it was somody with outside experience, political experience, private sector experien not unlike jim bakerity and depth ofnowledge of the tail, but dsn't ring to it that same political -- >> president's management style -- i canannot belie how cynical my colleagues are. you ard the guy. he wants to spend more time with the family. since everybody sayshat when they leave the job, i think there should be a legal requirement that when you take a job in government you have to say, "i want to spend less time with my family." that shoululd be written into law. [laughter] >> jonathan r.altesays a former chairman of the democratic national committee

somebody with outside experience, political experience, private sector experience, not unlike and jim baker. jack lew, his successor, is a guy up enormous ability, great depth of knowledge, but doesn't ring to it that same political dimension. >> look, i cannot believe how cynical my colleagues are. you heard the guy. he wants to spend more time with the family. i think that sends everybody says that when they leave a job, there should be a legal requirement that when you take a job in government, you ought to say, "i want to spend less time with my family." [laughter] that should be written into law. >> jonathan alter quotes a former chairman of the committee,nationalmiom, ceett "i am going back to chicago where they stand you in the front." see you next week. vo:geico, committed to providing service to its auto insurance customers for over 70 years. more information on auto insurance at geico.com or 1-800-947-auto any time of the day or night.

. -- with an outside expert, political experience, private- sector experience, not unlike jim baker. jack lew has enormous ability and knowledge but does not bring to it that same -- >> look, i cannot believe how cynical my colleagues are. you heard the guy to he wants to spend more time with the family. [laughter] i think that since everybody says that when they leave a job, there should be a legal requirement that when you take a job in government, you have to say, "i am doing it because i want to spend less time with my family." [laughter] >> jonathan alter in his bloomberg column are purged the former head of the democratic national committee, would set "i am going to chicago where they stab you in the front." see you next week.

bush's giant jim baker was chief of staff of the white house in the course of which was a vice president and he had all kinds of washington connections and if the government just simply filled up with bush people was harder for reagan to do anything and how did that impact policy his policies. the republican establishment did not want a big tax bill they were worried about the deficit and wall street was telling them if you cut taxes inflation will go out of course of iran and didn't went down but they said the place will go up it will destroy our stock and bond portfolios and you've got to block it's crazy reagan and not let him do this and so i spent a lot of time in the government citing reagan's own government to get the tax bill out that the president wanted that he thought would restore the economy so that he could then move to his second agenda which was to end the cold war. you know interesting again you see this theme of protecting the assets and the wealth of the elite we have to go to break i want you to stay right there because i want to al capone americans are all bystanders

[laughter] have you met jim baker?resident's chief of staff became the largest chipmunk collector on the planet. i really learned a lot about leadership. it wasn't that reagan was disengage, it was that reagan thattwo boxes in his head. he had a chipmunk box and he had an antelope box. this is the difference. this is a great study in real leadership. reagan wants to send a signal and he got down into the weeds if the weeds involve the big issues. secretary of state george shultz told the story that reagan had gone to berlin as governor in 1967. he said that wall sure is ugly, they ought to tear it down. >> 65-68. >> and the wall was ugly and it should have torn down. 20 years later, reagan is reelected president and carries 49 states. he will go back to berlin and he has this blind he wants to deliver -- mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. the state department hated the line. they thought would be a gorbachev feel bad. [laughter] it did not sound presidential and it was not going to happen. the speech went from the whi

when they tried to sell him on another tax increase, a famous story in the "new york times," or jim baker is trying to sell them on another tax increase and reagan takes off his glasses and looked at him and says if you believe what you just said, why are you in this administration? baker walked out and said we're never talking about a tax increase again while he is president. 1990, i campaigned very hard for bush in 1988. and one of the keys to his money -- he was 19 points behind dukakis in may. he won by six. as one of 25 points. in the convention he said no new taxes. he went on and said read my lips, no new taxes. so he gets there and several people, including the governor, sell them on the idea that it is really ok to break your word and raise taxes. and they came to me and i said, no, i am not going to do this. in one book, it said flatly that i was the one guy who kept saying to them, this is a trap. the democrats are suckering you in to accept a tax increase to break your credibility and to get more money. so i fought him. 1993, bill clinton comes in, he wants to raise taxes beca

jim baker in our movie comments reagan always believed the purpose of a negotiation was to get what he needed. -- get an agreement. he would rather get 80 percent when come back later for the other 20%. when the go to reykjavik to meet with gorbachev, reykjavik offers to dismantle the entire soviet nuclear arsenal if reagan will give up ballistic missile defense, and reagan says no, because it is a step too far. by holding tough, six months later, gorbachev comes back and years of reagan and virtually everything he wants to produce nuclear vessels. it is not like reagan will take a bad deal, but he is always trying to find a way to say what can he get done. callisto and i have talked about this at length. she used to be on the >> last fall you asked the subcommittees to come back and i was wondering -- come back with results about how they could clean out some of the processes and procedures that they do every day. i was wondering what the results were of that? >> nothing. [laughter] >> you all you something like that here? does it work? does it make you more productive? one of the rea

i'm thinking of jim baker, his bosses. >> i would argue, and from my feeling of it is, basically davidnd. whether one was the, quote, boss over the other, i wouldn't make a distinction between the two. but the two of them were supposed to be co-equal partners. >> i want to ask you. i don't have time for this. a couple of minutes on this. big story out of the "new york times." what's her name? >> jodi cantor. >> it's going to be a big book coming out tomorrow, i believe. it talks about this dysfunction in the white house. a big fight between rahm emmanuel, the former chief of staff and the first lady. what do you think? is it there? have you seen the fight? >> i've not seen the fight but i've heard quite a bit it from folks who worked in the east wing. it certainly rings true. one thing about bill daley if there's one thing he did well and that was on the first days he called michelle obama to let her know that he was there and more kind of integration of the east wing and west wing. >> was there an ideological struggle left and right between rahm emmanuel and the first lady? was she mo

have you met jim baker?t's chief of staff, became the largest chipmunk collector on the planet. i learned a lot about leadership. the news media misunderstood. it was not that he was disengaged. he had two boxes in his head, a chipmunk box that was pat them on the head and get rid of them. then he had an antelope box that was get them done thflt is a great study in real leadership. reagan wants to accepted a signal. he got down into the weeds if the weeds involved the big issues. george y of state schultz told me this story. reagan will gone to berlin as governor in 1967. that wall sure is ugly, they ought to tear it down. >> i was there. >> you were there. pretty good. there you go. and the wall was ugly and they should have torn it down. 20 years later president is re-elected president and carried 49 states. he is going to go back to berlin and he has this line that he wants to deliver. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. now, the state department hated the line. they thought it made gorbachev feel bad. it

i'm thinking of jim baker. >> sure.were sort of working hand in hand. whether one was the "boss" over the other, i wouldn't make a distinction. but the two of them were supposed to be partners. >> a couple minutes on this. big story in "the new york times." a big book coming out tomorrow that talks about the dysfunction in the white house. a fight between the former chief of staff and the first lady. >> i haven't seen the fight, but i heard a lot about it from former white house staffers. it's certainly reigns true. one of things about bill daley, one thing he did well is on the first days, he called michelle obama to let her know he was there. but this is a well-known struggle. >> was there an ideal oj call struggle between ram emanuel and the first lady? >> no. this is more of somebody protecting their husband and protecting the image. >> but i read in the book about how she wanted to go more aggressive on health care? >> more in messaging and what you're not feeling as if the way they were going about it, which was g

. >> up next jim baker recalls the life of birth control advocate margaret sanger. a bill will propose that. this is just over an hour. >> in case you did not know we moved into this space last week. we are playing with the technical difficulty. we're glad you're all year, and i hope you all founded drink and appreciate your patience. my name is amanda. curator of the evening event series. i am delighted to see all of you here. she's doing to of having a conversation with cristina page. the opening of that family planning and birth control clinic at 4610 voice street. she started exiting after being a nurse you're on the lower east side. she was a cohort of emma goldman, who by the way we will be disgusting -- discussing in just two weeks. it sends night stalker is not just fitting but surprisingly timely, it is fitting because they're is a good chance that she knew one or more of the immigrant woman who lived in now tenement a few doors down. a professor of history. the author of several books on american history, including systems, the lives of american suffragist

and jim baker running senior bush's campaign back in 1988, never called out the mccarthy people, theat american security agency campaign that was run, all those dirty ads. they never called up and said, please stop those dirty ads, they're hurting with us, because they liked those ads. anyway, thank you, michael isikoff, thank you to the great john harris from politico. >>> up next, just hours away from the results of the iowa caucuses tonight, what can we expect to see tonight? a guideline to tonight's events, coming up here on "hardball." you're watching it only on msnbc, on caucus night. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car is totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback right now, get 5% cashback at gas stations. it pays to

have you met jim baker?chief of staff, became the largest chipmunk collector on the planet. and i really learned a lot about leadership from this. the news media completely understood this. it wasn't that reagan was disengaged. it was that reagan had two boxes in his head, he had chipmunk box which is pat them on the head and get rid of them, and he had an antelope box which is get it done. i'll show you the difference. this is a great study in real leadership. so reagan wants to send a snag. -- a signal. he got down in the weeds if the weeds involved the big issues. secretary of state george schultz told me the story, reagan had gone to berlin as governor in 1967. and he said, that wall sure is ugly, they ought to tear it down. >> i was there. >> pretty good. >> 1965-1968. >> so he was there and the wall was ugly and they should have torn it down. 20 years later, reagan has been re-elected president and carried 49 states. he's going to go back to berlin and he has this line he wants to deliver, mr. gorbache

jim baker in our movie comments reagan always believed the purpose of a negotiation was to get what he needed. -- get an agreement. he would rather get 80 percent when come back later for the other 20%. when the go to reykjavik to meet with gorbachev, reykjavik offers to dismantle the entire soviet nuclear arsenal if reagan will give up ballistic missile defense, and reagan says no, because it is a step too far. by holding tough, six months later, gorbachev comes back and years of reagan and virtually everything he wants to produce nuclear vessels. it is not like reagan will take a bad deal, but he is always trying to find a way to say what can he get done. callisto and i have talked about this at length. she used to be on the agricultural committee. i served on public works, which is very bipartisan. we wanted to reach out to every elected democrat as well as every republican, and find a way to break the logjam and get a deal done. that is a great question. that lady right there. >> i understand from my colleagues that you are a huge proponent of six sibma. -- sigma. you asked the hou

[laughter] have you met jim baker?sident's chief of staff became the largest chipmunk collector on the planet. i really learned a lot about leadership. it wasn't that reagan was disengage, it was that reagan thattwo boxes in his head. he had a chipmunk box and he had an antelope box. this is the difference. this is a great study in real leadership. reagan wants to send a signal and he got down into the weeds if the weeds involve the big issues. secretary of state george shultz told the story that reagan had gone to berlin as governor in 1967. he said that wall sure is ugly, they ought to tear it down. >> 65-68. >> and the wall was ugly and it should have torn down. 20 years later, reagan is reelected president and carries 49 states. he will go back to berlin and he has this blind he wants to deliver -- mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. the state department hated the line. they thought would be a gorbachev feel bad. [laughter] it did not sound presidential and it was not going to happen. the speech went from the white

jim baker who is helping george bush's long time friend run that campaign talks about being on a campinghael dukak dukakis, they were down 18 points deep in the wilderness at the time, they came out of there and knew they had to do two things. sell the george bush story and define michael dukakis and who he was. and then they got an enormous amount of help from michael dukakis himself in that famous debate in which he was asked about how he would respond to the murder of his wife and he said he was still opposed to capital punishment and made it like a legal brief. it was the most clinical description you could possibly imagine. and you can see the flip going on at that point. we've got a long ways to go. >> a long ways. >> there'll be a lot of changes. >>> stick with us. still ahead, dr. brzezinski joining us on the set, also dick durbin on what the president's state of the union address means for the next year in congress. >>> and up next, from the other side of the aisle, house majority leader eric cantor joins the conversation. >> are you going to be able to handle that, donny? >> "m

c-span: this goes back to what use it on jim baker on 9/11 and that colby was responsible. >> guest: people think the cia has never recovered from my father spilling the beans because it set up a culture of exposure of leaking conagra's being overly zealous and its attention to what the cia is up to. robert gates i interviewed as well and the cia doesn't like being on the front page. they should be an ominous to prattle, they are a secret organization. c-span: gates isn't in this as well. you said you did 85 interviews, 35 are in it. what are you doing with the rest of the material? >> guest: the rest is quite extraordinary will come out as the disbanded dtv and other follow-up programs we may do. so keep in tune, but dates for instance is an extraordinary person because he has humility, he has deep understanding, and he also told me he has the support from a very strong president during his contentious hearings which were about the iran contra whereas my father had little or no support from what would board calls in the film for the accidental president. c-span: when is the dvd comi

jim baker in our movie comments reagan always believed the purpose of a negotiation was to get what he would rather get 80 percent when come back later for the other 20%. when the go to reykjavik to meet with gorbachev, reykjavik offers to dismantle the entire soviet nuclear arsenal if reagan will give up ballistic missile defense, and reagan says no, because it is a step too far. by holding tough, six months later, gorbachev comes back and years of reagan and virtually everything he wants to produce nuclear vessels. it is not like reagan will take a bad deal, but he is always trying to find a way to say what can he get done. callisto and i have talked about this at length. she used to be on the agricultural committee. i served on public works, which is very bipartisan. we wanted to reach out to every elected democrat as well as every republican, and find a way to break the logjam and get a deal done. that is a great question. that lady right there. >> i understand from my colleagues that you are a huge proponent of six sibma. -- sigma. you asked the house subcommittees to come back, w

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christiansen and nancy baker, jason robo, bridget banneker and allison marsh who just gave birth to a first little baby, couldn't be here. i want to thank executives at cnn who are here, jimton, scott, rick davis, mark whitaker, i thank them all. for making all of this possible, for hitting me the privilege of being in this fantastic business. and to be honored by the people in your own business. what could be better than that for a kid from brooklyn, who dreamed a dream, and had a dream come true. i can't end with not doing something a little humorous. there's an annual dinner in washington, d.c. every year, washington touchdown club, and they give out awards for everything, this teacher, worst teacher, it's an endless on night of award. and then a ghost like one, 2:00 in the morning. in each year they have a man of the year, and that's what everybody stays, to hear the man of the year. frank sonata, johnny carson, unbelievable. and one year danny k. was the honoree. so he was the speaker. everybody state. i was the mc. and all we heard was i want to thank my brother can't to thank my father, i want to thank my sister, want to thank my producer, thank, thank, thing. i th