marriage, dick cheney, laura bush, jon huntsman, kurt ender, mark kirk and lisa murkowski. when it comes to marijuana, william f buckley, governor rick perry has come out in favor of decriminalization. pat roberts in. dennis eisley, sean hannity, libertariansgrich. and social conservatives can absolutely work together if we realize we are both trying to limit the government when it comes to freedom. >> thank you so much. point,alding, at some tends to get -- at what point do we dissipate to the point where we are no longer we the people. chose the word

where was the outrage when laura bush took her daughters to europe? any of us that adamantly, vehemently disagreed with george bush, we never attacked laura bush and her daughters. they're not only attacking mrs. obama and her daughters, but her mother? i mean, is there any level of decency in this political discourse? >> maybe they're not clued in to how diplomacy works. but let me tell you. i traveled on bush white house trips. i traveled on these cultural visits that laura bush would do to these foreign countries, and she would get more coverage than her husband would. it was valuable to this country. the chinese understand this too. they are building relationships and building influence. that's the power of -- soft power of those kinds of cultural exchanges. you can pooh-pooh it. you can say it's stupid. it's actually a good use of money in terms of what the white house has to do. and, you know, i understand that they hate everything this president does. they're going to like it when it's a republican first lady who is doing it. they'll see it's va

(laughter) like nancy reagan's war on drugs or laura bush's fight to end presidential illiteracy. (laughter) well-- (cheers and applause) lady and gentlemen, thanks to miss obama instead of care-free chubb sters, we are now breathing a again-- breeding a generation of body conscious cops doing tricycle spin classes desperately trying to get back to their birth weight. (laughter) worst of all this is bad news for the gop. they need to reach out to the preschool demo. and it won't be easy since the republicans are on record as trying to deport dora. and they condemn spongebob as a form of birth control. plus preschool itself is a left wing socialist training camp. sharing toys, snack handouts, premarital snapping, not to mention wasteful infrastructure projects. you're overbudget, sam. that thing's not even dinosaur proof. we can still win them over, folks. i think they'll really identify with the current conservative economic message, mine! now nation, did you hear something? it sounds like it came from outside. is your front door knock. i think so isn't good enough. is your front

while in china her two predecessors laura bush and hillary clinton. both pressing issues like human rights and democracy during their trips to china. but this made headlines because the white house had said mrs. obama would shy away from political issues but access to the internet is very much a hot button issue particularly among the young people of china. i suspect some of them welcomed the comments. >> thank you. and martha is filling in for george right here on abc's this week. >>> we move on and to the major weather headline. the first weekend of spring is here and so of course, a possible nor'easter is brewing. couple possible tracks and we want to bring in chief meteorologist. from our power house station. and cecily great to have you here. >> nice to be here. >> you were telling me first the cold moves in. >> exactly. old man winter is not giving up easily. today philadelphia 65. beautiful. raleigh 75. but the next 48 hours arctic blasts. philadelphia by monday the high 36. raleigh, 36. chicago not even to the freezing point. this sets the sta

unlike laura bush and hillary clinton who both pressed human rights on their trips to china, the white house says that mr.s obama will shy away from issues that might be controversial with her chinese hosts. >> jon, thank you. >>> we turn now to your money tonight. your tax return. with tax day approaching, a startling warnings, tens of thousands of americans scammed, even the police fooled on this one, more than $1 million and counting. abc's chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis with how to protect yourself. >> reporter: this tax season, from coast to coast, criminals are going further than ever before to get their hands on your money. >> i'm calling from the irs. >> reporter: the treasury department warning tonight -- criminals are posing as irs agents and police, telling people they owe money and must pay at once. anyone who refuses is threatened with arrest, deportation or suspension of a driver's license. some of the scammers even leave voice messages with callback numbers. he was told to pay up and only with cash. >> no credit card, no debit card. no checks. >> reporter: w

bill was hired by laura bush in 2007 to make his acclaimed cookie plates and the sugar sculpt tour -- sculptures. he started replacing butter with fruit puree. his heart wasn't in it. he tells the "new york times," quote, i don't want the demonized cream, sugar, butter and eggs. the first lady may think tweets are evil, and here is a tweet that michelle obama doesn't want you to see. tells you who is the real american in this story. michelle made the pastry chef replace sugar with agave which sounds foreign to me and possibly communist. what do you make of this? he has been inspired to be a little more healthy. he wants to do that, but he doesn't want to demonize butter, fat and sugar, but he is most famous for his ginger bread house. you don't know if it is the devil on his shoulder or the angel food cake. >> nice one. didn't see that coming. >> paul, your lips are often mistaken for sausage links which makes you an expert on food. i hate pastries. i find them sticky. you have unusual hands. i am reluctant to call them hands. >> well you have leprechaun hands. >> you can't even shake

was there anything about laura bush or any of the other first ladies? or is it just because she is the first african-american first lady? guest: you know, i think the answer is probably both. i confess that i have not gone back through the record to look for coverage of earlier first ladies. i know that there has been unflattering coverage of the most recent couple of first ladies. hillary clinton, laura bush definitely. how prevalent it was, i am not sure. i know that in secretary clinton's day, there was plenty of criticism about how health care was handled and various other things. you know, she sometimes made comments that people tried to make hay with. so i think the scrutiny has always been there. but i think you're probably right that the first lady and the president came into office with very high expectations and a tremendous amount of pressure to show us in a way what it would be like to have the first african-american president and first lady. i do not know if much of the criticism of the first lady or any of it is really based on her race. i

bill yases was hired by laura bush in 2007 to make his acclaimed cookie plates and sugar sculptures. when mrs. obama became first lady she ordered him to prepare healthier food. he started replacing butter with fruit puree and sugar with agave. but his heart wasn't in it. he tells "the new york times," i don't want to demonize cream, butter, sugar, and eggs. they have been demonized enough my friend. the first lady may think sweets are evil. wefulfly disagree. the tribute to pay trees, michelle obama doesn't want you to see. ♪ ♪ kind of tells you who is the real american in this story. jill. michelle made the pastry, michelle made the pastry chef replace sugar with agave, which sound foreign to me. and possibly communist. what do you make of this? >> who are these pinkos in the white house? come on we need butter and fat. he says he has been inspired by michelle to be a little more healthy. wants to do that. doesn't want to demonize fat, sugar, butter. he is famous for the giant gingerbread white house. he can't decide whether to listen to the devil, on the shoem e shoulder or angel

the comparison between hillary clinton going to china in '95 and raising tough issues and then laura bushing the same, more than a decade later. what do you think it says about michelle obama that she does have a reluctance to do so? >> i was a little surprised actually. when at the beginning of the obama administration i think they were very careful to keep human rights low key to be able to build rapport and other issue, there was a perception that that failed and they just lost credibility with china. so it seems surprising to me that the first lady has this time decided to keep everything quiet when that strategy kind of failed already. >> all right. thank you. that is actually a really helpful overview on this. don't go away. nicholas kristof will stick around to talk about a big story in our next block. today twitter turn eight years old. they are not celebrating now that the turkish prime minister silenced the tweets. why is he so scared? maybe he doesn't like the trols. we'll delve into and share some of our slightly embarrassing first tweets. ike music to your . ♪ your love keeps

now, we have traveled the middle east former first lady laura bush about breast cancer awareness. mrs. bush did multiple interviews so the american people knew what she was doing on their dime. mrs. obama is a harvard educated lawyer so i'm sure she can handle an interview. bottom line she is trying to have it both ways. requiring taxpayers to pay 100% of the trip but she won't let us ask her what she is doing. now, that's just simply messed up. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. coming up, angelina jolie, derek jeter, president obama and the pope, which one of the aforegoing, did not make the new world's greatest leaders list? start guessing. the answer is next. and, of course, developing now, transcripts from flight 370 final cockpit conversation just released, go right now to gretawire.com and see the transcripts. and "on the record," of course, is tracking the search for debris underway in australia. the sun is just coming up in australia. the latest straight ahead. 1 >>> pope francis, warren buffet. hillary clinton, angelina jolie derek jeter all making "fortune magazi

first lady hillary clinton, first lady laura bush they would go on trips like this overseas and theylude a press pool of some kind. for whatever reason the first lady decided not to bring the press pool at local stops along the way in china local reporters from the associated press and others are going to be invited to her event. >> they will get a smidgen of what's happening. >> it's what we have been talking about access that folks around here want. reporters. >> they are not going to get that once again compliment you on is splendor. king of the pocket hankies, tough between you and hume who has more. i think you have him hedged out. >> i have a drawer full. >> don't forget to bring them to holland they love them over there. >> still to continue as our mad as hell segment. five very angry letters this evening. big time rapper agrees with me about the negative effect bad lyrics are having on troubled kids. those reports upcoming. or retirement. but when we sta worrying about tomorrow, we miss out on what matters today. ♪ at axa, we offer advice and help you break down your retireme

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. >> reporter: and more than a decade later, laura bush spoke out against china's treatment of refugees the chief of staff said the tone of mrs. bush will be markedly different. >> she's essentially exploiting what she does at home and bringing it overseas. >> reporter: mcbride said that's no reason for mrs. obama to avoid the tough topics. >> you're a leader. you're a woman leader. and people look for you to do that not only at home but around the world. >> now there are some comparisons already being made to the first lady's 2010 trip to chengdu. a lot of people thought it was a big family vacation. that trip was heavily criticized because it cost 3 $500,000. >>> actor wayne knight is alive and doing fine this morning. no matter what the internet will have you believe. the the hoax is part of a trend that may be no accident. >> reporter: wayne knight once became dinner for a dinosaur in "jurassic park" and nearly burned to death in his mail truck on "seinfeld." in real life knight is still very much alive. he took to twitter on sunday to refute reports he had died in a tragic car acci

marriage, dick cheney, laura bush, jon huntsman, kurt ender, mark kirk and lisa murkowski.rijuana, william f buckley, governor rick perry has come out in favor of decriminalization. pat roberts in. dennis eisley, sean hannity, libertariansgrich. and social conservatives can absolutely work together if we realize we are both trying to limit the government when it comes to freedom. >> thank you so much. point,alding, at some tends to get -- at what point do we dissipate to the point where we are no longer we the people. chose the word liberty, rather than the word freedom because they meant freedom appropriate for man. they understood lee pretty -- liberty to be under the laws of nature's god. it didn't mean licenses. it required a certain unity and agreement about certain common precepts of how we govern ourselves. as much freedom as possible. we want to have the freedom to choose. i agree with that. but we must agree first and freeman -- first and foremost on certain precepts. we believe all men are created equal. we believe everyone has the right to the pursuit of happines

for same-sex marriage, glenn beck, dick cheney, meg began mccain, laura bush, governor jon huntsman,rent senators rob port match, mark kirk and lisa murkowski. when it comes to marijuana legalization or other drugs, you've got william f. buckley, governor rick perry has come out in favor of decriminalization, pat robertson, bill o'reilly, sean hannity, even newt gingrich and ken cucinelli have requested the war on drugs. libertarians and social conservatives can absolutely work together if we both realize we're trying to limit the scope of government when it comes to -- [inaudible] >> thank you so much. [applause] at some point the notion we the people with a common moral philosophy tends to get dissipated in the autonomous approach the life and principle that defines libertarianism. at what point does the common philosophy underlying the constitution begin to dissipate to the point where we are no longer we the people? >> >> right. well, i think it begins with the founders' understanding of the word liberty. they chose the word liberty which was a latin word rather than freedom prec

in 2007 along with laura bush, ms. gustafson cofounded the feed foundation that provides school lunches to 70 million children around the world. he also cofounded foodtank featuring. this is about one hour 15 minutes. >> thank you. thank you all. your campus is amazing. pepperdine, and i remember when i was looking at colleges not that long ago but longer ago than any of you, that my parents suggested i think most because they would have loved to have visited here, and they came and looked a little bit even from the road driving up and i was like i'm not sure i would ever get any work done. some highly impressed that all of you are still here in school, whether it's been one semester or a couple of years. and that major getting enough work done to stairs i find that incredibly impressive. and thank you, i know we're upset in california were having this ridiculous long drought, but it is glorious weather that is kind of the good and the bad going to get the. anyway thank you so much for having me here. i want to start o

. >> reporter: laura bush accused china enough to pressure burma's brutal regime.'s former chief of staff, anita mcbride says mrs. obama has chosen to leave politics to the president. >> and i think people may have had an expectation that she would engage in other issues, even before this trip to china. but she's doing exactly what she wants to do. >> president obama's top ambassadors embracing diplomacy with the first lady's touch. >> reporter: and aides here say during talk at beijing university tomorrow, michelle obama will raise one topic controversial in china, that's the issue of internet freedom. critics have complained this is an expensive taxpayer funded family vacation. the white house insists that's not the case. >> peter alexander at the white house for us. thank you. >>> and coming up -- house for sale. the toll that oscar pistorius' murder trial is having on his personal finances. >>> and how did a teenager manage to sneak past security to reach the top of one world trade center? first this is "today" on nbc. ♪ ♪ ♪ i gotta have that bag. italian leath

radio talk show host laura ingraham, bob woodward of "the washington post," paul wolfowitz, former number two at the pentagon under george w. bush and fox news political analyst juan williams. russia is massing 20,000 troops on the border of eastern ukraine with tanks, artillery and aircraft. laura, i mean it's a guess. do you think putin invades and what can and should the u.s. and the west do to try to persuade him not to? >> remember that commercial that says your brain on drugs? this is your country in decline. i would say that united states has a leader now that had an expansive view of what the world community would be like, would have more harmony. the u.s. would step back and the world would step in and would have a more stable world. what i think you see now is that, of course, the world is less stable with america weaker. what we can do in this part of the world, i don't think we're going to do much. i think we can talk a lot about sanctions. sanctions might have some minimal effect. unless europe steps up and less germany matches the rhetoric with real world actions against the former soviet union, i think putin sees