring back the economy. now you want to say that the economy, the economic recovery, is not robust enough. your party cap it down and you blamed it on president obama -- host: we got the idea. guest: president obama has been president for the last six years. his party controlled congress for the first part of his first term and did what they wanted. republicans to block much of anything between 2008 and 2010. so i think we just have a very different perspective about the state of the economy and what it is going to take to get it going. i am persuaded that republican principles, li

one-time one george h. w. bush was going to give a speech in oklahoma when he was campaigning for reelection he advanced and people went out there, they talk to local law enforcement and law enforcement said no, there is this psychic in town who has been incredibly reliable in the past and let us to a body of the murder victims and she said that she had a vision that bush would be assassinated by sniper at an overpass. the secret service agents were embarrassed to take this seriously, but nonetheless they interviewed the psychic and after if she knew anything more about this alleged plot and she said i know that the motorcade vehicles are out at the air force base. they said can you show us where and they went there and there were five hangars and she pointed correctly to the hangar where the motorcade vehicles were. this was from one of the agents who is actually in charge and asked her a few other questions and she said this is going to come out of air force one wearing a sport jacket and sport coat, and i though

george bush continued it. it brings our standard of living down. new ward -- the new world order is to bring everyone to the same standard of living. you will see the standard of living as you're seeing now in countries like it makes the rich a lot lot richer. the only thing i'm afraid of and i think it is too late because all these deals have been signs of everything. it is really too late to turn back. but this is something republicans pushed. i wish you have him on the show when they had the debate with ross perot when he was running with clinton against george bush's father. he told us exactly what would happen with this free trade. he told us exactly -- everything he said is happening now. like i said, clinton knew better. just to get other stuff passed along with the republicans. host:

nina mcbride was chief of staff to laura bush and she also worked for presidents reagan and george h w bush and she knows a great deal about the operations than the comings and goings. gary walters worked as chief usher from 1986, but he came during betty ford's time as first lady, and he worked into the bush administration. ms. sher worked in the office of the first lady lady of michelle obama. and betty monkman was the curator of the white house, a position that came along as a result of all of the work that jackie kennedy did. as a way of introducing you to our panelists said and what kind of operations a first lady hums into, we're going to talk about a state dinner and use that as an introduction for all of us and how they are put on, where the first lady comes into it but all of the various parts of the white house that get involved, because it certainly is a big event and one that is involved for everybody. gary, can you start us off? as chief usher, you handled the resident staff and you can begin. gary: i would be glad to. the first notice of a state visit, comes from the sta

george w. bush became so these names are not classified but they are helpful because in the crowd if the secret service agent wants to refer on the radio to someone under protection other people won't know who he's talking about and then on the other hand it also clarifies the name because of some names may sound all the same as when you say crown for the white house or the shell or barack obama and one understands what they are talking about. >> host: from your book in spite of the cia you write that today the cia is a different agency from the one that created sensational headlines about drug testing and domestic surveillance. >> guest: this is an example about how i present the story that the cia back in those days before there was any oversight whatsoever in fact the congress didn't want to know what they were doing we engaged in foolish practices. they had a plot to get the falloff because they wouldn't respect them in the country. it is just insane and often a legal leg to babies. it often goe

i'm glad you mentioned george w. bush because why did george w. bush break -- he didn't break the tie in 2000. but why did he beat al gore who should have been able to sail into the white house based on just the clinton economic record? because they put -- they litigated the idea of morality of moral decline. george bush promised to be the guy who will stand up for bible believing right wing christians. in 2004 by doubling down on that, he got 78% of the evangelical vote 10% more than in the election before. evangelicals are holding the republican party to account. these laws were their way to do constituent service. >> greg what is your sense of how powerful the corporate response to this was? the personal response that you got to it was obviously very powerful. but what about the corporate part of it? >> well you know, they're going to make the difference in making those changes. you know that is revenue into their pockets. decisive action needs to be taken. that's the only way that we're going to be able to create change. otherwise, it's just go

george bush, the first george bush the second george bush, ronald reagan. every single one of these presidents, there was some kind of executive order issued involving immigrants. i know because we have liberians in minnesota that have been there for decades because of unrest in their country under an executive order something sometimes congress gets involved in sometimes the president reissues but that is one example of a group of people that have been able to stay in our country legally work in our hospitals, work in our industries raise their families in this country because of executive orders. so to say that it is sometimes lawless, how lawless for her to support the simple idea that a president can issue an executive order and of course we can debate the merit of that. we can talk about the fact that of course we would rather have comprehensive immigration reform that's why i voted for it. of course that would be better so the president could just tear up his executive action. he said he would be glad to do that. but the point of this is that every at

george bush senior did it after ronald reagan but he at least at the time was a much more popular incumbent. >> we had herbert hoover after calvin coolidge george herbert walker bush. other than roosevelt. neil: it's rare. >> the last time for a democrat was 1856. that was james buchanan. do you like the stats, neil? neil: not really, between this and u6 references is this what the show is all about? >> very simple for the viewers. you have such a sophisticated viewership and high iq, i'm trying to impress you on the show. neil: as if you need to. always good seeing you. he is as good as it gets. anthony is hosting wall street week, apparently scooby doo was already used so, it premieres sunday 11:00 a.m. eastern time, major markets. he's got a unique vivacious energy to it, and he's very smart. go to wall street.com for details and a live stream. all right. fair and bansed now. >>> to the democrat who says everything anthony told you is completely wrong. wall street lefty can i say, that robert wolf says that hillary clinton is in very good shape thank you. she's clearly not taking any cha

george w. bush came across as what?an: i thought he was really friendly, really friendly, and he is just told his. or -- barbara. when i spoke to him, he moved shoulder to shoulder, and i was standing like this, shoulder to shoulder. it was a very buddy buddy thing that he did. it was kind of cool, and then he did one other thing that i pointed out. he did not feel the need to socialize a lot. he went and got his food himself. he sat down alone. he would have been ok alone. he was just kind of happy to do the job of the president. he did not need to show biz up to people. john: ok, so what was it like meeting mccain? brian: mccain was mysterious. not a lot of humor. i was able to relate with him because i spent a lot of time in vietnam prior to even meeting mccain, and, look, there was one person who was tortured, and she had a big role in offering insight into why i should make "apollo 13," because that was about survival. i had commonality w him. he was not a big smalltalk guy. john: barack obama had only been in that

innovation that excites. >>> bush lied, people died. heard that before? george w. that war in iraq, to avenge his father and line the pockets of his big oil friends. judith miller a journalist at "the new york times" for nearly 30 years, says it isn't true. and she says the reason she wrote articles for the "times" that helped convince the nation war in iraq was justified was bad information from the intel community. not lies from an evil administration bent on war. her new book is called the story, a reporter's journey, out today. judith miller, fox news contributor joins me now. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> boy, did they turn on you. they would have us believe that you would want to put us at war, lies spoon-fed you from the bush administration. you say it's not so? >> it's not so. i wish that i was spoon-fed anything. in fact i got my stories the old-fashioned way, the way you do the way we all do calling a million people, trying to -- having doors slammed in your face and trying to do the best you can with classified information. very hard. >> the

george bush 41, the elder gets lots of praise. apparently the staff loved george h.w. a bush. is that to the benefit of jeb bush? he's the kid. who knows how he's going to be, if he ever gets in there. >> i don't know if it inures to his favor. it certainly shows the values he comes from. the staff loved the bush family. both 41 and 43. they used to -- one of the things i remember when i was at the white house, they always spent christmas at camp david instead of going back to ken epunk port. they figured they would displace the least number of people who would miss christmas with their own families. they spent christmas in their own home so it would let the staff be with their families. >> i'll never forget being at the inauguration of barack obama, and huge portions of that crowd booed bush the elder and barbara bush, booed them. booed them. like, really? why? anyway, mark, good to see you. >> nicest people in the world. >>> the man one publication is saying the presidential contender everyone is overlooking. ing us your aching and sleep deprived. bring us those who w

far from running our down playing the views once expressed by brother, george jeb bush is embracing them and emphasizing them. most apparent when he refers to evil doers. when you listen to the role in the world, it very much has shadows and echoes of george w. bush's entire world view. >> on the foreign policy stuff. i think that reflects a broader shift nth republican party and because of vices, the beheadings the zest for intervention is a lot higher now than two years ago. we have at msnbc, two-thirds of americans say they want boots on the ground to combat isis. you wouldn't have seen that two years ago. the biggest liability with the bush name for jeb and brother and all that, the era of republican leadership that george w. bush reflects today's base is the era that the party sold out for big government, conservatives, for new cabinet department, all this stuff. it's the era they look at and say not only did he end up with 30% approval rating but we ended up with barack obama. and i think that's what -- >> the unforgivable thing. >> what they did not want to happen. i want to talk

not as much as with george w. bushbut i think he saw a reagan reagan entirely in positive terms not least is because of the strong anti-communism. i think he was more open than not to questions of public life and because neuhaus and 84 he was johnnie on the spot. i get the sense that the moral majority movement which was so important some ways in the 1980 election or the media perception of it and that's still argued by scholars. i think neuhaus showed up and became a welcome figure in the reagan white house and that's the soul of the angry speech right now. i think he's on reagan a certain openness to john paul ii anti-communism and more generally against the soviet union. he was supportive of that but i wouldn't say he was as interested in reagan as he was in jimmy carter or george w. bush. that would interest people. >> fascinating. >> in the mid-70s he was writing for one of the precursors of first things which has a history of its own. neuhaus was really excited about carter. this was in no small part a reaction t