you have gerald ford running as the incumbent of the republican party. jimmy carter was running for governor of the democratic party. they thought it would be a good idea for ronald reagan to throw his hat in the league -- in the ring. nobody thought ronald reagan -- paul was the sole supporter of .his notion people liked ronald reagan. -- they knewwas who he was. they ran a good campaign. pundits did not think it was possible that she would stand a chance. they were right. he did not win. against the ford campaign is probably what notributed to gerald ford winning for the republicans and jimmy carter winning for the democrats. paul served as the chairman of that campaign. they kind of realized that they had set the foundation for the upcoming election in 1980. they had established something. they had thrust ronald reagan into the spotlight. they doubled down. planningthey started for the next campaign. i would say that paul was a giant of politics for nevada. he had made the decision that he wanted to give his personal political papers. some of the firs

the first and only appointed president gerald ford, and the cold war that was at its peak. >> that's right. the cold war in some ways, it goes into de taunt, and that period, in a period of flux but global affairs are in a real state of turmoil. you've got the end of the vietnam war. really taking place. 1973 to 1975. the opec oil crisis. there is a great deal of chaos and it seemed to us to be a moment that was right for seeing the start of the unmaking of the old post war order that governed not just the u.s. but the entire western world, and think about new trends that came about. >> what did you learn? >> i learned a lot. what we learned in this book is that -- at first it was a real adventure because we were writing about the history of our own lives. i was born in 1972. julien was born a couple of years earlier. it was a process of rediscovering things we thought we knew. >> what surprised you, as you look back at the presidencies of jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george h.w. bush? >> what really surprised us, the reagan and bush eras it's been talked about as appeared of conserv

you have gerald ford running as the incumbent of the republican party, you have jimmy carter running for the democratic party. said, aalt, like i minority within a minority. thought it would be a good idea for ronald reagan maybe to run for president, to run the primaries. he tried to get some support from his colleagues on capitol hill. nobody was interested, nobody thought ronald reagan would be a good president. paul laxalt was the sole supporter of this notion that ronald reagan should run for president in 1976. people liked ronald reagan, they gravitated towards him. they knew who he was because he was a national figure. he had been popular as california's governor. he had a good campaign. did not think it was possible he would even stand a chance. they were right, he did not win. but, his insurgency against the ford campaign, probably contributed to gerald ford not winning for the republican, probably attributed to jimmy carter winning for democrat in 1976. served as thet chairperson of that campaign in 1976. they realized they had set the foundation for the upcoming election i

insurgency against the ford campaign is probably to gerald ford not winning for the republicans and attributed to the jimmy arter winning for the democrats. but paul laxalt served as in rman of the campaign 1976, and they realized they had it up for the next president election. laxalt so through paul into the spotlight. in 1978 they started planning campaign, but i a gianty paul laxalt is of nevada publics. he's kind -- publics. of a powerhouse of nevada publics. laxalt gave his political papers to the university of nevada reno. first papers came in 1983. that includes scrap books, briefing books, reports, anything that you would have in a political office, you it is going to be in those papers. so we're in the reading room go into we're going to the work room which is where all processing happens for the archives here at the university. on through, and actually, interestingly enough, this is ae right here portion of some of paul laxalt's material. this is microfilm which is a lot f the constituency correspondence and the stuff that came into the office, they microfilmed everything, so these c

historically i remember because i was coming of age back in those days -- [laughter] i remember gerald fords that kindly and rightly so. gerry: liz, just very quickly because we've got to wrap up, a lot of people are unhappy with this investigation which they say really shouldn't have been started in the first place, you know? the obama administration, the obama justice department was pursuing candidate trump in a way that was not right. what do you say to that? >> well, look, we always have to be concerned about any kind of investigation that takes place in the context of a political campaign. we can't ever have the government putting its finger to stop or help a political campaign. but what we're talking about here -- and i'm really disturbed about the republicans' attitude here -- what we're talking about the interference by a foreign government in an election. trump just said that the russians helped get him elected. now, can we tolerate that? no. gerry: andy, just quickly, do you think there will be a full accounting of how this investigation got started? >> yeah. i think we can walk a

>>host: that goes to your point ofn the election and also gerald ford had the early connection. >> i know less about ford but there was a strength to the republican party to be branded with a party of african-americans but that's not the way that it was. so if anything it wasn't reversed that was for those complicated reasons and he blew it but to be more complicated than we think it is. so to talk about eisenhower and nixon in that relationship quick. >>>> murky. because because nixon ended up marrying eisenhower eisenhower endorsed nixon but when he was the vice president i could be called.ni he didn't knowut nixon. and those younger voters and then after i dump nixon a couple of times off the ticket and then to be secretaryn of defense, but to nixon it was very fruitful. i'm not really sure but then said he made himself order to like - - like nixon and he may have been exaggerating but he was not always the most likable guy. so there was some coolness. from youngstown pennsylvania go ahead. >>caller: my question is it has been written add not see him about nixon and the kennedy's a

kennedy and gerald ford, donald trump explained the bond of unity between the uk and the us tonight. >> this evening we thank god for the brave sons of the united kingdom and the united states, we defeated the nazis and the nazi regime, liberated millions from tear any. the bond was ever sealed in that great crusade. >> that is all-time we have tonight at 4:00 am in england. check my podcast, podcastone.com. shannon bream, the fox news at night team, take it from here. shannon: breaking news from london where the president is gearing up for serious business with the outgoing prime minister, his business has pop and circumstance but what about protests? highlights from the president and first lady after dinner with the royal family and robert mueller found a criminal activity surrounding the 2016 trump tower meeting but jared kushner facing tough questions as democrats subpoena mueller to force him to testify, drag out he joins us to talk about the questions for the special counsel.

remember gerald ford. reagan. 1976. ford the unelected president. nixon had to resign.gan challenged him. the primary season started off as a disaster for reagan. ford won iowa, ford won new hampshire. they went to massachusetts. vermont. ford won them both. florida. illinois, ford win. this was the scene in the middle of march of 1976. newspapers across the country saying republicans want reagan out of the race. give me one more chance. if i can't win in north carolina i'm out of race. he fought on. and it was a big upset. ronald reagan knocked off ford in the primary there in north carolina. and got hot. he didn't win the nomination. he came as close as you can and when ford lost the general election. republicans looked to reagan and said there's the guy for 1980. wouldn't happen if he hadn't turned everything around in north carolina primary. he might have been an after thought. try imagining that. democratic race in 2008 in iowa. obama won iowa. then new hampshire. clinton won new hampshire. then this war of attrition ensued for months. obama wins sop states. they c

us of a far worse snafu, when this glitch hard between governor jimmy carter and then president gerald ford among or people, in that -- >> the pool of broadcasters have temporarily lost the audio. it's not a conspiracy against governor carter or against president ford. >> that lasted for 27 long and awkward minutes. >> both candidates are waiting. they have been tooled that they're on the air with a picture, but they are off the air -- >> it should be noted at no point did they take to twitter to attack the media. >>> our coverage on cnn continues right now. >>> happening now, breaking news, border revolt. the house is set to pass the senate's version of an emergency -- despite a revolt by progressives, who feared funds will be diverted to immigration enforcement. >>> threatening a delay, president trump says he's asking lawyers to try to delay the 2020 census, after the u.s. supreme court stopsed administration from adding a citizenship question, a move seen to -- >>> ready to rumble, front-runners take to the

gerald ford at 60%. trump's number from presidents who faced trouble. nixon at 82%. that was not a challenge from pete mcclosky. that is one heck of a hurdle for weld to overcome. trump's 72%, weld 12%. republicans in new hampshire, a lot of them have heard of weld through his massachusetts days. that's the kind of hurdle he faces there, a president who has a uniquely strong support with his own party, outside the republican party obviously a different story but trump has a challenger and he's from massachusetts, so we thought we would share that with you tonight, brian. >> a proud massachusetts native, happy to have you here now, though. steve kornacki, thank you very much, look forward to tomorrow night. >>> coming up for us on this wednesday, what it was like and what was happening at this exact time 75 years ago when all we asked of our young men was to go and save the world. >>> this night 75 years ago tonight was an uneasy evening across the beautiful normandy region of france. the occupying german troops spent the night chasing down rumors and random reports o

kennedy, gerald ford. president trump explained the bond of unity between the uk and the u.s.ht. >> this evening, we thank god for the brave sons of the united kingdom and the united states who defeated the nazis and the nazi regime and liberated millions from tyranny. the bond between our nations was forever seal in that great crusade. >> and indeed it was. that's all the time we have tonight. 4:00 a.m. here in england. and don't forget to check out my pod cast, pod cast 1..com. shannon bream and the fox news at night team take it all from here. ms. shannon. >> shannon: she's working 24 hours a day. thank you for doing it, laura, and being there. fox news alert, breaking news, the president is gearing up for serious business with the outgoing prime minister. his visit is full of pomp and circumstance. but what about protests. dinner and the royal family and all of the themes of the day. plus, robert mueller found no criminal activities surrounding the meeting, but, jared kushner facing tough questions about it. and he's forced to testify. tray gaody joins us to talk about the

since 1976 when congress declared a national emergency act, gerald ford signed it, the presidents havergencies. 32 are still in place. we still have national emergencies in place about macedonia, lebanon, the iran hostage crisis. is it time for congress to start much more seriously overseeing these kind of executive usurpations of power? >> yeah, i think congress were accomplices in some of these things but we're dealing with presidents with whom we had shared values. and to give the president a facility to do what he needed or hopefully one day she needed to do. but has gone too far. and if it's a national emergency, it's one thing. but if it's to declare a national emergency that doesn't exist is an exploitation of an opportunity that shouldn't be taking place. >> he's doing a saudi arm sales. there's an end run around congress. is there something you intend to do to prevent that or to counter it? >> we have -- no, congress will vote against the arm sales to saudi arabia. and the other countries, too. it's unfortunate that the emirates and countries that had nothing to do with yemen

remember these two guys, gerald ford, ronald reagan. the year was 1976.r, ford was the unelected president, succeeded to the presidency when nixon had to resign. reagan challenged him in the primaries. the primary season started off and it started off as a disaster for reagan. ford one iowa. ford won new hampshire. they went down to massachusetts and vermont. ford won both. illinois. ford win. this was the scene in the middle of march 1976, newspapers all across the country saying republicans want reagan out of the race. he said give me one more chance. give me one more chance. if i can't win in north carolina i'm out of the race. so he fought on to the 1976 republican primary in north carolina and lo and behold it was a big upset. ronald reagan dmokd off ford in the republican primary in north carolina. he got hot. he did not win the nomination but he came as close as you can in '76. and when ford lost the general election republicans looked to reagan and they said there's the guy for 1980. wouldn't have happened if he hadn't turned everything around in

asks, i don't know what joe biden would say, the country needs to move past this, which is what gerald ford did in pardoning nixon. and they may say the country needs to move on. so we don't know. my legal question would be, what about a statute of limitations on these things. >> because if he is re-elected it is up. >> right. >> exactly right. that is why this election matters so much to president trump. the statute of limitations would run if he gets re-elected and not run if he loses. so he's all in on this re-election bid. a lot is riding on it. >> one more question. for a lot of reasons, gloria, i want to get your reaction to this interview that trump just has done with fox news. here you go. here is a clip. >> do you mind if he testifies before you said you didn't care if mueller testifies. >> let me tell you, he made such a fool out of himself the last time -- because what people don't report is the letter had he to do to straighten out his testimony because his testimony is wrong and nervous nancy. >> i won't ask you to dissect what he means by that. but to sit there, such hallowed

like gerald ford. then we see forest gump which was a wonderful movie. out of everything bad there's a chance to do something bad but out of everything good there's obviously a chance for people to do something bad. i think we see that. the way it sounds with where we're headed it's like we're all living in the truman show or something like that. i think about in that vein out of something good something bad can happen, i'm sure the wright brothers when they learned to fly didn't think and maybe we can fly this into a building someday and kill people, right? but that's what happens in this world, unfortunately. as a result of that, 9/11 for example, it takes a lot longer to get on a plane and for good reason. i think that where we need to be headed might be -- and i want your opinions on it obviously -- we've got to slow this down, you know, before something just hits it. i think you're talking about the triage idea. maybe we label. maybe we have to tell people before they see something this is satire,

this is a state that has not voted democratic on the presidential level since jimmy carter beat gerald forda notable lead. is that within the margin of error? >> it is but the fact is i've been looking at presidential polls for a long time and you would probably have to go all the way back to 1900 that had any notable poll. >> call me skeptical but it would have a huge impact on the electoral map. >> it would have a huge impact. let's just take the 2016 presidential results but we add texas to the democratic column, just this one. what you see is that the democratic candidate would actually barely win. just take the hillary clinton state, add in texas, and that is enough. that's how many electoral votes are in that. >> that's not counting pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. >> sure. >> you wouldn't have to flip any of those back. texas along would bring the democrats back. >> and we have seen that donald trump is unpopular in the state of texas. we obviously saw the senate race in 2018 between o'rourke and cruz to be quite close so that poll isn't completely unreasonable. if this ever flippe

gerald ford was at 60%.like that, like trump's number from presidents who faced trouble. nixon was at 82%. that was not a challenge from pete that got muchtrication. 89% that is one heck of a hurdle for weld to overcome. and here's a recent poll out of new hampshire. trump 72%, weld, 12%. republicans in new hampshire a lot of them have heard of weld from his massachusetts days. that's the kind of hurdle he faces there. just a president who has a uniquely strong support with his own party. outside the republican party, obviously, a different story. but trump has a challengener and he's from massachusetts so we thought we would share that with you tonight. >> a proud massachusetts native. steve kornacki, thank you very much. look forward to tomorrow night. >>> coming up for us on this wednesday, what it was like and what was happening at this exact time 75 years ago when all we asked of our young men was to go and save the world. and save thed on a john deere x300 series mower. because seasons change but true

eisenhower, ronald reagan, gerald ford and george h.w. bush th past december.nitude earth earthquake outside washington, d.c. today -- >> but on august 23, 2011, a rare earthquake hit the but on august 23, 2011, rare earthquake hit the nation's capital. it was relatively small, but extensive damage to thi historic structure. >> it was insane that day. we were luckily on the ground working and all of a sudden i heard what i thought were explosions. >> reporter: joe alonso is head stone mason here, part of th team that set about assessing damage-- what he calls "masonry triage." it lasted only 58 seconds and when it ended weust kind of started looking around and looking up at the towers, at the pinnacles and seeing how things had rotated or fell, or were twisted. it was just incredible. >> reporter: no one was injured that day, and the cathedral was reopened to the public within three months. nearly eight years later, the progress is evident: pinnacles on the "west towers"ave been restored. near the rose window in the nave, the ceiling has been" repointe-- patchi

we've come a long way i remember chevy chase playing gerald ford and he didn't even try to pretend to look like an then we see forrest gump which was a wonderful movie. it was entertainment and i remember sitting there thinking how do they do that. i've always said out of everything bad is the chance to do something good about of everything good is the chance for people to do something bad and i think we see that. the way it sounds with where we are headed that sounds we are living in the truman show or something if we've got to be careful about that. but i think that out of that something good something bad can happen i'm sure the right brothers when they learned to fly didn't think maybe we can fly this and rebuilding someday, but that's what happens in this world unfortunately. but as a result of that, 9/11 for example, it takes a lot longer to get on a plane and for good reason. and i think where we need to be headed, and i want your opinion obviously, we've got to slow this down before something just hits it. and maybe we have to tell people before they see some think this is sat

including john paul stevens, who is 99 90, and served until he was after his appointment in 1975 by gerald ford. he said he suggested this was all born of the moment and these proposals will probably fade, but stephen breyer was asked at a forum about it and the 18-year term limits, he said had some resonance to him. ita personal way, he said, could stop me about worrying from when i go. if you would give us your take briefly, but also respond. i know you feel like progressives have been relying too heavily on the courts, which is a theme some of our panelists have hinted at. >> thanks so much and thank you so much to acs for organizing this discussion. i grew up in a country that did not have a high court, england. it was a country with a reasonable tradition of rights and respect for politics. so when i think about the role like our supreme court, i ask what good it does? this particular form of judicial arrangement? courts are instruments. they serve an end. they produce a particular kind of public good. in this regard, they are no different from the police department, a fire service, a heal

thank you for being here i think we have come a along women remember chevy chase playing gerald ford an saturday night live and then forrest gump, wonderful movie, entertainment. and i remember sitting there think how did they do that? problem we have, i've always said out of everything bad there's chance to do something good out of or everything good there's a chance for people to do something bad. and i think that we see that. the way it sounds with where we're headed it's like we are aural living in the truman show or something like that and we have to be careful. but i think about in that vein of out of something good, something bad can happen. the writing brothers when they learned to -- the wright brothers didn't think, maybe we can fly this interest a building and kill people. that's what happens in this world unfortunately. but as a result of that, 9/11, its takes longer to get on plane and no go reason, and i think that where we need to be head might be dish want your opinions obviously -- we have to slow this down. before something just hits -- i think you're talking about

the next year, of course, that president resigned in disgrace and was replaced by gerald ford. my friends, people my age at the time were turned off by politics. why would anyone want to be involved in politics? i thought we needed people involved in politics for the right reason to help their community and country y. decided someday i would get involved in politics. i voted for a dcouple of years later for jimmy carter for president because i thought it was wrong that ford had pardoned nixon figuring there had been some sort of crooked deal that went on there. so anyway a couple years later i did get involved in politics and ran as independent for cincinnati city council. i lost. two years later i ran as a republican and this time i lost again. so finally i did get elected to council the next time and served for five years there and five years as a county commission and then back in 1994 in the republican revolution, i got elected to congress and got appointed to this committee. so 25 years after watching you on television relative to nixon and water gate i was a member of the

has flaws that's in a different direction, so you have richard nixon followed by jimmy carter -- gerald ford writing a book about justice kavanaugh, so i've been thinking a lot about the frayed senate institution and our frayed country. it's a little about a gyroscope. it steadies itself when it gets too far in one direction, even with changes. the thing that worries me, because donald trump is both a cause of our fraying and a symptom of our fraying, we wouldn't have gotten him if we weren't kind of pre-frayed, to use pete's word, is whether that self-correcting mechanism in american politics and american government has limits. i really hope so, but i'm just not certain. >> you know, pete, the subtitle of your book, "how to heal our fractured republic," we saw an example of that leading into the segment with joe biden and the protester at his rally. but is a part of healing our fractured republic the ability to place things in context? i mean, in 1963 -- this week in 1963, medgar rivers was shot and killed, assassinated in mississippi. the evening that john f. kennedy gave the speech which

. >> i, gerald r. fordoffenses against the united states which he -- >> president ford's pardon of richard nixon stunned the nation. nixon's legal problems were now over. >> when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. >> by definition. >> exactly. >> the former president was still not accepting responsibility. three years after resigning nixon was paid to participate in an historic interview with the british television journalist david frost. at the very end, an inevitable question came up. >> do you feel that you ever obstructed justice or were part of a conspiracy to obstruct justice? >> he would not -- he would not really admit anything, not even mistakes or whatever. he was really stonewalling completely. and he was beginning to look like the haunted nixon of the actual watergate hearings, rather than the californian ex-president. finally, i said to him why don't go further than the word "mistake"? >> what would you express? >> and that was a real gobsmacking moment. >> my goodness, t

including john paul stevens, who is now 99 and served until he was 90, after his appointment in 1975 by gerald ford. and he said, he suggested this was all born of the moment, that these proposals will probably fade. but stephen bryer, this spring, was asked at a forum about a and the 18 year term limits, he said had some resonance with him. i think in a personal way he said, it could stop me from having to worry about when i go. and as we know, stephen bryer is a very useful 80 year old. if you would give us your take briefly, but also respond. i know that you feel like progressives have been relying too heavily on the courts, which is a theme that some of our other panelists have hinted that. >> thank you so much to acs for organizing this discussion. i grew up in a country which did not have a high court. and it was a country, england, where a reasonable tradition of rights and respect for quality. and so when i think about the role of a high court, like our u.s. supreme court, i asked what good it does. the policy. what is it that we choose to have this particular arrangement. courts are instru