john: president george h.w. bush came here after he got his wings, he got them in corpus christi. he was here in 1943, probably may to september of 1943. he was in this room. he has not been back to this building since then. he has been back to the base and the building he lived in across the street, has been torn down in 1988. he lived there, and when he was going for reelection in 1992, he visited the building. he went around and said yeah this is the room i lived in. a were tearing the building down, he knew it was anti-by then, so people around the organization later took all of the flooring out and fixtures and this and that andriy and re-created that room of the museum, and we call it the bush room. we are now entering the george bush room. this is a re-created barracks room. and the actual flooring and the closets and the desk and the water heater, the sink, all of these were in the room that president bush lived in when he was here on the base in 1943. this is a picture of the building where president bush lived when he was stationed here at the junior bachelors officers q

bush and melody hob son, and former staff members reflect on the presidency of george h.w. bush.po america beginning at 10:00 live call in segments with publishers and authors through the day. sunday, on after words looking at the case of hollingsworth v perry which considers the constitutionality of proposition 8, the law allowing same sex couples to marry. and a conversation on first ladies with the most impact on the executive mansion. sunday, the life and death of james garfield who served almost two decades as a congressman from ohio and was assassinated 200 days into his term as president. get the complete schedule at cspan.org. >>> each week american history tv visits museums and historic places. this is peterson house in washington, d.c. where president abraham lincoln passed away at 7:2 7:22 a.m. a tour of the boarding house across the street from ford's theater where president lincoln was shot 150 years ago. >> this had a great history even before lincoln was assassinated here. this house built in the early 1850s by a german i am grant to america, william peterson. he u

chair of dream works animation. 9:15 p.m., former staff members reflect on the presidency of george h.w. bushsunday at noon more commencement speeches from across the country with former secretaries of state condoleezza rice, madeleine albright philadelphia mayor michael nutter. cspan2, book tv is in new york city from book expo america beginning at 10:00 live call in segments with publishers and authors. later, looking at hollingsworth v perry considering proposition 8, rescinding the right of same sex couples to mary. on cspan3 saturday a conversation on first ladies with the most impact on the executive mansion. sunday afternoon before 2:00 the life and death of our 20th president, james garfield who served almost two decades as congressman from ohio assassinated two days into his term as president. get the complete schedule at cspan.org. >>> the new congressional directory is a handy guide to 114th congress color photos of every senator and house member, bio, contact information and twitter handles. district maps, foldout of capitol hill a look at presidential committees, cabinet, federal

[applause] >> a conversation with former staffers who worked with george h.w. bush. examining the phenomenon known as science the nihilism. a little bit later, president george w. bush giving the southern methodist university commencement address. senators will gavel in before the patriot act expires. following later remarks, the senate will review debate on the freedom act which would extend the prevailing's data collection, requiring the nsa to get a warrant and asked phone companies. watch live coverage of the u.s. senate on c-span2. coming up next, the conversation with former staffers who worked for george h w bush. they discuss their editions on the white house, the federal government, and how they prepare them for their future careers. judy smith, deputy press secretary of the former president who founded a company became the inspiration for "scandal." it is moderated by frederick clore, ceo of the c

this weekend on booktv geoff dyer talks about his experiences while living aboard the uss george h.w. bush. [inaudible conversations] >> hi, everybody. my name's clay smith. i am the program director of this festival so thank you for being here. con fronting the -- confronting the drizzle or the mist or the rain or whatever we want to call it. you're not here to hear from me, you're obviously here to listen to geoff dyer. let me tell you a little bit about geoff and he and i will be in conversation for a while and then we'll open it up to questions from you all. geoff dyer is the author of four novels two collections of essays and seven genre-defying titles and they are but beautiful, the missing of the thome, out of sheer rage, yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it -- [laughter] the ongoing moment and xona, a book about the film "stalker." he is the co-editor of what was true: the photographs and notebooks of william getny. he's a fellow with the royal society of literature and an honorary fellow of corpus christi college at oxford. a selection of his essays won the national book

i think george h.w. bush's intervention to expel saddam hussein from the cruelty he was inflicting on kuwait was a good idea. that was my mistake. i voted against that. i think he handled it well. bill clinton's use of airpower to free the bosnians from what was going on in the former yugoslavia was a good idea. are you telling me no intervention is ever justified? i don't think that's a sustainable position intellectually. >> we can talk about it. >> you sound like marco rubio. we can talk about it. talk about it. are you for saying we should never intervene militarily? >> let's talk about the records since 2001. >> let's talk about my question that you don't want to answer, chris. >> i want to answer it. >> are there ever times? >> of course there are. we should have fought world war ii. >> but nothing since then? >> let's look -- >> what about korea? >> i don't know. let's look at 2001 -- >> you don't know? >> let's look at 2001. >> all right. >> the post war on terror. >> okay. >> the war that everyone said

and i remember when george h.w. bushmperative of his campaign -- >> he wasn't a wimp. that was your magazine that tagged him a wimp. >> yes, it was my magazine. and by the way, barbara bush has never forgotten. i think h.w. has. >> it was a follow-on to reagan. and the strategy was hug reagan by the ankles. no daylight, lee atwater his strategist said. with a little kinder, gentler tweet. what is happening here is hillary is effectively, as perry is sort of indicating is for the most part going to be running for a third term of barack obama. i'm not sure she wants to admit that. >> yeah. >> but i think that's what it's going to be. and to me that means it's going to be quite a negative campaign. h.w. ran a very negative campaign. he tore mike dukakis apart to protect the reagan legacy. i think that's the position that hillary is going to end up in as the protector of the obama legacy. >> give us a reason why you're rung. we know her reason is ambition. so she is going to cook up a couple of phrases. i remember kathleen b

skinner served under president george h.w. bush and was given the nickname master of disaster for his ability to vigate crisis situations including the exxon valdez oil spill in the 1991 rail strike. he says fixing the infrastructure of the nation's railways goes beyond money. it's also about organization. >> to get funding for amtrak on the northeast corridor you've got to have a national network so you could have regional support from all over the country for the budget for the northeast corridor. so it's an issue that department of transportation and administration have wrestled with for years. >> for more watch capital download sunday morning 8:30 here on wusa9. >>> always watching always tracking, wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> we got a 3-degree guarantee and everybody wants to know about this weekend's forecast. >> weekend will be okay. i've emphasized this. get stuff done in the morning, bike rides, tee times, hard to have a cookout in the morning. let's start with the 3-degree guarantee. we're not swe

p.m., staff members reflect on the presidency of george h.w. bush and at noon, mu commencement speeches from condoleezza rice and michael nutter. on saturday morning,booktv is in new york with book expo american beginning at 10:00 and live call-in segments with publishers and authors throughout the day. sunday evening at 9:00 on "after words," we look at the case that considered the constitutionality of proposition 8 the law that resended the right of same-sex couples to marry in california. on c-span3 7:00 eastern conversation with white house historian william seal on first ladies who had the most impact on the executive mansion. sunday afternoon before 2:00 life and death of the 20th president, jameis garfield serving two decades as a congressman from ohio assassinated 200 days into his term as president. get the complete schedule at c- hf- c--- cspan.org. >>> up next, as part of the programming marking the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president lincoln, we visit ford's theater to learn about an online project to collect douchlts and

that he does not have the charisma of his father which is frank li na away i have ever heard george h.w. bushibed before. you are absolutely right. we saw this in new hampshire. you saw it now in iowa. the republican party primary voters and caucus attenders are not very excited about jeb bush. and many of them don't think he can win which is interesting because you know even the people that are not very excited about hillary clinton the democratic side do think she can win. so that is i think that is a really big problem for jeb bush. john: i thought it was striking and appoint you just made which is back in new hampshire army talked to republicans there they didn't like him friday logical reasons, they said he is not conservative enough him he is, core is a problem, immigration is a problem. these islands to care but any of that, they care about the name and electability. so it's like he has two sets of problems with two sets of voters but it is all bad. steve: that is exactly right. two sets of problems, two different groups of voters, they are all that. by the way, you know, if you wanted

the chair of dreamworks animation and 9:15 p.m., staff members reflect on the presidency of george h.w. bush and at noon, mu commencement speeches from condoleezza rice and michael nutter. on saturday morning,booktv is in new york with book expo american beginning at 10:00 and live call-in segments with publishers and authors throughout the day. sunday evening at 9:00 on "after words," we look at the case that considered the constitutionality of proposition 8 the law that resended the right of same-sex couples to marry in california. on c-span3 7:00 eastern conversation with white house historian william seal on first ladies who had the most impact on the executive mansion. sunday afternoon before 2:00 life and death of the 20th president, jameis garfield serving two decades as a congressman from ohio assassinated 200 days into his term as president. get the complete schedule at c- hf-

it's a feat matched only by presidents nixon, george h.w. bush and clinton. before he left the president posed with a t-shirt that said saved the best for last. >>> an unusual sight tonight at george mason university. a carefully crafted sculpture was deliberately set on fire and with 200 dreads of personal messages. it's called transformative art. the northern virginia bureau chief julia carey spent time with the artist to find out what it's all about. >> reporter: it's an inferno of art blazing on mason pond hundreds watched the sculpture go up in flames. for some the smoke rising sends messages up to the heavens. for others burdens are being burned away. this is what it looked like before the fire. it's called the temple of transformins. >> i would say this is the most beautiful thing i've ever made and so letting go of it is a challenge in its own way. >> reporter: but letting go is what this project is all about. artist and george mason student michael vernon spent months designing the floating pagoda and building it with 20 volunteers and then people we

bush and melody hob son, and former staff members reflect on the presidency of george h.w. bush. sunday at noon more commencement speeches from across the country, with former secretary of state condoleezza rice, and madeleine albright, and mayor michael nutter. events from the book expo america beginning at 10:00 live call in segments with publishers and authors through the day. sunday, on after words looking at the case of hollingsworth v perry which considers the constitutionality of proposition 8, the law allowing same sex couples to marry. and a conversation on first ladies with the most impact on the executive mansion. sunday, the life and death of james garfield who served almost two decades as a congressman from ohio and was assassinated 200 days into his term as president. get the complete schedule at cspan.org. >>> each week american history tv visits museums and historic places. this is peterson house in washington, d.c. where president abraham lincoln passed away at 7:2 7:22 a.m. a tour of the boarding house across the street from ford's theater where president lincol

if they do, just as ronald reagan suggested and george h.w. bush and george w. bush and every republican candidate i support that. there's one puerto rican guy in the room. i just think it's a moral question. i don't think you can -- citizens should have the rights and responsibilities of full citizenship. the other issue is one of huge importance because our immigration works when people embrace a set of shared values. it doesn't work when we divide ourselves up into parts where we move towards the european model of multi-culturalism. it's a disaster when it works this way. one of answers is, maybe we should have a conversation about what our shared values is. one of them is learning english for sure. other is being tolerant and having a respect of the bill of rights and understanding the uniqueness of our country where our freedoms are protected. these are a part of what have been shared values. the set may be called into question. part of any significant immigration reform i think would be make it create a deeper requirement that's deeper. let me put it in per

jeff dire who has written an account of what life is like before the aircraft carrier uss george h.w. bush. [inaudible conversations] >> hi everybody. my name is clay smith. i am the program director of this festival so thank you for being here. confronting the drizzle or the mr. the rain or whatever you we want to call it. you are not here for may me you're obviously here to listen to geoff dyer. let me tell you a little bit about geoff. he and i will be in conversation for a while and we will open up for questions from you all. geoff dyer is the author of four novels to two collections of essays and seven genres by title and they are both beautiful out of sheer rage yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it the ongoing moment and known the epoch about tarkovsky's films. he is the editor of john burgess selected essays on the quieter of what was true, photographs of no books of william gedney. he's a fellow at the royal society of literature and an honorary fellow of corpus christi college at oxford. a selection of his essays entitled otherwise known as the human condition won the na

encouragement to the class of 2014 -- 2015. 9:15 former staff members reflect on the presidency of george h.w. bushinvestment speeches -- more commencement speeches. on c-span two, book tv is in new york city with events from the book expo america sunday evening, the case of hollandsworth the perry. and, saturday evening, a conversation with white house historian william seale on first ladies who have had the most impact on the administration. get our complete schedule at c-span.org. >> next, the look at science denial is him examining the causes and history, and issues such as vaccination and space exploration. the conversation is an hour and 20 minutes. >> all right. let's get started. first of all, may i remind you to please turn off the sounds on your cell phones you haven't already. this is wednesday may 28th, panel number 623. anti-science. i asked for a science panel. i got an anti-science panel. [laughter] so i'm tom blumen that'll. i'm the former chair of

lou: joining us now former white house chief of staff under george h.w. bush. john sununu. you with us. how are you? >> i am great. lou: i would like to quote clinton's deficient of his donation. he said, there is no doubt in my mind, that we have never done anything quote knowingly inappropriate in terms of making money to influence any kind of government policy, your thoughts? >> a very clintonian expression. you have to know the clinton definition of knowingly is. lou: well, i think inappropriate might be tested as well. is it your sense that he and hillary x chelsea they are going to survive a foundation that puts just 10% of the money raised toward the actual causes that they are trying to donate to? >> you know the problem they have 90%. the question is, what did that billion plus buy over the last few years. and what were they doing what they preparing for a campaign? was it a political action effort in hiding? i think they will have to start answering questions to -- from their donors to what they did with the 9s 90%. >> return to republican field, tomorrow governor

george h.w. bush had champ that jefferson, abraham lincoln theodore roosevelt and ike. william jefferson clinton thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, and george washington. he took down ike. george w. bush returned to ike and may not be the worst thing he did as president about removed abraham lincoln's picture from the wall. our current president, president obama, has put up harry hard harry truman, george washington, thomas jefferson and theodore roosevelt. he has lincoln in another room. in the oval office. so when it came to hanging portraits in the white house cabinet room, presidents number 40 through 44 all had one predecessor in common thomas jefferson. so this book spans about three-quarters of a century but i'm going to start with the year -- the winter of 1924-1925 when a book was published that had a profound impact on the democratic party and specifically on franklin d. roosevelt who at that time was a failed vice presidential nominee, and still eight years from becoming president. he wrote the first and only book review of his life about this book by man fro

. >>> joining us now, former white house chief of staff under president george h.w. bush, the former governor of new hampshire as well, john sununu. great to have you with us. >> evening, lou. how are you? >> i'm great. i have to say former president bill clinton seems to be in fine, fine fellow. i would like to quote his defense of his donation straight out of the clinton lexicon, if you will. he said quote there is no doubt in my mind that we have never done anything quote, knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of american government policy. i love that expression, knowingly inappropriate. your thoughts? >> it's a very clintonian expression. what you have to know is what the clinton definition of "knowingly" is. >> i think inappropriate, too, might be tested as well. is it your sense that he and hillary and chelsea because she's part of the foundation, that they're going to survive a foundation that puts only 10% of the money raised toward the actual causes that they are trying to donate to? >> well, you know the problem they have is the

it would be okay if he was embracing the george h.w. bushgn policy, but this one is a disaster. >> part of jeb bush's appeal is that he seems consistent even on policies that are not necessarily popular. so when it comes to immigration reform and when it comes to education, the two things that he's been attacked for by conservatives, he hasn't rode back. he said this is what i believe. we have to epopen up the party i believe what we've done on education in florida is the right thing even if it meant we did some federal policies. his rowing back on this iraq stuff erodes that reputation of being a straight talker. >> and to follow up, gene, on what al said, the most disturbing thing to me is not the gaffe the first four times, it's that the "washington post" reported that when he was talking to the fundraisers, he was asked who his top adviser would be in the middle east and he picked the guy with all due respect who would be last on my list. which is george w. bush. and by the way, last on most republicans' lists. last on most americans' li

james baker, of course former adviser to his father george h.w. bushho had been critical of prime minister netanyahu. that's the context. how much does baker inform you on the subject of israel? and that's when jeb bush i'm told invoked his brother, george w. bush who's regarded by conservative israel supporters as a big supporter of israel. that's the context of that. but the bigger issue, of course brooke is the specter of george w. bush and how big a shadow will he cast on jeb's campaign. that remains a big issue. >> what about the name jim macena? he may not be known much outside of the beltway, but he's this campaign wizard. he helped obama get into the white house, just helped david cameron. now he has been tapped to help hillary clinton. what do you think is his secret sauce? >> he's very data driven. that's been my experience with him, dealing with jim when he was both on the obama campaign in 2008 and also there was a period where he was a deputy chief of staff at the white house. he's somebody who looks at the numbers a lot. he's said since c

driving the polls in iowa and that might explain why jeb's not doing well, david, but look, george h.w. bush in iowa in 1980, george w. bush won in iowa convincingly in 2000. i think it's striking that they're turning away from him. >> well, i think you make a good point. i don't think the game is over at all in iowa, but jeb bush has work to do. i don't think there's any question about it and he needs to be stronger on issues like traditional marriage and life issue which are issues he's strong on but needs to be stronger and put those out there more to basically offset immigration. it's important to understand with evangelicals they are not a one or two trick pony. evangelicals, marriage, abortion, hold on for a moment folks. evangelicals are involved in the common core movement big time in this country. they put religious liberty as a tier a issue now in this country. why do you think rand paul does well in iowa and other places with evangelicals because he's talking about not just religious liberty but actually cutting off funds to groups, to organizations, to states that are killing chr

this forever war that seems to be going on since president george h.w. bushtion george bush's administration and president obama thought he wrapped up this war in iraq and now faced with a prospect once again recommendations in washington of sending more troops into iraq. it will be a tough call for this president and something for this country to think a lot about. but all that can be set aside as this country remembers people who have made this ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their country. we'll see the president here marking that in just a few moments. >> we will. thank you, jim acosta. thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello. "at this hour" starts now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm john berman. >> i'm kate bolduan. thank you for joining us on this memorial day. top military leaders are preparing to honor the sacrifice of our nation's fallen heroes. memorial day ceremonies are getting under way "at this hour" at arlington national cemetery. you see ash carter there preparing to begin these ceremonies. this is the final resting place arlington nation

if they do, just as ronald reagan suggested and george h.w. bush and george w. sh and every republican candidate since the 1970's, i support that. there's one puerto rican guy in the room. i just think it's a moral question. i don't think you can -- citizens should have the rights and responsibilities of full citizenship. that is a core value i have. the other issue is one of huge importance because our immigration works when people embrace a set of shared values. it doesn't work when we divide ourselves up into disparate parts where we move towards the european model of multiculturalism. it's a disaster when it works this way. one of answers is, maybe we should have a conversation about what our shared values are. one of them is learning english, for sure. other is being tolerant and having a respect of the bill of rights, understanding the uniqueness of our country where our freedoms are created to protect us from an overreaching government. these are a part of what have been shared values. the set may be called into question. part of any significant immigratio

this is richard clarke who was on another channel today who worked for reagan george h.w. bushlinton, and listen to what he had to say about it. >> it's a nation it's got a couple million people. it's larger than about three dozen nations that are in the u.n. it straddles the iraqi border. it's a country and it's going to train terrorists and send them places like here. people need to decide if they want to go back into iraq even a little bit, but they have to to stop isis because otherwise we're going to have a terrorist state and it will get around to threatening us here. >> charles, your thoughts? >> which is why we need a serious strategy. he's absolutely right. this is a state, this is al qaeda on steroids. al qaeda was hiding in caves that had the support of the afghan government, but it was in the periphery, as we learn from the osama bin laden documents that were now just released, he knew that was a side show. the real show was the middle east it was north africa, and that's where isis is. isis has skipped over the al qaeda stages. bin laden's idea was to weaken the in

the democrats thought they would have a pretty good chance of takes the white house after george h.w. bush and dick cheney. a lot of potentially viable democratic contenders. that year, there were as many as eight people on stage on the democratic side, and that included people like barack obama and hillary clinton, but dennis kucinich. there was a guy on stage named mike gorvelle pup might remember him as the guy that did that one amazing campaign ad where he didn't say anything, he stared into the camera for a long time and threw a rock into a lake and walked away. that was his whole ad. mike grovelle, i miss you. that same year in 2008, republicans had ten people on the stage for their debates. it does make for a crowd debate stage, but there is a reason. there's a small reason to err on the side of inclusiveness. in -- here is a cautionary example. in january 2008, the fox news channel hosted a republican primary debate in new hampshire. for that new hampshire debate, fox news designeded to not invite texas congressman ron paul. this debate was after the iowa caucuses that year and ron

charlie: the last policy light was george h.w. bush? ian bremmer: in terms of global strategy, yes. i would say that is true. in terms of the last time we thought president who really had a consistent and coherent global foreign policy view. i think when hillary clinton was secretary of state, she articulated strategy reasonably well. unfortunately -- charlie: was that her strategy or barack obama's strategy? ian bremmer: i think it was, but you might be forgiven for thinking it wasn't. as a terry estate, she was moneyball. she said, you don't criticize. charlie: she was a hot, too. -- a howk too. ian bremmer: i don't know. her role in libya was going there with the most limited force possible. charlie: there's a small copy out. who recommended doing a lot more than hillary clinton? ian bremmer: the russian present. -- reset. charlie: but the russians got upset by libya. ian bremmer:who was saying do a lot more than the administration was prepared to do? charlie: at the time, hillary -- ian bremmer: at the time, hillary was caucus. -- hawkish. but if you compare her to george w. bus

only three other presidents have visited all the states while in office -- richard nixon, george h.w. bush and bill clinton did it too. >>> well police are retracing the last-known steps of that missing howard university student. lance buckley's cell phone pinged near block house point conservation park in montgomery county on wednesday but they didn't find any trace of him there. family members say they dropped buckley off at a commuter lot in stafford on tuesday morning. buckley sent his wife a text message just a few hours later. he was near howard university at the time that he sent that message. his family has not heard from him since. >>> a discrimination policy is dividing parents and teachers in our region's largest school district, the fairfax county. the school board voted to change its non-discrimination policy to include transgender students teachers and staff. the crowd at last night's meeting largely opposed to this. so many people packed the auditorium school officials had to lock the doors and put officers at the entrance. supporters say it is a powerful statement from the

. >> it's not going to -- look just like when george h.w. bushagan and said we have to do things kinder and gentler. hillary clinton is going to have her version of kinder and gentler, she spoke about ways to assist small business. talked about immigration reform. neil: toppling the 1%. >> no no no listen neil, what she would say is she would concede she's in it and her buds are in it. neil: she's going to topple herself. >> she's not talking about toppling anything. >> no no you heard the exact predictions from people like dan when bill clinton had his economic policy in '93. neil: you guys would say ronald reagan would be financial armageddon both parties play that. >> we have history it. rolled into japan rolled into europe, and it's going to roll into here and bite us in the end. neil: and roll out this segment with the clock ticking away. have a safe and enjoyable weekend. it is called memorial day for a reason.@? . neil: well if abraham lincoln had to endure appliance sales in his memory, why not veterans. a string of memorial day sales in

had a lower trust rating than george h.w. bush and won both elections.the clintons more immune to this than others? >> sure. i agree people don't know the opponents. we make historical comparisons for a living. >> that's how we get paid. >> richard nixon in 1968. people know the good, the bad, the ugly. they didn't especially love nixon. they don't especially love hillary clinton, but she is for a lot of the electorate a reassuring solid presence who has a handle on government, has experience, the so-called devil you know versus the devil you don't. it will depend on that choice. we are absent a campaign. absent a campaign, polls don't tell you very much. >> i completely agree. if this is a referendum on the clintons back and forth, she always loses to herself. >> helps herself lose. >> but the choice aspect. look look at the scott walker numbers. that's always something. she has a huge gender gap with him. i don't think even as he becomes more well known that goes away. >> and when you look at the poll numbers, you have to say compared to what. it's not

fiscal conservative wings like grover norquist you know the famous antitax crusader they see george h.w. bush'sse taxes as just one of the worst moves ever made by a republican president. jeb bush has not signed on to an antitax pledge that nearly every other candidate has and he's been a staunch defender of his father's presidency. you're likely to see the same round of questions come up on that, as well as a variety of issues. when you have two full presidencies, that's a long legacy of issues that may or may not have, you know, may not look the same way today that they did then. >> absolutely and i should note that our own kasie hunt is saying that anita perry has tweeted out from her account saying there's a special announcement coming so people predict it may very well be her husband is formally jumping into the race we'll see. >> that's right, seems we keep adding candidates by the day. does anyone want to drop out when there's no clear front-runner? doesn't seem to make sense. >> thank you so much pleasure having you on. a lot will be discussed on the sunday morning program. we'll be rig