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>> very much so. christopher buckley wrote a piece in "the new york times." he was a speech writer with the bushes and he was in an elevator and suddenly the elevator stopped and the secret service were oh, my goodness. suddenly, he ended up pinching her and she was like, heya, fella, you know, gonna have a romance in the elevator because it was stalled. you cant fake the kind of affection they displayed all the time. if you went to kennebunkport, i went up there for a book event. they would sud...

Lot of time in new york city and to some extent, washington, it was like moving to the big city. because they moved to houston in the early 1960s from midland, texas, which was a very different scene. >> yeah, sure was. andrea mitchell has joined our coverage. andrea, id love to hear from you about your view of the service we just witnessed. >> so extraordinary, brian. its so good to be with you and michael. to think about four former presidents, two of them, of course, family. but the other two...

Andrea mitchell. andrea, i listed that group of former presidents who will be at the service, conspicuously absent from that list is the current president of the united states. what can you tell us about the fact that the current president, donald trump, will not be there? >> reporter: he was definitely invited and melania trump will be there and in the front row. i think there is a tradition that former first ladies attend services for departed first ladies, so there is certainly no traditional...

Readers on a journey with him to take them into the room. that gets to the larger point. i think youre both hitting on this, brian. if i ask you, your takeaway, from as comey lays it out in his memo, the let it go, when it comes to the michael flynn investigation, youll say you might say or folks will say that it was a direction. you speak to someone else, theyll say it is the president speaking loud, someone he has affection for, michael flynn, he hopes it goes away and his life doesnt get turn...

Is your employer who has basically kicked you around like trump would say like a dog for many years and that is the dynamic of this relationship over time and it is a larger dynamic between trump and almost everyone around him. this idea that loyalty is a one-way street with him. he treats a lot of people bike b garage and the question is whether that will come home to roost, whether with the cabinet secretaries ur secretaries, hes unceremoniously fired and those employees with something on the ...

Certainly not confused, i was wrong to say that." he says the policy was changed and she wasnt told about all of this. david, kudlow tells us he has apologized, and that this whole thing was a, quote, process mistake. david? >> mary, thank you. tonight, we have new reporting here on who plans to attend the funeral for former first lady barbara bush this weekend. known to her family as the beloved enforcer. her straight-talking, down to earth style endeared her to all. theres word coming in ton...

Clear to everyone that will hear that he does not have any affection for donald trump, he does not like the man, hes been quite insulting and doesnt like the republican party either. i agree with him on many things but im not a witness for the special prosecutor, and he wouldnt want me. so i think its not helpful for the special prosecutor for him to go running around selling the book tour and giving his opinions about donald trump, but it wouldnt be the first time he used bad judgment, would it...

Russia investigation. >> jennifer, it seems stephen colbert had a better, clearer view of the situation than the fbi director. >> i do think so. i do agree with neera, theres a difference between being honest and by the way having evidence like contemporaneous notes and witnesses, and having good judgment. i dont think comey exercised goods judgment last year and he has an elevated sense of his ability to ride to the rescue of the fbi and everybody else, including himself. i think nonetheless he...

Meet you, maam. she says, call me barbara. i said, i cant do that, maam. why cant you do it? maam, you are the wife of the vice president of the united states. and she says, i dont care, call me barbara. i said, maam, my mother would kill me. and if you dont do it, ill kill you. yes, barbara. >> i have enormous admiration and affection for mrs. bush. i know what its like to be a spouse as well as the candidate. and i imagine it took her a lot longer to forgive me than it did him. and maybe she n...

Why cant you do it? maam, you are the wife of the vice president of the united states. and she says, i dont care, call me barbara. i said, maam, my mother would kill me. and if you dont do it, ill kill you. yes, barbara. >> i have enormous admiration and affection for mrs. bush. i know what its like to be a spouse as well as the candidate. and i imagine it took her a lot longer to forgive me than it did him. and maybe she never did. im crazy about her, i think shes immensely impressive. i get wh...