seeing goodness because it wasn't long after that we now have president nixon and vice president spiro agnew. agnew resigned. amendment toe appointed vice president. he ends up appointing gerald ford. a year later, president and resigned. -- nixon resigned. now he uses the 25th amendment to appoint his own vp. the 25th amendment had not existed, we would have a huge political crisis on our hands. we would not have somebody representing the presidency was voted by a majority of the country. he would have been somebody voted by a very small majority of the states. the 25th amendment finally resolved a big question mark the constitution did not answer at the time. this is a motion to amend the asolution to strike out president and insert vice presidents now exercising the office of president. this is what was submitted after william harrison, president harrison died in office. vice president john taylor took office. this is a photo of lyndon b. johnson aboard air force one taking the oath of office to become president of the united states. here is a really interesting letter that delves more in

spiro agnew resigns, and president nixon appoints a vice president. he ended up appointing gerald ford. just a year later president nixon resigned. now president ford using the 25th amendment to appoint his own vp. however, if the 25th amendment had not existed there would have been a huge political crisis on our hands. we would not have had somebody representing the presidency who was voted by a majority of the country, would have been someone voted by a small majority actually of a state. so the 25th amendment finally resolved a big question mark as the constitution did not quite answer at the time. >>> this is a motion to amend the resolution to strike out president and insert vice president now exercising the office of president. so this was what was submitted after william harrison, president harrison, died in office and vice president john taylor took office. this is a photo of lyndon b. johnson aboard air force one taking the oath of office to become president of the united states. and then here is a really interesting letter that talks -- or t

we've had culture war attacks on the press since spiro agnew in 1970.hat's different now, they're coming consistently with the fr from the top of the political system with the president-elect and people have various ways of opting out of journalism in a way that wasn't true in 1970. and they have a constant stream of attacks and insults on journalists coming from their social feeds. so there's so many different ways to discredit the press now from the top to the bottom, so the question isn't just how do journalists find the story and distribute it, it's, how do they get a hearing? >> right. and eric, you're a tv critic. a lot of folks look back at this election and we've heard people say that the tv press got it wrong by giving donald trump so much unfiltered early attention. and then we've heard a lot of trump supporters say the tv press got it wrong because they're overly critical of him and they don't get what he and his followers are really all about. >> well, there's some truth to both of those statements. i think one thing that the press has to le

a richard nixon spiro agnew thing. >> are you correcting? >> on the fed -- clearly, the first hike is pretty much baked in. it will be bad if it doesn't happen. because something went amiss. i am wondering, though, after the fed last year, they were in this situation. they gave us their guidance for the year. and then quickly had to change that. why go out on a limb again, and talk about your guidance beyond any relatively short amount of time? there is obviously things going on in europe that, you know -- a lot of things could derail what their plan is. i don't know why they would -- why risk it? >> right. >> why box themselves in a corner? >> coming up, a "mad money" jim cramer spoke to the ceo of united technology's greg hayes after carrier made a deal with donald trump. we'll hear the comments mr. hayes had to say about the president-elect. >>> plus, used car sales surging and it could be signalling a major shift in the auto market. we'll explain what it is and how you can profit. >>> and is disney better with or without espn? analyst ma

first one in a neat example of than i am too young to remember the corruption of vice president spiro agnew under nixon, the lord knows i heard his name soso much on the evening news when i was on kindergarten and elementary school and countless paul wolfowitz and the last torch w. bush administration and the education secretary who gave what i call, although she met while, no standardized test left behind the didn't leave nearly it wgh flexibility for the state. and one more problem that i see that i wish you would address. each president appears to have the secretary of the treasury board the choice for attorney general ordered the irs toto really inspect the books all ofl any charities, sometimes charities, but usually lobbying groups and think tanks that are the opposite from the way the party in power in the white house think that time. i thought i had some pretty choice example is of that wonderful veteran who had so many of those problems getting the va to do anything for him. my heart really goes out to him. >> well, the caller said a lot of interesting games and of course one of th