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H.w. bush 41 lee greenwood. were you able to see on the monitor what was happening? could you reset the scene for us? >> yeah. brian: with quayle and former president bush in the background. >> that's grand rapids, michigan and we were on tour campaigning for george herbert walker bush to become president. i first met him for command performance at the white house when reagan was president. i kind of figured he would be president. it was such a warm and genuine relationship i had with him. there were many times on the campaign trail we would do things kind of spontaneously like sometimes you h...

People turned to him to make jokes about what was going on. he was not the first topical comedian. but what bob did was take that topical monologue and add to it the vaudeville rhythms, the joke-telling rhythms. >> how do you do, fellows? this is bob "command performance" hope telling each nazi that's in russia today that crimea doesn't pay. >> it was a very dark time, generally. but bob could always shrug his shoulders and say, well, let's tackle this. all right. let's talk about it. and somewhere in talking about it, he'd find a laugh. and boy, that helps. >> up here, a marilyn monroe calend...

Nobody that i know that knows him that hasn't warned me that if his back is against the wall, he will lie like crazy. >> criminal lawyer with a bad case. really bad situation. malcolm, tell me what you think. you are an expert on this. and putting it together, what we now know trump knew before, the fact that the son-in-law, the son, and his campaign manager had a command performance. tells me it wasn't just a lead they were working on. this is the big show. let's get to that room and that russian. >> it absolutely has to be that sequence of events. there is no way that donald trump would have...

-- country so confused and so alarmed that, to celebrate this president in this way. this is a command performance. it's not what people argue is a celebration related to veterans or the nation. this is something that's never been done in recent memory and is something that he's demanded, because he saw it done and france and it felt good to him. none of these values is going to adhere to this president. he's not going to do something because it's the right thing to do. he does a thing that feels good to me. if it's lying and having a military parade, so be it. >> $12 million would come in han...

Jokes about what was going on. he was not the first topical comedian. but what bob did was take that topical monologue and add to it the vaudeville rhythms, the joke-telling rhythms. >> how do you do, fellows? this is bob "command performance" hope telling each nazi that's in russia today that crimea doesn't pay. >> it was a very dark time, generally. but bob could always shrug his shoulders and say, well, let's tackle this. all right. let's talk about it. and somewhere in talking about it, he'd find a laugh. and boy, that helps. >> up here, a marilyn monroe calendar isn't a luxury, it's a nec...