mr. sununu said about mr. became.made excuses saying about a billion dollars here and i think the situation is much different today. i'm glad we department go into -- didn't go into iraq and take down saddam who became a nuisance. under mr. sununu's greatest president saddam hussein omar good gaddafi were shaking hands and being hugged by people like mr. sununu's greatest heroes in our country. he calls donald trump a showman, yet he calls president obama an arrogant person. no mr. sununu, i think you are arrogant. i think you like to sit back and they stones at people. you don't like presidents that take a step back and see things cerebrally. host: let's get a response. guest: thank you for your service. i appreciate that you have served your country well. i still think the policies of this administration have hurt the country and it has nothing to do with personality. it has to do with philosophy and approach and perspective. and there's nothing i can say that will mitigate my feeling that the united states and worl

mr. sununu is a brilliant guy. however, he's been put out there to try to rewrite history. it was ronald reagan's administration where mr. bush was vice president that won this cold war because his administration and leadership took an offensive posture against the soviet union. the other administrations nixon, et cetera, tried to manage it. it was reagan who acknowledged, mr. sununu that put the soviet union on its heels. >> you can watch all of this segment online at c-span.org. we are leaving this and taking you live in washington to the investiture, the swearing in ceremony for attorney general loretta lynch. this second swearing in is the formal investiture ceremony at the warrener theater in washington. she was officially sworn in by the president on april 27. president obama is expected to speak. live coverage here on c-span. >> to the admiration and respect that attorney general lynch inspires. i also want to recognize the many friends and family members of the attorney generals who have traveled here really from all over the current. i should probably tell you -- al

mr. sununu is a brilliant guy. however, he's been put out there to try to rewrite history. was ronald reagan's administration where mr. bush was vice president that won this cold war because his administration and leadership took an offensive posture against the soviet union. the other administrations nixon, et cetera, tried to manage it. it was reagan who acknowledged, mr. sununu that put the soviet union on its heels. guest: you are absolutely right and i'm not trying to take anything away from ronald reagan. this was a 1-2 punch. ronald reagan built up the u.s. military strength and made gorbachev and the soviet leaders know they could not win the game and george bush then took that asset and put together the coalition of the night toe leaders and -- nato leaders and a partnership with gorbachev to keep the process going that allowed the soviet union, encouraged the soviet union to leave eastern europe and end the occupation of europe and allow germany to be reunified. but that took delicate diplomacy to take advantage of the unit that ronald reagan created. host: jack,

mr. chairman. >>> on the next washington journal, john sununu former governor and chief of staff to president bush and the book he wrote, "the commonwealth man." then senator chris murphy and the u.s. strategy against isis. and a story on whether the 2016 republican hopefuls will cut government spending. washington journal is live on c-span and you can contribute to the program on facebook and on twitter at c-span. >> wednesday defense secretary ashton carter and martin dempsey testify before the armed services committee. it will focus on policy in the middle east and military strategy combat isis. that's live at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >>> some are sitting kind of front left of the chamber, if you will and so when brooks comes into the chamber he comes into the center door, sits down and almost looking directly at sumner. problem is sumner is not looking at him. sumner's head is bowed. he's literally signing copies of crimes against kansas speech. he gets up walks down the center aisle. sumner oblivious to what's happening. signing these copies of the speech. brooks reaches him. lift