smu at that point was preparing to open up the george w. bush library and the george w. bush institute. they had decided to create a brand-new institution to study the presidency, especially as an academic counterweight to the political think tank on campus. i do not mean to suggest these are equal in weight, but they wanted something purely scholarly. when the opportunity arose to create a new center from scratch , that was something i had to jump on. brian: president bush was here in 1998 when he had his book about foreign policy. about to run some video george bush talking about the power of the oval office. i know we are jumping way ahead. but when we hear him talk about this i want your reaction. >> every president would confirm that experience. i'm going to tell this guy off, i will get him, then they go in and there is something about the office itself and the respect all americans have for that office where you do not feel like calling out the president or taking him on the way you told your colleagues you were going to. brian: what do you see their? china,el: whe

if you look at george h.w. bush, that's one reason why a lot of conservative activists were so furious about the george h.w. bush presidency. they felt as though the party wasn't sufficiently unified around conservative principles. now, when you looked at george w. bush, by that time, the republican party had really changed -- certainly at its elite level -- and there was a very strong consensus around free trade, around low taxes, around this vision of a smaller government, and the tricky thing is that that didn't always actually line up with the voting base of the republican party. if you think about 2004, george w. bush won that election -- you know, he won it narrowly, but he won a majority, and he won it because of working-class moms in ohio, you know, in communities that felt left behind. >> donald trump was able to solidify the exact voters that you identified a decade earlier. >> yes, that's right. so, here's the challenge. so, if you're looking at trump's victory, it was not an overwhelming victory. >> 78,0

president george w. bush. both of these gentlemen were competitors and rivals and sometimes serious rivals of the president. i don't know how john mccain got over the treatment he got at the hands of george w. bush back when he lost the fight for the nomination back in 2000, especially what happened in south carolina, but he has gotten over it. he picked him to speak today. he also has barack obama who put him out for the presidency in 2008 and he's also speaking today, as meghan mccain who has been crying all morning here. we've been watching that. his daughter is going to be speaking today as his fellow amigo as he put it, joe lieberman, a democrat who he wanted to put on the ticket with him in 2008. maybe we should go back to steve for a thought on that. was that a real possibility that he was going to break all protocol and run a bipartisan ticket for president and vice president? >> sure was, chris. it came very, very close to happening. he wanted to pick joe lieberman and basically the message of the camp

i think this is very telling that senator john mccain explicitly asked both former presidents george w. bush and barack obama to deliver. a funeral and we have to say that he was not close to either of them they were his rivals george w. bush was his republican rival in two thousand primaries and. democratic for in the two thousand and eight federal elections but these two men who men who dashed his dreams of the white house to speak here is sending a message not only to his fellow republicans democrats to all americans that it's important to put. country over party that it's more that unifies that separates them all right i'd like to bring in tyson who's here with me in studio obviously tyson we've heard glowing. things being said about this man mccain but obviously he did have critics as well what did they have to say well i mean you had critics from the right and the left from the right people so the. he was a rhino a republican in name only that as it was mentioned that he put sometimes country before party but he wasn't a loyal party hollower and sometimes he would defect from his party

president george w. bush and former president obama we heard from bush he praised john mccain for his courage and decency he said that he was very often frustrated by the senator and what he had to say but at the same time he made him a better man so it was a very porous powerful. we also heard as you said from president obama. when he was asked by john mccain to speak here today he was sad and surprised a little bit because he's he was his political rival in the two thousand general election but he of course thought that it would be to speak here today and then he joked seeing that john mccain is no probably laughing that both his political rivals bush and obama are speaking very talking telling very nice things about john mccain but president former president obama's speech was also sort of political when he said that john mccain fought against a habit of bending the truth because it. tarm the u.s. democracy when he said that john mccain championed the three a free and independent press it could be. in dire

we had george w. bush around the library around the 50thanniversary of the passage of the civil rights. and we were in the great hall of the library. and around the perimeter of the hall are portraits of all of our presidents and first ladies. and barbara bush was infamously known among the family ranks as the enforcer. and george w. bush looked at the portrait and leaned over to me if you look carefully you can see her eyes move. [laughter] and i was relieved at the funeral that it was so short. that's what she would want. anita: she planned it. >> she absolutely planned it meticulously that way. and i'll never forget, it was a couple years before her death, the bushes asked me to did a fundraiser in the public library. and the evening before we had dinner, my wife and i had dinner with the bushes, and i walked her to her car, the bushes came in separate cars. as she was getting into the car, she said george and i are many coulding tomorrow. i said i'm honored. she said tell me about the format. what are

and george w. bush. mark is commentator for abc news. good morning america, and this week. and, finally, our third panelist mclaurin. he's president of the white house historical association. his 30-plus year in washington has been in senior roles, georgetown university, red cross and motion picture association. he also worked with the reynold reagan presidential foundation to conceptualize, plan, and execute the ronald reagan centennial celebration in 2011. please join in welcoming today's panel. anita mcbride, mark updegrove mclaurin.t [applause] >> thank you very much. and i'd also like to recognize the wife of our other board member barrett that couldn't be here today. wonderful board members. and anita is on the board. these men and women give extraordinarily guidance and governance to our organization. it was founded by mrs. kennedy in 1961. we are honored to be conceiver this site summit this he can -- let's dive into lbj. mark your leadership with the , lbj foundation monday would have been 110t

remember him from the george w. bush era? elaine chow. she was labor secretary under george w. bush. now she's transportation secretary under donald trump. george w. bush's deputy chief of staff was joe hagan. donald trump hired the same joe hagan for the exact same job last year. so on the planet, where the trump administration is just the next republican administration after george w. bush, it was a bit of a yawner when trump announced that his latest nominee to the supreme court would be, surprise, a bush guy. and probably the most bush guy he could have found. dating back to the year 2000 when the bush campaign dispatched this guy to work on the florida election recount. the following year brett kavanaugh land ad primo position working in the george w. bush office. he was later promoted to white house staff secretary. that is a crucial but influential position in which he mlgd the flow of all documents across the president's desk. brett kavanaugh was there at the closest range during the george w. bush years for a lot of those years. by the time he was nominated to become a

went to yale law school, clerk for justice kennedy, and played a role in forwarding president george bush's judicial nominees. we will hear from those who know him best, legal scholars, former law clerks, old friends, and his pastor. first up, his confirmation hearings in 2004 and 2006 for

david: another member of the george herbert walker bush family decides to run for president, george wsh. condoleezza: yes. david: you become the national security advisor, the first woman to be the national security adviser. condoleezza: yes. you are there and then 9/11 happens. condoleezza: yes. david: so where were you on 9/11? condoleezza: 9/11, i was at my desk. president bush was at that event in florida, the education event. and just to show you our pre-9/11 thinking, i did not go with him that day. my assistant came in and said a plane hit the world trade center. first we thought it was an accident. i called president bush. then, a few minutes later, we learned the second plane hit the world trade center and we knew now it was a terrorist attack. and then just a procession over the day and really the next several months of choices for the president of the united states. the united states had not been attacked on its own territory since the war of 1812. we had no structures, no institutions for internal security for the country. it was flying without a compass. david: subsequent

and george w. bush." mark is a commentator for abc news, good morning america, and "this week." and finally, our third panelist is stewart mclaurin. his 30-plus career in washington has been in senior roles at georgetown university, the american red cross, and the motion picture association. he also worked with the ronald reagan presidential foundation to conceptualize, plan, and execute the ronald reagan centennial celebration in 2011. please join in welcoming me -- please join me in welcoming today's panel, anita mcbride, mark updegrove, and stewart mclaurin. [ applause ] >> thank you, bob, very much. and i would also lake to recognize gael west on our board of directors and teresa barrett, the wife of our other board member, john barrett, who couldn't be with us today. wonderful board members and anita is on our board. and these men and women give extraordinary leadership, guidance, and governance to our organization. it was founded by mrs. kennedy in 1961 as a nonprofit, non-partisan partner to the wh

former presidents george w. bush and barack obama will speak, but bill clinton and hillary clinton, fresh off yesterday's aretha franklin funeral are here in washington today. former vice president al gore, former vice president cheney, and you know, warren beatty, who's a pallbearer and a good friend of the senator, among those there. gabby giffords, of course, the former congresswoman from arizona, and an array of foreign dignitaries, as we said. >> that's right. you see the top diplomats from a number of arab countries, in particular saudi arabia, from qatar. i'm looking, though, what stands out here is there is a theme -- and bob, you touched on this earlier -- of the foreign leaders. they are from countries who feel very much at risk of invasion or aggression by russia. senator mccain really standing out. part of his legacy was being very much a foil to vladimir putin of russia. he has here on this list the president of ukraine, the head of nato. he's got the former president of georgia. all countries, small cou

president george w. bush and barack obama paid tribute to the late senator john mccain they say the man they both defeated to win the white house may both of them that the president. you think you for joining us thousands of protesters have been taking part in rival demonstrations in the eastern german city. over the last few hours far right groups including germany's largest opposition party the anti migration. silence this evening come to demonstrators have already been gathering in the city. broke out at demonstrations earlier in the week spock by a stabbing of a german man two suspects syrian man and an iraqi were arrested in connection with the killing. let's now bring in correspondent seana chill some people who is in kenneth social demonstrations from both sides of the divide can you tell us what the situation is like at the moment. yes there are thousands of people gathered here behind me the protest here has been organized by the right wing f d party and the anti islam biggie to movement now the peop

was veryod, he different than george bush, george bush was very open and --t, kind of like a guys guy. president obama was not that way, but he was very smart. he knew a lot about his issues, but it was hard to get them off script. i would get phone calls from him on air force one and you could tell he was on his script. you would say, mr. president, what about this, and he would points.k on his talking he was more put together in that way, not so much free and open discourse, but i had a good relationship with him. we tried to counter the iran , unsuccessfully, but we got 99 votes in the senate to take back some power from the president, because he was doing an executive agreement with iran. and you know, things got a little tense during that period of time, but the relationship was warm and respectful. steve: did you or would you consider running for president yourself? sen. corker: when you look at politics today, and you look at where we are in the senate and the house, and you look at how much power we have given over to the president, again, look at the current issue of tariffs,

and i said to president bush, do you realize how extraordinary this is? well, he was george h.w. said, i never thought about it. i said the president in his last act before the collapse of the soviet union called the american president essentially to seek his affirmation. that was a very big deal, but that is the way he was. david: another member of the family decides to run for president, george w. bush. condoleezza: yes. david: you become the national security advisor, the first woman. condoleezza: yes. you are there and then 9/11 happens. condoleezza: yes. david: where were you on 9/11? condoleezza: i was at my desk. president bush was at that event in florida. just to show you our pre-9/11 thinking, i did not go with him that day. my assistant came in and said a plane hit the world trade center. first we thought it was an accident. i called president bush. then a few minutes later, we learned the second plane hit the world trade center and we knew it was a terrorist attack. and then just a procession over the day and the next several months of choices for the president of the

you know former presidents barack obama and george w. bush are among those who are also expected to give tributes here alexander what does this tell us. well i think that this is very telling that it was john mccain himself who explicitly asked former presidents george w. bush and barack obama to deliver at his funeral although he was not close to any open to them. asking them to speak here but both men who actually dashed his dreams of the white house is very telling and we can it's you that it was supposed to send a message to mccain's fellow republicans but also to democrats and basically to all americans a message of how important it is to cross. across the aisle across party lines how important it is to put country over party because that is something that mccain believed it's the best way of serving us interests and yet beyond this skill in spite of these skills tyson he somehow managed to fail on his two bids for the presidency where did he go wrong well you know he had been in politics for a long time and he came you know rose to the

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bush and michelle obama share an you are watching george w. sh slip a piece of candy to obama.e he only slipped her one candy. michelle obama shared an unlikely friendship, and the internet is happy about it. >> now that i get to see the video, that's actually coming from laura bush, the candy. >> i do want to know what kind of candyy 91 degrees is the big number we're talking about, because we are inching into a bit of a warm and hot zone, then we cool down an a little bit by labor day. don't worry, it will still be sunny outside. >> big question, with the candy in the wrapper, you have to be worried about the noise. >> it was a mint. >> thanks so much for join bein us, "saturday night live" is next. >> you're watching iraqi state television -- your only alternative. >> hello, and welcome back to continuing coverage of the 2002 iraqi presidential election.we r hands tonight. and so far, it shows few signs

david: another member of the family decides to run for president, george w. bush. become the national security advisor, the first woman. you are there and then 9/11 happens. where were you on 9/11? condoleezza: i was at my desk. president bush was at that event in florida. just to show you our pre-9/11 thinking, i did not go with him that day. my assistant came in and said a plane hit the world trade center. first we thought it was an accident. i called president bush. a few minutes later, we learned the second plane hit the world trade center and we knew it was a terrorist attack. and then just a procession over the day and the next several months of decisions for the president of the united states. the united states had not been attacked on its own territory since the war of 1812. we had no structures or institutions for internal security for the country. it was flying without a compass. david: subsequently president bush decided to invade iraq to topple saddam hussein. so in light of hindsight, had you known there were no weapons of mass destruction, would you h

the applause there for george w. bushas he finishes his eulogy at john mccain's funeral mccain wasn't necessarily a hero to everyone we heard from they'd be who is a political analyst and author of the struggle for iraq's future and he told us john mccain use the conflict in iraq to further his personal ambitions in relation to his positions on iraq are specifically he was broadly speaking very off the mark most of the time if not even all the time i mean first of all he really bought into the narrative about weapons of mass destruction when the bush administration back in two thousand and two in two thousand and three was making its case people like me and others could clearly see that there were huge problems with the narrative about weapons of mass destruction of so many holes in this story that were simply not credible but senator mccain bought into it. back to the funeral service for john mccain for president barack obama is now speaking as a mr bush rose and secretary clinton. vice president biden vice president as

george w. bush. and laura bush who did pay their respects to john mccain in recent months at cottonwood. hillary clinton, al gore. jon karl, as we see everybody coming, he was a great drinking buddy of hillary clinton. >> yes, he struck up something of a friendship with her in the senate. they joined forces on a couple of causes. i wouldn't say it was an incredibly warm relationship but it was a remarkable one. she came in under extraordinary circumstances, obviously, the first former first lady of the united states to be elected to the united states senate and she set out to kind of charm john mccain and to court him and to ask his advice when she first came to the senate. >> we see there former vice president dick cheney, the president's national security adviser john bolton along with senator clinton there. boy, terry, it's hard not to address the elephant in the room as we see those former presidents there, as we see the president's staff, as we see george w. bush, as we see laura bush, glaring i

and george w. bush." mark is a commentator for abc news, "good morning america," and -- finally, our third panelist is stuart mclauren. he's president of the white house historical association. his 30-plus year career in washington has been in senior roles at georgetown university, the american red cross and the motion picture association. he also worked with the ronald reagan presidential foundation to conceptualize, plan, and execute the ronald reagan se centennial celebration in 2011. please join in welcoming -- please join me in welcoming today's panel, anita mcbride, mark, and stuart. >> thank you, bob, very much, and i'd also like to recognize gail west on our board of directors and teresa bar et. these men and women give extraordinary leadership, guidance, and governance to our organization. it was founded by mrs. kennedy in 1961 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan partner to the white house, and we're honored to be the convener of this presidential site summit this week. today, we're going to talk a littl

former presidents barack obama and george w bush will give eulogies. eulogies. there will be politicalfriends from both sides. but it is worth remembering that he did have some political enemies and those came from the left and the right. of course, there will specifically be some shadow, i suppose, because the president, donald trump, will not be there. he was a man who wasjohn mccain's political nemesis in recent years and there were people who did not see a lot in each other. —— they we re see a lot in each other. —— they were people. others feel strongly thatjohn mccain should be remembered in the most sincere way possible. i think that will take place today. we can see some of the scenes taking place inside the national memorial. people have already been arriving. over the last few hours. the ceremony itself is set to start within the next 45 minutes. this is the last, the final public sendoff. his burial to take place tomorrow. yes, there will be a private service tomorrow that takes place just outside of washington. before he is buried. as you m

tim mcbride was here and he was president senior bush's close personal aide. in george h.w. bush's diary, it's a tape recorded diary like listening to dana carvey. mcbride screwed it up. no. dana once said the key to doing george h.w. bush's voice was mr. rogers trying to be john wayne. but when i was listening to the diary, he would be bellyaching about the press in very specific terms. like, maureen dowd did this, judy woodruff did that, sam donaldson did this. i was beginning to worry as president, the man who won the cold war had watched tv all day. what i realized, somewhat in consultation with tim, part of what happened is he had everything in his briefcase. so he had the white house news summary in the tape recorder. so he would be on marine i or air force i and pull everything out and start looking at this and be reading this great transcript of everyone who had been attacking him all the time. so he would just react to it that way. that's the reality. how many of you all love being criticized? maybe you're better than i am, but, you know, it's just -- and that -- to

we never filibusters until george bush 43 was elected president and so the appointment whether to the cabinet or court is a new invention. and who invented it? chuck schumer. we're band to where we were as a matter of custom for 200 and some odd years down to the 2000 election which is you don't filibuster nominees on the executive calendar. so i'm comfortable with where we are. that is the way we operated when i first got to the senate before they started routinely filibustering nominations. i think a majority is appropriate for the executive calendar, including judges. >> now the antics we've watched this week have led some to observe that the body is as polarized as its ever been and do you agree with that because you have a lot of years here that relations between the two sides of the aisle are at their nader. >> it is a difference between putting on an act in a committee hearing room and how you act on the senate floor. there is no lack of collegiateality in the senate but what the democrats are doing is putting up a good front, knowing they're going to lose and trying to convinc

two of mccain's once political rivals, george w. bush and barack obama spoke for him sending a message of bipartisan at a time when washington is deeply divided. our jeff zeleny has more. >> reporter: washington paid tribute and bid farewell to john mccain, an american patriot and politician. at the washington national cathedral, a tablo of history, assembly to say good buy to a war hero and veteran republican senator. mccain's daughter meghan over come with emotion throughout the week spoke passionately about her brother with a poignant message. >> we gather here to mourn the passing of american greatness. the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who live lives of comfort and privilege. >> inside the cathedral, it was the first of preferenseveral re of president trump. >> john mccain has no need to be made great again because america was always great. >> reporter: the funeral unfolded as a parting lesson in cysty from mccain hims

and i covered then reagan, george herbert walker bush, bill clinton and george w. bush and barack obama, and today donald trump. and i'm sure we will get to this, but today is more of an adventure than ever. >> ron. >> i'm ron nessen and i covered the white house for nbc news and then i changed sides and became president ford's press secretary. >> richard. >> i'm richard benedetto, i covered the white house starting with ronald reagan through george h.w. bush, bill clinton and george w. bush. >> susan. >> so i'm susan page, my first campaign was in 1980. i covered president carter's final campaign trip and then i covered the white house and national politics since then. >> well, i have served president clinton, as martha said, for two years at the state department, in '93 and '94, and then went to the white house in 1995 and spent four years, which is comparatively a long time for a press secretary to be there. but i had an extra bonus year, my last year, because of a certain intern at the white house. >> i remember those days well. as much as i may try to forget th

scarborough criticizes former presidents george w. bushk obama but then unleashes this absurd attack on trump. "for those of us still believing that islamic extremists hate america because of the freedoms we guaranteed all people, the gravest threat trump poses to our national security is the damage done daily to america's image." scarborough is backtracking after facing heavy criticism. greg, he is a seasoned political pro. to do this on the anniversary of 9/11, it's just dumb. >> greg: it's funny. if it was in june or may and he was sitting somewhere and he goes oh, trump. he is worse than 9/11. i could see them going i don't know what i was thinking. that's not what he did. you can forgive him -- you can forgive anybody. dumb comment but you can't walk back this one central thing, that on the anniversary of 9/11, it's always about 9/11. it's about the victims. he made it about trump as a way of making it about himself. he wanted the spectacle to be directed at him because he's going to be virtue signaling to all of the resistors. he sto

i covered the white house starting with ronald reagan and george h to be bush, bill clinton, and george w. bush. >> i am susan. my campaign was in 1980, my first campaign. i covered president carter's final campaign trip and i covered the white house national politics. >> i served president clinton for two years at the state department in 92, 94 and went to the white house in 95 and spent four years which is comparatively a long time for a press secretary to be there but i had an extra bonus my last year because of an intern. >> i remember those days well. as much as i try to forget them. i was privileged to interview many presence. mike, let me start with you. as we have noted, there is an often adversarial relationship between the press corps and the white house. and yet, there is often a fundamentally shared objective of both sides which is to inform, engage the american people. the world consumes them with in a very profound way. why is it important, and this is unusual, the press corps is there. they are the presence on the premises. the presidency is under such a constant glare. >

former us presidents george w bush and barack obama will deliver eulogies at the national cathedral. president trump has not been invited. official documents reveal that hm revenue and customs uses a traffic light system to rate the tax arrangements of people nominated for an honour. the united states ends its funding for the un's palestinian refugee agency — deeming it irredeemably flawed. more misery for northern rail passengers as more than two—thirds of services are cancelled — in a dispute over driver—only operated trains. a memorial service for the american senator and vietnam war veteran john mccain isjust getting under way at washington's national cathedral. the former presidents barack obama and george w bush will lead the mourners during the ceremony. todayis today is a day full of ceremony and thatis today is a day full of ceremony and that is obvious even when you take a look at the washington national cathedral. all of this funeral was planned byjohn mccain himself. he had of course been suffering from brain cancer and he was very aware of his own mortality. and each of

let me let you listen to george w. bush insist, we are better than this. america is better than this. john is the first to tell you, he was not a perfect man. he dedicated his life to national ideals that are as perfect as men and women have yet conceived. >> misha, it is interesting, those on the other side, including everything, including the war in iraq. even his presence represents something that seems bygone, the ability to look back with some sort of wistfulness to a leader and ask the president, to embody the office despite the fact he had dips with them. >> that seems to have passed away with this era that john mccain represented. >> really, it's an era of decency with the president if you agree with him as someone who can speak eloquently and layout what the president and the american people think as shared values. this idea even if you disagree with someone. if they're a democrat and a rub. if are you a man and they're a woman. there are things can you share and actually have in common. you don't have to fight too

there's a slip. >> george bush was the single least popular sitting president in history. rating was 25%. and we were the third term of the bush administration. >> just this morning senator mccain said that actually he and president bush share a common philosophy. that's right, colorado, i guess that was john mccain finally giving us a little straight talk. >> senator obama wants to run against george bush. he should have run for president four years ago. >> one of the things that was the key to us was to be able to regain the mantle of the maverick. and one of the most critical decisions that john mccain had to make was who was going to be his running mate and we had a lot of good options, at least we thought we did. >> when rick davis called me and said john wanted to put me on the short list for vp, honestly my reaction was are you kidding? i think john felt it would be a big message in this, which is this was gonna be a bipartisan ticket, unprecedented. >> you may ask who are you supporting for a republican for president? >> john wanted to pick joe lieberman. you're ju

presidents george w. bush and barack obama paid tribute to the late senator john mccain they say the monday both difficult to win the white house made both of them better presidents. and thank you for joining us thousands of protesters the taking part in rival demonstrations in the eastern german city of kenneth's far right groups including germany's largest opposition party the anti migration. marched in silence this evening demonstrators have already been gathering in the city broke out of demonstrations early in the weeks by a stabbing of a german man two suspects a syrian and an iraqi were arrested in connection with the killing as no bring in correspondent who is in chemist's so shallow demonstrations from both sides here what exactly is taking place in chemist's right now. good evening yeah the protest has largely dispersed now you're joining me it was a purchase that was organized by the far right of tea party and the anti islam movement now protesters here have been told by police that they need to mov

one thing that george w. bushck obama he be the opportunity to rise and fall on his own understanding that his presidency was unique and he did not want to chime in. and i remember a conversation with then president george bush after he came back from his last africa trip and barack obama was running against mccain. and we talked about the fact there is subtle and overt racism against president barack obama. so that's one of the key reasons that george bush stayed out of it and did not comment on anything that happened with barack obama during his presidency. and this this moment for barack obama for him to speak he understood what george bush did and he understood the moment in time and he had to do it. >> i hope people don't concentrate on that one sound bite. because he also talked about hacking. he talked about russia. he talked about emails. and all those things then that seem to matter so much but really didn't matter, you people were being bam boozled. >> we all know trump likes to take credit for the econo

ambassador for a time under george w. bush this rome. declaration which the u.s. did not sign onto was in two thousand and two under george w. bush who really wanted nothing to do with this court it wasn't until barack obama came around that he cozied up to them and now as you might expect donald trump is saying look we're not interested in these international bodies that are on checked in rogue having any legal authority over our citizens or those of our allies we quit the human rights council that the united nations in june for much the same reason bias by the by the body it was a kangaroo court it was a mockery we quit that i'm not surprised that we're fighting back against the i.c.c. . see this is the trump administration isn't the first us presidential administration to battle with that and ultimately work to undermine the power of the i.p.c.c. obviously the george bush administration actively opposed the cartoonist's first term and he said even president barack obama issued a memorandum shielding us personnel from i see a persecution which sensuous as you kno

and the concern is what do these document documents show about the type of oadvice that he gave george w. bush and where he stands on the various issue, and while he was advising george w. bush, and there are a lot of important issues that came up before the court. so i think that the whole idea here is to try to rush it through as fast as possible. they obviously want to get it through before the election. and they are not only shortcutting the process, but depriving senators and the public from really a full vetting of kavanaugh. >> and so with the president or at least people around him under investigation, this special counsel probe which has -- resulted in something like 39 indictments and some of them including guilty pleas, how much of that do you think or questions about those things will be, you know, peppered, you know, to kavanaugh? what is the expectation of how he can answer these questions without really understand mining decisions that may potentially come oral challenges that may o potentially come to the u.s. supreme court? >> right. the classic thing they do is that they will

the opportunity to work with brett during his service in the george w. bush white house. as secretary price has just said very well, those of us who worked with him universally praise his work ethic, his intelligence and his integrity. i visited with the george w. bush a few days, talked about brett. he put it simply brett kavanaugh is a class act. and endorsing brett conformable to president bill clinton bob bennet called him a strong advocateet of decency and civility. by the way, of all the attribution to appoint a judge what could be more important than good judgment? but definitely showed good judgment in marrying ashley. so did she. and they are a great family. it's wonderful to have their daughters, margaret and liza with us here today. brights parents are also here. that's a special appropriate since brights first introduction to block it from listening to his mom, practice closing arguments at the dinner table. she was afi trailblazer. went to law school at age 34 and eventually became a trial judge. wright has said to him, martha kavanaugh will always be the true

good good good news it was a good luthier stooge george. bush and bush are going to your lordship. this experiment is the most delicious one the lettuce was grown at zero gravity and then of course eaten they carry out biological and physics experiments study the performance of stem cells and develop medicines to cure cancer this experiment is the most important one for jack fisher as his daughter had cancer. but spaceman also guinea pigs mission control constantly monitors their health and watches closely to see if they exercise enough. we have a special treadmill first off we can find it's on the wall how could we have to work out physical exercise. to do two and a half hours a day because if you don't have good exercise your muscles and your bones just for just go away and you come back as a ninety year old man and then you your wife won't like you anymore. please let her sleep. for this cause. the most people the worst were to report but i would leave them before you. can put you both of you. he would do two or three because those who blew through the worst to stoop to. maximiz

george w. bush.ential library is, he's very affiliated, associated with that school. of course the bush family and the trumps don't exactly get along these days. maybe that would be a problem. so where else could trump potentially look? how about arlington, outside of dallas, at&t stadium, where the cowboys play? they've squeezed 108,000 in there. maybe trump would feel more comfortable. jerry jones of course has been on trump's side when it comes to that issue of kneeling. you see a picture last year, jones brought the team out before the anthem to kneel, then they all stood up for the anthem. he says he doesn't want a dallas cowboy player kneeling, so they're sort of allies about that. if you want to be more technical about the biggest stadium in texas, try this one on for size. the texas motor speedway, 181,000 people can fit into there. it gets into the whole issue, do you consider a racetrack, a speedway, folks driving around in cars, do you consider that a stadium or does a stadium have to have

george w. bush and barack obama eulogized the war hero and long-term-time senator. >>> we begin with the bombshell in new york times and the reporting from the times in a fbi program, designed to flip the russian oligarch, including deripaska. paul manafort according to official, an associate of deripaska. according to the times, two players in the program effort to bring bruce ohr and president slammed ohr to discredit him for contact with steele to compile the dossier on trump. the "times" met they met with deripaska in 2015 and again in 2016, when fbi agents showed up at deripaska's door investigating ties between russia and the trump campaign and mr. paul manafort was the link for the trump campaign. and joining me is a natasha bertrand and from bloomberg news, kevin cirilli and from the daily beast, francis fluid. so we have a lot of people. manafort and russia. and how are we connecting this dot based on the reporting. >> this underscores how important deripaska is to the entire manafort story

george h. w. bush did make the request for the fbi to reinveste then the nomination process got back on track. of course supreme court , two nominations during george w. bush, justice roberts and then harriet miers was nominated and that had to be pulled back. i remember watching the alito hearings in my office and seeing seeing martha alito crying and then mrs. bush calling her and saying, it is going to be ok. this is politics. this is what people who go into public service unfortunately have to put themselves through. i hope that it doesn't keep people from being willing to serve their government. when you hit a crisis in a nomination, of course it is important for all hands to be on deck. everybody needs to be in the room together. it is a war room situation. but, the one thing that has been absolutely consistent, both from the white house and that dr. ford should be heard. the other point is that brett kavanaugh has said i want to uphold my integrity. host: again, twitter available to you if you w