comes to the economy, what happens is the globalization had a consensus between bill clinton, george h. w. bush, george w. bush and certainly elements of my administration. the world was doing better because of globalization and there were folks whose factories were being closed and you have a winner take all economy back in 1960 maybe the ceo takes ten times more than the guy on the assembly line and now it is 200 times over 300 times the capacity of nationstates to regulate global capital. the communities that are being hurt by whether it is automation of the competition it becomes harder to do because everybody's worrying about what the quarterly reports are going to look like in wall street. so that creates frustration and contradictions. i think a legitimate critique which i consider myself to be part of and still believe it. the frustrations were going to flare up and all these changes that were happening were happening quick he had to address them and speak to them and in those environments you start getting a different kind of politics. you start getting a politics based on the national

now, perot launched his campaign on a lark, but as he shot up in the polls, his opponents, george h. w. bush and bill clinton, were forced to take him very seriously. now, on the other hand, ralph nadespent decades in the public eye and affected the lives of millions of people around the world as a consumer advocate. he's now probably best remembered as an independent party contenderma whhave changed the course of history. now, you can call these third-party candidates ornery.a you ca 'em difficult, but whatever you do, cadon't you dare them spoilers. re - the ining thing about ross perot wasdi that he dn't really look and talk like a billionaire. - in plain texas talk, it'shs time to take out the t and clean out the barn or it's gonna be too late. - he was a little guy and talked kind of fast, and people naturally liked him. he was from texarkana originally. his father was a cotton trader, so he didn't go fr totally humble roots, but, you know, he definitely went to the top of the finance world. - people have asked me over the years, "how did it suddenly feel, after years and years "and yea

and during the 40 years from eisenhower to george h. w. bush we have a series of eight presidents, last four have not served. doyou think is a good thing? a bad thing? what are your views on the degree to which military strength is useful as serving the presidency? >> i think with the duke context for first there were certain periods where we had a huge percentage of people serving like world war alii. we are likely to people and politics and serve because so many people did. and so i think that just reflects the times. i think now we have the opposite, very small percentage of the population serving in the military. so a lot of people just don't have the experience. so i have some views. the first is, they should be people that serve in the military going into politics. but just because you served in the military, it is not a qualification. because been in the military i will tell you there are a lot of people i would not vote for that put a gun to my head. nor should you!u [laughter] joe mccarthy was in uniform. reality is, you do not judge b

when it comes to foreign policy, the work that president george h w bush did with jim at his side was as important and as deft, and as effective a set of foreign policy initiatives as we saw in recent years. they deserve enormous credit for navigating the end of the cold war. one of the challenges when you are president or working for a president is you don't get credit when nothing happens. and nothing happening is good a lot of times. what i would say -- and what i'm saying here is not particular ly original -- by the time i took office, there were a number of trends that had started to advance what commentators are calling the great sorting. what i mean by that is, when jim arrives in washington in 1981, you still had a whole bunch of conservative democrats, many of them from the south. you had republicans, many from the north, who were extraordinarily liberal on environmental issues or civil rights issues on a whole range of topics. political scientists use to get angry about the fact that american parties don't make any sense. there's just this hodgepodge of various interest grou

secretary of labor under president george h w bush. elder of the dole foundation for military families. [applause] >> kevin, captain navy retired and national press club member who arranged today's event. skipping over to secretary for a second, josh rogan, columnist for the global opinions section of the washington post. miss pamela powers, chief of staff to the secretary of veterans affairs. max, publisher of stars & stripes, and john, president of the blinded american veterans foundation. and sean bullard, president of the dueto group. [applause] all right. as our nation -- i would also -- before i get into the introduction come i need to acknowledge some other folks pretty quick. let me acknowledge members of the headliners team responsible for organizing today's event. if you are here, please stand and be recognized. betsy fischer, martin, lisa matthews, bill lord, danny cellnet, and the press club staff, especially lyndsay underwood, laura coker, and bill mccarran, the executive director. [applause] i also want to say a special t

to illustrate your point, i was part of panel at the george h. w. bush library. i got up and said, i don't know why you have the news guys up there. that's not news and that's crap. every time i go to your site, it's kim kardashian this and that. i said okay, where are you going? i'm going to yahoo!.com. you're not going to the news. well, no. okay here's the deal. the news site is people picking stories. the regular site is driving by an algorithim. what it does it shows you things that you've clicked only before. [laughter] so sir, if all you're seeing is kim kardashian -- he didn't like me much. we are going to get into some deeper issues here. i'm not interested in knocking president trump around on this panel. let me quote from his speech. "i honor the right of every nation in this room to pursue its own beliefs and tradition. united states will not tell you now live, work or worship. we only ask you that honor hour sovereignty in return." i'm not putting on rose colored glasses. maybe it's the nature of the way the cold war shaped america's place in the wor

[cheers and applause] "you've gotta endorse george h. w. bush." philosophy, acd it is about chr, and george bush wins hands down on both counts. [ched applause] "and then we want you to tear apart bill clinton." bill clinton's foreign policy experience is pretty much confined to having had breakfast once the international hous. [cheers and applause] and the cultural war for the soul of america, that was my add on to it. there is a religious war going on in this country. it is a cultural war as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as the cold war itself, for this war is for the soul of america. the agenda that clinton and clinton would impose on america, abortion on demand, a litmus test for the supreme court, homosexualonights, discriminagainst religious schools, women in combat units, that's change, all right. but not the kind of change america needs. it is not the kind of chan and it is not the kind of change we can abide in a nation we still call god's count. [cheers and applause] president bush called me and congratulated me. richard nix

secretary laver under george h w bush. kevin went singh, captain and navy retired at the national press club headliners arranged today's event. skipping over the secretary for a second. pamela powers, chief of staff and secretary of veterans affairs. the publisher at stars & stripes . usmc vietnam veteran, president of the american veterans foundation. and sean, president at -- before i get into the introduction i need to acknowledge something's real quick. if you here please stand and be recognized. and the press club staff and especially lindsay underwood. and bill mccarran. i also want to say a special thank you to the members of american legion post 20, which is based right here at the national press club. we are so proud to have them based here. thank you so much for coming today. [applause] so as our nation prepares to celebrate veterans day and observe the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i, today's guests will discuss the state of the department with providing patient care and benefits for more than 20 mil

deficit the george h. w. bush to win the first gulf war and a bigger deficit than george bush to fight the second gulf war. all of this is coming to a head in the financial markets are telling us this. it is a funny thing to talk about millennials. i don't know if there are many here. [applause] they are unpersuaded. -- unre on mobilized mobilized. they can feel they are respected and they know who has their interests at heart. they are going to demonstrate on tuesday who they feel is not protecting them. [applause] falls --te and involves another way. it is not about who is right and who is wrong. of course, i am right. we are arguing to who does the future belong? the future belongs to my side of the argument. the future only belongs to those who care about it. the future does not want to those who immolate the future to gain a temporary advantage. these high tariff parties, they don't know what they want to do. they only know who they hate. hate doesn't build. [applause] >> this is just too good. i am going to

. - there was some skepticism about george h. w. bush. his biography is incredibly impressive.s shot down over the pacific, played baseball at yale, had-- had almost every significant job that there is to have on the republican side, both in domestic and international affairs, but he was not an incredibly charismatic person, was not a great campaigner. he was certainly beatable. - then bush goes into his-- his convention. it was in new orleans that year, and it was pretty close to a disaster for bush. his vice-presidential pick was dan quayle. dan qurile was--was widely culed by the press and was seen as a joke, a ghtweight. there was a lot of speculation at that point that dukakis is going to just march his way and that poor, poor george bush will never be able to make it. - this is where the role of lee atwater grows. lee atwas very skilled, you could say, in the dark arts of dirty politics. - you know, he was the guy that was running bush's campaign, doing all that stuff. - so lee atwater was able n create a parallel campa where all the dirty work is being done by operatives

. - so in 1992, bill clinton was up against george h. w. bush. - the country was unsettled. it had just gone through a deep recession. ed the deficit seem to be out of control, and there was the beginning of a kind of alienation from both parties. - it was very clear from the beginning that my job was to have a campaign that was designed to make points, not to send him to the. he told me he did not want to go to the white house, would not go to the white house, and i said, "good, 'cause i don't wanto go either." - it's very hard to come up with the resources to get on the ballot in all 50 states, but if you'a're a billionaire ad willing to help pay for it, and if you are a big enough name that you can get support, it is possible. - if you wanted meo run as your servan i would run a world-class, properly financed campaign. you know, just put it down this way. i'm buying it for the american people. that's it. [cheering] - good evening. perot petition committee. - he gets you fired up, doesn't he? - 6 million people called his 1-800 number to volunteer to sign up, which is a gi

will friday $1 trillion deficit in the coming fiscal year, a bigger deficit than george h. w. bush to win the first gulf war and a bigger deficit than george bush to fight the second gulf war. all of this is coming to a head and the financial markets are telling us this. it is a funny thing to talk about millennials. i don't know if there are many here. some of mine? [applause] david they are unpersuaded. :they are not mobilized. all humans like think they can feel when they are respected and they know who has their interests at heart and they are going to demonstrate on who they feel is not protecting tuesday them. [applause] david: this debate if in another way. but we are arguing about is not who is right and who is wrong. of course, i am right. we are arguing to who does the future belong? is it possible to be right and still to lose? the future belongs to my side of the argument. the future only belongs to those who care about it. the future does not want to those who immolate the future to gain a temporary advantage. that is the policy of the trump administration and that is

i will tell you a story, i was in washington with george h. w. bush. i was staying overnight with him and he took me to his, one of his private clubs. and to fill in the rest of the story. we went down and he was absolutely great. he was president, here he is taking a young governor on his arm. he likes me before george w. bush got elected governor. i was his favorite governor. but -- went in and we had lunch. i was going to go to the alfalfa club which is a club that they have put up a dummy running for president on both the alfalfa ticket and some other ticket. and george bush should always -- a foreign organization. anyway, he took me behind into the kitchen. here is the president of the united states, taking me by the hand, going into the kitchen and he shook hands with everybody in there. everybody that was serving, everybody knew him. because he had done that so often. and he said to me, tommy, it reaffirmed what happened to me at the chevrolet dealership back in montello. and president bush says tommy, never ever forget where you come from. and

the national debt doubled under george h. w. bush from 5 to 10 trillion.k obama from 10 to almost 20 trillion. getting even worse by the day under republican donald trump. as we continue down this path, everything that americans think of when it comes to government, whether, you know, whether it's education, whether it's infrastructure, you name it, it's called nondefense discretionary spending. we'll be spending more in interest on the debt than everything else that we spend in government in that area in five years. it's getting worse. social security, medicare, medicaid, those programs are growing at such an extraordinary clip and now they are being burdened by record high spe spending. the pentagon buying weapons program that the pentagon doesn't even want. of course the trump tax cuts. it's just absolutely devastated this country's budget scenario. and what do we get for it? well if you look at the stock market, not much. we're about where we were a year ago when those tax cuts that were supposed to create explosive growth in the markets were passed. a

he is the former attorney general under george h. w. bush for two years. he and two other former attorney general's write a piece today in the washington post "thank you for your work, mr. sessions." during his tenure, the justice department broke several long-standing law enforcement records. in 2017, they prosecuted the highest number of violent offenders since 1991. department broke the record again, prosecuting more file a crime defendant's more than ever. in 2018, prosecuted the most firearm defendants ever. goals, toet four reduce the rate of murder, violent crime, opioid prescription fraud, and drug overdose deaths. he achieved all four. bobby in florida, republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. host: we are listening. caller: sessions was a great person in the senate. i thought he was too week to be to they general -- weak attorney general. i applaud the president for replacing him and i hope and prayed he would take care of the border because that is important to me. as a veteran who fought in the war, i would appreciate it for everything

among them former president george h. w. bush this photo of the 94-year-old at the ballot box flanked by his long time friend jim baker, former secretary of state turned chief of staff and sully, h.w.'s labrador service dog joining him as well. "morning joe" will be right back. for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. ensure. now up to 30 grams of protein for strength and energy! unstopand it's strengthenedting place, the by xfi pods,gateway. which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. ...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. >>> regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming 2018 election. coming up in november. against my administration. they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade. and we are winning on trade. we are winning at every level. w

secretary of labor under president george h a w -- president george h.w. bush. [applause] >> kevin when singh, navy retired, and press club member who arranged today's event. skipping over to secretary for a columnistsh rogan, for the global opinions section of the washington post. pamela powers, chief of staff to the setter it -- secretary of veterans affairs. fails,rgeant schaff president of the blinded american veterans foundation. sean bullard, president of the duet of group. [applause] all right. so -- excuse me. get into thefore i introduction, i need to ignore some other folks real quick. let me knowledge members of the headliners team responsible for organizing today's event. if you are here, please stand and be recognized. betsy fischer martin, lisa matthews, bill lord, danny cellnet, and the press club staff, especially lyndsay underwood, laura coker, and bill mccarran. [applause] i also want to say a special thank you to the members of american legion post 20, which is based right here at the national plus club -- national press club. thank you so muc

first of al fo president's punctuation -- it's true he worked for president obama and worked for george h. w. bushe's a partisan factor is belied by the facts. what's going on with the president right now? what's happening ahead? between the costumes and cereal discussion and voter i.d. and voters fraud accusations last night based on nothing whatever is going on inside his head and then this tweet today which is more predictable we knew once mueller started to gear up again trump would go after him again. what's your sense of what the factors and forces are that are kind of bearing down on president trump's psyche and how that's manifesting it several in these kind of various reactions? >> first of all, i'm not inside the president's head. i'm happy to not be. >> very disappointing. >> thank you. >> very disappointing. >> but i think what you're picking up on is right and we did know that the president and his team has been involved or at least we reported that they've been involved in answering these written questions from robert mueller that are related strictly to russian interference, not to

jtf 6, jtf north is the name of the task force on the border since george h. w. bush and jtf north on the border so what liberals today don't understand the history, what president trump has done is rightfully reinforce the border in the face of an unprecedented threat, with thousands of migrants coming and we all know that there's drugs and possible terrorists in that caravan coming to the border and this is very, pete, this is very classic trump. what the big show is that the military is there doing their duty, counter mobility operation s intelligence, meanwhile, he's got secretary of state working a diplomatic deal and it's those levers of power, national power that president trump is so good at. he's got military on the border meanwhile he's negotiating a deal and all of a sudden, you know, they've got to wait in mexico now and to apply for asylum. pete: well it takes a hard power to get that breakthrough in diplomacy oftentimes. general others have done it but none have sent this many and loosened up some of the restrictions on what they can do to support the mi

he was taken against george h. w. bush the people didn't read much into it. he ran and 96. he won the new hampshire primary. a brief moment and 96 the republican party had the same reckoning in 2016. the republican leaders had to say, there's a bigger market for this in our party that we ever realize. but they were able to shut it 796. they were able to nominate bob dole. and 99 buchanan was gearing up to run again. here's another twist. he declared the republican process rigged. he said his leaving the republican party and going to run for the nomination of what was then the reform party which ross perot had created in 1992 in his independent bid. the reform party was there, it had ballot access, automatic pool of money if you ran federal matching funds. it used to be a lot of money back there appears to buchanan steps forward to run. then in september 99, donald trump stepped forward and says, this guy buchanan, he is a racist. this guy buchanan, this is what donald trump is saying in public. on meet the press. he said this guy buchanan, can you believe david duke is out

george bush, president clinton, george w. bush, president obama all valued the contribution of newcomers to our country. ope, their h determination, their optimism, their courage. they're all american traits. when they come with those values, other presidents saw that. this president has used that as fear mongering. i don't think that is right. to get into a position to fight it we had to win on the issues that strike to the financial security of america's working families and those are our values. reporter: both you and the president spoke about the opportunity for bipartisanship. president trump said he believes there will be less gridlock with divided washington. what gives you confidence that with democrats in control you can reach deals on issues that you have not been able to reach on? rep. pelosi: public sentiment is our biggest ally. martin luther king said the ballot. the ballot, the ballot, the ballot. legislation, legislation legislation. your life, your life your life. colin to people's attention that voting was important because what happens legislatively can impact their lives. we intend for people to

george w. bush white house. elise jordan. former adviser to george w. b h bush, amerimark mcken janan and robinson.e house correspondent for the "new york times," peter baker. joe and mika have the morning off. robert mueller's office is accusing former trump campaign chairman paul manafort of violating the plea deal he agreed to earlier this year. in a joint status report filed last night mueller's team writes this. after signing the plea agreement manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the federal bureau of investigation and to the special counsel's office on a viert of subject matters. manafort's lawyers are disputing those assertions. manafort's team writes manafort has provided information to the government in an effort to live up to his cooperation obligation. he does not agree with the government's characterization or he breached the agreement. in august the federal court found manafort guilty on several counts of financial fraud. manafort entered a plea deal agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors. cases involve paul manafort's consultancy for a previously russian backed government uk

h. obama. >> reporter: but michelle obama's feelings towards trump are not necessarily partisan. after all, she warmly embraces republican president, george w. bushpartner in crime in every major thing where all of the formers gather. so we're together all of the time and i love him to death. >> reporter: and when his mother, barbara bush, passed away earlier this year, the obamas sat with first lady melania trump at the funeral, where she arrived without the president. >> it is sort of an unspoken rule that former presidents avoid directly criticize sitting presidents, but it appears that rule does not apply to former first ladies, jake. >> or former presidents, for that matter. kate bennett, thank you very much. >>> finally from us today, we finally know the names of all of the people who were killed in that horrifying shooting in thousand oaks, california, wednesday night. dan menrique. noel sparks. alana housley. mark meza jr. sean adler. justin meek. cody coffman. his friend said she is the reason she survived. telemachus orfanos. blake dingmann. ja jacob dunham. ron helus. may their memories being be a blessing. join me sunday. we'll have a

george w. bush administration in which i served in a political position, in the clinton administration and in the gorge h. bush administration, who was the president when i started at doj. so i don't say for a moment that these problems are unique to the trump administration. i do think societal factors, social media and other factors are in play here and polarization of the country not just a symptom but a cause. i also don't want to suggest that i believe personally that this is just more of the same out this president as we have seen from the prior three or four. >> the question is so important, all of you should answer it. we have identified structural changes that preseed this administration from social media to polarization as well as particular actions as well as the use of executive orders. ken, do you think that the threats to the rule of law are unique to this administration or not or is it a difference of kind? >> i think that's a fair question to ask. when i heard about this conference like other questions i had like it that was the question i had is it going to be anned a straying bashing co

george w. bush in 2000 is that people didn't think you were conservative enough." and so in 2008, as the immigration iss was really picking up steam because they h iled bills, mccain shifted and decided to become a border security first candidate. - and by july of 2007, john mccain was barupt. everybody on the campaign had quit. he was in last place in the polls. and the press that had gathered to greet him up in new hampshire had only one question in their mind, "when are you going to drop out of the race?" but john mccain doesn't quit, doesn't give up. one foot in front of the other clawed his way back and became the republican nominee. - i went over to iraq, ki and i saw it wor seand i did not want to lo in iraq after all the expenditure of american blood and treasure. so i said at the time, we cannot surrender. it was called the no surrender tour. - for while-- while senator mccain was turning his sights to iraq justays after 9/11, d i stood up posed this war, knowing that it would distract us from the reacethreats that we - i think he had counted on the fact that this would be an election about the military. about america turning the corner

george h. w. bush to the district court. president clinton to the circuit court and president obama to the supreme court somehow she has also found time to write a book. her life in particular and let me just turn the program over to supreme court justice sonia sotomayor pick it is a privilege for me to introduce her at this time.[ applause ] . >>> it was a miserable night last night. good evening, everyone and welcome to the court. i am delighted that so many of you could join us this evening for this first lecture in the supreme court's historical society 2018. this term will focus on the supreme court in world war i. 2018 marks one century since the first world war ended. a fitting moment for the society's first series to focus on that important chapter in the nation's history. this lecture series is named for the historical societies late chairman and president, leon silverman who was a tightened of the new york legal world. it was impossible to practice in new york as i did without knowing leon. he was everywhere. among