the exact quote from governor bush's son, george p. bush, saying, if called upon, he will serve. lose, are we getting to the point where a big name like governor bush is a must for the romney campaign? jeb bush saying again on cnn that he is not in the running for this. >> jeb bush is someone you have to take at his word. but it kind of goes for all these vice presidential prospects. if mitt romney were to actually call them up and say, my success or failure in this election depends on you, i think you would start to hear some of these folks playing it coy start to change their tune. the romney campaign has indicate that had they may pick their vice president in advance of the republican national convention as a way of sort of amplifying their message, jazzing up the ticket a little bit. i do think you may start to hear some names circulating around of people who would add a little excitement to the middle of a slow summer. >> when we talk about the slow summer, does that mean that there's potential that the announcement of this pick could come a lot sooner than traditionally -- t

>>> other related news jeb bush's son giving some hope to those pushing for him to be picked george p. bushing if called upon to serve he will. the former florida governor is not currently interested in joining the ticket, but loves to fight for conservative causes. jeb bush recently said that he would turn down the bp job, though. >>> now to a story you can bank on this morning. the bailout for spain seems to be having the desired effect on world markets so far. joining us with more on that is lauren simonetti from the fox business network. thanks for joining us. >> good monday morning. >> what is the latest news? >> for stocks and investors looks like a great morning. european leaders bailout banks to the tune of 125 billion door kets. turp european stocks are up in the u.s. >> we want the numbers to go up something we want to go down gas prices and they appear to be doing that. >> they have gone down according to the lundburg survey. >> by 16 percent over the last three weeks here is your national average 3.62 a gallon. relief for drivers out there. >> very good news there. apple gearing

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george w. bush, six times, president clinton, 14 times. p george h.w. bush, one time. ronld reagan did it three times. should we conclude as some of the president's critics, the attorney general's critics are suggesting right now that the administration has something to hide. that's why they're not sharing all these documents with this committee? >> no. by no means. these are constitutional values in conflict. congress definitely has the right to oversight. it has the right to investigate the executive branch. but the courts have also held that the executive branch has the right to internal deliberations, that's the phrase the courts focus on, internal deliberations that cannot be disclosed to the legislative branch when it's investigating. the question in these cases is, are the documents at issue, do they reflect internal deliberations that the executive needs in order to reach good decisions. or is this simply a cover-up of information that congress is entitled to? and those are the kind of issues that the courts deal with. and it can often be difficult and tedious

p politicians. when george w. bush tried to be a moderate on immigration, the reason he got no legislation passed through it is because he ran up against that other post-prop 187 pete wilson wing of his own party. pete wilson himself was essentially lost to history and forgotten after his role in the prop 187 con flag rags in california, and for all the fallout that it caused, for all that he did to rip the state apart and drive this divide down the state's population on the issue of gramimmigration, for t generations worth the damage that pete wilson did on the relationship with hispanics, ultimately prop 187 never went into effect anyway, it was ruled unconstitutional. then pete wilson retired or something and became largely forgotten until, until mitt romney dug him up. for his presidential campaign this year, mitt romney went trolling through the dust bin of republican history and lo and behold he found pete wilson there. mr. romney went and found pete wilson from whatever he's doing now and brought him on board as

p. o. j. you picked my attention saying something about a clip from george w. bush that would quote blow your mind when we come back problem you didn't come back they went to ring of fire at midnight please tell me what the dang chimps so curious thanks bobbie well here you go bob it was george w. bush talking about how he'd use the clinton surplus though and this course was before he decided to squander it with two unpaid wars a massive unpaid for tax cut for people like mitt romney this is from the for his first state of the union address in the spring of two thousand and one. many of you have talked about the need to pay down our national debt i listened and i agree. we owe it to our children and grandchildren that now. and i hope you will join me to pay down two trillion dollars in debt during the next ten years. at the end of those ten years we'll have paid down all the debt that is available to return that is more didn't repaid more quickly than has ever been repaid by any nation at any time in history see this is the republican formula and it goes back to jud

p closed 14 points up. there could be a casino in national harbor in prince george's county. bushays he met with an executive from mgm and a harbor developer. bush ads not to read too much into this because officials still have a lot to weigh in on before allowing gaming in prince george's county. this should come as no surprise to parents of college-age students here it is causing more to send your son or daughter to college. according to reports by the department of education, the average tuition at a four-year public university increased between 2008 and 2010. one of the most important factors in the increase is the cut in higher education spending last year. the report also says college still remains one of the best options for higher education -- 4-year college. >> joe flacco, congratulations, it is a boy. he said his wife had given birth to a baby boy named stephen vincent. he is 8 pounds, and everybody's doing well. let's look at some of the stories we are working on for rock center tonight and we will check in with brian williams. >> we are here in new york city getting re

george h.w. bush was helpful to him once he got into the white house. >> he served -- >>p are republicans, they can'tpill. he knew it, he might be costing himself a second term. he thought it was the right thing to do. >> what a foreign thought. >> the one termers never looked kindly upon by history. he did two big things. successful prosecution of the gulf war. in a way his son's war in iraq -- makes that look pretty good. and he cut the balance -- he got the budget on a path to being balanced in the clinton years. i remember years ago, the new republican did a cover story called our greatest modern president. it was after the first -- after he left office. you know, there's a good case he was successful. >> but incredibly underappreciated. not just by republicans. okay, that was when i came to washington and i was covering labor issues. he cut a deal with the late senator to raise the minimum wage. the bush white house said kennedy's a socialist. what's he trying to do, it's going to ruin the economy. then again, they cut a deal. what an odd thing to do. >> exactly. and he was a good leader. and he

you recall that jeb bush who talked about who he thinks should be the vice-president nominee for mitt romney, he thinks marco rubio. his 36 year old son george pthing that his father said never before. if called his father jeb would do it. >> he made these comments to suzy parker who is an arkansas-based political reporter. she also asked him, is your dad sorry he didn't jump into the presidential run. he said no, my dad likes what he's doing. he's with my mom. >> jeb bush is a successful governor in florida and got the great knowledge of the hispanic communicate. his wife is hispanic. and he could produce a victory for the republicans. >> and what is interesting. first time he would if called serve. but it is different than what jeb bush said in an interview. he said no, i wouldn't. his son may have special information. >> is it time to run. >> it was his time. >>> and so we heard that from a family member. now, here are two people who are mentioned mr. santorum and mr. huckabee. and huckabee's got a great worry. as to whether he is discussed as vice-president. >> he calls me and i haven't not been asked. i would be asked probably by madonna