joining me now is michael duffy and deaf put chief nancy gibbs. thank you both so much.e start out with the relationship between former president bush and current president obama. what did you find out about that? >> well, you know, the interesting thing is from the minute that obama was elected, president bush made it clear that he wanted to help with the transition. he actually gadgetered the whole club together for sort of a member "showbiz flashpoint" initiation. and at that time president bush said, you know, we all want you to succeed. this is something we saw again and again and again in all the presidents that they looked at. they want to help the next guy. after that he's worked very hard not to make life more difficult for president obama. >> yet these guys are on different sides of issues. there's long-standing sort of friction between them and their partisans because they ran against each other. there's this clinton add out now. former president clinton puts out this ad praising president obama for how, you know, he had the courage to go after osama bin laden

nancy gibbs is coming up. she is awesome. inside the world's most exclusive fraternity." >> uh-huh. >> about the relationships of ex-presidents with each other. >> a fraternity that mitt romney really wants to join. >> nobody wants to be in a fraternity with mitt romney. >> no. >> i'm a pinkster. >> and gerry connolly coming up. and lots to get to. we haven't talked to celebrity stack yet. >> right. we did talk to a celebrity though. >> kerry washington. >> jim hasn't recovered yet. >> i'm not looking anymore. jacki schechner in the current tv newsroom. good morning, jacki. >> good morning, stephanie. good morning, everyone.. record fund-raising numbers for the first quarter this year they brought in $17.7 million, which puts their total so far at $70 million. on the house side the dccc is putting aside its money to spend big this fall. $32 million set aside for a tv advertising campaign in more than a dozen districts in 14 states. they say they are planning now because the rates are going to go up closer to the election in n

cupp, and "time" magazine's nancy gibbs, the co-author of the great new book we touted last week calledclub" i'll begin with you, the vice president's club, if you will, we heard dick cheney's advice there, so i guess that means seth meyers should be vice president if you are going with that model. >> i'm not sure we would expect different advice from the guy from wyoming on the -- >> don't target an ethnic group or a large state. >> but i was interested in something you tweeted about, the romney plan to be the anti-palin process as possible. i was curious what you were getting at. >> i was curious, you wouldn't be surprised, s.e., when you mention the word palin you get a reaction no matter how you mention. and the way it was characterized, no matter what, you're not going to be able to say it was like the process that led to sarah palin and that that is a -- whether it's fair or unfair criteria, that is a criteria the romney campaign has stuck with. >> sure. you can love sarah palin but if you're campaigning for mitt romney or you are advising that team you don't want to recall 2008 a

. >> nancy gibbs?> i'm trying to remember the president having trouble with his conservative base. anyway, i can't remember. i'll remember it later. i think it may have been kennedy who was having trouble with his conservative -- no, it was lbj having trouble with his conservative base. he wanted to cut taxes. he wanted to cut taxes and the democrats were saying we are not doing that. it's irresponsible, it's reckless. tax cuts are canes yan. the white house understands tax increases kills the economy. do they want to raise taxes right now? >> i don't think they want to raise taxes right now. there's an election coming. they don't want -- >> it took a long time for me to get there, by the way. i'm still thinking about donny deutsche. >> long night. >> my bigger point is, i'll say this quickly. what we see in washington is a cherade. >> remember, there's an election coming as we were discussing. nobody wants to do anything politically unpopular between now and november. we are heading to the end of 2012

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we wanted to know more so we asked nancy gibbs to join us.e the world's most exclusive fraternity. >> this is fascinating. so many secrets revealed. i know you've worked on this for years and years. give me off the top one nugget that stands out to you that when you learned about this, you just thought my goodness. >> when we first did our research, we referred to the presidents club informally as all the guys who have been president. we didn't realize that there is a club. there is, in fact, a clubhouse, an unmarked townhouse about a block from the white house that richard nixon arranged to have quietly purchased for the use only of former presidents. you know, only four people in the world are allowed to check in and you have to call the white house to make reservations. but you walk in the front door and the rug in the foyer has the presidential seem em bosed on it. and it is probably the most exclusive clubhouse in the world. >> have you set foot on that carpet? have you been inside? >> my co-author michael duffy went through it this week

. >> nancy gibbs and michael duffy have done a fabulous, fabulous job. a lot about it. i'm anxious to read it. thanks for giving us a preview in this issue of "time" magazine, rick. thanks very much. >> thank you, wolf. >> so what happens when you put two 80-year-olds in charge of a major company's twitter account? >> you have to let them know that we got their message. >> right. >> and we're trying our darnedest to figure out how to work this tweet machine. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste and whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. >>> let's get back to jack. the. >> the question is, ann romney did not have to work but the majority of middle class women. she hasn't a include about the economy as it relates to working mothers. both the romneys have been part of the 1%. hillary rosen was right on target. lillian writes from colorado as a disabled mother

it's an adaptation from the book by nancy gibbs and michael duffy called the president's club about howe hurt each other. once upon a time, they were rivals, but now because of what they've experienced, because of the act of sitting in the oval office, what unites them is more important than what separates them. >> give us a great example. >> it's interesting. we start out circling around the obama presidency and they were fighting like ferrets and yet, if you look at barack obama's new campaign video, 17-minute campaign video. the biggest star is bill clinton. he asked bill clinton to appear in it. he consults with bush 41 and 43 about different things. the fantastic part in the piece is that after the killing of osama bin laden, the first two calls that barack obama made were to bush 41 and bill clinton. >> you know, obviously, you talk to people inside the white house and they're actually grateful that george w. bush has been as respectful in retirement as he has. in fact, sticking his neck out on the line on the auto bailout, which doesn't help george w. bush's own party, but certai

host: the cover story -- the world's most exclusive club, co- written by nancy gibbs and michael duffynd we will cover this subject on upcoming "q &a" program. thank you for your calls and comments and tweets and e-mails. some other news from overnight, you probably heard the warnings late yesterday of the tornadoes that swept her oklahoma and kansas from the associated press and this video courtesy of "usa today." bett left at least five people dead in oklahoma, damaging homes, a hospital, a gel, and air force base and other buildings in the region. oklahoma authorities said the five people died early sunday morning after the tornado hit around the northwest part of oklahoma in the town oklahomawoodward. the state medical examiner's office confirmed the debts and similar tornadoes set down in kansas. you can get more information by logging onto cnn.com or usatoday.com. when we come back, craig crawford, contributor will be here to weigh in on presidential politics but first, the cspan radio studios, keeping track of the other sunday programs. >> good morning, beginning at noon, easter