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>> this is a story no one covers. harvard does not like the rotc drill on campus. nobody has ever really reported that story. harvard has a history of being anti military which is why she is getting that kind of criticism. with elena kagan we should have full vetting of her some of the most important issues healthcare immigration reform are going to come and -- >> when she gets in front of that senate committee we should have a full respectful grilling of her to find out her temperament. i am ho...

Doubts. >> larry: he didnt talk to you about it? >> he didnt discuss those things with me. >> larry: he didnt? >> i saw him walk on the lawn every night with spot. and i knew he was just worried and didnt know, you know, if he was making the right decision. but all of the intelligence that everyone had, that everyone said, and you know, saddam hussein had defied 17 u.n. security council resolutions. so -- >> larry: its hard certainly for a president to send someone to die. what is it like for a ...

>> larry: one week from tonight we have mick jagger. first, we welcome back laura bush. her new book is "spoken from the heart." a terrific read published by scriptners. you were such a private first lady. wasnt this hard for you to do? >> it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted it to be very candid. i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about,...

one week from tonight weve got mick jagger here for the hour. right now we welcome back former first lady laura bush to "larry king live." we spent many hours together. her new book is "spoken from the heart." a terrific read published by scriptners. you see its cover. you were such a private first lady. wasnt this hard for you to do? >> it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted to be very candid, i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a...

Was making the right decision. but all of the intelligence that everyone had, that everyone said, and you know, saddam hussein had defied 17 u.n. security council resolutions. so -- >> larry: its hard certainly for a president to send someone to die. what is it like for a first lady? >> its hard. it really is. i mean, its a constant worry. we always worried about our troops. every day. we worried about them. and a lot of times at night. and i write this in the book. i would get in bed and i woul...

Primetime tv here. but time and time again, they have shown -- not just with rush, but theyre not willing to take on their own base. remember the rally in november when you had tea partyers shouting nazi, nazis in reference to nancy pelosi and barack obama. and john boehner and eric cantor and the others were there on the podium waving along. >> speaking of the podium, what im watching right now, it would be hard to hide under the covers. heres limbaugh, i want eric grade these points hes made. ...

Under his thumb. you know, i would consider rush limbaugh to be essentially the godfather of the republican party, right up there with fox news, and they really are running the show. the conservative media apparatus stepped into the vacuum after two consecutive electoral defeats for the gop and theyre the tail thats wagging the dog. theres no question about it -- >> let me go to my buddy on this one. david corn. if you had to measure the power of rush-bo or oreilly or sean or glenn compared to t...

So -- >> larry: its hard certainly for a president to send someone to die. what is it like for a first lady? >> its hard. it really is. i mean, its a constant worry. we always worried about our troops. every day. we worried about them. and a lot of times at night. and i write this in the book. i would get in bed and i would be in my comfortable bed with wonderful covers, and id feel guilty thinking about our troops who were sleeping on the sand in afghanistan or iraq. nearly every night i would ...

"mother jones" washington bureau chief david corn is here. and eric burns is president of media matters, which tracks rushs ramblings on his website. you know, eric, i listen to the oil and think about offshore oil disasters and i think he might be one of them. you hear -- woo woo woo, like its an underwater walrus talking. and hes amazing. let me ask you quickly, what is his measure of power over the republican party? i have a sense, we had a guy named gingrey, a congressman from georgia, you k...

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