well by obama's own admission he isn't going after the bush administration for some of us lawlessness because he says that it would. harm the country's ability to look forward and to implement some of the things that he wants to do during his term he doesn't want to have these backward looking fights. it in this case you know someone might say well well then barack obama why are you looking backward to something that happened during the clinton administration this this case of iranian spying gone awry. and you know why is it appropriate to look backward and prosecute rise and well you know maybe the answer is that a guy like arisan or investigative reporters generally in some ways make it harder for presidents to operate in some ways make it harder for them to. help the government to escape scrutiny and embarrassment and just as that applied to the bush administration it applies to president obama it's consistent with his logic of i'm going to do what i want to do in order to forward the agenda that i want to push but let's be honest here right has been all started just with the bush

bush and now president obama between two thousand and one two thousand and ten the bush tax cuts cost our economy two and a half trillion dollars that's two and a half trillion padded on to our debt the republicans today are screaming is way too high. and that money that should have been flowing through our government and then threw our economy also into the hands of the very few and the very rich in fact nearly a third of all the bush tax cuts went to the top one percent of americans the brookings institute looked into who got what thanks to the bush tax cuts and calculated that the lowest twenty percent of income earners in america save on average about twenty dollars a year thanks to the bush tax cuts about the price of a dinner for one at outback pecks steakhouse not including the tip courtesy the federal government the middle twenty percent saved about seven hundred forty dollars but the price of one month's rent for many americans but get this the top one percent of income earners in our nation saved in the stone and forty five thousand dollars uncle sam just bought your new car

bush ok or what was it won't stand down well back to back down again but i mean yeah this is going to trying he clearly doesn't want to songs he is through these purposes and i don't know why these artists as artists is what was going on holiday i don't know why these politicians continue to use these songs you know it's interesting choice you know one song popular i heard think the reason she chose the song is she's trying to send a subliminal message to the burghers like i mean american girls i mean not the guy with the can you know you know that kid i hadn't thought about could have been the same kind of bad preparation that got her to say that john wayne was born in waterloo and the only john wayne who's ever been in waterloo is john wayne gacy the serial killer so i don't know i just maybe like disorganization i'm part of a team like nobody requesting artists rights to me as a reminder that she's an american girl because she just keeps forgetting things you know especially important. the name is mary pointed out to the artist so that's only of years far liz mair pointed out to th

bush and now president obama between two thousand and one two thousand and ten the bush tax cuts cost our economy two and a half trillion dollars that's two and a half trillion added onto our debt the republicans today are screaming is way too high. and that money that should have been flowing through our government and then threw our economy also into the hands of the very few and the very rich in fact nearly a third of all the bush tax cuts went to the top one percent of americans the brookings institute looked into who got what thanks to the bush tax cuts and calculated that the lowest twenty percent of income earners in america saved on average about twenty dollars a year thanks to the bush tax cuts but the price of a dinner for one at outback pet steakhouse not including the tip courtesy of the federal government the middle twenty percent say about seven hundred forty dollars but the price of one month's rent for many americans but get this the top one percent of income earners in our nation saved in the stone and forty five thousand dollars uncle sam just bought your new car and

>> the current group of republicans seeking the presidency does not include a bush and the bush policyed are not even mentioned. so far, that hasn't helped a candidate hugely. no one is very excited about this crop. >> the field is generally described as fairly uninspiring. >> this notion that somehow the field that we have is weak, i think -- i just reject out of hand. i know most of the candidates, and i find them to be people of integrity and great intellectual acumen and have leadership skills. jeb was the bush brother who should have been president, the one his parents groomed for the role, but by a quirk of political timing, his older and less serious brother got the job instead. that now makes it very hard for another bush to run, especially since george w.'s legacy is still so divisive. today, jeb bush spends his days in florida making money. he could well be in washington running the country. does he ever wish he had another name? >> no, no. see, that's the point, i got a cool last name and i'm very proud of my brother and that's not -- that would not -- that's not a part of my

bush gave us tax cuts. well, ten years later, we're going to take a look at what could have been, next. somewhere in america, a city comes to life. it moves effortlessly, breathes easily. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. >>> we recognize loud and clear the surplus is not the government's money. the surplus is the people's money. and we ought to trust them with their own mobby. >> yeah. now we're playing with china's money. ten years ago george w. bush looked the american people in the eye and promised us his tax cut would do big things for the country. he promised us the same with another round of tax cuts in 2003. well, instead, with a stroke of his pen, mr. bush took that budget surplus and turned it into a mountain o

bush gave us tax cuts. well, ten years later, we're going to take a look at what could have been, next. she felt lost... until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips' colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation. ...and? it helped balance her colon. oh, now that's the best part. i love your work. [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. [ male announcer ] you plant. you mow. you grow. you dream. meet the new definition of durability: the john deere select series -- a four-year limited warranty, dozens of attachments, and endless possibilities. what will you create? learn more about the durable select series tractor at john deere.com/selectseries. >>> we recognize loud and clear the surplus is not the government's money. the surplus is the people's money. and we ought to trust them with their own mobby. >> yeah. now we're playing with china's money. ten years ago george w. bush looked the american people in the eye and promised us his tax cut would do big things for

first he goes after bush after the iowa caucuses. >> bush displayed a saks-sized false humility. >> i am humbled and i am honored by your outpouring of support. >> yes, an outpouring of support that earned him 40% of 10% of the registered voters of a state with 1% of the u.s. population. [laughter] bring out the whoop ass! >> this is in the end zone and it feels safe! and you ain't seen nothing yet! >> no, you ain't. in fact, rather than president, gore is now running for president. chris: but iraq and katrina turned stewart's comedy from those general jabs to very tough critiques of bush and dick cheney. stewart hammered them nightly. mccain was one of his most frequent guests and right after he wrapped up -- here he is right after he wrapped up the nomination. >> i came on the show. we were declared dead, buried and -- >> you were doing terrible, i remember that. you were just in terrible shape. in some respects, i resurrected your campaign. >> you did. because when i came on this show we got on to real serious issues. in fact, for a while there i was reminded of the words of chairm

well by obama's own admission he isn't going after the bush administration for some of us lawlessness because he says that it would. harm the country's ability to look forward and to implement some of the things that he wants to do during his term he doesn't want to have these backward looking fights. it in this case you know someone might say well well than barack obama why are you looking backward to something that happened during the clinton administration this. case of iranian spying gone awry and you know why is it appropriate to look backward and prosecute rise and well you know maybe the answer is that a guy like arisan or investigative reporters generally in some ways make it harder for presidents to operate in some ways make it harder for them to. help the government to escape scrutiny and embarrassment and just as that applied to the bush administration applies to president obama it's consistent with his logic of i'm going to do what i want to do in order to forward the agenda that i want to push let's be honest here right has been off guard just with the bush administration

the economy went down in bush 41's case. you are a prisoner, a captive of economic events. >> one of the interesting things is that some of this is going on in europe, and some economists are beginning to wonder -- everybody agrees we have to cut the deficit. but people are beginning to wonder whether you put in these kinds of a draconian measures at the time of a recession, that it could exacerbate problems, and that we should perhaps think about doing this in a slightly different way. >> we are not thinking about doing it at all, that is the problem. the central fact of life is debt. we had been living beyond our means, europe has been living beyond its means, social democracy has been living beyond their means for a long time. the only way out of that is doing things that people don't want to do, and the politicians are unable to suggest it. that is why you have this gap. people know something is wrong, but politicians are unable or unwilling to tell them what they have to do. >> look at this group that joe biden is suppo

hip, hip hooray to george bush. >> >> stephen:, yes, three cheers for george bush. unless you're in a gagged position, in which case try three grunts. folks, it went down like this... [cheers and applause] here's how the whole thing played out. we water boarded khalid sheikh mohammed, obviously after this picture was taken because he clearly hadn't touched water for some time. now, at some point, at some point ksm gave up the nickname of one of bin laden's couriers. we followed that courier and that's how we nailed bin laden, therefore validating torture. but the "i want to be able to look my children in the eye" crowd refused to admit torture is the real hero here. >> torture is not moral. it's not legal. it's not effective. >> it was not torture or cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment of detainees that got us the major leads that ultimately enabled our intelligence community to find osama bin laden. >> all of our experience shows you generate better, more accurate information when you treat prisoners humanely, when you befriend them, when you connect with them. >>

the american people by and large trusted the bush administration. not to say there aren't some americans to distrusted, but most trusted him. he was there to tell a handful of lies that helped get us into the war. >> host: john mearsheimer, we often hear about the special relationship between the u.s. and england. given the special status of the relationship, are there lies told between these two nations as well? bill clinton perricos. >> guest: i looked very carefully at the relationship. and then i know a great deal about the bush bellaire relationship because both of them were involved in dragging their countries into war against iraq in march of 2003. i think in both cases, but the case of tony blair and the case of george w. bush, there is evidence that they told a handful of wise to the public. there is no evidence that they told lies to each other. in paris, they worked and enhanced to drag the added states and britain into the war. >> host: did you read this before we. ♪ >> guest: i began on the book a long time ago. i got a call who was t

bush spoke. george bush is the former sun -- the son of jeb bush. he spoke about his family's legacy for about 20 minutes. [applause] >> good morning. judging by the size of the crowd, i hope you were not expecting the other george bush's. i am the first george bush to be on facebook. i asked you to if you can come up like me on facebook so that i can keep in touch with you with respect to maverick pact, which is a political action committee i am involved with in helping to engage young americans in the political system. [applause] since i am here, i might as well give up bush family update. my grandfather, former president george h w bush just recently turned 87. barbara bush, aka the enforcer, executed her veto and respecting him from jumping out of a perfectly fine claimed once again. however, he will jump out again when he is 90, and we're all looking forward to seeing that happen. some of you might have saw last week you received an honorary law degree with burt smith, along with conan o'brien, making him the third lawyer in the family, joined

bush came to power thanks to the supreme court in two thousand and like reagan bush had plans to start a war for political capital that he told his biographer mickey herskowitz back in one thousand nine hundred ninety before you even started running for president and if he became president he was going to invade iraq to earn enough political capital to privatized social security. but then i'm eleven happened instead and instead of a one time war as bush had intended he and his handlers like donald rumsfeld dick cheney opted for a perpetual war a war on terror it would last as long as his presidency was. so afghanistan half of iraq happened and countless other covert military actions in places like yemen happen with the war on terror the george w. bush dreamed up the as face of america was for the first time involved in a war without any clear ending. a recipe for a perpetual war or a well in perpetual war. that's not how bush justified is endless war. and we can really call that. a might as well have ripped his words straight from the text of orwell's one thousand nine hundred eighty f

my head is exploding here as it was this latest bush what about this latest bush that we have in the letter asserting our slide for knowers he's our latest bush this guy this guy is is just continuing the bush doctrine this guy just got us into a third war for crying out loud and he is gone and spend more money by one man in the history of the rule disguised as take on the deficit us not seconds to truth but look honestly tom i think to get back to the whole point here i believe it is absolutely the fiscally responsible thing and i bet you dollars to. don't it's that people in joplin missouri would be the first ones to say we absolutely want to see this done we don't want to take money if it's if it's not done the right way because that is the of that is the bunch that's the questioners that fly over country the much disparaged bunch by by obama and the left and the interesting too by the way you know it's out and i'm watching this very curiously because there is something that sort of missing from this picture which is why the democrats are not jumping all over this is not exactly a

he will not agree to any extension of the bush tax cuts on high-income people. as i said in my talk on tax reform, the upper income people have done so well on the average these last 10 to 12 years, while 90% of the population had stagnant income. for the upper income group, it has gone up. we have more income disparity today than we have had in a long, long time. and so, yes, i am confident that what the president says about the high income bush tax cuts is where he stands. i think if it is not addressed, and it will not be before the november election, it will be resolved, and president obama reelected will make sure that there is tax equity. and that means that we cannot extend beyond next year the upper income tax cuts. millionaires, when we did the analysis, the joint tax committee said that it would take $38 billion to extend the bush higher-income tax, $38 billion a year. about 75% to 80% of that is income above $1 million. it is not millionaires, it's income above $1 million. that is multi- multimillionaires, unless somebody hit the lottery. >> you can s

the enomy went down in bush 41's case. you are a prisoner, a captive of economic events. >> one of the interesting things is that some of this is going on in europe, and some economists are beginning to wonder -- everybody agrees we have to cut the deficit. but people are beginning to wonder whether you put in these kinds of a draconian measures at the time of a recession, that it could exacerbate problems, and that we should perhaps think about doing this in a slightly different way. >> we are not thinking about doing it at all, that is the problem. the central fact of life is debt. we had been living beyond ourur means, europe has been living beyond its means, social democracy has been living beyond their means for a long time. the only way out of that is doing things that people don't want to do, and the politicians are unable to suggest it. that is why you have this gap. people know something is wrong, but politicians are unable or unwilling to tell them what they have to do. >> look at this group that joe biden is sup

bush came to power thanks to the supreme court in two thousand and like reagan bush had plans to start a war for political capital but he told his biographer mickey herskowitz back in one thousand nine hundred nine. before you even started running for president if you became president he was going to invade iraq to earn enough political capital or privatized social security. but then i'm eleven happened instead and instead of a one time war as bush had intended he and his handlers like donald rumsfeld dick cheney opted for a perpetual war a war on terror it would last as long as his presidency was. so afghanistan half of iraq happened and countless other covert military actions in places like yemen happen with the war on terror the george w. bush dreamed up the as they so america was for the first time. involved in a war without any clear ending. a recipe for perpetual war or well in perpetual war. listen to how bush justified is a war. we can't really comment on that. he might as well have ripped his words straight from the text of orwell's one thousand nine hundred four and big broth

but let's exercise appears the actions of the number one and the bush tax cuts number two and the bush wars and number three and the crazy notion that corporations are people that money is speech and that the rich can buy our nation if we did that we might bring the republican party back to sanity back to its dwight eisenhower roots back to the days when they actually could have an opposite opinion from the democrats but honestly broker solutions and situations and have reasonable conversations exorcisms for the republican party. or to. our ship of state is headed toward another financial crisis iceberg and republicans are at the helm why because since the financial crisis of two thousand and eight little has been done to reform wall street of its bad behavior and what little has been done republicans are now trying to undo at the end of last week the republican controlled house appropriations committee passed legislation that cuts funding for the critical government watchdogs in charge of making sure the financial crisis of two thousand and eight doesn't happen again that includes cut

activities former president bush was not a. human intelligence spies. is very important. pretty hard to get it. or somebody working clandestine service faces names to appear and i'm sure that those initial a still deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak the spies name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in the libby also spraying the covert agents name to reporters at the same time assuring the president's own press secretary they had nothing to do with it they are good individuals they're important members of our white house and that's why i spoke with them so that i could come back to you and say that they were not involved i went to both those individuals asked them point blank were you involved in the leaking of valerie plame identity and anyway both them told me unequivocally no but scott mcclellan now says in his new book rove and libby lied to him and it turns out a lot of reporters knew it but said nothing and scott mcclellan the white house spokesperson gets up and he says karl rove is absolutely. well there wer

is advise and we will all be ashamed the new bush will r.t. braman. the euro is dead and buried quite literally according to skeptics who have held a mock funeral for the single currency in brussels they argue that attempts to bail out greece are too little too late and athens economic failure will leave the eurozone dream in tatters members have agreed on the terms of a new bailout but are pressing the greek authorities to tighten their purse strings once again if the money is to be handed over the government will vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut as of five years next week if up. twelve billion euros in rescue money i can. join morning. this is a funeral procession in the center of brussels where the european leaders are meeting to discuss the future of the greek debt and of the eurozone itself they believe the euro can be salvaged but most people including euro skeptics believe it is impossible and there will be no resurrection of the euro well to me and i think a lot of people it's beginning to collapse around the. ba

bush is an illustration and bush got up here's a look what a success is we're now friends with khadafi the thing is many of these libyan rebels and this is one thing that has not been reported one of the first targets of the nato air strike was the libyan anti-corruption agency in tripoli they were trying to destroy the documents they had information they were going to actually bring charges against some government ministers for siphoning off libyan oil revenue and putting it in their own swiss bank accounts isn't it funny almost to a person these are the ministers who defected to the rebel movement back in the media topic for a minute i just want to ask i mean there clearly is a shift in the mood of the country against the kinetic military operations everybody out in libya how intense it is i don't know but it's shifting right. why let me phrase it this way when the last time and i think it's ecology to put you in our own box you know many many years and look at who i was and why is that general electric you know you're on the ground here getting this information information jibes wit

and so yes, i am confident that what the president says about the high income bush tax cuts is where he stands. i think if it's not addressed, i think it will be before the election and be resolved. and president obama reelected will make sure there is tax equity. and that means we do not extend beyond next year the upper end tax cuts. you know millionaires when we did the analysis, the joint tax committee said it would take 38 billion dollars to extend the bush cuts a year. about 75-80% of that is income above one million dollars. it's not millionaires, it's income above one million dollars. that's multimillionaires unless someone hit the lottery. >> you can see that the health care costs add to the debt. do you think that they have put themselves into criticism of not attacking the deficit? >> you mentioned health care and again we are talking about this. and the president made clear in his speech that more has to be done in terms of controlling health care. part of it is prescription drugs. and making sure we can control the increase in those costs and move for and more to generic

but let's exercise appears the actions of the number one and the bush tax cuts number two and the bush wars and number three and the crazy notion that corporations are people of that money is speech and that the rich can buy our nation if we did that we might bring the republican party back to sanity back to its dwight eisenhower roots back to the days when they actually could have an opposite opinion from the democrats but honestly broker solutions and situations and have reasonable conversations exorcisms for the republican party. our ship of state is headed toward another financial crisis iceberg and republicans are at the helm why because since the financial crisis of two thousand and eight little has been done to reform wall street of its bad behavior and what little has been done republicans are now trying to undo at the end of last week the republican controlled house appropriations committee passed legislation that cuts funding for the critical government watchdogs in charge of making sure the financial crisis of two thousand and eight doesn't happen again that includes cutting

bush and the french completely separated by the ruling korean wilson ended up paying fox attorney fees . the world to the war in iraq took some strange turn stranger than a detour to the west african country of these reports which do hold government accountable like this can constitute a lot of money from the a team of people that put months into research and travel and production just to air one eight minute story to build a nuclear bomb explode they've largely been replaced with coverage like this the costs very little anna nicole smith's last interview that means greater profits for shareholders cause and divert your attention real because you know whatever happened to investigative reporting and i think part of what happened is corporatization of the media it's the bottom line so the first thing you do is you fire a quarter of the newsroom or half the newsroom so you don't even have the reporters that go out there and to get the story it's you know how can you get it quick and i can tell you it's a lot cheaper to have two people arguing on t.v. from you know you know polarized poin

but in other respects the obama administration has continued bush administration it has continueds. policies with the warrant was surveillance and the use of drones to assassinate people who are considered threats to u.s. security including american citizens. the assertion of strong secrecy privileges which makes it difficult if not impossible to bring lawsuits.th and really detention of people without trial is greatly criticized during the bush and administration although obama's hasfear continued as well. >> what is to iran and phobia? >> that is a combination of tyrant and phobia and the unreasoning fear of the excessively powerful executive. the country haexsy a long tradition of t po iran a phobia. was it was justified in the beginning because it. >> most countries smirking them and. >> but also with european history feared the u.s.ona policy would degenerate intoso a monarchies then a tyranny. they were very worried about the constitutional design to be explained by their efforts to explain that from taking place but what hasre u happened is most countries have become democrac

will to america's doing said bush's advisor we would all be ashamed don't you bush you r.t. braman. earlier this week the far right dutch politicians politician builders was cleared of charges of inciting hatred and discrimination he went on trial for publicly comparing islam to nuts ism and calling for a ban of the qur'an because his remarks with pensive within the limits of the just much political debate the case came amid increasing anti immigration sentiment in europe and friday leaders agreed to tighten border control their member of the. philippine crisis says with multiculturalist politics failing it may be time for more radical sinatra. we've always been told that multiculturalism in was going to be great and was going to solve a lot of problems on the contrary it has become a problem in itself and it's very important that everyone should be able to know to put forward his own solutions to the problem another balanced and free debate people from outside of europe to come to any country in the european union. that themselves through the local roles the local way of li

the answer was, you blame bush more. that's not the point. >> but they believe it's president obama's economy. >> that's the point i'm making. this isn't about affixing blame. this is about understanding we're not going to repeat the mistakes that got us here. i'm not suggesting that this election is going to be about blaming what happened in 2007. but, again, when john asked the questions tonight, the solution was -- let's do what we did in 2007 and 2008. >> the president recently said this is a bump in the road. the economy right now. the problem we're facing right now -- >> he didn't say the economy was a bump in the road. he said obviously in jobs' reports we're going to have good reports and bad reports. >> and mitt romney jumped on that. do you think it was a mistake for the president to say that? >> i think we have to understand and talk about the economy the way the american people live it. that is, they're hurting every day. we've created jobs in the past 15 months but we have family members that are out of work

bush said, hey, you know what the s.e.c. should lift all leverage limits so that allowed them to put unbelievable derivative bets on that housing market them took away terrible regulations. >> traying to strengthen the reg lines fanny and freddie and barney frank and the democrats wants that i worked for fannie, i know, i was there i thought it was the right party at the right time. i was wrong. republicans were right on house policy. all right. richard, let's talking about obama, okay, because now, you know, mark has a fascinating theory about how all those tax cuts somehow weren't at fault the last ten years, here's what we know. for example, we lost 1.1 million jobs in that last ten years, 1.1 million jobs. how could president obama be having this conversation? i mean, shouldn't he say, look, i'm not interested in your wacky theories about how we should do more tax cuts for corporation, which you know the president is having a discussion over. i'm not interesteded in your wacky theories about spending cuts in the middle o

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my head is exploding here this recession this latest bush what about this latest bush that we have in the us we're sending our slides frozen dollars he's our latest bush this guy this guy is is just continuing the bush doctrine this guy just got us into a third war for crying out loud and he is gone and spend more money by one man in the history of the rule disguised as take on the deficit us that it's taken to true but look honestly tom i think to get back to that sort of set the whole point here i believe it is absolutely the fiscally responsible thing and i bet you dollars to . doenitz the people in joplin missouri would be the first ones to say we absolutely want to see this done we don't want to take money it's if it's not done the right way because that is the of that is the bunch that's the cleaners that fly over country the much disparaged bunch. and the left and the interesting too by the way you know it's of and i'm watching this very curiously because there is something that's sort of missing from this picture which is why the democrats are not jumping all over this is not

has given no explanation all said story couldn't as is suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzales for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the land of the free are free to cause quote simulated drowning and rape boy instrumentality impairment of bodily function organ failure and even this i was one of those who survived those kind of torture. myself. because i want science. i was forced to agree. and i was. the us refused to even reveal the will hold income earners his mother his lawyer to find her son it took several years there was no chance to get in contact corners it's a shame for the united states what happened in this plot concerned national. and it's simply impossible and twenty first century. put someone in the next. room. you have. pushed for moves to end the practices they are imposing a set of standards on our intelligence communities in terms of interrogating prisoners there are people we think will be an effective in the classified memo gonzalez did warn us gods it was legally safer to perform torture on foreign soil and ministers in the european union were glad to

last night at a texas rangers game, president bush made his greatest contribution yet. he helped break the guinness world record for most people wearing sunglasses in the dark! he did it! america's back! if you're keeping track, the u.s. now holds the record for most sunglasses in the dark, highest intake of cool-ranch flavoring, and most tv shows about hoarding. why aren't more ex-president's striving for record-breaking excellence? why's jimmy carter building houses for the poor when he could be growing the world's longest fingernails? president bush is following in the noble tradition of presidents like richard nixon, who still holds the guinness record for most anti-semitic slurs per minute. [laughter] and william howard taft, who went on to be one of those fat twins on mopeds. so bravo, president bush for singlehandedly restoring america's image in the world, which, for reasons i don't understand got tarnished over the last decade. [laughter] folks, i'm trying to re-ignite my music career with a follow-up to my '80s new wave classic "charlene, i'm right behind you.

bush is an illustration and bush got out here's a look what a success this is we're now friends with gadhafi right and i was in that state of journalist wayne madsen now imagine walking down the street one day it's a nice evening and let me arrest you taken to guantanamo bay to spend five years at america's most notorious prison only to suddenly be released without any charge now no explanation no apology from the administration just silence and five years of lovely memories i'm sure you actually probably rather forget well that's unfortunately exactly what happened to one of the runtime of a prisoner or to his dental but still has that story. as was a wristed on the streets and since when time to move for torture after five years america released him without charge to this day the u.s. has given explanation all said story could as he's suing george bush's lawyer alberto gonzalez for ruling torture is legal interrogators from the learned of the free are free to calls quote simulated drowning point instrumentality impairments of bodily function. and even death i was one of. those kind

spending cuts aimed at working people will shrink our economy meanwhile this chart clearly shows the bush tax cuts are the single greatest contributor to our nation's budget deficit and the c.d.o. on wednesday released their long term budget forecasts just two days ago showing that of congress does nothing as what the bush tax cuts expire and nothing. for six years by the end of that time by the end of president obama's second term we'll have a balanced budget so are republicans just confirming what i've been saying all along that their number one goal isn't to fix the economy but instead to make president obama a one term they are hoping that president obama is a one term president but there's anything the bush tax cuts tax cuts are not the problem with the economy medicare medicaid and social security are the republicans are trying to address those issues now and. it's not going to do you know i have something else to be done and i'm doing it also if a slightly different position here that i think people would accept the fact that yes we need to make some changes in the way we're spendi

in other respects the obama administration has continued bush administration policies. warrantless surveillance is an example. the use of drones to fascinate people who are considered threats to u.s. security including american citizens. the assertion of strong secrecy privileges which has made it difficult if not impossible for people harmed by counter terror operations to make lawsuits. really detention of people without trial is something that was greatly criticized during the bush administration but the obama administration has continued that as well. >> host: you use the term tyr o tyranophob tyranophobia. >> guest: it is the unreasoning fear of powerful executives. this country has a long tradition of that. at the beginning it was quite justified because when the country was founded it was the only large republic or quasi democracy at the time. most countries were kingdoms and the founders were well read in the classics and in european history as well, fear is that the u.s. would follow the precedents of other republics and degenerate into a monarchies and into a

and during the bush administration people criticized the bush administration for violating certain norms of international law. but it did so because it could. and other countries violate international law because in many circumstances they can get away with them. now, in some circumstances states cannot get away with violating international law, and from an academic perspective what's important are the conditions to understand it's effective and ineffective so you're more likely to produce effective rather than ineffective institutions. >> host: what are social norms, and who arkansas bites them? >> guest: they're hard to define. one could think of them that are rules that are, in fact, not enforced by any particular individual or institution, so no one really arbites them although people will, emily post and people who write etiquette books or give advice to people about how they should behave. but one of the very interesting and frustrating things about social norms is we're never really sure of what they are, and we're constantly negotiating about them. >> host: in your book, "law and

bush's administration and bush got out there day look what a success is says we're now friends with khadafi the thing is is that many of these libyan rebels and this is one thing that has not been reported in the first targets of the nato air strike was the libyan anti-corruption agency in tripoli they were trying to destroy the documents they had information they were going to actually bring charges against some government ministers for siphoning off libyan oil revenue and putting it in their own swiss bank accounts isn't it funny almost to a person these are the ministers who defected to the rebel movement i think back in the media topics i mean i just want to ask i mean it clearly is especially if in the mood of the country against the kinetic military operations everybody caught in libya how intense it is better now but it's shifting right. why let me phrase it this way when the left and the fantasy call to put it on their own and i thought you know c.n.n. many many years and look at who i was and why is that general electric's you know you're on the ground here getting this information

for the first 7 1/2 years, the bush administration did nothing. they had no plan. president obama has a plan. he has announced the good news that we will be gone by a date certain. i had hoped they could take more troops out sooner for a number of reasons. the lives and limbs of the military, and the american people. the afghan people have to do their part in this and the sooner they do, the sooner they come home. >> obviously you can remove funds, which i am assuming you would be against. is there some way you feel that you can make that pressure felt? >> well, i communicate with the president of afghanistan. i was there this spring and met with the ambassador this week. our message continues to be we want to see progress. now, when i was there this spring for the first time i saw progress, the plans that the president had put in motion are showing benefits, whether it's the training of their forces, be it police force or military force, that's really moving along in a much better way, whether it's anti-corruption initiatives. we have great people in place to help

when the world lose what america's doing said bush is advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush braman. still to come here in the program on r.t. a poisoned generation thousand families in india demanding compensation from the government for spraying a controversial pesticide that's believed to be causing widespread deformities in children. the euro is dead and buried quite literally according to skeptics who have held a mock funeral for the ailing single currency in brussels they argue that attempts to bail out greece are too little too late and athens economic failure will leave the eurozone dream in tatters e.u. members are currently pressing the greek authorities to tighten its purse strings once again if it is to receive yet more bailout money to keep afloat the government will vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut over the next five years next we have to approve it will mean another twelve billion euros in rescue money meantime artie's are really going to go join those mourning the euros economic woes in brussels. this is a funeral procession in the center of br

advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush will see braman. on the way for you here at r.t. a poisoned generation thousands of families india demand compensation from the government a spring a controversial pesticide that's caused widespread deformities in children. is dead and buried quite literally according to skeptics who have held a mock funeral for the ailing single currency in brussels they argue that attempts to bail out greece are too little too late and athens economic failure will leave the eurozone dream in tatters e.u. members are currently pressing the greek authorities to tighten its purse strings once again if it is to receive yet more bailout money to keep it afloat the government will vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut over five years next week if approved it i mean another twelve billion euros in rescue money parties are really going to draw. and those morning the euro's economic woes in brussels. this is a funeral procession in the center of brussels where the european leaders are meeting to discuss the

advisor we will all be ashamed the new bush will r.t. braman. on the way for you here at r.t. a poisoned generation thousands of families india demanding compensation from the government sparing a controversial pesticide that's caused widespread deformities in children. the euro is dead and buried quite literally according to skeptics who have held a mock funeral for the ailing single currency in brussels they argue that attempts to bail out greece are too little too late and athens economic failure will leave the eurozone dream in tatters. e.u. members are currently pressing the greek authorities to tighten its purse strings once again if it is to receive more bailout money to keep it afloat for a vote on a proposed twenty eight billion euro budget cut over five years next week if approved it will mean another twelve billion euros and rescue money. going to join those mourning the euro's economic woes. this is a few in the center of brussels where the european leaders are meeting to discuss the future of the greek debts and of the euroz

bush make this statement in the two thousand and three. british government. from africa a year earlier the cia had sent wilson to investigate the uranium claim and he knew it wasn't true corruption. in the new york times that touched off a firestorm at the white house. tried to discredit wilson by writing a story that wilson's wife valerie plame who worked at the cia said. on the trip trouble was she worked as a spy for the cia nobody was supposed to know she worked there the cia even told no that not to publish that information but know that did what mr harlow told me was he asked me not to use your name did not say she was a she was a covered employee and i still don't believe she was. former president bush was not amused human intelligence spies. is very important. it's pretty hard to get it. if somebody working clandestine service. name is going to appear in. deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak despise name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in lewis libby also sprayed the covert agents name to repo

bush, some arms got folded. some heads lean-backed with the old, "okay, don't say-- this is bush country." what does that mean? what does that mean? "you--i want you to tell me "why you're a dyed-in-the-wool republican or democrat, because there's no discernable difference." most people only do things because it's habit. everything's a habit. your patriotism could be habitual. your religion is habitual. your desire to marry and have children is habitual, all of these things. so when you do stand-up, you run the risk of meeting a lot of the resistance of habit, if that makes-- if that's a phrase i can use. i just don't know if that makes sense. but you are-- when you speak of politics or anything that is questioning the status quo, you hit a wall of habit. "okay, i'm a republican, and i'm catholic." "why?" "because my parents were." "why?" "because their parents were." "but why?" "i don't know, and if you make me answer that question, i dislike you." you know what i mean? like, there's a-- nobody wants to be-- no

bush made his first campaign visit. he was the governor in the field but there were several other people and that wasn't particularly a strong field except his last name was bush. i think this field is fine. there's been hankering for governor mitch williams to get in. haley barbour. >> on the economy do the republicans have to have ideas, plans or sit enough just to beat up on obama? >> i think it's enough for now to beat up on obama. after all, it worked for obama when he was run for president. when you're a candidate you can say things. so at this point i think republicans cannot offer spervings but down if line as they start to different from one another, look for people to ask specifics about their economic plans. we talked early, there's not that much specifically washington can do so there's not that much a presidential candidate can propose because they don't have access to all the things. gwen: you talked about how early it is in the race and how things change. john edwards in two cycles was a formidable candid