on the man we honor today and his legacy. you do ask yourself, who is the next one to step into that spotlight. you re wanting there. i believe that. there are moments in this service where, you know, i know the directive from the family was, okay, we re going to play this clean. this is not a moment to smack anyone. but you could not help as an american having lived through the last three and a half years or three years, two years especially, to apply words to moments. over last two years and go, wow. wouldn t it have been nice and different if. nicole, just from the coverage, from social media, from communication with people watching, there was a presence in the front row that needs to be discussed and that was the current president. whose job today was to show up, to attend. he did not have a speaking role and to be respectful. even his presence said more about the 41st president and the
inside the rotunda with the honor guard watching over his flag-draped casket. that is the changing of the honor guard that you re watching live pictures of. it s been going on all night. look at this vantage point, it s so dramatic, it s so poignant to watch the silence and slow movements happening in the rotunda. the public viewing will continue until tomorrow morning. the current president and first lady paid their respects last night. president trump saluting the casket. today he will visit the bush family at blair house where they are staying. all of this ceremony as the washington post reports the bush family initiated a truce with president trump this week. they wanted the focus to be on the legacy of president bush rather than any anti-trump sentiment. president trump will attend the memorial service tomorrow, but he will not have a speaking role. former president george w. bush will eulogize his father and he has been clearly emotional
that s always interesting anytime you see all the presidents in one place, but particularly with president trump because he has such a different style and the fact that he doesn t have a speaking role at this memorial service. i don t think he minds not having a speaking role, to be clear. i think that he knows that were he to speak number one you would expect other presidents to be speaking as well, particularly bill clinton who developed a very close relationship with 41 before he died and over the last several years and how did that relationship develop, over a common cause of working on humanitarian issues, of working for charitable causes, for people who are impoverished by storms. i don t think that president trump minds not speaking. he is no the going to be viewed favorab favorably. he turns every speech that is doing wherever he is into some form of a rally. i don t think anyone wanted him doing that and i think that he understands that, too. i do think that he knows that al
expert care for every new beginning. and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program call or visit welcome back and let s speak english, shall we? while this is no night are in name calling, it is well established that donald trump is no friend of the bushes. a close ally of the bush family said on television an inviting president trump to 41 s funeral, the bush family was saying to the current president this is how it s done. so while he will not have a speaking role, this current president will be one of five u.s. presidents in attendance in the national cathedral.
will be. let s speak english. while this is no night for name calling it s been well established that donald trump is no friend of the bushes. a close ally of the bush family said on television tonight that in inviting president trump to 41 s funeral the bush family was saying to this current president, this is how it s done. and so while he will not have a speaking role this current president will be one of five u.s. presidents in attendance at the national cathedral. according to a bush family spokesman there will be eulogies from george w. bush, former canadian prime minister brian mulrooney. former senator alan simpson of wyoming. and presidential historian jon meacham. with us tonight the aforementioned pulitzer