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About this book out that reveals a range of behind the scenes details. the book says now white house communications director hope hicks was tasked with making sure the president's suits were pressed. hope would take out the steamer and start steaming mr. trump's suit. does that surprise you, robert? >> nothing surprises me anymore coming out of this campaign. frankly, what did surprise me is hope hicks took the job. she's not qualified to have that job. i've been fortunate to work with a lot of white house communications directors with paragraphs of experience. what i do know about hope hicks,...

Republican strategist and former gingrich spokesman. both are msnbc political analysts. good to see you, gentlemen. robert, let me start with you because you know him well. and freddie ford, a spokesman for bush, says the speech wasn't about trump. a lot of people heard echoes of the politics of donald trump in this. what did you hear? >> i heard a president that is -- a former president that is crying out for us to be americans and to stand up. i heard a president that says please lead americans. >> please lead americans or please lead mr. president? >> i think combination of both. the presid...

Being an american involves the embrace of high ideals and civic responsibility. this means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally american. it means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the american creed. [ applause ] >> just days after president trump questioned the way former presidents handled the deaths of american service members, george w. bush made his position on the state of politics very clear without ever mentioning trump's name. in an unusually pointed speech, which has long been on bush's schedule, we should say, he con...

And the problem now is and it's so destructive, not only for us republicans but also for democrats and all americans is when you can't even be seen in the same coffee store together as a republican and democrat. you know, often people will always chastise, robert, you're not pure enough. what is that supposed to mean? i'm pro life, pro gun, i'm for lower taxes, for limited government. how dare you suggest i'm not more republican than you are? and why are we even having this conversation? let's talk about what guides us as americans and how we can figure this stuff out together. but this is rea...

They were primary adversaries as you know, robert, and when mccain was diagnosed with brain cancer i remember vividly president bush said he called him and mccain ended up encouraging him instead. he called him to encourage john mccain and he said he felt as though mccain was encouraging him. have those days left us in current political life? is it a contrast to too much of what we see today? >> i think so. let me go back a little bit more. chris, you mentioned the 2000 campaign when george w. bush won the primary and obviously won -- or won the convention stuff and obviously won the presidenc...