read my lips no new taxes. >> i george herbert walker bush do solemnly swear.

>> i will faithfully execute the officef of president of the united states. >> it's defeated. our mill cher she was upset. sfrrs she was bushing it around. >> i lub you precious with all my heart and how often she have thought about immeasurable joy. >> no regrets about one single thing in my life that i can think of. >> we want welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world with. this is krrn's special coverage reporting from bouenos aires an we with just learned president trump and the first lady will be

attending the funeral serbs. we just received a statement from sarah sanders. quote the president and first lady were notified last night of his passing. please food offer his condolences. a rr as a national day of mourning, he and the first lady will attend the nagsz head toeral in washington. president bush was bhorn into prifbl nl but worked tire lasly as a neighbory filealt, a dep lumat and head of the krshs ia. he was 94 years old. this months after his wife,

barbara bush passed. thigh were married for 73 years. joaning us general colon powell. give us your thought on this moment right now when we're all reflecting on this great america? >> thank you very much. when i 3rd news this morning t it was it still a shock. he was a great -- and honor to work with him dubbing trying and historic times. put for but i served two years before that when i was security advisor and nation lt security advisor. so i had nothing but the

greatest resbekt for him. frrls a quote he used politics need not be mean and nasty and he lived by that and i wish we could get. >> of that pack into the politics system. >> remind our voouers had told oryoental what about street lay for it "d." >> an experienced back grntd as cia director, as our envoy to china, his time to congress. so he was very, very deliberate in his thinking and knowing we were sending young men and wem withn to war.

he was very faugss and alloed usm and the joent chiefs of staff to come up with with plans for both invasion of panama and desert shield and storm. frrls and he gave us everything we thought we would need. and he cared about every soldier, seaman and marine to get out of can quickly and back home and away it's are too late now. and we we even label to lose loss. the river of daphne said -- vice president quail and we'd go oerch these issues and he would sit there lissing to us oorger argue.

then we whur with and give the us a decision later or he'dly say i got it. and it the reply would be go do it. and his military expeer had a lot to do with that. thrs he knew it was not a game. was a war. and i think when we finally launched desert storm -- >> we're trained, we're ready. >> this volunteer is go thing to battel for the first time. and the american people were with enormously proud bharts >> i'm going to put up on the

screen a picture of you and president bush on your facebook paej. and i want you to talk about that picture, what it symbolizes to you, your reflection. >> i know the photo well and we're in a taw but really my girls. and he came over to visit with with uz during one of our opizations. but he was talking non phone to one of our kmanters and he waez uses p if in what we're doing. >> so it was early in the morning 378 i said it's --

secretary china is not in report. i'll report to cheney. florm and a little example of it. he came over to the example of it. it jest jut a it percific at home. and the troops they respected him and the fact he gave us what we said we needed. and he said i want them all home by july 4th. and when we came home we had a major parade in new york city. and genhole wuwarts cough was there, president bush was not and we thautd about that and the

simple answer was that i don't need to be there. this is for the troops. i'll see them when they come to recognize. i don't have any friends who would dispint an aufrt because ticketer theility and humbleness to work for him. >> before we with turn to rival alooins up with with the points off light foundation. a moment i'll nv forget is if it isates ever since i see her an act of duty. just to let him know i was think

alling of him and an hour later my wife called me and said rash rucalled and kwb family. that friday went up to camp dab udand spent part of the weekend with with president and mrs. bush. and we walked through the woods that evening. never forget was we took a walk i remained silent. very quiet, reflectb and he turned to me towards the end of the walk and says you know, it hurts. he hated ludsing. but he lost and he knew why lost and he was with already moving on but he just had to share with me it hurts. i think the service he gave to america will not be mapped

anytime soon. and the experience he brought to the office will not be mapped anytime soon. it never has been since he left office. so america mourns for a great president. america mourns for an american who gave it his very, very all. the beauty of his family, what he did for us, what he did for his family, the world. he didn't gloat after the berlin wall or the fall of the soviet union. he knew they had to be hurting, hurting -- losing everything they had believed in. and i think that's what made him interesting and so great. >> the greatest generation, a veteran from waurld war ii and went on to do all the things he did do. youk rr spoken so ebeautifully about this amazing man.

he was there with the collapse of the soebiate union, ender of the cold war. walk us through how he operated during those days. >> during those days he watched. and i'll never forget he became uneasy when there was that coup, trying to take over the country and we were standing in the oval office watching -- >> 1991. >> yep. we're watch thing soviet tanks, but we can watched them come into the city. and the president was worried and i said mr. president i'm looking at this as an infantry. with with crews standing out on top of the tanks and they're putting flowers in their gun barrels. these plotters are going to be

out sorely. but he was deeply concerned we might have lost the gain we received. he wanted to make sure that the russians now, not soviets any longer, but the russians knew we were there to help integrate them into a broader world a world woo can solve problems peacefully. woors we ended the let of nuclear armageddon. he approached everything in a business-like manner. making sure he was on top of the situation and you acted out. >> and there was no cheering in his pot. it was sats fakds.

and the cold war period haddon and and it happened on his watch, bush's watch. >> certainly did -- i remember i was in moscow during the failed coup. air marshal saying to me how deeply appreciative he was of president bush's leadership and i went back when the soviet union collapsed christmas 1991 and gosh chafb and so many leaders were praising him for the way he operated and the way america behaves. >> final thought is i'm going to miss him being around. as i do miss barbara bush.

er and first time i met barbara, i had just been powelled out of my command in germany and put in the white house. and shortly after i got there i went to a lunch at the french emacy and i introduced myself and sheets i have know who you are. call me barbara. i said no, ma'am, i can't do that. she said bhie? i can't it's not proper. >> call me barbara. >> miami, if i call you barbara, my mother would kill you. and she said if you don't call me barbara, i will kill you and that's the way it was for the rest of her life. >> general colon powell we really appreciate your words. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you.

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welcome back to our special coverage commemorating, celebrate thing life well lived off the late president, george h.w. bush. from the home town of houston, texas. a couple of things we've been getting in from other famous bushes. first 43. he said the following about his father. george h.w. bush was a man of the high sz character and the best daughter or son could ask for and the former governor of florida said i will already miss the greatest mumen being that i bill ever know and came can close.

let's bring in the former chief of for first lady barbara bush. we've been hearing incredible storease from people who helped him make history on a global stage. you have that perspective but also some personal how he was in rent haunts. good morning. yes, one thfr most incredible as spects of former president bush was notinous saerl the nexumental and hirs oar r-ocome imentess but more of his deday to day, how he lived his life and the example he set others.

one of the most rem fronl and we would go to a restaurant. the first thing president bush do is introduce himself to the wader tr and then he really want withed to one put them at ease given the fact they were giving the former president by their first name for the rest of his time at their restaurant. because it showed them -- it was a sign of respect and it was a sign of appreciation for not only the job they were doing but it also taking care of him and ehe certainly had the viewpoint of it didn't matter where you fell in the pecking order, as you call it. everybody had a role and i went

into shows that human side and comgrs >> and you talk about how ehe was in private in a room where he would pick up on the fact that maybe there wasn't somebody who can didn't feel all that comfortable. can you about there so he was kenly aware off his surroundings and even if he was hosting say a room of donors late in life, she and mrs. bush love to fund raise earlier and points of light and wi. and what he would do is you would offen have very brave

ceo's of companies or famous athletes in attendance and instead he would find an individual who was just there because they believed in the cost. and he would seek them out and take the them feel just as deserving of attention ooze the larger figures that were there. on one personal occasion i had one of my friends up to visit. and he invited to lunch at the big house, as we called it. and he figured out everyone in attendance were republicans and there was democrat and he nicknamed dem the rest of the trip.

that shy felt comfortable there. >> well, and you had a unique perspective of his relationship with his wife the life of his life. you were around him so much bemient if to me they hea special marriage. and it was more than just a major. it was foirsz and foremost love. he always called her the enforcer. when the enforcer spoke, high school didn't cross her. and 1 of the first things i thought about last night when i heard the news was obviously the family. they've already had very long year.

first with mrs. bush's loss in april and of course now their ebeloved father and gachly. one of the first thoughts is it's amazing for 73 years. >> and the timing of their passing means neither one is on top. >> wow. and to me it just stook me tlas fam the it deep level of intumaes between the two of them. and high was ready to go home and see his belbed wife but also his dot aer, robin. >> that's right. thank kbrou for the beautiful

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months after the death of his wife, barbara bush. and former speech writer served thing white house from 1989 to 1992. tell us a little bit about what it was like working with this amazing man? >> the greatest job i'll ever have. she used to say every time she walked past the oval office she would hear uprorrious laughter. i can attest to that and that's what made the so many of us so loyal to him. he treated everyone the same whether they're the lowliest speech writer or a emperor. one time i got assigned to write one of of the sets of remarks for pearl harbor and you may remember that president bush was attandover ecademy when he first

heard word that our troops have been attacked in harbor. he was told to come back on his 18th birthday. and about a month later, he eenlisted. became an officer. and joined the navy and became the youngest naval aviator. can you tell me to stories about what it it was like when you were in the navy and he said i'll tell you about this thing and this guy and i said this is great, can i put this in a speech? and he said i can't talk about this. he says first of all i will get very emotionsal and second of all i'm not the war hero. they're the guys that didn't come home. i can't sit and brag about my war service. i think that's typical of the greatest gen ragsz.

eration. he was certainly brought up not to brag and i think that was a moment i could see into his mind of how he viewed his world war ii service but understand in a way that would never be public. it was time to forgive the japanese even though they shot him don enfront of the uth ever veterans and only he and give that speech. so he ehegreat northerly gliberty. so many of us, the greatest generation to serve during world war ii, they were reluctant to speak about what they went through. it's seared in their minds but they really didn't want to talk about it publicly.

and you make an important point. if he would have, he would have got very emotional and so many of that greatest generation were like that. >> so he was very emotional. when he was talking about sending troops to battle. i remember we had remarks -- you might remember thanksgiving of 1990 he decided to surprise the troops right at kuwait to visit our troops and troops from the nato ecountries. he started out on the coast on an aircraft carrier and ended up on the front lines. and as he was going over the speeches on the plane over, the white house communications director at the time was going to through the speeches and the president brought him in and said what are you trying to do,

kill me? and he said hot are you talking about? and he said i can't give speeches this emotional. this would be difficult for eme. he's extremely careful about sending other young americans to battle because he had been there. and i think that's what motivated him in trying to keep the casualties so low in that war. he's the last american president to have started, finished won a war. and that's remarkable statement and he kept casualties to less than 150 killed. you were can covering it at the time and probably remember how short that war was and a lot of it had to do with hown personal experience as a naval officer who had to inform families of

those that lost. he often wrote the letters for his own crew. when he lost his two wing men, it changed his life and i think it colored the way he behaved as commander and chief and his didication to keeping the casualties low and the war in a manageable way. not going to beyond u.n. procimation and keeping the war to a manageable thing that could be won. >> i remember very vividly, i w was's -- cnn's pentagon -- and he ordered more than 500,000 u.s. troops and it was so difficult for him because he knew he was endangering, putting

the lives of those troops in danger. but overwhelming force quasi-the strategy and he got the job done. he is commander in chief. we've got to continue our special coverage. thank you so much for sharing some memories with with our viewers. we real a appreciate it. this is a sad time for a lot of us who remember what he accomplished. >> absolutely. and that interview and the one you did earlier was chalk full of really remarkable stories, emotional and really personal. and we're going to get more memories about president bush. we're joined by someone who wush withed in his administration and normally anchoring cnn right now and that is michael smerconish bhoo worked as an internal and in the department of housing and

urban development. what words come most to mind when you reflect on his legacy and the man you can knew personally? >> humility, grace, and credentials. i remember when i met him. pennsylvania was still a competitive state and his slogan was a president we won't have to train. and that was in view of the fact that by then he was already a war hero, a business success a congressman. he had been our envoy to china, u.n. ambassador and head of the cia and rnc. still to come was vice president and president. he was a deeply credentialaled individual and so humble, so full of grace.

the best evidence of that for me is this book. when he left office and decided he was going to memorialize his own life, he did it in a unique way. he was old school. he would write letters, receive letters and rather than try to re-create the eentsz of his life, he did it byological hoardered. after he was shot dawn bp exactly how that had come to pass. always so humble. and i guess the line that comes back from the book i most remember is don't go bragging on yourself k which is the way he led his life. >> and maybe for a politician, too much because pup hars mewit

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the g 20 summit in buenos aires argentina. he'll be meeting with angela merkel and chinese president xi jinping. they're having a dinner. all eyes are on these meetings, especially with the chinese leader. >> there's no question. that is the center piece of this g20 summit. this ongoing escalation of a war, essentially. an economic trade war between the u.s. and china. it's been more than a year since president trump has met face to face with president xi jinping and it is a question off whether he's coming here to make a deal. is he going to back off of these tariffs or double down and impose more? and it's unclear at this hour what the outcome will be. usually as you know there's an

agreed upon outcome and it's nounced. and there are no meetings with the officials from other side until the dinner tonight. so that is something the president has doubled down on his china policy, cracking down on chine. but china hold as lot of leverage here as well. the president also, as you said meeting with angela merkel, even as so many russian headlines are hanging over this, we're waiting to see what type of conversations the president will have with vladimir putin on the sidelines. all of this unfolding as the world and u.s. rer78ing the alliances president george h.w. bush created in the world. >> he was supposed to have two-hour meeting with vladimir

putin but he cancelled because of ukrain. what are you hearing? >> these are pret small affairs. all are in a pretty confined spaes. one of the presidents was not wanting to meet was -- he says it was because of ukrain of course. he's met when there's bing bigger issues and he's always said it's important to meet. it's clear the optics weren't clear for him to meet with. and was he tough enough with putin? but i think there's a high likelihood they'll meet on the sidelines before the meeting with the chinese president. >> i had a chance to sit down and meet with the secretary of state mike pompeo. our thanks very much.

you'll >> reporter: absolutely. looking forward to that for so many of the reasons you were talking about and things that we have seen in a head spinning way for the past two days. i am here in houston, texas. this was and is george h.w. bush's hometown. it is where he actually represented the town in the united states congress, one of the first jobs, the first elected job that he had in government. and as i do here in houston and around the world, people are remembering him in a very personal way. i want to show a cartoon, a couple of cartoons. first, the cartoon that usa today put up when barbara bush died earlier this year. you see her coming through the

pearly gates, greeted by the daughter they lost as a little girl, three years old to leukemia. now look at what we see this morning. really takes your breath away. george h.w. bush being delivered in heaven, the naval aviator delivered by his plane to the love of his life, barbara bush, and their daughter robin with that caption we waited for you. we'll be right back.

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♪ welcome back to our special coverage commemorating the life very well lived and the legacy of president george h.w. bush. he excelled in foreign policy, especially with relations in china, he was a representative of america for president ford, u.s. envoy there. he did so much more on the world stage. we're going to talk about that in a minute. first, i want to get to some statements and remembrances pouring in from leaders around

the world and this country, including the person who has a job that george h.w. bush once had, the current vice president, mike pence. he and his wife released a statement. president bush loved his family, loved this country, and his legacy will be a lifetime of service to the united states of america. it goes on to say his years as the 41st president of the united states left america and the world more peaceful, prosperous, and secure. that is the current vice president who lives in the house that george h.w. bush lived in for 8 years. now, as i said he will be remembered for many things and one of the main issues is foreign policy. cnn's chief national security correspondent jim sciutto has more on bush 41's push to end the cold war.

>> the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this. by the grace of god america won the cold war. >> reporter: many americans associate ronald reagan with the fall of communism. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reporter: when the berlin wall came down, the nations of eastern europe renounced communism and the soviet union fell apart, george h.w. bush was president of the united states. >> the cold war didn't have to end peacefully, it could have ended with a bang instead of a whimper. >> reporter: only months into president bush's term, china's communist government brutally crushed a pro-democracy uprising

in tiananmen square. he had been the top diplomat and refused to slam the door. >> we must react to setbacks in a way which stimulates rather than stifles progress toward open and representative system. >> reporter: hoping to stimulate progress, bush funneled u.s. support to nations where communist leaders chose to negotiate with reformers. he visited poland and hungary in july of 1989, receiving large and enthusiastic welcomes. as reform in eastern europe sped up, the president stayed cautious and deliberate. reporters were astonished at the low key response when the berlin wall fell in november of 1989. >> i am very pleased with this development. >> you don't sieem elated.

>> i am just not an emotional guy. >> read my lips. no new taxes. i george herbert walker bush do solemnly swear i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> kuwait is liberated. iraq's army is defeated. our military objectives are met. >> just because you run against someone does not mean you have to be enemies. politics doesn't have to be mean and ugly. >> i love you, precious, with all my heart. how often i thought about immeasurable joy that will be ours someday. >>