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Nobody went after president kennedy because his family owned the merchandise mart in chicago. as a matter of fact, he appointed the head of the merchandise mart to be the head of first the peace corps and later the war on poverty with lbj, and eventually ambassador to france. nobody said a word about the kennedys interest in this. i dont think they should have. >> heres a question to you -- >> just because kennedy held office doesnt mean -- >> it is different. look, i hear you. you know, busines...

Plutocrats. theres one potential victim here, the very working class that voted for him. theyre going to get played. theyve already been played. >> your prediction is its going to be -- because i think were watching this shape up and theres something well talk to gabe sherman about, reince priebus. you think it will be the ryan agenda. weve already seen the cabinet. if its confirmed. >> forget what i think. thats what ryan thinks. he has gotten a movable feast set in front of him. hell rip up ev...

Turn on him? who does he owe money to, deutsche bank? will it be the banks of russia and china that bring him to heel? he can be brought to heel by so many people. he owes so many people who are all plutocrats and care about plutocrats. theres one potential victim here, the very working class that voted for him. theyre going to get played. theyve already been played. >> your prediction is its going to be -- because i think were watching this shape up and theres something well talk to gabe sherma...

Dismantle the voting rights act and the immigration rights and all the progressive policies of lbj, bill clinton and president obama, he wants to bring it back to the good days when white men were white men. its a message that resonates with white women as well, so the democrats have their work cut out for them in many ways to think about how to be an inclusive party and tap into hope and excitement. >> thank you. very interesting. up next, it turns out you can fool a lot of people if you get ...

>> is this a tactic that gets attributed to lbj, which is, just say it, who cares if its not true, just say it and make them deny it. he knows its fake, but put it in there, because it slimz the real journalists. >> right, but whats our responsibility? and again im not a journalists, but whats the responsibility of journalists to confront this. the perception is you all werent hard enough on him. you know you pushed back on that pretty hard. but theres a perception out there that so much of what...

Its just the opposite feeling. barack obama really inspired people with hope and sort of this new idea in a re positive direction that was very inclusive. and thinking about economics which would be together we can rise up. donald trump tapped into something as well for a large part of the population, because of those people you dont have. and that is a powerful message that can take us to the quote-unquote good old days of the 1930s. but the only people benefitting in the 1930s were white men. ...

So donald trump has tapped into something in some of the ways that barack obama tapped into, its just the opposite feeling. barack obama really inspired people with hope and sort of this new idea in a re positive direction that was very inclusive. and thinking about economics which would be together we can rise up. donald trump tapped into something as well for a large part of the population, because of those people you dont have. and that is a powerful message that can take us to the quote-unqu...

Him back to stop yelling at the crowd. i think perhaps it has less to do with the character of the person who is stepping into the white house than it does with the technology thats at the fingertips. if harry truman had twitter, if lbj had twitter or nixon had twitter. >> impulsive presidents could easily have used it. i understand that. i do. i think there are moments, however, like look at the fact that jfk didnt let people know the cuban missile crisis was happening until it was the right ti...

Make up something and get on the air and talk about it. one thing when you talk about a missile crisis and then youre running for office and then afterwards you say maybe it wasnt as big as we thought it was. when you run for office, you believe what youre saying anyway. lbj believed that his grandson died because he wanted him to. these journalists, sticklers for detail. they would make you remember the wallpaper the time you first made love. theres a difference between real fake love. fake lov...

It depends on when youre coming into the presidency. i think youre right with truman. the problem was that ever fdr people lived with fdr for 12 years as their president. werent ready for anyone else to be president and truman says pray for me as if he couldnt do the job. he turned out to be a really good president. at the beginning that transition was hard just as it was for lbj. he didnt have the voice of the new england establishment. he thought they would look down on him because he wasnt. h...