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Raw guts in pursuing missions like the panama city treaty. brokers peace. the energy challenge. and pushing the world on human rights. >> he was able to push through an awful lot of legislation. very little of which is remembered. but much of which changed the country from cleaning up toxic waste sites. deregulating. and lower air fare. >> deregulation of gas. we have huge amounts of natural gas. it changed the energy equation. >> we managed to establish relations with china. get a an arms limit...

You $1 million to your favorite charity, paid for by trump, if you take the test and it shows youre an indian. >> reporter: asked whether he would pay up, the president denied he had made the offer. >> you said you would pay her $1 million -- >> why i say that. no. you better read it again. >> reporter: the president added, he hopes its warren he faces in 2020. >> shell destroy the country. shell make our country into venezuela. >> reporter: later in the day, the president traveled to areas in f...

Era predecessors. lets go back to jimmy carter expressing discomfort and fear working inside their own white house. of course, they might have had presidents where their personality was as strong as his, and i was disappointed to hear his comments about secretary mattis. i think he is beloved by the military and a moderating force in the civilian command of the military, and to suggest that, well, he is a democrat and, hes a great human being, regardless. >> and i couldnt imagine why any preside...

Raw guts in pursuing missions like the panama canal treaty, brokering peace, awakening the americas to the energy challenge and pushing the world on human rights. >> he was able to push through an awful lot of legislation, very little of which is remembered but much of which changed the country from cleaning up toxic waste sites, deregulating airlines and trucking, which contributed eventually to airfares. >> we now have huge amounts of natural gas. its changed the whole energy equation. >> duri...

This is a challenging time for the president and his administration. from the disappearance of jamal khashoggi to the aftermath of michael and florence and the ongoing conflicts in afghanistan and syria. he is juggling crisis and he is not the first chief executive to find himself in the situation. what can he learn from his predecessors. presidential historian is the author of a new book, the presidents of war. from 1807 to modern times that has a look at how the presidency has changed as a res...

Turks. america turns a hell of a blind eye to countries that have human rights abuses in their history and press freedoms abuses. we do that when we make lots of money from countries and they make lots of money from us. this is clouding our ability to respond to the disappearance of this journalist. >> this is another departure from president trump from all of his modern predecessors. it broke my heart when i heard him respond to the news of whatever the saudis did in the demise, presumed demise...

In the historical record. >> christina greer, treect whre what you heard on the stump in ohio. you teach political history. >> political science, but i have to agree with michael. the key im always pressing with my students is they have to read. i have a lot of students who are inspired by activism and activists right now, and the main thing i tell them is, you have to read about what has happened in the past, a., so you dont repeat certain mistakes but, b., it will help inform your decisions an...

For years. there are two sides to the saudi like kanye west should get the story. theres the side we see here in civilian highest award in washington and in european history. it is like an 8-year-old capitals, sophisticated, modern talking. >> yes. and i am the youngest person here, i think, but i am old seemingly liberal minded saudis who pay money to firms here to enough to know whats normal and what is not. whats happening now is burnish their image, and then absolutely abnormal. the reality ...

Not 2%, 2.5, shouldnt see that, but on a given day can happen. the concern is it has gone on several days. >> it is. we have seen underlying deterioration in quality of the market rally where we hit new all-time highs a week ago. and now all of a sudden testing those all-time highs in january, markets has begun to unravel a bit. as you said, fears of the fed raising interest rates too many times, the comments on the fed by the president. >> he called jay powell, chairman, who replaced janet yell...

Him. what a classy lady that she didnt air those disagreements in any way. heather: she said she is not running in 2020 and will support the president. she will have served longer than five of her last 10 predecessors. so theres a bit of trivia for her. president trump going after democrats during a spirited rally in iowa four weeks ahead of the midterms. >> the democrats have become too extreme and theyve become, frankly, too dangerous to govern. democrats are the party of crime. republicans th...