i see them and am waving to them. a celebration of his life. there is the immediate family and then the bush family, the bush republican family and it s wonderful to be here and turned out to be a beautiful day as well. bret: the maine folks, houston folks, administration folks. he touched a lot of people throughout his lifetime and most of them are in this building behind us today. yesterday i posted an article that from a former c.i.a. officer who just retired and didn t want to reveal his name but told me his story. as told to me i wrote out his story. a young c.i.a. guy, wasn t fitting in with anybody else. a self-admitted jerk. he is at the lunch room he liked to sit by himself. one day he says a shadow and the director george h.w. bush, he goes to introduce himself and he says i know who you are and let s talk about you.
ready to transport the bush family to capitol hill and the funeral procession will pass in front of the white house later on this morning. bret and martha. bret: john, thanks. martha: let s bring in chris wallace in the studio. your thoughts on the news we got last night as the sentencing memo for general michael flynn was released. everybody going through that with a fine tooth comb today. yeah. it s a little hard to go through it because all the good parts are blacked out. but obviously it must be concerning to the trump legal team. we don t know exactly what he said or what at all he said. but the fact that there is so much there that s blacked out and also mueller s reaction, which is to say flynn provided substantial assistance in 19 interviews. so much so that they have asked for no jail time for him at all means they think they got a lot out of flynn and they re responding in kind. this is substantial. i think one of the other points is that flynn, by pleading
go to ed rollins, he is in charge of the schedule. i became mr. no, he was mr. yes. i wasn t very popular and he was well loved. martha: good cop bad cop routine. thank you. bret: we re looking live outside from the blair house across from the white house where the bush family is mobilizing to get into the motorcade to escort the casket from the capitol rotunda to the washington cathedral. as we look back to the washington cathedral there are amazing conversations before the service starts. one we just saw with the national security advisor currently, john bolton and the former vice president dick cheney. you want to listen in to see what they re talking about if we could, we can t. let s bring in chris wallace instead. well, that s kind of a pale substitute. it is interesting. i was looking at that same picture as you guys were and just as a bit of reality, it is neither good or bad, it just is.
washington national cathedral. paint the picture for us. we re waiting and watching the bush family start to arrive here. their military honor guard all across the capitol in the area. a group of what seems to be perhaps staffers or something, the public still gathered trying to look. the u.s. capitol police they don t do official crowd counts when it comes to visitors, people who came to see bush 41 here at the capitol rotunda but safe to say thousands came here to pay their respects and say goodbye. when we arrived this morning at 3 a.m. there was a massive line outside the front of the east side of the capitol. people waiting to get inside for their final chance to pay their respects to the president. bret and martha, we ll send it back to you guys. bret: we re going to listen in now as the casket is escorted down the east side of the u.s. capitol. the 41st president leaving the capitol for the last time.
go to newdayusa.com, or call 1-877-423-5739. martha: we re back waiting for the bush family to get into the motorcade and make their way to the national cathedral this morning and bill hemmer is out here with us watching all of this as it unfolds and enormously beautiful shot behind you there, bill. good morning to you. good morning to you as well. terrific coverage over the past hour to evoke so many memories of american history and politics as we take it moment by moment. we ve seen a number of dignitaries and politicians come in here. a number of invitees on the family side. on the right shoulder you saw a bus load of members of the house enter inside. as you mentioned condy rice,