Two individuals . What makes this so striking is sean hannity has really ascended within the american right as the Republican Party has gone through convulsions during the trump era. It is hannity, his platform, and others at fox news who have often had the president s ear, who are, in their own way, shaping the way Different Things play out with the Trump Administration, urging the president to stick to its hardline positions on immigration, to move forward in a conservative way on health care. And as the president really just turns to his family and more and more, hannity is seen as a trusted friend. And i cant emphasize enough in my reporting how that trust for hannity, that confidence in him as an associate really underscores everything thats happening. And one more before we change topics, and that is your reporting that it was hannity who knew sekulow first and may have handed off jay sekulow, the idea, the lawyer, to President Trump who was in need of counsel. Because of that tr
will be eulogies from george w. bush, former canadian prime minister brian mmulroney, brian simpson and john meachem. jon meachem is the former president s biographer, the author of destiny and power. the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush which i admit a number of us are rereading for a second time and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey from vietnam and a battlefield commander in the persian gulf who who served
according to a spokesman, there will be eulogies from george w. bush, former canadian prime minister brian mulronemulroney, simpson and john meachem. jon meachem is the former president s biographer, the author of destiny and power. the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush which i admit a number of us are rereading for a second time and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey from vietnam and a battlefield commander in the persian gulf who who served under his commander in chief, george h. w. bush. do you think inviting 45 was one of the last official acts of 41? i think it s part of the ambient reality. george herbert walker bush, the first president he met was
strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice. isolationism in the pursuit of security is no virtue. with that, i d like to welcome in my panel. with me, msnbc contributor jon meacham, the author of destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush. also with me washington bureau chief for the usa today, susan page. the author of the matriarch, barbara bush and the making of an american dynasty. and the former senate majority leader during george h.w. bush s presidency, george mitchell. jon meacham, i d like to start with you since you spent so much time with the former president. what was he like as a person, as a leader, and to that question that we raised at the end, are we going to see somebody like that again? there was an innate grace to george h.w. bush. he was nicknamed papi as a child. he and his father had the same name. more interestingly, he was called half half bush because when he had a candy bar he d cut it in half and give it to the other kid
not out of arrogance, not out of altruism, but for the safety and security of our children. this is a fact. strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice. isolationism in the pursuit of security is no virtue. with that, i d like to welcome in my panel. with me, msnbc contributor jon meacham, the author of destiny and power, the american odyssey of george herbert walker bush. also with me washington bureau chief for the usa today, susan page. the author of the matriarch, barbara bush and the making of an american dynasty. and the former senate majority leader during george h.w. bush s presidency, george mitchell. jon meacham, i d like to start with you since you spent so much time with the former president. what was he like as a person, as a leader, and to that question