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>> these are all great issues. but we should be able to handle all of it. under most presidencies you didnt have to make a choice between domestic and foreign policy. you have to do both. lbj had the vietnam war. fdr had to lead america inand out of a world war while getting america out of a depression. george w. bush navigated two wars in the middle east and somehow managed to have a thriving economy. why does joe biden make it seem like everything is out of reach? why cant he multitask. to me ...

Has passed an extraordinary mount of legislation, the most since lbj in his first two years. he has also held together a global alliance backing ukraine trying to repel an invasion from its much larger neighbor. yes, they understand theres gonna be speculation about president biden, he is 80 years old, he has not yet announced he is running for president again and there are some democrats who are taking steps to create a plan b just in case, but most believe he will. and, he will go into this ne...

Intending for run reelection, gene mccarthy did well in new hampshire and after that, lbj jumps out of the race, bobby kennedy entered the race and it was a nightmare after that and lost. and ronald reagan and jerry ford. came close, same result on the public side, they lost the white house. what do you make of that? >> what i make of that, these are disrupter candidates who are damaging to the person in power, so if you look at the polling, theres nothing to suggest that if biden wants to run a...

Beginning, you have seen biden underestimated from the beginning. you have seen for a year, a year and a half, seeing progressives say why dont you work with the republicans? you will never pass any bipartisan legislation, you are being naive, it is not 1974, you cannot work with the republicans. we get to the end of the session and joe biden has more bipartisan legislation pass than anybody baby having to go back to fdr. maybe having to go back to lbj. it is pretty extraordinary. and then you h...

Theres still substantial disapproval, particularly many on the far left. if marianne williamson or others appeal to that it could be damaging in a close general election, which the polls now show it to be in the fall of 2024. neil: you know to that point and ill pursue this, lee, with you as well. to finish off a democratic point with doug. when ted kennedy challenged jimmy carter, he might have survived that, but losing the election and not blaming that on ted kennedy, but generally the challen...

Youve seen for a year, year and a half, even progressives saying, why are you trying to work with the republicans? youre never going to pass bipartisan legislation. youre being naive. it is not 1974, old man. you cant work with the republicans. we get to the end of this session, and joe biden has more bipartisan legislation passed than anybody, my god, maybe you have to go back to fdr or back to lbj. it is extraordinary. then you do have to go back to fdr if you want to look at the things he acc...

Of using government as a political weapon? where did it start for you? >> i think you could go back a long ways, if you want to look at fdr, using the irs to investigate his political opponents, lbj with the cia to gather information on barry goldwater and had a plant in his campaign feeding goldwater speeches to the white house and democrat national committee. the use of government as a political tool has a language history in our country -- long history, but every time we held hearings and try...

Before, that i was a canadian. and what i can say about joe biden and the way he handled the hecklers and marjorie taylor greene was a master class. it did not face him. he did not lose track. he turned the room against them while making a point to the american people. he is the protector of medicare and social security. and as we just heard, since the inception of both programs, republicans oppose them. -- and lbj with medicare -- and ronald reagan said medicare would make us lose our freedom. ...

I used to get heckled. -- now, of course, i am americas preeminent -- before, that i was a canadian. and what i can say about joe biden and the way he handled the hecklers and marjorie taylor greene was a master class. it did not face him. he did not lose track. he turned the room against them while making a point to the american people. he is the protector of medicare and social security. and as we just heard, since the inception of both programs, republicans oppose them. -- and lbj with medica...

They have never said a book about any european is controversial or will make someone upset. there have been european wars, shakespeare has death, demons in the othello story. none of that to them is controversial. only things about black people, jewish people, and gay people. hard to see that as a coincidence. but mostly black people. >> its absolutely not a coincidence, joy. you know, i have said this quote on your show several times before. you know, my favorite president, lbj always said, you...