william henry harrison was only present one month and then he died of pneumonia. you don't want to be ranked down below william henry harrison. with perhaps james the veryloopholes at end for in action on the eve of the civil war. how about you on some of those present -- presidential politics? how do you see this as being used? all, when i was talking about stability, it works both ends of the latter. -- latter. there is very little change. a lot of it has to do with the nature of the presidency and the crisis that individual presidents have fought. it is interesting that the greatest american president, abraham lincoln, is bracketed by the least successful american -- buchanan cannon and andrew johnson. presidents don't activer arab league -- in crisis's. lincoln, on the other hand, rose memorably with the occasion, and redefined a wartime president and executive leadership generally. one caution, anytime you do a survey like this you have to keep in mind the fact that we bent over backwards three times now through the range of devised,that we have the president

charlie sykes: so far, the only president with worse 100 days was william henry harrison who didn't lastt 30 days. sharyl: together with the media establishment, it seems nearly all were equally committed to criticizing president trump's every step, syllable, and tweet from day one. frank: i think that the first 100 days, which should have been, if not a honeymoon, at least, a time when we can go out and have dinner nicely together, were not that. sharyl: frank sesno is director of the school of media and public affairs at the george washington university. frank: donald trump doesn't go to the white house correspondents' dinner. donald trump goes out and continues to call reporters horrible people, refers to the media or some of the media as enemies of the people. i've never seen another president do that. sharyl: what are the general differences you see in the press coverage between donald trump versus what you saw with president obama? howie kurtz: well, president obama famously got a very easy ride personal criticism that this president gets just about every day. sharyl: fox news medi

william henry harrison died of pneumonia four weeks in. nah, still better than trump. and trump's been doing a lot of crowing. you might even call him a cock. ( laughter ) to "the new york times," he made an extraordinary claim about a demoratic congressman: "elijah cummings was in my office, and he said, 'you will go down as one of the great presidents in the history of our country.'" really? i get the "you will go down" part, but, after that, you kind of lost me. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: i'm going down! ♪ ♪ and you ain't around ♪ yeah >> stephen: let me remind you, elijah cummings is a member of the congressional black caucus and lifelong progressive democrat. so if this quote sounds a little far-fetched, it's because, yeah, representative cummings released a statement saying, "i have said repeatedly that trump could be a great president if-- if-- he takes steps to truly represent all americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on." so apparently, no matter what you say to trump, he only hears the good parts. ( laughter )

william henry harrison died on day 31.>> we have to put things into perspective here. david: jane cook, glad to have you do. thank you very much for being here. have a good weekend. >> you too. lauren: coming up activism without sacrifice leaving to the snowflake generation to come up with the lays iest protest ever. ♪ ♪ >> congrats students at yale university on a quote hunger strike. >> it's unbelievable. the students are protesting for better student benefits. yale students earn a stipen of 30 grand a year, and they receive free health care, and they have their $40,000 tuition paid for in full, but they're still going on strike. go figure. >> how is it a fast when you can eat when you're hungry? >> don't ask. risk and reward starts now. >> we must accept this result and then look to the future. donald trump is going to be our president. we owe him an open mind and the chance to lead. liz: the country has been racked by protest, over i dozen since president trump was elected. inauguration protest. the women's march. refu

his own. ,nd he achieves that in 1844 taking along with him as a junior partner of his own william henry harrison -- herndon who will over the years to come become something of the boswell to lincoln's johnson. lincoln spends a great deal of his professional time in the lawyer, practicing on the eighth judicial circuit, which is mostly central illinois. at its apex, it is 14 counties in central illinois, including the capital springfield where lincoln lives. his law practice is overwhelmingly civil law. only about 5% of lincoln's cases over the years touched on criminal matters. he is mostly a civil lawyer. practicing civil law. he does will and estates, he does trust that -- trespass and assumption, and he does collections. in fact, he does a lot of collections. abraham lincoln was a repo man. but in fact, his caseload is really not the caseload of a specialist. he is providing legal services for all comers, so it is a very broadly based practice, and it is one that keeps him very busy. in his busiest year 1853, lincoln has over 300 cases for which he is responsible. that is a lot. he is not onl

everywhere included, okay clubs for the election of martin, reelection as president, he lost to william henry harrisonwhose slogan was log cabin and cider and sometimes the electorate liked log cab inand -- cabin and cider better. the new words are specially interesting. american dialect society starting in 1990 every year has been choosing a word of the year and i thought we might do a little bit, i will explain how we do it. the american dialect society is a small group of people who study american english but we meet together with the linguistic society of america which is a much group of people that are professional linguists and every january we meet, we look back on the previous year and we ask which word or words -- which word was the most important defining word of the previous year. kind of like time magazine has a person of the year. we have words of the year so we accept nominations throughout the year and some of you have been writing nominations on the paper that have been handed out and you will have your opportunity to do more and then what we do is first of all, we have a nominating se

. >> may have had the worst 100 days since william henry harrison who died in the first 100 days.so, here's the problem. if ryan were a strong speaker he would never make his caucus vote on this because if it eliminating preexisting conditions, which it does, he's going to make people vote to do that and then the senate is not going to pass the bill. you do not hang your caucus out to dry if you're a speaker of either party when you know it can't pass the senate. os specially on difficult, objectionable stuff like this. every ad in 2018 about people who voted away with preexisting condition which has a 95% approval rating among the american people. >> the other thing that's fascinating to me, donald trump has done what barack obama was never able to do, which is make obamacare popular. obamacare now is rated by more than 50% of the public. >> changing health care is an extraordinarily risky proposition. look, nancy pelosi is not speaker of the house, you could argue largely because of the affordable care act and the reality is, for speaker ryan, sure he would never make his caucus

> and hw., bring us some perspective here, slate had piec askin whose 100 days was worse, william henry harrisonr donald trump. tough to have question since harrison lasted about 31 days before expiring. how bad is this 100 days? give us some sort of perspective 30,000 feet. is it as bad as all that or are we just piling on? >> there's a lot of piling on. one of the things that donald trump did that he said he was going to do is fill the ninth seat on the supreme court. neil gorsuch will be deliver dg conservative opinions and making conservative votes for the next 30 years. the other thing that donald trump has done is to dramatically lower the bar for what constitutes presidential behavior. there's a brazenness about this president that surpasses anything before. i don't know if that change is permanent but it certainly has changed the way people respond to this president. >> yeah. i mean, and i wondered in a sense whether the gorsuch nomination really is more on mish mcconnell's legacy than donald trump to be honest with you. he is the one who head the seat. >> let's go back to the folks on t