mr. bush berber joking more seriously and that has always been the case. barbara has been devastated when mr. bush was rejected by the voters. so without going into too much other details, i am happy to answer your questions later. 1980, mr. bush was poised for a run for the presidency. mrs. bush said she realized cents mr. bush would make the run and they better have in mind in project for the national campaign whenever it would be. she took heart for something and 80 bird johnson said before lady bird johnson has said it is hard to pass up a bully pulpit it is a chance to do something for your country that makes your heart scene and if your project is useful and people notice it then that reflects well on your husband and that is one of the biggest roles of life. and mrs. bush said i would never guess i would end up with cinch the chance to be slow and a return on the modest ever. with a number of possibilities for her project and deciding to focus on literacy come as some people have sugges

mrs. bush was kind enough to see me. she made access to every member of her staff available so i do feel what i was able to share in the book is a pretty balanced interpretation of her time, both in the public eye and in the white house. our time is limited this afternoon and what i'd like to do is share with you some basic bigraphical information, just a little bit and if you have questions about that or anything else, i'm more than happy to address them during our question and answer period. but we'll have a quick look at her biography. then i'd like to share with you some thoughts about her advocacy of literacy. her great success as public communicator and finally her role and her reactions to the campaign of 1992, which for her in many ways was a watershed. as i was preparing for this, i thought there were three questions that i really wanted to answer for you. one was, what made barbara bush different? second, what made her special? and finally, what was her legacy? generally speaking, bar

>> guest: well, mrs. bush did do a great number of restorations and renovations in the white house, in fact, almost every room in the white house was different after the time that she left. but i think every first family that comes in there really does feel the presence of the ones that have come before them and really do take very seriously the responsibility to be a caretaker of the white house. i know it's something mrs. bush enjoyed, she embraced. she also had the opportunity, unlike other first ladies in our history, to walk those halls and walk those rooms for four years prior to her actually inhabiting the house. and so she gained a tremendous appreciation for the history, for the artifacts, for the furniture, for the art. and shared in a lot of the celebrations and historic events of the white house. so coming in as first lady was even that much more information that she was armed with to really do a number of restorations including the

since ronald reagan each president that i worked for i didn't work for mr obama but mr the first mr bush mr clinton and the second mr bush they care less and less about what intelligence says they're going to be citizens of the world they're going to bring democracy to people even though those people will fight it to the death so intelligence it can be very good but i'm not since used and respected it's really useless let's talk about more broadly about the arab spring because lang area that you've written about one country great about it's syria yes and that's one nation that's a little bit more similar to libya and its relations to the united states and some u.s. leaders would very well like a more sympathetic government and some members of congress have even called for the use of force in syria but you argue that a different government would lead to more instability and would actually be worse for the united states of course for israel why. it's not going to be as powerful is is assad's government it's going to be more influenced by islamists whether it's the muslim brotherhood in syr

since ronald reagan each president that i worked for and i didn't work for mr obama but mr the first mr bush mr clinton and the second mr bush they care less and less about what intelligence says they're going to be citizens of the world they're going to bring democracy to people even though those people will fight it to the death so intelligence can be very good but i'm not since used and respected it's really useless is why is the united states and its allies are dependent on persian gulf oil we're going to be fighting in that region so until the united states breaks the oil habit we're we're stuck there and we're going to have to fight and that's not likely to happen you know and that's where the next war is going to come the next war is going to come in bahrain i think the obama administration is frightened to death about what's happening about rain the saudis and their partners the sunni governments in the gulf cooperation council have decided they're not going to permit a shia government on the peninsula which would which would happen in bahrain if if people were given a choice the sau

here's mrs. bush. >> i saw that leading up to september 11, this, the booktheo festival and then on the morninw of sileptember 11 which i will e reading about in a minute, i was on the way to capitol hill to brief the senate committee on early childhood education. so i think i was just sort of finding my way as first lady right before that weekend before. which is hosted an accident president, president fox, martin fox on september 6 for our firse state dinner. i when i left for the capitol thag morning, september 11, the white house grounds were covered withc picnic tables. we were hosting the co congressional -- the whole congress and their families for the congressional picnic that night. so i think in many ways i was just finding my way in figuringt out really what i wanted to do.. and, of course, i knew what iano wanted to work on was education in reading because that has been my whole life. and that's what happened that weekend before september 11. >> host: so you can set the agenda, but events

mr. cly bush talked -- clyburn tked about the constitutional authority to bring this bill to the floor. it's truly a mysty how you can take an oath of office to protect the -- and defend the constitution of the united states, bring a bill to the floor in violence of that, and justify it actually. i have heard the distinguished chairman of the rules committee, mr. dreier, say that we had some visiting parliamentarians here who were watching this debate to see if america, congress can get its job done. please don't pay attention to this. what you see on the floor today is no example of democracy in action. it's silly. the republican leadership is asking its members to make a silly vote. and it's time for us to stop that silliness and get serious about the creation of jobs. get serious about not shutting do government. abdicating our responsibilities and shutting down government. i have heard mr. hoyer earlier today talk about how we got here in tms of this budget deficit. we all know that we must reduce the deficit, that's why during the clinton years as mr. hoyer said, we reversed the fi

a case of separating fact from fiction as alleged arms smuggler mr bush finds yuri's name and is lord of war reputation that's the story at r.t. dot com and watch our eye catching video reports on our you tube channel. children who are barely in their teens could face drug stassen russian schools the country has a severe problem with a number of addicts most start their habit early but as eager a garage different ports drugs counselors worry the focus is pointing the wrong way . this moscow student is taking a drug there voluntarily but if russian president dmitry medvedev has his way hundreds of thousands of students and even school children as young as thirteen will be compulsorily test this week when you said i did a little a lot of parents are saying a compulsory drug testing is unethical but i think what's behind their reluctance is an unwillingness to face the problem which prevents their children from receiving proper treatment our country has not dealt with this problem with compulsory drug testing an educational establishment has already been piloted in several russian region

mr. bush's top internet investment firm mail dot ru group boosted its net profit by sixty six percent to seventy seven million dollars last year the result was mainly due to. the sale of its assets this is the first time the company has posted results since its side to only london six months ago we. well mail dot ru shareholders revealed plans to place almost seven percent the company's shares on the market. that the russian government is still struggling to curb its budget deficit despite growing all prices as finance minister nick sequence says it would only be possible to close the gap if prices stayed around one hundred twenty dollars a barrel for the two ninety three dollars a barrel russia would face of budget deficit of up to two and a half percent of g.d.p. but analysts warn against basing forecasts on high prices and prices. see eighty dollars per barrel the government will already be running considerable budget deficits until the end of the kids may be due a few percent of g.d.p. and to cut down the deficit the government will have to basically ban them most of the promises whi

striking doris but i hope it won't be true i hope it will remain an isolated incident but certainly mr bush and co will make every effort to make an investigation and correct it and certainly a life will change for tens of thousands of people after two thousand and eight attack one of our media and bill russians had their fingerprints taken in dollars so all the time i think the russian close or much for all right anything about it from the real news agency thanks for joining us. stay with us here on our t.v. lots more headed your way this hour including japan on a high alert the country raises the severity rating of its nuclear crisis to the highest level putting the emergency on par with a sure noble disaster. but first military experts are accusing coalition forces in libya using depleted uranium as part of their airstrikes the deadly substance can lead to cancer and physical mutations and those who come in close contact with it claims are surfacing as the ongoing nato led campaign is being stepped up with no clear end in sight or he's got a shipyard investigates just a warning viewers m

today mr. bush and veterans are finishing up with a 20 mile test. former president appeared on good morning america with sergeant self whose legg was amputated. >> yesterday i crank it up and admittedly i am about to receive medicare. but i am riding pretty good . this guy is on my back wheel for miles. one legged. yeah, with one leg. >> for most of the riders, mountain bike riding is a key to the rebillitation. you can see the entire brew on abc 7. >> amazing stories coming out. next at 5:30. old east bay tadium is about to get a new name. >> a java jolt for coffee drinkers . what is behind the sudden spike of a cup of jo. >>> and officer that is worn in today as san francisco's new police chief. we'll have a live report. >> cool air mass taken over the country. it is 46 in minneapolis and look to the southeast and east coast. we have the warm weather and they are bumping in to each other and creating severe weather. the whole area could blow up with more tornados. flight delays in phillies and new york. "know the species, know the stain." lanolin-

i want to thank mr. bush for first asking me to take this position and you, mr. president, for first inviting me to stay on and on and on. i also thank my wife becky for 44 years of extraordinary patience, but essentially the last 4 1/2 years of patience. every single day i have been secretary, our military has been engaged in two major wars and multiple other missions. it has been the greatest honor of my life to serve and to lead our men and women in uniform and our defense civilians. they are the best america has to offer. i will continue to give my all to them and to the president right through june 30, because obviously there is much less to do. my highest priority from my first day in office has been to do everything i could for our uniformed men and women in harm's way to help them accomplish their mission, to come home safely, and if wounded, to get them the best possible care from battlefield to home front. i've done my best to care for them as though they were my own sons and daughters. i will miss them deeply. there will be occasions to speak with them

the bushes, president bush, and mrs. bush, was so kind to invite me to a state dinner.tory. and mrs. bush was able to help me relay that message and that story to queen elizabeth. that was a very special story for our family. and a very special night. always special to have barbara walters with us. >> what a special story. i have been introduced to the queen. i was not here for the coronation. but you do get jittery. you do get excited. you are not supposed to talk to her, unless she speaks to you first, which was very difficult for me. but you know, this is quite a week for the queen. she has a lot to celebrate this week. she just turned 85, by the way. her husband is 90. she has eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. and her grandson, prince williams, perhaps her favorite, will be married on friday. now, the queen has never expressed openly, a controversial opinion. although, she had a lot to say about the wedding guest list. but she's been a figure of stability for the british people, since her earliest years. >> thousands of you in this country have had to le

>> oh, maria shriver, mrs. bush -- >> jimmy: seth rogen?et, has alzheimer's. >> jimmy: and so they are talking about personal experience. >> there's a place in vegas, you know vegas, have you been to the, have seen the center for alzheimer's in vegas? >> jimmy: no. i always miss it when i'm in town. i'm so involved with myself. >> you drive there with trump. >> jimmy: is there a buffet? >> you know larry ruvo? southern wines and spirits. major figure. his father died of alzheimer's. he had the great architect design this center which is shaped like the brain. and we spent a lot of time in there, going through, i took my wife through the other day. we do testing to see if you might have alzheimer's. ron reagan goes through it with me. it's for a first special, it's really -- >> jimmy: great to have you back on cnn. every day, i miss you. i miss you on the channel. i really do. [ cheers and applause ] and i'm guessing, though, that -- i always think, when i, because i watch, and i bet larry is happy he's not interviewing jermaine jackson righ

mrs. bush, welcome back. >> thanks so much, ann. >> how are you?y to be back home in texas, living a much more normal life. so we're doing well, thanks. >> you make retirement look good with the success of this book. but it's all not just relaxing. last week you were very busy also following your passion which you have had for all these years for the women of afghanistan. you don't want them to be forgotten. >> that's right. last week george and i hosted as part of the bush institute that's going to be part of the bush library and center at smu another conference. this was our second one on supporting afghan women. in this conference it was focused on protecting their rights and their freedoms and then also their econom economic empowerment. a lot of afghan women entrepreneurs came from afghanistan. we had a closed -- i mean a video conference with president karzai who assured everyone there in dallas that women's rights won't be sacrificed in these reconciliation talks with the taliban which we are all worried about. we don't want to see afghanist

and the reason the wars going on in afghanistan today is because mr. bushidn't kill bin laden when the commute had identified his presence in tora bora in december 2001. over the course of my career, intelligence failures are generally the result of republican and democratic presidents failing to act in time on intelligence that they had. >> we need to move on. there's a gentleman right behind you. >> i thought your presentation was very courageous, very intelligent, and is there any way -- i would like to go through it again. is that available? >> this one is all marked a. i can surely send a copy if they want to put on the website or sent to people who requested the i don't think that is a problem. >> this is on the podcast as well. you can download probably within a week. >> thank you. >> you present some very interesting points about alternative approaches to foreign policy and domestic policy. can you tell me what kind of following and what kind of support we might see in terms of congress, or in terms of the executive branch, with anything that you ha

in the eight years in the clinton administration when he hand the keys over to the new president, mr. bush, there was a projected $5.7 trillion deficit and i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i'm prepared to close. mr. dreier: then the gentleman go aed heaand close and i'll do the same. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: thank you, madam speaker. i again want to bring it back to the hypothetical american family, small business we're talking about. here's the $1.399 trillion figure is boggling to most people. so lob off that zro and say, i'm a small business, i lost $139,000 this next year. let me tell you, is losing $137,000 the next year a step toward solvency or a step towards bankruptcy? i would submit, madam chair, ask any small business man in america or small business woman, losing $137,000 instead of $139,000 is a step towards bankruptcy. just like that family we in the united states congress, we in this country, need to come together and make hard choices about where to find additional income, where

he cannot do all we did under mr. bushh is go to war in afghanistan and, a rat, and give huge tax cuts to the american people -- iraq, and get huge tax cuts to the american people. if that is believing in the tooth fairy. if at some point, we need to get some of that money back that was giving away. when you consider that the top 1% in this country have about 63% of the wealth -- they have 63% of the tax benefit going to them. now, that is not fair. it is simply not fair to cut out school lunch programs and head start programs so that the top 1% can have this huge amount of money. there is going to have to be some cuts, but also some taxes. host: dorothea's on a line from long island, new york, democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. congressman mcdermott, where does the federal government, as opposed to states, need to exercise authority in our to protect people? other than defense, there seems to be a fuzzy line between what the federal government is supposed to do, and what is allocated to state rights. guest

mr. chairman, let's talk about the bush tax cuts or what happened. let's talk about the distribution of the tax burden. in 2001 the top 1% of earners paid 34% of the tax burden. now they pay 38%. higher tax burden. top 5% in 2001 paid 53% of the taxes. today the top 5% pay 59% of the taxes. so on and so forth. we don't have a revenue problem, a tax problem, we have a spending problem. but here's the real problem. if we don't get our situation under control we really go in the hole. in 2009 the general accountable office was telling us our fiscal gap, the unfunded promises we're making to current americans, was 62 -- $62.9 trillion. that means, to yield myself one more minute to explain, mr. chairman, that means we would have have had to take that money, set it aside just so government could keep the promises it's now making to everybody in america. in 2009 we owed more than we're worth in total households in america. last year, 2010, that fiscal gap grew to $76.4 trillion. now? $99.4 trillion. we are digging a hole more than $10 trillion a year by ki

in the eight years in the clinton administration when he hand the keys over to the new president, mr. bush, there was a projected $5.7 trillion deficit and i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i'm prepared to close. mr. dreier: then the gentleman go aed head and close and i'll do the same. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: thank you, madam speaker. i again want to bring it back to the hypothetical american family, small business we're talking about. here's the $1.399 trillion figure is boggling to most people. so lob off that zero and say, i'm a small business, i lost $139,000 this next year. let me tell you, is losing $137,000 the next year a step toward solvency or a step towards bankruptcy? i would submit, madam chair, ask any small business man in america or small business woman, losing $137,000 instead of $139,000 is a step towards bankruptcy. just like that family we in the united states congress, we in this country, need to come together and make hard choices about where to find additional income, wh

clinton, the presidency of mr. bushand all the way down to the presidency of barack obama and how these characters' lives are changed. this is one last joke i have on my critics. my critics are criticizing my work calling it post-modernist because i don't like to write the kind of 1950s novel in which the characters are subjected to long-winded psychoanalysis and they call me a cartoonist and that's why i made the hero a cartoonist. >> host: and these are all your drawings on the front. >> guest: all the drawings in the book. >> host: juanita from columbus, ohio, we have about 5 minutes left. please go ahead. >> caller: it's a pleasure, professor reed. >> guest: thank you very much. >> caller: i think when obama was elected, i think that america was ready, at least to me as an african-american, it showed that america was ready to move forward. however, the mainstream media, who i think is public enemy number one, quite frankly, was not going to have it. they continuously brought on -- this is the first time -- i'm in my

. >> now a foreign policy with elliot abrams, mr. bush, and robert wexler. the american jewish committee hosted this event as part of the annual global forum meeting in washington. it also includes a discussion on the global view of israel where the former israeli peace negotiator and former member of the british parliament. this is just under two and a half hours. >> elliot abrams and robert wexler. moderating is jason isakson. [applause] [applause] >> good morning. hello from a.j.'s 2011 global forum. i want to make sure you picked up a copy of the "wall street journal" you will see in the center an advertisement. united states and israel an enduring partnership. please pick it up. good statement to resolve to continue to strengthen the relationship between the united states and israel. i am jason isaacson your moderator. i would like to welcome the audience washington, d.c. and the global web cast. on the panel, we are joined by elliot abrams, senior fellow at the council of foreign relations and former deputy national security advisor, and robert wexler,

in the eight years in the clinton administration when he hand the keys over to the new president, mr. bush, there was a projected $5.7 trillion deficit and i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i'm prepared to close. mr. dreier: then the gentleman go aed head and close and i'll do the same. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: thank you, madam speaker. i again want to bring it back to the hypothetical american family, small business we're talking about. here's the $1.399 trillion figure is boggling to most people. so lob off that zero and say, i'm a small business, i lost $139,000 this next year. let me tell you, is losing $137,000 the next year a step toward solvency or a step towards bankruptcy? i would submit, madam chair, ask any small business man in america or small business woman, losing $137,000 instead of $139,000 is a step towards bankruptcy. just like that family we in the united states congress, we in this country, need to come together and make hard choices about where to find additional income, wh

mrs. obama will try to end bush- era tax cuts for wealthy americans and seek medicare and medicaid cuts. >> as he said, you can take a machete to the budget or take a scalpel and make smart decisions to make sure we preserve the ability to invest. while still reducing the deficit. >> reporter: obama's address comes as the debate in washington shifts from this year raze budget to next year and bound a. the top of the week, congressional aides will finalize the down-to-the-wire spending deal struck friday night. >> this agreement on behalf of all-americans is on a budget that invests in our future, while making the largest annual spending cut in our history. >> next up is the fight over the election-year 2012 budget. congress must also decide whether to raise the debt ceiling, which left undone, would put the us government into default. many gop lawmakers are either against doing so or have signaled concessions on core issues will be necessary to raise the debt ceiling. >> thredon't want to raise taxes. they don't want spending to continue to spiral out of control and those are the kind of t

we gave you the coveted bush tax cuts that were going to save the economy. so the job creation, mr. boehner, where is it? when do these bush tax rates kick in and we start adding millions of jobs every month? it isn't going to happen. it's another game being played by the republicans who just want to get rid of the president. they want to shut this down because they want to blame president obama. and here are the senate democrats, instead of standing up and saying no, president obama doesn't have anything to do about this, this is our call in the senate. we're the democrats. we represent the people across the country and this is exactly what we're going to do. i kind of feel like this is a public option fight all over again. you know? they have the power to do it. they just have to have the guts to do it. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question. should democrats explain their support of spending cuts? text a for yes. text b for no to 622639. we'll get you the results later on in the show and once you go to our new blog at ed.msnbc.com. there are tw

mr. cly bush talked -- clyburn talked about the constitutional authority to bring this bill to the floor. it's truly a mystery how you can take an oath of office to protect the -- and defend the constitution of the united states, bring a bill to the floor in violence of that, and justify it actually. i have heard the distinguished chairman of the rules committee, mr. dreier, say that we had some visiting parliamentarians here who were watching this debate to see if america, congress can get its job done. please don't pay attention to this. what you see on the floor today is no example of democracy in action. it's silly. the republican leadership is asking its members to make a silly vote. and it's time for us to stop that silliness and get serious about the creation of jobs. get serious about not shutting down government. abdicating our responsibilities and shutting down government. i have heard mr. hoyer earlier today talk about how we got here in terms of this budget deficit. we all know that we must reduce the deficit, that's why during the clinton years as mr. hoyer said, we reversed

mr. cly bush talked -- clyburn talked about the constitutional authority to bring this bill to the floor. it's truly a mystery how you can take an oath of office to protect the -- and defend the constitution of the united states, bring a bill to the floor in violence of that, and justify it aually. i have heard the distinguished chairman of the rules committee, mr. dreier, say that we had some visiting parliamentarians here who were watching this debate to see ifmerica, congress can get its job done. please don't pay attention to th. what you see on the floor today is no example of democracy in action. it's silly. the republican leadership is asking its memberso make a silly vote. and it's time for us to stop that silliness and get serious about the creation of jobs. get serious about not shutting down government. abdicating our responsibilities and shutting down government. i have heard mr. hoyer earlier today talk about how we got here in terms of this budget defit. we all know that we must reduce the deficit, that's why during the clinton years as mr. hoyer said, we reversed the first

mr. cly bush talked -- clyburn talked about the constitutional authority to bring this bill to the floor. it's truly a mystery how you can take an oath of office to protect the -- and defend the constitution of the united states, bring a bill to the floor in violence of that, and justify it actually. i have heard the distinguished chairman of the rules committee, mr. dreier, say that we had some visiting parliamentarians here who were watching this debate to see if america, congress can get its job done. please don't pay attention to this. what you see on the floor today is no example of democracy in action. it's silly. the republican leadership is asking its members to make a silly vote. and it's time for us to stop that silliness and get serious about the creation of jobs. get serious about not shutting down government. abdicating our responsibilities and shutting down government. i have heard mr. hoyer earlier today talk about how we got here in terms of this budget deficit. we all know that we must reduce the deficit, that's why during the clinton years as mr. hoyer said, we reversed

under the current tax rates, after eight years of george bush, private sector lost 630,000 jobs. mr. chairman, can i inquire how much time i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has 1 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. van hollen: i yield myself 30 seconds. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. van hollen: so you see the pattern here, during the clinton administration economic growth booming, 20 million jobs created, during the eight years of the bush administration net loss 653,000 jobs. we need to continue to invest in this country and make sure that the entrepreneurs of this country can continue to thrive. we need to do this in a balanced way and i would point out that the folks who said that the republican plan this republican plan debate would increase jobs are the same people who predicted that the bush tax cuts would create jobs. that's the blue line is the prediction of the heritage foundation about what that would happen. the red is the reality. if we want to create jobs and reduce the deficit, we need to do it in a balanced way. that's what the fiscal comm

that person is focused on the fact that the bush and mr. she did not focus on fighting fannie and freddie. there were some real heroes like senator shelby who wanted to reform those. dodd and frank fought against in the reforms. when everything went wrong because of the collapse of those institutions, they passed a reform that did not change anything of what went wrong. they regulated wall street and not the government problems. when the government takes something over, they do not watch it or do it well. fannie mae and freddie mac should be broken into pieces and privatized. it should be clear that if you invest in them, you are on your own. the government will not back them. host: that is one issue congress and the white house agrees to. guest: really? that would be progress. i am waiting to see that happen. host: let's go back to another tweet. guest: we have about a hundred thousand donors through -- 100,000 donors through direct mail. some are donors and some are activists. host: atr.org if you want to get more information. glenn beck

mr. george w. bush was anointed, and then i became an independent. i do not believe there is a word of truth in any republican anymore. eyeleted florida. florida elected the governor that had stolen at least up billion $800,000 from medicare. what is one of the first thing that he does, he gives up a contract for drug testing for $400 million. how can you possibly trust this man to do anything responsibly for florida? our great governor of texas, he balanced the budget, he ran on here in texas. he has done a wonderful job for the 20 years he has been here. now we are $25 billion upside down. none of these republicans can tell the truth. all they do is have the machine that lies 24 hours a day, radio, tv. host: tampa, florida, on online for government workers. chris, good morning. caller: i am a registered nurse at the v.a. hospital. i find this sickening and an ethical to be e -- to begin to think that our own military personnel should have any sort of -- to take anything away from them, they are sick and they have chronic diseases, they have long te

mr. president, for your kind words. want to thank president bush for first asking me to take this position, and you, mr. president, for inviting me to stay on and on and on. [laughter] i also thk my wife, becky, for 44 years of extraordinary patience, but especially the last four and a half years o patience. every single day i've been secretary, our military has been engaged in two major wars and multiple other missions. it's been the greatest honor of my life to serve and to lead our men and women in uniform and our defense civilians. they are the best america has to offer. i will continue to give my all to them and to the psident right through june 30th because obviously there is much left to do. my highest priority from my first day in office has been to do everything i could for our uniformed men and women in harm's way, to help them accomplish their mission, to come homeafely, and if wounded, to get them the best possible care from battlefield to ho front. i've done my best to care for them as though they were my own sons and daughters. i will

it's kind of frightening, george bush frist. [laughter] mr. president, we all admire your post presidential grace and i had the opportunity of personally seeing it on the ground. it's funny because smiling over there at a good time kind of sad. they are in here, we are out there. [laughter] not you. please stay. [laughter] set life after the senate is fun. justice uzi the interlocking relationship a year ago and right at that point in time, president bush and president clinton walked together. two days later i was on the ground with berman and who's the been here and has done so much and have the opportunity to spend time with john frist who is here during surgery, being on the ground, seeing the response to one of the worst three worst earthquakes in history and then president bush and president clinton getting together raising a huge amount of money which is invested and not just throwing money at haiti but to create jobs and hope for hundreds and really thousands of people in the future. you've demonstrated in so many ways that life outside

host: did you scream during the bush and mr. sheen?uest: no, but i was fairly young and not working in the media at the time. caller: i have a few things to say. on the ryan plan for a reduction of the deficit, i now only drink bottled water. i know how much pollution was done in this area previously by industry. i own a house and business. when workers compensation when i owned the business with 14%. my unemployment insurance was 5% of payroll. my property taxes are 25% of my gross. my sales tax is 9%. i am 52. i have worked 37 years now i am being told that they're going to renig on the contract ahead with the government about medicare, social security, and all of these benefits that i have paid into for all these years. the republican ryan plan wants to negate that with the contracts. i cannot see how they have a legal leg to stand on. guest: the problem is that it is not a choice between the ryan plan and everything stays the same. unfortunately, the way the retirement system was designed, it offered too generous benefits. even wit

that's what the "wall street journal" said of the bush economic program which mr. cantor said would be a job creator. throughout the bush years, middle class income stayed stagnant and deficits soared. what do republicans say about a budget that helped create unprecedented prosperity, the 1993 clinton budget, here's what speaker boehner said, quote, how does this create any new real jobs? who does this spending stimulate? except maybe the liberal faculty at harvard or berkley. of course contrary to the speaker's assertion, the clinton years saw the biggest production of jobs since i have been serving in congress. 22.7 million new jobs. in the private sector almost 21 million jobs as opposed to the private sector loss of jobs under president bush. about 7,000 loss of jobs per month versus 260,000 -- 216,000 new jobs every month on average under bill clinton. those words represent the same flawed priorities we see in this new republican budget. tax breaks for the wealthy, a failure to invest in the future, and a heavier burden on working families. our country deserves

mr. president, for your kind words. i want to thank president bush for first asking me to take this position, and you, mr. president, for inviting me to stay on and on and on. [laughter] i also thank my wife, becky, for 44 years of extraordinary patience, but especially the last four and a half years of patience. every single day i've been secretary, our military has been engaged in two major wars and multiple other missions. it's been the greatest honor of my life to serve and to lead our men and women in uniform and our defense civilians. they are the best america has to offer. i will continue to give my all to them and to the president right through june 30th because obviously there is much left to do. my highest priority from my first day in office has been to do everything i could for our uniformed men and women in harm's way, to help them accomplish their mission, to come home safely, and if wounded, to get them the best possible care from battlefield to home front. i've done my best to care for them as though they were my own sons and daughter

bush era tax cuts to expire. if republicans were quick to dismiss the president's plan, presidential hopeful said mr. old, was quoted taking deep into his liberal playbook ". the california budget battle, law enforcement when agencies are supporting governor brown's call for extending increases. they urged republican lawmakers to approve a special election were the voters would be asked to extend it tax increases which are set to expire this year. off among other things, of brown's plan calls for a realignment that would shift responsibility for thousands of criminals from the state to local governments. here's what the governor had to say. >> someone this realignment has happened because the state is in a crisis. were short of billions of dollars, it is not see for the public 17 out of 10 individuals commit crimes after being kept at $50,000 the year for two, five, it's a 20 years. >>pam: shifting responsibility for low lover when offenders 404 on the courts and jails. statistics on is the budget today, as cal state students and faculty members of san francisco state stage what they're calling a sta

mr. rumsfeld virtually every problem of the bush administration.ow he gets accused when he points out some of the original accusations were ungrounded. second matter, secretary rumsfeld's relations with his generals. the book shows that there were times when the secretary challenged and contradicted his generals and there were times when he deferred to them. when a secretary presses his generals and questions their work, as mr. rumsfeld did when he reviewed version after version of general franks's war plans for afghanistan and iraq, he leaves himself vulnerable to the charge that he is micromanaging and interfering in professional military judgments. but when a secretary defers to his generals in the field, as mr. rumsfeld did for years during the iraq war, before the surge when the war wasn't going well, he leaves himself vulnerable to the charge that he's failing in his chain of command sfonlts. i'd like to ask secretary rumsfeld on when he decided when to challenge and when to defer? >> do i answer now? >> in time. >> well, the short answer is

bush had his own to the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world now mr obama a few days ago had the following to say let's discuss it this is his doctrine. america should not be expected to police the world particularly when we have so many pressing concerns here at home is that a doctrine should it be a doctrine should it be embraced and is it being acted out through us but i don't think that's the dark and i think it's a statement of lowering expectations i also think that one of the problems with all of these doctrines is that it bases the whole of u.s. foreign policy on the military so if we say should we intervene should we help it's assumed to mean should we send troops in my analysis that's almost never the case we should intervene with a whole range of other things but not with military force and that question of how are we defining intervention is an ongoing challenge in the particular for president obama i think what he faces right now given that the arab spring has turned upside down all of the longstanding assumptions of what u.s. policy in the middle east needs to b

under the current tax rates, after eight years of george bush, private sector lost 630,000 jobs. mr. chairman, can i inquire how much time i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has 1 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. van hollen: i yield myself 30 seconds. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. van hollen: so you see the pattern here, during the clinton administration economic growth booming, 20 million jobs created, during the eight years of the bush administration net loss 653,000 jobs. we need to continue to invest in this country and make sure that the entrepreneurs of this country can continue to thrive. we need to do this in a balanced way and i would point out that the folks who said that the republican plan this republican plan debate would increase jobs are the same people who predicted that the bush tax cuts would create jobs. that's the blue line is the prediction of the heritage foundation about what that would happen. the red is the reality. if we want to create jobs and reduce the deficit, we need to do it in a balanced way. that's what the fiscal comm

mr. badner to us back in 2009, there is a series of comments on other properties they own on market, 350 bush, 500 pine, and 120 howard. perhaps since it has been a number of years we could get some updates on those other properties as well. >> i want to apologize to the commission. i was responsible for that time in 2009. due to other responsibilities and issues i was not able to prioritize that to bring that back to the commission. i appreciate this matter being brought before the commission. i will do our best to try to get these other projects move forward. this is an overall update on the status. president olague: great. do we have a date? >> the earliest would be june 2. president olague: we should schedule it for them. i would like to open up for public comment. >> sue hester. we can kind of fit this in. what i have here is a time line on this project. i have been bugging the department to calendar this forever, for many years. i went to the original allocation hearings. they were really interesting beckon the old days of the '80s. there are consequences of sites being dormant for so l