welcome back to the "newshour". >> thanks for having me. >> reporter: you he aardbout tom perez, theign, wikileaks all consped to make hillary clinton look bad. from a legal perspective what do you make of the su? >> the peres notes there is ample yefd. there are quite a few allegations. some grounded, relying on this intelligence media assessment oe russian intnce but a lot relies on things like news reports including a sinsogle ce or anonymously sourced reports. the challenge will be translating the essential news reports into evidence that wills be adble in court. what's relevant right now is not necessarily whether they can dor that but wher not they can survive a motion to dismiss, whether or not they have a well-pleaded complaint on the face. it does seem likely this lawsuit, at least some defendants, s least some cla are likely to survive a motion to dismiss. this is most relevant because it ans they will move to the discovery phase. that might end up becoming really powerful tool for the d.n.c. to unearth newin rmation. >> so the tricky part for their case, seems to be, thile

welcome back to the "newshour". >> tnks for having me. >> reporter: you heard about tom perez, the cameaks all conspired to make hillary clinton looebad. from aal perspective what do you make of their suit? n >> the pertes there is ample yefd. there are quite a few allegations. some grounded, relying on this intelligence media assessment of russian interference but a lot relies on things ke news reports including a single source or anonymously sourced reports. so the challenge will bees translating thential news reports into evidence that will be admissible in court. nowhat's relevant righis not necessarily whether they can do that but whether or not they can survive a motion to dismiss, whether or not they have a well-pleaded complaint on the face. it does seem likely thisla uit, at least some defendants, at least some claims are likely to survive a motion to dismiss. this is most relevant because it means they will move to theer discphase. that might end up becoming a really powerful ol for the d.n.c. to unearth new information. >> so the tricky r rt fotheir case, seems to be, that w

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i understand tom perez has been thinking about this.trump can use the courts for his bidding when he has hundreds of lawsuits against small businesses over his storied business career where he had sham lawsuits. now there is this idea that democrats can't stand up and fight back and use the courts. kennedy: they can fight back. and they have a multitude of congressional committees investigating the exact same thing. we are going to take them to court and that's where the facts will really come out. it's just a way of forcing stuff into the headlines. you know what you should force into the headlines. a rising economy, higher wages. >> rico which is supposed to be mob activity. it's a catchall if you don't have anything in a lawsuit. this is the reason people are laughing. democrats right now can improve their chances in 2018 by sitting on their hands. the wind is at their sails. the mueller investigation is ongoing. everybody single day donald trump opens his computer he's threatening himself with lying to the fbi or god knows what. it'

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joining us now is tom perez, chairman of the democratic national committee. >> you get the criticism be talking about your efforts to organize working families back into the fold. how will you recognize the strength and weaknesses of your party. instead you are talking about a lawsuit. why the distraction? >> we know how to walk and chew gum. we have been fighting for health care for all. we are winning elections and side by side with school teachers in west virginia, oklahoma, arizona and elsewhere. everywhere i go i hear people say and we have to protect our democracy. we have wind at our back. it is hard to win elections if you continue to have interference. there has been no deterrents from the inaction of this administration. we failed to impose sufficient cost on russia for meddling in the election. that is true. the reason for that is equally clear because this administration is compromised. so we have to work to build good jobs, build good education systems, build a workforce that can compete in the 21st century and we have to make sure we build our democracy. this is a case

tom perez now disspending the dmc's lawsuit against russian, the trump campaign and wikileaks. chairman perez. >> we had people on my team at the dnc that got death threats. you know what? when you try to do that to our team, yeah, i'm going to punch back. i'm punching back for my colleagues. i'm punching back for democracy. that's what we believe in as democrats. elections should be fair. i understand people may agree and disagree but we're fighting for them. >> so sue everybody. fellow democrats don't share his enthusiasm. claire mccaskill calling the lawsuit a silly distraction. jackie spire calling it ill conceived. house intelligence chairman devin nunes says democrats should look in the mirror if they want to talk about foreign interference in the 2016 election. >> we know who colluded with russians. they don't want to admit it, but they hired fusion -- they hired a law firm that hires a law firm that hired a british spy that colluded with russians. i don't know why they didn't name themselves and sue themselves so they can get to the bottom of what they have on their ser

the become stops with tom perez. we filed this complaint, because our democracy is at risk. donald trump's longtime employee is the focus of a criminal investigation. "the washington post" is posing that he poses a threat to trump's world. the outcome could determine the fate much both men who have relied heavily on each other for years. trump's lawyers believe that there's a strong possibility that cohen could end up cooperating with a investigators. today kelly anne conway. >> would you is he talking about the notion if the president didn't do everything wrong. >> he's defending someone he's worked with and known for a dozen-plus years who he thinking is bess treated unfairly. >> i love starting off with her. it takes us back, doesn't it? >> and ellie mistal, eddie, and noel nickpour, welcome to all of you. eddie, a tweet from 2018, a person who deserved my loyalty receives it. i will always protect or potus. >> that's easy to tweet when you're not confronting time behind bars. thinke i think cohen is in real trouble. he was in trouble the day he met michael avenatti. mich

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tom perez says during the 2016 campaign russia -- campaign. this constituted an act of unprecedented treachery. campaign of nominee for president of the united states in lead for a hostile power. what i'm curious about, chris, is why do the lawsuit now, if they're the ones so worried that mueller is going to get fired and they want the investigation to be finished? >> i don't know what it costs to file a lawsuit in district court, but i assume it's still only a couple hundred bucks to get that down. so the democrats have very little risk and potentially a lot of upside because what they would like to do is drag this out into discovery. they would like to create additional legal pressures on the president and his team going forward. now, i am no legal expert, but the idea that you are somehow going to sue a sovereign nation, russia, you're going to sue a sovereign nation, hits about 25 different trip wires. i don't think the purpose here is about legal issues. the purpose is about talking points to the president. >> dana: and to keep it going.

tom perez defending the multimillion dollar suit yesterday. >> i believe in doing your homework.e course of the last year, we have seen i think a mountain of evidence of collusion between the campaign and the russians to basically affect our democracy. this administration is compromised. i want to make sure we send a very clear signal. >> julie: let's bring in our panel. talk show host richard fowler, and michael singleton. he worked on the gingrich campaign for romney and ryan and ben carson. so the dnc is defending its lawsuit against the trump campaign, russia and wikileaks. they're seeing every single personal involved or entity involved, which seems like they're pulling at straws. obviously this lawsuit comes in the midst of months away from the mid-terms. richard, first of all, if it was so urgent, why did they wait till now? why not last year? >> listen, i have a big problem with this lawsuit. if we want to have a -- debate this russia thing, let's debate it in the american people. we can invest this money in races that we can win. what we saw yesterday on some of the sund

first, the tom perez-inspired dnc lawsuit against these entities.pidest thing you've ever heard? >> absolutely not. we did it in 1974 against richard nixon as well.y it ended up being a settlement,, $750,000. someone does damage to your computer servers, shouldn't they owe you money, it cost millions of dollars to the dnc. >> brian: you have a robert mueller investigation. you have an agenda to get forward. tom perez has his hands full m making sure the midterms is a blue wave. having a russia investigation, a double russian investigation, don't you think that is the last thing the american people want see? when the democrats are saying, robert mueller should be left alone? this is a comprehensive investigation with a bottomlesss pit of funds to research? >> yeah, there is also something called statute of limitations they needed to file suit on before those expired. normally, you are right, they would wait until the criminal investigation with robert mueller but in this case, when you look through this series of torts and charges filed, i read the e

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dnc chair tom perez joins us. now from washington. mr. chairman, thank you for joining us this morning. >> hi, george. >> you surprised a lot of people with the lawsuit. you drew criticism from some democrats. david axelrod put out earlier this week, spectacularly ill-timed. the strategy of a probe as a partisan vendetta. everyone should chill out and let mueller do his job. your response? >> i have great respect for david axelrod. i have great respect for director mueller. and they can do their job while you have a civil suit pending. why did we do this now, george? three reasons. number one, in order to file a civil suit, you have to file it within the applicable statute of limitations. i don't know when director mueller's investigation is going to end. so we need to file now to protect our rights. number two, we have done our job. done our homework. over the course of the last year, we have seen story after story. brick after brick in the conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign to affect the outcome of the election. i di

how does tom perez know that? >> why would a federal court entertain such a lawsuit. this is very unusual. i don't see much of a comparison to the watergate situation. watergate ended rather quickly with the resignation of richard nixon. impeachment articles weren't voted against him by the whole house, only the committee recommending it. >> a couple of years it all dragged out. >> it doid but we're coming up n a couple of years on this case too. i don't know where they go with this, except maybe be disruptive of the mueller investigation and generate some headlines. but beyond that, as michael said, of course, stir up additional discovery. take depositions that will get headlines as well. >> and a party in all of this, one of the parties being sued here, michael, is russia. how do you sue russia? >> that's hard. there are certain countries that have protections and we do that. hard to sue a foreign government, a way to say it. but there are also ways to maybe get around that. i think they'll be talking about whether or not some illegal conduct, other things, that mak

pete, head of the dnc tom perez said in a statement this was an act of unprecedented treachery. that sounds a little like political talk. tell us about the legal talk. what does this lawsuit say? >> reporter: well, it says there was a conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign to affect the election. the allegations the lawsuit makes are based basically on what's already been publicly known. no new allegation made in this and in fact some of them have yet to be proven. many of them are the subject of the mueller campaign -- or the mueller work, rather, to see whether there in fact was collusion between the trump campaign and russians. somebody the president repeatedly said there wasn't. just look at the list of defendants. there's about six russian defendants including the russian federation, the armed forces, some russian oligarchs, then wikileaks, julian assange, the president himself is not a defendant, but his, donald trump for president is, the campaign, in other words. donald trump jr., paul manafort, roger stone, jared kushner, george papadopolos and rick gate

chairman tom perez: >> we're seeking justice, and we're seeking deterrence. >> reporter: his 66-paget accuses russian hackers of stealing tens of thousands of documents and emails from the d.n.c. it outlines all the known contacts between russians and the trump campaign. in april of 2016, for instance, trump foreign policy adviser ororge papadopoulos "met with a temlin-tied agent," who told him about the d.n.c. breach just four days after it happened. the embarrassing email leak rocked the democratic convention. >> i'm going to be respectful of you, and i want you to be respectful of me. ep reporter: the trump campaign dismissed the lawsuit today as "frivolous." your critics say this is just a icunt to try to raise money. >> protecting democracy is not a publicity stunt. we had employees, nancy, whose lives were threatened. if you threaten one of my colleagues, current or former, yeah, i'm going to fight back. igm going to fight like heck. >> glor: nancy is on capitol hill tonight. nancy, the election was a year and a half ago. why is the d.n.c. doing this now? >> reporter: well, jef

programming note -- tomorrow on this "this week," a big show, george goes one-on-one with dnc chair tom perez. and senator bob corker. >>> next to that surprise announcement from north korea, kim jong-un voluntarily calling a halt to those nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. president trump calling it progress for all. in advance of his upcoming talks with the north korean leader. but kim's words and motives are under an international spotlight now. tonight, terry moran reports from london. >> reporter: "no more of these for now," that's the stunning promise from north korean leader kim jong-un. with his surprise declaration to a ruling party meeting that the isolated nation will suspend all nuclear and ballistic missile tests effective immediately. and, with a flourish, kim added he will actually abolish a nuclear test site. "the nuclear test site has done its job," he said. >> this is an extraordinary announcement from the north. we have never seen any kind of movement like this, any kind of concessions in the history of north korea. >> reporter: president tru

assault against our democracy, and found a and active partner in donald trump's campaign, dnc chairman tom perezays in a statement. here is perhaps in the category what more we as flyers, as passengers can do, "wall street journal" reporting this friday about the safety training videos. many flyers failed the air mask test. they write that "some passengers aboard southwest flight 1380 did not place oxygen masks overbook their mouth and nose after broke a windows and on the plane at more than 30,000 feet on tuesday, according to images from the flight and passengers on board. flight attendants had to begin helping passengers use masks as they were instructed in a preflight safety briefing, said passenger christopher johnson." carriers and aviation safety bodies have emergency landings, and evacuations given complicated by passengers who do not follow steps laid out in boarding announcements and safety pamphlets. if you will use all moments ago from a video that was taken thatd that flight, southwest flight the other day. also to from the "washington post" this morning about the training that goes

>> tom perez wants his money back.id for a dossier that was supposed to tank trump in connection with the russian government. and it didn't work. so i guess they want their money back. the real story is, i believe democratic operatives in the mueller operation told them, we have a big zero, we are in a slow-motion melt down. so file a civil suit to continue the publicity stunt and allow them to stalk endlessly about it because a civil mitigation will drag on into the next century. lou: do you think there was a cord nation. >> can i prove it? no. but my instincts are somebody said here's a smart idea, we are not going anywhere, but you can do something civilly and use the discovery process to churn up maximum confusion. but what they are forgetting is discovery goes both ways. there will be defendants in this litigation who can turn around and ask very awkward questions of mr. perez and company. lou: it took president trump a nano second to figure out reciprocity on that comment and tweet by the. do you believe the dems

dnc chair defending its lawsuit challenging, russia, the trump campaign and wikileaks, tom pÉrez denyingt of alleged interference distracts from rebuilding the party. >> i don't know when director mueller's investigation will end and we need to file to protect our rights, we have elections in november and hard to win when you have interference and they have done it with impunity and i'm concerned it will happen again so we did it now. heather: wikileaks says it is constitutionally protected. well, failed presidential candidate hillary clinton adding just one more excuse to growing list of what happens the media. >> the mainstream political coverage was influenced by the right-wing media ecosystem. relentlessly negative news has had a leveling effect that opens the doors to charlatans. heather: the political race since she has lost have been fairly covered, what do you think? belgium court finding the terrorist guilty of attempted murder in a bloody police shootout, the last surviving suspect in the 2015 paris terror attacks that left 130 people dead. do you remember those? he did not app

dnc chair tom perez on defense at president trump attacks the new dnc lawsuit against the trump campaign. he is not the only one. some democrats are going after it, too. our panel will take that on coming up next. >> they hired a law firm to hired fusion gps that colluded with russians. i don't understand why they didn't open up a lawsuit against themselves. ancestrydna has 5x more detail than other tests... ...and it's now on sale for just $59. it can lead you on an unexpec ted journey... ...to discover your heritage. get ancestrydna for just $59. the lowest price of the year. >> sandra: the lone surviving isis suspect in the 2015 paris terror attacks has been found guilty of attempted murder. he was sentenced to 20 years if prison for a shoot-out in brussels that left three officers injured. the officers were closing in on his belgian hideout four months after the rampage in paris. 130 people were killed in that attack. it is unclear when the defendant will face trial for those crimes. >> we don't know when director mueller is going to act. and again i don't want to ask him when he wil

you'll hear tom perez huff and puff about taking depositions.hat, it flips the other way too. david: we can find out more about the relationship between fusion gps and is whole lot of things. >> what ever happened to the dnc servers. david: the president mentioned that today and also the relationship with certain russians and the clinton foundation. >> where do the paychecks go? david: chris farrell, great to see you. >>> tonight's quote of the evening is for the clinton cartel. comey, mccabe, struck and paige. ", no man is above the law, no man below it. nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. >>> coming up, an his tore, confession from kim jong-un, the north korean leader suspending nuclear tests. we'll discuss what that means concerning his upcoming meeting with president trump next. d a ball being a dad... ...and built a career in construction. david: a major announcement by north korea leader kim jong-un has said his country will suspend all nuclear long-range missile tests and shut down a nuclear test site. the annou

rob: dnc chair defending its lawsuit challenging russia, the trump campaign and also wikileaks, tom pÉrezuit aimed at alleged election interference distracts from rebuilding his party. >> i don't know when director mueller's investigation is going to end so we need to file now to protect our rights, we have elections coming up in november, it's hard to win elections when you have interference in elections and they've done it with impunity and i'm concerned that it'll happen again and that's why we did it now. rob: president trump says the dnc is suing republicans for winning and wikileaks says it is constitutionally protected. jillian: grave site for barbara bush will be opened for public this morning. rob: gated plot at george h.w. bush presidential library, she's now near the grave of her daughter robin who died of lieu qemia when she was 3 year's old. jillian: hundreds of family and friends giving a final farewell. rob: all right, turning now to extreme weather, tornadoes causing path of destruction through the south injuring 5 people. it is that time of the year, two twisters touching

i'll admit tom perez says it's not partisan, of course it's partisan.nything a political party does isn't necessarily partisan, but who cares. this is an important lawsuit to deal with important issues. and yes, alice may be correct there's no definite evidence of collusion right now. but we do know that there was collusion with wikileaks. and that's what i was pointing out to don earlier, that they colluded with the quote-unquote -- grabbing tape. and wikileaks exposed the john podesta e-mails. there was clearly coordination to use those e-mails that had been hacked by russia. >> you're saying there's enough irk substantial evidence that it warrants a lawsuit, that's what you believe? >> i think there is evidence something happened here including the trump tower meeting, trump's air force one discussion where he sat there and he revised the talk and created those talking points. even if there's no collusion there's cleary evidence of obstruction of justice. >> let's put up david axelrod's tweet. i saw jackie spear, and i think she was on with wolf or j

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. >>> coming up on this week, abc news chief anchor, george stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with tom perezc chair. this after the democrats' new lawsuit against russian officials and the trump campaign over the 2016 election. you can watch the full interview on this week at 8:00 right here on abc 7. >>> former first lady barbara bush was laid to rest at her husband's presidential library in texas. yesterday, thousands of people paid their last respects to the mother of the 43rd president and wife of the 41st at her funeral in houston. here's "good morning america" news anchor amy robach with the details. >> she was the first lady known for her fierce loyalty and quick wit. family and friends celebrated the life of barbara bush. among them, former presidents and the first ladies who came after her. >> she was our teacher and role model on how to live a life of purpose and meaning. >> president george h.w. bush comforted by his daughter as he said good-bye to the love of his life. >> our family has had a front row seat for the most amazing love story. >> their marriage, the longest in presid

on the other hand, they are trying to move forward to "the new york times" article points out tom perezdnc today. take a listen. >> we've been winning elections because we've been talking about the issues. we have organizers on the ground. we have organizers on the ground in the election in wisconsin that cleared a couple weeks ago. one of the reasons we are winning is because people believe we should stand up for democracy. leland: he's got to be some evidence to back up that they have been winning elections. they've got momentum and excitement. how do republicans counter that? how do republicans in wisconsin counter that? >> well, they have to have great candidates. they have a lot of great candidates in wisconsin. governor walker is part of that story and folks like kevin nicholson running for u.s. senate against tammy baldwin. we've got good candidates. it's about fund raising, getting out on tv. leland: it's about fund raising, but without exciting the grassroots. that has to happen pretty much organically. is there an election or you can excite the grassroots without doing it orga

's chairman tom perez said russia launched an all-out assault on democracy and found a willing and activeartner in donald trump's campaign. no one is above the law and the perpetrators of this attack must be held accountable. the lawsuit is in response to the hacking of the dnc email servers based on information that has been widely reported in the news so not a lot new here. it does target some familiar faces including donald trump junior, jared kushner, paul manaford, george papadopoulos. the trump campaign fired back saying this frivolous lawsuit is a last-ditch effort to substantiate baseless russian collusion allegations by a nearly bankrupt democratic party trying to counter the will of the people in the 2016 presidential election, completely without millet and will be dismissed into time. the midterm election is a few months away. >> this is either a fundraising boy or an effort to get people in civil court so they can learn and use it for political purposes. >> reporter: the dnc claims it needed to file a lawsuit now due to statute of limitations on several charges but they are ge

. >>> coming up on this week, george stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with tom perez, dnc chair.his after the democrats' new lawsuit against the trump campaign over the 2016 election. you can watch the full interview on this week at 8:00 right here on abc 7. >>> former first lady barbara bush was laid to rest at her husband's presidential library in texas. yesterday, thousands of people paid their last respects to the mother of the 43rd president and wife of the 41st at her funeral in houston. here's "good morning america" news anchor amy robach with the details. >> she was the first lady known for her fierce loyalty and quick wit. family and friends celebrated the life of barbara bush. among them, former presidents and the first ladies who came after her. >> she was our teacher and role model on how to live a life of purpose and meaning. >> president george h.w. bush comforted by his daughter as he said good-bye to the love of his life. >> our family has had a front row seat for the most amazing love story. >> their marriage, the longest in presidential history, 73 years. their

in a statement dnc chair tom perez said, quoting, during the 2016 presidential campaign russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in donald trump's campaign. president trump has repeatedly denied collusion with russia and last month republicans on a house panel concluded there was no collusion. fox news is reaching out to those named in the suit for their responses. in the meantime let's get to the chief white house correspondent john roberts live for us in west palm beach, florida. jane? >> trace, good afternoon to you. the mueller investigation, the speciaspecial counsel's office,a conspiracy between the donald trump campaign, russia and wikileaks, to cause serious harm to the democratic party and throw the election to donald trump. the dnc is seeking millions of dollars in damages from hacks of its servers and email system, adding a little bit more of a level of detail to the hacks than we had known up until this point, saying there were two introductions, one on july 27th, 2015, another on april 18th, 2016, pointing out that donal

tom perez in the dnc filing lawsuits while other prominent liberals are shaking their heads. fretting over there reelection process. senator claire mccaskill told the st. louis post dispatch the dnc lawsuit is a silly distraction. congresswoman jackie speier said this. >> i actually think this lawsuit is ill-conceived. i'm not supportive of it. >> laura: that is what real disunity looks like. beyond the blaster and the media attacks on the president, trumps reelection numbers, check them out. they look pretty good. they mirror those of barack obama and bill clinton at about the same point in their presidency. today's gallup reports that among registered voters, 37% believe trump should be reelected. that is the same percentage that that barack obama should be reelected in 2010. at one point lower than those wo supportive bill clinton. last time i checked, they were both reelected, right? here is another indicator of the democratic national committee might be in some trouble. they took out a $1.7 million loan in february. they are fund-raising, it is pathetic. there republican

. ♪ >> katie: dnc chair tom perez defending a lawsuit against the trump campaign and russia. >> we don'ten director mueller is going to act. again, i don't want to ask him when he's going to act. we have to protect. we have done our homework. over the course of the last year, we've seen i think a mountain of evidence of collusion between the campaign and the russians to basically affect our democracy. i am punching back not only for my colleagues. i am punching back for democracy. that's what we believe in us democrats. elections should be fair. i understand people may agree or disagree but we are fighting for them. >> katie: kimberly, mr. perez wants a jury for this. >> kimberly: well, let's posted. zero shot of that. he's quite earnest and sincere in his total disregard for the president and for the president winning the election and being in the oval office. he is playing strong and aggressively to his base. that's what they want to hear on the far left. he's got to go with that mantra, the rhetoric to be able to hold his position, and he is trying to drum up support for midterm elect

that was one of the points tom perez capitalized on saying there could be more in the pipeline.wanted to ask you about u.s. intelligence agencies. they have long said the goal russia has set out is to try and create doubt and fear and discord in our democracy. do you think the dnc move helps russia advance that even further? all kinds of stuff could be put back out into the public debate. >> no, i don't think it hurts us at all. i don't think it helps russia. russian intelligence is under a dictator, a guy who's an auto c crat. he relies on pointing his finger and getting a result. we are a nation of laws and we can bring this into a courtroom and discover this information and hold people accountable. the mueller investigation has already indicted the internet research agency, elements of russian intelligence, the senior leadership of russian intelligence, who by the way, were here just a few months ago. we can actually hold them to account, including julian assange. if he thinks he has a reason to hide inside that embassy now, this is just another reason he's never going to com

that's later with dnc chair tom perez. >> he'll also talk to senate foreign relations committee chairob corker on the north korean nuclear test freeze. and what it means for talks with kim jong-un. >>> we want to move to the nation saying good-bye to barbara bush. wife to one president for 73 years and mother to another president. >> friends and family came together to remember the woman known for being kind, caring, and straightforward. so many talking about the moment that brought george h.w. bush to tears. amy robach was at the funeral in houston. ♪ >> reporter: it was a celebration of life for one of the most beloved first ladies and matriarch of a political dynasty. >> barbara bush was the first lady of the greatest generation. >> reporter: her husband and former president, george h.w. bush visibly emotional as he entered the nation's largest episcopal church in his wheel care. his daughter consoling him, rubbing his back throughout the ceremony. >> she was beautiful until the day she died. >> reporter: her son, former florida governor jeb bush, delivering the eulogy. sharing the