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This is an old thing. they did it in the 2040s. >> its centered around hold up a woman, accuse her of having scary. they thought its worked the last few times. theyre not talking about chuck schumer or some other man. >> why a woman. >> because they think that playbook works. they think that worked for hillary clinton. the biggest criticism of nancy pelosi is shes better at her job than anyone has been for decades. the best whip of votes since lbj. >> youre right because i worked for tip oneal a...

To be one of those characters, i mean, he said hes the most successful president ever, but that didnt win the bar, end slavery and save the union. even like lbj when you think about what lbj did in those first 18 months, medicare, medicaid, civil rights, voting rights. i mean, where is humility? certainly lincoln had that in spades. it doesnt mean youre humble, it means you know you have limitations and can acknowledge your errors and learn and grow as a result. >> president trump was asked what...

As ive try in writing about these nine presidents through 200 years, and how they were tortured and back and forth by the prospect of going to war. you always want a president who will always try to keep us out. one scoop i got in this book is the lbj in 1968 stopped his rules. johnson made a lot of mistakes, but what if he had done that, would have been the first firing of a nuclear weapon in anger since 1945. could have brought in the russian and chimeez, and changed history for the worse. we ...

Necessary, often times by fake incident. you know, james polk, a fab b fabricated incident sinking in a h hava havana. lbj, the gulf of tonkin, 1964, unprovoked attack never happened. what we always have to depend upon a president for is to make sure we dont get into unnecessary wars and i worry about president trump. 2011, he was tweeting claiming that, he said in his tweet, barack obama will get us into a war to get re-elected. thats a very dangerous concept to be in any presidents mind. >> an...

Presidential historian. its a beautiful book. im into it now, michael, as i have been with your other books. its a great, big epic, and here it comes at a time we have a president who for most people watching right now is dodgy, shaky. you come up with the words. the one thing i heard from trump that i liked in the campaign was, he was going to stop stupid wars. he thought w. was the stupidest president in history because he took us into iraq. and now the way he pushes iran, he kills the deal. w...

Incidents, like the gulf of ton kin incident. that never happened yet johnson and nixon waged the vietnam war based on that terrible resolution from congress based on this incident that never happened. >> lets go back to this nuclear war because i did know back in the 50s nixon wanted operation vulture in 54, he wanted to put nuclear weapons in, and ike said no. westmoreland wanted to bring them in. was that because he were losing after tet? >> thats exactly -- >> what would you do with a nuclea...

Incidents, like the sinking of the maine by the spanish supposedly, the spanish had nothing to do where it. gulf of tonkin incident, that never happened yet johnson and nixon for ten years waged the vietnam war based on that terrible resolution from congress based on this incident that never happened. >> what about -- lets go back to this nuclear war, because i did go back in the 50s. nixon operation vulture during 54 when the french were getting kicked out of north vietnam, he wanted to put nuc...

Lyndon johnson made terrible mistakes in vietnam, but thank god he said to westmoreland, his commander exactly what youve just said. i dont want nuclear weapons to reverse a possible defeat at khe sa sanh. all its going do is provoke the russians and the chinese. you imagine, chris, if that escalated into a nuclear war that killed 10s of millions of people basically as a result of what we now know was a civil war in the agricultural country of vietnam would be absolutely crazy, and thats why i p...

I want to tell people that were waiting 10 and 12 hours already that im not coming? otherwise it would have been really unfair to all of the people that were waiting, and were talking about thousands and thousands of people. >> you detect the note of defiance there when the president was asked about his decision, indeed, to hold a rally in pennsylvania on the same day the hurricane made landfall. today as the people of the florida panhandle assessed the aftermath of a devastating hurricane that ...

Historian, author of the big one, "presidents of war." its a beautiful book. im into it now, michael, adds i have been with your other books. its a great big epic. >> thank you. >> here it comes at a time when we have pat is dodgy, shaky, you come up with the words. the one thing i heard from trump that i liked in the campaign was he was going to stop stupid wars. he thought w was the stupidest president in history because he took us into iraq. and now the way he pushes iran, he kills the deal, ...