george w. bush administration officials shared their extremes is on the transition team after the 2000 presidential election. this event hosted by the hoover institution. i want to thank the team at the center for american institutions for really putting the center on great footing. we are delighted. my friend and colleague stephen hadley and i are part of this webinar. just a word about the two of us. we found ourselves in a very unusual situation. this webinar is about presidential transitions. you know that we will have a change in power to the president. we have an election in which neither is the incumbent. there will be a presidential transition. stephen i found ourselves in that position in 2000 when we were both advising governor george w. bush on's national security and foreign policy. we thought he had one. -- won. on the night of the election it turned out he had not quite won. they would be a contested period for a number of weeks. a couple of months before we actually had an outcome to

and i am-- i can't explain why george w. bush not spoken out, but i think it is time and i wish that he would. >> our colleague, nicolle wallace, who worked for former president george w. bush, also weighed in on his lack of endorsement yesterday on her show. let's play for folks at home what she had to say. >> on election day in 2004, while air force one set parked on a tarmac, because we decided we needed to beam into half a dozen local television interviews in battleground states to help get out the vote, george w. bush turned to me and the other communications staffers and said this, quote, whatever happens, nicole me at least we will know, we left everything on the field. i make this public plea to former president george w. bush in the spirit of doing what he taught me to do, leave everything i know how to do in service of our democracy and freedoms, the things he taught us to cherish, on the field. >> yeah, you can leave it all on the field. i think everyone is leaving it's all on the field. for me, it is not just one pers

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the men and women george w. bush lovingly paints and seeks to honor every day. >> he basically said to you that those who died for america on the battlefield were losers and suckers. and he said it more than once. >> yes, but he would -- he would say, it would always -- something else would get him going, oftentimes against mccain. it was almost a recording, but the point is, anyways, he would say it at times, sometimes unexpectedly, but he never could wrap his arms around why people would serve the country in uniform, what was it in for them. i think he just could never wrap his arms around why people would do things selflessly. what's it in for them? i think there's a much more powerful -- that's just me. >> so today, we have a right to hope that those who have stood for freedom and celebrated those who have protected it might have a last-minute change of heart in the closing hours of this campaign. and because i once had the job of trying to convince president george w. bush to sometimes do things he didn't want t

. - the george w bush . ark of their final days that they were going - to cooperate with us. at that time, i was president bush's chief of staff, and he called me in in early summerand said that the upcoming transition is the first one in modern history where the homeland of the united states is actually under threat, and therefore, he wanted it to be the most cooperative transition in the history of the united states. it's a very, very intense period of time, and it . starts immediately — - the day after the election. most of the team mistakenlyj thought that they were going to be able to go on vacation, at least for a little bit. - i mean, they've been working day in, day out, 24/7, - for literally almost two years. and they got a call that said, "you know that. vacation you planned? you're going to have to cancel that because you need to getl to washington quickly." from a transition perspective, it is reallyjob number one, is trying to move the personnel operation as quickly as you possibly can. when the

so now, george w. bush by a margin of more than 3 million votes will serve four more years as president of the united states. >> it was widely seen as a decisive victory by the pundits, a race that bush won by just under 3 million votes out of 111 million cast. taking the popular vote, as you can see, by just over 2%. that is pretty close, pretty close to 50-50, a point that one new senator elect from illinois made on election night, before the race was even called. >> i think that what is important as we move forward, regardless of what happens at the presidential level -- and i would give the same advice to john kerry or president bush -- i think it is really important at this stage to recognize that this is a 59-41 country, or a 50-50 country, and that whoever is in power has to show a certain humility and a recognition that they have only convinced half of the people for us to move together, we need a much higher percentage of folks moving in the same direction. >> 850-50 country. humility, so said sena

i have been reading in the last 24 hours is all of these things that have not happened since george h w bush, when we won in 1988. other people say the party of george h w bush is now officially gone and this is a whole new era of the republican party. i would say that one of the things i am seeing is this new coalition, this multiracial, totally different working-class coalition that has emerged. that presents a tremendous opportunity. we studied in class. there is a professor in stanford and we talked about party sorting. since the days of george h w bush, parties sorted more. you used to have liberal democrats, moderate democrats, conservative democrats, liberal republicans, moderate republicans, conservative republicans. that is how we got all the sweeping landmark legislation passed. you could get the conservative democrats to pair up with the conservative republicans, or the conservative democrats would get the liberal republicans. that has disappeared. everyone who is a liberal is in the democrat party. everyone who is conservative is in the republican party. this new coalition that h

and the last time was, as he said, 2004 with george w bush. then before that, not since 88 with h w bush, george w bush and spa. that's, that's quite wrapped. um, we should remember that sometimes these, the try fact can be while the for other fleet sang during the present bite and have the try factor with when he was elected in 2020. and, and actually donald trump had the try sector in 2016 as well. and it was a what happened in both occasions was in the, in the literature of elections 2 years later, the electra them, in the case of donald trump in 2016, gave the house to the democrats and, and actually similarly in, in 2022. the republicans took control of a house, so yeah, it's, it's quite a pleasing unit, 60 bytes to pos sleeping legislation of the set of norm fiscal legislation in the senate. uh, it'll be interesting to see whether the republicans make moves on to try to change those rules and god bless you on the legislation, we pass through a simple majority of the pos they've been terribly games that, but we'll see what happens now that

i'm reminded of the 2004 victory of george w bush. remember, like donald trump, george bush also didn't win the popular vote in 2000 and his 1st term was somewhat contested. people didn't feel the same as a legitimate president. and the same thing with donald trump, and then like george w bush in 2004, came back with a mandate with the popular vote and in donald trump's case right now, quite a bit. if memory serves joe biden won a pretty good victory in 2020 with 300. 6 electoral votes down from now has $312.00 elect total votes. that said he's won by a popular vote. margie of about the same 74000000 americans vote for donald trump this time around as it did last time around. nonetheless, it is the majority, it is a clear signal, not just to donald trump, it to the republican party that they have a mandate to govern. and you can expect them to do that to get the republican party have a that has a very long track record of acting like they've won and governing like they want and passing legislation and implementing policies that they s

. thursdays is quite okay with us, you know about of, but we just had a good relationship with george w bush despite the warranty. sure i did. oh, george w bush multiple. okay. your country. we have one program, but well, the problem is when you start to pete, you're bringing nationalistic gage bush when you start to make for us. so i'm going to bob live close to books. when you can see the russians need to do the boat, it will be as large as in your then we have a book. and that was unfortunately very, very typical for obama. and so by the end, that's why it relations with a bite on so solid ones from what was from the very beginning. but again, i'm afraid by the same paradigm. no, usually it was a new president, comes to ball afresh. room with our special voting to oldest. you bow a says i'm going to relations with russia. you know, that was the case with a bama. you remember that you said that was because human was by the remember that so i'm going to be were you know what you learned by the median in geneva? it was also the beginning of the comes 1st to remember the assignment didn't cos

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this is quite okay with us, you know about, oh, but we just had a good relationship with george w bush despite the warranty. sure i did before on george w bush, most of okay, your country. we have one program, but what was the problem is when you start to pete, you're bringing naturalistic gage bush when you start to make for us. so i'm going to bob the cost of bush. when you can see the russians need in the baltics, what you will be as large as in your then we have a book. and that's was unfortunately very, very typical for obama and so by them. and that's why a relationship with a bite on so solid, the ones from what was from the very beginning. but again, i'm afraid by the same paradigm. now, usually, when the new president comes to ball afresh, one with our special voting to oldest, you bo was says, i'm going to my relationship with russia. you know, that was the case with a bomb. you remember that you said that was like a human was by the remember that so i'm going to be we're, you know, which of them the, by the meet you need, you need what it was also the beginning of the comes

i can't explain why george w. bush hasn't spoken out but i think it's time and i wish that he would. >> he's been hands off and pretty silent when it comes to politics. how much sway does he have and what would be the significance in this late hour if he came off the sideline? >> yeah, i think the significance would be a former president would be endorsing a candidate and i think it would stop there. millions of people already voted at this point so i think it's so late in the game it wasn't sway a lot of voters and donald trump has recreated the republican party, his image, he's recreated members of congress to do what they want on a whim and the republican party has now tried to please donald trump. the republican party has just moved on from that right now. will it go back? maybe, that's a possibility we'll have to see but at this point, the elected officials and the vest majority of republicans at the base are supportive of donald trump. >> we should not hold our collective breath waiting for george w. bush to make

before on george w bush. most of okay, your country. we have one program. but what was the problem is when you start to pete, you're bringing nationalist gage bush when you start to me for. so i'm going to bob live close to books. when you can see the russians need in the baltics what you're a bit as large as in your them, we have a book. and that's was unfortunately very, very typical for obama and so by them. and that's why a relationship with a bite on so solid ones from what was from the very beginning. but again, i'm afraid by the same paradigm. now, usually, when the new president comes to ball afresh, one with our special voting to oldest, your boss says i'm going to the relationship with russia. you know, that was the case with a bomb. you remember that you said that was the case you, when was by the, remember that so many d, g, e were, you know which of them the, by the need you need, you need what? uh, it was also the beginning of the prompts for us to remember the assignment didn't co, cynthia daem

this is quite okay with us, you know, about of, well, just had a good relationship with george w bush, despite the function i did on george w bush. most of okay, your country, we have one program. but what was the problem is when you start to pete, you're bringing naturalistic gage. bush. when you start to make for a southern sheet, bob lives close to books. when you can see the russians need in the baltics what you're a bit as large as in your then we have a book. and that's was unfortunately very, very typical for obama and so by them. and that's why a relationship with a bite on so solid ones from what was from the very beginning. but again, i'm afraid by the same paradigm. now, usually when the new president comes to ball afresh strongly, they're stressful voting to oldest. you bo was, says, i'm going to the relationship with russia. you know, that was the case with a bomb. you remember that you said that was the case dealing with by the, remember that so many the g b were you know, which of them the, by the need you need, you need what it was also the beginning of the problems fo

george w bush famously said after 2004. _ george w bush famously said after 2004. we — george w bushity moment_ 2004, we have had our accountability moment and the could mean we had the election. _ moment and the could mean we had the election. i_ moment and the could mean we had the election, i want it, i get to do what i want. what donald trump is more _ what i want. what donald trump is more crude — what i want. what donald trump is more crude and may be more unfortunate, but in spirit it is not that different and he does have a mandate, — that different and he does have a mandate, he won the popular vote and he has _ mandate, he won the popular vote and he has probably one of the majority. we can_ he has probably one of the majority. we can argue about the polls but very few — we can argue about the polls but very few people predicted that. he will feel— very few people predicted that. he will feel empowered and with the senate _ will feel empowered and with the senate and the house and the republican majority on the same court. _ republican majority on the same court. it— republ

trump and george w. bush and former white house chief of protocol, capri shall marshall. at 4:00 on the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span two and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. >> joined book tv saturday november 16 and november 17 for the book festival from austin. our coverage begins on saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern and sunday at noon. highlights include ray suarez with his book, we are home, on immigration and the process of becoming an american. the washington post discussing the sisterhood, on women in the cia. former dod and doj inspector general glenn fine and his book, watchdogs, on the role of an inspector general, and the authors of the fall of rome on post row america. watch the texas book festival november 16 and november 17 on book tv on c-span2. to see the full schedule, visit our website, but tv.org. -- book tv.org. next, political analysts dissected the election results, looking at key voter demographics and how the candidates use tv, podcasts, and other media to reach

he pushed george w. bush pushed immigration reform. and we know how that ended up.urned in congress. we're still waiting. >> yeah. so, chuck, in the new article about trump burning what political capital he might have, quickly, you write he's taking full ownership of the entire bureaucracy now. there is no fantasy or myth cal deep state to blame for not fulfilling his promises. he's appointing folks he says shares his vision. no excuses of being jammed by the old establishment wing of the gop. but given trump's ability to thrive under circumstances that might bury any other politician, what is the real level of threat as you see it? >> he's clearly trying to bully his own party into acting as if they have a mandate. i go back to the biden example, and we know trump is going to find himself in the same position. he's going to want to do his tax bill. but it is going to be bigger than that, it is going to be one giant bill, reconciliation, we all hated that word when we had to deal with it at 21 and 22 and they have one shot at this and you have this incredibly narrow

george w. bush got 40% of the hispanic vote. it was not weird for republicans in the not so distant past to get a decent chunk of the black vote in the united states. how much of this is returning to normal and how much of this is building a new coalition? >> a lot of it is building a new coalition. : i think the one thing -- patrick was a guest of election watch and he has talked about those constituencies. it appeals to both groups, particularly economic opportunity. a lot of things republicans have talked about for a long time. particularly among hispanics. we have overlooked the fact a lot of hispanics are second and third generation americans at this point and they do not look like first-generation immigrants overall. in that sense that may be something more permanent. >> geographic differences. >> i share nathan's skepticism that may be trump is able to pull this together. two things. i think the republican party is going to go. some evidence that perhaps there might be a path. i look at florida and new york. both the left

the former chief of staff for george w. bush, he played a role with the secretary of transportation under george hw bush so he knows a thing or two about administrations the come and go, some handled flawlessly and others with tension. great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. this is an important day for americans democracy and i'm grateful to president biden for hosting donald trump. it's a good signal to send to the american people and to the world. stuart: neil: people remembered donald trump four years ago did not afford the same kindness to joe biden. obviously that did not affect his getting this big election win but we return to form here. these institutional things that are very important to president biden and the fact that donald trump went, important to him as well. how do you think it went? >> i think it went well. again, it's important for the world to see that america can have a transition of power respectfully. and demonstrate democracy is the best form of government, we have to polish our democracy and we are d

out west and nbc news projects george w. bush wins the 2004 presidential election and now george bush a margin of more than three will serve as president of the united states. >> it was widely seen as a decisive victory. a race bush won by under 3 million votes, 111 million cast. taking the popular vote by 2%. that's pretty close. it's pretty close to 50-50. a point that one new senator elect from illinois made an election night before the race was even called. >> i think what's important as we move forward regardless of what happens at the presidential level. i give the same advice to john kerry or president bush. i think it's important that we recognize it's a 51-49 country or 50-50 country, and whoever is in power has to show a certain humility and recognition that they've only convinced half the people, for us to move together, we need a higher percentage of folks moving in the same direction. >> 50-50 country. humility said senator barack obama on fox news. the race was never called until the morning after the election, as y

if you look at george w. bush's judicial nominations, these very same people would say things like it is unconstitutional for the senate to not have a vote, and up or down vote on a presidential nomination. it is important to keep this history in mind. the moment we're in, maybe they changed their talking points, maybe people turned things around a little, but it is never totally unique in american history. host: to the caller's point, there is a reuters headline, expect to hear the f word a lot in the senate next year. f word is the filibuster. it is something republicans have said they want to keep in place. how could that impact president-elect trump's legislative efforts? guest: as we understand the filibuster, it often means a veto. it means you need 60 votes, not 51, to get anything done. because were republicans do not have 60 votes, that means they would need to moderate their agenda in order to get things done. that is the conventional understanding of the filibuster. after having worked in the senate many

that system has led to situations like in the 2000 election when a republican george w bush won the state of florida by 537 votes, handing him the white house, even though his opponent won over half a 1000000 more popular votes in 2016, it happened again. republican donald trump won the election with a wide margin of electoral votes, even though his democratic opponent, hillary clinton, received 2800000 more popular votes. overall. the electoral college has tended to favor republicans for out of the 5. so called minority presidents and us history, where republicans, there's never been a democratic minority president, may fully execute the office of president. one argument in favor of the electoral college is that the us as a federalist system, meaning states are meant to have a voice and national politics, regardless of how many people lived there. the sometimes seems no one likes it. that doesn't mean that it's easy to challenge because it is a voice for the stats. it's often felt that without the voice for the steps, presidential elections would be for a different time. much time would

your argument is just in the elections i have covered in my career, 2004, for instance after george w. bushas reelected with the majority and got the popular vote, there was all this talk in american politics changed forever with people understanding the evangelical vote in ways they never did and then what happened to 3 1/2 years later was a huge backlash landslide with obama winning and absolutely rewriting the political map and political history in 2012 with republicans doing their autopsy which said do things that the republicans ended up doing the opposite. and you don't know how it will play. >> first of all, we are living through unequivocally the longest period in american history where neither party has established a durable advantage over another in the period since 1968 is unique with the control of government rare and fleeting in the last five presidents that went into a midterm with unified control as trump does now lost it and no one has held the senate for more than eight years since 1980 which is never happened in american history and we have never gone for 45 years were the

i will tell you, i covered scott's old boss, george w. bushs first presidential election in 2000 by 500 votes in florida and bush and karl rove got into the white house and what did they say? >> we have a mandate, a mandate. it's what you do. it's the smart move. i don't question that for a second. i just question when you sort of make up numbers and you make up history. listen to donald trump on thursday night but the american people have just delivered really something very, very amazing. >> the biggest political victory in 129 years. my first term, they said uh, he won the election, but he didn't. they always followed by he didn't win the popular vote and we won the popular vote by records. now we still nobody can say that anymore about us. nobody can say that. >> he literally did not win the popular vote by records. full screen three. if you can put this up on the screen and you can see where it ranks among popular vote victories in 2004, george w bush won by 3 million. in 2008, obama won by 9 million. in 2012, obama won by 4.9 million. in

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i want o note just over a one month ago on march 13 we had the pleasure of hosting president george w. bush here at the library. a special dinner and tribute to honor all who serve officially y opened our new special exhibit portraits of courage commander-in-chief tribute tori america's warriors. growing out of president bush's personale commitments the ongog work of the bush and stitches and veterans and military family program the exhibit brings together nearly 100 portraits painted by president bush of service members have protected our nation with honor since 911 with whom the president group personal relationships with. the extraordinary collection is on loan from the ambassador in the collection of presidential art at george w. bush presidential center. we are lucky to have it here for what is actually its first west coast debut. which is pretty neat. sorry, i've got to add a line there. we are also lucky to have a very special story tonight. this one is one of the veterans painted by the president and whose portrait is on display in the exhibit you will all see after this with him. s

and then we love george w. bushst mitt romney and all of the worst people. >> i don't know if it was george or dick cheney. >> it was bush. >> scott was there. when i was peering out my window from the white house complex watching people marching around with huge signs, with george w. bush with hitler mustaches, i can assure you that george w. bush -- in effectively, they were asking old hitler to come in and stop new hitler, and it was the worst thing that the democrats could do. >> we have to take a break. donald trump heading back to the white house with at least one chamber of congress ready to support him. we're going to talk to one harris supporter who will now be in the minority in the senate. more cnn special coverage after this. your business needs a network it can count on... even during the unexpected. power's out! power's out! -power's out! power's out! -power's out comcast business has you covered, with wifi backup to help keep you up and running. wifi's up. let's power on! let's power on! let's power o

- and, you know, remember what he did with president george w. bush and let his crucifix dangle out of his shirt. and he has a long hiory of studying and then trying to manipulate american presidents. and every previous president right from george w. bush to president obama, and i would say even president biden went through this arc of thinking, oh, they can come to some kind of an taunt with putin. so i think every president has suffered under that delusion. the question is, you know, if there's a second trump presidency, will he learn from that? i mean, i would hope so. - yeah, well, hope springs eternal. ere's not a lot of substantive evidence that donald trump has learned from anything. - right, or what president harris learned from those previous experiences. - well. - i think, i mn, i think it's really important to know. vladimir putin will never be our friend. vladimir putin will never stop or even moderate, i think his effort, to tear down the existing order, especially in europe, and the transatlantic relationship under the theory that he can

had a good relationship with the doors that will work. despite the function i did little bit of george w bush multiple. okay. your country, we have one program. but what was the problem is when you start to pete, you're bringing nationalistic gage bush. when you start to make for a so i'm going to bump the cost of books. when you can see the russians need in the baltics will be as large as in your then we have a book. and that was unfortunately very, very typical for obama and so by them. and that's why relations with a bi done. so solve the ones from what was from the very beginning. but again, i'm afraid by the same paradigm. no, usually it was a new president comes to ball afresh. room with our special booking to oldest. you always says i'm going to the relationship with russia. you know, that was the case with a bama. you remember that you said that was the case even with, by the, remember that so many d, g, b were, you know, which of them the, by the need you need, you need what? uh, it was also the beginning of the prompts for us to remember the assignment didn't coast in deep, dim ligh

as george w. bush said of the day, this is how they're disputed in a banana republic. this history is worth repeating because sometimes in life a single choice at a crucial moment reveals character. leaders of nations often face such tests of greater or smaller magnitude. he decided not to use force to hold together the soviet empire. lyndon johnson supported civil rights bills. al gore graceically accepted the controversial supreme court decision awarding the 2000 election to george w. bush. trump faced such a test and failed. it's worth noting mike pence succeeded with flying colors. not only that, trump has never shown a moment's doubt or remorse about asking congress and his vice president to overturn the election. in fact, he's continued to wish they had found some way to let him stay in power. as trump's base quickly returned to him and his support grew, those who had denounced the violence reversed course and jumped back on to the bandwagon. businesses that said they would never support candidates who were election deniers somehow forgot those pledges. billionai

george w. bush won the presidency in 2000 but lost the popular vote. he did win the popular vote -- >> >> david: in 2004. >> in 2004. but donald trump wins the presidency and loses the popular vote in 2016. this is a -- by the way, all indications, we don't know what overall turnout's going to be, but this is going to be a high-turnout election. this is going to be a very high-turnout election. it may approach the kind of turnout we had in 2020, which was the highest percentage of eligible voters voting since 1900 in america. so trump is going to claim a mandate, and he's going to have reason to claim a mandate. >> david: no question. people will look back at the different avenues, the different routes to reach the voter that donald trump used this time around. he had a three-hour conversation with joe rogan late in the campaign. a huge audience. a lot of people said that he was reaching out to voters and men and young men in particular in ways that campaigns hadn't used before. kamala harris went on "howard stern." "charlamagne tha god." she tried the

actually, it wasn't quite like that george w bush came in to see us. we had a brief chat about the russian american relations. it must have been around 20 or 4, maybe late, 23 or early 20th for the conversation was friendly, everything was fine. we understood each other well. then out of nowhere, mister bush suddenly says to me, listen, but you know, myisha sar, cuz she really is a good guy. we weren't even discussing georgia at all. i was surprised and said, well, i don't know, we'll see. and as we say, george w bush, practically jinxed it myisha success really turned out to be a very difficult character. bringing countless troubles, not only to georgia, but oddly enough, even to ukraine. and to this day, he's still scheming, even from his current location, trying to pull people onto the streets. so georgia knows what arose revolution is. georgia understands what my done was like, what it meant for ukraine, and how it all ended. that's why georgia has become a much more pragmatic country, and we're glad to see it. but as you, as you say, but to make s

that was richard painter, former chief white house ethics lawyer for the george w bush administrationlet's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. thousands of protestors in pakistan have defied roadblocks and tear gas to continue their march to islamabad on tuesday. they're calling for the release ofjailed ex—prime minister imran khan, and the government to resign. at least one police oficer has been killed and nine others injured during clashes. there's tight security in the pakistani capital, which has, in effect, been sealed off by the authorities, as the march continues. hong kong's top court has upheld rulings granting housing and inheritance rights to same—sex couples. the court of final appeal sided against the government, which bought the appeals against the rulings, unanimously dismissing them. it marks the end of a six—year legal battle, started when one man took the government to court over a policy that excluded him and his partner from public rental housing, on the grounds they were not a "ordinary family". a new zealand citizen who suffered suspected methano

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illustrious career in diplomacy — working in the state department as well as being president george w bush'she northern ireland peace process. i asked him where he sees the relationship with russia going once donald trump enters the white house — and how that would impact on ukraine. the president is going to focus a lot of time and attention on resolving this terrible conflict. he's made a number of statements during the campaign, and my interpretation is that these are simply opening moves on his part. what he's really doing is signalling that this will be a priority. i think that he would like to end this war. ambassador mitchell reiss, has had an illustrious career in diplomacy — working in the state department as well as being president george w bush's special envoy for the northern ireland peace process. i asked him where he sees the relationship with russia would impact on ukraine. the president is going to focus a lot of time and attention on resolving this terrible conflict. he's made a number of statements during the campaign, and my interpretation is that these are simply opening

actually, it wasn't quite like that george w bush came in to see us. we had a brief chat about the russian american relations. it must have been around 20 or 4, maybe late, 20 or 3 or early 20. well, for the conversation was friendly, everything was fine and we understood each other well. then out of nowhere, mister bush suddenly says to me, listen, but you know, meet your success really is a good guy. we weren't even discussing georgia at all. i was surprised and i said, well, i don't know, we'll see. and as we say, george w bush, practically jinxed, it myisha seconds should be at least turned out to be a very difficult character. bring countless trouble is not only to georgia, but oddly enough, even do crane enter the states. he's still skinny from his current location, trying to pull people out of the streets. so georgia knows what a robust revolution is. georgia understands what my dawn was like, what it meant for ukraine and how it all ended. that's why georgia has become such a pragmatic country and we're glad to see it and loved it. but i don't

i do that, i want to note that just over one month ago on 13th, we had the pleasure of hosting george w bush here at the library at a special dinner in to honor all who serve and to officially open our new special exhibit portraits of courage. a commander in chief's tribute to america's warriors growing out of president bush's, personal commitment and the ongoing work of the bush institute's veterans and military families program. the exhibit brings together nearly 100 portraits painted by president bush of service members who have protected our nation with honor since 911 and whom the president actually grew personal relationships with the extraordinary collection is on loan from the ambassador and george alexandra's collection of presidential art at the george w bush presidential center. and we are lucky to have it here for what is actually first west coast debut. which is pretty neat. from. sorry you got out of line there. we are also to have the opportunity to hear very special story tonight. this one is from one of the the veterans that was actually painted, the president and whose port

and it was george w, it was george washington, the george w bush 7 trillion donald trump in four years, 8 trillion. he's on his way to economic plan. so that will absolutely kill the people i grew up with the lower middle income people because they have to devalue the dollar. they have to create inflation. but let's go to the deportation because that's 75 to 80 basis points off the gdp. he's talking about deporting 15 million people. it's an agenda 47. it's in project 2025. >> let's just go over the math of that because he's an economist that i'm talking to. he knows you pull those people out of the country, you're going to crush the economy. you're going to reduce our tax revenues and you're going to increase the burden on social security. let me just give kevin this fact to ponder for mr. trump. 1.8 million people deported in a year is $88 billion. in that year. the government has to spend to find them in the handmaid's tale cars and put them in concentration camps. these people are crazy, okay? and the american people need to wake up to how absolutely crazy they are so that we can s

and you know george hw bush is elected and george hw bush yields to bill clinton. bill clinton is elected after eight years, he yields to george w bush who has eight years in office, george w bush, then yields to barack obama. pendulum again, swings back in the other direction. barack obama, of course, yields to donald trump. donald trump, then yields to joe biden. joe biden yields back to donald trump. pendulum swings back and forth and this is a tough moment for us to now navigate. but, you know, if you think about even president obama's journey, which i think is interesting and important for us as we wrap up, you know, in 2000, president obama was then just a state senator who had lost his first congressional race that year to bobby rush by about 24 points, lost his first congressional race just like bill clinton lost his first congressional race. and george w bush lost his first congressional race knocked down on the ground. they get back up. barack obama tells the story. he couldn't even get into the democratic national convention that was in los angeles. travels from chicago to the democratic national convention. can't get