george h. bush appointing souter -- >> he replaced william brannen, but he was -- the only choice for that slot. >> george herbert walker bush didn't care that much about the supreme court. that was not his issue. the souter seat came up when the berlin wall was coming down. the following year he nominated thomas. >> he didn't say i will nominate someone that was a moderate swing vote. the conservatives thought they were getting one of their own. >> souter's decision was clear. if you go to ginsburg, sotomayor, kagan, they're as promised. >> who would obama appoint. >> i think did you val patrick is a -- duval patrick. janet napolitano, former governor of arizona. >> the last would be probably last controversial of the three, janet napolitano because republicans have had it in for her -- >> after the speech at the convention. >> clear partisan. that would be pretty controversial. if obama goes the judge route. i think goodwin lou. >> he was filibustered. it is different to filibuster someone for thh supreme court. you really have to talk. the way the senate works, i mean, it is so completely dysfunctional is that a sena

we know of the bin laden family involved in the carlyle group, and the relationship with george herbert walker bush to all of that. you see where i'm going with this. the bush administration has a lot of people that have relationships with saudi arabia is that a bad idea? >> guest: well, it is very hard to judge the nature of those relationships. and i think, having been judged wrongly on a pretty shallow basis, i'm really loathed to judge individuals without full possession of the facts. so, i don't want to comment on individuals. but i think, given the difficulties that now have risen in the u.s.-saudi relationship, they need to be dealt with at arm's length. and not, in my view, given the kind of sympathy that we would accord to a country that was working hard to prevent the damaging consequences of their past policies. c-span: what's the basis of -- as you say in your book, the hatred for israel by the arab countries? >> guest: i think there's a whole range of views here, but some of it is -- is instrumental. that is to say, it is being manipulated by dictatorial governments that -- that are cl

and then it went and shot back up under george herbert walker bush. and george herbert walker bush never bought the growth concept that reagan brought. so growth has got to be the key. and with enough growth you can deal with the deficit problem, and that's, that's the reagan lesson that is certainly lost by the people who look down on reagan in historical terms, but lost on a lot of people including dick cheney, i believe, who is basically -- became cavalier about deficits. i don't think that's very smart. but to take deficit as your focus is also not politically smart. >> david? >> oh, i would agree with that. in a sense, of course, cheney's comments were taken out of context because they came at a time when the deficit was significantly lower than it is today, and he was saying, basically, what reagan did, that growth is the important thing. you know, years ago milton friedman took the position that because of the nature of the two parties, one promising all these things and the other one's paying it, that what the republicans ought to do, what the

george w. bush was first brought into the reagan campaign or his father's campaign actually george herbert walker bush campaign as the guy who would be their connection to evangelicals apparently ted cruz played that role in the george w. bush campaign and and also played a role in getting it before the supreme court when when he. appeared to have lost the vote in florida. yeah i was astounded to find this note book by one of george w. bush's top advisers timothy go climb help i hope i'm spelling pronouncing that correctly but go home and says in a book which had a forward by karl rove. which it is a serious you know political confessional testimony and copeland stated that. when the nine hundred ninety nine ted cruz was on the working with the camp intellect george w. bush and bush for president and he had the connections to. get go going to meeting with paul why rick who really was want that top one two or three in a top among the top three architects of their and why rick was the guy who back in one thousand nine hundred eighty said i don't want everybody to vote i mean he spotted alec he help

of brown brothers harriman was george herbert walker and george that prescott bush that's right he was the you know when the nazis prescott bush in fact married the daughter of george herbert walker and that's how he got to be the chairman of the board of brown brothers harriman when when george herbert walker went to set up a bank the union bank of new york that helped set up a branch. in the netherlands they helped fund hitler to rise to power as the ball worked against communism in europe now these are historical facts that those of us who work in this area the special area have come to know very well what we've been trying to do is when we had some can access to the judicial branch we could get to the judicial branch in place this type of information before a jury and ask a jury to decide what they think about something like this the problem is now that with such a huge majority of the federal judges all appointed by ronald reagan george bush are left over from richard nixon in ford you know that the problem is they don't care about the constitution they basically think the constit

george herbert walker bush did very well. gerald ford is greatly admired. george w. bush has been very polarizing. there have been some outstanding republican presidents have done an amazing job for our country. you mentioned the draft. i was thinking about politicians in d.c. today. the problem with a lot of them today is they became lawyers and politicians. it used to be that we honored a man first for service to his country, meaning most of our residents were speakers of the house, senate majority leaders, ad been a general or kernel. -- colonel. e honored them for their military service to the country, then they became president. how we have people in washington with no military service -- now we have people in washington with no military service. they tend to use washington to line their own pockets. e might have to raise $1.5 billion to want to run for president in 2016. the money and lobbying has gotten so out of control. it is hard as a father of three ids to say, i want you to grow up to be like a politician. i honor scientists, doctors, explorers, teachers.

when you think about what he accomplished there and how george herbert walker bush kind of reverse it, in his last budget proposal for his last year that they went up to congress, he had the deficit down. that deficit was down to less than 3% of gdp which is a manageable level and then a shot back up under george herbert walker bush and he never bought the growth idiom concept that ronald reagan brought. so the growth has got to be the key to that with enough growth, you can deal with the debt and deficit problem and that is the ronald reagan was in that is certainly lost by the people who look down on him in historical terms. but lost on a lot of people including cheney who basically became cavalier about deficits. i don't think that's very smart but to take the deficit as your focus is also not politically smart. >> in a sense of course his comments are taken out of context. they came at a time when the deficit was significantly lower than it is today and he was saying basically growth is the important thing. you know coming years ago milton friedman took the position that because t

gave president george herbert walker bush had a conversation about raising the debt limit. during the clinton administration there were three conversations over the debt limit. you and i participated in three of those. and now he's say i am not going to do this. i'm going to tell you this, george, the nation's credit is at risk because of the government's refusal to sit down and have a conversation. >> speaker couldn't be more clear there. he doesn't have the votes on the floor to get a so-called clean budget passed that would reopen the government and relieve the tension about the debt ceiling but new york governor charles schumer said that's not the case. listen what he said on "new day." >> i'd reissue my friendly challenge to speaker boehner. just put it on the floor. let's see if we have votes. i have very little doubt if speaker boehner put it on the floor would pass, i think the real reason he doesn't put it on the floor it would enrage the tea party. >> let's bring in jim acosta at the white house. jim, i'm sure we can take a tally and figure out what the real vote

this isn't george herbert walker bush or george w. bush in 2001 or 2003, this is the current budget that we are going to have to negotiate and find common ground, cuts the tax rate from 39.6% to 25% in order to slash all of the social-safety net programs that we reviewed earlier. wrong-headed policy? well, as i close, and as this chart illustrates, when the top tax rate was at 39.6%, notwithstanding the fact that so many people on the other side of the aisle in good faith constantly say that type of tax rate is the type of rate that hurts the economy, but under the eight years of the clinton administration, 39.6% top tax rate, 20-plus million jobs created. eight years later, when the top tax rate was cut by this to 35%, we 39.6% jobs, that's an apples-to-apples comparison that discredits the notion that lowering the tax rate somehow stimulates growth in the economy when the eight years of the clinton administration as compared to the eight years of the bush administration clearly discredit that theory in the manner that a former presid

presidents reagan, clinton, george herbert walker bush, even this president a few years ago. >> you haveing sure we're aware of that history. the history i'm concerned about is last night in your vote. would you be happy if right now we were in default? >> nobody wanted to be in default. but frankly the president didn't negotiate. now we're where we are. >> that's just not accurate, luke. the president's budget is $238 billion less than the funding bill that we just approved that funds government through january. that was the budget that paul ryan himself proposed. had you guys just accepted that in july we would have been able to keep our government open, averting the default, and we could have been focusing on a jobs bill, passing immigration reform, moving our country forward. there's a lot of other things we could have been doing. the president and democrats met the republicans at their own budget number. but the republicans couldn't even take yes for an answer. >> this is what passes for negotiation now, this president and the democrats. they decide what thing we don't like we shoul

even though president george herbert walker bush had a conversation about raising the debt limit. during the clinton administration, there were three fights over the debt limit. you and i participated in several of those. and even president obama himself, in 2011, went through negotiation. now, he's saying no. i'm not going to do this. i'll tell you what, george. the nation's credit is at risk because of the administration's refusal to sit down and have a conversation. >> they're saying it's a risk because of your refusal to pass a clean debt limit increase. >> we're not going to pass a clean debt limit increase. i told the president, there's no way we're going to pass one. the votes are not in the house to pass a clean debt limit. and the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us. >> under no circumstances will you pass a clean debt limit? >> we're not going down that path. it is time to deal with america's problems. how can you raise the debt limit and do nothing about the underlying problem? george, we've spent more than what we've brought in for 55 of t

it was true of ronald reagan, bill clinton, george herbert walker bush or even president obama.year-plus ago. and so our best opportunity to get our budget under control is in conjunction with the debt ceiling. frankly, because it's a big deal, the president should be negotiating with us to make sure it's not breached. we're losing days, because the president refuses to talk. >> do you agree that the affordable care act is part of nondiscretionary spending? >> well, i think parts of the affordable care act are part of nondiscretionary spending. >> okay, so understand when we shut the government down, it did not stop the affordable care act from going forward, correct? >> what has happened is clearly obama care has started to come into place. but you know, again, that's a part of media spent. we're past where we were a week ago. >> hold on a second. the reason i'm asking you that, congressman, is because this poll fight started out with your party saying that this piece of nondiscretionary spending, the affordable care act, something that was litigated in an election, you guys lo

negotiated with democrats who controlled the congress back then, even though president george herbert walker bush had a conversation about raising the debt limit. during the clinton administration, there were three fights over the debt limit. you and i participated in several of those. even president obama himself in 2011 went through a negotiation. now he is saying, no, i'm not going to do this. i will tell you what, george. the nation's credit is at risk because of the administration's refusal to sit down and have a conversation. >> they are saying it is at risk because of your refusal to pass a clean debt limit. >> we are not going to pass a clean debt limit increase. isold the president, there no way we are going to pass one. the votes are not in the house to pass a clean debt limit. the president is risking default by not having the conversation with us. under no circumstances will you pass a clean debt limit? >> we are not going down that path. it is time to deal with america's problems. >> what would it mean in this country if we are not able to pay millions of people in social security an

during the george herbert walker bush administration when when monsanto had invented g.m.o. hose they there was no regulations and so they went to the bush administration said please regulate this not because they were concerned about it being legal or anything but because they wanted to lock it down so nobody else could do it yes exactly and this is another point that i mention in the book that it really relates to these kinds of issues it relates to the fact that increasingly we have these large monstrous laws that are hard to understand you know you take for example glass steagall during the great depression making the entire financial sector that it was about thirty five pages long if you look at. the wall street reform bill that dodd frank that was passed again steps aside the question of whether you agree with the reforms or not you know that is literally thousands upon thousands of pages long and the complexity that goes into that is also part of this extortive process because what they have realized is by writing complex bills that nobody can understand once the bill

speaker foley has two presidents, two vice presidents, and the good wishes of the president george herbert walker bush could never have probably imagine that when he came to the floor on the first day to make his first floor speech. he said, public service is a free gift of a free people and a challenge for all of us in public life to do it we can to make our service useful for those who have sent us here. few the fill that charge with , more stability than he. the first speaker to hail from west of the rocky mountains. he brought a fresh perspective and a powerful voice to open the doors of leadership to members who represent the diversity of their country. his first campaign was legendary in its civility. before the election was even over, his opponent released a statement calling the campaign the cleanest he had ever seen that in office. , he made campaign finance reform a priority sunday legislation to the president's desk that would ensure our democracy was a government of, by, and for the people. we could not override the president's veto, but his commitment to a just democracy a testament to th

even though president george herbert walker bush had a conversation about raising the debt limit. during the clinton administration there were three fights over the debt limit that you and i participated in. obama himself went there in negotiation. now he is saying i'm not going to do this. i am going to tell you what. riskation's credit is at because of the administration's refusal to sit down and have a conversation. it is yoursaying refusal to pass a clean debt limit. >> we're not going to pass a clean debt limits. there's no way we are going to pass it. the votes are not in the house. the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us. >> under no circumstances will you pass it? >> we are not going down that path. it is time to deal with america's problems. if we areuld it mean not able to pay hospitals. there would be little pretty crises at home and important institutions. it is irresponsible. we need to negotiate. does the president want to watch this go into default? >> the president believes that they know the consequences and that this does not matter.

herbert walker bush very well. gerald ford is greatly admired. george w. bush has been very polarizing.ave been some outstanding republican presidents have done an amazing job for our country. you mentioned the draft. about politicians in d.c. today. the problem with a lot of them today is they became lawyers and politicians. it used to be that we honored a man first for service to his of our, meaning most presidents were speakers of the house, senate majority leaders, had been a general or kernel. -- colonel. we honored them for their military service to the country, then they became president. how we have people in washington with no military service -- now we have people in washington with no military service. they tend to use washington to line their own pockets. we might have to raise $1.5 billion to want to run for president in 2016. the money and lobbying has gotten so out of control. it is hard as a father of three kids to say, i want you to grow up to be like a politician. , honor scientists, doctors explorers, teachers. people otherhonor than our own politicians, that is sad.