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Covering politicians. we should be sceptical and ask questions and be adversarial but thats a problem. reporter: barack obama, george bush, l.b.j. presidents have a powerful megaphone. they should be sceptical, but not prosecutorial. >> "the washington post" is ramping up its investigative journalism more than it has in the last 8 years. and we see that with other papers as well. thats a little unfair. i agree. i think journalists should be spending less time evaluating donald trumps tweets and ...

Covering politicians. we should be sceptical and ask questions and be adversarial but thats a problem. reporter: barack obama, george bush, l.b.j. presidents have a powerful megaphone. they should be sceptical, but not prosecutorial. >> "the washington post" is ramping up its investigative journalism more than it has in the last 8 years. and we see that with other papers as well. thats a little unfair. i agree. i think journalists should be spending less time evaluating donald trumps tweets and ...

Working with us to get welfare reform, the first balanced budget in a generation. balanced it four years in a row for the first time since the 1920s. you could go down a long list of things that republicans and bill clinton did together and there was no reason to believe that that could ever happen without bill clinton willing to fight with us on our own turf and beat us. >> a couple things. one, i think its worth mentioning how republicans got wiped out after watergate. that was bad for republi...

Is the wall going up? >> i dont know if the wall is going up or not. i know the first 100 days is obviously very important. i remember back in 1995, our contract with america, we got everything zipping along the first 100 days. and then 101st day everybody stopped and stared at each other. maybe we should pace this out over a couple years. >> maybe. >> but michael beschloss, obviously the person to speak to here. historical examples. obviously fdr is the benchmark. talk about some presidents tha...

And so if that actually is true and that legal advice holds, that will open up a realm of possibility. kennedy: former house speaker newt gingrich are also commenting in a radio interview. >> in the case of the president, he has a broad ability to organize the white house the way he wants to. we have never seen this kind of wealth in the white house. and so traditional rules dont work with. and were going to have to think up, you know, a whole new approach. kennedy: well see how those nepotism l...

>> on the subject of the swamp, jeffrey lord, there are stories over the last 24 hours and one last week about ivanka trump. donald trumps children connected possibly, allegedly to some of these charities trying to raise money by granting access to them around the inauguration. isnt that part of this swamp? that at least donald trump formally wanted drained? >> oh i think its fairly typical for all presidential inaugurations that ive been involved with. >> swamp -- >> atypical. >> i went to my f...

Legacy? >> i think he is the most consequential democratic senator since lbj. he pushed through a very ambitious social agenda. unlike lbj his legacy will be essence. he made procedure rule changes that will make it easier to get rid of everything he passed in the first years of the obama administration. >> and the nominees in p particular -- >> and for supreme court justices. >> it will make it easier for donald trump to get his through. >> yes. ironically is to make it measurerable for the nex...

What is harry reids main legacy? >> i think hes the most consequential democratic senator since lbj. he pushed through a very ambitious social agenda. he was ruthless in the use of political power, but unlike lbj, his league see is going to be -- most of what he did was unpopular and he made procedural changes in the senate that will make it easier to get rid of everything he passed, especially in the first years of the obama administration. >> james, the nominees in particular, he blew the fili...

And she was killed for it. quite frankly, she had to carry that all the way up through her senate campaign in her first run for the presidency. there is precedent for it. you go back to lbj and even before that where weve always had family members involved. >> we learned today, emily, that from the transition team that ivanka trump, theyre planning to have a desk in the east wing to work with the incoming president. her role is going to be at least one would assume, sort of the role as first lad...

Cheney with halliburton. that is not public in any way. halliburton was a public enemy and you can see where the stocks went. >> were had shadowy stuff with lbj. >> thats totally true and lbj had a lot. nothing of this scope and nothing that is singular to the definition of the person at hand. heres what i think happens. its hard to get the notions of the conflicts, but if a crisis happens and it is then later revealed ex-post facto in the midst he had business interest there, people will care. ...