mrs. reagan for transforming the symbolism of this color. >> that's a powerful operation. >> very powerful operation. >> to have succeeded. >> and a wonderful example of fashion really reshaping the image of the white house. you move from the carters who had this -- the white house is never going to be casual but a much more -- even their inaugural balls were called parties, not balls, but a much more casual entertaining style, purposely more casual look and then when the reagans were elected, all of the prespeculation is on the hollywood glamour that will come and mrs. reagan's designer clothes and what will the new style of the white house be. and that was a white tie inaugural ball. the first one since the eisenhowers. >> and galanos. >> and galanos. in fact, this is galanos. the last two were adolfo. >> there was a scandal, too, about her accepting designer clothes as gifts, was there not? >> i thought about that. >> were they gifts or were they declared. but she came from a world where this

mr. reagan outlined his foreign and domestic agenda, criticizing the country's political leaders without physically mentioning sitting president jimmy carter. >> ladies and gentlemen, ronald reagan. >> i hear tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president united states. i'm sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints, depending on where we have lived in what we have done. for me, as a boy going up in several small towns in illinois to a young man in iowa trying to get a start in the great depression and later in california for most of my dull life. i have seen america from the sports box as a sportscaster, as an actor, an officer of my labor union, a soldier, and both as a democrat and republican. i've lived in an america where those who often had to little to eat outnumbered those who had enough. there have been four wars in my lifetime. i've also seen the great strength of this nation. as it pulled itself up from that ruined to become the dominant force in the world. to me, our country is a living, breathing presence. proud of

mr. reagan. >> mann: reagan had this idea to give this nationally televised speech.didn't want to do it. so reagan went out and raised the money and aired the speech himself. >> ronald reagan: and this idea that government is beholden to the people -- that it has no other source of power, except the sovereign people -- is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. this is the issue of this election -- whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. >> mann: the speech was called "a time for choosing," which may be ronald reagan's best speech ever, and that's saying a lot for ronald reagan, 'cause he gave a lot of great speeches. but this speech was a masterpiece. and it probably made the best case for barry goldwater that anybody, including barry goldwater, had made for himself. >> our democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate th

think of president reagan when he said mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. how can he possibly say that? but it was right. we have no guarantee. i cannot give you a guarantee for the outcome of the wednesday talks or further talks and maybe nothing will come out of it. but then we're called upon again to think about a new possibility. and since we thought about it every step of the way, we will continue to do so. a lot of things have to be thought about and i'm very glad that with the american people i've always been able to put all of the cards on the table and discuss the pros and cons in my speech in munich. i gave you clearly where i stand. we'll continue to try it. i think that's why we're -- that's why we chose professions. others have to do other things. researchers have to all the time find new things to explore and to people have to -- and we have to see the well being, of people is ensured.

president reagan when he said mr. gorbachev, tear down the wall. many people said how can he say that? but he was right. we have no guarantee. i cannot give you a guarantee for the wednesday talks or further talks and maybe nothing will come out of it but then we're called again about a new possibility and since we thought about every step of the way, will this be effective or not, we'll continue to do so. a lot of things have to be thought about and i'm very glass that with the american president, i've always been able to put all the cards on the table and discuss the pros and cons in my speech in munich i gave you clearly where i stand. but we'll continue to try it. i think that's why we're politicians. that's why we chose this profession. others have to do other things. researchers have to all the time find new things to explore and people have to -- and we have to see and the well-being, the prosperity of people is in short but we never have a guarantee that the policies we adopt would

. >> ronald reagan officially announced his second run for the presidency during a paid nationally televised speech on november 13, 1979. speaking from a set in new york city, mr. wright -- reagan outlined his foreign and domestic agenda criticizing the country's political leaders without directly mentioning city -- sitting president jimmy carter. this is about 25 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, ronald reagan. >> good evening. i'm here tonight to announce my attention to seek the republican nomination for president of the united states. i am sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints depending on where we lived in what we have done. for me, it is -- as a boy growing up, and a young man in iowa trying to get a start and the years of the great depression, and later in california for most of my adult life. i have seen america from the stadium press box as sportscaster actor officer and democrat and republican. i lived in an america where those who have had too little to eat outnumbered those

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and dating back to president reagan's administration. mr. ambassador thank you. >> thank you. >> a lot of this is about ground troops. our military leaders have said you can't do this without ground troops. they say there's only an ideological solution here. where do you see us? >> well i think both -- right. on the one hand, you're not going to be able to defeat a force like this only from the air. you're going to have to defeat it on the ground. clearly we want -- we want arab armies to be doing that. and many of them, whether it's the iraqis or those that we will help in syria, many don't have a great deal of experience engaging this kind of warfare, particularly urban warfare. so they are going to need help and they may need americans on the ground maybe as trainers or helping them plan the operations. that's one element of this. and it's basically an indispensable element of it. by itself in the end, it's not sufficient because this is also an ideological struggle. we have to defeat their ideology. one way to do that is to show that the

reagan was. whether that is true or not, i don't know. i don't think so good but i'll tell you, if you go back and look at the budget deficit numbers from mr. god reagan back in the 1980's, you will find that he was running a $350 billion budget deficit and if you inflation-adjusted that or adjusted for the size of the federal government in our society, you will find a barack obama is running a smaller budget deficit in equal dollars tha ronald reagan. nhe is more balanced in his budget deficit than ronald reagan was. host: hey, tom, stick around for a last segment of "washington journal" today. william hoagland is the vice president of the bipartisan policy center and he will talk about the history of deficit issues. stick around for that. appreciate the call from minneapolis, minnesota. california, line for republicans. good morning pam. caller: good morning. i'm a little concerned because i hear so many people calling in saying to raise somebody else's taxes, 70 else has to pay -- somebody else has to pay, we need is a need that, and businesses are not paying their fair share. my sentiments are similar to one of the earlier callers who

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of germany, they've been criticized by people, some who have ideas and think of president reagan when he said, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall, standing in front of the gate, many people said at the time how can he say that? but it was right. we have no guarantee. i captain give -- cannot give you a guarantee for the outcome of the wednesday talks or further talks and maybe nothing will come out of it and then we're called upon again to think about a new possibility and since we thought about this every step of the way, will this be effective or not, we will continue to do so. a lot of things have to be thought about and i'm very glad that with the american president, i have always been able to put all of the cards on the table and discuss the pros and cons. in my speech in munich, i give -- gave you a clear view of where i stand but we'll continue to try it. that's why we're politicians. that's why we chose this profession. others have to do other things. researchers have to all the time find other things to explore and the wellbeing and prosperity of our people isn't sure but we never have a

mr. conservative, barry was a trailblazer whose clear, compelling vision for freedom, liberty, and security paved the way for the presidency of ronald reaganke arizonans, he will always be viewed as our state's favorite son, and rightly so . he earned the nickname, mr. arizona because he had a love affair with our state. it's magnificent beauty and its freedom of loving people. arizona back. in part because arizonans saw themselves in him. the rugged individuals of some of the west, bold and sometimes, lunch, truth telling, and a vision as true as the arizona vistas that very so dearly loved. our state never had a better champion than very goldwater. we are so very proud of his rich legacy and it will continue to be honored here at the united states capital. as a new session of congress begins, and we commit ourselves to addressing the major challenges confronting our nation, all of us should be mindful of every goldwater's formidable -- barry goldwater's formidable example. one of freedom at home and abroad. i know that this statue will serve as a begin, -- beacon, reminding our nation of the timeless ideals that barry goldwater represent

then think of president reagan when he said mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. how could he possibly say that? he was right. we have no guarantee. i cannot give you a guarantee for the kout yom of the wednesday talks and maybe nothing will come out of it. but then we're called on again to think about a new possibility. since we thought about every step of the way will this be effective or not, we'll continue to do so. a lot of things have to be thought about and i'm very glad that with the american president i have always been able to put all of the cards on the table and discuss the pros and cons. in my speech in munich i gay you cle -- i gave you clearly where i stand. that's why we're politicians and chose this profession. others have to do other things. researches have to find new things to explore and people have -- we have to see that the well-being, the prosperity of our people is enshuinsured. but we never have a guarantee that -- greece, i almost forgot. on wednesday there's going to be a euro group meeting and what counts is what greece will put on the

they've been criticized by people as some who harbor ideas and think of president reagan when he said mr. korbachov, tear down this wall. many people said at the time, how can he possibly say that? but he's right. we have no guarantee. i cannot give you a guarantee for the outcome of the wednesday talks or further talks. and maybe nothing will come out of it. but then we're called upon again to think about a new possibility. and since we thought about every step of the way, will this be effective or not, we will continue to do so. a lot of things have to be thought about and i'm very glad that with the american president, ia have always been able to put all of the cards on the table, and discuss the pros and cons. in my speech in munich, i gave you clearly where i stand. but we'll continue to try it. i think that's why we are politicians. that's why we chose these professions. others have to do other things. researchers have to all of the time find new things to explore. and to -- and we have to see that the well-being, the prosperity of our people is ensured. but we never have a guarant

mr. ward, i am baffled by your comparison. ronald reagan did not get the blowback that mitch mcconnell from the beginning put on barack obama. just imagine. i ask you to imagine. had he been willing to reverse that statement, and say, yes, we will work with the president the changes that would have been made would have been phenomenal. had he not made the statement at the beginning of the presidency, please tell me how you would compare that with ronald reagan when he was open accept it with open arms as americans hero i both republicans and democrats. thank you. guest: it's true. tip o'neill, the speaker during reagan's presidency, they were together very well. it's true that mitch mcconnell made that comment, i think in 2009. saying that it was their job to make him a one term president. i think the critique of this president is that whatever the degree of obstruction from the hill, there is still only one president in town. yes, it may be difficult. but coming up to where it takes to work together. it may be that i was never going to hap

reagan did nothing. lynn, westchester pennsylvania. mr.lly, thanks for spotlighting the human rights atrocities occurring around the world. german pastor once said the -- albuquerque, new mexico, o'reilly, your attempts to shame the president. his ambivalence is his strongest character trait. terri, england. will someone please tell president obama that the only thing worse than america being the world's policeman is america not being the world's policeman. lake placid florida. o'reilly, so you will not pile on brian williams? i guess the elites take care of their own. cheap shot harold. story's all over the place. naples florida. good night, chet, good night david, good-bye brian. i'm upset, president obama had a meeting with muslim leaders and will not disclose who they were. dick cheney did the same thing. sometimes these guys like to keep things private. i ordered killing patton for my 93-year-old grandfather who says it was the best christmas present he received. since getting the personally autographed copy he has become re revitaliz

reagan. >> wow. >> none of us have a clue. >> one person has the correct answer. and here it is. >> mr. t, will you please toss the coin? >> it is tails. >> president reagan. second inauguration happened the day after that coin toss. i won't ask anybody who was playing in that game. a couple of you might know. i do not. we're back with "the roundtable." and, while we're on football, lz, i want to start with you. look back at the year. obviously, the super bowl, a great day. so much enthusiasm. look back at this last year. you saw the long list that we played earlier of what has happened this year. we have concussions. child abuse charges, domestic abuse, we have deflate-gate. reflect on that. >> well, it's interesting that everyone else, and everyone else, i mean viewers and fans, are starting to realize what reporters have been talking about for a long time. which is that the athletes particularly those in the nfl, seem to be getting away with a lot of things that haven't angered people. this is not the first time there's been conversations about cheating, domestic violence. this season

reagan tried to speak. >> would the sound man please turn mr. railing an's mike off at the moment. >> mr.ld you turn that microphone off for me. >> i am paying for this microphone, mr. green. >>> that's a spencer straysy line straight from "state of the union." >> thank you very much for joining us. these moments can almost be predicted. made hilly look like a victim but also showed a nice opportunity for her in contrast to obama's dark sort of you know likable enough. that's why i love debates. they show something that you don't usually get in canned campaign speeches. >> i will say those moments define personalities. the primary is the place where you can ask the second question the follow-up question. who refused to say he was for debates. i guys are so polite up there. >> she really should be considered almost as an incumbent president seeks her second term. there's no one tanning in her way. >>> i would say to people we don't pick our presidents, they pick themselves. the first primary is in your hard. anyway bill clinton lost by eight points, but nobody remembers that. he had these

they've been criticized by people as some who have a revenge ideas and think of president reagan when he said mrachev, tear down this wall standing in front of the gate. how could he have said that? he was right. i cannot give you a guarantee of the wednesday or further talks, maybe nothing will come out of it. we're called about to think about a new possibility, and since we thought about every step of the way will this be effective or not, we'll continue to do so. a lot of things have to be thought about and i'm very glad that with the american president, i've always been able to put all of the cards on the table and discuss the pros and cons in my speech in munich, i gave you clearly where i stand. but we'll continue to try it. i think that's why we're politicians, that's why we chose these professions. others have to do other things. researchers have to find things to explore, and we have to see the well-being the prosperity of our people is ensured. we never have a guarantee that the policies will work we have the effect -- sorry, greece i almost forget. yes. on wednesday there's going to b

they have been criticized by some who have ideas and then think of president reagan, when he said "mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall" many people that how could he say that, but it was right. we have no guarantee. i cannot give you a guarantee of the outcome of the talks but we are called upon to think about a new possibility. we have thought will this be effective or not? a lot of things have to be thought about and i'm glad that with the american president i've always been able to put all the cards on the table. in my speech in munich, i gave you clearly where i stand, but we will continue to try it. i think that's why we're politicians and why we chose this profession. researchers have to find new things to explore and we have to see the well-being of our people is in short, but we never have a guarantee the policies we adopt will work -- greece -- i almost forgot. on wednesday, there will be a eurogroup meeting and i think what counts is what greece will put on the table. at that eurogroup meeting or perhaps two days later. the german policy ever since 2010 has been aimed at gree

reagan roosevelt issued executive order 9066, leading to forced relocation and internment of over 100,000 people of japanese ancestry. japanese relocation from 1943, a 10 minute film posted by the brother of dwight eisenhower. mreisenhower presents arguments in favor of the forced internment policy, while scenes of the mobile process and internment camps are shown -- removal process and internment camps are shown. ♪ >> when the japanese attacked pearl harbor, our west coast came of potential combat zone. we knew that some among the japanese were potentially dangerous. no one knew what would happen among this concentrated population if japanese forces should try to invade our shores. military authorities determined that all of them, citizens and aliens alike, would have to move. this picture tells how the mass migration was accomplished. neither the army or the war relocation authority relished the idea from taking families from their homes, so the military and civilian agencies chose to have real consideration for the people involved. consideration was given to potential problems. there is san francisco. there were more japanese in los angeles than an any other area. in san pedro, houses and hotels occupied ex

reagan. who better to ask about this than mr.n the fox business network, the parasite economy. what is a parasite economy? john: the beauty of the free market is the only way you get rich is sell people stuff that they want what they voluntarily pay for. parasite economy is all the people like the colleges you told about go to government and use force, government is force and they use force to get your money and there's plenty, green energy companies the whole college industry the banks getting there bailouts, too big to fail me in some big banks are parasites. tom: the government is going to squeeze out the private sector? john: it is a constant battle. the beauty of the private sector is it managed to grow as fast as government so far. as we age and medicare eats everything else we are past the tipping point and parasite state will suck the life out of most everything. tom: the next generation has to see how this works in the capitalistic form. but we become more -- the socialism creek, you can see it coming. >> kids below 30,

mr. mccarthy: this is the slowest recovery. when you look at ronald reagan's time and how fast we come out of it, there's no comparison. participation rate 62.7%, the lowest it's been since 1978. mr. hoyer: if the gentleman will yield? mr. mccarthy: once i finish. mr. hoyer: ok. mr. mccarthy: when you give up to participate you give up on your future, you give up on your dreams. that's not an economy that we want. when you look at the tax package that we're bringing forward charitable contributions. maybe people on your side of the aisle think government should solve that problem. i see charitable contributions back home in my own community solving a lot of problems locally very fast and very direct. and i think these are things that could be bipartisan. so i look forward. and as you talk about the deficit yes, i want to work with you. i looked at the president's budget. i do not believe government needs 11% increase. that's how much new in taxes he'd give to the federal government. i think people keeping that would be better and i think lowering how we spend

to stand there and handicap yourself, it would be odd if ronald reagan said we have problems with race in america and intern the japanese, mrhev please tear down this wall. that's not really his job. although i think there's a colonel of truth to what obama said, it's chronologically peculiar, he shouldn't be making those comments when fighting evil. kennedy: i was surprised -- >> because the professorial president used such a stupid cliche, it was i think on september 12, 2001, i started hearing this every day. a month after september 11th, bill clinton went up and said exact same thing about the crusades. this is the sort of janet jackson school of historical wrongs like what have you done for me lately. this is a thousand years ago, the first crusade. we don't want to get into the specifics whether or not they are morally equivalent if the crusades were defensive or offensive war. kennedy: isn't historical context much more important? >> one would hope, but sometimes none of this stuff has to do with religion at all. how dare you seed the ground to that and say this is a bad religion in islam. and now it's a bad religion

reagan and george w. bush also served as bush's secretary of state. mr. secretary good to have you here. >> thank you, norah nice to be here. >> o'donnell: since we're on the subject of presidential pom particulars you know plenty because you helped both bushes become president. would you help jeb bush what do you think of his running for president? >> i'll certainly help him if he wants me to, obviously. i think it's terrific that he's going to get out there and run. he's extraordinarily qualified person to be president. he would make an extremely good president. i'm excited about the fact that it looks more and more like he's actually going to do it. >> o'donnell: is jeb bush the front runner? >> i think he is now, yeah. with romney pulling out of the race. but i will tell you that based on my experience being the front runner is not necessarily always the best thing in pat shall primary contests because if you don't win big enough then press will say you didn't do well enough. but jeb's got solid credentials. he knows politics. he was elected governor

thatcher was looked up to, kennedy, reagan, it's getting pretty shallow out there for leaders. >> but maybe that's a good thing, mris. >> forgive me, chris. maybe what it shows is in many of our countries, the world does not require the kind of critical leadership that marg thatcher, ronald railinger provided when we had to face down the russians, doesn't require the kind of courage that winston churchill had to display during the absolutely existential moment in 1940. maybe we live in a blander, softer kind of age. >> yeah, but we live in a television age that churchill doesn't are to face, where we can watch a flyer, a crank otherwise jordanian get burned alive by gasoline. a young woman who is helping people who are desperate get killed. we have to watch that. i just wonder, as much as i don't have a plan to win this war against isis, how can we be a manly, conscious, moral country and watch one person after another be publicly and be executed. >> we can't. a couple weeks ago i was in kurdistan and saw the one set of guys who are really sticking it to the isil people, are the kurdish peshmerga, and we should be

mr. ranking member increasing the capital gains rate to the rate it was under president reagan, 28%, but also critically what it would do is treat capital gains fairly among our highest income and lower income folks. and what that is is through stepped-up basis. right now hundreds of billions of dollars of capital gains are escaping taxation each year because families are wealthy enough to hold those assets and pass them on to their children, whereas many lower income folks middle class folks, are forced to sell those assets to support their family. if they do they are taxed at their original basis under capital gains. but if you can pass it on to your heirs they're taxed at the market value as they're passed on, so hundreds of billions of dollars escapes. we're concerned about that not just on a fairness bounds but also because it encourages people to hold assets out of the economy. they could be putting them to productive use. instead they are holding them in passive ways that are not producing the economic growth and investment and job growth that we would want. the last way it's paid

truckers a.a.a., transit, local government environmentalists and mirrors something that ronald reagan did 33 years ago. mr. speaker, i suppose we have to go through this exercise and we'll do it and we're going to see that there's kind of a two-track system. if you're on the conveyer belt for things they want to move, it will go forward. consequences to the deficit be damned and even if it makes more difficult long-term tax reform and repudiates things that have had bipartisan interest in the past. and in the meantime things that have broad support, that have profound affect on the economy right now and impacts people from coast to coast lies dormant and we're manufacturing another crisis. oh and before that, we're going to have an artificial crisis with disability funding because of a switch in the rules for those that don't get this favored treatment. there's a reason that we got this gap in income disparities, policies that would narrow them rather than widen them and i hope we can get past this today and at some point get back to basics on things that will make us stronger, that can bring us together

mr. chairman. i do recall a thing called the reagan doctrine which was in the words of margaret thatcher won the cold war without firing a shot. maybe there are some of us that have different views of history. senator sullivan did you have additional question? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just had one quick follow-up question, and it relates to some of the broader issues that we're struggling with here. and i'd like your views on -- your thoughts on what's going to be looks like an upcoming debate in the congress on the authorization on use of military force, and you know secretary flournoy, you mentioned a fresh start, looking forward. how would you advise members of congress to look at that whether it is years troops geographic scope. there's a lot that can go into something like that. it is going to be important. i would just appreciate your views on that, thank you, mr. chairman. >> first of all, i would say i think it is important to have the discussion. debate about aumf would be a good surrogate with regard to what should our strategy be on terrorism and the middle east. i think that as you h

reagan bush, clinton, bush have done. bring it up under another circumstance. keep it off the protection of our protection of our country. your chairman, mr. rogers, working with our ranking member, congresswoman lowey were able to put together 12 bills, which were a compromise compromised bills that everyone was prepared to support until you decided you were going to use immigration to hold hostage the national homeland security of our country. and so, kick the can to here. now you have kicked the can to here and now you are going to kick the can to march 19. what do you think is going to happen on march 19th. we have had two recesses today on this very day of congressional deliberation. what do you think you are going to accomplish if you are not going to grow up and bite the bullet. you made your point. your republican senators do not agree to drag this out. they have given you a face saving path. the judges have have given you a face-saving path. the urgency is very, very clear well, clear to e except those who happen to except in this chamber when your negative attitudes to president obama have so overwhelmed you that you are willing

mr. ward, i am baffled by your comparison. ronald reagan not get the blowback that mitch mcconnell from the beginning put on barack obama. just imagine. i ask you to imagine. had he been willing to reverse that statement, and say, yes, we will work with the president the changes that would have been made would have been phenomenal. had he not made the statement at the beginning of the presidency, please tell me how you would compare that with ronald reagan when he was open accept it with open arms as americans hero i both republicans and democrats. thank you. guest: it's true. tip o'neill, the speaker during reagan's presidency, they were together very well. it's true that mitch mcconnell made that comment, i think in 2009. saying that it was their job to make him a one term president. i think the critique of this president is that whatever the degree of obstruction from the hill, there is still only one president in town. yes, it may be difficult. but coming up to where it takes to work together. it may be that i was never going to happen,

mr. web on everything but i trust you. and i think that's what we need in government. host: our guest, a graduate of naval academy. the autor of nine books. served in the reagan administration and served from 2007-2013 as the senator from the commonwealth of virginia. we go to tennessee. caller: good morning. >> good morning. senator webb, i've got to ask you this question. suppose i come to your house and i bring my kids and i bring my wife and she brings her parents and i bring my parents. and we bring our brothers and our sisters, and they all bring their chish and also bring their spouses family. and all the cousins. and we come to your house the law hasn't been effective. that job you got, it's not your job anymore. it is my job. host: on the issue of immigration obviously. guest: there are two questions we face in terms of the immigration policies that have been in place and how to fix them. the law was not effective in terms of what it said it was going to do. we were going to accept the numbers of people who were here illegally and make the system more effective. the law has not been more effective. it's been loosely enforced. there are a lot of entit

mr. ranking member, increasing the capital gains rate to the rate it was under president reagan, 28%, but also critically what it would do is treat capital gains fairly among our highest income and lower income folks. and what that is, is through stepped-up basis. right now hundreds of billions of dollars of capital gains are escaping taxation each year because families are wealthy enough to hold those assets and pass them on to their children, whereas many lower income folks, middle class folks, are forced to sell those assets to support their family. if they do, they are taxed at their original basis under capital gains. but if you can pass it on to your heirs, they're taxed at the market value as they're passed on, so hundreds of billions of dollars escapes. we're concerned about that not just on a fairness bounds but also because it encourages people to hold assets out of the economy. they could be putting them to productive use. instead they are holding them in passive ways that are not producing the economic growth and investment and job growth that we would want. the last way it's

mr. peterson on his new book, steering clear. we hearken back to 1986, ronald reagan, and tip o'neill.eter: we can have a world where what we leave to our children is very solid and where we take care of the very poor without a lot of sacrifice, but politically we made the solution to the problem and possible. tom: do we need more tip o'neills? do we need more people cut from a different time and place and fabric? peter: i love what he and ronald reagan did. m how -- tom: how to we get that back? peter: very few of that mode and it is exactly what we need in which politicians sit down with one another, and they have solutions that are practical, and both sides give something. tom: do you feel like america now is losing its shared experience? peter: when i was brought up in nebraska, i remember my greek immigrant parents coming over without a penny, and without a word of english, and early on when they opened up their diner, and i went to work there, they were thinking about their future. and i was going to get the best education, as my dad used to put it, that money could buy so there

reagan say, hear bill clinton say he loves america. i hear him criticize america more than other presidents. >> and then the comments became stronger. >> mr. mayor, do you want to apologize for your comments? >> not at all, i want to repeat it. the reality is from all that i can see of this president, all i have heard from him, he apologizes for america, criticizes america. he talks about the crusades, how the christians were barbarians, leaves out second half of the sentence that muslims were barbarians also. he sees christians slaughtered, doesn't stand up hold a press conference he holds a press conference for the situation in ferguson. >> he continued to lash out against the president in an interview with "the new york times" saying, quote, some people thought it was racist i thought that was a joke since he was brought up by a white mother, white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people. this isn't racism this is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism. joining us nia malika-henderson and editor of mother jones, david corn. thank you for joining us. nia, you retweeted something from chris sell