bothof them will say -- president george w. bush and vice president dick cheney -- that almost from the beginning, george w. bush was looking at a potential vice presidential candidate, and he was saying that he was not interested. eventually, they went through this process. they looked at any number of potential vice presidential candidates, and it came back to one of these meetings where president bush looks at him and says, "it really ought to be you." at some point after talking to his family, he says ok. >> governor bush and laura, thank you so much for asking us to join you in this effort, and thank you for giving me the chance to introduce my husband, , asing's own dick cheney the next vice president of the united states. [applause] >> one of the reasons this campaign is so important and one of the reasons i was willing to give up the private life and to sign on with governor bush in his campaign for the presidency was because of what i have seen him accomplish in texas. >> at the beginning of the george w. bush-dick cheney a

george h.w. bush's administration. later even in george w. bush's administration who feel of a e became something different person, he was not the same person in this later incarnation as vice president. dick cheney would argue with him our interviews that he didn't change. the world changed. but the change that matters tremendously is what happened on 9/11. but he would say that goes back to his days on the intelligence ommittee in the house when he first saw the sorts the underside of the world and there.going on out and that the world as it is response he kind of eels that the bush-cheney administration made. dick cheney thinks it's important to speak out and speak the truth. you know, there have been any number of times in his career i'm not running for the higher office. vice s -- i'm going to be president but i'm not going to run for president. herefore, i don't have to be calculating in a political sense. i can speak the truth. sees himself as a very frank, straightforward, and really for much of the career people had seem him that way.

bush,ou get to george w. and get really to some of the cia conduct inf the field of clandestine operations. i am talking about the secret prisons, the renditions policy which was a kidnapping policy. detentions, torture and abuse. all of these things were part of what cheney called the dark side and u.s. clandestine operations. barack obama comes into office with for a little background in national security affairs. that was always a weakness of the obama candidacy. it is not that he had not been in washington that much to be a political participant in how washington operates on a political level, but it never really demonstrated an intense concern with national security policy. alice saw from the start that he was somewhat intimidated by the military and the central intelligence agency. his appointments when you look at the first national security team were extremely weak, leaving robert gates as it -- in the defense department. not only the into right wing but conservatives within the democratic party --tin

and, yes, president george w. bush and barack obama had very different philosophies, obviously different parties, and he was not given an empty basket to play with. so he focused on the transition. and he started to do that quite early, and it was probably the most orderly transition. >> i will always be profoundly grateful and they were briefing us in terms of their jobs and bring us up-to-date on things that were relevant for us moving forward, so i was proud. i was proud of our country because of the way that transition was handled, because frankly, we had been the jesus out of them in our campaign. we were very critical of the policies, and it said something about our country that despite all of that -- now, we did work together on something important. you mentioned the financial crisis. after lehman collapsed, hank paulson, the treasury secretary, reached out to brief obama, and obama was as supportive as he could be in terms of rallying them together for that solution and i am going to break all of this comedy wi

there's the george w. bush school of thought that back in the 1990's got it and said, you know what, immigration is part of this country and we need to put it inside of the big tent and this is how we are going to court latino voters as part of a larger agenda. the problem with immigration and the republican party is in selling it to the non-hispanic base. and that was what george w. bush was very good at. he was able to sell it to conservative evangelical groups and say this is part of our christian view. i don't know if the republican party has come to that fork in the road. if they do in fact come to that fork in the road and say, you know what, we're going to tone down the tenor and try to figure out a solution, latinos will support this. because one thing we've been finding from our work in latino decision is that latinos don't hold a grudge. we ask in survey after survey, if the g.o.p. were to turn strategy and embrace immigration reform -- and not even necessarily comprehensive but some sort of substanti

>>> january 2001. >> i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear. >> george w. bush assumes the presidency, 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 kocondoleezza rice, the princips include secretary of state colin powell, defense secretary 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 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 about the arab/israeli conflict. bu bush says i don't think much is going to be done over there. bush says, well, what to you think the big issue is in the region, condi? at which point she says, i think iraq is the big issue in this regio

the president of the united states, george w. bushlegitimately 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 wor

triangulating to borrow a word from the '90s, she's saying i'm not barack obama but i'm also not george w. bush. she's trying to go into the middle. how credible is that? >> she wants to sort of attract his critics without alienating his supporters. it's a very tall order because as kim said she had a role in shaping this so-called light footprint strategy that has made the globe much more dangerous than the one that barack obama inherited from george w. bush. she can say, i wanted to arm the rebels in syria, but she was there at the time and when that uprising began, she refused to call for assad's ouster, for example. she can say, i oppose a nuclear iran, but she's the one who's gone, pushed for the diplomatic route. >> bret, how credible can she be, in this hawkish role? >> what she's going to be saying is that privately i was giving the president that hawkish advice, that we should be arming the syrians, more muscular policy toward iran. there's some partial validity to it, especially when it comes to syria. but remember she was the most outspoken proponent of the russian reset, the outreac

which is making the world much more dangerous than the one that president obama inherited from george w. bushso she can say that i wanted to arm the syrian rebels, and she refused to call for assad's oust er for example. and she can say i opposed the nuclear iran, but she has gone to push for the diplomatic route. >> and how credible can she be in the hawkish role? >> well, what she is going to be saying is that privately i was giving the president that hawkish advice that we should be arming the syrians with a more muscular policy toward iran. there is some partial validity to it when it comes to syria, but remember, she was the most outspoken proponent of the russian outreach to the kremlin and the e results of which we seem to know are in the content of russia over the ukraine, and other issues. ultimately, she stood behind the president's policy, and just remember that kind of interview she did with barack obama at the end of the term, the secretaryf of state with steve kroft of "60 minutes" how closely they worked together and she owns those words and that relationship. >> and what about

there's the george w. bush school of thought that back in the 1990s got it and said, you know what, immigration is part of this country and we need to put it inside of the big tent and this is how we are going to court latino voters as part of a larger agenda. the problem with immigration and the republican party is in selling it to the non-hispanic base and that was one thing that george w. bush was very good at. if they do come to that fork in the road and say we're going to tone down the tenor and try to figure out a solution, latinos will support this. because one thing we've been finding is that latinos don't hold a grudge. we asked in survey after survey if the gop were to turn strategy and embrace immigration reform and not even necessarily a comprehensi comprehensive, they'd say i'd give the gop a shot. we're talking 40 to 50 percent of latinos. the question is in immigration is the gop going to pursue that vote. >> so, daniel, question to you obviously. as the a reminder to all of us, also a year ago,

we knew george w. bush was always clearing brush on his ranch. outside of golf, have president's been criticized by the activities they pursue on their vacations? >> sure. sometimes with a little bit of tongue-in-cheek. president theodore roosevelt, who won the nobel peace prize for in the summer of 1905 monitoring the hand of the ru vacation,se war on had a newspaper scolding from the "new york times." the reason? he needed a break. the break appeared on the waters of oyster bay. and it was an early u.s. navy submarine, called "the plunger." roosevelt went down on it for 55 minutes. hee new york times" said needlessly risked a valuable life and a collapsible and otherwise dangerous device. >> the book is "away from the white house: presidential escapes, retreats, and vacations ." we've been speaking with lawrence knutson, the author. thanks for being with us on american history tv. >> thank you. >> tonight at six: 30 p.m. eastern from the american bar association's and a meeting, supreme court chief justice john roberts discusses the magna carta

and that was one thing that george w. bush was very good at. he was able to sell it to conservative evangelicals and say, hey, this is part of our christian view. i really don't know if the republican party has come to that fork in the road. if they do, in fact, come to that fork in the road and say, you know what? we're going to tone down the tenor and try to figure out a solution, latinos will support them. because one thing we've been finding from our work in latino decisions is latinos don't hold a grudge. we asked in survey after survey if the gop were to turn strategy and embrace immigration reform and not even necessarily comprehensive but just some sort of substantive immigration reform, latinos say, hey, i'd give the gop a shot. we're talking about 40-50% of latinos. so they're there. the question is in immigration is the gop going to pursue that vote? >> so, daniel, question to you, obviously, here. as a reminder to all of us, also a year ago the chairman of the republican national committee sat on this stage endorsing immigration ref

you get to bill clinton and george w. bush. barack obama. you have three presidents whose appointments to the cia and the directors of the cia were questionable. i have a lot of questions regarding bill clinton stewardship of national security. bill clinton was responsible for abolishing the arms control agency. it is not clear how the cia worked in providing verification of arms control agreements. doing what the right wing wanted, led by jesse helms and newt gingrich, we lost an important tool for arms control policy on an international level. you look at clinton's jim, george tenet jim,inton's appointments, george tenet, who supported the decision to invade arachnid. -- iraq. george bush wanted intelligence to convince us and george bush was dedicated to the idea of using military force in iraq. it did not matter what intelligence said. you go to the memoirs of bush, rumsfeld, rice, all of them argued that it was intelligence. that is total nonsense. the intelligence is totally flawed and the people who knew knew that there was intelligen

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george w. bush 39%. look at the nbc poll 40%. it's basically the same as where george w. bush was then and he was seen very much as being paralyzed. what is the president doing? he's taking more questions from us. he used to do these news conferences a little less frequently, if you will but in recent weeks he's been taking a lot more questions pep has to get his message out even if he faces defensive question he wants to go on offense. number two you make an important point about the economy. think about the news conference last friday. he had a pretty positive july jobs report. he said the engines are being revved up. this poll comes out from nbc news today that says a large majority of the country says they are not feeling the recovery, they have vast economic anxiety. the president can tout these things. the onomy turning around and a lot of people aren't buying it. >> last thing. logistics. he's running a little bit late. he has a history of running late for these events. we don't know how late yet. he'll have an opening statement. what is the white house telling us a

. >> it involves former president george w. bush been challenged by his daughter among several others. >> to you all have challenged me i do not think it's presidential for me to be splashed with ice water, so i'm simply going to write you a check. ow. check is for r.t pe he gooo cef fro wend ith highyom more thaue ss ll m, manhtae bigp >> lots of the tna thest ve-stot gepe fory gepe fory >> us>>>. ee e gmo>>ha $4 you tell them how much you want to pay, and they help you find a policy that fits your budget. au c g odprogthe omow'r i.be au c g odprogthe omow'r lycaov cassthnofor ev ioalnsghtshtouwangep es au c g odprogthe omow'r lycaov ro brast eis zzle gs at. wh u appea>alhtly girlhose tbis seasyon, falon heeanefhemsa have ay ins g spla i just wanted to define that. >> reporter: so signed up the first chance she had. now she's out on this field every day right alongside her male teammates. >> if you say yeah to the coaches instead of yes, coach he'll make yourop and do push-ups or run suicides back and forth. >> reporter: of course,

back in 2008, some members of your party, democrats filed bills to impeach george w. bush for his conduct of the iraq war. is this any different than what democrats did to president bush? >> of course it's completely different. house republicans are clearly taking us on a march towards impeachment -- >> did democrats take the house on a march towards impeachment in 2008? >> not at all because then speaker nancy pelosi clearly said impeachment is off the table. congress has several other -- >> basically that's what john boehner said this week too, sir. >> john boehner did not say that. he not make an unequivocal statement. john boehner took position before he won't shut down the government but he moved forward and shut down the government for 16 days, costing the american people $24 million in lost economic activity. so there's no real credibility there. we're not clear who actually is running the house of representatives. ted cruz the junior senator from texas seems to have outside influence. that's why we're concerned. but, chris, the focus really should be on doing what'

clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. the panelists detailed their own relationships with the presidents they served and discuss their time in the white house. former secretary of defense leon panetta moderated the discussion. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] thank you very much, and i welcome all of you to the final forum of our lecture series this year. our theme as you all know, we are looking at 100 years since world war i, 2014 to 1914, an awful lot of history. and to analyze the changes that have been made, we have looked at war and peace and the changes in that arena. we have looked at the role of government, and we have also looked at the issue of freedom versus security. tonight, we are going to take a look at the president of the united states and how presidents make decisions, and residents, frankly, influence all of those other areas that we just talked about. the president of the united states has today assumed incredible responsibilities and facing incredible pressures in that position. since 1914, we hav

look, george w. bush -- >> they just voted to deport the dreamers.hat's backwards. >> -- said, well, obama's been deporting -- >> i didn't ask you about obama. i asked you about the republicans. >> look, at some point the president is the president and he's got to take some leadership here. >> so he'll do an executive action at the end of the summer and take leadership. >> excuse me, guys. he has taken leadership. there was a bill. there was a bill that passed the sthath. a lot of that had to do with the president's leadership. and as far as when we controlled both chambers, we passed a dreamer's bill that republicans blocked in the senate. that's why the president took the executive action that he did. and the republicans are going backwards. i mean, "the wall street journal," which is no liberal publication, called the republicans who were leading this effort the deportation caucus. you know, you had david brooks, who called what happened over the end of last week the palinization of the party. so they're losing their allies on this. that's a big,

today for example think george h. w. bush. he's 90-years-old jumping out of airplanes whereas george w. bush has been sent to the persian gulf in response to the possibility of another war in iraq. george w. bush decides i'm not going to criticize my successor to the model is to always be available for advice. there's a great deal of talk of the former presidents coming together to have a meeting. we have a record number tha with getting together and they can come up with a solution to the crisis. franklin pierce would try to initiate that meeting and as i described in my book he would end up undermining that meeting because he knew that appears was trying to subvert the war policy as a result of the meeting so being able to confidentially give advice -- they know enough to have been president and they served in the role they have the standing of the former president but they are out of politics and they seek no more political office for themselves and so they are in the best position to issue tended advice and confidential adv

>> i challenge george w. bush! president bush. >> and now, it's time for something really big!ually, a high school football feature revolves around the backfield. hut! >> uhm, not at redwood where three of the giants' feature performers are, well, giants. >> break down good hits good hands. >> reporter: left tackle, alex kaczynski, 6'5, 285. left guard, ryan, 6'4", 280. and on the other side, right tackle, jake curran, 6'7", 315! collectively, almost 900 pounds. they are so big -- >> sometimes i can't see over them. i'm like 5'11, six-foot on a good day short for a quarterback. so when i'm trying to dump it off to my short runningback sometimes i can't find him. >> i have never seen three guys like this in one place at least around here. >> reporter: ryan, a senior, and jake, a junior, had division one options. >> if you get your mindset ready that you're going to just destroy a kid right off the ball, then you're probably going to do it and do it well. >> me and alex we open up these huge holes and right in between us and then jake all these times, he will be doing a tackle pu

you look at george w. bush.red from that image of being away when katrina lap happened. isis, a clear and present danger and this is just the latest round. do you think the white house is tone deaf, too tone deaf. i'm not saying you could ever get this balance right because something is going to happen when you're away if you're the leader of the free world, but do you think this white house is getting this balance right? >> i don't think so. the optics do matter, but we have to separate the optics from the reality of this. president bush being away at katrina was president because the government needs to be there. fema was a disaster pardon the pun during katrina and so, having a sitting president go to katrina mattered because the government had failed down there. right now, president obama is following the bush doctrine perfectly in iraq. iraq, afghanistan, syria isn't relevant to this point. the president is doing targeted air strikes, threatening to do it in syria. he's responded aggressively to the tragedy

but the idea to let george w. bush off the hook on this is historically wrong. >> i don't think anyone is saying it's all liberal. we're pointing a finger at the obama administration, not all liberals. clearly -- >> come on. sorry about that. >> he wanted to take out. >> you did a fine job there. speaking -- while bob is answering his bookie, this is what president obama had to say about assad over the last few years. >> president assad now has a choice. he can lead that transition or get out of the way. >> i'll say it again. assad will leave power. it's not a question of if, but when. >> i have indicated repeatedly that president assad has lost legit legitimacy. he needs to step down. the only way to bring stability and peace to syria is going to be for assad to step down. >> it's just so crazy. you hear these things. you couldn't even script this in hollywood. unfortunately, we need to leave assad there now. so that's it. because doi namices are always changing. you have to be able to pivot. i'll send him a road map

the wages are lower, and it is obama's economy, it was precipitateeed i believe by george w. bush but obama has owned it, he has been here for a long time, what he has done, has not made it better. ashley: you mention wage growth. 72% of the economy based on consumer spending, wages down 23%. that is significant. >> ouch. that really hurts, you see is the just, pervasive in every aspect of the economy, you know, i don't -- i am not surprised that it is this way, you can't tax an economy into prosper tear, and government -- i in to ross pertyprosperity, we know tm our records. bill clinton was a great president, and cut taxes a lot, and really powered the economy, but unfortunately this president is not doing as well as his predecessors. >> do you think into the equation that companies have gotten used to doing the same with less workers, and workers are frightening to complaint or move because, jobs are still, very tenuous, they can bring someone in and pay them cheaper, does that play into this? >> yes, this is very scary for many people, looking at people in this economy, if you

it distinguish between ron reagan's foreign policy in the foreign policy of lyndon johnson or george w. bush or any militaristic president's? >> in terms of effective foreign-policy ronald reagan because he was seen as strong, he put missiles in germany which prevented the soviet -- soviets from intimidating what would then call intimidating what were then called west germany western europe. he sent troops into granada, the first time a communist regime was overthrown from the outside and even though it was a small operation it sends a signal to the world that the u.s. was becoming a major player again. we had run down our military in the 70s but by the time of the first iraq war came along it was completely transformed. in terms of lyndon johnson, if you look at vietnam books have been written about this. if that had been treated as an insurgency with a handful of people instead of trying to re-create a world war ii battlefield in vietnam, there would have been a very different result. even so by 1972, when the north vietnamese undertook a major offensive in south vietnam, the south vietnam

and grief turned to >>> former president george w. bush the ice bucket challenge and nominating bill clinton to do the same. >>> his teenage son made head lines last summer when lawyers blamed ainfluenza. couch apparently even showed a badge and claimed to be a reserve officer for a small &ó texas bu say he's not licensed as an officer anywhere in the state. >>> now to a murder trial that has a lot of people askingxg@9 would they do. >> a attractitexas father accus killing the drunk driver who hit and killed two of his sons. many are calling this a case of vigilante justice. >> back in court the prosecution will try to convince jurors david took the law into his own hands by shooting and killing the drunk driver he just watched run down his two young sons. >> we're just here to support him. we don't -- we're just asking for prayers tonight. >> barajas denied his killed. he argues he was trying to save his kid that night and never went after bonnda. >> in his opening statement prosecutor told jurors he did a stupid thing by drinking and dr

f-18 jets from the aircraft carrier george w. bush bombed artillery used by islamic militants in northern iraq. gave approval for limited strikes last night, but those strikes don't seem to rattle investors very long, they focused on ukraine. the news that mossays it ended military drills near its border with ukraine. that prompted investors to stop buying after yesterday's slump in the dow to lowest level since late april. as you can see, the dow up 140 point, the s&p up nearly 1%. the nasdaq up three quarters and the russell 2000 up 1%. today's rally boosting the dow 1% putting the blue chip average on track for biggest gain since may 21st. all ten s&p sectors are higher, the volume on this friday in august is light, running about 11% below average. the apparent easing of tensions in ukraine taking the heat out of the treasuries market. the ten-year yield around 2.41% after falling earlier today to 2.35%. that, by the way, the lowest level in more than a year, but coming back just a little bit. >>> today's u.s. air strikes in iraq m

here is george w. bush>> i do not think it is presidential for me to be/with ice water, so i will simply write you a check. that check is for me. i do not want to ruin my hairstyle. privilege to challenge my friend, bill clinton, to the challenge. yesterday was his birthday and my gift to him as a bucket of cold water. for those interested in more aslrmation, please look up -- alsaid.org. out.tremists, news comes three top military leaders from the militaryled in airstrike. dozens more are still under the bubble of a four-story structure still under the strike. the american doctor being treated for ebola is reportedly discharged from the hospital. he had been the -- receiving treatment in the u.s. with an experimental drug. a lot of focus this week on the islamic group, isis. >> a german magazine is taking a look at how isis is building this islamic caliphate they have proclaimed. thistalk about face -- state of evil. a sinister looking, flaming and burning hole into the middle east here. isis has really be

so you have the george w. bush first ladies' initiative, tough global women's -- you have the global women's initiative, the women of afghanistan. you're keeping going. >> we are continuing to work, both george and i are, through the george bush institute which is in dallas now at the bush library and museum. and it gives both of us a chance to keep working on the issues that were the most important to us. pink ribbon, red ribbon is our global health initiative. many of you already know about that. we've launched in three countries in africa, and we're going to hear about some more in a few minutes. but because pepfar was started while george was president, the president's emergency plan for aids relief, we wanted to be able to continue a global health initiative that builds on pepfar. and when we looked at the cancer numbers across africa and really across the world and saw that cervical cancer -- which is preventable -- is the leading cause of cancer death among african women, we figured out there was a way we co

distinction between ronald reagan's foreign policy and the foreign policy of perhaps lyndon johnson or george w. bush or more conventional militaristic presidents? >> in respect to foreign policy, ronald reagan put in missiles in germany, which prevented the soviets from intimidating what we then called west germany and western europe. he sent troops into grenada, the first time troops were sent in from the outside. even though it was an operation, it sent a signal to the world that the u.s. was becoming a major player again. we had run down the military in the '70s, but by the time the first iraq war came along, it was completely transformed. in terms of lyndon johnson, if you look at vietnam, books have been written about this. if that had been treated as an insurgency with a handful of people instead of trying to recreate a world war ii battlefield in vietnam, there would have been a very different result. even so, by 1972, when the north vietnamese undertook a major offensive in south vietnam, the south vietnamese army beat them. we threw that away. you can say we shouldn't have been there the fi

there was his respect for george w. bush, and i would hope we could rise through that rhetoric and take them criticism, the good with the bad. one phenomenon that has developed as a lowering of the cost of making foreign policy a partisan wedge issue. again, i go back to the 1950's and 1960's, this era, essentially, when my parents were growing up, where you did have a sense of a coherent threat where there was always a fight. there was always a sense of fighting between democrats and republicans. it went down during the vietnam war, accelerated during the cold war, and got really bad during bush's war on terror. i think we are at a hyper partisan moment. you talk about this on your program on all sorts of policy issues and politics clearly does not stop at the water's edge. overseas, george w. bush was disrespected in many different ways, and i think that was unfortunate. president obama had a vision of engagement to restore american power, and that is incomplete at best. part of it is sniping. when you hear minimizing the

so george w. bushent over to fight them where they weren't and we paid a tremendous price because of it. >> howard dean and katty, kay stay with us. breakfast is doing better than ever. why cereal is left out in the cold? why is that? i thought breakfast was big. we will explain. >> this is big. >>> new season of college football just around the corner! espn's kirk herbstreit is here to tell us why alabama is going to be number one. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ it's time to bring it out in the open. it's time to drop your pants for underwareness, a cause to support the over 65 million people who may need depend underwear. show them they're not alone and show off a pair of depend. because wearing a different kind of underwear, is no big deal. join us. support the cause and get a free sample of depend at underwareness.com over 20 million kids everyday in oulack access to healthy food. for the first time american kids are slated to live a shorter life span than their parents. it's a problem that we can turn

there's the george w. bush school of thought that back in the 1990's got it and said, you know what, immigration is part of this country and we need to put it inside of the big tent and this is how we are going to court latino voters as part of a larger agenda. the problem with immigration and the republican party is in selling it to the non-hispanic base. and that was what george w. bush was very good at. e was able to sell it to conservative evangelical groups and say this is part of our christian view. i don't know if the republican party has come to that fork in the road. if they do in fact come to that fork in the road and say, you know what, we're going to tone down the tenor and try to figure out a solution, latinos will support this. because one thing we've been finding from our work in latino decision is that latinos don't hold a grudge. we ask in survey after survey, if the g.o.p. were to turn strategy and embrace immigration reform -- and not even necessarily comprehensive but some sort of substantiv

it really matters that george w. bush was president in the early years of this century. o be so influenced by his vice president, so moved toy ideologues to take the country into iraq and blow up iraq into the jungle it is today, and took barack obama to shake this country from the inability to deal with the country's health care challenge. all before him, both parties had failed, he delivered. yes, it matters locally who's calling the shots. get your plans together. get your heart, mind and body prepared to show up and vote this november. the consequences are all around us, from iraq, to ferguson. nobody's vote is more important than yours, unless you don't show up. then everybody's vote is more important than yours. that's "hardball." that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from ferguson, missouri. we are live here tonight as the sun begins to set. and a very different scene on west florissant avenue, a site of so much unrest over the past 12 days. the street is open to vehicular traffic for the f

gore lost tennessee to george w. bush. he won his state he would have won the presidency. tennessee was just one of four states where john mccain got a higher percentage of the vote in 2008 than george w. bush did in 2004 and one of two where the republican percentage of the vote has risen in five consecutive presidential elections. business-minded democrats elected sometimes, in 2010 it was republican bill haslem elected with 65% of the vote. republicans now control 26 of the 33 seats, nearly 80% in the state senate. all of that brings us to today's big fight in tennessee, battle between legislating consensus mind minded howard baker and a new tea party wing drawing voters the rise of the tea party hasn't been really pass add way in june. governor haslem started in bob corker also is in the baker hold pragmatic legislative republican. he believes voters, quote, exec their leaders to solve problems. all three come from east tennessee, by the way. which is historically home to the state's main stream business minded brand of republicanism. the three regions of the state are

there has to be a two state solution as every united states president, including george w. bush and president obama, the two state solution, these two people living side by side with walls separating them with american gi's -- >> he's hard hl a similar position than george w. bush. >> what happens? >> i say we get out of the way and let them defend themselves without making excuses for hamas. >> and the palestinians continue for another century? 1,800 deaths become 18,000? >> we do not allow them to defend themselves. >> i'm going to turn the wheel a little bit here. obviously this is a heated debate, heated conversation. i want to keep this going. the conversation is not just here at fox news. it's across the country. even hollywood has been getting involved and john voigt is the latest attack liberals for coming out and speaking about israel. you've been able to become famous and have your monetary gains because you're in a democratic country, america. do you think you would have been able to accomplish this in iran, syria, lebanon? sits? you had a great opportunity to use you

we all knew that george w. bush could govern as effectively from the ranch in crawford but you never let him alone from splitting wood in the woods. president obama goes off to these big mansions in martha's vineyard. >> sometime between sunday august 17th and 19th, something big is going to happen in d.c. because the president is coming back. >> he's up to no good. >> we need to keep an eye on him. >> he's up to mischief. >> you guys are out of time. see you next week. >> okay. >>> missionary on the mend from the deadly ebola virus but her husband disappointed at the reception they've gotten from some americans. we're going to hear from him. >>> plus, you rarely hear about men chucking it all to spend more time with their families. this successful ceo did just that. bring on the guy talk for that one. >>> and cast out the poor peanut. america has moved onto new nuts. a new favorite one. is it the walnut? maybe it's the pistachio. >> what's your favorite nut? be careful on this one. and why. tweet me @gretchen carls

but the nature of the opposition to this president -- look, president george w. bushr his disastrous war in iraq. this president has not had support from the republican congress. and it shows. so we don't have a unified position with which to address these grave questions in ukraine, in the middle east, in iraq. instead, what we have is more continuation of ideological car fare and blame in the congress of the united states, a totally dysfunctional constitution. >> and it continues as we speak. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back in one hour, 1:00 p.m. eastern, more news coming up. mikaela. >> thank you for your work, wolf. have a great weekend, everyone. ashleigh banfield takes it away from here. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, welcome to "legal view." friday august 8th. two major stories breaking this hour. i'm ashleigh banfield. americans, once again, in combat operations in iraq, dropping 500-pound bombs in air strikes against isis. >> i'm jake tapper in jerusalem. where the israeli/palestinian conflict is raging once a

i've got to ask you about -- president george w. bush did a great job on pepfar.or cause for everybody in this country which is fighting aids over there. how about ebola? >> we've saved billions of lives. look, with ebola, it's concentrated in about four countries right now. it is contained. centers with disease control with the great leadership are working closely with africans to make sure we bring some much-needed relief and make sure this does not explode. >> what good is going to come out of this summit this week? >> the $14 million commitment that's growing every single day and most importantly we're going to change the narrative and entire conversation on africa. everyone is wanting to invest on the ground, grow businesses there. last year, alone, $6 billion was jen raced by ge. you can bet that has an impact in peoria. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> it's great. never heard a better pitch for africa. thank you, ambassador patrick gaspard. very good friend of the president, by the way. you can actually say you know the guy. >> thank you, chris. h germs

are hiring at a rate we haven't seen since george w. bush took office.ring spree, but more jobs may not necessarily mean more money, consumer editor tom vacar tells us. >> reporter: the monkey king hub grub is looking for several employees right here you have the nail spa, they just had their grand opening and look over here, next business over they are looking for help. >> i'm here just to check out, see, meet different people, network. >> reporter: hilda came where 700 jobs with available. >> you think there would've been a [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: where she needs to find an at straifn administrative job. >> her good and many job seekers can now afford to be picky because there are at least 4.7 million jobs available in the u.s., the microsoft in 13 years. >> things are much better because it's a lot more jobs out there, the employers are telling us that they're having a hard time finding qualified people. >> reporter: at this job fair, there are 700 real jobs available. and the employers are so interested in getting people in those jobs, they're