justice jackson was betrayed by george w. bush and his administration. it was in the context of that refusal to acknowledge the reality of international law, and the views of the rest of the world and i know there are probable people here in the audience or listening on long distance, who don't believe international law really has a role to play. who do not believe in international law. and i would just say for those of you in that position, you may want to think about one thing. whether you want to accept the legitimacy of international law or not, it's the way the other 197 countries around the world view our actions and what we d . it is through that lens of international law, that people judge ourings. and it's for that reason that the legacy of george w. bush is going to be that of a war criminal. [ cheers and applause ] >>> okay, great, every hear me? i a am off at the end of the table here, and i think that what has transpired is fabulous. as a journalist and somebody spends a lot of time in washington, i enjoy hearing the great diversity of point

when you saw black school children surrounding george w. bush. a far cry from one of the worst moments of his presidency. what is also striking during president bush's speech. they touted the school system. this will be the first all charter school district in the country. some say that is about innovation. i was speaking to a lawyer yesterday who is a long time resident here. he said one thing the reforming and reshaping of the school district was kind of erode a black middle class. before there was black union members and that was a source of black power and that's been ero eroded. it's a mixed bag. >> we've now had a black president for six years. has an african american president made a difference, a substantial transformation of the terrain there? has he toured the ninth ward and other places? and has that made a significant difference? and are the people satisfied with his efforts to spark the recovery of new orleans? >> it is kind of two sided here. of course, you know, black folks in general love president barack obama. right? >> yeah. >>

this letter signed with great enthusiasm by former president george w. bush. george w. bush! it went out today as a fund-raising appeal for the presidential campaign of his brother, jeb. and that, in itself, is not an embarrassing thing. unless, of course, you're the brother who launched your presidential campaign by telling everybody that they should think of you as a stand-alone candidate, unrelated to your family. yeah, sure, maybe you had a father and a brother who were also presidents, quite recently, but that's totally irrelevant to your own run for the presidency, because you are your own man. >> as you might know, i've also been fortunate to have a father and a brother who helped shape america's foreign policy from the oval office. i recognize that as a result, my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs. i admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions that they had to make. but i'm my own man. and my views are shaped by my own thinking, in my own experiences. >> that was how jeb bush basically told us he was going to run his campaign for t

again, i don't believe that george w. bush was a great president. in fact, he's probably going to come out at some point either as below average or average president, but the conventional wisdom regarding the presidency of george w. bush, i believe, is misguided, and a revisionist account of this presidency, at least in regards to his national security policies, is overdue. i'll just leave you with this, we're not too far from the world trade center site. put yourself in bush's position or in his seat on 9/12, put 9/11 aside for a minute, put yourself in bush's seat on 9/12, and ask what you would have done. i know what he did. either that day or the next, told his fbi director and his attorney general to do whatever it took to make sure that this did not happen again. that seat, i probably would have said the same thing. thank you. [ applause ] >> 9/11 was clearly a defining moment, a horrific moment when close to 3,000 people were incinerated in an instant. the question, though, was, what did iraq have to do with 9/11? if you ask yourself as the l

with george w. bush. when it comes to ethics, personal behavior. are people equating hillary with bill though they have the same last name. i think it is a very unfair, one-way treatment of jeb when everybody knows he is his own person. he will make his own judgments. >> ari, how much do you think it hurt's jeb bush's argument he is his own man when it comes to foreign policy when a large portion of his foreign approximately spolicy worked for his brother. >> large part of george w. bush's team came from his father. gerald ford. there are only a few predecessors. it is inevitable you will have people from your predecessors. >> ari, faree, thank you both. >> former president jimmy carter says he has cancer. his father. brother and two sisters all died of an especially variety of the cancer, pancreatic cancer, i will speak to dr. sanjay gupta and what we now know about the 90-year-old's former president's condition. next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mum. ♪ ♪ just tap it. ♪ i did! ♪ (yo gabba gabba!) ♪ s

george w. bush. authors, academics and a former national security staff member discuss how 9/11 impacted the creation of a domestic security apparatus and strategic staffing decisions, including the appointment of so-called national security czars. this is the first of three programs today examining the bush administration's national security strategy. >>> welcome, everyone, to this afternoon session. my name is bob brinkmann, professor of sustainability studies at hofstra university. hope you get to see great sustainabilities we have under way from co-generation plant that produces greenhouse energy for us each day. today we have a very interesting set of papers and some very esteemed panelists who will be discussing it. afterwards, i hope we'll get some great conversation going from the audience. today with us we have david cohen from the university of akr akron, dane egli from the -- from johns hopkins university. terrence o'sullivan from the university of akron. we have justin vaughn from b

now george w. bush is returning to new orleans ten years later. talk to me about how that is. >> you know, he is obviously a spark plug for the area. there are a lot of people who blame the bush administration and its failure to perform for the problems at katrina, right or wrong. that's their perception. mitch landrieu, the mayor of new orleans, was asked about this at our conference. he said, look, it's time for us to be magnanimous and gracious. the bush administration did a great deal for the new orleans, the broader area and region, that should be remembered and celebrated, and made part of the picture. it wasn't just the storm. it wasn't just michael brown who was the director of fema under george bush that we should focus our attentions on. it's on these other issues. so landrieu came out with a message of magnanimity to bush, and he said he wanted obama and bush and was grateful that the invitation was accepted. >> i want to have you, and we'll discuss george w. bush's words and speech. we'll stand by to watch in new orleans when the forme

that goes for goes for the records of ronald reagan, george h dubya bush, bill clinton and george w bush. that's not because of legislation or the physical limitations of our universe. it's because policymakers have decided to place more emphasis on commemoration and their version of history then preserving the records. franklin roosevelt began the library system because he wanted one single, simple place to preserve and make available his records and materials. he was the world's, he had the world's largest him collection at the time. he had a world-class naval ship collection as well. he opened his library in the summer of 1941, and so it is not coincidental that he wanted to build a bomb proof, fireproof building for his papers. that's not what the new libraries are. they are interactive displays and monuments to presidents that are still alive and they don't benefit from scholarly research because the records aren't open. the ronald reagan very opened in 1991 and fewer than 40% of the records are open. it's are open. it's going to take decades and decades. that is what they are. why

george w. bush, i believe, went to every one. and in fact, both presidents clinton and bush participated in the show. in 1993, president clinton put on a sparkly costume and played the saxophone. and in his last year, president bush went on stage and sang a song that the lyrics have been changed about -- it was a western song about how he was leaving town. >> when the organization was formed, the white house and the washington press corp, predominantly white and male. that has changed. >> you noticed. >> when did the gridiron club change in terms of women and minorities. >> i should have checked the exact year. carl rowen, the columnist, was the first african-american member and he became president in 1988. he became a member in the 70s. and women also was in the 70s. and there was more focus on the change of women and a lot more opposition. there really wasn't opposition to having a black membership. but there were protest dinners, gridiron club dinners and they started attracting more of the big names, george mcgovern made a po

bush's and bill clinton's and the odd man out is the george w. bush administration. >> why do i think you will agree this? one way of judging that is asking people around the world who depend on the united states for world order and their security. the polls and the checks and those facing the australians and vietnamese and south koreans facing china. the israelis and the gulf era. they all feel less safe. they feel the international order is coming apart. if you ask the people who are concerned about human rights in china or iran or cuba, they feel much less important. you ask people who is concerned about humanitarian affairs, they will point to 250 or 300,000 slaughtered in syria with the united states doing nothing. as you go around the world and talk to people, they don't think that things are better under president obama. they think he is the odd man out. he is turning away from america's responsibilities. >> peter, what do you think of that? >> there is an element. >> i don't know who you have been talking to, but the polls show president

for george w. bush, no apologies, but i justz00 -- a jazzy little jig and a nod to the city's resilience. the levies gave out but the people never gave up. this was the aptly named flood street 10 years ago, and this is it today, and mr. renovation and ruin. in the lower ninth ward, only one third of residents have returned. this looks like the disaster happened -- >> yesterday. , the community leaders black -- community leaders complain, the black opposition especially is being ignored. >> our city leaders don't give a damn about us. we have to bring economic of ourselves because they are not bringing it. this is ridiculous. enough is enough. nick: but there are other streets that look like they belong in the ideal homes exhibition. >> i got the flag at the funeral -- nick: one proud occupant is robert green, was added deeply personal touches, trying to his granddaughter who died in the flight. >> we can talk about the death of my mother and granddaughter and talk about the death of this neighborh

it got off track during the george w. bush years with reckless adventurism and barack obama has brought it back on track. he's pulled back from some of the excesses and overzealous adventurism of the bush years and it's intact and ready to move forward again with the next president. in the long run, taking everything into account, i think the obama administration's foreign policy is of a peace with george w. bush and bill clinton's and the odd man out in the post cold war era is the george h.w. bush administration. >> why do i think elliott went agree. >> i think one way to judge it is to ask people around the world. the australians, vietnamese, south koreans, japanese facing china. the israelis and gulf arab facing a rising iran. they feel less safe. they feel an international order is coming apart. if you ask the people who are concerned about human rights in china or iran or cuba, they feel much less support from the united states. if you ask people whose concern is humanitarian affairs they will point to 8 million ref

ross perot came in and got some of the vote that would have gone to george h. w. bush. but there are other things. since dwight eisenhower, no party held the white house for more than eight years except once and that was the four years of george bush after ronald reagan. we seemed to build up a pressure in this country to change our presidentys on a cyclical basis. so if that cyclical theory ha any value it built up extra strong after 12 years. >> rose: some people say this was a third term of ronald reagan. >> iin a way, it was. ronald reagan and george bush really worked in tandem to bring about major changes. george bush recognized ronald reagan's build up of our national security system, the defense structure, the peace through strength component of policy had created the opportunity to deal with the soviet union. he saw a soviet union that recognized it could not keep up with the u.s. and that's where his personal, artful diplomacy made a big difference. >> rose: but that was his natural place, wasn't it, because he had been on board at china, ambassador to the uni

george w. bush did have the most diverse republican administration. it's interesting that it was a republican in that position who are african-american. that was interesting that it took him to do that. so this was the first administration when you saw, this time the prominent african-american that followed suit in the obama administration with the attorney general. >> that doesn't cote

get optimized. >>> developing now, former president george w. bush is in new orleans right now to hail the city's recovery 10 years after it was left devastated by hurricane katrina. he is about to speak at warren easton high school, the former president accompanied there by laura bush, whose library foundation helped rebuild what is the oldest public school in the great city of new orleans. the former president himself admitted his administration's initial handling of the disaster reflected badly on his presidency. just yesterday president obama visited new orleans, and he praised the resilience of those who live there and who have helped the city bounce back. >> we came to realize that what started out as a natural disaster became a manmade disaster, a failure of government to look out for its own citizens. because of you, the people of new orleans working together, this city is moving in the right direction, and i have never been more confident that together we will get to where we need to go. you inspire me. [ applause ] >> new orleans suffe

well, on that note, i want to thank both george w. bushes for taking part tonight. in keeping with our debate rules we will end our discussion with a trite and insincere farewell. mr. president, you are the most powerful man in the world. you can go first. goodnight, and may god continue to bless america. wow. incredibly insincere. governor, can you top that? thanks. thanks from the bottom of my heart. [laughter] nice. wow. now, this has been-- i have really enjoyed this meeting of the minds. what a historic evening. it's really one for the vaults. if only there were a secure place to put the videotape of this for all time. where could we put it? i think it should stay in a lockbox. [laughter] i'm-- i'm sorry, where-- where-- where should we put it? lockbox, lockbox, lockbox. oh, you-- you don't have to shout. we'll be right back. [cheering] [theme music] ♪cheesy bites!♪ ♪with new ranch crust flavor!♪ cheesy bites pizza is back! and sweeten it up with a hershey's triple chocolate brownie for just $5.99. only at pizza hut. don't think about wendy's spicy chic

george w. bush visits louisiana and mississippi 10 years after devastating hurricane katrina. we will have extensive coverage on the state of recovery. president obama tells jewish americans that u.s./israeli relations should quickly improve once the iran nuclear deal moves forward. ♪ >> the gulf coast remembers the wrath of one storm as another churns in the caribbean. forecasters say tropical storm erica has the potential to dump several inches of rain on florida next week. as that storm moves west, the u.s. is marking 10 years since hurricane katrina ravaged the gulf coast. more than 1800 people died in one of the worst natural disasters in american history. former president george w. bush returned to new orleans today to praise the city's comeback. his administration was severely criticized for its response to the storm. jonathan martin joirnzo joins us live from new orleans. good evening, jonathan. how was the former president received? >> reporter: erica, good eveni eveninging to you. h

george w. bush in his two elections he received 4% of -- 44% of the hispanic vote, right? in barack obama's two elections, his high water mark was 71% of support from the hispanic community. right now donald trump, who is leading this the polls for rt republican, likely to be their nominee, has a a -51% rating wih his an panics. and if he's the nominee, there's no way you can win in the general election with a -51 president approval rating from hispanics, that's a real problem for them. jon: he was supposed to have an event this mobile, alabama tonight, they had to book the much larger 40,000-feet football stadium to get the people in who, apparently, want to attend. >> you know, jon, i think what donald trump speaks to is a dissatisfaction in the united states with people who are saying the politicians in washington, they make all these promises, they say that they're going to cut the budget deficit, that they're going to repeal obamacare, and you know what? they don't do anything. they don't

that was done under george w. bush. >> you know, he made staples over the last couple of days that are incredible, trying to justify the war in iraq. then he said skin in the game. i don't know if you saw his recent statement. he said the united states has to prove to iraq that we have skin in the game. we have spend millions of dollars, thousands of lives lost, he says we have to prove we have skin in the game. we don't have to prove anything. >> strong winds are fanning several wildfires. one of the largest is in idaho. they are also sweeping across california and washington state. there is extreme heat and gusty conditions. >>> south sudan's government says it will push on with peace talks to end a 20 month civil war. they are hoping that the president will meet with the rebel leader in the capital. rival camps are facing international sanctions. >>> while the talks continue, 40 people have died i in a cholera outbreak. >> this is the neighborhood bore hole and primary source of water in a country where 45% of

that was done under george w. bush. >> you know, he made statements over the last couple of days that are incredible, trying to justify the war in iraq, that can't be justified. then he said "skin in the game." he said that the united states has to prove to iraq that we have skin in the game. we spent 2 trillion-dollar, thousands of lives lost, wounded warriorser who i love all over the place, and he said we have to prove that we have skin in the game. i think it may be one of the dumbest statements i've ever heard. skin in the game. we don't have to prove anything. >> homes in southern japan are being evacuated as a nearby volcano becomes increasingly active. it is 50 kilometers from a nuclear reactor that has just been restarted. locals began to leave after the threat alert was raised to an unprecedented level. last year 63 people were killed when a volcano in central japan erupted unexpectedly. >>> now, guatemalan will go to the polls to elect a new president on the sixth of september. but a series of corruptio

new this morning, former president george w. bush and first lady laura bush are in new orleans getting a first-hand look at the city's recovery. ten years now since hurricane katrina. we're going to bring you live pictures, a live report on the anniversa anniversary. >>> and 71 people die before making it to safety in europe, and there are so many more making the same treacherous trek. arwa damon going to be bringing that to us. you tuck here... you tuck there. if you're a toe tucker... because of toenail fungus, ask your doctor now about prescription kerydin. used daily, kerydin drops may kill the fungus at the site of infection and get to the root of your toe tucking. kerydin may cause irritation at the treated site. most common side effects include skin peeling... ...ingrown toenail, redness, itching, and swelling. tell your doctor if you have any side effect that bothers you or does not go away. stop toe tucking... and get the drop on toenail fungus. ask your doctor today about kerydin. rheumatoid arthritis like me... and yo

bush. >> george w. bush gets west virginia. >> narrator: west virginia. >> west virginia, which has been solidly in the democratic column for a long, long time. >> bill clinton's home state has gone bush. >> narrator: and arkansas. >> six electoral votes and they go for bush. >> narrator: and even al gore's home state of tennessee. >> tonight, embarrassing vice president gore by snatching his state's 11 electoral votes. >> al gore lost his home state, lost west virginia. these are states that he should have won. >> had any of those states gone the other way, al gore would have been president. >> florida goes bush, the presidency is bush, that's it. >> narrator: in washington, they say the nra was a decisive factor in al gore's defeat. >> in no small measure, it was that fight over guns after columbine that had the firearm community more enlivened, engaged, and a few votes difference in florida, and the whole thing would have gone the other way. >> i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear that i will fai

bush. >> george w. bush gets west virginia. >> narrator: west virginia. >> west virginia, which has been solidly in the democratic column for a long, long time. >> bill clinton's home state has gone bush. >> narrator: and arkansas. >> six electoral votes and they go for bush. >> narrator: and even al gore's home state of tennessee. >> tonight, embarrassing vice president gore by snatching his state's 11 electoral votes. >> al gore lost his home state lost west virginia. these are states that he should have won. >> had any of those states gone the other way, al gore would have been president. >> florida goes bush, the presidency is bush, that's it. >> narrator: in washington, they say the nra was a decisive factor in al gore's defeat. >> in no small measure, it was that fight over guns after columbine that had the firearm community more enlivened engaged, and a few votes difference in florida, and the whole thing would have gone the other way. >> i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear that i will faith

and, george w. bush did that back then. and now, with this debate coming up, every candidate in the prime time debate has to have a donald trump strategy. and i don't think you're going to see any of them try to physically invade donald trump's space. david: no, i don't think you will see that nomi, that was an occasion of strength winning out, strong, silent strength winning out. sometimes strength can carry over into arrogance. we have a klym from the debate between hillary clinton and barack obama. he won the election. some people say he went into the arrogant mode. let's play that clip. >> i don't think i'm that bad. >> you're likeable enough, hillary, no doubt. [laughter] >> i appreciate it. david: likeable enough. wasn't that a little arrogant? didn't that work against him? >> yeah i think it did. that was time which hillary was polling very well. certainly contender there. he definitely came off as arrogant. with respect to male verse sure female element which is something hillary has and he was looking for. so it di

george w. bush could replace her now appears to have resigners remorse because she's upset -- >> right. >> -- that some of the decisions she made, both in campaign finance and affirmative action, but also on abortion are being overturned. but she should have thought of that when she let him appoint these guys. >> come back to what i said earlier, elections have consequences. >> absolutely right. and of 2016, and i say this to, you know, all the people, there's no difference. 2016 is going to decide whether or not the federal government does anything about climate change. >> yeah. >> it will decide whether or not we preserve financial reform, which obviously i'm invested in. >> you have a certain amount of named -- you have naming rights on that. right. >> if the republicans win, they will repeal it. they all voted against it. and abortion will turn around. on the other hand, i believe if the democrats win and the president gets to appoint somebody, her appointee will be someone who will -- [lau

. >>> george w. bush returns to new orleans today after a decade after katrina destroyed the city. ♪ >>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm randall pinkston. florida's governor declared a state of emergency as erika heads towards the sunshine state. and the white house says president obama has been briefed on storm preparations. the tropical storm has plowed a path of death and destruction through the caribbean. [ screaming ] >> a church in dominica collapsed under the fury of the wind and rain. the island nation so far the hardest hit. erika dumped 15 inches of rain on dominica. landslides blocked roads, power and water supplies were knocked out. the storm is right now delivering another punch to puerto rico. as much as eight inches of rain are expected before erika moves over the dominican republic towards florida by monday morning. >>> george w. bush has been in new orleans today visiting a school hard hit by hurricane katrina ten years ago. >> the slogan that guided the sch

that was done under george w. bush. i can only wonder whether he either did not know that or thought that other people would not be reminded of that. to make whatever case he wishes on behalf of his own family, there is clearly a very between the agreement george w. bush signed and the efforts that the obama administration made, of which i was a part, to persuade the iraqi government to admit continued american forests for iraqi armies -- forces. they did not want a continued american presence. i think that what is being done is verypect to isis significant in terms of support that the united states is now providing to the iraqi armies to retrain because that is what the government did to start to erode the abilities. try to get the sunnis back into the fight against isis. iraqi-ledo be an mission. like anybody who has followed ,he terrific, barb -- horrific barbaric behavior by isis, i am very committed to supporting the efforts within the region to try poseke on the threats they to everyone, but particularly to women

president george w. bush or george heads hw bush. >> mike, thank you very much. let's bring in michael shore at the ronald reagan lie flare seem i, california where jeb bush will deliver this major foreign policy speech top, we heard about the policys at the time us about the politics driving jeb bush to make the speech tonight. >> as you heard in the package there, david, a lot of focus will be on hillary clinton as well. what the other side is doing. you know, there is something to be said for taking the posture of the nominee even when you are not the nominee. talk about your opponents. the problem that jeb bush has is distancing himself from the record of his brother. he will stand here tonight and actually criticize hillary clinton and barack obama. of getting out to iraq and not criticize going to iraq in the first place. that's a problem with that a lot of voters have in evaluating him. they want to see him be his own man. >> reporter: as far as hillary clinton, can she now trust the department of

. >> george w. bush during an interview with nbc's today show in 1985. imagine if he had stuck with that approach to life. i don't have much to say on national issues. his brother jeb. here is the question jeb got during that interview. >> jeb, you're gop county chairman in florida, dade county. are you looking to a career in politics, is that where your future lies? >> if i can get about half the income you make i can get into politics. until i attain that. >> i do this for free. >> george w. bush, nothing to say about big national issues, just worried about raising my family. jeb, you're looking at a career in politics, aren't you. the 1980s were jeb bush's introduction to national politics. he did go on to become florida's governor and to make a ton of money as he alluded to wanting to do in that interview. at the start it was the 1980s, his dad's run for president and his dad's two terms as vice president that set up jeb bush's life. the first set the gears in motion for his own run for president today. >> when you hear the kind of things that were b

today former president, george w. bush, he toured the school he visited right after the storm focusing on the recovery and future. yesterday president obama visited and said he is inspired by this city and on the anniversary, the commemorations continue with the visit of bill clinton. >> thank you. our coverage of hurricane katrina's anniversary continues online. we are also covering the events marking is 10 years since the storm. >>> in georgia police are vest getting a deadly shooting involving a college student that prompted a lock down, savannah state university was on lock down immediately after the shooting, the lock down was eventually lifted midnight and the student was identified as 22-year-old christopher starks. the shooting stemmed from some type of argument. >>> the woman shot while being interviewed by a virginia television news crew said she never saw the gunman coming. vicky gardner's husband tim spoke with abc. saying his wife is out of a coma and recovering. how she described what happened. >> he sho

when george w bush, we were hemorrhaging money. -- when george w. bush left office, we were hemorrhaging money. $1.4 trillion deficit. are we better today than we were then? yes. but, what is also going on is that for the last 40 years, the american middle class continues to disappear. youth unemployment, african-american youth unemployment today. real unemployment is 51%. we have elderly people trying to make it on $13,000. we have republicans talking about social -- cutting social security van -- rather than expanding it. i'm speaking the truth and people are nodding their heads and saying yeah, the economy is not going well for me or my kids. you had huge crowds on the west coast. few hundred people this morning. was that a letdown? sen. sanders: are you kidding me? boone,600 people in iowa. does anyone know the population there? [laughter] much.nk you very sen. sanders: thank you. >> this way. >> ernie? -- bernie? [indiscernible] >> go, bernie! [chanting] >> whoa, are you ok? >> make a gap. [drums] [cheering] >> thank you. >> senator, i have a q

. >> that was george w. bush during an interview with nbc's "today" show in 1985. imagine if he'd stuck with that approach to life. i don't have much to say on national issues. his brother, jeb, though, here's the question that jeb got during that same interview. >> jeb, you're gop county chairman in florida, right, dade county. are you looking to a career in politics? is that your future lies? long-range ambitions. >> if i can get about half the income that you make, but until i attain that? >> i would do this for free, are you kidding? >> george w. bush, nothing to say about big national issues, aisle just worried about raising my family. but jeb, you're looking at a career in politics, aren't you? the 1980s were jeb bush's introduction to national politics. he did, of course, go on to become florida's governor and then he went on to make a ton of money afterwards, as he alluded to wanting to do in that interview, but at that start, it was in the 1980s that really set up jeb bush's life, that first set the gears in motion for his own run for president today. >> w

george w. bush returned to the city where his administration faced tough criticism for the mishanding of rescue and recovery efforts. >> reporter: new orleans looks different now than when george w. bush was here 10 years ago. the devastation is still evident but businesses worked their way back and homes are being rebuilt. visiting the city to mark a decade since hurricane katrina hit. touring local schools and meeting with students. >> we are the resiliency of a great american cities who levies -- city whose levies gave out. >> reporter: a slow response to the third strongest hurricane to hit the u.s. hurricane katrina killing more than 1800 people. and causing more than $150 billion indanyl. the former president -- in damage. >> reporter: the former president -- >> 30,000 people were saved in the immediate after math of the storm. >> reporter: new orleans party atmosphere not dimmed by the occasion. george w. bush dancing along to a performance by the high school marching band and took part

president george w. bush will make remarks from there. all of that is scheduled to happen within the hour here. gregg? gregg: casey, how are residents there, you know getting along overall with the recovery a decade later? >> reporter: i got to say, gregg, it is a slow but sure process. i will hop out of the way because i don't think a lot of people understand that a decade later you still have homes in the city that look like this. abandoned, dilapidated. people just didn't come back. but there are glimmers of hope here too. we had great fortune of meeting up with georgia johnson and her family as they walked us through their brand new home, move-in, scheduled soon. it has taken her 10 years to finally get back here into the house that has been in her family since the '60s. >> i can remember my daddy saying, georgia, i want you to have the house because i know, if ever your brothers or sisters need somewhere, you will take them in. so we wanted to make is home. >> reporter: have to admit i share ad couple of tears with georgia when we sa

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at the time, president george w. bush was blasted for the botched federal response to the storm. today he returned to the city, to see all the progress it has made, all these years later. nbc's jay gray is in louisiana with a closer look at where everything stands tonight. jay? >> reporter: hey, shiba. yeah, and when you look closely, it's amazing the recovery effort here, really. especially when you consider the overwhelming devastation that littered the road home. but ten years after katrina, it is very clear, new orleans still hasn't made it all the way back yet. >> reporter: there's always been a certain style and undeniable rhythm to the city. but ten years ago, the music stopped. as hurricane katrina ravaged the leve es surrounding new orleans. more than 1,800 died in the storm, hundreds of thousands were left homeless. >> it was one of our country's darkest moment. >> reporter: at the time, many blamed then president george w. bush for what they perceived as a lackluster response to the tragedy that included an initial flyover in air force one without touching down to show

george w. bush did have the most diverse republican administration. it's interesting that it was a republican in that position who are african-american. that was interesting that it took him to do that. so this was the first administration when you saw, this time the prominent african-american that followed suit in the obama administration with the attorney general. >> that doesn't counterweight president bush's experience after katrina. was that racial? >> i don't think president bush was being racist with his handling of katrina. >> this was the hurricane that of course affected so many of minorities and lower income people who were hurt by the storm in louisiana mississippi. >> particularly in the ninth ward of new orleans. we saw people people on rooftops waiting for help. i think, and even president bill clinton in this book, he says i don't think it was an issue of racism, his policies just did not help elevate people in poverty. now we talk about katrina. president bush got in a lot of trouble for the fact that he was caught up in the state rig

that was done under george w. bush. >> he made statements over the last couple of days that are incredible trying to justify the war in iraq can't be justified. i don't know if you saw his statement, the united states has to prove to iraq we have skin in the game. we have wounded warriors who i love all over the place. we have to prove that we have skin in the game. i think it may be one of the dumb he was statements i have ever heard. skin in the game. we don't have to prove anything. >>> south sudan's government will continue peace talks to end the 20 month civil war, but without the president. mediators have been expecting the president to meet with the rebel leader. the government and the rebels are facing growing international pressure to strike a deal before a monday deadline or risk possible sanctions. >>> while the talks continue, back in south sudan the government is struggling to provide clean water to the population. it has led to a chollora outbreak. >> this is called the donkey in south sudan. it's th

. >>> former president george w. bush returned to new orleans today to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. >> he was criticized for his administration's response to the catastrophic storm, but as weigia jiang reports, his visit did draw some mixed emotions. >> reporter: former president george w. bush swayed and danced to the music in new orleans as the band played at warren easton charter high. he returned to the school friday after marking the first anniversary of hurricane katrina there in 2006. >> the darkness from a decade ago has lifted. the crescent city has risen again and its best days lie ahead. >> reporter: the bush administration said it provided more than $140 billion to help the gulf coast region recover. survivors remember other numbers, too. more than 1,800 people died. 1million people were displaced and 250,000 houses were destroyed. many blamed the federal government for responding too slowly, especially here in the lower 9th ward, the hardest hit area. >> people are still hurt. people l

george w. bush, for that matter. these are not people who republicans thought could move voters and communicate with them. and donald trump speaks to this, too. so i think that really is the reason why a lot of these outsiders have risen to the top of the pack. >> yeah, and i wonder, do you think the media, the political world in general has -- is this a sign we've misunderstood the conservative base a little bit, when you look at like a scott walker, you look at marco rubio, they're running in many ways the paint by numbers campaign for a conservative candidate. they're checking off all the boxes that you're supposed to check off to win over the conservative base, and yet the conservative base right now not getting excited about them. >> well, i think there's often an emphasis on resume. like oh, we want a governor, somebody with executive experience. but people respond more viscerally to candidates and that's what you're seeing with trump and fiorina. their charisma. their communication skills. these are intangible

he lost the 2000 race against george w. bush. he would compete against clinton's wife, hillary clinton, current democratic frontrunner. two individuals close to gore passing "inconvenient truth" to gore supporters, down playing rumors and calling them quote, groundless. catch republican presidential candidate carly fiorina, that is on "mornings with maria" 8:00 a.m. eastern time. do not miss night she is a great speaker. breaking this morning, nicole, u.s. officials tell the associated press that the two emails on hillary clinton's private server that an auditor dimed top secret included discussion of news article detailing a u.s. drone operation. the ap says there is the separate conversation that could point back to highly classified material in improper man other or merely reflect information collected independently. this could have significant implications for clinton's bid for president. this week clinton agreed to turn over to the fbi the private server she used when she was secretary of state. >> also breaking news this mo

president george w. bush new orleans yesterday with his wife laura to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. washington journal get your thoughts on the recovery efforts on the gulf coast. former president george w. bush traveled with his wife laura to new orleans friday to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. one of their stocks included a high school which benefited from a recovery initiative started by the former first lady. this is 20 minutes. laura bush: thank you very much. lauren is a wonderful example of a student at warren easton charter school who goes on to college and comes back and teaches. that is so meaningful. i was thrilled i got to meet her here when i visited when she was a student and now get to come back while she is an english teacher. i also want to thank jared for leaving us in the pledge of allegiance. mayor, thank you for joining us today. thank you for the roundtable discussion we just had, which was really like a reunion. it is great to see so many people w