gerry ford love the press and understood the press, and the result is, he had a terrific press. he will like him. --y didn't suck up to them to him and they flatter -- and didn't flatter all over him, but they try to understand him. , he felt besieged. he thought the press was always eastern and northern, quite like lyndon johnson, as a matter of fact. isolated andlt hostile toward the press. reagan, who was the best manipulator probably of all of , handling the press was a royalty. he was good at it -- was a role to him. he was good at it, but he didn't like the press and he didn't understand the press. and he did not understand the press's role in society. that is the trouble with these .eople they think that they and the press have a common job. well, they don't. the white house press officer and the white house press system, and the president, their job is to tell the truth to the country in a way that makes it look best and our job is to try to find the truth, period. and mind you, they all lie to the press. and i think as soon as those lies start coming in, it really is di

it was all during gerri ford. we got the 78, 79, 80.eagan came in, we have, what was it? sixteen, 18 years of prosperity? bill clinton was a very big part of that. , two. stuart: is it true that you tax cuts? part of the plan for >> it was for gerri ford, y the way. it was against the inflation tax increase. yes. i still insist it was a paper napkin. we are going to redo that in a couple of weeks. doing a special on that one evening. stuart: wait a minute. you are doing that with some other tv operation? >> i begged for you, stuart. there were no calls, no candy grams, nothing. what can i tell you? jason riley is a favorite of mine. you are right on the line here. we will win this one, i think. it will be the varney rally in the markets. stuart: if you are not going to come on this station with that special, you are in trouble, art laffer. >> you are my favorite. i am from nashville tennessee. i am not bashful, i'm from nashville. [laughter] stuart: thank you for being on the show. voters not happy. new polls that really show it. 46% sa

amazon coming up, ford, proctor and gamble on friday it generally speaking, most companies are reporting solid earnings. gerring, at&t, microsoft, amazon, ford, big, big companies. what are you expecting out of this? consensus third quarter earnings growth is up. do you agree? >> well, we will find out by friday. if it is true, then this is a good quarterly earnings season and could be that the market has calmed down a bit and we won't get a repeat of last week. if we get surprises on the downside then we can see more of last week all over again and possibly exacerbated. gerri: one of my big concern is because last week we were talking about global slowdown. what is going to be the nexus of concern now? what will they we -- be worried about, that traders? >> i think the ongoing ebola issue, i think that will take precedent. over this past week there were new cases reported. on an ongoing basis, you have a lingering threat. i have been saying this for about two years. i think their resilience of america has been tested over the last year, with things like russia, israelis, the flare-up in the middle east. unti

ford. they actually were down in sales. so in some sense a little recall schme-cal. the buying public doesn't care much about it. maybe they put it in the rearview mirror. gerri to the fact, if there's a recall, people take the car back to the dealership and they see something they might like better? >> wouldn't have thought of that. by golly, that seems to be exactly what's happening. you get in there, and you see the new technology that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and you make a sale. that does seem to be what's happening out there. gerri: one more question for you. i want to know if mary barra really addressed the money that the company is going to have to spend to compensate those victims? >> you know, this was an investor day, that was the question that she definitely got. and she said at this point, not knowing what the d.o.j. is going to do and that could be a huge fine out there, but right now, they don't believe it's going to cost them any more than they originally thought it was going to cost between 3 and $4 billion. they allowed for that. at this point, unless we get on something else from the government, they think they're in good shape. ge

we signed by president gerry ford for acquire not sure why but it will all be refined and it has to me we cannot export crude. >> my dad is a lever and that is one of the union's that depend on temporary jobs intelsat and how important say hour to our states. >> now moving to the bulk of the one-hour debate on that california at debate. we will be back in one minute. >> we welcome you back for tonight's u.s. senate debate between the democrats and republicans steve gaines along with yellowstone public radio and news -- newsmaker it -- and the first question of the second half of alaska by your ads we have finally seeing where ads on tv that we need one of us we need somebody a lot smarter than us the last should read them down the senate or maybe you have some explaining to do for the figure of lorena. when our founding fathers and is part of the show with fe intended for plumbers and tissues for it and read do not meet them and didn't seem quite smart enough for without the right background bet and i paid proved to you to get meet stiff neck getting your experience you have the experi