andy card, former chief of staff for president george w. bush joins us now. andy, welcome. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you, thank you for the remembrances that you're generating. martha: you know i heard you many times recount what that moment was like, but today, you know, as we look back, tell us again, you know, when it sunk into you, when you relayed the message to the president, what was it like? >> standing at the door to the classroom the president did know a plane hit one of the toyers at the world trade center. he thought it was a small twin-engine prop mean. when i was told it was not a small twin-engine prop lean but a commercial airliner i knew the second plane hit i knew the president had to know about it. i passed fact, and one editorial comment and drew nothing to invite a question. i opened the door to the classroom. when it was appropriate i walked over to the president and leaned over into his right ear, a second plane hit a second tower, america is under attack. i stood back from him so they didn't ask me a question. i pleased how he respo

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martha: joined by my panel a former speechwriter to president george w. bush and, a former advisor to hillary clinton and a fox news contributor, good morning, good to have you both here. and every time sarah palin speaks out, she seems to get a lot of attention and doesn't mince word, to be sure and this time, bill, she has said that the president has put us on the road to ruin, your thoughts on that? >> well, you know, as a former speechwriter i went back and read the speeches and read her speech and read ronald reagan's speech, time for choosing which i think she was trying to imitate his speech, and, there are remarkable parallels and people think her rhetoric is inflammatory ought to look at what ronald reagan said in 1964, complete with ronald reagan complained bu using the word insurance to describe social security and sarah palin complained about president obama using the word investment to talk about federal spending. martha: what do you think? it's not surprising given the things sarah palin has said, she has no fan of president and thinks he ha

and dee dee behnke, former campaign aide for president george w. bush. happy new year, ladies. i'm so happy to for you to join us today. jehmu, this is a mess, isn't it. >> it is absolutely a mess, rick. happy new year. this is what is happening in d.c. is poor and pathetic. if this is new normal we'll have to make serious changes. there is a lot of blame to go around. i think the brunt of the blame lands on republicans who for the last two years have forgotten their serious responsibility of making government work. i think a lot of freshmen members came in the 2010 congress actually wanted to break government, and they have done that effectively. but the blame doesn't end with republicans. it starts with republicans. it moves to even the high per active into news media which we're a part of. the voters are to blame because they have gotten rid of moderates who helped legislation move forward and they have replaced them with really, really idealogical extremists and put insurgents in our legislative body. rick: let me turn to dee dee. you put a lot out there. i want to give her

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that's how barack obama on, that's how george bush on. we've never seen such low affinity for candidates, we don't know how this is going to work. martha: clearly during the primary season, donald trump was able to get a lot of that rolling. people just saying trump, trump, trump. when you talk to them in different parts of the country, very enthusiastic. one of the strongest things i thought he said last night was what we played, that has turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves . i think they're getting a little bit deeper. it could raise the question also, he said in the first debate donald trump said yeah, i pick up the phone and ask about supporting hillary clinton and then you call them back when they are in office and you can get somewhere with that. is that going to hurt him? >> i doubt it. his argument basically is yeah, i'm part of a corrupt system but i've been exploiting it for myself to make money, make profit. the danger for trump is twofold. number one, the trump university and the fraud st

no one ever doubted whether george bush was all-in trying to defeat enemy. the iraq surge and everything showed that when he took personal time, we shouldn't overreact to everything, they didn't confuse that as lack of interest in defeating enemy. abby: on topic of terrorism this is big news out of the day, cia director, coming out saying he is doing awith waterboarding even if the president tells him to do it. here is what he said earlier. >> absolutely i would not, i would not agree to having any cia waterboarding carrying out waterboarding again. abby: kt, you tweeted about this morning. caught my attention. waterboarding debate is cheap trick by politicians and appointees to trash other politicians like donald trump. >> look donald trump, senator ted cruz said they would water board. now what does that mean? there are two types of interrogation in this world and there are two types of terrorists and two types of scenarios. one is called the ticking time bomb scenario. the assumption is the president knows there is a dirty bomb in lower manhattan, it will

ballpark, president george h.w. bush tossed the ball from his wheelchair a few feet from home plate. he was pumped, he was happy to sit there and watch the game. by the way, the royals beat them. >> go on our facebook page and like the picture. martha: donald trump and the rnc are locked in a hot fight over the mom nation process. the party is firing back. good morning, name martha maccallum. eric: i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer. mr. trump is saying in his view the rules are stacked against him. now he's accusing the republican national committee from conspiring to keep him from winning the nomination. >> our republican system is absolutely rigged. it's a phoney deal. these are dirty tricksters. and i'll tell you why. the rnc, the republican national committee, they should be ashaped of themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen. they should be ashamed of themselves. martha: is donald trump partly right in what he's saying? >> i don't think he's right at the system was rigged. if it were a rigged system

we remember 1988, george h.w. bush, read my lips, no new taxes, and he was really raked over the coals when he ended up having to agree to a tax bill that did raise some taxes. so this is a problem. and i think it goes to a deeper problem with donald trump's candidacy if he doesn't reach those 1237 delegates. if he doesn't do that on the first ballot, a lot of those delegates are unbound, and those are party faithful, people who don't believe in raising taxes, who actually care about issues that donald trump up to this point has not seemed to care about. so once they're released after the first ballot, it becomes chaotic. and donald trump's chances of winning the nomination then, i think, really go down significantly after that first ballot -- bill: may not get that far. we don't know. michael warren, thanks, from washington d.c. the other thing trump has talked about in the past is he hates paying taxes. martha: yeah. bill: trying to figure out how to may as minimal amount as possible. martha: that statement clea

bush. hi, matthew. >> high hi, bill. bill, what do you think of limbaugh's comments? >> it is really complicated. some could argue whether it is fair, if you play by the rules, you benefit. that is what trump is seeing right now. i think his argument is valid one. that is dissecting a policy that already exists. it exists differently by state. the other thing that trump is learning is hard lesson playing nice with everyone because he hasn't spent time wooing delegates. he hasn't spent time wooing party people. he sees that is problematic. in many states those delegates choose whether he is nominee or not. bill: marjorie, did i hear this right, you agree with refresh your recollection limbaugh? >> i know. it's a little confusing but -- he is playing by the rules. bill: we have it on camera now. matt, go ahead. >> i'm in trouble. i agree with rush limbaugh and marjorie. i think russias this exactly right. look, i've been involved in two presidential campaigns. i've been involved with the rnc. this is little bit of an arcane process. he has a fantastic fe clec shun lawye

jeb bush and george bush, john mccain and mitt romney will be skipping the convention. tore region rains creating catastrophic flooding in texas. these are stunning picture shot from a drone showing the devastation in rosenburg, texas. the river cresting at 54 feet. some horses were forced to seek die land on a front porch. >> think is something we have never encountered. it's frightening to us. reporter: what was going through your mind when you tried to get out? >> that my kid were safe. >> it came up so fast, i couldn't believe it. bill: casey is just outside of houston. how does it look today? reporter: thing don't look too good as the sun is coming out. we are in the eveningwood mobile home park in eveningwood, can. the brazos river is in this direction. it has filled homes and subject merged cars. it's too early to tell how many houses and businesses have been lost. but it has got to be in the hundreds. a huge area affected by this historic flooding from houston to austin. the problem is all the rain that fell to our north the last several days is making its way d

similar to what he george bush did very often. was it a tough week? absolutely. but he had a lot of tough week and there is a long way to go. i said a long time ago i thought this would be resolved in california. >> in terms of his response to the worse week, he said i should never have retweeted that picture of heidi cruz. how well do you think he did at cleaning up those tough issues? >> anyone who goes into a chris matthews interview should be ready for these. it was an easy question. i would have nailed it and so would anyone who has experience with media gotcha questions. but he's learning. one of the things i'm enjoying about this campaign, there is a lot of excitement because it's new, they have never don't before, and they are going against seasoned reporters and seasoned politicians. he should have been ready. but i'm hoping moving forward he will be ready in the future. >> originally when i went out with 17 people. we are down to three. i have two leftovers. they haven't been nice to me. i will beat them. of after i beat them i will be so presidential,

my next guest, governor sununu, served as white house chief of staff under george w. bush. you said the president is indifferent. what did you mean by that comment? >> i want to give credit to democratic congresswoman and frank wolf for the focus they have been giving to this. they got congress to pass a law that requires the president to appoint an 10 invoice to represent christians and other minorities in iraq and he failed to do that. and he's had that responsibility for a year on a piece of legislation he signed. the news release and the comments by his press secretary when they talked about the 21 egyptian coptic christians that were beheaded by the islamic state. they refused to comment that they were christians, deliberately omitting the fact that they were christians. there seems to be a sense that they don't want to admit there is a focus by isis in eliminating the christian community that part of the world. bill: the numbers are staggering. explain the indifference. why do you think that would be if your theory is right. >> i don't know. it's a blight on this admi

bush. this is something that they've done in the past. i think it's very hypocritical that they're now trying to raise a big, fake be outrage -- fake outrage that donald trump would reserve the right to challenge something if there's an in-fair action that's taken. bill: sarah, you have 18 days. polling suggests the election's moving away from you. we'll see what happens in a couple days once we start to digest the events of w what is the strategy, sarah, with 18 days to go to win? >> look, actually, three of the last three national polls that have come out show trump leading. but i think it's very simple. one of two people are going to be president after this election is over, either hillary clinton or donald trump. be people are sick and tired -- if people are sick and tired of business as usual, a pay-to-play, scandal-ridden candidate bull of corruption that's -- full of corruption that's controlled by the washington and wall street elites, then hillary clinton is their candidate. if they're wanting somebody who can come in and shake u

bush, "washington post" columnist and host of the podcast. what is going on here? "the new york times" accused of glorifying cancer culture, celebrating teenage revenge narrative. the publishing of the report? >> yeah, the cancer culture has gone too far when we start canceling teenagers for the stupid things they said when they were 15. what she said was indefensible, but i don't think any of us, and most of us would have never said it, i don't think we want to be defined by the stupidest thing we said or did when we were 15 years old. i feel really badly, i feel sorry for this generation because you are much younger than i am, but we grew up before the age of social media and back then we were free to make stupid mistakes and do stupid things and it would be forgotten. today in the age of social media and lives on forever. the stupidest thing you did or said, it will follow you for the rest of your life. she did this on snapchat. the reason snapchat is popular is because the videos are supposed to disappear. they don't disappear. nothing disappears in the age of

john ashcroft was the attorney general under president george w. bush. ceo of the ashcroft group and with me from his home state. sir, thank you for your time today. i'm curious for you to reflect, you were there in the beginning days 12 years ago. how far have we come? or how far do we still need to go? >> well, first of all, we have come a long way. with the coordinated efforts, things were pretty fragmented until 9/11 gal -- galvanized us and the creation of the department of homeland security. the proliferation of joint terrorism task forces. the whole idea of integrating our efforts. there's long way to go but we have come a long way. i think we're seeing that in the way in which the response is being made to boston. i think the individuals on the ground sifting through of course mountains of evidence, the kind of evidence we have now is so different than it was then because so much more is photographed. and of course a lot of people would be taking pictures at the finish line of friends and relatives who were crossing or running in the race. so one

gregg: it's a girl for former first daughter jenna bush hager. former president pw- george w. bush announcing the birth. it's margaret laura, hager. she was born in new york city. both mother and daughter are doing quite well. heather: congratulations. here ace question for you, can a company patent human genes? that is the question that the supreme court is trying to answer today. a gene patenting is a multi-million dollar industry and the court's decision could reshape medical research and the fight against certain types much cancer. joining is now is doug burns a former federal prosecutor. he'll provide some more insight for us. i was amazed to learn that the u.s. pat want and trademark office has been awarding patents on human genes for more than 30 years now. >> yes. heather: as we said it's a multi-million dollar business. >> yes, they've been awarding thousands of them. it's really amazing. some of the commentary i read said it was kind of a bad idea that has now been embedded in cement. you know what i mean? to break this down real simple the southern district of new y

president obama, former president george w. bush, jimmy carter, they also plan to attend. a foreign affairs correspondent joins us now in johannesburg, south africa. so the preparations are underway >> it's remarkable. the world is coming together to south africa and that is what a spokesman for the government said today. we have been watching as the dignitaries arrived in this is the former and final home with nelson mandela. as you can imagine, south africa security is gearing up. 11,000 troops and police have been deployed in over 70 heads of state are coming to this country. president obama, 26 congressmen, adding friends and those from around the world. prince charles all the way to raul castro. they will all be there in johannesburg, not far from the neighborhood where nelson mandela spent so much of his life. tens of thousands of dignitaries and the range of people that will be there at that event and elsewhere, telling us just how huge the reach of this man was. heather: thank you and we will be covering it. bill: a medical emergency on a cruise ship. the daring re

former assistant to president george w. bush brad blakeman. as you know states have individual rights to confer certain benefits and privileges and i just named a few of them but has the president now created by executive fiat a status for these people that is so vague and ambiguous that it is really left the states in a situation where they have to cobble together or craft rules that are inherently inconsistent? >> absolutely, gregg the you know as a lawyer and i know as a lawyer that the executive order that the president issued on immigration is a trampling of states rights. the states are not going to put up with it. we saw what governor brewer did of arizona. she issued her own executive order. there will be no driver's licenses to create a status for people here illegally. remember on 9/11. how did the hijackers got on planes? they used driver's license. they weren't here legally. you create a whole quandary of props for people that intend bad acts against americans but also trampling of states rights where they have to follow a vague la

this started with george bush and now it's going on with this president. that is quite a commitment when you double the number of border patrol agents you're not -- you can't say they are not trying to enforce. the concern i have is if you have one person slipping across the border just one does that mean our border isn't secure? i don't know what the mechanics tricks are -- matrix are for border security. >> senators mccain, schumer and others were on the border and watched a woman climb the 18-foot fence and she was nabbed. if you're serious about border security do you that first and try to manage the population that is already here. by the way, bill we have very limited information as to these 11 million, we don't know know if there are 11 million. why don't we try to get a handle on who is here, why they are here and where they are before we move forward. bill: good points. thank you ladies. julie thank you, monica thanks to you as well. alisyn: be honest, everyone, do you text while driving? there is an eye-opening new study and it find that most peo

he serves as the white house chief of staff under president george w. bush. great to have you with us again. >> thank you for having me. it is good to be here. >> it has to really reflect on what has worked in the past and what they have to do to reflect the realities in the future. we have to recognize that the republican party is the party of small government and the government closest to the people governs best. we have to demonstrate that we want to build a grassroots team with political leaders and governmental leaders to become the a-team. i think we can do that with looking at some of our governors like nikki haley in south carolina, for example. we are the party of values. a lot of immigrants came to the country of the united states because of the values that the republican party has protected for so long. we are the party of the strong national defense. but we still have to stop being the exclusive party in being inclusive party there is plenty of room to reflect the values of what it means to be an american. we have to invite people into be part of

we are 23 months earlier than george w. bush's first visit in june of 1999. bill: why is it this early? >> i have a theory. the political system makes a judgment as to when you are going to turn a page on the pathr president in his second term. the sooner i start to turn that page the more that activity ramps up. we have joe biden who will focus on his 2016 hopes. the senator from minnesota is going to make an appearance in the state. i'm thinking the political system is starting to say, president obama, you are in our second term and you are going to become a lame duck and it looks like it will be sooner than later. president bush's approval ratings in 2005 were slightly above were president obama's are today. but he was engaged in the system and the system was moving. the congress had passed thus far in 2005, a trade agreement with central america, the first energy policy bill in decade, a multi-year highway bill. it was the last time the president and the congress had a multi-year funding bill. bill: you are argue he was active and relevant. >> you mention

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 was down 8 points before this convention and he was up 8 after. watch what happens after our convention. martha: i'm sure you are right about that. but this is the sauce and as it gets made. they want a roll call. good to have you with us. question is, too much bag and to be president? we'll address that. we'll show you the new ads after this. they brought this on themselves. now it's war, and i want them dead! the fleas and ticks? their whole gang. we can do that. only bravecto kills fleas & ticks for up to 12 weeks with one tasty chew. starts killing fleas in two hours and kills nearly 100% in under twelve. and it's fda approved. bravecto is for dogs 6 months of age or older. don't worry, princess, we'll settle the score. tonight we ride, with bravecto!! ask your vet about 12-week protection with bravecto. s. martha: this is the first time we have seen debbie wasserman-schultz since she resigned. she'll not preside overred the convention she worked on for four years. this is the chaos that ensued as she tried to talk. >> you will see me every da

when george bush got the authorization to go into iraq he got it before he openly used it based on contingencies and scenarios he believed could happen. this president indicated all along up until friday when secretary of state john kerry made essentially a declaration of war that syria couldn't use chemical weapons, it violates norms in the international community since 1935, all good points, by the way. and after kerry made the clear reason why unilateral action was necessary in syria, now the president says it's not immediate. we don't need to do it soon. we can wait until september 9 when conscious comes back. it shows to me a real ambivalence give the president over his own policies. this is a tinder box that's affects the arab world and our relationship with iran. if we are going to play in syria that is directly taking on tehran. the way we are playing it is incoherent and in conflict with the rest of our policy. heather: you have the asawfd regime questioning the steadfastness of the united states saying we last our never. how do we as the united states present a united front to the worl

i am and always will be a george w. bush's comprehensive immigration reform republican. i want immigrants to come to this nation because we are the best on earth. we are a good place, and we want to help people who are suffering and hurting, but you have to come here legally. that is what america is about. that is our history and future. when i hear democrats say that this about open borders, borders that are open. because you can no longer detained under the democrats plan if someone comes across the border illegally. you can no longer deport if someone comes here illegally. the democrats want to make it like a traffic ticket. decriminalized entering america illegally. it will create a surge of illegal immigrants. >> bill: how do people react when there are no borders on health care, college education, no borders on the actual border? >> drivers licenses, all of these enticements that they are offering, it is going to attract more illegals, and as this is why border security must come first. i think -- i have only reached this conclusion recently. they want more illegal

bush here on this how are you doing? >> good morning. bill: you follow the story, you heard what kirby had to say, think about it. >> i don't care what john kirby said, he made ad mirable case why it is not a ran some. this is ultimate, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and acts like a duck it is probably a duck. when you got into negotiations with iran, there was a wink and nudge we want these people back. we want the money back, make it happen. that is much too close looking like a ransom. bill: john kerry talked about this in fact kerry said this on january 16 the day the president spoke, watch. >> no question the pace and progress of the humanitarian talks being accelerated in light of the relationships forged and the diplomatic channels unlocked over the course of the nuclear talks. bill: so it was the next day, i found the statement from the state department where he talked about this money going to tehran. the point he is making is, hey, unless we did all of this stuff, unless we built relationships, none of this is even

back in 2004, in new hampshire, when george bush was taking on john kerry, kerry won this state by one percentage point, this is a guy who is from the state of massachusetts, right to the southern border of new hampshire. in 200, a bit of a different story. on the map behind us, blue is democrat, red is republican, in 2008, barack obama had no problem with john mccain, 54-45 percent, a difference of nine points. so which way is it going to go this year? what kind of an impact will you have from romney and perry going at it? carl cameron is live there this morning. good morning to you. you are hearing about changes in the primary calendar. what's up with that? >> reporter: well, you know, there's always a rush to get to the front of the pack and be one of the first states, and that is going to unfold, and you know, new hampshire changed a lot in the 2010 midterm, it had been for a number of years much minister bipartisan, a lot more democratic office holders. that slipped dramatically in 2010, so the granite state is a lot more conservative than it's been for the last couple of cycles a

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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. >> well, i tend to view this more along the lines of mitch mcconnell, than the world's smartest man, charles krauthammer. continuing all the bush tax cuts for the next 2 years will be better at keeping things in the economy with a chance of being better rather than worse and to let them expire would have been a disaster and to have raised taxes on small business would have hurt the economy and we kept damage being done to the economy and that will be helpful to obama and he'll be in a better place than the president would be otherwise and the bill was not what the pre

my former boss, george w. bush, one spoke of the soft bigotry of low expectations. that is bill de blasio's progressivism. he had a plan to turn around failing schools. it flopped. they spent $773 million. didn't improve any schools. so his advisor say we are never going to educate these black and latino kids, so instead of lifting them up, we are going to bring others down by attacking the gifted and talented programs. that's what they want to phase out. and he spends him time packing these programs or that charter schools that work. they have the passage rates for english, reading, and math. and then 90% range. very integrated schools. their public schools too, they should be applauded, but they're not. this is what happens when you obsess over race and you emphasize that over merit. and the really stinky part of it is the cynical assumption that these black kids can learn. but charter schools have proof of that is false. >> jon: pointing out that they are not occupied by the teachers union. >> exactly. that's where the mayor doesn't like them. >> jon: bill mcgurn

karl rove is the former white house deputy chief of staff under president george w. bush. he is also a fox news contributor and joins us now. karl, always good to see you. either the white house or gettysburg. both are apparently controversial. some saying the white house is the people's house and shouldn't be used as a campaign back drop. bill crystal, not a fan of the president saying this about gettysburg saying. the good news him speaking there. it is more ludicrous and sickening. the choice of location will backfire and the world will little note nor long remember what trump says there. your thoughts? >> i think there is a problem having the acceptance speech at the white house, which is the people's house and generally kept apart from politics. but in 2000 on his way to the republican national convention in philadelphia, then governor of texas george w. bush made several talks along the way in which were broadcast on successful nights of the convention. the night before he gave his acceptance speech he appeared at gettysburg. he didn't appear on the battlefield itsel

i'm not going to defend george w. bush. i think he made a number of mistakes in the iraq war, pursuing the iraq war. but at the end of his administration he turned over a stable iraq to barack obama. what did obama do? he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. gregg: she said she put the lid on iran's nuclear program. we'll see how that works out. kt, thanks very much. heather: did the dnc do everything in its power to get hillary clinton a post-convention bounce in the polls? we'll debate that fair and balanced straight ahead. heather: new developments on an alleged plot to bomb u.s. embassy building in south africa. reporter: heather, shock new evidence has been we vealed by south africa's police in court against two twin brothers accused of preparing a bomb plot against u.s. and jewish interests in south africa and of being members of isis. police say tony shown with his finger on a detonator button and wearing a suicide vest under his clothe. his brother poses with an assault rifle. and there was a suicide vest said

>> what happened two years ago, after george bush lifted the moratorium on off shore drilling, prices started to tumble, they were at $147, made their way down to $33 a barrel, then the speculators that everyone likes to point their fingers at jumped in and pushed prices up even further. so at the pump we reflected that big move from 147 down to 33, then things started to change, oil turned right back around and started heading up and sure enough, gasoline prices, they're very quick to go up on the pump, on the way up, and the problem srgs and this is somewhere some -- where some gouging laws come into effect, on the way down, when they should be coming down more, like oil prices coming down more, the gas prices eeks down a little bit. it needs to get aggressive down lower and again, unless something changes in the drilling and refining world, prices will head back u alisyn: it sure will help if they're 25 cents less around memorial day. pill bill: know what i paid in florida yesterday? alisyn: >> what? >> bill: 5.79. alisyn: was that to fuel the space shuttle or a car! bill: good que

just the same way george bush when times were tough for him it was about the war and in fact we can tell from exit polls, from polling going into this, the policies played a huge impact and, particularly, health care. and, all you have to do is look at joe manchin, west virginia's governor, democrat, who won, trying to distance himself from health care reform saying we'll repeal the bad parts of the law and you saw that across the board, with a lot of these democrats, who are trying to save themselves. and, you certainly saw it in the polling, for... bill: joe manchin may be a democrat in name only, huh? >> i think that's right. bill: a dino as opposed to a rino, and, he pulled it out, in the election, and, if you look at the house votes, actually and the central part of the country, when you look at house members who broke in favor of the health care legislation, the third week in march, late comers that put it over the top, were in tough battles, indiana, barrett hill loses. ohio, john becierri lose, and steve driehaus loses and mary jo kilroy loses, they are democrats who voted in fav

we could not get a security agreement under george w. bush to stay in iraq. when were not wanted there. we got out of iraq on bush's time line and as us of forces agreement could not be obtained. bill: others would argue we did not fight for it under the current administration. >> we did and we couldn't get it. >> the president did not engage like he should have and he had no relationship at all with maliki. he could have forced maliki to do that. bill: this is part of the debate we are going to have for a very long time pause we have a new enemy and it lives there between that border. prad, thank you. alan. martha: the united kingdom is on the bridge of a breakup according to the polls. scotland gets ready for a very historic vote. will they break away? and what does it mean for the rest of the world? and a rogue butterfly, look at this, oh, my gosh, on her nose. the butterfly sat on her nose. my fast it story. we'll be right back. no matter where you want to be or what you want to do, chances are we're already there. 12 brands. more hotels than anyone else

many people saw relations get frosty between vladimir putin and george bush. now it is a new day, new men. we will wait to see. thank you, dana. gregg: all right, police are now saying that guests of steve mcnair, quarterback -- saying that the death of steve mcnair is now a murder case. what they are not telling us is the story about the woman on screen right, found a dead at the scream -- scene of the crime. megyn: sarah palin says that the never-ending attacks on her values, family, and children, forced her to step down from the governor's office. what is next? new information when we come back. unlock a supreme seafood experience with yellowfin and albacore tuna, crab, salmon and ocean fish flavors. gregg: welcome back. thousands of michael jackson fans are expected at dodger stadium sometime this morning in los angeles. they are there to get their tickets for the michael jackson memorial service. across town, the jackson family is headed to court to discuss michael jackson's will. we are outside of the los angeles supreme court superior building. what can

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

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

former new hampshire governor john sununu former staff of president george h.w. bush. what do you think about jeb last night and that exchange in particular? >> i think last few weeks jeb rediscovered politics is contact sport. i think he will take it aggressively to trump and other candidates. i think he was too polite. martha: crowd was not quiet when he shushed them. >> donald trump is getting away from a style initially got him a lot of votes. i think it is wearing thin. i have think you saw that in the crowd last night. jeb picked the right subject. eminent domain is disasterous subject for conservatives. trump doesn't seem to understand that. martha: let's look at another sound bite from jeb bush but i want to set this up he is talking about really what happened to marco rubio on saturday night and responding to whether or not he is less likely to fall into the same pattern of sort of repeating talking points as marco rubio appeared to do the other night. let's take a look. >> i got a monkey brain to be honest with you. i can't say the same thing like, i can't sa

bush, fox news contributor. how are you, doing, karl, good morning to you. let me read you part of what trump's statement was. we'll talk about, okay. the names on this letter are the ones the american people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess and we thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows who deserves to the blame making world such a dangerous place. they are nothing more than the failed washington elite looking to hold on to their power and time they are held accountable for their actions, end quote. what do you think of that? >> i think it would be better to have not issued a statement and simply ignored it and moved on. yesterday he had a good speech on the economy. he could build on that, get it in an argument with hillary clinton. best for him not to continue to get into arguments with fellow republicans. the, his opposition to the iraq war, which began in a year-and-a-half after the war began, is not a strong point with republicans. most republicans supported the war in iraq and still believe, despite all the

with more, brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to george w. bush. alan colmes, host of "alan colmes radio show." gent gentlemen, good morning. brad, you heard it there from harry s. donald trump. he is noll apologizing. he says it is good for me. >> it is no good when you have to explain yourself. no doubt the remarks were off-the-cuff. stream of consciousness that didn't work out too well. trump has to realize next 80 plus days he has to stay on message. the more he is explaining himself he is not advancing his message. he didn't mean what he left intends by the remarks but open to interpretation. my advice to donald trump, please, please, stay on message. you have so much fodder against hillary clinton, don't waste it. abby: staying on message, alan, two days ago he rolled out economic plan for the country. this is what his campaign and supporters wanting him to stick to, two days later this is dominating the headlines. >> i guess he needs a teleprompter. hillary clinton has never said anything about repealing the second amendment. he continues to

bush. now it is a political football. back and forth we go. that is where we start. i'm bill hemmer. welcome here to "america's newsroom.". martha: what a day to america. dremember. good morning, i'm martha maccallum. it was a year ago today when elite team of navy seals swarmed into a compound in abbottabad and shot enemy number one. bill: the man that ran the cia interrogation program said the groundwork for that raid started a long time ago. >> there was someone we captured, a facilitator we captured in 2004 that told us about bin laden's courier. gave us a pseudonym. >> what concerns me there is still doubt out there that people are doubting, you know, the amount of information that we got from this program that gave us the basis to go after al qaeda and destroy al qaeda. the al qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 is just amazing. bill: more from him throughout the morning. jenna -- jonah goldberg, national at large from. good morning, joe gnaw. >> good morning, bill. bill: it is a political

joined now by brad blakeman former deputy assistant to president george w bush. and ma gale johnson who is the executive getting young voters out to the polls. what did you think when he said, you're looking at him? >> i thought he's a coac ka could you remembea courageous man. he gave kind of like a stump speech. it kind of fell flat to me. the boos were one thing, talking about obamacare is another. it didn't kind of rise to the occasion. martha: that is such an interesting point. brad, perhaps that's what he did intentionally because he feels like the message for every american is about improving the jobs market, and we can show you some statisticses in a moment but it's been much rofer in the blacrofer in therougher in the black community. >> you can't give one speech to one group and another speech to another group and not be honest with who you are talking about. the president is likely to gain 95, 96% of the afghan vote even though hafrican-american vote even though he doesn't see serve it. if he said he had no time to go to the african-american convention

meanwhile president george bush 41 was aa the white house when mandela was finally released from prison in 1990 released this statement questioned. quote, as president i watched in wonder as nelson man dale la remarkable capacity to forgive jailers of after 26 years of wrongful imprisonment, setting remarkable example of grace for us all. he was a man of tremendous moral courage who changed the his country. martha: president clinton said this. history will remember nelson mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom for peace and reconciliation. we will remember him as a man of uncommon grace and compassion for whom abandoning builterness and embracing adversaries was not just a political strategy but a way of life. bill: as we mentioned a moment ago the plans for the memorial service and the funeral, they have been underway for quite some time. this will be a massive undertaking. some describing the planning as dealing with the opening and closing of the world cup. an inauguration, a coronation, all combined. there will be tens of thousands at the first public memorial event. th

republican george w. bush facing democrat al gore. with an election too close to call the supreme court making the final decision. >> this is my solemn pledge. i will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity. >> months later, an unpredictable event changed our nation. [sirens] >> 737 crashed into the side of the building. >> another plane just flew into the second tower. [screaming] >> today, we've had a national tragedy. >> we are hearing, right now, of another explosion has taken place at the pentagon. >> united 93 cleveland. identify. united 93 verify. >> nearly 3,000 people died on september 11th, 2001. president bush vowing to fight those responsible. >> i can hear you. the rest of the world hears you and the people who -- [cheers and applause] and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. [cheers and applause] >> two wars followed. one in afghanistan, one in iraq. many changes for the countries and their citizens. in iraq, long-time president saddam hussein was found in a hole. in 2006

santorum's campaign made little reference to george w. bush in the final month of that campaign. made great mention of john mccain. made his endorsement on the website. mccain felt burned by santorum. bill: that is interesting. there is so much history between all these men. 15 seconds or less. how is the romney team feeling now six days ahead of new hampshire's primary bring? >> i think they're both happy and sad. on the one hand they're happy rick perry and newt gingrich either out of the race or severely damaged. i think they're in a sense pleased to be focused with what looks like a won one one battle. on the other hand rick santorum came out of nowhere. he is surging. he clearly has momentum. he has low expectations in new hampshire. if he does well there he will be exceeding those expectations and then santorum has a good ground game and some support in south carolina. i think we're likely to see the poll numbers for santorum in south carolina when we have polling coming up showing him doing much better than expected particularly if rick perry gets out of the race. bill: st

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bret: one of the cases was miguel estrada nominated by george w. bush in 2001. senate democrats blocked that nomination with a filibuster. it was not a supreme court nominee. it was u.s. court of appeals. he is bringing up the case that this is a little hypocritical for some democrats to be talking like this >>. >> he also brought of janice rogers brown. it should elisse be put to the same standards that president obama applied to people like that. he was trying to lay out a framework for the coming discussion and the coming questioning. this is what the president himself told us was important. bret: also struck by the face of sonia sotomayor. he wondered if she had to practice not having any reaction for hours on end. we are going to dip into senator chuck grassley. he is in the middle of his opening statement, the senator from >> judges and justices must wear blindfolds when the interpreter when they interpret the constitution can't administer justice. i will be asking you about your ability to wear that judicial blindfold. i will be asking you about your abil

he was the chief of staff under president george h.w. bush. governor, always a pleasure to have you. >> good morning, gregg. gregg: this may not technically be illegal but does it smack of corruption and malfeasance that doesn't rise to the level of criminality but does underscore why 2/3 of americans believe that hillary clinton is dishonest? >> of course it does and, bill clinton has acknowledged it. he has said that if she gets elected president they won't do it anymore. but the fact that it's bad to be done means it was bad to be done when she was secretary of state. i think they have develop ad tin ear on their own venality. this makes it easy for trump surrogates to pound her while donald trump correctally focuses on agenda getting things done dealing with the immigration issue. creating jobs and getting growth back in america. the trump campaign is being smart talking about those things and clinton campaign is stuck in the mud. gregg: donna brazile who is the new dnc chair, well, we tend to criminalize normal behavior. is this really no