they were tools in the hands of congress and the administration. though the clinton and the bush administration and it was hud. >> host: hud is the housing urban development agency which is it cabinet agency. >> guest: they were caring for the mandates of the of audible housing requirements and they were being very tough about them because there was a lot of very good political juice in their for the administrations they were serving. in the case of the bush administration yes bush was very favorable to the idea of homeownership and indeed in his memoirs wash said i was delighted with the way that low-income people were able to buy homes and homeownership in the united states was rising that what i didn't realize was the risks that we were undertaking at the same time. so he kind of apologize in and that way for what his administration did and i think that was the right way to do it. they did not realize what they were introducing into the housing system and ultimately the entire financial system but forcing fannie and freddie to buy mortgages that were not well grounded. >> host

they were tools in the hands of congress and the administration both the clinton and the bush administration and it was hud that was -- the department of housing -- >> which is a cabinet agency. >> housing development was bringing through the mandate and being tough because there was a lot of very good political use in there for the administration to say we have serving. and in the case of the bush administration, yes, he wanted. bush was favorable to the idea of home ownership. and in his memoirs bush said he was delighted with low income people able to buy homes and the home ownership was rising but i didn't realize the risk we were undertaking at the same time. he kind of apologized in that way for what his administration did and i think that was the right way to do it. they did not realize the risk they were introducing into the housing system and ultimately into the entire financial system by forcing fannie mae and freddie mac to buy mortgages that were not well grounded. >> a couple areas of dispute about the housing crisis and one is regulation. should there be more or less? you are a

it reflects real events in the bush administration during the global war on terror. >> this re minds me of bob graham's novel who wrote a fictional account of dealing with saudi arabia and dealing with terror attack i got the sense that there are things you feel more comfortable writing in a novel form. >> i would go to meetings with president bush, cheney, rumsfeld and here the most innane stuff to persuade us had i wrote a book on what i heard would have been a best seller. i decided to turn it into a humor. >> what is the lesson? what point are you trying to make to the bush administration. >> the book is about an innocent guy who has philosophy of laying low don't watch "meet the press" don't watch anything but his beloved new york mets. >> little auto biographical, no? >> a little bit. >> although you do like "meet the press." >> i do like "meet the press" that's why i'm on. >> you're a huge mets fan. >> i am. so he gets fingered if because nsa surveillance program picked him up. the lesson is sometimes the government goes too far spying on people. >> was this something you alwa

didn't the bush administration -- didn't the bush administration -- no, the bush administration -- >> confuse bush and rocky. >> there was an opening up for a nuclear treaty. and, you know, it didn't work out. but the bush administration tried it. >> i know a lot of people are arguing about this idea. and i hope i'm saying it right. i think i am. in the muslim religion. parts of islam. if you make a deal with infidels you don't. have to honor. a risk of causing a so-called earning recession. nearly one fifth of s&p 500 companies have issued warning on first quarter results. 84% of first quarter guidance has been negative. but well above the five-year average of 6%. >> the fed will raise rates amid that. when i saw that story. >> yeah. >> my first conclusion was yellen is really going to raise rates and make the dollar even stronger and squeeze corporate profits even more. she's so worried about another recession and all that. that's one of the biggest arguments of raising rates. >> this is like the fourth largest number -- third largest number of companies that warned of negative resu

the museum is most famous here because of the inexplicable decision by the bush administration to leave it unguarded and open to looters after the u.s. invaded iraq in 2003 and overthrew the iraqi government. the fact the u.s. was going to invade was not a secret. the bush administration telegraphed, threatened and promised it months and months before they did. the iraq invasion in 2003 was a war of american choice. it started on an announced american timetable. they could go whenever they wanted to. because of that because they telegraphed the war was going to start, archaeologists and curators around the world warned the bush administrationing and the pentagon specifically of how important that museum was if baghdad was going to get invaded. at the time they thought they had convinced the bush administration and the military that that baghdad museum was an important site to protect when the invasion happened. they expected it to be protected. they were shocked when no such protection was offered. the site was left abandoned and looted. >> some of the losses are priceless. staff at bag

how important that is, our country from 2000 to 2010 our nation -- 2000 to 2010, the end of the bush administration -- i'm sorry, the end of the clinton administration till two years into the obama administration, mostly the eight bush years we lost five million manufacturing jobs 60,000 plants in places like pennsylvania and ohio closed. we know that. our industry, our economy has been growing, however, since two things. the recovery act of 2009 and the auto rescue of 2010. we have seen 58, 59, 60 months of economic growth, consecutive months since then. that underscores how important auto is in my state where as i said 120,000 people are in the auto supply chain. we continue to face roadblocks just to getting the basic information on a plan that would have a major effect on auto supply chain. what i don't understand, mr. president, is how can -- why would this body, why would 100 people that took that oath that senator casey and i took in 2013 and 2007, in this chamber, how -- why in the world would any of us vote for something that we can't get information about? why would anybody who took an oa

being a people person more so than anything and he really had a heart for a lot of issues but the bush administration counted the african-american community as a loss because they knew that the african-american community -- >> you mean if he thought he could have won some african-american votes, he might have had a few different policies? >> i think he would have. i think his administration would have changed. i don't think it was him, i think it was more so the people around him. more than that i think if he had built up more equity in the beginning when katrina hit, it wouldn't have been so bad. >> let's go to bill clinton. he always got this moniker before barack obama as the first black president. what did you ever think of that moniker? >> it's interesting. i just -- i take away from that that he had a heart for the community. he understood and he really did understand to a certain ex at the present time -- extent. i believe he did do as much as he was allowed to do in the political climate at that time. >> i see a "but" coming. >> yes, because things can change. you have a president but you hav

state department during the first obama administration and fred flight, formerly on the staff of the house intelligence committee during the george w. bush and obama administrations. regardless of its legality and there are many people throwing plenty of cold water on the idea that this was illegal to do, is it a good idea? >> it's good to be here. it's an excellent idea. this was an active leadership our elected representatives, senators can't do anything about this agreement because it's not a treaty. they see an agreement that this administration is cooking up that will be extremely destabilizing to the middle east, will pave the way to an iranian nuclear weapon and they're doing what they can to kill the negotiations, kill this deal, and force the administration and the european allies to start over with a more reasonable policy. i hope there will be more congress. >> aren't they bound to see what's in it first? >> that's a fake argument the obama administration is making. we know what's in the deal, ray. the "washington post" is a good example. there's going to be a large number of centrifuges, iran will continue to be able to enric

some of you are old enough to remember the ad the bush administration campaign of 1988. everybody looked at that and said that is so incredibly racially charged. it's a scare tactic and a very subtle way and that is pretty much to take on that ad but the fact is in 1988, joe biden sort of got on a boat he picked up the very same thing and said come and i'm quoting, one of my objectives quite frankly is to lock him up in jail. now if you heard what he did everybody would want to lock him up but this might have been an opportunity for him to sort of give the time to offer some balance to mitigate this push by offering the other side. not everybody is. there are other ways of preventing. but he jumped on the bandwagon. what i find really troubling about with them senator joe biden did is in 1994 when congress was putting in place with bill clinton called the toughest and smartest crime law ever enacted in the history of the country to racial advocates that i showed you before, what they wanted to do as clinton is expanding the death penalty to dozens more they wanted simply

some of you are old enough to remember the willy horton ad the bush administration, bush i campaign in 1988, everyone looked at that and said what? that is so incredibly racially charged it is a scare tactic and a very subtle way and that is the take on that ad but the fact is in 1988, joe biden sort of got on that boat, picked up the same thing and he said, i am quoting, one of my objectives quite frankly is to walk willie horton up in jail. if you heard what willie horton did, everybody would want to lock him up but this might have been an opportunity for joe biden to stem the tide, to offer some balance, to mitigate this push by offering the other side. not everybody is willie horton, not every black person is willie horton. there are other ways of preventing willie hortons and so forth but he jumped on the bandwagon. what i find really troubling about what than senator joe biden did was in 1994, when congress was putting in place what bill clinton called the toughest and smartest crime law ever enacted in the history of the country, the racial justice advocates that i showed you be

what did the bush administration claim? est: so, there are a lot of different transparency scandals left from the bush presidency. i love this question because it demonstrates a bit help partisan these lines are. but the rhetoric on the right day is actually very similar to the rhetoric on the left 10 years ago. when looking at the bush presidency. so there are fundamental questions on when is something official. in terms of the cheney task force, this is a question on whether it was an informal chat between france, or whether it was something that should've been covered under the federal advisory committee. in terms of the rnc e-mail scandal under the bush presidency, my understanding is that that was a question of the line between political a federal records act question of one official records need to be preserved. in both cases it is a fundamental question of how do politics and power in the white house and top executive branch positions, how does that fight against public access and accountability? those lines and of be

the executive branch under the bush administration refused to enforce sanctions and violated american statutes for the benefit of iran for eight continuous years. the bush administration prevented congress from passing and used all of its power in congress to prevent us passing new statutory sanctions. now, that doesn't fit with the image we have of president bush until you realize that at the time the sanctions all focused on international oil companies which was not president bush's target of choice. had we continued president bush's policies, -- we should know that during the bush administration, iran went from zero to 5000 installed centrifuges. had we continued as policies iran would have $300 billion more available to it in cash right now because we have frozen $100 billion and $200 billion has been lost to iran and lost oil sales. but congress had it right for the last 15 years, which is why take such offense when i hear the administration say congress, if we have a view, we're interfering and undermining. when you read the united constitution, you will see that when it comes t

stowe was elected in 2001 of the first major issues that i had to confront after 9/11 was the bush administration is argument that we needed to take military action in iraq. so here i was until that point my idea of a top-secret meeting was sitting down with the highway superintendent to discuss strategies. nine midday's meetings with the president of united states and the vice president and colin powell and condoleezza rice. and donald rumsfeld listening to their arguments why we need to go to war in iraq. as a new member of congress on the basis of seniority is determined by your seniority. we know that. we'll use it is determined by seniority. because i was the lowest on the totem pole of the junior member i was seated at the end of the table as far away as i could get. like my house on a major holiday icehouse i would sit at the junior table while the adults had their meal but it gave me a bird's-eye view for i could observe president bush and vice president j.t., the tone and texture of the meetings. these are classified in august the eric did not write down what was said and having heard so

but to talk about the failure of the bush administration but intelligence agencies from around the world. we have done a very bad job to detect nuclear weapons. with china and pakistan to be under estimated that we over estimated from 2003. the fact is we have a very bad job in the intelligence community with a covert nuclear weapons than that is the serious issue looking up the negotiations because this deal is a bet with those clandestine line facilities. if iran was not engaging in clandestine and facilities today would be the first time in 20 years they have not. they have that record some hope from nuclear mendacity but they have not had a strategic state or as shift to pursue peaceful civilian energy cauteries stop that dedicated regime of the of supreme leader to support international terrorism? how to read no? that is the president's challenge over the next two months. >> host: on the kentucky line for democrats. >> caller: good morning. i had a question. what do you think the impact of the net on the of his speech and though letter written of the signs written by the senators to

after serving in the bush administration and seeing the lies they used to invade iraq, that is when i became an outlier. i resigned from the bush administration because i cannot support another lie being perpetrated on the american people, never mind the civilians in the middle east. host: let's see if we can get mike from kentucky. line for independents. caller: i was just wondering how are we keeping track of the build these bombs? how are they keeping an eye on them? also, two or three years ago the iranians hid one of the scientists away from us so we could not get to him and i think they have already killed two or three of them. if they can find out where he was at, i would think they would probably kill this guy. is this true or not? guest: hillary seems traumatized by her experience in the bush administration. i have a lot of sympathy for her, as she has been lied to by her own government but she seems to be credulous on the lies of the iranian regime. the caller brings up a good point is -- and that is the iranian regime has been lying to the international committee, the iaea

administration, and the george w. bush administration. as well as the carter and clinton administration. i try to see things objectively. i'm not perfect, but i think on this one, i would give president obama a little credit. i think he has intimidated the iranians. president obama turned up the strengthens -- sanctions. he also threatened twice in 2012 the use of military force. so i think so far so good. and i think david, the journalist of the "washington post" is right. have to hold our government to a high standard. when this deal is presented to the american public, the obama demonstration have to defend it. i think they're headed in the right direction. host: on the timeline for these negotiations, the wall -- "wall street journal" reporting -- the talks broke up on wednesday, and they are to resume march 15. it also says that iran and the six powers are aiming to complete the framework by the end of this month, and seal a detailed agreement by june 30. ron in d.c., an independent caller. caller: hi, how you doing? host: doing well,

if you remember the bush administration on its way out had a scandal. >> oh boy. it's not the same. >> listen. >> no, no, no. do i have an opportunity? >> of course. >> i want to talk about it. >> there's -- the e-mail issue in the bush administration was about archiveing specific e-mails and had those not been dealt with appropriately. we said, our it might not been as good. guess what? all those e-mails were found. >> that is a separate thing. >> as a matter of fact, he said it's not appropriate that you would have government work done on a private e-mail. >> that's right. >> so the issue was in the political office, you have to have two e-mails. people were overcompensating and trying to do both. that is three years before hillary clinton takes over an entire department in which she is in charge and those e-mails do not belong to her. >> you're making my point for me. this was -- >> but it's not the same. >> wait a second. >> an i tirks issue is totally different thanning making a decision to not have a government e-mail. >> there was a political scandal in the

have a character in the book named prewitt and he is the conscience of responsibility in the bush administration. he is the legal advisor to secretary ridge, the fictitious legals of itv to advisor to tom ridge and here's the liaison between ridge and cheney. if you read the former homeland security secretary tom ridge's book which i picked up he had colleges that there was pressure on him at times to raise alerts and it didn't always feel that the facts merited what he was asked to do. so john prewitt arrives at the white house as soon as the gate again swinging open he felt the usual pain in his stomach and decide. he was about to meet with the vice president who who felt a similar pain in his chest. that there was the bond between these two men. it hurt them hurts them to see each other. [laughter] prewitt arrives in the white house and i describe what that is why can't i have the privilege of entering the white house frequently so i describe what's behind the scenes and now prove it arrives in the vice president's office. the office is smaller than the oval office and more functional. his gu

what do you make -- joe talks about the bush administration, this was happening too. do you make -- we've heard that a lot from the clinton defenders, certainly. >> i just feel, not to pile on my friend joe, but i do feel like -- i just want politicians to have to answer to foia requests. when we have this thing where everybody is using their private e-mail, i don't think -- i don't think -- it's not -- i don't feel comfortable trying to have any kind of moral superiority that i may want to vote for or support, i just don't like it. >> i've said and i've written -- >> stop it, joe! stop your yelling! >> i've said she would be better off, meaning secretary clinton and the public, had she used the dot-gov e-mail. >> that's the thing that drives me nuts, though, is she won't just come out and says that. it was just a matter of convenience, and in mindsight -- >> it has to be some hindsight now. >> but a guy like carville is saying -- >> she doesn't, and that's -- >> but see, that's what i think people suspect, it wasn't an innocent thing from the beginning, where i don't

. >> listen i think it's both sides and i experienced it myself during the iraq war with the bush administration the audience and says you can't use those words against our commander and chief right now in the time of war. and i'm like whoa. >> are where did that happen. >> that happened at the comedy store. >> -- french fries, freedom fries. >> -- every time i say something you say i'm going to bring that up because it doesn't exist. [applause] >> you're going to sit here and tell me you're going to sit here and tell me when i'm called the racist sexist home phobic. >> who calling you that. >> everybody. >> -- white heterosexual christian males. >> white heterosexual christian males had a long run. [cheers and applause] >> they've had a long run. >> what i'm getting to actually is the social media is creating a kind of mob mentality. >> i didn't say mob. >> there's a power environment where people are all of a sudden acting like the police. he comes on and says anything that offends them and it has the apparent velocity of force. what that's doing is having a chimping effect on discourse. when

unfortunately, the bush administration decided the one tennis court was a luxury prisoners did not deserverick learned to read in prison. john: he was busted and put in prison, 20 years to life. marc: he was life without parole. i remember leaving the prison that day in texas and thinking how remarkable it is that he has learned to read and that he's gotten case law, but chances of overturning a federal life without parole sentence are like one in 100. and he called me and said, i told you i'm getting out. i'm on my way to l.a. on the bus. let's make that movie. john: he found a procedural problem in his conviction, which he was able to alert lawyers to and get it overturned. marc: that is correct. john: he now preaches the virtues of literacy to at-risk kids. marc: that is correct. these kids sit mesmerized as he talks. you send in some political leaders, church leaders, educators, and everybody is going to be fidgeting and nodding out. you see what kind of attention he gets. you can reach kids who most need the help. john: this story could seem like history in some sense, because it come

that bridged both the obama and the bush administration. real thing that is missing is not solely the military rules of engagement. there is a role for the u.s. military to play. it is the thing that we talk about a lot, the political, diplomatic, and how we get the countries in the region to defeat this. a very good move, but where is the follow-up? where is saudi arabia? where are our allies that are part of the isil coalition that defeat these groups politically. if there is one lesson learned from bush -- from the bush administration and then the obama administration, you do need some military role. but the strategy has always been wholly and complete. we are missing the wider landscape, which is not look -- which does not look very positive. host: next, a democratic caller. caller: i recently saw an interview with king abdullah of jordan by for reed zakaria. -- by faried zakaria. i know nothing about arabic, but basically they are outlaws. they are outlaws of islam. he feels it should be a regional fight. i think that what we should do

you talked about when you first started working for the bush administration and you went to your office and there was your computer provided by the government. why don't you tell the story? >> well, sean, on the first day of the bush administration, there are many, many people throughout the west wing and in the white house who when you walk in your office and sit down at your chair for the first time, there's a band around your computer from the government accounting office that says all of the property of the documents and the information contained belongs to the united states federal government. and so from my perspective of knowing from the first day starting in administration knowing everything i would do on that machine, documents and e-mails and whatnot would be part of the government. it seems ingenuous secretary clinton would set up her own server and say, you know, i'm going to decide which e-mails to hand over. sean, we weren't allowed to do that. they took all of our professional e-mails, personal e-mails. and the government kept those documents for the public. >> daniel har

what did the bush administration claim? why did they say they didn't have to let the public now -- know? guest: so, there are a lot of different transparency scandals left from the bush presidency. i love this question because it demonstrates a bit help partisan these lines are. but the rhetoric on the right day is actually very similar to the rhetoric on the left 10 years ago. when looking at the bush presidency. so there are fundamental questions on when is something official. in terms of the cheney task force, this is a question on whether it was an informal chat between france, or whether it was something that should've been covered under the federal advisory committee. in terms of the rnc e-mail scandal under the bush presidency, my understanding is that that was a question of the line between political activity and official activity in the white house. and also a federal records act question, when they need to be preserved. in both cases, a federal question about the power in the white house and the top executive branc

put the bush administration would pull the plug and ross -- and with sarbanes-oxley they said george bush gave me though one finger salute. 2007 i become the chairman and we pass the bill. . .

met with ortega no liberal was upset or when nancy pelosi met with president assad against the bush administration's what is reaction? >> in a build up to 1994 election, ted kennedy? >> yes. >> teddy kennedy, the naval hero, directed to the soviet union, asking him for help to get elected to beat ronald reagan and pledging he would work to reverse reagan's anti-soviet policies. you want to talk about betrayal? amnesia in washington sets in fast. how about last week? 40 democratic members of congress boycotted against bebe netanyahu but sided with iran. these are patriots trying to save our security and that of our allies and democrats joe biden, so excited about it. this is beneath the dignity of the senate? if barack obama breaks the law with executive orders even he said were illegal in the past, with the senate's powers being chipped away by a president that prefers third-world dictator methodology? the democrats have no argument whatever. >> now interestingly when pelosi met with assad hillary praised nancy pelosi. what a hypocrite. >> yes. well, you know, none of us have perfect voe cab back to

with the bush administration we did not get a full discussion of that or the possibility of voting oniraqi parliament voted on it twice. the idea that the executive branch can negotiate these comprehensive agreements without the full participation of the congress i think is a bad id >> in the speech we showed you talked about powerful financial interests spending billions to think that the current situation is okay. who are the spress and how are they encouraging a aristocracy? >> i think if you see what has been happening to our country over the past 20 or 25 years, or so, with the economic model. first, the model itself has broken apart. the traditional model has broken apart. the -- employment model that was based on full-time employment, manufacturing base, taking care of your working people fell apart a lot when the manufacturing sector was hurt so bad in the past 20 years. the other thing is, if you have capital, if you have assets, you're doing pretty well. the stock market has almost tripled since april 2009. this is particularly true with the generation coming into full adult

and told the iranian mullahs he was a friend of the islamic republic and like his policies when bush was president. >> remember back in the bush administration nancy pelosi and then speaker sit down with assad the bush administration was not happy with that. let's fast forward the president in office has written several letters we don't know how many to the ayatollah. we've asked josh earnest, jay carney before him, what did he say in those letters? he won't reveal it. there's a fight about republicans communicating with the ayatollah over the leaders it was an open letter. >> now talking about opening the door to syria as well. >> other places as well. so the president has had communications with the iranians as well obviously. so all of this is m coing up now. >> ed henry, thank you so much. appreciate it. all right, now, over the weekend one of my next guests, ed klein, reported that according to his source "president obama's senior adviser, valerie jarrett, leaked to the press details of hillary clinton's use of private e-mails address during her tenure as secretary of state. josh earnest asked about that report. >> i published a report

but i do think -- and by the way, i've spoken to people in the bush administration who remember a different ted cruz. he is an actor who acts alone. and he gives maverick a bad name. but he used to be much more moderate in his views. but he recognized the tea party power and he latched on to that in the same way that sarah palin did. they do share that. >> so he came into fox this week in new york, he had been bumped off some of the shows by the plane crash the morning after his big announcement which was a tremendous media show by the way. but what he basically said is he wants to claim that tea party bracket almost like a final four bracket and then move on and he wants to challenge in terms of the libertarian conservative base. the question is where or notther or not he can do that. >> he only has a couple years experience in the senate. hello. barack obama. and what do you make of chris matthews going on off on cruz? >> first of all, this is comment taker, it is not straight news. but is it fair, it's not fair. it's very easy to demonize him. but what is fair coverage is to what you all

the george w. bush administration. mr. president, under ordinary circumstances this would have been an easy ask for the president to bring a person of this quality to the senate for confirmation. she had three votes supporting her in the judiciary committee from the republican side. i don't understand the objections of the others, but i respect whatever their reasoning. all that i am asking for, all the president is asking for, all the senate is asking for is a vote. a vote. bring her off the pages of the calendar before the senate for a vote. don't make it contingent on some bill or some political agreement in the future. let this woman who has led such an extraordinary life, have her chance to continue to serve the united states of america. that to me, is only fair and only just and would be in keeping with the traditions of

first, the bush administration with the approval of congress, put in place large multi-year tax cuts.ond, after the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, federal spending on homeland security and the war against terrorism increased dramatically. last but not least 2001 was a recession year, and recessions have a way of making surpluses evaporate. are we doomed to another couple of decades of deficits? probably not. but the temptation to spend surpluses is usually too great to resist. by 2002 the federal budget was back in deficit and most "official" projections did not show a balanced budget let alone a surplus, until the end of the decade. in 1981, president reagan described the national debt as a stack of dollar bills 67 miles high. since then, we've seen stacks considerably higher. and we've used a good part of our annual budgets to pay off the ious on previous years and to continue accumulating debt. but not all deficits are bad. the increased deficit helped offset the effects of the recession that got underway in 2001. so, were the deficits hurting us? not always. had weearned

the takeaway. >> in essence, isis is winning. they're creating terrorism. people are very nervous and they don't see that any administration democratic or republicans have a solution. they're blaming the bushe obama administration. >> what do they want the pretty president to do? >> eliminate the threat without sending in troops. as that gentleman said there are 40,000 or 50,000. you can't wipe them out easily. that's why you have that anger and that passion. there's no resolution. >> he was very vocal. send in the s.e.a.l.s and wipe them out. was that the majority? >> this is one of those cases where they don't have an answer. when you do domestic policy that's easy. when it comes to foreign policy they don't have a consensus and they don't see leadership coming from either party in washington to resolve it. i think 2006 is going to be about policy because of comments like that. >> for the first time since 2004, right? >> this is the most nervous people have been in ten years. just like 2004 2016 will resolve and resolve around who's got the answer to remove that fear. 2016 is going to be who ee going to make me feel safe and secure in my country. >> was that the referendum in the israeli

put the bush administration would pull the plug and ross -- and with sarbanes-oxley they said george bush gave me though one finger salute. 2007 i become the chairman and we pass the bill. . .onal press club in washington, d.c. for about 45 minutes. >> senator john mccain you know all about him. served in the u.s. navy from 1954-1981. he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives from arizona in 1982. and the senate in 1986. he was the republican presidential candidate in 2008. he is now serving his fifth term in the senate. and myron is our 107th president of the national press club. he is had a 42 years career with the associated press and covered many world leaders. he received a ba in 1961 from ohio state university and an ms with high honors from columbia school where he won a traveling fellowship. when he retired in 2004 myron joined the national chity and worked to expand the international activities and attract more members from the international media international organizations, and diplomatic missions in washington, d.c. also in that year he began his second career as

after serving in the bush administration and seeing the line they used to invade iraq that is when i came an outlier. i resigned from the bush administration because i cannot support another lie being perpetrated on the american people never civilians in the middle east. host: is it looking good in mike from kentucky. line for independents. caller: i was just wondering how are we keeping track of the scientists who can build these bonds? how are they -- build these bombs? the iranians hit one of the scientists away from us so we cannot get to him and i think they have already killed two or three of them. if they can find out where he was that, i would think they would probably kill the sky. is this true or not? guest: hillary seems traumatized by her experience in the bush administration. she has been lied to by her own government but she seems to be credulous on the lies of the iranian regime. the caller brings up a good point is -- and that is the iranian regime has been lying to the international committee, the iaea about the military -- the nuclear program. that is evidence that p

the executive branch under the bush administration refused to force sanctions. the bush administration prevented congress from passing and used all of the power in congress from passing new statutory sanctions. that does want fit with the image we have of president bush until you realize at the time the sanctions all focused on international oil companies which was not president bush's target of choice. had we continued president bush's policies, well we should know that during the bush administration iran went from 0-5,000 installed centrifuges. had we continued those policies iran would have $300 billion more in cash because we have frozen $100 billion and $200 billion has been lost in oil sales. it is congress who has had it right, not the executive branch over the last 15 years. which is why i take offense when i hear the administration say if congress has a view we are interfering and undermining. when you read the united states constitution you will see that when it comes to economic sanctions and international economics all of the power is vested in congre

an example could be the bush administration's invocation. the bush administration's use of munich, reference to munich in the lead up to the invasion of iraq in 2003. could it be the bush team invoked munich not because it believed that saddam hussein was another hitler, but because it thought referencing hitler referencing the nazis, would help close the deal with the populace, would cut off debate in congress, would reduce the matter to a satisfyingly clear distinction between evil in the form of saddam hussein and good in the form of the united states. moreover, even when history is in some sense the source of the policy, the lessons of history are often hard to fully pin down. they themselves can be ambiguous. and therefore, the antecedent reasons often determine the choice between alternative historical interpretations. so, for example, france between the wars. this'll be my one reference to a non-u.s. situation. in france between the wars some senior french leaders drew one set of lessons from world war i, while another set of leaders d

someone said he said eight years during the bush administration there is no light between the united states and israel and nothing got accomplished. september 2009 to his first address to the u.n. general assembly he quoted five paragraphs about the conflict that he said america does not accept the legitimacy of continued israeli settlement and he drew a connection between rocket attack on israeli civilians with living conditions in the gaza. not a single unconditional issue of palestinian terrorism. march 2010 secretary of state clinton berated prime minister netanyahu and a 45 minute call telling him israel had harmed the bilateral relationship by the way the state department tripoli share parts of the call then he was dressed down at the state department in the middle east envoy cancel the trip to israel and the united states join the european condemnation of israel than in 2011 the state department issued a press release saying the number two official would visit israel and jerusalem but it is not part of israel that is less separate. only hours before mr. netanyahu departed to w