they picked reagan. up like the gallup -- unlike the gal line up, gallup does a presidents day poll every presidents day, annual presidents day poll. they've been doing this 13 times since 2001. reagan placed fist among the american public as far as question who's your all-time favorite president. reagan got it in 2001, fife 2005, p.r.n., 2012 -- 2011, 2012. and reagan usually finishes in the top three. typically beats lincoln. [laughter] imagine that, imagine that. there was in june 2005 a poll done by aol and time warner. aol online which surveyed americans, and they didn't give them a choice. they asked them to put in whichever name they wanted, who is the greatest american of all time. not just the greatest president, who's the greatest american of all time? 2.4 million people responded which any statistician will tell you is far and away a representative sample. i mean, you only need maybe 500 people to do some of this polling. and reagan won. greatest american of all time. so what republican wouldn

these years to reagan. peter hannaford said last week at the reagan library that reagan early on, he and b--o'connor said this, made a commitment to arrange his life around his taping schedule. so although he was giving 10 speeches a month around the country on behalf of conservative causes, he was always in the radio sta--the studio to do the broadcasts. so he would write them on planes, at the ranch, in the back of cars, wherever he could write them. and i don't know if you'd like to play the second one, but he describes how he writes them in his final radio broadcast in the fall of 1979, the very day that he announces he's going to run for the president of the united states. c-span: and this is also--i mean, this is from the o'connor collection. it's at the hoover... >> guest: right. it's at the hoover institution that's now preserved on cd. c-span: yeah. well, let's--let's run this one, ok? >> guest: ok. mr. reagan: (from radio broadcast) for the last time, i'm cleaning up my desk with a few items you s

to him and reagan soda in 1980.f you define everybody who's supported reagan at the time he sewed up and call from reagannights and those who were not supporting reagan at that point don't qualify even though many of them did support him when he became the nominee. since reagan the republican party has nominated a number of other candidates for president of the united states. 1 of the united states. none of them met the definition, it is high time for us to nominate another reagannight. who should that be? >> well said. in this very building some years ago dr. lee edwards's panel discussion on one of his 20 plus books he has written, i remember frank shakespeare, the great conservative, was in the audience. frank asked a version of that question. in all the years we had the conservative movement since the early 50s through now we have only thrown up from the grassroots one principled conservative, ronald reagan. why haven't the conservatives done a more successful, better job? no one had the answer and i certainly d

reagan. she helped push him with gorbachev. she was very good in that respect. yes, she was extraordinarily powerful people were terrorized of her. >> host: did you ever meet her? did she ever consoled -- and sent to an interview currently no. she never consented to an interview. as i said, none of the subjects have. but i did meet her very, very briefly when i went to the white house with a photographer friend of mine, and he was taking pictures of president reagan and mrs. reagan for the cover of "people" magazine. and they were having a hard time getting the president to relax. he was upset about what was going on in congress. and i still member when we went to the white house, we got out in the back and they were sharpshooters on the roof. because this was a few months after the assassination attempt. guns, policemen all over, and i'm holding the light for the photographer, and he continued to argue with the president. he said, mr. president, i want a picture of you like this, strong and

and his team in 1976, reagan before he got to north carolina had lost four five primaries, lost the florida primary, new hampshire primary, things were looking really dark. so, ellis and jesse helms said don't come, we don't want you here, we will handle the campaign. end take care of it but if you insist on coming in we have to do four things and jesse helms and tom ellis told reagan four

that is what ronald reagan said and that was the kind of man ronald reagan was. great man, absolutely great man. >> host: what are you reading? some of your influences, what your favorite books are, here's a look at mark levin's answers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> host: mark levin, one of the authors you list is raymond aron, the 0 pulliam of the intellectual. it is an absolutely great book. he wrote particularly about the cold war and the iron curtain. >> guest: he skewered in a brilliant way be elites, the so-called intellectuals. it is just a tremendous book and i learned a great deal from him, these masterminds. he gave great examples of it and the danger of it and talked about the communist elite and liberal elite and academic elite and he didn't agree with every exact thing but the mentality, it was just super. he was not the only one, joseph trumpeter is another one. great economist and philosopher. he did the same thing and he is not alone either. hayek did it in so many of his books too. this is the from with centralizing all these decisi

nation, behold mount reagan. lo how she soars 1,900 feet above the dirt. this brown mountain's majesty is crowned with an off-limits substation. all other presidential peaks bow down before ye, nownt reagan. mount mckinley. if this mountain doesn't seem impressive to you now, just give people sthirt years to forget what it's really like and it will seem like the greatest mountain of all time. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) here's a little secret, voice control is the future. beer. dog. music. yikes. skip track, please. i'm hungry. impossible? maybe, but honeywell's latest innovation gives me hope. hello, thermostat? "hello. please say a command." i'm feeling hot. "changing set point to 68 degrees" the wi-fi thermostat that listens, learns, saves. from honeywell. yeah. i heard about progressive's "name your price" tool? i guess you can tell them how much you want to pay and it gives you a range of options to choose from. huh? i'm looking at it right now. oh, yeah? yeah. what's the... guest room situation? the "name your price" tool, making the

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he has authored two reagan books, reagan's revolution and "rendezvous with destiny" and he is the reagan scholar at eureka college and a widely sought after commentator and speaker. without further ado i would like to introduce cheryl and her presentation with her book. >> on the british channel island of guernsey everyone seems to be in a dreadful hurry. if you wander today through the narrow winding streets of st. peter you may hear rapid footsteps behind you as young and not so young islanders walk briskly past. i once felt the light sharper wrap up a woman's cane on my leg 85 if she was a day, to urge me out of the way if i lollygag through the narrow winding streets that is an extension of their high street and the curves gently down toward the harbor. it almost seems to me as if these busy people will run out of room and continue walking purposefully write off the island and into the english channel. but if you leave saint peter port or one of the other little towns that dot the edge of the island you might walk through a dark fragrant forest for a long one of the many high cliff p

ronald reagan made all that ifference. i dwelled a little on president reagan, because having spoken to marco rubio a number of times, i can tell you that first of all, he is a ronald reagan epublican. and secondly, when you really talk to him, you find out he truly was inspired by that great resident, ronald reagan. we are republicans for a number of reasons. we are republicans because we believe in the individual. the privacy of the individual over the overreach of the state. we are republicans because we believe in smaller government. we are new hampshire republicans because we have enjoyed the full benefits of truly smaller overnment for generations in this state. and we are republicans because we understand that in order for us to be enjoying what we have now, it is because of free enterprise and capitalism and freedom and a constitution that makes the difference, and we understand what made this nation great, and at this point in time, we understand the jeopardy that this nation has. that is why i am thrilled to be d

reagan. but more could be done.aents tax republican grover norquist says every county in the u.s. should have something named after ronald regan. california democratic chair says i remember signing his letter in the mr than 100 year history of our state. i also remember governor reagan signing the bill that liberalized abortion. are these claims right? reagan wurnt real whether i a true conservativativconservativ? they've partly real and partly wrong. >>> yes, reagan did sign the abortion act. by 18970, it was up to 65,000. >> he came to regret that he passed that law later on.tr, secondly, the morm majority was not a key part of the gov. if tax increase took up a third of revenues. >> when you look at the big records, though, and you look at reagan's actual speeches, he was far from the progressive. >> the reality here is as president, it is also a fact that it's california's governor. how do we connect these two separate realities? >> thank you, sam. >> let's check in with jeff one more time. the weekend is almos

president reagan said to himid who was comingen under attack attack, president reagan said to him, i wan to apologize. all of these attacks aimed at you are intended for me. items are yos are you have to go through this. that is when ronald reagan said, a great man. absolutely great teeseven cement one of the things he likedte to do their guest isom whate they're reading or other influences. care is a lot castle of his answanswers. -- at some of his answers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ he drove up the cold war and the iron curtain but hejust skewered in a brilliant way the intellectuals.inds it is just a tremendous book. u i've learned a great deal from the masterminds.al and he gave great examples and the danger of it to talk about the congress and liberal elite and congress to meet while we did not agree with every exact thing , but the mentality was just superb. he is not the only one or that a trade economist and d philosopher. he did the same thing and is not alone. >> with so many of his books this is the problem withcept centralizing all of these decisions may expect theimpe fact men and women ar

anti told the story about reagan , which i think it is wonderfully eloquent.aid that one day he went to see president reagan in the hospital, george torsion an awful. and so he is ushered into the room and goes and and finds himself alone in a hospital room there's no president reagan and the bathroom doors open. he hears president reagan say, oh, george, i am in here. so he, you know, he goes over. president reagan, the leader of the free world, is down on his hands and knees mopping. mr. bush says, wrong, what are you doing? well, spills and water. i did not want them are stacked in and out. and, you know, it -- in retrospect it is a story that, you know, could be told about george bush. you would have been down there mopping up water or water river of it was. he used to it, you know, he is a houstonian. he used to stay in washington on christmas so his secret service detail could have christmas with their families. he was a wasp mensch, you know. and he was also, i'll tell you something else, the most sentimental man i think there have never known. this blu

that is what ronald ronald reagan said and that's the kind of man ronald reagan was. and ed meese too. a great man, absolutely great man. >> host: one of the things we like to do with our "in depth" guest is asks what they are reading and their favorite influences some of their favorite bookseller. here is a look at some of mark levin's answers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> host: mark levin one of the others you listed as your favorite raymond eric -- the intellectual. >> guest: he is a friend of mine and it's an absolutely great book and he was a great thinker. there is a philosopher that i didn't mention. he wrote particularly about the cold war and the iron curtain and but he's skewered in a brilliant way the elites, the so-called intellectuals and it's just a tremendous book and i learned a great deal from him. these are not necessarily words that he used that i'm using and he gave great examples of it and the danger of it and talk about the communist elite in the liberal elite and the academic elite and while i didn't agree with every

so some reagan supporters want to name the peak after president reagan.t as you mentioned, it's not been easy. it's been very difficult to cut through the red tape. it's led by a republican activist who's tried to cut through the red tape. it's the northernmost peak. it's 3, 952 peak above sea level. >> this opportunity to do something to give back in honor of the man who was so important to me and my political growing-up, i guess you could say, would be a really nice them for me to put a mt. reagan in my backyard here in las vegas. >> they originally targeted another peak but a democrat intervened with legislation to name the exact same peak for a mostly forgotten state lawmaker from back in the 1950s. so he tried to find another way. he no longer went through the administrative process. instead, he has to get congress to pass legislation which means that even if it does pass the house, the mt. reagan bill would have to pass through harry reid's democratic senate. >> what harry reid and congresswoman titus are doing is very petty. it's northeast a congre

kennedy, a new crusade came to washington led by ronald reagan.im to try and tap that great american spirit that opened up this completely undeveloped continent from coast to coast and made it a great nation. schoumacher: john f. kennedy and lyndon johnson had called on the government to help those in need. ronald reagan called on the government to get out of the way so people could help themselves. reagan administration budget director, david stockman, told congress that the job corps had flunked the cost/benefit test. too much cost, not enough benefit. the cost? $15,000 a slot, he said. more than a harvard education. it made me laugh to see david stockman resurrecting that old canard this year as a justification for closing up the job corps. that was all discussed back in the '60s. the fact is it's not true. the actual costs of the entire job corps operation per enrollee is about 6,000 bucks. now, that's a lot of money. i'm not trying to minimize it. but the question is, is it better to spend $6,000 to transform that young man or woman and turn

because i have written four blocks but i wanted to take a little bit by the wrist with reagan in hisesidency for many years but i was always interested in this period of time from the civilian standpoint. nothing will ever surpassed the best book written on december 7, 1941. but very few books written from the perspective of civilian life coverage changed between december 7 and the 31st thing in the rest of the war. i grew up in the andy hardy movie. in upstate new york my grandfather was a prominent businessman and we used to get together for the sunday dinner when i was a child after church all the and then bring in suits and ties severed be a big ham or turkey and the conversation would turn to those more. there is a point of reference for everything i would listen and the grandfather would say i bought that before the war but did not sell a until after the of war. talk about margarine and how awful it tasted. also my family like everybody here was immersed in the war effort to. if you were not in uniform everybody served in some way as most americans did. my grandfather was 43 ye

job creation skyrocketed under reagan. >> it did.was inflated and investment bankers made billions of dollars. >> i'm sorry. go ahead. >> if you're down on prosperity and the free market and you want lower taxes and you want less regulation -- >> excuse me? >> what is wrong with you? i mean, a lot. >> they're moving us along. we'll get you back. remember joe garcia the ear wax chomping congressman. that should earn the lawmaker a spot in the fastest seven. here is representative gross talking immigration and communism all at once. >> the safest city in america is el paso, texas. it happens to be across the boarder from the most dangerous city in the americas and two of the safest cities in america, two of them are on the border with mexico. and of course the reason is, you know, you proved that communism works. if you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime. >> well, bobby, another democrat saying communism works. now to his defense he said he was tongue in cheek with that one. >> ear wax in cheek. >> certain senator f

ogden ramp on the reagan expressways closed for repairs. small construction spot pond construction we will explain the coming up. >> coming out the strategy to winning at rock, paper, scissors. on to minnesota, black hawks to hold to it-0 game lead over minnesota wild. chicago defeated minnesota 4-1. they now hold a 2-0 lead over minnesota. >> much better over all over two periods. we were better over all and all areas and all. app. >> we have more if you look at the pace of a game. we have improved since last game. >> we are in a good spot, i felt in this game we are going into the right way. >> the series shifts to minnesota for two games. >> chicago cubs lost to the cardinals 5- 4. the the white sox defeated the indians 4-3, snapping a four game losing streak. stocks closed lower friday, all markets gained about 1% for the week. a team of the chinese researchers studied the outcome of thousands of games and say they have found a pattern that began to ease odds of winning the game rock, paper, scissors. players are now winning streak tend

you are familiar with the reagan numbers. president bush had a decline in , but i believe you should see that in terms of the other eight years. sooner or later, the wheels had to run off of running these big deficits and letting the interest rates go up and potentially, there was a limit to it. president bush, believe it or not, this is both a compliment and a cautionary tale. when president bush ran for office, the second president bush, unlike the first president bush, he was free to decide what he wanted his economic policy to be. he basically said vote for me and i will bring you back to supply-side economics. the rhetoric was clever. i will give you the same thing clinton did with a smaller government and a bigger tax cut, wouldn't you like that? i am a compassionate conservative. he believed that reagan was right and i was wrong. that's what he believed. back to financing two wars on borrowed money and financing a tax cut for hillary and me on borrowed money and spending more than we were taking in. .nd the consequence

then look at reagan. the last two numbers are the top 20%, with the one on the right being the top 5%. you see here, the thing i'm proudest of on these numbers when we were there is that our bottom 20% actually had in percentage terms about the same gain in income as the top 5% did. this is really important. this is the kind of stuff people say this will never make the evening news. nobody gets shot, there is no drama. these are millions and millions of people's lives. this is what policy means. go to the next one. the next one -- hold on. in closing, here is what i want to say. we had a plan that restored fiscal responsibility come increased investment where it would do the most economic good, instructed the tax system to live middle-class wages and reduce poverty by moving people into higher paying jobs. we pursued it for eight years through different circumstances with both hardee's, and i made deals when necessary. we will talk more about that next time. but it worked. and today, it's harder because o

it was interesting saying the things to myrr s ts to merv gri of the reagans, republican, and reagan pushing through the draconian budget, three taxes in '282, '83, that eviscerated lyndon johnson's great society programs, ended spending on the war on poverty. right in the midst of that happening. reagan pushing that through despite, republican congressman, speaker of the house. pivotal time. speak with a member of the opposition. remarkable footage. >> yeah, the other parts that you noticed, we were talking about this today, a philosopher. and, things on the grandest scale. you don't have to believe in fdr's domestic policy, right. to be against the nazis. everyone was against the nazis. but she was speaking to the fact that if you want to, don't tell me, that what fdr did and what we cam together as a nation weakened us or in, in mr. griffin's lexicon was a great giveaway. it wasn't a giveaway when people came together, worked hard and had doughest esdomestic and for priorities. >> the new deal had a great gap. which we have seen in the distugs di discussion of the article. much of

you are familiar with the reagan numbers. president bush had a decline in both, but i believe you should see that in terms of the other eight years. sooner or later, the wheels had to run off of running these big deficits and letting the interest rates go up and generate jobs potentially, there was a limit to it. president bush, believe it or not, this is both a compliment and a cautionary tale. when president bush ran for office, the second president bush, unlike the first president bush, he was free to decide what he wanted his economic policy to be. he basically said vote for me and i will bring you back to supply-side economics. the rhetoric was clever. i will give you the same thing clinton did with a smaller government and a bigger tax cut, wouldn't you like that? i am a compassionate conservative. he believed that reagan was right and i was wrong. that's what he believed. and so we went back to financing two wars on borrowed money and financing a tax cut for hillary and me on borrowed money and spending more than we we

the movement became associated during the election of president reagan in 1980. although the conservative movement int and the republican party remain closely aligned, it is a very uneasy partnership. they complain the party doesn't represent the conservative movement faithfully and with republican party finds the conservative groups focused on ideology as troublesome and problematic for the party. there is an emerging narrative leading up to the 2016 e. election as advanced by both the media and the republican party. the narrative holds that the tea party libertarian, national security can't conservatives and social conservatives -- and this depends on who you're talking to of course, but they are taking the white house possibly ever again. at the most basic level the groups pose a challenge to the republican party because these groups are focused on ideology rather than party politics. but of course you know as i do at times these so-called troublesome groups include everyone in the big tent except the loyalists themselves. many grassroots conservatives fear th

reagan was an insurgent. he was an outsider.e need to take back the republican party and try to use it to save the country. >> that was mark levin on the program last night. he like myself is interested in restoring conservative principals that made this country great. there are reports that a group of republicans at capitol hill wi that are looking to establish a contract with america. balancing the budget, i like the penny plan. you cut one penny out of every dollar that the government spends. energy independence, looking into our own resources. that creates jobs. gets people off public dependency. i like health savings accounts as an alternative to obamacare. school choice. we have do secure the border. that's for national security reasons and the rule of law has to be followed. joining us now with the republican national committee chair. [ applause ] >> i think you have a really good plan. >> did you see politico this week that said republicans want to put something down on paper? >> yeah. you can take your swings at obamaca

reagan's age did become a campaign issue. not only when he was originally elected, but when at age 73 he sought reelection against walter mondale in 1984. here's how reagan handled the age issue. >> i'm not going to exploit for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> question. can hillary afford to shrug off concerns that she will be too old for the job in 2017? i ask you, mitch. >> she can't afford to shrug it off. one of the things where you demonstrate by doing. in 1979, reagan had a light campaign schedule, so the word was out, you know, he may not be up for it anymore and he put that to rest by going out there very aggressively and showing he was up for the rigors of the campaign and important for an older candidate to have a forward looking optimistic campaign so you don't get hit the way mccain and dole did. >> what about the democratic coalition? isn't it youth centered? >> look. it is -- it may or may not be youth centered. the bottom line is, in the democratic caucus, hillary clinton is beloved.

in the hospital and reagan is on his knees mopping and mr. bush says what are you doing? and he said i spilled water and i didn't want the nurse to have the clean it up. and in retrospect that is a story that could be told about george bush. we would have been down there mopping up the water or whatever it really was. and he used to, you know, he was a houstonian and he would stay in washington, d.c. so the staff would have dinners with family. he was also -- i will tell you something else, he is the most sentimental man i have ever known. here is this flinty new england guy and george bush has the tear ducts of a grandmother. if they played the national anthem he started blubbering. a marvelous man and one of the best things in my life is having the adventure of working for him. one more story? or another question. [inaudible question] >> not my headline. [inaudible question] i had a blog that from my old friend tina brown's new website called the daily beast and i have had a column in the national review at the same time. you know about nat

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>> guest: well, a lot of -- until reagan actually -- from fdr through the reagan library era there's a certain code under which everything is classified. military information, finance information. economics, personal relationships and a very clear code with very clear identifications identifications and it's almost easy to access the action. in the carter library, i went there shortly after the film "oaring" came out there had been a team of "argo" researchers down there looking up information about the iran hostage crisis and what happened, and hey hat this cool rack system where you could look digitally at a lot of documents. not every library has that. then in some of the more recent libraries, the clinton library, very little unopened because that's such an immense amount of information and you have e-mail and everything needs to go through security clearances and it's in a different code. after reagan came in the code change so it was harder to find information. the reason could i fine it in the reagan library is because the archivists worked at the prior library and knew the di

you saw it with mccain, dole, reagan. this is an issue karl rove wants people talking about sooner rather than later. >> is it different, michelle, because it's a woman now? because i've heard some suggest sexism, as well as ageism in this. >> you're going to have that come up because you've had people say things like i don't want to watch a woman grow old in the white house for eight years, and you do have to be more careful with female candidates because it's so easy to step over that line. that said, age and health are always an issue, but i think rove handled this a little bit over the line here in that he's going to engender sympathy for her, and it is always dangerous for republicans when they start going after the clintons personally, because then people start feeling like the republicans have gone too far. and clintons have always benefitted from the fact that their enemies just always kind of go a little mad. >> now, talking about enemies going a little mad, president clinton said, get ready for more and more of

. >> no, reagan. >> i don't know how they do it. it's amazing to me. think it's a great thing. >> like i said, some people say, the guy is dead, leave him dead. >> i wouldn't mind bringing ronald reagan back as a hologram. >> now she's thinking. >> obama is pretty much a hologram. >> oh! >> i didn't watch the billboard music awards. i fell asleep at 8:30. but i did watch that. i watch the video of this. cool. >> i'm a huge jacko fan. i'm not embarrassed to say it. i had the glove when i was little. i was doing the moon walk. i have the glitter and the zipper jacket. i don't think it was creepy at all. >> can you have -- >>> did you have sleepovers at your house too. >>> godzilla crushed box offices this week bringing in a massive $93 million. the remake of the 1950s classic japanese film, blew away its predictions. godzilla is a god that tapped into people's worries about global warming. are you kidding me? >> take a look at the ticket sales. it will show you how many people are worried about global warming. he's exactly right. i'm glad he made it. the

>> guest: until reagan, fdr through the reagan library era, there was a certain code under which everything is classified for military information, finance information, economics and and the personal relationships and it's a very clear identification and now most easy information. shortly after the film argot came out ahead in a team of argot researchers looking up information about the iran hostage crisis and what happened in the hunt for school rack system you could go when and not digitally. not every library has that. but the more recent libraries come in the clinton library commit. that'll already open because there's an imminent amount of information and now you have e-mail and everything is to go through security clearance descendents in a different code after reagan came in the codes changed. it's a lot harder to find information. the reason i could find this because the archivist had worked above the prior libraries and she kind of the difference between the mucosa note codes so she could help me. i didn't have the opportunity. >> host: was there a point in time where the pictures

kennedy and reagan could negotiate with the soviet union, surely america can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today. [applause] the sanctions we put in place make this opportunity possible. let me be clear. if this congress sends me a new sanctions bill now that threatens to derail these talks, i will veto it. [applause] for the sake of our national security, we must give diplomacy a chance to succeed. host: from january of this past year, the carrot and the stick as the president tries to thread the needle.

can slow it down, as reagan did, can try and pull some of it back as reagan did, but reagan leaves office, george h.w. bush comes in, he essentially denounces the reagan agenda, and off we go again with the fdr model. so if people are serious about this, they should turn to the framers of the constitution and look at article v where george mason said should congress become repressive, he's your recourse. >> host: so if you're living in kentucky, would you support mitch mcconnell in the primary and/or the general? >> guest: i couldn't support mitch mcconnell, not that he's not necessarily a nice person or so forth, but he's an ineffective republican leader. he's an ineffective senator, in my personal view. that whole immigration bill that went through the senate he sat back, he didn't take a lead in trying to fight it, then he shows up and votes against it. this whole notion of the president having the power, in's is sense, to veto congress should congress decide not to raise the debt ceiling, mitch mcconnell came up with that idea and said it should be temporary, of course. nothing's temp

we saw a decline under reagan and then development of fracking. fracking needs to be umprived -- improved -- maybe for hundreds of years with the discovery we have in north dakota and we have enough oil to keep the country going. this changes things. we have been paying high oil prices much of the time and the markets are beginning to grow and the subsidies continue unabated. you had a $500 million for solar energy subsidy and the solar power never had a chance. it is sad to see the polittle connections between those people in charge of sulinder and president obama's campaign. you have the political connection there. >> y that political connection with obama and nixon and many presidents in between show the problem once you shift to government making the decisions and the political question there. in this energy case we maybe in good shape with oil production and not deal with alternate fuels. they are competitive and might be able to be developed in circumstances and as people improve and we get better conditions. in a hundred years there might b

fake you all very much for coming out in the reagan. i've really enjoyed it.pplause] [inaudible conversations] [applause] those are very kind words and take you for coming all on such a beautiful evening when there was so much else going on and buy books at the independent bookstores. how could you not want to buy a book? i am here this evening to talk about a new book war what is it good for? i am sure everybodwi

and ronald reagan just does a phenomenal job. ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev -- are two of the most interesting characters of the 20th century. >> two characters who would get to know each other. they get to talking and they say, yeah, maybe we'll eliminate nuclear weapons. we'll do that. a missile shield was still in development. he goes i'm not going to do that. i'm willing to walkç away. he walks away. he would later say he was as frustrated as he ever was in his life. >> he says it was the most frustrating day of his presidency but to tell you the truth it was one of the most triumphant days of his presidency because from reykjavik came the most sweeping controls next year and number two the fall of the soviet union. it ended the coldrkq war. >> you've written a book. it's going to be a movie. now we're in the middle of another crisis with russia. what can obama learn from reading this book? >> a great deal from reading this book because it's very impressive the way ronald reagan started with the grand strategy. on the

mitt romney got the highest amount of votes coming back from ronald reagan.is not the problem. you need to expand your demographic. you need to look to the hispanic community, which means immigration reform. you also need to look to appeal to women. you don't need to take social issues off the agenda, but for example abortion. let's talk about abortion the right way. we have 1.2 million abortions a year, which is hideous. we should be talking about adoption. it has dropped to such low levels and has become so socially off and unacceptable that the government has even stopped counting the number of domestic adoptions. there are ways to talk about these issues that aren't divisive. jenna: some people, sums it why even talk about these at all? what is clear as we ought to be focusing on economic security for the future, not dividing social issues. that plays into the democrats hand. so should the issues whether it is abortion or immigration policy be the issue that the g.o.p. is trying to rally around? >> it with every issue that will win the senate in november

>> courtney reagan, thanks for that. the ceo resigns. >> no, and the numbers were really bad on the top line for a stock that's -- >> perfect storm. >> already gone from 45 to 20 going into these numbers. it's been a rough ride for the shareholders. >> talk biotech. the american society for clinical oncology conference kicks off tomorrow in chicago giving some of the world's biggest drug makers to showcase the latest cancer data. we've got this story. what should we be watching? >> well, we've talked a lot about amino therapies, in light of pfizer's interest in ast astrazene astrazeneca. and, of course, immunotherapies are important. they will all have data there that people will be watching that could move stocks next week. but a couple of other things are leukemia and lung cancer. now, leukemia, looking at chronic leukemia, the second most common form among adults, estimated at 15,000 people will be diagnosed with cll in the u.s. this year. so there are a couple companies working here to bring new drugs to market. one

bush 41 followed ronald reagan, but did not get a second term.president who offers different policies and programs from the current president. 30% want to see a president with similar programs and policies. that's right now in 2014. how much do we care about being the election is in 2016? >> we shouldn't care overly. you're right. polls can change. but americans do get tired of the same direction. i always like to compare it to tv series. not talking about morning shows, of course. talking about comedies, sitcoms and cops and robbers shows. how long do they last? very few go eight seasons. most go two, three, four seasons and people are ready for a change. >> right. except for "cheers." i wish that could have gone on. i got to ask you, when karl rove brought up the health of hillary clinton, do you think that's out of bounds or is that up with tradition for a 68-year-old that did pass out in her last few months in office? >> here is something that most people don't know. hillary clinton, by the time of the election in 2016, is going to be exactly

. >> when we met joseph reagan in one of the massive kitchens in new york city's rikers island jail,serving 90 days for criminal asaushlths petty larceny. >> they aren't always as clean as they should be. you got cockroachs in here and stuff leak that. but, you know, i haven't seen anybody die lately. so i guess they get away with it. >> while reagan may never get a job as a rikers island spokesman, he offered a plug for light year. >> if you like being told what to do, eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, scratch your behind, you like the chance of getting your behind kicked or killed by inmate itself, if you like the type of thing, then this is the place for you. >> like many other inmates here, reagan has had multiple arrests. >> most people come to jail, they stay in, they come back, they come back. you end up spending the rest of your life in jail. >> while inmates can sometimes be if denial about the circumstances that brought them to jail, reagan was crystal clear. >> me, like a lot of people, it's not that we don't have the knowledge to do good things. i know carpentry, masonry. i

. >> ronald reagan was very collegial. he delegated. he was a bold stroke leader. he was very comfortable and focusing on the three or four things he ran on in 1980 that he knew he wanted to achieve as president. he was very comfortable inside his own skin. and he hired people like jim baker, howard baker, me, and others to get everything else done. and also assist him on rebuilding our national security. cutting down on wasteful spending. cutting taxes. making sure that regulation did not get out of control. and fundamentally ending the cold war. quick swipe was he a subject in your book? >> well, ken, he is emblematic of a former. a former is a person who had an office -- he was the white house chief of staff at the end of the reagan years. now for the last 25 years he has been a former white house chief of staff. that is legitimate. that is what he did. he continued that identity as a lobbyist and coveted consultant and wise man. he talks about reagan a lot. look, he has done very well for himself as a former. he had a very distinguished career in government, bu

president reagan tried three times to zero out the bank's lending program. he actually succeeded in reducing its authorization by 50%. on xm, listen to the gipper. taxpayers toto ask give subsidies to a handful of america's biggest corporations?" the resounding answer from the audience was -- >> no. >> president reagan would be proud. france was most disturbing, though. it's political lending. that which is -- the bank is mandated to support different sectors of political lineage. it is a green energy quota. it requires almost no assistance for cold dredging. exportsfically supports going to sub sahara africa. there is a small business as well. xm substitutes the judge in an --judgment of bureaucrats for the marketplace. year, more than 60% of the financing benefited just 10 the megacorporations. recently, another example. a spanish multinational corporation received $33 million in export and import loans. the energy secretary simultaneously sat on the spanish advisory board and xm's as well. this just is not pass the smell test. they were guaranteed $10 mil

and reagan just wanted to have gorbachev tear down that wall! while mean while the v.a.as telling the researchers to underreport the number of v.a. hospitals with an inordinately high mortality rate. and america fell in love with a family called the simpsons. not far enough back? all right. what's up, man? the 1960's, man. the beatles experimented with "the white album," while in vietnam the military was experimenting with a "different" color. agent "orange." don't worry, troops, this groovy herbicide won't cause you any harm. unless you consider cancer and nervous system damage harm. whoah, mannnn. i just had a crazy vision of the future! the reagan administration is gonna deny federal liability in agent orange contamination, and suppress evidence of harm to vietnam veterans. it won't be properly addressed for another 20 years after that -- man! not far enough? how about this... the year was 1932! while most of america was being served delicious000 world war i veterans marched on washington to get the war bonuses they'd been promised 15 years ago but instead of bonuses,