East. You think he should be impeached . I think its my turn, isnt it. You call it whatever you want. I want to tell withdrew. They lied. They say there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. Hay knew there were none. The next day the Washington Post headline reading debate rips over gop wounds and party risks tearing itself apart. The post noting the series of deeply personal ferocious attacks the candidates lobbed at one another as well as suggestions by mr. Trump that president bush deceived the American People. Some are now likening his remarks to a democratic talking point. But mr. Trump wasnt done repeating his attacks against george w. Bush on the sunday shows and, again, today in South Carolina. The World Trade Center came down during the, you know, reign of george bush. It came down. Im sorry. But we werent safe. The World Trade Center came down. You obviously had the war which was a big mistake. I think few people would say the war in iraq was a positive. You had him on the Aircraft Carrier saying all sorts of wonderful things how the world was essentially over. Guess what. Not over. And you know, the war with iraq is a disaster. All right. Those comments coming just hours before president bush hit the campaign trail on behalf of his brother, jeb, in South Carolina. The former president had a few choice words about what it takes to be commander in chief. In moments former bush Senior Adviser karl rove is here to react. Plus well ask two iraq war veterans, pete, and carl higby, what they think about mr. Trumps comments. We begin with Trace Gallagher reporting first from our west coast newsroom on the former president s campaign event. Trace, good evening. Reporter sandra, good evening. For seven years the former president avoided politics like the plague and while he has done some private fundraisers for his brother, this is the first public appearance of the campaign for george w. Bush. And hes beginning a very friendly territory, both george w. And his father won their respective South Carolina primaries and according to a private poll conducted by a former chair of the South Carolina gop, ws Approval Rating among South Carolina republicans is at 84 . Bloomberg puts his national Approval Ratings among republicans at 77 . The numbers are even higher among military members which is why some experts say attacking the former president s strategy in the war on terror can easily backfire. Confidants of george w. Say hes campaigning for his brother because he believes jeb can rebound by pulling off a surprise in a key early state like South Carolina. Watch. Presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgement. And good ideas. Its no doubt in my mind jeb bush has the experience and character to be a great president. Those close to the former president call our cousin publication the New York Post george w. Bush is skapt captivated by the 2016 campaign and amazed so far republicans prioritized Donald Trumps anger over jeb bushs qualifications. Listen again. Americans are angry and frustrated. But we do not need someone in the oval office who mirrors and inflames our anger and frustration. We need someone who can fix the problems that cause our anger and frustration and thats jeb bush. At one point the crowd chanted they miss george w. Bush. The former president is now hoping to keep that love in the family. Sandra . All right, Trace Gallagher, thank you. My next guest served in the Bush White House and has indepth knowledge of what president bush did and did not know. Karl rove is a Fox News Contributor and served as Senior Adviser and deputy chief of staff to president george w. Bush. Good evening, carl. What do you make of donald trump in that press Conference Today doubling down on his criticism of the former president and us being in iraq and the war in general . Lets take those three things he said today and earlier. He said the cia warned of 9 11, bush warned of wmd, trump said he said loud and clear, do not go into iraq. All three of those things are absolutely wrong. Lets start 9 11. George tenants knew there would be an attack. He hasnt read in the center of the storm. If donald trump had any passing knowledge of what george tenet said he would not have staid what he said. On page 160, george tenet says that they received on september indicating a potential attack on the United States. It sounded very much like all the other warnings we received in june, july, august, and early september. Frightening but without frightening but without specificity. It the entire government was on high alert but didnt know what was coming. So the idea that somebody could have stopped 9 11 based on the kind of information we had available on the time is simplye nonsense and trumps quoting supposingly george w in advancek is simply baloney. Clearly, karl, youre clearly refuting the claims that donald trump made today. Futiwher where do you think hes going with this . Why do you think, particular in the state of South Carolina, where we know as that poll just pointed out that george w. Bushs favorability rating amon south carolinians is about 84 . Why there, why now . Its hard to explain why he does what he does. Hes trying to hold on to a sa quarter of the vote or third of the vote hes got in the state and may say, okay, fine, 80 ofh republicans like bush, 65 , 70 think im completely insane on this issue but im trying to ths hold on to 25 , 30 . By perpetuating these myths, you know, its just amazing to me that he gets away with this stuff. Okay. Or te say, for example you say hes getting away r with, karl. I want to talk about what this means for the party because we just pointed out this Washington Post piece today. The debate ripped open gop i wounds and party risks tearing itself apart. Do you believe thats happening . I look at it slightly bu differently. It is going to be difficult for anybody to United States the mil party, if its anybody but trump, is going to have difficulty because theres going to be some element of the party 15 or 20 . G bush lied about wmd. We had a National Commission headed by a juror, a democratic u. S. Senator who investigated that issue including who there was no effort to mislead the American People about the intelligence. We had a British Royal commission that studied the same commission. The left wingers say that kind of stuff. Donald trump by bringing it up is going to take some element of the republican party. If he loses the nomination, its going to be difficult to get those people back in the fold. Advocates who supported george w. Bush, you think hes going h be enthusiastic . We have to leave it. Wl from your take and knowledge ofu the george w. Bush white house, will this be effective in turning around jebs campaign . It will be helpful. The former president had endorsements shortly before we lost the New Hampshire primary. S its not necessarily just positive. I would say one more thing, its not just bush versus trump. Ru you saw the other night in the debate three other candidates d came to the response. Marco rubio gave one of the most powerful supports of bush saying he and his family were grateful every day that george w. Bush was president on the night of september 11th, not al gore. Donald trump is making he makes the claim he said loud and clear, do not into a iraq, thats complete baloney, a lie. Not a single statement he makest for 14 months after the beginning of the war in which he said to not go into the war, in fact, he said in january on cnn that bush was doing a great jobt and, quote, either bush has got to do something or not do something about going into iraqo and even after the war began, he was supportive of it. Its baloney. Villone any. Karl rove, thank you. P all right. So how is mr. Trumps language t on iraq viewed by the americans who actually fought in that war . Were going to bring in two veterans. Pete is an afghanistan and iraq war veteran and Fox News Contributor. Carl higby is a former navy nd i and s. E. A. L. And by the way, a wonald trump supporter. I am. D so i got to ask you, after everything weve just heard, why do you and i point out your credentials, youve served from 2003 until 2012. Former navy s. E. A. L. Jd you did two deployments in iraq. Why do you think donald trump is the best guy for the job to lead this country and lead the f h military . We need to look at first four things. Set i have immeasurable respect for george w. Bush but jeb is not his brother. Thats fundamental fact. I look at a guy like donald de trump who has consistently he has set a goal, surrounded wa himself by the right people and performed and then accomplished the goal which i see just the same thing. I mean, was a mistake to go intd iraq . We can armchair quarterback alla we e want. The fact of the matter is donali trump will set goals. Systemic goals to disassemble es isis, destroy them and take them off the face of the earth. What about the challenge he d doesnt have the experience . G p ive heard that from you before. Absolutely. The fourth point you forgot is , he trashes everybody he doesnt agree with. In this case hes trashing the a iraq war and veterans alongsidea it who fought valiantly for it. Using points from moveon. Org. T. In the iraq surge, we turned that war around, won the war, f handed it to barack obama and h failed and left it to fall to ld isis and donald trump has the audacity in a republican event n to stand up and say its georgee w. Bushs fault that 9 11 happened, iraq war is a disaster because of him. Ts every veteran of iraq should be defended by that statement. I dont know why vets back him on those statements because he i back him because hes going to take the lawyers off the battlefield. Look be auc tru a lot have said that, by the way. And donald trump is the only one i believe will do it. Hok i have a lot of respect for george w. Bush but his hearts and mind mission was not conducive to winning the war. I dont think we were winning the war. The surge won the war. In fact, joe biden said in 2011 this war is won, its going to be a success for the obama administration. Karlutonal s d why isnt donald trump talking about that . . Y why is he litigating 9 11 and i iraq war shooting inside the tent at this Republican Debate . H its not helpful. Lets go back to the fact karl rove was refuting these claims that donald trump said he was raising a red flag saying we shouldnt do this in 2003, in 2004, hes saying it simply wasnt true. To i heard you under your breath say, thats true. Uhhuh. You are a big believer that donald trump is waving saying he was saying this is a bad idea, but he never a in his book in 2000, he talked about how he believed that they probably had nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction. Theres no public utterance he ever made against the war in iraq, a year after he started talk about how he thought it was a bad idea. Thats fine. Wit a ama a lot of people shared that perspective. Ush when its tough, if you stick with it, you can have a good hi outcome. Ari, are you unique in that youre a war veteran and support donald trump or are there otherm in the military community you speak with that support him as , well . Stro an overwhelming number of my friends support donald trump. They see a conviction behind a man. You saw w. Speak with jeb. Its two different people. I would reelect george w. Bush in a heart beat. Why not jeb . Jeb is not his brother. What about him, though . Hes a noodle. Ouldmess s ri hes soft. Thats not a protrump n argument. Thats an antijeb bush argument. My protrump, i see someone like donald trump whos set goals, met them and continued to strive forward. I think he has the conviction how do you build a bigger, Stronger Army that no one would mess with without increasing defense spending . How do you defeat isis obama said writing off ground what is the biggest quality you look for in a president. What i love about donald trump, he fights political correctness. I want somebody whos going to rebuild the military. Whos that guy . Marco rubio, ted cruz are aly erst focused on talking about those amount of things. Marco rubio showed in the last debate he understands foreign policy, wants to rebuild the htf military. Ntab donald trump talks about vets all the time. Always in a terminology of victimhood. Reci feeling bad marco rubio fought for v. A. Accountability for a long time. So i appreciate that donald trump so talk real quick, you want to point out this piece in the Weekly Standard veterans shouldnt trust trump. They point out his mocking of a war hero, john mccain at the very beginning of his campaign t how everyone so easily has gotten over that and forgotten e that. Hat what it was is john mccain is a senator in the state where we had the worst v. A. Scandal in history and nothing was done. John mccain was there, he fought for it. Call it a talking point, whatever you want. Nothing got done. Nobody got fired. Youve been on tv yourself saying that. Of to one more point also, the it people who think that the military is not as strong as it was are absolutely wrong. The fact of the matter is the u. S. Military is strong because of the people in it right now. Like this guy. To petes point, were strong because of the people in it. You can downsize us 10 , whatever, were just as strong as we were. What does a military, a u. S. Military look like under donald trump as president . I think we see isis gone in ngs years, put 250,000 boots on the ground. Thats not a popular comment. Set the threshold, if you do this, well do this. The red line in the sand obama failed at, donald trump will not fail that. Hell set the red line, set the criteria and defeat isis. All right. Thank you to both of you, great to have both of you. Thank you for your service as always. Iter is ahead were getting new and personal stories about a man hailed as the most important t w conservative voice on the modern u. S. Supreme court. James rosen is here on the life and legacy of justice Antonin Scalia. Two lawyers who worked closely with the legal legend l are here to share behind the scenes stories, some you have g not heard. Plus, mark hanna, rich s, lowery on what promises to be a messy political battle ahead olt over Justice Scalias potential successor. 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Developing tonight, new reaction pouring in two days after the death of one of the most influential legal minds in american history. Supreme Court JusticeAntonin Scalia died saturday at the age of 79. Mr. Scalia was nominated to serve on the highest court in the nation by president Ronald Reagan in 1986. In the 30 years that followed, Justice Scalia defined himself as one of the most powerful and reliable conservative voices the modern court ever saw. Were joined tonight by two men who knew him well. Personally. Ed walen clerked for Justice Scalia and president of the ethics and Public Policy center. Thomas dupri is former Deputy Assistant attorney general who argued cases before Justice Scalia. We begin with chief washington correspondent james rosen for more on the life and legacy of this legal giant. Sandra, good evening. With the death of Justice Scalia, the Supreme Court has lost not only one of its most brilliant legal minds and consistently conservative voices, but a true character, down to earth and bursting with mischievous wit. A feature of scalias jurisprudence was he had a well thought out theory for how judges are supposed to go about the business of interpreting statutes and behalf of this theory scalia was a tireless evangelist. He called it textualism. The theory holds when judges decide what a law means, they should really only consider the text of the statute, itself not the legislative intent behind the law or Foreign Court rulings on similar subjects and so on. This fed Justice Scalias a living, breathing document, an instrument that can expand and contract according to the needs of the day. That way scalia thought lies tyranny. When the bill of rights and amendments can be interpreted to mean something right in every generation by simply who gets elected. 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