if you look at where we were 20 years ago, george herbert walker bush won the state of california. we're not competitive anymore in the state of california. not even a pretense of being competitive. we're not competing in states like new jersey that ronald reagan and george herbert walker bush run a generation ago. we need to reinvigorate the party in the northeast and the west and we can't lose ground, for example, in the rocky mountain west. the country is changing demographically and the republican party cannot represent a time in the eyes of the american people that is long gone and never coming back. we have to have solutions to today's problems. we have to have reality-based solutions, not just a bunch of rhetoric and not just the angry musings of talk radio hosts all for the american people. >> i think the thing that bob dole contributed to that critique this weekend -- and i'm not a republican, but i can see thanking him if i was interested in the health of the future republican party is that he's talking about there being a realistic past to look back to where you don't ha

george w. bush, as likable a human being as has ever occupied the office. >> they are both likable individuals. this thing with george herbert walker bush, just for a moment, i remember when things started to go bad. during the time that david duke was running for government in was kind louisiana, it of going badly, but there with bush aterbert walker the compound, having a fine old time, with his boat colon across the water. he seemed to be completely out of touch for that period, completely out of touch with the country, and he was getting whacked by pat buchanan for being out of touch. >> some final thoughts on the modern presidency. george bush has just opened up a presidential library in texas and you can test herself against some of the decisions he made as president. an interesting concept. bill clinton said once, there is no test on qualifications to be president, no school for the presidency. it is all on the job training. but with hindsight and no personal stake in the game, i give me your take on qualities for a successful presidency. personally, i would put good luck and good timing of the top of the list. >> you are ri

. >> guest: that's true but there's something in it where it is george herbert walker bush or the remnants of the administration the complicity in covering up for gorbachev and president ford not having a meeting of a was a very important moment. there was this notion always of highly soviet crimes similar to preserve american policy. >> host: roll forward to the 21st century and other ideologies their radical islam and people who like communist china. to extent can we repeat the state's? >> guest: we are repeating them right now and i will argue i see the parallel particularly struggling, communist china we have seen this before and we'll understand how that works. i think it is the note utilitarian that is an infiltrating and i think that we were -- communism is the first wave. i think on our ability to confront ideology we have taken ideology about it in fact some the basis of our policies and we are doing it with islam and seen the same pattern over and over again. and your islamophobia if you talk about that. the same story

the only president in the last like 40 years that has escaped scandal is herbert -- george herbert walker bush. that's because he only had one term. shouldn't you just make the term six years? clinton had lieu lewinski and white water and gw had iraq and katrina. it is like when you stay at a bar long enough you are going to end up doing drugs and sleeping with a hooker. >> you can always do it at the start of the night. we talked about how obama is the second coming of jimmy carter. he is looking like richard nixon to me. >> richard nixon was white. i have eyes. i can see that. >> you barely have eyes. >> but i can see that. >> let's move on. from irs to omg. their love for dzhokhar is bizarre. thousands of teen girls have taken to social media to pronounce their undieing affection and infection for dzhokhar tsarnaev a huge piece of [bleep] treating him like beeper. for some he is too much of a looker to rig a pressure cooker. one 16-year-old loser tweeted, yes i like justin bieber and i like dzhokhar, but that has nothing to do with why i support him. he is innocent. he is far too beautiful.

i think that's true, but i think there's something in it, whether it's a george herbert walker bush or remanents of various administrations. the complicity in covering up in president afford, not having a meeting, that was an important moment. there was a notion, always, of hiding soviet crime in order to preserve american policy. >> host: in the remaining two minutes. >> guest: two minutes. >> host: roll forward to today, 21st century, the other totalitarian ideologies, radical islam, people who like communism china, whatever, and to what extent we can repeat the same mistakes? >> guest: oh, we're repeating them right now, and, actually, i do argue that i see the parallels, particularly strongly. communism china, we see this before, we understand how that worksment i think, though, that islam is the new totalitarian ideology that is infiltrating, and i think that we were -- communism was the first wave. i think, we, again, our morals, our ability to confront ideology, i think, we have taken ideology rather than factings to the basis of our policies, and i think we're doing it again wi

. >> what about george herbert walker bush? >> i did not agree with the persian gulf war. the 49 provinces of iraq, which britishted by the foreign office in 1919 anyway. whether kuwait is part of it or not. caring about the emirate of kuwait. it was just a nasty dictatorship of saddam hussein. so we should not have been in it, and i gave him a bad mark for building up the welfare state and creating the monsters of cheney and all the rest of it that came the next time around. on the other hand, he did try to balance the budget, and even though he said he was not going to, and i give him credit for that, and he is not on either list. ronald reagan, i think he massively made mistakes on defense. the defense budget was not just a waste of money in those eight years, it was what created the war machine that created so much havoc in the world and created so much anger and problems throughout the world that were totally unnecessary. hubris that imperial power. that was a real negative. on the other camp, -- the other hand, he did stand up for limiting the state. is noternment, t

i think that's true, but i think there's something in it whether it's george herbert walker bush or, you know, remnants of various administrations, the complicity in covering up for gorbachev and covering up for the gulag and president ford in not having a meeting with -- [inaudible] and that was a very important moment, there was this notion always of hiding soviet crime in order to preserve american policy. >> host: in the remaining two minutes -- >> guest: yes, two minutes. >> host: -- roll forward to today, 21st century. >> guest: yeah. >> host: there are other totalitarian ideologies. there are radical islam, there are people who like communist china, whatever. to what extent we can repeat the same mistakes? >> guest: oh, we're repeating them right now, and, actually, i do argue -- i see the parallels particularly strongly. i mean, communist china, we've seen this before. we understand how that works. i think, though, that islam is the new totalitarian ideology that is infiltrating, and i think that we were, communism was the first wave. i think, again, our morals, our ability t

it's on the george herbert walker bush carrier.ighter plane and can reach an altitude of 40,000 feet. looks like a stealth. >> gretchen: yemeni prison who are has been held for more than ten years at gitmo says president obama abandoned him by not closing the prison. he has complained about the inhumane conditions. the suspect has lost a court challenge, though, to his detention. >> brian: forget about the speed pass. go to the front of the line if you are handicapped. we all know that. that's a nice thing disney does. now people are hiring handicapped tour guides. it's reported wealthy manhattan moms are doing just that, having people from dream tours, florida, pretend to be family members. a little girl waited only a minute, while others waited two hours. the black market disney guides run $130 an hour. the man who runs the tour company denies the claim. disney has not commented. what are they going to do? i.d. the kids in wheelchairs to see if their parents are really their parents and their guardian s submit to questioning? >>

it is true but there is something whether george herbert walker bush or remnants of various administrations to cover up also president ford that was an important moment but the notion of hiding soviet crime in order to preserve american policy. >> host: but 21st century the otherwhere totalitarian ideologies people who like it radical islam word communist china but what could be a repeat the same mistakes? >> guest: we are right now. i would argue the parallel particularly with communist china we have seen it before in the understand how that works by is long is the new totalitarian ideology that is infiltrating and communism was the first wave with our ability to confront to take ideology rather than facts of policies and we're doing it again with the art is long and receive the same pattern over and over. >> is it possible today with so many tools in the hands of the fbi and other agencies to read people's e-mail sam listened to people? is a possible for these proponents of radical islam or of the -- other ideology to be in the u.s. government? >> there on the inside without these orlich

>>steve: president george herbert walker bush is in a wheelchair last week but all in all. looked great the other day. >> if you see him in pictures, he's still wearing a tool belt helping out habitat for humanity. another great example that age is but a number. >>steve: catch dr. stork later today on "the doctors" where they welcome back carmen tarlington in her first interview her first interview successful transplant. ♪ i've got the power people lose 5x more weight following the weight watchers approach than trying on their own. you can too. the new weight watchers 360 program. join for free and check out the new risk free guarantee today. because it works. some changes you liked. and some you didn't. come back to see us. we listened to you. now we'd love to see you. ♪ he (cat purring) and you can make them evene for the more special... with fancy feast mornings. mornings are delicious protein-rich entrées... with garden veggs and egg. each one perfectly designed... to start her day with a little love. fancy feast mornings gourmet cat food. thbest ingredient is love. ♪ t

so when i look at george herbert walker bush and discuss bush essentially as a unilateralist, he saw the demise of the soviet union as an opportunity to make sure that the unit in international security. he was not prepared to negotiate with the new russia and it took the congress to put arms control on the agenda with the very important none luke are built the threat bill that reduced weapons throughout the former soviet union. not only was bush a unilateralist but he surrounded himself with unilateral that were far more dangerous than bush and of course i'm talking about dick cheney who was the secretary of defense, scooter libby and paul wolfowitz who were senior aides to cheney and this is the threesome that wrote the doctrine of unilateralism that was eventually leaked to "the los angeles times" and then tamp down but these were the same individuals who brought us the 2003 war against iraq, a totally unnecessary war in which deceit was used to march the country into war. bush was followed by bill clinton. bill clinton admitted from the very outset and repeats it in his memoir th