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Michael, your thoughts on that one? that was somewhat lucky because nothing went wrong ultimately. >> well, chris, you might think and clarence might think i'm nuts for saying this. i've always wondered if it weren't deliberate on reagan's part to send a message to the soviets that, hey, this old guy, he's not wrapped too tight and maybe we should come to the negotiation table and resolve some nuclear weapons issues with them, because they did. you know, he brought gorbachev to his knees. >> i know it had a happy ending, but i think you're confusing him with nixon because nixon always wanted h...

Don't get all of it right. >> wow, this is perhaps a career-ender, we'll see, he was already in trouble. how does it stack up in the annals of political gaffes? we have two pros now joining us, clarence page, "chicago tribune" columnist and a radio talk show host out of philly and an msnbc political analyst. let's talk about this first of all, talk about this incident. you first, clarence, then michael. is this unfair? the woman was a bigot. the woman was making comments about foreigners. she had certainly an attitude and apparently she gave him a whole string of attitude about this, and he ju...

Was a retainer that he paid and how michael cohen used that money? is that -- what is it that we should take as fact here when it comes to the president's knowledge about his payments to michael cohen and michael company len's paymecohe cohen's payments to stormy daniels? >> and i do want to be clear, this is a matter between the president and -- >> but do we take his twitter feed as his word? >> i'm not involved in those personal discussion, so i wouldn't know the information. >> let me ask a larger issue he. dan ball who does that write in hyperbolic terms. his slelead is does it bother anyo...

The -- medicare, social security, or the removal of tax benefits for health care and home mortgages. this condition has been building for years. in a 1995 book, michael kinsly explained what was then the pop list anger at washington that newt gingrich had exploited in his contract with america. he wrote, american voters make flagrantly incompatible demands, cut my taxes, preserve my benefits, balance the budget, then explode in self-righteous outrage when the politicians fail to deliver. the king could do no wrong, and if he did do wrong, the blame

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