while george w. bush was making his 22nd endorsement that included referring to politics as a swamp he crawled out of in an hour-long interview with an obscure think tank. this california college think tank listed the interview privately. if he looks teeth on edge while he's making the endorsement, maybe it's because he seems to recognize that no one wants to run with him as the wind beneath their wings. do not count george bush out. he's reinventing himself starting with a new book that's out today. it's called "the 4% solution, unleashing the economic growth america needs," and there's a foreword by president bush, says his name twice on the cover, has a bunch of essays by economists he likes, about how the economy can be made to grow at a rate of 4% a year, which is something he thinks he could do, i guess he just decided not do that as president. 4% economic growth might as well have been a unicorn in his presidency. the bush economy still averaged less than 3% growth in his presidency. in all of

filing -- >> george -- george, you say point to it. he signed it. he was chairman, ceo, president, you can't, as president of the united states, you can't have a sign on your desk, gone fishing. you can put that on the desk, basically, the buck stops there. you can't say to the s.e.c., i'm chairman, ceo and president, i'm not responsible, i'm not accountable. then he says the reason i should be president is bain capital. well, let's look at it. when you look at, it's not the record presented. that's the policies that led to jobs going overseas. he said, he told people, manufacturing is not part of our future. 500,000 jobs have been created in the manufacturing sector in the last three years, it is part of our future. if you're going to build and make sure that the 21st century is again the american century -- >> do you really believe that what stephanie kotter suggestsed the other day that he committed a felony -- >> first of all, stephanie cited the law and it's very clear, s.e.c. is accurate or that's honest and the sec isn't honest. but both can'

ari >> >>darya: we have a traffic master george. >>george: the worst problem is the lower deck where four of the five lanes are shut down and have been shut down while the commute is under way. this happened at 2:00 in the morning. it was a high-speed pursuits a crash and guns shots parent that is why there are four lanes shutdown. >>darya: they told you to expect this for hours. >>george: at i was tall that it might be opened at 1030 and but i want they said the is it maybe earlier or it may be later. we are looking at jackie sizzle shot now appear for corn to >>jackie: @ >>george: not this is the sky way and is now completely stopped. not only from the fourth street accent which is near seventh and bryant, is backed up all around the corner, take a look get a san francisco shot. i told them do not take a lower deck of the bay bridge. apparently many people are not checking out the traffic as they leave the house. it this traffic is going to continue to build in irian. it'll look like the worst nightmare of a going home commute the

i'm george thomas. >> wendy: and i'm wendy griffith. the radical islamist group boko haram is claiming responsibility for recent attacks against christian villages in nigeria. hundreds of assailants armed with machetes stormed a dozens villages. more than 100 people died in those attacks. in a statement, boko haram says christians will not know peace again if they do not accept islam. and it expressed what it calls delight over the success of the attacks. >> at a moment, people are on the run. most of the houses are burned. and people are running to safety. but in the larger scale, all over the country people are confused. because people expect government to do what they are supposed to do. >> wendy: nigerian christian leaders are calling on the u.s. to officially declare boko haram a terrorist organization. >> george: and joining us with more from our washington studio is pastor ario, who heads up the pentacostal fellowship and serves as president of a r very important organization in nigeria, called the christian organization of niger

there's a reason george w. bush left office in january 2009 with the lowest approval rating for an outgoing president since galt started asking that question back in the 1930s. and frankly, the vice president, dick cheney, would have killed to get numbers that high. his approval rating was 13% when he left office. part of the headwind that john mccain had running in 2008, trying to run as a republican after george w. bush and dick janney was george w. bush and dick cheney. the country was happy to see them go for understandable reasons. four years after the bush/cheney administration, the new republican party nominee, mitt romney, has made precisely zero public appearanced with george w. bush or dick cheney. this is still the most interesting thing in american politics. the reconstruction of the republican party post-george w. bush and post-dick cheney is as yet incomplete and still the most interesting thing to watch. hot is the new republican party going to be after that? what is the new republican party lead

that's good to george for traffic. >>george: this is the crash. you can see the vehicle up against the medium. they may have to of block to lanes to clear this accident. we will give you more details when the kron 4 morning news continues. >>mark: welcome back to decision 2012. the republican presidential kamen can it says that his campaign >> the democratic party said that they're gonna use the mayor of san antonio to deliver the keynote address. this is an attempt to get those from hispanic voters. michelle obama will also speak the same night. >>justine: u.s. consumer spending remained unchanged in june. americans cut back on spending. they're concerned about the economy and jobs. that is what you're watching right now and the kron 4 news room. >>darya: this year to george for the accident. >>george: we have video for the saxon darya. as you can see this is a to 80 southbound. it is up against the center divider and a levelling. jackie sizzle is on the scene pin you can see that the tow truck just got that he called on its wheels. i cannot tell

george? >> to be fair to the romney campaign, at some point in every campaign, the people aren't included in the campaign, which is 90 mkt prp activists, we can do it better. >> that happened a month ago for the democrats. >> so this is for normal. governor romney seems to be risk-averse. a four-corner stall, that almost killed basketball. so, they put in a 30-second shot clock. he'll have to do something more than say, obama's not working and he said to cbs news this week, as long as i keep talking about the economy i'll win. but you say about the economy and what you hope you give to people. >> the editorial paper is att k attacking obama. on one hand, george is right. there's a risk aversion. if he keeps talking about how bad the economy is he'll win. there's also a problem for some of the conservatives making the case. they want romney to go all of the way over to the right where they are and that's where they want romney to be. if they go that far right, they'll lose some of the voters.

i'm here with george stephanopoulos. it will also be easy for congress to go after certain industries and to distort the market. by saying that previously the court has not said. we have tax credit. but we have always had principle of equal taxation. we have a principle that companies pay a certain rate. a principle that individuals pay if government dresses it up in encouraging -- >> they do that all the time. they tax gas guzzlers, tax code is used to shape behavior. >> stronger power now than before. >> but this court will limit that. >> and keith, are you worried about the tax argument in the election? now that chief justice roberts has firmly said that this is a tax. >> again, i think it's got to be a concern for the president that wasn't there before this terminology was used. but this was already such a huge issue in terms of this divide between people who are opposed to the obama care concept and yet support each aspect of it. it was already a hot-button issue. that very little to do with the facts that i don't t

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it is not the president's job to create jobs. >> it was george w. bush's job wasn't it? >> why doesn't mitt romney and all you rich guys sitting around me ask your rich friends to create some jobs? >> sean: the president said he would do that. >> remember the president of the jobs council is shipping outsourcing jobs all over the place. i think offensive depot is a lot better than solyndra. i think the private sector is a lot better than the public sector losing jobs. every week or two fox news reports on more solar energy companies going out of business in harry reid's state of nevada because you are are trying to do it from the top down, not the bottom up. let's face it our friend and yours mets has had about a 75 -- mitt romney has had a 75% success rate in creating private sector jobs. >> overseas. >> talk to jeffrey immel about overseas jobs. your guy outsources jobs and is the one presiding over the worst economic performance in 60 years. take responsibility and quit blaming somebody else. >> i'm not blaming somebody else and it is not my responsibility. if we had

because if we go wrong on this, we're making an awfully big mistake. >> george? >> george? >> how do we explain the heat? one word, summer. i grew up in central illinois in a house without air conditioning. what is so unusual about this? come winter, there will be a snap of cold. and we'll get a lecture that there's a difference between the weather and the climate. >> i agree with that. but the ten hottest years on record have been in the last 12 years. there's a lot of science around this. i don't think we can just ignore it, george, and it is an issue because it's something t that o political leaders needo do something about. >> is it an issue for voters? is this even on the radar screen? >> i come back to my argument in favor of vacations. i believe that's what most voters are thinking about now. i don't think they're getting drawn into scientific or political discussions about climate change. they just want it to stop and they want their power to stay on. of course there are ramifications for this and none of this comes for free. i don't think this election is going to

george? >> all right, cecilia thank you. >>> we want to get more on james holmes now from our justice correspondent pierre thomas, who has more on the investigation, everything we are learning so far, this was a cold-blooded plan. >> reporter: cold-blooded. calculated. he developed an execution plan that he put in place that worked to perfection according to my sources, also the time and effort in terms of putting together that booby-trapped apartment. i was stuck by one source today who said that this was a like mad scientist. >> he was pulling in materials for a couple of months, getting a lot of packages at home, we know that he bought thousands of rounds of ammunition and guns. you described on friday, as having a clean skin. >> only a speeding ticket. he could have buy guns. >> we're learning as you said, a lot more about him. you described him as a mad scientist. a brilliant mad man. >> brilliant. that's what made him so dangerous. most criminals are stupid. but this guy was thoughtful

little george, little george, say something to me, you know. wake up. do you hear me talking to you? shaking him. he just was not responding to nothing i was telling him. >> friends created a makeshift memorial. they believe the teen may have been killed in a robbery attempt. >>> 4:47 now. the region is remembering a long time leader in law enforcement. hilton head, south carolina. medical examiners are waiting on autopsy results. his wife was mysteriously killed in the couple's alexandria home. he was first elected sheriff in 1986 and served for two decades before retiring and moving to south carolina. he was 62 years old. >>> some people in a damaged prince george's county apartment complex are being allowed to move back in. late wednesday night officials had evacuated tenants in the riverdale apartment building. they say last month's storm cause sod much damage they needed to condemn the building. yesterday though more than 40 apartments in the -- more than 40 apartment units were deemed safe and livable. county officials had to condemn the building

take it away from george and make george a hero, a man who was trying to do the right thing the he was doing an organized neighborhood watch. he is the champion of victims the make it about the other victims in the world, not about this case. that will do a lot of good. >>trace: thank you jeff and regina. thank you both. >> fast food chicken restaurant, chick-fil-a at the center of a controversy over gay marriage. the company president does not support it and the mayors of several major cities have now said the restaurant is no longer welcome in their cities. but can they do that? is it legal? we will bring it all down, next, on "studio b" today. a legal set or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. @ now, tre's gentle, dependable constipation reland mere... and me. new dulcolax laxative tablets for women are comfort-coated... so they're gentle on sensitive stomachs. new dulcolax laxative for women the overnight relief you're looking for. trace now the growing debat

what led up to the top not raying george zimmerman. i believe it will be a tremendous hurdle of the state if they try to convict george zimmerman of murder in the second degree. let me introduce our other guests here to help us analyze this and the other cases. there are the chief of the brooklyn da's homicide division the youngest person ever to hold so exalted a position. new york times best selling author and attorney jose bias. in terms of what led to this rays don't you have to divorce the civil rights aspect and profiling aspect? >> that's what they are doing they didn't charge him with a hate crime. when you look at a prosecutor what can we prove? we don't know if george zimmerman is a racist or not. i agree i do think if the color of his skin may have been different the hood de coupled with that may have led to a less aggressive posture. as a prosecutor there isn't evidence of this being racially motivated which is why that wasn't charged. >> that was the atmosphere that polarized this nation. it turned out tens of thousands of

allie: calling george! calling george! ooh! (hooting happily)

let's get to george for traffic. it it friday >>george: there is no hot spots to track. there is a it medium-sized back up with the bay bridge which is at 12-13 minutes. it is slow from the 880 over crossing for your westbound ride. the san mateo bridge is running smoothly. the golden gate bridge is a wet and foggy one. if you look at the traffic maps you can see that things are running smoothly. the south bay freeway has and slowly on 101 and the north bay ride through in the bottle is an easy trip for 101 southbound. >>darya: we have to talk about this. when do you pull the plug on tv? >>gary: what you say performance. diane >>darya: wendy will the plot on timmy. >> yi and other timmy can do no wrong in my book. i just like him. >>gary: you have to bet on a good performance and for a lousy performance i would choose the allows the performance hit >> >>darya: some people as a check is on. had you explain it? >>gary: i'm sure i've said this to you before in his windup was taught to him light by his dad. he does not ice his arm after every game. he does everything his own

charles schulz -- george and charlotte shultz. this afternoon, we are doing something that, frankly, should have been done a long time ago. in this city, when the concept of a memorial for veterans what spurs done, they said it would be right here. of course, we have finally, after many, many tries, got this right. in 1936, the construction produced it, and then there was six or seven additional times from the original time, and it does not to work, but finally, about two or three years ago, we got it right. the board of trustees decided in their wisdom to say thank-you to two incredible san franciscans in making the horseshoe circle named in their honor. all of you have come for this occasion. the man who presides over this city, for purposes of everything, is, of course, the mayor. directly across the street is where he journeys from on this occasion. ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you, the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, would just celebrated his 60th birthday, mayor ed lee. mayor lee: thank you, and the

and that george was. though she could not come up with any indications hoff examples of how he was it the fbi who seemingly has completed their report has said the exact opposite. that george is not a racist. and even with their intense looking into him, they cannot come up with one example of it. so i would suggest that maybe her first statement suggests racism questions her credibility. the next day she makes up allegations about sexual abuse. also seemingly don't have any corroboration to them. >> she is also on the audiotape talking about the racism claim. she doesn't make it specifically about george so much as his family. let's listen to this. >> i was afraid that he may have done something because the kid was black. because growing up they always made -- him and his family have always made statements that they don't like black people, if they don't act like white people. >> on that specific point, could that be admissible? a family member alleging racism from george's family? >> i think that if the

curious george. ♪ oh... captioning sponsored by nbc/universal narrator: it had been raining in the country a lot. rainy days were great for vegetables... and pigs. (tractor sputtering, mr. renkins grunting) but not for tractors. (sighs) i'm going to need a tow truck. (allie sighs) i wish we had something fun to do, huh, george? uh-huh. bill: whoa! whoa...! (grunts) my toss is way off since i sprained my thumb. ah. (chatters a question) thumb-wrestling injury. (sighs) i really miss it. sorry about your paper. it's okay. (gasps) hey, that's something fun to do. we could get the paper down.

if we believe george zimmerman that you know, this s. h., the person we think is sean hannity based on your research, was going to fund his defense why? what is it about zimmerman that would -- obviously we're guessing here but would motivate hannity to want to put up so much money in his defense? >> well, let's not forget that mr. robert zimmerman george zimmerman's father, the first interview he gave was to sean hannity. yesterday we also broke a story that cbs news had sent flowers to george zimmerman's parents saying you know, we know you're going through a hard time. we're here to talk to you if you need someone to talk to. so of course everybody is still fighting for that first interview with george zimmerman. paying for his legal defense fee would be cheap if they could get the interview with george. >> cenk: that's really interesting. it might be more interesting than if simply sean hannity thought poor george zimmerman he's the victim here. i think to some degree, the world's view of conservatives is it is always the white guys

. >> reporter: good morning, george. later this morning, president obama in cincinnati at a town hal will attack mitt romney's tax proposal, saying it could lead to up to 800,000 jobs being created overseas likely at the expense of jobs here. it's the late of the in an aggressive president obama launching attacks against romney in the most intense period of this campaign yet. bad june jobs numbers, high unemployment. stagnating economy. for now, president obama and his team have managed to change the subject from those crucial isiso mitt romney's tenure at bain capital. a brutal barrage mitt romney is demanding an apology for. >> we won't be apologizing. he claims he's mr. fist-it for the economy because of his business experience. i think voters legitimately want to know exactly what is that business experience. >> reporter: president obama revealed detailed knowledge, though romney says he ceased involvement with bain in 1999. government findings list him as ceo, chairman and president of the company. >> are you in fac

. >> darya: so george, what is this doing to a commute, but this is the day after the holiday. >> george: it is the day after a holiday but the non commute direction except for the people that have to drive away but the bad news is that it is backed up all across the bridge and that has now translated--has not translated on 2101 north bound. this is 101 north bound that leads up and around the corner on to the sky with. the seventh street exit is your fourth street is up here and around the corner. this is the central freeway where it joins the rest of the sky way. the good news is that it is not backed up to here and not affecting your ride north bound and to san francisco. traffic of around the bay area has been pretty light. as the switch through the traffic map, you can see from here that is with a slow traffic is. it is quite remarkable that it has been refined to that short stretch. that is the only serious traffic issue that we are looking at this morning, otherwise i want to quickly show the west bound bay bridge in your ride to the upper deck. this is the commute direction that

a woman says she is related to george zimmerman. she said she decided to step forward because she was not afraid of george zimmerman anymore. after he shot and killed trayvon martin, an unarmed teenager, investigators received an anonymous phone call from the woman who said she was zimmerman relative. they ask for a formal interview so they could record concerns that his actions may have been more racially motivated. she is only known as witness no. 9. >> growing up, they have always made statements that they don't like black people if they don't act like white people. they like black people if they act like. >> asked if she ever recalled zimmermann himself ever saying anything racist, she said she could not remember. the woman told police that zimmerman repeatedly molested her over 10 years beginning when she was 6 years old and zimmerman was 8 years old. she said the abuse -- she said the two families still lot of time with each other. >> he would reach under the blankets and try to do things i would try to push him off but he was

george island, a little thunderstorm there. it's about ready to go back over the open waters of the bay but it has been dry. be i this time of the year on average we'd have had 21 1/2 inches of rain. this time last year just under 18. but now this year, less than 15 inches of rain for the year to date, and most of that came on just a couple of real soaker days. so it's been a dry one and it's been a hot one. we'll talk about your seven-day forecast, which looks both hot and dry coming up in a few more minutes. back to you. >> all right, chuck. see you then. metro officials are working around the clock trying to figure out what triggered the computer glitch that forced them to halt train service on two occasions over the weekend. the transit agency says no passengers were in danger. this evening lawmakers are speaking out about new federal regulations aimed at keeping riders safe. "news 4's" darcy spencer live with more. darcy? >> reporter: jim, yes. several officials admitted today they had no idea there was no oversight over t

george you know is very concerned that he may be rearrested.so george is very concerned he's not going to be around to help.meanwhile, zimmerman relaunched his website.i wanted to take this opportunity to thank you, the masses.you can personally communicate with me and i hope to be your website to provide facts.i'm ed payne reporting. the website also solicits donations to zimmerman's legal defense fund.his attorney says thh fuud is pretty much depleted. 3 in this morning's wastewatch report... the agency that keeps tabs on government spending... is in hot water... . spending 800-thousand dollars - on a conference in las vegas for 300 workers... is ánow accused of spending more than a quarter million dollars on áanotherá conference. conference.according to the g--s--a inspector general.this one cost 268 thousand dollars... november 20-10 ....50 thousand dollars was spent on gifts and awardsincluding 20--grand for drumsticks.the g-s-a says all spending for events was suspended in april. join our wastewatch.if you see governement waste...call our hotline at 410- 662- 1456...or go to f

what led up to the top not raying george zimmerman. i believe it will be a tremendous hurdle of the state if they try to convict george zimmerman of murder in the second degree. let me introduce our other guests here to help us analyze this and the other cases. there are the chief of the brooklyn da's homicide division the youngest person ever to hold so exalted a position. new york times best selling author and attorney jose bias. in terms of what led to this rays don't you have to divorce the civil rights aspect and profiling aspect? >> that's what they are doing they didn't charge him with a hate crime. when you look at a prosecutor what can we prove? we don't know if george zimmerman is a racist or not. i agree i do think if the color of his skin may have been different the hood de coupled with that may have led to a less aggressive posture. as a prosecutor there isn't evidence of this being racially motivated which is why that wasn't charged. >> that was the atmosphere that polarized this nation. it turned out tens of thousands of

and and the us right george you want to respond to others aren't there. there is a lot there if we look at what exactly happened what occurred in the balkans was not regime change what it was is nato intervene as part of the international community through a un sanctions to stop the regime in serbia from continuing to kill tens of thousands of innocent people in the balkans nato intervene as a responsible member of the international community now for its own interest but to protect civilian lives i mean the facts are that there are hidden mass graves in the balkans of tens of thousands of people killed in slaughter because of ethnic conflict nato intervened to stop that violence it did not initiate the violence but it interview that responsibility what's the alternative that is a myth well you know i've written about that myth the myth is that first came the violence against the people of kosovo by the serbian government and then came the nato intervention but that's not true if you look at i have written about this in detail you look at the new york time

it was george bush's job, wasn'tn't it? >> why doesn't mitt romney and rich guys ask some of your friends to create jobs? >> president said he's do that. remember the president of the jobs counsel? and i think office depot is better than solyndra. and every week or two, fox news reports on more solar energy company goesing out of business because you're trying to do it from the stop down, not bottom up. our friend and yours mitt romney had a 75% success rate in creating private sector jobs. >> and your guy outsources jobs and spends billions overseas and is presiding over worst economic performance in 60 years, take responsibility, quick blaming someone eels i'm not blaming someone else and it's not my responsibility. we haven't if we had a hick in the white house we'd have more job autos you're talking about hillary. >> wait a minute. sexist comment. >> and we've got a chick, we've got blue eyes. >> they're green. he's pointing his finger. >> sean: fwhu is important. there are fewer americans working. this is what is not f

in terms of helping the case of george zimmerman i think it is a net-net positive. depicted him as not a racist monster but as a person of introspection and maybe even a person of spirituality and a person who is standing by his actions but understands the need to apologize to the family. we also came to underand it as a result of this interview things we never heard in the mainstream media. he alleges that he was being suffocated and his head was being banged repeatedly and that the victim trayvon martin attempted after suffocating him to move his hand down his body to his wh holstered firearm in order to kill him. >> sean: the first eyewitness in the case the night of the shooting, kimberly said to police he witnessed it was trayvon on top of george zimmerman and described exactly what george said in terms of taking the head and beating and pounding. >> we are getting a real glimpse into what the trial will be and the witness testimony. you can have thousands of trials that go by where the defendant doesn't take the stand but you what you got there was george zimm

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george martin sort of took the witness stand and sean hannity or george zimmerman took the witness stand and sean hannity cross examined him. and the trayvon martin running or walking or skipping provides a field day for the prosecutors to explore. >> gretchin: yust that one piece of information. he said in he thought it was god's plan that it potentially happen. and he had no regrets. if you are the prosecution, are you basing your entire case around the statements. >> not basing the entire case. but these are statements that the jury will hear. because they are sort of admissions and statements that he made in an effort to justify himself. peter, i don't know why lawyers let their clients do this. >> peter: there was a lot of things said in the issue. there was a racial epithet that was interesting. watch that and tell us what you think, judge. >> it was a controversy early on, george, where there was some in the media that hired expert voice analyst and i am certain that works. and they recanted and resended their analysis where the explet ives get away with this all of the time. do y