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At any president. that is just not something that he has done in the past. >> correct. >> he has been very good at adhering to that unspoken pact of not credit seesing your success ors. he has been good at that. what is doing now is expressing the frustration and saying you know what? enough is enough and ive got to use this platform. i can no longer afford the luxury of remaining silent because american values are under attack. what this white house and this president are doing are affecting th...

People dont vote retroactively. this is what has happened after the election. >> just because -- >> one person, jason. one person cant always be against every single other person. >> people in washington -- >> jason, i get that -- >> jason -- >> addressing the moral question of donald trumps behavior is difficult. >> if it were -- >> i get it. i get how hard it is for you. i can feel the burden youre carrying. >> you guys dont like president trump. i totally get that. >> jason -- >> i dont like ...

Even when it was tough as a republican. but those two guys hit a ground here above politics, its different from what we expected from ex-presidents, where they were sending a clear signal that this has a moral vacuum around him. >> no, thats -- i mean, look, changing washington is going to be hard. so of course, youre going to get the folks from both parties that are going to take shots at you. but good for president trump to bringing truth to power and not -- [ overlapping speakers >> let me sa...

Director. but the other effect this has is that these aides are loyal to him and talking about him going on undermining them, this hurts morale and this closes the circle around the president in addition to that. >> and it also only undercuts their ability to do anything else. the credibility of this white house was already in question before this week and to see people repeatedly go to the podium and his vice president have a stake outon capitol hill and say things that were completely untrue a...

Away. >> oh, i know we always dont agree, but were beginning to get a spirit here in washington where were more agreeable, where were setting a different tone. >> reporter: president clinton may have been frustrated by gridlock. >> i learned that things are not going to change quite as fast as i want them to. >> reporter: but still intent on changing washington. >> it may be we can only do one thing at a time in this town. that may be. but im not prepared to acknowledge that. >> reporter: for pr...

Conceded that governing is harder than he thought >> i cant just press a button and suddenly have the bankers do exactly what i want. [ laughter ] or turn on a switch and suddenly congress falls in line. >> reporter: despite all of the attention paid to the first 100 days, the defining moments of most presidencies come far later. >> i can hear you -- >> reporter: for president bush, the terror attacks of september 11th and the iraq war still months away. >> i know we always dont agree, but were ...

Time news conference in 2009 when the president and white house correspondents looked younger, mr. obama conceded that governing is harder than he thought. >> i cant just press a button and suddenly have the bankers do exactly what i want or turn on a switch and suddenly congress falls in line. >> reporter: despite all the attention paid to the first 100 days, the defining moments of most presidencies come far later. for president trump, the terror attacks of september 11 in the iraq war still m...

Days, the defining moments of most presidencies come far later. >> i can hear you! >> reporter: for president bush the terror attacks of september 11th and the iraq war still months away. >> oh, i know we always dont agree, but were beginning to get a spirit here in washington where were more agreeable, where were setting a different tone. >> reporter: president clinton may have been frustrated by grid lock. >> i learned that things are not going to change as fast as i wanted them to. >> reporte...

>> the country is very divided. the world watches the united states on this day. as jake notes, you have all these traditions and a candidate about to be president who doesnt like candidates, who doesnt like a script. the american experiment is 240 years old. were saying farewell to our first african-american president, a man who disrupted his own party, leap frogd the clintons eight years ago. a young man who surprised to change everybody. he didnt succeed in changing washington. now you have a...

>> one thing, to jonathans point, though, we have donald trump here who ran on changing washington, draining the swamp. and what we learned in apolitical jobs like cia and a.g., he seems to have found republican politicians to fill the role. it almost makes you wonder whether donald trump cant be relied on to stick to his promises. tbd. in discussing michael flynn, the nsa pick, he says flynn got fired as head of dia, i asked why flynn got fired, abusive with staff, bad management,s been and was...