bush? guest: it was good in the beginning. i had an interview with him when he first announce and he liked me because i had given barbara bush a good review in the "new york times" for cash for her memoir which was really fun. barbara is very sort of highly and so it was fine at first, but then unfortunately, i think he went down a very bad path with the rock and came under the sway of the man-- i think i was the first to dub dick cheney darth vader, but then he began, himself that probably and now steve bannon calls himself that, so i think the relationship with all of the press corps got more tense as the kind of, you know, had fake news about the iraq war. host: maureen dowd, in november 2008, and this is in the book "the year of voting dangerously" . >> how can such a lovely house? >> all lot of my friends are hysterical the one of my girlfriends who moved to stanford cisco said i am having one glass of wine of the day now. to assure them to say don't worry.lot of we have had a lot of crazy president said modern history an

underneath here is still bush barrow man. they removed all the parts and gold and exciting bits of pieces, so yes, it is quite exciting to think that bush barrow man is still under oui’ that bush barrow man is still under our feet. stonehenge that bush barrow man is still under ourfeet. stonehenge over that bush barrow man is still under our feet. stonehenge over there, that bush barrow man is still under ourfeet. stonehenge over there, and you can see the tunnel will come underneath, it will come out in the field we see opposite us, where the scars are on the field. how big a role we took me about? massive. four carriageways. people are going to say that you just don't want this on your land. ijust think it is so important that enough consideration is given as to sensitively putting this road in the ireland. it has to be sensitive, not in front of bush barrow man. the high value of gold found in this barrow make it britain's richest bronze age burial. but there is another place close to the east end of the tunnel that expe

bush barrow is a burial symmetry amongst 40 others here. this is it, bush barrow. yes this is bush barrow, the key monument in this symmetry. underneath here is still bush barrow man? yes, they left him in there and took all the pots and gold and all the exciting bits and pieces so yes it is quite exciting to think that bush barrow man is still under our feet. where is the road going to go? stonehenge is over there, it will come in a tunnel south of stonehenge, so the tunnel underneath will come out in the field we see opposite is pretty scars are on the field. how big a road are we talking about? massive, four carriageways. how do you feel? very upset. how can and this fantastic landscape when i have put so much work into recreating the interplay with the monuments and then it is ok to go and put a road right through the landscape. people are going to say that you just don't want this on your land. i know a lot of people say that but ijust think it is so important that enough consideration is given as to sensitively putting this road and the environment. it has to

[applause] the extraordinary supporter over the year of the bush family of president bush, mr. brad friedman. [applause] one of our newer but remarkable trustees, mr. ben sutton. [applause] from the reagan family, michael and cameron. [applause] state assembly man. [applause] just a few more. our former congressman and his wife, janice. [applause] all of our elected officials from the county of ventura and the city of simi valley. [applause] president bush's secretary of the treasury. [applause] and lastly retired u.s. army officer, gary and his wife. [applause] i would be remiss if i didn't mention that gary became paralyzed from the waist down when a helicopter crashed while conducting operations in iraq in 2008, but thanks to the generosity of infinity or your foundation he can now walk through the assistance of an exoskeleton. [applause] if you would like to know what an exoskeleton is, gary will be at the reagan library tomorrow night for an event to share his story. we invite all of you to come back tomorrow at the same time for what i know will be a very inspirational ev

bush in 2008. let's watch. bush: i love the band. i'm going share with you by saying my farewell with something i have always wanted to do. i'm going to do it in the shared spirit of love we have for this country. [applause] host: george, what's the story behind it? guest: what happened was the head of the marine band, was in the oval office getting his commission. the president mentioned offhand i admire you direct. i've always wanted to direct it. the colonel being no dummy said we'll make that happen. third degree the whole marine band came in, set up in the east oom. the president went in for several rehearsals. the colonel was surprised the president has some musical sense and wasn't a complete disaster. hey pulled off the surprise. guest: we did because the white house told us the marine band always played people into the room. and played for the colors. and the president. they usually leave and get n. they were ready when the curtain opened. host: i want to ask each of you if there's a memorable moment. the 25 years you headed

guest: barbara bush is wonderful and i sent as a christmas present to the bushes a few years ago i sent soundtrack to the movie ""50 shades of grey" is a joke because bush has a wonderful sense of humor and barbara bush will be back thanking me and said i haven't read the book, i really don't think it's my kind of tea and as i say-- host: hillary clinton and milani had trump. guest: mrs. trump is lovely. i met her on a 99 campaign tramp with donald trump when they were dating and i think she has a very lovely reserved aura and i think if she doesn't want to come to washington everyone should leave her alone because it she is a wonderful mother and if that is her priority that's great and it's a super antiquated job anyway and people in washington are like who's going to do the easter egg cut. well, he to let you in on a secret, but the first lady is not in a room dying easter eggs and weaving baskets. are sure they can handle that without her. host: hillary clinton? guest: hillary is half my book, so you should get the book because i * covering her in 92, when she is chafing at the very

bush was elected as a compassionate conservative. school reform is the one issue where he is going to make that mark. on september 10, the day before september 11, they had a white house summit on education policy. the next day, he flies down to florida and is doing an event at a school in florida reading to students. that iconic picture of his eight whispering into his ear that america has been attacked. they remember that because of the attack on america. they don't remember it because he was trying to move education reform forward in a bipartisan way. that same day, laura bush was in the capital with ted kennedy. >> lyndon johnson remarkably had to first years. he had the first year of his presidency as an -- after the assassination of president kennedy and once he helped the country get through the sadness and the grief over that, he began moving forward very quickly and by that next summer, president kennedy was assassinated in november of 1963, by july of 1964, lyndon johnson had passed through the house and senate, the 19 64 c

president bush appears to have egg on his face. cheney,lked to dick former member of the house of representatives, someone with experience,ington two different branches of government, and this is what vice president cheney was pointing out to us. think of the people who were surrounding george h.w. bush. you had a retired general, colin powell, and dick cheney himself. he said, we had the 18 in foreign affairs, yet their first foreign affairs crisis was a coup in panama. said, while we were a great group of individuals with a lot of experience foreign policy and defense policy, we had not worked together as a team yet. that took some time for us to get going as a team. he said, we made some mistakes. >> we learned a lot as a team how to work and function. one problem you have with any new administration, even one as experienced as ours -- we were not amateurs -- it is hard. there is no training ground or senior civilian political leaders in an administration. team madew is if that mistakes, think how much harder it is for a preside

and they are not what president bush -- excuse me. i'm so sorry, president bush. i never thought i would pray for the day that you were president again. but -- >> praying for the day that president bush is president again. >> so you asked the question, how would i work with a republican president? the way we worked with president bush. we got a great deal accomplished. we opposed him on the war in iraq vociferously. we opposed him on privatization of social security. but we worked with him on many other issues. the biggest energy bill in the history of our country. a tax bill that helped low-income working families. what he wanted and we wanted to be big and we found our common ground. the list goes on and on. >> let me put one hypothetical out there. you have clearly opposed and will a pose the funding for the wall. >> yeah, yeah. >> no question. is there a possibility for a grand bargain on immigration, where democrats agree to support money for the president's wall, to support money for additional border security, more i.c.e. agents, and the president agrees to

bush was not funny at that dinner. when you were head of the association in 1994, a former president dies the night before. guest: it ended up the night before the dinner i get a call from the white house saying like to do a moment of silence. i had already planned that. to the dinner remarks looking back at what nixon had said to the dinner. nixon had talked several times about the importance of the dinner and press relations. so i added that. and president clinton and i spent much of the evening talking about how much he had relied on nixon for help on china policy and so on. but the president still did his humor routine. host: we have all been there inside the room, right before the dinner is about to happen, but you are the one making it all come together. what's going through your head and what's it like? give our audience a sense of the preparations the day and night of the dinner. guest: the day of the dinner we always open an office at the hotel. we have a rehearsal with our entertainer. since cell phones came

bush: and you, mark. i am absolutely delighted to be here. [laughter] mr. bush: as is laura. [laughter] she is hot. muy caliente1 [laughter] host: another lyndon carver special. how did steve bridges pull that out -- how did steve bridges pull that off? the white house is booked a room up in the hotel. steve bridges is just another guest walking into the hotel earlier that morning. in thatup was put on up room, and they brought him down right before he walked on stage and a freight of valor -- any freight elevator. host: you had no idea? guest: this was the dinner that stephen colbert was at. the next day, they were talking about his performance than the president. tremendouse was a divide between the reaction in the room of the 2600 people and the people watching on c-span or on cable channels. part of it is, bob hope first talked about this at the 1945 dinner. before people in the room would laugh at his jokes, they looked to president roosevelt. it is just a natural thing. he is the guest of honor. the president of the united states -- you are aware of his reaction. that n

bush barrow is the key monument in this cemetery. under here is still bush barrow man. they took all the pots and the gold and the exciting bits and pieces so yes, it's quite exciting to think that a bush barrow man is still under our feet. where does the road go? stonehenge over there, it will come ina tunnel stonehenge over there, it will come in a tunnel south of stonehenge, tunnel underneath, it will come out the tunnel in the field we see opposite where the scars are on the field. how big a road are we talking about? massive, four carriageways. people will say you just don't want this on your land. i think it's important enough consideration is given to sensibly putting this road and the environment. it's got to be sensitive, not in front of bush barrow man. the high value of gold found here make it britain's registered bronze age burial. —— richest. but another close to the east end of the tunnel has experts worried will also be damaged. until recently this area of woodland two miles from stonehenge had largely been ignored by archaeologists. its true signific

bush in 2008 third let's watch. mr. bush: i love the band. i will save my farewell to you by doing something i have always wanted to do. of the in the spirit shared love for our country. [applause] ♪ [laughter] [applause] steve: what the story behind this? george: the head of the marine band was in the oval office getting his commission, being congratulated on being named the full colonel. the president mentioned i admire you. i have always wanted to direct this. the colonel said, we will make that happen. the president initially wanted to do gridiron, the colonel thought it would be more effective. they had the whole marine band come in and set up in the east room. the president when and for several personals. the colonel was quite pleasantly surprised that the president had some musical sense and was not a complete disaster at directing. he really enjoyed it. he was serious about it. they pulled off the surprise. the marine band told us, the white house told us. the marine band always plays people into the room. they play for the colors i

with the same time to claim president bush was illegitimate could nominate a conservative judge. doesn't that sound familiar? but it deserves discussion and serves as a reminder rica 74 because sometimes the past predicts the future. to according to "new york times" 42 of the senate 50 democrats attended a private retreat for the principal topic was forging a unified party strategy to combat the white house on judicial nominees this that soundil familiar and the speaking at the rate we retreat so that idea how the crusade would proceed if it is important for the senate to change the ground rules no obligation to confirm someone because schol they're scully in error date. what's think about that. wife do they need to change the ground rules to confirm dredges? that this because up to thatmajority point you heard the majority leader just speak to that point. after kahane 200 years but less after the caucus retreat that gave the majority to the democratsat over the next 18 months and they lost the election of 2002 and spring 2003 republicans were back in the majority. now back in th

petraeus: president bush. he said when are you going to have the guts to write a mountain bike with me. give you anld experience that you would write off on your income taxes education. ♪ david: while you were in afghanistan, the attempt to capture osama bin laden was going forward. capture or kill. how were you alerted to that, because you are not directly in the chain of command for that decision that night. gen. petraeus: no one else in our headquarters knew at all. i got up myself, no aides. we had a joint operations command post at the nato headquarters in kabul where i was located. i surprise them at 11:00 at night, said what are you doing in here. i asked everyone to leave except one officer who i knew very well. we dialed up so we could monitor the operation. we had a lot of contingency plans. the forces that conducted it, some at least, was working for me in normal times. but that time they were working for the cia. it was a covert action, which means the chain of command runs from the president to

bush was no example. this was a page from his, it's called the bush diary. he started keeping at november -- november 4, 1986, the day after the iran-contra became known. he would dictate onto a tape and a secretary would transcribe it. the very second day of his notes , they came out through the end that council, who eventually recovered the notes and diaries of weinberger and george schultz -- schultz's aid, all of whom claimed they never kept any notes. november 5, this is bush's diary. there is some discussion of bud mcfarlane having being held prisoner in a ron for classroom days. -- in iran for four days. i am one of the few people that know the details, and there is a lot of flak and misinformation out there. it is not a subject we can talk about. weinberger also has notes that show that bush was very must and all -- very much involved. i would love to try to read some of this -- let's see. i think i won't read it, is a lot of fantastic material out there. this case i am thinking of, there are conversations between schultz and bush, meetings and talki

a piece of paper and have bush smiles it was the word killed. laugh laugh adjust relaxed tim. like a secret to ambush. but sometimes the advisers just have to use those techniques. >> but the collision between the bushes and the clintons they both have the same donors if you look through the list, and major donors. identical. and they say don't worry about donald trump. because there is a silver bullet out there. and don't determine if is the brutish secret service file with that "access hollywood" file and when but and then to begin looking for the silver bullet. and i was a part of the presidential campaign and it was something to behold. pdf been fear this crazy have much to spend opposition research. so finally is they get closer and jeb bush's people won a particular approach is the clinton people what was that you were trying to tell us? and the clinton campaign says no way if you cannot find it. then we will face in the general election and as you well know and of busch family looks -- believes in a certain nobility but an with lee atwate

bush had just been elected president. as we know -- we all know in fact -- it was a close election and it was heartedly fought. the senate was closely divided with the republicans in control. given how close the presidential election was, there were elements of the hard left who refused to accept the results of that election, some blamed ralph nader, others blamed governor jeb bush, and still others blamed the supreme court. many on the hard left claimed that president george w. bush wasn't, quote, unquote, a legitimate president. liberal interest groups were egging on the democratic leadership to fight the new president at every turn. now, that still sounds very familiar for this year that we're in. at the same time one major concern for the hard left liberal interest groups was that president bush, whom they claimed wasn't legitimate, would be able to nominate conservative judges. again, doesn't that sound familiar? senator cornyn went over some of this same subject yesterday, but it deserves discussion now and it deser

bush: welcome to the white house. laura and i are so glad that you came this year, especially given what happened last year. it rained. but today, we have beautiful weather. and we hope you have a great time here at the traditional easter egg roll. i want to thank my members of the cabinet and my family -- and they are -- and their family members who are here. i want to thank the children's book authors who are here. we hope you listen to those who read books to you. we want to encourage you to read a lot. as a matter of fact, we think it is more important that you read more than you watch tv. [applause] pres. bush: i want to thank the entertainers who are here. and i of course want to thank the easter bunny. we do want to thank all of the embassies that are highlighting their spring traditions. i want to thank the volunteers who have worked so hard to make this a successful easter egg role. -- roll. you know, one of the things that children say to me all the time, they say, you know, i want to come see your home, mr.

bush is in the hospital but gaining strength. he has pneumonia again. he was taken to the hospital on friday for what started as a persistent cough. they are adding it is a mild case. but a couple of months ago the senior bush was in the hospital for the same illness. michelle: president trump

the first one is in the george bush -- first george bush library, and it is called the goal for theater. far, the only example, so in the presidential libraries what people call an immersive exhibit. the visitor walks into the one of thesen crates that you see in the foreground of the graph -- foreground of the photograph, and mrs. dash listens to the voices of soldiers who fought in .he war being played sort of like a collage of these voices talking about their experiences. when you cannot see in the photograph is that the lights shift while you are sitting .here listening the space in the center of the photograph that looks like it may -- looks like it may be a whole is actually a screen. screen shows images from the war, but very close up and somewhat abstracted images. you are not looking at tv footage of the gulf war, you are really looking at you vocative imagery. evocative imagery taken from the news footage. so, this exhibit really ,ncourages the visitor to stay , and toput for a while experience in a number of different sensory and physical ways what it might have been like to

bush in 2008. let's watch. >> i love the band. i'm going to say my farewell to you. and i do it in the spirit of our shared love for this country. [laughter] [cheers and applause] ♪ host: what's the story behind this? >> what happened is colonel mike coburn, the head of the marine band was in the oval office getting his commission, congratulated on being the full colonel and the president said i admire you. i always want to direct it. colonel coburn said we'll make that happen. and the president wanted to do a gridiron and the colonel thought it would be more effective at the correspondents' dinner. they set up in the east room and the president went in for several rehearsals and the colonel was quite pleasantly surprised that the president had musical sense and wasn't a complete disaster and enjoyed it and was serious about it and pulled off the surprise. host: you knew about it? >> the white house told us that the marine band always plays when people enter the room and play it for the colors and the president and curtains close and get on the bus. this time, we h

bush was at the dinner. in 1994, a president died the night before. the dinner ibefore got a call from the white house and i said we would like to do a moment of silence. iparty plan that. dinner remarks about looking back at what nixon had said at the dinner. he had talked several times about the importance of the press relations. president clinton and i spent much of the evening talking about how much he relied on nixon for help in china policy. but the president did his humor routine. host: we have been in there right before the dinner is making it come together. what's it like. what are the preparations the day and the night of the dinner? >> the day of the dinner we open an office at the hotel. we have a rehearsal with our entertainer. we used to since cell phones came out they didn't want to put their material out there in the ballroom with anyone else who wanders in. so most of the material has been a surprise to us and surprise to the audience. but a lot of the work is done coordinating with the secret service, ticketing, people lose a ticket,

bush, 12 for bill clinton. and president trump is signed 28 laws compared to 14 for obama. 7 for bush, 22 for clinton. that about stacks it up for us on th on the01 hyundai thing -- 100 day thing. we'll find out when treasury secretary mnuchin said that administration is focusing on three major priorities. >> middle income tax cut, a priority of the president's. simplification. the average american should be able to do their taxes on a large post card. business tax reform, we need to makings taxes competitive, and we're expecting with doing that we'll bring back trillions of dollars from offshore. lou: sounds like a plan, but not good enough yet. joining me to discuss the busy week ahead for this president and congress, mollie heming way, and michael goodwin. mollie, i can only imagine your, excitement at 11in at learning more about tax reform plan. >> i am really excited. it is a big reason why our economy has been sluggish for obama's 8 year term. this is a big part of the trump agenda to get the economy movi

bush hospitalized again. a spokesperson for the president said he was admitted to houston methodist hospital due to a persistent cough that prevented him from getting proper rest. a mild case of pneumonia. bush is over the pneumonia that is now being held for observation. george h.w. bush 92 years old. he was hospitalized for 16 days back in january with pneumonia. lea: let's get you caught up in the global market action over an ip been making japan higher fractionally. hang seng in hong kong were there for 10 to 1% pay shanghai composite powered by a 10th of 1% in the coffee lover by by half of 1%. lauren: the ftse in london is now higher, just fractionally in jeopardy of wiping out its gains for the year. today there's a vote in parliament for lawmakers decide if they want to have the snap elections. if they go to have been, that would give prime minister teresa made more negotiating power in the british exits and the european union. the other markets, cac in paris at 16-point dxf 40. lea: weaker than expec

general petraeus: president bush. he could talk trash. he said general, when are you going to have the guts to ride a mountain bike with me. i said i could give you an experience that you would write off on your income tax as education. ♪ [laughter] ♪ david: while you were in afghanistan, how are you alerted to that because you weren't directly in the chain of command. general petraeus: that night, no one else in the headquarters new. we had a joint special operations command post at the nato headquarters in kabul where i was located. i went in and surprise them at 11 or so at night. i asked everybody to leave except one officer, who i knew dialed up sod we we could monitor the operation. we had a lot of contingency plans. the forces conducted in some of me inwas working for normal times, but that night they were working for actually -- ita because the cia was a covert action. david: did you subsequently know that the pakistan military or secret service or intelligence forces new that osama bin laden was living there you go -- there?

general petraeus: president bush. he could talk trash. he said general, when are you going to have the guts to ride a mountain bike with me. i said i could give you an experience that you would write off on your income tax as education. [laughter] ♪ ways wins. especially in my business. with slow internet from the phone company, you can't keep up. you're stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. switch to comcast business. with high-speed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. you wouldn't pick a slow race car. then why settle for slow internet? comcast business. built for speed. built for business. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call today. comcast business. built for busines

bush did when president obama became president. let him have those early months to step out of the way but he reserved the right to jump in. i'm surprised he jumped in this early. i do think the wiretapping comments may have played into this to some degree. i think the blame to some of the democrats on president obama for the state of their democratic party right now also may be prompting him a little bit earlier back into the limelight. >> do you think he's out early? >> i think he's doing what's smart. he's doing what george w. bush did, stay off the president's radar. >> fast forward eight years, do you expect president trump to do the same thing? >> no. >> i said it w a smart move. i don't think that would be obama's instinct to get off the radar. the best job in the world is being an expresident as i'm sure president obama is discovering. i think it's the right tone and approach. he's tapping into what was relevant about president obama was his coal ligs and the millennials who didn't show up. with progressives and democrats h

general petraeus: president bush. he could talk trash. he said general, when are you going to have the guts to ride a mountain bike with me. i said i could give you an experience that you would write off on your income tax as education. [laughter] ♪ haidi: it is 7:30 a.m. in hong kong, 9:30 in sydney. mike pence has a knowledge the trump administration's tax plan way widen -- may widen the deficit. he also floated a much longer tax tables replace obamacare than trump had envisioned, but hopes it could be done by the end of the year. repealing obamacare has been on the 100 day to do list, but it ended on saturday. european union will present a united front against brexit taking less than a minute to agree to a start in brussels. they met without the u.k. and are determined to stick together to dissuade other nations from leaving the block. donald tusk reiterated trade talks will not begin until he calls sufficient progress has been made. mediak. has brone social for hateful content, some wanting it made a crime. the home affairs committe

bush presidency. that means president trump will be able to get his supreme court justices confirmed with a majority vote but that also means the next democrat president will also get his or with ainees confirmed majority vote. question] rnible >> that was the status quo. >> do worry you will regret using the nuclear option for the supreme court justice to say we really wish we had not done that much more >> i do not think any of us are going to regret anything. all of a sudden been in a position of assuming that only democrats filibuster judges and after 200 years, until we got to 2001 into the chuck schumer speech and ideology playing a big role for the first time, that is what really upset the apple cart. we had bart, thomas were controversial. we had senator hatch's in 1993, we had to get back to normal. what is dr. to get the senate back to normal with the nomination and approval with the nominations of ginsburg and breyer. then all of a sudden schumer poisons the well. and when you have a poison

bush's comments. they want technically audits of major donors but the word delivered [inaudible] missing filings that was institute by the commission some years ago. then, which was stopped by the commission staff and it did turn up a lot of very interesting findings and data that resulted in headlines and ultimately criminal conviction that was mentioned. so i'm definitely-a side issue from auditing major donors were there independent expenditure versions the independent manager committees, but it still another important thing for the commission to do. thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you commissioners but i think one of you raise an important point. in 2005 there was a ballot measure prop c would given the ethics commission independent counsel independent budget authority. >> [inaudible] besides counsel? >> budgetary authority. is that of having to rely on the mayor. we took out in prop c in it failed. it was terrible when into the committee and said we want to get some more funding for ethics to get

he didn't beat around the bush. basically he feels strongly that more people smoking more marijuana or doing any kind of drugs is unhealthy for the country and wants to make sure that will be a constant refrain when he speaks whrgs he talks, very concerned about a tendency toward more drug consumption. but he certainly listened. we haven't seen a big spike in consumption. we haven't seen the increase in teenage consumption or any of these things. and he was directed, he said they have a lot of priorities. at one point he said, well, you haven't seen us cracking down, have you? no. >> so what does that mean? >> i interpreted that that he has his hands full with heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine, other things even more significant. but it doesn't mean that he feels he should be cutting any slack to marijuana. he is very clear. he is anti-drugs in all forms and he won't encourage anyone to start a marijuana business, to think it is a great idea or even safe to do it. he didn't give me any reason to think he would come

david: you briefed bush president 43 and many times, president obama. what is the difference between the two on briefing them? gen. petraeus: the bush 403i briefed significantly on a weekly basis together with my great diplomatic partner, we had a weekly video teleconference for an hour every monday morning at 7:30 eastern standard time. around the situation room, a videoconferencing directly with us. he had gone all in on the search. he put it all on the line. he had frankly, overridden the advice of his advisers. few people were behind the surge. was onel keen -- keane of those. he was intimately involved in this. the next day he did a video conference with the prime minister of iraq each week. it was a different circumstance. we were not doing the surge in iraq anymore. by the time president obama arrived, iraq was in a good place. the question was, how quickly can we draw down without jeopardizing what we fought and sacrificed so hard to achieve. president obama famously does his homework, studies it, deliberated. the afghan policy review that was c

bush and also an author and we welcome you back to the table. first question for you is about this whole 100 days thing, this mark everybody has been talking about this week. how important are the first 100 days of a presidency? tevi: there was a good piece in the washington journal, charles tessler, a former professor of mine, he spoke about the 100 day thing is not that big of a deal because most presidents haven't done anything in the first 100 days other than getting the cabinet started and roosevelt passed a lot of legislation and was anomalous. but really when the media and the country and the rest of washington takes their assessment of a president and they say it's very hard to make a good second impression or you have to make that good first impression. so the first impression of how a president is going to govern is established in those 100 days. host: you come at it from a interesting perspective because you're a presidential historian but high level cabinet figure. what's it like to get this whole thing started and the administration

in the bush years. in the bush years, there was much more of a lockstep approach on the hill on tax cuts for republicans. they got a lot done by being unified. i think what we're seeing right now with trump in congress is a product of all the divisions that they have written about and reported on in the last year or two. the fact that trump is a different kind of president with a different agenda, the hill and republicans have a different agenda, and it's not as difficult as it looks. we're seeing the policy and substance on display and the difficulty in moving things, as well as the basic problem that the trump guys came into office not being quite prepared to win. >> nick, rick tyler, and michael on this friday afternoon. a big thanks to all of you for joining me. again, we are just moments away from president trump's address here in atlanta, georgia. 80,000 have gathered to hear the president address the national rifle association. that brings us to our microsoft polls question unrelated to what we'v

bush is back in the hospital. he was re-admitted to a houston hospital friday, because of a cough that prevented him from sleeping. a spokesman says the cough turned out to be pneumonia, which has been treated and resolved. he says mr. bush will remain in the hospital for observation, while he regains his strength. a source tells c-n-n, the family didn't announce the hospital stay sooner, because they didn't want to worry anyone over easter weekend. the super bowl champion new england patriots will visit the white house today. and they're doing so minus a few of their own. as we told you earlier this week, six players have announced they'll skip out today's visit in boycott of president trump. among them, running back le-garret blount, tight end martellus bennett. still the vast majority of the team will be attending. the pats are the first professional sports team to visit the white house during the trump administration. at xx time for weather. toss to eileen - cloudy & cool today - warm & humid tomorrow - cooler

bush, and obama administrations. that should get under way in about 10 minutes. here onthat live c-span. until then, a look at a proposal that would link student debt to public service from today's "washington journal" and we will show you as much as we can until the event with the attorney general gets underway. your money segment on washington journal and this week we feature reporting done by jillian berman, who covers in part, the student loan industry and particularly issues concerning student loan forgiveness to those who work in the public sector. good morning. guest: thanks for having me. host: public service loan forgiveness. for those who may not be familiar, what is it? guest: a program signed into law by george w. bush in 2007 which allows borrowers in public service to say you work for the government or for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, you are a teacher, things like that, to have loans forgiven after 10 years if they make payments for the entire 10 years. host: if they make the payments all the debt they have accumulated aside from that gets forgiven? gues

bush and 12 for bill clinton. he has also signed 20 laws, compared to 14 for obama, 7 for bush, and clinton's 22. >> no administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days. >> unlike his recent predecessors, the president has no legislative accomplished 2.2. >> it's been a troubled first 100 days, not because he hasn't done anything. he's done a lot. this is not been a do-nothing presidency but he's done almost all of it through executive order. >> and his first 100 days, president obama completed a massive stimulus package and assigned to the fair pay act. president bush made headway on this tax cut. bill clinton made good on a campaign promise, signing the family and medical leave act. president trump's promise to repeal and replace obamacare has gone nowhere, blocked not by democrats but members of his own party. >> the hallmark of a successful presidency is always to get permanent legislation through congress. you really want to put your mark on the statute books of the country. >> it often takes longer

bush recalled for a trip to the moon. >> that eds inflows. it is very disappointing as a visionary to land on the nearest body have a century after we have the back but that is a good place to live and learn how to work in space that is a good place to be self-sufficient because you can use the lunar soil fattest is sterile you can turn the water into rocket fuel oxygen or plans everyone to live beyond the earth the moon is the best place to do a. and as a staging post for the rest of the solar system. >> given your book where would you like to see us go? >> it would be more ambitious it plum negative a vicious and the moons of jupiter or saturn that well could be the next place where rica find a life beyond the earth with the daughter moon said the solar system that is a more expensive proposition to go out there multi-year. >> host: is there life in your view beyond earth? >> that includes a few hundred billion stars in our galaxy i cannot say for sure but i am almost certain that it has shown us tens of billions of planets have habitable s

bush library, the gulf war. two questions. the first question is -- the change that was brought about in the nixon library concerning watergate, did that come about because of activities outside that people who had been inside with open protests being shown, in fact that it was really not , showing some balance version of what was going on inside during that time? second question is -- concerning the relationship of the united statess president -- of the --ted states presidents basically they became the president of the matter world. united states became the dominant power. how do you think these libraries show the u.s. role in the world? you talked a bit about the johnson library. how did it show vietnam? or the kennedy library, or nixon? is any opportunity afforded in these libraries, not only to the u.s. citizens but people from the outside. countries on which the united states had impact to talk about the experiences concerning presidents from an american standpoint. thank you very much. ms. kanter: remind me of the first