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War, the burden of sending young men and women into harms way, weighed heavily on him. >> he calls me, hey, bake, come on over and have lunch with me. i could tell he was worried, he was anxious. >> so anxious that on the eve of desse desert storm, the president made this private recording of his inner most thoughts. >> my mind is a thousand miles away. i simply cant sleep. i think of what other presidents went through, the agony of war. >> the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> that s...

Said, you know, bake, you need to take your mind off your grief. how about helping me run for president? i said, well, thats great, george, except for two things. number one, i dont know anything about politics. i had never done any politics. and number two, im a democrat. because in those days, everybody in texas was a democrat. you were either a conservative or a liberal democrat. i was a conservative democrat. and he said, quickly, well, we can change that latter problem. and we did. but we w...

Mr. president, secretary bakers here. he opened both eyes, looked at me and said hey, bake, where are we going today? and i said well, jeffe, were going to heaven. he said good, thats where i want to go. little did i know or did he know, of course, that by 10:00 that night he would be in heaven. >> wow! and you were there for his last words, which were to his oldest son, president george w. bush. tell us about that. >> yeah. well then later on, as it became obvious that he was probably going to ...

Dicta dictator saddam hussain invaded kuwait, he put together a war cabinet. >> if you want to know how to fight a war, take a look at the way george bush fought a war. >> he was intimately involved in each step of the process. >> we would sit there and fight about it, but he would listen. he was so open and honest that we could disagree with each other in front of the president. >> this will not stand, this aggression against kuwait. >> but the decision to go to wawar weighed heavily on him. >>...

Helping others. george bush was perhaps the most kind and considerate person i have ever known in my life. if he invited you over for a drink or something, you would be sitting there, or anybody, a lot of people sitting there, well below his rank in life. and he would be passing the hors doeuvres. he would get up, pass, fix the drinks. very thoughtful person. and he and barbara, frankly, were the last people other than her family to see my first wife alive when she died of cancer at the early ag...

Celebration and mourning as we remember the life of president george h.w. bush. his body will lie in state at the u.s. capitol and the final goodbye will be thursday in texas. heres what james baker, a close friend of the late president remembers about bushs final days. >> he opened both eyes and said hey, bake, where are we going today? i said well, we are going to heaven. he said good, thats where i want to go. >> much more on the life and the legacy of george h.w. bush in a few moments, but f...

Who assisted him physically said mr. president, secretary baker is here. he opened both eyes and looked at me and said hey, bake, where are we going today? i said well, heavy, we are going to heaven. he said good, thats where i want to go. little did i know or he know that by 10:00 that night, he would be in heaven. im going to miss everything about him. i do. i had a tough time yesterday. i finally went out and did some fast walking in the park and got myself back together, but hes special. he ...

He wrote this, this week jews around the world will celebrate the miracles of hanukkah. melania and i send our best wishes for a blessed and happy h hanukkah. thanks so much for joining us for this special edition of cnns newsroom. im wolf blitzer in washington. "newsroom" continues right now with fredricka whitfield. thanks so much, wolf. hello, everyone. welcome this sunday. im fredricka whitfield. right now the nation is preparing for a week of celebration and mourning as we remember the li...

Englander whose presidency sored with the coalition victory over iraq and kuwait but plummeted leading voter to turn him out of office after a single term has died. he was 94. does that strike you has the right way to make that announcement? >> it certainly does not. they really packed in all of their liberal bias there. and you know, its not just fake news, its fake and bake news. i wake up every morning wondering whats in the liberal bias oven and this was fresh, hot and roasting last night in...

With karl rove, got quite emotional talking about the life and legacy of george m.w. bush. when you look at this "the new york times" story, peter does a great job of taking us inside the room when he was becoming to think about his death. where are are we going, bake, and baker says were going to hetch and mr. bush says, thats where i want to go. >> i knew they were close. i didnt know how close they were reading that article. you think politically intertwined. these were best friends. james ba...