Bush 2 News Today

well, it is the top of the hour at "cnn newsroom." >> 15 days now until election day and candidates are out battling for every ballot. in the florida governors race, democrat charlie crist hopes tonights debate will help shift the momentum as he tries to unseat ron desantis. in pennsylvania, theres a debate tomorrow in the much tighter senate race there. polls show the democrat john fetterman has a small lead over his republican rival, mehmet oz. >> nearly 7.3 million americans have al...

The clinton and obama administrations, whether you worked for president reagan, bush 1, bush 2, clinton, obama, there was a national security decision making process that we all tried to adhere to where tough issues were worked from the bottom up with facts, with analysis, with intelligence with policy options that were debated and assessed on their merits, recommendations made from principals to the president of the united states in a thoughtful and accountable way and when the president makes ...

National security decision-making process is completely broken down. as i discuss in my book, which is as much a personal story as it is about my time in the clinton and obama administrations, whether you work for president reagan, bush 1, bush 2, clinton, obama, there was a national security decision-making process that we all tried to adhere to from the bottom up with facts, analysis, with intelligence, with policy options that were debated, you know, and assessed on their merits, recommendati...

Hurt each other anymore. thats the president of the united states talking. truman didnt talk like that. roosevelt didnt talk like that. eisenhower, bush 1, bush 2, clinton, no president of the united states has ever talked like that. one of the great shame is that the president in washington, on capitol hill, theyve not been able to say mr. president, we maybe agree with you on the issues but you must stop the tone of attack that has been the hallmark of your presidency. we cannot accept it. the...

Hurt each other anymore. thats the president of the united states talking. truman didnt talk like that. roosevelt didnt talk like that. eisenhower, bush 1, bush 2, clinton, no president of the united states has ever talked like that. one of the great shame is that the president in washington, on capitol hill, theyve not been able to say mr. president, we maybe agree with you on the issues but you must stop the tone of attack that has been the hallmark of your presidency. we cannot accept it. the...

Game. all im saying, neil, having done it once under reagan and it didnt work, having done it again under bush 2, and it was a disaster, why are we doing this again? it just doesnt make any sense to me. weve got a big federal deficit. weve got a national debt of $18 trillion. what is this? and its not going to work again, i can tell you. >> neil: i will give credit to you you bemoneyed the bemoane debt. when you ran your campaign, you were notoriously a cheap guy. of course thats how you claim -...

Be policy. for example, you mentioned the big oil shock under president bush, the younger bush 2, but we invaded iraq. it wasnt a total accident that that happened at the time. >> well, the other part of this that im wondering is how do you factor in sort of when a policy takes effect and how long -- so not necessarily a policy, but almost like a philosophy of a president, and when it eventually kicks in and actually impacts the economy. what is that lag factor? so clintons philosophy, economic ...

To the military perhaps more. >> president bush did -- >> im talking about bush 2. >> he served in the national guard. >> he didnt see combat. i think that that makes a psychological difference when youre negotiating with generals and even if you know how to salute properly, i think all those psychological things weighing >> kennedy defied all the generals advice and didnt seek a military response in the cuban missile crisis. and so that was very important. but you know, i think president obama ...

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Aimed at bush and the bush family. >> it wasnt the bush family, it was the president and it was for taking us to the war in iraq, spending america til they were broke. >> todd, usually you exercise discretion on the program. you can defend anything. these full mooners, defending them. attacking the guys wife -- >> i am not defending attacking the wife. i am saying it happens on both sides. >> thank you for being with us. who has the power on the right, it is scary. it is not who you think. you...