do believe deep in my heart that the right place for us be now in this campaign is right beside george bush. this party. this party is my. this party is our home. and we've got to come home to it. and don't let anyone tell you a different. yes, we disagreed with bush, but we with him for the freedom choose religious schools. and we stand with him against the immoral idea. gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing and law as married men and women. we with president bush, we stand with president bush right to life. and for voluntary prayer in the public schools. and we stand against putting our wives and daughters and sisters into combat units of the united states army. and we stand by, my friends. we also stand with president bush in of the right of small towns and communities to control the raw sewage of pornography that so terribly pollutes our popular culture. we stand with president bush in favor of federal judges who interpret the law as written and against would be supreme court justices like mario cuomo, who think they have a mandate to rewrite the constitution. on friends

do believe deep in my heart that the right place for us be now in this campaign is right beside george bush. this party. this party is my. this party is our home. and we've got to come home to it. and don't let anyone tell you a different. yes, we disagreed with bush, but we with him for the freedom choose religious schools. and we stand with him against the immoral idea. gay and lesbian couples should have the same standing and law as married men and women. we with president bush, we stand with president bush right to life. and for voluntary prayer in the public schools. and we stand against putting our wives and daughters and sisters into combat units of the united states army. and we stand by, my friends. we also stand with president bush in of the right of small towns and communities to control the raw sewage of pornography that so terribly pollutes our popular culture. we stand with president bush in favor of federal judges who interpret the law as written and against would be supreme court justices like mario cuomo, who think they have a mandate to rewrite the constitution. on friends

george bush said he looked vladimir putin in the eye and saw a christian.t didn't happen before putin stood in the way of the us military machine to change the regime. putin saved assad. what i don't understand is that for two years we were told that the front line of the fight for democracy was in eastern ukraine, and it means much more more than all our stupid and ridiculous lives in the united states, that's why people put on these yellow and blue badges and put up all these flags in front of their houses in napa and all that, and then suddenly we stopped hearing about ukraine at all, what was all that? well, you know, it was all a lie, and it was a disaster, like all these wars, everything went completely wrong, i even remember that there was a period when joe biden , at the very beginning of the war, we will defeat russia with sanctions alone, we will destroy the ruble, we will make everyone in russia as beggars, we won't even have to give weapons, but of course we started giving them, all these lies, ukraine is winning, prizriva, it's all so obvious.

that made _ with, al gore, george bush. that made a _ with, al gore, george bush.re ruil of made a difference. some of us are guilty of overpiaying _ made a difference. some of us are guilty of overplaying the _ made a difference. some of us are guilty of overplaying the vice - guilty of overplaying the vice presidential pick. the vp doesn't usually do much in likability as a key factor in someone who i can relate to, someone who i can see myself at the bar having a drink with anything that is important because they don't really have any policy powers and there there in the worst—case scenario to step up if they need to but that has not happened in a long time and i think it'sjust about is happened in a long time and i think it's just about is this someone who i can use to nullify the attacks from the opposition and when the of those swing voters.— those swing voters. showing some live pictures _ those swing voters. showing some live pictures coming _ those swing voters. showing some live pictures coming in _ those swing voters. showing some live pictures coming in

there were 500,000 troops used by george h.w. bush in gulf war. e of the great mistakes that was made in iraq and afghanistan is that george w bush, the son divided, our troops between iraq and afghanistan, and used what don rumsfeld, the secretary of defense called a light footprint. and we did not have the decisive force that we might have had had we not done that. and last is good intelligence is good. intelligence is crucial. and if there was one finding that really surprised me. we all know about the absence of wmd of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. but what came clear in the interviews was something that is not well known and that is saddam had actually his weapons of mass destruction in accordance with u.n. resolutions, would not admit it publicly for, fear it would weaken him domestically and encourage the iranians to invade. that misjudgment, which we missed, is the united states through poor intelligence, cost him his life with thousands of iraqi american troops and i was unfortunately part of one of the worst intelligence failures i

this speech by george bush sr. will go down in history as a cutlet speech in kyiv style. the author of the title, journalist william safire, wrote that this speech endangered the relationship of the united states with the new european power. "i was in the verkhovna rada, listening to his speech, and i remember how everyone became so confused look, we have a month before the declaration of independence, all of ukraine is already boiling, everything is already here, the big boss, the president of the united states, comes here and says that guys, don’t worry, you don’t need to, well, they also had interests, purely military, they are very feared" the collapse of the soviet union in connection with nuclear weapons. ultimately, by the end of 1991 , the united states recognized the independence of ukraine. the first ambassador was appointed a diplomat with ukrainian roots, roman popadyuk, who believes that bush was misunderstood at the time. i paraphrase the words of the former advisor from of national security brent kobra, who described the speech as directed against the disin

now bill gwartney and stephanie jones knew that after eight years of george bush, people are hurting at home and are standing, has eroded around the world. we have a lot of work ahead of us. jobs lost, houses gone, falling. wages rising. prices the supreme court and a right wing headlock and our government in partizan gridlock. the biggest deficit in our nation's history. money borrowed from the chinese to buy oil from the saudis. putin and georgia. iran and iraq. i ran for president to renew the promise of america to rebuild the middle class and the american dream. to provide opportunity to those who are willing to work hard for it and have that work rewarded. so could save for college a home and retirement, afford gas, groceries and have a little left over each month to promote a clean energy economy that will create millions of green collar jobs. to create a health care system that is universal, high quality and affordable so that every parent knows, their children, will be taken care of of. we want create a world class education system and make college affordable again to fight f

now bill gwartney and stephanie jones knew that after eight years of george bush, people are hurting at home and are standing, has eroded around the world. we have a lot of work ahead of us. jobs lost, houses gone, falling. wages rising. prices the supreme court and a right wing headlock and our government in partizan gridlock. the biggest deficit in our nation's history. money borrowed from the chinese to buy oil from the saudis. putin and georgia. iran and iraq. i ran for president to renew the promise of america to rebuild the middle class and the american dream. to provide opportunity to those who are willing to work hard for it and have that work rewarded. so could save for college a home and retirement, afford gas, groceries and have a little left over each month to promote a clean energy economy that will create millions of green collar jobs. to create a health care system that is universal, high quality and affordable so that every parent knows, their children, will be taken care of of. we want create a world class education system and make college affordable again to fight f

george bush said he looked vladimir putin in the eye and saw a christian. hillary clinton with that reset button, that's not it. was before putin stood in the way of the american military machine to change the regime. putin saved assad. here's what i don't understand. for 2 years we've been told that the front line of the fight for democracy is in eastern ukraine, and it means much more than all our stupid and ridiculous lives in the united states. and that the united states of america is leading the process, we can stop this war at any time we need, because we can play our main trump card, which is that we are leaving nato. look, we don't have any reasons anyway, this doesn't matter anymore meaning, you yourself have said this many times, it started after the second world war because europe was completely destroyed, america was the only developed one. europe can't defend itself, so we need to work through this point, we can't let you invade western europe, we will stand up for them, but now europe is rich, and america has 35 trillion in debt, and the sovie

young kippur war in the middle east, where jim baker, i really highlight his engagement with george h.w. bush on the first iraq war. what i think is the good iraq war, but also his fantastic accomplishment, along with george h.w. bush of reunifying germany under nato. and he had convince not only the soviet union, which had a deathly fear of germany for obvious reasons of that, but he also had to convince our own allies, the french and the british. margaret thatcher said, i love germany so much. i want to of them. so it was huge lift. and what jim baker showed was the importance of personal relationships. he developed a personal kinship with the foreign minister of the soviet union, shevardnadze took him to jackson hole for several days where his own retreat was and broke the ice so that shevardnadze could take positions which were at odds with his own foreign ministry on reunifying germany. but doing so with nato. that was a huge accomplishment by. both jim baker and by president george h.w. bush. and it's one of the reasons why that is one of the 12 chapters that i highlight and why his pre

but certainly george bush did not -- was not -- george bus but certainly george bush did not, was not, george bush senior was not seen as somebody who was senile and agent and not able to serve another term as president, whereas a lot of people have these questions about president joe biden as he heads into reelection. >> charlie spiering author of the book "amateur hour: kamala harris in the white house" senior political reporter with the daily mail. thank you for the conversation. >> thanks for having me. >> if you are enjoying booktv then sign up for our newsletter using qr code on the screen to receive the schedule of upcoming programs, author discussions, book festivals and more. booktv every sunday on c-span2 or anytime online at booktv.org. television for serious readers. >> next stop our c-span's coverage of this summers political party convention we had to chicago for the democratic national convention. beginning monday august 19 as the party puts forth the presidential nominee. here democratic leaders talk about the administration's track record and their vision for the next

, george bush, the elder, announced in the us congress the american victory over iraq and the establishment of new world order, but finally the talibans prevail and "and this probably is one of the major signs of the demise of the judao american empire. all right, well, indeed, in terms of uh, the fact that the country was taken out of the clutches of the us, so to speak, eric wolberg is a positive thing, but uh, the us role is still prevailing in that country in the form of sanctions, which prevents the country from advancing. uh, what do you think the us's uh goal is when it comes to afghanistan, does it want and desires a country?" " to like afghanistan to be unstable, does that serve its purposes? because we know the country is uh mineral rich, we know that china for example um is trying to um make sure that uh they do excel in different industries like their mining industry, but for the us that doesn't serve its purpose does it? that's right, and i don't really think the us knows what's what it's doing now in afghanistan, it's whole world order uh as uh my my colleague discussed this 1

i mean, there there is a living republican president named george w bush, who was not welcome. in fact, jd vance's entire speech. he came out to a song that as an anti george w bush song. >> yeah, i mean what donald trump does have, as he said, he chased those figures out of the party videos, the voters, he has the republican party, 100%. that is very much rallied around him when you you know, he, he fortified the support in the nomination season so quickly and that sort of catapulted into the general election. when you look at polls huge percentage over 90% of his 2020 voters are still with him in the party is still with them. so he does have that. but you're absolutely right. there is not he doesn't have he changed the republican party and remade it in his image. so there's no, nobody other shoulders he can rely on to help tell his story. >> yeah. it just seems it just glaring that this convention is about the democratic party. and that convention was about donald trump. but it seems to me, i would just say real quickly, jake, that republican party already though, was losing,

, i think george bush, in the end, no, i listen to this guy too much, i think by year seven, he realized that it was time to stop listening to dikcheny, because yes, but it was the military, something with logistics, they were like, guys, we don't have that much of an advantage over iran, yes, we won't lose the war, but they can attack... so many american bases there, it will be a bloodbath, it wasn't just one green beret who told me off the record that it would be not even 10 times harder than fighting iraq, fighting iran will be a thousand times harder, it will be a completely different war, maybe it was that moment that stopped the war then, but even just, even just rhetoric about being tougher with iran, why, why are we even talking about this, why are we constantly escalating, it's so simple, the american people are all for it, no more idiotic wars. look, there are a lot of problems in the shi'i world, but they, they, they are not our enemies, yes, of course, of course, they did not attack us, they did not attack europe, well, i mean, even the houthis, i was told since chil

remember the days when i did not think george bush could not get any worse? now i'm like george bush is so nice compared to what we are seeing. i did not know. i never went to a meeting. i voted and had my ideas, but i was living my life. my wife was pregnant. we had a four-year-old or whatever, and i'm like, how do you do this? there was an organizing action. there's things you could go to. you could be an organizer, fundraiser, candidate. you write your stump speech and stand up and say, i'm tim walz and i'm running for congress. a district that had one democrat since 1982. no one told me that but it was organizing. first of all, finding your authentic voice, but for me, it wasn't that different from military or i don't want to cliche it, but the common goals that we build out and built those things out and invested. in minnesota, we are the democratic farm to labor party, but the one thing that sets it apart is our state party is still the most powerful operation, and what that did was it allowed a schoolteacher who did not know a whole lot of people, had

george bush labeled the terrorist sponsor, states exactly what they are. the axis evil. and at saddleback, after barack obama dodged and ducked every direct question, john mccain hit the nail on the head. radical, violent islam is evil and. he will defeat it. this party. is for sure. you're hearing it here. you're hearing it here. they're hearing it across the country. you see in this party, in this room and all over america, people our party prefer straight talk to politically correct talk. republicans led by john mccain and sarah palin will fight to preserve the values are preserved. the nation will strengthen economy and keep us from being held hostage. putin, chavez and ahmadinejad had and we will never allow america to retreat the face of evil extremism. just like you, just like you. there's never been a day when i was not proud to be an american. we. we, americans inherited the greatest nation in the history of the earth. it's our burden and our privilege to preserve it, to renew it, spirit so that it's noble, past is prolog to its glorious future. to this we're al

george bush labeled the terrorist sponsor, states exactly what they are. the axis evil. and at saddleback, after barack obama dodged and ducked every direct question, john mccain hit the nail on the head. radical, violent islam is evil and. he will defeat it. this party. is for sure. you're hearing it here. you're hearing it here. they're hearing it across the country. you see in this party, in this room and all over america, people our party prefer straight talk to politically correct talk. republicans led by john mccain and sarah palin will fight to preserve the values are preserved. the nation will strengthen economy and keep us from being held hostage. putin, chavez and ahmadinejad had and we will never allow america to retreat the face of evil extremism. just like you, just like you. there's never been a day when i was not proud to be an american. we. we, americans inherited the greatest nation in the history of the earth. it's our burden and our privilege to preserve it, to renew it, spirit so that it's noble, past is prolog to its glorious future. to this we're al

but certainly george bush was not -- george bush senior was not seen as somebody who is senile and aging and not able to serve another term as president. whereas a lot of people have questions about president joe biden as he heads into reelection. stuart charles turned to author. thank you for the conversation. >> guest: thank you for having me. ♪ >> if you are enjoying book tv set up for newsletter use the qr code on the screen to receive a schedule of upcoming programs, author discussion, book festivals and more. book tv every sunday on cspan2 or anytime online apple tv.org. television for serious readers. ♪ weekends on cspan2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday in american history tv documents america's story and on sunday @booktv brings you the latest in nonftion books and authors. funding for cspan2 comes in these television companies and more including buckeye broadband. ♪ ♪ ♪ buckeye broadband along these television companies support cspan2 as a public service. an opinion columnist at the "new yorkan times" and winner of the pulitzer prize for criticism. author of what were

with the attacks on the world trade towers on september 11, 2001, the lines of george bush, the president of the united states, should have been crushed. it is up to the israelis to do this quick action without prior planning. it is necessary to prepare for war. and this means that israel was not ready to attack before that. there is no doubt that there was a fault there since time immemorial. the israelis want to increase the capabilities of hezbollah hizbollah's army and the destruction of this party were in the process of taking points from the zionists after the 60 strikes they inflicted on israel. thursday, january 29th, 200 lebanese asra aircraft landed on the runway of beirut airport. the indirect negotiations of hezbollah and its superior hand in the military field force the zionist regime to accept the exchange. more than 40 prisoners are released from the prisons of the zionist regime. this is a winner. it was great for hezbollah. all the television channels in the region were covering this big celebration moment by moment. a party where a chair it was empty. the only prisoner t

on the oprah winfrey show in 1988, trump praised presidential candidate george bush sr. bush, michael doukahis and jesse jackson complained that japan was winning the united states said that, although he does not plan run for president, he hasn't ruled it out, and he probably would have won if he had run. i'm really tired of seeing what's happening to this country. because of us, other people live like kings, and we don't. by the way. real estate, trump is a descendant of self-made immigrants, he's the personification of the so-called american dream, when they arrived on the continent, they built some business, they pass it on to their descendants, he really, he has money, he has women, he has a large number of children, he has a large number of some adventures, he is quite a public person, so for a... a classic american, who wears a hat, who has the right to bear arms, who sees his country as such a great one, a great creation of their founding fathers, for him trump really, his candidate is the personification of his dream, but trump had no shortage of talent, by the m

george tenet it'd be drawing it to dick training and george bush and these are more through the george said that then then both of us here. but i mean, uh, yeah, the dna reports a, so i read recently as they were mentioning this program is if it's some kind of, you know, amazing, we important call going geo politics. i wish it was as such as the d n i said in their put notes. but them, i mean, i mentioned we were talking about the radar system. what about the quote, a city whole attack most go could city all the tech uh does that have any hallmarks of any uh us proxies even tell you what it has an hallmark for me? it has a hallmark for me. um, for what i have seen on more than one occasion, which is not just the wrong contra, were really got into the papers and really bos, publicizing all most, got all reagan and peach. the people don't understand how close writing came to the page over on contract, but i hadn't seen it in a while until i came back in the government and then i realized it was alive and well. and that is the and i see going operational, the national security council sta

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george h.w. bush. calling to the situation room and once information they think he wants what most presidents would what he is no, no, no i need the street is almost an intelligence officer himself. >> beijing met well i need to know the street rode his bike all overr beijing. he said on saturdays and sent up funny cables for the ambassadors. that was such an interesting time. it shows as you're pointing out the situation room was always a step behind the privateor secto. surprisingly in technology. when it happened because of the issue you just raised the situationn room duty officers actually ran down the street there was an old map store which was that about a block from w te white house that ran to the store and got a map of beijing so they could answer the presidents question about what wass happening. of course now we were all just pull out her phones. [laughter] >> it was fascinating to think up at that level of detail and i have to say the chapter on the bin laden raid as in a coffee shop and i

george bush can't get -- cheney on the phone and says, fix it. obama needs to have video conference with mcraven during the bin laden raid. so things come about. bill clinton needs to do a deposition. other things are going on. why does the room almost have to be pushed into the future? there's a very, very good question. and, you know, it's always been behind the private sector. there's no question about that government works a little more slowly. you know, one of the simple reasons is that it's very difficult to get presidents to agree to give up the space. you know, and i hope in the obama chapter, which is mostly about the takedown of osama bin laden, i open the obama chapter with, the conversation with valerie jarrett, who is a close adviser, really mentor to barack obama, and michelle obama. and they were coming to her and the president at the first couple of years of the obama administration saying, you know, we really want to renovate the west wing and the situation room. it's a complete fire trap. and it was and it's antics faded and the

but certainly george bush did not -- was not -- george bush sr. was not seen as somebody who was senile and not able to serve another term as president, whereas a lot of people have these questions about president joe biden as he heads into re-election. host: charlie spiering, author of the book "amateur hour: kamala harris in the white house." senior political reporter with the

but certainly george bush did not -- was not -- george bush sr. somebody who was senile and not able to serve another term as president, whereas a lot of people have these questions about president joe biden as he heads into re-election. host: charlie spiering, author of the book "amateur hour: kamala harris in the white house." senior political reporter with themr. lozada is an opinion columnist at the new york times and a winner of the pulitzer prize for criticism. he's the author of what were we thinking a brief history of the