The Vice Presidency, which as you know surprised him, he always respected the role of the press. All right. Andrea mitchell joining us by phone. Andrea, appreciate that. And again, just continuing our coverage here. It is 1 00 in the east. We continue our coverage of the death of former president George Herbert walker bush, americas 41st commander in chief. He has died at the age of 94. That word came to us now just over an hour ago, the word being passed from a statement from his son, george w. Bush. We are joined by Hallie Jackson. Let me start with you because we have heard from the current im sorry. That is my mistake. We will be hearing from her in a minute. We are going to pause here just for a few seconds because were going to be joined by our Network Affiliates and pick up the network coverage. This is an nbc news special report. Steve kegeorge h. W. Bush has away at the age of 94. That word coming to us just over an hour ago. A Statement Released by his son, the 43rd president
defeating george h.w. bush in 1992. one of the reasons he was able to do that was that decision to go back on the read my lips, no new tax promise. he made that in the 88 campaign. he cut a deal to do it in 1990. he called it a mistake on the campaign trail in 1992. a generation later in 2014 he ended up being awarded a profile in courage award from the kennedy library in boston. it seemed as a candidate and a president he never learned how to talk about that. what is your sense? did he always think that was the right thing to do? he did. he actually got a fax from richard nixon during the transition in december of 1988 where nixon offers him which nixon did to a lot of his successors, offered a lot of advice. one was to go ahead and break the pledge and get it over with, get the deficit under control.
new tax promise. he made that in the 88 campaign. he cut a deal to do it in 1990. he called it a mistake on the campaign trail in 1992. a generation later in 2014 he ended up being awarded a profile in courage award from the kennedy library in boston. it seemed as a candidate and a president he never learned how to talk about that. what is your sense? did he always think that was the right thing to do? he did. he actually got a fax from richard nixon during the transition in december of 1988 where nixon offers him which nixon did to a lot of his successors, offered a lot of advice. one was to go ahead and break the pledge and get it over with, get the deficit under control. bush wrote back saying that he d be dead meat if he did it that
1992. one of the reasons he was able to do that was that decision to go back on the read my lips, no new tax promise. he made that in the 88 campaign. he cut a deal to do it in 1990. he called it a mistake on the campaign trail in 1992. a generation later in 2014 he ended up being awarded a profile in courage award from the kennedy library in boston. it seemed as a candidate and a president he never learned how to talk about that. what is your sense? did he always think that was the right thing to do? he did. he actually got a fax from richard nixon during the transition in december of 1988 where nixon offers him which nixon did to a lot of his successors, offered a lot of advice. one was to go ahead and break the pledge and get it over with, get the deficit under control. bush wrote back saying that he d
explosives. they are using drones. they are trying to build their own planes. they have been fryitrying to bua self-driving car. all the resources and the brain power that they have is being funneled into efforts to come up with the next most deadly tactic that they can get their hands on. wolfle? the airport security systems, there are various degrees, some are pretty good and some are great and some not so good and that s the problem. and, okay, you know the achilles heel in the system is what you need to worry about, the weak link in the chain. it does occur to me, wolf, if we re forcing all the devices into the baggage hold, many of them have the lithium ion batteries which is a huge fire risk and having them in the hold exposes the aircraft to another kind of ring. the other point that evan brought out that would be difficult to detonate is in the hold, pan am flight 103 is what i would offer you as counterpoint of that, december of 1988.