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Voters just might say to hell with all -- the 1% of america that watches cable news loves this. 98% watched "hard knocks" last night and think the browns will win eight games. >> i just want to know if they're going to cover against the steelers. let me bring in michael beschloss because this is we think historically unprecedented but that's why we have a presidential historian. michael beschloss, we think this is unprecedented. i guess you could say there were times during wilson's illness that maybe staffers piped up, perhaps. i'm trying to think of other times where you might have had somet...

People in the pentagon if you get a message from nixon for something like putting tanks around the white house or using the 101st airborne or using the military to somehow keep himself in office, they were really talking this way, schlessinger says disregard that order unless it is countersigned by me. at the time henry kissinger, the secretary of state, was privately saying al hague, the white house chief of staff, was holding the country together and he, kissinger, was holding the world together. but that's not at this level, chuck. i've never seen anything like this in modern presidential h...

Stevenson, henry cabot lodge, pat moynihan. it is a fantastic launching pad if you know how to play the media. >> she plays to the camera. it's ironic she's outplaying donald trump in this administration. >> she looks grown-up. >> with that statement. >> serious and desizive. that's the politics. let's talk about the gravity of this. we are in. >> did you say let's not talk about just the politics? >> we're in a dangerous convergence of a lack of any kind of foreign policy that is coherent and down to three adults in the room in the white house, nikki haley. >> mad dog. >> general dunford, the...

Unchecked power, the only time in our history that we have known that a president has had that power prescribed was in the final days of watergate when defense secretary james schlessinger told the pentagon, if you get a nuclear launch order, please check with me or henry kissinger first. nixon was drinking heavily, he was despondent. there was fear he would launch an unprovoked nuclear war. there's no stims in place to actually protect against something like that. >> you know what, it is very helpful to know that regardless of the political discussion. garrett, appreciate it very much. garret...

Are working together. you have bipartisan support in the house and think you're going to reach agreement with the white house. what about the senate? >> senator feinstein and chambliss and rogers and myself work very closely together. we had a meeting two days ago about where the senate is going to be. right now the senate will wait until we do what we have to do in the house. but we all care about the same thing, providing privacy and yet maintaining the ability to protect our citizens from terrorist attacks. and that's the whole focus of where we are and we feel good about coming together in...