that is hitting bookshelves this week. like cnn s own jake tapper. . he made it the subject of this week s state of the cartoonion. the new john meacham biography of her 41st president is full of newsy insights. you ve probably already heard of his own secretary of defense and his son s vice president, dick cheney, president bush said, quote, he just became very hardline and very different from the dick cheney i knew and worked with. just iron ass. but there s much more in these riveting pages. a scene from april of 1969 when congressman george h.w. bush flies to see lbj. he s thinking about running for senate and lbj says, the difference between being a member of the senate and a member of the house is the difference between chicken salad and chicken [ bleep ]. then there s the legendary moment the day after christmas
kind of more gentile age that is speaking to us here. prescott bush was a wonderful man, too, and there s a nobility that runs through these men, that john meacham as a i must tell you, as a southerner, a lot of us always take pride, the best writers come out of the south. absolutely. i had the pleasure once of sits next to john meacham at a dinner and was just very struck by him and struck by we lost david, but how humble he was for all he has accomplished in 17 years writing this book. 800-plus pages. m.j. lee, to you. one thing that wasn t talked about at all was the two very controversial statements that come out in the book about vice president dick cheney and donald rumsfeld. so bush 41 saying about the vice president at the time, dick chen cheney, he had his own empire, he marched to his own drummer. saying about donald rumsfeld, that he served the president
obligation and responsibility to be a public servant, and public servant, you ll notice, is something that jeb bush uses a lot on the road. that he feels like it s his responsibility to sort of do the right thing and serve the country. so clearly this is a grandson who is channeling his grandfather and i think that e dynamic is fascinating for someone for whom his family is, can be a burden on the campaign trail at times. and david gergen, to you, this comes at a time when jeb bush is grappling with declining poll numbers. what does this all mean for jeb bush in this election? i don t think it s going to have a direct rub-off on jeb bush s campaign. i don t think it will revive his campaign. he s going to have to do that on his own. and the comments about rumsfeld and cheney, those weren t meant to change the election campaign. these were conversations that president bush had with john
the iran canadians. what would th iranians. it is what it is. now i m wondering and i think the vice president has indicated as well as the former vice president, the new president will come tear this up. it s a new point because the other countries have gone along. well, we have to start over for sure. it s a mute point in that we re not going to be able to snap sanctions back on. that s a ridiculous idea. we are going to be able to go back and convince the security counsel or try to convince the security counsel that the iranians are not complying. we have seen since 2006 multiple pages, husbands ndreds of pages where they refused to tell the
senator ted cruise, most of the other presidential candidates have opted out. they probably wish it would go away. it is an issue i m going to be raising with ohio governor who will be joining me later in this broadcast because it s become one of those issues that galvanizes the political right of this. another one is the iran deal. former vice president dick chen cheney, we have all determined our seat at the hands of the iranians. we go to jack oz and it s almost embedded in this agreement, an agreement that looks more and more likely to pass. i say pass with quotation marks because it will be rejected in the house and senate but as you know by now, with 41 clear yes votes it will avoid any attempt to override a presidential.