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. >> tom davis, you did this for a living.n control is good politics for any republican? >> it's tough. it's an intensity issue. polls measure one thing but the people who vote on it don't want the changes at this point. and in the republican base which is largely rural, there's no percentage voting for this in many of these districts. >> peggy? >> i think a big part of the story is that people don't trust congre congress. after newtown there was a great bubbling feeling of, my goodness, there must be at least some things we can do legislatively to make this whole gun situation better. if the congress, if the senate had moved quickly on discreet, small bill having to do with background checks -- i mean quickry in the weeks after newtown -- >> these are small bills. >> move it quickly, do it. don't put it together in this big thing and then talk about these different kind of guns you're banning and having all these hearings. they failed to move quick and small. >> is she right? >> well, the senate moving qu k quickly -- those t

tom davis served as republican congressman from northern virginia. you went to williams, right? the same thing. you're one of those smart guys, anyway. "jeopardy" winner here. here's the thing. you guys are winning on this issue. i think the public would much rather have sequestration because it hurts some people than have a tax increase, revenue enhancer, that is a tax increase that your own party has to defend. that's why you guys if the republican party have said better sequester than having to raise taxes. >> raising taxes would kill the party with its base. off years are driven by turnout. >> smart move you've been doing. >> it's the right political move. look, it's not the cuts i think they prefer. they prefer to get into entitlements because that's the fastest growing part of the budget. >> they'd be blamed for cutting medicare and social security. both parties are playing games here. his party is opposing tax increases of any kind, so-called reform increases. your party doesn't want to go after the people and say, let's mess with medicare. is

killed in sectarian clashes over the weekend which ended in scuffles with white police journalist tom davis saw the invest. i spoke to one witness who said that events began when bottles were thrown from a nearby building down on to the funeral march and march as responded by attacking cars for what is clear is that fighting quickly escalated between the funeral marchers and locals the marchers retreated within the i would say cathedral compound and after that the security forces were involved in standing by while. locals fired weapons into the cathedral there were five people killed in forsooth which is a town outside of cairo and sectarian writing four of those were christians and it was their feudal which was being held at the st mark's cathedral sectarian violence in egypt is nothing new it goes back decades so we have a combination of hardline religious activism and security forces by the standing by or actually getting involved themselves many mourners and many others feel that the muslim brotherhood and freedom and justice party government is encouraging an exclusive religious identi

and full republican congressman from virginia tom davis.ad you're coming on the show and i know karen, i e-mailed you and it's all good but i am so excited about your new show. >> i'm looking forward to it. jo didn't think you can get out of being on my show. >> no way, no how. >> i'll begin with congressman davis. sir, the white house calls plans for cuts to social security and medicare spending, john boehner is saying the cuts are not going far enough but politically speaking won't voters view this as a compromise and expect republicans to just understand that? >> no, i don't think so. look, remember, most of these house members in particular are from pretty safe republican districts. they're going to respond to their republican constituency, but you got to give the president credit. he stepped outside the democratic comfort zone. he's come forward on this. but the time for tax hikes was in january. the tax increases went into effect. i think there would be an eruption if the would agree to much more in tax increases. >> so, karen, here i

tom busey is the president of the "u.s.a. today" sports media group. he ran the marathon yesterday. he finished only minutes before the bombs detonated. susan davis is the chief congressional correspondent for "u.s.a. today." both are joining us from boston. thank you very much. tom, as someone who ran the marathon, tell me about the day. tell me what you went through and what you saw. >> well the day was a spectacular day. the weather was much like the weather we're having here now. and there was just a great day. the city of boston really came out as it does every year for a great race. the amount of selflessness going on was great. runners are running for causes as i was. and you know, i was coming around a corner towards the finish line and i just thinking about how fantastic everything was and then went through the finish line in about three minutes after i was through. i was walking through the corrals where they give out middals and food and drinks to the people who had run and the bombs went off. and pretty immediately it went from this just euphoric experience to a real fear-based experience. for all of us runners are in a daze after the

one of the voices was tom davis who i went to college with and we knew each other a long time.icit and government spending 15 years ago at a time when folks in washington weren't that much focused on it, along with the likes of a joe scarborough. and here's a chance for you to take everything that you learned in congress and your way up and way down and apply it to this great debate we were just talking about. so you do a whole lot of soul-searching. you have a ping-pong match in your gut for a couple of weeks there. and you are fearful. you are frightened. you don't know how you're going to be received. but, ultimately, you make a decision and one of the chief things that i had to do before i made that decision was to sit down, indeed with the boys and say, guys, if you don't want me to do this, i'm not doing this. but ultimately all of them said, dad, you got to do this and you've long cared about this and off to the races we went. >> betsy woodruff with national review. let's pretend mark is not here and talk about him. there is a battle inside the conservative movement is m

the mayor of highland park, joel williams, the mayor of university park, richard davis, and the former mayor of dallas, tomank you for being here for this wonderful occasion and i would like those in the audience to once again acknowledge the presence of our global, national and local leaders. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ [applause] >> please welcome the chairman of the george w. bush foundation board of directors, donald l. evans accompanied by the archivist of the united states, david fairio. >> i'm pleased to be joined by the honorable david fairio, archivist of the united states. on behalf of the george w. bush foundation, it is my honor to present to you and to the american people the key to the george w. bush presidential library and museum. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, mrs. laura bush. [cheers and applause] >> welcome, everyone. welcome to all of our friends and family who've joined us today. be seated. welcome to all of our friends and family who've joined us today from around the country and around the world. thank you all for coming. and a special welcome to president obama and michel

, the mayor of highland park joel williams, the mayor of university park richard davis and the former mayor of dallas tomeopard. i want to thank you for being here for this wonderful occasion, and i would like those in the audience to once again -- >> alex wagner joining us from new york and also have howard fineman in. let me ask, alex, your thoughts about this. this is a panoply of american political history right in front of us. >> yeah, indeed, and it was interesting, chris, when the clintons were on stage next to the obamas and then the bushes. you're reminded of just how vibrant the clintons are, especially in comparison to bush who has literally been off the radar. bill clinton still remains a huge force in american politics and hillary clinton has been a force as secretary of state, still much discussed as a 2016 presidential contender. it's really interesting just how much more they are in the american popular consciousness as well as a political system compared to bush who has i think perhaps wisely chosen to keep his head down low and maybe to some degree really that's why his approval numbers

we know that governor deval patrick and mayor tom menino is there serving in his 20th year and joined by the police commissioner ed davis special agent in charge and several others including massachusetts senator elizabeth warren as they gather. we're hoping to learn more about it. >> act of terror yesterday, we wanted to organize a briefing with you and the information we have. the mayor is here. the members of our congressional delegation, all of the law enforcement leadership. we have several people who want to present to you this morning and take your questions. a couple points i want to mention at the outset. i told you yesterday that the fbi has taken charge of the investigation, special agent in charge, rick deloria will speak shortly. it's important to clarify that two and only two explosive guises were found yesterday. other parcels, all other parcels in the area of the blast have been examined but there are no unexploded bombs. there were no unexploded explosive devices found. over 150 people were injured yesterday in the blast. some gravely. our thoughts go out to all of those injured and killed and to their

the mayor of highland park, joel williams, the mayor of university park, richard davis, and the former mayor of dallas, tomank you for being here for this wonderful occasion and i would like those in the audience to once again acknowledge the presence of our global, national and local leaders. thank you very much. \[applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ \[applause] >> please welcome the chairman of the george w. bush foundation board of directors, donald l. evans accompanied by the archivist of the united david fairio. byi'm pleased to be joined the honorable david fairio, archivist of the united states. on behalf of the george w. bush foundation, it is my honor to present to you and to the american people the key to the george w. bush presidential library and museum. \[applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, mrs. laura bush. \[cheers and applause] >> welcome, everyone. welcome to all of our friends and family who've joined us today. be seated. welcome to all of our friends and family who've joined us today from around the country and around the world. thank you all for coming. and a special welcome to president obama and michelle,

the boston police commissioner ed davis says two bomb sweeps were done prior to the explosions and obviously neither one of those detected anything unusual. tom window of time, the window of time that may be key to solving this entire case. let me start here, tom, by asking you what investigators are zeroing in on here when it comes to the time. >> well, they're really focusing on three hours right around the end of the course. let me bring in the course and let's talk about what we mean right here. there was a final security sweep done along the course one hour before the elite runners finished. so they went along the course and they cleared it here one hour before the top runners came in. then two hours after that, that's when this started happening. overall we have a total of three hours period of time here that there was a first blast here near the finish line and a short distance off, we had the second blast 12 seconds later. so let me rotate the map around here so you can look right down the racecourse here, and i'll talk about what they're looking at. one of the things they're focusing on is this side of the race course. erin, this pat

davis. >> well, clearly since the day that tom daschlefuls the majority leader, there's not a sense that werk together on a bipart sapp basis. reagan invited tip to have a drink, work things out, and there was progress. george bush the elder, same attitude. i don't know when it started to change, but, you know, we pay the salary of all the people you send to washington and sacramento. they are working for you. , and they have to come back saying this is what i was able to do for you and the country the last two to four years, and not just that i have the amendment that failed or i made a speech, but what happened to move the country forward to give you more opportunity, and i don't know how that's going to change unless america starts voting out incumbents. i don't say that lightly because they are trying hard, doing their best, but the signal has to go back to washington that we're tired of excurses. we're tired of you telling us we can't do the job. you can't do it, fine, step aside, we'll find someone who can. i don't see how you get past gridlock if gridlock still gets your member of co

the mayor of highland park, joel williams, the mayor of university park, richard davis, and the former mayor of dallas, tompresence of our global, national and local leaders. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> please welcome the chairman of the george w. bush foundation board of directors, donald l. evans accompanied by the archivist of the united states, david fairio. >> i'm pleased to be joined by the honorable david fairio, archivist of the united states. on behalf of the george w. bush foundation, it is my honor to present to you and to the american people the key to the george w. bush presidential library and museum. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, mrs. laura bush. [cheers and applause] >> welcome, everyone. welcome to all of our friends and family who've joined us today. be seated. welcome to all of our friends and family who've joined us today from around the country and around the world. thank you all for coming. and a special welcome to president obama and michelle, to president clinton and secretary clinton, to president carter and rosalynn and finally, we're thrilled to have

davis, the police commissioner, is about right. the who matters less now than that we're getting people to safety and they got people to safety quickly. >> tom fuentes, certainly the fact that there were multiple devices and seemingly coordinated, we don't know the means by which they were coordinated, but that is significant. that is though they might not be sophisticated devices, that at least shows a level of planning or sophistication in how this was carried out. >> well, that could be, anderson, but you could easily have one person drop one device in a trash container at one location, walk 100 yards to the other location, drop one in there, and then maybe remotely detonate it by cell phone or have some type of a timer or delayed fuse or some way to detonate it, where they could both go off together but not require multiple people to deliver them. so this could be as few as one person or one, two, five people, maybe, involved in this -- setting this thing up. it's possible for one to have done it. >> tom, how much can you tell from the remnants of the device? i've heard that bombers or bomb makers often have signatures in how they put to

police commissioner ed davis said at the news conference that this was the most complicated crime scene the boston police department has ever started to process. and, norah, the mayor tomenino said yesterday was a bad day for boston, but the city will overcome. >> not necessarily about those who did something did to those running, but the strength of those helping. >> we saw that immediately, those taking down the barricades to get to those who needed to go to the hospital. >> good morning. jonathan elias, who, why, how? where is the investigation now weapon with respect to who might have done this? >> a home was searched overnight. that home belongs to someone in the hospital suffering from burns. very near the bomb when it went off. stopped by three boston detectives and questioned. found him suspicious and had police stay with him. sources tell me he's been cooperative. and fully cooperative throughout the investigation. they say he burns on his hands, treated for those. he said he was near the blast when it went off and started moving away at the time. the bomb dog brought in to sniff him and his clothing and alerted on that but that wouldn't be unusual to someone