your last name is bush. >> for sure. >> reporter: his uncle is former president george h.w. bush. and jeb are his first cousins. you have been worldly more so than most people. >> for sure. i should have known better, absolutely. there's no question about that. people also say you should have stopped him. but i didn't have the strength of character at the time to do that. i wish i did. >> reporter: bush says building that strength of character has taken time. and self-reflection. >> i'm spending my days now much more joyously, much more present. meditation. i spend time on mindfulness. i try to daily. >> how do you convince some people who are going to say, you just want your job back, you just want to get back on tv? how do you convey to people that this is -- >> i can't, i don't think i can. and -- if they feel that then there's nothing i can do about it. i can tell you that ready to get back to work now because there is purpose and there is clarity and there is acceptance and there is a changed person. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm robin roberts in new york. >>> up next, a

. >> bush says he's officially retired.ffice and he just can't stop expanding the business. although both boys documented their dad's line of work, they have not been as enthusiastic about his total immersion in the business. for father bob, the gi, building the business half of the war was the mission without end. for the sons, babyboomers, work provided the means to live well. >> what a difference. >> maybe we put the one into the batch plant to start with and move. >> keep your nose in whine that ball. >> the family says bob bush rarely took time off for recreation or travel but he always found time for his other family. fellow gis who won the congressional medal of honor. a few months ago, bush attended a reunion of the medal of honor society in saratoga springs, new york. >> it is really lifting to get together with fellow veterans and enjoy each other. we're just like brothers. >> bob, if you could change anything right now, based on all that you've seen and all that you've been through. what would you change? >> i th

bush. and what did george bush do? he invited ted kennedy and his family to the white house after the inauguration and he said, the new movie "13 days" has come out about the cuban myself crisis and your brother and john f. kennedy and his presidency would you like to watch it in the white house theater? >> so all of these things in that particular week were about this trust developing, this mating dance, this relationship, this common cause of can we get something big done? they both had their own equities obviously politically and otherwise. but they both believed that we ought to do a better job of educating poor kids. >> you can just imagine the brother of president kennedy sitting there with the new president, president bush, watching a film in the white house movie theater. and then they started talking in that night about how they wanted to work together on some big issues. it's going to be health care. was it going to be education reform? but he started reefing out right across party lines from the early days o

bush. but particularly when it is around the wife, when she is elected -- unelected and on fire of all. -- and unfirable. although i would argue bill clinton fired hillary from being health czar. budget is perceived as being unfirable. lesley: best anecdote? gil: jackie kennedy hated the term first lady, she thought it made it -- made her sound like a saddle horse. she wanted to smoke but they didn't want her to be photographed smoking. she could not curse. it gets difficult when jackie kennedy, who loved to ride horses, gets a whole bunch of stallions -- a fleet? [laughter] gil: i'm not a horseman. it is a whole bunch of forces. jack goes -- not to jackie, because he is afraid of her -- to one of his aides, he goes, the israeli prime minister is going to come and give me some $10 bible and i have to go, how wonderful. meantime, jackie is going to be off with these white stallions in saudi arabia. tell her to return them. he sends the aid to jackie. jackie listens and says, tell him i am no

bush presidencies. during much of that time, she served as moderator on "face the nation," the cbs news sunday public affairs broadcast, where she interviewed margaret thatcher, boris yeltsin, yasser arafat, and virtually every top u.s. official. she has a collection of emmy awards, including a lifetime achievement emmy. her latest book is "becoming grandma." as always, i would like to ask you, before our speakers begin, to please make sure that anything that makes noise, like a cell phone, is switched off. now please join me in welcoming our speakers. [applause] lesley: i'm going to start by putting on the coolest pair of glasses you have ever seen. [laughter] lesley: when this topic was chosen quite a while ago, everybody -- i mean everybody -- was 100% sure we would have the first woman president. first grandma president. so in a way, tonight is kind of a consolation prize, because we are going to be talking about powerful women who are close to the pinnacle -- almost there. but for those of us who l

bush. >> george w. bush gets west virginia. >> narrator: west virginia. >> west virginia, which has been solidly in the democratic column for a long, long time. >> bill clinton's home state has gone bush. >> narrator: and arkansas. >> six electoral votes and they go for bush. >> narrator: and even al gore's home state of tennessee. >> tonight, embarrassing vice president gore by snatching his state's 11 electoral votes. >> al gore lost his home state, lost west virginia. these are states that he should have won. >> had any of those states gone the other way, al gore would have been president. >> florida goes bush, the presidency is bush, that's it. >> narrator: in washington, they say the nra was a decisive factor in al gore's defeat. >> in no small measure, it was that fight over guns after columbine that had the firearm community more enlivened, engaged, and a few votes difference in florida, and the whole thing would have gone the other way. >> i, george walker sh

[applause] and extraordinary supporter over the years of bush family, of president bush, mr. brad freeman. brad? [applause] one of our newer but remarkable trustees, mr. ben sutton. ben. [applause] from the reagan family, michael and cameron. michael, cameron. [applause] state assemblyman dante acosta. [applause] just a few more. our former congressman and his wife janice. [applause] all of our elected officials from the county of ventura and city of simi valley. [applause] president bush's secretary of treasury rosario marine. [applause] and lastly retired u.s. army officer gary lindh and his wife mara. gary. [applause] i would be remiss if i didn't mention that gary became paralyzed from the waist down when a helicopter crashed while conducting operations in iraq in 2008 but thanks to the generosity of the infinite hero foundation, he can now walk through the assistance of an exoskeleton. yeah. [applause] if you would like to know what an exoskeleton is, gary will be at the reagan library tomorrow night for an event to share his story. we invite all of you to come back tomo

bush day in appreciation for the life he lived among us and the honor he shared with us. >> bob bushw up with a hero in the house. he received the highest honor, the congestiressional medal of honor. when they were kids, they saw the medal in the box in the den, but like a few million other children of gis, susan, rick, and mick bush are learning to appreciate how much of their father's behavior towards them was formed by the war experiences he kept to himself. >> probably don't remember anything relates to the war until i was 12 or 13. i don't remember my first recollection of realizing he had a glass eye. it wasn't until i was in my early teens. >> when bob bush was a teenager, he was-ing his medal of honor from harry truman in the ceremonies on the white house lawn. bush was 18. the age that most kids are graduating from high school. only a few months earlier, bush was a marine medic on the island of okinawa. in the midst of a japanese attacks, he was treat and revived a wounded lieutenant. >> then the japanese threw hand grenades down. i my arm up like this and that took the conc

bush, and uneven g toclinton, and a failed george w. bush. f to george w. bush. why? he didn't seize the moment or vision for the future for which the moment was right in the world was expecting. we gradually slipped into troubling posture, particularly in the defense posture statement that his staff developed for him. the offers of that defense posture then resurfaced as the neocons in the bush ii administration. on somedid pretty well issues, particularly on american appeal to the world and identification on global issues. andertainly was energetic creative and expanding by creating a larger, more secure europe. and he handled very well because wars. -- the kosovo but he flubbed on the middle east. he left it in worse shape than he imparted -- that he inherited it. he had eight years and only got seriously involved in the very end. kind of nurtured unintentionally a mood of national self-indulgence in this country. maybe even he didn't personally. that had the effect of america become gradually more unresponsive to the new global developments which can only be addre

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that's the difference between him and george bush.s why he is so upset at the news coverage he's getting. half the republican analysis was against trump. he's battling across the full spectrum of the media. >> what i'm curious about is you trust the media or donald trump more. jesse: who trust the media more? who trusts donald trump more? okay, again it's split. is one of the reasons you don't trust the media because when you look at one side you see illegal immigration is down 70%. obamacare has been repealed in the house. tax cuts are coming. isis is on notice. are those things not being discussed and all you hear is russia, russia. >> the media colluded with hillary in 2016. they gave her free passes day in and day out. cnn gave her questions. nobody trust the media. many journalists vote democrat and nobody trust them. in the back. jesse: kathy he sang the democrats and the media colluded more than russia and donald trump. >> i served in the white house press corps for a couple administration and i had just as many republicans in

sean spicer hides "among" the bushes. ( laughter ) sean hides "next to" the bushes. my favorite, sean hides "from" the bushes, because one of the bushes asked him a question about james comey. ( cheers and applause ) hello! remember, sean. they're not laughing "at" you. they're laughing among you. ( laughter ) ( applause ) thank you, thank you. ( cheers ) thank you, gentlemen. ( applause ) , of course, trump isn't the only politician trying to sell you something, because bill clinton and james patterson are teaming up to write a novel. it's called "the president is missing." that's. much more dignified than the original title, "have you seen my husband?" well, we got an advance copy of the book. let's see if we can detect bill clinton's influence on the classic patterson thriller. here we go. ( clears throat ) chapter two. really hot. "ken brantley swung his agile body onto the roof. he smiled, thinking of the moment he would corner his mark and take him out with a single shot. he also smiled because he was thinking of boobs. ( laughter ) brantley shook his head, det

bush talks about his portraits of american veterans. astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson discusses his many books on the cosmos. new york times book review editor pamela paul reflects on the books she's read over the past 28 years. michael whitmore offers his thoughts on shakespeare's legacy and much more. for a full schedule, visit booktv.org. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. and now we kick off weekend with craig shirley recounting president reagan's political life from 1976-1980. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon and welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. i'm a resident of gaithersburg and a member of the democratic central committee representing district 17 which encompasses the beautiful city of gaithers burg, so welcome. gaiters thug proudly supports the airports and humanities. we are pleased to bring you this event thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. so when you see them around and they're walking around here, please, take time to say thanks. appreciate that. like

that's the difference between him and george bush. coverage he's getting. half the republican analysis was against trump. he's battling across the full spectrum of the media. >> what i'm curious about is you trust the media or donald trump more. jesse: who trust the media more? who trusts donald trump more? okay, again it's split. is one of the reasons you don't trust the media because when you look at one side you see illegal immigration is down 70%. obamacare has been repealed in the house. tax cuts are coming. isis is on notice. are those things not being discussed and all you hear is russia, russia. >> the media colluded with hillary in 2016. they gave her free passes day in and day out. cnn gave her questions. nobody trust the media. many journalists vote democrat and nobody trust them. in the back. jesse: kathy he sang the democrats and the media colluded more than russia and donald trump. >> i served in the white house press corps for a couple administration and i had just as many republicans in the room as democrats. it's a my

. >>> and we are finally hearing from billy bush. what does he say about the infamous "access hollywood" tape that got him fired before donald trump was elected president? >>> welcome back. top administration officials are not denying that president trump discussed his motivation for firing fbi director james comey with russian officials in the oval office. "the new york times" has reported that the president told the russian ambassador and foreign minister that comey was "crazy," a "real nutjob," and that his firing ended great pressure on the president. >>> on sunday, rex tillerson and h.r. mcmaster seemed to concede that the president discussed the comey firing with russian officials. here's mcmaster on abc. >> i don't remember exactly what the president said, and the notes that they apparently have are not i don't think a correct transcript, but the gist of the conversation was that the president feels as if he's hamstrung in his ability to work with russia to find areas of cooperation because this has been obviously so much in t

reagan was a radio broadcaster in nearby illinois, local hero in george bush is from texas, less tiesto new england than he does to any prep school, ties to iowa more than any prep school then new england so he beats reagan. tom pettit of nbc says we witness the political funeral of ronald reagan. five weeks later, he scores an enormous come back in the new hampshire primary. famous national debate. i am paying for this microphone, at the beginning of his come back against bush but he goes to detroit, the party is still divided but he needs to pick was to unify the party as they always have, nixon picks agnew to unify the party, both practice perfection in the 40s, 50s, 60s into the 70s it unifies the party but goes through 30 primaries, the nomination. the street fight of his life to be george bush to get that the nomination. >> this leads to voodoo economics. >> reagan pushing -- radio commentaries about it, and the 80 campaign is really the devil and bush because he can't match it. came up with his own tax plan but it is more focused on business unless the individual where reagan w

but the only thing it ended was billy bushes career. for the first time he's now speakin out about the tape. in an interview with the holly wood reporter bush says quote: "looking back upon what was said on that bus, i wish i had changed the topic," "trump liked tv and competition. i could've said, can you believe the ratings on whatever?' but i didn't have the strength of character to do it." bush went on to say how upset he was when his daugther called him from school and asked why he did it... says he's moving on... and working on a new tv series which will show another side of him.. he released few details, but said stay tuned. university of maryland police increasing their presence on campus this morning, following a fatal stabbing over the weekend. police say a bowie state university student, just visiting friends and preparing for graduation with stabbed to death. and his attacker-- is a member of an internet hate group. anna-lysa gayle has more on the story now making nationwide news. keep up with all the latest developments in

and they are not with president bush. i am so sorry, president bush. >> sean: hello? nancy pelosi calls president trump president bush, again. laura ingraham weighs on that and by the way -- the may a protest. way to see that. state wow straightahead. clarispray. from the makers of claritin. briathe customer app willw if be live monday. can we at least analyze customer traffic? can we push the offer online? brian, i just had a quick question. brian? brian... legacy technology can handcuff any company. but "yes" is here. you're saying the new app will go live monday?! yeah. with help from hpe, we can finally work the way we want to. with the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. at panera, a good salad is so this smuch? more than a bowl of something green. more than an obligation to be good. more than just something you have on the side. more than just one flavor, or texture, or color. a good clean salad is so much more than green. and with panera catering, more for your event. panera. food as it should be. i have age-related maculare degeneration, amd, he told

bush chose him. and so he was free to tell people exactly what he thought. >> before we good to question, i may i just make one point? i make it sincerely with everybody here. this book that chris whipple has written is one of the best books of its kind that i have ever read. he has done exhaustive research. he has talked to all these people, all the former chiefs two presidents, countless other senior officials in all of the administrations, and has then brought all of those stories together in the most eloquent and interesting and engaging way. go buy that book. absolutely. >> let's take some questions. if you have a question, wait for the microphone to get to you. >> talk about andy card for a little bit because he really bucked the average and stayed on as george w. bush's chief of staff for a very long time, but pretty much to everyone's detriment. >> well, i don't know about that. he did set the modern record for longevity. andy is a really able guy and he had been around the white house for a

bush. my colleague is professor of political science and next we have the 40 lieutenant governor of california from 2008 until 2011. let's begin by asking a general question of our panelists, starting from left to right. a general question. the trump campaign was unlike any other in modern american history. i think we all agree on that. at like to begin by asking our panelists, this is a panel on trump at home. how have the first 100 days mirrored the unconventional campaign, or have they at all? in what ways have we seen trump break with his predecessor and in which ways are they part for the course. >> very briefly, i am an economist. we are used to being relatively powerful in washington, and it's fascinated me and many economists i know that academic economists do not seem to be playing a major role in policy deliberations. that is a surprise to me. it might be a statement about our value added and so something i teach my students here is we can only know the effectiveness of a public p

-- excuse me -- i'm so sorry -- president bush.pray the day you are president again. >> praying for the day he's president again. >> asked the question how would i work with a republican president, the way we worked with president bush. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers ala

petraeus: president bush. he could talk trash.oing to give you an experience you can write off on your income tax as education. [laughter] ♪ ♪ david: while you were in afghanistan, the effort to capture osama bin laden was going forward. gen. petraeus: capture or kill. david: capture or kill. how were you alerted to that, because you are not directly in the chain of command for that decision that night? gen. petraeus: no one else in our headquarters knew at all. i got up myself, no aides, anything else. we had a joint special operations command post at the nato headquarters in kabul where i was located. i went in there, sort of surprised them at 11:00 at night, said what are you doing in here? i asked everyone to leave except for one officer who i knew very, very well. we dialed up so we could monitor the operation. we had a lot of contingency plans. and the forces they conducted some of those, at least in the headquarters, was working for me in normal times. but that night they were working for the cia. the cia, it was a covert a

if you bring the bushes out here, guys. thank you very much. he wasn't hiding in the bushes, okay?was hiding among the bushes, okay? totally different. you see how much more reassuring this is? this is perfectly dignified. and sean spicer hiding is a great way to teach kids about prepositions. sean spicer hides "among" the bushes. ( laughter ) and my favorite, sean hides "from" the bushes, because one of the bushes asked him a question about james comey. ( cheers and applause ) hello! remember, sean. they're not laughing "at" you. they're laughing among you. ( laughter ) ( applause ) thank you, thank you. ( cheers ) thank you, gentlemen. ( applause ) , of course, trump isn't the only politician trying to sell you something, because bill clinton and james patterson are teaming up to write a novel. it's called "the president is missing." that's. much more dignified than the original title, "have you seen my well, we got an advance copy of the book. let's see if we can detect bill clinton

and they are not with president bush. i am so sorry, president bush. >> sean: hello? nancy pelosi calls president trump president bush, again. laura ingraham weighs in on that and by the way -- the may day protests. wait until you to see that. straight ahead. can we at least analyze customer traffic? can we push the offer online? brian, i just had a quick question. brian? brian... legacy technpany. but "yes" is here. you're saying the new app will go live monday?! yeah. with help from hpe, we can finally work the way we want to. with the right mix of hybrid it, everything computes. how to brush his teeth. (woman vo) in march, my husband didn't recognize our grandson. (woman 2 vo) that's when moderate alzheimer's made me a caregiver. (avo) if their alzheimer's is getting worse, ask about once-a-day namzaric. namzaric is approved for moderate to severe alzheimer's disease in patients who are taking donepezil. it may improve cognition and overall function, and may slow the worsening of symptoms for a while. namzaric does not change the underlying disease progression. don

bush. my colleague jane is a professor of political science here at usc, and abel maldonado is the 48th lieutenant governor of our own california, from 2010 to 2011. let me begin by asking a general question. maybe we can just go starting from left to right, because i'm interested in getting everyone's take. the trump campaign was unlike any other in modern american history, i think we can all agree. i would like to begin by asking our panelists, since this is a panel on trump at home, how have the first 100 days mirrored the unconventional nature of the campaign, or have they had all? have what we seen from trump broken with his predecessors, and in what ways are they about par for the course, fairly ordinary for contemporary politics? >> very briefly, economists used to be relatively carful in washington. it has fascinated me and many that academicnow accomplishments do not seem to be playing a major role in policy deliberations, so that is a surprise to me. it might be a statement about

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the bush presidency in 2001, there were a lot of people who questioned bush's legitimacy, a lot of democrats who were very upset, hey, we won. there were a lot of democrats who were really upset by what happened in florida. i was down on one side, he weighs down was down on the other. but the first couple the second, as the other ron mentioned, personnel. my chief of staff of staff used to say that personnel's policy and policy is personnel. one of the thing that has struck me by this white house, by having been into it and talking to colleagues, is that there is nobody there. you walk into the white house and you see all these offices and they're dark. there is new computer equipment, chairs there, and staffers waiting to be seated but they're not there. to put that into perspective, of the 16 executive branch agencies, we only have two deputy secretaries. you wonder who is really doing the work. so the lights are on and the work's not getting done is something i find really intriguing at this point. the third point is, this is obviously the twitter presidency. bushes are noun for disciplin

bush says he's a better man now and is ready to get back into television.s the latest member of the trump administration to face opposition during a commencement speech.. dozens of students walked out yesterday.. as vice president mike pence spoke at notre dame university. the left wing student group, "we stand for" organized the protest. the group says it opposes pence's position on gay rights, and the administration's crackdown on sanctuary cities. earlier this month, education secretary betsy devos was booed while speaking at university. new overnight - "the greatest show on earth" taking its final bow after 146 years. the ringling brothers and barnum & bailey circus performed its last show to a sold out crowd in uniondale, new york sunday. the owners announced earlier this year that they would bring the curtain down on the show. they blamed high costs and declining ticket sales, especially since the phasing out of their famous elephant show. seven on your side with a consumer alert. washington d-c taxis.. en route to a major upgrade for your cab ride. j

bush pretty well. he didn't manage down very well. he terrorized the staff and ultimately made very few friends and got caught up in the scandal involving using military transportation to do personal things and it caught up with him >> i want to take some questions from the audience in just a minute but one thing that was very interesting was your description of jeanie and error to jeanie's. let me tell a quick story about that. early on we had a major breakthrough in the research of this book. i had left abc news. i have really no political unit or rolodex to find any of these guys so my beautiful wife carey started digging around on the internet. we were looking for an address for jeanie. she said i've got it i found it on war criminals.com. [laughter] so we were off to the races. so anyway the great untold story about cheney is when he was gerald ford's 34-year-old white house chief of staff you as believe it are not the most popular guy in town. he was a charmer. he was self-effacing. he had a terrific sense of humor. he loved to

bush joining us now. good to see you. good morning. i want to ask you, what do you think of the appointment of a special counsel? do you think it helps democrats are relatively donald trump clear his name and the refocus his administration. >> good morning. in the short-term, this helps the democrats. they try to make politics out of mr. trumps associations between his campaign. perhaps the president himself and the russian government. the fact still there evidence that there's anything here. when you appoint a special counsel, a special counsel is to look specifically at crimes. i don't see a crying year. this mr. mechanic tell its domestication and their influence in our potential political system here and now to a criminal nature. democrats are going to quote about this in the short term and perhaps several weeks.the long-g served? that's the question i have to say look at this this morning. >> whether there is any criminality is the key. the justice department h given mueller sweeping powers to investigate and prosecute any imes di

alison: billy bush is opening up for the first time.athan: the lewd exchange between the man caused a backlash and bush got fired. we have more on what the former tv host is staying about the conversation and the fall-out. >> for so in the access hollywood video sparked anger and disgust. for billy bush, regret. >> i understand people's reaction. i agree. i also felt that >> the former "access hollywood" host recorded on this bus in 2005. >> the girl's hot in the purple. >> whoa! >> having the lewd conversation with then reality tv star donald trump, which candidate trump later dismissed as locker room banter. >> you can do anything. grab them by the [bleep] do anything. >> to me, it was more braggadocious and performance. if i thought, i like to think that there was a grown man sitting in front of me details his sexual assault strategy. i would have called the f.b.i. marci: bush tells robin roberts that he learned it was recorded but he never listened to the tape until days before it went public, a month before last year's presidential

bush term. i think it's possible that you see the sg's office go back to those -- maybe not all the way to the, but you could see an uptick in the number of petitions. so that's dynamic number one. dynamic number two, there's interesting sets of cases -- i like to think of them as the switcheroo or what less cases -- whiplash cases. these were initiated during the government during the obama administration. another trump administration has inherited them. maythe trump administration be switching positions. there are number of these cases that race issues that people would generally think of us supreme court were the issues. it's unclear what the trump administration do with some of them, whether they will continue to ending -- whether they will switch positions, and what the effective of that might be in those cases. there are a number of them come all to start a couple highlight the ones that are the most interesting. case involving transgender bathrooms, a case that the supreme court did grant

bush era. that's three. and then the fourth candidate who was reportedly being considered to run the fbi is senator john corneyn of texas.

bushes." [ laughter ] i wasn't in the bushes, i was merely among the bushes. [ laughter ] you know,pted me as one of their own. and when the white house is clarifying the press secretary's position in relation to bushes, it's important to remember, america is both among and in deep [ bleep ]. [ laughter and applause ] and then -- then there's the president himself, when a president makes a decision as momentous and controversial as this one, you'd expect him to explain his thinking publicly to the american people. but trump only spoke out publically for the first time today. two days after the news came down. before that, all we had were his early morning tweets attacking democrats. in fact, this is how "fox and friends," his favorite tv show, reported on those early morning tweets yesterday. ♪ >> president trump is awake. [ laughter ] they report on the president the same way the japanese press reports on godzilla. "he has awakened. we must flee." [ light laughter ] now, since the news broke on tuesday, the white house has argued that comey's firing had nothing to do with the russi

we have music from bush tonight. great jim carrey is here. [ cheers and applause ] freshly released from tonight's season premiere, the bachelorette rachel lindsay is here. [ cheers and applause ] earlier tonight rachel met all 31 of her hand-selected suitors. as they usually do, some of the guys tried to be creative at the top to make an impression. one of the guys dressed as a penguin. another one had a puppet. and then there's jonathan, who thought it was a good idea to do this. >> hello. >> hi. i'm jonathan. >> nice to meet you, jonathan. >> so good to finally meet you. >> i know. you too. >> i heard you're looking for a man who could make you laugh. so i wonder if i could have you do something with me. >> let's do it. >> could i have you open your hands for me and hold them out like this? >> okay. >> hold them a little further. then could i ask you to close your eyes for just a second? >> oh, no. scared. i'm ticklish. >> i wanted to make sure you had at least one good laugh tonight. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: before

bush famously claimed to be out of the loop.el investigation that led to charges against scooter libby caused major tensions between george w. bush and vice president dick cheney. it's one of the many interesting subplots to keep an eye on. thanks for sharing your sunday. hope to see you at noon weekdays. next, live coverage of the president's speech to the big islamic summit in saudi arabia. enjoy your sunday. you're going to be hanging out in here. so if you need anything, text me. do you play? ♪ ♪ use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever before. you got next? chase. helping you master what's now and what's next. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a medication... ...this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain... ...and protect my joints from further damage. humira has been clinically studied for over 18 years. humira works by targeting and helping to... ...block a specific source... ...of infl

. >>> former today show co-host billy bush is trying to make his way from the abyss.e was taken off nbc after tapes surfaced of his crude and lewd conversation with donald trump. he sat down with the hollywood reporter and robin roberts. >> what was it like for you to go back home after the tape had been released to face your daughters, your wife? what was that moment like for you? >> well, the initial moments were total chaos. >> people deserve a comment, billy. >> the paparazzi were never interested in me outside the gate. >> i gave a statement and the statement speaks for itself. >> yeah, but people want to hear it. >> bush said his 16-year-old daughter was devastated. >> she was really upset and i said, mary, it's -- it's going to be okay. you know, don't worry. she said no, why were you laughing at the things he was saying on that bus? it wasn't funny. i said, mary, i am sorry and there is no good answer for that. >> bush also said he regrets not changing the topic during his lewd conversation with trump. bush tells the hollywood reporter, quote, i wish i had sai