half his writing staff is former "lampoon."e references to their alma mater make their way into "simpsons" episodes. >> i'm in! >> maybe i'll get a little respect once i get that harvard diploma. >> al jean: i'll be honest, i read scripts to hire people, and-- i'll read a script and i'll go, "oh, that's great." and then i'll look at the background of the person, and i'll go, "oh, no, 'lampoon.' i didn't want to hire another one." >> wertheim: why, "oh, no?" >> jean: well, because i want the show to be much more diverse. >> wertheim: you're not actively seeking out "lampoon" alumni? >> jean: never, never actively. >> wertheim: we found a motley crew when we visited the castle last may, but the "lampoon" pipeline to tv writers' rooms has been called a mafia, one that favors "lampoon" alumni to the exclusion of more diverse voices. >> spiro: when alumni come back, they're almost all men. sometimes they all feel like clones of each other. it's like, white men of varying ages who are into comedy, and you just feel like, "none of the

we will bring fire and fury which of course the the much of the establishment media dismissed and lampoon at the time but has now led to some some quite significant results. in terms of threatening war and bellicose statements yesterday the russian embassy released a statement saying that threat shouldn't be made against a state with nuclear arms now the united kingdom at that time had made any threats relating to conflict over related to nuclear no i don't think now i think that's an escalation especially when you look at diplomatic language which is very controlled and very new wants to in terms of what it is say have called this a hostile action the twenty three diplomats they have but i think the progression to talk about nuclear armaments is a further it's of aggression but but i think. the problem with the wall of this is that everything leading up to it has been to corner the american phrase and nothing but all of the stuff about russian agents you know i'm supposed to be a russian agent not a fraud is a russian agent donald trump is a russian age i mean mustn't a very interesting

lampooned, fire eating southern boldly during the war stayed at home, flung metaphorical flags to the breeze, charged in the abstract and vanquished theoretically." do you askd, "what was james longstreet doing at this time? nothing, sir, absolutely nothing. only meandering this is legal listlessly about about in the wilderness." rebels withreconstructed clamor and rage but all will come right. a small cadre of republican newspapers that were taking root in the south joined this chorus of praise for longstreet. the new orleans republican, for example, use the military metaphor, arguing that longstreet's letters had exposed the mass batteries of unrepentant rebels. "general longstreet's batteries shelled the wounds where these people were in ambush. he threw their fire and enabled us to see what their position is. what they failed to accomplish by war, they now seek to accomplish by political stratagem." in other words, unreconstructed rebels were angling for power. unionistsese republican papers in the south were every bit as breathless as the northern counterparts. in characterizing

we all lampooned obama because it's a pretty dumb idea. so a general told me the hard part with isis is yet to come, it's not just defeating them on the battlefield. you have to hold the territory. if we say six months from now we're leaving syria, isis will come back with a vengeance and nobody would be happier with that decision than the iranians. >> paul: because what happens if we do decide -- we've cleaned up isis, you declare victory, you come home and say shar syria is somebody else's problem. what happens then? >> it changes everything president trump said. he stood up in the arab world. he said they should do more in syria and other places. but i stand with you against two threats, against iranian expansion and i stand with you against radical suni islam, opposite of what obama did. obama was seen as being more concerned about iran than the mideast. if we pull out of syria, it undercuts everything he told the arabs. syria in short order becomes a safe haven for hezbollah. iran and russia will dominate syria. it's a nightmare for i

and you quote some of the people who were champions of this new era, and you lampoon them unmercifully in the books a well. so we found out, surprise, turns out social networks haven't really led to harmony, but they've allowed people to dig ever deeper in their own individual trenches. can you talk more about that phenomenon as you've studied it in this book? >> well, you probably remember back in the 1990s people like john perry barlowe, the late, lamented prophet of a libertarian utopia, declaration of the independence of cyberspace. and you'll have heard any number of variations on the following theme: when everybody is connected, everything will be awesome. i mean, that's basically the message that silicon valley has been pumping out for the last 20-plus years. and i think this idea of a connected world is superpotentially very appealing. -- superficially very appealing. but it turns out that's not how social networks work. and just making them bigger and faster doesn't alter a fundamental problem. and that fundamental problem is that as social networks form, they don't form as a

. >> michael cohen was slightly nicer when he threatened college pranksters with the harvard lampoon with the harvard student newspaper and took this photograph with him sitting on the chair of the student newspaper's president. >> he said, i'm going to come up to harvard, you're all going to get expelled and if this photo gets out and you'll be out of that school faster than you know it. i could be up there tomorrow. >> and take this guy, mr. trump's former personal attorney mr. kasowitz, asking him to quit his job after an unflattering media report and he mailed the stranger, quote, i already know where you live, i'm on you. you might as well call me. you will see me. i promise, bro. now all of that is public record. leading to this sketch that stormy daniels and her lawyer released this wick wi-- this we of her story of being threatened. >> a guy walked up on me and said to me, leave trump alone, forget the story and then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said, a beautiful little girl, it would be a shame if something happened to her mom. >> and we weren't there and w

he wrote in part "by lampooning sean hannity's deference to the president, i did not intend to belittle gay community and to those who took offense, i apologize. i will take sean hannity at his word that he was genuinely offended by what iel believe and still believe to be a harmless and silly side referencing of our first lady's accent. mrs. trump almost certainly has enough to be worry about without being used as prop to increase tv ratings." i read the apology carefully. couple things are pretty clear to me. on the surface, i will beho honest, it seems to be more of a forced disney corporate apology directed more towards the lgbtq community rather than about kimmel's comments about the first lady. but honestly, that's ultimately up to you to decide here. i believe everyone should accept apologies, that's what my religion teaches me. i assume he is sincere. from my perspective, i real do enjoy a good fight and i do agree with jimmy in this sense it's time to move on. for me what this was really about never about hannity versus jimmy kimmel. a lot bigger to me. the level of hatred, vit

wrap up the mueller probe in 14 days according to sources, a report so ridiculous even fox news lampooned it saying mueller's team said to be amused as giuliani pledges to end russia probe. if you can see the by lines, you'll really get the joke there. ashley? >> so, there's a lot of people even in the president's orbit who sort of question this decision. i was talking to someone today who said, look, i think giuliani is a smart guy, but he hasn't actually practiced law in forever. he's sort of not the person you want. but in explaining the president's thinking, which here and always is the only thing that matters, the president wanted someone who was a big name. he was very frustrated by all these news reports about all these top white collar lawyers turning him down. he wanted someone who he thought had credibility and there was a sense if he could get giuliani to come on, he might be able to hire some of the other lawyers who can actually do the work that is needed to be done. he wanted kind of a familiar face. he likes that giuliani has been out defending him on tv. he believes there

personal life, of course, we with all know that he was lampooned for being -- a largest president. but i knew a little bit about his work many reform of the federal judiciary which was very important and is with us still today and we'll discuss that. but i didn't an doubt many people know having been that he was not only elected to an ohio lower court, but that he served as a governor of the philippines, secretary of war, president and chief justice, of course. and some other administrative posts as well he was a brilliant administrator in a way that -- for which very few model and very few poem who can sense that who can have -- lay a claim like that successful administration so i would like to -- let jeff bring out a little bit for you first about his it shall about the man. before we delve into his career, the career is fascinate but i think we understand it better as you will when you read the book because you do first refer his -- his history and education and personality. so jeff, why don't you tells us a little bit about his relationship with his father. >> william howard ta

cautious the president was viewed, barbara bush was viewed, in fact, to hear it almost too cautious, lampoonedsaturday life, not going to do it, wouldn't be wise. he was the opposite of that and so was she, but we forget that, don't we? >> they were an amazing partnership. she carried herself with quiet strength and dignity and anytime she entered the room, she had a calming effect on him. he consulted with her on so many issues and valued her opinion and you know, she had a wicked sense of humor. i'll never forget when i was so upset because i had a-- there was a new york post page six and she said, now what? i like some people and i like many dogs better than a lot of people use the newspapers to line the floor for the puppy and don't let people get under your skin. and you talk of her as so much scrutiny under so many years and she was the epitome of grace under pressure. and it only got to her when it had to do with a family member. i'll never forget on election night in 1999, bob and i were sitting with barbara and the president at their home in houston, texas, the four of us watching ele

i remember katty and what happens is you make the very people you're lampooning sympathetic figures. >> that's correct. >> i remember ran against a guy in congress but i was really running against bill clinton. i loathed bill clinton, everything about what he was doing in the white house. i remember looking at that, come on. come on, man. it's too much, don. too much. >> yeah. actually you know what, i went into labor during that dinner. i was just looking at it. >> it was that offensive. >> i had to leave quarter of the way through the speech because i went into labor. i knew there was a reason. >> your baby was right. let's get out of here. the last time i've been. >>> still ahead, president trump casually implies he could ruin the career of a u.s. senator. that's nice. why the president attacked montana's jon tester and how the senator is responding ahead on "morning joe." ♪ directv now gives you more for your thing. your letting go thing. your sorry not sorry thing. your out with the old in with the new, onto bigger and better thing. get the live tv you love. no bulky hardware. n