bush. george w. bush: really? >> where they dedicated that portrait. george w. bush: lookout, i'm coming for you. logan? >> [indiscernible] >> i want a hamburger, well done. it has nothing to do with if it is cooked are or rare. come here, john. come on in. > this is> for your pancake. george w. bush: you have to get me some pancakes right now. >> you want some? george w. bush: i'm cooking some hamburgers. john, come here. is.n't know what the time >> tell him we all love him. george w. bush: nice to meet you. >> hey, governor, can i get your autograph? my dad, he is a democrat, i'm a republican. thank you, governor. george w. bush: thanks. your back again? what is the name of your school? devlin? that?ind of school is where is home? >> new york. george w. bush: you are long way from home. what about you? new haven, great. good to meet you. nice to meet you. 55th reunion. i'm out there with civilization -- i need to get up there sometime. >> you have to get up there to ski. unbelievable. george w. bush: nice to meet you. >> thanks. george w. bush: my running mate

george w. bush: i'm ready to go. i know that being the governor of texas is not close to being president of the united states. it is a huge step. if texas were a country, it would be the 11th largest economy in the world. i have learned to lead. i know where i want to lead america. i want to lead america to a better day. i know you cannot lead by dividing. people tried to put people in groups and pit one group against another. you cannot achieve what is right for america by dividing people up into camps. i'm a uniter, negative divider. people want to see a better day, a sunnier day for america. i do, i believe this country can do anything it puts its mind to. it is a huge honor to be here with you today. i'm excited on day one of what will be an incredible journey for laura and me. [applause] george w. bush: i would be glad to answer any questions you've got. >> [indiscernible] george w. bush: i support it. >> what about the freedom of speech? george w. bush: you are exercising it. [laughter] [appla

george w. bush: congratulations. [indiscernible] >> thank you. george w. bush: appreciate y'all. a lot. >> you are watching road to the white house rewind, american pastry tv's weekly look at presidential races. next, we continue with george w. bush on the campaign trail in in 1999.w hampshire he meets with voters, takes questions from voters, and learns about the town's pumpkin festival. george w. bush: really? lubbock, texas? nice to see you. >> it is a win tour. george w. bush: i'm out there working. i'm coming over. >> where are you tonight? george w. bush: there is a big event that i promised -- high-tech. governor -- i love my wife. i'm going to be with my wife. next thursday night, she is being honored as distinct was alumna from smu. >> allegations -- george w. bush: there will be plenty of debates. surely, those people understand that guy wants to be with his wife. you would like that, wouldn't you? that's what i mean. >> best of luck. god bless you. good to see you. thanks for coming. than

that's not a george bush was. what you see in the second part of the second term of the bush administration was actually a george bush to gain control of his own presidency. by 2005, really in 2006, he was a far different president than he was in 2001 and i think he would say that. >> yeah, yeah, i've been struck at this conference but what i perceive to be sort of emerging thing, especially for people who work in the administration of trying to make this claim of a distinction across george bush's eight years. people have pointed to, what is it, after katrina? is it the 2004 election? is it the war in iraq? it's unclear exactly what causes this change but it's been remarkable a list of my perception how many people have described some sort of change across the eight years of bush's presidency. as if he were, as obama would say, he's evolving, right? his views were evolving and changing. i think that striking. if i were of a conspiratorial slant of mind i would say, gee, there were talking point among the old bushe

and george w. bush, george w. bush learned from his father. is morning i think maybe it was ed rollins who talk about that and his press conferences and the way he handled the relationship with the media. george h. w. bush was are interested in relationships. he was interested in his relationships with people on the hill, with foreign leaders he would call foreign leaders just to talk to them, to establish a relationship so that when the time came that he needed to talk to them over a particular issue, ma that they already had an established relationship. and so he encouraged people to come to the u.s., foreign leaders, to come to the u.s. and one of the things he developed was he developed joint press conferences with foreign leaders, that all of his successors have followed. he did the same with the press. i think he thought of the press as a group that he needed to deal with and have a good relationship with, and he often thought of those in personal terms. you think of his relationship with "time" magazine that was a very close one. and, in

. >> i george walker bush -- >> george w. sh had a dream, a vision where saddam would fall, the people would rejoice and iraq would become a stable democracy, a beacon of hope, breaking the endless cycle of tyranny and extremism in the middle east. but if you think that this is just history, it isn't. many politicians want to send more troops back into iraq and into syria as well. look at the horror in paris, the downing of that russian jet, the terror and threats all wrought by isis. but will another american intervention be more successful than the last one? it is crucial that we understand how the iraq war went to terribly wrong. go back to beginning of the story. it is tempting to ask, what if. what if there had been someone who could have warned us what would happen if we invaded iraq. in fact there was one man who did just that. >> once you got to iraq and took it over, and took down saddam hussein's government, then what you going to put in its place? it is a volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central

would george h. w. bush get through a republican primary today? - yeah, because, - you think he would? - yeah, people are saying-- - oh, you are a loyal friend. - no, but people are saying reagan wouldn't either, and i'm saying, no. the character of the individual sets the tone of the campaign, and ronald reagan, for example, was such a powerful individual. he would have dragged the population to where he is. - and maybe the party to where he is. - right, and george bush's campaign in '88, if you look back on it, he started so far behind dukakis - correct. - and ran a fantastic campaign. - you have to admit, dukakis was the perfect opponent for him. - yes, both in terms of philosophy and height. - and height. (john laughing) - and also in, i mean-- - and i say that-- - yeah, yeah, you're not-- - as short, as being - disadvantaged on the same side. - right, you're not exactly 6'8", yourself, i realize that. no, but the point is, dukakis presented for the republicans, as you say, rare for the party to hold the white house for a third term. dukakis w

bush or president obama? >> the person i blame is barack obama and not george w. . >> when we come back, the finger pointing versus the facts. when something works, people stick with it. more people stick with humana medicare advantage. because we stick with them. humana medicare advantage. the plan people stick with. >>> what put iraq main the precarious position it is in now? was it the beginning, bush's invasion, or the end, obama's withdrawal? >> we are here today because of the disastrous blunder of the bush/cheney policies that got us into iraq that gave us the can of worms that we are are trying to deal with right now. >> and when it comes to iraq the person i blame is president obama and not president bush. >> when it comes to blame, 50% say it is president bush, and 50% say it is president obama's. president obama said he was against the war from the start, and when he ran for president he made an important pledge. when i am commander in chief, i will set a new goal on day one. i will end this war. >> less than four years later, and a little slower than he

i think certainly george bush spoke about that directly. i think it's a partnership. >> in november of 2001 shortly after the attack, laura bush made first lady history by becoming the first lady to become the president's weekly radio address. here's reflection the experience. you'll hear a little bit of a address that she gave. >> laura bush, did it surprise you at first when you first became first lady? >> i knew it. i knew that orc. i gnaw it -- i knew it intellectually. i seen lady bird johnson and how she flopsed me here -- influenced me. i didn't really know it until i made the president's radio address. in fa fall of -- in that fall of 2001 to talk about what other way women and chirp were treated -- children were treated by the taliban and afghanistan. >> good morning, i'm laura bush i'm delivering this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children by the al qaeda terrorist network and the regime it supports in afghanistan, the taliban. that regime is now in retreat across mu

bush. mr. beauchamp spoke to george w. bush at the bush center in dallas. this is just under one hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome margaret spellings, president of the george w. bush residential center. [applause]. hello. good evening everybody, thank you so much for joining us here at the bush center on the beautiful campus. i i hope for most of you it is welcome back. we are thrilled to be here. i want to first recognize first lady laura bush and gerald turner, gail turner, president of smu. this mighty university we are partnering with. thank you for being here [applause]. we have been keeping a very busy calendar this year with our engage at the bush center serious. where hosting former chairman of the federal reserve ben pataki on the 16th, as long as karl rove at december 14 where has a new book on mckinley. even though it may not sound that way. please plan on joining us for both of those. we also want to your attention to our holiday season special exhibit called a season of stories, christmas at the white house 2003. opening on november

believes in free trade, george bush wants to do this, george bush wants to do that. and he said i don't know. i don't know what to do. what do you think? he could make a decision. i think he was genuinely emotional about the situation. finally i am looking at my clock and i am thinking i really don't want to have to rewrite this whole thing. [laughter] so i think it would be absolutely brilliant if you just moved it to the third person. and he said you're right, okay. so he kept up the morning. i am watching it on the closed-circuit and he starts -- he says i would not deliver the speech as if george bush were here. he says i george bush, and on he goes. every single time the man stopped to take a breath, whether it was an applause line or not, the japanese diet went nuts and just clapped like crazy as if they were going to applaud george bush back into good health. so we got out of there and nick brady says mary kay, that was bonkers. that was the greatest. it was very sweet that he was so excited. but i really think in hindsight, i knew at that minute. i shouldn't

bush. mr. meacham spoke with george w. bush in dallas. this is under an hour. >> please welcome margaret spellings, president of the george w. bush center. [applause] >> hello, hello, good evening everybody, thank you so much for joining us at the bush center at the beautiful smu campus, i hope for most of you is welcome back, we are so thrilled to be here. i want to first recognize first lady laura bush and gerald turner. thank you all for being here. this year -- [applause] >> absolutely. we have been keeping a very busy calendar this year with our engaged at thear bush center series and we are hosting foreman chairman of the federal reserve benen bernanke, be on te lookout for that. so please plan on joining us for both of those. we also want to call your attention to our holiday season special exhibit called a season of stories, christmas at the white house 2003 opening on november the 19th, just in time for all of your holiday visitors, exhibit will have hand-crafted decorations, characters that were displaced at the whites house for

>> does laura bush have a project -- does both george w. h and laura bush have a project or foundation that they both work on and i am wondering if you could talk about that a little bit. i am sorry that we do not know more about it. >> can you talk about how this works in the world of giving and finance and how one can be a public figure and except contributions like this and what it does politically? >> laura bush continues to work on the issues that are of importance to her. the bush center is a collaboration of a number of different institutions. including the bush library and the bush institute. the bushes continue to further the causes they began to take initiatives towards in the white house. >> they do that with the help of donors. >> yes. they raise money that goes into the bush institute and the bush library as well. >> in the case of laura bush, her husband is not going to be running for president again and she is not going to be running herself. those donors might gain if there were another bush, for instance, that might run for

i don't fault george bush for the decision he made, i fault george bush in the way he conduct it had war because -- and then i congratulate him for the equally tough and surprising decision he made to do the surge when all of the advisers were opposed to it. he thought it was the right thing to do. it turned out to stabilize the country. we can argue about the rest. >> host: judith miller is our guest. we all heard the story. we are going to start with a call from marjorie in west virginia, go ahead. >> caller: , hi, thank you so much for taking my call. one of the things, ms., miller and i watched you be interviewed a few times on c-span, you don't seem to think that you were manipulated by dick cheney and many do believe that you were manipulated, and the reason i believe you were manipulated was the timing of the article and how it seemed to be well coordinated with dick cheney and others appearing on the sunday morning news talk shows at the same time, so my question is this, when you have an opportunity to do a future story about our going to war, have you thought about what you

guest: as far as george bush, he is referring to the 1980 contest. reagan -- we don't live in a system where you inherent the presidency. have to compete for it. every bush thought he had right to compete for the nomination. i'm sure reagan would have agreed. he fought tenaciously for it. fori think it speaks well both ronald reagan and george bush than ronald reagan selected george bush's running mate. he served loyally for eight years. reagan gave him a lot more responsibility than most of their vice president got from their presidents. we have an office and the west wing, which was a new phenomenon in american politics. by ronald andd nephew reagan to give the eulogy at the national cathedral. what started off as a political rivalry, and sometimes was fought far -- toughly between bush and reagan. became very good friends, but very respectful of each other. and george put -- and george bush said in his eulogy, i -- i learnedthan more from ronald reagan about politics. that is another issue. i can explain. the reagan have their own privacy. they did

i think certainly george bush spoke about that directly. i think it is a ventricle partnership in the house of american democracy. >> in november of 2001, shortly after the attack, laura bush made first lady history by becoming the first first lady to deliver the president's weekly radio address. here are her reflections on the experience. you'll hear a little bit of a address that she gave. >> laura bush, did it surprise you at first when you first he came first lady, the platform and boise were given? >> i knew it, of course, intellectually. i had seen my mother-in-law and the platform that she had to talk about literacy. i had seen lady bird johnson and how she influenced me in texas because of her interest. i didn't really know it until i made the president's radio address in the fall of 2001 after the terrorist attack to talk about the way that women and children were treated by the taliban in afghanistan. >> i am laura bush. i am delivering this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort to focus on the brutality against women

that is george herbert walker bush and that is the george herbert walker bush that as a biographer ielieve a sweet and nobleman far sweeter, far nobler than the country appreciated at that time. i think it is changing and i hope this book helps change it. [applause] >> maybe far sweeter than mother. you have access -- >> if word gets to houston he said it. >> the reason i mention that you read her diaries. i knew she was the diary keeper. she didn't let any of us read her diary. what did you learn in that? >> this is an amazing historical document that starts in 1948 when they went to a edessa, mrs. pierce thought they were going to russia. it was the wrong. as a but wasn't that far off. she sent boxes of soap and detergent to her son-in-law and daughter figuring they didn't have that in texas. the first time your dad drove through texas he stopped at a local diner, orders chicken fried steak, not knowing if it was chicken fried like steak or steak fry like chicken. we ordered a lone star so it didn't matter. there is one moment in the diary in 1948, maybe 1949, where you were listen

>> george bush sr. had this path of criticizing his successors in office. george w. sh also did that. bill clinton did not. it will be telling to see what barack obama decides to do. but now via jon meacham, we have the special -- >> it was a bad blurb. >> well, i was grateful for it. we now have george h.w. bush being tougher in historical record on cheney and rumsfeld than he was on clinton and obama. >> but i think he was talking about is did cheney change? 9/11 will do that to you. but too much so to the point of becoming this dark, ominous character that just looked at danger everywhere. >> well, cheney has said that he takes the iron-ass comment as a badge of honor. but in his own mind, he's the same dick cheney bringing the same westerners dry, iconic whit and national thinking. >> when you talk about christianity, a lot of people read into that, that maybe he feels guilty about what happened. >> not at all. first of all, religion was the one subject he said in advance he doesn't like to pursue in great depth, but even there in this book, we covered religion in

george bush as you say goes to texas. george w. which was while the family moved to washington. jeb bush sets up -- >> becomes a born again methodist and moves with the current of christianity to a more evangelical type of christianity? >> right and remains very much a texan at a time when his father was a hybrid of the two. jeb bush went to florida. >> and married a hispanic. >> they mirror the changes in american society. >> they really do. you look at the seaside compound of kenny bunk port, buttoned down folks, they are very emotional and it's a real family. they don't sit around and talk about all right how do we get the electoral votes in michigan. >>> the key decision that you describe was the going to texas, which i was interested in. so george h.w. bush, his father was a senator, wall street finance guy. he's offered a job at brown brothers -- one of the bluest of blue chip wall street firms and says no. i've got to go and do something in texas. do you think he understood he needed to go where the dem og fee of the country

but these are george bush's positions.want to know what ted cruz's positions are, all you have to do is listen to him today. he has been anti-amnesty. always has been. marco rubio is trying to muddy the waters. i don't know why he is doing it. it does not work. the poll show he is not advancing and cruz is. mark: did ted cruz agree with what he was advising of the time? >> i have not had a conversation with him about it. but he was paid by the bush campaign. i thought he reflected his boss's position on immigration by well -- quite well. most of it was focused on legal immigration. wasrest was focused -- nothing in their positive about illegal immigration. john: your boss is a feisty guy, a good debater. he has gotten into several scraps. one person he has gotten no fight and scraps with is the front runner by most measures in the republican nomination. that is donald trump. there has been tons of speculation about why it is. senator cruz seems to in private acknowledge it is part of a long game strategy. can you explain t

believes in free trade, george bush was to do this and that, and he said i don't know.on't know what to do. when do you think and he could not make a decision and i think you was like i said genuinely emotional about the situation, so finally i am looking at my clock thinking i really don't want have to rewrite this whole thing. [laughter] >> so, it would be absolutely brilliant if you just give it as though you are him. [laughter] >> you are right. so he gets up to the next morning and i watching it on closed circuit and he says i will now deliver the speech as if george bush were here and he says, you know, i george bush blah blah blah and every single time the man stopped to take a breath whether it was applause line or not the japanese went nuts and it just clap like crazy as if they were going to applaud george bush. so, we got out of there and nick brady said, mary kay, that was bonkers. that was the greatest. and it was very sweet he was so excited, but i really think in hindsight and i know that minute missions a hindsight, it was right then and i knew it was no

. >> trevor: do you miss george bush? >> personally, uh... (laughter) well, i -- do we?of how the idea popped into my head was, you know, the fact that george bush seems like a really sane choice, with the current field. >> trevor: it's true, isn't it? >> and we thought, oh, we need to write this. >> trevor: you know what's crazy, it's not just a sane choice, but even if you look at the anti-muslim rhetoric, george bush was really respectful for muslims. he was adamant about that. and back then people were, like, he's crazy! and now they're, like, was he? >> total moderate. >> trevor: yes. if you could play any of the candidates in a movie, who would you play? >> i like me some ted cruz. >> trevor: can you do a ted cruz? >> no, not at all. marco rubio. ther, there is an oily,slimy fad love to -- yeah, i'd love to put that skin on for a while and walk around. >> trevor: oh, man, i could see doing that. >> but i know the opening shot of the ted cruz movie with me as ted cruz -- >> trevor: yeah. -- just walking around naked around the town, right? (applause) >> trevor: let'

george bush, as you say, goes to texas. george w. ains in texas which was while the family moved to washington. jeb bush -- >> he becomes a born again methodist and moves with the current of christianity to a more evangelical type. >> yes. and remains very much a texan at a time when his father was always a hybrid of the two. and jeb bush went to florida and set himself up. >> and married a hispanic. married a hispanic. >> they mirror the changes in society. >> they do. you look at kennebunkport and think they're these buttoned down folks. they're very emotional. they're very -- it's a real family. they don't sit around and talk about how to get the electoral votes in michigan. >> the key you described was going to texas which i was interested in. george h.w. bush, his father was a senator, a wall street finance guy, he's offered a job at brown brothers which is one of the blueish of blue wall street chip funds. he says i've got to do something in texas. do you think he understood that he needed to go where the demography of the count

george hw bush is the new one. the former president allowed meechan exclusive access to his personal taped diarys and other material. >> the reason he cooperated with this, the reason he gave me his diaries and mrs bush gave me his diaries, is they do want the record to be clear. he wasn't attacking his son. he thought his son used rhetoric that was too hot, but-- >>> that's a criticism of his son >> yes >>> of another president of the united sthats and his son, right >> it is. it is striking that he articulated it, but i think he had reached a point where me wanted to make the point for history that diplomacy in force are not competitive but complementary. i think that's what it was >>> the striking thing about this book, which there are so many, but the striking thing to me is that the father and son never had this discussion before; start? . >> no. i think you and i have, but this is the odd intersection of two forces. one is the senior about bush's reflectionive deference to the uptolder of the office of the pr

[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the 43rd president of the united states, george w. bush. use] george w. bush: thank you for the warm welcome. lynn and family, i am delighted to be here. i must confess, i am somewhat reluctant to come back to washington. the last time i showed appear, i was hanged in the white house. this time, i return only to find my vice president getting busted in the capital. i really appreciate you being here, thank you for coming. i want to thank paul ryan for his leadership. he is trying out for the abraham lincoln look-alike contest. mitch, when dick cheney was the leader, mitch was the minority leader appeared as majority leader, mitch is in charge now. as a matter of fact, he assured me that dick cheney's bust would be prominently displayed in an undisclosed location. thank you roy blunt and for organizing this event. william behrens is the sculptor . i can't wait to see what it looks like peter meissner had a time somebody did with me and i looked like alfred a newman. over the years, i have a chance to meet a number of his predecessors. i have

would the challenger speech be different if with george h.w. bush. i can tell you yes, because george h.w. bush's comments before the speech would have been recorded by the same person who recorded regan's, but they would have been different thoughts because it would have been a different man so it would have been a different speech. but in a way i guess i just answered that but it's also hard to answer f you said to ted who worked with john. f kennedy ad attempted to help johnson, are our speeching for lbj and johnson different? he was a friend of mine, i think his answer would be yes, because lbj was not jfk. at the end of the day, ted was the writer so there would have been similarities. so it's a complicated little dance. yes, sir. >> we have time for one more question because peggy is going to be signing books. >> as someone who has spent several years working working wh president reagan to use to rise to the crisis, how would you access -- assess his performance following the paris attacks? >> very often. i don't see the world 100% like barack o

and returning to the policies of george w. bush. >> george w. bush made mistakes but he did adjust. blame obama for isil, not bush. i miss george w. bush, i wish you were president. we would not be in this mess. amy: the debates were held at sheldon adelson's casino in las vegas. we will get response from bob hebert of demos, zed jilani of the intercept, professor steven zunes and arun kundnani, author of "the muslims are coming: islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic war on terror." all that and more, coming up. ♪ welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the nine leading republican presidential candidates squared off last night in las vegas at the venetian casino, owned by republican billionaire backer sheldon adelson. it was the first debate since donald trump shook up the race by proposing to ban muslims from entering the united states. trump has gained an all-time high in a recent national poll. as he criticized the obama administration's wars in the middle east tuesday night, trump was interrupted by protester kai newkirk, who de

i said no and i hung up the phone and i cried and said i would never be able to work for george bush. a few years go by i felt i was doing not what i was supposed to be doing. it was not right. august 2001 my husband did the white board incident ancestry down list everything you want to do the job or you don't want to do so with a business background i had to assign a numerical value he said you have to be in washington d.c.. i said that bill their old fatigues but i would like to come back if you hear of anything let me know so i booked a ticket to do informational interviews for the week of september 70 but then died 11 happened. i husband brings me my english breakfast tea he took the dog for a walk and then i saw the second plague hit dead she called me to say he said would be willing to come back but would you still consider that? would to be a spokesperson at the justice department? i was on the phone and i was packing my bag. [laughter] and i'd never went back to san diego as much as i loved it years sanders later i thought why did i ever leave? it is so beautiful. wonder that

that's what president george w. bush's re-election campaign did in 2004, when it looked for supporters in heavily democratic districts in the key swing state of ohio. in earlier times, this would have been futile; but now the bush campaign could find supporters scattered throughout hostile territory, kind of like finding raisins in a bowl of raisin bran. >> and so, the bush campaign and the republican national committee made a concerted effort between george bush's election in 2000 and his re- election in 2004 to build the infrastructure to make this work in politics. and one of their big things was saying, "yeah, let's, let's figure we know that even in the...the least republican county in america, 15%, 20% of the votes are...are ours. and i, if we know how to go find those people, we can be targeted and lower the risk of...of inadvertently mobilizing the wrong people." >> reporter: bush won ohio by 2%; a loss there would have cost him the presidency. it was a lesson the underdog barack obama campaign took to heart in the

>> exxonmobil is a major funder of george bush as well as george bush's father.r those here who aren't from the united states, george bush junior, the longest experience he had working prior to working for the government was working in the oil sector. the only other u.s. president to come out of the oil sector was his father, george bush, senior. they were heavily supported by exxon and the oil industry. bush and cheney, the oil industry spent more money to get them into office than it had spent on any election previously. and that immediately paid off so that the oil industry was essentially able to stop lobbying and start legislating directly. and within a week of the bush white house -- bush taking office, and of course, cheney, the former head of halliburton one of the largest energy service copies in the world, they started meeting as part of the energy task force, which world's america and the energy future. at one of the meetings that took place within the energy tax force -- task force was early on , and early 2000, looking at a series of maps and charts

it seems george w. bush looks sage like on the landscape. >> we didn't hear that from our democratic friends, we didn't hear them applaud george bush, or were they said great job, you brought us together. >> no, that's not it. that is not the point. >> george w. bush unleashed the wars that we are coming home to roost in the country, he said we have to fight them there so we don't fight them here. that. >> what can be done to have both sides coming together. we have one side of the issues saying we need prayers, calls for greater health. donald trump is extreme. his speeches are better in german, and then the speech that gun control alone will not do it. >> the new york times and reporting didn't seem fit to refer or mention it. it was diplomacy and talks. that will not be helped by anti-islamic language. >> this is not a country. who are we talking to? who are the leaders? >> radical islam, or whatever you are calling it. >> what are you calling it? >> as a movement, it's not something that we have been aga

. >> george bush, but he didn't win because he's racist.bleep]. >> i don't think george bush won because those people voted for him, no! >> trump, this is hilarious, he came in second, i don't know if he came in second but he was up for person of the year time magazine. >> right. >> larry: as we say way past its time magazine. and not to pick on time magazine. he seen shaded angela merkel, can you see the full frame of that. this is what he tweeted am i told you time magazine would never pick me as person of the year despite being the favorite. they pick a person who is ruining germany. this is our allies. >> i know. >> larry: he doesn't even understand that. that's exactly why he won't win. because he does [bleep] like that. and yet, this is true though, and yet, there's an argument that he probably should be person of the year. >> there is a misconception that the person of the year has to be good. >> larry: yeah. >> for the country. it could be, you know, better or worse. >> i would prefer a [bleep] emoji overdone ald trump. >> i would t

so my point is, isn't it true that because of the republicans and george w. bush -- i'm saying that's as a liberal progressive democrat myself -- that george w. bush's invasion of iraq, as here able as a dictator as saddam hussein was, at least having saddam hussein in iraq, kept that as a stable country without isis emerging. so is the iraqi war had not happened and if george w. bush and dick cheney had not invade iraq or al gore had won, there was no iraq war, would there be -- >> host: all right, bill, we government the point. that's bill in connecticut. >> guest: that a really good question, and as a journalist i try to avoid putting political labels on it, but the book argues and i strongly believe that the iraq invasion was really the original sin. not just the invasion itself which gave the jihaddists this cause they'd been looking for, particular particularly star could we, and the sin of omake, not having security operates in place, dismanning the baathist party which anybody who was a professional inside iraq, in the early 2000s, that be a might of the b

it's not the george bush senior or junior party and he's out of it. >> you're lucky it's after 11:00 p.m. eastern. my mom would say watch your language, young man. i'm just joking. that word has been said many times on this show. you heard about -- you heard them say carpet bombing, encrypting data, closing down the internet. were you concerned about any of that? some people say it impedes on the rights of americans if you are thinking of doing this and others say we need to do this in this terrorism age that's just a reality right now. >> you know, what we heard last night again and again was violations of basic liberties which is really against what certain parts of the republican party stand for. and we also heard an awful lot of blaming the other, blaming the immigrants, blaming muslims, et cetera. that is a real problem. >> you work in international circles. as you watch this what were you thinking about? >> i kept thinking about what van jones said which was the biggest recruitment tool for isis is donald trump. but you know, as somebody who works in international circles, it's

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

he loves it. >>> we showed you willer ifril as george w. busher but that wasn't the only political humor "snl" had to offer starting with senator ted cruz. >> i'm not afraid to take a stand on this. when i heard donald trump's comments on muslims, i said, wow. >> and we're talking wow like, that's crazy or wow, like that's a good idea? >> exactly. >> this guy trump is a clown, okay, he's a total joke. the last thing anyone wants is some loud mouthed bully from the tri-state area who hurls insults at people like a fat-headed jabroni. >> you think we should hit isis head on? >> that's right, head on, which is always also the first rule of brain surgery, always leave the head on. >> that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> joining me from washington, olivia nutzi, mr.itical correspond wept "the daily beast." thanks for being here, good morning. >> good morning. >> there's this new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, showing if there was this hypothetical election hillary clinton would actually beat trump but would lose to marco rubio