along with 61 of their caregivers. heavier i believe is a political analyst and he joins us from bethlehem in the occupied westbank. it's good to have you with us earlier i was asking is really political commentator how is really feel when they look at what happened this morning. i want to ask you the same question. how do palestinians in the occupied west bank and beyond feel about what they saw this morning. as i say to any one lasting for the english or s as real as tom e. c. e o n d for when you have our wow medium that's happening in the territory size mattresses. uh all these things have come on obviously in the number of people who see the the total for me. so the just the bed is the ac. all my words among the people that have been released so far are there are high profile names that would be known to many maybe most how this didn't use that will resonate particularly strongly the the, the before the end of the all, the we the nice by the way to find the soon to be seen by the key. so we're looking for any j o me for us. you see now the diesel, they went to a this was a be where th

appropriate lines of public purposes. men's mother reports now from an informal assessment near bethlehem in free state province. the must equal section informal settlement and so the africans, freestate province sits within vast tracts of land, much of it used for farming, mobile to mac window, who rents a home nearby says the need for land is greater than ever. we need. we need land where we can live. i applied for land wasn't 10 years ago, and i'm still waiting for that in 10 years. if someone is dissing successful of the decision last month, president obama post assigned into a bowl that allows the government to expropriate property for public purposes or in the public interest. in some cases, without compensation, it's part of land reform plans in a country. we move in 80 percent of agricultural land is owned by the white minority. terrible things are happening in south africa. it's quote, the attention of us president donald trump, who in response to what he calls a land confiscation from white people, has cut the 8 to south africa and also to side them to people of africa and the h

as he hasn't been able to have is there any army invaded the church of identity and bethlehem pack the cameras, the security count lives and stuff to do attacks about of sending people around and the people who came to be and the most of the, of the most mixed of their church as well. so this one is trying to make a new effect on the ground to inside the balancing and so say at the, i'm inside the front a stand in community for the 1st time ever since the 2nd the father, the other day is the invaded. he brun, i'm for the city with his name. literally. it goes almost like the banks. i'm wondering what is the reason behind all of this? is it only because of the declared because of the military because of that and doing the military existence for the thought of seeing him 5 times and there was thing i believe it's not, it's a continuous process of raising the amount of sending people on board all around the was done collecting all of this with very and you thought of the drum plan and the sensor and his hands that the i want to pick up at the point that you made to just to just a moment t

to the 3 decades for reforms to allow them to reclaim what is rightfully this is for me to mila bethlehem. south africa, the vatican's as po process is in a stable condition, a nation's life improvement and recent blood test results. the 88 year old pontiff has pneumonia in both loans and is undergoing treatment at a room hospital, italian prime minister georgia. melanie visited the pope and said it was alert and responsive. that's. that's it for me down jordan. so now you kind of course find much more information on our website. i'll just say about dot com. there it is. the weather is next. the inside story looks i'm in the took some team to talk to us and russian diplomats in saudi arabia on the only thing that's different, even i don't expect you so much of the display of surprise to see the still snow folding, the full frequent light, the shower, it's on the western side, side facing siege of kind of hunch you until carter and this bring you this to, for the cold. but the sounds like from the nose in china, if it's not from the yangtze surface, fairly wet, looking day on thursday, rea

i believe political violence joiners from bethlehem in the occupied west. back the know donald trump, it's fine for general c, q brown. as chairman of the us, the joint chiefs of stuff trauma says, it's part of a why you the shake of america's military leadership. defense secretary peter hicks, if had previously suggested the general got the job because he's black. he's now requesting nominations for senior positions in the navy, and the air force depends again, is also preparing to find more than 5000 civilian employees by next week as part of a reduction in the federal workforce. how does that cost, right, joins us now from washington dc. so how do you, how big of a shakeup is this with a pen a yeah, it's very significant. and normally you don't see this when a new president takes power because normally this is supposed to be a non partisan the us military. but what we're seeing is what democrats are calling a friday night massacre at the top brass level of the pentagon. you mentioned charles to brown, who, of course, until now has been serving as a us as

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he joins us now from bethlehem in the occupied westbank. javier so many developments over the course of the past few hours. obviously the cease fire process has been complicated from day one only seems to have gotten more complicated the past couple of weeks based on what you're seeing thus far. where do you think things stand and are you more optimistic now than you were a few days back? i think of how much clearly we are all more optimistic on this page. but again, we should remember that the government depends. i mean it's, i'm, yeah for which household the power to boy this whole process. it was never came to have a ceasefire. remember that's what we're facing now for according to what these freight is doing on the ground level. if, if fire it's, it looks more like a kind of a, in, in minimizing a bit. the, the amount of attacks on palestinians we have over a 100 stimulus. kilten does a file that says fire. it was not supposed to, in any case, i think the release of kind of thing and prisoners. it's always a welcome. if it's something the kind of feeling society is expecting us y

the see if i was arrested on march the 19th 2024 at my home in bethlehem. i was charged with incitement and social media platforms. there was increased pressure to prolong my detention because of my profession as of june most as we palestinian journalist have paid heavy prize during the war. we were arrested and sent in stuart's dreamy, harsh penalties. you were in mo interrogation. they showed me thousands of my post, some was social, some more religious, and i was accused the ones signed then because of them. it was sentenced to 11 months in prison and i don't even know which paste left to my conviction. yeah. they're rated my house in a very fine and way ileal my daughter, and we've kept harry flight from the way they stormed in without breaking in my doing, shouting them. and i told them that i had to baby at this time you gave me was only non mom. so she was still and then son in was entirely dependent on me. india was a premature baby of an bone 2 months. sally maintenance. you're required in terms of medical care and know at that time her immune syst

um and the professor um from bethlehem spoke to you, molly, go, i forgot his name so me probably a okay. how he said the in absolute the correct thing. he said, the, you know, 80 percent of these really probably want this deal to be done and that includes the end of the war. not just to release all the hostages, a dead or alive, but the end of the war. now if the war and how much time this residual pass a power political power that i alluded to a moment ago and then attorney, i'll make signs him. so without a coalition which then raises and even brought a question. if thomas is still in gaza and israel does begin negotiations over the face to what happens with the trump, i'll bombastic statement that i will. we will own guys that we will take us up. we will rebuild, guys. we will expel, relocate, move, we'll call it what you want ethnic lens of 2300000 policy areas. we will build that riviera. how is that going to happen in that time? you know, knows that you know, 48 hours from now maybe less, maybe slightly more. but around that time, trump is going to move on to a different uh toy to

posting resistance is being now it's a heavier i believe, whose political, unless that joins now from bethlehem and occupied in the occupied westbank have a great to have you with us here and out to 0 again, so we have a few high profile palestinian prisoners, abdul nessa, isis, we just talked about and also now the bug duty at how important is the release of these significant palestinians and thinking they could not. but it was in particular, he has been serving almost 45 years of his life is starting to j was he was really used previously during thank you not sleep eh, agreement, and he was a i posted again. now i think that's extremely important to be mentioned today. we're having 47 people. that's how life send through the setup with release under the sleep it agreement them where it really came in. but souls that how fragile the situation can be. because on my side what your question is, it's right on the spot regarding the, the, the, the significance, the prisoner slight. and that the both you and others that they're serving, it live, some books have some, it's really used a house for the

and he's joining us live from bethlehem. i believe that we will be bringing him up shortly as well. there he is. so a non firstly your reaction to this. well, this is good to do with this. so saying that's how miles west correct dropbox this task, not to do that. it is the hostages because how much the mans were not having got the the, the band that they need done. i think they have no excuse. now, i think everybody was to not to be a winner. and i think donald trump, uh, how much will avoid any reaction or retaliation from, from the united states or from israel. and the thing is as an approach, anything that we move on by ever using the hostages. that wouldn't give how much like a lot of because it's among the boards and among the people and goes there because they need all of the help they can get on the job. are you surprised by this development? because everything that we have heard from israel since ha, said that it was the main, the release of captives is that they were saying things like that were going to match all hell will break loose on gaza if i'm off didn't release the

it's used to take, for example, an hour to go from a low to bethlehem. now it can take up to 6 hours. now imagine that in addition to that daily or nightly rates into villages and towns and cities daily routines, a rounding up palestinian met and specially the young man. and then you have these large scale offensive, unprecedented really in the past 20 years that are wreaking havoc engine in until the cut in one palestinians watch and draw those parallels with gases. no, thank you very much. indeed. no, they talking to us there from among the still ahead on alta 0, judges in the us squared off against president donald trump over the 14th amendment for going to explain why was, might happen next. the 1033 rabbits consolidate the hold. an eastern democratic republic of congo, the government accuses them of mass violations of human rights. and india continued to an impressive run against england and the unlimited overseas. the latest action coming up in the high pressure dominated the weather across a good positive gear rip full. the time big, but that will

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the 19th 2024 at my home in bethlehem, i was charged with incitement on social media platforms. there was increased pressure to prolong my detention because of my profession. as a journalist, we palestinian journalist have paid heavy prize during the war. we were arrested and sent in students to really harsh penalties. you were in mo interrogation. they showed me thousands of my post. some was social somewhere, religious and i was accused of and science and because of them, it was something to 11 months in prison. and i don't even know which pay slip to my conviction. they're rated my house in a very violent way. ileal, my daughter, and we've kept terrified from the way the stones in breaking in my doing, shouting. i told them that i had to baby at that time, you know, was only 9 months old. she was still and named son in was entirely dependent on me . india was a premature baby boom to mom, sally maintenance. you're required in terms of medical care. a death time her immune system was extremely weak. she needed frequent hospital visits for ongoing treatment for sure. but they t

over night is really forces rated by jolla, small town between bethlehem and jerusalem. they went into a home of an a 2 year old woman who was living on her own, woke her up round, sacked, her home, search for weapons, which of course do not exist, went into the house of her son, woke up, woke him up, and her grandchildren they are now traumatized, scared, believing that this will continue. this will repeat, and many people in that position in that situation will begin to think, well, maybe if we move somewhere else, our lives will be a safer. maybe we can protect ourselves from this kind of a kind of raids. there are hundreds of new gates and military checkpoints that are gutting the occupied westbank. erecting that by these really are me disrupt life. it can even make it completely impossible for those who live around that, all those tactics along with the scenes coming out. if there's a need, a cut in could and have in the past, forced people to leave on the, to leave voluntarily and move somewhere else in the west by effectively being displaced without the gunshots,

now from bethlehem an occupied in the occupied westbank . have you a good to have you with this again? so we have the 6 exchange is now taking place. got to mulch, getting this phase and it's all gone through despite the fragility of it, oh, how do you think with sets is for this? so as far as the last, i think i, i think that the idea here is that the ceasefire is on the interest of old russian or players. let's look at this way and i think that was the only parts to so far that they have an issue with the ceasefire. well, it's been something that, i mean, i hope they think of it now so far that having the right to incentives a to keep it piece of going, there was a crisis. it'd be sweet that they think mediators particularly different. and probably maybe there's 1 april, april sorted out, but the still a few. a said it's a very friend joe, is if i agreement, that looks a member of the, the numbers who just gave it. they showed up for the next to it releases. we have a very large number of people if the left and we have an unimportant numbe

centers for the local residents of, of the area on people who were really a return to this part of bethlehem. are struggling not all the with shoulders, not only with the lack of mobile homes on corvette, but water is a real issue here. we and the team member here have sold that the need for water here because we spend the whole morning looking for a drinking water in the area. we could not find it for the hundreds of 1000 of people in this area. it's a real issue. what a trucks pull up here every morning or every other every other day. and it's not enough to be the needs of everyone returning to their homes, you know, the size of the task and does what is just colonialism net honey from the time being. thanks very much. that's the story from bacon a here in garza, that's bringing along the and who's the format director general of israel's foreign ministry. jones is now from tel aviv welcome said throughout to 0. i'm sorry, a great deal going on different magically. let's start if we kind in cairo where the focus is, of course, on keeping the seas far alive. what's the sense in is rather, is

the joining us that from bethlehem have you unconnected instead of head hearing out 0, the somebody dublin sofas battle ice will fights is in the northeast region. coming dozens entrenched in the state, the it had a low that is very successful. the fed when it comes to the weather across the south asia at the moment. lots of sunshine and dry skies, much of pakistan and india as well as shoreline can. we've got a little bit of rain here in the for the north east of india that east coast as well. we could see some thunder storms in addition with some strong winds and potentially some lightning as well. but that does the ease as we go into the new week. instead, we'll see the where to where the pick up in sri lanka, with some of the storms in colombo by tuesday, could also see some west. so whether developing in northern parts of pakistan, thanks to west city disturbance, leading its way across afghanistan, that close to bring some snow to the higher ground. we're also seeing more in a way of snow for japan, often record snow falling in some of the cities in the north this month. usually thos

he joins us now from bethlehem in the occupied westbank, heavier um, seeing all these developments that are coming out in the past couple of hours. i'd like to get your perspective on where you think things stand now when it comes to the ceasefire going forward. because we heard that in exchange for these 3 is really captives that are to be released. that that's going to be $369.00 palestinian prisoners. so where do you see things going when it comes to the ceasefire in the days to come? a thank you. i think it's very important to know to the, the only party that the so 3, it emphasis a couple of, of these firewalls. they start and particularly probably may have some of the money out for the preferred kind of playing his own domestic a political games. and i think it's always important for them, but we are dealing with a ceasefire agreement that was on his table or may left here. now it from this perspective, people here in the occupies westbank, unoccupied, protest. fine, are very enthusiastic about a how many people are going to be released tomorrow. that's new to all of this was expl

and finally, one of the most notable names is a med of what a major 45 from a refugee camp in the bethlehem, a prominent figure in fact there. but when we talk about these prisoners, these are people who are.

and finally, one of the most notable names is a med of what a major 45 from a refugee camp in the bethlehem, a prominent figure in fact there. but when we talk about these prisoners, these are people who was sensually to the palestinians are being welcomed back into their society. the issue of prisoners is very, very sensitive. because over the last several decades, there been around 1000000 palestinians who have been detained by is really authorities. and if you look at the images of the prisoners who come out of these really jail, they have the diseases on their skin, they're incredibly frail. they have diseases on their scale. there was, in fact one prisoner last week who tried not to get near his family because because he had a contagious student edition. notice gaves. the conditions in is really deals are so horrific and have even done worse under the countries former national security minister, east of marvin beer who bowed to make conditions worse. he vowed to make food rations even smaller. who about that there wouldn't be enough water supply because the palestinians, according to h

mean, let's see what has happened to the students and the children who would be most it from, from bethlehem to, to the other countries. they still remain on site. so there's really you have a model that is going to see them before the syrians, whether it is. but if you could ask this with it, whether it's just been there with the promise. so instead of getting back to the home, but this never takes please. so busy ladies have been using this policy to ensure that it's sort of been it's, it's actually the car to the company to achieve the potential assumed to be the business. even though they would need to deal with the, the side of the company to extend the nation as to the bodies that they would be able to get somebody support at least that they would be able to be just somebody outside and worth reminding a of you as a buyer, so of the conditions of these prisoners facing these is really presents the conditions and what they're subjected to in these is really present, which makes the waiting to gratian into society. extremely challenging a uh, it's horrible. i mean, the images we have see

some other key names on the list here are i met a bu, shamae, a 45 year olds from bethlehem who was arrested in 2003. so these are people who are serving either life or incredibly long sentences. one of the prisoners on the list actually received 6 different life sentences consecutively as part of his detention in these is really prisons and the number of costs and you prisoners would be released as part of this deal as a whole. in phase one are around 2000 and exchange for 33 is really captive. and throughout these releases, what we've seen is some have political affiliations. some do not. some work children held under administrative detention summer women and some were what the palestinians call significant icons and prisoners within the world of resistance within the political factions who have been detained for years consecutively by is really forces. and the issue of prisoners hits home for almost every single palestinian, because over the last several decades israel has the change in nearly 1000000 policy opinion. so it's a little bit difficult to go out into the streets and find someo

that moment of really let's bring in as the upgrade, who is a political and this one is not from bethlehem and notified westbank. so it's good to have you with this app from your point of view, observing these events from the occupied westbank. and how do you assess where we stand with the release and as we approach phase 2 of the see spot you can make i think we are in the, in the very complicated position that you were explaining earlier and in the program it we've done. but we haven't beach the position where by most of the palestinian presidents about supposed to be release of this for face a are that have been very easy to base a big number of people left for the next it to am. but the next to release is, and i think also a displacement delivered by president trump to they may affect the outcome of the situation. it presley and come today. basically a told event, i mean that the whole you are free to do whatever you want. and when i be a with you, that's something that, that, that is going to in court, it's a certainly a, the most radical element seek his government that he's trying t

as opposed to see if i was arrested on march the 19th 2024 at my home in bethlehem, i was charged within songs on social media platforms. there was increased pressure to prolong my detention because of my profession as of june. and they just as we palestinian john list, happy to have a prize during the room and we were arrested incentive and students to really harsh panel to the human lo interrogation. they showed me thousands of my post. some was a social, some more religious, and i was accused the ones signed then because of them. it was something stu, 11 months in prison, and i don't even know would you pay slips to my conviction? yeah, they're rated my house in a very fine and way and how they are really on my dose. and we've kept terry far from the way the stones in, without breaking in my doing, shouting, i'm going to, i told them that i had to baby. i'm and this time yeah, was only non mom's on. she was still and named son in was entirely dependent on me which india was a premature baby boom to month. sally maintenance. you're required in terms of medical care and annoys not a dep

was a wave of bankruptcies at the end of the 90's and the beginning of the oughts, where you saw bethlehem and others that went out of business and just disappeared. they had been part of the american landscape generations. and that is not the situation we are in. we also cannot afford to take the tariffs off because that is where we would end up again and we do not want to see that. host: scott paul joining us for this discussion. kathy is up next from georgia, hello. go ahead. caller: good morning. i enjoy watching your show and this one just sort of hit home. i am not going to really ask a question and i just want to make a comment. i was born and raised in a small town in the appalachian mountains in north carolina. even in high school and i graduated in 1975, i worked all through high school, a job. i did not have a choice. i could go from one plant to another to get a job. this is a small 2000 population town. poser emails, --hosiery mills, furniture builder, blue gene factory, ethan allen. i mean there was always someplace to work. i was very fortunate and i was able to go to colleg

sketch with tracy morgan and kenan thompson playing three wise men riding on camels on the way to bethlehemy jimmy fallon pulls us over for suspicious activities in the desert. i had other cameos down through the years, like in 2016 when i appeared alongside kenan thompson. he was playing me hosting politics nation, although i still maintain he needed to lose a little weight for the part. i always felt that snl was very important for bridging politics and art, and here's why. because as many americans that agree or disagree with those of us that engage in political activism or activism in any sort. we on snl, they begin to see that we're full human beings that can laugh and talk and agree with some, agree with some of the artists they like in terms of their art, even if we don't, their politics. that's why the night many of us will be sprinkled throughout the audience, not really playing a major role. maybe have one question asked and we give a one line answer, but it shows in these divisive times that the biggest artists and comedians and some of those that kind of like can blend between b

told you about 15 members of my wife's family who were killed in october 2024, in one airstrike in bethlehem5, 15 people haven't been removed from under the rubble. these people are still under the rubble. we haven't buried them. and so many people who are now outside of gaza, especially in egypt, they want to return to gaza. i know two people i met in in gaza and egypt, and they were the only survivors of their family. while i was in egypt after december, i was i left gaza in december 2023. and when i met them, they they asked me, can you find a way for us to return to gaza? and it was just the start of the genocide. i told them, why do you want to go back? and they said, my, the body of my father, the body of my brother ismail, and the body of my sister ikram, 16 years old, 16 years old, are still buried under the rubble. and we want to go to go back. and they were injured, by the way. they told me they want to go back and retrieve the bodies and bury them. and i assure you, until this moment, the bodies of these three people and so many others have. have have been under the rubble for mon

to accept the un partition plan in 1947, which would have created two states with jerusalem and bethlehem being independent and an economic trade zone between the arab and israeli state. so the arabs actually created the problem of the palestinians, i believe, and i know saudi arabia as well as the neighbors in the middle east, also see it as they're going to have to be a part of that solution as well. they create the problem. i'm sure that donald trump and prime minister netanyahu, working with their arab colleagues, will find a solution to this. that has to be different than what we've tried since 1967. >> all right. george birnbaum, very grateful to have you on the show today, sir. thanks very much for being here. >> thank you. casey, have a good day. >> you, too. all right. in just three days, a super bowl that's going to make history one way or the other. the philadelphia eagles take on the kansas city chiefs. my eagles. donald trump is going to be there becoming the first sitting u.s. president to attend a super bowl. however, he may need to brush up on his football trivia ahead of

where'd you come from this morning bethlehem.ow excited are you to see the birds today. >> i'm so excited. >> i can't. >> even tell you. >> now what does it mean to you to see the birds win their second super bowl in only a couple of years? >> it's phenomenal. i couldn't be. >> more proud of the birds. >> they did it. i'm so proud of them. that's wonderful. >> sherri. >> describe the environment out here for me. >> what's it feel like? >> insane. this is really the coolest day ever. >> what was your favorite part of the. >> super bowl on sunday? >> oh, when the confetti. came down, that was when it really hit that we did it again, so that was great. >> sherri, thank you so much. i'm excited, you guys. >> this is. >> philadelphia right here. this is the spirit. we're ready to celebrate. parade starts at 11. but this party is going well into the night. john. kate, go. birds from philly. >> i feel like he should interview himself. i'm danny freeman here with eagles fan danny freeman. what do you think of the eagles winning? i think

five months later, he made his way to our local community and arrested in bethlehem, pennsylvania onf indecent assault against a minor. in cases where individuals have entered our country illegally and broken an additional law, the public has a right to expect our local officials will cooperate fully with the federal authorities. unfortunately, that was not the case in this situation. because of the county executives' executive order, i.c.e. was forced to arrest this dangerous predator outside of the prison. there was no authority for the handoff and no need to take my word, my office has spoken to i.c.e. and they explained allowing this predator to leave the prison while already detained increased the possibility of escape from capture. it also increased the danger to those law enforcement individuals who have to make arrests in a noncontrolled environment and puts the public in greater danger as this predator has a greater chance of escaping justice. i.c.e. officers were successful in staking out the prison and arresting him. that took away valuable law enforcement time and put the

has been to at least a few places in judea and samaria, whether it's shiloh or batel or hebron or bethlehem, you know, lots of places. just imagine like watching a video where palestinians are gleefully breaking every single archeological site, every single connection of the jewish people to their ancient homeland because what that's what a palestinian state is right. that's what it is. i mean, you want to talk about like clear bothered it and how we cry this horrible and you know the rest of jewish history in the in the land of israel and so you know i'm thinking that's really what the world wants as the response to the worst attack against -- the holocaust. so i said all right what am i going to do? you know, i'm not in government anymore. i really you know, nobody in cares what i say. i can assure you that. so i said i locked myself in a room for ten weeks and write a book and i'm going to make two points. one, we can never have a two state solution or a palestinian state. israel. it'll never work. and it's not good for anybody not just not good for the jewish people. it's not good for a

i was a steelworker for bethlehem steel. i almost lost my first home under ronald reagan because he did not help the steelworkers. the other one is -- can i ask you a question about ronald reagan? did ronald reagan have dementia? i remember back watching the news, i remember hearing the newscaster, one of our national news people, say he was falling asleep at g7 meetings. that is a form of dementia. can you tell me whether he had dementia or not? host: may a presidential historian might be better. ronald reagan diagnosed with alzheimer's in 1994. there has been a ton of research about when the symptoms started. you mentioned ronald reagan. this is michael on cebook saying reagan was his favorite president. made conservatism mainstream. he had previous expanse in the entertainment industry and politics. he had a great sense of humor and got on well with his political opponents. that is from facebook. looking at your comments on social media asking who your favorite president was and why. this is david in indiana, republican,

was a wave of bankruptcies at the end of the 90's and the beginning of the oughts, where you saw bethlehem and others that went out of business and just disappeared. they had been part of the american landscape generations. and that is not the situation we are in. we also cannot afford to take the tariffs off because that is where we would end up again and we do not want to see that. host: scott paul joining us for this discussion. kathy is up next from georgia, hello. go ahead. caller: good morning. i enjoy watching your show and this one just sort of hit home. i am not going to really ask a question and i just want to make a comment. i was born and raised in a small town in the appalachian mountains in north carolina. even in high school and i graduated in 1975, i worked all through high school, a job. i did not have a choice. i could go from one plant to another to get a job. this is a small 2000 population town. poser emails, --hosiery mills, furniture builder, blue gene factory, ethan allen. i mean there was always someplace to work. i was very fortunate and i was able to go to colleg

was a wave of bankruptcies at the end of the 90's and the beginning of the oughts, where you saw bethlehem others that went out of business and just disappeared. they had been part of the american landscape generations. and that is not the situation we are in. we also cannot afford to take the tariffs off because that is where we would end up again and we do not want to see that. host: scott paul joining us for this discussion. kathy is up next from georgia, hello. go ahead. caller: good morning. i enjoy watching your show and this one just sort of hit home. i am not going to really ask a question and i just want to make a comment. i was born and raised in a small town in the appalachian mountains in north carolina. even in high school and i graduated in 1975, i worked all through high school, a job. i did not have a choice. i could go from one plant to another to get a job. this is a small 2000 population town. poser emails, --hosiery mills, furniture builder, blue gene factory, ethan allen. i mean there was always someplace to work. i was very fortunate and i was able to go to college on

i was a steelworker for bethlehem steel.ost lost my first home under ronald reagan because he did not help the steelworkers. the other one is -- can i ask you a question about ronald reagan? did ronald reagan have dementia? i remember back watching the news, i remember hearing the newscaster, one of our national news people, say he was falling asleep at g7 meetings. that is a form of dementia. can you tell me whether he had dementia or not? host: may a presidential historian might be better. ronald reagan diagnosed with alzheimer's in 1994. there has been a ton of research about when the symptoms started. you mentioned ronald reagan. this is michael on facebook saying reagan was his favorite president. he made conservatism mainstream. he had previous expanse in the entertainment industry and potics. he h areat sense of humor and got on well with his political opponents. that is from facebook. looking at your comments on social media asking who your favorite president was and why. this is david in indiana, republican, good mo

and what should the baby in bethlehem mean to me? (male announcer) watch "why the nativity?"erful new docudrama from david jeremiah, here on this station. kron 4 morning news. a small plane carrying a child crashes into a philadelphia neighborhood, setting homes and cars on fire. what we know so far as federal officials investigate. plus, breaking overnight strike averted. the group representing costco workers across 6 states which is an agreement withethe company before the midnight deadline, preventing thousands of workers from walking off the job. and rain returns to the bay area. we're tracking this atmospheric river and the flooding impacts. you could see. it's here on the kron 4 weekend morning news. i'm stephanie lin. >> it's saturday, february the first let's get started with a look at your weather headlines with kathy trafton. hi, kathy. hey, stephanie. well, welcome to february this happened after very dry january. all of a sudden everything is changed. rain arrive yesterday across northern california and the bay area. you probably saw some of the went outside and h