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We will not stop working for you. >> reporter: with a decisive win in 1964, president lindin johnson swung for the fences with his plan for a great society. its a history president biden knows well. and a playbook he hopes to follow. >> this bill puts working people in this nation first. >> reporter: but legislative wins have been harder to come by. >> there was a lot of talk of transformative legislation, of historic legislation. there was talk of fdr. there was talk of lbj. and was a trap for ...

Else right now. >> so doris, as someone who closely studied many of americans president, some of the greatest, how do they dconduct themselves in such an important moment? >> its important to reflplenis themselves in crisis, abraham lincoln went to the theater many times and criticized why would you go to the theater, he said if i didnt go id die, some humorous laughing in the middle of crisis but some said that whistled off sadness. fdr had a cocktail party nights during world war ii and the ru...

In history. many suggested president biden might have the same opportunity to repeat lbjs success. laura jarrett has a look at how thats playing out so far. >> two presidents, skilled in negotiations of the senate, promising bold action. >> to every american watching, help is here and we will not stop working for you. >> with a decisive win in 1984, president johnson swung for the fences with his plan for a great society. its a history president biden knows well. and a playbook he hoped to follo...

To land and see the way politics work in this country, a lot would probably return to their own planet. >> especially they saw members of congress screaming at the president. >> theres correcting in our political system still needs. you gave historical context and compared to past presidents. this president came in like an fdr with this grand vision. last night he attacked more in the middle. saying things with a unifieg message. unity agenda. as you look at his presidency, where does he fit in ...

It will be ugly. if he is backed into a wall and -- he will keep doubling down according to the assessment they have now. i want to give one clarification. you had the u.k. ambassador on who is lovely, karen pierce. she said a couple of times in negotiations that we dont want this to be yalta. it was february of 1945. it was fdr, churchill and stalin held on the crimea opinions and negotiated post war germany. we dont want to do something without ukraine being involved and a part of all of this....

Exterminated and putin moving on to the next countries, whether its the baltic states or maldova or georgia. >> martha: one of the things that strikes me is how much were discussing this openly about should we send these planes, shouldnt we send these planes. i know you said before this should have happened a long time ago. we could have positioned things. it brings to my mind the doolittle raid. f.d.r. sent in the first mission to retaliate to japan after pearl harbor. then was asked where did ...

Who compared zelenskyy to churchill. and then compared to joe biden to fdr. have these past few weeks change the narrative for republicans? >> of course they have. you and i would have been knocked out of our chairs three weeks ago, if we thought of any circumstance and which john cornyn of texas, a republican, would be comparing joe biden to fdr, the zeitgeist has changed. everyone who saw putin, everyone who made excuses for him, everyone who flirted with authoritarianism in this country, who ...

Apart, where he could have escaped and he could have had safe passage to america with his family and left this all behind, and yet he stays endangering his life every day. i believe schooling everyone around the world including the american people on the preciousness and the beauty of democracy. >> and of freedom. >> freedom. >> john heilemann, weve grown up reading about how fdr used the new technology of the radio, how ronald reagan in the 1950s realized the power of television. it elected a p...

He said that we accept that were off the table for nato. is there a way to carve out crimea that would be acceptable by president zelenskyy per theres no doubt he sees the suffering of his people, they are extraordinarily energized with they are three weeks into this and in some places they ar starving, completely cut off from food or energy with no way to get in supplies to them righ which is astonishing for the rest of the world to watch. i think we will see an interesting. hes had an interest...

Be where fdr was very, very soon and we need to figure out a way to make -- make it a common -- have at least a common understanding with the chinese. because right now with the republicans and the detectives doing everything they can to bash china around the clock, which i understand why in peacetime, but what incentive do the chinese have to cross putin? >> youre exactly right. the chinese would go, why the hell should we do the united states any sort of a favor? were not going to get rewarded...