the perception that he was not a domestic policy person. - [evan] talk about that. - george bush, george herbert walker bush, passed more domestic legislation than any president except lyndon johnson and franklin roosevelt. - and those were two special circumstances. - yes, and he passed more conservative legislation than any president in history. - right, yeah. - the budget agreement, which he, at that time, was not very popular, the five-year budget agreement. but it turned out to create all the surpluses of the '90s, and the growth period, the 10-year growth period-- - and the clinton folks will say, "well, we did." the predicate was in this four years. - it was, because this set - all the rules for budgeting with caps and everything that congress and clinton just had to enforce and it occurred. - right. - clean air act, he broke the 13-year stalemate on clean air by bringing market-based solutions to the problem. the energy policy act, which was the broadest and most significant and probably the only solid energy strategy this country's ever had. it got discarded by subsequent administrations but w

chief of newsweek, - [evan] whose latest book, destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush, has just been published. he's jon meacham, this is overheard. - [evan] let's be honest, is this about the ability to learn or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa? you can say that he made his own bed but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and over time, took it on and-- let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you going to run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually. (crowd applauds)

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this asjust as president ronald reagan and george herbert walker bush stood before him, president obama took executive action to make our immigration system better meet the needs of our country. they did not say anything then, and president obama is acting to congressional action. president reagan said congress did not go far enough. but for some reason this president is a different story. will file our own brief and hope it will allow. the budget proposed distinctly troubling, but we look forward to seeing more details. continues down the path of america's working families but amending 6 trillion in cuts. republicans are putting at risk key initiatives, medicare, medicaid. our nation's promise of basic economic security for all americans continuing to stack the deck for the wealthiest and well-connected at the expense of everyone else. republicans and democrats have come together to pass a budget that is fair, creates jobs, raises paychecks for the american worker and invests in the future of our country are reducing the deficit. meet with the families about man-made catastrophes, offi

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george w. bush, john mccain. ron kaufman ess a white house adviser to george herbert walker bush and was an adviser to mitt romneyand a poster, worked on campaigns for 53 congressman and for the anti trump super pac, our principals. mr. mckinnon, isn't your fault, meaning the establishment fault, because you ceded control of the partly to men with microphones and happy to take the benefit of what they were delivering. and now you've got this. >> we do. we found the six members of the establishment left in washington. they were very generous by joining us for dinner and being very candid about their assessment of the situation. the most interesting thing about that meeting is, we had six people and there were six different opinions. >> to my point, you reap what you sow. >> well, i would agree with that. i'm a guy that's been saying for years we may have to burn down the republican house to rebuild it. we could talk for an hour about that. but what's clear is the establishment doesn't have a clear idea about what to do and that's advantage trump. >> ron kaufman, wouldn't you be having a similar kind of dinner if t

there is no question the republican party as has been known since george herbert walker bush left the stage. if you look at the history of the party, one of these things is not like the other. nixon, ford, reagan, bush, dole, mccain. the one that sticks out is reagan. the rest of the party has traditionally been this sort of right of center small progressive corporatist planning political party except for the era of reagan and most of the conservative races tired of it in the last drive really is what happened with romney losing in 2012 and a massive gains republicans have in the 2014 midterms and literally nothing to show for it was delivered. that's why as we sit here in early march, two candidates who are dramatically different people. donald trump is running essentially a form of white nationalism. concerning the dixiecrat platform. they are running on conservatism. they have traditions that built america. those two individuals who are saying that the voters are the two most outside the republican mainstream blowing away the field in her neck in neck in the delegate count at this

time i was proud to cast my vote for president was for george herbert walker bush. time, i cast my vote with reservation. i always voted republican. by the number of veterans and retirees in the military who are running for various political offices. i would like to know what you more formergetting active-duty retirees and veterans who have seen action in both houses of congress. we need to replace these career politicians were only there for themselves. will listen to your response here in -- response. isst: what i have found veterans in congress are focused on two things. mission accomplished and serving others. there have been times i've been in the cloak room. say this islleagues maybe too hard. it's not hard. at the end of the day, we have to get our work done. that means we have to listen to each other and state mission focused. never forget we are serving others. guest: i agree. it became obvious to me that we had commonalities in common stories. i said this is someone i would like to serve with. we don't agree on all the issues. service,eople who know we pro

committee, your colleague, joe biden, now vice president, had blocked the nomination of 32 george herbert walker busheral judicial nominations that year. is that accurate? sen. leahy: no, that is not accurate. in fact, he did 65 or 70 of president bush's nominees, including a large number of district courts and courts of appeals, and it was actually confirming -- letting the senate confirm nominations right up through september of an election year. no, if there were then that did not go through -- that it was for other reasons. he set, really, a record. now, contrast that to what happened when george w. bush was in the last two years of his presidency. i was chairman. so there could be no question on fairness, i put through 68 of his nominees. the republicans have about only 16 of president obama's in the last two years of his presidency, as opposed to the democrats allowing 68 of republican presidents. use any standard you want, republican presidents were treated more fairly. host: your republican colleagues would disagree. senator biden said they should not go forward with a nomination in 1992. not

chief of newsweek, - [evan] whose latest book, destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush, has just been published. he's jon meacham, this is overheard. - [evan] let's be honest, is this about the ability to learn or is this about the experience of not having been taught properly? how have you avoided what has befallen other nations in africa? you can say that he made his own bed but you caused him to sleep in it. you saw a problem and over time, took it on and-- let's start with the sizzle before we get to the steak. are you going to run for president? i think i just got an f from you actually. (crowd applauds) - jon meacham welcome. - thank you sir. - nice to see you again. - delighted to be here. - and you have another winner on your hands? - well i hope so, i hope so. - who knows these days in the book business. - in the book business but it's been a long time, a long journey. - it has been. why him? - because he matters. he's a consequential president with an extraordinary life. it's an american saga. if we wrote this as a novel and submitted it, it would get bounced

george w. bush -- george herbert walker bush was him. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: the -- the --the -- the last time this happened was in the year that didn't happen, which was leap year. [ laughter ], these are the people who are paid to explain things to you. just so you know -- just so you know what we're talking about. [ applause ] that's what they do for -- crazy. i saw that some researchers at stanford university have made tiny robots that are modeled after bugs and found that six of them could actually move almost two tons. yeah. while two real new york city cockroaches can actually flip [ laughter and applause ] so, they're close. >> jimmy: they're doing what we do, but we do it every day. >> steve: patience, patience. >> jimmy: hey, this is cool. 7-11 will hold its second annual bring your own cup day, ve customers a a discount on slurpees as long as they bring in any container resembling a cup. in a related story, home depot trash cans. [ laughter ] sold out. [ applause ] "cherry and blue --" >> steve: suicide.orite flavor is blue. [ light laughter ] and finally, this is a pretty big

ronald reagan or george had he beener the -- herbert walker bush., i lost by 419 votes. not that i'm still bruised. i served in the bush 41 administration when i was 29 years old. today i doubt either reagan or bush could capture this party's nomination. i didn't leave the republican party. it left me. the 1980 gop platform had welcoming stances that today's republicans would demonize, on everything from abortion to voter participation to immigration. i became an independent in 2010. ditching party labels, that suited me. but i had never missed an election in three decades and i knew it would be painful to sit out primaries because of pennsylvania's ar kchaic closed season. this year, i can't tolerate being a bystander. under my roof, there are two r's, two d's, and a 15-year-old who says he too will be an independent. our eldest son, now 20, introduced me to strategic voting. he registered as an r even though his sentiments leaned d. he did it dib eliberately, argu the r's need more help with their selection process. his goal, he told me at the tim

george w. bush barely won the white house. bob dole lost. george herbert walker bush lost. >> let's listen to what trump has to say. >> are you worried you may split the party and make it harder to defeat the democrats in november? >> i think it's the opposite. i've had tremendous calls from establishment people and non-establishment people. the party is going to get bigger. >> so simon, are the democrats just relishing this moment, this idea that the gop is in turmoil and they might splinter apart? >> i don't know if i have a lot to add to this one. i will say, i was surprised. i was really surprised as larry was that so many elected officials were unwilling to even answer the question. i mean, this is a competitive race. he is winning fair and square. he is not cheating. there's no question of him cooking the books. he is going out in front of republican voters and he is -- he has been crushing a very talented field. so it's a little disinagain oohous. a degree with larry for these leaders to say, we don't like the results of what our voters are telling us. may

>> with george herbert walker bush. number 41 and worked for the bush campaign against president reagan and the connecticut primary became important because bush had fallen behind and it was important that he when it. and then to run like a gubernatorial campaign but a lot of the principles of fair trade are still there today. and globalization was never a word that you heard but in that even recovered as a threat to u.s. economic climate with no competition. . .

they did that -- joe biden did in 1992 during the presidency of george bush, in 2005 george herbert walker bush; 2005 senator reid made that same argument when george w. bush was president of the united states. in 2007, 18 months before president george w. bush left office, senator schumer, the heir apparent to the democratic leader, said that there should be a presumption against confirmation. so it's only fair to play by the same set of rules which they themselves advocated. and based on the conduct, based on the behavior of our democratic colleagues when they were in the majority -- well, first when they were in the minority, when they filibustered judges for the first time, and later when they were in the majority before they saw the majority flip to republicans, the democratic leader packed the d.c. circuit court of appeals by invoking the so-called nuclear option, breaking the senate rules in a raw display of political power in order to pack a court that many people called the second-most important court in the land. so this lifetime appointment to the court is a critical check on th

president george herbert walker bush objected to these initiatives because he feared it might strain diplomatic relations with beijing. in the end, his administration without -- vowed to pressure and allowed students to remain in the u.s. and become citizens. here is another example of the importance of advocacy. during the 1990's, many undocumented cubans found asylum in the u.s. in large part because of the advocacy of the very local and politically influential cuban american community in south florida. haitian boat people by comparison were more likely to be called economic migrants despite the fact they were fleeing equally or more repressive conditions. nations were much more likely to be detained and deported then where the cubans and this did not change until the congressional black caucus took up the cause and forced a more humane response from congress. one final example. the neck or rob wittman adjustment and central -- the nicaraguan adjustment act allowed hundreds of thousands to remain in the u.s. and this legislation was the combination of almost two decades of intense

now, in 1988, george herbert walker bush got 59% of the white vote which is high. that translated in 426 electorate votes. mitt romney in 2012 got 59% of the white vote that, translated into 206 electoral votes. romney got 17%, that is all, of the nonwhite vote. trump by every measure would do worse than that which means he would have to get not just the 65% of the white vote to win that reagan got sweeping 49 states, he would have to get 70% of the white vote. a, it won't happen. b, it would destroy the republican party by making it the party of white people. >> now, i'm sure that clinton camp and the sanders camp, they look at exactly that same demographic and say that country, the democratic face -- demographic facest country is changing. talk, lisa, about trump reshuffles the electoral deck. that suddenly the rust belt, the industrial midwest, pennsylvania, michigan, states, wisconsin that have gone reliably for democrats for several election cycles, something would be in play. how seriously do they take that? >> smart democrats, the ones that i'm talking, to a

he's a presidential historian and the author of destiny and power the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush in new york nick confessore. he's a political reporter for the "new york times." let me begin with al hunt in washington. tell me where we are, al, after the second super tuesday and what happened in florida and especially what happened in ohio. >> charlie, somewhat more settled and not totally yet on the democratic side it's almost impossible to envision bernie sanders beating hillary clinton at this stage but he's going to give her some heart burn over the next month. a bunch of small caucuses, wisconsin he could win and he's a cause candidate. he's not going to go away but she's certainly barring from class clizzal will be the nominee. ual had -- trump had a great day. he had an impressive win in four out of five states. it may be a reach for him to getthose 1,03e time he gets to cleveland. if he comes in a hundred short, the people in the parties, not just the establishment, the movement conservatives are meeting tomorrow to talk about a third party candidate elective politicians.

"being nixon," jon meacham, author of "destiny and power" and "the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush" and michael beschloss. let's talk about nancy reagan. let's talk about her role in her husband's career. when it really was going downhill in the early '50s. movie offers weren't coming. he was in bad shape, getting turned down for parts. he couldn't get cowboy movies and along comes nancy. he had been dumped by his first wife in a terrible divorce situation and here she came along and basically bucked him up and made him a winner again. >> yeah. she sure did. and, you know, i can imagine -- can you imagine the early days of their marriage she was there sitting in that nightclub in las vegas watching her adored husband who would have this great career, kings row right before world war ii, acting as an emcee in the nightclub and she was the one that basically got him on his feet, g.e. theater, death valley days. and after that when he wanted a political career, as you know, made a lot of the social relationships and political relationships around l.a. that made that possible. >> john

now, in 1988, george herbert walker bush got 59% of the white vote, which was high.ranslated into 426 electoral votes. mitt romney in 2012 got 59% of the white vote. that translated into 206 electoral votes. romney got 17%. that's all. of the non-white vote. trump by every measure would do worse than that, which means he would have to get not just the 65% of the white vote to win, that0% ronald reagan got, sweepg 49 states. he would havea, to get 70% of t white vote. a, it won't happen. and b, it would destroy the republican party by making it the party of white people. c >> now, i'm sure that the clinton camp and the sanders camp, they look at exactly that same demographics and basically say the country, the demographic face of the country is changing. on the other hand, you do hear talk about trump reshuffles the electoral deck, that suddenly the rust belt, the industrial midwest, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin,go states that have ge reliab reliably, would be in play. >> smart democrats, the ones i'm talking to, are not overly confident about this. in part, it's

they did that -- joe biden did in 1992 during the presidency of george bush, in 2005 george herbert walker bush; 2005 senator reid made that same argument when george w. bush was president of the united states. in 2007, 18 months before president george w. bush left office, senator schumer, the heir apparent to the democratic leader, said that there should be a presumption against confirmation. so it's only fair to play by the same set of rules which they themselves advocated. and based on the conduct, based on the behavior of our democratic colleagues when they were in the majority -- well, first when they were in the minority, when they filibustered judges for the first time, and later when they were in the majority before they saw the majority flip to republicans, the democratic leader packed the d.c. circuit court of appeals by invoking the so-called nuclear option, breaking the senate rules in a raw display of political power in order to pack a court that many people called the second-most important court in the land. so this lifetime appointment to the court is a critical check on th