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Slave that was here after, um, the slaves were freed. >> anthony: ashley greene grew up on mosquito beach on james island in charleston. her mother owns the property, which has been in her family for generations. fact of the matter is in the old south back when the dishes, flavors and ingredients of southern cooking, which is to say american cooking as opposed to european, chances are that food was grown, gathered, produced and prepared by african slaves. chef b.j. dennis has made it a personal ...

Beautifully. probably because it was closer to himself. and i think people like al gore and hillary, they separate themselves too much from that actor role they think is required and dont use -- theyre not in their body as much, that is kind of an acting term. and then trump is so comfortable he could be sitting on a toilet like lbj and give a speech. >> solid lbj reference there. >> i think we have some pictures we want to show, were not going to dip into sound yet because we have determined th...

One and in campers and motels and cars and private airplanes with another and had a couple in my home. every one of them wanted to be president pretty bad, and gerald ford wrote when he was in congress about driving by the white house at night on his way home, and hed think -- hed hear a little voice whispering, hey, if you were president, youd be home by now. so they all wanted it. yes, they respected it. and i remember after george herbert walker bush was elected president, when i went in the ...

Forget the last 100 days. what counts are the next two or 300 days. the next 200 or 300 days will determine whether mr. trump is a successful president. republican jimmy carter. more than most presidents mr. trump will be by performance. he needs to show policy results that brings faster economic growth and that means learning the lessons of the first 100 days and not repeated in the next 200. you think that will happen? they said growth is 2.7% or something the first quarter which is really low...

Even as he said that, he said get me a list. l.b.j. said jerk every damn bill there because i want to show that im good as f.d.r. its crazy. the presidents shouldnt forget. learn from the past and not be competitive of what went before. >> neil: its up to the media to do that, myself included. one of the things, doris, i blame president trump on, he did come in setting high expectations for himself. for good reason. he could shake the world, the ceo, all those guys. have a different view of gett...

Where did the first hundred day reference emerge? >> it happened in the white house when fdr was giving a speech to the nation, a fireside chat, his mother was sitting there with him. the room was used as the radio studio and fdr gave a speech to the nation and referred to the hundred days, not of the administration, but the 73rd congress. that started the whole process and weve had to live with it ever sense. >> jenna: if memory serves me correctly, fdr had an amazing amount of legislation. oft...

Couldnt do. lbj and bill clinton couldnt do either. the fact that president trump -- tough to get used to saying that -- the fact he needs to go it alone when he ostensibly, if he really was a unifier and could understand coalition building and all the different factions. weve talked about factions on your show for months now. this is something the president is just now realizing, that he has to understand and bargain with people. >> right. >> he cant just bully people into policy. you cant say ...

Here is the name to watch. house majority leader kevin mccarthy. paul ryan is the house speaker. they have a relationship with the white house. so does mcconnell, majority leader. im told from people at the white house and the hill that mccarthy has been able to build a rapport with trump. its not always easy, lawmakers said. mccarthy, who helped to recruit these younger members in 2010, tells the president stories about members in almost an lbj style. whats the way to get this guy or this woman...

Point to do it. but i just think this was wildly misinterpreted. i think for some reason i just dont agree. thats all. >> got it. we will move on now because theres lots of other stuff to talk about in this news cycle, jeffrey, what is it president trump doesnt want us to see in his taxes. >> i dont know, i am one of these people who thinks the whole thing is bogus from start to finish. the income tax came in from wilson to lbj. we had plenty of presidents whose taxes arent out there. >> in mode...

Suggests that steve bannon could be on the ropes, although, jeffrey, you got to be careful. if youre president trump and you cut him loose because who knows how he would react, comment on that? >> well, lbj was famous for saying he would like to have certain critics inside the tent urinating outward from the outside urinating inward. some ways to keep him in the tent. im not sure if he cuts him free he can manage him. he has that national following he didnt before. trump is broadening his base, ...