emily: he died last night after eight months of the loss of his wife barbara. ed: we will be staying with this all morning. as we heard michael elliott talk about how he felt like this former president treated him with great respect and i mentioned that secret service agents and officers have told me the same thing. i remember hearing that bush 41 started a tradition that his son bush 43 continued. which is on thanksgiving or christmas, typically a president could go anywhere. they would go to the ranch. and he would always stay at the white house. and the reason he did that was not about his family. it was about the secret service and the support staff. when you go to another location, not the white house, for a holiday, you need more secret service personnel. that meant more secret service personnel away from their own families. so he would like to do
interviewing the old man? she pointed over to george w and said that guy is running for president in texas. why don t you put him on? i said sure. it was fun to be told or kidded or prodded by mrs. bush and interviewed them together and jeb was part of it and president bush, w bush, was able to speak to the team and they rallied the greatest comeback in the history of the ryder cup. he was governor at the time and the guys came back and won. i asked president hw bush the next day if he was the one that was able to rally. he gave a few words of encouragement. i will get nowhere near taking credit for this.
love to redirect. the truth is i m loving your coverage i had the tv turned up too loud. these tributes are just wonderful and wholesome. did you ask me a specific question? the statement from the clintons talking about the joy president bush took in his service every day. it strikes me. these are difficult jobs he was forced into difficult situations as any president is, he seems like a joyful person. one of the things he said to bush 43 is after he lost in the 92 race, 43 asked him where did you get the strength to be so gracious after that loss? it was so excruciating, the family so heartbroken, he said i have no choice. what he learned as a young boy growing up with a mother who was
hussein went after his father and that was perhaps in the background a motivation for bush 43. they are cleaning up the national defense for him dinner. as you hear glasses clanking behind me, that is the cleanup crew for the national defense for him as they prepare for tomorrow. a little ambient noise on a very busy night, thank you for joining us. i want to bring in more folks with close ties to the president. dana perino, brad blakeman and juan williams all joining us now. i want to start with you. we talked a lot tonight about the bipartisan appeal of president hw bush 41, the fact he worked across the aisle, someone willing to compromise and get things done. your thoughts on him tonight?
let me bring in host of she is a former obama official and senior advisor from move on.org, and cn 234 political commentator scott jennings, a former assistant to bush 43. the president obviously thinks republicans are going to win if he continues to pound this immigration message home. is it working? it might. polls consistently show that immigration is at the top of the list for a lot of republican voters. i think the strategy that he is employing is, a, he is going to very friendly locations to stump for candidates. places he has won for the most part. b, this spaghetti this spaghetti strategy. a throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. if it s immigration for you, you have birth right citizenship. you have the caravans. you have the criminals. if it s something else, there s a ten-point tax cut coming for you if.