along with george w. bush and laura bush, also hillary clinton. air force one is scheduled to arrive in about an hour and now and to be a fly on the wall of that flight. cnn jake tapper host of "the lead" put together this fascinating piece about what can happen when american presidents are thrown together by history. >> the world is quickly preparing for what may be the largest gathering of heads of state since winston churchill's funeral in 1965. representing the u.s. alone, will be presidents barack obama, george w. bush, bill clinton and jimmy carter. comprising one of the most prestigious frequent flier clubs in the world. today air force one departed for south africa, where more than 90 world leaders are planning to attend nelson mandela's mamande. president george h.w. bush, who has been in poor health for some time, will not be making the trip. together, they're set for an almost 20-hour flight. even though there's only one bed onboard. >> air force one is a very intimate setting. so, that's the place where you can have quieter conversatio

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monday's ruling by judge leon who was appointed by george w. bush, is the first to call the telephone program unconstitutional. 15 other judges on a special court to review classified programs have upheld it on 35 different occasions. >> this is the beginning of a conversation but it's not the end of the conversation.

now, also on air force one for the trip to south africa former president george w. bush, his wife, laura, and former secretary of state hillary clinton. former presidents jimmy carter and bill clinton will also be attending the memorial but they are traveling separately. the only living president not going to the mandela funeral is george h.w. bush. he's 89 and is no longer able to travel long distances. >>> in south africa people are still gathering outside of nelson mandela's house in johannesburg. this is video shot earlier this morning. tomorrow, a public memorial service will be held in a soccer stadium that seats 95,000 people. then nelson mandela's body will lie in state in a government building in pretoria from wednesday through friday and then on sunday, nelson mandela will be buried in the remote village that he grew up in. >>> 7:16. today, south africa's

this president having issues, george w. bushhem was there a moment where approval ratings all that have where george bush was not known to be reflective, nevertheless learned something in his second term and took command of the office in a different way, there was a moment where that was true? >> i think he does. in fact the irony is you get to be a better president in your second term by that point the problems have accumulated, baggage so grown that your ability to transcend that is even more limited. i think by the time he looks at iraq in the face, end of 2006 and 2007 he realizes this war has gone badly, hasn't gone the way he wants. he throws away three years of policy to go a different direction against all the paparazzi pew already with us -- of the popular wisdom. he's send more troops try to solve the situation. very daring when it was bold decisions the president has made in modern times. i think a function of his comfort is growing confidence after six years despite all of the travails and problems and mistakes. >> d

whether it's george w. bushmself in the shower or chris christie anticipating president obama's help after hurricane sandy. george bush is showing are more intra specs than the republican party is. they need more pope francis and a little less phil robertson. >> is it possible that we could see republicans next year run to go this former president bush saying, hey, come help me out some they want to ride his coattails like you mentioned that a lot of people want to bring out bill clinton when it's time to raise money or build the campaign. >> obviously president obama has started his 7th and 8th year a little earlier than normal. do republicans need a face to the republican party? jason might position that is a great idea. but i would contend that our party does need george bush to articulate eight years of the white house, what we did good. and we'll be willing to take that criticism from jason and the left side of their party buff i've been around the country talking to people. you can't have eight years of a

how did george w. bushf the right to a dirty word? >> right. that's what's so fascinating here. this comes at a time when republicans are very happy to know that george w. bush's approval ratings, like all presidents after they leave office, have gone up. and you know, a few weeks ago we heard a lot of conservatives say george w. bush has a better approval rating than barack obama, even, right? and yet the -- it's conservatives and republicans who are invoking him as, you know, the best dig they can get in at obama is comparing him to george w. bush. it does show how far the republican party has drifted in various directions, mind you. not in one direction. but away from the bush years. and they are still trying to distance themselves from that. >> and i mean, brian, it's fascinating. we have had mission accomplished. we have had things being called obama's katrina. it literally does feel like -- insinuating things -- his iraq. are we literally going to have the right replay the entirety of the bush preside

that's the same number george w. bush was in, december of 200200. 41%. bill clinton at the same time was at 56% job approval. ronald regan in 1985 was at 63%. i'm sure when the president sees that he's in the same boat right now as george w. bush was five years in, he's not very happy about it. >> not a reassuring place to be, especially because it's easy to plunge as a politician. easy to plunge in popularity and jop approval. it's difficult to climb out of the hole. george w. bush never got out of his hole. after he went under 50%, he never got back. i'm not saying that will be the same with president obama. we'll see. it's very difficult. once you have lost trust. once the american people indicate they don't trust you, and polls indicate more americans don't trust president obama than trust him, which is a staggering number that happened about a month ago, and also the plunging of numbers of people thinking he's looking out for their economic interest, i think it went down 20 points from 26% over the republicans now to just 6% over the republicans. di

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in addition, president obama, george w. bush, president clinton and president carter will be there. raul castro will be there. will mandela's message of forgiveness resonate? and a time crunch of epic proportions, will the venue be safe? first on the security front. joy worked -- joe worked on sec for pope john paul's funeral. what could go wrong? but a lot could go wrong. >> yeah, south africa's not entirely a safe place. you have a large somali community there, with connections to shabaab. monitoring these will not be easy. you have the problem of a lot of weapons coming through africa, central african republic, libya and the rest of it. so there is the potential danger to secure all these people. >> the u.s. delegation a small part of the crowd. how much control can the u.s. secret service have, realistically? >> well, it's entirely up to the host government. the south african government has hosted u.s. presidential visits in the past. they do a good job. but, again, it's a very difficult situation. you have 100 heads of state means you have 100 armed security details for those h

george w. bushin many ways, the pepfar agreement, all the work he's done since and repeated trips to tanzania. >> even people who didn't like george w. bush's politics or wars, whatever, have to give him credit for the pepfar program which literally saved millions of lives especially in southern africa providing retro viral drugs for aids to people who otherwise would not have had this lifesaving treatment. it's an astonishing accomplishment and recognized and appreciated across the continent where he's probably more popular than he is anywhere in the world. >> i was going to say um becki, mandela's successor has a reaction area view that aids somehow was not the treatment and so banned retro viral drugs. it was mandela and mandela foundation that stepped in and pepfar and george w. bush that filled the gap. >> that's right. remember, ten years ago epicenter of the aids epidemic, demographic and human disaster on a massive scale there. the fact it hasn't happened is a tribute to president bush. >> n

george w. bush, "we join the people of south africa and around the world and celebrity the life of nelson mandela. he was one of the great forces for freedom and equality of our time. he left the world with dignity and grace and our world is better off because of his example," that from president george w. bush a short time ago. jonathan karl, certainly president obama made aware of the news, the loss this afternoon. have we heard anything yet from the president? >> the white house is well aware of this, something we have been tracking a long time. no official statement yet. was a towering influence on president obama, inspiration. if you look now at the screen, that is the one and only photograph of president obama and mandela together, happening the one time that manned -- that obama got to meet his hero as a young freshman senator, newly elected senator, and mandela was visiting washington. he had that meeting, that single photo, obama in silhouette. he wassident, back when senator obama, wrote a

presidents george w. bushill attend the memorial being held at the same stadium where mandela made his last public appearance. we'll talk about the security challenges when half of the world's leaders are in one location. >>> three teenagers arrested accused of letting their friend drive drunk before she crashed and died. should the teenagers be held accountable? we'll discuss this next on "news nation." [ female announcer ] puffs knows winter is hard on your face. [ sneezes ] [ female announcer ] the start of sneeze season. the wind-blown watery eyes. [ sniffling ] the sniffling guy on the bus. and, of course, the snow angels with your little angels. that's why puffs plus lotion is soft. puffs plus are dermatologist tested to be gentle. they help soothe irritated skin by locking in moisture better. so you can always put your best face forward. a face in need deserves puffs indeed. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation -- an irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve proble

going to be engaged in terrorist activities that happened for some of them the released under george w. bush but more than half are already cleared another thirty five or so are cleared for trial and then the real trouble is about forty eight who have been deemed neither able to be transferred nor able to be tried there in this indefinite detention situation which i would argue is completely not in the constitution united states but this was set up under george w. bush it was inherited by president obama and congress is prevented from dealing with it in the way that i and many americans and the like to say to deal with that being put them on trial because they're not allowing the one thing that they're sticking with us throughout allowing these people to come to the united states free to be imprisoned here or to be you know to stand for trial here so how can he really policy wise even get around that obstacle how would he be able to close i don't think he can i mean the congress has prevented it i mean president obama came in his very first years he's going to close guantanamo bay within a y

from having done two vice presidential searches for george w. bush i can tell you the perfect candidate does not exist. i always end up at the least worst option in case -- except in my case obviously. >> laughed. [laughter] that's a good point in which to close out the evening. >> on to thank everybody for coming and a special thanks to the george washington university heart and vascular institute that helps promote this event tonight and to the staff of the press club. now for a special occasion we have if i can get up here without dropping it. this is a big event of the night. [laughter] the national press club mugs. we always presented to our special guests. thank you all for coming. [applause] >> he will keep coming back until he gets the whole set of the half dozen. please join me in thanking the vice president and dr. reiner for a fabulous presentation and as you can see the book is wonderful so get it. [applause] .. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this is really wonder

such as the leaders of including the former president george hw bush, and george w bush, anybody that serves on the world stage will get their invitations on day 3, and then starting on day 5,dy. four is a logistical day, when you will see the first public funeral, and it will happen at the soccer stadium, where they held the world cup in 2010, 94,000 people, you can imagine the kind of long lines will be just for the public to get into the state memorial service. nelson mandela's body will be moved. on day seven, that's when his body will lie in state. and then undawning and then finally on day 10, is when things ram up with the private family burial. so every day there will be pictures and opportunities for the world to express its condom lenses and grief and this is the initial planning. well, each day is pretty much firm. they are fearful that the number of clouds and logistics coordinating so many wormed leaders is not something that south africa may have been preparing for. they anticipate it, but coordinating is nothing like they have seen since the death of i don't think kenne

former president george w. bush, bill clinton and jimmy carter are attending the ceremony there as well. the anti-apartheid leerd make an appearance at that very stadium for the closing ceremonies of the 2010 world cup you might remember. his last public appearance, uniting races while he did that. he died last friday. he was 95 years old and will be buried on sunday in his rule hometown. today is the memorial service. senior foreign affairs correspondence greg is at the stadium there. i understand it's raining there. i can't tell it's raining if you look at the video but the stadium is filling up and people are packing into the top part of the stadium which is under cover right now. describe the scene for us if you will. >> reporter: exactly. it is a cold, wet, windy, rainy day here in johannesburg but the scene in the huge soccer stadium behind me is anything but dampened. the mood, the spirit, the enthusiasm is incredible. this is a national memorial to the late nelson mandela. the icon for the world. they called

i think that's the problem. >> last question on george w. bush. there's speculation that the president's office isolated him really without his knowing it. >> yeah. nor and more is coming out with the relationship of george w. bush and dick cheney, his vice president. in the beginning he relied heavily on cheney. he didn't have any experience in foreign affairs. you see the interview with him during the campaign. he didn't know the leaders. who is the leader of pakistan? oh it's that muslim guy, he would say. okay. that's not very heartening. but anyway, they so he -- cheney he selected because cheney had defense secretary. white house chief of staff and veteran in washington and didn't know a lot about foreign policy and defense. which bush didn't. in the beginning, he really deferred to cheney on a lot of things. as we have learned, as time went on, bush felt he learned enough and overruling cheney. cheney wanted further escalation in iraq further escalation in afghanistan. more aggressive use of armed forces against terrorism. and bush rejected

the first lady, former president george w. bush and hi wife, laura, as well as former secretary of state hillary clinton. you would expect with all those names, security would be very tight. from what we've seen here, incredibly lax. people going if and out of the stadium without a metal detector or a patdown. the south african government says they're we well prepared for any scenario. they've hosted dig any tars before and the world cup in 2010. john? dy diana? >>> president obama's limb moe caught in traffic. a rare sight of the limo nicknamed the beast. >> abc will follow events in south africa all morning. a complete wrap up on "good morning america." >>> back here at home, the headline this morning is the wintry weather wallop. >> forecasters predicting another double punch as a storm system coming out of the great lakes combines with a southern low from the south. lit spawn more snow from the mid-atlantic to the northeast. >>> a bitter cold front out of canada is blasting parts of minnesota. the mercury struggled to stretch a

that's george w. bush low. and george w. bush as you know never climbed out of that hole. he never got back to 50% which is where you need to be, over 50%. how does the president do it? >> first, it was very interesting. he was definitely doing his best mohammed ali rope-a-dope, laying on the ropes, taking tough questions and hoping the next round will be better. he was trying to get on air force one today and he succeeded. he did not make news which was his goal. but in the background, while we focus on the lumps, there are some good things beginning to emerge and surface. the economy is beginning to come forward. one of the quarters got revised up to 4% growth. >> i was actually surprised he didn't talk about that more. >> i would have been pounding on that. 4% growth. you're chasing china at that point. so that was good. the other thing he missed a huge opportunity because of the fatigue to pound on the fuel prices. just think of gas prices going up the way they're going down. he would be getting killed on that. so i think when you have this level of fatigue and just ge

under george w. bush, those same nominees saw a wait time about a quarter of that amount. nominees, they have waited around 100 days. times the weight time of george w. bush's nominees. you have seen significantly longer wait time from court approval. the difference was the senate democrats had it different strategy mixing the process up. they would try to hurt the nominee's chances before they even got to committee. reid went on to the this in the midst of nuclear debate, they talked about how half of the cloture motions have come under president obama's term. which is a startling statistic. think only for cloture motions were ever invoked the past 13 years. were on theinees floor and they had to bring this to a vote? >> right. they nominated what they thought would be the best candidate possible. >> those people passed the committee. >> they are approved in that process within they have to wait to get to the final confirmation days, and 10040 days on average. onwe do this interview friday, december 13. the fallout from the nuclear option vote is longer wait time. republic

this is one of seven very republican districts that george w. bush won, john mccain won, mitt romney won so that is a seat democrats aren't going to be able to capture. they need 17 seats to be able to reclaim control of the house that is a long way away. >> ifill: that was always considered to be a long way away but it doesn't help when people decide to retire. >> not at all am they don't like defending open sees-- seats but republicans are retiring 11 to to 1 versus democrats. when you talk to them they see that as expanding their map. they see opportunities in places like arkansas, north carolina, other places in south florida, some other states like that. >> ifill: well, let's talk about the senate, because in the senate there are also retirements and there's a better chance of gaining or regaining control for republicans, perhaps. >> the senate republicans need six net seats to be able to take control back. three of those seats might look pretty easy. you've got west virginia where jay rockefeller a democrat is retiring, south dakota and montana

known for his impressions, from george w. bush strategery. [ laughter ] >> reporter: -- to janet reno, to saddam hussein. >> monica, you never call me anymore. [ laughter ] >> reporter: in his last season, he reportedly became the highest paid cast member. his salary $350,000. >> we're going streaking! >> reporter: before long, he went old school. >> yes. >> reporter: the movie was a hit, box office take $87 million worldwide. >> it's so good. >> reporter: this funny man became a leading man. there was "elf." >> santa! oh, my gosh! >> reporter: anchorman," "talladega night,s," "blades of glory," "stepbrothers," the animated hit "mega mind." and the "campaign." they haven't all been hits, and he was once named the most overpaid actor by "forbes." but tally it all up, movies will farrell has starred in have grossed almost $2 billion. >> massive amounts of money. >> reporter: and that's before "anchorman 2." >> why can't the news be fun? >> reporter: ron burgundy does product placement very well. dodge commercials helped push durango

president george w. bush was in office and he said: >> farmer george w. bush, and laura bush released a statement saying: >> former president bill clinton sa said: >> president clinton posted a photo of himself with nelson mandela. clinton tweeted this picture with a message saying: >> nelson mandela now belongs to the ages, president obama said. nelson mandela died at his home at the age of 95. today the world remembers and celebrates his life. stay with al jazeera america for complete coverage of his passing. i'm john siegenthaler. we leave you with the words of nelson mandela from his inaugural address. [ singing ] >> never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. and suffer the indignity of being the scum of the world. the sun shall never set on so glourious a human achievement. let the sun rain. god bless africa. thank you. (clapping) << announcer: this is al jazeera america. we join this program already in progress. >> hello, you are watching al jazeera's special coverage of

if you had told george w. bushin 2008 that by 2013, he would be number two on this list, i think he would be ecstatic. >> believe me. >> bush came out and showed his personal side and he got his paintings, he went on the late shows. it reminded people that this might be a guy that i would enjoy having a beer with. we're a few years out from his presidency, and people are remembering him more fondly. >> julie, do you think -- is hillary clinton being at the top of the list for women, is that at all predictive of anything to come? >> i don't think so at all. look at who the competition was. kate middleton. i'm for her fashion sense, but she married into the right family. and queen elizabeth, who was born into the right family. so she doesn't have much competition. you have hillary clinton, sarah palin, who is still up there. oprah is always popular. oprah, if she still had her show and didn't go to her own network, she might have been beat the top of the list. >> i thought it was interesting. sam, i wanted to ask you

he is actually a little bit this point than george w. bush was and we know george w. bush had a very bad 2005. know, and president reagan and clinton were well over 50 percent. low end of that. >> man with an assault is the is the white house plan to turn it around and do they have around.o turn it gwen: they are keeping it a secret from him and us as well. always believe there is a direct connection between the economy and his standing and they will try to ride that. at the same time, i think they are looking for ways to make it appear as though he actually is somemmand and can do things. he brought john podesta in as a counselor at the white house in part with a portfolio to look at executive actions that he can do without the approval of congress climaterogress gres on change or energy or even the jobs front. >> when you are at a record low the temptation must be to say it can only go up from here. could it actually get worse from here? >> i suppose it could. i think the country is so littleed that he has a bit higher floor than perhaps president bush did in his pre

remember, president obama essentially ran against george w. bush in 2008, as much as he ran against john mccain. but i have spoken to the former president bush about this. he said he gets it, that's politics. one thing about former president bush, he has done this president a favor. president obama appreciates it. he's pulled back from the public discourse but he loves politics. he loves to talk politics and so i can imagine george w. bush, if he gets a private moment, looking over at hillary clinton and saying so what are you thinking. >> but bill clinton is flying separately with chelsea from another location. he presumably has his own plane. jimmy carter and his wife are flying over separately with a group of so-called elders, so that will be a separate plane for them. but all four of those presidents, one current, three former presidents and their wives, they will all presumably be at this memorial service. you were saying the secret service has got to be worried about a situation like that, and even though the south african security forces hav

in addition, president obama, george w. bush, president clinton and president carter will be there. raul castro will be there. will mandela's message of forgiveness resonate? and a time crunch of epic proportions, will the venue be safe? first on the security front. joe worked on security for pope john paul's funeral. what could go wrong? but a lot could go wrong. >> yeah, south africa's not entirely a safe place. you have a large somali community there, with connections to shabaab. monitoring these will not be easy. you have the problem of a lot of weapons coming through africa, central african republic, libya and the rest of it. so there is the potential danger to secure all these people. >> the u.s. delegation a small part of the crowd. how much control can the u.s. secret service have, realistically? >> well, it's entirely up to the host government. the south african government has hosted u.s. presidential visits in the past. they do a good job. but, again, it's a very difficult situation. you have 100 heads of state means you have 100 armed security details for those hides of s

george w. bush would describe an an axis of evil, reagan spoke of a confederation of terrorist states. it was the clinton administration, however, that made rogue regime part of washington's lexicon. when the defense secretary left aspen unvails proliferation initiatives in december 1993, he warned that the new nuclear danger we face is perhaps a handful of nuclear devices in the hands of rogue states or even terrorist groups. speaking in 1994 to politicians in brussels, clinton, himself, described iran and libya as rogue states. sec tear of state kris tosser rougherred to iran and iraq as rogue regimes in an address at georgetown university later that same year. in each case, the clinton administration focused more on rogues towards the yaits than the danger of rogue leaders posed to their own people. saddam hussein was a rogue leader pursuing nuclear weaponry and invaded kuwait. he was not a rogue because he gasessedded kurds and massacred shiites. tony lake, clinton's national security adviser, t

under george w. bush, those same nominees saw a wait time about a quarter of that amount. for district nominees, they have waited around 100 days. three times the wait time of george w. bush's nominees. you have seen significantly longer wait time from court approval. the difference was the senate democrats had it different strategy mixing the process up. they would try to hurt the nominee's chances before they even got to committee. when harry reid went on to the floor in the midst of this nuclear debate, they talked about how half of the cloture motions have come under president obama's term. which is a startling statistic. i think from 1917 through 1960, only 4 cloture motions were ever invoked the past 13 years. were ever invoked. the past 13 years, the number is 280. >> these nominees were on the floor and they had to bring this to a vote? >> right. they nominated what they thought would be the best candidate possible. >> those people passed the committee. >> right. they passed the senate judicial committee. they are approved in that process within they have to wait to

position more in favor of one or the other that's really his choice i mentioned that quote by george w. bush earlier and. you know the idea that you need to help democratize other countries. as a way of insuring your own security and i think it's still very popular in the west but it is certainly i guess part of the always see mission especially since the collapse of the soviet union you've made some progress in that domain i wonder if you indeed agree with george w. bush in that that actively promoting democracy is not just a matter of your values or your ideology but it is indeed part of the security doctrine would say that but this is a concept that these agreed by everybody in your city we need to do should whose name refers to the promotion of democratic institutions if we have in our societies and in the structures of our countries checks and balances you have immense were. controlling somehow the decisions of the governments governments reporting to parliaments if you have democratic process is over the actions that the laws that make sure that government's duty flick to the will of t

president obama's situation is roughly comparable to where president george w. bush>> surprising that george bush was ahead of him. he was 47%. >> i understand that. but i'm saying roughly comparable, megyn, i'm not saying they were the same. george w. bush was going through the nadir of the iraq war when things were at their worst and the public had turned against the war. there was no good news coming out of that. it was known then as the main initiative of his administration and it was failing. and it had the expected effect on his popularity, which was pretty severe. this similar situation with president obama. the main initiative of his administration, much more so than the economy, which was what people wanted to be his main initiative, was this obamacare. and of course it's beginning, and the effect of its policy so far has been disastrous. and we have seen a precipitous drop. i mean the striking thing about the obama ratings is how abru abruptly they have fallen and how far. >> how much do you think that drop is affected by the fact that healthcare.gov rollou

presidential george w. bush in austin. later, they honored the march on washington. >> no former president likes to be marginalized. they always like to be the center of attention, here we have four centers of attention? that is a lot to juggle. >> but for all of their smiles, a stage shared by leaders can seem small at times, so safe travel to the nation's leaders today. may you get along well with your seat mate. >> that is all for us, thank you for joining us, "ac360" starts right now. >>> jake, thank you very much. good evening, everyone, as one official here in johannesburg put it, the world is coming to south africa to pay tribute to nelson mandela, the father of south africa. it is the single largest gathering of heads of state and gives just in a few hours, president obama, former president george w. bush and hillary clinton sharing air force one, former presidents clinton and carter flying separately, along with presidents and princesses and kings from other countries. many converging on a soccer stadium here in j

scale. >> it's going to make a big, big difference in the atmospherics on air force one with george w. bush with his successor that president bush has been so reserved in making any negative comments. he's not second-guessing his successor and i think that the obama people really appreciate that. >> this gang has seen more of each other than usual. in april, the group suited up to attend the dedication of the george w. bush presidential library in texas. in august, clinton, obama and carter joined forces to honor the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. >> no former president likes to be marginalized. they have always been the center of attention and here, we are going to have three formers and a current president, four centers of attention. that's a lot to juggle. >> but for all their smiles, a stage shared by leaders can seem rather small at times. so safe travels to our nation's leaders today. may you get along well with your seat mate. we're told that air force one just made a refueling pit stop in senegal which means the presidents are well on their way to south africa and prob

i wonder if you indeed agree with george w. bush and that that actively promoting democracy is not just a matter of your values or your ideology but it is indeed part of the security doctrine i would say that but this is a concept that these agreed by everybody in your city we have institutions whose name refers to the promotion of democratic institutions if we have in our societies and in the structures of our countries checks and balances you have immense were. controlling somehow vetting the decisions of the governments governments reported to the parliaments if you have democratic processes over the actions that the laws that make sure that governments do reflect the will of the people then it is more difficult for a government to make a decision that can be dramatic but here we're talking about internal institutions internal democratic institutions and i'm asking you about an outside effort to bring democracy to any certain country and you mentioned earlier that everybody agrees on that model but i would like to mention one exa

george w. bush, former secretary of state hillary clinton.morrow's memorial service including cuba's president raul castro, a soccer stadium full of mourners will congregate to remember nelson mandela's life and hess enduring legacy. >> we think of you, your father, wonder of the world. >> in a moving tribute to her friend on behalf of the american people, maya angelou released this video reciting a poem, "his day is done." she will join me to reflect on the man she calls the heart of africa. >> will i be able to remember all that i've learned from him, from his kindness and his generosity of spirit. will i remember? i thank god i do. >> and that wintry storm from north to south with snow, ice, freezing temperatures, it isn't over yet. we'll have the latest forecast on where it's headed next.

see that up close. >> you've got world leaders going there, including he was very critical of george w. bush over the iraq war and bush is heading down there. he was critical of the united states way back in 2003. i think he said if there's a krntd has committed unspeakable an frosties, it is the united states. this is a man who spoke from the heart and people respected him for na. >> can too i along time for the u.s. to divest in investments in south africa. the funeral for nelson mandela will be one of the biggest funerals the world has ever seen. officials preparing to welcome more than 91 current, former heads of state for this memorial. and president obama en route along with former president george w. bush. rare they're on air force one together. decided to get a ride. >> hitched a ride. they're going to be joined, of course, by former presidents bill clinton who was also close to any son mandela, as you said, and jimmy carter, too. he's going for the memorial service. some other world leaders who plan to attend for mr. mandela are the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon, david cameron,

of hundreds of thousands of people all in the name of freedom is spending his holiday you see george w. bush is having a real swell time it just came out that to celebrate the season former president bush is selling his artwork on a limited edition christmas ornament and it's flying off the shelves of the bush letters museum store according to shop workers the ornament cost twenty nine ninety eight and peter's a painting of his of the cardinal proceeds from sales go back to his center the ornament comes with a little ribbon attached to it so you can hang it from your christmas bush earlier this year in an interview with a.b.c. news bush said he loves to paint and that it's changed his life in an unbelievably positive way he said it's been an eye opening for him no it didn't open his eyes to the massive amount of death and suffering he caused or how he used freedom to dupe people into supporting him it opened his eyes about colors and shadows according to bush he hopes the ornament beats everyone's expectation i'm not sure what anyone would be expecting from an ornament painted by bush maybe

if you had told george w. bushin 2008 that by 2013 he would be number two on this list i think he would be ecstatic. >> believe me. >> bush this year, he really calm out and showed his personal side and i think that buieed him. we got his paintings. he went on the late show. it remind people that hey this would be a guy i would enjoy having a beer with. a few years from his presidency. people are starting to remember him more respondly. >> julie, do you think that -- is hillary clinton being at the top of the list for women, is that at all preparticularrive of anything to come? >> no, i don't think so at all. look who the competition was. kate middleton? >> i'm for her. >> i'm for her fashion sense. she married into the right family. queen elizabeth was born into the right family, right? she doesn't have much competition. you have got hillary clinton and sarah palin who suspect there still. oprah. oprah is always popular. people love oprah. >> inched out by michelle obama by one point. >> oprah had her own show opr

fox news contributor judith miller, ecial assistant to george w. bushnist, ron christie. and former white house political director under president george w. bush, match lab. thank you for joining us as well. >> he said i you like your doctor, you can keep it. and that wasn't true. i think 2014 is going to be worse. >> small-business insurance, premiums neeeed to go up, it wil be more of a pain for the president. ashely: juds,were you saying? >> it hasn't been a good year. and the economy is steadily improving. and there is more to life than health care. the one we are helping the president get away from this issue, they say, a change to the rules and it seems to go from bad to worse. >> the lest delay was done very quietly. then maybe they will leave it behind and not worry about it anymore. it's amazing that obama doesn think this will just pass. getting to the health care delivery part of it, you are right. the economy has to keep growing. and that is his only salvation. a growing economy helps the president. >> that is a good point. so how will this

and i think that it changed he didn't trust george w. bush and i think when he became president, he felt differently about it and he trusted himself to use it wisely. or the president, i might not want to. but we don't have a chance of changing this as president, i don't know that we will ever have a chance. one thing he does say i don't care what people regional library, i only want to go after terrorists and nobody can really prove the abuses of his power. and number two i think that history shows us that there will be of use. and we have some of this noted documents. in this includes this as well. so i would like to think that i could remember the it is important to the that the constitution and i understand the difficult position. >> the next call for susan herman. margaret from florida, hello, and go ahead with your question or comment. >> hello. >> i'm so glad to hear you on this program and i am such a supportive. for the last 50 years i have watched and listened, but since 9/11 and the patriot act, i have just seen the country changin