and jerry ford was very taken with him. saw him as a way to embody what the republicans are trying to capture. the kind of vote that went democratic, and buddy had a featured role speaking at the 1986 republican national convention. he was a guy that was seen as potentially going places. he was very glim. he was articulate, they said he could be a potential vice president candidate or got u.s. senate where he could have a long and successful career. then the problem ensued. he of course ford lost the election. he went 0 to become mayor in corruption. there was a massive investigation in the early '80s. he characters like blackjack and were running around the city stealing manhole covers and city asphalt, cutting all kinds of crooked deals. selling city trucks to private owners. that's sort of thing. and there was massive corruption, and several people in the administration went prison. they never got to him because his top aid never ratted him out. went to prison himself. buddy was caught up in a personal marital dispute. h

congressional authorization because a long history from ronald reagan to bill clinton, a long history, jerry ford, presidents have taken it among themselves, commander in chief, when it is a limited action, and this certainly will be -- we were talking whether it was 48 hours or 96 hours, to take that action, authority, upon himself and to go ahead. now we are talking about -- the president said, i'm looking forward to this debate as if it is going to be another campaign. he is going -- i disagree with steve. i think he will make the case for affirmatively and -- make the argument but we are now talking -- as you subway 10, welfare days, whatever it is, september 9, before congress comes back. and then they have the debate and then vote. this is going to ache us into mid september in addition to which we are going to face a budget crisis while all that is going on. let's just suppose for a minute that we end up like the british parliament to take your question and they -- congress ends up voting it down. we just had john kerry yesterday saying the not just syria. whole world is watching. iran is

laws when he was governor of new york and nixon's war on drugs and there was vice president or jerry ford it's just been it's been more and more and more and more harsher harsher harsher harsher and it just hasn't worked if we if you look at incarceration the united states the from the george washington administration to the one nine hundred twenty the note the line is relatively flat and if you look at this graph you can see from one hundred twenty until the reagan presidency the line was still relatively flat where that little arrow was actually pointing nine hundred seventy which is the nixon drug war on drugs but the next little vertical line is nine hundred eighty the reagan presidency and boom that's when it took off like a rocket ship now eric holder is saying we're going to basically at the federal level which doesn't influence not going to affect a lot of people but if states start imitating this it will we're not going to introduce the amounts of drugs that were arrested for people who are not involved with gangs and are not violent so as not to trigger minute minimum mandatory

. >> yes, and the jerry ford and the other jerry ford, and i am looking for the retail to stabilize and reports coming up of the macro retail sales not that bad and then watch the china plays. caterpillar breaking out and i keep chi of the chanos interview that you did in delivering alpha, and he said that it is the short of the market, and a lot is because people believe that china is coming back and going to start ordering equipment again, and this is not an easy proposition to believe, however, the momentum is with the cats and the cummings now. >> when you mentioned china, of course, i look at yum, but it is not that bad now. i am not sure a full open, because it is only down 3%, jim. >> well, merrill lynch -- and down the 13% same store sales out of china you would have thought -- >> well, the last-minute expectation gain you would not be down. and jcpenney trading up. and apple, you know apple was up 13% in the day. in the old days if it was up 13%, we would have devoted the show to it. now 13 up, okay. nobody cares. >> that is a good thing. >> of the expectations. and analysts sa

while he was out there he went to palm springs and he visited jerry ford, who had been good friends with them when he was president. and when he was there he also got invited to attend at frank sinatra's house. so we having dinner at frank sinatra's house and he tells the story, you know, he sees a picture on the wall behind the bar and the bartender says, you're from providence, how is raymond doing? so there's that bizarre cross occurrences in buddy's life. buddy and i had an interesting relationship as i wrote this book, because the one thing about trantwo, two things that matter to them our power and control. and, of course, money. he didn't have control over this book. he didn't get the money, and he couldn't control his legacy, and he didn't like some of the negatives things that i found about him but i tried to be fair because there are two sides of the coin and that's what makes it so compelling. buddy always wanted to write his own book, and he later did a few years ago called politics and pasta. he always used again become i'm going to write my own memoirs and i'm not going to

jerry ford was very taken with him, and he saw him as a way to embody what the republicans were trying to coopture, you know, the kind of vote that usually went democratic. buddy had a goal of speaking at the '76 republican convention. he was a guy who was seen as potentially going places. he was glib, he was articulate, he was a champion of cities and urban renewal. and some people audaciously even said he could be a potential vice presidential candidate or at least go to the u.s. senate where he could have a very long and successful career. but then some problems ensued. he, of course, gerald ford the election, and he went on to become mayor and get ensnared in some corruption. there was a massive investigation in the early 1980s. he had characters like bug -- buckles and blackjack and bow bow stealing manhole covers, stealing city asphalt, cutting all kinds of crooked deals selling city trucks to private owners. and that sort of thing. and then there was massive corruption, and several people in buddy's administration went to prison. they never got to buddy because his top aide neve

while he was throughout he went to palm springs and visited jerry ford who was good friends with himinner at frank sin gnat that's house. he's having dinner at frank senate that's house. we had an interesting relationship as i wrote the boob. the one thing about buddy that two things that matter to him are power and control and of course money. and he didn't have the control over the book and didn't get the money. he couldn't control his legacy and he didn't like some of the negative things i found. i try to be fair. there are two sides of the coin and that makes him compelling. he wanted to write his own book and later did a few years ago called "politics and pasta." i'm not going talk you about my inside story and how are you going to write a -- i remember he called know his office a month before he wept to prison. it was the final day in office. it was a summer afternoon, quiet, and as i'm there he starts to say howsht you revoke your contract with random house. we write a book together. how much are you getting? i said i'm not getting that much. i'm getting enough to make it fair

jerry. >> you've worked here for 27 years. you will have wasted everything at fordhose cars? >> no. they wouldn't let us. what did you learn? >> it's a good thing america's got great young people like ty carter. great things on the battlefield but keeps it up off the batt battlefield. >> i learned you're a little too cozy with james carville. >> he says he likes me, that's bad. >> i learned any attack against syria is not going to overthrow assad and not going to keep him from gassing his own citizens again. >> i learned a lot military skepticism internally about this. a lot. i hope you guys have a great labor day weekend. i'm always so tired. this is friday, right? >> yes. >> it is the fall and we're not going into memorial day weekend, right? >> no, it's labor day. >> great, then i can go. the way i know it is, because alabama's going to win on saturday night. thanks for watching us this week. if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." stick around because "the fix" is next. have a great labor day weekend. roll tide. >>> one big ally opts out. after parliament sho

jerry, 27 years. if you ride off in the sunset with her, you will have wasted every day at ford here.d rapids. so you guys have been working here a long time. how long, gary? >> 27 years, when this place opened. >> this is a great day, isn't it? >> yes, it's a beautiful day. >> and even longer? >> 36 years. >> 36 years. you're a clocker. i don't know how you got here. how long you been working here? >> 4 days. >> 4 days! how did you get in here? >> 35 years. >> 26 years. >> 26 years. >> thank you, guys, for all the hard work, huh. what great news. we're importing jobs from mexico back home to detroit. it's great news, man. great news. we're bringing it home. what have you learned today, brian? >> i don't know if this translates but the people have real pride here in what they did. >> it's unbelievable. >> it's part a transformation. it's real. it's a family. >> there are a lot of people taking to heart the story of detroit. it begins right here in the ford plant. >> glad to be part of the team. >> it's great to be here. >> we also heard from a lot of people not at ford who are really