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To senator mccain and everybody thought that would be a re-set in washington and of course it was not. >> the bush family has said the white house and i think john kelly has been responsible for this, that they have really just opened the doors, bent over backwards to make everything work. >> but come next week do we see a more by partisan washington when they're back to the border wall fight and special counsel developments? i would not bet on it. >> laura: trump should give up the wall because george h.w. bush died. that's the argument. they're actually making on cnn. >> i know every preside...

Fine. he's accepting the fact that history says the current speaks at a former president's funeral. he is not going to speak. he goes to blair house i think tomorrow. >> the bush family has said he has the white house, and john kelly's been responsible for this, they have really just opened the doors, bent over backwards to make everything work. >> come next week, do we see a more bipartisan washington, when they get back to the border wall fight? the new developments in the special council? i would not bet on it. >> you're close to the bush family, how are they holding up? >> i think this is ...

Any other vice president had the kind of experience i had, and that is because of the man that george h.w. bush was, and the partnership and the working relationship that we had. we think of the potato incident, right, as defining his time but he was a powerful vice president because george h.w. bush allowed him to be because he had eight years as ronald reagan's vice president. so i think that there was a sort of generosity of spirit there that we might not see now, and i would love to know what they're thinking when cheney's watching mike pence, for instance, speak, or dan quail is watching ...

Just a part of this schedule of ceremonies and so forth that we'll go through over the next few days leading up ultimately to -- >> what do you remember now about this president, who was 94 years old the other day when he passed? >> well, he, of course, picked me to be secretary of defense after his first choice had been rejected by the senate, but i never held that against him. no, i loved it. it was probably the best tour i ever had in terms of important work, the privilege to lead the u.s. forces in desert storm and the end of the cold war, the soviet union collapsing and goes out of busine...

Of cold war and so forth, but it was the time when everything came to a head, the soviet union went out of business, the -- germany was reunited, eastern europe was liberated. a bunch of things we worked ought for years all of a sudden occurred on his watch, and he had to manage it and did a beautiful job of it. >> you have talked in the past about how you all got along, even though you didn't always agree with each other, and he let that work itself through. would you describe? >> sure. well, it was unique in the sense that brent scocroft had been the national security adviser for ford, i had...