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Of today. my friend, congratulations. >> thank you. thank you so much for having me. >> im so -- well, okay, i have a whole bunch of things to ask you. first of all, you wrote two gigantic books about lbj tapes, and then you found more? i mean, because your books before on the lbj tapes didnt include a bunch of the stuff thats in here. does it make you want to kill yourself? i mean -- >> something like that. sometimes when i listen to him, and sometimes because, you know, lbj, just as you were s...

From the lbj white house, transcribed it himself. lbj is one of eight presidents michael beschloss puts through the ringer in this book, again, called "presidents of war" and its just out today. my friend, congratulations. >> thank you. thank you so much for having me. >> okay. i have a whole bunch of things to ask you. first of all, you wrote two gigantic books about lbj tapes, and then you found more? because your books before in the lbj tapes didnt include a bunch of stuff that was in here. d...

And the president should be commended for that meeting and that was a bipartisan, great discussion, he unraveled the whole thing with what he said. >> my guess is plenty of presidents from both parties have used colorful language at times behind closed doors, brad, are you surprised the president did it in bipartisan meeting which it was the other night? >> no, there are some words and, of course, the president he said denies the word alleged, let me tell you something, in negotiation, specially...

Dick durbin said language has never been used in the oval office, then he should be listening to the lbj tapes and lbj, what was he able to do, he passed civil rights legislation and the president wanted to deal in good faith, the democrats, they renigged on that. >> look, no one is denying that he said it other than one man, the president who has a history of saying things that are a little untrue. what we have here is a situation, its so sad because this is a look right into his dark soul, the...

>> michael you cant put the tooth pace back in the tube process. theyre out weve read them having said that what did you learn from them. >> you and i talked about this a number of times. lets talk about all of this. joining us now politico senior foreign affairs correspondents michael crowley and an encore performance, michael beschloss. how was this leak and printing these triplets a terrible precedent a bad thing for the presidency? >> well, a really bad thing for the presidency because one t...

The presidency because one thing that a president of the united states has to do is feel that he can talk to foreign leaders in confidence and vice versa. and if i were a leader of another country today i would i nervous about talking to the president of the united states because i would think that there was a big danger that that conversation would leak and embarrass me, and the result is that diplomacy could be crippled. >> michael, you cant put the toothpaste back in the tube. so having said ...

Of the presidents that were cheaters or whatever vulgar in the way they spoke when you got the lbj tapes. in public, even richard nixon in public comported himself well. donald trump tweeted something yesterday that i think is interesting. he tweeted yesterday my use of social media is not presidential, it is in all caps modern day presidential. make america great again. have we crossed that rubicon where maybe the crass entertainment value of trump is the new standard for what a lot of american...

Angry self-pitying kind of guy. he was all over the place. in fact, people who know him say you cant assign any one adjective to him. you have to use them all. he was that, you know, along the spectrum of human emotions he hit every single mark. >> you got to -- in preparing for the role, you were listening to a lot of lbj tapes. >> yes. >> is there anything specific along the way? >> are you baiting me? >> im so baiting me because ive run it as a news item because i cant say it and you can. >> ...