what is the moral thing to do for anyone in that situation? those ideas have proven to be influential. the spectator was a great influence on cats, when it comes to morals, thinking about what in human behavior can be regarded as universal as the basis of moral injunction, since of duty. when you think about modern social psychology and formation of norms or conventions, smith's idea that it is about teeing off of each other in that way, social aggravation, often misunderstood and a lot of people understanding how deep the idea is or where it comes from so smith can be just regarded as the father of political economy but social psychology as well. the second book, the most influential work of social science ever created 1776, the suggestion has come that these two books are somehow opposed to each other. smith's book on altruism and as it were moral goodness and sympathy and the second book a work of defense of self-interest and greed. nothing could be further from the truth. this is not the right way to think about smith at all. he was thinki

just fighting for moral integrity and moral decency, she says she has been called to fight for theser, don't you? it wasn't her friend anthony weiner from the prison pay phone, it was god himself. he calls senator gillibrand directly, he's got herself, that's how close they are. they knew they would try to start their own. the minority democrats are as we said back in the house. the speaker in a growing number of democrats publicly voicing opposition to nancy pelosi for that job for another time. >> one of the things that i talked about frequently on the campaign trail was the need to have new voices in congress and the need to turn the new page. >> we answer that call for new leadership by reestablishing the same status quo and leadership that we've had since 2006. >> other people throw their hat in the ring, too. >> the most obvious is by saying, look. that's 39 seats in the house and possibly we will get to 40. i did that, and instead she's crying sexism. >> you would have to ask those people what their motivation is. and and if there is any misogyny involved, it's their problem.

morality generally. every national tradition, every religious tradition have their own understanding of what morality is, a famous commonplace, early modern common lawyers in england that you couldn't resolve. using reason, what should be the morality everywhere? john selden who is the great 17th-century political legal theorist, he was the principal author of the petition of right which makes him a principal author of the first draft of america's bill of rights and there has not existed in the history of the world a single principle on which philosophers can't disagree. no matter how obvious it seems there are philosophers capable of disagreeing with it. if the most brilliant men and women in history have not been able to come to a consensus on any significant subject then it is unlikely we here are going to sit down and figure out the answer to what the moral minimum is. the moral minimum in modern europe was associated with the 10 commandments, luther and calvin believed the biblical 10 commandments w

moral decency. >> tucker: for me, it is a moral question.n mind. keep in mind also that she is not just fighting for moral integrity andra decency, she sas she has been called at 25 for these things. youig know who called her, don't you? it wasn't her friend, anthony weiner, from the prison pay phone. no, it was god himself. that is how close they are. remember when democrats use to say that they worried about a theocracy? they are trying to start theirre own. eight years in the minority, democrats are as we sat, back in control of the house. they will have a new leader. publicly voicing opposition to electing nancy pelosi to this job. for another time. >> one of the things that i talked about frequently was the need to have new voices in congress, the need to have new faces. >> we answer that call for new leadership by reinstalling the same status quo, establishment leadership that we have had in this party since 2006, then we are letting down the american people. >> you are going to see other people throw their hat in the ring too. >> tuck

that you can call moral markets.so if there are some unsavory effects with high corporate pay what do you see right now happening with public opinion makes the impartial spectator solving these problems through the markets? does that make sense quick. >> not usually. [laughter] so what i think you are talking about so to believe all market activity is good with the slave trade. i have no doubt those evils inflicted on china with that eventual spread he would have been appalled. so there are markets on moral grounds that he also considers that economically unwise as well. but he only sees both sides of the argument this isn't just self-interest but a general consideration of people around them and how they do better in their lives. it with that slavish desire that is one of those things and with that ambition that is what you see in people's lives. and with that materialism that is at odds. so interestingly running the parallel that which exists precisely it with frivolous utility and to work all their lives with stat

and, boy, oh boy, that strong american moral leadership is needed more than ever. so when our country decides to pick fights with our allies, or when our country starts to question or at least some in this country question and undermine the alliances that have kept the world safe from worldwide war, for now more than 70 years, when we move away from that notion that america stands for a free press everywhere and human rights everywhere, then the world wanders. i have to tell you, as someone who's followed with great attention the -- what appears to be and soon i'm sure will get further confirmation, brutal murder of a saudi journalist who had been living in virginia in a foreign consulate, i could not imagine under a reagan administration, under a bush administration, under a clinton administration, under another bush administration or an obama administration where ever a so-called ally of the united states would act so brazenly against a journalist, against basic human rights, because that so-called ally would be afraid of the retribution and the condemnation that

moral standards right now in international politics what seems up moral standards international politics have hit a certain low with trump just letting this go by letting this happen accepting saudi arabia just letting saudi arabia get by with this. of course the world is also looking at trump the world is thinking well if the u.s. is leading the way in these moral standards well maybe other countries might also follow in his footsteps that this is a very dangerous path that the world is going through so it's really important to stick to those western morals and western standards western democracy standards to make sure that. the human rights are protected and we've seen domestically some opposition from the u.s. congress they said that there will be consequences some of the lawmakers there we've also had turkey attacks trump stance that you know certain diplomats have called that comic in fact they want to take this murder case to the united nations without the u.s. backing how difficult. it would be difficult but at the same time turkey is in a very tricky position here so turkey is tr

finally, he believed it was necessary to engage the soviet union on a moral plane. that is why the evil empire speech and the focus of evil, that sort of thing, he felt that was important to raise those issues as it was to do the economic and military and diplomatic strategies. memoir,again from your a vivid example of the reagan strategy was the liberation of poland. reagan conducted this effort with pope john paul ii, a native of poland, who the president greatly admired. let me ask a word or two about the relationship between those men. ronald reagan is raised in a small -- we have heard his father was catholic, but his mother was a member of a small protestant denomination, the disciples of christ. although i think everyone around him understood he was a man of faith, organized religion -- he did not go to church often as president. he said it was because of the disruption of the secret service. seems not toigion have played a central role in his relationship with god. then ronald reagan admires and cooperates with were coordinates actions with the leader of the

the question of national morality 1979 -- morality buying by 1979. i tell kids we didn't have remotes, they are shocked. you are trying to explain the demoralization of the country, the famous speech of president reagan's predecessor. students can't believe it. it's a whole different world to them. what people need to know, and it bears on the title of our panel, we may never get another chance like this. the whole story of getting to that moment is this dramatic, it is moving, it is profound. it testifies to reagan's greatness as a statesman. i stay he was a statesman in the old sense of that word. it means an attachment to principal and a profound grasp of the circumstances. let me say more about reagan's grasp of the circumstances. one of the key elements there of his many virtues is patience. there is another sense in which that statement, our title, is wrong. i don't mean inaccurate, not truthful to the moment. not in any revisionist sense. what i mean is it takes it back to something else reagan said early in his political career. he said we ar

that was the morality of youth. a topic very much on his mind, something we were concerned about in the justice department. we talked about the drug problem in the united states. we also talked about how some of the catholic bishops, which you heard about last night, how there were problems with them. >> in the united states. fmr. ag meese: in the united states, doing things which were amicable to what ronald reagan was trying to do in other areas. the pope said, sometimes even bishops make mistakes. it was really a great conversation. i remember it vividly. >> did you walk out of that meeting just as lutheran as you were when you walked in? fmr. ag meese: i believe i did, but a lutheran with a greater appreciation for the head of the catholic church. >> nobody under 30 can remember a single event we just talked about. think of your grandchildren, think of your great-grandchildren. what do they need to hold on to? can you sum up ronald reagan, what he meant to the country and the world? can you sum it up in a couple

now, what about the moral framework? again, you can teach me so much, but, churchill once said, that with respect to religion he was not a pillar of the anglican church he supported it from the outside. but, it seems to me that the moral framework was directed in large part, unyielding, belief, in the rule of law. and the idea of freedom. and he knew that this was the great contribution, that england made to its people, and to the rest of the world. in 2016 we had the 800 anniversary of the magna carta, and, as important as we said it was, it seems to me it was grossly understated. the magna carta for its time was unique, you had great law documents, the 10 commandments, babylonian code, the 12 stables, but, all of these were laws given by the ruler to the people, magna carta was the other way around. magna carta affirmed, and established, it proved, it insisted that the law comes from the people to the king, not the other way around. and, this was churchill's a strong belief. he believed in the rule of law. he believed

four, morality matters. both ronald reagan and john paul ii understood that what was involved here was a moral struggle. and that there was not a moral equivalence between east and west. between the soviet union and the united states. between the the forces of democracy and the forces of communism. five, and i think this is perhaps the most important . leadership matters. you must have the right leaders. you must have men and women who dare to speak out against tyranny. and big brother. you must have leaders who are both charismatic and courageous. and who are driven by not just their own place in history, but trying to change history for everyone. i think these five lessons of ideas, friends, god, and leadership, and morality can lead us to a way forward. can lead us to a way forward and perhaps led them a little bit to pessimism from president klaus. >> then i'm bound to ask the that is the case, how have we reached our present condition as described? do we not have those things now? do we not have, for ex

his idea was, number one, a statesman should have a moral compass. a moral framework. number two, a statesman or stateswoman should have vision. the ability to see, the opportunity for a great advance in human progress or the ability to see the portents of grave danger. and third the statesman or stateswoman should have the capacity the genius performing a consensus across party lines and it seems to me probably and i wish we could talk about this mortar so that i could get your advice you could add that he or she has to have the leadership ability to make it come about. i'm not sure the last is really necessary if you have a marvelous, say, u.s. senator or congressman or parliamentarian who has a brilliant idea and gets consensus. maybe they're not the ones to carry it out but whatever. the fourth element seems important. want churchill's moral framework? again, you can teach me so much but churchill once said that with respect to religion he wasn't a pillar of the anglican church he was a buttress because he was supported from the outside. but it seems to me that chu

is leading the way in these moral. standards well maybe other countries might also follow in his footsteps of this is a very dangerous path that the world is going through so it's really important to stick to those western morals and western standards western democracy standards to make sure that. the human rights are protected and we've seen domestically some opposition from the u.s. congress they said that there will be consequences some of the lawmakers there we've also had turkey attacks trump stance that you know certain diplomats have called it comic in fact they want to take this murder case to the united nations without the u.s. backing how difficult. it would be difficult but at the same time turkey is in a very tricky position here so turkey is trying to also keep a good relationship with the u.s. there are many reasons for this there's a comic ties there's you know the war in syria but also turkey still wants to extradite good man who believes is behind the military coup so by pushing for or trying to resolv

standard of morality. it took real courage for these local women and their supporters to investigate and to confront what was being done in this state. was going. to see the. budget confront it they did you see that were contacting them here to ask them to come out and meet with us which they did not do the whole way thing. u.s. senate intelligence committee figures suggest one hundred nineteen individuals held by the cia nearly a quarter of whom were later found to be improperly detained in much of the program and the possibly many hundreds more seized remains unknown. but what's clear air a contract has played a central role transporting forty nine individuals for interrogation. on the other side of the world in london i think to makes it westminster university have pieced together how the program worked every contract has maintained and operated to their profit in particular which was central to the war on terror and the torture program the evidence is absolutely encourage. the torture program took plac

morale among the rank and file is alarmingly low. a survey found 97% of officers say morale is poor or not the concern of the administration. >> it's fair criticism. the chief accepts that. >> reporter: richmond police spokesman lieutenant matt stone says richmond's police chief welcomes the criticism and has plans to address it. >> reporter: what's going wrong that morale would be that low? is it clear? >> it's not clear at this time. i know the chief is willing to sit at the table with everybody involved to make this a better organization. >> reporter: mayor tom butt says two years into his tenure as chief, brown may still be adjusting after stepping into the role that richmond's popular former police chief chris magnus left. >> there really wasn't the same level of standards you know, and internal organization that chris has put together. >> reporter: organizer anton clore who works as a volunteer defended the department, but admitted police could work on connecting with everyday people in richmond. >> they've got to start walking

it's not about morality anymore. a revivaled is created by god through the holy spirit, we need that to change our society. >> watch the entire class was really university professor thomas kidd tonight on lectures in history at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern. americanatching history tv, where we bring the classroom to you. join us this weekend for live coverage of the miami book fair. on sunday at 11:15 a.m., guardian columnist alissa quart on the middle class with her book squeeze. that 2:55 p.m., fox news politics editor chris star wall discusses his book every manikin in at 6:00 p.m., former secretary of state john kerry with his memoir every day is extra. watch the miami book fair live this weekend on c-span twos "book tv." in 1620, pilgrims arrived at plymouth, massachusetts and establish the first european colony in new england. as we approach the 400 anniversary of the settlements, historians discuss how puritans and native americans are memorialized. suffered university, beginning, and the congregational libr

morality matters.onald reagan and john paul understood what was involved here was a moral struggle. that there was not a moral equivalence between east and west, between the soviet union and united states, between the forces of democracy and the forces of communism. this is the most important. leadership matters. we must have the right leaders. you must have men and women who dared to speak out against tyranny and big brother. you must have leaders who are charismatic and courageous. leaders who are driven by, not just their own place in history, by trying to change history for everyone. i think those five lessons of ideas, friends, god and leadership and with morality can lead us to a way forward. to a way forward. perhaps 11 a little bit the pessimism from president klaus. >> is -- how have we reached the present condition as described by klaus? do we not have those things now? do we not have god in the sense that when the european union was drafting the constitution there was a long debate about whe

but actually what he was saying is, i have a strategy which is not just giving in, or, allowing a moral equivalency between marxism and freedom, it is a matter of knowing, that they have vulnerability both from an ideological standpoint and economically, it was his feeling that they can be beaten, and that freedom can win and another words it was a belief in the system that had been the foundation for american thought, american political thought, since the 1780s. and, he felt that what we knew in this country, our sense of freedom, that ultimately that can overcome even the tyranny of the soviet union. >> with reagan, you describe the elements of the president's thinking and you write this quote, it followed that the united states and the western world in general should stop retreating, before the communist challenge, and begin competing in earnest against the soviets, again, explain. >> it was an idea of competing in a number of ways, it was not to engage in military action, that is the last thing that ronald reagan wanted to do or felt necessary to do but to compete in terms of econom

how do you do that morally? that is the question. what is going on in your mind that you would not want your constituents foef the very thing you have only because your constituency voted to send you to washington, d.c. that's what i mean by some of these issues are not about left versus right, democrat or republican but right versus wrong. >> we will see the results. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> right versus wrong. now on the world stage, it seemed ever since the turn of the century literally one leader above all, one woman, stood as the protector of the liberal democratic world order that emerged from the ashes of world war ii. it's kept the peace in europe ever since as well as economic prosperity and order. that defender is the german chancellor angela merkel, a centrist in this era of extremes. now she's on her way out, saying she will not run for reelection in 2021. how will her departure change germany, europe, and perhaps everybody the world? journalist stefan cornelius has been covering angela merkel since the lat

you use the m word to begin with, morality. i'm not talking about morality at all. i'm talking about the rule of d law and that is what the special counsel statute is talking about and what janet reno was talking about when she said to the special division, three judges, three federal judges, starr needs to investigate whether crimes against the rule of law including perjury and obstruction of justice, were committed.o is that moral? we are not talking about the relationship, that is something the american people needed to be reminded that what the senate was focusing on with the house of representatives is focusing on work crimes, crimes proven on bill clinton's part so that is why i felt the call to write the book. >> host: you said brett cavanagh's accuser had an interesting career, what did you mean by that? >> guest: she had field, moved to california, i found her career as i read about it a very interesting journey. not making any pejorative comment about her. it is just a different kind of career path she has followed. >> host: diane in ocean, new jersey. goo

so when we lose that sense of american military and moral leadership. not only are we less will off. the second area of concern that i have is respect for rule of law. i'm 63 years old. well have politics. i've never seen in my lifetime as much from american leadership or so-called american leadership. so much disrespect i've never seen such a broad level of the attacks against the integrity just because the white house doesn't like the fact that there there is an investigation going on. i can't believe a president of the united states say to the american people that he has the right with the stroke of a pen to change our constitution without involving congress or the states. now, when we show such little respect for rule of law my fear is that we give license to individuals to start saying we can't just trust the justice department. if we can't trust that element. if the constitution really doesn't mean anything then maybe i can choose what laws i want to follow. and what laws i want to ignore. you may see them in there. and basically, he can with the

what happened and so if they just do the government i think it's wide i don't slide on what grounds moral grounds it's right to make pleasure said there must be. we we do know what we do we have to know what happened really and why and who is was sponsible for so it's a bit late for morality isn't it i mean there are credible and i don't know the saudis have been committing war crimes in yemen yes since that started the new government did nothing about if you if you want to go to church world politics only on moral moral categories you will always have a lot of problems you have always find the right balance who knows of the film it's a famous german scientist. hundred years ago as a dollars if you have to desire it you have to find the right balance between baldwin and their. effects and responsibility and and to find so right balance is a bit difficult think every day in politics you have always got for the right balance you must not pursue a politics without moral or only you can't on the other end not leave politics political decisions only by models that will not be succeed all right

you reclaim that moral high ground by living a moral code. i live the judeo-christian moral code that's set forth in the bible that we're honoring tonight. jesus christ is my personal savior and i'll spend eternity in heaven because of my belief in that. we must begin to turn back to that code. each of un-- one of us have to live that code in order to reclaim that moral high ground. we can't legislate it in these votes, in this chamber. you can't do it in the state capitols and the county economics commigser courts. this is a -- county commissioner courts. this is something we have to each do personally to make that happen. the second chronicle, the promise out of the old testament, has been referenced several times tonight. it is a promise, a promise that god has made that we can claim. in fact, mr. speaker, i would argue that our nation has never been in more need of claiming that promise than we are tonight. turning from our wicked ways is the key phrase in that passage. obviously seeking god's face and praying is the next step. but we hav

i mean, moral i is extremely, morality is extremely, extremely fraught in any of these sports. the nfl hall of fame is where sort of a lot of this debate takes place. i guess basketball hall of fame is another thing, does barry bonds deserve to be -- canton, there's opt j. simpson's bust -- o.j. simpson's bust right next to roger stay back, someone who's supposedly beyond reproach. it is answering to different considerations. >> let's take another question. >> you each touched on this in some ways. i've been steeped in football. i was raised in alabama, and now i live in texas for all of my 60 plus years. when my son, who's now 27, started to look at sports many a very football-centric community here in texas, there were 10 or 12 peewee football teams. this year in the city that i live in there is one. they don't even have anybody to play against. so we're talking way back before 13-year-olds that are being scouted because they can play either basketball or football, we're talking about eschew barrel development down here. >> yeah. >> this is the a very wealthy community, and t

good example is germany's welcome culture in autumn two thousand and fifteen that sense of being morally correct was so strong you could almost touch it leave your heart of the better one side to side with him and for that cancer we recently had the chancellor announced that she's begun what could be called a step by step political withdrawal what political legacy will under merkel leave for europe that. i'm glad merkel has hopefully on a european level angela merkel's main political activity has been crisis management from cleveland she has also always tried to unite the european institutions with varying degrees of success about her efforts were constant or patient institutes all of the how did she divide oh you know you're a guy in. the heart of the island she's been able to unite at least in part she managed to avoid the european institutions dismantling and separating particularly during the euro zone crisis how about in part she has also caused european division with regard to the refugee crises but i guess we'll never know the extent but several people in the u.k. said that the po

this is a moral failing. if you want to go back to history and look at ethics, when hoover did all that criminal justice on al capone, we taught them to be criminals. the more we criminalize al qaeda, they spread out. this is what i say. this is a moral failing. ok? this is a moral failing. it is not black and white. like germany, they even let prisoners walk out. for real. they have no recidivism. the more you treat a man like a dog or a woman like a dog, you're only creating that enemy. they will never -- you know that by now, with trump, let's not turn it to jump, let's quit pointing fingers at each other. this morning you asked the question about saudi arabia. host: we will stick to the topic. guest: i appreciate your marks. -- remarks. texas has done great work. most people want to change the system. with the headska, of corrections, the governor, they are trying to reform. good people in government are trying to change the dynamic. they are doing the hard work so people like john wetzel in pennsylvania,

what about churchill's moral framework ? you can teach me so much and churchill one said that with respect to religion, he was not the pillar of the anglican church, but he supported it from the outside.[ laughter ]>> it seems to me that churchill from all framework was directed in large part toward its unyielding belief, in the rule of law and the idea of freedom. he knew this was a great contribution that england made to its people and to the rest of the world. and 2015, three years ago, we had the 800th anniversary of magna carta, and as important as we said it was, it seems to me that it was grossly understated, and magna carta for is time was unique. you had unique law documents, but all of these but all of these was lost given by the ruler to the people. magna carta was the other way around. magna carta establish an proved and infested the law comes from the people to the king and not the other way around. this was the strong belief of churchill. he believed in the rule of law and believed in the english tradition of l

this is not a moral failing. it is a disease. >> let me piggyback on that and say people with this disease behave in ways that make you think they are immoral. that's a manifestation of the disease. it's not an immoral being. that's the disease being manifest. >> this is very much, it reminds me of the aids crisis of the '80s. we made moral judgments on people who had aids, a gay plague. what about the crack epidemic? >> that's not my analogy. >> the point is that the aids epidemic was not dealt with for a long time because we made moral judgments about the people that were getting aids, saying well, they are engaged in activity that we don't approve of as a society back in the late '70s and mid 1980s, and we aren't going to focus on it. it wasn't until magic johnson and ryan white became public, contracted aids not as a homosexual man, but as a heterosexual man and young child, and all of a sudden people started to march. i'm waiting for the opioid marches. the reason we don't have them, i suggest to you, is bec

films deal with the same themes that are central to dostoevsky's writings the meaning of good and evil moral choice freewill conscious and subconscious do you just sad to raise those eternal themes in in a new context or do you actually try to add something new to the conversation. or try to say something you. can explain away in my movies so i try to make out a fridge about some you know in my last two movies perfect stranger in the. grease or kind of. between the idea of the movie and the reflection is a perfect stranger. that we usually some don't know the person round. sometimes we don't know ourselves so this is the truth about this to move this. you mentioned the place already and i think in that movie in particular you deal with the same dilemma the dostoyevsky raised in crime and punishment how much evil i can allow myself for the sake of good that i seek and i think you raise an additional question of what is good and what is evil because for just ask it was very clear what is good and evil but for you it's much more ambiguous much more interchangeable how can you make a moral choic

this is the reason of the present of this more to understand how our moral point of view could change year in. account of situation and how important is the five that we have been. to understand the use one of the screenplay serious just for. i agree with some phrases about. that for me it's really important to decide which kind of direction to form and this freezes. from and know exactly who we are from where. there is nothing more. than see in the three days of the fight the between god and we are and this is the reason why. i use a lot of the very very strictly close up you have a very interesting character of a nun there who stopped hearing god and she's given an assignment to become pregnant president in order to hear god again which proves to be a real blessing for her but that's because she has an external force that man with a diary telling her what to do giving her the directions but in real life we do not have the voice telling us what to do or doing. how i think that you're alive we have a voice because the man that worries for me is where you are for me that man that a per

he was morally self—confident. john had an unwavering moral compass.hat was in large part due to his experience, his life experiences, as with anybody, but his moral compass was and always will be something to learn from. i have seen him, i would think he'll probably do that and he will turn around and do the opposite because it was the right thing. i'm not saying he never did anything that was incorrect, butjust in the decisions and how he treated people and a perfect example was the woman that stood up in the town hall and said obama is a muslim, i cannot vote for him. he is an arab. he is not... no ma'am. he is a decent, family man citizen that ijust happen to have disagreements with. no one saw that coming. it was quintessentialjohn mccain. what about when he voted not to have obamacare repealed? what did you think? i did not know how he was going to vote. but i knew he would do the right thing. he was being pressured from every side on that and it was a bad bill. it was kind of a quick fix that wouldn't really from a long—term level give us a qual