amazing grace how sweet the sound powerful stuff to see it all over again, isn t it? different presidents consoling the american people in different ways after different types the of national tragedy. president trump was handed a leadership test this weekend in the form of an awful tragedy in charlottesville. we will talk about it tonight with two pulitzer prize winner. presidential historian, author, biographer of jefferson, jackson, fdr, churchill most recently bush 41, our friend john meecham is with us. we welcome back clarence page, columnist for the chicago tribune. before we begin our conversation i have two separate pieces of business to play for you both on videotape. the first, we don t have many
with two pulitzer prize winner. presidential historian, author, biographer of jefferson, jackson, fdr, churchill most recently bush 41, our friend john meecham is with us. we welcome back clarence page, columnist for the chicago tribune. before we begin our conversation i have two separate pieces of business to play for you both on videotape. the first, we don t have many people walking around who worked for four presidents. i found that people listen up when they do talk, at least sensible people. in is david gergen tonight on cnn. he cannot address the hatred in the country until he addresses the hatred in his own heart. that was powerful. that got our attention. and here was the exchange earlier today, again, this is cnn correspondent jim acosta asking the president questions after his state ment on camera.
i know the good ones, the bad ones, overrated ones. i know the best people, we ve got the best people, i have the best people. so we re getting the best people. they ve been calling my by the dozens. i have guys lined up, believe me. we re going to deliver. we re going to deliver. we re going to get the best people in the world. he knows people. we figured it s friday night we ve got to look at how we got here and where we ve been. so we put together a great conversation group for this. joining our conversation, pulitzer prize winning presidential author and historian biography of jefferson, jackson, fdr. boston globe columnist, and the chair of journalism ethics at pointer indira is with us. and long-term radio talk show host charlie sykes. and charlie because a man from kenosha, wisconsin, is in the news tonight because he is a friend of yours. i m starting with him. start wherever you like.
we ve got to look at how we got here and where we ve been. so we put together a great conversation group for this. joining our conversation pull it ser prize winning presidential author and historian biography of jefferson, jackson, fdr, chfl. boston globe columnist, and the chair of journalism ethics at pointer indira is with us and long-term radio talk show host charlie sykes. and charlie because a man from kenosha wisconsin is in the news tonight because he is a friend of yours. i m starting with him. start wherever you like. but a personal note about what reince priebus s life looked like the past six months what his departure means to you. i d love to hear you. well, you know i do think of reince as a friend but the story is tragic.
two years later said it was just announced representative steve scalise of jefferson will enter the race. those that attended this conference in new orleans will recall scalise was a speaker and offered his support to us. so there is support then from the storm front crowd to steve scalise as he stood for congress. is there if i evidence that scalise responded to or in any way reflected that he might know about storm front s support and accepted? i m not sure if he knew about storm front s support, but it is a little curious that ten days before the event, the organizers were concerned about protests and a minor league baseball team from iowa that was going to stay there actually sdwied not to stay at that same hotel. so the idea that he wasn t aware of who this group was seems a little ludicrous. and were there other people