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Helped break the story for the "new york times." he's also a cnn political analyst and he joins us now via skype. michael, i'm glad you could join us this evening. your colleague, michael smith landed an impromptu interview with the president today and the big headline, he believe the special counsel will treat his fairly in the russia investigation. >> yeah, no, that's right. it was about a half hour interview and totally impromptu and down at the president's golf club in west palm beach, florida. but there was a lot there. the thing that struck us most was the comments that the president mad...

You know, patting himself on the back. he's bored at mar-a-lago when the suppress swirling outside there, and he's been very angry at the "washington post" the last months, in fact all of 2017, the post investigative journalists have been stunning. he tends to be more favoritable oodly to the "new york times" once in a while, but my takeaway from what's important here is he's obsessed with mueller. here it is on the holiday, he keeps trying to say i didn't collude, i didn't collude over and over again. he never mentions obstruction of justice because he's going to be charged with that. the rec...

Talking with the senator. here is lbj talking to an appoint of the civil rights legislation. >> the best leaders at the time for both of our states folding a session. they were great men who merely destroyed america. i don't ever want a history book to say that about me. >> reporter: it's so fascinating because there are tapes of lbj being racist and yet he also pushed through the great civil rights legislation of that era. >> yeah. he was very fast that way, i guess you could say. he did, a lot of times, what was politically expedient. what is abouting about him pushing through the civil righ...

Though? down double digits since the 100 days mark. >> even republicans hate all this losing, and when you've got a guy who promised so much winning, who all of a sudden is shooting himself in the foot. i mean, his numbers aren't down because democrats are going after him. democrats have never been with him. his numbers are down because of all the self-inflicted political carnage, to borrow a word from his own inaugural address, that he is inflicting upon himself and the people around him. >> rick, what do you think when you look at these numbers? >> you see the peeling away is happening now. ...

People ahead of you in the line. >> on the question of pre-existing conditions, fred upton and others who were nos and moved over to yes said they changed their vote because adding money to the high risk pool would take care of people with pre-existing conditions. the $8 billion. we've seen high risk pools before, before obamacare, they were around in 35 states. do you believe that money added to the high risk pools is enough to cover are people with pre-existing conditions? >> not even close. $8 billion over five years which i think is where it ended up being. in a country ever 313 million pe...