more than george w. bush, more than ronald reagan, more than george h.w. bush. but as -- those high deportations that took place under bill clinton have diminished substantially under this president. they diminished under george wrnlt of w. bush and again nder this president. this president has put the welcome mat out. he advertised to people in foreign countries, if you can get into america, you get to stay in america. that's been his policy. while they will announce he has more deportations than anybody else. it wasn't true the moment they uttered that. it's not true today. the president has confessed that they count differently than any other administration. we have a circumstance on the southern border that -- voluntary return. if someone neeks at america and -- sneaks into america and they're caught at the border they're offered a couple of options. one is, we'll take your print and picture but if you'll voluntarily return to your home country, then we -- you will not be barred from coming back into the united states on either a three or a 10-year bar. that'

i will say a reason a terrorist group claims the legitimacy of government in gaza is because george w. bushe against the will of people who knew better in israel. >> and it was probably bush's fault for helping create israel in the 1940s. >> no, but definitely because of the election. >> it's a simple fact that he pushed -- he and dr. condoleezza rice, our secretary of state at the time, pushed elections in there and oh, my gosh, gaza is now ruled by a terrorist group. thanks, mr. president. >>> let us check on our fireback results. do you agree with the attorney general eric holder that there is some racial animus toward himself and our president? right now 58% of you say yes. 42% of you say no. tim, what do you think? >> i think most americans will judge this administration based on the policies, and the policies of this administration are a failure for the country. >> nee rcra? >> i agree with the poll. >> thanks very much. for neera tanden and tim phillips, the debate continues online at cnn.com/crossfire as well as facebook and the twitters from the left, i'll paul. >> from the right i

liberals who believed he was way too close, way too friendly to george w. bush and wanted him gone. it didn't work. here's the henry cuellar story. in the 2000 presidential election, when he was a state representative in texas, he chose to back then-republican governor george w. bush for president over his own party's candidate, al gore. he was basically a bush surrogate. bush campaign proceeded to use cuellar in bush for president ad campaign to attack gore, quoting cuellar, saying, "as a democratic member of the house appropriations committee, cuellar said by criticizing the state's fiscal health, gore is attacking us, the legislature." following year in 2001, republican governor rick perry appointed henry cuellar secretary of state in texas. it's a position he held basically for the next year. in 2004, though he did back john kerry over bush that year, cuellar decided to run for congress not against any democrat but the chairman of the congressional hispanic caucus, ciro rodriguez was his name. it was a very contentious race and over the initial tally gave rodriguez a 145-vote lea

it's so different from -- george w. bushfor example, had a completely different view of the immigration crisis than today's republican party does and especially the republicans in congress. george w. bush understood, he was a compassionate conservative and had a totally different mind set about it than the one today. i can see why the president would be really frustrated because, you know, congress doesn't want to do anything. i think nicole is right. i think the president is going to have to act. it is a humanitarian crisis. i guess the only thing i would like to hear, you know, you spoke with leading our way out of it. i would like to also hear the plug me in version of the talk he gave yesterday about immigration, specifically. look, this is a humanitarian crisis and here is why we have to act and here is what i'm going to do and the plugged in version of the transportation and infrastructure issue, which i think is also critical. >> 52,000 minors without their parents have been caught at the border. >> horrific. >>> stil

note, actually i think moving forward as we get closer to 2016 we will see much more praise for george w. bush than we did in the last cycle. more of it will be coming from the right as people like paul ryan and rand paul try to the conservatism bush was elected on in 2000. it certainly didn't surprise me to see her throwing that bone to president bush, but certainly i can't imagine her praising him much more than she pays praises president obama as we move forward. >> rick? >> any policy condenses between clinton and bush is coincidental. there is no strategy here for hillary clinton to pursue the presidency by running as a successor in any way to george w. bush. she is likely to find some areas to praise, to be a little bit even handed. but clearly she is much more closely aligned with president obama. that's not go to change. >> is is she running to the left of president obama or to the right of president obama? >> this is an intriguing choice, right? because the way that president obama came on the scene as senator obama basically to her left. a lot of the disappointments that liberals fee

how do you see how's our country doing in all of this say compared to when george w. bush left office and we better are we safer now how do you assess security well i would say larry that security is better although i think president bush george w. bush did a good job on security he did a good job after nine eleven but i think what's different now is we around the world are not looked upon anymore as as bullies as going it alone we've built some alliances but this is a very challenging time with ukraine with north korea with the middle east with iraq erupting you know the president president obama has been dealt some very difficult cards and i would say he's handled them well i think on syria when he said that he was proceeding with that red line i would have moved forward with with some of those strategic the bombings but it didn't happen but at the same time i think our relationship with our allies a stronger and he's doing the best he can but in a way that brings other countries in to help us but it's a very difficult period the most difficult in international politics

and in george w. bush's second term, it was clear very early on in that second term that that second term for him, like most other modern presidents, was also not going to be a walk in the park. and there was this great snapshot, this great moment in time less than one week after george w. bush was inaugurated for his second term where president bush was just having a brutal, brutal press conference. it was a press conference that telegraphed a lot of the things that were going to make his second term a really hard time for him. a lot of questions were about iraq. this was january 2005. things were absolutely terrible and about to get worse and he had already said we'd won that war a long time ago. the president said he wanted to spend all the political capital he accrued by winning the election by convincing the country that we ought to privatize social security. he was going to convince america that that was a great idea. that went over about as well as as you would expect. so at the moment of this press c

and suddenly he's become more hawkish against reporters than george w. bush. i don't know why anyone -- i don't know anyone who saw that coming. >> what does he know we don't know? >> that is really a peculiar thing. and it's not been adequately ventilated. and journalists haven't asked obama directly the few times they had direct access. >> so what's at stake if we do silence and punish whistle-blow whistle-blowers? >> well, what's at stake is whistle-blowers won't come forward. they know they're going to be prosecuted. they know they're being monitored. a lot of sources have dried up. there have been some panels in the last year, too, in the journalistic realm. and folks have talked about how it's harder to find people to talk now because they fear retribution. they know that the surveillance has gotten incredibly intense. and the stakes are incredibly high. and they get that. and so a lot of folks who might be inclined to leak and leakers are wonderful. because they tell reporters what they don't already have and they can't find in any document. they're ver

former president george w. bush been doing a lot more than just mastering his painting skills lately. he's penned a biography of his father, former president george h.w. bush. the book is out this november and will cover the entire career of his 90-year-old father, and i look forward to that read. >> should be great. >>> now, we all know last night was the debut of the twitter-trending "sharknado 2," but what we didn't know was just how much big celebs would make cameos. "time" magazine put together a montage of the biggest names and faces that took place in the movie. >> okay. i can see you're upset. >> where is this [ bleep ] train? ♪ >> thank you for watching the "today" show. we now resume our regularly scheduled programming. [ laughter ] >> lauer and roker in there, taking down that shark. >> good cameos. >> not bad. >> and the shark-eating perez hilton. i'm sure a lot of people wouldn't mind seeing that. "sharknado 3," laying out the foundation. >> we have to lay that down, slowly get the message out. >>> the

i would add if you look back historically, something like george w. bush after the madrid bombing, 200 people dead, he went to a fund-raiser in l.a. there's such an instinct to jump. >> you're saying it's partisan. >> of course it's partisan. there is an issue and julie pace said this earlier on fox, there's an issue the other way with the optics. if you're the president and don't continue your schedule as normal, then it looks like these things are blown out of proportion. i'm not saying i agree with that strategy, but that is how the white house is looking at it. >> the problem is we've seen the president as mainstream media outlets like politico, disengaged president. for example, when we see in the front page of "the washington post," aides are warned of border crisis, you have to ask, where was the president on the last year or so when el salvador and central america was bubbling up. >> i think it's legitimate that the president didn't anticipate the va crisis, slow on the irs e-mails, all these other things when you get into, gee, should the guy play

the bill would essentially rewrite the current 2008 george w. bush law so that minors from central american countries can be treated like those from mexico and canada, they can be deported more quickly. under the plan, unaccompanied minors from any country would be able to have an immigration court hearing within seven days of their processing of health and human services and immigration judge would be required to rule on their case within three days. it appears the administration isn't totally against this bill, they have yet to officially get behind it, many democrats including the hispanic caucus have indicated they don't have plans to support the legislation. now, we asked congressman cuellar to come on the show tonight but he said he had a scheduling conflict. what are the prospects? joining us, congress mman. start with the bill. if you can help us understand it a little bit. right now we're hearing so much about the bill that treats unaccompanied minors coming in from the central american countries different than unaccompanied minors who might

the correct answer is george w. bush. e america a final night with george w. bush" he did after obama won. >> his impersonation is genius. >> and he kept it going for a full length one-man show. which was pretty impressive. >> kathie lee, over to you. >> missouri. >> yes. that's weird. okay. what instrument did will farrell play during the behind the music sketch on "saturday night live" in 2000. piano, tuba, xylophone, or cow bell. >> i'm going to say tuba. >> a cd. >> this is the most she's ever gotten rid of ever. the correct answer d, cow bell. >> got to have more cow bell, baby. this was a fantastic sketch. >> called "don't fear the reaper." >> all right. go over to kathie lee for another. >> all right. in the past week which costar of will farrell not only celebrated her birthday but received two emmy nomination, zooey deschanel, jane lynch, cheri oteri or kristen wiig. >> i'm going to go with kristen wiig. >> klg, her best day ever. >> the correct answer jane lynch from "talladega nights." >> had a birthday on monda

>> yes, a lot of them but not the better ones. >> how about george w. bush's feelings about what you said about his father? >> i was probably an excessive critic looking back. the bushes are a real loyal family. but it was partly george w. bush's sign of independence that he didn't visit upon me the anger of his father. >> 14 books, three on baseball. how do they sell compared to the other books? >> [laughter] my first baseball book, maybe the best-selling baseball book ever. if so, it has probably sold as many as the other 13 combined, which means i have figured out what america is interested in. >> we are not sure about this but this is the first clip we can find in our archive of george will. this was back in 1988. >> quite unkind to mention the cubs. [laughter] they last won a world series in 1908, two years before tolstoy died. it is now 80 years on and we have another much more entertaining and constructive event about to occur. the 1988 election about which i am now going to talk for about half an hour and then i will take any questions you might have.

if you look back, historically something like george w. bush, right after the madrid bombing, 200 people dead, he went to a fund-raiser in l.a. but we are in such polarized times now -- >> and you're saying it's part of this? >> right. there is an issue and julie pace said this earlier on fox. she said there is an issue the other way with the optics. and she said if you have the president and you don't continue your schedule as normal, then it looks like these things are blown out of proportions. i'm not saying i agree with that strategy, but that's how the white house is looking at it. >> mean stream media outlets like politico, so, for example, what we see in the front page of "the washington post" today, aids were warned of border crisis. you've got to ask, where was the president over the last year or two as this issue in el salvador and central america were bubbling up? >> but i think that's perfectly legitimate to ask why the president didn't anticipate the veterans crisis, why the president didn't anticipate these e-mails with the irs cr

you get the george w. bushole, you get to -- >> i'm the one that gets say the porridge is just right? >> i think it is early to make such a call. i welcome the firming of rates that we have seen in the last very few months. the last few readings. numbers make a trend, and it's the trend that we want, the sustainability of inflation around 2% -- it remains to be seen. i'm not sure. i want to watch the numbers for a while. determine whether this is going to hold. certainly, if we look back over the last year to three years, we would say inflation is too low. i'm still in the camp of wanting to see the test of time to prove that we in fact are going to see rates near or at our target of 2%. >> how long do you want to wait and watch? currents said that the rate, you will overshoot. you will at 2.4 percent or to provide percent by the middle of next year. >> i will tolerate some overshoot. over the next couple of years, threshold,easonable beyond which one should be concerned. wraps policy needs to take some action.

question was asked, who is the worst president since world war ii. 33% president obama, 28%, george w. bush13%, richard nixon. >> these great and worst lists, they are terrible whenever you poll them because they always reflect the moment in time. the public isn't taking this -- you know, if you sat there and then said, here are the accomplishments and failures for each of these incidents, nixon would come out on top. people think of where it is in the moment of time. by the way, when you look inside the numbers, it's a bunch of republicans and then a bunch of democrats saying that about bush. >> george w. bush was president in '06. >> the scale of partisanship is 90%. >> that may be the takeaway, which we know. there was a similar question on nbc/"wall street journal" poll about competency. this is quinnipiac university poll. no was 54% and yes was 44%. >> the independents are very much unhappy with the president and i think when you look at all of these numbers, everything is riding on the economy. the economy has just got to improve on his watch and i think his numbers will get better. b

i mean the fact that george w. bushdent in this poll does speak to how people are with their politics and their lack of perspective. richard nixon who resigns in disgrace, this shouldn't be close. >> margaret, i almost wonder if we had gone back while george w. bush was in office and done the same poll -- >> werm, we did. >> i think ba the fact, i think we take it as sport to sort of pile on whoever in office. we like to complain about the job, whatever president is doing. >> i think that's right. i think there is also something to the timing of the polling now. now is a particularly low water mark for most particularly presidencies. george bush had a low during this time in his second term. there had been katrina. you see this with president obama. robert gibbs, his former press secretary called the first year after his administration the lost year. there has been -- and by the way his -- this is the sequel and by the way there has been -- basically, he has not been able to get anything through. his signature health re

george bush. now he's in the business of defending george w. bush but basically attacks barack obama blaming obama for any difficulties that we're having. and the point about partisanship really applies in a what larger stage when you look at the people who get invited on the sunday talk shows or whose op-eds appear in the "washington times". in this partisan in this effort to look beyond the bush ver vus obama republican versus democrat to try to understand the larger forces in play to brought us to where we are today. then simply having an argument about whether we should attack with drones or ta tack with manned aircraft. what are those larger forces because robert kagan says world order shows signs of cracking and perhaps even collapsing and that these changes signal a transition into a different world order which the united states should attempt to lead. >> when kagan uses phrases like world order, he's describing something that never really existed except in his own imagination. but again the point is worth reflecting on. kagan believes, m

former president george w. bushfore the game and presented him with an autographed. icture of the two. and what else is more texan than a pair of cowboy boots? now to the game we go. jeter goes 0-4 at the plate but receives a standing "o" from the crowd at his last at bat. >>> giants/pirates. pirates knock one to left field. watch what happens here. somebody paid the price. a ball knocked a drink -- right there. right out of the fan's hand. beer. you know she waited in line for that beer. now she's got to go back and get it. top of the sixth the giants pull one of the most bizarre double plays in memory after walking a batter. the runner on second a caught off the back. watch. he's tagged and then cast a runner off the bat at third. giant gos on to win it 7-5. >>> german tennis player lasiki broke the record for fastest serve. that blast clocked in at 131 miles per hour. that beat venus williams' previous record holder set in 2007. >>> now the card -- no! >> so sorry. >> flushed out of this tournament. >> the pain h

if you look at numbers here, both george w. bush and jimmy carter ended their presidencies at 34% in the approval ratings. and afterwards, they are at 47% for george w. bush and 56% for jimmy carter. >> but bush is a close second. >> people like either the dead or gone presidents more than the current one. but more importantly, if you look at numbers on obama in this poll, the republicans, 63% of them, say obama is the worst president ever. so right there, that counts for most of the poll. republicans saying -- >> i take that point. look, obviously, you are going back to world war ii, and the most recent presidents are one and two to tell you about how we think with these things, right in front of us. i get that. at the same time, the question i asked jennifer about competency, over 54%, you aren't just talking about republicans. you're talking about people who voted for the president there. and on a very basic question about competency and running the government, a majority are saying no. that's what i'm talking about. >> i think t

they cannot bear it that they were not able to prevent george w. bush from winning re-election based on a lie. president putin actually believed that george w. bush fired dan rather as a deputy press secretary and i went to my first time briefing the president and a foreign leader before a press conference. i go in and i say the president says what do you got? the president asks you blah, blah, blah. i looked at putin and said it. 43 said, vladimir, you got that? putin said why should i talk about press freedoms in russia when you just fired that newsman? and 43 said what are you talking about? he said you fired the newsman. president bush realized and he said vladimir, are you talking about dan rather? that's not how -- that's not how it works. the private company fired him. as your friend, i am telling you not to go out there and say that. you should have seen the white house press corp saying what is he talking about? i don't think they would defend dan rather, but i know hollywood would. i want to know who will play me. >> megyn kelly. >> did putin

the president of the united states, george w. bushimately elected by the american people twice, sold the idea we were facing an existential threat, annihilation under a nuclear war. we were going to get hit with a mushroom cloud. it's going to come because saddam hussein is going to deliver it somehow to the united states on some balsawood plane. first of all, did they ever produce evidence of that ever -- they had the weapon, the delivery system, the vehicle to send it with? >> no evidence at all. >> why did everybody get sold with the idea of the mushroom cloud? >> it was a selling job by the bush white house. they took classified intelligence they were being given about the status of hussein's weapons of mass destruction. that intelligence was filled with caveats, reservations, uncertainties and they turned around and said in public it's absolute, it's certain, he's got weapons. he wants more. he's about to use them. and none of that was true. >> why did they spin it so to pushing us into war if they weren't sure? in other words, t

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that's going to make the state more conservative recognizebly, not have these -- not do what george w. bushat george h.w. bush did and sort of make peace with the welfare state, the republican party needs to learn how to fight the businesses and be angry at the businesses that work with the state. >> this is an important symbolic fight, a chance for the tea party to prove, hey, we actually can win one, we can dismantle something, can be big business. that's an interesting way of looking at it. ezra klein, thanks forgetting up with us and explaining it. i understand it better. >> thank you for having me. >>> another controversial decision by the supreme court handed down on the last day of situation, hasn't gotten as much attention as hobby lobby. we'll try to fix that. that's next. [ video game beeping ] ♪ [ male announcer ] it takes two hands to eat a manwich. leaving zero hands to save the universe. hold on. it's manwich. this is mike. his long race day starts with back pain... ...and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve... ...for all day relief. "start your engines" [ female

i just find it amazing that they will try to tie anything back to president george w. bush and not take responsibility for that. >> it's incredible. i can tell you firsthand when i worked on the hill when george bush was in office we championed numerous pieces of legislation against child sex trafficking because president bush pushed us to do so. so that's actually not true. you can't tie this to president bu bush. it's not surprising they're going to do this. in the words of dianne feinstein, she puts it back on the white house and says, look, president obama, you have the ability through your executive power that you love to use at every turn to get this process moving in a quick and order -- quick and orderly fashion. my question is, dana, one, how can congress ignore this? they can't. but my question is if he takes to the courts, will he respect the court's decision on this? okay. number one, president obama has not respected the court's decision on a number of rulings, including most recently hobby lobby. harry reid says we're done, we're going to fight this battle out

. >> do you think george w. bush lied about iraq? do you think lyndon johnson lied about vietnam? >> yes. i do. you know, i've -- i tried very hard. you know, in the case of bush, i actually was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. because if someone believes it, if it's a matter of conviction and they've persuaded themselves of something that's untrue, is that a lie? or do they just have misguided beliefs that, you know. and i tried to give bush the benefit of the doubt there. but over time, each passing year, i've decided that i was way too generous. and the -- i look at flatly -- did they make statements that weren't true? the answer is yes. did they decide they were going to willfully do that over a period of two years? and was it an orchestrated campaign? and it was false statements. those were not coincidental. if you look who said what, when. and the when, especially, is quite relevant. this was an orchestrated campaign. which, of course, scott mcclellan, the press secretary to bush, publicly essentially said in his memoir after our report, "iraq: the war card" came

former president george w. bush greeted jeter on the field before the game and presented him with an autographed picture of the two. and betty, we both know this, what else is more texan than a custom pair of cowboy boots? >> oh, yeah! >> he's got the yankee logo on there, though. yee-haw could say it all, right? >> he could use a 10-gallon hat with that. >> a big belt buckle, too. jeter goes 0-4 at the plate but receives a standing "o" from the crowd during his last at-bat. rangers win 3-2. >>> to san francisco, giants/pirates. top of the fourth, pirates nailed one to left field and someone paid the price. this is an ultimate travesty. watch what happens. the ball knocked the drink right out of the fan's hands -- >> oh, she didn't even get to catch it! she just got spilled on. >> someone needs to get her a refill. top of the sixth, the giants pull off one of the most bizarre double plays. after walking a batter, the runner on second is caught off the bag, and then he's tagged. they catch the runner off the bag at t

wasn't it george w. bush who signed this law giving these particular kids their right to asylum hearings in the first place? that's my question tonight. why the political games? judge jenkins was part of the group of leaders that met with president obama yesterday down in texas. he's the highest elected official ins dallas county down there. of course eugene robertson, the prize winning columnist with the washington post. why the diddling around and politics? on this case it's clear. the kids at least deserve a hear ing. in the meantime they should be treated like kids who are innocent until proven guilty of something. >> if the texas delegation -- and we are the most affected in the union by this. if they were to treat the kids with compassion and we stood unified and voted for the supplement, it would pass and we could do it next week. i hope we will. you're right. there is no real difference. we need to secure the border. we believe we need to improve conditions in these country where is the children will

up next we hear from george w. bush on the 60th anniversary of d-day in june of 2004. this is american history tv on c-span3. >> mr. president and mrs. chirac, secretary powell and secretary principi, general meyers, members of the united states congress, my fellow americans, ladies and

is it a lesson he may be beginning to experience what george w. bushd to experience in the last couple years, wanted to do social security and not only did his party say no they picked fights. republican started to think it was a good thing to fight their president. >> the politics of immigration overall have been scrambled by what has happened and you're seeing with all of the democrats who are running away from this issue how an issue that democrats have run on very aggressively for years and years, and some would say exploited in order to win hispanic votes is now being turned against them now that public opinion has swung very strongly in the other direction and public outrage, public attention to this issue has increased dramatically. i think o'malley has done something very sort of opportunistic and smart in terms of filling a vacuum. lot of activists on the left, a lot of democratic partisans have a lot of angst about the fact that no one is speaking for these undocumented children, that you have a lot of people on the right taking the position

perry said on fox news, "i think about the criticism that george w. bush received when he didn't go to new orleans during katrina. this is no different." also on fox, congressman cuellar said "i hope this doesn't become the katrina moment for president obama." >>> well, former nsa contractor edward snowden is asking russian authorities to extend his stay in the country. his year-long permit to stay in russia has a political refugee is set to expire july 31st. >>> political commentator ann coulter is criticizing chris mcdaniel for not backing down in his race against senator thad cochran. in an op ed piece in "the clarion ledger," coulter wrote, "even in cases of actual voter fraud, history shows that the contesting politicians get branded as sore losers and destroy their political careers." and that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> all right, in washington, i am joined by syndicated columnist bob franken. hope you're feeling better today. good morning, bob. >> i certainly couldn't feel worse than last week. >> well, that's an improvement. >

i may not agree with anything, the president, that was george w. bush at the time making the bold promises on immigration. we should try to get something done. >> he has pushed it out into the forefront, he ought to be congratulated for it. that's what presidents do, they lead, and while we have differences of opinion, we've got to find a way to resolve this. >> what happened to him? where did he go? >> i think speaker bainer is under immense pressure head of elections to have a partisan message against the president and knows after the election he'll be up for the gavel again, wants conservatives behind him. you have the speaker emotional and volatile in his message against the president and the president seems to be campaigning. >> i picked on john boehner saying where'd he go, i don't see leadership right now and i get the dynamic in his party. some people say it's because there's a democrat in the white house. listen to the president saying he doesn't understand why today's republicans won't do what their hero once did. >> ronald reagan passed immig

george w. bush used it. ush administration did not actually use it in this way. the examples the irs pointed to are not on point at all. the assistant secretary of the treasury admitted to congress he couldn't recall considering the legal authority before they went ahead with this decision. further, the distinction made in the rule between companies below and above 100 employees for an additional year of delay of the employer mandate has no basis in the statute and section 7805 i encourage people to go read because it actually does not authorize this sort of thing. it's one thing to say the irs isn't going to pursue penalties or give somebody more time to actually fulfill their obligations. the irs has done that before. what the irs is doing here is actually waive the obligation all together. it would be as if the republican president came in after congress passed the tax increase and said, well i'm just going to delay this tax increase by a year or two. that's impermissible. >> never mind that the house vote

george w. bush left office with a low popularity rating. and after having waged an unpopular war, the case is made. it wasn't made, you may recall, when barack obama was running and bush was still president. that the job was too hard. we all thought that the anointed one was going to come in and we were going to be back in clover again. the last time we had this argument that chris cillizza is making was back in the carter administration. may i quote to you from a book by the conservative commentator and author, steven heyward, who wrote a book called the age of reagan. he took note of some of these comments we're making, hearing about now and from the time. this from barbara tuckman. the job of president is too difficult for any single person. joseph craft, the presidency as an institution is in trouble. the fire hydrant of the nation. newsweek magazine has defeated the last five men that have held them, it is in danger of becoming a game nobody can win. that's the argument cillizza is making. those arguments were made halfway through the r