jean baker has the first essay, but he knows but george h. w. bush almost as well as george h. w. bush. he sets the stage for what we have throughout the rest of the chapters. >> andrew? >> a couple of stories that tell you a lot about bush himself. bush was taught by his mother and his father not to use the word i if he could possibly avoid it. it's hard to do that if you are a politician. if you watch, you listen, look at the stuff that he has written. memos as president and speeches, he doesn't use the word. because he said it is too egotistical and egocentric. he came back from a baseball game when he was in high school. he hit a home run and they won the game as a result of it. he ran in and told his mother, his mother said, that's very nice george. she said, that's very nice, george. how did the team do? he asked, don't you care about the home run? and she said, i care about how the team did. not how you did. he repeated that story many times. there was an auditorium in -- near three buildings of the bush school, library, and the conference center. you came and spoke there at

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

since then, information has poured in such a flood that a year later, george w. bushfficially forced to admit their existence, but not torture. in them, moreover, according to bush, such facilities have made an invaluable contribution to the fight against terrorism, according to bush, the contribution of the secret prison system. the cia stands out in a special way in the safety of american citizens, he noted, precisely because of the information received over the past years. during the interrogation of terrorists. in these prisons , american intelligence services managed to prevent a number of terrorist attacks, an attack on the us marine corps base in djibouti, an attack on the american consulate in karacha pakistan, and a plane hijacking followed by a crash at the british airport in london, if you believe the us president, it turns out that only terrorists were interrogated in prisons. so they were in remote places. and cancer or afghanistan well, almost in 2006, the un human rights committee published information about such a prison in the village of antoviliai. t

and george w. bush as the last republicans? mark: well, the republican party has changed so dramatically since george h w bush and george w. bush were in the white house. if you look just at george w. bush, who was the governor of the state and spent a lot of time in the mansion to our right and to the statehouse to our left, this is a different political party. george w. bush strove not only to bolster democracy in our country, but throughout the world. he was pro-immigrant. in many ways, it was not a nationalist, he was not xenophobic. it is a different republican party today and when the bushes talk to me on the record for the last republicans, i think they expressed concern that donald trump would be not only the standardbearer for the republican party, but at the time, a possible successor to them in the white house. we had spoken before donald trump became president in 2016. the last interview that i did with them for the book were in the latter part of 2016 and donald trump had yet to be elected

methods were approved in july 2002 by the us department of justice under the administration of george w. bushmitted that he tried stop a few interrogations that got out of control. however, he could not stop in case of misconduct on the part of a high-ranking military man, quite in the spirit and democracy over the years of active work, up to 1,000 prisoners passed through the prison, everyone knew that the majority were imprisoned for political reasons. well, this is america, so legal entities were formalized as enemy compactants. it allowed to put this democracy to keep the people there. indefinitely american punitive machine in the form of a guantana, it just became a kind of, uh, such human grinder. i am not afraid to say even such an animal farm, where the role of animals is played by judges and one must look humiliated, tortured and sometimes killed for nothing. here is a typical story of one of the guantanamo prisoners i was kept there for a year from 2002 to 2003 before my eyes, the american military beat two people to death. these terrorists play by completely different rules, so we

because the late-night comics were always making fun of george w. bush is a word stumbled specially as reading a speech, pronouncing a name, something like that. they would catch him than they would run these things constantly. everybody in the course of a point is going to see the president or hear him in a situation, it is the only thing they can listen to. when there's a press conference that's interesting or something. you listen to bush and a lot of people thought he was very well-informed, very well spoken. this is not what i was expecting. most people are busy with their lives print these rare moments here about 15 minutes or so would sound pretty good so i said to secret weapon. it's really funny. >> you did not have to write jokes you tried. [laughter] came up with the best ones. >> ob curious, we know president obama's reputation as somebody who gives these soaring speeches with a lot of oracle flourish. some of the seminole speeches in the last ten years -- 15 years are some he's gave at really critical moments it was a 2008 philadelphia speec

:: 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

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. no ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. and nato have over $600.00 military base is world wide. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning this russian soviets. and to this danger is boy man that wants to take over the world. that was a conte your strategy to create this image of the soviets. as out for world conquest, which was not the case, then by now, ah, nato should have died, but they will give it meaning. it is about infected, created by, by nato nature's business machine. because you must remember if nato, what is bad, that 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 id

it has been for the last 20 years, starting with the administration of george w. bush. he really showed up in a rather unusual way. now the biden administration is taking the same approach. when it comes to economic social policy, there is nothing fundamentally different between republicans and democrats. this is very confusing for everyone, but for the democratic party, for example, is characterized by a broader representation of various ethnic groups, but, in principle, it is very complex and the ever-changing picture of trump, for example , is quite different from traditional republicans. you know, both of our political parties unleashed wars, and the positioning of the united states as an extremely militaristic state is true regardless of which two parties were in power . they say that we should stop, while others, on the contrary, step on the gas pedal and start political wars. yes, it does. it does matter, but unfortunately, as far as i've been looking at politics since the late sixties, most of the time we've been in one war or another and the approach has alway

his opponent, outdoor, that these are the precursor somehow to the events of january six, which george w. bush condemned and the strongest terms possible. >> thank you ranking member portman for the question. and no way shape or possible to i think that president bush is inferior intellectually or less intelligent, that is not the purpose of the article, it's not stated in the article. i was very clear that he was well suited for the presidency, and that is stated in the article. >> okay, so the quote that i had that said it was widely accepted that pushes less than thousand dentist charger anger was not your quote? >> thank you for the question, ranking member portman. that was a characterization, but once again, i want to say that i stand by my statement that this was a article about president bush in his rhetorical abilities to be able to communicate common sense, principles to everyday americans. >> you do a lot of tweets about president trump. you mention that you served under him essentially when you are at the historical society. here's one on january 5th, 2020, which says isn't the nex

when george w bush became president, but is now republican dominated, so dissatisfied, certainly a threat to donald trump, the governor dishonest decides to run for president night. the republicans, though, on tuesday night around the conference, i had 3 problems. one of them is donald trump in the baggage of donald trump. americans are tired of him, and particularly for most americans, particular swing borders are very upset about the way donald trump refused to concede the fate in 2020, and the insurrection of january 6. and his contribution to their donald trump is a lot of baggage for the republican party. second, of course, was the abortion issue, which is motivated a lot of orders, particularly women voters in the suburbs, not support the republican party at all. now getting rid of donald trump won't solve that problem unless the republican party takes a more moderate stance on abortion rights. and then the 3rd problem was the body candidates. there were a number of candidates, particularly those who were pushed in promoted in primaries by donald trump. who were inferior candidates,

the former white house inside of richard painter was the chief ethics lawyer for president george w bush. he's now a professor of corporate law at the university of minnesota fraser painter. it's good to have you with us again, your politics is changing all the time in the united states. i want to start today by showing our viewers the front page of the new york post today. i don't know if you've seen it, but i'll, i'll describe it here. it shows donald trump as humpty dumpty, sitting on a wall. and it reads dawn who couldn't build a wall, had a great fall. can all the g o p 's men put the party back together again? now we have to remind ourselves, the near pose. that's a rupert murdoch newspaper. does this tell you that the republican party is now done with donald trump? what we don't know, all will say what happens and whether donald trump declares for the presidency and what the reaction is ok from leading republicans. we do know that the governor to santa supplier and i had a very, very good night on tuesday. i winning his re election as governor there by blow out . this is a state t

he tried in 1992 against george w. bush. he damaged bush in the primaries and in part led to his defeat for a second term,, although a lot of that is because of ross perot, who got 19% of the popular vote in 1992. pat buchanan, you might recall the infamous butterfly ballot in florida, particularly in the palm beach area. you might remember the concept of the hanging chad, when people would punch on this butterfly ballot, which was already confusing, because it was hard to see which candidate you are punching for. when people would punch on the whole, it would not necessarily break the chad out and sometimes, it would just be dimpled or hanging by a thread. you might recall the judges in florida, judges of the election, holding those punch up to the light to see if there was an actual vote. i was lucky enough to go to the first of the two oral arguments of the bush v gore. i ended up sitting next to the county judge of palm beach county. he had been on tv attempting to count the pregnant and hanging checks. he had never been

it would appear to me that you are saying that because you believe republican presidents like george w. bush tended to exhibit anti-intellectual qualities that these are the precursor somehow to the events of january 6, which george w. bush condemned in the strongest terms possible. dr. shogan: thank you for that question. in no way, shape, or form possible do i think that president bush is inferior intellectually or less intelligent. that was not the purpose of the article and is not stated in the article. i was clear that he was well-suited for the presidency. and that is stated in the article. sen. portman: this quote that i have that says it was widely said that bush was less intelligent as a challenger, it was not your court. -- quote. dr. shogan: that was a characterization, but i stand by my statement that this was an article about president bush and his rhetorical abilities to be able to communicate common sense principles to everyday americans. sen. portman: you mentioned that you served under president trump when you were at the historical society. here is one on january 5 of 2020

a member of the george w. bush member of the white house is after the red wave turns out to be a ripple. wall street is reacting to the midterms and the markets are not liking the uncertainty as control of congress is still unclear this morning. cnbc joins us with more on that next on "morning joe." with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan, i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now, i'm managing my diabetes better, and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. take the mystery out of managing your diabetes and lower your a1c. now you know. try it for free at freestylelibre.us >>> we have the worst inflation in four decades. the worst collapse in rages in 40 years. the worst crime rave since the 1990s. the worst border crisis in u.s. history. joe biden the least popular president since truman and there wasn't a red wave. that's an indictment of the republican party. that is a searing indictment of message to the voters.

about exactly on average -- every president, not george w. bush who had 9/11, every president who faced a midterm. i will say from a communication standpoint -- i think that that dynamics regardless of what joe biden had done in the presidency or not he would've been at a 45, third 43 -- 43% approval rating. i agree with them about 20 million -- about 2020, though i would argue was a 7 million margin. but i get the electoral college number in this. to me, -- i think the problem fundamentally was communications. not the policy he pushed. the communications. not in 2020 one, but for the last six months. >> rachel, let me invite you in here and add another element to this question. with charlie's formulation, there is no chance that you would do anything, for example on climate change. which is part of what they did as the inflation reduction act that ended up with bill back at her. do you agree with as a matter of political strategy and make yourself healthier and 2022, they have set -- they should've set aside priorities like that to appeal to a br

since then, information has poured in such a flood that a year later, george w. bushlly forced to admit their existence, but not torture. in them, moreover, according to bush, such the facilities have made an invaluable contribution to the fight against terrorism according to bush's contribution to the secret prison system. the cia stands out in a special way in the safety of american citizens, he noted, precisely because of the information received over the past years. during the interrogation of terrorists. in these prisons , american intelligence agencies managed to prevent a number of terrorist attacks attack on the us marine corps base in djibouti attack on the us consulate in karachi pakistan also at the rut of the aircraft, followed by a crash at a british airport cunning london, if you believe in the us president, it turns out that only terrorists were interrogated in prisons. so they were in remote places in that. and cancer or afghanistan well, almost in 2006, the un human rights committee published information about such a prison in the village of antalyay.

in general, the circus of 2006 did not work out for the united states, and in 2007 george w. bush signed a law according to which pro-western and opposition forces. belarus 27.5 million dollars are allocated, interestingly, on which all doubts disappear at the sight of the peculiar behavior of individual symbols of the opposition and the main inspiration is coups in the expanses of the past. union of their main democracy to seize power in any way spit on the elections and the results. here is the famous video 06 we are the next belarusians. elections are scheduled for 2006 . you are the next, of course, next year we will win, it is fair that these same people will continue to repeat to the whole world about the infringement of the rights of belarus, and the white house will continue to impose sanctions against our countries. so under the restrictions. at the end of the 2000s , bel neftekhim and a number of other enterprises fell, while with the other hand washington allocates generous grants in belarus, more than 800 foreign ngos operated , most of which were supported by the usa.

president george w. bushpresident donald trump felt freedom of action was more important than these negotiated agreements. and here we are. ukraine is the consequence of the teardown. and we are in a tough spot right now. next let's dig in just a little bit to what we are talking about we talk about arms control. i have had you come to my classes to teach my students about what does arms control means? they're always surprised by the range of treaties and agreements that we call arms control. can you talk just a little bit whabout what all that means? what kinds of treaties are there? what do they cover? what in your mind falls under the umbrella of arms control? mcsween naturally think about treaties. we have treatiesd that first curtailed and then stopped nuclear testing. those are hugely important treaties. we needed them at the outset because the testing in the atmosphere was a public health hazard. radioactive traces in mother's milk and children's e and we had to's stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere

to russia's borders and then one of the really bad decisions that george w bush made. was to push nato to agree in principle for ukraine and georgia also become members. so he started pushing in 2007. and in 2008 that's when putin. started blatantly violating this intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. that had been negotiated. in the reagan administration between reagan and gorbachev just waved it aside and around 2007 2008 by my reckoning. putin said i i just can't. played by the rules that the west is imposing. i'm gonna make my own rules. and they're going to suit me fine. and given what he's done in ukraine, i think not only has to lose. but he also has to go. but that's none of my businesses. it's not the us government's business. it's not nato's business. it has to be the russian. it's it's russia's business. whether or not they want to stay with a leader. it is so. ruin their army and their international standing even if he doesn't use nuclear. or chemical weapons i think the rebuild. has to be post putin but the ukraine crisis can really give us. propulsion

the conservative governing class that came to power with ronald reagan fastened to the first george w. bushwas moved up to capitol hill during the revolution. and came back down pennsylvania avenue with george w. bush. that conservative governing class existed for about 30 years had been displaced. >> look at my time and congress is too. we have the majority lost it. i came in and then we got it back. [background noises] text our goal with that plan was to go out and recruit members of congress were willing to take tough votes. because what had happened to our majority we got fat and lazy. routing the local county executive or state senate and who was the next guy in line who just wanted to earmark their way to staying in office. so our movement got intellectually lazy. got fat and ify happy. we did earmark seems kind of ugly. us were young upstarts in the house really did not like that we lose the majority, many of us argued we deserve to lose the majority. then we went out unrecorded people we thought it proved true we thought would be willing to take toughe votes. we were excited about t