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abc, henry, of course, but i don't think -- you remember back when reagan was president and how sam donaldsonlighted in embarrassing him. i remember that, i was in the newsroom with sam and he was just ripping reagan and nancy like crazy. he loved it. he lived for getting reagan and did the same thing to nixon. they did the same thing to bush the elder to a lesser extent. their heart isn't in it now, but i guess they're forced because of the beheadings to go after president obama. >> i think this all started with the botched obamacare rollout and then the press likes when the president takes personal responsibility for screw-ups. when it is pushed off on some other like kathleen sebelius fault, you get a lot of questions like, what did the president know? why didn't he know this? as to the heart being in this, i think they are doing the job because they are trying to hold the president accountable. maybe some are disillusioned or disappointed, but also when the president goes down in the polls as barack obama has, it becomes easier, maybe almost the in thing to do to kick that president aroun

. >> sam donaldson had questions for him and his staff went to great lengths. they would tell him before he walked out the door don't answer any questions. don't say anything and still are sam would say something so provocative. like gadhafi says you are a fool and he couldn't resist that. he would be like oh yeah so is he. [laughter] he would try to meet the insult with something of his own. but that was every friday. that was a regular friday feature of the white house reagan era. every friday he would go to camp david and leave at 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon and fly away. we would see him and try to provoke him into answering questions. reagan said i don't have the statistics but i have the impression that reagan was more available to the press and the oval office than his successors have been. when foreign dignitaries were there there was always an opportunity to ask a question. whether or not he answered it remained to be seen but he was there. there was the opportunity and that's one of the important things and not something that we miss now that there i

sam and donaldson would billow out keg questions and his staff would say don't answer questions or say anything and then bill or sam would say something show prov provoctive like gadhafi is a fool. and he would try to meet the insult with something of his own. that was a regular friday feature of the whitehouse. every friday he would go to camp david, leave around 1-2 in the afternoon, fly away and we would see him and try to provoke him into the answers. i don't have the statistics to back it up but i have the impression reagan was more available to the press in the oval office than his successors. there was always a photo opt and opportunity to ask a question. now whether or not he answered it remained to be scene. there was an opportunity and that was one of the important i things we miss. dignitaries and i remember reagan being anti-abortion and he had anti-abortion groups in a lot. and different groups came to the oval office and there would be a phot phot photo-op and you could ask a question but that is closing over the years. >> it seems there are fewer uncontrolled moments, ri