because e he had with national review i never read them. that's how we did it now he writes about column in the city and country and writes history of this wonderful for me it is great because now -- read everything that he writes. [laughter] and -- trump's election may have been bad and divorce rate for millennial ares up to 20% of people who were on different sides of trump. but for our marriage, it has been heaven because he's not a trump supporter. so we can actually talk about politics. rare wonderful thing. this subtitle of your book is how to protect your intimate relationships in a poisonous partisan world. is president trump in your view, responsible for the drop in political marriages -- there's no question. i wish it weren't true. but it is true and this has been happening, of course, since the the iraq war and all kiengdz of things where the gotten worse and worse but at that point i never had people e-mail me who said what can i do, i'm about the back ticket of worst over politics. never had that happen. i have three e-mails li

conversations] anyway so that's been our history, an i've lived as kind of the mascot of the right and national review for many, many years, and it has been a very eye opening -- >> you're very liberal. >> yes, i'm a liberal democrat, and in fact, i think there is -- we're going to have -- if we ever voted in. we voted for him the first time, and we both believe in the death penalty for overcell phone use but other than that, we have no -- literally no position in common. none. abortion is just a suicide --

but the national review is wonderful. they gave me what i asked in any of you -- one couple they were both professionals and very well off and smart. they came from out of town to talk with me. they has started out, both liberal and he got work conservative and voted for trump and she was devastated. they had much in common. she said how can you be if you how can you be in my world? and then when i was talking about it she said well one thing is clear, they were well off and had a three-story house in a fancy part of a fancy city. she said, i don't let him watch fox, even in the basement three forced down. he was not allowed to watch any media that did not agree with her. and he went along with it. and i thought what is that going to do anyway, another thing she did, this is what i found was a terrible thing to do. your parent, your child, husband, wife or friend, anybody, don't do it it's a disaster. read this, what's on the breakfast table, the thing by my side. it's alienating. >> host: you said that you never read you

so there was also a pragmatic streak in how he ran national review and his public commentary, but he is really the leader of a whole constellation of conservative media voices, was deeply influential and that pragmatic streak, i think, was critical. >> the book is called "the right moment: ronald reagan's first victory and the decisive turning point in american politics." matthew dallek is a professor at george washington university and robert merry, he is the editor of "the american conservative" as we continue our conversation on 1968, a year in turmoil, america in turmoil. ruth is joining us from illinois. good morning. >> caller: good morning, everyone. i think my question has been answered. back when lyndon johnson asked for the civil rights law to be passed, democrats would not vote for it. republicans got it voted in, but before that when president kennedy took us into vietnam, that was a war that i never did understand, but since we were in it i did, you know -- you've got to support the united states no matter what. that's about it. >> ruth, thank you. we will turn to robert

so i kind of was adopted by national review, you know? and it was very eye-opening experience in many, many ways. because i learned that people who disagreed with me could be good friends, could be thoughtful, could be people i wanted to spend time with. even more sometimes than people that i agreed with perfectly. for instance, the last boyfriend that i had before that. we had perfect harmony politically. so this was a real learning experience for me. rick had lived in a liberal world before, so he was -- but i think we did have to learn, at least i had to learn, what not to talk about. because he wrote editorials for national review. i never read them. that's how we did it. now he writes columns about life in the city and the country and writes history. oh, that's wonderful for me, it's great. because now i read everything that he writes -- [laughter] and trump's election may have been terrible for many, many marriages. the divorce rate among millennials has gone up to 55% of people who were on different sides of trump. but for our marr

"national review," to what extent did burnham's thinking come up with a concrete white paper. china to stop the development of a nuclear weapon, that's not serious policy. >> jeff? >> is this on? yeah. thanks to the panel who did actually move the needle on my understanding of the post-war era and post-war conservatism more specifically. and i think the idea of this eclipse of a 75-year regime, david, is really interesting, and the one accord group marching into the america first, the sense of unity, the oneness that buckley talks about. both of those dimensions raise really important flags that i think we need to be a little more concerned about. it's elites versus little people but it's also what's the cohesion here and how does it work in terms of race or ethnicity in terms of creating insider/outsider senses of national citizenship. i sort of agree with where david was going at the end of his talk, maybe we need to think about something of national identity as a place of political traction. it immediately raises questions of immigration, civil rights, of gender that are ab

the national review had an editorial welcoming them. the headline was, come on in, the water is fine. they became very significant. my own view is that they became maybe more significant than we may want them to be, in terms of their foreign-policy views today. >> from texas, harold, we will take your final question. >> s, in 1968 richard nixon -- 1968, lyndon johnson was upset that richard nixon sabotaged the peace talks. if he had come out and spoke against richard nixon, what result would that have had? thank you very much. >> that is a little more ambiguous than that issue is given credit. nevertheless, it was very incendiary and it could've blown up and been detrimental to richard nixon. >> let's conclude with richard nixon's comments from the early morning hours of 1968 -- of november 6, 1968. >> there were times in this campaign, some were not very friendly, most were very friendly. the one that touched me the most, at the end of a long day of whistle stopping. it was almost impossible to see. a teenager held up a sign, bring us

national review disclosed this week. we're talking to it's. going to. go let's go let's go get it list to get it started looking. for that a lot of that anything about comedy is good but i'm about the same as art when i was up the money into the magazine with. loaded long long long long long list mocking want. to say please. just tell me go places is a long long. long before you meet. other people more go comes up on the local. list. so. when i was told something seemed wrong why don't we all just don't hold. any old beliefs yet to shape our disdain comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. which. i. ruth. sixty seven close in of in didn't will produce in this ward open all the produce them as water two hundred better docks a good view of the rivers really of all the water but we go into the. many years into seeing giant she has been trying to raise awareness of the suicide epidemic he talks to the families of the deceased trying to get to the heart of the matter

this is his famous statement in the opening issue of national review that he wanted to stand before historyelling stop. buckley simply did not believe in the postwar national order that came out of this. therefore, buckley was never that invested in the arguments over vietnam. his belief there was hey, you created this world, it is your mess, you deal with it. it was a certain sense of conservative washing of hands of this. anti-communism became a very important part of conserving this, because it was the third leg of the store that kind -- tied together libertarian conservatism with different kinds of conservatism. those other two forms did not have much in common, but they could agree on anti-communism as the basis for fusion is a. anti-communism was again kind of a negative thing. granted, there were some variations, like the fact that you have asia firsters in the conservative community, but again their love of asia was only sort of skin deep. no one really cared about india. people got bored when it came to .4. buckley also will be the first to point out that the anti- communism was it

look at the national review, there's a battle over these issues. the intellectuals are worried about it. burn m is the guy to comes out and says we really need to worry about the society union. we need to re-evaluate our role in the world. it's not for domestic consumption. he's not trying to win votes. he's trying to change the policy of conservative elites. there's a debate within conservatism that's at a high level of thinking. and that level, it's knot just about of thinking. at that level it is not about domestic consumption, it is about trying to go past conventional wisdom of conservatives before 1946. but that is 350 people worrying about a tough issue. >> there is a psychological dimension which is communism represents the force of evil and satan in this world. we have to oppose everything that is against christian in this world. to what extent does -- come up with the white paper? -- to stop the development of a nuclear weapon. that is not serious policy. >> thank you for that panel. it moved the needle on my understanding of postwar era

the "national review" whistling past the graveyard.hat's your sense what that electoral result on tuesday says about the mid2erterms? >> you can look at a difference of 1,600 votes and point to any small factor and the president certainly eager to take credit for the victory. the fact remains, this is a district he won by 11 percentage points in 2016. a district represented by republicans for 35 years including john kasich and the most recent congressman pat tiberi. even a one-point victory is who close to call as a final result, i'm not sure how to spin that as a. >> result for republicans when it comes to all 435 seats up for election in november. >> steve, your sense of the role president trump is going to play? a piece in axios this week how the president and his team is working with the republican national committee, with other republican groups to scene where the president might go, where his daughter and senior adviser might go in place of him. how does this change the campaigning strategy for this president for republicans more

and from the new york times columnist and from national review are "washington journal". and he wrote a scathing article in the new york times about hugh hefner and has an emphatic viewpoint and his legacy. so first we will ask the audience should we dedicate a room to hugh hefner as an overall show of hands who feel that in general we should honor hugh hefner, that he has made more of a contribution that he has taken away from society. leave them up. and those that are against it? so we do have a slight bias dedicating a room to hugh hefner to change any minds we will start with the professor of mr. playboy. [applause] friends and americans a countrymen lend me your ears. i'm here to very hefner not to praise him. maybe surreptitious praise the little mark anthony. he died a few months ago september 27, 2017 and with that achievement and legacy the reaction and then to be unmixed he described hefner and these are his words as wicked a to sexual liberation a lowbrow peter pan. and the impact on american society and with those values. now while i admit my gosh admire his w

. >> and the national review, which was also the publication that william f.uckley founded, has written, about you, the following. why not take on this question of the existence of god? >> because it's not something to reduce to a sound bite, fundamentally. >> but your lectures are two hours long. >> this is true, but when you're talking about the most important questions that people have ever asked, then two hours isn't very long, apparently. people will watch them. so i'm not prepared to... i'm not prepared to say things in any other way than i've already said them. you know, it isn't obvious what belief means. people think that what they believe is what they say they believe. i don't believe that. i believe that what people believe is what they act out. and so i said, "i act as if god exists." that's a sufficient statement, as far as i'm concerned. you know, what's the old saying? "by their fruits, ye shall know them." same idea, right? it's a matter of action and a matter of commitment. it's not a matter of me parading out my explicit statements about a me

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national review just because. we're talking to. know that i'm going to. find out a lot like i love you know i don't lose sleep each night. i find that a lot of what i'm about comedy is good but i'm going to look at him as art and when i was up the money into. taking a long look i left my money on. to say to each. their own place so that was a long. long way for much of you maybe for. other people more adult films like those on the road. the little bit about. the so. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see them. it was you know provision on my part going to what it does on the. past but i. get. your for your height oh i lost his boss because i just got them yet they're part of me just part of the media resources you know. any book your money might all of those in prison but the pressure on us i don't mean just any of them. showing us you know part of us you're not. you know just i mean my most wanted i'm already whatever sped up i would be just going to b

kevin williamson's piece in the "national review" calls it elizabeth warren's batty plan to nationalize antoine, to me, i don't think elizabeth warren if she had the opportunity to get this much control over corporate board would top there. but what -- would stop there. what are your thoughts? >> she has a track record or body of work fighting for middle class working people in this country. this is just another example of her making and attempt -- an attempt to do that. she is in the minority party in the senate and congress. you won't get too much pushback saying that does not trickle down and translate to workers. this is a framework of a plan to get to a place to say where corporations do well, the workers should be rewarded. charles: elizabeth warren has a long track record. she erupted to national prominence in 2011. i want to play that famous sound bite hat that put her on the national stage. >> there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. nobody. you build a factory out there. good for you. but i want to be clear. you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest

here to break it down, national review reporter cat temp, chief market strategist mike block and fox host, he has incredible presence on social media as well, richard. >> thank you. follow everybody on instagram. dagen: you sound like an old school radio host. >> i am a radio host. dagen: i know, but old school. when you start doing -- when you do your live videos on instagram, you do, that radio voice comes on. >> it's a learned skill. dagen: got to love it. coming up, former foreign policy advisor paul bonacell is here. chris hogan, you want to talk about a voice, chris hogan should record audio books for a libbing. and -- for a living. and gordon chang, you don't want to miss it. in a letter to lawmakers president trump says he is scrapping the automatic 2.1% pay increase for federal employees next year, declaring it as an emergency, an unsustainable budget increase. the letter reads in part, quote, we must maintain efforts to put our nation on a fiscally sustainable course and federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases. congress does hold the power to overrule this deci

run and trying to forge ties beyond her largely white political base in massachusetts but the "national reviewh lowry called warren out for what he called lies about the justice system quoting the contention that us law enforcement is a product of racial hatred is a paranoid lie from top to bottom, beginning to end, front to back. lowry cited numbers showing african-americans are arrested for more than petty drug crime saying blacks account for 50% of homicides and police are not just making up these crimes. beth lindstrom, the republican running for warren's seat, apologizing for her comments, words like this are polarizing and divisive and used for personal political gain for 2020 without regard for how they sound to the many good people in massachusetts and around the country who are tasked with criminals keeping us safe, administering justice. amid this debate over race and justice a group of black lives matter activists filmed themselves crashing the wedding of one of the second of police officers accused of fatally shooting stefan clark in march. >> i wonder -- how you have been sleeping

national review reporter kat sims. [cheering and applause] he's never won a game of limbo former wwe superstar and my massive sidekick, tyrus. [cheering and applause] joe, welcome to the program. you still have not shaved that weird. but that's okay. does this criticism affect tru trump? >> it's one thing he hates it's been in the news. cannot tolerate being the top conversation. he's calling plays from a game they're not playing anymore. trump is about the stuff you can't catch them, they try to get a plan. the idea that the media is somehow is a threat to the first moment even in their coverage of this their still slanted. trump doesn't say i'm against the free press them against the fake news and free press. he says i'm against the bias coverage. he doesn't say he's against coverage. there's a big difference. the media can see the difference because are so close and they really think they're better than heroes which they are not. greg: they are trapped in a snow globe and can't see out of it. [laughter] mackey, what

i do not recall complaints of partisan lawyers reviewing kagan's documents. the national director of president clinton's enactment to campaign, a person who helped fix things for the white house and longtime ceo of the clinton foundation reviewed justice kagan's documents. leslie kiernan, also prominent in democratic party politics, reviewed justice sotomayor's documents before the senate received them. if these individuals could review nominees' documents, before producing them to the senate, i think it is perfectly legitimate for mr. burke to do that as well. so i do not see rationale behind the criticism. the following nominees will be held over. ryan nelson, ninth circuit, richard sullivan, second circuit, gary brown, east district of new york, steven districtstern missouri, diane, to the eastern district, new york, eric kometi , eastern district of new york, rachel, eastern district of new york, lewis lymon, southern district, new york, john o'connor, northeastern and western district of oklahoma. john sinatra, western district of new york, and mary, southern distric

ross douthat is a new york times columnist and with a film critic for "national review," the wall street journal, weekly standard, and he wrote a very scathing article in the new york times speaking ill of hugh hefner, and in fact viewpoint on hugh hefner and his legacy. we are going to ask the audience, on the question of should we dedicate a room to hugh hefner? i would like to see an overall show of hands of those who fuel in general we should honor hugh hefner? that he has made more contribution than he has taken away from society. for a second -- 12345 -- 10, 11, 12. a dozen for, those against? 123-4567. on my staff -- 7. seemed to be 5. i kidding. interesting. i saw more female hands up on the negative side. we have a slight bias in favor of dedicating a room to hugh hefner so we will have a bit of a debate. we will see if we can change any minds and we will start with steven watts, the author. [applause] >> thank you for attending. we will have an interesting exchange of views here. friends, americans, countrymen, lend me your ears. i come you to bury hugh hefner, not to praise hi

thank you to my good friends where we met on national review cruises it is always great to be able to catch up with them although i never thought i would be here addressing conservatives. my book is called "sex matters" and the day after it was published the following headline appeared in the huffington post. there is a chilling new call for women to reject feminism. we must fight it at all cost. in the attached article the author wrote watching me on tv was enough to convince him someone to change the channel to the handmaid's tale. [laughter] following with a 700 word column for women to accept perpetual slavery. but here is my favorite part i admit i have not read mona charen new book. [laughter] my late father was fond of saying don't confuse me with the facts my mind is made up. that is only my second favorite the best was in the form of a question why are there so many more horses asses than horses? [laughter] i have been doing a lot of interviews since the book was published but what prompted you to write this book? i did not have a response ready. because i'm happy and i want

review is being handled. these are groundless. first of all, the national archives are not being cut out of the process. the president is legally authorized to review these administration documents and decide which ones to release to the senate and claim that others are privileged. that is exactly what his team is doing now. additionally, some have labeled the attorney bill burke, and he is a leading attorney in the review of president bush's documents as a partisan lawyer. from what i have found out from other people, he is a partner in one of the most liberal law firms in the country and is one of president bush's presidential records act representatives since president bush left the white house in 2009. mr. burke handled the initial review of justice gorsuch's documents and there were no complaints about his doing that at the time of justice gorsuch being considered by the committee. i do not recall complaints of partisan lawyer's, documents. -- reviewing justice kagan and justice sotomayor's documents. bruce lindsey, national director of president clinton's enactment to campaign, a person who helped

conservative intellectuals and activists like william buckley and the editor and founder of the national review warned the proponents were falling for fake overtures and making agreements like the salt agreement that would weaken the united states. the new letter talks about the flaw. in 1975, president ford was starting to back down from his start support of the policy. under nixon the administration has undertake the policy of vietnam which combined an intense secret bombing campaign and a gradual withdrawal of troops from vietnam. the problem for ford was that the strategy did not work. the aftermath was going to be a political problem for the president the south was falling to communism after this long and devastating war. the fall of south vietnam to communism in 1975 and the unification of vietnam was a huge blow to the ford white house as it was fighting its battle with conservatives. although president ford blamed the democratic congress, advisors were shrewd enough to know that much of the public would blame him. in the days before the final approach civilians were being evacuated from

you saw the national review pen letters, saying they did not want president trump to be president. they did not think he is sick. a nicely the other side of the equation, the mainstream media newspapers around the united states coordinating and attacking this president. these are the times we are in and i don't think it will change. host: when you write that about the president, how do you make that balance for you, as far as addressing the white house and its actions versus your opinion of the white house and its actions? guest: i did criticize the white house for the most recent fromng of the cnn reporter everything. but on the other hand, i stand by the right to tweet, and his ability to speak unfiltered to the public. when i write in my opinion pieces i look at what is coming out of this white house in terms of policy i don't go back and forth with what donald trump says and what the media says. that's getting in the weeds. i think most americans care about core principles and policies coming out of the white house. the economy and so forth. that's what i try to focus on. host:

cnn pf cnn's reporting he participated in conference with two former writers for the national reviewaspouzing racist views. what does that say about the trump white house vetting process? >> it's lacking. i don't know if it exists at all. i mean i dent know if it exists at all. the additional questions i believe this raises is what kind of access did the white nationalists that spoke at this conference or maybe those that prescribe to a white premises ideology. what do they have -- what access do they have? as the made the to talking points, to concrete policy? have these had an audience with other senior advisors of the president? and the fact the white house didn't know until they did their reporting and asked about it should concern us all. >> or maybe they did know and they got caught. i'm worried i can't find a safe used car. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help. show me the carfax? now the car you want and the history you need are easy to find. show me used minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start

conservative intellectuals and activists, the editor and founder of the national review warned that were falling for fake soviet oftuvertures that wd weaken the united states. by 1975, president ford was starting to back down from his staunch support of this policy. undernix on it had combined an intense secret bombing campaign and a gradual withdrawal of troops. the aftermath would be a political problem for the president. the south was falling to communism after this long and devastating war. it was a huge blow to the ford white house right as it was fighting this battle. although ford blamed the democratic congress, presidential advisors were shrewd enough to know that much of the public would blame him. in the days before the final evacuation people saw military and civilians being evacuated from south vietnam. one sergeant recall we began seeing the south vietnamese military changing into civilian clothes because they didn't want to be caught once the north came in. it's hard to describe how surrounded we were at the u.s. embas embassy. we had no idea who the enemy was and who we sh

david french senior writer at the national review joins me now. >> joand our msnbc contributor.avid, let me start with you, how does the president in one breath and i believe it was just a week or so ago guarantee this new relationship with north korea and now tweet, you know, we are not going to see them after all. it appears that the north koreans lied to me. >> the only thing that's surprising of that tweet is it is partly prudent. it is prudent to withdraw your secretary of state from fruitless negotiations. the problem is if anyone has paid attention to the enduring challenge of north korea and the generations long of north korea is they have been losing the football on a nuclear deal for years and years and trump fell for it, hopefully, now he's beginning to wake up and although the little valentine's towards the end of kim jong-un caused for concerns, he can't help himself in thinking he can charm them out or either bully them out of a generation long course of conduct. that's not how it works on the korean peninsula. >> hans nichols is joining me now. as we start this co

deroy murdock is a contributing editor for "the national review. dave web webb and. shelby: holiday. is president trump going into something that's unconstitutional and un-american? >> there is debate about what these companies actually do. a lot of their algorithms and mechanisms are opaque. nobody understands how google's algorithm works. but they are based on things like what you have searched for in the past. so it's hard to know if the search results are rigged. trump posted a video that was somewhat misleading. google said we did promote your state of the union. charles: the state of the union address, they didn't televise it. but you hear enough from regular folks. i hear it on twitter. i have 700 followers, family and friends. occasionally i will wake up and 60 are gone. >> bots can make mistakes. charles: why do algorithms always make mistakes against conservatives? >> many months ago my facebook froze. i went from 1.6 million impression and interactions per week to 160,000, 190,000. i contacted them and it's not gone anywhere. prager u, they blame the algor

eric: we are joined by john hunt a columnist for the "national review." critics are saying he's abusing the power of the president and punishing people he perceives as his critics and it's a danger for the president to do this. >> it's an unforced political error when john brennan called the president's behavior treasonous, that did cross the line. by naming these other people it looks like an enemies list, and i think trump made a tactical mistake here. eric: do you think it's an enemy's list? >> no, because many people on that list did overstep their boundaries. he was the number four official at the justice department. he has been demoted twice for improper behavior. in association with christopher steele, the dossier author. and the fact his wife was working for fusion gps which was the research arm for the dossier. bruce ohr has some explaining to do and i think he'll eventually be fired. eric: the president is claiming about ohr, if he pulls his security clearance, that means he's out of a job. can the president shut down the russia investigation by

here to discuss this, contributing editor to the national review and a former ohio state senate minorityer if it's close, it's not a victory. the democrat lost in ohio and a special election is different than a midterm election and a presidential election. so if you can't get them out in the special election, don't you face a problem? >> look, i mean i think there's a lot of factors here and we have to remember -- and i say this as a democratic. honest analysis. everybody makes a big deal out of nothing. saying we're coming so close. democrats have lost eight of the nine special elections since donald trump's election to the white house. okay. in this circumstance in ohio, you do -- special elections are just that. they're special. the turnout is unique. and in this context i don't think you can read a lot into this race and apply it to the rest of the country. you had a weaker republican candidate, someone who i know and like as a person but i served with in the state senate for six years and i'm not sure what legislative accomplishments he has and then you had a stronger democratic can

[cheering and applause] this kitty kat will not give you a break, national review reporter kat timpf. [cheering and applause] and his neighbors begged him to stop doing jumping jacks, former wwe superstar in my massive sidekick, tyrus. [cheering and applause] tom, what you make of this activist press? >> i read every one of those. i thought they were all be the same one but they were different but it was all a variation of the same thing which was this is not about donald trump but about press freedom and by the way here's five paragraphs about donald trump so they can't stop talking about him but paradoxically he knows that's what drives their ratings. for the first time were talking about the houston chronicle so everyone is getting what they want but you mentioned barack obama which is excellent as he complain about the press all the time. greg: only one press. fox news. >> back to what is more representative of a healthy democracy? a president who constantly complains that 90% of the media is out to get him for the president who complains about the 5%? that was not licking his boo

. >> this isn't national review. are we seriously shutting down the country for about a year and a half? this is unquestionably taking a deep toll on the country's collective psyche, this collusion investigation which is supposedly what this is about. this is what we are up to now? michael cohen taxi medallions. "national enquirer" story about stormy daniels. we have to ask ourselves at some point, is this really worth it? this is a book candidly and the republicans base during the clinton years. they've had enough. melissa: i don't know if the democrats have learned that lesson. if you look at cnn and msnbc commend to use the words impeach or impeachment 222 times around the story. it is really driving at home. my thought is i wonder if this doesn't blow up in the democrats face in the sense that they reignite voter enthusiasm if they go out and vote in the midterms thinking my president is going to be taking away. this person we elect them. the democrats are going to try to impeach him and i better go out and vote

intellectuals and activists like william but only -- william buckley, the editor and founder of the national review, one that of opponent -- opponents of the ditente -- intern, making agreements, like the salt agreement that would weaken the united states. -- newsletter report talked about the -- of date taught. by 1975, president ford was starting to back down from his staunch support of this policy. under nixon, the administration had undertaken the policy of vietnam is asian, which had combined an intense secret bombing campaign, and a gradual withdrawal of troops from vietnam. the problem for ford was that the strategy didn't work., the aftermath would be a political problem for the president. -- was falling to communism after this long and devastating war. the fall of south vietnam to communism in 1975, and the unification of vietnam was a huge blow to the ford white house, right as it was fighting this battle with conservatives over ditente. >> although president ford blamed the democratic congress, presidential advisors were -- smooth enough to know that much of the public would blame him. i

kennedy: joining me now, national review's own year editor jonah goldberg. a lot of people when they look back at the obama administration, they say this deal was the best we could hope for. do you believe that? >> no. i thought it was a terrible deal. it was a deal to guarantee iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon within 10 years and guarantee it will have one after 10 years which didn't seem like a great deal to me. by giving them all of this money, the pallets of cash. they would repair their economy and instead they use it to fund hamas, hes bow a, go to -- hezbollah and it backfired on its own terms and it wasn't going to guarantee they wouldn't get a nuclear weapon which i thought was the point. kennedy: some people say it doesn't matter what you do with sanctions, they don't work. here you have some of the sanctions being lifted and cash being sent over in exchange for hostages. as you are proving right now. there is more civil unrest than has been since the green revolution. i don't know how placing the sanctions back on that hot pot creates the ideal

through this confirmation hearing on september fourth when we will not even have a full national archives review of brett kavanaugh its records until october on that basis alone this confirmation hearing should not be happening in september do you think democrats should doing enough. never larry never but i do think that i'm seeing a calculus change on this and i guess what i would say is there's a sense of inevitability around the supreme court around american government in general a sense of alienation that your individual voice doesn't have enough of a say and i would argue that is the case i wish i could say i could say it wasn't true but we can come together and build to collective power the people who don't want this confirmation to go through who don't believe this president deserves at all a supreme court nomination of any kind that we have the numbers and we need to change the calculus so that it costs our senators more to vote yes than to vote no and a change is happening we're moving the needle i believe this is the most fundamental progressive fight of our time and also that it is wi

also as well as two former writers for the national review who were both fired forre espousing racistat does that say about the trump vetting process? >> it's lacking. i don't even know if it exists at all. it does speak. i don't know if it exists at all. the additional questions i believe this raises, don, what kind of access did the white nationalist that spoke at this conference or the folks that don't self-identify as white nationalists but sub describe to a white supremacist ideology. what type of -- did this influence make it into any of the president's speeches? has it made it into talking points? into concrete policy? have these folks had an audience with other senior advisers of the president? this is absolutely dangerous. and the fact that the white house didn't know until the k file did their reporting and asked about it, i think should be concerning to us all. >> we're going to continue this on the other side of the break, hold your thoughts, please, we'll be right back. the ford st and now is the best time to buy. you ready for this, junior? yeah, i think i can handle it.

. >> jesse: andrew mccarthy had a great piece in the national review.was saying bringing the pain on these other tax charges and say you are looking at a lot of time. why don't you plead to these lesser kind of campaign violations? >> dana: possibly. but then also, and i don't know anything about this one either, but now cohen has another subpoena about the trump foundation. he is in a situation where he is in a downward spiral. >> jesse: they are going after him big time. i agree with greg. it is to avenge hillary lawson bring a lot of heartbreak on the president. >> pam: unless they have other credible evidence. he has told so many stories. >> jesse: his credibility is shot. >> greg: we have been saying that trump has a thin skin. he has a pretty thick hide to do his job while this is going on. >> jesse: that's tough. tough day. anti-trump media ramping up impeachment talk after these developments. that's ahead. it's america's most popular street name. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. now that you k

kevin williamson at national review said socialism is a short-term word that conservatives are usingocialism. but what the progressives are doing is trying to address concerns about financial anxiety the people have. they are saying we have answers, the gubernatorial candidates, they are running on basically a medicare for all in the state. they're promising that. they are dealing with questions. are conservatives missing the boat to find a better way to answer it, because venezuela might not be working. >> geraldo: ocasio-cortez is young environment and people love her in the bronx and queens. >> jesse: we don't know if socialism can play in the heartland. we'll see if it can play in michigan or missouri. >> geraldo: do you putting tariffs on imports? >> jesse: no i mean paying a trillion dollars for free stuff for people. >> greg: socialism is turning zoos into restaurants and people are eating zoo animals. >> geraldo: i don't get that joke. >> greg: it's not. in venezuela, they are eating zoo animals. >> geraldo: it's tragic. i used to cover venezuela. >> candace: if you don't wan

and joining us on the couch today, and boy do we need him, senior fellow at the national review, institute, former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york and fox news contributor, andy mccarthy. he is "outnumbered." we will need your advice and legal support today my friend. president trump's former personal attorney michael cohen pleading guilty to charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations in federal court. cohen testifying he made illegal campaign contributions to two women "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. those women are believed to be stormy daniels and former "playboy" model, karen mcdougall. the candidate is believed to be president trump. here is lanny davis on "america's newsroom" ." >> the donations given to keep quiet to women, which mr. trump wasn't willing to sign those checks himself, he directed mr. cohen to make those hush money payments, is a federal crime. and if michael: with the prosecutors in new york admitted to that, then certainly donald trump is guilty of the same crime. >> there

but the national reviews call warren out for what he says are lies about the justice system, quotingcement is a product of racial hatred is a paranoid line, from top to bottom, beginning to end, front to back. also cited numbers, saying blacks also account for 50% of homicides and police are not just making up these crimes. meantime, the republican running for her seat wants her to apologize for her comments, quoting again, words like this are polarizing and divisive without regard for how they sound for people who are tasked with criminals keeping us safe and administering justice. and amid this debate over race and justice, a group of black lives matter activists filmed themselves crashing the wedding of one of the sacramento police officers accused of fatally shooting clark back in march. >> i just wonder how you've been sleeping since march 18th. >> clark was allegedly vandalizing cars when he was confronted by police who thought he was carrying a weapon. he was not. the shooting is under investigation and black lives matter has vowed to approach the accused officers where they a

. >> reporter: santa clara university psychology professor thomas plant served on the national review board for the u.s. conference of catholic bishops plant says in 2002 the church instituted new mandated procedures and ordered an annual independent audit for all dioceses . >> the good news is that policies and procedures are in place over the last 15 years or so that are working. >> reporter: thursday the u.s. conference of catholic bishops announced it is calling for lay investigators to take part in a vatican led probe into allegations of sexual abuse by some -- by senior washington cardinal theodore mccarron. also make the reporting of abuse easier and have better procedures to resolve complaints against bishops. >> ahead of the u.s. conference of catholic ships says one of the root causes of the repeated abuses was a failure in leadership which led children to be abandoned and face an abusive power. he calls it a moral catastrophe and says, quote, we firmly resolve never to repeat it. one victim support group with the bay area chapter says they welcome more involvement for peopl