bush. as we no, it was his leadership first at the state of the union address but throughout his presidency as well and in his postpresidential life, along with first lady laura bush, that has rallied the congress, rally the nation and in many ways rallied the world to this noble cause. it was because of his leadership and compassion that millions of people are alive today who otherwise would have perished. millions in africa living full lives with, wh potential, contributing to their communities and their nations and giving us all a much brighter future. some have said that pepfar might have been george w. bush's legacy and our coalition cannot agree more. unfortunately, the bush cannot be with us today that we are honored to have in his place the executive director of the george w. bush institute in dallas and to see this reward on president bush. please join me in welcoming her to the stage. [applause] >> thank you, carl. thank you to the us global leadership coalition for honoring presi

bush. as we know, it was his leadership, first at his state of the union address in 2003, but throughout his presidency as well and in his post-presidential life, along with first lady laura bush, that rallied the congress, rallied the nation, and in many ways rallied the world to this noble cause. it was bause of his leadership and compassion that millions of people are alive today who otherwise would have perished. millions in africa and around the world, living full lives with hope, with potential, contributing to their communities and their nations, and giving us all a much brighter future. some have said that pepfar might be george w. bush's greatest legacy. our coalition couldn't agree more. unfortunately, president bush couldn't be with us today, but we're honored to have in his place holly kuzmich, executive director of the bush institute, to receive this honor. please join me in welcoming holly to the stage. [ applause ] ♪ >> thank you, karl. and thank you to the u.s. global leader

george bush, i know, put in a good word for me. second tragedy struck after i had been at the commerce for six months. the second tragedy that changed my life. that was jerry ford's delegate hunter and his campaign for the nomination against ronald reagan was killed in an automobile accident. they needed a new delegate out there. i didn't know anything about delegate hunting. i found out about it. people, -- tomind remind people, in 1976, gerald ford was president coming here never been elected, he was going to run for election, and his main opponent was ronald reagan. it came down to a very tight convention. your job was to get the delegates for president ford. how did it go? james: that was the last truly contested national convention of either major political party. in this country. it went down to the last ballot. it was very tight. we were chasing a very small pool of uncommitted delegates, reagan was very strong, he almost knocked off an incumbent president. but we were able to prevail. we used the full resources of the white

bush and mrs. bush recall that when they came back to texas and you sell them on -- saw they were happy to be here. even before we were selected, the idea of being selected, i am a guy who grew up in a rural landscape myself and i remember the president and mrs. bush were happy to be home but i also thought there was something about their connection to the landscape surrounding them. i think that when mrs. bush said that she wanted the grounds of the presidential center to be not a setting for the building but a gift of the texas landscape to the neighborhood, city and region, she partly wanted to give them a chance to be in that landscape. not just to have a port to use, but a sense of being surrounded by what has historically belonged here. i don't know if i gave away any secrets, except the people who the project had a very clear vision that they wanted it to be of texas, but wanted to provide the people that came here a texas experience by having it be made of not just native plants but a funct

bush and mrs. bush recall that when they came back to texas and you sell them on television, they looked really relaxed. they were happy to be here. selected,e we were i amdea of being selected, a guy who grew up in a rural landscape myself and i remember the president and mrs. bush were happy to be home but i also thought there was something about their connection to the landscape. saidnk that when mrs. bush that she wanted the grounds of the presidential center to be not a setting for the building but a landscape for the region, she probably wanted to give them a chance to be in that landscape. a sense of being surrounded by what has historically belonged here. the people who were so i don't know if i gave away any secrets, except the people who were behind the project had vision that they wanted it to be of texas, but the people rovide that came here a texas be madence by having it plants but anative functions larger texan u.ndscape >> i see, when i visit the presidential library and center. i h

bush. as we know, it was his leadership, first of the state of the union address in 2003 as i mentioned about throughout his presidency as well and in his postpresidential life with first lady laura bush that rallied the congress and the nation and in many ways the world to this cause. it was because of his leadership and compassion that millions of people are alive today who otherwise would have perished. living with hope, potential contributing to their communities and venetians into giving us all a much brighter future. some have said it might be his greatest legacy. our coalition couldn't agree more. unfortunately president bush couldn't be with us today but we are honored to have in his place the executive director of the institute in dallas to receive this award on behalf of president bush. please join me in welcoming holly took the stage. [applause] thank you to the u.s. global leadership coalition for honoring president bush for pepfar. i know i'm not the same as seeing president bu

it was right around president bush's 80th birthday. and somebody had just given him a segue. and so he t following owed to a segue. [ laughing ] >> here we go. lean forward intheo t future, pull back to stop time. with left hand twists or right hand twists, segue spins. life is like that when 80 creeps up on you. on concrete or on grass, if you spin too fast, you bust your ass. [ laughing ] >> like life itself, segue lives until its gyro gives out. there you have it. presidential poetry. [ laughing ] >> the other thing that the bush library was able to find was president bush when he was a young father had lt a daughter, which i don't know if you are aware of. his daughteryn was, i believe, 3 or 4 years old and died of leukemia. and by the timee wrote this letter to his mother, he had the four boys and no daughter. so he wrote a letter to his mother about why he needed another daughter, why he needed another girl in the house. he included it in his letter to the best that were his collected letters. and there was a playwright named alb

bush wrote.he letter says, mr. president, you write from the heart. if you had not gone into the public life and become president of the united states, i hope you would have become a writer. every word, every phrase, every nuance is from the heart. i've never read anything more perfect and more beautiful than your letter about robin. it is natural poetic genius. letters for me are the most honest form of writing, as a playwright, while i try very hard to focus on what i believe to be the truth in the lives in the stories of the characters i create, i must inevitably second-guess what my characters think and feel, in the same way a novelist would second-guess what his characters think and feel. letters go right to the heart of the matter, because they come from the heart of the writer. they express precisely what the writer thinks and feels. in bearing his soul, letters cut right to the quick of the writer's soul. when i was doing "41 on 41," i interviewed david mccullough, the historian. he said

black to president bush that i want to share a little bit with you. and then i'll show youha president bush wrote. so the letter from mr. black says mr. president, you write from the heart. if you had not gone into public life and became president of the united states, i hope you would have became a writer. every word, every phrase, every nuance is from the heart. i have never in my life read anything for perfect and more beautiful than your letter about robyn. it is natural, poetic genius. letters for me are the most honest. as a play right, as i focus on what i believe to be the truth and the characters i create, i must second-guess what the characters think and feel in the same way in a novelist thinks what his characters think and feel. veterans go right to the heart of the matter because they come from the heart of the writer. they express precisely with no artificial pretense what the writer thinks and feels in bearing his soul, letters cut right to the quick of the writer's soul. so when i was doing 41 on 41, i entered david mccullough gives yo

bush, mrs. gorbachev was the mother of one and a university lecturer and soviet first lady's had not historically been expected to assume such a public role as our american first ladies have. anyway, mrs. bush invited her to come. mrs. gorbachev's speech is long forgotten. mrs. bush's lives on as an outstanding example of american rhetoric from her use of humor to her self-deprecation. she connected with her audience at wellesley and her television audience, because it was broadcast. it had generated so much publicity at the time. barbara bush started her speech, this is what she said. "i know your first choice today was alice walker, known for "the color purple." instead you got me, known for the color of my hair." [laughter] prof. hummer: but my favorite line was her anecdote about her friend whose husband griped about babysitting his own children. barbara bush said, when it's your own kid, it is not called babysitting. [laughter] prof. hummer: i think barbara bush will be remembered as the fi

bush tried to get his father to drop dan quayle and replace him with dick cheney, but bush would not do it in 1992, because it makes the president look weak, like they are reconsidering their decision. bush took a risk and pick somebody relatively unknown. if he had dropped quail, it would have made it look like he was doubting himself, and nobody wants a president who doubts himself. host: catherine, good morning, republican line. since you are not political, and you've done a lot of research on what has been going on with the president's and vice presidents, where do you think the government got so corrupt? under whose watch? host: how much time do we have? guest: that's a good question, and i just don't know how to answer. in the book, i get into concern about succession. george h w bush, i ask whether there needs to be a more clear delineation, for instance, when had sufferedwho several heart attacks, he actually wrote a memo and gave it to his chief of staff. it said, if i become incapacitated, give this to george w. bush. if he -- he left the house with the folder and the memo,

the number of bombs that ridiculous amount of money buys you according to consortium news president bush's military dropped seventy thousand bombs on five countries but of that outrageous number it was really just fifty seven of those bombs that really upset the international community because there were fifty seven strikes in pakistan somalia and yemen countries the u.s. was not at war with and didn't even have ongoing conflicts within and the world was kind of horrified there was a lot of talk that went something like this wait a second we're bombing in country outside of war zone is it possible that's a slippery slope ending in us just bombing all the time nancy whichever president follows bush will be a normal adult person with a functional brain stem of some sort and will therefore stop this madness. we're. where we were we were like a little bit waking up in. under president obama there were five hundred sixty three strikes largely by drones that targeted pakistan somalia and yemen despite the fact that bombing outside of a war zone is a for a think a violation of international law a

well i've been out of bush joking like eight years. so i've got a good luck put on a don't shoot you know. i'll get back to that this is about all right away military industrial complex that our ruling elite are more than happy to let loose you see almost no one in congress or the presidency trying to restrain our one hundred and twenty one bombs a day you see almost no one on a mainstream outlets trying to get people to care about this recently the hash tag twenty one trillion for the unaccounted for pentagon money has gained some traction let's get another one started all right one twenty one bombs a day a hundred and twenty one bombs per day one every twelve minutes do you know where they're hitting do you know who they're killing do you know why we're killing them a hundred twenty one bombs a day or being dropped in your name and my name and her name and his name went to where faisal. and. i don't turn that into like al awful oprah oprah so those of us a bomb and you have a. and you have a. point is the. point is the government and

laura bush or secretary nielsen, i'm going with laura bush. ouvriere government should not be in the business of warehousing children in conslerted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in a desert. >> okay. so, don't believe the press reports. as our colleague jacob has been out there and reported, i believe last week, gave us the narrative of being informed by the officials there to smile at the children so that way you can show them they're not animals. okay. if they're not -- >> they don't feel like animals in cages. >> thank you. so, if that's what the press is being told when they're coming in to take a look at these facilities, to smile at the children so they don't feel like they're animals in cages, what does that tell you about the situation these kids are in? that the people who are overseeing this would think that those kids get the impression that they're animals in cages. >> jacob, you want to try to answer that? >> on top of all of that, it doesn't matter as one official said to me, it doesn't matter if you put

bush said, too little too late.so, even if you say bring these guys to america for trial, trust in the taliban, no way, were too angry and we want blood. if that's your opinion is still then have to have a war against the taliban. if you look at the history, it was against the taliban, not al qaeda. in fact the cia officer said his orders was toys were against the taliban with al qaeda as a secondary target. they spent eight weeks or something in the war northern afghanistan taken -- from the enemies. it had nothing to do with retribution for the man behind the september 11 attack as well. and then finally in the second week of december with the delta force on his troop that they unleashed b-52s and f-16s and they even rolled the dainty cutter bomb which is a 15000-pound bomb after a c-130. they really did blow a lot of guys to bits. yet, for three weeks straight, the cia and the delta force were begging for ground reinforcements. our current secretary of defense had 4000 marines 100 miles away. the army rangers alr

bush wrote i live at a border state. i appreciate protecting our international boundaries but this breaks my heart. and melania trump supporting families even while her husband's administration is pursuing this policy. melania trump issued an extraordinary statement of her own, in some ways distancing herself from the policy but in other ways echoing her husband's language about it. the statement wrote mrs. trump hates to see children separated from their family and hopes both sides of the awful can come together to achieve successful immigration reform. >> 6 x 10 area. you get out two hours a day. that is who i think a child 10 years old is a prison. >> reporter: republican senator susan collins and jeff flake sending a letter to the white house demanding clarification about whether the practice is being applied to asylum seekers. homeland security secretary kirjsten nielsen insisting the children are only taken in certain circumstances and the white house has no policy of separating families. >> i hate the children bei

i learned this in '92 w for bush, bush was actually not president. the country was not in terrible shape in '92. won the cold war without firing a shot. bush had signed pretty responsible bipartisan wted chae. bunch of areas. and i remember going out, as quail chief of staff, and giving speeches and account whag we had done. didn't matter. people were willing to take a risk on clinton. wonz who didn't like clinton willing to get ross perot who got a lot of votes. and ross perro is sort of crazy. no offense to voters he. but the w sdil. that's one lesson i learned people want change. so primary lucky having jeb bush as opponent. if people want change, two party establishment say great we have tworo greayou. s and brother of the two most recent republican presidents, jeb bush, whos a good guy, but that's what he looked like,nd hillary clint and wife of democratic president. so you want change. we'll give you bush and clinton. that was extremely lucky f trump. buy effecti in taking advantage of it. i think that was the key dynamic in the whole ca. that'

bush. it's amazing because the chief of staff house burned down, that this one folder and left house with his social security card and this folder which had the memo in it. >> host: where islamic state? >> guest: i don't know. that is a good question. it might be in the archives. the archives have a lot of vice president of material. a lot of cheney's has been redacted and classified information so it's difficult to get an, hold of. i do think there should be a more clear -- is something happens to put the president and the vice president there is not a clear way for instance of stroke or the nature fores it to be made clear that the vice president is incapacitated. we all know what happens with succession is something happens to the president but it's unclear chain of command with the vice president. as far as corruption goes, that is, i'm sure -- >> host: next color is from london, simon, good afternoon. you're on with kate anderson brower. >> caller: thank you for your book and the fasci

laura bush rarely speaks up about policy. so the fact that she weighing in and the fact that she used those words, cruel, immoral, she picks her words very carefully. she picks her moments very carefully. and i think just to go back to what you said in the beginning, this is hugerisis for the white house. donald trump is in trouble when former first lady laura bush, when his own wife, melania trump who doesn't weigh in about policy very often says something. franklin graham earlier this morning on the air, his friend anthony scaramucci said the president should pick up the phone. forget about tomorrow, he said he should pick up the phone today and end this policy. so there will be republicans coming to the white house to meet with the president tomorrow. this is a building cri for them. and donald trump knows about the power of images. remember, we saw him react to the children being gassed in syria. he understands the impact that those cages, that those images are having. so i think you're just going to see a tidal wave of p

the former first lady laura bush, a republican, has penned a ska scathing column.his zero tolerance approach of the trump administration is just one part of the trump doctrine that we're going to delve into with my guest jeffrey goldberg. he is the edit in chief of the atlantic. he has been speaking to people close to the president to ask them to define what exactly that doctrine is. jeffrey goldberg is joining me now from washington. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> so, jeffrey, your title of your art hicle has a bold headline. senior white house official defines the trump doctrine, we're america and i'm going to say it rhymed with rich. were you shocked by that. >> i'm not shocked by anything anymore. that was one of the slogans that people came up with for me when i was asking them this question, if you could put into a slogan or a saying, something other than america first, which we know obviously. this is one of the them that came up. this was a very high ranking official. the attitude behind it is what's interesting. the attitude behind it, which is t

bush. i went to my goddaughter's wedding a few years ago up in massachusetts, and we had the rehearsal dinner and everybody was a little worse for wear the next day, and we went to the norman rockwell museum which was wonderful, and we are walking through the museum and i kept looking at this attractive, nice regal lady was looking at the pictures. all i could think was was she at the party last night? i don't remember, she looks really familiar. then i realized, it was mrs. bush. and i almost pulled the presidents grandson move, i thought i would run over there and introduce myself but there were armed men around her, so i decided that was probably not a good idea in my condition, so i left mrs. bush alone. and of course, during the restoration, my grandparents lived over at blair house, which i went through this afternoon, i hadn't been there since i was 16 years old, my father took us over there one afternoon after listening to the watergate hearings for an hour, we heard jeff mcgruder t

bush was because of right-wing house republicans.he reason immigration failed during barack obama was because of right-wing house republicans. that's the problem. >> but wait a second, though. in the beginning of the barack obama administration, they had filibuster proof majority in the senate and a huge majority in the house. and the president, president obama decide i had it wasn't an important enough priority to brit s sond. when the democrats were completely in control. and the republicans, the awful horrible, right-wing republicans you used to be a part of. you want to keep changing the subject. >> no, i don't. >> the democrats were in charge, they didn't do it either. so they didn't do it. >> they chose to do health care reform. when that passed -- >> he chose to save the economy. >> listen, he -- he passed the stimulus package very quickly. >> no, no, in reality, you had two presidents with an opportunity to do something on immigration. george w. bush. the beginning of his second term. decided to do something on social securit

not there bush for these illegals. you'll hear it i say no. we don't go anywhere we're. going to duty to signal. patients or something there is to two or three cases you sort of thinking nothing. because they're going to fill it with anything and sometimes they talk to bring some special kind of dogs to go to. you know the book tour to get the animals from their phone is that i mean come on novellus animal it's not me. you're right yeah. well i didn't want to. get out of love with him and. i don't i will bomb the look around the edge of. the. sun a longer look at me they're. going to lose the. feeling that he. doesn't go to those that i don't believe that does it that it. will feel. that i didn't. think about it. for us thought it was a feeling of safety and wish to. share what i did. when i lose my life. but if. things go. like a. little . yellow when i should. keep to themselves. see. what was said to me so i'm on something right you up we all. look for look for them. to. give us a new braunfels idea we don't talk to the committee i don't know how much going to . miss

bush, george h. w. bush was not a bad president, this country wasn't into double shape, we won the cold war into the good decade of economic growth and they were pretty responsible as they put us in legislation and a bunch of areas. people want change and i ran for going out with the chie chief of staff and giving speeches and recounting what we have done. the ones that didn't like clinton were willing to take a risk on ross perot got 19 million votes and prospero was kind of crazy, no offense to any of the voters here, but they were sending a signal. that's why in the general election, having jeb bush as a main opponent of using the public wants to change we are unhappy with the way things have gone to the two-party establishment to say that two candidates for you, the son and brother of the two most recent republican candidates, jeb bush who is a good guy and hillary clinton the most recent democratic president that works as the secretary of state for the most recent. so you want to change and we are

bush, son of jeb bush.senator james imhoff wants to meet face to face with the embattled chris pruitt at the hill. he faces a dozen allegations, including that he asked staffers to help his bwife find a job. a meeting could happen as early as today. >>> first lady melania clump still more popular than the president. it's down six points from may. roughly the same where hillary clinton was at this time in 1994 during her husband's first term. the first lady melania trump grabbing headlines this week after she weighed in on immigration. she said the u.s. should follow the law, but do so by governing with heart. the president should listen to her. >> the vast majority in retention are kids who came here with their families. that's the biggest problem. i think americans want two things. they want immigration, but do it with humanity. i think melania said it right. my advice, the president should listen to melania. >> let me go back to the bush story. the feud between the president and the bush family runs deep.

so it was a george bush thing, either you are with us 01’ bush thing, either you are with us or you bushr you are with us or you are against us. so if you are anti— the waron or you are against us. so if you are anti— the war on terror, that means you are pro— terrorist. so this is as naive and silly as that. all right, but where do you stand on the taliban, imran khan? injune 2002 you address the workers convention in pakistan and said you are very much inspired by the taliban's system of justice, and much inspired by the taliban's system ofjustice, and that i will establish the same system in the country establish the same system in the cou ntry after establish the same system in the country after assuming power. let me explain to you what the taliban system was, just as was. it was what is in the passion and tribal areas, what the system of justice is in the passion and tribal areas, what the system ofjustice is. and what the system ofjustice is. and what is it? they have a jury —— pashtun. every village has a jury. they listen to the cases. people get free justice. all people they li

president george bush do solemnly swear itself protect and defend the constitution george bush soon put a stop to talks with north korea. last . well i'm going because i'm going to quality was to declare null and void any negotiations that had taken place during the clinton administration pushing his motto was anything but clinton to continue tensions between north and south korea were running high at that point. almost all of those shimoga ungenerous. the so that. the nine eleven terrorist attacks changed the course of international relations the united states took a more aggressive stand against its enemies. north korea as a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. that was the fatal flaw the bush struck they didn't like the agreed framework. ok they were like that's fine but have something ready to replace it with instead they left this enormous vacuum. and the north koreans just started up their program and never stopped i

bush. although we very much appreciated laura bush's lovely letter. it was a disaster for obama. >> well, it has to do with and war developing the arctic circle for exploitation for fossil fuels i suppose. why did he take a shot on laura bush who everybody likes? >> he's because a petty person. he can't help himself. he likes to take those shots because it makes him feel strong especially when he has a crowd behind him. and he gets revved up and likes to stick it to everybody who he feels he can stick it to the master of trolling, if it's not trump, mitch mcconnell. his political team took a victory lap after today's supreme court ruling tweeting this picture of the senate with justice neil gorsuch. frequently called the democrats ob strukt instructionist famously blocked obama's pick just two years ago. how do republicans manage to pretend to forget that the democrats wanted a bill on immigration in '13, they wanted a vote on their supreme court nominee, they wouldn't bring it up. they wan

laura bush recalled another republican first lady, her mother-in-law, barbara bush who while first lady at the height of the aids crisis in this country visited a home in washington d.c. for children with hiv/aids. in those days many americans believed they could catch aids simply by touching a baby with aids. those babies were even sometimes called the untouchables. laura bush remembers the photograph that we all saw of first lady barbara bush picking up, quote, a dieing baby named donovan and snuggled him against her shoulder to smooth him. my mother-in-law never viewed her embrace of that fragile child as courageous, she simply saw it as the right thing to do. so we are at another possible first lady moment. a moment where the first lady can actually do something that none of the rest of us can. in the jails that donald trump is now running on the southern border for children and toddlers and babies, the rules say that none of the people working there can touch the children. it is against the rules to hug one of the toddlers. and you don't have to be a pediatrician to know the large

bush knew it. >> president bush backs down and instructs the justice department to make the necessaryhanges to the surveillance program, avoiding a major crisis. >> how many people could stand up to the president one on one in a situation like that? i don't know that you can count too many. >> after the president agrees to change the program, comey continues in the justice department until ashcroft steps down at the end of the year. comey resigns his post and leaves government work in 2005 for the private sector. >> thank you. more? they've been saving folks money for over 75 years. a company you can trust. geico even helped us with homeowners insurance. more sounds great. gotta love more... right, honey? yeah! geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. it's not theirs, it's mine. the new rx 350l with three rows for seven passengers. lease the 2018 rx 350l and rx 350l awd for these terms. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. heartburn and gas? ♪ now fight both fast new tums chewy bites with gas relief all in one relief of heartburn and gas ♪ ♪ tum tum tum tums new tums chew

bush was compassionate conservatism.ma was just straight up compassion. >> or they were both in the bag of business. they were both in the bag of globalists. >> they thought he understood those people better. trump wants to sell a message to his people and it's working. 58% of republicans agree with this policy. the problem is two out of three americans don't. this is a message of harshness and strength, and it resonates with some -- with some -- but i don't know how you guys grow the tent with this policy. steve, last word to you and then bounce it to rick. >> i will say this. the american worker has been ignored for so long. this is part of protecting the rights of the american worker, the american citizen. it's heartbreaking, of course it is. the children are wanting for their parents. just as it is in our country when parents make terrible choices and commit a crime. the point is, don't come across our border illegally. if you're seeking asylum legitimately, come to the port of entry, do it the right way and you won'