. >> she's the owner of mrs. w.'s old time candy based in terrell, north carolina. >> i sell toffee candy, the classic. and i came up with a toffee oatmeal cookie, a peanut butter cup cook key. >> she believes in consistency and quality. wagner says her company's success starts in her industrial kitchen. >> what makes us unique is we are not a mass-produce item. we are handmade. and you don't see that a lot today. and i don't ever want to become a mass-produce item. >> from the very beginning wagner made all of her own products. it's now three years later and she has no plans to change that. she's committed to man tainting the high standard she set. >> a good recipe has to be kept secret. else it's not a good recipe anymore. i don't want other people to know how to produce what we're doing because i don't want the recipe to get out and they can do what we're doing. >> reporter: even though wagner personally delivers mrs. w.'s products to between 70 and 90 clients in two states and takes orders online, she doesn't wan

w. bush's brother. >> mr.s time to stop blaming your predecessor for your failed economic policy. >> reporter: florida senator mark orubeo. >>e problem is that he's a bad president. >> reporter: clint eastwood. >> when somebody does not do the job, we have to let them go. >> reporter: romney friends tried to humanize him with testimony to his good deeds. >> he shoveled snow and raked leaves for the elderly. >> reporter: helped a dying boy write his will. >> we were able to give his skateboard, model rockets and fishing gear to his best friend. >> reporter: a business associate. >> if

mrs. bush after george w. was elected. she said she spoken to hillary clinton. how did you do it?men with children in the white house. how is she handling the upcoming election? it is tough. there are a lot of attack ads. this can't be fun. >> the girls are 14 and 11 now. those are different ages in the 2008 came papaign. she said the kids are focused on their lives. how will this impact me? she said we map out the difference scenarios and either way, their lives will be great. she said they take a lot from how she and the president are doing. if they come home and they act like michelle and barack? they are fine. malia is not reading the newspapers. they are not necessarily in the bubble of the washington beltway that some people think. >> what are the challenges she sees as a mother in the white house? >> the number one thing and she talked about it extensively is making sure the kids are okay. every mom, i feel that way, you want to make sure your kids are on a good source. she is calling friends saying, are they okay? the friends are saying they are the same. she said this, ch

w. bush's brother. >> mr.resident, it is time to stop blaming your predecessor for your failed economic policy. >> reporter: florida senator mark orubeo. >>e problem is that he's a bad president. >> reporter: clint eastwood. >> when somebody does not do the job, we have to let them go. >> reporter: romney friends tried to humanize him with testimony to his good deeds. >> he shoveled snow and raked leaves for the elderly. >> reporter: helped a dying boy write his will. >> we were able to give his skateboard, model rockets and fishing gear to his best friend. >> reporter: a business associate. >> if someone needed help, mitt was there. >> reporter: the founder of staples. >> he helped make it come alive. >> reporter: romney's job now is to make it come alive for his party and convince undecided he can do a better job of leading the country and take it in a better direction than barack obama. fact factors are talking about the address. the question is whether those qiblz with the facts -- quibbles with the facts

mr. president. >> president obama was w farmers in iowa whose fields are bone dry with the drought. telling formers they should ask paul ryan about the stalled plan in congress that would bring relief to the farmers. >> paul ryan may be around the next few days, he is one of the leaders standing in the way. >> the controversial budget plan and changes to medicare, a plan that mitt romney applauded during the primary. >> governor romney you said during a debate earlier this year of paul ryan's proposal that absolutely right on. so i'm curiosity yus is there anything you disagree on? >> we haven't gone through piece by piece. i can't imagine that have exactly the same positions on all issues. my plan for medicare is very similar to his plan for medicare >> dan: by most accounts, mitt romney picked as his running mate picked his nemesis. he has not squabbled with mitt romney but as our reporter explains he certainly has with ryan. >> his real feelings about his ideological foe were caught by a hot microphone at a fund-raiser last year. president sneered at rye kran claiming the the man

mr. obama mocked george w. bush during the 2008 campaign for the credit card to china and for the immorality of large budget deficit. the reality is obama has laid on over $5 trillion in new debt. trillion dollar deficits. four years in a row. you can blame the first one, maybe the first two on the after effects of the recession. not the second two. where has he gone wrong? is this just excessive spending and we are paying for it now? >> yes. excessive spending. if you don't have the revenue coming in and you're not going to put policies in place to bring new revenue in you've got to control spending. they have been doing business as usual. it's the same old, same old. that's why it's time for a change. uh think the republicans and mitt romney will bring a change and barack obama, i think, is determined to do it the same old way. keep spending the same old way. that leads to tax increases and that means less investment and more unemployment and less growth. that's not the future we republicans want. we think we

mr. ryan is am bambidexterous w it comes to issues.ully. >> we passed spending cuts and other wasted parts of government to replace the irresponsible and devastating cuts of the president through his lack of leadership promising will occur. >> and just moments later in that same speech, ryan did it again. >> under president obama's failed leadership, the united states credit rating was downgraded for the first time in our history. >> good afternoon, sir. >> hello, martin. >> do i have this right? paul ryan voted for the defense cuts as part of the debt ceiling deal and a deal made necessary because ryan and republicans in congress were threatening a government shutdown and wasn't that very -- that threat which helped lead to the lowering of the united states credit rating? >> you got it exactly right. that was the -- that was the whole point when they refused to raise the debt ceiling even though as we all know debt ceiling has been routinely raised 70 something times over the last 80 years or so. that put the credit rating of the unit

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w. bush's brother jeb. >> mr. president, it is time to stop blaming your predecessor for your failed economic policies. >> reporter: florida senator marco rubio. >> a problem is that he's a bad president. >> reporter: clint eastwood. >> when somebody does not do the job, we've got to let him go. >> reporter: romney friends tried to humanize him with testimony to his good deeds. >> he shoveled snow and raked leaves for the elderly. >> reporter: helped a dying boy write his will. >> we were able to give his skateboard, his model rockets and his fishing gear to his best friends. >> reporter: a business associate. >> if someone needed help, mitt was there. >> reporter: the founder of staples. >> he helped make it come alive. >> reporter: gary nurenberg, 9news now. >>> it is 6:07. other news now, the pentagon is considering legal action against the former navy seal who has written a book about the night of the osama bin laden raid. mark owen's book called "no easy day" has caused a lot of controversy since it was annou

w. all due respect to mr. obama. he doesn't know what he wants to do. he uses his power, executive order which should be only used sparingly to create a situation where he doesn't know what to do. what do you do? >> one other thing is he doing is he is encouraging the community to come together to look at this problem and ask why. >> bill: you don't need an executive order to do that. >> it's not really the issue. shouldn't would he be doing something? seriously there is a crisis among minority groups in particular african-americans. >> bill: do you know why. >> i know that many people believe it's because seven out of 10 black children now are born to parents with only one parent household. >> bill: you just lit it. that's -- hit it that's the problem that the home life of the students in certain areas, and i don't know if it's a black-white thing a lot of white kids with the same problem raised by a mother. >> three out of ten. seven out of ten babies born out of wedlock. that's what's going on by the time they get to school they don't know anything.

w. bush and slamming president barack obama. >> mr. president it is time to stop blaming your predecessors for your failed economic policies. you were dealt a tough hand but your policies have not worked. in the fourth year of your presidency a real leader would accept responsibility for his actions and you have not done it. now that i've got that off my chest with talk about our kids into education. >> we also heard from a duel, newt gingrich a brutal appointmentopponent at one point. he had a very very difficult time given up what turned out to be a doomed primary rate even though he was winning and by the way before we go to it it looks like clint eastwood as we said has taken the stage. he was in a gm commercial doingduring the super bowl when it apparently looks like an obama political ed. first let's go to former onetime opponent newt gingrich and his wife. >> obama is proud of what he has done but he should be ashamed for putting politics before people. gov romney it will return america to work and to the principles that are the

w. bush. i certainly look to mr. vidal as a beacon, a lighthouse. he has also been a friend of mine for a long time. i like him very much. a deer man. is with great pleasure that i welcome to key west mr. gore vidal. [applause] >> there was some trouble with my microphone. let's make sure you were being heard. >> i can shout. >> mr. gore vidal has rarely had trouble being heard. ego above the masses. we are at a seminar, subject of history and fiction. as far as i can think, hardly any other novelists has approached history more meticulously work assiduously or aggressively than you have. you famously -- don't mean to steal your jokes but you famously called this the united states of amnesia. >> i had forgotten that. >> you had forgotten that. [laughter and applause] >> i remember you saying to me you were trying to teach this nation something. would you address this, a little bit of the united states of amnesia or lack of historical understanding and what has gone wrong and how as a novelist you have been able to respond to this crisis. >> we have

w. bush's war cabinet and his last book is "the obamians." mr. mann thank you for joining me inside the war room? >> good to be with you govern. >> so, you heard that little sound beside of newt gingrich. should a president distrust their own state department? >> i don't know where to start on that one. in the first place, it's kind of dangerous to say distrust all of the people who are the -- the state department is composed of people who are out there living in countries who know the language. do some of them become overly sam pat i thinkic to the country, yeah. >> an old phenomenon in this. is the state department bureaucratic but to say you are not going to listen to the state department is crazy and dangerous. secondly, it's an inaccurate prediction of what romney will do. it's also kind of hipypocritical for gingrich because i covered gingrich in the 1990s as speaker of the house and to tell you the truth, he didn't challenge bill clinton much. there was a republican jesse % helms, who was challenging bill clinton left and right. that wasn'

w. protests outside ecuador embassy in london as there are threats tour arrest mr. astonished -- to arrest mr. astsange. hello and welcome to gmt. i'm george alagiah. pakistan both the military under tax. they stormed the air force base near islamabad. the duke of edinburgh is being treated for a bladder infection, the third time he's been in the hospital in less than a year. it's midday in london, 7:00 in the morning in washington, 6:00 in the morning in quito, ecuador, where an announcement is expected on whether to grant political asylum to wikileaks founder julian assange. he is in the country posing london embassy to avoid extradition to sweden to face sexual assault allegations. he says the case is politically motivated. even before the decision is made public, it has led to a diplomatic row between britain and del prado. -- between britain and ecuador. >> it is nearly two months since julian assange enter this building in london which houses the embassy of ecuador. he asked for asylum. been trying to avoid extradition to sweden where he's wanted for questioni

w. the motion was made by commissioner moore. on a motion to recuse -- [calling roll] thank you. mr. president. president fong: i will propose we move this to september 6. i will direct remove this item to september 6. >> this is moved to september 6 at the direction of president fong. to move forward we are now at the directors' report. president fong: the only item i wanted to bring to your attention was the memo from kong tom desanto giving you an outline of the proposed budget. it was essentially the mayor's budget was somewhat minor reductions that were approved by the board related to temporary salaries and professional services contracts. the budget proposed by the mayor, which was somewhat larger than what you look that originally was largely approved by the board of supervisors. the only other thing is because the board is on presort -- recess there was no board of directors report this week. thank you. >> no board of appeals report this week either. with that, we can move on to general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address you on any item that is under your j

mrs. bush visited africa, asia, and the americas to help raise global awareness of malaria and hiv/aids. now as the chair of the women's initiative at the george w. bush institute mrs. bush continues our work on a global health care innovation education support -- performance supporting women and men who serve in the military. the u.s. government, the susan g. common for the cure announced an $85 million pink ribbon red ribbon initiative, a partnership to leverage platforms and resources to combat cervical and breast cancer in developing nations. the honor of having mrs. bush as a keynote speaker in our annual conference a couple of years ago introduced by her twin daughters , barbara and jinnah, also a great female leaders who gave the most touching interactions i have ever heard. they painted a fuller picture of their mother and remind all of us of the multiple roles women balance every day in ways that are truly remarkable. and so, as they did to my want to present to you a female leader of great depth and accomplishment, as i have noted, but a woman who is also a wife, mother, and a friend to all of us in this room who fight for equality and

mr. austerity. >> eric: and he ran twice for the republican nomination in previous elections. >> jamie: and former president george w. bush, offering his seal of approval for the romney-ryan ticket and the former president making the following statement, quote: this is a strong pick, governor romney is serious about confronting the long term challenges facing america and paul ryan will help him solve the difficult issues that must be addressed for future generations. >> eric: and newly minted vice presidential paul ryan is heading home for the first time, since being put on the vice presidential ticket. more on that, straight ahead. this is rudy. his morning starts with arthritis pain. and two pills. afternoon's overhaul starts with more pain. more pills. triple checking hydraulics. the evening brgs more pain. so, back to more pills. almost done, when... hang on. stan's doctor recommended aleve. it can keep pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is rudy. who switched to aleve. and two pills for a day free of pain. ♪ [ female announcer ] and try aleve for relief from tough headaches. [ female announcer

w. bush. he said, you know, you made it a close election. i said is, i wish you well, mr. president.l over and if there's any -- and then he said to me, i bet we can find some ways to work together. little did i know how much we would end up working together. he's a good man. i think his presidency is already looking better than it looked to some while he was in office. >> president obama. have you gotten -- obviously -- have you gotten to know him? >> well, i got to know him when he came into the senate, new senators for the last decade or so, we were asked to choose mentors and meet with them periodically. and barack obama chose me as a democrat and george wiley, and it was clear that he did not need a lot of mentoring. he's very smart and he has a real vision, very articulate. i've always liked him. >> did you win in 2000? >> well, i think we won but -- in 2000. but, you know, i was raised to always believe that life is about tomorrow and not about -- and today, not about yesterday. >> do you and vice president gore still chat? >> every now and then we exchange e-mails. >> tomorro

w. bush. mr. mccain: which in my view does not impact the need for a full and complete investigation. mr. durbin: secondly, this attorney general, mr. holder, has been brought before a congressional committee time after time. i have been in the senate judiciary committee when he has been questioned at length about fast and furious, and i'm sure he has been called even more frequently before the house committees. third, he's produced over 9,000 pages of documents and chairman issa has said not enough, we need more. well, at some point it becomes clear he will never produce enough documents. and the house decided to find him in contempt for that. that's their decision. i don't think that was necessarily proper. but having said that, does that mean that every decision from the department of justice from this point forward cannot be trusted? mr. mccain: no, but what i am saying is that there is a significant credibility problem that the attorney general of the united states has at least with the majority of the house of representatives. mr. durbin: the republican majority. mr. mccain: on

mr. obama's first term compared to three for the entire eight years under george w.prosecution can talk about that, middle level people not administration spokes men and people in the administration. we're talking about people in the national security council, a small circle of advisers, a policy in yemen where we penetrate the highest levels of al qaeda. nobody in congress knew about it, the small circle in the cia, the white house, entire thing leaked. >> i know you hate talking to the media. nice to have you in here. >> i like talking to you. >> thank you very much. i want to go back to the today's headlines. christine romans is in new york. >> tropical storm isaac a big threat this morning. nearly a million customers without power in four states and the national weather service in new orleans has issued a flash flood emergency for slidell, louisiana. that's until 9 a.m. local time. the storm still a huge rain maker and isaac is on the move. let's bring in meteorologist karen mcginnis in the cnn headquarters. >> want to show you this google earth. here is new orle

mrs. bush visited africa, asia and the americas to help raise cool awareness of malaria and hiv/aids. now as the chair of the women's initiative of the george w. bush institute, mrs. bush continues her work on global healthcare innovation, and how wering women in the emerging democracies, education reform and supporting the women and men who served in america's military. in september, 2011, the bush institute, the u.s. government coming human aids and the susan g. komen announced a pink ribbon initiative a partnership to leverage pepfar's platform and resources to combat cervical and breast cancer in developing nations. my organization had the honor of having mrs. bush as a keynote speaker at our annual conference a couple of years ago. she was introduced then by her twin daughters barbara and jenna who gave one of the most touching introductions have ever heard. the painting a full picture of their mother and reminded all of those of the multiple roles that women balance every day in ways that are truly remarkable. and so as they did, i want to present to you a leader of great depth and accomplishment as i have noted, with a woman that is al

w. bush. mr. mccain: which in my view does not impact the need for a full and complete investigation. mr. durbin: secondly, this attorney general, mr. holder, has been brought before a congressional committee time after time. i have been in the senate judiciary committee when he has been questioned at length about fast and furious, and i'm sure he has been called even more frequently before the house committees. third, he's produced over 9,000 pages of documents and chairman issa has said not enough, we need more. well, at some point it becomes clear he will never produce enough documents. and the house decided to find him in contempt for that. that's their decision. i don't think that was necessarily proper. but having said that, does that mean that every decision from the department of justice from this point forward cannot be trusted? mr. mccain: no, but what i am saying is that there is a significant credibility problem that the attorney general of the united states has at least with the majority of the house of representatives. mr. durbin: the republican majority. mr. mccain: on

w. bush, of course, won the state of ohio, and mr. bush won a second term as president.r a congressional committee called out ohio for the way it had run that election. congress called on ohio to reform its elections to make things work better. but it was not just ohio where people waited if line in 2004. in florida, that year, people also waited in long hours in lines at the polls. we went back to look for old footage of those lines in ohio, we also found these images, people lined up at the polls in the great state of florida waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for the chance to vote. that night, george w. bush, of course, won the state of florida as well. after the debacle of the '04 election, officials in the states took another look at early voting. at whether offering more days and more hours for early voting might help more voters vote without it taking all day. and lots of people leaving the polls in frustration without voting because they just didn't have the time to wait. voters also decided maybe there was something to that earl

w. bush who recent lid said you can't be we haded to a formula by him it's -- who the hell is he anyway? [ laughter ] well, well, a-ha. don't look now, mr. president but that is not barbara by your side. noooooorquiiiisst. now i shant repeat his name again because if you say it too many times he will appear behind you and slash more than your taxes. [ laughter ] harry reid if you want to avoid the fiscal cliff and help the republicans defeat he who must not be shaved come up with a simpler plan. mib the republicans can fake their death, grow goatees and come back to vote as evil twins. maybe that will fool him. oh, no, i said his name too many times. no, no he's coming for me! i must appease him with a gift of a manchild. come to me. i must feed you to the norquist. arrgghh. don't take -- don't eat me. eat the baby. [ applause ] [cheers and applause] i'm sure the baby will be fine. [ laughter ] we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. [cheers and applause] thank yous so much. i really appreciate it, folks. i love getting your energy because i'm tired. i was up all night watchi