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>> she certainly would have been happy. you think her thoughts of this funeral would have been bottom line what? >> reporter: well, i think she would have had a good laugh at all of us who wore navy blue and pearls in her honor. but i really think that she helped plan this funeral. it was what she wanted. it was very traditional. but it absolutely memorialized the woman she was, that no nonsense. her sense of humor. as her son, jeb said, that she ran the house as a benevolent dictatorship, but sometimes it wasn't so benevolent. as i've said earlier, the word authentic applies to barbara bush, ...

>> and they just can't -- maybe they can stand four times -- >> if everybody else is going to keep dng it. >> everybody is going to have to come up with an answer to that and it's not going to be a very pretty answer. it will be an expensive answer and a politically unattractive answer to the voters, especially the voters after the republican primary. >> but would you rather it be cruz with this record or rubio? >> no question, marco rubio has his name attached to the bill that is most unpopular in the conservative commentators who are talking about this. this is the bizarre choice that the re...

Letting russia take on isis. >> we're not going to be the world's policemen but we better be the world's leader. there's a huge difference. without us leading, voids are filled. >> one of the myths of the bush legacy is that president george h.w. bush didn't think george w. bush should invade iraq but in an interview sunday bush 43 read an excerpt, recounting the counsel of his father on hussein in the run-up to the war. >> you know how tough war is son, the elder bush said arc lewding to afghanistan and you've got to try everything you can to avoid war. but if a man won't comply, you don't ha...

Rights to free speech to organize around their own civil rights at institutions of higher learning. we should all be supporting them. we should all be challenging our own institutions to be the best that they can be when it comes to these issues around social justice, equality, gender equality, all of these things what higher institution of learning are supposed to be about we have to get back to basics. again, it's about sustained, ongoing efforts, being pro active, not reactive or knee-jerk reactions to some incidents that crop up from time to time. >> james peterson, in pennsylvania, lehigh...

I noticed just this week, jeb said, maybe it was yesterday, he said i'm the best bet. and one of the things that both 41 and 43 had had in common was the conviction they were the better man, they were the best man for the job. and i think that is just the case that is -- despite the reticence that is also part of the family, jeb needs to make that clearer. >> you know, i want to go to barbara bush, because the most fascinating grace notes in the book are always when you're quoting from her diary. and that is what we all do probably too much with the bush family. but when i read your book and r...