and i think again george h.w. bush deserves a lot of credit for doing that. it did not give him the political victory that he expected. he assumed that the country would be grateful. he didn t go out and try to sell it hard. he was bashful about that, and he just never got the he didn t get the votes from the voters. they wanted to move onto other things. but nonetheless as brinkly said, it douse go down in the books as a highly successful foreign policy and one that continues to be a model for today s world, and we ought to be paying a lot more attention to it, frankly, than we do. well said. i want you to standby, david gergen. more on the life of george herbert walker bush now. so help me god. congratulations. reporter: george h.w. bush may have sat in the oval office for just four years, but his legacy will last for
he s got omarosa with it tapes to taunt him. and that means killing off his enemies like he did with brennan. using mccarthy-like tactics. anything to survive. that s what s going on right now. and his willingness to talk with the president s blessing, does that back up the white house s position they have nothing to hide. the job is to come out and speut shine and polish whatever new collatomy is on a given day. what they say and this is something that mr. brinkly falls in his bailee wick is this a person mr. mcgahn, who seeses himself as not someone who
thought this is going to modify their behavior and then the report of they re actually having the miniaturized weapon. i agree with mr. brinkly that he needs to talk to the american people and talk about a couple of things. what do we know about their capabilities? what do we know about our own defensive capability snz and what steps can we take nonmilitary turning the screws on china, to get them to intercede? this was a big win to get china and russia to vote for us. now we re go having to to get them to take the next step, which sfoo step in here with the united states and say we nay have to join in action against you if you don t get your act together. i think he has to lay this out in extremely clear terms. my initial question is is the president s warning, scott, president snl. this is coming from the
brinkly, the author of land for america. and kimberley dozier. so good to have all of iyou on. what is your reaction to the new national security advisor? general mcmaster is a tremendous pick as indicated in barbara s piece, he s very much an iconoclast. you have a military formation that moves in a certain direction and certain pace at a certain asimate and there s always somebody off to the side pushing it a little bit. when it comes to getting in the formation, he ll lead it and lead it tremendously. but he will speak out. he will go to the president, we can only hope and say this is what i m thinking. he s not going to lay a bunch of problems in front of the president. he s going to say here s what we think and what we can do and i m
harwood did. now a promise that new national security advisor can run his own operation. the president has said very clearly that the new nsa direct will have total and complete say over the makeup of the nsc and all of the components. and there is no demand made by president trump on any candidate. he wrote about the failure of the u.s. military to speak up to the president during the vietnam war. that book daereliction of duty became a must read inside the military circle. now the question is will he continue to speak up to this president of the united states? thank you very much. want to bring in cnn military analyst, presidential historian