and the president clinton said the same thing the joys of the bush. that being the case dick cheney was put in charge of the counterterrorism task force right after the inauguration and to the best my knowledge that task force never met until september do i have that right there was a principals meeting. on september sixth of two thousand and one right so basically back was so dating is is. i'm trying to come up with a metaphor that i could see on television. throughout this this entire year of two thousand and one he's been charged with keeping the nation safe they've all been warned that this guy is coming the cia is virtually screaming at them the august sixth memo actually had a human being that a company to do that not who came out the old it all got it ok and bush like your personal briefings ok and and. and yeah george bush took the longest vacation in the history of the presidency that august and then after that he still didn't want to go back to washington d.c. you want to. florida where his brother walked down the state or state of emergency

a bush presidency. and you look at it not simply on the fiscal policies and certainly what he's talked about publicly in terms of cutting taxes, deregulation, and so forth, sounds an awful lot a like that contributed to the economic woes but if you look at the foreign policy folks, there is a very strong neo-conservatism in there. i guess if you want a third term of george w. bush, reverend, i think you're right. this is the group that would bring it to you. >> now, george bush is a very, very knowledgeable politician. easy elected to the presidency governor of texas. what is he doing? he knows the inference. what is he doing here to romney? >> you're right. he's very smart and politically savvy. the thing is, george bush, i think, doesn't really care. you make a lot of money at these kinds of speeches and frankly there's no love lost between bush himself and romney and george bush did not simply go to the republican national convention in tampa. the romney people did not want him to go, did not want vo

and i'm embarrassed that they're blaming president bush. yes, president bush did a lot wrong and let's be grownup and get on with the job. >> neil: by the way, democrats were in charge of congress, but it is what it is. sandra what do you make of it. >> the role of the president of the united states could be easily compared to the chief executive officer, ceo after company and hired to turn it over and four years later still blaming your predecessor and you would be fired. >> i don't agree that the president is ceo, he has to work more with congress, but-- >> a bit over done for you. >> yes, and still saying this in eight years. >> and obama acts like he was drafting for the job, chilling out his apartment and ringing the bell and-- >> adam comment. >> the politics of blaming bush, fine. but the state of what the economy was and it was bad. >> not even abraham lincoln could say that. my thanks to charlie and sandra. up next, no matter who is getting the blame for the struggling economy, our gang has a stock pick to beat the blame game and j

i cite cia briefs, this is what bush was told. and if he wants to say that's being a conspiracy theoryist, never expect we're going to get real history out of the bush administration. >> and getting the real history of this is important not just for the history but for the decisions we're still making. >> the book is called "500 days" and you lit everybody up today. thanks for talking to you tonight. >> thanks for having me. soft, to bright with covergirl blast flipstick. wearable, blendable double end-able! it's two lipsticks in one. easy, breezy, beautiful blast flipstick from covergirl. idide? blast flipstick you're not my dad ahh!! hey honey, back feels better, little dancing tonight, you and me? dr. scholl's pro inserts relieve different types of lower body pain by treating at the source so you're a whole neyou. >>> jim jim cramer. today cnbc's gym jim cramer made news that had nothing to do with stocks or bonds or money of any kind. he made news on the biggest political story in the country right now. and that pretty incredi

michael hayden was a national security agency director and cia director under bush and designed bush's domestic spying program at nsa. it's on and on and on. these are the people advising him on foreign policy. >> it's quite a lineup and they are the kind of people that if he is elected will be serving in some way. you know the rumors as well as i do. that john bolton is on the list of pressure groups to become the secretary of state if romney is the president. >> let me again show you how right you are he said that the qualities that should typify our foreign policy. unbelievable. >> it's unbelievable. and voters should consider what is going to take place in the next four years, with netanyahu to strike a launch against iran. >> right. >> with what is going on in syria. iran and syria, and you put those two together, al, as you know, that is a very serious -- a rock is a aaa farm team compared to getting involved in iran and syria. if these people want to start wars in iran and syria, you could well be talking -- i'm not being hyper bol lick here. you could be talking about world war

bush years. it has next to nothing to say about what bush era republicans got wrong. the result ishat romney appears to be saying that everything was going swimmingly untiob came along. yeah, and voters don't believe that. voters think that george w. bush deserves a sizeable part of the relationship f leavi a b nk ts exactly right. not only is it the right thing to do but politically, strategically it would have been a smart thing to do because romney doesn't like to talk about a lot of things, his taxes, religion, and in th , georgebush and t ecr heteho if, in fact, romney talked and had talked more about bush, even being critical of president bush, then i think he would have plotd wih ise. ouk onat republicans, they say they are not happy with george bush and romney would have resonated with him had he talked to them. >> it's no wonder can't answer that because his policies are just like push. rver bush, top two advers economic advisers served under bush and rnc official saying that the romney policies are the bush plans uated. how do you answer that? >> it is. a fo

bush. look, george w. bush in 2008 and 2004 had low points in his campaign. there were times where he was not faring as well in the polls as he ultimately would. what happened then though is that you had conservatives who held their tongue, and why did that happen? because george w. bush had a measure of goodwill with the conservative base of the party that mitt romney does not have. and that's the problem romney has right now. he comes out labor day a couple bad polls, some bad buys, and you have conservatives spouting off because they don't have a relationship, they don't have trust with romney in the way that they did with george w. bush back in 2000 and 2004. >> and they were still supporting his war by then. it was only a year later. anyway, the new cnn poll makes this point. it has president obama leading mitt romney by six points along likely voters but the interesting numbers show up when pollsters asked voters whether the vote was for the candidate or simply against the other. these are great numbers. among obama supporters, 74% say their vote is mor

two bush's wars we're looking at bush's recession we're looking at lucia's tax and look at actually because of the same coin as in germany and what has been maintained as republicans in the house of representatives represent is that maintaining the speaking of paul ryan let's turn to paul ryan's speech here was one of the many many half truths and misleading statements that paul ryan laid out the species before us. a lot of guys i went to high school with worked at that g.m. plant right there at that plant candidate obama said i believe that if our government is there to support you this plant will be here for another hundred years that's what he said in two thousand and eight well as it turned out that plant didn't last another year it was locked up in empty to this day and that's how it is in so many towns. where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight so the recovery that obama was supposed to bring us didn't happen and that factory got closed down and i don't think anybody in the audience thought he was condemning george w. bush but take a look at this picture and we'

i cite cia briefs, this is what bush was told. and if he wants to say that's being a conspiracy theoryist, never expect we're going to get real history out of the bush administration. >> and getting the real history of this is important not just for the history but for the decisions we're still making. >> the book is called "500 days" and you lit everybody up today. thanks for talking to you tonight. >> thanks for having me. i even wrote a play about that. my symptoms were a pain in my abdomen and periods that were heavier and longer than usual for me. if you have symptoms that last two weeks or longer, be brave, go to the doctor. ovarian and uterine cancers are gynecologic cancers. symptoms are not the same for everyone. i got sick...and then i got better. >>> jim jim cramer. today cnbc's gym jim cramer made news that had nothing to do with stocks or bonds or money of any kind. he made news on the biggest political story in the country right now. and that pretty incredible item is next. i told you it was a big show. it's a big sh

bush years. when george w. bush was brought up, wherever the bush administration was namedropped or appeared on stage, it was always celebratory or reverential. and for their first national security speech at the convention, they brought on john mccain. john mccain who drew a straight line from george w. bush foreign policy to today. >> by committing to withdraw from afghanistan before peace can be achieved and sustained, the president has discouraged our friends and emboldened our enemies. >> cutting and running. why stop at 13 years of war when you can just stay indefinitely? senator mccain said we should not end the war in afghanistan. he also called for new american military intervention in syria and iran. because he is john mccain and that's what he does. >> that old -- that old beach boy song, bomb iran. you know, bomb, bomb, bomb. anyway. >> you seeing him there doesn't mean this is their current way of thinking? maybe they just gave the old bomb, bomb, bomb iran guy one more spin around the parking lot,

remember he is the counter terrorism advisor to clinton and bush telling the bush administration, you've got to do something for the love of god al-qaeda's coming, you've got to do something. we knew about this back in this report in 2000 fore. >> the victims' families have no idea what dr. rice said. they weren't in those closed hearings. >> clark argues a full review will prove his point that president bush did not make fighting terrorism a top priority before 9/11. >> there wasn't any personal performance by the president prior to september 11. >> now boy does that turn out to be true. everybody remembers that famous august 6 presidential daily briefing where it was titled obama -- i'm sorry -- president -- sorry about that "bin laden determined to strike in u.s." everybody knew this, right? it turns out it's much worse than this. the writer from new york times apparently got to look at briefings of the president before august 6. cbs news talked to him yesterday. >> this morning in the new york times, investigative reporter curt eichenwald said the write house refuse ominous warnings

bush. [applause] >> and about 30 seconds, we will be going on the air. good evening, and welcome to the first of 3 debates among the major candidates for president of the united states, sponsored by the commission on presidential debates. the candidates are: independent candidate ross perot, governor bill clinton, the democratic nominee, and president george bush, the republican nominee. i am jim lehrer of the macneil- lehrer news hour on pbs, and i will be the moderator for this 90-minute event, which is taking place before an audience in the athletic complex on the campus of washington university in st. louis, missouri. three journalists will be asking questions tonight. they are john mashek of the boston globe, ann compton of abc news, and sander vanocur, a freelance journalist. we will follow a format agreed to by representatives of the clinton and bush campaigns. that agreement contains no restrictions on the content or subject matter of the questions. each candidate will have up to 2

. >> we had 52 straight months of job growth under george bush. so, yeah, at this stage i would rather have george bush's record to run on. you know what? so would barack obama rather to have george bush's record to run on in 2004. >> you should tell it to the hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs at the end of his term. the fact of the matter is at the end of george bush's term the u.s. economy was in a freefall and you know out. that's why we had to have t.a.r.p., multiple bailouts, bail out the banks and the auto industry went over a cliff. >> haley barbour, let me just ask you. a couple of promises here. president obama said a couple years ago he was going to reduce the budget deficit by half. unfortunately the last four have been over a trillion dollars. we have had skyrocketing debt, now 16 trillion dollars. do you think these are going to be political issues in this election? does the country care about deficits and debt and those broken promises? >> well, of course, the country cares because the country knows the government can

bush don't think we 0,000 i troops. let me make another point. mr. bush talked about taxes. he didn't tell you he vetoed a middle class tax cut and vetoed an investment tafmg credit paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy. >> all right. we go to mr. perot for a two-minute question, and asked by john may can sheck. >> mr. perot, you asked about sharing the pain. as part of plan to reduce the federal deficit, you suggested we raise gasoline taxes 50 cents a gallon over the next five years. why punish the middle class to such a degree? >> it gets to 50 cents at the end of the fifth year. i think "punish" is the wrong word. again, i didn't create this problem. we a trying to solve it. if you study our international competitors, clengts up to $3.50 in taxes and use that mon to create jobs and build infrastructure. we collect 35 skhrentss and we don't have it to spend. i noi it's not popular, and i understand the nature of ur question, but the people who will be helped the most by it are the working people who will get the jobs created because of this why do we have to do it? kpw

eickenwald only faults george bush. the 9/11 commission faulted president clinton, the cia and the department of justice. it was a much more context report than anything mr. eickenwald said in his reporting, and they never had the heart of what mr. eickenwald said, where there were other pdbs that this could have been stopped. >> in my 9/11 commission report, it said numerous actions were done overseas, far less domestically. and domestic agencies reported they didn't know what to do, according to the 9/11 commission report. >> that's true. because there wasn't the same kind of -- i want to address a number of thing that is ari just said. number one, i want to point out his first approach was, attack the messenger. number two, i am quoting from presidential daily briefs. ari is not coming in here and saying, oh, i have other information. i don't know what he's saying. is he saying i'm lying and making them up? ari, this is what it says. you can hold up the 9/11 -- i allowed you to speak. give me the same benefit. i'm ki

and smu is very, very important as president bush said to the bush center. is the bush substitute's first book. the first of many as you will see soon see. it's unusual in it was publied by a major publishers crown. and as a result, we'll get broad circulation. many of you here are supporters of the bush center we thank you for making this book possible. and in a real sense, this book is literally yours and you will get a copy of this book as you leave a signed copy by president bush and we'll also be taking some questions from the floor. i want to go to -- are you guys comfortable here? >> absolutely. >> i like you better sitting. >> okay. >> i do. >> okay. brendan, you did the impossible to is kind of wrangle, as we say in texas, 21 authors, many of whom are -- but temper mental type. tell us a story about getting the people to write for us. >> sure. you know, give a speech at smu campus he noted in the book we have four noble authors in the book. i was in the add audience and said i better check on them. the first one i reach out to is robert lucas. reall

bush of texas. the debates are sponsored by the commission on presidential debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to between the commission and the two campaigns. we'll have the candidates at podiums. no answer to a question can exceed two minutes. rebuttal is limited to one minute. but as moderator i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular give and take another three-and-a-half minutes. even then, no single answer can exceed two minutes. the candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. there will be no opening statements, but each candidate may have up to two minutes for a closing statement. the questions and the subjects were chosen by me alone. i have told no one from the two campaigns, or the commission, or anyone else involved what they are. there is a small audience in the hall tonight. they are not here to participate, only to listen. i have asked, and they have agreed, to remain silent for the next 90 minutes. except for rig

i think the bush issues might have tied him up. but i think-- . >> rose: i think america is smarter than that. they will not blame him whether they like the brother or not. >> i think we have been real strong. i don't think he considered him so i put him in a different category. he didn't have the fire in the belly. but had he had, i think jeb bush would have been a superstrong candidate. >> rose: do you know who agrees with that. >> david axelrod. >> he would have had the kind of crossover appeal. one of the weaknesses of mitt romney on both a can demographic score and an electoral college score, he's not showing very much crossover appeal. you know, he needs people who voted for obama but not democrats. think about bill clinton in '92, george bush in 2000, barack obama in 2008. part of why, a big part of why they were so foremidable is there were people in the other party who thought i will vote for them maybe or i will. and they could say bush could say maybe we'll put california in play or new jersey in play. even if you don't

president bush's of these two. and the republicans didn't want that this year to get. absolute get that to what extent do you think that the democrats should be emphasizing in their convention. their vision for the future in the direction that they want to go versus calling out the republicans on either aid some of the untruths and lies that not only were dished out at the party at the convention but they're doing daily and in television advertising or be just what the republicans policies are you know medicare for example i can think of i quite frankly think the credibility of the public it's pretty much what some of the things that they've been right call. from of the place presidential nominee to the president as you demure could people need to do this and fix their credibility and the bottom line is she's it's the it's the wrong thomas that you concern here with the outreach to medicare for our seniors cutting us. tomorrow. and the speed going to college kids it's the choices that he made the point you just assume that all americans think that's the real focus that

and what are the bush criminals doing today well connelly's the rise george w. bush donald rumsfeld dick cheney all of them have been cal of antin around the country being given a platform to contemptuously sell their books books full of propagandist excuses and apologies for their hand as acts it's a moral outrage but instead of holding these people accountable for blatant war crimes obama chose to look forward instead. obviously looking at past practices. and i don't believe that anybody has both the law on the other hand i also have a belief that we need to look forward as los as opposed to looking looking backwards. and just like that the obama administration decided to cover up the cancerous moral decay of the fabric of our society a country supposedly built on justice and moral righteousness but you know what obama i get why you haven't prosecuted any of the bush criminals because if you did you would have to open yourself up for prosecution. get off sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse som

today marks the eleventh anniversary of the bush administration's failure to prevent the nine eleven attacks and eleven years later first responders are still struggling to overcome the effects of those attacks is our government doing enough to support these heroes and are they getting the health care they are entitled to also some politicians like mitt romney have billionaires financing their every move other politicians aren't as fortunate or as corrupt in a politician who refuses to take money from corporate donors really hope to win an election in this post citizens united world and the financial crisis that america was still is still reeling from was caused by a bunch of c.e.o.'s and executives on wall street who were allowed to do whatever they wanted with no fear of punishment after seeing what happened to our economy as a result republicans still want to let wall street roam free why. you need to know this our nation remembers nine eleven today and is reminded about the utter failures of the bush administration leading up to the attacks as a new op ed published today in the n

we've already seen plenty of mistakes from bush if so that's not one but in the public announcement the public announcement from the bush administration was these people can do make their cartoons its civil rights we may not like the republicans more than the democrats have been protective of free speech my uncle and i was actually working at the embassy in kabul on nine hundred seventy nine my family's apartment family i lived overseas an american embassy and i will say that this is not about politics this is not about making scoring points it was u.s. soil what is considered us soil was under attack and in that situation as a candidate you have no place and no right to make comments or to criticize the president he should follow suit with what our government is saying what they are gathering facts and while they are. side of what is best to do for our americans who are overseas everybody thank the troops a lot and the troops to turn to things for us so do our civil servants in the foreign service they are on the front lines and want to see is our other option our other alternative

job losses and bush recession and bush deficits and series of dessert wars charged for first time to the national credit card. >> that's a problem. >> it is a problem. and brad woodhouse, the dnc spokesman came on -- >> spinning, spinning. >> he had an answer, yes, it wasn't no. it was yes, he couched it and explained it. the reality is when you look at the hard data, that there's no question that things are better because when the president took over we were in a horrible situation. politically though, the big problem for democrats is that there are a lot of people out there, particularly middle class voters who don't feel better and that's what republicans are seizing on. >> isn't the issue it's a mixed bag. if you're a voter and you're home and going to go by how i feel, do i own my home or is it in foreclosure? are their employment opportunities, you're not necessarily saying is the stock market back? and how has the gdp opinion over the past six months? >> there's no question. if you look at the specifics, yes, people are getting jobs but some of the jobs and at least many of th

the question, without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before george bush brought us the bush job losses,s bush recessions, the bush deficits, the series of desert wars, charged for the first time to credit cards, the national credit cards -- >> schieffer: but i mean, governor richardson and stephanie cutter. george bush is not on the ballots. >> but we are making progress. >> in terms of the question, "are people better off today than they were four years ago?" i want to remind you what was happening four years ago at this time. in the quarter before the president took office, we lost three million jobs. our country was bleeding. our financial system was on the verge of collapse. we were passing bank bailouts to ensure that our system could stay afloat. that's what was happening before the president took office. >> and, bob, the best difference and the best progress has been made in the area of foreign policy. president has gotten us out of iraq. s we getting us out of afghanistan. we've got free trade agreements in latin america we have a president that brilliantly dealt wit

the bush administration fought releasing them. they finally released the august 61, which now have the infamous headline "bin laden determined to strike u.s.." in her testimony, condoleezza rice, the national security adviser at the time, said this was merely a historical document, a review of bin laden and al qaeda and what they've done. when you read it, that is what it was. it was also a red herring. i cannot say that is why they released it, but it certainly was convenient. that document was the only one of the many that have gone out over the previous few months that was historical. all of the others were, "there is an attack coming." "there are going to be mass casualties." "there is a terrorist cell in the united states plotting to strike." with a great deal of table pounding. i don't want to keep picking on secretary rice, but in that she did testify, "if we had been made aware that there was an attack coming, we would have done something." well, they were made aware. in the end, what these documents show is that the bush

this is what bush was told. and if he wants to say that's being a conspiracy theorist, never expect we're going to get real history out of the bush administration. >> and getting the real history of this is important not just for the history but for the decisions we're still making. >> the book is called "500 days" and you lit everybody up today. thanks for talking to you tonight. >> thanks for having me. re runng out of a vital resource we need to compete on the global stage. what we need are people prepared for the careers of our new economy. by 2025 we could have 20 million jobs without enough college graduates to fill them. that's why at devry university, we're teaming up with companies like cisco to help make sure everyone's ready with the know how we need for a new tomorrow. [ male annncer ] make sure america's ready. make sure you're ready. at devry.edu/knowhow. ♪ >>> jim cramer. today cnbc's gym jim cramer made news that had nothing to do with stocks or bonds or money of any kind. he made news on the b

he only faults george bush on the 9/11 commission, actually faulted george bush, president clinton, the cia, the fbi, the department of justice. it was a much more context report. if anything, he's said in his reporting, and they never had the heart of what he says, which is other pdbs gave credence to the fact that this was an attack that could have been stopped. >> in my reading 06 the 9/11 report, it says numerous actions were taken overseas and domestic agencies didn't know what to do. >> that's true, because there wasn't the same kind -- i want to address a number of things that ari just said. i mean, number one, i want to point out his first approach was attack the messenger. number two, i am quoting from presidential daily briefs. ari is not coming in here and saying oh, i have other information. i don't know what he's saying. is he saying i'm just lying and making them up? ari, this is what it says. >> i'm reading from the 9/11 commission. >> i allowed you to speak, would you give me the same benefit? i'm angry at ari today, because the first thing he did was send out a tweet, c

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we'll see who emerges in two thousand and sixteen it could be jeb bush were to reunite with the bush family and then of course i think you will still see the continue to sense of all ron craig we just we just have a minute or so here left is karl rove have a a. foundational philosophy or does he just go where the power is i think it's more about power he is non it is. i talked to roger stone the who's a prominent republican strategist and he said look karl rove is not a real conservative this is crony capitalism it's about getting money and giving rewards to those who put in the money and winning winning winning and if you look at the big campaign donors road put to get started putting together in the one nine hundred eighty s. a lot of them are still with him there bob perry in texas who's a billionaire no relation to rick perry harold simmons and so forth and they were among the founding donors of american crossroads today it's a remarkable story craig unger thank you so much for being with us tonight and for writing as a brilliant book i've read much of it basra i highly recommend

in may of 2008, president bush went beyond just offering support. after an american soldier used a koran for target practice, president bush actually apologized to iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki. >> he apologized for that in the sense the that he said, we take it very seriously, we were concerned about their reaction, we wanted them to know that the president knew that this was wrong and that the commanders in the field had publicly reprimanded the soldier and removed him from iraq. >> this was always one of the most admirable dimensions of the bush administration. and a real achievement. after 9/11, it was entirely possible that the country could have lapsed into anti-muslim sentiment. the bush administration legitimately fought to keep that from happening, and they largely succeeded. let's turn to congressman keith ellison, who was also the first muslim member of congress. congressman, good to have you here tonight. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> the bush administration understood the value of diplomacy in the muslim world, in partic