but in real time, we have the documents, we know he did it. george herbert walker bush struck that deal at andrew's air force base in 1990 and knew it would probably cost him the election. >> it wasn't a maybe this will be bad, maybe this will be rough. this was, i'm doing this because it's right, it's going to break the base, i may pay with -- the job may cost me. and then that got sort of lost because of what happened on the 2nd of august, 1990, saddam invades kuwait and then -- the narrative shifts. george h.w. bush knew in the back of his mind, that what he had done could cost him his job. how many people in office today will do something, explicitly on the day they do it, say i'm going to do it right even if it costs me my job. >> walter isaacson, courageous moments have consequences. he did that in 1990. the democrats, against the advice of people like myself,