w. bush when he talked about this nation building and our task is democracy everywhere. when i thought the fact that the priority should stay where it was, which was the global warship on islamist terror, let's take it at first. our task is not to establish democracy in these countries, but there is that way. at the same time, i think it is in our dna and is in our national interest because democracies tend not to declare war against other democracy. free countries do not to do that to other free countries. but again i think of this thing comes out any and will determine. we shall see. >> host: you know, your book is sort of book ended, i shall say, with the to george bush administration. george bush the elder and george buch the younger, and my mind they had the most divergent philosophies of the foreign policy. george bush the older being the realist who after you and jack iraq during that war, sees no reason to try to nation build an iraq. sees no reason to go to baghdad. and very, very ca

the national debt increased tremendously under george w. bush and it hasn't greased tremendously during the first year president obama has been in power. we need to start reducing back. we need to start doing something and we can't do it overnight. i know some in my party would like to see these changes come immediately. you can't do that. you can't all of a sudden say there is going to be no more federal reserve or we are going to do away with this department of that department but you at least have to start the process and get serious about it. i'm afraid if we don't do that within the next couple of years, and i frankly don't see that happening, i think it is frankly going to become virtually impossible to reverse the trend of ever-increasing debt. you can sustain it for a while, but frankly i don't think of to rule-- feel comfortable with china being the largest creditor in the nation or brazil being second or third, whatever it is. i think it is going to come back in a number of ways to haunt us. not just economically but in terms of reduci

george w. bush did the opposite. and so far barack obama is on the same path. >> all right. we will leave it there. david, thank you so much for your focus on this very important issue. we appreciate your time today. david walker joining us in washington. >>> up next on "the wall street journal report," i sit down with one of the most visible members of the obama administration, treasury secretary timothy geithner. is the fear of too big to fail the next fire the president wants to put out? >> we want to make sure the fire can't jump from the failing firm and threaten the rest of the financial system. >> and as we go to break, take a look at how the stock market ended the week. back in a moment. >>> timothy geithner says the economy is getting better. the treasury secretary believes we're about to give way to a period of growth and that recovery must be reinforced. >> two key things. the first is about basic protections for consumers and investors. and the second is about ending too big to fail, making sure the country doesn't ever again face a crisis like this which cost 8.

guest: i have been told that this will of the areas where i do agree with former president george w. bush. point taken, i will try to work on the pronunciation. host: what does this mean for the international atomic energy agency? guest: one of the key parts of the review is the elevation of the threat posed by nuclear weapons and terrorism, with the weapons agenda at the top. a key part of the vision is to strengthen the global non- proliferation regime. there are many things that the u.s. and the world can do to not only increase their budget and give them the resources they need to make sure that nuclear programs throughout the world are for civilian purposes only, but there are a number of measures that the u.s. in other countries can do -- and other countries can do. such as agreeing to additional protocols that would give the iaea additional investigative powers to look upon prospective nuclear information and making it difficult to hide a clandestine program. host: virginia, good morning. you are on with kingston reif. caller: good morning, c-span. i know that someone just said thi

for president george w. bush actions spoke louder than words but for obama, he tends to speak first and he's willing to spend more time where as bush was more impatient. he's willing to spend more time in order to build agreements together. so i reject the notion that he's not tough enough. i think he is. i think he is a fairly skillful politician but we'll see how that plays out down the line. the american people do want him to succeed. and one of the interesting things as the president's approval rating in the presidency declines in the fall of the year and as we approach the health care debate, his policies were far less popular than he was personally. on most of the personal traits. understands the issues, can make decisive decisions and cares about people like us, cares about american very lose and he continues to do very well across the board. host: next phone call comes from pennsylvania. bill on the democratic line your on the air. government professor at george tt ssor at george t georgeto georgetown. go

. >> guest: the caller is right george w. bush was out of touch with his administration with the reckless spending that was happening and i am no apologist for the republican party. but what is interesting barack obama in a year-and-a-half has racked up more deficits and george w. bush did in the entire eight years of office. my generation will have to pay for this that is why i wrote to "obama zombies" hopefully to wake them from their slumber. >> host: can they rely on obama's fatigue on 2010 and 2012 ford you have to get candidates out there? >> you have to get candidates who will win. it cannot just be anyone but obama but a clear juxtaposition of opposite of the liberal philosophy. he thinks there is a government solution to every problem. he has shown his cards. we need to show here the solutions. >> host: it is early yet but if you look at 2012 who is that presidential candidate that could do that or the independent? >> guest: i don't know at this point* i am not willing to anoint a candidate but i will take everyone what t

afghanistan, and he was white house correspondent during the presidency of bill clinton and george w. bush. let's welcome our guest and get excited for a great evening. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> thank you, todd. thank you. it's an honor to be here with all of us and with this remarkable panel. it's a great topic too. a topic of abiding interest really to generations of americans. you never know where it's going to turn up. i was in the taxi over here, told the taxi driver, i'm going to national constitution center. he starts driving, a couple of minutes later,

but i'm not, george w. bush gave us the bailout.y the way, let me say, tea partiers, go look at who voted for the bailout, if you don't like it and vote them out of office. it's a lot more republicans and a lot more democrats. >> i like how he's populism when it's against wall street. isn't that convenient? i thought the tea partiers were all about populism. all of a sudden, it's no, no, protect wall street! nonsense. >>> next, a mixed verdict from the first independent at president obama's health care overhaul. the plan does cover more people, that's kind of the, that's how they get you in there and then it raises costs and takes care of every special interest in the pocket of the democratic party. the health department report says the plan will actually add coverage for 34 million americans, which by the way, if you spend more money and take care of all the special interests and don't mind torpedoing the deficit, isn't that hard to do. it will increase spending by about 1%, they say, all of these things are, who knows. but $311 bi

w. bush's new book, the u.s. senator who's taking credit now for a bill he used to say would kill you, and the perfect gift, just in time for mother's day. it's "the rachel maddow show," starting right now. >>> today in washington, all 41 republican senators lined up unified along with one democrat, ben nelson of nebraska, and they all bravely insisted that wall street reform not be debate the on the floor of the united states senate. just to be clear here, they did not vote wall street reform down, they voted to not allow it to be discussed. even without ben nelson, democrats have 58 votes in the senate on this, a huge majority in favor of passing wall street reform. but republicans are filibustering, they are insisting that it not even be talked about on the senate floor. which is not to say the negotiations on this are over. republicans say they do want to keep talking. they just don't want to do it in the senate. you know, where people can see. republican senator richard shelby reportedly still trying to work

george w. bush -- there was a lot of fatigue with his administration. certainly the reckless spending that was happening and i'm no apologist for the republican party. i'm a conservative first. what's interesting barack obama in a year and a half has spent -- has racked up more deficits than george w. bush did in his entire eight years. office. i mean, my generation is going to have to pay for this and that's why i wrote "obama zombies" to hopefully zoel many of these zombies from their slumber. >> host: do you have to get candidates out there -- >> guest: you have to get candidates who are going to win. we can't just -- it can't just be any one but obama. it has to be a clear juxtaposition of conservative to liberal philosophy. obama showed his cards. he believes there's a government solution to every single problem. we have to come in and say no, this country formed on free market ideas. >> host: it's early yet. if you were looking at the 2012, who is is that presidential candidate that could do t

i'm joined by mark mckinnen, former adviser to president george w. bush, and good to see you. >> thank you very much. there really are remarkable parallels here. they were both strong leaders, both had a real strong sense of black and white and right and wrong, a firm moral compass, led during a time of economic turbulence and war, very tough foreign policy decisions. high ethical standards. and neither one really cared about their own personal popularity and i think historically if you look at leaders like churchill and truman, those are people like george w. bush who really didn't care much about popular opinion. truman had the lowest in-office favorable rating of 22 percent, which was even beneath richard nixon's, which was 24. so i think there's a very good chance -- i mean, history is a great arbiter more than the frame we look at in the present tiles. i think there's a very good chance that history will look favorably on george w. bush. martha: let's take a look at the polls you mentioned. they are interesting. these are presidential job approval nu

democrats never believed that george w. bush won. they thought al gore won. and then you have the -- kerry getting beat by w the second time, but there was the swift boat thing and -- so it's become now -- how -- a rip and tear atmosphere. i don't think it's unique to american history, but i do think we're experiencing in a -- in a very visceral way right now. >> forty years ago, and again, i mean nostalgic for the 60s, but the fact of the matter is the fringe was clearly understood. there was a consensus about what the fringe was, on the right and on the left. today you have television networks that are not only covering the fringe, but sponsoring it, bringing it into the mainstream. so that in many ways, you know, the sideshow is crowding out the main tent. and i think one of the real dangers is the media moderates find it very difficult. watch cable tv -- >> i do. >> ok. and see how many -- how many people are on there voicing the need for consensus, for finding the ways to bridge our differences rather than exploiting our differences. that doesn't sell dog

one thing about george w. bush, but library will be at smu and they are doing and north -- a good job. it is really the ranch in crawford that people associate with the bush presidency. i asked what would happen to the ranch. would that become property of the national parks service? sunday, -- sunday, barack obama will have to have the interior department come and say that the one you're chicago home. -- they want or chicago home. there is a house where there is a plaque that says that jimmy carter was conceived in this house. people go crazy over this presidential experiences, down to what kind of could the president a and where they went to church. johnson is not that far-fetched in that case when he says that people are to want to know where somebody said. >> what about -- the numbers of people that go there are not great. what about the people that research there? >> many of these institutions -- as a culture, family and i get in a station wagon and set off for two weeks in the summer to visit all of these site

[ laughter ] former presidents bill clinton and george w. bushto haiti this week to talk about the country's long-term recovery plan. this is a departure for president bush. it is unusual for him to personally visit a disaster of this scope and magnitude that wasn't his fault, so -- apparently there was some friction. i guess president bush went to visit an aid station and when he got back to the hotel room, clinton tied a sweat sock around the door handle and he had to go hang out in the lobby for like an hour. this is funny. watch what bush does to clinton after they get through shaking hands here. and a little wipe. [ applause ] let's see that again in slow motion. hello, hello, how are you? very nice to meet you. hello, yes, good-bye. and now i'm just going to wipe. president bush, first time we've seen him in two months this is what he does. he's the best. i miss that dizzy old dope, i really do. by the way, if you are germophobic, is bill clinton the best place to wipe your hands? it's -- god only knows what motel room floor that shirt has

after a year in office he has already played eight more rounds of golf than george w. bushd during his entire eight years. the president was scheduled to travel to the funeral of the polish president because of the volcano in iceland he had to scrap his plans. glad he was able to find something constructive to do with all that tree time. what about creating jobs. former president racks up thousands in late fees at a new york library. ♪ [ male announcer ] every business da bank of america lends nearly $3 billionollars to individuals, institutions, schools, organizations and businesses in every corner of the economy. america. ♪ growing stronger. every day. >> sean: the oldest library in new york says one hand has accrued 220 years of late fees. george washington. the library discovered a ledger that says he checked out two books that were never returned both due back november 2nd, 1789. he could be responsible for more than 80,000 days of late fees. luckily the library says doesn't want the money, wants the book back. good luck. or 60 to 0? [ tires screech ] how a car perform

that, under secretary of state for arms control and international security under president george w. bush assistant secretary of state in organizational affairs and he was assistant attorney general for the justice department under president ronald reagan. john has written a pamphlet on the topic. it will be coming out in a few weeks in a series of pamphlets that will be published by encounter books. please join me in welcoming ambassador john bolton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. it is great to be back. it is great to work again with the jesse helms center and to see members of the family. i really honored to have a chance to give the first of the washington series of lectures. i go back a long way with the helms enterprise. i worked with the senator in connection with campaign finance law back in the 1970's. i was pleased to work with him in a series of national security issues during his time in the senate. it is a real pleasure, especially to address the question of u.s. sovereignty which was something that he cared very deeply about. i know he would be concerned about

w. bush's book. decision points. ladies first. the former first lady has her memoir, spoken from the heart. mrs. bush with her daughters will be on all brother day before publication, not a bad way to launch a book. have a good weekend, and we will have another look next week. >> and northern virginia nonprofit organization has two new programs to help children in the area. i was privileged to emcee the luncheon. they provide take-home food on the weekends for low-income children and new clothing for elementary school children. >> i know they appreciate you being there. >> of being out there, especially on such a gorgeous day. >> it will be wonderful the rest of the weekend -- the west of the evening. the weekend will go down hill. looking back across the city, temperatures around 70, the low 70's in many areas. we will continue for several hours. clouds will start to roll back into the area. '69, '70 the high temperature. the light northerly breeze, 73 on a campus of george washington university. as far as what is happening with

w. bush's way of saying, "he's sorry"? at any rate, thank you, president bush, for your timely memoir. any chance you could schedule your next book for, say, november 2012? >> republicans have been trying so hard to make this a referendum on obama. the democrats thought the best thing they could hope for it would be a choice between obama and the republicans. no democrat dreamed it would be a referendum on obama v bush again. >> who would show up suddenly? >> that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow night. >> "hardball" is next. good night. >>> bordering on trouble. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. leading off tonight, border wars. call it the battle no one wanted to fight. immigration reform. democrats in swing districts worry about facing a tough vote. republicans worry about facing a future without hispanic support. but two things. the new arizona law and harry reid's need to galvanize hispanic voters in his own re-election bid are forcing the issue. >>> plus the heads i win, tails you lose battle. the democrats are only too sligh

of the plate, but an absolutely mandatory move, he got it past the plate -- not a strike by george w. bushbut not embarrassing at all. throwing that first pitch is a big deal. it's a true test of greatness. when did it start? 100 years ago. howard taft -- you can see him there. he threw out the first pitch of the game between the philadelphia athletics and the washington senators in 1910. 100 years of baseball tradition. an entire century tonight's big number. >>> up next, looks like president obama will get the chan to nominate another justice to the supreme court. the big question is, how big a fight will republicans make out of this pick? watching "hardball" on msnbc. . they're the future of america, so let's bring them up right and give them our cheese. american cheese. kraft singles. put it in their lunch boxes. heck, put it right in their mouths. it's made with milk, never oil like some other slices. a country is only as good as its cheese. good thing ours doesn't have a bunch of holes in it. kraft singles - the american cheese. "what do you mean homeowners insurance doesn't cover fl

he was a policy consultant to the treasury department and advised george w. bush. he also writes for a myriad of publications. kevin, the floor is yours. >> this is really kind of a kickoff event. we must see if it is possible to live a competitiveness. i think that what motivated us to start this is the observation that it is impossible to see an economic speech by a politician and not hear them mentioned the word competitiveness. competitiveness is misused. review the challenge. we try to see if there are definitions of competitiveness that are useful. the could help policymakers think about what the competition is fed is going on. what we have done in this project is solicited leaders in the economic iprofession. what is the competition that is going on? what is the score? i hope that these papers will be fruitful. i am sure that there will be holding as well. there are some nice examples that should influence policy. states are beginning to influence policy. one example that i would like to walk us through is the example of taxes. before i do, i would like to s

w. bush's director of the office of management and budget, talks about the economic impact of the healthcare bill on indiana and on other states. >> we're continuing to discover new costs, not just the cost that will be visited on some future governor to pick up hundreds of thousands of new people on our medicaid system. we've already been hit with $25 million bill because the federal government is going to confiscate rebates. now they're going to take the benefit that have bargain away starting immediately. we also see huge administrative costs coming when we have to supervise a huge expansion of medicaid and, as we understand it, shoulder the administrative costs of the new exchanges. so it's going to be a very, very expensive thing under any estimate for taxpayers here and in every other state, and that hidden, crammed down tax increase that this bill will necessity, just another example of the dishonest accounting with which it was sold. >> and you can see the entire interview of governor mitch daniel the on "new makers" today at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. iranian photoj

at that point george w. bush calling them, his commerce secretary was on capitol hill, his homeland security secretary was on capitol hill, bush was saying you've got to do this for me. some did it for their republican president. you said it would be horrible for the republican party to turn away those supporters. yes, they're saying they're going to do this now, if he really meant it, why not in the house of representatives where the democrats have a huge majority pass the bill, put pressure on the senate? you heard nancy pelosi say that she's absolutely fine with putting immigration before climate change and she said that if the senate gives it to her, they will ---and senator reid has made a commitment to make this a priority and by the way, he needs to because of his reluctance. >> but we'll bring it up for a vote. but that's curious, everything else has been originating in the house. the president stood at the state of the union and had a list of house passed bill in the senate, which we all know has the mec

so $50 billion -- >> under george w. bushnk paulson, two republicans in the republican administration. >> andrea, you're absolutely right. i vigorously opposed the wall street bailout when the bush administration bought it. and we are vigorously opposing intents to make wall street bailouts permanent under this so-called financial services bill under this administration. >> what do you think of the derivative regulation that came out of the senate agricultural committee just today. >> i'm not familiar with it. let me be clear. you know, i think there is a need, you know, for some of these boutique financial instruments to be regulated, like ordinary, you know, financial instruments. there's more consumer protections we can pass. but i have to tell you, the extension of authority here to the treasury, to the fdic that allows them to pick winners and losers in the marketplace, that keeps alive this deeply flawed concept that some institutions are too big to fail. i just think it's an approach the american people have utterly re

it's been a pretty good deal for everybody. >> steve mcmahon, the george w. bushtute of limitations has just about expired politically. i'm not saying factually but politically. >> joe biden is very wise to treat the tea party folks gently. they are not necessarily enemies or evildoers as senator reid says. >> i say tea partyers because they say themselves there is no massive tea party, they are individual groups. >> sure. >> quickly on approach, should the president take on immigration? >> i think if he does take it on my reasoning would be he's going to do it because the hispanic caucus came down and said, look. we're going to stand up for you on health care but you got to stand with us. this is what you said you would do for us. i think it will cause a brutal battle and i think the president of the united states knows he will lose that battle. maybe he figures it will inspire his base for november but i think it would be a terrible mistake because that will reignite the entire tea party movement and republican party. >> i think the legislation in arizona has re

w. bush's director of the budget, talks about the impact of the health care bill on indiana. >> it is not just the costs that will be visited on some future governor. he has to pick up hundreds of thousands of new people on our medicaid system. we have already been hit with a $25 million bill where the federal government wants to confiscate pharmacy rebates. we drove a good deal with the drug companies and they are going to take the benefit away, starting immediately. we see huge administrative costs coming when we have to supervise a huge expansion of medicaid. as we understand it, we shoulder the administrative cost of the new exchanges. this is going to be an expensive thing for taxpayers here and in every other state. that hidden tax increase -- this bill is another example of the dishonest accounting with which it was sold. >> you can see the entire interview on " newsmakers." >> all this month, see the winners of c-span is the video documentary contest. students submitted videos on monday the country's greatest strengths or the challenges the country is facing. watch the winning vid

w. bush's way of saying he's sorry? at any rate, thank you, president bush for your timely memoir. could you schedule the next one for november 2012? >> republicans have been trying so hard to make this a referendum on obama, the democrats thought the best they could hope for was a choice between obama and the republicans. no every could have dreamed of a referendum. >> thank you, kent. >>> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? maybe the 2011 baseball all-star game? boycotts, protests, john mccain saying he likes it, but it's not clear whether all of it is legal or not? tom tancredo saying he like it is, but he's worried people might be pulled over because they look like they should be pulled over? the show me your papers law. >> may i see your papers? >> the protests with congressman louis gutierrez, the political armageddon with howard fineman. lindsey graham's flip-flop. he bailed out of a deal on energy reform, because the white house is prioritizing immigration reform, a month after he called out the white house for not prioritizing immigration reform. whi

that the president inherited all as these debts and back to to which is left over from the george w. bush era, and quite frankly, george bush and eight years of operating a war that turned out to be highly successful despite harry reid and barack obama claiming we have already lost it while we were still fighting at -- bush only ran up $800 billion in debt in that entire time and barack obama in one year has quadrupled that that -- debt. i don't see how people can defend it. i'm thankful we have the internet so we can talk about this openly without a stint -- spin we are getting from the mindless democrats. host: i want to let you know at 11:00 today you can see a live broadcast of the first lady michelle, as she presents a town hall forum child abuse in which will feature one of ourc ofam winners, matthew shimura from honolulu. columbia, north carolina. good morning. on the democrats' line. caller: hello? host: think i got the wrong line. go ahead, sir. caller: i just want to say that the fcc can't regulate the internet. host: because? caller: hello? host: tell me why. caller: it is too

not a strike like george w. bushg. >>> this is a big deal for american presidents. when did the tradition start? 100 years ago. howard taft, you can see him there. he threw out the first pitch of the game between the athletics and senators back in 1910. 100 years of baseball tradition and entire century. tonight's big number. >>> up next, looks like president obama will get the chance to nominate another jus taos the supreme court. the big question is, how big a fight will the republicans make out of this pick? why do women like you love activia light? sometimes i have no choice but to eat heavy greasy food that's hard on my diet... and my digestive system. so i eat activia light every day. it helps me feel good and look good too! ♪ activia! you took my eggs ! it's an "egg management fee." what does that even mean ? egg management fee. even kids know it's wrong to take other people's stuff. that's why at ally bank we don't eat away at your savings with fees. and we offer rates among the most competitive in the countr

and i would argue, i think that george w. bush was a better president in his last two years after that 2006. remember, he didn't have a first term midterm election disaster face plant because 2002 election was immediately after 9/11. he had his in 2006, but if you think about it, getting elected president of the united states, leader of the free world has got to be an incredibly intoxicating experience. and it's kind of hard i think for any of us to imagine how emboldening that must be. but eventually they face these disasters. and when that happens, i think the over, humble, i think the hubris is gone. they become more pragmatic, and become better president. and i think president obama is intellectually one of the brightest presidents we have ever had, but i also think he is one of the least experienced. and experience basically, when you talk about experience, what do you really mean? you really mean judgment. or what's the opposite of experts is inexperienced. what do you get with inexperience is sometimes faulty judgment. i th

and i haven't seen any numbers for clinton's second term, w. bush or obama. you have to believe that time keeps going up. >> linda, we've been talking about interesting, but off the news things in a way. what's going on internationally? we say the president's chances are looking up domestically, or in some sort of rise. international, doesn't look so pretty does it? >> i think depends really where you look. afghanistan is still so problematic. there are some signs that things are happening there that are very sures. the afghan parliament turns out to be one of the major challenges in challenging its president, president karzai. there's a life in the parliament that says we're sick of the corruption. we want a voice. we want the people to be heard. we don't want the president to have the kind of power he has without listening to us. there are about 30 members of the parliament who have been very, very vocal. i think that breaks in our way as we try to establish some stability there. >> but there is a lot of anger at the international force led by ourselves and

ask them to revacuum work the complete the project and the clinton administration, not the george w. bush administration, took the position that no civil nuclear program in iran. not just no enrichment. no nuclear power plant. no nothing in iran. that was the u.s. position. and the u.s. used its influence with germany to get germany to stop cooperation with iran. on this and that was seen as a victory of the strategy of isolating iran and then russia came in to fill the german position. they said we'll provide this cooperation and then it was found, actually that russia around 1996, 1997 that russia agreed to supply uranium enrichment technology secretly to iran and in then clinton administration exposed this to yell citizen that the russians would back out of that part of it. that's where we thought things lay until it was discovered that pakistan was supplying uranium assistance to iran. i was in russia when this was announced. boy were the russians surprised and not happy. they thought they were the only ones in this kind of relationship with iran and it was like, somebody finds out th

it helped propel then-texas governor george w. bush to party prominence back in 1998. but one-time candidates mitt romney and mike huckabee didn't show, nor did minnesota governor tim pawlenty, so today belonged to palin. on poster board, with impersonators, buttons, bumper stickers and even caribou jerky in her honor. >> she has worked very hard all her life. she's not one of these washington insiders that have been in there for 20 and 30 years. >> reporter: what about sarah palin? >> dynamic, eloquent. >> reporter: a candidate? >> excellent candidate. >> reporter: for? >> for president. >> reporter: but our cbs news poll suggests her appeal is limited. only 36% of conservatives view her favorably. and while the midwest-- including always-critical iowa-- is her stronghold, only 31% of midwesterners have a favorable impression. so for sarah palin, the applause may well be heartening, but if she wants to run for president, the political map right now is not encouraging. dean reynolds, cbs news, new orleans. announcer: treat your family to van goghgurt. packed with live

for a lifetime achievement in 2004 presented with a congressional gold medal by president george w. bush. she was a shining example of the best in america. >> reporter: and she had a lifelong fascination with hats. she liked them big, she liked them flashy. she wore them everywhere, including the black family reunion celebration she established on the mall. >> she was a fighter, a warrior and she always had this warm smile. i loved her hats. i loved the way she dressed. >> reporter: they were her signature and all they are buddies in the movement were amused by them and have fun stories connected to them. >> i could never forget dorothy with those hats, and the fact that in our lighter moments we learned she could sing and dance. >> reporter: and this is where dr. height usually got her hat. custom made by hat maker vanilla bean. >> she liked purples and blues and pinks. >> reporter: they became fast friends decades ago. it was definitely more than a business relationship when bean turned 90 last september, dorothy height was at the party front and center. >>> president obama expressed c

end, i say that by the time i finished in washington, my mother had a different opinion of george w. bush. but, it is not a good way to start off in wendy was not much happier with me. 's be one of the most interesting things i found in the book and i had not heard a word about this before, was your account of how some top russian officials had gone to some top chinese officials with the suggestion essentially that they start dumping their bombs up probably freddie and fannie at that time. that almost sounds like a bear raid. i thought that was the sort of thing that just the evil guys on wall street did you tell me about that. >> it never happened, but we are very, very concerned about stabilizing fannie and freddie because as warren said, there were 5.4 jillion dollars of securities that were either insured or issued direct we buy these institutions. they were highly leveraged institutions, and the securities were held i think about 1.7 trillion.ñr the biggest portion was inside the u.s., and we had gone-- i have been trying to get reform legislation from congress beginning in 2006, and

to ask them to resume work to complete the project and the clinton administration, not the george w. bushadministration, took a position to know civil nuclear program in iran. not just no enrichment, no nuclear power plant, no nothing. and the u.s. used this to get germany to stop cooperation with iran. this was seen as a victory of the strategy of isolating iran. russia said we will provide this cooperation. then it was found that russia had agreed to supply uranium enrichment technology secretly to iran. the clinton administration exposed this to yeltsin and got agreement that the russians would back out and they would go ahead with the bushehr power reactor in the uranium enrichment cooperation. that is where we thought things were until was discovered that pakistan was supplying uranium enrichment assistance to iran. i was in russia when this was announced and the russians were surprised and not happy. they thought they were the only ones in this kind of relationship with iran and it was like somebody finds out there mistress is having an affair and they are outraged. how could they b

in the case of george w. bush.when he was elected, you call in 2000 was a close election and he did not have the most popular votes. there was no major economic problem. the issue was, did he have the knowledge and experience to make presidential decisions. in his white house in the first three months. the so-called on moon period which he sad and clinton did not have. in the first three months they took president bush and made him go around the country and make statements on public policy to demonstrate he knew the issues. two, they kept the vice president highly experienced behind closed door this is the shadow and during the first three months, every major decision made, the white house leaked it to one of the prime news sources that it was the president that made it. he established himself in the presidency despite the election at the end of the first three months, and then he was able to get his tax cut through. then there was something he didn't anticipate the de text of james jackson from the senate turning

and afghanistan and white house correspondent during the presidencies of bill clinton and george w. bush. so let's welcome our guests and get ready for an exciting evening. thank you. [applause] >> thank you todd. it's an honor to be here and with this remarkable panel. it's a topic of abiding interest to generations of americans. you never know where it's going to turn up. i was in the taxi over here, told the taxi driver, going to the national constitution center. he starts driving. a couple minutes later of absolutely nothing, she said well, maybe we'll get our constitution back some day. now, they could have been someone who didn't like president bush, or somebody that didn't like president obama, could have been anybody, but it's that word our that really is the focus as to is pointed out. americans own their constitution, and this building is full those quotes telling us that, one from john marshal i saw this afternoon, the american people made their constitution and only they can unmake it, through conversations, through discussion, so let's do some constitution making, and i'd li

. >> reporter: ronald reagan and george w. bush never formally joined churches in d.c.ichard nixon brought church to the white house with sunday services in the east room. >> praise be to god. >> reporter: the president has found a high tech spiritual ritual. he receive as daily devotional on his blackberry. >> the bible tells us to pray without ceasing, so if modern technology can help us do that, i'm certainly all for it. >> reporter: a modern solution to keep the faith. yunji de nies, abc news, washington. >>> easter services at a packed church in baghdadere interrupted today by a series of suicide attacks. three car bombs that appeared to target christians and several embassies. at least 42 people were killed, more than 200 wounded. here's abc's miguel marquez. >> reporter: the moment of one of the explosions caught on camera. the scene on the streets of baghdad, utter chaos. "it was a mini van," he says. "he blew himself up." bystanders instantly turned into victims. no one was spared. she's crying out "a car bomb." this man sprinted, carrying a young girl, injured

now also he came in after eight years of gorge w bush who started using executive orders a lot.nd i think you saw president obama wanting to be more lbj like, working with congress. the problem is lbj had 67 democratic senators. you had a very weak, maybe 60 with barack obama. so he wasn't really able to start this huge 0ee, 10 new, new deal. things like climate has gone sideways. immigration reform we don't even talk about. health care sucked all the oxygen out of the room. and i think you might see more of a tr o a. i think he's capable of it. we've seen some of his punches towards the right lately. but i'm not in this election year, again i think perhaps in a year or two he might, but he's calculates everything. first and foremost barack obama is a politician. and we make a terrible mistake underestimating how good he is at what he does. >> rose: well said. i mean the other thing about the narrative is that the narrative of the presidential campaign was he married historee to america's tore story. but that was about him, and his story, what he needs now, it seems to me s to t

the national debt increased tremendously under george w. bush and it has increased tremendously the first year the president has been in power. we need to reduce that, we need to start doing something -- we can't do it overnight, and i know some in my party, you know, would like to see these changes come, immediately, and you can't do that, you can't all of a sudden, say, well, there is going to be no more federal reserve or we'll do away with this or that department. but, you have to start the process, and get serious about it. if i'm -- i'm afraid if we don't do that within the next couple of years and i don't see that happening, i think it will become virtually impossible to reverse that trend, of ever increasing debt. and, you can sustain it for a while, but, frankly, i don't feel comfortable with china being our largest creditor nation, or brazil, being the second or third, whatever it is. i think this is going to come back in a number of ways, to haunt us, not just economically, but, in terms of reducing and limiting our options, in the in

school of business, and former chairman of the council of economic advisors under president george w. bush. >> in the 2008 presidential campaign, barack obama promised that the low tax on dividends-- 15%-- that we have enjoyed since 2003 will rise to only 20% with his plan. but the president recently signed into law budget rules that will make it difficult to avoid a dividend tax increase all the way back to pre-2001 levels. far from washington trivia, this difference is a big deal. such a dividend tax change is big news for the stock market. equities have value in part because they pay dividends. today, a taxable investor in the u.s. should be willing to pay 85 cents for every expected dividend dollar. if taxes revert to pre-2001 levels-- and assuming other changes the president proposes-- that drops to 55 cents. while stocks wouldn't drop by quite that much, because markets may have already factored in changes, such a tax hike would have real effects. economists focus on two. that dividend taxes reduce firm value is, by now, well established. and higher dividend taxes will reduce dividen

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w. bush that cut the arsenals in half. ever since then we have been on a steady decline in both countries. host: if ronald reagan was significant for beginning the declining process, is there an earlier president you look to us most responsible for the build up? guest: it was during the eisenhower years, not because he wanted to do it. but he like most presidents really thought these weapons should be eliminated. every single president has said that. but it was during a time of intense competition between the u.s. and the soviet union. we had built a bomb in 1945, and used it. the soviets caught up in 1949. that is when the arms race began. in the 1950's it was thought that atomic weapons were the thing to do. we had nuclear death charges, torpedoes, mines. the army even had a nuclear bazooka called the david crockett that would filefire abt half a mile. these were seen as prestigious items, weapons to be used in the normal combat. but the time kennedy came, that is when we began to limit the number of weapons. those that

w. bush, he was in my mind one of the best and perhaps most underrated foreign policy president we had, where there was how he handled cautiously and successfully the demise of the soviet union, the end of the cold war, the fall of the berlin wall, or likewise how he handled the middle east them the persian gulf and the kuwait situation. tell me a little bit about george h. w. bush the person and his philosophy of foreign policy. >> guest: the person first. a guy who i believe as if people saw him in private as i did often would have thought much better of him. this guy got dana carvey like, you know the guy on "saturday night live" to imitate him, and public. but in private he was naturally eloquent. i tell the story being in portland, oregon. we were out there for dedicating a police memorial and i was drug czar. we were going to jog. used to jog. very general as he would slow down and. >> host: i have to say i read the part, i figure in a hotel room and he wants to go jogging with you, and

. >> host: so how do you think history will judge george w. bush?>> guest: obviously, nixon's famous line that it depends on the historian who writes the history will make the judgment. collectively, i think that he's in for trouble. i think that he gave too much power in the first six years of his eight-year presidency to his vice president. his vice president had an agenda that was to try to overturn anything that was the result of watergate. these very aggressive actions in the name of fighting terrorism went way over the top. keeping americans frightened to get the mandate to do so are troubling historical potentials. they, they have not, they've never been accountable for many of the activities they undertook, the fact that we went to war in iraq with, on a really bogus reason. those all need to be addressed and will be addressed, and i don't think history's going to be real good to either bush or cheney. >> host: our last call comes to us from kill lean, texas. kirby, you're on the air. go ahead, please. >> caller: hey, guys. you're doing a go