nancy reagan said, "although the judge limited mr. hinkley's travel to the washington, d.c. area, we continue to fear for the safety of the general public. our thoughts are with all of his victims today. and especially jim brady and his family as they must continue to live with the tragic consequences of the assassination attempt. >> reporter: when jared loughner opened fire in arizona last weekend, he used the pistol to hide a high ammunition magazine, capable of holding 30 rounds. now, those kinds of magazines were outlawed for a ten-year period until 2004, when they let the federal gun control law expire. now, den dennis richardson gives us a look back. >> reporter: assault weapons account for about 1% of all guns in private hands. but in a 21-month period in the year of 1994 and '95, assault weapons counted for 13% of all fatal shootings of law enforcement officers nationwide. 20 of those deaths are guns with high capacity magazines, firing dozens of rounds without reloading. and last month, 3,000 officers and friends turned out for the funeral of the oakland police offi

by the time someone is as powerful as oprah winfrey or frank sinatra or nancy reagan, they've already legions of publyists who have been telling their story a long time, and i try and get behind that mythology to a better reality. >> what's your next topic? >> i don't know. i'm open for suggestions. really after doing oprah winfrey she was a biographer's dream. she really, she gave me such a gift. now, it did take, it did take four years to do this book, and i had to interview over 850 people to get the story. it was a fabulous story. i mean, she was born poor in a racist state, she's become one of the most powerful, beloved icons really of our century. so it was a gift to be able to write her life story.

by the time someone is as powerful as oprah winfrey or frank sinatra or nancy reagan, they have already gotten legions of publicists have been telling their story along time, and i try to get behind that methodology to a bitter reality. >> what is your next topic? >> i don't know. i'm hoping for suggestions. reva come after doing oprah winfrey -- she was a biographer's dream. she really gave me such a gift. now it did take -- a data take four years to do this book, and i had to interview for 850 people to get this story. it was a fabulous story. i mean, she was born poor in a racist state. she's become one of the most powerful, beloved icons really of our century. so it was a gift to be able to write her life story. i don't know who could talk it right now. >> kitty kelley, "obra," a biography, her latest book. >>> a new book out by bloomsbury publishing. blur how to know what is true in the age of information overload. in your book one of the chapters is we have been here before. what does that mean? >> that means we've gone through this dislocation created by an expansion of informati

. >> the -- with regard to the progress -- >> reporter: nancy reagan helped on a question about arms l. >> doing everything we can. >> doing everything we can. >> reporter: but one of the doctors who worked for president reagan during his terms, says there was no questions about his ability to function. quote, ronald reagan's cognitive function, behavior and ability to communicate were totally and completely intact. and reagan biographer, lou cannon, told abc news, i would have noticed something different. there is simply no evidence he had alzheimer's in the white house. while ron reagan agrees that nobody thought his father had alzheimer's and wasn't diagnosed in office, he feels the early symptoms were there. >> we know now that decades ahead of symptoms arriving, changes are happening in the brain. >> are you concerned people will jump on that and say aha? >> this no more discredits or defines his presidency than lincoln's chronic depression, roosevelt's polio, kennedy's addison's disease. any of those things. you can't define their presidencies in terms of that. >> reporter: in h

. >> host: you say ronald reagan whispered to nancy reagan. >> guest: he didn't know what to say. he had nothing written. he had no idea. no one told him he would be called to speak. nobody said anything to him because it was so out of line. so he said i don't know what to say. one of the great speeches of his life. opening that podium at the convention. >> host: did you ever discover who the person at the door was? >> guest: ever discovered who that was. he had a few too many. it was one of those moments with in that convention and it was a great story to tell because that is how it got together. how does that happen? that is our happened. >> host: that is one of the story with michael reagan and his co-author tell in "the new reagan revolution: how ronald reagan's principles can restore america's greatness". the book publishedes on january 18th. >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here on line. type the author or book title in the upper left side of the page and click search. you can also share any thing you see on booktv.org easily by clicking share on the

. >> host: and you say that ronald reagan whispered to nancy reagan. >> guest: well, he didn't know what to say. what do i have to say? and, because he had nothing written. he had no idea. nobody told him he was going to be called down to speak. mike dever didn't go up and say anything, nobody said anything to him because it was just so out of line. it happened. he's walking and, i don't know what to say. nancy, you know, you'll find something. and, of course, dad found one of the great speeches of his life. in five and a half or six minutes there from that convention. >> host: did you ever discover who that person at the door was? >> guest: we never did. never discovered who that person was. somebody with the rnc who had had a few toddies too many, and it was just, it was one of those moments within that convention, and it was, it was a great story to tell because that's how that got together because everybody's always asked the question, how did that happen? [laughter] that's how it happened. >> host: and that's one of the stories that michael reagan along with his co-author tell in "t

when nancy reagan gave a return dinner in china, that was a huge controversy in this country because i think she brought her own china and everything else over to the dinner, did not stint on wasting money. each of these dinners has its own history. host: here is a tweet from of you were asking about the issue of money. do you have any idea, either one of you, about the budget of these state dinners? guest: i do not. guest: you know it has to be hefty, but it is built into the budget. thinking of all the logistics that go into this tonight, there was a comment michelle obama made prior to the first inner which i thought really captured what is going on. she said it is very much like being a swan. look perfectly calm and serene and the service and underneath you are paddling like mad. next host: call. -- host: next call. caller: mike hollis bought gold standard money, and fiat money. -- my call is about old standard money, it's not money but it does not work anymore in this country but what about going back to the gold standard? why haven't we decided to go back? i blame richard nixon

nancy reagan has not publicly commented on the claim made by her son. but the ronald reagan presidential foundation, which has ties to the former first lady, issued a statement saying, alzheimer's did not appear until well after president reagan left the white house. bill plante, cbs news, the white house. >> and joining us now exclusively in the studio this morning is president reagan's elder son michael, who's author of "the new reagan revolution: how ronald reagan's principles can restore america's greatness." that book will be released tomorrow. good to have you with us. >> good to be here, thank you. >> we just heard in bill's piece what your brother ron is claiming. i know as soon as you heard that you responded on twitter saying -- or tweeting, i should say, my brother was an embarrassment to his father when he was alive, and today he became an embarrassment to his mother. there's no love lost between the two of you. pretty strong statement, though. >> well, it needed to be a strong statement because reality is, all these years i've listened to pe

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there is president reagan dancing with first lady nancy reagan and one of the inaugural balls. e's a shot of president george h.w. bush. you can find all of that in our video library. next call for our topic regarding the reagan legacy -- john on the line for independents. caller: we talked to the governor of north dakota. remember? host: i thought i pronounced it. caller: you said hogwash. host: i would never say that. caller: i would like to remind people of the iranian hostage situation and the way ronald reagan lied and cut a deal with the iranians to win the election. i would like you to have pat buchanan on the air one of these days and put him on the spot about those questions and how they laughed about it in the oval office. have a great day. host: how much of the release of the iranian hostages and do you think was controlled by the incoming administration versus the iranians themselves? caller: i agree wholeheartedly with the first vietnam veteran that was on the air. like i said, get pat buchanan on the air one of these days and ask him one of those specific questions

reagan was actually scheduled to deliver his state of the union address that night. instead he went on television to comfort the nation. >> today is a day for mourning and remembering. nancy and i are daneed to the core over the tragedy of the challenger. we know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. this is truly a national loss. 19 years ago almost to the day we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. but we've never lost an astronaut in flight. we've never had a tragedy like this. and perhaps we forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. but they the challenger seven were aware of the dangerous but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. we mourn seven heros. smith, cobey, resmick, mcnair. amisuca, hervis and aminuca. the families of the seven, we cannot bare like you do this tragedy. but we feel the loss and we're thinking about you very much. your loved ones were daring and brave and they had that special spirit that says give me a challenge and i will meet it with joy. they had a hunger to explore the universe and discover it's truths. they wished to serve and they did. they served all of us. we've grown

and the reagans couldn't get up to camp david, they were stuck in the white house for the weekend. so our phone rings and nancy says "how about you and your wife coming over and have supper with us." so over we go and the four of us had a nice supper sitting around and the president was asking me about the chinese leaders, what were they like. and he was always interested in what are people like. and what kind... do they have a sense of humor? what kind of a backbone and so on. and then he knew that when i was way back, when i was secretary of the treasury i dealt with the soviet union a lot, so then he started talking about what they are like. and it dawned on me, i said this man has never had a real conversation with a big-time communist leader and he's dying to have one. so i had gotten permission to have for weekly visits with an ambassador and we were just trying to get rid of things, it was no big deal. so i said to him mr. president, ambassador bryn is coming over for one of these visits next tuesday evening around 5:00. what if i bring him over here and you talk to him." so he said yeah. his staff trie

nancy. it was those personal qualities and his humanness came out in many, many different ways. >> tomorrow an assessment of the republican congress and a fourth to create jobs through reagan also a look at the current -- and efforts to create jobs. also alleged occurrence situation in egypt. we will talk about state and federal stalking laws. then begins of and about 45 -- at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. on television, on radio, and on line, c-span, of bringing public affairs see you -- it is washington, your way. german chancellor angela merkel discuss the euro zone. she added she firmly stands behind the strength of the euro but warns that more transparency is required to rebuild the european economies. this event is about 25 min. >> i gladly except did your invitation. -- a accepted your invitation. i think we have learned, and we are mutually dependent on each other. there is a global network of players that are mutually dependent. i think now you just have to look of the collapse of lehman brothers and the aftermath to understand, because we have forgotten about international interdependence seas, close integration. we have decided something like that should no