debate was supposed to be at the bush doctrine saw give you information about what the bushdoctrine is, how stipulates in how it is grimly into the best of the american tradition. the bush doctrine came out of the heinous attacks of 9/11. there were two premises to the dock turn. wonders in this day and age there are certain types of threats emanating in certain types of actors that can't be dealt with by conventional strategies that can emit or deterring. you need to respond preemptively because force and threat if you wait too long to fight cancer. that is premised on. the second premises in particular the root cause of this dangerous synergy between the spread of radicalism was the culture of tierney in the region. now let's be precise. the bush doctrine does not say that you go to war with somebody if there is tyranny. however our regime imposes a grave threat to you and you do get an award, the remedy for the audience to deal with the recounts of it and transform the nature of the regime. the second aspect of the push to train, regime change when someone has brought wor

it was modest by the end of the bush and administrations. we have agreed for the shuttle him mir program that had been in the works for about three years, but desert storm intervened, and eventually before the president left, we signed with horace yeltsin an agreement to fly cosmonauts on the shuttle and put u.s. astronauts on space station mir and that opened up the opportunities for a lot of cooperation, very positive on the u.s. side. i want to talk just briefly because i'm going to be a little controversial here. i think a largely unintended but perhaps the most significant policy initiative by the bush administration unintended but potentially the most significant was when we convened the advisory commission of the future of the united states space program the so-called augustine commissioned one. long story, if you want that story by the way i have a book coming out. in another three weeks called calling back buried the first-hand account of the great space race in the end of the cold war. you can read in detail about that. the augustin

>> relative to increases, would an explanation of the bush tax cuts themselves be sufficient in your view to fit that piece of the puzzle? >> if you do not extended bush tax cuts, just for people making over $1 million that creates very significant revenue. extending the bush tax cuts, puts $700 billion on the table. democrats have said that should be part of the deal. we're also willing to discuss common sense spending cuts, but at the end of the day, michael, it's unfair to ask somebody in my district, in rhode island, to bear the brunt of this. they might want to send their kids to college. give up pell grants and don't send your kids to college. if you're making over $1 million, you get your tax cut. that's not a deal we could support. >> my question, couldn't the gop declare victory and go home if there were no revenue increases beyond allowing the bush tax cuts to expire? apparently giving a green light by grover norquist?

so now we are the second bush administration, the out ministration of george w. re the world begins to change again. you have one of the interesting perspectives i think on the bush administration this time is the importance of expectations. secretary rumsfeld comes in and assumes control of the defense department, but he had just been share of two other commissions in the latter portions of the clinton administration. those commissions one on missile defense and other concerns in space management organizations. the expectations for how the community at large sought the defense policies related to missile defense were going to evolves. the rumsfeld missile defense commission outlined a very aggressive set of programs including some elements of the use of space. the rumsfeld space commission talks in great detail about the billing of the organizational process and the importance also of space to the national security missions and warns of a space pearl harbor. the expectation on the part of the community that was then observing the decision the rumsfeld defense dep

so now we are the second bush administration, the out ministration of george w. bush where the world begins to change again. you have one of the interesting perspectives i think on the bush administration this time is the importance of expectations. secretary rumsfeld comes in and assumes control of the defense department, but he had just been share of two other commissions in the latter portions of the clinton administration. those commissions one on missile defense and other concerns in space management organizations. the expectations for how the community at large sought the defense policies related to missile defense were going to evolves. the rumsfeld missile defense commission outlined a very aggressive set of programs including some elements of the use of space. the rumsfeld space commission talks in great detail about the billing of the organizational process and the importance also of space to the national security missions and warns of a space pearl harbor. the expectation on the part of the community that was then observing the decision the rumsfeld def

bush the man who was given the white house by five right wing justices in the supreme court and the bush v gore supreme court decision in two thousand that stopped the florida recount and george w. bush the presidency justice antonin scalia wrote in his opinion the counting of votes does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner george w. bush and to the country by casting a doubt upon what he'd bush claims to be the legitimacy of his election. i guess denying the guy who actually won the most votes in florida al gore the presidency did not constitute irreparable harm to school and i guess it was important to mention that school is son worked for the law firm that was defending george w. bush before the high court just like it was important to mention that clarence thomas' wife worked in the bush transition team and was busy accepting resumes from people who would serve in the bush white house as long as her husband stopped the recount in florida which he did. and more than a year after the election a consortium of newspapers including the washington post the new york times and

. >> would the bush tax cuts expire as planned? >> i certainly hope so as it relates to the higher income people. we do believe at this time when you're asking students to make sacrifices, asking our seniors to make sacrifices that the least we can do is tell the most well off in our community that they shouldn't be getting a continued tax break that was intended to expire. >> senator, your colleague froma mccull ski told "the washington post" quote when we heard reports of megatrillion dollar cuts with no revenues, many of us were volcanic. what's she referring to as far as you knowsome. >> i talked to the president today. the president was clear that revenues need to be part of the final package. look, we know there's going to be spending cuts. we understand that. we're prepared to support a comprehensive balanced preach to get our debt under control. we need to make sure it is fair. to be fair we need to have the revenues to pay our bills. >> would you agree if there are no revenue taxes it would be seen as a capitulation to the

it's generally about barbara bush, one part of the interview is george bush. he says, we were told by the pediatrician to come and talk to her. she said to us, this child has leukemia. he said, and i quote directly, we didn't know what the house she was talking about in the early 1950's. what was leukemia? he said the pediatrician said, well, your daughter's not going to live there much longer. they made a decision to take her to new york where she was treated with an experimental protocol and died nine months later. and barbara bush, to no one's surprise at all, had a very difficult time with this. she dealt with depression for a while. then eventually she emerged. the two other children were born, two other boys. then finally much to the families great happiness dorothy bush, known as burro, their only daughter now was born in 1959. mr. bush went into politics. barbara became the political wife. it was observed by reporters at the time that if there were slights against mr. bush or if he lost a race barbara ticket more seriously. by the way, that has always b

the president that preceded obama was george w. bush and racially controversial for any number of reasons. one of the moments that sticks with me when the actor the artist kanye west says president bush doesn't care about black paper. wasn't his reaction to hurricane katrina a little race incentive? >> guest: looking back on it, of course, he was in his home, his vacation home in crawford, texas. they didn't leave immediately to preside over the recovery efforts. there's a famous picture in air force one looking out the window to 10,000 feet away from the problems. didn't really understand, it appears, how desperate people were in new orleans. the scenes the rest of the country seeing people needing food and water and thousands and thousands of people piled into the stadium. the president didn't seemed aware of. at a minimum the insensitivity was the problem. kanye west, of course, then went farther and said the president doesn't care about black people, i did ask president bush about this in an email exchange we had for the book. and a

here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture nearly a decade ago democrats warned of the dangers of president bush's tax cuts today the gang of six is aiding in that disaster pushing our nation further into a hole we may not be able to get out of plus the u.k. is taking back control of its murdoch's actuated media america take a hint and reclaim democracy and real news in journalism. you need to know this yesterday the senate gang of six announced that it's reached a consensus on a framework to raise the debt ceiling and trim the debt by nearly four trillion dollars with both spending cuts and revenue raisers upon hearing the news president obama and mediately faced white house reporters to throw his weight behind the senate deal take a look. here's where we stand. we have a democratic president and administration that is prepared to sign a tough package we now have a bipartisan group of senators who agree with that balanced approach and we've got the american people who agree with that balanced approach my hope and what i will be urging speaker boehner. nancy pelosi. as well as leader reid and mitc

tax cuts that we still call the bush tax cuts that are now the bush obama tax cuts of course which is right that's a problem but you don't have any professional institution you don't have any communication system to talk against the war machine you just are for peace movement when nobody funds it but what people and i can tell you as someone who's worked in the peace movement for many years nobody funds it if i had a dime for everybody who's emailed me complaining about all the money i get from george soros i'd be rich i could actually talk to george soros you know but no but nobody does and there's no corporate media in the united states that got it that isn't complicit but isn't making money off the war machine and that goes for rupert murdoch too i mean this is a major crime boss being threatened with parking tickets here this is a guy who pushed who openly confesses to having pushed these wars that's criminal. campaigner for various action david swanson and a lot of foreign dignitaries always visit washington but today we are taking special note a special visitor mind you did talk

the father, and george bush the son. he mentioned how in the case of l.a. riot, after that famous innocent with rodney king, he did try to explain to president bush, the father, why so many people were upset in the african-american community about a traffic stop and about this sort of thing. that is racial profiling. and but he felt that there was something that president bush didn't understand. he said he tried to keep out of domestic issues. if we had fast forward to condoleezza rice, she also tried to keep out of domestickers. she was, of course, very much an expert in foreign affairs and international relations. she was by her own comment and president bush's, the son, almost like a sister to president bush. she was very close to him. she would accompany him and his wife to camp david, to his home, residence in crawford, where them on social occasions. there was a real connection there. i think partly because she had worked for his dad, which he valued very much. and also during the campaign and since then, he became

to get out of those broken promises if the white house is beating around the bush bush human rights watch torture screams heard elsewhere. the libyan people right now you go and we didn't hear it. and spaniards don't want to hear now either at least not at the expense of citizens at home and a country facing fiscal crisis so why haven't americans made this connection yet. there is very little journalism being done. you create some dangerous circumstances for citizenry for democracy itself and as the media field seems to be changing which team will win out in the end journalism or p.r. and what does this mean for the future of the media. it evening it's wednesday july thirteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you are watching r.t. well the country you don't have to be a genius to notice that it's in tough economic times as witnessed by unemployment numbers the national debt to name a few examples in fact moody's ratings agency today but the u.s. ratings on review for a downgrade as a result of the failed debt ceiling negotiations president obama reportedly walked ou

the case? >> and who squandered that? bush was a big spender. >> i have news for you -- the current democratic president is called obama, not clinton. >> but you are asking him to undo in three years what bush did for eight years. >> when the president goes on television, as he did on monday of last week, to redress our crisis, and starch with -- starts with "george bush," your eyes will. he has been in office for three years. take responsibility. be a grown up here you have run america on growth and change for three years, and what did you get? a growth rate of under 3%. >> did the bush tax cuts yield anything? >> [unintelligible] >> republicans are still fighting to keep the bush tax cuts. >> the 1984 campaign of ronald reagan in his reelection. in every of the statement, he was running against the kaiser mondale policies. he did not hesitate to run a rerun. the campaign of 1980. you know, the idea that nobody should mention -- george bush has been the most circumspect for president in our history. he has taken away any targ

grandmother, so dorothy bush, the first president bush's mother, and the first president bush's mother said to her, so what do you do? you know, what's your story. and supposedly laura bush was supposed to have responded, well, i read and i smoke. then there were questions of how well did that go down with barbara bush? no one ever said. i think it's probably fair to characterize it as maybe -- maybe distant, maybe more cordial. certainly, her -- barbara bush's relationship with her grandchildren is very warm. she sees them a lot, you know, still. yes, ma'am. >> i seem to remember that when barbara bush first became first lady, some reporter asked her a question involving the name of eleanor roosevelt, you know, or you want to be like her, and to which barbara bush replied, don't talk to me about eleanor roosevelt. my family -- i've forgotten the rest of that. but i was kind of wondering what her family had against eleanor roosevelt although i have my own opinions. >> well, probably the fact that her father and maybe the whole family were not fans of any of roosevelt's social or econom

the bush policy had been put out in '06. came out shortly after that and told to implement the policy as we know we can trace failures in policies not because of the words written -- we got other stuff to go. good luck implementing our policy and to get the agency together and let's go do this, difficult if not near impossible to do. not a fault of the guys who wrote the policy. i think the policy is a fantastic policy. it's just a matter of timing so part of that also shaped my desire to get an obama policy out early. other things that brett touched on that the change of environment of how space changed. the war on terror space was a strategic and tactical capability used exactly at the same time and coalition warfare, now we'd done coalition warfare since, you know, before world war i. but things were different, you know, people on the ground wearing different flags on their shoulders, rely on the same communications and same precision targeting to accomplish missions. and then one thing that also shaped it and jim touched

socialism you know ok but we do so we do not have a spending problem our debt has been fueled by the bush era tax tax cuts and war spending the impact of government spending our deficits it has pretty minuscule here's the here's current job deficit projections are begin the yellow is the wars in iraq and afghanistan the goal here is the bush era tax cuts look at this the biggest part the blue here is the economic turndown which you know basically if you get rid of these and then this is where we'd be without these factors and there's a there's tarp in the recovery measures and here it's a loop this little slice now without these things we basically would have no increase in the debt or the deficit or both so what's going on why is the g.o.p. insisting on cutting government spending and not compromising on tax hikes there is an objective here they actually are trying to crash the u.s. economy this is you know back in one hundred seventy nine and their sole objective they're making sure obama's not reelected in fact i mean this is not even something radical and new this idea of making makin

the bush tax cuts are going lapse at the end of 2012. if you do nothing, you have a big jump in revenue. obama has been saying let's thai the bush tax cuts are going to lapse and we are going to extend the ones for the middle class. republicans are afraid to let him do that up front. it would kill momentum for a tax reform. >> but, but, but why just get rid of the bush tax cuts. if they are so awful, why not get rid of all of them. get rid of all of them for everybody. if tax cuts are the worst thing ever, the bush tax cuts, get rid of the bush tax cuts for everybody and raise billions in revenue. >> right. i think we could probably figure it out sitting around the table. i don't think it's that difficult. they are locked in in political terms. it's a much different issue to them. you can make rational compromises and deals here. the problem is, how do they do it. what's happening is they are at the point where they realize the consequences. at some point, they realize they have to do something other than hold the ground saying this is i

the other part was the bush policy was put out in 2006. i came in shortly after to implement the policy. we can all trace back failures in policy not because of what was written but the failure to implement policy. when i got there everyone said great to have you here. the clock is running out. we have other stuff to do. good luck implementing policy. putting the interagency together to do this, difficult if not impossible to do. the guys who wrote the policy, it is a fantastic policy but just a matter of timing. it shipped might desire to get an obama policy out early. other things brett alexander touched on was the change in environment. the war on terror, space was a strategic and tactical capability used at the same time and coalition warfare. we had done coalition warfare since before world war i but things are different. people on the ground waiting different flags on their shoulders or the same data and the same communication and precision targeting to accomplish emissions. one thing that shaped it and jim touched on that was the con

all of the people who oppose the war was smaller and president bush and the the tenants was wrong. do not think that they did not lie for selfish reasons they lie when they took the united states into the war because they thought they were doing good for america. but they did not pursue a policy and the naysayers have the stronger hand to play and it is too bad they did not carry the day. >> host: the jimmy carter campaign i will never lie to you was the line he used. did he live up to that? >> guest: he told at least one lie when it became clear that the iran rescue mission would be exposed, he had his press secretary lie to the newsman who could smell the operation was about to take place. in that case carter and powell did the right thing. none of them felt a good about it. what is very interesting about lie as a form of deception come and be engage in deception and all the time of the day the lives. when you ask president obama about the economy, he downplays or omits the negative news. when boy meets girl he was to date the girl he goes to great lengths to portray himself and

you know if we went back to one thousand if we roll back the bush reagan and l.b.j. tax cuts we went back to the tax rates in one nine hundred sixty one we had a division little way into forty two percent and corporations were paying forty one percent on average of actual payments as opposed to the twenty four percent and eleven percent respectively that individuals and corporations are paying right now we would in ten years completely pay off the national debt that is the economy has always existed because it's again the same goods assuming that economy economy doesn't crash that's the contrary that idea that as a director gradually sixty what you're going to raise your but now you're raising them for where they're that's a great recipe for economic attach to talk about voodoo economics i mean that right there is your making wild wild assumptions based on it's only one time in history when taxes were raised in the economy if you want to raise them back down to nine hundred sixty one levels i can give you examples of times when taxes were dropped in the economy crash.

it seem hess said not allowing the bush tax is not technically a violation of the pledge. meaning they couldn't be attacked in a republican primary, for example, of breaking their pledge on taxes. what he said to chris jansing today is, this is bad. we don't think it should happen and americans for no taxes as group doesn't support it. it have a gray area? is not supporting it, same as being in violation of the pledge? that's what i think a lot of republican members are worried about, because, look, we know how campaigns work. go back -- george h.w. bush, read my lips. no new taxes. we know how that turned out. even governors, i'll throw in, worry falling victim to that same thing, and that's why grover norquist retains the amount of power he does over the house republican party. >> reading the tea leaves from a distance, seems to me boehner is more inclined to strike a deal than eric cantor. what's the dynamic as you see it now between the two of them? >> they insist publicly and their aides generally insist privately there is no space. but, michael, you and i both get pa

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i think the real reason the radar they want to build the radar is because the bush administration is trying to establish a fact on the ground that would be difficult for the czech republic to reverse and difficult for president obama to reverse because once you have a big piece of hardware a base activities around it it becomes extremely difficult both physically and politically to remove it so the objective here is to commit the czech republic and the next american president to a missile defense system that has no chance of working and as a as astoundingly irresponsible as this argument sounds i'll be happy to give you other examples of this kind of behavior on the part of the bush administration. thank. you. as. our obama. was. the government fell and now the radar no to bases. no to the radar as long as the. right is not a. wrong. the driving force. during her. thank. you but it goes barack obama's speech was crystal clear that the missile defense project is not over she. thought she. wanted to michaelmas the chair mark isn't the pro radama capitulating. i don't understand the ques

the economy did better under bill clinton than george bush. so the idea that you have to cut taxes on the wealthy in order to get trickle-down benefits, it hasn't happened. it is average worker is worse off today after the bush tax cuts than before. everybody knows that. i mean, when the republicans try to mouth this republican script, i don't understand how they can do it with a straight face, knowing that americans know that they are not telling the truth. that's the good thing. i want them to tell the american people that they are fantasizing the economic condition. >> but here's what worries me. >> the more you tell people that, the more people understand who is having the fantasy here. >> this is called the big lie. george orwell understood this. if you say the same thing over and over again, even though people at first know it can't possibly be true, but if you say it over and over and over and over again, if you use your own network, fox news, and all of your other outlets, and it's said over and over again, eventually you might start be

the bush the father where you hear them. mr lawless and got it but i'm here because i want our country to be normal sovereign state i don't want foreign armies here it's not saudi it is not american not jurymen not even from ghana i get so caught up god. sent out the i am here because i want our country to be an equal partner in the european union just fine the law should be ashamed you don't know anything about the bolsheviks i promise i will lead go and see that. you're a disgrace or good you're not there for a good description the whole nation the road up on. the right you're taking me away and leaving the flag we're. here good grief on the bus take this pill should we call an ambulance or would you shoot above save it. you know i'll be fine in a minute this is a group with a. yeah you're making a big mistake and it makes me sad but i just you're heading for destruction and say discounting berthold all of these people are in cahoots with. zones might be a generous boy in the right order that's unbelievable i never met the

the bush the father where you hear them. mr paulison got a foot i'm here because i want our country to be normal sovereign state i don't want foreign armies here that's not solving it he's not american not german not even from ghana i get ted koppel's are. sent out i'm here because i want our country to be an equal partner in the european union just from the e.u. laws should be ashamed you don't know anything about the bolsheviks i promise i will lead go and if. you're just scrape the surface good you know they were going to scream sing the whole nation don't open up the right you're taking me away and leaving the flag we're going to hear good grief on the bus take this pill should we call an ambulance or words you shoot above save it. you know i'll be fine in a minute there's a group of. yeah you're making a big mistake and it makes me sad it's just you're heading for destruction and citrus county that's old all of these people are in cohorts with medvedev. so's the might be a generous boy and you've got the right order of

it's the bush tax cuts and wars. those two -- >> and those are the two things that they say, they don't want to talk about. it is off the table. no tax going back it normal type taxes before the bush tax cuts. >> right. >> we are not putting them on the table. >> but what they talk about -- >> it will not address the problem. >> so what they are talking about is precisely again, all upside down. like everything you hear these guys say, you have to turn it upside down to get it right. what they are saying is it is the spending on jobs, stimulus, temporary spending that gets into the system. helps it out and gets out. it is this long-term permanent stuff. the bush tax cuts and wars, prescription drugs and stuff that goes on. the credit card. that's what is driving the deficit. >> they're not -- they continue to change the language in the conversation. because we're not talking about raising taxes. we're talking about stopping the cut in taxes that the wealthy have and just going back it taxes as they were. that's not a

i voted against the bush tax cuts. on my debt limit i've got a couple trillion left to go, but i was very generous. i don't think the president should allow the irresponsiblity of the right wing to say we're going to shoot you if you don't do this. i don't want there to be a default, but there are worse things than default. worse things than default are wrenching the american government out of shape. losing the principal of majority rule that's been an important gift from america to the rest of the world. inflicting pain on the most vulnerable people in our society. continuing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize military budgets and cut back on people here. by the way, i don't take that for granted. the fact is that the republican party, senator mcconnell has made clear they're getting very nervous about being blamed as they will be under this if this breaks down. so no, i don't think the president should take the position that i'll take anything you make me to do this. >> one quick question on public

this is the problem i have with separating policy. >> we give george bush some credit. >> no, but thisout being accurate. this plan was in place before barack obama was president. it was part of the military decision and this is why i said we cannot just include political without including the process. >> but i'm not going to let you sit here and diminish the president's contribution. >> i'm not trying to diminish it. i'm adding to the fact it needs to be fully correct. >> let the professionals, there is' no doubt the military but under the constitution the president is the commander in chief of the military. and so he has to make the ultimate decisions and so i, you know, will offer credit but what this is really all about is too many people sought to diminish barack obama's foreign policy credentials, sought to diminish whether he was committed to taking out osama bin laden, so what he basically did is he answered the question and the question has been answered and the debate should be over. >> this part of the conversation certainly because i have to change gears a little bit. one o

if you extend the bush tax cuts. vastly larger tax increase than anything that is on the table currently. so it is very odd to think that mr. are republicans that due to the wording of the pledge would move to support that. >> right. duval patrick, who was a harvard classmate of grover norquist, was at a reunion with him in 2003, and he wrote about this in "the washington post" recently. and when grover apparently in a panel discussion said something about trying to create a permanent republican majority, some pointed out that, oh, you don't really expect to hold the presidency for the republicans forever, and grover's response was, we will make it so that a democrat cannot govern as a democrat. now, that certainly seems to have been successfully executed by norquist. he has been at this for 25 years, working in utter public obscurity for most of that time, but being very, very effective backstage. and this is the year when i started bringing him onstage, and now everyone has him onstage. but he has succeeded in maki