By with us, brad, want to talk more about his life and legacy. Thank you for joining us. If you will stand by. Shannon this is breaking news. Im Shannon Bream at wagners World Headquarters in new york. President george h. W. Bush has died. He was 94, the oldest president in history. Bush 41 spent the summer at his home in maine, which he loved so much, he talked about how happy was to be there but returned in october to texas, where his spokesman said the president was looking forward to some proper texmex, the day after his stomach the funeral of his wife, barbara bush, he checked into a hospital with and infection. He went home a couple of days later. He had a former Parkinsons Disease. Doctors treated him for pneumonia and other infections in recent years. George Herbert Walker bush was born on june 12th, 1924. In milton, massachusetts, south of boston. He was a decorated u. S. Pilot who flew torpedo bombers, and survived being shot down during world war ii. He met barbara pierce at
jshd committee and 20 years on the finance committee. we had a good friendship. he has contributed so much to the people of utah and. as you mentioned it s not just republicans we are hearing democrats offering their condolences. democratic senator amy klobuchar said. she tweeted senator hatch was kind to me and worked together well there were a lot of differences. but somehow we always looked for common ground. prayers for his family today. you know, orrin hatch was a real conserve, an old school conservative. oversaw the passage of the 2017 tax law, when he was the head of the finance committee. he oversaw a number of contentious confirms hearings when he headed up the judiciary committee. but at the same time he was someone who really valued bipartisanship and he reached across the aisle on multiple occasions to pass legislation including the americans with disability act. in fact at the time of retirement he passed more bills
conservativism. by the end of his career in a different place. he was known for being able to work with democrats. he worked on the americans with disability act and critical in working with ted kennedy on creating the children s health insurance program and the second clinton term. so in many ways i think his kind of how he positioned relative to the overall party really underscores the kind of changes we have seen in the gop over the last five decades since the raegen era, which is a pretty steady move to the right and toward more confrontational posture toward the other party. dana bash i want to bring you in. you spent years reporting on capitol hill. if you re there dana bashible on the phone. yes. dana, you knew him, spent years on the hill reporting on orrin hatch. and, you know, this is another old school republican. um-hum. he was not afraid to work across the aisle. that s gone. well, it is it is not even
president bush changed the americans with disability act. a wall fell in berlin, a dictator s aggression did not stand. it was an immensely important four-year period, but politically in 1992 only 39% of the country wanted to rehire him and that s an inescapable fact. what you have to decide is if you re a president and ideally you want to do both if you re president is are you working toward history? are you working toward changing things for a generation or are you worried about a more short-term political benefit? as you and i know every president ever wants to do both but you can t always do both and i think these polls will go back up. they won t go up dramatically because of the polarized era we re in but if you ask me what the most important sign that we
25 restaurants and i asked them would you bar my friend if i came and she has m.s. and can t get the vaccine? they all said yes, i m sorry. i m just following the orders of the mayor. will: we have heard that before. i wish i didn t have to do this but that s the truth we are going to implement it now. will: that s a scary refrain i m just following orders. tim, i know you are not a lawyer but a wonderful investigative journalist who is vested in this topic. how is this discrimination legal? i mean, we do have the americans with disability act. i don t know, i am an attorney, i m not sure yet, whether or not cover something like this. i no he would on the frontlines, exploratory phase of discrimination right here. imagine a mayor issuing a mandate allowing racial segregation trying to supersede u.s. federal law either the ada or civil rights act. that s akin to what we are seeing. again, i m not a lawyer. did i speak with a lawyer. i said the question is, would multiple scleros