and that good looking brilliant jack kemp showed up to endorse me, she was on cloud nine. er] jack's appeal went far beyond the republican grassroots where he had strong admiration and strong support. what was most striking to me was campaigning with jack kemp and places republicans don't normally hang out, which by the way i recommend to republican candidates. try it. you'll actually like it. it is kind of fun to actually get outside your comfort zone. [applause] never forget going into a tampa housing project with jack kemp. he didn't like to talk little but than other politicians, i never thought of it the way that morton brought it up -- he wanted to persuade every simple person in that room, whether they liked it or not, that his cause is righteous. i will never forget going into this project, they have probably never seen a republican go to their place to speak. he ended up with a standing ovation. it had a lasting impact on me. the best way to campaign is first to listen, to learn, and then to persuade. if we have that is the process of campaigning, we are going to b

and jeb bush honored with the jack kemp foundation leadership award. >> this week, as is obama and former president clinton joined members at a memorial service for former house speaker tom foley. .e was a democrat the last five years, he was speaker of the house. the service was hold in the u.s. capitol's statue a tory hall -- statuary hall. 1.5 hours.s than >> president obama delivered the remarks at a memorial service >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors, the singing of the united states national anthem, and the retiring of the colors. >> ? oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. oh say does that star- spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. ? now please be seated. >> now please be seated. >> ladies and gentlemen, le

. >> it's a jack kemp message. >> absolutely.ant to be living in the american people. >> mitt was too pessimistic. in some sense, obama was the optimist in that campaign and mitt -- >> he was falsely optimistic because he didn't have a plan -- because his optimism was based on the mighty hand of the government. ours should be based on the people. not the government. >> last question. in washington i'm still putting you in washington after you're going to win your november election which i predict. what would you do? first thing, what would you do? you see the mess down there. you see the problems with the budget, with taxes. with obama care. first order of business for a president elect scott walker. >> any person who's in the right mind should repeal obama care, replace wit a market-driven solution. cut the marginal tax rate and rein in the epa and the national labor relations board. >> your friend paul ryan wants to reform enhitment wititlement. he said the gop should spend time worrying about how to help poor and poverty stric

i think of jack kemp in my lifetime.man who has loved people, loved his country and wanted us to aspire to do more. one of the things we're working on is eradicating poverty in our country. >> for me it is a free market approach. there is a way for us to encourage people toward earning successful talk about education reform that gets to a place where kids that grew up in neighborhoods like i grew up in believe in the future and believe this country, this day can change the entire rest of the their lives. >> in ten seconds, what are your thoughts? >> i grew up with, i had action figures, i jamd them jfk and rfk and mlk. my parents were such big supporters of the kings. i want to thank both of you for being here. it means so much to have out a day like today. if you want to be part of this conversation, you can to go facebook or twitter. you can weigh in on our fire back question. which president will history view more favorably. 64% of you say bill clinton. 36% say barack obama. the debate will continue online. from the l

paul ryan who he's negotiating with, a disciple of jack kemp, he would like to work on some of these economic proposals. a lot of these tea party members come from districts that are struggling. they're behind in the recovery, if you will. so they have common interests, but christine, what they don't have is any common ground. so it's very hard to see any major new economic 234ish tifs in the short term. the president would have to have a big win in the 2014 midterms. anyone can see that happening is reading data that i don't see. right now is seems ache a break-even or republican year. >> when i talk about one america with two economies, here's what i mean. the stock market surged, but only half of americans are invested. good-paying middle-class jobs being replaced by jobs that have lower wages. without blaming republicans, what could this president be doing differently? you're a businessman. you know the economy. what could he be doing differently? sfroo well, i think what's missing here is a correlation between the contributions of the business community making and can make versu

where your jack kemps and others used to bring us together. >> there are still a lot of republicans whoay look, i believe government can do a lot of good. the problem is, it becomes excessively good and does no good because it's so big or we don't have our priorities right. i think republicans should care deeply about education and want to put significant dollars we're the most innovative 50 in the world and we don't make anything anymore. the problem in the republican party today in my opinion is, there's too many people who are middle class people who think we have stopped fighting for them. something they thought ronald reagan did. something they thought other people have done for them. these days, as your perception is, they think we only care about the wealthy. >> that's why newt gingrich's book is really good. he talks about unleashing the potential of people to make this an innovation society. i've been reading. i'm giving you a big plug. >> thank you. and i think breakout is part of that. one of the places we're seeing the start of the breakout is the governors. the largest expe

jack kemp in 1998 at the republican convention sort of defined the difference in political parties. e compassion by how many are receiving government aid, and republicans measure compassion by how few need it. and i think the two parties are going to have to come together, because it's the dignity of a job, not just a job, but the dignity of a good job and an economic climate and an environmental, to pull us out of this economic downfall that we've been in, with everybody's got shared responsibility in it. so it's really the dignity of a good education and the dignity of a really good job to move us away. because i don't think anybody here applauds the fact that we have a country with 47 million people. >> sure, sure, sure. but that -- there are no more jack kemp republican -- for one thing, you guys like buried jack kemp. i don't know if y'all should say his name anymore. >> we did. >> but beyond that, that idea of people not needing it. i'm down, i would prefer people have the capacity to purchase food. and in fact, as you said earlier, maya, the cbo suggests that we're going to se

when i was working in the republican party, i'm not anymore thank god, but when i was people like jack kempends of mine would be shocked at these guys and would have nothing to do with them. they'd get primaried. they could not run in these parties. these are religious fanatics. these are not politicians. >> you know, when he talks about evangelicals and talks about how far out they are, let me play for you an interview from an evangelical radio show that aired yesterday. just listen to how the host and guest talk about president obama. >> obama is a leader of a massive cult himself. he's the leader of the cult and the cult is islam. >> is barack obama leading america to a cultural suicide? >> oh, yes. >> i mean, a cultural jonestown massacre? >> yes. >> now, this was uncovered by your right wing watch. this is scary stuff that's being put out over the airwaves. but like frank says, no adults in the republican party or on the right are denouncing these kinds of statements. >> to add what frank was saying, i think their strategy is unfortunately this is what appeals to voters in the primarie

paul ryan's mentor personally was jack kemp when he started out empower america in the '90s. return to style. >> which didn't work. >> kemp's policies in terms of pro growth economics and supply economics you're going to see ryan return to that. so does mike lee. >> tax cuts to the rich. that's what that means. >> to howard's point the president can own basic fairness doctrine as a principle. at the same time it's worrisome to me democratic asks are something we shouldn't have to ask for. a raise in the minimum wage, fine, controversial. food stamp funding or the end to the skes ter cuts. >> when you did the last vote, 91-3 in the senate, a whole slew of republicans there. you have to look at the world view. as a republican i don't want to spend government money. i want people to work hard. wouldn't the minimum wage make a lot of sense. you are seeing they are going to stop, filibuster. >> extend unemployment benefits. >> here is the problem, alex. the government as a total share of the economy i think is bigger than ever. a lot of republicans are saying oh, my god, we've got

old friend and mentor jack kemp used to say the trick is make the nonrich rich through economic opportunityunish success. that's my little sermon. here now we bring in this to discuss this, deputy chief of staff and cnbc contributor jim from the american enterprise institute. jimmy, you're writing today, one of the smaller towns out in the state of washington, they want to double the minimum wage. president obama now wants to go i guess from $7 and something to $10. i can't think of anything dumber. >> right. it's a cost of hiring. disincentive for businesses to hire. politicians love it because it doesn't cost them any money. something like a direct wage subsidy, expand the eitc tax credit. that goes on the books of government. unions don't like it because they think people won't support it. politicians don't like it. let's raise the minimum wage. you may get higher wages for people with jobs but end up losing jobs over the long term. >> i know you'll disagree but unions are supposedly for the underdog. they want to help the younger people, african-americans and hispanics. to me this jacki

also a pragmatic conservative who thinks it's important to remember what a real conservative like jack kempsaid, that the republican party should be a big tent." when it appeared he was headed for defeat in the primary, he left the republican party to run for the u.s. senate as an independent. he said it was about giving the people a choice. >> this is making sure that all the people have the opportunity in my state to make this decision about who their next u.s. senator is. nobody should be afraid of that. >> he spent a million dollars of negative advertising for attacking me for a month and only when did that did not work did he abandon the republican party and decide to run as an independent. >> crist lost in the fall, left office in 2011, and last december he joined the democratic party. now he's made the full transition from republican to independent to democrat. as evidenced by his announcement monday that he would run for governor, this time under a new party label. >> so, yes, yeah, i'm running as a democrat. and i am proud to do it. >> he's trying a difficult political trick, winni

where the party was in the 1980s you have people like bill bennett talking about education reform, jack kemp talking about tax reform, you know, a lot of great thinkers, a lot of reformers, same thing in 1994, we got elected, we were put in charge of congress again in 1994, not because of what i was saying on the campaign trail, or these other -- >> rose: campaign with, contract with america. >> not even because of the contract with america, because governor i think her in michigan ingler had great ideas for recorporal, john cass sick had an alternate budget. >> rose: what you are saying today you know what he is saying in ohio he is speaking about we have to have a safety net. >> right. >> rose: i mean he is speaking to issues of compassion. >> right. >> rose: and tolerance. >> right. >> as a republican governor, a conservative economic, most economic issues are conservative, but he is speaking to not only a conservativism and economics but also a sense of tolerance and respect for -- >> rose: well there is no doubt about it. we need a safety -- i'm sorry. >> rose: go ahead. we need a safet

and jimmy kemp, president and founder of the jack kemp foundation. welcome, everybody.ob traynham, one of the things that occurs to me today with all that went on, the cancellations and the lack of grandfathering, and it was one drama after another, sebelius gave a terrible performance and so forth, and people realize they're not going to be able to keep it and the president broke his promise, they can't keep their -- >> individual. >> did in your opinion has the tide turned? is the public, popular and even media tide turned against obama and the obama plan? >> absolutely. the reason why is to your earlier montage that you aired a few moments ago is a lack of credibility there is a lack of transparency. there is also not a plan. so when you see the president and the administration say you're going to be able to keep your plan. everything is going to be fine. and obviously that's not the case, then there is a credibility issue here. for a long, long time it was the republican party that was saying the sky was going to fall. nothing was going to work. and everyone said th

pattern this speech writer for nancy reagan administration and a political campaign working for jack kemp in 1988. of her most recent book her book is called do-gooder's. and jonah's most recent book is how liberals cheat in the war of ideas. i want to make it clear they exempt from all versions just to maintain comedy of mound of our panelists but we begin with the author. >> host: franklin foer the presentations then will talk about it to everyone in the room. the podium is yours. [applause] good afternoon. thank you for that nice introduction into the hudson institute for sponsoring this yvette. the book "what jefferson read, ike watched, and obma tweeted" i mention it because tweet is important you may tweet that at your pleasure it is a tweet happy event we also take questions via twitter. this is how the think tank adapts to the 21st century. getting to the title i recently had a different title and came up with the title after i saw an interesting incident from a presidential historian that surprised me. few years ago obama was trying to sell his health care lot and he went to the

[applause] i read that jack kemp never missed one of the focal games. i can attest as of this had to live life on the road, i know how hard that is and what an incredible commitment to family that is. knowing his love of football and family, i believe that he did it. of ballet miss a lot recitals and non-football related activities if anyone is thinking this is a chauvinist family. [laughter] the work being taken by this addition to build upon his legacy and to advance his ideas today and in the future is really important. the fact that you are here providing financial support warms my heart. thank you. [applause] >> wow. >> do want me to do it? >> i will do it. >> fantastic. >> jeb, governor, congratulations. >> thank you. as a token of our appreciation, we would like you to have one of jack's favorite books of his collection. >> oh wow. 1857 addition of the federalist papers. as we all know it was not the initial publication. [laughter] is 1857. the papers of alexander hamilton and john jay and james madison. they discuss ideas. >> she is always corre

and a political campaign working for jack kemp in his presidential quest in 1988. her most recent book -- and i want to mention that mona's most recent book is called "do-gooders: how liberals hurt those they claim to help," and jonah's most be recent book is "how liberals cheat in the war of ideas," but i want to make it clear mona and jonah exempt bill galston -- [laughter] just to try to maintain a comity among our panelists. but our subject today is not partisan, it is far more elevated. we will begin with our author, tevi troy, and then proceed through the three presentations, and then we'll have some discussion up here and open it up to everybody in the room. thank you very much. tevi, the odium is yours. [applause] the podium many -- is yours. [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you, chris, for that nice introduction. thank you to my fellow co-panelists and to the hudson institute for sponsoring this event. the book, as chris mentioned, is "what jefferson read, ike watched and obama tweeted," and i mention it again. hudson institute wants you to know you may

and a political campaign working for jack kemp in his presidential quest in 1988. her most recent book -- and i want to mention that mona's most recent book is called "do-gooders: how liberals hurt those they claim to help," and jonah's most be recent book is "how liberals cheat in the war of ideas," but i want to make it clear mona and jonah exempt bill galston -- [laughter] just to try to maintain a comity among our panelists. but our subject today is not partisan, it is far more elevated. we will begin with our author, tevi troy, and then proceed through the three presentations, and then we'll have some discussion up here and open it up to everybody in the room. thank you very much. tevi, the odium is yours. [applause] the podium many -- is yours. [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you, chris, for that nice introduction. thank you to my fellow co-panelists and to the hudson institute for sponsoring this event. the book, as chris mentioned, is "what jefferson read, ike watched and obama tweeted," and i mention it again. hudson institute wants you to know you may

i remember john and i think you were here when we served with jack kemp, a republican, who would repeatedly, in committee cite john floor, kennedy as an inspiration. so that his legacy has not only been in terms of what he did and what he said, but his legacy remains in those he inspired to serve. repaired to the high ideal he is put before us, this congress this country and the world. ohn kennedy made a difference. we remember him. we remember that he died tragically. but what it really has us remembering is the contribution he made while he lived however short that life was. i thank the gentleman for allowing us to remember this day the loss we sustained on november 22, 1963. mr. larson: i thank the leader, i thank him for his poignancy. i know how much it means to people listening to have a glimpse into history as it unfolded and also the real life experience of our great leader and president. david brinkley described of that moment, he said that the assassination was beyond understanding, and i quote him, the events of those days don't fit. you can't place them anywhere. they don't go i