Jenna Bush Hager Sends Her Love To Dick Cheney’s Daughters On ‘The At the moment Present’: “Public Grieving Can Be Very Tough”

Jenna Bush Hager addressed the current passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney on The At the moment Present, noting that herself and her household have a number of ties to the late politician.

Cheney, who served as vice chairman for Bush Hager’s father, George W. Bush, handed away Monday night on the age of 84 “because of problems of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular illness,” based on a press release from the household.

Whereas sitting along with her colleagues on The At the moment Present, Bush Hager despatched her like to Cheney’s daughters, Liz and Mary Cheney, noting that she will relate because the daughter and granddaughter of politicians.

“In fact, I feel everyone is waking up and desirous about his household,” she stated. “Once you hear of a politician who passes, there’s tons of protection about what they’re like as a politician, however as a daughter of a politician, as a granddaughter of a politician, I simply am pondering of his daughters and who they’re lacking which isn’t essentially a person who casts votes, however fairly a person who raised them.”

She continued, “So I’m pondering of Mary and Liz this morning, who I’m going to succeed in out to as effectively simply to ship my love, and I do know my mother and father are pondering the exact same.” 

Bush Hager didn’t handle Dick’s controversial fame, however she reminded viewers that his household could have a really totally different perspective of his legacy.

“I feel public grieving might be very tough as a result of there’s quite a bit about who the individual is as a public determine, however little or no about who they’re as a dad, as a granddad, as a husband, and so I’m pondering of his household,” she stated.

She notably didn’t handle the information throughout the 10 o’clock hour she hosts, regardless of former First Girl Michelle Obama becoming a member of her as a visitor host.

Bush Hager’s mother and father launched a joint assertion, remembering Dick as a “respectable, honorable man,” per Fox Information. Dick served as Bush’s vice chairman from 2001 to 2009.

“Historical past will bear in mind him as among the many best public servants of his era — a patriot who introduced integrity, excessive intelligence and seriousness of goal to each place he held,” the assertion reads.

“Laura and I’ve shared our deepest sympathies with Vice President Cheney’s spouse, Lynne, and their daughters and granddaughters of whom he was so deeply proud,” the assertion concludes. “We’re praying for Lynne, Liz, Mary and the Cheney household as they honor a terrific man.”