california na not gone republican since george h.w. bush. >> host: in 1988. what do you think and how are you going to vote on the pop proposal to break california up into -- >> going to vote against it. based on my analysis, if you break california up into the three states they're proposing we'll have six more senators, four of. who will be democrat. don't want four more -- four plus more democrats in in the senate. it's tight enough as it is right now. >> host: how is your raid you show doing. >> awesome. i was in one market when we talked. now 300 markets including l.a., chicago, new york, philadelphia, every major market carries my show. their:almost is carried in more papers now and web sites than before. so larry elder inc. is doing fine use where can people find information. >> guest: my web site, i have a blog called eller statement.com and my books can be purchased on amazon, also my blog, elder statement.com, my books there are, click through and you can pick them up. >> host: a lot like me, growing up in south central l.a., were you angry as a chil

but he didn't initially receive the medal of honor, wasn't it 1991 when under president george h.w. bush his family received the medal of honor on his behalf and at the time he was the only african-american soldier to have been awarded the medal of honor for world war i. later on private henry johnson who also was in the 93rd division would be awarded the medal of honor by president obama but for another engagement earlier in the american attack. > watch the entire ture of the meusse-argonne cemetery at 10:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. this sunday veterans day on american history tv, president trump is in paris for a ceremony marking the centennial of the armistice that ended world war i. two million dough boys fought alongside french and british troops in 1917 and 1918. by wars end, 116,516 americans had died and over 200,000 had been wounded. you can watch the ceremony here on american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the c

. >> stowers would be awarded the medal of honor posthumously by president george h.w. bush. >> back in 1991, i think. now we have another african-american soldier that was awarded the medal of honor, private johnson. he was awarded two years ago, 2015, by obama. part of the 93rd. anright here you see american ambulance. usually they were fords. >> how many african-american soldiers saw action in the first world war? around 150,000? >> a little bit more than that. about 200,000 were in france, but many of them didn't actually see combat. they did labor battalion work or stevedore work back in the rear, unloading ships. only the 92nd and the composite combat. >> the 93rd was the famous harlem hellfighters. >> the harlem hellfighters also known as the harlem rattlers were a national guard unit mostly out of harlem, new york. a good shot of them cooking up potatoes. >> they were on line for moere days than other units. >> that's right. they saw significant action with the french. >> food supply, coffee. that's one of the happy moments in a soldier's life. >> the 92nd didn't see

administratione of george h.w. bushnd the presidential campaign of mitt romney. -- lanhee money chen chen back to bloomberg. that is pretty impressive, i must say. thent to start with some of projections we are getting. silver atk to nate 538 or the bettors in las vegas, they say they know what is going to happen, the democrats are going to take the house, and the senate is going to hold the republican majority. how reliable are polls like this? these are our best guesses. we know that are best guesses are often wrong. you look back to the 2016 cycle, did anyone really predict donald trump is going to win the states he won? there is a certain amount of reliability the polls give us. they tell us directionally where things are headed. overall, the shape of the race that the polls are predicting is probably right, but if there is one thing i would say, tomorrow we are probably going to be here talking about a surprise. one race or a few races that nobody saw coming. that is the challenge in relying too much on these polls

part of what happens is that the -- where you actually had a consensus between bill clinton, george h.w. bush, george w. bush and certainly ,lements of my administration when we wanted to get the transpacific ridership done -- ,rans-pacific partnership done we did not fully address the fact that although net-net, the whole world was doing better because of mobilization, the internet, global supply chains, there were folks whose factories were being closed and suddenly found themselves to be redundant workers. you suddenly had a winner , where back iny the 1960's, the ceo may be made 10 times more than the guy on the assembly-line, and now it is 200 or 200 times. and the capacity of nationstates to regulate global capital so that they have some control and say, let us speed things up, slow things down, that is ease the transition for commodities that are being hurt by -- transition for communities that are being hurt by whether it is automation or competition. that becomes harder to do because everybody is worried theirwhethe what orderly reports will look like on wall street. that creates con

expects us to lead and we won the cold war because every president, from harry truman through george h.w. bush was steadfast, whether they were democrats or republicans. we won the cold war, because we had alliances that leveraged our power and that we could rely on. and those alliances were evidenced by nature, of course, -- by nato of course, but by our , security agreements with japan and korea, in the economic sphere. the world bank, the imf, so on and so forth. those institutions were created by americans in order for us to do what the rest of the world needed to have done, and what was good for america. and i think it is still good for america. i don't think we ought to be denigrating those institutions, or attacking them. do they need some of them, reformation? absolutely. as someone who spent a lot of time working with the imf -- there is a good one, the u.n. -- there is another good one, even nato, this president is right in one respect, for sure. nato -- our european allies need to pay their way. what they have agreed to pay. we should not be required onever to pick up the tab that.

back in the '80s, george h.w. bushe will combat the greenhouse gas effect with the white house effect. this used to not be an argument between republicans and democrats. it was accepted science. what happened? >> this report was mandated by a law first passed under george h.w. bush in the late 1980s. the reason this report was issued is because it's the law. the trump administration split screen on climate change. they continue to cast doubt on scientific consensus of climate change. when the law is at hand they follow through. you saw that in a report. you see it in the fact that the ep harks has left alone a scientific finding on climate change so it's this split screen strategy that you're continuing to see. the one big reason why republicans don't acknowledge climate change and don't want to discuss policies to address it is because they think it will be too costly. >> an interesting point was this. this report will be used in significance ways, he says i can imagine a lawyer asking how can they acknowledge the ser

. >> and it has drawn comparisons to the ads supporting george h.w. bush in his campaign. >> getting prepared for the caravan. >> the president back in campaign mode this week, delivering a scorching message last night in florida, hoping to amplify voters' fears about immigration. >> a lot of rough people in the caravans, they are not angels. >> trump trying to make a caravan of central american migrants the central issue in midterms. >> a democratic victory election day would be a bright flashing invitation to traffickers, smugglers, drug dealers, and gang members all over the world, come on in. >> in an interview that same night, trump claiming to abc news the caravan is bigger than people think and mostly made up of young men. >> they can't invade our country. >> but the president provided zero evidence to back up his claims which he made despite reports showing the caravan has dwindled in size from 7,000 to 3500, and includes men, women and children fleeing violence and poverty. trump who said this on the campaign trail in 2016. >> i will never lie to

1991, under president george h.w. bush, his family received the medal of honor on his behalf. onlye time, he was the african-american soldier to be awarded the medal of honor for world war i. later on, private johnson, also in the division, would be awarded the president -- the medal of honor by president obama. another engagement earlier in the american attack. we're standing in front of the grave of frank lucas junior, a second lieutenant in the air service, which played a significant role in the muse argonne area. but frank luke had a unique job, sews a. -- so to speak. he was a balloon buster. can you tell us about the balloons in the war and why the americans and the french wanted to shoot them down? >> yes, infect balloons were used for observation -- in fact balloons were used for observation. balloons were flying everywhere over the battlefield, sometime lines,low into the throwing bombs also on the camps and everything. balloons were used as a weapon and observation, so shooting balloons was something very support and. -- very important. >> balloons took off. commandi

we have seen appointments even under h.w. bush. i understand that president george h.w. bush has acknowledged that probably his biggest mistake was nominating david souter for the supreme court. i understood it had come down to edith jones who is a wonderful america loving, brilliant jurist, former chief justice of the fifth circuit court of appeals in new orleans, but it came down to edith jones and david souter, nd that i was told by one of edith's close friends that she was asked to fly to washington and actually was at the white while ith david souter president george h.w. bush was rying to make up his mind. edith and suter were both waiting to find out who was going to be tabbed to go out into the rose garden, wherever they did it, to make the announcement who was going to be the nominee, and supposedly, i was told, hadn't confirmed, that had apparently was john sununu who said, i'm sure mrs. jones is a great jurist. would be a great jurist. i don't know her. but i know david will be a terrific supreme court justice. they said go get suter. ay suter was a bush appoin

then went to work for george h.w. bush, and -- [laughter] >> y'all, guess what, you'd love it if h.w. -- -- you'd love it if he was in the white house because he was an honorable man, dignified person, he treated people with respect, he had no -- not one iota of tolerance for racism 'when he was president and lee atwater was the chairman of the rnc and david duke ran for office in louisiana, they sent guys like me down there to kick he living crap out of david duck. a republican did that. and this president, this president, can't bring himself to denounce david duke in the campaign for weeks and finally does it like this. i disavow, okay? i disavow. it's as much as you can do in the face of a guy who is leader of the klu klux klan? i'm sorry, republican in my world would drag david duke into the street and horse win him. this party always had an element in it and we fought against it because we did have republican leaders at the top who were absolutely not tolerant. ronald reagan scorched the klan and david nuke a cpac spe

have controlled texas's seventh district since the late '60s when a young politician named george h.w. bush. fletcher's campaign was one of several that was part of the suburban revolt that helped democrats take back control of the house. democrats flipped at least 2 e se from okla to virginia. one key, according to a cbs news exit poll, suburban women voters swung dramatically into selection. 53% of women voted for democratic candidates compared scncprofessor mark jones. >> fletcher took advantage of the distaste among many of these republican voters for donald trump. >> reporter: jones says another factor was beto o'rourke's appeal and his ability to bring out new voters. >> beto o'rourke alone helps explain why we saw 12 representative seats flip from republican to democratic two state senate seats flip and two congressional seats flip. >> lizzie appealed to me and even to my republican husband because of what she stood for. >> reporter: republicans still control texas on the state and federal level, but jones set beto o'rourke's campaign could provide a blueprint for democrats to gain p

i was looking at a clip the other day of president h.w. bush running against ronald reagan, and they were having this same debate about the exact same issues, birth right citizenship came up in the debate. they didn't even resemble the democrats today. you know, president trump would write them off as mobbish thugs based on how sub missive they seemed to the situation. times have changed. and your party is dead quiet when it comes to opposing the president on this. they either say nothing, or they say it quietly. so how do you not expect your party to become exactly this? the party of fear and loathing? >> well, because, i saw today that carlos cabella from florida condemned this latest ad where they were saying democrats were looking the other way, or opening the borders so this terrible guy could come in, at least these what the chyrons were on the ad. it's completely and totally inappropriate. in the end we have to pick up the pieces after these campaigns. when your objective is to win -- there are ethical lines you should not cross. and i t

h.w. bush, wf withdrawn the nomination of brett kavanaugh with the amount of media uproar in the course of a weekment donald trump stood by his nominee rightfully and now we have brett kavanaugh. >> hang on, i'll get to you in a second. charlie, apart from-- let me get to a question. it seems like a part of what's changed in politics and the republican party and maybe it pressages for both parties, no longer carrying about the unicorn, mythical swing voters and play to the base, play to the base. >> i'm not being partisan here, you look at popularity numbers, that isn't working that great, but works because the base loves you. is that the new normal? >> the political philosophy that trump put forward is one healthier for a party. you strengthen your base and then you find two to three issues that the other side has ignored that does not compromise your core values or principles such as the diseffected working class in the middle of the country between manhattan and malibu and you talk about str

. >> former president george h.w. bush joined the millions of people voting early this year. this photo was ten in texas yesterday. that's his former chief of staff and secretary of state with him. also by hisside, his loyal service dog. >> we have some news about the nasty e.li outbreak. they said no one eat romaine lettnde from anywhere now they know what caused it. it started in an irrigation canal in yuma, arizona, but how that became contaminated in the first place is still the mystery. the outbreak killed five people and got hundreds of others very, very sick. metro wants to give you more ndtions for getting around. that s good, but to pull it off, they have to find a way to pay t price tag. yesterday metro leaders got together to discuss the budget propos ncoposal. it ides expanding rush hour service and only charging $2 a ride on theenso weekend. say it's a lot to ask andec could e the other transportation projects. they say commuters need these changes. >> public transportation, and this is something that we can't seem t get to, is not a lucks -- luxury. it's not a s

. >> what about george h.w. bush? so levin: it was less because we headed downwardly. it is hard when things go downwardly to move them up and there may not be any miracle. the presidents, regardless of differences of opinion, and regardless of stature, there was always a respect for the presidency. >> what about barack obama? was so talented. he was so dedicated. he had a strong views. dignity and a a ofse of purpose and a sense of seeking common effort. were were times where disagreed, on trade for example. presidency.the i think this president has diminished it. worked with aso number of speakers including tif o'neill, newt gingrich, and leader pelosi, and now paul ryan. how does the speaker set the tone for the house? they very much try, i think it newt gingrich very much succeeded because he came into power after a lot of acrimony. a lot of it. friendlierhad a much relationship. he is my neighbor. when i became ranking he would come here and i would go there. closeness,lways a even if there were differences of opinion. intimate but it was a friendship. i think tha

. >> in 2006, former presidents george h.w. bush and bill clinton were awarded the medal. >>> coming up, a strawberry contamination case, an arrest has been made in an incident that caused distress in the country. >>> and archeology, what they found in an ancient tomb. this is the "cbs morning news." would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications haven't worked well enough. and it helps people achieve control that lasts. so you can experience few or no symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sor

> reporter: the spot drew comparisons to the 1988 willie horton ad, produced by allies of -dorge h.w. bush, which painted nos opponent, then-democrat nominee michael dukakis, as soft on crime. critics called it a racially charged attack. in an interview last night aboard air force one, the geesident dismissed charges of racism. >> any time a republican is leading, they take out the "r" t rd, the racist word, and i'm ct anti-immigrant at all. i'm all for people coming into the country legally and people based on merit. >> reporter: tennessee republican bob corker, retiring from the senate in january, said the president is using immigration to his political benefit. >> it's all about revving up the base, and using fear to stimulate people coming out of the polls. >> glor: all right, major is in columbia, missouri tonight. major, the president is in missouri today. he will be back on monday for the huge mccaskill-hawley senate race. how-- how concerned is the white house right now about the senate? >> reporter: well, concerned leough, jeff, to be traveling relentlessly, and creating national

and then one worked for george h.w. bush and guess what? you word love it if he was in the white house right now. do you h know, why? he was a dignified person and treated people with respect and not one iota of tolerance for racism. when lee atwater was chairman and david duke ran for office, they send guys like me out there that was a republican. this president cannot bring himself to denounce david duke than finally he says he is disavowed. okay? i disavow that is the most you can do? but a republican in my world would drag them into the street to horse with him. this party always had an element we pretend that it wasn't there because we did have republican leaders at the top ronald reagan scorched the plan in a c pack speech. i'm surprised they don't have a white hood concession stand. so where these people whistling to the volume of the air raid siren. i don't know the rules here but i do have a notoriously salty tongue. [laughter] . >> are you on a 72nd delay? . >> but as profiles of chickenshit. [laughter] i'm told i should not say t

right away.the official presidential turkey pardon became the norm in 1989 when president george h.w. bushon, which is now a staple of the white house holiday season. president donald trump: i've never seen such a beautiful turkey.at the ceremony in the rose garden tuesday, president trump also taking the time to give thanks for what he said were "many blessings", president donald trump: we give thanks to god who continues to shed his almighty grace up this magnificent land. asking the american people to pray for the victims of the california wildfires, and thanking god for the men and women who serve in our military,president donald trump: we send our eternal gratitude to the heroes who keep america safe, strong, proud, prosperous, and free. and with that the president wished the nation a happy thanksgiving before taking off to mar-a-lago for a long holiday weekend.in washington, i'm camila bernal reporting. something to be thankful for...thanksgiving dinner will be a little cheaper this year. according to a new survey... the average cost of a feast to feed ten people will be 48 dollars a

all of us had expected it was governor clinton was challenging president george h.w. bush. all of us expected clinton would win, but it was a competitive race, but that it sure seemed like clinton had in the vintage. the early exit polls started coming in that showed clinton with a massive lead over president trump. excuse me, over president bush. that just didn't reflect that all the race we have been watching so closely. so we were busy scrambling around, trying to concoct in her mind a rationale, and next donation for why it seemed to be taking this completely unexpected turn peered over the course of the afternoon as more data came in, more exit polls came in and started closing down to the point where it ended up being about where we expect it'd to be to begin with, but they were incredibly misleading. and then you remember the experience with john kerry and president george h.w. bush in 2004. based on the 92 experience, i actually made arrangements to have lunch with a friend over in connecticut because i didn't want to get consumed by the polls that i didn't hunt an

lincoln and george h.w. bush. some thing he'll run for the other tex tks senate seat john cornyn.ill texas get that much bluer in two years. and editor of texas monthly magazine who wrote this piece the success -- most texans know that when you fall off a horses the best thing to do is get right back on again. i guess the question is what horse does he get back on? >> i know trump has proven anybody can run and anyone can run. it's a little more reasonable and i think he's proven he can do it. if you compare this election to wendy davis ran against governor abbott and he just smeared her. i think he's proven he can make new voters in texas. he ehas also proven he can raise money nationally. i think it's a little premature if we're living in a rational universe. >> where on the continuum of democrats if biden is the more sentrist and bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are further to the left where, do we know bernie is andian think we don't quite know. i thing cruz tried to paint him as this crazed leftist who was dpoeing to let cross the boarder. he's got to tell us more about hi

have controlled texas' seventh district since the late '60s, when a young politician named george h.w. bush seat. fletcher's campaign was one of several that was part of the suburban revolt that helped democrats take back control of the house. democrats flipped at least 29 house seats, from oklahoma to virginia. one key, according to a cbs news exit poll, suburban women voters swung dramatically in this election. 53% of women voted for democratic candidates, compared to only 47% in 2014. rice university political science professor mark jones: >> fletcher took advantage of the distaste among many of these republican voters for donald trump. >> reporter: jones says another factor was beto o'rourke's appeal and his ability to bring out new voters. >> beto o'rourke alone helps explain why we saw 12 texas house representatives seats flip from republican to democratic, two state senate seats flip, and two congressional seats flip. >> lizzie appealed to me and even to my republican husband, because of what she stood for. >> reporter: republicans still control texas on the state and federal level.

even good, decent people, like george h.w. bushwithout a racist bone in his body, nevertheless ran the willie horton ad, but then he governed in a completely different way. he did not govern in the way that you would expect from somebody who ran the willie horton ad. and i think that caused a cognitive dissonance for a lot of republican voters. they felt that they had been two-timed, because a lot of these republican campaigns had led them to expect one kind of leader, and, instead, they got another which was much more moderate. >> where does the never-trump movement go? >> probably to a bar for some heavy drinking. >> for some heavy drink? no, but for you, i mean, does being never-trump mean reflexively being against everything that trump stands for or is it possible to still separate and detach some of his policy achievements? for example, if he were to return to the tpp and renegotiate it and make it a better deal. how do you, as a never-trumper, navigate sort of the policy outcomes versus the need to reflexively stand against d

former writer for george h.w. bush bill mcgern is here.omentum and history have been on the democrat side. should republicans stay home fearing they of lose? >> well, you mean if republicans stay home. they will lose. yes. i think history point is important. we alike this is unique. most important election of our time, but historically the party that controls white house takes a hit, president obama took 63 seat loss, i think. and president clinton lost not quite as many in 94. kennedy: i remember that. >> and healthcare. i think only one that done lose of george w. bush. that was a 9/11 exception. kennedy: no clear difference aigd between the parties we were on same side. >> for a few brief months. kennedy: very few brief months. now democrat want to turn their back on that part where they voted for border protect. you look at house versus senate, president chosen to put his weight behind senate races, i think brett kavanaugh hearings added to his advantage and his choice. people see how important it is for the party they belong to, to be

all of us expected it was governor clinton was challenging president george h.w. bush. i think all of us expected that clinton would win but that it would be, it was a competitive race but that it sure seems like clinton had an advantage and the early exit polls started coming in that showed clinton with this massive lead over president trump. xcuse me, over president bush. and that just didn't reflect at all the race that we had been watching so closely. so we were busy scrambling around trying to concoct in our mind a rather than neal, an for why this election seemed to be taking this completely unexpected turn. over the course of the election seemed to be taking this completely afternoon, as more data came in, it started closing down to the point where it ended up being about where we expected it to be to begin with but where the first rounds of exit polls were incredibly misleading. then you remember the experience with john kerry and president eorge h.w. bush in 2004. where people -- and based on the 1992 experience, i had made arrangements to have lunch with a fri

happens is that the globalization that you actually had a concensus between bill clinton, george h.w. bushgeorge w. bush, and certainly elements of my administration that we wanted to get the trans-pacific partnership done, for example, tpp. concensus arn free trade or -- it didn't fully address the fact that although net-net the whole world was doing better because of globalization and the internet and global supply chains, there were folks who-- whose factories were being closed and suddenly found themselves to be redundant workers and you suddenly had a winner take all economy where back in 1960 maybe the ceo makes ten times more than the guy on the assembly line. now suddenly it's 200 times, or 300 times and the capacity of nation states to regulate global capital. so at least they have some control where they say, you know what? let's speed things up, slow things down, let's ease the transition for communities that are being hurt by, you know, whether it's automation or foreign competition, that becomes harder to do because everybody's just worrying about what their quarterly reports

i was in kiev in early august 1991 when president george h.w. bush went there and gave a speech urging the ukrainians you're better off with the russians, stay where you are. it was a complete misreading of the situation at the time. the u canians were bent to get out of the soviet union and in short order, they did. there was a hard line coops -- boris yeltzen stood up on a tank outside the russian white house. gathered hundreds of thousands of protestors. the coops was thwarted. the soviet union was on its last legs. in december of 91, it ceased to exist. back in august, when the coops was lost, yeltzen suddenly appeared as the most powerful figure in russia. the bush administration and most persons, including a younger foreign corspendent named me believed -- made the mistake of believing that russia has become a democracy overnight. the same exact mistake americans made in 1917, believing that a corrupt, dysfunctional, incompetent government could overnight become a working, functional democracy. and that doesn't happen. it doesn't happen in 1917

president george h.w. bush is fine. he misses bar. he is in good spirits. he will head back to houston in october. george and i believe that his parents have showed us the way to age with grace. bar used to walk her dogs on the beach twice every day. she would walk her dogs both times a day. then a couple of summers ago, she used to walk with a walker. last summer, she could not walk on the beach, so she wildly drove her golf cart across the beach with her little dogs running behind her for exercise. [laughter] she used to say enjoy life. don't cry over things that were or things that aren't. enjoy what you have now to the fullest. from george's parents we have learned that all we have is now. so take advantage of your life as it is. and walk on the beach every chance you get. now we will get to hear from five of her grandchildren. they will reflect on how their lives have been shaped from the lessons she taught them. i am happy to introduce ellie. now.is she coming? ellie is first. [applause] she works for a health care nonprofit and she recently wrote a b

the democrats know if the president caves and raises taxes, it's a george h.w. bushnell all over again. >> i don't think he'll cave on that. he's talking about tax cut 2.0 and making the tax cuts permanent. liz: there is a new wave of republicans coming in. maybe they are more energetic standing behind the president. >> the bottom line is this. republicans will want to stay in power. i think that they are going to stick this one out. it will be a tough battle. we are talking about the future. we can't see it yet. when the market is volatile. of course, there will be some scepticism. i think this president is committed to it. they will have to find another ray to reel back spending. liz: remember when reagan did this tax cuts, the economy started booming, starting from 1983 to 1989. >> it was. he took intense scrutiny when he was doing it. i think we'll see a similar thing here. liz: he'll stand firm like reagan. >> he should. liz: you have got to write your thanksgiving dinner survival guide. lee, you are so great. coming up. migrants starting to pour into the border

districts that were flipped in texas, one of them the republicans have held for 52 years since george h.w. bush first won that seat in 1966. a powerful 18-year member from texas just knocked out -- no one in his district seemed to care he was the chairman of aproepgs subcommittee and could do the district some good. none of the old moves are working in those kinds of districts for republicans. >> that's right. a couple of things we're seeing as the political demographics, the heartbeat of the country's politics are moving further away from where republicans are. and republicans seem to be moving further away from the i would be rather going in the democratic position in 2020 right now. you've got to hold your gains and pick up a bit more. there's not enough red star bursts in the world to keep kevin mccarthy from going into check in 2020. but here's the important thing, lawrence, when we get there races are all about contrast. contrast between the two candidates. and that's where democrats have to decide, who is their voice, what is their message in 2020, and also be prepared. i do think we're

>> reporter: the spot drew comparisons to the 1988 willy horton ad produced by allies of george h.w. bushted his opponent, then democratic nominee michael dukakis, as soft on crime. critics called it a racially charged attack. in an interview last night aboard air force one, the president dismissed charges of racism. >> any time a republican is leading, they take out the "r" word, the racist word, and i'm not anti-immigrant at all. i'm all for people coming into the country legally and people based on merit. >> reporter: tennessee republican bob corker, retiring from the senate in january, said immigration to his political benefit. >> it's all about revving up the base, using fear to staple late people coming out at the snools but the white house also sees political opportunity in trump-carried states like here in missouri, montana, indiana and florida looking for a mid-term split political decision, losses in the house, possibly even the majority but gains in the senate. that would be historically unusual, but in the trump era many things politically are. >> one of the most closely watch

this has been a republican district when george h.w. bush was in congress since 2001 defending against wendy fletcher democrats. hillary clinton one this district from the last presidential race. mitt romney won it in 2012 so they believe that the trendlines are in their favor. especially tuesday night watching these key seats that are truly contested to give us an idea how things are going as tuesday develops. jon: former president obama is not to be outdone campaigning tonight in chicago we have some video of that in just a moment. on behalf of democrats in chicago. the president was in indiana next door earlier today against that and then he moved over to chicago we will have some more highlights from you for you for the president's former address payment despite concerns about safeguarding the department of homeland security says the midterms are likely the most secure elections the us has ever conducted. we have more with that exclusive interview homeland security secretary reporter: with any successful activity that we can attribute sp

[applause] george h.w. bush and former first lady laura bush will be awarded the liberty medal in philadelphia. a former vice president joe biden, vice chair of the senators board of trustees -- and live at 5 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the free radio app. coming up this weekend, tonight at eight: 05 eastern, new york times magazine talks about her book, to obama with love, joy anger and hope. >> the woman with the gold tooth was ingrained at a rally in south carolina. folksl gathering of local needing something to do. out with looking emptiness. fired up and ready to go. the woman with the gold tooth abruptly shouted. people began to chant and in an instant the rally went from dismal. it shows you what one voice can do. that one voice can change the room a year later. if the voice can change a room it can change a city. cook's republican senator from nebraska talks about his book, "them: why we hate each other and how to heal." -- i thinkthink political tribalism is filling the vacuum of dec

when george h.w. bush provided troops to hurricane andrew weeks before his election, were there political implications? yes. when george w. bush deployed troops' after today trin a, some people thought he didn't send enough and get enough done. but to suggest that this is a phoney issue. the president did not create the caravan crisis. he's not creating the issue at the border math that may be a human wave stampede. he didn't start that. he's trying to do something about it. trish: well put. general, thank you. happy thanksgiving. the president on twitter furious over the 9th circuit's ruling over asylum restrictions. the 9th says he's wrong. the president labeled the judge who ruled against the restrictions a quote obama judge. tonight the chief justice of the supreme court john roberts is getting into the act saying we do not have obama judges or trump judges or bush judges or clinton judges. we have an extraordinary group of judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.

president george h.w. bush received the award in 2006. i'm anita vogel. levin. am back with chip roy, and jim jordan. jim, president of united states through his chief of staff tells attorney general he wants his resignation he is a decent man, there may have been a mismatch in terms of department of justice. and so, they appoint his chief of staff of former u.s. attorney to be acting attorney general. we have so-called tv experts saying that is not right, that is wrong. then we get the gaggle of leftists saying, it is a constitutional crisis unless acting attorney general recuses himself from investigation, he had nothing to to with anything. why should he recuse himself? >> he shouldn't. mark: meanwhile rod rosenstein is there with all kinds of conflicts. >> you are right, he should not recuse himself, and rod rosenstein has had a conflict from the beginning. he wrote the memo saying it is an be on vehicl obstruction of e have pointed this out. mark: he is a witness. >> of course, we pointed it out sunday one but mr. rosenstein, says no, it is time. we have as

that's how george h.w. bush, george w. bush, and ronald reagan, they won the suburbs, and not anymore. that's where the democrats have a stronghold. republicans, the rural states, that's republican. the map is changing. a realignment of voting groups if you look at the map. i want to show you something. focus on the blue here. democrats are coming back some, if you look at the house map. go all the way back. here's the last democratic majority, after obama wins big. democrats get 257 seats. look at the blue. it's everywhere. the democrats are winning just about everywhere. here's what happened in the tea party election. the blue disappears. you have the next tea party election, more of it disappears. you have the area where the democrats have it on the coasts and the demographics. look at the areas very red. some comeback. some pieces of comeback for the democrats. still largely happening on the coasts, democrats will be happy about the midwest tonight. not with the governors' races. they'll be happy with pickups here. you

in a time when we are divided by tribe, -- ronald reagan wouldn't say it, george h.w. bush clinton wouldn't say it, george w. bush wouldn't say it and barack obama wouldn't say it. but president trump said that and he said it in europe. >> tucker: george w. bush wouldn't say it? [laughs] you are not winning me over. that's not an argument, that's motivation observation. >> ami: that where it is now a loaded term based on what happened in the 1920s and 30s and you know it. nationalism is not the benign -- you know, teddy roosevelt -- >> let's reclaim that word. you defeated the, americans died to defeat them, and that has nothing to do with what we are trying to do. and, we are out of time. the florida situation couldn't get any weirder, a former presidential candidate from the next time around is getting involved. what is the plan? we'll tell you you after the break. vascepa, along with diet and exercise, has proven results in multiple clinical trials. vascepa looks different because it is different. over a decade of extensive research and development achieved proven result

. >>> the former president george h.w. bushrday in his home state of texas. bush 41 was captured at the booth flanked by long time friend jim baker, his former secretary of state turned chief of staff and his adopted yellow has been d labrador service dog. >>> why investigates aors are focused on roger stone. >>> plus, bill karins has a check of the weekend forecast. (burke) that's what we call a huge drag. seriously, that's what we call it. officially. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ but one blows them all out of the water. hydro boost from neutrogena®. with hyaluronic acid to plump skin cells so it bounces back. neutrogena® >>> welcome back. former trump campaign members have reportedly thoeld special counsel robert mueller's team that in the lead-up to the 2016 election roger stone pitched himself as a way for the campaign to get information from wikileaks. former campaign chief steve bannon contacted stone after wik

president h.w. bush went to have thanksgiving dinner in saudi arabia in 1990s.f an surprise. see it's not out of the ordinary that the white house has not publicly announced whether president trump will make one of those unexpected visits. however some are frankly disappointed that president trump has not yet visited american service members in a combat zone, not just on a holiday but at all. he's been in office 666 days now. let's geback to president obama's administration. president obama first visited camp victory in baghdad 77 days into his administration. afghanistan on day 342 and president george w bush he didn't go to afghanistan until 216. -- 2006. vice president mike pence, he made a surprise visit to troopess in afghanistan just before christmas. jared kushner went to iraq. when president trump was asked why he had not visited trooped in a combat zone. quote i will do that at some point but i don't think it's overly necessary. i've been very busy with everything that's taking place here. the president has visited troops in south korea and elsewhere la

willie horton from the 1988 democratic versus dukakis versus george h.w. bush. he was geared towards trying to have race baiting fear mongering talking about the weekend furlough program in massachusetts that dukakis was a fan of. the person was able to get out on the weekend and committed an assault and a rain of a white woman. that fired the kkk prop gappeda. this is not about black americans, but a black male and the race-based fear mongering used towards people who are undocumented in this country and the person featured in the particular advertisement. somebody who was convicted of having killed two california deputies and was the antethesis of the president's law and order society and using this notion of who was coming here and who else democrats let in. i had to check my calendar to figure out what year i was in. it's clear as dana talks about, it's not the covert methods, but the avert uses of trying to show that the democrats are not law-abiding or law and order. that the president's party and the republicans are instead. you see this from time to time

ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. in 1980, we forget this. the new york times had 10 battleground states. texas was one of those battleground states. this was a movement that took place over a number of decades. the kind of campaign he ran and the governing that he did were enormously attractive. margaret: with two democrats. karl: he came into office and developed a close working relationship with two very tough, hard to deal with, but very smart democrat who cared about texas. when the young governor, baseball boy from dallas proved to both of them that he had the smarts, a vision and a willingness to work hard, that helped bring about a lot of positive changes that reinforced his message. >> so we had plenty of partisans back in the 90s. >> margaret: you were one of them. >> i was not. i was in the mainstream media. why wasn't this blowing up? there is something different about this period. >> one of the things that i think has always helped, it is a part-time legislature, so you only have one object 40 days to get things done. let's be ho

hostile rhetoric leads to hostile actions and joe biden touched on all of this at an event with george h.w. bushlisten to what the former vice president had to say about that. >> as president bush was my opposition as chairman of foreign relation committee, he was never my enemy. think how demeaning our politics has become in terms of how we talk about one another. as the opposition, not enemies. >> sorry, george w. bush event. what is the answer to tamping down the rhetoric? when i posed this to the white house, what they have said is, well, the president is a counterpuncher. any time he perceives somebody in the media or anywhere saying something that he perceives as not being friendly to him, he counterpunches with an insult. what do we do with that? >> we need to listen to joe biden. he's absolutely right. and the times when our government has worked, even tough partisan times, president reagan, speaker o'neill, president clinton, speaker gingrich. ultimately, they got together and made big things and good things happen for the country. now, there have been some encouraging signs from presid