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Afghanistan or syria and the likes and incidentally we know that in this particular school there was indeed an armed guard that armed guard did not encounter the shooter carsten phenomena with the latest from washington thank you. and in the wake of the tragedy and many have gone online to discuss gun control in the united states with the top trying to hash tag currently hash tag gun reform now one of the most shared tweets comes from american journalist b.j. lots who writes that yesterdays shoo...

Hicks. she was horribly conflicted. terrible conflict of interest. she had no business getting involved in the response to that. in terms of omarosa, you can say this is just a trivial reality television story. but its a reality tv presidency. if shes now outside the tent, you know, urinating in, as lbj liked to say, thats another problem for donald trump going forward. shes off the reservation. and thats not good for the trump white house. >> from the white house to the "big brother" house. tha...

Out. he literally had no idea how to even start the process. >> given that this is a legitimate genuine issue between the legislative and the executive. release the memo. take the air out of the notion that its secret. put it out there and lets have a discussion. >> all the more reason for the president to understand what exactly the limits of his power are. by the way, this is something democrats struggled with. when barack obama took action in libya. i mentioned clinton, you can go all the way...

>> how things get out of hand. >> by jfk, by lbj, by nixon, by kissen jer. >> and the seeds of the polarization, right? >> but the seeds of the polarization, people dont trust their government anymore. anything goes back there. i made the comment back in 94 when i was campaigning after knocking on three or four doors. everybody is either on jane fondas side or john waynes side. it brought those two sides together and you would have soldiers crying about what happened. you would have war proteste...

There. and what you see is all of these actors, whether its the soldiers whether its the protesters, whether its even jane fonda and you look at them and go, oh my god, they were so young. and as parents of children older than those people, you just sat there and you actually ached for everybody. >> uh-huh. >> and except for the leaders. who knew. kennedy knew said we cant win there. johnson knew before we went in. we cant win there. but for kennedy, he was like, we cant win there but we sure ca...

To stand for everybody thinks its just presentation and part of the show biz of politics and yet its a document, goes into the history books, it announces things that will be parsed and discussed on the press for the next few days so it does have meaning. >> its a real leadership moment. a president is announcing his priorities for the year. lbj talked about voting rights, medicare, pbs, npr, head start and all of those programs got passed. what a leader does is to say this is the order of thing...

Union address, that has been responsible, themselves were for dividing america and it is more divided than it has ever been. since the height of the civil rights movement, they were not the ones that were the orchestrators of the division. he has been the one that normalized a lot of behavior. he called countries s-holes. it is like a man walking in to something that he created trying to then call for people to unite when he was the one that drew them even further apart. >> how does an arsonist ...

Point right now. mika, now that ive done that public service announcement for the white house spokesperson because she missed some headlines, why dont you bring in our most august panel of guests? >> joining us now, nbc news senior correspondent tom brokaw. pulitzer prize winning author and presidential historian doris kearns goodwin and columnist for the "wall street journal" and political contributor for nbc news and msnbc, peggy noonan, and hielmann is here as well. >> bringing up the rear. >...

We have to go forward to the era of working together as a community, as a team, as one america. >> important to that moment, john? >> well, you just showed lyndon johnson who in 1964 and 65 proposed a great society. lyndon johnson had argued with characteristic texas maude industry these were the most exciting times to live in since christ was born in bethlehem, which lyndon thought was in texas. but in many ways, 30 years on what clinton was saying is there was a new democratic party. that in f...

You know, we cannot keep calling it economic anxiety. >> no. >> this particular president is leading by racist, and that 38% will follow him off the edge of a cliff. as lbj said, you can pick their pockets all day long and thats whats happening with his base. tax bill, health care, all of these things. the conspiracy theories support that. >> youre sticking around, we have an entire hour to talk to my panel about all this stuff and more. i know the two of you wanted to weigh in, as well. well mo...