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
with his childishness. i have to say, you know, we spent a lot of time criticizing what donald trump is not good at. we don t spend niem giving him credit for one area of expertise, which is petulance. you re 100% right. the people who really suffer here are the people in the combat zone who, you know, who like seeing people from the congress, from our government come and show their support and hear their concerns and talk to ground commanders. i think it s also unfortunate, hopefully she will still and the codele will still go to belgium for nato but this comes at a pretty bad time for nato to wonder. but there s a big thing and small thing. the small thing first. as a staffer, maybe as a former staffer, you would agree donald trump isn t sitting there with a master calendar of nancy pelosi s travel. someone went in to his office and said hey, boss, i ve got this great idea. it shows you the really low caliber of those around him for, again, the 500th time.
just to this point because you re right, the smart move, the traditional move would be for donald trump to go on the codele, to go across, talk to the troops say thank you for what you re doing. i m so sorry that we can t get our act in order back home, i appreciate it and put the spotlight on himself. he didn t do that. he doesn t think strategically. and we talked to every single senator from a trump won state. not a single one heard from the white house from trump. it s a remarkable absence of political leadership and vision. they just don t know what they re doing to resolve the shutdown. like trump is supposed to be a great deal maker. we re getting crushed. why can t we get a deal? you can t get a deal because you re getting crushed. if the other side is crushing you, they re never going to deal with you. ha he s so bad at the thing he s supposed to be good at, the
we are the president, they re about to take him to his resting place, his final resting place at college station, at texas a&m. i m switching conversations here a little bit. this is obviously, we want to follow this. i m just curious, noah, what should young conservatives take away from george h.w. bush? they should perhaps take away that there was a particular code of conduct that was valued by a generation past that is no longer valued. that is looked upon as naive, as perhaps a little dated, as not sufficiently cynical, enough to navigate the world around you. that is something that, i think, is particularly lamentable. in part because, and we ve talked so much about it, john meachum delivered a spectacular eulogy in discussing the codele of conduct how george h.w. bush navigated life, and it is one