second act? so interestingly i worked for him and mueller at the same time so robert mueller was the head of the criminal division when bill barr was the attorney general. do they know each other well? they had to be working together on a daily basis. so this they definitely have had a working relationship together. and my impression of bill barr is that, yes, he absolutely has very conservative credentials. he actually went to law school at night when he was at cia. wow. and got his law school degree while he was working at the cia. where he met bush sr. and in the department, though, i think he s respected, at least, you know, in my time there. my impression is this is a guy who s thoughtful. he has his conservative credentials. he has his agenda. and however, he is someone who actually will follow law and will follow facts. that s certainly been my impression of him and his interpretation.
about jeb and the things he said about thousand points of light. but right now president bush sr. never let resentments bother him. he went to become a friend of clinton who had defeated him and made him crushed. so i think that set an example for president trump. at least in the last couple of days. that s all we can ask right now. right. the history here is not just one of political rancor, right? it s been deeply personal. here s some of the things president trump has said about the bush family. thousand points of light. i never quite got that one. what the hell is that? i think bush is probably the worst president in the history of the united states. poor jeb bush, this poor guy with low energy. it s sad. no, it s sad. i came up with that term. it became so defining. it s like having it on his forehead, i am low energy. look, some of those things, you laugh, but i mean they re pretty awful things to say. the bushes of course in response didn t attend the 2016 convention and b
he wouldn t have won the state of pennsylvania or perhaps the presidency to the extent pennsylvania s demographics are similar to the two other key swing states, michigan and wisconsin. and ben, that county as you report had been voting democratic for several previous presidential elections. they hadn t voted for a republican since 1988, bush sr. they d voted for obama twice. but they surged for trump. and he won it by 20 points. you had all these democrats crossing over to vote in the republican primary for trump. and of course they stayed with him for the general. they said that the they felt that the democratic party had left them rather than them leaving the democratic party. and when we look at the midterm election results coming
he wouldn t have won the state of pennsylvania or perhaps the presidency to the extent pennsylvania s demographics are similar to the two other key swing states, michigan and wisconsin. and ben, that county as you report had been voting democratic for several previous presidential elections. they hadn t voted for a republican since 1988, bush sr. they d voted for obama twice. but they surged for trump. and he won it by 20 points. you had all these democrats crossing over to vote in the republican primary for trump. and of course they stayed with him for the general. they said that the they felt that the democratic party had left them rather than them leaving the democratic party. and when we look at the
the president s lawyer that he would be trying to preserve those time honored sort of practices in ensuring that the future of the presidency was not led down a different path by the conduct of this president. i would offer one amendment which is, i think, a fair reading of the history is that other presidents have certainly been criticized for struggling to use the pardon power in a uniform or nonself-interested way. bush, in the administration you served, david, was criticized for using the cometation power. bill clinton, in pardoning in an unusual way when he was still a fugitive, seen as linked to the clintons, and then obviously bush sr. pursuant to i ran contra. one difference that reenforces the points you both made, the notion that those were all debatable decisions that people said was too close.