now, the ronald reagan institute is the home, the ronald reagan presidential foundation in washington, d.c. our mission is to ensure that president reagan's timeless principles continue to inform the scholarly and policy in our nation's capital, our center for peace, through our center for freedom and democracy. and our center for civics education and opportunity. are by president reagan's warning that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction extinction. our fourth pillar, the center for scholarly initiatives, seeks to better understand president reagan's effect on history and cultivates a rising generation of scholars and the academic community to engage in the work of the institute institute. now, apart from president reagan, his first lady, nancy, it's difficult to think of anyone who better embody the work of the institute than secretary. one of two individuals to hold four cabinet posts. secretary shultz, his life in public service could across a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues. and yet he had the uncanny knack for being on not only on, but

reagan. how do you plead guilty? mr. president how good a politician is mrs. reagan? oh, absolutely don't you think so? the words right out of my mouth. i think she prompting you again. is reckon some people have suggested that you have been the driving force in your husband's career and that you wanted the presidency more than he did. yeah. i know i've read that too. not true. i i thought i married an actor. and actually, he was asked he was asked to run for office. soon after we got married and turned it down by the democrats when he sold democrat. and then when the governorship came along i went along with it, but that wasn't something that i had carved out for for our future and certainly the presidency wasn't something that i said you've got to do this. no that that isn't true. i think what people get mixed up. as far as i'm concerned and this whole thing of my my pushing pushing him. that they don't understand that. if he had decided to go into the shoe business, i'd be out pushing shoes. you know, whatever aren't you? glad he didn't yeah, that was my next point

and president reagan understood this. his famous quote that are the most terrifying words in english language or i'm here from the governor, government and a to help. he understood the vital role that government had to play. he didn't say no government and he understood that there was a core functions of government but he also understood how government could be a negative force if not applied properly. and i think if you look over the last four or five years and you look at the performances of individual states and you compare florida versus california, new york, illinois, some of those other states, we have had a great experiment, a great test in governing philosophies because of course you know we approach things much differently in florida that you guys have out here. much differently in florida than they have done in your and in illinois and many of these other states. and what is the result of that didn't? you have an elections in your state and that's fine but the american people as a whole in some ways have voted a

now reagan had a view on this subject. he quipped, thomas jefferson once said, we should never judge a president by his age, only by his works. ever since he told me that, i stopped worrying about it. little reagan here was always a good way to get things started. our speaker today is at no risk of being judged by his age. no one can say his past as prime, nor can they say his index appearance. and with his new book, it's clear he's asking all americans to simply judge him by his works just as president jefferson advised the courage to be free is florida's blueprint for america's revival. and governor ron desantis is the leader who draft it and successfully implement it. that blueprint in the sunshine state, judging by the size of this enthusiastic crowd here on a sunday afternoon. and by how quickly this event sold out. i'd say most of you have already become familiar with governor desantis as florida blueprint and you like what you see. you know that he has accomplished a great deal in his first term and one really aucti

i did not consider the schedule of the ussr in the reagan doctrine.f course, he was afraid of his communism and wanted to remove the communist regime in the third world and, if possible, in eastern europe as soon as possible. it would also be nice to say that the communists were from the soviet union itself. and they didn’t talk about the fact that you, the soviet union itself , collapsed, so to speak, it happened partly because of the policies of reagan himself, to a large extent because of the policies of gorbachev himself, in fact, in my opinion this crisis which not only accelerated but even led to the collapse of the soviet union, let's not forget it was a communist totalitarian system and although gorbachev can be blamed for wanting to democratize somehow and improve a in the same way, he actually undermined my foundation of this system, and reagan helped him somewhat, of course, and the pope helped him somewhat. so there were various factors that influenced this event. but in any case , the most important thing for reagan was the repetition of

and he got reagan to buy it. and that was the heart, that first big tax bill i used, jack, and he lived in the same and we had ride to work together whenever the wives were coming in. one day i was with jack. i said, jack there's not a book on economics. he had read, couldn't quote from now. he said, if you ask him, he'll tell you. but i said, jack, why in the devil did you get into all of that? he said, well, well, you guys were getting master's degrees or phds and working and practicing and doing the various things you're doing. so i playing football. so i thought i had to catch up. he was a serious scholar of economics. don't sell him short but to barber he was a needle. i mean, he was a needle in his side because he's not of trying to plan the taxes like you would do in an institutional. he was out there doing it all his own by himself with. his own movement. yeah. carnivals very critical of kemp in the book. in effect there are free copies of the book thanks to tiffany white and the great folks at the dirkse

but he's all in reagan's face. you know, you criticize the mistakes, the past of democrats for our big deficits. do you take any of the blame for the deficit? and reagan is not his says, well, yes, sam, i do, because for a long time i was a democrat. but told me i asked about that since that my i had many humiliations at the hands of ronald reagan but that was my biggest one. so it takes some art and deliberate. you know craftiness to think how to do that and sadly say a lot of politician just don't think about that in practice and then think it through a little thing. but not. but i'll make a perhaps slightly contrarian, which is i think we need more, not less politics. and i think perhaps one of the things we should be looking at more is less about coolidge's presidency and more about his governorship, which is say that what strikes that we need today, which coolidge understood at the federal level, where you have a more limited constitution at the state level, where you actually have powers at the constitutional

, whether reagan himself to or not, we don't know but people very close to reagan who were definitely, whether they completed a deal or not is unclear. the original deal would be that if the iranians waited to release the hostages until aer the election, which they did, that reagan would unfreeze their assets and give them arms. it turns out it was carter who negotiated the release of the hostages, although, and this was extraordinary when i came across this, remember iran contra where we shipped arms to the iranians? that was in 1986. this is in 1981, just a couple months after our citizens are released, and at that point, the reagan administration was already shipping arms to its enemy in iran through the israelis. it was quite possible that this was a payoff for the decision by the is -- the iranian govnment and not release the hostages before the election, which would have course -- of course aided jimmy carter. geoff: the iran expert of president carter's national security team spoke with my colleague yesterday. he said this reporting basically backs up what they believed to have

what would ronald reagan do right now? he would start shooting russian planes down if they were threatening our assets. >> tucker: what would ronald reagan do? good question, senator graham. ronald reagan's two term presidency was notable for the fact that he did not declare war on the russian air force and therefore the united states did not go to war with russia and millions of lives were saved as a result. that's not a small thing. but one in the reagan win column there. another president they told you was a crazy war monger who actually kept us out of war and won the cold war anyway. how did reagan do that? he kept the american economy strong. do you remember that? seems like a long time ago. pretty much the opposite of the approach being pushed right now by lindsey graham an his friends in the war party. their plan is to ignore our borders in the united states but to defend ukraine. they are even funding the ukrainian pension system, not kidding, as our own american banks collapse. what would ronald reagan do? he'd pr

trump famously plagiarized ronald reagan.on desantis is trying to drape himself in reagan imagery, but there may be a problem in his magical kingdom, which we'll get to. desantis speaking at reagan public library, another sign he is actively edging closer to running against trump for the nomination. in florida, state republicans are pushing the agenda in a new legislative session tomorrow, with a wish list that includes allowing concealed guns without a permit, which is just an odd safety stance. banning diversity programs at public collegesing a story we've covered here, and trying to lower the threshold to have the state execute people, allowing for potential death sentences without a jury. there's also raising college tuition of children of immigrants and the thing we've told you about trying to target free speech and journalists. the last two items do something pretty important -- they highlight how very different the branding and the tone and the superficial references to reagan is and, well, what reagan actually sometim

these 52 americans are being held in captivity, and you have people very close to reagan, whether reagannot know, but people very close to reagan were definitely trying to do this. whether they completed a deal or not is unclear. the original deal would be that if the iranians waited to release the hostages until after the election, which they did, that reagan would unfreeze their assets and give them arms. it turned out that it was carter who negotiated the release of the hostages. although, and this was extraordinary when it came across this, remember iran contra, where we shipped arms to the iranians. that was in 1986. this was in 1981, just a couple months after our citizens are released. at that point, the reagan administration is already shipping arms to its enemy in iran through the israelis. so it's quite possible that this was a payoff for the decision by the iranian government to not release the hostages before the election, which would of course have aided jimmy carter's election efforts. geoff: gary sick, who was the expert for jimmy carter's team, he spoke with my colleague

suspicions about a deal between the reagan campaign and iran.tage crisis had consumed the last year of the carter presidency, contributing to a perception of weakness. now ben barnes, a prominent democratic politician at the time, tells the new york times he was a witness to republican efforts to prevent the hostages from being freed before election day. gary sick was the iran expert on president carter's national security council. he wrote a 1991 book making th case that there was a deal, sicn barnes said, what was your reaction? gary: my reaction was pretty straightforward. this was the first high-level official of any government that had specifically identified the fact that the reagan administration was trying to make contact with iran a tell them that they should keep the hostages until after the election of jimmy carter -- the election which reagan was running against jimmy carter. we had pretty well figured that out. we had a bunch of evidence that that was the case. but this is the first, most credible of all of the sources that have tal

i'm in reagan's work in bavaria to be honest, the bridge doesn't look that old. that's because it's been completely restored over the past few years. after all, regensburg has a title to defend those 2006. it's old town including this bridge has been a unesco world heritage site. today i want to get to know regensburg what attracts visitors to this unesco world heritage site. and what does the constant influx of tourists mean for the city? this much is certain, it's going to be a journey through 2000 years of history. ah. will also show you nearby valves and book abbey. i will find out what the growing popularity of cruise ship tourism means for regensburg and we'll catch up with our globe trotter in the city of carina in columbia. ah lou the fact that regensburg as such an old and well preserved city is largely thanks to it not having been destroyed in the wars and its importance as an imperial city. in past centuries. a testimony to its former significance is the gothic cathedral construction began in the 13th century. and the cathedral tells us a lot about tha

reagan, let's go to you first, you are there in goma.atest reports are that m23 is advancing on that regional capital city. what's the situation? guest: in goma, there is the fear that m23 can take the city. but this has been ongoing for the last four weeks now. there is this fear, but also there is an economic crisis, because all the gates to the city are closed, at that outside and the west side, and the south side in akivu, and then rwanda. goma looks to be in a place where they don't have a lot of access to goods, and that is affecting the situation in the city. people have a lot of anxiety and fear. and the situation in sakey, which is very close to goma, there is still ongoing fighting there. people fear for their lives and for their economy. laura: is there the belief in goma that m23 will overrun the city? guest: i am not sure that they have interest in that city, but they are enclosing on the gates around the city. they have put the government in position that they have to negotiate to save the situation in the city, which is on

uh, the name of ronald, reagan. how, if you want a model, how should you handle it, and with opponents with russia wanted to shoot down on this occasion, and soviet planes, if there are russian planes, sorry if there were more, but some incidents with american drones. although i must say that ron rader did not shoot down any soviet aircraft. well, here's something less known. and the router immediately after he became president was completely assassinated and he, when he was still in the hospital, wrote a handwritten letter to brezhnev about how the two countries have similar interests, and how he would like to find an opportunity work in the soviet union and the state department objected to sending this letter and offered his own, but a much less significant person agreed to send the text of the state department, and, in addition, sent brezhnev his letter by hand. about this little known is known about this there are relevant marys but i would like to share another episode that is completely unknown. and about whic

in summer of 2006, the old town of reagan's book becomes a unesco world heritage site. fantastic. i've hope for this for a long time. after for them they will you flooring celebrations in the city. you know we did it well. heritage status is a rare distinction, but today i sat through it with almost cherry. we're happy then and we were proud of officers, but things have gotten out of hand like i was our to me with. no, but we wanted to be a world heritage decide what the consequences. nobody really thought about the consequences of what we just wanted to get in the tourist brochures. the up is one of the i met was a big go back then. what do i get to look at 1st? it was nice to see so many people come in, but now it's turned a little don't like it just gone to for some reagan's book is the onslaught has become too much. the city continues to attract masses every year the tourism office analysis, new records for overnight stays, day traverse and cruise line is his passengers stole through the old town. if they came, they sometimes don't even remember what said you therein. by the e

a very warm welcome to all of you, reagan, let's go to you 1st. you want that in go me at the latest reports, all that m 23 is advancing on that regional capital city. what's the situation? yes, in grandma's. there is the fear that you trade and you join the city, but this has been ongoing. busy for the last 4 weeks now. so yes, there is these are. 5 so there is an economy crisis because that gets the best choice as entity on the north side and at the west side. and you know, i've said it's off the who and been there is rhonda that side. so go, my looks to be, you know, i, in a place where they don't have access to a that is affecting god, this edition, the city before, ha, r a t n c are in the situation in that case, reaches with, she's very close to them. there is an outgoing fight there, so people fear for their lives. it could be in b. is that the belief and goma that em 23 well overrun the city? yes, i'm not sure that they have been getting in the city, but the thing they have in closing all that get. 1 the city mesh was the government. you p

a very warm welcome to all of you, reagan, let's go to you 1st. you want that in go me at the latest reports, all that m 23 is advancing on that regional capital city. what's the situation? yes. didn't go out. there is the fear. i've did your trade and you joined the studio, but this has been ongoing for. busy the last. busy 4 weeks now, so yes, there is these are. 6 so there is an economy crisis because that gets to the city and street on the north side into the west side. and you know, i've said it's off the who and then there is rhonda. ringback side, so go my looks to be, you know, i, in a place where they don't have access to a ocean city or has a atn in the situation. in that case it was very close to grandma. there is a fight. so people, 3 or 4 lives in columbia, is that the belief and goma that m 23 well overrun the city? yes, i must show that they have interest in getting in the city, but the thing they have in place, in closing all that gets. 1 are the city and the government to position that they that we have to negotiate to same situat

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win column ane in the reagan win column there. another presidr president told a crazed warmonger who actually kept us out of war but won opt us out of war but won how >> and how did reagan do that?? well, simple.the american he kept the american economyseei strong. do you remember? that seems like a long timeprety ago. mh thit's pretty much the oppo of the approach being pushed right now. graham an his friends in the war by linsey graham and his friends in the war party. iiends in the war party. their plangnor is to ignore our borders in the united states , but to defend ukrained ,they're even funding the ukrainian pension system, nosystemt kidding is our own amn banks collapse? what would ronald reagan do? he'd probably vomit if he saw. we're glad ronald reagan is not here to watch lindsey graham invoke his name to justify anti-american stupidity. what about linsey graham's plans, the plans of almostn th every republican senator in the u.s. senate and all the democrats? how democrats? states ? they never answer that question beca

a very warm welcome to all of you, reagan, let's go to you 1st. you want that in go me at the latest reports, all that m 23 is advancing on that regional capital city. what's the situation? yes. and there is a fear i'm $33.00. can you join the city? but this has been ongoing for. busy the last 4 weeks now, so yes there is these are. 5 so there is an economy crisis because that gets a on the north side into the west side. and you know, i've said it's off the who and been there is rhonda side. so go my looks to be, you know, a place where they don't have access to a, a t n in the situation in that case, which is a very close to go, there is a fight. so people for their lives in columbia is that the belief and goma that am 23? well over run the city? yes, i'm not sure that they have been getting investigated, but the thing they have interest in closing all that good. 1 the city mesh, both the government, you position that they, that we have to ship it to a shouldn't be very, which was one, but we just didn't tell me what is it exactly that people are

buckley jr. sat down with ronald reagan in the original "firing line" program. here's what they talked about with respect to the deficit. >> but that leaves us facing the deficit. >> yes. >> in the book, you bemoan your own inability to do something substantial about it, and when you considered whether you were running for the second term, you say, "well, at least if i do, it'll give me, among other things, a chance to tame the deficit." so even after four years, you thought you could do something about it, but you failed. >> well, my budgets, every one of them, the congress put on the shelf and called them dead on arrival, and then would return to me, in place of a budget, a continuing resolution. now, that would be this high. you are faced with either signing that entire document or vetoing it. if you veto it, the government is out of business. everything stops. you can't even send out paychecks and so forth. so you had to sign or else. >> reagan actually had a record eight shutdowns, many over domestic and defense funding priorities. but fiscal responsibility

darkness. >> the great ronald reagan who defeated the soviet union, whoe took on thsoe soviet union andstan and nicaragua, took on then soviet union brought to middleug east that an awful lotf nuclear weapons into there were powerful than you canee se re russia today what do you think reagan would've said about ukraine, it is none of our business, do you think that's what he would'vehe said? things have been turned upside down and it's very troubling to me particularly in the face of what is taking place, people who say this is a territorial ba bae in ukraine or people who say wep have no business supporting oupr ally in ukraine people who say our real battle with china notea russia, they don't understand our battle is with an alliance that has been built in access and getting stronger andacce stronger and stronger cherry picking one country or the other misses the strategic point, the strategic point is the reason why president xi is building his alliance and partnering with these countrie s financially and militarily because he wants ton defeat us and at the same time we have voices f

i want to see how ronald reagan characterized him.video clip] job scalia is a brilliant judge, he had had a career as a lawyer and a judge. there he became known for his integrity and independence with the force of his intellect. she jumped -- justice rehnquist and justice scalia, congratulations to both of you. with these two outstanding men taking their new positions, i consider this a time of renewal in the great system that our forefathers gave us. [end video clip] >> that was the swearing-in, which was three months after he was nominated by president reagan. talk about those three months and what it was like. you referenced earlier, two at the same time, and the real lightning was rehnquist. how did the administration prepare? >> the book publishers for the first time a lot of the documents that were generated at the reagan white house and the department of justice to support this twin nomination, and it shows that the white house devised an elaborate campaign on behalf of scalia, probably more elaborate than any supreme court no

. >>> also tonight, remember the republican party of ronald reagan demanding that the soviet leader tearn the berlin wall? well, today's republican party is parodying the talking points of the ultimate soviet nostalgic, vladimir putin. and offering to hand over ukraine to him as a reward for an illegal war. >>> plus, today's high-stakes hearing in texas, which could result in women losing even more reproductive freedoms as republicans push extreme new penalties for abortion patients, including the death penalty. >>> but we begin "the reidout" with trump loyalist turned adversary michael cohen who wrapped up his testimony today in front of the manhattan grand jury investigating the stormy daniel's hush money payments that he made on behalf of donald trump, aka, individual one, in the leadup to the 2016 presidential election. cohen's testimony taking more than five hours over two days is believed to be the last piece of the puzzle before wrapping up the case that is, after trump declined his invitation to speak before the grand jury himself so now we're in a literal wait and see moment wai