first, george p. bush on the legacy of his grandparents a george h. w. bush and barbara bush. >> thank you. welcome. i feel like i probably do not need to introduce my fellow panelists here, because everyone knows who they are, but on my left we have george p. bush. speaking on behalf of the bush brand. [applause] >> susan page is the washington andau chief for usa today author of the best-selling biography of barbara bush called the matriarch. she will be signing copies of it after this. [applause] beschloss, one of our most well-known presidential historians who has written so many things, so many books, i will be asking you about some of the stuff that i found in my worn copy of character of all. something i want to ask all of lost- given that we have barbara bush and george h. w. bush so close together, what kind of reassessment do you think this has brought for the country as to what the bush name and what the significance really was of all of the work that they did in so many arenas of public service? >> looking back on it now coming close to a yea

finally, we have a cartoon during the bush administration, the george w. bush administration and mr. block believes strongly in separation of church and state and he believed that funding for religious groups violated that and one way he depicted it, of course, was by showing the newspaper headline and the guy rolling his eyes and looking at the steeple over the white house emphasized the point that mr. block believed that george w. bush had a strong affiliation with religious groups. christian religious groups, in particular. one of the reason yes mr. block cartoons about for decades was on equality and civil rights. he really believed that african-americans deserved an equal chance and an equal opportunity, and eight years after the passage of brown versus board of education which was supposed to desegregate the public schools and universities and give everyone an equal education, in 1962 he pointed out that that still was not the case. there were states in the country that had chosen to shutter their public schools rather than desegregate. so we have a

he covered presidents from herbert hoover to george w. bush. sarah duke spoke to us about his influence and legacy. >> it was a rest are in a western cartoonist. >> six months before the great depression. he was a moderate conservative. it pushed him further toward the center. and the injustice of world war ii. in 1933 he world war ii. in 1933 he joined the newspaper association. he joined the washington post. his last cartoon appeared on august 26. we have about 14,000 of his editorial cartoons. he did give away cartoons to friends. we have the majority his editorial cartoons. he did give away cartoons to friends. we have the majority of his output. you that see how his career has evolved, his opinions have changed. it gives a sense of how they perceive different presidents and how his style evolved. the next one is about herbert hoover. it shows herbert at the rabid on camp. mr. bloch has depicted hoover leading a couple of capitalists to his camp. and they are fishing. instead of getting economic benefits in the form of cash incentives they

and how george w. bush is trying to reconcile that, carl canon wrote just a terrific book reflecting on all of that which i'll just give a little shout out to carl because it's trying to come to grips with some of the things you just raised my -- >> what is it called, do you know? >> think reagan and bush as both those names are in the title. >> that's your homework. >> so this is six days after 9/11. >> if you can't read, the little boy is wearing a t-shirt that says civil liberties. there is no pun. there is no comment, and the cartoon needs very little comment from me except one thing, it's an ambivalent cartoon and very sensitive. there was a way in which urngel sam is portrayed as overbearing and too muscular. uncle sam is portrayed as a noble, heroic figure, but watch out for the back swing, kid. >> i don't know if this is unintentional. uncle sam looks a lot like abraham lincoln which suspends the writ of habeas corp us aus don't know if i'm reading too much into it. it just goes to the continui

block did not work long into george w. bush's presidency. he was too ill during 9/11 to do anything about that even though apparently people were going to his hospital bedside and encouraging him and saying that they needed his voice. he died in october of 2001. what he did note was an assumption a lot of cartoonists made early in the election and early in his presidency, and that they drew him as stupid. now cartoonists who got to live longer came around on that and decided that he wasn't a stupid president. but at this point, that's how herblock is depicting him, as under the control of dick cheney and his father and ignorant about world affairs. this particular cartoon was actually drawn during the 2000 presidential election. and as you can see in the last year and a half of his life, that mr. block, again, the ideas are solid, he's expressing an opinion, he's come up with an opinion, and he's able to conceive of a koejent way to express it. but the drawing style is a lot weaker. he's using paste-downs when he can't correct the errors wit

for example, it arose for george w. bush. the perception of cheney, somebody is pulling the strings. president trump, steve bannon in. nobody ever says that about barack obama or bill clinton. is it a partisan thing? is it that the press thinks republicans are not smart enough to do it on their own and democrats are smart enough? chris: you just answer the question. michael: my question is, don't you agree? chris: i did not work with bill clinton. barack obama has an honest face, very smart, very, very smart. clearly had his hands on anything. to his fault he probably had his hands on a lot of different things. part of it i think is the east coast of the white house. the ethos. we did not leak, it was all about what was doing what was best for the president. it is not to say there were not people who were strong advisors before him, but that may have never had come out. this next one is a little harsh. prof. zelikow: we are now going back in time. this is july of 2004. punk in the bottom right-hand corner has nothing to say.

bush it would've been difficult i don't think that you could have made the case that george w. bush knew that what he was saying was wrong i think dick cheney knew that what he was saying was wrong and i think that dick cheney could have been impeached but the democrats decided against my views expressed at the time that everybody should lead bygones be bygones there is one case in history where some impeach was considered after someone left office but typically that's not the case one vice president was almost impeached and avoided it because they couldn't bring him to trial fast enough to to meet the end of the term so i think that once the term was over once bush was out of office it became verboten if you will to consider that i agree with you completely especially on the cheney cheney front because i think there was a lot of people that should have been held accountable for that and i think that's one of the reasons kind of many people look today and say ok we see this kind of infighting you know you did you know he did use public money to threaten you great you know to in

this is george w. bush surrounded by republicans saying i'll have to reposition myself away from you guys. i'm a compassionate conservative. one of them says what the hell is that, g.w.? i thought you said you'll need all of the help you can get and this was before the 2000 election. so this was -- right? october of '99. right. so i remember at the time when he first labeled himself himself a compassionate conservative and there were many of us on the right who said, hey, wait a minute, are you saying the rest of us aren't compassionate that that was not helpful that he did that, and i can see why it was fodder for humor because it did step on a lot of people's toes and it's not a very nice portrayal of the other republicans. they look like something out of "the good, the bad and the ugly," but it does make a good point. what's your take, philip? >> well, you'll see. he's given bush the big, white hat and he'll use this motif and at this time bush -- the white hat seems roughly appropriate to bush's si

to the good guys were told george w. bush was the good guy we're told like his wars were fine this baby being to formulate. what is ellen have to say about this child as a direct result of the depleted uranium dropped on full lucia. right well look there's no a cure for runaway greed and war industry is based on greed and that greed is based on this rush to cumulate as much paper wealth as possible even though it's not genuine wealth stock actual money it's not gold like a warren buffet just hoards of money like an old granny with or phonebooks that doesn't credible damage because of inculcates into the population this notion of holy greed which supports the defense industry which then goes to full lucia and creates deformed babies in the main will of profit this is in order to maintain our lifestyles we want the free flow of energy of oil supplies that's what the argument was right when and there you know that's the whole episode over who was pushing for the iraq war and why they wanted to go in there and why they wante

i worked for multiple presidents they are careful about what they say to be presidential and george w bush a wonderful guy but if you talk to him and ask a question he would grunt and moan and roll his eyes and had to figure out what to do if you are wrong you are in trouble if you are right you can be rewarded but he will not tell you because nothing he ever said was brought before the impeachment inquiry so i just smiled so you're going to impeach me for smiling? it is refreshing and scary and a high wire act but he has rough edges and he tells us hwhat he thinks. >> dominic out of new york good morning. >> good morning first of all i like to know your guest opinion on the economy 93 -year-old man who says the image he will never forget is trump crossing over to the dmz into north korea and now that the mias are coming home he went where no one else would go. i think the economy is doing great i would like to hear your opinion have a great day and happy thanksgiving. >> to you to. you cannot knock the numbers the numbers don't lie it is pretty miraculous what has happened we have 7

bush it would've been difficult i don't think that you could have made the case that george w. bush knew that what he was saying was wrong i think dick cheney knew that what he was saying was wrong and i think that dick cheney could have been impeached but the democrats decided against my views expressed at the time that everybody should lead bygones be bygones there is one case in history where some impeach was considered after someone left office but typically that's not the case one vice president was almost impeached and avoided it because they couldn't bring him to trial fast enough to to meet the end of the term so i think that once the term was over once bush was out of office it became verboten if you will to consider that i agree with you completely especially on the cheney cheney front because i think there was a lot of people that should have been held accountable for that and i think that's one of the reasons kind of many people look today and say ok we see this kind of infighting you know you did you know he did use public money to threaten ukraine you know to in t

to the good guys we're told george w. bush was the good guy we're told like his wars were fine this baby being to formulate. what is ellen have to say about this child as a direct result of the depleted uranium dropped on full lucia. right well look there's no a cure for runaway greed and war industry is based on greed and that greed is based on this rush to cumulate as much paper wealth as possible even though it's genuine wealth stock actual money it's not gold like a warren buffet just hoards of money like an old granny would hoard phone books that doesn't credible damage because of inculcates into the population this notion of holy greed which is supports the defense industry which then goes to full lucia and creates deformed babies in the maim of profit this is in order to maintain our lifestyles we want the free flow of energy of oil supplies that's what the argument was why when and where you know there's a whole episode over who was pushing for the iraq war and why they wanted to go in there and why they wanted to

george w. bush. you say, he's not president, hasn't been around in awhile. remember, george w. bush, number one. he benefits by not being donald trump. i talk to so many democratic folks who say, man, i wish we had george w. bush back around. when ten years ago he was their worst president ever. number two, don't forget his speech at his father's funeral. i thought it was moving. he teared up. his public perception happens a lot for those out of office. the handing of the mint to michelle obama. there's a lot there that goes to show you this guy is deeper than we sort of thought he was when he was in office. and again, this is not uncommon. this happens all the time. presidents get out of office, don't have to make hard decisions. those people who follow you in office are maybe not ideal. you benefit. he quite clearly has. >> also if you're friends with ellen, you have to be nice. >> he's just a guy who i think his -- the way in which his presidency went is very different than the person we see out of office. he's friends with barack obama. it's a different version of george w.

bush it would've been difficult i don't think that you could have made the case that george w. bush knew that what he was saying was wrong i think dick cheney knew that what he was saying was wrong and i think that dick cheney could have been impeached but the democrats decided against my views expressed at the time that everybody should lead bygones be bygones there is one case in history where some impeach was considered after someone left office but typically that's not the case one vice president was almost impeached and avoided it because they couldn't bring him to trial fast enough to to meet the end of the term so i think that once the term was over once bush was out of office it became verboten if you will to consider that i agree with you completely especially on the cheney cheney front because i think there was a lot of people that should have been held accountable for that and i think that's one of the reasons kind of many people look today and say ok we see this kind of infighting you know you did you know he did use public money to threaten ukraine you know to him

bush it would have been difficult i don't think that you could have made the case that george w. bush knew that what he was saying was wrong i think dick cheney knew that what he was saying was wrong and i think that dick cheney could have been impeached but the democrats decided against my views expressed at the time that everybody should lead bygones be bygones there is one case in history where some impeach was considered after someone left office but typically that's not the case one vice president was almost impeached and avoided it because they couldn't bring him to trial fast enough to to meet the end of the term so i think that once the term was over once bush was out of office it became verboten if you will to consider that i agree with you completely especially on the cheney cheney front because i think there was a lot of people that should have been held accountable for that and i think that's one of the reasons kind of many people look today and say ok we see this kind of infighting you know you did you know he did use public money to threaten ukraine you know to him

let's join richard painter, he was the cheap data -- the chief ethics lawyer under george w. bush and he joins me now from neapolis. good to have you with us on the program. what do you think of the current situation and the fact that the house intelligence committee has actually formulated this report it is going to the judiciary committee? >> the evidence in the extortion plot aimed at ukraine is overwhelming that donald trump thought to -- sought to extort help for his political campaign from ukraine in return for hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid. that is clearly something that is an impeachable offense, high crimes and misdemeanors under the united states constitution. the judiciary committee will consider that, along with the other crimes committed by this president, including the obstruction of justice in the rush investigation, and the fact that president trump has instructed people in his administration not to respond to any of the congressional subpoenas. that is obstruction of congress, and that something that richard nixon was impeached for, and i ex

karl worked for president george w. bush. at this point george w. bush was in the high 50s. barack obama almost 60. it's a big difference. if you're saying everything is about impeachment in terms of reelection, i would differ. the thing there's lots of issues that are going to come between now and then. but we are seeing right now was feeding and enthusiasm a part of the democratic base that i think we saw reflected in louisiana, in kentucky, virginia legislation elections, the suburbs of pennsylvania. i think the democrats are fired up over this issue. >> martha: let's take a look at this latest iowa poll. head-to-head, the president beating bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, joe biden, pete buttigieg in iowa. how significant is that poll to you? >> let me correct juan. quinnipiac poll for example in late september was 48%. to impeach the president. today it's 45. a three-point drop. the growth in those that said they shouldn't impeach the president went from 46 to 51, it's a total of an eight-point shift in favor of not impeaching the president. i don't think juan is factu

i believe george w. bush said in his second term that one of his main goals was to invest that money into wall street to get a better return. we all know what happened to the pension funds, once they started doing that all over the united states. so is the united states government considering actually investing in wall street to get a better return on the money that they are stealing from social security? because handing over money to wall street, in my opinion, it is a disaster waiting to happen. your thoughts? president george w. bush wanted social security reform, but i do not think he went far enough. there were other plans where the idea was to let people create individual personal internment accounts where they were putting a certain percentage of their , rather than into social security taxes, they were putting it into broad-based mutual funds to build up their own retirement funds that did not belong to the government, that belonged to them. the idea was that when a person retired, it is from the

>> to quote george w. bush, that's some weird -- s-h-i-t. look -- i don't know. okay? i think it almost takes psychoanalysis and i'm not capable of it to tell you what has happened. i do think some political realities are that when he was confronting trump, when trump was giving away his phone number and attacking him, lindsey graham was dead in the water, when it came to a primary in south carolina. right now he walks on water. he is untouchable and is going to win again. i think lindsey convinced himself he can have influence on trump on some of the issues he really cares about. namely, foreign policy and military issues and i think that's a fig leaf he's offering himself, but, look. you know, psycho babble a little. i think lindsey likes being somebody's junior. i think he likes having almost like a pa dreenal figure. used to be john mccain. john is no longer here, and you know, somebody to pal around with, and -- lastly, brooke, it's nice to get invited on air force one. invited to the white house. it's nice to have ax and be on first-name basis with donald trump a

i was sitting there just like, wow, couldn't believe it george w. bush says to me, well, that was some weird [ bleep ]. >> wow >> all right now we know. clinton was on the show promoting the book of gutsy women, which she co-wrote with her daughter chelsea. >>> there are new concerns this morning over hair dyes and chemical straighteners according to a new study published in the "the international study of cancer" women who regularlyize the product or apply them to others might be at an increased risk of getting breast cancer. here is nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: new concerns over hair dyes and chemical straighteners. a study of almost 50,000 women found an increased 9% risk of breast cancer for those who use permanent hair die and 18% for those who use straightenered as well as for african-american women who had a 45% increased risk if they use permanent dye >> it's possible that the products marketed to black women based on their hair texture and type might be different than the products marketed toward white women. >> reporter: the resear

w. i don't think that was really an anti trump i mean look we all do that kind of stuff larry i remember being at a. bill clinton event when bill clinton showed up an hour and a half late for his nose as he was always late you know that he was playing golf that day and he came in like he just walked off or go off course but you know. frankly put bill is trump still the leader of the free world and the american presidency is what is trump i do not think so i think the leader of the free world today is still. with her fading and soon out of office that manu micro is stepping into that role and i think it's i think it's something all americans ought to be concerned about republican or democrat i think we want to be seen rightfully so as a leader of the free world and you know george w. bush was bill clinton was barack obama was a people don't have that respect for donald trump he's just too erratic and his foreign policy and he's turned against some of our best allies and embraced some of o

w. i don't think that was really an anti trump i mean look we all do that kind of stuff larry i remember being at a bill clinton event when bill clinton showed up an hour and a half late for his nose as he was always late you know that he was playing golf that day and he came in like he just walked off or go off course you know. frankly put bill is trump still the leader of the free world and the american presidency is what is trump i do not think so i think the leader of the free world today is still on the america with her fading and soon out of office that. is stepping into that role and i think it's i think it's something all americans ought to be concerned about republican or democrat i think we want to be seen rightfully so as the leader of the free world and you know george w. bush was bill clinton was broke obama was a people don't have that respect for donald trump he's just too erratic in his foreign policy and he's turned against some of our best allies and embraced some of ou

w. frankly put bill is trump still the leader of the free world and the american presidency is what is trump i do not think so i think the leader of the free world today is still. with her fading and soon out of office that my new micro is stepping into that role and i think it's i think it's something all americans ought to be concerned about republican or democrat i think we want to be seen rightfully so as a leader of the free world and you know george w. bush was bill clinton was broke obama was a people don't have that respect for donald trump he's just too erratic in his foreign policy and he's turned against some of our best allies and embraced some of our biggest enemies how the heck did we get in trouble with canada yeah of all people right. if you noticed he started out with a sort of a bromance right with justin trudeau just like he started out with a bromance with emanuel marc wrong larry i was at the white house when we're cranking for the 1st visit with trump and i'm tellin

george w. bush, and both of these presidents were engaged in i think serious abuse of power through the institution of domestic spying by the cia, which is clearly against the cia charter, and which was begun under lbj, directed at protesters, aof the vietnam war and other dissents and nixon expanded that program considerably and operation chaos, was finally exposed, by the journalist seymour hirsch in the early 1970s, when he had a brief gig at "the new york times." and his exposures provoked the hearings that were conducted by senator frank church into the misdeeds of the cia. and the committee discovered all sorts of evidence of disturbing misdeed, not only the spying on u.s. citizens who happen to have opposed nixon's policy, but also the successful and presidentially authorized cia coup in chile, the overthrow of the democratically elected salvadore alliande. and what was interesting to me about this is how there is this fusion most of the time, between the presidency, the executive branch

george w. bush. and both of these presidents engaged in, i think, serious abuse of power through the institution of domestic spying by the cia, which is clearly against the cia charter. and which was begun under l.b.j., directed at protestors against the vietnam war and other dissidents. and nixon expanded that program considerably. and "operation chaos" was finally exposed by the journalist seymour hearst in the early 1970's when he had a brief gig and hisnew york times," exposures provoked the hearings that were conducted by senator frank church into the misdeeds of the cia. and the committee discovered all sorts of evidence of disturbing misdeeds, not only the spying on u.s. citizens who happened to oppose nixon's policies but also the successful and presidentially authorized c.i.a. coup in chile, the overthrow of the democratic elected salvador allende. interesting to me about this was how there is this fusion most of the time between the presidency, the executive branch, and the rest of th

w. i don't think that was really an anti trump i mean look we all do that kind of stuff larry i remember being at a. bill clinton event when bill clinton showed up an hour and a half late for his nose as he was always late you know that he was playing golf that day and he came in like he just walked off or got off course you know. frankly put bill is trump still the leader of the free world and the american presidency is what is trump i do not think so i think the leader of the free world today is still on the america with her fading and soon out of office that manu micro is stepping into that role and i think it's i think it's something all americans ought to be concerned about republican or democrat i think we want to be seen rightfully so as a leader of the free world and you know george w. bush was bill clinton was brock obama was a people don't have that respect for donald trump he's just too erratic in his foreign policy and he's turned against some of our best allies and embraced

w. bush administration what is the u.s. is problem with how the w t o operates. the biggest problem for the u.s. is that the u.s. the biggest nation in the world a big trading nation flings it should be treated a bit differently from some other countries that the u.s. interests should be taken more into consideration and there is a point in what the u.s. is saying that the dealings between the w t o and china are sometimes still affected by the rules that came into place a while ago when china was a smaller country the u.s. basically warns china to play by different rules the problem is that the w t o is not the right organization to address that that problem needs to be resolved by the u.s. and the e.u. talking to china rather than by blocking the w t o the normal back and isms over there there are other outstanding cases involving the us particularly in terms of steel and i mean him imports and tires that it's put in place do we know what will happen to those cases if the court system

bush and gerald r. ford. george w. bush was that a keg >> that's the pinnacle of power a man who becomes cia director. party back then. david: jon: jon: that was the highest point in our system. yet you went to the places where the decisions made in those rooms had real-life implications. david: that's right. john and i worked together in newsweek and this was my first cover which really killed my relationship with bob dole. as you remember well. when i first met john, i was meeting with the editor of newsweek who was in 1995 wanting me to work for the magazine and cover the campaign. jon meacham walks and and maynard parker said i would like you to meet jon meacham our nation editor. i thought he was an intern taking coffee orders. he was 25 or 26 years old. you have probably been carded most of your life. jon: i have a bit of hair dye now. i tried to use that. david: at least people have not referred to you as this photo is one of the first we ended up with a fantastic relationship. he is the guy relationship. he is

there were calls to impeach barack obama, george w. bush. nancy pelosi was the speaker. she was in power for a time when president bush was in office. she resisted calls to impeach. overaw that as a dispute policy. it was a dispute over the iraq war. granted, it was a huge mistake, but it was not an impeachable offense. host: we saw those called to testify that did not show up. what makes you think that won't happen on the senate side? guest: they would be defying a subpoena. i would like to see what justice roberts has to say. because you are not supposed to defy a subpoena. weyou and i were subpoenaed, would show up, and if we did not, we would face a fine or possible jail time. why do elected officials get treated any differently? host: republican line from new jersey. susan, good morning. caller: good morning, let me mute my tv. host: we thank you. caller: i just wanted to respond to a comment earlier regarding the impeachment of president clinton and how the congress appeared to be quote, "reasonable." i just wanted to point out that the jig is up. everyone knows th

w. news of live from berlin facing up to history donald trump is set to become only the 3rd ever president of the united states to be impeached u.s. lawmakers are in their final debate before a vote for speaker of the house nancy pelosi calls trump a threat to the nation vice president mike pence defends his boss saying that the impeachment vote is a disgrace also on the program the australian state of new south wales declares a bushfire emergency and threat levels are set to rise as the country battles a record heat wave and drought. but there's very little. change in the long. time goodbye to the latest star wars trilogy as the final movie in the series has its world premiere. i'm told me a lot it both thanks for joining us. we begin in the u.s. where the house of representatives is debating whether to approve articles of impeachment against president donald trump republicans attempted to halt the session as soon as it began by calling for a vote to adjourn but that was dismissed along

democrats wanted to make george w. bush a one term president. we were always able to put some partisan concerns aside and move forward together on things that were of concern to the country. with a very rare exception this congress has not been able to do that. host: has the president been able to do that? name-calling, is he doing this? guest: he is speaking the way that many people across america think. they talk amongst their friends in the same tone. he has shown a willingness to work. he worked together with democrats to get criminal justice reform done. he has shown an interest to talk about immigration and lowering prescription drugs. aside the public comments , there is not that much work getting done behind the scenes, and that is where many people are frustrated with washington, d.c. host: is there any chance that the president would remove president pence from the the piece lot? guest: absolutely not. the president has been very clear on that on many occasions. he was asked that in the last couple weeks. absolutely committed to the vi

bakally the strategy of george w. bush and barack obama. of course, it's exactly that to the president said he would walk away from because he was determined to solve this problem. what he's discovered over the past three years is there is a reason this problem hasn't been solved for the past 30 years, because if you are really going to crank up the pressure, as mr. bolton suggests, you are also willing to go risk war and that would mean completely cutting off the oil supplies to north korea and really provoking something bigger. >> right. >> the president doesn't want that. the chinese don't want that. the russians don't want that. so you end up basically creating an atmosphere that tolerates the buildup of the nuclear forces. you know, president trump is not the first one to do that george w. bush used to say to me when i was white house correspondent i won't tolerate a nuclear north korea. well, he tolerated one. >> so we see, so it continues, david, it's great to see you. thanks, guys. >>> coming up, days after fireing a new ceo, new do

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i would say the same thing was true of the george w. bush administration. which provided a new lease on life for the national security state after the very brief moment of public skepticism spawned by the church committee and the failures of the vietnam war. the global war on terror really brought it back. it really brought back the possibilities for the most serious kinds of misconduct. warrantless electronic surveillance, which is a clear violation of the fourth amendment. torture and the torturous legal memos devised to justify them, which is a clear violation of the eighth amendment. the geneva convention. these were the conventions that dick cheney labeled as quaint. there were various levels of misconduct ranging from warren harding's encounter with a chambermaid at the palace hotel in san francisco to other more serious matters involving public policy. i want to broaden the scope of our discussion to include these other issues. karen: let me talk to you about this quaint. al gonzalez said this. one of the things i would like to hear you, and then i w

i couldn't believe it and george w. bush says to me, that was some weird shit. >> a fascinating interview with howard stern. once again, don't miss cnn's town hall when nancy pelosi moderated by jake tapper at 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. you can also follow me on twitter and instagram @wolf blitzer and tweet the show @cnnsitroom. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >>> out front next, don't mess with me. speaker nancy pelosi goes full steam ahead on impeachment. what now? the house assistant speaker is my guest. plus rudy giuliani is back in ukraine and there are pictures to prove it. what's he doing? he says he's working for his client, by the way. why are some democrats moving to the the right? let's go out front. >>> good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, an impeachment vote is happening. house speaker nancy pelosi taking the irrevocable step in asking for formal articles of impeachment. she said in an article, don't mess with me. despite her a

president george w. bush changed the formula by investing u.s. taxpayer dollars in aids treatment. that step and another one, the creation of the global fund to fight aids, to recklessness and malaria, they may have been narrowly focused on two or three illnesses, but they changed the discussion substantially. david: take the two examples you have given, the gates foundation, private on the one hand and george w. bush and what happened with africa. what is it tell you between the intersection between public and private in dealing with global health equity? dr. farmer: it tells me we are insane not to integrate public and private. we did not come to this quickly. it took us a decade of working in haiti to say, to look around and say, the hospital that we have built, which is a private ngo hospital, is answering a great need. but look at all these public clinics and hospitals around that are really shuttered, that are not working. so we decided, again as a collective, that we would -- direct all of our attention to public facilities, hospitals, clinics, whatever. in rwanda, the yield

bush, some democrats wanted to impeach george w. bush. this keeps happening. whether it moves forward or not, this is what is so troubling and why i said from the start, the president's phone call was inappropriate, it was wrong, but impeachment has never been the right answer and the democrats now have shot a bullet they can't take back and were they going to do if the president does something really bad? are they going to try to do this twice? that's the problem. >> melissa: absolutely they are going to do it twice, they've already said that. >> ari: and that will be another waste of the nation's time, most likely. >> kennedy: people have fatigue for this sort of thing. it cheapens and it lessens what impeachment is supposed to be and what impeachment is supposed to do and i think you summed it up perfectly. something was wrong here but impeachment is not the answer and i think that's why -- i'm curious to see what marie has to say about this, i think it's why you seen democrats float the idea of a censure because that's only happened once before and that se

always said was george w. bush would return dignity and honor to the white house because we knew, saw in the data, the more we talked about impeachment, the more it would bring up bad feelings among swing voters. >> ed: answer that last point from you, chris. >> so when biden runs on let's return to normalcy, that might work. >> he's a democrat, she is a democrat, the democrats are playing games with impeachment. >> to either one of us, knows how the kids are doing. >> ed: prescient you coming in. merry christmas. >> mike wallace from florida and green beret, you fought for this country from africa to afghanistan. if this is why you want to continue public service and get in and run for congress, when you see this idea, chris hahn a democrat says may be nancy pelosi should hand the articles at the state of the union. >> i think we just need to get on, it's been three years now, when i talked to floridians back in my district. for them, this is a continuation of nonstop mueller and russia. we had some kavanaugh

richard haass was the director of policy planning for the state department under president george w. bush, and he's now the president of the council on foreign relations. he believes there are two kinds of trump lies. >> one is to only present one side of a story. >> such as hailing the end to the recent turkish assault on the kurds in northern syria. >> by getting that cease-fire to stick, we've done something that's very, very special. >> instead of explaining that he helped facilitate turkey's attack by withdrawing the u.s. troops who, as part of their duties, were protecting the kurds, a u.s. ally. >> and then you have situations like we saw more recently in the wake of his decision toward turkey and syria where the president stands up and basically says, this is a great success. >> and now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome. >> well, no, that's not the case. >> the case was kurds living near the turkish border with syria lost lives, homes, territory. >> we've done a good job. >> that's not what the president's lead adviser on syria and against isis testified on the hil

i don't think george w. bush -- compared to trump? >> yes. >> well, sure. well, sure. i mean, if our next president is a single-celled organism, trump's going to look great. >> single-celled -- >> you know, some sort of slime mold. >> uh-huh. >> yeah, no, i don't think so. i'm all-in. chips are all-in on this not being a good one. s if your glasses aren't perfect, we'll fix them. so will we. no we won't. don't forget to use your vision benefits before they're gone. now in-network with vsp. visionworks. see the difference. >>> there is a belief among some democrats and i guess, you know, even maybe a few republicans who appear on tv saying that there will reach a point of critical mass where people will have had enough. do you -- >> i think it's just, we vote in 2020 and we find out some more about our country. we found out something interesting about our country in 2016, and i think we find out every so often in presidential elections is that there's a large group of americans, i don't even think it's necessarily democrat or republican, there's a large group of america

, court opinion in dc during the george w. bush's administration that was eventually settled, so there really wasn't any dc circuit to underlay this decision. paul: bill, i think it goes to the supreme court. >> makes them kind of extraordinary claims and absolutist claim and you would think the supreme court will not defer on this. paul: basically says any time congress subpoenas a close adviser to the president chief of staff or somebody intimately they have to go up there. >> they have to go up there. enormous change in this, i think the people court will. the interesting thing, democrats want this but we don't really want this, we will move full steam ahead no matter what, democrats are saying, we will leave it to the senate trial and we will hope that roberts compels mcgahn, the majority of senators can overrule roberts, all the wild cards tucked in because of artificial deadline to get this done before christmas. paul: we already know from robert mueller report what mcgahn probably knows, let's move time peachment -- mov

w. bush went through the roof by now less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that to the usual counterforce to an offensive or highly class conscious business clueless as does oath to. know if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you're back to the 19th century in the early days of the industrial revolution and the united states working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded that wage labor as not very different from slavery to the different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well there was a very sharp class consciousness and the interests of power and privilege it's good to drive those ideas out of people's heads you don't want them to know that they're an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks don't talk about class in fact the national class is very simple

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