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What i believe 41 wanted. >> and our friend john meacham giving the eulogy today. >> well also hear from the great allen simpson, always one of the funniest and most entertaining, good company, the veteran republican senator from wyoming. striking to see the heads of the branches of the military, the joint chiefs kind of standing witness to the casket that will come out of the hearse. bush family members are holding in the car. theres 43. >> emotional no doubt. probably a little bit nervous abou...

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So many of us to tears. and the preacher and the minister who moved jim baker to tears with his words. >> all your old pals. >> everybody was there. im the only, i was the only white house staffer who worked for dan quayle when he was a senator. so, i knew dan quayle before he was vice president and then traveled with him a lot. so, i saw dan quayle and we hugged and he called me by my old nickname, a nickname he had for me. >> which is? >> gorgeous joe. >> i love that. >> i dont know why. >> pr...

>> how can you tell a man as giant as our grandpa was how much you love him? its a tall order and i think its going to be difficult. i think theres a lot of pressure for him to get it just right. >> and i think he also wants to make sure that he can get through it himself without, you know -- he lost his father and is also devastated. so to be able to get through the eulogy without breaking down is something else that hes working on. >> susan page and michael beschloss remain with us. until barb...

Recklessly. allen simpson gave a eulogy of how george h.w. bush at the peak of his political popularity lifted him up at the depths of his own so i think it was a story about an american president but also a beloved father, a beloved friend and someone who will be missed. >> chris matthews? >> well, this is an away game for me in terms of the family because unlike nicole i dont know them well but i had to tell my experiences with george herbert walker bush matched completely up with the testimon...

Without rebuking the current leader of our country? >> if someone had given a eulogy like that five years ago and muel mulroney and praised nato, we probably would have been nodding off. >> now its a headline. >> now its a political act. if someone says george h.w. bush was modest, its a statement about donald trump. if someone -- or taken to be. if someone says that george w. bush tried to reach across the aisle, thats what most people have done during most of american history, but hard to say ...

Welcome back. family, friends and foreign dignitaries gathered to pay their final respects to president george herbert walker bush. we sawe y touchin ining moment pr hfrom his son chokingk tears and john meachum who read that eulogy to president bush before he died. there has been plenty of other news today. we want to get you caught up on all of that starting with the special counsels filing of a two part sentencing memo for michael flynn. while the document came heavily redacted the lines betw...

In good times and difficult times. and if you have paid attention at all in the last of the events of two years you could not help but have that moment of contrast and say to yourself, i mean, even, even, brian, to the arrival of the president with four other presidents sitting there, it was -- it was stark the difference when he arrived. they all, all the other presidents -- they just turned and looked straight ahead. no acknowledgement. >> no greeting. >> no greeting. >> yeah. >> thats, again,...

When the family respectfully greeted a man who hasnt been kind to them. donald trump who sat at the end of the row of living presidents. trump hasnt spoken to the obamas or clintons since around the time of his inauguration but all of this was a testament to something jon meacham said of george h.w. bush in his eulogy. >> a master of what franklin roosevelt called the science of human relationships. he believed that to whom much was given, much is expected. and because life gave him so much, he ...

How does he prepare for something like that? >> really hard. george h.w. bush was asked decades ago, what was he proudest of? and he said the fact that his children wanted to come home to be with us. >> yeah. susan, tomorrow in that cathedral is the first time since inauguration hillary clinton and donald trump have been in the same space. add to that, barack obama, et a al., five presidents in all and spouses. care to predict what kind of environment that will be like? >> you know, i think ther...