new deal had been replaced by a doctor when the war, as fdr put it. and, of course, in the 60's the great society began basically after the assassination of kennedy in late 1963 and was effectively over by 1966 or so. so from the conservative point of view we ought to be encouraged that each one of these waves was stopped, sometimes by foreign more, sometimes simply by reaction at home, sometimes by both, but we have to notice as well that in each case the transformation resumed in the following generation. so that's a fact, that the generations to lay, liberalism resumes its for march auto depress or at least humble conservatives thinking about the problem. but all told that 20th-century was very much the liberal century, as my late friend, tom silver, used to call it. conservatism, a self-conscious intellectual and political movement did not appear on the scene until the first two waves of liberalism had done there work. national review was founded in 1955. well after the deal. conservatism major political victories, at least so far, came late in th

fdr drive is on the east side of manhattan.his is a critical artery of moving traffic in and out of new york city. at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, both the holland and brooklyn battery tunnel will be closing. if people are not in the city or out of the city in a matter of hours, you will not have a choice. you will have to stay right where you are. dagen: if you went up the right side of the horseshoe there, the east river is there. to the right side of it is the borough of queens and brooklyn. right on the right side, the east side highway which is called the fdr drive. mayor bloomberg in just a few moments. as soon as he begins, we will take that for you live. we will be right back. the mayor will be speaking about hurricane sandy in just a few moments. ♪ from 17 billion chips worldwide to a world of super-connected intelligen. the potential of freescale unlocked. nyse euronext. unlocking the world's potential. to investing with knowledge. the potential of td ameritrade unlocked. nyse euronext. unlocking the world's potential. >>

if you were to go down this way, you'd hit the fdr. if you were watching last night, the fdr drive flooded, very, very unusual. what we can see behind me, behind this downed branch, further back, is more flooding as we head down toward the fdr. much of the flooding in those evacuation zones. these apartment buildings behind me had been evacuated. evacuation zone. of course, flooding a big problem. the good news here it's actually receded a fair amount. the flooding where i was standing the water was coming up to here. it's back maybe 50 yards. so that's some good news. it's happening slowly and we're expecting as the day progresses that the water will go out and recede. up this way is that transformer explosion. people reported seeing green sparks and blue sparks yesterday evening, trying to figure out what it was. in fact, many messages on twitter about that. it tornadoed out that that transformer was exploding. so they shut down the power. that's why this area has plunged into darkness. if you were to go up another 30 blocks or so, t

and allergy to ideologues he is not the second coming of fdr. he didn't grow up rich and didn't battle polio, he doesn't welcome the hatred of the elite and has a unique bond with the masses. doesn't share roosevelt's mistress of experts and take his campaign promises much more seriously than fdr ever did but the recovery act did update the new deal for a new year of. was obama's one shot to pursue his vision. a down payment on his agenda of curbing fossil fuel dependence and carbon emissions, modernizing healthcare and education, making the tax code more progressive and government more effective and building a sustainable competitive twenty-first century economy. let me talk about obama because this book is about his vision. i did like to reveal some new psychological pherae of the man. his dad was an economist. really, thank david maraniss for that stuff. pages are basically the same, no drama, surrey girl, low blood pressure, comfortable in his skin, somewhat aloof. almost comically reasonable alpha male you will find in a non in sane biograp

it's flooded the fdr drive up the east side of the city.flooded up the west side of the city and i have just gotten this urgent the brooklyn battery tunnel which connects manhattan with brooklyn is now flooding. the surge has come over the banks and into the tunnel and it is now flooding. pumping water out of the tunnels in new york city depending on the volume of water ask take 15 hours and four days if all of the tunnels begin to flood and the worse case scenario that they have been predicting finds us, we could be shut down for days. the hope is they will be able to keep the water out of most of the tunnel. keep the water out of the subway systems. be able to get the electrical grid back up and working tomorrow morning. we have no assurances of that. the storm is now coming ashore. the surge is now rising in new york city and along long island. the brooklyn battery tunnel is starting to flood. and our coverage of a developing extremely serious storm, the noest powerful storm to hit the united states in the northeastern region in recorded

bush, hich resulted in directly, the greatest ob losses since fdr. thissis not easy and it is harddwork but we are movinn forward. ayotte says: "hey, chris, let's ttlk about, though, his policies. of course, we didd't hear in the hour and 25 minutes of debate anything about the stimulus packagee because if you look at the policy, the trickle-down povernment policy, as the governor described it, they represented bellw 6 pprcent unemployment right now, after spendiig all of that money. so, they had full charge of the firss two years and the policies that this president put into place, actually made it worse. including the fact that obamacare is actually -- you ask small employers, it is causing them not to hire because of rising healthcare co" the presidential candidates october 16-th. we've been waiting 15 years for the orioles to host a playofffgame.... so what is a few more hours? thh rain delay was early 2 and a half the result of the game into - this morning. what a way was thrown out by he ictim - and the hero in thh perry hall borowy... and coun

fdr. >> but yet today you get political points? >> it is good principles. >> the public understands. we're one at of seven states aaa bond rating one of only seven states. it makes a difference going forward looking for predictability, they want to know rebalance budgets. employees want to ow. when selling point* is you can take money with you when you leave. it can be passed on to your children. >> rahm emanuel said he ill not get people or businesses to move peer. what the government -- governor says of the competiveness we will see pensioliabilities john: thankou governor herbert. steve malanga. steve malanga. i will [laughing] [message beep] [tires screeching] john: we are back with your question and then the comments co-authors of the book "shadowbosses" elizabeth factor. mallory factor. and teen nine from the illinois policy institute. now from facebook : >> the answer is yes of violation of first amendment rights. we all believe in them. but we do have the right to to speak with only one goup has the right to be listened to

win the war, as fdr put it. and in the '60s the great society began after the assassination of kennedy in late 1963, was effectively over by 1966 or so. so from the conservative point of view, we ought to be encouraged that each one of these waves was stopped sometimes by a foreign war or sometimes by reaction at home, sometimes by both. but we have to notice as well that in each case the transformation resumed in the following generation. so that fact that with the generations delay liberalism resumes the forward march ought to dpres or at least humble conservatives thinking about the problem. but all told, the 20th century was very much the liberal century as my late friend tom silver used to call it. conservativism, as a self-conscious intellectual and political movement didn't appear on the scene until the first two waves of liberalism had done their work. national review founded in 1955, well, after the new deal. conservativism's major political victories at least so far came late in the 20 of ofth century.

look at roosevelt, look back at fdr. then was nearly as big and that deficit was almost erased. how did roosevelt do that? created social security and levied heavier taxes, programs for housing and agriculture, put new controls over banks, public utilities and created enormous work relief programs for the unemployed. sounds similar to the president's proposals today, but unlike the last four years fdr saw the unemployment drop, millions of jobs created, gdp jumped, the deficit shrank and the middle class saw a huge expansion that lasted for decades, a building of the middle class that's the envy of the world or used to be. peter, peter morici, can this feat of rebuilding the middle class and reducing the deficit, can that happen again? >> absolutely, but we have to remember that roosevelt inherited a very small government, so expanding it wasn't the rock on the back of the private sector. a more comparable situation was reag reagan's dilemma, inherited an economy with double digit inflation and interest rates and unemplo

. >> fdr through kennedy. >> fdr was very sneaky. >> nice to see again. >> i wanted to kiss it. i love her. the producer had not read the book. once i got there it was lucky that they could so they can ask the things that people think are not true. >> thank you. >> your welcome. >> happy 55th anniversary. >> fantastic. when is it? >> today. >> happy anniversary to you as well. >> you're watching booktv on location at the annual freedomfest conference. one of the speakers is senator rand paul and author of the book the tea party goes to washington. the book came out when you were first elected. how would you assess the tea party today? >> and they were at equal parts to both parties. republicans voting for the bank -- bank bailout and also obamacare. now we have the supreme court ruling if anything the tea party may be rejuvenated by the opposition and. when they did not strike it down you may see a resurgence try to have an influence. >> host: when the tea party first started 2006 rethinking of running for office? >> december 162007 and boston and calling it the re-enactment of

bush, which resulted in directly, the grratest job losses since fdr.thhs is not easy anddit s hard work but we are moving forward. ayotte says: "hey, chris, let's talk abouu, though, his policies. of course, we didn't hear in the hour andd25 minutes of debate anything about the stimulus package, because if you look at the governor ddscribed it, they represented below 6 percent uneeployment right now, after the first two years and the policiis that this president put into place, actually made it worse. including the fact that obamacare is actuullyy-- you ask small employers, ii is ccusing thhm ot to hire because f rising healthcare co" cost." the nnxt debate between the presidentiil candidates will take place on tuesday october 16-th. 3for the 1-st time in 8 years representatives from the wweel of fortuneegame show came to marrland looking for contestant. pontestants.------people shouting wheel of fortune------- fortune----------thousands of fans showed up at the hunt valley town center hoping to of fortune in california. 3-hundred of them actually got

the fdr drive is the main thoroughfare along the east side of manhattan, right along the east river.n the middle of the island, just streets and avenues. this is like a highway, and that is what it looked like in the middle of last night as the east river and the fdr drive were one. >> more like a river than a highway, and on the west side a similar story. saw the images from battery park city which is the southwestern tip of manhattan as the water spilled over and i think exceeded even the expectations, the worst forecast for what the storm surge should be. about 8:30 or so, a lot of us downtown lost our power. con-ed, the local utility, doing so in an abundance of caution to prevent further damage, and it may be days, perhaps weeks for some across the northeast to get their power back. >> i should mention one thing about the fdr, it basically floods when it drizzles here but you can imagine what it's like in a storm like sandy. anyway, images like that, you're going to be seeing them over the next couple of days as we continue to clean up from a storm that had an enormous impact on

and speaking of fdr, no president since fdr was left bigger job losses bigger unemployment, bigger deficits, more wars than president obama was by the failed policies of george w. bush which resulted in directly the greatest job losses since fdr. h is hot easy. in is hard -- this is not easy. this is hard work. >> we didn't hear in an hour and 20 minutes of debate anything about the stimulus package because if you look at the policy the trickle down government policy as the governor described it, they represented we would be below 6% unemployment now after spending all that money. the policies that this president put into place is actually made it worse including the fact that obama care is causing small employers not to hire because of rising healthcare costs. gas prices have doubled. the middle class is being buried under this administration. the vice president said it aptly and it is true. >> chris: let's turn to a couple of issues that came up during the debate. obviously the jobs report came out after the debeat. both sides saying that the other candidate is lying about h his position

starting in 1922, which fdr contracted palo. polio. she was the political surrogate. he head the dank. she was instrumental in many of the reforms of the new deal. but franklin had an affair with hillary's private assistant during world war i when she found out, she wanted a divorce. and that was really the end of their marital relationship. their political relationship remained in intact. they never became intimate people again. so the reason why it's difficult is that they had carved out distingive roles, they were very important roles. eleanor was an e extraordinary first lady. it was not something that was a product of the personal chemistry and their ongoing intimate relationship. yeah? >> if hillary is a bridge builder, what happened with the health care and what would she have done differently if she would done it today. >> i think she would have made the comprise. she would have gotten the bill passed. why did all that have happen? i think it happened because both in arkansas then in washington she fought and bill fought. she more than he. they were at the war

in a way fdr had it easy because big government hadn't been created yet. you could have something like the ccc which skirted the million urban youth out of their cities and sent them to rural work camps. they were known as concentration camps before that term got kind of uncool. they were paid $1 a day and they send the money to their moms. i don't think that would fly today. it is hard to know. maybe if he barnstormed the country and said we needed a new ccc maybe it would have worked but i don't think what happened in the last few years suggest that is the case. i think i need to stop but i will be signing books and i appreciate everybody coming out in the rain. >> for more information visit the author's website michaelgrunwald.com. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. this weekend three days of nonfiction authors and books ending at 8:00 eastern on tuesday. visit booktv.org for complete tv schedule. here are a few programs to watch this weekend. with the help of our local partner time warner cable booktv visits several literary and cultural sites in a

they should have been plunges just as fdr did. >> it's so fascinating hearing you talking about fdr whenthe world was going to go on. i remember my mother, she was 12 at the time when fdr died and she said that they went home scared because they didn't know. >> sure. >> what was next. my mom said fdr was king and we wanted him to be king forever. we loved him. we adored him. and it just makes you wonder why we can't get politicians today who of course aren't fdr. nobody will be like fdr again but can at least get the respect that our leaders used to get. >> well, i grew up in a household where both my parents, my mother and my father, were convinced and i think rightly so, that franklin delano roosevelt saved this country. >> it's amazing how he gave the working man a feeling of equality. i had a friend who told me how he came on the back of a train to hartford, connecticut where all the insurance companies had come out against him and he said, my friends, i want you to know that if you vote for me, the insurance companies will fail. he just bit them right in the mouth. >> in hartford. >

. >> do uzi a comparison between clinton and fdr and eleanor? >> i'm sorry do i see any comparison between hillary and bill's marriage and eleanor and nixon? the reason i say no is that yes franklin and eleanor were very much political colleagues starting in 1922 when fdr contracted polio she was his political surrogates and represented him on numerous occasions the democratic party together. she headed the women's democratic national committee. she was very interested in many of the reforms of the new deal, but franklin had an affair with the private assistant and when she found out about that, she wanted a divorce, and that was the end of the marital relationship. the political relationship remained intact but they never became intimate people again. so the reason is that they had called out jury distinctive roles. a very important and eleanor was an extraordinary first lady but it's now something that was a product of the personal chemistry and other ongoing intimate relationship. >> if hillary is a bridge builder, what happened with the heal

as you were showing earlier, the fdr as water lapping of red.to get off the street. if they're going to stay in man and then they ought to be prepared to be without power for, my guess is based on what i have been seeing, at least a day or so. it will take time ted get those transmission lines back up, get the substations back up and working. and then, i think about, you know, at least i don't live in new york. i think about my friends that do, you know, the station will be out for a while. you knows how long mta will be out. people need to be ready to deal, it does not seem like a long time, but 24, 48 and 72 hours, you are pretty nuts by the end of 72 hours off. neil: i'm sure. i know that better than you, dealing with trade. the aftermath. now we're talking about a little bit of bickering going back and forth between new jersey governor chris christie and the mayor of atlantic city. governor christie, you know, everyone get out of off low short tandem of the barrier islands, eccentric and a barrier points along midlantic city. the mayor did n

he also said the fdr, one of the main roadways in manhattan, is fundamentally closed.cticut governor is shutting down all the highways at 1:00 eastern this afternoon. i want to show you something that our weather team has put together, especially when you talk about new york city and all those high-rises. take a look at what happens to the wind threat for high-rises. if a wind comes onshore at 80 miles per hour, that's what it's like at the ground. you go up 30 stories and it's 20% greater. goes up to 96 miles an hour. head up to the 80th story and everyone between 80 and 100, those stories, they get a 30% kick-up to 104-mile-per-hour winds. and let me remind you. those aren't gusts. those are sustained winds. so the sustained winds at 80 stories high would be 104 miles an hour. and then add to that the gusting winds, that is trouble. and that is exactly why you just saw mayor bloomberg telling people, mandatory evacuations in certain parts, not just the flooding but also these dangerous winds. take a look at the live pictures. a lot more information coming for you in

they rarely pictured fdr in a wheelchair. but now everything is game but that is a good thing even though reporters are obnoxious. >> i would let you prefer you let me finish my statements. >> john: next, we'll show you the secret behind the debates. >> here you go again. i brought your stuff. you don't have to do this. yes i do. i want you to keep this. it'd be weird. take care. you too. [ sighs ] so how did it go? he's upset. [ male announcer ] spend less time at gas stations with best in class fuel economy. it's our most innovative altima ever. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. [ male announcer ] it started long ago. the joy of giving something everything you've got. it takes passion. and it's not letting up anytime soon. at unitedhealthcare insurance company, we u

the entire fdr drive, according to the mayor's office, is completely under water.hat's the sort of thing that will change with the rising and lowering of the tide. but right now we know the surge is coming in as down in new jersey the storm is about to take is about to make landfall. here at the lower tip of manhattan, battery. the highest water ever recorded was 11.2 feet. that was recorded in 1821; 1821. it's now higher than that. and the flooding of lower manhattan has begun. david lee miller is right there in the battery in lower manhattan. no way to get a live signal out with the heavy wind so david lee is on the phone. what are you seeing? >> i'm seeing water and it rising very rapidly. the situation, shepard, very treacherous. we cannot transmit now because we have to move our satellite truck. the water is rising that quickly. it completely covers now a promenade, a walkway that only a few hours ago that was completely dry. and very ominous sign. off in the distance from where i'm standing now i can look across the hudson river on the other side of the river

. >> jennifer: and there is another one coming out about fdr too.efore we go i want to show everybody a clip from the ben affleck political thriller argo which is coming out neck week. >> that's right. >> it would celtics. there aring only bad options. it's about finding the best one. >> you have a better bad idea than this? >> this is the best idea idea we have sir by far. >> jennifer: i totally love the movie sorry seen this preview a number of times at the theater. what is the premise of this movie? >> this is based on a true story. to get six people who managed to speak out of the american embassy in tehran and they created identities for these six americans hiding out in the embassy. so basically it's this entire phony movie that existed only as a cia operation to rescue americans stuck in iran. the idea that jimmy carter is getting more and more credit for now, having a foreign policy that is more about negotiation or intricate intelligence and not merely let's go invade. >> jennifer: so alonzo i'm always so fascinated by political films that

which resulted in directly, the greatest job losses since fdr.s is not easy and it is hard work but we are moving forward. >> let's talk about policies. we didn't hear in the hour and 25 minutes of debate anything about the stimulus package. if you look at the policy the trickle-down government policy as the governor described it, they represented below 6% unemployment now, after spending all of that money and had full charge of the first two years and the policies that this president put into place, actually madt worse. including the fact that obamacare is actually... employers, it is causing them not to hire and gas prices doubled and the middle class is buried under this administration and the vice president said it aptly and it is true. >> chris: let's turn to a couple of issues that came up in the debate. obviously the jobs report came out after the debate. both sides said the other candidate is lying about his position and let's start with taxes. governor, the president keeps saying that mitt romney is proposing a $5 trillion tax cut. that

personas en bajo manhattan sin electricidad, cada vez hay mÁs agua, esta es la carretera que conduce al fdrmos que sobre pasa los cinco o seis pies de acumulaciÓn de agua. falta de fluido elÉctrico y la segunda inundaciones, hasta el momento lo que podemos reportar que estas dos situaciones estÁn ocurriendo, vamos a ver con el transcurso de las prÓximas horas a cuanto se evalÚan los daÑos y lo que va a ocurrir a new york durante tantas horas del paso de esta tormenta. >>> sin duda vamos a hablar de lo que pasa en new york, mÁs de 60 millones de personas estaban en la mira de sandy, todavÍa no se sabe cuantas de ellas han sido afectadas. nueva jersey fue el lugar por donde entrÓ sandy. finalmente azotÓ la costa de nueva jersey con vientos que alcanzaron las 4575 millas por hora. malecÓnes cubiertos por el agua, ante el peligro provocado por la tormenta el gobernador de nueva jersey suspendiÓ las labores de ras ra rescate hasta maÑana. >>> si parece una estupidez es una estupidez, no se exponga exponga a situaciones de peligro. >>> el embate de la madre naturaleza se ha enseÑado con el estado

here's a guy himself, that's actually a light bounce off of fdr roosevelt. this was his chakra. this was march 4th, 1933. he made the statement and he made it, i didn't understand a long time. the point i was making, people were terrified. because it seemed like the economy had no bottom and the banks were going down and there was no federal deposit dollars. so imagine a time when we actually had a president who told us we should be courageous rather than trafficked in fear. to his own advantage. there's been a long war on the new deal. it was when roosevelt got started. almost immediately, the more than great realized the lengths he was willing to go. at the beginning, roosevelt didn't understand how far he was going to go. the dupont family and the ones that set up the american liberty league. that was successful because they have unlimited amounts of money. there were so popular, they were not able to stop it. they began to finance right-wing think tanks. they have been successful to the university of chicago economics department and notable fraud such as milton freed man. th

y estamos en battery park, si ustedes se pueden dar cuenta, es de las carreteras principales, es el fdrmil personas en el área han perdido electricidad, inundaciones y falta de electricidad han ocurrido, es lo que tenemos, félix de bedout, regrd. >>> muchas gracias, blanca rosa, estamos muy pendientes de la información. >>> hace 3 días, había una noticia diferente de la elección presidencial, pero todo pasó al segundo plano, y todos los políticos pasaron a segundo plano, lourdes meluzá con los detalles. >>> el gobierno federal está cerrado, el transporte paralizxado y la política pospuesta, el presidente barack obama paralizó su campaña para tomar control del desase natural. >>> por toda la costa este todos hacen las preparaciones acordadas, los gobernadores han emitido declaraciones de emergencia, se han aprobado rápidamente en al casa blanca, dijo que fema está colaborando con los estados, también mitt romney suspendió su campaña por dos días. >>> no estoy preocupado porl impacto en las elecciones presidenciales, sino que el impacto en los socorristas. >e>> l desempeño será seguido de

in 1950, his last election, he did one better than beating an ally of fdr, he beat fdr's son, jimmy roosevelt, by more than a million votes. and in 1946's election he achieved the remarkable and by today's standards sort of unimaginable feat of winning not only the republican party nomination for governor, but the democratic nomination as well. [laughter] yeah. give that a moment's thought. [laughter] um, he is the only person ever nominated by both parties to govern california. it was in 1953 that, as i'm sure many of you know, it was dwight eisenhower who tapped warren to become chief justice of the united states. in another hard-to-imagine turn of events, warren accepted that as a recess appointment and served from october of 1953 until march of 1954 without senate confirmation. he left california on a saturday and was sworn in as chief justice of the united states on monday morning. the new chief justice, as i hope i've demonstrated a bit here, health care forged very much by -- had been forged very much by california. he liked electoral politics and he was good at it, he was angered by c

when fdr and the democrats first came up with the idea of social security, fdr promised we will be holdingfor you. it is a nest and we will give it back to you. in their argument they said to the court, it is not the people's money, it is the government money and it does not have to give it back. the supreme court agreed with them. there is no contract between social security contributors which is the three of us and everyone who is watching us and works and social security recipients. that money is given by the political will of congress, not by any legal capability to do so. the money deducted from our pay here every week is that immediately. the money paid to our parents and grandparents is far. if that is not a ponzi scheme, i do not know what is. connell: you are making an argument. basically that this whole thing is a ponzi scheme. >> yes, yes it is. political pressure from social security recipients. they can say, it will automatically kick in. it will kick in for inflation. when one plus two plus three is added up, some calculation. connell: what is the purpose of making that argum

let's look at fdr's peach for a second.his is the night of d-day, thousands of american boys are dying. there are mothers and fathers liching to his address that don't know they have lost their sons. they will get telegrams in the coming weeks. roosevelt knows this. he knows that he also has to get the country to -- he knows that we have been at war for 3 years. and we have lost a lot of people. now the number of casualties are going to multiply. we have to keep building bombs and keep building bullets. >> jamie: you say he goes from the role of president to minister, rabbi, a counselor. >> he becomes the national minister. this shows how the country has changed. he leads the nation in a prayer. it is an ecumenical prayer that hay protestant, catholic or jew can recite. it's a gorgeous prayer. it is one of the finest melts in the presidency. and he gives the country courage to keep going and keep doing what they have to do to. >> jamie: the way you write, you take us back to these moments, moments even with linkon that are

wasn home game in the year fdr was sworn in for his first term. finally, tomorrow is back. >> it is just creating a fun atmosphere. are two things dragging down the excitement. one is that the game is only on e mlb network. thatpeople don't have channel unless they have just basiceyond cable. >> do you get that at work with we do. i hope >> the other issue, major league baseball is giving the yankees gameles the prime-time while the national car relegated to 1:00 in the afternoon. >> it is really kind of a slap in the face. >> he had to rearrange his work schedule fast to go. had to check with my wasrvisors to make sure it ok. not be able to see all. don't get off until 5:00, will listen to it on the radio. >> they are expecting a lot of over from walk on buildings to watch the game at the crystal city sports club. >> are you expecting some long lunch breaks tomorrow? >> very much so. >> the box office opens at 9:00 want to getu may their lot sooner than that. they say there is a very limited for sale. >> we will have complete .overage tomorrow mo

dish. >> well, again some the strongest performers were jfk, lbj, fdr and bill clinton. republican side, dwight eisenhower and ronald reagan. ones cleaning up bottom of the batting order. ashley: that was my next question. >> george w. bush, richard nixon and gerald ford and herbert hoover was at bottom. ashley: the concept republicans are pro-business and more friendly leads obviously to better for your wallet. and that could be the same said in this current race. now you say that president obama, how is he doing in relation to the economy and in particular everybody's wallet? >> very good question. i actually wrote an op-ed about this comparing how barack obama has done in his first term comparing to ronald reagan in his first term. ashley: okay. >> coincidentally on the same 12 data points we had obama won on eight of the 12 and reagan won on four of the 12. i thought that was also interesting. keep in mind ronald reagan had a very difficult first term as well. he had unemployment up to 10.8% at one point in the latter part of 1982. he had, longest recessions we ever

told trevor -- i tweet a lot -- and someone reminded me that yesterday was the 80th anniversary of fdr most important speech at that point in his life in 1932. he was running for the presidency and he came out and sent a big defining difference between him and herbert hoover was that he was really going to use dhaka government to help people and get us out of the great depression. so, no pressure there. [laughter] i was nervous before, but then hearing that, whatever. that's a piece of cake. >> i get a lot of laughter. every time the title was mentioned, people chuckled, and chris matthews said today and he chuckled and said that is just a funny title even though he said it like nine times it's funny every time. that's okay. and i realized that there are three actual meanings to the title, and i am only getting to talk about one for the most part. the first is sort of the title itself. what's the matter with white people? as what's wrong with them, why are nine out of ten sell five in the five republican voters today white in the country that is 62% white? that's a question that i have

fdr proposed sussocial security. average american lived in the 60s and now high 70s. we have the biggest population bulge. baby boomers just going in social security now. and so the idea that we can't follow the president's own simpson-bowles commission and raise it by two years is ridiculous. >> but john, we were made a promise. >> absolutely. i respectfully disagree. there is a dirty little secret of social security that we have no legal right to the accounts we are paying into. the government will say we'll give you what you want when we want is offensive . for individuals who are not socialist and want to own their retirement. they should be allowed out and no longer be a liability on the federal government for a system that is cratering under its own weight. >> mark, you support mitt romney on this? >> well, i hate to say this, but i do support raising the age and i think that it is inevitable to do that for the solvencey for the system . i support something that mitt romney doesn't support and that is imposing a means test. i don't think warren buffet or mitt ro

we're ruining the work ethic for the government and i do suspect, this is an fdr argument, tax and tax, spend and spend. >>> i believe that team obama really believes that these welfare recipients are real bying to go for him. >> i want to agree with you on a couple of things, but what i really do want to talk about is if it's growing at 26% since 2008. we haven't seen gdp grow 26% in 2008. and the motion they can always dial back and say oh, we have a health care cost problem. look, four years, and we're after the health care problem. it's time to do something different. these programs are really broken. >> here's an agreement i would like to make to both of you. if the food sample rolls don't seriously come down, i'm going to be on this set complaining as loudly as you guys. >> the safety net really did kick in. >> hack on a second, jared. i got to get out and i appreciate your concession, i appreciate your monitoring food stamps. medicaid which used to be poor people low income is increasingly becoming a middle class entitlement. i still think team obama believes all those people ar

baseball the senators, played in a playoff, fdr was president. it was back in 1954. >> i thought it was never going in my lifetime. >> but it has, and fans left the profound pride, greatest loss in history. washington nationals have best up untilat season when they moved eight years ago. extraordinarys season that much sweeter. continues during sports tonight and all the time at wjla.com . now we move on to some other tonight. dozens of occupied d.c. gathered tonight to mark the one-year anniversary of their protest. the protesters are carrying on the cause, even are no longer .llowed to campouts today during the rush-hour, they caused traffic delays. more about the man who was car and kill the northwest washington. the campus of marymount university is mourning the loss , 60-year-old rhett leverett, who is out walking his the car hit him. on campus.remembered >> that accident happened here and claimed the life of someone who loves his job. careerg was his second passion and tonight his loss leaves a void. a profound sense of sadness at campus of