ven ak lar. but with martin luther king, he was always respectful. reporter: early in his career he was no civil rights activist. casting votes against the legislation. when he was a senator from texas, he really couldn t follow up that much. otherwise he would have lost his seat. reporter: so what was the driving force behind this momentous moment? many looked to johnson s childhood in texas where he grew up in a fall farmhouse as the eldest of five. he was poor. i think he felt guilty enough and had had enough pain about his own hardship and poverty as a texas schoolteacher. reporter: he was a shrewd dealermaker and politician drawing on his experience in congress. he had lived and breathed and been through a thousand battles
naive to trust such an untrustworthy regime. i also thought, harris, it was tricky for the white house to message this. he linked isis to iran and he compared them saying they are both pursuing a crown of militant islam which, look that s a pretty accurate, i think, depiction but it puts the white house in a tough position to make a case and a compelling one on their own for what they re doing because not only have they made a compelling case they haven t made any case. what s interesting about what he said and how did he it he called it a game of thrones. he tossed it into the current ven ak lar of tv viewing. and i m glad you point that out. i thought one of the most important things and this administration has an allergy to logic clearly and what the prime minister did aside from of course it was a political speech and he had well crafted lines in order to score points but one of the contrasts he drew that i thought was powerful saying about the ayatollah he spewed