and devers said, oh, sad to say, none. i swear, it was the funniest trial i ever covered in my life as a reporter. deadly serious matter, but funny trial. sam bowers was represented by this guy on the right, his name is travis buckley. he was not just a lawyer for the klan. he was a leader in the klan. he was actually indicted in the vernon damar firebombing at one point, okay? so billy roy pitts testified about this planning meeting that took place prior to the attack on vernon damar and his family. and buckley asked him about it. it's like, now, mr. pitts, who all was at that planning meeting? pitts is like, let's see. i was there, sam bowers was there, devers nicks. well, you were there. and buckley's like, uh, uh, objection, your honor. it's the only trial i ever covered where the witness implicated the defense lawyer himself. not surprisingly, sam bowers was convicted, august 21, 1998. but the thing is, you know, the hate that caused this, right, if we're really honest in this country, it's never really gone away. it

when this happens and nancy reagan, her big allies in the west wing were james baker and michael dever the second term, when ronald reagan is running for white house chief of staff, her network of intelligence is shut down. she is shocked to find out there is this off-the-shelf white house foreign policy commission going on in the white house. she almost single-handedly runs the rescue effort. she pushes her very stubborn husband to shake up the white house staff, beginning with firing his autocratic chief of staff. this is an operation that takes her months and many people overhear the reagan's arguing about this. at various times, ronald reagan tells her get off my back or filthy or versions of that. just as importantly, she realizes that her husband is not going to get through this most serious crisis of his presidency unless he can admit to the country and just as important, admit to himself that he has traded arms to iran, one of america's enemies as a ransom payment for u.s. hostages being held in the middle east. this is something that reagan kept insisting he had not done, this

reagan is going your right and then at that point, michael dever says nobody elected the national securityouncil, reelected the state department, if this is the letter you want to send, send it. reagan does send this letter but the reply from moscow is nothing. over the next couple of years, to over there -- 2 other soviet leaders die. the leadership keeps changing until the kremlin takes a generational u-turn and picks as his leader this 60 something up-and-coming, mcgough -- mikhail gorbachev. that is the moment, reagan had already been told by margaret thatcher, keep an eye on this guy, he is a different kind of soviet leader. the two of them have the sheer goals, the personal chemistry that makes the end of the cold war possible. hello, nancy reagan is just pushing for the summit. -- all along, nancy reagan is pushing for the summit. she was badgering people at every white house event. she would say when is the summit going to happen? gorbachev's story is a thread that runs all the way through your biography and that is the flipside of affability. that is the icing is that nancy reagan

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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

. >> michael mccaul devere -- delivengee >> this wille on hisblood on hi.t's not just republicans slamming the decision. congressman gonzales writing on twitter that there is no way to hide it, the situation in afghanistan is another shame and withdrawal was never going to be easy, but it didn't need to come to this. >> what we are watching is when afghanistan when america withdrawals from the world. >> liz cheney saying that the taliban rapid takeover didn't have to happen and she puts the blame on both administrations. >> everybody, the rand paul mike pompeo joe biden view of the world here is a fundamentally dangerous and irresponsible one. >> sunday, members of the house and senate were debriefed on the unfolding situation. >> some members, outraged. kevin mccarthy calling it an embarrassment to the nation with president biden remaining firm, saying that he inherited the situation and made the choice not to pass it on to another administration. >> this morning they continue to defend their decision. >> we went there 20 years ago with one mission in mind

our camp and we would have our own jamboree and our scout leaders would write to the boy scouts in dever, ral boston, powell, cody and say come on in and join us in our jamboree and invariably they would write back and say, no, we are not coming in, there's barbed wire all around the camp, there are military guard towers with search lights and machine guns so we are not coming in. they are pows. our scout leaders would write back and say, no, these are not pows, they're boy scouts of america. they wear the same uniform you do, they read the same manual you do, they go after the same merit badges you do. so none of them came in. but then one day we got notice that the boy scouts -- a boy scout troop from cody was going to come in. so they came in and we did our knot tying contest, how to start a fire without a match and woodworking contests and all these things, and then we got paired off with a kid from cody to build our pup tent. well, in wyoming it can rain a lot anytime, so in order to protect the tent you have to build a moat around it. so this kid and i built a beautiful moat and th