buckley jr. and your new book "anti-trust, taking on monopoly power from the guilded age to the dirj age" offers the perfect opportunity to look at this topic anew in 2021. . today there are fewer than 5,000 public companies, down from 8500 in 1997. a lot of that is because of mergers and acquisitions. senator, what does this tell us? >> well, i think what it tells us is that we are a country that has always believed in entrepreneurship and revitalizing, rejuvenating capitalism and we've reached a moment where we just can't sit back and say this is happening to us. not when we have tech companies that are controlling the gateways to so many services. not when we're seeing consolidation across the board, and consumers see it in everything from cable prices to farms trying to get goods to market, to epipens to insulin. we believe, and i believe, as someone who worked in the private sector, for 14 years, i believe in this market economy. but we have always, from the very beginning, believed you need

so i don't know if you've ever seen buckley play the harpsichord... >> i have, i have. >> let me justh chnology, we've been able to complete a phrase that was started years ago and that was transferred through time and landed in this form today. that's remarkable. >> pretty extraordinary. his guest, schuyler chapin, he was on just after this, and he posed the question, "why aren't there more amateur musicians who play for pleasure?" take a listen to this. >> why is there that vast cemetery of people who gave up active participation in music, settling for an exclusively ive role, listening to professionals like these? what is there about our culture that discourages a continuing enjoyment of the musical experience? >> i don't think our culture does discourage that. >> i'm so glad you -- >> what do you think? >> i'm so glad you showed that clip and had -- put that question on the line. because i can tell you, my very good friend emanuel ax and i are so devoted to change that present norm to what it used to be. and i'll tell you what i mean by that. before recordings, the only way you co

buckley jr. founder of the national review, founder and star of "firing line." in terms of tonight's debate mr. buckley is always a menace but never a bore. >> so you can see, i mean, that setup is to demonstrate they're proaching this top pick with levity but then they go on to take the issue very seriously. listen to a few more moments from that debate. >> we are now a nation everybody is claiming victimhood and the right to feel hurt by all kinds of things and it's that kind of thing which the speech codes try to prevent which does, i think, suppress speech. >> the real menace is centuries of or at least generationsf racial discrimination, gender discrimination, homophobia, which do produce sometimes overreaching reactions to fight such originating discrimination. >> and what we do wrong as university administrators and college administrators that we should elicit the prejudice. there is a lot of racism and sexism outthere. this is the one place, in fact, it can be heard but then not merely heard but -- >> responded to. >> responded to in the name of what act

buckley junior and ronald reagan were ecumenical leaders. sustaining this alliance because the theoretical instructor that came to be known as fusionism. that is a fusing or merging of the competing perspectives of therg libertarians. although with never without its critics and is and has political action proved to be considerable success. it taught libertarians andha traditionalists that they needed each other. an unmerited conservatism must not become sectarian or doctrinaire. from a historical perspective conservatism as a modus, held up pretty well during the cold war era. and for a time thereafter. about five years ago the alliance and its institutional manifestation inside the beltway came under blistering attack from the populist national eruption as it came to be called associated with donald trump. since then the conservative movement in america has been a house divided with factions engaged in an often languorous tug-of-war. no different observers use terms to characterize the contending factions elitists versus populists, the esta

so buckley in his own person in a sense emboded both. reagan was interesting, too.was closest to the libertarian and cold war aspects of the conservative movement. be he reached out to evangellals and others and was in a sense a neocon on his open. he had been 0 then left wing of the democratic party in the 19450s, and who -- are so various reasons ofsterrens and so forth in hollywood, and he had the politicians sense that you cultivate all of the branches of the coalition. so all the sides could see him as giving them a seat at the table. so i don't know that there is an ecumenical figure right now cable and buckley and reagan, but but they managed to i think be very effective diplomats. they obviously removed some from the fringes, the anti-semites and the like and i i would agree it wasn't all peace and love and harmony until 2016. no. there were fights. but there was that ecumenical sentiment and one reason it survived so long, that coalition, was the cold war, because that courthoused anment of -- introduced sobriety to -- day can't just fight one another and p

he wrote a column about buckley and he sent him a note, buckley did that i cherish forever that said mr. klobuchar, the only one who is wittier than me is you. >> that is -- that is unbelievably high praise. >> do you have the note? >> it was in one of my dad's books. i was looking for it for years. >> that is amazing. we will take your word for it good enough for the program. >>> you introduced your own version of competition and antitrust law enforcement act. one of the proposals is to shift the burden of proof to the merging parties, demonstrate that it will not violate the law. why is that important? >> because it is harder and harder to prove these cases. there was one 15 year period where plaintiffs won 0% of the time for the supreme court. so, what i do here is for major, major merger saying okay. instead of the government having to prove it hurts competition you have to show it does not hurt competition. it is just an acknowledgment of the nature of the economy. >> cheney may lose her leadership post senate reminding republicans that trump's rhetoric continues to undermined t

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buckley jr. the father of modern conservatism. he wrote a conservative is someone who stands atlafrt history yelling, stop. indeed the right would shout stop over and over again in the coming decades. those shouts echoed through the 1960s as america exploded. cities were racked by rioting over civil rights and police shootings. >> don't bow down anymore. hold your heads up. >> thousands were dying in the jungles of vietnam. anti-war protests filled the streets. enter presidential candidate richard nixon. he knew exactly how terrifying 1968 was to the right wing base. >> the wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in america. >> fear, fear, fear. >> nixon used what was called the southern strategy. build the base by attracting more white support in the south with subtle appeals to racism. >> these code words, these dog whistles, law and order. >> law and order is something everybody wants. >> the right loved nixon until he began to run the country. to their horror, he wanted to make government bigger. >> he proposed

i just, you know, so, what buckley and schuyler chapin, what they posed was a question of the moment.done so much in other ways that allowed for people to hear things that they weren't able to hear before, but, one unintended effect, which did have very serious consequences resulted in this fracturing of what should be a united enterprise. >> you said after the murder of george floyd that you thought maybe we needed, quote, songs of change. what did you mean by that? >> well, i think one of the things that, again, you know, you refer to a very sad moment in our times. and it is a moment that struck such a deep court amongst so many people. and, one of the things that i try to do, sort of referring back to block is to be absolutely sympathetic to whoever's feeling the pain, but also at the same time, to say, okay, how can we provide perspective during this time? and music has a part to play, because music, i think, attracts both the head and the heart. it actually joins the head and the heart and we know good decisions are made when you use both your analytical skills and your empathet

reagan's thinking. >> it cannot -- reagan was a personal friend of bill buckley's and they exchangedy many letters and bill buckley, also a friend of nancy reagan, socially and things to gather like that, the "national review" is a magazine that cannot be underestimated in this role for the conservative movement beginning in 1950s, refining conservatism, the john burke society and things like that as part of the american conservative movement. they were extremely close friends and avid readers. and milton friedman who won the nobel prize for economics what he is teaching at the university of chicago. it was a national celebrity. in the 70s when pbs was running a series, contained a lot of interviews, his thinking inspired a lot of reagan's policies including tax cuts and budget policies that restart the economy, adding dollars to the workplace. >> host: the reverend robert hyde, what was nancy reagan's role in his success in the new biography of her. >> guest: i've not read the book yet. the washington post, i have known her for years and what was the first part of your question? >>

what buckley was trying to stop was the new deal.e" published in 1951, was a diatribe against, what he believed, were the anti-christian and anticapitalist forces at the nation's best universities. buckley yelled stop, again, during the civil-rieghts movement. writing in 1957, that the south must prevail, because the more-advanced, white race, had an obligation and right to rule over others. he changed his mind during the mid-1960s, but many conservatives remain staunchly opposed to the landmark civil-rights bills of 1964 and '65. in other words, the modern-republican party has its roots in rebellion. rebellion against the main currents of change, in modern-american society. the growth of the welfare state. the secularization of life. and the increasing diversity of american society. the trouble is most americans don't agree with that protest. they may express discomfort with the welfare state, in theory. but in practice, they love social security, medicare, and the rest. secularization is a force that is sweeping almost-all advanced

buckley jr., defined that movement as standing athwart history trying to stop. roosevelt. he was also referring to the growing secularization of society. his first published in 1951 was a diatribe against what he believed was the anti-christian and anti-capitalist forces at the nation's best universities. buckley yelled stop again during the civil rights movement, writing in 1957 that the south must prevail because the more advanced white race had an obligation and right to rule over others. he changed his mind during the mid 1960s, but many conservatives remain staunchly opposed to the landmark civil rights bills of 1964 and '65. in other words, the modern republican party has its roots in rebellion, rebellion against the main currents of change in modern american society. the growth of the welfare state, the secularization of life, and the increasing diversity of american society. the trouble is most americans don't agree with that protest. they may express discomfort with the welfare state in theory, but in practice, they love social security, medicare, and t

reagan was a personal friend of bill buckleys and they exchanged manych letters and bill buckley wasa friend of nancy reagan they did things together socially and things like that and the view of him can't be underestimated in his role in the conservative movement beginning in the 1960s and defining conservatism and the burke society and thingsso like that as far as the american conservative movement. they were extremely close friends and also milton friedman and milt friedman of course won the nobel prize for economics when he was teaching at the university of chicago. he was a national celebrity in the 70s when he was running a series on economics with friedman that his thinking inspired a lot of reagan's policies including tax cuts and budget policies and restarting the economy as a means of adding dollars to the workplace. let's go through reverend robert hodge from seared views and new york e-mailed into you craig shirley what was nancy reagan's role in his success and what you think of karen tumulty's new biography of her?? the >> guest: i have not read the book yet that i'm an

in fact both of them, reagan was a personal friend of bill buckley-- buckley and they exchanged many letters and bill buckley was also a friend of nancy reagan and they had many dinners together and were together socially and things like that and natural review is a magazine that cannot be underestimated in its role for the conservative movement beginning in the 1950s and refining it and rejecting john burke's society and things like that as part of the american conservative movement and they were extremely close friends and i would say added greeters and also milton friedman as reagan-- friedman of course won a nobel prize for economics while teaching at the university of chicago and was a national celebrity. i remember in the 70s when pbs was running a series on economics containing a lot of interviews with friedman , but his thinking inspired a lot of reagan's policies including the tax cuts and budget policies that helped restart the economy as a means of adding dollars to the workplace. host: well, the reverend robert hines from new york e-mails into you, craig shirley, what was

we referenced william f buckley a minute ago but i wanted to ask about him and milton friedman and their affect on ronald reagan's thinking. they exchanged many letters and bill buckley, also nancy reagan exchanged letters it cannot be underestimated in its role for the conservative movement beginning in the 1950s we are rejecting the society and other things like that as part of the american conservative movement. they were extremely close friends also of milton friedman and of course friedman won the nobel prize for economics teaching at the university chicago. i remember in the 70s when pbs was running a series on economics and continued a lot of interviews but it inspired a lot of reagan's policies including the tax cuts and budget policies that help reach the economy for adding dollars to the workplace what was nancy reagan's role in his success and what do you think of karen's new biography of her? >> i have not read the book yet. i'm anxious to read it. what was the first part of the question? >> nancy reagan's role. >> nancy reagan was valuable. if reagan wanted to be a shoe sale

it has -- if you read buckley's buckley'sbiography you realize h and the point that he was just trying to get the conservatism's and have the kind of respectable conservatism that wouldn't identify with example the civil rights. and i think that kind of relationship between the respectable conservatism and distinctly not respectable conservatism came back into the open when donald trump ran for the republican nomination and all of the non-respectable elephants trampled the conservatives. i wrote a lot over the last four or so years, first for the sunday times in london and "boston globe" and then the opinion and i've got a certain sympathy for those that voted for him because i understand why in 2016 they did for the same reason i understand why the counterparts voted but it was hard for me to see anything other than a bad ending for the story. my own inclination i remember seeing at the end of 2016 after it was clearly one and there was a transition in progress that this would end in a wealth of litigation was my prediction and that is not yet over but that is pretty much how it has e

an even greater presence on buckley air force base, an hour away, by car. so we know from the previous missile defense agencies' relocation from the capitol region to alabama, that it suffered an 80% attrition from individuals who did not want to make that move. will nro be requiring any of its employees to move if the space command relocation proceeds to alabama, and if so, what would an 80% attrition do to your work force and your mission? dr. scolese: we are located, as you said, on buckley air force base, a narrow facility there. i wouldn't expect to be impacted , changes would be. i would have to see what the changes would be. i would have to see what that impact would be. rep. lamborn: thank you. we'll follow up on that. general thompson, we know that china is pursuing counter space technologies such as satellite jammers, directed energy, and direct ascent kinetic weapons. these developments will certainly further facilitate the militarization of space and could deny the u.s. and our allies access to space during a conflict or crisis. from an organize

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. >> in 1978, william f buckley jr., welcomed the journalist and author to the program discussing the russian novelist and political prisoner. take a look at this. >> which is one of the most wonderful of our time, came to him in the gulags, not before. people forget that if he had wished could have had the life of a corrupt gorky. he could have been the great writer. gorky is on the supposed to be a performing seal ultimately for the regime. and he could have had all that. he had his nobel prize, he traveled about the world, he addressed audiences to make it was only because of what he learned in the labor camp, that was intolerable to him. >> you are i■nfluenced y he soviet dissident. as you now are a dissident yourself in a way, what do you consider the political responsibility of the artist, ashley, the celebrity? the russian public figure who has left the regime. >> what i believe is important today for celebrities is to be consistent. if you defend fundamental human rights and you fight abuses in your country, you cannot pretend it is not happening elsewhere. i am very critical

. >> thanks for joining us for inside california politics i'm frank buckley in los angeles and i'm nikki laurenzo in sacramento governor gavin newsom is responding to the recall effort against him for the first time since the secretary of state announced the signature threshold has been met to force a special election. we're going to fight the recall. we're going to defeat the recall are going to focus. >> on getting people back to work going to focus people getting back fully in person instruction in our schools are going to get this economy. moving again and more important than anything else are going to get vaccines in people's arms, so we can do all that faster.

buckley jr. welcomed the journalist and author malcolm ggeridge to the program, and they were discussingrussian novelist and political prisoner aleksandr solzhenitsyn. take a look at this. >> solzhenitsyn's enlightenment, which is one of the most wonderful of our time, came to him in the gulag... >> yes. >> ...not before. >> yes. >> people forget that solzhenitsyn, if he'd wished, could have had the life of a sort of corrupt gorky. >> mm-hmm. >> he could have been the great writer. gorky is the best example who was prepared to be a sort of performing seal, ultimately, for the regime. and solzhenitsyn could have had all that. he could have had his nobel prize. he could have traveled about the world. he could have addressed audiences and everything. and it was only because of wt he learnt in the labor camp, that that was intolerable to him. >> you were influenced by soviet dissident aleksandr solzhenitsyn. as you now are a dissident yourself in a wa-- right? -- what do you consider the political responsibility of the artist, the athlete, the celebrity, the russian public figure who has lef

years earlier in 1971, betty free down herself appeared on the original firing line with william f buckley jr. take a look at this but politically we must begin to have our own voice. there is many, many more women running for the senate is 72 and we will have our own caucus for the democratic convention a republican convention and we will insist on political priorities for our issues and we will cross party lines if need be to elect women to congress, to city hall, the state legislature. >> we should pass a constitutional amendment sing 50% of the senators had to be women would you? >> well i don't know. the not a good enough lawyer to know if that should be a constitutional amendment, but it wouldn't hurt. why not. >> why not indeed. >> senator, tell me, how did betty frieden impact your life? >> even if i was raised in a very nontraditional kind of way it is hard to escape the expectations of the dominant culture. the dominant culture was people like me should get married and have children. i read the book in college and literally i thought why with the kind of background i have to reth

buckley jr. take a look at this. >> politically, we must begin to have our own voice. there must be many, many, many more women than one running fothe senate in 2. and we will have our own caucus for the democratic convention and the republican convention, and we will insist on political priorities for our issues, and we will cross party lines, if need be, to elect women to congress, to city hall, to state legislature, to the senate. >> you wouldn't go so far as to say that we should pass a constitutional amendment saying that 50% of the senators had to be women, wld you? >> well, i don't know whether -- i mean, i'm not a good enough lawyer to know whether that should be a constitutional amendment. but it wouldn't hurt. wouldn't hurt. why not? [ both laugh ] >> why not, indeed? [ laughs ] >> senator, tell me -- how did betty friedan impact your life? >> even if i was raised in a very nontraditional kind of way, it is hard to escape the expectations of a dominant culture, and the dominant culture was people like me should get married and have children. i read that book

also, author and law school professor frank buckley on his book. that is live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. sure to watch washington journal at 8:30 a.m. eastern monday, memorial day, for a live conversation marking the 100th anniversary of the tulsa race massacre. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text and tweets. -- texts and tweets. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including comcast. >> you think this is a community center? no. it is way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with 1000 community centers so that students can be ready for anything could comcast supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television fighters, giving you a runt-wrote -- a front-rosita to democracy. peter: this week on "the communicators," we want to introduce you to. -- introduce you to adam kovacevich. he is the founder and ceo of a group called chamber of progress. what is chamber of progress? adam: my background is as a congressional late and i

and the health system is buckley, another 24 people died when a hospital and cat in the state ran out of oxygen. elizabeth per on the reports from new delhi, the relatives of patients who died when this hospital's oxygen supply ran out. the come with grief or my boy had recovered. 75 percent. if oxygen was available, you will have survived. but without oxygen. last night he died. i vent the anger at hospital staff in the state of card nautica. one man said his brother called him at midnight asking for help. we could recall it midnight, that he's not getting his oxygen supply. he got married just 2 months ago now who will look countries family. karnataka is one of india's richest states, but also one of the worst effected few places in the country have been spared by the 2nd wave of the virus. the capital new delhi set up at 1st oxygen generation plant. after more than 50 patients died when their supply ran out. don't depend into a back into space. when we are completely dependent on supply cylinders, then these problems are bound to days. it is a great idea to overcome that problem. w

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where he taught in the may buckley sadowski, he was the may buckley sandowski professor of history emeritus. he retired in 2001. he retirement didn't agree with him apparently because he joined the faculty of the university of illinois at springfield in 2009. of course. he's the author of numerous books in publications including abraham lincoln a life the two volume green monster that he referred to in the inner world of abraham lincoln. so it grace gives me great pleasure to introduce to everyone dr. michael burlingame. well, thank you very much. john's good to see you again and always an honor to be invited to speak to a group like yours or you're both of yours, but it's a space and and but it's a special honor to be invited back. so yeah, i've had the opportunity to speak to the lincoln group of washington on more than one occasion, and i'm delighted to be able to do so once again. and what i'd like to share with you tonight is a chapter of a forthcoming book. let's do that in june. well, actually the one that's due out in it's it's throughout october. i have one book coming out in june

one was by buckley, "american secession," and david french's "divided we fall." you can see where there is a lot going on. thank you. i appreciate esther olson's insights. host: mr. olson? guest: americans are increasingly divided from one another. we have descended into partisan hatred. what that does is give reason to think that we can no longer live together as a country. i think it is up to our political leaders to create a new political identity around shared values. it requires courage to bring it about. that is something that leaders on both sides have been failing to do and has contributed to the bitterness, anger, and hatred. i am hopeful that in the next few years someone will emerge who will make this all look like a bad dream as we go forward into a new american unity. host: we hear from shirley now. republican caller. hello to you. caller: good morning. i have heard that liz cheney thing already. i take that as a terroristic threat to the past president. host: anything else? caller: no, that is all. guest: mr. olson, reaction? caller: i think that re

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