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All throughout the campaign and all throughout the transition. all we heard at the campaign was the president paid no taxes. the president paid no taxes. the president paid no taxes and he is afraid of his tax returns. release them, mr. president. and thats their man trap. every single day they get into trouble. the president, as it turns out, as we all know on our -- on the presidents team, like ford, like rockefeller, is he one of the great business leaders of america -- in american history. a...

Years of that? weve never seen that before. the lesson of the nixon presidency is when the trouble starts and when the corruption starts to go public, the end can come quickly. on this day in 1973, one month into the second term of president nixon, no one in america was using the word, impeachment. no one in america was thinking that richard nixon wasnt going to get four more years. on this very day in 1973, a month into president nixons second term, "the new york times" front page did not have ...

President nixon, no one in america was using the word, impeachment. no one in america was thinking that richard nixon wasnt going to get four more years. on this very day in 1973, a month into president nixons second term, "the new york times" front page did not have a single corruption story about richard nixon. nixon hated "the new york times" but on this day there was nothing for him to complain about. february 20th, 1973. there he was on the front page with his labor secretary and the presid...

Concerned. >> concern about nelson rockefeller here. >> totally, totally false. everybody was concerned about mr. rockefeller, worth $1.3 billion in 1974. today that would be $6.7 billion by the most conservative estimates, about double what we think donald trump is worth. >> but were people stressed out about it? >> four months it took for him to be confirmed. the country was a bit of a mess. coming out of nixon here. this is representative waldi in 1974, he said we wanted to put a historical r...

Theyre wanting to give those places back. >> on that note, dr. gorka, president-elect donald trump do if you can give me a quick thing on this to turn it around. >> i think the statements hes already made are very, very clear. the u.n., as an institution, will not be favored by the white house after january 20th. remember, we are the largest funder of this institution. without our money, it simplically not function, and the ten nations that were behind this outside of the current administration ...

What can president-elect donald trump do, if you can give me a quick thing on this to turn it around. >> i think the statements hes already made are very, very clear. the u.n., as an institution, will not be favored by the white house after january 20th. remember, we are the largest funder of this institution. without our money, it simply cannot function and the ten nations that were behind this outside of the current administration will suffer whether it is bilaterally, economically or diplomat...

>> he forgets to rate of interest is like rockefeller in his prime would have to pay. he talks about how hes going to get, well, goldman sachs, i know the guys at goldman sachs. they have total, total control over him, just like they have total control over hillary clinton. >> that was donald trump back in february, with us now, the co-founder and former ceo of politico, jim vandehei, and mike allen formally announced their new media venture. we will talk to him about that. and jim serves as ceo...

Rockefeller/nixon kind of republican, someone whos going to build infrastructure and make deals and sort of goose the economy, without being sort of, you know, intensely ideologically conservative. so that was part of the story. so you could see that as sort of outreach to "the new york times," in certain ways. but the other part was that he was, again, the quotes were sort of suggestive, he was fairly, you know, nearly defiant about sort of his business and his intention to not put it in a blin...

>> we cant make america great again without love, without hope, without justice, without peace and without an acknowledgement that a fear that was stoked not only by president-elect trumps campaign, but the the democrats as well. i talked to a friend in new york. she teaches. she talked about how some of her hispanic students came in crying thinking that their parents are going to be deported the next day. we the collective we, people of leadership on all sides have to deal with this. >> i think...

But hillary clinton, even before they made millions of dollars, rankled a lot of these same voters with her, should i stay home and bake cookies comments? i dont think she had the same touch that bill clinton had, despite the fact that she grew up middle class. >> its so great to walk this political parade that has gone by and see guys born to incredible privilege. nelson rockefeller, hes a rockefeller. hell say, how you feeling, nice to see you? and that ability to just connect like joe biden d...