hw bush and george w. bush. they call it the president's pew, pew number 54, reserved for the nation's leader. >> shannon: some of the architects of this win, they have exited this morning and they, of course, critical to the trump win. so many changes in the campaign structure along the way. it was the team that stuck in the end and the one that got him across the finish line. >> bill: steve bannon, senior advisor and kellyanne conway in the red hat and reince priebus with his back to us. kellyanne conway has an extra special day today. it is her 50th birthday today. if you were to ask her where else she would celebrate her birthday she would say right here. >> shannon: can you imagine? she was one of the senior-most women to ever pull off this kind of work in a campaign in a presidential run and for today to be her 50th birthday, what a celebration for her on many levels. >> bill: in about 15 minutes we expect the outgoing first family to be met with the incoming first family. and shannon, that is someth

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there is no question that george bush soured u.s. relations around the world. there is no question that barack obama has gone a long way to repairing the damage, but i do not believe that the olympics were turned down because of george bush. i do not agree with jackson on that. it is counter intuitive. he would almost think that they would want to reward barack obama for giving them chicago. i do not buy that argument. patti ann: a democrat from illinois says that there was not enough time for barack obama to dispel the old image. do you buy that? >> i think this was barack obama's emperor has no clothes moment. the guy should have gone over their only if he knew that he had it locked up. he expanded on a lot of political capital over there. he saw that he could woo the olympic committee. democrats are making fools of themselves by continuously blaming things on george bush. when will this stop? i heard bob himself a couple months ago saying that barack obama was the best economic president since roosevelt. patti ann: when an american president voluntarily take

you worked for president george w. bush. is there common ground that needs to be sought on this issue in this country, do you think? >> i think there can be. look, i have two daughters who are the exact same age as the kids who died in newtown. there are a lot of things the republicans can support like the president announced. better gun owner and safety education and mental health support and helping develop emergency responses and the rest but when the president goes to gun control i think the public support and bipartisan support drops dramatically. there is a fox news poll shows only 22% of americans believe more gun control would have actually stopped an incident in newtown where as 71% think the criminals will get guns anyway. the 71% are right. there sim peer call evidence that shows it. i think it is a mistake to go after gun control. >> criminals will always get guns. go ahead, i'm sorry. martha: go ahead, alan. >> criminals will always get guns. doesn't mean you don't make laws. if that is the case you didn't make

bush, george bush, in the oval office for eight years. is it really a fair comparison of the two men? karl rove, who better to ask that question to? he's going to join us on that moments from now. >>> as you know, fox news is the front row seat for politics. log on to foxnews.com/politics, you can get all the latest and boy, things are fired up this morning! go to foxnews.com and get everything. bill: while we're on the air, we know a lot of you are on the computer. check out the news site. another fox news alert, a tough sign of the times, our military rethinking its pension system, the department now composing the largest overhaul of the military retirement system we have seen in 50 years. kelly wright has seen the report. what does it recommend? >> reporter: in july, the business board actually called this presentation modernizing the military retirement system task group, it concludes the entire system is out of date, unfair, unaffordable and inflexible and expensive, totaling $24 billion for fiscal year 2011, and that future liabilit

he has repeated in this speech, phrases that are implicit, "i am not george bush. -- george bush." carrying an american political debate into the international arena, i find that international -- incredibly un-presidential. bill: we have been hearing from our longtime producer that heads of state inside of this room, an enormous theater irina, there is a protest on the floor. what we are hearing is that they are refusing to come to order for the next speaker to take the podium. the next speaker is quaddafi. for all of the criticism, the speakers come on, they are polite, and then they leave. at the moment -- moment, wal- mart khaddafi -- quaddafi will not have that opportunity. we are reaching out to find out what is happening inside that building. if you watch this, year to year, there are cutaway shots where we can see the people gathered in the audience. so far today there has been none of that. why? we cannot say. leaders from around the world, we can identify them. nothing in terms of a reverse shot, nothing where we could see the leaders. we could pick and choose what we call

bill clinton revealing george w. bush used to call him frequently. what would president obama learn from he picked up the phone and talked to george w. bush. bill: a muslim cleric facing terror charges of his own. explaining his positions. do you buy this? >> there is nothing called suicide in islam. there is something called using your body against the enemy. ♪ over 12,000 financial advisors. so, how are things? good, good. nearly $800 billion dollars in assets under care. let me just put this away. how did edward jones get so big? could you teach our kids that trick? by not acting that way. ok, last quarter... it's how edward jones makes sense of investing. ♪ bill: soon football fans nationwide may no longer have to worry whether their favorite football team will be on their television screen. the fcc is look do away with a blackout rule that keeps the game off television if the game is not sold out. the league says it keeps them on tv by encouraging deals between the league and the broadcasters. martha: a federal report says the irs is failing

dedication of the george w. bush presidential library. we will hear from the former president in a matter of moments. bunches of oats greek yogurt and whole grain. here we go. honey cornflakes and chunks of greek yogurt. i'm tasting both the yogurt and the honey at the same time. i'm like digging this yogurt thing. i feel healthy. new honey bunches of oats greek. bill: we are working through a story out of the hill now where members of congress work being in a way to allow members of congress to exempt themselves and staff members out of obama care? there are reports that secret talks were underway and had been underway for months. now we are hearing by way of "the washington post," a could the umist there saying none of this was even true at all. steven hayes, senior editor and fox news contributor has been hunting down the story as well. i want to report first what we think was happening, all right? that there was an effort underway that would allow members of congress to get different health insurance, perhaps starting in the year 2014

i supported george bush going mountain biking. they should be allowed to do these things. >> george w. bush did stop playing golf at a certain point. bill: rich, can you think of one thing they cut back on other than tours that affect the public? >> there have been cuts. bill: kirsten be you find them and come back and tell us. >> every agency has to cut a little bit and they portrayed it as a as. i'm sure they cut back a little and that's what had to happen and it hasn't been a disaster. martha: do americans trust president obama less because of all of the scandals that we have been talking about the last couple weeks? we'll discuss the president's credibility and look at some polls on that next hour. bill: bureaucrats discussing how the story of sarah may be just beginning. 7 bill: a look at a special and unique ceremony at the vatican. the pope blessing hundreds of bikers on their harleys. the american bike maker gave two classic harleys to the vatican police force and they returned the favor. martha: there are growing concerns

was great under george bush and now it is bad under obama. bill: he seems to be pretty fair and balanced on this. he has strong words against the administration, strong words against the congress, basically saying get it done. >> lets face it, this is bob schieffer. basically the canary in the coal mine the fact there is equal blame his eyes to congress and the president he is admitting the president failed to achieve somehow rebranded the american image of the world stage, reconstruct our relationship with european allies and the arab world. we have a lower standing among muslims in the world than we did when george w. bush was president. probably due in part to the fact president obama has talked a good game, what is one of the biggest criticisms? he considered the drone strikes, nsa programs that were so bad under george w. bush, so has not done anything really. bill: i am seeing the 100-yard stare right now. >> he just brought up a good point, nsa program harming the view of people around the world, a lot of criticism in europe. i don't t

george bush won that state by two points. in the economy, a bellwether in so many states right now, red, the darker the red, the worse you are, the lighter color of green, the better off you're doing. for ohio right now, a bellwether in so many ways, the national unemployment level is at 9.1%. what is it in ohio? it's 9.1%. again, reflecting how much ohio can tell the rest of the country. new polling numbers, quinn teeac polling put the matchups together right now, president obama with a four-point lead against mitt romney in that poll. how does he do against herman cain? the difference is greater, up eight points, then you grow perry in the mix, it gets larger e.47-36 percent, favoring president obama in ohio. november 8th, watch that story from the buckeye state. martha. martha: thank you bill. well, the military is facing drastic cuts as congressional the exr committee cannot come up with the plan to slash $1.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next ten years and the word is that isn't going that well. we'll get in

you can not run against us or run against george bush. this is about a very distracted, unfocused president, who can't even get his team to get the job numbers right. yesterday you heard three different stats on the administration. martha: bob, i do want to get your reaction to this as well, because what we're getting, the indication we're getting, is that in this address, we'll continue to see the finger pointed at banks, at wall street, at corporations. you know, i spoke to a number of people about this over the weekend, said look, do you think the job generators in this country, it is not fitting for the president of the united states to be pointing the finger and slamming -- we all know there was guilt really to go around on capitol hill, there was guilt in terms of the economic crisis, certainly in some of the financial industries as well. is that a wise move to keep pointing the finger at the job creators of this country? >> first of all, let me just say one past thing that andrea said, if you say nothing to the republicans, get out

karl rove joins me, a former senior advisor to george w. bush and a fox news contributor. also the author of "courage and consequence" now available in paper back. good morning, good to see you. >> good morning, how are you. martha: i'm fine. the back and forth between charles krauthammer -- this is an argument over whether or not the tax cut agreement didn't have enough spending cuts in it and whether or not it is essentially a second stimulus, and whether that turns out to be a good thing for the president.

george bush was nothing if not a staunch and strong leader. this guy is anything but. >> you know, you can't have it both ways. bill: so i can let our viewers know. >> i think i can in this case. bill: we're waiting for the president -- >> two different leaders with two totally different public perceptions, barack obama is soft on terrorism and doesn't really seem to totally grasp the global risk that we are presented with every day, by people like china and their policies. so, we're you can -- >> how can you -- >> two different world leaders. >> how can you say that when we're sitting here now watching this first nuclear summit because the fact is, if al qaeda got a nuclear weapon, god, heaven forbid and used it we'd all pay the price. bill: absolutely, absolutely -- >> cleaning up after the last 8 years of the leadership of the country. he should be given all the credit in the world -- >> let's turn this conversation over, in 1996 senator richard lugar started a presidential campaign, talking about the risks loose nuclear weapons presented t

that was george w. bush's time line. to go to dick cheney for advice about what to do about a war that he helped start in the first place is insane. these these are the people responsible for getting us into something. but we got out of there and bush's time line, not obama's. >> that's patently false. obama had to renegotiates the status of forces agreement in 2011 because he at the time was the sitting president of the united states. george bush gave him that flexibility. george bush also gave him a very stabilized iraq after the surge. you have the anbar awakening under the petraeus plan. the sunnis or moderate to defeat or fight al qaeda in iraq. you had the infrastructure that kept a stable awareness of what was going on on the ground in iraq. and you had maliki in check. if you want to say the status of forces agreement was part of it. we needed more troops and obama didn't want to send them. the biggest mistake the president made is when we did leave we stopped diplomatically and political lima niewferring maliki.

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now 50% believed george bush is to blame. there's a big partisan response. my guess is that if barack obama is in office for eight years, there will still be 30% that say it is george bush to blame. kelly: people are concerned about their wallets and what kind of taxes they will encounter. under the obama administration, what do people think in terms of looking other taxes throughout this administration? >> this is one of the big challenges that president obama faces right now. 48% of americans say their taxes will go up during the obama years 39% say they will go down. -- 9% say they will go down. the president campaigned on promising to cut taxes for most americans. when he was first sworn in, only 29% of americans thought their taxes would go up. almost as many thought their taxes would go down. there was more of a balanced. the numbers over the past several months have moved in a direction that creates some political trauma for the president. kelly: when you look at these numbers, they can cause people to feel down during the holiday season, and believe

these are the same con spir tiss who thought george bush had something to do with 9/11. you're not going to satisfy that segment of our population, and you're never going to convince the taliban, either. so let's get on with the rest of the proof so rational people can see it and agree with it and get on with the war on terror. it's not over. usama bin laden is dead but the war on terror is not over. bill: one question on that. >> sure. bill: do you think this photo will only be released eventually and it's only a question of time? >> i'm not sure of that. it's in pretty tight custody. i wouldn't release it until at least future generations and maybe not even then. it's a gruesome crime photo. remember, here's the question you have to ask, bill, is it worth the life of one u.s. soldier or marine to release this photo. if violence spikes up and it takes one life that may not have had to happen, it -- is it worth it, absolutely not. it's not worth it. we have other proof. raggal people should get on board with this and let's move on and allow our soldiers to do what they d

to george hw bush to clinton and george w. bush on 9/11. this is a responsibility a president must be willing and able to shoulder. the problem with this president was evident in the speech he made in purchase new york last friday. there was no script. and what he said is the world has always been a messy place. saying this is ordinary and this is just normal. there was an interesting pew charitable trust poll in late august. 65% of americans think the world is a more dangerous place. 27% think it hasn't changed that much. they think what they are seeing in iraq, ukraine and libya and afghanistan and elsewhere around the world is a much dangerous, much more threatening world than they have seen in the past. and the president doesn't seem to be up to dealing with it. bill: 350 more americans are have been authorized to go into iraq and protect the u.s. embassy. you see this number continue to pick up by the week. not by the day but by the week. though they stress no combat troops, these troops are not used to fight a battle. you put that wit

some historians will say, i really like what george bush did. some will say i really don't like what george bush did. you know when he did them. it will be hard for them to be able to an louisiana things objectively. bill: the reason why the question is so important because in his presidential library that opens in a few days, he asks that question, you decide. what would you have done faced with these decisions. there is polling, some people, a lot of folks are warming up to the president. his former senior advisor karl rove is our guest out of austin, texas. we'll talk with him. martha: we'll look forward to that. there are new details emerging from president obama's budget proposal proposal will your taxes rise if this goes through. bill: how to prosecute the boston many bombing suspect. the man that prosecuted the shoe-bomber, richard reid. he will tell us dzhokhar tsarnaev's citizenship should be revoked and that is not all. [ male announcer ] how do you measure happiness? by the armful? by the barrelful? e carful? how about...by the bowlfu

it's true that george bush -- george bush essentially had the same position as ted kennedy on immigration reform, and karl rove was another person who had really urged the party to embrace some short of comprehensive immigration reform. it went nowhere and it became a flash point. let's not try to pretend that this has just been something that was ignored. this was a real flash point, it was something that the conservative base gets very riled up about, and it is something that played a big part in the primary, and really alienated. gregg: like the spanking at the polls on tuesday. whenever you get the spanking you kind of straighten up and reconsider your behavior. tony, americans are very compassionate and have a great sense of fairness. they understand that more than a million americans came here as children of illegals through no fault of their own. isn't it time for your party to engage in a full-throated endorsement of the d.r.e.a.m. act or something similar being crafted by rubio? >> exactly i think senator rube kwroeu is the kind of leader who is taking a very reasonable step, ext

george p. bush. george prescott bush is the nephew of the former president, and the son of the former florida governor jeb bush. he's 36 years old. he filed his paperwork to become a candidate. as of right now we don't no exactly what office he will seek. he is a young man to watch, has been for some time. j.c. penney customers not buying the store's new pricing plan eliminating hundreds of discounts. the chain is reporting 123 million losses, dismal sales. hundreds of packs of cigarettes going up in smoke in burbank, california. a raging fire breaking out at a cigarette wholesale company. talk about secondhand smoke. tough neighborhood to be in right now. bill: sure is. we are three days after the election, there is still no winner in the battleground state of florida, that delay due in part to a deluge of last-minute absentee ballots which are very popular. phil keating is live in miami. is the day finally the day for florida, phil. >> reporter: everyone has told me as of right now 66 of 67 countie

george bush, the first george bush, came to office in a very weak economy. he paid for it because it looked like he didn't know how to handle it, and i think some of this gyration is, obviously, an indication that traders don't like this economy, and will this president pay for it? who knows. >> reporter: the one we just experienced ranked number ten, but in terms of percent, it wasn't that big a deal. >> reporter: how about if you added up all the days that went down? that's a lot. that's big. alisyn: so what are people supposed to do today with their money? >> reporter: don't listen to the idiots, traders. get past the noise of the market, do what's right for you. you have to be in the market for the long term. now is not the time to be selling willy-nilly because, you know what? if you have a mutual fund, it takes you a day to unload. what if you sold it yesterday and now the market's up 155? >> reporter: i'm more bearish. i think you should be more in this crazy environment, which is a huge question mark, you should be more into cash. i don't give invest

bush tonight. and we'll get a look at the george w. bush library. he will talk about a possible run of jeb bush against hillary clinton in a rematch that some will not forget. >> reporter: you describe how you appointed formerinton and yy became the best of friends. >> they became good friends which speaks volumes about both. >> reporter: what does fit mean about a possible bush-hillary clinton showdown. >> i'll still like him when jeb beats hillary. if jeb runs, i don't know if he's going to run. i hope he does because he would be a great president. martha: it's interesting. sean hannity's exclusive interview tonight on the fox news channel. eric: at the top of the hour the top military comafnld our country will sit down, raise their right hand and testify on the u.s. campaign against isis. the white house could be second guessing and changing a strategy to try to defeat the radical islamic terrorists. >> major fog rolling in and it has one u.s. city feeling a little bit misty. that's incredible. eric: the fog is not just rolling into north carolin

but the world was in agreement, but it was really george bush's standing and why. today, they said there was nothing new in anything obama said. nothing new from a year ago when george bush was president and nothing new according to the bbc. what you said is true, but it puts the lie to the narrative that it was just george bush standing in the way. bill: we will keep our focus on 2009. did we come away empty from copenhagen? was this a waste of jet fuel? >> you have to remember that these things take time to put together. there is the ad did you can bring the obama administration in last january and get a deal done by december, which does not make sense. i have been a negotiator. it takes months. the truth is that we did not have the possibility beginning last giving the obama team was just stepping up. there has been a huge amount of progress. we will get a commitment to action. frankly, we do need to china and india to step up and commit to verifiable a emissions reductions i think what we're seeing is the emergence of a new framework, particularly a focus on th

former president george h.w. bush in a hospital in houston. the 92-year-old taken there over the weekend after complaining of shortness of breath. right now we're being told he is responding well to treatment. spokesmen telling fox news this. doctors and everyone are very pleased and hope to have him out soon. that's the latest end quote. short statement. more on his condition and more on the story as we go through the day. president barack obama commuting the sentence for chelsea manning. the former army intelligence analyst serving 35 years for leaking government secrets to wikileaks will now serve only seven of those 35 years. that move already causing uproar from lawmakers on both sides who call manning a traitor. it is a big morning of news. two days before the inauguration. so here we go and good morning, i'm bill hemmer live in "america's newsroom." >> shannon: i'm shannon bream in for martha maccallum. chelsea manning is transgender was known as bradley at the time of her arrest, three days before president obama leaves office for good

bill: george bush almost won wisconsin. in the 15 seconds i have left, if you are victorious, the outcome of the recall, does it suggest something about the november he flexion your state? >> it does. we are a deeply purple state and very passionate about our politics here. it bodes very well for the gop nominee if we see victory in wisconsin in this recall election on june 5 so we need help. bill: we are two months away and the country will be watching. martha: waking up in a disaster zone. more than 600 homeowners. where do they begin to dig out this morning? that's the big question. they confront a new storm threat today. bill: living up on the taxpayer dime. there is fallout after a report showed the feds hired cloud and a psychic for a convention in vegas. martha: a women's basketball team doing something no team has ever done. [ male announcer ] drinking a smoothie with no vegetable nutrition? ♪ [ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smooth

i applauded george w. bush on september 0 2001. he d september 20 -- he said we are not at war with islam. it's a good and peaceful religion. george bush was care to say it's not war with islam. they are no more representing islam than people who bomb pea borings clinics are representing jesus christ or christianity. martha: that was over 14 years ago with george w. burke and we have seen a lot since then. >> i thought it was silly 14 years ago and i think it's even sillier now that the evidence is in. if there is something unnerving about the white house press secretary pretending to be a theologian and tell us what islam is and is not. it doesn't mean all muslims agree. but to say this is not a religious problem is to ignore the obvious and put us in greater danger as ignoring the obvious always does. >> they are representing their religion falsely as george bush indicated and the man to killed a police officer in new york. martha: how is that working for us when you look at what's going on in the world if we have been very caref

sean hannity's interview with george bush will air at a special 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on fox. you don't want to miss it. what an extraordinary relationship to have father and son as president of the united states, and to have the letters -- so who writers letters so how wonderful this world war ii hero is writing letters to his son so there's a record of their thoughts. it's remarkable. bill: so many e-mails go off into the ether and you forget about them or don't know where to locate them. there was a clip -- there was a clip on hannity, i think it ran nine minutes long, it was president bush and sean, driving at his ranch in drawford. i don't think sean asked a single question, for nine minutes, george bush was just talking and it shows you his desire now and i guess the green light that he feels to go ahead and tell and explain about his decisions that he made over eight years. martha: and he felt he took the appropriate amount of time, and -- he says everyone around me encouraged me to tell my story, and that it was my historic duty really to tel

martha: former president george w. bush saying that the u.s. can not fear freedom in the arab spring. does he have a point? and ambassador john bolton joins us live. >> in the long run this foreign policy approach is not realistic. it is not realistic to presume that so-called stability enhances our national security. nor is it within the power of america to indefinitely preserve the old order which is inherently unstable. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we've got to be smart about this. it's a smart way to go. ♪ bill: we are learning new inf

you reference your former bush george w. bush, what will you be watching when you watch the debate tonight? >> well, it's not polite to say but i'm watching to see if joe biden is all there. he is showing signs that his mental facilities are declining. and so -- and they talk about him hiding in the basement. the point is, he is not going out. prefers to do things by cutting ads. i want to see if he can handle himself in a debate. if he can't, it's hard to see the american people thinking that he is up to the job of standing up to some very hostile foreign leaders. we'll see how he does on his feet. we know he has stumbled before. it could be nothing. the problem is the expectations are so low for joe biden that if he comes out with a simple declarative sentence people will say he won the debate. on the other hand by keeping him under wraps so long, they are really playing a dangerous game because they don't have much time to recover if he really blows it. >> sandra: what about on the part of the president? joe biden has cal

i remember when george h. w. bush did the same thing from a middle school here. it is all about letting the kids understand that he wants them to do well in school. i understand the white house also had nascar drivers making public statements to the kids. it was a rather innocuous and perhaps the evidence of how difficult political discourse has become. you cannot even have the president say something positive to the kids. megyn: we are so divided right now, with president obama hitting the 50% disapproval rating faster than all but two other presidents. is that part of the problem? people in this country do not support president obama? >> i would not write this off as politics. it is fishy that there is some homework here. one has to admit that writing a letter to yourself on how you can help the president raises questions about policy issues. the president has not pushed any education reform issues yet in his administration. but going to elementary school kids to talk about dropping out, what about high school kid? when you look at who the president has support

there is no difference between governor romney and president george bush. how would you react to that? >> first off, governor romney as scribes to what president ronald reagan called peace through strength. if he wants to talk about policies of the past and peace through strength versus the weakness he's shown we are happy to talk about that. first off making sure our military is strong. governor romney wants it to be so strong that no one would even think about testing it. on the other hand, president obama has made almost a trillion dollars in cuts to our military, which is devastating. bill: they are claiming that your camp has no specifics, and that governor romney has been -- he's been not entirely all over the map but he's changed his view on iraq, and you just heard the charge from the obama team that he would keep us in iraq for ten to 20 years if not further. i imagine governor romney is going to respond to all of this. i guess the question is, what does he lay it out? >> well, governor romney has talked about his foreign policy. he did so at a spe

former white house deputy chief of staff to george w. bush. good morning to you. you have 20 democrats who won't go to the inauguration. was it that way 16 years ago? i remember protests but i don't remember lawmakers saying i'm not going to show up. >> i think that might have been because of the reaction of president-elect bush to the democrats reaction itself. on december 18th the leader of the house democrats dick gephart, a good man. he is a patriot. he went on "meet the press" and tim russert asked do you think george w. bush is the legitimacy i elected president of the united states and he refused to answer. the response of president-elect bush and his transition was to ignore it. as a result, it didn't become a feeding frenzy. i'm confident there were a number of democrats who refused to show up at the inaugural in 2001 but it wasn't an issue because bush was busly getting ready to serve and engaged in an outreach to the hill involving democrats and republicans. the first person he called in the congress after the supreme court decision was ted kennedy. one

bush and president barack obama can walk and chew gum at the same time and they are as george bush was talking to the military every single day trying to find a way out of this conflict. bill: dana perino said she would advise president bush when to take a bike ride because it does not look good. >> it doesn't look good. to get to a serious point, this is a situation where veterans of operation iraqi freedom feel like a lot has been lost. they feel like a lot of their brothers in arms were killed for nothing. and that's a serious problem president obama has on its hand. the question will be does obama-care more about politic and the agenda of the republican party or does he want to make sure things overseas are not done for no reason. based on his history and pattern of how he handles these things, it seems his priorities are on making speeches about climate change and make sure that was all for nothing. bill: if you could do the schedule all over. do you think it would be wise to pull back on that? why go to the fundraiser and make a speech on climate change. >> i'll double down on th

. >> george bush and his predecessor created jobs faster than you did, governor. bill: it went from there. was there an edge on jobs? >> it was like a tennis match with both of these guys at the net. perry has the edge on jobs because of his record of job creation in texas. if he didn't have that job creation record he wouldn't be in the race. it's his strongest part. romney did pretty well attacking him and defending a record that's okay but not as impressive as perry's. bill: the next two debates are both in florida where social security is a huge issue so that will come up again with rick perry and the rest of the panelists. newt gingrich was firing bombs from the left side of the stage. a lot of people those was hot. we'll get to him in a minute. perry was the clear front runner in a poll that has flip-flopped. it has gone back and forth. 26% perry, romney at 18 follows him. do these numbers change as of last night? >> my feeling is the order will not change. perry will stay in the lead. i think the margin may get closer. you may see romney moving up but my gu

this is the way george bush did thing and bill clinton did things. it's not the way i'm going to do things. he was emphatic. are you okay with the fact he was emfat wick that and now he's doing exactly what everybody else has done? >> i think i have to understand the rules of war and rules of politics. you have a congress that is basically about obstructing, paralysis, doing nothing, and you have a president who he i'm not going to allow my term to go through with nothing getting done. the american people, it's in the tank. >> reporter: the irony here, the irony here is a lot of these delays are what republicans said they wanted. if you went back to congress. and said let's get this done, it probably could happen. >> on self occasions republicans in the house said let's pass a law that says we'll delay the mandate and he said we'll veto that. that's the correct way to do that but he said he will veto that even when congress is working towards his end. there were a lot of people who agree on this issue. what did he do? he didn't try to convince people

rare commentary from former president george w. bush. here is what he had to say about the travel ban, whether or not it helps in the fight against terror, etc. >> i think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat. the enemy is good be exploiting weakness. we need to project strength. whether or not the domestic politics helps them or not. >> bill: are you for or against the ban? >> i'm for an immigration policy that is welcoming and upholds the law. >> shannon: ed henry is live in washington what did the former pet have to say about the current president trying to unify the country? >> it's interesting. on the "today" show today he was asked the context being you came to power when the country was very divided after that close 2000 election. how much do you have see the country being divided now? how much worse do you think it may be now? former president george w. bush didn't want to go there and compare the two election cycles and didn't want to look like he was criticizing the current president. as you know he

we've seen what george bush was able to do against mccain even though he did very well here. i think it will be a big challenge, but i think he's up to it. greg: chris stirewalt, up early, good morning in new hampshire. 23% for ron paul in second-place, 17 for huntsman, how good or mediocre is this evaluation of his candidacy now? >> look, the problem for governor huntsman is this is problem below about as good as it will ever be for him. it's a state of lot of independents, a state with a lot of democrats, who are -- people who are democratic voters who are independent, who came out for him. the fact that he could not sur mount ro surrmo u.n. t ron paul's number casts shadows on the west of what he's doing. his message is that the republican party needs to return to sanity. he is talking about social conservative is eupl and a hard-line conservative attitude. authors the attitudes that hold sway inside the south carolina electorate. >> his team would argue that a few weeks ago his team had him in 7%. the exit polling we found in new hampshire showed that moderates, democrats

george w. bush, the 9/11 interview, premieres sunday, august 28th, 10:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on the national geographic channel. make sure that you watch this. and on september 11th, tune in to fox, we will have complete coverage of ten years since that historic day. i was down at ground zero yesterday and i assure you, it is going to be remarkable for you to take a journey down there with us as well on that day. gregg: martha, thank you very much. >>> we do have new concerns about hurricane irene. it actually could shut down oil refineries all along the east coast. what that may mean for already high gas prices. >>> plus -- the tempers are flaring in the mad dash to get out of hurricane irene's path. what sparked that nasty fight? coming up. >> this serious hurricane has already caused significant damage in puerto rico and elsewhere. we're taking this storm very seriously. and i know that our state and local partners are as well. in fact, we've already seen a number of states declare emergency even ahead of the storm. gregg: secretary napolitano saying ex

george bush used contractors to provide security. we use the libyan guys to provide security in libya. the problem was the libyans weren't up to the job. the administration looked at all these countries. they helped topple dictators, now they were dictators but pro-american dictators and kept peace with israel in place 40 years. now what are you seeing? country after country in chaos or electing anti-american, islamist muslim brotherhood leaders. bill: what you're arguing they took all the decisions and flipped them on their head 180 degree turn. >> yeah. bill: how is that working out. >> not very well but they have gotten away with it so far. you and fox news have been carrying out the call but no other mainstream media is paying attending. they didn't pay attention until it became a sex scandal with david petraeus and everybody paid attention a little bit but mostly about the sex scandal. here we are 10 weeks later we still don't have any explanation what happened, why it happened or who did it. ultimately there will be hearings. p