bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely qualified to lead the free world whe

george w bush and putin come on together and george w bush certainly sought a reset with russia. he was very chummy with putin. we all remember the fishing trip, and that was later in the process. they're very first joint news conference george w bush was at the podium putin was standing next to him. he said russia is not the enemy of the united states. the cold war is over, right, but putin didn't get what he wanted from bush and some historians have argued. this is a big reason why he became he becomes more and more authoritarian and autocratic. i wouldn't put the us at the center of the story and that way. i think that putin became autocratic for internal. okay reasons, it speaks to his personality his sense of power. the vision that he has for for russia eventually he latches on to a very, you know, sort of conservative in the sense of reactionary autocratic vision ultra rationalist. yes of russia's past and of russia's future, and i don't think that that's a function of anything george w bush did or anything at the us did although the us has always the the foil to to putin's

these countries were targeted by the george h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and bribed with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. a ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. nato have over 600 military base as well to white. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning this russian soviets into this dangerous bogeyman that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy to create this image. it soviets as out for world conquest, which was not the case, then bar now. ah, nato should have died, but they will give it meaning. it is about infected, created by, by nature nature, business machine. cuz you must remember if nato, what is bad shareholders in united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions. they'd only have one year instead of 2 yards each . their idea wouldn't that be

george h. w. bush, through clarence thomas. and george w. bush through samuel alito and john roberts. and donald trump, through neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett. they have all now said, to children who get pregnant, they can be forced to bear their rapists ' child, george h. w. bush did. that george w. bush did that. donald trump did that. leading off our discussion now is michele bratcher goodwin, chancellors professional of law at the university of california irvine. and the author of policing the womb, and visible women in the criminalization of motherhood. also with us is cecile richards, former president of parent planned parenthood. professor goodwin, let me begin with you. you've been with us throughout the 53 days that we knew this was going to happen. but when it happens, it always is something else. it is a different moment in our history. >> the gravity of the moment is with us today, now that the supreme court decision is no longer theoretical but it is in existence. and with it, there are more than two dozen st

he gave them all a free pass george w bush. they're all going to be rehabilitated. they're all going to be treated as great statesman. one day, i mean, they gave president obama a nobel prize for not being george w bush. the question, of course, the world tap, dancing around with or avoiding as does it work as torture work doesn't work. people that have information that are part of an underground apparatus, a terrorist organization, a revolutionary organization, accomplished organization, whatever organized form of collective alan chip, i, b, they won't frank, no. and the people that you pick up that are innocence. yes. you tell them to pieces, you'll destroy them, you, you'll ruin them. i think that a few of the people that passed passed through my hands as an interrogator did have intelligence. but mo, the vast majority of the people that i dealt with work just being picked up because they were males of military age and they were just get swept up. and, and these raids, i don't think torture is always being used as a method to gain information or, or confessions. i

you, this audience of students, these were undergraduates and they had no particular opinion of george bush, one way or the other. but they were almost literally rolling in the aisles. and finally, barbara bush had to pull out the hook and say, get him out of here. he's not a comedian. so, that's what i remember about saturday night live and presidents. other questions? reactions? yes, okay. so, circling back to your initial talk about the president, i'm assuming it's a lack of humor that's the similar characteristics, so can you expound on that a little bit? >> yeah, so one of the striking things to me about president trump is his, what shall i say, his lack of an observable sense of humor and not even any attempt to fake it. i would've said before president trump was elected of course, i would've said a lot of things, i have very different expectations about changes in the presidency and i sort of thought they were unrollbackable, that these changes were permanent -- and i had to change a lot of that. but every president really from about, john kennedy or you could say even earlier than t

how did we get from george washington to george w. bush? how did we get from george washington through barack obama? how did we get from george washington to donald trump? now, one of the striking things is that if you go from george washington two most presidents before the current president, you see a kind of linear progression. now, some people would think that it's a decline, that the curve looks down. in fact, this question of, this comparison between the first president and the current president goes all the way back to the second president. presidents always look better in the rearview mirror than they do when they're right front and center. part of this is that we tend to -- i don't know -- we sort of tend to forget the failures and remember the successes. that's part of it. the other thing is that presidents are usually pretty talented people. and so, they usually have a lot of positive things that can be said about them. but while they are president, typically the other party or sometimes factions within their own party, have an in

george h. w. bush, through clarence thomas. and george w. bush through samuel alito and john roberts. and donald trump, through neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett. they have all now said, to children who get pregnant, they can be forced to bear their rapists ' child, george h. w. bush did. that george w. bush did that. donald trump did that. leading off our discussion now is michele bratcher goodwin, chancellors professional of law at the evasive california irvine. and the author of policing the womb, and visible women in the criminalization of motherhood. also with us is cecile richards, former president of parent planned parenthood. professor, let me begin with you. you've been with us throughout the 53 days that we knew this was going to happen. but when it happens, it always is something else. it is a different moment in our history. >> the gravity of the moment is with us today, now that the supreme court decision is no longer theoretical but it is in existence. and with it, there are more than two dozen states that will

echoed by george bush. rumsfeld, i am sorry. echoed by george bush. george w. bush. now, the afghan people have to starve to death because we hold their funds. and there are other things happening in the world. thankfully, there seems to have been an agreement for a two month reduction of fighting in yemen. the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, according to the united nations food -- united nations. the saudi government, which is the main force responsible for the disaster, along with the united arab emirates, saudi arabia had been blockading, intensifying its blockade of the only port in which food and oil can be imported into the starving country. the official death toll last year was 370,000 people. the actual death role is unknown. again, the united nations warns that hundreds of thousands of children are facing imminent starvation. the saudi and emma rossi -- emirate air forces cannot function without u.s. equipment and u.s. intelligence. u.s. trading. we are assisted by britain, a few others, that the u.s. is in the lead. these things can be changed. th

al gore or george w bush? the summer 1997 is closer to the 1996 election and the 2000 election. why are you asking people this and how do you know who the candidates are going to be and the answers at the time were 48% and 47% and of course everybody goes on tv and says, oh my god, it's tighter than a tick gore and bush are both under 50% it's at one point race because you didn't have your calculator that day. you don't know 48 minus 47 is 1% and well, i looked at totally different i said, come on. telling me in 1997 or 1998 that only 5% of the country is undecided 48 plus 47 equals 95. i thought 5% of the goren bush families were still in decided let alone the rest of us, so i learned to respect when people say, i don't know. i'm not sure. i need to know more information. that's a rich insight most of the mail posters were never willing to take i don't know for an answer they say well, which way do you lean? i don't well which way if you had a guess if you had to say right now and eventually you just surrende

last i checked, this is george bush's home state. what's happened to george bush republicans in texas? >> well, we can do a whole symposium on that, but the short answer is this. this was always a minority within the republican party, is not just a new thing, we shouldn't pretend like it was. i saw signs of this at republican county conventions that i was working at back 22 years now. we always knew that this minority existed in the party, when trump took over the party, something happened. with a membership in the makeup of the party. about 10%, people like me, other suburban republicans left the party, became independence for democrats. they are part of the joe biden coalition now. another 10% came into the, party these of the working class white voters who used to be perot voters and a cannon voters, and so now the old school kind of christian conservative based party, on top of the new trump voters they make a majority of the party right now. so that's what happened to george bush's party in texas, they lost control of it, and no

. >>> former chief of staff to late president george h.w. bushs urging lawmakers to take action and she says her former boss left a blueprint for them to get there. she writes in part, quote frrks former president george h.w. bush i learned too much to discuss in this op-ed but among his many life lessons be bold, be truthful, be courageous and don't be afraid to say you were wrong. more than anything he taught us by example, now it is our elected officials' turn. joining us now is jean becker the author of "the man i knew: the amazing story of george h.w. bush's post-presidency." it's great to have you here. the headline to this op-ed caught my attention. it says george h.w. bush quit the nra and gave a mr. you flint for action. that was in 1995 when he was upset about a fundraising letter by the nra but what you're writing about is something much bigger, the need for politicians to make tough choices and sometimes politically risky choices. explain. >> good morning, john and brianna. thank you so much for having me. grateful to you and the hous

george h.w. bush in '91 and '92 or jimmy carter in '79 and '80, you have biden in a position where there is very little he could do to turn inflation around. >> yeah, the unspoken truth, but they wouldn't want to say on the record if there is going to be a recession, it is better to happen sooner rather than later. in order to get past this so by the time they get to re-election in 2024, the economy is zbog strong again and inflation is under control. a lot of democrats on the ballot this fall wouldn't be happy to hear that. don't want to that they would basically be sacrificed to an economic cycle that is out of control. but that is the reality. the midterms may be beyond the ability of the democrats to change the economic atmosphere for and therefore they're looking at least in the white house, they're looking at a four-year you know situation rather than just the two-year situation. >> all right. peter, still ahead on "morning joe," a move there florida that could delay the covid vaccine for childr

e of the defense of great britain the last one there was a prank with george bush, that very video andiginal and, of course, the americans began to come. eh, the english-speaking audience, and quite possibly, just with this one became the reason, and the next blocking, and the blocking was also without explanation of any reasons, just bach and nothing, the channels were deleted. this is such great news. the death did not happen. we have, uh, our other platforms rutube telegram vkontakte even twitter but we will work there. moscow is ready to contribute to the full restoration of relations between baku and yerevan, sergei lavrov said at a meeting with armenian prime minister nikol, pashinyan, the head of the russian world also noted the progress in the work of the tripartite group at the level of deputy prime ministers. in general, that our neighbors completely and everything that can be done to russia cities of military glory today handed over the swords of victory, they symbolize the contribution to the victory of the front-line and business regions, the solemn ceremony took place in

george w. bushto a state dinner at the white house, where she paid tribute to the bonds between the two countries. >> this atlantic unites, not divis us. ours is a partnership always to be reckoned with in the defense of freedom. reporter:resident number 12 was barack obama, being shown around the x or gallery at buckingham palace. donald trump was invited to tea at windsor castle. as was hisuccessor joe biden. the latest president to have the honor of meeting this longest lasting of queens. tim allman, bbc news. katty: the queen is truly a historic figure. these beacons are being lit in her honor tonight from australia to zambia. they are an ancient form of communication. what do they symbolize? katty: i was speaking to a historian today who told me more about beacons that i certainly ever knew. they are basically an early form of email. they are a way of communicating quickly across the country. marauders are coming, quickly like a beacon. it was used as a form of defense of the realm, if you like

and that is something that a top aide to president george w. bushme when first selectedr speaker and george w. bush made very gracious comments sending that but mentioning her father and according and he felt that policy never reciprocated that he was trying to act in a cooler manner than where the politics are headed today. that was not something she was willing to do. >> it is interesting and i wondered if she things where does that come from? if i relinquish of any part of this. >> she would say that boehner did not deliver. what is the point of bipartisanship? she thinks the most damaging legislation she pushed through is not the affordable care act, that the bank bailout in american what they were leaving is not the most important thing to do but they said if you don't we'll head into a depression. so they made a deal they would each deliver 50 percent of the caucus for this unpopular legislation she delivered 50 percent and he did not. and item went down. i don't know if you remember that but the stock market plunged in a way that was very ser

as was his vice president, george bush snr, when he took over at the oval office. ffice. george w bush invited her to a state dinner at the white house, where she paid tribute to the bonds between the two countries. if the atlantic unites, not divides us, ours i is a partnership always to be reckoned with in| the defence of freedom. president number 12 was barack obama, being shown around the picture gallery at buckingham palace. donald trump was invited to tea at windsor castle, as was his successor, joe biden, the latest president to have the honour of meeting this longest lasting of queens. tim allman, bbc news. that's the latest from bbc news. you can keep up—to—date on the website form our, from me on the team, thank you for watching. hello again. we had some warm spells of sunshine around on wednesday but also some scattered showers, particularly across northern and eastern areas. one or two heavy ones mixed in. but in the west, a largely fine day — some lovely sunshine there in anglesey. satellite picture, at the moment, shows largely clear skies, but we do h

as was his vice president, george bush snr, when he took over at the oval office. e w bush invited her to a state dinner at the white house, where she paid tribute to the bonds between the two countries. if the atlantic unites, not divides us, ours i is a partnership always to be reckoned with in| the defence of freedom. president number 12 was barack obama, being shown around the picture gallery at buckingham palace. donald trump was invited to tea at windsor castle, as was his successor, joe biden, the latest president to have the honour of meeting this longest lasting of queens. tim allman, bbc news. before we go: for you avid gardeners out there, the largest known plant on earth has been discovered in australia. it's a seagrass, covering about 77 square miles, underwater, off australia's west coast. the meadow is believed to have grown from a single seed, over at least 11,500 years. researchers from the university of western australia were studying the genetic diversity of the species, and were astonished when dna results confirmed the meadow was a single plant.

and that's also something that top aides to president george w. bush told me. remember when pelosi -- pelosi was first elected in the first woman in the history of our country and george w. bush would to deliver the state of the union address and he was very gracious in the beginning mentioning the history of the mom and then the mentioning her father and according to his top aidessh bushveld that pelosi ner reciprocated. he was making anet offer k let's try to act in the cooler manner than where the politics are heading today and that was something she was willing to do. >> it's interesting i wondered if she thinks if i relinquish any notion of teen partisan i relinquish the power.ou >> she would say boehner didn't deliver. like what's the point of bipartisanship if you can't deliver to the people? she thinks the most damaging legislation she pushed through was not thee affordable care ac. it was the bank bailout in 2008 when we had the financial meltdown and nobody likedd bailinged out tanks. bailing out banks is not the most popular thing to do but the econom

he returned to government in president george h.w. bush's administration serving as assistance attorney general in office of legal counts, next as deputy attorney general, then 77th attorney general of the u.s. u.s. from 1991 to 1993. he returned to private sector from 1994 to 2017 he enjoyed great success and earned enormous respect as one of the nation's legal minds. i am sure he didn't have to deal with as many damn things in the private sector, then in 2018. he answered our country's call again. when president trump nominated him and the senate confirmed him as 85 attorney general of the united states his book, one damn thing after another debuted last month at number one on "new york times" bestseller list, to date remained on list for last 5 weeks, tonight we'll keep if on the list for a 6 week, it will make great summer reading, get a book for all your friends. and if you need any more reason to go out and get this book, one reviewer wrote, this is an incredible story of the life of a great public servant. so many lessons about how go

if you look at going into 2002 with george bush the economy was beginning to tank and what george bushked about but national security. to a certain extent, i saw the previous story on gas prices. chris, gas prices won't be fixed by the time of the election so the democrats have to make it about something larger. barack obama in 2008 the economy absolutely cratering and we made the election about hope and change. the senate democrats think they have some framework on gun reform. it is now becoming a dominant issue. two and three independents want stricter gun reform laws and you take that along with abortion. i think where women overwhelmingly don't want roe v. wade overturned and growing in nbc polling as a voting issue there's a conversation opportunity and not just the price of gas. >> we'll dive deeper into the importance of women in the midterm elections. thank you. >> thank you. >>> a racially charged controversy in mississippi has the first black superintendent on leave. some employees claims of hostile work environment and how she said she wanted to make sure that kids of every

from bush, rumsfeld, sorry, but effectively george bush. afghan people have to starve to death and there are other things happening in the world. there seems to be an agreement for the reduction of fighting in yemen. the first humanitarian disaster in the world according to the united nations. the main force responsible for the disaster along with of the united arab emirates, saudi arabia had been blockading in fact intensifying its blockade of the only port oil can be imported. the official death toll last year was 370,000 people but the actual death toll is unknown and the united nations warns that hundreds of thousands of children are facing eminent starvation. victor forces cannot function without u.s. equipment, u.s. intelligence, u.s. training reports assisted by the lesser level a few others but the u.s. is in the lead. these are things we can change things that should be uppermost in our minds. what can we do about suffering, misery, major problems in the world whether it's existential problems that threaten the existence of the spe

for the censorship sanctions was the posting of a recent interview with the former us president george. bushbeing sure that he was talking with president zelensky, gave out a lot of secret information. in particular , he acknowledged the existence of the ukrainian american military biological laboratories before the pranksters provoked two british ministers of defense and the interior to give out state secrets. global censorship. the media is becoming more and more coordinated day by day and even possibly coordinated in france , the broadcasting of three russian channels has been stopped. moreover, the distribution of content was terminated in violation of the agreement. parliament in latvia. i also made a decision the day before yesterday to ban the broadcasting of channels, and already today all 30 channels that were distributed through all these local providers in riga were disconnected and are discussing the possibility. even the publication of a russian tv program is banned by law under the threat of fines of 14,000 euros, such an information strategy in moscow was called genocide. medi

when george bush was in office, too. like kanye west saying george bush doesn't like black people.dixie chicks trashing our former commander-in-chief. >> we're ashamed of the president of the united states [inaudible] [cheers] >> jesse: these people have real influence over the country's young minds. especially newer generations. so, when they speak out, it has the power to influence a lot of people. but, instead of using that power for good, they have spent it going off on republicans. when it comes to real kitchen table issues like inflation, for example, they're completely quiet. a listers are only outspoken when republicans are in office. when things get really bad for the every day american, they are nowhere to be found. the biden administration broke another awful-time record high today as the u.s. average for a gallon of gas hit 4.67. it just keeps come. where is the deniro tweet calling for lower gas prices. essentials like beef, pork, bread all up across the country. the stock market in a bear market right now. but we don't see any pop stars or move stars slamming biden wh

forty-nine states the second time fisa president george h.w. bush 140 states.democrat had to go to the middle that a democratic leadership conference in clinton. that of a and tough crime bills. the debate on the policies for over 20 years dominated by the republicans. liberal was a dirty word in those days. that's the kind of victory we need. [applause] i'm not hostile to trump i think it's 78 as a lame-duck president would want to settle scores and stuff is not the guy to deliver that kind of victory. but the harder brass tacks. does that mean everything is solved by that? no it's going to take it administration nixon was this way, oregano was this way. with educational crisis in our country. some the other factors at work there lead to the atmosphere that we the first step until that happens i don't see anything preventing this or reducing the trench warfare that we have today. final question it is a quick when we have a book signing right after this. you and john are the only two to be attorney general for two different terms would you go for 243rd. >> firs

from herbert walker bush george herbert walker bush the reagan before the stuff you've written. yeah to john lewis. yeah. to write about john lewis to publish that and after he goes on to glory what do you what do you see because i see a difference. i see a shift. yeah accent john major. are we doing is we're gonna do a 50 minute hour to have to pay you. yeah for therapy. yeah. no talk to me about that journey from from there to here. all right. can i slightly reorder the question? no, okay. so there is something here's the commonality. let's start there. okay, the commonality is these are the only two living people i've ever written about. and i didn't fall in love with either one of them. but i came to love them. which is different. they come from radical arguably the it's hard to imagine two people coming beginning their lives in a different more different place, right so poppy bush is born on june 12th, 1924 and milton, massachusetts grows up in greenwich greenwich country day school andover joins the united states navy on his 18th birthday, july. 12 1942 shot down on saturd

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