goldwater insisted upon it.ive minutes to come up with their parody -- "in your guts, you know he's nuts." >> so lyndon johnson and the democratic party painted goldwater as some guy that would be reckless. and i think that was a big part of it. and so the "whose hand do you want on the trigger?" was a commonplace thing in the campaign. >> that set up what johnson wanted to do, which was portray himself as a peacemaker. but the irony of this is sort of like woodrow wilson in 1916 campaigning for peace, and we go to war a few months later. lyndon johnson, the same thing. >> atomic weapons are not simply bigger and more powerful than other weapons. from the american revolution until now, about 526,000 americans have died in battle. they say an atomic bomb can kill more than that in a few minutes. >> r. goodwin: he portrayed himself as a man of the middle, and who was going to carry on the program of the democratic party. >> our great nuclear power must not be placed in the hands of those who might use it impulsive

but with very goldwater if they said who is very goldwater they could have a vague idea of who he was but he was essential to that conservative movement or that revolution but he sparked that conservative revolution and was the grandson of a jewish immigrant born in poland and made his way to san francisco during the gold rush and that did not pan out so well and then came next door to arizona made his way down winding up in phoenix turning his operation into a leading department store in phoenix. goldwater was a college dropout freshman year but his father died early unexpectedly he had to go back and help run the business although a college dropout he had the book conscience of a conservative if you have not read that i encourage you to do so. 3.5million copies have been sold. published in 1860 still holding up very well. 3.5million copies i would even settle at 100,000. [laughter] never smoked a cigarette never had a cup of coffee, but he did keep a bottle of old crow in his senate refrigerator for his after 5:00 o'clock sipping. so from those to sit down and talk over things to be

barry goldwater. i think if i were to ask the audience, either here or watching and listening and oh was barry goldwater, thy might have some vague idea of who he was. but he was essential to the conservative movement and to what we call the conservative revolution. matter of fact he sparked the conservative revolution by the most unlikely revolutionary. the grandson of a jewish peddler, who born and poland, his grandfather, made his way to san francisco during the gold rush, that did not pan out so well. and came next door into arizona, made his way down and wound up in phoenix, where he turned his little peddling operation into a leading department store in phoenix. goldwater was a college dropout. he did freshman year, and then that was it. what happened was his father died early, unexpectedly and he had to go back and help to run the business. although he was a college dropout, he wrote a little book called "the conscience of a conservative." 120 some pages. if you have not read it, i counsel you

it wasn't fair to senator goldwater that he was the subject of arm chair diagnoses.e've set a dangerous precedent in allowing our public servants to be diagnosed by lay people or professionals who have not met them professionally. we might discourage some from seeking public service. and has this always been the thinking? we would have denied ourselves many fine public servants if we preclude those with mental illness, lincoln and churchill among them. why not speculate about policemen, about a cable anchor, or a school principal, or even a psychiatrist. not only is that unfair to the person being spoken about, but it's unfair to those dealing with mental health issues to have their very real diagnoses, become political fodder. you want to impose a standard that any person seeking the highest office first be rendered mentally and physically fit in a manner that applies to all, okay. but to arbitrarily scrutinize one particular candidate or officeholder at least in my opinion is wrong. now, what if a certain amount of instability is not a deficit in a leader, but an a

after the election, goldwater sued the editor for libel and won.his engendered a debate in the mental health community as to the propriety of rendering opinions about an individual they'd never met, much less examined, even if that person is a public figure. this led to the american psychiatric association in 1973 adopting what else' been known ever since as the goldwater rule, which says, in part, "it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement." the rule has been in place and was largely respected for more than 40 years, until the candidacy and election of donald trump. his behavior led many to express frustration at what they feel is a gag rule, claiming that they've seen enough of trump from his public utterances and his tweets to decide. group of 27 mental health professionals went so far as to collaborate on a book expressing their concerns called "the dangerous case of donald trump." this week, came news that in early

. >> it's called the goldwater rule, section of the american psychiatric association guidelines thats it's unethical for a psychiatrist to offer professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination. >> it was spurred by barry goldwater's run for president in 1964, and psychiatrists as a group who were opposed to and so they made diagnoses about him that were based on psychoanalytic principles which we don't use today. >> 53 years later, yale university psychiatrist dr. lee met with lawmakers and told them president trump is mentally unfit for office. dr. lee says she is nonpartisan it didn't break the goldwater rule but felt compelled to intervene due to present danger for the public. he tweeted: my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. >> i am with him every day. he asks difficult questions of our team at cia so we can provide the information he needs. >> the president's tweets reaffirm the plainspoken truth. a self-made billionaire revolutionized reality tv and taps into something magical happening in the heart of this country.

we even had a democratic lawmaker yesterday talk about the goldwater rule convene 5 council to evaluate the president's mental makeup. what's the president's reaction to that? what's yours? >> i think it's absolutely insane to think all of these individuals, reporters and others now all of the sudden have a medical degree and think that they can diagnose somebody, many times that they have never even had a conversation with. it's absolutely outrage just to make these types of accusations and untrue and sad people are going and making these desperate attempts to attack the president. what i think is really mentally unstable is people that don't see the positive impact that this president is having on the country. the economy is booming. we are crushing isis. day after day things are getting better for americans all over this country. and i think it's really sad that these people don't see that. and that they are not celebrating and trying to join in the president's efforts to turn our country around. ainsley: sarah, he didn't have political experience. and i guess he is learning lessons,

and if you put that side by side but barry goldwater there's no comparison. i've never seen and i won as donald trump does and they public iran and such a high position are it's it's extremely worrisome the way he obsesses on hillary clinton the way he have senses on the russian investigation the way the tax man our days i mean it's all over and over again and it doesn't make sense a lot of it it doesn't appear to be a coordinated political strategy. and he has comparing his button to the size of the north koreans button and that's not the type of talk i want to hear from someone who has the power to end human civilization but that's one of the moment as a verb our high bar i think the program approach is to have this discussion to take it seriously not to. have psychiatry's involved in the discussion but doesn't have the rubber and actually remove a president under the twenty fifth amendment would require the majority of the cabinet and then it goes to the house and the senate it's very unlikely unless indeed these concerns are demonstrated in the public are

returned with an answer saying that mr goldwater was unfit.rom afar. and all that i am speaking to are the worrying signs of possible incapacity and therefore calling for an evaluation. if you haven't met him, if you haven't spoken to him, if you haven't been in the same room as him, how can you assert that he is dangerous? the information that is important for dangerousness is mostly not obtained in an in—person interview. in fact, a personal interview is not likely to reveal very important information. what you look at are patterns of behaviour, responses to situations, how the individual is evolving over time and others‘ reports. people who work close to him. as well as written statements and verbal statements over time. so it's actually a vast amount of data that we already have on mr trump, far more than we generally do with most of our patients, in fact. still, that doesn't allow us to make a diagnosis but there is certainly ample objective data to be able to say that he is at high risk of danger. so tell me, in your evaluations and in y

goldwater and others who believe that legislation has no place. it may be true that you can't legislate integration, but you can legislate desegregation. it may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. it may be true that the law can't change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. it may be true that the law can't make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. and i think that's pretty important also. amy y goodman: dr. martitin lur kingng jr., speaking in london on december 7, 1964. we'll return to that speech after this break. [break] amy goodman: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peacace report. i'm amy goododman. in this democracy now! exclusive, we return to dr. martin luther king jr. in his own words from a recording recentlyly discovevered by the pacifica a radio archiv, the speech given in london, december 7, 1964, just days before dr. king received the nobel peace prize in oslo, nororway. rev. m martin luther king g j: now, as you knknow, we have ben engaged in th

barry goldwater, marching down to the white house. >> we sat there in the oval room and the president acted like he just played golf and just had a hole in one. you would never think this guy's tail was in a crack. >> nixon said how many votes if i'm impeached in the house? how many votes in the senate? about 20. and goldwater said -- >> very few and not mine. >> the 37th president of the united states was facing the ultimate disgrace. for a man who craved power the question was, would nixon continue to fight? house, but wee wish house". (mom) and it just immediately brought something positive in our life. "oh, i gotta get up get matthew on his treatment." (matthew) it's not that bad, though. (mom) yeah. (matthew) the good thing about the surgeries is i get to have a popsicle at the end. (mom) he makes the best of everything and he teaches us to be strong and brave, too. (vo) through the subaru share the love event, we've helped grant the wishes of fifteen hundred kids so far. get zero percent financing for 63 months on select models, plus we'll donate two hundred and fifty dollars to

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. >> the goldwater rule. >> the goldwater rule. this is extraordinary.he president saying he's a very stable genius. you have the michael wolff book, which has, several people from the president's inner circle, including his own son-in-law, questioning if he has the ndle . that question is front and center right now. it's been revealed by this. i don't think it will go away. it's not been only partisan, either. you have bob corker, the republican senator from tennessee, who has questioned the president's capacity for the job in the past. senator lindsey graham. republican. now an ally of the president called him a kook. lots of questions raised and the president's own inner circle. >> it's not like we're on the verge of the cabinet invoking the 25th amendment. >> not even close. not anywhere close to that right now, no. >> the price tag of the wall is reportedly going to be $18 billion. the president says he's not going to extend daca unless democrats agree to the wall. so somewhat the luke likelihood that any of this gets done? >> and the clock is ticki

that the type barry goldwater flew. was fighter pilot. talk like one and ready to fight and win this campaign. trish: congresswoman mcsauli, thank you very much. >> thank you very much. trish: president trump said he is not racist and never used the s-word to describe haiti. two republican senators in the room say they don't recall the president using those exact words, watch. >> are you saying the president did not use the worldwidely reported? >> i'm telling you he did not use that word. >> i did not hear it and i was sitting no farther away from donald trump than dick durbin was. i know what dick durbin said about the president's repeated statements were incorrect. trish: regardless of what the word he used, does the word itself matter? i know it is not what -- hey, my husband makes fun of me i still spell my swears. i don't approve of that language but in other words, if you say hellhole or you know what hole, is it really that different? one may be more vulgar than the other. to jump from have garrett to actual rac

this 1920s history as much as we understand the 1950s and 60s history of national review and barry goldwater and ronald reagan is informing newt gingrich and paul ryan how do you see this history as informing our contemporary movement clacks >> i think to answer that i want to start by sort of disaggregating something because there was a lot of difference between the anti-catholicism and its anti-semitism. catholics could convert. if they did that, they were fine. shoes, no. in fact when we look closely what we see is that anti-semitism for them was closer to the racism of people of color then it was to the anti-catholicism. now, it's also true that the anti-catholicism disappeared and it disappeared quickly because for example many clans people in the 1930s some of you have probably heard of this radio personality cult father coughlin who was an overt supporter of hitler. well, he's a catholic and the klansmen went eagerly into supporting him because there's something kind of fungible here. where i think the anti-semitism, and i think this more because i see so much of it today is somehow t

buckley and barry goldwater and others kept their distance from that. - right. - and then, little by little, people running the republican party didn't keep their distance so much and allowed that conspirasism to seep into the mainstream, and by the way, it's not only the right. - well, there's left conspirasism, right? - sure, but it is, the bad consequences of fantasyland that i talk about politically are disproportionately right. - or at least at the moment they are. - exactly. we'll do the sequel in 10 years where the left has gone completely crazy. - it occurs to me that one great example of this or topic of conversation around this would be climate change or climate science. - [kurt] yes, yes. - where it's such false equivalency. 97% of the world believes that this is a thing, or more. 2% doesn't, we have to leave it there. - yeah, teach the controversy. - right, he said, she said. - and again, i didn't really, until i started doing the research for this book, didn't realize to what degree that was from the playbook of cigarette manufacturers. when they wanted a, as long as the

it's about the presentation, his style and it's a battle going back to goldwater versus rockefeller, going back to the 1890s and 1900s. >> i have to tell you, having covered both of these men and wd it at the time when romney and trump were in that room, reporting that he was going to go with newt gingrich, less like oil and water from a personality perspective. i've said this about mitch mcconnell before, i'm not sure that you could have two men more different than donald trump and mitt romney, especially he is somebody who puts a very high premium on civility. >> i think the republican party would welcome that because the choice has been bannon or mcconnell. that's not a great choice. or trump and mcconnell and now it's mcconnell, trump versus bannon. and so a romney trump juxtapose and i think romney provides that contrast simply by showing up and being competent. he doesn't have to take on trump and a foreign policy. >> and a foreign policy. that's when i think his advisers are particularly focused on. we have to leave this here. coming up, in memorium, we dig deep into a story y

last week i took the position it's not a good idea to break the 40-year-old goldwater rule that prevents people from diagnosing public figures without personally examining them and setting such a precedent could have catastrophic long-term consequences. one who reached out to me about my commentary was dr. jeffrey lieberman, the chair of psychiatry at columbia university and new york presbyterian hospital, past president of the american psychiatric association and wrote this piece for the "new york times," "maybe trump is not mentally ill. maybe he's just a jerk." dr. lieberman, thanks for being here. how do you see this issue? >> it's an issue of concern because president trump is unconventional at the very least, and his unconventional sometimes erratic out of the box offensive, vulgar behavior has sort of invited speculation as to what could be causing it. is this just the way he is, coming from his background and his business world, or is it possibly a sign of something else, including some medical condition of a neuropsychiatric nature, and the point that i think i've been making an

. >> tells you the goldwater rule should apply to neurosurgeons. sanjy is simply wrong.ny johnson did a thorough exam and he's proven dr. gupta should stick to neurosurgery. >> laura: the calcium levels are too high? cholesterol, his weight? they were saying trump is going to have a heart attack in the next 3 to 5 years. i'm sorry, i know it sounds harsh, because mueller hasn't gotten trump yet, the only thing they can look to, hope he dies? honestly that seems like wishful thinking on the part of the media. >> i characterize it as magical medical thinking. the reality, admiral johnson did a very thorough exam, he looks at cholesterol levels, stress test, echo card gram and checked for possible diabetes. president trump actually, shockingly, has despite the purported diet of big macs, has cholesterol numbers that are pretty average for his age. numbers that suggest he's farther from diabetes than you or i. >> laura: and he needs to lose some weight, though, he has put on a few lbs as many of us do as we get older, that happens. he has to lose a little weight, maybe eat f

it's called the goldwater rule.ook, because of trump's activities on twitter and his statements doctors are weighing in that at least the physician with the president should take a look at this. >> so let me ask you this. if a health report was negative, if there was something alarming, would we know about it? would it make any difference? >> we wouldn't necessarily know about it, because this will be white house information. i think the more interesting question though that you're raising, if we did know about it, would it make a difference? and we are now in an era where it's not clear that bad news for the white house necessarily translates into bad political news for the president. so i'm sure if there was bad information that was released, negative information about a checkup, there would be ways in which the president and his advisors would spin this and his supporters would see it in a way that fits with the image of the president actually being healthy. so we're in a period where information doesn't always h

i suggest it's not a good idea to break the goldwater rule.h a precedent could have catastrophic long term consequences. one of those who reached out to me about my commentary is dr. jeffrey lieberman, he's the chair of psychiatry at colombia university. he is the past president of the american psychiatric association. maybe trump is not meantally ill. maybe he's just a jerk. dr. lieberman, thank you so much for being here. tell me how you see this issue. >> well, it's an issue of concern because president trump is unconventional, you know, at the very least. and his unconventional, sometimes erratic out of the box, offensive, vulgar behavior has sort of invited speculation as to what could be causing it. this is just the way he is coming from his background and his business role or is it possibly sign of something else including some medical condition of a neuropsychiatric nature? and the point that i think i've been making and debated that even if you have rarefied expertise as a doctor or psychiatrist, if you're viewing it from the public's

they call it the goldwater rule. you worded about ronald reagan. you heard it about george w. bush. on what can be done. you can't speculate on someone's mental health. this is a guy who was acting this way since the '80s, maybe longer. >> bret: my guess is you will hear a number of stories about the 25th amendment. that's the effort to remove a president in office. >> let's remember, all this stuff in this book was during the first few months of the administration. read john kelly. i think trump ended the year on a high note with the passage of his tax reform plan for his approval ratings in the 40s. obviously i think trump's critics and folks in the media who are against him will take this opportunity to take some of these anecdotes from the book and rehash the issue of whether he is mentally fit to be an office or not. >> bret: next up, a lightning round on legalized pot. is it up in smoke? we'll talk about what happened today. i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommende

>> well, they're not violating the goldwater rule which is incorporated into a lot of state bodies of governing mental health practitioners because they're not making a specific diagnosis under the dsm of the president. as i understand what they're doing, they're acting the way that any citizen has a right to act under the first amendment to say that they think that the president is dangerous and unable to successfully meet the powers and duties of office. and that's the constitutional standard. the question of whether he is a malignant narcissist or paranoid tendencies or so on, all of those interesting but they're not definitive for the constitutional question of whether he's able to meet the duties of office. and of course we've got big public policy crisis going on now. we've got gun violence crisis, we've got the tax bill which was bought and paid for by the koch brothers, instead we're caught up every day in what looks like the country debating the mental health of the president. it's a dangerous and unstable situation as a number of republican senators have been self-observed.

>> he's an old style barry goldwater conservative from arizona.e sees what donald trump is and he's trying to offer an alternative way. whether or not he -- we just heard mitt romney will be running for the senate from utah, which is sort of anti-trump vote in a sense within republican family, and flake may run for president in 2020. he may run as a third party candidate, as a conservative party. he is somebody that's determined not to fade away from the public discourse and wants to be a finger in the eye of the donald trump and it carries some clout because there are two republican parties -- trump supporters and the establishment and blake is seeming to be the bravest of that establishment crowd. >> yeah. that's what i was getting at is what's in this for flake? he's not leaving yet, so he's going to just have this -- i don't know if it's going to be a contentious relationship with his fellow republicans while he works out the rest of his tenure? or what he's doing. >> i suspect it's something -- >> he's a man on a mission. >> what is that miss

in 1964, 1,189 psychiatrists at the behest of "fact" magazine, happily deceased, analyzed barry goldwaterhom i voted cheerfully without ever having met him and diagnosed him schizophrenic, and as, like, hitler in many ways. of course it's an abuse and this yale psychiatrist, who i have a hunch didn't vote for him, and i have a hunch has never met him, to come down here and lecture a receptive audience of gullible democrats to medicalize their political differences. >> this is exactly what republicans are hoping for. right? that democrats, of course, overreach. now, when you look at democratic candidates running in congressional districts that are swing districts or republican leaning, they're not talking about psychiatrists or impeachment. at least at this point. but if what you see is the national democrats pushing this message, republicans go, thank you very much. we're going to take that and run with it. >> and you get pushed -- where are you on this? >> that's a very good point, and also probably the political ramifications. however, if the president is baying at the moon, right? doin

same thing to barry goldwater, ronald reagan and even worse to president trump.can agree this policy is. lisa: if you eat cheeseburgers are you like ice cream or chocolate cake that somehow you're unfit to serve in office because some of us don't like to eat healthy. a cheeseburger yesterday. >> clearly cheeseburgers upset people in hollywood as well. director chad alcatel. let's do this. please shut the expletive out for once in your life should be oxblood about. we all need one moment of pc use both self-involved. taken expletive break for a moment. guess that gift. he didn't stop there by the way. lisa: he went on and he said we all should be filling the office or legislator in calling nonstop today the mentally ill president be removed. not doing so puts lives at risk. why didn't we act. draco wonder if the director for drilled for june will be leading the charge. he made a lot of funny movies that you and i have been laughing at, but she put up why you see the exemplar of what should be done to remove. he wants us to remove the president. they sit on their h

the republican chairman of the senate intelligence committee then, barry goldwater, was as outraged as his democratic colleague, senator moynihan. and he too sharply criticized the cia for that. filibusters are commonly mistaken by the press to be howard beal moments. they are not. they are perfectly normal and traditional and very rare uses of the senate rules and procedures to prolong debate. that's all they are. what senator moynihan did in 1984 and what senator feinstein did today was a break with senate norms and traditions. something senator feinstein was loathe to do. in her 25 years in the united states senate, dianne feinstein has mastered the norms and the traditions and the rules of committee procedure and senate procedure and respect for her colleagues. some say she has mastered all of that to a fault to the tune of being too deferral to process and definitions and tdeferentia to her colleagues. i was work when dianne feinstein was first sworn in as a senator. in my experience watching her work as a senator ever since, i could think of no one, and i mean no one on the democ

brian: even had a democratic lawmaker wants to put together a committee to invoke the goldwater rule. ainsley: it's a distraction. many on the left they wake up every single day with an agenda to destroy the president. ened if you turn on many of the networks, you are going to see that they hate him as much as the people who love him. steve: what are the networks talking about? they're talking about the new book that quotes steve bannon, architect of donald trump's genius. not talking about how the fact that we passed 25,000 on the dow jones industrial average yesterday. ainsley: it's a distraction. the book was supposed to come out on tuesday. as all books drop on tuesdays except they have made an exception in this case it's now going to come out this morning at 9:00. steve: if you want a copy there, it is. ainsley: jillian has headlines for us. jillian: i like the fact we are using the word nincompoop. i haven't heard that in 25 years. thanks, steve. talk about extreme weather we have been dealing with. east coast bracing for round 2 brutal air as low as 25 degrees below zero leavi

but in watergate there were at least a few howard bakers, there were barry goldwaters, that would step forward and speak truth to power. doesn't it seem to you over the past several months that even the senator from your state, bob corker, that i've got great respect for. he seemed to go a bit mute on this as james fellows at the "atlantic" always brings up, floor speeches are great, but two republican votes needed in the senate. just two republicans with a conscience are needed to say no to this madness. where are two? >> and of course, what creates the courage to do that is either not running for office, or perhaps being sick. and as much as we appreciate their service, that's an interesting point. nobody who is really in the arena right now, who might face voters again, is stepping up to play sam irvin or on the republican side, a goldwater or a hugh scott or howard. it seems to me that something happened in 2016, when trump was you know, we joked about this before, was the first recorded case of a hijacker boarding an airplane and the passengers sided with the hijacker. that contin

what is wrong with the's bills that are largely derived from the goldwater institute, a libertarian think tank? would you support those principles as a policy matter? since you said you think universities can define and ban hate speech, if you are defining hate speech, how would you define it? lincoln, woodrow wilson, and franklin roosevelt all supported censorship. afterin roosevelt went the right-wing populist, got the sec to withdraw the radio license he was operating under, threatened to do so. theseaw, you know, gosh, public universities -- sometimes i should just this invite people if it -- if the person should not be speaking in the first place because he has nothing to offer, he is just a provocateur who doesn't have good arguments, maybe doesn't really believe what he says, by all means, the person should not be invited. and if a student organization invited him, i'd see no reason why a university would want i see noike that -- reason why a university would want someone like that. they are not advancing education. you want someone who wants to make a serious argument. i don't see

barry goldwater was already like to be the candidate the kennedy people were competent they could be cold water, so he expected to be in the white house for the full eight years and then almost as not a retirement project, but this would have been kind of 1968, 69 by the time he would have gone, so it would have been his last big book it would've been the age of kennedy, may be multi- volumes, but it becomes something different. it's his memories and written in that kind of heat of the moment with this kind of rivalry with sorensen has be done quickly. >> you describe the physical toll that it takes on arthur. he writes it in a year. >> just over a year and i'm sorry we can say this. he's basically putting the rest of us to shame. he describes how he writes-- she's writing-- 3000 words a day , getting up at 7:00 a.m. finishing at 9:00 p.m. at night and basically he's writing and drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. >> you quoted someone writing that he writes directly to galley. >> john a balloon. >> which means he doesn't need editing. >> john bloom tells his graduate students that

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during the barry goldwater years in 1964 there was a rule by the american psychiatric association barringhem from evaluating people in general on mental stability if they haven't evaluated them. so they violate their own ethics. it is dangerous and unethical and beyond the pale for them. >> bill: you wonder how dangerous it is for us overseas, too, mary anne. what do you think of what's going on in the back and forth in the media about the stability of president trump? >> i think what's fair here is katie has a great point. she is right. diagnosis from afar isn't appropriate. we have two examples that we can look at. first and foremost in this book which is up for debate. many people who work with donald trump have expressed their concerns about his well-being. secondly, we also have behavior by trump -- >> bill: who is that, by the way? who has worked for the president that expressed concerns about mental stability? >> you have many people in this book. who -- michael wolff didn't name them but he certainly pointed to steve bannon as one recently and publicly. we have that. on the other

lbj apparently put a bug on goldwater's campaign plane.cused of using intelligence agencies. we fast forward to today and we have f.b.i. agents strzok and his girlfriend plotting at f.b.i. headquarters the try to stop donald trump from being president. i think we need more oversight of these people, not less. >> bill: i'm a bit confused because i listen to your argument and then i hear paul ryan on the floor of the house at this hour yesterday when he said the following. roll this. >> this is about foreign terrorists on foreign soil. that's what this is about. you pass the amendment and defeat this underlying bill we go back to those days we're flying blind protecting our country from terrorism. >> bill: are you right or is he right? >> the best way i can describe what he said is disingenuous. we don't stop collection of the data. in the amendments we authorize the program and we never interrupt the collection of foreign data on foreigners. what we do is say that if americans are accidentally caught up in it. this is about americans, not f

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there is not a goldwater 1974 type moment yet with the republicans going to the white house and raisingious concerns about the russia probe or the federal investigation. if anything i've heard in my reporting a change of tune. a chorus with this president and with this white house. >> robert costa, bill kristol, thank you for being on the show this morning. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," we'll be joined by two lawmakers from different sides of the aisle, republican congressman charlie dent and democratic congressman tim ryan. >>> plus, a new threat against sanctuary cities by the administration has sparked a fight with mayors across the country. mayor mitch landrieu was part of a group of mayors who called off a scheduled meeting with the white house after the administration threatened to withhold funding. mayor landrieu joins us next. you're watching "morning joe." why make something this intelligent... (engine starting up) ...when it can get by on looks alone? why create something that stands out, when everyone expects you to fit in? it's simple. you can build a car, or you can bui

they did it to barry goldwater. they did it to ronald reagan. steve: they did.e: did it to george w. bush and now they are doing to to donald trump. steve: i'm noticing a theme just republicans. ainsley: professor alan dershowitz was on the show yesterday. he didn't vote for him. he said this is the same guy today as he was on the campaign trail. nothing has changed. listen. >> there is only one thing worse than trying to criminalize political differences and that's trying to psychiatriing to accua president being mentally i will without any basis. the it 5th amendment doesn't apply. everybody knew who donald trump was when they elected him. this idea of diagnosing him instead of opposing him politically 30zs an enormous danger. ainsley: you use the word gossip. that's exactly what it is. tabloid news. reading a book of some guy's account who is now bashing the president after he was fired. now he is apologizing and they are using that as the tell-all book. it's like the bible to them. pete: yes. ainsley: it is just gossip. it happens on both sides. every time t