george w. bush was not funny at that dinner. when you are ahead of the association of former president dies in it before. >> the night before the dinner i get a call from the white house say, we would like to do a moment of silence. i had already planned that. i also added to the dinner remarks looking back at what nixon said to the dinner. he had talked several times about the importance of the dinner and press relations. so i added that. president clinton and i spent much of the evening talking about how much he had relied on the for help on china policy and so on. but the president still did his humor routine. >> we have all been there inside the room before the dinner is about to happen. you are the one making it come together. what is going through your head? give our audience a sense of the preparations the day and the night of the dinner. >> the day of the dinner we all are in the office at the hotel, we have a rehearsal with our entertained, we used too. until cell phones came out they do not want to put their material o

in 2001 under george w. bush, boardschumer and the invented the filibuster. now today, the filibuster of the united states supreme court justices largely the invention of chuck schumer and the far left and sadly they are doing sunny context of a judge everyone agrees is incredibly qualified and so if senate democrats insist on the filibuster it will force the senate to return to the roles that have been a place for two centuries, wch

i worked in the george w. bush white house. at thehe senior director national security council, responsible for the middle east. i noticed certain ideas were welling up in the administration about the place of the arab-israeli conflict and our overall strategy in the middle east. that the palestine question, the israel question is the central issue. this is a recurring theme in our , that arabs policy and muslims are reacting to the united states according to what we do toward the arab-israeli convict -- arab-israeli conflict. this was welling up in the george w. bush white house. there were significant personalities who believed to this, and i had the exact opposite view. i started wondering, this keeps recurring. i knew something of the history. i've been a professor before. i thought, i'm going to go back to the beginning and look at it. i started doing some deep research after i got out of the white house on the eisenhower period, and i got fascinated with eisenhower and the way his views on this issue changed. brian: how d

george w. 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. and i also added 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. we use

george w. 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

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? guest: exactly. it is tax-free which is different from other programs. in other cases there is a tax consequence. host: who qualifies as far as what type of public service? guest: a little bit of controversy surrounding meant now. what's pretty clear is if you work for the government at any federal,ate, local, you qualify. if you work for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit you qualify. what is murkier is if you are a public servant working for a different kind of nonprofit, a 501(c) four or 501(c) six. it is being determined as to whether you fit into the program. host: why is that? guest: some of those other nonprofits, the different designations -- political acti

george w. 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. of his eighticture 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. while the president was in the school, laura kennedy and ted laura bush and ted kennedy were working on this legislation. that's what they were trying to a cop bush and sure enough, in the 11th month of that administration, they were able to pass that these of legislation & it into law. that's a great example of a president reaching across party lines no way from the first weeks in office this is something he wanted to do even in a moment of crisis, sticking with it while they were planning to war

bush wanted to appoint and by the way, i did not vote for president george w. bush. i want that to be clear. and senator chuck schumer came up with the 60 vote threshold. president obama wanted to flood the lower courts with liberal judges in 201. 3. we had a problem because of the 60 votes thing. that is what harry reid with nuclear to make it -- went nuclear to make it 51. that is just to give everybody a little bit of enlightenment at how we got to this pretty poor deal with the senate. host: thanks. thank you for adding your voice to the conversation. some of your tweets. send us your comments. we will read them. this morning, from page of the "washington times" focusing on taking on history and hypocrites. looking at the gorsuch nomination. a sidebar story. they write the following. "back in 2013, harry reid triggered the nuclear option. republicans who pondered the nuclear option a decade ago and opposed it in 2013 are now pushing it." the story this morning from "the washington times." from lincoln, nebraska, christine his next on the democrats line. your take

washington to george w. bush. republicans demanded cloture votes 79 times over five years. in contrast from the founding fathers all the way through george w. bush, the senate only faced that situation 68 times. republicans obstructed obama nominees more in five years than the senate obstructed all nominees combined in two centuries. after a nominee would break through, republicans often would vet overwhelmingly to confirm the very nominee they adamantly delayed. tches clear the sole -- it was clear the sole guiding principle was obstruction and delay. obama nominees had the longest wait time. president obama tied with president clinton for tt fewest number of circuit court nominees confirmed during that same period. all that time, judicial vacancies stacked up, critical public service roles went unfilled and the american public regarded congress as a place where nothing of substance could occur. it was under those dire and unprecedented circumstances that i reluctantly changed the rules, very consciously ex

george w. bush enjoyed going to the dinner although he hated how long they were. it cut into things he wanted to watch, like baseball games. he wished it was shorter. president clinton hated his first few, really enjoyed the last couple. steve: tell the story about monaco lewinsky -- monica linsky. in 1999, one of the awards that we gave was to michael lasso called. it was for a very controversial article regarding resident clinton. they knew how the program was going to go. the white house told us the president would be arriving late that night. they did not come right out and say it. everybody knew that's what it was. so, they were not at the head table when dinner started to be served. i had moved people over so they were not on an island eating alone. said, we havevice a departure. i said, where? the president is at the sheraton. i said, we did not expect that. i quickly got the maitre d'and said move these people over. i had to go out and meet them when they arrived. room, hail to the the chief. i looked down at mike mccurry who was the press secretary. i sai

secretary, sean spicer played the lovable rabbit when he was an aide for george w. bush. >> of course, i want to thank the easter bunny. >> today and tomorrow, let the good times, or in this case, the easter eggs roll. happy easter. >> happy easter, thanks for watching. fareed zakaria is next. and their families in the developing world. we can be the generation remembered for ending the global water crisis once and for all. ♪ thithis is the new new york.e? think again. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov

george w. bush 56% and president clinton 52%. that poll by the way has an overall margin of error plus or minus 3.3%. time now 10:07. a little chilly. as you plan your weekend hollywood is remembering erin mon. stayra w for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ ♪ sunday, monday ♪ happy days ♪ tuesday, wednesday ♪ happy days ♪ thursday, friday ♪ happy days. >> the actress who so many folks grew up watching, on "happy days," erin moran passed away, found dead yesterday afternoon in her home after receiving a 9-1-1 call. she played the role of joanie cunningham. this morning we're hearing from actress who played their mother. >> i always thought of her as being so quick, talented, fa

labor.y like cheap george w. bush left our borders wide open in order for illegals come in, they got a great plan going, republicans, give give eaks to the rich, them more and more and more. we are being had. melissa, dawn, , clearwater, florida, independent. good morning. is er: good morning, this don, how are you doing? host: doing fine. hat is on your -- you are on the air, what is on your mind? caller: okay. basically i don't think there ever be able to insure all people in this country without throwing money at it. if you go for coverage of everybody, you are going to have taxes t raising tremendously to pay for it. i don't wear what they do. are ally i don't think we going to be able to afford it unless people realize you may sales tax as you have in canada, an awful lot of never be insured. basically if you go oyou have other problems, we're going to up, somebody have to rebuild syria. of course the russians did most syrian ombing and government and of course who do you think will end up paying for it? put

so i watched george w. bush recognize the reality that he was the leader of the free world and i'm reminded that even other great leaders in the world depend on the united states leading the world. so they look to the president of the united states to provide, i'm going to say, a conscience for how they behave and what they do. i think donald trump is coming to recognize that. that's why he's looking a little bit more presidential on the world stage today than he looked on the day that he took the oath of office. that doesn't mean that he is completely enamored with what he has to do, but the reality of the job is that he has to do some things that he didn't think he was going to have to do and he'll have to do things in a different way than he might have thought he would do them because he's not a dictator. he has to lead by governing and inspiring and motivating and make sure he leads with responsibility because so many other players in the world may be irresponsible if he shows the irresponsible behavior

joining us now, brad blakeman, former adviser to george w. bush. what the impact of the 15% corporate tax rate e.? >> it would unleash the power of our corporations to hire and build and five. this is very positive news. we seeded in anticipation of the marketplace. so they are just waiting. not only that, but if we can repeat your money offshore in this country trillions of dollars and reduce the individual corporate greed, our economy will take off. nicole: it could add to the federal deficit and that is something everyone is concerned about. how much does the deficit matter at this point? >> it matters a lot in getting this bill through congress. it is a two-step approach. one is pending and the other is to reduce taxes and give velocity of money back into the marketplace. our economy does well when it exchanges money between individuals, not what we said money to the government. lauren: we are expecting 1.1% growth. if you really want to spur the economy with these tax cuts, you need 5% growth. can we get there for 1%? >> yeah, sure. especially

george w bush did it, a more humble policy. obama, pivot a bit towards asia but he won't be running around the world saving lives. was a car classic example. it took horrible pictures of ethnic cleansing across—the—board in kosovo for him to get involved in the balkans. every american president says they won't get involved globally but they end up having to do it. the difficulty is they look round and quite properly think that's what happening in the world of horrors, and america is ultimately more powerful than anyone else. all of us wish these atrocities were not happening and we wish there were magic solutions to stop them happening. america's record is pretty poor at getting it right, as we've seen in libya, iraq, afghanistan. none of those countries are ina afghanistan. none of those countries are in a good situation now. the problem is, our intentions, and any american president's good intentions very rarely end up with good solutions on the ground, because the world is complicated and there are tensions we don't unde

washington to george w. bush. and in numerical terms, the publicans demanded cloture vote 72 times over five years. in contrast, from the founding fathers all the way through george w. bush, the senate only face that situation 68 times. republicans obstructed obama nominees five years in the united states senate obstructed all nominees combined over the course of more than two centuries. the bitter irony of course is that after a nominee break through, republicans often would vote overwhelmingly to confirm the very nominee they so adamantly delayed. it was clear the soul guiding principle was obstruction and delay. judges nominated by president obama faced some of the longest median and average wait times under the five most recent presidencies and president obama tied with president clinton for the fewest number of circuit court nominees confirmed during that same period. all that time, judicial stacked up, justice was delayed and denied, critical public service roles went unfilled and the congress is a pla

bush's tax reform idea. president george w. bush got absolutely nowhere on tax reform. but he did get that giant tax cut in his first year as president because tax cuts are easy. everyone wants to vote for a tax cut. ronald reagan was genuinely concerned with the fairness of the tax code. now his interpretation of fairness was different from some democrats' terms of fairness. but reagan did believe in fairness. and here is one of the ways he proved it. >> there is one group of losers in our tax plan, those individuals and corporations who are not paying their fair share, or for that matter, any share. these abuses cannot be tolerated. from now on, they shall pay a minimum tax. the free rides are over. >> and the only way that president reagan and the congress could end those free rides was to actually on this provision make the tax code more complicated. they introduced the alternative minimum tax to prevent people like donald trump from paying no taxes. and we saw how that worked on the pages of donald trump's tax returns that were revealed by david cay johnston on rac

this is a holy concocted method the democrats started back when george w. bush was president to deny a republican president an opportunity to nominate the person of his choice, confirmed by a majority vote in the senate. before 2000, before senator schumer and a number of liberal legal actors decided they wanted to raise the threshold for confirmation to 60 votes instead of what the constitution requires which is a majority vote, no one would have ever dreamed that the constitution would have allowed for a 60 vote requirement rather than an up or down vote. it is not that our friends across the aisle truly oppose judge gorsuch. the fact is, they oppose president trump. that is what this is all about. this vote isn't about president trump. it is about the man we have all learned so much about, judge pro gorsuch who has a record of faithfully interpreting the law, a man who has proven himself to possess an independent judicial mind, who follows the law wherever it may lead, and someone who has one bipartisan approval.se this vote is about delivering on a prom

president george w. 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

our topic for today is presidential libraries, curating george w. bush. kanter is a professor of the inner. colombian arts and sciences at george washington university. she has done a number of production at washington theaters. her focus was on strengthening communities through performance. workshops,ated events and productions in a wide variety of settings, including the inner, hospices, prisons, galleries, schools and other public spaces. her previous books, rebuilding community through writing explores how communities use performance to respond to shared experiences of grief. s articles have appeared in text, theater annual, cultural studies desk sorry that is a big word, methodology and several other books. englisholds a ba in literature from harvard university. and a phd in performance study from northwestern university. she is a trained facilitator of the gusto balls dealer of the oppressed. -- theater of the oppressed. teaching,ards for her creative work and service. pre--- please join me in welcoming jodi kanter to the national archives. [applaus

the george w. bush administration took north korea off the terrorist list. if you put them back on. kim jong-un says that's an act of war. reporter: there is no way to gain it out and predict what he's going to do next. so the best thing to do is strategize really focusing on deterrents. which is what the burke administration, the obama administration and trump administration is trying to do. eric: do you think he's gotten that message that he did not test a nuclear weapon because of the syrian missile strike? >> to a degree probably. i think that's part of it. this administration is keeping military action have much on the table, according to senator mccain and president trump. and that's smart. whether we end up using it in the north is a separate issue. but making sure they feel the threat of it is something that's very important. >> perhaps with that military option on the table diplomacy can start working. >> reporter: the trump administration unveiling a sweeping tax reform. and slashing the corporate rate. president trump talking about his plan at the rally in pennsylvania. >

the beginning of the term george w. bush essentially said i know i didn't win the popular vote. i became president because of the supreme court ruling and therefore it's even more incumbent than usual on me to be president of all of the people. he tried to do that. and the one thing we haven't talked about yet is presidential leadership. donald trump for reasons of his own from the beginning gave a divisive inaugural address, played from his base from the start of this 100 days. and the result of this has been that his poll ratings are about 40%, a little higher. less than he got on election day. and i think if he's made one decision that has not been great for him, it was that. because he's tried to go to congress and get members of congress to vote for bills that may cause them problems in their states and districts and they will say essentially you've got 40%, i am not afraid of you. if he had made more of an effort to bring the country together, it would have not only be the right thing to do but also i think he would have been politically a lot stronger. >> is it too late t

george w. bush wrestled with china's seizure of u.s. spy plane president obama authorized the rescue of richard phillips from somali pirates. president trump was criticized as having no depth on foreign policy but his handling of the missile strike on syria, the mother of all bombs in afghanistan, and the looming threat from north korea may provide a reagan-esque tipping point for the president. >> the world has a way of grasping your attention, and to the extent to which he can continue to seem to be acting decisively with respect to international challenges, that will put some wind in his sales and will earn him respect from the american people and even some democrats. >> the president has a narrow chance for a legislative victory before his 100th day. republicans are nearing agreements on health care and puzzle but i'm told it's very, very unlikely it could come to a vote this week. the president wants to avoid a government shutdown that would come on his 100th day, working hard to cut a deal with democrats on a spending bill. >> bre

george w. bush didn't go as far but he it in two trips before the end of the first 100 days and trump has not made any trips abroad. zero. it is obviously hard to build alliances without visiting allies or only talking to them when they come to washington. and if you think about it, it's also pretty reactive, right? should we be paying more attention to the country that's just happen to want to send their leaders here more often? in the past, republican presidents used the trips to build good will. >> i want you to know that we consider you a friend of mexico. a friend of mexican people and a friend of mine. >> so far mexico's president and donald trump by contrast haven't even agreed on where they would hold a meeting. george w. bush sought trips across north america as a basic partst job and even if he agreed with trump on certain policies like reducing foreign aid. now trump's turn inward is not only a bi-product of his home body vibe. he made it clear on the campaign trail he was going to f

i have a george w. bush story that relates to issues today when donald trump said he thought his predecessor obama of was wired tight beekman negative wiretapping him with this statement was the president never directed he be wiretap i thought president's don't direct. has nobody rich in this? because of the legend of the story beyond tried cannot figure he wanted the man murdered. and i remember a time being on the airplane with george w. bush where i said to him i will do this and then send this it was not illegal he grunted and moaned i took that to be okay and i didn't and it turned out afterwards he was happy but he never said yes. that is what i want you to do. heads of magazines and bookstores and presidents of the united states never say direct you but you quickly figure out what they want oftentimes they are silent. >> there is also the notion of plausible deniability. then he wants to have a way to deny he ever did that but also the sole foreign intelligence system and that is away that could

we've actually restored the status quo before the administration of president george w. bush. it was during that administration went to some of our friends across the aisle along with some of their liberad professor allies dreamed up a way of blocking president george w. bush judicial nominees and that was by suggesting that 60 votes was the threshold for confirming judges rather than the constitutional requirement of a majority vote. it's been a long journey back to the normal functioning of the united states senate, and it's amazing that it's taken a nominee like judge gorsuch to bring us back to where we were around 2001. we've been debating and discussing this nominee for a long time now, and the opponents have tried time and time again to raise objections to this the outstanding nominee, a nomination that no one in the senate oppose ten years ago when he was confirmed to the position of the tenth circuit court of appeals. they claimed he wasn't mainstream enough. they said this was a seat that should have gone to garland. they even accused him of no plagiarism.an all of t

b h bush. i happen to think factually it was legitimate. the economy crashed under george w. bush because of the wars and his economic policy. so it was appropriate for him to do that. you know, trump is doing it for a different reason. he is doing it to distract from his complete failure in office and inability to deliver on any of his promises and because his base would notice he is completely failing them. >> i know you want to respond. guy head. >> he has been in there for 93 days and president obama had a little more time to enact obamacare. it will tiake a little more tim to get rid of it. it is okay for president obama to critique. >> you have to remember there were seven years of repeal and replace. >> yes. you would think he would have it together. he promised to put something up there. >> hey, listen, if what trump had said i will go to d.c. it will be very hard. he would have delivered. he said i'm going to do it. it will be easy. it turns out it's not easy. that's the problem. he mislead his supporters into thinking it is something incredibly difficult and hard to

clinton, george w. bush and barack obama. very different men. the one thing they had in common, they saw the division dollars and they wanted to unite. bill clinton was sworn on his book of the prophet isiah. george w. bush, i didn't agree with anything he did but i respected the man. barack obama said there was no red states blue states it's united states. this man say breach from every president that i've seen from reagan to obama who saw the -- this country is divided. those division dollars are real and the pain is real. but he is making it worse. and i will call him out on that. >> let's hold on for one second. hadoing to continue, let's go to the vy place that the president opened his remarks tonight. chris, that is the white house correspondent dinner washington in the nation's capital are john avalon and margaret hoover join us from there. margaret is a contributing worked. white house had the guys, i'm sure you heard the top of the president's remarks but he said this is a place where hollywood actors and washington media are consoling

we have actually restored the status quo before the administration of president george w. bush. it was during that administration when some of our friends across the aisle along with some of their liberal law professor allies dreamed up a way of blocking president george w. bush's judicial nominees, and that was by suggesting that 60 votes was really the threshold for confirming judges rather than the constitutional requirement of a majority vote. it's been a long journey back to the normal functioning of the united states senate. and it's amazing that it's taking a nominee like judge gorsuch to bring us back to where we were back around 2001. we've been debating and discussing this nominee for a long time now, and they've tried -- the opponents of judge gorsuch have tried time and time again to raise objections to this outstanding nominee, a nomination that no one in the senate opposed ten years ago when he was confirmed to a position on the tenth circuit court of appeals. they claimed he wasn't mainstream enough. they've said this was a seat that really should have gone to mer

the ground rules of change for a lot of nominees that george w. bush had, the same ground rules, you can have republican or democratic presidents. that continued through the obama administration. so those democrats back in 2001, and this got us to where we are. it brought about the reading rules in 2013. and it brought around what we did yesterday. what does this get us to? the bottom line, where the senate was between 2001 no, between 1789 and 2001 when there wasn't considerations of filibustering judges. [inaudible question] >> i don't think so because you can say the same thing for the three people that are on the d.c. district court of appeals now. [inaudible question] >> i think that answers your question. justice thomas is controversially as he was, much more controversial than judge gorsuch is. he can get there without having a filibuster. why would the issue even brought up this time? go ahead. [inaudible question] >> i think senators durbin in his last speech, set a tone hoping that we can get things done. and he referred to his and my, a

their liberal law professor allies dreamed up away of blocking president george w bush's judicial nominees. those by suggesting that 60 votes was really the threshold for confirming judges rather than the constitutional requirement of the majority vote. it has been a long journey back to the normal functioning of the united states senate. it is amazing that it has taken a nominee like judge gorsuch to bring us back to where we wereos around 2001. we have been debating and discussing this nominee for a long time now, the opponents off judge gorsuch have tried time and time again to raise objections to this outstanding r nominee. a nomination that no one in the senate opposed ten years ago when he was confirmed to up plague position on the tenth circuit court of appeals. they claimed he was not mainstream enough. they said this was a seed that should have gone to merrick garland. they have even accused him of plagiarism. all of these have no merit whatsoever and are desperate attempts to try to block this outstanding nominee. their claims are baseless. folks from across the political spectru

w. bush had and the ground rules, because you can have one rule for a democrat president or another for republican president, back in 2001 it poisoned the well that got us to where we are and it brought about the rules of november 2013 and abroad around what we did yesterday. what does this get us to? it gets us back to where the united states senate was between 2001 when there wasn't considerations of filibustering judges. [inaudible] >> you could say the same thing for the three people on the d.c. district court of appeals now. >> isn't that different because it's the supreme court? most people don't know who's on the d.c. court. >> i think justice thomas answers your question. if he is as controversial as he was he's much more controversial than judge gorsuch is, he got there without a filibuster, so why would the issue be brought about. >> are you concerned about animosity. >> i think senator durbin set a tone hoping that we can get things done and he referred to the criminal justice

the same concept george w bush used in the aftermath of 9/11. -- george w bush used in the aftermath of 9/11. —— deal. do you consider this a war? it is a war because if you go to paris you will see soldiers and policemen everywhere. it isa soldiers and policemen everywhere. it is a kind of low—key war. it's not a war with trenches and tanks. as we know attacks can come out everywhere at any moment of the day. we see this week, last week, in london three weeks ago what can happen, any kind of person can take a car 01’ happen, any kind of person can take a carortakea happen, any kind of person can take a car or take a knife and try to kill as many people as possible. but i'm not afraid. i don't think the issueis i'm not afraid. i don't think the issue is terror. the terrorists won't win, they have no way to transform the population. i think the strategy of the fundamentalists is much more clever. they want to win through predication and persuasion. let me ask you a very blunt question, do you think france has a muslim problem? yes, like most countries in europe. you would use

that was of course in the early days of the george w. bush administration, and what it says is that 42 of the senate 50 democrats attended a private retreat in farmington pennsylvania where the principal topic was forging a unified party strategy to combat the white house on judicial nominees.re mr. lewis goes on to quote one of the people there that said they said it was important for the senate to change the ground rules by which judicial nominees were confirmed. as a result of that meeting, which was led by laurence tribe at harvard law school, katzenstein at university called and marcia greenberger, codirector of the nation national women's law center, senator schumer, the present democratically and others cooked up a new procedural hurdle for president george w. bush isembe judicial nominees.r wh and we remember what happened after that. it became almost routine for democratic colleagues to filibuster president bush's nominees. ultimately, there came a meeting of a group called the gang of 14 where there was a deal worked out that s

that happened with george w. bush and george w. bush, the leadership went to president and said you're better off if welcome demonstrate the country is behind you. short of that i'm not sure what could be done. >> i wore formulate the act to make absolutely career the president needs to go to congress simultaneously or ate least within days of the beginning of hostilities. that's what i would do. >> other questions? yes, sir. go ahead. >> your solution seems to be providing more information about the consequence of congressional inaction. that presupposes action by citizens who hold policymakers accountable. can you discussion the role of the citizen and their -- currently citizenry is not in a place to take on more information. it's information overload. what would you suggest doing to engam the citizens to embrace they're constitutional role to hold congress more accountable. >> just to reaped the question hospital. to encourage citizens to be mow involved in the problems. >> well, there's a number of books that talk about our ci

the george w. bush administration, you might remember, they had an unusually short transition before the start of the first george w. bush term in office. so their transition was wicked short and that's why the george w. bush administration held the previous modern record for the fewest names put forward by this time in the new administration. but the trump folks have beaten that record for the fewest nominations made. the bush folks had less time than everybody else. but even they came up with more nominations than the trump folks have so far and then bond beyond that there's this huge people who have been nominated or who have been appointed pogs in the new administration, but they're already gone. they didn't even make it to 100 days. they've withdrawn their name or they've quit or they've been fired. the nominee for army secretary. he pulled out. the nominee for labor secretary, he pulled out. the nominee for navy secretary. he pulled out. anthony was going to be head of the office of public li

the judicial filibuster is under george w. bush that they invented the filibuster and now today once again part of the far left in the context of a judge everyone agrees is incredibly qualified. some of senate democrats insist on the filibuster to the rules put in place over two centuries to be confirmed by a majority of senators

he came back to the republican party after george w. bush was gone. he briefly switched to the reform party of new york it's affiliated with the reform party because ross perot and jesse venture encouraged him to look very closely at the reform party. they were entitled to $58 million in matching funds because of the strong showings of ross perot. see had the prospect of running for president on other people's money. that appealed to him but he concluded after intense exploration that the country is not going to lectin independent country anytime soon. therefore one really has to be a republican or democrat to win the election as president. he switched back to the party of his parents and the party he spent most of his adult life in. >> host: talk about the tensions in the campaign. dramatic moments in the campaign between paul manafort and corey lynn garcia. his one person there orchestrating the campaign rallies that launch trump into the stratosphere as a candidate. how did manafort transform an unruly campaign into something with more discipline a

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w bush and tony blair etc, but to be fair, even george w bush, if you remember, didn't want the international is and interventionism of the clinton years, then 9/11 happened. you're thinking has to change with that, otherwise you are not a leader. these were the problems i had with president 0bama, events happened and he was more interested in his political agenda, ending the war on a certain date because the election was coming up ona because the election was coming up on a future date. i think donald trump is saying, whether it affects my polling numbers or not, i don't care, my polling numbers or not, i don't ca re, firstly my polling numbers or not, i don't care, firstly i am distressed to say the least over the deaths of children which as you know he has a soft spot for, he has grandchildren, and it is the leadership thing of saying, we can't let this happen, because the usa is already being seen enough as being complacent, tired, non—responsive. nowi seen enough as being complacent, tired, non—responsive. now i think people are saying, wait a minute, as the expression goes, there is