was right about something so we're off and we could settle on even though i'm not a big george bush fan here's the problem with it and i understand that i have a lot of family in west virginia and pennsylvania if i they hear and they watch this and i say i'm against the minimum wage they just they won't understand what i'm saying the problem with the minimum wage is it disproportionately affects people who are the lowest wage earners because what happens is they start to price themselves out you get to a point where you're trying to protect the lowest income lowest skilled workers who what happens is they price themselves out you have that argument has been made since the one nine hundred twenty sure the minimum wage was first proposed it was made in one thousand nine hundred five when the minimum wage was passed and the supreme court knocked it down it was made nine hundred thirty eight when the minimum wage was brought back in the supreme court supported it supported the need over and over and over again and i have yet to see one example of one state or one industry where it was p

and that perhaps the preceding president did. >> you can say george w. bush'st hurt. >> i can. >> willie geist, the world barack obama inherited and the world he still lives in is the world george w. bush helped create over the last decade. >> with due respect to the people we polled, george w. bush is the most influential. barack obama can become the most influential. we'll see with health care reform if it turns out the way he hopes it will, what happens in afghanistan and iraq. he could very well become the most influential. but he's not right now. >> but of course his legacy will always mark an incredible milestone in our nation's history, becoming the first african-american president. >> there's no doubt about it. mike barnicle, even if he loses in 2012, he still has had a remarkable, remarkable impact on this country. >> he has had a meteoric rise through the american story, his own history. his own personal history is interesting. the fact he is the first african-american president. all of that adds up i think in a lot of people's minds to making him the

george h.w. bush. >> it's a brutal job. >> they all leave broken. >> well, i mean, look at obama, he's not broken but his hair is graying. they visibly age before -- >> joe's not broken. >> but you know what, he refused to leave. remember? bill clinton still in the hanger four months later. >> they're broken when they leave, but then they rehabilitate themselves. i mean, even nixon. you couldn't leave more broken than dicks nixon. he becomes the sage of saddle river, having journalists at the dinner, rewriting history books. even nixon can come back. there is life after the presidency if you handle yourself. but history is like -- >> another reason this is so much fun and so important ultimately is remember the way the founders described -- i think it was washington described the senate as the saucer in which -- >> where the tea cools. >> right. >> that's what history is. and it takes our friend michael beschloss as a rule, you can't write about a president in full until 25 years after they leave offi

house and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the treasury department during the george h.w. bush administration is a columnist for the fiscal times and the author of several books including the new york times bestseller imposture how george w. bush betrayed america and betrayed our bankrupt excuse me the american betrayed the reagan legacy his latest book is entitled the benefit and the burden tax reform why we need it and what it will take restraints we now in the studio welcome to be here pleased to have you with us in the american conservative view you recently wrote an article in which you suggested that the modern republican party is suffering suffering from epistemic closure which sounds like a latin for the what if well so i'm nicer than saying what i really think which is that they're all either crazy or stupid i mean it's the things have changed so dramatically since the days when i first got involved with the republican politics when the republican party was the party of ideas and now it's the party of crazy people ignorant tea party people people who know nothing and a

i sent george bush a 21-page memo on one of the books, i remember. someone said, you finally have lost your mind. there is no evidence in push's -- in bush's biography that he ever read anything more than 21 pages. he read it right away. condi rice called me and said, you are doing these articles in this book. she said the president will see you tomorrow. >> has what you've done gotten easier or more difficult? >> that is a good question. no. i think it is more difficult because the message managers are better. they have the staffs. they look at it aggressively. i am older. i have less energy. that makes it harder. >> tell us something about the obama white house that we do not know. >> what does obama think of mitt romney? what does he really think? i think he feels that romney is incompetence because he did not run a better campaign. i suspect that one of the teams in all of the coverage of the campaign is going to be that romney never found a way to -- either the method or the theme of how to run against obama were as they thought it was going to b

and that basically, um, you know, if it's true that bush -- and i don't know, i'm not an expert on george w. bush, but if it's true that he was, you know, invested into big oil and all his pig oil buddies, it is equally true that barack obama brought in big solar as soon as he took office. his second bad policy, remember that he says it is a goal for us to advance solar power. so that makes a 31% tariff on chinese solar panels a little bit head scratching. obviously, trying to save pace a little bit -- save face a little bit, so he wants to protect the american consumer. unfortunately, when you slap a 31% tariff on cheap solar panels from china, you have the impact of not installing solar panels in this country. so he says he wants to support the technology and then slaps a tariff on china for doing that. and i wrote a piece called "if you can't beat 'em, tax 'em." so you decide, is president obama pro-science? or is he just another politician? now, now the really fun stuff. you guys are isolated. i always think d.c. is kind of a reasonable city in a lot of ways because it's kind of, you

ask george bush when he did social security first. immigration is going to be relatively easy now. there will be some painful moments, but you have a republican party of which there is incentive to get it done. they had a big victory early. maybe that is what it does. i tell you, the fact that they're going to be stuck in these budget impasses, and it's going to keep the economy dragging down, i think that's the biggest -- we have already gone over the political cliff here, if you will, with what -- because the deal that happens, if it happens, is temporary. we're going to have the debt ceiling thing in six weeks which is just abominable. >> let me just underscore some of the headlines being made. the president saying that the u.s. has good leads on who carried out the benghazi attacks. he also touts chuck hagel. as defense secretary. saying there's nothing disqualifying but saying he hasn't made a defense choice yet. he says failure to reach a fiscal deal would hurt the markets. and as we've been talking about, the president wants gun violence measures passed in 2013, something he

bush's father, former president george h.w. bush is spending another day in the hospital being treated for bronchitis and a lingering cough. we told you about that last week when we first found out that he was there. the 88-year-old former president is in stable condition. no record on when he is to be released. ab stoddard is a former editor for the hill. bush 43 has been fairly quiet throughout the first term of the obama administration. now the president has been reelected, george w. bush sort of comes out a little bit to make this big address, why? what is the timing about, do you think? >> i think the timing was shrewd. he really made a point of staying quiet during the first couple of years of president obama's administration, saying that he wanted the about the to be able to do his job, he didn't think he needed a former president to go out there and do somed tore ra some editorializing. he gave some peaches, enjoyed his life. he was not the subject of any praeurbgsz in fact not the subject at all at the republican conven

escuchar el caso de indocumentados que podrian manejar con licencias extranjeras.el ex presidente george bush san pedro, en el vaticano.y dijo que la esperanza de la paz no puede morir para siria, mali y nigeria.mas en noticiero univision >>> la familia de bajos recursos disfrutaron de una cena de nochebuena grtszs a la bondad de un hombre que por 40 años reparte comidas y regalos a los más necesitados. este año, logro recopilar más de 5.000 juguetes y 3.000 escenas que hicieron que esta navidad. estuviera llena de felicidad en miles de hogares, en carolina del norte. >>> un accidente dejó sin hogar a una familia guatemalteca están agradecidos por estar con vida y mantienen la esperanza que un mil dpo les permita encontrar un lugar donde puedan volver a comenzar. tenemos la siguiente historia. el kalt de 3 niñas que sueñan con la na jay en esta época del año. mandamos una carta y sí va a venir. y una cobija. >>> un juego de princesa una falda. libros. mochilas. reflejan los deseos y netdzs de su familia la gente vio la noticia y la ejemplos nos trajo ropa. la estudiante de primer grado se ref

john: george w. bushed 86,000 more regulators. >> banking is one of the most regulated industries if not the most. the problem was not deregulation but we had a crisis caused by a massive industry in real-estate due to policies to seven everybody encouraged to take out a mortgage. there will intended. they crafted the bill. logic says this will protect us? >> dodd/frank does not end the bailout are too big to fail. john: all this? that is left in here and even encouraged because it implies some banks will be bailed out. >> right. when you say the bank is systemic you say it is an institution to big and important and critical to allow to be left 57 they have labeled them systemic. it shows what happens and white increases the risk. the big banks can borrow money more cheaply because they think the government will bail them out. >> creditors know they will not be bailed out if they fail so they give them money at it cheaper rate. >> jpmorgan chase pays $4 interest but the small bank pays $70 $0.50. they sta

this tax break, even george bush didn't want it to be permanent. somehow, republicans have gotten hung up on this one thing, turning tax policy in to theology. they can't let it go. it has united the democratic party against them, and now most of the american people are on the other side of the debate. we can't talk about spending until we get out of the corner. >> ari, how much of the republican opposition is based on principle, to the raising of taxes on the wealthiest is based on principle and how much is based on a fear that they may face a primary challenge from more conservatives in their party or tea party candidates? >> i think it's impossible to know the second one. i think there are probably a number of people in potentially vulnerable situations where they do have to look on their right shoulder and worry about it. but i think the reason this is so strongly felt by republicans is the belief if you raise taxes, the government is going to spend the money anyway or the golf. government is going to waste the money. raising taxes is not a goo

herbert walker bush. >> reporter: former president george h.w. bush is alert and in guarded condition in houston at methodist hospital. >> he is conscious. he recognizes people around here. he is joking with his doctors. those are good signs. >> reporter: the 88-year-old was put on a liquid diet wednesday as his fever got worse. the president was hospitalized last month because of a lingering cough. the oldest living former u.s. president made headlines in retirement skydiving to celebrate recent birthdays. how do you feel, mr. president? >> i feel wonderful! >> reporter: several months ago he was at the white house for the unveiling of his son's official presidential portrait. >> i am honored to be hanging near a man who gave me the greatest gift possible unconditional love that would be number 41. >> reporter: in recent years bush has developed a form of parkinson's disease that makes it difficult to walk. family spokesman says this latest illness has taken its toll. >> the president looks like he's done a few rounds with mike tyson. >> reporter

george w. bush's margaret thatcher. they have said, we have to keep 98% of the bush tax cuts in place for the betterment of the economy. >> it's so much bigger than that. >> they have won. >> republicans won. >> we have won. tax breaks. >> so to give a couple of percentage points to 2% of people. >> it could be so much bigger because the conversation has been shifted to how do we reduce our deficit. >> brian sullivan, thank you so much. greatly appreciate your insights. thanks for being with us on "way too early." you can catch brian on cnbc's "street signs" at 2:00 p.m. he is the hardest working man in show business, or at least on the other side of the river. >>> coming up this morning, we've got republican senator tom coburn. can't wait to talk to tom. also, tom cole will be here on set. that's great. we're going to ask him what he was thinking last week. i'm joking. congressman. also, democratic senator claire mccaskill. can you believe this? and congressman chris van hollen. also, we're going t

george bush. they try to change the conversation by talking about revenue, you poor unwatched people don't understand the difference between rates and revenues. >> nina, bring us altogether please >> with a number of lobobbyists and the super pacs morphing into lobbyists, it will take quite some time, if it ever happens. we have to make that deal now and everybody understands that there is not some magic bullet. you have to d all. you have to raise revenue and you have to -- >> that is simply not true. >> it is troupe. it is if youou believeve at t this point. >> the simpson-bowles comommission said that every year you have $1.10 trillion, every year, in tax expditures >> and you get rid of the mortgage on the charity, right >> no, you cap it. you tell me that you cannot get $1rillion out of that? >> you won't take my life. you won't take our future. aids affects us all. even babies. chevron is working to stop mother-to-child transmission. our employees and their families are part of the fight. an

brought on by george w. bush. >> flabbergasting. >> stephanie: it is like george w. ack obama shows up. look at what you did here. see what you presided over? >> shows up in the ambulance. >> look what you did! >> stephanie: oh my god. no i'm emt. it began four months before obama moved into the white house. the major spending decision in the 2009 fiscal year were made by george w. bush and the previous congress, just an fyi. >> flabbergasted. president thinks he's won an election or something. flabbergasted. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: it is a funny word. no normal person ever says that. >> say it when you're drunk. flabbergasted. >> stephanie: actually jim did say it. it's raining i'm flabbergasted. flabbergasted by everything. all right. yeah lindsey graham, drama queen that he is -- >> i would rather talk about him than lindsay lohan. >> stephanie: he said i think we're going over the cliff. it is clear to me they've made a political calculation. >> i wonder if lindsey graham looks better in a dress? i'm pretty sure. >> stephanie: president has put forward, it is i

john: george w. bush,000 more regulators. >> banking is one of the most regulated industries if not the most. the problem was not deregulation but we had a crisis caused by a massive industry in real-estate due to policies to seven everybody encouraged to take out a mortgage. there will intended. they crafted the bill. logic says this will protect us? >> dodd/frank does not end the bailout are too big to fail. john: all this? that is left in here and even encouraged because it implies some banks will be bailed out. >> right. when you say the bank is systemic you say it is an institution to big and important and critical to allow to be left 57 they have labeled them systemic. it shows what happens and white increases the risk. the big banks can borrow money more cheaply because they think the government will bail them out. >> creditors know they will not be bailed out if they fail so they give them money at it cheaper rate. >> jpmorgan chase pays $4 interest but the small bank pays $70 $0.50. they stay sma

once in 1990 when george h. bush recanted his read my lips pledge and once in 1993 when president clinton raised taxes and each time federal revenue increased. the one time when we actually cut taxes in recent memory in 2001, in 2001 but especially in 2001 federal revenue did decrease. it's a basic arithmetic between raising taxes and raising revenue. >> steve that's not what the irs shows. that's what's interesting about the tread bush tax cuts that mr. obama wants to repeal in the upper end. i'm not saying in the middle end. in the middle to lower end the same irs data shows the bottom half of taxpayers paid 6 billion less in income taxes, that's a 16% drop. 8 million of them were left off the tax roles all together because of the child tax credit deduction. authenticities me because i don't think it's clear what class warfare produce in our tax code. sometimes lower tax rates can produce higher revenues. >> they produce higher revenue and improve the economy. when the clinton tax increases came in '93 the growth o

george bush was president. he kept saying it.eally takes something. >> i'm going to go with an italian but not that italian. silvio berlusconi. convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to four years in prison decides this is the perfect platform to run for prime minister again. chris: that's how he got there in the first place prorblee. that's chutzpah. next category, the hard to -- hardest to figure out, nominees for 2012 mysteries. what president obama was thinking in that first debate and a muge mystery predicting -- and a huge mystery predicting the plot and david petraeus, his mystery and the email she fired off to the woman in florida who is a big friend of all the generals. or is the biggest mystery of the year what made romney think he had it? katty. >> i'm going to go with the first debate. we still don't really know what happened. and nor the people advising him were furious the day after about it. where was he? where was he? >> the man in charge of clandestine operations. he should know the rewards and risks. chris: why di

earlier that year, harry reid and nancy pelosi gave george bush a stimulus.happened was two things, al. first of all, barack obama got reelected. and for a variety of reasons, the republicans never game barack obama the kind of cooperation we gave george bush. of course you should disagree. but then in the end, you try to work things out. when george bush came to harry reid, we worked with him to go and to come to an agreement. mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, said my number one agenda item is to defeat barack obama. and then in 2010, people were elected who don't believe in govern nans. who don't understand reality. it's not like we've had it forever. we didn't have it before the partisanship and there was some people so offended by the notion that barack obama could win for a variety of reasons, that they decided to delegitize it. i think you're going to see a gradual relinquishment of this kind of obstructionist death grip they have on the party. >> plet me ask you, you're leaving washington after serving so long and so well. what will you miss abou

it's not getting better. >> they blame george bush for katrina. where's obama for sandy?how much time do i have to wait? it's been a month. neil: while they were suffering, and fema was shopping, e-mails makivictims more angrier with a first responder saying when he got to new jersey, they told us to go to the wamart nearby because they didn't have assignments for them. the fema administer says my people are told to go sightseeing. even those who don't flip over him personally are quickly acknowledging that he got and continues to get mo done to help people out there than any institution, government, arian or otherwise. john, great to have you. >> neil, thanks for having me. before i, you are a folk hero in stanten island because you were the first person to allow me to talk about whe we were lacking on resources in stanten island, particularly, with fema, and happy to talk the issue again, but before at, i was ordered to prese you with this volunteer organization, our shirt, only given to volunteers putting in efforts and, your effort to help us and keep the word out abo

. >>> and the latest on the condition of former president george h.w. bush after his spokesperson confirmed "a series of setbacks" have put the president in the intensive care unit. we are live outside the hospital. stay close. >>> family and friends now visiting the former president george h.w. bush who is hospitalized in houston, texas. doctors moved president bush to the intensive care unit after a series of setbacks including a fever and cough that were not going away. the president is the oldest live willing former leader of our nation at age 88. but today in his e-mail to his staff he suggested the president is not on his death bed. he said "president bush would ask me to tell you to please put the harps back in the closet." randy wallace from our fox station kriv fox 26 live outside the hospital there in houston. randy, what is the latest on the president's condition? >>> well, we heard kind of conflicting things all day today. it was on sunday when former president bush was put into the intensive care unit here at meth though difficult hospital. meth

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policy going back to george w. bush. >> that's true. i think one of the things to be keep in mind is this pre-nomination process seems to have gotten completely out of control. where congress has too much to say who the presumptive nominees that any president offers forth. over history only 20 cabinet nominees have been knocked back. seven have been rejected and 13 have withdrawn those names. seven of those have happened under the past three administrations. so i think there's something wrong with this whole process where a presumptive nominee is litigated in public and the -- >> how do you avoid this? how do you do it? >> he's got to make a decision. obama has either got to nominate him when he gets back to washington tomorrow or move on. >> is this the vetting process we've got now? in other words, the president doesn't decide who to pick. he gets an idea, a hunch, puts their name out there and see how it rides. is that a good process? >> no. it's a particularly cruel process to everybody involved. we've used the phrase borking. we've

--george herbert walker bush was the brainchild and george w. was the brainchild of this treaty. >> eliot: that is what is astonishing, the heritage of the act and the treatry are in the republican party. it is actually perhaps the last vestige of the republican party as a voice for civil liberties and civil rights. you have both bush signing it, drafting it, and then it is astonishing that these nativist voices, the fear of the united nations this paranoid sensibility that captures a few votes in the republican party prevent it from passing the senate that is supposed to be a batian of reason. you worked in the obama white house, does it shock you when lindsey graham stands up and votes against this. he's somewhat a respected member of the senate. >> nothing shocks me any more. the republican party has been moving away from disability for some time. when you look at other things that the congress has focused on medicaid, healthcare, the affordable care act, even looking at what's going on with the fiscal cliff right? are we going to balance our

. >> he took the top job in 1991 under george h.w. bush, president of texas a & m university from 2002 to 2006 when president george w. bush appointed him secretary of defense. president obama asked him to stay at the pentagon making him the first defense secretary to serve in both a republican and the democratic administration, he left his post in june, 2011. at his farewell ceremony president obama awarded him the presidential award of freedom. >> the highest honor. >> this is a man i have come to know and respect. a humble american patriot. a man of common sense and decency. quite simply one of our nation's finest public servants. >> rose: today the united states face as wave of foreign policy challenges, including the pressing question of how to respond to the potential use of chemical weapons by the assad government in syria, the government warned him of the consequence conditions consequences he could expect. >> i want to make it clear to assad and those under his command the world is watching, the use of chemical weapons is and woul

i wanted to call about -- people are talking about george w. bushroject -- >> stephanie: yeah back when we had lobbyists. yeah i got ya jim. we have short on time. the policies existed before george w. bush. >> yeah. >> stephanie: twenty-nine minutes after the let's rock and roll. there is so much going on that every day presents another exciting issue. from financial regulation, iran getting a nuclear bomb, civil war in syria, fraud on wall street, destruction of medicare and medicaid. there are real issues here. having been a governor, i know that trade-offs are tough. things everyday exploding around the world that leave no shortage for exciting conversations. i want our viewer to understand why things have happened. at the end of the show, you know what has happened, why its happened and more importantly, what's going to happen tomorrow. rich, chewy caramel rolled up in smooth milk chocolate. don't forget about that payroll meeting. rolo.get your smooth on. also in minis. get irresistibly clean and fresh carpets in your home with resolve deep cl

i think it's just george bush. >> bob: who did they make last year?wall street. >> greg: who did you want this year? >> dana: who did i want? my person -- jasper. i have a one track mind. dierks bentley should have been man of the year. or blake shelton. g isn't that a slight -- >> greg: isn't that a slight to justin bieber? >> bob: do you find it exceptional? >> greg: i want to reiterate there are justin bieber fans -- i'm doing a visual in the shrine. >> i'm surprised they didn't to the gangnam style guy. >> bob: we have to get out of here. there is a big announcement of one member of "the five" family. we'll get right back to you. ♪ >> eric: time for one more thing. bob will start. >> bob: a big announcement to make today. one of our co-host, andrea tantaros, has been awarded and deserves a new radio show, syndicated starting january 2 for talk radio network. she will be on 300 plus stations. congratulations to her. she earned it. here is the important thing. she is not going anywhere. she will be on "the five." she will do 9:00 to noon and back he

law a joint resolution to officially designate the annual celebration. 11 years later, president george bushended the weeklong celebration to an entire month. you know and i know that our mothers say that every day is asian pacific american day.

h bill clinton did who changed it again, george w. bush. they thought it made sense. it tried to change the composition by making it about revenue -- you unwatched people don't understand the difference between rates and revenue. >> bring us all together, please. >> with the number of lobbyists and the super pacs morphing into lobbyists, god knows what will happen with the deductions. that will take some time when it happens. everybody understands that there's not some magic bullet. you have to raise revenue and you have to -- >> simply not true. >> estop true. it is a fiction yo believe at this point. >> the simpson-bowles commission said that every year you have $1.10 trillion every year in tax expenditures -- >> and you get rid of the mortgage and -- >> no, you cap it, and there was a $11 to in every decade available. you cannot get $1 million out of that? >> senator jim demint heads for the exit sign. >> one of the mistakes the republican party made the last two years is trying to make obama the issue without sharing with america bold reform ideas that get people

i wanted to call about -- people are talking about george w. bushstephanie: yeah, back when we had lobbyists. yeah, i got ya jim. we have short on time. the policies existed before george w. bush. >> yeah. >> stephanie: twenty-nine minutes after the hour. more fridays with fugelsang on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ those types are coming on to me all the time now. >> she gets the comedians >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there's wiggle-room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me. >> absolutely! >> and so would mitt romeny. >> she's joy behar. >> and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> only on current tv. ♪ >> announcer: stephanie miller. >> nobody believed we would make it, and look at us now. i drink and you use sex as a weapon. that seems to me like a success. >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." welcome to it. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. the president ta

george bush did that one very well. i'd been skeptical. i was afraid that george bush was going to treat the first iraq war the way his son treated the second. in the housing area, i was late- - along with a lot of other people-- to see the housing bubble, but that didn't affect the actions. >> reporter: so you told me once when i asked you this question that you had a regret about when you came out, i think it was, or your general posture with respect to homosexuality and the timing of it. >> no. i wish i could have come out earlier. i don't think it would have been possible. look, i regret that while the time i was closeted, i behaved irresponsibly and got hooked up with a hustler a made myself vulnerable to a guy who turned out to be a shake-down artist and got scammed by him into thinking that there was something personal there. that wasn't part of my governmental duties. i came out in '87. i now think if i had come out a couple of years earlier, it would have been better. there was a problem there because my colleague, gerry studds, w