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Rope, like zoo animals. >> as i thought about this, because everyones clearly looking at them, but in a way theyre more like a bride and groom every night. theyre the wedding party at the head table. they dont really talk to each other. they just spend all of dinner being greeted. trump is going on, dehis conversation is interesting because its not toward one person. its like this conversation and then he can just move it, and it just keeps going, its like a spread, and melania. shes very gracio...

Dinn dinner. john kerry aimed the zingers at trump, who skipped. i sent a note to my team over the wean. weve got to get chris on delivering the zingers because there was no cameras so youre that guy. before we make you do that, that head table was mighty empty. im going to do a lot of impressions. a lot like rich little. yes, heres the thing. as you mentioned, president trump invited for three years has never gone, but the rest, vice president pence, karen pence as well as ivanka, none shows up...

Awkward. its like hes pretending to be a politician. he did not look forward to the 92 election. >> to deflect public criticism of his foreign travels, the president said his trip to japan was about jobs, jobs, jobs. the result was hardly what his imagemakers hoped for. >> the lone camera in the dining room was locked in on the head table when president bush was overcome by nausea and fell forward. it appears he lost consciousness as he toppled over on to his host, the prime minister. >> this ma...

Did it. and admitted it. then nice notes and nice things about me, but then i got an invitation at the next alfalfa club dinner. he loved the alfalfa club and came every year but i got an invitation to sit next to him at the head table that night. that sort of made sure everybody understood theres no fatal wound here. >> still friends? >> well, the thing that was different, of course, between my time at defense and my time as vice president was 9/11 when we lost 3,000 americans, more than we los...

Club, he enjoyed those dinners and he invited me to sit at the head table at the dinner. >> thats the kind of person he was. let me say, thats the kind of person george bush was. there was a story early in his administration in 1989 to the effect generally that, well, the national security councils running foreign policy, the state departments out of it, theyre not -- and i got a phone dprawl thcall from the presidend i want you to come up to camp david with me for the weekend. we did so. there ...

Public service. >> some of it was from my parents. i watched my father at an early age, not realizing what he was up to, doing a lot of charitable works. my mother pounded into us early on do something for others. its always been a part of my life but i really believe it. i really believe there can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others. chris: do you feel a tremendous sense of pride when you see not just your children, but your grandchildren carrying on th...

Club, he enjoyed those dinners and he invited me to sit at the head table at the dinner. >> thats the kind of person he was. let me say, thats the kind of person george bush was. there was a story early in his administration in 1989 to the effect generally that, well, the national security councils running foreign policy, the state departments out of it, theyre not -- and i got a phone dprawl thcall from the presidend i want you to come up to camp david with me for the weekend. we did so. there ...

Public service. >> some of it was from my parents. i watched my father at an early age, not realizing what he was up to, doing a lot of charitable works. my mother pounded into us early on do something for others. its always been a part of my life but i really believe it. i really believe there can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others. chris: do you feel a tremendous sense of pride when you see not just your children, but your grandchildren carrying on th...

>> he was a kinder, gentler president. he kept his word. >> i think my dad comes closer to achieving the epitome of being a virtuous man than anybody i know. that will be his legacy to me and our family. >> i think that if historians objectively analyze his presidency, they say he was the greatest one-term president in the nations history. >> i hope that people will say served with honor when he was president. he acted with principle. i just come back to the fundamental values. goes back -- give...

Patrol. and thats my 41. >> he was a kinder, gentler president. he kept his word. >> i think my dad comes closer to achieving the epitome of being a virtuous man than anybody i know. that will be his legacy to me and our family. >> i think that if historians objectively analyze his presidency, they say he was the greatest one-term president in the nations history. >> i hope that people will say served with honor when he was president. he acted with principle. i just come back to the fundamental ...