george w. bush administration. he was the president white house foreign policy advisor, he directed the national security council staff and ran the national security policy process. these days, among many other roles come he serves as the national security advisory panel for the director of central diligence -- intelligence, department of defense policy board and the u.s. institute of peace. welcome back to the wilson center. it is good to have you back here. [applause] steve: thanks for putting this program together. let me start beginning on this book, which is the spring of 2008, president bush called in his chief of staff and said, whoever follows me in this office has a big challenge. we have a war in iraq, afghanistan, the terrorism threat. that was before we were headed into the worst financial and economic crisis since the great depression. what the president told josh come he wanted the upcoming transition to be the best transition in history. in some sense it was not hard. when -- came in

george w. bush administration, and a capacity, the presidents way of foreign policy who directed the national security staff and ran the inter agency national security policy process. these days, steve serves on the national security advisory panel, the director of six central intelligence, department of the defense policy board and the board of the u.s. institute. steve, welcome back to the wilson center, it's good to have you here. [applause] >>, thank you very much, and thank you for putting this program together. let me start a bit on the beginning, which is the spring of 2008, president bush called in josh bolton's chief of staff and said, whoever follows me and to this office has a big challenge. we've got a war in iraq, a war in afghanistan, got the terrorism threat, and that was before we headed into the worst financial and economic crisis since the great depression. what the president told josh is that he wanted the upcoming transition to be the best transition in history. -- as president c

during the george w bush administration. and then vice president dick cheney and his senior staff were famous for cherry picking intelligence reports that fit their personal ideologies that led you to be an outspoken critic of the iraq war. and of the c eyes response to the rock for tell us about that. i, members, i was, i was sitting at the nixon center with patrick lang and joe wilson among others charles, crowd timer. so it was quite a mix of personalities and, and this was in january of 2003. and at the time that was the 1st time i met joe wilson. i didn't realize joe was married to my former c. i a classmate, valerie plame. oh. and so, and then no time did you ever go, hey, my wife was a secret agent, you know? none of that never came up, but we're all sort of puzzling about boy, the us government must really have some top secret intelligence they're not revealing. because none of this makes sense about their walk. and then is it a folded? i had a conversation with one of our mutual friends, fulton, and fulton, and that

during the george w bush administration. and then vice president dick cheney and his senior staff were famous for cherry picking intelligence reports that fit their personal ideologies that led you to be an outspoken critic of the iraq war and of the sea ice response to the rock for tell us about that. i, members, i was, i was sitting at the nixon center with patrick lang and joe wilson among others charles, crowd timer. so it was quite a mix of personalities. and this was in january of 2003. and at the time that was the 1st time i met joe wilson, i didn't realize joe was married to my former c, i, a classmate, valerie plame. and so, and then no time to, to go, hey, my wife was a secret agent for, you know, none of that never came up. but we're all sort of puzzling about for the us government must really have some top secret intelligence they're not revealing because none of this makes sense about iraq. and then is it a folded? i had a conversation with one of our mutual friends, fulton, and fulton, that the time was on the

h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and, and bride with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. the ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. and nato have over $600.00 military base is world wide. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning those russians, the soviets. and so it is dangerous boy, a man that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy to create this image in the soviets. as out for world conquest, which was not the case, then bar, now the nato should have died, but they want to give it meaning. it is about infect, created by nature, nature has business machine because you must remember if nature where this by the shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large office companies would lose millions and millions. they'd only have one units instead of 2 yards, each 0, there wouldn't be a terri

these countries were targeted by the, the george h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and mcbride with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. a ring of nato military base is being formed around russia. the u. s. and nato have over $600.00 military base is world wide. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning those russians, the soviets. and so it is dangerous boy, a man that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy to create this image in the soviets. as out for world conquest, which was not the case, then by now the nato should have died, but they want to give it meaning. it is about incest created by, by nature, nature has business machine because you must remember if nature, where this by the shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large arms, companies would lose millions and millions. they'd only have one year instead of

this was not one country, but it was very far from what a person like george w. bushould see, much less legislators in the house and senate. most did not have passports. there were 3 million people a year dying every year globally of this single little kg virus -- cagey virus that again he helped figure out. in botswana at that time in 1988, the average life expectancy was 39. i came to the senate in 1995. when i came there was not a doctor in the united states senate. that is the backdrop that we are coming through with a virus that in this country but globally was heavily stigmatized. for many people, they did not understand what this virus was. there was this stigma around all sorts of reasons. i will stop with that because what was done then, and we will talk about whether it could be done again, is what the legislative body that i became majority leader of, being the only physician, i had to beat against that backdrop, not fully known what the great success would be, but knowing what we had as resources and in terms of global leadership potentially to take on the

these countries were targeted by the george h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and arrived with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. the reading of nato military base is being formed around russia. the u. s. and nato have over 600 military base. it.

i asked president of the george w bush foundation.he george w bush foundation. i asked him what the agenda would be in china. i think it's likely that the secretary will meet the foreign minister and probably mr one year, often described as the top diplomat and one rank above the foreign minister, and i think it's very possible that the secretary will also see xi jinping, that would not be present for that uncommon for a secretary state visits i think those details are being worked out but that would probably be the three main interlocutors, and certainly the first two will be very important meetings for the secretary and there is a lot on the agenda. the dialogues _ a lot on the agenda. the dialogues took _ a lot on the agenda. the dialogues took place - a lot on the agenda. the dialogues took place here in singapore about a week and a half ago and one of the issues was that both defence ministers did not meet. the chinese are saying that is because the us has sanctions against their minister, you see the us possibly lifting the sanc

george w. bush has the title of the most stupid president in history according to the university of pennsylvania iq georgics fight 91 points. his americans blame the september 11 tragedy for the failed afghan war. finally, it was with his victory in 2001 that they started talking about the fact that democratic elections are just a decoration and falsification of the elite, everything was decided long ago after the terrorist attack, on september 11th. the american nation rallied around the incumbent president. and this attitude helped bush win the next election in 2004, however, in the explosion of the twin towers. some blamed the bush clan, especially. if you remember that bush and salem bin. laden consolidated, brother. bin laden herself had a jointly founded oil and gas exploration company in texas and, to sum up, fresco will hold the floor of the senator and his sons grandson george sr. george jr. became presidents. another grandson of his. jebush, 8 years was the governor of florida. and later h

w. bush and donald trump. he also wrote the book one damn thing after another.eroy murdock is a fox news contributor and contributed editor with the national review, katie pavlich as the avatar of townhall.com and a fox news contributor. welcome to each of you, we will start with the fundamentals. 2023, someone asked you what does it mean to be republican. what is your response? >> you can define republicans in a lot of different ways and a lot of different factions within the republican party but i know what it means to be a conservative the year 2023 your own individual decisions and ways to run your life without much government interference. i think in the aftermath of the covid pandemic which change the world we saw government overreach in ways we haven't seen before in the expansion of government in ways that a lot of people are very uncomfortable with you are not necessarily republican whether parental rights in schools, keeping thanks from parents that parents are paying for or making your own medical decisions on the other side of the political aisle. wh

promoting building a missile defense system and noted was in that summer i believe that no george w bush exit and type ballistic missile tree. and that was important because the united states was planning at the time to try to develop and type ballistic missile systems that would, would frankly post a threat to russia. but then came a lot of conspiracy, thinner ones out there that it says that the united states and supplying that off. but that's not the case of this was, this was a pure combination of bureaucratic incompetence, arrogance hubris. and then the bush administration immediately pivoted and made combating terrorism, the number one priority, and then anything that was done done by anybody who was supporting terrorism in any way. but if we campus, you know, united states policy at that point, what completely off the rails. so i would note that in november of 2000 november 7th, i believe was a precise date. milton bear with me, the former chief of station, and for this latter years, and i will put together an offer yet. and that off with a note of that whoever was the next presid

h w bush said at the time, what we say goes. the notion was, we were not just going to defeat terrorist, be were going to defeat the middle east. we were going to bring democracy. a host of other things. previously, we heard many of these sentiments, i would say from madeleine albright among others that we stand taller. there is a famous comment to colin powell, what is the use of the military if we never use that. and it strikes me as the most infamous statement. when asked about the deaths of children what can argue about the numbers, we could say that we think that the price is worth it. that encapsulates the administration's attitude that the cost are not something that are terribly important to deal with. it's also a mixture of hysteria and fear which has been emulated by those who have an agenda. afghanistan is going to be very easy. that was an easy one to get into given the role of al qaeda in the attack of 9/11. though iraq's culpability was much better. many of the claims being made work on trip you did, -- were contro

able section attention to this contrary report about 20 years ago, during the presidency of george w. bush, the guantanamo detention center was engineered with very strict security measures at the us navy base in guantanamo bay, cuba under the pretext of fighting terrorism. it has been limited to khartoun, the capital of this country. the culture of helping others in lebanon has spread to the extent that good people can. with the help of benefactors , we provide aid in the form of clothes and sacrificed meat for the needy. palestinians in lebanon are also waiting for a long time to return to palestine. in patterns the islamic ummah is celebrating. congratulations, i hope that soon we will celebrate the liberation of palestine in the cities and villages of our own country. preparation of sweets for eid al-adha is one of the characteristics of this in the countries of syria, palestine and lebanon . the same address of the emergency news site became 115.ir, the campus of the emergency organization site , there is a story that it was decided to update the site in 1997. one of the discussions t

every time someone's proposed whether it was george w. bush -- >> why do you think the public is ready this time to listen on this? >> again, i think it's because they know the country's in a lot of trouble. we have a debt the size of our nation's economy for the first time since world war ii and inflation has gone up 16% in the last two and a half years. it's crushing the family budgets of millions of americans, two-thirds of which are living paycheck to paycheck. they're starting, in my judgment, to understand that as government racks up debt, inflation is happening and we're seeing the purchasing power, so we've got to reform it. >> last issue is a difference, chuck, if i may. >> and that's about america's place in the war. look, i think america is the leader of the free world. we're the arsenal of democracy. under our administration, we made the largest increase in investment of our national defense in 40 years, and then we -- we unleash the american military to take down the isis caliphate, take down the world's most dangerous terrorists.

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and george w bush just looked at him and said, i don't care about that i just want to know how you're going to prevent the next one. later that morning george tenet, who was then the director of the cia. george tenet, gave a report and he had a plan and he gave this report his proposal going forward. and what he was done and this is in several other people's books. and once again, molla had told us on several occasions this himself, george w bush turned and said, that's great and then he turned and looked at molla and said, that's what i want to hear. so molla left that meeting humiliated and he left that meeting. and he has said this repeatedly bound and determined to change the culture of the fbi. and in doing so he turned the fbi as he wanted to into an intelligence agency and a way from being a law enforcement agency. and that had a lot of unintended consequences. and i submit to you a lot of bad concert choices. now, some of it was under understandable why he did this, but it had bad consequences. and the distinction is this in a law enforcement agency, whether it's the fbi or yo

w. bush. i don't think that one can take this decision easily. it strikes me that the first problem was basically hubris. that this was a city that celebrates americas unique power, the essential nation, the sole superpower, that the u.s. won the cold war, it defeated iraq already, as george h. w. bush, who had said at the time, what we say goes, that the notion was we weren't just going to defeat terrorists, we were going to remake the middle east, drain the swamp, bring democracy. a whole host of other things. previously, we've heard many of these sentiments, i would, say from -- that we stand taller, our famous comment to colin powell, what is the use of this military if we never use it? it strikes me the most infamous statement, ask about the deaths of children due to sanctions on iraq. one could argue about the numbers. but the comment was, we think the price is worth it. that strikes me as encapsulating if the bush administrations attitude, that the costs were really not something that

in new york , a meeting took place between karl rowe, senior adviser to then us president george w. bush , and representatives of major film industry heads . the writers guild of actors directors was clearly and instructed to put into production a number of films where the military must fight middle eastern terrorism and naturally defeat it since that time, the main enemies of the good american guys in hollywood for many years were the arabs. now, apparently, it's our turn. american films were represented by negative characters , bandits-swindlers, enemies, stupid , uncultured people, evil, cruel, vile , i think, soon we will see new negative images of our compatriots in films. it's already happening. here is a fresh example of the animated series family guy in one of the episodes was shown, chelyabinsk it would seem that such a thing, but the point, of course, is not that the russian city is shown, but how it was shown. in the series , chelyabinsk is deliberately depicted as cold gray and dirty, in which all the locals drink vodka without a break, the griffin heroes call the city the ur

. >> vemos las fotos de prigozhin sirviendo vino a george w bush, entre otros. hombre de confianza. >> siempre ha estado vinculado con las decisiones importantes en materia de economÍa en el kremlin. Él provee alimentos a kremlin. es el representante y por eso le llaman el cocinero de putin. reportera: comenzÓ a amasar una gran fortuna y terminÓ convirtiÉndose en multimillonario. y tambiÉn se iba convirtiendo en un hombre poderoso de la mano de putin. >> incursiona en la polÍtica y en 2012 crea una agencia que fue sancionada por el departamento de estado. dan 20 millones de dÓlares por conocer quiÉnes eran las personas involucradas en las elecciones de 2016. reportera: financiÓ la fuerza militar llamada grupo wagner. sus soldados son conocidos por su brutalidad. >> promovÍan golpes de estados. en venezuela, los que cuidan los yacimientos de petrÓleo y gas son funcionarios del grupo wagner. reportera: putin tiene que temer a prigozhin? >> en este momento no es un peligro personal. pero ya fue un peligro a la autoridad de putin. reportera: expertos aseguran que su

it was true before donald trump, from republican president george w. bushinto office and he had a one trillion dollar surplus handed to him after the democratic presidency of bill clinton, george w. bush immediately wiped out the budget surplus with a gigantic tax cut, which fed the deficit and increase the national debt. and of course, eventually required an increase in the debt ceiling, which democrats did not try to block. serious high stakes negotiations often include inconsistent statements. in some situations, they might be called lies. many striking labor unions have at times excepted provisions and their new labor contract they eventually agreed to that they insisted they would never accept. that is the way negotiations work. you use the strongest possible language for as long as you can, and then you adjust. joe biden's most vivid apparent inconsistency, which was actually always just negotiating position, was joe biden insisting for months that he would not negotiate. that turned out to be an extremely important negotiating tactic. because the ver

george w. bushll barr worked with the cia before serving as attorney general for two copresidents. george h.w. bush and donald trump. he also wrote the book "one thing after another.afte" deroy murdock is a consulting editor with the "national review." katie pavlich is the editor of townhall.com. and the fox news contributor. welcome to the each of you. 2023, katie. someone ask you what does it mean to be a republican, what is your response? >> you can define republicans in a lot of different ways. obviously a lot of different factions within the republican t i know what it means k to be a conservative and i'dno y the year 2023 a means having your own individual decisions and ways to run your life without much government interference. i think in the aftermath of the covert pandemic which change the world, we sacow government overreach in ways we haven't seenreac before and we've seen e expansion of government in ways that a lot of people are veryop uncomfortable withle who are noe necessaril ny repu

also important to highlight it was signed by a bipartisan group of senators from presidents george w. bush to president obama to president trump. i'm sure you can all appreciate how unusual that is. the fourth reauthorization was do as we all know october 1 of this year. i am so hopeful that we will once again see the broad support for this vital program from the president and both parties. the second cornerstone is the science driven approach to addressing the hiv aids crisis. this has taken two corners first proven interventions to reverse the course of the epidemic and second collecting detailed data to track the programs outcomes. i was very pleased to see president biden reaffirmed this approach it with the recent release of the five years strategic plan. one of the plans strategic pillars is simply follow the science this includes mainstream behavioral and social sciences hiv programs, leveraging, targeting science to improve the program and utilizing the next generation of surveillance. the science-based approach to highlight a couple of these findings first according to the state d

significant part of this anti-nuclear report about 20 years ago and during the presidency of george w. bush , the guantanamo detention center with very strict security measures. it was launched at the american naval base in the gulf of guater, cuba under the pretext of fighting terrorism. thank you in the name and memory of god . greetings, dear viewers of the khabar network. for lessons in the future , we expect that in parts of the southeast of our country in the afternoon and early eyebrow night in the provinces sistan and baluchistan north and east of hormozgan province, parts of kerman province, along with rain, thunder and strong wind are expected in the areas, yellow weather warning is valid , there is a possibility of river water runoff and we request staying on the banks of rivers should be avoided, as there is a high altitude to avoid lightning strikes, and during this period , there will be a calm war in our country and clear to slightly cloudy skies in other parts of our country before thursday and friday in the northern cities. east azarbaijan and west azarbaijan increased clou

during his remarks he touted his experience in federal government under the rgan and george w. bushistrations. his time as governor and his plans for the nation if elected. ♪ >> please welcome presidential candidate and former governor of arkansas governor asa hutchinson. >> listen, thank you, thank you. iton is great to be here today. it is great to be in the west and it is great to be with a conservativee audience. that's the combination here. when i began my political journey, ronald reagan was in the white house and bill clinton was governor of arkansas. arkansas was different then. it was a blue state. i was a red dot and i look at my options in the future and i chose to follow the conservative path of ronald reagan that he pays for our country. the path ofor limited governmen, of opportunity, of individual responsibility, and a strong america. that is the republican party. that is thepa conservative movement that i grew up with. and it was an honor for me to be able to fight that battle in arkansas. my political journey started as a young united states attorney, the youngest i

, the best chance we had for doing something there was when we had a republican president, george w bush, who believe we needed to reform the immigration laws and did propose a legislation to accomplish that. but, you know, it's very difficult for a democratic president to to get the votes necessary to get that done. and the other big problem with immigration is that how we package things in these very ways so that immigration, the way it's now dealt with and considered in congress, this it includes all of these different issues. the dream act, you mentioned, it includes agricultural workers. what are we going to do with them? it includes. well, what are we going to do with folks who are undocumented and have lived here a long time in the united states. what are we going to do about the wall on the border? you know, what are we going to do? skilled workers, skilled workforce coming in that are what? h. h h-2b visas. you know, all of that is and you try to put that in the package and get it through the congress and someone's going to to virtually everything in the package so if if the lea

w. bush was looking for a replacement for thurgood marshall, the first black person to serve on the supreme, there were not a lot of black conservatives, but clarence thomas was there, and he was identified because he was a black conservative. that's affirmative action. if he doesn't understand how he's there because of this policy, and he is all of these questions about the stigmatizing effects of it, you are still in supreme court. you're still making policy for everyone. you're basically allowing your own personal issues around your life story and your biography to basically shape policy for all of the rest of. us and again, i am so glad the women of color on this court we're here to call him. out >> everybody who hasn't ran ketanji brown jackson's opinion to go reason. it is a master class. it should be a pamphlet. melissa murray and dahlia lithgow, thank you so much for being here. i appreciate your thoughts and insight. this is a big day in american courts. we have a lot more to get to

columnists and fox news contributor carl karl rove, he served as southeastern adviser the president george w. bushrl, well co. the former president, president trump, was banging on ron desantis for months. now that the governor's in and fighting back, it's really fast and furious, a lot earlier than i can recall in previous campaigns. how is desantis doing so far? >> i think pretty well. you know, for example, you just showed that display and president trump dismissed desantis saying eight years by saying, you don't want that guy, because i can get it all done right away, to the which desantis said, well, why can't you get it done in four? [laughter] so back and forth, back and forth. but i think desantis has proven himself to be, first of all, adept at picking out the weaknesses to the attack in the trump record is so it doesn't look like a may-- haymaker, it looks substantial and important, and counterpunching whenever trump punches back himself. paul: so big, yawning gap now between trump in the polls, in the polls between trump and desantis. how long does desantis have before he, to to close t