[laughter] >> today is george bush's birthday. he was born in newhaven connecticut on july 6, 1846, and upon his father at graduation from yale, the family moved to texas where senior bush went into the oil business. george w grew up in midland, when it came time for high school he went to andrew where he finished near the bottom of his class. the dean of students told george not to bother to apply to yale because his grades were so low he could not get in but george did so. george was a fourth-generation legacy at yale, his grandfather, his father, his great-grandfather had gone to yale and at the time george applied yale was admitting 52%, 52% of the legacy affluence. princeton and harvard were admitting 14%. brewster became president of yale during the freshman year and changed the rules. from that point on yale would take the same amount of students princeton and harvard took, 14%. bush's three brothers and sister had the same legacy that he did, none of them got in because the rules were changed. bush didn't know better at yal

when bill clinton called george h.w. bush chicken george, that also came with grown men dressed up in chicken suits. >> a protester made it clear, he thinks bush is chicken. as authorities led the chicken away, bush aides worry that by playing too coy on debates, they could be playing right into clinton's hand. >> it is now fairly standard to use characters and props to mock your political opponent, to try to get a rise out of them. i remember 2004 george bush jr.'s campaign couldn't decide whether they wanted to hit john kerry the flip-flopper by brandishing giant flip-flops everywhere or whether they wanted to hit him as a flip-flopper by having a dolphin show up. they were like torn between two symbols, right? there's flipper, the famous dolphin, but there's also the flip-flops. is that too literal? it's now fairly typical, right? taunting political stage craft. but in the summer of 1992, it was seen as pretty novel that the bill clinton campaign had men in chicken suits chasing vice president george bush around every time

bush folks crazy. not for the same reason trump was made crazy. i think the george h.w. bush people worried about it, not because they can't stand ridicule, but because that was too close of george h.w. bush's real image overall, or the lack thereof when it comes to an image. it was a big deal for his campaign that he was basically invisible in ronald reagan's big, dark shadow. we know that was part of their concern about him as a candidate at the time. we know that in part because of the very next thing that happened that night on nbc's broadcast from the republican convention, in august 1988 in new orleans. you just saw at the start, tom brokaw tosses to chris wallace and they go to surprise interview, wow, it's donald trump on the floor of the convention. and donald trump says in 1988, that, yeah, he thinks he might want to be president and if he does run, he'll win because he always wins. then it goes back to tom brokaw. and the next thing that tom brokaw does is bring on this guy. >> we want to go down to lisa meyers, who is with the media wizard of the vice presiden

bush agreed to two, and there were only two that year. four years later, george h.w. bush tried to get out of debating bill clinton altogether. even though they had the commission on presidential debates set up the schedule and everything, they had to skip the first scheduled presidential debate in 1992, because george h.w. bush wouldn't agree to it, didn't want to debate. that was part of the ailes strategy, the roger ailes' strategy, the last time he was doing communications strategy for a republican presidential campaign. this year, donald trump has already sewn the seeds that he might not participate in the presidential debates against hillary clinton. that was before we learned that roger ailes is reportedly advising the trump campaign on the debates and maybe other communications strategy. i've said it from the beginning, i think it's been 50/50, whether or not trump shows up for the debates against clinton. with this news that we just got today, i would definitely say the odds are not getting any better. this stuff is amazing. but doesn't mean we haven't seen it

[laughter] today is george bush's 70th birthday. he was born in new haven connecticut on july 6, 1846. upon his father's graduation from yale the family moved to texas where the senior bush went into the oil business. george w grew up in midland and when it came time for high school he finished near the bottom of his class. the dean of students at andover told george not to bother to apply to yale because his grades were so low he could not possibly get in but george did so and was admitted. george was a fourth-generation legacy at yale, his grandfather, his father, great grandfather all had gone to yale not the time he applied, yell was admitting 52% of the legacy applicants. princeton and harvard were admitting 14%. when he became president of el during his freshman year and change the rules. from that point on yellow would take the same amount of students that princeton and harvard took, 14%. his three brothers and sisters had the same legacy credentials that he did and no one got in. bush did no better at yale than he did at ando

an attack on jeb bush by attacking george w. you want, the world trade center came down during his time. >> hold on. you can't blame george bush for that. >> he was president, okay? don't blame him or don't blame him but he was president. the world trade center came down during his reign. >> the world trade center came down during his reign. remember that. >> excuse me, the world trade center came down during the reign of george bush, right? it came down. >> reporter: trump said this in august 2015. >> the last thing we need is another bush, believe me. >> reporter: and this six months later. >> the last thing we need is another bush. that i can tell you. >> reporter: donald trump never let up on his attacks against jeb bush. >> jeb, oh. jeb. he's asleep. he's asleep at the wheel, folks. >> reporter: trump did not pull punches with most of the republican candidates, but he seemed to relish jabbing jeb bush the hardest. >> jeb bush is a total lightweight. >> reporter: and even did so after bush ended his candidacy. >> jeb is gone.

bill clinton moving to work his nomination of a new democrat and the incumbent president george bush probably wondering what was happening with this challenge from ross perot. two texans going against each other. can you tell us more about the relationship? >> first off, bush 41 is really a houston figure. it is about international companies at the oil industry. ross perot is working with ibm and with his own data services company. there are different texas industries and a different geography. they got into a terrible feud over the pow and mia issues. he really accused bush and the cia and general of being part of a drug trade and southeast asia. they were actually doing slush fund monies by selling heroin and other opiates. >> we should interject, george bush was head of the cia. >> exactly. became pretty nasty. there is no love lost between george herbert walker bush and ross perot. that is politics. the bigger question in 1992 as we are talking about this, which just heard about this populist campaign. he put somewhere around $12 million or $30 million of his own money into the ga

-- george h.w. bush library. a national security crisis. in all, our theme of the importance of bipartisanship in transition. staff going to chief of who know the beginnings and ends of administrations, mack mclarty, he came in at the beginning of the clinton administration as chief of staff and josh bolten was at the end of the bush administration. his chief of staff. and aber 11 attacks, transition out of office of george w. bush changed the tone and actions undertaken during the transition period. led the president bush most determined transition out of office that we have experienced. he began the transition cycle in 2007 in discussions with his chief of staff, josh bolten, who lead that effort. closed the circle that truman proposed to structure by having representatives of the incoming and outgoing chief executives meet well before the election. he brought together representatives of the two candidates in the white house in july, almost too much fire to the 2008 party conventions. , lead theon tran

george p. bush. and say it's not an endorsement. but it is stunning that jeb bush's son urges support for donald trump in texas given the bitterness that exist between trump and his father. his campaign's become radio active pushing away more republicans by the day. many in the establishment wing of the party make making a point of staying away from the gop convention. not one member of the bush family there but now jeb bush's son is calling for his fellow republicans to support donald trump. >> this is the son of the former candidate who endured these insults from trump during the primary campaign. >> he can't fix anything. he is a low-energy person. he's not tough, not smart. guy doesn't have a clue. he is like a child. a staff. embarrassment. you go to jeb bush's rally you fall asleep almost immediately. his family is so ashamed. call >> called him a puppet and loser. how could you support someone who says these things about your father. >> i don't think it is easy for george p. bush. i suspect h

george h.w. bush, he would say at least it wasn't an orator. [laughter] which is a pretty strong domestic cards to play. and i'm married to a mississippi and massive herd and i've never had the courage to do that. and then he gave his life toto business, gave his life toemul public service, in many ways emulated his father was a senator in connecticut for 10 years. but a couple of things happened while he was president and i think that we are seeing those forces manifesting themselves ever more here. senator lott was there and i offered this for your editorial comment. one is the rise of reflexiveisef partisanship. while this man was walking out in october of 1992 the rose garden with george h.w. bush to announce the compromise that the democratic congress on taxes while we were in the midst of building up 500,000 troops in the gulf, newt gingrich went out the front door and bob walker from pennsylvania cc is what the white house. he survived against thee president of his own party. he goes up to capi

george bush is the president who only sees the people from a window of a plane. now louisiana is underwater again, and what is obama's response been? response is golfing, going out to nice dinners and the media is saying nothing, looking on his vacation. >> it's not -- the media bias arguments, this one, it's not the "washington post," it's talking about the "new york times" is talking about it. >> nothing like the criticism that obama is getting. >> i want to point out looking at obama's comments with bush, not only did he criticize his absence but his absence as a whole. there are many places in louisiana that are extraordinarily impoverished. that is the biggest picture here. deirdre: and never quite recouped. >> i want to point to the school choice issue in particular because new orleans, the city where 40% is functionally illiterate, and 90% of the schools are failing and george bush sabotaged the department that grew out of hurricane katrina and pulling kids out. not just an issue of him not being there throughout the crisis, throughout his presidency aggre

and this therefore brings me to george h.w. bush. because he is a person that i will argue today had a grand strategy. i will go so far as to say that he was a grand strategist. but i am here to tell you that he is a person that we do not put in the canon of grand strategist. he rarely appears in the same -- sense as a kissinger or wilson. and one reason for that is he managed to a publish everything he essentially wanted, but without telling anybody about it. and more important, without doing a heck of a lot, except when the thinking care about most was at stake. and in fact, to understand him come i want to come back to a phrase that was mentioned last night and that is a phrase used by bismarck, the great strategist of the 19th century that noticed -- that noted in his writings, the role of the policymaker, the state man, is to not change the course of the stream of history, but rather to note the stream of history and plunge their hand in. not to change the course of history, but play a part in the stream of history. and this is

i'm asking george bush. george. [ laughter ] yeah. i mean, was it just one of those things you happened to be sitting next to them or were you all together as a unit? >> i know the first lady from back when they first started on the campaign trail. >> jimmy: right. >> fell head over heels in love with her. so this was actually at the invictus games. >> jimmy: the movie -- >> yeah. sort of olympics for wounded warriors. >> jimmy: got you. and george bush, is he -- you'd met him before? >> well, i shook his hand once. >> jimmy: i see. prince harry is royalty, obviously. did you have to observe any kind of protocol before meeting him or does he have to observe some sort of protocol before meeting [ laughter ] >> no, i was introduced to him. and i was just introduced to him as harry. so i didn't know i was -- >> jimmy: oh, really? [ laughter ] that's pretty good. >> somebody backstage so, you met prince harry. i said no. sure you did. no, no, i don't know. i mean, he was there, i said. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you just thought he -- just a

. >> -- with george h.w. bush. >> yeah. >> you open the book with george and barbara bush moving to odessa, texas, to do what? >> they go in search of oil and the american dream. so george h.w. bush graduates from yale in 1948. he decides he doesn't want to follow in his family's footsteps and go to wall street, he's going to go search for his own fortune, albeit with some family connections, out in texas. and it really sort of captured what i was talking about a moment ago, this sort of sense of endless abundance, right? this is a moment of great discoveries in west texas, and he arrives at the right moment, and it's there that he's going to seek his fortune and also helped to build the republican party which we can talk about too in texas. and so we start there before 1973 arab embargo, because i want to sort of capture what america, what american culture was like, what expectations of the average american were like that sort of best represented by this free-flowing black gold that came out of the ground. and i

he not only walked into the building with george w. bush, he walked out of the buddy with george w. bush and walked out of the building with a different part of the presidency. he was deputy director of management. the management and management. the same job that lisa brown was assigned to buy president obama and put a twist on it to make .er key performance officer i will let her talk about what that means. johnson was the executive director of the obama transition planning group which means he was the guy who started way back before obama was a presumptive candidate. he was the guy who major to know what they were doing if they one and he is now midway through the m initiation has walked out of the building on his own into the executive branch and if you hething about the agency, -- is the person whose job it is to make sure ambitions of the secretary and ambitions of the president are the actual output of the agency. do is ask ato series of questions of each individual and author will have a check to, tell them because they all have a similar expenses. -- experiences. you have all

jeb bush as well as george h. bush and george w. bush have declined to back trump. >>> the president and first family back to martha's vineyard for two weeks. this is pictures of his motorcade rolling across the island. he will return to washington on >>> the 17th case of the zika virus in florida. the latest case was likely contracted here in the united states by mosquitoes in florida. the infected person traveled to miami-dade county where more than a dozen cases were discovered last week. federal health officials have directed pregnant women to avoid traveling to that area of florida. the search continues in mexico the weekend. the mudslides took place after hurricane earl dropped several inches of rain. three dozen people have died. the mudslides destroying home, burying cars, leaving debris everywhere. >>> fire crews busy in london after a nightclub and several other facilities were on fire. largest in the cities and crews and they are likely to join in >> if you're reading a magazine or a book, you're not decompressing. taking

bush 43 administration. in the campaign in which george w. sh was elected in the -- and the blessing was that a large portion of the country thought that george w. bush was stupid. he's anity is that exceptionally bright policy person. i spent my career in government policy and george w. bush is one of the sharpest policy minds i've ever encountered in decades. that was not the reputation he had. we had a political necessity to run a campaign that was chock-full of substance. that would have been george w. bush's instinct anyway. we ran a campaign that was disciplined in setting out, in one month, it would be the health care policy in the next , month, it would be tax policy, and the next month with the energy and environmental policy. there were speeches that went with that. fact sheets that well with that. -- that went with that. we had a 300 page book of campaign speeches and policy papers that were the governing agenda for the first hundred days that mac was talking about. so that made the conundrum period you're talking about much easier

when i first met you, you were working for the first george bush. you've gone from one extreme to the next. roger: to be clear, i have never been a bush republican. i wrote a book entitled, "the bush crime family." i did go to california at the very end of the 1988 campaign and take the reins and george bush beat michael the caucus by one point -- beat michael dukakis by one point in california. every republican president has remade the party and his own -- in his own image. lincoln, grant, mckinley, eisenhower, nixon, reagan. if donald trump is successful, he will remake the party and his -- remake the party in his image. it will no longer be a wall street-k street party. i am afraid my party has morphed into the big-money party. the party that has eroded our civil liberties. they have supported bailouts for swindlers and crooks on wall street. the party of an incoherent but expensive neocon foreign-policy. i think the party will change. it has already changed. in all truth, donald trump's nomination was a hostile takeover of the old republican par

bush would be upset with george h.w. , he would say, well, at least, bar, i wasn't an hors d'oeuvre. [laughter] which is a pretty strong domestic card to play. laugh and i'm married to a mississippian, as you heard, and i've never had the courage to do that. [laughter] then he gave his life to business, gave his life to public service in many ways emulating his father who was a senate from connecticut for ten years. but a couple of things happened while he was president, and i think we are seeing those forces manifest themselves. i offer this for your editorial comment. one is the rise of reflexive partisanship. while this man was walking out in october of 1990 to the rose garden with george h.w. bush to announce a compromise with a democratic congress on taxes while we were in the midst of building up 500,000 troops in the gulf, newt gingrich went out to front door -- the front door. and bob walker, remember from pennsylvania, sees that newt has left the white house, he's rebelled against the president of his own party.

he doesn't have the immediate mexican american street cred that perhaps george w. bush does. important. he has a message to reach out to minorities whether they are black or brown and say the democratic party cares about your votes but they don't care much about your welfare. things aren't going well. even in the present recovery we are in. slow though it is. white incomes since the end of the recession are roughly unchanged. black male income is down 9%. hispanic income is down 5%. they are not participating in this. one-third of all children of color live in poverty. that's a tragedy. we have answers. school of choice, border control, lower regulations, lower taxation. we can spur growth. when i talk to hispanics and what matters to me and most hispanics is economic growth. we simply don't have it and we need it. >> what about trump's back and forth on immigration this week? talk to me about how you interpret where his heart lies? where is the truth for him? >> you know, alex, first of all, i don't know. we are going to find out soon though. the press in my mind made much a

grant, franklin roosevelt and george h.w. bush. this was part of a centennial symposium hosted by the george w. bush presidential center. it's just over an hour. >> thank you. okay, that's enough. laura and i want to welcome you, ken and his wife julie who's the new president of the boosh center and all of us who work here are thrilled you're here. i must confess i've got mixed emotions. one i'm thrilled to be a part of this, two i'm very disappointed that you're not here to give me the pulitzer for the book i wrote. [ laughter ] by the way, every good organization needs a pulitzer prize recipient on their staff. and here at the bush center we have one in bill mckenzie and we're fortunate that bill is a part of our team. [ applause ] thank you very much, kevin, for convincing us to join you in hosting this. it's very exciting for the bush center that you're here and all the members of the pulitzer prize board as well as representatives from 41's library and i forgot lbj's number. [ laughter ] looking forward to the performances that

george w. bush. george w. bush: make sure we reform the system, to have the system in place that leaves no child behind, that stops asking how old you are, if you are 10 we put you here and start asking what you know and if you do not know what you are supposed to know, we won't make sure you do early before it is too late. al gore: parents should have more choices to send their kids to a safe school, we need to make education the number one priority in our country and treat teachers like the professionals like they are and that is why i have made it enough one priority in my budget . >> the contenders, key figures who ran for the presidency and lost but change political history, tonight the 1970 democratic nominee and former u.s. senator from south dakota, george mcgovern. george mcgovern: we will come to admire this country not simply because we were born here but because of the kind of great and good land that you and i wanted to be -- want it to be and together we have made it, that is my hope a

george h.w. bush looking at his watch. >> sure al gore ha rumping when george w. sh was debating with him. >> and getting in his space. >> and ford not knowing that there was soviet domination of poland. there's a big upside, and there's a huge down side. >> it's fascinating in our position. i mean if you're lucky enough to be sitting there front and center. but even as a viewer to see how they deal with the pressure. so it is somewhat telling. >> yeah. and people look at him and think -- >> whistle stop. >> yes, suitable for gifts, megyn. >> back in the day, i used to share an office with major garrett who was with fox news, and i would like you to tell him i said hello. >> i will. >> and tell him i now have bought all four of his books on amazon for a penny each. >> what am i supposed to do with that? >> john, thank you. >> thanks, megyn. >>> new details in the 15-year-old murder mystery of a washington intern who turned up dead after having an affair with congressman gary condit. the man convicted of her murder was released from jail over the weekend, and coming

>> it's the same reason george bush didn't land and he was unfairly criticized for not landing. it was a federal response. >> i'll let you get away with it because you said george bush was unfairly criticized. i want you to make a note of this, my viewers. the only time a democrat has taken the side of bush. i'll ask you this now. the ransom, was it a ransom. we've got to this -- i'm going to ask you to look at this shot. john kirby, let's pull up this sound. >> in basic english you're saying you wouldn't give them the $400 million in cash until the prisoners were released, correct. >> that's correct. >> okay. now the next day kirby comes out and, chris, you'll get a charge out of this. kirby comes out, his eyes are bloodshot, he didn't sleep all night, you know he didn't, he tried to walk it back. he basically said it was a ransom. the ransom was a ransom. the president says -- i've got to read this, very splug by the way, it wasn't some nefarious deal. the lawyer said we had to pate. what do you think it was, john? >>. >> it was a ransom. if it walks like a duck, quacks like a

some people were surprised that george p. bushot move more quickly to -- after his father withdrew to support ted cruz, who was clearly sort of the rising star in texas. in fact, george p. bush was an early supporter of cruz a few years ago. but he hold back. yeah, there's risk. i don't think anybody would remember george push bush for embracing donald trump. i think, you know, donald trump will be making his own memories and george p. bush will be way down the list. >> maybe the people who do remember are the people with the last name bush. like his father jeb bush. what do you think this means for his uncle, his grandfather, his father at this point? do you think this moves them at all? >> i doubt it. i mean, you know, if you look back at his grandfather, he was not a terribly ideological republican, pretty pragmatic. he's the guy you know who said read my lips, no new taxes, and then raised taxes. i think the thing donald trump represents is more a stylistic, affront to everything bush. they sort of play politics in a certain w

you wererst met you working for the first george bush. today you are advising the ultimate outsider. you have gone from one extreme to the next. be clear, i have never been a bush republican. entitled, "the ."sh crime family george bush beat michael dukakis by one point in california. hasy republican president remade the party and his own image. lincoln, grant, mckinley, eisenhower, nixon, reagan. successful,ump is he will remake the party and his image. it will no longer be a wall street party. as someone with great sentimental attachment to the republican party of very goldwater, i am afraid my party has morphed into the big-money party. ourparty that has eroded civil liberties. supported bailouts for swindlers and crooks on wall street. the party of an incoherent but expensive neocon foreign-policy. i think the party will change. it is already changed. it was a hostile takeover of the old republican party. the old republican party is tied to 30 years of bipartisan bad decision-making. the policies of the bushes and the clintons have bee

and then there was 1992, where ross perot was the third man standing against george bush, sr. bill clinton. in that case, republicans blamed -- in that race republicans blamed perot from taking support from them. this election could come down to whether dissolution voters go for a third-party candidate or stick to one of the major two, or decide to stay home. katty: security forces in columbia carried out an operation to destroy 100 cocaine laboratories in the jungle. the five-day operation was part of a strategy to target producers and traffickers of cocaine, rather than the farmers . it is estimated the laboratories could produce 100 tons of cocaine every year. 22 people are missing after highway bridge connecting mumbai with a beach resort state in west india collapsed. we report from the scene of the collapse. correspondent: raging floodwaters tore down a huge section of the bridge on the main road. say that 2 buses or on the bridge when it crashed into the floodwaters early on wednesday morning. they believe a number of cars were also swept into the torrent and believe th

it happened when george bush attacked senator john kerry. so i think when you put those two factors together it is significant. >> we are just talking about the campaigns, not the super pac. those numbers get even higher especially for the pro clinton campaign. >> the clinton super pacs have outspent the trump super pacs by significant margin as well. so when you put it all together, the clinton advertising spent by last week had reached over $100 million. million. that outspent all the pro-trump advertising by a margin of 9-1. >> the clinton campaign is focusing on key battleground states. the trump campaign with a focus on florida, ohio, pennsylvania and north carolina. four states that the trump campaign insists are must win if he has any chance of getting 270 electoral votes. let's look at some of the advertisements on the air. >> i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. >> i know more about isis than he generals. >> i would bomb the [beep] out of them. >> in hillary clinton's america, the system stays rigged. syrian refugees plug