Welcome to Words Matter. I'm Elise Jordan along with Steve Schmidt. Our goal is to promote

objective reality. As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion,

not their own facts. Words have power, and words have consequences.

Welcome to Words Matter. I'm Adam Levine. We'll talk about the US Senate race in Mississippi

in a minute. But first, from everyone at Words Matter, we want to send our sincere condolences

to the entire Bush family on the passing of the 41st President of the United States, George

H.W. Bush. Everyone at Words Matter was privileged to have served in the administration of President

George W. Bush, number 43. Among the many perks and honors of that service was getting to know

President Bush, number 41. I've spoken several times about being a Democrat from New York,

and having started my career on the staff of the late great Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Many of our listeners have asked how I can go from working for a Democratic Senator to working for

a Republican President of the United States. Well, I was warmly accepted into the Bush 43 world,

because George H.W. and Pat Moynihan shared a mutual respect and a sincere friendship,

which lasted for more than 30 years. In January of 1993, as a young staffer, I was with Senator

Moynihan and attended one of President Bush 41's last speeches in office at West Point. As the

commander-in-chief shook the hand of every last cadet on that stage, Moynihan leaned over and said,

now that's a president. During my time in the White House, nothing was more fun than when

number 41 was in town for a family gathering and would wander into my West Wing office on a Saturday

afternoon. Full of energy, even in his late 70s, we would talk for a bit about baseball or he'd ask

which reporters were giving us the most trouble, but he could never sit still. It wasn't long before

you would leap up off my couch and say, come on. Let's go say hello to some old friends and meet some

new ones. I'd grab a bag of presidential trinkets and we'd make the rounds. He knew everyone in the

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