Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161109:05:23:00
History and go back through 200 years, it's extremely rare that one political party controls the white house for three terms in a row. 1836, jackson was able to pass the white house on to his vice president, martin van buren. the next time that happened, you have to go all the way up to 1988, when ronald reagan was able to do that for george h.w. bush. even, for instance, in 1960 when dwight eisenhower, a very popular president, tried to leave the presidency to richard nixon. couldn't do it. bill clinton, whose popularity had rerebounded by 2000, tried to do it for al gore. couldn't do it to s...