the is no calvin coolage, barry goldwater, conservatism going on in the breitbart, alt-right, or whatever. this is divorced from whatever came before. >> i want to put this picture up. i'll describe it to you. this is a picture of the president. by the way he was on the phone with putin. this was back in january. everyone of these people around him is gone except for the vice president. spicer's gone. bannon's gone. this picture tells a thousand words, doesn't it? >> it's a white house finding its way slowly but surely. >> margaret, these are the biggest jobs they have. these are the people who shaped the presidency and shaped the legislation and the message for this administration. >> yeah, but what we've learned is the only person changing anything is donald trump. first of all the majority of them weren't there anymore. and my co guests were just talking about where is the modern american conservative movement? that's mike pence. health care didn't get through, tax reform is looking terrible. so all we've gotten is chaos in a west wing, no policy proposals. or no policy victories passe

there is no calvin coolage, berry goldwater, conservatism going on in the breitbart, alt-right, or whatever. this is divorced from whatever came before. >> i want to put this picture up. i'll describe it to you. this is a picture of the president. by the way he was on the phone with putin. this was back in january. everyone of these people around him is gone except for the vice president. spicer's gone. bannon's gone. this picture tells a thousand words, doesn't it? >> it's a white house finding its way slowly but surely. >> margaret, these are the biggest jobs they have. these are the people who shaped the presidency and shaped the legislation and the message for this administration. >> yeah, but what we've learned is the only person changing anything is donald trump. first of all the majority of them weren't there anymore. and my co guests were just talking about where is the modern american conservative that's mike pence. health care didn't get through, tax reform is looking terrible. so all we've gotten is chaos in a west wing, no policy proposals. or no policy victories passed with a u

republicans is that what you see from the president today doesn't match up with the republicanism of calvin coolagesevelt, eisenhower, bush, this is unrecognizable from that perspective. >> everybody should read jash wa green's terrific book about bannon's role during the 2016 campaign. and one of the themes of the book is how bannon integrated the alt-right, the people at that rally in charlottesville into the trump campaign. and so the idea, again, that this expression by donald trump is some new and terrible and different thing is just not true. bannon engineered an alliance with the alt-right that is at the core of donald trump's appeal. and he won the election. >> david axelrod, you served in the white house for president obama. if he would have said publically at a news conference about you he's a good guy. we'll see what happens to mr. axle rod, how would you have reacted? >> i would have been been packing. one thing we know about donald trump is a prelude of someone leaving is him calling them a good person. reince priebus was a good person. sean spicer was a good person. i don't think he t

calvin coolage in the white house. isn't disea much. didn't think he had five minutes for their american people like other presidents. he was attacked for not saying very much. government did much less. america thought it had learned from its crusade in europe. the world was at peace and the country's economics was booming. well, as bill is getting older, he is witnessing -- by the time of his teen years can the roosevelt administration coming into power and a completely new world when he returns from the army in 1945. we're talking about mixed economy, which he thought was really -- we had the aggressive kind that we saw with -- remember, the parades of the g.i.scoming home. so we that that tomorrow 0 tyranny and then the benign kind, the kind elected in a free democracy but then suddenly feels it has to rub more and more offer the economy. they were teaming his at yale. very few free mark economists were around. all the textbooks talking about how successful societies have excessive robber state except regulatoriy status. more importa

eastern, herbert hoover scholar talks about the relationship between the 31st president and calvin coolage. >> four days before the election, coolage finally gave hoover an extraordinary e few sieve public endorsement. hoover, he declared, had shown his fitness to be president. he said he was able, experienced, trustworthy and safe. >> american history tv, all weekend every weekend only on c-span 3. >>> this weekend on book tv, saturday, best selling author on his book "science in the soul" on the scientific way of thinking over relying on prejudice or feelings. >> science can help you enormously in thinking clearly about what to do about right or wrong. you can identify logical inconsistencies in your moral position. >>> sunday at 2:30 p.m., recalling the life of robert smalls, a former slave who became the first african-american of an army ship and went on to serve five terms in congress. >> i was fascinated by him and particularly fascinated by the idea that i had never heard of him because i had done, through my work at national geographic and smithsonian and writing for "the new york

eastern on the presidency herbert huber talks about the relationship between the 31st president and calvin coolagehe finally gave hoover an extraordinarily public endorseme endorsement he you was trust worthy and safe. >> american history tv all weekend every weekend only on cspan 3. >> in 1979 cspan was create bid america's cable television companies and is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >>> scott harris talks about the life of james monroe. he discusses his legal career and presidential legacy. mr. harris is director of the james monroe museum.