george clinton was very difficult on both sides of that desk. had him both ways.ough on an but in the end, i realized he just cared so much about me. i mean the specific word. he want to just have it exactly right. so you know, you worked. for me it's true. any way it worked relentlessly. >> rose: and that commitment to quality is there too. i know of no great person who i think doesn't take the work seriously. no great painter, no great writer. >> writers can have a problem with some of that because they're also insecured. >> rose: they think it's some gift from the muse. >> unless they're involved in relentlessly in journalism they're isolated and their circle of friends is small. and they think about it and they think about it and they wonder why they were invited to that party maybe. >> rose: insecurity. >> there's a lot of that in the book because we were all human. so that's what we were doing. >> rose: you said second best answer an editor can give is no. >> yes. >> rose: just no. >> yes. because the worst thing for a writer is when the e

bush called clinton slick willie that year and clinton called bush chicken george. in terms of the name-calling in that direction, it wasn't just the chicken nickname. when bill clinton called george h.w. bush chicken george, that also came with grown men dressed up in chicken suits. >> a protester made it clear, he thinks bush is chicken. as authorities led the chicken away, bush aides worry that by playing too coy on debates, they could be playing right into clinton's hand. >> it is now fairly standard to use characters and props to mock your political opponent, to try to get a rise out of them. i remember 2004 george bush jr.'s campaign couldn't decide whether they wanted to hit john kerry the flip-flopper by brandishing giant flip-flops everywhere or whether they wanted to hit him as a flip-flopper by having a dolphin show up. they were like torn between two symbols, right? there's flipper, the famous dolphin, but there's also the flip-flops. is that too literal? it's now fairly typical, right? taunting political stage craft. but in the summer of 1992, it was see

by the way, george stephanopoulos worked for the clintons. george stephanopoulos donated to the clinton foundation. he's been on record talking about hillary's temperament and how fierce her anger is. he seems to forget that. and, you know, he asked you the question what have you sacrificed? let me ask this question. what have the clintons sacrificed if we're going to ask everybody that question? have they sacrificed, or have they enriched themselves? >> well, they haven't sacrificed very much, but, you know, they've worked hard. i talked about what i did. by the way, i thought that george stephanopoulos gave a fair interview. i didn't see anything wrong with the interview. i think it was misinterpreted. for instance, we talked about the ukraine, and i said, look, essentially if i'm president, they're not going in. russia is not going into the ukraine. he said, tell me, though, and some of the newspapers -- actually some covered it very well and very accurate, most of them. but some of them said, oh, therefore, trump didn't know about crimea b

. >> jimmy: you had like a george clinton type vibe there with those dreadlocks. >> i had a wig guy whose family had been in the wig-making business for generations. and he made the wig for me in "driving miss daisy." >> jimmy: oh, he did? wow. [ cheers and applause ] that's when you know you're an important man, when you have a personal wigmaker. [ laughter ] wh wigs for generations. that's pretty impressive. i want to ask you about a photograph here. this is -- i'm not sure where this is taken. you can tell us. you, prince harry, the first lady, and george bush. at an event of some kind. it looks like george bush is -- he kind of recognizes the first lady but he's not sure where he knows her from. [ laughter ] socialize with them? how did that go? >> huh? [ laughter ] you're asking me if i -- no. >> jimmy: no, i'm asking the picture. i'm asking george bush. george. [ laughter ] yeah. i mean, was it just one of those things you happened to be sitting next to them or were you all together as a unit? >> i know the first lady from back when they first started on the campaign trail. >> jimmy

clinton's leadership. our joe johns has the latest on that from washington. >> reporter: george and christine, the clinton foundation addressing concerns with cronyism and how to avoid them if elected. no foreign donations if she wins and no corporate donations and spurring the suggestion of pay to play between the state department and foundation. the clinton camp has been forced to issue denials. the clinton global initiative in new york is to be the last next month. cgi brought leaders all over the world to solutions to problems. it appears bill clinton is taking on the same burden. a spoke person says he will not do paid speeches if his wife is elected. he hasn't given a paid speech since november of last year. meanwhile, hillary clinton meeting with top law enforcement officials on thursday. also a little photo op. a meeting in the works for weeks. pushing back on the attempts to frame donald trump as the law and order candidate in the race. >>> joe, thank you. republican leaders are slamming the clinton foundation for continuing to accept foreign and corporate donations while hillary clinton is runni

george clinton, the governor of this state at the time the constitution was adopted i think it was a three-year term and he won seven of them and he left only to become vice president, which he thought was, quote, a respectable retirement, and he died in office. so the presidency could last for a long time and the judges rotated off in reasons -- for reasons that we will get into. but over the course of history chief justices have tended to stay a good long time, presidents have come and gone. we have basically 44 presidents in american history. you could say 43 because we're counting grover cleveland twice, but okay, and 17 chief justices. so way fewer chief justices than presidents. now, here is the tidal pattern and the face-off. the way america's presidency has tended to operate, if a coalition emerges that manages to capture the presidency once, very often it's come up with a formula that enables that party, that vision, to capture the presidency again and again and again until some almost exogenous shock, some big change occurs and the tide shifts. so there are only a few tide

george clinton, the governor of this state at the time the constitution was adopted, i think, it was a three-year term, and he won seven of them. he left only to become vice president, which he thought was a respectable retirement. he died in office. the presidency could last for a long time, and the judges rotated off in reasons -- for reasons that we'll get into. chief justices have tended to stay a good long time. presidents have come and gone. we have basically 44 presidents in american history. you could say 43 because we're counting grover cleveland twice, but, okay. and 17 chief justices. way fewer chief justices than presidents. here's the tidal pattern and the face-off. >> there are only a few tide-turning presidents in american history. someone who when they're rising to power really the other different point of view prevails, but they manage against the tide to win, to win again, win re-election, hand off enough power to their hand-picked wingman, their apastolic successor, and in the next period even though when they were rising to power really it was the other faction, a

clinton foundation donors. we have the latest from joe johns in cleveland. >> reporter: george and christine, hillary clinton here in cleveland hammering the republican nominee for choosing the head of breitbart to lead the campaign. mrs. clinton making the case, no matter what trump changes in his campaign, he will still be trump. >> i think it is fair to say that donald trump has shown us who he is. he can hire and fire anybody he wants from his campaign. they can make him read new words from a teleprompter. but he is still the same man who insults gold star families, demeans women, mocks people with disabilities and thinks he knows more about isis than our generals. >> reporter: meanwhile, the clinton campaign is responding to new documents suggesting shortly after mrs. clinton stepped down as secretary of state, the state department considered a land deal linked to a billionaire linked could the clinton foundation. she said there was no quid pro quo and the deal did not happen. mrs. clinton also continuing to go after donald trump on why he won't release his income tax returns folding that into an argument su

george clinton, the governor of this state at the time the constitution was adopted i think it was a three-year term and he won seven of them and he left only to become vice president, which he thought was, quote, a respectable retirement, and he died in office. so the presidency could last for a long time and the judges rotated off in reasons -- for reasons that we will get into. but over the course of history chief justices have tended to stay a good long time, presidents have come and gone. we have basically 44 presidents in american history. you could say 43 because we're counting grover cleveland twice, but okay, and 17 chief justices. so way fewer chief justices than presidents. now, here is the tidal pattern and the faceoff. the way america's presidency has tended to operate, if a coalition emerges that manages to capture the presidency once, very often it's come up with a formula that enables that party, that vision, to capture the presidency again and again and again until some almost exogenous shock, some big change occurs and the tide shifts. so there are only a few tide t

president obama, bill clinton, george h.w bush were all lefties. it's said that ronald reagan was born lefty and they converted him to a right when he was young. lefties bend the elbows more a survey says that lefties drink more. it's tough sa to say if it's something in the brain or a majority group. there are five thing that is you did not know aboutous lefties. >> i will tell you what they do not have and that's good hand writing. >> well, one thing that they do have is lanled by food and nongm skporks what does all of this mean? get ready to check the pantry labels on the low down. >>> from the corner store to the cabinet buying the food to keep the body healthy can make your head hurt. >> you want to get a box of cereal, look at this. label label label and the box itself has an environmental label and it's extremely confusing. >> dr. michael helps to decode the label. it's a fair trade and associated just about the bean. >> the organization is designed to help with working conditions around the world. one thing is that they also indicate and a

clinton said about george soros. >> we have been given appear extraordinary blessing. at this moment in time, our country needs us and we need people like george soros who is fearless and willing to step up when it counts. >> now, to be fair, that sound bite is dated but the clinton campaign is accepting money from soros this year as stated and that may present a problem for the secretary. you may remember that donald trump got hammered by the media for not disavowing david duke quickly enough. duke, of course, a far right hater. now we have a far left individual, soros bent on harming israel, america's strongest ally in the middle east. so how will the media cover that against soros, one of the biggest donors to the democratic party? talking points believes the mainstream press will largely ignore the soros story even though it's very important. does the democratic party advocate open borders worldwide? a situation that would make it easy for islamic terrorists to kill at will anywhere? does the democratic party support the enemies of israel? do jewish voters even kno

meanwhile, today hillary clinton is on the fundraising circuit with four events in the hamptons. this weekend celebrity supporters, ashton kutcher and jason george helped out clinton's campaign while barre baa streisand hit send to raise cash. clinton has been carefully preparing her responses to meet debate time limits. her advisers call tr adversary. >> it's going to be difficult. you're going to have to prepare for many different trumps. well-behaved, modest trump. i doubt we'll see that. kind of off the rail trump. >> holding fewer public events right now as ve raises money, clinton will call on her most famous surrogates, president obama and joe biden campaign without her in the next couple weeks. >> there are going to be a lot of eyes on those debates. now to the tropics where there are several systems threatening parts of the gulf and east coast. meteorologist raphaelmy ran did is tracking it for us. >> we're tracking three storms in the atlantic. one a major hurricane. that's gast tone moving out to see. but depressions 8 and 9 will affect the southeast. this is the one we have been tracking day after day. it finally got better organized

here trump is. >> unstable hillary clinton, i think that the people of this country don't want somebody that's going to short-circuit up here. >> george, how do you explain hillary clinton and her continuing troubles with the e-mails? >> well, there's no good explanation, which is why they throw a lot of dust in the air. the old saying, if you have the law. if you have the facts on your side, argument the facts. if neither are on your side, pound the table. she's pounding the table at the moment. people have made many their mind for or against her, and i have a doubt as to whether this resonates when people go into the voting booth in november. >> why? >> because it's already baked in the numbers in your poll, which is they said not honest and trust worthy that's largely, not exclusively, but largely relat their minds. >> so, in other words, if you're against her, you already -- whatever your feelings are, you have already baked the private e-mails into it. >> it's unclear how many undecided voters are in the country, but surely those who were undecided are not undecided about this. people have probably said weerp for her in spite of

meanwhile, today hillary clinton is on the fundraising circuit with four events in the hamptons. this weekend celebrity supporters, actors ashton kutcher and jason george helped out clinton's campaign while barbara streisand hit send to raise cash. clinton has been carefully preparing her responses to meet debate time limits. her advisers call adversary. >> it's going to be difficult. you're going to have to prepare for many different trumps. well-behaved, modest trump. i doubt we'll see that. kind of off the rail trump. >> holding fewer public events right now as she raises money, clinton will call on her most famous surrogates, president obama and joe biden campaign without her in the be a lot of eyes on those debates. kelly, thank you. >>> we want to turn now to the tropics where there are several systems threatening parts of the gulf and east coast. nbc meteorologist raphael miranda is tracking it for us. >> we're tracking three storms in the atlantic. one a major hurricane. that's gaston moving out to see. but depressions 8 and 9 will affect the southeast. this is the one we have been tracking day after day. it finally got better organized today.

. >> reporter: christine and george, hillary clinton continuing to stump for votes in pennsylvania today. she still needs to pick up support from white working class voters. to that end, she came here to scranton, pennsylvania and was joined by vice president joe biden. it's his hometown. he took her to the house where he grew up. also participated in a rally and launched a stinging attack on trump calling him unqualified for the white house. >> there's a guy that follows me right back here. has the nuclear codes. so god forbid anything happened to the president and i had to make a decision, the codes are with me. he is not qualified to know the code. he can't be trusted. this guy doesn't care about the middle class. and i don't blame him because he doesn't understand it. he doesn't have a clue. he really -- he really doesn't. he doesn't have a clue. >> reporter: at the event in scranton, there was no mention of the notes of the interview with the fbi that could be turned over to congressional investigators. the campaign preferring to stay on things that have worked in the past. also mak

>> there is an extraordinary document by the council of president obama of george bush and former white house counsel to clinton and george h. w. bush and president reagan in they say is that held to cripple the ability to fulfill their role in the representative democracy. they agreed on anything. [laughter] but something as sensitive on this to put their names on it says cannot be the contact. >> this does not make it correct that the fundamental misconception of what government actually does in to look at the implications and that people can pay for access and be charged to have a direction made to another governmental official and if somebody said they are having college tuition issues whether to appeal the case to take the beating. >> that we really like the solicitor general and then they call you up he just wants to sit down him persuade to support his case >> one of the absolutely critical but if somebody pays me but talk about the quid pro quo. >> taking a meeting that the president give special access to the high dollar donors to of meetings with government officials. >> certainly not justice kennedy

is at primus era space where king spoke with state small business leaders and discuss hillary clinton's george was there when kane spoke to the group and he's joining us now with more on what he said in his surprises. >> pretty typical in terms of campaign speak but you saw the benefit the vice presidential nominee is bringing the top of the ticket hillary clinton is able to send senator tim kane here to liquid while she's in another part of the country to promote her message you can see this is the roundtable the senator tim kane was sitting at just a short time ago people coming up taking pictures very small intimate gathering here at primus aerospace probably more reporters in the room then invited members of the public at this was an invite only open to the members of the media were allowed before the senator said at that round to the tour of the facility's message to these talking points from the clinton campaign and the size of their helping small business owners get access to business licenses easier for them to follow taxes and etc. a mess with him getting talked about for about a good

george? >> the clintons have been in politics sense they got out of law school, which means they spent theirntire adult life asking rich people for money. that is over 20, 30, 40 years corrosive. it corrodes among other things their sense of the little line that gets blurred to the point between public and private interests. get used to it. >> do you think this story has -- that the public has now fully digested the e-mail story to the point where even if some e-mail comes out september 13, that they're going to be able to plow through it, depending on what it says? >> the e-mails are going to have to show a quid pro quo, it will have to show government action, not seating someone next to joe biden, but government action that looks corrupt. >> but hundreds of hits on benghazi, e-mails she said they were personal. none of it is falling under just the yoga and wedding planning. >> no, it's had an effect. why do you think her numbers on honesty are as bad as they are? this is what's causing that. i do think for it to change the dynamic of the race, to flip what's happening, not only would it ha

george herbert walker bush. that he was more conservative perot, he came from texas and that challenge hurt bush a lot. because he was the incumbent. so bill clinton was helped by perot in 1992. >> some analysis of the numbers of supporters suggest that 70% of the perot voters had voted for george bush in 1998. >> 1988. 1988. excuse me. we have a couple of minutes left. to the second caller, the caller's second question. i want to pay a clip and this is our last one of the evening. this is one from ross perot's infomercials that he purchased before the 1992 election. and the 30-minute commercial in october, the first one he did, october of 1992, and he looks ahead from 1992 to the year 2020. let's listen. >> let's look at the growth of federal spending and see if there's a trend here. go on to 1950, there's obviously a trend here. we've gone up to 25% of our gross national product. that's excessive. and hold on to your hat. if you and i don't aaction now as owners of this country, the forecast shows that by the year 2020, federal spending will be 41% of the gross national product. we can't take 25%. we certainly can't take 41%. it's like having wi

george. he's going to go one on one with donald trump's new campaign manager, kellyanne conway. and clinton campaign manager robby mook. george wants to know what questions you might have. you can tweet george @gstephanopoulos. >> if you can spell stephanopoulos. >> if you can spell stephanopoulos. exactly. you've got the day's top we begin if turkey with a deadly explosion overnight at at outdoor wedding in the southeastern city of gaziantep. state-run media say they're reporting as many as 50 people have been killed and dozens injured. the attack appears to have been from a suicide bombing. so far, nobody has taken responsibility. turkey's president says that isis is the most likely perpetrator of this attack. >>> from neighboring syria, news that the older brother of that 5-year-old boy named amron, who became known around the world as the face of the devastating vifl war in that country has died. the 10-year-old succumbing to injuries suffered in that explosion. >>> back here at home, two escaped inmates in south carolina back behindars this morning. police saying they were tracked down

wednesday, clinton ripped donald trump at a tie factory in a heavily hispanic blue collar suburb of denver. joe johns was there. >> reporter: christine and george, so much of hillary clinton's visit here has been about outsourcing jobs and the economy. she hit donald trump hard in commerce city, colorado. talking about the fact he outsources the manufacturer of the products he makes, including neck ties. hillary clinton even visited a neck tie manufacturer here in colorado carrying with her a neck tie she said made by donald trump's company in china. >> i really would like him to explain why he paid chinese workers to make trump ties. this is one of them. it has his name on it, of course. and instead of deciding to make those ties right here in colorado, with a company like knotty. as i said over the past week, in many settings and factories in pennsylvania and ohio, i mean this because if he wants to make america great again, he should start by making things in america. >> reporter: the clinton campaign riding high with the $90 million fund raising haul in the month of july. a big 24-hour period the last day of the democratic national conventi