coming off like a regular guy, a man of the people, archie bunker, by giving voice, the same way pat buchanan, ross perot, give voice to the rage of the moment. and that is against the establishments in general and barack obama is a personification for it. cliff: he couldn't have written that great book. too well written. it -- he couldn't have gotten into columbia, it's too hard. so racially tinted. >> when you push on that door and it was clearly a reference to fritsch action. you push on -- aaffirmative action. you open that door and i open yourself up to charges of racism. when you speak in those coded words, you open yourself up. he's appealing to this group of people that essentially wants to annul the obama presidency. chris: what i heard, call me naive but i thought once he put out that birth certificate, getting it through the lawyer and getting it certified, everything the critics wanted. i thought that would stop them. >> you were so naive, chris. >> they did pivot very quickly. one of my favorite quotes was trump, i hope it checks out beautifully. such a graceful phrase after he p

question, why did president obama wait so long to squelch this controversy, partial-birth swell pat buchanan he already put out a certificate of live birth, hassled by a bunch, and then donald trump began pounding it and pounding it and saying, where is the original birth certificate? and the issue metastasized. three they say they don't where he was born. it was beginning to meld into the independents and damaging obama there belatedly after a lot of people in the center said, for heaven's sake, release the birth certificate. this is a tremendous victory for donald trump. >> why did not he do it after the first round. >> i think he feels it was beneficial. >> he didn't want to dignify the issue? >> that could have been it. but let me say this. donald trump won this battle hands down. he grabbed this issue, he went to the top of the polls among republicans, then he gets the president of the united states forces him to march into the white house press room and reverse a decision he took two and a half years ago. >> eleanor, you knocked down negative stories right away. >> it's a basic politic

york's 26 a wake-up call for the republicans who backed paul ryan's proposal to reform medicare, pat buchanan as sarajevo said, you bet 'ya! >> yes. >> it's the same as social security, five years ago, where republicans put up a plan, democrats don't have to put up an alternative and attack demagogue, demagogue. they should have learned their lesson. >> because they use the same strategy to block obama's health care rae reform. ryan's plan has lost momentum. >> the answer is it doesn' provanythingabout ryan's acceptability or not. it has to do with davis concerni >>> issue four, gas bloat. >> in many places, gas is now more than $4 a gallon. meaning that you could be paying more than $60 to fill up your tank. $3.83 per gallon, practically 4 bucks. that's what the average national price for a gallon of gas has bloated to this week. last year, the price of gasper gallon was a dollar cheaper. today three out of four americans say high gas prices are causing their families financial hardship. about 50% of all americans say gas prices require them that make major changes in their lives, including

richard nixon and pat buchanan, his communications director, tried to do in public broadcasting in the early 1970's, accused us of being liberal when in fact we were just offering an alternative view of reality. and then bob dole when he was senate majority leader, minority leader, came after public broadcasting. newt gingrich came after public broadcasting. and the majority of the bush and administration, there were more responsive to karl rove the network to the stations. that constant harassment creates a kind of caution and self- censorship on the part of people who just do not want to -- we only get 17% of the budget from congress, that is enough to leave a big gap in what the local stations do if we did not have it. but it creates almost a pavlovian response. i think there is an unintended but inevitable censorship that takes place on the part of the people who are running the programs, booking programs, lining up guests, to make sure that we did not give the right wing another chance to come in and give the say accusation of being liberal. tavis: this book brings to life some of

you've got to preserve the civility of pat buchanan, all right? >> one guy with the phd in islamic study and let's not use him as an expert in the muslim world at all. [everyone talking at once] got us into the iraq war, and used used the logic of shock and awe that provoked multiple acts of terrorism and the iraq war. >> the cs is about more than shouting on a talk show. >> exit question -- will radical islam as a movement die with bin laden? or will it have a second life under new leaders? >> this is a multi-generational conflict. >> there are various al-qaeda franchises and there's self- radicalization even among americans, so no, this does not die out. but i think al-qaeda was a sideshow in the middle east in recent years, and i think good riddance. >> jihadee ideology is bigger than machine one man, including osama bin laden. we have to understand this fight is nowhere near over, not even close. it will reconstitute itself, and also keep your eye on the middle east because what you're seeing is the muslim brotherhood under the radar, running

decides to do this, but there is a vast opening now for the social conservative, sort of the -- what pat buchanan was in 1992, this fire-breathing, puch-fork carrying i'm mad as heck and not going to take it anymore republican. >> all right, chuck todd. we'll keep track of it as we get closer to iowa. can you believe we're talking about it? >>> at florida's kennedy space center, after a two-week delay, the space shuttle "endeavour" lifted off for the last time with mark kelly, the husband of congresswoman gabby giffords in the commander's seat, and his wounded wife watching on the ground. nbc's tom costello is at the kennedy space center tonight. tom, good evening. >> reporter: a windy one at that. good evening, brian. gabby giffords' staff said she's still not fully aware of everything that happened in tucson back in january, but she's very aware of her husband's mission and she was determined to be here for it. >> three, two, one. zero, and liftoff for the final launch of "endeavour." >> reporter: in typically spectacular fashion, the shuttle roared off the pad just before 9:00 this morning, br

pat buchanan? >> we closed the gold window in 1971. it was established to maintain the values of currency and to loan money for people that had balance of payment problems. >> do those individuals feel the same way they did earlier? >> two of them are did. >> romaining three? >> -- remaining three? we'll go with what they've got. what are they saying? millton, what's he saying? >> talk to george wills. >> and the gold standard is dead too. you see -- the imf -- >> quickly. we got to get out of here. i'll give you five seconds. what do you think? >> i think it's still necessary, but it should be reformed. >> this conversation is dead, john >>> issue 3 -- hey newt, what's newt? >> i'm newt gingrich and i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >> newt gingrich former speaker of the house of representatives officially announced that he will seek the republican nomination for the 2012 presidential race 15 months from now. four days after the announcement on sunday, gingrich attacked wisconsin republican congressman an

pat buchanan? >> we closed the gold window in 1971. it was established to maintain the values of currency and to loan money for people that had balance of payment problems. >> do those individuals feel the same way they did earlier? >> two of them are did. >> romaining three? >> -- remaining three? we'll go with what they've got. what are they saying? millton, what's he saying? >> talk to george wills. >> and the gold standard is dead too. you see -- the imf -- >> quickly. we got to get out of here. i'll give you five seconds. what do you think? >> i think it's still necessary, but it should be reformed. >> this conversation is dead, john >>> issue 3 -- hey newt, what's newt? >> i'm newt gingrich and i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >> newt gingrich former speaker of the house of representatives officially announced that he will seek the republican nomination for the 2012 presidential race 15 months from now. four days after the announcement on sunday, gingrich attacked wisconsin republican congressman an

question, why did president obama wait so long to squelch this controversy, partial-birth swell pat buchanan he already put out a certificate of live birth, hassled by a bunch, and then donald trump began pounding it and pounding it and saying, where is the original birth certificate? and the issue metastasized. three they say they don't where he was born. it was beginning to meld into the independents and damaging obama there belatedly after a lot of people in the center said, for heaven's sake, release the birth certificate. this is a tremendous victory for donald trump. >> why did not he do it after the first round. >> i think he feels it was beneficial. >> he didn't want to dignify the issue? >> that could have been it. but let me say this. donald trump won this battle hands down. he grabbed this issue, he went to the top of the polls among republicans, then he gets the president of the united states forces him to march into the white house press room and reverse a decision he took two and a half years ago. >> eleanor, you knocked down negative stories right away. >> it's a basic politic

you've got to preserve the civility of pat buchanan, all right? >> one guy with the phd in islamic study and let's not use him as an expert in the muslim world at all. [everyone talking at once] got us into the iraq war, and used used the logic of shock and awe that provoked multiple acts of terrorism and the iraq war. >> the cs is about more than shouting on a talk show. >> exit question -- will radical islam as a movement die with bin laden? or will it have a second life under new leaders? >> this is a multi-generational conflict. >> there are various al-qaeda franchises and there's self- radicalization even among americans, so no, this does not die out. but i think al-qaeda was a sideshow in the middle east in recent years, and i think good riddance. >> jihadee ideology is bigger than machine one man, including osama bin laden. we have to understand this fight is nowhere near over, not even close. it will reconstitute itself, and also keep your eye on the middle east because what you're seeing is the muslim brotherhood under the radar, running

president nixon and his his his a propagandist pat buchanan tried to undermine public broadcasting try. to get me off the air tried to get robin make me feel off the air try to get sandy but okkar off the air not because we were liberals but because we were reporting what they didn't want reported the alternative to the official white house next only in view of reality robert though who was then senator from kansas and senate minority leader tried in the late one nine hundred eighty s. to defund public broadcasting going along comes newt gingrich the late newt gingrich in one thousand nine hundred eighty three and for trying to defund public broadcasting and then you had george w. bush and kill thomas and his henchmen and the corporation for public broadcasting trying to do the same first of all they don't believe in public funding of of the media as a matter of principle but secondly more importantly they do not believe there should be truth tellers who are counted rate the official view of reality do not like independent journalism let me repeat that is not true of the present presid

you know i never would have thought years ago i never would have thought i'd turn into a fan of pat buchanan you know i mean a lot of issues domestic issues but when he talks about foreign policy i kind of stand up and listen i mean if we have some unlikely bedfellows here but i've been to echo our two other guests here i mean they there are commonalities they do not you wouldn't see very obvious in the beginning but the very different ideological points of view can actually work together they have enormous commonalities in synergies if they did work together. well that's definitely true and the anti-war movement has not only failed to reach out to these people but it's failed to reach out to many demographic constituencies in the united states that have been opposed to war so for example latino is that african-americans are overwhelmingly opposed to war in public opinion but the anti-war movement is done in adequate job of integrating these groups into their into the mass movement the one thing that i would say if i could leave one message to the anti-war movement that i think that it shoul

his adversaries, and the rest of the story doing it to extend and i will share this i said to pat buchanan if you're in miami knowing bobby kennedy might be the nominee he would not put spiro agnew on the ticket? no. we need to find somebody like john lindsay and i laughed because of the book this is what happens. [laughter] sums up you cannot make up. [laughter] what will surprise you if you buy a the book or borrow its or whatever, is the speeches in the book are almost all what they gave many of which denounce the size of the federal government that has grown too big or powerful more distant the we need to break up the public education system public welfare is a disaster here crabs and guidance counselors need honorable jobs it sounds like the tea party stuff except these are all speeches he gave in a different context you remember by the mid '60s some people on the left were challenging the orthodox liberalism and he was one of them. and i worked for the guy there is a scanned of there is a close relationship to can -- watergate because one of kennedy's the social it named paul corbin

i said to pat buchanan, if you guys were in miami and you knew that bobby kennedy might be the nominee or vice president you wouldn't have put spiro agnew on the ticket. he said we had to find someone like john lindsay. i laughed because it was a book. this is what happens. some of this stuff you can't make up. what will surprise some of view, with you by the boat or borrow at or whatever, thaw carlos all speeches that he gave, many of which denounce the size of the federal government that has grown too big and powerful and distant from ordinary citizens that we need to break a public education because money alone can't solve it. public welfare is a disaster. this is not what poor people need. they need honorable job. this sounds like tea party staff exit visa speeches he gave in a different context. some of you will remember by the mid 60s some on the left were challenging that worth about liberalism of the new deal and he was one of them. i worked for the guy for auld trouble ends. there's a scandal and a close relationship to watergate. one of robert kennedy's -- i don't know how to

around a long time and seems like whenever a person of color attains a high position, whether it is pat buchanan or donald trump, rush limbaugh, whoever it is, they question whether it was deserved. they don't give out this at harvard law but pilling names out of the had. you have to earn that. the fact that he inherited millions of dollars from his daddy, they would question anyone on what they have learned with the definition of irony. >> buck davis? >> this first thing we are talking about the influence of money and power donald trump has in the country. he's a leader whether you like him or not. he changes minds. with power comes responsibility. and when you have a fella like donald trump whose questioning grades, it quickly sounds like he's questioning academic ability which quickly jumps to questioning intelligence. when a white man with privilege questions, i just went out, questions a black man's intelligence, it sounds very racist and very stereotypical. i think he probably is a very wonderful man, a very smart maun, but it is a prime example how a wonderful, smart man can make a mistak

>> guest: quite a lot of washington news people: charles krauthammer, morton kondracke; pat buchanan was there and their wives; and henry luce iii was there; her--her stepson; my husband, myself. just a small group, a couple of tables. c-span: what was your--your reaction when she died and you had all this material and all that time you spent with her and a book to write? >> guest: yes. when i picked up the phone and the secretary said, 'sylvia, clare died last night,' i had that feeling you sometimes have with--and your heart goes, like, thud in your heart. it was a real thud. and then, although i rushed over to the apartment straight away and was at all the funeral services and went--went down to the burial, which was on her southern plantation in south carolina, which is now a trappist monastery--she's buried there under the great live oaks by the cooper river--i found afterwards the next three months or so, i had kept dreaming about her a lot. i had strange dreams, and one was particularly weird because it was her--she was like a stripper in a vaudeville show wear--wearing a brig

in past campaigns, we saw it filled by ross perot, pat buchanan. is there anyone filling it right now? maybe michelle bachmann of minnesota? >> last night, i wracked my brain driving in for the broadcast this morning. it's hard to see. somebody's going to come in. because like i said. no one has a focus on this. but that populist right was represented by trump and huckabee to some extent. and bachmann's the only one of the current crop that could fill that. >> unless palin gets into this. but she's been heard over the last few months -- >> and rick santorum. but i doubt it. >> there is also just general dissatisfaction among republicans with the republican field. with the hope that maybe there is someone out there really big. we look at the list of those that are likely to be running, that can come in and wow the field. any wild cards? >> jeb bush. if jeb bush's name was jeb smith, it wouldn't be a race. i mean -- he's the successful governor twice of a large state. he appeals to social conservatives. he can raise a ton of money. he's a skilled pol

>> a couple of weeks ago i was talking to pat buchanan and he is not just a different list -- >> letiting a book, and i'm writing a book that if republicans can't figure out the latino vote, they're not going to be a majority party for the next two, three election cycles. that's powerful. >> i would be interested to find on the heels of the white house visit, celebrities coming to town, is a stretch but every journalist gets to come. we get to ask whatever stupid questions we asked and i'm curious though how effective it is sort of behind closed doors with lawmakers. barack obama meets celebrities all the time. so, sort of selflessness and sort of the influence having a celebrity, and actor coming in. >> what we discovered is, rosario is intimate and salt -- intimately involved. risotto goes in and knocks on doors and talks to people and motivates them to register. so she understands the mechanics of the but then she can translate that to politicians. they are not used to having -- always coming to ask the understand issue. and you're holding me accountable and you talk to people in