view of something extraordinary from air force one. the great one, denali [ cheers and applause ] reporter: the move came amid much praise in the far north. alaskans have fought for this to happen for years noting it was a gold prospector who named the mountain after president fo this state. reporter: but in ohio, the home state of the assassinated 25th president, outrage. then speaker of the u.s. house, ohioan john boehner said he was deeply disappointed. governor john kasich said potus once again oversteps his bounds. and candidate donald trump oh! reporter: with the state s primary still ahead, he tweeted, president obama wants to change the name of mcmckinley to denali. great insult to ohio. i will change back. but it s not clear if that will actually happen now. the anchorage dispatch news
the president made a proposal out of the blue to senators from alaska. towering more than 20,000 feet over the alaskan wilderness, this is the tallest mountain in north america and it also appears to be a big chip on the president s shoulder. so much so that he took it up with the state s two republican senators, lisa murkowski and dan sullivan. how are you doing? reporter: the issue in 2015, president obama changed the mountain s name from mount mckinley to denali. flying in on monday, i had something extraordinary from air force one the great one, denai.i reporter: the move came across much praise in the far north. they had a gold prospector who never stepped foot in the state. reporter: in ohio the home state of the assassinated 25th
towering more than 20,000 feet over the alaskan wilderness, this is the tallest mountain in north america, and also appears to be a big chip on the president s shoulder. so much so that he took it up with the two republican senators, lisa murkowski and dan sullivan. the issue in 2015, president obama changed the mountain s name from mt. mckinley to denally. flying in on monday, i had the view of something extraordinary from air force one. the great one, denali. the move came amid much praise in the far north. alaskans have fought for this to happen for years, knowing it was a gold prospector who named the mountain after president mckinley, who never set foot in this state. in ohio, the home state of the assassinated 25th president, outrage. then speaker of the house john boehner said he was deeply
a lot of the trouble. you would have to argue from a communications standpoint, steve bannon is the talk, that continues today, that he is short for his job as chief strategist? real or not? i mean, these people are work closely, closer to the white house than i am. but funny. clearly that the aura s steve bannon is palpable and everybody trump saying in the last few days and steve bannon talking to the american prospector, confusing and distracted to do economic aggressive economic moves with china and other places like that. so trump wouldn t actually endorse wouldn t firmly say steve bannon has my full support in that tuesday press conference, leaves the question open, as he s done with many. likes to be the guy in charge making a decision at a moment s notice however he chooses to. at that tuesday press conference. the photos. you mentioned gary cohen. the weirdness, he s not leaving. strange. you see right there.
denali. it was only in the late 1800s when a random gold prospector from new hampshire decided to declare a new name for denali in honor of the news he had just heard that william mckinley won the republican nomination for president. william mckinley had nothing to do with that prospector or with that mountain. he never set foot on denali. he never set foot in alaska. he was from ohio. even though alaska broadly speaking has long wanted to change the name back and they even d did officially at the state level in the 1970s, the federal name mt. mckinley stuck mostly because ohio republicans insisted that it not be changed for years now. so now that president obama has gone ahead and changed it, ohio republican and house speaker john boehner says he is deeply disappointed president obama has decided to take away william mckinley s random tribute and