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You off course. you'll be our president when you read this note. i wish you well, i wish your family well. your success is our country's success. i am rooting hard for you. good luck. george. today president clinton wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" calling his relationship with the man he succeeded one of the great gifts of his life. here is anderson cooper with more on the two men who went from political adversaries to close friends. in the 1992 presidential election, they were bitter political rivals. the incumbent president. >> character counts. you cannot make the white house into...

Advice, but don't let chris imcompeten -- critics discourage you or push you off course. you will be the president when you read this note. i wish you well, i wuish your family well, your success now is our country's success. i am rooting for you. president clinton wrote an op-ed in "the washington post," calling his relationship with george h.w. bush one of the greatest gifts of his life. here is anderson cooper with more on the two men that went from political adversaries to close friends. >> incident 1992 presidential election, they were bitter rivals. >> character counts. you cannot make t...

And the midterms? >> to that point, stuart stevens, at what point, what joe just outlined, this person in this op-ed saying we did x, we did y, i was here for that. that's what republican members of congress say. tax reform, tax reform, judges, judges. in your view people that believe the president is damaging the country but are willing to stick around for these other things, are they selling their souls? >> this is sort of a plea bargain with history that the writer is putting out there. that he or she wants to be remembered for these good things that are done. look, i think this is one of t...

President obama, i am just curious. you personally, have you thought about switching your party allegiance as you've watched all of this unfold? >> well, i'm glad you played the ben sasse clip because it gives me the convenient way to say i'll consider myself a ben sasse republican. >> convenient. >> i think that there really is a battle here for what you have to call the soul of the republican party. a lot of us were drawn to the republican party because it was an optimistic vision. character counts, personal responsibility. fiscal responsibility with the debt, strong on russia. and all of th...

Writer is putting out there. that he or she wants to be remembered for these good things that are done. look, i think this is one of these things that's a very individual decision. every person in the administration has to make. do you want to stick around and try to make things better which i admire both sides of this. or do you want to be out there speaking for what the party ought to be which is a different vision of the party. one that where character counts, personal responsibility. i think everybody has to make that choice and certainly the party and in the long term has to make that cho...