variety. the impact of the super typhoon in the philippines right now is a reminder that after we saw similar devastation in haiti, with the huge earthquake there in 2010, president obama tapped former president clinton and former president bush to together lead what they called the clinton-bush haiti fund. the former presidents fund raised and gave away more than $50 million in economic aid after that disaster in haiti. bill clinton also has his clinton global initiative. jimmy carter, of course, supports habitat for humanity. he does elections monitoring around the world. who knows how president obama will spend his post-presidency time. i did the math today and i almost couldn t believe it, but i think he is only going to be 55 years old when he leaves office. so, that presumably will mean he ll have a long time to be the ex-president. the de facto job of being an ex-president, generally speaking, is to do relatively noncontroversial good works. or if you re george w. bush, you
of the fairly noncontroversial variety. the impact of the super typhoon in the philippines right now is a reminder that after we saw similar devastation in haiti, with the huge earthquake there in 2010, president obama tapped former president clinton and former president bush to together lead what they called the clinton-bush haiti fund. the former presidents fund raised and gave away more than $50 million in economic aid after that disaster in haiti. bill clinton also has his clinton global initiative. jimmy carter, of course, supports habitat for humanity. he does elections monitoring around the world. who knows how president obama will spend his post-presidency time. i did the math today and i almost couldn t believe it, but i think he is only going to be 55 years old when he leaves office. so, that presumably will mean he ll have a long time to be the ex-president. the de facto job of being an ex-president, generally speaking, is to do relatively noncontroversial good works. or if
in the philippines right now is a reminder that after we saw similar devastation in haiti, with the huge earthquake there in 2010, president obama tapped former president clinton and former president bush to together lead what they called the clinton-bush haiti fund. the former presidents fund raised and gave away more than $50 million in economic aid after that disaster in haiti. bill clinton also has his clinton global initiative. jimmy carter, of course, supports habitat for humanity. he does elections monitoring around the world. who knows how president obama will spend his post-presidency time. i did the math today and i almost couldn t believe it, but i think he is only going to be 55 years old when he leaves office. so, that presumably will mean he ll have a long time to be the ex-president. the de facto job of being an ex-president, generally speaking, is to do relatively noncontroversial good works. or if you re george w. bush, you could spend that time trying to
do you see can you see something like that in the future for president obama and bush 43? sure, why not. you know, president george w. bush and president bill clinton entered into a terrific partnership together at the request of president obama to help the people of haiti in the clinton-bush haiti fund, injures as george w. bush has asked presidents clinton and bush to help after katrina. i think these partnerships are becoming a regular part of our landscape, and i think it s more for the american people to see that we can put partisanship aside and especially in a post presidency. martha: there are pieces written this morning about how much of the bush legacy president obama really did carry-on with counterterrorism also continuing on the work in immigration, the global aids fight which president bush was so much a real who sort of leader in that area.
blush travel to haiti tomorrow. bush will observe progress on rebuilding after january s devastating earthquake. he will also visit organizations assisting the effort with the support from the clinton-bush haiti fund. the nonprofit fund was founded to focus primarily on economic reconstruction through job creation and promoting economic opportunity. wolf? all right, lisa. thanks very much. a new verbal shot fired in the war of words between the actor and activist sean penn and wyclef jean. the haitian-american hip-hop star announced on larry king live last thursday night he was running for president of the haiti. penn was on the same show. he s been living in haiti, doing relief work. he immediately that night criticized jean s candidacy. i have to say, i m very suspicious of it, simply because he as an ambassador at large has been virtually silent in terms for those of us in haiti, he s been a nonpresence. i want to see someone who s