mr. reagan.t is our custom here, from this time, to permit the audience to ask any questions that they may wish to direct to our distinguished speaker. i respectfully request that our friends of the press withhold their questions during this period, reserved for those in the audience. the ground rules. if you wish to ask a question, raise your hand and weight to be recognized. when you are, mrs. kathy mebach, or any of these ladies will hand you a cordless microphone. then please stand and ask your question as briefly and clearly as possible. the first question. right here, please. >> it will be a long time for the mic to get there. >> they have several. >> i am wondering about your beliefs. will you be able to provide your beliefs without being influenced by the rest of the politics behind you? mr. reagan: if i heard that correctly. what i be able to implement my beliefs without being influenced by what? >> the rest of the politics. you have your beliefs. can you carry your beliefs out? do you b

mr. reagan.n tune with the spirit of the say thatason, may i there are only four more shopping days left for governor. it has been a long and interesting campaign. it has been an arduous one for the candidates. we are grateful that these busy candidates found time to come here, especially this week in the home stretch. it is a privilege for us to see and hear from them in person. it is my personal privilege to present to you a man who has made a meteoric rise in the political scene in our state and the nation. we have known him to the media other than politics for many years. he is more than casually familiar with our industry, having served for so long as a special representative of the general electric company as you will recall. ronald reagan, republican candidate for governor of our great state has a rich background in america. he might be described as the boy next-door who made good in about everything he undertook in life, frequently overcoming obstacles to do so. here are the highlights of

mr. smith: governor reagan? mr. reagan: well, that just isn't true. it has, as i said, delayed the actuarial imbalance falling on us for just a few years with that increase in taxes, and i don't believe we can go on increasing the tax, because the problem for the young people today is that they are paying in far more than they can ever expect to get out. now, again this statement that somehow, i wanted to destroy it and i just changed my tune, that i am for voluntary social security, which would mean the ruin of it. mr. president, the voluntary thing that i suggested many years ago was that a young man, orphaned and raised by an aunt who died, his aunt was ineligible for social security insurance because she was not his mother. and i suggested that if this is an insurance program, certainly the person who is paying in should be able to name his own beneficiary. that is the closest i have ever come to anything voluntary with social security. i, too, am pledged to a social security program that will reassure these seni

and because of both president and mrs. reagan, in flr mrs. reagan, we started a national conversation. >> secretary clinton quickly realized the error she made and put out a statement. ? ? >> the general exposed her weakness. >> i've seen little secretary of state, a position where you're treated as a potenty she may have gotten worse. it's tough to go back to rope lines after you've been with kings and queens. >> declaring herself a champion sf of the people. the general wore dark glasses to conceal her face in public and strung rope lines to keep the mud ringers at bay. and as winter set in her army bogged down on the plains of iowa. sent a profound message to the political establishment. ? ? >> to the establishment senator bernie sanders was old and rumpled. a nuisance to a coronation of general clinton. >> why would the democrats nominate someone who is snot a dmachlt to me it doesn't make sense. >> the old guard scoffed state and laughed young women who would not fall in line. >> there's a special place in hell for women who don't help ea

mr. reagan talked without notes.s control but about his personal feelings about reducing the level of fear and misunderstanding between the two nations. >> the main thing is they met each other as human beings, reagan in particular concentrated his attention on gorbachev as a person. he spent more time studying gorbachev than he did the esoteric things having to do with arms control. >> it is understood the president tried to dispel his negative image of the u.s. gorbachev wouldn't budge but wasn't as combative as he was with other officials recently. >> is it a good sign? >> of course. >> i would think so. >> i was at lunch when ronald reagan came out of the first meeting with gorbachev and he said this is a new type of soviet leader. >> the president announced gorbachev will visit the u.s. next year and they agreed to accelerate arms talks. the soviet leader was more negative. >> the most important problem concerning the arms race and increasing hopes of peace, we didn't succeed in reaching at this meeting, so of c

because mrs. reagan was so upset. had boxes pack up in storage for a long time until she felt comfortable taking them back out again. so it's very personal and she came back when barbara bush was there. >> guest: you can see how-miles-an-hour reagan would have felt. you're in a place with 60 people there all day or more, certainly staff of 30. and there you are, and they can come in and out of your quarters, go in your bedroom, trisha nixon put a string or thread over her door, just to know if people had gone in there. and you don't have any real control over it and you kind of pull in, i think. following up on what you say, there are too darn many eyes in the white house itch really do. the kennedys tried to get a letter where people signed and said they would not -- >> guest: that looked bad. >> guest: i understand it and i'm sure if you're at buckingham palace, you -- >> guest: that's true. >> guest: it's that kind of intrusion on the house that is considered a home. an office but first and always a home. and when

mr. reagan's appearance a day after mr.wn's before employees of the pacific gas & electric company in san francisco. here is -- he argues that it is time for a political outsider to govern california, and he soundly defeated governor brown four days later. comes tohour program us courtesy of pacific gas & electric and the hoover institution archives. ♪

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i told you, this is his hometown. - oh, we've asked. - well, mrs. reagan, your husband is the sheriff. - this town remembers ben turner as a p pk-cheeked kid who stole apples from its orchards - i'll get some coffee. left this town six years ago. now, every man in this town couldn't possibly have known him. - every man in this town knows the reputation of texas ben turner. he killed 40 men. don't you understand? they're afraid... and with reason. he's death on two legs... - you hate pretty well yourself. - think how good i could hate if i'd known him before. nah. you want to go back now? coffee would choke me. - reagan... - thank you. - you didn't finish. paladin... i don't suppose you can stop it. - monica, the shadow a man stands on at noon seems to rise up and meet him at evening. i don't know whether i can stop that. - well, don't judge him by what he appears to be now. he's a good man. - more strangers? - no. but they might wait outside town. - where's your gun? - it's inside. - what does that mean, buhl? - that i ain't begging to die. - oh, you did p

. >> and mrs. reagan did not like him. >> mrs. reagan did not like him. she hung up on him on one occasion. and when we got to iran contra, among other things, he said he feels like the guy who sweeps up behind the elephants in the parade and sweeps up the mess. that did not go down with her, either. but he was introduced, when we would have sessions in the east room -- >> so what do you think bannon versus priebus offer? i mean, bannon seems to have donald trump's ear and has been able to -- >> which is important. which is very important. you have to have the president's confidence. and the president has to believe that you are being loyal to him. >> and loyalty is, that seems, andre, one of the critical things to donald trump. if we know anything about donald trump, he prizes loyalty. a lot of people work for the trump organization and have worked for a long time, i think about michael cohen and hope hicks, who have been with him for a long time. and it seems like that's, you know, people who got with him early in this campaign and stuck with him throug

mr. reagan: my experience has turned me toward the people for the answers to problems, instinctively. believe and put my faith in the private sector of the economy. to believe in the people's right and ability to run their own affairs. >> every single solitary category of business tells us whether or not californian economy is good, shows us we have done a good job. >> sunday morning at 10:00 eastern on road to the white house. >> next tuesday, all of you will go to the polls, stand there in the holding place, and make a decision. make thaten you decision, it would do well if you ask yourself, are you better off than you were four years ago? >> our proposals are very sound and carefully considered, to stimulate jobs, improve the industrial complex in this and would be anti-inflationary in nature. >> the 1980 debate between jimmy carter and former california governor ronald reagan. and at 7:00. >> a realist would not have devoted his life to fighting slavery, and would not have said this. is, that a disillusion of the union for the cause of slavery would cause a war between the two sep

kennedy and john kennedy and you saw played out in the reagan white house among chief of staff and mrs. reagan. and even in this white house, there are a very small cadre of people to whom president obama turns not just for advice and solace but also to feel safe and relaxed. both: let's hope he can do those things. thank you for joining us. many who voted for donald trump did so in the hope that he might save their jobs. nowhere was that more true than in the coal country of west virginia. we have traveled there for this report. in west: a working mine virginia. in the heart of american coal country. federal my number one clings to life when many happen. in the last three years alone, more than 10,000 west virginia miners have been laid off. so when donald trump promised to bring back coal, people here listened. he had all these promises and he actually helps everybody and the so-called rust belt. it is a lot of people's jobs/ people have got children in college. they have got bills to pay. >> your got the power plants, pipefitters. everybody revolves around the coal industry. mineter: since

lincoln, like mrs. reagan, she's had a very bad press, don't accuse mrs. gan of being insane and having mental problems. she's had a better relationship with ronald than nancy -- nancy had a better relationship with ron, jr. than robert todd, no doubt about that. let's remember a few things. we talked about bill clinton, bill and hillary, buy one, get one free. that she was very important part of campaign. mary todd was married, was a cousin of lincoln roommate in legislature, he said, you ought to come home and meet my cousin. well, one of the most socially prominent southern bells in kentucky society, the father was a big donor of henry clay, she brought some of the speeches. she wrote letters to the editor that lincoln signed an lincoln's name. she had 3 by 5 boxes of people wholingon had done favors with who were going to help the next campaign. she was indispensable and that's part of the story that's left out of the biography. she was a difficult woman. she had a difficult childhood. mother died young and father married three times and siblings from e

missed by an inch. >> he told mrs. reagan, honey, i forgot to duck. >> what? >> i forgot to duck. he got into the operating room, he looked at the doctors and he said, please tell me you're republicans. >> reagan relied on this group of advisers. jim baker as his chief of staff, a really skilled, shrewd political insider, ed meese, a counselor to the president, and michael deaver in charge of the media operations. they ran the white house. >> the assassination attempt and aftermath elevated ronald reagan's popularity to a new high. the latest nbc news/associated press poll shows his job rating jumped ten points. >> reagan understood that he was getting this sort of sympathy reaction. everybody was rooting for him all of a sudden because they didn't want him to die. they didn't want to lose a president. so without missing a step, he goes right into what the message is. we've got to get this tax and spending bill passed and we've got to do it now. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states. >> it was just like the movies. reagan was a true american hero. >> the president look

mr. trump is going to look for doing that. i'd like to believe he'll do so like the reagan administration did with a clear strategy why they're investing, what they're investing and do so in a way that won't bankrupt the american people in the process. >> quickly, with the outgoing obama administration, mr. obama said he was going to glows gitmo. do you think in the final month and a half of his presidency, he'll be able to do that? >> those that are left are the worst of the worst. did we invest blood and treasure capturing these guys to have them hang out in cuba for the last ten years and let them go? to me it's insane. these people were captured as essentially illegal combatants. according to the law of land warfare, the way we find war, geneva convention, these people could have been killed summarily on the battlefield. giving them some potential for justice in some form. the idea that we would just simply close guantanamo and ignore the potential intelligence value to me doesn't make any military sense. i think president obama clearly failed in his promise. i think it's good because i think we do need it going forward. i

. >> mrs. reagan did not invite mrs.ush to the white house until nine days before inauguration day so there's no requirement for mrs. obama to meet with mrs. trump so quickly but they did and so it's been a very smooth transition. >> to start. dr. wright says as first lady melania trump will end up with her own staff of between 16 and 25 people. >>> president-elect trump and the future first family will sit down for their first extensive post-election interview this weekend on "60 minutes." among other things, leslie stahl asked the future commander-in-chief about his first order of business repealing and replacing obamacare. >> when you replace it, are you going to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions are still covered? >> yes, because it happens to be one of the strongest assets. >> you're going to keep that. >> also for children living with parents for an extended period we're going to very much try and keep that. it adds cost but it's very much something we're going to try and keep. >> you can watch les

mr. reagan's nominees is in trouble in washington.ouble for saying that the naacp is a pinko organization and that a white civil rights attorney from his home state of alabama is a disgrace to his race. nbc news national political correspondent ken bodie is in our washington studio with more on that nomination. good morning, ken. >> reporter: good morning, jane. the man who said those things and who would be a federal judge is jeff sessions. part of the story over the struggle of sessions' nomination takes part in the senate, part takes place in the belt of alabama where he was born and the struggle for voting rights was waged. let's look at both places. >> mr. sessions is a throwback to a shameful era which i know both black and white americans thought was in our past. it's inconceivable to me that a person of this attitudes is qualified to be a u.s. attorney, let alone a united states federal judge. >> jeff sessions iii, brought face to face with things he personally had said. for example, that the naacp and civil liberties universi

and mrs. reagane told me liked to take his jacket off so it was hard for him. >> yeah, but trump doesn't want to take his ties off because he wants people to buy the ties. [ laughter ] >> thank you for coming in, mr. mayor. we appreciate it plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. bernie goldberg on media hysteria as president elect trump takes power. why did the american voters did what they did. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. yeah... yeah, then how'd i'd get this... allstate safe driving bonus check? ... only allstate sends you a bonus check for every six months you're accident-free ... silence. it's good to be in, good hands. why do people count on sunsweet amazin prune juice to stay fit on the inside? it's made only from prunes, nothing else. it's a natural source of fiber and five essential vitamins. amazin prune juice and amazin prune light. from sunsweet, the feel good fruit. >>> factor follow up segment tonight. as we mentioned the talking points memo there was muc

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mr. reagan raised this question in florida, mr. ford not only disavowed his instructions, but he also even dropped par entheticily the use of the word daytime. i would never give up complete control, or practical control of the panama canal zone. but i would continue to negotiate with the pain a main yans when the original treaty was signed back in the early 1900s when theodore roosevelt was president, panama retained sovereignty over the panamanian canal zone. now, i would be willing to go ahead with negotiations. i believe that we could share more fully responsibilities for the panama canal zone with panama. i would be willing to continue to raise the payment for shipments of goods through the panama canal zone. i might even be willing to reduce to some degree our military placements in the panama canal zone. but i will not relinquish practical control of the panama canal zone anytime in the near future. >> president ford? >> the united states must and will maintain complete access to the panama canal. the united states must main

mr. reagan. we'll talk to her about those comparisons.al with them later this hour. first i want you to listen to air force veteran thaddeus alexander. >> you saw all this destruction just because your candidate lost. see that is the problem with this country. you can't always get your way. everybody wants to be politically correct. quit being crybabies. you didn't earn anything. none of you put on a uniform but you're quick to disrespect the flag. not want to say the pledge of allegiance. not want to recognize the bible but you want everything. you didn't fight for anything but you want it. it was always just a hobby something he did for fun until the day it became something much more. and that is why you invest. the best returns aren't just measured in dollars. >> not my intention to do away with government. rather to make it work. work with us to stand by our side, not ride on our back. government can and must provide opportunity and not smother it. foster productivity, not stifle it. stuart: music to my ears then. music to my ears now

mr. kalb, your question to president reagan? >> mr. president, you have often described the soviet union as a powerful evil empire intent on world domination, but this year you have said, and i quote, "if they want to keep their mickey mouse system, that's okay with me." which is it, mr. president? do you want to contain them within their present borders and perhaps try to reestablish detente or what goes for detente or do you really want to roll back their empire? >> i have said on a number of occasions exactly what i believe about the soviet union. i retract nothing i have that said. i believe that many of the things they have done are evil in any concept of morality that we have. but i also recognize that as the two great superpowers in the world we have to live with each other. and i told mr. gramiko, we don't like their system, they don't like ours. we won't try to change their system and they sure better not try to change ours. but between us we can either destroy the world or we can save it and i suggested that certainly it was

mr. reagan was welcoming the visiting president of liberia. mr. in on taiwan? >> only the press did. not us. >> your critics insist you're abandoning it. >> they're not telling the truth. >> that's how nbc reported it. that evening president reagan watched a similar report on cbs and took such offense to critics suggesting that he had flip flopped on taiwan that he called anchor dan rather during the broadcast. the president's spokesman said reagan was ticked off and that he also phoned a columnist to express his displeasure. the call came during the broadcast second feed and rather told viewers, quote, an unusual thing happened here in our newsroom tonight and said the president had called to say, quote, there had been no retreat by me, no change whatsoever. later rather said about the call from reagan, you hang around this business long enough and you begin to think that you have seen and heard everything twice, but this was the first time a president has called up while we were on the air. yeah. times have certainly changed. also this one from t

. >> mrs. reaganreat protector and arguably critical to president reagan becoming president reagan. if reagan had married first time around, he would have won an academy award. that's fascinating. other thing i've been thinking about is bobby kennedy example. you know, what kennedy joked about they had to find some way for bobby to get legal experience before he went into practice. so there are issues here. if he's the trump whisperer, if he's someone who can make him calm and focused, then that's a role that someone needs to play and if that's him, that's great. >> i think more importantly than that instead of being the trump whisperer because trump is trump. he decides what he's going to do and when he's going to be it. the important role that i've seen is -- i'm not lobbying for anybody. i'm just an american. i think we're on a razor's edge right now to be really honest with you in which direction this goes. jared keeps the environment calm around him. unlike a lot of political operatives who run a

. >> welcome the 40th president of the united states, ronald wilson reagan. mr. president. >> reporter: reagan gave a speech before the afl-cio at the sprawling washington hilton hotel. public, i made it my job to always be there, where the body was. >> reporter: abc news white house correspondent sam donaldson. >> the term is often, in my day, called the body watch. >> reporter: at 2:27, a small group of press and onlookers were gathered outside the hotel. >> right here was a rope line. >> reporter: okay. >> and it kept everyone back. >> reporter: del wilbur is author of "rawhide down", a book "rawhide" was the code name given to reagan by the secret service. >> the limousine was 15 feet away this direction. >> and he came out. he was waving. he was smiling. i began to ask him a question. the president began to turn when -- [ imitating gunfire ] the president was being pushed into his car and, obviously, i wanted to see if i saw any evidence that he'd been hit. and i did not see any. >> reporter: six shots fired. three men down. the secret service swarmed the sho

mr. trump, the reagan democrats, the people disgusted with the political elites. rebuilding america, especially transportation. it's a practical way to reunite this country. put together a coalition of republicans and democrats in congress behind a massive building effort, from penn station in manhattan to lax in california. just do it. interest rates are low. sell capital construction bonds to get this country moving again. go get the money lying out there. don't wait for the establish politicians, just do it, you. and that's it. you know how to sell. you know how to cut deals, mr. trump. the most important thing is to put the target on what unites us, especially for the working people that are looking for real jobs. go do it. replace the smell of decay with the smell of dirt being moved, engines that work, the freshly tarred highways, the sights and sounds of workers at work. mr. trump, you've been on jobsites. america itself is now your jobsite. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. join me again tomorrow night at 7:00 eastern. see you then. >> "

mr. outside. so ronald reagan, you know, mr. outside had a bit more of an insider in bringing george w. bush on as president, even barack obama, you know, just a junior senator needed something with a about illustrate more graph i at that time. what did he do? he goes to joe biden. trump, very much an outsider, turned to mike pence to try to mollify the party, saying i may be outside you, but witness the fact i brought mike pence inside the loop. >> that did calm a lot of traditional republican concerns. >> it does particularly paul ryan, who was concerned. look, these two guise differ on a lot of stuff. they differ on the iraq war, you know, at least trump says he was against it, when in fact he was for it before it went bad. mike pence was for it all the way through. free trade they dison, medicare and social security overhaul, pence after all endorsed cruz in the primaries, but now it's a different story. we're seeing mike pence being used for this outreach. this is -- this is trump being smart about bringing in -- how much of this is donald trump and how much of it is mike pence adv

she grew up in communist slovenia and said she was inspired by ronald reagan. mrs. trump is the second first lady born outside of the united was the wife of john quincy adams. louisa. >> 10-year-old barron trump will also live in the white house. he is donald trump's only child with melania. barron is fluent in slovenian thanks to his mom. the last young boy to live in the white house was jfk jr. more than 50 years ago. >> donald trump has suggested that he may give his daughter, ivanka, a cabinet position and ivanka's husband could fi children, donald jr. and eric, we're told they're going to be responsible for continuing the family business. donald trump says he will put the business in a blind trust while he is president. >>> washington national cathedral held post-election reconciliation services today. the church invited people to pray for healing after one of the most divisive presidential campaigns in recent memory. one woman told us that being there for her put things into perspective. >> we've always faced obstacles and troubles and division throughout our

reagan. mcgain was mr. trump's campaign attorney.has yet to reveal the secretary of state, front runners, included rudy guiliani and mitt romney. >>> sign of the season, a big night in camden county. >> "eyewitness news" reporter vittoria woodill joins us from cooper river park where they are picking off the holiday season, and doing tonight style, tori. >> reporter: can you feel the spirit of the christmas, ukee, it is here, it ace live, ribbon has been cut. you can feel it. that is right. ribbon has been cut and tree has been lit. welcome to winter fess at cooper river park. it is a brand new, season, one of the three, and the freeholders of camden county put in so much work to make it better, and better every year. cbs-3 is a very proud sponsor. this is jeff nash one of the freeholders. jeff, tell me all of the things that go into making winter-fess bigger and better every year. >> we have a larger rink this year, it is with the cooper river parkas a backdrop and we have ride for the kids, for free, and horse drawn carriages, and

mrs. trump: when i was 10 years old, we learned that a man named ronald reagan was elected president of the mrs. trump: we heard what he was saying and doing. president reagan's morning in america was not just something in the united states. it began to feel like morning around the world, even in my small country. it was a true inspiration to me. lived in milan and paris, working hard as a fashion model. i worked with people all over the world. i traveled with the bigwigs of glamour, but it is also hard work. there are ups and downs, high highs, and ridicule and rejection, too. i loved my work, and as a young entrepreneur, i wanted to follow my dreams to a place where freedom and opportunity were in abundance. so, of course, i came here. living and working in america with a true blessing, but i wanted something more. i wanted to be an american. after a 10 year process, which included many visas and a green card, in 2006, i studied for the test and became a u.s. citizen. [cheers and applause] mrs. trump: which is the greatest privilege in the world. i am an immigrant. and let me tell you, no

mr. trump. the reagan democrats, the working people, people disgusted with the political elites.e basket of trump voters. jobs, rebuilding america, especially when it comes to transportation. it's a practical way to reunite this country that's now divided with the democrats on the coast, republicans in the country's wide center. put together a coalition of republicans and democrats in congress behind a massive building effort from penn state in manhattan, to l.a.x. airport in california, just do it. interest rates are historically low, use your salesmanship to sell capital construction bonds to get this country moving again. add to that the trillions corporations tucked away overseas. you go get that none out there. don't wait for the establishment republicans or establishment democrats. just do it. you. and that's it. you know how to sell. you know how to cut deals, mr. trump. the most important thing is to put the target where it belongs. not on stuff that divides us but on what unites us especially for the working people looking for real jobs and the real pride that comes with