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There for me, always there for the kids. and what president bush 43 will tell you and the other children is george bush is the hero of that family. george h.w. bush is a remarkable figure but it was barbara bush who raised that family. >> you know, the other -- another point that gets lost is the bushes moved to texas. bush was the first republican to be elected in texas any -- john would know better than i, was it 100 years. >> first house seat in houston, yeah. >> they brought sort of connecticut values to texas in some sense. but george w and george h.w. bush and barbara opened the door for...

Then and certainly is now. and so she was able to make it okay i think to some extent for voters 0 who might be uncomfortable with the orthsdody of the party to say these are good people. i think i can trust them. >> the year after she and her husband left the white house she wrote she was pro-choice on the issue of abortion. john, you wrote a book about the bush administration. >> when you think about the fact they got married in 1945 and hustled when they're barely out of their teens. these are people, this is a type we do not have at the sort of in the leadership positions in the united sta...

See the president is accusing of people of crimes without evidence and pronouncing them guilty and saying they should be in jail. that should wake all of us up with a start. there's been so much that we're numb and that's dangerousing. > the "hardball" roundtable, michelle goldberg, john pod her rets, and beth fewy senior politics editor for nbc news. thanks for being here. michelle, i'm trying to figure out how comey is being received by the public. we put this poll up the other day. if you asked a year ago after the election, all the democrats hated him. trump fired him, all the republicans ...

Cuss laughing till the end. i'm a lucky man she was my mother. we thank you all for your prayers and good wishes. one startling fact about her is there are indeed their eldest child robin got leukemia and died at the age of 3. in the months as she nursed, as she nursed robin to her death, her hair turned white. and she did not i think in part as a tribute to robin, she never colored it. >> talking about these transitions, michelle, i'm remembering the 1992 election that john's talking about and that contrast between hillary clinton who became the first lady and went to a political career of he...

So her point was then we should be talking about it. >> it's pretty remarkable how much that is coming up on the campaign trail. karen finney, it's always a pleasure to have you here. >> good to see you. >> many conservatives and republicans seem to have built up in their minds that hillary clinton's testimony would be the day that brought her down. but in an early indicator it wasn't going quite that well for republicans. fox news stopped live coverage of the benghazi hearing, returning to regular programming as the hearing played soundless in a box. a sampling of tweets from various conserva...