george reagan's wife tabitha says no visitors have been allowed at the prison for months.so she believes workers must have infected the inmates. >> this was 100% their fault. covid was brought in by their people. the fci seagoville staff was not properly trained on how to handle this epidemic. >> reporter: outbreaks like the ones at seagoville are happening across the country. more than 10,000 federal inmates infected or recovering. 110 are dead. according to dr. homer venters, a correctional health expert who investigates covid response in prison, inmates are confined in crowded conditions subject to exposure by staff that he believes are untrained or simply careless. and obviously the prisoners, the inmates who cannot leave the facility are sitting ducks. >> that's absolutely right. and many of them are at high risk for serious illness or death if or when they contract covid-19. >> reporter: and when prisons like sea goville become infection hot spots, the staff who leave prison every day can be carrying more infection back into the communities where they live. venters s

in the 15-minute phone call allowed from the inmate, inmate george reagan described how coronavirus sweptgh the facility in just a month. it has significantly more covid-19 cases than any other federal prison in the u.s., more than 1,300 of the roughly 1,750 inmates there tested positive. that's 75%. george reagan's wife tab that says no visitors have been allowed at the prison for months, so she believes workers must have infected the inmates. >> this was 100% their fault. covid was brought in by their people. the staff was not properly trained on how to handle this epidemic. >> reporter: outbreaks are happening across the country, more than 10,000 federal inmates infected or recovering, 110 are dead. according to dr. homer venters, a correctional health expert who investigates prisons, inmates are confined in crowded conditions and subject to exposure by staff that he believes are untrained or simply careless. >> obviously the prisoners, the inmates who can not leave the facility are sitting ducks. >> that's absolutely right and many of them are at high risk for serious illness or death

george will. writing in news week near the end of profit president reagan second term, george will lamented how wildlyound reagan is about what is happening moscow. reagan has accelerated the moral disarmament of the west, actual disarmament will follow, by elevating wishful thinking to the status of philip gloss philosophy. we'll explain the december 8th, today the inf treaty was signed, will be remembered as a date the cold war was lost,. that one didn't hold up for a wall, george. , but, nonetheless, by the time reagan leaves office many conservatives are looking at for one another and they are saying, what did we achieve? we got tax cuts. but did we fundamentally change the trajectory of the united states? and many of them conclude, no, we didn't. we didn't succeed in this endeavor. not only that, george h.w. bush is about to be elected president. that's only going to further sort of frustrate them because many of them will be shown the door in the bush white house. so, there is this sort of belief that we haven't really achieved what they had set out to achieve. they hadn't transfered the country

reagan's economic plan. mr. george bush concluded the reagan plan for voodoo economics.t. [applause] a third-party candidate -- a combination of military spending, tax cuts, would be under the cover of smoke and mirrors. he was right. mr. reagan talked about a dynamic recovery and years later, unemployment has inched just below where it was when he took office. there are still 8.1 million people officially unemployed. 11 million working only part-time. inflation has come down. .et's analyze for a moment reagan curved inflation by curbing consumer demand. he cut demand and monetary policies. he used the federal budget to deliberately induce unemployment and curb social spending. he then weighed and supported military policies. of the federal reserve board to deliberately [indiscernible] the interest rate. reached 10.7%. we had skyrocketing interest rates. their record bank failures. record foreclosures. record budget deficit. record trade deficit. mr. reagan brought inflation down by destabilizing our economy and disrupting family life. promised in 1980 a balanced budget.

she and walter mondale would lose the general election to gop nominees reagan and george h.w. bush. ♪ ♪ >>> hello! >> ladies and gentlemen of the convention. ladies and gentlemen of the convention. ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my name is gerald geraldine ferraro. i stand before you to proclaim tonight america is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. as i stand before the american people and think of the honor this great con evening has vent bestowed upon me, i recall the words of dr. martin luther king jr. who made america stronger by making america more free. he said, occasionally in life, there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. tonight is such a moment for me. my heart is filled with pride. my fellow citizens i proudly acce accept your nomination for vice president of the united states. and -- they're wonderful. and -- and -- i am proud to run with a man who will be one of the great presidents of this century, walter mondale. tonight, the daughter of

george will. writing in newsweek near the end of president reagan's second term, george will lamented how wildly wrong reagan is about what is happening in moscow. reagan has accelerated the moral disarmament of the west, actual disarmament will follow. will exclaimed that december 8th, the day that the inf treaty was signed, will be remembered at the day the cold war was lost. that one didn't hold up very well, george. but nonetheless, by the time reagan leaves office, many conservatives are looking at one another and they're writing and saying what did we achieve? what did we achieve? we got tax cuts. we got tax reform, but did we fundamentally change the trajectory of the united states? and many of them conclude, no, we didn't. we didn't succeed in this endeavor. and not only that, george h.w. bush is about to be elected president. and that's only going to further, right, sort of frustrate them because many of them are going to be shown the door. right? in the bush white house. and so there's this sort of belief that, you know, they haven't really achieved what they had set out to achieve. they hav

reagan's economic plan. mr. george bush concluded that reagan's plan was "voodoo economics."right. [applause] third-party candidate john anderson said "a combination of military spending, tax cuts, and a balanced budget by '84 would be accomplished with blue smoke and mirrors." they were both right. mr. reagan talks about a dynamic recovery. there's some measure of recovery. three and a half years later, unemployment has inched just below where it was when he took office in 1981. there are still 8.1 million people officially unemployed. 11 million working only part-time. inflation has come down, but let's analyze for a moment who has paid the price for this superficial economic recovery. mr. reagan curbed inflation by cutting consumer demand. he cut consumer demand with conscious and callous fiscal and monetary policies. he used the federal budget to deliberately induce unemployment and curb social spending. he then weighed and supported tight monetary policies of the federal reserve board to deliberately drive up interest rates, again to curb consumer demand created through

he was the guy who broke the news that ronald reagan had selected george h.w. sh to be his running mate and that was interesting because i know they were kicking around the idea of a reagan-ford ticket and there was some controversy because of the case of george bush he called reagan's tax cut ideas voodoo economics. ronald reagan held no grudge obviously. moved on and knew they would have the same policy. the rest as we know is history. we know their differences and there have been tit-for-tat kamala harris and joe biden he, too didn't hold a grudge or in the end thought that it mattered. people are going to keep bringing those differences up, aren't they? >> martha: absolutely, neil. you are going to keep seeing the video of kamala harris glancing at him across that debate stage and saying i was in that first wave of desegregation busing. that girl was me it was a will matter looked into the camera befuddlement that's not accurate the way you are characterizing me. that video won't go away. the other video that is significant here when she was asked about the

she and want to mondale -- walter mondale would lose to ronald reagan and george hw bush. ♪ ["new york ♪ [applause] [chanting "gerry"] [applause and cheers] [applause and cheers] ms. ferraro: ladies and gentlemen of the convention. [applause and cheers] ladies and gentlemen of the convention. [applause and cheers] ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my name is geraldine ferraro. [applause and cheers] i stand before you to proclaim tonight, america is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. [applause and cheers] as i stand before the american people and think of the honor this great convention has bestowed upon me, i recall the words of dr. martin luther king, jr., who made america stronger by making america more free. he said, "occasionally in life, there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." tonight is such a moment for me. [applause and cheers] my heart is filled with pride. my fellow citizens, i proudly accept your nomination for vice president of the united states. [ap

ronald reagan picked him as the next vice president. >> but i call a voodoo economic policy. >> voodoo economics, how candidate georgeh described candidate ronald reagan's policy in the 1980 presidential primaries. mr. reagan is now vice president bush's and he said he never said it but the record vividly proves otherwise. >> so we'll be watching when's happening in washington. my focus will continue to be on donald trump but decision 2020 will be all of our focus. you can follow us on twitter. ank you, scott. >>> anyone living in sacramento county in the '70s likely remembers the reign of terror that the east bay rapist left. now deanglo pled guilty to 13 counts of murder in june and expected to be sentenced next week. "the sacramento bee" said that the county's d. amt wants to hear from those who were quote living through that terror. >>> new video for you this morning out of southern california of a police chase that happened yesterday afternoon in the town of azusa. the driver of the white sedan crossed into on coming traffic several times. the driver was still able to get away. officers tried again and that time

then feeling pretty sheepish when then reagan picked him as the next vice president. >> but i call a voodoo economic policy. >> voodoo economics, how candidate george bush described candidate ronald reagan's policy during the 1980 presidential primaries. mr. reagan is now vice president bush's boss and the phrase is something of an embarrassment. bush said this week he never said it but the record rather vividly proves otherwise. >> that is politics for you and we'll watch biden and harris today and tweeting about it no doubt. you can find us all on twitter. >> all right. thank you, scott. >>> students and teachers in south bay's largest school district returned to class today but not to the classroom. not even the teachers. it is an interesting twist that happened overnight. is live at san jose high school with why teachers will be allowed to teach from home instead of headed to the classroom. good morning, bob. >> reporter: good morning to you, kris. san jose unified told "the mercury news" that they were able to get a union that represent it is teachers to provide the same quality instruction from home as they would in the classrooms. this distr

ronald reagan picked george h .w. bush, and they campaigned against each other.n kerry picked john edwards barack obama -- picked john edwards. barack obama picked joe biden. it's about political pragmatism more than what happened in the past i think the calculation that joe biden made was that kamala harris, first of all, reflects the diversity of the democratic party, balances the ticket as far as age goes. she has a feistins that i think would be useful on the campaign trail. ace presidential running mates are supposed to ack dogs. she has shown she has a sharp claws. they will be going against donald trump and mike pence. jane: we've seen history made today, but we are also living in a moment of history, because this is a campaign taking place in the middle of a glo pandemic. how do you think kamala harris's selection might change the way this campaign goes? >> i think what you might see ir that kamala is the one who gets out on the stump more than joe biden does. for healths, conceirst. in the same way that mike pence has been the one going around the countr

george h.w. bush, running as the hand-picked successor to ronald reagan. george h.w. bush was not a tremendously charismatic figure. if people liked reagan, they said i guess i can vote for bush. similarly, people who liked roosevelt tended to think, we will be safe with taft. that is why he won. bryan tried to use a lot of the same rhetorical techniques. he went out to talk to hundreds of thousands of people, but it was not very successful. the country was prosperous again after a sharp recession in times 1907. were very good. taft was popular because he was the handpicked successor to a popular president, teddy roosevelt. bryan couldn't get any traction. >> case closest race was 1896. we are joined by marie. >> how did william jennings bryan come to live in miami, florida? >> in fact, boca raton, florida. >> his wife mary had contracted crippling arthritis and could not live in the winter climate of nebraska any longer. miami was beginning to be a place for older people to go if they could afford to. also, he had strong supporters in the south. so they had gone to to

george h. w. bush, reagan as vice president. and in may, michael dukakis, the governor of massachusetts, is attacking bush saying that he is part of the reagan administration and the iran contra scandal after scandal and bush was part of it. he called him a squeeze factor. lee atwater was putting together a pretty vicious campaign that weighed on the racial backlash and was very much a character assassination behind the campaign. when bush is struggling in the polls, he picks up on the story and convinces bush to talk about jim wright and take the story that had spoken about the fringes and made the campaign. so, lee atwater saw politics like him. it was a sport, character assassination, and it was about storytelling. gingrich understood what storytelling was about. lee atwater was a fan of professional wrestling and pop politics should be run accordingly. >> guest: >> host: absolutely. backing up, jim wright looms large in this and for people who don't follow the story, the late '80s there was a health speaker who was a texan d

george h.w. bush, reagan's vice president. and in may, his appointments, mike dukakis the governor of massachusetts is attacking bush and saying part of the reagan administration, had scandal after scandal and bush was part of it he told with the squeeze factor. his campaign person with lee atwater. he was putting together a pretty vicious campaign that played on racial backlash was very much a character assassination kind of campaign. and in may when bush is struggling any commences bush to talk about jim right all the time. to take this story that is really been on the fringes and mainstream and into the campaign. so atwater cell politics just like gingrich. as a bloodsport, characte is about storytelling. gingrich was a historian and what historian was about i thought politics should be run accordingly back up a little bi bit. i think for people who do not follow the story, the thought of the late '80s as a house leader who is a liberal texan democrat's going to seemed like an anachronism. talk a little bit more about jim r

george h.w. bush, reagan's vice president, and in may his opponent, mike dukakis, the governor of massachusetts, is attacking bush and saying that he's sleazy, , he's part of the reagan administration, iran-contra scandal after scandal and that bush was part of this. he called it the sleaze factor. his campaign person was lee atwater and lee atwater was putting together a pretty vicious campaign that played on racial backlash and was very much a character assassination kind of campaign. and in may when bush is struggling in the polls he picks up on this story and he convinces bush to talk about jim right all the time and to take the story that it really spoken on the fringes and mainstream into the campaign. atwater saw politics just like gingrich. it was a blood sport, character assassination was totally fine and it was about storytelling. gingrich was historian who understood what storytelling was about. lee atwater was a standup professional wrestling and he thought politics should be run accordingly. >> absolutely. back up a little bit because jim wright looms large in this effort people who

she and -- would lose the general election to gop's nomination ronald reagan and george h. w. bush.

reagan rose above that, selected george h.w. president, and it made a great difference, not only for ronald reagan, but also for western civilization as the cold war came to an end and george h.w. bush was in the white house. here, you have another presidential candidate who selects as his vice president someone who is harshly critical of him in a primary process, and i think it speaks to the character of both of these people that they can now work together. >> well, it also speaks, i think, to their intellect. my father always surrounded himself with people who challenged him. he surrounded himself, purposefully, socially and professionally, with people who disagreed with him. and he was always trying to figure out where that common ground was or understand what the other point of view was. i want to bring up another reason why kamala harris may just be the right choice for this time. how many days until the election? joe biden's in a very comfortable position in the polls. you can perhaps even get comfortable feeling like the

time in post world war ii that an incumbent has lost in our lifetime has been the george hw election and ronald reaganbill clinton was a gifted politician. he had a way to make you feel like the most important in the room. reagan was just a dynamo. biden is neither one of these. if i may add on to your excellent story there. jesse: i love it. keep going. >> here is the problem with biden. not only is he terrible. he obviously has issues. i won't evaluate his psychological situation. if he's going to be holding the nuclear code, he doesn't know what state he's in. he attaches himself to president obama who was terrible too. nobody sane person wants to go back to the obama economy. so he's bad. and who he attaches himself to is even worse. he has nowhere to go. jesse: do you think these are the four pillars of the election, focuses on rebuilding the economy, keeps the streets safe and tells joe you can't handle selling lemonade at the lemonade stand, if he can't do that. with the curveball thrown in. durham is a curve of ball. some manufactured october surprise from the fake news. is that how you see th

that is the similar message we heard from nixon, reagan, even george w. bush in 2000.are hoping it works again with traditional suburban voters. i have to say, times have changed. the suburbs are not quite as white as they used to be. i think it is still an open question whether this argument that worked in 1980 he can work again for republicans to pull over the suburban white voters they want by raising the idea that there is something to fear. kailey: is this race going to be won in the suburbs? is that of the voter group they most need to capture? >> absolutely. the fight is for the suburban voters, particularly white women. that is where the vote is. we hear it over and over again from these campaigns. you saw on the third night of the convention, all of those working women out there making the case that donald trump has done good things for us. you may not know it by what he tweet's -- treats, but we know behind the scene. -- tweets. they are making this case over and over again. look at his record on issues like unemployment, small business, education and other t

agreementsot just on forged by my husband, but on championed by presidents like reagan and eisenhower. at home, as george taylor, and a ever ending list of people of color continue to be murdered, that g the simple fact met with s matter, is der vision from the highest office. to leadership or consolation or any semblance of teadiness, what we get, instead, is chaos, division, and total and utter lack of empathy. empathy, that's something i've been thinking a lot about lately. walk in someone else's shoes. that someone n else's experience has value, too. practice this without a second thought. f we see someone suffering or struggling, we don't stand in judgment. out.ach because there but for the grace of god go i. concept to ard grasp. it's what we teach our children. you, barack y of and i have tried our best to strong, n our girls a moral foundation, to carry forward the values that our and grandparents poured into us. in this now, kids country are seeing what happens empathy top requiring of one another. they're looking around wondering if we've been lying to them this and time about who we are what w

george washington. there is always a scholarship on washington coming up. i live in a house built in 1730 in rural virginia and always had a fascination with washington. i had two favorites, ronald reagan and george washington and remain very fascinating to me, multiple careers and interests and talents. the episcopal church in northern virginia where it ended. it can't be - all married. i started to probe my book, the scholarship on mary ball washington, what was out there wasn't very good. after she passed away where she was treated as if - very delicate and the period after the civil war where realists take hold of the redneck and melville and other things, took much harder cast, joe cleaver to joe crawford and the fact of the matter neither is true, much more nuanced. when i got into the scholarship and the research, a very talented woman. actually, a lettered person, fine hand, very literate letters, in fredericksburg, a metropolis in 1750-1760s but what emerged for me was a more sophisticated woman that history has not been kind to. the idea she needs to be looked at more closely. as you mentioned, george's father died at 12 years old and it occurred to me he had an older stepbro

>> all friends were very important to george and me a very big support in politics. reaganwas in the second grade with george and i met her in fourth grade. she on - - her mother married seven times only to three different man. [laughter] but she moved from school to school and then into another house and then she transferred and you have a long history of friendship with all those friends from when we were introduced and many others. and we still see and george loves to tell the story the first time they came up each of them to the oval office and said i can't believe i'm here. and then they look at him. [laughter] and with a long history of friendship like that, they have known this their whole lives, they know everything about us, we were friends long before politics and they are still our friends with great emotional support with those friendships. >> reagan's mother was wanda. my mother married three times and her philosophy was all of life is one big date. [laughter] when you are married you have to date the man you are married to the before and after him you are free

party have moved the party so far to this position that it's no longer the party of lincoln or reagan or georgebushes. someone who inspired me to get into office. they're in a position where they reflect the values and images of the current president and that's a sad state of affairs. i don't think isthis is going to work. i think people see it for what it is, and that's a ploy to help the incumbent president. people are sick and tired of the way america's been moving forward and we're going to do the right thing and vote for joe bidon for president this coming november. >> so, you do not think this is going to work. but look, kanye west got a lot of signatures. who do you think he got these signatures from? >> well, kanye west did get a number of signatures. it's still to be determined if he has enough to actually have ballot placement for this coming november. look, anybody can run for president, including kanye west. the issue is the political strategy and tactics they're using, not having a conversation or debate on the merits. they're using a political ploy to cheat democracy in order to g

reagan chose george w.h. bush for his running mate. >> i am recommending that storm when the session reconvenes that george bush be nominated for vice president. >> when his turn came in 1988, bush made a fatale error in his acceptance speech. >> read my lips, no new taxes. >> whoops. as president he had to raise taxes and deal with a third party maverick ross per row. just when both parties nearly succeeded in making the convention as predictable as possible, along came covid and our new virtual reality. standby and stay tuned. >> i have often said it in the past, it's the best job in american broadcasting. to be a correspondent at a national convention. tom brokaw, nbc news. >>> the democrats kicking it off tomorrow. let's get back to our neck of the woods. and a heat wave of extraordinary proportions. >> yeah. and we're still seeing those temperatures inland. this is what you see when you have temperatures up to 105, 106 degrees. at this hour numbers like our daytime summer micro climate. 50s and 60s at th

i think for many conservatives what defines reagan for them, a principle that he never deviated from. and this emerged around 2005, 2006 in the wake of george w. bush bush's presidency where they became disillusioned. so how did conservatives view reag reagan during the 1980s in oftentimes they viewed him with anger because not more was being done. i was really surprised when i was researching for my diser saying because i went through steven hayward's book and i found this nice paragraph where he basically talked about all these conservatives who were upset with reagan and then he went on and he told the story, the long sort of story broke the reag about the reagan years and i found it fascinatinfascinating. about the reagan years and i found it fascinating. and my dissertation advisers said go and look into it. so out of that research came the book getting right with reagan. so we'll talk about how conservatives view reagan today and then we'll go back and take a look at how conservatives viewed reagan during the 1980s. oftentimes with frustration and even contempt when it came to his cold war foreign policies. and then we'll talk act bit

the nomination is not just reagan's for the asking, he's got a fight the street fight of his life to beat george bush to get the nomination. >> that fight is the source of the term voodoo economics. >> yes that's right. reagan was pushing camera. he had developed this issue in 70 80 was doing radio commentaries about him and, temper off tax cuts become more of the senate fetuses of is 80 campaign. it's really bedeviling bush because he can't match. if he came up with his own tax plan but it was more focused on business then individual rate reagan was more focused on. the individual and less on business. so blush i'm wisely goes out and starts attacking a very popular plan of reagan's that reagan is scoring well political with and he calls it voodoo economics. reagan was so furious over that he almost didn't pick bush in fact it was a big sticking point with reagan why he didn't want to pick bushes running mate and 19. 80 >> or about out of time. we'd like to invite questions from the audience please have your questions prepared. but i want to come back to this because we started craig by talking

and the person who succeeded reagan was george h.w. bush, and there you had the more conservative staffers and the more moderate staffers because push and shove was a little less cheer -- bush himself was a little less clear. he said he had trouble with the, quote, vision thing. you're really not clear on where they're going to go, it's hard to -- [inaudible] >> related to that, john, if you don't mind -- >> please. >> i'd like to say that sometimes it's difficult, and you've already referred to this, but i'd like to draw you out more, tevi, on this point. it's often difficult for a white houses that is largely cohesive on the three big variables that you mentioned to get the work that they want done when there's chaos in the agencies going on. related to that, powerful cabinet secretary who happened to disagree with the president. i think we've seen that in the trump administration, and that may, in fact, be much of the trump -- [inaudible] story so far. can you give us some historical examples that may help be a corrective to what th

george h. w. bush, reagan'sice president and in may his opponent, the governor of massachusetts is attacking bush and saying he is sleazy and part of the reagan administration i wrong contract, scandal after scandal and he called it the sleaze factor, his campaign was lee atwater, he was putting together a pretty vicious campaign that played on racial backlash and was very much a character assassination kind of campaign, in may when bush is struggling in the pool he convinces bushey to talk about jim right all the time and to take the story that really was on the fringes and stream into the campaign it was a bloodsport, character assassination was totally fine and it was about storytelling, gingrich was a historian who understood what storytelling was about and about professional wrestling and he thought politics should run accordingly. >> absolutely, i want to back up a little bit, jim wright lives large in this and for people who don't follow the story, in the late '80s there was a house speaker who is a liber

1980s and 80s and 90s for the journal and coveredthe white house at the end of the reagan administration, the entire george hw bush administration and interviewed every american president since reagan . he's part of the team at the wall street journal that won the pulitzer prize for their recording on 9/11 and has a book coming out which talks about briefly from august 21, jerry's book you we should have seen it coming, conservative movement in the republican party. it's a pleasure to have jerry here and tony, so great to hear see you atthe aspen security forum . >> thank you. >> tony, let's start with a scenario. joe biden walkedout of the white house in january 2017 . as vice president. let's say perhaps he walks back into the white house in january 2021 a president area and how will the world have changed in the intervening four years and how will he have changed in the intervening four years. >> first it's great to bewith you, thanks so much for having me . so jerry, what has changed i think in a word pretty much everything . the vice president's talk about this, he would inherit a divided country at h

when eisenhower picked nixon, that set up a generation of politicsment when ronald reagan picked george of presidential politics. george w. bush, he'll tell you this, would not have been president if his father didn't have the jurn nye he did. al gore wins the popular vote after serving as vice president, and biden who is now in this position to be a stabilizing force at a particularly destabilizing moment. it is quite possible that nixon, bush, gore, biden, quite possible that we will be discussing senator harris in that sense, in that context for years to come because she does represent, not necessarily a new america. i always resist that because america has always been diverse, but it's the first time in a long time we have fully recognized that diversity. >> of course, kamala harris has been in the senate since 2016, only the second black female senator. with harris vp pick black women say biden has decided to write us into history. he writes democrats need their most loyal voters and activists to win this election. this time that meant putting black women on the ticket. we heard yo

reagan's for the asking. he's gonna fight the street fight of his life to be george bush to get the nomination. >> and that fightis the source of the term who economics. >> that's right reagan was pushing camera, he was doing this issue 1970 80 was doing radio. temper off tax cuts become one of the center pieces of his 80 campaign. it's really bedeviling bush because he can't match. it he came up with his own tax plan but it was more folks focused on business rather than individual. reagan was more focused on the individual rather than business. bush unwisely goes out and starts attacking a very popular plan of reagan's that reagan is scoring political with any calls it voodoo economics. reagan was so furious over that he almost didn't pick bushes his vp. in detroit in 1980 >> four about at a time. we want to invite questions from the audience so please have your questions prepared. but i want to come back to this because we started craig by talking about trump, reagan. you, know reagan actually gets a tax reform plan done. >> to. 81 and 80 -- . >> he's able to do business with democrats, tip-in eel. he has succ

but i'm old enough, pam, to remember other elections including 1980 when ronald reagan put george h.w. bush on the ticket after bush as a competitor in the primaries called reagan's economic plans voodoo economics, a phrase that was repeated again and again and again by democrats in that election. there is a history of candidates burying the hatchet. they are both professional politicians. they understand what happens in tough campaigns. but clearly they found a way to mend that and find this partnership. >> yeah. and just quickly, david, of course, you were the adviser to president barack obama. everybody picked kamala harris as his running mate. she is the first black female vice presidential candidate and asian female as well. and this really tells you where this country is headed, where the democratic party is headed. >> this is a huge landmark occasion in the social progress of our country, the social history of our country, and a response to what we've seen throughout this country in the last few months. people want to see change. and joe biden delivered that today. >> yeah. and

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i think back to 1980 when ronald reagan picked george h.w. mate and bush at the height of the primary campaign had talked about reagan's economic plan as voodoo economics. we had fun for a week and two and went on our way. as susan rice says he will be the top of the ticket and she will be a loyal soldier. she appeals to women and african-americans, although not as much as joe biden did. but she is a statement to them and i think she certainly increases interest in the vice presidential debate which often can be a snore. a lot of people will look forward to kamala harris and mike pence on a debate stage. i will. >> sandra: brand-new reaction on this program this morning talking to liz cheney. she called the pick surprising. which i think was somewhat surprising to hear that from her. barack obama put out a tweet and he said that joe biden nailed it with this pick. here is the response from the "wall street journal" editorial board this morning. democrats choose harris. biden bows to the party's requirements. more than any more recent nominee b

> jake, today these are eight former appointeed appointed by past republican presidents, reagan, president georgepresident george w. bush and one appointee who served on president trump's transition team and the biden team really thinki ining this makes the cas. they came out saying they are supporting joe biden because of what they see as corruption and abuse of power from within the west wing, from within the oval office. they said that president trump has used the department of justice to protect himself and his friends and that they really want to take a stand on this, jake, but interesting, too, on the flip side, we saw last night a georgia state representative, a democrat, speaking at the rnc. so we're seeing a little bit of this back and forth, and also important to note just how much do these people, do these past republican appointees and form dish and republicans that are coming out for biden represent where the republican party is today. under president trump. >> there's also this new ad out from a third-party group featuring michael cohen. the president's former lawyer. who we should

this is like kennedy picking lyndon johnson or reagan picking george h.w. bush, clinton picking gore. we're going big here. even president obama picking biden, who was much more experienced. that's what you have to do in this situation. and he's got a governing partner here. he's going to need that. and so i'm not so worried about gafs. they're going to come and we'll deal with them as they come and dispose of them as they come also. that's just the nature of politics. >> congresswoman i keep noticing you're smiling. on a personal level as a woman of the democratic party who was elected to congress, how did you feel when you heard today's news? >> well, you know, i told myself it didn't matter who the choice was going to be, and i partially believed that, because i think there were so many talented women, but when this was announced today, i actually felt elated. i felt like, you know, there was a hurdle that the democratic party had gotten over with this choice. and because black women are such that we have heard it over and over today, the backbone of the

but reagan needs to be challenged, otherwise he kind of doesn't rise to the occasion. so he doesn't take the george bush challenge seriously. and he ends up losing the iowa caucuses in january of 1980, which was a stunning, stunning upset to the political world. it's enormous. it's huge. reagan had been a radio broadcaster in iowa all through the '30s. he was from nearby illinois. he's a local hero. and george bush is from new england or texas. he has, you know, less ties to new england than he does to any prep school -- >> you mean iowa. >> iowa, yeah. less ties to iowa than any prep school in new england. and so he beats reagan. and this is -- that night tom pettitte of nbc goes on national television and says we have just witnessed the political funeral of ronald reagan. reagan is out. that's it. and five weeks later he scores an enormous comeback in the new hampshire primary. and we all remember the debate the famous national debate, i'm paying for this microphone, mr. green, even though his name was breen, reagan said green. and that begins -- that starts the beginning of his comeback against

george h.w. bush and ronald reagan went at each other on the economy. o became the vice president of the united states? >> right. >> george h.w. bush. >> there you go. jonathan, come see me again. this is fun. >> sure. invite me back. >> you think this will be wrapped up in it terms of the veep choice by this time next week? >> i give it one more week. >> really? >> yeah. >> all right. mid august. >> yes. all right. in portland, oregon, in the wee hours of this morning, a mostly peaceful demonstration on the second straight night since federal agents were withdrawn from the protest front lines. we were talking about that earlier. as the trump administration appropriates to send agents to other cities, a former homeland security official says dhs is badly damaged by what's happened in portland, oregon. >> there is a lot of dangerous work in this country. all this is about politics. there is no way that john wolf didn't understand that this was going to be a controversial deployment. that this was the wrong unit to send to the streets of portland. all that

you know, i'm old enough to remember 1980 when ronald reagan named george h.w.ate. gorge bush had called it voodoo economics. these are professional politicians. they understand this is a tough business. i think he can get past that. i think one of the questions of all these candidates is this is an unusual situation because you have a candidate who's going to be 78 years old when he takes office. the likelihood is he won't be running in 2024. the candidate you're picking may well be candidate for president four years from now, but you want someone focused on the task at hand, not focused on the election four years away. and i think he's going to run all the candidates through the prism and ask who has the character to focus on the job of vice president rather than run for president. i'm not suggesting senator harris couldn't, but i think that's a test he's going to want his vice president to pass. >> well, i'm curious because senator biden, at the time, had some gaffes when speaking about eventual president barack obama, called him articulate and clean, things

virginia and her voice had a fascination with washington and i have two favorite presidents, ronald reagan and george washington and they remain today very fascinating because of multiple careers and multiple interest in multiple talents but it occurred to me, we actually attend the pistol church in northern virginia where the family attended. >> i can't think of the name of it now, but the family is buried in the graveyard and yesterday started to probe and i found out and then my book, the scholarship on washington that was very thin and what was out there was not frankly very good, it was the. after she passed away until 1860 where she was treated as she was the mary mother of jesus or she was a saintly figure and she was very delicately and then the period after the civil war when realism began in american writing and other things like that, she took on a much harder past, she went from being june cleaver to john crawford, the fact of the matter was neither was true in both is true, the truth was much more nuanced to a place in the middle and when i got into the scholarship very talented woman, e

i've had fascination with washington, two favorite presidents, ronald reagan and george washington and remains today fascinating to me because of the multiple careers and multiple interests and multiple talents. but it occurred to me as i was-- we actually attend the episcopal church where the ball family attended. a little washington -- can't think of the name of it now. but the ball family is all buried in the graveyard there so i got interested in it and i started to probe and found out that really, until a book came out and my book was that the scholarship on mary ball washington had been very, very thin and what was out there wasn't, frankly, very good. the period after she passed away until about 1860 where she was treated as like she was marri mary the mother of jesus or saintly figure and she was dealt with-- and then the period after the civil war when realists began to take hold with the red badge of courage and melville and things like that, she took on a harder cap from being june cleaver to joan crawford and the fact of the matter was that neither was true and both is true