i remember being in the room when he endorsed george w. bush for president when he was then governor of texas and there was no question who had the greater stature at that point. everyone in the room was looking and i'm sure george w. bush would say the same thing was looking up to colin powell in that room. >> you know, john, it's interesting that you say that, because my first memory of colin powell is when he was working in the reagan administration, and he came in to work on the national security staff. he was very young in his career then but even then, he was larger than life. he really had a presence, a charisma about him i heard from his long time chief of staff peggy safrino who just sent me a note that said that they are all heartbroken understandably. he touched so many lives and my phone is just, you know, being inundated with texts of people from the pentagon, from the state department, former white house people, former central intelligence agency officials who worked with him over the years are just absolutely in shock over this.

unlike people like i don't know, george w. bush was the governor of texas sure jeb bush his brother the former governor of florida who been working to cultivate relationships with latino overlong period of time i was in the same thing about richard nixon thinking about george h.w. bush, ronald reagan and the same thing about democrats even barack obama and bernie sanders he did really well among latinos in the primaries. joe biden did not have a natural connection historically, personally, and so i think that led him and many around him to push off recruiting latinos until after the democratic convention 2020. and that did not work out terribly well for him. >> we do know the bush family, george w. bush, they have latino representation in their family. there is hispanic representation there. as a route leading up into the 2020 election in the candidacy for donald trump, did it seem -- to be worried is not a good word but looking at some of these inroads that republicans were making with hispanics over the years? was there any fear

he had been fairly independent up until a political appointee under the george w. bushou think about that? >> he was thought of as a republican because he had reached the senior positions under presidents reagan, bush 41 and then bush 43 where he became secretary of state. but his political views were a little unclear. and, of course, over time he ended up resisting military actions that some of the colleagues in the bush 43 cabinet were in favor of. so he was -- he was a man of somewhat indistinct political leanings and eventually soured on the republican party, endorsing president obama. and then, of course, he couldn't stand donald trump. couldn't stand him and d made i pretty clear. he ended up endorsing joe biden. i would love to know how he actually ended up feeling about that. >> dana: i wondered the same. >> bill: your first answer about panama and 191, january of that year, i think the point you were leading us to is very interesting because america militarily was kind of back on its heels with the stain of vietnam concluding in 1975 and the forays militarily w

he joined the george w. bush administration, the very first choice of george w. bush for his cabinet because powel has the international respect that nobody else in and around george w. bush had. but he never really fit in. in the first eight or nine months of the bush adminirationpowell lost fight after fight when dick cheney and donald rumsfeld and others who were called the neoconservatives were really running the administration. there was a good bet that powell was not going to last until the end of the year. but then september 11 happened, powell decided to stay, but he is still very isolated. they basically saw him as a milk carton. they put him in the refrigerator and when they needed him, they would bring him on the shelf. they brought him off the shelf in 2003 to talk at the u.n. because there was no one else in thedministration who could give the attention -- get the attention and respect and colin powell gave that talk which was from a to z false. he was the only one in the administration and a year and half later, he is gone. he is complicated because

president george w. bush and was the nation's first black secretary of state. he passed away this morning as walter reed with complications from coronavirus. i'm harris faulkner. condolences filling up social media from all corners of the political landscape. many remember him as an american hero and calling it a sad day for our nation. earlier today defense secretary lloyd austin offered his own heart felt reaction. >> i lost a tremendous personal friend and mentor. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart just learning of this just recently. first african-american chairman of the joint chiefs, first african-american secretary of state, a man who was respected around the globe and who will be quite frankly it is not possible to replace a colin powell. >> harris: loved and respected by so many. robert will key former trump secretary who served with general powell in the bush administration and family friend of the powells is standing by. first david spunt is reporting live from the white house. >> colin powell'

so i think that the years later when he became, when george bush george w bush went to him a secretary of state. it was no secret that that bush, one of his liabilities and his campaign was that he didn't know much about foreign policy or national security. and so pell, who at the time, as you said, was really the pulls for years was the most admired person in the united states. and he brought pow in on the campaign trail really to sort of give him sort of foreign policy credibility. but power was not part of the inner circle. he was not part of this group noticed the vulcans who were basically rumsfeld cheney condi rice, poll for whips. and so power came began as an outlier. and his role was very different than it had been when he was a general. he was the diplomat. he was not independent and he was not making military strategy. so, as the bush administration started to in the summer of 2002 started to make its plan for invading iraq. he went to bush and he said, look, you know, i've looked at the plan for this. i don't think it's right. i don't think you have enough troops and i don'

during george w bush's presidency. it was a tenure during which powell did the one thing that ultimately damaged his reputation. arguing for the invasion of iraq in 2003 before the un security council acts and iraq's behavior show that saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction. the evidence of powells case turned out to be false. powell accepted responsibility for helping to lead the country into what he later called an unjustified war. deeply regret that the information, some of the information that all of it, some of the information i presented with from multi source was wrong. and it is a lot on my record. but yeah i, there's nothing i can do to change that blot overtime powells regret turned into disillusion would the republican party. he endorse democratic presidential candidate brock. obama in 2008. the visibility of inspire because of the inclusive nature of his campaign, because he is reaching out all across america. he gave similar reasons for backin

republican or democrat, he was a soldier and then he became a republican later on and supported george w. bush difference in diplomacy, he was never a strong partisan. and in september 11th, he rallied, he was just a great leader getting the rest of the world to be with the united states and the coalition that was in afghanistan and then iraq. and let's not forget what happened on january 6th, and january 6th -- >> neil: he never forgot it. >> and that's where he said i cannot be a part of this party. >> neil: i am sorry for the titan time, but thank you for your reflection on that. i will just remember the man who was kind enough to always write a note, i would write a note to him as a prominent guest when they appeared on the show, he was one of the few to write a note back over my note, remarkable, just remarkable. ♪ ♪ >> dana: hello, everyone, i am dana perino along with katie pavlich, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld, 5:00 in new york city, this is "the five." democrats caught breaking covid rules at the fight over vaccine mandates reaches a critical point, president biden defined a city w

president george w. bushurrounded himself with his father's friends, but he did not have the intellect to deal with his father'sriends. those neoconservatives were always undermining everything powell was trying to do, to include condoleezza rice. he was treating her like a daughter and she should have been supporting him, but she didn't. that is what politically forced owl to leave the administration. go ahead. . monte: you did mention this when talking about colin powell shattering, trailblazing, if you will, for the african-american community. do you think the former secretary of state was aware of all the doors he was opening for african-americans, because back then, nobody really talked about him being a trail blazer, because it just happened. nowadays, things are different. >> he had to realize. butere's the tng about col powell and all professional soldiers -- they do their job. as he was leading what would come behind him, he was too busy doing his job with dignity to make a great deal about how he wa

i think the george w. bushof evangelical christians would see as the high point given he was one of them. george w. bush had a testimony. write inscriptions and hymns into his speeches, and then track that line to donald trump. what does donald trump mean to the evangelical church and what does all of that mean for our politics? >> you ask a good question. he was a huge factor. something of an inflection point, because i think he normalize the mode of discourse, destructive and embraced by a lot of the evangelicals, a lot of evangelicals, not all, but a lotfeature. trump didn't come out of nowhere but he was the product of these currents. he won in 20916 primary and amplified all of the worst tendencies. his mode of politics, cruelty, dishonesty, pathology, conspiracy theories, that was definitional to who he was and over time it became definitional to what the evangelical political movement was. so its affect on politics is very, very bad. martin luther king said that the church shouldn't be the servant of the

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. >> before becoming the top diplomat under george w. bush, he was national security adviser to president reagan and chairman to h.w. bush and president clinton. today president george w. bush said he was such a favorite of presidents that he earned the presidential medal of freedom twice. in his entertstatement, preside biden called him a friend and talks about what the nation lost today. >> he would want to be remembered as someone who cared about america more than life itself. and god love him, we're going to miss him terribly, terribly. terribly. >> the nation's first black defense secretary lloyd austin also paid tribute today. >> the world lost one of the greatest leaders that we have ever witnessed. alma lost a husband and the family lost a tremendous father and i lost a tremendous personal friend and mentor. he's been my mentor for a number of years. he always made time for me and i could always go to him with tough issues. he always had great counsel. we will certainly miss him. i feel as if i have a hole in my heart. >> cnn special

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powell was called upon by george w bush. >> i am honored to be given the opportunity to return to public service as a 65th secretary of state. >> reporter: initially opposed to the idea, powell agreed to go along with the bush administration's plan to forcibly overthrow saddam hussein. using his greatest asset, his popularity with the public, he went before united nations and the world to build a ca inding >> sadm sseiand his regime are concealing efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction. >> reporter: later after united states was firmly entrenched in the war inaccuracies were found in powell's speech and bush administration said it acted on faulty intelligence. powell admitted un speech was a painful blot on his record and pushed for reform in the intelligence community. >> i am so proud that i have had this chance to serve my nation. >> reporter: in 2008 the long time republican made news when he endorsed barack obama for president. powell spent final years in the private sector but remained vocal on political issues that were important to him. meg oliver, cbs news, new york

a 4 star general. powell was ronald reagan's national security adviser in the 1980s in 1989, george h. w. bush made him the pentagon, top military officer, chair of the joint chiefs of staff. i will do it at a broken united states directly to do and what the bush administration wanted. the invasion of iraq in january 1991 in response to his invasion of kuwait several months earlier. and with unrelenting, overwhelming use of military force. the powell doctrine was born. you have to kind of a clear understanding of why they're being committed for what purpose. and it can't just be was seen all this terrible stuff because the gulf war turned power into a hero. many wanted him to run for president, but he refused. instead, powell broke the color barrier once more, he was the 1st african american to serve as secretary of state during george w bush's presidency. during that tenure, powell did one thing that ultimately changed his reputation. he argued for the invasion of iraq in 2003 before the un security council acts and iraq's behavior show that saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their

democrat never accepted that george w. bushy always talked about what happened in florida. if you really want to move our country forward, look at it comprehensively and see what both sides are doing. will: georgia diverch's race stacey abrams challenges the race in that as well. brian: that's laudable they understand that. ainsley: i don't think jon stewart is a trump fan. >> there is no doubt that the united states mainstream press has this coordinated effort against donald trump for over 5 years. the question is do they want them back for their own ends and own means. they need him back for their ratings. they hate him and want to defeat him but they need him. i would be very curious to watch their positioning. brian: joe biden won't take any questions. won't dominate the news cycle. he does not press even his own side to come across. dolls not go to the media and say i'm disappointed in joe manchin. i'm disappointed with the squad. he just goes to the beach and doesn't take any questions. so there is a huge void here. ainsl

george h.w. bush and that of george w. bush. my first memories him bret date back to 1989 early part of 1990 when the u.s. invaded panama a conflict many will not remember to take down the corrupt criminal dictatorship of manuel nor weighing go whose administration down there had declared war on the united states, big mistake. powell came to the white house to brief. skepticism about the utility of american military force was very much invogue. powell's briefings were absolutely dazzling, convincing authoritative, crisp, clear, very much like powell, the man himself. and it really sort of put to rest the doubts that had begun to grow. he later was major architect of the gulf war which jennifer had described which as thunder russ military success for which colin powell i think deserves a great deal of credit. he planned it, he defended it, he was a big part of it. later he came to controversy as we all know over the iraq war and his speech at the u.n. claiming that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. it should be reme

and the 1st to come out in a statement is from the former president george w bush. of course, he served call of health served in the bush administration. in fact, both bush administration, he says laura and are deeply saddened by the death of colon power. he was a great public servant starting his time as a soldier during vietnam. many presidents relied on general pals, counsel and experience. he was national security adviser under president reagan, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under my father and president clinton and secretary of state during my administration. he was such a favorite of presidents that he earned the presidential medal freedom twice. and he was highly respected at home and abroad. that is certainly true and most important. he was a family man and a friend, laura, and i send our sincere condolences as they remember the life of a great man. and i think that that is what is most notable about colin powell is the fact that he was a friend of both democrats and republicans. something that you certainly don't see of a man of his stature any more

and in part one of his most difficult times in office when he was secretary of state under george w. bush and gave the speech at the united nations about what was believed at the time in the bush administration to be weapons of mass destruction in iraq that turned out to be not true, that he acknowledged that mistake publicly. called it a blot on his record. and so even in public life when people have both great successes and periods where things don't go well or they make a mistake, he acknowledged that, and that is certainly how he is a part of how he is remembered as well. i think in many ways the reflexes today are also sort of a yearning of a time in politics where you had more bipartisan praise for an individual, where you had political discourse and diplomatic discourse that was not as harsh and raw as is so common today where politics are so heated. not that there weren't tough battles then, but it was a slight shift in the tone and the time, and really, powell's demeanor, his life experience, his career echoed back to that kind of republicanism of that period which is not so pres

chairman of thejoint chiefs of staff, he served as secretary of state in the first term of president george w bush he sparked controversy for helping build support for the iraq war. our north american editor looks back at his life. general colin powell, the very embodiment of the american dream. the first black secretary of state, the first black leader of the us military. yet he was born to jamaican immigrants in harlem and was lost as a teenager. today, flags were lowered to half staff and the tributes have been lavish. he broke so many barriers and those barriers were not easy to break by any stretch. but he did it with dignity, he did it with grace. until saddam hussain�*s invasion of kuwait in 1990, colin powell was relatively unknown. after it, he became a household name, as america's first black commander of the us military. he developed the powell doctrine — don't start a war unless you know how you are going to end it. in many ways, he was a reluctant warrior, having been injured during the vietnam war, but if force is to be used, then let it be overwhelming. our strategy to go after this

former president george w bush released a statement today saying powell was such a favorite of presidentsned the presidential medal of freedom twice. >> he was highly respected at home and abroad. a family man and a friend. >> now, what an incredible. obviously serve with dignity. he served with grace. similar words stated by east bay congresswoman barbara lee who wrote general powell was a trailblazer despite our disagreements on some issues. he served this country with decency integrity and showed respect to everyone he encountered. >> house speaker nancy pelosi wrote, quote, his leadership strengthened america and his life embody the american dream while governor newsom called powell a patriot who broke barriers and worked across political lines toward what he believed was best for the nation and incisive wise. >> thoughtful high level leader of america following the january 6th insurrection powell a nearly lifelong republican left the gop. a man who put his country first in the newsroom. noelle bellow kron 4 news. thanks, noel. a new incentive fees being rolled out for san francisco i

george w. bush, donald trump, jim carter or george washington? his middle initial, i say george w. bush. kennedy: that's right, gary -- no, that's right. he said george w. bush. he got it right. [background sounds] there you go. we have a troglodyte in there who's pushing the buttons. [laughter] >> big thumbs, that's what we call him. kennedy: leslie, which of these presidents worked as a fashion model prior to taking office? jim carter, calvin coolidge, gerald ford or joe biden? >> you gave me this question before, i knew it mentioner i know it now, i want gary's question because i knew that too, gerald ford. kennedy: didn't know we had recycled a question unless you've been looking at our database, which is very popular. [laughter] featured on the cover of cosmo in april 1942 in his navy uniform. i love a man in uniform. all right, gerald. olivia, which of these wild animals was once kept, an a alligator, a baboon or a koala bear? >> obviously, because i love koalas, i'm going to have to guess a koala bear. kennedy: maybe that happened this aust

signed in 2008 be between then mexican president for the pick a lid on and former us president george w bush. many would argue that that relationship between the united states and mexico has eroded over the past few years. and even ahead of these talks, many security experts expected that this would be one of the biggest obstacles for reaching a finalized agreement between the 2 countries. have look, ah, more than 300000 people have been killed in mexico since the start of the us led war on drugs in 2006. and today mexico continues to make headlines as one of the most dangerous countries in latin america. since 2006 through to these days, most of the violence is drug related and it has become a much difference violence compared to what we had in previous years. for over a decade the response to worsening violence has been a bilateral security strategy between the united states and mexico known as the meda initiative, an agreement that was signed in 2008 between former mexican president philippe cal did on and former us president george w bush, since its inception, mexico has received more th

former president george w bush released a statement today saying powell was such a favorite of presidents. to the presidential medal of freedom twice. >> he was highly respected at home and abroad. a family man and a friend. >> what an incredible. obviously serve with dignity he served with grace. similar words stated by east bay congresswoman barbara lee who wrote general powell was a trailblazer despite our disagreements on some issues. he served this country with decency integrity and showed respect to everyone he encountered. >> house speaker nancy pelosi wrote, quote, his leadership strengthened america and his life embody the american dream while governor newsom called powell a patriot who broke barriers and worked across political lines toward what he believed was best for the nation and incisive wise. >> thoughtful high level leader of america following the january 6th insurrection powell a nearly lifelong republican left the gop. a man who put his country first in the newsroom. noelle bellow kron 4 news, a big story tonight. the national hockey league has just suspended san jose

george h.w. bush and george w. h but for him to rise up and become a friend of a president from a junior officer to a friend of a president told you about the power of the person. >> one of the things that general powell never forgot was that he knew that he was breaking ground, that he was an african-american that was making history and he did it in a very kind of understated way. he didn't jump up and down and make a lot of noise about it, and -- and one of the things about being in weese and black professional circles is that it's a small circle. it's very intimate, and so there are many different occasions whether people are rubbing each other, ribbing each other about which fraternity or sorority you're with or what school he went, to i mean, his connection to the community was always very strong and he never lost sight of that, one of the things that i -- i had an opportunity to do which was about three years ago to the day is interview powell with secretary albright together about a 90-minute university at cr

george h.w. bush and president clinton and then becoming the secretary of state under george w. bush. >> what did he mean to black soldiers? >> i think it's what did he mean to all soldiers but especially soldiers of color, because when you looked at someone like general powell, you thought, yeah, maybe i can do that too. but he was never afraid to reach back. i remember when he was a one-star general at ft. leavenworth, kansas. he noted there was nothing honoring the buffalo soldiers, so that's one thing he pushed for, and that was in the, you know, the early 1980s, and by 1992 there was a monument to the buffalo soldiers. and he went there and spoke himself. in fact, my godfather, my uncle, a former buffalo soldier, escorted him there. again, i got to meet him at that time also. but he was a trail blazer. let's not forget that there would have been -- america wouldn't have known colin powell if it hadn't been for back in i think the carter administration, secretary of the army clifford alexander, the first african-american secretary of the army. when the general officers' list

by the time george w bush left office, and by the time obama left off, as it had skyrocketed nearly 75 percent as the continued increase in defense spending combined with the government's response to the great recession. so who owns all of this debt? the 2 largest and these are actually right here in the united states, the social security trust fund and the federal reserve that's public. that's the debt of the people. now beyond that, china and japan both own more than one trillion dollars in us treasury securities, followed by the u. k. ireland, luxemburg and brazil. so what is the significance of all of this debt, and what would it mean at the us where to actually default with joining us now to this josh, are especially richard was host of the economic update. peter shift chief economist at euro pacific capital. and steve king, the economics professor, a patriot, it's great to have you all on the show today and professor wolf. i want to start with you. now when we look at the way the debt has grown, how we just come to expect that congress will continue to spend more as time goes on

well, i think, i think george, me, maybe it was i george w bush did it was yes. well i maybe maybe he'd travel more than i thought. but the point is the point is that america, you know, it was remarkably insular. so when reginald bible couldn't remember the, the name of the estallion prime minister, he was citing a defense pike with he was just being like an adventure american, an average jewel was a no, that's not fair. i mean, i mean i let me, don't get me wrong. all joking aside, i mean, you know, you have incredible intellectual capacity within, within the u. s. apparatus, of course you do and, and, you know, the fact that biden forgets the name is, is it who wouldn't, for god's sake. i mean, i mean, i me inviting that and forgetting a name and a cocktail party, we can hardly hold someone accountable for that. i, i'm amazed, they can remember what they do. remember the modem, testing feature of that. let's defend spite thing. let me get this fight that all cuss pacific asia pacific pacific basin, supp marines, at which so upset the french a. but america has l

on the president george w bush. he worked on the colon pile and says the relationships with tears will forever be part of his legacy. she was everything that the eulogies and the admiration that is being spoken about a minute. he was larger than life, but he had a humility and a care for the individual that i think you rarely see either in senior government officials or senior military. so that's what i'll always remember about him. the way he had that individual touch with people of much lower ranks than he. but again, this is a guy whose ego was very low. he probably said to himself, i regret doing this. i made a mistake. but for people like him that don't have a great concern about his place in history, i think he got over quite quickly. his legacy will be that un speech that he made in 2003. but i think those are sort of served in the military and admire what she has done and what he meant for a generation of soldiers, particularly black and african american soldiers that realized there were no limits inside the

have lost a remarkable and loving husband father grandfather and great american former president george w bushecretary of state writing laura and i are deeply saddened by the death of colin. he was a great public servant general powell is an american hero. in american example and a great american story that story starting in harlem where he was born of jamaican parents growing up in the south bronx eventually graduating from city college of new york powell entering the army through rotc as a young second lieutenant. he served two decorated combat tours in vietnam later serving as a national security adviser to president ronald reagan at the end of the cold war. he served under four presidents highlighted by his appointment to secretary of state under president george w bush, but his service was not without controversy powell was heavily criticized around the world for his speech at the united nations in 2003 attempting to justify the us invasion of iraq. there can be no doubt that saddam hussein has biological weapons. those weapons were never found powell said his speech about iraq having wmd

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george w. bushazy. the twists and turns that life takes. this is more a reflection on the four years of a donald trump presidency, where so many of us thought that things couldn't get any worse than the administration of george w. bush, and then they got a lot worse. george w. bush hasn't had to do anything like apologize, for example, to redeem himself. >> so true. of course, there was the problem that no one got prosecuted by the obama administration that came in after bush, except you, which was ridiculous. let me ask you this. you mentioned trump. you tried to got a pardon. you have gone on record about how you made several attempts to get pardoned. including paying $50,000 to a former top trump campaign advisor to lobby on your behalf. you spoke to an associate of rudy giuliani who put a $2 million price tag on his help to receive a pardon. you got a meeting with jared kushner who asked you to write a statement making the case for a pardon. can you explain how he asked you to make the case and

and iraq's behavior show that as secretary of state, under president george w bush, powell will be remembered as the person who made the case to the world in 2003. that iraqi leader, saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. a key justification for the american invasion of iraq. it was a claim he later regretted your to his credit or he was accountable. yeah. he, he admitted, you know, his mistakes early or later, ah, about is not something that you, we've heard across the bush national security team. on monday, bush issued a statement pointing out the powell was so respected. he earned the presidential medal of freedom twice. powell, a vietnam veteran serv, most of his life in the u. s. military before he entered politics. as the 1st african american secretary of state, he set an example for those who came after him. the senate april, the 1st black president, brock obama said powell never denied the role that res played in his own life and to in our society more broadly. but he also refused to accept that race would limit his dreams. he has been my mentor for a number of years. i alway

have lost a remarkable and loving husband father grandfather and great american former president george w bushcknowledging the passing of his former secretary of state writing laura and i are deeply saddened by the death of colin. he was a great public servant general powell is an american hero. in american example and a great american story that story starting in harlem where he was born of jamaican parents growing up in the south bronx eventually graduating from city college of new york powell entering the army through rotc as a young second lieutenant. he served two decorated combat tours in vietnam later serving as a national security adviser to president ronald reagan at the end of the cold war. he served under four presidents highlighted by his appointment to secretary of state under president george w bush, but his service was not without controversy powell was heavily criticized around the world for his speech at the united nations in 2003 attempting to justify the us invasion of iraq. there can be no doubt that saddam hussein has biological weapons. those weapons were never found powe

so george w. bushot prosecuted by the obama administration that came in after bush, except you, which was ridiculous. let me ask you this. you mentioned trump. you tried to got a pardon. you have gone on record about how you made several attempts to get pardoned. those attempts including paying $50,000 to a former top trump campaign adviser to lobby on your behalf. you even spoke to an associate of rudy giuliani who put a $2 million price tag allegedly on his help to receive a pardon. >> yes. >> you even got a meeting with jared kushner, who asked you to write a one-page statement making a case for the pardon. can you explain to our viewers how he asked you to make the case and divide up the page? >> he was very cold all through the meeting, had is probably not a surprise to many people. this was jared kushner. he asked for my elevator speech. i was with my attorney. we were meeting with jared kushner and with his attorney. i gave my five minute elevator speech about why i deserved a pardon. he cut me

remember, clinton, george w. bush, presidents there and secretary wilkie reminded me that he gave advice to ronald reagan that he would listen to. whether you agreed to, you knew that he was being listened to because he led so many. kayleigh, you and i talked about, you know the former va secretary robert wilke. there was such a conflict that was going on years ago in terms of what to do. isn't there always? you want people around you -- we saw this with former president trump. wilke was part of the team. they'll give you the truth. you take all of that information and make the best decision. >> kayleigh: yes. it tells you a lot about someone, harris, when they are a political appointee that exists in so many administrations. they're protected by statute, many of them. but a political appointee, you're asked to come to washington. it's the honor of your life to come to washington. he was asked once by reagan's security adviser, then george h. w. bush. then secretary of state. the first appointment by george w. bush. w

i'm struck by one statement from george w. bush who knew general powell as a trusted adviser to his own father, president bush 41 and to his own administration, and he talks about how he was a great public servant and was so relied upon by many presidents that he received the medal of freedom twice, and he goes on to say that he was a great family man and a friend. so speaking to him -- of him in both the personal terms and about his life of public service. i think what is so striking is that whether it was at the pentagon or whether it was at the department of state that sense of his to go to the ground level of troops and staff members to know what they were thinking and seeing as a mark of his own leadership to inform his leadership but also to validate the work of those who were serving their country in positions less than his own. and that is something that certainly has affected many of the people who have served him and part of why there's a great affinity and admiration for him and he has many people who have worked around

george w. bush did, it george h. w. bush did it. every vote, for every republican president, helped do this. and every voter, who did not turn for democratic candidates for president, helped bring us to this point. democrats, never won presidential elections and the issue of the supreme court, democrats and presidential elections because barack obama's unique charisma, and his soaring rhetoric. democrats won the last presidential election, not on charisma, or soaring rhetoric, but i fear. fear of another four years of donald trump. if democratic voters, cared about the supreme court, in the same way that republican voters do, then the democratic candidate would have won all, of the last three close presidential elections, and you would have exactly one republican appointee on the supreme court tonight. clarence thomas. we will be joined in a moment, by professor lawrence tribe with his analysis of what to expect, from the supreme court. and what the new york times is already calling a momentous term, of the court. before that term r