was a hanging offense to be a republican. but in the autumn of 1963, george bush decides that he is going to run for the senate. so it was going to be a hard slog for him. george bush, born a republican. george bush, success from scholar to business executive. recognized for service to his country, industry, and community. service to his party and to the rights of the individual. george bush was a energetic, dynamic young oilman with a thriving family very much engaged in the community. and as such was very appealing. the bushes, both george and barbara, really believe that the family which prays together and plays together, stays together. this is the bush family, an american family, a good, healthy family. a key part of the campaign was the bush blue bonnet belles. and these were female volunteers
texas largest city. the family has moved to the booming city of houston. where george makes his jump into politics. the early 1960s, very much like his father, george bush is a practicing maltic conservative. he supports anti-communism, free market enterprise, deregulation. but at the same time he supports birth control and civil rights. he started at the bottom, filed to become the harris county republican party chairman, and he won that office. he was bucking the tide, because texas was a solidly democratic state, in fact, in those days it was a hanging offense to be a republican. but in the autumn of 1963, george bush decides that he is going to run for the senate.
tonight? he s in the dog house, obviously with, donald trump. i mean we will see if this turns out to be a firing offense. white house chief of staff said to me, quoting jim baker, this isn t just a firing offense. this is a hanging offense. as he once said about don reagan. but six months ago i would have said that guy who had a lock on the title worst white house chief of staff and modern history was don reagan, the disastrous white house chief for ronald reagan. i think kelly is giving him a run for that title. not only has it been his complete inability to speak truth to donald trump, built now the one thing he spoegsedly is good at is making the trains run on time in the west wing and turns out to be a complete illusion. and he s saying well there are no pranz of firing him tonight. they wouldn t say. that you made the point in the
trump respects no constitutional norms, a human wrecking ball. kelly reenforces that. he likes to blow stuff up. how you can put somebody in the position of staff secretary without having a security clearance this person sees everything that goes to the president. i spoke to a former staff secretary that said he saw more stuff at the white house than when he went to the nsa. they re supposed to see everything the presidencies. it s just mind-boggling. i spoke to a former republican white house chief of staff this morning who was quoting another chief, jim baker saying this isn t just a firing offense, this is a hanging offense. it won t be in the trump white house but he reminds me a little bit of donald truof ronald reagd chief of staff. no coincidence the iran contra scandal erupted on his watch. i see a lot of it in kelly.
airplanes. it happened to them. they would be listening. and i can see this as sort of the scenario that you imagine from the washington post story. you see the president saying you know what our sources intel receive are telling us or somewhere else reaudit that they are working on this new kind of explosive. it could be as simple offer handeoffhanded as. that is that a hanging offense? is it a mistake? yes. it could be a problem in dealing with our ally in the future. i can t see it as being a permanent breech since it wasn t deliberate. brian: so charles krauthammer was asked to do some instant analysis last night. i m sure he wouldn t take any of that back. keep in mind the thing that is so disturbing about the russians, when they first decided to put themselves into syria and de-conflict with them, whatever do you, these are our guys. these are rebels that we have screened and we would like it make sure that they are okay. the russians went ahead and started bombing them because