bush and the son of richard bush senior of course. he just had a curious and really astonishing career in the oil industry, which certainly hasn't been based on his success because he's failed repeatedly time and time again. you'd see a track record unblemished by his success. and yet people over the years have continuously partnered with him and it's really hard to understand why it is because his family name. he hasn't done as well in the obama years. i would think that a star would rise. truly it was because i thought it was a funny story and an interesting story and reflection in the way not just go businessworks aired it is the way the world works. the way the business world works. >> host: chelsea clinton had a number of astonishing career opportunities. >> guest: getting paid an astonishing amount of money. i thought it was a funny story. the truth is my editor and i discussed it and it didn't really fit anywhere else and we didn't want to lose. so that is true that how it ended up being in the last chapter. >> host: i was goin

bush and richard fowler, radio talk show host of the richard fowler show. good to see you both this saturday. >> good to see you. >> thank you. >> mercedes, what does this boil down to? >> quite frankly, we have to consider whether it's the incompetence of the irs or a coincidence. when you look at it out of 93,000 irs employees, what is it that the key five staffers that are involved in the irs crisis or scandal that they've all of a sudden had computer problems and lost these e-mails? i mean, this is a big problem that the irs is having because the irs failed to comply with the federal records act where they are supposed to preserve these federal e-mails and i just think that this story, as much as the democrats want to push it away, i think it's growing bigger and bigger. >> richard, so how do irs officials explain their way out of this? >> listen, i don't think the story is growing bigger and bigger at all. i think it's doing the opposite. it's growing smaller and smaller because the irs turned over 5,000 documents to the government oversight committee

bush, john f. kennedy, richard nixon, ronald reagan? >> i'm pretty sure it's george w. bush. >> i don't know.nal answer? >> yes. >> is it george w. bush? yes. you are correct. george, stay here for her last question. you are still her plus one anchor. here is your last question. are you ready? here we go. >> all right. >> under notable people for garden city, new york, wikipedia lists lara spencer and what actress who lost 18 times before winning her first emmy? betty white, mary tyler moore, susan lucci, julia luis dreyfus. >> susan lucci. >> susan lucci. >> is it susan lucci? it is. you win. you are correct. i wish i had some money to give you. but i'm so sorry. i think there's something else. thank you so much. >> okay. and thanks, terry. what a unique version of "who wants to be a millionaire." we have a prize for you, terry has invited you to join the studio audience. >> thank you. >> and of course, see "who wants to be a millionaire" on weekdays. and now to ginger. >> you can be over here. i was behind george. i would not know the answers. could you say good morning to everybody, abbey,

bush and now has his own consulting company. richard haass was the director of policy planning at the state department during the george w. bush administration. he's currently the president of the council on foreign relations. micheÈle flournoy was under secretary of defense for policy during the first term of the obama administration. she's now chief executive officer at the center for a new american security. and retired army colonel andrew bacevich is professor emeritus of international relations and history at boston university. his latest book is "breach of trust: how americans failed their soldiers and their country. we welcome all four of you back to the program. i want to go around and ask all of you to start with whether you think the president has laid out a plan that is headed in the right direction. terri williams-flournoy, -- michelle flournoy, you first. >> i think absolutely. the president laid out a comprehensive, clear strategy. he shared a lot of resolve, determination to put together an international coalition to go a

richard nixon with a crime. the special prosecutor, which had been set up to investigate watergate, and you may remember archibald cox, nixon firing the special prosecutor, then the appointment of bob, and a friend bush, leon troicki, and sharansky at the time of nixon's resignation was this close to indicting richard nixon for obstruction of justice. the house of representatives and the senate had already voted articles of impeachment. thenixon not resign within space of a week, there would have been a set up for an impeachment trial, and jaworski was going to throw the hail mary pass and charge the president of the united states with obstruction of justice. now, there would be no more impeachment hearings, of course, but richard nixon is a citizen of the united states. there is nothing to stop to roar from charging him with that crime. he has a physical piece of evidence, a tape recording, that shows that nixon was clearly guilty of that crime. ford did not want him to be charged with that crime. if there was a deal in the pardon, and i submit to you there was, it wasn't between nixon and ford. it was between phil bukin, acting for ford,if there was a e and leon jaworski. jaworski was, and somehow,

richard nixon, but the net was cast widely. everyone comes back with jerry ford, but who is number two? george bush. it wasn't his time yet. thank you. >> final question, bob. not part of the ford administration, but part of the ford story, that sort of weird moment at the 1980 republican convention where the was a brief moment when ford might have become reagan's vice presidential running mate, but he wanted to run half of the cabinet or something. what was that about? >> ronald reagan had gone through was a very bruising primary, and the second -- the runner-up was george bush. that nancy reagan did not like george bush. nancy reagan did not like the fact that he had coined the term voodoo economics. bush had gotten out of the race in time. he had gotten out of the race, so he was not holding on like pat buchanan and some other people, but there was a bad taste in the reagan people's mouths about george bush. they thought he was too moderate and that he would not be a good match. reagan himself comes up with the idea, along with kissinger, who is in reagan's ear, about bringing ford in. there is nothing that prohibits ge

bush or bill clinton, but richard nixon. he was the basic rules. it is an administrative agency.nt gets to appoint his people to it. they get to write the regulations that regulate the behavior of corporations and private individuals. the answer to your question may not be a far-fetched one. if the republicans take control of the senate this november, then the congress can invalidate any regulation of the epa. stuart: they can go back and say what you are doing to call is wrong. >> yes. no. they cannot repeal regulations that are already in place. the epa proposes a regulation. they said lobbyists to congress. we will loose when republicans are in the senate. if both houses of congress validate the legislation, it never becomes law. he like a president whose views on the ability of the government to regulate the environment are a little more sensitive to things like cool. you will not change the basic structure. the democrats -- they think that they will get their guy in the white house and did their guys in the epa. >> you could say that there is nothing wrong with that. >> the

bush appointed three. and the out of control richard nixon had five attorneys general in five years before he was forced to resign and pardoned for his crimes when his vice president became president. and now president obama will have to choose an attorney general for the second time now that eric holder has decided to do what most of his predecessors have done, and he has resigned before the president's term is up. >> and i chose him to serve as attorney general because he believes, as i do, that justice is not just an abstract theory. it's a living and breathing principle. that's why i made him america's lawyer. >> i have love the department of justice ever since as a young boy i watched robert kennedy prove during the civil rights movement how the department and must always be a force for that which is right. i hope that i have done honor to the faith that you have placed in me, mr. president, into the legacy of all those who have served before me. >> president obama has not yet decided on a replacement for eric holder, but the senate confirmation process may not be as easy as it was for eric holder. te

. >>> i'm richard jordan at the live desk following breaking news from the houston airport. george bush intercontinental around. there's a suspicious substance on a plane there. we've seen crews in hazmat gear plane. no information as to what that substance could be. you can be sure that every precaution is being taken before any travelers are al plane. george bush intercontinental airport. a suspicious substance now found on that plane. now back to you. >> if your cell phones and radios are having a few issues in the coming days, the sun may be to blame. a new solar flare launched off the sun yesterday. scientists are still working to determine just how strongly the flare will impact earth. we should find that out later today. solar flares emit tons of electrical energy and cause disruptions to the magnetic balance on earth. >>> the ravens take on the steelers tonight for the first time since the new ray rice assault tape surfaced. this morning, we're learning that a new independent investigation has been launched by the nfl. former fbi director robert mueller will try to figure out wh

alabama senator richard shelby who today is calling on fuller to resign immediately. a 2002 george w. bush appointee has been the subject of heightened media scrutiny in the wake of the ray rice fallout for an arrest that happened in atlanta on august 9th after his wife called and told police he was beating her. here's what that 911 call sounded like. >> what's going on? >> it's domestic. >> excuse me? >> a domestic dispute. >> okay. with yourself and who else? >> i'm calling. i need help. >> what's your name? >> kelli fuller. >> okay. do you need an ambulance? >> yes, please. >> kelli? kelli? okay. she needs an ambulance. i'm sending the police. they're in a domestic fight at the ritz carlton. >> please help me. >> she had lacerations to her mouth and forehead said the judge threw her to the ground, pulled her hair and kicked her after she confronted him over an alleged affair with a law clerk. fuller entered a plea deal in ra domestic violence case that could result in the record being expunged if he completes a program for 24 weeks and undergoes drug and alcohol evaluation. the 11th cir

bush in the stands for the detroit tilers taking on kansas city. detroit wins to tie for the division league. help your fellow detroiters, right? >> that's right, richard. thank you very much. >>> and now take you outside of las vegas. extreme weather scene. roads turned into dangerous rapids, an empty van seconds of disaster. the ma man tries reach it. swallowed up. seconds later, that man resurfaces. unbelievable seen in the desert. here with your wednesday forecast. bill karins, can you imagine going through something like that? >> going down, in a hole like that. no. i can't. that was yesterday. thankfully that's over. overnight a new life-threatens situation in missouri and areas aaron omaha. water rescues last night. this storm system is moving across the country. there's a lot of moisture with it. getting drenched across the midwest and that's sliding into the great lakes and ohio valley today. flash flood watches in effect for much of wisconsin, northern illinois, northern indiana and flood warnings galore in southern iowa and northern missouri just got slammed last night. not a misprint on the kirksville, missouri, rain gauge. nine inches of r

bush and john dingell sr., agreed on. however it was done, the banking system pumps the economy's life's blood and had to be protected. how do economists view banking regulation? we asked economic analyst richard how do economists view banking regulation? with ambivalence. it can be and has been argued that it was deregulation and lack of adequate supervision that threw s&ls and commercial banks into disarray. or it can be been argued that the real problem has been government intervention-- raising the level of deposit insurance to $100,000 and thus encouraging high-risk loans and investments. in the final analysis, the real issue isn't so much regulation versus deregulation as it is how to protect depositors without giving a green light to the reckless and imprudent. everybody agrees that a sound economy requires a reliable banking system and that it's the government's job to guarantee that reliability. that's why the government supported the banks after the panic of 1907 and why the banking safety net was reinforced in the great depression. it's why we've paid hundreds of billions of dollars to stand behind the government's guarantee of deposits in bankrupt s&ls. it's also why, although they

alabama senator richard shelby has now joined missouri senator claire mccaskill and terry sewell in calls for his immediate resignation. fuller, a 2002 george w. bushintee was arrested august 9th after his wife called and told police he was beating her. >> what's going on? >> i -- it's domestic. >> excuse me? >> domestic dispute.f$ >> okay. with yourself and who else?ev >> i'm calling, i need help. >> what's your name? >> kelly fuller. >> okay. you need an ambulance? >> yes, please. >> kelli? kelli. okay. she needs an ambulance. i'm sending police. they're in a domestic fight now at the ritz-carlton. >> please help me. >> according to a police report, fuller's wife said the judge assaulted her after she confronted him over an alleged affair. fuller accepted a plea deal including pretrial diversion that will result in his record being expunged if he completes a 24-week domestic violence program and undergoes drug and alcohol evaluation. fuller has been removed from hearing cases. but he's still being paid. his annual salary of nearly $200,000. as a lifetime tenured judge, the only way to remove fuller is for congress to impeach him. he reached out t

richard, thank you. it is 6:55. a d.c. sixth grade teacher will apologize for an assignment that asked students to draw comparisons between former president george w. with bush and adol. students were sent h ven diagram and aske contrast bush and hi. one parent said he fo one parent says he s certain lack of respec office of the presid instructions read bo abused their powers, parent says presents "the teacher knits t poor judgment and sh sightedness and will to" >>> if you live in white flint on the red line you probably know the area has a built of identity area. is it white flint, north bethesda, rockville? today you can let your voices be heard. two developers in that area will hold a public hearing to settle the name issue once and for all. weigh in from 6:00 to 9:00 at street sense on the bethesda offices there. >>> it is a storm team 4 weather alert day, meaning we could get strong storms this afternoon. be sure to tune in to nbc 4 news 4 at 4:00 with veronica johnson and news 4t 5:00 and 6 with doug kammerer. >>> 270 at montrose, early crash out of the way. t broadcast this gr morning. thank you for spending time with us. >> the "today" show is next

. >> richard lui, thanks so much for your report and we'll have more on the life of joan rivers when i speak with billy bush later this hour. first after the break, president obama is sitting down for dinner with other nato leaders. can he cobble together coalitions for two foreign policy crises? i'll speak with the department spokesman mary hart and jane harmon. that is next on "now." don't just dream of being the hero. make it happen. i can't believe we're missing the game for this. we're not-- i've got xlte. it doubles our 4g lte bandwidth in cities nationwide, so be that guy with verizon xlte. now get 1gb of bonus data, and our best pricing ever on the more everything plan. you'rbam!ean. charmin ultra strong cleans so much better it meets even the highest standards of clean. with a soft duraclean texture, charmin ultra strong is 4 times stronger. and you can use up to 4x less. charmin ultra strong. hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah... (boy) i'm here! i'm here! (cop) too late. i was gone for five minutes! ugh! move it. you're killing me. you know what, dad? i'm good. (dad) it may be quit

bush cared at all about the evidence. he wasn't looking for evidence. he was cowering people from the very start, richardark and it is in his book. soon after 9/11, to find out what iraq, iraq's role was in the 9/11 attack. and not only was there no role whatsoever by saddam hussein and osama bin laden hated each other. they were rivals in terms of the islamic fundamentalist activity in the middle east. they weren't allies at all. and this was known to bush. it was known to cheney but, you know, cheney's position was the 1% factor. if there's a 1% chance that saddam hussein has weapons of mass destruction, we have to take action. well, this is justification for what cheney wanted to do. we wanted to punish someone after 9/11. no doubt about that. there was no punishment to be dealt to afghanistan because there were no strategic targetì% because al qaeda had been routed from the country. very effectively by the cia and the military over a two-month period with 450 people. that's why this war is such a tragedy. after december 2001, we should have turned the keys back over to the country. the various ethnic

richard nixon. heftyuntry has paid a price for inaction on health care even though president ford come up harder, bush, and clinton made this issue a priority. cost spiraled out of control and health care became unaffordable for millions of families and businesses alike. taxpayers felt the effect as well. priced outo weren't of the health-care market, many were locked out because of pre-existing conditions. and many who were fortunate enough to have insurance did not receive a very high quality of care. by the time president obama took the oath of office, our system had broken down to such a degree that we were spending far more as an economy on health care in both gross and per capita terms that all the other developed countries. in 2009, we were spending $2 trillion a year on health care. it was almost 50% more per person than the next most costly nation. these rising costs took their toll on family budgets. study led byrvard a certain professor with a very bright future, elizabeth warren, found that 62% of personal bankruptcies were due to medical problems. what were we getting for the higher healt

richard engel, nbc news, turkey. >>> police in nigeria say they found one of the schoolgirls kidnapped of terrorists in april alive. police say the 20 year old was found wandering in a bushednesday. police say she's heavily traumatized and is being treated at a hospital. nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped by boko haram in april. a number of the girls were able to escape but this is the first case in months any of the girls have been found. >>> now back in the u.s., we have an update this morning on the developing story in chicago. flights have begun taking off and landing again in the windy city. both o'hare and midway airports grounded flights earlier this morning after a fire in aurora, about 40 miles outside of chicago. southwest airlines just announced, though, it is cancelling all flights to midway and milwaukee international airport until 5:00 p.m. pacific time. also cancellations and delays here at bay area airports. be sure to check with your airline if you are headed to the airport today. >>> good news to tell you about in the king wildfire. after nearly two weeks, they are finally getting the upper hand on the blaze. yesterday's rain gave fire crews a big bo

bush cared at all about the evidence. he wasn't looking for evidence. he was cowering people from the very start, richardd it is in his book. soon after 9/11, to find out what iraq, iraq's role was in the 9/11 attack. and not only was there no role whatsoever by saddam hussein and osama bin laden hated each other. they were rivals in terms of the islamic fundamentalist activity in the middle east. they weren't allies at all. and this was known to bush. it was known to cheney but, you know, cheney's position was the 1% factor. if there's a 1% chance that saddam hussein has weapons of mass destruction, we have to take action. well, this is justification for what cheney wanted to do. we wanted to punish someone after 9/11. no doubt about that. there was no punishment to be dealt to afghanistan because there were no strategic targetì% because al qaeda had been routed from the country. very effectively by the cia and the military over a two-month period with 450 people. that's why this war is such a tragedy. after december 2001, we should have turned the keys back over to the country. the various ethnic group

bush. meanwhile, you have those who lost. john breckenridge. remember him? no. henry wallace. you got richardondale and of course al gore. so what do you make of that? >> well, just because you're vice president doesn't guarantee you're going to win. al gore came really the closest of any recent vice president. so it just isn't a guarantee. it's an interesting dichotomy that we had. he's a heartbeat away from the presidency, but it is hard, it's almost easier to run as an outsider. especially after you've had a president with two terms. >> sure. look at al gore. there he was. his family had lived in washington forever, since he was a little boy. let's talk about the pros and cons. what are the pros about joe biden and the race for president? >> well, joe biden has decades of experience. he was one of the youngest senators ever elected in 1973 he was elected to the senate from delaware. so he has decades of experience. he chaired the senate foreign relations committee. so he has the experience factor which is one reason why president obama chose him in the first place. the cons is that joe bid

richard nixon. polls that look at the field of the state of iowa continue to show romney running far ahead of the rest of his party's perspective candidates. jeb bush the "new york times" he hasn't decided if he will run but once he begins the process of making a decision it won't take that long once i start. bush is doing what everyone who wants to run for president does he was campaigning for his president. every presidential election there seems to be an unofficial candidate of the republican establishment, the role romney and bush would be looking to play if they run. does the establishment want either or both of them to run in 2016? here to discuss what is going on is the washington post national political reporter robert costa. thank you for joining us this morning. let me start with this romney report. i don't have inside information on romney. i thought from afar looking at pole numbers i believe that when you have romney running that far ahead of the rest of the field including somebody with the name like bush we are not just measuring name recognition. this is saying something deeper and significant. what are you hearing? this caught a lo

richard nixon nominating as dwight eisenhower. nixon is the vice president. gerald ford is nominated. the incumbent president. ronald reagan, second. in 1980.nated george bushme in second in 1980, nominated in '88, etc., etc. no number two y candidate right now. to the e looking back santorum ran, rick some close races against mitt romney in 2012. but i don't think anybody really thinks rick santorum is the next in line. ccain is not running. mitt romney is not running. race for the republicans has been since 1940. they had few seasoned office holders because the republican party lost most this countryons in n the 1930s, unlike 1940, the republicans had quite a few eople in government, few responsibilities in a have been advancing intellectually serious public policy positions. the battle of ideas. many potential presidential nominees. see how the contest goes. beverly,call comes from herckford, north carolina. caller: mr. barone, listening to your opening statements concerning the tea party. are really a true cheerleader for the ultra conservative group. a me, the tea party is just continuation of the ku klux klan. at least i see that here in north carolin

richard in maryland, independent caller, what do you think? caller: okay. i think we need to go back in the memory bank here a little bit and remember that at the end of george bush's tenure or close to the end of it, iran was on the board to be attacked, at least wmds disposed of. and that is still very front and center issue at the present time. and not only that, but george bush also identified the axis of evil. iran was one of those, one of those countries. so i feel that obama, our president, is the only person who has stood between that endeavor, to attack iran. host: okay. caller: and he's actually at this point trying to essentially delay that and conservatives are trying to keep it from the senate but they're not talking about it. host: let's go to spring in springfield, ohio, democratic caller. caller: hi. good bless you. i called about two months ago, and i called about these chicken hawks again. again i just want to let you know these knee oh conservatives are concerned about the war, troops on the ground, bring back the draft, put their kids and all these other chicken hawks' families over there. my kids, i have five in the service at the same time. i

richard nixon, but the net was cast widely. everyone comes back with jerry ford, but who is number two? george bush. it wasn't his time yet. thank you. >> final question, bob. not part of the ford administration, but part of the ford story, that sort of weird moment at the 1980 republican convention where the was a brief moment when ford might have become reagan's vice presidential running mate, but he rented to -- wanted to run half of the cabinet or something. what was that about? >> ronald reagan had gone through was a very bruising primary, and the second -- the runner-up was george bush. that nancy reagan did not like george bush. nancy reagan did not like the fact that he had coined the term voodoo economics. bush had gotten out of the race at time -- in time. he had gotten out of the race, so he was not holding on like pat buchanan and some other people, but there was a bad taste in the reagan people's mouths about george bush. they thought he was too moderate and that he would not be a good match. reagan himself comes up with the idea, along with kissinger, who is in reagan's ear, about bringing ford in. there is n