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Dick durbin said language has never been used in the oval office, then he should be listening to the lbj tapes and lbj, what was he able to do, he passed civil rights legislation and the president wanted to deal in good faith, the democrats, they renigged on that. >> look, no one is denying that he said it other than one man, the president who has a history of saying things that are a little untrue. what we have here is a situation, it's so sad because this is a look right into his dark soul, these are chilling and disparaging comments. you do so to emerge from tough situation. we should want ...

>> michael you can't put the tooth pace back in the tube process. they're out we've read them having said that what did you learn from them. >> you and i talked about this a number of times. let's talk about all of this. joining us now politico senior foreign affairs correspondents michael crowley and an encore performance, michael beschloss. how was this leak and printing these triplets a terrible precedent a bad thing for the presidency? >> well, a really bad thing for the presidency because one thing that a president of the united states has to do is feel that he can talk to foreign leaders...

The presidency because one thing that a president of the united states has to do is feel that he can talk to foreign leaders in confidence and vice versa. and if i were a leader of another country today i would i nervous about talking to the president of the united states because i would think that there was a big danger that that conversation would leak and embarrass me, and the result is that diplomacy could be crippled. >> michael, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. so having said that, what did you learn from them? >> you know, brian, you and i have talked about this a number o...

Of the presidents that were cheaters or whatever vulgar in the way they spoke when you got the lbj tapes. in public, even richard nixon in public comported himself well. donald trump tweeted something yesterday that i think is interesting. he tweeted yesterday my use of social media is not presidential, it is in all caps modern day presidential. make america great again. have we crossed that rubicon where maybe the crass entertainment value of trump is the new standard for what a lot of americans think a president should be, not what you and i are talking about, this dignified old standard? >>...

Angry self-pitying kind of guy. he was all over the place. in fact, people who know him say you can't assign any one adjective to him. you have to use them all. he was that, you know, along the spectrum of human emotions he hit every single mark. >> you got to -- in preparing for the role, you were listening to a lot of lbj tapes. >> yes. >> is there anything specific along the way? >> are you baiting me? >> i'm so baiting me because i've run it as a news item because i can't say it and you can. >> he had a conversation -- he had a conversation with a taylor down in diabetics and texas, he bel...