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People s attitudes will change. so much of that is out of his hands. it s a great piece from laura. be sure to tune in to lbj, triumph and tragedy. premiers with back-to-back episodes tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. only on cnn. ottawa police are attempting to clear streets that have been blocked for weeks in the canadian capital. police say some of the protesters they have arrested were wearing body armor and have smoke grenades and fireworks. a live report from canada coming up next. you re live in the cnn newsroom. rances can be. overwhelming. air wick fresh new day fills your space with fragrance that s always fresh, never oveverpowering. air r wick. connect to nature. ....
Lbj, to democratic history in this country to say this is not radical, ladies and gentlemen, this is just something we ve always gone through. what s your response to that? i think that s smart. i think he wants to put himself in the american context because he wants to change the subject or have people ignore all of the kind words essayed over the years he s said over the years about foreign tyrants who embrace socialism, whether it s daniel ortega or admiring commentary on the former soviet union. he wants to try to put himself in the sort of democratic traditional mainstream. i m going to make a prediction here. i think bernie sanders is going to fade after this speech and elizabeth warren s going to rise. paul: why? why is that? in bernie s world there is no role somewhat swerve for the private sector, no discussion of the private sector in that speech. i m not saying he s a communist. there is something com communisc ....
House. he s hoping to shore yo up suppt in a crowded democratic field. is that a smart move. james, what do you make of sanders defense of socialism? well, it was a full-on unrepeunrepentant karl marxist . politicians generally try to distance themselves from radical fantasies they indulged as college kids. bernie has not evolved at all. he s promising a revolutionary change to american life. he s moved that party so far to the left, he has to differentiate himself. paul: here s counter point. he didn t invoke some other countries. he didn t invoke the history around the world of socialism. he pointed to fdr, to truman, to ....
Donald trump hasn t topped it yet as president. what do you think about president obama has topped it 11 years and president trump is lagging him? barack obama is the anti-donald trump. his wife, the first lady, michelle obama s book is number one. he is extremely popular reminds me a little bit of a more pronounced version of what we saw at the end of linden johnson s time when l.b.j. was getting really unpopular over vietnam, the gallop most popular man in their poll was dwight eisenhower, the former president, not l.b.j. it was a way of some people essentially sort of going like this to l.b.j., and i assume that to some extent, that s going on with donald trump. yeah, very interesting. three african americans at the top of the poll when you count first lady michelle obama, oprah winfrey number two on a list of women, and president obama. that s got to be unprecedented, too. fascinating and reassuring. yeah. nbc presidential historian and author of presidents of war, ....
If you have a big event over here, all these people in the streets and you want to talk about something else to keep the subject, i think that s possible. but get the facts right if you want to do that. something besides crowd size. bob dylan has a line that says all he believes are his eyes and his eyes are just telling lies. there s a problem with presidents only want to hear what they want to hear. that s what a lot of powerful people want to do. what you re talking about is what killed the lyndon johnson administration. mcnamara was afraid to give real facts from vietnam to lbj. nixon didn t want to hear the news that something went wrong so people started making up statistics and it led to a crisis in america where people didn t trust the white house anymore. finally gerald ford wrote a memoir time to heal and keeping faith. nobody had trust in the white house. so donald trump has a sacred ....