wrote the book truth about trump. glad to have you back. let s start with the piece on charlottesville where ivanka trump reportedly said to gary cohn my dead innocent my dad . given all that you know about the family dynamic, how often has ivanka trump had to defend her father on things like this? she s been put in this position time and time again really throughout her adult life. and even as a child, we have tof tomorrow to this is the kid who walked to school seeing her parents tabloid divorce scandal played out on the newsstands that she passed on the street. so she s been in this awful position of having to explain this man for her whole life. and i have to have some empathy for her. she s almost trapped in this dynamic. either she acknowledges that her
ground do i stand on that nobody else stands on? well, i worked as an actor and a writer on a variety show and i write about what happens at home. at home, i talk about what goes on at the office. are you doing this because you re afraid of alan? no, i m doing it because i respect alan brady. a man of his caliber has great firing power. it s a hybrid of family life, work life. and you cared about them like a family because you saw them together every day. they were a family. hi everybody. norm! hey mr. peterson, caller waiting for you. i know. and if she calls, i m not here. on tv, family sort of transcends blood. you recognize that family system, that family dynamic, even if it s not biological. sure things didn t go your way. sure you re a little disappointed. but we ll get over it. what s important here is you tried to do the wrong thing. that s right. i did, didn t i?
remember covering 43 and we d see him on the campaign trail, but we d certainly talk about him a lot. and being land commissioner in texas is a big political job and seen as a spring board. his dad, they all talked about him as a future. he said yesterday, yeah, no pressure there. it is so interesting to talk about the bushes in texas. i mean, it s really it was a choice that george h.w. bush made to go to texas and sort of create his own path. his family was obviously much more east coast. he went to yale. he could have stayed in that family dynamic. yet, he really chose to forge his own path. he went to forge his own path. that s where the economic development was. this was in the 1850s. texas was booming in the post-war period, especially in the texas oil fields, which is where he went to make his mark and went down to houston really
that they shared what he called two ladies of the night and then made a joke about so much for that silver spoon. that was what he ribbed his father about. but clearly the two men always very emotional and very close. ana? so much to admire about that family dynamic that the bush family has had over the years. suzanne malveaux, thank you for sharing all of that. news of president bush s passing has been met by an outpouring of tributes from colleagues and admirers who worked alongside the 41st president throughout his decade decades i should say of public service. those tributes almost universally paint a portrait of a man who was steadfast in his principles and led a life of devotion to his nation. one offered by john sununu, an adviser who served as the first chief of staff from 1989 to 1991 and john sununu is joining us
the first lady trying to box the president in to pulling the trigger on this. or at least box in john bolton, right? one of the things we know about this president is he is incredibly uncomfortable with interpersonal conflict. he doesn t actually like firing people despite the tag line of his show. almost always as you noted outsourced. he enjoys watching some level of drama, so, yes, i think it was about boxing both of them in and just making it impossible for this to just sort of drag on longer. there were legitimate reasons many people offered up as to why miss ricardel was a problem. just on a personal, i mean, from a personal family dynamic, it s just an interesting thing, if the first lady has been saying privately to the president, this person s got to go, saying it to john kelly, to then put out a public statement, it s like a game of chess. the inside part is always said out loud with this white house. it s unusual to see it from the first lady with this kind of a