he and lyndon johnson had texas roots. and so, lyndon johnson wanted to see tom clark. tom, how you doing? how's the wife? i had a boy. i got all daughters. i love them dearly, but wow, you got a boy. old ramsey. i'll tell you something. i want to make ramsey my attorney general. dang it, i can't do it because you are on the high court and they will accuse me of nepotism. i know how much you love that point. i know how much that boy love zer ss you. i know any daddy and the country would be so proud to see his son ascend to the high court. but, tom, my hands are tied. nothing i do because it is no vacancy. lord, i wish there was a vacancy. later, i interviewed justice clark's daughter, a day later, justice clark in fine health, had a lifetime appointed, when homicide, hey, hey,nt home and said, everybody, i am tired of the court. i think it is time for me to take a long vacation, may be placed on golf. algenon: or take a trip around the world. or travel. wil: so, it happened. tom clark stepped down. lbj nominates thurgood marshall. doesn't tell a single senator until th

an organized war in a way lyndon johnson did.think for a fig leaf local settlement, he june the line at ground troops and i do not think that would have changed. >> fascinating. i have more questions, let's see , there areudience microphones on either side. i encourage you to make sure it's a question, meaning and with a question mark rather than a statement. i may jump in and ask more questions. we'll start over here. just speak of a little. -- speak up a little. >> he was a his presidency is adaptive,atic or he did escalate the u.s. involvement in vietnam and it was lyndon johnson that was the transformational president with the civil rights act and the grouping society? >> i think that's a fair question. there is a larger legislative achievement under lyndon johnson. he is president for a longer time, he is the master arm twister, he is good at that. the great political advantage of, he can talk about the martyrdom of john f. kennedy and that was an effective legal tool for lyndon johnson. in a mores working difficult politica

it's not long before the key decisions lyndon johnson what have to make and i submit a surviving john f. kennedy would have had to make. he would've had to make those roughly the same time johnson did. there is a paradox has kennedy, even when he goes to indochina in 51 as a congressman, he is about to challenge a senator from massachusetts and he wants to brush up on his credentials. so he and bobby and his sister have an extended tour of asia and they spent time in indochina. and even there, we know this from his diary and speeches he gave in boston, he already 51 grasped that not only were the french likely to lose but any western power that tried to take on this vietnamese revolution is likely to lose, as well. and i don't think that skepticism ever goes away. so when he takes off for dallas on that last trip, i think he was still skeptical about any kind of military solution in vietnam and yet, on his watch, in those thousand days, you have a marked increase in the american lawful med, only for that's american involvement -- , fore american involvement domestic political reasons,

li lyndon johnson was a man of contradictions, but lyndon johnson knew what he was dog. oved government. he knew how to make it work. he also knew if you continually contradicted yourself the way trump is doing, as johnson would do later in vietnam, you're destroying yourself. i think that's what's happening with donald trump, is he's destroying himself except with that one-third of the electorate that thinks he can do no harm. >> i want to take a look at some stunning magazine covers that came out from around the worldmeworld. we have the economist which shows donald trump blowing into a bull horn that looks like a ku klux klan hood. "time" magazine came out with one that puts him in the position of giving a sort of hitler salute with the american flag. we have a couple of others. these are things -- this is the kind of coverage we have never seen in this country. >> right. the saddest part to me other than the death and the injury that occurred was the fact that -- in fact i saw this on nbc news last night, the nightly news. there's a synagogue there, the beth israel sy

. >>> bill moyers will join us, he was working in lyndon johnson's white house and mohammed ali defied the draft. he'll tell us what president johnson said about that. and what president johnson had to say publicly about other protests by athletes at this time. including at the olympics in 1968. >>> and once again tonight, nfl players stood in solidarity against president trump's comments. and we have learned just how widespread the use of private e-mail is and has been in the trump white house. and maybe that, maybe that's the story. the president doesn't want us talking about. >> dire situation in puerto rico. >> translator: everything is destroyed, she said. >> residents are calling on the federal government, begging them to step up its response. >> what message is the president sending by emphasizing sports right now and not a big crisis of affecting -- >> not emphasizing sports. >> wouldn't you love to see a nfl owner when somebody disrespects our flag to get that son of a bitch off the field right now? out. they're fired. >> they're not s.o.b.s. they're smartd, thoughtful guys. >

been then lyndon johnson called nixon and then says we are seeing some progress on vietnam. i may institute a bombing. richard nixon was a false 1960 election because kennedy stole it from him and it seemed johnson in 1966 to an october surprise in the congressional election by announcing he was closer to peace in vietnam. for nixon paranoia kicks and and he sees these forces lined up against him ready to steal something from him once again and he uses this connection and a woman named anne nasha noho was the very well-known woman because her husband had led the flying tigers in the battle against the japanese in world war ii and he sends her to the south vietnamese to tell them that if they just hold on a little bit longer he will be elected and he will get a better deal. rather than go to paris and join in the peace talks which nixon thinks is a charade the south vietnamese risk don't join in the peace talks. this is pretty much unknown story because some point that fall went in johnson got wind of it and he sent the fbi as to top top -- the tapes, to tap the republican who

this is pretty much a known story because at some point lyndon johnson got wind of it w and he sent the fbi out to tail and tape and tap the republican envoy and the south vietnamese and the presidential palace so johnson is getting all this information and he sees what's happening. he gets on the phone and calls his senators and he says i'm reading their hand and this is darn near treason so he confronts nixon and nixon denies it but it has actually happened in the great tragedy of the story is that there really was a piece steal her from the soviet union and the soviet said, if you do a bombing halt we promise there will be productive talks. we'll get the north vietnamese to the table. so what nixon saw as a dirty trick, johnson actually believed was a chance to and the war earlier. nixon intercedes in the vietnamese pullback in the peace talks don't happen and he selected one of the closest elections in american history.y. with only 43% of the vote. >> so elements of the story, over the years, but nixon always denied it. if you go back and watch the famous nixon interviews, david fro

democratic majority leader lyndon johnson cooperated and agreed to conduct around the clock sessions to exhaust the filibustering senators and make sure the legislation got to the floor, bypassing senator james eastland's judiciary committee where it had always gone to dive. -- die. the segregationist charged given the authority to the attorney general to see court orders would empower the president to use troops in the south and forced desegregation, and lead to the prosecution of the assistant court orders before a deprivingreby citizens of a trial by jury. suits would become criminal prosecutions if the defendant failed to comply. with lyndonionist johnson's support religiously pushed these strategies to take it out of the legislation. ike's civil rights legislation easily passed the house of representatives. johnson was complicit in devising this strategy to bypass the judiciary committee. vice president nixon read the house bill entitled -- a southern senator raised a point of order but nixon overruled him. taking the bill out of the judiciary committee and making it official le

lyndon johnson before president obama, johnson was the last present at a second cook for their familye chief executive chef to everything. cook for the family and for guests and state dinners. >> including make recommendations for the replacements? >> sometime though make a recommendation but typically someone on the staff might be elevated or someone the president knows. most cases and some of the president knows from their prior light before the presidency that they bring in to the kitchen if they're going to make a change. since 1960, most presidents have kept a holdover from the previous administration. so guy name henry holland was a swiss poor guy sir from johnson through reagan. and then a reagan chef and george w. bush had the same one and then walter came in with the clintons and served until the end of the first term of george w bush. and then an assistant shift under the clinton administration got elevated to white house executive chef and she's been there ever since. >> is their food budget? >> yes. before you get to truman, essentially presidents had to pay for food out o

lyndon johnson, george h.w. bush. want to the austin one first and i have seen that as a change, the break in the modest, simple structures that house records and allow space for public exhibits. this is an eight-story building on the campus of university of texas austin. like president roosevelt, it was during president johnson's term in office and has raised the bar significantly for future presidential libraries. brian: i remember when it opened it was free. -- free on the university of texas austin campus. i want to go over some of the numbers what it cost to get in these libraries now. lbj is now up to $10. anthony: that was just the past three or four years. brian: why did they change it? anthony: cost and differing the cost. they completed a $10 million renovation of the exhibits and that was one of the ways to defray the costs. brian: want to talk about some i of the list, bill clinton $10, fdr $18, george w. bush $19, herbert hoover $10, george herbert walker bush $9, which turns out to be the lowest. abraham

if lyndon johnson told me i had to associate with you, i would tell lyndon johnson to go straight tol. i would not associate with him. charles: this is matt murphy, until his death, he was the chief legal counsel of the united klans. his favorite targets were the jews, federal reserve system and international bankers. >> i had made speeches before the united klans of america. and they were the only organization that ever went on record after i had talked for two solid hours, on the viciousness of the federal reserve corporation and how it has built the taxpayers and american citizens out of their money, and that great britain has removed the bank from international bankers. in their bank is back under the crown. charles: this is a nighthawk of the united klans. a nighthawk is responsible for the security of a clavern. >> why did you join? >> well, i have got a wife and five kids. i think that is enough reason. i want them to be, to have a country to be raised up in like i was. i was not forced to go to school with niggers. i wasn't forced to eat with them. i want them to have the rig

but if you are the nicest fella in the world and lyndon johnson said i have to associate with you every, i would tell lyndon johnson to go to hell because i would not associate with you. >> this is matt murphy to until his latest death was the chief counsel of the klans. he targeted the jews and the international federation system of bankers. >> they were the only organization that ever went on record after i had talked were the two solid hours on the viciousness of the federal reserve corporation that had billed the taxpayers of american citizens out of money and the international bankers, and they bank is back under the clan. >> this is the night hawk of the united klans in north carolina. a nighthawk is responsible for the security of a clavern. >> well, i've got a wife, five kids, and i think that's enough reason. i want to have a country to be raised up in like i was. i wasn't forced tooing to school with -- i wasn't forced to eat with them, and i want them to have the right that i had. >> this is mr. outlaw, wherever jones goes, mr. outlaw, the ground guard is at his side. in the

but it was in the 64 because lyndon johnson, everybody was afraid they didn't want goldwater in there and so people in memphis and shelby county turned out in droves to talk to lyndon johnson and of course he won the election. what this research told me is that if you don't participate in the electoral process, you are giving up your right to really complain about what's going on and you don't get to complain about who you vote for. that is my message. >> we are getting close to having q-and-a for the audience, so i hope that you will come to the authority of your and line up for the authors so that you can address them directly. i want to throw out one more question and i will come this way as people come to thato me become. i wonder why it's taken so long for these stories to be told. >> i think that it is convenience on the part of whites not to come to terms with their history. it's been part of our tradition at least in arkansas. you can look, i am not an academic historian in the sense that i do not teach. in some ways, at least in one point in our earlier history, academics wan

then lyndon johnson calls nixon in and says we are seeing some progress on vietnam. on the institute a bombing halt. now, richard nixon thought it lost the 1960 election because the kennedys stole it from them, and getting johnson in 1966 do an october surprise in other congressional election bytion by announcing that he was closer to peace in vietnam. so nixon's paranoia kicks in, and he sees these forces lined up against him ready to steal something from them once again. and he uses this connection, a woman who was very well known in the palaces of asia because her husband had led the flyingng tigers into battle against the japanese in world war ii, and he sends her to the south vietnamese to tell them that if they can just hold on a little bit longer, nixon reelected and you'll get a better deal, and so rather than go to paris and join in the peace talks, which nixon thinks isa charade, the south vietnamese resist. they don't join in the peace talks. .. etty much unknown story because some point that fall went in johnson got wind of it and he sent the fbi as to to

when lyndon johnson spent $28 trillion on that war notoverty, he said he did -- we could cure poverty just by giving everybody enough welfare in order to raise incomes above the poverty threshold but that would be wrong. he said quote we want to do is make people self-sufficient and less dependent on government but able to support themselves through their own work and effort, the original goal. by those standards, we have been badly. there has been little reduction in what i call pre-welfare 19 70's ande the that is what we ought to focus. it does not mean we want to get rid of the welfare. it can be effective and raise living standards but it is not the ultimate goal to get more benefits. host: olivia golden, is this as he put it a "false narrative?" >> no. i think robert said that before but it is less this year because the census bureau does a supplemental poverty measure and supplemented measure, which includes an array of public programs and the regular poverty measure. they show the same news you describe, which is good news in 2016 for americans on all economic levels. reports

sanders: 52 years ago, 52 years ago president lyndon johnson signed historic legislation that said in the united states of america, if you are 65 or older, you will begin indeed health care as a right -- you will be getting teed health care as a right. all medicare has been enormously successful. butake it for granted now, seniors in america are healthier, happier and more secure than before the passage of medicare. and today we tell our seniors that is good as medicare is, we have heard your concerns and for the first time we will expand coverage to include dental care, hearing aids, and vision needs. [applause] sen. sanders: now let us be honest. the crisis that we are discussing today is not really about health care. the crisis we are discussing today is a political crisis, which speaks to me and critical power of the insurance companies, the drug companies, and all those who make billions of dollars off of the current system. over the years, these entities have done everything that they possibly can to prevent us from having lower-priced prescription drugs and universal health car

kennedy when lyndon johnson was winning in a landslide. president kennedy himself lost north dakota to richard nixon in 1960, and it wasn't close. it's never close in north dakota. in presidential elections. donald trump beat hillary clinton in north dakota by 36 points. take a look at that. look at that store. 63-27. that's north dakota voting. that is the reason president trump invited north dakota democratic senator heidi heitkamp to dinner tonight at the white house. 36 points. and those 36 points are the reason that heidi heitkamp accepted the dinner invitation. senator heitkamp won her election to the senate in north dakota in 2012 by exactly one point. donald trump won her state by 36 points. politically, heidi heitkamp can't afford to turn down a dinner invitation from this white house. not when she represents a state filled with trump voters. it is hard being a democrat in north dakota, especially in the age of trump. and it is hard being a democrat in west virginia and indiana. it is hard for a democrat to win a statewide electio

nationally, president lyndon johnson appointed an 11-member advisory commission on civil disorders aimedo identify the root causes. it was chaired by illinois governor otto kerner. after a seven-month investigation, the kerner commission's conclusions were devastating. our country was deeply divided between black and white -- unequal, unstable, unfair. the last surviving member, of the kerner commission is former oklahoma senator fred harris, now 86 years old. why did president johnson want to start the commission? fred harris: well, we were having these terrible disorders, riots all over the country. the worse were of course were in detroit and newark. nobody knew how it was going to end and whether it would be a kind of continuing thing. was it a harbinger of things to come. and so, he said, i want you to say what happened, why did it happen and what can be done to keep it from happening again and again. what we found in the kerner report was as for example here in detroit or in other cities, conditions were so horrible and relations between the police and the people in these central c

thank you for coming. >> thank you, charlie. >> rose: speaking the lyndon johnson, here is another conversationand advisors we were talking about, george bundy being one of them. the national security advisor to president kennedy. and then president johnson. and here is what johnson is saying to him, expressing his doubts about vietnam. here it is. >> i will tell you the more i stay add wake last night think being this thing, the more i think about it, >> rose: a domino theory comes up and up and up. we have to go there, or it will be a domino that will knock down the entire anti-communist world. >> i find one of the most devastating pieces of footage in this whole film is in 1966, senator fullbright had here hearing to discuss what was going on and they brought george ken in there, the author of the containment philosophy that was essentially-- and so this is basically we have to contain communism, so it is a domino theory, we have to contain it in asia and george basically says if we were not already in vietnam i would see no reason why we should get involved. i don't think it matters. i don'

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change the racial makeup of our country via immigration that changed in nine hundred sixty six lyndon johnson got that changed got replaced by a race neutral immigration law and since that time we've seen prior to that time basically the majority of integration in the states was white people and since that time it's been more representative of the planet as a whole and and that you know this is pat buchanan's ultimate goal and not just pat buchanan obviously bots it also goes back to the southern strategy really in. to the fourteenth amendment the whole reason why. people born were citizens is to make sure that former slaves were in fact citizens because that was going to be a problem so in fact this whole piece or it doesn't make people who are who are born in this country who are not poor in this country but are are can come here is children slaves but it at the same time it puts them as it makes them deal legitimacy. it makes them into a situation where they cannot move forward their lives it's cruel it's also expensive ten thousand dollars at least a person to to go real quickly are you h

held it in the can on our own i think it's really good movie and if ya bros the liberal left of lyndon johnson you know they clash and they will both of the day kennedy yes they're in the motorcade and we recreated that motorcade and you did yes with jennifer jason leigh played late plays ladybird in woody and it was the tories a kennedy on the morning is last morning he had to arbitrate to get ralph to get in the car because ralph thought that l.b.j. was corrupt you know but you have to have a southern accent no no i well yes i did yes i did. i wished i was short he was short i couldn't get over that but there i tried to do everything else because there's some good you tube stuff on him so that he was someone i did play that i really admired because he was a great environmentalist and oh so important for civil rights and finally mary gave me on the larry king melbourne to give not acting what do you think you do. well i think have probably be an orchard to steal you know. things feel so good doing things to my guests builds home and be sure to see this center airing what those days attorneys

if lyndon johnson told me i had to associate with you, i would tell him to go to hell. >> this is mattphy, until his death, he was the legal counsel of the united klans. speeches before the united clans of america. they were the only organization that ever went on record after i ,ad talked for two solid hours on the viciousness of the -- the federal reserve corporation and how it has a built americans out of their great britain has removed the bank from international bankers. >> this is a nighthawk of the lans.d k they're responsible for security. >> why did you join? >> have a wife and five kids. i want them to be, to have a country to be raised up in like i was. i was not forced to go to school with niggers and it with them. i want them to have the rights i had. >> this is mr. outlaw. outlawer jones goes, mr. is at his side. these are the three defendants indicted for the killing. men had little to say. they preferred listening to their counsel. >> i wrote in my history books, there is a nigger, the race is an inferior race. they taught me that in school. that was not too long ago. >

president lyndon johnson sometimes went down to his ranch. he had several cars. he had one of those cars that turned into a boat. he loves to drive that into the river on his ranch and drive around in that. presidents certainly did drive for fun, but not in their official capacities. the presidential vehicle behind me is undoubtedly the most famous presidential vehicle in our collection. and arguably the best known presidential limousine of any sort. this is the 1961 lincoln continental, used by president kennedy through all of his years in office, and it is, in fact, the car in which he was riding when he was assassinated in 1963. the car looks very different to whatnedy used it as we know today. we think of it as being a deep blue color, and it was a convertible, and it had no armor of any kind. this was the time after world war ii when, despite the cold war heating up, we do not think -- we did not think there would be that kind of risk or danger to a president's life. but this is also a time when the automobile is in everyday life. just after president eisenh

had he lived, it is a tall order to say he would have solved all the problems and they came at lyndon johnson and richard nixon. politics was not up to the challenge. we would have been more united as a country in 1969 when he left office and we have never quite gotten back to the idealism that we had during his presidency. we all have to reckon with this. >> let's go back to full rights -- to civil rights and he was concerned about governors and he changed. talk about what triggered the change. by the end, he made civil rights a moral issue and was committed to it. then, johnson came in and he said it was a testament to john kennedy to pass a civil rights bill. what do you think made that evolution? >> the specific answer is the children who are getting pushed around in the spring of 1963 and there is a moral outrage over the fact that children were being tortured by an unfeeling southern society and a bad police commissioner. it was growth. he was growing so fast. he came from a family of people outside of power. a family with a love children and it. he saw his vision improve and he saw tha

right now medicare is doing what it was designed to do when lyndon johnson signed the bill in 1965 and that is to make sure every person in this country 65 or older has access to good quality health and the result of that if people are living longer, they are happier and they are more secure. if medicare can work for people 65 or older there is no rational reason why it cannot work for every man, woman and child and i will be introducing is at legislation, medicare for all, within the next two weeks. [cheers and applause] >> again, the good news is more and more people are moving in that direction. there was recently a well done poll that suggested 60% of the american people believe the federal government should take responsibility providing health care to every man, woman and child in this country. those ideas are gaining momentum. when you take on the pharmaceutical industry which has unlimited, and i mean unlimited amounts of money, when you take on the insurance industry, when you take on wall street, that makes all kinds of money, you are taking on the most powerful special intere

now, starting with lyndon johnson in the 60s the federal government stepped in and put money into health. and no child left behind was a huge leap forward in trying to be prescriptive and force the states and districts to work out for the kids and provide better schools for them. and it was a mixed blessing. it was really dumb legislation in a lot of ways. the way they measure success was all wrong. and then the obama administration kind of overstuffed with race to the t top. >> host: but hypothetically, what would it do? >> guest: i would do another race to the top competition in which you encourage the kind of behaviors i'm talking about. and we could define them specifically. >> host: you would use a structured incentive funding system in the states or districts or both may be to encourage them to incentivize as behavior. >> guest: and i would also, there are how many federal categorical grant programs about 100? i've lost track of. i would simplify those and much broader grants because they tie the states in the district's hands and denver has been trying to have a weighted student f

if you're not president, attack lyndon johnson. he attacks back, you win. johnson got himself the nomination doing that. you don't attack down. to attack a crock pot with a bad haircut and get in a peeing match with the guy is insane. it's the opposite in a way that maybe the guy will fight. suppose he starts bombing south korea because he's upset. we don't know. >> the calculation when you talk to people -- >> look at this crazy stuff he puts on, the crazy shows, with the parade and the medals. look at the ridiculous medals. they're deluded as to who they are. look at the big hats they wear, too. it's ridiculous. they don't know who they are. he thinks he's great looking. how do we know he'll react anyway? who is he clapping at by the way. this is real stuff. look at him marching. what a great day. everybody is afraid of him. >> you could do a show where you just narrate north korean footage for an hour. i'd watch that. i don't think trump would have tweeted that if he believed kim jong-un -- >> yes, actually. >> his alpha male schtick is his schtick. >> h

now, starting with lyndon johnson in the mid-60s, they put some money in and no child left behind was a leap forward in trying to be prescriptive and force states and districts to look out for the poor kids and provide better schools for them. and it was a mixed blessing and a dumb legislation. the way they measure the success was all wrong. then the obama administration kind of overstepped the race to the top. what would it do? >> i would do another race to the top in which you encourage the kind of behavior that i'm talking about. you would use a structured incentive fund the system in the states and districts or both. there are how many federal categorical programs, 100? i lost track. it seems to be about a hundred. i would simplify those and have much broader grants because they tied the states and the district's hands. denver has been trying to waste to have a stupid funding system when it student chooses all the money goes to school but they cathe school butthey can only gf the way there. so much of it is tied up in these categorical grants so they can do a lot by simplifying va

. >> look, i think there's always been a dark under belly of american politics as lyndon johnson said we lost the south for a generation. it's obviously longer than that. there's always been a pushback to expanding the circle of rights and opportunities for african american, for women. >> charlie: we have had a steady stream of successes. >> but they engendered the block back we're seeing now that trump artfully has played upon. a lot of the new media, the down side of all the decentralization of media are the things that can be said on the internet and out west only small groups of people would say to themselves. when trump started retweeting from white supremacist sites they went from a couple hundred vurd viewers to thousand. when somebody running for president is given the okay. david duke said he was essential to furthering our agenda. >> charlie: he was in charlottesville. >> i think it's a dance they're doing. they serve several masters. they serve these unfortunate throw-back views. but they also serve financial masters who want to use the government to further their own ends

lyndon johnson famously said when he signed the civil rights south for aost the generation. it's obviously longer than that. there has always been a kind of pushed back to expanding the circle of rights and opportunities for african americans, for women. some would say we've had a steady stream of successes. ms. clinton: but those successes in the blowback that we're seeing now that trump artfully has played upon. , the sorthe new media of downside of all the decentralization of media are the things that can be said on the internet and other kinds of that only small groups of people would say to themselves. when trump started re-tweeting from white supremacist sites during the campaign, they went from a couple dozen viewers to thousands. it is when somebody running for president gives the ok to these kinds of people, david duke said he was essential to furthering our agenda. said, he said into the what we wanted to say. ms. clinton: that's right. i think this is a bit of a dance they are doing because they serve several masters. they serve these really unfortunate throwback

now, starting with lyndon johnson, the federal government stepped in and put some money in to help poor kids and no child left behind was a hugely forward in trying to be prescriptive and force the states and districts to look out for the poor kids and provide better schools for them. >> it was a mixed blessing. is really dumb legislation in a lot of ways. the way they measured success was all wrong. then the obama administration kind of overstepped with race to the top. >> i agree with all that, but , what would it do. >> i would do another race to the top competition in which you encouraged the kinds of behaviors i'm talking about. >> okay. >> and we could define them specifically. >> you would use a structured instead of funding system aimed at states or districts or both maybe. >> both. >> to encourage this behavior. >> incentivizes behavior. >> i would also, there how many grant programs for education. i've lost track. i would simplify those and have much broader grants because they tie state and district hands. denver has been trying to have a funding system where when a student c

charlie: speaking of lyndon johnson, here is the conversation. al security adviser to president kennedy and president johnson. here is what he said expressing his doubts about vietnam. president johnson: the more i think about this thing, i do not -- it looks like me we are getting into another korea. i do not think it is worth fighting more and i do not know if we can get out. we just have got to think about -- look at this sergeant of mine. he has little kids. and i am thinking, what in the hell have i ordered him out there for? what is it worth to me? what is laos worth to me? what is it worth to this country? we have a treaty but the hell, everyone else has a treaty and they are not doing anything about it. course, they start running, the communists. they chase you into your own kitchen. >> that is the trouble. that is what the rest of that half of the world is going to think if this thing comes apart on us. that is the dilemma. what action will we take? >> kill as few people as possible where the incentive to react is as low as possible. char

lyndon johnson said of vietnam ok i know that we care when but i am not going to be the first president to lose a war that kicking the can down the road keep it going don't you know don't pull out of then make the next guy take responsibility for that apparent. over and over no more u.s. troops are in afghanistan no more afghan civilians will be kill you first of all because of you or a military operation secondly the thing that makes us commander most. redcliffe in the u.s. in the use of u.s. firepower is protecting u.s. troops clear whatever rules of engagement while well no u.s. commander will ever be punished for using any amount of firepower those two factors mean more u.s. troops equal or surely more air. the genetically modified foods giant monsanto is calling for an investigation into an agency of the world health organization that's after the body published a report claiming some of the company's products like the weed killer glyphosate are linked to cancer or santos says the w.h.o. ignored two major studies that found no connection to that disease when an organization such is

no president including nixon, lyndon johnson, -- no president has ever suffered the unrelenting attackshuman withstand day in, day out -- charlie: whether the president will survive this. you never said to anyone -- steve: no, no, no. absolutely not. what i have said is "can he continue on at the pace that we had and win his reelection with the 400 plus electoral votes i know he can win?" because the unrelenting assault -- the principal reason i left the white house was to make sure he had somebody on the outside, ok? that had an operation that could hope to god and eyes the same coalition that elected him, to galvanize and tall these people that -- tell these people that we have to fight every day for these guys. the forces are raised against us. it is not some cute phrase like "drain the swamp." there is a cartel of a permit political class whose business model requires the rejection and destruction of donald trump. and if we do not have his back, they will go to whatever levels they want, whatever investigations, whatever the media, whatever personally, the attacks they put on his fa

there's no lyndon johnson expression, you've got some hard bark on you. you don't scare easily.t i know there were some scary times during that period. >> there were scary times certainly. and at one point nbc decided that they were going to send armed security with all of the correspondents that were covering donald trump, including me, exsecret servicemen and women mostly. and it followed after donald trump continued to single me out at rally after ali after rally. the one that got particularly bad was when he announced the muslim ban back in december of 2015. san bern dean notice had just happened where the couple shot up that office party. donald trump is calling for a muslim ban. that was his solution to thisful he was saying the administration in power wasn't vetting people. and basically the media was kplis ent because we weren't reporting it. so when he called me out at that rally, the room was angry and they were scared and they all turned on me at once. and i remember thinking to myself, just smile and wave, because if you smile and wave, you diminish the tension. but