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Prime ministers that have come and formed their government with her. but just think, she has been queen in the time that eisenhower, kennedy, lbj, nixon, ford, jimmy carter, reagan, 41, clinton 43, barack obama and donald trump have been president of the united states. and she really -- she -- she has, unlike her reckless uncle who i think shaped her view of not only the crown, but life itself, she has remained the rock of great britain for decade after decade and after bumpy year after bumpy ye...

>> absolutely. and, you know, the democratic party is not really riven by this great strife. i think sometimes republicans want to make it seem as if this is 1968 where you have, you know, antiwar g. mccarthy people against hubert humphrey and lyndon johnson. really its just been temporarily in the possession or part of the party has been temporarily in the possession in custody of what you might call the woke police. these folks on twitter who are trying to enforce a particular kind of progress...

Certainly when comes to american politics mika and i through the years have probably given hundreds and hundreds of talks at colleges, rote terry clubs. someplace in iowa, middle america, people are so tired of the infighting. and thats not me being pollyannaish, thats my political antenna going up. that if you can prove to americans that youre strong and youre powerful and youre not just looking, you know, powerful personality and youre not just looking for the mushy middle, that you want, like...

What we care about is hes not necessarily being respected. is that going to drive anybodys vote? i dont know one person on radio or twitter, the fact that justin trudeau was making fun of druond trump. >> i thought klobuchar made the salient point about that, i would bet a hundred million dollars that there are past u.s. presidents who have been made fun of at european summits, you know, and like all of them probably, a whole lot of them, lbj, for example. i once saw the president of uruguay mak...

I dont think anyone really cares so much at the president of the united states irritates other world leaders. what we care about is hes not necessarily being respected. i dont know one person who ive ever spoken to on the radio or twitter or anything like that who says the fact justin trudeau who by the way had on his own black face scandal 15 minutes ago were joking about -- >> i thought klobuchar made a salient point on that because i would bet a million dollars there were past u.s. presidents...

Arent. you look at prescription drug costs, this president has done nothing and the democrats passed hr3 a few days ago which is going to bring down the cost of prescription drugs by allowing medicare to use its purchasing power. and thats why voters are voting democratic. >> let me just follow up on that because this will feature in the debate tonight i imagine because its been featured in every debate. but there is no consensus position in the democratic candidate field right now on this quest...

Such a self-inflicted wound by donald trump. and weve talked about it for some time, all of us knowing donald over the course of ten, 11, 12 years. he could have chosen a different path. we said so from the very beginning. you had people like robert gates and general hayden and other who worked in democratic administrations saying at the beginning of this administration we only have one president at a time. we have to do everything that we can to make him a success. and, yes, he had -- he had a ...

This. more than one of the professor said this week, is not just them, other people too. that if this is not an impeachable offense, this of phone call -- john adams arrested journalist. abraham lincoln suspended averys corpus shutdown theater newspapers and civil war. arrested and joe are journalist. edgar wilson a ration racist he re- segregated the government. he locked up socialist opponents. and locked up critical journalist. the espionage act. fdr, japanese-americans upheld by the supreme ...

Is the weapon that used to hold presidents to account of shame, lbj loses the primary or underperforms, he drops out. nixon. doesnt work with trump. therest the theres no shame. >> our friend eugene is too modest to admit this. he is the third pulitzer prize recipient weve had just in this hour, just in "the washington post" so when gene says more customers are out there, more people are reading. this is a banner time for the business of journalism and great writing. >> and theres a value to fin...