she's very accomplished lawyer, there is some controversy from her time in the george bush administration from her connections to the prison at guantanamo and interallegations at guantanamo. another candidate is judge michael garcia. he's an appeals judge in new york state and a former federal prosecutors and ins commissioner from the george w. bush era. that's three. and then the fourth candidate who was reportedly being considered to run the fbi is senator john corneyn of texas.

people always point back to ronald reagan and the first george bush, where jame5 george bush, where james, who went on to be the us secretary of state, who interviewed on many occa5ion5, he was a very effective individual. he brought order to the white house. what republicans 5eem to be seen more and more on capitol hill is that water must be brought to the white house. i was in washington a few weeks ago, and that i5 washington a few weeks ago, and that is all you hear, this phrase that there is a need for order. donald trump could deliver something with hi5 trump could deliver something with his presidency but it needs to be ordered. i suspect that the kremlin doesn't really want chaos either. if they favoured donald trump over hillary clinton, then they want a successful trump presidency. hillary clinton, then they want a 5ucce55ful trump presidency.” hillary clinton, then they want a successful trump presidency. i think what they also want is predictability. in a tense and difficult relationship, and the relationship between russia and many western countries is not easy, predictabilit

president of the united states, if he wants to say that, barack obama wants to say whatever, if george bush says i have looked in his eyes. say it. >> i don't know what he would do that you would not defend.

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at the most recent library, the george w. bush library, they are not oral -- but they are typed for the most part, i think, into a computer, but if you visit there, you can include your story in the story of the bush years, which i think is exciting to see how they archive that material. another thing not paid great attention to is a section of the libraries i did not mention in my quick rundown, which i call the culture legality. so in most if not all the presidential libraries, there is a big space where the visitor sees film posters, listen to music, and look at video clips of movies, all in the interest of soaking up the time period. i find these culture galleries in general not so effective, and the reason is that they are kind of a sensory bombardment, you know, you have very small samples of influential artwork of one kind or another, and it's just a little overwhelming to the senses. what would be interesting, i think, is to step back from that approach to the culture of the time period and really think about being more se

and what did george bush do? he invited ted kennedy and his family to the white house after the inauguration and he said, the new movie "13 days" has come out about the cuban myself crisis and your brother and john f. kennedy and his presidency would you like to watch it in the white house theater? >> so all of these things in that particular week were about this trust developing, this mating dance, this relationship, this common cause of can we get something big done? they both had their own equities obviously politically and otherwise. but they both believed that we ought to do a better job of educating poor kids. >> you can just imagine the brother of president kennedy sitting there with the new president, president bush, watching a film in the white house movie theater. and then they started talking in that night about how they wanted to work together on some big issues. it's going to be health care. was it going to be education reform? but he started reefing out right across party lines from the early days o

cheney and rumsfeld and some of the others in the white house. >> and the president, president george w. bush, i know this not of my own personal observation but having talked to a lot of people and having read a lot about it, president george w. bush had a very close professional relationship with condoleezza rice, his national security adviser. that another side bar conversation that was going on in the white house that wasn't flowing through the chief of staff, i think. again, an opinion, an observation. >> this is why -- one of the chief lessons to me from having spent so much time i with these guys, all 17 living chiefs, ion come vinceed that from watergate to iran-contra to the iraq war to the rollout of obamacare to the botched executive order on immigration, the white house chief can make the difference between success and disaster. i really do. >> there's an example -- i forget which president it was but there was an aide who had -- it was a friend of the president, his office was right off the oval office, and you described the chief saying, i know you and the president are good fri

george h.w. president bush, i know this of my -- having read a lot about it, do president george w. bush had a very close professional relationship with condoleezza rice, and that was another sort of side bar conversation that was going on in the white house that wasn't flowing through the chief of staff, i think. again, an opinion, an observation. >> this is why -- one of the chief lessons to me from having spent so much time wife these -- time with these guys, all living chiefs i'm really convinced that from watergate to iran-contra to the iraq war to the roleout of obamacare, to the botched executive order on immigration, the white house chief can make the difference between success and disaster. i really do. >> there's an example -- i forget which president but an aide who had -- was a friend of the president, his office was right off the oval office and you described the chief saying, i know you and the president are good friends, but you don't go in there until i say you can go in there. >> happened with bob hartman, the speech writer for gerry ford. cheney took him out of the

one feud we should talk about would be nancy reagan and barbara bush. 1980, and george h.w. bush and ron reagan run against each other. of course, this often happens -- reconciliation, vice president george h.w. bush, president ronald reagan. but nancy reagan is constantly putting barbara in her place, constantly disrespectful, constantly disrespectful to both bushes, but particularly barbara. there is a story where barbara shows up at the white house in a similar colored dress to nancy reagan, and nancy makes it clear the event is not going to start until she changes. and they are fellow republicans. carol: there is a similar feud between julia dent grant and mary todd lincoln. mary todd lincoln, they are going to get in a boat to go into richmond and lord it over the defeated south. julia gets in the boat and sits down in a seat. mary todd lincoln gets in, and she says, you are sitting in my seat. get up. julia got up. she never forgot this. and then when they had a carriage tour around washington to see the lights, to celebrate the victory, mary invites her husband, ulysse

the street fight of his life to be george bush to get that the nomination. >> this leads to voodoo economics >> reagan pushing -- radio commentaries about it, and the 80 campaign is really the devil and bush because he can't match it. came up with his own tax plan but it is more focused on business unless the individual where reagan was focused on the individual and less on business so bush unwisely starts attacking a popular plan of reagan's that reagan is scoring politically with and calls it voodoo economics. reagan was so furious over is that he almost didn't pick bush, a big sticking point with reagan why he didn't pick bush as his running mate. >> we want to ask the questions from the audience, have the questions prepared but i want to come back to this because we started by talking about trump/reagan. reagan gets a tax reform plan and he is able to do business with democrats with to bowe neil. he has success in terms of moving things forward, not only from democrats but from fellow republicans. >> and the washington establishment. so here comes trump. >> if you were going to mention t

eastern, former president george w. bush on his book, "portraits of courage: a commander in chief's tribute to america's warriors." >> i was sitting next to chris turner at a dinner, and i said why are you here? he said, because i can't get out of my mind seeing a buddy of mine killed. and i paint from pictures or photos, and as i'm painting turner, i'm thinking about what that must be like in his mind. >> for more on this weekend's schedule, go to booktv.org. >> so here's the story i want to tell you about. this is going to be a story that goes from 1935 to the present. that's going to be the timeline, 1935-1960. and be the first thing i want you to lock into your brain about this because i'm not doing a fancy power point is that -- i will act out the power point. [laughter] it'll be, like, interpretive dance. [laughter] i can do this. i can so do this, right? watch me do a -- [laughter] anyway, hearst the first be fact -- here's the first fact i want you to lock into your mind, basically with few exceptions, gdp, how rich

if you've been in this town long enough you've watched george h.w. bushfollowed by bill clinton, followed by george w. bush, followed by barack obama go down this road, be optimistic at the beginning and then get frustrated and fail at trying to broker peace between the israelis and palestinians. but god bless him for being hopeful and for at least if he gives it a try because other presidents backed off quickly. the test for this president will be when he gets engaged does he stay engaged. as we watched in saudi arabia today we know what's next in israel. everyone wants to know what is the doctrine or what is the philosophy? is this a transactional president who will be different from stop to stop based on the circumstances? >> it seems that way. he talked about it himself flexibili flexibility, that is the trump doctrine as much as anything else even when he talked about the israeli/palestinian conflict he's essentially said he wants a deal, one state, two state, as long as can he get a deal, he doesn't seem to necessarily favor either side at this poin

that's one of the reasons george w. bush chose him and so he was free to tell people exactly what he thought. >> before we go to questions may i just make one point? i will make his sister -- sincerely with everybody here. this book that chris whipple has written is one of the best books of its kind that i have ever read. he has done exhaustive research. he has talked to all these people, all the former chiefs, two presidents, countless other senior officials and all the administrations and has been brought all of those stories together in the most eloquent and interesting and engaging way go and buy that book. [laughter] >> absolutely. let's take some questions. if you have a question just wait for the microphone to get to you. >> talk about andy card for a little bit if you would because he really stayed on as george w. bush's chief of staff for very long time but pretty much to everyone's detriment. >> i don't know about that but he did set the record for longevity. a&e is a really able guy and he had been around the whit

johnson knew around george h.w. bush. but particularly when it is around the wife, when she is elected -- unelected and on fire of all. -- and unfirable. although i would argue bill clinton fired hillary from being health czar. budget is perceived as being unfirable. lesley: best anecdote? gil: jackie kennedy hated the term first lady, she thought it made it -- made her sound like a saddle horse. she wanted to smoke but they didn't want her to be photographed smoking. she could not curse. it gets difficult when jackie kennedy, who loved to ride horses, gets a whole bunch of stallions -- a fleet? [laughter] gil: i'm not a horseman. it is a whole bunch of forces. jack goes -- not to jackie, because he is afraid of her -- to one of his aides, he goes, the israeli prime minister is going to come and give me some $10 bible and i have to go, how wonderful. meantime, jackie is going to be off with these white stallions in saudi arabia. tell her to return them. he sends the aid to jackie. jackie listens and says, tell him i am no

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 sh

it was difficult for the president before him and for george w. bush before that.ad, though, to see that he is taking a softer tone with respect to his inflammatory anti-muslim etoric and i think that's a step forward. >> we om have so far about five excerpts coming in advance of the speech. looking at live images of president trump lining up with the leaders that would categorically be classified here maybe as the class picture in advance of the speech that's going to take place. josh, let me ask you, in reference to steve in talking about what president trump is willing to settle for, you know, the expense of what president obama may have been trying to achieve in human rights efforts, one of the excerpts is we're not here to lecture, we're not here to tell other people how to live, what to do, how to be or how to worship. we are here to offer partnership based on shared sbrets interests and values to pursue a better future for all. when it comes to a trump administration and shared interests, what are they and what is that leverage? >> yeah. i mean, i think it's

what happens to what george bush did?wkd and george bush said i'm going to play golf. >> and never came back. and he's doing this in a forum with german chancellor angela merkeled the day after president trump spoke to the nato leadership in brussels. george w. bush never would have done something like that. cheryl: he can't get off the stage. >> they have become so hyper partisan in this opposition to this presidency it's a strategy they are running as they call it, be the resistance. cheryl: are they angry or are they trying to build the democratic party to defeat trump or get congress back. >> i think it' mostly the latter trying to build the democratic party with emotional anger towards this presidency. that's what the strategy different is a strategy. but whether you can succeed with the strategy, if you pull back and refuse to participate in american government is an open question. cheryl: attack of the liberal graduation speeches continuing. billionaire facebook ceo is calling for income for everyone across the pla

he'd been deputy attorney general in the george w. bush justice department and that was at a time when the george w. bush justice department was implicated in having given legal cover to the bush administration's policy of torturing terrorism suspects. on paper, that makes somebody with a resume like james comey not a likely candidate to be given a big promotion to a high-profile job in any democratic administration, let alone the obama administration. on paper, it didn't much make sense that the obama administration would hire somebody from the george w. bush justice department to come run the fbi. on paper, it didn't make sense. in real life, james comey was able to tell a dramatic story of him standing up to the george w. bush administration when that administration had tried to pressure the justice department on the justice department on a controversial surveillance measure. gave that dramatic testimony in congress and nobody who heard it ever forgot it. so he had that going for him. and he had one other ace up his sleeve. it was a mem

and comes back in the administration of george bush. george bush 43. because why are we having all these crusaded around the world? we thought rome would get better without the existential threat. and you remove the existential threat, if george bush believed that saddam had the weapons, must better to be embarrassed note finding the weapons than the other way, ignoring it and have ang incident. however we found there weren't the weaponons, what are we doing there? who gave is thank you right to rebuild the -- gave us the right to rebuild iraq? the french didn't stay around. we might be speaking much better that hey, butter wine cellars. why are we rebuilding saginaw how many american soldiers have to die for a baghdad primary. so without the soviet union torch reason you defend vietnam is because it what a client. >> what is fusionism? >> fusionism means we have our differences within this house, within this tent but we have common enemy that is threatening to bring down the whole tent and we have to form alliances. he keeps adding. he understood the

pictures of a great george bush and a range of other people. gus, i will get to you in a moment.laughter] the writing, did it have, from the beginning, a style? or did it come with people like that? people write their own style. insisted upon accurate reporting, good writing. the articles can be about something. you can operate within that range. to a number of wonderful writers. charlie: roll tape. this is talking about new journalism. >> it is technical. it is a scene by scene construction, from one scene to another. extensive dialogue. it is the most readable thing in prose. notation, whate people wear, what their furniture is like. how do they treat superiors or inferiors? keenie: so you have a that?nd observant eye on >> a think so. the use of what henry james called point of view. and that is the inside of someone's head. that scene you are presenting, that you can possibly do it. that, you have to have interviewed your subject extensively. you have to believe that that subject is telling you the truth. >> this gets incorporated into the mindset of the magazine. curious way

thank you all very much and now i'm proud to sign this monster. >> essentially george bush is covering. that kills him politically but saves america economically. >> listen carefully to this number. $500 billion. that's the latest estimate of the failure of hundreds of federally insured savings and loans will eventually cost taxpaye taxpayers. >> did you make bail? >> the once rapid growth of the failed savings of california habeh habeen fuelled by uninsured and now worthless bonds. many losing their life savings. charles ceting was convicted in two trials but both of those verdicts were overturned and then he pled guilty to avoid a retrial and was allowed out. >> the headline was guilty. the individual case of fraud ever to rock wall street. the case which ended in a plea bargain with the government. >> the crimes merited his removal from society. she sentenced the one time king of wall street to 10 years in prison. >> he did go to jail for just under two years. though i'm confident he was at minimum a billionaire and quite possibly multibillionaire. >> the game of monopoly could have

it was only when george bush under pretext of insurmountable north korean in this case unilaterally scrapped that deal and we see where we are now. i would like to go back further in history to the peloponnesian war. host: that's going way back. look, a good administration is better than a show of force. host: we will go to john in fairfax, virginia. your reaction to this latest missile test? i, steve. was one of thet best i've seen in the long time. their opinions won't change anything. once you have a program on the famine or net neutrality. on thejava program election. we've covered all of those issues on this program and we have one called the communicators that is on net neutrality. caller: you haven't had a show where people could call in. you need to have a show where people can call in when there is open comment. you just did and we appreciate that. did you want to follow up? caller: the thing that is most important is the refusal to let people vote unless they have very strict ids. chris kovac is the king of this. he is going to make sure that enough people are stricken from the rol

. >> the internet went wild over will ferrell bringing back famous george w. bush over the weekend as you can see the crowd absolutely loved him. >> so they held that event to raise money for committee to protect journalists what struck me i watched. it samantha b. no fan of president trump and i think it was tough for a lot of the people in attendance to you know not support that viewpoint. but things like that kind of apolitical for the most part. >> it was. >> when you talk about george w. bush. >> it was funny will ferrell did a good job. >> entire time kept utting to white house podium saying special guest, special guest, special guest fen it was him. >> inside the white house and few people have been there before. >> in the kipen. back after this r this he's hiding a card! it's time for you and your boys to get out of town. (laughing) left foot. right foot. left foot. stop. twitch your eyes so they think you're crazy. if you walk the walk you talk the talk. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car