ladies and gentlemen, jim bakker. [ applause ] >> thank you, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you for a very warm and generous introduction. thank you for all you have done to nurture and honor the wonderful legacy of both your dad and your mom. dick fo,he distinged guest, ladies and gentlemen, let me say to begin with that it's a great pleasure for me to be back in grand rapids. i've been here a number of times and i'm delighted to be back, particularly to celebrate this 30th anniversary of the gerald r. ford library and museum, because this library and museum also does an extremely wonderful job of maintaining the legacy, and not just the legacy but the lessons of a man, a president who was much more than just a man of his times. gerald ford was a great and timeless american who day in and day out demonstrated characteristics that will always serve, i think, as models for our leaders. those leaders of today, as well as those leaders of tomorrow. but before i talk about his legacy, i would first like to state as a matter of personal privilege, if you will, a simple, but

jim bakker knew how to play that because the elder bush was great at that. >> jim bakker knew how to> it was like a jedi mind trick. you want to be a member of the cold war. >> john's book, because the question of how he did the the economy and domestic policy and that compromising, that seems to me, i mean my old friend ben franklin said compromises may not make great heros but they make great democracies, that was a brilliant compromise but he was vilified for it. >> let's talk about that right now. we were going to go to syria, but this leads into what jeb bush said yesterday. and jeb right now, a man that many consider to be a future republican presidential nominee, getting absolutely secu lly ske many on the right for having the courage to make that praise. >> jeb bush said his father and ronald reagan would have a difficult time with the climate in the gop today. bush said, quote, ronald reagan would have based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground as would my dad. they would have had a hard time. if you define the republican party, and i

bakker's if truth telling and power challenging are not the most profitable thing then that becomes the sole. jurisdiction of corporate media people who are specifically focused you know not product not for profit media citizen reporting live streamers things like that but with no corporate sponsors dissident journalists pose a threat to the system they can bring the power back to the visual people by telling the truth and that could be dangerous for them as technology develops it will be increasingly difficult for the mainstream media to maintain control over the flow of information to the american people really no longer history but when it was just. a scary thought for the powers that be. are to washington. they a lot of shows coming up in just a half an hour let's check in with alona to see what's on today's agenda a lot of what you were going on over there and what we've got two great panels this evening for us we're going to look at a little foreign policy we're going to talk about yemen we're going to talk about syria and we're going to talk about the fact that we are expanding o

one of jim bakker's lawyers on the staff was sitting behind me, leaned over and said in my ear, a perfectmichael dukakis answer. and it was. and we shredded bp in that. narrowly. now, this was another reason lord browne had to retire early. i think in some respects their refinery safety record improved. obviously there drilling safety record did improve. and so they've had a second major accident with fatalities. i think that, you know, the reputation of course affects the entire industry, it is bp that has had these problems and i don't know whether there are any -- whether they are any better today really in the long run than when we started. but that's a long answer on that one. the 9/11 commission was an entry into the past. i believe on the day in which we started, we all implicitly and some explicitly reached the conclusion that if we couldn't write the history unanimously, we were wasting our time and the taxpayers money. so from the very beginning, the idea was we've got to say what happened here, everything relevant that led up to 9/11 itself. we were constantly frustrated by the