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Daniels and now she's on "snl" and how did we get here? i don't even get on "snl." it was a joke and then of course it just blows up. >> laura: 's you are now stepping back because you probably got some blowback from your old pals at "snl," i'm just guessing. >> i'm not stepping back at all. it was a mistake to put stormy daniels on the program. the show is better than that and i don't back down -- i will double down and triple down on that. what gets me really upset is when people tell me what to say. how to say it and what to think and that's not going to happen. i'm on the radio every morni...

And how did we get here? i don't even get on "snl." it was a joke and then of course it just blows up. >> laura: 's you are nowof stepping back because you probably got some blowback frome your old pals at "snl," i'm just guessing. >> i'm not stepping back at all. it was a mistake to put stormy daniels on the program. the show is better than that and i don't back down -- i will double down and triple down on that. what gets me really upset is when people tell me what to say. how to say it and what to think and that's not going to happen. i'm on the radio every morning i'm going to bed now, i'v...

>> well, we just -- >> because i know you've got a great answer. >> jay and i just finished doing the hbo version of the play "all the way" that i did on broadway. >> about lbj. >> about lbj. >> and what's so great is before the vietnam war made everybody get mad at him this amazing man was able to take the moment of the kennedy assassination and produce probably the six months greatest grofrns we've had in decades. what he did with civil rights and medicare and all that other stuff. >> yeah. maybe a century of political power. his political acumen was unbelievable. fdr and perhaps the foundin...

>> let me ask you, what are you doing now? now that we've got you here. >> well, we just -- >> because i know you've got a great answer. >> jay and i just finished doing the hbo version of the play "all the way" that i did on broadway. >> about lbj. >> about lbj. >> and what's so great is before the vietnam war made everybody get mad at him this amazing man was able to take the moment of the kennedy assassination and produce probably the six months greatest governance we've had in decades. what he did with civil rights and medicare and all that other stuff. >> yeah. maybe a century of politica...

Conviction. having said that, there's no doubt that johnson was also, some would say a master of the senate and had a deep understanding with the senate and deep relationships with the senators and wasn't afraid to work the phone. >> sure. wayne, the white house, they hate that comparison. they don't like it and it is interesting to me. we were notes this earlier, robert dallic likes to say that the president, when we look back on them we view them on the current way. ten years ago, people were looking at it negatively. oh, my god, it's bush, lbj, iraq and all over again. now lamenting from ne...