president george h.w. bush is recovering from a case of bronchitis at methodist hospital in houston. the former president at age 88, the oldest surviving former president in this country. jim mcgrath is a bush family spokesman and joins us now. how is he doing, jim? >> thanks for asking, jon, he's doing a lot better. he was admitted last friday with a case of bronchitis. they were able to successfully treat that piece of it, but he still has a lingering cough, and that and the fact that he's 88, they're just being extra cautious and holding him until the cough gets better. jon: there were concerns it could turn into pneumonia, but that seems to have gone away. >> tankfully, yes. -- thankfully, yes. i guess there's always that concern when you're dealing with somebody at that advanced age. but, thankfully, it didn't turn in that direction, and the medication and treatments taye used to get ahold of this bronchitis have worked. jon: well, in fact, there's a picture on the screen right now of bush 41 and bush

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. >>> plus, an update on the condition of the former president george h.w. bush. he had a health scare in houston yesterday. we're going to tell you how he's doing this morning. >>> but first let's get to the news live at 5:30 here at 30 rock in new york city. this morning, president obama departs to pennsylvania where he will continue his campaign sales pitch on how to solve the country's fiscal challenges. yesterday treasury secretary tim geithner met with republicans to unveil the white house's budget proposal which includes $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue over ten years as well as $50 billion in additional stimulus spending. with limited details on spending cuts, the gop's reaction, less than encouraging. senator mitch mcconnell reportedly burst into laughter while geithner was in the middle of outlining obama's plan. and house speaker john boehner who described his phone call with the president wednesday night as disappointing was not impressed by the white house proposal. >> no substantive progress has been made in the talks between the white house and the

plus, the latest on the condition of former president george h.w.ush who is in the houston hospital right now. but first, today's trivia question, it's a good one. how many u.s. presidents have also served as the united states ambassador to the united nations? not easy. music is a universal language. but when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i'm from. and tools to estimate what my care may cost. so i never missed a beat. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for more than 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >>> on our radar this morning, former president is in the hospital but on the mend and one republican member gets creative for not signing the tax pledge. but first the senate is set to consider a broader set of sanctions on iran to find new ways to cut off revenues they think fund the country's nuclear program. this is the third time this year t

it is about 45in minutes. >> welcome to the session, withe h.w. brands. we are happy to see such a full 10 today.it my name is steve harrigan.g 15 minutes after the session, a phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which won't be a problem. this is the book, "the man who saved the union," ulysses grant and war and peace. if you by this book, proceeds will go to support texas libraries and literacy. it is a great book to read and to find a word because. h. w. brands is the dixon allan anderson centennial prof. of history in austin. his focus has been for many years on american history and politics and his biographies and histories include a number of tremendous books. this is the just the most recent. also traitor to his class about franklin roosevelt, biography of andrew jackson called andrew jackson. the age of gold about the gold rush in the 1840s. the first american, about benjamin franklin and tea are about

and george h.w.ised taxes, the two came in, never got the spending cuts at all, and they hung that around his neck in 1992, and it cost him the election. megyn: how did it happen that your dad agreed to the tax hikes but didn't get the spending cuts? >> yeah. well, how that works out is the fact that the tax hikes went into place first, and the spending cuts just never showed up. at all. remember, the united states early on controlled by republicans and bob dole, the house of representatives by the democrats. democrats had to put those things toward, so they made the promise, and they didn't follow through with the promise as with h.w. bush in 1990. so as i warned the other day in a tweet, if republicans do not getting the spending cuts before the revenue, they may end up on the ash heap of history. megyn: there was an interesting article by marc thiessen, former george w. bush speech writer, and he comes on this program a lot arguing that if the republicans are getting ready to offer these -- they d

bush wouldn't win in 1992, you really understand just what a risk george h.w. bush took and what a statesman i think he was. and that, i will come, not to the present but with another anecdote midway in between. i covered for "the wall street journal" the 2000 campaign of george w. bush. and occasionally he would come back in the press section of the plane and more toward in the last week or so, and he was just heading back into his -- the front of the cabin and i was -- my seat was near the front and everyone else had had their fill of talking baseball with him and i thought, i had had one beer at least. i took my moment to say you know, the campaign is almost over and actually it may have been the flight back to austin on election night. but i said, you know, governor, you know, this may be my last chance to bring this up but you said many times when you come back you just throw in a statement, apropos of almost nothing that history will look kindly on your father. and i said, you know, as a journalist i just keep my mouth shut but i'd like at this moment to

so when you take a story about his prediction that george h.w. bush would probably lose the 92 together put on the previous panel there was a reference to bob byrd predict in the church htb bush wouldn't win in 92. he really and just what a risk to george h. duffy pushed back and what a statesman he was. i will come not quite the same, but midway into team. i covered the 2000 campaign of george w. bush and occasionally he would come back in the press section and more towards the last week or so he was just heading back in two his cabinet in a sea this near the front. everyone else had had their fill of talking a spot within. i had one at this, so i took my moment to say, you know, the campaign is almost over. it may have been election night, but he said, you know, governor, this may be my last chance to bring this up. he said many times when you come back, you throw in a statement that history will look kindly on your father. as a journalist i just keep our mouth shut. but i thought i'd like at this moment tell you i think you're absolutely right

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plus former president george h.w. bush, bush 41 has been in the hospital since last week we have now learned. doctors say he will be okay and they're giving an update on his condition from the journalists of fox news on this thursday fox report. this holiday, share everything. share "not even close." share "you owe me..." share "just right." the share everything plan. sharable data across 10 devices with unlimited talk and text. get a droid razr m by motorola for $49.99. woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't even live near the water. what you don't know about flood insurance may shock you -- including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $129 a year. for an agent, call the number that appears on your screen. >> shepard: former president george h.w. bush is expected to get out of the hospital within the next several days, that's the word from methodist hospi

the last time we saw numbers like this, an incumbent without a sizeable lead was 1992 when george h.w. bush lost to bill clinton. >>> it has been a hairied pace for the correspondents as welt. political correspondent paul steinhauser joins us from his home base in washington. yesterday you were in pennsylvania covering a paul ryan rally. what do you think is the message for the challengers? >> we're hearing change. change and change. remember four years ago president obama ran on the mantle of hope and change. romney finished up at a rally out in colorado. another one of those eight battleground states we keep talking about. and what mitt romney is saying do you want another four years of under president obama or do you want something a little different? here's part of what he said. >> change can't be measured in speeches. it is measured in achievements. and four years ago, four years ago candidate obama promise dodd so very much, but he's fallen so very short. you recall. he promised he'd be a post-partisan president but he's been most partisan. dividing, attacking, blaming. >> you k

and it is for a worthy cause.ind h.w. brand, bilbray on the, isn a professor of history at the c university of texas here in austin. man his focus has been on american history and politics and it num includes a number of tremendous books he has written of which this is the most recent. there are books and biographies of frank roosevelt, a biography about andrew jackson. the age of gold is about the american gold rush in the 1840sn the first american, benjamin franklin and together, thesethee books, i think, they comprise not haphazardly but very purposefully the history of thes united states through the lastrl 200 or so years two of them are finalists finalist for the pulitzer prize. youfi can see h.w. brand on tv all the time. bill grams.. history channel or turn on the tv, there he is. ldis book s -- i this book is, i'm going to holdo up it up against you can see it and recognize it. a it is a tremendous biography of ulysses-esque rant filled with stuff that i never knew and was delighted to find out. utry authoritative

. >>> former president george h.w. bush is expected to leave a houston hospital by the weekend. the 88-year-old was treated for bronchitis and a lingering cough. >>> private bradley manning spoke at a hearing on charges he faces for leaking secrets to wikileaks. he told a military judge he was kept in solitary confinement and only allowed 20 minutes outdoors per day. >>> supreme court justice is meeting behind closed doors regarding same-sex marriage. they're expected to take up at least one of them, most likely a challenge to the defense of marriage act which defines a marriage as a union between one man and with mon. >>> joe biden went shopping and tasted food and bought children's books, a big screen tv and an apple pie. >>> >>> a the new list of the most popular baby names for 2012 is just out. top names for boys, aiden, jackson, ethan, liam, and mason. and top names for girls all end in the letter a. sophia, emma, olivia, isabella, and ava. and in a surprising twist, the popular book "50 shades of grey" seems to have influenced the list with anna moving higher on the list.

. >>> and former president george h.w. bush in a hospital treated for bronchitis, he is listed in stable condition and expected to be released within 72 hours. his doctors described him as pretty much as normal, happy, joking with the staff and getting better. >>> up next as nightly news continues. the guessing game over who won that giant powerball, and what some people have noticed about the winning numbers and the pattern they follow. >>> and later, the random act of kindness caught on camera that is getting a lot of attention for all the right reasons. t powerball, you may be curious about who did, there are two big winning tickets and the second largest jackpot in american history, in missouri and arizona, more from dearborn, missouri, where one of the tickets was sold. kerry, also very curious about this secret code imbedded in one of the winning numbers >> reporter: very interesting, one ticket was sold here at this gas station,he other in arizona. now, so far the identities of people who bought the tickets are yet

that was kind of the book on george h.w.e just didn't have fire for the job beyond, i ought to be re-elected. you have to have a message beyond i'm entitled to be re-elected. >> the obama people made an interesting calculation, which is we have problems with the economy so we'll make our campaign about mitt romney. and it may work politically. that's the campaign that the republicans have done as well very successfully, but if you win, you also lose, because you don't have an agenda. romney has that challenge too. but the president decided to make this a slaughter campaign. >> i disagree. i think fdr made four terms of re-election. because people remember that fear when our country was falling in freefall in jobs, foreclosures, financial industry, the auto industry. here is a president in my lifetime never seen inherited a worst set of problems that not only got us out of the crisis, but the fear in community was palpable. and now not only have we stabilized the economy, over 30 months of job creation accelerating at the end

. >>> we are learning this morning that former president george h.w. bush is in a houston hospital being treated for bronchitis. the 88-year-old has been hospitalized at houston's methodist hospital for the last six days. he is in stable condition and is expected to be released within the next 72 hours. the former president has a form of parkinson's disease that affects his legs and requires him to use a wheelchair. he was previously hospitalized overnight in 2007 after a fainting spell that was caused by dehydration and hot weather while golfing in california. >> we'll wish him well and a speedy recovery. >>> still at 11:00, california about to feel the power. that's right. officials say it's going to pump some much-needed money into the state. >>> and brian wilson's beard is black for now. but could it be blue next week? is he going to turn into a smurf? he may be on the move to an archrival's roster. >> who could that be? also, we'll take a look at the markets and all the other big news. >>> mitt romney was at the white house today for a private lun

former president george h.w. bush is at methodist hospital in houston after being treated for bronchitis. that is according to a family spokesman, jim mcgrath. president bush, who is 88 years old, has been at the hospital for six days now. he has been cured of his bronchitis, but mcgrath says he is still in the hospital because of a lingering cough. we're going to bring you more details as we get them. to today's big meeting at the white house. we don't know what's on the menu when president obama, mitt romney meet for lunch today. that's right. the president is hosting his former rival about 30 minutes or so from now. it is a promise the president made during a victory speech on election night. listen. >> it's only because we love this country deeply. we care so strongly about its future. in the weeks ahead i also look forward to sitting down with governor romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward. >> mitt romney, he was stunned by his defeat, but gracious in his concession spe

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. >>> former president george h.w. bush is expected to leave a houston hospital by the weekend.he 88-year-old was treated for bronchitis and a lingering cough. >>> private bradley manning spoke at a hearing on charges he faces for leaking secrets to wikileaks. he told the military judge he was kept in solitary confinement and only allowed 20 minutes outdoors per day. >>> demominique strauss-kahn ha reached an agreement to settle a civil lawsuit against him by the new york hotel maid she claimed tried to rape her. >>> and the new list of the most popular baby names for 2012 is just out. so top names for the boys, aiden, jackson, ethan, liam and mason. and top names for the girls, all end in the letter "a." sophia, emma, olivia, isabella and ava. and in a surprising twist, the popular book "50 shades of grey" seemed to have influenced the list with "anna" moving higher on the list. >>> now here's your first look at this morning's dish of "scrambled politics." illinois governor pat quinn is waking up to bad news this morning. a new poll shows him to be the most unpopular governor t

since the beginning of the republic but a few that come to mind you know the iran contra pardons george h.w. bush the pardon. who was the secretary of defense caspar weinberger i mean this guy was directly involved with purchasing a weapon selling weapons to iran even though the congress had outlawed selling weapons to iran so that they could find contra rebel groups in nicaragua i mean everybody came out of that scot free so that's one of the more controversial ones other ones including the president ford giving a pardon to president nixon after a white watergate scandal mean people were outraged this caused a lot of you know emotional people with the people with the american people and so i mean that's one of those really controversial ones as well in fact president ford's press secretary i even resigned as a result of that the thing is that you know it's it's there's so many pardons that take place not all of them a controversial but some of them are going to be and that's the ones that we have to look out for and without having the transparency to do so it's really hard to know whether

. >>> former president george h.w. bush is in a houston hospital this evening getting treatment for a lingering cough. the 88-year-old has been in and out of the hospital for bronchitis. he is in stable condition and is expected to go home in a few days. >>> a supersized spending spree. apple is taking over a part of the south bay where it plans to spread out, next. >> and cops hear a lot of excuses for bad driving but wait until you hear what one driver blamed for this parking lot smashup. >>> a day late, $500 million short. california decides to get in the game one day after that huge powerball jackpot. ,, ,,,,,, and for the tech giant appl, and for the tech giant appl, another expansion from its cupertino roots into neighbg room >>> the apple doesn't tall far from the tree and for the tech giants apple, another expansion from its cupertino roots into neighboring santa clara will mean more room to grow. cbs 5 reporter len ramirez is live in the south bay where support for the move is high. len. >> reporter: that's ri

picked the winning presidential candidate in every election except for 1992 when they picked george h.w. bush. now, as for today there have been no reports of any major problems at the polls here in florida. however, there have been some extremely long lines, people waiting upwards of three hours in miami-dade county. now, elections officials tell us that is due in part to the long ballots here in florida. for instance, in hillsboro county it is six pages. those voter lines, though, could actually have been much longer but some 4.5 million people here in florida actually cast their ballots early and, scott, that's about 38% of registered voters here. >> pelley: and so difficult for mitt romney to win tonight without winning florida. elaine, thank you very much. cbs news coverage of election night with our entire campaign 2012 team begins immediately after this broadcast at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. now, everyone knows election day is always tuesday, but we wondered why. our research department tells us that congress set that day by law in 1845 and congress reasoned that it would take a ma

talking about the trade with george not the not the no using sort of the federal budget and george h.w. bush actually wanted to assert the line item veto you know that you cut really well for him doing it well you didn't get it but what about the republican primary voters is this a drudge today pew has a poll out for the first time with fifty four percent of americans saying that health care is not a responsibility of the federal government who do you think is making up the lion's share of that fifty four percent of republican primary voters that pushes very dramatically on these you know related story we have the so-called fiscal cliff which i think is just a scam we're hearing from republicans in the media that you know we have to have a balanced approach this seems to me like one of these false equivalency things if billionaires are going to pay a little bit more we're going to screw the poor people you know and retirees they're going to have you know if there's some blame bricks until sixty five ninety i don't lay bricks until you're sixty seven you know it's just a design would be

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republican candidate was a traitor the next republican iran was ronald reagan along with cia director george h.w. bush at that time in one nine hundred eighty the shah of iran had been stricken with cancer and left iran for the us for treatment and islamists had taken over the country along with taking over our embassy and holding its occupants hostage barbara honegger who worked in the reagan state department wrote a book about that time titled october surprise she and reporter gary sick who also wrote a book of the same title both report of the during the week october fifteenth through the twentieth reagan campaign director bill casey went to paris and met with representatives of the ayatollah asking him to stop negotiating with carter and just to hold the hostages until after the election if iran would do this case he promised he'd get them weapons for the u.s. supplied military that the shot at a mast and he'd route those weapons through israel so nobody would ever know the iranians yes in fact the next day october twenty first the iranians inexplicably at least of the carter administration

comes to economic and foreign affairs policies clearly he has a similar view very similar to george h.w. of so we get similar results i don't know i mean he definitely has different views but similar i mean ronald reagan pro-life conservative hawk and foreign policy you see a similarity with republican presidents and mitt romney if he were to win would probably be similarly hawkish on foreign policy he's talked about shoring up defense maybe spending four percent of g.d.p. on defense in the somebody who holds the social values that we've seen in republican because that one of the ordinary nation needs more defense spending will be maybe war weary after president obama i mean president obama increased troop levels in afghanistan he's somebody who's use drones in the president level and he's got a kill list of american terrorists that he maybe wants to go after a time to criticize but i mean obama did adopt some of the policies of the bush administration which i think is under reported it is under reported i know another thing that is a little bit under reported is the fact that we have s

former president george h.w. bush, 88 years old.e learned today he's been in a houston hospital for nearly a week, for bronchitis, a cough he just can't shake. his doctors say it is not life threatening. they hope to release him soon and we wish him well. >>> and, a white-knuckle fishing trip for a father and daughter in australia. it's our video in the news. watch. a young girl yelling for her dad as two massive humpback whales get way too close to their small fishing boat. listen to her. >> oh, my god, daddy. right there. no closer, please. it's going -- oh, my god, daddy, he's under us. >> that video is burning up the internet tonight. but it has a happy ending. the gentle giants dived under the little motor boat, then calmly came up and swam away. >>> and, now, next, the annual list of the most popular baby names was released today. and here are the top three picks for boys and the top three picks for girls. but as we scanned the whole list, we noticed something unmistakable. the fastest rising names are ana, anastasia and grey.

and, of course, both truman and grant were huge failures in business, and the -- george h.w. bush would probably be an example of a president who was very successful in business and an effective administrator, but he didn't communicate his position well to the american public, and he lost after his first term. so that i would, i would say that -- oh, i think that there were some candidates out there

bush, served us well on the staff of messy policy counsel for president george h.w. bush embassy staff economist for economic advisers during the reagan administration in 2,322,005, ms. furchtgott-roth was chief economist of the u.s. department of labor. she's also the author of the specialized of women's figures come a guide to the economic progress of women in america. please join me in welcoming senior fellow, it ansi one. [applause] >> thank you very much howard for that kind introduction and thank you all for coming. briefly you can be doing other things today but here you are listening to me talk about green jobs in the fallacies of green jobs. i like to thank the manhattan institute not only for supporting this research, but organizing this talk. i'd also like to thank a mechanical engineer who has built all around the world who is here in the basin and technical aspects of energy in the boat and who wrote the whole manuscript to check on the scientific details of it. well, this is an appropriate day for talking about regulation to disaster because less that p

george h.w. bush got 60% of the white vote and got 400 electoral votes.omney got the same percent but got crushed. if republicans don't understand that we have got address the issues and problems within the party this is going to be a common occurrence for decades. i did work for santorum and i also worked for mike hukaby. i asked him how he did that. and he said to me, and this is a southern thing. if jimmy were sitting here he would approve. >> too far away. >> but he said look, no one has ever caught a fish sitting on their couch talking about fishing. he did it all the time. he courted those groups of people. and he did things as governor to bolster those communities. that's something we didn't see in this campaign at all. i don't think the romney campaign reached out much to the latinos or any other subset. they figured the white vote would carry the day and obviously those times are long gone. >> let's go ahead and tell you what we know about this senate race. the race is going to go to senator dean heller. dean hellor is going be the winner there.

. >> george h.w. bush rapidly improving in the hospital. the 88-year-old was admitted for bronchitis and readmitted the day after thanksgiving. the doctors at the methodist hospital say the condition was never serious but wanted to prevent it from becoming pneumonia. former president bush could be released as early as this weekend. >> we know two people have won the record $580 million power ball jackpot. we will find out who one of them is today. that person bought his or her ticket at this gas station in missouri. lottery officials will announce who it is today. his son talked to tv crews about the big news. >> i didn't win the lottery but he laz won the lottery. i am happy for him. he worked hard in life. he won't have to any more. >> he will split the prize with the person in arizona. that person remains a mystery. they have no law that protect the the identity of the winner like other states do. they will release the winner's name. >> this is not a game. jobs are on the line, the american economy is on the line. this is a moment for ad

former president george h.w. bush expected to be released from a houston hospital in three days. mr. bush's office says he has been in and out of the facility treated for bronchitis. up next, egypt's president tries to smooth things over. [ male announcer ] introducing... a new way to save on your prescriptions. it's the aarp medicarerx saver plus plan from unitedhealthcare. with this plan, you can get copays as low as a dollar through a preferred network pharmacy like walgreens -- where you'll find 8,000 convenient locations. best of all, this plan has the lowest part d premium in the united states -- only $15 a month. open enrollment ends december 7th. so call today or visit your local walgreens. >> bret: egypt's president is trying to diffuse an increasingly tense political situation over last week's perceived power grab. he addressed his people a short time ago. correspondent steve harrigan is live in cairo where it's early friday morning. hello again, steve. >> egypt constitutional assembly trying to push through a constitution in one day. what is not clear at this point is

really stood out to me the most this evening, and we've touched on it somewhat-s that you know george h.wsh got vote and got so400al votes. right?bout the ic electorate is so much more diverse than it usedd if republicans don't shape up and understand that's what we'v we've got to address the issues and the problems within the party, this is going to be a commonce for decades, notcycle. and you know santorum but i also worked for mike. years. and he got of the black vote twice in statewide elections as o you do that? no one gets african-americans. how do you do that? and he said to me, and this is a southern thing, and if jimmy were sitting here he'd approve i'm sure. >> he's not too far >> but he hogan, no one has ever caught a fish sittin t talking they h and throw the bait in the wat didn't do ion years. he did it all the they trusted him. and he really in this campaign at all. i don't even think the romney campaign reached out much to the african-amer they just figured white vote gone. >> we have a call to make coming out of nevada. let's go ahead and tell you what we know arace that