>> george w. bushredits billy graham with hi being a born again christian and with his finding sobriety. which of course, is absolutely essential to the career of george w. bush. laura: in moments of national pain, like 9/11, the oklahoma city bombing, what was it about having billy graham by your side as a president that was so important? portant because though he was a christian preacher, his message could resonate across religious lined across any k of denominational lines. this spiritual gravitas. he wasn't just a political religious right person. he was actuallyte q- quite critical of the religious rights, saying we don't want to poison b religion nging it too close to politics. if he was around on this very day, he would not be giving mulligans to donald trump for his lack of personal responsibility. believed in personal rectitude and holding people to account. laura: he would hold himself to account, too, wouldn't he? he expressed remorse about his close relationship with richard nixon and was u

you worked in the george w. bush white house, you could put that under the normal white house, jared kushner being downgraded in terms of security clearance, what impact would that have had in the bush administration? >> i don't recall it happening to anybody in our white house. it's an unusual situation, although i do recall it happening to one of president obama's advisers, ben rhodes, i believe was denied a security clearance at the beginning of the obama administration. he ultimately got a clearance under some circumstances that are less than clear. so it's not historically unprecedented for this to occur. the president can still show any adviser he wants any kind of intelligence material that he feels like. i guess he hasshowing. they are standing by kushner saying he'll continue to be able to do his job. what matters most, do you have the confidence of the president and kushner retains that as of today. over time they'll have to make a decision about whether his inability to look at some information if it's not

, i worked for george w. bush, his post-9/11 body of policies are highly controversial, divided this country in some terrible ways but the patriot act passed the u.s. senate 98-2, in the same way that the sanctions passed the senate. there is not a lot of debate in congress on the russia question. the outlier is the trump white house. what are they going to be able to say for themselves if they couldn't to be so out of step with democrats and republicans in congress, with h. r. mcmaster, the sitting national security adviser, with the intelligence community which simply can't sustain the trumpian message which is that russia's role had no effect? that is not the intelligence community assessment at this hour. >> yeah, no, the intelligence community has not, in fact, said whether or not it thinks that the russian interference did or did not change the outcome. it has not weighed in on that. doesn't have a way, i think, perhaps, to measure that necessarily. certainly you cannot read that from the indictment that was

bushes. george h. w. bush campaign under a platform of trying to create a kinder, gentler nation. george w. campaigned under platform of compassionate conservatism. when we were attacked even after 9/11, george w. bush raises taking the path of least resistance, and sounding this message of xenophobia in nativism. and instead visits a mosque to emerge and say that islam is peace. it's quite remarkable by today's standards. to take this further, if i may, look at ronald reagan. ronald reagan is the republican icon. he is the emblem of republicanism. he's called of course the great communicator. what is his most favorite writer? is standing at the brandenburg gate and saying to soviet counterpart, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. america at its best stands for literally and figuratively tearing walls down, not building them. and then you have donald trump -- [applause] >> if i can think it just a little further. just look at ronald reagan's policy towards the soviet union, which was trust but verify. what he was talking to gorbachev during the same at summits during the course of reagan's

president, george w. bush, your brother ran on that platform, and the people chose trump, and that's the "angle" ." meanwhile, let's shed some light on the democrats glaring hypocrisy in accusing republicans of undermining the mueller investigation, as i just alluded to. now, you recall democrats did everything they could to undermine ken starr's whitewater investigation into misdeeds by president clinton, and to compare what democrats are saying now with what they said back then. >> there is a growing concern, i can tell you, and the senate, in the sense that mr. starr is now operating out of any sense of reasonable behavior. >> we get a politically motivated prosecutor who is allied with the right wing of opponents of my husband who has literally spent four years looking at every phone bill -- looking at every telephe call we've made, every check with ever written. >> this is a president who, on many issues, is basically beyond shame at this point. so any sense of fairness or thoroughness for the sake of the

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he had impact individually as we see with george w. bush and obviously on a grand scale.you for sharing your thoughts with us. >>> time for cnn "newsroom" with john berman. see you tomorrow. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning everyone. i'm john berman. the breaking news this morning, a giant of american religious life, giant of american life, period, is gone. billy graham died just about an hour ago at his home in north carolina. he was 99 years old. cnn's kyra phillips on a remarkable century of influence. >> reporter: he was america's pastor. in times of tragedy, billy graham was there to comfort the nation. >> we come together today to

george h.w. bush and bill clinton? and bill clinton and george w. bush and george w. bush and barack obama and barack obama and donald trump? [laughter] it's just, these are different -- it's like mary poppins with the cartoon up here and the reality down here, you know? it's just two different worlds. and somehow or another we do this. so, no, i don't think it's fair to point -- in the same way i don't think it's fair to say trump is the sole reason for the lack of civility. i think that, again, we're all in this. and if it didn't work, they wouldn't do it. if we penalized them for this, if the bases were not where they are, then it would be different. now, if you're in the democratic base i suspect, you know, you have secret meetings now -- or maybe they're not so secret. [laughter] you probably have the dick tracy wrist radio, you know, you talk to each other. [laughter] getting ready for, you know, to mount the barricades. and if you're on the right, you think that people who criticize donald trump, you know, are hopeless elitist snobs. the truth is somewhere in be

from february 23 wall street journal from george w. bush talking about the impact billy graham had on his life and i thought my favorite line in that article, when george w. bush father was president, his father was gone, he and his mother were having dinner at the white house. they began to argue about what it took to get to heaven. call billyll graham. according to president bush, here is what billy graham said to them. george and barbara, i believe what is written in the new testament but don't d play god. he decides who goes to heaven, not you. we can spend a lot of time arguing but it grace filled life, lifeal built on the principles of the gospel is a life we've benefited from. we recognize uniquely today and we are glad to be here with our colleagues on the floor as we talk about this great life and the impact it has. >> without objection, it will be printed inna the record. >> i too want to join my colleague from missouri. senator blanc and others who pay tribute to the life of billy graham. we lost a man of great faith and at the e

why did george w. bush, in his -- and hisies contemporaries think the united states was promoting a so-called democratic peace. alone, they were neoconservatives were neoconservatives were not alone. think about the intellectual life of the academy was in the 1990's. with the democratic peace -- when the democratic peace was the buzzword of academics around the united states, and around the globe. supposedly through systematic studies scholars found if you promote democracy and democratic do not wage war against other democratic nations. but was also happening in the 1990's, a fact that was somewhat obscured by the good generalizations eric made. in the 1980's and 1990's there movingny more countries from authoritarianism and some form of democracy. you can look at the statistics and freedom house. around 2005,me 2006, 2007, when we have begun to reverse back to more nations that are inclined towards authoritarianism. there is a reason why policymakers embraced the democratic peace, they were influence, if

. - except there was not a george w. bush coffee table book. there was not a bill clinton coffee table book that i'm aware of. admit it, you're nostalgic for this. is that what it is? - well look, you know, what the truth is, we did a coffee table book at the beginning of his presidency. when he took office because the election of the first african american president. - it's a moment. - moment in history. - right. and so having done one in the front end, we just thought we should do one on the back end. - right, but of course, the last 11 months as we sit here, probably have made the eight years that proceeded it a little more interesting. - [peter] they are definitely. - right from a contrasting point. - [peter] from a contrast point of view. - he's been largely off stage. do you think people fully understand him? you came back to the times, you came to the times probably in 2008. you came to the times, 2008. and you covered his administration. - right. - you understand who this guy is from having been there in real time. watching him emerge a

george h.w. bush and clinton and george w. bush and barack obama and barack obama and donald trump? it's just these are -- like mary poppins but with the cartoon up and reality down here it is two different worlds and somehow or another we do this. so no, i don't, i don't think it's fair to point in the same way i don't think it is fair to say that donald trump is soul reason for lack of civility again we're all in this. and if didn't work they wouldn't do it. if we penalized them for this, if the bases were not where they are, then it would be different. now, if you're in the democratic bases i suspect you know, you have secret meetings u now or maybe they're not so secret. [laughter] we have the dick tracy the radio you talk to each other. getting ready for, you know, just are to barricades and if you're on the right you think that people who criticize donald trump you know are hopeless and snobs. but truth is somewhere in between. and i think until we have a disposition of heart and mind where the in between space it's a little more real traction in the debate than the the world

barack obama and george w. bush and bill clinton. e's no indication that happened here. >> it's fascinating. donald trump ran against barack obama as much as he ran against hillary clinton. he ran against george w. bush as much as he ran against hillary clinton. this is a president who ran against everybody, every part of the establishment, no matter what party. i don't think we really expected him to then become friendly with these folks. the question of how obama can gin up support -- >> not to interrupt you, we are going to interrupt you to show the official unveiling of barack obama's portrait. take a look. [ applause ] >> well, good morning, everybody. it is wonderful to see all of you. how about that? that's pretty sharp. it is my great honor to be here and i want to thank secretary and kim for your outstanding leadership at a couple crown jewels of american life and your extraordinary stewardship. i want to thank everybody who was here and michelle and i are so grateful for the friends, family and former staff, current staff wh

george w. bush not done but well spoken but i like him there me to be like i let this guy seems genuine. so this may be a very providential moment because maybe you'll be the first president to state such a one and there were no i never thought i'd run for such a skilled stuff i want to put that much pressure and this quality about being the first woman president but you know what's interesting about this conversation because we're further down the journey of the pilgrimage which i am the leader of the pilgrimage. regular coffee regular people we're in trouble now from the leader of the pilgrimage i assure you but max is here to make everything go smoothly actually max's shift was up five minutes ago. if i get a walberg bomber to show up on your behalf mark warbird comes to town to back squali sounds like a party ok and you win by a landslide and it's all because you got in the door smith from one walberg and reconstructing like can we then change the name fits bird pittsburgh to walberg walberg bec

i'm sorry yes donald trump is bringing back guantanamo bay flexing his inner george w. bush the donald announced with glee at the state of the union tuesday night that he has put its signature on an executive order instructing secretary depends james mattis to once again. grade again the order and structure secretary maddest to develop in the next ninety days the new policy on the transfer of terrorists to our no notorious prison camp in cuba and on battlefield the tensions in the war on terror in general justified his good mold love by declaring quote terrorists who do things like place bombs in civilian hospitals are evil when possible we have no choice but to annihilate them when necessary we must be able to detain and question . i guess in a world of maga it appears to be two thousand and two all over again j z get shut out the grammys and get loans open for business and torture which is why you know it and i know it it's time to start watching the hawks. as it's at the bottom. like you but i got. to. leave the. welcome one and all the watching the hawks tyrrel down on t

for instance, what president george w. bushid back in the early 2000s when he just canceled all the rapprochement that clinton had done. and now we see that president trump dismisses what president obama was doing, which you say was not very much, but nonetheless, that north korea has taken the u.s. for a ride over and over again. is there any way to -- is that right? >> you're absolutely right. george w. bush, anything but clinton was a real cause of the problem with regard to north korea. now president trump would come up with anything but obama. and wiping out any possibility for positive engagement with north korea. therefore, we see some kind of lack of coherence and consistency in american policy on north korea. >> do you think the accusation that north korea is always cheating no matter what deals the americans broker is on target? is that correct? >> yeah, north korea has been cheating, but we've got to make a decision between cheating and hedging. >> cheating and what? >> hedging. if they show a hedging behavior, then

and elliott abbrahm served under regan and george w. bush, plus kn now what for the me, too movement? ♪ ♪ >>> "amanpour" on pbs was made possible by the generous support by rosalin p. walter. >>> this is a typical week in the trump presidency. on the one hand, the president's state of the union address was well-received by most americans. on the other hand, there say bitter part fight over the so-called nunes memo. an indictment by devin nunes repr republican chairman of the house. mocrats say it's aimed at deflecting the fbi russia investigation away from the president. not since watergate has the intelligence committee been poll l -- politicized as they launched scathing attacks on law enforcement. in all the heat around the memo, it's been hard to shed light on what the president actually said this week about where he stands on america's major challenges at home and around the world. for that, i've been speaking to elliott abbrahm, a deeply experienced politicianer that served republican presidents including ronald reagan and george w. bu

he was he was awful and she was special assistant to the president under george w. bush. when your resume says donald trump and george w. bush on it for your next job you'd be better off submitting a bloody rotting raccoon ahead is your resume. that's your resume from here oh you're better off. more likely to get a job so we've taken our horrible voting system which i covered extensively on this show in two thousand and sixteen we took that system and handed it over to a partisan hack at a ridiculous federal agency how horrible is the department of homeland security well on this alert chart right here you can see. just is currently at orange high level of. but they've got their eye on severe level of. but some areas of this country are trying to get away from this cat crap traffic voting system pennsylvania wants to move paper exact machines but they can't afford them yet well they were told by the governor that they can't afford them which. we can afford anything we really want if you're on fire certainly you can afford water no matter how much it costs we should declare

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open up a counterintelligence investigation using dirt and dug up and paid for by the rnc and george w. bushporters? this town would be on fire. every reporter would be following around karl rove and george w. bush all over town. yet its crickets from the media. it's embarrassing. it's absolutely embarrassing. i'm almost flabbergasted. i thought, at least, there would be some ounce of credibility left. but there really isn't any. >> sean: ultimately, steele, unverified. if we look at the memo that came out of chuck grassley's committee earlier today, goes on to say that steele gathered much of his information from russian government sources inside of russia. if i put the two memos t together, yours from friday, hillary paid for russiat propaganda, unverified, uses a fisa warrant, not only is it paid for to manipulate and lie to the american people, but the spy on an opposition party candidate. sir, are there crimes committed here? >> you can't really make this up. i hope the listeners understood what you just said. we have a clear link to russia. you have a campaign who hired a law firm, who

and hillary said that george w. bushlooked at her and said this is the craziest weirdest bunch of horse hockey that i've ever heard. the media loves that. when a republican like george w. bush they love it when a republican i thought to myself that vignette of bush snickering at donald trump that explains this. trumpet did not come out of nowhere. i vacuum and he didn't win by the way because of james comey or the russians. donald trump won this election because americans in the critical states that make up our electoral college we are kind of sick of being snickered at. they're kind of tired of being laughed at. told one thing in the campaign season and having governance as another thing. the national book critics circle and members of the book publishing industry announced the finalist for the outstanding books of 2017. jack davis is look the history of evangelism. the report on the generation of russians who came of age. the art of death and hunger. book tv has covered several of these finalists. it means losing peopl

former senior advisor to president george w. bush and a fox news contributor.d the bright idea putting you on the spot asking you if you want to get this logjam moving, seems like there is a little bit of movement in there, if you were the president, what is the first thing you would do? who would you call, what would you say? >> well, first thing i would do is call the senate majority leader and check in with mitch mcconnell on the state of negotiations. i would check in with the speaker of the house. i would have the secretary of homeland security in the office or on the phone with me when i had those kind of conversations. then i would have a meeting of white house senior staff involved in the issue, marc short, the legislative person, whoever from the homeland security advisor tom bossert, whoever is involved from the domestic policy council, the secretary of homeland security, obviously the chief of staff, hey have we got a strategy to move forward? i'm here. tell me what i need to do but we need to engage. that means declaring one of those people, probabl

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billy graham is the one who helped bring george w. bush god. >> around the table in the family compound in -- young george w. bush would ask questions of billy graham probably slightest flip and slightly a little out of the norm but billy graham took it all and helped bring him to christ. >> bill: in 43's way. thank you, karl, for sharing that with us today. >> you bet. >> sandra: reaction continuing to pour in as we continue to remember the life of billy graham. mike huckabee is here minutes from now on the impact the legendary evangelist had on him and millions of others. with more than 150 ethnic regions to connect to... ...it's the perfect time to find out where your greatness comes from. save 30% at ancestrydna.com. looking for a hotel that fits... whoooo. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. >> sandra: congressional democrats are fuming as the trump administration pushes low cost alternative healthcare

. -- iember when we had remember when george w. bush first took office. the south koreans and north koreans had a very friendly meeting they were looking forward to. it was something under the sunshine law. george w. bush came out, i think he was only president for a month. powell on one side and dick cheney on the other, hand he said don't trust the north koreans. and theyalled it off started their nuclear program because they were called the axis of evil. trump doing a sword dance with the saudis. how fast people forget that 3000 americans died a horrible death. 15 of the 19 hijackers were saudis. they had safe passage that day on 9/11. there were some official saudi officials and george bush gave them safe passage out of the country. host: a little off-topic, but thank you. robert, republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to thank you for your program. you're the only thing that i trust for verification. regarde of questions in to a couple of guest that made the example that north korea and the iran agreement are different. i tend t

i remember when george w. bush first took office, the south koreans and north koreans had a meeting, very friendly meeting they were going to look forward to. it was something under the sunshine laws. and george w. bush came out -- i think he was only president a month -- and he had colin powell on one side and i think cheney on the other and he said, don't trust them, they're -- so of course they called it off and they started the program because they were called part of the axis of evil. had a really good plan going. i tell you, we saw trump doing a sword dance with the saudis about six amongs ago. how fast people forget, 3,000 americans died a horrible death, 15 of the 19 hijackers were saudis, and they had safe passage that day, 9/11. there was some of them right near this country, saudi officials, george bush gave them safe passage out of the country. >> host: that's kelly in florida. also off the topic but thanks to the caller. let's go to robert in oregon on the republican line. go ahead. >> caller: yeah. th

texas land commissioner george p bush back to me when it was in the politically correct thing to do and i back him now. george p bush is the son of jeb bush, the nephew of pres. george we grandson of pres. george hw bush. >> new legislation in honor of the chicago police officer who was brutally shot and killed in the line of duty. commander paul bauer shot 6 times by suspects wearing body armor. the bill looking to ban extended magazines on weapons, ban the sale of body armor and increase penalties for non-law enforcement use of body armor. here is chief cosponsor of that bill, chris welch. thank you for joining us. can you tell us about the bill and where it goes from here? >> thank you for having me on the show. commander paul bauer passed committee yesterday, it will hit the illinois house floor today. it is our hope the bill passes. this is important legislation. unfortunately we have yet another one of our heroes in blue guns down sensitively in a crime that could have been prevented. this should never have happened. we have a hero who served 30 years on the chicago police department his wife no longer has a husband, his 13-year-old daughter no longer has a fath

in the george w. bush administration she served as senior director on the homeland security council. her current role she supervises several law enforcement agencies to play critical role in the governments antitrafficking efforts. both at the border and the interior. from customer border protections to the coast guard and transportation security department of homeland security is on the front lines fighting against human trafficking. we are fortunate that ths has a leader like secretary nielsen at the hell. were delighted she can join us here today. please welcome our secretary of homeland security. [applause] >> it afternoon. it's my pleasure to be here. i want to thank you for being part of the summit today. i want to thank attorney general sessions, the deputy attorney general, and rachel for your leadership. it's very important from our perspective that we have partners to fight this fight together. that is in fact what it requires. the diversity of voices the room today from law enforcement to nonpro

from george w. bush, "a shepard to millions has passed on." carter and clinton are all offering tributes. in 2007, the clintons explained how much it meant to them, when he came to visit after the political sex scandal became public. >> he is one of the people who made a real difference to me personally. he was someone who could understand both bill and me. >> and he just talked to me. and what he wanted me to know was that the christ he believed in was a god of second chances. >> reporter: for a young george w. bush, that message from the reverend led him to sobriety. >> as a result of being with billy graham and being inspired by billy graham, and i guess being led by billy graham, i started reading the bible and shortly thereafter i quit drinking. >> reporter: president johnson leaned on the reverend during vietnam, and reagan famously called graham from his hospital bed after he was shot. but graham was questioned for the relationship he kept with nixon. >> i prayed for him, prayed for him several times a day, that god would help him. >> r

anymore no it isn't but remember under ronald reagan he was willing to have deficits and under george w. bush we had deficit said we've kind of ignored it partly because we tell people they're bad but they don't see it and it it happens in the future with some other president and some other congress so you kind of can enjoy the fruits without having to pay for it and that's tragic and and frankly the news media allows members to get away with it they don't talk about it as well because it's not romantic right it's not romantic it's hard for people to visualize but they know intuitively in their own household when they have large that it's not a good thing so i take one of my really my most satisfying time in congress was with john kades that i was the number three guy on the budget and we balanced the budget four years in a row had surpluses and that was really satisfied and then two thousand came along and the tools that we had grabbed my admin and so on that enabled us to control spending disappeared they they had they were no longer operative and then the budget just started to float high

night, former speech writer for george w. bush david cracy."d his book "trumpo "trumpocracy" is a book about the study of power. this is a study of donald trump's power. umpocracy is a system of enabling between trump and the media that enable him and create an audience, the system that donors, the republican traditional elements, and above all between him and that core group of his voters within the republican party who enabled him to win the nomination and go on to the presidents. >> what sunday night at 9:00 2's "bookern on c-span tv." >> jeff sessions talked about human trafficking efforts and how the part -- department was collaborating with mexico and local law enforcement. this portion includes remarks from rachel brand. it is 20 minutes. >> it is a pleasure today to have the opportunity to gather with so many professionals, business and other partners who work every day to combat human trafficking and make our nation safer, especially for the most honorable among us. collaboration, the exchange of building relationships, is what this su

executive orders, protecting people, and the tradition of ronald reagan and george herbert walker bush and with the common values of george w. bush and president clinton. now we have the first republican president in modern times, the first president, really, who is anti-immigrant. and that is just such a change from his own party. it makes it hard to see where we can have shared values. certainly one piece of that debate which would require of fact, see tion what the best path forward is, is important for us to do. but for now because of the action that the president took, it necessitates us taking action here. as the president anticipated by putting a march 5 deadline on t we'd like to do it sooner -- it. we'd like to do it sooner. this is a vehicle leaving the station. if the republicans need our support for this legislation, which has many good features, and i commend the negotiators on it and was a part of that, unless we can get the same commitment that mitch mcconnell gave the bipartisan group of legislators in the senate we to watch the rest of the speech, head to our congressional chronicle page. miller covers poli

he served under the george w. bush administration. he is a professor at georgetown.is frightens me is that nomination to become the next south korean -- u.s. ambassador to south korea is because he opposed the no strike. the signals to me that the trump administration is very much making plans to wage a primitive strike on north korea. amy: i want to turn to president trump's recent eight of the union. pres. trump: north korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland. we are waging a campaign of maximum pressure to prevent that from ever happening. past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation. i will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this very dangerous position. we need only look at the depraved character of the north korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat. it could pose to america and to our allies. amy: that is president trump, his state of the union where the north korean defector was also honored. christine ahn? >> as