it was natural to lbj. you could hear lbj swear, he was good at it.ixon was trying to be something he was not. he was not an lbj crude, macho guy. nixon was a shy, intellectual thoughtful. he couldn't let himself be that. he had to be something he was not. i think that is one of the reasons he destroyed himself. brian: how in the world can you be shy in the presidency? evan: that is one of the reasons why i wrote the book. how one of the most introverted politicians ever became one of the most successful politicians in the 20th century. he was on five national tickets, he won the presidency twice. the last time by one of the largest landslides in history. he could barely make small talk. if he was here talking to you there is a chance he would not have been able to talk to at all. sometimes you just spin his hands. he was a terrible blur term. you would blurt things out. he just couldn't do smalltalk. he runs into jackie kennedy and -- at martin luther king junior's funeral and he says to mrs. kennedy, this must bring back many memories. this is cring

evan: that is the full nixon because he actually admired lbj.oth were politicians with a p in both understood power with a p. even though johnson had called nixon a traitor, and had arguably disrupted these big note -- these big negotiations to win the presidency, it is a murky and not good chapter in nixon's history. johnson called nixon a traitor for having done that. you can see nixon also admires what a man lbj was. he was a man. port next and wanted to be a man. he got himself in more trouble on those tapes like trying to appear macho. all that swearing and profanity nixon wasn't even good at it. it wasn't natural to him. you could hear lgb a -- here lbj swear he was good at it. nixon wasn't a macho guy. he was shy intellectual thoughtful. he couldn't let himself be that. i think that is one of the reasons he destroyed himself. brian: how in the world can you be shy in the presidency? evan: that is one of the reasons why wrote the book. one of the most introverted politicians ever became one of the most successful politicians in the 21st ce

even when they're not on tape we know that true man used it and lbj is on tape and richard nixon.ck and listen to it just come out of lbj's mouth for instance when he was talking about the civil rights act, about to pass the civil rights act and just dropping it, not as mentioning it, i mean, using it like straight up using it, talking about whether they're going to get the civil rights act passed. >> exactly right. i mean, the reality is is that obama the is the president who then puts it in square quotes to suggest that this word is a very complicated one but lbj, andrew johnson, a bunch of others were using it straightforwardly without any signification other than hatred and vial disrepute for black people. >> thank you. >>> coming up, the debate over whether the charleston massacre was an act of terrorism and why it matters. >>> and it is down to the wire for the supreme court decisions on same-sex marriage and obamacare. how do you get to the top of your game? give it everything you've got and leave those sticky sunscreens behind. new neutrogena cooldry sport. powerful protec

he spent more money on federal programs than lbj. people really do like government benefits. >> was he driven by a pair know ya of the kennedys? was that a fair assessment? >> yeah he had been a friend of jack kennedy's. they were across the hall from each other. he showed up at a $1,000 check for him -- >> and supposedly joe gave even more about in cash we don't know about. so they had some friendship. they were both shy. they unz that about each other. but imagine being richard nixon in that debate with jack kennedy. jack kennedy cool and town. richard nixon with the sweat streaming down and beady eyes -- brutal. nixon had to live with that. i don't think that cost him the election but in the mythology it did. >> i think what cost him in '60 is the black vote. kennedy's helped out martin luther king when he was put in jail. nixon failed to do it and the kennedy's got the word out. >> jackie robinson was a nixon guy. >> yeah they shifted from republican to democrat. the south was democratic then. it is confusing to our modern sensib

lbj was not eking a second term and you had the assassination of kennedy and king. former senator webb: the night before we graduated, robert kennedy was assassinated. it was an incredible year. there were a lot of questions about the validity of governmental process fairness, the common sense of foreign policy, etc., etc., and we all knew what our duty was going to be and where we were going to be going. host: so you're in your early 20's. you are about to be deployed into a war that had a lot of questions in the country, and you were front and center. former senator webb: i had a interesting conversation with my father who was career air force at the time, who really did not like the way mcnamara was running the war. i think he supported the war itself and my father was saying go in the navy. stay on the ship. don't be a marine. not only my father saying that. there were a lot of strong family discussions about how i wanted to be a marine. i wanted to do my part, but people who were over there, the young marines over there fighting needed the kind of leadership th

in league with lbj. it is really more to_they can in this with which each man worked the legislature. .. does anyone outside of the tight circle. their tendency to be very suspicious of all journalists and to be very things and into the rate of journalists if they write things they don't like and to have a kind of enemies list as nixon did. you can use either one. it was a far more graceful person as we all know the great orator. andrew doesn't have those things. he likes to call himself the operational by. his father could read the fancy philosophers andrew would be there in the trenches. so as far as the knicks in comparison and the weariness of other people in the skepticism. >> i knew him better than andrew and i could see that people would think that comparison but i always found that he had a sense of humor. when he would come after you as a reporter that was laced with humor, sometimes aggressive humor. does andrew have that? >> i'm not sure. a couple examples come to mind that i talked to from th

immediately after pearl harbor lbj was assigned to the office of the chief of naval operations. with responsibility for investigating roadblocks slowing the production of ships and aircraft of the navy. that led, in may 1942, to an inspection trip to australia and new zealand, during which according to the presidential library website, he took part as an observer in a number of bomber missions. one mission, about which some controversy has arisen, resulted in the award of the silver star, given as a result of his decision to participate as an observer in "a hazardous area bound combat missions over hostile positions in new guinea." in july 1942, president roosevelt, having band federal legislatures from serving in the armed forces, required lbj be removed of active duty. he remained in the naval reserve however, until two months after his accession to the presidency. one more. richard nixon served in the pacific as well. born in 1913, he graduated from a quaker founded college and with the aid of a scholarship was admitted to duke law school. following a short time of practicing

lbj was different. nirvetion on was triebt something that he wasn't. about watergate and the thing that grabbed me ani have this dark view of watergate watergate was less a machiavellian plot to disrupt american civil rights than it was a screw up. nixon didn't -- >> >> did you have any word -- >> nixon didn't know about the break n nixon's problem in watergate was that he could not confront his own subordinates. he was too shy. it wasn't that he is was this master schemer he was too shy to go to john mitchell who so attorney general and campaign manager. how could you bring your self to do that? he should have wrought a tough lawyer in and he didn't get everybody in one room. >> but what we call watergate wasn't an event that took place 42 years ago tomorrow. it wasn't just the break in at the democratic national committee headquarters. headquarters. it was a series of chat john mitchell, attorney general and campaign manager called the white house horrors and the included breaking in to the psychiatrists office of daniels berg who revealed the pent p

another possible 40-point performance from lbj. leon: something else awesome to see.tle education for you. leon: an altered plea in a 2005 sex assault and attempted murder case. that is the top trending story. the ntsb says an amtrak engineer was not using his phone before a derailment. and, hot weather ahead. hot summer weather may put you in the mood for some sweet tea. a south carolina town broke the record for the largest container of sweetie. that is how i learned how to say it. it is 1400 gallons of the stuff. they used garbage bags to make the tea. doesn't that look appetizing? sweetened with 2800 pounds of sugar. it will also come with 2100 pounds of insulin. [laughter] leon: give us a good word if you can. steve: humid tomorrow, 95 degrees. we will dodge most of the raindrops until friday. leon: >> dicky: from hollywood it's "jimmy kimmel live." tonight -- from "game of thrones," kit harington. comedian chris gethard. and music from dwight yoakam. with cleto and the cletones. and now, it's that time again -- here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> j

in the vietnam analogy, the new obama administration aspired to be jfk, not lbj.tart of the obama administration, they were cognizant of his analogies. they might surge in afghanistan, but wouldn't let afghanistan be a quagmire. that was 2009. the afghanistan war obviously is still on. then about a year ago, president obama now second term grayer haired president went into the white house briefing room about a year ago and announced in addition to the u.s. troops, there were already in iraq watching over the u.s. embassy in iraq, he was going to send a small number of additional american military advisers, up to 300, to assess how we can best train and advise and support iraqi security forces going forward. that was june 19th, 300 troops. then bit end of the month, on june 30th, 200 more. then in august, another 130 troops being sent. in september, another 350 troops being sent. then about a week later, another 475 troops being sent. by november, another 1500 troops being sent. and then today, another 450 troops. a year of steady escalation sending more and more u

it was lbj who did medicare in the 1960s, which is one of the most popular and successful large-scale government programs of any kind, anywhere in the world. and which has meant that every single person in this country who has the good fortune to grow old does so with the ironclad expectation that they will have health coverage for their health needs in their old age. and on that number line, you can put barack obama. who has not just done it, but who has seen to it now that it will not be undone. who moved heaven and earth to pass this thing in the first place, and he paid huge political costs for it, both in congress and in terms of everything else he couldn't do, because he did this. but on this, he succeeded where every previous democrat for half a century has failed before him, to substantively changed the enormous system by which we treat the sick and have our babies and set our broken bones and prevent our cancers and get our shots in this country. substantively changed that system, so that everybody can get care. he didn't build a whole new system. he elected, instead, to just

. >> it isn't the first time the president has uttered the word, true man lbj nixon were all on record. a demeaning racial slur. mr. obama has used the n word in the past, in his memoir, dreams from my father, the word appears several times. the president invoked the speech the spring in selma. intera notion that progress is real and we have to take hope from that progress. but what is also real is that the march isn't over and the work is not yet completed. >> mike viqueria, al jazeera washington. >> two supreme court rulings today took aim at government power, the court decided that the department of agriculture seizure of raisins is unconstitutional. the case centered on a program from the 1940s that forced raisin farmers to give up a significant portion of their crop for free. but in an 8 to 1 vote the justices say if the government wants produce from american farmers it has to pay for it. >>> the justices decided against police their search in hotel registry industries violates the fourth amendment. constituting an unreasonable search. they will have to get a warrant. >>> new clue

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think of lbj stuck in vietnam trying to get out or bush in iraq and afghanistan struggling to find an exit strategy. this is the most difficult problem. in fact for the last two centuries, no american president has ever managed to ends his own failing war. they've all handed it over to the next guy. >> interesting. >> that's all from our perspective of the u.s. as the most powerful current nation state in the world stage. you write conventional interstate wars are now rare. what do you mean? >> so there are two main kinds of war. you've got conventional interstate, where we fight a foreign country, our army fights their army on battlefield, think world war ii those kind of wars are very rare. the rest of the civil wars like insurgentcy insurgency -- >> isis a product of two civil war snz. >> pretty much. >> the classic exam. two civil wars syria and iraq and isis moves between the two. the u.s. has struggled to adapt to this new era of insurgencies and civil wars. >> it's a provocative book and also an important book. thank you so much for being with us, we appreciate it. >> my pleasu

now former white house officials including a social secretary in the lbj administration seemed impressedthe "new york times," quote, i think it's remarkable that they kept this quiet. i don't know any other party this size that was kept that quiet. >>> for all of you gamers out there, the country's biggest video gamer conference kicked off in los angeles. there was something for every gamer. the full trailer for madden nfl '16. o'dell bem ham junior got to recreate his lenlendary one-happened catch. take a look. >> time-out left because this is the late play of the game. the giants need a trchd. >> and in this very moment you discover -- >> it's gone! o'dell beckham jr. >> -- it was you all along. >> i will never forget that catch. and it looks like you're watching it on tv. ea also debuted a five-minute video from "star wars battlefront." i think i'm going be doing a lot of gaming over the next few months. it looks just too good. >> thank you. that does it for me and "way too early" now a preview of what's coming up on "morning joe." >> i could see that you were hanging on lewis's every

. >> lbj! >> i'm the dude that makes my city and my state happen. and that's why i came back. i love you. i'm back! >> behind the back. fires a three. oh, he puts it in! >> the warriors win 67 games! >> ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it one more time for this year's mvp, steph curry! >> nba playoff basketball is back in cleveland. cavs are thinking championships. >> they're going to the nba finals! >> goes to the rim. thompson with the block. >> the golden state warriors in the nba finals for the first time in 40 years. >> how about two rookie coaches in the nba finals? >> that's all fine and dandy, the rookie coaches, but i think i want to see steph versus lebron. >> we'd like to welcome our viewers around the world and of course all of you watching in the u.s. we are literally in the center of it all. right, guys? i'm rachel nicholls. i'm here with grant hill, seven-time all-star, and steve smith, who won the nba championship in 2003. welcome. >> thank you. >> you guys have been to a lot of nba finals. but just being in the building so far in this series, the energy in thi

>> plus the pentagon papers, lbj not running for reelection.: the pentagon papers that were brought to life, that was made in the game. at that point, many american troops were on the way home. those that remained were anxious to get home. the earlier protests, i am not in a position to really evaluate it. i was out often with the soldiers, and their primary interest was recently surviving the day. are getting through with the mission. -- or getting through with the mission. i get the feeling that letters from home did not dwell on the protests too much. the folks at home and those close to them, they wanted to be supportive. and certainly armed forces media did not talk about protests to any great degree. as far as the newspaper, think there was a degree of a concern, not about the more i love soldiers, but there was not that much interest because their main preoccupation was getting through the day and trying to win this war. david: and i think, because i was in washington --bob: i think, because i was in washington, i think it was when they

you have the announcement that lbj was not seeking another term. you had the assassination of robert kennedy and martin luther king. you graduated at the height of the vietnam war. former senator webb: the night before we graduated, robert kennedy was assassinated. it was an incredible year. there were a lot of questions about the validity of our governmental process, the common sense of foreign policy, etc. we all knew what our duty was going to be and where we would be going. mr. scully: you are in your early 20's, about to be deployed to a war that had a lot of questions in this country, and you were front and center. former senator webb: i had an interesting discussion with my father, who was career air force of the time. he really did not like the way that mcnamara was running the war. i think he supported the war itself. when your father is saying, "go in the navy, stay on the ship, don't be a marine," there were a lot of strong family discussions at home. i wanted to be a marine. i wanted to do my part. the young marines over there fighting

lbj was good at swearing. nick's and was trying to be something he wasn't.nd about watergate, something that grabbed me. i have this dark view of watergate. it was left a machiavelli in plot to disrupt american civil rights, but it was a screwup. charlie: that the democrats had something? tim: nixon created an atmosphere where people did bad things but he did not know about the break-in. he could not confront his own subordinates. he was too shy. he wasn't a master schemer, he was too shy to go to john mitchell and say ok what happened? why did you go in the building? he couldn't bring himself to do it because he didn't want to hear the answer. he should have brought in a tough lawyer to do it. he didn't get everybody in one room until it was way too late. it wasn't a plot, it was a screwup. tim: what we call watergate was not an event that took place 42 years ago tomorrow. it wasn't just the break-in at the democratic national committee headquarters. it was a series of what john mitchell called "the white house orders." breaking into the office of daniel el

if anyone loves politics and agree there are two or three fascinating people in politics, lbj, jack kennedyd nixon are the top three. >> yeah. >> we'll all agree about that because we'll never get to the bottom of them, never. >> i tried. >> you went a long way down to the bottom floor. thank you, evan. by the way, good luck with the book. the book is called being nixon for the inside like being malcavich. >>> jeb bush declares his presidency candidacy. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. >>> i'm richard lui, a low >>> i've decided i'll a candidate for the president of the united states of america. >> back to "hardball" after six months touring the countries as a presumed 2016 presidential candidate, jeb bush formally announced his entry into the crowded field of candidates. at the top of his speech, he called for an end to democratic leadership in the white house slamming hillary clinton's dan canada see. >> the party in the white house is planning a no suspension primary for a no-change election to hold on to power, to slog on with the same agenda under another name. that'

he, quote, won, if you use the old gene mccarthy versus lbj math. he won with 41% of the vote. if you add up the votes that didn't vote for hillary, it's one more than didn't vote for her. that wasn't a great showing for her. >> early on, the people paying the most attention are the more conservative republicans and more liberal democrats. and definitely there is a market among liberal democrats for an alternative to hillary clinton as hard as she's trying to win over the left. as we get to the nuts and bolts of the primary and deciding who can win a national election, you're going to see something different. but this early on, this is an opportunity for liberal democrats to make their voices heard. >> and if i had a nickel for every republican straw poll that rand paul -- i have quite a few nickels. >> those delegates know we're watching it. we're going to report it. and they know when they cast that vote for bernie sanders, is it the clinton's campaign belief that those people are just trying to send a message? and they're all going to eventually fall in line with the clinton

lbj didn't have a tough campaign because nobody wanted to fight against the kennedy legacy at that point, nobody. >> i agree, look, i wasn't surprised by governor haley. i was down in charlton from the night it happened and she walked into the hotel and went to the second floor and met with the families. they were screaming, crying, i saw her face when she left that room. i knew that flag was coming down. >> she was crying. >> history changes politics. >> history changes politics. this is the moment you see walker, rubio, presidential campaigns try to control events, but it's really about the things you can't control that tell us the most. >> listening to answers, they felt like states' rights answers which is why we got to this problem at the same place. >> rubio says we're unconfident, huckabee said they were baited. this isn't about the nearby evolution governor and one reason they don't like liberals, they don't want to ask basic questions like why do you think the earth began? all we're asking is what do think about the flag? he says we're being baited. what did huckabee mean by tha

mary's to the nba, lbj never forgets where he came from. >> everything i did was for the city of akron. >> and you know without the city of akron there's no me. >> warriors star steph curry says don't forget about his akron roots. >> it was 1988 at akron city hospital. believe it or not the same place where lebron entered this world, december 30 1984. the hospital now called suma having a lot of fun with this. >> it's crazy, the odds are probably astronomical to have two nba mvps in the finals born at the same hospital. >> cur, and his dad dell is playing with the cavs. >> she learned they lived in the same akron apartment where the curries once lived. >> it's cool. the apartment i chose to live in is where somebody famous was staying, i guess. >> both superstars now saying they want to win for akron. >> no disrespect and the first akron guy and bring a change into that area and it should be fun. >> in akron bob jones, abc 7 news. >> thanks for joining us for abc 7 news at 4:00. i'm larry beil. abc 7 news begins right now with ama and dan. >>> walking around the whole building. >> a mo

and so- a so the things that lbj and his cohorts and others since have set up seem fairly durable to me. >> are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of public radio and why? >> i am very optimistic about it. it has become an important news museum -- medium especially in rural parts of the west, the midwest, it's become very, very important as newspapering you know, has been up and down and mostly down public radio stations have come forward to cover local politics with some care. we started out as an alternativeforward to cover local politics with some care. we started out as an alternative medium, in many parts of the country, maybe most, finding ourselves in the mainstream. public radio does one thing that even its harshest critics and there are many cannot deny, and that is that with very few exceptions, very few, it gives uninterrupted broadcast time to people running for public office in this country. it gives you the listener a chance to hear them at some length and not in little tiny quotes. so for that alone. >> several questions asking about your future. now i read

numbers are smaller than vietnam and this president is not committed to iraq and fighting isis the way lbj was in fighting vietnam. the problem here is that he's trying to have it both ways. he is trying to assign some new advisors. the numbers will be probably upwards 3500 advisors and combat troops on ground in iraq. he wants to tell his generals and look like he's doing something. he is going to assign the new folks to iraq in an advisory role to look like he's doing something but he's not totally committed to the fight. if he were you would see more substantial numbers and boots on the ground. he's fighting war but in a half -- >> when he's asked a direct question like that why wouldn't he say, in a matter of days we plan to send 450 more troops? >> idealogically and politically he's averse to fighting a new war in iraq. he ran in 2008 and won the democratic nomination as well as the presidency an being anti-iraq war. as a committed leftish he's not going near a new war in iraq or the middle east. the war has been brought to us. he knows he has to do something. so he's doing the bare m

you know back in lbj's time we had a 1957 civil rights bill that he called -- and i quote the n-bill.onunciation depending on whose company he was in. and former president nixon also used the word sprinkling it liberally among other divisive language. when we talk about our president, specifically an african-american president using it in an obstructive way, i think the word takes on a brand new meaning. who says it when they say it and why. >> sara do you think people will get that? >> i think there are some people who will be put off by this. it's hard for me to judge how president obama wants to use the word. he's the first black president. he lived experiences that you and i cannot understand at all. he's making a good point. it's not enough to just say we don't use these words in public. it's about how you think. it's about how you behave. i think that's what he's trying to say. i think that's why we're having the argument now about the confederate flag whether there should be streets in south carolina named for confederate generals. there's a sense there's an overt racism in thi

to put it in lbj's terms it is getting thinner than grandma's nightgown. the authority is very weak. but congress, which has been asked, has not been willing to step up and do something. it puts the presidents in a bad position. >> at the same time, the public doesn't seem very agitated. you speak of political ratification, in effect, by the electorate. how does that play into these kinds of questions? a sense that the public seems to acquiesce to the action? >> if you ask me the greatest change to the text of the original constitution, it is to grab a great deal of the war power away from what the framers thought was a congressional center of gravity. the commander in chief power has come to dominate it in many ways. that secreted slowly. a lot of it came through the late 19th century adventures in latin america. americans have become used to the idea that the president will move the troops and do more like activity without immediate preauthorization from congress. william howard taft may have put it best. he said, i can send in the marines by myself, but

to put it in lbj's terms, it is getting thinner than grandma's nightgown. [laughter] the authority is very weak. but congress, which has been asked, has not been willing to step up and do something. it puts the presidents in a bad position. >> at the same time, the public doesn't seem very agitated. you speak of political ratification, in effect, by the electorate. how does that play into these kinds of questions? a sense that the public seems to acquiesce to the action? >> if you ask me the greatest change to the text of the original constitution, it is to grab a great deal of the war power away from what the framers thought was a congressional center of gravity. the commander in chief power has come to dominate it in many ways. that accreted slowly. a lot of it came through the late 19th century adventures in latin america and other places. and i think americans have become used to the idea that the president will move the troops and do more like activity -- warlike activities without immediate preauthorization from congress. william howard taft may have

smallest black vote of any president between lbj and obama. that's amazing.de. >> back then the hispanics weren't as powerful. >> not hispanics. the only vote that counted the black vote. >> brit hume on still two very disturbing pieces of video. new jersey, hip hop concert where near riot breaks out there. second one in texas where a poll party erupts in violence. cops now under fire. mr. hume up next. sic throughout) ♪ sfx: (smash) sfx: (roar) ♪ sfx: (roar) sfx: (engine roars) it's more than a network and the cloud. it's reliable uptime. and multi-layered security. it's how you stay connected to each other and to your customers. with centurylink you get advanced technology solutions, including an industry leading broadband network, and cloud and hosting services - all with dedicated responsive support. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner you're free to focus on growing your business. centurylink. your link to what's next. when i started at the shelter, no one wanted benny. so i adopted him. he's older so he needs my help all day. when my bac

where are the lbjs, tip o'neills, bob doles, bill clintons? built the transcontinental railway in the middle of the civil war. and with it scientific agriculture in the same war. i'm waiting for a presidential candidate of either party to propose a deal that would actually get done. i wonder if any have the courage to do it because that would be interesting. and that's "hard ball" for now. thank you for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in". >> with all that happened that day, he allowed his emotions to get the better of him. >> a surprising message of regret from the attorney of officer casebolt as the backlash to the backlash continues in mckinney. >> you should just admit that. you're a race pimp. >> live to texas for the latest. >>> plus, as the white house announces 450 new advisers in iraq, why shouldn't we just bring all our troops home? >>> then, why the attacks on marco rubio and his $80,000 speedboat seem a little unfair. >>> and statistical proof that what lebron james is doing in the nba

the reagan library the nixon library on the best coast, the clinton library in arkansas, lbj in austin, and we did the george w. bush presidential center in dallas and we were on the west coast, we did stanford and usc we did rice while we were in texas. we have done some on the east coast. we did one at tufteds. we're going to am hurt at the end of the month and politics and prose the cosponsor of this book fair, had a very nice event for us at their store after the book came out. so this has been interesting. an interesting experience. i share that because it's not something i'd ever done before, and i found that people are interested, they come and ask good questions. and this is not like one of those raucous town hall meetings you see sometimes. people actually come and want to know. they have things on their mind and want to know why this place doesn't work better, and we try to respond to that the best we can. let me tell you some of the thing wes cover in the book. i want to give you that background. we really looked at this from three different perspectives. there's 16 chapters

lbj was in town to meet with the soviet premiere, at glassboro state college.s a three day summit that looked to strengthen tense relations between the super powers but ultimately differences remain. it marked first time a soviet premiere had met with the u.s. president in this country since 1959. we will be right back. well, sir. after some serious consideration i'd like to put in my 15-year notice. you're quitting!? technically retiring, sir. with a little help from my state farm agent i plan to retire in 15 years. wow! you're totally blindsiding me here. who's gonna manage your accounts? this is a devastating blow i was not prepared for. well, i'm gonna finish packing my things. 15 years will really sneak up on you. jennifer with do your exit interview and adam made you a cake. red velvet. oh, thank you. i made this. take charge of your retirement. talk to a state farm agent today. >>> power of a simple smile and a hello can go a long way. a delaware county pastor has made it a point of spreading love every inning is will wednesday. >> hello there have a gre

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of course harry truman lbj. you can go right up to the present day and look at various presidents trying to get what president obama has been able to achieve with the affordable care act. this is a historical argument he's making saying this gets right to the very core of our being as a people in this country. >> you know, dana from the beginning, i saw it more and more as a moral issue basically because the people i would encounter wherever i would travel that would come up to me and say how it clearly was the thing that helped in some cases save their lives. i've had people come on this show and say that. but i've had countless people stop me on the road in airports, in churches in rallies telling me stories and about their kids who now can be ensured. so i always thought of on a moral level and dealt with the human factor that the president raised today. but as he was speaking -- you were there -- was he also speaking to the conservative justices on the supreme court? >> i think he was. some time in the next

you hear lbj using the "n" word in ways that are derogatory.rticularly shocking because in some ways he's a civil rights hero for signing civil rights legislation but at the same time he's a racist. so when you look at people using this word. and those presidents didn't even know that that language would ever see the light of day. the president is saying it into an open mic consciously as an instructive moment. i think you have to use that context. you cannot take that part away from this conversation. >> bakari only moments ago the white house press secretary josh earnest was asked if the president regrets using that word in that podcast interview. he said the president does not regret it. all of us who have covered the president know he is very precise with hiss language, with his words. do you believe he deliberately wanted to use that word bakari? >> yeah. i don't understand why so many people are awe-struck by this moment. the president, if i'm not mistaken used the word 14 or 15 times in "dreams of my father." so this isn't something new.

if anyone loves politics and agree there are two or three fascinating people in politics lbj, jack kennedy the top three. >> yeah. >> we'll all agree about that because we'll never get to the bottom of them, never. >> i tried. >> you went a long way down to the bottom floor. thank you, evan. by the way, good luck with the book. the book is called being nixon for the inside like being malcavich. >>> jeb bush declares his presidency candidacy. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. believable! toenail fungus? seriously? smash it with jublia! jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. use jublia as instructed by your doctor. look at the footwork! most common side effects include ingrown toenail, application site redness, itching, swelling burning or stinging, blisters, and pain. smash it! make the call and ask your doctor if jublia is right for you. new larger size now available. leave early go roam sleep in sleep out star gaze dream big wander more care less beat sunrise chase sunset do it all. on us. get your first month's payment plus five years wear and

think of it andersen people don't talk about social security being fdr care medicaid medicare as lbjng. so this is going to live for a very long time. and i agree with jeffrey, it is i think, his signature achievement as president. >> justice scalia said might as well call it scotus care. saying that not in a positive way. the ruling the fact it was 6-3. that surprised you? >> it did. i thought justice kennedy who voted the law was unconstitutional three years ago, the fact that he joined chief justice roberts and the four liberals did surprise me. and the breadth of chief justice's opinion. he didn't just say, president obama's interpretation is okay for him. but another president could come in and change it. he didn't say that. he said the law requires that the subsidies be available in all 50 states. so the breadth of the victory did surprise me. just how definitive it was. >> doug do you think chief justice roberts approaches the cases with his own legacy in mind. the current court known as the the roberts' court. the face of the court. >> no i don't think he does i don't think a