george bush got the council, george w. bush couldn't get the justice department. obama went to eric holder and said he said yes so he went to his white house comes over and said no and obama followed his white house counsel and you have to realize that's happening. there's nothing democratic or republican about this. the congress is both crippled and cowardly. explain how this evolved and how the congress kind of backed out of its responsibility to say okay we are going to go to war. they faced reelection and got clobbered for voting in favor of these things. they kind of eased off and backed off. if you look at the senate procedures in connection with the deal obama made. not to have to vote, no record votes on that whole arrangement. they just gave the power and the presidents to get one after another. they've been really disdaining about the congress. what drives other than you have served them all at recent times what has driven the recent presidents to keep grabbing more and more power, is that it's come is powered the end result? >> they get frustrated and p

bush who you wrote about? yeah, well, george w. bush obviously was a republican. so we live in an era of polarization where both parties have very little ability to work with the other side, but that also means that within a party there's often pretty good coherance and consistency in what the president and the party members will do. obviously, the current presidency has turned out a little bit different, but certainly obama was dealing with division after 2010, first in the house and then in the senate, and i think he was dealing with a republican party that was not going to find much common ground, the kind of common ground that obama dreamt about in some ways in 2004 was just not going to happen so he was dealing with a pretty big institutional problem. he being play golf as much as he wanted with speaker boehner. he could schmooze if he wanted to, but it really wasn't going to move the congress. a lot of his presidency in 2010 forward is taking place in the context of very weak and tense executive congressional relations. >> we are talking with julian zelzer,

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during my time, during four years under george w bush, i can assure you i never got close to the idea that president bush would meet the north koreans. this is quite a development. there is a lot of detail here and the devil is indeed in the detail. for example, the idea that they're going to have a moratorium of tests during the time of talks, it is not

and bill clinton and george w. bush and george w. bush and barack obama and barack obama and donald trump. it is like "mary poppins" with the cartoon up here and reality down here and it is two different worlds and somehow or another we do this. so, no, i don't think it's fair to point, in same way to point that trump is the sole reason for the lack of civility. i think, again we're all in this and if it didn't work they wouldn't do it. if we penalized them for this, if the bases were not where they are, then it would be different. now, if you're in the democratic base i suspect you have secret meetings now or maybe they're not so secret. probably have the dick tracy wrist radio. you talk to each other, getting ready for, you know, to mount the barricades. if you're on the right you think that people who criticize donald trump, you know, are hopeless elitist snobs. the truth is somewhere in between and i think until we have a disposition of heart and mind and in between space gets more traction in the debate the world jack is talking

under george w. bush that was during the iraq war he now returns to government on a bulging in-tray well i think the issues that confront us on proliferation and terrorism these are issues i've dealt with before the president obviously has them at the top of his priority list and so that's that's what we working on among among many others bolton will have to put words into action when he start shipping us national security policy from next month. so how does the word just become a more dangerous place to help us on that question we're joined now by tyson baka he's a us political scientist and program director and fellow at the aspen institute. welcome tyson a john bolton said when he was appointed that his is to give the u.s. president a whole range of options and this is of these the goal as it sounds but given his background how wide it to the would be by his appointment right i mean you know every president has the whole range of instruments at the disposal of u.s. foreign policy the problem is wh

bush administration and there were many, the george w. bush administration trying to appoint john bolton to a senate confirmed position was a bridge too far even for that administration. >> the point that i want to leave with you in this very brief presentation is where i start, there is no united nations. there is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world and that's the united states when it suits our interest and when we can get others to go along. secretary building in new york has 38 stories. if you lost ten stories today, it wouldn't make a bit a difference. this mindless creation of the united nations as something different than what is in the united states interests to do isn't going to sell here or anywhere else. the united states makes the u.n. work when it wants it to work and that is exactly the way it should be because the only question, the only question to the united states is what is in our national interest and if you don't like that, i'm sorry, but that is the facts.

he was confirmed in the george w. bush administration by unanimous voice vote. so he's already been confirmed by a previous congress without any dissension, and, yet, 269 days later we still do not have a deputy secretary at the department of labor. at the e.p.a., deputy administrator andrew wheeler. he was nominated 152 days ago. scott pruitt still till this day he does not a deputy serving at the e.p.a. he was reported out of committee in november. arms will be deputy of control. it's an important issue for national security and particularly heightened in light of upcoming negotiations with north korea. e was nominated 298 days ago and has previously been a staff director at the house foreign affairs committee. isabel nominated 270 days ago, reported out of committee in july as nominee to be assistant secretary of the treasury for analysis. this helps with many of the sanctions you have covered. so many of these positions in fact are national security positions. and lastly, kevin to be commissioner of the customs and border patrol was nominated 298 days ago. o

we have a cartoon during the bush administration. george w. bush administration. mr. block believed strongly in separation of church and state. he believed funding for religious groups violated that. one way he depictedded was by showing the newspaper headline but the guy rolling his eyes and looking at the steeple over the white house emphasized the point that mr. block believed that george w. bush had a strong affiliation with religious groups. christian religious groups in particular. he really believed that african-americans deserved an equal chance and an equal opportunity. eight years after the passage of brown versus board of education which was supposed to desegregate the public schools and universities and give everybody an equal education in 1962, he pointed out that still was not the case. there were states in the country that chosen to shutter they are public schools rather than desegregate. we have little girl holding a birthday cake, an african-american girl holding a cake. she's telling the white gentleman standing next to her that she's eight. james cr

karl rove, former senior adviser to president george w. bush, also a wall street journal columnist and fox news contributor. so welcome, karl, good to see you. >> thank you, sir. >> do you think that the politics of gun control politically and their impact on elections has changed fundamentally because of parkland and the student protest in. >> i don't think it's changed fun mentally but i think it has changed somewhat and i do think kim strassel's point about the gun control issue in suburban districts with well-educated voters particularly white women, college graduates, this issue is going to play a little bit differently in the republican candidates in those instances need to be able to point to things such as background checks and increasing the efficiency of the federal system to check people who shouldn't be receiving guns. paul: but is that enough, you will have to go further than that because the democrats will say, you passed that but that's not enough, you're already hearing them say we need assault-rifle ban and more aggressive

he was confirmed in the george w. bush administration by a unanimous voice vote. he's been confirmed by a previous congress without any dissension. and yet 269 days later, we still do not have a deputy secretary at the dotcht labor. at the e.p.a., deputy administration andrew we'ller, he was nominated 152 days ago. scott pruitt still to this day does not have a deputy, a number two, serving at the e.p.a. he was reported out of committee in november. yalzine pobley will be assistant secretary for department arms control when confirmed. this is important particularly in light of upcoming negotiations with north korea. she was nominated 298 days ago and is a previous staff director of the foreign affairs committee. isabel lieu nass, reported out of committee in july, nominated to be assistant secretary of the treasury for intelligence and analysis. this helps work with many of the sanctions you have covered. so many of these positions in fact are national security positions. lastly, kevin mclenan, to be commissioner of customs and border patrol was nominated 298 days

he covered presidents from herbert hoover to george w. bush. sarah duke spoke to us about his influence and legacy. >> it was a rest are in -- a western cartoonist. the great before depression. he was a moderate conservative. it pushed him further toward the center. and the injustice of world war ii. joined the newspaper association. joined the washington post. his last cartoon appeared on august 26. we have about 14,000 of his editorial cartoons. he did give away cartoons to friends. we have the majority of his output. you that see how his career has evolved, his opinions have changed. it gives a sense of how they perceive different presidents and how his style evolved. the next one is about herbert hoover. it shows herbert at the rabid on camp. mr. bloch has depicted hoover leading a couple of capitalists to his camp. and they are fishing. instead of getting economic benefits in the form of cash incentives they get fresh fish to sell. it's on a very smooth board. typical of what would have been produced in the midwest at this point in time. t

ambassador at the george w. bush administration bolton said iraq had weapons of mass destruction a claim later proven untrue china's responding to the us presidential order imposing sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports says the move is needed to stop unfair competition from china's state led economy and now announced three billion dollars worth of retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products including pork and steel. on saturday. ends of thousands of students from across the u.s. will converge on washington d.c. to demand gun reform organizers say the march for our lives demonstration which will also be held in cities across the country could be one of the largest of its kind as any gallagher reports it will be led by students from the school in florida for seventeen people were killed last month. i don't think you're not in rehab if you're in the weeks since this community lost seventeen lives to one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history the push for change has been relentless the march for

george w. bush on foreign policy issues mcmaster replaced michael flynn fourteen months ago bolton as a hawk he has previously advocated the use of military force against iran and north korea. is also become as has become customary for trump's major personnel and policy decisions the announcement was made on twitter trump tweeted i'm pleased to announce that effective april the ninth john bolton will be my new national security advisor i'm very thankful for the service of general h.r. mcmaster who's done an outstanding job and will always remain my friend kimberly how could now has more on h.r. mcmasters time with the trump administration and general h.r. mcmaster will become the national security advisor he arrived at a tumultuous time just a month into his presidency trump had fired national security advisor michael flynn for lying to the vice president over his conversations with the russians it is both diplomacy and sanctions working together but it wasn't long before make master was envelo

he covered bolton's tenure at the state department during the george w. bush administration and the run-up to the iraq war. jonathan landay, thank you for being with us. so tell more about who is john bolton? >> john bolton is a hawk. he espouses pretty belligerent views, and he has a history ofbe g add outs with the u.s. intelligence community, which exists to this day where he has written about a signicant violations by iran in the iran nuclear deal, where m thean he's going to be working with, the director of national intelligence, dan coates, last mont cold congress iran is abiding by the deal and the deal is working. lton had several clashes over u.s. intelligence where he was found to be exaggerating this intelligence, one of the incidents back in 2002, where hs madeeech about cuba having what he said was developing offensive biological warfare iprogram was dsputed by two u.s. intelligence analysts, one atth state department, one at the c.i.a. both men and their bosses say mr. bolton tried to have them firebecause of their arguments with him over th

and next, on a much lighter note, jeanne moos on george w. bush. swinging and swaying like you have never seen him before. ♪ i thought i was managing my moderate to severe crohn's disease. then i realized something was missing... me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief and many achieved remission in as little as 4 weeks. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an i

he's followed by george w. bush speaking after the virginia tech shooting. then president barack obama reacting to shootings at sandy hook elementary and umpqua community college in oregon, ending with president trump speaking after the shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. [applause] pres. clinton: thank you. you know, hillary and i look forward to this day so much every year. we want to thank you for all you do and say to america we could not run the white house without you. it happens that this day was scheduled on what has turned out to be a very sad day for america. and since, in my mind, you represent the best of american citizenship at what you do here every day as volunteers, i think it is important that we take a little time to ponder how we, as american citizens, should respond to what has occurred in colorado. first of all, i think it is important that we remember that we must come together and pray together but also commit to act together. in littleton, we saw and we continue to see, horror and agony. we also see

in the george w. bush administration, the entire first term, he faced for cloture votes. in hisobama faced 17 first entire four years. our first 14 79 in months. that adds up to 32 combined in the entire first four years of those administrations relative to 79 in our first less than a year and a half. let me give a couple more illustrations of specific individuals. our nominee to be the secretary of the department of labor -- we still do not have a deputy secretary, a number two person, in the department of labor. she was nominated 269 days ago. he was reported out of committee in october. he was confirmed in the george w. bush administration by a unanimous voice vote, so he has aready been confirmed by previous congress without any dissension, and yet, 269 days later, we still do not have a deputy secretary for the department of labor. epa, deputy administrator andrew wheeler was nominated 152 days ago. scott pruitt still to this day does not have a deputy, a number two serving at the epa. he was reported out of committee in november. the assistant secretary for arms con

>> it is george w. bush. >> tucker: george w. bush? >> yeah. >> tucker: says peter doocy. roll the tape please. >> former president george w. bush is going viral after tearing up the dance floor at his nephew's wedding. watch this. ♪ >> there he is, bottom right. getting down. >> i knew this one. these are broken. >> tucker: so with 80% of the segment concluded, we are now zero to zero.re whatever, it's a relative measure. >> back where we started. >> tucker: the person who wins this question, answers it correctly, wins the segment. are you ready? the final question, the los angeles rams announced this week that in an nfl first their cheerleading squad would see a major change this season. what is that change? elizabeth prann? >> male cheerleaders. >> tucker: i don't believe you. >> i think they should do this for major league baseball.el >> tucker: are there cheerleaders in major league baseball? >> miami does i think.rs >> tucker: you can cheer t from the stands. is the change male cheerleaders? >> back now with a big change coming to the nfl. for the first time ever,

he was put into public office by george w. bush. when you look at his record during the obama administration, it was michael horwitz who put the fast and furious investigation into play and took on several of the obama administration officials with the investigation there. >> jon: it's always so strange when you think that jeff sessions was the first sitting united states senator to endorse this businessman from new york and a lot of people were scratching their heads when senator sessions did so. he went out on a limb to endorse candidate trump and now president trump doesn't seem to have his attorney general's back, why not? >> i think the president wants his administration officials to have his back, he is always expressing disappointment when attorney general sessions recused himself from overseeing the investigations for the russia allegations and he's also been concerned, that he was not acting aggressively enough to defend the president and his administration. on the session side of the equation, he is trying to look at his o

in 2002, george w. bush imposed what he then called "temporary tariffs," but he repealed them before they were due to expire because of international pressure and the fear of retaliatory tariffs. >> glor: okay, major garrett at the white house. major, thank you. now to that midair scare we mentioned at the top, a cossenger tried to open the door of a plane in flight today. here is transportation correspondent kris van cleave. >> i am god. i am god. >> reporter: passengers on board united express flight 5449 restrained this boise, idaho, woman, who was ranting about being god. sou can see a passenger working to tie up the woman's feet as another man holds her down in the aisle. moments earlier she had tried to open the aircraft door while the plane was in flight traveling from san francisco to boise this morning. that plane landed safely and boise police were waiting at the gate. the woman was taken for medical evaluation. the united express plane was operated by skywest airlines and had 73 passengers on

i don't think george w. bush was personally unpopular. his policies were. the war in afghanistan and iraq had turned sour. that was a very significant issue. the tax cuts the administration had passed in 2001 and 2003 had caused a significant deficit, and there were more policy implications there and fewer personal ones. to a certain extent, the country was still traumatized by 9/11 when we ran in 2006, and i think there was a national angst, but it's a little bit different than, i think, the atmosphere right now. what i see in all of these movements that have arisen, the indivisible movement, me too, black lives matter, the kids with the guns -- there is a common thread, and that is that people have decided that it is only through their energy that change is going to be effected. it is not going to be the calm tter-writing campaigns to the officials. they're taking to the streets in all these areas, and they had a common belief that the only way to effect change and get the policy they want is to change the majorities in congress or state legislatures or w

under george w. bush that was during the iraq war he now returns to government on a bulging in-tray well i think the issues that confront us on proliferation and terrorism these are issues i've dealt with before the president obviously has them at the top of his priority list and so that's that's what we working on among among many others bolton will have to put words into action when he starts shaping u.s. national security policy from next month. joining me now is tyson baka he's a us political scientist and a program director and fellow at the aspen institute here in germany welcome tyson not one of the things that john a bulletin has said that he wants to have a policy which gives the u.s. president the whole range of options how to interpret the statement and should the blood i think those in particular with regard to north korea and i think the world frankly should be worried because john bolton has a long track record in dealing with north korea when he was george w. bush's chief arms negotiat

ip and the national security advisor for president george w. bush. we will have a great opportunity of listening to a conversation between former and current national security adviser's, followed by questions from the audience. please join me in welcoming afghan national security adviser atmar. [applause] adviser atmar: hello there. excellency hadley. ladies and gentlemen, good morning. talk such a privilege to to such a distinguished audience. invited bynor to be the famous institute with its remarkable achievements worldwide, but particularly in afghanistan. let me first take this usip fority to thank not just inviting me and my delegation, but for the excellent work it has undertaken in afghanistan and elsewhere. colleagues, i am here to represent the president of inhanistan and our people thanking you all. anday our respect appreciation to be sacrifices of your brave men and women in uniform. diplomats, aid workers, researchers, and politicians and policymakers. afghanistan will continue to appreciate your service. indebtedan will remain forever

you'll recall during the campaign he went after george w. bush time and time again over essentially how he was handling the iraq war, essentially accused george w. bush of pulling the country into a quagmire and spend ag ling a lo money that shouldn't have been spent. it was one of those campaign comments from the president that he just went back to time and time again at various rallies. surprised a lot of republicans that he would go after george w. bush in that way, but he did it time and again. at the same time, the president saying he wants to, as he likes to put it from time to time, knock the hell out of isis. to do that you need troops on the ground, you need a significant commitment from the u.s. military, and as you said, 2,000 u.s. military troops in syria at this point, the pentagon just disclosed that to reporters last december trying to shed light on what u.s. commitments are around the world said at that time there are 2,000 u.s. forces in syria. the question, wolf, is whether or not the president can make good on that comment

by the way, george w. bush, god bless them, him, great guy, he didn't vote for donald trump, so i frankly don't care what he has to say about donald trump at this point in time. for eight years george w. bush, the establishment of the g.o.p., was mute during the tyranny of the obama administration and now like old faithful he spouts off at every opportunity to bash president trump either off the record or on the record. resistance is not part of the solution and repeating the failed policies of the past is getting us nowhere. my message to the establishment of both parties. we've tried your expert ways for decades. it led to the rise of communist china, which is now poised -- we don't turn things around, to be the dominant economic and military power in the world. now president trump, sometimes it feels like he's doing it all by himself, is trying to confront that threat and turn it around before it's too late. the globalist critics out there don't seem to care about with the freedom of the american people

ambassador to the united nations under the administration of george w. bush and his appointment was quite controversial at that time for statements he had made harshly criticizing the united nations now on the campaign trail donald trump was quite critical of military intervention isn't by the united states saying that he wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is a long time advocate for military interventions around the world so questions remain about what this will mean with big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea. former u.s. diplomat jim john trust told us the appointment of john bolton could aggravate the situation with iran a lot of people mistakenly said that during the campaign trump said he would tear up the agreement because it was a very bad agreement he did exactly said that he said it was a very bad agreement but he likes to make bad agreements good i think he came in with the notion that if he was threatening and up we could get the europeans on board and pressure the russians and the chinese to say that

. >> john bolton could not get confirm bid the senate when george w. bush nominated him to be ambassador of the united nations so the president installed him through a recess appointment but it seems that john bolton would have similar concerns getting confirmed now, national security advisor does not have to be confirmed so they bypass that completely. talk about the national security advisor having the last word with the president the way the job is designed with keeping the national security advisor physically housed in the white house. >> well, that's precisely what gives the national security advisor his or her currency. having that proximity to the president. the national security advisor's office is just feet from the oval office and as josh was saying on your program earlier the national security advisor is the first one in and the last one out when the president meets with his foreign counter part. the other key point, though, lawrence is the national security advisor is not supposed to come to the position with firm prominent policy views of

host: the george w. bush oninistration put tariffs for a while. what did we learn? it does give the industry a chance to recover. if you look back at the bush administration and the reagan administration, when the reagan demonstration put tariffs on the imports of motorcycles because harley davidson was grasping at that point, a were able to recover. so it was targeted and effective. the same thing could happen in the steel industry if we are careful about what we do and we have dialogue with our trading partners. i assume that is what is happening inside the white house. we don't have a final document yet with fine print. what i think people are making their views known. i think it has been communication with the country of mexico on this document and i'm hoping the administration will make a measured final decision. host: what does that say to you that there are so many republicans pushing back? so many people in the congress represent districts to our varied different. they are not production districts, they are consuming districts. and if you look at the trade d

or george w. bush paid a porn star $130,000. this country would be in a complete meltdown if that were the case. this country would be having -- we would be tearing our hair out and rending our garments if that happened. and in this case it's sort of like we have defined presidency down so far -- it's like oh, yeah, trump and the porn star. of course he is with porn stars. it's a remarkable moment in the political history, because we are now at the point where the president paying a porn star is not the only thing we're talking about in this country. it is -- it's really quite something. >> when you said -- can you imagine seriously all of you, everybody listening, if that was a headline about barack obama? i -- i -- seriously, everybody's heads would be exploding, conservatives, republicans, would be going to the microphones everywhere saying the president should be impeached. he has diminished the office of the presidency. shouldn't be in the oval office. come on. >> right. >> i mean i was -- go on, max. >> i mean, you're abso

ambassador to the united nations under the administration of george w. bush and his appointment was quite controversial at that time for statements he had made harshly criticizing the united nations now on the campaign trail donald trump was quite critical of military intervention isn't by the united states saying that he wanted to stop toppling regimes however john bolton is a long time advocate for millet. interventions around the world so questions remain about what this will mean with big developments on the horizon regarding iran and north korea. for some insight on the story we can now hear from jim johnson us of former u.s. diplomat jim. it just gets curiouser and curiouser this appointment has been widely criticized in the media why do people find bolton such a controversial figure. well let's remember during the campaign trump ran against the republican establishment on three issues immigration trade and foreign and security policy and the immigration trade he has been somewhat different from what we expected of a typical republican but unfortun

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but what i want to get back to's president george w. bush is term. nasser: we had in 2002. yousef: this is what happened. of the u.s. imposing levies of 30% on steel under president george w. bush in 2002 . trade partners retaliated. stocks and the dollar slid. the yield on 10 year treasury almost halved. nasser: and there was a loss of jobs. when you hear wilbur ross talk about job creation, he is living on another planet. you have lost of u.s. jobs above all. it will send the u.s. economy in a tailspin. the last thing you want is to jeopardize the global economy we have by starting a trade war. in addition, if the object was to her china, he is not doing that. chinese steel is mainly into asia and the chinese market. he is hurting his home allies like canada, brazil, south korea, and the europeans. uae, which way the is an exporter to the united states. yousef: now that everybody had a chance to vent, how will this play out? what is the actual policy dynamic and the timeline? itser: he has to announce and he has to issue an order. this will then be challenged. it i go up

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ari fleischer, who was president george w. bush's communications director or press spokesman? >> press secretary. >> ...press secretary and is now head of fleischer communications. all right. let's get started. i was rereading. i really was rereading because i did read "the federalist" when i was assigned it the first time, and i was reading about powers and separation of powers, executive, legislative, judicial, didn't see anything in there about special counsels or independent counsels. did the founders make a mistake and not put a provision in there for special or independent counsels? you've been one, i think, or something like it, and i know you've had an opinion on this, bob. do we need them? what do we need them for? >> well, i think, first of all, there's a real difference between independent counsels and special counsels. i do think we need a special counsel when the investigation involves the highest levels of government. it's something that i think is essential, but it's unfortunate that we ever need them because you give so much power to one individual. but there's

bush , bill clinton from arkansas, george w. bush from texas. it ends in 2008, the first president in four years who was not a candidate from the sun belt. it is not a huge deal, it is interesting little fact that the migration of population and capital from the north, and midwest to the south and southwest, it is transforming american politics. okay? with that, you have the potential for a young hard-working, a young hard-working man like george h.w. bush to come to texas and carve out his political career. that is what he does. a lot of these white-collar professionals were coming to cities and towns, starting businesses, they see how the local legislature and local this oldare dominated boys country, this old boys network that exists in the democratic already. the democratic party of the south in the 1950's and 1960's is still dominated by these county courthouse networks that are often times corrupt, you have local political bosses that throw out patronage. a lot of them come in, they kind of embrace the republican party and the political re

bush, we have john bolton today because george w. bush appointed him during a recess appointment because a republican senate found this guy to be too extreme, even to be an ambassador to the united nations, where you do not have some type of authority over the broad national security apparatus. >> the entire national security process in the white house. >> we're doing this also at a time, let's remember, our state department has been gutted. >> yep. >> pompeo may have been chosen as the nominee, but he's not necessarily the one who's going to be confirmed or has been confirmed. but even if he is, there is -- we have, i think, like of the nine top positions in the state department, maybe two or three of those are filled at this point. so there's no pushback of any of this. and so this is, i think, very broadly catastrophic. i mean, has the opportunity -- >> really? >> i really do think so. i am not convinced these things that are happening with trump in terms of the russia investigation and what could possibly happen on a national sec

haspel was directly involved in the cia's torture program under george w. bush. she was responsible for running a secret cia black site in thailand in 2002 where one prisoner was waterboarded 83 times and tortured in other ways. on tuesday, president trump praised pompeo and haspel. pres. trump: i have worked with mike pompeo now for quite some time. tremendous energy, tremendous intellect. we are always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good. and that is what i need as secretary of state. . wish rex tillerson well gina, who i know very well, who i've worked very closely, will be the first woman director of the cia. she is an outstanding person who i also have got to know very well. amy: mike pompeo and gina haspel must now face senate confirmations, but barring any republican defections, both can be confirmed without any democratic support. the hearing will mark the first time haspel has been forced to speak publicly about her role in the u.s. torture program and the destruction of cia tapes documenting the torture. her nomination has been w

bush, they feel the evangelicals felt they were a bit played and liked george w. bush and voted for him in record numbers at the time. the problem, though, was that the federal marriage amendment came up, for example, and evangelicals went to the polls and that was dropped like a hot potato at the time. the point is that here comes donald trump bold and all of that and all of a sudden they say -- you know what, he's fighting for -- they like the fighter aspect of trump. >> okay, so this is where my -- i think there's -- the moral compass of many in the evangelical community goes into that field of donald trump and loses their way. this is a group of people that claim to speak for family values that claim to say character matters that claim to say we need a moral compass in the country and then they have a president of the united states who is completely antithetical to every one of those. and i understand the culture war part of this which is what they want, but in the end in my faith which i'm a christian is that we're judged individually and this is a leader who

the event was moderated by the formal national security advisor for president george w. bush. >> good morning everyone. i am the president of the u.s. institute of peace. i'm pleased to be able to welcome everybody for a special program. i'm glad the weather cooperated. welcome to everyone who has braved the pseudo-weather event this morning. we are pleased to see the members of our international advisory council, and welcome to those who are joining us by webcast. as many of you know, usip was founded by congress, dedicated to the proposition that peace is a practical undertaking, that it is essential for our global security, and that it is eminently possible. usip works with countries around the world, governments and society leaders, to equip them with the kind of tools and learning and information that enables them to work to prevent conflict from becoming violent and to resolve it when it does. as i think everyone in this world is aware, afghanistan remains one of the most important policy priorities for the united states. i am pleased usip is able to host the natio