bush is the republican party of george w bush. in a strange con influence of political news, george w. bush picked tothd to gather headliner republicans, governors like chris christie of new jersey and members of congress like paul ryan of wisconsin. george w. bush picked today to convene in manhattan, a who's who of current republican politicians to campaign for keeping his tax cuts. wow. the still deeply unpopular president has kept a low profile but his emergence today of all days heading up a tax conference did put him squarely back into today's 2012 politics. >> if you raise tax, in other words, i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts. if they were called some other body's tax cuts they are probably less likely to be raised. >> former president bush should not be so modest about his legacy in the republican party. not only does everybody still call them the bush tax cuts, but this republican party after him is absolutely campaigning on keeping the bush tax cuts. despite the decade so far of the bush tax cuts exploding th

is that george and laura bush are true partners in life. and george w. bush truly and deeply loves his wife. it's an honor to introduce a man that truly and deeply loves his wife, the 43rd president of the united states, george w. bush. [ applause ] >> thank you all for coming. so it seems fitting to me that for the american first ladies conference we actually have first ladies. and it's my honor to introduce them. before i do so, i want to thank mark langdale for his leadership of the george w. bush foundation, and thank anita mcbride for conceiving and sharing what has been a fascinating discussion. mcbride for con receive actually watched some of it being streamed over the internet. i want to thank gerald turner of smu and the smu folks. smu is an awesome university by the way, and we're honored to be associated with them. and neil kerwin, president of american university and his wife ann have joined us. thank you for being here. i want to thank the library directors, alan lowe, of course, of the bush president 43. warren finch, bush president 41. i'l

bush administration, george w. bush would be the overregulator. president obama has been out on the stump this week, talking about how he has reduced taxes on businesses 17 times since he has been in office. but regardless of the truth of what he is saying, look at the tactic of what he's saying. he's saying if you're concerned about flip-flopping, president obama is the guy you ought to be worried about. he's the flip-flopper. mr. romney also as a man who has elevators for his cars, who has a $100 million or so trust fund for his sons, who makes $10,000 bets, who says that $374,000 in speaking fees income was not very much money to him, a man whose single funniest story about the midwest is about the hilarious time that his dad closed a factory and the voters got mad about it. the man who easily talks about how much he personally likes to fire people, mitt thurston howell romney iii has been accused of being a little out of touch with the common man. but now, because this is his only political tactic, he has decided that the being out of touch pr

we saw how well george w. bush did on that in 2005. i think that is from the liberal sdpemtic perspective a very exciting prospect. seeing him speak tonight, there is no worry that paul ryan would overshadow mitt romney as a speaker and as a campaigner. i sort of -- because paul ryan is so beloved on the right i thought when he was introducing him tonight this might be a real chance for paul ryan to show off. he gave a very bad introduction. it was bad enough i cut him off and i would have let it run if he said anything useful. he said i think this guy wanted to be the uniter and not the divider, didn't he say that? that was george w. bush that said that. it was an incredibly bad introduction and speech. maybe he will pick him. >> steve schmidt, you've been through this vice presidential selecting on the republican side. you gave us sarah palin. did you see -- what did you think of paul ryan's audition for the vp slot tonight? >> well, lawrence, i'm not sure that qualifies as an audition for it, but i think that he could certainly wind

romy will have a george w. bush for ren policies, two were george w. bush for ren policy advisors. dan senor was the guy telling everybody the war was awesome and the other to be america's ambassador to the world on war crime issues while the administration was setting up secret prisons and torturing people. >> unless you believe mitt romney's foreign policy will be anything like george bush's foreign policy lets the george bush foreign officials advising mitt romney that that is not the case. chris hayes, up with chris hayes you can watch every saturday and sunday. nice to have knew always a pleasure. >> is this a situation we have two worlds that don't overlap, having the iraq war spokesman speaking on your behalf doesn't seem like a bad thing to republicans? >> i have pondered this for a long time. i genuinely don't understand this. you watch the republican primary debates and turn to foreign policy. there has to be some space between ron paul and dick cheney and no one is occupying it. either an incredibly isolationist agenda of ron paul not majority position of american politi

bush -- >> it has endorsed barbara bush, no george w. bush yet, but rolling stone covered this for endorsing back in 2002, so george w. bush has supported romney, let's listen to this. >> i strongly stand with mitt romney because i believe he is the best person for the job of governor of çmassachusetts. he's got a record. he's done things in life. he started his own businesses, he's a entrepreneur. >> i wonder if you're going to hear echos of that soon since he is using his advisors and some of his policies, and even though he is going to the right, maybe we will hear that voice resonating again, telling us about romney's record and how willard knows what to do with government. >> i will tell you this, george w. bush is no more popular than vanerial disease at this point. bush attacking somebody would make him for popular than endorsing him. >> thank you both for coming on the show tonight. coming up, republicans kick off the silly season by attacking president obama's travel expenses. how worried were they when george w. bush was in t

the bad news for mitt romney -- george w. bush is back. and that turned out to be really, really good news for president obama today. that's coming up. an airline's job, is to take you from where you are... to where you need to be. and we're not just talking about points on a map. with a more intuitive delta website and mobile app... and the most wifi equipped planes. we let you be everywhere at once. innovations like these are extending our reach so you can extend yours. and now, even at 30,000 feet you can still touch the ground. lightweight nourishment is the best of both worlds. [ female announcer ] it's new aqua light, with zero weight, 100% more nourishment. [ sarah ] it's light and healthy and just makes me so happy. [ female announcer ] new aqua light from pantene. >>> george w. bush said today that he thinks the only problem with the bush tax cuts is that they are named after him. so much for mitt romney's trying to pretend that george w. bush doesn't exist. >>> and rick santorum dropped out of the race for president today and wil

stephen colbert and george w. bush. >> i stand by this man. i stand by this man because he stands for things. not only for things, he stands on things. things like aircraft carriers and rubble and recently flooded city squares. and that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to america, she will always rebound will the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world. >> that's one of the great things about this night is that washington becomes unbuttoned and presidents really do take a licking. >> they do. but for the most part it is usually the president who is in command who's making all the jokes, who is controlling his own self-deprecation brilliantly. >> this is a night where the president gets to show the country what sort of a great, smart, with it, in on the joke person he is. >> and he has the best joke writers in america helping him to show what a good sense of humor he has. >> the only good thing about influx of celebrities in, the national audience -- >> i grew up in washington, d.c. this was a very local thing. now we're

they took george w. bush's problem and made it john kerry's problem. let's take a look at just how bad mitt romney's religion problem is. here's a poll showing voter reluctance based on a candidate's religion. you see, catholicism puts a 7% drag on a candidacy. with 7% of voters saying they would not vote for a catholic. it's the same with a baptist. 7%. a little more reluctance for a jewish candidate, 9%. and then a huge jump, more than double with with 22% of voters unwilling to vote for a mormon candidate. that's in an election that's going to be decided by one or two percentage points. so what does mitt romney do with his religion problem? he doesn't just attack president obama's religion, he invents a whole new religion, a religion that doesn't even exist and attributes it to president obama. >> well, i think there is in this country a war on religion. i think there is a desire to establish a religion in america known as secularism. i know that based upon reports the obama administration gave this a lot of thought. a lot of discussion. >> and so t

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bush -- george w. bush. therefore, he went there to look for solutions in energy. this is going to be a yin and yang problem. >> i am not sure i'd understand your yn and yang analogy. oil and gas is extracted, coal is extracted. nuclear is somewhat more sophisticated, but you at some point have to extract uranium. so it all has some extraction. it is most acute with oil. and it is endedgenes of the bush family, so naturally they will look to that. but it is interesting that george w. bush when he was president, we would see him riding around with a white pickup truck, that was running on gas. it was not running on -- >> not natural gas -- >> it was petroleum gas, that is it. someone wrote to me about it when i mentioned this -- >> i think maybe at this point, i might like to talk to our viewers -- or our listeners on siurus xm potus channel 124, our program can be heard on channel 124 saturday's three times -- the first, 9:30 a.m. in the morning, 3:30 p.m. in the afternoon, and 6:30 p.m. in the evenings on siriusxm potus channel 124 and it can also be viewed on 200

w. bush was still in office o. the original plan was to explode a car bomb, but the terrorists apparently lost a page from their instruction booklet and then decided they would have to make due with suicide vests. the defendant then suggested that those vests, the device be constructed in the apartment building in new york city where he was working as a door man. that plan was knicksed, shepard? >> it's my understanding the feds have a slew of convicted terrorists to be witnesses in this thing. what is the defense doing to discredit that bunch? >> that's right, there is a very long list of convicted terrorists that are supposed to testify at this trial. and if what happened today is

how worried were they when george w. bush was in the white house. and the gop plan to take down the president is real. it started on day one. we'll tell you what they were plotting on the night of his inauguration. 20 years later, the l.a. riots, how the rodney king beating changed everything, he will join me next. look, every day we're using more and more energy. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. what's it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. we've got to be smart about this. it's a smart way to go. ♪ rod . >>> i'm in los angeles where 20 years ago, this city burns in the worst violence of american history around the case of rodney king,ly be talking to him live, next. ohh, shoots a three, game over. so two seconds ago... hey mr. and mrs. harris, where's kevin? say hi kevin. mom, put me down. put...the p

bush. and in february 2001, in his first joint address to congress, president george w. bush said that racial profiling is, quote, wrong and we will end it in america. end of quote. we take the title of today's hearing from the promise president bush made that night, 11 years ago. in june 2001, our former colleague, senator russ feingold of wisconsin, by predecessor's chairman of the committee held the second and most rathering on racial profiling. i was there, there was bipartisan agreement about the need to end racial profiling. then came 9 /11. the national trauma that followed civil liberties came face-to-face with national security. arab-americans, american muslims, south asian-americans faced national origin and religious profiling. one example, the special r registration program targeted arab visitors requiring them to file with the i.n.s. or face deportation. there were serious doubts if it would help us combat terrorism. terrorism experts have since concluded that special registration wasted homeland security resources and, in fact, alienated patriotic arab-amer

george w. bush is a war mongerer. we need to put this squarely on george w. bush. host: what would you prefer have happened? caller: we could get used military strikes against al qaeda. we did not have to go into afghanistan to achieve our goals. guest: ok, chris, but you would have attacked al qaeda, way or another. i have not been kind enough books to president bush for different reasons. president bush was quite sure years ago. president obama has been the president for four years. he stayed and he increased the number of troops. transcends democrats and republicans. common sense tells us that if this were not a republican in the white house, he would be getting much more criticism than president obama is from the democratic party. we are in this together, a democrat an republicand together. gradually get out over the next two years. general allen is the right man to do this. host: let's let us some numbers from operations in during freedom. these are the deaths and casualties. host: how much do these numbers of fact or inspire at general allen? guest: i think i

and in the studio, a former economic adviser to george w. bush. first of all, it is hard to deny the auto bailout worked. gm has its biggest profit since 1999. >> yet, it is easy tonight -- easy to deny that the bailout work. the question is what would have happened if they went through a normal bankruptcy process? that is the tradition in the united states. would declare a company bankrupt. a goes for sale for $1. in addition, there are other factors that have led to investment. for example, the chinese stake in general motors, which i am not convinced is dependent on a bailout. >> the criticism was that the dollars were poured into gm. you were the architect of that plan, that bailout. but was it for a political reason? as much for the car worker, the democratic constituency, i you need to get them on your side? >> remember the first architect of the bailout was george w. bush. he was the first president to put money into general motors and chrysler, because he saw as president obama saw after him that this was a case of market failure. a case w

the reality of this is that in 2000, george w. bush carried white voters over al gore by 12%. in 2000, john mccain carat white voters over barack obama -- in 2008, john mccain got white voters over barack obama. obama won in a landslide because of latino voters. that is something that republicans other than george w. bush do not understand. >> i wanto talk about this more. >> 3, 4, 5, 6, seven years ago, if i do the job as vice president -- i'm sorry. [laughter] >> you guys all got that, right? >> bit of a gaffe there. but look at this -- the nbc- "wall street journal" poll, romney is trailing obama want latinos. romney-rubio, match made in had been. -- heaven. >> match made in purgatory. [laughter] now, he is smart, he makes a great case, he has a record in florida. >> but? >> but we went through this four years ago. everybody is an amateur running for national office, and the republicans learned painfully in 2008 with gov. palin. >> this guy is no sarah palin. >> no sarah palin, but you are taking a chance. there is questions. does the cuban connection reached latinos, with

bush because there's no evidence that any of the republican candidates know who george w. bush is. >> he's never been mentioned, that's right. mike, tell us what's going on here. they are suddenly very, very upset that a president actually quoting republicans -- not saying -- he was using the republican phrase about them being unelected saying this is what you guys used to say. and they can't take it when he says that. >> well both sides here are working the refs the ultimate -- the ultimate swing vote. here you just have one vote on the margins. i think the president also would take back some of what he said. there's going to be plenty of time in -- >> a little bit -- >> yeah, he has. and there'll be plenty of time in july to talk about why this was a mistake. i think they were trying to build in some insurance. they maybe had a bad feeling about where this was headed. but you don't know where it's headed and this court doesn't like to be strong armed. but i don't think it helps to have maureen dawd said that they were extremists in black robes either. >> so we have a res

. >> the reality is that in 2000, george w. bush carried white voters over al gore by 12%. in 2008, john mccain carried white voters over barack obama by 12 points. one race was 50-50, 2000. obama won in a landslide. that is because of the influx of latino voters. that is what republicans, rather than at george w. bush, do not understand. >> mitt romney, politics, and a word from senator marco rubio. >> 3, 4, 5, 6, seven years from now, if i do a good job as vice president -- sorry. [laughter] >> you all got that? >> bit of a gaffe there. but if you look at the latest nbc-"wall street journal" poll, romney is trailing obama among latinos. romney-rubio, a match made in heaven. >> match made in purgatory. [laughter] no, he is a ticket, smart, makes a great case, -- he is articulate, smart, makes a great case, has a record in florida -- >> but? >> everybody is an amateur running for office, and republicans learned that painfully in 2008 with gov. palin. >> this guy is no sarah palin. >> no, but he has a prickly relationship with the florida press. there are questions. does the

the gsa administrator under george w bush is here with me. thank you so much for being here. >> glad to be here megyn. megyn: if bush administration folks had acted under their watch the obama administration says the 2010 debacle could have been eye voided. avoided. they say it's the bush administration to blame. they say in 04 the conference was $93,000. in 2006 it had ballooned to $323,000. and then two years later it was up more than double, well about, yeah, more than double, just 655,000 leading us to 2010 where it was up to $840,000. they say most of that ballooning happened under george w. bush, not under barack obama, your thoughts. >> first of all it's so clear that the obama administration is in crisis mode. so where to begin. first, i question the numbers, and i'd love to see a line item break down of what is in each of these numbers. i'm not going to distrust them out the gate. secondly looking at the location ever the conference it looks like they've confused what is a local regional conference with conferences which were nationw

straight ahead, former president george w. bush missed the white house. president bush will tell you himself. that's next. also, chance of a lifetime. lady gaga gets invitation that may be too good to refuse. what is it? you will find out. you will find out. that's coming up. [ male announcer ] at scottrade, we believe the more you know, the better you trade. so we have ongoing webinars and interactive learning, plus, in-branch seminars at over 500 locations, where our dedicated support teams help you know more so your money can do more. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. our teams have the information you want when you need it. it's another reason more investors are saying... [ all ] i'm with scottrade. >> greta: you have seen the top stories but this is the best of the rest. former president george w. bush joking about the controversial tax breaks that bears his name. >> most small businesses pay cash. individual income tax level. therefore, if you raise taxes, on the so-called rich, you are really raising taxes on the job

at the top, george w. bushes national security advisor, condoleezza rice. rick santorum came in second. florida senator marco rubio, and chris lavoie chris at third. with me now, current tv correspondent david shuster; correspondent david shuster; democratic strategist, bet columnist and former clinton white house aide, keith former mccain-palin communications aide boris epstine. all right. thank you all for being here. david let me start with you. i am not the only one who thinks in the past couple of days this race has taken a fundamental turn. the polls have shocked everybody. if you were advising the president what would you say he should do to change the dynamics? certainly the press is saying something is amiss. >> he is being advised by his campaign right now just to be patient. they are showing him the state-by-state polls. yes, the national numbers are of great concern, but it is very early. they are saying hold off, let's wait it is only dangerous if you start to get down by six or eight moint points. >> yes but you go from a yawning lead among wo

the way of president obama, is george w. bush, i mean, where would he sit in the modern republic, in the current contemporary republican party? >> i'm not sure. you know what? in that clip that you showed, it shows i think the real george bu bush, the statesman george bush when he said not just that he's going to relinquish the limelight but said i will not undermine our president. >> right. >> by stepping in. that's what a statesman does. in the republican party, unfortunately, there aren't that many statesmen. poor speaker john boehner is the only person i can think of in the republican party who rises to that level. and if more -- >> occasionally and then gets pulled back. >> if more republicans could follow bush's lead in terms of being a statesman, i think the country would be in a much better place. >> bravo, jonathan capehart. >> like not calling him stupid, maybe not calling the president stupid. >> one other way, the couldnntr would be in better shape, president bush was a republican, and really across the board, a

no questionpredecessor, george w. bush. and then, of course you have thing decision by the national labor relations board telling boeing you can't build a factory in a right-to-work state. again, that's what his special interests were telling him to done of course he took some of your money to invest in some businesses of the people who contributed to his campaigns. people say he likes to pick winners and losers. i said, no, he just likes to pick losers. but the right course for america's economy is not to have the government trying to guide the economy and pick winners and losers or to bow to the special interests that paid for their campaigns. right course for america's economy is to return to consumer-driven free markets, and i will get that job done. the president says he wants to transform america. i don't want to transform america. i want to restore to america the principles that made us the hope of the earth. and if i'm so fortunate that i can become president of this great country, i will endeavor to unite america a