the go back to george w. bush. an issue that was important and we are not looking at a universe that is monolithic . in this particular viewpoint, he was focused on education and he was able to connect with voters in a way that mattered, one of getreasons he was able to the 44% and we are sitting up 30% because we are not saying things to connect. it's not just simply outreach. you get them to support the issue positions you take and that is the way to build a majority coalition including hispanics. >> i think all of you especially david touched on this tricky question that confronted the republican party in terms of how to reach out and win over hispanic voters which is is it the policy or the rhetoric? we've had this debate i think ever since 2012. i'll pose it to each one of you. do you think it's enough to, you know, tweak your rhetoric, lighten your tone and that's enough to win over hispanic voters or does there need to be policy changes that the republican party needs to adopt to win over these voters? start

when they were still very defensive of the george w. bush sort of legacy and way of doing things, when this idea of the bluster of a george w. bush, talking really tough and then actually using military force and constantly threatening it, that was the ethos of the republican party. but look at what the actual republican party has done in washington. they consented to cutting defense, essentially. if you look at what the sequester was, it included big cuts to defense. sure, they tried to go back on it. yeah, they didn't want to keep them in place forever. but this is a party that is starting to lean much more libertarian. and the thing that people in the party didn't like about ron paul, about rand paul's father is they felt he was way too far into libertarian extreme such that he made the use of military force off the table completely. rand paul has calibrated his message so that he has just enough of the paul-like let's be very reluctant to go to war stance that i think is where more republicans are more than not. >> i do too. >> he is muc

george w. bushinistration in slovenia. he said i looked into this man's soul, we can trust him. bush admits he got burned. obama came into office, said we'll have a reset. should they have known better? >> you're outlining the problem which is that people are assuming that there is someone with a good read on the motivations and values of russian leadership and we haven't seen that from american politicians. there just is a fundamental disconnect there and the real issue is who can best ride that out. who can best implement a policy that actually moves the needle in some way. it looks like this reset didn't accomplish that. >> i had a conversation with someone in the republican foreign policy apparatus the other day who was no fan of president obama and he didn't want to be named though disagreeing with some of his party's biggest foreign policy voices but he said what could obama do with putin? like we're saying that if he was taking a harder line that putin wouldn't do these things but this person

truman had the highest disapproval rating of any president, basically, until george w. bush. go back to the '20s, woodrow wilson's presidency, two terms, ended in despair. he had two or three strokes in the final 18 to 24 months of his presidency. go after reagan. george h.w. bush got elected in 1988 largely because, as anybody in here over, you know, 30 would remember, largely because it was of the best people could do, they thought, to get a third term of reagan, right? he won one term. that was it. he lost in 1992 to bill clinton. clinton wins with 43% of the vote roughly, that was it. because of the third party candidacy of who?

nobody ever accused george w. bush of being weak or unwilling to use military force. >> ambassador taylor, can you imagine this situation in ukraine being different tonight if george w. bush were president? >> no. and the situation we have in ukraine today is very interesting in that both the republicans and the democrats have essentially the same policies, the same recommendations for the president. no one, neither side is talking about putting american troops in ukraine. both sides are talking about sanctions. no one is talking about doing anything very dramatic. but both sides are talking about taking some military steps. and indeed, president obama has taken military steps. he sent air equipment, air forces, air assets into poland and into the baltics. he put awacs up to monitor the flights over torch ukraine and russia. so he's taking these steps, and i think this would be happening under either president. >> let's listen to what former secretary gates said about russia's grip on ukraine now. >> i do not believe t

. >> that was then president george w. bushn 2001 on the occasion of russian president vladimir putin coming to visit president bush at his home in crawford, texas. president bush doesn't live in crawford anymore and president putin is not married to the person who he brought to crawford, texas, with him anymore, but it is a reminder that the united states does turn over our leaders every four or every eight years. and it seems like vladimir putin just stays on and on and on from president to president to president. this is supposedly his last term as president that he's in right now, but who knows. we've thought that before as well. but again, the visit to the ranch in crawford, texas, that was 2001. in 2008 president putin sent russian troops to invade georgia, which had been part of the soviet union until 1991, but thereafter became an independent nation. there was a lot of consternation at the time. you might remember senator john mccain, who was then running for president, saying we are all georgians now. but very few peop

it was an oilmen's mecca or utopia, for sure. >>> january, 2001. >> i george walker bush do solemnly swear. >> george w. bush assumes the presidency with the nation's energy concerns near the forefront. 11 days into office, bush assembles his national security team for the first time. along with the vice president and national security adviser condoleezza rice, the principals include secretary of state colin powell, defense secretary donald rumsfeld and treasury secretary paul o'neill. >> paul o'neill opened up everything for the book i wrote about him in the bush administration including 19,000 documents, and in the first national security council meeting of the bush presidency, january 30th of 2001, o'neill arrives with colin powell. >> according to suskind, the central focus of the national security council's meeting that day is the middle east, iraq. >> immediately there's talk of the arab/israeli conflict and bush says, i don't think much is going to be done over there. bush says, well, what do you think the big issue in the reason is, condi, to condi rice, she says i think iraq is the big issue,

and never mind the fact that people supporting this legislation were more than happy to let george w. bush and dick cheney ignore and contraconvenient congress at every single opportunity. in fact, they defended what i think some really questionable behavior of the bush-cheney team. and never mind the fact that the last people on earth who should be complaining about empurialism continue to vote for closed rules, continue to vote for regular order and continue to shut democrats out from the legislative process. by the way, one of the bills that we're debating today was introduced the day before it was marked up, had no hearings. so much for the promise speaker boehner made that we're going to go back to regular order. no hearings. introduced the day before. let's be honest. even if president obama did everything in the world that my republicans say they're asking him to do, they would still find a reason to complain. my friends on the other side of the aisle, you guys just don't like the president. i get it. you know what, get over it, because at this point in time our job is to work with

oversaw the cia secret prisons and the controversial interrogations of terror suspects under george w. bush. brennan today, at the council on foreign relations, denied he has interfered with the senate investigation. if it is proved that the cia did do this, would you feel that you had to step down? >> if i did something wrong, i will go to the president and i will explain to him exactly what i did and what the findings were. and he is the one who can ask me to stay or to go. >> reporter: brennan's counter charge in the letter to the senate obtained by nbc, that the senate's staff improperly took sensitive documents from the cia. brennan wrote, it is imperative to learn whether or not a breach or vulnerability exists. the senate says it was only trying to safeguard proof of cia abuses. fearing the cia would destroy the evidence. brennan has an extremely close relationship with president obama. and today the white house stood by him. >> is the president confidant that director brennan has been straight forward with him? >> the president has great confidence in director brennan, yes. >> repor

george w. bush was tough." well, the last time russia invaded somebody, george w. then it was because george w. bush, you know, was too liberal. or too cool, or whatever they're saying about president obama. so, i sort of feel like he gets the same criticism no matter what happens. >> seth: right. >> it's like, "oh, it's obamacare, it's obamacare." no matter what's happening. [ laughter ] >> seth: i do think that ultimately that's why putin is going to invade crimea is obamacare. >> obamacare. >> seth: yeah. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> seth: i think, and i think he's got an excellent point. >> yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: real quick, i think like a lot of people i watched "house of cards" over the course of one afternoon. >> right. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: you made a cameo as yourself in "house of cards." >> yeah. >> seth: is it weird to, like be -- like to get cast as yourself? >> well, yeah. it's like, how do i act like myself? do i seem like myself? oh, no, that's not me. >> seth: yeah. >> like i don't know how to act. >> seth: right. >> it was rea

the interrogation under george w. bush widely viewed as torture. >> i have grave concerns that the cia search may well have violated the separations of powers and principles emotiobod in the united states constitution. >> they tried to hide the smoking gun of brennan's own policies. brennan oversaw the secret prisons and controversial interrogations of terror suspects by george w. bush. brennan denied he has interfered with the senate investigation. >> if it is proved that the cia did do this, would you feel you had to step down? >> if i did something wrong i'll go to the president and explain to him what i did and what the findings were. he is the one who can ask me to stay or go. >> reporter: brennan's counter charge obtained by nbc said they took documents from the cia. he wrote it is imperative to learn whether or not a breach or vulnerability exists. the senate was only trying to safe guard proof of cia abuse fearing the cia would destroy the evidence. >> the white house is standing by director brennan saying tuesday

we're exhausted because dick cheney and condoleezza rice and george w. bushrs that were completely unnecessary, unbelievably costly. and so, yeah, if anyone has taken options off the table for america, it's dick cheney and george w. bush because we are fatigued. we are fatigued of military engagements overseas, and that is not president obama's fault that is their fault. >> now, governor, you know, rand paul, he floated his own idea on how to solve the crisis in ukraine. listen to this. >> i would do something differently than the president, because that would immediately get every obstacle out of the way for our export of oil and gas. i would begin drilling in every possible and conceivable place within our territories. >> so we should teach putin a lesson by drilling in every possible conceivable place? is that his idea, krystal? >> it's pretty remarkable that that's where they have to go. it's either military options or drill, baby, drill. that's basically the republican response to everything. and when the criticism of president obama started on this, the

clinton in '96 didn't get over 50% of the vote. 2000, george w. bush gets in without even winning a majority of votes and 2004, the second bush term, george bush leaves office, around 2007 at the worst gallup approval numbers of any president since harry truman. barack obama wins in 2008. 2012, obama is the first president in history, though he was the first democrat i believe since lbj to get 50% of the vote. in 2012 he was elected, the first president to do this, elected with less popular vote and elect oral college votes in his reelection. reagan won 49 out of 50 states in his reelection, obama won 26. a bare majority. if you look at a map of counties under reagan it is a sea of red. under obama it was still a sea of red. if you look at counties. speaking of obama, there was a poll done in 2013 after the 2013 -- after the second inaugural which asked americans if ronald reagan were to run today against barack obama, who would you vote for? they said reagan by 58% over obama. that is right after obama's reelection in 2013. how was obama elected? prin

my own view is, after all, putin invaded georgia when george w. bush was president. nobody ever accused george w. bush of being weak or unwilling to use military force. >> steve, thanks. >>> well, a canadian journalist has been killed in a bomb attack in syria. he and seven others died when a plane dropped bombs in a neighborhood in aleppo. more than 63 journalists have been killed since the conflict began in 2011. >>> thousands of people in ohio left without any heat at all in bitterly coal temperatures. the extreme cold proving much too much for an insulator that failed leaving thousands without electricity for hours. fortunately, warmer temperatures are on the way. for more on that, let's turn to meteorologist janice dean. >> i've got good news and bad news. we've got a quick warmup across the central u.s. look at some of these temperatures, especially monday for minneapolis. dallas texas, 80 degrees and even bismarck getting into the 50s. we have a setup across the west. a pipeline of moisture moving into the west. cold air coming in from canada and the northwest

we heard george w. bush saying, we want freedom and a successful iraq, and paul says: you were young, and you used to live there, and you're sunni and kurdish, and a young iraqi, and talk to us again. how are young iraqis really coping with this trauma? >> okay, first of all, thank you for having me on the show, and for giving me the opportunity to show the world through aljazeera. so my situation is unique, because i lived in baghdad. i'm from baghdad, a sunni arab, and we moved to up to the north, and by the end of 2007. and then i finished high school, arabic high school. and then i joined the american university of iraq, and so i left my family and went to the university. i still feel today that i have the memory -- in baghdad, and i had to, when i went to school there, i remembered their faces looking at me, how they looked. cars were not able to go into the streets because of the dead bodies. and to my school, when i went to one of my secondary schools. i went to more than six schools in baghdad, durin

the detention and interrogation under george w. bush widely viewed as torture. >> i have grave concerns that the cia's search may well have violated the separation of powers, principles embodied in the united states constitution. >>> feinstein's charge that the cia hacked secure computers the senate was using, tried to hide the smoking gun of brennan's own policies. brennan oversaw the cia secret prisons and the controversial investigations of terrorism suspects under george w. bush. yet, the council on foreign relations, brennan denies he has interfered with the senate investigation. >> if it is proved that the cia did do this, would you feel that you had to step down some. >> if i did something wrong, i will go to the president, and i will explain to him exactly what i did and what the findings were, and he is the one who can ask me to stay or to go. >> brennan's counter charge in this letter to the senate obtained by nbc says the senate staff improperly took documents from the cia. brennan wrote, "it is imperative to learn whether a

benghazi, but i do want to say that in 2008, for all the criticism you might have had about how george w. bushandled and responded to the russian invasion of georgia in 2008, in 2008, you did not say that that invasion happened because george w. bush was weak nor did you characterize him in general as weak and no one on your side did. >> i don't think anybody could accuse bush of being weak. accuse him of maybe being overzealous at times. but here's the point. the bush world was not one where bush wouldn't confront people. maybe we didn't understand the consequences of getting involved. the obama world is telling people, don't do something and they do it and nothing happens. that's a dangerous world. >> if i could, stay here, we want you at home to weigh in on today's fireback question. do you think republican criticism of obama undermines him on the world stage? we'll have the results after the break. we'll also have the outrage of the day, including an attack on one of the symbols of 9/11. so i got the new nokia lumia icon. it's got 1080p video, three times zoom, and a twenty-megapixel senso

nobody would have said george w. bush was soft on the use of military force. possible that the russians do what the russians do? >> i'm not suggesting that what george bush did at that time was sufficient either. >> but he certainly hadn't set a policy of appeasement. >> norks but he certainly set ground rules that there would be a response when action was taken and he didn't in that case. he didn't really respond in any meaningful way. >> what can you do, particularly when the europeans, as small and as slowly escalating as the u.s. sanctions are, that europeans are even slower and more reluctant, so what can he do? >> i think the energy issue is providing alternatives to europe to gas. you talk about slow walking. there are, i think, 15 or 20 terminals that are trying to be constructed to export natural gas. there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. that's a problem. >> you add john boehner with an op ed piece in the wall street journal, talking about gas. realistically, is that something we could do? is there something we could do in the near term? >> not q

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before the presidential election of obama versus mccain and there really wasn't a lot of talk of george w. bushmight be one of the key reasons why it's different today. >> well, that's right. remember that bush was winding down his tenure in office, the events show clearly when he consulted with advisers not a single one thought they should consider military action. publicly it was in the throes of the presidential campaign and really about, you know, bush having invaded iraq and afghanistan, really having limited tools in his tool kit, would he change our approach after november of that year. i think it's important, too, senator mccain is out there being critical of president obama now. he's been a vocal supporter of the ukrainian democracy movement. he flew there to be on the stage during the protests. but there's a big thing on foreign policy. the muscular interventionist wing of the republican party is increasingly outnumbered even within the gop these days. >> george f. will now with fox, then with abc, was critical of outbound during that same rather. he's one of the few i could find who

george w. bush brought the issue of education. why? because there was a subject that mattered in terms of the impact of their families and to some degree sthaw not occur in 2008 and certainly not occur in 2012. >> leslie? >> i think david's exactly right. i've argued that that same point he's exactly correct that winning solutions benefit everybody, minorities, women. it really doesn't matter. do our solutions offer a better alternative for the voter? an when that case is made very clearly, we do extraordinarily well as republicans. and those were times that -- and i have to go back to bush, those were times that you were excited to talk about the legislative solutions that ours were different whether we were talking about a per child tax credit. many latino families really sponned to that because we had so many children in depamly and they were like wow, this is a direct economic ben foit me. no child left behind and the concept of that was very important because there were so many children as the former director in hispanic education

now, to this day, our nation is still struggling to recover from george w. bush's war of choice. now, 11 years later, the united states is facing a serious problem with this guy, vladimir putin. different motives, maybe not. the invasion of crimea is something that should not be taken lightly by any american. you don't know where this is going go. president obama, i think, is playing this close to the vest. i think the president is playing it exactly right. he has to. he's not jumping to any conclusions or jumping on the gun or anything like that. he's using diplomacy and sanctions and exhausting, i think, every diplomaticist. it's the right thing to do but because of iraq, he's been cornered, i believe. meanwhile, republicans don't like the way president obama has been handling the situation in ukraine. righties have been calling him, well, he's weak. >> this president's response, i don't know how it could have been weaker besides doing nothing. >> what you're seeing, brian, is what you get when pay community organizer takes on a kgb agent. it doesn't go well. >> we have a weak

six that was a group of advisers that worked for george h. w. bush in 1988. so you see these little phrases and sayings that come from the culture of the political campaigns that have that occur at fox that more than that the way the network operates is on the structure of the political campaign. it starts in the meeting from everyone marches in lockstep and there is a sense of mission and purpose that flows from the top and you see all those attributes that come out of the political world. >>> i do recognize that islam is obeah exists. it explains the rational fear and therefore some of the negative attitude towards the community. i am against it it is a part of the xenophobia. it's nothing than xenophobia versus one group or any other foreign phobia, but the islamist into the iranian lobby has hijacked that notion and made it into a weapon come anybody criticizing a policy issue that had nothing to do with religion but have to do with the five pillars had been accused of islam is obeah and this is close to what the socialists in germany would have accused a

and president george w. bush on the game show deal or no deal.ow exactly how to respond to right wing critics. >> sock it to me? >> yes, sock it to anyone on the right who doesn't get the joke. joining me now, jonathan capehart. attacking the president for this appearance, what do you make of that? >> it is ridiculous. it is predictable, unfortunately very predictable to have people on the right citing the president for demeaning the office, downgrading it. whatever the president does they don't like it, even if, as you just showed, republican presidents doing the same thing. when president nixon went on "laugh in" that show for that time was a racy show. >> very. >> controversial show. here you have president obama -- >> very, very controversial. it was before my time but i take your word for it. >> you get my point. here what i thought was so brilliant what the president and zach galifianakis did is they use comedy to pull in young people to impart information that they need to know. >> the numbers speak for themselves. what do you think? >> i

well, then it's a good thing president george w. bush never took a vacation. thing his father, bush 41 also stayed at the white house at all times. and it's a really good thing president reagan was never out of the beltway. but bashing the president's time away is par for the course these days. >> then he is off to martha's vineyard for a vacation and the mere mortals are upset because the roads are closed. >> he went to senegal, south africa, tanzania. judicial watch comes up with $15 million for that trip. >> that's another con. we pay for the fundraising trips because he does a little business. and then he goes and raise as lot of money. >> president obama is about to leave for a 17-day trip to hawaii. >> oh do, you blame him? >> this is occupy oahu. >> the president went to las vegas, west palm beach, israel, jordan, miami, three times san francisco, l.a., mexico, puerto rico, palm springs. >> oh, no, a president who travels. some on the right will use any excuse to go after this president. but this vacation from reality needs a one-way ticket home. joining

. >> reporter: george w. bush did no better managing putin, even though he declared he looked into his soul. but he cares about being feared and restoring russian greatness. the next move, solidify control over crimea, and make sure that ukraine never moves too close to the west. or else. george. >> thanks, terry. we are joined by secretary of state, john kerry this morning. mr. secretary, thanks for joining us this morning. we have reports. russian forces surrounding ukraine military bases. they say they are on the brink of disaster. is he right? >> we hope not. we hope it's not going to be a disaster. what has happened is a brazen act of aggression in violation of international law, in violation of the u.n. charter, in violence of the helsinki final act, in violence of the 9 1997 ukraine/russian basing agreement. russia has engaged in a military act of aggression against another country. and it has huge risks, george. it's a 19th-century act in the 21st century that really puts at question russia's capacity to b

you ever wonder why it occurred to the george w. bush white house to have the president of the united states put on that flight suit and declare mission accomplished in iraq? three days before george w. bush did that, bill kristol declared mission accomplished in the pages of the "weekly standard." said it was done, the war was over. in april 2003. also pick palin, pick sarah palin, you'll definitely win. in punditry, it may not be possible to overdose on wrong. we may have an infinite capacity for wrong, right? if so, bill kristol is proving that by never going away. and he hasn't gone away. right now he's still a pundit. still running the "weekly standard." right now as republicans and critics of the president are looking for a political advantage against president obama, specifically on the issue of russia and russia's aggression in ukraine, there's bill kristol right now saying that president obama is not being tough enough. he's trying to put a point on that, get them to get to the point by suggesting it might be a good time now for

my own view is, after all, putin invaded georgia when george w. bush was president. body ever accused george w. bush of being weak or unwilling to use military force, so i think putin is very opportunistic in these arenas. i think that even if -- even if we had launched attacks in syria, even if we weren't cutting our defense budget, i think putin saw an opportunity here in crimea, and he has seized it. you know, the ouster of yanukovych was a big strategic setback for putin, and -- and i think it's -- it's testimony to how skillful he is or how agile he is that he's tried to offset that by the seizure of crimea and throwing this whole situation into a very different -- into a very different light, and i think that -- >> excuse me, sir. i was just going to say you talk about putin being opportunistic, and obviously he's got a big strategy here, but just in terms of optics, do you think it's helpful for president obama to take the weekend off in the middle of what you call a crisis to be playing golf in florida? >> well, you know, i've -- i've seen this happen year aft

we'll talk to a former aid to george w. bush around 8:45 to talk about all the potential fallout and whether this dirty laundry you're hearing should be made public. >> 700,000 people have been displaced in the central african republic. we visit add town in the congo where people are struggling to get education actions. these people now live in a refugee camp here. since they arrived, the u.n. built this primary school. it's crowded and hard to imagine they can learn much, but the community of nearly 10,000 living here, this is all they have. the school's basic, the walls made of bamboo, the floors of earth and there are simple benches made of wood and plastic sheeting. it's better than nothing, but this primary school is the only education available. there is no secondary school nearby. the camps in a very isolated location, the closest functioning university is about 500 kilometers from here. >> most of the refugees in this camp came from the capitol, about a thousand of them studying at the university before the conflict. we

republican strategist and former spokesperson for president george w. bush. so let's start with how the g-8 is not a now the g-7, a nuclear security summit is underway and the president is met with chinese president and his secretary of state has met with the russian or. to what end? >> quite frankly we have 20,000 russian troops lined up by the ukrainian border and obviously vladimir putin has no desire to have to deal with the united states. we have seen the economic tensions have been in place and it has had some impact. we've seen 20% of the stock market in russia go down. honestly the currency of that in your low. so they have been impacted him an economic standpoint some somewhat, but there's a lot more that needs to be done. for example putting more sanctions on the financial energy sector and lining up the european leaders, which i think it will be difficult to persuade them to go forward on tougher economic sanctions. >> it seems somehow peculiar to say that we have to persuade the europeans to be concerned about their own interest. but we hear that

quaint voice, i do circle back to '03, '04, '05, there are a lots of things i disagreed with george w. bush have to be careful not to become what they hated in '03, '04, '05 and '06. >> if they want to help, they should be supporting a large aid package and building a common front between the united states and germany and the rest of europe. >> where is the rest of europe? are we going to be the only ones staying away from sochi? are there going to be other people staying away from the g8? >> we're seeing -- i think the europeans will be good, hopefully, on the economic side -- >> will germany be good? >> on that side where they're not going to be as good is the idea of putting pressure on the russia. >> why? >> they want diplomacy to solve this. they don't want this to fester. >> i understand the arguments you're making for merkel's government. i'm asking wheres at space between us and germany right now? >> i'm thinking it will be over the degree of sanctions, the depth and duration of sanctions. >> we've been talking about people critical of the president. let's bring in one of those peop

george h.w. bush and president george w. bush both left office with pretty low approval ratings., they've made comebacks. they both bounced back because they've been total class acts after their presidencies. but i think republicans really need to think very carefully and will think very carefully whether or not in 2016 a competition between the bush political brand and potentially the clinton political brand would behoove republicans. and one last point -- >> well, at least that would cancel out the sort of name recognition for both sides. and keep in mind, jeb bush's own mom, barbara, said she didn't want him to run. but finish your thought. >> two or three times, she said no. jeb finally said, mom, you're killing me here. she sort of backed off that a little bit. but this is not a partisan comment. we live in a country of 300 million people with lots of really talented folks here. are we to believe really that the two best people to run for president are named clinton and bush again? didn't we get away from the whole dynasty thing? >> it's a fair question, but it's all about f

you know, the other part when we talk about republicans, i remember george w. bush. john mccain tried to -- help get a law pass dealing with torture. and george bush in a signing statement refused to go along with this definition of torture. presidents do this. they make their own decisions. but this is a continuing pattern of republicans of bullying where they not get their own way they start to bully everybody into doing it. you saw it with darryl issa. you saw it with chris christie you. saw it with michael grim threatening that reporter. this is a habit of republicans when they start to lose. >> you know, congress wan, ben carson who is a popular figure among conservatives compared the united states to nazi germany in an interview. watch this. >> you know, we live in a gestapo age. people don't realize it. you know, what i say, the congress has to at some point step up to the plate. the reason we have divided government is if one branch of the government gets out of control, starts thinking they're too big forethe their britches. >> comparing to the nazis. i mea