and i mean your subject, president james buchanan.ght ses session was illegal but he thought the federal government had no power to prevent it. what might he have done between january and march 1861 to make sure the rebellion die, maybe even 1860, but perhaps in the first two months and one week of the new year? >> i must preface my remarks whenever i tell people at social events, cocktail parties that i'm working on the biography of james buchanan i get a blank stare. inevitably the question arises, what would james buchanan do? and it's a very simple answer. nothing. obviously, we know he like his predecessor franklin price and mill ard were doe faces, northerners with great sympathy for the south. buchanan was greatly conflicted with this whole crisis. he was devoted to the union at the same time he had great great emotional attachment to the south. he was a man who had few friends and those friends were southerners. what i could have done is he could have reached out to those faxes who he demisal. republicans, he didn't -- he coul

buchanan.e wish him well. liberals including those at media matters are recklessly applauding the news today. joining me on "hannity" to tell his side of the story is the author of "suicide of super power," pa rick j. buchanan. permanently out of exile. >> well, i think seal team six extricated me, sean, but i can't give up details of it. >> sean: fair enough. i understand that. you have a pretty big crowd as i understand. let's get into this a little bit. when you came on this program, and you have been involved give some history here. you were involved in one of the pioneer debate cable shows and n cable. which was called "crossfire." on that program, just remind people who were the people you would interview over the year years? >> we brought on, because what we want to do is introduce people to america that they have never heard. they just read about. we brought in meyer cahani, and ruben of the jdl. david duke came on the air. minister farrakhan. they all had what people said are extreme i

we want to welcome to the c-span classroom pat buchanan. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, steve. >> let me begin with the obvious. why did richard nixon run that year? >> i think richard nixon wanted to be president of the united states certainly almost back into the early 1950s. he had run in 1960, and i think he felt he had made some mistakes then. he almost, i think, considered trying to move in ahead of goldwater after goldwater ran into difficulty in 1964. he felt he was more mature and that this would be his time in 1968 and all the planets came into alignment for him. it was an extraordinary year, but i think he sort of always wanted to be president of the united states from the time he became vice president. >> he was the so-called new nixon. was he knew or different from 1960? >> he would tell me about certain people that had worked with him. he said pat, they're eight years older than they are, and i'm eight years younger. there was no question about it. nixon had matured in a way up there out of office, been humiliated

obama received word that both buchanan and fisted were rescued.he president then relayed the news to the father of jessica buchanan that his daughter was safe and notified danish authorit danish authorities to pass on the good news. exit question, zero to 10, zero meaning zero impact, 10 meaning metro physical impact. what is the political impact of this dramatic seal rescue of president obama's -- >> i say 4 or 5. but niece things fade very, very rapidly. and i think in two months and months it will fade to almost zero. >> there could be more of these rescue attempts, and it certainly does speak well of our military the way they can perform, and if this had gone awry, we would be having a very different discussion here about the state of the union. so i give this president a lot of credit for taking risks that he needs to take in international affairs. >> i a sights a one or two because it does very marginally augment the sense that president obama is tough and willing to order these raids. but ultimately, no one cares about somali hostages, i'm

host: pat buchanan on your screen. mr. buchanan, welcome back to c- span. nice to see you.st: thank you, susan. host: you spent a lot of your career talking about how to bring jobs into this country and how to protect jobs. what is the right approach now with the economy in the state i t is? we're talking about corporate taxation. guest: i would look at the united states from the time of alexander hamilton to world war i and he created the most incredible industrial empire the world had ever seen from 13 agricultural colonies. the second with the southeast asia. back in the 1950's and 1960's, colonized. some of the folks in malaysia, singapore, and places like that said, "why don't we bring all these internationals and multi national companies in?" they brought them in and give them every benefits they could and coddled them. the a tremendous amount of business poured in there. they rose up and they were the tigers of asia. it's an idea. i would go for zero corporate income tax rate for this reason. who pays the corporate income tax? it comes out of wages or salaries of wor

tom in his introductory remarks talked about buchanan possibly coming up with a compromise. my question would be, what kind of compromise would be acceptable to both sides? lincoln would never give up the idea of preventing slavery from expanding, and the slave states would never accept that. so what kind of compromise would be available that would be -- that would make both sides happy? >> let's do this very briefly so we can move on. get everybody included. >> that would be a good -- that's a good question. obviously, the extension of slavery issue would have to have been addressed. you're right, it's -- there would have been no guarantee that even if he brought those sides together, as i had said, that they could have come up with a compromise. but the thing was that there was really no effort on his behalf to do so. as i said, he was dealing and communicating with a very small portion of the political players. just part of the democratic party, and of course, he would not at all think about trying to bring in republicans. so, you know, it's a good question. i don't know.

buchanan. i'd like to know how you think nixon's election changed the course of presidential elections to come. >> i think the richard nixon certainly one thing he did, richard nixon created the new majority coalition. it was one of the things we had worked on from 1966. fdr had this magnificent coalition that he had taken out of the republican party and put it together that governed the country and the democratic party by 1964. it was about twice as large as the republican paerlt. what nixon did straight politically was take the socially conservative catholic ethnic southern bloc and move it into the republican coalition so that in the next five elections -- the next four after 1968 republicans won three landslides of 49 states, 49 states, and 44 states and george h.w. bush won 40 states. so i think richard nixon is the most important political figure he and fdr in terms of putting together ruling coalitions, governing coalitions in america. we see that gradually disintegrate for reason i desc

pat buchanan. we begin with the fight over birth control and how republican men may be reaching for trouble. es herbpecially woman trouble. michael steel was chairman of the republican party and joan walsh, both are msnbc political analysts. i see the smile on my colleague's face. although she's wearing green a month ahead of time, here's your chance. speak loudly and clearly about what the republicans are doing to the potential of getting even a little bit of women's sport in the next election. >> they are decimating their chan chances. this has been one of the best things they could do for president obama. you know, the democrats lost certain groups of women in 2010, chris, and they are coming back in drones. we have had had so many great images. first of all, the whole debate over contraception dm the last two weeks t brought home to a lot of women, that wow. the affordable care act really pays for my contraception without a co-pay? that's a great benefit to a lot of women. this is terrifying. i

i'm sure he will be giving you a call. >> bay buchanan. plenty more as the factor moves on this evening. jesse watters goes to the conservative conference in washington. another big trouble maker advice for governor romney advice on the budget. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. >> bill: watters world segment tonight. political action conference in d.c. last week. mitt romney won the straw poll there. by all accounts it was three days of not liking president obama. so we sent jesse watters to check it out. >> you can name one good thing president obama has done? >> gave the okay to take out usama bin laden. >> he is has unified the conservative movement. >> he likes march madness, so i guess that union nights americans. college basketball. >> i have been hearing that crap ever since i was at ucla. >> getting usama bin laden we can all agree. >> getting number two. >> my name is number two. >> the think that i have to take the survey. >> is he a pretty good singer ♪ so in love. >> is he a much better role model as a husband and father

i'm sure he will be giving you a call. >> bay buchanan.oves on this evening. jesse watters goes to the conservative conference in washington. another big trouble maker advice for governor romney advice on the budget. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. i'm a marathon runner, in absolute perfect physical condition and i had a heart attack right out of the clear blue... he was just... "get me an aspirin"... yeah... i knew that i was doing the right thing, when i gave him the bayer. i'm on an aspirin regimen... and i take bayer chewables. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. so he's a success story... [ laughs ] he's my success story. [ male announcer ] learn how to protect your heart at i am proheart on facebook. >> bill: watters world segment tonight. political action conference in d.c. last week. mitt romney won the straw poll there. by all accounts it was three days of not liking president obama. so we sent jesse watters to check it out. >> y

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and i liked patrick buchanan. he was always fun to be around and never seemed to mind my being there, and i did photograph him on a number of occasions. c-span: and then there's a photo down below of the family. >> guest: after the--the campaign was over and the election was happening this particular day, and they were in this suite--i think it was the washington hilton. and i asked if i could go up while they were watching the returns, and they allowed me to do that. and so this was agnew, his wife, bryce harlow, patrick buchanan, all watching the results. some they were happy with, some they were not so happy with. c-span: what's the toughest thing about being a photographer? >> guest: getting access. once you have access, then you can operate. technically, the most difficult thing is lighting. those are the two things. but if you get access, then many--you can make most anything happen. c-span: when did you do this one with gerry ford? >> guest: this was also done in 1970. the--congressman ford had come for a m

. >> i think one of the fascinating areas in terms of james buchanan is in terms of what he didn't do are the things he didn't do that could have made things far worse for lincoln coming in, including -- confederacy. just what was his motivation?pa he genuinely have a few remaining principles that he was not going to put lincoln in a worse position than he already was? >> well -- this one? yeah. let's keep in mind that he was making decisions with only several months remaining, and he wanted to get out of town without -- seriously, he wanted to get out of town without having the war start on his watch. so he made it very clear that -- and he even actually states this, that i will do nothing that will incite any kind of a war or conflict. and i think the prime example of this is even though he did send a message to the commissioners from south carolina that he would protect and respond militarily to any kind of attack on a fort or interfere with the carrying out of federal law, when he did send a release expedition to relief with sumter, when it was fired upon as it tried to enter the

buchanan's political life and career. the author talks to mr. buchanan at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c. >>> this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week. every week end, 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >>> republican presidential candidate mitt romney received the endorsement of michigan governor rick schneider yesterday. it took place during a luncheon hosted by local business groups. michigan groups are holding their primary elections on tuesday, february 28th with 30 delegates at stake. >>> thank you for putting on this great event. it's great to be back with you again. i was here last year. it's a wonderful group of people and a great opportunity to share. i'm very excited to be here and i hope you are, too, to have governor romney with us. if you think back to 2010, what did michigan look like? we had been at the bottom for a d

thank you. >>> pat buchanan always has an opinion about politics. that he's out of a job after critics called his new book sexist, racist, anti-gay, and anti-s antismim it. >> actoralen alda will be with us. you're watching "cbs this morning." losing weight clicked for me when i lost weight in all the right places. you know what i mean! [ laughs ] when i tried to lose weight other ways, i felt hungry all the time. on weight watchers online, i eat all day long. i loved grabbing those activity points and throwing them into my tracker. and then it adds it up for you at the end of the week so that you can earn more points for food. i never thought that way before. i lost 38 pounds with weight watchers online. i really did it. [ laughs ] [ female announcer ] join for free today. weight watchers online. finally, losing weight clicks. new ocean spray cherry juice drinks, like cran-cherry, made with sweet cherries and the crisp taste of cranberries. ah, sweet deal! find out how to get a free cherry juice drink at oceanspray.com or on facebook. with less chr

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we get more from our war correspondent emily buchanan. >> the bottom bardment of baba amr. it appears from these latest pictures to be relentless. throwing the spotlight, they are now becoming the victims. this is the makeshift media center apparently hit by a shell. the bodies of two foreign journalists were found inside. one has been confirmed as the "sunday times" war correspondent marie colvin. >> i watched a baby die today, horrific. a 2-year-old hit. they stripped it and found metal went into the left chest. his little tummy kept heaving until he died. that is happening over and other and over. no one here can understand how the international community can let this happen. >> the other foreign journalist killed was the french photographer remi ochlik. the french foreign minister paid tribute to him. >> it's another demonstration of the representation in syria. >> these deaths come after a prominent syrian journalist was also killed on tuesday. >> the victim was from the journalist and yesterday we have one man. he is also a journalist, but he is -- he was getting the

that this will increase the shadowing about 5.4% of the total potential sunlight annually on the buchanan street mall if i am meeting that correctly, bringing into a situation where the new total shadow coverage would be approximately 30% of potential available sunlight. and i know that the 295 restrictions are very strict. i just wonder how this is being applied, and i know we have had other projects were there have been minuscule increases, we have had long discussions over it, so i wanted to talk to you about what the staff's feeling is on this. >> you are correct, in other parks, there are minuscule amounts that we allow. in the memo that was issued to staff, it spoke to specific parts and that actually have shadow load limits or the buchanan all is not a specific limit identified. there is a limit established. commissioner antonini: there are 14 parts in the downtown area that have a numerical value, but this is outside of that area so it is more of a subjective call by the commission about whether this is adverse. i am glad we were able to discuss that because i think the public can

pat buchanan is at the white house to talk about that. let me begin.d in the last 24 hours it's the duty of america to defeat barack obama because of national security that he's writing over the constitution. how do you assess those remarks? >> well, i do agree that the president of the united states has used obama care really to ride rough shot over the prerogatives of the roman catholic church when you order the church and its institutions to engage in activities that that church has taught for centuries to be morally wrong. and i think the president ishas partially backed off of that and i think he should back off entirely, charlie. >> what about the race so far in terms of president obama and his inability to defend the national security of the united states also part of speaker gingrich's remarks? >> i think the president's done a good job on the war of terror and i disagree with some of my republican colleagues. i think we have to move out of iraq and move out of afghanistan. so i don't fault the president that much in terms of what he's done on

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politician and former presidential adviser pat buchanan now tells us why he thinks washington should stay away. i. i'm sitting down with patrick buchanan senior adviser to presidents which are next in gerald ford and ronald reagan he ran for the presidency three times he wrote many books and some of his books have really manage seeing titles his latest book is called suicide of a superpower a will america survive to twenty twenty five very pessimistic sir all first of all thank you very much for joining me thank you with regards to foreign policy you're saying one of the ways to prevent that suicide from happening is to dismantle the empire first of all what do you mean by empire or you might call it the american imperium or the american empire. the united states has military bases dating back to the cold war in europe and asia the middle east africa all over the world and we're running a deficit of ten percent of our gross national product and quite frankly we can't afford any longer in my judgment to continue to carry this enormous burden of defending forty or fifty countries aroun

buchanan is from good, virginia, which is just east of roanoke. >>> the obama administration's mandate on birth control has stirred up a heated debate ahead of the general election. the new health care law requires catholic hospitals, charities, and other institutions to include birth control in their health insurance plans. the white house says non-catholic employees should have access to the insurance coverage regardless of where they work. gop presidential candidate mitt romney launched a petition against the mandate, arguing it's an attack on religious liberty. opponents say the rule forces organizations to buy something that violates their beliefs. >>> the star of one of the super bowl's most popular ads is defending himself this morning after claims that the commercial has political undertones. >> people are out of work, and they're hurting and are all wondering what they're going to do to make a comeback. we're all scared because this isn't a game. the people of detroit know a little something about this. they almost lost everything. but we all pulled together, now motor city is

interviewed pat buchanan. racism came up. we will play some of that in reality check a bit later on. plenty more as the factor moves along this evening. jesse watters academy awards and it ain't pretty. media reporting surging gas prices. the take is different when oil skyrocketed under president bush. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. [ male announcer ] what if you had thermal night-vision goggles, like in a special ops mission? you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering, web-based trading platform. trade commission-free for 60 days, and we'll throw in up to $600 when you open an account. >> bill: watters world segment tonight, as you may know we let watters loose in los angeles last week. the repercussions still reverberating in southern california. jesse's last stop the aca

proceeds will go to support 17-year-old ryan buchanan and his life long medical bills. last june in a matter of 20 minutes, would ybuchanan's lifer changed. he and another boy were digging a six foot deep tunnel in the sand when it collapsed burying buchanan for about 15 minutes cutting off his oxygen supply. >> to go from this beautiful day with this wonderful, just wonderful fun and sand and surf to have this event happen right before us was really hard on all of us it was something that you wouldn't wish on anybody. >> reporter: the teen is in a persistent vegetative state. >> he's just a different boy. he's still ryan. we know he's in there. i talk to him. he does respond to sound so we know he can hear. and i fully believe that he can actually understand what we're saying at any given time. >> reporter: buchanans has been in a rehabilitation center and his father says he will soon be allowed to go home. but before that happened, the house needs to be modified to accommodate ryan's condition. the cost will be 400,000 to $600,000. on top of that, medical costs per mo

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