before the president george h. bush was cajoling these people to do more to get democracy and the result was the massacre. i agree with mel martinez that it is better to stay out of this and see what happens because it

go back to 1991 with what george h. bush did with the shiites in iraq. host: port st. lucie, fla., mike on the republican line. caller: i do not think the president is handling this very well at all. all of these callers are an indicator. it just seems to me that the administration could not maybe but absolutely at least say some positive words for the people who are risking their lives. it is just like our own soldiers risking their lives for the freedom of this man to be president. host: next to philadelphia, democratic caller, good morning. you are on the air. caller: i am in complete agreement with the present. republicans seem to think everything -- president. republicans seem to think of a thing should be handled with force. the last caller actually did it perfectly. how would we feel if iran can over here because they did not like the results of the 2000 election. i do not understand the marched to war. it seems like it is all what the republicans seem to want. and thank you for c-span. host: @ thank you for calling. pittsburgh post-gazette caring but "new york

food and drug administration under presidents george h. w. bush and bill clinton from 1990 to 1997. dr. kessler is a graduate of amherst college, harvard medical school and university of chicago law school. rodale is the publisher. to find out more, visit rodale.com. .. >> host: we are here with one of the authors i am have admired my whole life, eduardo galeano. eduardo galeano board in the uruguay i mentioned to him i have had his books in my head for decades. one of the reasons i became involved in latin america and studies about latin america was because of your work spur it is really a great pleasure for me to be here with you. >> thank you. >> host: you have been in the states for a while? how long? >> guest: it 10 minutes. i just arrived. >> host: i know you are going to york. >> guest: and then other cities. >> my new baby. >> this is the book, at "mirrors" stories of almost everyone but of course, i checked out the spanish title title, [speaking spanish] which is a little different which means universal history, almost. >> guest: almost because if you say universal history

president george h. w. bush gave her the first job she had as a federal judge. she was nominated by a republican president. the job was to be a district judge in the southern district of new york. her nomination was enthusiastically supported by both new york's senators, democratic senator and the republican senator. if you watch tv or the newspapers, you know that this judge has been called names by many people. in most cases, these commentators have read a case or two of hers. the may have taken a sentence of of context. they have made a sweeping judgments about her judicial fed is based on a few words that have been taken out of context. and nominee's professional record is fair game to consider. we are obligated to determine whether to confirm someone to a very important position with lifetime tenure. it is the constitutional duty that i take very seriously. when people get upset about a few items that a judge has given, or a few statements that someone has made in public, do those trouble 17 years of good judicial decision making? i do nothing so. if we wan

h. cnn reported the state department officials are working with a twitter and other social networks to keep communications open with iran. is that something the white house is involved with? >> i will check. obviously as i said earlier insuring an active and free press on the ground as well as communications either through texting or twitter are incredibly important. i think, david, you are seeing the yearning for change to that the president talked about and the president has talked about right now. i think the peaceable demonstration and that during especially my youth and iran is heartening for the world to see and is important for the world can mack you said that u.s. interest with iran hasn't changed since last thursday or friday. is it fair to say the past u.s. addressing the interest has gotten much harder because we have been to the last week? and as a going to be much more difficult to build engagement strategy with ahamdinijad as president after a disputed election? >> well, i'

george h. w. bush, president clinton to the second court of appeals and now president obama to the supreme court. and she is the first hispanic nominated to the supreme court. being first is not always easy. some of you may be the first in your family to attend law school or even attend college. i know that my family came around 1852 vermont and yet i became the first one to receive a college degree. my sister was the second one. judge sotomayor was only the third in the third class of women at princeton. she graduated summa cum laude. she went on and became -- she began her legal career as a prosecutor in new york city and the da of manhattan wrote a wonderful op-ed piece saying what a great prosecutor she was. i remember one president clinton had nominated her to the second circuit. the republican-controlled senate put a hold on her nomination. they tried to block her. i made more than a dozen speeches on the senate urging those who placed an anonymous hold to at least have the courage to come f

h. -- to not like as much. i would expect my constituents to say this is a bad deal and boehner would vote no, and i am going to vote no, because it does not belong in this bill. that issue should be debated on its own and voted on its own, and the second issue is the senate included language in their bill that would have protected these photos of detainees from being released. general petraeus and others have made it clear the release of these photos would endanger our troops. i believe it will also crippled the ability of our intelligence officials to do their job, and while it was supported in the house last week with another broad bipartisan vote, the language is not in the bill. the demands of the french left, so i would hope that -- i would suggest to my colleagues this is not until i can support. i am going to do everything i can to help our troops. they are doing a marvelous job in helping to keep americans save, but not to make this bill with so many political gamesmanship is no

h. this is what george w. bush said that in 2000. >> host: you keep looking at it and i will cover with these words. it seems to me i have found the years 2001 and 2009 intensely painful politically because as a conservative because i saw a great coalition and a great movement director job like a pane of glass and splintered by keeping those that did not have that coalition in the '60s and '70s and '80s. i saw how hard it was to bring together. it broke my heart to see it broken and it broke my heart to see that you're not allowed to say that it was breaking. it was a terrible lie. >> guest: this is george w. bush in 2000. we must be judicious in our use of the military. we will find only one is in the vital interest of the united states, when our mission is clear and when the eggs in strategy is obvious. that is what we said every day in the clinton appointees that and come up to the armed services committee in congress when house on the armed service committee in congress and the cente

since lee atwater ran george h. w. bush's campaign in 1988. i really think this new brand of republicanism began. by the time of conservatism that edmund burke wrote about 200 years ago. a conservatism that was reaffirmed by russell kirk, by bill buckley. i love bill buckley. he was asked in 2005, i loved what he said about george w. bush. and what he said about the iraq war and the president's plan and the second inaugural address, due in journey across the globe. there's a conservative restraint concept. two in journey across the globe. buckley said sadly we conservatives are supposed to be restrained by reality and we haven't been conservatives are supposed to conserve. whether it's a taxpayer dollars whether it's military power. my god, the military fincher is a. the belief that you can export democracy to four corners of the globe. that you can send our troops everywhere. and again, president bush's words, and journey across the globe. that is not a conservative concept. that is a radical concept the type of spending that occurred over th

president george h. w. bush the first bush gave for the first job she had as and when a judge said she was actually nominated by republican president, that job was to be a district job and the southern district of new york. for nomination to the southern district was enthusiastically supported by both new york senators, democratic senator daniel patrick moynihan and republican senator dick motta. now if you watch tv or read newspapers or blogs to know that judge sotomayor has been called names as always happens in these supreme court nomination processes. she has been called names by talking heads on tv and radio and in most cases these commentators may have read the case or two others or even read a speech and took a sentence or so out of context and have decided that they are entitled to make a sweeping judgment about her judicial litmus based on a few words have been taken out of context. i think just about everything in the nominee's professional record is fair game to consider. after all we are obligat