the republican leadership loved george w. bush he was a blank slate and they could create whatever character they wanted. - it was a core part of the bush campaign strategy to appeal to the christian right. karl rove recognized the influence that the evangelical community would play. - there was one question that i remember very vividly during a primary debate when someone said, "who is your hero? who do you look up to?" well, people said ronald reagan. people said barry goldwater. people said, you know, my mom or my dad. george w. bush said the lord jesus christ. - when you turn your heart and your life over to christ, when you accept christ as a savior, it changes your heart, it changes your life. [cheers and applause] and that's what happened to me. - this is revolutionary thinking. so a lot of primary opponents at that time didn't know how to take this person. - tonight's record-shattering victory is the victory of a message that is conservative and is compassionate. [cheering] - bush's strategy and rove's strategy was a strat

. >> today it's george w. bush's past that's being looked at. >> in the final frenzied push to the bush-gore faceoff, a past scandal emerges, something that could break the dead heat. >> on the thursday night before the election, there came a 30-year-old story about george w. bush being arrested for driving under the influence. >> they want to know if there's more to this, george w. bush's 1976 dui arrest in which he paid $150 fine and had his license suspended in maine for a time. >> it was so close to the election there was no real polling on its effect. >> there was no measuring what impact would be. >> we're going to take a break from decision 2000 to give you some of the other headlines outside the presidential race. >> of course the one we're all talking about is mel carnahan. >> in missouri, the death of mel carnahan three weeks before the election triggers a crisis. >> under missouri law, it's too late. too close to election day to take carnahan's off the ballot, so it will remain, leaving open the possibilit

w. bush administration. conversely, george w. bush eight years later would bequeevept barack obama two wars and the greatest recession since the 1930's and yet he did maybe the most spectacular job of transitioning between two different party presidents of any president to date so -- and the obama people have been very complimently of that, even if they would maybe have preferred the other way around. peace and prosperity and a crappy transition. >> in the clinton white house, it would be interesting to see if the bill clinton people are being picked over the obama people or a view of let's start fresh. that's one thing to look at. >> very good point. >> this was addressed in the first panel but are the people wanting to come in wanting to blow up some of these agencies that trump has expressed saying we don't need them. cat: let's talk about the other transition that might occur that does affect the white house as well and that is the possibility that the senate could go back into democratic hand. what are some of the tips that y

george w. bush, the president elect -- well, i cannot even say that. the george w. bush campaign team was operating in arlington, virginia, in offices that were acquired by dick cheney, the candidate, acquired by him and paid for privately. there were no government resources. people like me, who had worked in previous transitions, were called up. i was never expecting to go back to -- into the government. i had my time working for ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. but i had been in personnel and management administration. i had been director of white house personnel. i understood how the process worked, i knew how to offload people, how to onboard people, and the critical connection between security and personnel management and administration. so i was asked to come help, and it was a very dramatically different experience, because you were kind of operating in the shadows, you were trying to be ready and have things ready to go if the decision was going to be that it was george w. bush to become president of the united states. but if he did not, then all of those

what george w. bush did and they had actually insight to say we treated george w. mpaign trail. we didn't run against mccain. we ran against bush. we still opened doors wide open and we'll be grateful. >> george w. bush made that an expectation for the white house staff very early in his administration. it didn't just come during the election season. it's something we prepared for for six years. >> it started with the great man you also know. george h.w. bush who was kicked around hard by bill clinton for a long time. bill clinton won by saying george bush was out of touch. he didn't care about americans. >> i was in charge of the transition out of government for george h.w. bush so i know. george h.w. bush was phenomenally cooperative and sharing with president-elect clinton to the point one time he actually said when president-elect clinton criticized him on one thing he said, poor, president-elect clinton, just doesn't know. send a team out to give him a briefing. it changed everything. that was a relationship today they are very, very close. >> barbara bush actu

george w. bush may be voting clinton. could it be there is only one member of the bush clan voting trump? jessica snyder is out front. >> in an election season where the bush family has largely stayed silent. >> the strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room. >> reporter: just one bush is rallying for republican unity. >> -- get back up and you help the man -- and make sure you stop hillary clinton. >> jeb's son george p. bush called for all republicans to unite back in august but tuesday night at a rally in texas george p. publicly implied he may be the only member of the powerful political family actually voting for donald trump according to the dallas news. even speculating to the associated press that his grandfather george h.w. and his uncle george w. could vote for hillary clinton. -- and posted this on facebook. quote, the president told he he's voting for hillary. cnn's jamie gangill has confirmed george h.w. has said in private conversations he will vote for clinton. the unlikely alliance between t

then george w. bush came promising a humble administration to focus on [ inaudible ] and 9/11 happened. i'm sure president obama will say for all you planned for this job, it's the unpredictable that will dominate your days. >> let's not forget that transition in 2000 from president clinton to president george w. bush. that was also extremely historic and smooth transition as well. you were there. >> there were some bumps in that transition. there was childish behavior, people saying they took "w"s off the keyboards and the computers. >> that was on president clinton, some of his junior aides. >> not saying it was president clinton. given the personal animosity between president obama and donald trump, you cannot forget that, you cannot wipe that away on this day, but the professionalism of the president and again, i think the example of george w. bush to president obama is the example he's going to follow as he hands over to donald trump. understanding the moment we're in. there are still many problems

what happens is about 2:16 in the morning, fox news called it for george w. bush, called florida for bush and all of the networks followed. gorecame clear after al had offered a concession that it was not settled yet. gore talked to bush and said circumstances have changed and a very tense interaction between them when bush is saying the governor, his brother, called it and it was over. gore said they would have to have a recount to figure out what the vote was area he referenced in the speech with a joke. --e broadly, the joke was the speech was hard for many democrats. many do not accept what the supreme court had done. they believed the recount should continue until we had full knowledge of won the vote. al gore decided what was most important was protecting the political process, stopping the fight, sending a signal to democrats and republicans that he was done and he would accept the legitimacy of the decision that he did not agree with. for hisof the call supporters and the country to think of the values, patriotism rather than partisanship. that will not wo

but how did you see, you're in the george h. w. bushdministration, and that was one where from reagan and george h. w. bush, you had same party. so what are the differences between the two? how should the two candidates, hillary clinton donald trump, think at this point about the differences in the type of transitions that they're going to have? what difference should it make to have that prepared? >> i'll take a first stab at it. i think first of all, the fundamental point i would make is the one that we suggested a couple of times in our discussion thus far. and that is both the clinton campaign and the trump campaign already have established a transition efforts in place. and i think that reflects the environment that we have talked about this morning. obviously, as chris and others now, with john podesta being chairman of secretary clinton's campaign, he chaired the transition at work in the first clinton white house. he's very knowledgeable, but the trump people have established i think and incredible transition effort which we tal

george p. bush, the nephew of george w. bush, that bush gave information of who he thinks this uncle, george w. bush might be voting for. come back. >>> voters head to the polls in six days, six, six long days. hillary clinton goes west today trying to flip arizona from red to blue and also nevada. donald trump is all about florida. i want to bring in senior media correspondent of cnn's "survival" brian stelter. and tom bianco. >> it's the dallas news writes it be george p. bush who says he's the only member of his powerful family who will be voting straight ticket republican. and his grandfather and uncle, both presidents could potentially cast ballots for hillary clinton. george p., you're looking at him there, he's an elected official. he's endorsed donald trump. his grandfather has indicated he's going to vote for hillary clinton. we had no inclination of george w. might. he later told the associated press. i don't know how they voted. i'm speculating to be honest. i've got to say, you float that out there, tom lobianco,

one of the things george w. bushwould tell us in that last year was that he wasn't worried about his legacy. i would tell the reporters that reporters would say that's baloney, of course he is but he would say to me, last year i read three books about george washington. and if historians are still analyzing the first president and the 43rd doesn't have a lot to worry about because he will never know. he moved on with his life. these done an amazing job i think is a postman as well. one, he's been very respectful of his successor, but he's gone on to create such an amazing institute at the bush library . the program, the president's emergency plan for aids relief is something democrats will say that was amazing. it was bold in 2003 to go forward with that. it is credited with saving a generation in africa and that was just because he felt a humanitarian obligation. there was also a national security component because one of the things that condi rice and colin powell came to him to say was we are about to pass failed

george h.w. bush and george w. bush administrations. -- gulfston.lston veteran of the bill clinton transition process. the first session is 75 minutes. each of them will give a brief review of some of the most important things they see and they have experience in their transition and then we will aim -30 five minutes of q&a because that is what most of you want to do. we will start with david. david: thank you. appreciate your time. were talking about presidential transition. i want to take a quick step, understand the sheer scope and magnitude of what we are talking about. there are 4000 appointments, generally not a lot of experience in this process, there are a lot of folks coming in. what is -- has happened is this is a reinvent the wheel exercise, a groundhog day exercise that every incoming team is going through. not only is it big and complicated, it is also a time of vulnerability for the country. by and large, the white house is virtually empty, the original files are virtually gone. there are no hard drive

ambassador under george w. bush.hen the senate refused to confirm bolton and got the job through a recessed appointment and rand paul former presidential candidate himself is speaking out tonight against both quote i'll do whatever it take to stop someone like john bolton being secretary of state, paul said. i don't know how a president trump could appoint someone who's diametrically opposed to everything donald trump ran on. some of that goes for giuliani as well. and a seven-term republican congressman mike rogers is also out having criticism his intelligence committee report on the 2012 benghazi terrorist attack was incomplete. congressman faced allegations of conflict between his senior staffer and clinton's closest aides. a charge he denied. and john mccain seems to be sending a strong signal to trump tonight that any effort to reset relations with russian president putin, former kgb agent, would be quote an unacceptable price for a nation that has stood against tier anying wiyranny, n. >> are we still teasing t

president today in the rose garden praised the transition model that was put forward by former george w bush and says that is the model he would like to follow. only relates to not 'sesident george h&w bush presidency model, they refrained from criticizing their successors. when president obama also follow that same model, refraining from criticizing resident trump and his policies once president obama is a former president? >> i don't think i can say anything declarative about that question. presumably, between now and get my 20th, you are your colleagues can ask him. i believe he said this in public, he is appreciated -- he has appreciated how early in his presidency, former president first of the bush -- former was nott george w. bush a regular, active, public presence offering his critique of the new president. and the president and president obama believed that it was not just beneficial to make difficult decisions, but it also characters of our 43rd -- revealed the character of our 43rd president. i am confident in saying that president george w. bush did not agree with every decision

one of the things that george w. bush would tell us in that last year was he wasn't worried with about his legacy. i would tell the reporters that, and they would say, oh, that'sat bo lowny, of course he is. last year he read books about george washington, and if historians are still analyzing the first president, then the 43rd doesn't have a lot to worry about because he'll never know. [laughter]analyzin and he moved on with his life. you know, he's done an amazing job, i think, as a post-president as well. one, has been very respectful of his successor, being very sigh leanlt -- silent, but he's gone on to create such an amazing institute at the bush library. the pepfar president, the president's emergency plan for aids relief, is even something that democrats will say that was amazing. it was very bold back in 2003 to go forward with that. it is credited with saving a generation in africa, and that budget just because he felt -- that wasn't just because he felt a humanitarian obligation. there was also a national secur

so george w. bush, the president-elect, actually i can't even say that. the george w. bush campaign team was operating in arlington, virginia, in offices that were acquired by then, well, dick cheney the candidate, acquired by hip and paid for privately. there were no government resources. people like me who would work in the previous transitions were called up, i was never expecting to go back into the governed. i had my time working for ronald reagan and george h. w. bush but i'vi had been in personal and management administration. i had been director of white house personnel. i edited out the process work. i know how to on board people and the critical thing connection between security and personnel management,,, administration. so i was asked to come up and it was a dramatically different experience because you were kind of operating in the shadows. you were trying to be ready and have things ready to go if the decision was going to be that it was george w. bush to become president of the united states. but if he didn't then all of those resources just collapse. of

wanted to appoint the first hispanic to the supreme court and because of my relationship with george w. bushd the positions that i held particularly having served as justice in the supreme court and there was speculation that president bush would appoint me to the u.s. supreme court. we prepared for a vacancy and the stories continued to perculate and i'm confirmed as attorney general of the united states. july 1st, we get word, i get a call from the new white house counsel, she calls me to say we have a vacancy. it's not who we expected. chief justice rhenquist had throat cancer and we were preparing for a vacancy at the chief justice position and i'm at the white house. the president decide that had we were going to have a small group of individuals make final recommendations to him about whs he would appoint to the supreme court. those people would be the vice president, dick cheney, the chief of staff andy, harriet, myself and karl rove, political consultant and i arrived and everybody is there except forr andy, he's on the telephone, via teleconference and talk about how we are going to

thank you for the great job and that you did for george w. bush and your love for ourst country. had been asked to serve on the barbara bush literacy foundation. i was wondering if you would like to tell the great group of people what exactly what does the foundation do and how we can help improve the literacy of so many unprivileged kids because i don't know myself what we do i think this would be a great group to be involved with it. >> after barbara bush left the white house she continue to work on issues that she cared about the most which was literacy. in my circle of friends and in my family everybody knows how to read the thing that is frustrating and a little sad is that what you .-ellipsis it's 30 million americans but cannot read while in action while in society. has been the same for several decades. partly that is due to immigration flows and things like that but what is amazingg is that one of the things that they have done as they had teamed up with high schoolol students and you know they have to do volunteer work to get credits before they graduate, one of the pro

wanted to appoint the first hispanic to the supreme court and because of my relationship with george w. bush the positions i held having served as the justic justice one supreme court there was speculation president bush would appoint me to the supreme court, so we prepared for a vacancy and the story continued to percolate that no vacancy occurred. come the end of the first term, he nominates me an the bank cond an event on july 1, we get the word, i get a call and she calls me to say we have a vacancy. chief justice rehnquist has cancer, we monitored the situation and expected we were preparing for a vacancy. so i get to the white house and there i am met by a small group of individuals to make final recommendations about who he would appoint to the supreme court. that would be the vice president, the chief of staff, the council, mysel council, mysy general and karl rove. so i arrive at the oval office and everyone is there except for andy who's been traveling but he is on the phone over teleconference and we talk about how we are going to prepare to roll out this announcement and help the

you go back to 1980, he had a smaller margin than the reagan elections, george w. bushrack obama's two elections, he tops only george w. bush's two narrow wins, can he call this a landslide? why is he calling this a landslide? it's not a landslide. he got way more than most people thought, you can't really call this a landslide? >> i think you can if you look at how much he -- how better he did than secretary clinton. >> you're changing the definition of landslide? >> well, i think it -- >> you can say he did better because he won, but can you call something a landslide when it's not actually a landslide? is that what you're doing? >> if you look at how well he did against secretary clinton in the electoral college, it was a landslide. you can go back and say -- >> it wasn't a landslide, paris. a landslide is only a landslide, when it's the definition of a landslide. that's not the definition of a landslide. that's you changing the definition of a landslide. >> it's you not liking my explanation. >> you look at the definition of a landslide, this is not one. let me read

in the campaign in which george w. bushs elected in the blessing was that a large portion of the country thought that george w. bush was stupid. the reality is that he's exceptionally bright policy person. i spent my career in government policy and george w. bush is one of the sharpest policy minds i've ever encountered in decades. but that was not the reputation he had. we had a political necessity to run a campaign that was chock-full of substance. that would have been george w bush's instinct anyway. we ran a campaign that was disciplined and setting out in one month it would be to health care policy in the next month would be tax policy and the next month with the energy and environmental policy. there were speeches that went with that. fact sheets that well with that. with the end of the campaign we post a 300 page book of campaign speeches and policy papers that were the governing agenda for the first hundred days that mac was talking about. so that made the conundrum period you're talking about much easier for our cr

he doesn't have the class george w. bush has. go to facebook and twitter and let us know what you think. thank you for being with us. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >>> hi. i'm filling in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. let's get straight to our top story. the left mobilizing against president-elect donald trump. new york city's far left mayor bill de blasio sent a battle warning to president-elect trump threatening legal action over the muslim registry. >> if all muslims are required to register, we will take legal action to block it. if the federal government wants our police officers to tear immigrant families apart, we will refuse to do it. if the federal government tries to deport law abiding new yorkers who have no representation, we will step in. >> with mr. trump's campaign pledges to punish sanctuary cities and institute law and order policies, battle lines are being drawn between the trump administration and liberal big cities. joining us now for reaction from little rock arkansas, a senior a

george w. bush. we were talking about the education department and nikki haley, the south carolina governor to be the ambassador to the un. she has been seen as a rising star in national politics. i get them wanting to be associated with her, but kristin doesn't have experience in foreign policy. is this the right role for her? >> it's a bit of a surprise and someone steeped in a history of foreign policy, but why donald trump is trying to change things. he is the outsider and wants people also to be outsiders. will she represent him? is she familiar enough and will she pursue his policies that break a few glasses around the world. that's what is important if you are the president. you need to know if they are articulating what you want articulating and with the same passion that you hold it. that's the test and i assume she never would have signed up if she wasn't. >> the other major appointment, secretary of state, a lot of reporting suggests and the "wall street journal" had this that said either

and because of my relationshipip with george w. bushd the position that i held particularly having served as a justice in the texas supreme court, there was speculation that president bush would appoint me to the u.s. supreme court. so we prepared for a vacancy and the stories continue to percolate but no vacancy occurred.e come the end of the first term president bush nominates me and i'm confirmed as attorney general of the united states and then on july 1st, we get word, i get a call from harriet myer, she calls to say we have a vacancy, it's not who we expected. chief justice rhenquist has throat cancer and expecting that we were preparing a vacancy at the chief justice position. i get to the white house and there i met the -- the president had decided that we were going to have a small group of individuals make final recommendations to him about who he would appoint to the supreme court. those people would be the vice president, dick cheney, the chief of staff, myself as attorney general and karl rove, the political consultant. so

over from the bush administration at the pentagon by president obama. >> i believe president george w. bush also tapped norman data for transportation secretary or commerce secretary. >> that's right. >> can you think of any others where -- that stood out at a time when president bush named norm mineta who was transportation -- >> let me broaden the question a bit. in an era of partisan politics and of fierce partisanship on the hill, particularly in the senate, do we still have this belief that a president's picks will actually get through, or can we expect in the next administration some of these cabinet confirmation hearings to be pretty testy and maybe not necessary to get through on the first of? >> ask chuck hagel. right? poor chuck hagel. gets nominated, as a crappy confirmation process by his former colleagues are all over him. and then for a lot of complicated reasons ends up spending a lot of time inside the administration. confirmation regard opportunity to bash over the administration's policy. even if the next president wants to send a message by taking some across the aisle i

george h.w. bush had kennebunkport, george w. bush had the ranch? trump tower. >>> stay tuned for this special guest, rnc chairman reinc reince priebus. that starts right now. >>> it's thursday. meet the new boss. not at all the same as the old one. tonight, meet the trumps. the obamas host the next first family as the 2017 transition team kicks it into high gear. >> i very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel. >> i'll talk to rnc chairman reince preibus. plus, the trumps contend with their new public reality. >>>nd

trump says he admires putin while he calls george w. bush a liar. i don't know if i could -- i mean, the facts of the matter aside, i don't know if i could handle that kind of thing up in my white house. >> i think mitt romney actually still believes all those things i don't think he felt this was going to be the outcome. you know he wasn't preparing a thorough transition, because he thought he was going to lose, and i think if you're romney and looking at this, as i said, particularly in the area of national security, for looking at his really inexperienced small group of advisers, and the person he trusts most being his son-in-law, in his 30s, and has

i was covering george w. bush and you were working for george w. bush.before election day, this big story breaks of the dwi back in the 1970s. this wasn't an october surprise. this was a november surprise. so people, very different obviously between that and james comey and e-mails but they are both late crises to hit campaigns. how do you deal with big news so late and how would you assess how the clinton campaign has dealt with it? >> the first thing you do is you have to get all the facts. the worst thing you can do is get out there and start talking to the press and not having all the facts. get as much of that as you can. come up with whatever your argument is and in the case of governor bush at the time, it was come out, apologize and say you know, as he had said before when i did things when i was young, young and stupid, i did things then. number three, make sure your surrogates and campaign team understand what it is that you are trying to communicate. what you don't need is half a dozen people saying something else. number four, make sure that

same data, same economic news, interpreted differently. 2000, george w. bush is elected. wall street runs something called the homelessness rediscovery index, arguing the newspapers would be interested in the polite of homelessness. there was an upward spike in the stories. if anybody had any doubt about liberal bias, wikileaks put it to rest. you have major outlets, "washington post," "new york times" colluding with the dnc and hillary to get her elected. people like dan emilbeck asked the dnc for a column he was doing call the ten most outrageous things donald trump ever said. they gave him ten of them and he used eight of them. are you kidding me? we have four years if not eight years.

because of my relationship with george w. bush and the positions i have held particularly having served as a justice on the texas a prim court there was speculation that he would appointment to the supreme court. we prepared for vacancy. the stories continue to percolate but no vacancy at occurred. at the end of the first-term president bush nominates me and i'm converting as the attorney general of the united states. on july 1 i get a call from the new white house counsel and says we have a vacancy. it's not who we expected. chief justice rick -- had throat cancer. we fully expected that we are preparing for vacancy in the chief justice position. i get to the white house and i met by the president he decided will have a small group of individuals make final recommendations to him about who he would appoint to the supreme court. those people would be the vice president dick cheney, the chief of state, myself and carl, the political consultant. i arrived at the oval office and everyone is there except for andy who's been traveling

here's what he had to say back then. >> moments ago i spoke with george w. bush and congratulated him on becoming the president of the united states and i promised him i wouldn't call him backck this time. i offered to meet with him as soon as possible so we could start to heal the divisions of the campaign and contests we just passed. almost a century and a half ago stephen douglas told abraham lincoln who just defeated him for the presidency, partisan feelings must yield topatrio patriotism. i'm with you mr. president, and god bless you. in that same spirit, i say to the president elect what remains of the partisan rancor must bebe and put aside and may god bless his stewardship in this country. neither he nor i anticipated this long and difficult road. certainly neither of us wanted it to happen, yet it came and now it has ended. result does that must be through the honored institutions of our democracy. over at the library of one ofw our law schools is inscribed the motto not under man but under god damned wall that's the ruling principle of the source of our

i don't agree with him on anything but he's a good man and follow the good man, george w. bush's approach. the only transition i experience is president reagan to president bush which was as seamless as could be. ron's father mentored george h.w. bush but there was tension between those george h.w. bush people to clear out the desk and actually a little bit more difficult to go from republican to republican sometimes than democrat to republican but the best of both men from now to the inauguration and then the fisticuffs will break out soon after everyone is sworn in and the capitol is cleared but i hope we focus on the fact that the peaceful transition of power is the great glory. it's the best cliche we have. >> i think all of us couldn't agree with that statement more. the fisticuffs will get under way after the inauguration at some point. a number of democrats, minority leader pelosi and bernie sanders, hillary clinton's rival in the primary and then became one of her top surrogates. talk about the fact they want to find some chon ground ommon gro things like infrastructure p

ambassador, john bo bolton under george w. bush, they're the two top con tetende for secretary of state. hearing about tensions going on inside the transition, potentially some in-fighting, they are getting closer to very, very significant decisions. erin? >> all right, jim sciutto, thank you very much. i'm sorry, jim acosta. jim sciutto is reporting on the knife fight which i'm going to get to in a moment. with me now, jeffrey lord who supported donald trump, and former clinton white house aide, keith boykin who supported hillary clinton. former presidential adviser david gergen also joins me. jeffrey lord, let me start with what you heard jim acosta talks about, jim sciutto's reporting.

then i met a guy named george w. bush and he gave me several lifetime opportunities that clay had mentioned. it really is special this journey of mine. it's been tremendous and i hope in this book to inspire others and to help others realize what is really possible in america. i'm often asked what's it like an clay knows as well as i do what's it like to work in the white house and what's it like to have walk-in privileges into the oval office and stand in front of the same desk used by franklin roosevelt during world war ii as he worked with winston churchill to end that war? at the same desk used by jfk as he wrestled with the cuban missile crisis. this same desk used by ronald reagan as he worked in the cold war. what's it like to stand in front of the desk and advise the present united states who he should write to the u.s. supreme court? what's it like to stand on a global -- cabinet secretary and to be involved in discussions and situation room on the most controversial issues? as an american citizen i can't imagine

what happens is about 2:16 in the morning, fox news called it for george w. bush, called florida for bush and all of the networks followed. gorecame clear after al had offered a concession that it was not settled yet. gore talked to bush and said circumstances have changed and a very tense interaction between them when bush is saying the governor, his brother, called it and it was over. gore said they would have to have a recount to figure out what the vote was area he referenced in the speech with a joke. --e broadly, the joke was the speech was hard for many democrats. many do not accept what the supreme court had done. they believed the recount should continue until we had full knowledge of won the vote. al gore decided what was most important was protecting the political process, stopping the fight, sending a signal to democrats and republicans that he was done and he would accept the legitimacy of the decision that he did not agree with. for hisof the call supporters and the country to think of the values, patriotism rather than partisanship. that will not wo

graham a picture of george w. bush of bush with the local animal shelter for a fundraiser and came home with the dog. >> guest: eight months ago as the president bush and we were at a barbara bush literacy foundation event. one of the people next to me was jean rhys jones and she runs -- he built the spca building in dallas and is top notch. i saw the president say to her, i want to combine into or the facility and we would get some good press for you. i said to him, you can't go to the shelter and not come home with the dog. i don't know if mrs. bush was ready for a new dog or not, but sure enough he went and they got a new rescue puppy named freddie. laura bush wrote that pats made the white house a home and that is why barney and miss beazley and andy dekalb are great in president obama and mrs. obama had the most beautiful portuguese water dog. i don't know what the president-elect is planning to have a dog down there at all. doesn't sound like they'll spend too much time, but dogs make a house a home. >> host: whe

under president george w. bush and currently a law professor at the university of minnesota. and you have a problem with director comey doing this. i don't know what -- what would a normal person have done right before the election if he does know that there's some pertinent information in the anthony weiner laptop? >> well, the fbi should be investigating the thing that it's charged with investigating. and the anthony weiner investigation is about investigating anthony weiner's sexting with minors. that has nothing to do with secretary clinton. if there's e-mails from secretary clinton going to that laptop, they're probably the exact same e-mails they've looked at. but they can look through those if they want to look through those. but they have no business writing letters over to members of congress about that. and with respect to the russians, we've known that the russians are spying on the u.s. they've been doing that since the cold war. and we know that this hacking i

i remember before the 2004 election of george w. bush, they weren't allowed to touch it because they were so hyperaware that we were in the heat of a campaign. so the fact they're either not aware or they're acting despite the fact we're days before an election is stunning. >> this plot line to niccolle's point. if you're the leader, you're trying to run it out. if you're the challe enger, you're trying to run it out every day. >> it's mind blowing. there have been mind blowing moments in this whole election process and this whole campaign. i bet in some respects the clinton campaign was happy to have this happen because it makes the fbi a riper, richer, easier target. comey is making it easy for them. they assembled, the clinton campaign did, over the weekend to trash comey, i think with some justification. hillary clinton has kind of stepped back from this and let a bunch of heavy hitters led by eric holder and others lead the war on comey. this is so egregious and so wacky that it makes the business of trying to bring him down, at lea

he has appreciated george w. bush. he studied george h.w. bush pretty closely as well.those cases you had in the bush example former presidents who stayed out of the way not because they didn't believe strongly about what was happening but because they think that second-guessing a sitting president from a former president's position is ultimately corrosive to the republic in some way. >> you talk about george h.w. bush and george bush staying out of the way. did jimmy carter and did bill clinton stay out of the way? >> well, jimmy carter wrote a letter to the members of the u.n. security council during the first gulf war asking them to vote against george h.w. bush's proposal so no is the answer there. and president clinton is as ever his own category. he was so involved in the 2012 campaign, there were moments you remember where it seems as though obama hired clinton as a defense lawyer. >> so it sounds like -- and i summarize in saying in the last 20 or 25 years former democrat presidents get involved and republicans seem to stay out of it. >> that has been the patter

no fuera por la votaciÓn tan amplÍa que charly cris tuvo no fuera tan competitivo pero cuando george w. bushaÓ el estado. >> yo creo que serÁ muy importante la persona que lleve la florida,s yo creo que serÁ un resultado muy positivo a nivel nacional porque seÑala algo muy importante que la tendencia del votante se va hacia persona, entonces yo creo que la florida siempre ha definido la campaÑa porque es un ejemplo de todo lo que es el paÍs y siempre ha sido el centro del que universo cuando se trata de las elecciones nacionales tienden a votar y sobre todo los clinton estÁn identificados. >> recordar que hay elecciones en puerto rico. >> new jersey-nueva york es muy importante para donald trump y hillary clinton. >> vamos con los resultados. >> perdona que interrumpa. >> han entrado bastantes nuevos resultados comenzando con la florida que se espera que estÁ reÑida, hillary clinton con una leve ventaja en el 1% pennsylvania con estos 20 votos electorales estamos monitoreando. >> el estado de maine aÚn sin determinar son 4 votos electorales que pueden ser definidos uno de los dos estados pod

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take a look at george w. bush. after eight years, here's how he looked. here is barack obama, 47 years old when he took office in 2009. he has joked about the presidential mileage now evident on his head. so, what can we predict for 70-year-old president-elect trump? here's one prediction of how he could look at the end of his first term. and here is a final one, abraham lincoln, who said in 1860, "may the almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity shall in no way suffer in my hands." good words to leave you with. i'm soledad o'brien for "matter of fact." have a great week. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. i wanted the same plan that my mother had. senior dimensions. i've had senior dimensions for over 20 years. and i love it! if you're eligible for medicare, you need to take a look at the plan that offers you more than original medicare. senior dimensions members pay a zero dollar monthly premium. senior dimensions members pay a zero dollar copay for

reporter: the next thing, going back to the historic pictures of the transition, i recall when george w. bush was president president bill clinton walked him to the oval office. i remember years ago, george w. greeted thena bush president-elect barack obama at the diplomatic -- they also did the walk. what happened? i'm mean, i understand you said you wanted us to see them, but does the -- sec. earnest: we provided access to the oval office. you know i talked about this many times over the last eight years that the priority you place is getting access to the president and the person he is meeting with about the meeting that just occurred. that did not happen in 2000, when president clinton welcomed president-elect george w. bush to the white house. that did not happen in 2000 eight, when president bush welcomed president-elect obama to the white house. i am not resizing the previous two administrations or two previous white house is. i am merely stating that the access that was provided by this white house is entirely consistent with the kind of request we have been fielding from all of you o

both george w. bush and george h.w. bush sending their best in fact george h.w. bush he and his wife really wish trump well as he guides america forward as our next president. his family is in our prayers. and by the way, he did not vote for trump noted george aged -- george w. bush. life is are they changing for the running mate of mike pence. our station pennock the secret service has already started stepping up security at his mansion. airspace around his home. airplanes, helicopters and drones cannot get within 1 mile of it. he will stay governor until he is officially sworn in. >>> if polk county family lost their home to a fire in months. jackie kelly shows us how it turned out to be the surprise of a lifetime. >> reporter: it devastating low. >> i pulled up to the red light and bam. the accident left sherry with injuries and cost her her car. weeks later a fire destroyed her home. >> it is hard when you look around and you see everything you own. >> local charities helped with a place to live. >> what has it been like not having a car? >> horrible. members

for 8 years the left told us it didn't matter how pro-cheney dick cheney was because george w. bushhe policies in the white house. he they had dheny's role was to give president bush a cup of coffee. at the end of the day, the man hop sets policy in this white house is donald trump. if anybody thinks somebody else is going to tell donald trump what his position on an issue should be is sadly mistaken. kennedy: would you like to spend the evening with mike pence? >> i think mike pence was a good governor in indiana. i hope spending time around donald trump will rub off on him and he will be more like mr. trump. kennedy: thank you very much, i always love talking to you. much remains to be seen. world. love or like? naughty or nice? calm or bright? but at bedtime... ...why settle for this? enter sleep number. don't miss the semi-annual sale, going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how you slept and what adjustments you can make. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! give the gift of amazing sleep. only at a sleep number store, rig

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