i have been reading in the last 24 hours is all of these things that have not happened since george h w bush, when we won in 1988. other people say the party of george h w bush is now officially gone and this is a whole new era of the republican party. i would say that one of the things i am seeing is this new coalition, this multiracial, totally different working-class coalition that has emerged. that presents a tremendous opportunity. we studied in class. there is a professor in stanford and we talked about party sorting. since the days of george h w bush, parties sorted more. you used to have liberal democrats, moderate democrats, conservative democrats, liberal republicans, moderate republicans, conservative republicans. that is how we got all the sweeping landmark legislation passed. you could get the conservative democrats to pair up with the conservative republicans, or the conservative democrats would get the liberal republicans. that has disappeared. everyone who is a liberal is in the democrat party. everyone who is conservative is in the republican party. this new coalition that h

you were not just at the white house but in the george h w bush's administration you are in the defense department and had to be confirmed. talk a little bit about the imbalance and maybe talk about a problem we do have, taking longer and longer to get presidential nominees confirmed. stephen: it is just the way you described. the tricky part, i was slated to be an assistant secretary of defense. i had not been senate confirmed what i was also part of the transition team for the george h w bush administration. the tricky part the white house wanted a direction on the future of our strategic nuclear weapons and how should we structure our conventional forces? that came over to the defense department, to the transition team which was paul wolfowitz and me and not much anybody else. you are then trying to respond to a white house that wants to get underway. within the agencies you only have really the permanent government. that is one of the features, the good features of our system. the president comes in with a whole raft of political appointees who translate the mandate from the america

the last time a republican won that many you have to go back to 1980 and george h. w. bush won over 400 electoral votes. so it was an absolutely mammoth win for donald trump. he put in a stronger performance than any republican since george h. w. bush. >> which only makes what's happening in the arizona senate race even more remarkable because it's still between kari lake and ruben gallego. yes, arizona is one of the two races not called. gallego is up with 88% of the vote. if you asked me a few days ago, lake was closing, but gallego has spread out the lead a little more. he's up by a little more than 51,000 votes. what a difference between lake at 48.1%, and donald trump in the same state, look at that, if we were in fact, let's zoom out a little bit and put the percentage on. there we go. and she's at 52.5%. look at that. that's just such a difference between the senate race and the presidential race. and that's something we've seen across the political map where if, you know, let's say go to wisconsin. here's another state where donald trump, 49.6% wins the state, but y

. >> back in 1988, for george h w bush. >> and welcome back to our kron. 4 coverage continuing coverage of election 2024. want to check in for the first time tonight. first of many times with our political panel force catherine heenan is here to lead us through that. i got high. hey, listen, we have 2 new members of our little political posse. so i i'd better introducing introduced them. this is a scot drexel. scott is a democratic strategist and also jason clark. jason, as regional vice chairman of the california republican party. i was kidding with them about wearing name tags. but now we're going we'll get by. okay. it's early gentleman very early. but for the sake of viewers, what are you watching? what would you tell viewers to be watching? i think what i'm looking for is performance against expectations and performance against past performance in 2020. >> in 2016, where is vice president harris performing better she did last time around? where is donald trump improving on margins that he had last time around? i think everything else everybody should put out of their mind because i

h w bush is kinder gentler speech? peggy: i worked on that speech. that was george h w bush's acceptance speech.eter: is it true nancy reagan when she heard that said a kind letter, gentler what? peggy: i do not know. the way i hrd

h w bush is kinder gentler speech? peggy: i worked on that speech. that was george h w bush's acceptance speech. peter: is it true nancy reagan when she heard that said a kind letter, gentler what? peggy: i do not know. the way i heard it was that she had said kinder and gentler than what? i have no idea if she said that. i never asked her. but it has the sound of her piercing intelligence. so i think maybe, but i never asked. [laughter] peggy: peter: have -- how do you view your role as a public writer? peggy: i think it is challenging. maybe a little more challenging than it was in the 30's, 40's, 50's. i am a big reader of biographies and there is a biography of a wonderful american columnist, dorothy thompson, very important study mind, intelligent woman who was a key figure in the 1930's and 40's journalism. she caught onto hitler pretty early and had a serious foreign affairs mind. she was a big american columnist, new york-based. there is a wonderful biography of her called american cassandra whose author i cannot think of at the moment but when i read it i cannot help but compare the lif

uh they also have received the popular vote for the 1st time since 1988 when george h. w. bush. uh beach. uh the the brother does officers cottages here, michael dukakis as the last time. uh, that's uh the republicans received a majority of the popular by services. clearly though this is being seen as a huge mandate for the incoming trump administration. this is a democracy. the people have spoken pretty emphatically them, but they want, they want donald trump, but still the house looks too close to go. i wish also remember there, but as we still would go by and then press the on obama obama go up the try factor in 2008. and that doesn't necessarily mean that you can push sweeping legislation through immediately. that's the factionalism within the policy. and, and so on, sir, at all, sir, when the mid term is coming to you, this time is it's, it's likely that the, what is the tradition often has the, the vote has been pretty much, uh, you know, you're gonna have up to years basically to do everything you can with that try effective because congressional control can change pretty

dating back to the time where michael dukakis ran against george h. w bush and john kerry ran against bush's son. >> dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first- degree murders to have weekend passes from prison. one was willie horton, who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times. >> i served with john kerry. >> i served with john kerry. >> john kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. >> he is lying about his record. >> surgery. >> for prisoners. >> for prisoners. every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access. >> kamala is for they/them. president trump is for you. >> and those attacked littered the airwaves, those harris attacks littered the airwaves. they chose not to respond much the same way michael dukakis chose not to respond. >> it was the most successful and highly run trump ad. but that was about so much more than just transgender rights. it was also about the economy. it was also the brand of the democratic party writ large. so that is the primary that actually probably helped to do vic

george w. bush and that gautama white house invite and george h. w. n't see that today. >> no and i'm glad you mentioned that when i was back there i could not even think of being a republican, i'm an independent now but i could never think about the republicans that were the bad guys back then i remember that was the mindset and then i remember i did a look on ronald reagan and how i thought he was taken the country in the wrong direction in my executive producer neil cavuto~ because he thought it was too political, how about that. it was not balanced enough, nowadays the democrats go over there and they do it. but i understand my conservative friends get so upset because they say look at what they're doing on s&l, it's always been like that. i was like that and i understand the mindset. i have to tell you and i'm going to take off a lot of my conservative friends but what maya rudolph did last night with dana carvey and joe biden. neil: that's magical. that was hysterical, joe biden came wondering and where am i going, nailed it. neil: i'm dead serio

one of his first jobs in the white house was advising george h w bush, so long experienced in d.c. white house. greer, we have someone who is not like lighthizer. it was expected to be robert lighthizer but it's sort of like a lighthizer light. this has long been someone who is a student of lighthizer's, seen as his protÉgÉ. we can expect a lot of the same policies. trump was not kidding. if anybody had any doubts about trump's intentions when it comes to tax cuts and tariffs, these two men have previously spearheaded these efforts and we could see a lot more to come. tom: brendan let's bring in you at this point. what reaction have we been getting from some of america's key trading partners? i saw the canadian response are reporting they have pledged to do more on the border. for some surely in the incoming trump administration, that would be grits to the mill, saying these threats work. >> the responses from canada, mexico were quite distinct actually. justin trudeau picked up the phone and called incoming president trump and said, you know, here is what we are doing on the borde

the last and only time a new president's nominee was rejected by senate vote back in 1989 when george h. w. bush is defense secretary nominee much on tower, was undone by reports of his excessive drinking and quote womanizing. how quite. as summer bumpkins question whether his cabin a pencil pass a , there are talks of allies using a tool of recess to circumvent opposition. >> i want to avoid a recess appointment scenario. the prostitution the president has total authority. >> i don't think we should be circumventing these in its responsibilities , but i think it is premature to be talking about recess appointments. >> all options on the table including recess appointments. hopefully it does not get to that but we will find out quickly if the democrats want to play ball or not. >> joining us as democratic congressman seth moulton the massachusetts. thank you for being here. to start on the recess appointment point , the "wall street journal" has a piece this morning talk about the quote unquote scheme saying that the founders had to travel to the national capital by horse and they granted the pr

first in 1992, the incumbent president george h. w. bush, the status quo, got 37% of the vote. that's why the result was a mandate for change. but with an electoral college victory much larger than trump's, that wasn't much of a mandate. bill clinton tried to turn his 5.6-point win in 1992 into a mandate to completely overhaul the nation's health care system. a project that blew up in his face and cost his party both houses of congress the next midterm election. now donald trump isn't even in office and things are blowing up in his face. with headline after headline about the failed nomination for matt gaetz as attorney general and the limits. tonight. donald trump announced two major administration picks. for treasury secretary, trump picked scott bessent. a billionaire hedge fund executive. bessent who once served as a chief for george soros has i merged as a trusted adviser. tonight, donald trump selected project 2025 author russell vought. the new york times reports mr. vought's project 2025 was to oversee executive orders that he could take during his first six months in o

h w bush is kinder gentler speech? peggy: i worked on that speech. that was george h w bush's acceptance speech.eter: is it true nancy reagan when she heard that said a kind letter, gentler what? peggy: i do not know. the way i heard it was that she had said kinder and gentler than what? i have no idea if she said that. i never asked her. but it has the sound of her piercing intelligence. so i think maybe, but i never asked. [laughter] peggy: peter: have -- how do you view your role as a public writer? peggy: i think it is challenging. maybe a little more challenging than it was in the 30's, 40's, 50's. i am a big reader of biographies and there is a biography of a wonderful american columnist, dorothy thompson, very important study mind, intelligent woman who was a key figure in the 1930's and 40's journalism. she caught onto hitler pretty early and had a serious foreign affairs mind. she was a big american columnist, new york-based. there is a wonderful biography of her called american cassandra whose author i cannot think of at the moment but when i read it i cannot help but compare the life

trump was backed by 46% of latino voters surpassing ronald reagan and george h w. bushr fiery and mostly peaceful the smart man and julio rosas. hue owe, when you hear this analysis, what's your reaction? on the view, they're insisting that latino voters are sexist and misogynies for voting for trump, and we heard that from ms nbc pundits. what do young mare of that? >> it's a political weapon to wield against the gop any time there's an election. once the election is over, they say thank you for the support. then go back to the fields and pick our fruits and vegetables. go back to the kitchens and bathrooms and finish cleaning up after us. go back to your work sites and finish building our ho houses ad our department stores. see you at the next election. that's what the democratic party said for years to latinos and this time, latino community said no, that doesn't work for us. we have a border crisis in our doorstep. that sunny comment, i've been to stark county and zapata, maverick because there was a massive border crisis that unleashed these latino majorities by th

it reminds me of george h. w. bush. moods come and go, but greatness endures.oval rating in 1953. and yet, nato, the marshall plan. the first steps toward civil rights. so much of that grew in the decades afterward. and remember, is there any american president you or i can think of who wouldn't want to be harry truman? but it took time. and history and headlines just don't run in tandem. and that was even when we had headlines much less tiktok. so history is about, history is about taking a deep breath. >> john, thank you so much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thanks. >>> coming up, our next guest is one of the people who advised joe biden four years ago to choose kamala harris as his vice presidential running mate. today, melanie campbell said this. in the new york times. she ran a damn good race and we voted for white nationalism. that is not because they were worried about grocery prices, they were worried about white privilege and white status and sent the message that a multicultural democracy is fine as long as they are at the top. ha h

it was famously -- it's the economy, stupid and it was recession, recession, recession, when george h w. bushy the recession ended. the new york times declared the recession ended two weeks later. i think that we are in the inverse of that, that the economy is real any a precarious position here. we saw this with the terrible jobs number. forget the devastation from the hurricane and the turmoil that that's caused. the revisions, 81,000 jobs revised downward in august. we saw further revisions in september. so we saw almost 100,000 job revisions and i think probably the media has been covering it here and we will immediately go into the economy is bad, the fed needs to cut, we need more big government spending from a potential harris administration. maria: well, that's what i want to get to, specifics on why kamala harris is on the wrong track when it comes to economic growth. i mean, one issue we talk about all the time is regulation and i know that president trump has said many times that deregulation is a beautiful thing. he cut the red tape. he wants to continue cutting red tape. is that

the last major cabinet rejection was in 1989, former president george h w. bushesominee fell in the senate by a $47.53 vote. >> thanks, madeleine. rachel: thank you, madeleine. the latest pick was brooke rollins as agriculture secretary. it's filling out really quickly and axios is bringing up an interesting point about the picks. they're saying that these picks actually resemble more of like a european style coalition government. here's a headline from the piece, the title of the piece is behind the curtain, trump's liberal cabinet. i don't know if that's exactly accurate. here's what they say. the say the most controversial picks, there's the undebateable fact this might be the most ideologically diverse cabinet of modern times. the cabinet increasingly resembles a european coalition government staffed with ideological rivals united for now by grand maga vision. it's trump's team of ideological rivals, the team represents the trump world view, traditional conservatism is dead and advocates are neutered to the point of irrelevant. i'm not sure i agree with the las

. - [george h. w. bushge h. w. bush attacks iraq. (bomb explosions) ya know, i didn't remember vietnam, but the invasion of iraq was the first time that americans were watching a war 24/7. - there's this tremendous anxiety in the united states that this is gonna be another vietnam. iraq is the fourth or fifth largest army in the world. we're gonna get bogged down in this incredibly bloody fight. (men cheering and yelling) and we win in a hundred hours. - bush's ratings skyrocket, higher than any president has ever gotten at that point. - [female news anchor] president bush's record-breaking popularity has the democrats up against a wall. how can the democrats possibly beat that? (crowd clapping) - the world's dying to know, is it boxers or briefs? (laughter, crowd clapping) - [bill clinton] usually briefs. (crowd clapping and cheering) - [ethan] after two terms of reagan, and one term of bush, it felt like no one under sixty five was ever gonna be president. bill clinton thought he could change that. - that

to go all the way back to martin van buref in 1836 but the only one between now and then was george h. w. bush and he won because people wanted another reagan term. nobody wants another biden term or he be the nominee so she has to pull of something very difficult which is the sitting vice president of the most unpopular presidential administration since world war ii and she is still in it. she could win this still. stuart: crunch time. your prediction, please? >> i have no idea. i'm going to be honest with you. i don't think anybody knows. stuart: and on the set with me. thank you very much marc thiessen. , you're all ready. now this. a big endorsement for trump coming at the elections 11th hour from joe rogan. all right, lauren. what did rogan say that made him endorse trump? lauren: two words, elon musk. rogan writes, the great and powerful elon musk, if it wasn't for him, we'd be explitive. he makes a compelling case for trump and every step of the way for the record yes it's an endorsement of trump enjoy the podcast and on that podcast musk said, if trump loses, "this is the last election

when bill clinton said, is the economy stupid, and george h w bush was st. trying to get the kind of me going and the economy seems to go in the right direction. but the voters have in their mind that they want to change their 92 and they want change. now the problem for commer harris is she hasn't actually broken specifically with job. i'm the rep becomes the change kind of, she's a continuity candidate. the other thing about this election is, went down, trump was present, he had a very good economy up until cobit but he's been able to ship all the co would blame on onto bush, which means that people have pills in the style just for the trump years. when it comes the economy, and so he has a track record, he had a better track record and people want change and they want to change back to where trump has gone. i think that's where the voters are. and if you look at most of all these polls, the economy still is the number one issue, inflation does it have to the high cost of getting by? and if you live in the upper one percent, you're doing fine. but we've ki

george w bush. then before that, not since 88 with h w bush, george w bush and spa. that's, that's quite wrapped. um, we should remember that sometimes these, the try fact can be while the for other fleet sang during the present bite and have the try factor with when he was elected in 2020. and, and actually donald trump had the try sector in 2016 as well. and it was a what happened in both occasions was in the, in the literature of elections 2 years later, the electra them, in the case of donald trump in 2016, gave the house to the democrats and, and actually similarly in, in 2022. the republicans took control of a house, so yeah, it's, it's quite a pleasing unit, 60 bytes to pos sleeping legislation of the set of norm fiscal legislation in the senate. uh, it'll be interesting to see whether the republicans make moves on to try to change those rules and god bless you on the legislation, we pass through a simple majority of the pos they've been terribly games that, but we'll see what happens now that they have a simple majority, it doesn't mean that the republicans can certainly get the nominatio

george w. bush administration foot -- george h w bush administration.ofessor giardino research focuses on racial attitudes, conflict, and the way in which groups identify and influence political preferences in the united states. joining us on zoom's director and ceo of the miller center of public affairs. before coming to uva, he was the managing director of brookings institute and served in administration of president bill clinton. today's discussion will be moderated by ian solomon, dean of the batten school of public policy. the dean brings a wealth of experience in education, government, the private sector, and international organization. >> we want to thank the karsh institute, batten school, and the miller center for making this event possible. we look forward to gaining valuable insights about the pivotal moment for our democracy. [applause] >> thank you so much, blake and ella. great to have you kick off this panel. good morning, everyone. wonderful to have you here. well, here we are, on the second morning after an historic national election in

when we vote presidents out, generally speaking if you look at the last several, jimmy carter, george h. w. bush , they are never heard from again at a political level. now, donald trump , not just heard from again, but going back to the white house. the historical perspective it is a stunning. >> it is shocking. it is an interesting moment because he wakes up and says i want to be grover cleveland tomorrow ? except somebody like donald trump . i think one of the things that is important to keep in mind is that trump essentially was a pariah in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election. a lot of republicans had the pandemic heavy on their mind and they felt like he mishandled it and they felt like he cost them a lot. they also had january 6th on their mind. they're looking at this man and saying we don't want anything to do with him. elon musk now on stage with him celebrating and set in 2022 donald trump should fade off into obscurity he should live a nice life. what we know is that is not donald trump . one of the things that has emerged about donald trump that is radically different from a

george w bush. when he comes he becomes in 2001 as some of these revisionist accounts coming out and he will cite some of them in his speeches and in meetings and then make h r mcmaster when he becomes national security adviser in 2017, will draw explicitly on some of the lessons of of vietnam. so in the readings and the classes to come will be getting into more detail on the main points of debate between orthodoxy and revisionist. and you have a lot of primary documents that will also allow you assess this information without any filtration and you have secondary sources. well, that have some are more favorable towards the orthodox, more inclined towards the revisionist and as a reminder, one of the main reasons you're here college is to be able to learn to think for yourselves. so, uh, you were here not merely to echo what someone says, but to think, think about it yourself and think through it. these are tend to be controversial issues. and so there's often good arguments for both, but i would encourage you to go into us with an open mind. okay. any questions from today or from the the readings that you had for today. sebastian? i just wanted to ask abo

. >> lbj, george h. w. bush. >> there you go. a bit of a lighter note. the magic wall, you may have seen it, was shining again in the election night -- >> you can always change colors. you've got blue, blue again, a little bit a red there. it a little bit of blue, and of course, if you want to make something out of green, we have got a little face here, whiskers, we can make a cat. now, let's take this up to the ocean. it is going to be surrounded by water. that is very, very dangerous. i can make it bounce here. >> you have got to love it. the whole "saturday night live" sketch went viral again online. we want to take a minute to salute our actual magical magicians, phil mattingly, the legendary john king, who manned the wall throughout the election night, breaking down the race like only cnn can. >> you asked, anyplace is the biden presidency is over performing for joe biden, 2020? harris, over performing, 2020. holy smokes. let's go and see if there is anything there. literally, nothing? >> nothing. >> sean, you are a useful individual. you know the g

of the house and the senate you have to go all the senate you have to go all the way back to george h w bushmericans give a newly elected president a clean sweep for them it's very imbalanced now for the what would that make a difference? it makes a difference because a president can only do so much. we heard about executive orders and powers as i'm sure your views agree with. you need congress to work, to be able to pass laws, enact policies for the you heard both trump and harris talk this campaign trail about what they will do, what would they would like to do when they get elected. it started to do that if you don't actually have any kind of a majority in either one of the two chambers as you outline. it'll be interesting because just from the mechanics to give everybody context, when you go to voting, i'm in georgia voting, people have been talking about split tickets. will use emf czarno for example people voting for trump at the top of the ticket and then democrats further down. i'm curious whether we will see that bear outcome this election. there are people like john testing, long—t