let s take a look. here s clinton and obama paying tribute to the recent president. let s take a listen. i like president bush. we do a lot of speeches together and i like it when we have disagreements. he s disarmingly direct. we were having an argument over health care in one of these speeches and i went on about the german health care system. he said, i don t know a thing about the german health care system. i think he probably won the argument. what president clinton said is absolutely true. to know the man is to like the man. because he s comfortable in his own skin. he knows who he is. he doesn t put on any pretenses. he takes his job seriously, but he doesn t take himself too seriously. he is a good man. there, again, i mean, there s george w. cracking a joke about not knowing something, as his victory statement. hey, he like me, don t know
correspondent. the last time the president s club was together, a white house meeting back in 2009. but that was before president obama was sworn in. the bush center tweeted out that snapshot of the five living presidents and their wifs. bill clinton brand new to the twitt twitter seen sent this out. and then there s this one of just the first ladies in attendance. up next, a big decision for president obama. the syrian regime uses chemical weapons, something that the president said would be a game changer. so what s his next move? you re watching hardball, the place for politics. in a timely n and within budget. angie s list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you ll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we re expecting, i like the fact that i can go onto angie s list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i ve found on angie s list actually have blown me away.
all the liberal progressive things. if you think about it. all the stuff in the library. i tell you, though, it does all of this hand wringing going on inside the republican party, and the way i ve been thinking about this day and about bush and his legacy and, look, there s iraq and he s never going to escape iraq. not mentioned. not mentioned. he s never going to escape it. george w. bush is never going to escape iraq. if you think about what the republican party is in search of, they re desperate for the guy who ran for president in 2000, the compassionate conservative who rounded out the hard edges, who was trying to reach out, frankly, downplay social issues. still talk about them. still have principles about them. but put them in a different place so you look like you re reaching out to suburban america. that s what they re sort of this interesting on one hand they don t want to talk about the bush brand. yet they wish they had a
judge with a lawyer and apparently stopped the interview, stopped the interrogation, stopped the information gathering. we ll see who had the right to do this, if they still have the right after this is looked at by the other courts. thank you, jim cavanaugh. coming up, what an amazing day it was in dallas today as five living presidents were together to dedicate the george w. bush presidential library. it s right here behind me, by the way. and leave it to former first lady barbara bush to make the biggest news. she says her son, jeb, shouldn t run for president saying we ve had enough bushes. whoa, mom, you re taking over this thing. and later, syria. u.s. intelligence says the syrian regime used chemical weapons. something president obama said would be a game changer. now the hawks are clambering for action over there. but the white house wants more time to get the facts straight before acting. finally, let me finish with a day where partisanship took a back seat to pleasantri
its red line has been crossed? that s a great question. richard engel, nbc s chief foreign correspondent. richard, thank you for this. i guess the big news question is, where do we get this information from? is it hard? based on what we ve been hearing from other intelligence agencies, it seems pretty solid that particularly the british were able to smuggle out some samples that show that sarin gas was used in a very small scale. more than once. including a few months ago in aleppo. and what i think was interesting about that clip you just showed was that the defense secretary was reading from that statement. and the white house and the administration in general is very cautious on this one. they want everyone to be speaking on the same line. and that line so far coming from the obama administration is we are still in a wait and see mode. there are varying degrees of confidence in these assessments. they are not going as strongly in condemnation or in any kind