sam donaldson, thank you for putting it in perspective as you do.i said, your insight has always been a gift to me. this christmas will be no different. be well, my friend. >> the same to you and your family. >> the question becomes, what happens in the next couple of days? this is not a game. look, of course it is good to ask for more for the poor. but he didn't. he didn't ask for more for the poor until now. can he get it done, or is this what sam suggests, just him wanting to look good to the right people, at the right time? what a sin that would be against the culture of this country and the need. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ come on! ♪ over here! ♪ spoil your pets with 50% off tall dog and cat holiday toys. is happening now. and enjoy free same-day delivery at petsmart.com, powered by doordash. the season of spoiling is here. petsmart. we're all finding ways to keep moving. but how do we make sure the direction we're headed is forward? at fidelity, you'll get the planning and advice to prepare you for the future, without sacrificing the things that

let's bring in legendary former abc news anchor sam donaldson. how are you, sir?lec answer would be in 14 days we'll know. but as far as i know, i'm okay. >> good, i'll take it. so, what are we to do after an unprecedented period of perfidy by people in this party where they sat silent? how do you cover that >> well, you have to cover it the way good reporter, men and woman, have done the past four year, increasingly towards the ends of the trump era. that is call a lie a lie. ask why he lies and ask him to explain it and to be very aggressive. i was once known as aggressive. i was a pussycat. the presidents that i covered were gentlemen. they never said to my face i should be firped or thought i was a disgrace to the networks. they may have thought it but never said it. but the men and the women that had to deal with donald j. trump had something as unprecedented in our history. i compliment each and every one of them. give it to him and give it to his enablers. they have to come to the lord if the republican party will be reconstituted, and i hope it will be. >>

legendary former abc news anchor, sam donaldson. how are you doing? >> fine, as smart as i know.we will know. but as far as i know i am okay. >> what are we to do after an unprecedented people by people in the party where they sat silent. how do you cover that going forward? >> the way that men and women have done for the past four years, increasingly towards the end of the trump era. that is call a lie a lie. ask why he lies and ask him to explain it and to be very aggressive. the presidents that i covered were gentlemen. they never said to my face i should be fired or a disgrace to the networks. they may have thought it but never said it. but the men and the women that had to deal with donald j. trump had something as unprecedented in our history. give it to him and give it to his enablers. they have to come to the lord if the republican party will be reconstituted, and i hope it will be. >> when you hear the line from him tonight, i will see you in four years. >> first of all, i don't think he will be back. he will be back in talking about the lie that he was cheated out of it

sam donaldson, thank you for putting it in perspective as you do. insight has always been a gift to me. this christmas will be no different. be well, my friend. >> the same to you and your family. >> the question becomes, what happens in the next couple of days? this is not a game. look, of course it is good to ask for more for the poor. but he didn't. he didn't ask for more for the poor until now. can he get it done, or is this what sam suggests, just him wanting to look good to the right people, at the right time? what a sin that would be against the culture of this country and the need. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ come on! ♪ over here! ♪ at mercedes-benz, sit's not just a job, it's our mission.

on the floor of air force one, sam donaldson, lou canon, bill of cbs, were all three collaborating to and who was overseeing it, looking down, as they were on the floor? not the president. nancy. >> it's been eight years. been a big chunk of your life, that you've been the first couple in the white house. all this important stuff, swirling around you, every day. and now, that's going to go away. and you will leave the stage. >> she said we thought we'd have our golden years, and we would reminisce about, you know, our lives. sorry. >> so then, they leave and within four -- four years or so, he's been diagnosed with alzheimer's. he now has dementia. you know? that's a whole different phase of their life, of course. now, she's not going to be fancy nancy, anymore. she's going to be this new character, you know. and so, it just continued through the rest of her life. >> reporter: when nancy reagan died, on march 6th, 2016, tributes came from all corners. her support for her husband, through his illness, and her work to legalize stem-cell research, had softened her image. but her greatest

. >> it reminds me of sam donaldson. used to scream questions at reagan back in the day and reagan would be like i can't hear you, sam. peter's done a great job on this. the press has generally done a horrible job on this from day one. even when the story broke at first, even if you were skeptical about the hunter biden laptolaptop and the issues surrounding it, when it broke, if you notice, biden has never denied the basic facts of the whole story that to me should have been the calling card for most of the media, not just us, to go and a find out about what was going on here and i think the media's done a horrible job with hunter biden and it adds to this sort of cynicism that you see every day on twitter, it's okay that donald trump gets investigated and there's two very active investigations going on in new york -- manhattan da and new york state attorney general, but it's not okay for everybody to hold biden's feet the fire on this. so this is -- i think it's a low point for the media in sort of fairness here. howie