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Rudy Giuliani has had quite the trajectory in public life. Those of us who remember the days after 9/11 will still have a picture of a man who emerged from that disaster as a credit to his city and a credit to his office. If you only picked up the Rudy Show midway through season
A lot, if we're talking about the nicknames presidents and their aides bestow on each other and their rivals. Donald Trump publicly used nicknames to demean his political opponents -- 'Low Energy Jeb,' “Crooked Hillary,” “Sleepy Joe,” “Lyin’ Ted,” and “Little Marco.” This charming development was something new in American politics, I think. But, as presidential historian Tevi Troy shows, presidents and their aides have long used derogatory nicknames in
Present? >> jake: first of all, that's not the culprit second of all, no. >> kennedy: but he's a star. >> jake: to who? he's the former fixer. it's usually best for a president not to have a fixer. it's not something you want to be having if you are outside the criminal element. >> kennedy: you can tell that to hillary clinton with the brothers, sid blumenthal. >> jake: when someone is called a fixer, it means something pretty specific. i will say that this is also why you have corroborating evidence and corroborating witnesses. it's what you bring in people like alan weisel break and matthew ...
Dossier, is that some of the information got to the fbi, came from a clinton associate that you talked to, sid blumenthal. what do you say? >> it's not true. >> explain. >> christopher steele wrote the elements of the dossier independent of any information received from material that i sent him after having read the dossier. the materials that are in the dossier were created before i shared the information, except for one memo that came in november or december. already had been written before he ever saw it. the chronology is wrong. it's just a crazy idea. it's conspiracy theory stuff. it's an...