you've been there with president bush, george w. bush, is it a speech he needs to give or has he given too many? >> i recall david axel rod earlier when he as with clinton at the beginning of the senate campaign and asked, can you take a punch? that was the real question. and the president sometimes when he takes a punc when events a bad, he comes across looking pricklely and defenseless. i have a good friend who spent timeith obama anda favorably disposed to him. in private he reacts to everything boehner says and everythinghe republicans in congress say. chris: i wanted to get to that. does he react too much to the 24/7, some bloggers said something like he won't respond. is he losing his ability to make a compelling communication? >> i think all of these presidents he enormous egos. you've worked closely with them before. of course they feel challenged and want to respond to those. it'sheir presidency and their job and ty feel so passionately about the country. he may respond too often but in a 24/7 culture, i think a lot of poli

and the history is very clear, this predates george bush by a very, very long way. it's something he was badgering bill clinton about. it's part of him. give him some credit. he's not actually meandering. he's not pandering to people. these are not popular things to say. nobody on this side of the lat lann tick is gunning to go for iraq. >> if you look at the chicago speech and then look at 9/11 which had a real impact on him it's a direct line to an invasion of iraq for him. >> there was a continuation there. blair had a much... he approached in that world after 9/11 you look back at it. you can argue two groups of people, both of them now much ridiculed where the people who had the clearest sort of world vision on it. one was the near conservatives who had this narrative if you will. blair slightly... >> rose: dick cheney and others. >> they had... there was this idea which blair had about this was something very important and he was right in there and he also had that instinctive desire to stick by america, which i think makes a big difference. and that's... the

bush the bad news is if it was such an easy problem to solve we would have been fighting for so many years decades generations centuries so it's going to take some tough action the answer is it's too early to tell whether the obama policies will work but the point is that they are trying will president obama be able to get the concessions from the israelis on the settlements and from the palestinians on recognition time will tell he's going to have to be real. tough but the fact of the matter is it's a tough world but he is trying and it's a tremendous strain certainly from my point of view for the eight years that came before under george bush and dick cheney well it's deviling i mean they're trying and it's one thing to acknowledge this is a difficult world it's a complex world there are a lot of issues out there but when you give a speech like this should you also at least then admit perhaps some of your mistakes admit you know remind people that we are still in fact fighting two wars remind if you're giving people a speech on american global leadership that you're thankful that y

we'll talk about george bush in a minute. you were there at height of the clinton etch people -- the clinton impeachment crisis. bill clinton's ability to compartmentalize what was going on. had you an interesting observation about that. but also about the relationship between bill and hillary clinton. >> i've seen them at close quarters over many years. they are personal friends of mine. i just -- they are people i've got a lot of time for of they've come through tough times. i believe during this time america was -- >> sean: you also point out he didn't deal with the challenges or the hand that george bush was dealt. you did observe his ability to compartmentalize during that crisis where he would stay focused on issues. >> yeah. >> sean: you had a meeting with bill and hillary clinton and your conclusion was there is a deep profound love. >> not many people do i saw them close-up. that of course is a strong political partnership. she is now doing work -- i work closely with her on her work in the middle east. i this -- i t

eight years of george bush, an economic cataclysm of the likes we haven't seen since the depression. exhibit a, exhibit b. this is going back to george bush and the broken policies that have been disproven over and over, and you're saying, gee, you didn't fix it in half a year, therefore your time is up. ralph, this is false -- >> elliott, i not only read the document, i talked to folks in the house before it was put together. this says spending should go back to where it was in '08. i don't remember the world fall ago part at this level. >> all the carve outs -- >> and raising taxes in the deepest and longest recession in the post world war ii period is just not a smart thing to do, whether you're a keynesian or a conservative. >> but it's also interesting, when they say budget caps were used in the 1990s when a republican congress was able to bring the budget into balance and eventual surplus, bill clinton might remember that slightly differently. republicans shut down the government twice, this was not a republican congress-led effort. >> well, but there wasn't a balanced budget u

>> not only nothing new, this is the worst of herbert hoover and george bush. if this were actually implemented it would take us back 50 years in terms of destruction of education, health care, infrastructure, our ability to compete. deficits would go through the roof. and the very people who created the crisis that we are living through even today would benefit once again. this is a sop to the very wall street banks, big businesses and the wealthy who benefited from george bush for a decade and now are back saying, president obama didn't solve it in 18 months. therefore, we want to go back and run the system again. it is one of the craziest, most outlandish fringe documents i've ever seen. when you really parse it, it is amazing, anderson. >> so spending in 2008 is armageddon? >> invoking the -- ralph, when you look at what this really says and what it carves out and then what it says you will cut, what you are doing is destroying the infrastructure of america, going back to the very broken, disproven policies of hoover and bush. >> i want to interrupt you. yo

. >> i think i am sadr then ran george bush won his second term -- i am sadder than when george bush won his second term. >> he is saying that his chancellor will be someone -- >> who works with parents and teachers. >> yet, this afternoon -- >> i placed a call to her. i did not get her, but i am sure she is busy. >> it is important to continue the progress we have made. as for mayor fenty, heat chalked it up to the tough decisions he made -- he chalked it up. >> my parents always taught me that you have to be involved, that you have to give back to your community. >> but as evidence was last night, many came out to vote against him, like cabdrivers. >> let me tell you, i am happy about it. >> he forced them to accept > meters and changed rates. >> gray said he was extremely disappointed about how the board of elections conducted the rays, from broken machines to the fact that it took nearly five hours after voting had ended before the board had released enough results to determine a winner. a reporting live from northwest washington, sam ford, abc7 news. note >> thank you, sam. >>>

this is a democratic incumbent house member, listen to who he braises here. >> when george bush proposed a medicare prescription drug plan, earl pomeroy voted yes. >> yeah, look, two years is a long time in politics and bush is looking pretty good to a lot of people these days. but i mean that's clearly a guy running in a red state trying to keep his job, but the overall fact is, look, we do have a republican white summit, democrats should not be in denial about that. and at the end of the day, high intensity low turnout elections favors republicans. but democrats are going to show some surprising strength. a poll came out the other day showing jack conway within two points of rand paul. not a lot of people saw that coming, but he's still behind and the wave is still coming, but you're still looking at a couple of races. >> democrats are ill prepared. unlike 1994 when this wave came and democrats were shocked but it, at least now they understand what's coming at them. >> i do think we will see big fluctuations, we see women changing, women voting, seeing more support for the democratic p

when george w. bush became president. my point is this, yes, there are certain things that the democrats or the republicans can do, but elections have consequences. and i disagree with president bush's policies as it related to the financing of our wars, going to war, as it related to the tax cuts, and i voted against those provisions. and i'm disappointed we weren't more successful in blocking those types of actions. i was proud that we finally balanced the federal budget. and i do believe that our policies of going to war and not paying for it and tax cuts without paying for it is one of the principle reasons for the large deficits we have today. now -- but this is a democratic process. those are there in congress to pass those laws, so now we have to work together so we can continue to try to place blame as to whether democrats could have done more or less or whether we -- these policies are the right policies or not. but i think the american public are really tired about that. they understand that elections have conse

that developed under george bush. the tea baggers want to take us back there. glenn beck wants to take us back there. they want to take us back to an america where we didn't have health care, where the environment wasn't important, where workers' rights weren't important. they want to take us back to an american where the judiciary is completely a lap dog for corporate america. that's what the republicans did for us for eight years. so what do we do? we have a choice here, ed. we can either talk the talk or we can show up, we can spend the $500 that it is probably going to take to get there, we can show up and we can make sure that joe barton from texas, who actually had the audacity to apologize to bp after they destroyed an ecosystem, after they killed 11 people, that joe barton doesn't take over the energy committee, as he will if the republicans gain control. that john boehner, the empty suit tan man doesn't run government. that jim inhoff, who says that global warming is a hoax and we should not pay any attention to global warming that he doesn't take over

bush. george w. bush has been the perfect former president. he's been discreet. he's been nonpartisan. he's been spaceman like. the on thing he has done was the haitian relief thing with bill clinton and the democrats, he was the energizer bunny in 20067 and 2008 so they are searching around and they are looking for john bayne tore make him the villain. you can't make george bush the villain when he is the reference point on the discussion we had earlier for saying it's a war to the against islam, it is a war against terrorists. >> lehrer: what do you think about the obama decision to make boehner the villain. >> i don't think it's going to work particularly. i don't think bayne certificate that well-known in particular. and secondly he's not newt gingrich. newt gingrich walked in with a reputation and image of a guy very conservative, maybe kind of out there maybe kind of unpredictable. bairner doesn't have that. he is sort of a bland image if anything so the ago of demonizing him i don't think is going to fly. >> what is john boehner as a ledge later. he is not

bush dick cheney and george bush. >> nice to see you. >> i've wanted to go face to face with you on so many issues for so long. i'm in new york, now we're in washington. >> we're here, let's do it, ed. >> all right, jim demint in many respects is the leader of the party right now, is that a fair statement? >> i think he is the leader of the conservative party, no question. >> has he had more victories than mcconnell? >> i think that he's been very successful along with governor palin of recruiting people, as you said, long-shot candidates. people that were ignored by the mainstream and ignored by the establishment republicans. and they won. if you look, been very impressive, alaska, south carolina, what we saw in delaware, jim demint has been time mobilize people, get them to the polls and make sure that these candidates have the money to win. i think he's been very successful. >> but now you're stuck with nease candidates and they're saying some pretty outlandish stuff, very radical. how do you mix them into the gop? >> i think that a lot of these people who ran and won represented a

i remember when george bush was president, his last speech, ed, was in philadelphia around education. and even though i probably marched on george bush more than anyone, i went to the speech, 'cause i said here is something all of us should unite on and that is education, even if i don't agree with all of his policies. i wish that americans would have had the same respect, all of them, for president obama today, or who ever the president is when it comes to educating our children. >> reverend al house, do we turn this thinking around? >> i think we have got to confront it. i think we have got to expose it like you do every night. i think that real americans need to come together. that's why i'm working with you and others on 10/2/10 in washington. one of the things we have in common is that all of our children are not getting access to a good public education. and that's where we can say, republican, democrats, independents should put their politics at the door of the school and go inside and unite around these kids. >> we will see you at the march october 2nd. i appreciate you being

. >> let's don't forget, the george bush administration, george bush as president, signed the legislation that bailed out the financial system. that's where the $700 billion tarp program came and a lot of the initial burst of energy in the tea parties against obama, some of it was retrospective against president bush. >> just as little note, sarah palin supported that tarp bailout and that's been erased as well in terms of the new -- if your name is associated with tarp now, you're doomed. gwen: you bring up the idea about the financial crisis. we saw today elizabeth warren who is a darling of the liberals in the democratic party, brought in not exactly to run this new consumer agency, but kind of a special advisor to the president so she kind of cannot escape confirmation scrutiny, who is she, what does she bring to this, and to what degree was this decision to bring her in a political one? >> i think it was very political in the following respect. they passed -- consumer protection was one of the hallmarks of the democratic approaches to financial regulation. though interestingly, hank

and also, new apology mahan courage jeb bush to run. this week george w. bush actually beat barack obama in a theoretical poll. then the water may be safe for jeb. on the christian conservative bracket side, mike huckabee is running but sarah palin polls best among republican voters. in a new "vanity fair" article, in july, the quarterly filing by palin's p.a.c. revealed a foormedable war chest and hefty investments in this fundraising and direct mail. the hottest part, the glenn beck part of the party. you have huckabee out there. pagen boub the star, right? >> she is the star already. i was down at the southern republican leadership conference meeting in new orleans, which is the base of the modern christian evangel cal republican party. haley barbour, who's from next door, was a blip on the radar screen. it was all about sarah palin and everything she did there, including handing out souvenir moose meat beach jerky for everyone showed me she's runnorg f president. it looks like she's running. >> that's a sign you're running for president, if you hand ou

these are george bush's tax cuts. the ones that would most popular in 2001, 2003 when he passed these in the first place. it is true, if republicans didn't want to run on -- against the biggest tax increase in american history, as they call it they would go ahead and do this. i don't know -- i don't know if things like this provide momentum anymore. i'm not sure if george voinovich is gettable on this bill. he has been on the past but he also was a critic of the size of these tax cuts in the first place. he might be gettable but i think he needs to do more working the phones than aggressive talking in front of the cameras, meaning he just needs to talk about it. >> here we are. chris, your -- the political strategy, your interpretations of the political strategy, the witness of the president coming out to talk small business but really coming out with the vice president and the treasury secretary to play let's make a deal with the tax policy relative to the bush policies? >> well, i think the president is drawing a li

bush when. george. first there was no violence the demonstrators were shouting their slogans nothing more than seeing. after forty five minutes of protest. they started throwing grenades and it all became very violent. and the my unit was ordered to take defensive positions on the roof of the town hall. we were told to open fire if anyone threw grenades at us. the. one point silence of complete silence all of the demonstrators about two hundred people started moving from one place to the other. one corner we saw a young man coming towards us he was holding something in his hand. through the telescope. specifically ordered to shoot to kill if anyone threw something. that young man was holding something and he threw it at us. it was a grenade and we all fired. he. was the first time in my life the target wasn't made of plastic. it wasn't a picture it was a human being. human being. and by the way he couldn't possibly reach us because he was much too far. and. the. i shot him too and he was killed

george bush won the district but only four points. he did not do as well as obama. -- the senator when the district by only four points. he did not do as well as obama. that is what republicans think they can take the district. -- why republicans think they can take the district. doing a great job. we need someone like you. >> the challenger has been the hazleton mayor since 1999. his family owned a well known amusement park down there. he is very popular in some cities. hazleton is a very small part of the district. they are at the forefront of local municipalities trying to impose illegal immigration rules. they want to penalize landlords to rent to a legal immigrants. he has come out as a proponent of dealing with illegal immigration. he has come out as one of the republicans young guns, which means that they will target him with money in the fall. the reason they are is because he has shown that he -- he came close to beating his opponent, and they think in this political climate he can beat him. since 2003, the district has inclu

>> why did you sing aloud george bush? -- single out george bush? >> the younger. >> but why? >> years of moving backwards at a critical juncture in history. >> if you look at 40 years -- >> this might be another debate. [laughter] >> i do have real issue was on george bush, but if you look back 40 years, where can they click on that? >> on the pickens plan they can find a video. >> and jon stewart, he does a fabulous job of taking you back, all the way back to nixon, taking you back to what all of them said. they all told us that we have a problem with importing oil. elect me, we will get it fixed. you kidding me? i do not care if they were democrat or republican, nobody is doing one thing to fix the problem. what is that, jon stewart, " daily show"? >> [inaudible] >> go to the pickens plan, click on jon stewart. it is a fabulous deal that he does on the energy. but i didn't know, i think that we get there. >> quickly, in the term of president nixon we were importing 36% foreign oil. right now is 67.5%. every president has even said that we will get off foreign oil. and it ha

don't blame that on george bush. it was bush's bill -- >> thank you. >> that's all that we need to know. >> gentlemen -- >> the only other thing that i would say to that. >> we're going to get one more subject in here tonight. >> okay. >> the nominee for governor in maine tells the crowd that he's going to tell the president to go to hell. here it is. let's listen to it. >> and as your governor you're going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page saying, governor page, president obama, go to hell. >> i don't know if this moves the dialogue further but joe madison, your thoughts on that? no thoughts? >> well, it's -- you know, it's really absolutely sad not only to hear a person who's governor stoop that low in political rhetoric, but to hear an audience applaud. president obama is president of the united states. you don't tell the president of the united states to go to hell. but you know what, when they will need assistance when there's a flood or a fire or an emergency and the governor comes with his hat in his

under george bush, eight million jobs were created with his tax cuts. with ronald reagan's tax cuts there were 20 million jobs created. we've done nothing but lose jobs with barack obama with the stimulus package. truth is truth. facts are facts. don't go on television saying it didn't work, it did work! >> sean: brent bozell, always fun and always a pleasure thanks. time to check in with greta van susteren for a sneak peek on what is coming up. >> greta: it is senator night. senator demint, mccain, judd gregg and former senator rick santorum. plus, there's a scandal involving "on the record" we have to talk about it tonight. >> sean: are you in trouble again? senator van susteren takes over in 19 minutes from now. thanks for being with us. our great, great american panel is next. hi. you know, if we had let fedex office pri our presentation, they could have shipped it too. saved ourselves the hassle. i'm not too sure about this. look at this. [ security agent ] right. you never kick off with sales figures. kicking off with sales figures! i'm yawning. i

george w. bush actually gets most of the blame for the bad economy, 11% of the voters put the blame on president obama. >>> pope benedict xvi a arrived in scotland on a four-day state visit. he told reporters that the catholic church failed to act quickly enough to deal with priests who rape and molest children. he says the vatican's top priority is to help these victims feel. his first meeting was with queen elizabeth ii. >> coming up, we are back live

you may remember the naacp spent $10 million in 2000 running an ad against george w. bush during the presidential campaign alleging that he had acted insufficiently harsh on some bigoted race murderers in texas. i never once saw the "new york times" utter a peep about this. >> bill: when you give money on-to-organizations on your little clap board. >> there that's a white board. that's not a clap board. clap board is what's on the side of a house in new england. this is a white board. white board, bill. >> bill: i'm sorry. that's a major point. you don't have to say the -- the organization doesn't say who gave the money did. your american crossroads group, if i give you money you are not going to tell them i gave you money, right? >> well, american crossroads is a 527, which does report its contributors on a monthly basis. it has affiliated group called crossroads g.p.s. which is a 501 c 4 and does not report -- >> bill: i got it you say that the playing field is even here

bush, the first, had tiananmen, uh, then george w. bush had the incident with the airplane on hainan island in 2001. >> spy plane landing... >> so it's been a pattern. i think it's interesting to observe and we'll see if it stays true, but thus far, president obama's administration's had a relatively smooth transition. anything can change. >> do you think the legacy of the relationship, on both sides, actually, has something to do with making it difficult to manage? in the united states, there are many, many americans who still perceive china as an enemy in a very, you know, old fashioned sense of being an enemy. and they think about vietnam and the vietnam era and all of that, uh, and the communist revolution and so on. and maybe in china, as well, the perception of the united states as being the enemy, with all of those years of propaganda that were disseminated. so is there a legacy thing, and is there anything we can do about that? >> i think legacy plays into it, and in particular, it tends to inform our campaigns, and in sometim

bush con quien tuvo diferencias >>> dijo que nadie debe dudar del apoyo de bush con las tropas y so compromiso con la seguridad nacional por otro lado recordó afganistán >>> al qaeda y sus aliados están funcionando desde ah' >>> en medio de tratar de poner fin a este capítulo obama dijo que lo más urgente es restaurar a la economía del país >>> y el presidente barack obama, utilizó el discurso de esta noche, para también animar a la población dijo que reconoce que se vive momentos difíciles, pero como en el pasado esta nación volverá a salir adelante >> josé: muchas gracias y ahora regresamos a méxico, porque tneemos los por menores de uno de los golpes más fuertes es la captura de edgar valdes villarreal participaron más de 1.200 policías federales >>> se fueron sonrien te, por momentos arrogante como si no fuera culpable de los cientos, o quizás miles de asesinatos >>> esta detención es el resultado de los trabajos de inteligencia, desde el año 2009 >>> 1.200 policias federales, particparon, de quien es considerado lo acorralaron en la tarde de este lunes en 1

it is awesomely gay, and predict leanne tie america, and all about george george bush or killing george bush. it involves two radicalized men and iraqi and soldier who fall in love and decide to kill the then president of the united states. i'm sure the fantasy of killing bush makes everyone feel edgy. i have no idea who is in the flick. you can bet actors will lineup to addition. what a great opportunity to obtain elite renegade status. killing a man hated by your celeb friends. that's better than voicing a pixar dog. and it will get you laid at coachella. they should make movies about present threats in the real world. but it would be dangerous and cost more than freedom and money. if you disagree, you are a homophobic adoxiphob. >>> kind of a cowardly movie, am i right? >> yeah, and i hate to point out the uh hock craw -- the huh poke craw see. if you made it about the current administration, it would never get made. this could get made and celebrated by everyone in hollywood. it is crazy. >> there was already a bbc documentary on what if bush got assassinated and nobody cared. it is

bush by voting to send dennis kucinich's impeachment vote to the senate where it was intended to died. rush limbaugh is pretty dangerous. >> she took a shot at the buckley role. they said to vote for the most conservative person in the race. you cannot qualify that. rush limbaugh and sarah palin is on one side. >> when my liberal colleagues agree with me i get alarmed. i have to read calibrate my position. if this was an isolated race and if republicans were going to end up in a minority, if it is about who would represent delaware and you want to take a shot in the tea party candidate that is fine. at issue is she will be in charge of the senate judiciary committee. willoughby charles schumer for senator orrin hatch? that is what is at stake here. that is why there was such anxiety and the establishment this is another chance to stop the obama revolution and jeopardized because of one candidate. i think that is simply a tactical mistake. >> there is an interest in the ideology that the tea party has been to the debate. they will not tolerate this. >> who wins delaware? >> i don't kno

person in the country has learned from george bush's infamous victory mission accomplished speech i mean the white house has been very clear this is not going to be a victory parade that they're going to say that you know essentially america reached a milestone obama fulfilled his campaign promise of withdrawing troops by the august thirty first deadline so a few problems with that number one is the fact that nobody cares about this deadline you know people in the world especially in the muslim world care about a stable iraq in iraq where people could continue to go about their business to marry to essentially live in a free country which doesn't exist right now i mean that's the equivalent of you know a student who failed all of her classes going to pick up her diploma but showing up on time i mean the country that we broke remains not fully fixed it's not still broken and the second problem is that i mean you know we just because we remove all of the combat troops it's not mean that the war is over the war is not finished you know we still have soldiers there fifty thousand troops we s

george bush had immense simplicity. let them say that of me one day. george had immense simplicity in how he saw the world, right or wrong, it led to decisive leadership. reagan obviously mocked and ridiculed for being a simpleton in the 1980s and george w. bush, a very unpopular figure, yet you stood shoulder to shoulder with him. did he make your job more difficult? >> no. i think the situation made it more difficult, frankly. this was after september the 11th. the thing that came home to me after september 11th, 3,000 people died on the streets of new york. if these people coiled have killed 30,000 or 300,000, they would have. my whole world view changed from that moment. when i say he approached things with a certain simplicity. the truth is we had var binary choice of what do you do with this phenomenon of extremism. i see this when i'm out in the world the whole time, you see it in pakistan, lebanon, palestine, you see it in somalia -- >> yemen. >> yemen. a global phenomenon. the question is, do you try and manage it? try to bring it around with

they got newt gingrich and then they got eight years of policies that working with george bush gave us an economy that ended up losing over 600,000 jobs after eight years, having absolutely no -- >> yeah. >> -- well, flat incomes and a big effort to privatize social security, which is what they intend to try to do again. so this is all a flashback, and, again, the only good news in this is that it's a clear reminder to people, beware what you do, and beware because these guys are telling you exactly what they're planning to do and it's not a pretty picture. >> congressman, good to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >> good to be with you. >> more on this subject of newt gingrich let's bring in david fromm. a former bush economic write speecher and founder from frommforum.com. david, i guess -- maybe i haven't paid enough attention into newt gingrich, this is as right wing as he's ever been and it's almost race-baiting. your thoughts on this. >> i'm very disturbed about it. look, there are -- for republicans there are a lot of reasons to vote republican in november about 37 a lot