first late laura bush was to realize this. lady byrd johnson vietnam. ore have risen to the challenge. >> these kinds of events are what test your resolve and certainly someone like laura bush drew from her inner reserves of strength. >> anita mcbride, a featured expert in "first ladies revealed" served as chief of staff for first lady bush and also worked as a personal assistant for george w. bush and atz white house personnel. anita joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> this is such a great series. they talk about how a first lady's personal style can make an imprint. how? >> there's a lot of power to style. you have an example with someone like jackie kennedy who really still in our history is so iconic and the fact that she really understood the power of images. and as a young first lady, again, prior to her being first lady, the average was 49 years old. here she was 31 years old. and the impact of a youthful side of our country was really important. >> and with young kids in the white house. they also talked about ho

. >> what was laura bush's reaction? >> my mom is calm. she can shut us down with one look. she never needs to raise her voice. she is so calm but not happy. let's be honest. she also found it sort of hilarious. i faked my own kidnapping >> there was a long term story about you, a tollbooth, yale and cars. >> it was unintentional. >> by the way, this is how the world was back then. i don't even know this story. i was with friends. oddly enough we were going to a pro-wrestling federation in new york later. i was driving and i was in a car that had a toll pass. we went through and secret service didn't -- >> you have to include this. >> we lost them because they didn't have the pass and someone in my dorm wrote about it. >> you have to write about thatism i am tired of being the own bad twin >> margaritas, austin. will that be in the book? >> sure will. >> when we write about our precious gampy and things he said that move me to tears that is easy to write. it meant so much to me. writing about margaritas and not that it was easy to write or i feel guilt. but it wasn't the cra

a former staffer of laura bush.5 morning update. >>> good morning. it's 8: 256789 i'm michelle griego. the city of san jose distributing lawn signs to remind people that fireworks are illegal there. people can also report illegal fireworks anonymously. in morgan hill, anyone caught in possession of discharging fireworks faces triple the normal fine. the base fine will be $300 instead of $100. traffic and weather in just a moment. >>> good morning. time is 8:26 and we are tracking a pretty light ride if you're heading out the door and you're heading through oakland. here's 880 moving well in both directions. no delays through 238 to the maze. out of hayward, that's the westbound direction heading to foster city, a 13-minute ride. and 101 at 380 north of sfo, traffic is doing fine in both directions. if you're heading out of town, you shouldn't have trouble getting to the airport. but a foggy ride. look out for that if you're making your way through the north bay heading across the golden gate bridge. no delays or acc

. >> host: what is laura bush's demeanor. >> my mom is unbelievably calm. she can sit us down with one look. never even needs to raise her voice.ra she is so calm and she was not happy, to be honest. i can't help but think found it sort of hilarious. maybe not. after you had to tell the secret serviceman you had not been kidnapped. >> i faked my own kidnapping. >> host: you say the store heries are inaccurate but there was a long term story about you, toll booth, yale, cars. yale, >> that did in fact happened but unintentional. >> you didn't write about that. >> that is not that good of a story. >> by the way, this is how, how the world was back then. i don't even know this story. >> i was with friends from yale. oddly enough we were boeing to a pro-wrestling federation event in new york. >> what?t? >> i don't know.w. >> we'll be with chris jericho by the way. >> chris jericho is here. we can relive the story. i driving with friend back from new york through one of the tolls. i was car had to pass. we went through. secret service -- >> we have one week, you

they are joined by laura bush and all three discussed transition programs for veterans and their families. health care concerns. president bush: laura and i are honored you all came. thank you for opening your door to the concerns about our vets. i want to thank david for being here, secretary of president trump will sign the bill. this will give you some tools to reform the v.a.. if anybody can reform the v.a., you can. you are a strong leader and we're happy to have your service for our country. [applause] a lot of times, you hear people gripe about the v.a.. it's important for our citizens to care deeply about our vets transition. this today, three educators from three parts of the country. it spends a lot of time on veterans issues. my predecessor at the bush center is now head of the from they of north i university of texas system. a meaningful higher education. they felt a little out of place. primarily because of age and partly because of experience. i want to thank you for being here. we have a lot of that's here today. i wish you would stand out so we could recognize you. vets an

anita mcbride she's the former chief of staff to first lady laura bush. our show. always so good to see you. >> great to be with y the first two parts already aired. >> yes, they have. >> two more to go. it really shows behind every great man there is a great wo woman. >> absolutely. there is and first ladies throughout our history have really had an impact on our country, and they've left their mark. >> you were featured in the very first one which was -- each one has a theme. first one was that all about style. and the power of style that a first lady has. >> absolutely. and not an issue to be diminished because it really can set the tone for what a presidency is like and the first lady that was featured quite a bit in episode one is jackie kennedy, of course, we think of her as a style icon. but i don't know the style of her clothes is the impact she had on her arts and humanities and historic preservation for our country. >> one thing about her that a point i heard you mack that was just eye opening, at the time the first ladies average age was 49. >>

first ladies in times of war, which is such an important role to help comfort the nation like laura bushy chance. those that didn't expect to be in the role. lady bird johnson came at a time of such national grieving, after the assassination of jfk. and had that famous line, people look at the living and they wish for the dead. that's how she started as first lady. ainsley: i want to play a clip for our audience. this is the clip that highlights laura bush's life. you know her well, watch. >> this thank you. >> certainly somebody like laura bush drew from inner reserves of strength. >> laura bush after 9/11 became a different first lady. she really had to confront this issue head on, the fact that the nation was at war. ainsley: you bring up a good point in that because everybody can be going great and then all of a sudden something happens, there is breaking news, have you a tragedy like 9/11 and everyone turns to the president and first lady to see how they are going to respond. >> absolutely. at this point this was september of nine months into the administration. already started with

. >> speaking of mothers you write with laura bush was the families closet hippy. >> she was. little known fact. growing up we always had music playing. a number of other memories i was just thinking about when i was nine. everyone was getting new kids on the block. she wouldn't say this because she was so demure and wasn't controlling but wanted us to have good music taste. i'm working for the today show and it's really fun. i literally ran for days. mom, they told me not to go, she literally said that. i literally sprinted in the opposite direction on the steps of the white house we spent all these years trying to hide from the media and now i work for them which is ironic but awesome because it shows life is unexpected and if you are still rigid about what you want your life to be then you can never experience the beauty of growing and changing. and i think it also shows you can't judge people. i had these stereotypes of people i worked with. savanna guthrie is one of my best friends and is here today with a children's book, princesses wear pants. she's one of my next-door

he throws pretty laura bush also made an appearance where she revealed a secret pet name for the president that would be bush i. they can't get off the ranch >> jim, that story -- george bush, he had a the lot of his own nicknames for people that were in his administration. was it maybe the fema director he called brown i. david gregory, he was -- >> he called him stretch. it made me realize that we do not have big names around here. is that a good thing >> i feel like maybe the nicknames we use couldn't be used on tv. the only thing i call you anything other than jim, it's not appropriate. i said this before and i think -- how do you feel when i yell your name across the news room? when people see my last name, i almost see it as the pejorative. i feel like i used to get yelled the at being called low kay. p someone uses your full name, first, middle and last -- do you know my middle name? >> elizabeth? >> (laughter). i don't know. what is it >> it is samuel in honor of my father who served h this country very distinguishly years ago who is more of a than i will ever be so i'm proud to ro

i was also honored to support the efforts of first lady laura bush to provide access to education to afghan women and girls. her daughter, barbara bush, i understand, is -- i understand she is going to be here today, and she is carrying out her mother's work on the half of the most vulnerable population. i am delighted that barbara is on the program this afternoon. boy, are you lucky. the first lady laura bush, the labor department provided funding to purchase , school uniforms for girls in afghanistan, something so simple so that impoverished afghan families can send their daughters to school. as you know so well, girls could not attend schools under the taliban, and today, hundreds of thousands of young afghan girls and young women have access to education. also -- the i nation's interdepartmental task force on child trafficking. our goal was to strengthen against child trafficking, which is another manyhed that devastates so of the world's most vulnerable women and girls. i will share one more story, a wonderful story. we achieved gender equity in our during myship team tenure as

. >> host: speaking of mothers, you write that laura bush was the family closet hippy and last nazarian >> guest: she was. the low back. our mom loves music. she loves reggae, loves it. so growing up we always had reggae music playing. we have a number of experiences with our mom going to hear great music started in first grade, paul simon was on tour. so my mom took us with a but, of course, when you're in first grader about this tall sweat stood on the contrary deceits. i will never forget it. and that a number of other memories i was just thinking about when i was nine at camp, you could get one care package and people would buy to parents anesthetists and a cd. it was a big gift of a cd playr of the tiger ivy was getting like new kids on the block in the mail, and my mom sent me bob dylan live at budapest. which i love. >> i made her love it. she really wanted -- she would say this because she ask if she was patrolling but i think deep inside she want us to good music case. >> she loved van morrison so much that i as a child was convinced she is going to leave my dad for van morriso

i am trying with every ounce of channeling my inner laura bush and try to be as positive as i can be. that is the best i could do for you. host: i have to you about this picture of mr. bush because it is quite an embrace. guest: i have a real bond with the bush family because of the time i spent on the campaign trail. and i want to see, george h.w. the show airing on hbo and i'm very proud of that. there have been rumors of his health not being, in and out of the past few months. i am proud that he agreed to participate to read at the preamble of the constitution for my show and all the living presidents participated. it is not a documentary, it is a document. it is no politics. here are the actual document. it is only 40 minutes. you just have to watch and then go off and put on your fireworks and eat your burgers and do whatever it is you do. you have to do in these forests -- you have to do at least 40 minutes of something pro-american. pelosi andture of a bush bonding this fourth of july makes everyone feel a tiny bit of patriotism, it should. everybody who performs for me in poli

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i am trying with every ounce of channeling my inner laura bush and try to be as positive as i can be. that is the best i could do for you. host: i have to you about this picture of mr. bush because it is quite an embrace. guest: i have a real bond with the bush family because of the time i spent on the campaign trail. and i want to see, george h.w. the show airing on hbo and i'm very proud of that. there have been rumors of his health not being, in and out of the past few months. i am proud that he agreed to participate to read at the preamble of the constitution for my show and all the living presidents participated. it is not a documentary, it is a document. it is no politics. here are the actual document. it is only 40 minutes. you just have to watch and then go off and put on your fireworks and eat your burgers and do whatever it is you do. you have to do in these forests -- you have to do at least 40 minutes of something pro-american. pelosi andture of a bush bonding this fourth of july makes everyone feel a tiny bit of patriotism, it should. everybody who performs for me in poli

laura bush there, presidents clinton and bush. tony is right there in the center.. cue see him on the right-hand side. there he is on stage with the two presidents. >> dana: he sent you a lot of pictures. antonio, so proud of from you dad. >> kimberly: handsome man. >> dana: golden retriever named storm known for rescue of baby deer. the storm jumped into long island sound, rescued the off and on. broughfawn and nudged it to make sure it was alive. the deer ran back into the water again. it was rescued by the strong island rescue. now the fawn is recovering from ticks and eye injury at local animal shelter. amazing dog. >> kimberly: i love that one more thing. >> jesse: another dog video. >> kimberly: yesterday i had the pleasure of being on my friend's show steve hilton he had a surprise for me kimberly food court. take a look. >> so what is the verdict, kimberly? >> kimberly: oh my god, i give it a 10 and so did the russian judge. >> very juicy, steve. i suggest you wear a bibs. >> kimberly: so delicious. called impossible burger. it tastes like meat and looks li

laura bush and presidents clinton and bush and tony is in the center.stage with the former presidents. >> he sent you lots of pictures. >> antonio, so proud of you, from dad. >> so handsome. amazing. >> there's a golden retriever named storm and is a hero for the rescue of a baby deer. he was with his owner when he jumped into long island sound and rescued it and nudged it to make sure it was alive. the deer ran back in the water again and was rescued by the rescue and the fawn is recovering from ticks and an eye injury in an animal shelter. >> another dog video. >> so yesterday i had the pleasure of being on my friend's show the nef revolution, steve hilton and the food court. take a look. >> what is the verdict, kimberly? >> i give it a 10 and so does the russian judge. >> very juicy, steve. i suggest you wear a bib of sorts. >> it was so delicious. it's called the impossible burger and tastes like meat and looks like meat but it's made of other things and we think we have to do a little taste test here to see if the crew can decide and figure it out.

they are joined by laura bush and all three discussed transition programs for veterans and their families. health care concerns.

and then finally with laura bush and karen hughes and others under george w.e house they began to get coeducation and girls education. they had much less time to prepare because of the visa problems, the afghan team is not expected to take top honors but they can win one of the prizes today for teams that have a can do attitude who have shown they can overcome obstacles and certainly these girls have shown that. for more, tune into to "nbc nightly news." we'll show you more of the competition. >>> ready to deal. with the senate health care bill dead at least for now, will democrats be willing to work with republicans on a new health care plan? we'll talk to maggie hasan, democrat from new hampshire, joining us next. before fibromyalgia, i was on the go. i kept on top of things. then the chronic, widespread pain slowed me down. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. he also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, lyrica can significantly relieve

[laughter] former president bush: laura did not bring the coffee. [laughter] former president bush: i think the thing that startled me, was, the sense of having no responsibility. in other words, and during the presidency, you become a custom to responsibility you have. slowly but surely it becomes a natural part of your life. you wake up the next day and you have no responsibility. that was probably the most stunning thing for me. >> when you build try to do something you have someone on the opposite political party saying it is a terrible idea, oh it is hard to get is done in washington. maybe harder than it has ever been now. when you are a former president, is it easier to get things done? former president bush: it depends on what you are trying to do. former president clinton: you have to realize what you do not have and what you do. it is really true that -- i love the job and i loved all those responsibilities. it is amazing how every day is taken up by being president and the incoming fire. nobody said, what are you guys going to do if al qae

teen mom negative -- a young mom and then i read some years ago it was also the favorite book of laura of bush i found that fascinating but that is one that stuck with me and has to this day. >> what is currently on your nightstand and grandchildren's nightstands?. >> i have stacks on the floor. they have of lot of books but i just finished a terrific book and i was totally captivated by called jersey brothers. three brothers during world war two all in the navy one is a prisoner of war in the philippines the other is in the fleet working with the admirals' who are waging the war in the pacific end of the third, and the admiral started off in the white house says the naval aide to roosevelt and the book itself is a great read and the author has done an amazing job to recreate dialogue that seems so of the antic -- authentic. she researched over 10 years so that imagination in the amount of work but i do have a personal connection because when i was first lady the map room where roosevelt had all the maps of the wall and churchill would come and stay there would go into the map room and in addi

bush: i was a little antsy. when you are the president, your dance card is full and then you are not the president. laura and i spent a lot of time here at the bush center putting programs in place to make a difference in peoples lives. i wrote two books, i am staying fit, mountain biking and the elliptical. i play a fair amount of golf but it wasn't enough, and so i read winston churchill's essay "painting as a pastime. "i thought he can paint, i can paint. >> sean: you started painting pets. you did jasper, dana's dog. >> president bush: i was a pet portrait painter, which is kind of hard to say. i painted pets in the good thing about painting pets is they really don't react when they see their painting. >> sean: in other words, they can't say it's good or bad. >> president bush: i did that and then got into landscapes. my firstst instructor at smu cae and saidd you ought to paint the leaders with whom you served. and i did. we had an exhibition here. putin, blair, dalai lama, angela merkel. they werela okay paintings. the most important part was that i had gotten to know them so well during the presid

bush and chief ofstaff to firs lady laura bush and anita, thank you for joining us this morning. >> sureod morning >> let's talk about this what's the traditional role of a chief of staff what should this person be doing? >> well, imposing order, of course, on the white house and making sure that the staff knows they are staff and have to report to the chief, and then ultimately, to the president it requires -- a white house requires discipline. and a chief of staff has a very complex role managing the congressional relationship managing the cabinet managing the white house staff managing the president's time. his agenda you know, andy card used to say, one of the nine chiefs of staff that i worked under in three white houses, you know, used to say someone may want to see the president or need to see the president. if you want to see the president you likely want. if you need to, you will but the chief of staff needs to know what you're going to be talking about. >> why is that why do you need such order imposed? >> well, there are so many competing things going on in a day. and a white

president bush: i want to thank you all for coming. laura and i are thrilled to help commission an awesome ship, and to honor an awesome man, president george h w bush. [applause] mr. bush: to prepare for this day i went up to some of my , father's letters. i thought it was especially interesting to read one that he wrote in the late 1940's. he sent it to a friend. here is what he said. he said, you should see georgy now. whenever i come home he greets me and talks a blue streak. sentences disjointed of course. [laughter] bush: he tries to say everything, and the results are often hilarious. some things do not change. [laughter] bush the aircraft carrier : which we commissioned today may be the navy's newest ship, but she has already had an interesting past. her catapult testing took place during an unseasonable cold snap. her christening was thrown into chaos by a fierce nor'easter. and during construction, the shipyard was closed down because of hurricane isabel. so in keeping with this ship's short history, i brought along an equally stro

bush: they were at the yeah, it isf texas, hard. thankfully, laura spent a lot of time nurturing them and helping them out. i knew what it was like to be a child of the president and the criticism is harsh, regardless of who is president and it stings for the child. someone you love getting criticized. we worried about our girls reacting to the criticism i got an laura was very good at covering them and i tried to do my best. host: what is like when you have a daughter and she goes on a date and the father is greeting the young man and you are president of the united states or governor, it is intimidating for the young man, i assume. pres. clinton: i certainly hope so. [laughter] i like chelsea's boyfriend. moreever went out with than one at a time, but the chapters got longer depending. she had one in high school he really liked. he wouldn't take his baseball cap off inside. he sat down at dinner one time and i said, i really like that -- you, you know that? he said yes, i do. i said, you can't wear that cap at dinner. take the cap off. his man goes

bush walks into their neighborhood restaurant. the former president and his wife lauratanding ovation, posing for pictures, shaking hands, grabbing a bite to eat, a person saying it was like somebody's grandfather walked in. heather: nice. here we go. highly anticipated third installment of 22 century fox's planet of the apes franchise just in time for the summer blockbuster season. sat down with one of the stars. i heard this is fantastic. >> one of the best in the series, one of the few franchises that gets better with each installment. i sat down with andy circus who plays caesar and matt reeves told me about this latest installment. >> together, strong. >> it is time for war. >> and on the brink of war, they have been suffering for survival. some way to get through this he gets pushed by the extremes of war to a place like that. >> this is war. >> think of this as a trilogy about caesar, that last leg is the thing that turns him into the ape moses, seminal figure of a history that always look back to and say if it wasn't for him we wouldn't be here. >> i did not sta

also laura rosenberger, who served in the state department under president george w. bush and the national security council under president obama and douglas brinkley, presidential historian. welcome to all of you. douglas, to you first. what's your assessment of president trump's tone and tenor today? >> i was surprised that he spoke like this on foreign soil, basically. continuing an assault on the media, but the very fact that he's kind of backing away from the idea that all of our intelligence agencies know that russia did, indeed, interfere with the 2016 presidential election, it struck me as very odd. it was going to be strange already, brooke, tomorrow, that if trump didn't raise 2016 elections with putin, but to kind of do a preamble and turning back to his sort of quasi- disbelief that they did it, i thought, was a wrong note and kind of reckless and it tells you there's something going on between trump and putin that most people don't understand. >> mitchell, same question to you. what did you think? >> i think the president's tweets demonstrate his frustration w

laura bicker, bbc news, washington. michaeljohns is co—founder of the republican party's tea party movement and former speech writer for george bushhiladelphia. michael, if the president doesn't believe he has done anything wrong, why is he talking about pardoning this family members and potentially himself? i suppose there is only one person who knows the answer to that, and that is the president. but i do think that what he has been able to do by bringing this up is reflect on questions such as what is the ultimate goal? we are many months into this investigation. there is no indication of any criminal wrongdoing. officials testified under oath there was no wrongdoing. even the allegation of collusion, there is no statute that prevents it. the problem should be. what he has done is probably get the american people to reflect on what a distraction this has been with so many political, financial, and other significant issues facing our country today. presumably some conclusion will come out of the investigation. but you think that this is revealed a flaw in the american democratic institutions, that there must be more clear guidel

mackenzie eglan, laura rosenberger who served in the state department under president george w. bush and the national security council under president obama and cnn senior political analyst david gergen who has been adviser to four presidents. to you, the fact that we are now learning that president trump opened this conversation with president putin specifically on the election meddling, do you think this was all just carefully choreographed? >> no. i don't think -- i think the president went in carefully choreographed. i don't think the whole meeting was. but i must tell you, brooke, jim acosta's right. we need to be cautious now. let's get the full reading. the but the initial reading suggests that this could have been one of the most productive, promising meetings president trump has held since he took office. the very fact that now the meddling is on the table, and we may have disagreements about how that conversation developed, but that they're developing a framework for future cyber attacks and how they're going to handle it on each side and how they're going to keep the russi

. >> laura: it seemed like they were having another presidential side discussion with south korea. i found that to be unusual to say the least. president bush certainly never did anything like that. >> we've been hearing a lot about president obama and people can be the judge about that. what i saw in the meeting with president moon at the white house was a lot of candor and a lot indirect engagement, and a renewal to strategic engagement with that country. i was in europe myself representing the president earlier this year. what i keep hearing from leaders around the world is how grateful they are that america is leading again on the world stage. i don't know if it was the speech in saudi arabia, or hiswo historic speech today in poland. i think leaders today are welcoming the president to embrace that role of being the leader of that free world. >> laura: vice president pence, thank you for joining us. and a powerful moment earlier today. >> our defense is not just the commitment of money but it's a commitment of will. as the polish experience reminds us, the defense of the west ultimately rests on not only the means but the will of its p