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No drama. inviting everyone in. real professionalism. right. he s a real statesman. think that s this funeral shows that. and the relationships that the bushes have with the clintons and the obamas speak to that. and i don t think anyone in the bush family would ever use words to describe their conduct in office or out of office, but george w. bush for his part made a point to never criticize his successor. he never said one word about the obama presidency. george h.w. bush did the same for president bill clinton. and the friendship that endures is sort of the proof in the pudding. this moment, this it feels fraught because donald trump, you know, it also it reveals how low the bar is. donald trump hasn t said anything obnoxious about the 41st president and we re all calling him i haven t some are calling him presidential for a minute. i was just thinking about the same thing. it s like we grade him on such a curve. right. because the thing is, this is just common ....
We live now, it does seem to be a contrast that gets under this president s skin. it s remarkable that it was headline news that he was invited to this funeral in the first place. usually that would go without saying. so i understand that, you know, for their own reasons, george h.w. bush s family is kind of approaching this in a very different way than john mccain and his family approached the funeral. it s not staged as a rebuke of trump or a celebration of the values that trump has undermined. something of the character of the president, any invocation of patriotism and decency seems like an implicit dig at the president. it s also that which is normal. i mean, i think that what everyone is grappling with, and everyone is being careful, everyone s struggling to find the words, is that, you know, 41 would be the first to tell you he was not a perfect president, was not a perfect man. ....
that was the last thing he attacked george h.w. bush on. this is just common decency. this is what presidents do. but yet because it s coming from trump, it s breaking news and it shouldn t be. this is the times that we re living in. it s so abnormal. here s what we re seeing. we re seeing george h.w. bush who s putting country above himself. and that is what we that s the place we should be, but we re just not. and that s a lesson that donald trump should take. but he won t. he won t. the contrast is so unmistakable. it doesn t need to be emphasized. correct. it s just the way these two men have lived their lives, their approach, you know, the grace of george h.w. bush, honor, the courage. what it meant to be a great american patriot. david french had a great piece saying, you know, one of the strange things about modern conservatism is the way it equates donald trump with manliness and masculine virtues and they regarded, you know, the bushes as somehow less manly and, ....
Veteran of world war ii who ran against bush for the gop nomination twice stood up from his wheelchair to salute. bush who led the cia in the 1970s was visited by the agency s current director gina haspel, by friend john brennan and i believe george tenant who led the cia during president 41 s son s presidency there was as well. that s him right next to director brennan. sully, the service dog, also visited his old partner alongside people who benefitted from the americans with disabilities act. a bill passed under the 41st president. and just a few moments ago, donald trump showed up at the famous blair house where the bushes are staying ahead of tomorrow s funeral. trump and melania will both attend that tomorrow. here at the table, let s add doug thornell to the conversation, a former senior adviser to the dnc, and michelle goldberg, columnist for the new york times. without pointing out the contrast between the time in which the 41st president was president and the times in which ....
What genuine courage, what genuine service, george h.w. bush, you know, gave to his country as opposed to donald trump. and in so many ways, what trump represents has been this repudiation of all of the values civility. of all of the values compromise. exactly. of all of those things. and so when you have a moment like this, little bit like the mccain funeral, you do get the chance to sit back and go, okay, there is an all teternative his, an earth 2.0 where we honor men like this, where we have a different view of what leadership and strength actually look like. and whatever anybody says at this funeral, that contrast is going to be very, very stark over the next few days. all right. a new report in the new york times that could be of interest to robert mueller. we ll bring it to you next. george woke up in pain. ....