so that it does no longer belong solely to jerry falwell and rush limbaugh and dick cheney and john ashcroft, and together we have the power to take back the white house in 2004, and that is exactly what we're going to do. thank you very much. thank you very much. thank you. . ♪ [applause] [applause] watching american history tv on c-span3. all weekend every weekend. >> one of this -- several directives for the commission was to create a national world war i memorial in washington, d.c.. up next, commissioned representatives announce the winning design and explain the process that led to the decision. this national press club event is almost an hour. >> good afternoon everyone. my name is libby o'connell and i am proud to serve on the centennial commission. 240thday marked the anniversary of this nation's first military memorial.

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. >> james comey threatened to resign over another issue with john ashcroft and alberto gonzalez if you time. it's not unprecedented. >> yep. >> i also think frankly -- >> he is. i remember that very incident. sean, that was -- james comey is a man of principle. would not allow that -- those warrantless wiretaps to continue while john ashcroft incapacitated because of surgery and he's a serious guy and the ramifications for hillary clinton at the highest stage they could be at. >> politically, if hillary loses one of two or even two of two in iowa and new hampshire, her political position will be weakened and i think strengthen the justice department hand in going forward. >> what happens then politically, doug? >> she's a factor in the administration of justice. >> i'm sorry, your question, again? >> what happens politically? >> if she loses the two, we have got joe biden being teed up. he said he regrets every day he's not in the race. he might be if what you're talking about comes to pass. >> and that means that's nothing but chaos and corruption. can they win in that environment, ja

bush, john ashcroft.on the program. >> good morning, it's great to be with you. maria: your reaction to what went on overnight with iran holding our ten sailors? >> well, i think we really need to hear from our military people as to what the situation was when they were taken. if it were some kind of accident that's attributable to our own conduct, the prompt release is to be considered and valuable. if this was some sort of a test of the united states, including a wrongful taking of our sailors by a hostile nation and a state sponsor of terrorism like iran is, i think we should act with significant understanding of the seriousness of that and there should be consequences associated with it. but we need to find out from our own armed forces exactly what happened here. it stunned me that the president didn't mention this at all in his state of the union message when he was in some respects touted the united states strengths and how we were well-respected around the world and ten of our armed forces were ta

legendary investor foster freed, attorney general john ashcroft her guest, right now charles payne, it's yours, charles. charles: i'm in all week for stuart varney. will all signs point to a terror attack in turkey, so far ten dead, 15 injured. it was a suicide bomber and he was a national. terror not affecting the market. looks like a triple digit on the dow, but rbs says sell everything. we're following oil very closely. right now it's higher, although there's a new report that says as many as one third of oil producers could face bankruptcy as oil continues lower, lower, lower. hey, hillary clinton, did you see her tax plan? it's more like a tax of the rich plan. she's calling it a surcharge. "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ >> we begin in turkey, a suicide bomber targets a tourist area in istanbul. at least ten people have been killed and 15 injured. what do we know about the bomber? >> what were they saying at this point? a 28-year-old syrian national known to authorities, by the way. detonating a suicide bomb in an area popular with foreign tourists. it's believed of the ten

legendary investor foster freed, attorney general john ashcroft her guest, right now charles payne, it'svarney. will all signs point to a terror attack in turkey, so far ten dead, 15 injured. it was a suicide bomber and he was a national. terror not affecting the market. looks like a triple digit on the dow, but rbs says sell everything. we're following oil very closely. right now it's higher, although there's a new report that says as many as one third of oil producers could face bankruptcy as oil continues lower, lower, lower. hey, hillary clinton, did you see her tax plan? it's

was john ask ashcroft traveling, i went to cover him at a rally. i remember interviewing him at a town square with one of those ,utdoor buildings -- a gazebo yes, thank you. i think he was talking about the national debt at the time. that was my early taste of iowa. i moved here in 2001. jeannies my first -- remembers 2004 well. that is how i got to meet jeannie. i had no idea what i was doing, which i tried to not prove every night on the news. it was a fascinating experience to see, ok, this is what the and youucus is about, get a sense of how seriously people take it, like dave was talking about. having heard about how all these owans reallys care about these candidates. there is something really to that. you get to feel that passion. i am very much a people watcher. how people ing the audience react to these presidential candidates, which is what, for me, makes covering these every four years so fascinating to watch who has the ability to connect with people, and who doesn't. am, i learnede i looking back at the cycle -- i covered 2004, 2000 8,