also, not gada, never said it. in all of my years of government service i never once said nagada. >> comedian he released a statement about the former president saying this. quote. it was an honor and privilege to snow and spend time with george h.w. bush more than 25 years. when i think of those times what i remember most is how hard we would laugh. i will miss my friend. the 41st president of the united states, george h.w. bush has died. >> i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. we are the measures and the peace and freedom and the rule of law. i love being president. i'm working at trying to help people and do myself proud.

come on. >> tried again to muck around in our elections this last month, and we are seeing a continued effort along those lines. >> and battle sometimes make great friendships, so it's really terrific. >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good sunday morning to you. president trump is now back in the united states as he prepares to lead the nation in mourning of predecessor george h.w. bush. a little more than an hour ago, the president landed at joint base andrews as the news was he was halteding $200 in china and

the united states now. >> meanwhile president trump is expected to lead the nation in mourning. former president george h.w. bush. there is a week of memorial services planned for the 94-year-old former president. >> we start this morning with the news from the white house. president trump's trade war with china. >> the white house announced overnight the president agreed to halt tariffs in the chinese tariffs in the u.s. and one of several agreements to come out of president trump's dinner with the president of china. sarah a westwood joins us live from the white house. >> after the two and a half meeting over dinner in buenos aires, a message of optimism about the fults of those trade talks between the u.s. and china the past several months have been contentious and not produced results. the two agreed to what is

effectively a delay in the escalation of the trade war with the president, agreeing to hold off on raising tariffs on $200 billion of goods he was scheduled to raise the tariffs from 10% to 25% on january 1st. that according to president trump is no longer going to happen because china has agreed to increase its purchase of agricultural products and other products to reduce the trade balance that trump is fixated on the past several months. the president telling reporters aboard air force one if it happens it goes down as one of the largest deals ever made. he goes on to say the following. that could give the u.s. and china some breathing room to negotiate the stickier issues that have held up trade talks over the past several months. meanwhile, the president is also

signaling he may soon sit down with north korean leader for a second summit. the president telling reporter as they traveled back from the g20 summit, he has discussions about meeting kim jong-un in january or february in a couple of months. he says his administration is considering three different sites they could hold this meeting but no indication of where that second summit might take place. he did say that he could consider inviting the north korean leader to the united states at some point in the future. we maying looking at potential breakthroughs on two different front in china and north korea. >> sarah westwood at the white house, thank you. ♪ tomorrow begins a week of ceremonies and services to honor the late president george h.w. bush. he died friday night at the age of 94 at his home in houston.

now a series of public and private services are planned in the coming days, both in houston, also in washington. >> cnn's kaylee hartung is with us now. >> reporter: we shouldn't more than the life of george h.w. bush but rather celebrate a life well lived. the perspective of his son neil bush and the perspective that is guiding to so much of what we will see in the coming week. . tomorrow, the president's body will flown from here in houston to washington, d.c. a ceremony will be held at the u.s. capitol and he will lie in state in the rotunda until wednesday morning where the public will be able to atheir respects an action that former presidents before him have been able to be honored by and, most recently, senator john mccain. there will then be a national

cathedral ceremony and that funeral service is invitation only. we do know that president trump and first lady melania trump will be in attendance at that service on wednesday morning in washington, d.c. then george h.w. bush will return here to houston. he will lie in repose in the church he and barbara attended for so many years together, st. martin's episcopal church and a funeral service at that church in houston, invitation only. then he will be put to rest as his presidential library where his late wife barbara and his late daughter robin have been laid to rest. you can expect outpouring for this family and celebration of life to be something none of us will soon forgot. the nonprofit organization points of live that george h.w. bush founded, that organization has asked for donate a day of service in memory of our 41st

president. >> kthank you, kaylee. president bush's long service as president spanned more than four decades and touched many, many lives. >> french hill is joining us who worked in the bush white house. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> we are sorry for your loss. i know that you have some very special memories. i want to get to one of them off the bat. you had written that george h.w. bush and mrs. bush were the ideal neighbors, members of the pta and the answer to the question on that common form at school and work in case of emergency, please call. we loved him very much. did you really put them on the emergency list? help us understand what your relationship was and how you saw them. >> well, the bush family and our family go back a long way.

my in-laws were very dear friends of the bush's back in the 1960s, so we have a long family friendship with the bush's and have great respect for them. but george and barbara bush were that ideal mom and dad and ideal couple that would be members of the pta that would volunteer at the food bank and they were great naeeighbors. i have no doubt they would be on the list of the immediate neighbors if the alarm went off or kid needed to be picked up at school, that george and barbara bush would be there to help. >> some of their legacy is independent of the time they spent in the white house. raising more than $1 billion for charity after leaving the white house. talk about that element and the points of light foundation and a lot of the work they did after leaving washington. >> well, he was an amazing supporter of m.d. anderson cancer center in houston and a

major supporter of cancer research. you know his empathy for adult and kids with cancer. did he that a great deal after he left office. i saw, firsthand, the work he did with president clinton on katrina relief. our rotary club in little rock partnered with the rotary club in louisiana and we got katrina funds to help get people back in their homes in la comb, louisiana. i saw his personal care there and the work of the families dislocated after katrina. it was just another example of the sense of partnership that he and president clinton had, particularly on voluntarism. the points of life foundation. president clinton went to expand and form americorps which was a second chapter in the story of points of light. >> one of the things he is known for is something that i think a lot of people would say we don't have enough of today and those

are handwritten thank you notes. did you receive one and do you still have it and what does it mean to you? >> you bet i do. i have a stack of thank you notes from president bush, some handwritten, some typed. he was one of the most thoughtful people i ever worked for and with. he was always thanking you for something you did for the administration or congratulating you on work that had been done in the administration or something personal for your family. george and barbara bush were r perpetually thankful for their own lives and expressed that by being very kind to others. that personal thank you note from george bush was a treasured item by thousands of people around the world. part of his personal diplomacy. >> let me ask you about the president's legacy and g20 of what happened this weekend. coincidentally the president died when the new trade deal

which places nafta which signed by clinton was negotiated by george h.w. bush. how is the president's legacy holding up in the trump era? how is the new world early he talked about the early '90s holding up today? >> it's a great question, victor. i was working on the white house staff in charge of international policy counsel there. we dealt with the nafta negotiations during 1992 and i think the nafta is one of the legacies of the bush and reagan administrations that began that process. it's 25 years and certainly had things that needed to change in it with regard to labor and environmental standards which is something we thought could have been better back in 1992. also recognize the digital world that we have and the change in the international trading system. so the fact that nafta has been modified now and moved forward

to a new generation is a tribute to president reagan and president bush's leadership in the north america free trade arena in the early '80s and '90s. i think the new world order is established by president bush and president gorbachev when germany was a unified country and a member of nato. nato is strong and healthy now and has grown. president trump i think has set higher standards for nato by virtue of contributions from the member states, an engagement there. would this the new world order and the legacy of latin american free trade have progressed over the last quarter century, all thanks to george bush's leadership. >> congressman french hill, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. chairman colin powell and his secretary of state james baker are joining "state of the

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state rotunda following a short service. >> then return to texas and lie in st. martin's episcopal church followed by a funeral service and make his way to the george h.w. bush library in houston. political figures from both mainly parties have begun to pay their respects to express condolences to the bush family. >> we want to bring in doug wheat, presidential historian. julian zeleny is a historian and professor at the princeton university is also with us. thank you, gentlemen. we are glad to have both of you here. doug, i did want to start with you. i want to bring up, if we could, please, an instagram post from jenna bush who says -- she talked to her grandfather about dying. he said, yes, i think about it.

i used to be scared and afraid of buying but now in some ways i look forward to it. when i die will i reunited with people i lost. i hope to see robin and i mop to see my mom. then he said, i hope she is the 3-year-old. how much did that affect who he was, losing his daughter? did he ever talk about robin to you? >> yes, he did. it was profound impact on him and provoked great curiosity about life after death, the possibility of it. when i first met him and first started writing for him was 1985 and '86, '87, he was not yet a candidate for president. he was in that stage of why do you want to run for president, so you had all of these

theological questions and it started out with me writing pages of memorandum explaining the different languages that catholics speak and pentecostal speak for him to build a relationship for political purposes, but it soon became apparent he was on a personal spiritual journey. i'd get back hundreds of these little personal notes he says how did a nazarene know if they are sanctiifed or not? they would be generic and thousands of pages. >> i want to ask you on that subject, i know that you say the experience that world war ii on had him was spiritual.

how so? doug, that is for you. >> oh, okay. yes. in many meetings i was there and he would say that. they would ask him about spiritual experiences. they would ask the born experience if they were evangelical. i said i had a moment of being rescued and shot down. i had the privilege of interviewing him for the first time on that when they pulled out the historical records. his press secretary wanted to get a story on record. the vice president then, george h.w. bush, remembered it incorrectly and it became a controversy. eventually he was able to get the facts together and get it right. it was interesting to me how he remembered it and he remembered it as much of a profound, almost miraculous experience. >> julian, i've heard several analysts say he was truly hurt

by his loss in the '92 election and that settled into him in some capacity. i like to say when you lose, don't lose the lesson. what did he learn from that that shaped who he continued to become? >> we always have to remember that george h.w. bush was a politician too and so '92 lose to go clinton and not being able to be re-elected was pretty devastating and it instantly tapped into the religion feelings he had his whole life and would direct him in his post-presidency to even work with president clinton down the line on relief efforts, which became part of how he used his post-presidential time to bring relief to people and to try to continue with this mission of public service which guided him his whole life.

i also think the '92 loss caused a little bit of soul searching what did it resonate about who he was and the kind of politics that he represented with where some of the electorate was. he was a thoughtful politician who didn't just lose and move on, but actually lost and tried to use the loss to shape the rest of his career and his life. >> julian, you bring me to another question i wanted to ask you. the '88 campaign. there were some pretty nasty elements of that and those seem to counter who we are hearing who he was. do you get the sense, was he comfortable with tactics like that or was that just -- i got to play the game? julian, to you first. >> yeah. i think he wasn't fully comfortable with the way the campaign unfolded, but it was his campaign. lee atwater ran the campaign. it is considered, by many

historians, really a key campaign in the path to where we went, really undercut a lot of michael dukakis character. he regrets the tactics they used but the record is there. and i think as historians we need to talk about all parts of president bush, his commitment to golfance and many policy accomplishments but the 1988 campaign which was ruthless was part of his record as well. >> doug, do you have any sense of what his thoughts were in later years about where politics have gone in that regard? >> yeah. very interesting to me. there was this duality in him. he was very ruthless. he was personally very kind and gentle, but he always had a strong man. in the family, it was george w. bush who was assertive and

strong. i remember at one point jennifer fitzgerald was almost hated in the campaign. she was running the vice president's office and then craig fuller, a very strong aggressive personality, lee atwater, which was mentioned, very ruthless and then when he went into the white house, john sununu is one of the strongest chiefs of staff in american history. there was no accident that he always would have this stalking horse get out there and be the bad guy. he knew that you had to have that to win in politics and he understood that we were in a new negative era, that was very clear to him. so interesting duity there. >> definitely. doug wead and julian zeleny, thank you both for taking time for us this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you, christi. >> absolutely. >> one part of hits personality, hs ability to laugh at himself and his sense of humor. on "saturday night live," they paid tribute to mr. bush. >> our thoughts and condolences

go out to his family and friends. >> that's right. president bush was famously a warm and gracious man and the pour of being able to laugh at yourself. >> thousands of points of lights still operating coming in from all of those areas. ha ha ha. not going to do it! not going do it. >> george bush here. i'm watching you do my impressive of me. i got to say it's nothing like me. bears no resemblance. it's bad, it's bad. >> i'm sorry, mr. president. i think it's a fair impression. >> don't see it. it's totally exaggerated. not me. those crazy hand gestures. i don't do that them na, ga, never said it. in all of my years in presidential service, i never

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global affairs analyst aaron david miller. welcome back. let's start here, because putin says that he answered president trump's questions about that seizure of the ships and the sailors. however that is the exact reason the president said he wasn't going to speak with putin. the white house has denied putin's characterization of the conversation. what do you make of this actually happening on the sidelines of the g20? >> i think there had to be an engagement, in large part -- well, i think the president was looking for a balance on one hand not to appear to embrace vladimir putin in light of recent revelations that mueller has made, on one hand. and a desire not to run away from putin on the other. so the notion that they would actually get together, i think, as the president, himself, indicated a day or so ago, was more or less inevitable. look. the u.s. and russia relationship is a fraught one, victor.

there are so many issues that divide the two. if you add to the mix, what appears to be the still mysterious willingness on the part of president trump to accord vladimir putin the kind of safe space that he doesn't really give to anyone else, raises serious questions about what the president's motives are and whether, in fact, another back story that may or may not be revealed in coming weeks or months. >> the administration continue to support the saudi-led efforts in yemen as the humanitarian crisis there continues to grow. listen to a bit of wolf blitzer's exclusive interview with secretary of state mike pompeo. >> we have made very clear we are working to end the hostile its in yemen. the humanitarian crisis is epic proportions and millions of people at or near starvation.

the saudis have put even more money in of theirs. the iranians have put zero dollars in to stopping that humanitarian crisis. we are determined to fix the problem of the humanitarian crisis and ensuring we don't end up with a hezbollah situation. >> the u.s. military support for the saudis in yemen will continue? >> the program we are involved in today, we intend to continue. >> just on wednesday, more than a dozen republican senators voted for resolution to end the u.s. support for this effort. senator jeff flake they could reach a veto proof majority in the president wants to dig in here. which side? i'm talking between congressional republicans and the white house is going to blink here and is the president willing to go up against his own party, continue to continue to support the saudi efforts in yemen? >> you know, look. i worked for half a dozen of

secretary of states of state and with all due respect to this one, our yemen policy is a disaster. we have acquiesced and enabled a reckless and repulsive saudi leader and it's very much his war. to create the basis of a humanitarian disaster and, at the same time, to enable and expand the opportunities for iran, the country the admission claims they want to contain, to expand its influence in the region. we have leverage over the saudis receipt now, victor, particularly in the wake of their responsibility for the horrific murder of jamal khashoggi. either the administration didn't recognize it or doesn't want to lose it. the reality is congress sent a strong signal. i think that signal needs to be sustained. there is simply no rational basis or national interest to continue supporting a military

operation in yemen that has turned into another forever war at the expense of millions of yemenis. >> aaron david miller, thank you. >> thank you. coy wire is talking about games but no ordinary game, coy wire. >> good morning to you. we are going to talk about a rivalry like none other than. even one that turns two best friends against one another. even if just for a day. a remarkable story about some of our service academy members. it's coming up right after this on "new day."

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with a special back story. >> jack king and tyler, they grew up in matthews, north carolina and became best friends and dreams of someday playing college football and maybe together but they never thought they would end unfortunate playing at rival service academies. >> football, of course, i would say is our first big bonding experience. >> we kicked it off right away. >> i remember jack and tyler when they were in sixth grade. >> jack was honestly one of the best competitive little kids that i ever knew and so that was great because i always was the most competitive kid i knew. >> kind of like a natural bond there. we were friends ever since then. >> once we got to high school it excelled. we had the same weightlifting class and boys on the field obviously but in the weight room is where we started to bond and push each other. >> it grew to be like the friendship we have now which is really strong. >> pretty much my entire life, i always wanted to play at the next level. it's always been a dream. i really had no idea with west point and no clue i wanted to

play at the academy or go to the academy. >> i was the first to bring the academy to me. this is something i can see myself doing easeme. >> at first, we were service academy? are you sure? >> with all of the opportunities serving afterwards and being an officer in the army is no utter profession would allow me to be the best person miyself. >> he talked about how cool to play at the army. except i took my visit to the naval academy and i found love when i made my visit there. >> jack, he was mad. >> there is a little bit of tension the week coming up to it. >> they hung out together probably three times over thanksgiving together. >> we are super busy and i'm in maryland and he's in new york. so we don't get to see each other that much. >> playing against each other in such an honorable game is really crazy. >> these are the only players

who would not only die for their country, they would die for each other. >> it's such a bond. he economies on the field but a brother. we are fighting each other's best friends. >> go army! >> beat army! >> go navy. beat army. >> jack tyler and their families will be eagerly awaiting kickoff this saturday. i'll be there for cnn's live coverage all weekend long. finally, we have number one alabama last night pulling off a 14-point comeback win over number four georgia. an emotional return to atlanta for backup quarterback jalen hertz. benched last season. he went from starter to the back seat but when first stringer tua was injured in the fourth quarter, jalen rose up accounting forfor two touchdowns and sparking the comeback win. two teammates hugging it out after bama wins the s.e.c. championship 35-28.

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let's show you this terrifying, actually, and rare sight for december. this is in illinois. all too familiar sound, though. one of nearly two dozen tornadoes that hit central and western illinois yesterday. >> the small town of taylorville, look what is there now. this is said to be one of the hardest hit areas. more than 100 homes are damaged. in alaska, there have been more than 650 aftershocks since that 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit on friday. >> some are now just allowed to go home and assess what is home. stephanie elam has more. >> reporter: road after road. >> very major damage right at that area. >> reporter: torn apart.

alaska battered by a 7.0 earthquake. the shaking the worst here since 1964. nick coleman is checking on his vacationing neighbor's place. for the first time since the quake hit, what he finds is a home wrecked by mother nature. upstairs, cabinets knocked to the floor. heavy dressers piled in the bedroom. a bathroom full of glass. >> it's pretty devastation, especially it seems the higher up you go in the building. >> reporter: from anchorage to wasilla and the home of sarah palin. residents reeling from loss but thankful that does not include lives. shocking they say because of scenes like this. road crews, right now, working 40 sites similar to this. this is the most traveled artery in alaska and take a look at

what has happened to the roadway because of the earthquake. it looks like some massive machine has clawed the road away. because that, crews are working around the clock to get this roadway open. they are saying within days. but there is a threat. see this crack here? we have to stay on this side of it and that is because everything on the other side of it is liable to give way with all of the aftershocks that continue to hit the anchorage area. according to the alaska earthquake center, more than 650 aftershocks so far and 20 of those at magnitude 4 or higher. >> i didn't want to go to sleep last night and afraid it would happen again. >> reporter: diane and bill coleman, like so many here, still on edge, after riding out the quake in their eagle river home of 47 year. >> it was just a tremendous loud sound. >> reporter: even with their possessions crashing down around them, they never heard a sound over the roar of the quake. >> what are you doing?

huh? >> reporter: now like so many, they repair what they can and search for memories that survived. >> we had to put some lights up to make it a little brighter and cheerier in there and it makes it easier to work. otherwise, you cry. >> reporter: still they know that nothing lost here outweighs what really matters. >> wow. that was quite something we survived. >> everything needs washing. >> reporter: stephanie elam, cnn, eagle river, alaska. the 41st president of the united states, george h.w. bush has died. >> i, george herbert walker bush, do solemnly swear. we are americans. peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. i love being president. i love working at trying to help people and do myself proud. >> what have you assessed? come on.