dentist has to do is not there and george w. bush is not there. in the couple of years, you have elected this incredible crop from marco rubio to rand paul and susanna martinez and chris christie. there is so many exciting things happening. i don't get why now there is this resentment. maybe they won't be happy until mitch mcconnell and john banner will be gone. i'm not sure but why not have senator pat twomey and kelly ayotte and this new crop of conservatives -- why not give them a chance to get things done? it seems they are being labeled the establishment now, two. why should they pay? 10 years ago, republican was a bad thing but maybe move past that. host: i want to show our viewers the female vote in the new jersey race to compare. the female vote for chris christie, 57% compared to his female opponent who garnered 42% of the female vote in that state. guest: absolutely, chris christie had a great night. one thing to learn is clearly you can be a conservative. chris christie is a conservative. he defunded planned parenthood in new jersey. an

that is when he went into new --pshire to try and build challenge george w. bush from center. then john mccain realizable party he was in. [laughter] -- he moved even further to opposing all environmental priorities. so, let me say that what i concluded from all of this is this was an extremely polarized issue before barack obama moved to the white house. democratsissue where and republicans had parted company's active the elite level and bed the left -- and then the level of average voters. the data international opinion surveys from pew. stood inwhere things 1987 in terms of a split between parties and where they stood in 2012. you can see environment as one of the issues where polarization had the, much more extreme -- become much more extreme , by the timeine this campaign was launched in the first two years of obama's presidency, it was virtually impossible for elected office holders in the republican party to consider joining the bipartisan coalition that would've been necessary to pass the legislation. question, whyg did the people who were supporting it think it would

and after eight miserable years of george w. bush, we needed barack obama. [applause] -- no president since fdr, no president since fdr inherited it worse economy, bigger job losses, as many wars or as large a deficit as president obama did. but thanks to his leadership and thanks to each of you, america is now moving forward again. let's look at the alternatives we see on the other side of the aisle. the current crop of tea party republicans founded by wealthy economic royalists who all have a very small view of america. we have seen this story before. hoover called supply-side economics. reagan called a trickle-down economics. george w. bush halted focusing on my base. [laughter] we call it selling america short. [applause] i don't know about you, but i have had enough of tea party republicans like ted cruz, haven't you? [applause] these guys are too much, twisting the words

george w. bush isn't there. the past couple of years, you elected an incredible crop of rubio to rand paul to suzanna martinez, to chris christie. you know, there's been so many exciting things happening. and i don't get why now there's this resentment maybe they won't be happy until mitch mcconnell and john boehner is on. why not give it to pat toomey and marco elliott and rand paul. there's a new flock of conservatives. why not give them a chance to get things done. but they're being labeled the establishment now too. and why should they pay -- i agree, ten years ago, republicans did some bad things. they can move past that. >> the votes. just by comparison. the female vote for chris christie, 57% compared to the female opponent who garnered 42% of the vote in that state. >> absolutely. chris christie has a great, great night. and i think a couple of things to learn there is, one, i think is clearly when you can be a conservative. chris christie is a conservative. he defunded planned parenthood in new jersey.

and after eight miserable years of george w. bush, we needed barack obama. [applause] no president -- no president since fdr, no president since fdr inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses, as large a deficit as president obama did. but thanks to his leadership and to each of you, america is now moving forward again. but let's look at the alternative here we see on the other side of the aisle. the current crop of tea party republicans, funded by wealthy economic royalists, people who have a very small view of america. we've seen this story before, right? who recalls supply-side economics? reagan called it trickle-down economics. george w. bush called it "focusing on my base." [laughter] and we call it selling america short. [applause] i don't know about you, but i have had enough of tea party republicans like ted cruz. haven't you? [applause] those guys are too much. twisting the words of our founders to justify their own mean-spirited, shortsighted, pro-shutdown ideology. what senator cruz does not understand is that the patriots who founded new hampsh

but the four presidents -- eisenhower, kennedy, gerald ford, and george h w bush, all served in world war ii. these men have a tremendous appreciation for the service of veterans. and kennedy, eisenhower, gerald ford did not work in vietnam and did not commit troops -- george h w bush went into iraq and came out out of respect for the troops. eisenhower warned about the military-industrial concerts. johnson, nixon, george bush ii, they gave into the military industrial complex. i have had four of my friends commit suicide over neglect of veterans. i reported to my congressman about the abuse of veterans in maryland. as a result of these men being abused, i have been blackballed in the v.a., because i did something that should have been done. host: mr. noonan, part of what he was talking about was the experience of actually going to war of u.s. leaders. pew research center put out a recent survey on veterans in congress. talked about this issue. number of veterans in congress, down to about 20 sent -- 20% today and both the house and the senate. does it contribute to the civil- militar

setting aside your time at a , when george w. bush exceeded legal power, i spoke out loudly against that -- have you publicly criticized president obama in your capacity as an academic forever acceding executive power? have not written about executive power since returning to academia if i recall. can i just answer the thrust of the question? there was a lot of criticism the priorinst administration by academics. the particular criticism that i anded was one in particular it concerned the authority of the president as commander-in- chief to act in the conduct of war unrestricted by statute. that was the subject of a constitutional analysis. that idemic writing devoted myself to figuring out what the answer to the question once. -- was. i try to be tailored though i felt strongly about the issue. ask one final ofstion, what is your view the critical legal studies movement in the legal academy? i haven't thought about the critical legal studies movement and a longtime. movement that by the time you and i were in law was dead is pro

the model here is george w. bush in 2000. after 1998, the opening for george w. bush was the disaster is more term election for republicans. had beenrepublicans discredited after impeachment. they lost how sees when they should've won them. the party was basically looking for a savior who would push up the congressional win. moment in the politics after the next election, if they're looking for someone not of washington and doesn't reek of the unpopularity of house republicans, christie will be that guy. that is a long way away. obamacare, a big question for any republican in 2016 will what did you do to stop obamacare? you could not accept the medicaid funding. he you could not participate in the exchange. christie accepted the medicaid funding. he is going to have to defend that. >> our coverage of the new jersey virginia governors races coming up tonight live at 9:00 eastern. sebelius backleen on capitol hill to testify on the health care website and the launch of the obamacare coverage. she and other officials of gone on record as saying the problems with the

bush,ow, in george w. when you saw that he was having a meeting with certain kinds of advisers, like economic advisers and then the next day he was doing national security and foreign policy, you knew that was going to be a time that his advisers would recommend that he wholly press covers because he had it all in his head. i think questioning by reporters is very important, and we cannot have too much of it. >> that is a fair question. w.bush 292 george interviews. the second of the last one that we did, and i asked president bush a similar question, so let's watch. [video clip] >> media, another institution here, a lot of cable talk shows, i a lot of radio programs, talking about you. do you watch the programs? >> no. >> has immediate cheated you fairly -- has been media treated you fairly? >> my individual relationships with people in the media has been very good, and that is all i can expect. of course, i read what is written, and a lot of times i did not like what is written. then i realize they may n

and after eight miserable years of george w. bush, we need barack obama. [applause] [indiscernible] fdr, nodent since aesident since fdr inherited worse economy, bigger job losses, as large a deficit as president obama did. but thanks to his leadership and to each of you, america is now moving forward again. but let's look at the alternative here we see on the other side of the aisle. the current crop of tea party republicans, funded by wealthy people haveole us, a very small view of america. we've seen this story before, right? who recalls supply-side economics? reagan called it trickle-down economics. george w. bush called it focusing on my base. [laughter] and we call it selling america short. [applause] you, but iw about have had enough of tea party republicans like ted cruz. haven't you? [applause] those guys are too much. twisting the words of our founders to justify their own mean-spirited, shortsighted, pro-shutdown ideology. cruz does not understand is that the patriots who founded new hampshire, the patriots who founded maryland, they did not pra

george w. bush went into iraq and came out. mr. eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex. eisenhower and george bush to you, they gave in. i have had four of my friends commit suicide over neglect of veterans. i reported to my congressman about the abuse. as a result of these honorable men and services that were being abused -- i did something that should not have been done. host: the experience of actually going to war, and u.s. leaders and the pew research center put out a recent survey on veterans in congress that talks about this issue and talks about the shrinking number of veterans in congress, down to about 20% today in both the house and the senate. does that contribute to the civil-military divide here? guest: first, i would like to thank robert for his service in vietnam, and i would like to say that the issue he raised about suicide is a very, very important one today. people will need to step up their game to help those coming back particularly those who have had mental scars from the service. on the issu

dentist has to do is not there and george w. bush is not there. in the couple of years, you have elected this incredible crop from marco rubio to rand paul and susanna martinez and chris christie. there is so many exciting things happening. i don't get why now there is this resentment. maybe they won't be happy until mitch mcconnell and john banner will be gone. i'm not sure but why not have senator pat twomey and kelly ayotte and this new crop of conservatives -- why not give them a chance to get things done? it seems they are being labeled the establishment now, two. why should they pay? 10 years ago, republican was a bad thing but maybe move past that. host: i want to show our viewers the female vote in the new jersey race to compare. for chris vote christie, 57% compared to his female opponent who garnered 42% of the female vote in that state. guest: absolutely, chris christie had a great night. clearlyg to learn is you can be a conservative. chris christie is a conservative. he defunded planned parenthood in new jersey. and yet his priority h

the model here is george w. bush in 2000. remember after 1998 -- the opening for george bush was the disastrous midterm election for republicans. the congressional wing of the republican party had been discredited after impeachments. they lost house seats in a midterm when they should have won them. the party was looking for a savior who would push off the congressional wing. moment in the republican politics after the next midterm election, if they are looking for someone who is not a washington and does not unpopularity of house republicans or congressional republicans right now, then christie will be that guy. that is a long way away. on obamacare and christie, a big question for any republican in in 2000 16an running will be, what did you do to obamacare? as a governor, you could not ask -- not except the funding, and these -- thete in exchanges. i understand that he excepted the funding. too much intoet the conventional wisdom, i want to challenge one think that ryan said, that virginia is destined to be a blue state. in

eisenhower, gerald ford did not work in vietnam and did not commit troops -- george h w bush went into iraq and came out out of respect for the troops. eisenhower warned about the military-industrial concerts. johnson, nixon, george bush ii, they gave into the military industrial complex. iendse had four of my fr commit suicide over neglect of veterans. my congressman about the abuse of veterans in maryland. men beingt of these abused, i have been blackballed in the v.a., because i did something that should have been done. noonan, part of what he was talking about was the experience of actually going to of u.s. leaders. pew research center put out a recent survey on veterans in congress. talked about this issue. shrinking number of veterans in congress, down to about 20 sent -- 20% today and both the house and the senate. does it contribute to the civil- military divide here? guest: first, i would like to thank robert for his service in vietnam. say that theike to issue he raised about suicide is a very important one today. and the v.a. and other people really need to step up their gam

after eight miserable years of george w. bush, we needed barack obama. [applause] no president -- no president since fdr, no president since fdr inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses, as many wars, or as large a deficit as president obama. but thanks to his leadership and to each of you, america is now moving forward again. let's look at the alternative that we see on the other side of the aisle, the current crop of tea party republicans funded by economic royalists who have a very small view of america. we have seen this story before. who are call it supply-side economics -- hoover called it supply-side economics. reagan called it trickle-down. george w. bush called it focusing on my base. [laughter] we call it selling america short. [applause] i don't know about you, i have had enough of tea party republicans like ted cruz. [applause] these guys are too much, twisting the words of our founders to justify their own, mean-spirited, shortsighted, pro-shutdown ideology. does nottor cruz understand is that the patriots who founded new hampshire, who

i'm sure they've even tried to pin this on george w. bush.

i want to thank the afghan women's council, the george w. bush institute, and the alliance and the support of the afghan people for co-hosting and coming together to bring this remarkable event together today. i particularly want to thank all of you. you are a remarkable group of women. i'm pleased to meet a couple of you in afghanistan. thank you for coming here. i know people will enjoy hearing the program later. i want to express my gratitude also to former first lady hillary bush as hillary did in her comments and her introduction. she helped to lead the effort to advance opportunities for women in afghanistan. if you haven't seen it yet today, she has a terrific op-ed in today's "washington post." and madam first lady, we thank you very much for your leadership also. as hillary did, i want to pay particular tribute and thanks to our first ambassador at large for global women's issues and her successor, kathy russell, who has just returned from afghanistan. this is very special for me to be able to be here today, particularly with the ex

in 2006, president george w. bush took u.s. leadership on this issue to a new level by negotiating and supporting crpd. on the anniversary of the ada in 2009, president barack obama signed the treaty, a landmark document that commits countries around the world to affirm what are essentially core american values of equality, justice, and dignity. u.s. ratification of the crpd will increase the ability of the united states to improve physical, technological, and communication access in other countries, thereby helping to ensure that americans, particularly many thousands of disabled american veterans, have equal opportunities to live, work, and travel abroad. in addition, the treaty comes at no net cost to the united states. in fact, it will create a new global market for accessibility of goods, and active u.s. presence in implementation of global disability rights will promote the market for devices such as wheelchairs, smartphones, and other new technologies engineered, made, and sold by the united states corporations. with the

i am no george w. bush. the butchering of spanish does not offend me very much. thank you for being here. neil was telling me this is the third event that the institute of institute oft the politics today. it seems you guys are busy. i want to thank you. i want to thank you for inviting me to new hampshire. new hampshire has a very special place in my heart. i am a mccainiac. winning here was one of the highlights of the campaign. i happen to love your national committee man, who has the coolest socks of any committee man. you have the baddest state slogan in the entire nation. i felt would have a conversation today about whether -- about where the republican party is. i'm not here to give you a history lesson and give you specifics. this is the birthplace of politics. you know that. i want to talk big picture and my impressions. the party is in flux. we are reeling from two consecutive losses. we have lost to quest for the white house. the gop has become the party of the gap. we have a gap with women voters. the gap with latino voters. a gap with asian voters pr

ago george w. bush won 44% of the vote. any republican who could win 44% of the hispanic vote today would we in, so this is not impossible to do. it just requires a candidate. chris christie just did it. won the hispanic vote in new jersey, a blue state. he put time in it. the last part of the campaign town. a heavily hispanic he worked on getting hispanic leaders. he was at every hispanic bakery in the state. he made it a priority from day one. understand he can increase, he can get crossover voters. to prove that, and he did. mitt romney did not. don't blame hispanics. question would be tonight you talked a lot about what the republican party means and white men are not what they used to be in terms of voting. you just talked on chris christie and what he did to whoal to the hispanic vote. do you think would be the candidate to bring the republican party back to the white house? >> i am biased. he's my friend. i know him. i love him. he speaks beautiful spanish. i think the best candidate with the most complete package is

when i went to war, then- president george w. bush that we would have -- that we wouldn't have red tape when we came home and that the great citizens of america would do whatever they could to help us and that red tape wasn't justifiable. my extremes was this -- experience was this -- i took it to the troopers, and they locked me up and told me that no care about the paper, all they want to do is put me in jail. i'm saying this to say that i feel like i'm still at war. and it is wrong. we've got a lot of soldiers back here. i don't understand this killing yourself, but then again, i don't know what the situation is. a lot of times it is what happens when they come home. host: tom tarantino, in our last 30 seconds here. guest: this points out that we still haven't gotten this figured out. the world today for veterans is better than it was six or seven years ago. health care is better, the disability process is getting better, we have a system of veterans courts, the g.i. bill is running at full steam could but we are not quite the

george w. bush came in, colin powell wanted to continue and wanted to pick up where clinton left off. he was publicly humiliated for making that statement. bolton went about leaking information that the north koreans might have a secret program to enrich uranium. then there was a confrontation in 2002. the whole deal fell apart. the north koreans started up the reactor again. there were other agreements that were reached with the north koreans. in 2005, there was an agreement that was reached. the north koreans broke it. the nature of that agreement was that they would stop the plutonium reactor. in return, they would get various concessions. yes, the regimes are different, but north korea is a bizarre dictatorship that relies entirely on support from one country, china. the food aid that it has been able to cage out of the united states over the years. the deal that we are discussing now with iran is quite different. the nature of the sanctions is quite different. i do not see that they are co

actually it was 40%. 40.41% which is exactly where george w. bush was that the point when he had iraq weighing down some heavily on him, behind clinton at 58% and reagan at 63%. we have seen the president drop roughly speaking a point a month since the election. and it is all this sort of normal problems. if you think about when a brand new president comes in, there is an energy, there is a curiosity on the part of the public. there is an energy, a passion, a momentum, lots of new ideas, excitement, all of these things are sort of surround a brand new president. surrounding a brand president. but as you go into year one, two, three, four and the reelection, after that stay wane and five and six are not good and seven and eight are worse. and that is what we are seeing right now. part of this is bad things happen to presidents in their second term whether it is unpopular wars or economic downturns or decisions from the first term coming back and biting them on the rear end in the second term. so we are watching that sort of right now. i think in

w. bush proposal which i supported. we're getting a lot of lament bout folks understandably oh throw are a million people who apparently are not going to be ble to continue with their insurance policy. maybe this is a substandard problem. try to work and help those folks let's keep in mind, a lot of people, hundreds of thousands people, they call my office offices and have problems that aren't worth the paper they're written on and we to be concerned about those 2, 3, 4 erned about the million young people who today not having health insurance because they're aged out. 22, 23, 24, 25 and today they have coverage. in mind as well. i have us keep in mind the the ons of people over years who actually lost coverage. they had coverage but lost it condition preexisting and lost it at the time when they needed it most of all. as we work to try to address the by a couple million people sadly who are not going policies to keep the they want interfacing large increases, that's a problem. e need to

w. that we are trying to get them as much information as we can to expand the sites that are reviewed. talk to me a little bit about what we share to them -- with them and how we follow-up with the information we give them about the insufficiency of the inventory. >> i think we share information appropriately with the opcw. it is a cooperative process. let me start here, which is to say that we have received only on monday of this week the comprehensive declaration by syria of its holdings. it is over 700 pages. it is quite detailed. we are assessing him now and there will be a time at which we will have an assessment of the gaps in that document, good conference is -- if rent is between what is clear and what we know that we can -- differences between what is clear but we know that we can discuss in a closed session. on the site, we have the tools to reconcile any gaps, any discrepancies. part of it may have a simple explanation. for example, opcw in its statement yesterday refers to 23

w. state that provide information, will we know how many? quek again, the federal government, these are private plans. ohio companies could give you that information. haveis not information we at the department of health and human services. these are private insurance companies. >> we will not know how many people? class you could ask the ohio insurance companies. that would be a great way to get the answer. >> insurance companies are canceling plans because the legislation you are implementing does not permit the plant because it does not meet your mandate. it would be helpful for you to know how many of the plans are being canceled. >> the customer is in a grandfather plan after -- they have not received a notice. i really do not -- >> you do not care about the data? >> i do, but you asked if i could give you the answer. i cannot tell you for ohio. >> let me ask a final question about covering the uninsured. we have talked about the promises. you keep the coverage, the cost being less

we will hear from several top economic advisers to president george w. bush and barack obama. from the university of chicago, this is one hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome austin goolsby, lawrence summers, philip swingle, and the wall street journal's david wessel. ♪ >> thank you very much. i am honored to be here with austen goolsbee who was in the obama white house and he was -- larry summers who was in the clinton and obama white house and if you believe what the press says, he either single -- he was single-handedly responsible for the economic crisis or if they had only listened we would not have had one. >> we are going to focus on the economic imprecations of the crisis because there are other things later. as i told the panelists i want to think about what we know now about 2008 and 2009 that was not so clear the time but also about 2013 and why we are where we are. let me start with you. you were chronologically. there are a lot of americans who say basically what happened here was wall street got bailed out and main street did not. after all the stock m

w. and -- but it doesn't take away from the fact that we are people and we serve in this institution and we have some areas of agreement one day and the collide scope changes the next day. to the point where people are always surprised when i say to them, i pray for the congress every day and on sundays especially, i pray for our colleagues, our republican colleagues, as well as our democratic colleagues, as well as the president of the united states, barack obama, or george w. bush, or whoever he may be, because the success of the president and the success of all of us is the success for the american people. if we can work together to find common ground for the public good. and when i pray for all of us, i pray -- i have wishes for us. i wish that -- i wish that my republican colleagues could see how successful the affordable care act is in california. i wish you could hear the stories of family after family after family being liberated, freed from the constraint, a job loss because a f

in 2006, president george w. bush took u.s. leadership on this issue to a new level by negotiating and supporting approval crpd. on the anniversary of the ada in 2009, president barack obama signed the treaty, a landmark document that commits countries around the world to affirm what are essentially core american values of equality, justice, and dignity. crpdratification of the will increase the ability of the united states to improve physical, technological, and communication access in other countries, thereby helping to ensure that americans, particularly many thousands of disabled american veterans, have equal opportunities to live, work, and travel abroad. in addition, the treaty comes at no net cost to the united states . in fact, it will create a new global market for accessibility of goods, and active u.s. presence in implementation of global disability rights will promote the market for devices such as wheelchairs, smartphones, and other new , made,ogies engineered and sold by the united states corporations. with the tr

directorhed the fcc under george w. bush with this exact same issue after this meeting had occurred, and she said "i expect the food industry to police itself," which is exactly what they have been doing all this time. it is hands off. the food industry -- hands off. you may remember last year, they tried to rebrand hfcs as corn sugar and the fda told him no. they have done it anyway. you know what? they will get away with it. why? because the fda does not have an enforcement arm. the enforcement arm is the department of justice. they got better things to do. they do drones and other things. how about on a community level? san francisco in 2010 instituted the toy ban? you course of child into buying a happy meal for the toy. if you want the toy, by the toy. makes perfect sense. well, since then three states have banned toy bans. not really getting rid of that. i don't know why it does that. let's go back. ok. and finally, the campaign to retire -- which is ever continuing. how about things that are likely to work? prici

i'm sure they've even tried to pin this on george w. bush. of course the administration repeatedly tried to blame insurance companies too. here's what the "washington post" fact checker had to say about that. the administration's effort to pin the blame on the insurance companies is a classic case of misdirection. that's "the washington post." classic case of misdirection. they got three pinocchios for that whopper. unfortunately that doesn't seem to have deterred our friends on the other side from indulging in the blame game. within just the past week we've seen the white house lash out at the words of a cancer survivor and try to point a finger of blame at texans. and a few days ago -- get this one -- one of the president's closest political allies attacked the very kind of folks who are now losing their health coverage under obamacare. free riders he called them. free riders. you know the folks he's talking about. these aren't people who have done anything wrong. they're not freeloaders or free riders or anything else. they're our neighbor

w. [applause] reverend c.t. vivian. [applause] equipped only with courage and an overwhelming commitment to social justice, the reverend c.t. vivian was a stalwart activist on the march toward racial equality. whether at a lunch counter on a freedom ride or behind the bars of a prison cell, he was unafraid to take bold action in the face of fierce resistance. by pushing change through nonviolent demonstration, c.t. vivian established and led numerous organizations to support individuals and communities. his legacy of combating injustice will shine as an example for generations to come. [applause] patricia wald. [applause] patricia wald made history as the first woman appointed to the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit, rising to chief judge of the court. she always strove to better understand the law and fairly apply it. after leaving federal service, judge wald helped institute standards for justice and the rule of law at the international criminal tribu

we have had a big increase in border patrol during the administrations of george w. bush and barack obama. they were pushed by congress. we can do a better job. we need to use technology. in our recent experiences with the health care act, the government is not the best procurer of technology. it should be able to do better. we should check the legal eligibility of people getting hired to reduce the incentive of illegals to come over. if you reduce the possibility they can get a job and make a living -- looking forward, our biggest task is not so much preventing courts of illegal -- hoards -- hoards of illegal immigrants coming over, but shifting our immigration from what it currently is. it should be going from low skilled immigration to high skilled immigration like it is in canada. guest: there has been movement. when you see jews as you would say democrat or reductions. intellectual brothers and sisters, why do you say that broughtpean for the this over here. i try to uses for framers of the constitution's founders for the the members group of the first congress.

george w. bush halted focusing on my base. [laughter] we call it selling america short. [applause] i don't know about you, but i have had enough of tea party republicans like ted cruz, haven't you? [applause] these guys are too much, twisting the words of our founders to justify their own mean-spirited, short down, pro- shutdown ideology. what senator cruise doesn't understand is the patriots he founded new hampshire, the patriots he founded maryland did not pray for their president to fail, they prayed for their president to succeed. [applause] delivern't intelligence, they didn't belittle earnings. they actually aspired to it and they hoped others would as well. they did not appeal to america's fears, they brought forward bravery and they would never have abandoned the war on war on to declare a women, war on workers, war on immigrants, a war on the sick, and a war on hungry children. [applause] i know that people like mitch -- inell and kelly ayotte know they have been trying to distance themselves from the tea party ever since they nearly drove our country into defau

and glenn hubbard, the dean of the columbia business school and was an advisor to george w. bush. i want to talk about the world economy and i want to start with the emerging markets. a couple of years ago, i think one would have said that the developed world was faltering and thank god for the emerging markets, china, india and the best of them, who were providing global demand. in countries like the u.s. and europe better get used to this because we will be less and less relevant in the future with emerging markets. and i would say that coming the last x months, maybe there has been some rethinking about that. so my question to you is is the golden age of emerging markets behind us? we think growth in the emerging markets will be over five percent and we think that will continue. we will not see the 10% growth rate that we saw prior to 2000 and eight. a lot of the fundamentals are in much better shape than we even knew. thoughtand eight, we that america was going to go off the deep into with the financial crisis, they have kept a five percent growth rate all the way through. i w

we have had a big increase in duringcontrol -- patrol the administrations of george w. bush and barack obama. .hey were pushed by congress we can do a better job. we need to use technology. withr recent experiences the health care act, the government is not the best procurer of technology. it should be able to do better. we should check the legal eligibility of people getting hired to reduce the incentive of illegals to come over. if you reduce the possibility they can get a job and make a living -- looking forward, our biggest task is not so much preventing courts of illegal -- hoards of illegal , butrants coming over shifting our immigration from what it currently is. lowhould be going from skilled immigration to high skilled immigration like it is in canada. our -- host: our guest is michael barone. caller: why is it that you say founding fathers instead of framers? jews? people refer to should you say muslims, christians, whatever? intellectual brothers and sisters who are african- american, why do you say that the europeans brought the slaves over. they were captur

w. with respect to the affordable care act, i think people are legitimately concerned because we have a major problem with health care in this country, 41 million people without health insurance, a lot of people underinsured. and once again, how we fix a health care system that's been broken for too many people for too long, i think, ends up speaking to how much confidence we have in government and whether we still have the capacity collectively to bring about changes that are going to be good for our economy, good for our businesses, good for the american people. i do want to say, though, that, beyond the headlines, we have made real progress in the economy. and sometimes that hasn't gotten enough attention. some of the tough decisions that we made early on have paid off, decisions that helped us not only recover from a crisis but begin to lay a stronger foundation for future growth. we refocused on manufacturing and exports, and today our businesses sell more goods and services made in

w. since then, my words have been twisted and maligned. make no mistake -- i believe in this law. i spent two years of my life working on the affordable care act act and there's nothing i want more for it -- then for it to succeed. months ago, i warned that if a nipple mentation did not improve, the marketplace might struggle. -- i warned that if implementation did not improve, the marketplace might struggle. on updates were unsatisfactory. we heard multiple times that everything was on track and we now know that was not the case. that's in the past. now it's time to move forward and figure out how to fix it. madame secretary, you deserve credit for coming before congress and the american people and accepted responsibility for the website problems. your focus is where it should be them on the future. it's very clear to me that you are working as hard as you can to fix healthcare.gov. keep that. -- keep at it. we made a promise to the to fix a broken system. we made a promise to ensure th

george w. bush took over when the stock market was in dot-.com bubble territory. it was deflating. the market under his watch was down 40%. it culminated in the meltdown of 2008 and you had what was looked at as a fairly friendly and amenable securities submission and it's on the subprime disaster. the most recent column about the quiet obama rally. norma is joining us. this program carried live on bbc in great britain. joining us from hastings, england, go ahead, please. >> norma? glad to hear from you. >> hello, hello, am i on air? >> you sure are. >> i would like to ask the gentleman about aig-sp. i think the average person in this country wouldn't know if you went out to the street what a bull and bear market are. they wouldn't know. and didn't aig-sp open in britain by side stepping american banking laws? because the trader exactly that, that they opened up in britain in order to side step the american banking laws. and if that is the case, and american taxpayer took the quantitative easing that aig created, is there anger across america that it was done here if not some claim

the irony is that the democrats voted to end the practice when george w. bush was president. 2005,nority from 2003 two they demanded a 60 votes to confirm. the folder lining is that the filibuster will work for conservatives as well. republicans should employ the same weapon. thatrats are pretending they're only breaking the filibuster for lower court nominees, not for the supreme court. they can dream on. us on thejoining phone from birmingham, alabama. democrats line. caller: good morning. how are you? i am so glad. it is about time that the democrats woke up and did something. it really is. mitch mcconnell, i do not want to hear anything he has to say. all, tohe one, first of say he would make president obama a one term president. it is about time that the democrats in the senate stood up and stopped the republicans from trying to stop all of the nominees. -- i am going to ruffle feathers this morning -- he has been so disrespected. as a black person, i am so offended by the disrespect that he gets from the republicans. host: let me ask you this. we hav

w. helping us to break it down is alexander bern. he is the senior political reporter. thank you for joining us. people about tell these two races -- why or why not they are important -- what would you say? caller: the new jersey race is very important for one reason and one reason only. that is chris christie's national future. if he wins this election by the margin that the polls show, that is a big feather in his cap. he is a potential candidate that will be able to say he was a conservative and up loose date -- in a blue state. complicated.ore there's not a dominant personality involved. there are two candidates -- both are very flawed. this is an important race is that we have seen over the last few years in the state of virginia that it has gone from a predominantly republican state to a real swing state. is thatcould see today virginia may be leaning to the democrats. this is an off year election. virginia has historically elected a governor from the opposite party. like the trend