number one, they wish the george w. bush could stay in office for a third term. if they couldn't have that they would prefer john mccain. if they could have him they would prefer hillary clinton because they knew her and was familiar, and then they were very uneasy about barack obama partly because he was democrat, partly because the racial attitudes and china are fairly openly anti-black and in a startling way so there was the center of america he liked and on white president. there was also among the elite level of the leadership to the u.s. in the sense that america was able to remake its politics the way it was difficult for other countries, that agree or disagree with politics of this administration or predecessor the fact of making such change

when president george w. bush became president of the united states, we had a national debt of $5 trillion and handed him a surplus. as president clinton when he left off gave to president george w. bush a surplus. at the end of the george w. bush presidency eight years later, we were knocking on the door of $12 trillion in debt. we had more than doubled the national debt in eight years. how did that happen? some of it from circumstances beyond president bush's control. 9/11 devastated the economy and that devastation cost us dearly in terms of jobs and services and businesses and revenue lost. but conscious decisions were made by the george w. bush administration to enact tax cuts in the midst of a war. that has never happened before in the history of the united states. it is counterintuitive. in addition to your ordinary budget of your country, you have a war budget on top of it. when you desperately need revenue to pay for that war and the ordinary expenses of your government, this administration -- the previou

. >>> former president george w. bush stopped by dick cheney's house yesterday. it's the first time the two have met in person since they left the white house more than a year ago. mr. cheney was released from the hospital a day earlier, after suffering a mild heart attack. >>> senator john mccain has picked up an important ally in his battle to keep gays from serving openly in the military. the head of the marine corps told lawmakers on capitol hill that he believes the current don't ask, don't tell policy should remain in place. james conway the is the most senior officer so far to reject the push for a change in the law. >>> charlie rangel admits that his staff knew who paid for the trips. but said he did not. the panel is weighing mo serious questions about his taxes and fund-raising. rangels chairmanship of the powerful house ways and means committee could be? jeopardy. >>> a look at this morning's weather from around the nation. that same, vicious winter storm pounding the northeast will continue to wreak havoc today. expect another four to six inches of sn

to read a small book that explained the presidential decision making in terms of the life of george h. w. bush. so that's what i did and i have to say that if i am critical of some aspects of george bush, but i really get to him high marks for the tough decisions he made as president and i hope of course, and our discussion when we talk about presidential leadership and decision making that you'll see what i mean when i say that there was a moment when george bush was actually a great president, not a long time mind you, but -- and there was a time for about a. a half when he makes the kinds of tough calls the to expect of a fine president. and that's worth knowing about and i think that when we think about presidents on a day like today we should actually consider the role that to the individual place because frankly all presidential advisers disagree. there is rarely if ever a consensus in the white house which means that time and time again your president, our president has to decide, has to make up his end sunday her mind. that means the individual managers and will discuss for about two y

, let's remember and secretary gates also appointed by george w. bush and soekt gates also up appointed by george w. bush, both supported this today. what we haven't heard from the other chiefs that what you're going to find is the u.s. army and the air force and the november november are comfortable with moving ahead with getting rid of this don't ask don't tell as moving on. >> the u.s. marine corps is a dirch stoert. back whether bill clinton was president, the u.s. marine corps and general mundy as a con dot are se resistant. mike's testimony today wassed u.s. marines were arguing back in the early 90s. being game is immobile. tomorrow my mike mullen seems back that high ground and says no, no, no. to serve in effect and playboy with a situation where you're next lying to your life. that is a lack of integrity, and he put it back on the high groind and gave more information to the idea of getting rid of this policy. >> appreciate it. thank you. join the live chings at 360? just ahead, but not giving up hope. i'll show you what i found there today on

or george w. bush wouldn't like these ideas or steve forbes would like these ideas. >> a couple quick personal questions. how long have you and your husband been married? >> 12 years. >> do you have children? >> no. >> are you ever going to get into politics in? >> no. by the way, how long have you and your husband and married? panay 12 years. >> are you going to ever get into politics? >> no. i think we can safely say that. >> what is you think of this process of writing your first book? >> at the most difficult in the most fun thing. >> are you going to do another one? >> undoubtedly. i have several ideas. >> the book is called "the future and its enemies" i said to who is also the editor of reason magazine. thank you rematch. >> we know historically that margins often don't work but we forgot all about. this weekend nobel prize-winning economist joseph stiglitz on the 2008 economic a class and its effect in the global economy on afterwards on c-span 2's booktv. >> and jan >> mika played oprah on my

president george w. bush in 2004. >> our third goal is to return to the moon by 2020, as the launching point for missions beyond. >> ifill: but in the budget he proposed yesterday, president obama cancels those plans, which would have cost taxpayers $100 billion by 2020. instead, he calls for spending $6 billion over five years to focus on research and commercial development of rockets, robotics and other space-related technology. at a senate hearing today, the president's budget director, peter orszag, defended the cuts. >> there is a new course being charted for the future of human space flight that involves more advanced technologies, longer range r&d, investments in technologies that will help us leap-frog existing technologies and allow us to have human space flight to different parts of the solar system. >> ifill: but senator bill nelson of florida argued americans may not be able to get into space at all without help. >> if those commercial rockets don't work, then for the foreseeable future of the nex

-- that barack obama supported, but began by george w. bush cast a shadow over every progressive idea he had. americans were disgusted with big government before obama was even sworn it. >> the bailout was done by george w. bush and a republican administration and yet barack obama feels the hangover from it and the american people fed up with the banks, and i love ron brownstein's piece, and he talks about how this is hurting the president with working class, white voters, and it's amazing when you look at that district by district. ron has all of the great reporting on it. he didn't do very well with working class whites in the last election, democrats have a real problem with them coming up. >> and, you know, 1994, one of the big shocks, one of the big takeaways, republicans swept into congress. people get upset. but parallels are remarkable. the thing that surprised the press is that working class people making $40,000 or less went overwhelmingly for the republican party, and it looks like it may be happening again. scott brown got sworn in

he's right about george w. bush. it's not within his power, shouldn't be done. progressives do that. well, you didn't like it, i didn't like it. no signing statements. what happened? what happened to i will obey the constitution and we're not going to use signing statements? why would he violate his words so quickly? as saul alinsky said, the ends justify the means. it doesn't matter. just get it done. watch this. see if you recognize the -- i'm just going to compare and contrast. here is f.d.r., another huge progressive, 1933. s>> if we cannot do this one way, we will do it another. but do it we will. >> got it? can't do it the one way, we'll do it another, but we are going to do it. watch this from the "state of the union," just what was it, last week? >> that's why i've called for bipartisan fiscal commission. yesterday, senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission. so i'll issue an executive order that will allow to us go forward, because i refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of americans. >> glenn: do it we will. finally th

president george w. bushat the doors be open to the obama people, and those two photographs did it for me. in the elevator, and another we saw up there was obama coming into the white house at the end of the inaugural ball to spend their first night as the first family. >> one of the things that i have talked a little bit about, i have lived in washington for about 30 years, from 1972 until about 2000, and for me, i spent the inaugural day, while david was nice and warm inside the white house, i was not on the mall, and it was about 10 degrees, -- i was out on the mall. i wanted to be part of the celebration. that city, the people who live there day in and day out as opposed to the transitory, the media, politicians, the people who come and go, the people who call washington home, they had gone through a transition. it has gotten a lot better, but for a long time, it was under the direction of some of these old congressional chairman of these committees. it was sort of a second thought. there is no real carin

we find on this now, anderson, is that the head of the joint chiefs, mike mullen, pointed by george w. bush, let's remember, and secretary gates also appointed by george w. bush, both supported this today, but what we haven't heard from the other chiefs, and my sense is, from talking to people in the military, that what you're going to find is the u.s. army and the air force and the navy are comfortable with moving ahead, with getting rid of this don't ask, don't tell and moving, as the president wants. the u.s. marine corps is a different story. back when bill clinton was president, the u.s. marine corps and general mundy then as a commandant was very resistant, and today the u.s. marine corps, i think, at the leadership is resistant. what happened, interestingly, and the chief's testimony, mike mullen's testimony today was the u.s. marines were arguing back in the early '90s, being gay is immoral, as a way of life. and today, mike mullen sees back that moral high ground and said, no, no, no. to serve, in effect, in a place and situation where you're lying about your life, that is a lack o

didn't you have george w. bushome through at the beginning of the last decade with massive tax cuts and the s&p is down 9% -- >> simon, here is the problem with that argument is cutting taxes did create jobs. you look it up. the problem is while the jobs were being created, the politiciantion of that era overspent. so they went in deficit and lo and behold created jobs. they didn't alter their bad behavior, and they spent us into the poor house. that has nothing to do with the fact that part of the deficits did create jobs, but they just kept on spending. >> not only that, the defic wasn't anywhere near it is today when george w. bush left office. t.a.r.p. numbers added to it. the deficit was nowhere near where it is right now when he left office. i don't want to get political here. let's look at the facts. >> the facts are that president bush doubled -- listen, i don't have any problem with president bush, but the national debt was doubled in the eight years in which he was in office. there was a trillion dollars

worth, texas, in the rain for george w. bush's motivational speaking gig.his time he's in new orleans in the rain and hopefully warming up a bar stool for me. hi, kent. >> hi, rachel. i'm on bourbon street in new orleans, three days before the super bowl. so, of course, it's pouring. but that's okay. because this afternoon, i had a remarkable conversation with 87-year-old dookie chase with the owner of a restaurant. what does this mean to the city? you've been here your whole life? >> yes. this is one of the most beautiful things to ever happen to us where the whole nation, even international people are looking at us. and just admiring how we live, which is a simple life, but a good life. we feel that we make people happy and that saints team has made us extremely happy. >> and new orleans has been through so much. we've been through a lot. we've been through a lot. and we're just starting to see where we're rising. now we're beginning to see buildings, new housing going up, new streets and things like that. 8 0% of this city was under water. >> including t

they say the ethics committee approved the trips. >>> george w. bushey met today for the first time since last year's inaugurati inauguration. he visited the home of the former vice president outside washington where cheney is recuperating from the mild heart attack he had. >>> in the thick of toyota's recall controversy the chief executive visited his company's largest north american manufacturing plants. toyota told workers on the georgetown, kentucky assembly line the company chs at a cross roads and needs to, quote, rethink everything about our operations. >>> get this one? the man known as mr. las vegas won a standoff with nevada deputies at least for now. that singer wayne newton, he rebuffed the officers who brought moving vans to his 38-acre ranch. they were trying to collect on a debt for a breached contract, but newton home which is protected by a big gate was put up by collateral for a loan and that house could be at risk. sanjay, it's weak, but i have to say, no one is says

worth, texas, in the rain for george w. bush's motivational speaking gig. he's in new orleans in the rain and hopefully warming up a bar stool for me. hi, kent. >> reporter: hi, rachel. i'm on bourbon street in new orleans three days before the super bowl, so of course it's pouring. but that's okay because this afternoon i had a remarkable conversation with 87-year-old lea chase, the proprietior of duky chase, the landmark new orleans restaurant. we talked about the mood of this city right now. this is an exciting time with the saints coming to the super bowl. now, what does this mean to this city? you've been here your whole life? >> it's so beautiful. yes, this is one of the most beautiful things we've ever had to happen to us where the whole nation, even international people are looking at us and just admiring how we live, which is a sim life, but a good life. we feel that we make people happy. and that saints team has made us extremely happy. you know, we are just happy about anything. >> reporter: and new orleans has been through so much. >> we've been

we did bush's tax cuts under george w. bush with reconciliati reconciliation. we have used reconciliation almost 30 times to get things done of this nature. this is ordinary activity in the house. there's nothing extraordinary about using a bunch of reconciliation. i've always said that welfare reform is good for welfare is good for health care reform. >> all right. well, we hope we see something extraordinary tomorrow. congressman, i appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you so much for having me. >> stick with msmnbc. we'll have coverage of that tomorrow morning. >>> any moment now, we are expecting new video of former vice president dick cheney. doctors are calling it a mild heart attack, it would be his fifth. his office just releasing a statement saying the vice president is feeling good and will resume his normal schedule shortly, this after undergoing a stress test and heart catheterzation. cheney received well wishes from vice president biden and his former boss, george w. bush. >>> charlie sheen is in rehab following a fight with his wife. her lawyer con

. >> in the political world we have a vacuum through the george w. bush administration but it appears through this first 15 months of -- since barack obama was elected and this congress was elected. people aren't seeing anything done. they're worried about the fact that the government can work, whether it's competent enough to make things happen. and in that vacuum with the economic base eroding, they're searching for avenues and the tea party is a populist movement that is trying to fill that vacuum just as, for instance, moveon be.org and some of the other pieces fill the vacuum during the george w. bush era. it's a serious movement and needs to be taken serious.strucy well. any time you get a disagreement -- ross perot -- >> this is what it reminds us of. >> very similar to or the progressive movement at the beginning of the turn of the century. lot of passion, commitment, left-liberal thinking but not really well formed in terms of instru structure. it has a lot of work ahead of it. but i think it says something about where we are, politically in this

it is interesting that george w. bush has compared himself to harry truman and for obvious reasons i think he hopes his reputation-- but you are right he was unpopular when he left office and he speaks house apprised was that this outpouring of affection for him even as early as the ride home on the train, colleagues cannot to say goodbye and on the trip itself everywhere they went people were very affectionate toward him. he acted, he was quite surprised by that. somebody said something interesting, i forget where i read this, but you note the gallup polls or presidential popularity in the 1950's, there was still such a reference and respect for the presidency that there were a certain percentage of people who wondered no circumstance would they say they disapprove of the president so 22 is probably a pretty generous figure in terms of what harries popularity was in late 52 and early 53. of course it was the korean war which was the latter issue and has presented to the and in some ways i try to get across in the book th

republicans also used the tactic in 2001, and again in 2003, to pass then-president george w. bush's tax cuts. mann says that was a tipping point. >> the big change actually came under george w. bush in 2001. heretofore, it was always designed as deficit reduction, but this time, it was designed to cut taxes alone, and in effect, increase deficits or reduce surpluses. >> holman: but with the recent health care debate, republicans have objected to democrats using reconciliation to pass their comprehensive bill. here's tennessee senator lamar alexander at yesterday's summit. >> you can say that this process has been used before, and that would be right, but it's never been used for anything like this. it's not appropriate to use to write the rules for 17% of the economy. >> rather than start at the outset talking about legislative process and what's going to happen in the senate and the house and this and that, what i suggest is let's talk about the substance-- how we might help the american people deal with costs, coverage, insurance and these other issues. >> holman: but senate major

. >> host: is a very direct parallel of the book you quote one of the george w. bush administration lawyers, jack goldsmith, who pulled back some of the more extreme memo is from john yoo cleaning absolute power for the president over detainee's, and i remind the i think the goldsmith is the one who said george w. bush could have gotten 80-90% of the power he sought had he gone to congress, made the case to the public, but the courts and provide some limited court review he could have gotten 80, 90% but the result of the over reach, this is goldsmith's terms to leave the presidency weaker today than when he came in. >> guest: that's true of a lot of presidential power. the various things they took on have backfired over and over and over. for instance now because of the power there's the attitude we've got to have friendly governments we can rely on to launch and house and protect our nuclear outpost originally the strategic air command or they can land on the fuel and that kind of thing and submarines and missiles and so when president eisenhower came in they said mo

i thought the media was biased against al gore in 2000 that gave george w. bush far too many breaks. and then this past year with hillary. i thought -- i agree with you. i think the press was just absolutely terrible to her. >> thank you. my name is john didn't. my question is somewhat self-serving. first of all, we sat back and trying to figure out some caching for you all as tom hanks. and do appreciate that you're opening up all kinds of voices to be heard that are not necessarily heard it through news. so i want to thank you for the. my question is, when would you bring on native american voices that are not just left and right but may also be vertical? >> yeah, mika. i was asking you that this would. >> i have been saying no, i'm not ready. no, we bring on all voices. but the only thing that we don't bring on our people who bs. you know, we kind of have a meter for that. >> we don't do well with the talking points. >> we just laugh people office at when they do the. i'm trying to think, you are off that day. who was the lady i interviewed, chris, and i was j

he was president george w. bush's solicitor general, and acted as the government's principal advocate in the supreme court. during the reagan administration, he served as assistant attorney general. welcome to both of you. >> thank you, bill. >> moyers: many people in this partisan and polarized country have been hoping to see conservatives and liberals unite on at least one principle that they could agree upon. but just about everyone i have talked to was surprised to see the two of you show up in the same court arguing for gay marriage. what do you have in common on this? >> i think one of the things we have in common on this issue is respect for the rule of law, respect for civil rights, respect for the constitution. i think this is not a liberal or conservative issue. it's not a republican or democratic issue. i think conservatives and liberals alike need the constitution. conservatives and liberals alike want to keep the government out of regulating our personal conduct. want to keep the government out of the bed

george w. bush, dick cheney meet for the first time since leaving office.ve all the details coming up. 000 miles. which makes it pretty clear whose standing out front. a consumers digest "best buy" two years running. chevy malibu. compare it to anyone and may the best car win. now, get a low mileage lease on this 2010 malibu for around $199 a month for 39 months. call for details. see your local chevy dealer. cccccccccccccccc >>> the health care summit was big news today but wasn't the only stories. let's get caught up on today's other headlines. jessica yellin back again. >> charles rangel, the chairman of the house ways and means key says he will be admonished tomorrow by the house ethics committee for accepting caribbean trips from a corporation. that's a violation of house rules. rangel's office said the ethics committee approved those trips. >>> george w. bush and dick cheney met today for the first time since last year's inauguration. the former president visited the home of his former vice president outside washington where cheney is

[applause] you know, we went through eight years of george w. bush. we went through his profligate spending. no one was interested in reaffirming just desperate that followed eight years of clinton and four years of george h. w. bush. each one promoted bigger government and less freedom. why the sudden wake up call in 2009 and 2010? have you heard the story about the frog sitting in the pot on top of the burner? in the beginning, the frog is enjoying the warm temperature, not noticing that it is getting hotter. by the time he gets -- it gets unbearable for the frog, he is stuck pretty cannot jump out of the pot. it is too late. it is my theory that americans have been that frog in the pot -- for at least the last 20 years. we a been moving closer to socialism, further away from god, the constitution, doing what is right in our own eyes. all the while, we have not noticed it is killing us and our nation. we have been doing a slow burn. it has been going on much longer than that, slowly but surely. americans have been turning their backs on the sacrifice

>>> and does george w. bush support the vocal -- host: did the waltons take way too long to say goodnight? mom: g'night john boy. g'night mary ellen. mary ellen: g'night mama. g'night erin. elizabeth: g'night john boy. jim bob: g'night grandpa. elizabeth: g'night ben. m bob:'night. elizabeth: g'night jim bob. jim bob: g'night everybody, grandpa: g'night everybody. @y jim bob: g'night daddy. vo: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. >>> let's check in with jack cafferty. >> as predicted, that day-long health care summit amounted to a little more than a lot of political theater. the democrats are now taking a hard look at using a 51-vote shortcut in the senate to ram a health care bill through. it's a procedure known as reconciliation. it's supposed to be used only for legislation that affects taxes and the deficit. democrats are trying to figure out how this complicated process might work, and whether they even have enough votes in both houses to make it happen. the plan would be for the house to pass the

and then george w. bush, you know, talked about washington just being this place that didn't make any sense, and that we had to bring the common sense to washington, and certainly president obama as a candidate, you know, was critical of washington. there's been nobody to celebrate the successes of our government whether it is taking the fear out of old age for people, providin providing-- taking one-third of the people over the age of 65 out of poverty which it has done through medicare and social security. whether it is saving the great lakes, taking lead out of the air. there-- nobody seems to have a stake in celebrating the successes that we've had as a people, overcoming racial segregation remarkably well. we have some great achievements but there has been very little celebration of those successes. >> lehrer: david, how do you, looking at these polls and picking up on something that andy said, how do you explain the fact that while the government generally, and congress specifically is falling with the

. >>> former president george w. bush former vice president dick cheney at cheney's house. it will be their first face-to-face meeting since they attended president obama's swearing in. >>> investigators return to the scene of a deadly accident at orlando's seaworld today. a 40-year-old trainer drowned after being taken under and violently shaken by a 12,000-pound whale. >>> another big storm is bearing down on the northeast. up to two feet of snow, heavy rain and superstrong winds are expected in parts of pennsylvania, new york and new england. that is on top of more than a foot that fell yesterday. but relief is on the horizon. spring is just three weeks away. >> they call it the snowicane or something like that. >> too many nicknames to keep track of. >>> coming up later on "good morning america," a former fda official admits new concerns about lasik surgery. and growing reports of crippling side-effects. that's a "gma" exclusive. >>> now, for some of you, your local news is next. >> for everyone else, "america this mo

the administration of george w. bushanted to make china a part of the solution and agreed to accept china's leadership of the efforts to disarm north korea. beijing sponsored the six-party talks which began in 2003. the chinese were able to drag out the proceedings and give kim jong-il the opportunity to develop and test two nuclear weapons and perfect his long- range missiles. in other words, we allowed the chinese to give him the one thing he needed the most to make himself a real threat to the international community -- that this time. now, the chinese believe that they have succeeded with regard to north korea and are employing the same tactics with regards to iran. and yet washington continues to let the chinese leaders by the nose. we, in fact, witnessed washington giving china the right to determine american policy. we saw that this month. at the same time, china ruled out the possibility of sanctions on iran hillary clinton that despite three months that there was a december deadline, turned around this week and

former president george w. bush came calling today at former vice president dick cheney's home in virginia. it is the first time the two men have gotten together since they left office a year ago. >> mr. president. >> looking good. >> holding up all right. >> you're looking good. >> could be worse. >> as we know, the former vice president had a heart attack recently. no word on what the two of them discussed. >>> still ahead on "world news," the mind of a killer whale. did it attack on purpose? new information tonight. >>> and the question you do not ask your doctor. dr. besser with a fact that can change your life. >>> and, how a music-loving grandpa hit the 10 billion tune gong. ♪ [ woman ] nine iron, it's almost tee-time. time to face the pollen that used to make me sneeze, my eyes water. but with new zyrtec® liquid gels, i get allergy relief at liquid speed. that's the fast, powerful relief of zyrtec®, now in a liquid gel. zyrtec® is the fastest 24-hour allergy medicine. it works on my worst symptoms so i'm read

of the new text, "crisis and command," a history of executive power from george washington to george w. bush. he joins us tonight from berkeley. professor yoo, good to have you on the program. >> thanks for having me on. tavis: i want to ask a couple of lead-in questions about the book. let me ask frankly whether or not in retrospect you are willing to admit that you made a mistake with those torture memos writn during the bush era. >> i don't think so. i think that we had some very tough decisions to make about how much pressure to put on the number three, four, five leaders on al qaeda, we're talking just a few months after the 9/11 pe in that position would have done something very similar. tavis: so you don't think at all in retrospect, no insight at all as to whether or not, no rethinking, i should say as to whether or not what you were engaged in was an absolute violation of civil liberties of certain persons? >> no, whearp trying to do was try to define what wasn't torture. we wanted to provide our intelligence agencies on how to interrogate al qaeda leaders under these circumstances

george w. bush was able to come to the floor and utilize the power of those that were not necessarily neocons for those zero nights in the neocon camp of academics or newspaper editorial writers. and we tell you a lot about a very interesting people. think i'd better stop now and len can fill you win. >> there is one person while mini of your characters are familiar there is one person's name has been obscured four years as you discovered tell us to that person is. >> when i finish trading, i came away with this nagging question, and i have an answer and i could not explain it. then there was another question that now a little bit how did you go from detente to evil empire in less than a decade? that was the nagging question that got me to write the book. that is 40 years of four going less than a decade and while they were four containment for 25 years but as the daytime pass in the enemy's coal less there was a battle and it took many forms inside the administration after he left the ford reagan p

host: the point is in 2000, george w. bushut and in 2008 john mccain and barack obama opted out of matching funds. host: the last i heard, it was like you could send $1. i do not do my taxes. coastal used to be a dollar, now $3. any help, thanks to a call. we told you about the situation in afghanistan, troops moving into the southern part of the country, this is the story inside of "the washington post." "u.s. marines and afghan soldiers encountered the pockets of stiff resistance and extensive minefields in the taliban sanctuary of southern afghanistan. numerous gun fights with insurgents and painstaking efforts to clear the roads slows the advance ofñr many coalition units and stop them from reaching key areas. the operation is further complicated by the challenge of irrigation cants that traverse the area, and explosive devices ." that is the front page of "the washington post." they're calling it a tough slog in the weeks ahead. new jersey, independent line. good morning. caller: good morning to you. decades ago a great u

jon: as you know and as you alluded to, your former boss, george w. bush, wasn't necessarily welcomed as president as he was campaigning or could have campaigned for republicans around the country. is president obama falling into that same position? >> well, yes, he will fall into that and he just got accepted, but again, it's not so much what obama does as what the democrats do. for example, in 2006, there was an indiana republican congressman who ran a television ad touting how he had opposed the president on the iraq war vote, that he was one of five republicans to oppose bush on the iraq war vote. his district, which president bush carried 2-1, this 7-term congressman went down in defeat. so they've got to be very careful about it. they've got to be own the -- on the one hand say i'm independent of the president on things that matter to my state, on the other hand they have to be careful about letting too much distance grow between them and him on things like health care, cap and trade, the budget, all of which are going to be core elements of what pre

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will say this in the end, the time i finished and washington, another had a different opinion of george w. bush. but it is not a good way to start off and wendy was not much happier with me. [laughter] >> host: one of the most interesting things in the book, i have heard this before was your account of how some top russian officials had gone into some top chinese officials with the suggestion essentially they started dumping the bonds of fannie and freddie at that time. the animal sounds like the sort of thing evil things with wall street. >> it has never happened. very, very concerned about stabilizing fannie and freddie because as more and said there is five port $4 trillion in securities they were either insured or issue directly and highly leveraged institutions. where the securities were howled 1.7 trillion, the biggest portion inside the u.s.. and we had been trying to get reform legislation from congress beginning 2,006 and to get the reforms that we needed but we are unable to get to the action and that they were just on the edge so we're able to go to congress and get the authorities.

he has gone longer than george w. bush in avoiding a for mall news conference with reporters. 's last primetime nationally televised press conference. george w. bush's longest was 214 days. i wonder why he does not want to talk to reporters and answer their questions? maybe it is because at the last primetime news conference in july, mr. obama stepped it in big time, and he said that the cambridge police acted stupidly in the arrest of henry gates, but that turned into a virtual media storm. so since then, it is about staying on message. earlier this month, the president took questions from reporters in a mini presser after showing up unannounced on a snow day in the press room. he took questions for 30 minutes, but not the same thing as a full-fledged announced ahead of time press conference carried on all of the networks. one reporter tells the "times" that the president seems snake bit on the presser thing. and others say it is frustrating not to hold the president's feet to the fire. the press says they have done more interviews with the president than any of his predecesso

not george w. bush. jeb bush. finally, talk about foxes guarding the hen house.st kidding. professor rod blagojevich is heading a panel at northwestern on the issue of ethics. that story of course in the sideshow tonight, where it belongs. we start with tomorrow's health care summit. with us two u.s. congressmen. chris van holg, democrat from maryland, and john shaddock, republican from arizona. well, let me ask you both to respond to a couple of clips and tell me if you think they're on the mark. here are some of the leaders talking. here's republican congressman mike pence sunday on "meet the press." let's listen. >> republicans are ready to work. but what we can't help but feel like here is the democrats spell summit s-e-t-u-p. and all this is going to be is some media event used as a preamble to shove through obama care 2.0, we're not going to have any of it. >> here's senator mcconnell and senator reid on tuesday. let's listen. >> it appears as if the administration's already made up their mind to go forward with a beefed-up senate version and to try to jam

reconciliation was used by the republicans to pass some of george w. bush's tax cuts.the notion that this is an extreme measure is not correct. it is an unusual measure but it has been done for political purposes before by both parties. host: and senator obama very critical of the reconciliation process back in 2005. guest: he might have been critical but guess what, he's leaning on this now. and, again, it's 50 senators plus the vice president and they know it's going to happen with the vice president's vote. host: joining us on the democrat's line from frenchville pennsylvania. guest: pennsylvania is up in the mountains. host: where is frenchville guest: in the middle of the state, where poor people live. host: we're glad to hear from you, richard. caller: my first comment for you people, and i tell this to people all over the country. i'm a small business man so i deal with a lot of people. host: what's your business? guest: caller: heavy equipment, repairs and parts, construction and quarry industry and stuff. host: how has business been? caller: believe it or not,

we're joined by michael gerskin, former debate coach and speechwrit for george w. bush. good morning to you. >> great to be with you. >> kind of tough to sum up seven hours of dialogue. but how would you -- how would you sum it up? who do you think did better? >> well, i would sum it up by saying tha the democrats needed a game changer. they needed to change the momentum, you know, both the legislative momentum and the momentum of public opion. i'm not sure they got that. you know, they -- the president is always very fluid and informed. and did a good job in many ways. but republicans had strong arguments. their tone was good. they showed that they have alternatives and so in a lot of ways, it was a draw that wento the republicans. >> independents have left this administration's side. they had to show the democrats that they're willing to listen. did they accomplish that by having this summit? >> well, i think that the summit itself, you know, kind of give it a b for public education. it's the kind of debate that you should have on the floor of the house and senate and

. >> is there a direct parallel quoting one of the george w. bush lawyers that pulled back the more extreme memos claiming absolute power? i reminded goldsmith said jay -- george of the bush could have got an 81 90% of the powers could in paid just made a case to the public and provided some of court review? but the net result of that overreach is to leave the presidency weaker than when he came in. >> that is true of a lot of presidential powers the things that they took on for instance because of the power their attitudes to have to have friendly governments we can rely on to launch an house to for the strategic air command and all that kind of thing, submarines when president eisenhower came in, taking over the government that is not very friendly taking away the oil rights. eisenhower said arrow k.. one of several that was the presidential power but what is the end result? ever since it a hoard its nest of trouble because we took the shaw back and they overthrew him ever since her decades that is true of the day of the presidential overreach. >>

the have the releasing of arrangement from every president from the doors about certainly to george w. bush and i would say president obama has essentially affirmed the right to be there. i think the options i mentioned just a few minutes ago are a kind of test of information that guantanamo can be useful in times of serious distress. shortly after i decided to consider this topic seriously, iowa read a brief historical essay also by bradley reynolds that lacked the unifying theme in a bill called the u.s. navy and marine corps bases overseas, a rather dry book but they did sketch of the guantanamo history from 1898 to the president it at least told me guantanamo had served multiple functions over this 90 year period and had been an ongoing prominent factor in the u.s. to the relations. on the basis of this rather skimpy s.a.. i decided if nothing else i could use ronald's articles as a draft outline and a guide to the work that i would like a major focus of my book is on the period 1934 to the present for it was in 1934 that the united states government aggregated the plight amendment but

win george w. bush went into iraq, he should have remembered what happened in korea and then in vietnam. and i will conclude by saying, the lesson, the current lesson that president obama finks about, knows about and i know this for a fact, because to brag little bit i had dinner at the white house with him and eight other historians and some of his aides and we were raised with him this issue. he is mindful of that. he knows about it. i hope he does the right thing. his administration is on the line the way harry truman's was after he went across that parallel. jim. >> thanks. this is going to be an interesting contrast because know i'm going to take to the last years of the cold war. my book is called "the rebellion of ronald reagan: a history of the end of the cold war," and it is a tough book for people in different ways on different sides of the political spectrum, both liberals and conservatives. it is tough for conservatives because really the thrust of the book after looking through the archives

freedom from george w. bush is the one in this room. mr. podhoretz's reza may is sprinkled liberally if i may use that word with similarly seeming contradictions, similar seaming and contradictions. he edited the left journal, commentary, then bolted the democratic party when it nominated the left first political water carrier, george mcgovern for the presidency. he's an intellectual who thinks intellectuals have read the world. most fundamentally he was a key director of the great exodus for liberalism and the democratic party during the 1970's as the leader of a movement that became known dismissively at first as neoconservatives. .. in fact, he doesn't even think it was a war. merely one front in a new world war against a force he refers to as islamofascism. is now calling for us to bomb iran. [laughter] >> the liberals control everything. [laughter] >> had i gotten past gilligan's island yet? where am i here. he's calling to bomb iran and soon. and later if you think the question and answer period is getting too tepid, ask him if waterb

though, at the and i say by the time i finished in washington my mother had a different opinion of george w. bush, but it was -- it's not a good way to start off and wendi wasn't much happier with me. [laughter] >> one of the most interesting things i found in the book and i haven't heard a word about this before, was your account house on top russian officials had gone to some top chinese officials with the suggestion and essentially they start dumping the bonds of probably friday and fanny at that time, and that almost sounds like a rate. that was like the sort of thing the evil guys on wall street didn't tell me about that. >> it never happened, but we were very, very concerned about stabilizing fannie and freddie because there were $434 million of securities either directly or indirectly secured by these institutions. and these securities were held i think about 1.7 trillion outside the u.s.. the biggest portion was inside the u.s., and we had gone -- i had been trying to get reform legislation from congress to get it 2006, and to get the kind of reforms we need it but we were unable to get a

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george w. bush was the biggest spending president since lyndon baines johnson.e also expanded entitlement belt. first one to do so in a major way since president baines johnson and president obama as significantly increased discretionary spending based on the two appropriation bills that he signed. there's a great debate about the size and role of government. but returning to spending, there's some very simple principles. habitually spending more money than you make is irresponsible. irresponsiblebly spending somebody else's money is on ethical and if you're a phew furebry, a few deutschery breach. and irresponsible spending someone else's money when the person's who's money you're spending are too long to vote and not born yet is immoral and all three of these things are going on now. it depends on whether or not they are going to be recurring in nature. for example, in fairness to president obama, he inherited a $1.2 trillion deficit. due to recession. declare unfinanced wars and a variety of other actions. and it's understandable to have large deficits when y