and in the first term all of this is handled by michael dever deputy white house chief of staff nancy's closest confidant and really kept a secret. but when dee relieves in the second term other people have to be led in on the secret one of whom is donald reagan the autocratic white house chief of staff. he and nancy reagan have an epic battle during iran-contra. she gets him fired. he gets his revenge by riding a towel, but that begins with this revelation that the president of the united states is scheduled has been in the hands of an astrologer. it sounded almost too wacky to believe well the influence of that type of the astrologer on the scheduling aspects of the presidency and then her influence over. was actually serving in various roles mentioned the don reagan and nazi astrologers influence nancy rich influence and you mentioned the don reagan episode was mrs. reagan essentially a de facto chief of staff to the president. in some ways. i think that's a good way to describe it, you know in the first term they had what was called the troika it was an ungainly situation where you

he sees jim baker and ed meese would rushed here to to talk to him and and it's mike dever and these are his three top agents collectively notes of troika. they run things from this who's minding the store. yeah, you know he's tracking jokes. here's a guy, you know, whatever and so they wheel them to the the or here's reagan going in the operating room encourage will entertainer he believes the role of president is his role to play. it's a role to play. would he pass up a great operating room moment cody pass up a great operating room moment and his mind i can't get in his head. he leans up on his shoulder takes off the oxygen mask and says, i hope you're all republicans to all the doctors joe giordano the man who set the trauma thing except the system that save reagan's life the third time this day says, mr. president today, we're all republicans that's ironic because joe giordano is about as liberalized they come the nurses and doctors suspect that when he was in the or he knew things were very tense. he needed them. he knew he needed them to act normally in professionally and he n

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joining us now congressional reporter for politico, olivia devers. olivia, great to have you here.'s talk about the facts. at the end of the day, this is about power, and specifically for republicans to try to hold on to power as much as they can. >> kasie, this is a major setback for democrats, basically the push to get the ethics and reforms bill. and without the republicans on board they were unable to get the filibuster. there are things democrats can do, again, that was a huge setback and a major fail of something they have promised to deliver. they can try to make another push in the fall. they can break up this bill and try to do it in bits and pieces and get republicans voting on certain aspects of it. or they could be trying to put election spending in a reconciliation bill. but they don't have to go and get the ten other gop votes. but democrats haven't really figured out how they're going to do that. schumer's saying they're not done fighting as the vice president, but they haven't previewed how they're going to go forward with this. >> and, of course, they really have a

according to "the chronicle" a new place holder budget approved this week devers to a new $4 billional valley. supporters fear that taking money from the project now would create new delays and lead to more job cuts. opponents argue the money would be better spent on rail projects and higher density areas. california's drought having a ripple effect when it comes to warm, summer weather. experts believe that later this summer it may force the state to pay more for power that's costlier to produce. bloomberg says california's hydroelectric supplies are down 40% due to lower water flows. even though it's relatively easy to create. hotter weather when more power is needed more fossil fuels may have to be burned to bridge the gap and may increase a chance of the power shortages. >>> now meteorologist kari hall, of course, is monitoring all of this and that drought is something we have been talking about for some time now. >>> absolutely. because it's been historic and what we're calling a mega drought across the region because it's so expansive and so severe. now i just got the update a

lease the white house cabinet prayerib meetings that were bible study meetings that wereet held weekly dever knows about pence obviously. he was put in charge of the covid plan. but i did not understand when all this was happening, maybe so if you do understand but i did not know it, is this red filled usingva evangelical christian so is birx. redfield and birx are actually medics unlike went from said write the w numbers low they're trying to figure out -- we were all trying to figure was going out the testing. redfield is an evangelical christian, birx is an even juggle christian these people cut 13 writing aids. they alarmed themselves with the moralizing anti-om homophobic aids a fight. not birx actually did work pro bono. they have done good things in the aids world. supernatural power was in charge of things but to the former guy wanted pretty wanted to pay back these evangelical christians by putting these people in charge of public health. what is it mimi put someone like pence in charge of public health or a czar? hhs is the former guy came in they turned their attention to fighting

therefore, there is a value to a fore a for-profit dever teaming up other than what is set aside and so forth. they will save a lot of trouble in obtaining permits if it's through a nonprofit agency. >> uh-huh. >> first of all, have you looked at that issue. >> um, that's to the staff. >> that's to the staff. >> commissioner bush. we have not devoted resources to that issue but we can explore that if there is an agenda warning that. >> if there are not off-limits on gifts that perment consultants can make to city employees and off-limits concrete area the ability for a department official to seek of the behest we definitely need to open that door ands see what is behind it. they are like a lobby incompetence with that i'll ask for public comment to be called. then, if there are other comments we can take them after we see if there are any public comment. >> we are checking to see if there are callers in the cue. if you just joined the meeting we are on agenda item tenement enforcement of staff report. if you have not done so press star 3 to be added to the public comment cue. you wil

>> reporter: i'll dever to the cabinet secretary if needed.resting is you see a president as the campaign did not engaging in the game we often play, economists in terms of expectations. did it hit them? fall short? talking about the much longer view here and trying to make the argument that the new strategy with an economic approach growing the economy from the bottom up and middle out is described as what's working and nood more of. this is a president linking the issues of the pandemic and the economy as well saying because of the success of the mrks in beating back the virus, getting vaccinations out that they're able to talk about an economy recovering. i talked about at the top of the hour the idea there's a potential for future growth because of what we have seen here and relevant what we heard in terms of the u.s. standing out from other economic nations and powers and meeting with next week. he is going to be heading overseas. >> thank you. i want to bring back in transportation secretary pete buttigieg. thank you so much. i'm sorry f

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. >> at 9th and devers where my parents got married. >> did you ever a chance to visit with the african-american >> i think i probably would have been going to and from the homes where our maids lived. >> my mother always, she got along well with people. >> when you say help, you mean domestic help. >> my challenge, my charge really is to help people come to grips with their past. which is not to say that every person in america is evil or every person is evil. to acknowledge a series of these that would advantage some people and disadvantage others. >> we were taught to actually hate. i think the thing that bothered me the most was not being able to ask questions or have discussions about it. as a kid growing up, a white kid. >> the only reason black wall street existed was because of necessity. these people were not able to participate in the regular economy run by the dominant culture because of segregation. >> the vast majority of people who lived in greenwood were not wealthy. but they had regular jobs in the white community and they had a regular pay checking in the white community. you've

therefore, there is a value to a fore a for-profit dever teaming up other than what is set aside and so forth. they will save a lot of trouble in obtaining permits if it's through a nonprofit agency. >> uh-huh. >> first of all, have you looked at that issue. >> um, that's to the staff. >> that's to the staff. >> commissioner bush. we have not devoted resources to that issue but we can explore that if there is an agenda warning that. >> if there are not off-limits on gifts that perment consultants can make to city employees and off-limits concrete area the ability for a department official to seek of the behest we definitely need to open that door ands see what is behind it. they are like a lobby incompetence with that i'll ask for public comment to be called. then, if there are other comments we can take them after we see if there are any public comment. >> we are checking to see if there are callers in the cue. if you just joined the meeting we are on agenda item tenement enforcement of staff report. if you have not done so press star 3 to be added to the public comment cue. you wil

. >> devers just destroying the ball. >> 450 plus feet.of the yankees, 6-0 against them in series. not what you and i would have predicted say last march but great to win two close games and then pound the yankees' ace, garrett cole and move up to 5.5 games. baseball is a game of streaks, joe deemagio's hitting streaks. and another one, your attending red sox games and seeing them lose, four this season. yet you were there this weekend, the streak has been snapped, congratulations to you. >> mika and i calculated it, it was not jack scarborough, andrew, john, myself. every time it was rachel who was there as well with us. we blamed her, threw her under the bus and jack and i delivering the wins this weekend. the yankees, a frustrating time to them, and it's still very early in the season. it was this time last week we thought the yankees were coming up and were going to catch us. i think the big news out of the weekend, at least for the yankees is the fact that dj lemahieu, the guy who won the batting award and is just a phenomenal hitter