so i go into the bar, being a fan of hemingway. i like the hemingway drink. it was terrific until i got the bill. >> oh. [laughter] >> i think it was $35 for, you know -- at that time, which was years ago. [laughter] were those true? >> well, a lot of the stories about world war ii aren't true. hemingway sometimes claimed that he liberated paris -- [laughter] what he really liberated was the ritz bar. [laughter] but, yeah. i mean, war stories, what can i say? more of them sprung up around him, as you can imagine, than even in other -- actually, there's a lot of war stories about the various corps or respondents, the reporters in the war -- the correspondents. there were rumors about how he tortured german soldiers that are just completely out off thin air. and that's something that started happening around him, and sometimes he'd come to believe it or believe these legends. it's another example of the legend itself rearing up and butting him. >> coming back. >> yeah. >> i'm going to jump through a number of subjects just to fill in. africa. he went there a lo

hemingway, he was heroic. when he stepped in. >> host: toward the end, living in idaho, i was taken with modern sounding psychotropic drugs, it was pretty intense. that was pretty fast. >> this happened a lot with mentally ill people, they thought everybody else was taking care of it, he was taking competing drugs, the equivalent of stories, that it is really hard -- >> host: rescuing -- >> guest: -- yes. it was heavy-duty. there were all kinds of other -- not all kinds, not like today but if you other antidepressants they never tried on him and they believed -- he went home from the mayo clinic. they sent him back and the shock treatment, they do make you lose short-term memory so he became convinced he would never be able to write. >> host: that is a downer. what was the biggest surprise in your vast research? >> guest: there were subsidiary surprises. i came to like one of his wives, pauline. a novel by paul mclean is about hadley hemingway, definitely his most romantic marriage and it is commonly thought t

hemingway was a terrible poet. and at one point he wanted scriveners to bring out a volume of his poetry and only with great difficulty they said, no, i don't think so. ask. >> host: i didn't know he actually wanted the nobel prize and he would get up the morning of the day of and waited for the phone to ring. he had a couple beat him. faulkner was one who got in. and he got mad at faulkner for making some crack about his writing. >> guest: falkner said i completely understand -- ernest understood what he sass weigh, falkner said he doesn't -- he's not really crazy. the doesn't try anything new and he meant if you have read faulkner. who is very experimental and hemingway did not do that. he had -- his genius was elsewhere but he took offense at that many -- he -- you know, i think more writers -- that's a dirty little secret that a lot of them are waiting on the -- for the nobel prize, except bob dylan. ... s the new standard. we'll open it up for questions in a moment but i wanted to tell mary that i thought she

and hemingway. we have the file. the fbi its great about foia and i have -- actually have foia reading room on the web site and you can read most of hemingway's fbi file on there does j.ed edgar hoover know hemingway had a dalliance with the soviet? no. did hoover know that hemmingway has friend on the sunset yes. does hoover think that hemingway was guilty of anything except for being maybe at built of a fellow travel center absolutely not. we have hoover's on handwriting on the file near the end hoff the file and she says i know he was not a communist, just a rough, tough guy who stood up for the. guy. hoover -- i mean, think what you want about hoover and other cases, but in this turk case, that's kind of the gentler, kind are hoover we don't get to see very much of. >> tell us about or love -- [inaudible] >> i think he lives in dayton or cleveland. orloff -- one of his jobs is to kill people for stalin. they have basically roving teams of assist -- assassins who go and kill plate al opponents. w

hemingway: i've talked about this so much because i am a media critic. there is very little diversity of thought in newsrooms. it is not just a political problem, it has to do with other things like religious issues, racial issues. there is a general group that sameoughly the socioeconomic status, similar educational backgrounds. it creates a lack of understanding about what is happening in the world. there been programs that have attempted to reach out and bring different people. racially, they have tried to have more diversity in newsrooms. but it is not worked well. i thought about other things. maybe since you cannot actually higher people -- maybe you could have one person that serves as a soubles advocate -- devil' advocate, to show you what your newspaper missed. it is not just reporters, it is editors. not made these moves in the last few months is deeply disconcerting for the project of having credibility. >> a final question, please. >> the day of the london terrorist attack i turned on the , i do not have a pedigree in politics, i am just inte

there's slight dig at hemingway in the book. so, orwell also covered and fought in the spanish civil war, and as did hemingway and there's a pint where you slip in a little dig at hemingway, quoting somebody who called hemiway boozey, preoccupied with the image rather than the reality. so, there's some other spots in here, tom, where you're slippins >> guest: i am. hemingway, as you might guess, is a special peeve of mine. he reminds me of "60 minutes." he wasn't really a war correspondent but he played one. "60 minutes" famously says, we're not really reporters but we play one on tv. there's a kind of running theme there. a lot of the stuff my very good editor made me put in the footnotes. the footnote -- there's a lot of good stuff in n there that he said, get it out of the book. >> host: yeah, editors. so, talking about these two guys and they were on the -- outcast from their own groups and they were ridiculed for being out of touch. but there's a phrase in here that captures what they did that very few people were able to d

eastern with author mary dearborn with earnest hemingway, a biography. at 1:00 by michael eric dyson with his book, tears we cannot stop. >>> and at 4:00 sidney blunethal. on sunday our coverage continues at 11:00 a.m. eastern with heather ann thompson and her book blood in the water, the prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy. at 2:00 sex and the institution. sex religion and law from america's origins. then at 3:00 trey radel, a true story of true politics, money, madness and finger food. at 4:00 author thomas ricks with church hill and/orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune printer row lit fest saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on book tv. >>> sunday night on after words new america president and ceo ann marie slaughter examines in her book the chess board and the web strategies in a networked world. she is interviewed by former white house chief of staff in the obama administration from 2013 to 2016. >> what would strike me was that we knew there was a world of states and state threats. today if you think ab

here is mollie hemingway, a senior editor at federalist and fox news contributor.at to have you. >> great to be here. kennedy: a lot of people are expecting big, exciting things from the comey hearing, because pretty much everyone is mad at him. hillary clinton won't stop assailing him. president discussed it enough to fire him, republicans, noses out of joint along the way. what's going on here? >> might be good for people to keep expectations in check a little bit. what people want to hear comey say is donald trump obstructed justice, that's the drip, drip, drip in various news reports but he can't say that without indicting himself. if donald trump had obstructed justice and james comey just sat there and didn't do anything or wrote a memo to himself, that would mean he violated his dutand so think people should not expect he will do that, and he's already in fact gotten word out through his buddies that he's not going to say that donald trump obstructed justice but say various other things about how he doesn't like donald trump. that will be exciting enough for

we published the first faulkner, first hemingway, has a long line of great writers, and we're thrilled to perpetuate a lot of that great publishing. >> host: and you're part of the norton family. was there a mr. liveright? >> guest: there was, he lived a little too wildly and died at 49. norton bought liveright in 1974. we relaunched it in 2012, and here we are celebrating our 100th anniversary. >> host: give us a snapshot of your history in the publishing world. >> guest: this is my 39th year in american publishing. i had to count. i was at st. martins press for many years, great house. i've been at norton for 19 years which mix me a newcomer, and i've, you know, done the liveright division for the last six years. >> host: what are some of the books that liveright has coming out in the fall? >> guest: we have a great lineup this year. we have daniel allen who is a professor at harvard who's doing a memoir called cuz who was really destroyed by the prison system in los angeles. she is this brilliant academic who tells this sering personal story, which like the best muckraker books, rea

lou: joining me, mollie hemingway and tammy bruce.eat to have with us radio talk show host, mark simone. the legendary. tammy, we finally have the bill, and there should be joy in the land. but instead four bad hombres get up there and want to take away the punch bowl. tammy: they are calling it a discussion draft. they can't make a commitment to the bill they presented. they are like the pajama boy. of course it's going to look different. my big problem, with the four opposed to this, senator paul and ted cruz, they $have been in there also for years. i don't see a new proposal or consolidated ideas pouring out of their pores either. they are sitting around protesting when years have gone by. mike lee said -- lou: is it good enough? tap rrp it will change. they don't cut anything. they slow the increase. that's a famous trick in washington. lou: mollie, your thoughts? mollie: this is an imperfect bill. there is a lot of stuff consequence conservatives would be happy with. if you told them years ago you could get rid of the individual

ab stoddard, mollie hemingway, and jonah jonah goldberg. you have a 50-48 split.now, we are not too with this thing, that's what they're saying. >> mitch mcconnell knew exactly what was going to happen the minute this was released. he is not surprised. i do believe ted cruz really wants to get to yes. there can be some more wrangling but that could threaten the support of moderates on the other side of the republican conference. either way, they've decided internally that they need to get this back. people bring it to the floor. they can bring it down to one or two people, stopping the fulfillment of a seven-year promise. they've lost too much time and too much momentum. there are strong indications that they are going to get this through the senate and if they can, pass the over to the house and get this possibly before the july 4th holiday. they are in a huge rush and it's intentional. >> john: the other three senators, rob johnson, mike lee, and rand paul. let's listen to what rand paul said about it earlier. >> we cannot support the current bill. we are open t

let's bring in our fox news politics editor, molly hemingway, and fox news contributor, and eric bolling, cohost of the fox news specialist. welcome to all of you. what touches you as you look back at this week? >> i'm thinking maybe it's not such a bad idea that the media are spending so much time covering this twitter battle between the president and joe and mika because it's just wasting time talking about media personalities that we don't care about. the media have been doing a really bad job when they're covering other issues, whether it's making up stories about russia collusion or calling republicans murderers for trying to reform obamacare or anything else that they try to do. maybe it's fine that they spend all this time on a story that doesn't matter. a >> martha: chris, what do you think? >> i'm struck by the waste of it all. the sad waste. we are getting ready to celebrate a wonderful anniversary of our independence, so what are we doing with that freedom? 241 years and what are we doing with our freedom and the answer, in part, we're doing a lot of wonderful things that i do

in the 1920s, hemingway's contemporaries were famously called the lost generation. i worry that millennials may become a lost generation for home ownership. excluded from the american dream, punished as an unintended by-product of the financial crisis in 2008. we must be mindful of the situation. we don't want to exclude the generation of buyers or even generations to come. we must do more. work for more. find reasonable, prudent pathways for millennials with investors and lenders in the housing market itself. interestingly enough, at the beginning of this nation, people came here from all areas of the world. and they worked extremely hard. not eight hours a day, but 12, 16 hours a day. not five days a week. six or seven days a week, no such thing as a minimum wage. not for themselves. but for their children. for their grandchildren. there was always the thinking about the next generation. something we have to start doing again. we know that a first step toward home ownership is often the purchase of a condominium. a condo is often a step on the home ownership ladde

and then, you have to fight earnest hemingway, who is also an alcoholic. >> that's not fair. >> seth:r not, that was actually the first video game that never sold a single copy. [ light laughter ] this last game was super popular on jorbus, it's called "cooking for elvis." in this game, you play as a chef working in graceland in the 1970's and you have to make peanut butter and banana sandwiches for elvis. so the way it works, you just tap "a" as fast as you can and you throw sandwiches into elvis' mouth. but if you aren't able to tap a fast enough, elvis gets hungrier and hungrier and eventually if you -- yeah, he eats you. [ laughter and applause ] give it up for the jorvis, everyone. the best there ever was. [ cheers and applause ] we'll be right back with more "late night"! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ a millie dresselhaus doll! happy birthday, sweetie! oh, millies. trick or treat! we're so glad to have you here. ♪ what if we treated great female scientists like they were stars? ♪ yasss queen! what if millie dresselhaus, the first woman to win the national medal of science in enginee

here with more, mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist.mpaign director for the center for american progress action fund. good to see you both. obviously this is a bug in battle that has been going on for some time. this was the latest misstep by cnn, but many would say that they did the right thing in this case and the three reporters, they had no mercy on these three reporters who offered their resignation. emily? >> why is the president focusing on this? they are in the middle of the largest health care battle. he doesn't like to be misrepresented. he misrepresents himself on a daily basis. why did he indicate that he had tapes of james comey? why did have his press secretary say that the inner circle knows -- that's obviously a typo. he misrepresents himself on a daily basis. i wish he would stop worrying about his ego and focus on the task at hand. he is running a large, large government. this is not a business that you can run when you have emotions and ego. >> it's been very clear, we looked at those tweets at him moments ago, he fee

eastern with author mary dearborn and her book ernest hemingway, a biography and then the 2016 nationalk stamped from the beginning, the definitive history of racist ideas in america, followed by two years we cannot stop, a sermon to white america. and then sidney blumenthal with his book a self-made man, the political life of abraham lincoln, in 1849 to 1809. our coverage continues at 11:00 a.m. eastern with her book blood and water, the prison uprising in 1971 and its legacy. also jeffrey stone with his sex in the constitution. sex, religion and law the 21st century. also at 4:00 p.m., the book churchill and orwell, the freight fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the lit fest starting saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2 book tv. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television company and is brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. >> the white house requested $1.1 trillion for the department of health and human services. the budget request includes cuts in public health and biomedical researc

eastern with author mary dearborn with her book, "ernest hemingway, a biography."t noon, abram candy and his book. followed at 1:00 by michael eric dyson with his book, "tears we cannot stop, a sermon to white america." and at 4:00, sidney blumenthal with his book. on sunday, our coverage continues at 11:00 a.m. eastern with heather and thompson and her book, "lead in the water, the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy." at 2:00, jeffrey stone with his book. then at 3:00, former congressman .rey radel with his book at 4:00, author thomas riggs with his book, "churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom." watch our coverage of the annual printers row lit fest starting at 11:00 on c-span twos booktv. sunday, q1 day is in hyde park, new york at the franklin d roosevelt museum where we go inside for a look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts with the museum's director. >> this museum opened in june 1941 and he was still the president so this essentially became the northern oval office. there are 914 books in this room alone and every book was

as ernest hemingway said, do not travel with those you do not love. fortunately, we are ok.our face here on bbc news! time for the weather update. sorry, i am just about to take the smile off of your face, i really do not want to do this weather forecast! the rain is here to stay all week long. and possibly into the start of the weekend, there will be spells of rain across the uk but some of us want the rain, the garden could do with some of it but there will be quite a lot, an awful lot in some areas over the next 2a hours. this is what it looks like any short—term. starting to rain heavily across the south—east, we have a daisy chain of storm coming out of the south, some downpours on the wide which will be striking the south—east coast and london as well. further west, more patchy rain and temperatures are not great, not that bad however, given that there is so much cloud around, the high teens in the south, mid—teens for the north. this is where we had the rain last night and this morning there was an area of rain that swept across northern ireland, north—west england an

guy benson, mollie hemingway, charles lane, charles krauthammer. good evening. let's move quickly with what we have. i will submit to you charles krauthammer sitting in that chair submitted why this is so difficult. you have an entitlement, it's difficult to pull it back. is that where we are? stick of what we have seen with the bills is that there's not much of consensus for repealing obamacare. i think they should admit this is not a deal that will repeal it. it's a bill to fix it. you have more flexibility to build a coalition. the senate bill gives quite a bit of room. things that conservatives should be happy about, things that liberals should be happy about. >> bill: we know where the president stands. he said this today. >> obamacare is dying. it's essentially dead. if you don't give it the subsidy, it would die within 24 hours. it's been a headache for everybody. it's been a nightmare for many. we are looking at a health care that would be a fantastic tribute to our country, a health care that will take care of people finally for the right reasons, and a

mollie hemingway, and ray suarez, former correspondent at the pbs news hour. shannon, i presume and i suppose the american people you suppose there were no tapes. shannon: the president called out publicly the f.b.i. director saying you better hope there are not tapes on twitter. that created the question. are there tapes? do you know anything about tapes? it seems the only reason they did answer is the congressional investigation gave them a deadline of friday to answer whether there were tapes. howie: it was a bluff and a taunt. but journalistic critics are characterizing this as a character flaw. mollie: when he tweeted that, what he was doing was accusing comey of leaking because the previous day the "new york times" published a story about a covering he had with comey, and we know comey is. but he's identifying him as a leaker. he's saying stop telling stories where you are the hero, tell the full truth. it was much girl and more balanced. he did come out and admit he told president trump he wasn't under investigation and other things. how report idea and

howie: joining me, gillian turner, mollie hemingway, and juan williams. is the media takeaway from this hearing that it was a terrible, horrible day for donald trump to be called a liar by his former f.b.i. director? gillian: it was an earli' christmas gift. 19 million people apparently tuned in to watch this. journalists had things to write about for days leading up to it. it was an interest-generating bonanza. that's the biggest thing for the media. the big picture is this is like a news story relating to the administration that was of super bowl-like proportions. howie: the comey indictment of donald trump happened to match the media narrative that the president is engaged in some political cover-up. mollie: this network and on the for networks ran countdown clocks by makes the journalistic impulse to get something major out of this. it wasn't necessarily what the media were expecting. you had the story lines going into this that there was collusion between russia and trump. that was completely blown up by the testimonies. but there is another story li

we have mollie hemingway and ned ryun. ned, jail start with you. start -- i'll start with you. your reaction to mr. depp, his community. they are not cheap shots. i think these are dangerous shots they are taking. why are they doing it and how do they get away with it. >> captain jack sparrow needs to lay off the rum. the thing that was disturbing about that video was the laughter at his comments talking about assassinating our president of the united states. you look at this rhetoric from johnny depp and commend day towards. -- and commentators. part of politics is heated rhetoric. but the big difference is the fact that hillary clinton, eric holder and major political figures in the democrat party are embracing the resistance and saying we are part of the resistance. they are embracing this rhetoric and behavior. this is a real change from how it has been in the past. now we have major parties embracing thoseth things. trish: mollie, the ceasar play as well. your thoughts. mollie: even worse, some of these artists i don't think people take political advice from, is the politi

hollywood, loved hollywood but by 1962-63, he made one movie called killers which was an adaptation of hemingway's novel. he hated the movie so much he never saw it. he did 57 movies. it is the only time in 57 movies where he is depicted as a bad guy and slapped angie dixon in the movie and he hated that. he hated that. he would never see the movie. he himself was in the wilderness several times including after 63. he is kind of like a professional host introducing political candidates, various things and starting to develop a speech which became known as the speech. for local candidates and mostly goldwater 63, the draft goldwater movement started in fall of 63. my parents were members of it, went to the goldwater convention. walter brennan kissed my mother. anybody remember walter brennan? excellent. >> it is odd to think of walter brennan kissing your mom. kind of an old man. >> he is developing a speech. group of southern california business men go to reagan and his brother neil, and at executive in california. they say to reagan we want to put this on television to help goldwater so they put

. >> molly hemingway says that is exactly why he did it to get a better deal for the american people.ful to donald trump's voters. they are people on the right, republicans and conservatives claiming they will get out of things like this, this is part of the republican platform to exit the paris accord. you had mitt romney, the previous presidential nominee begging trump to stay in. it was a refreshing thing for a lot of trump voters to see someone follow through on the campaign promise as trump did today. >> the supreme court to revise executive order. this suspends new visas being issued to people in six muslim majority countries and approved by a freeze. the lower court decision to block that order. >> the video you are about to see may be disturbing to you, look at this freak wind gusts, sends bounce castles flying through the air. there are children inside of those lifting them right off the ground and parents run to help. look at that. you can see that on the ground at a birthday party and mexico. and four children injured. there were others critically injured. rob: that happens

special prosecutor statute which doesn't exist right now but i was shocked to read yesterday, molly hemingway fitzgerald, the most abusive special counsel ever appointed, he knew the answer from the day he took over or richard armitage, information about being cia, not only did he not drop it, he expanded, comey pressured john ashcroft to recuse himself when i don't think he should've so comey could get his godfather fitzgerald ines special counsel, comey is dirty, mueller is dirty, the two of them what they did. rob: let's get back on topic. everything is so political, nancy pelosi said there is nothing, can you give dianne feinstein credit for doing the right thing in the situation saying there needs to be an investigation? >> i hope there would be, there should be, she is exactly right about that but there needs to be more than an investigation. there is no collusion with this administration and russia, so we can drop the independent counsel, special counsel, there is no further need and now that we have collusion between comey and mueller, before he testified, also ran things by other peo

joining me now, fred barnes and mollie hemingway. first of all in this vacation cancellation. can't recall senators or congressmen giving that up. do you think there is a possibility of that. mollie: i think it's amazing they are talking about that. if they don't get these types of things done, their electoral chances in the next year will be grim. i think everyone understands the importance. it's okay that it's taking a long time to work out problems with repealing and replacing obamacare. but you have to finish your work but get to go home. fred: i think maybe they will knock a week off the recess or something like that. i don't know why all these members of congress hate washington in august. i have lived here my whole life and i survived. david: let me ask you about the medicaid issue. that's at the heart of what the debate is right now. whether you continue the extraordinary expansion of medicaid that we have under obamacare so it went from kind of a help for the folks who were really desperate to an entitlement for more people under immediate care right now. is that batt

byron york, mollie hemingway, charles lane, and charles krauthammer.byron, your thoughts great >> the first thing was he confirmed some reports we've seen that the president asked him if he would consider letting go the michael flynn investigation. this was after flynn was fired. he confirmed what you were just reading, the loyalty request, although it's something we hear the president has asked almost everybody he's hired. on the other hand, he did confirm with the president said which was that call comey saidn three occasions donald trump was not under investigation. we've seen a brief statement from the president's lawyer saying he feels completely and totally vindicated. my guess is tomorrow what you're going to see is democrat saying that comey has just given them solid evidence of obstruction and republicans saying this makes us feel a lot better. we think it can be explained. >> bret: the president talk to lester holt, laid out the different meetings, said he'd been told he wasn't under investigation. then we have a series of stories from anonym

we will bring in the panel, guy benson, mollie hemingway, caitlin collins white house correspondent.er knox. yahoo! news, chief washington correspondent. okay, tell us. >> i do not think you can spend today as a good day for the white house, right? you have the former fbi director calling the president a liar. heavily suggesting that the special counsel is looking into obstruction of justice which would involve the president and also comey characterizing the ask for the president allegedly said that he hoped to that plan would be essentially left off the hook. he called that in his own mind of directive. so that is a rough day down at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. but i do think at the same time that several of the major narratives from the nt trump left sustained significant body blows from comey's own testimony that the president was in fact told three times by the fbi director that he was not under investigation. that trump did not interfere with the russian investigation and in fact supported it. and a few others. if you are a trump supporter, you have a few things to hang your hat o

had pretty much he only made one movie after that called the killers which is an adaptation of hemingway's novel.. he hated the movie so much he never saw. the only movie that 57 movies, i think and if the only time in 5 movies where he is depicted as the bad guy.nd he slaps angie dixon in the movie and he hated that. he hated that. he wouldn't never see the movie. even himself he was in the wilderness several times including after after 63 and he kind of like a professional host in southern california interviewing introducing political candidates and various things and he's starting to develop a speech known as: the speech. for local candidates but mostly for goldwater in 63, the goldwater movement started in the fall of 63. my parents were members of it. they came here to washington, went to the jack goldwater conventions, walter brennan kiss my mother left back does anyone remember walter brennan? the real mccoy.an? excellent. >> is hard to think of the walter brennan kissing your mom, he's kind of an old man but. [laughter] >> so, anyway, he's developing a speech but a group of souther

stoddard, mollie hemingway. good evening. i white house victory. >> i think that's right.a win and a vindication for donald trump and the travel ban. it was also a win for the plane that are of the law. part of the reason why this was such a clear win for the white house is that they were on the right side of a constitutional legal argument. the president has plenipotentiary power terrae navigation -- immigration. the ninth circuit opinion, fourth circuit opinion were bad and political decisions. would have been a huge mass if the supreme court had not clarified that the president does have these powers and it did trim back certainly some of the more expansive ideas of quote what the ban is supposed to be. people from these countries can come in. they just need a good reason. >> bill: the courts in february and march. we were listening to them. >> these rulings were kind of ridiculous. they were going through donald trump's campaign tweets and try to ascertain deeper meaning. that was a bad precedent to set, this idea that we can judge donald trump differently than all oth

molly hemingway. and chris stirewalt from fox news. molly, i'll start saying you like the solar panel idea. >> i'm not a huge fan of the wall but i like solar panels on the wall. >> bret: transition to the speech. classic donald trump. iowa campaign trump. your thoughts? >> he seems to be more comfortable speaking of conservative principles. it's like it's not a second language for him which at times it has seemed. he was funny and conversational and he hit the big agenda items he is interested in. he emphasized his successes. the plan about work requirement, a requirement that the new immigrants not receive welfare. it's a popular thing that bill clinton did to tie welfare reform to work requirements. it's gutted in the previous administration. it's a policy that has broad appeal. >> bret: he has the wind at his back with the special election wins. you can feel that and sense it in the delivery. >> this has been a psychological boost for the white house. they have been in a rough stretch. people including the president have felt under

molly hemingway. and chris stirewalt from fox news. molly, i'll start saying you like the solar panel idea. >> i'm not a huge fan of the wall but i like solar panels on the wall. >> bret: transition to the speech. classic donald trump. iowa campaign trump. your thoughts? >> he seems to be more comfortable speaking of conservative principles. it's like it's not a second language for him which at times it has seemed. he was funny and conversational and he hit the big agenda items he is interested in. he emphasized his successes. the plan about work requirement, a requirement that the new immigrants not receive welfare. it's a popular thing that bill clinton did to tie welfare reform to work requirements. it's gutted in the previous administration. it's a policy that has broad appeal. >> bret: he has the wind at his back with the special election wins. you can feel that and sense it in the delivery. >> this has been a psychological boost for the white house. they have been in a rough stretch. people including the president have felt under