tr gets the credit for the bully pulpit but jackson understood that intuitively. >> and craig shirleyously you're a prolific historian on all things ronald reagan. what message does ronald reagan teach joe biden? >> read your mail. that was the one unspoken piece of history about ronald reagan or under reported piece of history is that he assiduously read his mail, not all of it because he got thousands of pieces of mail on a monthly basis, a daily, a weekly basis. he would get, his secretary would pick out three or four letters from the hate pile, three or four letters from the love pile and three or four letters from the hurting pile, and he would read all of them. this was his way of getting past the washington elites the way jackson wanted to get past the elites and reach the american people and see what was on their minds and what was going on in their lives. and often he wrote letters to them, private letters, personal letters, you know, offering advice, offering solace, giving, you know whatever he can. sometimes he sent checks to people who were hurting. one time he sent a che

after that, we will come back and we will be joined by a presidential historian, craig shirley, who will talk about president trump's legacy and his influence on the republican party. we now take you to the house of representatives. mr. wittman: join me in the pledge of allegiance to our flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house sundry communications. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam. pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 21, 2020, at 11:08 p.m. that the senate passed senate 2429. that the senate agrees to the house of representatives' amendment to senate amendment to the bill h.r. 1520. that the senate agreed to without objection amendment house concurrent resolution 128. that the senate passed without a

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jon meacham, craig shirley and richard haass, thank you for being us with. your blood pressure down, do not, for god's sake, do not watch showtime's four-part documentary on ronald reagan because you will find out that if you support the localized -- trying to keep things on the local level as much as possible, that you hate black people, if you support small government, you hate poor people, and if you smiled every time ronald reagan said, well, then you supported nuclear war. i have never seen anything -- i got to say, even all these years later, it's amazing how much ronald reagan still angers people. and really, for me, the highlight of it, when mika said you have got to stop, like, talking at the tv society, was when reagan made that extraordinary move towards ending the threat of nuclear war with the soviet union. what did showtime do? instead of talking to russian experts, instead of talking to people on the world stage, that they would then use that time to talk to nancy reagan's as str l astrologer. it was one of the most biased mainstream documenta