one of the mclaughlin group's five panelists along with pat buchanan, eleanor clift. our heartfelt sympathies to his wife alice, who jack used to remind us as they have deeper insights into politics. this is what he used to say. and so here is a collective bye bye from his colleagues and fans at the mclaughlin group. . >>> did hillary clinton's visit to san francisco this week set the stage for a presidential run? >>> also in san francisco, attorney general eric holder called for cutting back harsh prison sentences. >> we need to ensure incarceration is used to punish, to deter and to rehabilitate but not merely to warehouse and to forget. >>> $1 billion plan to expand california's largest reservoir shasta dam caused a flood of controversy. >>> plus the greening of a billionaire who wants to help steer the company's energy policy. >> energy and climate are going to be the challenge for our generation. >>> coming up next.

one of the mclaughlin group's five panelists along with pat buchanan, eleanor clift. our heartfelt sympathies to his wife alice, who jack used to remind us as they have deeper insights into politics. this is what he used to say. and so here is a collective bye bye from his colleagues and fans at the mclaughlin group. >>> this week on well track morgan stanley's asset allocation king david meets up with global discovery fund to look for hidden treasures in world markets. where are they finding buried bargains? that's next on consuelo max well wealthtrack. >>> new york life along with mainstay's family of mutual funds offers investmentan

c-span: you tell a story about a visit by pat buchanan -- a call from pat buchanan around the whole 1992 race. how close were they? >> guest: well, buchanan and nixon went way back. buchanan had been a speechwriter for president nixon in the white house. and whenever nixon needed red meat to throw to the conservatives, he always called on buchanan to write those speeches. nixon said to me that patrick buchanan is an intellectual genius and he respected buchanan's ideological purity and buchanan's unwillingness to compromise on his principles. but he disagreed with almost everything buchanan stood for once buchanan became a political candidate. nixon disagreed with his isolationist and his protectionist strains, much as he did with ross perot. and he disagreed with much of him on the social agenda as well. nixon was pro choice. in fact, he thought that the abortion issue was such a private issue that the government should not be involved in the debate at all. so even though he respected buchanan's unwillingness to compromise on his principles, he thought that those same principles would k

in the words of pat buchanan, burn the tapes. start off with a clip from david letterman who is pretty excited about the movie the butler. >> i'm going to show you clips, this is what they call a trailer, a preview of lee daniels' the butler. hope you enjoy this. watch. ♪ >> critics and audiences are raving about lee daniels' the butler starring forest whitaker. >> i'm the new butler. >> robin williams as dwight eisenhower. >> did you ever complete school? >> and jackie chan as bill clinton. lee daniels' the butler in theaters now. >> all right. well, steve martin may be one of the funniest men alive, but in recent years he's been showing off his banjo skills. now he's in a rivalry with another well-known banjo extraordinary their. ♪ ♪ >> that was okay, but i think you missed a note there. >> i think that was your note. >> the last note was you. >> i haven't missed a note in three years. >> i have no idea why we showed you that, but let's go to the main event. and the or begigins to high fiv. take a look. >> high five was invente

. >> this is a pat buchanan apology. >> wait a minute. what do you have to say to him? >> well, i think that right now, yeah, we're dealing with a guy, putin, who is helping prop up bashar al-assad -- like what if putin wanted to make the world a better place? he would help out in syria. >> why do you think bashar al- assad would not win? >> that's the problem. >> wait a minute. are you defending the rebels in syria? >> no, no. i'm saying because we don't have a good alternative in supporting the rebels, a better alternative would be applying pressure. i'm saying imagine there was a powerful ally -- >> exit question. >> the u.s. sort of moved in. >> exit question. in obama's second term, will there be a second nuclear arms reduction agreement with moscow? yes or no. >> i don't think so. i think we'll try to implement the first but i don't think we'll get a second. >> it would save both countries a lot of money -- >> yes or no. >> maybe putin can turn on a dime -- >> yes or no. >> yes. >> no, he's not going to turn on a dime. >> three to one, john. >>> issue 2. bezos goe

pat buchanan. >> i think we're probably more conscious right now, john, but i was at the march on washington. i was up there in the lincoln memorial when dr. king gave that address. and it was a moment really when the cresting of the civil rights movement, it was right within the same year after oxford, mississippi, they had the violence down there to keep black students out. george wallace stood in the schoolhouse door. king was a march for jobs and freedom but that didn't produce the civil rights accident. what produced it, john, was the death of john f. kennedy a couple months later when he was assassinated and linden johnson's presidency and building on that movement to pass the civil rights act, and then selma produced the voting rights act. but let me say this john. there was a downside in that decade, too. snick was no longer led by john lewis but h rap brown and stokley carmichael. you had the riots in watts in '65. dr. king was shot, a hundred cities burned, including washington, d.c. i was in nixon's campaign. the whole issue was law and order in america, and at one point nixon and

personnel accountable. 3r06inproving their worth to une sam, i am smitten, i am sure my friend pat buchanans as well. what do you make of this. >> neil, you have gone rhino. are you serious my friend? you are going to rate the colleges and universities. who is going to do it, the department of education of barrack hussein obama, that is absurd. neil: do you want a rating system, based on cost per student leave the department of education out for a moment. >> graduation rais rates, i wena high school that was competitive, you took an exam to get in, i was told, one of three of you will not graduate. >> did you avoid being the one out of three? >> certain -- -- look, let me tell you, what is going to happen, you get department of education, you say, look. you are okay here on the cost, but we -- your program, your student body is not as diverse as we like it. neil: that is not part of it, that is a fire fear, i grant you every time will department mucks it up. but we have to do something about the soaring cost. >> i agree. neil: i don't think you should throw the baby or the young student out

let's ask former campaign manager for pat buchanan terry jeffrey.ston, et cetera, dangerous for the republican party? >> the bottom line is there are some people who would like to see the republican party move left, particularly on issues like obama care, immigration, even things like same-sex marriage. if the republican party would do that, they would explode their base and dissipate their reason for being. it would be suicidal. >> ryan? >> the debate seems to be between the congressional wing of the party, congress is gerrymandered, it's easy for republicans to win when they stick to the terry view of conservative, right? they're more scared about challenges from the right than a democratic competitor. so the split is between those folks and folks who want to run for president and need a national coalition and need a lot more swing voters. the congressionalization of the republican party, just like that of the democratic party 20 years ago is a constant force pulling the party to the right. to me that's sort of the debate here. >> stephanie, how a

. >> remember pat buchanan, way to the right of the party when he was around here, right? he's not way to the right anymore, of your party. he's not way to the right anymore. pat's somewhere in the center right now compared to this character. what do you think, steve? >> that's extortion. here's what's going on. he didn't want to raise the debt limit, but basically he's saying a law that congress passed and the president sinds, the supreme has upheld is something i don't like, so i'm going to have a temper tantrum. >> he is a cool customer. >> but it's a tantrum. >> to make mitch mcconnell fear -- >> this guy says it calmly like it's normal. the new normal in the republican party is right wing. >> if you read what he said instead of listening to him saying it -- >> it's very conservative. mitch mcconnell is living john boehner's life. >>> thank you. that's all true the it's not crazy, it's try. michael steele, thank you. august has begun. steve mcmahon, thank you. >>> this is staggering stuff. the queen of england, the speech she would have made had britain come under nucle

pat buchanan joins us. nice to see you. >> any problem with the president going off to hollywood to do the tonight show? >> i don't have a problem with it, but i wonder why he's doing it. he's leaving an impression of someone who doesn't care a great deal. he seems like a president, i've been elected twice, i've got what i got done, i'm not going to get this done, i'm going to play out this hand. >> we don't want the terrorists to think they disrupt us, they have no fear. is that not at least, one argument for him to sort of -- he's got a full white house in air force one. >> that would be an argument for going about business as usual. this seems to be going about vacations in the summer. >> i do think on the other side of it, this has raised -- i mean, this war on terror is back on the table again, and you have, greta, what you have over there is you have 20, 22 or 19 embassies are closed. you have americans are fleeing yemen. at the same time, barack obama campaigned for re-election by saying, you know, a

pat buchanan joins us. how are you, sir?i'm very well. >> this congresswoman says she plans to introduce no subsidies from congress. >> good for her. she believes in shared sacrifice. if we're in it, we're all in it together. you remember we were just talking about george h. w. bush. he goes down and volunteers at age 18. you get the families of the rich and famous out there fighting alongside the guys who come from west virginia. that's the way the country needs to be. but this congress of the united states exempts itself from the kinds of things it imposes on the general public. >> i actually had that conversation about president bush 41 you and i had on the green room. here's the problem. i was with her for a sechblond. i thought okay, good. good for her. then i read deeper. she said the bill would not affect staff. i'm like really? if she's going to go for it with gusto, why didn't she include her staffs? >> did you hear the reason? or read down into the reason? a brain drain from capitol hill. >> first of all, i don't k

former senior adviser to president reagan pat buchanan joins us. wow. these facts as alleged are breathtaking. >> what you have are individuals who have no sense of right and wrong, no respect for human life whatsoever. i think this is an act of basically moral barbarians, anilists. the idea of driving along in a car as though you're shooting a tin can shooting a young man in the back and killing him, taking away 60 years of his life. it is appalling. and i think it's reflective i think of something deeply wrong in society. >> a professor out in california, usc, referred to them as evil. and she did that with the assumption they're guilty. i make that assumption like-wise even though they haven't had trial. but the whole idea that's a thrill to kill someone, just to sort of destroy someone. >> it's not only evil, there's a sense here of amorality. no sense that anything of real preciousness and value is involved. it's let's get our kicks for a couple of minutes by shooting a man to death. and i think it raises a question, what do these kids come out? wh

in 1984, tom brayden and pat buchanan confronted candidate angela davis. >> of course i'm a member ofommunist party of the united states of america. there is, of course, a relationship between all communist parties throughout the world, including the communist party of the soviet union, but of course i think the effort to portray the soviet union as a country where repression reigns, as an effort to divert people's attention away from the real accomplishments of the soviet union. not to say -- >> you would agree that -- >> i certainly would agree that repression reigns in the united states of america. humans. we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insurance has your back, offering exclusive products like optional better car replacement, where if your car is totaled, we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. call... and ask an insurance expert about all our benefits today, like our 24/7 support and service, because at liberty mutual insurance, we believe our customers do their best out there in the world, so we do every

in 1984 tom braden and pat buchanan confronted activist and communist party candidate angela davis. >ourse i remember the communist party of the united states of america there is a relationship between all communist parties throughout the world including the communist party of the soviet union but i think the effort to portray the soviet union as a country where repression reigns as an effort to divert people's attention away from the real accomplishments of the soviet union. not to say -- >> you would agree that repression reigns in the soviet union. >> i certainly would agree repression reigns in the united states of america. i think farmers care more about the land than probably anyone else. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we can pass the land and water back to future generations. people should make up their own mind what's best for them. all i can say is it has worked well for us. >>> welcome back to "new day." let's go around the world starting in brazil, the deadly co

. >> so i'm on the twitter on my machine as pat buchanan calls his computer, on the machine, on the twitterened while you were interviewing, it was unbelievable. second by second i said he asked what? and then weiner had -- he said -- you know -- >> by the way -- >> it was great. >> if you're 25 or younger when the scandal broke, you said, why didn't you just use snap chat. that was the right question. >> the other thing, what's so weird about this. not cheating on your wife or girlfriend obviously weird or not great, but 80% of college kids have exchanged sexually suggestive texts. i don't think that aspect -- >> the photo -- with the photo? >> that was maybe a little over the top. i don't think that -- for our audience that's not a strange thing. >> his own photo, anthony weiner -- >> dude, seriously, you don't think that like teenagers and kids in their 20s aren't like doing that all the time? >> i know they're texting. i don't know if they're sending pictures of -- >> dear lord, willie. how old are your kid ss? mine haven't done it but how old are your kids? >> 6 and 4. >> my kids thing

here's pat buchanan on why he's there. >> he loves this stuff. he loves going on those shows. on jay leno. he's very much into the popular culture. quite frankly, the whole popular culture, i'm not saying jay leno, but letterman, leno and all of that, and the comedy shows and things, he likes that. that's part of the his constituency. it's part of the cultural support he has. and i think he's very comfortable there, far more comfortable than in the east room standing up and answering questions about what's going on and why did you let putin do this with snowden and stick it in our eye. >>steve: coming up, key key mcfar land -- kiki mcfarland will be coming up talking about how this white house, they do a lot of leaking better than any white house in memory. she's got strong feelings about what they're doing and whether or not it is working. she'll be here in about ten minutes or so. >>clayton: terrifying moments when usher's son nearly drowns in a backyard pool. he's five years old. >> my nephew was in the pool. he went in and i couldn't get him in -- i couldn't get him. i tri