and i looked at mrs. reagan and we were both moistened up there, and i said to her, boy, we were just lucky to have him, weren't we? she certainly agreed. since that time 15 years ago, it's no secret that ronald reagan was really a great president. it remains, however, a mystery where the music came from, that this fellow went and marched to a different drummer than everybody else at the time. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> wow, thank you, ken. now it is my pleasure. i want to say thanks to ken. he has to duck out here in a few minutes. we appreciate his time spent with us. now, it's my pleasure to introduce the deputy director for intelligence for analytic programs at the cia. peter clement joined the agency in 1977 and spent much of his first 25 years focused on the soviet union. he later was a president's daily briefer for then vice president cheney as well as nsc adviser rice, and subsequently served as the dci's representative to the u.s. mission united nations before assuming his current duties. he h

mr. reagan is going to be gone tomorrow. everybody was stunned.ut suddenly this became a mantra of some kind. in the german people are thinking on both sides of the law. and gorbachev knew he was having problems. first of all, he started easing control and the people to power and suddenly you saw the hole at eastern bloc of the soviet union began to crumble. reagan is out of office at this point by about a year. that was his doing your duty started safety. if you could make a case for one single individual who buys soviet communism and it used, then it would be a way. and he actually after the satellite countries such as czechoslovakia and poland and hungary, east germany had gotten their freedom, he went to visit moscow and seek gorbachev over there. arbatov was kind of happy about it. he made us each to the great law school in moscow. and talk to these guys. they've never heard anyone talk about democracy and freedom. it was against the low, but he did it. and he was cheered. so he loved. his legacy, i think, i think he was a lot smarter than an

hanoi jane has no business playing mrs. reagan. mrs. reagan and her late husband are revered figures for conservatives. the idea that hollywood thinks that this young lady who called returning pow's liars and hypocrites and american leaders war criminals as you said is absolutely outrageous. hollywood should be ashamed of what they are doing. megyn: why would they choose her, leslie? >> well, quite frankly, what lars forgets is that she is an actress. i mean whether you like what she did in her personal life, and she did apologize, she is now a born again christian. last time i checked most born again christians are conservatives and christianity is based on the element of forgiveness. i think everybody forgets the for giving. what we need to remember, jane fond today, whether you like what she's done personally or not is a brilliant actress. that is probably one of the reasons they are looking at her. oprah winfrey is being looked at to play the butler's wife. look at jane fonda as an actress, that was many years ago, she has apologized

communist party because we must understand what the expectations of people who are now award for mrs reagan and they really sit a swathe of communist party and maybe will be on the second plays during next three or four elections and this is a guy on the field on the second place during next present a little it's enough for them or not because if they really want to see their party you know you know these people are out there around so many people know in the war they're not a team i mean a little girl the war is a serious question is will them so is it enough to see it illegal for their part in the parliament on the second police what they really want to see the leader of the communist party as the next president of the crown i says well maybe at the end of the gig i suspect the majority of the people who go to the communists will be in their late seventy's by the election if it's it's enough for them to see a communist party. in the parliament on the second place they can sirius is a girl of his not so old and not pollute the same but if they really want to see a communist party of the po

i got an e-mail from press secretary to mrs. reagan in the white house years.s i love this one, i thought was cheese si and not very good script. because of jane fonda over the years she would not be able to lose herself in the role and actually try to emulate her. it's similar to meryl streep when she played margaret thatcher. she doesn't mention margaret thatcher in her thank you speech. >> bob: in vietnam, they lied about it. they made up the gulf of tonkin. it was illegal wars in laos and cambodia. it was the most despicable war going. >> movie about nancy reagan. there is hundred more wonderful qualified ago tretsz to play her. this is stunt casting in order to get people to talk about it and it worked. >> kimberly: we're doing it. >> kimberly: it's kind of like pochoen tas attire. >> bob: you take this off and use it as a tourniquet. >> does it bother you one of the writers of "the butler," one of writers is game changers, sarah palin hit job. >> can you imagine that to connect the dots on this one. >> bob: i will say they provide a lot of material. >> yo

communist party because we must understand what the expectations of people who are now award for mrs reagan of either really satisfied the communist party and we have you will be on the second plays unum next three or four elections and mr zyuganov will be on the second place during next president pollutions enough for them or not because if they really want to see their party you don't know these people are out there around him i mean people wrote in the war their team of not the team i mean a little is going to live all those voters is a serious questions with them so it's not enough to see it believe of their party in the parliament on the second place or they really want to see belittle the common despite it as the next president of the guy says well maybe the lead dog because i suspect the majority of the people who go to communists will be in their late seventy's by the clutch so if it's it's enough for them to see a communist party. in the parliament on the second place they can see this is a girl of his not so old not political but if they really want to see communist party of the p

communist party because we must understand what are the expectations of people who are now award for mrs reagan and are they really satisfied that communist party maybe will be on the second plays do next three or four elections mr zyuganov we'll go on the second place during next president elections is enough for them or not because if they really want to see their party you know you know these people are out there around him i mean people really and you will see a war that not a theme i mean a little bit ago the war the voters in the serious questions will them so it's not enough to see that the leader of their party in the parliament on the second place or they really want to see the leader of the communist party as the next president of the i'm the only daughter because i suspect the majority of the people who vote for communists will be in their late seventy's by the election so if it's it's enough for them to see a communist party. in the parliament on the second place they can see rhys's again the fuse not so old and not so bad pollution but even there they want to see a communist party

mr. reagan, when we become a republican? he said i ought to buy have never got around to it. one said i register an average register your right now. [laughter] and the famous statement was i did not leave the democratic party. they left me. so his acting and speaking career morphed into a political career. he was approached by important people they wanted him to run for governor. they said that is why rewind you to run. because you are an actor. he said okay. he ran against brown. they said deily reason he is good on tv. ronald reagan did not wear make up. the first day it made him look funny. he did not have skin to start with. so there's all these comments and the newspaper about wearing makeup. everybody including governor brown has pancake makeup. it was a political coup. they play it over and over. he spent too much money. that you play along to go along he has to do that to. he wants to ease the state's debt. one of the stories that is told about him he got back 1967. there were all of these demonstrations at berkeley. that is part of the big university system. to think

mr. reagan's 1976 run against gerald ford. at that time it was determined that ronald reagan couldn't win the nomination and he stayed in the race. santorum making the same argument that he'll remain on the campaign trail potentially until the convention because he believes that romney won't be able to get the 1144 delegates to win the majority and get the nomination, that he would get more than santorum and gingrich and ron paul perhaps, but not the majority. that's a clear indication that santorum will continue his quest in the campaign. tonight's victory gives him more wind in his sails, can compete aggressively and perhaps pull off a win in wisconsin, but that's on the same day that maryland and the district of columbia has their kansas conte. romney still has a very, very big advantage. more than double the delegates that rick santorum has. romney's won 21 states and territories. mr. santorum now 11. so it really is a 2-1 gap. it's large. santorum insists he's going to stay in. some of the romney folks have made the anyth

reagan. by the way, it was mr. gorbachev who called president kennedy a great president. that doesn't happen often, when a soviet leader would call an american president a great leader. well, anyway, i came to washington, and there were no ideological spies any more. illusions were all just destroyed. and we were just capitalize on those who wanted to make money. i will just mention one case, because it may be interesting how you treat intelligence and what may happen. john walker was one of the guys i admired. he was a totally money-motivated guy, he was a volunteer, and we befriended him. he would work for the next 20 years, and recruited his son and brother. anyway, in 1968 i'm acting chief of kgb station in washington. and august 21st, i believe, the soviet troops are about to move into czechoslovakia to crush the you know, anti-socialist elements. and i receive a cable from moscow saying they informed the ambassador -- at that time, for many years, 20 years or, so never became minister, because he was distressed with the united states -- so i come to ambassador to sh

in 1988, president reagan appointed mr. holder to the superior court of the district of columbia where he presided over hundreds of criminal and civil trials during his five years on the bench. he remained a judge until 1993 when president clinton appointed him to the post of u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. in 1997, president clinton promoted mr. holder to deputy attorney general of the united states, a position he held until the end of the clinton administration. in july, 2001, mr. holder joined the washington, d.c., law firm of covington and burling, representing clients in complex civil and criminal cases as well as internal corporate investigations. in 2008 president barack obama nominated mr. holder to be the 82nd attorney general, a nomination confirmed by the u.s. senate on february 2nd, 2009. general holder is the first african-american to serve in this critical post. he is also a key member of president obama's national security team and in this rollover sees the efforts of federal prosecutors, investig

i remember telling president reagan one time, or three times, in fact, that i said, "mr. president, you know, since 1917 some 35 countries have gone from capitalism to communism. not one country has ever gone from communism to capitalism. and it's unlikely that it's going to happen anytime soon". he looked at me, shook that head of his in his wonderful way, said, "thank you, ken. that's very interesting. thank you, ken". and then went on to say it again a few minutes later. for ronald reagan to believe that we could and would win the cold war and fairly soon, that idiosyncratic view is more than just, as shakespeare would say, passing strange or of academic for it had real policy consequences then. consequences that none of us, including ronald reagan, could ever imagine. here's how. if you took the then conventional and quite convincing view that the u.s.-soviet rivalry was for all ages, as far as the eye could see, as far as the mind, imagination could go, then you had to get along, avoid blowing each other up and make do. the rivalry then became like a bad marriage wit

mr. sajak! that's too easy. >> it's too easy? there's no letters left. >> reagan>> i love how the producers held off for the extra letter. >> nice job, steve. >> thank you, mr. and mrs. sajak. >> "fox & friends" starts right now. thanks so much for waking up with us. >> have a good day. >> nice to see you. have a great day, great morning, everyone.

mr. meese serves in the ralf reagan policy and is the chairman of what is now the edwin meese center for legal and judicial studies here at the heritage foundation. please join me in welcoming the 75th attorney general of the united states. [applause] >> thank you, john and the ladies and gentlemen it is a pleasure for me to be here today particularly to introduce today's special guest and our speaker. steve hayward i consider one of the greatest writers in the conservative movement. he has done some outstanding work. he is the senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. as you know, one of our companion institutions in washington, d.c. with whom we do a lot of work including recently cosponsoring one of the presidential debates. he contributes to a e.r.a.'s energy and environmental outlook series and is the author of a book entitled the almanac of an ira will trends, and he also and i think one of his greatest works has been in to biographies, two phases of ronald reagan's political career as the governor of california, and ronald reagan as president of the united states. he's a

mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. >> shep: president ronald reagan not only ended cold war but had a sense of humor. >> one of these stories i told to gorbachev and he laughed. the story was an american and russian arguing about the two counties countries, americans say i can walk into the oval office and pound the president's desk, i can say mr. president i don't like the way you are running your country. russian said i can do that. the american says you can? he says yes, i can go to the kremlin and pound his desk and say, i don't like the way president reagan is running his country. [ laughter ] >> shep: when they diagnosed him with alzheimer's he wrote a letter to the nation with the help of his wife nancy. it reads my fellow americans i have recently been told i am one of the americans who will be afflicted with alzheimer's disease. we feel it is important to share it with you. in opening our hearts we hope it might promote greater awareness awareness of the condition and perhaps it will show the families affected by it. alzheimer's association president reagan was one of public figure

ronald reagan, whom i certainly was not a fan of, he said, tipping mr. gorbachev, take down this wall -- he said, "mr. gorbachev, take down this wall." they say a president does not have much to do with international policy, and they can do better, but i think they have to come up with a narrative that says the president has been strong with international policy but then finds ways about doing it better. just ignoring it or carping on it makes them look weak and not ready to be president. tavis: is it possible to talk to russ feingold and not talk about mccain-feingold? now, we have seen mr. obama to 180 degrees. the republicans are clearly all in. i know you have been disappointed by this and have said so publicly. tell me more about the long-term damage that needs to be done by the super pacs? >> john mccain and i worked on mccain-feingold for so many years that a lot of people in wisconsin bought my first name was mccain. maybe that is true. it is interesting, tavis, that you said something that a lot of people believe, that mccain- feingold is gone.

mr. gingrich had an explanation. he said ronald reagan's campaign was filled with bumps.ppens if you're the candidate of ideas. it takes a while for the news media that you're covering something that happens once or twice in the century. a very big idea. according to gingrich his campaign launch only looks like a disaster but is actually awesome beyond human comprehension. his campaign was still to anybody not named newt gingrich looking like a really hot mess. when he was asked about that near collapse, he again had a ready and amazing response. >> where did you go wrong? >> oh, i think that it was a big mistake in my part to try to bring in conventional consultants. because i am, much like reagan and margaret thatcher, i'm such an unconventional political figure that you need to design a unique campaign. >> the near collapse could be explained by the same thing explained the disastrous launch. it was too awesome for this world. mr. gingrich was too awesome for his own they can sit out the campaign, come in third or fourth place in the primary and have newt gingrich name

mr. ryan: ronald reagan raised taxes 11 times, highway revenue act of 1982, social security amendments of 1983, railroad retirement revenue act tax increase of 1983, deaf sit reduction act of 1984, consolidated budget reconciliation act of 1985, omnibus reconciliation act of 1958, superfund amendments and authorization act of 1986, continuing resolution in 1987 and a continuing resolution in 1988. the responsible thing to do is ask warren buffett an his friends make sure these cuts aren't that deep and medicare and medicaid and pell grants and the other investments we make in our country. the chair: the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. rokita. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. row key a ta -- mr. rokita: i thank the chairman. as a member of the budget committee, i'm pleased to not only have helped authored this budget but to stand here in strong support of it. it's a fair budget. it's an honest budget. as the gentleman from new hampshire said, this is the second year in a row that we are telling the truth

mr. romney, from governor romney. i felt a little bit of that reagan grit, and you know, he didn't have his game face on. he didn't have his tv face on. he was talking to me, and you know, i formulated my vote from that panel, you know. i was completely unaware of who i was going to vote for until after that, and also, i've been blessed tremendously. my phone hasn't stopped ringing since i was on the show from people all over the united states wanting to order custom knives. i went from about a six to an eight-month wait to 16 months. it's just been -- that's just god. >> well, what a great affirmation of your presence there. tammy, was there any answer that you got from one of the candidates that either surprised you positively or negatively? >> i think what surprised me the most was the passion that all the men brought to the forum, and there was a little sidestepping. i do have to say that, but i think that happens. i was impressed with some of the answers concerning the taxation of manufacturing. it went anywhere from senator santorum saying he wou

mr. romney, from governor romney. i felt a little bit of that reagan grit, and you know, he didn't have hisfacefa on. he didn't have his tv face on. he was talking to me, and you know, i formulated my vote from that panel, you know. i was completely unaware of who i was going to vote for until after that, and also, i've been blessed tremendously. my phone hasn't stopped ringing since i was on the show from people all over the united states wanting to order custom knives. i went from about a six to an eight-month wait to 16 months. it's just been -- that's just god. >> well, what a great affirmation of your presence there. tammy, was there any answer that you got from one of the candidates that either surprised you positively or negatively? >> i think what surprised me the most was the passion that all the men brought to the forum, and there was a little sidestepping. i do have to say that, but i think that happens. i was impressed with some of the answers concerning the taxation of manufacturing. it went anywhere from senator santorum saying he would i

in 1988 present reagan a voided mr. holder to the district of columbia 20% over hundreds of criminal and civil trials during his five years on the bench. he remained a judge until 1993, when president clinton appointed him to the post of u.s. attorney to the district of columbia. in 1997, president clinton promoted mr. holte deputy attorney general of the united states, a position he held until the end of the clinton administration. in july 2001 mr. holder joined the washington, d.c. law firm representing clients in complex civil and criminal cases as was an internal corporate investigations. in 2008, president barack obama nominating mr. holder to be the 82nd attorney general, a nomination confirmed by the u.s. senate on february 2, 2009. general holder is the first african-american to serve in this critical post. he is also a key member of president obama's national security team, and in this role overseas efforts of federal prosecutors, investigators, analysts and fbi agents who work on counterterrorism and counter e

mrs. patton and ike. >> go back to that table. who would have had the best personality at the table? >> ike. although ronald reagan was -- but i don't think he was any more a charmer or a good storyteller than ike was. ike was a natural. i would say it would be a cot n that respect and i'm not sure who would win, because that's a contest of the giants. >> who was the best leader? >> ike. ike. also you have to bear in mind that ike was not only the best leader, he was a man who led a most difficult and precarious coalition for almost four years from very shaky beginnings to a complete victory in europe. that takes a degree of leadership of a very special nature. i mean, serving under him prima do pre preprima donnas like patton and bradley, although ike is fond of bradley there are plenty of instances in the book where ike as we say in england tears the strip off bradley to the point that he's wiped in the battle of the bulge. ike gave bradley a bawling out such as no mad has ever heard. and henry kissinger told me when he came to the white house that nixon's national security adviser that he met at nixon's request

mr. president. thank you. thank you. >> thank you. >> so that was in kansas city, and then after losing the nomination, ronald reagan had this to say to his campaign staff. >> sure there's a disappointment in what happened, but the cause, the cause goes on. don't get cynical. don't get cynical, because look at yourself and what you were willing to do and recognize that there are millions and millions of americans out there that want what you want, that want it to be that way. they want it to be a shining city on a hill. >> craig crawford, 1976. one for the record books. >> that takes me back. i was in that room where reagan gave na speech. i was at the convention as a student observer, part of a college program with my school in florida. i was actually campaigning actively for jimmy carter at the time. i remember going back to my friends in florida with the carter campaign and even jimmy carter's son, chip, whom i knew and tells them -- they were all make fun of reagan. what a jerk. what an idiot. we had this discussion for years. they were all like wanting reagan to be the nominee in '80. based on that experience in kansas city wh

reagan. welcome back to the show, mr. mcfarland. always nice to have you. >> always a pleasure, jenna. jenna: one of the reasons we wanted to talk to you today a few weeks ago you wrote an op-ed piece about what we should do in iran. you suggested sending four carrier battle groups there to the persian gulf and using the theater roosevelt philosophy if you will. placing them there as a message to the iranians. what you're seeing with the navy today are we doing that? are we moving in the direction of what you suggest? >> well, i think those comments were in the context of a threat by iran to try to interfere with traffic in and out of the strait of hormuz and my point was to be ready in the event they do that or, any other provocative action, such as ramping up their support for syria or hezbollah. to be ready to react and to do something that will make a difference toward calming down the situation in iran, specifically, going after the real enemy there, which is the revolutionary guard corps. and the level of four battle groups i believed then and now it what it will take to go after

in the upcoming louisiana primary urging his backers to saddle up like reagan did in the cowboy movies. >> i watched his speech, mrh last night. he was very passionate, very confident. he says, look. we're going to louisiana where he's doing very well in the polls. that's coming up on saturday. and then five weeks from now we'll be in his home turf of pennsylvania and he looks to do well there. i can't imagine any of these guys, with maybe the exception of newt, backing out sometime soon. i think santorum will take this longer than most think. >> newt is like a lover scorned right now. he's not backing out. so 23 states left and 1,105 delegates left. >> 1,144 still the magic number. the math is on. >>> switching gears now, aftershocks are still rattling mexico after a massive earthquake yesterday afternoon. the 7.4 quake struck near the biggest spring break destinations. malia obama was there on a school trip. she is okay but the quake shook buildings hundreds of miles away in the capital. office buildings swayed sending workers out into the streets. officials say some 800 buildings have been damaged but only 11 p