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he is as able a political hand as there is. >> james baker had been the architect of ronald reagan's victory in 1984. >> i've asked secretary baker to resign as secretary of state, to join me as chief of staff effective august 23rd. he's the sort of man you want on your team. >> ten points ahead and all of a sudden you know, here comes joe montana trotting on the field. uh-oh. >> he will help me build on what we've started by developing an integrated second-term program. >> the clock is ticking for the bush team and baker is their hail mary pass. >> james baker, he knows how to parachute into chaos and bring focus, bring a strategy and execute. >> literally, when baker took over, it was night and day from a clown car disaster to decisions were made and that was it. >> what a wonderful welcome. >> governor clinton insists on cutting america down. well, i am focusing on the future. we're moving toward a better recovery. but we must not set it back by more spending and more taxes. >> immediately the messaging got crisper. the president was much more confident. >> governor clinton -- >> g

on board. >> what about the silence from condoleezza rice, henry kissinger, george schultz and james baker, you must be so disappointed they are not endorsing donald trump? >> i kind of look at it personally, wolf, i sort of look at this as, there are people in the past, those are great names. those are great people. i have met some of them. i know some of them. i would just say that everybody is going to be making their own decision as we go forward. i am less concerned about people that are looking at how we did things in the past. i am more concerned about people focusing on the future and the type of national security, the type of foreign policy, the type of military, the type of homeland security kind of issues that we must start looking at in a much, much different way. i think this election is an election of change. i think that the people of this country, the united states of america, want change, in a big way. that's what donald trump brings. >> donald trump often says illegal immigration is a national security issue itself. as you know, there is a lot of confusion right now over

republican heavyweight james baker, veteran strategist roger ailes, and his campaign manager, politicaltwater. >> lee was south carolina, lee was a rabble-rousing visceral, loud, street-level politician. >> bush is on the stump, dogged by questions about his role in the iran-contra scandal. he can run for president but he can't hide. >> it was by no means a certainty that george bush was going to be the nominee. >> please go to the caucuses and vote. let me get out of the way so you can make a buck here. >> he had the residual and the cancerous debilitating effect of the iran-contra affair. >> what we decided to do is i would become the most knowledgeable person possible about his involvement, and i would be the only person to talk about it. the campaign wouldn't talk about it, only i would talk about it. and that's the way we operated. >> just weeks before the iowa caucus, bush gets a phone call from cbs news anchor dan rather. >> george bush announced to us he agreed to do this interview. we begin to get calls that rather's operation has shut down everything except his preparation for

not done that rr robert gates, condoleezza rice, hadley, james schultz, sorry, george schultz, james baker. they had been slamming. i said why are they silent. the reason was two-fold. one, they wanted to keep it dry. they don't want to be seen as pro-clinton. they think it will hurt them after trump loses, if he loses. two, they want to wait for the right time. gates is stepping up, coming out saying hillary is bad but trump is worse. he's ignorant and doesn't take this stuff seriously that's a big thing in republican foreign policy circles. >> if donald trump loses, seem thag it's neck in neck, if trump wins, at least robert gates put himself on record saying this is what i think about leadership. >> most of them expect him to lose, but they are not sure. they expect a fight to come after he loses. hat half the party is pro-trump. they want to be positioned and say when it was time to stand-up, i stood up and said what i felt. >> we'll check back with you as donald trump addresses the crowd at that luncheon. appreciate it gentlemen. president barack obama and hillary clinton will be spea

this has been referred to the fbi, to the general counsel, james baker, agent assigned.o investigate as well as the dallas police department. this is very serious but we're not scared. demeet trick and i are out there because somebody has to put their put forward. we're seeking justice even more. we're seeking a court order this kind of conduct has to stop. liz: lar, thank you for your time. sergeant, thank you for your service to our country. appreciate it. >> you're welcome. liz: breaking news, pentagon informing reporters what is believed to be the first chemical attack on u.s. forces in iraq since 2014. last night, reported tar-like black oily substance was shot at u.s. forces by the opposition. when tested, officials say it was positive for chemicals but they will continue to review it. again there is no sign of exposure to u.s. forces there. but it's a very dangerous and serious threat that is now developing against our troops in iraq. >>> next up, ted cruz you calling out president obama saying last u.n. address was continuation of the president's 2009 apology tou

james baker iii.jim baker and jim became ebaker is exercising the same strategy i've exercising. he wants to make sure we have a good president of the united states. we'll do whatever we can to help whatever president do well. >> i'm sensing there's still room for you to vote for hillary clinton? is that the case? is there room for to you vote for her? >> it's strained. i don't want to vote for hillary. she hasn't earned my trust. in fact, she's done more to discourage my trust in her than to have trust in her. i'm one of these voters today who is unhappy with both candidates. but i respect the democracy. i really care what's going to happen down ticket and i'm enthusiastically supporting kelly ayotte and rob portman and richard burr. i'm actively engaged in helping the republicans do well in the election cycle and i want our president to do well if they take office and do everything i can to make sure they are ready to meet the responsibility of being president. that includes being prepared to handle

during that summer, the fbi thector and james baker third, the bush family janitor, with throughout thedle east setting up offices. fbi offices at law offices. i think saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, saudi arabia -- yemen, jordan, and others. and after 9/11, we got the patriot act. the bush administration came in one to create chaos throughout the middle east. so it is like a disney theuction wrapped around twilight zone. that is why i am scratching my head. you have a good day. host: louisiana, welcome. caller: the time is perfect. the last caller was really interesting. if you don't know the whole story, you don't know the story. i would like to go back before 9/11 and go back to the summer of 1990. we are one week before saddam hussein and kuwait. your member that? -- you remember that? host: keep going. caller: a week before he invaded kuwait, he called the united states ambassador for a meeting. her name was april glaspie. he calls are in for a meeting, says i got problems, and i am paraphrasing this. he has problems with kuwait, he is amassing troops on the border. i am fi

[inaudible] i remember being at a program where james baker the third, who obviously served in the reagandministration, former secretary of health and human services has served in the clinton administration or the carter administration. s they made the commonsense observation that anytime you do something as big, pass legislation as big as obamacare, it is bound to fail because you can't expect people who oppose legislation from the very t beginning to say let me try to rescue you from a bad decision and a first-place and when they were essentially frozen out of the process.he way i when social security became law, consensus was reached and that's the way it should be done. unfortunately my constituents are paying the price for a bad decision made in 2009 and 2010 to make obamacare a purely partisan piece of legislation. i get letters from my constituents all the time who liked their insurance before it was canceled because of obamacare. they liked their doctor who they could see under their existing healthcare policy and they even liked the price they were paying for it. it was affordabl

i remember being at a -- at a program where james baker, iii, who obviously served in the reagan administration, joe califano, former secretary of health and human services, a democrat who served in the clint administration or the carter administration, a democratic administration, but they made the commonsense observation that any time you do something as big, pass legislation as big as obamacare, that it's bound to fail because you can't expect people who opposed the legislation from the very beginning to say well, here, let me try to rescue you from a bad decision in the first place, and when they were essentially frozen out of the process. so you saw when, for example, social security became law, that consensus was reached, and that's the way it should be done. and so unfortunately my constituents in texas and the american people are paying the price for a bad decision made in 2009 and 2010 to make obamacare a purely partisan piece of legislation. i get letters from my constituents all the time who liked their insurance before it was canceled because of obamacare, they liked their doctor wh

james skeffington. firefighters from several surrounding towns actually were called to help fight this fire. no one was hurt. >> state and local officials are set to make an announcement regarding offshore wind. governor baker will join the energy and environmental affairs secretary and congressman bill keating today in new bedford. they'll also join wind developers for a tour of a wind research vessel. >> p marijuana bust at a day-care center. westhaven police found 600 marijuana plants growing in the backyard of this center, which is licensed. they were alerted by state child care inspectors who were denied access behind a tall wooden fence that housed the plants. the facility was shut down. >> bill cosby could learn when he will go to trial for sexual assault trials. cosby will be back in a philadelphia courtroom today. the 79-year-old is accused of drugging and molesting a woman in 2004. the judge denied a request from cosby's lawyers to throw out the case against him. >> general motors is settling two faulty ignition cases. the lawsuits claimed injuries caused by accidents linked to faulty ignition switches. those switches could slip from the on to off position. three cases have now settled before goin