george h.w. bush project, the george w. bush project and barack obama project. in addition to having pulled together and completed the edward kennedy oral history project and helping launch the hillary clinton oral history project. we don't just do presidents. we do other senior officials. and with that, it's a great opportunity to introduce our special guest, who's joining us by zoom today, robert gates. as you all know, robert gates served as u.s. secretary of defense from december 2006 in the bush 43 administration. and he continued his service through july 2011 into the obama administration. he's been awarded the national security medal, the presidential citizen's, and has twice received the national distinguished service medal. secretary gates also completed three miller center oral history interviews. and for that, we are so grateful the one person who is not here today is other coeditor of this book. this book is co-edited by barbara perry russell riley and mike nelson. mike is a professor at college in tennessee. he had planned to be with us today, but a

but in bushes administration, george w bush. i figured that out by 2004, it really is done me. it took a while, we didn't give a damn about any of those things. so we use those things that sugar coating. we use those things for most international audiences and our own domestic audience as sugar coding. we don't care about freedom, we don't care about democracy. what we care about is power and money, money and power that sums up america today. and that sums up what our war instrument is for, including nuclear weapons. it's a sad commentary, and yet it is a true commentary. and i'll argue with anyone that was argue about it till the cows come home. that's our purpose today. moore is a profitable business and we are in profits. that's why we're selling web values. that's why we're doing what we're doing and you crying. and anyone who tries to assign any other reason to it is just simply much that's what's happening. and the 2nd thing about it is we have now drugs are essentially $700000000.00 plus europeans and into it who will figure it out sooner or later. and then we're going t

. >> this week a federal judge appointed by george w. bushiting teachers and counselors from telling parents when a child adopts a new gender identity. >> i just want them to stop keeping parents in the dark. >> claimed the district kept informed decisions about her fifth grader who at the time lived as a girl at home while using a boy's name at school. >> they were talking to my daughter about different support groups in town to help her with her transition and then discuss breast binding with my daughter that i had no knowledge of. >> 17,000 schools in 37 states protect student privacy and stop officials from outing transitioning students to their parents. >> never in the history of the united states have they said that kids have a right to privacy from their own parents. >> nothing to do with the school issue. transgender issue. it's a parenting issue that don't create a safe space for their children to be who they are. >> conservatives who brought the case are appealing to the ninth circuit. >> these schools are performing the psychologic

i will recall the words of the president of the united states of america and george w. bushy opinion, then the youngest. he said it was an attack on the united states this literally qualified as a declaration of war against washington. many years have passed over the years the international community has come together. in its rejection of international terrorism. moreover, the russian federation literally literally was the first to extend a helping hand to the united states of america and it seemed necessary assistance in the fight against terrorism. so i have a question for ordinary americans. but what about unmanned vehicles that are sent to residential buildings , office centers, civilian infrastructure facilities? differ from what the americans passed then in 2001 on a scale you need a scale. are you waiting for this, or will you still return to the basic ideas that there can be no justification for international terrorism, let alone support. it is also known that cluster munitions are actively used on the battlefield, which were supplied by the united states, and the pu

from the abm treaty, which my president george w bush abrogated without a fairly well all the way to open skies. and now finally, start because student is not about to come back to start after ukraine. so we have no arms control. we have a military this talking about nuclear weapons as low the battlefield utility developing doctrine for their use and so forth. the russians are doing the same thing. we're looking at a possibility of getting into some kind of tactical use of nuclear weapons. that with the, shall we say, customize them, make some, actually something that we use on the battlefield. this disaster for the environment, for people to hire for everything we're talking about that we want to stop with the crime war is the primary example right now, killing people, displacing people knocking them out of their homes. we can't make this normal activity, and yet i'm seeing it becoming that in doctrine and doctrine also leads action. or is it that what gives confidence to blinking state department and the other people in control there in, in washington? is it what gives them confide

so one of the george w bush's was, and this is really the legacy of nature, and even even going beyond what was, i mean, the game fact that he's had in this, then you're a little the divisiveness and you know, they, they, he's the area that's over well, many countries easier, but you know, basically have had quite a peaceful life. it wasn't, there wasn't any of this. and they made conflict between the, the, the, are terrible political bitten. this is mary and romania molto. but all of that is, is effect the is an effect of the us and they to expansion know, you know, the george gave a really good litany. a menu of failed mcclain, where we were, i have one minute left here but the different there's a big difference. this time you go to the, the u. s. is leading the collective west against a nuclear power called russia. that's been different. don't you think one minute? absolutely thing why they're continuing to push for, you know, saying well no nuclear power, nuclear weapons that's off the table. so we're running a big play underneath that nuclear threshold. we're going to play our lit

but it's just the distorted the many, you know, i'm obviously go back to one of the george w bush's wars. and this is really the legacy of nature and even even going beyond what was, i mean, the game pack that he's had in this been your, a little, the divisiveness and you know, they, they, his theory. it was overwhelmed. many countries easier. but you know, basically have had quite a peaceful life. it wasn't, there wasn't any of this at the ethnic complex. the they, they are terrible political bits. and this will, does now emerged in a country out in bulk area and romania molto. but all of that is, is effect the, is an effect of a us and they do expansion. know, you know, the george dave who are really good letting me a menu of failed, of foreign policy became changed the claim where we already have one minute left here. but the difference is a big difference. this time you go to the, the u. s. is leading the collective west against a nuclear power called russia. that's a big difference. don't you think one minute? absolutely. it is. and i think you're, you're witnessing why they're cont

from the abm treaty, which my president george w bush abrogated without a fairly well all the way to open skies. and now finally, start because student is not about to come back to start after ukraine. so we have no arms control. we have a military this talking about nuclear weapons as low the battlefield utility developing doctrine for their use and so forth. the russians are doing the same thing. we're looking at a possibility of getting into some kind of tactical use of nuclear weapons that were the, shall we say, customize them, make some actually something that we use on the balance to this disaster for the environment. for people to the hives, for everything we're talking about that we want to stop with the ukraine wars. the primary example right now, killing people, displacing people knocking them out of their homes. we can make this normal activity, and yet i'm seeing it becoming that in doctrine, in doctrine also leads action. or is it that what gives confidence to blinking state department and the other people in control there in, in washington? is it what gives them confid

asked for years when people would say to me, well this is for you when you hear the rhetoric from george w bush and, and all of them. and dick cheney and others, this is making us safer. that by going into a rack, you know, tie a yellow ribbon around a tree and in america, and this is making us the safer. i mean, my brother was in baghdad. so during the gulf war, and i mean how, how we see for how was our security improved here in the united states by invading and destabilizing the middle east. like please explain that to me. i'd love to hear how that works, how our american troops in syria stealing syrian oil, providing security for the united states, and then shipping it to a rack. how i was sending hundreds of billions of dollars into ukraine, making people in iowa safer. please explain. i would love to hear how these freight was right now. could even go further. how is it actually helping ukraine? george? i mean, to be a, you know, i've done my program. you know, you, oh, well, um we, they, us should stay in a rack and i've always, it didn't, we help them and, you know, maybe we should stop

the chief of staff to president george w bush is us secretary of state colin powell, the man who's 20 o 3 you and speech health catalyzed the us invasion of iraq and, and the soldier is retired colonel, laurie wilkinson, who joins me now from fullest church in virginia, thank you so much kind of her coming back on the show. so the 20 or 3 warning rog was uh, you know, w, m, d, w and the, this, this one really is more and ukraine really is about w m d, y of you and 14 of assigned them, that's in the new york times cooling on people to understand the war through rushes, eyes of all of us who signed the letter and many more who for some reason or other didn't want to actually be so public agreed that this is probably as dangerous. the situation is we've been confronted in a long time with regard to nuclear weapons, probably as dangerous as 1962 in cuba or 1961 in berlin. so it was time for a statement to be made and we found a gentleman to back us. it's very expensive to do that, isn't the new york times, and we put it in or why the new york times actually? i mean, it's a, i'll give a ch

from the abm treaty, which my president george w bush abrogated without a fairly well all the way to open skies. and now finally, start because student is not about to come back to start after ukraine. so we have no arms control. we have a military this talking about nuclear weapons as low the battlefield utility developing doctrine for their use and so forth. the russians are doing the same thing. we're looking at a possibility of getting into some kind of tactical use of nuclear weapons. that would, uh, shall we say, customize them, make some, actually something that we use on the battlefield. this disaster for the environment, for people to hire for everything we're talking about that we want to stop with the crime war is the primary example right now, killing people, displacing people knocking them out of their homes. we can't make this normal activity, and yet i'm seeing it becoming that in doctrine and doctrine also leads action. or is it that what gives confidence to blinking state department and the other people in control there in, in washington? is it what gives them confid

and for my chief of staff to president george w bush's us secretary of state colin powell, the man who's 20 o 3 you and speech health catalyzed the us invasion of iraq and, and soldier is retired colonel laurie wilkinson, who joins me now from fullest judge in virginia a thank you so much kind of air coming back on the show. so the 23 warranty rog was, uh, you know, w, m, d, w, and the, this, this one really has war and ukraine really is about w, m d, y of you and 14 of assigned them, that's in the new york times calling on people to understand the war through rushes eyes, all of us who signed the letter and many more who for some reason or other didn't want to actually be so public. agreed that this is probably as dangerous the situation as we confronted in a long time with regard to nuclear weapons, probably as dangerous as 1962 in cuba or 1961 in berlin. so it was time for a statement to be made and we found a gentleman to back us. it's very expensive to do that. isn't the new york times, and we put it in or why the new york times actually? i mean it's a, i'll give a change. it's poli

ross perot in 1992 for taking republican votes from president george w. bush who lost to bill clinton. ralph nader in 2002 got nearly 100,000 votes in florida, a state that delivered the presidency to george w. bush. by fewer than 600 ballots. and in the 2016 green party candidate jill stein was accused of being a spoiler in several close states to hillary clinton, where she narrowly lost them. now this time a potential trump biden matchup could be even closer, according to a real clear politics polling, average right now, there is only a 0. 2% point margin, separating the two. jill stein in the meantime is currently campaign manager for 2024 green presidential candidate cornell west. who joins us now. dr. west, appreciate you being with us, it is good to see you. >> always blasted to say, don't i salute you to, gift from heaven. brother suggestion, brother white, yes indeed. >> they are doing well, thank you. i want to ask, you senator manchin up in new hampshire, tonight it seems to be testing the waters there. he says the parties are too far to the left and

but it's just the distorted the many, you know, obviously go back to one of the george w bush's wars. and this is really the legacy of nature. and even even going beyond what was, i mean, the impact that he's had in this been your old of divisiveness and you know, they, they, he's the area that's over well many countries easier. but, you know, basically have had quite a peaceful life. it wasn't, there wasn't any of this and the ethnic conflict, the, the, the, are terrible political been this will, does now emerged in a country out in bulk area and romania molto. but all of that is, is effect a is an effect of a us and they do expansion. know, you know, the george dave who are really good letting me a menu of failed, of foreign policy became changed the claim where we, where they have one minute left here. but the different, there's a big difference. this time you go to the, the u. s. is leading the collective west against a new killer power called brush up. it's been different. don't you think one minute? absolutely. it is. and i think you're, you're witnessing why they're continuing

and george w bush just looked at him and said, i don't care about that i just want to know how you're going to prevent the next one. later that morning george tenet, who was then the director of the cia. george tenet, gave a report and he had a plan and he gave this report his proposal going forward. and what he was done and this is in several other people's books. and once again, molla had told us on several occasions this himself, george w bush turned and said, that's great and then he turned and looked at molla and said, that's what i want to hear. so molla left that meeting humiliated and he left that meeting. and he has said this repeatedly bound and determined to change the culture of the fbi. and in doing so he turned the fbi as he wanted to into an intelligence agency and a way from being a law enforcement agency. and that had a lot of unintended consequences. and i submit to you a lot of bad concert choices. now, some of it was under understandable why he did this, but it had bad consequences. and the distinction is this in a law enforcement agency, whether it's the fbi or yo

former director of the cia and national security agency who served under presidents bill clinton, george w. bush and barack obama. >> the president is supposed to keep our secrets secure, not show our secrets off. he had many top secret documents at mar-a-lago for more than a year. you don't know who saw them. we have to assume those documents were compromised. trump must face consequences for his actions. >> the former cia director suffers from effasia due to a stroke, but he chose to speak out anyway. he isn't the only four-star general speaking out against trump. "the new york times" reports that john kelly who served as trump's white house chief of staff said in a sworn statement that, when he was in the white house, trump discussed having the irs and other federal agencies investigate his perceived enemies. the people he targeted were peter strak and lisa page, two fbi officials involved in investigating the trump campaign's ties to russia. strak was the lead agent in the investigation. page was a former lawyer in the bureau. they were both removed from the special counsel's probe. two offi

during his third term in congress, president george w. bush governor hutchinson to serve as an administrator of the drug enforcement administration and later as the nations first under secretary of homeland protection. governor hutchinson brings a wealth of expanse and knowledge, establishing him as a national resource in areas of trade, energy and national security. he has been invited to the white house numerous times to participate in discussions regarding health care, indicate, and education issues. jerry tried, 2020 three, marked the end of his second term as the former chairman of the national governors association, cochairman of the council of governors and chairman of the interstate compact commission. and the states energy board. and the southern regional education board. governor hutchinson grew up on a small farm, and is a graduate of bob jones university, and the university of arkansas school of law. he and his wife susan have been married for 49 years and have had four children and seven grandchildren. firm in his faith and practi

were as much as creation is anybody else is i still remember him sitting at the table next to george w bush saying that saddam had weapons of mass destruction. 45 minutes away from being launched. and so how do you negotiate with this man? how do i need to go say any but how do you negotiate with this mentality of this world view, this ideology? that's the problem. you, nikolai, we're rapidly running out of time where you always have a word of optimism in, you've already kind of touched upon it. i mean, you talked about realism here. i wish we could have realism here, because you know what, europe and russia are neighbors and they're going to be neighbors for a very long time to come. go ahead nicholas. and there will, there is an establishment. there is a deep state, but there is also, there are also alternatives to them. they keep springing up and those will not go away either. i'm not, i don't know when or if they will try them. but certainly their voices are becoming more and more heard. a bye bye all i think, and that's a that is a reason for optimism in the long run. okay, well, i mea

a standard that eight former trump f and the george w. bush administration national security officials have called the gold standard of vetting. remember there is no betting right now. this is the way you get the vetting. senator graham and i worked closely with senator moran and others in this chamber and the department of defense to make sure that the bills vetting the provisions met the gold standard. in addition, our legislation updates the special immigrant visa program often known to include risks that should never have been excluded from the program in the first place including members of the female tactical teams of afghanistan who had our troops back as they pursued missions hunting down ices combatants on unforgiving terrain and freeing prisoners from the grips of the taliban. the entire purpose of the special immigration visa program is to provide permanent residency tode those who suppord the united states abroad. and it's clear to anyone who looks at this, that these brave women should qualify. the afghan adjustment act is support

and there's george w bush. and look at that. the place is jammed. and we have been there to it changed over time with barack obama announcing the death of osama bin laden with a very solemn ceremony. and that camera in the foreground taking those words around the world. what has changed is not just been the technology, of course, and the speed, but the audience and the expectations. so let's dive in. mike, as a press secretary, when you think about this change and how this has sort of swept over us and it's now about speed, what is the biggest component in terms of actually communing? keating from the white house that you see? well, i think too often is speed that you have to stay on top of the story and try to stay in front of the story. and that creates a little bit of a dilemma because we don't pause long enough sometimes to really consider what are the most important elements of that, because the camera moves, the story moves, the news cycle jumps ahead to whatever the next crisis or subject is. so i think one of the consequences of having the t

were as much as creation is anybody else is i still remember him sitting at the table next to george w bush saying that saddam had weapons of mass destruction, 45 minutes away from being launched. and so how do you negotiate with this man? how do i need to go say any but how do you negotiate with this mentality of this world view, this ideology, that's the problem here. nichol. i were rapidly running out of time, but you always have a word of optimism in you've already kind of touched upon it. i mean, you talked about realism here. i wish we could have realism here, because you know what, europe and russia are neighbors and they're going to be neighbors for a very long time to come. go ahead nicholas. and there will, there is an establishment. there is a deep state, but there is also, there are also alternatives to them. they keep springing up and those will not go away either. i'm not, i don't know when or if they will try them. but certainly their voices are becoming more and more heard. a bye bye all i think, and that's a that is a reason for optimism in the long run. okay, well, i mean,

nelson, former director office of combatting terrorism, national security council staff under george w. bush. he was also a u.s. navy helicopter pilot and afghan veteran. gus codabela, with the department of homeland security. michael nefak, former principal legal advisor with the homeland security council staff under george w. bush. elizabeth newman, security policy for the department of homeland security and former deputy chief of staff for the department of homeland security. stuart verdery, former assistant secretary for policy and planning for the department of homeland security. rush ashley, former assistant drirm for federal emergency management association, former virginia international guardsman and u.s. military reserve. hans miller, former deputy assistant military of the transportation security administration. lynndon, former chief council of immigration services. what does this letter say? this letter says this, the rationale for the afghan adjustment act is clear. first, it follows through on our nation's commitment to its wartime time allies by providing at-risk afghans and th

when george w. bush was interviewing judge luttig and then judge alito and then judge roberts, roberts, who was a friend of mine and former student of mine i thought make a fine appointment, but i was lobbying as hard as i could for michael luttig rather than samuel alito to have the other seat. i obviously did not have much persuasive power with george w. bush, but i think the country would be so much better off if it were justice luttig and not justice alito, but that is history, but i wish that you were talking to justice luttig now and not judge luttig. >> thank, professor. >> on that note, we have so many more questions, but i'm not going to keep you all. i want to thank you so much. it has been such an important topic. you have said how important this is, and i hope we can have you back because i'm sure we will be seeing more of these concerning decisions and very impactful rulings by the court going forward. thank you, professor tribe. thank you so much judge luttig. and kimberly, bless you. thank

biden sex, trump's 63, george w. bush 6-foot 2 inches, reagan, obama six-foot 1 inch. george w. 11 inches. 5-foot 9 inches no shot. a short running for president don't do it is a visual medium. i think it means something masculinity and size in general. >> what is the nonsense that exercises far right how to get an ideology. >> that's a very good question i don't think i got an ideology ethics of any crazy growth this. >> here's what i think it might be there are social media commentators conservative male social media have large followings and they tend to be really muscular and hyper masculine like the undertakes of the world. there are some in this world and the conservative medium who fit the description it does not be there far right but it is what the left appears them to be. kellyanne: we will leave it there. a great conversation. a pastor's message for the canadian trucker got him in trouble with the law now his sons tough words for justin trudeau are getting and praise from that you hear his speech that got him a standing ovation next. ♪ so it's decided, we'll park even

it passed the senate unanimously, signed by a republican president, george w bush. interestingly, every time the voting rights act was reauthorize. he was signed by a republican president. and so george w bush signs it. congress says, you know, had done extensive hearings, huge numbers of people testify, huge written record numbers of exhibits to show though america had changed, we had made progress. there was need for a continuation of voting rights act, supreme court without holding hearings, not looking at the record that was presented to it decided in the words the chief justice who wrote the opinion that america had changed and america had change sufficiently that you could do away with, in essence, a vital part of voting rights act by gets a little complicated, but in essence, in essence as a result of affecting one section you took away from the justice department. the ability the preclearance ability the justice department had. that means in covered jurisdictions around the country before you made an electoral change, you were in a covered jurisdictions. and

state lawmaker democratic publican poster and scott jennings who used to work under president george w. bushthe reason he is faltering in the polls because he's not storing as people had hoped? even going down in some polls because he had to govern in florida, the left hates him and trump people hate him and that's what was going on? >> there is something to be said for the idea that he is late start did hamper him a bit. i think a medially after the midterms republicans are wounded and just have not had the red wave materialize. they are thinking we cannot let this happen again. >> although they did great in florida we should know. >> subtly the attention is all on desantis and he has a vision for the future. it was a moment where donald trump was really weak. that was the moment when you saw a real appetite for something different. it's like when you are playing a videogame and the boss you are fighting there she'll goes down, now is the moment to strike, he couldn't strike. i think that he is right that there was this moment were suddenly he could have had more support. i think if he woul

watergate and wanted someone to restore morality in a born-again christian won their boat. 2000, george w. bush likable human being than al gore pre-1992 the economy was struggling bill clinton seem to be able to feel people's empathy for each one of these races was close they were ultimately decided by people saying the authenticity of that candidate, how they present themselves convinces me they are worthy of my vote. we saw that in 2020. i'm going to be joe biden him going to be the normal god put it crazy out of the white house by been on the sound a lot prime going to be normal and bring everybody together get things done. that did not happen. but at the core of it that sense of authenticity and the nice guy sort of your grandfather from scranton, pa and the family member that was a big reason people said in a close race we are going to trust you. that's been recently damaged. paul: o only push back on at one point here. lotta presidents have temperatures in show behind the scene bill clinton was famous for throwing things around in the white house. we seen from biden there's a fair bit of