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Midway through bush's second term. pelosi became the speaker. they had 233 seats in the house of representatives. the democrats have 194 seats in the house and democrats lost over 1,000 across the country with pelosi as the visible leader of their party. maybe that suggests abject failure? >> the numbers show that politics can be sexist. this nation has 51% but 20% of congress. 20% in the house and 20% in the senate. now we have 23 cabinent members and 4 that are women. less than ever. half than with president obama. women are not necessarily making huge strides in washington, d.c. this is not...

Bush's second term. i think this is perceived not only by moscow, but publicly as saying let's let bygones be bygones. two sides to the story. we are a new team. the effect was that putin never spent and russia never spent time in the penalty box for influencing that way. that must be a factor in moscow's strategic gaming out. what can they do to stop us. what we heard from the white house are very targeted sanctions at this point. they haven't announced who they are. we assume russian officials and ukrainian pro russian officials involved in this. that's significant and an irritant. i don't t...

Margaret spelling, secretary of education in bush's second term. and anita mcbride served as chief of staff for first lady laura bush. welcome to both of you. secretary spellings, i want to start with you. education was a passion of governor bush's when he was in texas. a passion when he got into office. the one part of the domestic agenda that didn't get interrupted by national security. what are you most proud of and what do you wish you could go back and do again? >> and stands to this day, no child left behind, of course, still the law of the land 13 years later. it's also something obviou...

At his time in the bush presidency and says that he would do it all over again and not change a thing. the showtime documentary is coming out next friday, and it's called "the world according to dick cheney." cheney says "if i had to do it over again, i'd do it over in a minute." >> cheney's power in the bush presidency was diminished in bush's second term. and in 2007, cheney wanted to bomb a suspected syrian nuclear reactor, but secretary of state condoleezza rice disagreed. >> condi recommended taking it to the united nations. i strongly recommended that we ought to take it out. i thought i...

Bush's second term. and in 2007, cheney wanted to bomb a suspected syrian nuclear reactor, but secretary of state condoleezza rice disagreed. >> condi recommended taking it to the united nations. i strongly recommended that we ought to take it out. i thought it would sort of, again, reassert the kind of authority and influence we had that we had back in '03 when we took down saddam hussein and eliminated iraq as a potential source of wmd. there are certain bright lines out there, and you do not cross them. and one of the bright lines is you don't provide nuclear technology to terrorist-sponsor...