margaret thatcher didn't. she rejected these attitudes and believe in america and the special relationship which may mean you grow up with the vietnam war and watergate, stronger patriot and a believer in the british american great mass. the last time i spoke to flee the thatcher -- lady thatcher was in the office building. she had dedicated a painting of her and of ronald reagan, and so i talked to her afterwards briefly and i said i met her a few years earlier in parliament. and i have lived in britain for almost 12 years as a student there. she turned to me and said in that way you lived in britain - the prime minister and never came to visit me? [laughter] for the younger conservatives in the audience today, your role will be like margaret thatcher. you will have to clean up the mess today. the united states isn't headed in a good direction and will fall upon your shoulders to clean up this mess. but you can take heart somebody did it before and it can be done. i would advise you to read about her, study t

margaret thatcher was working on her final book and she needed someone to assist her with that book. o i went in for an interview. with lady thatcher's chief of staff. thatcher's chief advisor in the first and interview went very well, fortunately. i was invited back for a second interview with the lady herself. this was truly daunting experience, but also exciting experience. i spent 45 minutes being interviewed by margaret thatcher. she used to say that she would decide in 30 seconds whether she likes someone or not. she formed opinions about people and would decide almost on the spot whether she trusted somebody. and so, going in for this job interview, as you can imagine, was quite an extraordinary experience. fortunately, i think she likes me and i was given the job. she had actually read very closely a book written by my advisor radio, paul kennedy, and during the interview, when i mentioned paul kennedy, she actually said yes, i know that book. and she immediately cut off her chair and she went over to her bookcase in the corner to find the book. she literally went down on her

homeownership now is back to levels pre margaret thatcher at the time of margaret thatcher margaret thatcher in history now will be remembered as the great del boy of british politics being eastender type who's got the great plan to strike it rich in the course of the show only fools and horses for those people living outside of the u.k. who may have never heard of del boy which wouldn't be ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of the global population but there's a scheming come out having do it in this movie only stevie show who is. an american would be jackie gleason in the honeymooners to give it some context art carney i believe was all there all scheming to make a quick buck so here's margaret thatcher who had this great plan of oh let's follow hike frederick. and let's let's let's deregulate and let's a commercialised financial eyes and give everyone a chance to own their own council state flophouse a bug infested dome and now here we are forty years later home ownership back to where they were all came back to the beginning again so let's go down to our grave right now scratch out

thatcher -- that is what you call her. >> well margaret until ms. thatcher is what she became. >> she was somebody who didn't like to talk about personal matters. she didn't want to dwell on her own inner life. she is somebody who is tidy and god -- got -- rid of things. there must have been difficulty tackling her live. >> she is a historian's nightmare because she didn't want to throw things away. but luckily once you are prime minister the officials will keep it. the problem is earlier in her life and how you could crack this because she destroyed everything. and not because she wished to hide secrets, she is tidy and through the paper away. it was the way she gave access was key. she didn't know what was there. she had no brothers and one sister. and the sister was four years older and the sister told me a lot about their childhood which wasn't known and had a vast collection of letters from margaret to murial. so you get the complete picture in margaret's own words of her education, her teens, her love of film, and clothes and there is more abou

but she would pass them on to her sister and then various serial. >> host: then at this time margaret thatcher wanting not wanting to go that route >> she went to dinner there the men stayed at the table and the women left but margaret stayed she was struck out the men thought it was pouring in and she did not want that life where she is the housewife she does not say precisely those words but the way she is thinking and realizing this life was not for her but it was for real so she arranged it. she had one serious love who was a doctor but the age difference was so big she did not meet mary m. then comes dennis not a frightfully attractive creature but he proposed she did not immediately except but then except to him and it worked very well as history knows. >> host: how much time did you spend with her personally? >> guest: luckily i was offered 1987 i did talk to her throat the '90s because her mental capacity declined to in the 21st century and to it was not possible to conduct formal interviews so it was intimidating and confusing and that would not be fair. said we would have lunch and c

uk government has released data going back to margaret thatcher's data.onsidered mobilizing troops again striking coal miners. she was told that the bank of england and treasury were trying to undermine her policy of letting the pound float. >> welcome back. onto the important stuff. today marks the birthday of of " whoan behind "the hobbit was born this day in 1892. fans will raise a glass at 9 p.m. local time to make a toast to the professor. toppedekend, the hobbit the box office for the third weekend in a row. second of three films based the novel and is made over 600 million bucks. this grossed 1.8 alien dollars. warner bros. might be joining those fans in raising a glass in celebration to the man today. the lordr sat through of the rings and is certainly one ever be doing it for this. before thefinitely book. >> the man was paid by the word. iscertainly warner bros. being paid by the word. let's move on to hong kong because prices are among the most expensive in the world. they're still out of reach for many. had many people looking skyward for a so

>> there was another footnote and nelson mandela died very recently at the time margaret thatcher usedribe nelson mandela as a terrorist and with the leader in 1984 she did not bother mentioning mandela at all and there were private talks and no notes taken but it appears at the time she thought mandela was either a terrorist or insignificant and not worth any discussion. in later years she claimed she had brought up mandela with him and in part she had been responsible for bouncing the south african leadership to getting him released but this seems to suggest the opposite was true. and for all her attempts to stick to her guns and describe mandela as being a bad man, i tell you what this demonstrates is she didn't understand the way the wind of history was blowing. >> reporter: live in london. heavy snowfall and freezing conditions hit parts of the united states and new york, governor has a state of emergency across the state, major highways were shut down overnight and schools have been closed and dominick cain has the latest. >> the weather will not go away and may look like a pictu

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margaret thatcher was a breakthrough. she turned out author airian and right wing as any other authoritarian. barack obama was magnificent. he turned out as tonnistic as bill clinton, a poor white brother from arkansas. so helicopter , she's from outside of chicago, first woman president i want to fight against patriarch, homophobian, and anti-sem ittize im >> she has fought with that and dealt with some of those issues. >> within the formal legal areen ayou are right. i'm with them when they came out to same-sex marriage, i was with them. it should be a federal affair. i'm talking about detecting. struggles against anti-mem ittism and antisexism and racism to issues of class, issues of economic injustice and most importantly issues of just outside of the united states. >> i have to ask you i've been following you for a long time. you are wearing your uniform, black tie. with why do you wear black. >> comes out of the legacy of john col train, and martin luther king where we put on the cemetery clothes. we are coffin read

one is margaret thatcher. first, you have to win the argument then you win the vote. you have to think about -- what i'm going say to a lot of liberals. it's so true across the board. they might have been great ideas. they don't work. so i would partly say, gee, you look at the poorest neighborhood in southern california. you think governments work? tell me about your job prospect compared to your parents' at your age. tell me about your student loans. you know, the obama people say, boy, you now get to stay on your participant's insurance until you are 26. my answer is i would like you to have a job so you have your own insurance before you are 26. [applause] mr. speaker, my name is tom adams. who do you feel we have in government right now that could champion an action you're trying to promote? >> i think there are a lot of pretty smart people. first of all, i think there are some governors who are doing very interesting things. if you look at governor scott walker, for example, he's really -- plldz a -- [applause] a big impact. if you look at governor rick perry. t

of the new items stolen the ira's brighton bomb in october nineteen eighty four almost kills margaret thatcher and also almost e mails top secret i know are these talks on the future of the north. this is dr wrote that the events of brighton mean don't we must go very slow on these talks if not stop them. it would look as if we were bones into making concessions to the republicans. the secret british papers released today also showed that she believes the brighton bomb was only the first of the series. but foreign second to get the are set to continue the talks in order to stop the rise of shinn fein. otherwise he warned her fear of the cuban like government of radical extremists and dublin could become a reality. the irish were looking for a role in governing the north in return for which jack fitzgerald was prepared to hold a referendum to remove the constitutional claims in northern ottens mrs thatcher refused to consider anything suggesting joint british artist and tone of the north but her ambassador said that the shop couldn't afford to come away empty handed from a summit of checkers. s

and margaret thatcher is responding to your argument. >> i agree with her and the point is that rathern having a big gap we should all be together. >> selects talk about this in terms of the very poor and the very wealthy. and you can't make it on $7 and 25 cents an hour. fifteen dollars an hour is a fair minimum wage. and there has not been a study produced that indicates this. mcdonald's talks about that and that is wrong. and it is just not right. raising the minimum wage cost people jobs is what they say and it does not. >> but isn't it logical that if it cost more and you will get a little bit less of a? john: well, what do you think? >> nobody, but nobody can live on that. they work 60 or 70 hours a week and you cannot expect them to live on this income is especially when the ceo is making 500 or 600 times and you think anyone is worth that kind of money? do you think any ceo is what that? john: i'm grossed out by it. but if the markets as they are committee must be. because somebody is voluntarily paying them. >> the board of directors is usually appointed by a ceo. john: i say

> instead of ordering civil service to investigate, why just't the prime minister agree with margaret thatcher, whether it had anything to do with the westland helicopter deal at the time? honorablethe gentleman might have gone a conspiracy theory too far on this one. it is very important that we get to the bottom of what happened and that is why i have asked the cabinet secretaries to reread this review. we will establish the facts. the process is underway. i wanted to be fast and find out the truth. the findings will be made public. i will never forget my own visit to the golden temple. one of the most beautiful and serene places anywhere on this planet. what happened 30 years ago led to a tragic loss of life. it remains a source of deep pain . the prime minister is right to apologize for what has happened and i understand the concerns. let's wait for the outcome of the review by sir jeremy hayward. far, itnote that, so has not found any evidence to contradict the insistence by senior indian army commanders responsible at the time, it was planned and carried out solely by the indian army. so

and margaret thatcher is responding to your argument. >> i agree with her and the point is that rathern having a big gap we should all be together. >> selects talk about this in terms of the very poor and the very wealthy. and you can't make it on $7 and 25 cents an hour. fifteen dollars an hour is a fair minimum wage. and there has not been a study produced that indicates this. mcdonald's talks about that and that is wrong. and it is just not right. raising the minimum wage cost people jobs is what th say and it does not. >> but isn't it logical that if it cost more and you will get a little bit less of a? john: well, what do you think? >> nobody, but nobody can live on that. they work 60 or 70 hours a week and you cannot expect them to live on this income is especially when the ceo is making 500 or 600 times and you think anyone is worth that kind of money? do you think any ceo is what that? john: i'm grossed out by it. but if the markets as they are committee must be. because somebody is voluntarily paying them. >> the board of directors is usually appointed by a ceo. john: i say th

to understand how it came to this you have to go back to one nine hundred seventy nine when margaret thatcher began forcing local authorities to sell council houses to any sitting tenant able and eager to buy of discounts of up to fifty percent but with the money they earned councils were not allowed to build new housing they received forty billion pounds over the next twenty five years that was at the half price discount it was housing stock built by the taxpayer given to a few select few who were able to profit the extra fifty percent and either move to spain where they've now lost all that money in the house from kraft but this is the case going back to pat quinn's comments she's not paranoid the government does want to tell her because just like in previous genocides where there's the american indians or others famous examples of genocide it's not paranoia the government does want to kill her because she's a drain on the system. and if she's gone then they can you know flip or house or give it to cronies and she's not wanted in this country pat quinn i mean you should maybe move the ball

margaret thatcher wrote me that it was the greatest speech she had ever heard.eorge heard it in the white house. it was that high because of controversy. isn't that too bad? i became a great speaker that day. who knows? somewhere out in this audience there may even be somebody who will one day follow in my footsteps and take over as the president's spouse, and i wish him well. [applause] >> you brought down the house with your closing line about the political spouse and you wish him luck. >> i did. >> what would be your advice for the first husband? >> the same thing , be yourself. and watch your mouth. i would tell them that. but be yourself. and take advantage of the opportunity. i had lunches for deformed children, heart, arthritis, cancer, nobody paid any attention except in the hometown from ore doctor came andsick child came from, then you got great publicity out in the country. that's where it counts. who cares what the broadcasts say? what you care about is that the people know that they helped. >> barbara bush, what should, in your view, people know abo

and finally here you know all these clean up costs that the government promises margaret thatcher speaking of neoliberalism brought in this nuclear energy promise that the cleanup cost would either be well the private companies would do it but then the state took over and now the state is paying more more more sellafield cleanup costs reaches sixty seven point five billion pounds says report that was earlier in the year it's now seventy billion already this is the taxpayer paid for the cleanup of nuclear waste with no sign of when the costs will stop rising according to the report you know in fukushima one hundred fifty billion so far they have nuclear gypsies that go in there and clean up is there certain to be dead soon well once again it's the economics of suicide brought to you by the leaders of japan u.k. and united states who all have the same economic policy of zero percent interest rates to fund the club takhar c. and cancer provocation through fracking and the u.k. public in the japanese public and american public can't wait to get cancer that's their goal in life most will golf a

servant to investigate, why doesn't the prime minister just ask lord jeffrey what they agreed with margaret thatcher? and whether that anything to do with the west and helicopter deal at the time? >> i for the audible children might have gone to conspiracy theory too far on this one. look, it is very important that we get to the bottom of what happened and that is what i've asked the cabinet secretary to review this review. able establish the facts, the process is underway. i want it to be fast, find out the truth and the findings will be made public. i remember and will never forget my own visit to the golden temple, one of the most beautiful and serene places anywhere on this planet. what happened 30 years ago led to a tragic loss of life but it remains a source of deep pain. prime minister's were right to apologize. i understand the concerns of these papers raise. so let's wait for the outcome of the review by sir jeremy heywood. i would note that so far it is not found any evidence to contradict the insistence by indian commanders responsible at the time, that the responsibly for this was planne

and then charles moore talks about his book on margaret thatcher. and then the life of a latin american hero. booktv and prime time is at 8 p.m. eastern. on next washington journal, mitt romney's former speech writer is on the show. and then jennifer lawless talks about the impact of women in politics. and your emails and phone calls and tweets. washington journal is live at 7 a.m. eastern daily on c-span. >> i think it is interesting to talk about how the republican party is less unified than the democratic party. i think it is an interesting time to be study this. for the first time in

you touched on it earlier about the special relationship between margaret thatcher and ronald reagan.wanted to know what was nancy's relationship to the thatchers? we will have a woman president in our country. >> she invited margaret thatcher to the birthday party of reagan. a woman president? >> it was a statement. >> he may not have to wait that long. >> we have about four minutes left and it is important for us to put a cap on this. what is important, do you think, to know about nancy reagan in the role of first lady and her contribution to the reagan residency? >> i think it is what we have been saying. first ladies have long been close to their husbands, have paid close attention to politics. i think nancy reagan took that to a new level. it wasn't so much she wanted to be sitting in cabinet meetings or policymaking meetings. she was very aware of her husband and wanted him to be successful and was ready to act. to make sure that the people around him were serving his best interests and letting him be the best person that he could be. and that way she exerted tremendous influenc

it will swing back. >> we will do an entire three-hour show on margaret thatcher. so much. mike mckee, tell us about these markets. >> it is indeed. you can see everything reflected in the forex market. japanese yen is picking up a lot of around. china concerns are driving those countries that fell. the aussie dollar is down by almost one percent. unrest in turkey and you can see the result. the economy in russia is weighing on the russian ruble. it is a worldwide currency collapse. >> record low. we will continue to monitor them. we also want to say thank you to david last. editor and white house adviser. you are watching bloomberg tv. we are streaming live on your phone, tablet, and bloomberg.com. ♪ >> flight to safety. investors are scrambling out of argentina. pushing global stocks lower. the credit card breach at neiman marcus was bigger and deeper than first thought. will smart credit cards safeguard us from fraud? in the new documentary shows the human side of mitt romney that voters never sold during the election. good morning. this is "bloomberg surveillan

i have a tremendous amount of respect for ronald reagan and margaret thatcher.burke, james madison, lincoln -- i think he is the greatest american president. all of those would qualify as conservatives. i think that there are people genuine, thinks that a authentic conservatism is not what they are for. they gravitate toward a kind of revolutionary, radical form of conservatism. the history of conservatism, the wisdom of conservatism, and i think what is the best interest -- you try to engage in a serious debate and rather than engaging in a debate, they write people off as rino's were moderates or whatever the agger --adjective of the day is. is the divideous between libertarians, t partiers, moderates, establishment conservatives in the party? guest: it is real. months,in the last few john boehner pushback against tea party groups. -- he was insanely one of the leaders of the government shutdown. paulave people like rand -- a real libertarian. intelligent, well spoken. you are seeing the debate in domestic affairs and in foreign policy. paul is nothing like th

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about his book on margaret thatcher. and then the life of a latin american hero. booktv and prime time is at 8 p.m. eastern. on next washington journal, mitt romney's former speech writer is on the show. and then jennifer lawless talks about the impact of women in politics. and your emails and phone calls and tweets. washington journal is live at 7 a.m. eastern daily on c-span. >> i think it is interesting to talk about how the republican party is less unified than the democratic party. i think it is an interesting time to be study this. for the first time in recent years we are seeing a republican party that is facing problems the democrats faced 30 years ago. >> the interplay of what is happening and the context of how candidates are running matter more than the scandals themselves. especially if you are running in a context you can present yourself as part of an abused group. abused by the system. and you can play that well. whether that is the case that jeff talked about more roy moore in alabama who used the ten commandments as an attack on christian conserva

margaret thatcher wrote me that it was the greatest speech she had ever heard. george heard it in the white house. was that high because of controversy. isn't that too bad? i became a great speaker that day. who knows? somewhere out in this audience there may be even -- there may even be somebody who will one footsteps andmy take over as the president's spouse, and i wish him well. [applause] >> you brought down the house with your closing line about the political >> same thing i'd give the first wife which is be yourself. if you can watch your mouth. trouble with that. i would say just be yourself. and take advantage of the opportunity. i had lunches for heart, children, arthritis, cancer, nobody paid hometown except in the where the doctor came from or he sick child came from or -- and then you got great publicity out in the country. that's counts. ho cares -- sorry -- broadcasters say. was care about is that the being know they're helped. >> barbara bush, what should in the firstng and about know?and her role we don't >> i don't know. what you don't know. see

margaret thatcher responsing to your argument. >> (inaudible) >> i agree with her, if you didn't get it i would rather have a big gap with all of us up than all of us together. >> well let's not talk about this in terms of the very poor and very wealthy. they have a lot of programs to help them the poor. with food stamps and other things that you don't agree with. i am talking about the working class in america. the free market gave reasonable inequality if you would in the 50's and 60s and 70s. now it is blown out of proportion: >> how would y >> how would you fix it? raise the minimum wageme. president obama wants to do these things. >> you can't make it at 7.25 an hour. it is crazy. i think 15 an hour is fair minimum wage. there wasn't hasn't been a study that says increasing the minute m mum wage is bad. it is not right. you have to show me definitive evidence that raising the minimum wage costs people jobs. it's not. >> isn't it logical if something costs more you will get less of it. if the worker costs you $10 an hour you are going to hire fewer. >> are you going to hire fewer

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i have a tremendous amount of respect for ronald reagan and margaret thatcher. burke, james madison, lincoln -- i think he is the greatest american president. all of those would qualify as conservatives. i think that there are people today who thinks that a genuine, authentic conservatism is not what they are for. they gravitate toward a kind of revolutionary, radical form of conservatism. the history of conservatism, the wisdom of conservatism, and i think what is the best interest -- you try to engage in a serious debate and rather than engaging in a debate, they write people off as rino's were moderates or whatever the agger -- ted cruz -- he was insanely one of the leaders of the government shutdown. you have people like rand paul a real libertarian. intelligent, well spoken. you are seeing the debate in domestic affairs and in foreign policy. rand paul is nothing like the reagan internationalist approach. he does not really believe america should have a prominent role in maintaining world order. these debates are fairly intense. they are not unhealthy. not