then george hw bush made it a part st ceremony. to your question, why do we pardon turkeys 1234* probably when george hw bush it was a more entertaining time. and thought it was a joke. but people take it seriously. ji yes, it is a serious event. >> and i'm sure you tuned into president obama pardoning the turkey. >> no, but i know what happened. >> according to oliver stone's new book truman knew the turkey was going to surrender. truman was the guy who thought he was on tv all the time. >> he tried to sail his bowl into the wall. >> that was a frightful one. facebook. what happened here? jim it is interesting when people post on your wall, if they are not friend you say i was president talking to you. that is it. from now on people will say, i wasn't talking to you. >> i do that on twitter. i don't do a lot of facebook page. facebook page. it is like having a public discussion. it is like a forum is what we hear. unfollow me. i hate when they say unfollowed. like i am going to go, come on, why? >> i actually do that. it hurts when

she also served on the staff of the domestic policy council under george hw bush and his staff economist for the council of economic appraisers during the reagan administration. she it is also chief economist for of the department of labor and the author of women's figures the guide to economic progress. please join me to welcome senior fellow diana furchtgott-roth. [applause] >> thank you very much for that kind introduction. i am grateful you could be doing so many other things today but here you are listening to me talk about green jobs and there fallacy. i'd like to thank the manhattan institute for organizing the talk and also a mechanical engineer who it is here and advise me on the technical aspects and read the whole manuscript to check on the scientific details this it is inappropriate day to talk about regulating to disaster because last of the president promised once more to develop the energy sources of the future. win any administration republican or democrat develops energy projects taxpayers better watch out. governments pick winners and losers that leads to wasted taxpaye

president again and johnson, the former governor of new hampshire, the former chief of staff to george hw bushsaying he's just supporting him because he's branch. >> isn't that stupid? >> and he's not the only one who says that. he's the most public and most visible, but you know that below the surface people are saying the same thing. >> race is still very much below or above the surface, the central aspect of american life in politics. >> i'm curious as you got to know more about him and the formulation of him as him, one of the things that's fascinated me watching in last four years is how uncomfortable he seems to be with people and how uncomfortable he seems to be with even talking about what he's accomplished. you know, i thought we elected, many of us thought we elected, whether for him or against him, the most gifted orator, the most -- gate who made the most easy connection with people. and yet these last four years have been an effort for him almost to persuade us otherwise. >> well, he's a very unlikely politician. and here's the reason. he's essentially very competitive. he wants t

currently the president of the council on foreign relations, a special assistant to president george hw bush, and during the administration of the george w. bush, was directer of policy and planning, and richard says it's time to rethink sovereignty. he argues that they are not weaker in reality, but it needs to become weaker. states should be want to resovereign in order to protect themselves. okay. those are some of the ideas. now, before proceedings, i want to make one thing absolutely clear, i'm not talking against international law in general or against international relations, and i draw a distinction in the book and there's nothing wrong with having international treaties. "international" means inter between nations. we have a treaty, nato with western europe, a treaty, defend ourselves, nothing wrong with that. there's plenty of trade treaties. i criticize supernational or transnational, across or within. think of the transcontinental railways, across nations, transnational is used distinguished from international. well, those are some of the ideas. let's dig into the we's now. globa

and she was also chief of staff for first lady laura bush and under president regan and george hw bushanks for coming in today. >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about what happened at the end. the exit polls show women came out in favor of president obama in the end. it wasn't always like that through this election cycle. what happened do you think at the end to get the women out and to vote for president obama? >> first we have to congratulate president obama's team. the ground game for the election was fantastic. and obviously hit every target and every demographic that they needed to. they were able to work hard. part is the power of the incumbentcy. you look at the 18 month period for governor romney that really delayed the process in targeting specific voters. it just took a lot of time and i think that certainly puts you in a weaker position to hone your message. there was a lot of time lost this summer frankly for governor romney. and he started to hit his stride come september. and it was late. >> we just had an interview with republican strategists who was saying basical

we are just getting word that former president george hw bush has been put in to the hospital in houstonlingering cough. his chief of staff said the 88- year-old former president is being treated for bronchitis and is expected to be releases by the weekend. the illness wasn't life threatening but there was concern it could get worse. these are live pictures where the former president has been in the hospital. it's not said to be life threatening. >> all right. back here at home. for as little as a dollar a ticket you can ride a express bus. it's the mega bus. you have heard of it. back by popular demand and the service starts december 12th. they say if you book early you could pay as little as a dollar for a ticket. the prize will go up as your travel date gets closer. the mega bus.com website, previously served the west coast in 2007 and 2008. >> quickly one more time let's check in with tara. >> that's right. major congestion -- its been pretty slow. this is near ray street. give yourself extra time. >> now -- go head. stay cloudy -- we are --. >> cloudy and mild. rain will move in ton

george hw bush made an issue of it paying a steep political price which may have cost him re-election. bill clinton wanted a viable state, and he found settlement building cometted whether israel was headed by labor, and, indeed, accelerated throughout the 1990s. barack obama made a settlement freeze that jumping off point for his peace efforts, and he was smacked down decisively by benjamin netanyahu. the reason is obvious. israel, no matter what coalition was in charge, wantedded to build settlements on the west bank more than the united states was committed to stopping them. the israel lobby, described as a lose coalition of groups and individuals committed to ensuring american backing for israel, no matter what israel does, was able to generate enough political pressure to thwart serious american diplomacy to stop settlement building. nevertheless, something important is beginning to happen. the israel lobby is exhibiting cracks and weaknesses. i believe we are witnessing the beginnings of a historic transformation in which power will be considerably diminished. first, the democra

i was confirmed as assistant secretary of state one week after ted and the challenge of the george hw bush administration was the effort to salvage what had been a and still was viewed as a relationship of tremendous strategic value to the united states. there's some interesting dynamic right after ted edmund, of course, various officials were making comments, there was one slight misstatement out of the state department about ending exchanges with china, which knead look like it was going to last forever. in fact it was designed as a short term comment. but produced a brew ha-ha and lead to the china policy become managed out of the white house. and as secretary of state baker used to like to say, the china desk officer was the guy in the white house. as you may remember, president bush made his first trip abroad after the election, to china, he served there as head lie yai son officer. it was a personal relationship to him and he wanted to try to cope it alive despite the tremendous domestic and international uproar after ted edmund. what it lead to, first, as you may recall a secret tri

under prawsm, and michael who spoke last night briefly, and he's the chief economic adviser for george hw or bush and now a stanford economic professor. i want to start out with the united states. for people in the room understand the president as well as us and golsby. people ask what is going to come of this fiscal cliff. i'd like to look through the fiscal cliff asking you to describe to us how do you see the budget negotiations playing out over the next six months? >> well, feels to me like they almost had a deal last year. the principle bottleneck last year was not that the president was unwilling to offer cuts. it was that there was a group of republicans in the house who wouldn't go for the revenue, and i think that's still the bottleneck now. you probably saw the article this morning from hubbard, what boehner said, and i take from this collection some optimism in 20 # 13 the way it might play out is whether we go over or don't go over the fiscal cliff, you know, there's a lot to happen in the next three months, that we get to some space where if they did a trillion dollars of cuts and re

romney took to try to win this election is in the long run a winning position but karl rove and george hw bushtt romney wasn't conservative enough, some will say have you to point to that issue. >> it looks now that this president will be reelected with fewer electoral votes than he won the first time. first president, ever to be reelected with fewer electoral votes z probably a popular vote total that is very, very close. the split being very narrow. >> which will add to the feeling among a lot of people this is a winable election. >> now, it stands at 114,000. separating the two candidates in the popular vote. >> that is smaller than the bargain by which george w. bush won ohio in 2004. >> right. >> with romney leading in the popular vote. >> my prediction was that president obama, again would win battle ground states, win electoral college votes but i thought woe lose the popular vote. that tells you something about who we are. you said we're polarized. you look at the map behind you. that is very small population. you look where big populations are, where college educated and economy is gr

george h.w. bush won gulf war one and then really lost reelection. the berlin wall fell under george hwst reelection because he broke read my lips. norquist says in the republican brand you don't raise taxes. as for entitlement reform, democrats, many says we don't need entitlement reform, we want entitlements to be solvent, that's the issue there. stuart: the president will be on the road this week. i don't doubt for one moment he will keep pushing higher taxes, higher tax rates on people making more than $250,000 a year. no movement at all from the president or from senator carl levin. sandra: capital expenditures are way down. companies are refusing to hire in this environment. there's a huge level of uncertainty. liz: there's a danger for republicans, they don't want to be looked at as tax collectors for a growing welfare state. that's the danger for the g.o.p. in caving right here. stuart: you have got it. it used to be the best investment you could make was a single family home in a good neighborhood. that's what you always thought. buy a house, you will do okay. but people don't