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Quickly. >> again? >> willie, the president was riding pretty high in the spring. he was getting up to 42, 43, 44%. immediately did two things. almost as if they were acts of self-sabotage. one was child separation policy which we're now finding out from the woodward book everyone in the white house was freaked out about and he was warned by paul ryan and warned by majority leader mitch mcconnell you're going down. this policy is going to take you down. then the second thing, he had the disastrous press conference at helsinki that only his most loyal hacks dare to defend. >> several moments an...

In an epic flight we had together, where we weirdly didn't know each oh, didn't trust each other, we talked into the night. everybody else is sleeping and we talked on that plane and we agreed the country is still divided over vietnam. we haven't made peace here at home let alone in vietnam. we decided to work on it together. we really got to know each other. we traveled back to vietnam together. in a moment i describe in the book i stood in john mccain's cell with john mccain alone. just the two of us. and i thought about the journey we had made together where we said we'll make peace with vi...

Go to vietnam, you certainly went through it and john mccain went through it more personally than almost everybody else, you guys were on the opposite sides in that debate. he came back thinking that you had undermined america's effort. you thought that the war was wrongheaded in many ways. and yet, again, on the most divisive issue of our time, you guys forged a consensus, went over together and helped normalize relations with vietnam. >> that's why i think what i've tried to write is it's not a policy tone. it's a personal journey, personal story about america, about a young guy who grew up ...

Solve a problem which is the misuse of social media, particularly by foreign adversaries. i think a lot of it -- this is unchartered territory. this is new technology. we have to try to figure out how to prevent it from being misused particularly as i say by adversaries from around the world. at the same time we don't want to create constraints on the vigorous debate about issues. by the way, before i forget, i just want to tell john meacham i'm just finishing "soul of america" i think it's one of the most important books that's been published in this country in the last few years. john, thank...

Of john mccain, a week ago saturday and the eulogies of someone who put country first, who stood up to donald trump did not have some atmospheric effect here. i don't know that this. and, so, this is purely speculative. stipulate that. but this reads to me like it was written by someone who was either in the national cathedral or watching it and thinking, what are they going to say about me? >> mike, you're agreeing with that. i think all talking to each other on that day said that this is, this is a moment in time and this is something that's going to -- i think we're seeing part of that impa...