i am laura bush. i am delivering this week's radio address to kick off a worldwide effort to focus on the brutality against women and children by the al-qaeda terrorist network and a regime it supports in afghanistan, the taliban. that regime is now in retreat across much of the country, and the people of afghanistan, especially women, all rejoicing. afghan women know through hard experience what the rest of the world is discovering -- the brutal oppression of women is a central go of the terrorist. not only because our hearts break for the women and children in afghanistan, but also because in afghanistan, we see the world the terrorists would like to oppose on the rest of us. all of us have an obligation to speak out. we may come from different backgrounds and faiths, but parents, the world over love their children. we respect our mothers, our sisters and daughters, fighting brutality against women and children is not the expression of a specific culture. it's the acceptance of our common humanity.

even before president bush you were with elizabeth dole. you work for people in the senate but your known as a political player, that's just a reality. so when you think about something like donald trump, it seems so political and i think donald trump has helped to polarize not only the country but in some sense of media coverage. and when i think of this i think of people going on the air and having trouble just calling out statements he made that our total lies but they say the press can't say lies, new york times, washington post very reluctant to write that word when in fact that's whatthe man was doing . whatwould you have the press to ?>> was cory booker lying when he said the election was stolen? i think the context was missing. he explained why he was making this comment, itwasn't an outright statement . >> it was. he said it was a stolen election . >> this is my point. the press gives judgment to some, mostly conservatives, certainly populists and i won't do that. i'll be fair on both sides. my book begins with a cnn show, donald l

this is bush. is there any evidence that the sanctions the us and other nations have imposed on the leaders in myanmar or burma have had an effect only anecdotal we have heard and not probably can't really confirm about some of the leaders who who's who are targeted actions that they've taken that make us think they they don't like those targeted sanctions on the leaders themselves. you'll have any strong message for the dictatorship for military detectors of enormous as far as this democracy and this like clone is concerned and you think they will have a change up for heart and minds because of this repetitive i hope so. i hope that there will be one good thing that comes out of such huge destruction and that would be the government's realization that the people of burma need help and they need more help than they can give them able why such a historic interest. this is a first or first lady to come to this podium and talk about a cyclone why such a historic interest, you know, i've been intereste

reporter: the bay area bush man in downtown san jose. >> i have been in san francisco with the bush man. i did not expect this guy. reporter: abc 7 news. dan: you cannot help but chuckle spirit stay with us, up next, a dojo in danger of closing. the plan to keep its legacy alive. a new garlic festival in the central valley, how it stacks up to gilroy's tradition. larry: the 49ers opened preseason play and trey lance did not wait long to get niners i occasionally get bladder leaks. i tried always discreet underwear. it absorbs an entire glass of water. it fit like a glove. it just felt like real underwear. game changer! it's the protection we deserve. better skin from your body wash? try olay body washger! with skincare super ingredient collagen! olay body wash hydrates for healthier-looking skin in just 14 days, from dry and dull to firm and radiant. with olay body, i feel fearless in my skin. ruched eat is on a ventilator because of an attack this morning in new york. he was stabbed twice before a lecture today. he was airlifted to a hospital. his agent says the author will likely lose

after his bush died. he was sad and obviously. and we came up with the idea his his his medical aid arranged for him to have a service dog named sully who became quite famous and evan took this was taken the funeral home in houston. the day after president bush died and evan just took sully to the funeral home with him to go check on everything and he found sully lane in front of the casket can't make it up and he took a picture and he came to the office and he said do you think we should send this out and i on, you know, release it to the media and i said, yes, i do. it will touch the nation's heart. and so i have a silly story. this is how famous sully was. but and by this gives me an opera. i was telling the story. i have two members of my funeral here. it's so exciting, maryland baker and lindsay reynolds were both great members of my funeral team. i was telling them we took sully with us to wash in dc on air force one because his next assignment was walter reed hospital. and we wasn't we we a problem

not only the cia but then the same conclusions in the bush years. everybody knew that was their conclusion. including injection and israeli and french. some of people retroactively go back to say the bush administration lied that is such revisionism. no question in the commission was formed by the intelligence community and entering someone out of office in 2006. the system corrected itself president bush left office extremely unpopular. and then it switched into gear. not because anybody lied but we had wrong information. but then to create a whole network to think they have weapons of mass destruction and we pick up the network and believe it is accurate that the right conclusion i wish people wouldti say this in general is somebody you don't like they may have that information it don't rush to contradict or challenge their motives a try to think it through but no question the bush administration we were wrong. host: in that scenario but the apress should i say gullible? they went along with that. they were not antagonistic toward you for the bush

bush. was supposed to be or had a comic that kept him up in d.c. we will tells many of his stories as we can remember, quite a few of them. my hope is used half this time to talk about questions that i have got for these two. and then will spend the other half taking any questions you have. this when they happy to go if the whole session is being a presidential speech writers exactly think it would be on west ring. that is it. [laughter] i'm kidding it is much more like deep. [laughter] so this is a presidential ideas festival. i'll set up with a question for these two about the relationship about ideas and speeches. sometimes what comes off as an idea ends up in a speech but sometimes a speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. so just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech? >> in a weird way, as speech writers were not coming up with the ideas for their much smarter people in the building for developing those ideas. and away at these ideas actually get -- they do not get crystallized until they

they were not antagonistic towards you or the bush administration. they told the american people this is what is being. i was told to us by the administration and they in fact the opinion people were quite supportive. i think that's a fact. well, and i think it's very hard for the media when they're being told by the intelligence community and they've been told it now not just during the bush years, but you're in the clinton years as well. that's saddam has wmd. how are they to have superior knowledge? how is the press to get that right when the intelligence community gets it wrong? and that's why going back contemporaneously into the early 2000s. i defended the press has coverage on that because they weren't in a superior position to know. there were some a few isolated people scott ritter of all people and one of the former arms inspectors. he was one of the few people who called it out and said that we were wrong. he didn't have credibility people didn't believe him. ultimately. he did turn out to be right, but how is the media to assess that? so

reporter: the bay area bush man in downtown san jose. >> i have been in san francisco with the bush man. i did not expect this guy. reporter: abc 7 news. dan: you cannot help but chuckle spirit stay with us, up next, a dojo in danger of closing. the plan to keep its legacy alive. a new garlic festival in the central valley, how it stacks up to gilroy's tradition. larry: the 49ers opened preseason play and trey lance did not wait long to get niners did not wait long to get niners fans excited. i'm bringing back my spicy chicken strips. while i'm at it, my most popular former employee, mark hamill. well, what's my motivation? to not get fired again... i can work with that. actors! spicy chicken strips and me, mark hamill, back for a limited time. it's time for the biggest sale of the year, on the sleep number 360 smart bed. why choose proven quality sleep from sleep number? because proven quality sleep spicy chicken strips and me, mark hamill, is vital to our health and wellness, only the sleep number 360 smart bed keeps you cool, then senses and effortlessly adjusts for your best sleep.

they are in the bush memory. all of those papers, we had to give everything, two sets were on, it it became a record. >> actually going forward from where we are in the world, and the current occupant of the white house, you should know that they can't just throw things out. every record must be kept under federal law to that effect. i was just going to say that we unfortunately did not have people do handwritten edits, i surely wish we did. but i think everybody had a different method. similarly, five o clock every day we circulated, i think most speech writers that i know, we are all kind of obsessive about version control. so i have a elaborate system of how i need my files to make sure that i'm looking at the right version. when i got a lot of edits, i would actually print out all the edits that i got so i could check off that i got through all of them. oftentimes, if, i might be getting a bunch of edits from members of the same team, say the economic policy team, i would ask them to combine them all, litigat

these countries were targeted by the george h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and bribed with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. no ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. nato have over 600 military bases weld wide. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning those russians. the soviets into this dangerous bo, you man, that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy to create this image of the soviets. as out for world conquest, which was not the case then or now with nato should have died, but they will give it meaning. it is about infected, created by nato nato's business machine. because you must remember, if nato were disbanded, shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions they'd only have one year instead of 2 yards each there. oh dear, wo

i'm george w bush, and this is master class. if you've been looking to work on your leadership skills, then master class has the mentor for you. former us president george w bush is the newest talent acquired by the streaming platform. and he's featured in a lecture series on authentic leadership. yes, you heard that right? the same man who authorized the u. s. invasions of iraq and afghanistan is now lecturing the public on tough calls he has made during his career. and they are expected to pay for his advice. as president sometimes, and i had information to the american people didn't know and therefore i did make decisions. what was best for the country on knowledge? there wasn't a but well, the theories includes topics such as accountability leads to results. it doesn't give any tips on how bush himself has escaped accountability for the last 2 decades . although bush has been rehabilitated into a harmless grandfather who enjoys painting and sharing candy with former 1st lady michelle obama. his real legacy will never be forg

bush. we kicked out all the old people -- [laughter] -- and my other favorite was the 45th president of the united states who called me immediately after john mccain's funeral, jean, everyone at that funeral talked too long except for me. [laughter]. at dad's funeral, no-one talks more than ten minutes, you got it? ten minutes. yes, sir. president bush -- this time to talk about the train.? >> we'll get into that. >> shall we save it for later? okay, we'll save the train for later. he enjoyed talking about the funeral. and one quick story, this is a little bizarre. but even the national media has to get really organized because they also had to hit the ground running and the networks divide up who's going to be the pool camera for the big events. fox news was the pool camera at the grave site. and they called up because they wanted to advance it. and we ended up closing it to the media. the grief, the burial turned out to be 100 percent private. and for a while it was going to be a poor cam

bush told me. remember when pelosi was first eoelected the first woman in history of our country, george w. bush went up to deliver a state of the union address. he made very gracious comments at the beginning acknowledging the history of theme moment. mentioning her father, and according to his top aide, bush felt pelosi never reciprocated. he made an offer, let's try to act in at cooler manner than the politics are heading today. and that was not something she was willing to do. >> some it's interesting i read that passage i went does she think where did that come from? if i relinquish any notion i relinquish the power i have within my carcass very it should save weiner didn't deliver. weiner did not deliver his caucus what's the point of bipartisanship if you cannot deliver your people? she thanks the most damaging she pushed through was not the affordable care act it was the bank bailout in 2008 we have the financial meltdown. nobody liked bailing out banks. in american politics, bailing out ba

commissioner bush. >> thank you. briefly, the record shows that people speak to influence city policies without being involved in particular contracts, so for example, the chamber of commerce provided funding for a review of san francisco tax policies and impact on large and small employers. the result was complete rewrite of our tax code and none of that was ever disclosed, because it was not within the (inaudible) of what was considered discloseable. by the same token, you have people who are seeking to influence the (inaudible) of certain favored people to serve on city commissions. there are a range of things that don't appear to be explicitly covered in what is under discussion here and i'm concerned about the fact that while we try to close the one door, we are opening up others that are equally problematic. >> may i respond to that chair lee? >> please, mr. heckle. >> thank you commissioner bush through chair lee. so, with respect to the chamber of commerce example, i'm not-i dont know all the details of what

bush who had come to head the cia. he was ambassador for china in the cia and i established a relationship with bush 26 years old at the time and had a relationship obviously. he eventually made the attorney general. he was in the role as head of cia for one year during this time the cia was under investigation by six committees and one commission for alleged during the cold war. assassinations and things like that so he had to defend the agency during the time they were trying to tear it apart. he did such a great job in that one year and agency professionals who are the old-time warriors in those days named the cia campus and building after him at the george w. bush intelligence center. >> you are the number two there and you become acting attorney generals went the attorney general gets convinced to run for senate senator heinz. it was supposed to be the dog days in washington in august, sweeping time that you had to deal with a very major issue early on in talledega. tell the audience about that story. i story. tha

>> guest: i've said consistently that the bush is wrong. how many reporters that said we were wrong about collusion, reporters saidhe we were wrong about the steele dossier quickly sweep it under the rob -- the red pajama stories as "cnn" put on the air about donald trump jr. having access to wikileaks and released the hacking off that they had? as soon as that story went on "cnn" reported it. a feeding frenzy. cbs news said it confirmed the same story.n it was never chew to begin with and as soon as it was found up to the "washington post" that wasn't true they just stopped talking about. they didn't retract it or say we were wrong. and this is what the media continue to do that the trump years. remember the story. donald trump was taking mailboxes in 2000 said could steal -- that became a feeding frenzy for two weeks and every time a blue mailboxes removed people said double jump ordered it off the street on election night. the saturday the election was called for joe biden. fireworks went off in london. abc news, cbs abc news nbc news an

bush for foreign policy. and protectionism and what trump did to the transpacific partnership or tpp. is basically provide and assemble for the depth of despair ravaging america. for the opioid crisis arise and alcoholism the unimaginable social crisis he said the entry into the wto that is what is giving you this whether that is true is the empirical question but politically it is brilliant and it speaks doing a similar thing with immigration complicated issue is something porepublicans and conservatives oppose. but what happened with the rise of isis in the second half of the obama second term. truck proposes the muslim band and he takes immigration to combine that with national security. now we have to close the borders those who may beab searching for jobs we need to make america safe. you can see how he is able to threaten these issues together but he could not do that andy 2020. >> is time to ask a question. put your statement in the form of a question. [laughter] >> i work at third way. so one reason w

george w bush and putin come on together and george w bush certainly sought a reset with russia. he was very chummy with putin. we all remember the fishing trip, and that was later in the process. they're very first joint news conference george w bush was at the podium putin was standing next to him. he said russia is not the enemy of the united states. the cold war is over, right, but putin didn't get what he wanted from bush and some historians have argued. this is a big reason why he became he becomes more and more authoritarian and autocratic. i wouldn't put the us at the center of the story and that way. i think that putin became autocratic for internal. okay reasons, it speaks to his personality his sense of power. the vision that he has for for russia eventually he latches on to a very, you know, sort of conservative in the sense of reactionary autocratic vision ultra rationalist. yes of russia's past and of russia's future, and i don't think that that's a function of anything george w bush did or anything at the us did although the us has always the the foil to to putin's

media folhe bush man jumt me. i was like, what the -- amanda: for some, it is a familiar prank with roots in san francisco. >> i never thought i would meet the famous bush man. that was amazing. >> what is interesting is he was inspired by the fisherman wharf bush man. amanda: a longtime street performer who years ago saw the bush man. a must see attraction when he and his family went to san francisco. >> part of the experience, walking the board and seeing the bush man. i have taken the technique of using the bush leaves to scare people. >> a great experience. 10 out of amanda: inquiring 10. minds want to know who makes a perfect target. this is not him. amanda: he tells me there is an art to it. >> [indiscernible] amanda: the bush man is not going after every single person and has found success wearing -- success scaring couples and families. >> the parents love seeing the kids getting scared. i don't know about scaring kids i said but they love it the most. amanda: he is aware this type of content creating star

bush and putin coming together. george w. bush certainly sought a reset with russia. he was very chummy with putin. we all remember the fishing trip. that was later in the process. their very first joint news conference, george w. bush's at the podium. putin was standing next time. he said, russia is not the enemy of the united states. the cold war is over. putin didn't get what he wanted from bush. some historians have argued, this is a big reason why he became, he becomes, more authoritarian and autocratic. >> i wouldn't put the u.s. at the center of the story in that way. i think putin became autocratic for internal reasons. it speaks to his personality. his sense of power. the vision that he has for russia eventually he latches on to a very, sort of conserved in the sense, of reactionary autocratic vision. of russia's past. of russia's future. i don't think that's a function of anything george w. bush did, anything the u.s. did. although, the u.s. is always the foil to putin's russia. i think more to the point, when it comes to where those two figures diverge, the

bush was watching and john and james wilson. who arguably have far more influence as you say on the constitution itself and some of the actual delegates are less well known and we'll explore that. of course the conversation naval marcus you've written about so many of the early justices, but i want to ask you about james wilson. you have a great piece on wilson as a justice. he was among the most important delegates to the convention who came up with the idea that we the people of the united states as a whole our sovereign and yet his influence on the court was less dramatic among other things because of his deaths and he had a dramatic personal and i'll let you tell the story on. why did you choose to write about wilson? and what was he like as a justice? i didn't write about wilson we have about three pages on james wilson in our eight volumes. you know. specifically on james wilson, but he is a very interesting person and he came from scotland. in 1765 and then very quickly got involved in revolutionary activities in the 70s.

some are bushes t approach over those. yeah. but my so crave advanced. she, you know, started to studies when he a girl mistook. she has sent him a and picking it up to say he skated betsy could put it in, did it over at which in washing viola then got a book shelf off as a renovation program for the embattled domestic economy. the general secretary launched perestroika, which would become a very popular word all over the country in the eighty's. but not every one really understood what it meant. it is 3. it's 6 dash 2 at the, i mean i shit from button on hydro should pick out a rhythm bus. let me i'm getting on the bush, then you go by choice. kudos, shutters, chin lane, oak noise. when you were mission i a beauty circle program. when you could quit or some i will deliver you bella on the smoke. what originally program we need, but the summer malicious royal career. the shirts were yet not as open in the room was good. widow? sure what to do. so let's go to new york. she's given me the most prefer i took a course myself, glover's law be destroy, doorsto

in his 2010 memoir, bush made the comment. we got things wrong in iraq, but the cause is eternally right. although nearly 20 years later, the public is left to wonder whether that cause was for those who stood to profit off of the conflict.

is some bush on that domain here. so it goes on, is that why the most do not dom yes, because i know you spoke changed your local alcove via our sports ski more the flu, g e. then it says, showing your sports range for swaby ski go downstream, jungle years continue with the was all peaceful. your is danny, soon he please consult fee mine to my bank. son is the sanctions talked us of the shelf, his college or controller damage of political controller. ask about this. ah, for example, germany and france to a lesser extent. exploiting the weak members of the european union, greece in croatia, anywhere where germany can make big business. that is a form of exploitation, and the greek economy be considered ruined by the european union. yes, it was ruined by the european union. it's already listed when you look now, at how many greeks have left the country. it's an embarrassment how many young people have left the country. it's an embarrassment ah, resources are being depleted, but yet another attempt at dividing the world

bush. that concerning governing class was about 30 years and has been displaced. >> i look at my time in congress as two. with the majority and then lost it when obama came in and then we got it back in this book i hadn't seen in years -- [laughter] is outputted to jittery on that name but our goal was to recruit numbers of congress who were willing to take tough votes a because what happened to our majority was we got fat and lazy. they recruited local county executive for state senator was the next guy in line who just wanted to earmark their way in so are moving, intellectually lazy, fat and happy and was ugly and those of us were young upstarts in the house and did not like that. we lose our majority, many of us argued it was our own and then we recruited people we thought would be willing to take tough votes and we were excited about the tea party movement to i remember talking with the tea party movement, it was our chance to get supply-side 2.0 and 1.0 was deficit by the government.

bush. i was 26 years old at the time. that should ship was already pivotal because he already made me attorney general but things that a are attempted like assassinations or things like that. they were called the cold war years in those dates and in a that you are a doj. number two you become attorney general and then so initially at o justice but then to make me number two which is the city oh oh the deputy under trade general and then after thomas is confirmed he was acting attorney general in august and but then to let all of the current one —- rentals come over here they have been here for ati long time in committed serious crimes and but then i realized we could never give in to their demands know and eventually it would have to do a work really closely with the top guys in the fbi on this. you cantu make a movie. >> although ian hear on twitter it is john goodman. [laughter] that ise not time. because it started up because they fit their names in a bag. but then shortlyly thereafter