a new face popped up on the all-time worst list, george w. bushho came in as fifth worst president in american history. siena, bush rated poorly among historians in handling the economy, communication, ability to compromise, and intelligence. today i've invited three guests. i've got my own nominee which i'll share in a moment. joining me, dorian warren. international and public affairs at columbia university. john nichols. jim moore, communications expert, co-author of "bush's brain: how karl rove made george w. bush presidential." john, i'll begin with you. your nominee for worst president ever? >> got to be andrew johnson. i'm not willing to give an inch on this one. and, look, i advocated for some pretty tough action against george w. bush and i certainly have no taste for herbert hoover and some of these other folks, but andrew johnson, who became president of the united states because of the assassination of abraham lincoln, opposed the bureau which was going to allow african-americans to begin to have some sort of economic stake in the coun

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really we're talking about the drug policy of george w. bush. george w. bush was the preemptive was drake concept to destroy a little bit is indeed a preemptive strike. who. they are disagreed. allegations for doing corruption clips and such surveys or does day out from now they get to. prepare to launch to launch a stream good. dive so it's i'm sort of jumping to you do you think though do you think this is a this is this is politically motivated here the prime minister out of the one he's been in power for eleven years is it. definitely as you said right lissette. turkey is oligopolistic to thousands of size a live event. you tube struggled for years for months to get. a good government is getting. from parliament to clamp down on the internet the duduk or truly so what do you what do you expect is a number that we've we've already seen a couple days worth of clashes here some getting very violent in d.t.g. do you think the government's maneuver is going to do anything to help bring peace back to the streets now version of the david hug al-kindi this peo

the tea party started not because of obamacare, not because of barack obama, but because george w. bush bailed out the banks and got ready for the auto industry bailout and that infuriated his base. democrats accepted it. will democrats now say thank you? will any tea party voter in america believe the government is actually going to make a profit on this? >> you can put all the facts and figures and reports but your average american hears "bailout" and all they think is the government putting out money. they never think about the money coming back in. i think that's a really hard case to make even if facts are on your side. >> what's it mean for them? the tea party was more than just bailouts. it was you bail people out, they're supposedly sush lly suc. it hasn't translated down to me. i still don't have a job. >> the great philosopher barney frank had a quote in 2010. he said he wanted a bumper sticker that would have read -- 2010, things that would have sucked worse without me. that's one heck of a bumper sticker. >> it's baked in. no matter what the data shows, people think it was a

laura welsh bush became first lady after a controversial election brought her husband george w. bush to the white house. laura bush helped comfort the nation pursuing interests including education, literacy and women's health. good evening and welcome to c-span series first ladies, influence and image. tonight we'll tell you the story -- the wife of our 43rd president. laura welsh bush and here to do that are two people who know her well through their work. ann gearhart at the "washington post" is a laura bush biographer and her 2004 book the perfect wife tells the story of laura bush and covered the former first lady since 2001. welcome to the program. >> thank you. mark updegrove is a presidential his torn and author of several books about the presidency and currently is working on one on the relationship between presidents bush 41 and 43. nice to see you this evening. in your biography, you refer to the role or the job of first lady as this is a quote the most bizarre volunteer job in the world. and we heard laura bush talk about having her mother-in-law as a role model, whatever

11, voted against gay rights and 9 of those 11 states that voted against gay rights voted for george w. bush for president while they were at it. and indeed, george w. bush was re-elected president. but before that election had happened, he had promised them while he was running for re-election, he had promised that he would go for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. vote for me and i will change the u.s. constitution to protect america from gay rights. once he did get re-elected, though, eh, he kind of forget that. nothing. never acted on it. republicans never got their federal constitutional amendment that they maybe thought they were going to get. they maybe thought that's what they were voting for when they voted for george w. bush's second term. the bush white house and bush re-election campaign got what they want out of that issue, anyway. right? for republicans, campaigning against gay rights, campaigning against the threat of gay people having equal rights was something that united basically all republicans. it excited parts of the republican base and made them turn out t

i think the george w. bush administration was very clever, putting the vote just before the midterm election, to get these guys on record. even though he would not invade for another five months. that is kind of unprecedented for the equivalent of the declaration of war. >> where do you think you will end up in the future? >> i think i will remain independent, because ideologies limit thought. you become to the extent you are ideological or partisan, you become an automaton who is mouthing propaganda. your brain is not engaged. >> your book is called "the party is over: how republicans went crazy, democrats became useless, and the middle class got shafted." if folks want to read your critique of the book i robert gates, they can go onto truthout.org. mike lofgren, thank you very much for joining us. >> i enjoy being here. >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q-and-a.org. programs are also available as c-span podcasts. [captions copyright national cable satellite co

many ast written as george w. bush. he has one signing statements and executive orders, which are didn't -- different animals, and if he writes one that creates the dream act, that is one executive order, but it is a sweeping one. tinyorge bush wrote five ones, and barack obama creates the dream act, i take the five over the one. this entire concept of the numerical thing doesn't add up. that henow, he called had a hand in you have a phone. he called 2014 a year of action. 2012 is a year of action. biden's summary of -- summer recovery, this is going to happen. -- remember when he said there was more than one way to skin a cat. after the election of 2010, he was asked about cap and trade. he couldn't get cap and trade through the democrat congress. it died in the south. this is an important point. the founding fathers were right. law sets the boundaries of which they have to operate. if the agencies operate all by themselves, they do not have any boundaries. they go as far as they want. that is what we have been dealing

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for example, george w. bush'sy general john ashcroft put word out to have agencies if they didn't want to release documents through the foya process, the justice dam had their back. when president bush took over, look at how that number shrunk. down to less than 200 million pages in total for '02 to '06. after president obama was sworn into office, he said he was going to fix this problem. >> for a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city. the old rules said if there was a defensible argument for not disclosing something to the american people then it should not be disclosed. that era is now over. >> that era is now over. and five years later, it might be starting to feel that way. late last night, the house voted unanimously 410-0 to change the foya process. they passed a bill that would, among other things, require the government to move toward a single website to handle all foya requests across the whole government. no more labyrinth. they're going to recommend a panel to figure out how to spee

and when george w. bush actually became president, that's how chris christie got back into public office because george w. bush rewarded his fund-raising efforts by naming chris christie to be the u.s. attorney, to be the top federal prosecutor in the state of new jersey. he had almost no law enforcement background whatsoever. never been a prosecutor or anything like that. but he got the gig. it was almost exactly five years between that heartfelt apology and letter of retraction in the "star-ledger" and george w. bush naming him the top federal prosecutor in his home state. and when chris christie then became governor of his home state, eight years later, he basically air lifted his whole top staff from the prosecutor's office to the statehouse with him to become his stop staff for him as a new governor. that included his top two staffers in the governor's office. he brought with him from the prosecutor's office. his chief of staff and his chief counsel. he brought those guys with him. and now, and now as t

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you were in washington during at least the first term of george w. bush. >> yeah. >> was the media or "the new york times" misled by the burks when -- bush administration when it came to the iraq war? >> yes, we were. >> were we fooled? >> we were, i think, not diligent enough. i don't know if we were purposefully fooled. i think there was a terrible echo chamber where unreliable iraqi defectors were speaking both to members of the media and to intelligence officials and high officials in the bush administration, and that an echo effect took hold where like all the information was coming from one set of bad sources. it seems that multiple sources were confirming the information, and that created like a kind of perfect storm. i'm not excusing it at all. i'm not excusing "the times'" running some very seriously flawed stories. >> judy miller? >> she was not alone. it was not only judy miller. there were, ir think, 10 or 12 stories that we ended up in an editor's note saying we had, you know, concerns about. so i'm not, you know, minimizing that at all. you

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we raised the minimum wage last time when george w. bush was in the office. i don't remember any outcry. >> this is not a growing economy. >> it was not a growing economy. it was an overall loss. excuse me, i have another thing to say and there is a moral force behind this. the gap is voluntarily raising their wages for their 65,000 employees to $10.10. wal-mart will be next and over three years, this is a relatively -- >> you asked what the political impact -- >> this argument discredit the messenger. the messenger is the cbo. the cbo you and i know, whatever they put forth is practically ire irecutable. >> the republicans have a very powerful force. now they have this argument from this neutral group that will cost 500,000 jobs on top of the obama report on obama care will cost 2 million jobs and say these guys are job killing liberals and that will kill it. >> and they will be right. the cbo attempts to go down the middle here. 500,000 job loss. the other thing it points out, only 19% of the people that will be helped by this are in poor households. so it

watch the syndicated columnist program from the george w. bush presidential library at our website at booktv.org. sixth on the "l.a. times" bestseller list. followed by a short guide to a long life by david angus. including promised land and a ninth place the memoir will failure. and wrapping up the list is the muriel sherman's profile in the loudest voice in the room. look for the germans on booktv's author program afterwards on booktv on c-span2. and that is the top 10 best-selling books list according to the "los angeles times." >> next, history from pre-civil war to preconstruction. and we are automating large part of the boulevard. macon has its park. and they were laying it out with a load of cotton and headed towards the river to market downstream. right through what the engineers could lay down and they simply wove this road into the layout of macon georgia. in a lot of ways, it serves as that a metaphor, as i said. the history cannot be told when we are blind. so many things have happened here and it is really relating to our past and pr

this morning a 44-year-old man is in custody accused of threatening to kill former president george w. bush. prosecutors say benjamin smith threatened to kill former president so that he could go out with his daughter barbara bush. police arrested smith in new york yesterday morning while he was sitting in a car with a loaded rifle, machete and a container of gasoline. the man's mother called police when she found a threatening note. >> this morning police are trying to figure out how razor blades got into packages of butter in new jersey. customers say they found the blades in kerrygold butter. the supermarket pulled the kerrygold from its stores. >>> nasa face a lawsuit this morning because of a recent discovery on the surface of mars. last week nasa released pictures after finding mysterious rock. a california man claims it's actually a living thing and he's suing the space agency for failing to investigate it. he calls it negligent nasa didn't take any close up photos. nasa believes it's just a rock that the rover turned up out of the ground. >>> a closely watched trial on a defamation

what he saying is, the quality was in his words, will were executive actions george w. bushid involving the war on terror and the president -- president obama when he came in his first weeks and months in office did overturn. we checked the numbers and president bush had far more executive actions than president obama had. he has a few more years. the numbers will come up. we can bet. on that point i will push you. republican presidents says he used the power more than president obama did. what do you say to had a? >> he has. that's absolutely the argument the white house will continue making. but what they have to be careful of is overreach with the executive actions. that was the criticism that candidate obama was making of president bush. so they have to walk a very fine line here because on the one hand this is the president's -- president fighting not only rest republicans and congress but fighting his image now as a lame duck president. he wants to use these executive actions to do as much as he possibly can. on the other hand if he goes too far, if he overreaches, rep

let's talk about former president george w. bush. 's kept a low profile since leaving the white house five years ago. >> but president bush just admitted that he misses at least one presidential perk, and he joked about the fringe benefit during an event in dallas yesterday. >> i mean, i miss people i served with, and i miss air force one. [ laughter ] i mean, in eight years they never lost my baggage. [ laughter ] >> he's quite funny in his retirement years, isn't he? >> yeah. >> mr. bush speaking there about learning a new skill poking fun at his foray into the world of art. he says years ago his wife didn't think she was marrying an oil painter. have you ever seen his paintings? >> yeah, he's actually quite talented. right, okay. >>> well, it is not enough that pope francis fights nonbelievers, heretics and the world's social ills. now he's got to battle the weather. yeah, the wind was his biggest adversary during his general audience in st. peter's square yesterday. >> check that out. it's said that some clergy are windy, but that

can you imagine if this were george w. bush? we would be talking about a constitutional crisis, front page "new york times" splashed above the fold, george w. bush dictator president. you're seeing none of that. it's just a shrug of the shoulder. the thing that was most striking about what the president said today is he didn't really feel like he needed to explain it much. it was a shrug of the shoulders, a couple sentences, oh, by the way, i'm changing the law. it should be a big deal, should be treated as a big deal. >> we're not treating the rest of the news conference as a lot because there really wasn't a lot of news in the news conference on foreign policy. it didn't advance the ball much on syria or iran, frankly. did you hear anything that was that news worthy in the other foreign policy? >> not really. i mean, the president just saying he's going to really come down like a ton of bricks on anybody who tries to violate the iran sanctions. i don't think he, you know, the syria policy, i think he sort of glossed over exactl

today, former president george w. bush did a rare thing. or three, and it was open to the press. he spoke at his presidential library. when he formed that library, he also formed something called the bush institute. it was a bit of an unusual decision. alongside the library part of library, mr. bush said he wanted this institute to work to change public policy. he wants to keep effecting policy through his institute. well, today in this unpaid speech concerning his institute, the former president gave one of the only open to the press speeches he's given since he left office. it was to launch a big initiative of the bush institute. the former president who started the word in afghanistan and started the wart in arack is now launching his initiative in his post presidency. he wants to be known as the champion of the people he turned into veteran whence he started and then walked away from two of the longest wars in history, including the one he launched on false pretense, something about which the former president says he has no regrets. now

>> does laura bush have a project -- does both george w. bushd laura bush have a project or foundation that they both work on and i am wondering if you could talk about that a little bit. i am sorry that we do not know more about it. >> can you talk about how this works in the world of giving and finance and how one can be a public figure and except contributions like this and what it does politically? >> laura bush continues to work on the issues that are of importance to her. the bush center is a collaboration of a number of different institutions. including the bush library and the bush institute. the bushes continue to further the causes they began to take initiatives towards in the white house. >> they do that with the help of donors. >> yes. they raise money that goes into the bush institute and the bush library as well. >> in the case of laura bush, her husband is not going to be running for president again and she is not going to be running herself. those donors might gain if there were another bush, for instance, that might run for pres

can you imagine if this were george w. bush? t a constitutional crisis, front page "new york times" splashed above the fold, george w. bush, dictator president. you're seeing none of that now. it's a big deal when you change the laws and it should be a big deal. >> another major issue comes up in discussing these power grabs, the issue how the media is covering them. while we've seen criticisms from republicans and liberal scholars, some news outlets have ignored the story, others have even defended the president. "the washington post," obama's justifiable power grab. "the l.a. times" said, rational response to an increasingly gridlocked congress. and then there's the huffington post. necessary roughness. why obama's use of executive power is justified. howard kurtz is with me now. i'm sure the huffington post was just as vocal in defending president bush with his executive authority uses. >> had this been george w. bush, megyn, changing unilaterally several times over and over the law, the main stream media would have gone balli

george h.w. bush, bill clinton, george w. bush and president obama, to reset it. a new book the limits of partnership, u.s.-russia relations in the 21st century seeks to explain why. the author is angela stent who served in the state department and on the national intelligence council under president's clinton and george w. bush. angela stent, welcome. years ago you had an encounter with vladimir putin that revealed why these games are so important to him. >> we certainly did. so i'm part of a group. and we've met with mr. putin for the last ten years. we've had dinner with him, occasionally lunch. and this tame was 2007 just after russia had won the olympic games. and we stood overlooking the beautiful black sea on this spectacular ter ace in his government mansion there. and he explained to us that this was to show that russia, you know, had come back. that the 1990s and all the humiliation was over, that this was going to be a world-class games and this was going to be a very important moment in the sun for russia. >> warner: and is that, that passion of his, t

the george w. bushfore-seen paintings. >> what's that? >> bush started painting after he left the white house, and he's painted everything from family pets and landscapes to a portrait of jay leno. the exhibit is going to be opening in april. you know, mika, it's just -- it's fascinating that a lot of former leaders start painting. you go back through history. and george w. bush is one of them. >> it's really good. i was confused at the bathtub one. i didn't get to see it long enough. but these are really -- they're incredible, actually. >> yeah, no, it's -- no, i'm serious. a lot of people were laughing in the beginning. i'm looking forward to seeing them. >> yeah, absolutely. "the san francisco chronicle" a couple in northern california found a pot of gold, get this, worth $10 million. >> at the end of a rainbow. >> look at this. the husband and wife stumbled upon more than 1,4 hin mid-19th century gold coins in eight cans under a tree on their property. >> wow. >> the uncirculated coins date back to

bush k the george w. administration was very clever vote just before the these election to get guys on record even though we ould not invade for another five months. for's kind of unprecedented declarationnt for a of war. >> where do you think he'll end up politically i'll end up independent because ideologies thought. you become to the extent you are partisan, you ought tom ton who is propaganda and your brain is not engaged. if folks want to read your critique of the book by robert truthout.org. >> correct. >> thank you for joining us. here, brian. being for free transcripts forgive us comments about this program, us as q & a.org and available as c-span podcasts. >> the british house of commons was in recess last week. prime minister's questions will not be shown tonight. you can watch question time when it returns this wednesday live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2 or next sunday at 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight eastern time on c-span. >> coming up next, c-span's american profile series featuring two i

houseorked in the white in the george w. bush administration and presidential historian and i'm haved by the question of what influences presidents. my first book was on presidents and intellectuals. i started to lineback at the and found out that throughout the history back to the days of george washington thomas jefferson the culture influencing presidents and now a proliferation of all new media including tv and twitter and radio and everything else and presidents paying attention. >> when you say the culture is influencing presidents give me example of sometime when that maybe had a politic effect? >> go back to the founding heavily read in the works of the enlightenment the ideae classics and that they read in the books again i will say the works of locke helped influence jefferson's writing of the declaration of independence. >> what kind of a pop culture or event maybe had the biggest impact on a president's policy making? >> well, that is a good question. uncle tom's cab bin written in 1850 at a time when of abolitionists

this morning former president george w. bushe misses most about being president. >> a lot of people ask me do what do i miss motion about t-- most about the president? the answer is no. i miss the people i served with. i miss air force one. in eight years they never lost my baggage. >> in eight years. that's a good record. >> it is 46 minutes after the top of the hour. one mcdonald workers not loving it. why buying lunch for firefighters cost her her job. >> first let's check in with steve doocy to see what's coming up on "fox & friends." >> looks like they were horsing around on the ice. >> coming up at the top of the hour on "fox & friends" terrorists camped in our own backyard. a national security analyst and what he discovered in texas. o are democrats having buyers remorse. what voters want from the president. they are not happy right now. beating out the breast cancer gene. they will be entering your housing questions. singer jewel is stopping by. the 12 minutes from now on your channel for news. >>> welcome back. a mcdona

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. >> president george w. bushuld dest of george and barbara bush's five children. >> he could have stayed up, gone into wall street, settled into a very comfortable life. instead he packed up mother and me and moved out to odessa, texas and i always have admired him for his pioneering spirit. >> moving to odessa, well, i never had been here before. it was dusty, but people were wonderful. >> george bush went to texas to build a career on his own instead of following in his father's foot steps. >> he told me he really didn't want to work with something you couldn't touch like banking or something. his family had done and maybe others, too. he was offered jobs by a lot of groups. proctor & gamble. >> they make a fine soap. >> george didn't apply. he wanted to go i think they trained. i think he really loved that feeling of doing something different. >> when i think back to midland, texas, i think of baseball. my dad was a very good baseball player. he was the captain of a successful yale baseball team. they went to

years after newt gingrich and john mccain and george w. bushg, climate change denialism is the de facto position for the republican party. an amendment was voted down that would have stated that climate change is occurring. to be clear, all the republicans present voted no and all the democrats present voted yes. joining me now is a political report at "the national journal." thank you for joining me on a subject that causes me no ending amount of distress. let's talk about the debate. it was brought to my attention to my great producer who works on this show and on this segment that in 2003, there was a memo that said the following. the scientific debate is closing against us, but not yet closed. there's still a window of opportunity to challenge the science should the public come to believe the scientific issues are settled, their attitudes will change about global warming. now 11 years later, alex, that's exa exactly what the gop has done to the degree there's now a "quote/unquote, debate over whether climate change is real. how did that hap

george w. bushpired by orange revolution of 2004, weeks later vowed to promote democracy, president obama approached revolution of 2014 with a more clinical detac detachment aimed at avoiding instability. about has close "new york times" come to a condemn nation of this administration's policies. >> this is damning, difference is, straight forward. george w. bush believed in the democracy. obama is uncomfortable with it, it has been good to him, he is psychologically falls in a third world model of one man, one vote, one time. and right now you can tell he is frustrated that someone so brilliant, as he is has to put up with elections, he also i think, feels that he feels ukraine is within russia's smear of influence, which is tragic. i think he fears putin is avis rally level -- avis rall visceral level. and ukrainians having to struggle without at least moral support from u.s. government. lou: is it your judgment, five than e.u. is leading on ukraine, if they do bring aid forward, united states, qu