Harvard. Hes a great gentleman. I think he will go down as truly a great secretary of state. He just left north korea, hedda great meeting with kim jong un, and god along with him really well, really great. He has that kind of a guy. Hes really smart but he gets along with people. So i think mike will be in good shape. Well see what happens. A lot of people are predicting other things. But i have a feeling its going to work out very well, and i think our country really needs him. Hes going to be a great leader. Jesse this is pretty high level, kimberly. James clapper, president obamas top intel chief, went over there. Madeline albright went over there. Mike pompeo goes over there on a secret mission, pretty big. How does the Trump Administration not get suckered into a deal like previous administrations, the bush and administrations, and make that same mistake. Kimberly mike pompeo somebody has, i am not going to speak to the nature and qualities of past administrations but as it relates to pompeo, the relationship he has with the cia, the position is in. Its a wise choice and it shows the United States is willing to engage in diplomatic lives of discourse to be able to solve complex geo particle problems. Its a positive for everybody. Taking it seriously, putting focus and attention on the, being openminded. We want to talk to them and work out something in a good way thats going to be beneficial, not just to the United States and north korea, south korea, china, but globally, the world at large. Put some positivity into it. Hopefully hes going to be able to make some inroads. You cant do anything unless you try. Jesse he is trying. Hard, and hes negotiating for vision of strength, unlike previous administrations. A day now, some of the other democrats on the Senate Intel Committee are not so happy with mike pompeo. They may vote against him for the white house is saying please dont undercut him during this overture like this. We have some sound of some democrats explain their position. Lets listen. Director pompeo has shown disdain for diplomacy, putting military action at a higher priority. I think he sets a poor example in terms of american values. So i will strongly oppose his nomination. I do expect for someone who is the nominee to be the secretary of state, when he speaks with the committee leadership, and when he was asked specific questions about north korea, to share some insights about such a visit to. I think the diplomat that represents this country as secretary of state, especially under this president , has to be somebody who really has a strong orientation toward diplomacy and not somebody was going to exacerbate the president s worst tendencies. Dana it takes a lot to get me worked up, but i worked up about this. How is it that blumenthal, senator from new jersey, can say, or connecticut, can say pompeo has a disdain for diplomacy . He spent his easter weekend flying to north korea to sit down and actually talk to kim jong un which i believe is diplomacy. The president also benefits from this being the beginning of his administration when this is happening. For example, Madeleine Albright, when she went, they only had two months left. President clinton had a choice. He could work on middle east peace or north korea. He chose to middle east peace. That deal fell apart. Later tells Madeleine Albright, i wish i would have done the north korea deal. Things happen. President of president. I feel like the democrats are picking a fight that they do not want to have. I dont think they will win it. Its not sustainable to have this argument. The other thing about senator menendez being frustrated that pompeo didnt tell them. He is saying he wasnt forthcoming in his testimony. Well, yeah, because he had a secret meeting to go to north korea, and he is the cia director. They confirmed him a year ago. To assume that he cant be cia director, he cant be state apartment had but can run the cia in nine months is preposterous to me. I think this is a really bad example for the United States to set for the world. You dont have to like mom t have to like mike pompeo but let him do his job. Greg how can they handle this kind of achievement from somebody they despise . We are going to have to truck in thousands of therapy llamas from peru to deal with the mental breakdown thats going to happen with all of the haters who want so badly for trump to fail, even if a success could mean an incredible transformation in world safety. I mean, if you denuclearize north korea up, if this happens, youre going to have to make room on mount rushmore. Jesse juan, get the chisel out. Greg must be hard for cnn and msnbc because they are too busy covering a imagine if cnn were around when the berlin wall fell. They were would be covering a e boat reunion. Thats how stupid this is. I think it was a week ago or so, we were talking about how comey said he compared trump to a mafia boss. I think we realized a mafia boss beats a massage therapist. Its not a bad thing to have someone who talks tough who reset the table and it comes down to a system that we have noticed. Trump enters, he throws the table over and says everything has changed now. He takes the hardest position, and you have to walk towards him. They understand that linkage. You cannot understand ambiguous intellectual paralysis of analysis linkage. But you can understand that. I think thats why this is working. Jesse greg is saying he came in and he pulls out of tpp, puts the security deal on the table with the south koreans, slapped sanctions on the chinese, war games with our allies like japan and south korea. It looks like things are moving in the right direction. Do you give the president any credit for any action he has taken . Juan i was waiting for you to tell me what moved in the right direction. Jesse this is a historic summit. Juan potentially. Jesse 60 or 70 years on the eve of a historic summit between the north and south. Juan its not like the first time people have gone over there. You said right in the beginning that not only had James Clapper gone but the secretary of state Madeleine Albright had gone. Steve forget dont forget rodman. Juan i wont. The problem is the North Koreans always say we will do something. We will come along. Maybe they say will we will stop selling the stuff. Stop selling it to the pakistanis and the people in the middle east. Or think about maybe not making so much but they never say will give up our current arsenal of weapons. So the question for pompeo, and i disagree with dana pretty strongly on this. Jesse how dare you, juan . Juan pompeo, first right, go right ahead. He disagrees with diplomacy when it comes to the climate deal but to the iranian deal. Dana he is going to go to war over the climate deal . Juan no, no, no. You are saying he want to north korea over the easter holiday, so of course he believes in diplomacy. To the contrary. He has a history of undermining diplomatic deals. I think there are people in the senate, they are saying wait a second. Dana what deal . Kimberly what has been undermined . Juan the iran deal, the climate deal. To say he is somehow going to jesse a deal isnt good just because its a deal, juan. Sometimes deals are bad enough to get out of it. Juan i dont think those are bad deals. Jesse a lot of other americans do. Juan the deal as the american people, that was our government and you can say i show up and im a great deal maker, so im going to bluster my way through. I think a lot of people say its exactly what did pompeo get from his visit . Whats the news out of the visit . Did he get concessions or is it the case that we are giving everything to north korea in terms of greg wait, wait, wait. I have to point out the hypocrisy. On one side he is saying that pompeo was mean for being hard on the claimant deal and now hes being soft on north korea. Everybody agrees the climate deal was a lousy deal. Cost 100 trillion over a century. Doesnt mean theres not yes. I have looked at it. You have not. I am right. You are wrong. All right, my point is this. He actually went there, right . The Trump Presidency is regarded as hard, not soft. It changes the whole way, the atmosphere. Its not like i dont think theyre going to push trump around because they have seen him bomb syria twice. There are red lines it wont be crossed. Juan what surprises me is the conservative point of view. Don rumsfeld said to colin powell who came in after Madeleine Albright and said i would like to see if we can get some negotiations going. Dick cheney, Donald Rumsfeld said no. We are not playing ball with this guy. He wants a meeting with president. He will use it to convince his people that nuke dealers devices have brought the u. S. To the table with north korea. Dana that was true. But the calculus has changed now that they have Nuclear Weapons. Juan they had Nuclear Weapons then. Jesse they have Nuclear Weapons because we secured a number of bad deals with them and they cheated on everyone. Whats different this time as we believe sanctions that brought them to their knees and we have serious gunships encircling them, country starving, and Good Progress being made between the north and south. Lets hold out hope maybe something positive comes. Dana dont forget john bolton is very skeptical about the North Koreans. He was very critical of Condoleezza Rice who was trying also to make a deal with our allies and north korea. He has now onboard at the National Security council. I think if thats the concern, there is at least somebody at the table with a voice saying be careful. Kimberly just to say the president didnt undermine these deals. He is the commanderinchief and he asked to evaluate them and decide whats the best interest of the United States and whats not. He made a calculation that the iran deal was not and that the paris Climate Change accord deal was not as well. Then he acted prudently to withdraw from those. Jesse we celebrate the life of former First Lady Barbara Bush and pay our respects to the beloved American Icon gone at the age of 92. Back in a moment. One of the reasons i made the most important decision of my life to marry george bush is because he made me laugh. Its true. Sometimes we laugh through our tears but that is shared laughter and its been one of our strongest bonds. Find the joy in life because as Ferris Buehler said on his day off, life moves pretty fast, and you dont stop and look around once in a well, youre going to miss it. As a control enthusiast, im allbusiness when i travel. Even when i travel. For leisure. So i go national, where i can choose any available upgrade in the aisle without starting any conversations or paying any upcharges. What can i say . Control suits me. Go national. Go like a pro. Ftheres flonase sensimist. F up around pets. It relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. And all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. Flonase sensimist. Oh very nice. Now im turning into my dad. I text in full sentences. I refer to every child as chief. This hat was free. What am i supposed to do, not wear it . Next thing you know, im telling strangers defense wins championships. Well, it does. Right . Why is the door open . Are we trying to air condition the whole neighborhood . At least i bundled home and auto on an internet website, progressive. Com. Progressive cant save you from becoming your parents, but we can save you money when you bundle home and auto. I mean, why would i replace this . Its not broken. I am a huge believer in loving god. I pray. George and i pray every night. Out loud. And sometimes we fight over whose turn it is, but we do. And i have no fear of death, which is a huge comfort because we are getting darn close. And i dont have a fear of death for my precious george or myself. Because i know that there is a great god, and im not worried. Kimberly comforting words. An outpouring of love from across the country for former First Lady Barbara Bush who passed away yesterday at the age of 92. While many are mourning the loss of this great woman, her beloved husband of 73 years, president george h. W. Bush, has a different request. The president releasing the statement earlier today saying i always knew barbara was the most beloved woman in the world. The outpouring of love and friendship being directed at the enforcer is lifting us all up. We have faith she is in heaven and we know that life will go o on. So cross the bushes off your worry list. Her son recalled his final moments with his mom. We were needling each other. The doctor came in it she turned to the doctor and said do you know why george w is the way he is . Because i drink and smoked while i was pregnant with him. She is funny. She had great faith. She truly believes that theres an afterlife. That she will be wonderfully received in the arms of a loving god, and therefore did not fear death. As a result of her soul being comforted on the deathbed, my soul is comforted. Kimberly isnt that incredible . What a wonderful life lesson for people who have suffered the loss of loved ones. The sentiment that they shared with everybody, how wonderful she was, the enforcer, the matriarch of the family, beloved and very funny. Dana he used to say i have my daddys eyes and my mothers mouth. He and his mom used to get in trouble for the fact that they spoke so frankly. Their nickname for her at home was frank. Everybody called her that because how she would tell it like it is. Watching her talk about her precious george, its almost unfathomable to most of us that you could be married to summative for 73 years, that you would marry the first man that you ever kissed and you will go on to have, basically be the founder of a big political family. They are not just a political family. They do a lot of public service. I remember one time hearing advice she had for people in a marriage, that each person has to be willing to go 60 of the way. Thats a good reminder for those of us who need to be nicer to our loved ones. Greg who was not directed at . Dana peter, i will be nicer. I want to point out when he talked about the comfort she had because of her faith, a lot people dont remember all of the times. She had a second child after george w. Bush. Her name was robin and she died at 4 years old of leukemia. Mark steyn this morning said he believed, and i think its true, that thats when her hair turned prematurely white. She never chose to hide that. She really just was who she was. It was an honor to know her. Kimberly very sweet. God bless her. Greg i want to get the negative stuff out of the way because not all people headed an outpouring. The worst place you can go when someone major dies is twitter. If you want to Google Fresno professor and barbara bush, you probably should. Let fresno know what you think about what this woman said about barbara bush. This professor has tenure. She is an incompetent bucket of slime. Anyway, to something positive. She reminds me of my mother. Thats what i like about her. When i dedicated my book to my mom, to the woman who smoked and drank while she was pregnant with me. Kimberly explains a lot as well. Greg an older woman who enjoys a cocktail, theres nothing more enjoyable to be around because they have been on the planet for a long time. Having a drink with them is like, you learn what really goes on in the world because they have a more accurate take on it than most men. Its a valuable experience to be with somebody who was older, drinking a bourbon. Kimberly there you go. Jesse. Jesse will have something nice to say. Jesse of course. The matriarch of one of the most distinguished political dynasties in american history. Kimberly of the world. Jesse probably. Wife of a president , mother of a president , mother of a governor. To think that someone like this came from this area, i think a lot people understand she is cut from a certain cloth if you live in long island or connecticut or westchester county. For me, she reminded me of my great grandmother, my grandmother with the white hair, the way she dressed. The way she made you feel when you were around her. Because of barbara bush was around, you made sure your time is right, sit up straight, spoke with perfect english, and you conducted yourself in a way that was honorable and presentable to the general public. You never wanted to disappoint her. She inspired a feeling of a commitment to excellence in the way you conducted yourself and the way you should conduct yourself as an american or as a young adult. She is just an amazing woman, and she raised such a beautiful family. I think the family and their success is a testament to her wonderful nature. Dana she would have sent you some great texts. [laughter] kimberly so cute, you see the pictures and the images. Very sweet. Juan. Juan i was around during these years and i must say she was extremely popular. You look at the poll numbers on someone, especially a first lady, they send to be pretty popular. Nancy reagan wasnt all that popular. People had issues with her. Here comes barbara bush. People were like wow, she is so approachable and warm and direct. I think everybody this table can remember when she was asked if jeb should run for president. She said no, theres been enough bushes. Pretty direct. She would say i dont want to hear that news about body big during the war. She was a real person. I used to fly around with her. I spent more oneonone time with her husband than any other president. I would occasionally talk with her. Her attitude towards the press was you guys are a bunch of, you know, baloney. Dont say anything in front of the press, even juan, that kind of thing. I just fell in love because i dont think you may realize this but shes actually a year younger, jesse, then her husband. People saying she looks like a grandmother. She she used to think this was hilarious. People would say why doesnt she dress up in fancy clothes. It wasnt barbara bush. When i look at back on her, i think one of the most real, lovable people in public life that i have ever come across. Kimberly very sweet. Juan let me throw this in there, something close to my heart. She is big on literacy and did a lot with her Family Foundation to say it, we need more americans to