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I watched nostalgically. i dont think watching is a political statement. and if so, im team jackie. hey, everything old is new again. i mean, you know, u2 was out doing the joshua tree on concert. i loved seeing steely dan create asia. i get that some of it is nostalgia. but that is not a complete explanation. i want to remind you to answer the survey question at roseannes ratings success is more at contributri attributabl politics or nostalgia? coming up next, president trump going to war again...

Thank you, neil, appreciate it. tweet me @smerconish. ly read some responses -- i will read some responses. whats come in already. smerconish, on abc, american voters are taking our country and values back one roseanne at a time. look out hollywood. hey, mike, this is pilot season and im sure this ratings success for abc on tuesday night has completely upended that which is in the pipeline. one more if we have time for it. i watched nostalgically, i dont think watching is a politically, and if...

>> have you looked at the news? because now things are worse. >> not on the real news. >> oh, please! >> abcs roseanne reboot, a huge ratings winner this week. so big that roseanne actually got a congratulatory call from, guess who, the president himself. "60 minutes" by the way did not get a congratulatory call after the stormy daniels interview. joining me now, brian stelter. the number is huge. 18 million viewers. >> it really is remarkable both as a business story and also as a cultural stor...

Following like "middle" and theres a built in audience if they stay true to the characters, which they have so far. which is outside of the political. >> laura: norman lear. i would like to hear what he has to say. >> "one day at ali time" was renewed with rita moreeno. >> laura: everything old is new again.s fresh out of ideas. go get "will wilder." my kids have all read it. up next, protests over the police shooting of an unarmed black man in sacremento. the full story in moments. pssst. what?...

Restraining order. we get it, okay. he has a tan face. we get it there is no subtly. art has to have subtly to it does it not. >> she says she doesnt want to be part of the presidents world he is eating her alive. its a compulsion. something is definitely wrong. she and jim carrey might speak. >> laura: can we go to roseanne barr ohio like she is reviving her sitcom. which i did not watch. either you are a fan or you werent. a friend of mine wrote for the show. >> top ten for 11 years. >> laura:...

We get it, okay. he has a tan face. we get it there is no subtly. art has to have subtly to it does it not. >> she says she doesnt want to be part of the presidents world he is eating her alive. its a compulsion. something is definitely wrong. she and jim carrey might speak. >> laura: can we go to roseanne barr ohio like she is reviving her sitcom. which i did not watch. either you are a fan or you werent. a friend of mine wrote for the show. >> top ten for 11 years. >> laura: reviving it on abc...

Restraining order. we get it, okay. he has a tan face. we get it there is no subtly. art has to have subtly to it does it not. >> she says she doesnt want to be part of the presidents world he is eating her alive. its a compulsion. something is definitely wrong. she and jim carrey might speak. >> laura: can we go to roseanne barr ohio like she is reviving her sitcom. which i did not watch. either you are a fan or you werent. a friend of mine wrote for the show. >> top ten for 11 years. >> laura:...

>> way to be selfish, my friend. >> thanks for the weather, bill, but i want to talk about oprah. i just have to say, weve talked about this off camera and i think you had a different opinion than me. but i always thought oprah was not going to run for president. why would she? she has an incredible life. why be the president of the united states at this time? >> she can be hugely anial without running for president. >> maybe she just wants to impact change. maybe thats what her motivation is. >...

We dont want to skip a beat in our conversation so well bring him right in. thats pulitzer prize author john meacham who happens to be an msnbc contribute bore and germane to our conversation happens to be a southern at the same time as a historian. and no one ever rolled credits on the civil rights struggle. no one ever said well thats over because of course it never ended and wont. so i need to you sum up just where we are vis-a-vis the presidents remarks tonight in pensacola, his attendance t...

>> everything old is new again. you had a president of the united states today who offered an endorsement of a candidate for federal office in a state where on the 11th of june, 1963, the governor of that state, george corally wallace, stood in the school house door in tuscaloosa, had pledged to fight integration, had stood on the place in january of 1963 where jefferson dhafs been sworn in as president of the confederationsy. what wallace looked up from that stot, if he looked to his left about...