nancy reagan's reaction to jane fonda plays her. and the cowboys' owner wants to make this building more popular than the white house. "early today" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "early today" for friday, july 26th. >> good friday morning. i'm richard lui. anthony weiner's bombshell admissions keep oncoming. anthony weiner now says he sexted up to three women after similar behavior forced him to apologize and resign from congress in 2011. >> it is not dozens and dozens. it is 6 to 10, i suppose. but i can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider inappropriate or not. >> were they sexual? how many conversations did you have with women after you resigned that were sexual in nature? >> i don't believe i had any more than three. >> well, this new admission comes on the heels of tuesday's press conference when weiner, with wife by his side, said he sexted a woman as recently as last year. all of this has taken a toll on his popularity. weiner has fallen behind city council speaker christine quinn. she leads

jane fonda is playing nancy reagan.e she was, discussing the role yesterday. >> i thought it would be fun to play her. i know people say, oh, my gosh, jane fonda is playing nancy reagan. i don't think whatever differences there might be in our politics really matters as an actor. i approach her as a human being. and i happen to know that she's not unhappy that i'm playing her. >> i hope she plays her well. she said she heard it from a friend that nancy was okay with it, but can't beat an endorsement like that. >>> that's "hardball" for now. coming up next, "your business" with j.j. ramberg. l be with himy as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ he

jane fonda is playing nancy reagan? might be in our politics really matters, you know, as an actor, i'm a human being and happen to know she's not unhappy i'm playing her. >> there you go. there are plenty of people who have never forgiven her for her activities during the vietnam war. one of them has been running a facebook page calling for a boycott of the film. there is a recent statement on that page saying that i knew we could never stop the movie or would stop her from portraying nancy but i knew it was way to get the word out again to people that didn't know especially the younger generation of what this treasonous woman did during vietnam. in april the page of 8 thousand likes. now are than 20,000 as we get closer to the release of the movie. will are a lot of people that arewith had a. jane has called this role a cameo in the past. she said people accept with her involvement need to get a life. and any controversy will probably help sell more tickets though the movie. you couldn't see because we had the banner

i know people say, oh, my gosh, jane fonda is playing nancy reagan. i don't think whatever differences there might be in our politics really matters as an actor, an approach her as a human being and i happen to know she's not unhappy that i'm playing her. >> i hope she plays her well. she said she heard it from a friend that nancy was okay with it, but about can't beat an endorsement like that. >>> that's "hardball" for now. coming up next, "your business" with j.j. ramberg. [poof!] [clicks mouse] there's doughnuts in the conference room. there's doughnuts in the conference room. automatic discounts the moment you sign up. >>> how can a small business compete with the big-box stores? for one hardware store, it's beating them on price. find out how they're able to do it. and a unique bike called the freedom cycle. time to get rolling and make money coming up next on "your business."

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this last slide just shows you a formal management diagram of the east wing staff during nancy reagan's years. it shows you how large and how important an entity the social office at the white house is. it's just as important as the projects office and scheduling and press. tonight's short film is actually a news reel of mrs. hoover making one of her radio speeches with the girl scouts during the depression and we will roll that now and i will introduce our panelists. >> now, mrs. hoover, as a representative of the girl scouts of america, i wish to present to you this report of the girl scouts efforts to join their elders in helping unemployed men, women and their families, in this difficult time when so many of our fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers, have no jobs. our motto is, be prepared. we have tried to show our leaders, friends and country that our girl scout training as prepared us to give service to those in despair. our efforts have been very small in comparison to what the grown- ups are doing but in our own home and school, we have tried to bring relief and cheer to those

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nancy reagan, it would bother her.oncerned about every time that they would make mention that john hinckley might be released, she would come to me and say steve, i just need to make sure that that won't happen. >> in 2003, the year before president reagan died, a federal judge ruled that hinckley was no longer a danger to himself or others and should be allowed limited visits to his mother's home in virginia. to this day, the secret service watches hinckley, tracking his whereabouts, the people he meets, even the books he checks out of the library. >> is he dangerous to other people still? will he do this again? >> i never had any sense that there was any deep remorse, and i don't think that he would be very capable. >> he had mental illness at that time and there are still issues. clearly, i think that he is where he should be. >> in the years after the assassination attempt, president reagan's approval rating skyrocketed. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> he became one of the most popular presidents in ameri

was a beautiful statement that she made to the estimate in your book you include a letter from nancy reagan you. >> there is also a nice picture of nancy and me at the u.n.. but at any rate, she got a lot of pressure. she meant to say what she said. just like her husband. if that's what she thought, that's what she was going to say. and she did. and the impact in the world was just the opposite of what the drug bureaucracy thought it would be. people responded saying it is so refreshing to hear you understand that. we will work even harder with you. >> are you still in touch with her? >> i talked to her just the other day. i gave her a report on the funeral. >> two final questions. you mentioned earlier, mr. secretary, you're father -- >> i thought you said earlier that two final questions. >> those were on the issues. stat these are in general. you mentioned your father. who were apparent and where did you grow up? >> i was born in new york city, and my parents moved us to englewood new jersey which was a little bedroom community. my father worked here. and my parents were just wonderful m

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. >> host: i think again we have come back to this idea that in nancy reagan's words just say no to drugs or the war on drugs. you point out in the book that it's a belief more than 3000% increase in the amount of spending on the war on drugs between 1970 and 2011 with very little consequence in terms of depressing the use of marijuana heroin or cocaine. by that measure not much difference but again from a parent's point point of view, di really want my children to take the risk and say well you know don't use this drug without drug or know that this drug is cut with this. do i really want to educate them in this way if there is a risk that it might say to them well then you get no what, it's okay to use drugs? >> guest: if your parenting is focused primarily on drug education you are in trouble as a parent. you should be educating your kids about responsibility, about their future and about a wide range of things. if your parenting is focused on drug use, you are all ready in trouble. my parenting rarely focuses on drug use. my parenting is making sure that my kids get into the proper co

the women get locked up -- hillary, when she did healthcare >> nancy reagan, she diffused it by showing up at one of those press dinners, the gridiron dinner, and doing a little song, joking about herself. it had a wonderful effect. >> even rosalynn carter. they called her the iron butterfly because she had that soft, sweet lilt. president carter gave her a portfolio, and the public reared up and said, we do not want her to have a portfolio. i think that first ladies can be liabilities. then they get kind of put away. we do not see them. i think the public wants first ladies to the in the background be in the background. >> but they are curious about them. they like them to be in the foreground doing some sort of white house tour. [laughter] >> and the role of the vice president is similarly awkward. you can fire your cabinet officers, but you cannot fire your vice president. you can choose not to run again with your vice president. this awkward relationship, sometimes in the foreground, sometimes acronym a sometimes -- sometimes in the background. >> mccain and sarah palin. [laughter]

he and his wife, nancy reagan, served eight years as the governor of california, and he worked really hard to have more jobs for the people and have lower taxes so their quality-of-life would be really good. but right when he was done with that, he decided this is the time to buy a ranch. so - up in the hills he bought the ranch where he had a horse he to write every day if he wanted. he would go out and chop down trees and take care of the fields and the fences, too and that was important. he liked having time to think about what he wanted to do. people asked him to run for president, said he did. he ran twice, first in 1976 and he lost. and you know sometimes it is hard when you lose to the side you want to run again and try something. but he did and he won. in 1990 he went on to become president of the united states, the 40th president. he became friends with michel gorbachev. do you know who mikhail gorbachev was? he was a leader of russia at the time and ronald reagan had actually made a speech telling mikhail gorbachev to tear down this wall that separated free people from those

andou are damned if you do damned if you don't. >> nancy reagan, they were not as great loving familyhildren. the press ignored it. was very interesting. still they carried on this idea that they were really somehow or other the grandparents or whatever we needed. they certainly never had their children over. they were very close with each other. what about their children? once, and ito me said, why is it that you are first lady whose children i've seen at the white house? children all of our are grown and have their own lives. they're living elsewhere. it is true. it is true that the four children, and some of them are fully grown, they were all adults, but they were younger than nancy's children. we all know what patty davis is like anyhow. [laughter] i think the first ladies have been fantastic. we have not had one as long as i can remember -- your history is a lot better than mine -- that has been scandalous, that has badly behaved, a lousy hostess. i have all been warm, loving, great first ladies. i think we are jolly lucky. i feel that way. [applause] they do a lot better than m

what barbara bush did she had two books about her dog and said i'm not nancy reagan. you're telling that barbara bush didn't answer questions about iran contra. what are you smoking? >> i will disagree. nine out of 10 questions were softballs. those were exceptions and not he rule. usually when asked the first lady sidestep them. nine out of 10 political questions is something how do you handle the campaign trail or balancing of the family. first lady chooses to say no comment, it's completely acceptable whereas if a president says no comment on that issue -- beth truman for example had a press onference. the transcript goes like this, are you going to be down in mines like eleanor. she says, no comment. then they say are you going to be flying in an airplane with the tuskegee airmen. o comment. after about 20 of those, they ask if there will be another press conference, she said no. if harry truman did that, they would have impeached him. >> i think that, that's the job of the first lady's press secretary is to control the press. if there wasn't a control press arena

. >> well, the nra has what i refer to as the nancy reagan strategy of just say no. >> michael: i considerhe mitch mcconnell strategy too. >> right. >> michael: robert gelinas, thank you so much for being here. he is the president of the american rifle and pistol association. maybe they will make a difference. up next, one can spend a lifetime, cataloging american heroism during world war ii, but there is also a very big stain on that catalog. we're talk about the treatment of japanese americans during the war. >> michael: welcome back to "the war room," where we're continuing our series the march goes on. today we turn now to the internment of japanese/americans during world war ii. not many people know the courageous story of a young japanese/american man who resisted the camp. two months after japan bombed pearl harbor, the president s n signed a bill that authorized the u.s. military to send over people of japanese decent, most of which were u.s. citizens into camps. fred korematsu, a 23-year-old living in oakland, california resisted and didn't report to the camps. he was eventually f

ronald reagan -- nancy reagan wasn't his first wife. she was his second wife. do we think there's something less good about reagan because he was married twice because the first marriage fell apart? people cheat. i think that anthony weiner's weird peck adilloes with the twitter thing is weird, and if your name is anthony weiner, you probably want to be more circumspect with what you're doing with your phone, but i think this is not the discussion we have to have. who is the best mayor for new york city based on their record. >> another question is why is -- anthony weiner in the record as we know it so far, hasn't touched anyone. >> right. >> other than obviously himself. he hasn't touched anyone. why doesn't that somehow help him? it doesn't seem to help him. i get the feeling that the "new york times" editorial writers think that is sicker than the way bill clinton touched -- >> remember, by 1996, we didn't only know about jennifer flowers, we knee about paula jones, and the paula jones case was clearly worse because that was sexual harassment. and people got

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was a beautiful statement that she made to the estimate in your book you include a letter from nancy reagan you. >> there is also a nice picture of nancy and me at the u.n.. but at any rate, she got a lot of pressure. she meant to say what she said. just like her husband. if that's what she thought, that's what she was going to say. and she did. and the impact in the world was just the opposite of what the drug bureaucracy thought it would be. people responded saying it is so refreshing to hear you understand that. we will work even harder with you. >> are you still in touch with her? >> i talked to her just the other day. i gave her a report on the funeral. >> two final questions. you mentioned earlier, mr. secretary, you're father -- >> i thought you said earlier that two final questions. >> those were on the issues. stat these are in general. you mentioned your father. who were apparent and where did you grow up? >> i was born in new york city, and my parents moved us to englewood new jersey which was a little bedroom community. my father worked here. and my parents were just wonderful m

to prison for ronald reagan, people say judge clark was closer to ronald reagan than anyone but nancy reagan and went back to california, don o'dell, a successful secretary at the department of the education, maybe we ought to make attorney-general. instead he made him secretary of the interior and picked these 3 men to do the work he wanted to have done that he had envisioned back when he was governor, that he continued to talk about when he was a radio address speaker and writer and he continues to back each and every one of them. one of the things that has been fascinating, i had hoped the book like this had been written in the 80s or 90s but not until 2000 we saw something that helped us understand what reagan's philosophy was and how we went about these things and how truly believed in his issues and to his diary came out in 2004. it is fascinating to me when i read his diaries to see how closely he was following these issues. the second general area is environmental extremism, the book's title is "sagebrush rebel: reagan's battle with environmental extremists and why it matters today".

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there is nancy reagan, your mom.he whole drug thing isn't going to go away, is a problem. are you proud of that? >> a traditional issue, leak laura bush with edge. hillary clinton different, eleanor roosevelt, different. even to an extent mrs. rosalynn carter at the beginning of the carter administration tried to get in on cabinet meetings, tried to be a little more active in policy. that didn't fly too well either. >> we're looking at the former first ladies, and the one that stands out is hillary clinton there. what would be the role of a first -- what would we call them? >> first gentlemen? >> first gentleman, first spouse. we might have to make it gender neutral for a while now that we're going to have women presidents. i think it would be different if it was bill clinton, i don't think it would be a quiet domestic role for sure. he would be an interesting person to start that. >> i don't think he would limit himself to one issue. that was a joke. thank you, joan walsh and ronald reagan. thanks, buddy. we'll be r

and one time in office when i was in office nancy reagan had her just say no program. she understood this. and she went to the united nations. she was invited to give a speech on the subject and i went with her. and she said very directly that solutions to the problem start right here. we are doing something about people taking drugs. as a beautiful statement that she made. >> in your book you include a letter from nancy reagan to you. >> there's also a nice picture of us at the u.n. consulting. but any way she got a lot of pressure. she meant to say what she said but like her husband, if that's what she thought, that's what she's going to say. and she did and the impact of the world was just the opposite for what the drug bureaucracy father would be. that is people responded saying it is so refreshing to hear you understand that. we will work even harder with you. >> are you still in touch with mrs. reagan? stand yes i talked to her the other day when i gave a report on the thatcher funeral. estimate two final questions. you mentioned earlier your father. >> i thought

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aboutt was interesting nancy reagan that was they were not this great loving family.d her grandchildren to the white house and the press ignored it and that was very interesting and yet they carried werehis idea that they really somehow or other they were the grandparents or but theywe all needed never had their children over image.er presented that >> they were very close to each other. >> well, what about their children? >> the children were all -- she said to me once, i said, why is it, nancy, you're the first first lady whose children i've the white house. she said, well, betty, all our haveren are grown and their own lives and are living elsewhere. true -- no, it is true that the four children who some grown, most fully of them, i guess, they were all adults, but they were younger children but we all know what patty davis is like so --. >> i think the first ladies have been fantastic. haven't had one as long as i can remember and your history is that'setter than mine, been scandalous, that's badly hostess.nd a lousy they've all been warm, loving, great first ladi

hillary when she did healthcare and nancy reagan for a file.she diffused it by showing up at one of the washington press dinner and doing a little song, "second hand rose," joking about herself and it had a wonderful effect. >> even rosa lynn carter, they called her the iron butterfly. president carter gave her a portfolio and the public reared up and said we don't want her to have a portfolio. i think that first ladies can be liabilities and then they kind of get put away. we don't see them. they go into shadows for a while. i think the public wants first ladies to be in the background. think that hasn't changed. they're curious about them. they like them to do white house tours. >> the role of the vice president is similarly awkward. you can fire your cabinet officers, you can't fire your vice president. you can choose not to run again with your vice president. again this awkward relationship, sometimes in the foreground sometimes in the background, sometimes very much a presidential surrogate. >> mccain and sarah palin. >> i mean, many vice

nancy reagan was much more than .ealthy and high-fashion she nibbled her husband to function at maximum capacity. when his mental powers slept, she brought him -- slept -- comfort.he brought him she was a woman of greater political skill that her husband. she never forgot a slight. she endowed george bush with his greatest political asset. barbara raised those kids. he was an assateague father. absentee father. thesee most part, marriages have played a constructive role. it has been only wives. i'm here to tell you that, before the end of our tenure here, we will see first gentleman. it shall be interesting to see how he deals with these problems. needs a strong partner other than the american president. sheltered and conclude as he is. is.ocooned as he bringpresidents have spouses that are willing to speak hard truths. those presidents have a distinct advantage. had pat nixon and able to cut through her husband's paranoia in -- paranoia, watergate could have been avoided. that nixon had given up. they were living separate lives, as you will see. my husband advice, pat was quoted as say

or, a for example, nancy reagan, who actually was more integrated into her husband's administration than hillary. but she camouflaged it better. she was more subtle about it. she was never in the west wing. hillary taking an office in the west wing was a serious miscalculation. overestimatedhe our readiness to, as i said in cede the first lady such a role. we do not want that. we want her to keep her partner steady and on an even keel and give him the support that we all want him to have. but do not rub our faces in it. maybe there is some hypocrisy in that. but those are the rules. yes, you had a question. >> giving the changing culture youmultiple divorces, don't think it is likely that, sooner or later, we will have an unattached resident? us anhat time comes, give idea about how you would write an extra chapter in your book about that resident. -- that president. >> wow. maybe you can help me with that. funny enough, no divorce has ever followed the president. these couples are really strongly united. unlike our marriages, if i can speak for our marriages, a presumption on my part, t

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i'm also big on nancy reagan for helping ronald reagan so much. he was codependent on her. mope waiting for her to come back. i missed you nancy. they were the great love story of presidents. >> isn't that something. it's a tough, tough job and your heart aches -- >> tough decision. >> so much. i mean, just a silent -- you got a sense that she wasn't even comfortable in the public spotlight and had to go through so much with her husband. >> these are people who -- two people who met each other right after college out in california in a theater troupe and she was never in love with the public life. at times she didn't want him to run. that's not uncommon among first ladies. they have misgivings about overhauling their entire life and the rest of their life. they have to live all of the thousands of cuts when a presidency fails on a massive squall that's very difficult. and you remember the most poignant moment of their relationship when pat nixon died afew years ahead, he is weeping -- he is unable barely to move. very touching moment when we study these couples. >> for a ma

the women get locked up -- hillary, when she did healthcare -- >> nancy reagan, she diffused it by showing up at one of those press dinners, the gridiron ,inner, and doing a little song joking about herself. it had a wonderful effect. carter.rosalynn they called her the iron butterfly because she had that soft, sweet lilt. president carter gave her a portfolio, and the public reared up and said, we do not want her to have a portfolio. i think that first ladies can be liabilities. kind of put away. we do not see them. public wants first ladies to the in the background -- be in the background. >> but they are curious about them. they like them to be in the foreground doing some sort of white house tour. [laughter] >> and the role of the vice president is similarly awkward. you can fire your cabinet officers, but you cannot fire your vice president. you can choose not to run again with your vice president. this awkward relationship, sometimes in the foreground, --etimes acronym a sometimes sometimes in the background. >> mccain and sarah palin. [laughter] >> many vice presidents have been com

president of showtime, the cable network and he agreed to take on the film cbs rejected on the reagans, that nancy, had reagan saying all kinds ever things he never said about gays and other things. and showtime picked it up when cbs rejected it for, quote, moral reason, unquote. so i wonder. here he ran an anti-reagan film ten years ago. now he says he's going to run an even handed hillary clinton film. the proof is in the network pudding. >> steve: no kidding. john, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> steve: what do you think about this stuff? you think those movery also be fair? e-mail us. meanwhile, next up, this wasn't in the script. the stars of "the real housewives of new jersey," one of them facing more than 50 years in the slammer. her. and the baseball drug scandal about to bust wide open. brand-new details on deck. ♪ fighting constipation by eating healthier, drinking plenty of water, but still not getting relief? try dulcolax laxative tablets. dulcolax is comfort-coated for gentle, over-night relief. dulcolax. predictable over-night relief you can count on. ♪ ♪ i've got something for

imagine if you were to write a biography of ronald reagan without ever mentioning nancy or bill clinton without hillary, just to cover both sides of the aisle. this struck me as pretty amazing and it is what led me to -- i will eventually figure this out, to the real mrs. earp. okay. no. no. . i may need somebody to click for me. collector. i actually heard in the early days of television, bill had someone come and visit him, someone needs to change the channel and someone said don't you have a remote control? sure i do. george! george came and changed the channel. could you teach me how? is really elliott. what am i doing wrong? can you get it? it is not just me. i am usually pretty good with technology. so i will keep going. i will start by telling you a little bit about her family in the united states. joseph king's parents emigrated from prussia around 1850 and this is the pretty familiar story of jewish immigration. for the rest of her life josephine would say her family was a german, not prussian and that is a very important distinction. prussia is now poland and did it really mat

reagans gave charles and diana this chip n dale mini seat. but when harry came along, nothing. oh, my. going back to prince charles' birth, the trumans sent the happy parents a simple telegram. nancy the giver is reflected in the gift or the response. >> he was known to be economical. >> that's a yes. that's a yes. >> reporter: the trumans did send a gift for the royal wedding giving the future queen a steuben vase kind of like this one. and thank goodness. because when the princess was born, the white house honored princess elizabeth's arrival with nothing. shame on president coolidge. sources say the obama administration is now determining the appropriate gift for the latest royal kiddo. some advice? >> let's avoid the silver spoon and i won't go there. >> on twitter one of the suggestions was a gift of star wars action figures. appropriate? >> i don't think i would go there. an appropriate gift is perhaps a piece of a moon rock. another might be a tree. trees are very symbolic. >> reporter: or original art work from -- >> one of their favorite books. >> "where the wild things are." >> he is crowned king of the wild things. >> reporter: one gift to cross off the registry? car se