dynasty survived and thrived. >> charles: doug, thank you very much. it's been an extraordinary week for all-america. thank you very much for watching and we appreciate it. now "the five" is next. >> jesse: this is "the five." you are looking live at college station, texas, where president george h.w. bush has arrived. his casket is traveling to his presidential library where he will be buried. hello, everybody. i'm jesse watters along with martha maccallum, juan williams, kennedy and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." president george h.w. bush's final journey home, the 41st commander in chief. to be laid to rest this hour next to his wife barbara and his daughter robin at the bush

presidential library in college station, texas. his casket making the final leg of the journey by train, with mourners paying their respects along the way. in honor of the president's military service, the navy will do a 21 strike fighter aircraft fly over. we'll bring it to you as soon as it happens. before his final ride to the lone star state, friends and family, including his close friend james baker and grandson george p bush, paid tribute to 41 in an emotional and moving funeral service. >> the world became a better place because george bush occupied the white house. he had a very effective way of letting me know when the discussion was over. [laughter] he would look at me and he would say baker, if you are so smart, why my president and you are no not? we rejoice, mr. president, that you are safely tucked in now. and through the ages with god's loving arms around you, because

our glory, george, was to have had you as our president and as such a friend. >> undoubtedly when the last words are written on him, they will certainly include this: that the fulfillment of a complete life cannot be achieved without service to others. george herbert walker bush is the most gracious, most decent, most humble man that i will ever know. and it's the honor of a lifetime to share his name. god bless you, gampy, until we meet again. >> jesse: we have seen the ceremonies over the week. any reflections that you've had? my thing that struck me personally is the friendships that this man has endeared over the years. he was more than a president. he was a dear, dear friend all the people who worked with him and for him. >> martha: jon meacham said he was the last great soldier

statesman. i think so much of our feelings about the greatest generation are wrapped up in this president, this 41st president of the united states, who represents to so many of us a generation that we have an understanding about our own families and we watch the passing of his president and all of the beautiful military components that have accompanied it. the incredible music. it gives you pause and makes you think about the life of, but because whenever someone like this passes, you think about where we stand as a country and what we care about and who we are and what it means to be an american. he gave us a potent reminder every day through his, as you say, his personal expression of the importance of friendship and family but also his enormous devotion to the united states of america and how he spent his life carrying out that mission. >> jesse: i know, juan, you covered him closely during a time period when he was president. one of the main themes i think

everyone's been discussing is how hard he worked and how much he packed into each day. if you just look at the one term, he accomplished so much in one term, from the clean air act, the civil rights act, americans with disabilities act, overseeing the end of the cold war, kicking saddam hussein out of kuwait. a massive amount of accomplishment for just four years. >> juan: i have such regard for him and i think one of the refrains that you hear about someone who was a good friend, so i was a very young white house reporter at "the washington post." one of my jobs was occasionally to take a ride with the vice president. you can imagine at that time it was a very different washington in terms of the size of the press corps. it would be me, the secret service, and we would be on air force to come and we would be talking. i would go back and my wife would say how is your pal, vice president bush. i would say he thinks earl

hoover's strategy, we would start talking baseball. we talked a lot of baseball. we talked baseball for hours. he loved baseball. he was a great athlete. the thing that strikes me, listening to date to his grandson. i have to tell you as a grandfather how much it would mean to me to have a grandson get up there and not only say that his grandfather was a great guy but to talk about the idea that it wasn't just rhetoric. sometimes you think kids look at you when you are talking and say oh, he's just talking. he's just saying that stuff. he said when his grandfather talked about honor, duty, when he talked about love of country, he said it wasn't something he just talked about. this was something that he lived and offered as an example. to me, that plus the granddaughters that were there today, i can't tell you, jesse. i think when you go, they can have all the ceremonies they want, but if the people who knew

you best love you, man, i don't think you can get better than that. >> jesse: we have seen such an outpouring of love, not just from his family and friends the people who worked for him. amazing amount of just regular americans watching the train go by or visiting his casket in washington. why don't we hear him in his own words, kennedy. this is him in 1988 when he was nominated to be the republican candidate for president in new orleans. let's listen. >> for we are a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them very voluntary and unique. this is america, a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light

in a broad and peaceful sky. >> kennedy: and a broad and peaceful sky. the nice thing about this, it's not only allowing us to pay tribute to the greatest generation that martha touched on, but this is an aspirational life. it's the kind of moment where you can reflect in your own life and say to yourself, how do i want people to remember me? therefore, from this day forward, what will i do with my life? how will i go on this journey? how will i treat other people? how will i raise my children? how will i aim to inspire? how will i humbly ask for forgiveness? it's those kinds of things, and juan and i were talking about this last night. it's really a special moment for reflection as a country and for individuals. if there's something about that that we can carry forward, i think it's an incredible accomplishment for this former president. >> jesse: i have been personally affected by it. the man is so humble, i am thinking to myself maybe i should be more humble.

[laughter] >> greg: too late, jesse. no one will believe it. >> jesse: okay, what do you say? >> greg: it's an interesting thing to watch. i looked at the masses which were very moving, they talked about these things that are often mocked in contemporary pop culture. what were the things? duty, honor, patriotism. god forbid, faith. faith and god and family. these are kind of all the things that we are constantly reminded in our modern culture is corny. but when it comes down to it, when you are faced with mortality and the loss of somebody special, these are actually the things that matter more than hashtags and sarcasm and cynicism. and snark, you know what i'm saying? it is so easy to snark about traditional things, about family and religion, making fun.

it's so old-fashioned and corny. but when it comes down to that moment in time where everything that's important, family, faith, duty, honor, sacrifice. that's all anybody talks about. it's almost as though it's biological. >> jesse: yeah, he came from a great family. made sure his other family members, especially his sons, valued service and putting the country above the person. now we are looking at the processional travel to the bush presidential library in college station, texas. let's listen to president president george h.w. bush talking about in the state of the union, i believe it was 1991, the consequences of saddam hussein invading kuwait. >> saddam hussein's unprovoked invasion, his ruthless systematic rape of a peaceful nation violated everything the

community of nations holds dear. the world has said this aggression would not stand, and it will not stand. >> jesse: if you think about modern military campaigns, martha, this was executed so perfectly with the international coalition so firmly behind him. there were parades in america afterwards. there wasn't a lot of overreach. it was something that he believed so strongly in that after the cold war was finished, the united states was there to keep and maintain the peace. >> martha: it's a great point, jesse. you look at the coalition he built. he spent his entire adult life essentially building that coalition. he was u.n. ambassador, he was an ambassador to china. he worked on his relationships with people in a sincere way that had a lot of depth. talking about the notes he would write to everybody. that's meaningful. its building networks, building

friendships over time. i also think one of the great things about this man was his sincerity. he didn't appear to be working it just so that he could work it. i think everybody understands what i mean by that. >> jesse: truly a genuine people person. unlike some people at the table. [laughter] talking about you, greg. >> juan: one my son was born, this is going back to you '88. i got a note from george h.w. bush. i wasn't covering him at the time. this was right after the campaign. here comes a note in the mail. i don't know how he knew about it. i'm looking at these pictures, jesse, and i'm looking at these young men. i guess they are at texas a&m, their brown uniforms. the way they are standing against that gloomy sky, so still, so respectful, so much a

matter of precision in honoring our fallen president. it's absolutely inspiring. it's a thrill. we saw great show yesterday and the day before in washington. we had 4,000 members of the u.s. military washington regional command take charge of it and it was written out. the whole thing. but here we are in texas, and i have more a sense of young people, young people oftentimes college people or people may be in the local rotc in college station participating. i think for them, this is going to be a lifetime memory. >> jesse: let's go to alicia acuna they are on the in college station, texas. why don't you set the scene for us? >> hi, we are awaiting the arrival here of the procession. it is just coming up right now up barbara bush drive. it will make its way in front of the george bush presidential library and museum. per the request of the family,

any moment now, i am going to stop talking because the family has requested we remain silent at this point, which we will do now. >> jesse: the processional goes into the bush presidential library. alicia brought it up. silence. i think this country has really reflected this last week. when you reflect, you office they are silent and you think and you think about a man who was so unifying and so well-respected. as juan was mentioning, kennedy, it really is kind of the turning of a page from one generation to the next, not just with the bush family but about how we see our leadership in this country. i think people are understanding of what true leadership is in america. and it's a beautiful thing.

>> kennedy: it's also interesting how we see time and time again throughout the generations in the elections, how their political pendulum swings. how it must've been for george h.w. bush, who live this exemplary life and then to lose a second term to someone who was such a nontraditional politician. who didn't necessarily embody the same things in the same way that he did. the rest of his life was a reaction to that pendulum swing. we have just seen another one, a very opposite president elected after president obama and the nonvictor in that race has also taken time to reflect on a nonvictory and how vastly different those reactions can be. and how, if we are being completely honest, time has been very, very gracious to george h.w. bush and his legacy and his long life and the choices he's made post-presidency only solidify that. >> juan: what strikes me for what you just said, kennedy, the

note he wrote to clinton. amazing. he said i am rooting hard for you. i am rooting for america. i can get over this. we don't see that kind of self-effacing statement these days in our politics. >> greg: the point that you bring up, this is a guy who flew 58 combat missions. helped end the cold war, company eight, ambassador, world war ii hero shot down and rescued. he was treated poorly in '92 because his life put him at a certain age. for those deeds to be accomplished, he was 68. we decided arbitrarily that 68 was a wrong number, that we were worried that was too old. not anymore. 68 is young now. but back then, they were worried because bill clinton was seen as the young new coke. he was the fresh coke and this guy was old pepsi. it was such an injustice for what he had done in those four years i think and unfairly kind

of dismissed over one single criteria and that was the year he was born. >> kennedy: don't know if you remember in the orange "orangey register," conservative part of southern california, the republican community took out an entire newspaper page asking the president to not take dan quayle again with him as his vp choice going into the 1992 campaign. juan done i spoke about loyalty that alan simpson talked about in yesterday's eulogy. he stayed loyal to dan quayle. >> juan: he sure did. >> martha: i believe this is reverend levinson from st. martin's episcopal. he's been with president bush 41 since the moment he passed. he was with him during his final hours, praying with him, and has taken the journey to washington, d.c.

we see things really coming full circle here. something so romantic about watching the train as it moved its way across texas. that too touches a touchstone and all of us pretty think of abraham lincoln, dwight eisenhower. presidential caravans moving across the country in this open train. you can see the casket with the flag draped over it, and it's just like a life's journey and his own journey from connecticut, the elite schools he grew up in an across the small towns in texas where people came from all over waving their small flakes to pay tribute to this man who really adopted texas as his home and now is going back there to be buried. now we see the bush family at the top of the stairs gathering. these are emotionally draining moments for families as they go through these kinds of long days of experience. let's watch as they remove the casket from the hearse in texas.

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>> martha: very moving. we just watch the final moments. we will not see the casket after this. the family is going inside for the private burial service as in the burial which will follow that. president george h.w. bush will be laid to rest next to a barbara bush, his wife of 73 years, and robin, their young daughter who passed away the age of three. after suffering from leukemia. as we remember president bush 43 saying yesterday at the service at the national cathedral, at the end of his very moving speech and the moment he broke down himself, he said he wanted to think of his father hugging robin and holding his mother's hand, barbara bush. this is the moment where we turn our attention away and we leave it to the privacy of the family.

it's been such a moving ceremony as we watched all this be carried out over the last few days. greg, as you said, there are people, there are cynics and those who sort of want to poke fun at some of the things he felt were so important. faith obviously was one of those. as a society today, some people feel like they are above faith, too smart for faith. here's a man who was so intelligent and who leaned on it completely. >> greg: what you notice in these ceremonies, even if you are not religious, and i am not religious, we see the value and importance that religion is providing. it's about people coming together every day, knowing the people that you live within the people in your community who you see every sunday or more frequently. it's something people, there are people who are agnostic who understand completely the value of religion and you see it in

events like this, how important faith is, sharing it with your family. it's incredibly moving to c. >> juan: the grandson said today, he said his grandfather told him god loves us all, but there is a price to god's love. we have to be good to one another. you hear something like that you think that's just the old guy talking. but the way george p bush, the grandson, spoke today, you can tell it went to his heart. it meant the world to him that his grandfather was communicating the power, i was thinking power of god, but i think it's the power of faith across generations that says this binds us, and i'm not leaving. i am here with you. that goes back to himself -- jesus himself. the other thing i wanted to mention was apparently he said that on his gravestone all he wanted was his navy number, his

identification number. basically his tags. the inscription that he loved barbara very much. how appropriate that he's going to be next to his sweetheart. >> jesse: it's remarkable how all the members of the bush family have really come to this moment in such a graceful and beautiful way, if you think about the grandchildren and the sons and daughters. everyone has really risen to the occasion. it's got to be so heartbreaking for all of them, but to be in the public spotlight when your father, your grandfather, or your relative passes away in such a public way and to be able to carry yourself with so much dignity and grace. not just in the words we've heard but in the way that everybody has just walked and been in the moment. the flawless execution of the

ceremony has also been remarkable. if you think about how important ceremony as a subject is to this country, this is done at the highest level, a presidential funeral. it's gone on for many, many days. and it's been so well scripted and so well executed, and it's so amazing to watch the flawless execution of the ceremony. the music playing. it really gives you the chills and it makes you think it makes you reflect. i think 41, from what i've heard, kennedy, had a hand and a lot of the scripting of the ceremony eight and you can see it play out so perfectly. >> kennedy: the details show how important tradition is to him and to the family. there's a great deal of restraint and humility and a lot of the pictures speak for themselves. he must've anticipated how that train ride would look in the message it would send, because it's slower.

it's more deliberate. you have to be in the moment. some of the people coming out to greet the train, it reminded me one president reagan passed as he made his way from the funeral home to the reagan library in simi valley. people rushed onto overpasses if they could get a final glimpse and in some way pay their respects. i look at these things and i think what can people internalize in their own lives? this is a good time for you to talk with your family about how you would want your send-off to be, hopefully years and years down the road. i think we run from these things in society when we should really embrace the way we wrap up people's lives and show appreciation while people are still on this earth by making those final decisions. >> greg: this was 400 pages. 200 pages president bush had written himself. it was something i was thinking about the whole time. i was like you know, me planning a funeral, it's going to be about one page. it's going to be like, don't

drop the ashes. party hard. >> jesse: no flyover for you? >> greg: a drone that's dropping airline bottles of rum. this is pretty intense. >> juan: what would you think if you are a former president and yesterday are sitting in the national cathedral in your thinking i think they are going to do this for me. wow. >> martha: i also think he probably planned it to a certain extent for his own personal journey. thinking how do i want to leave this earth? i want to be sent to washington obviously and have all of the state funeral, lie in state come and go back to texas. he talked about loving train trips and that when he left to go to the war at the age of 18, he said i went on a train. and then by the grace of god he survived and was pulled out of the water in and i think one of

the most extraordinary pieces of historic video we have access to. i'm amazed someone was there recording that is he was pulled out of the water. he said when they finally got to go home he went home on a train and his family would often, for trips, like so many families back then, get on the train and travel. just the beauty of watching america roll by the windows as you travel. it's just a peaceful, beautiful way to say goodbye to the country. i also thought, i don't know if you had mentioned this yet, but john meacham, he was asked by president bush, talking about the fact that he planned so much of this, meacham went over and read the eulogy to the president. he read the whole thing to him. because he had asked jon meacham to write it. he went over there and at the end, he said that's a lot about me. it's typical. >> juan: that is the guy. >> martha: when you talk about

planning your own funeral and planning funerals, you wanted to hear what was going to be said. >> juan: thinking about the train ride which i think is a real "take you back to another era in america," the most famous train ride in terms of funerals this franklin delano roosevelt. the longest-serving president. he makes this trip from down south where he died come all the way to hyde park in new york state. that was literally lined with people almost all the way and people showing tremendous emotion for who he was. >> martha: abraham lincoln's was pretty good too. >> juan: i missed that. >> martha: a pretty amazing ride as well. >> jesse: rfk as well. he wasn't the president. he was campaigning for president. after he was assassinated, his body was also taken by train, i think, to new york city. i believe in the '88 campaign,

george h.w. bush went to a few campaign stops via train. >> juan: in '92, he made a point of doing campaigning by train because he liked it so much. you can do what they call the whistle stopped tour where you stop and you're at the back and stuff but he would get off and people would just run to him. >> martha: it used to be the only way candidates could be seen in those small towns, go on the train and make a whistles to. the one aircraft flyover was a really powerful moment. we had to a quick break. we will have more of "the five" coming up after this as we watch the military movements on the grounds of college park, texas, texas a&m as a private ceremony for president george herbert walker bush is underway. only genuine idaho potatoes have the

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>> juan: the president launching a new attack on the special counsel's probe. the president hammering what he calls the phony russia witch hunt and claiming his approval rating would be 75% without it. mueller is set to release court documents tomorrow and the michael cohen and paul manafort cases. could provide new information on where the investigation is headed. kennedy, do you have any idea

about what the president is talking about when he says his readings could be 75%. i think he called it presidential harassment. >> kennedy: given all the negativity perceived and real from the press and from his political opponents and oftentimes that resistance is fueled and justified by the mueller probe. he feels that if that variable will variables taken out of the equation, then he's had so manyd political victories that he would be the most popular president ever in the history of this great union. [laughter] >> juan: what are you laughing, i thought you liked the guy. >> jesse: i do. fox nation poll has him at 75%. maybe that's an outlier. is it an outlier, williams? >> juan: i think it's accurate. >> jesse: i trust the poll. i will say i do believe the mueller probe is taken a toll on the president's numbers. if you are the average america and you're not following a day-to-day like we are, you're

just kind of, when you dial-in, you hear things. this person is getting indicted, the special counsel is doing this. after two years, it kind of melts into your brain and you get this feeling like, is there corruption going on? why is this cloud of corruption floating over this presidency? the other thing is, when you hear the media, the media constantly salivating over impeachment. or they see a redaction and they are predicting the redactions president donald trump and he's about to be led away in handcuffs. it takes a toll. the other thing is it could work in the president's favor, if the mueller probe comes back and does not show definitive conclusion, after two years, he's going to say i was right. i told you it was fake news. this was a witch hunt from the jump. his credibility will go up in the media's credibility will go down. in my opinion, the whole witch hunt thing was rigged from the jump as an excuse for

hillary losing the election. you think about the spies and the wiretaps the unmasking of the leaking, this was all done to take out the president of the united states as an insurance policy to protect the country against his presidency. someone should write a book about the deep state. honestly, there's so much dirt out there. >> greg: it's a great title for a book. i think you coined it just now. >> juan: i sit here and listen and think wow. martha, there's a report saying that the president is considering a former attorney general to become attorney general now to replace matt whitaker. it's not imminent. he's looking for someone with more credentials and someone, by the way, who has some connections to george h.w. >> martha: he was chosen by george h.w. bush as his attorney general and served three years under president bush

41. perhaps that has lifted the appeal of his candidacy a little bit. in typical white house fashion, it was like he's definitely the guy. he might not be the guy. we are not sure. there's going to be an announcement. there might be an announcement. clearly he's in the mix and someone they are interested in. i talked to some folks today in the judicial round -- who feel he has an excellent reputation and would be a good pick. we are going to talk about it tonight on "the story," coming up at 7:00. we will see. >> juan: we will see. greg, i was thinking about your ratings. thinking if it wasn't for me harassing you every day, what would greg's readings be? >> greg: they would be much lower, and i thank you for that. it's so true. you've made me into some kind of martyr. he's not wrong about whether he would be 75. it would deftly be higher. it's impossible to prove.

the goal of the probe is a kind of handicap him. >> juan: can i ask you a question. the goal of the probe is to handicap him? why isn't the goal of the probe to find out whether or not there was russian interference in the election. >> greg: let's be honest, we haven't found it yet. you are trying to stop me from doing an analogy. i have an analogy, juan. it's a christmas tree. if donald trump or a christmas tree, look at all the gifts underneath it. peace, prosperity, wages, jobs, gnp, decline of isis, possible peace with north korea. those are amazing gifts. where is the media? they are the loser picketing the nativity scene down by the church. that's an analogy! >> juan: was in a dark red christmas tree? >> greg: more fake news. if you saw the video of the white house, there were dozens of different kinds of christmas trees, beautiful christmas trees in different rooms. what do the media do?

they chose the road trees and made it into some kind of satanic ritual. crazy. >> juan: crazy. getting back to the probe, you and i go at it but getting back to the probe, what you have tomorrow is the potential for more breaking news with regard to manafort. jesse's point is it's not you make any difference to any true trump supporter. is that right? >> jesse: if they find really bad dirt, people who have open minds will say it's not good, but i don't see that coming. >> martha: the suggestion that it's going to go away anytime soon is really off-base. democrats are saying they want to turn over the testimony that was given to them to the judiciary committee by roger stone and jared kushner and donald trump jr. they want robert mueller to analyze it. they want him to analyze it against the other testimony and make sure there isn't any inconsistency. there is no doubt in my mind that even of robert mueller comes in and says i didn't find

any collusion exactly, he is finding something interesting which is a lot a people who are getting paid in washington to lobby for foreign governments, and they are not really disclosing that's what they are doing. i think that's one of the avenues he's going down here with a bit of commitment. >> jesse: that is the real collusion. mueller and the house democrats. i think we have found it. >> greg: there is your book. >> kennedy: does not mean everyone who's testified before congress is made a misstatement and out now light is now going to be prosecuted? james clapper and people are going to be chanting "lock him up." >> juan: he could get very personal for the president. his son-in-law, his son, they were called to testify, kennedy. then it becomes like what decision does he have to make? >> jesse: if they go after my son, i pardon him. you have to pardon. >> juan: he was was saying with regard to manafort. he is saying cohen should get as much time as possible.

>> greg: which son is it? [laughter] >> juan: you are a mean man. all right, "one more thing" coming at you right now on "the five" ." ♪ ♪ ♪ the united states postal service makes more holiday deliveries to homes

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>> dana: i think you have a whole future in this. >> jesse: this is a children's show i am working on. when they kicked me off of fox. >> juan: jingle bells, it is christmas time in the city and the city of scotland, he has put 3,000 christmas lights on his house. look at this! has wife has been suffering from lung disease since 2011 and the wife of 31 years died this august, when she first became ill he began to think christmas lights up on the house to raise money for charity to help them with their medical bills. before she died in august, she asked the grandfather of eight whether or not he would promise to do it one last time. so, he added a thousand more lights. he said this will be the last year. he turns it over to the community. i was thinking, but a great christmas tale of love. wonderful gift to his now deceased wife. >> beautiful.

>> minus christmas too. every year i go to the cardinals christmas luncheon and i celebrate the hundred years of catholic charities in new york giving to new yorkers who are in need. families who are destitute, impoverished without homes. this is a political person who owned some of the best restaurants in new york sentry told this incredible story. she was given the award today. after world war ii they ended up, they were in yugoslavia on the wrong side of the communist border and her family had to escape. the children and her mother won first and then her father had to escape the guards, they were shooting at him as she went across the border. they finally got to america and the catholic charities basically helped her dad in her mouth find a job i got her started. she says i don't it feels like to be one of these children needs make their american dream come true. >> last night we hosted the women's event honoring ten incredible women who were using their inner beauty to make the

world a better place. i gave a new more to that woman. genevieve chase. she was an afghanistan veteran. her truck was rammed by a car packed with explosives. she started american women's veteran and the focus on women's issues and helping those with ptsd and other areas. >> the special report is up nex next. >> bret: president trump zeros in on a nominee for attorney general and yes, he may have for that name before. the arrest of a top executive at a chinese telecom company sends wall street really and could have major implications on the u.s. china trade deal. plus, how republican lawmakers are trying to take away a lot of power from the income with the democratic governor. this is "special report with bret baier." ♪