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Dick durbin said language has never been used in the oval office, then he should be listening to the lbj tapes and lbj, what was he able to do, he passed civil rights legislation and the president wanted to deal in good faith, the democrats, they renigged on that. >> look, no one is denying that he said it other than one man, the president who has a history of saying things that are a little untrue. what we have here is a situation, its so sad because this is a look right into his dark soul, the...

In the process of this, millions of americans are recorded in there so if the president calls a european leader or the russian leader, chinese leader, the presidents phone call is recorded in this. if i call a foreign leader. if you call a journalist in the fox bureau in europe or the middle east your phone call could be in this database. a lot of innocent people in here and it should not be searched for american data without a warrant. we are asking go to a judge and have some evidence to get s...

But we know they dont do that. reality, part of the reason congress has a low approval rating, they cant get anything done f they could get something done and the price you have to pay is a couple billion dollars for earmarks, we spent more money last year on a jet that the pentagon said it didnt want than we stand on earmarks in the previous incarnation. they have gotten a bad rap over a long period of time, because of these, the bridge to nowhere and things. but they help grease the wheels a l...

It is blatantly not true because you can match up his twitter feed to segments he watches on television. >> it is not like there isnt a history of presidents closely watching television. lbj watched tv reports about vietnam. one could only imagine if there was 24-hour news on watergate. cant one argue president trumps twitter fixation the behavior partially a product of the times? >> i think you could argue partially a product of the times. these times were pretty similar when president obama wa...

Global emergency. i think sometimes we just adapt to the absurdity here. the fact that anybody has those close concerns, theres a movement of people to figure out how do we intervene here because we could be looking back saying the warning signs were there and we did not do enough. >> this makes me want to holler. dont forget lbj used to do white house meetings on the toilet. the idea this president is somehow unfit for office is spin, designed to be the new russia investigation in 2018. now the...

Other situation if 350% of the people around the president were concerned he was not fit to do the job, that would be a global emergency. i think we adapt to the absurdity. there is now a movement ano longer psychiatrists to figure out how do we intervene here and look back a year from now and say the warning signs are there -- >> this makes me want to holler. dont forget that lbj used to do white house meetings on the toilet, all right? the idea that this president is somehow unfit for office i...

He had most of the establishment republicans against him. he had most of the media against him. and hes president. >> let me ask you about lastly just some of the colorful anecdotes about him. being eating being a mcdonalds, retreating to the white house, maybe if oohes called you, but how much does that ring true? you say hes a bit cookie or crazy. not putting words in your moout. but it comes across that there is strangeness to donald trump. >> there is strangeness to a lot of people. i mean, ...

Things that jfk did and lbj did and question how fit they were but were they still capable of being president because they had a lot of things differently or they had meetings in the bathtub or on the toilet, these are the differences in people. >> i want to give michael a chance to respond. michael, how much credence do you give to this author? >> i think probably the most damning affirmation of the book came from sarah sanders the other day when she said that the president basically vets thing...

Journalism is at its lowest ever. >> neil: the one thing i do remember a little bit on, i may be dating myself as a result here, there was a lot of second-guessing about richard nixons mental capacity and the waning months of watergate. we learned that he was under enormous pressure. if you believe about the drawings from the white house, much is said about l.b.j. in the height of the vietnam war. he was a man on an island, lost support. this is going a whole other level. >> yeah, really is. in ...

Wrote a lot of these habits are uncommon. tell me about lbj and his fixization on water pressure. >> i think a lot of presidents do feel under siege in the white house and lbj is great example obsessed with the white house shower, wanted it to come in very hot with needle like intensity and made lives held. he would calling the mr. upping foreman and scream if i can move 10,000 troops in a day, referring to vietnam, you can fix the bathroom anyway i want it. and i think we see some of that. and ...