brian: is there anything more you want to do about the story of george herbert walker bush? dr. engel: i think the story of a comparison between the bush invasions of 1991 and 2003 news to be done -- needs to be done. but i want to go back to something else as a matter of professional ethics. i did have a personal relationship with president bush. president bush treated me well and it was a highlight of my career unexpected late -- unexpectedly to work with him. i always maintained a professional distance. one way i tried to maintain that was whenever i was writing and i found myself saying, i wonder how the president is going to andt to that, i would stop push myself away from the desk and walk around and say, you cannot think about him while you are writing this. you have to be thinking about what you think about him. brian: when does the paperback come out? dr. engel: november 17, 2018. brian: let's look at the cover again. it is "when the world seemed new: george h.w. bush and the end of the cold war," and are guest, thank you for joining us. ♪ announcer: for free transcripts

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

i don't think california has gone republican since george herbert walker bush. >> host: in 1988.what do you think and how are you going to vote on the possible proposal to break california up into three -- >> guest: i'm going to vote against it. based on my analysis if you break california up into the three states that they're proposing, we're going to have six more senators, four of whom are going to be democrats. i don't want four more -- [laughter] i don't want four-plus more democrats going to the senate. it's tight enough as it is right now. >> host: how's your radio show doing? >> guest: awesome. i'm in 300 markets, every major market now carries my show. my column is also cared in more papers and web siteds than before. so larry elder inc. is doing just fine. >> host: and where can people find information about you? >> guest: my web site, larryelder.com. i have a blog called elderstatement.com, and, of course, my books have been purchased on amazon. also my blog, elderstatement.com, all my books are there. you just click new, and you can pick them up. >> host: a lot like m

welcome jeanne zaino and joseph presidentho served in george herbert walker bush's white house.ohn -- joe, i start with the tweak from the president -- he said i -- if the attack on dr. ford was as bad, charges would have been filed immediately by her or her loving parents, i asked she bring the filings forward so we can learn date, time, place. as somebody who worked in a republican white house but as a pastor, if this language helpful to anyone? >> i do not know if the language is helpful, the president is a very shrewd politician. even though he says he is not a politician, he is shrewd and the tweets have an impact. he knows that kavanaugh is about 10 points worst in terms of people opposing his nomination in public opinion polls then a few weeks ago. president trump is working hard to change that. to bring the numbers back down and improve his favorability rating. i think people want a fair hearing for the accuser and for brett kavanaugh. that will be hard. it will be very, very hard for a fair hearing because this event took place decades ago and there is no credible evide

until he left in january of two thousand and one he started following the single term of george herbert walker bush a republican now known by many as bush forty one or simply forty one president clinton was handed a growing economy from bush forty one with annual gross domestic product g.d.p. rate of three point five percent the good economy was however. partially premised upon years and years of increasing spending and rising us budget deficits clinton nomic sought to keep the economy going while balancing the deficit and with the help of congress which was then controlled by democrats legislation was passed to increase taxes on the wealthy furthermore defense spending was cut from five point two percent of g.d.p. in one nine hundred ninety to just three percent in two thousand the house passed the tax increase without a single republican vote that vote was particularly difficult for democrats after bush forty one has popularized this phrase. push and i'll say no and they'll push again and i say to them read my lips the law and candidates for congress were asked to take no new tax pledges and whil

♪ david: you were recruited to come to the george herbert walker bush white house.doleezza: i got to be the soviet specialist at the end of the cold war. david: you were there when the berlin wall went down. condoleezza: i was one of the i people the minute the berlin wall fell, a bunch of us went to the oval office and said, mr. president, you have to go for berlin, for kennedy, truman, reagan. he said, what would i do? dance on the wall? he said this is a german moment, not an american moment. i will never forget that, it was so much george h.w. bush, modest, a great sense of humility. it was the right thing, he was right. david: you saw him recently at the barbara bush funeral. did you have a chance to talk to him? condoleezza: i did. i had a chance to talk to him and tell him how much i love him and loved mrs. bush. that is a generation that will be missed. they were people who understood kindness and humility and gentility. they made their mistakes most certainly, but when you think about that family and what george h.w. bush did as a public servant, it makes y

♪ david: you were recruited to come to the george herbert walker bush white house.doleezza: right. i went to be the soviet specialist at the end of the cold war. david: you were there when the berlin wall went down. condoleezza: i was. david: did you go into the president and say there's condoleezza: i was one of the i people the minute the berlin wall fell, a bunch of us went to the oval office and said, mr. president, you have to go for berlin, for kennedy, truman, reagan. and he looked at us and said, what would i do? dance on the wall? he said this is a german moment, not an american moment. i will never forget that, because it was just so much george h.w. bush, modest, a great sense of humility. and it was the right thing. he was absolutely right. david: you saw him recently at the barbara bush funeral. did you have a chance to talk to him? condoleezza: i did. i did. i had a chance to talk to him and tell him how much i love him and loved mrs. bush. that is a generation that will be missed. they were people who understood kindness and humility and gentility. th

don't have to love you to death or spend time talking, but that most empathetic man was george herbert walker bush. to show another planet basically. this is the kind of person years ago this is a letter that president bush wrote in the late 50s after the list of the bushes daughter robin in leukemia of 1953. the last child to be born in 59 this is the voice of a son writing his mother at the loss of his own daughter. i share this with you it is unique in the literature of the presidency but i often think if i could be 5%% of the man who wrote this letter so this is the voice of george hw bush. there is about our house a need the running full cd restlessness of the boys we need some starch to go with our toward knees and blue jeans and helmets and soft blonde hair to offset the crewcut or the dollhouse to stand firm against the baseball cards. we need a legitimate christmas angel one who doesn't have cuts beneath address or someone who was afraid and someone who will cry when i get mad and not argue. we need a little wind on -- one. we need a girl. she would fight and cry and play and make her way

don't have to love you to death or spend time talking, but that most empathetic man was george herbert walker bush. to show another planet basically. this is the kind of person years ago this is a letter that president bush wrote in the late

about when we had had ross perot on "larry king live," the famous weekend when president george herbert walker bush went to congress to vote on going to war. and robert called in to larry king live and, remember, he was yelling at ross perot. i thought my goodness, this guy has more power than i thought. and then i talked to him and two months later he announced he was running for president. >> what was with the suspenders of larry king? >> i can explain that to you too. you should know that too because you're a producer at the kennedy center. it's the appearance of sitting straight up and down. >> i got it. see, everyone -- >> i have to wear suspenders. okay. >> what are you writing or producing next? >> i have a movie coming out called the house of the clock in the walls which has nothing to do with the white house. but it is jack black and cate blanchett. >> really? >> september 21. please, all of you go see it six or seven times. it's good. >> don't tell me the ending. what is the plot? >> it is about a young boy in the 1950s who lives with his parents and he goes to live with his uncle. he's w

don't have to love you to death or spend time talking, but that most empathetic man was george herbert walker bush. to show another planet basically. this is the kind of person years ago this is a letter that president bush wrote in the late 50s after the list of the bushes daughter robin in leukemia of 1953. the last child to be born in 59 this is the voice of a son writing his mother at the loss of his own daughter. i share this with you it is unique in the literature of the presidency but i often think if i could be 5%% of the man who wrote this letter so this is the voice of george hw bush. there is about our house a need the running full cd restlessness of the boys we need some starch to go with our toward knees and blue jeans and helmets and soft blonde hair to offset the crewcut or the dollhouse to stand firm against the baseball cards. we need a legitimate christmas angel one who doesn't have cuts beneath address or someone who was afraid and someone who will cry when i get mad and not argue. we need a little wind on -- one. we need a girl. she would fight and cry and play and make her way

to the united states senate in 1985, ronald reagan was president, and vice president was george herbert walker bush, and great president for our country. but at that time, i walked on to the senate floor-- teddy kennedy escorted me into the senate. i'm there for my 50 moments -- >> stephen: you're the junior senator from massachusetts. >> i'm a very junior senator. i haven't even been sworn in yet. here it is, an incredible institution, and you work hard to get there. and i'm thinking about, wow, what are these guys talking about? i walk across the floor. ted walks me up to three or four senators in a cluster. and the first words i hear on the floor of the united states senate are, from the southern senator, "george bush couldn't sell (bleep) on a troop train." ( laughter ) i swear to god. and--... ( laughter ) i said to myself, i-- i -- >> stephen: god, i hope we have to bleep that. >> i said to myself, i said, "i know that doesn't come from federalist 85. it's not from the declaration of independence." it was stunning. >> stephen: still is! still is! gotta say! yeah. >> but there are great storie

neil gorsuch is not a george herbert walker bush republican. he's not even a george w. bush republican. he's a clarence thomas republican. he is way over there on the far right of the court as brett kavanaugh will be because that's where the republican party is today. that's where the federalist society who made the list of potential nominees is, so, you know, they -- susan collins may be deluding herself into believing, as she apparently is, that brett kavanaugh is not determined to overturn "roe v. wade." i don't know what book she's reading. why what she's listening to but just wamp in this guy gets confirmed. >> the key question of this chairman, this committee, chuck grassley has to decide within the next hour or two is whether or not there will be a vote tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. among the 21 members of the judiciary committee, 11 republicans and ten democrats to see if this confirmation moves on. >> well, so far he seems quite determined. i would argue to do it, and -- and he quoted senator biden from the anita hill hearings about the fbi investigation and the

not saying it's going to be dispositive but this is what george herbert walker bush did 27 years ago and let's -- i'll be quite blunt. president bush said to me, not too terribly long ago, i believe justice thomas and i don't believe that woman. but he wanted to know what the facts were. and he wanted the fbi to undertake that so the judiciary committee and the senate could make a decision that was at least informed by the best we can be. we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. >> say that again. >> both sides -- we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good. so, for either side to say that somehow or another a line of inquiry or a different approach will lead us to 100% truth is probably not the case. but we have to do what we can do. and we have a system where you can investigate. you can talk to witnesses. it's as much a part of the rule of law going back to magna carte as due process. people are always for due process when it's on their side and can't be for due process in a limited way. due process in this case requires finding out everything you can find out abo

>> george herbert walker bush had. he got more liberal as he -- later in his tenure.e justices now. they are all as advertised. remember this process. donald trump didn't pick these justices. the federalist society picked these justices. neal gorsuch is with clarence thomas, beyond chief justice roberts in the most conservative members of the court. i have every reason to believe. donald trump won the election and we should know what we are getting. >> here won and he gets to appoint the people he wants to appoint. >> thank goodness democrats woke up and many democrats were happy to see them with more pep in their step at the hearing. i disagree with you. i think seeing them active and seeing protesters is going to get a lot of people out and excited about the elections in november. >> on our side, absolutely. >> we will see in november. we can place a wager on it. elections have consequences and that's a point they are making. look, they know every democrat who spoke today knows they don't have the votes. they still want to have a legitimate concern based on the docu

i started covering in 1986 with ronald reagan during his second term and i covered george herbert walker bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and today, donald trump. i am sure will get to this but today is more of an adventure than ever. >> ron. i covered the white house for nbc news and then i changed sides and became a press secretary. >> i am richard benedetto. i covered the white house starting with ronald reagan and george h to be bush, bill clinton, and george w. bush. >> i am susan. my campaign was in 1980, my first campaign. i covered president carter's final campaign trip and i covered the white house national politics. >> i served president clinton for two years at the state department in 92, 94 and went to the white house in 95 and spent four years which is comparatively a long time for a press secretary to be there but i had an extra bonus my last year because of an intern. >> i remember those days well. as much as i try to forget them. i was privileged to interview many presence. mike, let me start with you. as we have noted, there is an often adversarial relationsh

and it was followed up immediately by the white house counsel, and then boyden gray to george herbert walker bush, and immediately the fbi did it and did it in a couple of days. joe biden was speaking exclusively as we have been saying with craig melvin earlier on "today." >> anita hill was vilified when she came forward by a lot of my colleagues and characters a s assassination, and i wish i could have done more to prevent those questions in the way they asked them. i hope my colleagues learned from that >> and how would you advice the senators to proceed next week and how do you balance the rights of a woman who is maching accusations like this versus the presumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty? >> well, the presumption should exist, but what should happen is that the woman should be given n the benefit of the doubt and not be, you know, abused again, by the system. my biggest regret was that i didn't know how to shut you off if you were a senator and attacking anita hill's character. under the senate rules i can't gavel you down and say, that you can't ask that question, alth

comes in subsequent to them closing the background check, there's plenty of precedent, george herbert walker bush reopened the investigation. jordan gray was the white house counsel. they reopened the investigation into clarence thomas and it took perhaps ten days and it was done. >> but there's an important distinction here, which is that they opened the fbi investigation before this was made public. and we're now in a situation where there's no possible way to have a fair process here for judge kavanagh. the democrats have charged him as guilty before they have any evidence. and meanwhile, with respect to the piece in the new yorker today, that was completely irresponsible journalism. the "new york times," to their credit, could not find one person to corroborate that story. not one. and the people that they called who the accuser suggested then told the "new york times" in some cases that she herself, ms. ramirez wasn't entirely sure that it was judge kavanagh who expose himself or didn't know facts around the party. so it looks to me like inkr increasingi increasingly like the quote, unquote

and i covered then reagan, george herbert walker bush, bill clinton and george w. bush and barack obama, and today donald trump. and i'm sure we will get to this, but today is more of an adventure than ever. >> ron. >> i'm ron nessen and i covered the white house for nbc news and then i changed sides and became president ford's press secretary. >> richard. >> i'm richard benedetto, i covered the white house starting with ronald reagan through george h.w. bush, bill clinton and george w. bush. >> susan. >> so i'm susan page, my first campaign was in 1980. i covered president carter's final campaign trip and then i covered the white house and national politics since then. >> well, i have served president clinton, as martha said, for two years at the state department, in '93 and '94, and then went to the white house in 1995 and spent four years, which is comparatively a long time for a press secretary to be there. but i had an extra bonus year, my last year, because of a certain intern at the white house. >> i remember those days well. as much as i may try to forget t

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who did he think he was, george herbert walker bush?ng surprising here. >> first of all, we don't know necessarily that this wasn't someone already working in government. i mean, it could have been someone -- >> no, it was a political -- based on the article it was clearly a political -- >> they're trying to have their cake and eat it too. they're saying as you say gloria they're protecting democracy but at the same time they want in this op ed to list all of the good things the president has done except that if the good things are a tax cut and regulations being stripped away, jeb bush could have done that. marco rubio could have done that. >> i want to know where the republicans are. you read something like this and you just interviewed lindsey gra graham about this. where are the republicans responding to the criticisms in this saying, for example, we have -- what's our foreign policy? we have a two track foreign policy. you have what the president wants to do on russia and you have what the rest of us want to do on russia. shouldn't

don't have to love you to death or spend time talking, but that most empathetic man was george herbert walker bush to show another planet basically. this is the kind of person years ago this is a letter that president bush wrote in the late 50s after the list of the bushes daughter robin in leukemia of 1953. the last child to be born in 59 this is the voice of a son writing his mother at the loss of his own daughter. i share this with you it is unique in the literature of the presidency but i often think if i could be 5%% of the man who wrote this letter so this is the voice of george hw bush. there is about our house a need the running full cd restlessness of the boys we need some starch to go with our toward knees and blue jeans and helmets and soft blonde hair to offset the crewcut or the dollhouse to stand firm against the baseball cards. we need a legitimate christmas angel one who doesn't have cuts beneath address or someone who was afraid and someone who will cry when i get mad and not argue. we need a little wind on -- one. we need a girl. she would fight and cry and play and make her way

other and i think most empathetic man ever held the presidency of the united states is george herbert walker bush and i want to you quickly thanks from another planet, basically. this is the kind of person who was elected to the presidency 30 years ago this year. this is a letter that president bush wrote to his mother in the late 1950s after the loss of the bushes daughter robin to leukemia in 1953. they had the four boys, their last child had not yet been born, she would be born in 59 and this is the voice of a son writing his mother about the loss of his own daughter and i share it with you not least because it is unique in the literature of the presidency, but i often think that if i could be five ou percent of the man who wrote this letter, i'd be ahead of the game . this is the voice of georgehw bush . there is about our house on the, a running, pulsating restlessness of the boys need to counterpart. we need some start stock to go with all our torn blue jeans and helmets. we need soft blonde hair to offset those crew cuts . we need a dollhouse to stand firm against our courts and rackets an