history but i asked george w. bush once why he kept norman minute. it's not like george w. sh could not have found -- it's not like he could not have found a republican to be the secretary of transportation. norm was a relatively liberal democrat. that is how he described himself, as a liberal democrat from the bay area of california, the child of immigrants. often, people from that demographic have a very different view of how government should work and what the role of government is. and that was a little different than how george w. bush viewed the role of government so i asked him why did you keep norman panetta in your cabinet when you could have gotten somebody from your own party to do it? his answer really struck me. he said there was no better servant for america then norman panetta. i thought like what a legacy to leave. not that he was the best member of the democratic party or norm agreed to do whatever i told him . norm was the most loyal to my views his view was that there was no better servant for america and what an incredible thing to be known for. host: one

when george w bush won the heavily contested 2000 after the attack on the twin towers on 9/11, bush'ss. allahu akbar! gunfire. this didn't last because the centrepiece of the policy, the invasion of iraq, turned out to be pretty disastrous. the british and americans are anxious to pull their troops out of iraq as quickly as they can. cheering and applause. whenjohn f kennedy won the presidency. the long post—war period of american dominance looked as if it was coming to an end. of americans who sensed they were weaker and poorer had never seen before. americans decided that donald trump would be more and he returned last november as the clear outright winner. but his energetic, upbeat performances won praise around the world. the golden age of america begins right now. and although europe and the older democracies have but would he have made it to the top without the huge boost which the deregulated american news media, unquestionably gave him? donald trump is at the absolute peak of his power suggests this won't last long. they all faded in their last two years in the presidency. peo

when george w bush won the heavily contested 2000 election by a whisker, it soon became obvious thatattack on the twin towers on 9/11, bush's chief advisers, who were telling him what to do rather than the other way round, started talking about america as an imperial power with a right to impose its wishes on weaker countries. allahu akbar. gunfire this didn't last, because the centrepiece of the policy, the invasion of iraq, turned out to be pretty disastrous. the british and americans are anxious to pull their troops out of iraq as quickly as they can. by 2006, america came close to being defeated in iraq. cheering for many liberal—minded people around the world, as a relief. cheering this is the biggest change that's happened in american politics since at least 1960, whenjohn f kennedy won the presidency. but obama's time was marked by a disappointing lack of grip. america's problems were never fully addressed and in the wider world, the weakness revealed by george w bush's invasion of iraq continued. the long post—war period of american dominance looked as if it was coming to an

i saw it when george w bush came in. i was close to some people who were, who were populating the administration there, and i saw how it work. you get so many and at a certain level and they just, they bring in all of their people and they've done it very, very effectively. so it's nice to see some people on the other side to a little bit more dedicated to a realistic form policy doing the same thing. so what i think this might be, is you might have a, a state department is very active as what they might be tempered by a pentagon that says, hold on, we can't do that. this is not going to happen. we don't have the ability to do this and that's a healthy thing. that's what i was hoping for. and the trump administration to see, because top likes that assistance, how he does his business. he likes to have people playing off against each other. people with opposing views, duking it out, well, he sits back in and makes his decision. this is the 1st hint. i've seen that this might be the case in, in his administration, and i'm

and that's pepfar, which i know president george w. bush took incredibly great takes, incredibly great pride in. it's a program that pays for hiv life saving medication across the world for millions of people. it saved millions of lives, potentially. um, can you talk a little bit about what that program has stood for for republicans in the past and, and what the overall impact of all of this is? >> yeah, i mean, i remember working very closely with people like bono to, to make this happen and very conservative senators, uh, that, that recognized the human tragedy in places like africa where millions of lives are being lost. and there's there's no question, i think, uh, more broadly in the historical sense that george w bush pepfar policy will be his most lasting, impactful legacy. it saved tens and 20 or 20 millions of lives, uh, in africa and continues to do so. and it's really one of the most important health public policy initiatives in the world ever. uh, and it's a great example of what i would call compassionate conservatism. and the

what the biden and obama administrations, for instance, and the bush administrations wanted, and george w bush on pepfar, which is part of, you know, broadly, it's a separate program. but broadly, foreign aid is a george w bush republican program that is also was also one of the things halted temporarily. >> this used to not. >> be very controversial. >> there were controversies on the. >> margins. >> as peter mentioned. >> there's some waste. there's some spending on programs. >> that don't work. >> but but. >> that's. >> that's that's the normal. >> course of events in government. >> alas. >> but but these are. >> programs that. >> people like ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. >> put aside. >> george w. >> bush not only. >> supported for. >> humanitarian reasons. >> right. >> shining city on the hill. >> we have a lot of money. >> we have a. >> lot of resources. >> we have a lot. >> of food we. >> can distribute. >> we have. >> a lot of medicine. >> this was also national security. you know, these. >> are these. >> are ways of. >> keeping of letting populations. across the developing world

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i remember interviewing george w bush at a game on veterans. right around veterans day. and but that wasn't a super bowl. you know, i think the layers of security are such that it's probably been a little bit prohibitive in the past, but there is nothing that gets in the way of donald trump and anything that he wants to do. and that's including being at this super bowl. so i don't envy the fans. the security is going to be brutal. >> well, you know, and that should be the case anyway. i talked to the governor of louisiana today. i talked to pam bondi last night. we had kristi noem on this program. it seems like it's all hands on deck. i talked to the head of the secret service. i feel confident in our people and they know these are tough times. clay travis, i think i think i'm two and zero against you in terms of predictions, but i don't want to remind you of that. i think i'm two and zero. >> yeah. >> you would. >> you wouldn't, you wouldn't point out that i think i owe you 500 bucks and that i've been dodging you for a while. i'm in new orleans right now, sean. shiftin

then when haiti was struck by an earthquake in 2010, president obama asked me and george w bush to try to help haiti and had been working there by then for a year again as a u.n. envoy. but he was great. we got together, we raised all this money and we decided could best help the small reconstitute themselves because they were all wiped out. and we did a really good job of, i think. and then later i was able to. almost $500 million for just all my own through the clinton global initiative, in addition to all the money that americans had given about $1,000,000,000 and that. but if you forget about whatever you've been fighting about and you all agree the same goal, then it's amazing how often you come to consensus. and you you say that and you i don't want to trivialize these numbers and. i didn't really know them. you put them in detail here, whether it's the tsunami in asia, whether it's haiti whether it's katrina. you teaming up with these other presidents to the clinton global foundation. is is billions of dollars and what i loved about it is, you didn't just raise the money you wen

here's the thing with president george w. bushcreated guantanamo, and i was opposed to guantanamo closing it, president obama ran saying we should close guantanamo, but at least president george w. bush was so careful in the argument he made, he said, i believe most criminals should get due process. i believe in america, they are. they should get a hearing in the courts. that's who we are as a constitution. i wish we could do that. these are some of the most dangerous terrorists and we can't do that. that's what they said. and to go from that to donald trump, who has no regard for the constitution, no regard for the constitution, that should be so offensive to every conservative in this country. >> well. >> see what i what i just say there this doesn't seem to be arbitrary. they said that they're going to go after the criminals, i think, at least for the 77 million people who voted for donald trump, they're going to be absolutely fine with sending criminals to guantanamo bay. >> nobody's disputing that criminals should be deported

. >> lunatic liberal judges like george w. bush, appointee. >> like a ronald reagan. >> appointee in rhode. >> island, like a donald trump appointee, like another ronald reagan appointee, like another. >> george w. bush appointee. to finish my point. >> all of those lunatic liberal republican appointees. >> yeah. >> and look what the republicans do all. >> the time. i hope you are happy with donald trump today because you wanted last night more than anything for him to say he'll abide by the courts and go through the appeals process. i hope you're happy. >> literally, the very first thing i'm. >> a. little i'm a little unhappy. but i hope. >> you're happy, donald trump. >> but hold on, let me let me just make this very plain. donald trump is right. >> hey, appeal. >> you take it to the courts, you appeal the decision. maybe you're mad about it. you're mad because it slows the process down. but you abide by the court decision. and, scott, you should. >> listen to donald trump. >> listen, this is what they tried. before tying him. bu

crapo's policy baseline to keep the george w. bush tax cuts in place.called it a permanent baseline, it was a policy baseline, they should do the same thing now, obama was a smart fellow, we have exhausted that, you are american hero, a great service record, a west point grad. couple things on this mr. wesley hunt. recruitment in month of january, is at a 15 year high. what do you make of this. >> shocking. it is amazing what you see with a president that believes in america. imagine this, only about changing how we feel and the motive about what it means to make america great again this is good, a reason why there are 20 million people that have entered illegally, and people want to be here, because we're in an amazing country, i have young people that are willing to fight for trump and fight for america first, what has been missing. someone that searched in combat, that served 20 years ago in baghdad, i loved seeing young people reinvigorated to want to serve, it happened in the last two months, amazing. >> probably not peaked yet, my hunch your fello

meanwhile, barack obama led the way with 59%, george w. bushll see where president trump plans after his second term. we are watching all of it. >> production, i think donald trump will lead barack obama. i am not surprised biden is at the bottom. domestically, he is known for my conflation. 9.1%, and -- the loss of afghanistan, the war in ukraine, the war in israel. well done, biden. >> and pardons that made no sense, emily. like reaching into the future to protect family and friends and all the rest. we'll be remembered for that too. >> a slap in the face of the end like his entire administration. the most telling thing -- of course, he is dead last, but also by how much? a significant portion, over a quarter when you look at those percentages as applied to those other guys. he is not just at last: he's dead last by a lot. >> you used a term last segment dealing with something else, but it makes me think of it now: latent slumber. that is describing the last few months of this presidency. >> he's underwater, which worries me. i never saw him

i remember interviewing george w. bush at a game around veterans' day but that wasn't a super bowl.urity is such that it's been a bit prohibitive in the past but there's nothing that gets in the way of donald trump with anything that he wants to do and that includes being at this super bowl. he don't envy the fans, the security is going to be brutal. >> sean: that should be the case anyway. i talked to the governor of louisiana today and i talked to pam bondi last night and we had kristi noem on this program. i talked to the head of the secret service. i feel confident in our people. they know these are tough times. clay travis i think i'm 2-0 against you in terms of predictions but i don't want to remind you of that. i think i'm 2-0. >> you wouldn't point out that i think i owe you 500 bucks and i've been dodging you for a while. i'm in new orleans right now, sean, shifting subjects quickly. the police and the security and the personnel are blanketing this city. i have to tell you, i love those clips you played of travis kelce and patrick mahomes and i bet michelle feels the same w

george w bush used pepfar being funded through u.s. aid. it who i love. nick called it the single most effective government program of his entire lifetime because george w bush, through his faith, through u.s. aid, through pepfar, has saved 25 million souls. >> it's incredible. it's one of the best things this country has ever done. and as you were saying, it was led by an evangelical conservative president. and look, i want to focus back on these christian relief agencies that are receiving they're on the verge of being defunded on a mass scale. this is the kind of thing that if the biden administration had targeted these evangelical and catholic relief agencies in the same way, you know, this would lead right wing media day after day, hour after hour, some sort of war on christians. but then when elon musk does it under a trump administration, then it's okay then then it's all just fine. it's these evangelical ministries can be put in a state of crisis when again, what are they doing? they're fulfilling the commands that are given almost 2

would be my recollection is the lesson was a way to tie dinner which was the most formal bid went george w. bush queen elizabeth unusually is a black-tie first state dinner. >> first gentleman. >> wealth going to bee interesting to see if that happens and i do not know i do not know ifl he would take on te additional functions of interest lady would have or if someone else on the presidential staff would be designated to do that pretty in the white house is a living breathing historic history container. it's always evolving and changing this evolution that we will face sooner or later took next up robber in ohio. >> i am glad that i got through. i have two questions. the fact that at least where the president said they try to poison in the second question is when visiting from south africa, duty say the white house guest room, those are my two questions and thankt you. >> sedimentary fact the presence at some point in history weathers attempted to poisoning. >> i'm not aware that happening the white house, this very special care is taken to every thing the president will consume more be offerede

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he's the former chief white house ethics lawyer under president george w. bush. bush, thank you both for being with us. richard. first to you, let's start with the obvious question. are these actions by elon musk actually legal well, elon musk is acting as if he is a federal officer, a federal officer appointed by the president of the united states. >> and president trump can appoint him as a federal officer and then send him into the agencies. some of what he's doing is legal for a federal officer. some of it is not. but he would be a federal officer bound by the criminal conflict of interest statute at 18 united states code 2018, which says it is a crime for a federal officer to participate in a government matter that has a direct and predictable effect on their financial interest. and so that means that musk is going to have to sell his interest in tesla x, spacex, and the rest of it, or recuse from any and all government matters that have anything to do with or could impact those companies. but he's going around saying, well, actually, i'm not a federal office

how many people have a view you don't have to have a view, believe george w bush actually won the election florida? raise your hands please. and how many people, think al gore won the election florida? >> while you are wrong. [laughter] for those who cannot see it's about evenly split. >> by the way there was an alliance of the associated press, the "new york times," the "washington post," bunch of other media outlets did their own account and came to essentially the same result. i recommend everyone go back and actually look at the facts and the recount. it would be something would be advisable for those who doubt the results of the 2020 election and those who doubt the result of the 2000 election. just from different ideological perspectives. we were accused by the gop at the time when they got wind we were doing this recounts, that we were accused of trying to de- legitimize the bush presidency process that we were doing. for the sake of history and for the sake of the american public, what really was the count. he could claim that the absentee ballots were somehow fraudulent there was

george w bush have done? what would bill clinton have done? what would any president you've seen in that chair have done? donald trump turns away from the four year old. and then when the four year old continues to speak, donald trump reaches out to try to silence him and. >> he fails. >> no previous president ever once considered blocking food from being delivered to starving four year olds in a famine. as donald trump and elon musk have done by stopping the united states agency for international development, the most important delivery of famine relief in sudan right now, where people are starving to death. tonight, many presidents have struggled to deliver food to hungry people in war zones, but they never gave up that struggle. no matter how difficult. how can a person feel nothing when taking food away from starving children, from starving people? that's what i've been wondering about elon musk and donald trump since they decided to do that, since they decided to snatch that food away from children. and so when i watched donald trump in t

and i'm not talking about nation building a la george w. bush. i'm not talking about that. but you got to have leadership in that region. there have to be peace accords in that region. and so when president trump was leaving the first time, that was the premise of the abraham accords. have the arab states with israel actually work together in peace? so you can actually develop a stable political, religious, whatever they choose that to be. and an economic area so people can live in harmony and peace. period. >> all right. i got one more. you're not going to be able to fight me on this one. >> we'll see. >> we'll see. >> we'll. >> see. >> if you do, you're going to get a bouquet okay. uh, the trump administration has appointed darren beattie a former speechwriter, to be the top public diplomacy official. this is the guy whose tweet was competent. white men must be in charge if you want things to work. >> i don't agree with that. >> oh. >> good. >> what are you. >> saying? >> i don't. >> agree. >> but he should still get the job. >> uh, it's not my job to make that hire. to b

like, do you not think that george w. bush'stes? do you not think they thought they were the smartest people in the world? this changes, and i will just say to people at home that think that this election was a. watershed election. a lesbian woman won in wisconsin, a woman won in michigan for the senate. >> a really progressive, really. >> progressive. >> hispanic won in arizona, a woman won in nevada. now, if you just took those four races. >> yeah. >> just those four. >> races, you. >> would. >> look at those four races and go, oh my god, this country is really moving. >> to the left. >> right? >> so donald. >> trump won. yeah he won. but but to go that oh wisconsin is far right. and it supports everything that elon musk and donald trump. no. >> if you were if you the way i would say it is this let's say you're in a room. it's got 100 people and there's 52 people in black shirts and 50 and 48 in white shirts. if two of them change their shirts, that's the election. it is. >> but it. >> would be crazy to be like, i don't recogn

. >> joining our coverage, andrew natsios, he was the administrator for usaid during the george w bushe's now an executive professor at texas a&m university. andrew, i wonder if you could just take us through what people, what people don't understand about how nonpartisan usaid mission is? >> well, any agency or department. >> of the. federal government follows the lead. >> of the white house. so the. >> fox news and other. >> groups are attacking. >> aid for having some social cultural programs, the. >> culture wars. >> that's ordered. >> by the white house, any. >> white house. we had conservative. >> programs when i. >> was administrator and. >> when mark green. >> was administrator. >> and the. bush administration, the trump administration, the first one. >> and when the democrats take they move it left of center. and the career people didn't resist when i was there. and i probably the most conservative administrator in the history of the agency, they showed me how to do it. i trusted them, i treated them respectfully. and they said, if you do it this way, you're going to. >> get.

been programs that have been inspired by religious faith. >> and i speak. >> primarily of what george w bushsed with, that pepfar in saving 25 million lives, inspired. by george w bush's faith in jesus christ, save 25 million lives in the continent of africa because of his faith. that is not some left wing operation. and evangelicals who and conservative catholics and actually liberal catholics and other church based organizations, as we're talking about right now, they have. >> a. >> really big footprint inside of u.s. aid, in part because that's what jesus tells them to do in matthew 25. so the fact that you've got a president supported by evangelicals, you've got elon musk who's not elected or anything but going around calling people that are working on these christian inspired or operations like pepfar, evil marxists. it's just preposterous. it's not even worth being angry about. it's just a lie and it's preposterous. and it is undermining the work they're doing based on their faith in jesus christ, not karl marx. yeah, joe. >> and i think we have to. there's so much to be angry about. b

. >> george w. bushground zero. >> the nation sends its love and pum passion. >> barack obama singing at the emmanuel church. ♪ amazing grace ♪ >> in speech, by bull horn, in song, and now, by executive memorandum. that's how donald trump used the oval office where reagan had eulogized the "challenger" astronauts. though the president had earlier declared an hour of anguish for our nation, for him, the hour only lasted a few minutes. he spent much of the remainder of this unique moment distributing blame. >> i put safety first. obama, biden, the democrats put policy first. and they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen. >> reporter: the starkest claim, the one behind the oval office signing ceremony that diversity programs had caused the crash that killed 67. >> you have a presidential memorandum titled meade assessment of aviation safety. in light of the damage done to aviation safety by the biden administration's dei and woke policies. >> when asked what proof he had that diversity was the cu

he's a former adviser to president george w. bush and former senator, the late senator john mccain. ood morning, mark. thanks for joining me. of course, as i mentioned, you work for bush and mccain. i want you to give me your big picture sense of how the gop has evolved on the issue of russia from the time of bush and mccain to how trump is dealing with putin now. >> good morning. >> yeah, that's. >> a great. >> question because. >> i've been thinking a lot. >> about that. >> you know. >> we're pretty focused on what's happening domestically and how trump is really taking a wrecking ball to a lot of tradition, expanding executive authority. but in the long term, history may record that the greatest impact he is having or will have is on foreign policy, because he is really. >> completely reshaping 80 years. >> of a consistent policy of supporting nato and our european allies and. >> and fighting russia. i mean, for the longest time that i can remember the sort of fundamental. >> tenet of. the republican party with mccain and bush was. >> that you stand. up to russia, you don't. stand

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crossing signal. [ light laughter ] trump repeatedly slammed the bush family and specifically george w. bushing wars in the middle east. >> the war in iraq has been a disaster. he started the war in iraq. am i supposed to be a big fan? we would have been so much better off if bush and the rest of them went to the beach and didn't do anything. >> seth: it's such a new york/new jersey insult to call someone useless by telling them to go to the beach. [ light laughter ] it sounds like something tony soprano would say to christopher after he screws up a robbery. "hey, how about next time instead of hijacking a truck, you and your stupid friends go to the [ bleep ] beach." "okay, tone, jesus. tone. all right." so trump slammed u.s. military interventions and claimed that he would radicalally transrm american foreign policy to stop meddling in other countries and start focusing on america. >> we are finally putting america first. [ applause ] our policy of never-ending war, regime change, and nation building is being replaced by the clear-eyed pursuit of american interests. we do not seek war. we

it'll be interesting to watch the republicans publicly remember, george w. bush had that humble foreign policy. can the united states say, i want the panama canal back, i want greenland now. i want gaza. and beyond that, john, think about what you were just this conversation, how undemocratic what the president of united states just said. a democracy is based on the idea of self-determination. one person, one vote. he essentially just said the palestinians don't count, right? he said they don't. he can he can remove them from their land in gaza because they've had it for a while and it's not working out. so see, you get out. we're going to take it over. and he also criticized the palestinian authority, saying they can't govern, which is a green light for bibi to do what he wants to do, prime minister netanyahu to do what he wants to do up in the west bank and all that. he praises the general. he doesn't like to call him the president of egypt because he likes to call him the general. and he called mbs mohammed bin salman, the leader of saudi arabia, a wonderful g

you showed george w. bush and joe biden and barack obama. it goes back before that as well. for an american president who's supposed to be the beacon of democracy to the world, saying, look, it hasn't worked. so i don't think it's your land anymore. sorry. you got to go, and i'm going to take it over. um, i have a few already from some european ambassadors saying what? they don't think this is going to happen. they're trying to figure out what the end game is. trump often throws up these incredibly big, blustery things because he has a goal somewhere down here beneath them, and they're trying to sort that out. but if you put it in the context of what you were talking about at the start of the program, we are two weeks and one day in and they're dismantling federal agencies. they're firing federal employees. they're trying to do away with things that if the congress would stand up to him and say, sir, we could talk about this, but actually the constitution says that's our job. this is a presidential power grab and present a view of presidential power. and now a view of americ

w bush is kinder gentler speech? peggy: i worked on that speech. that was george h w bush's acceptance speech.eter: is it true nancy reagan when she heard that said a kind letter, gentler what? peggy: i do not know. the way i heard it was that she had said kinder and gentler than what? i have no idea if she said that. i never asked her. but it has the sound of her piercing intelligence. so i think maybe, but i never asked. [laughter] peggy: peter: have -- how do you view your role as a public writer? peggy: i think it is challenging. maybe a little more challenging than it was in the 30's, 40's, 50's. i am a big reader of biographies and there is a biography of a wonderful american columnist, dorothy thompson, very important study mind, intelligent woman who was a key figure in the 1930's and 40's journalism. she caught onto hitler pretty early and had a serious foreign affairs mind. she was a big american columnist, new york-based. there is a wonderful biography of her called american cassandra whose author i cannot think of at the moment but when i read it i cannot help but compare the life

former adviser to both george w bush and john mccain. alex, i turn to you first. when a judge blocks an order, what does that really mean? right? like in people's minds, they're thinking, you know, the doj's team are putting their pencils down, grabbing their laptops and walking out. i'm guessing that's not happening. >> well. >> what it means. >> is that the. >> the judge is saying that. >> what's going on. >> is illegal and that there. >> needs to be a stop put. >> to it. >> and we're. >> now headed. >> towards this is some in some. >> ways, what we saw. >> eight years ago. >> at. >> the start. >> of the trump the first trump administration. >> when he faced. legal hurdles, legal pushback and some of his. >> early orders and his early actions then. >> so in some. >> ways, there's some echoes. >> of what we're. >> seeing play out eight. >> years ago. >> but like literally real time, the judge is saying someone needs to stop them. who's that person? what does it look like? because eight years ago, there wasn't a jd vance who was saying, the courts can't do this. i

president george. >> w. >> bush enjoyed it. it's just trump the first time around didn't this time he is. and so i think, you. >> know. >> i'm not saying you can. put it. >> past them. >> to do some of these things. >> i'm just saying. >> we don't know where this is going to end up yet, and we don't know where the politics of this is going to end up. once people are actually impacted by some of the things this new administration is doing. >> all right. >> let's talk about that nih cutting and, you know, sort of how we're making america healthy. again, the notion that the administration wants to cut billions of dollars in biomedical research, we're talking about things like cancer research, heart disease. what's the rationale here? dan, this is your jam. >> well, the. >> by the trump. >> administration last week, staff. moved abruptly. >> to. >> say that they were going. >> to cap. >> what universities and research organizations. >> got to cover. >> the. >> infrastructure of. >> research in the. >> united states. this is a big c

even george w. bush, "red, white, and blue land sounds dumb as [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] "and i'm the guy who said 'nucular.'" [ laughter ] and certainly the democrats have not covered themselves in glory on this one either. the establishment wings of both parties have plunged us into disaterous and unpopular forever wars, but at least biden was the one who finally got us out of afghanistan. and sure, as withdrawals go, it was not a good one. [ laughter ] the u.s. military left afghanistan like someone just yelled, "my parents are coming home from florida early." [ laughter ] "everybody's got to get out!" [ laughter ] but still, at least we were moving in the right direction, which was out. so, now let's hear the man who declared an end to nation building explain his plan for gaza. >> we're going to make sure that there's going to be peace and there's not going to be any problem, and nobody's going to question it. and we're going to run it very properly. and eventually we'll have economic development in a

you served in the george w bush administration as associate counsel to the president. so most of the 2 million people living in gaza would not want to leave. i think that's fair to say. if trump or someone were to try to forcefully remove them, is there anyone who could or would stop them, and would that even be legal under international law? >> well. >> you. >> know, jake, this is a difficult question. >> as you. >> know, we've seen what happens when even the israelis try to remove their. >> own settlers from gaza. >> when the settlements. >> were dismantled eight, ten. >> years ago. and so. >> this is a hard process. trying to physically remove. >> people will come at a huge cost. >> it will take a huge amount of u.s. troops and other troops to come in and do this. it will be a forced removal. it will not be pretty. it's hard to imagine this going anything but poorly. >> and arwa, after your time as a cnn correspondent, as i'm sure our viewers know, you did a lot of humanitarian work in gaza, focusing on children after this awful war broke out. explain to us what it

recollection last time there was a white tie dinner which is the most formal would have been when george w. bush and laura bush hosted queen elizabeth. usually it is a black-tie dinner for state dinner. >> first gentleman? >> it's going to be interesting to see if that happens. i don't know. i don't know if he would take on the traditional functions we understand the first lady would have or if someone else on the presidential staff would be designated to do that. the white house is a living breathing history container and it is always a falling and changing and that is an evolution we will take sooner or later. >> robert in newark, ohio. >>. glad i got the room. i have two questions. is it a myth or fact whether the presidents try to poison and the second question, when nelson mandela visited from south africa did he stay in one of the white house guest rooms? that's my two questions. thank you. >> a myth or fact that presidents at some point in history there was an attempted poisoning? >> not aware of that happening in the white house. very special care is taken to everything the president wil