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Keep ourselves special. john: tammy duckworth, served with john mccain in the senate and she still is there as a democrat from the state of illinois. she put out a news release or a statement this evening and it was interesting that i had not illness but she said when she was a legless helicopter pilot having been shut down in iraq she met john mccain for the first time while she was recovering at walter reed hospital and he joked, she writes, that he and i both flew in to a missile and that did...

Wednesday was headlined trump is no longer the worst person in government. can you guess who is? no, its not scott pruett. mike pence.esident low key, self-effacing and loyal mike pence? george will has a conspiracy theory. he wrote the following. mike pence could become americas most repulsive public figure. wills theory is trump picked pence because america would have such a revulsion for him, it would take the heat off trump. will cited the post calculations that during a cabinet meeting he p...

Lady, melania trump, is going to pay her respects at the funeral on saturday but theres no word on whether president trump will attend. kate anderson brower is looking at the divisive history between the two families. . kate? >> reporter: well, the bushes and the trumps have had a complicated history. when jeb bush was considering running in 2016 -- actually 2013, barbara bush came out saying we dont need any more bushes. she was against the notion of having a bush family dynasty. they are remar...

I have to congratulate the president, yesterday human, self-afa self self-effacing. we have to start with the doctors. what do you do? whats the game plan? right now youre the drug czar, and we have to start with the dealers. >> weve recommended to the president they now require a couple things. every medical school in america, you need to have training for doctors including opioid addiction, how to deal with and prevent addiction. secondly, we have the dea giving out licenses to write the presc...

>> if you lock me up ill burn my peter. >> burn your peter? >> yeah. >> all right. >> his disciplinary hearing for a night full of harassing correctional staff. it more memorable than most weve ever covered. >> i admit that. >> yeah. ive let that escalate. i escalated that. >> reid was serving an 11-year sentence. he had stabbed a friend during an argument, and the man died. but reids personal demon had made him no stranger to prison. >> how long have you been in prison? >> most of my life. >> w...

The challenges. this person has to be a strategist. they have to be the big thinker about what should the white house message be. not just today and tomorrow but for days and weeks ahead. they have to be a planner. they have to plan that message out. not just the message but how do you go about delivering it. they have to be a diplomat. they have to sell that plan to all of the other actors in the west wing and major administration officials and be able to make adjustments in the plan based on t...

>> harris: im not captain courageous? is he painting himself as someone whos a victim? >> a martyr. >> harris: what is that? >> i tell ya, i think thats being self-effacing. when a witness admits fault, that enhances the witnesss credibility. no witness is perfect. you just ourilliant case against him. no witness is perfect. he admits he has an ax to grind. we all know he was not only fired, but he was fired in a humiliating way, where his employees learned about the firing before he did. he obv...

Doesnt it, chris? >> no, they will get alec baldwin to play the president and no one will miss him. hes missing a great opportunity to look human appeal to people who may not necessarily like him. this is where presidents get to be self-effacing. i think the president will regret missing it. judge jeanine: he has his own media, he does twitter. >> the president doesnt need this dinner to poke at the media and have fun with the media. the white house correspondents dinner has become new york post...

Doesnt it, chris? >> no, they will get alec baldwin to play the president and no one will miss him. hes missing a great opportunity to look human appeal to people who may not necessarily like him. this is where presidents get to be self-effacing. i think the president will regret missing it. judge jeanine: he has his own media, he does twitter. >> the president doesnt need this dinner to poke at the media and have fun with the media. the white house correspondents dinner has become new york post...

Doesnt it, chris? >> no, they will get alec baldwin to play the president and no one will miss him. hes missing a great opportunity to look human appeal to people who may not necessarily like him. this is where presidents get to be self-effacing. i think the president will regret missing it. judge jeanine: he has his own media, he does twitter. >> the president doesnt need this dinner to poke at the media and have fun with the media. the white house correspondents dinner has become new york post...