times cloture had to be filed up till this date in the administrations of both president george herbert walker bush and george w. bush, as well as bill clinton and barack obama, it was a total of six cloture votes compared to 47 for president trump. this is an intentional delay and it burns time and to give you an example last week in the senate floor there was a judge who was nominated, the democrats wanted all of this time to be spent and in fact, only 20 minutes was actually used of all of those hours that couldn't be used for anything else and only 20 minutes was spent talking about that judge. all five republicans and all very positive and then when the vote was finally done on the floor of united states senate, 28 democrats voted in favor of the judge and it tells you this is a mainstream nominee, bipartisan support and it is just delaying on the part of the democrats to slow the process. i believe it is time to change the rules of the senate, to change the rules of the president trump can get his team in place. there are two different ways to do it. one is to go back to what we had in 2013 w

in a room in his in his home when he called vice president george herbert walker bush while the i.r.s. was confiscating the furniture in barry seal's house. and barry seal was complaining to vice president bush that this was not the deal he had signed with bush and that if he didn't call off the i.r.s. agents out of the house he berry was going to expose the contra cocaine thing. and ten days later various it was dead and his attorney who was in the room with him when he made that call believes that that call is why he died ok. then the very famous miami attorney named richard sharpstein who defended one of the three colombians who were convicted of murder and seale told me that in the course of the trial all three of them told their attorneys that while they were in the u.s. they had been directed by and anonymous u.s. military officer who they quickly figured out was oliver north but that never came out in the trial and sharpstein told me i mean i've never seen anything like it before. and it goes on i mean it's all a when they hit men the colombian hit men they kill them they were

times cloture had been filed up til this date in the administrations of both president george herbert walker bush and george w. bush as well as bill clinton and barack obama, it was a total of six cloture votes compared to 47 for president trump. this is an intentional delay, it burns time, and to give you an example, last week on the senate floor there was a judge who was nominated. the democrats wanted all of this time to be spent and, in fact, only 20 minutes was actually used of all of those hours that couldn't be used for anything else, only 20 minutes was spent talking about that judge. all by the republicans, all very positive. and then when the vote was finally done on the floor of the united states senate, 28 democrats voted in favor of that judge. so that tells you this is a mainstream nominee, bipartisan support. it is just delaying on the part of the democrats to slow the process. i believe it is time to change the rules of the senate. to change the rules so that president trump can get his team in place. there are two different ways to do it. one is to go back to what we had in 2013

george herbert walker bush, i lo throwingcture of him souvenirs in the desert. troops.ot rallying his thaas tossing souvenirs but troopsallying the before desert storm. president clinton, there's a picture of hillary clinton with chelsea the morning of the neverral and i have gotten as many responses to a pi cture as that picture. chelsea came downstairs and her mother was in the front hall of the white house. chelsea opened her coat to show her mother what she was wearing earing an extremely short skirt and you see mrs. you do not seeher face. the way she is standing, she pulls back in some surprise that her daughter is wearing such a dress to a public event. i love that picture. i love the picture of bill clinton behind-the-scenes before he is backstage at his convention in 1996 and he is abo ut to be introduced. in name has been put nomination for the second time in his life. the crowd is going wild. ands just about to go out belt,ps and takes his pulls of his trousers and takes a deep breath. the air is in his cheeks. there is a man who can i love that pictu

george herbert walker bush, i love the picture of him throwing souvenirs in the desert. even though that is what he was doing. he was not rallying his troops. he was tossing souvenirs but that was rallying the troops before desert storm. a very memorable visit. with president clinton, there's a picture of hillary clinton with chelsea the morning of the inaugural and i have never gotten as many responses to a picture and then that picture. chelsea came downstairs and her mother was in the front hall of the white house. i was behind the scenes this particular day with the clintons. chelsea opened her coat to show her mother what she was wearing , and she was wearing an extremely short skirt and you see mrs. clinton going, you do not see her face, but you see her pulling that -- the way she is standing -- it is one of those moments we talked about earlier. she pulls back, i think, in some surprise that her daughter is wearing such a short dress to a public event. no mother needed to be told what was going on in that chair. on in that picture. i love that picture. i love the

. >> reporter: the reason it is held here is this is home to the george herbert walker bush presidential library not far from where we are and he has this message for hurricane victims. even if the path to recovery feels like a road that goes on forever, we are in it with you for the long haul and that is the central theme of the big concert event deep from the heart fundraiser. every penny raised will go to help victims of hurricane harvey, irma and maria, storms that devastated so many states this year. former presidents obama, bush 43, clinton, bush 41 and carter will all be here and say a few words accompanied by the former first lady's too and some big names will be performing including the gatlin brothers, alabama, lyle lovett and robert earl keen and lee greenwood will serve as master of ceremonies. all five former living us presidents launched the hurricane recovery effort together last month, they came together and decided something had to be done to help so many who were suffering. the arena on texas a&m campus can hold 13,000 spectators. tickets range from $40 to $60. we are n

former president george herbert walker bush has this message, "even if the path to recovery feels liked that goes on forever, we are with them for the long haul." and that's the overwhelming message that you will hear tonight that america stands with hurricane victims. every penny raised will go to help the victims of harvey, irma and maria, storms that devastated so many areas this year. former presidents obama, carter, clinton, bush 41 and bush 43 will be here in person, and be accompanied by the former first ladies as well. a texas-sized performance tonight including the gatlin brothers, lyle lovett, alabama and robert earl keen. lee greenwood will serve as the masters of ceremonies, but really performers and organizers along tell us tonight is not about politics. it's about helping others. listen. >> that's quite a deal. it's -- and i think it's big on all of their parts. to put aside the wrangling and everything that goes on. so i think that speaks to how important this is. houston and, you know, florida, all that, devastated by the horrible hurricanes. >> so, again, we understand

the strongest we've seen a year after the election of anyone going back now to george herbert walker bushtaking the staff right now to the games that we had right now after fdr which is much lower and dicier levels. what you make of that and whether this is donald trump inspired elsewhere. what do you think? >> investor confidence has soared on has soared under the promise of tax reform and the promise of deregulation furniture and administration. i do think president trump deserves a lot of credit for that since the days of the campaign is laid out an aggressively progrowth agenda that was focused really happily on having a more aggressive and competitive corporate tax system cutting red tape for businesses and at least on the deregulation side, the trump administration has really delivered. they've gone after deregulation were aggressively than in past republican and assertions have. the tax reform piece will be interesting to see the prospects for that legislatively whether the market responds because a lot of the economic optimism has been attributed to the fact the president has prom

gerald ford's funeral and we saw when hurricane katrina had hit in 2005, bill clinton and george herbert walker bushainst each other in 1992. they've become very close since then and jokes that bill clinton has become a member of the bush family. there are at times moments that we have states people that can heal the country and these five gentlemen are heros to americans. they withstood the presidency, they're all very -- public opinion polls have all five of them higher than the sitting president donald trump right now. it a special night in college station, texas, to say i was there when five presidents took the stage. >> yeah, i mean, no matter what your politics are, it's just an incredible moment. douglas, i want to ask you -- actually, we're going to listen in on this. >> please be seated. thank you so much. ♪ if tomorrow all the things were gone i worked for all my life ♪ in i hf i had to start again just my children and my wife ♪ i thank my lucky stars to be living here today ♪ because the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away ♪ can't take that away, take that away ♪ a

george herbert walker bush criticized a little bit of bill clinton's foreign policy. the difference is this. you have both former presidents from both parties. who will continue to be partisan. george w. bush is campaigning for one gubernatorial candidate in virginia and barack obama is campaigning for the other one. so they haven't given up their interest in their respective parties, but they both have basically said that the white house, they said carefully, the white house is no longer using presidential language. the white house should be uniting us. both didn't mention donald trump's name. they would have been inappropriate to do that. >> these were thinly veiled. >> they were saying our country should be moving beyond racism and shouldn't turn a back on global interaction. these are great broad concepts, but concepts that both obama and bush believe in. they are partisan. they have policy preferences that are different and they continue to be different sh but on these broad issue, they have a common idea. they actually share these ideas. and they talked about tha

george herbert walker bush for people to agree with him to raise taxes so he could start stop the reagan period of economic growth. reminds us with his tax increase that noah's life is a complete waste, some people service bad examples. don't do that, it didn't work. in the modern republican party wash. otherwise he was very successful. kicked direct out of weight without getting stuck occupy the place. one problem. tax increase. and he lost the presidency as a result. since then we've had republicans committing they won't raise taxes. this is progress, moving in the right direction, you have a unified republican party will be discussion between nona but the reason things will be settled is not only the unity of the pledge republicans understand their brand of their party is the party that won't raise your taxes, coca-cola spends time working on its brand and quality control c can go to the store you don't have to read the ingredients or ask what it tastes like, you know what's inside it, but if you got your bottle home and he looked down and when you are two thirds through the bottle yo

ronald reagan did a wonderful job as a republican and george herbert walker bush and keeping the tradition of america, we are a country of traditions. and taking basic lessons in civility and civics and how good government works. he is trying to monkey wrench things and operating on paranoia calling the press the enemy of the people. writing every day weird, crazy emails about everything under the sun. >> i don't think they are emails. >> tweets. he's making the presidency as an institution and giving it a black eye. >> i think because he has so personalized the presidency. when he leaves, that will go away and the institution remains. the next president is going to be the anti--trump and that president will have every incentive to restore dignity to the office. >> and release tax returns immediately. that will be a fundamental threshold next time. >> i want to ask you, the "new york times" this spring did a very short list called say something nice about donald trump -- [laughter] >> and was abandoned due to lack of material. let me ask the three of you and i'll give you an out, something

medal in philadelphia and previously given to nelson mandela, presidents jimmy carter, george herbert walker bushnd bill clinton among others. here is what the arizona senator said in his acceptance speech tonchts fear the world we've organized and led three-quarters of a century, the abandon the ideals that we've advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that americans can sign to the ash heap of history. >> you know what he's talking about. he's talking about steve bannon, steve bannon's protege, president trump. the president was asked about that speech today and didn't hold back. let's listen. >> you heard what he said yesterday, senator mccain. >> yeah. people have to be careful because at some point i fight back. i'm being very very nice but at some point i fight back and it won't be pretty. >> again, it won't be pre

former deputy assistant secretary under president george herbert walker bush and author of a book "stopping fake news in its tracks." bruce, great to talk to you. your new book i've been reading through, it sort of, it tries to disseminate for people how to sort of protect yourself from fake news but you also talk about the fact there is two silos of information. conservative silo, media from one place and everyone else from another. how can people protect themselves if inside that conservative news bubble? >> i don't think they want to be protected, unfortunately. i mean, you've got a huge number of people in this country who get virtually all their news from fox, or they listen only to talk radio where you really only hear the right wing point of view from rush limbaugh or sean hannity, and, if they're looking on the internet, they're reading the drudge report, or breitbart. they're in a closed loop where they never hear many facts. they hear lies, and so when they hear the same lie over and over again, we know this is called the big lie technique that joseph gerbils invented back in the

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you know, former president george herbert walker bush who will be here tonight had this message for peoplehe hurricanes. i'm quoting here, even if the path to recovery feels like a road that goes on forever, we are with them for the long haul. and we know that it is going to be a long haul in puerto rico and parts of florida and texas still recovering from hurricanes. that is the primary theme is to raise as much money as possible. politics aside, everyone coming together to help people who have been devastated by hurricanes this year. former presidents obama, bush 43, clinton, bush 41, and carter will all be here. they will each say a few words, we understand, and they will also be accompanied by their former first ladies as well. a texas-sized performance here including the gatlin brothers, alabama, lyle lovett and robert earl keen. plus a couple of surprises along the way. listen. >> it's quite a deal. i think it's -- and it's big on all of their parts to put aside all the wrangling, you know, everything that goes on, so i think that speaks to how important this is. houston and, you kno

. >> starting your academic career in stamford in ultimately you got involved in the george herbert walker bush staff. >> yes, i got involved and it's an important story because there is this notion that we sometimes have that i got there on my own. no one gets there on their own. there is always somebody who is advocating for you, working for you and for me bret who had been the national security advisor to gerald ford came out to stanford to give a talk and i was the second year professor at stanford and he got to know me and said i want to get to know you better. i like your work and i was getting all my work on the soviet military housing and he started taking me to conferences like the aspen strategy group and he really a mentored me into the field and i often say there y is another and that we also sy you have to have role models and mentors who look like you. it is great if you do but i've been waiting for a black, so he asked specialist i would still be waiting. instead myl role model and my mentors were white men, old, white men and those with the people who dominated my field. i alway

i think ronald reagan did a wonderful job as a republican and george herbert walker bush, keeping a kind of institutional lore, the tradition of america. we are a country of traditions. has not taken basic lessons of civility and civics and how good government works. he is trying to monkeywrench things, operating on paranoia, calling the press the enemy of the people. you know, writing every day weird, crazy emails about everything under the sun. >> tweets. i don't think he emails. >> tweets. he is making the presidency as an institution, he is giving it a black eye. >> because he has so personalized the presidency, when he leaves, that personal aspect goes away. the institution remains. i agree with mara that the next president will be the anti-trump. so, the president will have every incentive to restore dignity to the office and do everything. mara: and release his tax returns. toot sweet. that will be a fundamental threshold thing. >> i want to ask you guys one more thing. "the new york times" this spring did a very short list feature called "say something nice about donald trump," w

partisan statement because i think ronald reagan did a wonderful job as a republican him and george herbert walker bush, keeping a kind of institutional lore, the tradition of america. we are a country of traditions and he is thumbing his nose at the mall -- them all. and a good government works. so he's trying to monkeywrench things, operating on paranoia as a fuel, calling the press the enemy of the people. writing every day weird, crazy e-mails about everything under the sun. >> tweets. i don't think he e-mails. >> i mean tweets. he's making the presidency as an institution, giving it a black eye. >> because he has so personalize the presidency, when he leaves, the personal aspect goes way. i think the institution remains and i think i agree with mara that the next president is going to be the anti-trump. and so that president will have every incentive to restore dignity to the office, to do everything -- >> and release his tax returns. that's going to be like a fundamental threshold thing. >> before we take audience questions, i want to ask you guys one more thing. the "new york times" this spring

i think ronald reagan did a wonderful job as a republican and george herbert walker bush, keeping a kind of institutional lore, the tradition of america. we are a country of traditions. has not taken basic lessons of civility and civics and how good government works. he is trying to monkeywrench things, operating on paranoia, calling the press the enemy of the people. you know, writing every day weird, crazy emails about everything under the sun. >> tweets. >> tweets. he is making the presidency as an institution, he is giving it a black eye. >> because he has so personalized the presidency, when he leaves, that personal aspect goes away. the institution remains. i agree with mara that the next president will be the anti-trump. so, the president will have every incentive to restore dignity to the office and do everything. mara: and release his tax returns. that will be a fundamental threshold thing. >> i want to ask you guys one more thing. the new york times did a very short list feature called "say something nice about donald trump," which i believe was immediately abandoned due to lac

i covered the reagan white house and the bush white house, george herbert walker bush white house. i have interviewed several presidents. this presidency changes what we have seen in many ways. trump was a disruptive candidate and is a disruptive president. and some of the challenges to covering the white house, criticisms on the fake news. i have also in news and shaped things of well. we will touch on that as well. marget: our work every day is about doing our job day in and day out. there are moments in a presidency, and tonight is one of those moments when it is about assessing where we have been, where we are going, and whether anything has changed and how. frank: our panel will join us in a moment. we will ask a question on a different topic of each member of the panel. then we will open it up for a broader conversation. we will open it up for your questions later in the evening as well. this is a real discussion. marget: when that point in the night comes there will be microphones. you can spend the next hour thinking about what questions you would like to ask and we will gi

i covered the reagan white house and the bush white house, george herbert walker bush white house. i have interviewed several presidents. this presidency changes what we have seen in many ways. trump was a disruptive candidate and is a disruptive president. and some of the challenges to covering the white house, criticisms on the fake news. i have also in news and shaped things of well. we will touch on that as well. marget: our work every day is about doing our job day in and day out. there are moments in a presidency, and tonight is one of those moments when it is about assessing where we have been, where we are going, and whether anything has changed and how. frank: our panel will join us in a moment. we will ask a question on a different topic of each member of the panel. then we will open it up for a broader conversation. we will open it up for your questions later in the evening as well. this is a real discussion. marget: when that point in the night comes there will be microphones. you can spend the next hour thinking about what questions you would like to ask and we will gi

on october 30th back in 1992, only days before the clinton/george herbert walker bush election, okay,nse secretary casper weinberger was indicted. by lawrence walsh, the special prosecutor, on iran/contra, and charged with lying to congress about iran, about arm sales to iran. on christmas, 1992, outgoing president george herbert walker bush pardoned cap weinberger before his trial could take place and five others involved in the iran/contra investigation. so there's precedent here. good, bad and indifferent. but plenty of legal precedent here about special prosecutors, outgoing presidents, presidential pardons and indictments such as this. >> all right, and let's go right now to capitol hill. we've got nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson with us. this may not shock anybody in that building behind you but certainly there will be republicans unsettled by the news. >> undoubtedly. the other part, there will be republicans who, today, tomorrow, all week long, are going to be asked about this news, asked to respond, asked what happens if, if donald trump were to make m

. >> i covered the reagan white house, the george herbert walker bush white house and interviewed several presidents. this president changes what we've seen in many ways. donald trump ran as a disruptive president, disruptive candidate he certainly was and certainly disruptive president and some of the challenges to covering the white house, the president's criticisms on the media, on news, what he calls fake news, have also been news and have shaped things as well, so i'm sure we'll touch on that this evening as well. >> for us our work every day really is about doing our jobs day in and day out, but there are moments in a presidency and tonight is one of those moments when it's also about assessing where we've been, where we're going and whether anything really has changed and how. >> our panel will join us in just a moment. we'll start by asking a question on a different topic of each member of the panel and then we'll open it up to arefor a br conversation. we will open it up for your questions later on this this evening. there is a discussion. >> when that point in the night comes th

that's exactly what george herbert walker bush did with jimmy baker. jimmy went over a few times to talk to the foreign minister. i think the last conversation was a day or so if i remember correctly, a day or so before hostilities opened up. this is not an unusual tactic. it is a good tactic and i think they're handling it pretty well. >> eric: what do you think will it take for kim jong-un to get the message? >> there are two targets to the message. one is the north koreans, kim jong-un. but the other is the chinese. they still have not done what they can do. for some reason they have dragged their feet on this and so when secretary of state tillerson or the president sends out a message an north korea, they really have two recipients in mind. i don't -- you can't read the minds of either one of those. you can just keep doing the best you can and i think that's exactly what is happening right now, the best we can. >> eric: u.s. ambassador nikki haley referred to that saying north korea basically has been 25 years of botched agreements, she says. that

we're seeing jeff flake, bob corker, george herbert walker bush, mitt romney saying they don't know ifa wide swath is saying this isn't the party of lincoln. republicans are in a real dangerous position especially with bannon now threatening to primary every republican who doesn't pass his litmus test. >> bill: maybe he is successful and may not. >> he may not be. republicans need to have a real conversation inside the party about tone. >> bill: that question to brad, that's okay. pretty good answer. mick mulvaney is pushing the budget and on with bret last night. he believes that policy will not get in the way of a yes vote on things like tax reform. >> whether or not the tax bill passes will rise and fall with the merits of that piece of legislation. bob corker won't vote against a good bill because he doesn't like the president nor jeff flake. i'm not too concerned about that. >> bill: you don't think they should be concerned, brad? >> i don't. >> bill: john mccain walking on the floor of the senate 2:30 in the morning thumbs down on obamacare based on policy or personality or a com

rally ochb track to surpass the 23.3% gain posted in the year following the election of george herbert walker bushone would imagine we will hear tweets or get tweets about that the minute it happens. >> it is a major accomplishment and we're coming off another week where all three major averages closed up a percent and we saw record highs across the dow and s&p and nasdaq and small caps and mid caps and transports the leadership has been interesting, banks turning in their fourth week of gains and you mentioned technology also at a record high, although we wonder about the prospect of tax reform i think. >> definitely, especially as we have seen in the past month a real perk up in terms of inflation with the -- that's been the interesting change in the makeup of this market. right after the election, obviously, we had those gains and they sort of sputtered out we had technology resume the mantle there and now have the rotation here again and some wonder is it time to stick with the trade as we have the prospect of tax reform or if they are to die down, with revert to what had been working before a

it goes back to 1992 when then president george herbert walker bush signed a law that all of the remainingand to the investigation would be released in 25 years' time. today is that deadline. but the law states that it is at the discretion of the sitting president, which trump says he wants the files to be made public. so for now we wait and once those documents come down, if it happens today like we're expecting, because it is the deadline. we talk to folks who stream through here. this is a major tourist destination. lots of people stream through here on a daily basis from all over the world to see the grassy knoll, the book depos tory where the shot came from. a big piece of history in downtown dallas. a lot of eyes are on it today. >> bill: we'll await the release. casey siegel live in dallas, texas. >> sandra: new details about the deadly ambush in niger. who ordered the mission and why president trump says we are winning the war against isis. >> bill: also from fighting in the battlefield from fighting your own demons at home. a look at the heartbreaking struggle the many veterans fa

i covered the reagan white house and the bush white house, george herbert walker bush white house.ave interviewed several presidents. this presidency changes what we have seen in many ways. trump was a disruptive candidate and is a disruptive president. and some of the challenges to covering the white house, criticisms on the fake news. i have also in news and shaped things of well. we will touch on that as well. marget: our work every day is about doing our job day in and day out. there are moments in a presidency, and tonight is one of those moments when it is about assessing where we have been, where we are going, and whether anything has changed and how. frank: our panel will join us in a moment. we will ask a question on a different topic of each member of the panel. then we will open it up for a broader conversation. we will open it up for your questions later in the evening as well. this is a real discussion. marget: when that point in the night comes there will be microphones. you can spend the next hour thinking about what questions you would like to ask and we will give y

george herbert walker bush, a great american as well. he took the promise when he said, read my lips. no new taxes. he said that more than 22 times too. but when it got to the point where he was wanting to get some spending cuts, the democrats went to him and said, you know what, we've got to raise taxes if you're going to get spebleding cuts. but we'll follow through on our part of the deal if you just sign the tax increases that they passed. and so bush 41, dealing honestly and straight-up and believing that the people he was dealing with had the level of integrity that he has, signed the tax increase in exchange for the promise of the spending cuts. and we all know the answer to that, mr. speaker. we know the story. when you make a deal like that and you don't have the things on the table that you're supposed to get for that deal, never comes first. you don't see them. so george h.w. bush, 41, signed the tax increase, violated his pledge. read my lips, no new taxes. not only did he sign that and not get the spending cuts, but they bea