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Sitting presidents with remarkable victories four years before and decided not to run in '68 and truman again in '48. people don't look back at truman -- or in '52 as somebody who didn't run in "52. you think of somebody who made remarkable progress on the world stage. same thing with johnson from '64 to '68 with his policies. that's the only logical path forward. there will be no rabbit pulled from the had. these numbers are what they are. and the demographic breakdowns are what they are. so actually, following lbj in '68 and just hoping your legacy will survive instead of having to carry wit...

Tuesday? no. because no one would come. so why else would chicago hold its mayial elections in freezing february? why would georgia close its poll at 7 ppl and kentucky at 6 when many folks are just getting off work? spoiler alert, it's about trying to make attorneyout smaller, more predictable which only further polarizes our politics. you might be asking why did we vote on tuesday? not a crazy question. it was from when farmers needed to take a day and take their horse and wagon into town and back and no one wanted to travel on the sab badge. today those reasons don't apply. this house bill ...

Election. >> the entire nonsense about the electors trying to use the russian hacking issue to change the election results is really unfortunate. i think that actually undermines our democracy more than any other conversation that we're having. >> reporter: but even a fellow republican, senator john mccain said moscow's interference is a troubling sign of the times. >> this should be the sign of a possible unraveling of the world order that was established after world war ii which is one of the most peaceful periods in the history of the world. >> reporter: in a statement on his official victo...

Generations and weirdly, i would put in lbj in, he looked at every senator and congressman and figured out what they want for themselves. dirkson, you come with me on this bill. and he knew every single congressman, what they cared about and brought them together to produce this extraordinary legislation. >> i heard that you think of genius as the ability to marry into the flow of history and understand where it's going and to somehow find in that what you can do. did johnson fail at that, the ability to ride with history and move it in his direction? >> without a question. just as he succeede...

Things through congress. >> six to eight months? that is it? >> he usually has about six to eight months to get things through congress. may seem small, but even lbj in '65, with 61% presidential landslide, more democrats in congress than at any other time since roosevelt, he said i'm going to be asking some democrats and republicans to cast some risky votes. >> six months, six months, maybe eight? historically speaking that is the time frame that a president has at the start of the second term to get it done. if that is true, then tick tock, right? no time to waste, not after this big agenda ...