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Address. get the connection? that was the same month he threatened to withhold disaster aid to california, a state led by democrats, following historic wildfires out there. well, last year he moved to revoke the security clearance from one of his leading critics, former cia director john brennan. and he has called for action against companies like google, twitter, facebook which he accused of political bias against conservatives. im joined by howard fineman and anita kumar, editor for politico. ...

Attack politics. >> yeah. >> thats who he always was. thats who he was in business in new york. when i interviewed him on the 26th floor of the trump tower during the campaign, he was fascinated by nixon. we talked a lot about nixon. and he wasnt interested in nixon the architect of the peace with china. >> linkage. >> he was interested in i think looking back on it figuring out how to do publicly and nakedly and openly what nixon, even nixon for the most part wanted to do in private. >> you kno...

To teach a lesson to the other guys. is trump wants everyone to know how nasty he can be? is it a message? >> i agree. the difference between nixon and lbj is he thrives on doing it publicly. he wants to do it publicly. did you see the white house this week said no, no, he didnt talk to prime minister -- he didnt talk to netanyahu. and then he is out there saying that he did. he wants people to know he did it, and he is doing it, and these are the repercussions for whatever. >> well, today congr...

Washington post" quote, its a pattern that intensified during the first two and a half years of trumps presidency has he has increasingly governed to the tune of his grievances. for example, in january, president trump grounded a military plane that house speaker nancy pelosi was going use to visit troops in afghanistan. it came one day after she postponed his state of the union address. get the connection? that was the same month he threatened to withhold disaster aid to california, a state led...

Incumbent tries to do first is make sure they face no primary opposition because it gives them the freedom to amass a war chest and while the other party is dealing with the intraparty fight and now you have bill weld who is in the race and now the possibility of mark sanford, it seems like small challenges no doubt that donald trump will beat them both i would say, but is it enough the two of them potentially kind of picking at donald trump in a couple of key early states? making him be distrac...

Refuse, give them to us. homeless, give to us. send them to me, i lift my lamp by the golden door. that was the moment at which our supreme court said our nation should define what it means in immigration law. we went through chapters of immigration and racism and nationality. we also saw finer moments around world war ii the first time a refugee settlement legislation was enacted. lbj led us to a family unification immigration plan, not a quota plan, when ronald reagan agreed to amnesty and now...

Investigated, as your reporter just revealed just the day before. there was some unsealed information implicating some people very high up. and im not going to repeat their names. jeffrey epstein has done some very bad things over a number of years. lets continue to investigate that. >> let me bring in our two guests here. "new york times" politics editor patrick healy and a.b. stoddard. patrick, i compared this to presidents ford, carter, reagan, claiming lbj had kennedy killed. what would the ...

Been robbed of justice, ana. >> polo sandoval, thank you for that update. president trump has reacted to epsteins death in what is sadly a very unsurprising way. he is spreading a conspiracy theory that the clintons had epstein killed. let that sink in. this would be like gerald ford or jimmy carter or ronald reagan claim i claiming lbj had kennedy killed. its not the first or second time the president has made baseless claims without regard for the consequences of his rhetoric. hes also suggest...

Talking one an one. he was in dayton today, and there wasnt a single viewing by the president of the press corps. >> who said no cameras? >> that was the decision of the white house. they wanted to watch out for the families. they didnt want to overwhelm them. all we got were some government images of the president. and then we have images of the protests outside the hospital where he was visiting with victims and his tweets. >> victoria, this is reminding me a little bit of lbj in the old days,...

>> bush administration. >> he had the wonderful points and policy and what they were going to do and wonderful things, that wasnt my topic, always ideas, and we just dont see that much anymore and we need that and some in the united states, mississippi, red states that are suffering right now with red governors, lets talk policies, lets clear up america, we have so many issues and so many poor cities across the entire united states, the secretary of hud, what a great opportunity for the conversa...