the vilhelm bush museum in hannover houses many of his writings paintings and drawings bush described his discovery of the divine ease of dutch painting as life changing but his admiration for the old masters did nothing for his self-confidence . he said. he was so moved in so impressed by this out and so sure that he could never be that good. lady he said that he completely don't hate him. bush spent more or less his whole life painting it was his calling but he was ready satisfied with what he produced he tended to favor a small format because it was less likely to attract attention he destroyed much of what he did after his death thousands of paintings and even more drawings were discovered carelessly stacked together. just. to. see. what kind of a bird i'm a bug was they knew i daresay with his peaked nightcap on uncle fritz to bed has gone it's a cat's come the title single file from then i quarters and the captain body goes straight and uncle francis knows he cries when i we hear seizing that grim good idea. i'll go wild with fried to up spring and the bed clothes from him fling

they said, tell stories about president bush. so i went back into my files, i was amazed how many photos i found of him hunting. every december, right after christmas we used to go to texas and go hunting down there. every chance he got he would go fishing in kennebunkport. we would go fishing for bluefish. and one summer, we were out there and he went four weeks without catching a fish. and usa today on their banner top of the page, said, day five, no fish. day six, no fish. that went on. and one day i'm in the boat with him and i am asleep and holding onto a fishing pole, and i catch of fish. so i reled it in, he is all excited. and as the fish gets closer, what had happened is the fish swam by and gotten hooked on the gills and so i didn't catch it. i snagged a fish. and he said, well you know. that doesn't count, you snagged it. and so, i was like ok. and the next day, he finally catches a fish, after 14 or 15 days of no fish. he is catching the fish and we are looking down on it, it is coming in tail first. he had tangled th

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bush's, even questioning bush's intelligence. so your thoughts, is he further dividing the gop, is he taking the lead of something new about the gop? >> i think there's no doubt that there is a populous economic nationalist wing of the gop that has been strengthened by, you know, not just steve bannon and the rise of donald trump but quite frankly what came before it which was of course the tea party and there's no doubt that steve bannon is among those leaders. i actually saw him earlier this week at a book signing for laura ingraham, for her new book. i have to say even though i'm a firm part of the deplorable crowd, but i'm also a former supporter of president bush. i think he's a decent man. i think history is going to treat him a lot better thanclos of his administration. i think it's tragic that the republican party seems to be in a circular firing squad because this really should be a golden age for the party. >> how potentially damaging do you think it is? >> i don't think so. i think if we can get out of our own way and

bush: thank you. it is first of all i am thrilled 42,e able to introduce 39, and 44 to one of the finest universities in the united states. [applause and cheers] george w. bush: i too am here to urge you to give to this fine find, and i want to thank -- all ofnd i want to thank the volunteers. i speak for the folks when i say we admire and love george h.w. bush. [applause and cheers] >> i want to do stretch your imagination. open your eyes. that is how fast it happens. no warning. >> tonight on q&a, executive director of paralyzed veterans talks about his own paralysis with paralyzed veterans. >> i try to tell them, this is what i see from a patient's perspective and an advocate's perspective, you have to emphasize -- you have to empathize. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> this morning, newt gingrich examines trump relations with congress. then, from the university of texas, austin, talking about the message of the protests by players in the program. n hopwood. sho justicesses criminal r

poor climate change, bush's fault, the swar bush's fault. that's personal. america gets it. america doesn't like when it's personal. when john mccain does that, that's personal. america doesn't like it. every one of those guys is there, and women, to help us. steve: and mccain was having a go at populism. lucy, your take on it from the left side as it were. >> i think the people absolutely voted in change, they're not getting it in donald trump. i think it is true our nation is more polarized now than it has ever been. conversations turn to, they are so toxic because they have turned us against one another. you have people in middle america who are blaming immigrants, who are blaming poem of color. it's -- that is an elitist tactic. i mean, yes, have you seen income go down over the last ten to 20 years because of the elitist politics and policies that benefit the wealthy, but this is not an us versus them, and unfortunately, when people voted for donald trump, they thought they were going to get change, they thought they were going drain the swamp. that's not what we've got

bush: i love you, ramon. thank you very much for being here. and, grace jo, thank you for your testimony. and big tim. i got to know tim as a result of presidential leadership scholars at the bush center along with the clinton center and with help from 41 and lbj's libraries. i am thrilled that friends of ours from afghanistan, china, north korea, and venezuela are here as well. these are people who have experienced the absence of freedom and they know what it's like and they know there is a better alternative to tyranny. laura and i are thrilled that the bush center supporters are here. bernie, i want to thank you and your committee. i call him bernie. [laughter] pres. bush: it's amazing to have secretary albright share the stage with condi and ambassador haley. for those of you that kind of take things for granted, that's a big deal. [laughter] [applause] pres. bush: thank you. we are gathered in the cause of liberty. that is why we are here. this is a unique moment. the great democracies face new and serious threats -- yet seem to be losing

bush has broken that peace. this is very, very unusual for two former presidents to break -- there's a fraternity of people who serve in that office. they form their own fraternity. they tend to be respectful of each other. they try to be supportive of each other. but when two of them break ranks as they did today, there's great significance to that in terms of how much concern and worry they have deep down. >> very strong words, both of them said today about white supremacy after the break. >> yes. your next getaway? connecting with family and friends? a big night out? or maybe your everyday shopping. whatever it is, aarp member advantages can help save you time and money along the way. so when you get there, you can enjoy it all the more. for less. surround yourself with savings at aarp advantages dot com. with steak and shrimp? more shrimp. and you know what goes great with that shrimp? you guessed it. more shrimp. steak and unlimited shrimp, starting at $15.99. only at outback. >>> back now with my panel. so

bush, and i, too, have joined the george w. bush -- hugging george w. bush t-shirt. >> i'll send over t-shirts this afternoon. you can all wear them next time. >> i think even if it isn't quite being heard in that way, that it's actually really important for his voice to be out there because otherwise people who need some place to go, have no place to go. >> here's obama a few moments ago talking about a similar topic. the division in our politics. let's watch. >> some of the politics we see now, we thought we put that to bed. i mean, that's folks looking 50 years back. it's the 21st century. not the 19th century. >> well, first off, you have to acknowledge that being -- not being -- being a former president is like being benjamin button. they all look younger the farther they get away from the presidency. obama looked great. why is it so much easier for presidents obama and bush to sort of speak truth to that angry base, speak truth to power, understand they're not facing election but it would seem to me unpatriotic not to say what presidents obama and

we talked about newt and bush. newt sees when dick cheney, dick cheney thickets appointed to secretary of defense. that opens up a whip spot. >> guest: exactly it. >> host: this is the outsider. tell us about that. >> guest: paul was a new leader had testified and sent against john towers nomination. he would have become secretary of defense, and dick cheney would a state as whip in gingrich would a state as just a member of the conference, but because of the fate in the hands of fate is that tower is voted down in the senate to be secretary of defense, and so bush looks right and realizes dick cheney is very, very qualified, a good nominee and so a good antidote to what went on with john tower. so we nominate dick cheney which opens up the whip position which creates all new opportunities for newt gingrich which he hadn't thought about before. he was thought about being speaker of the house but the path forward was murky. dick cheney was very popular. dick cheney was very well thought out. >> host: he would not ha

bush. and there would be no rush or date without hillary clinton and this week saw the queen of the b. and c's favorite accusation come back to bite or as the hill reported that according to sources as part of an investigation into alleged russian bribery for control of u.s. uranium stockpiles the f.b.i. has eyewitness accounts and documentation indicating russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the u.s. designed to benefit to the u.s. designed to benefit former president bill clinton's charitable foundation during the time secretary of state hillary clinton served on a government body the provided a favorable decision to moscow. so ho so the claim is they have been involved in russian atomic energy meddling. if you listen real closely you just might hear the breaking hearts of joy and read representative adam schiff and bill kristol get her break now and start watching the hawks. as. you know that i got. welcome ready to watching the hawks tyro joining me today and t.v.

of gulf war and with the bush family. this interview was recorded and -- this is just over 70 minutes. >>> you know all the presidential photographers come to that job in a different way. most of them come in having impress photographers covering the campaign. i didn't. it was 1983 and i was actually a government photographer and had been a government photographer since day one, since 1967 when i graduated high school. i was drafted, went into the air force and they said you're going to be a photographer and that's what i did. >> why was that? they said -- >> well, at the time, this is 1967, vietnam war's going on, i was drafted, i didn't want to go to the army so i joined the air force. the air force did the aerial photo over north vietnam so there was a big turn over of air force photo people. so all the guys, 500 guys, it's called a flight, and we all got some kind of aerial photography, motion picture photography, lab processing and still photography. i'm valdez, i got still photography which was at the bottom of the

those issues. >> jamie, do you expect to hear more from president bush? >> i don't think so. he put his toe in the water. he did this. it is true these are themes he's talked about in the past. i think the fact that we listened to that speech today and we saw connections between that speech and donald trump says everything you need to know about that speech. but i think he will go back to being very quiet for a while. >> do you agree with that? i don't think he's one to go out and make speech after speech. he doesn't tweet. he says what he has to say. we're talking about. he'll go back to texas and i think everybody should go visit the bush center down there. you can learn a lot about the bush presidency by doing so. >> i want to thank everybody on the panel tonight. when we come back, we'll hear from the governor of puerto rico. what he says the people of puerto rico need most next. we're the number one dairy and apple producers in the eastern united states supported by innovative packaging that extends the shelf life of foods and infrastructure upgrades

bush: thank you. it is first of all i am thrilled 42,e able to introduce 39, and 44 to one of the finest universities in the united states. [applause and cheers] george w. bush: i too am here to urge you to give to this fine find, and i want to thank -- all ofnd i want to thank the volunteers. i speak for the folks when i say we admire and love george h.w. bush. [applause and cheers] george w. bush: points of light recipients and to our five very gracious -- announcer 1: this has been live coverage of the hurricane relief on certain with all five former formerrage with all five presidents. we on friday, c-span sat down with hillary clinton to discuss her recent book "what happened. she spoke about a recent speech given by former president george w. bush on the current state of american politics. bush talked about the cruelty in american politics. he did not mention the president by name. your reaction to what he said? ms. clinton: i thought it was an important speech and i appreciated president bush d

bush thinks privately. but i do know yesterday to this point about general can kelly, it was absolutely moving. was that obama went off script and made an aside about how he had repeatedly gone to walter reed and consoled wounded warriors and started talking about wounded warriors. that was not in the script. both obama and bush, and i know this from reporting and talking to people close to them, were upset is and offended when trump said monday they didn't console family, they didn't call gold star families for bush who feels just such a weight of responsibility for taking us into both afghanistan and iraq. i think that was offensive and clearly it irked obama because he brought it up. >> very quickly before we go to break, did this kelly speech, remarks, have is any impact on the discussions in the senate on thursday night? >> to be honest, we saw what the chief of staff had said. i think people in the senate were distracted working on the budget, putting together all the amendments to try to get that don

bush library in college station. after the hurricanes we are all coming together instead to do a fund-raiser. people can give to the one america account during that concert when they are watching on tv. can also give -- it will go out to 100% of the proceeds will go to the hurricane relief. >> dana: you can support that. it's pretty remarkable. as divisive as our politics might be in america, that in the post presidencies everybody can get together and come together to help others. >> that's right. it's a great example. i have met with this man who happens to be now the foreign minister from a country. i told him that we happened to all be in washington then because they were honoring president bush, george's dad, and that all the presidents were gonna be there. he said you just don't know what that means to the rest of the world. you just don't know what it means that all the president, no matter what their party. >> dana: we only have about 30 seconds left. i want to put up these pick tkhurs of the former commander

bush, bill clinton, george h.w. bush and jimmy carter. they will reunite at texas a&m university for a hurricane relief convert to benefit victims in texas, florida, and the caribbean. this comes after days after obama and the younger bush blasted the current state of politics under president trump, breaking the code of silence that former presidents normally maintain. and particular, it was the comments by bush warning against bigotry that left trump's former chief strategist, steve bannon, to deliver a blistering attack on bush and call for a republican revolt. >> president trump to me embarrassed himself. speech writer wrote a high pha fluten speech. it's clear he didn't understand anything he was talking about. he has no earthly idea whether he's coming or going. just like it was when he was president of the united states. there's not been a more destructive presidency than george bush's. >> well, steven sanchez joins us live from the white house and boris, do we know if the president was aware bannon was going to say those things? >>

bush. much, mr. leeo greenwood, for your outstanding patriotism and for being such a great mc tonight. thank you to all the artists here tonight for volunteering your time and talent. i am proud to cheer points of light and to support my father's legacy of service and volunteerism. it is my privilege to share the moving stories of everyday americans who acted on an impulse to help others. in my hometown of houston, a half-mile from our home, entire neighborhoods and entire neighborhoods like so many communities in the bayou were flooded. my wife and i went down the street to help. we were inspired by what we saw, a neighborhood darkened and flooded. it was shining with the bright light of neighbors helping neighbors. community rising up. we worked side-by-side with groups from the first baptist first and young and 400 -- churches, service clubs all across the city. the mayor's office have been. proactively helping their members, parishioners, and employees. getting rid of contaminated floor

bush has never attacked president obama. he had not attacked president trump until today when his speech seemed to be about the president who once said there were very fine people at a white supremacist rally. >> our identity as a nation unlike many other nations is not determined by geography or ethnicity. by soil or blood. this means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally american. it means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the american creed. [ applause ] >> what george w. bush said about russian interference in the election is next. throughout my career, i've been fortunate enough to travel to many interesting places. i've always wanted to create those experiences for others. with my advisor's help along the way, it's finally my turn to be the host. when you have the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. ameriprise i enjoy the fresher things in life.o. fresh towels. fresh soaps. and of course, tripadvisor's freshest, lowest... ...prices. so if you'

jamie, you covered the bushes for a long time. what do you think made the president speak out today in the way he did. >> it was a big surprise he spoke out. after all he went eight years without criticizing barack obama, a democrat. on the other hand it's not a surprise. we know he didn't vote for him. his father voted for hillary clinton. he said privately in a meeting during the campaign he thought he might be the last republican president. so there's no love lost. but why today? i think it's simply enough was enough. this speech is planned for a year and he didn't say trump's name, but he was very specific. it's very pointed. you don't have to look too far. i think there have been some inflection points. i think charlottesville was an inflection point. i think north korea and national security are inflection points. i think that being presidential in the bush family is an inflection point. words matter, tweets matter. but i think at the end he really sees, and we heard it in that sound, that he feels as if trump and what is go

there's never good relations gringrich and the bush white house anyway and john who was then bush's chief of staff and dick, budget director made it even worse. they didn't help bush's cause on capitol hill, in the house and as a matter of fact at one point, relations were badly that they were ban from going to capitol hill because seemed like every time they went up to capitol hill, new enemies were created. >> interesting. newt, ph.d which is very well respected, very selective school in the south. >> thesis was on economic policy in the congo. >> i never read it. [laughter] >> it's one of the few books he didn't published, i guess. >> exactly. when i pointed that out to him, he did say i did have an offer to have it published. >> but it seemed like ivy leagues, they look down on him, did that create within newt -- you have to feel that to some extent? >> i'm sure that there was some sort of -- to tell you, you mentioned tommy, debating skills, i realized he went before the oxford debate society in the 80's to debate u.s. policy toward nicaragua and debated to the nicaraguan foreign min

president bush is speaking as the next president. there is a different perspective and different role. >> he hasn't been vocal. what about why now? >> i don't want to a speak to a state of mind. and paid attention to the president's retic, and what steve bannon and breitbart are leaving and it was supposed to be a bigger speech. and we will see if that stays the same. and it is a common talk phrase. >> the conversation continues. >> speaking of the new mitch mcconnell, dana perino will break it down after the break. selfies, cat videos and winking emojis. speaking of tech wonders, with the geico app you can get roadside assistance, digital id cards... or even file a claim. do that.. yeah, yeah that should work. it's not happening... just try again. uh, i think i found your problem. thanks. hmm... the award-winning geico app. download it today. for over 100 yearsaking like kraft has,al cheese you learn a lot about people's tastes. honey, what do you want for dinner tonight? oh whatever you're making. triple cheddar stuffed sliders. so

bush. >> president bush to me embarrassed himself. >>> speech writer wrote a speech. it's clear he didn't understand anything he was talking about. he has no idea whether he's coming or going. just like it was me he was president of the united states, there has not been a more destructive presidency than george bush's. >>> well ban non was prompted by a speech that bush gave earlier in which he attacked the national agenda that president trump and bannon supported. i'm going to bring in white house correspondent for the washington examiner, sara westwood. thank you 0 for coming on. josh, to you first, i don't know if you could hear on the tape but our reporter says that the crowd began booing bush. what's that say about the state of the republican party when steve bannon gets a standing ovation and former president george w. bush gets pulled. >> clearly the republican party is going through a struggle to find its identity. and george w. bush stantszs on opposite sides of that struggle. that was a troud that favored the steve bannon view of the word but there are plent

not only for jeb bush but for george w. bush as well. at one point even saying that he was to blame for the 9/11 attacks. so this is political, it's personal, but clearly george w. bush, who, remember, was swept into the white house on a promise of compassionate conservatism, drawing a sharp contrast and making a distinction with how he sees the future of not only the country but the republican party. i think it really underscores the deep divisions right now within the gop and of course no surprise that former president obama had not so subtle skrips at this president as well. >> and to president bush's spokesperson, rather pleased. he was clearly showing shade at the president. i want to bring in my panel. it's one of my favorite, bill cohen, special correspondent for "vanity fair" and dear friend, as well as another friend, tim o'brien, msnbc contributor, and executive editor of bloomberg view, another favorite. all right, tim, what do you think about this? two former presidents coming out this week. president trump has said a lot of

bush. he was speak bing at the bush institute in new york. president bush never used trump's name and never had to because he roundly smashed every dark impulse associated with trumpism right now. i can tell you tonight a source is telling msnbc's nicolle wallace bush knew his comments would be viewed as criticism of trump and he wrote this speech, himself. to get a sense of just how thorough bush was today, we here at "the beat" combed through each issue to then report out this video for you of bush's concerns and donald trump's record. >> we've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. >> when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a patty wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, i said, please don't be too nice. >> disagreement escalates into dehumanization. >> ought to see this guy, i don't remember what i said. i don't remember. >> our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication. >> president obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls. >> bigotry seems emboldened. >> i

bush has broken that peace. this is very, very unusual for two former presidents to break with a president. there's a fraternity of people who serve in that office. they form their own fraternity. they tend to be respectful of each other. they try to be supportive of each other. but when two of them break ranks as they did today there's great significance to that in terms of how much concern and worry they have deep down. >> very strong words both of them said today about white supremacy. after the break. >> yeah. ♪ it's not just a car, it's your daily treat. ♪ go ahead, spoil yourself. the es and es hybrid. experience amazing. >>> back now with my panel. jamie gangel's here, david gergen and david brinkley. so both presidents bush and obama spoke about bigotry and hate today. take a listen. >> our identity as a nation, unlike many other nations, is not determined by geography or ethnicity, by soil or blood. we become the heirs of martin luther king jr. by recognizing one another not by the color of their sk

bush arrived for a summit. >> what does putin do? he studies george w. bush. he spends time thinking about who this guy is, what motivates him, what works him. this is the old kgb officer whose job it is to basically turn people toward his interests, and he plays it that way. >> narrator: putin decided to focus on the president's strong christian beliefs. >> president putin told president bush about the time his dacha burned down and a religious medallion, which had belonged to his mother, which had gotten lost, and he thought this was irretrievably gone, and then a fireman brought him this kind of almost like a holy relic. it was a very affecting, emotional story and had some effect on president bush. >> and he tells the story with some relish and connects with bush, who's a very religious christian. now, whether putin himself is christian or religious is, i think, up to debate. but he recognized as a political actor that it was a way to make a connection to a guy for whom this would be very important. >> narrator: after their private meeting, bush and putin

bush. we are so proud to be with you tonight. [applause and cheers] barack obama: he sets an example for all of us, as does first lady barbara bush. [applause and cheers] barack obama: and that spirit of volunteerism, that spirit that says we are all in this together , that in dire times and ignores all the differences we had before, that spirit is five pointsby the of light recipients whose stories you just saw on the screen and who are here tonight. so it is my great pleasure to bring these outstanding americans to the stage so that you can acknowledge the extraordinary work they have done, i hope everybody who is watching is inspired by the work they have done. [applause and cheers] >> in 1989, in 1989, president george h.w. bush created the daily point of light award to celebrate the power of an individual to make a difference in the lives of others. he was the first president in american history to institute a daily presidential recognition program from the white house. the work he beg

bush. don't even talk about their successors in a negative way. george w. bush for the most part bit his tongue for eight years, even when the obama team admitted that they ran hard, not just john mccain, but george w. bush, but yesterday you had president bush, a member of the same party of the sitting president, and barack obama, obviously president of the opposite party, both attacking the sitting president on the same day on his brand of politics. george w. bush debating bigotry j lies, isolationism. this speech was aimed directly at the heart of trumpism. >> totally. and, joe, it was unusual, you're right, the bushes don't like to do this. george bush 41 wrote bill clinton a letter on inaugural day 1993 saying i will leave you alone. don't have to worry about my criticizing you. the thing is if you look at all this, who would have ever thought that in the year 2017 any former president would feel the need to criticize the sitting president of the united states, and i agree with you thi

you know if you're george bush you want to deal with. you know a neo nazi and the guy that's got you know. more money than god knows blowing going half of columbia to mordor you want to you wonder why it's business. so that's how it works. and that's taking mario thank you so much. thank you so much for joining us today we have to wrap it up here but i really urge our audience to read there in the boys it's amazing insight into modern american history the dark side of our deep state if you want to call it that. talk to sean. with all of me right around the corner in my pants just a hard going away from the oval office there is the who to be afraid of in the united states a leave it to a security company security to be exact if i know just what people are scared of in the good old u.s. of a state by state using a combination of google trends data on the top twenty four phobias in the united states and search terms coming after the phrase why am i afraid of the researchers for a.t.t.'s blog your local security dot com found some rather fas

and with the bush white house. especially when newt gingrich set of bobby george bush's with the buck will be the republican party is with the bauhaus. but john sununu who was the chief of staff and that made it even worse. and that was so badly that they were going to capitol hill that new enemies were created. >> a very selective school of the south. and with that policy in the kong go. >> one of the few books he did not publish a i guess. [laughter] >> so to look down on him as a pseudo intellectual. >> i'm sure there was some sort of that. is with that oxford debating society. to be in nicaragua. and then after they debate. >> and how smart he was. not part of that intellectual groups speak so they did everything they could to not condemn. >> to carry on that conversation better than anybody but also a talk about the lentic -- a bid to braves so at the end of the day politics and to look ahead at the republican party today newt gingrich saw a could become a congressional delegation. >> he was the first want to

bush. but first my opening statement. now, obama and the clintons sold us out. our uranium and with it the security our nation. follow me. it's 2008. the russians frantic. desperate to buy uranium. the key ingredient to a nuclear weapon. the obama administration more than willing to accommodate. the whole upper tier of the obama administration. the paragons of global virtue approved the deal. but as far back as 2009 the fbi and the department of justice had an active large-scale criminal investigation into russia and kremlin-connected individuals scheming to access america's uranium ranging from bribery, money laundering and kickback schemes. an fbi informant, an american businessman was wired and provide unmistakable evidence. i told you a year ago that bill and hillary were cashing in on her state department job with their so-called charitable foundation. instead it was an international money laundering operation. a pay-to-play slush fund funded not only by foreign countries, but by compa

it's nothing new for president bush. >> martha: in terms of tone, obviously the bush presidency had a very different tone -- both bush presidency is -- then what we are there is also no love lost between the bush family, and jeb bush that pretty beat up in the process of the last presidential election, and it seems, in some ways, that the tone that donald trump at the time brought to the competition was what helped him to win. i just want to show you this from last august, a debate with jeb bush and donald trump. >> mr. trump's language is divisive. >> the one thing he did say about me, however, was my tone. and i also understand that. but when you have people that are cutting christians' heads off, a war were so many times it is medieval times, it's almost got to be as bad as it ever was in terms of the violence and the horror, we don't have time for tone. we have to go out and get the job done. >> martha: ari, what do you think? >> i think you're onto something, martha. times change, and particularly after the obama years, the republican party wanted somebody who would take it to th

bush. he is dean of belmont university's college of law and the author of a new book "true faith and allegiance a story of service and sacrifice had war and peace." mr. attorney general, great to see you, thank you for coming in. >> good to be with you. >> so shimon laid it out, but the president meeting with two u.s. attorney candidates, not just any two but two that could cover manhattan and brooklyn, does that raise alarms in your mind? >> it's unusual. it would have been unusual in the bush administration. i never brought in a u.s. attorney candidate. i didn't bring in a judicial candidate to meet with the president, quite frankly, other than, of course, the supreme court candidate. now, as to whether or not it's appropriate or inappropriate with respect to u.s. attorney candidates as a general matter, the president is head of the executive branch. these are appointees within the executive branch. on its face nothing inappropriate about it but it has raised questions because it is unusu

bush. we are so proud to be with him today. >> all five living former u.s. presidents with a rare appearance together over the weekend. on saturday night in college station, texas, they put aside politics in order to raise money for victims of recent hurricanes. four of the five former presidents made brief remarks, appealing for national unity. beautiful. >> i tell you what, what a great night. fantastic moments there. and a reminder, richard, that that's how things have been for 240 years, that what we're going through now is an anomaly, a one off. and what people saw on stage there with five presidents representing, you know, americans in the white house from 1976 forward, through january with 2017. that's the rule. that's how we do it as americans. that's how we won the cold war, from harry truman to ronald reagan, unbroken chain of presidents working together. and it is hopeful. >> it's bipartisan. it's also people who defeated other people coming together. so, they've buried, if you w

bush has never attacked president obama. he had not attacked president trump until today when his speech seemed to be about the president who once said there were very fine people at a white supremacist rally. >> our identity as a nation unlike many other nations is not determined by geography or ethnicity. by soil or blood. this means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally american. it means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the american creed. [ applause ] >> what george w. bush said about russian interference in the election is next. five years ago, on any given night, almost 75,000 veterans experienced homelessness. we have reduced those numbers by almost half, but despite the great progress that we have achieved, there are still too many veterans who still need a place to live. this project is a comprehensive rehabilitation of the center's facility here in downtown boston to create permanent supportive housing, transitional housing and service spaces, a fac

bush's father's republican party anymore. trump ran on getting us out of bush wars. he ran on withdrawing the united states from this global community that you know against this idea -- >> his father calm up with nafta. >> exactly. >> we see it develop now. >> both bushes had the united states as a leader of a global community. there are many inside the trump administration, chris who reject the idea that there even is such a thing as a global community. >> yes, it's quite remarkable these two past presidents came out this way t. reason is trump ran on a campaign to completely upset the the apple cart when it came to the two parties. he has tried to dismantle the major initiatives the iran deal and obamacare. when it comes to bush, he has tried to repudiate as jeremy said the bush wars and get us out of our -- >> it's so interesting that the two parties can be capsulized as something they can agree on across the board, so many things, trade and everything else, global around the world and our idea of deposit. and the current president is outside that box. anyway, for

[applause] president bush: thank you all. [applause] president bush: thank you. ok. gracias. ramon.ed i wish you were still standing here. it's a face only a mother could love. no, he has a fabulous face. -- and big tim. tim with help from 41 and lbj's libraries. that friends of ours from afghanistan, china, north korea, and venezuela are here as well. these are people who have experienced the absence of freedom and know what it is like , and they know there is a better alternative than tyranny. that and i are thrilled bush center supporters are here. burning, -- bernie, i want to thank you. i call him bernie. it is amazing to have secretary albright share the stage with ambassador haley. for those of you who kind of take things for granted, that's a big deal. [laughter] [applause] president bush: thank you. we are gathered in the cause of liberty, that's why we are here. this is a unique moment. the great democracies face new yet seemed threats, to be losing confidence in their own calling and competence. economic, political, and national security challenges proliferate, and

bush. he -- and won that. so on some level not a surprise that clearly these two men see differently on -- have a different world view, but it's a fascinating to see this. >> yeah. no doubt. you know, when you look back at the 2016 election, there's a lot of reasons why president -- now president trump won. a lot of that was anger, though, at washington and understandable anger where people felt left behind. when that happens and you see other countries look like they're benefiting from the united states while they themselves personally are not, you are going to get this nativism kind of feeling. it is something i think that can be turned around. think president bush right there telling all of us we might want to take a pause, think about it for a little bit and try to go back to what the united states did best, and that was spread democracy around the world. >> yeah. mark, stick with me and bring in kaitlan collins at the white house listening into this with us as well. caitlin, as i mentioned, you know, dona

bush. b barbara star joins us with more. what are you learning? >> they are putting the pieces together, john. what multiple sources are telling us from the administration is the pentagon now calculates that la davis johnson was found up to a mile away from the central part of the ambush. now, they're trying to figure out how did he get there, who saw him last, where did he see them, how did he become separated from the members of his other unit. a key piece of information will be what other members of team will be able to tell military investigators about the ambush and how it all unfolded, a top general now in charge of that investigation. >> officials previously told cnn that the french air support was not authorized to fire or drop bombs during this fire fight, now you're learning this is not the case? >> right. with new reports additional information comes in and people clarify things. officials telling us the french did have authority to fire their weapons but the jets that came in, t

bush and fox news contributor. karl, let me ask you, before we talk about north korea, people very interested today that the president and mrs. bush came to new york for the spirit of liberty event. but this was planned well over a year ago, before the election took place. so, when i heard his speech today, i was like, wow. this is the kind of things that i have heard him talk about since i have been following him for the last, i don't know, 16 years. but some are taking it as swipes at either president trump or president obama. what say you? >> i'm with you. this was planned over a year ago. these are things that he's talked about before. he thought it was important to bring these issues up now to remind people of the importance of a strong america, strong defense, strong alliances in the world. but the people who are talking about this being an tact on this or that public figure are just looking to make a food fight where no food fight exists. >> dana: we can leave that there. the president also talking in partic

bush. steve bannon spoke at the california gop convention last night and bluntly questioned president bush's intelligence and whether he even understood his own speech. >> president bush to me embarrassed himself. speech writer wrote a speech, it's clear he didn't understand anything he was talking about. he equates the industrial revolution, the agricultural revolution, globalization, he has no earthly idea whether he's coming or going. just like it was when he was president of the united states. i want to apologize up front to any of the bush folks outside, in this audience, okay? because there has not been a more destructive presidency than george bush's. >> cnn's boris sanchez live for us from the white house. any response from the white house whatsoever? >> not yet, fred. we certainly have reached out. this is something that we've sort of heard from steve bannon before, right, he's called this a season of war with the establishment gop. just last week going after mitch mcconnell in a v

>> i think i do. >> you just said you didn't think. >> i think president bush -- i'm more in the bush camp on foreign policy. mccain's speech was about not going down the bannon road. when you look at who is around president trump he has more people like john mccain and lindsey graham than bannon. in the primary he rejected basically the bush model of foreign policy and in the general election -- >> that's on substance and that is fine. when did civility become an issue. when did this idea of it is more important to land that bunch? that's what i argue with both former presidents were referring to. >> it became part of the discourse when it came down the escalator. the first thing donald trump talked about was pretty tough and he never stopped and he won. >> what does that say about us? >> it means we want somebody who is not traditional and we are sick and tired of the status quo whether it being obama or bush and people felt so bad about their government they had nothing to lose. they were going to pick a guy that was rich and liked being rich and says i'm going to make you rich, a