[applause] george w. bush: mr. chairman, delegates, and my fellow citizens. i proudly accept your nomination. [applause] george w. bush: thank you for this honor. together, we will renew america's purpose. [applause] george w. bush our founders : first defined that purpose here in philadelphia. ben franklin was here. thomas jefferson. and, of course, george washington -- or, as his friends called him, "george w." [laughter] [applause] george w. bush: i am proud to by my side.eney [applause] george w. bush: he is a man of integrity and sound judgment, who has proven that public service can be noble service. america will be proud to have a leader of such character to succeed al gore as vice president of the united states. [applause] bush: i'm grateful for senator john mccain. i appreciate very much i his speech tonight's ago, i appreciate his friendship, i appreciate the spirit for america. and i want to thank the other candidates who sought this nomination. their convictions have strengthened our party. [applau

. >> i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> 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 this is just history, it isn't. many politicians want to send more troops back into iraq and syria, as well. it's the only way to defeat isis, they say, but will another american intervention be more successful than the last one? this time it's crucial that we understand how the iraq war went so terribly wrong. go back to the beginning of the story. it's 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 are you going to put in its place? that's a volatile part of the world and if you take down the central government in iraq, you could easily see pieces of iraq

[cheers] and george bush -- george bush won't guarantee a woman's right to choose. i will. [cheers] hear me now. i am not pro-abortion. i am pro-choice, strongly. [cheers] i believe this difficult and painful decision should be left to the women of america. i hope the right to privacy can be protected and we will never again have to discuss this issue on political platforms. [cheers] but, i am old enough to remember what it was like before roe v. wade, and i do not want to return to the time when we made criminals of women and their doctors. [cheers] jobs. education. health care. these are not just commitments from my lips. they are the work of my life. [cheers] our priorities must be clear. we will put our people first again. [cheers] but priorities without a clear plan of action are just empty words. to turn our rhetoric into reality, we've got to change the way government does business, fundamentally. until we do, we'll continue to pour billions of dollars down the drain. the republicans have campaigned against big government for a generation. but have you noticed, they'

i think for george w. bush, i think it's a smart move for him to come out and support these candidates that we know are going to have a tough race. >> a.b.? >> yeah, it's interesting. mcconnell told them months ago the senate republican leader they should cut their own path and run their own race and find some distance from donald trump. paul ryan has basically said everyone has to basically proceed with their own conscience and do whatever they want to do when it comes to donald trump. they are very open about it. and they are encouraging people in the hopes of retaining their majorities in the senate and the house to run their own race and it's george bush going to help raise some cash, i think they will take it everyone is going to run for the hills in terms of trying to avoid the nominee and the controversy surrounding him. >> charles, county gop hold on to its majorities in the house and the senate while keeping trump at arm's length? >> probably losing it in the senate, probably holding on in the house. h

bush and mccain. a vicious campaign between the two of them in 2000. there's george w. bush raising money for him. that for kelly ayotte, rob portman, rob blount. all of these embattled senators facing tough races. n all of them turning to george w. bush to raise money for them. where does that number 47 come in? this is the most recent polling on the popularity of the former president. a 47% favorable rating. a 47% unfavorable. you look at those numbers and say that's not too spectacular. why would they be enlisting him. compare that number, 47% favorable for the former republican president george w. bush. compare that to the current favorable score for the presumptive republican nominee. that's the wrong screen. this is what his used to be. 26 when he left office. compare that 47% to donald trump. 29%. donald trump right now in his favorable/unfavorable score is where george w. bush was when george w. bush left the presidency. remember how unpopular he was. sidelined from the 2008 campaign between mccain and barack obama. that's where donald trump is right now. suddenly george w. bush with that 4

i think for george w. bushmart move for him to come out and support these candidates that we know are going to have a tough race. >> a.b.? >> yeah, it's interesting. mcconnell told them months ago the senate republican leader they should cut their own path and run their own race and find some distance from donald trump. paul ryan has basically said everyone has to basically proceed with their own conscience and do whatever they want to do when it comes to donald trump. they are very open about it. and they are encouraging people in the hopes of retaining their majorities in the senate and the house to run their own race and it's george bush going to help raise some cash, i think they will take it everyone is going to run for the hills in terms of trying to avoid the nominee and the controversy surrounding him. >> charles, county gop hold on to its majorities in the house and the senate while keeping trump at arm's length? >> probably losing it in the senate, probably holding on in the house. hook, they have a n

he met george bush, first george bush, he goes, hey, you want to do some jokes -- the older george bush week? and he was like what thing? and that was it. and he said, do i really have to do this? >> seth: yeah. and shandling being the great comedian just showed up and winged it and just did it. and i think that kind of started it. >> seth: oh my goodness, i had no idea. what a great story. and now, you voted for obama twice. >> yes. >> seth: how do you feel about the job that he's done? >> well, i voted for obama because he's black. >> seth: okay. [ laughter ] >> right. i've been very clear -- i've been clear about that. >> seth: yeah. so yeah, when people ask me how do you think obama's doing? i'm like, is he still black? [ laughter ] yes, well, then, i think he's doing okay. right. well, what about iraq? what about i black? i'm sorry i didn't hear what you said. [ laughter ] i don't know. and they say, what about his policies? i agree with the policy of him being black. as long as he keeps being black, i'm good. so, i don't have to worry about the policies. >> seth: in 2011 was the y

aside even foreign policy, george bush was in favor of free trade. he was in favor of nato.orked with me on africa he was the largest life-saving program that any developed policy has ever had in africa. we worked together on debt relief for the poorest african nations. i have no idea what a trump presidency would look like. john: trump has never had elected office before. george bush was the governor of texas. is it easier to find common ground with other politicians? big change going on with the center right in the center left. you've got quite a lot in common. probably more in common in a strange way than the center left has with the far left in the center right has with the far right grid that's the way the world is today. it's one of the curiosities. you've ended up in a situation whoe there are those of us solutions to find that are based on values. john: you would see donald as part of the same phenomenon? tony: we come from different traditions. we will remain in different traditions. for all of that time, i've been in the same labor are in -- party as jeremy corbyn.

. >> you kind of bookend your book with george h.w. bush. >> yeah. >> you open the book with george and barbara bush moving to odessa, texas, to do what? >> they go in search of oil and the american dream. so george h.w. bush graduates from yale in 1948, he decides he doesn't want to follow in his family's footsteps and go to wall street. he's going to go search for his own fortune, albeit with some family connections, out in texas. and it really sort of captured what i was talking about a moment ago, this sort of sense of endless abundance, right? so this is a moment of great discoveries in west texas, and he arrives right at the right moment, and it's there that he's going to seek his fortune and also help to build the republican party which we can talk about too in texas. and so we start there before the 1973 arab embargo, because i want to sort of capture what america, what american culture was like, what expectations of the average american were like that sort of best represented by this free-flowing black gold that came out of the gro

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people often forget something like this of president bush, leave aside even foreign policy, george w.h was in favor of alliance, free trade and the transatlantic alliance, and strongly in favor of nato. he worked with me on africa and he was the largest life-saving program that any developed a policy has ever had in africa. we worked together on debt relief for the poorest african nations. there were lots of things we could work on together. i have no idea what a trump presidency would look like. john: trump has never had elected office before. george w. bush was the governor of texas. is it easier to find common ground with other politicians? tony: it's a big change going on with the center right in the center left. you've got quite a lot in common. probably more in common in a strange way than the center left has with the far left in the center right has with the far right. that's the way the world is today. it's one of the curiosities. you've ended up in a situation where there are those of us who are trying to find solutions that are based on values. but are what i would call non-

former president george w. bush stepping in to help several candidates who could be hurt by having donald trump at the top of the ticket. alex hunt was communications director for senator marco rubio's presidential campaign, currently a political consultant and partner at firehouse strategies. we have rubio news to talk about as well, but first start with president george bush. he stayed out of things for the better part of eight years now. he must be pretty concerned if he's stepping in. >> all i can say from the republicans is god bless george w. bush. donald trump is leading us into a very dangerous direction as far as electoral defeat. >> he's the party nominee. >> he's the presumptive nominee. we still have another month to go. if we continue on it current trajectory i fully expect the delegates in cleveland may actually have some second thoughts before nominating him. it is so helpful that people like president george w. bush come in and help some of our great senate candidates who are doing really good work o

i did ask george w. bush in his administration this change happened, i said, what did you see when suddenly this thing that has been going on for decades in this institution is transferred to a new organization, what did you notice? he said, i didn't notice any difference. most of it was still written by cia and my briefer was still the same briefer, cia officer, there was nothing really that different for me. it didn't really change for the president of the united states who after all is the first customer of the product. [inaudible] >> what we were talking earlier and i mentioned i read anderson's book and -- residents. >> right. >> one thing i didn't mention earlier was that she said all the maids and butlers that works in the white house they're so trusted that if the president leaves something important on his night side table, i don't know if it would be the presidential daily brief or not, but if the president's meeting with his closest advisers in the oval office or situation room and he realizes he l

when you go back and revisit the bush presidency, it's a two-track thing. after 9/11 george w. h did indeed make a lot of positive insinuations toward the muslim world and say we're not at war with islam. at the same time he's also the president that had this sort of cowboy foreign policy and that, by the way, did stoke a lot of anger toward the united states with policies like torture, policies like gitmo. we saw all of those pictures that came out of those prisons that we took over that once belonged to saddam hussein where then you had americans treating people in the muslim faith -- so you had this duel track of what the george w. bush presidency was. how ironic that he's coming in to save the party from donald trump who's taken it to the extreme? >> i'm not sure how much he's going to save the party. the fact that he's going to do fund-raising is different for him. the idea that he's going to try to unify. there's no indication that he sees himself as any savior. why should he? why should he risk his reputation? so many republicans have tried to put a stop to the trump phen

one of thehings 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

next, george w. bush accepts his party's presidential nomination at the 2000 republican national convention in philadelphia. in his speech, the texas governor vows if elected president to "renew america's purpose." george w. bush went on to win the general election over democrat and vice president al gore in one of the most highly contested in u.s. history. this is just under an hour. [applause] [applause] governor bush: mr. chairman -- [applause] mr. chairman -- [applause] governor bush: thank you, all. [applause] governor bush: mr. chairman, mr. chairman, delegates, and my fellow citizens. i proudly accept your nomination. [cheers] [applause] governor bush: thank you for this honor. thank you for this honor. together, we will renew america's purpose. [cheers] governor bush: our founders first defined that purpose here in philadelphia. ben franklin was here. thomas jefferson. and, of course, george washington -- or, as his friends called him, "george w." [laughter] [applause] governor bush: i am proud to

bush. >> george w. bush gets west virginia. >> narrator: west virginia. >> west virginia, which has been solidly in the democratic column for a long, long time. >> bill clinton's home state has gone bush. >> narrator: and arkansas. >> six electoral votes and they go for bush. >> narrator: and even al gore's home state of tennessee. >> tonight, embarrassing vice president gore by snatching his state's 11 electoral votes. >> al gore lost his home state, lost west virginia. these are states that he should have won. >> had any of those states gone the other way, al gore would have been president. >> florida goes bush, the presidency is bush, that's it. >> narrator: in washington, they say the nra was a decisive factor in al gore's defeat. >> in no small measure, it was that fight over guns after columbine that had the firearm community more enlivened, engaged, and a few votes difference in florida, and the whole thing would have gone the other way. >> i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear that i will fait

♪ george h.w. bushxcepting his party's nomination at the republican national convention in houston. he details foreign policy a competence during his first term, including the fall of the berlin wall, the dissolution of the soviet union and victory in the persian gulf war. he also expresses regret for raising taxes, promising to make up for it with new across-the-board cuts. president bush lost the presidency to democrat bill clinton 37-43%. independent candidate ross perot finished third with 19%. this is about one hour. [cheers] president bush: thank you very much. [cheers] thank you very, very much. thank you so much. thank you. this is fantastic. thank you all very, very much. let's go to work. thank you. much.you so thank you all very much. thank you. thank you very much. and i am proud to receive, and i am honored to accept your nomination for president of the united states. [cheers] may i thank my dear friend and our great leader, bob dole, for that wonderful introduction. [cheers] is not for me

bush had liked each other, which they didn't particularly, honestly, nobody wanted an endorsement from president george w. bush in 2008. but political realities being what they are, you've got to do it. they arranged for john mccain once he got the nomination wrapped up, they arranged for him to come to the white house, they put% on the north portico to wait for him. do you remember that? john mccain did not appear. president bush sort of did a little dance at one point. then he did a different little dance. kind of a softshoe tap dance thing. then he did that thing where you lean into the wind and you pretend like the wind is holding you up. he was out there for a long time, it was very awkward. eventually they finally did get john mccain out there. president bush endorsed him. he said at one point, if he wants my pretty face standing by his side at one of these rallies, i'll be glad to show up. turns out john mccain did not want that, after that initial very awkward presidential endorse in the meantime 2008, george w. bush never again appeared at a john mccain event that was open to the public. not o

this was set by george w. bush post september 11 saying he felt that was important around protecting american safety. >> one big difference. george bush was e unequivocal in going after the terrorists. the reason he was bifurcating muslims and making sure that the muslim community was hearing that he wasn't going after them, is because he was really tough on the islamic terrorists and there was a concern you don't mix those. he went out of his way to separate them. >> let me just jump in here, get mercedes in, but for the department of homeland security to say don't use words like sharia because it might offend muslims, that is the definition of pc. >> i disagree. i was speaking around the president's statement this week about explaining something a lot of us were confused. why be so reluctant to use a term. radical islamic terror and he explained his reasons. i told you, i disagree. i think it helps them to make that distinction. >> and in orlando, president obama, he held the victim's families, held the first res

reality, whether you -- >> still talking about george bush. >> i didn't bring him up. david did. david: last year of presidency. >> not for everybody. bush certainly didn't have those kind of numbers. >> reagan was significantly higher. >> george bush the first did not have numberses. david: he lost releak shun. >> he did. you're looking a the fact despite whatever statistics you're giving american people are fairly pleased as tenure of this. david: maybe with the president, not with the economy julie. irv statistic we see shows they're not happy with the economy. >> but if you look who they want to follow, as it was, you had george bush following ronald reagan with these numbers. >> reagan, i don't know where you get those numbers. david: real quick. >> on economy numbers clinton does not do well. the idea of third obama term is not popular idea. david: michael, tony, jewelry, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: trump university quote aggressive sales tactics revealed. federal judge releasing hundreds of pages of court documents related to the class action lawsuit. hillary cli

you book-end your book with george h.w. bush. you open the book with george and barbara bush moving to odessa, texas to do what? >> they go in search of oil and the american dream. so, george h.w. bush graduates from yale in 1948. he decided he doesn't want to follow in his family's footsteps and go to wall street. he's going to go search for his own fortune, albeit with some family connections, out in texas, and i sort of captures what i was taking bat moment ago. this sort of sense of endless abundance. so this is a moment of great discoveries in west texas and he arrives right at the right moment and he is going seek his fortune and help build the republican party, which we can talk about, too, in texas. and so we start there, before the 1973 arab embargo. want to capture what american culture was like, what expectations of the average american were like, that sort of best represented by this free-flowing black gold that came out of the ground, and i end the book in 1991, after we've been through the energy crisis, which americ

george w. bush. what does it say that you've got people running for reelection to the senate saying they want george w. bush as opposed to the republican nominee to come in and campaign for that, for them, and raise money for them. what does that say? >> it was not long ago when george w. bush -- >> most unpopular man to leave the white house. >> did not want to be seen with him, campaign with him, talk about him. the fact people would rather campaign with george w. bush who was once toxic versus their nominee is problematic with donald trump. i'd say with respect to trump, when you look -- this is a guy who has spent his whole life being coddled. someone whose constantly been told yes, he surrounds himself with yes people so the notion he would ever take advice from the republican party and fall in line what they wanted when he su surrounded himself with yes people, that was never going to happen. >> talking about how he's been all his life, i mean, even his language when you talk about how he's turn

following that was george w. bush. george w. bush did with his father had done, take take a briefing every day with an intelligence but he took up two notches. one, he decided from the beginning he was going to have a briefer not only brief him in washington but wherever he was in the world. he had his cia briefer travel with him on domestic and foreign trips. number two he decided to supplement the process. he added deep docs. he brought in analyst, the world-class experts from the cia and other intelligent agencies agencies as well to talk with him in depth about the crises of the day. in the first 18 months after they did this he had over 200 analyst come in to talk with him , in some cases up to an hour, in depth depth about one particular country or one particular issue. : that brings us to our current president, barack obama. it has been personalized for every president. that was made obvious when he was reading his daily brief on an ipad. the presents daily brief is now electronic on-screen and not on paper. it's now prese

now you have the former presidents of george h.w. bush and george bush sitting this campaign out. the nominee from 2012 against trump in mitt romney. you have conservatives like eric erickson and many others saying -- i still believe this is on donald trump. i would take you look at the facts and you have a party that is segmented right now. this is a chance to change the narrative. who is going to be your vp pick? there was a strong constitutional conservative that people trust. i think you would start changing the narrative going into cleveland. i think that is what donald trump needs to do. whether he is disqualified because he is hispanic or any , more and more fuel every day. any republican who is running for president or even thinking about running for president -- you talk about wanting a strong conservative party to come together. i'm not going to ask you for one name as your pick. who would do that for you as far as donald trump choosing them between now even in the beginning or potentially during the republican convention? you are doing is looking at characteristics. i'm

reminds me when a lot of scumbags said that george w. bush had something to do with 9/11. but to have those on the internet, to have the standard bearer, ball r-- paul ryan's candidate, mitch mcconnell's candidate saying that barack obama may have been complicit in the killings of americans is beyond breathtaking.

he was right or wrong he thought that george bush's foreign policy, first george bush was against everything that america really stood for. he was worried about the first gulf war. he saw this as our first into american empire. he was -- he spent the first three years, i don't think-really successful and run out of the conservative movement, but he was very much against this. he thought bush betray it had entire reagan legacy. he did not believe in any form of overseas expansion, the idea that we have troops stationed in 150 countries, out of 100, roughly 96. something very different than 1991, he would have been very upset about that. he would not in any way recognize the people that we call, neocons, he would not have predicted that, he was very worried about the possibility but he also and i think this is maybe more important and i don't want to necessarily name names, but the idea that you have radio shows, dedicated to conservatism as art, not -- i'm sorry, let me rephrase that not as art but entertainment. the fact that you would be selling conservatism as a radio show or tv show, he i

president george h.w. bushplayed a very important role in fanning the americans with disabilities act in 1990. this is a landmark statute, probably the most significant of a right of since the civil rights of the mid-1960s, giving people with autism and other disabilities access to a wide variety of opportunities throughout the society. bill clinton signed legislation, updating various disability laws and president george w. bush signed the combating autism act of 2006. >> host: this in any way an issue supporting research on autism. i don't want to used combating autism. >> guest: is a very unusual issue these days because there is various and bipartisan dimension to this. we've had democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives joining together on this issue. this doesn't mean it's free from contention. the length of contention tend to cross party lines rather than follow party lines. one example of course is the issue of vaccine. starting in the 1990s, there developed a theory that vaccines cause auti

democrats blamed george bush, but it started in the clinton administration, but george bush continued the policy. guest: that is a great history. i was not in congress when clinton was here, i was when bush was here. this caller is right on the mark, and the bush administration would come and say we see some concerns over here, we see concerns with fannie mae and ready back and i remember saying, you should probably make some changes to the way you are dealing with those, but their response was no, that is not the executive's job, we want congress to do that. when we try to do that, when we had the house, the caller points out, the mortgage housing industrial complex pushed back and many things that i, ed royce and others try to do over those years -- will was that famous quote by barney frank who was chairman at the time? we were saying that they could potentially fail and when they histhere will be a crisis, response was let's roll the dice and see what happened. we roll the dice, we saw what happened. it collapsed like a house of cards and the results are a tragedy. independent.s,

people often forget something like this of president bush, leave aside even foreign policy, george w.was in favor of alliance, free trade and strongly in favor of nato. he worked with me on africa and he was the largest life-saving program that any developed a policy has ever had in africa. we worked together on debt relief for the poorest african nations. there were lots of things we could work on together. i have no idea what a trump presidency would look like. john: trump has never had elected office before. george w. bush was the governor of texas. is it easier to find common ground with other politicians? tony: it's a big change going on with the center right in the center left. you've got quite a lot in common. probably more in common in a strange way than the center left has with the far left in the center right has with the far right. that's the way the world is today. it's one of the curiosities. you've ended up in a situation where there are those of us who are trying to find solutions that are based on values. -- that are not based on values but are based on impractical sol

otherwise, george bush would never have gone to college as well. on special programs. >> up next, president obama taking aim at donald trump and striking him where it could hurt most. could those aattacks backfire on the hillary campaign? we'll be right back with that t. i'd like to make a dep-- vo: it happens so often, you almost get used to it. we got this. vo: which is why being put first takes some getting used to. ♪ nationwide is on your side nationwide is the exclusive insurance partner of plenti. msame time tomorrow, fellas!? new dr. scholl's stimulating step insoles. they massage key pressure points with each step, for all day comfort that keeps you feeling more energized. dude's got skills. new dr. scholl's stimulating step insoles. remember when taking a bath and going for a swim became the same thing for a few days? then keep the tradition going at bass pro shops' family summer camp. plus, check out huge savings for summer fun during our 4th of july sale. hello welcome to holiday inn. running our own business, we've been traveling a lot.

mark: george w. bushas very aggressive rhetorically as the commander-in-chief as an incumbent, and basically helped himself in the election against john kerry by talking tough. the question to me is, can a non-incumbent with no governmental experience or military experience get away with talking tough, or can hillary clinton top that with a message of stability? i do think trump is appeali to people who don't like the way things are going in the war on terror. while president obama has been aggressive in some ways, there's no doubt his approval on dealing with the topic has abs and flowed. if we go into a situation in the fall where there are more attacks, trump's aggressiveness may, with the kind of voters he needs to build a coalition, may carry the day. john: it is possible, there is no doubt there's a clear contrast between the two of them. trump, on a lot of issues, is playing the fear card. you all should be afraid, things are spiraling down the drain, we must take draconian action. clinton is more

people often forget something like this of president bush, leave aside even foreign policy, george w.avor of alliance, free trade and the transatlantic alliance, and strongly in favor of nato. he worked with me on africa and he was the largest life-saving program that any developed a policy has ever had in africa. we worked together on debt relief for the poorest african nations. there were lots of things we could work on together. i have no idea what a trump presidency would look like. john: trump has never had elected office before. george w. bush was the governor of texas. is it easier to find common ground with other politicians? tony: it's a big change going on with the center right in the center left. you've got quite a lot in common. probably more in common in a strange way than the center left has with the far left in the center right has with the far right. that's the way the world is today. it's one of the curiosities. you've ended up in a situation where there are those of us who are trying to find solutions that are based on values. but are what i would call non- ideologic

in either case, george w. bush thinks it's critical that you have that balance from a republican-led senate. >> 90% unfavorables. i guess it could be worse. peter alexander, thanks. thanks so much, good to see you. >>> bernie sanders is not going anywhere. he spoke to supporters last night from vermont via live video, even after coming up short in the democratic primary. the senator did not suspend his campaign. instead he says he's ready to take down the republicans in november. >> the major political task that together we face in the next five months is to make certain that donald trump is defeated and defeated badly. and i personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time. >> msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt is following the democrats. good morning to you. what exactly is going on? >> well, bernie sanders himself and those very closest to him are really the only ones at this point who do. you've seen an evolution over the past couple of weeks. a lot of the people, the main

michael dukakis was feeding george bush 41 in 1988. al gore was defeating george bush in 2000.u go back, this is not a good time to say the dye has been cast. has sent and yes i think donald trump sticking to his message, because his message resonates. don't get off on other things, stick with the stuff. lou: you got it. governor mike huckabee look forward to seeing you soon and congratulations on winning our poll. we have got a big show next tuesday as well. donald trump will be our special guest. it will be a big day for donald trump. he has an important group of folks here in new york city. we will be talking about that, the economy and his prescriptions for it and of course all the foreign-policy issues that beset the nation. donald trump our special guest tuesday night. you don't want to miss it. join us next tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern as always. a group of folks at a concert in canada taking drastic action after seeing a troubling site. one of the group throwing a large rock and you see it bouncing right of the window. some might view that as a commercial. the reason co

when george bush was president he launches into a budget badly conceived and terribly executed wars.e signed a ton of regulation. increased medicare by giving free drugs to seniors who didn't need them. he federalized education, creative surveillance programs. he was terrible and the republicans even after they lost control of congress they were incapable of reeling in obama in any meaningful way. they couldn't beat obama and now you have people, the major two candidates in the republican party are talking about deporting up to 12 million people in 4 million kids who are actually u.s. citizens. we don't need this party anymore if we are interested in individual libererty and freedo. stossel: but they are better than the democrats and most of the republicans candidates, you are no trump fan, right? >> up silly not to them not trump fan at all but i'm also not a fan of their public and party which is currently trying to regiment us in the bedroom and taking us into war and talking about creating a police state. how was to get rid of 12 million people if you are not going to create some

a republican has not won lifornia since 1988 and george bush won it. and it's just a state that used to be a fairly reliable republic of state. when bill clinton won in 1992 it was only the second time. >> it was the third time the democrat had won in california. california used to be a very -- if not a very republican state at least a reliable republican state. and that's just changed dramatically in the last couple of decades. and this is a very blue state now. polarizing as donald trump is not even a centrist or a figure like arnold schwarzenegger or something. >> the idea that he could do that is just ludicrous. >> i think he's having fun. or shake things up a little bit. he's not going to win california. >> dan walters who is a columnist from "the sacramento bee" joining us from california. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. >> all right. you're welcome. >> our live coverage of the presidential race continues tonight with primaries in six states. new jersey, new mexico and north and south dakota. >> a more different vision for our coun

>> george w. bushg out of retirement to raise money for republican senators worried trump will cost them their seats. >> it's george w. bush to the rescue. can he clean up trump's mess? >> seth: that's right. they're calling in george w. bush to clean up trump's mess. [ laughter ] that's like calling in justin bieber to cover a pitbull song. [ laughter ] and if the george w. bush rescue strategy somehow doesn't work out, republicans have a backup plan. some are quietly floating the idea of trying to lure trump out of the race altogether. as one former trump adviser told politico last week, quote, i bet if someone offered him $150 million to drop out, he would and another former trump adviser asked whether trump would drop out for that amount of money said, quote, yeah, probably. [ laughter ] i'm guessing yeah, probably is the go-to answer for many former trump advisers. would he nuke north korea if kim jong un made fun of his tiny hands? yeah, probably. [ laughter ] although, as a side note, i would li

reagan would have lost the wisconsin primary arguably to then ambassador george bush because so manyn democrats turned out to vote for ronald reagan and interestingly, they were not called reagan democrats until after the 1980 election. they were simple conservative democrats were democrats supporting ronald reagan. and a lot of key states, were for ronald reagan, so he repositioned to the republican party toward the more populist outside party by basically running against the establishment. when he ran in 1976, he held the national press conference and he invades against the district, labor, lobbyists, upon it was anti-bigness. populist activity in illinois at the time. he was born in kentucky, grew up in the 1930's, so he did so in a way that he did so also by talking about freedom and toortunity and talking primary voters and the general election voters in a way that republicans have not talked before. host: our guest is craig shirley , one of facebook books "reagan's revolution," which is what we are focusing on. we are also airing this program on c-span3 american history tv and