we could use george h.w. bush back again, for sure. >> i think it's interesting george h.w. bush emphasized the point that the republican party is a coalition, as is the democratic party, as are have to be parties in the two-party system. and i think the fact that it has to be a coalition is maybe the one thing that can save us. and pushing them to recognize that they need this broader coalition in order to win national ofce,fi that's the -- that's the hope we have that the party will begin to think about broadening its views a its attitudes in the future. >> david fromm, anne applebaum, thank you so much for your time and for joining me on "firing line." >> thank you. >> good-bye. >> "firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible by the margaret and daniel lobe foundation, robert grenier, charles r. schwab, the david te tepper foundation, the fairweather foundation, craig newmark philanthropy and by -- corporate funding is provided by stevens inc. ♪ ♪ the people who gave the money to make mister rogers' neighborhood are the people of this and other... and... ♪ it's a be

and of course during george h.w. bush's presidency, he was the leader of the state department as secretary of state. in the year 2000 he became the leader of george w. bush's legal team that prevailed in the landmark case of bush versus gore. so we simply could not have a better lawyer-leader to be part of this program than secretary baker. so, secretary baker, thank you for taking time and being with us today as the final mark of this very important conference. >> thank you, talmage. i'm delighted to be with you. >> now, since you've been a leader in so many different arenas, and we're going to be talking about the lawyer's leader. i think a logical place to start the conversation is how do you define the word leadership, secretary baker? >> well, you know, i think it was the great historian james mcgregor burns who said that leadership is a compliment to values and the perseverance to fight for those values. i think that's a pretty good description of leadership. the toughest part of that formula is the commitment to figh

and the triumph of ronald reagan over gerald ford and george h.w. bush in that area was a clear signal. and eight years later, pat robertson decided he wanted to run himself. and won a big michigan straw poll. it puzzled george h.w. bush. he thought ministers had a role, but he was puzzled they were running for office. what i think this tells us is that people who use the evidence of their eyes and are able to put aside a pre-existing prism and see things for what they are and what robertson seems in this moment, and robertson is also fully capable of saying something else today, so the prodigal sun has a very short effect in his life, is that there is the capacity for us to use a god-given intelligence, and if you see it, say it. so chuck rosenberg, let's bring this back to the trial. the day off in the derek chauvin trial. what you will be looking for first in the closing arguments and how quickly the jury comes back or how long it takes to come back? >> i'll take the second part first, willie. i've given up on trying to predict how long it takes juis

but george h.w. bush, i had the honor and the pleasure to encounter him a few times. used to teach at texas a&m at the george bush school. he always struck me as one of the most decent individuals to occupy the white house. and the most, i had no idea that he had this sense of humor and this capacity for humor. but it was not long after he left the white house, and about the time that his presidential library was opening and school was opening at texas a&m, he gave a closed-door address to students at texas, closed door in the sense that the press was not allowed. and one of the things that presidents often have a hard time with, and george h.w. bush really had this problem, when the press was around, he sort of had to act presidential. and so he often came across as kind of -- lyndon johnson had the same problem. but once he knew there were no reporters in the room and there were no cameras, he could just sort of let himself go. and he did an imitation of dana carvy imitating himself. [ laughter ] and i have to tell you, this audience of students, these were undergra

james baker served as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush and as ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. he's interviewed about leadership and his career by attorney and historian talmadge boston in this interview hosted by baylor university law school. enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> american history tv on c-span3 every weekend documenting america's story. funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public service. >>> hello, good afternoon. welcome to politics and prose. thank you for coming out on this very beautiful day. we're very pleased to have cara robertson here to talk about her new book "the trial of lizzie borden." first a little housekeeping. let's all take a moment to silence our cell phones. i'll do that, too. we are recording. c-span is with us today so we just don't want any extra noise interruptions. also, after cara speaks, there will be time for a q&a. if you have a question you'd like to ask her, if you could use this microphone he

croft, who had been an adviser to gerald ford and would become the national security adviser to george h.w. bush. he took an interest in my career and when president h.w. bush was elected, he took me with him to be the white house soviet specialist. and i was fortunate to be the white house soviet specialist at the end of the cold war, and frankly, it doesn't get any better than that. but the second thing is find people who are interested in you and in your career who can help guide you and open up opportunity. we sometimes say, i want to get there on my own. nobody gets there absolutely on their own. there are always mentors. and there's another important lesson, sometimes we say you have to have role models and mentors who look like you. if i had been waiting for a black woman soviet specialist mentor, i would still be waiting, so your mentors, your role models can come in any color, shape or size. just find somebody who really cares about you and cares about your career. the final part of that story is that when, in 1990, mikhail gorbachev came to the white house and we were sitting together

james baker served as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush, and as ronald reagan's white house chief of staff, and treasury secretary. he's interviewed about leadership and his career by attorney and historian talmadge boston in this program hosted by baylor university law school. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >> american history tv on c-span3 every weekend, documenting america's story. funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public service. >> next on history bookshelf, legal scholar carla robertson examines the murder trial of lizzie borden in 1893. the case received international attention as lizzie borden was tried for the murder of her father and stepmother in falls river, massachusetts. politics and prose bookstore hosted this event.

. >> president george h.w. bush was the same. he said that never a day went by when he didn't think of the men that were lost and unfortunately he had that accident there that was shot done. say so, you're a student of history, obviously, and the people watching here, the great reagan library, love history. is there another period of history you're interested in thatout -- i know this is a big project. do you have another project. >> i am becoming more interested in the korean war. think it's another area that is not written about a lot. and i'm just sort of beginning to learn a little bit more about that. so that's definitely a time period that intrigues me as well and we're getting to o'pound where those men are getting on in years and i think we need to understand a little bit more but their sacrifice. i also was just so impacted myself by 9/11, just living in this area, and i think that's another time period that i want -- one of my biggest motivators was my kids and wanting them to document this story of our family and other

at the white house, and on the field at camden yards with george h.w. bush and barbara, to see the orioles play the oakland a's in 1991. and visits with the obamas, too, at windsor castle in 2016. and tonight in the uk, prime minister boris johnson speaking for all britons. >> we give thanks as a nation and a kingdom for the extraordinary life and work of prince philip, duke of edinburgh. >> reporter: prince philip will be remembered as a man dedicated to service, to the british people, and, for more than seven decades, to his queen. >> he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and i and his whole family owe him aa debt greater than he would ever claim or we shall ever know. >> mourners paying tribute to the prince and queen all day long. philip had been with the queen through so many challenges public and personal. we know the recent interview with harry and meghan making global headlines. they released something tonight? >> reporter: on the funeral, we know it won't be a state funeral. it will be a private funeral. they updated the w

the reflexive criticism of the administration is the sense that richard nixon, ronald reagan, george h.w. bushgeorge w. bush, these were republican presidents who were sent to washington by a conservative base that wanted -- at least in their minds, they wanted government to shrink. and it didn't particularly. there was still, as you were pointing out, there is still this largely the percentage of federal spending is part of gdp has been remarkably consistent or even risen under republican presidents. and so my view is that before people reflexively criticize what the president is trying to do, take a step back and let's see what has worked in periods of great american prosperity. what is worked is that the public sector and the private sector have largely been conjoined as opposed to competitive. >> niall, do you think that this marks some kind of turning point, the reagan in a sense did mark a turning point,ush earring in of more emphasis on the private sector and less on the public sector? is this a turning point? >> it might be a turning back point. it won't surprise you and your viewers b

the reagans, the bushes there, i believe that's camden yards with president george h.w. bush and first lady barbara bush. of course, the clintons and then the obamas. prince philip there and queen elizabeth. they have partnered with american presidents and first ladies for so many years, and that will be something we miss here, james, and i know that you went out of your way to sort of report on that american relationship. it's been a very close one for so many decades. and prince philip will be missed here in the united states, as well. >> yeah, absolutely. i think, you know, there's a real love of monarchy around the world. the united states is no exception. i think our hearts really go out to the queen, whether you're in the united states, in the united kingdom, anywhere on earth today, that is who people are thinking of. that moment in the church where we saw her in the pew with her mask on sitting alone, when the national anthem was sung, that was so extraordinary. to me, it wasn't sad. it was a moment we were watching the queen doing her duty which is exactly what phili

james baker served as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush. and as ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. he's interviewed about leadership and his career by attorney and historian tommage boston hosted by baylor university law school. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >> american history tv on c-span3 every weekend documenting america's story, funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public service. ocme of maryland located >> we are presently in the office of the chief medical examiner for the state of maryland located in baltimore, a state-wide agency. and these are the natural studies of unexplained death which were made in the 1940s between 1943 and 1948,

president george h.w. bush was the subject of 331 jokes during that period of time. but that volume of humor really represents nothing more than an appetizer for the way that political figures were treated by comics in the years that followed. as i describe in my new book, "late night with trump: political humor in the american presidency," my co-author and i identified 241 jokes on president trump during his first year in office on those same two programs. it is a much, much more relentless focus on politics today. carson's treatment, by the way, of quayle had one other impact that was lasting and really shaped the growing importance of late night to political discourse in american politics. starting with carson's attacks on quayle, news organizations increasingly turned to comedy clips and used them as a way to shape their own news reports. this increases the linkage between news and entertainment and help make late night comedy a key source of political discourse, and even, polls show, political learning by viewers. now, i think one issue that i think is important

it became a democratic state. 1988, george h.w. bushrowly won california in the presidential election. no republican has one it sends, no republican will ever win in california and our lifetimes. how has it happen? not much debate about it. at the counties in california was the highest percentage of republicans are not coincidentally those with the lowest percentage of immigrants and vice versa. california changed because of population change. analysis for example the 2012 presidential election showed that if you're actually from there, if you lived in the state of california 1980, you probably still voted republican. if your views had not changed. as you state swelled with foreign voters, your views became irrelevant. your political power, the power to control your own life disappeared with the arrival of new people who diluted your vote. that's the whole point. if that's not democracy, that's cheating. imagine watching a football game where one team decides to start the third quarter with an extra 40 players on the field. when you con

he had tried to assassinate president george h.w. bush. he was shooting at our aircraft. he put 4000 people in mass graves. he was a big biggest threat in the middle east. as bad as north korea and iran was, they were not in a category like iraq where there were 16 security council resolutions that said that he was a threat to international peace and security. >> and that also account for the need to focus on the israeli palestinian issues -- in a sense that it's unique compared to other parts of the world? >> yes the israeli palestinian issue is not the key to peace in the middle east and to a different kind of middle east. it is achy to a different kind of middle east. any student of international politics, from the time i was your age and in college, which admittedly is a long time ago, but from that time when you took a course an international politics people started with the most volatile region in the world, which is the middle east. that is still true today. people have been trying to do something about that for all of this time. the israeli palestinian issue is on

tonight we look at cabinet secretaries, james baker served a secretary of state for president george h.w. bush and is ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. he has interviewed about leadership in his career by attorney and historian in this program hosted by daily university law school. watch tonight beginning at 8 pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span three. or >> american history tv on c-span 3, every weekend documenting america's story. funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span 3 as a public service. don >> university of georgia professor stephen barry teaches a class about corners in the 19th century south. he did costs discusses the -- talks about the records created from their inquests. he argues that corners can shed light on the emerging patterns of death within a society and spot potential threats to public health. this is one hour and

the same model aircraft was flown by former president george h.w. bush. we are glad this pilot is okay. what a dramatic situation for those on the beach.>>> now this story. has reported, the oldest known person in america, died peacefully in her home in charlotte, north carolina over the weekend. at 116 years old. ford, was married at 14, had 12 children, 68 grandchildren, 125 great-grandchildren, and at least 120 great-great- grandchildren. she lived at home on her own unassisted until she was 108. her great-granddaughter said in a statement, she was a pillar and a solver to our family and provided much needed love, support, and understanding the us all picture not only represented our family, but the black african-american race and culture in our country. she was a reminder of how far we have, as people on this earth. wow. that's amazing. >>> still ahead, how the nation is bracing for a potential verdict in the derek chauvin trial. we will have that conversation straight ahead right here on way too early. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you

it was the heritage foundation's idea that george h.w. bush used for acid rain. through everything you said and came up with zero, zilch, nada. >> that's why you guys had the high ground, because you did it the right way. they showed bad faith and then people were with you. i am just saying if you take too much of a shortcut this time, you lose the high ground. everybody knows mitch is going to play you. let people see him play the game and everything will be a little bit more obvious, because otherwise you are never goading gun control. >> i got to go. >> quickly. >> if anybody can figure it out, it would be joe manchin, joe biden and some of the better mind on the democrat side. don't give up on joe manchin. >> or you. van jones, be well. we'll be right back. to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! all good do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy, even a term policy, for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retir

the education achieved in president george h.w. bush points of light award for his philanthropy. executive was now ceo of capitol. currently ceo of consulting, linda killinger is the federal bank of des moines chair and audit committee. she's been a consulting and national accounting firm specializing in strategic planning and merger acquisition prior to work with the publisher and editor over seed business manager was appointed by iowa governor robert ray the director of administration for that state department human services which included the prison system, mental health hospitals, and other human service programs. she was a point by governor tom bill sector chair his committee encumbrance of housing. sorry i just lost my screen. conference of housing strategy for iowa for 2002 kerry and linda killinger foundation which works on social justice building community and access to the arts. veteran journalist is a winner of nine regional emmys and editor with the honors retiring from caps gate public median 2018 and spent 23 years producing and hosting award-winning documentaries a

. >> by george h.w. bush.rack obama. >> the feeling most people get when they hear barack obama i got this thrill going up my leg. >> and by donald trump who hit back hard. >> these are just dishonest, terrible people. i'm telling you that fake, fake, disgusting news. >> have four years of increasingly hostile coverage of trump made the press more reflectively anti-republican now that joe biden is president? it's a difficult question because biden has a less confrontational style but many reporters steam admire him. >> the perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man. >> when the "new york post" broke this story of hunter biden's incriminating laptop not only did twitter censor the story and later apologize. >> incredible interference of the right to vote and be heard. >> the managing editor dismissed it saying we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. the laptop contents were confirmed but now that the president's son is out with a book on his drug addiction, man

before al gore wrote earth in the balance, republican president george h.w. bushn air act. he signed the u.n. framework convention on climate change declaring the united states plans to be the pre-eminent leader in protecting the global environment. but increasingly conservatives were turning climate change into a front. with senators mocking the idea of global warming. john mccain was the last to support climate change. and by 2010 the tea party was dominated by lawmakers who took the industry back to no climate tax pledge as pro republicans found themselves facing challengers that were well funded. >> is no man made climate change. >> the climate is always changing. >> all of this with the global warming, it's a hoax. it's a money making industry. it's a hoax. >> the trump administration made this official policy withdrawing from the paris climate accords, rolling back regulations and placing skeptics in positions. and despite data we've seen a growing partisan gap on whether combatting climate change should be funded. denialism is dangerous. we're safest and st

hour or two in my room i was placed in long-term solitary confinement from age 15 during the george h.w. bushcutive years. >> take me in that cell. paint the picture. is there a window? what were your surroundings for 18 years? >> for 18 years, my surroundings were four corners of a wall and a door. i spent most of my time in my cell just imagining i had to use my imagination to survive. imagining myself being free. imagining myself getting out and being with family. all of my family died during my incar radiation, my mother and grandmother and both grandparents and my brother. everyone died. it took me tapping into my imagination and writing poetry. that kept me alive and going. it was excruciating watching people gassed with high-powered chemical agents and prisoners being beaten by staff and the nurses falsifying reports. it was one of the most horrendous experience and no human being should live what i went through. i told you during a radio interview if what happened to george floyd happened in broad daylight, imagine what is going on behind the closed prison walls when no one is watchin

james baker served as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush and as ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. he's interviewed about leadership and his career by attorney and historian talmadge boston in this tale by baylor university law school. enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> american history tv on c-span3 every weekend, documenting america's story. funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public service.de >>> we are presently in the re office of the chief medical examiner for theell statestud maryland located in baltimore, a statewide agency. these are the atrocities of an i unsolved death between 1943 and 1948 by francis glizner lee.e she is the only woman to make ac contribution to the field of forensic science, but what she revolutionize everything. everything we've come to know id aue csi type investigation, whether in movies or real life, is all due to francis glizner lee, which she did at harvard university in boston.ide this is a diorama model

the difference is -- and it gets back to the george h.w. bush speech, the conception of conservatism viewed the free market as an instrumental means towards the ends of the flourishing of common goods. the libertarian strand saw it as the market -- [inaudible] trump tapped into that as well. here is that issue. the issue is that libertarianism in general is a very small percentage of the american population. a political scientist famously did a study after 2016, after the election, a little xy, four-quadrant plot that maps american voters based on economic, conservative, economic liberal, social conservative and socially liberal. it turns out social liberals are like 6.3% of the american population. shockingly small. however, a certainly large plurality, can't remember the number but a poorly of voters identify as socially or culturally conservative-leaning. for those of you with a long memory, you will recall that that is the precise opposite of what the 2012 republican national committee's autopsy showed, that autopsy commissioned after the ro

you compare then when you had george h.w. bushdavid duke and everyone in the republican party and the leadership, it just is so pitiful that we're watching the leadership essentially cow down to these elements within the party that are -- that its ultimate destruction at the end of the day as the country's demographics do change and republicans make it difficult to win any elections that they have not been able to pass voter suppression laws at the republican -- in the republican-held legislatures at the state level. >> zerlina, as you look at the prospective name of this new caucus, right? america first. that sounds like donald trump language. >> oh, it is donald trump language, alex, because donald trump essentially ran on white identity politics. there's a lot of criticism after the 2016 election about democrats using identity politics, but donald trump did it better than anyone. i wrote an entire book about the fact that donald trump exploited the white supremacist ideology to attract a base to pander to that base throughout t

david kessler at the hearing today he was fda commissioner under presidents george h.w. bush now for the biden administration, he essentially leads what used to be operation warp speed, and he doesn't speak publicly much. here's what he said about boosters >> i think we should expect that we may have to boost, and probably have to boost again, no decision, but the current thinking is that certainly those who are more vulnerable may have to go first. >> now, whether we need another shot in nine months or a year, he said that we don't know yet. >> there was a set back today on getting drugs that treat covid >> yeah, yes and no. so merck has been developing a closely watched drug for covid that could be the first antiviral pill for the disease, and it said today it saw promising data from a clinical trial and would move into a larger study in patients early in the course of the disease who are at high risk of hospitalization. but it said the drug didn't appear to work in patients who were already hospitalized. and it also stopped work on a separate drug for patients in the hospi

james baker served as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush and as ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. he's interviewed about leadership and his career by attorney and historian talmadge boston in this interview hosted by baylor university law school. enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> american history tv on c-span3 every weekend documenting america's story. funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public

james baker served as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush and has ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. he's interviewed about leadership and his career by attorney and historian talmadge boston in this program hosted by baylor university law school. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> american history tv on c-span3. every weekend documenting america's story. funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public service. >>> on october 12, 2000, two al qaeda suicide bombers attacked the navy destroyer "uss cole" in yemen's adan harbor, killing 17

he was previously appointed by president george h.w. bush, to serve as the commissioner of the f.d.a. dr. kessler, i thank you. for being here today to update us on our progress toward vaccinating all americans. dr. walensky, you recently said we are at a critical point in this pandemic. a fork in the road where we as a country must decide which path we are going to take. as you navigate what we all hope will be the final months of the pandemic, we must take the path of science. as so many have died, this is the path to preventing further loss of life. so many have lost their jobs, this is the path to a strong recovery. after so long, this is a path to safely returning to normal activities as soon as possible. i now recognize the ranking member, mr. scalise, for his opening remarks. mr. scalise: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate you holding this hearing. welcome our guests and look forward to your testimony. america's at an important inflection point. the covid-19 pandemic hit our shores just over a year ago. too many families mourn the

george h.w. bush we all knew made a decision to do what was right for the country, knowing, as he put it, as eloquently as he ever could, he'd be dead meat in the election, and he was. and george w. bush will tell you that there's a line from t.a.r.p. to trump. >> right. well, claire mccaskill, with this being the case. with me just stating again, fact, not opinion, that the republican party since 2009 has more often than not been the party of "no." and they've not come forward with a single major unifying plan on health care. they've said "no" to one popular bill after the other. i'm just curious, i read what my friend, joe manchin said yesterday. i know you worked with him. and joe said that he's opposed to reconciliation, he's opposed to any sort of reform on the filibuster, that he thinks they should work with the republicans. he wants to work with the republicans. well, i want my cat, meatball, to play chopin, i really do. it would be nice as i was having an early dinner to hear meatball get on t

james baker served as secretary of state for george h.w. bush, as well as ronald reagan's chief of staff and treasury secretary. this program will be hosted by baylor university law school. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on cspan3. >>> american history on c-span3, every weekend documenting america's story. funding for american history tv comes from these companies who support c-span3 as a public service. >>> next on history bookshelf, jeff guinn talks about his book "manson," about the life of

we have our first president since maybe george h.w. busho the bogeyman. >> well, also, einstein once said that american democracy had a gyroscope, just when you think it's tipping over, not just ideologically, but temperamentally and in style, it learns how to right itself. you've seen it happen during the joseph mccarthy years, and for him and for all of us, there's just some bit of magic, where even after a richard nixon, which is incredibly divisive, not even by an election, but just by happen assistance, we get a gerald ford and a jimmy carter. sort of calming figures. then we go back into the divisiveness. joe biden is the right person at the right time, because we need this sort of calming presence, somebody who can speak in a conversational voice to us. and somebody who can sap some of the poison from our discourse and bring up ideas that are transformational and historic without being divisive in a way that republicans can latch on to. to give you an example that i find extraordinarily important from last night was the notion of ext

james baker served as secretary of state for president george h.w. bush and is ronald reagan's white house chief of staff and treasury secretary. he's interviewed by attorney and historian talmage boston. baylor university law school hosted this conversation and provided the video. >> hello, my name is brad tobin, i'm the dean of baylor law school. thank you for joining us today as we have a virtual front-row seat to listen in on a fascinating discussion between our friend talmage boston and former secretary of state james baker iii. secretary baker was a powerhouse in washington, d.c. in the beltway and literally around the globe as he served as the united states secretary of state and also further served four united states presidents over the course of three decades. secretary baker was scheduled to be our capstone speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership

let me first of all say i meant george h.w. bushregard to going to los angeles after the rodney king verdict. there are many things that white brothers and sisters can do? they can operate within their own sphere, within their own comfort zones. when you go home for thanksgiving and you know that there are some nasty viewpoints being expressed and you know that there are some expressions made against black people, you got to hold your family to account. not nastily. eat first and get the pie and don't be silly but after you consume the beverages and you have frivolity, speak to them. directly. also at your own place of business. what are you doing to make sure that different voices are heard, different bodies are there, different perspectives on had? in the institutions of higher education, are people studying this as a measure of studying what happens in america. as american history. so many people speak about race as if an encounter with a black person at mcdonald's substitutes for a serious engagement. so the point is that if you

george w. bush -- george h.w. bush called it voodoo economics.he republicans are still clinging to these voodoo economics of trickle-down. it does not work. that is the comment one time that i wanted to make. the other comment i wanted to make about the republican response -- tim scott is an embarrassment to black people. i heard him on an interview saying he was pulled over eight times for driving while black. and he does not support his own people? this is an embarrassment. i don't want to use the term out of the book, "uncle tom," but i am a white person and i can see it. host: we will hear from senator scott, who gave the republican response to the speech last night. let's check in with john mcardle. john: several callers this morning mentioning former president trump. he was on foxbusiness this morning, less than a half-hour ago, with maria bartiromo. here is the herald newspaper, wrap up of his appearance on fox, saying former president slammed -- a raid on president trump's attorney, giuliani, apartment. trump's comments coming a day after

first of all, you know, i don't know who it was, george bush, george h.w. tant you feel kind of stupid, right what's the headline in the wall street journal today u.s. economy bounces back near its peak the economy is humming the markets are humming. all of those are reaching near highs. there's a disconnect between the notion that somehow wall street and u.s. companies in general are not doing their job. they're doing their job and that's why i wonderabout and worry about how i'm going to pay for some of the stuff on the social side. you don't want to triple that. you don't want to, you know, inhibit that or impede what's going on right now i mean, i think things are actually quite good in the country at the moment and i think you can let the air out of that tire by placing too great a burden on the corporate side and on wall street the other thing is, you know, the last income seemed to want to -- i don't know if he wanted to or it just was his nature to govern by division he wanted to divide or he did, in fact, divide the country, you know every approach

thinking back to 1992, bill clinton defeated george h.w. bush in part because of a sagging economy. so the economy was start to go pick up again. here, there are a lot of economists predicting 2021 was going to be a good year regardless as we were getting out of a year of lockdown. so you look at that and look at the fact that we were going to be moving into the share plus, you have one relief bill after another and an oversized stimulus plan, an oversized infrastructure plan, according to a lot of economists. and there's no doubt that if we see 6%, 7% growth over this year, we shouldn't be surprised. >> yeah. timing is everything, you're right. and, in fact, joe biden came into a situation where vaccinations, whenever they arrive, were going to make the covid situation better and where the economy was so low that illustrate was going to get better, too. but, obviously, president trump, were he re-elected, would not have gone as big and as bold with some of these packages. covid looms over everything we're talking about. before taking office, here is what joe biden was pledging to a

the young governor from arkansas used divisive campaign rhetoric as he ran against george h.w. bush for president. then-governor clinton, time and again, spoke of his disagreement with president bush's zero tolerance immigration policy. . some feared that he was creating an unrealistic expectation for the haitian people who were suffering from significant unrest in their country. in the "new york times" an article entitled clinton inspires hope and fear in haiti, a writer wrote it was mr. clinton who helped create the expectation of an exodus from haiti when he condemned the bush administration for a cruel policy of returning haitian refugees to a brutal dictatorship without an asylum hearing. end quote. we all know from our history that in november of 1992 governor clinton won the presidential election. because of now president-elect clinton's promises the people of haiti anticipated being welcomed into the united states with open arms. the problem is, after securing the white house, president clinton changed his mind. after learning that perhaps the true toll such an exodus would

george h.w. and george w. bush administrations. she's served as an e.p.a. manager. she is a good listener. that comes from no small part from her hoosier background where she spent time with pragmatic people. that's what she'll bring with you -- with her to the role of deputy administrator if confirmed. i urge my colleagues to join me in voting yes on this nomination. thank you very much. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of executive calendar number 54, janet garvin mccabe of indiana to be deputy administrator of the environmental protection agency signed by 18 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of janet garvin mccabe of indiana to be deputy administrator of the environmental protection agency shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are ma