this was just signed unilaterally by george w. bush. this was the deal we would have to be out by 2011. president obama certainly could have sought changes in that deal, but to go along with ending it on the george w. bush timeline, at this point, i think felt, feels like the right way for president obama to have made good on his promise as a candidate and the early promises he made as a president about what he was going to do here. it also, i think, calls the republicans out in terms of whether or not they support policies on the basis of who they think they can attribute them to or whether they support policies on the basis of their merits. if they were bothered by this, they should have complained when george w. bush signed it. >> andrea, what is the news today? in a sense, the president stood up and said, you know that thing president bush said we were going to do and i always said we should do, i'm doing it. that's kind of what happened today, isn't it? >> the strange thing is, the term of art, believe it or not, is called a s.o.f.

president george w.the warrior open a golf tournament he is hosting for military veterans wounded in iraq and afghanistan and bob woodward joined him for the interview. >> i don't have any legs. >> there we go, great shot. >> reporter: since leaving office, president george w. bush hasn't spoken much in public but when it comes to the wounded veterans in iraq and afghanistan, he makes an exception. how do you plan to ride bikes with the guys that have come back from the war? >> i suspect as long as i'm able. it was my decision to put them in combat. >> reporter: you pew research center says that one in three veterans that served in iraq and afghanistan believe this war was not worth fighting. >> well, i hope history proves them wrong. the only way to reach peace is for societies to emerge. and history takes takes awhile to unfold. >> did any of the veterans tell you that? >> no, i haven't had one veteran tell me that. >> reporter: the numbers are astounding. 36,000 injured, and many suffering from post t

but more americans still blame former president george w.h. 7 in 10 say bush deserves blame for this economy, nearly three years after he's left office. what a surprising bottom line. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." if you saw tuesday's presidential debate, the republican one, you know there's no love lost between rick perry and mitt romney. and the new attack ads out this week from both campaigns continue to knock down the nature of the primary. is that bad news for mitt romney, who many people presume to be the likely nominee? is rick perry essentially doing the obama team's dirty work for them? there's another school of thought, of course, there always is one, that romney is getting battle tested, ahead of the general election, and a drawn-out campaign against perry could help him build organization in many different states, something many said that helped obama in 2008 during his contest with now secretary of state hillary clinton. well, that's the first question we're going to ask our strategist tonight, then we'll

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george w., she supported that, john, down the line, and in every instance, there she is mocking president obama for getting involved in a war indirectly from behind. >> look, chris, you correctly pointed out that those are not two of the most impressive of the republican candidates, but there is an argument and there was an argument at time, not just on the crazy right, but in a lot of other places that you can make this case that this was a dangerous mission to have undertaken, that the costs might have been proven to be great. we can't argue backwards that it was not a good idea in the first place. there are people who will say that american has overstretched its -- we should be fighting fewer words. there's a principle position on nonintervention grounds, on financial grounds, on a lot of grounds. you can make that argument. >> why didn't they begin to make the argument when it's an obama campaign? >> of course. of course there are many republicans who are inconsistent on this point and supp

but because it was george w. bush and there was already this perception about it, it just seemed to feed the perception and that's why it hur. >> were there moems ever when you're unsure you're going to pull it off? i know there is one chapter where you write about sitting there looking at your prompter and there is nothing there. >> that's right. they had covered it with a piece of black cloth. so the background shot at the beginning when temperature candidates walked in you wouldn't see the prompter. it came through a slit. i looked up to say good evening and they were supposed to pull the sheet away ain and they didn't so all i saw was black. >> your opinions of a debate, do they really help the public make a good decision? >> absolutely they do. it is the only time, belva during a presidential campaign where the same candidates are on the same stage at the same time talking about something that matters. and you get to take the major of the person, for them or against them pr whether you like their views or no

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from olay. >>> on october 3rd, 2008, president george w.h signed the troubled asset relief program into law. t.a.r.p. legislation that bailed out the banks in this country so that the world's great recession would not be the world's great depression 2.0. in return for the billions of dollars the banks received, not one banker was forced to pee in a cup. contrast that with politics this year in three dozen states across the country where republican lawmakers proposed drug testing, forced drug testing of americans asking for a different kind of help, applying for welfare, food stamps or public programs that help poor families. one lawmaker in ohio is trying to make bankers and other recipients of government money in ohio live by the same standards being asked of the poor. joining us tonight for the interview, ohio state representative robert hagan, a democrat from youngstown, ohio. mr. hagan, appreciate your time tonight. thanks for being here. >> you're welcome. thank you for allowing me to tell the rest of the country how insensitive and ri

central and eastern europes showed a fairly high approval of george w.ush and when obama became president the difference wasn't that pronounced. >> if i could jump in here, i think the stereotypes work both ways. if you look at the way that americans view russia it's same thing. you are guilty before proven guilty. you are guilty because you're russian. you are guilty because you know when the soviets what you did to us and to our opinions of the world. and as for the current american president, i think the russians did not have as much infatuation before hand with obama and came out the better for it. >> it's interesting in africa, particularly in the middle east nixon was greatly admired. he was highly admired and wasn't in the western united states. >> for us given the attitude that i describe to the russians as a nation, and as a successful nation to the soviet union, actually probably more natural at the white house because for a conservative, that sort of thing comes naturally. and for a guy like obama, it's obviously, he's down graded -- i as a pe

george w. bush for eight years. he ended up not only being conservative, but giving us this massive debt, so they don't want to repeat the same mistake with mitt romney. i understand that completely. >> i understand that can be a mistake. look at it the other way, is mitt romney the most electable of the republicans, should they be happier having mitt romney as president. >> i would expect if rick perry spoke in complete sentences, he would be pulling away with this. >> that's a big if. >> an establishment candidate like paul ryan, like jeb bush, and i would say like chris christie, had they got in the race, they would be occupying a very big space right now. they didn't get in the race. so now we go through yet another cycle which i've got to say is probably not good for the republican party, that mitt romney just -- he cannot build on this 23% support. >> it doesn't look good for him. one or two flavors, okay, especially if they're a little crazy, but beyond that -- >> they're trying to draft

enron, itself, was for a time george w. bush's top career donor. when dick cheney was crafting the nation's energy policy behind closed doors in 2001, enron officials were in the room. at the height of enron's collapse, the white house was forced to acknowledge that president bush's senior adviser karl rove owned nearly a quarter of a million dollars in enron's stock. more than a dozen other bush administration officials also owned stock in the company as it went down. enron officials were personally calling bush administration officials as it was becoming clear that the company was in trouble. because of all those ties, the enron scandal was set to be a huge political scandal for the new president bush. it probably would have been the defining scandal of the first bush term had 9/11 not happened a month after enron started to fall apart. the fix for the enron problem came in the form of a new law passed by congress called the sarbanes-oxley act. that new law mostly changed the rules about how corporations kept their books and how accounting firms

to be fair to george w. bush, when that president, when george w.ush announced the start of the afghanistan war ten years ago, he did counsel. >> given the nature and reach of our enemies, we will win this conflict by the patient accumulation of successes. by meeting a series of challenges with determination and will and purpose. in the months ahead, our patience will be one of our strengths. >> in the months, months ahead. by patience, president bush counseled that it might take months. that administration was thinking about starting a new war on top of the one that was still going on in afghanistan. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld told the american public to sit tight. in december of 2002, he said everything was looking pretty good in afghanistan. asked by cnn's larry king, what's the current situation in afghanistan? secretary rumsfeld replied, it is encouraging. the taliban are gone. the al qaeda are gone. that was nine years ago. right now there are roughly 100,000 americans still in afghanistan. president obama's current plan would have t

and so george h. w.h, he thinks it's ridiculous to have so much riding on these two with 390 minute exchanges in a presidential debate. >> his son, as you point out in the book, feels exactly the opposite. >> the things is terrific. he and bill clinton said exactly the same thing in different words. they feel it makes them better, not only candid it's, but presidents because it forces them finally in those last few weeks before the election to be able not only to decide what they're really believe, but to be able to articulate it. so they see it all in a positive way. both george w. bush and bill clinton. >> you wrote that the men and going to "your book. each participant remembers the debate performance to the present, emotional as well as political. is there any debate performance the sort of sticks out in your mind. >> short. one of the problems by sitting so close. remember, it's all about television. millions and millions of people watching on television, it is in the studios of program. this is not

violence is not the answer i agree with him because i'm i was out there with the tea party under george w. bush protesting for a still to government corruption and illegal wars i don't see a difference between the tea party movement and the occupy movement i see a level of frustration difference that is very apparent and i think that is because in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight the people that were marching in the tea party were looking forward what was coming down the road in this country and now we have it here we have a nation that is led by these too big to fail complete corruption between wall street and main street and now we have millions of people in this country that have become non-persons not effective and their voice is not being heard so well i agree with tony that there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for violence i think we're seeing the in result of people's was not being heard i was there with all the town hall meetings occurred i was there we wrote letters and called senators and congressmen trying to get real effective change and what happened in the e

the report found going back to president george w. bush taxpayers end up paying 97% of the tab for a president campaign trip. >> here are what some viewers are saying about the visit on our face book page. edwin writes he can raise millions but can't help unemmoied. ryan says i'm making half money and working twice the hours. is this the change you're talking about? you can join the conversation at facebook.com/abc 7 news. >> workers had to evacuate a office building because of a break this afternoon. a construction crew ruptured a three-inch distribution line and pg&e service to nearby customers has in the been affected. the leak happening just before 3:00. crews had it capped about 3:30 today. >> and a major pg&e natural gas line ruptured yesterday during a pressure test. it happened south of bakersfield on a 34 inch pipeline. the serves as main source of natural gas to the bay area. and there is a was a high pressure test that caused a seam to fail. the utility is now trying to repair that rupture. >> allowing to us look for weakne

. >> and i think george w. bush ended this disagreements for a while to the concept of the war on terror, but there resurfaced today. resurfaced today with barack obama as president. you see that. >> professor, when lyndon johnson was president where jimmy carter was president was there a vast change in american foreign policy? >> i think carter actually really tried to bring about dramatic changes, probably the only cold war president to believe that you could get beyond the cold war unilaterally. you could -- i think he got in 77 when he came in he could decide issues like human rights and north-south issues and try to move beyond what he called this fear of communism. it turned out that the soviet union, so continuing. it was difficult to declare. by the end of his presidency he was one back into more of the cold war. lyndon johnson, he is best known for vietnam, of course, foreign policy. initially, most republicans of the time were very firm on the idea that johnson should fight in vietnam. criticized john

protesters are making the arrest of former president, george w. bush. when good morning. maryland continues this friday morning. as we go on a break, take a look at the road. this is 95 highway. be back in a bit. >>> a few minutes before 5:00, sad news from around the world. we've been telling you for days about the 2-year-old chinese girl who was ignored after being hit by two cars. that young lady has died. she died early this morning. this video showed more than a dozen people as that child lay in the street. the incident triggered outrage across the web and starked a fierce debate about the state of china's morals. >>> some canadian protesters want george w. bush arrested. they demonstrated outside an even where he and president bill clinton were speaking together. this happened yesterday. amnesty international is calling on authorities to arrest bush for war crimes. they also announced an occupy wall street protest for the economic summit. >>> a reign of terror comes to an end with moammar gadhafi begging for his life. more on the former libyan leader's final moments

saying maybe the white house needs to start doing a little more chest thump engine the manner of george w. bush, perhaps, or at least drawing a little more attention to the fact that they have had a run of real success on the foreign policy front? >> mort? >> whatever else you want to say about it, there's certainly a moral justification for going after somebody like this. and we are involved in a totally different warfare than we've ever experienced before. we're involved with a group of terrorism who use any means to disrupt whatever they can in the united states some i have no qualms with the fact we did it. and i think it's wonderful we're taking out some of their leadership and i hope this keeps them suppressed and on the run instead of attacking us. i think it's absolutely justified. >> i don't think chest thumping on this would be necessarily appropriate. i think the president does have a good record on national security and that kind of flips the poles, because normally that's a weakness for democrats. but given the job situation, that's the number-one issue on everybody's minds.

after george w -- well, after bill clinton we have george bush. the two sides -- i tell my students, these are the two bookends of the 1960s. we have the war protester and all that brings to mind with what he did not inhale and what he didn't do and all of that, and the frat boy. i mean, so i say we had, what, ten civil war presidents, maybe eight world war ii prime ministers, and our generation got the two bookends, and that's it. obama claims to be a baby boomer, he was born at the tail end. >> host: al felzenberg, in your rating system for warren g. harding, you rate him at 26. he gets rating number 26, he gets a 2 for character. he gets a 4 for preserving and extending -- >> yes, yes. first of all,. >> host: it's a 1-5 scale. >> guest: yeah. 1-5 scale. well, harding is always rated next to last, i have to say, so was grant. we'll talk about grant as well. when you get the early polls that arthur schlesinger sent out to historians, harding's always at the bottom. watergate's good for them because nixon comes along, and the others sort of go up.

president obama or george w. bush. here is a surprising take on that question. let's listen. >> even though 50% of the american people think the economy tanked because of the last administration isn't relevant. we are in charge. i don't blame them for being upset, we are in charge. >> the poll is the new one from cnn. when asked who is responsible for the economy, 52% of the americans say president bush and the republicans. hear that? 52% say bush and the republicans. 32% said obama and the democrats. bush isn't on the ballot i would argue next fall. it might be a time to change the argument. alex wagner and mia henderson. thank you for coming on tonight. it's a most to the point question about american politics. we know the economy is terrible. people are angry about it. everyone is. the question is, what is the smart, intelligent thing for this president to say as he attempts to fix it? is he smart to say it's bush's fault or look, we are in charge. we hope it gets better. we are not going to blame it on the past. >> i think biden is taking the argument, we op

george w. bush there. will farrell continued success with movies like anchorman, talladega nights and many more films. we caught up with will farrell and ape f few others on the red carpet. >> when you meet will, same thing, you can't believe how nice he is, how tall he is, how funny he is. >> he would come on my show as a leprechaun, wearing a skin tight, green speedo. a sensual leprechaun. >> just getting a better angle from this camera here. i don't have to prepare, you know. my mind set is simply final. you know? right? that's what we are thinking. what he is writing. finally >> about time. absolutely. the show took, tonight will air on october 31st on pbs. awe used to love his characters. george w. bush one of my favorites. on snl. doing the presidential debates. asked him, how would you describe your presidency in one word? he looks dead in the eye. strategery. killed me when he said that. >> i got my ron burgundy bobblehead on my dex. >> classic character. no doubt. did you like the weather today? >

he more recently turned his impersonation of president george w. bush into the broadway show. it will be broadcast following night on tbs. >>> today an icon of 20 first century technology celebrated her birthday. on this day 10 years ago steve jobs unveiled the original eyed pod. 23million pods have been sold around world. they say it's popularity helped transform apple from the niche computer brand into household name. they developed subsequent versions of the ipod eventually helped create the iphone and ipod. >>> the downward trend for grass prices tends to be ending. the average price per gallon of regular has gone up nearly $0.5 according to the lundberg survey. the national average for economic regular is $3.47 and is much higher here in the bay area. $3.84 intent of cisco bay and some analysts believe one reason for the rise in prices is the lower demand for fuel. >>> cabernet, chardonnay, everyone out of the way. here comes an wide avalanche. nearly $7000 of wide down an entire shelving unit. it happened in sheboygan wisconsin. when michelle gave way, the wine went ever

it was march of 2003 when president george w. bush announced the start of the war against iraq with shock and awe. saddam hussein's rule soon collapsed. the president famously announced, "mission accomplished," but as we now know, even with the capture of saddam himself, the mission would take much, much longer with more violence, some awful revelations, uplifting victories and finally today's white house announcement. there is a lot of news to cover on all fronts tonight. we begin with our chief white house correspondent chuck todd. chuck? >> reporter: good evening, kate. opposition to the iraq war was among the central reasons why candidate barack obama became nominee obama and then president obama. promises to bring the troops home were a campaign staple, something not lost on the president today. >> as promised, the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. after nearly nine years, america's war in iraq will be over. as a candidate for president, i pledged to bring the war in iraq to a responsible end.

people who support george w. bush and george w. bush says it to this day, say if we cut taxes we will have economic growth and we will create jobs but would happen? we had the slowest rate of economic growth of our recovery and expansion of any similar period since the depression. i don't mean including the catastrophes of 2007-2008. i mean from 2001-2007 before the great crash and the great recession began. slowest rate of economic growth of those tax cuts. the great let's reduce government philosophy. and what was even worse was job growth. there was almost no job growth at all under george bush in those years. the reason unemployment didn't go up is people dropped out of the workforce. here we sit today with an economy that was week to begin with, i think the american job machine had already broken and then we have these financial crises created by men -- i talked-about men mostly in this book. there were some women i guarantee you. created by men, could have been stopped by men and when it occurred, completely surprised these f

president obama or the man he inherited this whole mess from, george w. bush? here's vice president biden's somewhat surprising take on that question. let's listen. >> even though 50-some percent of the american people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that's not relevant. what's relevant is, we're in charge. it's gotten better, but it hasn't gotten good enough. so i don't blame them for being mad. we're in charge. so they're angry. >> "we're in charge." the poll he's referring to is the new one from cnn. when asked who's responsible for the current economy, a majority of americans, 52%, say president bush and the republicans. hear that? 52% say bush and the republicans. just 32% say president obama and the democrats. that's an allocation of blame about the same as this time last year. it's holding. but bush isn't on the ballot, i would argue, next fall, and it looks like it might be a time to change the argument. alex wagner is an msnbc political analyst and nia-malika henderson covers politics for "the washington post." ladies, than

he was the deputy chief of staff and senior adviser to george w. bush.rry not to get involved in the birther debate. that surrounded president obama. perry said he believes the president was born in the united states but was less confident. the birth certificate the president released earlier this year was the real thing. >>> a dragon space ship and shoes that can track your loved one's every move. let's head to hong kong for some tech headlines. good morning. >>> hey there. l let's talk about the dragon capsule. it is developed to fly cargo and then eventually crew to the spags station. the next liftoff could be december 19th. the final launch day is set by nasa who is sponsoring the flight. the dragon will carry food, water and other space station supplies and tests will be conducted. nasa is depending on partners like space ex to deliver cargo and eventually crew, astronauts, to the international space station. many will be looking to see how the dragon performs out there in orbit. back to you, carol. >> before you go, tell us about the new shoes that

if, like george w.ou are a republican who is asking those chairmen for a tax cut, the politically easiest thing for any politician, democrat or republican, to do, it is very likely that they will happily give you some version of your tax cut and your tax cut will pass both houses with way more than enough votes. if you're bill clinton in 1993 and asking those chairmen to give you a tax increase after having campaigned on a tax cut, those chairmen, if they happen to be democrats, which they were, will get that tax cut increase for you, but it will be very hard work and it will pass as it did them by one vote. if you're president barack obama and you're asking congress to increase the top income tax rate and the house ways & means committee chairman is a republican, there's a zero percent chance you're going to get your wish. we know michele bachmann will never be president, but if some other republican is elected president someday and wants to build a double-walled fence that bachmann dreams of along our