if you know anything about george w. bush is a phase wealthy and. what better time to fight him in better spirits to talk about his favorite pastime? do you turn from dallas, where the president was in good spirits last week, to a conference here at hofstra in long island, to check about the george w. bush administration, in general, and more particularly to talk about how we communicated in the white house? i think of course, the best place for me to start is at the beginning. i started in day one committed the george w. bush white house as the deputy domestic policy adviser to vice president cheney, before moving over to the special assistant to george bush in 2002. from day one, what we tried to do is we tried to define how the president would communicate his policies to the american people who had alike at him, as well as our friends and allies around the world. in the opening days, call rose, who was the senior adviser, he an organization he has brought together on a regular basis of all the senior staff in the white house. he named the group t

bush, he would have never been president. the same game was played with george w. bush in 1999. he didn't know the same kind of answers. >> i remember that interview. i remember that interview, jeffrey. it was all names. >> before i came on here, i got an e-mail from a woman. i won't give her last name. she is a cnn interviewer. she's looking for somebody who has judgment, not who knows the details. to be candid, this sounds -- i like hugh hewitt. i have been on his show. in all candor, this sounds like he is pining for the carter presidency where the president knows all the details of the air force budget but has no judgment about what the soviet union is about. we need judgment, judgment. if you know all the details of a train and you are telling people we're going to boston but in fact the train is going to miami, you know, the fact that you know the details of the engine don't really help very

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take a look at the popularity of george w. bush among republicans. he is one of the most popular republicans, if not the most popular republican nationwide and i don't think running against his time and him personally is going to do him or anybody else good. >> i don't think they are going against him personally at all. most of them really like george w. bush. i certainly do. he is amazing person and great patriot. i think, karl, what they are saying to be can did candid with what republicans have gone through and done a lot of great things and made some mistakes. to be a conservative also means to learn and sometimes we have to look back and say that didn't work or we thought the wto was going to work out for us and china cheated and sometimes we held them accountable. a bunch of times we didn't. maybe we need to do things a little bit differently. it's not personal. i think it's policy. a real policy difference. >> every winning president is a -- it looking forward. i would say two things. one is a lot of the criticism of bush is not accurate. for

president william jay clinton and president george w. bush. [applause] [applause] >> i know two people are glad he is not running for president. [laughter] >> hey, that was my line. >> i know two who were glad he didn't run earlier. >> exactly. >> thank you for being here. it's debatable at this point. >> he was great. thank you for being here. really appreciate it. >> president clinton, welcome back to the bush stunner. just a quick personal privilege. it has been a delight to get to work with your team, especially verse wednesday, alexander lindsay and my counsel. we love each other, have had a lot of work together. [applause] >> i think everybody knows that you were the spark plug that made this happen. >> that's not what i said it. >> thank you very much are giving us a chance to do some pain that is of lasting importance. >> we all echoed jake sentiments. without further ado, it seems like yesterday josh bolten was sitting in my place in washington watching this program 10 months ago. here we are graduating this awesome class. let me star

george w. bush was addressing the nation. donald trump said the exact same thing as george w. bush this morning in a sunday interview. >> no he didn't. he did not say the exact same thing. in fact, he repeated a charge about the president not being a christian but he didn't say the exact same thing. >> jim, he did in so many words. he said i have a lot of muslim friends. he went so far yesterday to say he put a muslim in his cabinet. he is very embracing of the muslim community. however, his focus is radical islam. in the context of this interview he handled the question the same way i argue george w. bush did there. but it is not the appropriate fortoum berate one of your supporters. threat supporter speak, say what he want, and donald trump dismisses the question. in the full context of the interview this morning, donald trump had the same message as george w. bush had in that speesm. >> what if the reporter said something racist about blacks in general? >> he was asked that this morning. what the reporter said something along the lines of the problem with this country is bl

if you know anything about george w. bush, he is a huge baseball buff. so what better opportunity to find a former president in good spirits to talk about his favorite past time. now, how do you turn from dallas where the president was in good spirits last week to a conference here at hofstra in long island to talk about the george w. bush administration in general, and more particularly to talk about how we communicated in the white house. so i think, of course, the best place for me to start is the beginning. i started day one in the george w. bush white house as the deputy domestic policy adviser to vice president cheney before moving over to be a special assistant to president george w. bush in 2002. from day one, what we tried to do was we tried to define how the president would communicate his policies to the american people who had elected them as well as our friends and allies around the world. the way we shot to do this, in the opening days, karl rove who is the president's senior adviser who had my organization he brought together on a fairly r

nobody wants the third term of george w. bush. george w. bush wasn't want the third term of george w. bush. so reminding us of him just as that funny clip you showed is not what jeb wants. it is not what jeb needs. there is a reason george w. bush was quietly disinvited to the last republican convention. republicans didn't want to talk about his eight years. they really don't want to talk about it now. >> i will say this, roger. since he left office george w.'s approval ratings have been steadily increasing. so people have a more positive than in the past. 52% approve of george w. bush at the moment. that's a big contrast than in 2009 that 30% did. >> they almost always go up. you look back at the president out of office with a certain amount of affection. you tend to remember the good images and not the bad ones. if jeb wants to go to dynasty route he should remind people of his father, george h.w. bush. no one quite remembers what happened during that legislation but they remember they liked george h.w. he's the guy -- >> but he's the guy

bush. university,hofstra a look at news media coverage of george w. bush's presidency. over the summer, president bill clinton and george w. bush kicked off the presidential leadership scholars program. it is a leadership development seminar for military, business, leader. first, dallas mavericks owner mark cuban. >> think you very much. we are in dallas, so we thought it was only appropriate to start the program with two mavericks. one of them danced with the stars and one of them went to the big dance with president bush. kevin sullivan got his start in communications in the sports world with the dallas mavericks. the legacy ultimately landed him in the west wing where he served as president bush's communications director from 2006 2009. today, he draws on his experiences to advise leaders all across sectors. he released an e-book cled "breaking through." are other panelist has no ,roblem breaking through especially when it comes to making his voice heard to the referees at his courtside seats. mark cuban is one of america's most successful entrepreneurs. beginning at

you worked for george w. bush. let's look at jeb. big moments from last night's debate. >> you know what? as it relates to my brother, there is one thing i know for sure -- he kept us safe. [applause] i don't know if your member, donald. remember the rubble? you remember the firefighters? that the clear singer united states would be strong and fight islamic terrorism, and he did keep us safe. john: you are proud of your family, just as i am. -- >> you are prone of your family, just as i am and your comment was completely inappropriate. >> i hear phenomenal things -- i hear your wife is a lovely woman. i don't know her. >> she is, she is the love of my life. quite a you apologize to her? >> know, because i said nothing wrong. >> 40 euros ago i smoked marijuana and i admit it. i'm sure other people have done it and mena want to say it. my mom is not happy that i did. [laughter] >> ever-ready, it is very high energy, donald. [laughter] john: howard his skills? -- how are his skills? >> everybody has to be true to themselves and what's i

that goes for the records of ronald reagan, george hw bush, george hw book and george w. bush. that's not because of the physical limitations of our universe. it's because policymakers have decided and place more emphasis on commemoration and their version of history than in providing access to the records. roosevelt began the library system because he wanted one simple place to make available his records as materials. he had the world's largest dam collection at the time. he had a world class and he opened his library in the summer of 1941. it is not coincidental that he wanted to build a bombproof area for his papers. that is not what the new presidential library czar. they are interactive displays. they do not benefit from scholarly research because the records are not open and will not be open for decades. the ronald ragan open in 1991 and fewer records are open. it will take decades and decades. why i wrote a book about them is because so much about what i read is either celebratory, like like brochure language or incomplete, or downright inaccurate. i started out wanting

bush. >> he was the real compassionate conservative. george w. bush sort of forgot about it after he was around a while. john: kemp talked about lifting up minorities, wrapping his arms around the working class of all different ethnicities -- what would jack can't say about the republican party of today? >> he would be deeply unhappy with the republican party of today. it's confining itself to southern old white people, basically. if you wanted the report and party to once again become the party of abraham lincoln. in two senses. linking the emancipator by reaching out for civil rights. he thought that blacks would join the republican party. this was fanciful, if not romantic. [laughter] we affiliated with the republican party if they produced growth and gave jobs. that was half of it. the other half of the lincoln playbook was that everybody should rise. the idea of america is that everybody has an opportunity to rise, regardless of who they are. basically it was for working people. kemp believe that as well. john: you have a historically large

w. bush presidency. on tuesday's show, we reported the names of the 2016 presidential contenders who worked for lehman brothers at the time of its collapse. who were they? was it a, donald trump and carly fiorina? was it lindsey graham and jim gilmore? was it "c," john kasich and jeb bush? or was it "d," bernie sanders? >> that would be c. >> jeb bush and john kasich. is that right? >> let's check tuesday's segment. >> republican presidential candidate john kasich served as managing director of lehman brothers from 2001 right up until the company's collapse seven years ago today. there's jeb bush who served as a lehman brothers adviser for years before the bankruptcy, through the bankruptcy and on to barclays bank once barclays inherited the smoking rubble of

president bill clinton and george w. bush have discussed history with this best selling historian, and it is no wonder is the new york times says, he demonstrates the flair for story telling us suggests an almost cinematic you are there immediacy and embraces the old-fashioned idea the prominent personalities actually shaping the course of history. a historian who entertains us and enlightens us. itit gives me great pleasure to introduce j winning. [applause] >> thank you very much for that introduction, steve. and i want toi want to give a -- the lights out they're are really bright. i just want to give a quick thanks to our librarian of congress were all he has done as well as my friend laura bush. and more than anything else,

lyndon johnson, george h.w. bush , bill clinton, and george w. bush. the 42nd and 43rd president's talked about leadership, decision-making, and the 2016 presidential campaign. >> is that like for like a renewed certain extent into the arena on a global scale. first, margaret spellings, the president of the george w. bush presidential center. she will be moderating the conversation. two leaders who i had the privilege of serving under as my commanders in chief. two leaders for whom we have all learned valuable lessons on leadership and life. it is my honor to introduce you to the 42nd and 43rd president's , president william j clinton, and president george w. bush. [applause] mr. bush: i know two people who are glad he's not running for president. i. cuban: i --mr. clinton: two who- i know would have been glad earlier. >> i thought you were going to be the highlight of the program. mr. clinton: -- >> welcome back to the bush center. it has been a delight to work , especiallyam valerie alexander, stephanie, mike. mr. clinton: everybody knows that you we

you worked for george w. bush. his brother jeb is running. let's look at jeb's big moments from last night's debate. mr. bush: you know what? as it relates to my brother, there is one thing i know for sure -- he kept us safe. [applause] i don't know if your member, donald. -- you remember, donald. you remember the rubble? you remember the firefighter with a dog around it? we sent a clear signal that the united states would be strong and fight islamic terrorism, and he did keep us safe. you are proud of your family, just as i am. to subject my wife to the middle of a political conversation was completely inappropriate. i hope you apologize for that. mr. trump: i hear phenomenal things -- i hear your wife is a lovely woman. i don't know her. mr. bush: she is, she is the love of my life. why don't you apologize to her? mr. trump: no, because i said nothing wrong. mr. bush: 40 years ago, i smoked marijuana, and i admit it. i'm sure other people have done it and don't want to say it. my mom is not happy that i did. [applause] mr. bush: ever ready.

host: george w. bush? caller: no, prior to him. guest: reagan. caller: yes. they admire reagan very much. and i know there was a time reagan said he hoped he lived long enough to know there were no nuclear weapons anywhere in the world. so why can't they get forward with the same thing? the same idea. that nuclear weapons are not good for any country to have, really. because of any that he ever drops one of them anywhere in the world, it would do complete damage throughout the world. it is not going to stay contained just in that country. it will go throughout the country and over time, they will be affected negatively by a drop of a nuclear weapon. i wish they would go back and think about what reagan said and maybe one day, we would have a world where there is no nuclear weapons in any country. that should be our goal. host: marie brings up the p5+1. can you run through the countries in the p5+1, and are any of the legislative bodies in those countries as opposed to this deal as we have seen the opposition on capitol hill this week? guest: the p5+1, the per

she knows george w. bush and is a fan of george w. bush and is a george w. bush loyalist. kristin powers a woman of the left. but a person of great deep religious faith. she does not want anyone silenced. gretchen carlson is a serious journalist, hard work, up from nowhere, concert violinist, stanford graduating, miss america pageant playing and worked in richmond and cleveland and dallas before she got fox news. all these authors have one thing in common. they're all relentlessly fair. they don't have an agenda as they set out to interview people. the last look in my bag is the most important in informing me how to go about preparing for the debates. the last book in my bag -- anyone have a guess? you might have heard, -- no, no, that's the first book in my bag. "the queen." buy ten copies. no. david axelrod's "believer." chris, did david axelrod come to the nixon library? he should. this is the open kimono. this is a life spent on the left, elegantly and wonderfully written by a form journalist, who served harold washington and president obama and everybody in between. h

. >> the bush legacy, did he keep -- did george w. keep us safe? yes. on the other hand, he left the presidency according to "the new york times"/cbs poll, there is the problem, right there. >> and so you have these candidates trying to establish their lanes tonight. i think that most of the buzz seems to be that fiorina did the best. trump did okay. carson was a little missing. i thought what was fascinating was the back and forth with governor kasich, governor bush, governor christie, the guys saying, look, it is great what you're saying but someone has to put their hand on the bible and govern on day one. reach deals to get anything done. watching them trying to establish their space. one of them will still be standing. >> they weren't fighting with each other. >> but trying to convince their slice of the electorate. they're trying to -- jeb bush's philosophy and john kasich believes the same thing, christie to a lesser degree, the republican party has moments of pat buchanan comes along, they still believe in the end the party wil

george w. bush is the only person president to have visited a mosque. what do you think of that idea? do you think the president despite the tweet yesterday does he do enough to combat a dark rising tide of islam phobia? >> i believe that the president can make a really constructive difference in this situation. i remember when the whole debate took over when he talked about race in a definitive way. we need to talk about religious tolerance in this country. the president has been the target of anti-muslim hate as much as anyone even though he's a christian. >> right. >> but the fact is i think this is a moment where leaders have to stand up and say that, look, you know, this is an inclusive country and you don't get to demonize a minority group. so i would be very pleased to see it. i've asked the president himself about this and i'm hoping before he closes up he'll visit a mosque. >> i want to play, again, i watched the debate last night from the republican party. they were talking about islamic terrorism, radical islamism. it's true they're not sayin

george w. bush had a handful of advisors who wanted to invade iraq. what was saddam doing? sanctions and all that. the caller talking about the life of the iraqis under saddam. i never said it was great. no way. , to ourould say to that caller who is a veteran, i would say this. how many iraqis are dead because of our invasion in 2003? how many are done? .ay half a million let's just throw out a number. i feel very comfortable saying half a million. how many have left their country since our invasion? three and a half million. how many u.s. soldiers are dead and maimed for life? 4500 dead. the point is, what is worse? life under saddam -- and i work with iraqis. i was with iraqis everyday. , but ifd it was not fun you stayed out of trouble and did not stand on a street corner and go, down with saddam, if you do that you disappeared. but if you did not do that you just live your life. that changed when we invaded in 2003. host: let's bring in another iraq war vet. mike is calling in from bethesd

so george w. bush talked about the waitress mobs from 2000. that was who was going to get the money. even though poor waitress got very little money. >> literally, paul krugman is tearing his hair out the entire campaign about that. >> he has more hair than i do. >>> thank you for joining us. >>> still ahead, martin o'malley will join me live. stay with us. >>> as refugees fled a camp, a camerawoman kicked a man as he sprinltd forward carrying a child. sending the pair cascading to the ground. the leader footage emerged of the same camerawoman kicking refugee children. according to the guardian newspaper, she is a camera on that operator for a hungarian nationalist television channel closely linked to the country's party. that's why this is so clarifying when it comes to understanding the current refugee crisis. it is by far the largest far right group in eastern europe and it is even more popular in hungary. right now it assail the hungarian's right wing party for being too soft on minorities including gymcys, gays and jews. last week hundred

so george w. bush talked about the waitress mobs from 2000. that was who was going to get the money. even though poor waitress got very little money. >> literally, paul krugman is tearing his hair out the entire campaign about that. >> he has more hair than i do. >>> thank you for joining us. >>> still ahead, martin o'malley will join me live. stay with us. everyone loves the picture i posted of you. at&t reminds you it can wait. i know, mommy, but it's time to let the new kitchen get some sleep. ♪ if you want beautiful results, you know where to go. angie's list. everyone can shop for services from highly rated companies, even without a membership. but as a member, you can save more. and you get exclusive access to ratings and reviews. angie's list is there... for all your projects - big and small. pretty! come see what the new angie's list can do for you. >>> as refugees fled a camp, a camerawoman kicked a man as he sprinted forward carrying a child. sending the pair cascading to the ground. the leader footage emerged of the same camerawom

so george w. bush talked about the waitress mobs from 2000. that was who was going to get the money. even though poor waitress got very little money. >> literally, paul krugman is tearing his hair out the entire campaign about that. >> he has more hair than i do. >>> thank you for joining us. >>> still ahead, martin o'malley will join me live. stay with us. it? that's a sensor. using ge software, the light can react to its environment- getting brighter only when it's needed. in a night, it saves a little energy. but, in a year it saves a lot. and the other street? it's been burning energy all night. for frank. frank's a cat. now, two things that are exactly the same, have never been more different. ge software. get connected. get insights. get optimized. wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers, carpenters and piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. we're making hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. you don't have to be a member to buy their services directly at angieslist.com but

when the george w. bush library -- for five years no records can't be opened, after five years is up, you can start sending requests in. when that date was coming up for the george w. bush library there was a will the of talk, there were 40-plus wait to go receive requests. that's a pretty healthy number, it would be unprecedented and i didn't quite like the sound on that, i spoke with the person and we went back and forth, i basically got them to give me the name list, 70 million pages of records and 80terabytes of electronic data, something like 2 million emails, one archivist doing what's called a systematic processing. it's looking through a series of records, you get familiar with the records and you can understand who has the clear clearances and relatively you can move systematic system quickly. request is stop what you are doing and go find this. maybe the request is diligent or they are not. well, that's going to take a lot of time and money. those people are going to be delving into records th

bush's record she the candidate to hold the republican party banner. >> brian? >> well, george w. bush -- >> that is part of the problem. no, jeb bush really needed to come out of the box last night, show the energy that people are looking for and he did that. he had very, very good debate. i think the losers, because donny talked about the winners, carly fiorina won -- [ talking at the same time ] >> talk about carly fiorina. i want to play something for you. i heard a debate coach call her performance masterful. let's listen to her as she talks about what would be her first day as president. >> i will make two phone calls. the first to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to reassure him we will stand to him, next to the supreme leader, unless he opens every nuclear facility we the united states of america will make it as difficult as possible to move money around, we can do that. and every ally we have in the world will know the united states of america is back in the leadership business. >> all right. >> she was absolutely the most prepared person on the stage last night.

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. >> dickerson: george w. bush was one of them. donald trump is not one of them. >> george w. bush actually spoke the language in way that people heard and understand. donald trump has been divorced, used to be for abortion rights. doesn't have that kind of background. right now it hasn't hurt him. the question is whether somebody can make it hurt him because it can bring that home to people. it's fascinating that people have adopt him despite that. >> dickerson: peter baker last word. we'll be back in a moment look at authenticity in politics. stay with us. >> dickerson: this summer we've been talking about 'then 'tis tee. cord to polls donald trump has it, ben carson has it, senator bernie sander has it, hillary clinton's advisors tell the "new york times" she's going to try to show it. then there's joe biden who has his own category. he told steven colbert that he can't commit to running for president because grief at the loss of his son beau keeps cam bushing him as a trip. >> i was talking about being the backbone of this country and all of a sudden it's going great. a gu

[inaudible conversations] now on booktv former chief of staff discusses george h. w. bush's presidency in his book the quiet fan. he recalls the 41st president's accomplishments in both foreign and domestic policy including his leadership during the collapse of the soviet union and the fall of the berlin wall and the passing of the americans with disabilities act. >> welcome. it's a beautiful afternoon thank you for coming indoors to spend it with us. we are very pleased to welcome back to new hampshire he was here for several terms as governor and then george w. bush chief of staff. please join me in welcoming the quiet man the indispensable presidency of george h. w. bush governor johnson and - john sent ' thank you for your hospitality. i am a bookstore addict and i think the way that you've been able to handle such scope and still keep it as an infinite facility should satisfy any book addict and i recommend anybody that is looking for a place to browse and find some great stuff to read this is the place to come. i would also like to thank you for taking a little

that was his history with george w. bush and ted kennedy, all things conservatives hate. the question is this isn't just about boehner, the same debate we see ted cruz, donald trump and ben carson waging against and jeb bush, excuse me and john kasich and the likes, where are we going? >> this is about tactics, not necessarily policy preference but exactly how to go after the president, how to push your own agenda and that's what really doomed boehner here. he's pretty conservative guy on issues like abortion, other matters, as well but the conservatives did not like how he was not going after the president and more confrontational way they wanted. that's what kevin mccarthy who is going to be the next speaker will deal with. he'll show conservatives he's ready to fight. that's going to be a big question for him. on the boehner front, i would add that one of the big reasons why he abruptly resigned is because this vote was coming to the floor that would actually, you know, lead to his ejection as speaker if there were not a majority of support on the floor to keep him and

when they said something about george w. bush killed 3,000 people, when i get a hundred other people that want to ask questions, i'm not going to get into a debate with them. it's on its face and so ridiculous. i think in this place donald trump is going to have to get out there and say barack obama, born in the u.s. a. >> i do think if he continues to be a serious candidate, he's going to have to dress this again. for many americans, they agree with mr. trump. for a lot of other americans this is the biggest thing on his record. >> not the people su portding him right now. >> i think the people supporting him are either like i think he wasn't born in america or i don't know which is what he's saying now. just as far as looking, we were talking before this happened and everybody was asking is this debate going to hurt trump? is this where he starts to go down? this is the sort of thing the media is going to grab hold of this and talk about it. all you do is help donald trump. >> one was about president obama and at that othe

the gift given to her by president george w. bush years after theyoth left the white house. >> no thing matters to me except for this. i've never shown it before. president bush painted this portrait of jasper as a puppy. >> he wrote awe note on the back? >> yes. it says, to dana and peter with affection, george bush, number 43. >> quite an honor to serve. >> yes. >> best thing of my life. >> while you might not have is a picture signed by the president, the good news is wherever you start on a ranch in wyoming or in a big city on the coast, dana's message is simple, you can achieve the american dream. >> one day you're sitting on a barn yard fence thinking you'll never leave and the next thing you're sitting on marine one with the president. >> thanks, everybody. bye-bye. >> thanks for watching.about it. >> the walls of wall street down late loaded john: the wolf of wall street was downloaded illegally more than any other movie. and the idea is to encourage the proliferation of new ideas. even drug dealers have expanded the sit

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i worked for president george w. bush and i'm listening to donald trump. you know what george w. bush said what all the pro-immigration crowds said had a great plan? he said people should pay their fines, put in their paperwork, go home. and those who were seen as someone we want to bring back will go through an expedited process. they call it a touchback. donald trump is saying he's using much different language. he's saying everybody's got to go home and all the good ones have to come back. if you look at what these folks are saying with be they are not that far off. take birth right citizenship out of it, they're not that far off. >> president bush never said deport them all en masse. >> the language is different. >> not only is the language different, matt, the fact of deporting 11 1/2 million people that have u.s. born children many of them, and that those kids would also be deported to another country, boy, is that different. >> i'm just saying george w. bush said the same thing in his bipartisan plan which was that everybody had to do a touchback. everybody had to go home,

. >> next, a look at communications in the george w. bush white house. a panel explored how the media landscape changed during his presidency and affected the administration's ability to control its message. we heard from former vermont governor and 2004 democratic presidential candidate howard dean, republican strategist ed rollins who was president reagan's campaign director and former white house correspondent julie mason who covered president bush. this is about an hour and a half. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i'm dean of the lawrence herbert school of communication here at hofstra, and it's my pleasure to welcome you to this morning's panel on white house communication in the george w. bush presidency. each of our panelists is going to open with a short statement of their own perspective on the topic, and we will then have discussion among the panelists and, finally, invite audience participation. and i just, i have a bit of bad news i have to give at the beginning here which if you've looked at the dais here, you notice that scott mcclellan

do you try to pursue an agreement, which the george w. bush administration tried to do and what the obama administration achieved, or do you take military action? the generals who look at this, military experts, made it clear that military action would only set back iran's nuclear program for three to four years at most. then you would have to go back and deal with it. sanctions have not been totally effective in slowing their expansion. the reality is we have had needed to reach some sort of agreement with them to constrain their program. that is the choice we have if we want to stop them. host: can you give us a snapshot of north korea and where their nuclear program is? guest: north korea had a research reactor throughout the 1970's, 1980's. by the early 1990's, it had produced a small amount of plutonium separate from the spent fuel.

. >> i watched george w. bush and his republican administration try to reverse everything that had been done. they did a really good job of it. they drove us into a ditch. and they did it because they continued to believe that the only way that anybody should be involved in the economy is to do exactly what you're told by the people on top. the big corporations and get out of the way of trickle down economics. it didn't work before. it can't work again. >> i believe i have the vision, the policies, the skill, the tenacity and determination to get us back on the right track. >> today, clinton is set to propose a new set of campaign finance reform measures. >>> republican candidate carly fiorina managing to attack hillary clinton and donald trump all at the same time. fiorina says she sometimes feels like the one candidate consistently going after clinton. she wonders why trump is not focusing more on the democratic frontrunner. >> mrs. clinton is the same person who compared republicans to terrorists. i wish m

george w. bush had a handful of advisors who wanted to invade iraq. what was saddam doing? sanctions and all that. the caller talking about the life of the iraqis under saddam. i never said it was great. no way. , to ourould say to that caller who is a veteran, i would say this. how many iraqis are dead because of our invasion in 2003? how many are done? .ay half a million let's just throw out a number. i feel very comfortable saying half a million. how many have left their country since our invasion? three and a half million. how many u.s. soldiers are dead and maimed for life? 4500 dead. the point is, what is worse? life under saddam -- and i work with iraqis. i was with iraqis everyday. , but ifd it was not fun you stayed out of trouble and did not stand on a street corner and go, down with saddam, if you do that you disappeared. but if you did not do that you just live your life. that changed when we invaded in 2003. host: let's bring in another iraq war vet. mike is calling in from bethesd

henry paulson, the secretary of ofssuring under george -- treasury under george w. bush, he held designed the early steps. he said the other day "it would be totally unrealistic to believe, if we walk back out of this deal, that the sanctions will remain in place. "thisl volcker said, agreement is as good as you can get. to think we can unilaterally maintain sanctions doesn't make any sense." we should pause for a minute to contemplate what voting down for agreement might mean iran's cadre of hardliners, for those people in iran who lead the chance of "death to america" and "death to israel" and even --ath to the honey death "death to rouhani." this agreementnt to fall apart are the most extreme factions in iran. there opposition should tell you all you need to know. from the very beginning, these thatmists have warranted dealing with the united states would be the worst thing of all time. why would we now take a step that would prove them right? let me be clear. reject in this agreement would not be sending a signal a resolve to iran. it would be rude -- it would b

david was a speech writer for george w. bush. david milliban was britain's is the president and ceo of the international rescue committee. irc deals with this refugee problems. describe the extent of the problem in europe. it's surely going to get worse now that germany, once you announce you'll take in all these people, the magnet affect must be large. >> last year was the world record for the number of people fleeing conflict and disaster. the european situation primarily caused by the syria crisis involves a moment about 400,000 people who have arrived in europe over the last seven or eight months. the majority of them from syria. i've been in the greek island that's receiving half of the refugees arriving in europe. frankly, it's an unspeakable scene because people say in a aleppo i'm already died and willing to do anything to get out. >> after the car crash of diane that there was an explosion of grief. everyone was supposed to be haif in a certain way and say a certain thing. anyone who spoke differently found themselves on