and i'm sure you appreciate that president george h.w. bush was a very different president than president trump. >> yes. and faced a different set of problems. >> very different set of problems. >> including the first gulf war. attorney general, thank you. once again, good luck. thank you very much. we'll welcome you back.

what george h.w. bushhe time is really important because on the one hand he admitted that there was essentially structural problems and used that term but said structural racism in all but the words and every american had a responsibility to sure that every other america felt safe and secure and didn't offer solutions. in essence, george bush looked at the situation and realized that this was kind of a same critique that the clinton camp making correct and didn't know what to do and recognized there was a problem. >> and, paul, so fast forward. what should joe biden be doing now in handling a very different incumbent president? >> you have to do two things. you have to speak out against violence. period. violence is always wrong. joe had that right yesterday in pittsburgh. what clinton said at the time in l.a. is 68 people killed in los angeles riots in 1992. clinton said that rioting is understandable but still unforgivable. in other words, you have to acknowledge the rage and the pain and the frustration

and i'm sure you appreciate that president george h.w. bush was a very different president than president trump. >> yes. and faced a different set of problems. >> very different set of problems. >> including the first gulf war. attorney general, thank you. once again, good luck. thank you very much. we'll welcome you back. >> thank you. >>> we have a lot to discuss. we're going to take a quick break. we're going to discuss what we just heard from the attorney general of the united states, william barr, when we come back. hey there people eligible for medicare. gimme two minutes. and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza... [mmm pizza...] is your part b medical expenses. this much - about 80 percent... medicare will pay for. what's left... this slice here... well... that's on you. and that's where an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company comes in. this type of plan helps pay some of what medicare doesn't. and these are the

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are the sort of issues that have moved former republicans and the bush family, whether it was george h.w. bushgeorge w. bush or jeb bush, moved them away from support of donald trump. and yet, in your book about james a. baker, an extraordinary man and a fantastic book. this man, who came to prominence because of a personal friendship with george h.w. bush and a guy who has thrived in a system in washington d.c. that donald trump has broken to pieces bit by bit, you start the book with him wringing his hands over whether he can support donald trump or not. i found that to be fascinating. >> well, you know, joe, thank you so much. i think that jim baker, his struggle really has been the republican party's struggle. it's the hostile takeover as jared kushner put it recently of the republican party. baker over five years we watched him torn about this, told us that he thought donald trump was nuts, told us he thought him to be crazy. idealogically he was opposed to many of the aspects of what trump was doing. baker is a free trader and internationalist. i remember going to see him after the inaug

we've seen some of our , thedential candidates clip you play, george h.w. bush. famously in that debate, checking his watch a few times throughout the debate. other candidates throughout this debate's performances not illustrating that ability with citizens. that is an interesting innovation or change in the ways in which we structure our presidential debates today. host: you mentioned the moderator. what is the ideal role of a moderator? certainly, you get a lot of criticism, and a lot of pushback from the candidates, from the campaign, from other journalists in terms of suggesting how the moderator should handle the role from the debate commission's standpoint. they select moderators who are that in charge of these debates. now, in the structure of debate, the 90 minute debate, we will have six segments. , the sixators identify topics that each 15 minute segment will focus on, and then the moderator is in complete charge, is the only one who knows the specific questions that will be asked of the candidates relating to each of those six topics. the candidates do

the beginning of the month of set the stage for us about george h.w. bush candidacy, his bid for re-election and how the public was feeling about him. >> remember george herbert walker bush, number 41, had record in pressive berlin affairs. he saw the berlin wall coming down, reaction of noriega in panama, and in 1991, the gulf war, which most people thought was a great success of ousting saddam hussein from kuwait but the economy was stagnant and pat buchanan was going after president bush, having a silver spoon in his mouth, was elite, and there was a populist revolt within the republican party. spring you had another insurgent jerry brown coming in. of course, bill clinton gets the nomination, so you've got the new democrat bill clinton and you have george herbert walker bush, and suddenly ross perot goes on larry king on cnn and look, i'm going to run as an independent if i can be on states.ot in all 50 i'm -- if i'm drafted. i'm not going out to run the typical campaign, but the people want my ideas and once we talked outset, at the particularly balanc

i think trump was the first republican to win since george h.w. bush in '88. s through the state of play right now. >> you mentioned '88 before trump in '16. maura mentioning northeast pennsylvania, that's very different than what george h.w. bush and republicans of the past. it used to be the suburbs outside philadelphia. you see all this blue here from 2016, those suburban counties all outside philadelphia, that used to be the republican strength in pennsylvania when you're talking back in 1988. that used to be how they would win a state like pennsylvania. but it's all blue right now. these are clinton counties. certainly expected to be big biden counties in 2020. where republicans with trump have gone to find their strength, let's look up here, lackawanna county, this is where scranton is. it's blue, that's true in 2016 clinton won lackawanna by three points over donald trump, but in 2012 when barack obama was running for re-election he won the same county by 29 points. so to come down from a 29-point democratic win, a big county -- this is where scranton is

and unfortunately, the subsequent administration the george h.w. bush program just kind of faded away, disappeared so to speak. >> host: this is al, on that line for those who support president trump, go ahead. >> caller: yeah, i just wanted to say how ridiculous this democratic party is. i mean years ago, it did not matter to me which party was in there. now i think it is more important than ever to keep them out. if you look at us, they make up all of these lies. the media runs with it. fifty books come out right before the election about how bad president trump is. it is just a joke. everybody knows what he has done and how quickly he has done it. when all of the time why he has been doing it, they have been doing nothing but writing his back the whole time. impeachment, lies, lawsuits, it is just a joke. and when people want someone, like anyone in the democratic party and there, just blows my mind. >> host: craig shirley? >> guest: the loyal opposition has been writing the back of the incumbent president since the days of george washington and the

the last time you had an incumbent president at this point trailing nationally george h.w. bushe last incumbent not to get a second term. >> thanks to steve kornacki. interesting numbers there. >> yeah. it's always great when he breaks them down. good perspective. >>> up next, sorrow and fear as americans mourn the passing of justice ginsburg. there's mounting attention on who may succeed her and rightfully so. her successor could have a profound impact on the lives of countless americans. we'll show you how on "msnbc live." ...or crohn's disease? - are you ok? - i did. i was there. but i never knew when my symptoms... ...would keep us apart. so, i talked to my doctor and learned... ...humira is for people who still have... ...uc or crohn's symptoms... ...after trying other medications. and humira helps... ...people achieve remission that can last. so you can experience few... ...or no symptoms. humira can lower your ability... ...to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections,... ...including tuberculosis, and cancers,... ...including lymphoma, have happened,... ..

he previously served there during the president george h.w. bush'sdministration and between his tours at epa, he worked at private sectors as a top staffer on a senate environment and public works committee. the robust experience is essential to handling has an incredible challenge with this unexpected challenge they know all too well 2020 is the year of the unexpected but administrative wheeler and his team at epa have been up to the task response to the covid as a whole to government approach polluting the accelerated process that has the approval time of covenant team disinfectants from four months to four weeks. prior to march 5, the number of epa improved disinfectant products was about 60. there are now approximately 475 products. thin amazing response in a testament to the leadership at the epa. ladies and judgment, please join me in welcoming to the nixon library and are credible southern california environment, epa administrator andrew wheeler. [applause] smacked thank you. thank you very much. good afternoon. it is a privilege and an honor

he is the same guy who did the similar thing when he talked george h.w. bush who was shot down in the pacific. he just stands there. it is pathological. "i have never said anything like that. no one has been better to the military." i just have to focus on what has to be done, not what he did, what i do from here, would get s done from here. >> thank you, sir. >> if i could follow up on the question about voting. we know the president has been attacking mail-in voting. he's even suggested his supporters vote twice. we also know that russia has been trying to sow doubt about the system. are you concerned this messaging may be working? that your supporters may give up on voting by mail because they are concerned it may be rigged? biden: yes, i am, that is why i try not to talk about it too much. there's two things he wants us to talk about. the election being legitimate, and the whole country is up in flames. everything is burning. law and order. because he doesn't want to talk about anything. anything at all about the job he has not done. and so, it is a conund

the 1800 people lost their lives at bellow wood were sucker because -- but, also former pot george h.w. bush. president in the white house contends conned with news today. on memorial day, he stood at the grave of the son of john kelly. at age 29, the president said to him, "i don't get it, what is it in for them?" that's president trump in culticul insultiinsul insulting john kelly's son. referring to them at times as losers. the post reporting that the president told advid voivicer w u.s. government played such a big value. >> i have perform and gotten caught. >> multiple sources that the president say is long corn, those who serve in vietnam are too dumb to get out of it. >> there is knox fufox news git. he did not want any wounded guys and a lot. >> i don't know who's going to contest it. >> it is apparently true about the president. >> he finding u.s. service members to be stupid for serving, losing and suckers. they desered what they get. he does not want to be around them. >> he finds them in their injuries is disgusting. >> since the story broke last night, i can't belief this is rea

state in the capitol building before this day. 12 have been presidents, from lincoln to jfk to george h.w. bushe first jewish person to lie in state. jewish man or woman. and i would just say that this moment for jewish americans has to be deeply meaningful to hear that hebrew prayer in the halls of congress, that has not been heard in a moment like this before. >> the rabbi lauren holtzblatt that eulogyized her that she did not arrive with a lightning bolt, one step at a time. >> she was slow in what she did and deliberate in how she did it and that has made the enduring change that happens step by step. arian, i'm reminded of her dissent in the lily ledbetter case, an equal pay case that was later rectified by an act of congress. the parsimonious roadwaeading o title 7 and a reminder to her fellow justice that the court is indifferent to the insidious ways that men are paid more. >> reporter: absolutely. that was one of her favorite opinions, but one more thing i wanted to say is that before that hearse arrived at the capitol, it drove by the supreme court and paused if front of it for one la

h.w. bush lost clinton.ent my parents were not as excited about the peaceful transfer of power. as a boy watching the results come in and seeing outgoing ents from president george h.w. bush and commentators and anchors saying, our country makes so special. and my own family, moving on and results. the and a poignant recognition of to what president george herbert walker bush wrote to president clinton in the note e left for him dated january 20, 1993, and it's here to my left. you will be our president when note.ad this i wish you well. i wish your family well. is our cess now country's success. i am rooting hard for you. the 1824 election was decided, here, in this house, clay throwing his support to john quincy adams, jackson, who ew had won the popular vote, jackson was understandably and denounced the result as a corrupt bargain. language sounds familiar. but he accepted the outcome and returned to tennessee. the evening of the day he lost the presidency, jackson encountered the new white nt-elect at the house. jackson was gracious and the of was filled with reports his grace. you have by your dignity and all these under outrages one, the people, to love, a

trump administration has done more to elevate environmental justice than any president since george h.w. bush created the program. first we elevated environmental justice out of the enforcement office into the administrator's office relegated to be considered after the fact is that at the beginning of policies and rulemaking. second the opportunity for tax credits it has done more to help environmental justice communities than all the grants of the past many years the water infrastructure act signed into law by president trump 2018 codify the office of environmental justice for the first time. we incorporate to those offices to improve communities at a pace not seen before. look at the superfund sites and in birmingham alabama the community the site of the bombings in 1963 that killed four girls including the baptist street church cleaning at 480 properties removing 60000 tons of soil contaminated with lead and arsenic and other heavy metals we have cleaned up 671 residential properties and removed contaminated soil from the neighborhood allowing the city to redevelop and we have cleaned up l

and i remember george h.w. bush. he was landing in swing state after swing state promising this government contract and this government program, but he did promise things going forward that he actually had the money to promise or it was a pledge. this is something new all together, this essentially sending cash to voters. particularly voters that he really needs. older voters. >> every president trying to use the advantage of the incumbency the best they can. sending cash in the last few weeks of the campaign, it does raise questions. and we saw time and time again examples where his administration has been politicizing something in advance of the election. the timing of a vaccine, whether or not it is the timing of this durham informativestigation int obama era fbi. a investigator quit because he is was pressured to find results before the election. we said the other day that she was forced to endure 18 hours worth of meetings to convince her to sign what she called a false affidavit to try to stop john bolten's boo

george w. bush, bill clinton, they all led at this point and they all were re-elected. the last incumbent president to be trailing at this point was george bush, sr., george h.w. bush in 1992. it was a much bigger margin bush trailed by, but that was the last incumbent to lose re-election. in terms of we say the national, here's the state situation. here are the averages right now. in the battleground, potential battleground states, these are all states donald trump won in 2016. the margins vary. here's what you're seeing, a lot of blue here. a lot of states biden leads. there are close margins, florida, north carolina, just a point, arizona, probably some of the more encouraging polling trump has seen this week is in arizona, just having the closer, having biden's edge be a little closer in arizona than we have seen, but the bottom line when you look at this long list of states here, president trump depending on the specific calculations, can probably afford to lose two of these states. it depends which two exactly, but probably two of these states and no more he could afford to lose, so he's got work to do here. he's got to start winning back florida, north c

hypothetical and said if in an election year a supreme court vacancy were to occur, president george h.w. bush should not nominate somebody to the supreme court, recognizing how volatile presidential elections can be. of course, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell took that advice in 2016 to block president barack obama's supreme court justice nominee merrick garland. it worked in his favor as we remember when donald trump was able to tap now supreme court justice neil gorsuch. take a listen to what exactly biden said last night upon arriving in wilmington, delaware. >> let me be clear that the voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice to consider. this was the position the rch senate took in 2016 when there were almost ten months go before the election. that's the position of the united states senate must take today and the election is only 46 days off. >> reporter: of course, that is the same position that biden held almost 27 years ago, and many democrats have said we should follow that lead that bind said last night. one thing to note, of course, many re

ruth bader ginsburg, john lewis, john mccain, george h.w. bush.he people we have sat together on this sometimes now virtual couch together and memorialized. icons, giants of american history, and ruth bader ginsburg being the least of those we remember today, for so many americans but, i think, particularly for women. knowing how our lives have been directly impacted by the things she fought for. being able to open credit cards on our own. being able to be pregnant while having jobs. basic things we all take for granted today that she brought to us. and i know so many people on this show and across the country today are remembering those same earth shattering things at the time that she did, harris. >> harris: we watched the flag of the u.s. state capitol. i was speaking with our correspondent and senior producer for so many years. we see them on the air so much more now, chad pergram. he told me there only a few times in history you seen this flag lowered and raised that the u.s. capitol. today being one of those days for ruth bader ginsburg, jus

george h.w. bush loses to clinton. the ugly race. a lot of you may not remember. what did he do in '92? he did not refuse to leave. bush left a beautiful letter for his successor on the day of the power transfer. you will be our preside note. he under lined ours. your success is our country's success. i am rooting hard for you. good luck, george. that's the way a leader is supposed to act. what leaders say matters. there is actual cause for concerns when it comes to ballots in one of the most battlegrounds. this is not about hiding from the reality. we want to expose the problem. they just have to be real. here is what i want to start tonight. the issue is so called naked ballot. you didn't ask for one. the state attorney general from pennsylvania joins me now. >> good to be with you. the context of concerns, it is not just a handful of ballots and nine ballots, i don't want to exaggerate the context. i want to exaggerate the concerns of anything which is your primary, you have 37,000 rejected mail and ballots. the trump margin of victory 2016 was about 44,000 vot

i think we admire george h.w. bush who led foreign-policy, in some ways and h.w. came close to defying congress over the persian war. ofhink on this question where the separation of powers why in foreign policy, i go back to this struggle is going on throughout american history and i'm not defending kissinger on everything here, but i think this question of the responsibility of the abuses has to be put into that context. make deals with dictators. or this was the perception. contrast, obviously the unsavory one in latin america is not a good example, but the best they couldt basically bring egypt around and change the whole foreign policy and to kissinger this was a huge achievement. a change the whole dynamics of the middle east. at the same time it drove him crazy. israeli parliament and the political system, and the ondency to pound him down every concession that was being made. it's ironic that in retrospect he is seen as someone defending. but at the time he was excoriated by many israelis. but i think that's probably that how many respects we have president

he's in the worst shape that anyone has been since george h.w. bush and he lost that election. there was one number that i thought was pretty telling which was who will do a better job of keeping americans safe from harm. you know the president has tried to shift his campaign entirely to this issue of crime and anarchy and has really whipped up a frenzy about that or tried to. in this poll, 51% said biden will keep americans safe from harm and trump got 45%. that's a bad number and there was another -- there was a quinnipiac poll that 50% of likely voters say having donald trump as president of the united states makes them feel less safe and only 35% say it makes them feel more safe and as a plurality they feel that biden would keep them safe. i think this is largely a reflection of the fact that he wants to change the subject, covid-19 is on people's minds and he's judged to have done a very poor job on that. so he wants to change the subject, it's not particularly working. suburban women continue to vote against him in these polls. they're a clear target of this campaign that

who has come in down by a larger margin than this in their first debate, 28 years ago, 992, george h.w. bushwn double-digits, clinton he was running against and also perot, the last incumbent to come in behind and the last incumbent to lose re-election. >> we all know how that race ended for the incumbent. >>> joe biden and kamala harris just released their tax returns amid "the new york times" report on the president's own taxes. "the new york times" reports that between 2010 and 2018 the president, quote, wrote off $26 million in unexplained consulting fees as a business expense across all of his projects. "the new york times" suggests that more than $700,000 of those consulting fees were in fact paid to his eldest daughter ivanka trump. nbc news hasn't seen those tax records and president trump we should note calls the times' reporting fake news. joining me now is national correspondent for vanity fair, emily jane fox. author of "born trump." what we know, given what we know about this "the new york times" reporting and what you know about how the trump family operates, what's your take o

he also berated president george h.w. bush whose plane was shot down during world war ii. shouldn't have been shot down. we can give you cite after cite. most recently, when i say most recently, a couple days ago when talking to the press the president berated john kelly, four-star marine general, who had been serving for the president for a while as chief of staff and he said kelly left because he was weak, chewed up. well, this long history doesn't serve him well and, unfortunately, it's not only things he may deny, but these things are on tape. he said the comments about kelly just two days ago. it's not good for the president, and it's certainly not good for veterans and enlisted personnel. >> as you mentioned historically at least comments about john mccain and another family have been captured on tape. as you said the president has denied this article. so how have military personnel reacted to this approach? >> not well. look, as fate would have it there was a survey of more than 1,000 people by the newspaper called military times, this is a newspaper that serves enl

indictment naming castfidel castro weinberger thas ultimately dismiss that had had a notation about george h.w. bushn the document an 8-point swing resulted in the polls. the difference was less than that think about that think about looking through those statements think about the big lie. if you're old enough where memorializing the 75th anniversary of d-day think back to the big lie of goble's and that operation in world war ii think about what our end ms. are doing now, verified by republicans and democrats alike with regard to trying to influence american opinion both ways appealing to confirmation bias on the far right and the far left the great writer, the cartoonist, famously opined in the mouth of the alligator, we have met the enemy and he is us. in this case, it is down to us and we can't accept things at face value you have to work at it and you have to use your brain why would you be making statements as we're talking about today if they were not political in nature? you know if you do a little research, the justice department has a rule that prohibits commentary on cases. why? because

george h.w. bush said it read my lips, no new taxes, and then he raise taxes.ton promised a middle-class tax cut and ended up raising taxes. trump is a little bit of a different kind of politician. he can keep his promises whether it is nafta or the jerusalem embassy or the border wall. they taxes you may end up being more effective for him in voters actually believe he's going to cut their taxes. certainly when someone like biden promises to raise taxes, that is something usually people can believe. >> neil: we will see what happens. thank you very, very much. again as a reminder, when taxes have been caught, you do increase the revenue -- you end up in the case with the rich a lot more in taxes. unfortunately -- this is where we are dead on accurate. an economic stewardship, they spend that money and then some. all the extra money that comes in, it is gone, because they spent it like drunken sailors. sailors, drunk or sober. of the latest plan of the administration not only to get more testing out, but optimism about a vaccine. the reality of that on the poss

george h.w. bush $101,000 plus. president obama just sold a book. when you see $750 for a guy who says he's the midas touch billionaire it strikes you as stunning. this is your area of expertise. is it a question in your mind of tax avoidance which is legal or tax evasion which is not? >> there is sometimes a very fuzzy line in between what is legal and not. some of the things like these losses is a very common tactic but there's more aggressive tax moves that they laid out, the consulting fees paid to ivanka trump, for example, the $70,000 for hair cuts. these are things that tax lawyers have said are highly unusual, maybe trump can defend this but more likely problems and the tax audit of ten years which is unusual and the trump pick for irs commissioner said it was hypothetical answering saying a tax audit would be very weird of this length. >> there are questions for the account an accountants and the lawyers and then for the voters. "new york times," six-column head line. the reporting is detailed and damning and if you read this story and crun

"the atlantic" reporting that the president disparaged president george h.w. bushin world war ii, as well. seems to be no bottom. thank you so much. >>> just ahead, poll tecitics ae coronavirus pandemic. vice presidential candidate kamala harris criticizes the u.s. response in a statement. >> i would trust the word of public health experts but not donald trump. chances are you have some questions right now here are a couple answers... lysol disinfectant spray and disinfecting wipes together can be used on over 100 surfaces. and kill up to 99.9% of viruses and bacteria. unfortunately, we can't answer every question you have right now. lysol. what it takes to protect. understanding how to talk to your doctor about treatment options is key. today, we are redefining how we do things. we find new ways of speaking, so you're never out of touch. it's seeing someone's face that comforts us, no matter where. when those around us know us, they can show us just how much they care. the first steps of checking in, the smallest moments can end up being everything. there's resour

another civil rights icon in america thurgood marshal retired and clarence thomas was named by george h.w. busho replace him. he was a liberal icon and was the opposite of clarence thomas, his successor who was only 43 at the time in 1991. and clarence thomas is still on the supreme court nearly 30 years later. >> unlike 2016 when a conservative replaced a conservative, what you're seeing here is a conservative replacing a liberal, and it has long-term impacts. joan, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thanks, michael. >> we'll take a quick break here on the program. when we come back, the looming showdown. more on the political battle shaping up to fill ruth bader ginsburg's seat on the supreme court. when we come back. y. which improves skin 3 times better than the leading body wash. better skin from a body wash? you better believe it. with olay body. keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. (♪ ) you need to hire i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base so you

items i reported on in my piece including the fact that donald trump, donald trump has called george h.w. bush a loser for being shot down by the japanese in world war ii. not a word about that. not a word about any of these things. because i think inside the white house, they know how donald trump thinks and they know how donald trump feels about the military and about veterans. >> and how he talks. >> that's right. >> the language is really important here. >> yeah. >> we have a record of the language. >> we do. yeah. >> carl and jeffrey, thank you very much. later this hour, did goldberg's report prompt trump to defend the military's revere newspaper "stars and stripes" why the about face? the fed moved to block white privilege training. why does tucker carlson get the credit or blame for that move? the answer is next. "reliable sources" brought to you by -- ♪ you can't give them everything they want. but you can find lots of things they'll love at petsmart's labor day sale. get a $10 bonus card with every $50 purchase. petsmart. it was built on blue-collar, hard work. hard work means every

of course he would have no empathy for john mccain or for president george h.w. bush, whom trump also reported called a loser. nor for army captain humayun khan who was killed on june 8, 2004 in a suicide attack in iran. one of his heroes was john mccain. you would likely never have heard of hum khan except his parents delivered a speech at the democratic national convention in 2016 invoking his memory and challenging the promise that then candidate donald trump made about a muslim ban. that, you will recall, prompted a vicious bigoted and sexist attack on the khan family by trump. we often say of people who have not served in the military that they haven't worn the uniform. that's not exactly true of trump. he wasn't worn the uniform of any actual military but he did attend a military academy for high skochool and he seemed to talk affectionately of generals. as president he kept them close. he likes the tough guy image. intervening against the wishes of military leadership and on the side of a disgraced navy seal, edwin gallagher who was accused of stabbing a teenag

relations, former state department of policy planning and former special assistant to president george h.w. bush with us, as always let's talk about the national security threats that arise as a result of the president making these off-hand remarks to such sensitive matter, including that we have a nuclear system that no one has ever seen, including our adversaries. >> i think it became a target for the intelligence effort of other countries, ayman i don't know about it. i don't know if the chinese or russians knew about it i suspect that north koreans passed on that information and i have no idea what they've learned ever since. >> we all know about it now, given the fact that he told reporters who told bob woodward about it we learned from this book that former director of national intelligence, dan coates could not shake his, quote, deep suspicions that russian president vladimir putin had something on president trump, seeing no other explanation for the president's behavior toward russia detail what likely went into coates' assessment on that. >> again, i don't know what the former director

he insulted the late senator john mccain and called president george h.w. bush loser for being shot down as a navy pilot, and defended his former chief of staff john kelly while visiting his son's grave in arlington, cemetery. >> what animal would say such a thing? and especially since i have done more, i think than almost anybody to help our military. >> reporter: the president's allies say this is campaign politics at play. >> i never heard him use the politics the words in use. >> reporter: the dnc chairman saying this president has no honor or shame. former vice president joe biden, whose son served in iraq tweeting i will ensure that our american heroes know that i will have their back, and honor their sacrifice always. a defense department source who was on the trip to france telling fox news >>> president trump says he will release an updated list of supreme court judges he would consider nominating for the u.s. supreme court in the future. the president has already nominated two judges to the supreme court. he could get the opportunity to nominate anothe

the second annual celebration of the george h.w. bush awards honored several people saturday evening. among them the teenage sisters who founded a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the world better through kindness. >>> and a british centenarian, captain sir thomas moore, recognized for raising almost $40 million for the national health service in the united kingdom during the coronavirus pandemic. now back to "dateline." >>> welcome back to "dateline." i'm natalie morales. when nick morelos was murdered, rookie detective jennifer garcia took a deep dive into his complicated personal life. there she found a web of scorned lovers and wondered if one of them wanted him dead. meanwhile as nick's loved ones grieved, the woman who stole his heart was also feeling another emotion. here again is josh mankiewicz with "stone-cold." >> reporter: in the days after nick's murder, his fiancee, kristy, was living in fear. >> jumped at every sound. i -- my family was scared for me. >> did he ever express any indication that some relationship t

president according to three sources with direct knowledge of his views, the president referred to george h.w. bush as a loser for being shot down in world war ii. when donald trump does visit a military cemetery, he doesn't get it. and he has actually admitted that. on the first memorial day of the trump presidency in 2017, donald trump went arlington national cemetery accompanied by former marine corps general john kelly who was then donald trump's secretary of homeland security. john kelly's son was killed seven years earlier in afghanistan when he was 29. and he is buried at arlington national cemetery. jeffrey goldberg reports, according to sources, trump while standing by robert kelly's brave turned directly to his father and said, i don't get it. what was in it for them? kelly, who declined to comment for this story initially believed that trump was making a ham handed reference to the selflessne selflessness. but he later came to realize trump does not understand nontransactional life choices. he can't fathom the idea of doing something for someone other than himself. he just thinks that an

dukakis had a big lead and george h.w. bush came back. i'm reticent to make comparison to different races. they both have strengths and weaknesses. there's a new poll out. the president is between 1 and 3 percentage points down. it's tightening in the battle ground states and many places. the president's job approval ticked up a notch. we're heading into fall. people pay more attention. the republican convention gave trump a little bit of a bigger boost than the democrat convention gave biden. >> dana: we're off to the races. the campaign feels like it's underway. ari fleischer, thanks. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> dana: let's go to steve harrigan. he's reporting from wilmington, north carolina. that's where president trump is set to speak moments from now. steve, a great place, wilmington, north carolina. >> dana, this is an amazing background for that speech. the president already on the ground here in wilmington. he spoke briefly to supporters at wilmington international airport and we expect him here shortly. this is the preside

derided not only john mccain and his service as a president of war but also former president george h.w. bush calling him a loser for having been shot down in combat in world war ii. the president and the white house contending with news today confirmed from multiple sources that on memorial day, 2017, his first year in office, he stood at the grave of the son of john kelly who was killed in combat in afghanistan at age 29. the president said to him at the grave site, quote, i don't get it. what was in it for them? and that, that particular anecdote about president trump insulting general kelly's dead son at his grave on memorial day, that reporting first advanced by "the atlantic" last night has now specifically been confirmed by both the associated press and "the washington post." the post also adding that the president, quote, frequently made disparaging comments about veterans and soldiers who were missing action, referring to them at times as losers. the post reporting that the president, quote, told advisers he didn't understand why the u.s. government placed such value on finding soldi

but that is a political strategist in the 1988 residential campaign of george h.w. bush and has since provided strategic counsel political candidates state parties, national campaign committees and corporate associations and government clients. he's the editor at large for the daily beast and frequent analyst from cnn and msnbc. the author of the 2018 number one your times selling book, everything trump touches dies. steve is a communications and public affairs strategist and political analyst for msnbc and nbc news. he served as a political strategist george w. bush, governor arnold schwarzenegger and senator john mccain. he calls himself a republican until june 2018 when he renounced the republican party as the party of trump. welcome to the national press club, gentlemen. >> good to be with you, thank you enough for you for having us. >> i am so glad to have you. since we were talking earlier before we started and steve was talking about intuition, i want to know between the two of you, when did you have the intuition or when did you realize you needed to create the l

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biden reportedly has set up a team of experts from the obama, clinton, and george h.w. bushf administrations, who are right now drafting plans to distribute the vaccine and ppe, ramp up testing, and reopen schools if biden is elected. the campaign reportedly said those plans would go into effect the same day he takes the oath of office, if he wins. dana? >> dana: jacqui heinrich, thanks so much. the white house press briefing has just wrapped up a few minutes ago, with kayleigh mcenany, the press secretary, taking questions about a vaccine timeline. our chief white house correspondent john roberts was there, and he is live with us here now. john, what was the update from the press secretary? >> dana, good afternoon to you. as you know, the president and his top officials and top scientists in the u.s. government have repeatedly denied that there was any kind of political pressure to get a vaccine approved and available before the november election. among those officials who have denied that there is any political pressure is anthony fauci, who i spoke to a couple of weeks ag

another civil rights icon in america, thurgood marshall retired, and clarence thomas was named by george h.w. bush to replace him. and thurgood marshall was a l n liberal icon and the opposite of clarence thomas, his successor who was only 43 at the time. and clarence thomas is still on the supreme court nearly 30 year later. >> unlike 2016 when a conservative replaced a conservative. what you are seeing here is a conservative replacing a liberal, and it has long-term impacts. joan, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thanks, michael. >>> well, president trump said earlier he plans to nominate a woman, as we heard, and he'll do that in the coming days to fill ginsburg's seat. he also said he expects the confirmation process in the senate to move quickly. some republican senators are already on board. >> as a senate conference, we understand the importance of making sure that we uphold the constitution, that we do our jobs as senators, to make sure that our country has in place the supreme court justices that we rely on to make sure the rule of law is protected in this country. >> a new poll revea

the congressional budget office director and staff economist for president george h.w. bush's n council of advisors said "the mist try to me is the treasury using half a trillion dollars to backstop their facilities including the municipal liquidity facility i don't understand why that has not happened that is something that can and should be more aggressively used so secretary mnuchin at a time when a wide range of businesses have been frustrated that they cannot access they're facilities again, and we heard the excuses for that, and we have democratic governors pushing, is there more that the treasury can do with the 500 billion that congress provided to you to enhance these facilities to support the economy? >> i, unfortunately think there is not more that we can do, and partover the reason we agreed was so that we could rotate it to better use. i think that in the case of many businesses that have not been impacted by the virus they're able to borrow in the private markets. we worked hard to roll out this program. i know there has been some academies, we expect to take los

amy: finally, william barr, the current attorney general, the attorney general under george h.w. bush just have a minute, but as you wrap up, roberto, what is his connection to this story? >> william barr is attorney general, under the first bush, redeplployed fbi resources and d the e greatestppointme o of fbi resoururces up to that point, taking fbi agent''s who were fighting -- - looking at foreign threats and started focusing them on gangs. then he e starts looking a at m3 another gangs rigight after the l.a. rights.s. heas in l l.a. and started us on the pap to eventually, like, militarizing the police that we have right now. he also o had t the ins deport e gangs problem toto el salvador d then he exported after the war u.s. style policing. i found out that military trainers from el salvador came to train lapd in counterinsurgency. and other police forces. when you s start saying -- seeig cop uniforms ththat we sesee now and william barr h had everything -- not everything, but he had a lot to do - -- i he to sing his song because he deserveses all of the crcredit e deserves f fo

he's the same guy that did a similar thing the way he talked about george h.w. bush that was shot down in the pacific. i mean, he just stands there. almost pathological. i have never said anything like that. no one has been better to the military. i just got to focus on what has to be done. no what he did. what i do from here. what gets done from here. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, mr. vice president. if i cold follow up on ed's question about voting. the president has been attacking mail-in voting. he's suggesting his supporters twice. we know that russia has been trying to sow doubt about this system. are you concerned this message may be working, that your supporters may give up on voting by mail because they're concerned that it may be rigged? >> yes, i am. that's why i try not to talk about it so much. because i'm playing into -- we're playing -- the more we talk about -- two things he wants us to talk about. is the election legitimate and the whole country is up in flames. everything is burning. law and order. because he doesn't want to talk about anything.