Did You Miss Bush’s NBC Interview? Watch it All Here
- Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:09pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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In case you missed former President George W. Bush’s primetime NBC interview on Monday, NBC has posted all the segments. We’ve included them below.
But first, a bit of information that was not part of the interview. While NBC’s Matt Lauer does discuss waterboarding in the segments below, Bush’s new book Decision Points includes more details about the former president’s take, including that taking part in such tactics helped keep the UK secure. From London’s Telegraph:
In his book, Mr Bush writes: “Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States.”
He writes that although the procedure was “tough”, it was legal.
The British Government has long viewed waterboarding as torture. Last month, Sir John Sawers, the head of MI6, said in a speech that Britain had “nothing whatsoever” to do with torture.
Here’s the interview, which includes Bush admitting his “mission accomplished” speech was a mistake, a story about a drunken dinner party, and his take on why Dick Cheney admitted he had a gay daughter:
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Lauer will interview Bush again, live, on Wednesday. At that time, he will ask Bush viewer-submitted questions. You can do that here.
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Comments (49)
Axiom
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:46amPresident Bush is and will always be one of this countrys greatest Presidents. God fearing man.
Report Post »May God Bless you and keep you President Bush.
mjgma
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 9:56pmMore importantly did Obama watch so he could learn how a real President acts, oh, and maybe how decisions are made.
Report Post »NWgolf
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 8:30pmBush kept us safe you say? 3000 people in NYC, their families and a very sizable portion of people across the world who actually think for themselves disagree. You cannot change history as much as you’d like to. Your blind devotion and hatred are pathetic.
Report Post »bethtravers
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 7:06pmGeorge W. has more humanity and love of Country than Obama has in the shortest nose Hair… THis man is awesome… he called um as he saw um and I did not always agree, but God Bless him for being a straight shooting Texan.
Report Post »A1955Rosie
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 6:57pmRefreshing! I’ll buy the book to hear the rest of the story. I realized when he was talking about the racist remark…that‘s exacty how I feel when this administration refers to it’s citizens that don’t agree with them. All the more reason that kind of racist attitude needs to go.
Report Post »CAmom
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 4:44pmTHAT is an honorable man. God Bless and keep you, President Bush.
Report Post »mavsfan75
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 4:43pmWhat he should have said to Matt Lauer is this… Ok Matt, lets say YOU get taken prisoner by a foreign country and they want some information you have. I guarantee you that if it’s in a Middle Eastern country, that you‘ll be PRAYING that it’s only waterboarding they use. Waterboarding is scary and you feel like you’re gonna drown, but it doesn‘t kill you and it doesn’t cause any permanent damage…say like BEHEADING does when Al Qaeda takes prisoners. We have way too many pansy liberals in our country, sometimes all a nail understands is a F’ing hammer!
Report Post »TexasHillsPatriot
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 4:38pmI’d love to hear Lauer question Obama about the things he wrote in his books, but I won’t hold my breath.
Report Post »thepatriot
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 4:02pmI have a new found respect for this man. I may not agree with all of his policies, but he is a stand up guy. He doesn‘t apologize and he doesn’t back down from his decisions.
Report Post »AngelOnline
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 4:01pmWhat a class act..
Report Post »cmsmik
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:52pmI always felt in my heart that President Bush loved this country, and based his decisions on love of country and his faith in God. Of course he made mistakes; my God I make at least a couple a week myself on a much smaller scale. My point is I can’t sit here and say the same about Obama, because every indication to me is he does not love this country and wants to punish those of us that are successful. To give it away to others who have not earned it. Secondly, I have no idea what his faith is or what he believes. I just know he sat in Reverend Wright’s church for 20 years, and that is unsettling to say the least.
President Bush showed emotion and cried with us after 911, raw emotion. Obama shows zero emotion unless he is demeaning President Bush or blaming the Republicans in a speech. Or when he is telling Hispanics to punish their enemies and that republicans must sit in the back of the bus. He is just so scripted and mechanical, it is frightening.
I have tried so hard to like him and give him a chance even though I am a conservative. What he is doing to this country is not a mistake but very intentional and it scares the he11 out of me. I am not ashamed to say, I have had many sleepless nights lately. I do not trust him or those he surrounds himself with. I am counting the days until he is gone and if last Tuesday is any indication, he will be gone in 2012!
Thank you President and Laura Bush for your service and sacrifice for love of country, I sure do miss you! God bless America….
Report Post »cotuit
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:46pmWhen do you think Matt will do a hard line interview with Barry?
Report Post »OneRepublic4us
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:08pmPerhaps from prison.
Report Post »Slobaphobe
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 3:15pmMama won’t be happy ’til she sees handcuffs. And if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
Report Post »BP
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:06pmHe is a real man – a real president – I respect the office of the president – but I do not respect Obama – he hasn’t proven that he loves America yet. Bush clearly did and still does.
All presidents have their faults – but I would take bush over obama any day. Bush is a Good man!
bp
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:40pmI want to thank The Blaze staff for posting these interviews, because I would never have seen them. I do not watch this propaganda arm of the oblaha regime!
Report Post »REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:24pmI saw it… LOVED it. Despite what he did with the economy thinking he was keeping us from going into an overnight depression, I still liked Bush. Sure, he wasn’t perfect, but … none are, and especially when their congress is dominated by giant doof wads (I’m being nice)… better ‘n what we got now, I’d say.
Report Post »Leigh
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:12pmThank you for the opportunity to see this interview. I do not watch NBC. Thank God George Bush was our President during so many difficult times. I do miss him. Not a rock star, but he was OUR President…all of us. History is already vindicating this honorable man.
Report Post »Masamune
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:10pmNews flash stimulus monkey: Clinton broke the law too. He flat out lied under oath to millions of people and walked away from it. If you’re going to advocate throwing George W. Bush in jail, remember to apply it to ‘all’ of our presidents.
Report Post »urfree2b4now
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 7:57pmAnd least we forget Senator’s who drive off bridges with passengers.
Report Post »Masamune
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:57pmI‘ll definitely be getting the President’s book after seeing this. Mr. President, you kept us safe and have always been an honorable man and leader. Thank you.
Report Post »Tired_of_the_lies
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:47pmhttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/08/delusion_points
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:43pmthank GOD we had AMERICAN PRESIDENT Bush in office when we were attacked. we were Safe 9/12 2001-Jan 2009.
Report Post »Nvrforget
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:51pmWell, apparently we were safe Jan 2009 – today, too. What’s your point?
Report Post »TexasGranny
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:56pm@NVRFORGET
Report Post »Tell that to the families at Ft. Hood.
thestimulusmonkey
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:33pmWaterboarding has been illegal since the Geneva convention in 1945. After WWII the united states executed japanese soldiers for waterboarding US soldiers. If a foreign country tortures and american, they are prosecuted by the international court at the Hague. George W. Bush, based on his authorization of “cruel and unusual” punishment, both broke the laws of this country and of the international courts. Justice is meaningless if not applied to all, and our 43rd president broke the law and should be in jail.
Report Post »Nvrforget
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:50pmThose rules don’t apply to countries that are powerful enough to ignore them. That’s the beginning and the end of it.
Report Post »REBELWITHACAUSE
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:28pmThose 3 thugs that were waterboarded, should have been hung in the streets by their heels and left for the public to flog as they wished, until they gave up every ounce of information that our military deemed necessary. I haven’t a problem with this tactic at all… you commit horrible crimes in the name of your fanatical religious beliefs, or in the name of your God, or… whatever… you deserve what you get.
Report Post »SRA_1981
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:31pmOmg…waterboarding is used on our special forces…aka my husband…in training. This subject just lights me up!! Those criminals deserved way worse!!!
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:27pmit was SO difficult to force ourselves to tune in to a mainstream media network, but we’d take a bullet for PRESIDENT Bush . we could barely stand listening to lauer, it was pure obama-democrat sneering condescension all the way thru and just trying to belittle whatever PRESIDENT Bush had to say. unfortunately no one who regularly watches that vile lauer will ever buy PRESIDENT Bush’s book, so his time to that pos lauer was just wasted.
Report Post »also, a pro-PRESIDENT-Bush US veteran we know expressed a desire to backhand that socialist smirk off lauer’s face about a zillion times during watching the interview.
untameable-kate
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:59pmIt would be nifty if anyone would question the current administration with the ferocity they always interviev GWB with.
Report Post »coloneloliver
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:22pmWe sorely miss you Mr.President. That hope and change others voted for is not working out so well!
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:26pmI think Obama is just a Karl Rove plot to help GWB sell his book. Rove, you evil genius.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:20pmSay what you will about his policies, but George and Laura Bush have more class than the entire Oblame-a administration combined.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:56pmThey do have more class…comes from being raised as a southern gentleman…he might have partied in college and had a drinking problem…but why are we obsessed with having a President or Senator or House Rep that are puritanical?
Judge him on his character, on whether he keeps his word, and on his policies.
Character – Bush gets an A
Keeping his word – he did what he said he would on the campaign trail as best he could – Bush gets a B
Policies – C-
Not the best President in our history but certainly in the upper half instead of the lower like Obama. Next to FDR and Wilson, Obama is 3rd to last.
Report Post »Blazing
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:57pmI miss W. 0 is a zero.
Report Post »SND97
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:15pmThank you Blaze for asking, but I swore off NBC, MESSNBC along time ago, why would any of us watch the Socialist Network on anything? Does O’Donnell admitting he is a Socialist mean anything? Or DoberDork donating openly mean anything? Or a network that has it‘s nose so far up Obama’s butt that the peacock now looks brown?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 12:56pmThe only reason I watched it was to see what George Bush would say, not for the Nationalized Bullshevick Communist Inc side of things. Mr Bush faced so much stiff opposition from the activists and the Progressives, it makes me wonder if Mr Soros had expected and prepared to destroy the country under Gore, and then had to deal with Mr Bush instead for a time.
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Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 1:45pmIt was nice to actually see a real President… But don’t laure and madcow look alike??
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 2:25pmSome great quotes:
“I couldn’t have lived with myself if the country would have gone into a deep depression,” Bush said, during a radio interview with conservative host Rush Limbaugh. “The situation could have been a lot worse.” Would he do it (band bailout) again? “Yeah, I would’ve,” he said.
And…
“They do hate it. I can understand that,” Bush told Lauer. “Look, the idea of spending taxpayers’ money to give to Wall Street and the banks to save them… a lot of people think they created the crisis in the first place and so I can understand the angst. But in my case, I wasn’t worried about angst, personal angst or contradiction. I was worried about the economy goin’ down. And I believe TARP saved the economy.”
I thought Obama bailed out the banks! And wait, George Bush is saying the bailouts “saved the economy”?
Report Post »LastManStanding1
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 4:37pmHey JZS…
Report Post »You need to get the facts right, although Obama takes credit for TARP he and McCain went to Washington to vote for it during the 08 campaign as Senators….over 90% of the money has been paid back, so take TARP away and what has Obama really done to avoid recession…answer….Crapulous~
jzs
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 5:16pmSo you agree TARP was a good thing? I think you just lost your Tea Party credentials. I suppose next you’ll be telling us next the auto industry bailout was a success, now that those companies are again profitable and repaying their debt.
Report Post »brooks
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 5:41pmIt’s good to see a man take responsibility for his mistakes, says alot about a man’s character.
Strictlybusiness
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:34amGeorge W. Bush…………What A Great President……Love ya George, Miss You Too ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Report Post »jaspyr
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 5:20amnotice how they’ve cut to him smiling while talking bout the roughest parts of the intersque!
Report Post »free2bme1961
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:40pmI watch and listened to him on the Oprah show yesteday. I also noticed he said something, that really spoke volumes,,,
Report Post »When he spoke about Condolizza Rice informing him about the 3rd plane attack; she said to him:
“Mr. President “the” 3rd plane has hit a building.”
The wording implies that they knew, as if they did not know about this prior to; she would have said that “a” 3rd plane has hit another building…..not “the” 3rd plane has hit the building.