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Rope, like zoo animals. >> as i thought about this, because everyone's clearly looking at them, but in a way they're more like a bride and groom every night. they're the wedding party at the head table. they don't really talk to each other. they just spend all of dinner being greeted. trump is going on, dehis conversation is interesting because it's not toward one person. it's like this conversation and then he can just move it, and it just keeps going, it's like a spread, and melania. she's very gracious. hello, hi, thank you so much. yes, yes. i mean, this goes on, and this goes on every nig...

Dinn dinner. john kerry aimed the zingers at trump, who skipped. i sent a note to my team over the wean. we've got to get chris on delivering the zingers because there was no cameras so you're that guy. before we make you do that, that head table was mighty empty. i'm going to do a lot of impressions. a lot like rich little. yes, here's 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. pence's officials responded and said he told them he wasn't coming weeks ago, but we don't kno...

Awkward. it's like he's 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 man who had overseen the soft landing of the cold war, who had been commander in chief fur a brilli...

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 there's 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 lost at pearl harbor. i admitted i was more of a hard ass, if you will, after that than i had been ear...

Club, he enjoyed those dinners and he invited me to sit at the head table at the dinner. >> that's the kind of person he was. let me say, that's 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 council's running foreign policy, the state department's out of it, they're 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 was never another story like that for the next four years. chris: george bush was not just your...