in one way to look at that time period, we could see the war on drugs is connected to the nixon administration. but if you go further back in u.s. history you realize nixon didn't start the war on drugs. the warren trucks has had stricter policies domestically and abroad for most of the 20th century. he expanded it he'll march day, this open skies domestically and abroad, which is the area i was interested in. although the book will it go both areas in the united states and also around the world. nixon had a few things in mind. one there had been growing drug inside the united states. part of mr. nasty campaign was running on the mantra of law and order that he was going to restore law and order to the united states after the disorder of the 1960s. so there is that law and order seen. also, looking at drugs come as soon as this menace in connecting it antiwar opponents and that is one way to kind of discredit them. there's various reasons why he declared the war on drugs. >> resonant mexican nation governors today discuss with the president called indeed a national problem. he proposed a natio

henry kissinger, when he joined the nixon administration, knew exactly what the president's beliefs werepolicy. and that's why he was chosen. they meshed. but there were no beliefs that pat could -- a very strange part about nixon which i knew very well because i had been in his campaign in '62 where in truth it ultimately showed as he showed in his memoirs he wasn't even that interested in local domestic issues. and yet how could a man who was so excessively seeking the presidency avoid u.s. domestic issues? and pat, who went to see the president and they worked out the arrangements at the hotel pierre in new york, and he called me and said come here and i came down we had dinner and he was just very excited with what he had learned. he said to me, the president he said he's ignorant meaning he didn't know anything about these social policies that moynihan was telling him about. and i said because i knew nixon, i said he's not ignorant he's disinterested. and i gave him an example. pat an example. when nixon was running for governor and he knew he was going to lose and on election day h

he was convincing and the other fellow on the show, the right winger that the nixon administration liedhing and putting on the show -- can you imagine a lie from nixon? anyway but he did well. later he gave his wife a kidney presumably his own. >> yeah, john o'neal but he was also part of the swiftboating, attacking the president. >> yes he did. he turned around and got another shot in. hey, by the way, you made me realize just now what it is about sarah palin. she seems to have no first language. >> well, anyway, she got hung up there. i think she was having flopping sweat there. you managed to make an enemy of richard nixon. here's the recording how to get revenge against dick cavett. >> what the hell is cavett? >> oh, christ, he's -- god he's terrible? >> he's impossible. he loads every program automatically. there's nothing you can do about it. we've complained bitterly about the show. >> is there any way we can -- >> we've been trying to. >> did you ever sense that screwing was occurring of yourself by the president and his people. >> it's a strange feeling to have the most powerfu

in one way if you look at that time period you can see the war on drugs is connected to the nixon administration, but if you go a little further back in u.s. history, you realize that nixon didn't start the war on drugs. the war on drugs had been in effect in the u.s. has had stricter drug policies domestically and abroad for most of the 20th century, but what nixon did is was he expanded he enlarged it, the scope and size of both domestically and abroad which is kind of the area that i was interested in the although in the book a look at both areas, what's happening in the united states and also what's happening around the globe. >> nixon had a few things in mind. one of there had been growing drug abuse inside the united states. part of his domestic campaign was running on the mantra of law and order that is good restore law and order to the united states after some of the quote-unquote disorder of the 1960s. so there's that law and order theme. also he's just been looking at drugs, sort of this menace and connecting it to the antiwar opponent, and that's one way to kind of discredit them. the

was the main thing that he wanted to do in the two years and he was given us to serve in the nixon administration >> i therefore propose that we abolish the presidents welfare system and that we adopt in his place a new family system. >> i'm sure the president thought of changing the configuration of the world greatly, but i am sure that he never thought of doing this domestically and it was daniel patrick moynihan who created the opportunity for nixon to take advantage of the presidency. ♪ ♪ [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, a friend of the nixon foundation stephen hess. [applause] black >> thank you so much, sir. [inaudible conversations] >> we will start here. jonathan, dwight eisenhower used to tell us that he had a favorite cartoon and he said that the next speaker needs all the introduction that we can give him. >> i love that. [laughter] [inaudible] >> the president played happy birthday to duke ellington and i wish that george had kept the next scene, which was ellington in the french style kissing nixon on both cheeks. with nixon of course blushing. [laughter] and i do w

to pull them up short and it was held over until the brothers arrived with the eisenhower, nixon administration. like most people, -- like most people here, here we go. hold on. like most people here i also am totally dependent on documents. it wasn't until peter kornbluh obtained volumes of the volumes that are historical commentaries on the bay of pigs written by cia historian but i confirm the powerful physicians pauley held and the roles he played in intelligence operations in the bay of pigs. these are gold mines for everyone with any historical interest from the end of world war ii to now. in these volumes it is clear he had materials withheld from him that he recognized simply where he was played by managers and others were you was deliberately lied to. this is why cia continues to refuse to turn over volume 52 peter kornbluh -- volume 5 to peter kornbluh. there are pages in the same volumes that are sam draft that have been declassified and released. what are they hiding? another historian has attacked five that to diminish volume five in the event it is ever released. contrary to rumor

i never heard of such a thing since the nixon administration. >> it has taken time but you have a consensus among journalists the washington post usa today, washington correspondents and photographers, they all objected in writing and verbally in different fashions to the practices of this administration in particular. all the ones i, i had issues in trying to get information out of them. this one stood out for its exceptional behavior. lou: many of those journalists expressing the view that this is the most dangerous administration for those of us who work under the first amendment in this country. fighting against the public's right to know, and the congressional responsibility for oversight in investigating scandal after scandal. it is spending the lack of public outrage at what has transpired. >> we have ourselves to blame meaning the media. we have allowed what i call in the book mojo to be cooled from us. we have given it up without some much as a winter. we recognized this has been happening. it is hard to russell back once you give up the rights you have to get information that cove

the nixon administration exceeded its powers too. when that happened, there were administration officials who pushed back, pushed back against their own president who appointed them. the appropriate justice department officials told president nixon he would haul him into federal court if there were evidence of his criminality. attorney general elliot richardson and deputy attorney general rucklehouse resigned rather than fire the watergate special prosecutor as the president had ordered. people of conscience do sometimes resign or threaten to do so, and that increases public pressure on the president to obey the law. who the in the obama administration has ever stood up against his lawlessness? no one, as far as i know. no one has resigned from the justice department as it has become a rubber stamp for wild claims of presidential power that exceed the constitution and that violate the laws. what lawyer in the e.p.a. or any other department has stopped her agency from acting unconstitutionally by exceeding the powers that congress has

>> my only new year's resolution this year, i think i'm going to try to sleep through the nixon administration you would have authors on. you would have heavyweight boxers. there were conversations. >> when you mentioned the national anthem and talk about playing it in any unorthodox way, you immediately get a guaranteed percentage of hate mail from people who say how dare -- >> that is not unorthodox? >> it isn't unorthodox? >> no, no, i thought it was beautiful. there you go. >> i just thought anything that is interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young pretty actresses who use the word "excited" in every sentence. you're not frequently seen on television. is that by choice? >> well, of course it is the most impressive medium of all. it's the medium that will either save america or send it down into demise there's no question about it. >> i'm getting out of it myself. >> really? >> we'll be back after this. >> what you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of businesses, maybe not everybody in show businesses, some politics, some newspaper people. ge

>> the patriots are the nixon administration of the nfl.ng and they cheat anyway. they're cheaters, always cheaters, that doesn't mean they cheated this time, it's pretty much impossible to look at it and give them the benefit of the doubt. the idea that a low level assistant deflated the balls on his own, it's not impossible, but kind of stretches the limits of credulity to the point that plastic man, the elongated man and mr. fantastic are saying this can't happen. kennedy: and tom brady is saying keep your hands off my balls. >>> last night the united states swapped five prisoners to secure release of sergeant bowe bergdahl, a taliban captive for five years. fellow soldiers claim that guy deserved it. last night on the o'reilly factor, tony schaefer said he learned from two sources that bowe bergdahl will be prosecuted. >> the army has come to its conclusion, and bowe bergdahl, sergeant bergdahl will be charged with desertion. kennedy: so michael, the white house doesn't want to charge the guy because it makes prisoner swap look like it

did run a program that was authorized and reauthorized during the kennedy and johnson and nixon administrationss a real thing, and it really is the reason why you have the black power movement and the civil rights movement it was really snuffed out in a lot of ways. >> and the recording of king, using it, sending it to coretta his wife? >> she speaks about that in her autobiography. this is real stuff. >> the meeting of malcolm x and coretta scott king, while king is in jail is real? >> yes. i fought to have that in the piece. it is so moving to me that malcolm x just weeks before his assassination, actually sought out king and went to selma with an offering of himself, of his reputation to say, they will be afraid of me so much that they may do what you want as an alternative, so let me be here to represent what can happen if they do not work with you i'm a the sclc. there's something emotional about that because i love malcolm and i love king come to think they were so close to maybe having some alignment, but it wasn't to be. >> he would be killed. and dr. king as well just a few years later

actually last week eia data shows highest production for one week since the nixon administration, october. yes, i totally agree with capital expenditures being cut, production being, slowing down rig counts going down but honestly a lot of these projects were full steam ahead to begin with i think yeah we may not grow our production as much as originally forecasted but we'll still see production grow and i think between now and 2020, our production will average between nine and nine 1/2 million barrels a year. gerri: wow. i have to tell you, the president of the united states of america disagrees with you. he doesn't think the industry is responsible for the low prices. he thinks he is. here is what he said last night. >> we belief we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and protect our planet. today america is number one in oil and gas, and thanks to lower gas prices and higher fuel standards, the typical family this year should save about $750 at the pump. gerri: so does the president have it right? is it his policies that have set us up for low gas prices? >> well i think it would

given what happened in the late 60s and early 70s with the nixon administration was understandable starting during that time there was a congressional reaction which was, in a way, my. congress reasserted itself big-time especially in budgeting and anti- impoverishment act. to put the war powers act was no president has ever considered the constitutionality of but which remains on the books. talk about the struggle. the congress has spectacularly refused to accept. he served to suggest the expansion is a one-way ratchet at the end of which lies something clearly outside our constitutional condition. a larger view is that it is cyclical. if cyclical. if the executive is saying this as having gone too far congress will eventually reasserted itself. and that reassertion could take the broadest form. and so i do not share the view that this is a one-way ratchet or linear process. this is the latest act in an ongoing constitutional drama that we have been watching unfold for two and a quarter centuries and i do not expect it to end anytime soon, nor do i wanted to. as a reminder for running at t

but no, seriously, you know given the fact that ford had succeeded nixon and what how the nixon administration ended, you know, and the fact that i came out of the press and the fact that ford you know, in his whole political career had built a reputation for honesty and so forth. so you know we may have delayed putting out some stories as i say, i may have described him in the best possible terms without lying. but i never did lie and that was a real promise to myself and to the press corps. >> michele. >> go ahead mike. >> you cannot lie in that job. i mean it's career ending. if you ever got caught knowingly misleading the press, the consequences of that would be the rupture in that relationship of fragile trust that exists anyhow and you wouldn't be useful to the president. now, i did i mean i got in trouble one time helen thomas asked me that question. and i said no, i've never lied. but i certainly learned how to tell the truth slowly.f#i [ applause ] [ laughter ] what i was thinking when i answered that question was, yeah, we were up in martha's vineyard after this really bizarre thing

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participant, he was in the nixon white house, that's where i first met him when i was in the nixon administrationgovernor of tennessee he's been a university president, he's a cabinet officer and now a senator, there isn't anybody that has a broader background in american politics than lamar alexander, he listened politely to the thins we had to say and then he said picking out one item, he said with the exception of this item, we could change everything you're asking for and accomplish everything you want this afternoon if we had a different majority leader. well, we now have a different majority leader. and as i was riding in this morning and got out the newspaper, there was a story on the front page of the washington post about mitch mcconnell's goal for the next two years as the new majority leader. any of you see it? i recommend you read it. summarized in one sentence, he said mitch mcconnell says he wants the republicans to not be scary between now and 2016. he wants to set the table for the republican nominee in 2016 by demonstrating that the republicans are capable of governing. and uses

a grant of authority going back to the nixon administration which came about because our trading partners said look, we need some assurance if we put our bottom line on the trade agreement, that you will -- the congress will agree to it. whatever the president says agrees to it or something timely. congress had not agreed to several things the kennedy administration had put forward and in other cases, they had just doddled and done nothing. what the congress did and continued through time is pass a -- i'm come back to what this is, it is not a regular piece of legislation, passed new rules that the congress told the president that will we -- we will give you instructions and we want you to follow them. if you do follow them, we'll promise you a vote within 90 days of the time this comes up to us up or down, without amendment. that has been true since then. i know just in passing that some conservatives and i think -- i was telling walter, i think there is conservative groups meeting today worried about the grant of authority to the president. i'm not going to go into detail. for those wor

trade promotion authority is a grandmother going back to beginning of the nixon administration which came about because our trading partners said we need assurance if we put our bottom line on the trade agreement, that the congress will agree to it. in the '60s congress had not agreed to several things that the kennedy administration had put forward and in other cases they had just bottled and done nothing to what the congress did and continue to our own time is past, come back to what this actually is it's not a regular piece of legislation, passed new rules that the congress told the president that we will give you instructions and we want you to follow them. if you do follow them, we will promise you a vote within 90 days of the time this comes up to us up or down without a minute. that has been true since then. i know just in passing that some some conservatives and i was telling walter, i think there's some conservative groups meeting today worried about the grant of authority to the president. i'm not going to go into detail. i'll be happy to answer the question for those of yo

presidential administration who gets a chance to do anything with this act is actually the nixon administration and the hud secretary at the time is george romney. what was his vision for how to actually use this act to bring about a more fair and just circumstance of housing? >> i think it's important to know that lbj actually wanted to introduce the fair housing act much earlier and they understood that housing of all the other civil rights that they were fighting for was the most toxic. this was a northern civil rights bill. this went into the homes or the backyards or the northern congressmen who were very much in favor of civil rights that affected the south. so we've always had very uncomfortableness dealing with housing and i think that's reflected now. so nixon appointed george romney. and george romney is kind of the unlikely hero of fair housing. he was a huge champion of using it to actually -- the fair housing act to break up housing segregation. so when the court is kind of looking at what did -- what did -- what was the -- what did the fair housing act intend what they're showing

when i was in the nixon administration. he was governor of tennessee, he has been a university president, a cabinet officer, and now he is a senator. there is not anyone with a broader background of american politics than lamar alexander. he listened politely to the things we had to say, and then he said, picking out one item, he said with the exception of one item, we could change everything you are asking for and accomplish everything you want this afternoon. if we had a different majority leader. now we have a different majority leader. as i was riding in this morning and got out the newspaper, there was a story on the front page of the washington post about mitch mcconnell's goal for the next two years. any of you see it? i recommend you read it. summarized in one sentence mitch mcconnell says he wants the republicans to not be scary between now and 2016. he wants to set the table for the republican nominee in 2016 by demonstrating that the republicans are capable of governing. he uses the phrase, we do not want to be s

>> there are a number of different pages where you have supreme court nominees, nixon's -- >> well, these administrations came loaded with their teammates. that's being very fair to them, teammates. i mean, they were much worse than that. >> what do you think is the effect of cartoons on politics in general? is there an influence? >> i wouldn't call it an influence, unless by chance -- and it's a very important chance. it does come up that you confirm for a certain large mass of people that -- you confirm their stand on a particular issue. for instance, on vietnam, i think not just me but evidence sorrell, joe pfeiffer -- i hope i'm not putting him in prison, ha ha -- there were others. a large group of political cartoonists that moved toward deeper satire. in a sense what they did was they confirmed for the intelligentsia -- i'm not sure the pronunciation -- but they confirmed for that group the professors the intellectuals now took a clear stand and that clear stand was leading young people and the young people came back with affirmation of what they were saying and so on. so they did influence, but it

there were reform bills in the nixon administration when republicans used the irs for nefarious reasons. there should be punishment and reforms to deal with the irs. there are a handful of people who are not going to vote for john boehner. that does not make an election -- we met and determined to our candidate would be added is john boehner. many people think there are other candidates out there. the ultimate vote on the floor today will be between nancy pelosi and john boehner. host: do you consider this a distraction today? we saw some comments from some of speaker banners and supporters -- speaker boehner's supporters calling it that. guest: it is a well intended effort to send the message that the crown ofmnibus was not consistent with the message sent during the election. i have received a lot of e-mails and calls from people in colorado who are very concerned about the debt and the regulatory burden and the other burdens placed on us by the obama administration. they want to see action and want to see a leader who is willing to take risks. they have concerns about john boehner. i

national security expert, columnist, anchor for the debt con 3 at fox, served in the nixon ford and reagan administrations, she, as i once was, an aide to henry kissinger speech writer for secretary of defense weinberger, once deputy assistant secretary of defense, she has run for office with the senate and generally someone who really knows the business. the second, james kirchick 11 and since he was a student at yale he has become the classic foreign correspondent of the kind we don't see much of any more. he has the most recently with radio free europe, radio liberty, his publication list i have got to say is unmatched in its wide range. the new republic weekly standard, the wall street journal, new york times, the daily beast, the australian, it is really something. he will be talking mostly about his views on europe at the moment. and in clean up batting position, the founder of the institute for secularization of islamic society and vice president of the world's encounter institutes. he has written on all things about the koran, secularization of islam, about his own life or not as a muslim and he h

she is the anchor for the "defcon 3" at fox served in the nixon, ford and reagan administrations. she, as i was once, an aide to henry kissinger, speechwriter she was for secretary of defense weinberger once deputy assistant secretary of defense. chic has run for office for the senate and generally someone who really knows the foreign affairs business. second, james kirchick who i've known for some time since his degradation sure that you as a student. -- at geomagnetic has become a the correspondent of the kind we don't see much of it anymore. he has been most recently with radio free europe, radio liberty. his publication list is i've got to say is unmatched in its wide range of "the new republic," weekly standard "the wall street journal," "the new york times," the "daily beast," the australian. it's really, really something. you be talking i believe mostly about his views on europe at the moment. and then in cleanup batting position, ibn warraq, who is founder of sticklers nation for islamic society and vice president of the world encounter institute. he has written on all thi

served in the nixon, ford, and reagan administrations. she aide to henry kissinger speech write are for secretary of defense weinberger. has run for office, for the senate. and generally someone who really knows the foreign affairs business. second jamie kurchic who i have known since he was here at yale as a student. he has become the classic foreign correspondent of the kind that we don't see much of anymore. he has been most recently with the radio free europe radio liberty. his publication list is -- i have to say unmatched in its wide range. the new republic weekly standard, wall street journal, new york times daily beast, the australian it's really something. he'll be talking mostly about his views on europe at the moment. and then in cleanup, batting position, founder of then constitute for the secularization of islamic society, and vice president of the world encounter institute. he has written on all things about the koran, about secularization of islam, about his own life, or not, as a muslim and he is a fundamentally important

in fact, it's five more than were approved by the clinton carter, ford or nixon administrations. in 2011, d.o.e. approved the first l.n.g. export application for the sabine pass facility. that facility is set to become operational at the end of this year. that was d.o.e.'s first approval to export l.n.g. since the 1960's, and the dramatic growth of natural gas production and supply in the united states was considered impossible a decade ago. so d.o.e. commissioned a study to help it decide how to address additional applications. after establishing a transparent and systematic system for reviewing and authorizing l.n.g. export applications d.o.e. began to rapidly issue decisions. the record demonstrates that d.o.e. has moved aggressively to export l.n.g., granting three additional finalizations and four conditional approvals since august of threen. so to date, d.o.e. has approved the export of enough l.n.g. to make the united states the world leader in l.n.g. exports. . all pending app this does not change the ferc approval process. i also remind my colleagues that d.o.e. automati

adlai stevenson, nelson rockefeller writes a letter to nixon who before they became adversaries has actually been allies in the eisenhower administration. and the rights to nixon to kick and graduates him on the victory and he says you together with the president are making the republican party the great liberal party of the future. now, those are two words, liberal and future, that one does not often associate with today's republican party. but the fact is, guess what because history goes a certain way, you know we tend to think that's the only way history could have gone. in 1956 dwight eisenhower carried 40% of the african-american vote, a majority of catholic voters. and guess what. it wasn't barry goldwater who broke a solid democratic south. it was dwight eisenhower who, that same year carried a majority of southern it looked rural votes -- electoral votes. that's the history that could have been. race intervened in a major way something as seemingly ordinary as a telephone call on the kennedy camp to mrs. martin luther king in 1960 at the time that dr. king had been arrested, expressing their concern while nixon remained conspic

the justice department is being used by the obama administration much like president nixon used an enemy'ss just a version. >> and the white house has called for a pardon for the al jazeera journalists imprisoned in egypt, but what kind of message does it send to the rest of the world when the administration itself is facing so much criticism from journalists? >> that's really what i think is the most important thing we should be thinking about here. what is the message that the obama administration is sending to the rest of the world in the way that it's handling press freedom or cracking down on press freedom here? it is providing in my opinion, the word -- the message is going out from washington to the rest of the world that it's okay to crack down on reporters, so countries like egypt are getting that message, and i unfortunately believe that the way in which the obama administration has cracked down on press freedom has sent a green light to countries like reporters. >> because of the crackdown that -- these crackdowns that you are talking about, including your case, the reporters wi

said starting in '66 there's a recurring refrain you would hear around the nixon office and through the years of the administration and continued into post-presidency, what does buchanan think? what does buchanan say? pat, you have a thousand memos that you sent to nixon and his responses that make up this book. extraordinary. tell everybody again the story of how you met nixon and how you got involved early in his comeback. >> i met nixon in 1954-'55. the assistant pro looked at the rookie caddie and i went along 18 holes and 12 years later i'm in st. louis young editorial writer and he's coming over to speak and go to a cocktail party afterwards. i got invited to it. met him in the kitchen. i said if you're going to run in '68, i would like to get aboard early. two weeks later i was in his office in new york and i was hired december 1965 and there are only three people in the office. rose mary woods, pat buchanan and a lady named pat ryan answering the phones. patricia ryan nixon. mrs. nixon. that was his entire staff in there in new york. a couple guys traveled with us in '66. nixon went out into something like

nixon. in particular the "washington post" and secondally the roosevelt administration was corrupt to the t. it was loaded with communist. harry dexter white being one of them and to get off this issue, i would like to talk about something different than watergate. tell me about anna shu malt, called angel from asia. i think she helped him with the south vietnamese as far as the paris peace talks. >> thank you very much. anything you want to address? >> he is mixing a lot in there. i have no expertise or seen anything in the material i looked at in connection with the bombing hall and the alleged behavior of anna snault making a deal where nixon promised south vietnam he would give them a better deal than johnson. there has been a lot of hot air and conspiracy theories about this with very little fact. i cannot buy it. >> were you surprised with mark felt became known? >> not really. for this reason. there is a conversation in this book where i have gone over to talk to henry peterson at the justice department and henry told me felt is leaving. he had a general council from one of the major

american citizen who was born in germany and came to the white house in the johnson administration and when mrs. nixon came in, he went to her one day and said, the white house ought to have a tradition from around the world and i would like to create a gingerbread house. he was the chef to the white house. not the pastry chef. a chef in the white house. that is his gingerbread house and through the years, it has morphed considerably. and a pastry chef said, a pastry chef will create the gingerbread house. >> this is 2009? >> it has electricity now. [laughter] and water and ice skaters this year. >> incredible. remarkable. >> they work from architectural plans to get everything correct, the proportions and everything and each year, the chefs try to update it. there is about 400 pounds of gingerbread and icing. that is on a base there that is on a table in the state dining room and to carry it in, it takes eight people and taken -- and it has to be taken from the pastry shop which is a temporary facility, actually where the china is kept. they need a big area. it is very ceremoniously taken out, loaded

it may have been the kind of administration richard nixon dreamed of, but he knew he could never get there. he couldn't weaponize the i.r.s. he apparently dreamed of it. this administration has done it. and for the president, his spokes people not to be able to call the terrorism a result of radical islamic terrorism it weakens our country it emboldens our enemies, and as we have seen, you may take out osama bin laden but when you withdraw our troops prematurely before iraq soldiers are ready to stand on their own, and you have blinded ourselves of the ability to recognize that any believe -- believers like khomeini or ahmadinejad, the former president of iran, if you have blinded yourself to the ability to learn and educate our administration on what they believe then you're going to fall prey to everything they decide to do toward you and about you. because you don't understand where they're coming from. repeatedly reflect on that scene in the movie "patton" and although he didn't know romle was not there with his -- rommel was not there with his tank division, he yells out in the m

nixon. he was known to have one of the most corrupt administrations in history. he was impeached.o you think that people are spending millions, hundreds of millions of dollars to get a job that pays $460,000? does that make any sense? that one person, one person has the power to negotiate trade agreements. our congress gave up any right. one man has the kind of responsibility. one person can easily be corrupted. here we are with wage deflation and we are wondering how the heck we got here. i think we need to get rid of fast-track, get rid of lobbying. one person should not have the audacity to be able to do that. each one of those trade agreements were supposed to bring jobs into this country and each one of those trade agreements, signed by democrats and republicans, which is why i am independent, has lost jobs. everyone of your listeners understands that we are now a service nation thanks to ronald reagan. what does that mean? it means we do not create wealth. talk to warren buffett. there is a thing on youtube about that one. host: we will continue on these calls. we are asking

nixon. david sanger of the "new york times" called this the most closed control freak administration he's everovered. "new york times" public editor "new york times" public editor said it's the administration of unprecedented secrecy and unprecedented attacks on a free press. months before we knew that the justice department had secretly seized a.p. phone records and surveiled fox news' james rosen before director of national intelligence director james clapper incorrectly testified under oath that americans weren't subject to mass data collection, i was tipped off that the government was likely secretly monitoring me due to my reporting. three forensic exams concerned the intrusive long-term remote surveillance. that included key stroke monitoring, password capture use of skype to listen to audio and more. getting to the bottom of it hasn't been easy. it's unclear what if anything the f.b.i. has done to investigate. the justice department has refused to answer simple, direct written congressional questions about its knowledge of the case. it has stonewalled my freedom of information request,

nixon. david sanger of the new york times called this the most closed, control freak and ministration he has most covered. a new york times editor said it is the administration of unprecedented attacks on the free press >> a number of . was before we knew that the justice department had se surveilled foxnews. before he improperly testified under of americans worked subject to massive data collection, i was tipped off that the government was secretly monitoring me due to my reporting. three different exams confirmed the long-term remote surveillance including keystroke monitoring, password's capture, use of skype to listen to audio, and more. getting to the bottom of it has not been easy. it has been unclear what the fbi has done to investigate. the justice department has refuse to answer direct questions about the case. it had no responsive documents then admitting to 2500 of them, but never providing any of them. in 2013, reporters without borders ungraded american standing with the global free press rankings, rating the obama demonstration as worse than bush's. it matters not that when caught, the government promises to dai will back. the message has alrea

nixon. david sanger of the "new york times" called this the most closed control freak administration he's ever covered. "new york times" public editor said it's the administration of u.n. precedented secrecy and unprecedented attacks on a free press. months before we knew that the justice department had secretly seized a.p. phone records and surveiled fox news' james rosen before director of national intelligence director james clapper incorrectly testified under oath that americans weren't subject to mass data collection, i was tipped off that the government was likely secretly monitoring me due to my reporting. three forensic exams concerned the intrusive long-term remote surveillance. that included key stroke monitoring, password capture, use of skype to listen to audio and more. getting to the bottom of it hasn't been easy. it's unclear what if anything the f.b.i. has done to investigate. the justice department has refused to answer simple, direct written congressional questions about its knowledge of the case. it has stonewalled my freedom of information request, first saying it has no re

nixon. he said those words. if you look at that time. , the war on drugs was connected to the next and administration.go further back in history, neck's and didn't start the war on drugs. it had been in effect and we had strict drug policies domestically for most of the 20th century. what nixon did was expanded and enlarged it. the war on drugs is something the u.s. has used. it's been justification for intervention activities. >> this is a police action. a put your weapons down. host: more from that and other offerings from wheeling, west virginia. book tv is on c-span to an american history tv is on c-span3. caller: i oppose same-sex marriage because when you talk about marriage, it's between a man and a woman. god put man and woman there to have children. he didn't say two men have a child. on that ground, i think marriage is between a man and woman. it's not to be discriminating against same-sex couples, i think from the biblical term, marriage should be the standard between a man and a woman. the other concern i have is if this is approved, what is marriage going to mean? can a man have three wiv