bush had approval rate -- basically 10 points higher than where he is now. >> laura: when bush left office 2006 republicans lost all those seats and 2008 more seats. president's approval rating then was at about, what, 36? 38? >> weighs down in the 20's before he left office. >> laura: great? how did i forget that. >> george w. bush left lisping out of office. he wasn't there when he got reelected in 2004. in september of 2004 he was at 50%. he was right at the cusp and he beat john kerry. >> laura: right now the economy is the number one issue for everyone. when you look at the numbers, specifically your numbers, tracks other polling numbers as well out there. consistently. how he has handled the economy. that is what has really taken a nose dive. even the handling of let's say afghanistan. that's dropped precipitously since bin laden's killing back in may. >> that's right. although the may reading was art -- not artificially but higher than it had been previously in the obama administration for obvious reasons. if you look at his whole term he has been about where he was in afghanistan p

i think from some other laura bush and it's very important yes because. there are a lot of questions a lot of problem but it's not one hundred percent understand believe for one in the west it's how it's sort of lights how it's possible to manage it and i think there's a lot of technical problems and then i talk with our partners from our furnace and west and some banks that have a lot of question how does manage how it's done it was the what's the plan what's the schedule halid so collect money holds keep money on the guarantee and i think were important to make one hundred percent believe system regulation laws and rules and improvements and license and one hundred percent around it's thought in versus an infrastructure i think it's just step and. they will go to those other states here after a short break we'll continue our discussion on russia's infrastructure stay with archly. the are. the limits. to just set the some up. the the see. the bulk of the coupon some awesome. awesome i'm proudest. moment decision seemed to come from. muslim maneuverabilit

bush moved heaven and earth he likes bic perry. i talk it up to he is on the stage for the first time. >> laura: are bush loyalists trying to sabotage a perry candidacy? joining us now from d.c. with the inside story. james rosen, fox news chief washington correspondent. -- >> the bushes versus perry, the old next versus the slightly newer texas. is there anything here? i was watching that karl rove interview. it seemed to be that he was pretty preteshed over the fact that perry wanted to distance himself from george w. bush because the comparisons are coming pretty quickly on the campaign trail. what's going on here. >> right it was governor perry's answer, laura, to our question posed by our own carl cameron this week in des moines that riled loyalists. asked about these similarities between himself and the last texas governor with presidential ambitions and governor perry said in essence i'm paraphrasing that we're not all carbon copies down in texas. one way easily distinguish between us he went to yale and i went to texas a&m. country now as a whole being exposed to rick perry on the national stage first time is catching on to

laura bush did this billion the. she was a teacher herself and put the focus on how important teachers are for our country and how their service is invaluable. thank you for teaching. the republican party is not vilifying teachers. be very clear. they are the heroes. this is not about you -- teachers but the system that is conducted that look out for the interest of teachers more than the interest of students. [applause] when you say we need to support teachers, i did three. but the question is do we support teachers by throwing more money and add to a system that absolutely proportionately if you compare the amount of money we put into the public school system compared to all other countries ranked in the top 25, and the amount of

say this in my book and i should have said it that america's teachers are america's heroes and laura bushdid this brilliantly. she was a teacher herself and put the focus on how important teachers are for our country and how their service is invaluable. thank you for teaching. the republican party is not vilifying the teachers. it is not about teachers but the system that has been corrupted that look out for the interest of teachers more than the interest of students. [applause] when you say we need to support teachers, i agree. but the question is to we support them by throwing more money at the system that absolutely proportionately if you compare the amount of money into the public-school system compared to all of the other countries to rank in the top 25 and the amount of money they throw do we do that with the system that is broken? but in a way that reforms the system? to have a better education, more education the classroom, may be a philosophical difference but and we have bay real opportunity reforms this necessary then we can talk to -- . [applause] >> we're almost out of time.

laura bush, i think, did this brilliantly.he was a teacher herself, and she really put the focus on how important teachers are for our country, and how their service to the country is invaluable, so thank you for teaching, and the republican party is not vilifying teachers. let's be very clear. teachers are the heros. this is not about teachers, but about the systems that have been corrupted that look out for the interest of teachers more than the interest of students, and that is -- [applause] and that is when you say we need to support teachers, well, i agree that we need to support teachers, but the question is do we support teachers by throwing more money at a system that absolutely proportionally if you compare the amount of money put into the public school system compared to the other oecd countries that rank in the top 25 and the amount of money they throw theirs, do we continue to throw money into a system that's broken or find a way to support teachers in a way that actually reforms the system so that students are get

bush and chief of staff to first lady laura bush from 2005 to 2009. also, under president george w. e worked in the state department as senior advisor in the bureau of international organizations and is white house leas i-asiaon and she served as special assistant for the white house management. her service stands three administrations beginning with the reagan administration in 1984 and from '87 to '92 she was the director of white house personnel for presidents reagan and george h.w. bush. michael allen currently serves as the majority staff director for the house intelligence committee during the administration of president george w. bush, mr. allen was senior director for counterproliferation and senior director for legislative affairs at the national security council. he also held senior, legislative affairs roles during the bush administration with the white house homeland security council and the department of state. rachel brand serves as the national chamber litigation center's chief counsel for regulatory litigation. before assuming this role she was with the firm of wilmer

mcbride, you worked with laura bush, so you know what kind of impact she had on the white house.y question was what role did nancy play in making ronald reagan a great president? >> well, they were a true partnership, and i think it was, you know, as a young staffer, you know, in the white house i was very much aware of mrs. reagan's presence. it was very clear to all of us that she was there as a protection for her husband. she really felt she had, um, her antenna there in support of her husband. people that were around him. so i think she had an enormous influence. i think she also was able to very effectively use the, um, diplomatic tools at her disposal to help present president reagan on the world stage whether it was through their, um, large number of wonderful state dinners where people, important relationships to us around the world were hosted in a way that was very respectful and that was beautifully done. so i think she's used the tools at her disposal to really help put her husband in the best light that she possibly could and using the venue, the stage of the white h

i mean, he and laura bush have both written extensively about what it was like to disparage the office of the presidency. and it's never appropriate. i would say that this was his first weekend as a candidate. i think everybody on the field, including barack obama, hillary clinton, the very elegant and polished secretary of state, all candidates, you know, step over their words. we'll see if this is something he repeats and a theme of candidacy. but there is a sense on the right -- mitt romney talks about this all the time, that obama hasn't been the most effective or committed cheerleader for american exceptionalism. i hate to throw it out there because it becomes -- it means one thing on the right and another thing on the left. it has been a debate that's gone on for three years. it's never wise, ever, to make a generalization of what the military thinks of anyone. the commander in chief, god, the enemy. that's just -- you don't do that. you have no way of knowing. you don't generalize any community. that's a mistake. so i think if he seeks to creep it up, he'll say, i heard that fro

bush rolled in. >> wait until after labor day. >> laura: i was a big critic of bush. i think he made a lot of mistakes. >> that's after the fact. >> laura: i'm not talking about bush. i'm talking about obama. current day. >> i'm talking about double standards. >> laura: substantive thing he talked about oonels and the need for these car manufacturers not just to try to dine out on suv and truck sales and our brain room in new york found out a couple of statistics, 63.75% of all vehicles sold in the united states year to date have been trucks. g.m., second quarter 92% earnings, strong earnings increased because of the global sales and because of the huge production of high margin pickup trucks sold in the united states. this is big money for detroit. and, yet, the president comes in and lecturing detroit about you need to build smaller cars. either of you can chime in here. how does that help america start working again when the chevy volt sold 120-volts in the month of july. 120. >> doing away with trucks. need to buy trucks. talking about fuel efficiency and what is g

bush, very, very steeply. >> laura: i criticize that i'm with you on that. you are right about that but now the republicans are getting serious. they are trying to get serious about spending cuts. we can be critical of them but they are trying. >> they say they are. they ran up the deficit something incredibly fierce under mr. bush whom i love i consider him a great guy. ran up the deficit. whoops, now we want a balanced budgets amendment. i totally agree there should be measures in place to make sure that government spending is in control. i'm in total agreement with the idea that the hard working people of america should not be taxed to death to support bumps and narrow do wells. billionaires incomes of $10 million a year they can easily afford to pay more taxes. lock in provisions that require cutting government spending but let's tax the rich more than they just don't pay enough in tax. >> the numbers don't add up to that all that buffet cited in his piece today double it to 40%. the amount ends up being $40 billion. our deficit is about 1.6 trillion jus

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