a lot of what the bush administration did. the republicans have been two-faced on this for a while. in the end, if stimulus spending and tax cutting ends of generating some huge economic boom, we will see a little deficit reduction. i don't bet on that happening. i don't think there will be spending restraint, nor do i

>> they have but since the bush administration been getting worse. if you talk to long-standing white house reporters they will tell you with the bush administration and then they would say obama administration was worse than the bush administration in many ways in terms of access and transparency. >> helping barack obama's legacy with the press is donald trump. >> by comparison. >> by comparison it's like st. augustine up there. >> so true. >> and also i think josh earnest ranks as one of the better ones. "new york times," recent series, "washington post," media loves barack obama right now. if 60% of the american people have approval rating of barack obama, press seems to have about 80% right now. >> to chris's point though, just add that mainstream media, at cnn and associated press and "new york times," barack obama and michelle obama oftentimes went around the media, go to celebrity shows to deliver the news. and their administration started at time when twitter and instant feedback came into full force. able to command their own message, put ou

thing happen in the bush administration when president bush, you may recall, was saying that he lacked confidence in the intelligence community. he said this very briefly because of the 16 words.

will tell you with the bush administration and they will actually say that the obama administration was worse than the bush administration in many ways, in terms of access and transparency. >> what is helping the legacy is donald trump. by comparison, he is like saint agustin in there. and also i think josh earnest has been a very good press secretary for the second term. he ranks as one of the better ones. "the new york times," the protest media loves barack obama right now. if 60% of the american people have an approval rating of barack obama, the press seems to have an 80% approval rating of him right now. >> and just adding the mainstream media here at cnn, wherever they may be, barack obama and michelle obama often times went around the mainstream media. they would go to celebrity-type shows to deliver their message. and also their administration started at a time when twitter and instant feedback came into full force. they were able to put out their own message and news briefing every week on youtube. so they understand how to manipulate the media. >> they did not have a big s

the bush administration. the obama administration didn't have that reality. >> this is a main international force. oliver: after mosul is liberated, what does the future of iraq look like, especially for the kurds? we asked the chief of staff to kurdish president marsude barzani. >> once isis is defeated, that doesn't mean they're not coming back. >> after liberation of mosul, we will enter serious negotiation with the iraqi government. we want to reach our right through negotiation, a process of negotiation and peaceful means. oliver: what does iran's involvement in the region mean? >> what happens if tehran decides to more actively intervene than they already have inside of iraq or even syria? >> that's the plan. iranian regime wants to win the wars in iraq and syria and, of course, in lebanon. just imagine the prospect of a regional iranian power going from the indian ocean to the mediterranean sea with projecting the return of the nuclear weapons. i think the deal we have now with them, they're gaining ti

he was very well sourced after the september 11 attacks to report on the bush administration, stepped up the spying operations. in 2006, he and another new york times reporter received a pulitzer prize for national rt

the bush administration. the obama administration didn't have that reality. >> this is a main international force. oliver: after mosul is liberated, what does the future of iraq look like, especially for the kurds? we asked the chief of staff to kurdish president marsude barzani. >> once isis is defeated, that doesn't mean they're not coming back. >> after liberation of mosul, we will enter serious negotiation with the iraqi government. we want to reach our right through negotiation, a process of negotiation and peaceful means. oliver: what does iran's involvement in the region mean? >> what happens if tehran decides to more actively intervene than they already have inside of iraq or even syria? >> that's the plan. iranian regime wants to win the wars in iraq and syria and, of course, in lebanon. just imagine the prospect of a regional iranian power going from the indian ocean to the mediterranean sea with projecting the return of the nuclear weapons. i think the deal we have now with them, they're gaining ti

i worked in his administration. i work in the george h.w. bush administration and the george w. bush white house. i will not be working in this one. host: i want to share with the audience a couple of opinion pieces you have written, one taking aim at barack obama. you said, the same country that twice elected mr. obama did not suddenly become a nation of deplorables, the destination of the democratic party came because mr. obama turned out to be great at poetry and that it grows. -- bad at prose. 2008 he spoke in a way that lifted people's spirits. got is the first time we that in 2004. the 2008 campaign was a campaign of poetry, hope and change, uplift. that is why he was elected. the pros part is governing. i think he showed himself to be mediocre or worse. i think this stewardship of the economy was not good. his handling of the economy over the eight years was not very good. we had the lowest economic growth since world war ii. historically when you have a nasty session, the worse the recession, the better the rebound is. in this case that was not the case. you had workforc

and international studies hosted a panel on diplomacy efforts of the obama and the bush administrations including the role of strengthening the national security. the event included opening remarks on the ucc public director who talked about the ways that public diplomacy could be enhanced. this is about 90 minutes.

i have done government service for the bush administration. missions and diplomatic activities that culminated and in the ambassador to the holy see. >> what was your ambassadorship role? rep.-elect rooney: we were fighting a global war on terror and pope benedict was the first to speak up against the evils of radical islam and work with muslims around the world to reform the koran and bring it in accordance with modern-day life, 20th century life. we're not going back to the 10th century, they have to conform to ours. >> how does your work in the government prepare you for being a member of congress? rep.-elect rooney: i hope that will make me effective because i understand a lot of the problems debated and being talked about is from the user perspective. i have been the victim of oppressive regulations like the obama administration's epa regulation. i have been the victims of oppressive regulations at construction sites instead of working to keep our workers safe. i have seen the impact of government in real life and hopefully that will make

it's been very direct, in ways that the bush administration did not embrace. there was that emphasis, like you said, on compassionate conservatism, they had to figure out a way forward , they had to figure out a way forward, we all did, with the attacks of 9/11, president bush came in witha attacks of 9/11, president bush came in with a domestic agenda and then became a wartime president, he was not looking for that. it was different, president trump, in one hour, will be president trump, not president—elect trump, he has been himself, he shoots from the hip, you can see that from his twitter feed and his own advisers don't know at times what he will say which is very different from the bush administration. what about what carlos was touching on? some of the things that donald trump said about women and allegations about breitbart news gritter muck that it was anti—semitic and wrote anti—semitic headlines at time? there were accusations of racism about breitbart there were accusations of racism about breitba rt news there were accusations of racism about

progress we have seen the last eight years with the obama administration building on the bush administration and give our best possible prescriptions moving forward into the next administration. so i am going to welcome jay, now up to the stage to go over-the-top line findings and how to dispel information from state actors and i will come back. >>> good afternoon. i'm very glad to be here and we're very glad to be backing d.c. and to be a partner tore today's discussion for this particular study. as kath lcatherine mentioned, cd cb convened workers in and out of government to the success of it and make recommendation for future course. the challenges confronting public diplomacy today the role in counter violate extremism, state narraters, kremlin, building and strengthening foreign relationships. when trump administration enters, the workshop successes challenges and provide concrete recommendations for reforms and improvements in all these three areas looking at the aspects of themes, tools and structures, so i'm going to provide a very broad overview of some of our findings. stakeholders

that wasn't apparently done at the beginning of the bush administration with saudi arabia. so the rhetoric that we want to protect is country is certainly true, but the it's not to deny entry to people who have helped the country and who have been vetted by our people not to be threats. as i said, not one person who was admitted from syria or iraq has in fact done any terrorist or any act in this country. >> quickly, what as a members of congress will you or can you do in response to this executive order? >> well, we can try to change the law with respect to the executive order given the republican control, i don't know that that's likely. but we can point out how senseless it is and hopefully it won't be extended beyond the three or four months. and we will oppose it. >> new york representative jerrold nadler, thank you. >> joining us, richard herman, a new york professional and law professor. avery, we've been talking to people who have taken issue with the constitutionality of this executive order and at the same time the due process involved in this. how do you see the

remember, cast your mind back to the early 2000s where this was routine under the bush administration and what it did for america's relations through the rest of the world, put them right down into the gutter. it took a long time to bring those relations back up. those are, sort of we've been there before but dow want to go there again. >> what has the fallout been from president trump's words that, yes, he thinks waterboarding is effective and he might want to bring it back? >> i think you discussed that earlier. it depends who he's talking to when. i don't know what goes into his thinking. general jim mattis is a very upstanding experienced marine commandant and now the defense secretary. explained in chapter and verse that actually, when you want important information, it is better to try to be the guy's best friend. you have to do it, as he said, with cigarettes and beer. but i also talked to general petraeus who has had more enemy combatants under his capture in iraq and afghanistan than any commander in american history and said this torture, a, is immoral, and b, it doesn't wor

there was this rush to war by the bush administration and the press was accused of being either with the terrorists or unpatriotic. if we even reported the objective facts. this is unfortunately an unpleasant tradition that we have to understand why it's happening, we have to be calm, be united and do our jobs because we're not going to allow other, particularly the seats of power, to be our frame of reference. >> bannon said the media is quote the opposition party. anita dunn back in 2009, an aide to president obama, said about fox news then we're going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent. she said to chuck todd today we didn't say the spire news media. we had an issue with one news network that was actually creating news. is there a difference? >> the difference is trump has gone after the entire media except fox news. the obama administration went after fox news and not the rest of the media. it wasn't even anita dunn. it was sort of strategy for a lot of senior white house aides went out and wept on shows and told other reporters you shouldn't treat fox news as a leg

if you think about the virtue of the obama administration, the recovery act, the first year of the bush administration, the tax cuts that do. the first year of the clinton administration, the reagan administration. big stuff happens to him and typically we were talking about stuff that involves dollars, budget stuff. stuff can get through the senate with a 51 vote majority. you don't need 60 votes to do something if you are doing it to the budget reconciliation process. on the tax side, on medicaid and other programs that we will be talking about fall under that category, stuff they can be done through the reconciliation process. i think it would be a really challenging and interesting year. here's what i'm really concerned about. in terms of the federal-state relationship in one of the most important roles that state split in our federal system is reducing poverty and expanding economic opportunity for families, for so many families who are having trouble making ends meet. for the last half-century, this is been a partnership between the federal government and the states. the federal g

were you in the bush administration. did you ever see the bush administration moving this fast in its entirety? >> in all seriousness, not only-- only when our national security was at stake and what we're really seeing with donald trump is that, he is a man of action. look, i think we all know that he has very high energy level personally. i don't think he sleeps a lot. he doesn't drink, i don't think he has a lot of hobbies. i think what he does for a living, he works and he works the whole day, and i think this-- he's going to exhaust this staff, lou, if he keeps up this pace and i think the american people are cheering him on. >> well, he has one very lucrative hobby, he loves golf and plays it very well, i'm told. >> i don't know, his golf is all business, too, i think. >> probably gets a lot of deals done on the golf course. >> can't be all business because his handicap is so low. but turning to this trump time, mike, this is really wonderful to watch. >> the sense of urgency that he has is so inspiring. it's like

we want to welcome back peter the former director of office at strategic initiatives for the bush administration.

the bush administration, d.o.j. looked at this. the federal election assistance commission looked at this. secretaries of state, both republicans and democrats, look at this regularly throughout the election cycle. the secretary of state of ohio, republican john houston, does it every two years. the republican secretary of state of louisiana tom shedler does a good job of looking at this as well. they all come to the same conclusion which is that the administrative inefficiencies that might exist on the voter rolls do not result in fraudulent ballots being cast. the votes have gotten better thanks to the fine work of data examine technology to make sure they keep up with people's mobility. >> so, when the president just told david muir that you and your colleagues from the pugh team who put together this report are now golfing. what's your response? >> well, i honestly, i can't really respond to that. i can only say what's in the report and it's the same thing i've been saying about what's in the report since 2012 when it was issue

very little has changed despite the best after of the bush administration and the obama administration which has done a lot of really good work. the paper the kathryn and shannon and jay have written since the trump administration will inherit a sound public diplomacy apparatus. that is of course much like the common that we conveyed in the group defaults not with the people who are doing the work. the fault is with defining what the work is and how it relates to the rest of government. that's a problem that still has not been resolved. so let me try to resolve the period i strongly believe public diplomacy should be strategic and obviously that's a word is quite happy, means lots of different things. you must use the tools of nonviolent persuasion to reach specific ends. they need to be specific goals. i was on a task force with joseph nye, who's the father of the concept of soft power that the bipartisan policy center. when i raised this issue, is that public diplomacy does three things. you can define the categories in a temporal way. in the short term, and never really thought abou

but, the reason it took five years of hard negotiations and actually it started near the end of the bush administration by some measure it took seven years, 18 years to get done. it's because it was very much a multidimensional chess game with the 11-- 12 countries total, some of whom we already had agreements with which means we do not have anything to offer them in terms of new market access, so we wanted them to raise their standards anyway and is so how we use the fact that it was not a bilateral agreement and we were in many respects playing with house money, helping countries get access to come-- countries like japan, writing on our coattailsnger b as a way of encouraging them to adopt stronger labor environmental standards, better property rights, disciplined enterprises, digital economy rules. when i hear conversations about why lateral ankle china lateral there certainly space bar bilateral agreements, but a lot of what we got out of tpp was precisely because of the agreement. they are able to have countries right on our coattails and get things they would otherwise not get on t

independent authority, including some from the bush administration has made exactly the same point. and certainly, if you have used your position to gain inside information, that is a serious ethical breach. in this instance, there are reports, there are materials about congressman price that warrant a careful, thorough review, particularly with regard to investment in industry that he was directly regulate if he is confirmed to leave the department of health in humans services. and simply put, there is enough here that if you're serious about oversight, you can't simply say it's all a coincidence and then just move on. the finance committee has it their own history of vetting nominees that come before the committee. that is true whether the president is a republican or democrat. you look for examples in 2009 are processed surface tissues then that involve democrats, but the reality is we have done it by the book. our vetting has surface tissues on both sides. the nomination process to the united states senate cannot and must not be a giant rubber stamp in and we are here to tell yo

he referred to the flawed intelligence cited by the bush administration in making the case for invading iraq back in 2003. the state department russian diplomats president obama ordered out of the country have left the u.s. mr. obama also shut down two russian compounds in maryland and new york over the alleged hacking. new developments in the search for the wreckage of a small plane that disappeared over lake erie thursday night. a bag reportedly belonging to the pilot washed up at a yacht club near cleveland. five other people were on the plane including the pilot's wife, his two children, a neighbor and the neighbor's daughter. teams will resume their search later today. disbelief, captured on cell phone video as a mid-air collision sent plumes of smoke into the sky over mckinney, texas on new year's eve. three people were killed. the two planes were flying near a small airport about 35 miles north of dallas. the f-a-a says the planes were flyig under visual flight rules and were not in contact with air traffic control at the time of collision. an autopsy is being performed on an who

somebody part of the bush administration and supported the war in iraq, that is what we have learned from that and we hope not to repeat those errors again. 17 intelligence agencies have concluded that russia was behind this. that is very different than the iraq. >> all i'm trying to communicate to you and i fall back on the business career which until he takes office, he knows how to make judgments based on facts. not supposition, facts. >> you're assuming the daily presidential brief is not saying the same thing. if they say the dog is red and the next day they say the dog is possibly red or the dog is red again. >> have you gotten those -- >> that is my point. >> i worked in the white house and i have a pretty good -- you and i both know that the president doesn't -- do you think president obama gets -- you have to ask for information. you don't find osama bin laden and run two wars not getting briefings? >> nobody needs these briefings more than donald trump because no president in recent memory has come in more ignorant about basic realities. he didn't know what the nuclear tria

served in the bush administration as a deputy u.s. trade representative and he's negotiated more than two dozen bilateral agreement on everything from steel to green. he is also a trump supporter in favor of a tougher posture with countries like china and mexico appeared speaking of mexico, the latest week targeted general motors in its operation south of the border. general motors is sending mixed and made model of chevy crews to u.s. car dealers tax-free across the border. general motors responded saying that the crews is built at its worst start in fact korea and ohio and that the chevy crews hatchback which is exported to foreign countries from mexico only a few were sentenced the united states. part of the days events outside trump tower. the president-elect is back in new york awaiting more information about his potential nominees to fill the administration. back to you. lauren: adam, thank you. nicole: trump told a news conference june 11th in new york city. his first formal meeting since he was a hit in november. >> we are als

the irony is, of course, on september 12, the bush administration is looking for justifications to go after saddam and they want to know his connection to 9/11. in baghdad, saddam's thinking, this is going to bring the united states closer to iraq because they clearly will see that we have the same enemy here and that i'm threatened by these people and they are threatened by these people. host: from what you know from being in the cia at the time, did the cia really believe there were weapons of mass destruction? uest: yes. host: at the time george tenet sat behind colin powell, did he really believe it? guest: i think so. i think there were questions bout some of the evidence, but i think that they believed there was a compelling case to be made. host: here is another personality in this story. ahmed chalabi. here is a short video. put him in context. [video clip] >> we are sorry for every american life that is lost in iraq and we regret every loss of lives that happened in iraq subsequent end of fighting with saddam. as for the fact that i deliberately misled the american government

bush administration. the information that he would pedal to us that would often calm to the cia, it was just the worst information. it was so erroneous and so silly at times. host: so how often were you called back to the oval office? guest: when i returned from iraq in 2004 -- this was very surprising for me -- nobody was really interested in hearing what i had to say about the debriefings. once we came to the conclusion that there was no weapons program and saddam did not have -- he could not tell us where the wmd was because there was not -- people lost interest. and also in early 2004, there was a lot going on. there was abu ghraib and the killing of contractors in fallujah. there was the uprising in april. it was not until 2008 that i talked to the president about the debriefings. that came up because i had been brought down to the white house to brief the president on something else, and the director of national intelligence at the time said, mr. president, this is the first person to debrief saddam

it your expectation that the trump administration will be more like the bush administration when it comes to antitrust? gregg: i think it will be. the hope is that it will be a bit looser. the obama administration in the past year. more stringent around m&a. there were $500 billion in transactions last year that fell away because of antitrust. a lot of big deals fell away and the obama administration heading into its last year got more aggressive. i think that it eases up to a degree and whether it is under the bush administration, it has yet to be seen. jeff: do you see situations where companies did not do a deal because they thought it would be blocked and waited a year? gregg: you saw some of those deals fall away in 2016. the last thing aboard wants is to announce a big strategic transaction a gets held up for long time and ultimately not happen. it paralyzes the company, it's not good for the board or the buyer. people really backed away from the table. i think we will see a looser regulatory environment. so, trump has that situation where he will have the house in the senate in his

the bush administration? >> absolutely. >> how so? >> it expands beyond family planning services. >> any organization, not just ones doing family planning? >> it includes programs doing now hiv/aids programs, programs that are doing zika programs, maternal health programs. and this is so disturbing, of course, because we have made so much progress over the last eight years, chris, in reducing maternal mortality from unsafe abortions, in fact cut the rate in two-thirds. >> really? >> absolutely. during this last period, in the eight years of president obama because of better family planning access, we've made huge progress in the u.s. but we made huge progress globally. >> i didn't know that. >> this is such a turn to the right, and, again, women are going to suffer and thousands of programs around the globe will suffer as a result. >> mary simms international, one of the biggest family planning partners, they estimate it will lead to an additional 2.2 million abortions worldwide, meaning there will be more ab

transparency to the war crimes of the abuses of the bush administration. now both sides have done a complete reversal for the same reasons we seen over and over, which is opportunism. wikileaks became this year a leaker of documents that reflected poorly on the clinton campaign and hillary clinton. as a result, democrats went from supporting wikileaks and viewing them as heroic and important agents of transparency, to anding them as traitors liars and people that ought to be convicted. republicans did exactly the opposite reversal for exactly the same reasons, which is they went from viewing julian assange as a traitor to sing a hero and an important conduit for information the public has the right to know. you look at the polling abc the democrats completely reversing what their view of wikileaks is in 2010 to 2016, and use exactly the same thing with republicans. not just donald trump, but even someone like sarah palin who called for wikileaks' death execution, herself had her own e mouse published by wikileaks in the past, "i want to apologize to julian

serviceas in government we talked about this, china was enlisted and played an active role in the bush administration. use the chinese here, but as i said before interests are overlapping but not congruent. don't know exactly what to say to the caller about the charge of being a labral -- liberal. and iably am a liberal don't think that is a handicap for me. i do believe when it comes to international politics, i spent 20 years in government service, i believe i am a realist and i am approaching the north korean case as a realist. host: you served as special you don't with the north korean crisis in 1994 serving as the chief negotiator. the executive chair of the un's special command should -- that oversawssion the first gulf war. jeff in savannah, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning. -- my question is this, you have two people now who are perceived to be having short fuses. countries your thatthat short futures fuses, you are looking at a bad disaster, speaking as someone who has spent 20 years in the miller terry. -- in the military. japan, south korea, and a host be inntries

from the beginning the bush administration insisted that the president had inherent power to hold unlawful combatants and subject them to trial by military commissions. it buttressed that claim by pointing to the resolution that congress had passed after the terrorist attack of september 11th, 2001, which authorized the president to use, quote, all necessary and appropriate force, end quote, against those responsible. so the bush administration not only said that the president had inherent power to create a military commissions but this did give the this did give the congressional opinion that chase thought was necessary. milligan once again became relevant to current constitutional. case books which had treated ex parte as more relevant to modern law than milligan restored it to the cannons. the court cited milligan when they cited that the prisoners had the right to challenge whether they were actually the people described and being held. the court has nonetheless sustained congress's power to authorize military commissions in effect endorsing chase's opinion rather than davis's. and whi

the other administration and the bush administration before that went to great lengths to put distance between the actions in iraq and afghanistan and elsewhere and the religion. they argue that this is a war on terror, not on the faith. but the actions that we have seen in the last two days makes it hard to avoid that question. it does very much look like it is a ban on muslim countries and that feed into their perspective. my apologies for interrupting, we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us. it's a new year, so you might be thinking about a new look, maybe a new hairstyle. well, one barber in rajasthan in india has taken a spritiual approach to grooming. his name is baba sen and he's been dubbed the cosmic barber on social media. we sent dan curtis along to get a special treatment. iam baba i am baba sen, from rajasthan. i give people my cosmic energy. 0ne customer came in, wow, you are very famous. i see youtube, wow. customer came in, wow, you are very famous. isee youtube, wow. my energy made me famous, and youtube may be famous, and people made me famou

when the bush administration left in 2009, there was no press say, no instagram. we going with the government assets that exist, donald trump's twitter handle, facebook and instagram, 50 million people following, 19 million alone on twitter, that is powerful tool, that is why i said it is an opportunity. when you realize it is one thing to tweet the power and movement he represents, a tool no one has had before to reach people in such a unique way. >> host: you know how close the quarters are. how is that going to affect your interaction with staffers? >> here at trump tower it is a close-knit group. we work side-by-side with each other. that atmosphere will continue in the west wing. >> host: you grew up in rhode island. do you remember when you first got interested in politics? >> yes. my senior year in, phenomenal guy, really inspired not just me but a lot of student who do important things to get involved and understand the awesomeness of politics, the back and forth of ideas, campaigning. i toiled in college putting up signs in my sophomore year, i started ta

used during the bush administration. >> reporter: republican senator and former pow john mccain. we are not bringing back tortured. >> steve: now people are taking back to the streets once again to protest the president is elected to a policy. this >> steve: this was the scene at a rally for moslem and immigrant rights in washington square park. in new york. >> steve: protester are holding up a sign saying recessed. >> reporter: all across the country there are hundreds of sanctuary cities. and today mayors of some of the bay cities are speaking out against president trounced court executive order. >> reporter: san jose mayor sam cents and nothing about the president's executive order will change how san jose cost police are citied. it >> reporter: are police officers must focus their scarce time responding to an investigating violent, high-priority crimes- not the enforcement of federal immigration laws. >> reporter: 0 emir responded with the bay area stand united against this white house morally bankrupt policies that would divide families in turn nations back all refugees in n

9/11, shut down late in the bush administration. senator john mccain said this in a statement. the president can sign whatever executive orders he likes, but the law is the law. we are not bringing back torture in the united states of america. he says in the united states of america -- >> landing strip in some random country at the airport. >> john mccain was one of the harshest critics of the bush administration's use of this, and the obama administration as well, and their foreign policy. this is another scism between the traditional republican party and donald trump, and i would say that one of the things we've learned from this president in his first week in office is that he liked -- and during the entire campaign is that he likes to break tradition. he accepted a phone call from the president of taiwan. what is that going to say about the special relationship that theresa may referenced with the united kingdom? there is no closer ally for the united states than the united kingdom. is that relationship going to last through an

to be clear, even when the bush administration cled torture enhanced interrogation techniques, it was still torte. trump, however, didn't bother renaming it. he called it torture. he used the war torture either unaware or unconcerned torture is by definition a war crime as well as a federal crime. trump made those statements on a day when both the "new york times" and "washington post" published what appeared to be draft of an executive order entitled "detention and interrogation of enemy combatants." it would lift a ban on cia black site prisons which detained and tortured suspects during the bush administration in which president obama had ended. now, while press secretary sean spicer claimed the draft was not a white house document, today he tacitly acknowledged the document could have been circulate bid white house staff. torture is not the only thick the president appeared to be advocating that would violate the geneva convention while increasing the tangible danger our service members face, we'll talk about that with msnbc national security analyst jeremy bash who served as chie

year of the bush administration and the tax cuts and first year of the clinton administration and ronald reagan administration, big things happened and particularly when we talk about budget stuff that involves dollars it can get through the senate with a 51 vote majority. a lot of the stuff on the tax side, medicaid and other programs we will be talking about fall under that category so it's going to be a challenging and interesting year. here's what i'm concerned about in the relationship. one is reducing poverty and expanding the economic opportunity for so many families that have trouble making ends meet. for the last half century this has been a partnership in the federal government and the states. the federal government provides much of the funding and the structure to meet changing needs. so if there is a factory closing or national recession, these programs adapt so providing a vote of thenough of the fundingd structure of the states have some ability to innovate and do things differently. the partnership has turned out to be very effective. the percentage of people having a hard

we worked cooperatively to see a smooth transition from the bush administration to the obama administration. it is our duty to do that. all of the cabinet level nominees were confirmed in thee span of two weeks. we came together and understood that people have spokethe people went to work to cooperate in good faith not because we are happy about the outcome but because it is our responsibility to do so. then there's the statement from our colleagues across the aisle that they appear to be walking away from. just last year in the spring ofm 2015, senator stabenow the senator from michigan said when the president wins an election, they have the right to have their team so april 20, 2015. i hope that not only the senator from michigan but her other colleagues remember that position and simply reciprocate in good faith during this sta transition. senator stabenow is right by the way no matter what side you're on, we know the voters have spoken. as president elect, he has the authority to surround himself with those he sees fit to serveu the country and keep the president understaffed is somehow

law during the bush administration. the question is how much money is in that account and is there enough money in that pot to build a wall along the entire u.s.-mexico border? my sense is, wolf, that there is not, and that is why there is likely to be some negotiations that go on between president trump and the mexican president about having mexico chip in for this, but obviously as we heard during this news briefing, sean spicer was asked about this. the president of mexico has said adamantly they are not going to be paying for any wall along the u.s.-mexico border, and this is setting up what appears to be a confrontation that is looming on the horizon between the u.s. and one of its biggest allies, and the question becomes what does president trump do in if mexico just flat refuses? we do understand that as part of this executive order package we're going to see the president sign today that they're going to be looking at having the department of homeland security examine just how much of its money goes to mexico in

independent authorities, including some from the bush administration, have made exactly the same point. and certainly, if you have used your position as a public official to get inside information, that is a serious ethical breach. in this instance, there are reports, there are materials, about congressman price that warrant a careful and thorough review, particularly with regard to investments in industries that he wouldregulate, if he is confirmed to lead the department of health and human services. and simply put, there is enough here that if you're serious about oversight, you can't simply say it's all a coincidence and thens just move on. the finance committee has a thorough history of vetting nominees that come before the committee. that's true whether the president is a republican or a democrat. you look, for example, at 2009. our process surfaced issues then involved democrats, but the reality is, we have done it by the book. our investigate has surfaced issues on both sides. the nomination process in the united states senate cannot and must not be a giant rubber stamping and w