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cooper was in the middle of breaking the southern senor'sfid we nominated barry goldwater, one of the few people who voted against the civil rights bill. honestly, mitch mcconnell said, i was mad as hell about it and i was so irritatedbout goldwater voting against the civil rights bill and defining the roone party in a way that i thought would be unfortunate, that i voted for lyndon johnson, which in retrospect was a huge mistake. but it w a protest vote. senator mcconnell's willingness as a college student to buck his own political party resurfaced 40 years later in his leadership on first amendment free speech issues. in 2006 he cast the deciding vote against the adoption of a constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning. when most republican colleagues and almost all of his constituents had a different point of view. he argued that the first amendment protects even personally offensive messages. and mcconnell became the senate's leading voice against restrictions on political speech under the guise of, quote, campaigneform, unquote. again, some of his own party disagreed, incl

but once goldwater was nominated, he made it clear he supported goldwater and would stick with goldwater, even as he privately anticipated goldwater would lose. on november 5, eisenhower then reclaims his role as the titular leader of the republican party and he released a statement to the press and what he does is he reminds republicans across the nation that the party had been quote hurt, but not irretrievably. republicans, he said, have been unfairly tagged in the presidential election as the appearance of the party of the rich and the privileged. it is time, he said, to remind ourselves and the country that we are the party of abraham lincoln. he expanded. republicans, he said, were the party that were true to lincoln's views on humanity, liberty, dignity, equality. histrive to emulate commonsense approach to the nation's political and economic problems. and his integrity in the reaction. we share lincoln space in the worth of every citizen and his trust in individuals and communities to solve their own problems whenever possible. but we recognize also with lincoln that when the prob

guest: the goldwater legislation crafted the policy. a couple of years ago we started looking at options for terminally ill patients. how do they get access to treatments when they are told there is nothing left? we were told about programs that exist already, and we felt they were not adequate. there were not enough patients able to take advantage. we thought there has to be a better way for people who are dying to have access to treatments before it is too late. we came up with the right to try. the right to try says if you are terminally ill and you have exhausted all treatment options and you cannot get into a clinical trial, but your doctor and the drug company thinks a clinical trial could help you, you will have access to that drug. host: this legislation allows terminally it will americans to try medicines that have passed phase one of the fda approval process and remain in clinical trials, but are not yet on pharmacy shelves. remind our viewers how to join the conversation. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000

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coming up this month, goldwater institute's sally coleman discusses right to try legislation. howwe will also talk about right to try will allow terminally ill patients access to drug treatments not approved by the fda. following president trump's efforts to keep the factory jobs in the u.s.. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend on reel america on american history tv, the 1988 betweencow summit gorbachev.an and way, and weood believe the best way. , mr. general secretary, i want to extend to you and to all those who have labored so hard for this moment my warmest personal thanks. >> sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> president trump announced the june 12 summit with singapore -- with north korea in singapore is back on. president trump also answered questions about nafta and his recent decision to impose tariffs on canada, mexico, and the european union. president, can you come talk to us? can you come out this way? president trump: we will be meeting june 12 in

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goldwater destroys the republican party in 1964, people forget how much upset it -- how upsetting it was at that time. it gets clobbered by john sims, who is allegedly on top of the world. johnson who, -- by , is allegedly on top of the world. is the republican party going to survive? he has up having a terrible off year and being driven from the field in 1968 by mccarthy who was not a well-known figure. he had always been the jr. senator from minnesota. he was an eloquent guy. he had hoped to stop john kennedy. it was not like mccarthy was a giant of the democratic party. or a leader of the antiwar forces. he ran, others did not. he got 42% of the vote. bobby kennedy got in three days later. johnson drops out a couple weeks after kennedy gets in. johnson goes to being forced out of the way. nixon of all people comes back, having allegedly been finished off by a loss in 1962. nixon squeaks to a victory, then there is the revolution of the democratic party. the party goes much re dovish and to the left as the republican had gone more to the right under goldwater. nixon's second term d

the same thing barry goldwater was talking about, richard nixon, george wallace. rizzo was the local paradigm of law and order and he used it. he used his popularity as police commissioner for all these people as a springboard to a broader political career. in 1971, he ran for mayor and he won. he was a democrat but he still won on a platform of maintaining law and order. his campaign slogan was "rizzo means business" and that meant what you want it to mean. it was a master stroke of double meaning because it could mean he'll bring prosperity or he'll deal with people causing trouble. for two terms as mayor of philadelphia he divided the city in a lot of ways. he broke with his own party in 1972 to campaign for nixon. he opposed everything from affirmative action to public housing to school desegregation and he did so very flamboyantly, a string of controversial statements and series of scandals. but throughout all of it, his supporters supported him so much that he survived a challenge to the democratic primary in 1975. he survived a recall challenge in 1976 and

guest: the goldwater legislation crafted the policy. couple of years ago we started looking at options for terminally ill patients. how do they get access to treatments when they are told there is nothing left? we were told about programs that exist already, and we felt they were not adequate. there were not enough patients able to take advantage. we thought there has to be a better way for people who are dying to have access to treatments before it is too late. we came up with the right to try. the right to try says if you are terminally ill and you have exhausted all treatment options and you cannot get into a clinical trial, but your doctor and the drug company thinks a clinical trial could help you, you will have access to that drug. host: this legislation allows terminally it will americans to try medicines that have passed phase one of the fda approval process and remain in clinical trials, but are not yet on pharmacy shelves. remind our viewers how to join the conversation. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000.

in some of the papers, such as this from december 10, 19 79, it is a letter from barry goldwater , basicallyht expressing his desire to not see this past. he did not want the wright amendment hast and thought it would have a detrimental effect. there are many -- past and and thought ited would have a denture metal effect. this large folder contains letters from constituents -- would have a detrimental effect. this large folder contains letters from constituents. this is from a woman who lives near the field. she did not want it passed. she said, thank you for your did want ithe passed. thank you for your efforts to stop interstate flights out of the field. my husband and i moved to a neighborhood by love field thinking that dfw would be the airport and we have poured thousands into our home as many have, and now our neighborhood is threatened by southwest. she did not want southwest to increase because of her home value. in 1979, andssed had a major impact and the controversy lasted many years. a lot of people did not like the wright amendment, but it did help dallas airport become the regiona

gained national standing back in 1964 when he filmed one of the most popular commercials for barry goldwaterpublican who lost to lynden johnson in a landslide election. in march of 1976, in the heat of the primaries, reagan discovered that foreign policy could be a winning issue and mobilize the conservative base. when speaking in florida, reagan said under kissinger and ford, this nation has become number two in military power, in a world where it is dangerous if not fatal to be second best. appearing on meet the press, he attacked detente and said detente has been a one-way street. we are making the concessions. we are giving them the things they want. and we ask for nothing in return. as ford tried to position himself to voters, as a more hard-line conservative in response to reagan, reagan had doubled down on his attack. he received the support in north carolina of senator jesse helms, one of the most hawkish voices in the republican party, and helms mobilized conservative voters to come out and vote for reagan. reagan shocked most political pundits in march of 1976 when he defeated ford

coming up saturday morning, goldwater institute starling coleman described -- discusses the right to do try it legislation. will joinephen joffe us. then popular mechanics tom chiarella on how the carrier plant is faring. be sure to watch washington journal, live at seven a.m. eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> sunday on q&a, patricia o'toole discusses her book. >> there is a huge psychological literature about wilson. i read it, but i have the sense tot it is reducing him oedipal tangles and things that i did not feel i could deal with on the strength of my own knowledge of the theory. some people have said his stubbornness in later life was a kind of reaction to his father's strictness. and they can point to one story made his follow -- father him revise a thing he wrote a whole bunch of times. and the suppositions are that wilson resented this. that he was a good boy and he put up with it. when you read every mentioned, about his father, they are worshipful. he never had an unkind word to say about his father. a presbyterian minister. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. ea

coming up saturday morning, goldwater institute sally coleman discusses the right to trial legislation. penn medicine's dr. stephen jossey will join us to talk about how right to try will allow terminally ill patients access to drug treatments that are not fully approved by the fda. popular mechanics tom peter relevant on carrier plans in following president trump's effort to keep the factory's jobs in the u.s.. be sure to watch "washington journal," at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> it has been a busy week on trade. that is why newsmakers is pleased to welcome the u.s. chamber of commerce's top expert, john murphy. he is senior vice president for international policy. he has been the point man since 1999. glad to have you. >> as we start this friday morning, almost every publication has a big trade story with fears of a global trade war. at the same time, the new jobs numbers are out with the lowest unemployment number in 18 years. jobs added and the unemployment rate are exceeding the reject -- projections this month. where are those two facts? >> from the per

he starts ticking up in the polls and in the meantime, johnson is killing barry goldwater in new york. i think he had 22 million vote margin. kennedy is starting to lose and they are getting down to the wire. and it is apparent that he's not going to make it. kennedy had to do one of the worst things he felt he had to defend his wife and i was askedd lbj to come to help. johnson comes to new york, spends two days, plus there's ththe state stage with johnson y buttons and if you look at the trays that i have the campaign material from the senate race, you'll see all oyou will see ale things. johnson pushes him over the line. kennedy wins by a decent margin, gets its victory speech from lbj is watching on tv and thanks everybody in the room that does not think lyndon johnson. [laughter] and then johnson did not forget it. by now, we are starting to accelerate into vietnam. johnson started to send combat troops over and when we got into 1967, the vietnam war has been going on a solid three years of open combat. we had almost half a million troops over in vietnam. a number of u.s. senator

barry goldwater, marching down to the white house. >> we sat there in the oval room and the president golf and just had a hole in one. you would never think this guy's tail was in a crack. >> nixon said how many votes if i'm impeached in the house? how many votes in the senate? about 20. and goldwater said -- >> very few and not mine. >> the 37th president of the united states was facing the ultimate disgrace. for a man who craved power the question was, would nixon continue to fight? 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. looking for a hotel that fits... whoooo. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. which is why i use armor tall ultra shine was

. >> bar barry goldwater. lou: that comes first to mind there are 9other greats. >> like it was yesterday. stop. lou: mitt romney, who came out today. three weeks ago, making nice with the president. today comes o on eve of the primary in utah tomorrow, and announces he will make very clear he will speak out against president trump. what in the world is going? is utah going to elect that mess? >> i hope not, this man, after ronald reagan and george w. bush had successful careers. he said, i am not going back to a reagan-bush type of a -- i am going to be a different republican. then he switched on every major position he had been on, he was a governor one-term who abandoned state for 3 authoritys last term. lou: this guy, kennedy, what do you think? >> a conservative,. lou: running against mitt romney. >> and my issue and i hope that donald trump does not do anything to help romney, romney will never do anything to help him. >> it is a little late. >> he should not be raising money for him. lou: this president

and then they take over the party and it goes to the left as the republican party had done under goldwater and nixon crushes mc govern and the second term doesn't go so well and he is out of office in 18 months of general ford takes over in 76, ronald reagan almost beats ford in the primary and they nominate the one term governor of in 2022 nominate but he is better known as a two-term governor of colorado or the state at the time that was smaller and less central to the american politics for the multi-candidate race. they make up the deficit and carter becomes president, kennedy challges carter, should have beat him in 1980 but need some mistake and carter hangs on on the democratic side and ronald reagan and so forth comes back having lost in 76. think of those 20 years. primaries in 68, 76. it was a certain pattern you might say of american politics and i have a feeling we are entering a period more like that. but it's a turbulent era when it's up for grabs not like the 24 years of the sbility where each party most of the time nominated the next in line in the same decree for the last 3

are trampled by also concerned and there've been a number of laws introduced in the state of the goldwaterinstitute that are quite heavy-handed telling the administrators what to do say dy that if a student violates or is protesting inappropriately vested an student should be suspended or expelled. most university administrators wouldn't want to be told by state legislators how to run their campuses. there's no doubt university administrators with paper to be left alone with respect to how to run their campuses but in a free society especially public institutions that are accountable if there is a perception among the state legislators or attorneys general for that matter that universities are not stepping up foover taking strong enough ste, you are going to see this kind of intervention politically and legally. we are in an environment now where the universities are being told how to deal with the issue. we have the attorney general bringing the justice department in two certain lawsuits that is not a criticism but folks that are looking to make sure and keep universities on the stand now

as david know, nixon got done in by his tapes but also republican party like barry goldwater. we have to see if republicans are willing to hold donald trump to some kind of standard. >> we'll talk a bit about that in the next block. stand by. you're back with me. thank you so much for your thoughts. prominent republicans speaking out saying their party is dormant. >>> questions abound about the first lady after 24 days without seeing her. >>> a dozen people in hawaii stranded after a volcano cuts off their final escape route. we're live on the big island. a bachelor. and that's how he intended to keep it. then he met the love of his life. who came with a three foot, two inch bonus. for this new stepdad, it's promising to care for his daughter as if she's his own. every way we look out for those we love is an act of mutuality. we can help with the financial ones. learn more or find an advisor at massmutual.com we can help with the financial ones. you turned a family recipeher, into a brewing empire before prohibition took it all away. i promised our family i'd find your lost re

honestly, mitch mcconnell said, i was mad as hell about it and i was so irritated about goldwater voting against the civil rights bill and defining the roone party in a way that i thought would be unfortunate, th i voted for lyndon johnson, which in retrospect was a huge mistake. but it was a protest vote. senator mcconnell's willingness as a college student to buck his own political party resurfaced 40 years later in his leadership on first amendment free speech issues. in 2006 he cast the deciding vote against the adoption of a constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning. when most republican colleagues and almost all of his constituents had a different point of view. he argued that the first amendment protects even personally offensive messages. and mcconnell became the senate's leading voice against restrictions on political speech underhe guise of, quote, campaign reform, unquote. again, some of his own party disagreed, including president george bush and sator john mccain, but he persisted and on multiple occasions the supreme court has agreed with mcconview of protecting pol

persuading strom thurmond, he's the best candidate who can win, that we went with our hearts in '64 with goldwaterorrible defeat, so let's go with a moderate now and once we get in, i can slow down the federal government's efforts at desegregating schools in the south, but the number one reason was it looked like nixon could win. >> a candidate needs 667 delegates to win the nomination, but with nixon's estimated total at above 600 now, that air of victory is obvious. >> governor, may we ask you what you might have done differently thinking back now? >> nothing. there isn't anything i could have done differently. >> it was a weary governor rockefeller who hotel hopped from one delegation caucus to another. wife, happy, appeared anything but happy as her husband began to show the strain and perhaps the humility of it. >> with the demise of nelson rockefeller and exclusion of the moderate liberal side of the republican party, you began to see the reshaping of the republican party. >> we're having here in miami beach the convention of the nice white people. all together, there are 26 nonwhite delegat

the party goes much more dovish and to the left as the republican had gone more to the right under goldwater. second term does not go well. he is out of office in 18 months. gerald ford takes over. reagan almost beats ford in the republican primary. the democrats nominate an one term governor. he was better known as a two-term governor as colorado. he was a one term governor of a state that at the time was less central to american politics. race ina multicandidate 1976, barely hangs on to beat ford. carter becomes president. kennedy challenges carter. carter hangs on. the democratic side and reagan who was at this point too old, and having lost in 1976, winds in new hampshire --wins in new hampshire. think of those 20 years. that is a different kind of america. 1988, 1976, incumbent presidents having , forced tof fortune resign the presidency. that is a pattern of american politics. i have a feeling we are and tearing up your fear -- entering a period more like that. grabs not are up to like the years of relative stability where each party most of the time nominated the next in line so repub

if you mean barry goldwater or ronald reagan and william f.uckily trump's the most effective anti-liberal in american history. it's not because he is conservative. it's because he applies common sense and so much of modern liberalism is and if you apply common sense of falls apart. i take seriously the story he tells about the women he got to know who has been in wise to have an abortion and her daughter was with her as she was telling the story. that was the decisive moment did i give him that one. he also said he would contemplate legalizing marijuana you can't assume that trump is going to walk into the room having spent 30 years thinking this stuff through. reagan became, reagan originally was an fdr democrat and made commercials for harry truman and hubert humphrey. when hubert humphrey was the anti-communist liberal running against a procommunist liberal which tells you just how bad that period was and reagan became an anti-communist. when he married nancy her father was a very right-wing medical doctor and gradually through a series of

but the republican senator who ran against, his starts tick up in the polls and johnson isbarry goldwater in new york, 2 million vote margin. kennedy is starting to lose and they're getting down the wire and it's apparent that he is not going no make it. bobby kennedy had to do the worst thing he ever felt he had to do in his life and that was ask lbj to come to new york help him. johnson comes into new york, spends to days, plasters the state with johnson humphrey kennedy buttons. look at these trays of bobby kennedy campaign material from his senate race you can see the johnson-humphrey-kennedy things. johnson pushes him over the line. kennedy wins by a decent margin, gets up and gives a victory speech. lbj is watching outen tv. thanks everybody else in the world but doesn't thank lyndon johnson and lyndon johnson did not forget it. by now we're starting to accelerate into vietnam. johnson has started to send combat troops over there. late 1967, the vietnam war has been going on now for a solid three years of open combat. we had almost a half million troops over in vietnam. a number of

and the republicans, nelson rockefeller, barry goldwater, richard nixon also condemned him because at that time europe is a bulwark against communist expansion in we needed to support our nato allies who are trying to hold on to their colonial empires abroad. when i travel in africa and south america and other countries, people said the united states -- [inaudible] i met literally thousands of people in those countries during my lifetime whose name is kennedy because he made that speech and because of the peace corps, because of the flu for children program. if you measure, it's difficult measuring the success of the presidency, but people do by polling or by historians, probably one of the ways to measure it is if you measure it based upon the popularity of the president abroad, there's probably no more successful presidency in american history and john kennedys. virtually every capital in latin america and africa and most of the capitals in asia, there's a boulevard name for my uncle. there's schools and monuments, parks. that's not true of other presidents. kennedy used to say ther

saturday morning, goldwater institute starley coleman discusses the right to trial legislation. and dr. stephen duffy will join us to talk about how a right to try will allow terminally ill s thatts access to drug are not fully approved by the fda. be sure to watch c-span, washington journal, live, seven eastern -- seven a cut eastern. join the disc -- 7:00 eastern. during the discussion. announcer: next, remarks from former jimmy carter -- former president jimmy carter. then, president trump announces the june 12 summit with north korea will be held. then, newsmakers with john murphy. c-span's coverage of 2018 commencement addresses continues now with former president jimmy carter at liberty university. devos inlowed by betsy florida. mark

if you mean barry goldwater, ronald reagan, william buckley, what trump is the most effective antiliberal in american history. it's not because he is conservative. it's because he applies common ralism isutsnd if youmodern apply common sense, it fall as i part. i i take seriously the story he tells about the woman that he got to know who had been advised to have an abortion and her daughter was with her as she was telling him the story and that was the decisive moment. give him that one. also a story out this morning that he would contemplate legalizing marijuana. you can't assume that trump is going to walk in the room, having spent 30 years thinking this stuff through. reagan became -- reagan was an fdr democrat and aslay as 1948 made commercials for harry truman and hubert humphrey when hubert humphrey was the anti-communityist liberal running against the pro-communist liberal and reagan became an anti-communityist and then when he married nancy, her father w very right-wing medical doctor, and gradually through a series of conversations reagan began to be more and more antitax, and th

and a conservative was a goldwater. that is one distinction. the second is because of that, neoconservatism are objectives of liberalism which means in foreign affairs. there is a critique by conservatives, neoconservatives is that neoconservatives are too utopian. wilsonian if you like. we want to democratize the world, and the answer is yes. what distinctions us from liberal is that we do not rely on the institutions that liberals rely on. the u.n., treaties, all of that wilsonian stuff. we believe in power, american power in particular. what distinctions us from other conservatism or traditional conservatives, they are more likely to be realists. they're not interested in the governance of other countries. they are just interested in how the government reacts related to the united states. you might look at the additional -- traditional conservative and a look it other nations. neoconservatives care about what is inside of the ball and how governs themselves. the idea is, if you can change the way society governs itself, afghanistan, iraq, le

senator susan collins of maine, november of last year received the barry goldwater award from the planned parenthood federation of america in partnership with its republican advisory board thanking her and recognizie ining her for her co and fighting to ensure the rights granted to women from within the republican caucus in the united states senate. senator lisa murkowski of alaska, also a pro-choice republican senator. in january of this year, just a few months ago, senators murkowski and collins both voted no on a piece of republican legislation that would have been an abortion ban, that would have instituted a 20-week ban after which women coast-to-coast wouldn't be allowed to access abortion services. both senator collins and murkowski have cast plenty of anti-choice votes in their careers of various kinds including for anti-abortion judges, but in this case, what they would be doing is providing the deciding vote literally and directly to overturn roe versus wade and make abortion illegal in america. it's not theoretical, and it's not complicated. you only have to be able to count to

when goldwater lost everly like laid the foundation for the conservative movement, conservatives were mobilized. i think hillary's lost big enough for women. like use all of these women running after her loss and a think that maybe will look back in history and her defeat, not just her defeat, , but for her o listen and who brag about sexual assault, and i think that spurred a lot of women to run and maybe we'll look back on history like this was the moment that she did ignite the feminist movement just by losing. >> who would you want to run in 2020? >> i don't know. there's a lot of light, funny, people keep saying that person, they are not electable. really, we're still going to do that? guess who is electable? i stay away from guessing on that. >> you seem to be in observing your own presentation very vibrant in your description of bill clinton, and very animated. i don't see that quality when you talk about hillary. are you able to describe her personalities so we can really understand more, you spend so much time with her? >> for one, bill clinton gave me some had that amazing a

assome of the papers such this from december 10, 1979, it is a letter from barry goldwater to jim wright. expressing his desire to not see this past. he did not want the amendment passed and thought it would have a detrimental effect. where many other letters and statements in this file related to this legislation, and then this for a large folder contains letters from constituents expressing their displeasure with this legislation. one, it is from a woman who lives near love field. she did not want this past. she said thank you for your .fforts i'm sorry she did want it pass. thank you for your efforts to stop interstate flights out of love field. my husband and i moved into an older neighborhood believing that dfw would be the interstate airport. we poured thousands into our home as many have, now our neighborhood is threatened by southwest. she did not want southwest to increase their traffic into left field because of her home value. in right amendment did pass 1979 and it had a major impact and many people, the controversy lasted for many years. a lot of people did not like the amen

barry goldwater once had the proposal when he suspected that john kennedy would be his opponent of a joint tribal together and instead of partisan rallies have the give and take not unlike the lincoln/douglas debates. do you think a number of these joint, unscripted appearances might help repudiate more outlandish claims that candidates might otherwise be tempted to make? >> the trump/clinton bus tour would be fun. >> i mean, the danger would be it's the punch and judy show. right? but i think maybe not so much in terms ofmisinformation but e.j. talked earlier about walter lipman but we might throw in a lot of john dewey there, as well. which is to say that modeling something like conversation aiming toward shared purpose, we need a lot more of that and if that would -- if that is what you have in mind i think it could help repair the damage done by the punch and judy show. >> we often find -- you know, we will have a politician's office contact us and say, hey, why don't you guys look at this ad or claim my opponent is making and sometimes they'll provide, you know, valuable informa

in some of the papers such as september 10, 1979, it is a letter from barry goldwater jim wright. basically expressing his desire to not see this past. he did not want the wright amendment passed, he thought it would have a detrimental effect. there are many other letters and statements in this file related to this legislation. contains large folder letters from constituents expressing their displeasure with this legislation. this one is from a woman who lived near love field. past, shet want this said, "thank you for your efforts to stop -- she did want this past, i'm sorry. [laughter] "thank you for your efforts to stop interstate flights out of love field. my husband and i moved to older neighborhood in love field, thinking that dfw would be an interstate airport. homet thousands into our as many have, and now our neighborhood is threatened by southwest." she did not want southwest to increase their traffic into love field because of her home value. in ride amendment passed 1979, and it had a major impact. the controversy over it lasted for many years. a lot of people did not l

you've been involved in three political campaigns for goldwater, mitt romney and barack obama. that's an unusual hat trick. a lot who would say that. and some others. service in mendous africa, your multiple language fluency. most interesting man in the world w. [laughter] >> but i'll tell you the thing about the resume i like the those of you out in the audience maybe didn't gate chance to read this, he failed foreign service exam the first time he took it but passed it in 1977. in their resume? very confident person, who is attributing success to the most important element which is persistence. an at the career of being ambassador twice and now being nominated. you put that front and center. credit.ery much to your my questions are going to be for mr. -- thank you for the to visit in the office. i'm the ranking member on the subcommittee that your area of responsibility. in your professional expertise, 'm not asking about administration policy, i'm talking about your professional xpertise working in this area, do you think a peace deal between israel and palestine, two states

you have been involved in three political campaigns for president, barry goldwater, mitt romney and barackbama. that's an unusual hat trick. there are not a lot who would say that. and some others. and your tremendous service in africa, your multiple language flunsees, you are the most interesting man in the world. but i will tell you the thing about the resumÉ i like the best, those of you out in the audience didn't have a chance to read this, listen to this sentence: he failed the foreign service exam the first time he took it, but passed in 1977. who puts that in their resumÉ? a very confident person who is attributing success to the most important element whisper cyst ens. look at the career being an ambassador twice and now being nominated, you put that front and center. that's very much to your credit. my questions are going to be for mr. chancre, thank you for the opportunity to visit in the office and your work. i am the ranking member on the sfrc subcommittee that coincides with your area of responsibility. in your professional expertise, i'm not requesting about administration po

it's a hard right conservative think tank that's been around since the early 1970s, rose from the goldwater. has always been kind of staunchly right. has always kind of held the hard right line. and has a history of calling out congressmen for not being right wing enough. and so at the time was run by jim demint, the tea party fire brand. and he was determined to be prepared to fill an administration. and lo and behold, he had this crazy opportunity. >> besides the cabinet appointments it seems like on the judiciary, they're beyond prepared, and that this administration is taking anyone that they send their way. >> absolutely, yeah. i mean, in fact, the first -- in many ways heritage was a strange fit for trump because during the campaign trump didn't seem like a conservative at all. but that didn't stop the heritage foundation. and they had their first meeting with him back in march of 2016 when the republican establishment was still really shunning him. and that was to give him a list for the supreme court. and since then, basically heritage and the federalist society and other, you know,

remember barry goldwater doing it back in the times of watergate with nixon.rs the ability of the republicans to go back to the gerald ford sense of morality. i was just reading don rumsfeld's book on gerald ford where you have a rotaryian sense of decency and you stand up and say we have to tell the truth now? >> well, paul ryan did come out yesterday and supported congressman trey gowdy who came out and said the president's claims regarding this idea that a spy was implanted into his campaign were spurious and not based in the truth but in general trump has been very, very successful at rallying the party to him and by and large republicans have fallen into line. his popularity with the republican party is second only to george w. bush after 9/11 looked over the last four decades. he's enormously popular in the republican party and further to john's point the numbers show that the attack on mueller is working. mueller -- the idea that the mueller investigation is a witch-hunt had been accepted by another 5% on the population over the last five months so by a

coming up saturday morning, goldwater institute sally coleman discusses the right to trial legislation. penn medicine's dr. stephen jossey will join us to talk about how right to try will allow terminally ill patients access to drug treatments that are not fully approved by the fda. popular mechanics tom peter relevant on carrier plans in following president trump's effort to keep the factory's jobs in the u.s.. be sure to watch "washington journal," at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion.

coming up saturday morning, goldwater institute starly coleman discusses the right to try legislation, signed into law this week. and penn medicine's dr. steven joffe will also join us, to talk about how right to try will allow terminally ill patients access to drug treatments that are not fully approved by the fda. then popular mechanics on how the carrier plant in indianapolis is faring following trmp's efforts to keep the factor's jobs in the u.s. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern, saturday morning. join the discussion. >> now, a hearing on options to make high-octane fuels and high-efficiency vehicles more available. members of the house energy and commerce subcommittee on the environment heard from representatives of the oil, auto and agriculture industries. this is t2 hours, 15 minutes. >> i ask all our guests today to please take r