greg, welcome back, and doug, former adviser to george h.w. bush the white house gr former adviser to george h.w. bush, that's the white house so. greg, welcome back, and doug, former adviser to george h.w. bush, that's the white house where i remember millie, they had a staff and took care of her. beautiful dog. this dog looks like from the junkyard, looks like he's not well cared for. >> not at all, thanks for having us. he looks very dirty and disheveled and unlike millie or victory or something else in the past in the white house. >> i know. because champ can't speak for himself, here's what you should know about the bidens' very good dog. first of all, he's 12. if you know germany shepherds, that's old for that breed. got him when biden was vice president, so named because biden's dad used to say to young joe, anytime you get knocked down, champ, get up. and got their rescue puppy major two years ago in large part because champ was getting so old. think of it this way, if champ were to meet greg kelly, he would probably love him unconditionall

croft, who had been an adviser to gerald ford and would become the national security adviser to george h.w. bush. he took an interest in my career and when president h.w. bush was elected, he took me to be the white house soviet specialist. and i was the white house soviet expert at the end of the cold watt, and frankly, it doesn't get much better than that. but the second thing is find people who are interested in you and in your career who can help guide you and open up opportunity. we sometimes say, i want to get there on my own. nobody gets there absolutely on their own. there are always mentors. and there's another important lesson, sometimes we say you have to have role models and mentors who look like you. if i had been waiting for a black woman soviet socialist mentor, i would still be waiting, so your mentors, your role models can come in any color, shape or size. just find somebody who really cares about you and cares about your career. the final part of that story is that when in 1990 ma kyle gorbachev came to the white house and we are sitting together in the lawn of the white house

conversation i had, was lucky enough to have with george herbert walker bush who in 1962, '63 was chairman of the harris county republican party in houston. george h.wely ambitious, eager politician, son of a senator from connecticut. wanted to be in politics the next year before he turned 40, he announced for the senate, challenged ralph yarbrough. he was not someone who was uninterested in his political future, and the john birch society, which had been founded i think in 1958, saw general marshall, president eisenhower as, quote, conscious agents of the communist conspiracy. it opposed the flouridation of water, believing it was a communist plot. i believe there was a student essay contest on what was the best grounds on which to impeach chief justice warren from power. this was, you know, kind of a qanon-like group, and george bush's task as chairman of the party in texas -- and texas was a birch stronghold -- was to purge the party, to try to say, this is not who we are. those are extremists. and he did it. bill buckley did the same thing at national review in the same era, and i remember asking the former president whether that had been painfu

michael johnson a co-founder of the tea party movement and a former speechwriter for president george h.w. bush mr jones it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and pleasure to be with you. i give you a card player by any chance. but really what they play. bridge and. i don't know if you are aware by this was the american the north american ag game of your career that is responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards. just in the same ways i think donald trump introduced this new style of politics world by and now that he's out of office do you think his game is over. absolutely not i think he's proven in a transformational worse in american politics. it's true that he has led this movement this make america great again. but it's also true that that movement existed in a lot of ways and was looking for leadership on the presidential level if you go back to 2008 with the mccain candidate series you don't well with romney i don't think that these millions of what he called the forgotten men and women really felt represented the do feel and did feel represen

michael johns a co-founder of the tea party movement and a former speechwriter for president george h.w. bush mr jones. it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time it's a pleasure to be with you. i know you a card player by any chance. but really what they play. bridge and you know the joy of the games. i don't know if you are aware but it was the american the north american ag game of your career that is responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards. just in this a ways i think donald trump introduced this new style of politics well by and now the.

michael johnson a co-founder of the tea party movement and a former speechwriter for president george h.w. bush mr jones it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time and pleasure to be with you. i give you a card player by any chance. really what the play. will bridge and. i don't know if you are aware but it was the american the north american ag game of your career that is responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards. just in the same ways i think donald trump introduced this new style of politics world by and now that he's out of office do you think his game is over. absolutely not i think he's proven in a transformational worse in american politics. it's true that he has led to this movement this make america great again. but it's also true that that movement existed in a lot of ways and was looking for neater shit on the presidential level if you go back to 2008 with the mccain candidate sears' you don't well with ron the i don't think that these millions of what he called the forgotten men and women really felt represented they do feel and did feel rep

michael johnson a co-founder of the tea party movement and a former speechwriter for president george h.w. bush mr jones it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time pleasure to be with you now can i give you a card player by any chance. but really what do you play.

to a certain extent domestic policy all the time you spent in congress that we've had since george h.w. bush. and i think that is my teaching and my study has demonstrated to me my students will probably bear. the most important action that president can bring to the white house in the beginning and conversely the most dangerous element he doesn't have it is experience knowing what he's doing from the get go presidents learning on the job are dangerous well colonel lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff of the department of state thanks so much for sharing your wisdom and thoughts and insights with us today we really appreciate it thank you thank you steve and that's the help to them safe stay safe so what's the bottom line joe biden may say america is back but this isn't a disney movie can't say abracadabra like magic everything is fixed the world still trying to get over the weirdness of a superpower that said screw you with it's america 1st narcissism for the last 4 years biden wants a lot of things and many are good he wants america to welcome more refugees want to elevate rights globa

michael johnson a co-founder of the tea party movement and a former speechwriter for president george h.w. bush mr jones it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time pleasure to be with you. i give you a card player by any chance. but really what they play. bridge and. i don't know if you are aware by these was the american the north american ag game of your career that is responsible for introducing the joker into the modern deck of cards just in the same way as i think donald trump introduced this new style of politics world by and now that he's out of office do you think his game is over. absolutely not i think he's proven in a transformational worse in american politics. it's true that he has led to this movement this make america great again with men but it's also true that that movement existed in a lot of ways and was well tuned for meter ship on the presidential level to go back to 2008 with the mccain candidate sears you don't swell with romney.

but george h.w. bush give him access to the radio waves of the military. ery day he was listens to because of george h.w. bush, so he had a built-in audience. but sadly, instead of being a person -- i hear people saying he did so much good. but the mouth is a powerful instrument, and if you don't use it for good, karma comes back to people. it is said that he died for some people, but sadly not for me. he did too much hate and the world. thank you. host: tim in oklahoma, republican line. caller: thank you. i just want to say, i am disappointed in all the hate going out this morning. over a death of tamia patriot. i just think rush limbaugh was a patriot, good for republicans, and the roasting like this today is just to me totally embarrassing. he was just a good guy. host: to be clear, we are not roasting him. our segment is to hear from you, your thoughts, as well as everybody else who calls in the program. i understand what you're saying about other people's content, but our intent is a conversation about the political impact, the media impact of rush lim

. >> unit up in the white house under president george h.w. bush. how did that happen? >> that was a break to venture capitol. when i was living in tokyo was an incredible time. tiananmen square happened the berlin wall came down in winter the persian gulf war. as i mentioned i was a patriotic young man i wanted to do something and wanted to be ablew to help. i got a job serving on the domestic policy staff at the white house and came back and focused on deregulation trying to get our economy in a better place. was a great learning experience for me because i realize one of theal best things that can be de for the economy is to get the government out of the way. >> so as part of your experience you mentioned on the business side going to japan you ended up as an ambassador to japan. tell us about that. >> i mentioned i served four years as the economic development chief in mice date and went back to theto private sector serving on the boards of the new york stock exchange and the nasdaq investment. in 2016 i decided to step up and volunteer full-time for six months to h

look how reagan and george h.w. bush talked about -- >> reagan was the first presidential election that i voted in. and listen -- >> you went for the hair, didn't you? >> i'm just saying people hold him up to be -- reagan was not perfect. >> he gave us one of the biggest deficits we've ever seen and absolutely fed the divide. >> i'm saying he hold him up to a gold standard. he was horrible when it came to the aids crisis. he was horrible at uniting the country. he was a divider. they hold him up as a gold standard. i think it's degrees but i think the republican party has been moving in this direction forever. again, they are the party of everything that they're trying to pretend that they're not. the people in the capitol, that's not us. yes, it is you. the people in charlottesville, that's not us. yes, it is you. they're not marching for democrats. this whole weird thing that they keep saying, what about the riots and demonstration that happened this summer? that's haapples and oranges. first of all, the demonstrations

he served in the presidential administration of ronald reagan and george h.w. bush.e is now editor-at-large for the bulwark. also with us is a.b. stoddard. she is associate editor and columnist at real clear politics. this is something we've been talking about for quite some time, the future of the gop bill. but now it's really been crystallized with this vote, this vote to acquit donald trump in many ways. i want to ask you, though, with mcconnell and graham, why do you see so much daylight between their views on trump but not their impeachment vote? >> mcconnell didn't have the nerve to actually vote to acquit. he's trump acquiescent. he sees the party as bridging the trump forces and the establishment forces. i don't admire that at all, but that's what mcconnell is trying to do. lindsey graham has decided to be trump enthusiastic all trump all the time. lindsey graham wants to run for president. graham is a smart and shrewd character. i used to know him back in the day when he was a mccain day, not a trump day. he thinks he can be trump's designee in 2024. but thi

is where we see people who are being formally honored at the end of their lives, john mccain, george h.w. bush recently making that journey down those stairs. as you pointed out, just the fifth officer -- the fifth private citizen to be given -- to lay in honor at the capitol building. i couldn't have imagined on that day as we were in the initial moments of this that this is where we would be, that there would then be a funeral for someone who was killed on that day, coming down those very steps where we previously saw the rioters. i think you could hear in everyone's voice, and, yes, there were democrat who is spoke at the ceremony, that's simply out of tradition because they're in charge of both the house and the senate, but you could feel the emotion they felt toward someone who was protecting them. this is a police force solely centered on protecting congress, on protecting our legislative branch, protecting our democracy truly. and, you know, you're right to point out you used to go to work at the capitol on a daily basis earlier in your career. these are people you say hello to every mo

and then turned out to be the day of george h.w. bush's funeral. and so qanon believers convinced themselves that d-5 was a reference to the fact that on december 5, at this funeral, when all these world leaders, including former presidents and people who are allegedly part of this cabal would be in attendance in the same building, that is when the mass arrests happened. obviously, that didn't happen. there were no mass arrests. so instead of admitting like, we were wrong, maybe this d-5 thing didn't happen, they said maybe it's december 7 actually. so therefore, the real date is sometime in the future. and that's constantly happening with qanon. >> so this has been one of the more mind melting aspects of reporting on q for me that you talk to people who are true believers. >> we are q. >> and you can confront them with reality. you know, evidence of here's what happened. we both saw this with our own eyes. why do you still believe? and there's just an utter rejection of reality and a total faith in q, with no sort of attention to impiricism or reg

the congressional district that was represented by george h.w. bushtrict represented by newt gingrich, by eric kanter, all of these districts went democratic in 2018. these are high earning, well educated districts. i think the answer to the question you posed to anne about the future is to think about it this way. think of yourself as an ambitious office holder. there are two paths back to power. the easy way and the hard way. the easy way is to simply rig the system in such a way that the people who don't want to vote for you, young people, people of color, poor people, that they're not allowed to vote, that they're prevented from voting. the courts will let you. that's been one of the big changes since 2010. so if you can do that, that's easy. you don't have to change anything. if we take away that option, if the courts change, if the system changes, then republicans have to win power the hard way, which is by winning multiethnic coalitions around the new issues of the 21st century. that takes thinking, innovation. obviously people don't like to wo

one of the last times he was seen in public was the same year at the funeral of president george h.w bushople thinking of bob deal. back here in washington to politics now. presidents of both parties tried and failed in 2001, 26, 2007, again in 2013. this morning, president biden is officially trying to overhaul the immigration system. the white house unveiling a sweeping plan today along with two democrats on capitol hill. but there is a big caveat to our capitol hill team. instead of rushing to the negotiating table, republicans are gearing up to mount a campaign against the proposal. it's not clear if the biden administration has a strategy to get that bill to his desk. i want to go to kristen welker at the white house and julia ainsley. julia, walk us through the bill and what it would mean to an overhaul to the immigration system. >> well, it's a path to citizenship, an eight-year path for the limited 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the united states now. there would be a faster path for farm workers and for daca recipients brought here illegally by their parents. they h

is the building out much like george h.w. bush did a coalition like we did against kuwait in china. lead into it, perhaps we are able to come with a global coalition and across the board on health care matters and even trade matters. i have set for a long time and i thought president trump was right on china. he brought more democrats and republicans around. one of the reasons he was elected, immigration and his position on foreign affairs mainly china pushed him forward. democrats and republicans alike would be right to follow him ind follow it up with poesy with great results. >> bret: mike wallace with that resolution. we will talk about that and other elements of the china foreign policy with the panel right after this quick break. m. they guide me with achievable steps that give me confidence. this is my granddaughter... she's cute like her grandpa. voya doesn't just help me get to retirement... ...they're with me all the way through it. voya. be confident to and through retirement. ♪ ♪ the chevy silverado trail boss. when you have a two-inch lift. when you have goodyear duratr

one-term president who was defeat who had retained significant influence had his party, not george h.w. bushmmy carter or benjamin harrison. >> who? >> you have to go back to the civil war and martin van buren and he does receive three-quarters of republicans who still want trump to play a prominent role going forward. the problem that the party has one-fifth to one-quarter of republican voters who say they don't want to see a party stamped by and defined by trump is plenty to cause them enormous electoral problems if in fact the party defers to trump and they pull away. i will say that in practice the divide is kind of less than it appears in kind of the rhetoric because, for example, you're seeing in all of these states, from arizona to georgia to wisconsin and pennsylvania, florida, montana, efforts by state-level republicans using trump's discredited claims of fraud to impose this incredible wave of voter suppression so the party is unifying in a trumpian direction even as it argues over his personal >> let me help you further your point. i say this new poll found that despite trump's se

second of all he's the most experienced foreign policy president we've had since george h.w. bush. decades in congress as head of the foreign relations committee. in his bones, he knows this stuff. he knows the people. he knows the people in congress. so i think all of that makes him very strong. and i'm looking at him with tony blinken. he has the strongest state department team that i can remember since way, way back. but in addition tom, i agree he hit the right themes. the one thing i didn't hear enough of is that foreign policy by executive order isn't going to make it. because everyone is worried that our next president won't be of the same mind. i think what we need him to be saying in addition to what he said, was our doctrine now is america will be the indispensable partner to other countries in the world with like interests and i, joe biden, will build back the state department and the relationship between my administration and the congress. so that the policies you see will have support. not just from the people i have picked but the people you have elected. >> so let's

>> it shows me the stark contrast between the leadership now and president george h.w. bush, who didn't waste a second in denouncie ing david duke whee ran for office in louisiana. >> why is it taking more than a second? >> that's a really good question. i think a lot of things in the congress come down to fear of losing your job, getting primaried, fear of president trump is the only way i can explain some of the pretty much irrational behavior of our republican leadership the last few years. >> i get it. mccarthy has a decision to make. marjorie taylor greene is absolutely responsible for the statements that she has made, knowingly made over the years. but what does it tell you that she was elected in the first place? >> she didn't trick the people in her district to vote for her. they knew what they were getting. >> just look at what liz is encountering out in wyoming now. this trump fanaticism, which i encountered when i was in office, is beyond any kind of precedent in republican politics. and she would probably get elected again down there, but that doesn't mean that t

secret service training academy before joining the presidential protective division during the george h.w. bush and clinton administrations. following his white house serve, he served as assistant director for congressional affaired, assistantor for government affairs and assistant director for homeland security and assistant director for the secret service. he retired from the secret service in 2008 as assistant director and worked as a private security consultant until his appointment as house sergeant at arms in 2012. he is a graduate of the american university and whittier law school. i want to thank our witnesses for appearing voluntarily today and i look forward to your testimony. >> it is the practice of the homeland security and governmental affairs committee to swear in witnesses. so if the witnesses would stand and including those joining us virtually and raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony that you will give before this committee shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god. >> i do. >> i do. >> thank you, you may all be seated. >>

i do think that is the model of -- i mean, you think about george h.w. bush coming together with bill clinton who, of course, defeated him in his quest for a second term for a variety of very good causes, almost all the presidents have more recently got together, the ex-presidents, for, again, a variety of causes. but you suggest that leaving office actually made washington more partisan. how did this transpire? >> yeah, i think that's true. i think george washington did become more partisan and we do have this impression that leaving office lifts presidents above partisan feuds. the exact thing happen to george washington. he got involved in election engineering as he never would as president. he supported the alien and sedition acts which actually led to printers who were associated with the opposition party actually being locked up, and he -- he also favored excluding members of the opposition party from higher rank in the new army being formed. this was essentially a partisan harmony because we look back at george washington's farewell address and we're a

to a certain extent domestic policy to all the time he spent in congress that we've had since george h.w. bush. and i think that is my teaching and my study has demonstrated to me my students would probably 'd verify this me most important asset a president can bring to the white house in the beginning and conversely the most dangerous element if he doesn't have it is experience knowing what he's doing from the. president learning on the job are dangerous well colonel lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff of the department of state thanks so much for sharing your wisdom and thoughts and insights with us today we really appreciate it thank you thank you stephen best to help them safe they say so what's the bottom line joe biden may say america is back but this isn't to diss me movie tend to say abracadabra and like magic everything is fixed the world still trying to get over the weirdness of a superpower that said screw you when it's america 1st narcissus. for the last 4 years biden wants a lot of things and many are good he wants america to welcome more refugees want to elevate t.q. rights

secret service training academy before joining the presidential protective division during the george h.w. bush and clinton administrations. following his white house service he served as the assistant director for congressional affairs, assistant director for government affairs, assistant director for homeland security and assistant director for administration for the secret service. he retired from the secret service in 2008 as assistant director and worked as a private security consultant until his appointment as house sergeant-at-arms in 2012. he is a graduate at the american university and wittier law school. i want to thank our witnesses for appearing voluntarily today and i look forward to your testimony. >> it is the practice of the homeland security and governmental affairs committee to swear in witnesses, so if the witnesses would stand, including those joining us virtually and raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony you will give before this committee shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> i do. >> i do. >> thank you.

grand wizard, former president george h.w. bush said, and i quote, he should be rejected for what he is and what he stands for, end quote. david duke was pushed out of the party and stripped of of my credibility and recognition. even as recently as 25016, when duke announced a run for the u.s. senate, the then-republican national committee chairman said, and i quote, david duke and his hateful bigotry have no place in the republican party, end quote. madam speaker that seems like forever ago. what happened? the party of lincoln is becoming the party of violent conspiracy theories. and apparently the leaders of the republican party in the house, today, are not going to do a damn thing about it. now i never thought i would say this, madam speaker, but i agree with mitch mcconnell. the senate minority leader this week called congresswoman greene's embrace of conspiracy theories, and i quote, a cancer for the republican party. . i would take it staep further. i think -- a step further. i think giving congresswoman greene a microphone o

that was a case of president clinton, and nixon's pardons and george h.w. bush.o how do you keep the president within the system? that's really the presidents prerogative. but there are ways to complement. >> your atlantic article that i thought was brilliant one of which was the timing. did you consider the president and his first term different than the second term or that they had to get noticed before election day or ten days before to make sure is not a secret pardon and what are the other reforms you suggested we shoulde i consider? >> thank you for asking. >> i believe in deterrence. we are all imperfect beings. the best of a spaces temptation. and with the public responding to which it does. a secret pardon concerns me because then nobody knows about it. the presidents to know they can have give up a verdict on the party. was a former congressman's ideals. and with that structural deadline and you do it before the election. and the reason you do that in october the public as to know about these things if you can figure out a way to require disclosure i th

george bush or george h. wush bush. i don't believe division is the way forward. >> once in 2004 they won going back to george h.w. ent, focused on policy and covid and talking infrastructure today. has he taken the right tack in your view and can he keep alive his promise to take a bipartisan approach as leader? >> well, the answer is yes. because a lot of times you have to let these things breathe. and by just showing the videos and not having, you know, the president of the united states being the large theme that has broadcast across the country and allowing the videos to speak, you're allowing the american public to see what happened unvarnished. that is one. two, by not sucking up all of the air in the room, contrary to the republican party, he's allowing new stars to emerge. look at stacy plarveget, from the virgin islands who is now a certified hero. and we want to talk about aoc and omar and the squad, et cetera, we have other members who are rising to the top, showing they are more than capable. and then the last thing is we're still in the middle of a pandemic. we still need infrastructure spending and w

. >> and mccain like george h.w. bushtics, while barack obama with his lack of experience was a question mark. >> so our face-off tonight, does obama have the foreign policy credentials? >> he is great on the themes and inspiration and the nice photo ops. but that's not governing in foreign policy. >> so we decided to send obama just a few months before the election to afghanistan, iraq, jordan, israel, france, the united kingdom, germany. >> when it comes to first african-american president in november, he will bring peace. >> i doubt we're going to have a million screaming germans. let's tamp down expectations here. if we get a few tens of thousands. >> 900,000. >> the center piece of the whole trip was his speech he would give in berlin. we envisioned this as deliberately echoing some of the more iconic presidential speeches overseas. reagan, tear down this wall. kennedy. >> the walls between old allies on either side of the atlantic cannot stand. the walls between the countries with the most and those with the least c

up, and there was a lot of pressure on washington to deal with budge deficits, and that's why george h.w. bush and bill clinton did, because the market demanded it. the market doesn't demand it now, and as long as the market doesn't demand it, washington's not going to do it. charles is right, it's a money boot, and they're going to keep going. what i'm watching in this debate right now, what's happening with that minimum wage. because that tells me something about how much influence the left is having on policy because you can have a real debate about whether the minimum wage is counterproductive or helpful to low income households. you could argue that when you raise the minimum wage, it gives companies a disincentive to hire. the left is pushing hard for it, and, you know, that's the way this is going, that tells you that the left is winning these debates. neil: you know, that's an interesting argument, francis, because as soon as i heard this out of nancy pelosi, we're sending that $15 minimum wage thing, you know, to the senate, i could just imagine joe biden saying, really? i mean, do we

is all the one term presidents, who would you rank the highest i'd like to make the case for george h.w. bush where he handled the demise of the ussr in the fall of the berlin wall qualify them for be the best of the one terms but i was just curious of your opinion. had a quick second question. your book about the allsup's. i don't know anything about them for if you could give a quick summary of why the been interesting book to read. thank you. >> host: thank you mike. >> guest: take the all soft first. let me take the one termers, i was a the most significant one term president was polk. and i think the historians pretty much a bolster that up. and george herbert walker bush, i know when i covered him i traveled with him a bit. and i think there is a reason why he lost to bill clinton after a one term. we had some great successes including the transition related to the breakdown of the soviet union was among them, as well as the gulf war who is not administered the economy think that hurt him badly. and so i tend to think when the american people reject the president after four years they d

when george h.w. bush died in 2018, dole rose from his wheelchair to pay his respects. the same courage to his battle with cancer he demonstrated on the battlefield and in congress. when we caught up with bob and elizabeth dole in 2019. >> i realized he's not some guy chasing women around capitol hill. you know? >> i never did that. couldn't catch them anyway. >> reporter: the washington power couple, long-time partners in politics, life, and love. >> let me first introduce my wife, elizabeth. >> you need to focus on your partner's interests, not your own. >> reporter: last year, i helped the couple celebrate their july birthdays 2020 style. happy birthday to both of you. with an online celebration. >> we draw energy from the warmth of your friendsp,m your support, and your love. >> we are sending that love and support this morning. senator dole starts treatment on monday. we are wishing him all the best. i actually got to talk to mrs. dole yesterday. she sounded really good. she said they're hopeful. we know what a fighter he is. we know how strong senator bob dole is.

president george h.w. bush. my close friend who served as head of the agency in the 1970s. president bush and bill burnsed a in terms of age, background and career. they do share one essential and important characteristic. an absolute and abiding sense of responsibility and duty to the united states of america. bill burns is a leader and a steady hand under fire. he never hesitates to speak truth, even when he knows it may be unwelcome. he scrupulously nonpartisan and decades of experience working closely with the cia and other intelligence agencies. he knows washington. he knows the world. president biden and our country would be very fortunate to have bill burns at the helm of the central intelligence agency. distinguished members of the committee, let me close these brief remarks by simply saying that in my opinion, this confirmation should be a bipartisan no brainer. thank you very much for letting me speak to you today on behalf of bill burns. thank you. >> well, thank you, secretary baker. very much appreciate those comments. secretary panetta. >> chairman, senator wa

before leaving office in 1992 president george h.w. bush pardoned secretary of defense casper weinberger and five others. and president clinton's marc rich, indicted for fraud and the ex-husband to a major donor to the hillary clinton campaign. and president trump has gone further. on his final day trump pardoned 74 people and commuted sentences of others. including one defrauding medicare to the tune of 75 million dollars. the pardon power was intended to be a benevolent power, but there are limits on the excess, it only extends to federal crimes. it may not be used to obstruct justice and a self-pardon is constitutionally suspect. congress could, of course, reform the pardon power by constitutional amendment. and as the chairman's proposal would do, it would limit the president's pardon power to grant such a pardon to himself, his family, his administration officials or campaign advisors. and would prevent pardons for conduct undertaken for a direct and significant personal benefit of the president, his family, officials, or for crimes co

grand wizard, former president george h.w. bush said, and i quote, he should be rejected for what he is and what he stands for, end quote. david duke was pushed out of the party and stripped of of my credibility and recognition. even as recently as 25016, when duke announced a run for the u.s. senate, the then-republican national committee chairman said, and i quote, david duke and his hateful bigotry have no place in the republican party, end quote. madam speaker that seems like forever ago. what happened? the party of lincoln is becoming the party of violent conspiracy theories. and apparently the leaders of the republican party in the house, today, are not going to do a damn thing about it. now i never thought i would say this, madam speaker, but i agree with mitch mcconnell. the senate minority leader this week called congresswoman greene's embrace of conspiracy theories, and i quote, a cancer for the republican party. . i would take it staep further. i think -- a step further. i think giving congresswoman greene a microphone o

. >> so as david said, i wrote a biography of george h.w. bush, and i showed -- >> is that available on amazon? >> probably. and i showed those pictures to the president, and i said do you have any idea what you-all were talking about? he said, no, but tip was funny as hell. >> so here we are in geneva. >> 1985. >> so i got this major league scoop for "time" magazine that didn't go over well at "news week." this picture i called the bromance photo. but it's insight into the characters of ronald reagan and gorbachev, the first time they met. it was the fireside summit. it just broke up, and this is really the reaction. there were two other photographs in the room. one was a soviet photographer, the other was the white house photographer and me, and reagan just charmed the hell out of mick hail gorbachev, and you told me you'd interviewed gorbachev, and what did he tell you? >> the two critical moments at the end of the cold war in terms of the american soviet union directly, gorbachev said, was this summit in geneva in 1985 and the way president b