eight years between the end of his presidency and his nomination in 1921 by warren g. harding, keeping himself in the public eye and reminding fellow republicans that he was available. these eight years intrigued me, just how the taft recover from a disastrous presidency to be the logical choice for president warren g. harding? whichesearched the book the university of kansas brought out last fall. it was the brainchild of the creative mind of the now retired and very distinguished director of the kansas press, fred woodard, and his choice made it very easy to search for the book on google. i believe this book belongs in every household in america. unlike j.k. rowling, stephen king, and john grisham, my book sales fall short of that goal. on the premise that some of you, i know very few, may not have read the book yet, let me tell you what it says about taft, the presidency, and the fate of former presidents a century ago. as you shall see, the situation taft faced after he left office in 1913 reveals a great deal of how the presidency changed in the last century. and sit sure

liz, i don't believe it was ever confirmed that warren g harding was -- abraham lincoln did. esident, but he did. warren g harding may have fathered a few children -- >> i know he slept in separate beds from his wife. i know he slept in a separate bed from his wife. >> dick van dyke did too. >> exactly. >> and grover cleveland, mama where's pa? went to the white house, ha, ha, ha. that was the campaign. he fathered an i will legitimate child. >> they were all doing it back then. >> you said you were a huge elizabeth berkeley fan? >> yes jie. you are either a huge demi moore fan. >> what is the name of it? >> "show girl." >> forget the whole thing. >> i knew what you were talking about. >> oh man. >> i knew what you were talking about doesn't cut it. >> i got the reference right. >> he is in show girls? >> elizabeth berkeley. >> you mixed it up. >> i can't do it anymore. he is a demi moore fan. >> i love demi moore. i thought she was great in "gi jane." she had long hair in that one? >> she is a professor amoritis. trump calls ted cruz a maniac. you mentioned cruz was very smar

ed: [laughter] straight from the senate to the white house, warren g. harding was one, who are the other two? >> john f. kennedy. ed: and? >> tag and a hint -- can i get a hint? [indiscernible] [laughter] ed: without heat -- he thought we were going to ask how many are in their, he was already counting. >> about 35? [laughter] we will let you know if he was right. ed: he says 35, guess how many. 35. >> democrats can count. [laughter] ed: three blind mice. that was very good. looking forward to it. ed: welcome back and we want to look forward to 2016 with an eye back to 2015. who had the best year? janet: donald trump, he has taken the country by storm and politics will never be the same. just wait for the next 11 months. janet: for me it has been great. [laughter] patrick: you are the chaos commentator, of course you pick donald trump, or exactly the wrong reasons. i take him, too. he has changed the entire debate, the interest -- the incredible and think of the branding opportunities. washington, d.c. souvenir business will never be the same with donald trump

that came under the presidential administration of warren g. harding.e on the shootings. >>> the funeral held for the only american in the paris attack. she was a student at cal state long beach. studying abroad in paris and she was at a cafe with friends when she was shopt and killed in the massacre. her friends and family remembers her -- >> you have touched the lives of many without whom would not grow up the way they did and you will be truly missed. >> the eagles of death metal, the banld performing on the night of the attacks will be returning to paris and taking the stage for a performance along side u2. and that will be going on monday night. >>> proposing a new set of gun control law. requiring for everyone, including police officers to store the guns in locked boxes. and preventing magazines less than ten rounds. >> these are the weapons that are used in mass shootings every day. saw them in sandy hook, aurora and new town. no place here. >> considering the plans later this month. >> new signs of 880 and hayward open after a man was struck and

>> warren g. harding. he was one of our worst presidents. >> jimmy: he was one of the worst? >> that does not have south sudan on it. >> jimmy: it's missing a country? >> yeah. >> jimmy: you'd think everyone would know that. >> but no one does. >> jimmy: but no one does. how many elements are there on the periodic table? >> 118. >> jimmy: and you know -- >> all of them. >> jimmy: you know all of them. >> barium, lampidium, curium. promethium, samarium -- >> jimmy: we get it. you're embarrassing me now. [ applause ] >> jimmy: so not only does arden know about the elements and presidents, he knows a lot about "star wars" and tonight we'll find out who knows more about "star wars," the kid or the cast from the movie. let me tell you right now, the answer is the kid. around for so long, we kind of take the voice of chewbacca for granted, but the way chewbacca communicates is something someone, presumably george lucas, came up with. which makes you wonder how do you come up with something like that? what do you even tell the guy who does the voice? try to sound like you're kind of

not since they condemned the nomination of warren g. harding as a republican nominee did they put an editorial on the front page. actually that was pretty impressive at the time -- >> they had to put it on the front page because nobody reads "the new york times" editorials because they're stupid. and this is consistent with their stupidity, i would say. this is a front page editorial, condemning gun ownership, calling for new laws to take your guns away. but it didn't specify which guns should be taken away or which ammunition, which rounds, because they have no idea. erick erickson made that point in a more visual way by taking "the new york times" editorial and shooting it. >> so if you saw him yesterday on instagram, he was showing the guns on his bed that he was going to take out. and "the new york times" actual paper and fire bullet holes into it. here's what he said yesterday, he said this is what i think of "the new york times" editorial today. the united states suffered its worst terrorist attack since september 11th and the new york ti