the washington film festival, and getting the john robert lewis legacy word, was none other than james cline burn. who was there in attendance, the entire dinner. notably the dinner ended at 9 pm. which was when speaker said, if there s gonna be of, oh it won t happen before 9 pm. i talked to climb burn, and i asked, him what is going to happen? in here s what he shared with me, cause i asked him. do you have the votes? is this going to happen tonight? and he said that if anyone can bridge the divide, it s nancy pelosi. in if she is able, if she s able to do it, and he thinks she will. that she will go down as one of the greatest speakers of all-time. but the best part he said was. she has said the vote will be tonight. it could be 9 pm, or 4 am.
he said, dick, you do whatever you need to do and i ll back you to the hilt. didn t ask why or anything else. gave me his wholehearted support and endorsement and left me to run the show. there s no better way to operate for a boss in tough circumstances. one of the things that i ve read that you ve talked about that you think one of his proudest accomplishments is, is the idea of peace through strength. that that administration, your administration is the epitome of that. it does seem as if the word restraint is a positive when describing president bush and foreign policy. how would you describe it? well, i think it clearly was. partly we benefitted from the reagan buildup and a lot of good things that happened during the reagan years, but we inherited that situation. and the things that had been done during the reagan years i think contributed directly to the ultimate demise of the soviet union, getting ready to go out of business.
campaign. and he could then pivot away from that. but he had, as part of his upbringing, a kind of a fundamental decency. not just a willingness, but a sense that this was an obligation to treat your opponents in a serious way and to make amends when it was over, which is how he and bill clinton were able to forge an incredible relationship since they were both out of office. it s a remarkable legacy that he has. and it s an authentic relationship. you know, w. referred to bill clinton as my brother from another mother. it was forged in 2005, i guess, with the tsunami trip in thailand. they really worked together. they worked in service, and there was a moment in 2011, george bush was not disclosing yet that he had this parkinson s syndrome and the family friends were very concerned. he was getting on stage at the
went duck hunting, that s all. i had a great partner but he shot all the birds. no, no, no, no, no. no, no, that s not true. we had we had a great hunt. we had a wonderful hunt. i ll let you guys resolve that down the road. secretary baker, i will let you go. thanks for sharing a few moments with us this morning. i appreciate. it thank you, chuck. as i said, the man joining me now was president bush s secretary of defense and he was his son s vice president. mr. vice president, welcome back to meet the press, sir. good morning, chuck. good to be back. i want to play for you a clip from my colleague, jenna bush, of an interview she did with her grandfather. take a listen. what do you want your legacy to be? well, i want somebody else to define the legacy. i ve kind of banned the use of the l word, legacy word. that was past, now this is present. i think i think history will get right and point out the things i did wrong and perhaps some of the things we did rig
us understand some of what we saw in 2016. it could explain why mr. trump early on had incentive to embrace vladimir putin during the campaign. it could explain why mr. trump called for giving putin relief from sanctions over his annexation of crimea from ukraine, and it could explain why the republican platform was stripped of a proposal to give lethal aid to ukraine. what it certainly does is place president trump closer to the center of the investigation of his campaign s ties to russia. joining me now is democratic congressman jerrold nadler who will lead the judicial committee in the next congress. congressman nadler, welcome back to meet the press, sir. good to be here. before i get to some of the news of the week, i would like you to reflect a moment. what do you believe the enduring legacy will be of president bush? well, president bush was a patriot and a good person. i believe his enduring legacy is that he managed from the american end the dissolution of the soviet e