>with due president is george h.w. bush. >> rose: he said he would prefer to have he would rather be a very good one term president -- >> yes, i was introducing my article to actually to disagree with it saying there are rare examples of the excellent one term presidents, possible that in the long-term of history bush 41 will be seen this way. >> bush 43 based on what bob was saying about lyndon johnson responding to the selma march in the way he did, i think the verdict on bush 43 may in the long run become even harsher than it is now because he responded to 9/11 attacks in a way that going into iraq and not addressing any of the economic, strategic, et cetera issues that had a unique chance to be addressed so it was the first historical moments that were not used. >> when we were talking about presidential leadership, i thought when we talked about kennedy, it is the, it is a ability through speech making to ignite a country's best homes, i mean, when you listen to kennedy's speeches you say this is idealism, i remember s

>> clinton, 12 years, george h.w. b bush, 14 years. these are people who became to president it makes you wonder, what is in there? >> colby? >> 57% of the american people want him to releashis tax returns. you have republicans who want him to release hisax returns. i was thinking this was a non- issue until i heard george will say this makes you wonder if he has something to hide. >> roger? >> this is a loser of anan issue for george romney. >> mitt romneney. george is the father. >>itt romney, sorry. democratic surrogates are going around and saying that one man has seen romney's tax returns. it was john mccain, when he was a vetting him for vice president. the first thing mcca did was say, "taiwan sarahalin instead." -- i want sarah palin instead." why not t just do it? why not just tell us what was in the cayman islands, the swiss bank accounts? romney separatesimlf from the massive average american people by doing this. >> first of all, cain said that he look at them and his answswer was not to go for sarah palin. his answer was,

george h.w. bushf parade magazine's inside interview of bush and his first lady, his accomplishments and the current state of politics. our next guest says increasing in creativity is a way of revitalizing some of the america's struggling cities. richard florida talks about the economy and his list of the top cities in the u.s. and abroad. but first, phil with the forecast. phil? >> another summer day rolling in. before we get there, down along the texas coast, along with louisiana, the beaumont area to port arthur, flash flood warnings. we people trapped in their homes. they've had thunderstorms sitting over the top of them for the last three hours, and it's just not moving. the west coast actually dealing with a little bit of rain this morning, too. we don't get a lot of that, but from phoenix to tucson, north carolina had rain early today. we have afternoon thunderstorms in the southeast. now let me take you to your weekend forecast. notice, it's pretty warm everywhere. typical for the middle of su

only exception is bill clinton in one thousand nine hundred two who was outspent by incumbent george h.w. bush yet still prevailed and never not once ever never as an incumbent president been outspent by his challenger it's never happened before never before until this election here's what thanks to the supreme court citizens united decision which trashed all limits on how much money corporations in the super rich can spend in our elections traditional presidential campaigns are now obsolete it makes very little sense today for a candidate to rely on the traditional model of the campaign finance shereen together contributions that are limited to at most twenty five hundred dollars a person especially when the new game in town thinks of the supreme court is going to as many millionaires and billionaires to invest their fortunes in super pacs and five a one c four so-called charity groups to then run endless t.v. ads supporting you or attacking your opponent and since the one percent or i should say the point zero zero zero zero zero six three percent of the roughly one hundred ninety six people

we're in the process now of canonizing george h.w. bush, but it was george h.w. bush who gave us the willy horton ads in 1988, and ronald reagan who has already achieved sainthood in the gop, he started this general campaign in 1980 in philadelphia, mississippi, and that's where the three civil rights workers were killed, and that was just, to me, such a reprehensible thing to do. i was good friends with the mother of andrew goodman, one of those civil rights workers who was murdered. and she died a couple years ago, and i'm still good friends with his brother, david goodman. that family never recovered from those murders. and to give aid and comfort to the people who killed that young man who was only 20 years old at the time, is just beyond the pale as far as i'm concerned. >> the republican party as a safe house for bigotry is strong terms and you're making the case for why you're using language that strong. i wonder, though, if as a matter of political practice, the country is also a safe house for that kind of bigotry. the thing that underlied that whole fred

mitt romney will probably be same. >> george h.w. bush won, by the way. wimp, but he won. >> also, the republicans succeeded in making michael dukakis the wimp in 1988, not george h.w. bush. so in the end, the wimp thing didn't really matter. >> we have news on the democratic side. we're waking up to news that bill clinton is going to be speaking on wednesday night of convention week in charlotte, the primetime speech that wednesday night, nominating president obama. looking at the long complicated relationship between the clintons and obamas, this is a particularly big deal. >> yeah, in 2008 at the convention there, the issue was was the democratic family going to come together? bill clinton sort of gave a big speech to sort of ratify the clinton family's stamp of approval on barack obama at the time running for president. this time the question was will bill clinton be given a big speaking role because he's kind of gone off message from the white house a few times here and there over the last several months. at the end of the day, bill clinton's appral

factor, they did that to george h.w. bush.they had him in his boat off the bay out there where he lives. here's a guy who at 18 years old, gorge h.w. bush, graduates from prep school, goes down and joins the navy, becomes a fighter bomber pilot and is shot down in the pacific, and they call him a wimp. within of the reasons they do, both these fellows are," if you will, look like wasp folks but there are a lot of those folks that have a lot of guts and courage and do a lot of things even though they are polite and have good manners. bob beckel is a guy, bob has guts, bob came on and work on my show, and even before that he was the chief salesman for jimmy carter for the panama canal treaty. you are talking about guts there. >> and it takes a lot of them, pat. and believe me, it does. >> also following you around when you were running for president was a dangerous thing to do but i did it anyway. >> but if i paid a dollar for "news ""i would put out a headline president cry baby because he can't take responsibility. he got ever

and oh, here's something interesting, it's also about equal in size to george h.w. bush's0 tax increase. and whoa, you know who signed an even bigger tax increase into law, president ronald reagan. his 1982 tax increase was about 42% bigger. reagan also cut taxes and indeed he did, he cut them big. much like obama did in the stimulus and then again in 2010 when he extended all of the bush tax cuts for two years and added more on top of that, and like he's promising to do again in 2012 when he said he would extend most of the bush tax cuts permanently. i n't think this is great. to be fiscally responsible in the country, we're going to need to do more than let the bush tax cuts expire. we have to get deficits under control, taxes have to stop being a dirty word and start being a part of budgeting. we need to have the numbers straight. the affordable care act is not the largest tax hike in history, in 50 years, 40 years, 30 years, even 20 years and if you count the scheduled expiration in 2010 of the bush tax cuts, it's not even the largest tax hike written into law in the l

george h.w. bush cut it. so this is right in line with those. that seems to make sense. >> yes, when you're talking about percentages, always matter where is you're starting from. i think it's more instructive to actually look at the dollars being cut f. you look at the total between defense and non-defense, it would represent a reduction of over $100 billion in the coming fiscal year. and that's really the number you have to focus on that translates into the economic impact that we're talking about. so a structure today, this would be a precipitous set of cuts that would happen very quickly, would happen without the benefit of strategic thinking on how they would be applied. to do that at a time when our nation continues to face an array of security issues around the globe that demand our attention, demand our presence, demand our military capability, really does not make any sense. >> so are you saying, then, that on a percentage basis, that these cuts would be fair, but your problem is the way they're going about it? they're cutting everythin

we have heard periodic peeps from jeb bush and george h.w. bushsync with the party line that they almost seem like moderate democrats. h.w. bush saying the rigidity of those pledges, the norquist pledge, is something i don't like. the circumstances change and you can't be wedded to some formula by grover norquist. it's who the hell is grover norquist, anyway, which is fighting words. >> i was expecting w. to say that. it was kind of cool, it was neat, it was massively rad being president. the interesting thing is as soon as a republican gets out of power, out of the white house, it seems that the next generation comes along and really mystifies them. george h.w. bush was mystified by the neocon hold on his son going into the iraq war. ronald reagan of course would be drummed out of the party for suggesting a 15% tax rate was too low. so there's a sort of evolution -- >> mythology is a different story. i think you're absolutely right there. this is this kind of nostalgia that is built upon corruption and amnesia. what we have to do is hold steady t

>> obama released eight years, clinton 12 years, george h.w. bush, 14 years. these are all people who got to be president. it does make you wonder, what is in there? >> colby? >> 57% of the american people want him to release his tax returns. he has promised republicans who want him to release his tax returns. i thought this was a non-issue until i heard somebody like george will say that maybe he has something to hide. let's see what is there. >> roger? >> this is a loser of an issue for george romney. >> mitt romney. george is the father. >> mitt romney, sorry. democratic as targets are going around in saying that one man has seen romney's tax returns. it was john mccain, when he was vetting him for a vice president, and the first thing he did was say, "i want sarah palin instead." why not just do it? why not tell us about what was in the swiss bank accounts? romney separates himself from the massive average american people by doing this. >> mccain's answer was not "i will go for sarah palin." his answer was, "i look at them and there was nothing in them." e

he said he hasn't seen the magazine, referred to a similar cover 25 years ago about george h.w. bush. he said he was a pretty good present. he said he has never been called a wimp before and said he doesn't lose any sleep over the criticism. brian? >> peter alexander traveling with governor romney in jerusalem. peter, thanks. >>> former vice president dick cheney said it was a mistake for senator john mccain to pick then alaska governor sarah palin as his running mate back in '08. he says she just wasn't ready to take over the top job, a bomb line qualification for a v.p. selection. >> i like governor palin. i've met her. i know her. she's an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she'd only been governor for about two years. i don't think she passed that test. >> of being ready. >> of being ready to take over. and i think that was a mistake. >> cheney went on to say the mccain campaign didn't handle the vetting process well, which, of course, is a perception the romney campaign is trying very hard not to repeat. >>> now we turn our focus to syria where violence continued

he is not bob dole when he is not george h.w. bush and i love and respect them all, voted for all of them, but when they were running, dave ran sort of old, tired campaigns. they ran 20th century campaigns. mccain was incredibly passive. he was afraid to run against barack obama and it showed. that romney does not suffer from that is all. there is no bigger political killer on the scene and barak obama. you have to go against another political killer and tell you governor romney wants this more than life itself. he can taste it. he could taste the president be and he will do everything he can. he's not afraid of barack obama and their team and the other thing that encourages me is the romney campaign is starting to route command to organize a community organized. hot not be sending buses now to respectfully heckle obama and his surrogate. and he is the king of community organized. he was a sort of master of modern day at yours, so we didn't know what to do. they are not used to it when you hold up a mirror to them. they don't know how

it's very striking and -- development of the presidency that following reagan and following george h.w. bush, president clinton basically kept the frame work in place that would be allowed by omb and has continued to this day. >> i just want to make a comment about this point because it has been mentioned and it came up as a quote so i wanted to use it. just like a law student in class. so this question of what happens when jefferson becomes president and hiss heavy cooperation with the legislature. so john marshall, who personally did not get along with jefferson was asked, what did he think jefferson was going to be like as president? and he wrote a letter where he said he felt like jefferson was going to be what dangerous as president. and he said why?

let's go -- i mean every single president, george h.w. bush. >> it's a brutal job.ve broken. >> i mean look at obama. he's not broken but his hair is graying. they visibly age. >> bill clinton is not broken. >> oh, wait, i forget. bill clinton is not broken. you know why bill clinton is not broken because he refused to leave. >> he won't leave. >> bill clinton still in the hangar, four months later. >> they're broken when they leave but rehabilitate themselves. even nixon, you couldn't leave more broken than nixon but he becomes this age of saddle river, having journalists out to dinner, rewriting history books. even nixon can come back. there is life after the presidency if you handle yourself. >> history is like one of the reasons this is all so much fun and i think so important ultimately, is remember the way the founders described i think washington described the senate as the saucer in which -- >> the tea cooled. >> the tea cooled. >> that's what history. it takes our friend michael, says a rule, you can't write about a president in full until 25 years after th

striking and as what folks have treated in the presidency and following reagan and following george h.w. bush, president clinton kept the framework in place for review by omb of regulations and that has continued to this day. >> i want to make one more comment about this point because john mentioned it and i looked something up before i came, a quote, so i wanted to use it. just like a law student in class. so this question of what happens when jefferson becomes president and the cooperation of the legislature, so john marshall who personally did not get along with jefferson was asked what did he think jefferson would be like as president? he wrote a letter where he said he thought jefferson was going to be somewhat dangerous as president and he said why? because jefferson is going to quote, unquote, buy himself a house of representatives which would increase his personal power, but marshall always thought it would lead to the weakening was office of the president to do that and it came to fruition in the years after jefferson which is if the president so closely cooperates with the house and

wrote a book on the movement began a book with a story that i had told him about shortly after george h.w. bush was elected president, his brother called me and said that he was going to run against lowell weicker in the primary in connecticut. that actually the families had lived next door to each other and the kids didn't get along which was the real reason. but he said i need your help because we conservatives have to stick together. and i said, prescott, you are not a conservative. you have never been a conservative, and you will never be one. if you want my help because i don't like lowell weicker, that's one thing but don't try that one. he said, no, you don't understand. now that reagan's been elected we're all conservatives. and that's what i'm talking about because it was more a little thing than a philosophical thing. and a movement of ideas, i mean, this doesn't just take place among conservatives. think of the communist world. by the time the soviet union collapsed, the communist party was like the rotary club, more dangerous than the rotary club, but to find -- you would have been

carter more than thirty years before pat buchanan down in mara pointed out attempted to un see george h.w. bush in one thousand nine hundred ninety two and that's on page a wide and so what do you think about about that that mistake that they pointed out i don't think it's a mistake because the fact of the matter is that ted kennedy. launched a serious challenge president. carter. mr buchanan never succeeded in doing anything near that it's so it's it's so. it seems to me very accurate to say that no president has been challenged seriously since kennedy channel and should be toward iraq i do want to bring up one more thing the publisher of this fuck your publisher is conservative so is it fair to say that you leave in a conservative. the simple answer that question is yes. there we go straight up answer so did i mean did you get funding for the romney campaign or from a romney super pac by tad high certainly i wish i had gotten the funding from all these places unfortunately know i'm a. writer of books and it occasionally freelance magazine articles and i know when funds be ever. my wife used t

he's held a number of senior positions in the justice department during the reagan and george h.w. bush administrations, including assistant deputy attorney general in the civil rights division and deputy assistant attorney general in the environment and natural resources division, attorney general in the office of legal policy. he was a graduate of yale university law school. thank you for being here, sir. please proceed. if you would, turn your microphone on. it's in that box in front of you there. >> thank you very much, senator durbin, for inviting me here today. i'm delighted to be here. let me just summarize briefly my written statement. the first point i make is that care has to be taken in defining the term "racial profiling." and in particular, i think that it's important to bear in mind that racial profiling is disparate treatment on the basis of race. good police activities that happen to have a disparate impact on the basis of race are not racial profiling. the second point i make is that the amount of racial profiling that occurs is frequently exaggerated and that care need