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Up and understandably in the things he said about the press and his tweets about how many people were in the inauguration. hes deflecting. its like slight of hand. the thing that concerned me was the whole relationship with the president. its one thing for the president to get over the people and use tweets and stats and its another thing to get into criticism. lbj said if i walk on the potomac river the press will say the president cant swim, but when he denied how many people were in the inaug...

Magici magician. something that happened this week were the executive orders and yet we were caught up, understandably, in things he said about the press. hes deflecting. its like sleight of hand. the whole thing that upset me the most was the thing about the press. its one thing to do like fdr did and use the radio and tweets instead. lbj once said, if i walk on the potomac one afternoon, the president would say, the president cant swim is. but when you deny objective reality, the one thing he ...

Price wills go up to american companies. do you remember what happened on 9/11? the supply chain from canada to mexico completely collapsed and completely disrupted our auto industry. what is going to happen if prices go up? american companies will build those factories here and they will completely robot size them. >> thats been the fear. >> i think in some ways that mr. trump is a magician, you know tharks the important things that happen this week were the executive orders, the very things he...

They are not on stepping on and destroying their own agenda, this is a week in which he is fulfilling many of his central campaign promises and yet what are they doing? this is completely self-inflicted. he won the election. why are we even talking about this unless you have this white house thats completely out of control. its not steve bannon. it donald trump. would donald trump listen to david gergen? does he listen to anyone? >> michael, put on your veteran of a white house staff hat. what j...

To any white house. bringing in and layering on another person doesnt really solve those things. this isnt the first time a president has had those things but not that early. l.b.j. had the credibility issue over vietnam. nixon laid about water, bill clinton got impeached. there are laws and consequences that seem like they will eventually and maybe pretty quickly affect this president. i also think whats striking in part is were not just learning this from tell-all books. were reading in realti...

At a time when hes going to have enormous power to that dissent conceivably and putting people in the positions. it seems to me youve got the party to party dissent, somewhat expected and then the internal dissent which is unresolved and going to continue. its concrete and real. >> great points but thats a no. thats what i heard at the top of the hour from the cia. but not from washington. thank you for that. what about just in terms of, i dont know, giving an acknowledgment to these women? this...

If our strategy and combatting isis works, then i think hell be willing to put up with some of the stuff. otherwise, it will wear thin. >> let me just jump in and say, because youve written books on first families and this is, you know, the first full day for president trump, have we ever seen a president at the cia on day one? >> i dont think so. i know weve never seen anything like were seeing today with the intelligence and you have to have a thick skin as a president. what happened to lbj an...

Shorter than the hippocratic oath. >> on my honor i will do my best. >> even the boy scouts have a longer oath. it takes more words to promise to get an old lady safely across the street than to get the nuclear codes. how much do americans know about the oath of office? since we like our tests with chicken wings, we headed to the founding fathers bar in buffalo, new york. >> we will be taking the cnn oath of office trivia challenge. are we ready? >> not really. >> all right. >> who was the only ...

Administration and when president trump is sworn in, we will play hail to the chief for the first time for the new president. the oath and the music brings the ceremony to its zenith. >> it may seem like a lot of pomp and circumstance. in the end, it is so much bigger than that. because even when all the fanfare is stripped away, even in a simple home like chester arthur on board a plane in a time of crisis like lyndon johnson, even behind closed doors at the white house to make up for the mista...

Thats how you change the republican presidents mind about the arts. newt gingrich always wanted to zero in on funding for the arts and he would be encouraged after reports today that donald trump wants to zero out the national endowment for the art and humanities temperature gregory peck, one of the founding members, appointed by president johnson. he said then, when we strive for greatestness in ar ittistic expression we open avenues for expression of greatness in the human spirit. heres presid...