at first glance, neither george w. bush nor barack obama screamed oval office. yet both men ended up in the exclusive club of two-term presidents. using a combination of pitch-perfect messaging, carefully crafted strategy, and a team of rivals that only lincoln would love, they won clear and decisive victories over big-time opponents like john mccain, mitt romney, and al gore. now, they made missteps, sure, but 43 and 44 are famous for absorbing the blame for the team, learning from their losses, and moving on. in doing so, this compassionate conservative and this audacious change agent have become textbook cases of how contender becomes a winner. ♪ - my initial reaction was don't underestimate this man. he is a very, very quick study and he's much, much smarter than what you think. and if in fact you go into this political campaign season underestimating him, you're gonna do so at your own peril. - the narrative about george w. bush was that he was somebody that people would want to go have a beer with. - i think in order to be a good president, first and for

kansas, the projected winner is texas governor george w. bush. texas, george w. bush is the winner there. >> every election is good television because it is the suspense program. the election of 2000 was something more than that because in addition to the suspense -- and the suspense was enormous, maybe more than we've ever had before on television because of how close the race was. >> we're going to now project an important win for vice president al gore. nbc news projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of florida. >> it's really hard to cover an election that close and feel the pressure of, a, getting it on quickly, and, b, getting it right. >>> missouri could turn not just the senate election, but the national election. >> there's a bunch of poll closings ready. this could be a real turning point. >> an important win for vice president al gore. nbc news projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of florida. >> that is a very, very, very important state for al gore, and now the pressure is on george w. bush. >> florida is called

on the next one, clinton to george w. bush, i was intimately familiar with george w.'s tax cut plan to the extent he had details. so that was like his first priority, first thing he went out with. so i was -- i had already some view of the politics of that, who, you know, the democrats, there were still some conserve tiff democrats in southern states in particular, those no longer exist but they were willing to play ball with george w. bush. so i was ready for that debate when it came. just like, you don't report -- report a transition in a transition, you report it months ahead of time. cat: we're about to have a change of power here in washington where either major party candidate who will enter the white house has, shall we say, a storied relationship with the press. sometimes outright not trust thinking press, sometimes using the press to their advantage. what tips would you give to our audience here and watching on c-span on how to deal with that? olivier? olivier: first of all, let me confirm that neither of these candidates like the press, which is fine. they're

george w. bush still does not speak that man's name. he believes he would have won had republicans and others not voted for ross perot. >> -- >> 240 0 members of the reagan alumni cancel endorsed donald trump and i was one of them. >> "outfront" next the from food alone. let's do more. add one a day women's gummies. complete with key nutrients we may need... ...plus it supports bone health with calcium and vitamin d. one a day vitacraves gummies. >>> what happens when a guy gets his under ware in a bunch over a trump sign? here is jeanne moos. >> they aren't just being stolen. . this went up in flames. the sign's owners were burned up. especially when they recognized mr. underwear. >> i think that is our neighbor, our tenant. >> now extenant. so many trump signs are being swiped that yard sign defense techniques are being deployed. like using bike chain lubricant to make them slippery or messy or worst yet. trying to poop. or replace your signs with something they can't steal. >> i'm going keep cutting it like this until trump is electe

george p. bush, the nephew of george w. bush, that bush gave information of who he thinks this uncle, george w. bush might be voting for. come back. >>> voters head to the polls in six days, six, six long days. hillary clinton goes west today trying to flip arizona from red to blue and also nevada. donald trump is all about florida. i want to bring in senior media correspondent of cnn's "survival" brian stelter. and tom bianco. >> it's the dallas news writes it be george p. bush who says he's the only member of his powerful family who will be voting straight ticket republican. and his grandfather and uncle, both presidents could potentially cast ballots for hillary clinton. george p., you're looking at him there, he's an elected official. he's endorsed donald trump. his grandfather has indicated he's going to vote for hillary clinton. we had no inclination of george w. might. he later told the associated press. i don't know how they voted. i'm speculating to be honest. i've got to say, you float that out there, tom lobianco

george w. bush, the president elect -- well, i cannot even say that. the george w. bush campaign team was operating in arlington, virginia, in offices that were acquired by dick cheney, the candidate, acquired by him and paid for privately. there were no government resources. people like me, who had worked in previous transitions, were called up. i was never expecting to go back to -- into the government. i had my time working for ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. but i had been in personnel and management administration. i had been director of white house personnel. i understood how the process worked, i knew how to offload people, how to onboard people, and the critical connection between security and personnel management and administration. so i was asked to come help, and it was a very dramatically different experience, because you were kind of operating in the shadows, you were trying to be ready and have things ready to go if the decision was going to be that it was george w. bush to become president of the united states. but if he did not, then all of those

what george w. bush did and they had actually insight to say we treated george w. bush really badly on the campaign trail. we didn't run against mccain. we ran against bush. we still opened doors wide open and we'll be grateful. >> george w. bush made that an expectation for the white house staff very early in his administration. it didn't just come during the election season. it's something we prepared for for six years. >> it started with the great man you also know. george h.w. bush who was kicked around hard by bill clinton for a long time. bill clinton won by saying george bush was out of touch. he didn't care about americans. >> i was in charge of the transition out of government for george h.w. bush so i know. george h.w. bush was phenomenally cooperative and sharing with president-elect clinton to the point one time he actually said when president-elect clinton criticized him on one thing he said, poor, president-elect clinton, just doesn't know. send a team out to give him a briefing. it changed everything. that was a relationship today they are very, very

the story is that george w. bush working behind the scenes at the white house. how do you take out one of the stories? they wanted me to cut 10,000 words and the dog chapter was 9500 when i went in and said you can have the dog chapter back. he said the we a dog book one day. we decided t to do this one in e told me the publication date would be october 25 of 2016, i said are you sure? no one will ever pay attention to it. the publisher who has a lot more experience in publishing the magic of people are going to need something that would be different, like nonpolitical. i think she was right. responses been really good. this one is on the "new york times" bestsellers list. in the booksignings i don't so far from michigan, colorado, wyoming, california and all over florida yesterday, i think about three people asked me about politics. some people brought their dogs which was under also brought -- i have this thing. it is called felt jasper. it was given to me, one of the things that's amazing about jasper, the people sending an te amazing crafts. the woman who ma

bush gave to bill clinton, that bill clinton gave to george w. bush. democrats or republicans, republicans or democrat, yes, there are partisan differences but you are the keeper of that amazing building and that building represents the job and responsibility you have to the nation and to the world. >> a few days ago, the president was ridiculing donald trump on the campaign trail, saying his aides took away his access to twitter and now he wants to have access to the nuclear codes. we will hear a very different genre from both of these men coming up in a few minutes. >> absolutely. that's important. look, we -- i remember covering the bush to obama transition. the clinton to bush transition was a little more messy, not between the two leaders but between the staffs. it was very different for george w. bush to come into the white house because he grew up in the white house. he was around the white house for years, eight years of the reagan presidency and four years of the george h.w. bush presidency. that was very different in terms of familiarity with

guest: in 2000, it was a very close election between al gore and parts of the bush. -- george w. bush. there was a dispute about the count in florida, looking at particular ballots in certain counties. what we saw after the election there weress where recounts over contested votes that ultimately ended in a supreme court decision that stopped the recounts. that's very different from what we're hearing today. today, we've heard from donald trump about the idea of a rigged not abouthere it's contested ballots after the election in certain areas, but the entire political system. it's about the entire media being stacked against one candidate over the other. combined with allegations of voter fraud without any evidence that has happened. --re are two very different two very different kinds of issues. recountt gore ended the -- they are different. more about the people involved than the actual voting process. caller: exactly. then, it was about how you count the votes. there were ballots were you cannot see exactly who someone voted for. today, there is one aspect of the voting proces

that would've been george w. bush's instinct anyway. but we ran a campaign that was disciplined in setting out, one month would be the health care policy. the next month tax policy. the next month energy, environmental policy. there were speeches that went with it. they were fact sheets that went with it. towards the end of the campaign we published a 300 page book of campaign speeches and policy papers that were the governing agenda for the first 100 days that mack was talking about. and so that made the conundrum period that you're talking about much easier for our crowd, because these were, we had the agenda in a 300 page book, that people had internalized those who would work with the campaign and so on, political and policy people. and so we had a game plan set out for us. the reason i say that we were blessed in having had to run that kind of campaign is that it made the george w. bush administration i think unusually well prepared to govern. and the sad development in a lot of, in our campaigning now, is that the policy doesn't s

ambassador under george w. bush. when the senate refused to confirm bolton and got the job through a recessed appointment and rand paul former presidential candidate himself is speaking out tonight against both quote i'll do whatever it take to stop someone like john bolton being secretary of state, paul said. i don't know how a president trump could appoint someone who's diametrically opposed to everything donald trump ran on. some of that goes for giuliani as well. and a seven-term republican congressman mike rogers is also out having criticism his intelligence committee report on the 2012 benghazi terrorist attack was incomplete. congressman faced allegations of conflict between his senior staffer and clinton's closest aides. a charge he denied. and john mccain seems to be sending a strong signal to trump tonight that any effort to reset relations with russian president putin, former kgb agent, would be quote an unacceptable price for a nation that has stood against tier anying wiyranny, n. >> are we still teasing

w. bush and george w. bush administrations, and bill galston, senior fellow out for the governors of study program at the brookings institution and a veteran of bill clinton's transition process. this first session is 75 minutes. we are going to come each will give a brief view of some of the most important things they see that they've experienced in their transition, and then we will aim for a 35 minutes of q&a because i think that what most of you want to do. we will start with david. david eagles. >> appreciate your time. thanks for talking about presidential transition. what i wanted to take a quick step back and understand the sheer scope and magnitude of what we are talking about. these transitions are massive. this is part of a message to the incoming games. they are inheriting a fortune dollars apparatus. there are hundreds of federal agencies. as chris mentioned there's 4000 political appointments, 1100 have to go to the senate. there's only 73 days to your plan. there's not a lot of experience in

bush and george w. bush administrations. -- gulfston.lston veteran of the bill clinton transition process. the first session is 75 minutes. each of them will give a brief review of some of the most important things they see and they have experience in their transition and then we will aim -30 five minutes of q&a because that is what most of you want to do. we will start with david. david: thank you. appreciate your time. were talking about presidential transition. i want to take a quick step, understand the sheer scope and magnitude of what we are talking about. there are 4000 appointments, generally not a lot of experience in this process, there are a lot of folks coming in. what is -- has happened is this is a reinvent the wheel exercise, a groundhog day exercise that every incoming team is going through. not only is it big and complicated, it is also a time of vulnerability for the country. by and large, the white house is virtually empty, the original files are virtually gone. there are no hard driv

-- george w. bush to two wars so pretty good moments before, so sitting in the airplane it suddenly happened, what would happen in the unthinkable happened at the capitol. my duty now discharged as i like to tell audiences around the country. it is probably the closest it'll ever be of being your president of the united states. [laughter] >> one other story that i will tell you, you know from the transition, president bush, at the time i was serving as white house counsel he told me i want to be ready for a supreme courtt vacancy and so my team and i began working with the department of justice in developing a short list of short candidates. it was wildly speculated in the med amongst legal community that president bush we wanted to appoint the first hispanic to the supreme court and because of my relationship with george w. bush and the positions that i held particularly having served as justice in the supreme court and there was speculation that president bush would appoint me to the u.s. suprem

only relates to not 'sesident george h&w bush presidency model, they refrained from criticizing their successors. when president obama also follow that same model, refraining from criticizing resident trump and his policies once president obama is a former president? >> i don't think i can say anything declarative about that question. presumably, between now and get my 20th, you are your colleagues can ask him. i believe he said this in public, he is appreciated -- he has appreciated how early in his presidency, former president first of the bush -- former was nott george w. bush a regular, active, public presence offering his critique of the new president. and the president and president obama believed that it was not just beneficial to make difficult decisions, but it also characters of our 43rd -- revealed the character of our 43rd president. i am confident in saying that president george w. bush did not agree with every decision president obama made his first year in office. disagreementsis to himself, and i know that president obama has appreciated president bush taking that step

one of the things that george w. bush would tell us in that last year was he wasn't worried with about his legacy. i would tell the reporters that, and they would say, oh, that'sat bo lowny, of course he is. last year he read books about george washington, and if historians are still analyzing the first president, then the 43rd doesn't have a lot to worry about because he'll never know. [laughter]analyzin and he moved on with his life. you know, he's done an amazing job, i think, as a post-president as well. one, has been very respectful of his successor, being very sigh leanlt -- silent, but he's gone on to create such an amazing institute at the bush library. the pepfar president, the president's emergency plan for aids relief, is even something that democrats will say that was amazing. it was very bold back in 2003 to go forward with that. it is credited with saving a generation in africa, and that budget just because he felt -- that wasn't just because he felt a humanitarian obligation. there was also a national

first hispanic to the supreme court and because of my relationship with george w. bush and the positions i held having served as the justic justice one supreme court there was speculation president bush would appoint me to the supreme court, so we prepared for a vacancy and the story continued to percolate that no vacancy occurred. come the end of the first term, he nominates me an the bank cond an event on july 1, we get the word, i get a call and she calls me to say we have a vacancy. chief justice rehnquist has cancer, we monitored the situation and expected we were preparing for a vacancy. so i get to the white house and there i am met by a small group of individuals to make final recommendations about who he would appoint to the supreme court. that would be the vice president, the chief of staff, the council, mysel council, mysy general and karl rove. so i arrive at the oval office and everyone is there except for andy who's been traveling but he is on the phone over teleconference and we talk about how we are going to prepare to roll out this announcement and

under president george w. bush and currently a law professor at the university of minnesota. and you have a problem with director comey doing this. i don't know what -- what would a normal person have done right before the election if he does know that there's some pertinent information in the anthony weiner laptop? >> well, the fbi should be investigating the thing that it's charged with investigating. and the anthony weiner investigation is about investigating anthony weiner's sexting with minors. that has nothing to do with secretary clinton. if there's e-mails from secretary clinton going to that laptop, they're probably the exact same e-mails they've looked at. but they can look through those if they want to look through those. but they have no business writing letters over to members of congress about that. and with respect to the russians, we've known that the russians are spying on the u.s. they've been doing that since the cold war. and we know that this hacking i

ambassador, john bo bolton under george w. bush, they're the two top con tetende for secretary of state. hearing about tensions going on inside the transition, potentially some in-fighting, they are getting closer to very, very significant decisions. erin? >> all right, jim sciutto, thank you very much. i'm sorry, jim acosta. jim sciutto is reporting on the knife fight which i'm going to get to in a moment. with me now, jeffrey lord who supported donald trump, and former clinton white house aide, keith boykin who supported hillary clinton. former presidential adviser david gergen also joins me. jeffrey lord, let me start with what you heard jim acosta talks about, jim sciutto's reporting.

that would have been george w bush's instinct anyway. we ran a campaign that was disciplined and setting out in one month it would be to health care policy in the next month would be tax policy and the next month with the energy and environmental policy. there were speeches that went with that. fact sheets that well with that. with the end of the campaign we post a 300 page book of campaign speeches and policy papers that were the governing agenda for the first hundred days that mac was talking about. so that made the conundrum period you're talking about much easier for our crowd because, we had the agenda in a 300 page book that people had internalized. people those who had worked for the campaign. we had the game plan set out for us and the reason i say that is a blessing, that we were blessed and having to run the campaign is that it made the george w. bush administration unusually well prepared to govern and the said development and a lot of -- and are campaigning now is that policy does nothing to be that important and i think what

i was covering george w. bush and you were working for george w. bush. days before election day, this big story breaks of the dwi back in the 1970s. this wasn't an october surprise. this was a november surprise. so people, very different obviously between that and james comey and e-mails but they are both late crises to hit campaigns. how do you deal with big news so late and how would you assess how the clinton campaign has dealt with it? >> the first thing you do is you have to get all the facts. the worst thing you can do is get out there and start talking to the press and not having all the facts. get as much of that as you can. come up with whatever your argument is and in the case of governor bush at the time, it was come out, apologize and say you know, as he had said before when i did things when i was young, young and stupid, i did things then. number three, make sure your surrogates and campaign team understand what it is that you are trying to communicate. what you don't need is half a dozen people saying something else. number four, make sure

he doesn't have the class george w. bush has. go to facebook and twitter and let us know what you think. thank you for being with us. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >>> hi. i'm filling in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. let's get straight to our top story. the left mobilizing against president-elect donald trump. new york city's far left mayor bill de blasio sent a battle warning to president-elect trump threatening legal action over the muslim registry. >> if all muslims are required to register, we will take legal action to block it. if the federal government wants our police officers to tear immigrant families apart, we will refuse to do it. if the federal government tries to deport law abiding new yorkers who have no representation, we will step in. >> with mr. trump's campaign pledges to punish sanctuary cities and institute law and order policies, battle lines are being drawn between the trump administration and liberal big cities. joining us now for reaction from little rock arkansas, a senior a

bush, barack obama's two elections, he tops only george w. bush's two narrow wins, can he call this a landslide? why is he calling this a landslide? it's not a landslide. he got way more than most people thought, you can't really call this a landslide? >> i think you can if you look at how much he -- how better he did than secretary clinton. >> you're changing the definition of landslide? >> well, i think it -- >> you can say he did better because he won, but can you call something a landslide when it's not actually a landslide? is that what you're doing? >> if you look at how well he did against secretary clinton in the electoral college, it was a landslide. you can go back and say -- >> it wasn't a landslide, paris. a landslide is only a landslide, when it's the definition of a landslide. that's not the definition of a landslide. that's you changing the definition of a landslide. >> it's you not liking my explanation. >> you look at the definition of a landslide, this is not one. let me read this again, it is also false to say the electoral

then i met a guy named george w. bush and he gave me several lifetime opportunities that clay had mentioned. it really is special this journey of mine. it's been tremendous and i hope in this book to inspire others and to help others realize what is really possible in america. i'm often asked what's it like an clay knows as well as i do what's it like to work in the white house and what's it like to have walk-in privileges into the oval office and stand in front of the same desk used by franklin roosevelt during world war ii as he worked with winston churchill to end that war? at the same desk used by jfk as he wrestled with the cuban missile crisis. this same desk used by ronald reagan as he worked in the cold war. what's it like to stand in front of the desk and advise the present united states who he should write to the u.s. supreme court? what's it like to stand on a global -- cabinet secretary and to be involved in discussions and situation room on the most controversial issues? as an american citizen i can't im

trump says he admires putin while he calls george w. bush a liar. i don't know if i could -- i mean, the facts of the matter aside, i don't know if i could handle that kind of thing up in my white house. >> i think mitt romney actually still believes all those things i don't think he felt this was going to be the outcome. you know he wasn't preparing a thorough transition, because he thought he was going to lose, and i think if you're romney and looking at this, as i said, particularly in the area of national security, for looking at his really inexperienced small group of advisers, and the person he trusts most being his son-in-law, in his 30s, and has

bush had kennebunkport, george w. bush had the ranch? president-elect trump now has the trump tower. >>> stay tuned for this special guest, rnc chairman reinc reince priebus. that starts right now. >>> it's thursday. meet the new boss. not at all the same as the old one. tonight, meet the trumps. the obamas host the next first family as the 2017 transition team kicks it into high gear. >> i very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel. >> i'll talk to rnc chairman reince preibus. plus, the trumps contend with their new public reality. >>>nd

it's a state, too, that you go back to 2004, george w. bush did come close there. didn't get it, but did come close. >> before you say anymore, donald trump tonight on the campaign trail, what he said about people who have already voted, listen to this. we don't have it. it was a great buildup. he's telling people you have buyer's remorse. you can vote again. he listed the states where if you want to, you can vote again. county commissioners are going to be going crazy. it's true in some states. it's very rare, however. what does this tell you? isn't this part of a head game? do you think somebody has polling in new mexico you haven't heard of? >> exactly. i talked to some trump campaign officials who are already having the conversation. imagine if that access hollywood tape hadn't come out. they have to really thread a needle to turn -- you just tapped it with your finger. it's a whole lot of work to win all those states. they're talking about the possibility of flipping -- new hampshire is the one i hear them talking about the most. i know they went to michigan,

w. bush gaÓ el estado. >> yo creo que serÁ muy importante la persona que lleve la florida,s yo creo que serÁ un resultado muy positivo a nivel nacional porque seÑala algo muy importante que la tendencia del votante se va hacia persona, entonces yo creo que la florida siempre ha definido la campaÑa porque es un ejemplo de todo lo que es el paÍs y siempre ha sido el centro del que universo cuando se trata de las elecciones nacionales tienden a votar y sobre todo los clinton estÁn identificados. >> recordar que hay elecciones en puerto rico. >> new jersey-nueva york es muy importante para donald trump y hillary clinton. >> vamos con los resultados. >> perdona que interrumpa. >> han entrado bastantes nuevos resultados comenzando con la florida que se espera que estÁ reÑida, hillary clinton con una leve ventaja en el 1% pennsylvania con estos 20 votos electorales estamos monitoreando. >> el estado de maine aÚn sin determinar son 4 votos electorales que pueden ser definidos uno de lo

, george w. bush through two wars and close to 50 federal and state executions, so i had some pretty good moments before but sitting on the airplane it suddenly hita me, what would happen if as i said the unthinkable happened at the capitol. the president concludes the h speech and he leaves the capitol and we are order today return back to andrews air force base. and my duty now discharged as i like to tell audiences around the country. it is probably the closest i will ever be to being the president of the united states. [laughter] >> one other story that i will tell from the transition, the very beginning from the bush presidency, president bush at the time i was white house counsel, he told me i want to be ready fb supreme court vacancy.o my team and i began working in developing a short list of candidates. and because of my relationshipip with george w. bush and the position that i held particularly having served as a justice in the texas supreme court, there was speculation that president b

same data, same economic news, interpreted differently. 2000, george w. bush is elected. wall street runs something called the homelessness rediscovery index, arguing the newspapers would be interested in the polite of homelessness. there was an upward spike in the stories. if anybody had any doubt about liberal bias, wikileaks put it to rest. you have major outlets, "washington post," "new york times" colluding with the dnc and hillary to get her elected. people like dan emilbeck asked the dnc for a column he was doing call the ten most outrageous things donald trump ever said. they gave him ten of them and he used eight of them. are you kidding me? we have four years if not eight years.

donald trump would and george w. bush did as soon as he came in. i meant to look this up last night and in particular there were things that he, that goes to executive order but he withdrew the united states from participation in international organizations, help me out here. >> he reversed the arsenic in the drinking water. >> right, that's what i was trying to. >> on his last day you put up two executive orders they were designed entirely for political gain on george w. bush including the, regulating the levels of art and arsenic and the drinking water was going on on the city language with, now in planning, that's a question and we of all people are not going to cast any aspersions on people who ask questions and make them seem like they might not be experts but the courts are one way legislative action is another and there's an interesting one which is a good issue executive orders they don't tell us about . as this president has done. so that could conceivably be a path to overturning some things without necessarily knowing the challenges, tha

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bush. george w. bush had the electoral votes and only a couple other times in all of american history this happened. before that you have to go to 1888. grover cleveland got the most votes and benjamin harrison became the next president. 1876 is a famous election that ended in a deadlock. the guy with the most votes didn't win then and the only other time in 1824, look at this. crowded field. john quincy adams did not have the most votes, but got the electoral votes and it went to the house of representatives and they settled it. that's it. hillary clinton it looks like by well over two million votes will win the popular vote. donald trump over 300 electoral votes will be the next president. what does it mean? republican strategist and aid to former president george h.w. bush. i want to ask for your take on this and what that means. the meaning of the popular vote is symbolic. we elect by the electoral college and donald trump wins there. does it mean anything with a mandate that hillary clinton is g

here's what he had to say back then. >> moments ago i spoke with george w. bush and congratulated him on becoming the president of the united states and i promised him i wouldn't call him backck this time. i offered to meet with him as soon as possible so we could start to heal the divisions of the campaign and contests we just passed. almost a century and a half ago stephen douglas told abraham lincoln who just defeated him for the presidency, partisan feelings must yield topatrio patriotism. i'm with you mr. president, and god bless you. in that same spirit, i say to the president elect what remains of the partisan rancor must bebe and put aside and may god bless his stewardship in this country. neither he nor i anticipated this long and difficult road. certainly neither of us wanted it to happen, yet it came and now it has ended. result does that must be through the honored institutions of our democracy. over at the library of one ofw our law schools is inscribed the motto not under man but under god damned wall that's the ruling principle of the source o

i've advised george w. bush through two wars and close to 50 federal and state executions. i've had good moments before. sitting on that airplane it hit me. what would happen if the unthinkable happened at the capital. the president concludes his speech and leaves the capital and we are ordered to return back to the air force base. my duty now as i like to tell audiences around the country, it's probably the closest i'll ever be to be in your president of the united states. one other story that i'll tell us, from the transition president bush told me i want to be ready for supreme court vacancy. so my team and i began working with the department of justice and developing a short list of candidates. it was widely speculated in the media that president bush one of the first hispanic to the u.s. supreme court. because of my relationship with george w. bush and the positions i have held particularly having served as a justice on the texas a prim court there was speculation that he would appointment to the supreme court. we prepared for vacancy. the stories continue to percolate

take a look at george w. bush. after eight years, here's how he looked. here is barack obama, 47 years old when he took office in 2009. he has joked about the presidential mileage now evident on his head. so, what can we predict for 70-year-old president-elect trump? here's one prediction of how he could look at the end of his first term. and here is a final one, abraham lincoln, who said in 1860, "may the almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity shall in no way suffer in my hands." good words to leave you with. i'm soledad o'brien for "matter of fact." have a great week. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. i wanted the same plan that my mother had. senior dimensions. i've had senior dimensions for over 20 years. and i love it! if you're eligible for medicare, you need to take a look at the plan that offers you more than original medicare. senior dimensions members pay a zero dollar monthly premium. senior dimensions members pay a zero dollar copay for

country. >> that george w. bush was so gracious and set an example i'm quite certain president obama will follow. the man is a good man. i don't agree with him on anything but he's a good man and follow the good man, george w. bush's approach. the only transition i experience is president reagan to president bush which was as seamless as could be. ron's father mentored george h.w. bush but there was tension between those george h.w. bush people to clear out the desk and actually a little bit more difficult to go from republican to republican sometimes than democrat to republican but the best of both men from now to the inauguration and then the fisticuffs will break out soon after everyone is sworn in and the capitol is cleared but i hope we focus on the fact that the peaceful transition of power is the great glory. it's the best cliche we have. >> i think all of us couldn't agree with that statement more. the fisticuffs will get under way after the inauguration at some point. a number of democrats, minority le

graham a picture of george w. bush or more of bush with the local animal shelter for a fundraiser and came home with the dog. >> guest: eight months ago as the president bush and we were at a barbara bush literacy foundation event. one of the people next to me was jean rhys jones and she runs -- he built the spca building in dallas and is top notch. i saw the president say to her, i want to combine into or the facility and we would get some good press for you. i said to him, you can't go to the shelter and not come home with the dog. i don't know if mrs. bush was ready for a new dog or not, but sure enough he went and they got a new rescue puppy named freddie. laura bush wrote that pats made the white house a home and that is why barney and miss beazley and andy dekalb are great in president obama and mrs. obama had the most beautiful portuguese water dog. i don't know what the president-elect is planning to have a dog down there at all. doesn't sound like they'll spend too much time, but dogs make a house a home.

. >> guest: laura bush is active with the george w. bush down at smu in dallas as well. well, both first ladies, lady bird johnson and nancy reagan participated in c-span's american president series. here's a little bit from lady bird johnson's interview. >> when the president said he was going to quit in 1968, did you agree with him? >> in '68? oh, goodness, yes. we had been talking about this for -- well, ever since -- we ran and '64 and won. >> in end, wife why did he quit? >> money opinion he knew he wouldn't have in case he one he didn't have four more years. nowdays, he -- they were wearing thin and costing too much and pulling up your spirit right out of your boots and going on, and if he lived he would not be able to do the sort of job that he wanted to do. >> guest: well, sadly he died not shortly after he left the white house, and he said his family was cursed to -- the men in his family did not live past a certain age. speaks to the point of protection i was talking about, too, that the first ladies feel this need to protect their husbands and so lady bird was

he has appreciated george w. bush. he studied george h.w. bush pretty closely as well. in both of those cases you had in the bush example former presidents who stayed out of the way not because they didn't believe strongly about what was happening but because they think that second-guessing a sitting president from a former president's position is ultimately corrosive to the republic in some way. >> you talk about george h.w. bush and george bush staying out of the way. did jimmy carter and did bill clinton stay out of the way? >> well, jimmy carter wrote a letter to the members of the u.n. security council during the first gulf war asking them to vote against george h.w. bush's proposal so no is the answer there. and president clinton is as ever his own category. he was so involved in the 2012 campaign, there were moments you remember where it seems as though obama hired clinton as a defense lawyer. >> so it sounds like -- and i summarize in saying in the last 20 or 25 years former democrat presidents get involved and republicans seem to stay out of it. >> that has bee

jo george w. bush, if you recall, flirted with putin for a moment saying, i saw the soul in him, and then backtracked big time from that. for putin feeling the economic sanctions, he's feeling isolated, oil prices have dropped. he would like to get back into the game with the united states, but on his term. what we have -- what the trump administration is going to have going for them is that both of us have the same enemy in isis. so there is a possibility of seeing us do joint military exercises. it might be russia doing the bombings that kill civilians, not us. >> as an historian, have you ever seen this kind of thing before, a foreign country meddling in u.s. election and news con new coverage, or is it a new online world with shares and clicks and meddling by foreign governments? >> there used to be a thing with a telegram inciting mexico to declare war on the united states in the world war i era, and if they would do that germany would give back arizona and new mexico. this kind of intrigue h

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i remember years ago, george w. greeted thena bush president-elect barack obama at the diplomatic -- they also did the walk. what happened? i'm mean, i understand you said you wanted us to see them, but does the -- sec. earnest: we provided access to the oval office. you know i talked about this many times over the last eight years that the priority you place is getting access to the president and the person he is meeting with about the meeting that just occurred. that did not happen in 2000, when president clinton welcomed president-elect george w. bush to the white house. that did not happen in 2000 eight, when president bush welcomed president-elect obama to the white house. i am not resizing the previous two administrations or two previous white house is. i am merely stating that the access that was provided by this white house is entirely consistent with the kind of request we have been fielding from all of you over the last eight years. beat thisi hate to bush, but understanding that initial share of your init

and by the way, he did not vote for trump noted george aged -- george w. bush. life is are they changing for the running mate of mike pence. our station pennock the secret service has already started stepping up security at his mansion. airspace around his home. airplanes, helicopters and drones cannot get within 1 mile of it. he will stay governor until he is officially sworn in. >>> if polk county family lost their home to a fire in months. jackie kelly shows us how it turned out to be the surprise of a lifetime. >> reporter: it devastating low. >> i pulled up to the red light and bam. the accident left sherry with injuries and cost her her car. weeks later a fire destroyed her home. >> it is hard when you look around and you see everything you own. >> local charities helped with a place to live. >> what has it been like not having a car? >> horrible. members. >> transportation is something that they can help with. >> reporter: we arranged for them to meet me in lakeland. all of those who made what was about to happen possible waited for the arrival. >> we hav