as donald trump and jeb bush relitigate the bush 43 legacy the man polling second in the gop field is also questioning america s post-9/11 strategy, particularly the decision to invade afghanistan. it stems from a claim he made at last month s debate that if bush had simply declared the u.s. would become petroleum 23479 then oil-rich arab states fearing less profits would have turned over osama bin laden in two weeks. how would you have gotten the moderate arab governments to turn over osama bin laden in two weeks? he d already been expelled by saudi arabia. he was already an enemy of those moderate governments. well, i think they would have been extremely concerned if we had declared and we were serious about it that we were going to become petroleum independent because it would have had a major impact on their finances. and i think that probably would have trumped any loyalty that they had to to people like osama
president george w. bush did everything in his power and did indeed keep us safe free from another attack. you would not deny that, would you? well, we attacked a different country which i think was the wrong country. i think attacking iraq but it did keep us safe here at home. i think that was a huge mistake. did he keep us safe at home? well, we haven t had a major problem at home. i agree with that. i never disagreed with that. but we attacked a country. we spent $2 trillion attacking a country. and you know what we have for it right now? zero. we could have had a lot more having said that too. that we won that war. the surge worked. like in all military escapades with america we get it wrong in the beginning, we get it right at the end. and it was thrown in the street. trump hasn t let up since then, continuing to hammer the bush legacy on twitter even tweeting an article about how jeb himself was criticized in the wake of the attacks when he was governor of flo
as donald trump and jeb bush relitigate the bush 43 legacy the man polling second in the gop field is also questioning america s post-9/11 strategy, particularly the decision to invade afghanistan. it stems from a claim he made at last month s debate that if bush had simply declared the u.s. would become petroleum 23479 then oil-rich arab states fearing less profits would have turned over osama bin laden in two weeks. how would you have gotten the moderate arab governments to turn over osama bin laden in two weeks? he d already been expelled by saudi arabia. he was already an enemy of those moderate governments. well, i think they would have been extremely concerned if we had declared and we were serious about it that we were going to become petroleum independent because it would have had a major impact on their finances. and i think that probably would have trumped any loyalty that they had to to people like osama bin laden. but they didn t have any loyalty to osama bin laden. t
presidential election in america? they hear socialist they think herpes, bernie. tonight, how bernie sanders plans to take on the stigma surrounding the s word. we have to make the movement, if you like, to correlate what we re talking about. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. donald trump has managed to find the achilles heel not just of his rival for the presidential nomination, jeb bush, but the entire republican political establishment. and it is the legacy of george w. bush. a legacy that was rejected wholesale by voters in 2006 and 2008. but that the republican party still has not been able to reconcile. now trump is openly exploiting that vulnerability and forcing the party to relitigate george w. bush s record on terrorism and war. it all started with an exchange at the second republican debate where jeb bush defended his older brother against criticism
indeed keep us safe free from another attack. you would not deny that, would you? well, we attacked a different country which i think was the wrong country. i think attacking iraq but it did keep us safe here at home. i think that was a huge mistake. did he keep us safe at home? well, we haven t had a major problem at home. i agree with that. i never disagreed with that. but we attacked a country. we spent $2 trillion attacking a country. and you know what we have for it right now? zero. we could have had a lot more having said that too. that we won that war. the surge worked. like in all military escapades with america we get it wrong in the beginning, we get it right at the end. and it was thrown in the street. trump hasn t let up since then, continuing to hammer the bush legacy on twitter even tweeting an article about how jeb himself was criticized in the wake of the attacks when he was governor of florida the state where the hiernlgsz were able to get driver li