Person is going to be that were going to run against. I look forward to it. I look forward to it. I really do. Together with your help, your voice, your vote, we can achieve more than anybody. Again, i really believe. Im not saying this as bragadocious. The tax bill when we got the individual mandate but we got one of the biggest fields in the world. Theyve been trying to approve it for 40 years. That was a part of the tax bill. Theres nothing beyond our
reach. Nothing. We need republicans put in office. We need senate. I think were going to do pretty well with the senate. The numbers are looking pretty good. Did you see the numbers from about two months ago . You see numbers now, its like from a different world. People are seeing what were doing. Were going to do things that nobody has been able to do. Its very funny. Every time i go out to speak, we have these massive crowds. Thousands were turned away. We let thousands in. She wrote an article about me. I went to the Wharton School
The Vice Presidency, which as you know surprised him, he always respected the role of the press. All right. Andrea mitchell joining us by phone. Andrea, appreciate that. And again, just continuing our coverage here. It is 1 00 in the east. We continue our coverage of the death of former president George Herbert walker bush, americas 41st commander in chief. He has died at the age of 94. That word came to us now just over an hour ago, the word being passed from a statement from his son, george w. Bush. We are joined by Hallie Jackson. Let me start with you because we have heard from the current im sorry. That is my mistake. We will be hearing from her in a minute. We are going to pause here just for a few seconds because were going to be joined by our Network Affiliates and pick up the network coverage. This is an nbc news special report. Steve kegeorge h. W. Bush has away at the age of 94. That word coming to us just over an hour ago. A Statement Released by his son, the 43rd president
he s been doing this for decades. business opponents, partners, pall ti politicians in norb. new yorkers are familiar with this side of donald trump. it s not casual behavior. it s part and particel of a whoe is. for all of his bravado and bragadocious, he s wounded. he can perpetually live in that state of being an open wound and move forward in a way most people can t. but he s lashing out for the better part of three decades. we ve had a 1/2 century of donald trump as dennis the menace. and thank you for that reminder. trump has usually got an positive reception at his rallies when he s gone after
campaign and bragadocious manner. i don t seem to recall a similar gum ball game when president obama was president. other than holier than how the? let me pause here for a second. specifically with this example he was standing in front of men and women with their lives on the line to protect all the privileges we have as americans he also stood there and said this was the first time they d gotten a raisz raise, which can was not true. he was not telling the trulgt about how nuch raise was and 7700 of these. 7500 of these. part of the reason you didn t see the continuing tally is because there weren t so men ea per day. i m glass pom s misleading
moments where a president self-evidently and consciously compromised his own political future for what he saw as the national interest. and i don t want to exaggerate. president bush would hate it if we exaggerated. he d think it was bragadocious. it is simply a historical fact that he knew he would pay a steep, steep price, which he did both the republican house caucus bolting on him and bringing pat buchanan into the 1992 race. he knew he had to do it. bush knew he had to do it for the good of the country. one of the last conversations i had with him asked him what do you want us to remember about you? and he hated that kind of question. and he said we put the country first, made our share of mistakes, but we always tried to