good evening. it is an exciting night. and get ready. iowa the first contest of the 2016 elections just a few hours away. we focused on republicans in the last hour. now the democrats in the race there could not be closer. bernie sanders, hillary clinton, a statistical dead heat according to late polling. throughout their campaigning. as we speak, dueling events in des moines. secretary clinton leading ever so narrowly, bringing out her husband, the former president, an acknowledged big dog, facing big questions about her state department e-mails at least from the media and others. senator sanders hoping to maintain his surprising momentum for another 24 hours. joining us, brianna keillor at the clinton rally in des moines. has she spoken yet or is she yet to come out? reporter: she has not spoken yet, anderson. she s actually scheduled to speak right now, and of course at this point in the evening candidates normally are running a little bit late, but we should be seeing h
head of the cia. cnn s jake tapper looks back at the legacy of his work here in the united states. the president s work. not just here in the u.s. but on the world stage. reporter: historians say that president george h.w. bush s dialings set the gold standard for the presidency a big idea, a new world order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind. reporter: president bush charted u.s. policies that promoted eastern europe s peaceful emergence from communism. the fall of the berlin wall, the breakup of the soviet union, and the end of u.s.-soviet proxy wars in nicaragua and el salvador. some had felt that we were so infat waited in the change infatuated in the change with eastern europe that we were neglecting this hemisphere. that is not the case. regime he removed a drug-dealing strongman, manuel noriega, turning it into the narco state. and the biggest u.s. military operation since the vietnam war
than ourselves. for two centuries we have done the hard work of freedom. and, tonight, we lead the world in facing down a threat to decency and humanity. he died last night after 8 months of the life of his beloved wife barbara. ed: good morning, it is a special edition, of course, of fox & friends as we reflect on this life and legacy as you mention an american hero. what stands out to me as did you go through his resume, this is somebody who is not just a president. he was vice president. he was an ambassador to china. ambassador to the united nations. but, after he left office, he said the most important thing i have now are simply father, husband, and grandfather. all i can think about as somebody who covered him a long time and got to know him a little bit as poppy is gone. that s what he was known as to his family. he wasn t known as mr. president. he was known as poppy. and now poppy is gone. emily: absolutely. honestly the whole world is mourning. their recollecti