and senior government role under three us presidents including white house chief of staff to george w. bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely q

george h. w. bush, through clarence thomas. and george w. bush through samuel alito and john roberts. and donald trump, through neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett. they have all now said, to children who get pregnant, they can be forced to bear their rapists ' child, george h. w. bush did. that george w. bush did that. donald trump did that. leading off our discussion now is michele bratcher goodwin, chancellors professional of law at the university of california irvine. and the author of policing the womb, and visible women in the criminalization of motherhood. also with us is cecile richards, former president of parent planned parenthood. professor goodwin, let me begin with you. you've been with us throughout the 53 days that we knew this was going to happen. but when it happens, it always is something else. it is a different moment in our history. >> the gravity of the moment is with us today, now that the supreme court decision is no longer theoretical but it is in existence. and with it, there are more than two dozen st

bush and putin come on together and george w bush certainly sought a reset with russia. he was very chummy with putin. we all remember the fishing trip, and that was later in the process. they're very first joint news conference george w bush was at the podium putin was standing next to him. he said russia is not the enemy of the united states. the cold war is over, right, but putin didn't get what he wanted from bush and some historians have argued. this is a big reason why he became he becomes more and more authoritarian and autocratic. i wouldn't put the us at the center of the story and that way. i think that putin became autocratic for internal. okay reasons, it speaks to his personality his sense of power. the vision that he has for for russia eventually he latches on to a very, you know, sort of conservative in the sense of reactionary autocratic vision ultra rationalist. yes of russia's past and of russia's future, and i don't think that that's a function of anything george w bush did or anything at the us did although the us has always the the foil to to putin's

george h. w. bush, through clarence thomas. and george w. bush through samuel alito and john roberts. and donald trump, through neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett. they have all now said, to children who get pregnant, they can be forced to bear their rapists ' child, george h. w. bush did. that george w. bush did that. donald trump did that. leading off our discussion now is michele bratcher goodwin, chancellors professional of law at the evasive california irvine. and the author of policing the womb, and visible women in the criminalization of motherhood. also with us is cecile richards, former president of parent planned parenthood. professor, let me begin with you. you've been with us throughout the 53 days that we knew this was going to happen. but when it happens, it always is something else. it is a different moment in our history. >> the gravity of the moment is with us today, now that the supreme court decision is no longer theoretical but it is in existence. and with it, there are more than two dozen states that will

and that is something that a top aide to president george w. bushme when first selectedr speaker and george w. bush made very gracious comments sending that but mentioning her father and according and he felt that policy never reciprocated that he was trying to act in a cooler manner than where the politics are headed today. that was not something she was willing to do. >> it is interesting and i wondered if she things where does that come from? if i relinquish of any part of this. >> she would say that boehner did not deliver. what is the point of bipartisanship? she thinks the most damaging legislation she pushed through is not the affordable care act, that the bank bailout in american what they were leaving is not the most important thing to do but they said if you don't we'll head into a depression. so they made a deal they would each deliver 50 percent of the caucus for this unpopular legislation she delivered 50 percent and he did not. and item went down. i don't know if you remember that but the stock market plunged in a way that was very ser

and that's also something that top aides to president george w. bush told me. remember when pelosi -- pelosi was first elected in the first woman in the history of our country and george w. bush would to deliver the state of the union address and he was very gracious in the beginning mentioning the history of the mom and then the mentioning her father and according to his top aidessh bushveld that pelosi ner reciprocated. he was making anet offer k let's try to act in the cooler manner than where the politics are heading today and that was something she was willing to do. >> it's interesting i wondered if she thinks if i relinquish any notion of teen partisan i relinquish the power.ou >> she would say boehner didn't deliver. like what's the point of bipartisanship if you can't deliver to the people? she thinks the most damaging legislation she pushed through was not thee affordable care ac. it was the bank bailout in 2008 when we had the financial meltdown and nobody likedd bailinged out tanks. bailing out banks is not the most popular thing to do but the econom

if she doesn't have the votes it started where she rescued the rescue passage. >> she rescued george w. bush and she told me was the president who made the worst mistake in american history which is the iraq war. she did not have a high view of george w. bush and his presidency and even though it cost her members to push through this legislation she did it because the alternative just looked too grim. >> tell us about, she took on a particular iconic status during the trump years. walking out in the orange coat with the big collar of the white house for the cameras. do you think that she had trump's number because she'd encountered him and seeing him in baltimore, she'd seen him in san francisco politics,encountered people like him before ? >> donald trump is a very distinctive figure . i'm not sure i know a lot of people like donald trump. >> i grew up in new jersey. everybody knows a trump, you know people like him, you know bullies like him and you got to punch themin the face . >> i grew up in kansas. [laughter] but she had his number. >>. [inaudible] she knew how to deal with aggressive

we will be getting reaction from ron christie who worked in the white house under george w. bush.central africa.. and, the secrets of britain's past discovered in the past of a new railway line. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. one of president putin's closest advisers i'm a prime minister sergei lavrov, told the bbc that russia did not invade ukraine, just a special military operation. russia's invasion of ukraine is almost four months old. mr. lavrov has been at the heart of power in russia for almost 20 years. he spoke to our russia editor stephen rosenberg. >> it was the first time sergei lavrov agreed to meet since moscow launched its offensive in ukraine. russia's government created a parallel reality. invasion? what invasion? >> we did not invade ukraine. we declared a special military operation because we h absolutely no other way of explaining to the west that dragging ukraine into nato was a criminalct. russia's special operation has resulted in thousands of civilian deaths in ukraine. moscow claims it is protecting russian speakers and fighting

she george w bush. whom she told me was the worst present may a president who made the worst mistake in american history, which is saying a lot which is the iraq war. she did not have a high view of george w bush in his presidency and even though it cost her members to push to the legislation. she did it because she the because the alternative just looked to him uh, tell us she took on a particularly like iconic status during the trump years and walking out the you know, the orange coat with the big collar of shredding out of the of the white house to the cameras there. do you think that she had trump's number because she'd encountered him and she'd seem in him in baltimore. she'd seen him and san francisco politics. she'd encountered people like him before. well, donald trump's very distinctive figure are there. i mean, there are people i'm not sure i'd know a lot of people who are like don't even jersey and he's like everybody you go before land. he's like everybody knows that if you grew up in jersey

he gave them all a free pass george w bush. they're all going to be rehabilitated. they're all going to be treated as great statesman. one day, i mean, they gave president obama a nobel prize for not being george w bush. the question, of course, the world tap, dancing around with or avoiding as does it work as torture work doesn't work. people that have information that are part of an underground apparatus, a terrorist organization, a revolutionary organization, accomplished organization, whatever organized form of collective alan chip, i, b, they won't frank, no. and the people that you pick up that are innocence. yes. you tell them to pieces, you'll destroy them, you, you'll ruin them. i think that a few of the people that passed passed through my hands as an interrogator did have intelligence. but mo, the vast majority of the people that i dealt with work just being picked up because they were males of military age and they were just get swept up. and, and these raids, i don't think torture is always being used as a method to gain information or, or confessions. i

our military objectives are met for president george h. w bush. the liberation of kuwait was only the 1st stage of a much more ambitious policy. he wanted to build a new middle east. after the victory in iraq, he sought to make the persian gulf whose oil wealth made it particularly strategic region. more secure for american interests. but to achieve his goal, bush 1st needed to resolve the israeli, palestinian conflict threatening the stability of the entire middle east. the process was launched with a peace conference in madrid in his efforts to impose his pox americana on the gulf. president bush invited any one with any potential influence on the arab israeli conflict. got up with them. you may know some europeans were the soviets, with leaders of the ma grip and the middle east. all attended. russell created that national swimming. only one country was missing the islamic republic of iran. the visceral answer for why iran was not invited is the hangover from the hostage taking it's still with us today. ah, hatred of iran for the 979 hostage th

:: john mcconaughey work for george w. bush. was supposed to be or had a comic that kept him up in d.c. we will tells many of his stories as we can remember, quite a few of them. my hope is used half this time to talk about questions that i have got for these two. and then will spend the other half taking any questions you have. this when they happy to go if the whole session is being a presidential speech writers exactly think it would be on west ring. that is it. [laughter] i'm kidding it is much more like deep. [laughter] so this is a presidential ideas festival. i'll set up with a question for these two about the relationship about ideas and speeches. sometimes what comes off as an idea ends up in a speech but sometimes a speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. so just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech? >> in a weird way, as speech writers were not coming up with the ideas for their much smarter people in the building for developing those ideas. and away at these id

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how did we get from george washington to george w. bush? how did we get from george washington through barack obama? how did we get from george washington to donald trump? now, one of the striking things is that if you go from george washington to most presidents before the current president, you see a kind of linear progression. now, some people would think that it's a decline, that the curve looks down. in fact, this question of, this comparison between the first president and the current president goes all the way back to the second president. presidents always look better in the rearview mirror than they do when they're right front and center. part of this is that we tend to -- i don't know -- we sort of tend to forget the failures and remember the successes. that's part of it. the other thing is that presidents are usually pretty talented people. and so, they usually have a lot of positive things that can be said about them. but while they are president, typically the other party or sometimes factions within their own party, have an inc

. >> he worked for george w. bush during the 2000 florida recount of the race against al gore, but broke from trump's gop in the lead-up to the 2020 election, warning that false claims about election fraud were undermining faith in american elections, a point he made again when he testified. >> in no instance did a court find that the charges of fraud were real. >> as trump continues to spread the big lie, can we restore faith in our elections, protect election officials, and defend our democracy? what does ben ginsberg say now? >> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... and by... corporate funding is provided by... >> ben ginsberg, welcome to "firing line." >> thank you. >> you've been a republican election lawyer for decades, perhaps most famously known for your role in the bush v. gore recount in florida in 2000. and you have even provided some support to the trump campaign in 2020 through your former law firm, jones day. most recently, you have become a vocal opponent from the republican

these countries were targeted by the george h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and bribed with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. a ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. nato have over 600 military base as well to white. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning this russian soviets into this dangerous bogeyman that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy to create this image. it soviets as out for world conquest, which was not the case, then bar now. ah, nato should have died, but they will give it meaning. it is about infected, created by, by nature nature, business machine. cuz you must remember if nato, what is bad shareholders in united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions. they'd only have one year instead of 2 yards each . their idea wouldn't that be

represent parts of the american experience that i think are worth emulating informed what to do george w. bush, the last eisenhower like saying you are the last di dinosaur. that is dead,. dead, dead. that part. that party was imperfect but i believe one way to think about american politics in life from the new deal until now, it's been a figurative conversation betweenag fdr and greg on the relative projection of force against commonly agreed levels in the relative low in their place. every american president has essentially governed on that usometimes to switch metaphors o football, sometimes as a george w. bush with ronald reagan in the 20, sometimes lyndon johnson over here with fdr. i've run this by bush, clinton and president obama, they all agreed. president obama agrees the concept that was the dialectic in which he governed. he is not a lot dialectic that delivered the result many people want which is one pleasing part 2016. i don't see that as the shift. what i do the is four years ago exactly when i was closing the soul of america book, i believed trump was the fullest manifestation

wade, justices appointed by republican presidents from eisenhower, nixon, reagan, george w. bush were among justices who voted to uphold principles set forth in roe v. wade. there was three justices named by one president, donald trump, who were the core of today's decision to upend the scales of justice and eliminate a fundamental right for women in this country. make no mistake, this decision is a culmination of a deliberate effort over decades to upset the balance of our law. it's the realization of extreme ideology and a tragic error by the supreme court, in my view. the court has done what it has never done before, expressly take away a constitutional right that is so fundamental to so many americans that had already been recognized. the court's decision to do so will have real and immediate consequences. state laws banning abortion are automatically taking effect today jeopardizing the health of millions of women, some without exceptions. is so extreme that women can be punished for protecting their health. so extreme that women and girls are forced to bear their rapist's c

bush was president, he would smile and me, and that's pretty funny. so after he left the white house, he no longer had to do that. but george h. w. bush, i had the honor and the pleasure to encounter him a few times. i used to teach at texas a&m at the george bush school of public service. and so i got to meet him, and he would come to my classes and he always struck me as one of the most decent individuals to occupy the white house. and the most -- i had no idea that he had this sense of humor and this capacity for humor that he does not long after the left the white house, at about the time that his presidential library was opening and school was opening at texas a&m, he gave a closed door address to students at texas. closed-door in the sense that the press was not allowed. and one of the things that presidents often have a hard time with -- and george w. h. bush really had this problem -- when the press was around, he sort of hack it presidential so he often came across as presdential -- lyndon johnson had the same problem. and but once he knew there were no cameras, he could just sort of let himself go. and he did an imitatio

george w bush had been president for a few months. he called on the international community to fight a war on terror. there is universal support for the american people. sadness in their voice. but understanding that we have just seen the 1st floor of the 21st century. now the war has been declared us. we will lead the world to victory. pickering intelligence agencies were charged with ensuring that victory, especially the cia, one of the most famous covered up figures in american history, co for black famously said to congress, there was a before $911.00 and an after 911. he says after 911, the clubs came on beginning in 2002, the ca build secret torture prisons, not only in poland, but also in romania. al qaeda members were interrogated in these so called black sites. in thailand of damn war error surveillance facility became a torture prison ah. from guantanamo bay, in cuba to eastern europe to asia. the ca is black sites cover at the globe. the cooperation of foreign countries and sea ice detention and termination program was abso