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Of embarrassing the president, and revealing publicly that the huge amount of time that hes spending in quote/unquote executive time which is this unstructured, you know, sometimes up to five hours of time where hes reading the newspaper, watching cable news, calling friends and allies. and he does hold some meetings at that time, the white house insists but this doesnt look good for this president. >> jeremy, i love presidential history. i was reminded today how much is passed down between pres...

There are a number of legislatures, ive been told who will not meet with him if he stays in office. its difficult to be governor if legislatures wont talk to you. its difficult to be governor if youre hunkered down in the govern governors mansion like lbj at the end of his term or nixon during watergate. tough to govern. ralph northam has the mind and takes awhile to adjust and hell do the right thing. >> a number of people have said tonight that with justin fairfax, lieutenant governor being se...

That to axios with the intention of embarrassing the president, with the huge amount of time hes spending in executive time, sometimes up to five hours of time where hes reading the newspaper, watching cable news, calling friends and allies. and he does hold some meetings then, the white house insists. but it doesnt look good for this president. >> i was reminded today how much is passed down between presidents. lbj said, dick, you are going to want to use these recordings i set up. jfk always t...

Mary. >> that is correct. there are a number of legislators, ive been told, who will not meet with him if he stays in office. its difficult to be governor if legislators wont talk to you. its difficult to be governor if youre hunkered down in the governors mansion like lbj at the end of his term or nixon during watergate. really tough to govern. ralph northam has the kind of mind that takes a while to adjust and hell do the right thing. >> a number of people have said tonight that with justin fa...

Hes spending in executive time, sometimes up to five hours of time where hes reading the newspaper, watching cable news, calling friends and allies. and he does hold some meetings then, the white house insists. but it doesnt look good for this president. >> i was reminded today how much is passed down between presidents. lbj said, dick, you are going to want to use these recordings i set up. jfk always talked about how refreshing it was to take an afternoon nap. lbj started it. and both guys as ...

And you have almost 15 candidates for president of the united states calling for socialism. so, its very haunting to read abraham lincolns words last best hope on earth. steve: linden baines johnson in 1964 declared war on poverty. watch this. >> let this session of congress be known as the session which declared allout war on human poverty and unemployment in these united states. steve: how did that work out? >> its chilling to listen to that speech. you would think that the democratic party wo...

Big. lbj, just after a nations turmoil and sadness, uses his first state of the union to talk about the war on poverty and medicare. john f. kennedy after the bay of pigs gives a second state of the union and talks about putting a man on the moon in the 1960s. bill clinton looking at a tough re-election battle, says the era of big government was over. donald trump, if he were capable of that kind of rhetoric, could actually set our sights higher, talk about our better angels. unfortunately, he i...

Klansmen. everybody who looked at that or virtually everybody had a sense of shock. then you have to look at the history of the modern democratic party. from jfk and lbj forward the democratic party has become the party of equal rights, civil rights and african-american empowerment. most african-american elected officials are democrats. the party would look totally hypocritical. thats why tom perez stepped in, other democrats are speaking. they would look totally hypocritical having criticized t...

Next day, but we have -- for some time weve been electing leaders that really didnt know how washington, d.c. worked. that really didnt know about the give and take, that werent up to the give and take, that didnt understand what -- well, lets just say a what bill clinton and what l.b.j. and what ronald reagan understood, that sometimes you had to roll up your sleeves, you have had to get dirty and you had to talk to people who werent on your side. you had to learn how to count the votes. and so...

At bare minimum says very negative things behind his back about him, sure. >> why does he have people around him he doesnt trust? >> thats something i wrestle with in the book and try make sense of that. one of the great mysteries is he didnt invest himself in the staff, in making sure he had -- outside of his family. >> is he morally fit to be president of the united states? >> i thin he is but that does not let him off the look for things of his character i find troubling. yes, fit. in histori...