chevy started doing gerald, trying get that toothpaste back in the tube. i have two announcements to make. uh-oh. no problem, no problem. as a kid i didn t know anything about president ford. i thought, he s a clumsy idiot. no problem. chevy s ford, there was no attempt to make him look like ford. he just played sort of a stumble bum. chevy s portrayal may have made a difference. will president ford win begin in 76? i don t think so. do you? my name is jimmy carter. i m running for president. lot of its existence has defined the comedic take on the president. i personally try to be a tlusty, zesty kind of president. hi, baby, how are you? come o lisa. come on. bye-bye. bye. back to work!
neater. i think make fun kat in 64. vaughan meter come out with a record called the first family, which apparently was jfk. using my gesture and using my line. i read from the mr. meeder record but i thought it sounded more like teddy than it did me. there s something charming and american about this idea that rerepublican our political figures but at the same time we d like to take them down a peg. general ford was like a football player, he s a really great athlete. but in the public s mind once he started doing jerry ford, try getting that toothpaste back in the tube. i do have two major
michael you can t put the tooth pace back in the tube process. they re out we ve read them having said that what did you learn from them. you and i talked about this a number of times. let s talk about all of this. joining us now politico senior foreign affairs correspondents michael crowley and an encore performance, michael beschloss. how was this leak and printing these triplets a terrible precedent a bad thing for the presidency? well, a really bad thing for the presidency because one thing that a president of the united states has to do is feel that he can talk to foreign leaders in confidence and vice versa. if i were a leader of another country today, i would be very nervous about talking to the president of the united states because i would think that there was a big danger that that conversation would leak and embarrass me, and the result is that diplomacy could be crippled. michael, you can t put the toothpaste back in the tube. so having said that, what did you learn
the presidency because one thing that a president of the united states has to do is feel that he can talk to foreign leaders in confidence and vice versa. and if i were a leader of another country today i would i nervous about talking to the president of the united states because i would think that there was a big danger that that conversation would leak and embarrass me, and the result is that diplomacy could be crippled. michael, you can t put the toothpaste back in the tube. so having said that, what did you learn from them? you know, brian, you and i have talked about this a number of times. one of the things that you really evaluate a politician on is whether he or she means what they say in private and public. how many hours of the johnson tapes we heard, 650, the lbj tapes. in a lot of cases you would here
might say. the ones released to the public revealed that this russian attorney might have damaging information on hillary clinton, that the president, then candidate at the time, donald trump was supported by the russian government. a very critical part of the investigation. i talked to a top congressional source earlier this morning, wolf, who says that if this is true, further implicates the president in all of this, and obviously raises questions that the president himself will have to answer at some point. he s obviously not eager to talk about these issues but it s out there for the president to answer. according to the washington post report, the president rejected the strategy of some advisors to be more forthcoming about donald trump jr. s russia meeting at trump tower in june of last year. is this the kind of situation where his new chief of staff, general kelly, might be able to intervene going forward? reporter: well, might be able to intervene going forward, wolf, but