mrs. reagan entertained frank sinnott showed in the family quarters. and would not let any telephone call comes through for the four hours he was there, including her husband. so the implication is that nancy reagan had an affair. i did not make that implication. i simply told you at the social secretary told me. but if he put that piece of information that the photograph that was taken in february of 81 in the nancy reagan but, she's dancing with frank sinnott chart. but she has her arm really almost in a hub and the president wants to cut men. mrs. reagan does not want to cut and. so you put that piece of information but that picture. >> host: and draw your own conclusions? >> guest: yeah, i wasn't in the room and neither of the principals told me that they slept with each other. and i don't say that they did. >> host: max tweets into you, kitty kelley, while interviewing for a book, have you ever had conflicting testimonies that you still don't know the answer to? >> guest: yes, that happens a lot, max. you realize that sometimes the truth that you n

reagan sold the book. c-span: go back to 1996 again. you wrote mrs... . >> guest: mrs. reagan. c-span: ...reagan a letter. have you met her, by the way? >> guest: only a couple of times. i've met her--i met her soon thereafter, and--but not many times, no. c-span: did you interview her? i mean, she's interviewed for the book. >> guest: she was interviewed. martin anderson conducted that interview for the book. and--and that was--it was the great confirmation of--of what we'd been finding in the archives. we thought it was important to interview those who were around reagan in the '70s, and so she was one of the most important people. c-span: so you're at the reagan library, simi valley; who brings the boxes to you? how's that work? >> guest: the archivist. have you ever been there? c-span: yes. yeah. >> guest: ok. the archivist brings them out. and they're private papers so they're--they're handled a bit differently than the other papers at the library that--you know, that are open to the public, but--and i just would sit there and go through them. c-span: where were you locate

mr. reagan's age did become a campaign issue. not only when he was originally elected, but when at age 73 he sought reelection against walter mondale in 1984. here's how reagan handled the age issue. >> i'm not going to exploit for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> question. can hillary afford to shrug off concerns that she will be too old for the job in 2017? i ask you, mitch. >> she can't afford to shrug it off. one of the things where you demonstrate by doing. in 1979, reagan had a light campaign schedule, so the word was out, you know, he may not be up for it anymore and he put that to rest by going out there very aggressively and showing he was up for the rigors of the campaign and important for an older candidate to have a forward looking optimistic campaign so you don't get hit the way mccain and dole did. >> what about the democratic coalition? isn't it youth centered? >> look. it is -- it may or may not be youth centered. the bottom line is, in the democratic caucus, hillary clinton is beloved.

mr. reagan. freedom from our going through a windshield. host: where did you get the idea need of seat belts and air bags? guest: i did a paper at harvard school, third-year paper which i turned into the pwaopbo it was at any speed" and the pentagon who spent $4 funding o $5 million some harvard school public helmet and cornell medical study what happens in a crash. the so-called second collision. is you lit llision an abutment or truck. the second is when you are in you go through the windshield or you are ejected. this?d they do because they were losing more air force men on the highways in in the korean war. those studies came to my attention. i was very absorbed by them. and ided to write articles i decided to interview on the q.t. engineers from the auto companies. e would go around the detroit metropolitan airport in a cab plain y would give me tphfrpls and i turned it -- envelopes and i turned it into got wind and .m. hired private detectives. what i learned is when you about safety and who didn't have a story of somebody eing injure

mr. reagan used to say facts are things.hat it is someone else's problem and it heightens motivation to reinvigorate legislation that we tried before but also try to make google and yahoo understand that this is a much bigger problem than the testimony -- their testimony indicates they think it is today. a bit disappointing. thank you, mr. chairman. votes.ave four >> i just want to ask yahoo and scanning.e how many scans are you doing? that you arege doing if you want complete coverage? scanning 1%, 100%? 100%.scan all ads, >> but you're scanning and rescanning them. coverageomplete versus -- is it an impossible question to answer? >> give it a try for the record. right?hat be all >> the other thing i want to know how many people in your organization are devoted to security? the number of people because i want to ask the government how have available. 100% of ads. as for the number of people, i would say across the different people. have over 100 >> do you want to give an answer to the number of people? has 400 people workin

mr. reagan and his proponents argued in 1981. onedeficit increased hundred 80% under president ronald reagan because they did not pay for themselves. stepped republicans over, mr. speaker, they amended the rules so we did not have to pay for things. this bill comes to the floor without any necessary see -- necessity to pay for it. someone is going to pay for. my children. my grandchildren. your children, mr. speaker. they are the ones who will pay for it erie it because we are going to make a decision, apparently, not to pay for something that we know is going to increase the deficit. the analogy, when we want things paid for, is not always follow. for instance, unemployment insurance. almost invariably not paid for. they say an investment in the economy will help grow the gdp, but we do not follow that practice here, unfortunately. we have a bipartisan, paid for unemployment insurance bill the senate has passed, that we can even get to the floor. that is paid for. it grows the economy emma and it helps 2.5 billion people falling

mr. reagan, president reagan argued and his proponents argued in 1981. the debt increased 187% under president ronald reagan. because they didn't pay more themselves. pay for themselves. and the republicans took over, mr. speaker, they amended the rules so we didn't have to pay for things. so this bill comes to the floor without any necessity to pay for it. so we'll give a tax cut, assuming it passes. somebody's going to pay for it. my children, my grandchildren, your children, mr. speaker, they're the ones who will pay for it because we are going to make a decision, apparently, not to pay for something that we know is going to increase the deaf set. deficit. so the analogy when we want things paid for is not always followed, mr. speaker. for instance, unemployment insurance almost invariably not paid for. and every, almost every economist says investing in unemployment insurance grows the economy, will help grow the gdp. but we don't follow that practice here, you unfortunatel. we have a bipartisan, paid-for unemployment insurance bill that the senate h

mr. reagan four women on the board. >> smart for a retailer. >> well, a fawn retailer, fan taft iric turnne kahe a woman who used to be the head of all marketing for coca-cola. the products didn't work in her favor. she did very well. she has been a president and ceo of asia for coca-cola. they have a couple of super stars that can i can turn to on that board. they hit the ground running. we seen people come in off the board and do well. that can happen here. but they do have to address the unonline capability problems. they have a brand loyalty issue. there has been recent research suggesting 85% of customers from target are loyal to target will come back. >> joe is pad at me for saying it's smart to have women on the board. >> they all shop. not at northrup grumman, put them on target. >> they should be on all boards. >> i'm uncomfortable. not just shopping. >> i think it's smart for a retailer. >> i'm appalled, absolutely. >> sexist. >> it's sex identifiediis sexis. >> only 45% of the boards. >> where people shop a lot. >> at least target is a little smarter than the average board. >>

mr. reagan, president reagan argued and his proponents argued in 1981. the debt increased 187% under president ronald reagan because they didn't pay for themselves. when the republicans took over, mr. speaker, they amended the rule so we didn't have to pay for things. so this bill comes to the floor without any necessity to pay for it. so we'll give a tax cut, assuming it passes, somebody's going to pay for it. my children, my grandchildren, your children, mr. speaker, they're the ones who will pay for it because we are going to make a decision, apparently, not to pay for something that we know is going to increase the deficit. so the analogy when we want things paid for is not always followed, mr. speaker. for instance, unemployment insurance, almost invariablely not paid for, and every -- almost every economist says investing in unemployment insurance grows the economy will help grow the g.d.p., but practice ollow that here unfortunately. we have a bipartisan, paid for unemployment insurance bill that the senate pass had the can't get -- that we can't

or of reagan declaring mr. gorbachev tear down this wall, or bush after 9/11 proclaiming the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. can anything hes have the same influence as ike still has? foreign policy is still an area where the president could have a massive impact. he is still a great orator. can he come up with a speech that has that same sovr lasting impact on foreign policy? >> i don't think we're going to see it as west point, but the fact is the stage of his presidency, the combination of being the commander in chief and having the ability to use the bully pulpit helps him. it frames issues in a different way. it takes discussion in a different way. i think if he uses the speech to talk about his foreign policy more broadly, to talk about the limitations that we have in the country now, it's a little bit different and significantly more powerful than the more defensive tone that he had when he did this at a press conference during his asian trip. >> norm, it seems the white

mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall!ç >> president reaganiet leader mikhail gorbachev. as the current conflict with russia gets more intense by the day, what can president obama learn from reagan. who better to talk to than ken adelman, the author of reagan at reykjavik, 40 hours during the cold war. ken, you're here now. what happened in iceland that brought down the soviet union? >> first of all, the story of reykjavik is a great story. it's like anç agatha christie mystery. in an isolated house, creeky and old house, two men met over the weekend and come up with amazing things. what happened there is ronald reagan stood up to the soviet union, he stood up to mr. gorbachev on the stpreupblg defenseinitiative. -- on the strategic defense initiative. >> it was not supposed to be this historic event but things got on track quick. usually staffs get together and tell everybody what you're going to sign but this got personal because ronald reagan said i'm going to get rid of nuclear weapons the more he talked to him. >> they talked forz÷@y9en

he has business bona fides, his dad worked for reagan and nixon. mr.as ran for governor before, and even though he didn't win, his opponent will be martha coakley, who lost her race to scott brown in her last statewide contest when she was running for senate. republicans think mostly because of that scott brown loss, that they've got a shot at beating martha coakley. massachusetts republicans think they've got a candidate in this guy charlie baker, who can maybe win the state for their party this fall. they're feeling optimistic for the first time in a long time. so, inevitably, here's where things get weird. because it turns out that there's a bizarre intraparty fight right now playing out among massachusetts republicans, which threatens to hurt charlie baker's run for governor. it goes back to the republican nominating convention in march. at that convention, the republicans decided by a huge margin that they were going to pick charlie baker to be their candidate for governor. he got more than 80% of the vote. but there was a runner-up, a tea party c

you have to be 69 years old like reagan was or mrs. clinton will be for it to be an issue. we've always had transparency about presidential candidates' health and i think it's healthy that we do, politically healthy. >> haley barbour, thank you very much. >> thank you, andrea. >> now to moore, oklahoma, one year ago today a fierce ef-5 tornado ripped through the oklahoma city suburb in a span of 35 minutes it carved a 17-mile path of destruction. over 1,000 homes were destroyed and 24 people died including those seven children at plaza towers elementary school. with memories still fresh, the resilient town of moore, oklahoma is paying tribute to those lives lost. in today's memorial service. >> what makes me so proud is that we are a determined people, people of love and compassion of faith and player and resilience, we are oklahoma strong. >> the governor, of course, today there are also remarkable signs of recovery and renewal. these before and after photos show the striking difference just one year can make on the left, days after the tornado leveled several blocks of a

is eloquent, and he said one day he went to see the president in the hospital and reagan is on his knees mopping and mr. bush says what are you doing? and he said i spilled water and i didn't want the nurse to have the clean it up. and in retrospect that is a story that could be told about george bush. we would have been down there mopping up the water or whatever it really was. and he used to, you know, he was a houstonian and he would stay in washington, d.c. so the staff would have dinners with family. he was also -- i will tell you something else, he is the most sentimental man i have ever known. here is this flinty new england guy and george bush has the tear ducts of a grandmother. if they played the national anthem he started blubbering. a marvelous man and one of the best things in my life is having the adventure of working for him. one more story? or another question. [inaudible question] >> not my headline. [inaudible question] i had a blog that from my old friend tina brown's new website called the daily beast and i have had a column in the national review at the same time. you know about na

just after john hinckley had expressed his admiration for jodie foster by shooting president reagan. and mr was ushered into the room and found himself -- there was no president reagan, so he, you know, started looking under the bed. and he heard a voice coming from the bathroom saying, george, i'm in here. and he, you know, with some trepidation looked in and the president of the united states was down on his hands and knees mopping the floor. there was some water. mr. bush said, mr. president, what are you doing? and he said, well, i spilled some water and i didn't want the nurses to have to mop it up. and it -- it was a story that he told many times until we as his staff couldn't hardly -- we were sick of hearing it but it was a story that probably has been easily been told about george bush himself. he was that kind of guy. >> i continue to believe that your second book, which is your first novel, i think, called "the white house mess" is one of the great comic novels ever. and i'm wondering, these are essays. to what extent is having been in washington, having spent the time around pol

california democratic chair says i remember signing his letter in the mr than 100 year history of our state. i also remember governor reagan bill that liberalized abortion. are these claims right? reagan wurnt real whether i a true conservativativconservativ? they've partly real and partly wrong. >>> yes, reagan did sign the abortion act. by 18970, it was up to 65,000. >> he came to regret that he passed that law later on.tr, secondly, the morm majority was not a key part of the gov. if tax increase took up a third of revenues. >> when you look at the big records, though, and you look at reagan's actual speeches, he was far from the progressive. >> the reality here is as president, it is also a fact that it's california's governor. how do we connect these two separate realities? >> thank you, sam. >> let's check in with jeff one more time. the weekend is almost here. long holiday weekend. and there's something for everyone. >> yeah, there really is you can see the fog bhiernd me. it's a wide range of temperatures and conditions this weekend. it is very thick at the meeds coastline. wi're also finding areas of drizzle at t

mr. subbot dispute the facts. ronald reagan used to say that facts are stubborn things. i also am a bit disturbed by it's somebody else's problem in the testimony and heightens my motivation to reinvigorate legislation that we tried before but also tried to make google and yahoo! understand that this is a much bigger problem than the testimony your testimony indicates they think it is today and it's a bit disappointing. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. we have three boats, for votes in five minutes. >> i just want to ask yahoo! and google the locations of scanning how many scans of you doing and if you want complete coverage what are we talking about here? 1%, 100%? >> we scan all this was 100%. >> you where we scanning and rescanning. what would be complete coverage versus what%? at is it an impossiblimpossibl e question to answer? >> i think. >> can you give it a try for the record. the other thing i want to know is how many people in your organization are devoted to cybersecurity the number of people because i want to ask the government they -- how many

it was reagan roosevelt who said you cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. mr. president, that is what inspires me. that is what gets me up everyday. that is why i'm going to keep on every day that i am in this office. i will make sure that my focus is on how we are building up the youth of tomorrow so they can succeed and america can succeed. to all the young people i have met, i'm just looking at them -- i want to talk about all of them. the young lady here was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 12. she figured out, with the help of the surgeon, a better understanding of how to isolate the genetic mutation for her cancer. she will be going to harvard, as you might imagine. this guy right here is designing a new computer system. it might allow us to develop flu vaccines faster and more efficiently. he is going to harvard. [laughter] you have this guy, who won a competition for stem education. he just started high school. so, he may go to mit or someplace. then we have a girl scout troop. oklahoma.rom stand up girls. [applause] codinguys did their own to desig

mr. smith, i want to ask you also for your perspective. during the reaganecovery in 1983 and '84, growth per quarter was 4.9% as compared to 2.2% in the obama recovery. >> well, i think there are a couple things that you got to pay attention to in the reagan years. the amount of united states gdp that was related to international trade was much smaller than it is today. it's about 30% today. u.s. corporations have invested a lot overseas because the returns are higher. and our tax code in the united states does not reward investment and capital equipment and software is what creates jobs. if you plot job creation and capital investment public and private infrastructure, they look like railroad tracks. it's 94% correlation. we're not spending on infrastructure. we're down to the lowest level since 1947 in that regard. so primarily it's the lack of investment. certainly that includes residential recently. you've seen very bad balance of payments, deficits to buy oil and with china and japan for many years. some of those are now turning around a bit. >> let me

president reagan, the leader of the free world, is down on his hands and knees mopping. mr. says, wrong, what are you doing? well, spills and water. i did not want them are stacked in and out. and, you know, it -- in retrospect it is a story that, you know, could be told about george bush. you would have been down there mopping up water or water river of it was. he used to it, you know, he is a houstonian. he used to stay in washington on christmas so his secret service detail could have christmas with their families. he was a wasp mensch, you know. and he was also, i'll tell you something else, the most sentimental man i think there have never known. this blue blooded 29 under. this -- george bush has is tear ducts of a sicilian grant, and. if they play the national anthem he started delivering. a marvelous man, one of the great blessings of my life was to have had the a venture of working for him. one more story? another question? the question. [inaudible question] >> not my headline. [inaudible question] >> to you know the context? in october of 2008i had a blog for my ol

reagan was 69. the average fox viewer age is 66. that's going to backfire on mr. >> was she in the hospital for a month? >> no, he lied. she was hospitalized for four days. they are blaming her for what terrorists did and blaming her for her husband's infidelity. they got nothing. even if she's 69, she will be younger than the 90-year-old herbert hoover ideas. >> bob your take on it. is there more to come? >> sure. look, first of all, he lied about the lie. it's a lie she has brain cancer. then he said he didn't say it when he did. what else do you expect from a guy who flogged the weapons of mass destruction and helped steal florida for bush. i think the republicans will consistently do this to hillary from benghazi, to boko haram, they are afraid of her. they want to deter her from running or damage her, if they can. she leads every national poll against any republican possibility. she leads jeb bush in the most recent poll by eight or ten points in florida. i think this is going to have the opposite of their intended effect. i think it will strengthen her resol

reagan was right. i hope to prove him wrong on this one, that this finally comes to an end. mr. flake: just one point. the second amendment, as i mentioned, you mentioned that this two-year extension leads to another ten years with subsidy. and depending on when they actually start production, it could be another 20 years. and so it really distorts our budget process and our appropriations and authorizations and everything else for a longer period of time than it should. i thank the gentleman for his work on this and look forward to hopefully seeing these amendments debated. and i yield back my time. do you have any closing remarks to make? mr. alexander: i do not. i think in summary, after 22 years and 8 extensions, it's time for the wind production tax credit to step on its own into the marketplace. let's save $13 billion. let's stop distorting the marketplace and undercutting nuclear plants as well as coal plants, and let's stop destroying the environment in the name of saving the environment. i thank the senator from arizona for his leadership. i suggest the absence of a quo

mr. shirley we have a lot of men your age. [laughter] that's one of the funnier sites. i have now written four books on ronald reagan. two have been published and one is with the publisher being edited now and i'm finishing up the fourth. i wanted to take a little bit of reagan and reaganism it in his presidency for many years. i always was interested in this period of time from the civilian standpoint. gordon craig wrote the definitive book on pearl harbor. nothing will ever surpass it. that was the greatest look written on december 7, 1941. there were various folks written on how a change from december 7 and december 31 and the rest of the war. as i tell people i grew up in an andy hardy movie in upstate new york. .. i would listen to my grandparents, about it and you would hear my grandfather's say i'd thought that before the war but didn't sell it until after the war and they would talk about margarine and mixing in the guy and how awful it tasted and think coffee and all those things. the other thing is my family was like most, everybody here was very much immersed in what was called the war effort. if you were

reagan was when he took office. four years later, this famous line. >> i'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> reporter: of course we still don't know mrstentions. >> the question i want to ask is are you going to run? >> i'm running, around the park. >> reporter: we will see more on mrs. clinton when her book is released next month but that's not all. republicans say she will be called to testify on capitol hill at the benghazi hearings this summer. jeff zeleny, abc news, the white house. >>> thousand of people have been forced from their homes in the balkans by the worst flooding there in 120 years. in one town, boats delivered water to residents trapped on their rooftops. three months of rain fell in that region in three days causing thousands of mudslides. two dozen people have died. >>> a big celebration in lima, peru that happened over the weekend to honor special couples exchanging their vows. >> they were a canine variety, mostly chihuahuas and shih tzus arriving. dressed in tuxedos and bridal gowns. once they sealed with a kiss the couples signed their marriage certificates and they took off for their honeymoons. there you have

mr. shirley, we hear that a lot from men your age. [laughter] so that's one of the funnier sides. why this book in because i have now written four books on ronald reagan, two have been published, one is with a publisher being edited now, and i'm finishing up a fourth. but i wanted to take a little bit, i'm immersed in reagan and reaganism and his presidency and all those things for many, many years, but i always was interested in this period of time from the civilian standpoint. and that's what i tried to write it from. gordon praying wrote the definitive book on parallel harbor -- pearl harbor with. that was the great best book ever run on december 7, 1941. but i discovered that there were very few books written from the perspective of civilian life and how it radically changed between december 7th and december 31st and then throughout the rest of the war. and as i tell people, i grew up in an andy hardy movie in upstate new york. my grandfather was a very prominent businessman like judge stone, and, you know, we used to get together for, you know, sunday dinner when i was a child after church. we would be at my mother's house or my grandmother's or

reagan in the 1980's. speak aboutto another power, however, which i shouldn't when we're discussing this issue, mr. chairman, we should not lose that we're not just talking about russia and the united states. talking about other nuclear weapons and other tontries in relationship what we're doing with the russians and that is what's china doing and what are we doing with russia and countries that relate to this very issue of central teej china.ons with communist i fear that by continuing to focus our arms control efforts only on russia, while excluding grave we are making a miscalculation. our negotiations can russia dictate our nuclear posture and define our military capabilities. it should be a major concern is not included in these limits, including caps set the new strategic arms initation treaty signed 2010. over the past two decade the people's liberation army, the the communist party of china, i might add, has armsed in a massive buildup. their capability has increased in every area. is it logical to believe that china's strategic force asks have notlear stockpile also like wise been expanded

mr. clarke, you were intimately involved in that period. your thoughts on that assessment. >> look, i had two embassies blown up on my watch. every administration has embassies attacked and diplomats killed. certainly ronald reagan had a heck of a lot of diplomats killed on his watch. nothing like this ever happened as a result. because it used to be that these issues of national security were non-partisan. and one looked at the facts. and one looked at the career people like tom pickering. it's not just tom pickering, who's an eight-time ambassador. no one in the history of the united states has ever been an eight-time ambassador other than tom. tom pickering is not the only one on that committee. it's also the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. to translate that into english, the former highest-ranking u.s. military officer. >> right. >> career officer. that's who wrote that report. in the past that would have been enough. two non-partisan career people, each of whom had served over 40 years, one in the foreign service, one in the military. they say this is the truth. that's usually the end of the story. it's not on this because people want to make partisan hay out of a national security issue in wh

theodore roosevelt and ronald reagan and george bush all of whom had much different views on immigration than steve king is following steve king on immigration. and let me say, mr. president, they are following steve king over the cliff. because not only are they hurting america, but because they are so afraid to buck this extremist -- and he is extreme on immigration -- they're going to make it certain that they will lose the 2016 presidential election, that they will make sure that the house, that the senate remains democratic in 2016 and that the house turns democratic. it's amazing. the republican record on immigration reform is clear. steve king has three wins, the rest of the republican party and the rest of america is winless. good for him, terrible for us. since house republicans won't stand up to steve king, king is in the driver's seat of immigration reform and as long as he sits there, things will continue to be stuck in a rut. america is growing weary of republicans talking a good game on immigration while high-tech businesses can't get the labor they need to grow and create american jobs. we're growing weary of all the talk while crops go unpicked

mr. chairman, if america is going to approach adversaries with a dove of peace in one hand, we must have a sword in the other. that is what president reagan used u.s. he military strength to hasten the demise of the soviet union. the nuclear tried a is our country's most lethal sword. it makes the world safer by deterring our rivals and reassuring our allies. the commander coin of montana's air force base expresses why nuclear deterrence works. it says, scaring the hell out of america's enemies since 1962. my amendment reaffirms support for the nuclear driad and the airmen and sailors who work this mission because there is no greater asset for peace than an unrivaled u.s. military. the chair: the gentleman from montana yields back. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. chairman. i now yield one minute to the gentlelady from california, ms. lee. the chair: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute. ms. lee: thank you. i want to thank chairman and ranking member for including such an important amendment from congresswoman sheila jackson lee, congress

mr. president, who do not think states ought to have to play mother-may-i with the federal government on this question. for example, the chairman of the american conservative union, art laffer, president reagan's favorite economist, chart krauthammer, governor mike pinske, governor chris christie, governor jeb bush, former governor mitch daniels and the late-william f. buckley, not to mention governor bill haslem of the state of tennessee -- giving state legislatures the power -- or, i would say recognizing the power of state legislatures to make these decisions for themselves is consistent with the tenth amendment and our constitutional framework. in our state of tennessee, the marketplace fairness act is anssurance policy against a -- an insurance policy against a state income tax. we don't have a state income tax, and we don't want a state income tax. now, mr. president, the house of representatives has not yet acted on this bill. the bill that was passed a year ago today by the united states senate with an overwhelming bipartisan vote. we are hopeful the house soon will either enact our bill, which we've sent to them, or send us their version of the bill so we can confer and send a result