jim baker has the first essay, but he knows but george h. w. bush almost as well as george h. w. bush. he sets the stage for what we have throughout the rest of the chapters. >> andrew? >> a couple of stories that tell you a lot about bush himself. bush was taught by his mother and his father not to use the word i if he could possibly avoid it. it's hard to do that if you are a politician. if you watch, you listen, look at the stuff that he has written, memos as president and speeches, he doesn't use the word. because he said it is too egotistical and egocentric. he came back from a baseball game when he was in high school. he hit a home run and they won the game as a result of it. he ran in and told his mother, his mother said, that's very nice george. she said, that's very nice, george. how did the team do? he asked, don't you care about the home run? and she said, i care about how the team did. not how you did. he repeated that story many times. there was an auditorium in -- near three buildings of the bush school, library, and the conference center. you came and spoke there at

and senior government role under three us presidents including white house chief of staff to george w. bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely q

george w. bush son of a president, grandson of a senator, he passes the baton to alabama who i think i'm right spent one vacation with his father in his whole life. so george w. bush a man with a dominant father, coming from the highest reaches of the american elite, barack obama as mrs. obama said, you know, mixed race kid with a funny name, he becomes president of the united states. then to obama, to a new york real estate developer who is become this populous d constitutional figure and an irish catholic kid from delaware in pennsylvania. you have this american experience, not everybody, doesn't reflect all experience. they're all men. only one is a person of color. but when the history of this era is written, you could just do an immense amount of american history starting with al gore's concession to george w. bush to president obama to president trump and president biden. >> i want to hear more from the former president and the former first lady. here it is. >> these portraits have a special s

george w. bush moment where george w. sand, now i am so glad, because barack can now look at my portrait and say, what would george do? you can argue, to insider-y or club the. but there is a kind of ethos that, ultimately, helps the country. if the people in the pinnacle of power have a self deprecating character personally. and the kind of genuine humility, which is to submit to the rule of law which is what their oath, if you believe that oaths matter at all. it is why we swear to god. their oaths are to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states and to basically execute the office of the president of the united states and a key part of that an execution of duty it is to obey the rule of law and, accept reality, but the common good again above your own personal gain as much as you can. he saw today, to people who do that, obama and biden. >> and a respect for the office. and then appreciation. and also respecting the tradition that go along with holding the office. these

after listening to george w. bush'sening of september 11, the next morning, the savinkin family goes to manhattan in the morning, when we got up, we realized that we had to make a leaflet, because we had to hang these leaflets that way. in general, we began to quickly draw up a leaflet, olga she in general, the schedule of the designer. she helped. in general, then we had to multiply leaflets. in general, we are somewhere around 12:00 in the afternoon. we came to manhattan and started walking around hospitals, started putting up these flyers. that's what the pictures are of what he was wearing. and here is the phone number of the parents in the morning. until the night we wandered around the hospitals in search of our beloved vlad, their youngest daughter called all the hotlines to find her brother, but i had two jobs, and they told me that i needed to uh hmm be sure that mom and dad ate something if will not come home, and so far they have not been. i called, and for hours, days, weeks. i called all day, and in any num

presidents, including white house chief of staff, to george w. bush, and secretary of transportation to george h.w. bush. and we have andrew natsios. a professor at texas a&m university, and head of the the parliament of international affairs. he has been a head professor at georgetown, vice president of vision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, u.s. special ongoing to sedan and most importantly, administrator of the u.s. agency for international development. today, they have edited and produced "transforming our world", present george h.w. bush, a collection of essays from well-known foreign practitioners who participated in the unfolding or international events. part of that bush administration. so, as we get going, i want to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take a few audience questions right near the end of our program. if you have questions, please submit them to event at wilson center.org. please include your name and affiliation. so, let me get things going. you know, for me, a recurring theme in this book, even though it was w

it would appear to me that you are saying that because you believe republican presidents like george w. bush tended to exhibit anti-intellectual qualities that these are the precursor somehow to the events of january 6, which george w. bush condemned in the strongest terms possible. dr. shogan: thank you for that question. in no way, shape, or form possible do i think that president bush is inferior intellectually or less intelligent. that was not the purpose of the article and is not stated in the article. i was clear that he was well-suited for the presidency. and that is stated in the article. sen. portman: this quote that i have that says it was widely said that bush was less intelligent as a challenger, it was not your court. -- quote. dr. shogan: that was a characterization, but i stand by my statement that this was an article about president bush and his rhetorical abilities to be able to communicate common sense principles to everyday americans. sen. portman: you mentioned that you served under president trump when you were at the historical society. here is one on january 5 of 2020

i know when the obamas invited george w. bushe staff and said, listen, this is very important. we want to celebrate them, and they actually set up a catered lunch in the red room, this very elegant room in the white house for the bushes and 14 of the bush family members to sit, have lunch together in their former home. this is where they lived in the bush's case and obama's case, eight years. they got to see the butlers who they grew to love and the housekeepers, so it's emotional. there's also the sense of you're visiting the people you lived with for a long time. it's an emotional moment absolutely. >> as we await the great unveiling, phil, i want to know, a lot of our viewers probably remember that there were other obama portraits unveiled previously. those were for the smithsonian. these are different. we don't know at this point what they look like, or do you have a little heads up and can give us a little preview of what we're about to see? >> reporter: if anybody knows what these portraits look like, it's likely the two ka

these countries were targeted by the george h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and bribed with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. me a ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. and nato have over 600 military base as well to wide. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning this russian soviets into this dangerous bo, you man, that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy to create this image. it. soviets as out for world conquest, which was not the case then for now with nato should have died, but they will give it meaning. it is about infected, created by nato nato's business machine. because you must remember, if nato disbanded shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions, they'd only have one yacht instead of 2 yards each. there. oh dear, wou

george w. bushserve his time at a demonstration school lesson, just when people were already dying in the twin towers, and then, after a pause, the president will finally make a statement, ladies and gentlemen. it's a difficult moment for america today a national tragedy happened. pay attention to the face behind the president of the children, apparently about what is happening in new york. they are up to this seconds did not know anything that two planes buried the world trade center, having made an obvious terrorist attack on our country during a speech, george w. bush sorted out some papers, it seems that his team did not waste time and in 7 minutes managed to write to the president of those with an appeal. i spoke with the vice president with the mayor of new york with the head of the fbi. i gave orders that all the resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families. i have also commissioned a full scale investigation to calculate and find these guys at this time us vi

as we know, george w. bushsident and much of what came to be part of no child left behind reflected things that were being done in texas as well as other places and it really did, for more than a decade, shaped what was happening at the local level. host: rick, as part of his platform, george w. bush ran on passing a law like this. changes happened with the law. we will get into that. tell us how it was received at the time in terms of the policy changes it made. mr. hess: it was modeled on what they did in texas. it was a bipartisan effort over 10 or 12 years. no child left behind, think of it as the high point of this school reform coalition that took shape in the early 1980's. it really came to fruition in the clinton, bush, and obama years and has largely unraveled. no child left behind did a lot of different stuff. it is one of those big fat laws with 100 pages but it did three main things. back in the late 1960's after that initial clip of them talking about it, at the time they referenced lyndon b. johns

in 1988, he declined a job offer and president george w. bush'say the partner track at his law firm. in 1994, governor-elect george w. bush hired gonzales as general counsel. when he asked bush, "why me?" the future president responded, "because you turn down my old man." >> for whatever reason, i was given many opportunities, many given by george w. bush. >> he brought his fellow texan to washington, first as white house counsel and later as the nation's first hispanic attorney general. >> he's the son of a president, i'm the son of a construction worker, and here we are working together. >> one day he took his mother to see the oval office. he called that a miracle. >> to take her from the cotton fields where she worked as a young girl to the oval office, that's a sign of god's grace and a perfect example of the american story. >> and when america was attacked on 9/11, gonzales was on bush's team. >> we would use all levers of american power to deal with it. my job was to make sure the legal issues were properly addressed. >> the job for them an

criminal charges not up for dispute. >> sean: george w. bush's white house they lost 22 emails. obama administration settled lawsuits over missing bush white house emails and obama and his foundation kept classified documents abandoned in a furniture warehouse and we know about hillary clinton's emails and that doesn't include the 33,000 deleted emails and devices destroyed with hammers or sim-cards that were removed. this teams like a dual system of justice and weaponization of the doj. am i wrong? >> nobody raided obama's unsecured warehouse where he kept classified documents. with the case with bill clinton the judge said it's up to bill clinton to decide what is presidential material and what is not including classified documents. he can keep them if he wants. the judge said the national archives didn't have the authority to designate materials as presidential records. the department of justice in that case argued that it's up to an expositive president. -- ex-president. he can keep any records he wants including declassified material. the president has material to declassify

in the very place where my father once proposed a toast to president roosevelt. >> and george w. bush>> on my first visit to washington in 1951, your predecessor president truman welcomed me to the white house. >> today george w. bush writes having tea with her majesty and corgis is among our fondest memories of the presidency. the obamas visited the queen in london. >> the united states remains our most important ally. and our two nations contribute to the security and prosperity of our peoples. and of the world through shared national interest. >> today, barack and michelle obama write: just when we were negotiating as a president and first lady she welcomed us to the stage open arms and extraordinary generosity. and donald trump, who once described dinner with the queen like this: >> we had automatic chemistry. >> now says what a grand and beautiful lady she was. there was nobody like her. president biden seemed to agree offering this high praise following a meeting with the queen last summer. >> i don't think she would be insulted but reminded me of my mother in terms of the look

think back to 2004 when we actually had a boat to decertify ohio's electoral vote for president george w bush. many come not, many of your current committee chairman voted to be certified. now was that democracy under attack, did we begin to look at changing the process, which i think personally, should be looked at. but in the, in my colleagues who voted to be sure to buy a luxury result or not the irs. and it shouldn't be a partisan issue, natural boat they made on behalf of their constituents. i made a different war. i voted to certify those electoral result results. just like many of my democratic colleagues voted to certified president trump select result, a president george w bush's, and we have to make sure don't put a red shirt or blue shirt on decisions that have been made by the over 40 years ago . what was it creates this can use it, create an environment where it's nothing but polarization states. well, you know, one of the things i was really grateful to you, you know, doing this show today and coming in as i like our audience to know that all of america is not brooklyn, new york

and that's funny moment with former president george w. bush when he nearly thank her for helping to celebrate america's independence in 17 76. you helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 and 1976. this was the queen's response, mr president. funded whether i should start this test , saying when i was here in 17 76. she made us laugh. we'll see you from london joined robin roberts and me for the funeral monday morning. 5 30 am we go on? i hope you'll have your coffee with us as the world bids farewell. good night. thank you for making world news tonight with david muir, america's most watched news cast. new at six from the abc seven news. i team why california's attorney general won't get involved in san mateo counties. batmobile case plus burned homes backed up traffic and a firefighter in the hospital where live on this scene in oakland. i'm meteorologist sandeep patel. welcome and beneficial rain on the way for the weekend timeline and totals coming up, abc seven news at six starts right now from abc, seven live breaking news. and

there is a proposal by george w. bush in the early 2,000s. and the house has passed a proposal to allow people to come as guest workers and then go back. it's not even path to citizenship. why can't we at least do things like that to reduce the tension. i understand the ranchers on the border, i understand people are coming over, they are destroying the property in many cases, they are unsafe, i'm sympathetic to that. i understand that has to be fixed. at the same time, many of these ranchers want people to hire. so, how do we fix this? well, a guest worker program would solve a lot of it. it was not my idea, it was not a democratic idea, it was a republican president, george w. bush, i'm saying let's pass that and take a step forward. >> john: congressman, i want to move on to the 2024 election, but final button to put on this quickly. so, maybe he's not sending them to martha's vineyard, that was obviously an attention-getting act on the part of ron desantis. but the democratic mayor of el paso is bussing illegal migrants to new york city s

democratic colleagues voted to certified president trump select, we will result a president, george w bush's, and we have to make sure we don't put a red shirt or blue shirt on decisions that have been made by the over 40 years ago . what was it, create this confusion and create an environment where it's nothing but polarization stays well, you know, one of the things i was really grateful to, you know, doing the show today and coming in as i like our audience to know that all of america is not brooklyn, new york, that there are many other parts of the country. you are in illinois, 50 miles away from the iowa border. i think driving the iowa. i would just love our and people don't see everything the same way. just show us where you are. pick up the camera and show our audience a little bit of rural illinois that you're proud of you. you know, i'm actually in would hulu right now, even in henry county, as matter of fact, i'm from the morning iowa. so my mom and dad used to drive bus back home to see our relatives. we were always stop here and would hope was. so i'm here and i tried to get thi

richard painter, former white house ethics lawyer during the george w bush administration.in iran have now been taking place in cities across the world over the death in custody of a young woman who was detained by the morality police for allegedly violating the islamic republic's dress code. emily brown reports. an eruption of demonstrations in iran since the death of a woman for allegedly breaking strict hijab rules. her name was mahsa amini. she was 22. she collapsed after being taken to a detention centre to be educated. eyewitnesses say she was beaten. the police have denied that she was mistreated and said she suffered sudden heart failure. since her death, women in iran have burnt headscarves. the wearing of the hijab in iran is now being challenged in the way it never has been in the past a0 years. some have even cut their hair. and what started as protests in one country has now spread around the world. about their concerns for protestors. we are worried that, unless the international community gives attention to iranian people's demands, they are demanding normal

and that's funny moment with former president george w. bush when he nearly thank her for helping to celebrate america's independence in 17 76 . you helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 and 1976. this was the queen's response, mr president. i wondered whether i should start this toast saying when i was here in 17 76. she made us laugh . we'll see you from london joined robin roberts and me for the funeral monday morning. 5 30 am we go on? i hope you'll have your coffee with us as the world bids farewell. good night. now from abc, seven live breaking news breaking news is in oakland. look at all that smoke and the flames, firefighters continuing to battle a brush fire that spread to homes. this is near interstate 5 80. good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beale and i'm christian z. we have live team coverage on this fire, beginning with abc seven news anchor karina nova who has been following the fire since it started just moments ago, we learned the fire is under control, but at least four homes were damaged in the lau

. >> it's in the book, this includes george w. bush as an unwitting accomplice. se kooky things and implying george bush the elder is part of this conspiracy, maybe unwittingly, the republican party embraced him, and george h. w. bush and george w. bush spoke at christian coalition events. so again and again and again we see the republican party embracing far-right extremism -- >> yet. >> and i think with trump, it's not an aberration, it's a continuation escalation. and we get back to our dna metaphor. the dna has always been there. and that is what i try to show with this book. >> so, let me ask you, you talk about their embrace of these lies and conspiracies and maybe this is a broader question about why, why does the republican party embrace these unpopular conspiracy theories and lies? is it to avoid having conversations about policies because they do not have any? or is it because it is a form of manipulating the masses and easy to get people to buy into these conspiracy theories then debate policies? >> well, it's, you know -- excuse me, it's unclear how po

george w. bush saying, his time with her and her cortese, was among his fondest memories. the ever cool baroque obama, admitting it was difficult to maintain his composure, when he met the queen. she is not a lawmaker, she pointed that out. but how has the queen played a role in solidifying the u.s. uk alliance. >> seems like we cannot hear you. he can hear us, but we cannot hear you. he is getting his mic together, chris, as michael gets his audio together, can we talk more about that? what we played, just a moment ago? we star-spangled banner, being performed, and played in front of a buckingham palace, as a show of solidarity, with the american people, after the terror tax of 9/11 21 years ago. ? >> i think about the days i was living in new york city, when the second plane hit the towers, the days and weeks that came. it's very difficult to overstate, i think for all americans, particularly those of us, who lived in new york. the outpouring from around the world, of support from people. the number of people who came into new york, who just wanted to help, to do anythin

. >> i came here 22 years ago under george w. bushho held out a hand for comprehensive reform and saw his fingers chewed off by those who just wanted honesty and didn't want reforms to keep from doing it again and again and again. they are not looking for immigration reform, they are looking for what they are getting and now they have it. it couldn't be happier, i haven't had one democrat come to me to talk about working out any compromise immigration, why should they have what they have, and open border. unfortunately we have what we have which is over 100,000 people so far will die this year from fentanyl. the fact is we need to control our borders if for no other reason than to control illegal activity separately from millions of people welcomed here around a system, yes, the system could do better but let's be honest whether it's 1 million 2 million or 3 million, there has to be a number and what you reach it, you've got to be able to say no to the rest. they don't want that no and i don't want our country without border security

george w. bush a local school. i remember that we had to get up very early to come to school and i remember that i went out and everything looked. like in a movie, as bely's press secretary will tell later at home oriflation, that morning you will, as always, go for a morning run, then get acquainted with the documents prepared for him and at exactly 8:30 his cortege left for the planned school visit. yes, the disaster remained 16 minutes a few minutes later, when the cortege drove up to the school. i received a message from brian. bravo from the white house, in which he warned me that the plane crashed into the twin towers. bush enters the school building and talks to the head teacher. at this moment, the assistant tells him in new york something terrible happened. he was told, and i was standing right behind him, that a small twin-engine turboprop aircraft. it seems to have crashed into one of the twin towers in new york. here is what i knew and knew. he, when he entered the school class at the sa

the carrick was a vocal critic of washington on the particular president george w. bush. bush reportedly said that his picture will be hung in every iraqi house. no, no, my dear, your picture is now under iraqi. the popularity the united states is diminishing day by day. if not every 2nd. we reject the presence of the american army or even the awnings by the us forces we reject them. we view this as an act of occupation while a political security analysts from by god told us also there has enormous support with in iraq. but his more militant followers are bringing chaos to the country. he has amended mountain among his followers. and the last elections he read about 860000 votes altogether for his political part. so that basically is the base for his wow. that's an old iraq in baghdad to particular he has a large supporters, but that there is no issue with the problem with the malicious dia, ironically, he school, which is a militia connected to mr. i sent that and they did this recent a all day long nights molding by the initial attack that many launch government post and engine people

but i've i've always like bill clinton and hillary, but i felt very close to george w bush. george w bush. it was interesting getting to know him. but he told me that he knew of my friendship as father. and so we we got along well, even though we disagreed on things when he nominated me to be a delegate. every year there's two. every other year there's senators. i asked him when he signed his name on the commission. it is handshake. he said, hell, no, it anything we get you out of town. barack obama. oh, we became the best of friends almost immediately. in the senate, we trash talk each other. in the senate, jim and loved it. i was very, very good friends and i always felt that even if he disagreed with me, i sit down, talk to him. you also endorsed him at a key point in that first day, in that first presidential race. yeah. and when i term i right now a scuba diving with marcel and that called him and tom i was going on endorser he said well thank they says to myself tell him to wear a hat down there so he doesn't get that bald head sunburn. i said, i think i will call john

in 1988 he declined a job off in president george hw bush's administration so he could stay on the partner track at his law firm. en 1994, governor elect george wbush hired gonzalez as general council. when he asked bush why me the future president responded because you turned down my ole man. >> for whatever reason i was given a number of great opportunity and many of them given to me by george w bush. >> president bush brought his fellow texan into washington, first as white house council and later as the nation's first hispanic attorney general. >> he was the son of a president, i'm the son of a cub instruction worker here we are working together. >> one day gonzalez took his mother to ethe oval office. he called that moment a miracle. >> i would take it from the cotton fields where she used to work as a young girl to the oval office and that for me is a sign of god's grace and a and a perfect example of the american story. >> and when america was attacked on 9/11, gonzalez was on bush's team. >> he knew continues we would use all levers to of american power to deal with it. my job was to make sure the legal issues were properly addressed. >

you said george w. bush lied us into the iraq war. he did not. there was a commission called the rob silverman commission and the intel was wrong, but there is zero evidence he lied. the d.c. bureau chief of the associated press at the time publicly said george w. bush lied us into the iraq war. democrats believe w either lied or there is a strong possibility he did. it is not true. he was shooting at the british and american planes patrolling the no-fly zones. he was stealing from the food program. we know he had chemical weapons because he used them on the iranians. he went, [grumbling], but he never said it again. i realized his way of apologizing is never saying the wrong thing twice. >> let's go back to 2021 and here is the current president. [video clip] >> over the last year i got to run against the real donald trump. [booing] well, this year republican running for governor here is the closest thing i have seen to a trump clone. [laughter] he is leading the other team. he is the clone of donald trump. can you imagine him being governor of

former george w. bush speechwriter, bill mcgurn whether this president is about to make a big mistake. and walter cunningham on why a president aiming for the stars is very different from a president aiming for something else. welcome, everybody. i'm neil cavuto. on this historic day, a president trying to make history himself. let's go to molly line in boston with how he intends to do that. molly? >> good afternoon, president biden making his first stop here in boston at logan airport. stopping by terminal e where a infrastructure project is underway. that is also where he teased his far more high profile event today. >> talking about my commitment to defeating cancer. this is a -- in 62, the moon shot speech. we're going to cure cancer over time. we'll lay it out. >> biden with remarks on the cancer moon shot. the goal of ending cancer as we know it from the john f. kennedy library and museum on this day which marks the 60th anniversary of president kennedy's moon shot speech. biden expected to draw para

every now and then, you need to have a laugh, which demonstrated when george w. bushl clinton, not exactly a friend. there's tradition in this country. we are one america, we have one president at a time. have some fun. >> i'm also pleased, mr. president, that when you are wandering these halls, you'll now be able to gaze at this portrait and ask, what would george do. [ laughter ] >> days like this help us remember history, and george w. bush, the son of a president, he revered that house. he revered the tradition. that's important. maybe it should be more important. >> it should be more important, the fact that this is happening with a president in between these two men says it all. the fact that it wasn't the successor to president obama which made this happen, which is the tradition, speaks volume. >> we'll watch. great event, next hour. >>> up next, chicago's mayor says greg abbott treats migrants, quote, like freight. it's back america. applebeeee's all you can eat boneless wings. just $12.99. (driver) conventional thinking would say verizon has the largest and

we heard george w. bush praise the queen's wit. there's a story i learned where george w. 1, he's not governor or president, he meets her and they have an interesting exchange. tell us about it. >> he was wearing cowboy boots because he was the head of the texas rangers, and they were usually inscribed with texas rangers. she said what's the inscription on those boots? he said "god save the queen," man. she said, are you the black sheep of the family? he said, i guess i am. you know, i think every family has one. who is yours? which point his mother stepped in and said, don't answer that. but she was quick. >> he might have been at that moment the black sheep of that family. >> and i think he had somebody in mind for her, too. >> and she also had her own sense of style beyond just any monarch. she was famously fond of corgis. she was an excellent horseback rider. president reagan attested to that. they were very close. she love adcock tail. what brought her the most joy? >> i think her horses and dogs. obviously, people. but beyond humans, she really loved her horses. she p