no, we say conservatism, but i don't think there has been a lot of conservative -- we had conservative philosophies when reagan was in there, but before reagan, you know, democrats and -- there were not a lot of conservatives in power. there still aren't. give youy -- i will health care a reason they say, people on the progressive side will say, you need, you know, we need single-payer, we need a government-run or waste health care system, much like the u.k. has and other countries in europe. conservatism,use what they do is relate it to profit. these corporations have terrible profit. i explained in the book that conservatism is not corporatism. up. gets mixed it isn't the idea that congress passes laws that favors one company over another. that is called picking winners and losers. that is antithetical to conservatism. conservatism doesn't solve every problem. think, for instance in areas of health care, you can't have a totally free market system. there has to be regulation. that is what conservatism is. it is ordered liberty. if you take away the order, that is more like libertaria

then and they are still conservative now. we talked about military services really shaped the way in which you see this country in the world. and i think it is super positive way. host: what happened recently that you said yourself, i am a conservative. rob: was quite evolution . first of all, i don't like being told how to think. i don't like to be told like to believe. just because i'm gay or black or both. and there was a lot of that stuff coming from the left . even outside of that, were talking about your politics and policy. there is a push for massive legal immigration that happens on the left. and this is something that has been documented to her working class african-american communities the most. it took about this a lot. in "always a soldier". black americans and are always left last when left. but is a game and, it was devastating cummings mortifying and at that point in time, i expected for the left to have my back. expected for them to defend me this matter fact it did the exact opposite. and i was not even in s

what you will see with a lot of conservatives but particularly african-american conservatives and other conservatives of color because most of the time we do not come from wealthy backgrounds. but we know that personal responsibility, belief in one's self and motivation is key, and if you have an education system and if you have a value and belief system that comes from the left and tells people they cannot, they cannot, they cannot and the reason they cannot is because wealthy people, the reason they cannot is because of whoever the president is, the reason that they cannot is because of all the thingses they'll never be able to control, then they start to believe they cannot. and because they believe that, they won't, and i think left or right, doesn't matter what side of the aisle you stan on wishing need to fight against that mentality that its telling citizens of our country that they cannot do it because if you are in america right now, you have already hit the lottery, already doing better than 97% of the world's population and i just think we need to start letting people know th

a lot of my buddies they were conservatives then and they are conservatives now and we talk about being in military service really shape the way that you see the country and the world and i think in a super positiver way. >> so what else -- what happened recently that you said to yourself, i'm a conservative? >> guest: well, it was quite an evolution. i don't like being told how to think. i don't like being told to believe because i'm black or because i'm gay or both. there was a lot of stuff that was coming from the left, but even outside of that, when we are talking about pure politics and pure policy, there is a push for massive unchecked illegal immigration on the left and this is something that has documented to hurt working-class african-american communities the most. black americans are always left last when it comes to the left but also as a gay man when the pulse orlando terrorist attack happened, it was devastating and mortifying and at the point in time i expected for the left to have my back, i expected them to defend me and, as a matter of fact, they did the exact opposite.

the free-trade argument is a conservative argument because conservatives believe markets produce more socially desirable outcomes and trade is a global market. we are better off because we can focus on producing things we produce most efficiently and our trading partners what they do most efficiently and with the magic of the advantage everybody gets more of what they want at lower prices and you could argue with all of the difficulties of free trade with china we have benefited as a consumer from having lowered prices but there's another side to that which is the issue of preserving the economy not just protecting industries that are facing new competition from abroad but also key industries like pharmaceuticals which we now need very urgently and defense contracting there is a strong nationalist argument for keeping certain american industries protected and trump's favorite word on this is reciprocity. that isn't even a conservative or liberal principle that we treat other countries the way they treat us. for many decades we didn't do that need a lot of them to be taken advantage of

so, the free trade argument is a conservative argument because conservatives believe that markets produce more social hill desirable outcomes and trade is a global market, and we are better off certainly as consumers from having free trade because we can focus on producing the things we produce most efficiently and our trading partners can focus on what they produce more efficiently and through the magic of comparative advantage eave get what the want at lower prices. we the difficulties free trade with china we have benefited as consumer market from having lower prices and access to more goods, cheaper goods, electron yings. there's another side to that which is the issue of preserving our economy, not just in the sense of protecting industries at are facing new competition from abroad and also protecting key industries like pharmaceuticals which we need. defense contracting. high-tech and so forth. there's a strong conservative nationalist argument for keeping certain american industries protected, and trump's favorite word is reciprocity. that is not even a conservative or liberal prin

the conservative fa ce eve n will, one, fire up the conservative face even more than they already areted states and a selection in the hope is that even more conservatives will come out about now. from the democratic perspective, they are hoping this will turn more the focus on the affordable care act, and overturning roe versus wade. i think both parties see some potential on this issue for how it could affect things and how it could potentially help. there was one comment but to me which was, bear with me, but basically, if you have this goes through before the election, you may have many republicans who held their nose and voted for donald trump last time and think,

what is conservative about that? >> guest: it's an easier question because reagan signed an amnesty and 86 and it was clear that he was doing so as a part of a compromise where the republicans caved in on amnesty and the democrats caved in on border security at the border security never happened. that's one of the reasons conservatives are so dug in on immigration now in hawaii republicans rejected the deal in 2013 because this problem of securing the border has never been addressed. reagan wanted it to secure the border that was part of the deal and the democrats didn't fulfill their end of the bargain. the republicans know that and that is the collective memory so i don't see a difference between reagan and trump on immigration. i think trump would like to sign the deal. he mentioned that several points he would like to legalize the recipient and so forth and the democrats have avoided the deal believing they could win all of the marbles not having to compromise anything. but the question that free trade is an inte

and the conservatives ended up calling themselves conservatives, and that's been the monikers of the major political philosophies in our country ever since. and i would argue what's happening now is, you know, trump calls himself a conservative. he's not. it's demonstrable that he's not. and unfortunately, many people who follow him call themselves conservative, and they're not. consider the republican party just had their convention, and they for the first time since 1856 in which nine of the six planks in the original republican party platform were civil rights planks. for the next hundred years, the republican party was the pro-civil rights party. they've lost that. and this year they didn't put out a platte at all as -- platform at all. they simply put out a resolution that says we're with the big guy. that's a sad thing because parties can't sustain themselves on a personality in the same way that in israel politics, parties come and go with their leaders. if but binetanyahu were to pass from the public stage, his party, i believe, would collapse because there's nothing under it

for me but those who i served with they were a conservative then and now and talk about how being in the military service shapes the way they see the country and the world in a super positive way. >> what happened recently that you said i am a conservative? >> i don't like being told how to think or what to believe just because i am gay and a lot of that comes from the left even outside of that with peer politics and peer policy there is a push for illegal immigration that has been documented to these communities the most. black americans are always left last. but also as a gay man. it was devastating and mortifying and i expected for the left to have my back and defend me but they did the exact opposite. i would not call myself conservative or republican in any capacity but i saw the response to this terrific on - - horrific act of terror perpetrated on gay and lesbian americans and i need to look more strongly into this because i feel like the left sometimes is so into being politically correct that they missed out on the rights of interest on the american people. >> how did you jo

and this is what conservative earth are happy about the balance would be 6 to 3 the one conservative justice who kind of is a swing voter he would no longer be so important so they would have the votes that they need to to do things like maybe overturn roe v wade and get rid of reproductive rights be harder on immigration and really the affordable healthcare act because that's coming up soon so. that's the a bomb ok actually yes many millions of americans health care yeah yeah still quite conceptions in the us it is people with with preexisting conditions could lose their health care and the thing is with this candidate with this she's very bright and she's very experienced however her writings and judgments on ac and the way she talked about justice roberts and how he as the conservative helped propel a poll that she was very critical and so democrats are very concerned about what she will do if she is confirmed or to give an indication of which way she might vote on that all right so what happens now how will the confirmation proceed and what cards to democrats actually have to pla

our chairs are occupied by imposters posing as conservatives. clearly you're talking about the trump administration. so explain. >> i'm also talking about ideology because i've been beat up a little bit about the foster children. my heart goes out to foster children. i'm not talking about them. let me set that aside. con v conservatism has been the stepchild ideology of political parties. and conservatism was not welcome for a long time. all the people who often today declare ronald reagan as a great president and wonderful conservative are the same people who tried to run him out of the party and wanted gerald ford to be the president, which he was in '76. and reagan wins in 1980 and brings conservatism to the table. at the time it would still exist, the heritage foundation. the heritage foundation was really the first conservative think tank in washington and it began to feed ideas into the reagan campaign. when reagan got elected, all of the scholars in the heritage foundation and many more were probably moved into the administration. so they

he called it liberal and it stuck and conservatives ended up calling it conservatives and that's beenonitors of major political philosophies à à unfortunately many people who follow him call himself conservative and they are not, consider the republican party just at the convention and for the first time since 1856 in which nine of the six planks in the original republican party platform civil rights claims the next hundred years the republican party was pro-civil rights party they lost that and this year they didn't put a platform at all just to say that we don't know what we believe. they simply pass the resolutions that we are with the big guy in whatever he says we are behind. i think it's a really sad thing because parties can't sustain themselves on Ãbif 89 yahoo were to pass from the public stage is party would collapse because there's nothing under it except for benjamin netanyahu. the republic and party is now the trump party and when he moves on one way or the other it will collapse because we it's based on one person. parties need to be based on ideas because when we went,

the conservative fa ce eve n will, one, fire up the conservative face even more than they already are. i think we will have record—breaking turnouts in the united states and a selection in the hope is that even more conservatives will come out about now. from the democratic perspective, they are hoping this will turn more the focus on the affordable care act, and overturning roe versus wade. i think both parties see some potential on this issue for how it could affect things and how it could potentially help. there was one comment but to me which was, bear with me, but basically, if you have this goes through before the election, you may have many republicans who held their nose and voted for donald trump last time and think, well, actually, now, i don't need to because the supreme court is there, i can vote the other way, i can but —— vote forjoe biden because the court is there. is that too much? i think in 2016, you did see some of those, the double haters, the people who had an unfavourable opinion of hillary clinton and donald trump, those broke heavily for donald trump in 2016.

she is a steadfast conservative.pearances made it clear there are some things that she stands for, such as getting rid of 0bama care, that health care act for millions of americans, she has a tough position on immigration and also abortion rights. she's never made any rulings directly on it, she suggests —— evidence to suggest she is pro—life. she said life begins at conception. that the concern for liberals, that if she is indeed confirmed to the supreme court, it could landmark legislation like row versus wade be overturned? confirmation quite another thing from nomination. there are still some hurdles to get through. she is meeting with republican senators on wednesday we believe to introduce herself. eventually, there will be those confirmation hearings which will be held by senators from both sides, democrats and republicans. and i guess this is a real interesting challenge for the democrats, because in america, you can criticise someone in america, you can criticise someone for their political beliefs. you can

president donald trump has nominated conservative federal judge any county barrett to succeed supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg an outspoken voice of the court's liberal side who died earlier this month if confirmed the republican controlled senate trial will have put 3 of the 9 justices on the top court possibly handing conservatives long sought wins over contentious legal issues such as abortion and gun rights. it wasn't a surprise decision but that didn't make it any less significant i looked and i studied and. you are very eminently qualified for this to be fantastic president trump moved quickly to the death of ruth bader ginsburg aiming to secure his supreme court appointment before the election the stakes for our country are incredibly high. that the supreme court will issue in the coming years will decide the survival of our 2nd amendment or religious liberty or public safety and so much more his pick amy carney barrett saying she plans to follow the constitution as it was written. judges are not policy makers and they must be resolute and setting aside any policy view

i think that amy connie barrett is going to be a deeply conservative justice, and the sta kes a re conservativeous “— conservative justice, and the stakes are enormous —— amy connie barrett. some of the views she has about reproductive rights, about striking down laws that prevent people from having guns, certain kinds of guns. there are certain kinds of guns. there a re lots of laws certain kinds of guns. there are lots of laws that she's going to have a big impact on and she's going to move the law ina and she's going to move the law in a conservative direction. last year, she was part of a 3—judge panel that heard an appeal of someone who had been convicted of crimes, and as a result, lost his right to have a gun. all three judges result, lost his right to have a gun. all threejudges were republicans. the other two republicans. the other two republican appointed judges said that the statute was bad. judge barrett said it was not valid. —— statute was valid. she said to restrict this person's and rights, someone convicted of a crime, albeit no myla nta, convicted of a crime, albeit no mylanta

for years conservative policymaking in washington d.c.as dominated that turned out the same old policy that hurt workers undermine families, destroyed local communities in sold-out america and all that is about change. there's a new kid on the block, new think tank working along the same lines as we ever paid on this show with positive populism. it's called american compass and i'm delighted that its executive director oren who you've seen talking about his fantastic book, oren is here tonight with us. let's talk about some specifics in a moment but first could you just set out for our audience what you're hoping to achieve with american compass. >> sure, it's great to see you. we are at american compass trying to restore an economic consensus which is really the way americans and conservatives used to think about the economy that emphasize the importance of family, community and industry to the nation's liberty and prosperity and realized. [inaudible] >> give us some specific, i think a couple months ago one of the first things you focus

but he's very vague about where he is, in that sense it's kind of conservative of itself.imagines were at the very top of the circle, kind of like the best place you could be in the circle every step you take begins a slippery slope, where more the top is a plateau and you have more room doing what you need. the argument i want to make and the next part of the class, is actually -- the key form of the mixed economy what actually is centrist liberalism in the 1940s is pretty conservative. for very particular reasons for the cold war. you have a consensus that the government should spend some money should be involved and regulate the economy, schlesinger things that were in the realist left framework. remind you of signal hook from last class, real-ism. daniel bell's article is dedicated to sydney hook, this came they were all talking to each other in the 19 forties and 19 fifties. i want to argue that center, is defined by the cold war in two important ways. so that what is seen as a left the most edge of liberalism that you could really go to, without risking communism, th

riskier and this is why conservatives are up in arms and will definitely vote ok even though i would say gore should or should seek and count how we haven't really met expectations nonetheless this is going to motivate people. will agree with that because this seems very much like a symptom of why they're. moving the country so i think that either country conflicts important because it's not just a course that we see it out a lot of the democratic institutions in the us are coming on the great progress or stress so we see them crossed in to meet us or in the who seems just more all seem more like mouthpiece all the rest a political parties. if you will or and there are no dollars and you have a congress with ridiculous lelo support and most likely will see the presidential election for election someone disputing the legitimacy of outcomes that matter who wins. the fail to recognize that this 3rd branch of power which is the supreme court. has for a long time been a problem that polarizes so much i think in the last few years there is this is that escalate and then more and more with

president and a conservative ruled senate so now because the stakes are very high that's why the fight is going to be extremely better as they were in the case of kabanov because there was a swing vote candidate who was replaced by a conservative so you know a game the courts are to blame for this and of course the irresponsible politicians you have landed that this is really in this is about the. the growing illegitimacy of institutions and it's been creeping along george has pointed out here how it's been politicized and i'd like to point out here that's how the left is only this is really neat only the way the left has got its agenda through is through the courts here and that's what's given conservatives it's almost an existential imperative now because what they see in all of these major social legislation has come into effect through the court not through congress here and this is why conservatives are up in arms and will definitely vote ok even though i would say who are sick. sick and callen who haven't really met expectations nonetheless. this is going to motivate people. will

democrats willed her to stay in thejob, fearing president trump would replace her with a conservativetice, cementing the court's tilt to the right. ruth bader ginsburg will be remembered as a champion of women's legal rights and a leading liberal voice on the supreme court. laura on the life and career of roof bailey ginsberg. a short time ago i spoke to the bbc‘s katty kay in washington — she gave me her reaction. there is a recognition, we can get to the politics later, here isa get to the politics later, here is a woman who overcame huge hurdles. she was in a place not particularly friendly to women. she was the second woman on the supreme court and battled gender discrimination her whole career, made it onto the supreme court and has been battling cancer for years. she was much loved and became this iconic figure. she had these famous workout routines where she would do push—ups and left weights right into her mid 80s, so weights right into her mid 80s, so the rpg workout became a cult following. so there was a lot of affection for her and her ferocious commitment to the supreme c

and conservative thought and the way the republican party's decided to go instead. and that's esoteric but here's the heart of trade. the human being is designed to create. it's our most precious gift to be creative great artwork, great music, great books but also great products and services to try to get people to part with their dollars and that is in the aggregate truly different transactions of those competing with dollars in the free market. it says your government decides we don't want you to buy these kinds of products for whatever reason and that's a moral objective and those trade deficits precisely for the reason with your local supermarket you keep buying stuff from them voluntarily it is not compulsory. and they don't buy anything back from you because hong kong trades agricultural products but they wouldn't buy anything from the british it was a one-way street. it was a crisis because they were literally running out of silver because they send it all to hong kong. installs sell something to the chinese they could not resist and that was opium we are so

this is where liberals and conservatives deviate for conservatives so you would say that's the future has to be informed by the present or the past. and liberals this is not the past so stop struct. what it means to change so that's why conservatives censor say you have to interpret both see what exactly was written that would follow this it has to build up to 6 i try things for all the liberals say you know you have to interpret it the spirit of it and what the spirit is of course their whole and most ideology so you see the corvair musher logical area or political even though it is close to being neutral yeah it is but in particular if you can't get your agenda across through the. george i mean one of the most corrupt the elements which the court allowed was citizens united and and if you look at the the the the implication that is that you have politicians that are appointed by special interests and joe owners and so those politicians will look to the court in keeping in mind they are joe nurse and what they want ok and so they're going to be looking at the political coloration of

looking backin conservative majority.king back in history, when you have a liberal or a conservative majority on the court, what can that court do in its effect on american life? it can have an enormous effect in a set rights, the balance between the individual and the collective, the rights of individuals and particularly of minorities, whether they be racial minorities, religious minorities, religious minorities, people of a particular age group, those rights are protected did buy a certain kind of liberal legal thinking that rules on the court have fought for for many yea rs, court have fought for for many years, so court have fought for for many years, so there is a real divide in the united states as we see in all of the controversy surrounding president trump and his drive to put conservatives on several levels of federal court. i think, indian, ruth bader ginsburg will be seen as a stark figure because of her commitment to women's rights, but in the court itself, has really, in recent years under this chiefjustice,

i will not be the want to define him as libertarian or conservative. he used the term conservative.hink what he stood for was as close to what the founding fathers stood for us any prominent person in our history. host: in this book "before the storm," what personality came through from barry goldwater, what did you learn about who he was as a person? >> i think what people have been saying, a guy who shot from the hip and didn't care what people thought about him, and much to his detriment often. again, people talk about him as an honorable man. i think he was an honorable man. by the same token, i think ideologically, he could be very naive. i mentioned the civil rights terrorism that was going on in mississippi, the fact that people were being shot in cold blood for doing things like helping people registered about -- he never denounced that. he said that his appeal to the people of the south was -- i am not going to as an arizonan tell people in mississippi what to do. when civil rights are being that egregiously violated, i think there's a kind of which side are you on question

he's promised of a conservative justice. i believe it will be a woman and someone from that federalist list, the conservative organization who gave the president 25 days at the beginning of his presidency and he's vowed to pick them in that list. i think we can respect him to honor that as well. >> larry, we talk about the legal legacy, correct me if i am wrong, one thing i notice with justice ginsburg, she seems to share more opinions outside of the court. she will make news often of her opinions on subjects or opinions on politics of the president. that's a bit of a departure from the way justices normally behaves. do you see it more common? >> that's very good, sotomayer has followed those steps, not like ginsburg. it will be interesting to see what happens now, what woman on the court? there will be two or probably three takes the lead on that court particularly now if we look at the two liberal women. i think we'll expect the court to be more of something like five, three, and one. justice roberts will be the one but al

there are no meaningful journals of libbertarian conservative thought. there's no way for us to get our ideas out. it's a kind of interesting how much he emphasizes in the piece small magazines and also education. the idea that through education you spread your ideas, and that gives you political power down the road. >> who was william buckley? >> i have seen him described as like the father of conservatism and kind of the spiritual genesis of like the later reagan era. >> yeah, exactly. >> most famous as -- >> he has a television show for a long time on pbs. we'll watch a little bit later in the semester. he would have people on to debate. he emerges in 1955, as you pointed out, as kind of a godfather of an emerging conservative movement. he gets money to start this magazine, "the national review" to be the central organ of conservative thinking. before that, he had written two books. the first on the left is a book about his time at yale, which is god and man at yale, which is an attack on the secular propaganda happening in modern universities. conser

conservative judge scalia, the last of 0bama's presidency.gether. when scalia died, within almost minutes, hours, the republicans came out and said this should be a decision for the next president. i noticed chuck schumer, the democratic leader, has essentially quoted them now, saying this to be a decision for the next president, but thatis for the next president, but that is not how republicans see at this time. no, and scalia, my memory is, he died in around spring, so actually the 0bama administration had several months before the election back in 2016, and they put forward merrick garland, who was a dc judge, and was, they thought, the most acceptable person on the most acceptable person on the democratic side that they could get through the republicans in the senate, he was much more of a centrist, and mitch mcconnell, who was the senate leader said no, we cannot have a judge confirmed in an election year. now mitch mcconnell‘s point that he has made very clear this time around would be that welcome at this time around you have a republi

president and a conservative ruled senate so now because the stakes are very high that's why the fight is going to be extremely better as they were in the case of camelot because there was a swing vote kennedy who was replaced by a conservative so you know a game the courts are to blame for this. and of course the irresponsible politicians you have landed that this is really in this is about the. the growing illegitimacy of institutions and it's been creeping along george has pointed out here how it's been politicized and i'd like to point out you know that's how the left is only it's really neat only the way the left it's got its agenda through is through the courts here and that's what's given conservatives it's almost an existential imperative now because what they see all of these major social legislation come into effect through the court not through congress here and this is why conservatives are up in arms and will definitely vote ok even though i would say gore should or should seek and count how we haven't really met expectations nonetheless this is going to motivate people. w

you have a conservative court. it was leaning 5-4 in the conservative direction.der ginsburg. now there have been moments when conservatives have been disappointed on issues like obamacare and issues like the program for dreamers where the court ruled against the trump administration by 5-4 margin. that will become less likely once the president has three conservative nominees on the bench. it will be a rare case indeed where liberals prevail in any controversy of national significance that makes it to the supreme court. >> lawyerori, let's talk about speed. 38 days is not unheard of, but on average, it has been longer. maybe closer to 70 days for the justices that are currently on the court. does it detract from the process when it is done so quickly? >> i think there's a risk that it could. the critical thing with the supreme court confirmation process is the nominees be vetted before the judiciary committee and before the public. we have a process which, by constitutional design, empowers elected officials. the president and senate, to make the nominations. tha

their new favorite justices clarence thomas, who is as conservative as he ever was. no other supreme or justice has more clerks represented among donald trump's judicial picks thank larry -- then clarence thomas. trump judges are more conservative than george bush judges and we cannot afford to lose those. host: from the trump campaign itself, justin clark made comments about joe biden. saying this. joe biden would stack the federal government with activist judges. and those judges handpicked by joe biden, allied, with threaten our fundamental american freedom. they would refuse to protect the lives of the unborn and erode the right to keep and bear arms. guest: that statement hits on something that i was making. the point mades by conservatives and republicans that, you know, we want judges that are going to be restrained. we want them to defer to congress. don't want them to legislate from the bench. tar democratic presidential appointments as the activist judges. ist you seen in recent years that the mask has come off. clarence thomas is even further to the right.

interestingly, she is allied some conservative justice on some conservative justice on some libertarianularly in relation to the protection of criminal defendants. she was an ally of a justice on the issue of a defendant's right to confront witnesses against him or her in a courtroom, but most importantly what people have to understand is that even if you are in the dissenting wing of the court, even if you are writing the dissenting opinion, those dissenting opinions, and a very divided court often other seeds that are planted for changes that will blossom in the future and she has planted some remarkably significant seeds, even in the opinions where she was in the minority. talking about opinions in the minority, perhaps the most famous when it comes to mind is when she simply said, i descent, about bush— gore we normally caught etiquette would have you say, a respectfully descent, that was clearly something that stuck with her and are publicly angry way. that's true, and i think that also signals to you why we should have no expectation that president trump is going to follow mitch m

the conservatives ended up calling themselves conservatives and that's been the major political philosophiese country ever since and i would argue what's happening now is demonstrable and many people call themselves conservative and they are not. consider the republican party just had their convention and the first time since 1856 in which nine of the six and a platform for civil rights for the next hundred years the republican party was pro- civil rights party. they lost that and this year they didn't put a platform at all. they simply passed the resolution that says we are with the big guy whatever he says, we are behind. that is a sad thing because parties can't sustain themselves on the personality in the same way that parties come and go with their leaders if netanyahu were to pass from the public stage does nothing except into the republican party is now the trump party and when he moves on one way or the other it will collapse because it is based on one person. parties need to be based on the ideas. i spent my career helping the republicans when. my question now is what do we actually

this president has surrounded himself with true conservatives. >> he has.or him, it's all about the forgotten man and woman. he wanted to make sure that the values that are evident every day on main street, not just in our places of business or schools, churches and houses of worship, that those values were brought to washington, d.c. most of washington, d.c. wants their values to be put out across the country, whether it's in florida, from new york, to california, in between. they want to take the d.c. values. this president was right in saying that he wanted their values to be represented in his administration. he's been very purposeful in doing that. great degree of success. also, a great degree of criticism. hopefully, we will see in a second term how he's able to accomplish even that much more. >> i'll talk about that in a moment. what's it like to be chief of staff for president donald trump? represent what i see happening in the republican party and in the conservative movement, it reminds me of scripture. if we don't lose heart, we will raise in tim

the house is more conservative.in the house, a substitute bill is proposed, written by the chamber of commerce, that says no full employment. what we should do is encourage maximum employment. and no government, but we should just do fact finding to work out what the best ways to create maximum employment in the private sector are. what is the argument of the proponents of the house bill to get rid of the senate version? they argue that it is, quote, not greatly distanced from neomarxian thinking and is tainted by the cane's hand school of thought that is dominant in the government. so, the thought that this is too close to communism. the second example from the domestic program is familiar to you today, which is truman proposes that there should be government health care, single payer. and there is a massive lobbying campaign by the american medical association and the private insurance firms that actually they spend about $2.5 million on propaganda -- the group in favor of single payer spends $50,000. doesn't real

that -- it's going to energize and animate that conservative religious conservative base that he needs to turn out in november. >> um, jim, you know, i was speaking to a conservative friend as i was coming in to work and the news had broke, and they said, elections have consequences. this is what people talk about, the consequences of an election for those who are apathetic of going to vote. for those that may have even voted for a third party candidate. he said to me, you get what you deserve. and you get who you vote for, or who you don't vote for, depending in this situation. so, this is a prime example of the importance of voting. this is what the presidential process, voting in a president ally election, this is really the big outcome. if he gets to decide. he or she gets to decide who is on the supreme court. >> absolutely. don. >> that is absolutely right. and i think, you know, you have to hand it to conservative the -- the conservatives have understood this better than the liberals have. and they have voted like the supreme court is at stake. in every election. both at the fed

what is conservative about that? >> on immigration it's an easier question because reagan signed an amnesty. it was clear he was doing so as part of a compromise where the republican gave again on amnesty and democrats gave border security but that never happened. that's why they are so dumb again on immigration now why republicans rejected the gang of a deal because this problem of securing the border had never been addressed. reagan wanted that it was part of the deal and that was steered into the collective memory. i see a difference on immigration i think trump would like to sign a deal and then to win all the marbles and that reagan's position and trump's position find some space in a conservative ideas. and conservatives that markets produce more socially viable outcomes and we are better off as consumers from having free trade because we can produce most efficiently. and with that comparative advantage. and as a consumer market and with electronics and that sort of thing. and the issue to preserve the economy

is more conservative justices were appointed to the court in recent yea rs, appointed to the court in recent years, her dissenting opinions were more frequent and her legacy became clear. on the court, she continued to legitimise and extend the rights of women. in the workplace, in education, in all walks of life. but beyond that, she continued to work for the expansion of rights, the recognition of right, for all people. ruth bader ginsburg's distinctive legal voice made her a cult figure. she was parodied on late—night tv, the subject of books, t—shirts, and a documentary, much to her surprise. it is amazing. iam $0011 surprise. it is amazing. iam soon to be 87 years old, and eve ryo ne soon to be 87 years old, and everyone wants to take a picture with me. she had to apologise for calling donald trumpafaker apologise for calling donald trump a faker in 2016, a rare misstep. and herfinal years, she battled cancer repeatedly, receiving treatment while still working. democrats willed her to stay on the job, fearing president trump would replace her with a conservative leaning justice,

the elsa conservation trust still runs a wildlife retreat and conservation centre in hell's gate national two human stars, bill travers and virginia mckenna, operates around the world. these are some of the snares that we've collected in the last four months. here in meru, it counts lions, hunts poaches and clears the park of dangerous snares. so what effect did the movie born free have on conservation efforts here in kenya? i think born free film, it's by far one of the most captivating films to has ever been done. that specific end of the film touches me and many other young people, you know? we continuously have to meditate about who will continue doing what virginia's done all our life, and what george did. it's a continued inspiration for us — not only at born free, but across the conservation world. of course, joy and george needed helpers, and one of those was jonny baxendale, george's godson. he helped return the born free lions to the wild, but used to come back out to their favourite haunts for regular visits. have you never felt in danger at all? never, never. no? they were rel

no, we say conservatism, but i don't think there has been a lot of conservative -- we had conservativewhen reagan was in there, but before reagan, you know, democrats and -- there were not a lot of conservatives in power. there still aren't. give youy -- i will health care a reason they say, people on the progressive side will say, you need, you know, we need single-payer, we need a government-run or waste health care system, much like the u.k. has and other countries in europe. conservatism,use what they do is relate it to profit. these corporations have terrible profit. i explained in the book that conservatism is not corporatism. up. gets mixed it isn't the idea that congress passes laws that favors one company over another. that is called picking winners and losers. that is antithetical to conservatism. conservatism doesn't solve every problem. think, for instance in areas of health care, you can't have a totally free market system. there has to be regulation. that is what conservatism is. it is ordered liberty. if you take away the order, that is more like libertarianism. conserva

conservative leaning justice with a lot of libertarian instincts being replaced by conservatives here we are talking about a liberal icon who did lead a remarkable life and an incredible legacy being replaced by a conservative and we haven't seen that i don't think since thurgood marshall was replaced by clarence thomas and it will certainly be a very contentious confirmation process one of the words of course that keeps coming up when we're dealing with this subject is the balance the perceived balance of the supreme court doesn't republican nominee have an extra responsibility to show that he or she is acting independently and on a case by case basis rather than simply following an ideology or following politics . i don't know why a republican would have a need to do that any more than a democrat my feeling is that all people who are p. considered for a life tenure positions on the federal bench ought to make that promise in fact it's part of their judicial oath that they are not going to prejudge cases and that they are going to dispense justice equally equally to all based on the

i just gave one example of the conservation corps could do. in my home state there are more than 2 million acres backlogged in terms of the hazardous fuel that need to be reduced with 21st 21st century conservation courts and thousands ofnt young people going into every state and taking action to reduce these risks. a lot of other things could be done by the 21st century conservation corps. i learned this weekend we are going to need to deploy new cell phone connectivity because a lot of people have most of his connections. in fact one of the challenges in trying to determine how many people we've lost and with his friends not able to communicate with us having people work on communications and to prevent massive flooding because make no mistake about it madam president, all over the west and in oregon, washington and california we are going to need those stabilization project is to prevent massive flooding this spring as sure as the nightfall of the day it will be a problem. using the 21st century civilian conservation corps can deploy folks