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Trump? i'd like to hear you riff on the answer and what you uncovered along the way. >> well, the answer is nobody, or not enough republicans rather, at least for now. the problem is that a lot of presidents in order to successful for history have been both feared and reveered. there is a consensus forming in washington from republican fixers that bob and ashley and i are talking to all the time that trump is neither. and that's a problem. because the president is not able to govern with a hammer on capitol hill, especially with the senate and be able to really dictate the terms of what he wan...

We are moving ahead. as the speaker pointed out to our group yesterday, with what, roughly -- 12 to 15 billion dollars. we intend to address the wall issue ourselves. >> melissa: chief national correspondent ed henry is live in washington. what's a few billion when you talk about taxpayer dollars. it's our money, a billion here, it could be 15, it could be 115, what cares, right? [ laughing ] >> you're right, everett dirkson said a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money. now you have the senate majority leader saying casually, about $15 billion, something li...

House members were who were conducting the president's impeachment hearings because there were no house -- there was no house ethics committee. there was no senate ethics committee. the house ethics committee was invent three years after the nixon hearings and the senate a year after that. all of the giants of the house of representatives an the senate throughout history that you have read about through john adams in the house of representatives to daniel with ebbster, lyndon johnson, everett dirkson, they all lived in an ethics free zone. since the ethics committees were invented we have beco...

There was no senate ethics committee. the house ethics committee was invent three years after the nixon hearings and the senate a year after that. all of the giants of the house of representatives an the senate throughout history that you have read about through john adams in the house of representatives to daniel with ebbster, lyndon johnson, everett dirkson, they all lived in an ethics free zone. since the ethics committees were invented we have become more and more concerned with congressional ethics. in 2008 when the democrats controlled the house of representatives they created another la...

Legislation and chose at that opportune moment to make real change happen for america and to allow us to fulfill our promise as a nation. >> and there was a significant republican legislator that johnson worked closely with, dirkson of illinois. talk about that relationship. >> johnson knows in order to get the senate to pass the civil rights act, he's going to need the support of everett dirkson, senator from illinois and the minority leader at the time. if you look at those pictures of johnson signing the civil rights act, there are many pens he uses. the first pen he awards to everett dirks...