do you think you could apply this kind of mean you know obviously huey long was assassinated and he was never able to really make to really make a presence on the national stage but do you think that there is a pop inability for anyone at this point in our history in the way that our government is designed and it's just so interconnected between the congressional and you know the congressional class the major corporations that finance them the presidency as well it's sort of it's sort of been stripped in emasculated is there any way for any for anyone to get to a position of being you know an f.d.r. a kennedy at this point and say we are going to make reforms that would impact the entire country for the benefit of the taliban while i think the country is so deeply divided and you have perhaps you have the people that are still supporting trump i mean that conservative base who hated him they began with this kind of now coalesce behind him the people that like this plan and you had the people on the left that are i call the social justice warrior types that are there in their own little

do you think you could apply this kind of mean you know obviously huey long was assassinated he was never able to really make to really make a presence on the national stage but do you think that there is a pop inability for anyone at this point in our history in the way that our government is designed and it's just so interconnected between the congressional and you know the congressional class the major corporations that finance them the presidency as well it's sort of it's sort of been stripped emasculated is there any way for any for anyone to get to a position of being you know an f.d.r. a kennedy at this point and say we are going to make reforms that would impact the entire country for the benefit of the taliban while i think the country is so deeply divided and you have perhaps you have the people that are still supporting trump i mean that conservative base who hated him they began with this kind of now coalesce behind him the people that like this plan and you had the people on the left that are called the social justice warrior types that are there in their own little thing it'

insincere patronizing and there's the age-old impulse to be led by a fire brand, william jennings brian, huey long, george wallace. >>> finally, some non-plussed by this manner of speech have been innoculated against being outraged because there have been so many others, all of which explains both why the president's approval rating is capped in the high 30s, and probably not at risk of further decline. now, it's flying out of book stores and into the national consciousness. in its first days, michael wolff's "fire & fury: inside the trump white house" is a publishing juggernaut of harry potter proportion. already in its 11th printing. number one on the "new york times" and amazon best seller list. its publisher has orders for 1.4 million copies. its repercussions have been far and wide, including the departure of steve bannon from breitbart. michael wolff joins me now. hey, michael, i'm not sure what's left to ask. you have been absolutely everywhere. is there anything in the book that you thought would get more attention than it has thus far? >> well, one of my favorite lines is when trump calls

william jennings brian, huey long, george wallace. finally, some will be not affected by this speech will be inoculated against being outraged because there are so many others. all of which explains why the president's approval rating is capped in the high 30s and probably not at risk of further decline. now it's flying out of book stores and into the national consciousness. in the first days michael wolff's "fire and fury inside the president's white house" is a juggernaut of harry potter proportion. already in the 11th printing. it is number one on "new york times" and amazon best seller list. it has orders for 1.4 million copies. t effects are far and wide. michael wolff joins me now. michael, i'm not sure what is left to ask. you have been absolutely everywhere. is there anything in the book that you thought would get more attention than it has thus far? >> one of my favorite lines is when trump calls hr mcmaster a beer salesman. he says he looks like a beer salesman. why do i have to talk to him? and i always like that line becau

there were riots in the midwest, roosevelt himself said the two most dangerous men in america were huey longne from the right. on the night he was sworn in, an aide came in and said mr. president, i hope you'll be one of the great presidents and roosevelt said "i just hope i'm not the last." so we went through an existential moment and what happened in '68, one of the moment wes don't talk about, that was the first time ronald reagan's name was put in nomination for president of the united states. he'd been governor for two years. and reagan and roosevelt are in conversation with one another when you think about our politics heading into the 20th century and this one. reagan voted for fdr four times, he used to call himself a hemophiliac liberal when he was in hollywood but he got hired of high taxes, he got worried about communism and he led a remarkable movement that in many ways took those new deal democrats who were upset by the chaos of the '60s and turned them into free market anti-communist conservatives and we still live in the world, to some extent, that reagan created. >> jon meach

hueys are resupplying somebody and they need an escort the se of conditions on ground we would take two gun ships out and escort them to do that. a number of escorts for range call long rank r we con patrol -- recon patrol nd that was done on a regular ongoing basis. that consisted basically of a and theyive to six men would be inserted into a particular area and stay there whatever the time they could reconnaissance work, mapping data, so on. e would escort the aircraft that put them in and when we escort the craft to get them out. >> you would escort the whole way. >> that is correct. troops.r carried >> you said that these were m- you would have m-16's on them? >> there were a number of varieties of gun systems hueys. old b and c model one was m-16 with four machine side and two ch nine round rocket pods. one on each side. arming. the plus door gunners they had door gun 00 rounds of ammunition between the two. > you had guns that you could use as far as a pilot? that's right the far side of left seed was aircraft commander and he would fire what we call the gun systems. and m-60's and16 ight side with fire the rocket pods but you had the capability of changing tha