Which george h. W. Bush was. And by not going partisan, george w. Bush helped remind us just how starved we are for decency in American Public life. And im going to leave you with that picture, get ready to put to rest one of our points of light, one of my points of light, the 41st president. Thanks to nancy, brett, nick, elise. Thats it for this hour. Im any coko nicolle wallace. Mtp daily is next with chuck todd. Good evening, im chuck todd here in new york. And welcome to mtp daily. Moments ago, president george h. W. Bushs remains arrived by train in college station. Next is a Burial Ceremony at the george bush president ial library. We will be keeping an eye on these proceedings as the 41st president is officially laid to
rest in a few minutes. Well take you back there, but were going to begin tonight with yet another piece of reporting that raises questions if the trump administrations Foreign Policy is for sale. It raises other questions about whether bob mueller might be invest
wasn t interested in being a celebrity. and i m not saying that the last that the one and the last three presidents before them, i m not going to sit here and say that obama, w and clintons wanted to be celebrities, but they became bigger than the presidency itself, sort of in the reverse. do you think how do you how do we can you change that, or are we forever sort of stuck on this model until somebody gets elected and says, you know what, i m shrinking the personality of the presidency. you know, i chuck, i think it s possible that just the media and communication and the information age and all that potentially has changed things to the point where, at least a certain degree of celebry if i case is evidentable. that s a hypothesis, i m not sure that s certain. one thing that could change, successive presidents, republican and democratic, have
conservative, you don t show you re not a showboat. our presidents since have all been celebry if ied. right after him, bill clinton became a big celebrity. w was branded. he became a celebrity. obama and trump. something has changed between the end of bush 41 and what we have today. oh, exactly. and the service managed to do what the man himself imagined to do, which is something almost impossible. he was almost regal and modest at the same time. and i was really struck by the difference in tone from the mccain funeral, which happened in that same spot just three months ago, which was such a direct rebuke of donald trump, it was almost like donald trump was there was no subtlety. there was no subtlety with that. more subtlety with that. this was actually more summoning people to the values that george herbert walker bush
outlining deep spending cuts and tax increases tuesday to free up the mull billion-dollar rescue plan by the international monetary fund, the imf, and the european union. the measure includes salary and pension cuts for civil servants, but greek unions are planning a general strike on wednesday to protest these new cuts. who is your favorite celebry you ve seen tonight and why? okay. this is going to sound cheesy but my daughter just called me and wanted to say, mommy, how was it? i said honey, i saw, first name came to mind, kim kardashian. she s going to have a cow and a half. yep. that was me. yours truly talking about a cow and a half. anyway, that is the msnbc afterparty to the white house correspondents diner where the media folks, the politicos and celebrities rubeds shoulders at what some call the nerd prom of d.c. as is tradition since the days of calvin coolidge, the president himself was in attendance. as he addressed the crowd, he told them his speech was sponsored.