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george herbert walker bush had been vice president for five years, george w. bush had been governor for eight years. obama grew up in politics, served in state legislature, understood the game. trump is a business guy, has opinions but he runs a small shop with lots of people around the world but the core of trump enterprises is very surprising and so he really doesn't have the kind of depth of background how you run big systems. he is getting better and better at it but the first couple years are chaotic and didn't understand the legislature and his instinct, he was told by the republican leaders in congress they could repeal obamacare, and what he should have done is started with a tax-cut. i would have argued the tax bill first, then new infrastructure, but they tag him down this fantasy line and he learned from that but his instincts were better than theirs. that is the other thing to remember which is by people like john bolton go nuts and other people who are never trumpers. trump is a genuinely disruptive figure, came from the outside, determined to cha

next, george herbert walker bush except his nomination at the republican national convention in new orleans. he served as ronald reagan's vice president for the previous eight years and beat michael dukakis in the general election. ♪ [cheering and appaluse] >> thank you very much. much.you so thank you, thank you. [cheering and appaluse] thank you so very much. thank you very, very much. [cheering and appaluse] you, all. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you very, very much. thank you. [cheering and appaluse] thank you all very much. thank you so much. thank you. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. much.you very, very [cheering and appaluse] thank you. thank you all very, very much. thank you. thank you. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you very, very much. friends to thank tonight. i thank the voters who supported me. i think the gallant men who entered the contest for the presidency this year and who have honored me with their support, and for their kind and stirring words, i think governor tom kane of new jersey. [cheering and appaluse] gramm of texas. [cheering and appaluse] pre

george herbert walker bush had then vice president for eight years. george w. bush had been governor for eight years. obama grew up in politics and served in the state legislature understand -- understood the game. trump was a business guy. he has opinions but he doesn't have alosi's. he runs a very small shop and has lots of people out around the world that the actual core of trump enterprises is very small. so he really doesn't have the kind of depth and background to learn how you run big systems. i think he's getting better and better at it that the first couple of years were chaotic and he didn't understand the legislature and frankly his instinct was right and theirs was wrong. republicans leaders in congress he believes they should repeal obamacare. what he should have done is -- in fact i would have argued to infrastructure and then you can consider obamacare. i think he learned from that that his instincts were better than theirs and that's the other thing to remember. which is why people like john bolton and other people who are never trumper's, trump

eisenhower picked nixon, that set up a generation of politicsment when ronald reagan picked george herbert walker bushitics. george w. bush, he'll tell you this, would not have been president if his father didn't have the jurn nye he did. al gore wins the popular vote after serving as vice president, and biden who is now in this position to be a stabilizing force at a particularly destabilizing moment. it is quite possible that nixon, bush, gore, biden, quite possible that we will be discussing senator harris in that sense, in that context for years to come because she does represent, not necessarily a new america. i always resist that because america has always been diverse, but it's the first time in a long time we have fully recognized that diversity. >> of course, kamala harris has been in the senate since 2016, only the second black female senator. with harris vp pick black women say biden has decided to write us into history. he writes democrats need their most loyal voters and activists to win this election. this time that meant putting black women on the ticket. we heard you talk about this ma

in your time as attorney general , for george herbert walker bush, you never changed the sentencing recommendation for a friend of george herbert walker bush. did you? a.g. barr: no. as i recall -- rep. johnson: over the course of your time with trump, your tenure with trump, you have changed two sentencing recommendations, not one but two. correct? a.g. barr: which where they? rep. johnson: michael flynn. a.g. barr: i didn't change it. rep. johnson: you indicated that , you changed it because the original flynn sentencing recommendation was for flynn to serve 0-6 months, but under your authority, the justice department supplemented that recommendation with a pleading that stated the department of justice's agreement with flynn's lawyers that probation would be a reasonable sentence, and the doj would not seeking prison time for michael flynn. is that correct? a.g. barr: i don't think that is what it said. rep. johnson: that is what it said. go back and read it. reclaiming my time. prior to you -- >> time has expired. >> you can give a speech or you can ask questions. if you do the latter, you nee

i cast my first vote as a freshman in college in the tennessee republican primary for george herbert walker bushn 1988. and so it's just -- this is not some sort of radical left historian media figure representing the deep state. what it is, is a citizen who was very fortunate to have benefitted as much as i have from this country and my background, and i'm aware that i'm a product of privilege, you know? if you look like me, the country has tended to work out for you. the point of america should be that everybody should have a fair shot, what lincoln called an open field and a fair chance for it to work out for everybody. and joe biden represents our best hope for restoring that possibility. and i want to say quickly, because you and i have now done this longer than either of us probably want to think about, when you talk about restoration, this is not about going back to something. this is about looking back, trying to see where we have come through crises before, and what can we learn about that as we address the crises of our own time. and i believe, as john lewis said, if you see something,

one was george herbert walker bush of greenwich, connecticut. and the other was john robert lewis of troy, alabama. and that was a president who understood that he was, in fact, in charge of the affairs and had the fates of the entire country in his hands, not simply his base of supporters. and i think if you look at the last two weeks, the choice is very clear. i think that last week we saw, however imperfect you may think the policy is, however imperfect you may think that direction might be, you saw a patriotic vision of the country presented last week. this week you saw a propagandistic one. last week you saw a generous one. this week you saw a greedy one. and it's not just style. this is substance too. and you and i have talked about this before. but there was a conversation in this country that went on for about 80 years, starting in 1933, which was the last time we faced a crisis of this depth and scope with the great depression, the pandemic now, where franklin roosevelt started a conversation where he was at about the 20 yard line on th

the most famous example is george herbert walker bush calling ronald reagan's economics plan voodoo economics and then feeling pretty sheepish when then reagan picked him as the next vice president. >> but i call a voodoo economic policy. >> voodoo economics, how candidate george bush described candidate ronald reagan's policy during the 1980 presidential primaries. mr. reagan is now vice president bush's boss and the phrase is something of an embarrassment. bush said this week he never said it but the record rather vividly proves otherwise. >> that is politics for you and we'll watch biden and harris today and tweeting about it no doubt. you can find us all on twitter. >> all right. thank you, scott. >>> students and teachers in south bay's largest school district returned to class today but not to the classroom. not even the teachers. it is an interesting twist that happened overnight. is live at san jose high school with why teachers will be allowed to teach from home instead of headed to the classroom. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning to you, kris. san jose unified told "the m

the way back to 1988 which is when i was a reporter and i covered the campaign against george herbert walker bushbush i and michael dukakis. michael dukakis came out of thinks convention 17 points ahead of bush and bush wound up by beating him by eight points in a landslide and it was all about negative campaigning and running the kind of campaign that was redefining what the democrats were about. so this is something they will have to grapple with. >> the president tried to do that in his summation of what he saw for the last monday through friday of this week. here's what the president said about the convention. >> over the last week the democrats held the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention in american history. they spent four straight days attacking america as racist and a horrible country that must be redeemed. >> how does this get him what he needs, which is to expand beyond the base that's going to vote for him, as he says, if he shoots someone on fifth avenue how does this, this characterization of the party and the convention grow that support for the president? >> you know, he

george herbert walker bush had done vice president for eight years. george w. bush had been governor for eight years. obama grew up in politics and serve the state legislature and understood the game. trump is a business guy. he has opinions but he doesn't have policies. he runs a very small shop and there are people out around the world but the core of trump enterprises is very small. and so he really doesn't have the kind of depth and background and i think he's getting better and better at it for the worse couple of years it was pretty chaotic and he didn't understand the legislature and frankly his instinct he was told by republican leaders in congress that they could repeal obamacare and that's the first thing they should do and of course they lost by one vote when mccain voted no. what they should have done the start of with the tax bill. i would have argued to the tax bill 1 amended infrastructure and then you can consider that but they have wanted to tag down the fantasy line. i think he learned from that that his instincts were better than theirs. and

president bush, george herbert walker bush's restraint in office which i write about because i found it fascinating he showed such skill in office and his campaign that was considered one of the most restriction free campaigns, his restraint i thought was notable for him so i think of it more as they had a bundle of these but certainly nobody has all of them. >> the thing about hiring presidents which is what we do to the campaign, what are you hiring them to do? you make the point, what they are going to have to do. when you talk about recommendations, hire more black swans. what does that mean? >> that comes from a conversation with condoleezza rice. when i was talking to her i started almost every interview by saying, if a campaign is a job interview what would you want to know from any of these candidates, doctor rice said i want to know what they thought the black swan event would be a presidency and how they would solve it, and fixating on cyberwarfare and cyberattacks, this was finished before covid-19 was on the radar screen, and we thought that we would face a cyber attack.

george herbert walker bush. s and applause] my fellow americans, my fellow isricans, this campaign about philosophy and it is about , character, and george bush wins hands down on both counts, -- counts. [cheers and applause] and it is time all of us came home and stood beside him. as his running mate mr. clinton , chose albert gore. [booing] but just how moderate is prince albert? [laughter] well, according to the national taxpayers union, al gore beat out teddy kennedy, two straight years, for the title of biggest spender in the u.s. senate, and teddy kennedy isn't moderate about anything. i am not kidding. i am not kidding about teddy. do many other 60-year-old's you know still go to florida for spring break? [cheers and applause] at that great, big costume party they held in new york, henceforth, albert gore said the "central organizing principle" of governments everywhere must be the environment. wrong, albert! [cheers and applause] the central organizing principle of this republic is freedom. and from the a

and would end up with george herbert walker bush in dallas during the kennedy assassination. >> right just this sort of odd conspiracy theories. what rendered as if it were factual, right? so that -- just watching it right now, i was thinking this is like getting, you know, a power point deck from area -- was it area 54? >> 51. >> 51, i think, yeah. >> 51, sorry, see, there you go. car 52. sorry. but i think, to me, and i hope that the power of satire with what trevor noah is doing, it's hard to satirize what someone is doing who satirizes all the time in the case of president trump. i hope, with the attack on vice president biden about his coherence is going to get worse, a lot worse, because it's about all they've got. it's been very interesting to sort of keep an eye on the social media stuff about what trump -- trumpastan has to argue. none of the arguments this is fascinating on the presidential campaign, none of the arguments on substance had any salientnes. you can think of one? the argument that he's going to drive us into that future, nobody believes that. joe, you and i have

ronald reagan and george herbert walker bush had a lot of 'em anity between the two of them, but they became very close friends and came to admire each other very much during their working partnership. joe biden is 77 years old, he'll be the oldest president ever inaugurated should he win the election. and so, to some degree, this is an anointment of kamala harris. is that she is the person not named joe biden most likely to be the next democratic president after joe biden. and so that is significant. we have seen the generational turn, at long last, that joe biden will be the last baby boomer on a national ticket inside the democratic party. it's unusual that he would have been in the first place, but because of the circumstance and the national crisis of donald trump, joe biden is the -- is the presidential candidate, but it's a very significant pick. and it also is historic in that it is the first democrat who has ever been nominated west of the rocky mountains, to be on a national ticket. and so, this shows the strength of california as a democrat iic bastion. california was the p

as you mentioned, the fact that george herbert walker bush referredded to ronald reagan's economic plan as voodoo economics. this is not about number two on the ticket. it is about number one, the policies that joe biden will bring forward to the american people. i think kamala harris was a great choice. i call it lenya louisiana term, a little something extra. he needed a little spark. not about salt and pepper when you season a ticket like this, joe biden is proven leader, seasoned politician, to ad someone with her expertise, ability to connect with voters, her ability to talk about these issues, to be a good messenger and to amplify that joe biden plans for the country, that is what is essential and that is why i'm exciting about this selection. neil: how much does this choice, really force one on joe biden? there was this letter from 100 african-american businesses and other leaders who said you need to pick an african-american woman or you're going to lose. it almost sounded like a threat but what did you think of that? >> well as you know joe biden made this decision to put a wom

experience twice where i've been lucky enough to have a subject read something, both with george herbert walker bushs scared as i've ever been. i was more scared of what john lewis would think than even barbara bush would think about writing about her husband. and that's a level of fear that everyone here understands the depths. i've still got scars from parts of the bush book from mrs. bush's knitting needles. but john's reaction was predictably generous. i mean, incredibly kind. i don't mean to be sent mental about it. this isn't sentimental because it's genuine. kind words from him kind of subviews your soul with a kind of warmth, right? because he had done it. and, look, what i've done here is diminimous compared to what young man who -- with the stutter did the other night at the democratic convention, or what the black lives matter activists are doing or what genuinely courageous people are doing to try to make the arc of a moral universe not just bend, but swerve. and the other thing to remember about congressman lewis is he was so young, right? he came to nashville when he was 17. he went to

i'm reminded i guess george herbert walker bush he talked about the thousand points of live. his son talked about compassion of conservatism where conservative is compassion. normal sane behavior that the president of the united states of america should not necessarily be the news each and every day. i remember, i mean there were certainly a few controversies in president obama's administration but one of them that really put people out is that he wore a tan suit to a press conference one day. you know, i'll take that. i can deal with that. but not some of the insanity that goes on, as david mentioned. it's every day. americans are tired of donald trump and the nonsense and the fear that goes on on a daily basis. >> woodruff: it's a lot to consider as we start a night three of this convention. i'm going to be coming back to all of you to continue this conversation as we prepare to watch the starof tonight's democratic party story. but for now, when joe biden selected california senator kamala harris to be his running mate many viewed his historic pick as to the future of the

but the last convention speech that mattered was 1988, george herbert walker bush went into new orleans in public life for a long time but a lot of people didn't have a sense of him, he was forced into using the first person pronoun, which he hated and talked about i am that man. for years he was upset that he had actually done that. even though it was very effective. i remember late in life he said he didn't like i am that man stuff. 1992, there was that very successful reintroduction of bill and hillary clinton at madison square garden and that was important. but by and large, all these are wonderful stories but they're analog stories. we're in a country where a pandemic is killing us, wrecking our economy and we have a president devoted, apparently, to defying and denying facts. he thinks if you don't test you don't have cases of a virus. he thinks if you don't count the votes he won't lose. and so it's just a different time. i'd argue the closest thing we have would be "32 and '68. and maybe that seems hyper bobo but i don't think it is. it's a fundamental turning point election, ri