the other one, i helped with george w. bush in 1984, he was vice president and he debated geraldine ferraro. that is a tough thing to do. it is tough on women because they face a binary. if they are tough then that has a bad word associated with it. if they are soft then they are not up to the presidency. so handling that situation for a woman is very difficult. i coached some women in debates. on the other hand, when coaching george h w bush we told him he has to be careful. you don't want to be mean to your female opponent. at the same time, we recommended he answer the questions and always look forward and not respond or direct anything to geraldine ferraro. that worked until 3 quarters of the way through the debate and she said something about foreign-policy that didn't make sense to him and suddenly he turned and said let me help you with that, geraldine and answer the question. we all went oh my god. don't blame the coaches. >> other tense situations, did you ever write for crisis response and is the process different? >>

w. bush and evaluated the speaking styles of president trump and the democratic presidential candidates. this event was hosted by the robert dole institute of politics at the university of kansas. it's 50 minutes. >> a consulting writer to george h. w. bush served as founding president of the freedom of expression foundation in washington, d.c.. he has won numerous awards for his research including the award for political communications. it is with pleasure that i welcome doctor craig smith for ladies and gentlemen, please welcome doctorinfo craig smith. [applause] you've written for some of the most powerful people in the world. can you treat us about your earlier life and tell us more about how you get to be a presidential speechwriter. i went on for a phd in communication studies very focused on aristotle rhetoric and the institute of oratory. all postings are incorporate the incorporated in the speechwriting craft. i then became a professor of communication studies focusing on the rhetori

so in the george w. bush administration, cheney has a theory of what changed when brent scowcroft says cheney changed, cheney's response is what changed was 9/11. that changed everything. brent scowcroft was not in office when the united states was attacked. and that is the image of himself that the record shows that is not true. things changed those conflicts between cheney and powell began in the first weeks of the administration. they took different positions on north korea. different positions on climate change and the kyoto accord. the united states started to move to pull out of international treaties that powell did not want to pull out of. didn't start was september 11th. so it wasn't just two people they had developed the intense dislike of each other with the bureaucratic tribalism. the people behind cheney had personal and work ties. yes there were conservatives but it is more than that. and they had personal ties and they did see each other a lot. powell didn't have the same personal network but h

. >> in texas, george w. busho was known as a bipartisan governor, at the time, the state house was run by democrats, and he had a very good working relationship with them. >> we poured our hearts and souls into this campaign, the organization, and the people are going to decide. >> indiana and kentucky, the polls now have closed in those two states. our projected winner is governor george w. bush, as expected. >> bush wins south carolina, vermont, up in the green mountain state, there for al gore. >> a big call to make, cnn announces that we call florida in the al gore column. >> about roughly quarter of 8:00, we and all the other networks call florida for gore. i remember saying, how is bush possibly going to -- you know, what's the path he can possibly take, because he's lost michigan, he's going to lose pennsylvania. if anybody wins all three, it's over. >> you can bet that governor bush will be madder than a rained-on rooster that his brother the governor wasn't able to carry the state for him. >> mr. bush sa

w. bush was my favorite. ear with some of his other friends, jennifer fitzgerald, i was flown to houston to do another interview at the house. bush mansiont the in my three-piece suit and the door opens on the side of the house and outcomes george bush in a t-shirt and he looks at me and said if you will get out of that silly vest, i will cook you breakfast. that was the kind of guy he was. magnificent. he gets me a cup of coffee, i took my coat off and buy vest off and he is cooking eggs. incomes barbara bush, she looks at me, she looks at george, she looks at me, she looks at george and says george, if that man spells a drop of that coffee on the floor i will never forgive you because the chinese delegation is coming into stay with us tonight for dinner. i looked at her and said ma'am, i came to your door in a three-piece suit, i don't spill anything. [laughter] dr. smith: she laughed, he laughed, and i spent the rest of the day with them. he was such a gentleman. he was so high-minded and so wonderful to wo

w. bush. he served as founding president of the freedom of expression foundation in washington, d.c. he has won numerous awards for his research, including an award for political communication. it is with pleasure that i welcome dr. craig smith. ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome dr. craig smith. [applause] >> dr. smith, it is a pleasure to see you and thank you for being here tonight. you have written for some of the most powerful people in the world. can you tell us about your early life and how you got to be a presidential speechwriter. dr. smith: the way i became a presidential speechwriter could only happen in america. i was an undergraduate debater where i got a lot of training in how to make cases, how to sift evidence and build arguments. i went on for a phd in communication studies, where i focused on the ancients. all of those things are incorporated in the speechwriting craft. i then became a professor of communication studies, focusing on rhetoric and public address. i

and texas governor george w. bush with his first trip to new hampshire after announcing his candidacy in june of 1999. here's a preview. >> good to meet you all. what grade are we in? let me ask you a question. how many of you are going to go to college? good. how many of you read more than you watch tv? tell the truth. >> honestly. >> how many of you practice math more than you watch tv? >> do you know bill hickey? >> do i ever? i know all your cousins. >> you are all coming to new hampshire next summer. >> they are all close buddies.

and the george w. bush administration was not like that ethical. the bush/cheney white house, their days of fire, which is the title of the peter baker book, a lot of that fire was self-inflicted because they did have a lot of ethical scandals in that administration. but even for them, even while george w. bush was already on his way out of office, they were so stunned and horrified by the appearance that this brooklyn real estate developer might have gotten a pardon because of a political donation from his dad that they literally clawed it back. the white house chief of staff sent the deputy white house counsel, on christmas, to go sit on the doorstep of the pardon attorney to grab this guy's pardon paperwork out of the out box on the pardon attorney's desk so it wouldn't technically go out so they could claw it back. this is from peter baker's book. quote, figure out some way to undo this. quote, find out when a pardon is effective. has the president signed the orders? yes. have they been notified? yes. have we announced it? yes. josh bolten told

condoleezza rice says, george w. bush was a different president in 2006 and he was in 2003. and that comes through really powerfully for me in the interviews. and let me close with something president bush did say in the interviews, which i think sums up really nicely why this worked as well as it did. which is that the military's job is to figure out how to win. the president's job is to decide if we want to win. and that is what works in 2006. [applause]

thank you. >> and now, more of george w. bush on the campaign trail during the 2000 presidential race. he visits key, new hampshire, where he visits voters, takes questions from reporters, and learns about the town's pumpkin festival. my daughter is in lubbock. gov. bush: really? lubbock, texas? yes, i know. >> appreciate it.

the reason why this is dangerous is because it was back in the george w. bush administration when people did not have the courage to question colin powell at the u.n. people did not have the courage to question george tenet when he came with this supposedly perfect intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in iraq. and as a result, people like lieutenant colonel vindman and i

as condi rice said, george w. bush was a different president in 2006 then he was in 2003. that comes through really powerfully for me in the interviews. let me close with something president bush did say in the interviews, which i think sums up really nicely why this worked as well as it did. jobh is that the military's is to figure out how to win. the president's job is to figure out if we want to win. that is what happened in 2006. [applause] >> good afternoon. it came up earlier if academics can or can't admit that they made a mistake and got something wrong. in my case, there is no way around that. my students always remind me. i am always making predictions are saying this will probably happen. or this can't happen. and i get it wrong more often that i get it right. i think my students for -- i think my students for constantly reminding me of that. i want to thank the organizers. all of the people who accounted -- who have gone into putting on this wonderful event in stimulating day, not just in putting together the oral histories, and not just in terms of editing the

on the gop side, george w. bushsteve forbes, alan keyes, the top three results in the state of iowa. senator john mccain bypassed iowa that year. what should we know about that -- about the 2000 caucuses? david: we are starting to see a notion of three tickets out of iowa. i always say there were three plane tickets from des moines to manchester. first class, coach, and standby. because candidates were winnowed out. if you did not finish in the top three, your chances were limited. you did not get much of a bounce. so that was at work on the republican side. on the democratic side, gore, bradley contest, gore was the winner handily. bradley was more to the left. the issue was health care. what we were starting to see by the time is on the democratic side, while the accusation is made that the whole process pulls democrats too far to the left to get elected in november, it is also true that among different fields of candidates, a more centrist democrat will do well. going back to jimmy carter. there were a couple of

thank you. >> and now more of george w. bush on the campaign trail during the 2000 presidential race. from october 1999, he visits keene, new hampshire, where he meets with voters, takes questions from reporters, and learns about the town's pumpkin festival. [laughter] >> my daughter is a texan. gov. bush: really? lubbock, texas? >> thank you, governor. [indiscernible]

next we look back to the presidential campaign of george w. bush on his first church in new hampshire after announcing his candidacy in june of 1999. the texas governor went on to win the nomination and then defeated vice president al gore in the general election. the race was among the most highly contested in u.s. history and was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls on the u.s. supreme court stopped the florida recount. this ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes and presidency to governor bush. [indiscernible] >> really good job. [indiscernible] >> it will be a great campaign. gov. bush: it will be a great campaign. thanks. i appreciate you being here. [indiscernible] i don't know about relaxing, but i think i will enjoy myself. [indiscernible] gov. bush: i am ready to go. i know that being a governor of texas is not close to being president of the united states. it is a huge step. >> [laughter] gov. bush: but let me tell you something if texas were a , country, it would be the 11th largest economy in the world. >>

after george w. bush released that list of pardons, formal paperwork for the commutations got processed, going to the right lawyers offices, that goes out on december 23rd. on december 24th the very next day after all these pardons had been announced and all been set in motion president george w. bush took one of his pardons back, which is not something that seemed to have ever happened before then and i don't think it's ever happened since. this was the headline in "the new york times" that day. quote, pardon lasts one day for man in fraud case. quote, president bush changed his mind on christmas eve pulling back a pardon he had extended a day earlier to a brooklyn developer adding a bizarre twist to the episode. the developer was listed yesterday as one of the beneficiaries of the president's constitutional power to wipe away criminal records. but he's not being pard noned after all. quote, based on information that's subsequently came to light the white house said today. officials familiar with the cas

national convention vehemently expressing his support and endorsement for the reelection of george w. bush how do you go from 2004 with that kind of speech to saying in 2021 to be the democratic presidential nominee? that would require tremendous amnesia among people who vote in democratic primaries stop it would require forgegetting about or discounting thehe human lives that george w. bush destroyed and that bloomberg helped him destroy in a rack and for that matter, the war at home of the class war, the racism that george w. bush embodied through his policies. it comes down to be going to live in this fantasy world driven by a $55 million man or are we going to get real about humanity and what is at stake? juan: i wanted to ask molly and terms of the work that you did getting out the latino voters in iowa -- most people identify iowa as a largely white state, but there is a significant percentage of latinos in many of the cities of iowa as a result of people being recruited into work in the meatpacking industry in the 1990's and the early 2000's. and to amazing working-class pottery can

when we started to do this project, i was in dallas and george w. bush asked me, what are you working on? i said, i'm doing this project with tim mcgraw. bush went to mcgraw? i like the wife. [laughter] so i was misinformed. i thought this was a project with faith hill and then his sorry ass shows up. here we are. we are neighbors in nashville. tim asked me an important question and i had never thought about it. he asked, given the periods of history i've written about, had i ever considered the role of music in that history? i was embarrassed to say i hadn't. as david - - once observed, a great nonfiction project is one that's like a liberal arts degree. you learn something about a world you are vaguely interested in but did not yet know. as an artist, you are at once of the culture, but you also don't want to be a partisan. >> no. look, i think music as a way, like you said, transcending through party lines and racial lines and transcending speech barriers. everything. it has a way of, a way to communicate that you can't communicate any other way with

and george w. bush, instead of taking advantage of that boom and and reinvesting in things on snd things that don't actually produce returns to the economy. so wars. right. tax cuts that go to people who actually aren't stimulating job growth in the way that they should. and so you saw the deficit grow and you saw the debt grow. same thing under obama. the economy wasn't doing very well. obviously, there was a great financial crisis that happened. but in that case, the you know, the recovery act actually stemmed us from going into a depression. and so the deficit there, while it was growing, it was growing because obama was essentially trying to stem stem the bleeding. to actually keep the economy from going into a complete spiral. and so, yes, it grew, but it was under different circumstances. soledad: under trump then. joelle: while you would expect the tax cuts according to this trickle down theory, to just suddenly release a huge boom in the economy, the reality is the deficit's growing because we'r

george w. bush over vice president al gore. president bush claimed the state in 2004 as well.it turned blue for barack obama in 2008. 2012, florida was the only state decided by less than 1% with president obama beating mitt romney 50% to 49.1%. 2016 was almost as close, with donald trump edging hillary clinton by 1%. he won by fewer than 113,000 votes. if you take a look at interstate 4, or i-4, it stretches across the center of the florida peninsula, from tampa to orlando to daytona beach. the corridor is home to 40% of the state's registered voters. since 1964, florida has voted for the winning presidential candidate every time but once, in 1992. and since 1924, not one republican candidate has won the presidency while losing florida. so, the saying goes, win florida, win the white house. now, we want to turn to iowa. the caucuses kick off monday -- monday, february 3, and every four years the same questions arise, should iowa be first in the nation? why does a state with roughly 3 million people have so much political influence? iowa is nearly 90% white. blacks, latinos, a

in 1980, when george h w bush defeated reagan and iowa and people thought they got cheated because theomputers went down when bush was ahead. bush people say they went back and verified. and we did win. but the point is the parties are , trying to develop systems to provide verification and limit the ability for someone to hack into it. it would take a very big conspiracy to manipulate the results at most points along the way and we would certainly hear about it. and see about it. but anything is able to be hacked and it has to be a separate count and a verification that the numbers reported on caucus night is what happened at the precinct and you do not have a situation like in 2016 when a republican did not get the results and went to bed and had a fiasco over santorum ann romney. and who won. so they are aware of it. i am not sure they will ever buti am not sure they will ever guess a 100% ironclad system. susan: in 2016, we're gonna start with the video hillary of clinton donald trump on caucus night. >> as i stand here tonight breathing a big sigh of relief. thank you, iowa. [appl

you have to be pretty confident in yourself, and george w. bushrrell and lorne michaels to come down to the library in dallas. and they're sitting around backstage before they go on and bush says, i made this pretty easy for y'all. they said what you mean mr. president? i gave you strategic read. [laughter] and michaels and farah look at each other and say should we tell them? they said mr. president we made that up. and bush was crushed because he thought he'd said it. but he fought back and said yeah well you didn't make it miss underestimated. [laughter] so i just say? >> what is trying to say in my louisiana language, my native tongue was. >> simultaneous translation from louisiana. >> music has with crossing all boundaries one of the songs and i noticed when i sing, no matter what audience i'm singing to is when i do the song live like you were dying. this is one of those songs that i feel i'm very privileged and blessed to be the vessel for that song. i don't feel like that's my song, i feel like that's a song made for everyone and everyone

patriot act it was 1st signed by the president george w. bush in the wake of the 911 attacks it was revised as the u.s. freedom act following the snowden revelations back in 20. but it is set to expire next month and the trumpet ministration is struggling to keep it alive investigative journalist and author joe leiria believes the report proves there is no need for mass surveillance. it proves what was fernando anyone who could see clearly that this was a fraud from the very beginning this was about power and money the power of the government control the american people and the money that the contractors that ran this program have made this based on faulty fear and that's the last line of defense of the united states all the time to try to confuse the interests of a small number of powerful people with the interests of the nation you know the united states has had a long history of this false fear of keeping the american people afraid and trying to say that they have to be protected it's basically a protection racket they scare the people and th

john negroponte was appointed the first director of national intelligence by president george w. bush back in 2005, and he held a number of diplomatic positions. now, his 27-year-old daughter is accused of murder. here's abc's mona kosar abdi. >> reporter: tonight, chilling new details emerging in the murder of a maryland man police say was stabbed to death by the daughter of a high-ranking american diplomat. >> priority for a stabbing. >> reporter: according to documents obtained by "the washington post", the situation unfolded thursday night inside this home in the d.c. suburb of rockville. that's where police say 27-year-old sophia negroponte and yousuf rasmussen got into a dispute while watching tv with another friend. that friend telling police he saw negroponte grab a knife from the kitchen and lunge at rasmussen. >> says friends got into a physical fight. one subject pulled out a knife and cut another subject's throat. >> reporter: but tonight, negroponte's family telling abc news she acted in self-defense. negroponte is one of five children former u.n. ambassador john negropon

there is george w. bush. you help set that up at daytona. p his father, president george h.w. bush when he took the limo and 87. what was that like? >> it was amazing. try to figure out a way to incorporate the office. one of those is air force one, marine one, the helicopter, the limousine. people love to see that. you tried to give them the best show possible. in 1987, when vice president bush open the pan-american games in indianapolis at the indy speedway, we had come out of the limousine with flags and seals. the place went crazy. chris: he liked racing. >> look, to go on that historic track and to experience that, very few people get to do it. for the president to put on a show today for the american people, those people will never forget what they saw today. chris: what is the importance of the fact this is florida. the president has changed his registration there. does have some of the strains, no matter what your political campaign is. there is the race in the back of folks minds. >> what better place to do this kind of event then in

george w. bush sputtered at the beginning. yeah, he was able to win a close race. even though things look tough for democrats now, this could end up being like 2000, 2020 could be a close race. anyone could win it. we have to see. >> donte, take us from polls to the ground. buttigieg continues to surge in new hampshire but you're in bernie sanders territory. what does it look like there? >> reporter: bernie sanders is holding steady in new hampshire. he has been remarkably durable, despite all of the talk that there would be a lot of bad feelings how sanders allegedly treat clinton during the general election. new hampshire voters like bernie. the question for me is can sanders expand his base over the next few days beyond young voters, progressive voters, and voters who basically live in his backyard along the border between vermont and new hampshire because i believe sanders is more solid than pete buttigieg, but pete's ceiling may be higher than bernie's, especially if he can attract suburban vot

. >> and now more of george w. bush on the campaign trail during the 2000 presidential race. from october 1999, he visits keene, new hampshire, where he meets with voters, takes questions from reporters, and learns about the town's pumpkin festival. [laughter] >> my daughter is a texan. gov. bush: really? lubbock, texas? >> thank you, governor. [indiscernible] >> appreciate it. thanks. >> win, george. you have to. gov. bush: i am out there working. i'm coming over. that is why i can't be at that debate tonight. >> where are you tonight? gov. bush: i think montpelier. >> ok. ok. gov. bush: there is a big event. >> you are high-tech. [laughter] >> oh, what a great idea. >> not debating. thank you, george. gov. bush: i love my wife. i'm going to be with my wife. next thursday night, she is being honored as distinguished alumna from smu. surely people understand they wanted to honor my wife. >> allegations that you are trying to avoid these debates -- gov. bush: there will be plenty of debates. september 2 is a debate. there will be plenty of debates. >> are you campaigning right

and i like to say you and george w. bush, not just george w. nd you, lost to john mccain. i'm glad to see that you don't remember. how do you read the democratic race in new hampshire 2 days out? >> well, we will have a surprise, we know one thing bernie sanders who won here by 22 points last time around if he wins it's not going to be winning by 22 points, this field is fragmented, we -- for the first time ever we are going to have 5 candidates who are getting delegates out of iowa, the previous record was 3, lowest percentage winner 26-point odd in iowa ever and we will have a similarly fragmented picture here, what was interested to me was your interview with sanders who talked about a great drive-by, two 100th of 1% to have money that pete buttigieg has raised has come from 40 billionaires who gave him $2,800 each and suddenly the contributions made him responsible for the opioid crisis and fossil fuels and climate, i thought it was great on bernie's part to drive it in there. the same with his interview -- question with you on money, we pay

patriot act it was 1st signed by president george w. bush in the wake of the 911 attacks and it was revised as the u.s. freedom act following the snowden revelations in 2013 but it is set to expire next month and the trumpet ministration is struggling to keep it alive so let's get some analysis analysis we can talk to the journalist and author larry and he's with us and you very welcome thanks for coming on joe do you do a load of the prison program sufficient to keep it going. of course not and it proves what was for known to anyone who could see clearly that this was a fraud from the very beginning this was about power and money the power of the government to control the american people and the money that the contractors that ran this program have made this based on false fear and that's the last line of defense of the united states all the time to try to confuse the interests of a small number of powerful people with the interests of the nation you know its course terrorism is real but that's more likely to die of lightning in the united

[applause] >> from george washington to george w. bush, every sunday we feature the presidency, a weekly series exploring the presidents, their policies and legacies. you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span three. >> american history tv is on .-span three every weekend here is a clip from a recent program. wrote flower gardens are numerous. ornament -- and fine cotton villas just as one would expect love and happiness to dwell in are found upon every street. it sounds like a tums kincaid painting, -- thomas kincaid painting, doesn't it? it sounds almost too good to be true. town pictured as the opposite of the ills of the city. stepping out of modern life with all of its problems and being able to recharge your batteries in the countryside. as they created and marketed their tourist landscape, it joined the widespread romanticization -- romanticization of rural life. the quality of quietness and isolation that have led many young people to leave for the cities could now be emphasized to draw city people t

i will quote george w. bush who said we judge other countries by the worst of their actions we judge our own country by the best of our intentions and i think that's true you can look at a country like cuba and yes you can learn about literacy programs that work health care programs that work and we should be able to do that in a rational way again especially when you look at the fact that people like president trump and president obama before him and numerous presidents before them partnered with murderous regimes like saudi arabia which now is being.

bill clinton, w bush, other republicans and obama. the centrist democrats of the same thing as a pre-reform republicans. they are in the pocket of big business and of course. the trade deal is a step in the right direction. it is the best the president could do considering the corruption thatt has been an hour very political infrastructure, if you will, since bill clinton took office. >> host: what you specifically like about it? >> caller: what i like about it is he's trying to attempt to reverse the trade deficit. tethat's the reason the president and now i understand patriotically decided to run for president as opposed to the comfortable life he would've had before. because he saw the great need icbecause of the massive trade deficit was his number one motivation for running for president. that is the biggest single threat to america, china's rise to power and the free-trade starting with bill clinton. trish: got your point john. >> guest: i will say i grew john's idea on china's threat to our economy and our security. i think it

leland: jj watts did it last year in 2019 and george w. bush was there in 2004.erms of the reception, this is undoubtably a president trump friendly, shall we say, crowd they are at daytona beach, at the speedway, and the nascar crowd in general, how much is his campaign trying to capitalize on this in terms of any merchandise sales, supporters out there trying to get people to register to vote, et cetera, et cetera. molly: somebody is capitalizing on it. >> yeah. every trump rally, multiple vans and tables selling trump gear and make america great again had speared we just saw few people walking by with big trump flags. quite a few red make america great again hats on the heads of these nascar fans. for the president, this is great free publicity as you just mentioning, leland. not only is the race and trump's appearance at the race and a four question interview with fox sports all going to be broadcast this afternoon on national tv. great free publicity for the president. florida is a critical state for him or the democratic nominee in order to get to the white

[applause] >> from george washington to george w. bush, every sunday at 8 p.m. p.m. to midnight eastern, we feature the presidency, exploring the presidents, policies, and legacies. your watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. monday night on the communicators, from the state of -- we will discuss technology and the internet with congressman and a federal election commission member. watch the communicators monday on c-span 2. >> are c-span cities tour continues with a stop at the santa fe depot. >> take a look at some of the unique features of the santa fe depot. a key component of the development of amarillo was its tie to industry and agriculture being shipped out. the railroad was a big part of that. we are here to document the unique features when they built this facility. right now we are in the baggage room. a lot of the original stuff is still here. original construction, none of that has changed. this would have been the passenger and light commercial freight area. anythingenger freight, you are traveling with would come across h

w. bush, 20th place. it'll be interesting to watch what happens to him, now that he's passed, more records are available, and there's a halo effect when presidents leave office, so interestingly, he's also book ended. we had david marin assist really seminal biography as his chapter, he of the washington post reported that you are all familiar with his work if you live in this area, he writes about bill clinton's duality. that he could be both good and bad at the same time, and that impacted everything that happened throughout his public career. okay, how about george w.? just out of the bottom ten, i have to tell you. his highest score was actually in pursuit equal justice for all, and that is his first entry into, it will be interesting to see as time progresses how he will do, but he has some difficult problems to overcome. hurricane katrina, and the ongoing wars, so what we are seeing with the historians have to say as time goes. by had your most recent president? to rock a bomb. he was rated at numbe

the second president to attend the daytona 500 after george w. bush. d there was a bit of snafu after his campaign manager posted this. turns out some sharp-eyed followers pointed out this photo is actually from w's visit in 2004. he later replaced it with a less impressive photo. heavy rain ultimately forced officials to delay the race until today. >> still an impressive photo there. >>> some record flooding in the south endangering communities and several states. the holiday forecast up next. >>> nba commissioner adam silver putting a price tag on the nba's fall out with china. >> i think the magnitude of the loss might be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, you know. certainly probably less than $400 million. maybe even less than that. it's substantial. i don't want to run from that. >> the league is still dealing with the aftermath of a tweet from the houston rockets general manager that supported pro-democracy protests in hong kong. chinese sponsors cut ties with the rockets and nba games are still not on cc tv, china's state broadcaster. he do

[applause] >> from george washington to george w. bush, every sunday at 8 p.m. p.m.midnight eastern, we feature the presidency, exploring the presidents, policies, and legacies. your watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. monday night on the communicators, from the state of -- we will discuss technology and the internet with congressman and a federal election commission member. watch the communicators monday on c-span 2. >> are c-span cities tour continues with a stop at the santa fe depot. >> take a look at some of the unique features of the santa fe depot. a key component of the development of amarillo was its tie to industry and agriculture being shipped out. the railroad was a big part of that. we are here to document the unique features when they built this facility. right now we are in the baggage room. a lot of the original stuff is still here. original construction, none of that has changed. this would have been the

karl rove, chief strategist for george w. bush in 2000 and 2004. served in the white house. writes a column for the wall street journal and has written a fascinating book about the 1996 presidential campaign between william mckinley and - - 1896. did i say 1996? bret stephens, columnist for the new york times. his book, entitled america in retreat. which now seems quite prophetic. he gave a speech in 2017 on the dying art of disagreement. it fits perfectly with our topic. let me ask directly and we will start with brett, how polarized are we and are we making the situation worse i think we are experiencing the most dire polarization since the civil war? >> i think the answer to the second question is yes. i do think we make matters worse with a lack of historical perspective. it doesn't help us. are we polarized compared to when exactly? february 19, 1968 and the battles over the vietnam war. as we as polarized as they were during the grant administration discussing the ku klux klan. nevermind the battles over kansas in the 1850s. compared to those episodes in american histo

winning the governorship a dea administrator undersecretary department homeland security during george w. bush. so thank you governor for joining us. we have a lot to cover so let's get started. i that we would start with trade and talk about phase i china trade deal that is a special concern in arkansas where manufacturing is crucial. we hear from manufacturers and exporters and farmers about the phase one trade deal how are people reacting to that and are they happy with the terms quick. >> very positively they are reacting to the phase one trade agreement to put into perspective it is the home of walmart international company that has huge investments in china a big market for them but also we produce 50 percent of the rice comes from arkansas so the soybean and rice is very important to our state we were hurt by the long negotiations leading up to the phase i agreement and the retaliatory tariffs that was a consistent message that we need to get back to normalized trade but the president was very successful to have a tough stance of what we are excited about in phase one the commitment of

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he endorsed george w. bush over john kerry.rs, who spent the most by $400 million. $400 million, donna. there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor. you can't buy elections. then, a billionaire starts, comes along and starts saying mean things about trump, everybody starts gushing. >> he knew donald trump in ways that many of us don't know donald trump. john legend endorsed elizabeth warren. >> dana: and that's helped. i'm kidding. >> no, but that's my whole point. endorsements really don't matter. i'm glad sam has an opinion. he's a retired journalist and he is free to do what he wants. >> greg: he should be retired. [laughter] that hair is only 20. >> go ahead. i'm sorry. >> emily: it's okay. those endorsements only work in the micro sense that if john legend were to host a celebrity only dinner at $25,000 a plate, go ahead. all it is is exhausting and disappointing. when i was looking at this new favorite author of mine, the first thing i saw was a very disappointing tweets come in my opinion. what else do i want to sa