george w bush and the invasion of iraq. so the book was published to coincide with the anniversary of the war. but you've been working on this book a quite a while. you seemed reluctant, as you stated in your preface, to take on this project to begin with. why? well, i was reluctant for two reasons. first, i was trying to finish up work that i was doing on the evolution of the cold war topic of which i've written a great deal about. and secondly, and most importantly, i was reluctant to take it on because it was really contemporary history and the availability of primary source documents would be very limited. i'm a historian who has spent his career in the archives with hundreds and hundreds of archival boxes of documents. and i knew for certain that i would never have access to such documents. in writing this type of a book. and so i was very reluctant to undertake it until i met a former member of the bush administration who talked to me about the possible kitty of setting up interviews. and i can discuss that further, i

but the invitation to speak was rescinded after george w. bushe was attending the funeral. harry belafonte last appeared on democracy now! in 2016 at a special event at the historic riverside church in new york to celebrate our 20th anniversary. he co-headlined the event with noam chomsky. it was the first time they had done a public event together. harry spoke about donald trump who had just been elected president. >> i believe that trump, in bringing a new energy to the realization of the vastness of the reach of the ku klux klan, is not something that has been out of our basic purview of thought. the ku klux klan, for some of us, is a constant -- has a constant existence. it isn't until it touches certain aspects of white america that white america all of the sudden wakes up to the fact that there is something called the klan and that it does its mischief. [applause] what causes me to have great thought is something that's most unique to my experience. and as i said earlier tonight, at the doorstep of being 90 years of age, i had thought i had

here now are those remarks from the 2000 two correspondents dinner, president bush -- george w. bush makes references to musician ozzy osbourne who was there at the dinner. >> 2 [applause] >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much steve. mr. vice president. members of the white house correspondents association. ladies and gentlemen. laura and i are honored to be here tonight thank you for the invitation. what a fantastic audience we have tonight. washington powerbrokers, celebrities, hollywood stars. ozzy osbourne. [applause] ok ozzie. [laughter] might have been a mistake. [applause] the thing about him is he has made a lot of big hit recordings. [laughter] party with the animals. staff at bloody sabbath, raising hell, black skies and bloodbath in paradise. [applause] [laughter] ozzie, mom loves your stuff. [laughter] [applause] and drew carey is our entertainment tonight. drew has a fun tv show called whose line is it anyway. which is totally improvised. drew, do you have any interest in the middle east? last year at this dinner i showed photos straight out of the bush family p

in the benefit of hindsight, how will you look back at your time and the achievements under george w. bushverything that has happened since? bush and everything that has ha ened since? ~ ., ,, ,, happened since? well, thank you. it's alwa s happened since? well, thank you. it's always a _ happened since? well, thank you. it's always a great _ happened since? well, thank you. it's always a great privilege - happened since? well, thank you. it's always a great privilege to - it's always a great privilege to represent the united states and the american people. i'm very grateful. i had an opportunity to work with the g ship party and tony blair, and i think the united states, the uk and ireland together were able to make a difference in northern ireland. there's a message there that the united states is committed to its friends and allies and when we were together, we can achieve things that are pretty special. i'm very proud of that moment, very proud of that process and i'm especially pleased for the people of northern ireland who deserve to live in a normal society. it’s northern ireland wh

i mean, i remember how good i felt about voting for george w bush. in 2000, a man who said that family values don't end at the real ground someone who understood that conservatives them all to stand for a set of american traditions which include respect for the immigrant, which include the value of which seek bipartisan compromises where they are available, and even when they're not refuses to treat democrats as the enemy. and i think that was a form of conservatism that. both president bushes stood for, which i had a of time for. i thought it was a not only an honorable tradition in many ways. right tradition, but i've been saying this to all of you in the room who are not republicans or conservatives. want in any in any healthy democratic society. the health of it really depends on the health of its conservative party. and we used to have when the conservative party was led by like the president, both president bushes, president reagan, john mccain, mitt romney, very healthy conservative movement right now we don't have that. my view and i'd love k

they were shouted down not like george w. bushad -- they were shut down not at all by a president but by the kind of mob of people who said how dare you call into question the idea that ukraine or whatever the case may be. if the ministration is criticizing and says they don't agree with anything in your letter, then why retract it? >> i guess i have no follow-up to that. the response in the media was heavy. there was a lot of backlash. do you see that discussion going in a way that you can compare to 2002 or 2003 or how would you relate that to the media debates over ahead of wars? >> i think the climate is very different, at least when it comes to media, professional media, social media, i think this, i think 2003 was defined by this consensus. whether the consensus was fair, i think most people would say it wasn't. for better -- for better or worse, there was a consensus through the establishment media and it was questioning of that consensus where for different reasons whether it's ideological , divergences. a member that shou

i served in the george w. bush white house. i still think george w. as a very strong president. and even if i didn't agree with him on everything. but donald trump from the very beginning pushed things way, way too far with his anti-democratic rhetoric, talking about arresting hispponents, hillary clinton, it went from bad to worse through his entire administration. he does not have respect for the rule of law. and it's not, as i said, these charges necessarily in particular that concern me the most, it's the threats to the manhattan district attorney that he's apparently encouraged with his social media posts. we cannot run a democracy this way. we cannot have people threatening prosecutors because prosecutors indict political figures. we cannot have people who lose elections by people trying to overturn the election. christian: there is the plane coming into laguardia narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was als

, old people split between al gore and george w bush. and you get to the 2004 election, and at that point you have the iraq war that has begun to disillusion some young people. and there you see a little bit of a generation gap open up, but young people still break, you know, john kerry by only, i think it was like a roughly a ten point margin, not that big a deal compared to what we see nowadays. but if you actually look at the 2006 midterms, so at that point, barack obama has just arrived in the united states senate, has not announced he's running for president. and in that midterm, young voters broke for democrats by a wider margin than any individual age group had, like for a party. if you look back through like exit polls, just going back and, back and back. so you began to see signs of this breakup between generation and the gop at the time pre barack obama, the are there but the 2008 election certainly didn't help and when you suddenly had a president who at least early in his presidency was very inspirational, appealing to young

let's the beginning at the start of the george w. bush administration you were national deputy advisor and what iwant to talk about is the white house at that time . when i think of the bush administration coming in other than the trauma of the election and recounts and hanging chad, i can't get that out of my memory actually we had a person come in and said she was going to have a humble foreign policy. because all of us who had worked on there for capitol hill had an administration coming and i don't believe the attitude of the bush administration was this is our number one foreign policy priority back in january 2001 . this is about what to do interact in those days >> in the campaign i think iraq figured little if not at all, correct me if i'm wrong because the campaign, president bush campaign as a domestic president. he wanted to fix the education system. and he talked about foreign policy at all, he talked about our neighborhood . one foreign policy issue he knew very well was mexico and the first state visit he hosted right before

the classic is different after a few months, when russia recognized abkhazia and ossetia, george w. bush a violation of international norms . already in 2010, when it became obvious that the west only wants vossolite from belarus. we have begun to actively build bridges to asia creation of the eu work along the lines of the sco, but peace must be achieved all the same together, as an example, the negotiations of the norman four on ukraine in minsk, negotiations were held in the palace of independence, the presidents of russia, ukraine, france and the german chancellor tried to reach an agreement for 16 hours, as a result, the parties agreed to cease fire in the donbas on february 15, 2015, then alexander lukashenko will note we will do everything to stop the bloodshed in the minsk agreements, we decided to derail with a new round of conflict, minsk again invited us to negotiate, but the west is dictating something else now and poroshenko and merkel's lamps, adjusting to the conjuncture in unison, solidified the absurd, we won time for ukraine, saying that no one really wanted peace, exce

w. bush, george w bush, and many more like profess. i don't feel that i feel like the allegiance is da da ha. and this is america that, that have been any though. and so are that those figures like the historical ones that you've referred to, whether it's ron reagan so on who stand for a principal other than donald trump, or is the really the deeper crisis within the republican party that it other than donald trump. it doesn't know really what it stands for, other than seeking power for their own personal agendas. i think that's when you happens when you have such a strong personality that comes in and it has become about donald trump. it's become, you're with them or you're against it. and for folks like me that want to talk about the issues that want to talk about the principles to one, talk about what we stand for, which is frankly, what americans want to hear. we're out, they just haven't had that. and so if it's, you know, even though they might not agree with the left and all the things that they're doing, at least they're not do

remember when george w. bush complimented the woman for having three jobs? that's pretty ridiculous. the last thing i'd like to say is that matthew desmond, professor at princeton, who wrote evicted and now just wrote poverty by america states that if we just audited the top 1% like we audit everybody else, we'd have $175 billion extra in revenue. and he also estimated that's how much it would cost annually to basically eradicate poverty. thank you for your service, congresswoman. guest: thank you. that was an awful lot to unwrap. i'll just comment on the last thing that you talked about. you know, with the tax cuts and jobs act, we increased the deficit by $2 trillion, providing those benefits to the wealthiest americans. part of this bill we passed yesterday would eliminate the 87,000 i.r.s. agents that really just sort of bring parody and bring us back to up to where we need to give regular customer service to people. but i'm also on the committee, the ways and means committee, the committee that tried to examine the audit of presidential and vice-preside

it was 50 years ago this year, as i noted, that you first met george w bush.tell us the story of that first encounter at union station in washington, d.c.. well, it wasn't really union station. it was the republican national committee. he was coming in from union station. they actually there's one one there's one pre story. so i've just been elected colleagues, republican national chairman and me and my youngest active director is actually a year or two older than i was. we're summoned, but were in the subbasement underneath the parking of the republican national committee. we were down there with the janitorial staff and the princeton shop and all the other toys, and we were summoned to the fourth floor to be given the lecture by. the chairman of the republican national committee, a tall, athletic texas oilman named george h.w. bush. and so me and my executive director, harvey lee atwater of self carolina, are summoned and we're given the lecture, boys. we're giving you budget. don't waste it. we're going to give you assignments. it. i don't want funny busine

of the last democratic president, president obama, also voted against the debt limit under george w bush. and the rationale was rhetorically, very similar to what intransigence on the other side. so all of it is about, you know, the full faith and credit of the united states, you know, facing potential collapse. they risk that before. so does it undermine their credibility to de bobby, when talking to republicans and saying don't put the u. s. government at risk. yeah, i think you can absolutely call packers and individual members. you see that all throughout, at the end of the day, politicians are politicians and they want to make the point they want to make. i think my frame would be in terms, in terms of the bipartisanship of what you know, queen increases to bit that limit. we had 7 clean ones under, under president bush and those were all large. they were all very bipartisan. it's true. you have plenty of democratic members who did not vote for them and you had some republicans, you didn't, but those are very bipartisan increases. and there were 3 under president trump, and those we

it's not just that rolling specifically targeted. former us president george w bush and brock obama, as well as the cia and defense contractor, lockheed martin. the terrorist attacks occurred and june 2017 and central tay wrong in the national parliament building. and the muslim of the country's former supreme leader, 17 people including m. p. 's were killed about 50 other people were wounded. isis immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. political analyst inter ron university professor say add mohammed mirandi, discuss the significance of the court's ruling with my colleague earlier. there is a long history here because the united states has taken iran to court inside the united states on many occasions. they've even taken the iran to court over 911 if anyone can believe that iran has been regularly punished by a u. s. the u. s. government and us courts. but and the iranian, since they have had assets are frozen in the united states and in europe it's, that's always been a problem. iran doesn't hold us assets. so in immediate future, there really isn't much that can be do

is different, after all , a few months later, when russia recognized abkhazia and ossetia, george w. bushis is a violation of international norms. already in 2010, when it became obvious that the west only wants vossolite from belarus. we have begun to actively build bridges to asia and create eas work along the lines of the sco, but peace must still be achieved together. as an example, the negotiations of the normandy four on ukraine in minsk, the negotiations took place in the palace of independence, the presidents of russia, ukraine, france and the german chancellor tried to reach an agreement for 16 hours, as a result, the parties agreed on february 15, 2015 in the minsk agreements, they decided to derail with a new round of conflict, minsk again invited them to negotiate, but the west is dictating something else now, and poroshenko and landa merkel, adjusting to the situation in unison, have hardened the absurd, we won time for ukraine, saying that no one really wanted peace, except for our country. issues and prospects for the development of this ukrainian conflict, the ukrainian co

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

. >> the book was an idea after the funeral of george h w bush. what we were witnessing in real time, a colleague of mine, with that, we wanted to take a historical look at the morning processes, and case a former president passed away at what is the immediate reaction, and over time, how does that change or how does the legacy change based off of those morning periods. we put together 12 in the volume, spanning from the first president, george washington, up to george h w bush. we go through and we talk about the importance of family, political parties, race, culture, all these different things that impact how we remember residents and how presidents want to be remembered ask thank you so very much for joining us this morning. again, matthew costello, the white house historical association senior historian. he joined our conversation about presidents and baseball. thank you, again. >> go nationals. >> will come back with our guests. again, we have fred who is a sports and politics historian, and phil hopper who is a sports attorney and former ann

circuit judge appointed by george w bush.bush george judge michael luttig, who was on bush's short list for the supreme court, who testified before the january committee. and somehow all these people get painted with this broad as a rhino. sometimes i'll even see it spelled out. you, which i think is somewhat hilarious. i'm not sure what the stands for in there, but but this tactic has been very effective of separating out these great conservative legal minds and conservative politicians who have a lot to contribute to policy regardless whether you agree with them or not. from the rest of the republican. and i think, again, that's one of the most surprising things that i've seen, actually. can i can say one thing as far as the effectiveness it so there was a somewhat nothing famous but it was a vignette that has been talked about a amount over the last few months kerry like in one of the final weeks of the gubernatorial election. sorry, governor like just if you're if you're if you're so inclined. none of no. she she was at a

so see it to george w bush. i asked him how damaging these leaks are. well, obviously we don't know the details of all the documents have been leaked thus far . but what we've seen to date is, is fairly damaging. we see a lot of details about what the u. s. is doing to collect intelligence, the kind of reporting that we had, and in particular of the results of that reporting, demonstrating views on the ukraine war views on the russians capabilities as well as views on the ukrainian military. and do we have an idea about how authentic these documents are, even as you point out there, so damaging can be verified the authenticity of them? well, we know at least some of the documents that have been posted on the social media site. discord have been modified, we know that some of them have been modified to reduce the number of russian casualties in one case, on another case to increase the number of russian troops involved. and so now we're not sure of the, the authenticity of all documents or whether the been modified. but it does appear that u. s. intellig

georgia ukraine they were all targeted by george w. bushvice president under ronald reagan they were bribed with millions of dollars the former soviet republics were given money in return for dutifully agreeing to provide their territories for america's military economic and political goals around russia a ring of nato military bases is being created , more than 600 military bases around the world. moscow should have disappeared, but it had to be given. the meaning of existence is a matter of interests, business machines. nato let's not forget that if nato were disbanded , the shareholders of the major arms companies in the us and other countries would lose many millions, and they would only have one yacht each instead of two, isn't it terrible. of foreign countries and objectionable rulers , the image of the enemy is created . and wars can only be waged by presenting to your people russia is again becoming an enemy of the refusal of the russian vaccine sanctions against russia for the alleged annexation of crimea, allegedly its participati

[laughter] [applause] george w. bush has a brand spanking new campaign strategy.ical center, distancing himself from his own party, stealing ideas from the other party. i am so glad that dickman morris has found work again. [applause] you know, the clock is running down on the republicans in congress as well. i feel for them, i do. they only have seven more months to investigate me. that is a lot of pressure. so little time, so many unanswered questions. [laughter] [applause] for example, over the last few months i've lost 10 pounds. where did they go? [laughter] why haven't i produced them to the independent counsel? how did some of them manage to wind up on -- [laughter] now, some of you may think i'm busy writing my memoirs. i am not concerned about my memoirs, i am concerned about my resume. here is what i have so far. career objective: to say president. if i were being realistic i would consider an executive position with another country. but of course, i would prefer to stay within the g8. i've been working on this resume deal, i have been getting tips from

i remember that campaign george w . bush running for re election. it was a close campaign with john kerry 51 to 49 in ohio, and a lot of republicans think george w. bush carried ohio because of that same sex marriage ballot initiative. why the democrats think abortion will help them in 2024. well, look if they look back to what happened in november in michigan, where there is a ballot proposition to codify abortion rights in michigan and helped power of blue wave there or they just look a couple of days ago in wisconsin, where that state supreme court race, which was waged largely on abortion went not by a small margin to the democratic backed candidate. they see this as an issue that continues to energize voters across the spectrum, democrats, independents and some republicans and feel like it could continue to boost and juice turn out all over the place, even in blue states like new york, where there is a ballot proposition that's already going to be on the ballot, and there are obviously not a lot of people who think that that'll be super competi

w. bush's republican party. i feel like that would be the ad that i would expect. you know, george w. bush or someone who liked george w. bush to actually run and i just say, there's this really fit the moment that we're in. and you know you mentioned the fact that you know donald trump is this big elephant in the room? you know, he's garnering 50% of the primary vote at this point. what is tim scott getting 12% at most? did an exploratory committee give me a break. ron desantis hasn't even gotten in, and ron desantis is pulling in the twenties. if not, why not? why not do it now, why not try to? yes it's in a exploratory, you know, committee and you're in the early stages. but why not make some noise? why not engaged? why not? harry's already dismissing him at that, saying he has 1% and he also dismisses me all the time. do that. that makes you feel any better know are like one thing that i wonder, and i think about is senator scott is known as a good fundraiser. he certainly known as someone who is well liked, certainly, at least within his party. how much does that factor in when th

so it's more than president trump and combined or president obama and george w. bushnd here you go to your question. he has answered over 320 questions. >> harris: i can't imagine what they were doing in the white house. somebody's job was to clean it up. it's not true. it is a lie. the white house quietly changed the official transcript. it hit my inbox. i couldn't believe it. it was supposed to say not questions but question and answer sessions. i've been a journalist for more than a quarter century. you have news conferences, gaggles, sit downs, exclusives. i don't know about the question and answer sessions. when it comes to actual news conferences, president biden far, far is behind clinton, george w. bush, obama and trump. at the same time in their terms. look at those numbers. he is dwarfed by those other men. power panel now, charlie hurt, washington times opinion editor and richard fowler, both fox news contributors. great to see you. charlie, what is this? >> oh, man, it seems like every day the guy finds new ways to embarras us. the thing with karine jean-p

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