gerald ford led the intervention to help betty. it is important to point out even though he now fully understood what betty was going through, old habits die hard. ford still wanted to be involved in politics and believed his wife would support him if he tried to get more involved. in 1980, he considered running for the presidency in his own right. when that fell through, he considered being ronald reagan's running mate. that idea fell through as well because ford wanted more power than reagan wanted to give him. ford, having decided i'm going to step out of politics, became -- while he remained a loyalist to the gop, he became a republican critic. he felt that reagan spent too much money on defense over to short a period. he believed reagan spent too much on defense. he worried about the debt. he opposed george w. bush's decision to invade iraq. he worried about his party moving further and further to the political right. he worried about the partisanship he saw on capitol hill. and he became more liberal on a variety of social iss

the country gerald ford would have wanted. his eulogy for ford, representative john dingell urged his colleagues in congress to honor ford by carrying on his legacy of bipartisanship. it is an entreaty that has been forgotten in washington. thank you. [applause] >> we have a couple questions from the audience. the first one, if you could repeated, do you think congressman ford would do well in today's washington? dr. kaufman: probably not. let's look at the republican party. andnumber of moderates, ford consider himself a moderate, have declined. collins,ke susan others like olympia snowe have left. i come from south carolina. lindsey graham has been under attack from the tea party on the grounds he is too willing to engage in bipartisanship. so, i think he would be seen as a rino at the very least. >> who do you think influenced gerald ford the most? dr. kaufman: who influenced gerald r ford the malls, i do not think there would be any single person. i would certainly, if i'm talking about people, but his parents up there. hi

reagan completely upstages gerald ford. - mr. president, mrs. ford, mr. vice president, mr. vice president to be... ] [laughter and cheering the distinguished guests here, and you ladies and gentlemen. i'm going to say "fellow republicans" here, but those whwatching from a distance, all those miions of democrats and independents who i know are looking for a caus around which to rally and which i believe we can give them. [all cheering] - how many timesat a nn is there real emotion and is there real interest in what's being said at the podium? - someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsule that is ling to be opened angeles 100 years from now, and i set out to do so, riding down the coast in an automobile, looking at the blue pacific out on one side and the santa ynez mountains on the other, and i couldn't help but wonder if it was going to be that beautiful

not a very good president. - i sense in the statements of henry kissinger and the decisions of gerald fordrave situation in which the united states finds itself. - ford and the ford campaign expected that fo was gonna win north carolina r and reagan wouldetire. reagan scores one of the biggest upsets in american potical history. he defeats ford in north carolina and this totally resets the election. - i would say that it's been a tough contes - now it's reagan who's on offense. ford is on defense. male announcer: when all the north carolina votes had been counted last night, reagan emerged withn upset-- 52% of the vote to 46% for president ford. - it drew an end to the string of ford victories and that was ve important. it allowed us to continue in the race. - we had reagan do a national television appeal, and thually raised us a million dollars, which was a lot of money back then. - there's no limit to what the american people can accomplish, but we must be given a chance, told what needs to be done, and then turned loose to do it, without anaucratic harassment or interference. - the race

i think the fact that ronald reagan rlly seriously nsidered gerald ford. and i interviewed dick cheney who worked for ford at tai time and hewe couldn't believe how much power reagan was g to cede to ford at the time. e d so during the convention in 1980 there is a scat's very similar to what happened when in 1960 when robert kennedy was shuffling between these hotel room floors trying to get l.b.j. not to gn onto the hacket. something similaens in the 1980 convention where gerald ford and his aides were asking for the moon. and they kept pushing and pushing and finally this famous interview that walter cronkiteu did and which ow basically gerald ford was giving the idea of a co-presidency. >> woodruff: right. >> and that was a bridge too far for ronald reagan. >> woodruff: you do write abou the current the mike pence donald trump relationship. the access hollywood tape comes out. mike pence does not, he's still the nominee, he does not take donald trump's calls at first.es really intng highwire and as you said... >> it was one of the few times where the po

. >> about the same time gerald ford becomes president, charlie in prison writes to squeaky he's got 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 squeaky's first words were, can you believe the gun didn't go off? >> following your own close brush with death in sacramento a couple of weeks ago, i wonder if this has convinced you at all that we need tough gun control legislation in this country? >> i prefer to go after the person who uses the gun for an illegal or criminal purpose. that to me is a far better approach than the one where you require registration of the individual or the gun. >> just minutes after making those statements, gerald ford walked into the street and heard the sound of gunfire. >> my god, there's been a shot! there's been a shot. they're being pushed back by the police. somebody has fired a shot here. we don't know if anybody has been hit. my god! som

nomination was made, the democrats rolled out the same arguments that have been rolled out when gerald ford made a nomination back in the 70s, the same complaints that they've rolled out with justice kennedy nominated 30 years ago and with justice roberts. it's the same playbook again and again and again. for the nomination was made nancy pelosi came out to say that her goal was to avenge president obama and reject anybody. we have a nominee ahead of us who is mainstream highly qualified, stellar credentials and it is time now to have the hearings and the discussions in the debate to go to the floor of the united states senate. >> we also got in the last period three of the appropriation goes off before both the house and senate. we need to get together and get the bills on the president's desk. all 12 of the appropriation bills are out of the senate committee before the end of june and that work needs to continue to go on. things like the opioid crisis hasn't slowed down, hasn't been sold, still the number one cause of accidental death in the country and it is a higher cause of accidental

president, they did 40 years ago when president gerald ford nominated john paul stevens to the court. liberalsed accused him of antagonism to women's work rights. when president reagan nominated justice kennedy 31 years ago, the justice who just retired from the court i'm a democrat set of his nomination that the nomination should be unsettling to those concerned with the health and legal status of women in america. mr. president, they've been using the same online for more than 40 years. it's never true, it's never reality, but apparently for the demographic never gets old. i hope the democrats in the senate will give judge cavanaugh a chance, i hope they will take the time to consider his qualifications and will sit down and talk to him before they rush to condemn him, although quite a few had rushed to condemn him even before the president had decided and he was named to the l court. i also look forward to sitting down with the nominee to exploring some of his views more fully and put everything thave seen so far would be a very good conversation and judge cavanaugh would make an a

president, they did it for use when president gerald ford nominated john paul stephens to the court. liberals accuse him of quote antagonism to women's rights. when president reagan nominated justice kennedy 31 years ago, the justice who is just retired from thera court, democrats said of his nomination, the nomination quote should be unsettling they said to those concerned with the help of legal status of women in america. mr. president, they had been using the same old lines for more than 40 years. it's t never true. it's never reality. but apparently for the democrats it never gets old. i hope the democrats in the senate will give judge kavanaugh a chance. hope they will take the time to consider his qualifications and they will actually sit down and talk with him before the rush to condemn him, although quite a few had rushed to condemn him even p before the present had decided, and he was named to the court. so i also look for to sitting down with the nominee to exploit some of his views more fully and put everything that i've seen so far suggest to me, try to that is going to b

telling me how much the reagan gives to gerald ford. thend described that as a co- presidency that was just too much. and now says where is bush? he had to get him on the phone at the last minute. i did interview george hw bush about about ray getting said history will have to judge his accomplishments. it is very like him to be humble but after he was shot on the floor bush came to visit him and reagan was on his hands and knees wiping up water. that was a week and touching moment. >> hot springs arkansas good morning. >> i look forward to reading your book i was a tadpole is grade school when jfk was assassinated that lbj was in the same city and the governor was in the same limousine and lbj was on the same plane when he took the oath of office today take serious measures to avoid after that? >> it is interesting what is happening at that time and johnson social secretary talks about coming into office when the white house is straight in black fabric there is no inaugural celebration it was a dark cloud and a difficult time and i des

my experience in politics, presidential politics begins with gerald ford who i really liked who was a really good guy, football player at michigan. and what's the story? he played without a helmet. i can't believe that, but a really, really, really good guy and psychotic case of presidential politics and that's continued really for the last 20 plus years. so here we are. we put this book together, mark did a great job. couldn't have done it without them, without pat, you know, reading it, rereading it and trying to create something that was meaningful and had meaning and was an experience that i hope people enjoy reading. life is pretty short the way you look at it, and, indeed, the thing you want to leave as a legacy that's meaningful, and you've done something positive. so at this point in time i'm working on that lexi and hopefully we will make it. we're going to, i kind of like to finish up. we've got the book done. we read it, reread it and reread it. wonderful lady from exeter really came up with the title and came up with the picture. we went to a lot of pictures and finally fo

released their tax returns. >> some say people before gerald ford didn't do that, so why does donaldeed to? why does it matter now? >> that's a good question to ask from scar pluchchy. the reason we did it was watergate. it began as a response largely to the nixon administration. nixon submitted his taxes after he actually ran, after his campaign every president, every nominee submitted them before they -- before the election even occurred. and it's clear this is about good government. it's really not an ideological issue. it's not a partisan issue. it's about making sure that whoever is seated in the oval office has the public interests at heart. >> are you confident there is something interesting in there? if it was just donald trump being very, very rich, wouldn't ta be something he would want to show? >> he could easily show that. donald trump is very, very rich by any normal, you know, definition of what wealth is. donald trump is a wealthy man. i don't think that's the reason it's holding him back. i think the tax returns would show how robust his businesses are, it would show

choosing gerald ford on the theory no one would be willing to make that man a president. oops. he referred to him as insurance policy, turns out insurance of something quite different and other respects, sabotaging relationships with the press, digging in rather than admitting wrongdoing, fighting to the end, destroying relationships with his own party. nixon at the end, though not at the beginning did everything wrong, and a sign of how power can corrupt, but power can reveal, and in that circumstance, nixon's pretensions to absolute power and the manner he responded to the impeachment investigation was itself evidence of the fact he should have been removed. and this is a point we emphasize in chapter three, we talk about the risks of impeaching too early, that the manner in which the president responding to accusations of wrongdoing are the manner in which trump responds to the mueller investigation in congress may itself provide the most important evidence available to us whether this is someone who we can leave in the white house, and that was a big part of what was going

david: to remind people, in 1976, gerald ford was president who had never been reel -- elected, he was to run for election, and his main opponent was ronald reagan. it came down to a very tight convention. your job was to get the delegates for president ford. how did it go? james: that was the last truly contested national convention of either major political party. in this country. it went down to the last ballot. it was very tight. we were chasing a very small pool of uncommitted delegates, reagan was very strong, he almost knocked off an incumbent president. but we were able to prevail. we used the full resources of the white house. i used to tell people that i've been to more state dinners than anyone in the world because as a delegate hunter for president ford, i used to bring uncommitted delegates to state dinners, then i became secretary of state and had to go to every state dinner. david: the election is carter's way ahead. he catches up toward the end of ford comes back. they have debates. but ultimately, ford loses narrowly to carter. james: that is because you were in the wh

gerald ford's nominee of what turned out to be justice stevens in 1975, these exact same things were said then. i don't know that it's what the president said during the campaign that matters as much as what the nominee will say during the next few days. i do know that the job that the nominee currently has -- and i want to talk to him, i want to look at the record, i want to visit with him about his philosophy personally before i reach a final conclusion. but i do know that the job that judge kavanaugh currently has is often cited as the second-most significant court in the country, the d.c. court of appeals. i do know that his 100 most often cited opinions have been cited by more than 210 judges around the country. i do know that the supreme court has endorsed his opinions of the law at least a dozen times and adopted them as the opinions of the supreme court. remember the way this works. the judge that -- the job that brett kavanaugh currently has is a job that, like all other circuit judges, the court of appeals before the court. but unlike all others, it is a court that often is

constitution incorrectly oh ok maybe we'll do that but the bottom line is and go back on the line that gerald ford said was if the majority of the house issues an article of impeachment for anything it's what ever they say and if the peral of the votes to convict because remember people always want to talk about impeachment impeachment just means to charge conviction is what you mean conviction is just like me arresting you and guiding you you want somebody to go to prison you want somebody to be thrown out that's the senate part that's that conviction so people never even get the whole impeachment the because to them impeachment means their removal just means that charging so i've got news for you to a great book but i couldn't save them a lot of time and effort we could talk all day long about to say it mean it's an entitled offense does it mean bribery does it mean that the president can only do something that only the president can do during the bill clinton case for example people said you can't throw somebody out because you lied about adultery tell everybody lies about adultery it's your du

he counted ronald reagan, bob doel and gerald ford among his v friends but n ran for national officeinoines in 1946 and joined the army. he served for two years in japan just after world war two and then married his high school sweetheart, billy ray who survivm. governor robert ray, a politician guided by humility d humanity died one week ago in des moines. he was 89 years old. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪good goes around and around you finished preparing overhim for college.rs, in 24 hours, you'll send him off thinking you've done everything for his well-being. but meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. while meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. like millions of others, your teen may not be vaccinated against meningitis b. meningitis b strikes quickly. be quick to talk to your teen's doctor about a meningitis b vaccine. you have a new job now, i do. it's a busy, busy place. whenever you're ready. it happens every time. i've got it. and every time, she wins. you always do this. no, no. i insist. it's on me. alright. but you have the bb&t app w

for dish new aircraft carrier of that cost billions of dollars we've built i find it interesting gerald ford comes from michigan as a congressman he was never elected v.p. he was never elected president he assumed the position and was appointed to them when he did run he got beat he changed the bullet wound and the warren commission sort of fit the single bullet theory of you have made it bad he now gets an aircraft carrier costing billions of dollars named after him while the people of his own state of flint michigan are still drinking polluted poisoned water so it's more important for us to build an aircraft carrier than to give the people of flint michigan clean water that is a travesty and of course this network has been accused of propaganda we were the first ones in in flint michigan telling the story about the water being tainted and people getting sick from drinking it so is it propaganda if we do a story showing that the american people shouldn't be consuming their water the fact of the matter is corporate america is in the back pockets of county commissioners mayors governors state

gerald ford and leonid brezhnev in 1975. gorge h.w. bush and mikhail gorbachev in 1990 and bill clinton and boris yeltsin in 1997. cbs this morning co-host norah o'donnell is leading our coverage of this historic summit and joins us now. norah? >> reporter: and good evening to you, demarco. president trump arrived here ahead of his russian counterpart who attended the final match of the world cup soccer tournament in moscow. well, now comes the superpower summit the world will be watching. president trump has no public appearances planed until tomorrow when he will have breakfast with the president of finland at the presidential residence here in helsinki. later in the day mr. trump will meet with putin at the presidential palace. now, before heading here from scotland this weekend president trump in an interview with cbs news tried to downplay expectations of any breakthroughs with putin president trump touched down in finland sunday just hours ahead of a high-stakes sit down with russian president vladimir putin. a top advisor tells

nomination was made the democrats rolled out the same old arguments that they've rolled out when gerald ford made a nomination back in the '70s, the same complaints that they rolled out when justice kennedy was nominated 30 years ago and when justice roberts was nominated. it's the same playbook again and again and again. and before the nomination was made, nancy pell os pelosi came say that her goal is to avenge president obama and reject anybody that president trump nominated. and she went on to say if that's the last thing she did. we have a nominee ahead of us, who i believe is mainstream, highly qualified, stellar credentials. and it is time now to have the hearings and discussions and then the debate and the vote on the floor of the united states senate. >> the work in the last work period. we also got, during that last work period, three of the appropriations bills off the floor of both the house and senate. we need to get together and get those bills on the president's desk. all 12 of the appropriations bills are out of the senate committee before the end of june. and that work needs

that sooner or later we're going to get to the point where we once again hear the same words that gerald ford spoke, when he was sworn in as president. first words out of his mouth, don, our long national nightmare is over. we're going to hear those words again. >> listen, we're making history in every moment here. whose going to look back and be proud or embarrassed? a lot of people i think. the facts always bear out. thank you. i appreciate it congressman. >> you're welcome, sir. >>> how did a russian agent get into the national prayer breakfast and what was she really up to? protect those who matter most, and make the summer go right with ford, america's best-selling brand. now during the ford summer sales event, get 0% financing for 60 months on a huge selection of suv's. and for the first time ever get 0% financing for 60 months plus $1,000 ford bonus cash on the 2018 ecosport. [ horn honking ] [ engine revving ] what's that, girl? [ engine revving ] flo needs help?! [ engine revving ] take me to her! ♪ coming, flo! why aren't we taking roads?! flo. [ horn honking ] -oh. you made it. do

gerald ford mar don-- pardoned nixon. cohen is operating at several levels here. he is afraid of being charged himself. he has davis, the famously outspoken clinton defender doing the public game, and davis is talking about cohen's reputation, trying to show his independence. it is certainly the case that prosecutors and fbi agents prefer that the people involved in their investigations don't say anything to the press. that is not what michael cohen is doing, but she is also protecting his reputation. >> i have so many more questions. >> luckily we have two more hours here. what is michael cohen claiming, what does all of this mean to sdpl capitol hill, we're going to speak to a republican congressman, next. i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? virtual tours? zip-file? really big files? in seconds, not minutes... just like that. like everything... the answer is simple. i'll do what i've always done... dream mor

that sooner or later we're going to get to the point where we once again hear the same words that gerald ford spoke, when he was sworn in as president. in the after math of those dark days. first words out of his mouth, don, our long national nightmare is over. we're going to hear those words again. >> listen, we're making history in every moment here. whose going to look back and be proud or embarrassed? a lot of people i think. the facts always bear out. thank you. i appreciate it congressman. >> you're welcome, sir. >>> how did a russian agent get into the national prayer breakfast and what was she really up to? >>> mariia butina was the russia spy who attempted to trade sex for politics and -- so, what was communicated with the russian intelligence during her years in america. she doing at the national prayer breakfast? let's bring in steven and jeff, an expert on the prayer breakfast, and the author of the family, the secret fundalism. at the heart of american power. jeff, i'll start with you. a lot of people are wondering how on earth an accused russian spay became so entangled with a n

he refused to go to washington to receive the national medal of science from gerald ford in 76 because he thought someone might try to assassinate him. and cancer who was depressive and probably just a case of biochemistry, not having an enough happiness molecules. i don't know if this sort of genius, the different genius that girdle or canter and david foster wallace ad was linked to their depressive. there are psychological studies. you may know that your chances of being a creative genius go up if you are subject to slight bipolar disorder. they go up even more if you have a near blood relative who is prone to bipolar. life is unfair because your sisters the depressed one in your the pulitzer prize winning novelist, that's awful. i don't know. i think that having encounters with abstract structures that are sublimely beautiful tends to cheer people up in my experience. friends of mine are in this genius category one of my friends is one of them with witted profound thinkers that i know. every once in a while he thinks he's a fraud and not connecting with anything important. is the l

. >> i'm old enough to remember the nixon time all the way through and even gerald ford got it but now with the social media in the media that's out there and that turns so hard left and i look at the democrats. it's so vitriolic and its 24/7. there's not a new cycle where you will get up at i've and 6:00 news at 10. this is 24/7 and is a lot of hatred that's been out there. so many things are driving this country in the right direction. >> this is a president who should be held in respect and certainly given our gratitude. all americans because all americans are the beneficiary of what is not even his two years in office yet. foreign policy and domestic policy successes, great leadership, positive atmosphere. a moment or two under president obama. it's in calculable the improvement and a brighter future of this country obviously now has. >> i can't go anywhere within my district and other people's districts and you find out that tax cuts worked in the regulatory reform is working. the economy is going forward. we have people that are getting jobs. the job participation rate is extreme

after his loss to gerald ford in 1976, he spoke movingly about the stakes. simply the future of civilization, the survival of civilization. >> someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsule that will be opened in los angeles hundred years from now. i thought to myself, we live in world in which the great powers have aimed at each other horrible missiles of destruction that caner at a matter of minuts can arrive to the others countro and destroy. those that would read this letter years from now, they will know what whether those missiles were fired. why the remotes are challenged. >> ford himself lost to jimmy carter, the soviets had satellite states and asia, africa and south america. when reagan ran again in 1980, his anticommunism seemed to many come out of step with the times. but, he won in a landslide using his first press conference as president to again, denounce communism. >> reporter: what you see as the long-range intentions and the soviet union? >> i know of no leader in the soviet union that has not more than once repeated their determinat

gerald ford and meeting their soviet counter parts in the city. bill clinton sat down with boris yeltsin. i'm joined by stephen yates and noah rothman from commentary magazine. noah, going into the summit, it was unclear what the outcome was supposed to be. the russians apparently said, well, the meeting is the deliverable. how do you think it went? >> i don't know how the meeting went. all we know is the press conference. the press conference was a mess. as far as the substance of this summit, difficult to gauge because we don't have an agenda. the public reporting suggests that the president is seeking some sort of assurances from russia in order to facilitate american withdrawal from syria. parts of syria, east of the euphrates. nobody will talk about that publicly because it's probably tactically un-wise in my view. so what we're hearing is a lot of rhetoric. but i'm not sure what we were supposed to achieve, which makes it difficult for americans to engage. how do we know this is successful when we don't know what success looks like. >> dana:

in 1975, gerald ford in helsinki with breshnev recognized the territorial sovereignty of the soviet unionincluded the captive nations of eastern eastern europe. in 1979, jimmy carter placed a big wet kiss on breshnev's cheek in vienna. all of this hysteria about this press conference, the president said, i could have said ita better, i should have said this, and they act like it's the apocalypse. it's not. the left in this country hasha defended the rosenbergs, they defended ten kennedy in 1983 and 1984 when he was colluding with the kremlin to defeat ronald reagan, the democrats, the media in this country, oppose the strategic defense initiative which had as its purpose to defend us against russian nuclear missiles, they called "star wars" to thissi da, the left won't fund it. to this day, the democratic democratic part in a opposes it. they opposed the modernizing medium-range nuclear missiles which they put in europe to defeat the soviet union.ts the left goes back and forth, the democrats -- if, in fact, donald trump had turned to vladimir putin after a two-hour private meeting after

kennedy: gerald ford was president. >> 1975 to even some of the years where it was particularly good. we had issues. with that being the case, something needs to change. kennedy: they have not demonstrated if we ran a trade surplus that somehow everything would be magically better. but i like the idea of shaking these institutions whether it's nato or wto. we are a part of them because we have always been a part of them. this is a post modern time and the old rules don't seem to apply. >> we made extremely dangerous deals in the past 20-30 years. and europe is waking up, and now they can't -- they have no other choice but to work with us. at the end of the day we have the right president and he'll make the right deals. kennedy: it doesn't mean the united states should be arrogant or take those allies for granted. but they do need the fact that you can have an entire nation of consumers. that is incredibly -- >> european companies are being built here. the bmw mercedes, they want to build their cars now. kennedy: we are not taxing them. president trump's former attorney and stripper sn

now you get maxine waters and gerald ford who say there is no criteria. whatever the house and peaches for is the majority and that's it. the senate that's it. surely that is not the law and even others admit that but the debate is whether or not you can define misdemeanor to include things that are not criminal that show abuse of office they think a better reading of the constitution and first have a misdemeanor in crime then you also have to show. as an example many of you have seen the play hamilton i wrote about this he for alexander hamilton was seduced by a woman while he was married and you know that by the play. the husband of the woman who seduced him was in on it and extorted him to pay money and he acknowledged that he wrote an essay which embarrassed his wife but the reason he wanted to write the essay he was accused of using treasury fund to pay the extortion. he admitted the affair and the payment that categorically to deny that he treasury funds. he understood the distinction between high and low crimes having the affair with the extortion

he wrote 100 readable short novels that people like ronald reagan and my father and gerald ford and your father probably grew up reading these books in the 1920's and earlier. his heyday was from the civil war and he died in 1900. 50 million copies. he was the harry potter of his generation. most people misconstrue horatio alger to say that anybody can go from rags to rockefeller. that is not what he says. he says if you work hard and study and become mentored, you can become a modest success in america. he knows that not anybody will do this and he rails in his book street belize and wall schemers and usery and he has conscious --al consciousness. he is writing at the height of the gilded age and is talking about the american idea. i want up going to the new york public library and spending a week in the basement where the special collections are. having to cart out these boxes of novels that were falling apart. they are not read today and they are not very available. horatio alger should be read. host: what was beloved by toni morrison about? "beloved" was about a woman who escaped fro

my experience in politics, presidential politics, begins with gerald ford who i really liked, really good guy and a football player at michigan and he played without a helmet. i can't believe that. but a really, really, real good guy and i got a taste of presidential politics and that's continued for the last 20-plus years. so, here we are. we put this book together. mark dead a great job. couldn't -- mark did a great job, couldn't have down it without him and without pat, reading it and re-x-rayed trying to create something that was meaningful and had meaning, and was an experience that i hope people enjoy reading. life's pretty short, and indeed the thing you want to leave is a legacy that is meaningful and you have done something positive. so, at this point in time i'm working on that legacy, and hopefully we'll make it. going to -- i kind of like to finish up, we have the book done, we read it, rereadded and reread it and wonderful lady came up with the title. and the picture. wont through a lot of pictures and found some that were good' lad to get everybody to sign off, whose pi

also, ben stein, who worked for richard nixon and gerald ford.ee you both. >> thank you, fred. >> art, you first. the president argues these tariffs are a short-term pain for a long-term gain and that tariffs are the greatest. do you agree? >> no, i don't think tariffs are the greatest, but they may be a good strategic plan for getting china to come to the negotiation table. to renegotiate, china has been recalcitrant on this issue. it should be lowering its tariffs. they should be more free trade than they are. they shouldn't steal intellectual property. larry kudlow knows this very, very well. he's one of my best friends. believe me when i tell you, he's arguing the good cause internally. he's just phenomenal. >> ben? >> tariffs are such a complicated issue. it's almost unbelievable. ben smith, the father of economics, said tariffs are a bad thing. but just in recent years, a great, great genius before his death, paul samuelson, said sometimes we do need tariffs. there are countries like china that do require tariffs. if targeted properly again

he ran the campaign of gerald ford, ronald reagan, bob dole and was one of the first people to monetizeervice with his old partner roger stone. that is getting us where we are today. he went to work and prosecutors allege he was paid some $60 million for this service over many years of public relations and lobbying. and for reasons that maybe only manafort can explain prosecutors say he tried to avoid paying u.s. taxes on these millions and structured the payments in the form of loans and funded a lavish lifestyle that included a $20,000 watch and multiple multimillion dollar properties. and then when this man fled to ukraine the spigot of cash dried up and then prosecutors say manafort started to commit other fraud by trying to get loans from the real estate that he owns and doing things like distorting profit and loss statements and overvaluing properties. this is going to be a document heavy case. i fear that it may be boring in some parts. to lead the jury through it the prosecutors have a star witness who is rick gates who is paul manafort's right-hand man who has pleaded guilty. w

gerald ford pardoned lee at at -- at a ceremony at arlington national cemetery which was lee 's former home and it was this kind of coming together -- i would say most americans in 1975 would have thought not only was that the right thing, but they would have nodded and realized that lee had not been pardoned already. there were probably very few americans in 1975, although conyers was probably one of them, who felt that lee did not deserve this honor. one of the funny things about history is that lee did not even need to be pardoned. he had received a general amnesty from andrew johnson on christmas day in 1868 that applied to him, so a pardon was unnecessary. when lee died, the only disability he had was that under the 14th amendment, but even -- amendment, he could not hold office. but even that had been repealed in the 1890's. some people say it did not apply to lee because he was not alive in the 1890's, but it was really not necessary to pardon lee in the 1970's. it was much more a symbolic gesture, but i thought the notion of the missing amnesty oath was interesting to point out