it s been a staple of talk radio, rush limbaugh does it and michael salve vagvage does it. he has 63 million twitter followers and that s his base. doug, do you remember when nancy regan got consulting a psychic because she was concerned in the wake of regan being shot or maybe before. i remember as a kid, listening to this and people were, you know, people s heads were exploding she consulted a psychic. essentially, donald trump could retweet a psychic. there is no there is not a lot of filter in terms of who he s retweeting or who he s reading, if he retweeted, you know, if he was sort of backed to some psychics, if he backed walter s theory of something, i guess he would you know, i guess the republicans in congress would go along with it like that s fine you re backing a psychic.
moving that neither side has the votes they need proceed the way they would like to. that means they have to meet in the middle someplace. it seems the speaker is as iconic about her wall, she said no. where are we at on this? he wants a barrier. he wants $5.7 billion for a wall and i don t believe this talk that he wants to down payment to open up the government. because that s not going to be good enough for him. because he could change tomorrow. democrats are going to come can up with a proposal that s pretty com comprehensive. he s going to dismiss it. the problem is republicans are starting to feel the heat and they told that to pence today. if you were nancy regan no, nancy pelosi. would you fight this to the finish say no money for the
feels like order has been restored.the situation room and suddenly everybody feels like order has been restored. and suddenly everybod feels like order has been restored. he went from the house to the u.n. to china back to the c.i.a. and had really run for president from a base as he used to put it as friends and christmas card list. he had no natural political base. he never won a statewide race in texas until the 1988 primaries. it was an unconventional political life. that s something worth remembering. he rose to the top on a kind of quiet persistent charisma. it s not a word you hear much associated with george h.w. bush. you hear it with kennedy, regan, clinton, obama. but george h.w. bush if you met him, you were basically his for life, and he was one of the great retail politicians in american history.
and it was not until i think it was about 11:37 p.m. on that night when regan picked up the phone and called bush jim baker answered the call and the bush hotel suite. bush had given up. it was all over he thought. he addressed the convention earlier that evening. he changed into a red polo shirt and drinking getting ready to figure out how to move on with life when regan called asking two questions. could he support the platform completely and asked specifically about the pro-life part of the platform. bush said absolutely. the next morning, the two had coffee, george h.w. bush and mrs. bush with ronald and nancy regan and as you said, steve, it was a very ftight campaign.
candidacy for president of the united states. bush emerged from regan s shadow. i want a kinder and gentler nation. and made a promise he would later break. read my lips, no new taxes. george bush defeated democrat michael decaucus in 1988 and became president of the united states. so help me god. the bush years saw epic events on the world stage. the massacre, the fall of the berlin wall, and the collapse of the soviet inunion itself. by the grace of god, america won the cold war. but his presidency s defining moment was saddam hussein s invasion of kuwait. this will not stand, this