[applause] george w. bush: mr. chairman, delegates, and my fellow citizens. i proudly accept your nomination. [applause] george w. bush: thank you for this honor. together, we will renew america's purpose. [applause] george w. bush our founders : first defined that purpose here in philadelphia. ben franklin was here. thomas jefferson. and, of course, george washington -- or, as his friends called him, "george w." [laughter] [applause] george w. bush: i am proud to by my side.eney [applause] george w. bush: he is a man of integrity and sound judgment, who has proven that public service can be noble service. america will be proud to have a leader of such character to succeed al gore as vice president of the united states. [applause] bush: i'm grateful for senator john mccain. i appreciate very much i his speech tonight's ago, i appreciate his friendship, i appreciate the spirit for america. and i want to thank the other candidates who sought this nomination. their convictions have strengthened our party. [applau

now back in 2006, it was george w. busho does bush bear the blame? richard clarke made a point earlier on in which he tells us what he thinks. >> if it were not for the american invasion of iraq and the subsequent disbanding of the iraqi army by the united states, there would be no isis. isis is a direct outgrowth of the american invasion. >> clark's former colleague douglas feith sticks to his guns. >> if today you knew what we know about what happened in iraq, would you going back have invaded iraq? what's your answer? >> i think that the only meaningful way to approach that is to ask whether president bush, knowing what he knew at the time, made the right decision, and i think he did. >> tony blair, when he was prime minister of the united kingdom, was bush's most public partner on the iraq war. >> of course you can't say that those of us who removed saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015. >> but blair still wonders what was the alternative. >> we have tried intervention and putting down troops i

there's george w. bush raising money for him. that for kelly ayotte, rob portman, rob blount. all of these embattled senators facing tough races. n all of them turning to george w. bush to raise money for them. where does that number 47 come in? this is the most recent polling on the popularity of the former president. a 47% favorable rating. a 47% unfavorable. you look at those numbers and say that's not too spectacular. why would they be enlisting him. compare that number, 47% favorable for the former republican president george w. bush. compare that to the current favorable score for the presumptive republican nominee. that's the wrong screen. this is what his used to be. 26 when he left office. compare that 47% to donald trump. 29%. donald trump right now in his favorable/unfavorable score is where george w. bush was when george w. bush left the presidency. remember how unpopular he was. sidelined from the 2008 campaign between mccain and barack obama. that's where donald trump is right now. suddenly george w. bush with that 4

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george w. bush was the governor of texas.it easier to find common ground with other politicians? tony: it's a big change going on with the center right in the center left. you've got quite a lot in common. probably more in common in a strange way than the center left has with the far left in the center right has with the far right. that's the way the world is today. it's one of the curiosities. you've ended up in a situation where there are those of us who are trying to find solutions that are based on values. but are what i would call non-ideological and practical solutions and sometimes you can find common ground. john: you would see donald as part of the same phenomenon? people like yourself and david cameron and barack obama are in a different place? tony: we come from different traditions. we will remain in different traditions. i have been a member of the labour party for about 40 years. for all of that time, i've been in the same labour party as jeremy corbyn. it would not be a shock to people to say my type of politic

and we begin our lightning round with the news that former president george w. bush will campaign for republican senators who face tough re-elections. so, mercedes, what does it say? here is george bush 43 who stayed out of politics almost entirely over the last eight years but now says he is going to get in to help these senators. let's put them on the screen. mccain and ayotte and blunt and portman and ron johnson of wisconsin while keeping his distance from donald trump. >> well, i think george w. bush is filling a role. is he filling the role that trump should be doing right now in the sense that the republican establishment, they feel comfortable with george w. bush. the donors feel comfortable with george w. bush. he will be raising money for these candidates that are in very -- in the swing states where we know that they are keeping their arms' distance from donald trump right now. i think for george w. bush, i think it's a smart move for him to come out and support these candidates that we know are going to have a tough race. >> a.b.? >> yeah, it's interestin

and we begin our lightning round with the news that former president george w. bush republican senators who face tough re-elections. so, mercedes, what does it say? here is george bush 43 who stayed out of politics almost entirely over the last eight years but now says he is going to get in to help these senators. let's put them on the screen. mccain and ayotte and blunt and portman and ron johnson of wisconsin while keeping his distance from donald trump. >> well, i think george w. bush is filling a role. is he filling the role that trump should be doing right now in the sense that the republican establishment, they feel comfortable with george w. bush. the donors feel comfortable with george w. bush. he will be raising money for these candidates that are in very -- in the swing states where we know that they are keeping their arms' distance from donald trump right now. i think for george w. bush, i think it's a smart move for him to come out and support these candidates that we know are going to have a tough race. >> a.b.? >> yeah, it's interesting. mcconnell told

george w. bush accepts his party's presidential nomination at the 2000 republican national convention in philadelphia. in his speech, the texas governor vows if elected president to "renew america's purpose." george w. bush went on to win the general election over democrat and vice president al gore in one of the most highly contested in u.s. history. this is just under an hour. [applause] [applause] governor bush: mr. chairman -- [applause] mr. chairman -- [applause] governor bush: thank you, all. [applause] governor bush: mr. chairman, mr. chairman, delegates, and my fellow citizens. i proudly accept your nomination. [cheers] [applause] governor bush: thank you for this honor. thank you for this honor. together, we will renew america's purpose. [cheers] governor bush: our founders first defined that purpose here in philadelphia. ben franklin was here. thomas jefferson. and, of course, george washington -- or, as his friends called him, "george w." [laughter] [applause] governor bush: i am proud to

even if john mccain and george w. bush had liked each other, which they didn't particularly, honestly, nobody wanted an endorsement from president george w. bush in 2008. but political realities being what they are, you've got to do it. they arranged for john mccain once he got the nomination wrapped up, they arranged for him to come to the white house, they put% on the north portico to wait for him. do you remember that? john mccain did not appear. president bush sort of did a little dance at one point. then he did a different little dance. kind of a softshoe tap dance thing. then he did that thing where you lean into the wind and you pretend like the wind is holding you up. he was out there for a long time, it was very awkward. eventually they finally did get john mccain out there. president bush endorsed him. he said at one point, if he wants my pretty face standing by his side at one of these rallies, i'll be glad to show up. turns out john mccain did not want that, after that initial very awkward presidential endorse

he insisted a copy from the briefer, like gerald ford had done george w. bush did it for four years. and then when they were done talking about the pdb, the briefer took the pdb and left and bush told the other recipients of the pdb, your going to do the same thing, you can read the book if you want, you don't have to have the briefer brief you but you're going to read it in the presence of the briefer and the briefer is going to take it away from you when you're done and allowing the most sensitive information to get inside of it. the book changed a little bit under president clint open. president clinton had flow relationship with the pdb. he started getting briefings but the personality was different. he would like to have long meetings and discussions would go on forever. so over time, briefers would wait and wait, the meeting would never happen or would shet shortened, sometimes they ended up dropping it off for them but he still read it and took it seriously. he told me it was something he use today help him make decisions every day. there was something i

reminds me when a lot of scumbags said that george w. bush had something to do with 9/11. but to have those on the internet, to have the standard bearer, ball r-- paul ryan's candidate, mitch mcconnell's candidate saying that barack obama may have been complicit in the killings of americans is beyond breathtaking.

george w. bush. what does it say that you've got people running for reelection to the senate saying they want george w. bush as opposed to the republican nominee to come in and campaign for that, for them, and raise money for them. what does that say? >> it was not long ago when george w. bush -- >> most unpopular man to leave the white house. >> did not want to be seen with him, campaign with him, talk about him. the fact people would rather campaign with george w. bush who was once toxic versus their nominee is problematic with donald trump. i'd say with respect to trump, when you look -- this is a guy who has spent his whole life being coddled. someone whose constantly been told yes, he surrounds himself with yes people so the notion he would ever take advice from the republican party and fall in line what they wanted when he su surrounded himself with yes people, that was never going to happen. >> talking about how he's been all his life, i mean, even his language when you talk about how he's turn

after 9/11 george w. bushd indeed make a lot of positive insinuations toward the muslim world and say we're not at war with islam. at the same time he's also the president that had this sort of cowboy foreign policy and that, by the way, did stoke a lot of anger toward the united states with policies like torture, policies like gitmo. we saw all of those pictures that came out of those prisons that we took over that once belonged to saddam hussein where then you had americans treating people in the muslim faith -- so you had this duel track of what the george w. bush presidency was. how ironic that he's coming in to save the party from donald trump who's taken it to the extreme? >> i'm not sure how much he's going to save the party. the fact that he's going to do fund-raising is different for him. the idea that he's going to try to unify. there's no indication that he sees himself as any savior. why should he? why should he risk his reputation? so many republicans have tried to put a stop to the trump phenomen

in either case, george w. bush thinks it's critical that you have that balance from a republican-led senate. >> 90% unfavorables. i guess it could be worse. peter alexander, thanks. thanks so much, good to see you. >>> bernie sanders is not going anywhere. he spoke to supporters last night from vermont via live video, even after coming up short in the democratic primary. the senator did not suspend his campaign. instead he says he's ready to take down the republicans in november. >> the major political task that together we face in the next five months is to make certain that donald trump is defeated and defeated badly. and i personally intend to begin my role in that process in a very short period of time. >> msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt is following the democrats. good morning to you. what exactly is going on? >> well, bernie sanders himself and those very closest to him are really the only ones at this point who do. you've seen an evolution over the past couple of weeks. a lot of the people, the main

george w. bush was the governor of texas. easier to find common ground with other politicians? tony: it's a big change going on with the center right in the center left. you've got quite a lot in common. probably more in common in a strange way than the center left has with the far left in the center right has with the far right. that's the way the world is today. it's one of the curiosities. you've ended up in a situation where there are those of us who are trying to find solutions that are based on values. -- that are not based on values but are based on impractical solutions and sometimes you can find center ground with the common rights. john: you would see donald as part of the same phenomenon? people like yourself and david are in a different place? tony: we come from different traditions. we will remain in different traditions. i have been a member of the years.party for about 40 for all of that time, i've been in the same labour party as jeremy corbyn. it would not be a shock to people to say my type of politics is di

george w. bush was the governor of texas.to find common ground with other politicians? tony: it's a big change going on with the center right in the center left. you've got quite a lot in common. probably more in common in a strange way than the center left has with the far left in the center right has with the far right. that's the way the world is today. it's one of the curiosities. you've ended up in a situation where there are those of us who are trying to find solutions that are based on values. but are what i would call non- ideological and practical solutions and sometimes you can find common ground. john: you would see donald as part of the same phenomenon? people like yourself and david cameron and barack obama are in a different place? tony: we come from different traditions. we will remain in different traditions. i have been a member of the labour party for about 40 years. for all of that time, i've been in the same labour party as jeremy corbyn. it would not be a shock to people to say my type of politics is diff

>> george w. bushg out of retirement to raise money for republican senators worried trump will cost them their seats. >> it's george w. bush to the rescue. can he clean up trump's mess? >> seth: that's right. they're calling in george w. bush to clean up trump's mess. [ laughter ] that's like calling in justin bieber to cover a pitbull song. [ laughter ] and if the george w. bush rescue strategy somehow doesn't work out, republicans have a backup plan. some are quietly floating the idea of trying to lure trump out of the race altogether. as one former trump adviser told politico last week, quote, i bet if someone offered him $150 million to drop out, he would and another former trump adviser asked whether trump would drop out for that amount of money said, quote, yeah, probably. [ laughter ] i'm guessing yeah, probably is the go-to answer for many former trump advisers. would he nuke north korea if kim jong un made fun of his tiny hands? yeah, probably. [ laughter ] although, as a side note, i would li

following that was george w. bush. george w. bush did with his father had done, take take a briefing every day with an intelligence but he took up two notches. one, he decided from the beginning he was going to have a briefer not only brief him in washington but wherever he was in the world. he had his cia briefer travel with him on domestic and foreign trips. number two he decided to supplement the process. he added deep docs. he brought in analyst, the world-class experts from the cia and other intelligent agencies agencies as well to talk with him in depth about the crises of the day. in the first 18 months after they did this he had over 200 analyst come in to talk with him , in some cases up to an hour, in depth depth about one particular country or one particular issue. : that brings us to our current president, barack obama. it has been personalized for every president. that was made obvious when he was reading his daily brief on an ipad. the presents daily brief is now electronic on-screen and not on paper. it's now prese

. >> george w. bush gets west virginia. >> narrator: west virginia. >> west virginia, which has been solidly in the democratic column for a long, long time. >> bill clinton's home state has gone bush. >> narrator: and arkansas. >> six electoral votes and they go for bush. >> narrator: and even al gore's home state of tennessee. >> tonight, embarrassing vice president gore by snatching his state's 11 electoral votes. >> al gore lost his home state, lost west virginia. these are states that he should have won. >> had any of those states gone the other way, al gore would have been president. >> florida goes bush, the presidency is bush, that's it. >> narrator: in washington, they say the nra was a decisive factor in al gore's defeat. >> in no small measure, it was that fight over guns after columbine that had the firearm community more enlivened, engaged, and a few votes difference in florida, and the whole thing would have gone the other way. >> i, george walker bush, do solemnly swear that i will faithful

former president george w. bush stepping in to help several candidates who could be hurt by having donald trump at the top of the ticket. alex hunt was communications director for senator marco rubio's presidential campaign, currently a political consultant and partner at firehouse strategies. we have rubio news to talk about as well, but first start with president george bush. he stayed out of things for the better part of eight years now. he must be pretty concerned if he's stepping in. >> all i can say from the republicans is god bless george w. bush. donald trump is leading us into a very dangerous direction as far as electoral defeat. >> he's the party nominee. >> he's the presumptive nominee. we still have another month to go. if we continue on it current trajectory i fully expect the delegates in cleveland may actually have some second thoughts before nominating him. it is so helpful that people like president george w. bush come in and help some of our great senate candidates who are doing really good work o

so well done and such a class act. >> even an adorable cud can't get george w. bush hated it so much he banned it from air force one. posting a letter from a boy named cooper trying to persuade him to eat the vegetable, tweeting, quote, proud of young cooper. thank you for being part of "the real story." here's shep. >> it's 8:00 p.m. in london. 3:00 in new york. where on wall street in the final hour of trading we're seeing another down day for the dow after the brits decided to leave the european union. but today there are indications brexit may not be a done deal. you'll see what could stop it from ever happening. >>> the trump campaign looking to capitalize on the brexit movement but new polls show him losing ground to hillary clinton as democrats today breaks out her not so secret weapon, senator elizabeth warren. major moves at the supreme court. including the biggest abortion ruling, maybe, since row v. wade. a major vic for those in favor of abortion rights but

we will show you the video of a÷ [booing] former president george w. bushpublicans senators who may have a little trouble trying to keep their seats. john mccain, were blunt, rob portman ron johnson among senators who are facing difficult contest and senators might consider, it's interesting attaching themselves to well the bush wing of the republican party instead of the new force in the party. may have an impact on their election. i know they made the calculation they lose their jobs you won't be hearing them blame donald trump i am sure you do not so sure actually. turning the executive editor for "the weekly standard" fred barnes. it's great to have you with us. let's turn to george w. bush who i think has great class and to stay away from politics. that's understandable, and here he comes. >> will he can raise money. presidents and former presidents can raise money and he will raise money for all these candidates. lou: that's all there is to it you think? running through the blood of the bushes wanting to get that get donald trump? >> this isn't a part

. >> host: ronald reagan, george w. bush, what were there at first when it came to autism?ayes ronald reagan played an interesting role as governor of california. reagan as governor of california signed an act which was a landmark state law providing services to people of developmental disabilities including autism. the letterman act establishes a set of regional centers, which organized and help families of people with developmental disabilities access services. so that was a very important step. president george h.w. bush played a very important role in fanning the americans with disabilities act in 1990. this is a landmark statute, probably the most significant of a right of since the civil rights of the mid-1960s, giving people with autism and other disabilities access to a wide variety of opportunities throughout the society. bill clinton signed legislation, updating various disability laws and president george w. bush signed the combating autism act of 2006. >> host: this in any way an issue supporting research on autism. i don't want to used combating autism. >> gues

cabinet that is titled gifts from the american people and these were items that president bush, george w. bush and perhaps laura bush decided to put in that cabinet and it did strike me also as a hard thing to say, mia bracelets and barney's dog bowl. that's for him to answer. i also want to say that president george w. bush at a time when fear was rampant, right after 9/11, what did he say about muslim americans? he went to a mosque but also said, anywhere not the enemy. it's who we are. so, to be fair and to be accountable, when we look in the mirror this is not an antibush book. he put that in his cabinet for his own reasons. while at the same time as president, after 9/11, to his credit, he did not do the easy thing, which is to instigate fear. so i hope that answers the question. but the photos were very hard to -- you put your finger on one that we talked a long time about because photos show focus. photos show what stories you're highlighting. did not want as many potato factory photos in that my editor wanted. he probably was right to say, the ugly, horrific side of war needs to be in

but george w. bush being the cross hearty appeal to independent voters and maybe some democrats is interesting. mark: in some ways, this could help trump, but when he speaks at these events, the symbolism it creates is, here is two republican parties, the bush establishment and the trump. and these candidates clearly are going to be more drawn to bush than to trump. although trump says he is fine with it, this is the kind of thing that shows more division. bush is, along with mitt romney one of the most prominent people , saying they will not show up at the convention in cleveland, and i do not think that is good for the party. but it does get one of their biggest fundraisers back in the field, and it allows -- takes some pressure off of trump to try to raise money off of these senate candidates. all, given the political situation going on, they are all desperate to raise as much as they can. bush has been off the field for so long he still has a pretty strong network in all of these states where he has

the last time the republicans won the white house, 2004, george w. bushtting red, red, red, red, red. can't win the white house without these states. can donald trump with without them? yes. is it likely he'll win without two or three of them? no. >> and what does it mean about expanding the vote to white men who have doubts about hillary clinton? >> it's possible and so is winning the powerball. here is the white vote, george w. bush, 58%. republicans win the white vote. john mccain, plus 12. mitt romney, 55%. he knew republicans had a latino problem. he won the white vote by 20 points. and look where donald trump is right now. you notice these are exit polls. this is the net net wall street journal poll. that moment, donald trump is underperforming the three republicans who ran before him. that's not a recipe to win, john. >> and joining the conversation, political commentator, talk about the numbers. trump can say he's doing well with latinos. at this point, the numbers don't necessarily show that. are you concerned? >> the trick here -- what he has to

george w. bush. the new york times is reporting that the former president is doing a round of fund raising for embattled senate candidates. we're hearing trump's polling free fall is having an effect on candidates. what are the implications of w getting involved this this way? >> it's really interesting. a sort of one very basic level, it's great for george w. bush because he spent a fair amount of time in exile kind of partly of his own doing waiting for his legacy and reputation to settle in a better way than when he left office. this is allowing him to come in and avenge what happened to his brother jeb and solidify a name for himself if he's able to help these republicans who are in trouble, but it does sort of create a situation where he's appealing to the middle, to the old guard, to the center, to the establishment. if there's enough trump supporters who are turned off by some of these folks and don't want to vote for them in their own party, that could be a problem. george w. bush being the

or calling george w. bush a loser, or send loser, or send the iraq war is lost, right in the middle of a major military exercise there. i cannot fail to express my objection to that kind of rhetoric which is frequently, flat out wrong. >> host: let's take one other person. he talked talk about the senate conservative fund and you write about senator reid, you have a chapter entitled the professor obama. why did you choose those words? >> guest: the president is a very smart guy. i think he knows a lot about a lot of things. i think you would do a better job of dealing with others if he was spending less time try to equate however he is talking to at the moment with his brilliance and more time listening. just to draw contrast between the president vice president, ben and a number of major deals with the vice president. they were important and worth doing for the country. he does not not spend any time trying to convince me of things he knows i don't believe and i don't spend any time trying to convince him of

let me give you an example, george w. bush reelected in 2004, he asked all of us to tackle social security, i was number two in our conference at that time and i spent a year trying to get any democrat, any democrat even joe lieberman. you have the white house, you have the house, you have the senate, you want to do something on social security, you do it. what that means is we will see you in the next election. so my big disappointment with barack is two things that have to be done to save america from the path that we are headed. entitlement eligibility changes, eligibility for popular things like medicare and social security to fit the demographics of america tomorrow. not america in the 30's, not america in the 60's, social security in the 30's, medicare in the 60's. the president knows that. he's a very smart guy. he doesn't want to do that. comprehensive tax form. we need to do it again. it's not for the purpose to getting more revenue, it's for the purpose of getting america more competitive but the president won't do c

david mentioned george w. bush. george w. in the fall of 2008 when john mccain was trying to win another term for the republican white house, had a 25% favorable rating. the president is over 50. i mean he's got a higher job rating. but people don't feel good about the direction. country. and i think that's real. and that's partly washington. it's partly wall street. things aren't working, that nobody really cared that the top 1 percent-- i think there is a whole host of factors that contribute to that. but the president is, he is cerebral. he makes a cerebral argument. at a gut level. it probably isn't-- is persuasive. >> it's so regional. if you go to the industrial midwest, yeah, it feels like that. it feels bad. you go to the bay area, they're adding jobs at a great way. you go to nashville, orlando is back, phoenix is back, houston is exploding. and so the sun belt is back. and the sun belt was so badly hit in 2008 but it's back. the industrial midwest is almost in another downward hickup. >> events like this, i mean the

even if john mccain and george w. bushd liked each other, which they didn't particularly, honestly, nobody wanted an endorsement from president george w. bush in 2008.

even though democrats absolutely did not like george w. bushhey didn't love john kerry and did not turn out in droves. and george w. bush won re-election. also on the other side, if democrats don't love hillary clinton, because they don't -- not as enthusiastic about her as potentially bernie sanders, you know, and they're just turning out to vote against donald trump, and if we have two negatives here, you know, each side voting against the other side, what happens in that case? and that's really -- i don't think we've seen an election like that. where both candidates were viewed as incredibly negative, both had very, very high disapproval ratings and that really potentially will depress turnout and if that's the case, hillary ends up winning because she has the bigger machine, better organization on the ground, even if her turnout is super depressed. >> new ads, one this one, attacking trump on his past comments on women. take a look at a clip here. >> the woman -- abortion? >> has to be some form of punishment. >> a person who's flat chested

the communications director in the george w. bushenior adviser to thor mccain campaign. this becomeser the number one priority of the republican party under presumed nominee donald trump. what to you make of that? >> i can't help but go back to what george w. bush did two days after 9/11. one of the first events he did was to travel to a mosque on massachusetts avenue in washington, d.c. before he even visited ground zero which is one of the first things people remember. it makes me think when you think of all the hand wringing and the acrobatic that's people do with the rhetoric in the republican party, about whether they endorsed trump or they're just going to vote for him. it is the heart break of what our party stands for. i want to inject a little bluntness about what he's for. there are people out there who are terrified so they are for this idea of banning muslims temporarily. that doesn't make them bad people and we can't lump them into what are bad and irresponsible statements from political leaders. from this point forward

one of the reasons barack obama was elected president was george w. bush. the people thought the iraq war was a disaster. we were led in by bad information, purposely bad fed to the american people by dick chaney. we have w who was sort of the guy, what would you call him, the dufus of the whole thing. they said he was dragged in my chaney. this guy is being seen as a lifesaver. now, let me ask, i'll get to john who knows more about this in a minute. can you see w out on the campaign trail or is he only good in the back room with the fat cats? >> i think he's getting out in the back rooms. i'm not sure how effective he will be on the campaign trail. you look at where he went out at the end of his presidency. you look at where his ratings are now. that amount of time is truly a political eternity and how much it illustrates how much has changed since then that you have george w. bush out helping people like rob portman, helping people like kelly ayotte. his message to gop leaders is sit down and be quiet. i will do this alone. he's not moderating his message

he's also contrary to the foreign policy views of the man you work for, george w. bush. he hits george w. bush often on his foreign policy approach. how much of a concern is this, donald trump's foreign policy views, for the traditional republican voter? >> well, it's certainly a vulnerability and i think hillary clinton is trying to expose that. she's trying to revach out to te more hawkish republicans in the party, more moderate republicans who detest donald trump and the idea that he could potentially be commander in chief and i think she's reaching out to independents. we've seen that -- the who attacks, the character attacks haven't worked against donald trump to this point. i think she needs to start making that pivot if she wants to touch on vulnerabilities to the who attacks, and that's what this is. this is the attack on the what, on where he stands. you say evolve but we need to know -- it's what is it june now? >> yes. >> and the election is in november. where does he stand on these issues? >> how much more room does he have to evolve on the issue? what do you

>> george w. bush, condi rice said i'm going to work on the senate campaigns.'re seeing republicans do not want to be involved with him. they're trying to figure out how do we save the senate? how do we save the house? feels like they're talking about trump's losing, what's next? >> and it's june. >> it's june. >> it's getting late early. this is a time where you form a lot of opinions that may take hold for the rest of the summer, but, it's one thing to focus on senate races. when do you say let's cut this guy off? >> for down ballot republicans it's such a high wire act. you have people saying as long as he respects separation of powers, we can live with him. the next day he goes on television and says something that calls all of that into question. i think they will try to do that for as long as they can. there's going to come a time when it's very clear that trump is going to do what trump is going to do. that's not tenable for conservative agenda or republican agenda, especially for the down ballot folks. >> it's remarkable watching. >> i think you saw two

hank paulson former freshsy secretary under george w. bush. be in for a rude awakening at this convention? >> sure. the big question right now is you know the convention is weeks away. who is going to be there all of those nights? because you have people like mitt romney they say they're not going. none of the bush family is planning on attending. he's insulted some leading people who could be there like susana martinez, nikki haley, they won't be there. marco rubio, john kasich, so the list goes on and on. it leaves donald trump with a pretty shallow pool unless donald trump plans on being there himself center stage at the podium every night which could be a possibility. >> the never trump movement is setting up shop. >> right. he has a real lack of surrogates. right now the only people i could think who would be there very enthusiastically would be say chris christie. maybe the governor of maine. and actually i believe marco rubio said he would speak but not necessarily endorsement but he would be willing to speak. so, he has a lot of space

next, george w. bush accepts his party's nomination at the 2000 republican national convention in philadelphia. in his speech, the texas governor vows if elected president to "renew america's purpose." george w. bush went on to win the general election over democrat and vice president al gore in one of the most highly contested in u.s. history. this is just under an hour. [applause]

george w. bush gets 58%. republicans win the white vote.%, mitt romney knew this problem. he knew republicans had a latino problem. they maximized white turnout. he won the white vote by 20 points. he lost the white house in an electoral college landslide. look at where donald trump is now. these are exit polls. this is the nbc/"wall street journal" poll. already some undecided voters here. at the moment donald trump is under performing, the three republicans that ran before him. that's not a recipe to win. >> a lot to talk about. jeffrey lord is back and joining the conversation republican strategist anna navarro. just talk about the numbers. trump can say he's doing well with latinos. at this point the numbers don't necessarily show that. are you concerned? >> the trick here -- the trick -- what he has to do and what i believe in passionately is change it from race to jobs. we have a situation in this country where we have, what, according to the department of labor, 94.some odd million people. i don't know the number for latinos who are

these these were items that president bush, george w. bush, and perhaps first lady laura bush decided to put in a cabinet. it did strike me also as a hard thing to thing. kia, mia bracelets and barney's dog bowl. that is for him to answer. i also want to say that president george w. bush come at a time when fear was rampant, right after 9/11 nine/11 what did he say about muslim americans? he went to a mosque but he also said they are not the enemy, it is who we are. to be variant to be be accountable, when we look into the mirror, this book is not an anti-bush books. it. it is to say, he put that in his cabinet for his own reasons, while at the same time as a president after 9/11, to his credit he did not do the easy thing. which is to instigate fear. so i hope that answers the question. the photos were very hard, you put your finger on one and that's one reason why we talked a long time about becausephotos also show focus, they show what stories you are highlighting. i personally did not want as many potato factory photos and as my editor wa

2005, he was officially sworn in as the director of the national security agency under president george w. bushe held for eight years, the longest of any agency chief during the agency's most challenging. in history, the revelations involving edward snowden and the leak of corporate intelligence. these days, he tackles cybercrime as the founder and ceo of ironnet.