and with us is a aide to margaret thatcher.m curous what you beening the move by the brits and why now? >> i think it is think it is appalling. the reopening of the embassy in iran after it was mob acting at the behest of the regime. the british had to repair and the cost of the embassy. and it sends the wrong single to the iranian regime. the whole idea of having a friendly normal relationship with the mullahs controlling the regime is a fantasy and said to see the british government falling for the trap. >>> we heard mum murs that the brits would reopen the embassy by the end of the year. we didn't know the time line was as quick. i asked him about the nuclear deal and legitimizing the regime. and here's what he told us about why it was important. >> i think the idea of getting our embassy open makes good sense as long as we do it on the terms with the national security interest. and we would like to talk to the iranians about different suggests not only on the nuclear issue that blocks the bath to nuclear weapons. >> what ar

i don't think there will be one as good as margaret thatcher. okay. 14 leaders. we begin with jefferson and madison. the first chapter is on these two men. it focuses very narrowly on the 12 years before jefferson's election as president, 1800, madison following 188 obviously there has been lots and lots written on jefferson plenty on madison as well so there is nothing i would offer that is new in what i have written but this chapter does two things. it ties the thesis that american conservatism is as old as the republic endangers it back to the beginning of the republic and by focusing on that narrow 12 year period, i think that is the best period to see the development of jefferson and madison's views on limited government which is one of the foundational stones of american conservatism. jefferson, madison, enjoy it a 50 yearyear friendship that spend 50 years and their correspondence is on a bunch of topics. if you focus on these 12 years these were the 12 years they were in the opposition opposing the federalist party and centralized government. jefferson an

and to work margaret thatcher in, how she could fit into the shaping of american history although she had some impact but it is very much my hope when this book is updated and that somebody else and i believe -- i don't believe the fourteenth leader is the final leader but i hope there will be some women leaders highlighted and i hope there will be one as good as margaret thatcher. the 14 leaders. we begin with jefferson and madison, first chapters on these two men. .. now, jefferson and madison enjoyed a 50-year friendship, friendship expand 50 years and correspondents is voluminous, over 1200 letters and they wrote on all kinds of topics. there's plenty of material to look at. when you focus on the 12 years these were the 12 years that they were in the opposition in the federalist party federalist party of that time was the party of more centralized government, and jefferson and madison were wrestling with the two primary purposes of government that i mentioned here, establishment awarder and the preservation of liberty. it's interesting to read the letters. they didn't see exactly

>> a thing first we got word from margaret thatcher we can do business with this guy. remember when they were the first leaders. >> basically i have the first question as peter but is there any evidence what was happening in the united states in terms of the success of the military buildup and the other efforts that have been discussed that this led to ruth the election of a more vital open leader? but this comes back to peter's question all through the '80s the bureau's secretly debated all whole range of political and economic and cultural and religious and imperial problems if you think of eastern europe as part of the empire and did it endlessly. they showed that they looked at the symptoms of disease on a weekly basis. they could never get around to agree on the need for a cure. they were late a doctor who could talk endlessly about symptoms but was fearful about framing the cure. and i feel it was american pressure over the years but also they had four or five years where they tried to confront darr problems and nothing had happened that means gorbachev was given

if i were a producer -- if i were a producer, i'd be like, "well, margaret thatcher has a face tattoo now." [ laughter ] write it in. >> jimmy: playing margaret thatcher, yeah. >> just write it in. >> jimmy: i wanna talk about, you were great in "neighbors." i go, "who is this kid?" oh, my gosh, 'cause i didn't know. you were fantastic. >> oh, thank you very much. >> jimmy: fantastic job in the movie. first movie for you, right? >> first movie. it was first movie. >> jimmy: you hit a home run, man. >> it was really fun, yeah. then i'm like, "yeah, no more movies." >> jimmy: that's it, yeah. >> let's just stop. it was so fun. >> jimmy: stop with "neighbors." you can't top that. >> it was such a fun experience. it was really great. >> jimmy: now you've got an hbo special. >> yeah. hbo special came out, yeah. >> jimmy: that's the dream for every comedian. you go, "oh, my gosh." even just the fact you get to be paid to be a comedian is the biggest dream. >> it's crazy. >> jimmy: and then to get an hbo special on top of that. and then on top of that spike lee directed it? >> spike lee. >>

he was premised minister 10 years before margaret thatcher. he died in 2005 at the age of 89. here is our correspondent. >> five british police forces are investigating former prime minister heath. he is accused of raping a 12-year-old boy in 1961. a labour mp who has campaigned on sexual abuse by parliamentarians says it is something many long suspected. not surprised that an investigation has taken place. i have been studying this child sex abuse for three or four years now, and there are rumors circulating in relation to him during all of that time. >> the rumors have been circulating since the 1980's when complaints were made to police that were allegedly covered up. and what knowledge was ,here within wiltshire police if this trial was stopped, why it was stopped? the more important thing today , i would ask witnesses to come forward. >> ted heath, a bachelor his whole life, was prime minister 1970 to970's, from 1974. a charitable foundation in his name has protested his innocence. >> we largely believe that this will clear sir edward's name, and we will do everything we

the series of soviet leaders until gorbachev took over, didn't margaret thatcher famously say we can do business with these guys -- this guy as opposed to rest of -- brezhnev? james graham wilson: she hosts gorbachev and is tremendously impressed by him. she says he is a man that we can do business with and tells reagan as much. another point to the story is that another thing that was not so well known at the time is that reagan was always reaching out to soviet leaders from the first few months in office. he wrote handwritten letters to to find, saying we need a way out of the cold war. he had this impulse to reach out to a soviet leader but obviously gorbachev was the one. >> what was the cold war all about? james graham wilson: the cold war was about three things, i think. the division of germany, and europe more broadly. nuclear weapons. a real, unsettled ideological culture at the end of world war ii over what was the fair, the most fair way of organizing society. and i think that in all three of those questions, they were settled to some extent in the eriod from 1979 to 1991.

thatut the moral leadership requires in the different things that churchill understood and that margaret thatcher understood as well. they could see which way things were trending. i can ask you -- which way do you think this is trending? where do you think this is going? what do you think it needs for the region? what do you think it means for the united states and our allies? >> well, i think american leadership by in large has been passive and disengaged from the region, and it has endangered our interests, our allies. ed has embolden our our adversaries. china and russia are more adventurous. them issomeone new to our relationship -- the europeans haven't been capable of asking that people will suffer in terms of national security for close to 30 years. they have understood the european feckless leadership. ishink what is new to them the degree that american leadership has stepped back, and they are clearly taking advantage of it. i'm not hopeless about this issue, because i think we have -- we have been here before many times. american leadership is the defining experience . we understood --

margaret thatcher once said i'm not content to manage the decline of a great nation. neither am i. we need a president who understands the economy, the world, how it works, who is in it. bureaucracy and how to hold them accountable and cut them down to size. technology. i have a proven track record of challenging the status quo and problem solving. with your support and vote i will lead the resurgence of a great nation. mr. heath: thank you. >> senator santorum was a member of the gang of seven that exposed the congressional banking and post office scandals. mr. heath: senator, what should the president's role be in terming abortion policy in america. mr. santorum: i believe that the supreme court of the united states has abused its authority. most recently in the gay marriage case. justice roberts said it best. there is no constitutional basis for this decision. roe versus wade, they said it was the same logic as dred scott. whose sign are you on? are you going to be on the side of lincoln? abraham lincoln said that decision cannot stand and they went on and passed a bill to free

out of q8, and the collapse of the soviet union not only did george bush lose his election, margaret thatcher got removed by her party, cole loses his election eventually, the japanese prime minister loses and for the first time since world war ii his whole party is kicked out by the japanese. as the world goes through this huge psychological change from confrontation of two superpowers to a hope that there is a new agenda to be had, and perhaps we can all look inward rather than worrying about international security. it seems to be a psychological reality that at least, in that time repeated what i call the churchill effect. i hope as you read this book you will come to the same conclusions i have that the presidency of george w bush was an extraordinary presidency and i'm convinced history will continue to treat them better and better as we get a little bit older. thank you very much for coming. [applause]. i will take questions or go away quietly whichever you prefer. >> i'm interested in your insights to differences between the bush presidency and the current era on terms of nuclear disar

>> i think reagan and margaret thatcher, john paul ii. all of those people deserve a little credit.ut even they would say and did on many occasions that the lion's share of the credit ought to go to the people who were actually living under communism, resisting it at every turn. they were heroes in the eyes of people like reagan. john: who's next? >> how do you go against the nature of what's popular in society and fight and go to another country. what motivated you to change the regime there. >> this may sound corny, it was a movie. john: yes, it does. >> in 1966 -- [ laughter ] >> well, i was 14 when my mother insisted on take my sister and me to pittsburgh near where we lived to see the sound of music. and so when the soviets later invaded czechoslovakia next door to austria where the movie took place, i took a keen interest. john: yes, sir? >> i'm a libertarian, i have read milton friedman, how come many of my generation and most americans look at politicians as gods but unfortunately frown at businessmen. >> it's not just your generation, that was true in my generation, too. on

perhaps margaret thatcher have the most influence in recommending gorbachev to ronald reagan but a number of countries new that this was a man who was waiting in the wings and was an important man to befriend and to enable. the crucial electorate go of this great changer of soviet history was the politburo itself and it was the politburo that on balance decided after half a decade of crisis in the early 1980s to make gorbachev the general secretary and then the reforms began and then the process of fundamental reform began under his general secretaryship which began in march 1985. so the second question to answer is why did he get away with it? my answer to this is partly that the problems had piled up so vividly that practically everyone in the politburo knew that something drastic had to be done. it wasn't just this magician in the kremlin, mikail gorbachev who alone could sense the movement of history. the entire politburo was becoming demoralized. he got away with this program really in foreign policy i think it's fair to say the documents do suggest that he got away with what he want

he became great friends with margaret thatcher. he worked with the pope. it was to tell our allies, american leadership is back in charge, back leading. he also talked behind the iron curtain. not just the soviet union but people in eastern europe. and he said, you don't have to live like this. you can change things. you can take things into your own hands. so he encouraged people like wale walesse. he gave a speech to the afl-cio. he probably took hands that aaron had written and scribbled over them. he said to the polish workers you have the right to organize and determine your own future. nobody really paid attention to that speech because reagan was shot shortly thereafter. the eastern pure pines and leswaleka. the soviet economy demanded on one thing, high oil prices. nobody was buying russian cars. nobody was buying russian watches. nobody was buying russian things except oil and national gas. so he targeted that by realizing that if the price of oil would go down, the russian government would be bankrupt. so he encouraged the natural market forces t

margaret thatcher and francois eager to seere not that.et bush was evil -- able to work with them and create a partnership. helmut kohl was part of it could -- it. getting thatcher and mitterand on board really required a president who was able to gain respect and trust by those world-class, world leaders. and he was able to do that. charlie: george w. bush's book expressed confusion at the time as to why bush senior did not ask you for your resignation. john: his description of that time and my description in my book are the same. knowingo washington that the half-life of a chief of staff was eight or nine months. it was the end of the third year. the press was really giving me a hard time. i had a conversation with george w., had conversations with andy card. i thought if i lived at that time the lightning would follow me, went home over thanksgiving, thought about our discussions, quebec monday and told the it was my decision in the context of a lot of conversations in which we all mutually agreed there were problems for the president o

. >> she's a combination of mayer, margaret thatcher and al capone. >> she's a businesswoman and sheoreign policy. >> she's the total package. >> she cuts with the precision of a surgeon. >> definitely did. >> because she brings to the issues. she's exactly what we need. she answers the questions. she's not shy to go after hillary. >> let me ask you this. why is she not higher in the polls. >> because she's a woman. >> go ahead. >> leadership. she instills confidence in you. when i listen to her talk i was like yes, i believe in you. she made may be part of the solution. i'm on tv. i'm like i want to be part of the solution. i'm passionate about america. i want our candidates to be passionate. >> wow. >> it came through. >> wow. >> here's the problem. in this country we want a superstar. we want a rock star. who's getting ought the attention now? trump. why? he's out there saying what he has to say. doesn't matter what he says. he assaulted john mccain and he's still doing well in the polls. everybody wants a rock star. how do you think barack obama got elected. he came out as a rock

what would margaret thatcher thought about this?y smart and it's great what he's done in new york city and throughout the country and throughout the world with his empire. but, i mean, come on, you have to look at yourself in the mirror and say, i was just an absolute fool in saying that. >> you have met with most of the republican presidential candidates. you have sat down with them, you have dinners with them, all of them really wanting to win you over. you also met with donald trump. what was your impression with him? what was your impression of him then? >> he was charming. he came in, my husband and i do the roundtable luncheons, and so there were 60 or 70 business people, what really surprised me was the people that called me because they wanted to be at the table with him. these were finance people. and i was a little surprised. but they wanted to meet him. and he was good. he was gracious. he certainly didn't make any comments like that. i think i would have stepped in. but no, he was -- he was -- it was a great time for eve

your issue or cause or problem that you hope would be resolved, the political class down.t you margaret thatcher once said i'm not content to manage the decline of a great nation. neither am i. we need a president who understands the economy, the world, how it works, who is in it. themucracy and how to hold accountable and cut them down to size. technology. i have a proven track record of challenging the status quo and problem solving. with your support and vote i will lead the resurgence of a great nation. mr. heath: thank you. >> senator santorum was a member of the gang of seven that exposed the congressional banking and post office scandals. mr. heath: senator, what should the president's role be in terming abortion policy in america. mr. santorum: i believe that the supreme court of the united states has abused its authority. most recently in the gay marriage case. justice roberts said it best. no constitutional basis for this decision. roe versus wade, they said it dredhe same logic as scott. whose sign are you on? are you going to be on the side of lincoln? abraham lincoln said that decis

is what governments have to pay their debts by privatizing more, essentially, by doing what margaret thatcher did in england. that is his solution. all the governments have to do is balance the budget, selecting to wall street on credit, and we won't have any more problem. that is basically the financial sector is almost at war not only against labor, as most of the socialist talk about, but against government and against industry. it is a cannibalizing industry. so now most of the corporations in america are using their income not to do what industrial capitalism did a century ago, not to build more factories and employ more people and make more profits, they're just using it, as i said, to push it to pay dividends and buybacks their shares and a somehow manipulate the financial sector in the stock prices, not the economy as a whole. there is been a divergence between the real economy and what i call -- what economists call the financial sector. they're going in separate directions. amy: you have been an advisor to the city --syriza party in greece. your friend of the former finance minister

this week you said margaret thatcher was not content to manage a great nation in decline and neither the polls, is the iron lady comparison a stretch? >> senator santorum you won the iowa caucus years ago and ten other states but you failed to beat mitt romney for the nomination. has your moment passed senator? >> those questions on their own in a different context legitimate questions n. this context, though fox news asking these candidates to justify their existen while fox news does everything to show them in a way that will make them look pathetic, they did nothing but further undercut these candidates even more than they were already being undercut by the logistics and visuals of the event. despite all of that though despite the terrible unexpectedly terrible position that these candidates were put in by fox news gratuitously some of them did okay. seriously. actual highlights next. i'm not kidding. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 str

as margaret thatcher said, socialists are great until they run out of everybody else's money. >> ed, before you go, let me ask you this. how much -- how many years did it take to pay off that 100,000, and how big were your monthly payments? >> caller: i don't remember how much the monthly payments were, but it took about 20 years. >> okay. do you remember it being a burden every month, that it was difficult to find the money for the payment or that it was stretching you? >> caller: no, i was able to budget my expenses properly and live within my means. >> okay. take a look at this. "business insider" put together charts on the current student loan situation. the 90-day delinquency rate for student loans has risen to 11.3%. for context, the rate for mortgages has dropped to about 3.1%. and credit card delinquencies have reached historical lows, according to the fed. one fact here is that delinquency is not limited to borrowers who took out huge loans to attend law or medical schools. what's interesting is that it's not just people with high amounts of debt having delinquency problems.

for neoliberals they been settled by margaret thatcher and ronald reagan and therefore the opportunity for political transformation and cultural transformation cannot any longer happen at the level of laws or society and therefore must happen at the level of subjective feelings cognition, behavior and so on. so hope and sense of progress and a sense of the future being different from the past can only arrive through interiority and that is where -- it although britain is in a state of political deadlock right now. but i think that's part of it. how would you answer that question? is it riders person living in the united states? >> there's a sense in which after the financial crisis that was in dublin and when people lost jobs in dublin or in london they tended to blame the government. they tended to blame themselves so there's a shame so one was bound up with these should deep structural shifts which was the phenomena but the effect of that was in effect of that level of one's interiority rebus is the really are. this was a good equal failure if you're out of work. there's a sense in w

this week you said, margaret thatcher was not content to manage a great nation in decline and neither am i. given your current standings in the polls, is the iron lady comparison a stretch? >> well, i would begin by reminding people that at this point in previous presidential elections jimmy carter couldn't win, ronald reagan couldn't win, bill clinton couldn't win, and neither could have barack obama. i started as a secretary and became ultimately the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world, almost $90 billion in over 150 countries. i know personally how extraordinary and unique this nation is. i think to be commander in chief in the 21st century requires someone who understands how the economy works, someone who understands how world works and who's in it. i know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running with the possible exception of hillary clinton. understands bureaucracies how to cut them down to size and hold them accountable and understands technology which is a tool but it's also a weapon that's being used against us. most importantly, i

margaret thatcher and france, their countries had been devastated by germany twice in 50 years, and bush was able to work with them and create a partnership. cole was part of it, too. but getting thatcher and mideran on board required a president who was able to gain respect and trust by those world class, world leaders, and he was able to do that. >> rose: george w. bush's recent book, as you know, expressed the confusion of the time is why bush, sr. did not ask you for your resignation. >> i think his description of that time and my description in my book are the same. i went to washington knowing that the half-life of a chief of staff was about eight or nine months, so it was the end of the third year. the press was really giving me a hard time. i had a conversation with george w., had conversations with andy card, and i thought if i left at that time the lightning would follow me, and went home over thanksgiving, thought about our discussions, came back monday and told the president -- >> rose: but you can say to us it was your decision? >> it was my decision in the context of a lot

or they participate in what margaret thatcher used to call the socialist ratchet, that the left and governmenty and the government this way. a conservative gets elected, keeps it there, and manages it, tries to manage it better, and then the next government comes in and it keeps moving. that's i think where the divide is here. who is going to move the country in another direction. they see donald trump in that fashion. >> van, there's this conspiracy theory that donald trump is some sort of clinton plant, he was talking with bill clinton before he got into the race, that somehow this was part of some master plan to disrupt the republican party. donald trump keeps calling hillary clinton a liar, the worst secretary of state ever. i don't see how that would help her really. >> look, i think we may be reading a little too much into the reaction when he raised his hand. that was shocking. that was offputting. but if he had turned around and turned in an extraordinary performance, just a performance showing leadership, that he was trying to do something, people would have forgiven him, said hey, i

. >> i come up she's a combination of gold in my ear, margaret thatcher and al capone. i'd vote for her in a minute. >> she has this great foreign policy presentation last night. she's the total package, business and foreign policy. >> she cuts with a precision of a surgeon. >> she instills confidence in you. when i listen to her talk, i was like, yes, i believe in you. she has a plan. she laid it all out, day one, day two. we know exactly what she wants to do and we believe in her. >> two prime ministers and an american gangster, that's who they are comparing her to. the other piece of it was fantastic, a smart point, one of the focus group members made was she didn't have to share the stage with donald trump either. she could talk about him while he wasn't there sucking up some of the air. >> so the question is, does carly fiorina have a future in this race? again, she didn't make the top ten according to the polls. that may change after this week. would she be an adequate or helpful vice president for whoever gets nomination? that is the question you're seeing batted

he became great friends with margaret thatcher. he worked with the pope. it was to tell our allies, american leadership is back in charge, back leading. he also talked behind the iron curtain. not just the soviet union but people in eastern europe. and he said, you don't have to live like this. you can change things. you can take things into your own hands. so he encouraged people like wale walesse. he gave a speech to the afl-cio. he probably took hands that aaron had written and scribbled over them. he said to the polish workers you have the right to organize and determine your own future. nobody really paid attention to that speech because reagan was shot shortly thereafter. the eastern pure pines and leswaleka. the soviet economy demanded on one thing, high oil prices. nobody was buying russian cars. nobody was buying russian watches. nobody was buying russian things except oil and national gas. so he targeted that by realizing that if the price of oil would go down, the russian government would be bankrupt. so he encouraged the natural market forces t

giving at the time with one leader, one ideology before it grew into domination of a country -- margaret thatcher seize saddam hussein driving to quit with the ultimate objective of saudi arabia. the president is wavering as the white house because okay, we do something about this, what's the next step to take a page out of what derek is an. she says there's a moral imperative that we have to act. is cannot stand, and he started to use those words that she provided him and she gave him the imperative to take that kind of action. this requires some strong leadership in terms of dealing with it and recognizing strategically what really is at stake and implications up already this kind of behavior over time. >> if i may say something. i mentioned about misreading who we are dealing with. and understand who we are dealing with i think include terms. we are dealing with a regime leadership with iran, the quds force with suleimani, who is been in these jobs, the same jobs for decades. they have credibility in the region. they have proximity. they have national interests. they have an ideological driven

about the sort of moral core -- general -- a different things that churchill understood and that margaret thatcher understood as well. where they could see which things were tending. if i can ask you which way do you think this is painting? what you think it means for the region? what they think it means for the united states and our allies as well speak was i think american leadership by and large is impassive and disengaged from the region, and has resulted this endangered our interest, it's endangered our allies. it has emboldened our adversaries. russia and china are considerably more adventurous i think is what they perceived to be, what is somewhat new to them this week american leadership to the degree that it is. the europeans have been capable of asking for people to suffer in terms of national security for close to 30 years. so they understood about the european feckless leadership, talking about our adversaries. i think what is new to them is to agree that -- the degree to which american leadership has stepped back and they're clearly taking advantage of the. i'm not helpless about this

. >> i think margaret thatcher said that. mary, hit or miss?s for venezuelan president who is generating a hateful witch-hunt against foreigners in order to explain his country's economic crisis. this week he deported some 1,000 colombians. he's cletenning to close the border. now he is not the first populist demagogue to scapegoat immigrants and blame his neighbors for economic weakness. but in venezuela, as in any other country, scapegoating foreigners will not cure what ails the economy. >> you've got that right. dan? >> my myth is to the russian consumer protection authority. believe it or not, there is such an agency in russia? no. and they decided this week they would order all foreign made detergents removed from supermarket shelves in russia which meant procter & gamble, laundry detergent was gone. so the russian poem to their credit took this in stride and started taking photographs of themselves with big, brown blocks of soviet-era soap sitting in front of them and people sitting hoarding cans of bottles of procter & gamble detergent.

not until margaret thatcher said put it up. some peace groups drew blood all over the thing. the raf, and there is a number that still hang around in a bar across in the church at saint gains -- dane's. they still feel undervalued. they still believe in the cause they were fighting for. that's just from their perspective. they had to believe that. student: if you're a german citizen who lived near those train yards, if a bomb hits you, do you go to some one else's house? do you know there is a target theire around the train yard or , would they not be told? prof. miller: you knew. the french and belgian people knew at this point. there were evacuations from these areas. there was a lot of evacuation from a big cities. the whole evacuation program starts in london when they evacuate all the kids. they took them to the countryside with borders. boarding houses. there was a lot of that that happened in germany. when a town gets wiped out like hamburg, where to the people go? 60,000 houses have been lost. they are sent all over germany. people have to take them in and it is some

to use words from margaret thatcher, don't go wobbly on us. i don't think there is a single member of the fomc who is going to react to one day's market activity. >> sure. we take your point how you were raising this concern about a sell-off, but at the same time, we tend to think of you as one of the more hawkish members of the committee. eager for the rate hike to happen. how could you interested seeing the fed raise rates while being concerned about a market sell-off and what about everybody connecting these two? >> i'm the only one that was a market operator that served on that committee. nobody else had the experience i had running a hedge fund and so on. i have a different perspective. i like to remind your watchers and others, we went through a substantial correction in 1962 and 1987. it wasn't harmful to the economy. people are jumping like the last comments you had from several people, a little bit too early here. we'll have to see what prevails. the u.s. is strong. our numbers are moving in the right direction. dennis lockhart made a

prime minister margaret thatcher called it a magnificent speech, but then she was expected to say such a thing. the american press viewed it as anything but. one prominent figure arrogantly waved the speech away as, quote, vintage reagan. another called it naive. while the president may have had folksy charm and stuffness, he had been shot just a year earlier, media figures thought him rather a lightweight on foreign policy. one of them characterized reagan's parliamentary audience as bemused. you're going to see it in just a moment, so you make up your own minds. mrern academics, however, viewed the president at down right dangerous. he was, they said, strident, and a warmonger and he was very wrong about the future. the soviet union, two of them insisted in the journal of foreign affairs, quote, is not now nor will it ever be in the next decade in the throes of a true crisis. as an academic, i can only hope they had tenure when they wrote that. of course, in less than a decade, reagan proved to be very right. by 1989, the soviet empire was beginning to spin apart. and the berlin wall

if we want to know what an american version of margaret thatcher looks like, we just saw her last nighthillary clinton will not stand a chance on the debate stage with carly. carly will not let the liberals and hillary get away with that republican war on women. i've been keeping my eye on her for a while. i went into the debate thinking if she could get down here to florida, she will get my vote. i'm pretty sure she will make it to florida. if the republicans are smart, they will have a ticket with carly on top and if carly is smart, she has hinted about it, a carly fiorina-marco rubio ticket will be tough for the democrats. host: the former hp ceo making a lot of news today. his trump, shines in the early event. this was the 5:00 p.m. debate with the seven candidates who did not make the evening debate. they say she leveled the first trump,f attack at donald questioning his previous donations to bill clinton's foundation and the reports that mr. trump and mr. clinton spoke before the billionaire businessman announced his candidacy. did any of you get a phone call from bill clinton? i

. >> i love it if you don't want to take a pill -- >> saying margaret thatcher did with ronald reagan camera for this i'm going to go home and go back to sleep now. to my welfare check. [laughter] socialists take naps? >> i'm very tired. i'm still growing maybe? >> i'll take a nap until i'm 50. >> i'll stop now. >> back to the nap a day reduces your blood pressure by -- 5% for peopling who stay awake all day. so if you're you can get a halfn at noon you're good to go? >> who did the? >> study -- the greeks they say you're going to live longer. throw my two cents in here. i get up so early. i go to bed et cetera, et cetera -- don't go to sleep. do not go for a big, long sleep not in the middle of the day. you want a 20 minute cat nap or or 10 minute or 15 minutes close your eyes drift off but snap back. that way you're not in a deep sleep and don't wake up all over. >> where am i? >> 10 minute is perfect. half an hour. [inaudible] >> thatcher used to do that all of the time her key. >> ronald reagan and oprah winfrey as well. >> you got that? >> a democrat took a nap. [laughter] it's t

as margaret thatcher said, socialists are great until they run out of everybody's money. host: how many years did it take to pay off that $100,000 and how big were your monthly payments? caller: i don't remember the monthly payments but it took about 20 years. host: do you remember it being a burden? that it was difficult to find the money for the payment or that it was stressful? caller: i was able to budget my expenses properly and live within my means. host: business insider put together some charts on the current situation. the 90 day the link would seat rate has risen to 11.3%. for context the rate for mortgages has dropped to about and credit card delinquency have reached historical lows according to the fed. delinquency is not connected to borrowers who took out huge lungs to attend medical schools. 5000people with only dollars or $10,000 are still going to link went. the hardest hit age group is people in their 30's. i have seen their outstanding student loans nearly triple since 2014 as they returned to college during the downturn. in illinois, your student loans