bush. george w. bush: really? >> where they dedicated that portrait. george w. bush: lookout, i'm coming for you. logan? >> [indiscernible] >> i want a hamburger, well done. it has nothing to do with if it is cooked are or rare. come here, john. come on in. > this is> for your pancake. george w. bush: you have to get me some pancakes right now. >> you want some? george w. bush: i'm cooking some hamburgers. john, come here. is.n't know what the time >> tell him we all love him. george w. bush: nice to meet you. >> hey, governor, can i get your autograph? my dad, he is a democrat, i'm a republican. thank you, governor. george w. bush: thanks. your back again? what is the name of your school? devlin? that?ind of school is where is home? >> new york. george w. bush: you are long way from home. what about you? new haven, great. good to meet you. nice to meet you. 55th reunion. i'm out there with civilization -- i need to get up there sometime. >> you have to get up there to ski. unbelievable. george w. bush: nice to meet you. >> thanks. george w. bush: my running mat

[laughter] george w. bush: pardon me? >> [indiscernible] george w. bush: no! play like you are coming to work. [laughter] work. w. bush: welcome to [laughter] good morning.: >> good morning. george w. bush: thank you. nice to meet you. good morning. >> thank you very much. george w. bush: nice to meet you. good morning. good morning to you. hi, there. good. >> hi. george w. bush: nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, did you talk about the issues that all are just shake my hand? [laughter] george w. bush: you put him up to it, didn't you? [laughter] >> how are you doing? george w. bush: good morning. nice to meet you. >> [indiscernible] george w. bush: what is your first name? >> mandy. george w. bush: i appreciate you having me. >> good morning. george w. bush: hi, brenda. nice to meet you. >> thank you. likee w. bush: i do yo your style. you are pretty tough. [cameras clicking] [indiscernible] worked.. bush: it >> let me go this way. >> thank you. george w. bush: thanks. hi, there. >> i'm paula. youre w. bush: granddaughter -- >> thank you. george w. bush:

george w. bush: congratulations. [indiscernible] >> thank you. george w. bush: appreciate y'all. a lot. >> you are watching road to the white house rewind, american pastry tv's weekly look at presidential races. next, we continue with george w. bush on the campaign trail in in 1999.w hampshire he meets with voters, takes questions from voters, and learns about the town's pumpkin festival. george w. bush: really? lubbock, texas? nice to see you. >> it is a win tour. george w. bush: i'm out there working. i'm coming over. >> where are you tonight? george w. bush: there is a big event that i promised -- high-tech. governor -- i love my wife. i'm going to be with my wife. next thursday night, she is being honored as distinct was alumna from smu. >> allegations -- george w. bush: there will be plenty of debates. surely, those people understand that guy wants to be with his wife. you would like that, wouldn't you? that's what i mean. >> best of luck. god bless you. good to see you. thanks for coming. thanks. >> governor -- george w. bush: we will get a new one coming out. you need to g

w. bush and george w. bush, george w. bush learned from his father. this morning i think maybe it was ed rollins who talk about that and his press conferences and the way he handled the relationship with the media. george h. w. bush was are interested in relationships. he was interested in his relationships with people on the hill, with foreign leaders he would call foreign leaders just to talk to them, to establish a relationship so that when the time came that he needed to talk to them over a particular issue, ma that they already had an established relationship. and so he encouraged people to come to the u.s., foreign leaders, to come to the u.s. and one of the things he developed was he developed joint press conferences with foreign leaders, that all of his successors have followed. he did the same with the press. i think he thought of the press as a group that he needed to deal with and have a good relationship with, and he often thought of those in personal terms. you think of his relationship with "time" magazine that was a very close one. and,

she actually compares was george w. bush conservative, was george w. bush neoconservative. i want to offer a new framework of that because what i think is that, in fact, he does have a very clear ideology and his political ideology is frain within his own personal moral code. the political ideology is extremely conservative when you think of it in terms of probusiness, progovernment, political ideology. you'll hear a little bit throughout my talk. but what george bush was, was a moral pragmitist. i take those words from his own constant reference. he wrote a book a charge to keep. which i'm sure everybody knows about. the proper rule for government is to build a single moral community. remember, president george w. bush had his own moral awakening. he had long-term drinking problems. he quit cold turkey. he becomes a born again christian. that is what refrains his life and that what became the presidency of george w. bush. born again the government should have a more moral compass. he argued throughout both his terms as governor and during his terms in the white house for r

. >> i george walker bush -- >> george w. bush had a dream, a vision where saddam would fall, the people would rejoice and iraq would become a stable democracy, a beacon of hope, breaking the endless cycle of tyranny and extremism in the middle east. but if you think that this is just history, it isn't. many politicians want to send more troops back into iraq and into syria as well. look at the horror in paris, the downing of that russian jet, the terror and threats all wrought by isis. but will another american intervention be more successful than the last one? it is crucial that we understand how the iraq war went to terribly wrong. go back to beginning of the story. it is tempting to ask, what if. what if there had been someone who could have warned us what would happen if we invaded iraq. in fact there was one man who did just that. >> once you got to iraq and took it over, and took down saddam hussein's government, then what you going to put in its place? it is a volatile part of the world, and if you take down the centr

and returning to the policies of george w. bush. >> george w. bush made mistakes but he did adjust. i blame obama for isil, not bush. i miss george w. bush, i wish you were president. we would not be in this mess. amy: the debates were held at sheldon adelson's casino in las vegas. we will get response from bob hebert of demos, zed jilani of the intercept, professor steven zunes and arun kundnani, author of "the muslims are coming: islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic war on terror." all that and more, coming up. ♪ welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the nine leading republican presidential candidates squared off last night in las vegas at the venetian casino, owned by republican billionaire backer sheldon adelson. it was the first debate since donald trump shook up the race by proposing to ban muslims from entering the united states. trump has gained an all-time high in a recent national poll. as he criticized the obama administration's wars in the middle east tuesday night, trump was interrupted by protester kai newkirk, wh

bush -- i'm saying that's as a liberal progressive democrat myself -- that george w. bush's invasion of iraq, as here able as a dictator as saddam hussein was, at least having saddam hussein in iraq, kept that as a stable country without isis emerging. so is the iraqi war had not happened and if george w. bush and dick cheney had not invade iraq or al gore had won, there was no iraq war, would there be -- >> host: all right, bill, we government the point. that's bill in connecticut. >> guest: that a really good question, and as a journalist i try to avoid putting political labels on it, but the book argues and i strongly believe that the iraq invasion was really the original sin. not just the invasion itself which gave the jihaddists this cause they'd been looking for, particular particularly star could we, and the sin of omake, not having security operates in place, dismanning the baathist party which anybody who was a professional inside iraq, in the early 2000s, that be a might of the baath party. dismantling the armed forces and you have overnight a country with a

over here it was going to be george h. w. bush again. so i said on one hand we can talk about folks that he didn't like. governor connally was not high on the bush christmas card list. only a few people he hadn't forgiven and a lot of the lived in dallas. there was one in particular we don't have to talk about. but what happened was john connally realize what was going on, smart as hell politician, realize what was going on so he puts lloyd bentsen in the race. if you read the dallas morning news, all the clips from that era two sings jump out at you. one is george h. w. bush which was one sexy guy, every story talks about how he had kennedy's glamour, country club matrons swoon over him, it began -- it has this thing about this appeal. the papers started writing now there are two to all war veterans who are good-looking, served in the house and in texas in 1970, don't have to tell the former governor the advantages for the democrats so he loses the race. he beat the board but bentsen's force did not work because he was more conservative

beauchamp spoke to george w. bush at the bush center in dallas. this is just under one hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome margaret spellings, president of the george w. bush residential center. [applause]. hello. good evening everybody, thank you so much for joining us here at the bush center on the beautiful campus. i i hope for most of you it is welcome back. we are thrilled to be here. i want to first recognize first lady laura bush and gerald turner, gail turner, president of smu. this mighty university we are partnering with. thank you for being here [applause]. we have been keeping a very busy calendar this year with our engage at the bush center serious. where hosting former chairman of the federal reserve ben pataki on the 16th, as long as karl rove at december 14 where has a new book on mckinley. even though it may not sound that way. please plan on joining us for both of those. we also want to your attention to our holiday season special exhibit called a season of stories, christmas at the white house 2003. opening on november

. >> so what changed dick cheney and why was george w. bush so determined to go to war in iraq? >> #/11 is just one of those awful moments. >> 9/11 pushed him and dick cheney to aer the ribble place. >> i think that we have to prove that i'm a tough guy. we have to prove that we can reshape the middle east otherwise the rest of my administration, tin pod dick dictators are going to take advantage of me. >> richard clarke was in the white house ta that night, and he said it is that night when it began. >> on the night of 9/11 we all meet in the situation room in the east wing in the bunk er. rumsfeld is there which is still on fire, and many that conver aresation rumsfeld starts talking about invading iraq while the pentagon is still burn i ing. the president, he said, saddam, saddam. find and go back and look at everything, and find out whether or not saddam was involved. >> and so in the aftermath of 9/11. >> and soon everybody will hear us. >> the choice was made to go to war against saddam hussein even though he had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. >> and when you don't w

[applause] george w. bush: thank you for the warm welcome. lynn and family, i am delighted to be here. i must confess, i am somewhat reluctant to come back to washington. the last time i showed appear, i was hanged in the white house. this time, i return only to find my vice president getting busted in the capital. i really appreciate you being here, thank you for coming. i want to thank paul ryan for his leadership. he is trying out for the abraham lincoln look-alike contest. mitch, when dick cheney was the leader, mitch was the minority leader appeared as majority leader, mitch is in charge now. as a matter of fact, he assured me that dick cheney's bust would be prominently displayed in an undisclosed location. thank you roy blunt and for organizing this event. william behrens is the sculptor . i can't wait to see what it looks like peter meissner had a time somebody did with me and i looked like alfred a newman. over the years, i have a chance to meet a number of his predecessors. i have known one my whole life. lastly, i told mom and dad

they liked the marriage amendment more than they liked george w. bush. that may be a bigger problem in a general election, nominating somebody who polarizes the country. jon: in order to win the presidential election republicans need to nominate conservative, rock rib conservative? >> the record shows, 1988 and '84, i admit the country is a little different demographically than it was and it is important for a republican to be able to win the upper midwest, to win states like iowa and ohio and you also need to win florida and that means bringing across the reagan democrats, those who are culturally conservative catholic. by the way i think people pay too much attention to the national poll. trump is ahead in the national polls but it is more important now to see the trends in state-by-state polls. right now you have ted cruz the head by nine points, latest poll in iowa, marco rubio closing in on trump in new hampshire. if you are trump you have to stage yourself, better win iowa because if he doesn't win iowa the other candidates will get momentum that c

. >> john's book is a biography of bush and barbara bush. mr. meacham spoke with george w. bush in dallas. this is under an hour. >> please welcome margaret spellings, president of the george w. bush center. [applause] >> hello, hello, good evening everybody, thank you so much for joining us at the bush center at the beautiful smu campus, i hope for most of you is welcome back, we are so thrilled to be here. i want to first recognize first lady laura bush and gerald turner. thank you all for being here. this year -- [applause] >> absolutely. we have been keeping a very busy calendar this year with our engaged at thear bush center series and we are hosting foreman chairman of the federal reserve benen bernanke, be on te lookout for that. so please plan on joining us for both of those. we also want to call your attention to our holiday season special exhibit called a season of stories, christmas at the white house 2003 opening on november the 19th, just in time for all of your holiday visitors, exhibit will have hand-crafted decorations, characters that were displaced at the

george w. bush made mistakes, but he did adjust. i blame obama for isil. not bush. i'm tired of beating on bush. i miss george w. bush. i wish you were president right now. we wouldn't be in this mess. >> senator lindsey graham there. while the republican candidates were fighting it out in las vegas, hillary clinton was detailing her own strategy for defeating terrorism and protecting the homeland. now clinton's speech in minneapolis was her third speech on combatting terrorism in less than a month. and in it she outlined a plan that includes attacking online recruitment, tightening screening procedures at the border, and empowering muslim american communities to help prevent radicalization. >> we will defeat these new enemies, just as we have defeated those who've threatened us in the past. because it is not enough to contain isis, we must defeat isis. break its momentum, and then its back. waging and winning this fight will require serious leadership. but unfortunately, our political debate has been anything but serious. we can't afford another major ground war in

>> does laura bush have a project -- does both george w. bush and laura bush have a project or foundation that they both work on and i am wondering if you could talk about that a little bit. i am sorry that we do not know more about it. >> can you talk about how this works in the world of giving and finance and how one can be a public figure and except contributions like this and what it does politically? >> laura bush continues to work on the issues that are of importance to her. the bush center is a collaboration of a number of different institutions. including the bush library and the bush institute. the bushes continue to further the causes they began to take initiatives towards in the white house. >> they do that with the help of donors. >> yes. they raise money that goes into the bush institute and the bush library as well. >> in the case of laura bush, her husband is not going to be running for president again and she is not going to be running herself. those donors might gain if there were another bush, for instance, that might run

george w. bush, the last republican to win 14 with w-4 4% becoming more diverse country with each election. the interesting thing between fight, rubio clearly trying to obviate what he sees as vulnerability. i think it's larger than the issue itself. notice cruz always calls it the rubio bill. it was the notion that he was police with it democrats the face of the republican part tired of republicans being police with it democrats. they're frustrated they wanted more purity. ted cruz played to that. ted cruz understands where his base s. marco rubio tried to please every faction of the republican party. may just end up as everybody's second choice. >> dickerson: jeffrey, the ad that ted cruz is running if you can get a picture of schumer and rubio in the same frame makes the pointed that david is making. where as the rubio case against cruz is one that is more -- you have to follow what he used to say. >> right. going to peggy's point it's about trustworthiness. if marco rubio can convince some

former president george w. bush was there and said he benefited from cheney's counsel during his time in office. cheney was equally full of praise for his former boss. >> i've been granted a few distinctions along the way in politics and there's none i prize more than to have my name there in the story of those years beside the name of our president george w. bush. >> there were some light moments, as well. cheney said being cast in marble as a former vice president is one chance at being remembered. then he turned to vice president biden and said you see, joe, there's much to look forward to. >> you know at one point in the day somebody tweeted there was no democrats at that event. i could not believe that. come on. there had to be. obviously joe biden was there and i can't imagine. it was early on, a political reporter had tweeted that out. >> i'm sure there were plenty. >> there must have been, right? >>> a russian artist just completed a sculpture he believes will become a guinness record. >> that's because

it is something that she and george w. bush differ on. mark: well i think she said publicly when she was first lady that she would not in favor of of overturning roe vs. wade, and i think she was asked whether you know that invited whether gay people has slept at the white house while she was first lady. and she said probably and the interviewer asked would you object if that were the case and she said certainly not. i think she let her views be known in subtle ways i think. interestingly enough, you mentioned that the she and president bush had trouble conceiving, in fact they had, went to an adoption organization to see if they could adopt twins and then they ended up conceiving their own set of twins, quite unexpectedly, i believe. susan: we've been talking a lot in this program about the amount laura bush did all the time that she spent on the road and certainly throughout the 20th century first ladies that has been a story told again and again. in the interview that we do with laura bush, we asked her about whether or not first ladie

in 1988 george h. w. bush was running for president. now, i supported him. i that he was the right man of those available for the job. i worked for him. i was during his campaign in 1988 his speech writer. i didn't join his white house after he won by bush's speech writer. okay, one night i met on. i just had a baby so doing most of my work at home. i'm at home in virginia watching the news, watching cbs, my old team, and suddenly dan rather, my beautiful friend, my former boss, is in a fight with george h. w. bush, micro to boss. and it was dan rather trying to more or less kind of, i'm afraid i would say a little bit plug george h. w. bush over this years issue of his involvement, if any, in the iran-contra scandal, a terrible fight. i got a funny succeeding in my stomach. i felt like i was a child, and mom and dad were fighting upstairs. you know what i mean? it felt so personal and the like two people were fighting who i cared about a lot. so you know, dan had a bit of an issue with the bushes. market may have been a little texas. dan was a texas boy, th

ryan, president george w bush and ice president dick chaney. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please and stand for the presentation of the colors by the u.s. armed forces colorguard, the singing of the national anthem, and the etiring of the colors. ♪ ♪ >> oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at gleaming ♪ 's last ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ over the ramparts we watched ♪ ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ ♪ that our flag was still there ♪ oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ oer the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand as the chaplain of the u.s. senate, barry black, gives the invocation. >> let us pray. eternal god, our refuge and strength. as we begin this unveiling ceremony of the marble bust of vice president dick cheney, we thank you for his service to you and country

you were on the side with christie and with george w. bush -- >> but wait a minute. >> and fiorina. >> i'm for regime change in syria, but i never would have been for regime change in iraq if saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction. >> really? >> no. >> but you were at the time. >> i thought he had weapons of mass destruction -- >> so you're for knocking off governments that have weapons of mass destruction. for any government of weapons of mass destruction. >> in that case where we thought he was a threat to us. i thought he was going to be a threat to us. >> how, somehow iraq going -- >> the whole world with saddam. proliferation. >> who thought iraq was going attack the united states? it never had. >> chris, when he had weapons of mass destruction, even colin powell, one of the most respected national security generals -- >> he saluted his boss. >> after i history of this, we went to war in lebanon -- >> one much his great regrets is the deal. >> if we hadn't known there were weapons of mass destruction, there's no way i thoug

>> when you talk about george w. bush why he got involved. no other president really given much thought to it. family member who found their children through adoption. today for women in their 20's 30's, i always believe that abortion is a private decision. no one can walk in anyone's else shoes. >> i think she said publicly when she was first lady, she would not over turn roe v. wade. she asked whether gay people slept at the white house while she slept. she said probably. she let her views be known in subtle ways. interesting enough, you mentioned she and president bush had trouble conceiving. they had went to an adoption organization see if they can adopt twins. they ended up conceiving their own set of twins. >> we've been talking a lot in this program about the am of work laura bush did. throughout the 20th century first ladies that had been a story told. we asked her about whether or not first ladies should earn a salary. here's her answer. >> mrs. bush should first lady receive a salary? >> i don't think so. there are plenty of perks.

[applause] george w. bush: thank you for the warm welcome. lynn and family, i am delighted to be here. i must confess, i am somewhat reluctant to come back to washington. the last time i showed appear, i was hanged in the white house. this time, i return only to find my vice president getting busted in the capital. i really appreciate you being here, thank you for coming. i want to thank paul ryan for his leadership. he is trying out for the abraham lincoln look-alike contest. mitch, when dick cheney was the leader, mitch was the minority leader appeared as majority -- leader. as majority leader, mitch is in charge now. as a matter of fact, he assured me that dick cheney's bust would be prominently displayed in an undisclosed location. thank you roy blunt and for organizing this event. william behrens is the sculptor pete i can't wait to see what it looks like peter meissner had a time somebody did with me and i looked like alfred a newman. over the years, i have a chance to meet a number of his predecessors. i have known one my whole life. l

>> george bush sr. had this path of criticizing his successors in office. george w. bush also did that. bill clinton did not. it will be telling to see what barack obama decides to do. but now via jon meacham, we have the special -- >> it was a bad blurb. >> well, i was grateful for it. we now have george h.w. bush being tougher in historical record on cheney and rumsfeld than he was on clinton and obama. >> but i think he was talking about is did cheney change? 9/11 will do that to you. but too much so to the point of becoming this dark, ominous character that just looked at danger everywhere. >> well, cheney has said that he takes the iron-ass comment as a badge of honor. but in his own mind, he's the same dick cheney bringing the same westerners dry, iconic whit and national thinking. >> when you talk about christianity, a lot of people read into that, that maybe he feels guilty about what happened. >> not at all. first of all, religion was the one subject he said in advance he doesn't like to pursue in great depth, but even there in this book, we covered religion

it is an undoing of what the former george w bush's measures. >> the as are 25, n nos 12. >> reporter: democrats joined hands with republicans to make this happen. >> this is the biggest rewrite of our education laws in 25 years. >> reporter: championed by george w bush no child left behind was a high-water mark in education. >> it is a legislation to ensure every child gets a good education. >> reporter: from the start the law was a magnet for complaints from both teachers and parents and a symbol of federal over reach into policies many believe are set by the state. >> we have an opportunity today to reverse the trends over the last several years to the national school board. we have an opportunity to make clear for the future the path of higher standards and accountability will be through states, communities and classrooms and not through washington dc >> reporter: it keeps grades and once in high school. the states now get more say in evaluating schools and teachers. other measures, not just test scores, could be considered, such as graduation rates and school conditions. >> to ov

it seems george w. bush looks sage like on the landscape. >> we didn't hear that from our democratic friends, we didn't hear them applaud george bush, or were they said great job, you brought us together. >> no, that's not it. that is not the point. >> george w. bush unleashed the wars that we are coming home to roost in the country, he said we have to fight them there so we don't fight them here. that. >> what can be done to have both sides coming together. we have one side of the issues saying we need prayers, calls for greater health. donald trump is extreme. his speeches are better in german, and then the speech that gun control alone will not do it. >> the new york times and reporting didn't seem fit to refer or mention it. it was diplomacy and talks. that will not be helped by anti-islamic language. >> this is not a country. who are we talking to? who are the leaders? >> radical islam, or whatever you are calling it. >> what are you calling it? >> as a movement, it's not something that we have bee

i think it's between the reagan foreign policy and the george w. bush foreign policy. between a realist foreign policy and a neo-con foreign policy. when you heard ted cruz making a very sophisticated argument about tonight was the primary focus of america's national security interest is stability. and .sometimes that stability comes with our dealing with and recognizing the legitimacy of very unsavory regime, that the spread of democracy often leads to chaos. and what makes a democracy is not an election in that part of the world, it's the rule of law. and a lot of these elections in these countries lead to regimes that have an impostition of sharia law. we seem not to have enough politicians in the republican party that understand that. >> thank you for that. well said, steve. i want to thank everyone who's joining us. we're joined by mike huckabee. he took part in the earlier debate tonight. he's be let's watch a bit of that.. >> are you ready to assure the republican party that you're ready to support the nominee? >> i really am. i feel very honored to be the front

the other candidates seem radical compared to the george w. bush years. george yorch going to the islamic center. signaling that this was not going to a war of terror against muz lems. well, we have heard comparisons to that in weeks and people actually wishing for return of george w. bush. >> "saturday night live" is on very, very late at night. i have a hard time staying up. the fact we're asking this discussion, donald trump bridges the celebrity world and this political world. it is really running in a way we have never seen before. >> almost the perfect las vegas candidate not just because one of his towers is down the street. he absolutely is and heard this point made recently about his belief he'll drive voter turnout and people never caring about politics care. we'll see that tested in iowa but we saw him tweeting peggy noonan saying an election between hillary clinton and myself, he assures he'll win the general, will be the biggest voter turnout in u.s. history an the ratings for the ratings he's using. a few million viewers and now 20 million t

i'm tired of beating on bush. i miss george w. bush. i wish you were president right now! >> one, was that a planned line? i miss george w. bush? >> absolutely not. that comes from lindsey's heart. you know, senator graham, in my opinion, first of all, he's the only one with military service on the stages last night. but, you know, the passion of his commitment to our troops and his commitment to winning this war comes out through his debate performances. and i don't think there's an equal to him on either stage. you know, not just because i advise him but because i know these candidates. there's not an equal to him on either stage in terms of his knowledge of these issues on foreign policy. and plus, when you mention princess bride in a debate, you automatically win, in my opinion. >> so far nothing else has worked in terms of the polls. >> will it work? >> maybe he'll get the buttercup bounce. >> john berman won this one. >> great line. >> thanks, brett. great to see you. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we do have breaking news in the san bernardino terror investigatio

[applause] george w. bush: thank you for the warm welcome. lynn and family, i am delighted to be here. i must confess, i am somewhat reluctant to come back to washington. the last time i showed appear, i was hanged in the white house. findtime, i return only to my vice president getting busted in the capital. i really appreciate you being here, thank you for coming. i want to thank paul ryan for his leadership. he is trying out for the abraham lincoln look-alike contest. mitch, when dick cheney was the leader, mitch was the minority leader appeared as majority leader, mitch is in charge now. as a matter of fact, he assured wouldt dick cheney's bust in anminently displayed undisclosed location. thank you roy blunt and for organizing this event. william behrens is the sculptor pete i can't wait to see what it looks like peter meissner had a time somebody did with me and i looked like alfred a newman. years, i have a chance to meet a number of his predecessors. i have known one my whole life. lastly, i told mom and dad i was coming here for the

if george w. bush about then-president the united states would have been less likely to lose the world sympathy after september 11 by launching the longest war in us history. plus billions in tax dollars given to 20,000 private contractors and thousands killed and wounded on both sides. if al gore, not george w. bush have been president global warming would have been taken more seriously. also, the united states would not have falsified evidence to justify invading oil-rich iraq, the starting and eight year war, and convincing some islamic countries that the united states was waging war on islam. without george w. bush they're would not be the biggest transfer of wealth into private hands in the history of this nation, pay ratio in which the average ceo earns 470 times more than the average worker and canada it's only 20 times more. and executive order giving an estimated 40 billion in tax dollars to catholic evangelical and other religious groups without congressional approval often with the appe

he beat george w. bush there, correct? - right. - and santorum won the iowa and romney won new hampshire. - yeah, he won the big. - yeah, big. - so, who's going to win new hampshire? - i don't know, and i'm telling you i really admit i don't know. it is so hard to get a handle on what's happening and look, you have a lot of people supporting trump and he's, i hear that he's being supported by the tea party. the tea party hates government-funded, single-payer healthcare and trump is for it. the tea party hates eminent domain and trump is for it. - trump is for it, right. - there are so many things of trump's positions that don't correspond to the political positions of the group that's supposed to be supporting him. - except for two things. - i can't explain. - they want authenticity and the guy is nothing if not authentic. - well. - right, he says whatever comes to his head. you don't think so? - i don't think so. - you think he's inauthentic? - i think loud bs is not authentic and i grew up in new york (audience laugh and

will ferrell returning in his parody of george w. bush. >> the field of republicans out there is so messed up i figured it makes you miss me, doesn't it? dr. ben carson, i can barely hear him when he talks. i tell you something. that's not going to work when you have to go to china or az-er-ba-jan where you have to talk loudly so they will understand. not to mention he's some kind of brain surgeon. i got news for him. running the country is not brain surgery. cruz and rubio. rubio and cruz. sounds like a miami law firm. if you've been injured on the job, call rubio and cruz. these two guys, the sons of immigrants, hate immigrants. i for one like them mexican people. they are my amigos. then you have this knucklehead. with the hair. and the 100-foot wall. i tell you something. whenever i get in a bad mood, i picture his big fat oompaloompa face and i piss my pants. >> all joking aside, it was hysterical. classic will ferrell. do you think it's tapping into something here or just fun? >> well, look. i think mostly fun. "saturday night

i'm not sure if the same misthe calculation that had putin take over georgia under george w. bush. liz: christian, the white house has been saying syria, you can't cross the red line. we want to out of assad from syria. now the white house is saying assad's future should be decided by the people of syria. that seems to be rolling back of the dice. >> it's a complete 180 to say assad must go. interestingly enough, the trump policy is the john kerry policy and it's not just president george w. bush wrong on putin. obama went to assad giving a plastic reset button to putin. trump bought hook, line and sinker the lie that russia is engaging in syria to fight isis. but what they are doing is shoring you have the dictator assad. but trump and putin seem to be on the same page when it comes to syria. liz: putin is winning favor in the world for taking on isis. >> i think he's winning favor two places. one is with assad and the other is with iran. everybody else considers vladimir putin to be crazy and a pariah. the economy of is in the pits. reporter: germany and other member states of th

do republicans want to finish what george w. bush started? >> and how 9/11 responders are one step closer to winning a major health care battle. those stories and more are ahead. especially, the pizza! about football is here... up your game with two large two-topping pizzas for only $7.77 each. better ingredients. better pizza. papajohns.com >>> if you recall five months ago, i introduced donald trump. at that time i said we have something in common, the birth certificate investigation, which is still going on. >> that was sheriff joe arpaio of arizona introducing donald trump today and claiming the birther version, the debunked conspiracy theory that president obama was a born in kenya, despite producing a hawaiian birth certificate that, that controversy is somehow still going on. remember when trump was one of the most vocal birthers? >> i knew you were going to ask that question. you know what i'll say? i don't talk about that anymore. here's the story. i don't answer because you know what, if i do answer, that's all people want to talk a

intersecting with george w bush's not particularly welcoming posture for advice. that's a diplomatically as i can put it. they talked a lot about family, ignore the new yorke times, screw cbs news, whatever it would be >>> he calls his son out for the rhetoric he used, access of evil, but he talked about evil when he was president. >> that's right. there was a george bush who was willing to risk impeachment for going to war, but another. the distance is not as great. what has happened, i think, is the passions of the reaction against george w bush in his two terms after the glow of 9/11 faded. the fer onsity of that-- ferocit drecks have looked back, forgetting parts of him that he could be stubborn, he was determined to go into and free kuwait almost immediately. he too had a unilateral streak >>> but he did produce two sons who were incredible leaders, whether you agree with them or not >> sure >>> in this country. one of the president of the united states, another one eight governor. he-- a governor. he must have said these things about george w bush and the wa

. >>> we showed you willer ifril as george w. bush earlier but that wasn't the only political humor "snl" had to offer starting with senator ted cruz. >> i'm not afraid to take a stand on this. when i heard donald trump's comments on muslims, i said, wow. >> and we're talking wow like, that's crazy or wow, like that's a good idea? >> exactly. >> this guy trump is a clown, okay, he's a total joke. the last thing anyone wants is some loud mouthed bully from the tri-state area who hurls insults at people like a fat-headed jabroni. >> you think we should hit isis head on? >> that's right, head on, which is always also the first rule of brain surgery, always leave the head on. >> that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> joining me from washington, olivia nutzi, mr.itical correspond wept "the daily beast." thanks for being here, good morning. >> good morning. >> there's this new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, showing if there was this hypothetical election hillary clinton would actually beat trump but would lose to m

i heard that back in 2002 from george w. bush. he was wrong. invasion of iraq was one of the most foreign policy blunders in the history of this country and precipitated exactly where we are today. yes, we've got to be tough but we have got to be smart. that means international coalition with muslim troops on the ground supported by western democracies with air power and other military efforts. but the troops on the ground to crush isis have got to be led by the muslim nations. >> dickerson: that's foreign policy piece. what was your message be about america and the threat in homeland security sphere of this conversation? >> obviously we have got to do everything that we can to protect the american people, that's a no brainer. that means much tougher screening policies than we have i think secretary of homeland security johnson is right we should have more agents placed in other countries around the world. and not just muslim countries that we have to worry about. there are other countries as well that people can slip into this country. second

he spoke at the ceremony along with george w. bush, joe biden, mitch mcconnell, and paul ryan. this is one hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please , orrin hatch,unt , paul ryan,ell george w. bush, and dick cheney. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please and stand for the presentation of the colors by the u.s. armed forces colorguard, the singing of the national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. ♪ >> present arms. ♪ ♪ pleasees and gentlemen, stand as the chaplain of the u.s. senate, barry black, gives the invocation. >> let us pray. refuge and, our strength. this unveiling ceremony of the marble bust of , whopresident dick cheney we think you for his service to you, and country. remembering the many years he arena, in the political we are grateful for your gifts of people who are passionate about keeping this nation strong. bless and keep vice president cheney and his loved inspirationeceive from his contributions, remind power, we areour to overcome the difficulties that trouble our nation and world. lord, strengthen our commitment to you and country by turning our

. >> there are sections in south carolina -- >> i worked for george w. bush. if you look at what donald trump is saying, everybody has to go home and the good ones come back, we called it a touchback. everybody had to go home and file their paperwork. the ones out of work were expedited. >> george w. bush couldn't win the republican primary today. >> all right, we'll stop. >> how will he win in george bush made the -- >> you didn't listen to what i said. there is more the same what these candidates are saying. people like donald trump -- >> george w. bush couldn't win after taking us down that rabbit hole in iraq. >>> up next these three tell me something i don't know. be cleand by a little bit of dawn ultra? oh yeah. one bottle has the grease cleaning power of two bottles of this bargain brand. a drop of dawn and grease is gone. when a moment turns romantic why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell

"no child left behind" was first approved in 2002 during george w. bush's presidency. but critics on both sides of the aisle have long argued the initiative gave too much power to washington in controlling state education policy. under the new measure, state and local officials will have greater power in determining how to respond to year... 83 percent of iowa schools were labeled as "failing" after not meeting n - c - l - b benchmarks. it's time now to get a first look at the forecast... let's head down to jeriann ritter at the science center. ad lib wx quick the family leader announced this ad lib wx quick the family leader announced this morning that the group would not endorse a presidential candidate prior to the iowa caucus. but, the president of the influential evangelical christian organization bob vander plaats is endorsing ted cruz. state capitol this morning . the social conservative figurehead endorsed mike huckabee in 2008 and rick santorum in 2012. both of whom went on to win the iowa caucuses in those years. and the presidential race is heating up with d