setting up the premise of that generalization, so in 1991, you have president george h. w. bush staging or extending to iran in the second gulf war and sending the display with self-congratulatory explosives with making america great again, that is essentially what he was attempting to do. the washington consensus was caught offguard by the cutting down of the berlin wall in 1989 and the implosion of the soviet empire this waempire this was st had never been predicted either by the thinkers and the pentagon or those writing for the new york review of books. >> is that the point in time that you are thinking here comes trump? >> guest: what is his self-congratulatory explosions in the persian gulf in 1991. really it is to celebrate the great american empire and you've got the self-congratulatory bursting in air. he's in the news in 1989. >> why do you think the republicans didn't see this coming. if they got caught up in the dream of the american empire that there was nobody else in the world that mattered except the american way was the right way to and at the end purpose nation

laughter] i will round this out as chief speech writer to the president of the united states george h. w. bush and has received the prize for literary excellence and for american humor. last but not least the man who inspired this book and is as big of a contributor -- contributor can and that is james rosen the correspondent for fox news covering the white house, state department and reported from capitol hill, a pentagon, supreme court nearly all 50 states and 40 foreign countries. his articles have appeared in the new york times, wall street journal, "washington post", "harper's" and "national review" this is not his first book he is the author of the strongman. band also cheney 101. friends of bill should know he is a walking talking buckley legacy project is knowledge about bill in his belief in his last importance and relevance and how we need to realize a immense power for good reside in the buckley legacy is second to none. it has been a delight to work with him and i congratulate james not only for the excellent book he assembled bottles of for his own smart to perot's providing conte

the whole story of panama and our intervention there under president george h w bush has to do with theanal and with our desire to keep the canal. actually physically seeing how that canal threads through the country and what means to the country, interviews with the most important way to do that. one interview was with this panamanian who years before could never have had that job when it was under u.s. control. to get a physical sense of what the canal next to panama was valuable. brian: serbia. mr. gruber: serbia was supposed to be a humanitarian intervention. i think it was one place where you can look at both sides of that and come up with your own conclusions. in belgrade to a lot of serbians, all of whom felt that the intervention in 1999 in a major european city was indefensible. to inf the places i went virtually every military conflict we have, there is some humanitarian veneer over what our purposes are. specifically in belgrade, there was genocide that happened there. there was potential additional genocide. that was in the kosovo area. an interesting case of trying to see w

they take a look at foreign policy leaders ranging from woodrow wilson to george h w bush. each historian examines key figures of the 20th century from the more one to default -- from world war i to the fall of the berlin wall. the program from oregon is about three hours. this is our first session for today. it is session for on ideas and inflection points. we have five speakers. so, we have a very full slate. i will just give very brief introductions and turn it over. because we are being televised, i will chair the q and a -- q&a, and we will let the mics go around and took up the questions. our first speaker is christopher nichols, and he will be talking about the crucible of world war i. s?

everybody around the world knew that when jim baker spoke as secretary of state, he was speaking for george h-w bush. >> rose: what questions would you ask if you were in the senate as to confirm rex tillerson. >> well, i think clearly they're going to need to explore their concerns about the relationship with russia. i think, i think mr. tillerson's answers will be somewhere along the lines of what i have described. and a reassurance that as secretary of state, he will be acting only in the interest of the united states. i think that, i think it would be useful for everyone if that hearing included discussions about well, what kind of a strategy do you think we ought to follow toward russia. how do you think we ought to deal with this country that we have to have a good relationship with in some respects because we both have these gigantic nubbingly ars signals and yet at the-- arsenals and yet at the same time we have a lot of behavior on the part of the russians that is a serious problem for us. and how do you square that circle. i think the senators are going to want to have some confidence that

. >> let's bring in joe watkins,istratist and and former white house aide for george h. w. bush.nd sarah azger flores, former deputy campaign manager for carly fiorina and communications director. thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> rick, i'm going to start with you. why is this still going on, and have you seen this level of post-election vitriol ever before? >> a little bit. not this bad i don't think. i don't understand her argument. her argument -- i think kellyanne's right, they break down the blue wall. and a lot of white working class voters who used to vote for democrats voted for a republican this time in donald trump. and as palmieri's argument, is it really that there were so many racists that vote for donald trump that he won? if that's true, then didn't they used to vote for democrats? so i don't think she really wants to go there. i think it's a lot of sour grapes. they ought to be gracious they lost the election. they should move on. >> and joe, what's your reaction to this? that this is still going on. >> well, it's unfortunate that it's still going on. i k

that includes resolutions passed by the security council under president reagan and president george h w bush. and, remember that every u.s. administration since 1967, along with the entire international community, has recognized east jerusalem as among the territories that israel occupied in the six day war. now, i want to stress this point. we fully respect israel's profound historic and religious ties to the city and to its holy sites. we have never questioned that. this resolution in no manner prejudges the outcome of permanent status the negotiations, which must reflect those historic ties and the realities on the ground. that is our position. we still support it. we also strongly reject the notion that somehow the united states was the driving force behind this resolution. the egyptians and palestinians have long made clear to all of us, to all of the international community, their intentions to bring the resolution to a vote before the end of the year. and we communicated that with the israelis and they knew it anyway. the united states did not draft or originate this resolution, nor d

woodrow wilson to george h w bush. each historian examines key figures of the 20th century from the more one to default -- from world war i to the fall of the berlin wall. the program from oregon is about three hours. this is our first session for today. it is session for on ideas and inflection points. we have five speakers. so, we have a very full slate. i will just give very brief introductions and turn it over. because we are being televised, i will chair the q and a -- q&a, and we will let the mics go around and took up the questions. our first speaker is christopher nichols, and he will be talking about the crucible of world war i. chris? mr. nichols: thanks very much, andrew. -- it to begin with thanks don't even know if they are in the room -- but they have been amazing for the work behind the scenes. i have been getting a lot of plaudits for my work. they are doing the work. he is probably in the back room interviewing someone for us. i want to set the state -- the stage with woodrow wilson. there are some pla

thate talks about the fact former president clinton inherited a 4% economy from george h w bush.2 was growing not fast enough to save him in november. trump is going to inherit a strong economy. i do not think that presidents the economyble for moving, by and large. but there will be an effect. people associate it. how is the president handling the economy, as if he is writing the paychecks for all these jobs being created. -- it is a bita ludicrous. michael: bill clinton has been crowing for years about what a great job he did in the economy. .ou see what he was handed off the quarterback was george bush. the good news, he did not screw it up. simultaneity -- you get blamed for what is going on and you do not have a lot of responsibility for it. as the saying goes from a former mayor of new york -- "don't screw it up." hear more from brian moynihan. this is bloomberg. ♪ michael: francine: -- francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance." does go places that are celebrating bank holiday. i'm francine lacqua in london. michael mckee is in new york. we have quite a lot to talk about i

george w. bush had a 50 percent bill clinton had 62% in 1989 george h. w. transition. >>james: he will get to keep his job on the reality is so--show >>james: he hosted the show for 14 years more questions being raised about the deadly warehouse fire next wild mushrooms making more people sick and california. several people have been complaining about smelly and foul tasting drinking water in san francisco this week... and official say it's being caused by a harmless algae byproduct. the s-f-p-u-c >>darya: they're taking steps to force the system but that could take a week before returns to normal even though the water may seem hurt the in musty and have a bad smell it is still safe for you to drink a warning for doctors after they say they're arise in people getting sick from eating wild mushrooms the poisonous mushrooms look and smell like the good ones wild mushrooms and we grow in shady moist and humid places and in some cases that can cause damage to your liver and even that and can be deadly to dogs. right when you feel a cold sore, abreva can heal it

that includes resolutions passed by the security council under president reagan and president george h w bush. and, remember that every u.s. administration since 1967, along with the entire international community, has recognized east jerusalem as among the territories that israel occupied in the six day war. now, i want to stress this point. we fully respect israel's profound historic and religious ties to the city and to its holy sites. we have never questioned that. this resolution in no manner prejudges the outcome of permanent status the negotiations which must reflect , those historic ties and the realities on the ground. that is our position. we still support it. we also strongly reject the notion that somehow the united states was the driving force behind this resolution. the egyptians and palestinians have long made clear to all of us, to all of the international community, their intentions to bring the resolution to a vote before the end of the year. and we communicated that with the israelis and they knew it anyway. the united states did not draft or originate this resolution, nor

i remember back in the george h w bush administration when they tried to show a picture with noriega in the same room as george bush and implied that somehow they were in cahoots when in fact, that was not true. so the media, they play games. and i hope that the trump supporters realize that the aret-wing and left-wing definitely going to be after him. and it is a fight. and i hope you stay on board with donald trump. let's see. whenever he does something i disagree with, i will call into c-span. but it is like whenever elizabeth warren accused the frankicans of gutting. when in fact, with a democratic senate and a republican house, they agreed to it because -- want it or down that road. i want to stick to the topic i am asking you about. npr had this story about stocks. donald trump insists he can do all the business deals he wants while serving in the white house. but a 2012 law barring insider trading could make doing so a lot more complicated. the stock act bars members of conduct from buying and selling securities based on inside information. the u.s. government of ethics says th

what he is not aware of his leading up to the downfall of the former soviet union, reagan and george h w bush basically through their defense spending and military buildup, really spent the russians into the poor house to the point where they could not keep up, and then eventually fell. 25 years have passed. the former soviet union has a lot of business in the industry and international deals. it is not the same soviet union or russia that reagan and h w bush were dealing with. unless trump wants to do some massive deficit spending to soviets, i don't soviets, i dow what he is going to do. host: you think outspending the soviets militarily can work in today's world? in today's economy that is so interconnected? caller: they are not the same country they were 25 years ago. communism, their interactions economically with the rest of the free world. they dealt with china and cuba. of the global situation today, economically, and in terms of business and industry and deals, it is a different world for them than it was 25 years ago. host: does that make the same approach used by reagan and george

she was the deputy chief under george h w bush, and the last time the increase happened was under hisinistration. if she were to get behind this which industry groups are hoping she might have a sort of key position not only as the chief of the dot if she in confirmed but also the wife of mitch mcconnell. there is an opportunity for some sort of backdoor dialogue there and maybe she can help get senate republicans on board. david: thank you so much. denying it cuto daily atm withdrawals. ♪ ♪ david: live from bloomberg's world headquarters, i am david start with the- headlines. taylor: the president of south korea has been impeached. lawmakers voted to remove him from office after a -- remove her from office after a peddling scandal. the constitutional court will deliberate over whether to end her presidency or reinstate her. defense secretary ash carter says the u.s. will assist afghanistan for years to come. >> we not only continue supporting our afghan partners, but continue our cantered -- counterterrorism mission into the future to ensure no safetyst group can seek haven so that i

george w. bush and george h. bush also took extraordinary plans to assure the public that their actions would be in the public interest and that there would be no infringement on the private interest or private holdings so that's not happening in this administration so far. maybe we will get a different announcement on december 15. but my thoughts would be we have a president elect is already beginning to use the power and nonorthodox ways. because it is a matter of tradition, he said correctly the walls of the conflict of interest don't govern the president said he can do what he wants. what we are relying on is a sin line of the presidential tradition going back to the beginning of the republic. if it is preached, and i'm not saying that it will be but my thought has been we have a special obligation to track the extraordinary behavior in the executive branch of the chief executive unlike any seen before. >> i have a few questions here when you are ready to raise your hand. can you give me a brief scope of the e

administration's of johnson, richard nixon, gerald ford, jimmy ronald reagan, george george h, bill clinton, w. bush, and now barack obama, the only nce 1967, president who had not had at least one israeli-palestinian security council resolution passed during his tenure is barack obama. so our vote today is fully in bipartisan history of how american presidents have pproached both the issue and the role of this body. of this consistency position across u.s. administrations, one would think that it would be a routine vote to allow the pass sang of a resolution with the elements in this one. reaffirming the long standing u.s. position on settlements, and mning violence incitement, and calling for the parties to start taking reverse ive steps to current trends on the ground. these are familiar well components of u.s. policy. but in reality, this vote for us was not straightforward. because of where it's taking united nations. for the simple truth is, that for as long as israel has been a member of this institution, israel has been treated differently from other nations united nations. and not only in d

george w. bush in 2008 h to travel on air force one with him and go to ft., to give kind of his closing speech when it came to military affairs and a retrospective. how do you describe president obama's legacy, as you look forward to this speech that's coming up next hour? what do you think his legacy is? >> well, president bush gave his speech at ft. campbell. that was appropriate because president bush was the big army president. he famously deployed well over 100,000 troops to iraq and afghanistan. conversely, it's very appropriate that president obama is at mcdill, the home of special operations command because he's the special operations president. his most notable success, of course, was the bin laden raid. he's very happy with how that went. he's very happy that's part of his legacy. so, because he has so many fewer troops deployed, only 15,000, as he'll say in the speech, rather than the 180,000 that were deployed when he took office, he's had to rely more and more on these special operators. >> as we mentioned, you worked on the issues in iraq. i me

h his first nes conference. three days after he was elected and the supreme court decideded thatat election, george w. bush his first news conference. donald trump has not had a news conference since july. he has not had any news conference since he was elected. ist he wants to avoid here being ganged up on. he is desperately afraid thahat there mighght be a a variety of questions coming from various news organizations about the same set of issues. and that would make him look and feel less powerful. and so like many -- and i use this word advisedly -- many dictators were tyrants in history who do notot want to hae news conferences, they do not want to be bothered d with ququestions from the press, dond trump is avoiding the possibibility that he will have many different news outlets asking him and pummeling him with questions. he does not want that possibility. amy: and finally, you talk about bypassing the media and communicating with the public directly, as he does with tweets, as h he does witith his rallies -- which he seems to be continuing. in fact, just this past weekend, another victory rally. i w

h he does it. this idea of a man who far more than barack obama, far more than george w. bush, has thrown himself into this process, has interviewed people, is on the phone constantly, whereas the impression i have is that the selection by other presidents was much more a product of a transition team and much more a product of clearly involvement by the president-elect, but much more the involvement of a team, whereas this president wants to touch and talk to and get a personal sense of the men and women he wants to serve. >> exactly. and i think it's far, far too early, charlie, to offer an appraisal of this approach that is either positive or negative. i think the country and those of us obligated to cover this process as it unfolds before us need to take it step by step and judge it as the results speak for themselves. remember, jimmy carter was a president who was deeply involved in the day-to-day and hour-by-hour details of his presidency and it bogged him down. it separated himself from the larger vision. so there is a danger involved in that kind of involvement and, yet