this is a liberal justices have done into the guise of interpretation to impose liberalism on the american people in ways that they could not achieve through the ballot box. this is the decision facing the american people with this presidential election and. if the american people elect a liberal as an ex-president if he or she dominates to replace justice scalia liberalism will be imposed on the american people to a degree this country has never before witnessed. anyone who cares about these important issues need to syria's help. i yield. >> kenny river the first time your interested in the news business? >> and high-school i was ted paris suburb immigrants and interested in this country and what was happening and what was happening around the world. so with the reading of newspapers to watch local and national news i got interested in myself. >> where did your parents come from? >> they came from israel. they came to the united states they believed the american dream they stopped in paris and came to the united states. >> when did you understand what journalism is supposed to be? >> id w

leader jumps up and down, how much the majority leader stomps his feet, we are not going to let liberals get away with denying the american people an opportunity to be heard. letting the american people decide this question is a reasonable approach, a fair approach it is the approach the other side advocated in the shoes on the other foot and is with the american people deserve. they deserve the right to be heard, the american people want our reasonable justice, a persona person that will make the right decisions. madam president, as the american people continue voting during the presidential election they face a choice, do they want just another justice who will look to her heart and apply her own ethics and perspectives when deciding important constitutional questions that impact every american, or do they want a justice who, like justice scalia, adheres to the constitution and the rule law and decides cases based decide cases based on whatever, wherever the text takes him or her. we cannot overstate, madam president, how critical it is for the american people to understand what is at

is this book intended for liberals, conservatives, or both? >> guest: i like to think of both, thanks for doing this i really appreciate it. at the beginning of the book i make the point that a healthy conservativism is in the interest of everybody including liberals. i also make the point that i grew up in a conservative family and only started becoming a liberal in my early teen years. my dad and i had a lot of great arguments, he encouraged them. he thought it was a good was a good thing when kids and parents argued about politics. i say that because i don't look at conservatives as some sort of alien creatures, even though my politics are those of a liberal with a social democratic inclination. i wrote the book first because i think as i say we need a strong conservatism because conservatives are often like to speak of her tradition even though sometimes traditions need to change. we need need to come up with ideas that duty criticism and conservatism always skeptical of progressive efforts to think that you can somehow remold human nature

if liberals. if liberals were not there, conservatives would have to invent them. truth be told, they often do. there is much debate about whether america's recent culture wars began on the left or the right, almost as much debate as there is with what the terms liberal and conservative means. many liberals argue that the 60s movement the new left are broadly construed lot the first shops of the culture wars. this this argument was also a staple among conservatives who blame the left for starting the culture wars by banning prayer from the public schools, pushing for for multiculturalism in universities, are agitating for feminism or black powers. conservatives are defending their turf. i object object that conservative christians started the culture wars. say what you like, we we are the indians, you're the settlers. a longer view reveals the conservatives typically fired the first shots in our culture wars. anti- catholicism and anti- mormonism were not backlash movements against revolutions from the left, they they were right winged reactions to catholic immigra

liberal, to me, liberal is the best label because liberal is about liberty. it's a lot better than progressive because liberty is a higher value than progress, i think. and the idea that you could somehow, you could somehow gain by this retreat by saying okay they have turned liberal into a dirty word so we won't use it anymore. i mean, they are turning progressive into a dirty word now. and once that's abandoned and then whatever comes next is going to be demonized. >> of course liberty is the property of the other side now, in some ways, right? we hear quite a lot about it. >> that's one of the unlooked for ill consequences of that surrender because it's really about which -- what kinds of liberty do you value? and i think if you're a liberal, like me, you do tend to value freedom of speech. >> yeah. >> freedom of association, civil liberties like that more highly than you value property rights. >> gun rights. >> gun rights, that kind of thing. so there are these different kinds of liberty that are in contention. i think -- i know if those are two sides, i

liberal republicans overtime. we forget there were a lot of liberal republicans. then slowly they purged most of the moderates out of the party. if the republican leaders wonder why trump and ted cruz have been so strong this year it's because most of the people are no longer republicans. that was all set off by goldwater. >> i come back to you ej because i think you describe in the book listening to ronald reagan give a speech in support of barry goldwater. a time for choosing. you told him you were electrified by that speech. i was a 12-year-old conservatives sitting there with my dad and i had the experience that night of millions of conservatives where we saw this guy, ronald reagan as the guy who would lead conservatives out of the wilderness. every conservative knew that goldwater was about to get clobbered. here you saw this guy who could deliver his basic message in a way that seemed to have the capacity to reach lots and lots of other people. i note in the book that one of the fascinating historical point

he wanted to take liberals on straight up. one other thing i talk about, and here again, race is very important for this conservative story. national review early on actually identified with the segregationist in the south. i quote and some of the things buckley wrote defending the exclusion of blacks from the electorate and it is something buckley later regretted. but it is important to be honest as to how much there was racial backlash on their side. buckley was against other prejudices like fighting anti symm symms semitic behavior. and he said when he said when welch called him a communist buckley said he is not a communist but a walton. he didn't think ike stood for anything and was critical of ike. but the national review was built from this movement with long pieces and editorials. maybe the ideas and favorite books were all conservative books for the tea party. if you looked at glenn beck's reading list who had a poplar show with the tea party some were all john burke books. so the chapter on this is the new new old wh

so it's not that they, it's not that liberals win every single time, but liberals win most of the time. hi. >> okay. i'm not sure how i'm going to phrase this, but there are certain aspects that i'm going to have to take issue with now. there's something we've all heard of called political correctness -- >> i've never heard of that, actually. could you explain to me what that is? [laughter] >> okay. >> i'm just kidding. [laughter] >> and what seems to happen in the public sphere that many universities that i'm aware of is there's not merely an attempt to disagree with one's political opponent, but to shut them down, to ban them from public discourse. this seems to be more a function of left as far as i can tell than of right. one example which is actually a canadian example is that these human rights commissions which if someone speaks biblical verse against homosexuality, they can be find. it seems like -- i've heard there's been retributions on universities such as marquette for that type of behavior. that's an aspect of the culture war where liberals are reversing their old stance o

author of listen liberal: whatever happened to the party of the people?ne of the hardest arguments to make is hey, you may not realize it, but if i hadn't been there, it would have been much worse. if they had the chance to act in working people's interest, they didn't, don't we also have to remember that the other side wasn't just sitting there waiting to see what democrats could do, but planning their own set of very aggressive plans for the country. >> absolutely. >> there is a context. >> of course. that's right. and, you know, i feel very comfortable talking about that, ray, because i have written three books about conservatism now. i'm taking a break from going after conservatives. but there are also certain times when you can test the theory. let's talk about when barack obama was massively popular. when he was inaugurated this enormous throng that filled the national mall. and he had a majority in the house and senate. that's not to say he could get anything he wanted through, but with a little hard work and a little creativity, he could have prob

in the 18 months since, the airstrikes hoped to did liberate and create other key cities and towns. we have degraded the leadership, attacked the revenue contact the revenue sources and disrupted the supply line and currently we engaged the initiative aimed at trying to end the war. that fuels -- dash and we are going to weaken and ultimately defeat them. we are working to stop the spread and its affiliates within and beyond the region. all of this constitutes an effort by the large segment of the community in the united states and that effort is warranted by the appalling actions of the organization that we oppose. my purpose today is to assert that in my judgment dash is responsible for groups in areas under its control including christians and muslims. dash is by self ideology and actions and what it says and being leaves and what it does. they are also responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing directed at the same groups and in some cases also against sunni muslims and other minorities. i see this even though the lack of access in the key areas made it impossi

and to the support, through what they call wars of liberation. what we face in vietnam is what we have faced before. the need to check the extension of communist power in order to maintain a reasonable stability in a precarious world. that stability was achieved in the years after the war, by the valor of free nations defending the integrity of postwar territorial arrangements. and we have achieved stability for the last decade and a half. it must not be overthrown now. like so many of our problems today, the struggle in south vietnam stems from the disruption of two world wars. the second world war completed a process begun by the first. it ripped apart a structure of power that existed for 100 years. it is set in train new forces and energies that have remade the map of the world. not only did it weaken the nations actively engaged into fighting, but it had far-reaching secondary effects. it undermined the foundations of the colonial structures to which a handful of powers controlled one third of the world's population. and the winds of change

they been taken for granted by liberals. they've been virtually ignored by conservatives as a voting block. millennial's today have a deep distrust of government. is now the perfect opportunity for conservatives to reach out to young people, maybe have them for life and how do we do that? >> i couldn't agree more. as much as my book lays out a lot of problems that conservatives face, there's a huge opportunity right now because, in a way if you think of it, hillary clinton's version of libertarianism as a model of government. it's a top-down antiquated version of government, assembly-line government. if you compare compare it to, i always talk about this, if you're a young lady living in a city and you order over on your smart phone and then you get on the phone and you order a concert to ticket on stub hub, your liberal. your entrepreneurial by definition by virtue of what you're doing. you're not going to want the government to return your fun when you're managing your stock market portfolio on your smart phone. you ought

is hardlyrick garland a liberal. 2003, he considered the national security case, a case to determine whether guantanamo detainees could have access to habeas corpus for purposes of challenging their detention and federal courts. he rolled against guantanamo detainees having that. i completely disagree. some would argue in this case that he was faithful to the precedent that he was operating on, and because he was a judge and not a supreme court justice, he was not able to offer his own interpretation of that precedent. sense, he was faithful to his responsibility as a judge. the outcome,ith and in fact, the supreme court ultimately review the matter and disagreed as well. host: let me step in with a hypothetical. in the george w. bush administration, republicans at the white house and democrats have the senate and president bush nominates john g roberts to fill a vacancy in february or march of an election year. with democrats be doing the same thing this year? guest: i don't believe so. i believe that roberts was gi

juan, that looked like hollywood, i think, and hollywood is filled with liberals, so would liberals really -- >> it's a comedy show.

the women's liberation movement has added the equal signs. lot of women know, including this one, equality is often missing. >> you have this sort of bubbling up of a desire for real equality. and then you get women beginning to gel from community-based activism to real solid organizing. >> the women's liberation movement was a parallel movement to betty friedan's the national organization for women. so almost as soon as n.o.w. has formed in 1966, women's liberation groups are emerging around the country. >> this younger generation moves in and very much broadens the perspective of the women's movement. >> all of these things build on one another. and this younger group not only believed that you needed economic power, but that you needed a revolution in the relationship between the sexes. >> beauty pageants aren't enough! >> it was revolution going on outside. but on television, it wasn't a real live girl, and that's what i wanted to do. ♪ >> "that girl." now that is an incredibly subversive television show, absolutely amazing. ♪ >> daddy wa

. >> the kidnappers are members of a terrorist group that calls themselves the symbionese liberation army. >> it calls on them to unite into a fighting force. with the demands of the sla, death to the fascist insect that preys on the life of the people. >> we love you, patty, and we're all praying for you. i know those people. they have good ideals. they're just going about them the wrong way. >> initially, patty's kidnapping progresses exactly like you would expect, but then things start to get seriously weird. >> patty hearst claims now she has become tania x, newest recruit in the symbionese liberation army.

it is not that republican presidents secretly want to put liberals on the court. i don't think that is the case. we keep electing republicans who don't give a flip about the court. it is not a priority for them; it is not important. if you nominate a principal proven conservative, the democrats get the joke. they will fight tooth and nail to stop a proven conservative from getting on the court. you will have a bloody confirmation battle because the democrats and the stakes. they are using the court to fundamentally change this country. republicanppened is presidents staff come in and say, mr. president we have the perfec candidate. he is a stealth nominee. he has never done anything in his life to prove a conservative, but secretly -- wink, wink, nudge, nudge -- he is. ofyou have lived 50 years your life and never said or written or done anything to prove you are a conservative, you ain't. [applause] and if i some miracle you might be, maybe the supreme court of the united states is not the best place to find out. so, what happens -- i think last night as people a

to create a new liberal majority? is that what you're saying? >> yes, there's no question about that. if you look at what's happened, even within the liberal minority or semi-minority that's currently on the court. >> 4-4. >> yeah, 4-4. you know, the justices that come on, kagan and sotomayor, people said they would be moderates, too, but there's been incredible consensus on the left side, something that ruth bader ginsburg has made a point to encourage. if you look at justice kagan, the last term on the court, she disagreed with her colleagues? single digits across the board, 7%,l 6%, 8%, so i think there's no questions he would be in the same -- >> and james, one issue, guns, second amendment jurisprudence, city merrick garland seems to be on the left, by implication from some of his decisions on the right to bear arms for individuals. >> it's probably a safe bet that if obama or mrs. clinton puts a justice on the court to replace justice scalia, we can kiss the second amendment good-bye. >> as an individual right.

women typically get more liberal as they get older and to having the experience in socialist countries over 25 years, i don't think in to fourth fallout they understand. and i just think it is really about idealism and i still think the majority of people who grow up on the left stay on the left whether your father or my dad who grew up on the lower east side in the '30's may not have been quite has left wing but were always. >> tavis just doing research that broad demographics are not my expertise but how predictive of your parents politics. if it wasn't very political it is not that predictive but if you did it was 80% then he would probably be the same. i am still left so absolutely their offer petite of people covered in the same environments. who may be saw the same flaw as angeles said that peace we need to let go. a i am'' affiliate absolutely. i was interested more extreme because that much bigger transition allow the to explorer how complicated a belief is you don't see the debts when there is, and depression you concede that more clearly the book was about six guys i am a lit

you are replacing a liberal with a liberal.t is certainly possible that the president has perceived in license to ae head someone with that philosophy. host: yesterday, judge garland talked about his own judicial philosophy at the white house. let's take a look at that. [video clip] justice will be done in our courts without prejudice or partisanship is what distinguishes us from others. that amust be confident judge's decisions are determined by the law and only the law. for a judge to be worthy of such he or shet or she -- must be faithful to the constitution. he or she must put aside personal views or preferences and follow the law, not make it. fidelity to the constitution and the law has been the cornerstone of my professional life. it is the hallmark of the kind of judge i have tried to be for the past 18 years. if the senate sees fit to confirm it for the position of which i have been nominated today, i promise to continue on that course. and this report showed a little light on the president's making progress -- process

i thought chris matthews, reliably liberal chris matthews was very good on this.a liberal opinion writer for the "the washington post," a fellow named jonathan capehart. and capehart said republicans constantly kick the president for not doing something they think he should do. and matthews responded by saying there might be another sin involved. to defend the president on every front. good for chris. because what he was saying is too often liberals in the media defend barack obama no matter what and i will add from the other side that too often conservatives on radio and television wouldn't give barack obama credit if he found a cure for cancer. look, we need honest analysis. and too often what we're getting is not honest opinion journalism. >> it's policy-driven. >> hyper partisan. hyperpartisan ideology. that's not good. >> okay. on this program, we had rudy giuliani who was outraged that president obama went to thet3 game. and then we had me, who wasn't so outraged because i understand -- i understand barack obama. and i keep telling everybody, look, the man,

those are the biggest liberal donors. the biggest donors to conser conservative groups, robert mercer. the wilkes brothers. paul singer and norman braman. a lot of big names and business founders giving to conservative and liberal causes. >> how about donald trump, is he taking money? >> he's not. he's mostly self-financing the campaign. he's not spending all that much money. this campaign up ends what we thought we knew about money and politics. donald trump proving having a billion dollars or more is enough to get you the kind of media attention. that means you don't have to spend a billion dollars or more. >> he may have to spend a little bit if the attacks start adding up. >> he'll have to. if he wants to run a general election campaign, he'll have to build a real presidential campaign with offices and staff in every city. that's expensive and a big logistic logistic challeng we'll see where he goes. he has the pocketbook or he says he does. >> thank you. >>> the quarterback who is going out a financial champion off a

juan, that looked like hollywood, i think, and hollywood is filled with liberals, so would liberals reallys a comedy show. they chose who they were going to put on for maximum effect. i don't think that most americans could name five of the nine sitting supreme court justices, much less merrick garland who was nominated this week. i think you have to give people a chance to catch up, to be fair for the people interviewed. >> i'm going to take juan and raise the ante on that, and i don't think most americans could name one. >> listen, jo surprise many of these man on the streets things anyway. i think people don't know the basics about america. they don't even know that america is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. so, yeah, we need to go back not to school with tv, but to civics class and start educating people from an early age. >> rebecca, this is probably your time, but i much, much prefer david lee roth. >> a bit before mire time, i'll admit. >> whoa, whoa, was that a putdown? [ laughter ] >> i led her right to that one. >> should we worry that young people don't know what's g

liberal celebrity are against trump, not a surprise. but some members of the republican national convention met today with a stop trump, the best term i can couple with. are you surprised about that? >> the only way the republican party is going to win is with donald trump. that's the only shot they have. they lost the last two times around. they made some gig mistake. he's not a politician. he's a real guy. i got to spend some time with donald and i have great respect for him. we have to keep this country going in the right direct. we lost this country in the last 7 years. our president tried to destroy this country an has done a good job about it. deirdre: cot bay oh said trump is the only candidate who will fight isis. >> if we don't name these people and attack them and eliminate them, it will just keep happening. this government doesn't want to do anything about it. we close a blind eye to it and we don't want to go after them. the constitution is not a suicide pact. we have laws here, we have immigration laws. we have rules that w

they have been reliably liberal.t's actually surprising and i think it's great that he's trying to move more to the center. but i think if he would have been more conciliatory in the past, republicans would be more likely to believe that this would be a middle of the road kind of guy. >> kerri, bob, nick, thanks to all of you. still ahead on "mtp daily," a presidential candidate interview, libertarian garry johnson is going to join me live. ♪ ♪ he has a sharp wit. a winning ile. and no chance of getting an athletic scholarship. and that is why you invest. the best returns aren't just measured in dollars. td ameritrade. every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. ♪ those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. ♪ usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. >>> donald trump didn't come out of nowhere. what the republicans have seaow with their tactics t

why should we try to emulate liberalism? >> you save modernize don't moderate you are not suggesting watering down the conservative principle or cleansing the party so what does modernizing look like a? >> so many people to have written books about how to fix the republican party it is just become more liberal stop talking about abortion and so much. i was at a book party but this was stereotypical and somebody said what the think of john kasich? he seems like what would be the perfect idea. >> and in terms of the nominee it doesn't appeal to me and i knew that wouldn't resonate but. >> every person i talked to said that john kasich is the best chance. [laughter] but that is not what i am advocating. right now i think marco rubio and ted cruz that our best in body with a true movement of conservatism. maybe the modernized all moderates feel through the 21st century but they are legitimate conservatives slave not advocating becoming more liberal it just seems to be conservative because we conflate toughness and a girl with co

among the liberal lions of the last 100 years. a man who made no bones about the mathmatics and lobbying on the supreme court, often would hold up his hand showing five fingers and saying around here, there's only one way to get things done. and that is a 5-4 vote of the supreme court. how much of that rubs off on a young lawyer? he certainly didn't grow up to be the liberal on the federal bench that brennan was. you find his decisions in your ongoing years-long analysis to be slightly left of center. >> yeah, i don't think very much. judge garland, chief judge garland certainly absorbed from all different kinds of mentors. he really did take to heart his experience with the very liberal william brennan, but in the wake of that, you just don't see anything like justice brennan's very liberal ideology in basically anything he's done. when you have a judge who almost never votes to overturn criminal convictions as chief judge garland's history has been, when he regularly disagrees with more liberal colleagues in those cases, you kno

host: daniel, you say most of your friends are liberal. you are living in a liberal city.o you keep your support quiet or are you vocal about it? caller: i have been following ted cruz for a lot longer than donald. something about being conservative, i feel like people try to be more sick -- specific about things. it feels like donald is a little more trying to figure things out before and not as specific. as far as being quiet about it come my cards are still out on the table, i am still deciding. it comes down to, a lot of my friends are supporting bernie sanders. i know the older generation is supporting hillary clinton. truth be told, i want to know who is in trump's cabinet before and make my final vote. host: daniel in ann arbor, michigan. a couple of tweets that we have tweets -- got. karen tweets. i know you watch us regularly and tweet regularly. 365 days a year we are on the air and this is the first time we have done a specific program on donald trump like this. says, i am supporting donald trump because he is not a politician. even in the metro section of the w

>> i think more often than not, you'll see him vote with the liberals. the notion that he's a hippie, wild-eyed liberal is probably way off. >> and careriecarrie, back in 2010, when there was another vacancy, you said judge garland was about the best that the republicans could hope for. >> they could have done worse. they could have picked eric holder. they would move it from a 4-4 balance to a very reliable fifth vote. would vote to the left of justice kagan. solidly with the bloc of five liberals. he defers to administrative agencies. the epa doing unconstitutional power grabs would be in his camp, i think. a real question he would probably be the fifth vote to abortion. to get rid of limitations on abortions. supporting him. anybody the president nominates, right? >> absolutely. probably the most liberal court we would have in the last 50 years. >> let me ask you. some liberal groups disappointed by the pick of judge garland. 63 years old. white. moderate.harvard. >> right, another harvard. if hillary clinton is the >> i think trying to change the sub

there will be liberals and conservatives on the court and if you are going to have some liberals have the sensible -- have rational person, i mean, like lots of people said about scalia, they didn't agree with him. he served an important function on the court. that's the way it works. u have to be a consensus builder and garland is somebody like. that but i don't think he's going to make it. i don't think he's going to be confirmed. >> lisa, let's pick up opop this from the political side of the democrats. democratic aspect, they clearly found that this argument, do your job. you're there. you're there for anoer eight months or whatever it is. and the idea that you're simply going to refuse to have a hearing, refuse vote, when you talk to the sanders and clinton camps, do they think this is effective and will move votes in the fall election? denis mcdonough say it's not a election year issue. they think it is an effective issue. they'll need to do two things in the fall, rally their base and pull over independents. they think they ca allow them to do both. it's a strong emote vathe mo

this is a pretty moderate liberal.f you look at his record, he's got a 19-year record on the court of appeals. you'll find that he's very, very apt to follow precedent. he's very apt to rule narrowly. he's on guantanamo on one side and the other on campaign finance, forit, against it. always, always clearly sticking to the facts of the issues. >> likely to vote with the liberal bloc? >> i think more often than not, you'll see him vote with the liberals. the notion that he's a hippie, wild-eyed liberal is probably way off. >> and carricarrie, back in 201 when there was another vacancy, you said judge garland was about the best that the republicans could hope for. >> they could have done worse. they could have picked eric holder. they would move it from a 4-4 balance to a very reliable fifth vote. "the new york times" said he would vote to the left of justice kagan. solidly with the bloc of five liberals. he defers to administrative agencies. the epa doing unconstitutional power grabs would be in his camp, i think. a rea

the second day he hypothesizes is okay come he brought them liberals who claim to be good liberals. they discovered that support and they discovered the only way to stay in power or keep themselves alive is to act forcibly. so rather than having brought a free government, it brought another atop perceive and experienced all the costs of war or invasion. thirdly, the interveners who pull out the knapsack liberals and put them into power realize they are so weak they are likely to collapse and say to themselves we can't allow our allies to follow parts of the interveners never leave. it is created no circumstance is an empire. so those are the new civil war, a new hypocrisy and empire are the three likely consequences of trying to an pose a free government on a country that's not been able to limit for itself. i have a political scientist and so i did my political science they want the help of a good graduate student named camille strauss kahn. when a professor says he is the hope of a graduate student, and he student, and he fears he is really doing most of the works. every intervent

i think the time that it occurred to him that he was more of a conservative than a liberal a liberal he did not have to face that question of am i going to break up old friendships because most of the friendships at that point were with people who were conservative. >> just a couple of thoughts, it is kind of a middle-aged white male phenomenon that you're talking about. i was a particularly american, i think think women typically get more liberal as they get older and having had the experience of living in quote unquote socialist countries for 25 years, i don't think people are so idealistic which means they don't fall off it quite so dramatically, they understand the pros and cons, i just think that it is really about idealism and that loss of use will idealism them i still think the majority of people who grew up on the left and the left, whether we're talking your father or my dad and uncles who grew up on the laurie side new york in the 30s, they may not have been quite as left-wing as they were in the 30s but they were still always left-wing. >> absolutely. i was doing research

liberal believe in free speech and debate. and this used be liberalism and let the best idea win., it i am offended. >> get off of the campus. >> if you don't shut up we call you a bigot or homophobe. >> you are a slut, right? >> and rush limbaugh said that the left tried to get the radio show cancelled. >> he was defended by a leftist. i am not a fan of rush limbaugh. but if you are one of the people trying to get him to go away you are part of the problem. >> juan williams said this. >> if i see people who are in muslim garb and identifying themselves first and foremost as muslim i get worried. >> npr quickly fired juan williams. >> a black person not allowed to do anything but be liberal. >> the left will devour its own for a ideological breach. >> campbell brown once gave money to democrats and then she dareed to criticize teacher tenure. the left attacked her. and they barely attacked her argument. they smeared her character. >> you are a bim bo and a beauty face. and rather than debate me on the issue. >> smear her personally? >> i am sure you get comments on your website an

of a solid liberal democrat. and with reagan this health during the depression with his charismatic father figure during a time of crisis. and we really start to move to the right until the end of the '40's and then let that increasing familiarity with anti-communism and before that midway '40's and then after the film career stalled to be a tv show. it was the time that is probably one of the most comprehensive of a political campaigns and dedicated to finding those ideas of the new deal to believe that ideology that they put out there that process to be surrounded played a key role. with that intellectual the '50s as the editor of commentary magazine that early it was the solid it in time left magazine and thought of himself as someone who was radical than to the end of the '60s for a variety of reasons to move to the right to but he wrote a memoir making it about his own desire any imagine this would establish himself and then put them on par with his good friend norman mailer. and via critics it ultimately no

this was not a victory for liberals.president rouhani wanted to dominate, centrists in iran, people who would support engagement with the outside world, with support nuclear deal. i would say, you know, in terms of american politics this is between hillary clinton and kasich on the republican side. and i think that's what rouhani wanted. he didn't want a reformist victory because that would have been disruptive. he wanted to remove from the parliament those elements going to object to the nuclear deal and further engagement. he wanted to empower the middle around the idea of supporting the nuclear deal and that's the result that he got and he's significant for that reason. >> thomas edward you say there's considerable confusion in iran what the results mean? >> well, that of course has to do, fareed, with iran's electoral system. here there's no such thing as parties. and the ministry of interior that gives out the official results of the elections has said that 220 seats out of 29 of 0-seat parliament had candidates win

nation, nor is it right to say there's eras of conservatism and eras of liberalism. yes, there's times when one side is more dominant but let's think of a shifting center where the range shifts a little to the left and a little to the right depending on the moment and depending on who's articulating the message because even in the 1940s and 1950s and 1960s, the high point of american liberalism, there is a conservative -- a coalition that is building in strength, that is both grassroots, and top down. it includes herbert hoover who after he's defeated in 1932 retreats back to palo alto, california, to stanford university and there becomes a fierce critic of roosevelt's policies and this broader, more interventionist, keynesian approach to governance and includes the grassroots. it includes ordinary americans who by 1964 mobilize to a degree that they got barry goldwater, a very conservative republican nominated as the republican nominee. now, of course, goldwater loses in a landslide. there by validating all these -- people on the left and the right saying you can't