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And so i think a doctor that is spent the amount of time with the president as doctor jackson has. is not only the most qualified but the only credible source when it comes to diagnosing any health concerns. >> theres also been the skepticism about the presidents height and weight. which puts him shy of obese. 63". his draft card and drivers license has 62". sanjay gupta joins us now. does he have heart disease based on the information presented yesterday? >> yeah. thats the bottom line. he had ...

Nixon presence. what was at stake is nothing other than life and death. everyone over 18, every male had to have his draft card in his pocket, it was a crime to be without it. a federal crime to not have it on your person. kids started burning these things publicly. in 1964, they had to pass a federal law to make destroying it a crime, because they havent made it a crime yet. people were getting sentenced to 2 years, 6 years for burning their draft cards. nadia from pussy riot was on my show fri...

Right, we have done this before as a country, we have this overwhelmed. >> we have been in a worse place because as difficult as this is for people that didnt want to see a trump presidency an we now have very significant majority of the country disapproving of the trump presidency. >> most ever. >> and this movement that we call the resistance, we had a resistance this big before and it was in 1968 and it was against both the johnson presidency and then following it was against the nixon presid...

Because as difficult as this is for people that didnt want to see a trump presidency an we now have very significant majority of the country disapproving of the trump presidency. >> most ever. >> and this movement that we call the resistance, we had a resistance this big before and it was in 1968 and it was against both the johnson presidency and then following it was against the nixon presidency an it was an anti-war resistance, and the -- what was at stake is nothing other than life and death....

Around the country while talking about my new book, "playing with fire." heres a highlight reel of some of the tv talk about this book. >> you have a book here called "playing with fire," its about the campaign of 1968. what today can we learn about the transformation of our politics, anything here we can learn about todays politics? >> we can see all of the precedents that occurred in 1968, which is kind of where our modern politics began, for what we saw in the last campaign. >> your book abou...

It was an anti-war resistance. what was at stake was nothing other than life and death. everyone over 18, every male had to have his draft card in his pocket. >> you can learn about watergate by learning about what richard nixon did, but if you really want to learn about watergate, learn what the country was like and what was going on in the country at the time watergate happened which allowed watergate to end the way it did. >> and there is a little bit of collusion in the victory at the end, r...

What was at stake was nothing other than life and death. everyone over 18, every male had to have his draft card in his pocket. >> you can learn about watergate by learning about what richard nixon did, but if you really want to learn about watergate, learn what the country was like and what was going on in the country at the time watergate happened which allowed watergate to end the way it did. >> and there is a little bit of collusion in the victory at the end, richard nixon used collusion wit...

The same kind of voter. and so much of what we saw last year in that campaign was born in 1968. >> yeah. i want to read a short passage from your book if i may speaking about the 68 election. you write that it was a matter of life and death for real people we all knew. this meant this time running for president didnt have to be about ego, it meant running for president couldnt simply be a matter of political calculation. it meant that it wasnt just about what was best for bobby kennedys future i...

Resistance. and what was at stake was nothing other than life and death. everyone over 18, every male had to have his draft card in his pocket. it was a crime to even be without it and it. and a drfederal crime. kids suddenly started burning these things publicly. in 1964. they had to pass a federal law to make destroying it a crime because they hadnt made it a crime yet. people sentenced two years, six years for burning draft cards. nadia of pussy riot on the show friday night and told us 1968 ...

Out. he was completely lost. >> the country today is obviously divided culturally and politically. there have been comparisons to 2016, 2017 and 1968. do you see parallels not in the way the race was run. in the way our culture sits right now? >> the biggest difference between now and 1968 is when david at 18 years old had something in his pocket that could get him killed at any moment. and he had to have it in his pocket by the law, his draft card. so the entire male population of the country, ...