george w. bush tried to get his father to drop dan quayle and replace him with dick cheney, but bush would not do it in 1992, because it makes the president look weak, like they are reconsidering their decision. bush took a risk and pick somebody relatively unknown. if he had dropped quail, it would have made it look like he was doubting himself, and nobody wants a president who doubts himself. host: catherine, good morning, republican line. since you are not political, and you've done a lot of research on what has been going on with the president's and vice presidents, where do you think the government got so corrupt? under whose watch? host: how much time do we have? guest: that's a good question, and i just don't know how to answer. in the book, i get into concern about succession. george h w bush, i ask whether there needs to be a more clear delineation, for instance, when had sufferedwho several heart attacks, he actually wrote a memo and gave it to his chief of staff. it said, if i become inca

i do not think donald trump would do well on "between two do not think george w. bush would have been good on twitter. our presidencies correspond well to the rapidly changing media environment they face at the time they are elected. host: one other point from your say in the modern media environment, there is little opportunity to express a complicated side. if you want to hold the attention of an increasingly distracted public -- especially for millennials, constantly on their smartphones. guest: well, they better n on their smartphones in my class. we have to have some staar. but they have the rest of the day to be on social media, and, of course, they are. this is a problem. you have complicated issues. whatever the topic you may be talking about. trade or infrastructure or health care. these are not things that are solved easily. that means ticking up out -- thinking about these things thoroughly. if you have a tax cut, that could increase the deficit. it could increase economic growth, but that could increase in certain sectors which may or may not be awful. if p

w. bush's legacy and our coalition cannot agree more. unfortunately, the bush cannot be with us today that we are honored to have in his place the executive director of the george w. bush institute in dallas and to see this reward on president bush. please join me in welcoming her to the stage. [applause] >> thank you, carl. thank you to the us global leadership coalition for honoring president bush for pepfar. i realize i am not quite the same as seen president bush in person so thank you. i am honored to receive it on his behalf. he regrets he cannot be here but he sends his best to you all in his gratitude. i want to thank the others in the room that he is led on this issue with the current former members of congress, ambassador burke among others. thank you for your continued leadership on pepfar. fifteen years ago president bush came to understand the gravity of the hiv aids pandemic which was threatening to wipe out an entire generation on the continent of africa. he believed that too much is given, much is requed. this quote is on

under george w. bush as a result of these tariffs and that is actually more than the total employment in the u.s. steel industries so no it will not help the u.s. economy. coming back to the reasoning of the tribe ministration the president says that the cheap imports threaten national security is that correct at least legally correct. the national security argument is used by the trumpet ministration as sort of a pretense for something that it wants to do but for which it has very little other justification legally speaking the nice thing about using the nine hundred sixty two trade adjustment act is that it allows the trumpet ministration to impose these tariffs without congressional approval and without an independent review by the u.s. international trade commission. furthermore this is allowed by the world trade organization but largely the argument that this import of steel is a threat to the u.s. national security is not justified a matter of fact in matters the defense secretary in the trumpet min

w. bush was a governor. andrew johnson was governor of tennessee. jimmy carter was governor of georgia. >> by the same token, george washington was a very successful farmer. you know, which was a big business back in those days. so there's a -- >> good for you. he was a farmer, and f that point, harry truman, you know, he was a enhaberdasher. there were some who were very successful that were never senators or governors, never had an elected position like that exactly. abraham lincoln wasn't a governor, was never ase tor. there are some very impressive models that way. but business leaders have done well. michaebloomberg, of course, is mayor, which is the next toughest job after president is being mayor of new york city. d he certain very well and there are many business leaders who went into public service who were sucssful business leaders but even more renowned for their legacies in public service, like avrilan harr who ran the union pacific railroad and chester boelz, a great advertise r

i would've been shocked it's a very unusual -- george w. bush tried to get his father to drop danville and replaced it with dick cheney which i thought was really interesting but bush would not do it because it made the president look weak because it makes it look like they are reconsidering their decision. bush took a risk andme somebody who is relatively unknown and if he had dropped feel it would have made it look like he was doubting himself. no one wants to doubt himself. >> host: will go to michigan, catherine, good morning, republican line. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. since you are not political and you've done a lot of research on what has been going on with the president and vice president where do you think the government and how did it get so corrupt under his watch. >> guest: that is a great question. >> host: how much time do we have? [laughter] >> guest: i just don't know how to answer. in the book i get into i'm concerned with b i succession ad bush 41, george hws i did ask whether or not the need to be more clear del

george w. bush. the beginning of his second term.ecided to do something on social security, which failed. with obama, you had him decide to do health care instead of immigration first. i think either one of those presidents had the opportunity. >> that's all i'm saying. you can't throw it at the feet of one party. >> right. but you could say immigration shouldn't necessarily be the number one issue for either president. >> the biggest problem that george w. bush had for immigration reform was the house republicans. >> it is this week, though. it has been periodically over time. and, to go back to what donna said. it's a moral issue. when the attorney general of the united states stands up and is quoting bible verse to justify this kind of policy. >> oh, god. >> and giving incomplete advice to the president. the president is being failed. >> that's where the communications fail. there seems to be so many breakdowns of the process. that brings me back because it was such a strange, strange sight to see the first lady in that jacket. >>

and another time someone once told president george w. bush that mitch mcconnell was excited over a certain vote and president bush replied, really? how could you tell? why so few words? mcconnell's answer is, i learn a lot more by listening. sing fromly i start out by listening and think about what i want to say before i say it. you don't get in trouble for what you don't say. there's nothing wrong with being cautious about your comments. i think certainly don't mind talking, but i usually like to know what i'm talking about before i venture down that path. in july 23014 when he was minority leader, senator mcconnell spoke on the senate flr will what kind of majority leader he would be if republicans won the majority in the november election. his m, he said, would be mike mansfield, the democrat who was majority leader 45 years earlier when mcconnell and i were senate aides. what i meant by that he said, first of all was you have to open the senate up. the last year of the previous democrat majority, 2014, there were only 15 roll call votes o

it was so tribal for george w. bush and these clowns that are attacking george w. the same ones that were saying you can't be a christian if you don't support george w. bush, if you vote for john kerry. i mean, this -- not everything is new under the sun here. >> what donald trump has done that has bn so savvy is he has created a framework where you don't have to like him personally to nonetheless be on his tame. it's the enemy of my enemy is my friend operationalized so you can say i don't like the tweeting. i don't -- you can say when he does these rallies he's over the top but he's picking fights with people i don't like. he's picking fights we leets and the media and people who are hostile to my way of life, picking fights with people who do look like me and because he's picking those fights, even if i don't love everything about him, at least he is fighting the people i think deserve to be fought and that's why despite breaking all sorts of rules, you don't have to like him, you nonetheless as a republican, that's why 90% of people who still identify themselves

accomplished from george w. bush about the iraq war. that's a worrisome admission. >> if they submit this as an executive action, republicans say youan abrogate that with the iran deal. there's nothing here on paper that will survive this presidency. >> that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks, mika, hi there. i'm stephanie ruhle, look where i am live, in washington, d.c. this morning, a lot to cover. starting with sizing up that summit. the president returns to washington fired up after his deal, i guess that's what you would call it with kim jong-un. but his greatest challenge convincing congress and leaders from around the world that it was money just a glamorous photo op. >> i hope we get to the point where he abandons his nuclear weapons. abandons his missiles and takes the country in a different direction. i'm just is not optimistic about it. >> with him or against him, trump congressman mark sanford loses his re-election bid hours after president trump slams him on twitter. >> i

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w. bush's greatest legacy. our coalition couldn't agree more. unfortunately, president bush couldn't be with us today, but we're honored to have in his place holly kuzmich, executive director of the bush institute, to receive this honor. please join me in welcoming holly to the stage. [ applause ] ♪ >> thank you, karl. and thank you to the u.s. global leadership coalition for honoring president bush for pepfar. i realize i am not quite the same as seeing president bush in person, so thank you. i'm honored, obviously, to receive it on his behalf. he regrets he couldn't be here, but he sends his best to you all and his gratitude. i want to thank the others in the room today who've led on this issue, the current and former members of congress, dr. tony fauci, among others. thank you for your continued leadership on pepfar. 15 years ago, president bush came to understand the gravity of the hiv/a.i.d.s. pandemic, which was threatening to wipe out an entire generation on the continent of africa. he believed that to whom much is given, much is required.

>> i've worked with george w. bush, with president obama, even when i disagreed with bush or obama, it's not about supporting or endorsing. it's about working with the administration to bring about righteousness and justice. dr. king said being at the table is the best way to persuade hearts and minds. >> i never heard george w. bush or barack obama speak of mexicans or immigrants the way this president has spoke of them, even propose such awful legislation at all for immigrants at all. so i understand that you want to work with people but this is, as my grandmother would say, a horse of another color. so i don't think you can compare the three gentlemen or the three men, the two gentlemen with the other man. i don't see this president reaching out to immigrants, reaching out to mexicans, saying anything nice about mexicans, saying anything nice about immigrants. i don't understand as a man of god what you thought would change about someone who had showed you who he was a number of times, many, many times. >> i appreci

i rented the moment and some of you may also when president george w. bush announced the concept. it's what we would hear about from today's panel. like so many partners around the world they've been immensely proud. it will take a continued commitment from our leaders on capitol hill and the administration and from all of you to see this world through to completion. if. but the emotion from those whose lives and families who helped save is overwhelming. to kick off this afternoon, we want to take stock of this impact and remind us all why we are here today. let's look at a video. >> today nearly 30 million people have the aids virus including 3 million children under the age of 15 and across the continent only 50,000 aids victims. 50,000 receiving the medicine they need. children and mothers and fathers. there was no access to drugs, so they didn't come forward to even be tested. >> all of which would result in the end turmoil and chaos. >> to propose the emergency plan for aids relief. >> a work of mercy beyond all efforts to help the people of africa. [applause] it was a great

when i was in the white house, the staff of george w. bushe north koreans made several overtures to get bush to meet with kim jong-il. they wanted it because they wanted to demonstrate to the people that the nuclear weapons test had bought the american president. that it had won them a reputation and prestige around the world. so bush, clint and obama could have done this, could have had a summit. that's not new. what would be new is if the president really got them to denuclearize. we just haven't seen any of that yet. >> and just to follow up, what did you see in this statement that was signed with such fanfare that is specific or that leads you to think kim jong-un would end up declaring what his weapons are and dismantling them? >> the short answer is nothing. i mean, the joint statement is shorter and has less detail than either the clinton or the bush statements. it's possible secretary pompeo has something up his sleeve and will get concrete steps. but so far, we haven't seen it. >> bill neely, you of course spent a lot of time in seou

if the tragedy of the george w. bushadministration was an overreaction to a set of events and that could be under reaction with the cataclysm of syria. administrations spent the last couple years of the second term try not to get on the slippery slope. you really do believe american intervention any level would have made things worse for the syrian people? but this question is so boiled down to this one episode. add in 2011 and 2012 with that onset of the crisis with foreign powers involved. did we miss a window where some time of more diplomatic initiative so to be more aggressively engaged to forestall this into the civil war. one thing i have to wrestle with i was so directly involved with when we called for a side -- assad to go was it assumed he would fall? he was supposed to go and we believe he should have been the leader of syria but we may have foreclosed that option by calling for him to go at that point in at least trying to pursue some diplomacy. >> there is a moment in there where he said it would be foolish

in 2002 his father cheated george w. bush. so all of the experts, all of the cia analysts did not know that he had a second program beyond the plutonium of uranium. that's the kind of thing that we don't know how good he is. is he resting on his laurels? is he agreeing not to test? i don't certainly cite that because he already knows he has the long-range missiles that can reach the american homeland. these are just some of the things that victor cha and also know very well, better than i. that's what we really have to look at. are they going to agree to a peace agreement between north and south, which would actually get in the way of reunionifying the peninsula, because a peace agreement would mean ratifying the existence of north korea. >> andrea, don't go far from a microphone and a camera, because we'll be coming back to you. while you've been talking, we have preset cameras in singapore that all the television networks are taking advantage of. we have very little control over the picture we're getting, but we have just wa

hillary clinton probably was somewhere in between george w. bushnd barack obama, was going to bring that pendulum back toward the center. now in a surprise, we got something completely different. the big question as you know is, are these swings becoming more dramatic or will we eventually kind of come to some stability? i don't have any particular hope that these swings are going to become less dramatic. there's not much evidence to suggest that. we're in a unique situation in which the world's superpower cannot decide for itself what role it wants to play in the world. >> i think that leaves a huge number of questions for america and the rest of the world to try to figure it out. jeffrey goldberg, editor in chief of the atlantic, thank you for joining us. let's put these questions to david sanger. he was at the singapore summit with north korea and he says, donald trump's unconventional diplomacy, in fact, extracted less from north korea than previous u.s. presidents have. in his new book sanger asks whether we are ignoring the real threat to wes

with me, andy card, former white house chief of staff to president george w. bush. he happened john roberts as well as clarence thomas get through the nomination process and sammy alito. thank you for joining us. to this process that halle was talking about, the president gets to put forward a name. this is one of those things that can be fumbled, can be messed up -- it has been messed up in the past to vetting problems and problems with who these judges are. but on this donald trump has outsourced his work to a group of people, the federal society, who are prepared to present names that actually will get approved by republicans. >> well, the process -- every president should always have an every green process of what happens if you have to pick a supreme court justice. so they have had lists for a long time. and yes, the federalist society and the heritage foundation and others help to provide and vet lists. and i'm sure that there are several organizations that do that. but the president was prepared to do this even before he took office. and it is an ever green r

supporters of former george w. bush will have varying viewpoints on the outcome, and the justification for the iraq war. >> host: how did you feel in 2003? in your book you talk about the containment policy that had been the policy for many years, not working very well. >> guest: the containment policy, and a very vigorous containment policy, the clinton administration called it the containment plus. we maintained no-fly zones in north iraq in south iraq to keep saddam hussein under wraps. many times those plain shot targets on the ground, but they were considered -- there were over 200 airplanes contained in that. the sanctions were not working, they were being violated. there had been a time in the united states when the united stops commercial air flights. that was being violated. who go chavez made a big deal about going to baghdad. he was on the road to restoration, so to speak. there is a feeling among many that he has broken out of the sanctions. it won't be long before the sanctions fall apart. plus, he's adept

that was true when george w. bush imposed steel tariffs and remains true today. there is a net cost to doing this. pto announcede those were illegal and i expect those to happen here. you have imposed a cost on yourself and in the end you get nothing. then we get the tit-for-tat from properly offended allies, canada, mexico, the eu. those are important sources of steel from those and japan. this is being done on national security council to it is harder to get national security grounds. this is beingo -- done on national security grounds. it is hard to imagine canada or britain is national security threats. you are in the white house today, how would you be responding to those strong comments from european allies, canada, and mexico? douglas: the bright spot in all of this if there is one is that the agreement is to continue to negotiate. perhaps this is an interim step and we will get to eliminating the tariffs entirely. that would i -- that is what i would focus on. rajini: i traveled around america during the 2016 campaign -- bringing tariffs down were a big t

i read working with george w. bush, george h. w. bush was not a bad president, this country wasn't into double shape, we won the cold war into the good decade of economic growth and they were pretty responsible as they put us in legislation and a bunch of areas. people want change and i ran for going out with the chie chief of staff and giving speeches and recounting what we have done. the ones that didn't like clinton were willing to take a risk on ross perot got 19 million votes and prospero was kind of crazy, no offense to any of the voters here, but they were sending a signal. that's why in the general election, having jeb bush as a main opponent of using the public wants to change we are unhappy with the way things have gone to the two-party establishment to say that two candidates for you, the son and brother of the two most recent republican candidates, jeb bush who is a good guy and hillary clinton the most recent democratic president that works as the secretary of state for the most recent. so you want to change and we are g

charles comes up with this idea for how george w. bushan pull harriet miers nomination effectively. an exit strategy and the white house follows charles's instructions bid and for me, it was like oh my god. he came up with this idea and have the influence to make it real. it's a revelation. i give thanks i was on the other side of the chest master at public debate. >>chris: is like when walter cronkite turned against the vietnam war. i suspect george w. bush thought if i lose charles krauthammer i've lost the country. next, the power player of the week. if there is a [music] [music] [music] >> this last week in june marks the end of thesupreme court's t it announced announces its biggest decisions. if president trump getsto fill another court vacancy, he will most certainly reach out for guidance for to someone he's relied on before. here's our power player of the week. >> the job of a judge is to enforce the constitution as it's written. >>chris: leonard leo as executive vice president of the executives society. in washington, is known b

former first ladies they've also waded into this debate this is what laura bush the wife to george w. bush this is what she wrote in op ed piece today she says i live in a border state i appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries but this is zero tolerance policy is cruel it is immoral and it breaks my heart. the administration says that the harsh line on immigration is there to curb crime i mean how much crime are illegal immigrants responsible for in the united states. well there has been some horrendous incidents some terrible crimes committed by illegal immigrants and of course there is a problem with the drug smugglers with the gang members coming into the united states illegally but if you look at the overall or figures all the studies all serious studies basically have found out that crime among immigrants is actually lower than among the general population is or people who were born u.s. citizens just one figure here about seven percent of the united states population are non citizens but only five percent of inmates in prisons. non-citizens so clearly

this is by george w. bush he also served as u.s. ambassador to iraq to the u.n. the philippines mexico and honduras the end massive and joins me from washington mr ambassador what's your assessment of the administration's handling of this whole korean situation so far well mercurial is right i mean it's been kind of up and down but it seems to be in a good place right now larry and looks like the meeting is going to go forward i think the president's right to try and manage expectations you can't solve everything overnight but you could have a meeting that gives us a sense of direction where these talks are going to go and course what we want to see is the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and i think that the real big question is is kim jong un the leader of north korea prepared to give up his nuclear program in exchange for a peace treaty and restoration of an end to the korean war on that peninsula and reintegration with the global economy including trade with the united states japan korea south korea and so forth his it's going to be interesting his ge

w. bush and the lancaster u.k. . so in our international economist of the lancaster university thank you for joining us philip what is trump trying to do here is he defending the u.s. interest or is he trying to change a world order that has prevailed for many years. well obviously he's trying to curry favor with the voters at the same time i think he's itching for a fight this. he's taking incendiary measures against a close u.s. allies on the bogus pretense that their imports threaten american national security and he's doing this in a week where he's reignited the trade war with china and where he's also recently launched an investigation into car imports also on the bogus grounds or national security which could lead to an even larger asked escalation of hostilities this is not in the interests of the u.s. economy it's not in interests of u.s. jobs i think he's itching for a fight and i think the consequences are going to be very damaging joe tying the measures with national security doesn't really to impress man

she was nominated for the supreme court by george w. bush.ported her a ia democ thought this was a moderate republican, the best wn hope for from this president. he oppos her and there was tremendous opposition from the right. they feared she would be another david souter. charles then comes up with this idea for how george w. bush can pull harriet myers nomination effectively, , and exit strategy in the white houseinollowed his ructions and for me it was like oh, my god, he came up with hthis idea thate had the influence to make it real. it's aio revelat i just give thanks that i was on the other side ofer a chessmast in public: debate. >> cit's like when walter cronkite turn against the vietnam war. johnson said if i have lost cronkite about the country. i suspect george w. bush thought if i've lost charles krauthammer i've lost the country. thank you al see you next week. up next hour "power player of thweek," if there's a vacancy on the supme court, he will help fill it. ♪ >> chris: this last week in june marks the end of the supreme cour

bush, george w. bush, barack obama.k at any of them tweeting about the economic report before it came out. i dare you. >> nobody did. that's why all the information that comes to the economic advisers an hour before must be held under lock and key and not shared before 8:30. kudlow's defense is that the president didn't actually say what was in the jobs numbers, he only said he was looking forward to them. that would be the same statement if he tweeted them every month. he does not, he merely tweeted them ahead of the jobs report. >> here's his problem. here's his problem. we got the briefing yesterday. every president gets it the day before. a select number of people know about it. people at the lab know about it, you have to sit there for 30 minutes and can't go to the bathroom. you can study it, because what you write will move markets. did the president talk about this with any of his rich friends? did he give outside information to any people? that question may not be fair to the president, but i can understand why

it is a tragedy of the george w. bushdministration to overreaction of a set of events in the middle east the tragedy of the obama administration could be provisional of under reaction to a set of events and in particular the cataclysm of syria. you spent the last couple of years of obama's second term trying not to get on the slippery slope. but you really do believe american intervention at any level what have made things worse than they are today? >> this question has been so boiled down basically one episode and what i thought back on is in 2011 and 2012 the onset of the crisis before it became a fractious civil war with those dimensions did we miss a window where with those aggressive diplomatic initiatives could have foresaw that human told that we have seen. could we be more aggressively engage to foresaw -- forestall the onset of war? what i had to wrestle with being so directly involved, when we called for assad to go was it inevitable he would fall? we all wanted him to go. he was a tyrant and none of us in this

charles comes up with this idea for how george w. bushiet miers nomination effectively. an exit strategy and the white house follows charles's instructions bid and for me, it was like oh my god. he came up with this idea and have the influence to make it real. it's a revelation. i give thanks i was on the other side of the chest master at public debate. >>chris: is like when walter cronkite turned against the vietnam war. i suspect george w. bush thought if i lose charles krauthammer i've lost the country. next, the power player of the week. if there is a you like to be in control. especially when it comes to important stuff. like, say... your car. well good news, the esurance app lets you keep an eye on repairs when your car is in the shop. it's kinda like being there, without being there. which is probably better for everyone. that's insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call. if you have moderate to severe or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not

joining us now, former attorney general under george w. bush, alberto gonzales. mr.orney general, thank you very much for being with us. what do you make of attorney general jeff sessions and his use of the bible in defending this? is this a godly policy? >> listen, i like jeff sessions. one of the things i near about him is he is a person of faith. let's face it, you take an oath to defend the laws and the constitution of the united states, not the commandments in the bible. as a general matter, you know, the way our laws are enforced, we have to have secure borders. it is very, very important in a post 9/11 world. surely as a creative nation we can come up with a better way of doing so without separating children from their parents. it is very unfortunate. and i'm delighted to see it. it appears to be on track to pass legislation, to deal with this in the way that it should be done, and that is through permanent legislation. >> you use the word discretion there. you are saying something that the administration will not admit. that this is a choice. they have made a

charles comes up with this idea for how george w. bush miers nomination effectively. an exit strategy and the white house follows charles's instructions bid and for me, it was like oh my god. he came up with this idea and have the influence to make it real. it's a revelation. i give thanks i was on the other side of the chest master at public debate. >>chris: is like when walter cronkite turned against the vietnam war. i suspect george w. bush thought if i lose charles krauthammer i've lost the country. next, the power player of the week. if there is a vacancy on the if there is a vacancy on the supreme court, he will help fill it. ing. ing. ♪ ♪ that's why he uses the chase mobile® app, to pay practically anyone, at any bank. ♪ ♪ ♪livin in this crazy world ♪so caught up in the confusion♪ ♪nothin' is makin' sense ♪for me and you ♪maybe we can find a way ♪there's got to be solutions ♪how to make a brighter day ♪what do we do? ♪we've got to give a little love♪ ♪have a little hope ♪make this world a little better♪ ♪try a little more ♪harder t

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it doesn't matter if it is george w bush, barack 0bama, dwight d eisenhower ordered lyndon b.me you didn't use their was donald trump. he is now the president. you think trumpism and to go to warfor president. you think trumpism and to go to war for crimea? as a more general question about donald trump, and by the way, he is sending arms to ukraine in a way barack obama never did. and i support that, i think that's right. i'm not sure president trump supports that, by the way but the administration has at its the right thing to do. you now observe rather than play a part in policy—making toward russia. now observe rather than play a part in policy-making toward russia. far away in palo alto, california. but your voice is still matters. when your voice is still matters. when you look at what trump is doing to the russians, is the administration's policy affected by everything that is happening with robert mueller investigation, collusion, russian interference, how much of an impact is that having? two things. one, there is this paradox that there is a trump administration polic

earlier george w. bush when we worked in that white house, well, i would say go ahead and do it. but not now. not when putin is on the wrong side. >> dana: dan, the new italian prime minister, he apparently agrees with the president that russia should be returned. and is it possible with the suggestion by macron that maybe we could make this a g-6 -- is it possible that some these international institutions that the world has looked to to resolve some of these issues or to have alliances, have they maybe, you know, passed their prime? is it time to maybe consider a different way of working with these countries? >> well, those are two questions. one is should we remodel the institutions of the free world to better handle the challenges of the 21st century? sure. let's look at that but, let's not start by fighting with our friends and kissing up to our adversaries. do you remember -- do you remember the obama reset with putin? people criticized that inviting putin back to the g-7 now goes much farther. and i

, when george w. bushay he spent money, the way he ran up deficits, the debt, the $7 trillion medicare expansion he didn't pay for, reckless wars. but, at the end, i would always say, but, he gave conservatives two justices and he gave america a big tax cut. i was saying that about george w. bush, a lot of people that voted for donald trump now are probably saying the same thing about him. >> yeah, to jon's point, if you are a republican that voted for justices, you are very happy with how this term went for conservative causes, conservative intellectual philosophies. it was a good term. the extent to which they have the opportunity to put another conservative justice in the court solidifies that. democrats know that. the left is very outraged over this. they are in a crisis. they say we need to do everything we can. e.j. young has something in the "washington post," do everything you can. missing from that is what they are supposed to do. he ominously says civility might be an obstacle to that. to the ext

certainly for george w. bush with john roberts and justice alito, those were two confirmations that the president could look back on and say those were accomplishments for my administration. i know that president obama bitterly disappointed in how merrick garland was treated and didn't even have a chance for a vote. now president trump in a different situation. it's not a presidential election year. it's only a mid-term. he will end up being able to get somebody confirmed. how big a deal is that for somebody's legacy when you're commander-in-chief? >> i want to answer that. before i do, i want to make clear how vitally important anthony kennedy was, dana. he was the swing vote. he was the fifth vote on abortion that -- to maintain abortion rights when all the conservatives wanted to either reverse them, repeal them or limit them. he was the key vote on gay rights. same sex rights. he was the man that wrote those decisions. so replacing him with a solid conservative is enormously important. the answer is a supreme

part of carter's appeal as it was governor ronald reagan, governor bill clinton, governor george w. bush, we were experienced people but not part of the mess in washington. the next iteration of this trend is somebody who comes along and says i have no experience in washington and i have no experience in government and that is a reason to vote for me. that is sort of where we are now as people are looking ahead to 2020 and talking about mark zuckerberg or oprah winfrey, it is a way of understanding trump didn't just drop out of the sky. there has been a long-term almost 3-quarter century trend of which he is kind of the most recent manifestation. >> you can watch this and other programs online@booktv.org. >> booktv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you, tweet us twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> what has happened now is every single group in america feels threatened, not just blacks and other minorities that feel threatened. whites feel threatened. a study in my book says 67% of the white working-class feels that they are

can you imagine george w bush talking about the size of his apartment?and george w bush came from the right side of the tracks, but didn't like to brag about it? his money, his education, he would never have done that. we do know however, when we talk about elite, you do not have an aboveground pool. we know you have one of those elite pools. we might have to see a picture of christian in his pool. the peanuts they pay me, you know it isn't true. you are in the pool, floating around. the pool as in a yacht. how are you doing, christian? pretty good. i want to say quickly, if you look back before he became president, he was in manhattan. is it about one—upmanship? president, he was in manhattan. is it about one-upmanship? yes, that is what it has been about with him. the way he is acting he wants the biggest, best toy, want the biggest crowd. it is about attention rather than governing, christian. thank you. i will invite you to the yacht in the summer. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news: