over 30 points ahead of gerald ford. ford had a weak position in the national race.challenged jimmy carter to a debate. >> mr. president, i would like to explore a little more deeply our relationship with the russians. >> max frankle asked ford a question about whether the united states was accepting of soviet domination of eastern europe. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration. >> i'm sorry, could i just follow -- did i understand you to say, sir, that the russians are not using eastern europe as their own sphere of influence? >> everybody's jaw just dropped. are you alive? are you aware? what he meant to say is i will not accept any soviet domination of eastern europe. >> governor carter, have you a response? >> charitably that was a momentary slip. uncharitably it was a loss of touch with reality. >> clearly a huge moment where the country makes the judgment, you know what? maybe we do need to go in a different direction and replace the president. >> whatever they can stand on. >> ford had never lost

. >> about the same time gerald ford becomes president, charlie in prison writes to squeaky that he'ses. they want to do one big thing that's going to get the nation's attention back on charlie. so squeaky, wearing a red robe, comes up to the president of the united states with a big gun, points the gun in his face. the secret servicemen wrestle her to the ground and her first words were, can you believe the gun didn't go off? >> i wonder if this has convinced you that we need tough gun control legislation. >> i prefer to go after the person who uses the gun for illegal or criminal purpose. that to me is a far better approach than the one where you require registration of the individual of the gun. >> just minutes after making those statements, gerald ford walked into the streets and heard the sound of gunfire. [ gunshots ] >> there's a shot, a shot! >> somebody fired a shot. [ sirens ] >> we don't know if anybody has been hit. my god, somebody fired a shot. >> the president was not hit. witnesses heard the sound and saw a puff of smoke. the woman identified as sarah jean moore, was i

navy officers, leader president -- lee turner president -- later president gerald ford compiled the longest record of service in the combat theater. growing up in grand rapids michigan, ford was an outstanding athlete, but chose law school at yale over a professional career. shortly after pearl harbor, he enlisted in the u.s. navy reserve and soon was commissioned an ensign. he spent 10 months as a physical training instructor in north carolina, then seeking sea duty in june 1943, he joined a newly commissioned light aircraft carrier, the uss monterey. serving as athletic director and gunnery division officer and then as assistant navigator. during his 18 months aboard the boat, he took part in numerous major naval actions, earning the asiatic pacific campaign medal with nine engagement stars. nearly swept overboard during a massive typhoon in december 1944 that heavily damaged the uss monterey, he accompanied a vessel back to the united states and spent the rest of the war in duty with training command. he was relieved from active duty in early 1946. there's a picture of him aboard the mon

. >> host: here is a quote about gerald ford from the book. . poor gerald ford. he was concerned about presidential photos and me signing them. he calls me for that. he's busy making speeches for big money. no one gives me credit for not taking a time for a speech. ford was the first to take money. ike and truman never did. ford is out there accumulating a fortune by selling their experiences in office. i know it is tempting but it is just not right. besides when ford talks does anybody pay attention? >> ms. crowley: that was a function of the fact ford wasn't in the office long enough to take an impact and a steward of existing policies. he said that gerald ford had every right to spend his retirement making money and playing golf that is jus not what nixon did. >> host: he said eisenhower was warm socially but a hard ass. he didn't endorse me in 1960 until he had to and that was devastating at a the campaign because everybody wants him. i guess he was protecting himself but it wasn't the most loyal thing. >> ms. crowley: i think my waiting so long to endorse ni

gerald ford had never been elected president or even vice president. publicans had to decide whether they wanted to nominate ford for a whole term in his own rite. he was facing a strong challenge from reagan. it was a dramatic situation heading in to that convention in 1976. news agencies were keeping a rolling rip count about whether ford had enough delegates to sew it up. if reagan dowd take it away from him. the reagan campaign was so freaked out by looking 'the whip count was going against them, three weeks ahead of the convention, they decided on the reagan campaign they would throw the biggest hail mary they could think of. >> as i now feel the people of the delegates have a right to know in advance of the convention, who the nominee's vice presidential choice will be, i am departing from tradition and announcing my selection. i have chosen the distinguished united states senator from pennsylvania, the honorable richard schweiker. >> never been done before. surprised everything. the front page of the "new york times" said a total surprise. a bold

that's a how ronald reagan beat gerald ford. he got a ticket together early. you have to be dramatic. so, you know, i know it's hyperbole at this point, but i think it's the right bold move to do if you're trying to do this if you're biden. >> i hear you're talking about donald trump this morning. >> yes. >> is he a factor? >> the fact he had 20,000 coming into that stadium in mobile, this is seeming to continue. >> look, you're going to hear this, it's interesting. i have two people that donald trump claims he would never hire -- professional political consultants. and charlie black, a long time veteran, washingtonian, he said he's a more likable pat buchanan. buchanan had a lock on 25% of the base and could never grow it and he still believes that's it. his advice is let trump be trump and go after the other 75% of the republicans. i think that phrase says it all. deal with it. >> and you're talking to carly fiorina and then we have chris jansing speaking with rand paul. a jam-packed show. >> tell you what, rand paul does an imitation of tremendous tremendou

gerald ford received thousands of letters asking for the ship to be named after the star track enterprise. the u.s.s. is commanded by which continue? star track was considered a ground breaking show featuring the first on television and of three. captain was commanding officer of the voyager and captain cisco space. question number five, what's the name of captain jack spar row's ship? is it captain jack was you need a desert is tnd. captain jack was based on the real life black box who reportedly took 470 ships prisoner. what is the world's largest cruise ship? is it harmony of the seas, queen marry two or nor weegs? it has 16 nearly as long as the newest aircraft carriers. the answer is number one. the seas will launch next year and feature the name is number one. the dragon capsule. the first ever spacecraft ever to launch the internal onal space station. thore tragedy happened in the east river north of the island. the name of the ship over 1,000 people died in the disaster. question number nine. ernst hem ngway wrote about the fisherman struggle. 252 million tons of cargo. the number

he served on the national security council under presidents gerald ford, jimmy carter, and ronald reagan, and was the principal white house aide for iran during the iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. he recently wrote an article for politico called, "the danger of a failed iran deal." professor gary sick, welcome to democracy now! good to have you with us. what is the danger of a failed iran deal? >> basically, we've had two years of negotiation that have been remarkably successful and produced something that is complicated, but nevertheless, solves the problem. if that is turned down by the u.s. congress, basically, the united states is on its own. the best -- the rest of the world does not have to go along with this. we are basically saying, we throw that out. the chance of renegotiating it is close to zero. as the situation evolves, there's a very real chance of conflict. that would take us back not only where we were two years ago, which was when mr. netanyahu was standing up waving the picture of a bomb that -- at the united nations and talking about immediate intervention,

. >> you go back to 1976, which i remember, and jimmy carter and gerald ford were both beginning to be supportive of equal treatment for lesbian and gay people. and then -- and since then there have been three trend lines in american politics about lgbt issues. the country as a whole has been getting better at an increasingly good rate. the democrats have been getting better at an even faster rate and the republicans had been getting worse. until recently they were actually getting worse. now the republicans are in a situation which troubles them. it used to be the one that had the democrats in. that is, there was a split on lgbt issues between their political base, the people who vote in primaries, and the general electorate. >> right. >> and so they are moderating the ferocity of their attacks on us -- >> right. >> but you still predict now, not too much, the republican platform will be very critical of lgbt movement next time and there'll be no republican presidential candidate will be supportive. so the country, as a whole, is moving. what's changed in the last month was -- >> yeah

we have had gerald ford come to the iowa state fair. jimmy carter. bush, and also, president barack obama, have come as recently as 2012. , many times we will see those going to the port ducers's -- pork pro and theythe iced tea will be carrying on a conversation. many candidates do that, and of course the presidents with all of these security detail do not get quite as close to the people as some of the candidates do. but it is still a thrill for everybody for them to come and just a feather in our cap, in the state of iowa's cap that they would respect to the iowa ande fair enough to come share their time and talk to the folks in iowa. in 2007, we had 19 candidates for president come through the rounds duringirg the 11 days. sometimes we had more than one candidate here at a time. the one i probably remember the most is our current president, barack obama. he and his wife and his children were all here that day, and the one thing his kids wanted to do ride the midway. so, i was able to get them and take them into the midway, with a little help from

but as gerald ford and jimmy carter became president, the need for leadership was seen across, you know, the different branches. and they were able to come up with a model that worked for everybody, that led to -- and so the czar actually i believe was the last energy czar because i believe the next person who would have had that position would have been secretary schlesinger who is the first secretary of the department of energy. so it takes time to do that negotiation and to work out what needs to be done. it's probably not eight months or whatever it was that would have been the case if, you know -- or was the case with going from tom ridge's homeland security czar to department of -- to the secretary of the department of homeland security. so i think that the better evolutions can happen, right? this one was a really fast and not well thought out one. >> let's go to the next question here try to get the questions in. >> do you think that the government would profit by helping graduates from school now that have very high loans to encourage them to come through the government with so

in '76, ronald reagan took on gerald ford in the republican primaries. he lost but he shattered the idea about talking with soviet union was a legitimate form of policy. >> you know, i feel like, okay, i saw this happen, for example, with jesse jackson when he ran in '84 and '88 pushing the democratic party to the left. should we see that as a value in a democracy? >> sure, howard dean brought the war in iraq in 20042004 to the democratic primaries. many democrats didn't want to talk about that. eugene mccarthy forced the democrats to reckon with vietnam in 1968 when the party leaders didn't want to talk about it. but there's a dangerous element to some of the things donald trump is discussing. >> if we take the metaphor all the way out, the thing that keeps a person in a dream, from falling into the dream is they have a talisman, something that tells them "oh, you're not in the real world." we have lost the ability in our public discourse to adjudicate empirical claims to say "look, this isn't what the immigration problem is. the birtherism isn't a real

the first of the new carrier class uss gerald r ford will join the fleet next year. a new jersey man faces multiple charges in connection with the appearance of actress rosie o'donnell's daughter, facing charges of child endangerment. chelsea o'donnell was found in his home last week after her mother or not she was missing. o'donnell is 17. the police say that she met the 25-year-old on a dating app. next week is the 10 year anniversary of hurricane katrina. millionis donating $25 to disaster response efforts around the world. the money will be distributed over five years, with the first half million going to nonprofit groups. 10 years. devon: how time goes. i know exactly where i was. i was in las vegas at the time, working. honing myskills -- skills. 10 years, hard to believe. at least our weather is not feeling like las vegas. we have a cold front that has brought in wonderful air. the real-time temperatures this time of night, lower 60's in some spots. the temperatures have gone back well before the midnight hour, lower 60's. downtown, reagan national, 74. right

in the house, you treat speaker mccormick and the minority leader, who was gerald ford, the same. give them the same accommodations. so, he saw the terrific importance of having republicans in a large part of his great society legislation. it was not just civil rights. the southern democrats controlled the committees and oppose just about every part of the great society. the spending putting the power in the hands of the federal government. they were very, very important. host: let's go to august 6 19 65. the capitol rotunda where president johnson signed the voting rights act. you will get a chance to see that entire speech, the 50-minute event, but here is johnson signing the civil rights act. president johnson: let me say to every negro in this country, you must register, you must vote, you must learn, so your choice advances your interest and the interest of our beloved nation. [applause] your future and your children's future depend upon it, and i do not believe you are going to let them down. this act is not only a victory for negro leadership. this act is a great challenge

gerald ford and jimmy carter too. it's really a playground for presidential candidates.an senator explains. >> if the candidate is willing to get out there and be with people, enjoy them, listen to their comments. that's a real tell of a candidate and how they'll interact with their public. >> reporter: we learn a lot about our politicians at the fair, whether they can be an everyman like martin o'malley on the giant slide. how they handle getting bumped around. >> to prepare for this debate i rode in the bumper cars at the fair. >> it's a great place for politicians to come and launch ideas and campaigns and try to start their way to becoming known by a whole lot of people. >> reporter: he says all those people may be watching for far more than a candidate's policies or positions. >> check out how they look when they're wearing a pair of blue jeans. i have always thought that mitt romney god bless him was the worst-looking guy in a pair of blue jeans i have ever seen. >> reporter: as mitt romney learned, the fair also comes with heated moments. >> that's not the way --

there was president richard nixon in 1970 and president gerald ford in 1975 with major support for republicansfor both presidents. same under president reagan. through everything that's been contentious in politics all these years, the voting rights act, through the years has consistently, again and again been reupped and praised as if it were the least controversial thing in the world. >> president refwan signed a 25-year extension of the 1965 voting rights act. >> the right to vote is the crown jewel of american liberties. we will not see its luster diminished. >> president reagan with senator joe biden looking over his shoulder there. by the time of the 25-year anniversary of the voting rights act in 1990 president reagan's vice president had ascended to the top job. on the 25th anniversary of the act congress unanimously passed a joint resolution declaring that day national voting rights celebration day. president george h.w. bush signed that proclamation into law. then 16 years later it was his son's turn. in 2006 under george w. bush the senate voted unanimously, the house voted overwhel

gerald ford. there are only a few predecessors. will have people from your predecessors. >> ari, faree, thank you both. >> former president jimmy carter says he has cancer. his father. brother and two sisters all died of an especially variety of the cancer, pancreatic cancer, i will speak to dr. sanjay gupta and what we now know about the 90-year-old's former president's condition. next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mum. ♪ ♪ just tap it. ♪ i did! ♪ (yo gabba gabba!) ♪ sure! i offer multi-car, safe driver, and so many other discounts that people think i'm a big deal. and boy, are they right. ladies, i can share hundreds in savings with all of you! just visit progressive.com today. but right now, it's choosing time. ooh! we have a winner. all: what? [chuckles] he's supposed to pick one of us. this is a joke, right? that was the whole point of us being here. >>> sad news tonight, former president jimmy carter has cancer. discovered when he had a small mass removed from his liver. he says it spread to other parts of his body. the former president is 90 yea

gerald ford became the president. >> all diane and i were doing yesterday was eating waffles. >> you mentioned donuts earlier in the show. but there was no donuts for us. we were excited about that. >> did you eat them all, john? >> no. >>> the blue jays crept closer to the yankees while the mets' seven-game winning streak is over. >> reporter: we start off with the hottest team in baseball. since the trading deadline the mets have gone from the second worst offensive team to tops in the league. you combine that with this pitching staff and you see why they didn't lose for a week. curtis granderson continues to mash out of the that lead-off spot. sixth lead-off in the season. tying jose reyes. he is batting .310 since the all-star break. this ties the game at 4. that is his 19th for the season. noah syndergaard gels on the road -- struggles on the road. hopefully this was an aberration instead of the sign of what is to come. the mets go hitless at final 14 at bats. 5-4 final. their lead is down to one and a half games. yankees against david price who over his last six starts in the b

republican debates of today between establishment and grass roots echo ronald reagan's battle with gerald ford in 1976. and robert taft's battles with dwight eisenhower in 195. right now in this summer of trump we are in fresh, unplowed territory. the story in politics yesterday followed this trajectory. eric ericson a conservative blogger and 'siring king maker disinvited billionaire front runner donald trim top his gathering of republican candidates because the first the top of the polls, said a cable news host tough questions in thursday night's debate because she was hormonal. trump denied the claim. and discussion of topics that usually make people uncomfortable at the dinner table. trumps rivals weighed in press releases, public appearances and in 140 character bursts on twitter. it's at the beginning of this campaign you had bet in your office pool on this scenario coming to pass, should you quit your job and turn your attention to the stock market. we'll be right back with our political panel. what if there were only one kind of dog? then it would be easy to know everything about that

the nation awaits the swearing-in at noon eastern time of our 38th president, gerald ford, and the departurehard m. nixon. he and his family are expected to leave by fair for their home in california later this morning, and we expect to see their departure from the white house. >> in departing the presidency, richard nixon is leaving us with one notable legacy -- proof that the american system does work. that there is equal justice under the law and that public office must always be regarded as a public trust. ♪ >> i walked out to the helicopter where the old man gave the double v, putting the best face on the worst moment of his life. trying to show he was not broken. and so i'm going in the helicopter and take off for the last time. it was over. >> we think that when we suffer a defeat that all has ended. not true. because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. so i say to you on this occasion, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. >>> i must say

he took on a sitting president, gerald ford, people seem to forget in 1976 and nearly beat him. >> sured he was attacked and people said he's outside the pail. but both he and richard nixon only because they got tremendous numbers of working class, democrats south and north and independents, they won 49 state landslides, 61% victories. the republican party, sean, has one of the best chances, i thought it would ever get again of winning this presidency, what with hillary clinton who ought to have incidentally, ought to have her security clearance removed. but with her and all her problems with the server, we got a golden chance to win this presidency. and why you starting to exclude people? >> you know, if you look at the latest fox poll, there are three candidates with double digits. donald trump, ben carson and senator ted cruz. how do you interpret that? the year of the insurgent. is the base telling the republican party we're unhappy with your timidity and your lack of resolve and broken promises in d.c.? that's how i interpret it. >> i think what the base of the republican party and

gerald ford said that as a matter of fact.t was in 1980, march 1980 when reagan was well on his way to winning the republican nomination. we have sort of been down this road before where people try to scare people away. he ties much of a strongman, whatever alex's description of him was there. i just don't think the american people are buying it. you have to look at the size of the audiences that he is getting right now. as compared to jeb bush's audience. >> the republicans -- the democrats and independents have not. that's the question for trump. can he grow? he has grown in the republican party. to his credit. it was just an angry mob that wanted to burn down washington. now a lot of republicans are in fact beginning to like him. >> amanda, do you believe he can grow among democrats? among independents? >> sure. he has the potential. i think those are great observations from alex and ifferiffer iffer -- and jeffrey. here's what's going on. i don't pay attention to what trump says. how the other candidates react to trump. in

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but i think gerald ford had said i'm not going to build a presidential library. people would have said okay. nothing against present for but he wasn't elected in the positions i think the next president would not have had a problem telling a presidential library and maybe jimmy carter who had no special service before his one term if he said well i'm going to focus on the carter center which is in effect what he did the carter library was the longest museum the longest to not be renovated to the reagan library library renovates its entire exhibit every five or six years create so president cartons -- carter said in a going to build a presidential library that if president obama said i'm not going to do this i'm going to focus on making good on my rhombus of being the most transparent administration. that transparency has not been borne out in proactive releases of records. it hasn't been borne out in cooperation with foia request. it hasn't been worn out and following the presence memorandum on foia and the attorney general's memorandum on foia encouraging and or

and president gerald ford turned his back on the bankrupt biggest city in america and he told new york to drop dead. it was the decadence and the sticky, sweltering misery and the palpable fear that was late 1970s new york city. but there was a singular american titan who emerged from that disaster, who emerged as the late 1970s turned into the 1980s. and he emerged from that sewer, from that terrible time, as, basically, the winner. >> donald trump, as i say, is just 33 years old. he took his father's rather modest by current standards, real estate empire in brooklyn, and expanded it considerably. he now has an apartment for sale in a new trump building called the trump tower, going up on fifth avenue. there it is. you can buy this apartment, one floor of it, one whole floor of that building, that is, $11 million, altogether. >> i like inner cities. i see the inner cities as being sort of a wave of the future now. i think with the problems of fuel and the gasoline shortages and everything else and the transportation, especially in the major cities such as new york and los angeles and

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then came gerald ford who was an unelected president, then came jimmy carter. by the time carter was well ensconced in office, leonid brezhnev was in a decline. if you will remember, at the summit with carter in 1979, he was almost like a vegetable. he had to be carried around and so forth. he was succeeded by yuri andropov, a soviet leader who had only about four months of decent health in office before his kidneys failed, and then by chernenko who had emphysema so bad when he took office that he could barely complete a speech. so when gorbachev came in in 1985 and reagan had just been re-elected by a tremendously big majority in the united states, you had two strong guys who could interact. gorbachev, in my opinion, is going to be one of the great historical figures of the 20th century. we've seen the deficiencies and difficulties and weaknesses, but, with all that, this could not have happened without him and he is going to be a very important figure in history. he's certainly a very important figure in my chronicle of what happened. ronald reagan was much r

gerald ford who works at the ice center nearby said the business was on lock down and no one was allowed to leave in or out. he said there were about 25 people there at the time. quoting now, we are waiting on instructions from police we have not been contacted yet, he said quoting again, we had a parent come in and they were just kind of told us there was a bunch of cops posted outside. enquote. a s.w.a.t. team was on scene, according to scanner traffic. again, all of that from the nashville tennesseean newspaper. tom daily says he heard the shots and works nearby. tom are you with us? name' here. >> what happened? >> we were trying to promote our market we had police officers come in and tell us to lock the doors and close everything. after that we heard numerous gunshots close to 20 maybe 30 gunshots. the rest is history. the cops are telling us they may have tagged the guy that was involved in the shooting. >> where do you work? we work at sprint where we cut your bill in half. >> that's an interesting advertisement in the middle of a shooting at a movie theater. >> i'm just so used

i voted my first election in 1978 and i walked to the false a 1977.ter gerald ford and just been electedin 1976 right what challenges do you have his young people now as far as getting to the polls and playing a vital and yourhis process hdl -- at your age now? jordan: i do not think there is too much of anything getting us just keeping us from the holes now. birmingham are look on the driscoll is used as a voting facility. local churches, community centers, you have a lot of places located throughout the community that you go through to pleasure vote. mostare designed for the part to be accessible to everyone. for me, from where i live, it would be a three or four block walk to the elementary to be able to vote. much really not so anything restraining me physically, just being willing to get up and actually go to them. whether or not we feel like we should, or we want to vote. most amazing, what do you what is calling you all to be so active? jared: we realize what is at stake high voting in these elections. these will affect my generation. if we do not realize what is going to happen w

implementation of the pro-life platform of the republican party you had books like richard nixon and gerald ford to say the supreme court has spoken on life and to get over it but instead she puts this sin. maybe i am hypergolic but the front lines of politics on the issues that we care about that our organization is never shy to say we're interested in the two-party system to make it a conservative party but on the other hand, we spend a law of time to educate like public schools and how they can be impacted by common core and how bad reading vetted and international affairs and military superiority not defense but a different understanding of our place in the world. in the early part of the program the organization talks about the role of judges and judicial supremacy we see a shift to the supreme court to change the balance of power in america. people that are feeling and seeing and addressing. >> what is your answer to that question? should the constitution be changed? >> one caller from illinois said changing the constitution at this point in history is very difficult in general they a wast

implementation of the pro-life platform plank of the republican party. 1974, folks like richard nixon and gerald fordthe supreme court has spoken on roe v. life. get over it. instead, phyllis put this in. the front lines of politics and the action is the republican party on the issues we care about. she has not been shy in saying we are interested in the two-party system and contributing to the republican party as a conservative party. as an organization. we spend a lot of time in states educating about the public schools and schools in general can be impacted by common core, how badly we think it is. she uses the term military superiority. it is a different understanding of america's place in the world. she talks about the role of judges and judicial supremacy. republican appointees that have changed the balance of power in america. >> what would be your answer to that question we posted of yours, should the u.s. constitution be changed and if so, how would you change it? >> one of your callers from illinois said what phillis often says, it is very difficult and generally a waste of time. she believ

was a man of his time and he did talk in some pivotal speeches early in the -- after he lost to gerald fordin 1976 about making the republican party the party of lincoln. it was in january of '77. i believe that they spoke of this speech earlier at the mayflower hotel where he talked about making the republican party the party for blacks and hispanics and broadening it. i don't think the country was there. i don't think the republican party was there. i don't think the advisers around reagan were there. but i do think that he set the stage powerfully in his rhetoric if not some of his policies to make the united states domestically look like what he was fighting for internationally, which was to increase freedom around the world. and when we look at the reagan doctrine, his policies in central america, even the iran contra scandal that almost toppled him, all of these in some ways were his attempt to make the united states a more noble place by focusing on people. iran contra was clearly a violation of laws and understanding the u.s. had with other countries, funding iran or supporting its

baker won the gerald ford prize for distinguished reporting on the presidency and the beckman memorial award for white house coverage. ? between his white house assignments, he was also the moscow bureau chief for the "washington post" during the rise of vladimir putin. mr. baker is the author of "days of fire: bush and cheney in the white house." which provides a comprehensive look at the bush administration from the controversial 2000 election to the wars of afghanistan in iraq to the last moments of the bush and cheney white house. prchlt baker is serving adds the distinguished conference scholar for this conference. and phyllis bennis is the director of the new internationalism project at the institute for policy studies in washington, d.c. and is a fellow of the transnational institute in amsterdam. ms. bennis has been a writer and analyst and activist in the middle east and unissues for many years and speaks widely across the u.s. and around the world as part of the global peace movement. she continues to serve as an nfrl advisor for middle east issues and u.n. democratization is

and white house correspondents award as well as the gerald r. ford award for journalism. he's the author of two new york times best-selling books and as a result, both of those books have chronicled much of his reporting. and in 2009 mike, along with brody, who you'll meet in a couple of minutes, was named as one of the 50 best and most influential journalists in the nation's capital. he graduated from wash u and received his masters degree in journalism from northwest. so mike, we're familiar with nbc and "newsweek," which maybe today we're not so familiar with. tell us about yahoo's news philosophy and how are they reaching the audience with news. >> well, thank you. and actually, this is sort of new unchartered territory for me in the digital space. but -- and it is evolving. yahoo has made a commitment to -- as to be a serious news player, it is invested heavily in recruiting people, katie couric is the sort of chief global anchor, matt bye is the political columnist, i came on board last year, we're hiring other people. and we're trying to basically -- although yahoo

gerald ford said governor reagan can't start world war ii i but president reagan can.stage. and he's not crazy. in fact he seems pretty reasonable. and then the expectations so low that that debate made ronald reagan president of the united states because they oversold. i wonder if like chuck says is right. people tune in. they think -- they think he's going to go around shouting you're fired to everybody. and he actually looks reserved and, hey, what he's saying about the law makes sense. what he's saying about the trade deals makes sense. if it doesn't, at the end, put him in this race to stay. >> look at his standing now. if you look at where he is in the national polls and state polls, bees 20%. a fifth of the republican electorate. he is more likely to come down to ten or go up to 30? i say if he performs well in the debate if, more republicans see him as not just appealing in terms of his rhetoric but able to win a general lection, he would go to 30. that's if he performs well in the debate and if he seems to expand the number of people he can appeal to that's wh