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Lose a friend and mentor in george h.w. bush but it was just a few months after the passing of john mccain, another very close friend of yours. >> correct. >> its a tough season. >> when you think of these two men and you think of their voices within the party, their voices within the country, but their global voices that i think are going to be missed. when we are trying to -- we want to emulate and admire all the personal qualities of president bush, when we focus on him today, but we have for...

In ukraine. jennifer griffin reporting live from the pentagon. >> shep, this is a treaty signed by ronald reagan at the end of the cold war known as the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or inf. signed with gorbachev, it bans all land cruise missiles 310 to 3,500 miles. russia was treating on these missiles under the obama administration. secretary of state mike pompeo announced that the u.s. would pull out if the russians dont comply. >> today we must confront russian cheating on their a...

Bush. a real gentle man. >> dana: understanding parties evolve and change. weve seen that from those years to now. is there anything you think bush/baker team brought to the discussion that the republicans should think about going forward, for the changing demographics and the challenges the country face ahead? >> foreign policy wise, ronald reagan made a lot of it happen. george bush was president of the kwraoupbd at united states at the end of the cold war. he managed that with soviet union an...

Gorbichev and even then it was evident in the way he talked about it and thought about it. while he was realistic about everything and protective of u.s. interest, he knew that gorbachev would be quite tender because of the way the satellite countries were dissolving. he knew he had to handle him carefully and respectfully in the way he handles his american friends. >> he was better at predicting that than his own political future. thats why we wanted to have you on tonight to talk about the for...

The compound is named after him. and people have been putting flowers there. so hes a revered figure. in his remarks in 1999 when the compound was named after him, i took a look at those. he said some moving things. but the one line that stuck for me, he said "i came here and this place became part of my heartbeat." i thought that was -- you know, he just was a remarkable individual in that regard. and it frankly doesnt surprise me, brian, that the russians have this reaction because i happened ...

The prime minister of england but trying to get gorbachev to decide what he wants to do. he was playing both sides of it. they could not keep track of where his head was about how we were going to put this together back together. these are huge places were moving at that time, enormous consequences. >> im curious now as you watch what has happened to russia today, do you think -- do you think -- what could gorbachev have done to help russia? it seems the 90s didnt work for russia as much as we a...

Gorbachev. what he did was he got a sense that gorbachev needed trade credits from the united states. he needed to give gorbachev something in return for gorbachev moving away from the cold war. that bush did on his own. nobody had to tell george bush he had to do it. it was intrinsic. the second thing he did, he understood that germany wanted to reunify. he was the only leader of a major power in the west willing to see germany reunify. one other thing, when kole, who was chancellor of germany,...

Respects. lets continue our conversation. gloria, you were saying that the real difference between -- i mean there are so many, but the real difference between president trump and president bush is that president bush is not what president trump is, i think indisputably, a disrupter. >> thats right. i mean donald trump came to washington to disrupt washington, to take apart what he calls the deep state, to replace it with something else. george h.w. bush was somebody who was schooled here, loved...

Colin powell you see there and other it. im sorry. please continue. >> george bush was famously, you know, pilloried during his presidency for talking about a new world order and a new vision, because the reason it didnt sound new was because it was franklin roosevelts vision that every president until donald trump has supported. donald trump is a fundamental break with all foreign policy of the 20th century. >> what george h.w. bush did, tim, when the soviet union dissolved and the berlin wall ...

There were occasional disagreements and different points of view, like -- and i can remember at one point im doing an interview and i made a forecast that mr. gorbachev ultimately would be replaced by a more conventional kind of soviet leader. my friend jim baker called me about an hour after i got off the ground and explained to me that i was out of my lane, that was diplomacy, i did military and he did state. he was right. >> on a personal note, as you all came together today and as you think ...