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Texas and lost to governor reagan and goes on to be president. a very successful one i might add. >> a credit to president clinton too. >> no question. >> the two of them. >> he has been very kind to dad and all of us have grateful. he and i are the only two baby boomer presidents. we are both governors of southern states. and we are both grandfathers. so we have got a lot in common. i have always admired the way bill clinton treated 41. >> what about the fact the president -- you dont speak out...

The last 10, 15 years. 25 years ago we saw the assassination, in the 70s we saw teams of police officers gunned down by black liberation army. this is a gut wrenching experience for the rank-and-file. >> what are the challenges, though, for new york city. as you said an extraordinary complex city thats right now in large part because of you and many of your predecessors and because of a lot of the work of bill bratton as well, how difficult does it make policing in new york city that you got the...

By the end of next year. >> theres going to be a certain irreducible number that are going to be really hard cases because, you know, we know theyve done something wrong, and they are still dangerous, but, its difficult to mount the evidence in a traditional article 3 court. were going to have to wrestle with that, but we will need to close that facility. >> how can you help this. president close guantanamo bay? >> well first of all, the president continues to violate the law. he did in the berg...

President close guantanamo bay? >> well first of all, the president continues to violate the law. he did in the bergdahl case which required notification of congress, he just on cuba, he continues to act in the most imperial fashion and this was the president who ran on an open and transparent presidency, its very disappointing. hes taken a very different approach to dealing with congress in light of the defeat in the last election. his predecessors, republican and democrat when suffering debate...

Would say tricky, is passing a whole slew of presidential memoranda, basically the same as an executive order, but its a different name and it circumvents congress, hes passed more of these presidential memos than any of his predecessors. so whats going, whats he trying to do with this? >> this is the hallmark of a president who hasnt been able to pass landmark legislation with congress or work functionally with congress. they fall back on the powers of the executive branch. whats fascinating is...

What about something called presidential memorandums? listen to this. >> there is an important difference between executive orders and presidential memorandums. >> reporter: what do you see as that distinction? big picture, what is the difference? >> generally speaking, presidential memorandums are associated with more technical issues and are often directives that are related to a subset of agencies. executive orders, therefore, are more sweeping and often more impactful. >> reporter: but in th...

Dont know where he is, but they hope hes safe. back to you. bill: watching history unfold in havana, cuba. martha? martha: so will a thawing relationship with cuba mean the convicted cop killer hiding in havana will now come back and face the rest of her prison term? the victims family would like to know the answer to that question. >> there wasnt any doubt in the jurys mind, there wasnt any doubt in the judges mind, and theres definitely not any doubt in law enforcements mind. >> new jersey sta...

Imperial presidency metaphor, theyll go hunting around for anything that backs it up. >> but he did pass the presidential memos. >> the presidential memorandum is a junior version of the executive order. youve got to go apples to apples. it is a presidential action with the force of law. so its absolutely worth factoring in. hes had i think more than anyone since carter on this topic. and if it trend continues it will be truman. so it is an interesting facet and factor, justice elena kagan when ...

Memorandum which carry legal force as an executive order. ed henry grilling press secretary josh earnest. >> hes using a lot more executive action than his predecessors. >> there is no doubt he used his executive authority to move this country forward. >> there is criticism i am acting on executive basis. i am doing that at the lowest level. that wasnt really true. >> it was true the number of executive orders this president issued was lower than executive orders than issued by many of the previ...

Interlocutory between the two countries until this very moment. >> peter, let me ask you about the castros. rah rule castro is 83, fidel castro is 88. what does this deal, do you think, mean to them personally and what do you think it means to their legacy? >> well, i think that this change in u.s. policy is a tremendous legacy for president obama, frankly. its a foreign policy victory of great significance. its changing 55 years of policy. he has taken the courageous step that none of his prede...