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hard want to do because once you do it, you gotta keep doing here. >> monday. how about that? all right. sounds good. >> and be sure to watch speaking of which cnn special coverage of the eclipse across america starting monday 1:00 p.m. eastern or stream it on max, a new our of cnn news central starts right now all right >> breaking news, waffle, new number is just in from the new jobs report way higher than expected. the unemployment rate dropped, no recession in sight it justin israe...

>> 4.8 magnitude earthquake hitting the northeast was shaking, felt across several states travel is now being impacted in an around new york city was mistaken identification and errors in decision-making that from the israel defense forces, newly released initial findings into the airstrikes that killed seven aid workers in gaza. were going to tell you how the idf is responding and the biden administrations reaction to the report. numbers from from the new jobs report and come in way h...

Addition to being chief white house correspondent for the teams. when this law was passed and given that there were so many, you know, republican attempts to invalidate it, the fact that it has withstood three times now with the supreme court, i cant imagine anyone thinking that would be the case ten years ago when this law was passed. >> thats right, exactly. it shows, though, how problematic it is when you pass major social welfare changes with only one partys support, though, right? social se...

Around, that this may be the most normal thing donald trump does as president, that under fdr, under lbj and richard nixon, you stay i line. and you were called out if you werent. they didnt use quite the levers of power that he uses to do it. but this is a president thing. >> yes. although i would sayyeah, 100%, weve seen presidents of both parties try to enforce loyalties in various ways and exact some kind of political cost. usually it would not be a president on whose future in th maintainin...

Most normal thing donald trump does as president, that under fdr, under lbj and richard nixon, you had to stay in line. and you were called out if you werent. they didnt use quite the levers of power that he uses to do it. but this is a president thing. >> yes. although i would say yeah, 100%, weve seen presidents of both parties try to enforce loyalties in various ways and exact some kind of political cost. usually it would not be a president on whose future in the office depends on his party m...

To fulfill their role as a check on the executive branch. >> we continue to act here as if all is normal, as if all parties are observing norms. even as the executive branch shatters them. robustly trafficking in conspiracy theories and attacking all institutions that dont pay the president obedience. our justice system, the free press, the list is getting longer. we demearselves and our proper constitutional role when we act like we work for the president, that we are only here to do his biddin...

Encourage handi, i mean basically that was what you got. we want them over weve got to get them to paris or you cant have a peace. >> but, notes taken by one of the nixons closest aids, now shows that nixon directed efforts to scudle those talks. because he feared it would give an edge to his opponent. he was vice president under lbj. john farrell, author of the forthcoming book richard nixon, the life discovered the notes while putting his book together. he joins us now to talk about this. i re...

Vietnam, under lbj, do you look at this as lbj was continuing jfks policies, or would something different have happened if jfk had remained the president, do you think? >> i think something definitely different would have happened. and probably some 58,000 young americans would still be alive. roger hillsman, who was on the state department desk for southeast asia told me himself that the president would call him at night and say, roger, how are you going to get me out of vietnam? i think robert...