i'll go back to the coolidge administration. i've never seen this. not an entire world population standing up. so i have hopes that somebody will come to their senses. >> yeah. >> i wanted to -- how does it feel when you live so long where you've seen this thing ebb and flow. you've seen democracy at it's best. >> yes, during the '60s. >> and the worst. >> how do you process seeing it ebb and flow? >> i don't know. the '60s of course was an american people ran the country. civil rights and -- >> voting rights. >> yeah. >> but we had miss merkel, we have what's her name -- england -- >> theresa may. >> and it was natural that we would have hillary. we were headed in that direction and all the sudden everything turn a big turn right. unexpected. i am afraid so many people vote because they thought hillary was a shoo-in. i'm afraid. >> starting with the hillary campaign. >> yes. didn't go to michigan when they should have been there. make sure they didn't lose michigan. people felt that way. >> the bernie still out there. >> he's fighting. >> we're stil

. >> mark preston, you've covered many administrations, going back to the coolidge years. f leaks coming from this administration, is it usual, is it revealing about what's going on behind closed doors? >> there's always going to be factions in the white house. we don't usually see it this early, we don't usually see the dysfunctions so early. supporters of donald trump will say, what are you talking about, disif i told h dysfunction, he's issuing all these executive orders, he's getting things done. but at some point you have to work with congress, you have to work with capitol hill. it would be a big blow to his connection to capitol hill. it's not like all the leaders on capitol hill are are enamored reince priebus, but he is stable. i think there would be consternation amongst republicans in washington. >> dana, let's listen to something else stephen miller said on the talk shows, not getting perhaps as many headlines as not backing up flynn, but he did talk about the power of the judiciary and raised questions how far he things it can go. >> i think it's been an import

many administrations as bob has, and didn't mean that as an age issue, but it is just -- [ laughter ] >> and i went to talk to some students recently and one of them asked me what calvin coolidge was like. [ laughter ] >> it is the time that coolidge met you in the parking garage that i thought was really great. >> and he didn't even have a parking garage and i'm not sure they had cars. >> so, but, it has been my experience suns i got back from the happy life as a foreign correspondent, and entered into the three-year assignment into washington that has stretched into 22 or 23 that usually, a administrations begin leaking after the first crew is sot of gon gone, and a group has come in to sort of undo whatever damage the initial crew did and they want to explain to you how much more brilliant they are than the people they replaced. that process takes about three years into the administration. we have gotten this starting in, you know, week one, two, three. and that reflects a different phenomena underway here, and first, the executive orders were the first thing to leak, and the first thing to leak were put together by a very small group of people. who did not consult broadly,

administrations as bob has. i didn't mean that as an issue, but. >> you said, one said, what was calvin coolidge like? even had parking garages. not sure they had cars. >> so, but, it's been my experience since i got back from a happy life as a foreign correspondent and entered into a three year assignment to washington that has now stretched to 22 or 23 that usually administrations begin leaking after the first crew is gone and a group has come in to undo whatever damage the initial crew did and wants to explain to you how much more brilliant they are than the people they replaced. that process usual takes three years into an administration. we've got this starting in week one, two, and three. i think that reflects a different phenomenon under way. first, the executive orders, the first, the executive orders, the first things to leak, the first big things, were put together by a small group of people who did a small group of people who did a small group of people who did not consult broadly and because they didn't consult broadly, they had a lot of early mistakes. so we saw in the immigration executi

administrations as bob has. i did not mean that in a -- [laughter] >> [indiscernible] >> one of them said, what was calvin coolidge like? [laughter] the kind that coolidge met you in a parking garage. [indiscernible] >> not sure they had cars. [laughter] but, it has been my experience since i got back from a happy life as a foreign correspondent and entered into a three-year assignment to washington that has now 23, that to 22 or usually, the administrations begin leaking after the first crew is gone, and a group has come in true sort of undo whatever damage the initial crew youand wants to explain to how much more brilliant they are than the people they replaced, and that process usually takes about three years into an administration. we have gotten this starting in 3, and i think that reflect the different phenomenon under way. first, the executive orders, which were really the first things to leak, they were put together by a a very small group of people, who did not consult made a lot ofey early mistakes, so we saw in the immigration executive order that about greenhought holders, interpreters in iraq, and so

coolidge met you in that parking garage. [laughter] >> but it's been my experience since i got that as a happy life a a foreign correspondent and three-year correspondent that has stretched to 22 or 23. administrations begin leaking after the first crew is kind of gone. a group that has come in to sort of undo whatever damage the initial crew did and how much more brilliant they are than the people they replaced. that takes about three years into an administration. which saw this starting in week one, two and three, and that reflects a different phenomenon that's under way. first, the executive orders which were the first things to leak were put together by a very small group of people who did not consult broadly and because they didn't consult broadly, they made a lot of mistakes. we saw in the immigration executive order that nobody thought about green card holders or long-time visa holders and the promises we made to interpretters in iraq and so forth. there was an order that we still haven't seen on detention that called for opening the interrogation centers if there are countries around the world that are trying to get our black site detention centers open. and those leaks were intended to act