he is consistent with the george w. bushicy of bypassing diplomacy, of bypassing the united nations. in addition, there have been no attempt to change our relationship with our so-called , whods, like saudi arabia have certainly been very responsible for creating a lot of the conditions that brought isis into place, along with of course the american military destabilizing this vast area of middle east and then resorting to more military action to further destabilize i. host: the house intelligence committee will hear on the president's strategy against isil. this will take place at 8:00 this morning. they will hear from jim mattis, retired. former investors to iraq, syria, and afghanistan will talk about these strategies to combat the terrorist group. see that on c-span3 at 8:00 this morning. here is another jay, independent line. hello. americai do not think can win because america cannot trust america. i was gung ho -- i am a 20 year retired navy veteran. i feel stabbed in the back by my own country because of what happene

but bill clinton and george w. bush seems to have taken to another level completely. y another mother. >> that's great. >> why can't we have more of this? >> i know. i was thinking the same thing. they do say it's the most exclusive club in the world, of course, the former presidents club. but it's nice to seat friendship. difference in parties and views on things that i think people in washington and other places can learn from that. >> you can tell it's genuine. that's what's so great about it. can we point out bill clinton's suit. >> very handsome. >> what are you doing, bill? >> you got the tan -- >> southern men like to touch. you notice how bill clinton had his hand on george w. bush. bill, we thank you. >>> new reporting has some moms pretty ticked off this morning. we'll find out why female workers get punished for having kids. something's wrong about ready for a great career? devry university's merit-based career catalyst scholarship can help you get startedth up to $20,000 for qualified new students. apply now and start working toward your career like devry g

w. bush. given how mr. bush's presidency turned out, do you regret running that year and why or why not? >> last i heard, bush got more votes from gore than i did, that's is a minor thing. i don't think third parties are second classy sense. if we all have equal rights to run for election and then we are all trying to get votes from one another. so we're all spoilers of one another or none of us are spoilers. when you say spoiler are third party candidates given all great things they have done in american history to pioneer antislavery, women's right to vote, worker rights, farmer rights, when you just say third party candidates are spoilers, that is political bigotry. so blame the electoral college because gore got 500,000 more votes nationwide. only country i know in the world where you can come in first and lose the election, because the electoral college. blame florida, blame the thieves in florida. blame the supreme court. you don't blame someone exercising constitutional rights to challen

president george w. bushwas absolutely wrong to have taken those actions that he did and contrary to statute, he did something that was illegal and were very mad about that and as long as were talking about it we should mention the fact -- i haven't heard anyone say that because i think the implication is on that side they didn't think was wrong. that is the issue. president toor the do something he believes is in the national security interest of the country under his article to authority. i think most people would say sometimes yes, sometimes no. it's a debatable issue. it's not a matter of saying two wrongs make a right. it's a matter of arguing whether or not it was wrong in the first place. hobgoblintency is the of small minds, as the saying goes. it certainly is enough inconsistency on this issue to make people believe that this is more partisan motivated that it is purely policy and conscience motivated. i reserve the balance of my time. grace the gentleman from california is recognized. >> i pointed o

to hitler and not george w. bushhitler and not letting this military for over 60,000 california foster children, extra curricular activities help provide a sense of identity and a path to success. joining the soccer team. getting help with math. going to prom. i want to learn to swim. it's hard to feel normal, when you can't do the normal things. to help, sleep train is collecting donations for the extra activities that, for most kids, are a normal part of growing up. not everyone can be a foster parent... but anyone can help a foster child. . >>> taxpayers may be interested to know what's going on in public schools right now. an army officer denied access to his daughter's public school. they told him his uniform might offend students. this, coming as a fifth grade teacher in washington, d.c., asked students to compare president george w. bush to hitler, saying both abuse powers. what's happening here? >> brenda, it is disgraceful. when you are in sixth grade, you should be learning patriotism, respecting the presid

you can see here, this article points out that george w. bush was right about the iraq pullout. at is this focusing on? a statement that former president bush made in the summer of 2007 when he warned about the dire consequences of pulling out of iraq. little did he know how prophetic his words were going to be. back in 2007, he warned that a withdrawal would mean surrendering the future of iraq to al qaeda and it would increase the probability that american troops would have to return at a later date. george w. bush could tell obama "i told you so.” >> maybe he will. in france, mp's are heading back to prone after the summer break or the mood is not very good. >> absolutely drilled rarely has the mood been so tense that an opening session of the parliament. they talk about a poisonous atmosphere. you see on the front page that the prime minister will ask mp's to give him a vote of confidence. it is not a clear win. he still has his work cut out for him in securing the vote of confidence. >> one mp is getting a lot of attention, negative attention. >> that is right. that is thoma

you mentioned george w. bushour colleague who also writes for bloomberg view is this specie could've imagined for hillary clinton at her most pugnacious or from the mouth of john mccain. this is the not the kind of thing you would have heard from barack obama six years ago. >> why this is tracking people as amazing and distinctive is this because -- is this pick not a great speech. white, this was lacking good and evil. and again, not just talking about events in the middle east but also across the globe. a battle between civilization, obviously he took haynes to say this is not a war against muslims or a war against religion but boy was he clear-cut compared to some of what his critics have said about him in the past. >> the network of death. that is very striking phrase. this is a speech where one of the most striking elements is the way in which he said, the moderate elements in your committed the must not tolerate what we have seen from these kinds of extremists. again, the kind of thing you think back when h

former president george w. bush, under whose administration this treaty was hammered out, supports it. does former president george w. bush, does he not understand this or does he just not care about our sovereignty? bob dole, he knows this treaty backwards and forwards. a world war ii hero, presidential candidate, republican leader of the senate, disabled american veteran. are those few people over there that say that this would erode our sovereignty, are they saying that they know more than senator dole? or are they saying senator dole just doesn't care about our sovereignty? which is it? which is it? or those few that raise the issue of sovereignty, u.s. chamber of commerce doesn't care about our sovereignty? i don't think you'd like to say that to tom dunning or john engler at the business round table. of course they care. tell that to the american legion. tell the american legion they don't care about our sovereignty or they don't understand this, or they're just too stupid to understand. is that what they're s

president bush, president george w bush. lord, this show goes to the tank. >> you just cut me off. >> do the hookers go away? >> george w bush. >> all right. that's a euphemism. that's when you had u.n diplomats walking around and doesn't want to get arrested. i am looking for president bush. >> are you george w bush? it is funny there are a lot of you guys looking for george w bush. >> some are looking for colin powell. >> all right, coming up, i invite the guests back to my apartment. i hope they are ready for pillow fights and fits of crying. but first, what did a mother and daughter do to the high school football field? if it is anything other than draw a penis we won't do this story. >>> welcome back. so on last night's show we reported the three breasted reality show hopeful. i am afraid we made an error error-ola. it is time for another -- >> apology. >> new information shows everything in that story was fake, especially the breast. the hoxter filed a stolen baggage claim at the tampa international airport and reporte

so whether you get to george w. bushand you get really to some of the worst aspects of cia conduct in the field of clandestine operations, of course, i'm talking about the secret prisons, the renditions policy which was really a kidnapping policy, detentions, torture and abuse, all of these things were part of what dick cheney called the dark side. in u.s. clandestine operations. barack obama comes in to office with very little background in national security affairs. that was always the weakness of the obama candidacy. it's not that he had not been in washington that much to be a political participant in how washington operates on a political level, but he had never really demonstrated an intense concern with national security policy. i always sthaugt from the start he was somewhat intimidated by the military and the central intelligence agency. his appointments when you look at his first national security team were extremely weak. leaving robert gates at the defense department made no real sense. and i think was caving

george w. bush in 2007 and i read exactly verbatim what the president said july 12, 2007. george w. bush warned the nation then, it would mean surrendering the future of iraq to al qaeda if the united states completely removed ourselves from iraq. it would mean that we'd be risking mass killings on a horrific scale. it would mean we'd allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in iraq, to replace the one they lost in afghanistan. it would mean increasing the probability that american troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous. it is beyond belief the statement that was made by george w. bush back in july 12 of 2007. it is as though the president had most accurately described exactly what president obama will address tomorrow night. by his ill-made decision in 2011 not to leave american residual forces to maintain the peace. i want to give credit tonight, mr. speaker, to the american heroes, the american soldiers who won the peace and defeated

w. bush's approval rating and one like george w. bush was such an an an -- such an albatrose and they lose congress obama is unpopular, but it is not like they are locking down the senate. it doesn't seem to be weighing them down. and george w. bush, to be that unpopular, we have to go back to truman. now we have gotten used to them. the second term president is disliked. >> it is a six-year rule i think. >> it is becoming one. this guy and the last guy don't age well. >> obama should be thanking bush is what you are saying. >> i am saying the really interesting thing here is like at least last time like the democrats were kind of popular in 2006. and now everybody is really unpopular. washington is really unpopular and congress and democrats and republicans and obama. that's actually the really interesting thing. >> you made it dull. tom, should we expect more from this lame stream media? to coin a phrase. i just invented that. >> that's the thing though. this is what is so funny. the other day i was watching bill maher's show. >> a

being on the left they cannot say they would do anything like george w. bush. i don't care. g as they continue the george bush architecture on how to fight terrorism and leave those programs in place, including keeping guantanamo open, our nation is safer. they can run from the rhetoric as long as their actions continue. >> let's move to the next topic. white house advisor dan pfeiffer saying leaks with are a big problem as reporters complain about limited access and lack of transparency. we pulled direct quotes here from mainstream media folks. the "new york times", i mean, they are criticizing this as one of the least transparent administrations in history. how do you walk that line? you know reporters, we're going to push and want information? there are some things you have to keep secret. the white house correspondents association is repeatedly filing these protests saying you are keeping us out of everything. even the smallest events, we can't even take our own pictures. >> there was no facebook or twitter. it came about in the age of bottom boim. he has all these differ

gave students an assignment to compare george w. bushs do a better job of monitoring what is in the classroom? >> patty wrote on facebook, if my child were in the classroom i wouldn't rest until the teacher was fired. >> this is an example who doesn't appreciate what they do. shame on this too often. >> if this assignment came home here i would gather other parents and go to the next school board meeting. >> thanks to everyone who responded. >> we appreciate it and hope you have a great weekend. >> #keeptalking right after the show. "fox & friends" up next. >>> good morning. today is friday, the 12th of september, 2014. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth hasselbeck. and a fox news alert. a day after being found not guilty of promeditated murder, another verdict in for olympic blade runner oscar pistorious. was he let off the hook again? we are live at the courthouse in south africa with the breaking details. >> i'm clayton in for steve this morning. fresh off the president's war speech, secretary of state john kerry says who said anything

and a social media firestorm after abc teacher told students to compared former president george w. bush and adolf hitler. theany are recalling anniversary of another deadly attack, the one that claimed for american lives at u.s. compounds in benghazi, libya. >> in the two years since militants stormed the compound, controversy has surface. -- a thuman spoke with the family member of one of those killed. he joins us now. >> in the aftermath of the benghazi attacks, there has been everything from valid omissions of fall to what sompeople allege are conspiracy theories. but family members of those who died in the assault will tell you they have more questions now than two years ago. >> i had wanted for the last two years to be able to find out what happened to my son in his last moments. >> for two years, adjourning mired in morning and thought -- fraught with controversy with the family trying to find out what happened to their beloved ty, a cia contractor and former ealghbors -- navy s killed alongside the others. collect there never will be closure. not until i see him in heaven -- >> t

>> this is a speech where if you closed your eyes, you could have heard george w. bushiving this speech. >> stephen: yes, every time i close my eyes, i can hear george bush speaking. (laughter) hold on... he's talking again. why, yes, mr. president, i would love to hop on the segue with you and go get a hot dog. look out for that tree! ooh! look, sir, i got to go back to the show and do the thing. my eyes are closed. i can't read the scrolly words they have up here. see you later. bye. what are you gonna steal from bush next, mr. president? 'cuz you're not fooling anyone! even politico pointed out that if you type obama's money phrase -- "network of death "-- into the thesaurus.com, george w. bush's "axis of evil" could very welcome out. yes, it could very well come out. no, i tried it and it doesn't come out, but if i didn't, it might have. clearly, president kumbaya is just trying to look tough in the middle east by mad-libbing the greatest hits of the bush administration. i dread the day when "mission accomplished" becomes "job did." (laughter) (applause) but folks,

former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton were recently theashington dc to launch presidential leadership scholars program, a partnership between the presidential centers of bush, clinton, george w bush -- george h.w. bush, and lyndon johnson. watch that tonight at 8:00 on c-span. tomorrow, bill clinton will join his wife at the 37th and final iowa,-- steak fry in posted by retiring senator tom harkin. live coverage beginning at 3:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. next, senate armed services committee chair carl levin, speaking about u.s. foreign policy at the council on foreign relations. topics include the situation in the middle east and ukraine, as well as the u.s. strategy for combating isis. senator levin is retiring in january after serving 36 years in the senate. this is one hour. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to today's on the record meeting. we certainly have a lot to talk about. just so there's no confusion, since we are about the same size and same age and we both wear our glasses on the edge of ou

i mean, george w. bushk plenty of criticism for what he had called a coalition of the willing during the iraq war. do you think president obama is doing any better? >> well, i think he's putting together a coalition of the willing. the question, willing to do what is going to be the question. you know, we have a number of nations signed up, but what they're signed up for seems like pretty light lifting. it's been striking, even david cameron and the uk who had -- and uk has been so firmly with us in the past, and, of course, tony blair paid a price for that at home. but even after the beheading of one of their own, david cameron said we're going to work with the united states, but they're only providing sort of surveillance and intelligence. they're not joining the air strikes. cameron clearly has got his eye, you know -- he's looking down the road this week at the vote on scotland on thursday which is so critical. he's not calling parliament back. remember, the last time he called parliament into session w

as george w. bush8. >> but it is amazing, though, if you think about the way barack obama has been interpreted by the right and left. either side wanted to acknowledge what he actually is. this continuation largely of bush policies whether it's been on drone strikes, dealing with the war on terror broadly defined has been a true line of the obama administration. the left doesn't want to admit that he's more bush-like than he is and the right doesn't want to admit he's more bush-like than he is. neither side wants to acknowledge. the right wants to call him a hippy pacifist and neither side sees the guy for what he really is. >> they're both wrong and it's absolute insane for the left to attack george w. bush for his policies and not look at how barack obama -- you're right. you're exactly right. for right wingers to say, oh, this guy is weak and he is this and he's a that. you look at the drone strikes and you look at he's made, willie, some tough decisions. some decisions where i think he's gone too f

. >> stephen: -- george w. bush, great president... or the greatest president?eers and applause) >> i remember one other time i was on and you said, why couldn't abraham lincoln unify the country the way george w. bush has done? and i said, he did unify the country, what are you talking about? and you said, ma'am, i'm from south carolina, he didn't unify me. (laughter) >> stephen: great or greatest? i only have those two. to get graded by a computer, i have to put one of those. >> i take the fifth amendment. >> stephen: all right. all right. i'll see you in guantanamo. (laughter) doris, thank you so much! doris kearns goodwin! doris kearns goodwin! (cheers and applause) what does an apron have to do with car insurance? every time you tie on an apron, you make progress. and we like that. because progress is what we make, too. whatever, usa- a real town built by bud light- is somewhere... in this area here. why the secrecy? because if we divulged the exact whereabouts this amazing town would be overrun by a wave of humanity demanding to do this, this, this, a whol

i'm looking for president bush. >> are you george w. bush? >> are you george w. bush? >> it's funny there's a lot of you guys around -- >> some looking for colin powell. >> all right. coming up, i invite a guest back to my apartment. i hope they're ready for pillow fights and crying. but first, what did a mother and daughter do to the high school football field? if it's anything other than draw peanuts, we won't do the story. story. that hard. i read most of the book.. you didn't read the book. i read some of the book. it's all about being prepared. proper nutrition... keeping the romance alive. level 7! and setting a good example. daddy's trying. we are so ready for this. life can surprise you. so can an allstate agent. from savings on a new car, to discounts on a great car seat. the good hands are doing more than ever before. ♪ want to change the world? create things that help people. design safer cars. faster computers. smarter grids and smarter phones. think up new ways to produce energy. ♪ be an engineer. solve problems the world needs solved. what are you waiting

this sounds like george w. bush they were scrambling to explain why they weren't wrong for ten years. >> he clearly didn't read thoroughly. >> the difference is he did go out and blame the intel. >> the larger question here, and the president put himself in the middle of the question sunday night is jim clapper. he lied to lock a year and a half ago in testimony. >> yeah. >> he has clearly been unable to assemble the intelligence point where the president -- it gets the president's full attention. i mean, just anecdotely in talking to people in the state department. and that hussein's officer core is now in syria. >> why, willie? the president was warned. he's been warned for some time. why do you ignore that? and secondly, what you then go on "60 minutes", the second most news program in america -- >> after? >> after "morning joe" of course. i don't think anybody questions that. >> i'm talking to you. >> that's the most important news show in america. >> you'll like that. >> oh my gosh. it seemed like it's not the

president george w. bush repeatedly took actions that were in violation of the clear law. po1 he basically authorized warrantless wiretapping, president bush asserted his article 2 authority. so therefore it was legal to do that. go back to abraham lincoln who suspended habeas corpus in the same way. this is a long-running debate between the legislative and the executive branch, and never before has the legislative branch stepped out, a piece of to slation like that, censur the president. perfectly consistent with what george w. bush and a whole lot of other folks did. i think it's wrong to say he violated the law when this is a long-running debate between the executive and legislative branch. i believe that the president should have given us 30 days' notice. the reason they didn't is they were concerned the information would be leaked. this was a very sensitive negotiation and they were told if the information was leaked it would kill the deal and they were deeply concerned about sergeant bergdahl's health and if any further delay happened that he might not survive his cur

in just eight years president george w. bush took one of the strongest, fastest-growing economies in american history and, sadly, turned it into an economic recession. how did he do it? well, tax breaks for wealthy people, wars that were not paid for; those were the two things that drove us from a $5 trillion debt when president clinton left office, $5 trillion when president george w. bush left office handing it to president obama, that national debt had grown from $5 trillion to $12 trillion; more than doubled in that eight-year period of time. so president obama had a challenge. get the economy back on its feet. right now public television has a series on the roosevelts. i enjoy it because ken burns is one of the best, and he's telling the story of teddy roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt. and we remember what happened when franklin roosevelt came to office at the end of 1932, the beginning of 1933, facing the great depression in america. he said we've got to get america back to work. and that's what president o

it then 9/11 memorial services. >> former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton joined forces to launch the leadership scholars program. it is a partnership between the presidential centers of was, clinton,-- of bush, george h to be the, and lbj. this is an hour and five minutes. [applause] [applause] >> these welcome margaret spellings. [applause] >> thank you for joining us today. as the announcer said, i am margaret spellings, the president of the bush presidential center in dallas, texas and i am so glad to see so many familiar faces with us for a special announcement. we would like to thank our supporting founders without whom we would not be here. the moody foundation, our friends are sitting on the front row -- is leading the way and their gift is making this possible. they are joined by two other foundations and the representatives from those organizations are with us today. thank you to my partner and best friend bruce lindsey of the clinton foundation and my friend who is the ceo of the library foundation and the chairman of the lbj fou

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. >> stephen: -- george w. bush, great president... or the greatest president?eers and applause) >> i remember one other time i was on and you said, why couldn't abraham lincoln unify the country the way george w. bush has done? and i said, he did unify the country, what are you talking about? and you said, ma'am, i'm from south carolina, he didn't unify me. (laughter) >> stephen: great or greatest? i only have those two. to get graded by a computer, i have to put one of those. >> i take the fifth amendment. >> stephen: all right. all right. i'll see you in guantanamo. (laughter) doris, thank you so much! doris kearns goodwin! ) let's go twins-right 24 stretch. 24 stretch, all diamond. twins-right, 24 stretch, all diamonds on 3, break! when the game's on the line... hit him with a hard count, see if they'll tip their hand. the nfl trusts duracell quantum to power their game day communication. they're blitzing up the gut! get out of the pocket! hut! duracell quantum. lasts up to 35% longer than the competition. >> stephen: that's it for "the report," everybody! g

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. >> stephen: -- george w. bush, great president... or the greatest president? and applause) >> i remember one other time i was on and you said, why couldn't abraham lincoln unify the country the way george w. bush has done? and i said, he did unify the country, what are you talking about? and you said, ma'am, i'm from south carolina, he didn't unify me. (laughter) >> stephen: great or greatest? i only have those two. to get graded by a computer, i have to put one of those. >> i take the fifth amendment. >> stephen: all right. all right. i'll see you in guantanamo. (laughter) doris, thank you so much! doris kearns goodwin! doris kearns goodwin! (cheers and applause) when cold refreshment calls. coors light answers. "anybody else" frost brewed coors light. the world's most refreshing beer. this silver dollar has been in and now, i want you to ha... never mind. no dollar is safe. the new dollar cravings menu. crave able creations ch for a dollar. [sfx] bong don't just dream of being the hero. make it happen. i can't believe we're missing the game for this. we're n

martha: bill clinton talking how his successor george w. bushto call him during this second term. a new "wall street journal" editorial suggesting obama might benefit from a call to his predecessor. it would be an act of contrition after six years of vulgar ridicule. martha: doug schoen and rich lowry are both fox news contributors. being a past president, even if they have different backgrounds in terms of their political philosophy, there are things they can share. does this president have the qualities to allow him to reach out to george w. bush after all the water under the bridge? >> sadly from what i have seen the answer has to be an unequivocal no. even in the "60 minute" interview sunday night there was no sense the president himself accepted any blame. the intelligence community is pushing back against him. there is one larger message. we are all americans. we are all involved in a war against isis. we have to pull together whether we are democrats or republicans and work together to solve a huge, huge problem that affects our nation, a

remember george w. bush saying that. i do think there were some reluctant echos here. >> that is certainly a line. jay, you probably know better than i do. certainly seems to be a line the president has the saiden the past. >> certainly, formulations of it. not only said it. he has dem monstrated it in way that made some on the left uncomfortable. he has been relentlessly aggressive in pursuing terrorists that our government perceives as threats to the united states or our interests abroad. that has been a sustained campaign since the day he took office. i think that the language. i don't disagree with speaker's comment and others that the language was very strong, very direct. and i think that in contrast to some of the speeches that george w. bush had to make in the whak of 9/11, the attack was on ous and on our soil. tonight's speech after 13 years of military conflict the president was having to explain why we were taking this acttion against a threat that was not at this time or is not at this time, literally at our

so whether you get to george w. bushget really to some of the worst aspects of cia conduct in the field of clandestine operations, of course, i'm talking about the secret prisons, the renditions policy which was really a kidnapping policy, detentions, torture and abuse, all of these things were part of what dick cheney called the dark side. in u.s. clandestine operations. barack obama comes in to office with very little background in national security affairs. that was always the weakness of the obama candidacy. it's not that he had not been in washington that much to be a political participant in how washington operates on a political level, but he had never really demonstrated an intense concern with national security policy. i always sthaugt from the start he was somewhat intimidated by the military and the central intelligence agency. his appointments when you look at his first national security team were extremely weak. leaving robert gates at the defense department made no real sense. and i think was caving in to n

george w. bushyou were unpatriotic. why see that now. >> it changed. having members beheaded on camera is powerful. it changed things. i don't think the president would be doing this without the kind of expert he is getting from the public. a year ago he almost struck the syrian government, for a different reason, because bashar al-assad is still there. >> but a strategy is direct bid what the american people allow and this is merit but, there is a sense from the press when there is not this pitch that is clear and strong, there are more questions. >> i disagree. i think the president has talked a lot about this. he is out there and talking about it. >> but the strategy comes from public opinion opposed to a strategy to win. >> the reason they change -- the public was not clamoring for this but merely supporting. >> some of the media has been pushing for it. as least with the commentators. >> you were someone who pressed the state department, why aren't you using the word "war," and on the question

. >> stephen: -- george w. bush, great president... or the greatest president?s on and you said, why couldn't abraham lincoln unify the country the way george w. bush has done? and i said, he did unify the country, what are you talking about? and you said, ma'am, i'm from south carolina, he didn't unify me. (laughter) >> stephen: great or greatest? i only have those two. to get graded by a computer, i have to put one of those. >> i take the fifth amendment. >> stephen: all right. all right. i'll see you in guantanamo. (laughter) doris, thank you so much! doris kearns goodwin! (cheers and applause) sweet! spicy! savory! enjoy it all... 'cause red lobster's one and only endless shrimp is now! endless choices! endless variety! kick it up with our spicy new wood-grilled sriracha shrimp and it's back: parmesan crusted shrimp scampi! the year's largest variety of shrimp flavors! so many to explore! as much as you like, any way you like! endless shrimp is here! but not for long. so hurry in and sea food differently. some drinks are hardly refreshing. i think we'll grab

if it was more than that, then back 10 years ago when president george w. bushs violating all manner of different statutory law under his articulated article two powers, then we would have had something out of this congress that said don't do that. we didn't. all we had was silence. unfortunately, with at least the public to believe is that this is a partisan exercise, and we need fewer partisan exercises, not more. partisan exercises, not more. i think it's perfectly appropriate for many members, as i did and others to say, the president should have given us notice. he should have given us 30 days. for this to be the first or i guess the second issue, since we had the water bill before this, when we take up after recess, when you look at the national security challenges out there it makes the public shake their head and say, here we go again, another partisan exercise. so unfortunately i think this piece of action is unnecessary and it further poisons the well between the congress and the president and, again, i do not feel the president violated the law. he ha

w. bush's approval ratings weren't that much worse. the democrats won 30 house seats, picked up a bunch of governor's races. that election does not look the same way. >> host: another caller from valencia. guest: isn't our government largely a fraud? one of the founding principles is that we're a representative republican. mr. koen mentioned that in 1911 house of representatives was capped at 435. the constitution says one rep for every 30,000 people. one rep for 40,000, we have tyranny. since 1911 when we were 125 million people, we had 435 reps. we're now over 300 million and we have 435. so we've had ever-diminishing representations. we've over twice as many federal judges as we have representatives. so what's happened is, both executive branch and the judiciary have leaked fraud over the legislature. the house of representatives was supposed to be the life blood of the people. we have no representation anymore. it's now one rep for almost 800,000 people. guest: the country has become more lower case d democratic over the last two c

w. bush's legacy and being a wartime presidency. he's had trouble declaring war against isis. we've heard different response toes from the pentagon and the state department. he wanted to focus on domestic policies back home but going to be spending the last couple years of his presidency looking at iraq and syria and it's going to have a lot of residence on how people view his presidency. >> it took a couple days for them to use the term war. secretary kerry didn't want to use it but now they say yes we're at war with isis like we're at war with al qaeda. will congress step up to the plate and authorize it? to give him, vote like they did in afghanistan and for the iraq war? >> i think so. when you look at house republicans, they're taking a hawkish slant on all of this, came out strong to back the president's strategy. do they have some quibbles and quarrels with the details, sure. republican also move behind the president, the question is senate democrats, are they going to rally behind the house? >> that's fascinating. the president gives this speech, lays out his plan, rep

. >> wasn't this the problem with george w. bush.raq. >> to your point. >> even colin powell had to go in front of the u.n. security council. the vial of anthrax. later criticized. at lest thast they were fryintr find evidence. >> senator obama. in 2002. even the war against iraq will require u.s. occupation of undetermined length. that's what it goes on to say. sound lick is agreeing. he became what he didn't want to become. he within for two reason. one, iraq stinks, i'm getting us out. second one, john mccain said i am no expert on the economy the i know huh to keep us safe. the economy tanked. mccain effective low opted himself out of analysis by voters. >> are we at war? >> we are at war. there is no question about it. >> no one wants to say it. >> they're saying it. he is saying it. changing the dialogue. the question is why didn't they say it. they didn't say it because they know war means congress. they don't want to get into that thicket. >> i think isn't it orwellian. >> let me take a drink. >> to believe that, the presiden

and the cowboy in george w. bush they understand and appreciate the president's caution, but at a certain point, they want to hear more. they want a strategy, and i'm told that, you know, he'll have a couple press conferences this week when he's abroad and that perhaps, you know, last week i was told this week, this week i'm told well maybe when he gets back, he will speak to the american public but nothing -- >> and david, you're in agreement he's got to do more and lead more. >> absolutely. and i do think yes, he campaigned to get us out of wars, but his first and most important responsibility as commander in chief is to protect the security of the american people and we know jihads are likely to head towards britain. that's why they raised their security alert. we'll be next. they will be jihads over there, isis continues to build like this, we'll see people coming into this country who are going to threaten the lives of americans and he's got to do more for us, not just for the people of iraq. >> i think what he'

interrogations the obama administration expanded the drone campaign that began under president george w. bush and supporting by leading democrats >> if you're going to take out al qaeda or isis, you have to take out their leadership, smash their leadership. >> while impossible to capture everyone, such as the african affiliate, critics say killing virtually every terrorist leader made it harder to identify their partners. >> justice from 30,000 feet has resulted in a treasure trove of information not being gained through lawful intestify investigation. >> the obama administration never reached a status of the agreement in iraq. when remaining u.s. personnel were withdrawn, a valuable function was lost. >> the day we pulled out of iraq, we went deaf and blind in that region. we're about to do the same in afghanistan. >> a former pentagon official says al baghdady was considered a significant capture in 2005. >> official said baghdady was questioned and dave up information before transfer to iraqi custody. the decision to release baghdady described as a surprise to us us officials bret? >> than

julie pace you cover the white house, using that image as barack obama as george w. bush it seems in the closing weeks of the 2014 campaign we thought would be about the economy and obama obamacare, it feels like 2004 when president bush was president. >> when you look at the language the president used when he was at the u.n. last week this say guy who has talked about how even though we have a powerful military we can't fall back at the military. the at the u.n. he says the only language isis understands is the language of force. he calls them a network of death. this language that president barack obama doesn't use that harkens back to axis of evil. he will say and his advisers say this is a different war than the war that bush started but is he looking at military action in the middle east for the last two years of his presidency, that is something he's not going to be happy about. >> let's listen to that. let's listen to that sound bite where the president didn't say axis of evil but you make a key point this is not the barack obama we met in 2008. >> the only langua

attorney job undergeorge w. bush became something you handed out to campaign donors like as if it's an ambassadorship to an unimportant country. career prosecutors, career justice personnel, apolitical competent lifelong civil service employees were pushed out in order to make the department of justice more like a branch of the bush/cheney campaign team and saved the worst for the civil rights division and decimated that critical part of the department and so part of what eric hold her to do as a new attorney general wag start to rebuild the justice department in many ways from the ground up because that's what the bush administration did to it. they ground it up. since he's been ag republicans have imagined themselves into a lot of feverish scandals concerning attorney general eric holder. honestly the one that came the closest to being a real scandal, the thing that led to the contempt vote and all the rest of it was the fast and furious program which republicans got so upset about during his tenure even that was s

w. bushe executive level on this issue. when he left office my predecessor, president bush, has made to preserve. we doubled it. and i've left off as i ask my successor, president bush, to save facebook.com/booktv and he increased it. president obama was kind enough to invite me in 2009 to the ceremony in which he and l.a. senator edward kennedy promised to increase against. and i hope that the congress will call on this occasion to reconsider its opposition to this but to request and give us a chance to build some more. [applause] for a thousand reasons this is a wonderful investment in america's future. a 1 billion hours a public-service. a return on investment of almost $4 for every $1 invested. the federal government, a few dollars of expenditure. every dollar gets another dollar from some other organization. those kind of numbers. unbelievably enough that may be an impact on people like our other speakers, not the president tonight, that is most important. 66 percent of americorps -- ame