when we take you back to president george h.w. bush walked into the white house briefing room to announce the u.s. response to the killing of protesters in china. during the past few days, elements of the chinese army have been brutally suppressing popular and peaceful demonstrations in china. has been widespread and continuing violence, many casualties and deaths. we deplore the decision to use force and i now call on the chinese leadership publicly, as i have in private channels, to avoid violence and returned to their previous policy of restraint. the demonstrators into tiananmen square were advocating for basic human rights, including the freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of association. these are goals we support around the world. these are freedoms that are in both the u.s. constitution and the chinese constitution. throughout the world, we stand with those who seek rater freedom and democracy. this is the strongly felt the of my administration, of our congress, and most important, the american people. in recen

george h.w. bush writing to his sons about nixon. he is a nervously complicated and capable of great kindness i am not that close to him as a personal friend but he holds people off but i have been around him enough to see some humor and feelnd kindness and it goes on to say deep in his heart richard nixon knew that george h.w. bush, he was not willing to do what political instincts require. >> a very astute letter. george h.w. bush wasn't astute judge of character. . >> but that is an accurate portrayal. >> in the hardball nixon never went away and then going public and did not follow his advice. >> nixon was nixon. >> so bill clinton would not take his calls when he first came into office at pat nixon's funeral was that ever resolved quick. >> yes. clinton ended up waking nixon. initially clinton was a snob actually and dismissive of him. by the end of his presidency clinton was praising his advice on the former soviet union president clinton trusted his advice he was smart about the populist forces

george w. bush and george h.w. bush. >> we did not have these issues with george h.w. bush and george w.alling out president obama and his wife taking his children on the trip to spain. that costs taxpayers $467,000. he said they are out spending money. really? >> you know, minor children, it is common for presidents to take them on foreign trips and be there for major moments. the trump administration said the adult children paid their own way for the trip. >> they have the security. they did not fly on air force i. we do not know where they stayed. they have to have security. all those individuals is going to add up to more than $467,000 he called out for protecting sasha and malia. >> we pay for the security anyway. they guard the trump children. that comes with having this many children with president trump. >> i think we can all agree the president and his family deserve the safety of the secret service. the issue is about donald trump never respecting the norms of the office and his family not respecting it. it has been a stay one story and never been addressed. republicans never h

our speakers were president george h.w. bush, and bill clinton. the atmosphere is electric with excitement. the graduates are gleeful. who would dare follow that. in at the and as a surprise, wearing a hotel bathrobe and with a three minute talk, steals the show. ever since, each graduating class, when asked who was the selected speaker, says, we want ellen back. you came back and ellen came back. please join me to welcome ellen degeneres. [cheering and applause] ellen: oh, boy, thank you so much. thank you president, missus president callen, the stingless -- the distinguished guests, and undistinguished guests -- you know you are. [laughter] of theand thank you all graduating class of 2009, i realize that you are hung over, but you cannot graduate until i finish, so listen up. [cheering and applause] ellen: when i was asked to make the commencement speech, i immediately said yes. then i went to look up what commencement meant. [laughter] ellen: it would have been easy if i had a dictionary, but more of the books that we have in our rtia's andpor

the read my lips pledge by george h.w. bush was costly to him. biden is it's playing into that part of his image. she felt, as his advisers, his continuing to support the hyde amea amendment, killed his chances of being the nominee. i think he's probably right about that. the other thing we have to watch play out, is signaling his misgivings about abortion, he may have picked up conservative support. despite his official change in position. we know he's an older person. he's a roman catholic. he was once doubtful about abortion as a medical practice. we're going to give him latitude on that. >> weigh in on the speaker of the house and nancy pelosi. the rhetoric is one thing. what do you think this belies underneath? >> it's a fascinating moment in politics, given clinton and her experience. but moving on to this moment, i think what people are missing about nancy pelosi, is she is slow walking the advocates for impeachment in her own caucus, because she believes that her long impeachment fight would cost the democrats a good chance of winning the

back with me former aid for george h.w. bush administration, joe watkins and american bridge 21st century chairman david brock. joe watkin, it seems the president by his tweets and his attacks and going to iowa this week, is pretty much concerned about joe biden. it seems biden is holding a lead. why do you think the president is unnerved by joe biden? >> his numbers are strong. you look at his capacity to not only win his base but like wise delve into the republican base some. certainly non-college educated whites. all groups that are some of the groups that have very loyal to the president and republicans are groups that joe biden has the capacity to reach. he's going to get good support if he's the nominee from african-americans and he'll get good support from independents and he's also get supports from some republicans. the president is wise to be in iowa to try to counter him because joe biden, if he gets stronger in iowa becomes a real threat. he has a real shot to win the nomination and is the nominee, he's very powerful

>> what surprised you, as you look back at the presidencies of jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george h.w. bush? >> what really surprised us, the reagan and bush eras it's been talked about as appeared of conservative dominance. reagan comes in and sweeps everything aside. there was a real stickiness to liberal ideas and institution that is survives the reagan revolution and there is a real preservation of some of those old values and old policies so rather than conservative -- it's a conservative versus liberal type of war. >> you're on social media with more than 240,000 followers on twitter. how did that come about? >> i have no idea. i think it's because i had a willingness, and i'm not alone but a willingness not just to provide historical antidotes but rather to take on people who were propagating falsehoods, whether knowingly or unknowingly spreading mistruths about american history. >> so give us the history of social media. when did it really begin and where are we today? >> that's something we talk about in this book fault lines. it really begins with the rise of the internet in the 1

george h.w. bushic candidate yet to be named and it turned out to be bill clinton. bob dole reading bill clinton and republican candidate beating barack obama, none of which came to pass. mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist. you know, a lot of people say why do you make so much at the polls, why do you focus on it, you are so far away. the president is talking about it and people are obviously focusing on asking him about it. >> i think polls are worthwhile snapshots and they are only snapshots, good campaigns can, it's losing in certain states. when people in the trump world and, i have heard this repeatedly, they said the polls were wrong last year but they weren't wrong. the final polls were a real clear politics average showed hillary would win by 3.2 points. she won the popular vote by 2.1. they were off by 1.1 percentage points. now 2012 and president obama's race, they were up by 3.2. so they were even more accurate in 16 then they were in 12. so the polls are a worrisome sign for

next, we take you back to when president george h.w. bush walked into the white house briefing room to announce the u.s. response to the killing of protesters in china. >> i believe the forces of democracy are so powerful, and when you see them as recently as this morning, a single student standing in front of a tank, and then, i might add, seeing the tank driver exercise restraint, i'm convinced that the forces of democracy are going to overcome these unfortunate events in tiananmen square. on the commercial side, i don't want to hurt the chinese people. i happen to believe that commercial contacts have led in essence to this quest for more freedom. i think as people have commercial incentive, whether it is in china or in other totalitarian systems, the move to democracy becomes more inexorable. what we've done is suspended certain things in the military side. my concern is with those in the military who are using force. and yet when i see some exercising restraint and see the big divisions that exist inside the pla, i think we need to move

stable and strong obama economy to become president, and in 1992, bill clinton ran against a george h.w. bushconomy that was growing out of recession and set the economy stupid, but that was the message he ran out and was able to win against the incumbent george h.w. bush, so it's not impossible. >> working for some, not working for others. president trump won, pointing out how broken it was. can democrats now do the same? amy, we have to talk about acting defense secretary patrick shanahan now dropping out of the running for pentagon chief after these allegations surfaced of domestic violence in his family's past. i want to hear what the president said. >> i heard about it yesterday for the first time. i didn't know about it. i heard about it yesterday and it's very unfortunate, very unfortunate. >> you just heard about it yesterday? >> we have a very good vetting process. you take a look at our cabinet and secretaries, very good, but we have a great vetting process. >> i want to share what jennifer rubin of the "washington post" writes. one, pick someone qualified. two, don't vet him. three

. >>> the late george h.w. bush is being honored with a new stamp. yesterday the u.s. postal service unveiled it during a ceremony at the texas a&m university campus. that's where mr. bush's library is located. it was held on what would have been his 91st birthday. his grandson said his grandfather's words, dreams, and hopes live on through his letters. >>> so coming up on "cbs this morning," comedian ramy youssef star of the first american sit come "ramy" tells us about his first hbo special. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." jill jill has entresto, and a na heart failure pill that helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto. where to next? >>> ou after he said he's consider taking information on election rivals from a foreign

going back to george h.w. bush, who was probably the model in this regard, you know, he got his position ratified by the united nations security council and approved by democratic house and a democratic senate, so that there was a sef e owhat our objective was, what -- why the force was being applied, and at there had been an international effort to enlist support, a successful one. all of that is miing here, judy, and, so, as a consequence, i think, as david said, bothit curi anxiety and just tension. >> and tactics are sort of driving strategy. so we have accidentally walked iointo this poswhere we've drawn a red line where pompeo said you cannokill americans and if you do that, suddenly, you know, things change so that's a red line. so if they do end up killing americans accidentally or on purpose, then what happens? and if yu don't have the overall strategy, they have so many tools at their disposal. they could do cyber war fair, attack te iranian forces spread around the immediately, go after the iranian navy.

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president george h.w. bush had visited beijing earlier that year and strove to maintain bilateral dialogue even after the massacre nevertheless he granted fang asylum at the u.s. mission. he stayed there for a year until china allowed him to move to the us the deal was negotiated by the us ambassador a former cia operative. trying to suspected the cia was smuggling its most wanted to sit. because of the country. at the same time you look at activists in hong kong began organizing the 1st step of the operation. they needed to find host countries for the rescue dissidents. the lawyer martin lee was tasked with persuading representatives of various governments to accept the refugees. the 1st concert i went into was the u.s. consulate. i saw a lady there not the consul general. she was interested to help but only the top leaders of the student movement. she was very interested in big names there with. weak i.c. and child being unsure so i asked her what about the people who are not so well known very dangerous they

george w. bush, george h.w. bush, ronald reagan, richard nixon, dwight eisenhower all had higher approval ratings at some point in their presidencies. so again, these are the facts, facts first. so why is the president lying about that? why claim you're the most popular president in the history of the party when it is so easily proven false? like i said before, if you lie about anything, you'll lie about everything. so will the president stick to his plan to slap tariffs on mexico on monday and just how much pain will all of that cost you, the american people? that's the question for former ohio governor john kasich. he's here and he's next. wireless network. n's fast so... if you're out on an important job & you need to place an important order... tulips, calla lilies, baby's breath... & speed is important to you - you're covered. going to be a centerpiece all flowers. & so you can work almost anywhere... you got it? on the network that helps get work done. for a limited time, buy the next generation samsung gal

. >> and nobody talked about it yesterday and that's george h.w. bush.doning casper wineberger, pardoning the five people on the eve of their trial. the special prosecutor said that was designed to stop the investigation and it did stop the investigation. nobody ever suggested obstruction of justice against president bush. >> laura: let's get back to current day. sheila jackson lee was speaking today on the civil contempt citations that are being floated around for barr, et cetera. let's watch. >> we will see what we'll do next if the compliance continues, then we'll take the negligence action off the table. everything remains on the table until we know they have fully complied with the information we need. >> laura: alan, is there any there there. >> there's no there there. >> laura: the cat and mouse game with the white house office. >> there's no there there. there's no legal obligation to provide the public or congress with any of the information. certainly not information that is protected by grand jury secrecy that involves ongoing investigations.

enabled us to focus on the larger picture too which was honoring the life and legacy of george h.w. bushservice. there was a walk to the lake him and the president at the time george bush and the way they were chatting. and we gave them their space. it was tremendous to watch. they really loved each other. >> it was so obvious all weekend. all veteran parachute team is a incredible group of patriotic heroes. jenny he is mean knows is a if there so wonder woman on this earth it is her. ainsley: mike elliott the one who jumped with the president phenomenal individual. steve: you have been traveling this weekend. thank you very much. great report. ainsley: that was a sweet story. steve: we will take a time out coming up on the other side of the break. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell joins us live. ramirez! mom! maria! maria ramirez... mcdonald's is committing 150 million dollars . .. this is not a bed. it's a revolution in sleep. the sleep number 360 smart bed now from $899, intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts... to keep you both comfortable. the queen sleep

> something i probably would have gotten away with in a more organized administration in the george h.w. bush administration or the obama administration and in both there were a process. the fbi wanted to send agents into the white house itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the white house counsel and there would be discussions. it's early enough. just send a couple of guys over. >> sean: you brag about setting hmmm up. what treats a 33 year veteran like this? we set them up and tell them not to have lawyers and we pretty much say it's not an investigation and brag about it? mccabe and comey testified that flynn did not appear to be lying but had to sign on because he was losing his house and out of money and they were going after his own family, his son in particular. did flynn fail to perfectly recount the details of a-year-old phone call. mueller turned the screws on him and flynn's life has been in ruins. finances wrecked and home sold because of legal fees and facing jail time for lying to investigators who didn't think he was lying. my advice to general flynn. g

george w. bush, george h.w. bush or even ronald reagan. and the fact that the democrats didn't take the battle to trump and try to make this entire campaign a referendum on what seems to be, for most people, an abnormal presidency, i thought, was a lost opportunity. >> what's your take, jonathan? chrly was saying if democrats go very progressive now they'll be haunted by this in the general. how come republicans don't face the same thing? lindsey graham tweeting watching this debate i'm thinking of a third term for president trump. it was two years ago lindsey graham on twitter saying that the president was a disgrace, called him a kook, said if donald trump got the republican nomination, they would get wiped out. that hasn't harmed him. >> republicans don't have a primary right now. they are unified behind their president, 90% of republicans approve of the job donald trump is doing, and they're not having that debate within that party. you just don't see for the most part these policy debates. you see a little bit on the edges the preside

postal service unveiling a stamp to honor former president george h.w. bush. the stamp features a striking image of bush. america's 41st president died last year at the age of 94. cheryl: we've got a lot more coming up this morning. president trump and former vice president joe biden going head to head in iowa with biden making far-out promises and stealing a quote from someone else's playbook, again. we're going to have the latest on what biden is doing in iowa and how he's pulling out all the stops right now. and justin be bieber challenging tom cruise to a royal snackdown. now other celebrities are weighing in. should meryl streep be watching her back? we've got details coming up. ♪ i used to believe we were burning on the edge of something beautiful. ♪ something beautiful. ♪ selling a dream, smoke and mirrors keep us -- filing complaints against the german auto maker. ♪ because a vision softly creeping ♪ ♪ left its seeds while i was sleeping ♪ ♪ and the vision ♪ that was planted in my brain ♪ ♪ still remains ♪ within the sound of silence ♪ in restless dream

there is no more ronald reagan in today's gop, there is no more john mccain, no george h.w. bush, george bush in today's gop. >> i think when parties change, they change quickly. i think the reaganism arose in basically rose in one term of j jimmy carter. the realignments happen under the surface and all of a sudden explode. i don't think we're going to go back to an institutionalist republican party. there's always going to be a trumpist element carried on by guys like tom cotton, to some extent, who are not as hostile as trump, but have his idea of the u.s. acting alone when necessary and being a policeman when necessary. >> robert costa thank you for spending time with us. >>> after the break, elizabeth warren and her gut reaction on the mueller report and her clarity on impeachment. >>> before leaving for normandy, nancy pelosi reportedly said she wants to see donald trump in prison. >>> and the 2020 democrats court some of the most important voters in the coalition, in the country i would add, all those stories coming up. stories comin. ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded chicken faji

. >> love versus hate, they hated george h.w. bush and a lot of us hated barack obama's policies.trump cleaved himself to the supporters because of what he said he would do. >> laura: none of democrats are even trying. raymond arroyo. >> people loved. that they said over and over. we love that he delivered on what he promised. he even got a trump baby to show up again. >> laura: adopt the trump baby. it's kind of cute. thank you. more from the same folks raymond caught up with orlando later in the show. when we come back, the democrats continue to cite trump's rhetoric as inflamm attory without looking at their own and what alexandria ocasio-cortez said about u.s. immigration. like salonpas patch large. it's powerful, fda-approved to relieve moderate pain, yet non-addictive and gentle on the body. salonpas. it's good medicine. hisamitsu. control your blood sugar around the clock. and with a $0 copay, ♪ let's groove tonight. that's something to groove about. toujeo is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. it contains 3 times as much insulin in 1 milliliter as st

in 1991 you had george h.w. bushl: george w. bush won florida but lost re-election to clinton. the hispanic vote in florida we've seen go more republican but we've seen an influx of puerto ricans who tend to go democrat. marco rubio was his opposition candidate in 2016. now he's got a lot more momentum in the state than prior. >> the election of ron de santis does not hurt him in any way, shape or form there, solidifying the republican leadership there. i think that helps him. the real state you have to look at is texas. if there's early trouble there, that's not a good sign. florida is always deeply divided. if you see a sign of trouble in texas, that could hurt him in the future. you shouldn't be shoring up -- cheryl: i'm glad you brought that up. joe biden was at a forum in d.c., elizabeth warren was there as well. he actually made a pretty bold statement. he said i promise if i'm the candidate, i can win south carolina, texas, and georgia and he says he will not ignore those states on the campaign trail if he is

and george h.w. bush beat an unnamed democrat by 30 points.g clinton and known 2001, an unnamed republican smoking barack obama. it's very early so keep our powder dry. >> thinking past the sale? they are doing that by accident. >> you think trump is trolling the democrats by his tweet and we should not take it seriously? >> yeah. >> i think trump is highly unpredictable. i hope you agree. >> yes, do i. >> he said he would violate the law by taking information from foreign countries for an election which is a felony. >> not true. >> that's what he said. >> no. >> nothing is out of bounds when it comes to trump. he may be trolling, but i will say this much in response to jesse. he fired pollsters who told him he might be losing. >> no the ones he thought leaked it. >> that's part of the whole team. >> you fire leakers. >> he is upset about this. if he had not said ever the election if he lost to hillary clinton he might not accept the election results, i would say no. both sides are beating each other. >> you don't believe he will stay if he lo

i think it was barack obama who talked about george h.w. bush 8 years. >> never ended. >> now trump hits hillary clinton a few times. >> get a mop. >> to clean it up. >> there is a difference in perspective. i think the president did a great job of having that continuity. in is what we accomplished in the last couple of years. here are the continued themes i am working it. it doesn't matter what he said because it was a success from the get go. people lined up for 40 hours to get inside that arena. the tv cameras showed a packed house. look what happened last night with the 2 nights of democratic candidateses. bernie sanders said it was nonsense. tell that to the people who stood in line for 40 hours. -->> republican funds democrat funeral. >> i think the money he raised was something to see. i think the incumbent definitely as the advantage. i don't understand what is to celebrate. it looked like a rehash. >> well, he's had success. replay it. >> right. >> a lot of the other networks don't carry them at all. first it was aoc. now a cnn anchor i

george w. bush, george h.w. bush, ronald reagan, richard nixon, dwight eisenhower all had higher approval ratings at some point in their presidencies. so again, these are the facts, facts first. so why is the president lying about that? why claim you're the most popular president in the history of the party when it is so easily proven false? like i said before, if you lie about anything, you'll lie about everything. so will the president stick to his plan to slap tariffs on mexico on monday and just how much pain will all of that cost you, the american people? that's the question for former ohio governor john kasich. he's here and he's next. sir, you're a broker. what do you charge for online equity trades? uh, i'll look into it. (phone rings) lisa jones! lisa: (on phone) hey carl, what are you charging me for online equity trades? (nervous chuckle) lisa: and do i get my fees back if i'm not happy? like a satisfaction guarantee? ugh. schwab! lisa: oh right, i'm calling schwab. thanks, carl! wait, lisa! lisa... ar

in 1989, president george h.w. bush called on bill to be the nation's first drug tsar, as director of the national drug control policy, he established the first drug control strategy, that brought a historic decline in drug use throughout the country. after his public service, they'll went on to become a leading voice in the conservative movement by cofounding empower america along with jack kemp and jean kirkpatrick. he also began to host a national syndicated radio show. among the more than 25 books he has authored, his political autobiography, and the book of birches. this 1993 bestseller aimed at inspiring and empowering teachers to help students understand and apply character traits like honesty, compassion, and courage. bill has spent his career emphasizing the need for moral character and uprightness in our country. over the course of his life, bill has received more than 50 awards for his work. his influence and impact have shaped many of today's great leaders. america will forever be indebted to his call to ris

he was interested in the george h.w. bush foreign policy and and baker and schoolcraft others, and where we went wrong where we were with iraq, two years after the invasion. mary: and if i had told you then, 2005, that we would be sitting here in 2019 and vladimir putin would still be the president of russia with several more years ahead of him in that role, what would you have thought? mr. burns: you know, it probably wouldn't have shocked me. mary: really? mr. burns: putin had created a system, even this is a decade ago, with i centered so much on him, that even if he changed roles, as he did in 2008, you know, when he became prime minister, but he was still the ultimate decision making with dmitry medvedev as sort of the front for that. it was important for putin to move away from, as he wanted to. mary: you have watched the alaska my guess, three years play out with u.s.-russia relations and all of the many twists and turns we've witnessed, is the vladimir putin that we can glimpse today, those of us who haven't met him,

josh said the weakest political shape of any president since george h.w. bush and to fight the economy, trumps clearest passive victory realizes democrats making a series of self the destructive decisions but to nominate a weak challenger they have a credible chance of unseating trump. >> thom: i don't buy it. that is pretty election-year rhetoric. i think the president runs on a strong record. i believe the american people like somebody who is fighting for farmers in iowa, farmers in north carolina and feel good about what the president is doing for them. once he is able to turn his attention to china and get a fair trade deal with them and secure the border and we continue to great economic success, that is a winning formula for next year. >> shannon: obviously, you have a race too and people talking about the fact you are supporter of the president, maybe not always that way. one website says this, facing primary challenge tom tellis converts to maga and it looks like the campaign on a straightforward strategy and hope the satisfied conservatives will forget

george w. bush, bill clinton, george h.w. nd had this behavior, this kind of public conduct from the president of the united states on a foreign trip, i imagine that the opposition party would have been appalled in ways that you can't even begin to put into words. is this something that will go back to the way it used to be when donald trump is not president or are other future presidents going to behavior this way? >> great question. he didn't dip his toe in the controversial waters. it's more like the belly flop, with the pool overflowing. we do go back to a different reality when the president leaves office. no one who is as thin skinned as he is, no other president in recent history that i can think of who would respond to a year's old tweet attacking him by attacking that person on twitter. by the way, one of the most popular people in bret britain probably. why go on a state visit and turn it into national lampoon's state visit by attacking her? >> there was that old joke, b s boston politics i'll endorse you and or your

he worked for george h.w. bush, put on the supreme court by george w.primarily conservative. he's unpredictable. most notably when obamacare, affordable care act came up in 2012, he shocked everybody by swinging over and vote with the liberal bloc which upheld it 5-4. he's been trending a little more to the left. he's very aware of his legacy. i think the chief justice does not want to be known as the chief justice who presided over the split of the court into strict ideological factions. the citizenship question on the census is coming up soon. supreme court weighing in on congressional subpoenas on the trump investigation and obamacare decision could be coming back up again. it's making its way back through the federal courts. >> will the supreme court issue that ruling on the census case? the stakes are so high. if that citizenship question gets included on the senscensus will suppress the turnout and numbers we get which would lead to questions about the accuracy of the census which impacts the way our districts are drawn up. two, will candidates fo

during -- george h.w.ed a bush george h.w. bush administration. i was there at the clinton administration. there was a lot of unease from that transition, from the bush administration to clinton administration. there is unease, particularly during the first year of new administration. from being acting administrator last summer, i visited all 10 regional offices, visited the large labs. i do all hands on meetings with our career employees. i listen to them and let them ask me any question they want. to be honest, their questions are harder than yours today. i answer them. i think -- i'm sorry. [laughter] i answer them. i think they like that. it's reassuring they know they're being heard. and they are. alison: ok. this person says, the e.p.a.'s workforce has decreased by nearly 1,200 employees in the last two years. does that concern you and what's the reasoning behind that? administrator wheeler: absolutely it concerns me. 40% of the e.p.a. workforce -- and i am not just thinking of the 10 that's been with us for 49 years -- but 40% of the e.p.a.

that's something that trump is always -- it's one of the reasons trump hated john mccain and george h.w. bush because they were examples of physical courage he could never rival. now i think the other thing about pete that is appealing to a lot of folks is he's very clearly very intelligent, very quick on his feet, very articulate. >> there is the road scholar thing. >> those guys tend to be brighter than the average bear so that would bother trump in someways because he can't just go out and make, you know, jokes and mug around the stage in the same way he got away with republican candidates. he's an impressive for former. whether that gets him home is another question. >> trump's first pass as a nickname for him generationally, people had to rush to google to look up who mr. newman was. >> correct. we're creeping into that higher end of the ark there in the demographic curve i hate to say but for us, that's like a memory and it's relevant from our childhoods but for the vast majority of americans, it was so out of touch. it's a reminder donald trump is something like 400 years old. >> hey,

and national urban league ceo and former new orleans mayor and joe watkins, former aid to george h.w. bush let's kick it off with the jobs number which many characterized as disappointing just 75,000, but there were a couple of not so dull spots in there. i'm not sure i'd call them bright but go ahead. >> that's right, that's right. well, down to 7.1. that was good. labor force participation rate remained unchanged african-american unemployment dipped to 6.2% and that was a good thing but bad report in general but not disastrous >> second time in the last several months we've had a report with less than 100,000 jobs these are warning signs of a possible slowing of the economy and the responsibility, i think, is the uncertainty being created by this chaotic policy of tariffs here, tariffs there, tariffs, tariffs everywhere. >> and prior months numbers also revised downward, i should point out. and not by just a little i think it was some 50,000 in total or something like that don't quote me on that let's move on to president trump's tariffs. mayor moorial, several studies indicating that th

you remember, this will not stand from george h.w. bush, so you do need that.hat i think he did was i think the one criticism is did he really -- could he really not come to a prosecutorial judgment, which is an interesting question. but on this particular point that you are raising, did he fail to serve his own cause in the sense of the cause of justice by finding a way to present the report in a way that would resonate more in an echo chamber where i sometimes think of where we are now as we're dealing on the right with chi ron conservatives, folks who get most of their view of reality or a good bit of it from whatever fox news puts at the bottom of the screen. i think that's a fair criticism. >> yeah. at the end of the day, he did this great work, but it is not accurate to only look at the report. you have to look in the wider context as people are trying to understand what happened. what was the reception of the report? why was he privately lobbying barr in it? i have to fit in a break. thank you for being on this. >> thank you. >> mueller's warning about v

george h.w. bush and 20th spot in between the two atoms'. bill clinton as i mentioned at 15. george w. bush in 33rd. he was in the bottom 10 right after office but we added one more president so he's just out of the bottom. it will be interesting to see. over time as this survey continues, whether or not time and distance changes the rankings. barack obama debuted in the number 12 position. the whole point of this as i said at the beginning is to get interested and learn more. we have this website all for free, c-span.org/the presidents that has more information on every single one of the presidents. as the full interview that was the basis of the chapter and was annotated. if there's a reference, we've made the link right there so you can learn more about things as you go along. quickly about the two presidents tonight, john adams in the 19th position. his highest category was in moral authority. the Ãcan tell us whether they agree. his lowest category, relations with congress.he was in the 24th spot. his total score was 604 out of 1000 and 2017. john quincy adams, his highes

on the republican side, george h.w. bush wasn't well known. this was a massive upset.y favorite. he lost in iowa. a famous moment on our air, on nbc's air where ronald reagan's political career was declared over. they went to the new hampshire primary next. in those days things were a little different. there was a debate that was supposed to take place between bush and reagan, a newspaper, national telegraph sponsored. federal election commission said no, you can't have a media outlet sponsoring it. reagan campaign put the money up, invited all the other candidates to the stage. they kind of crashed the stage. the debate started. reagan was speaking. the moderator was from the national telegraph newspaper and this is what happened. >> could you turn that microphone up, please? >> i am paying for this microphone. [ applause ] >> ronald reagan, the actor turned politician. he knew how to deliver that line. you heard the response. bush had pulled ahead in the poll. that debate happened. 27-point win for reagan in the primary. the rest, as they say, history. >> the rest is

could you imagine if someone was critical of a president george h.w. bushrack obama, what the reaction would have been, i'm sure the response would have been i'm cheering for megan rapinoe. and brushed off. >> look, i don't like any of it. it used to be that our political differences stopped at the water's edge. from what i saw via social media yesterday and into last flight suggests that now there's this red state/blue state divide, in the united states, as to whether people are even cheering for the women's team to win it all, which i just think is sad. >> one of the things that's changed, of course, we've got twitter and other social media. so athletes are expressing themselves. we didn't hear this in the '80s. we probably would have but there was no vehicle for these athletes to say these things. so that's part of it. but i do think when you're looking at someone like megan rapinoe, again, it seems to me it's very natural for her to speak out and talk about these things. the u.s. women's national team, michael, is so popular. it is beloved. frankly, i'd

he comes from the world of george h.w. bush from dean acheson, sort of the, as you say, figures you can absolutely imagine having two martinis at lunch then deciding to project power across the world. and that world had its limitations, but it had a compelling sense of public duty. and essentially what we saw this week was the former director of the fbi, a man who's given his life to protect the country, arguing in an antiquated way, and it's tragically antiquated, let me be very clear there, that he thought people should read his 400-page report and he -- basically i said this with our colleague, ari melber, this week, he brought a knife to a gunfight and ari improved the line, he basically brought a book to a twitter fight. i think when we look back at this presidency, this moment in our history, this is going to be, this exchange, this standoff between robert mueller and trump will be one of those iconic moments where you can see how passion and ideology have taken over from reason and probity. >> how will we know if nancy p

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he was the undersecretary of the treasury for president george h.w. bushanker, former private equity partner, 25, 30 years known as a pretty influential, smart guy. but the president made him. >> i mean, what's so striking about this, you know, putting aside his background and all of his qualifications for that job, this is typically a position that the president takes pains to keep separate from himself. fed chairman is supposed to be independent. >> other presidents. >> right. >> some other presidents haven't been perfect in this regard either. >> but barack obama was criticized once for having the fed chairman at a table during a photo-op with others of his economic advisers and you hear the president talking in this way about his fed chairman. it's different. >> also, what part of the economy does the president think is under dperforming? the recurring message for him is this is the best economy in the history of the world. everything is awesome. simply could not be any better, unemployment growth, manufacturing, all this stuff. you would cut rates to