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Daniels and now shes on "snl" and how did we get here? i dont even get on "snl." it was a joke and then of course it just blows up. >> laura: s you are now stepping back because you probably got some blowback from your old pals at "snl," im just guessing. >> im not stepping back at all. it was a mistake to put stormy daniels on the program. the show is better than that and i dont back down -- i will double down and triple down on that. what gets me really upset is when people tell me what to say...

And how did we get here? i dont even get on "snl." it was a joke and then of course it just blows up. >> laura: s you are nowof stepping back because you probably got some blowback frome your old pals at "snl," im just guessing. >> im not stepping back at all. it was a mistake to put stormy daniels on the program. the show is better than that and i dont back down -- i will double down and triple down on that. what gets me really upset is when people tell me what to say. how to say it and what to...

>> well, we just -- >> because i know youve got a great answer. >> jay and i just finished doing the hbo version of the play "all the way" that i did on broadway. >> about lbj. >> about lbj. >> and whats so great is before the vietnam war made everybody get mad at him this amazing man was able to take the moment of the kennedy assassination and produce probably the six months greatest grofrns weve had in decades. what he did with civil rights and medicare and all that other stuff. >> yeah. maybe...

>> let me ask you, what are you doing now? now that weve got you here. >> well, we just -- >> because i know youve got a great answer. >> jay and i just finished doing the hbo version of the play "all the way" that i did on broadway. >> about lbj. >> about lbj. >> and whats so great is before the vietnam war made everybody get mad at him this amazing man was able to take the moment of the kennedy assassination and produce probably the six months greatest governance weve had in decades. what he d...

Conviction. having said that, theres no doubt that johnson was also, some would say a master of the senate and had a deep understanding with the senate and deep relationships with the senators and wasnt afraid to work the phone. >> sure. wayne, the white house, they hate that comparison. they dont like it and it is interesting to me. we were notes this earlier, robert dallic likes to say that the president, when we look back on them we view them on the current way. ten years ago, people were loo...

Weeks ago bob cairo on talking about lbj, and of course going back to what lyndon johnson did in 1957, where he took a step away from the southern segregationists and decided to pass a civil rights bill through the united states senate. matt by yesterday with the times said this was not a johnsonian moment, in fact it looked quite weak. historically, do you agree with matt by? do you agree with what sam stein said? how significant is it for barack obama to come out and say that he supports gay m...

Capital he might be wasting on somebody else. shameless plugs. we will start with you. >> work-related, imdoing a project with republican pollster, chris matthews in indiana, the first installment of the depaul university indiana battleground powell, numbers on the presidential and the u.s. senate. >> thats cute you think it is a battleground state. >> i was up late last night reading an excerpt from robert karas new book in "the new yorker," all about lbj and the day kennedy was shot. it was fa...