pat buchanan ran from the trump right is what it is. this would be a centrist challenge to a president. i don't know that we've ever seen someone run from the center against a president. what may occur is that that person's job may be to help organize who the anti-trump forces are inside the republican party and identify that person for the democrats that those may be potential democratic vote there's could be won over. >> brennan: then there is a question for the democrats, where is your center, right? >> yeah. >> brennan: because we haven't seen joe biden, who is expected to declare, jump in, or any of the other names. you had governor inslee here saying, oh, maybe this week i'll make a decision. and you have that extraordinary "time" magazine cover this week reflecting what we're see, which is just about everyone is running. what do you make of the field? where is the center? >> well, here's why democrats should be thankful to bernie sanders, because bernie sanders showed that there was a real passion on the democratic left to find s

e was a ronald reagan conservatism as well as a pat buchanan conservative. he did integrate in his own degrees of political support and the candidacy took an interest of the ry broad range conservative movement. personified that movement. in its very best senses. he was not someone who's consistent criticism of libertarianism and objectivism made him allergic to a politician like mary goldwater. quite far from it. russell kirk saw the growth of the federal leviathan as being a grave danger to the institutions of civil society and the habits of american life are the bedrock in the basis of our civic life. a hypertrophy of state power is in fact to be objected to a traditionalist grounds. national review achieved something remarkable by bringing together these different elements in conservatism including russell kirk. and as john alluded to, the ability to stir up the right kinds of conflict, the right kinds of fiery disputes which are connected at the level of ideas and the level of sometimes grudging, but nonetheless real respect for one another, is admirabl

he ends up as the michigan chairman of the 1992 pat buchanan for president campaign. he endorsed buchanan's foreign policy as he had taft's foreign policy. one should not fall into the mistake of thinking of russell kirk as a stereotypical isolationist or someone who had no sense of the world. very far from it. russell kirk was not a pacifist. in his discussions with president nixon, he told them that you should prosecute the vietnam war with all due diligence. you should mine the phi hong harbor. russell kirk was willing to take some pretty hard-line views. when we were in a war in a conflict that needed to be won and american lives were in danger. when it came to grand strategy, he did not like the idea of ideology foreign policy. opposed to a sort of communism in reverse, a kind of universalism that had to be promoted by a military force and by intelligence skullduggery. this hashes out on a number of issues. russell kirk was an early and consistent critic of conscription. that was not based on wishy-washy pacifism but his own experience in world war ii. he saw so m

interesting, rewriting it entirely, but basically having the same facts said, and pat buchanan, the quote, is that really more honest? >> i should've just quoted it and iid ryerson review wish i had done that more and denuded the actual text of the book. announcer: watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. announcer: a group of congressional leaders talked about their parties agendas. we hear from steve's police -- steve scalise. chair.ocratic policy this event hosted by axios is an ur

i began working the editorial pages of the 19 nineties and that was complete sure it was pat buchanan but it wasn't where it needed to be. but on the whole the leading figures of the right and then to operate within the framework of political decency. the optimism turned out to be premature and then with free trade from latin america. also claiming both are to blame for the struggle of the american working class. from that premise with globalism in the deep state and now routinely issue from the white house. so what we have now is a framework with fear of that shadowy conspiracy with no sense of loyalty to the country that mark my words that will not be far behind. here again leading conservative thinkers to denounce it but after capturing the nomination also captured most of the intelligentsia. the same columnists that worked alongside would spend 20 or 30 years of the moral degradation of the political left of a president with that timeless 19 nineties classic thinking of monica lewinsky. until just a few years ago looking at the obama administration just think of the fury on the ri

interesting, rewriting it entirely, but basically having the same facts said, and pat buchanan, the quote, is that really more honest? >> i should've just quoted it and iid ryerson review wish i had done that more and denuded the actual text of the book. announcer: watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. announcer: a group of congressional leaders talked about their parties agendas. we hear from steve's police -- steve scalise. chair.ocratic policy this event hosted by axios is an hour. good morning. happy valentine's day. we would like to thank the bank of america for making these conversations possible. we are lucky to have this -- we would like to thank c-span for caring at life. we would like to thank all of you for being here, and please feel free to join the conversation at #axios. the socials will be going all during our conversation. axios makes you smarter on the topics that matter. next 10 toics in the 15 years, and our system helps to catch up on the big subjects that matter to you. i would love to have breakfast with you every day. it may not be quite this fancy. sign up on our

appreciate chris let me go to you first here i read the american conservative and came across pat buchanan's reaction to the new the green new deal and he said well let me just give you the title the the green new deal is a suicide note for democrats would you agree with that assessment well i do think that it's going into that very far hard left precinct that i think republicans want to paint the democrats in order to kind of push them off the radar from the independent votes they need that they were.

particular one of the figures from seemingly the liberal side of things who months after this invited pat buchanan spokesperson at the, one of next globalization rallies and he visited buchanan as well as bush and made overtures to even endorse them for the presidency the next year. the other spokes person we see, or one, is ralph nader. part of the reason this happened is people like nader tried it popularize the international trade and investment policy in the 1990's. he tried to make it a household set of conversations himself. and he was perhaps the most influential in doing that. he was also the target of criticisms for that from the left. in seattle the organization legacy of learn equality organizing was a working class largely black and brown organization with roots in the 1970's kind of third worldish marxism and had really been central in fighting for the desegregation of the building trades in seattle since the 1970's. but they had developed their own kind of global justice set of programs and networks in especially the late 1990's and hosted already two international gatherings of work

appreciate chris let me go to you first here i read the american conservative and came across pat buchanan's reaction to the new the green new deal and he said well let me just give you the title of the the green new deal is a suicide note for democrats would you agree with that assessment. well i do think that it's going into the very far hard left precinct that i think republicans want to paint the democrats in order to kind of push them off the radar from the independent votes they need that they were able to that they were not able to secure last time so pretty harsh characterization but i would tend to agree with that and i don't believe that and now they're trying to sort of distance themselves saying well it's just an idea it's not really formal policy yet but i would agree that it is very far left they're going to have a hard time dealing with it and notice two key democrats have had their hands slapped by nancy pelosi in regards to. miss cortez as well so i think there is a little bit of distance in going on in the democratic caucus in congress ok ken in reading this non-binding res

pat buchanan put a scare in the bush in the new hampshire primary. than 3 million votes. they felt it was one of the reasons bush didn't end up winning reelbz. they got to go to 1980. gym a carter, ted kennedy. that was a famous one. ford, the unelected president. nixon had no trouble beating oogter kwun ofthem and in 1968 embauersed johnson. he dropped out of the race after that. what was their approval rating with their own party? the folks vote in the prime ars when the challenges came into being? today trump is 89% with republicans. carter was at 40% with his own party. ford, 60% inside the republican party. trump sitting at 89% approval rating. that number right there. that's what bill weld, what any republican who steps forward to run against trump, that's what they're up against. still ahead crchris matthews ta about "blackkklansman," the history of ros and politics unamaurkeep. y of ros and politi unamaurkeep. ♪ doctor dave. see ya. ♪ here's your order. ♪ hey. applebee's to go. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. (burke) parking splat

unheralded profit at the time and through the national review, he had a megaphone that he and pat buchanan representing two different strains of nationalist sentiment within the conservative broader church, both of them were drawing out ideas which would come to a quarter-century later. they are at the forefront of everyone's minds. it might be thought that russell kirk, having written his great figure ofng been a the earliest days in the national review, that he would not have anticipated these kinds of themes the john o'sullivan brought forth in the 1990's and the donald trump is bringing forth today. that is not the case. mentioned, if you look at russell kirk's foreign policy, he seems fanatically similar to the america first themes in the ideas of national interest and not going abroad in search of monsters to destroy that one finds in the rhetoric of the trump administration. russell kirk thought of himself as a robert taft conservative. 1950'srer of the republican senator from ohio robert a taft. taft was known for having a skeptical approach to american interventionism abroad. he g

,lthough, it is interesting rewriting it entirely but basically having the same facts set and pat buchanan coat, is that really honest? insid and said it was a review, or in the end, i wish i had done that more and not denuded the actual text of the book. announcer: watchable tv this weekend on c-span2. >> former massachusetts republican governor bill weld has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2020. he spoke at the politics and eggs series in new hampshire. this is just under an hour. [applause] hampshire. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> thank

entirely but basically having the same pat buchanan quote. is that really -- >> no. >> more honest? >> no. i should have just quoted it and said ryerson review. end, iu know, in the wish i had done that more and not diluted the actual text of the book. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> former massachusetts republican governor bill weld has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2020. he spoke at the politics and eggs series in new hampshire. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> thank you, jim brett, my longtime friend and colleague. what a pleasure it always is to be back in new hampshire. since i was a little kid, i've had a happy relationship with the waters and woods of new hampshire, enjoying my visits to enter, only one on earth, as you know. and then center sandwich and now guilt some. and i've had my share of political memories from this state, as well. i was president of nashua for the famous reagan-bush debate in 1980. i campaigned with bush 41 in the 1992, and actually man to the microphone on primary night for him. and i enjoyed traveling

he did the same thing with pat buchanan. he called him a hitler lover.t about him and endorse him. donald trump is facing foots business the radical right and pretending like he's not giving aid and comfort to them. and then he goes and does stuff to give them aid and comfort. this is not helpful. typical for donald trump and sad. >> when minnesota representative was recommendory imagineded for using language in a tweet, the president called for her resignation. he told her apology was lame. watch this. >> congressman omar is terrible, what she said. and i think she should either resign from congress or she should certainly resign from the house foreign affairs committee. >> so if he doesn't know about a fellow republican but bengals a democrat. why the double standard? >> it's convenient amnesia. this is typical donald trump. he's been this way all along. he always has a tendency to elevate his allies and try to eliminate his enemies. that's what he continues to do and he will always do that. that's part of his nature. whether we're talking a political

pat buchanan running against george bush. this happens all the time.tely there is like, oh, no, no, you can't do that. he has a right to do this. and you have to look at what's happening here in the republican primary. not at this point in terms of where we are today but where we might be given the advance of time. secondly, it's really healthy to have a debate about what the republican party stands for. i mean, is the republican party for not having free trade? i don't think so. is the republican party don't care about debt? i don't think so. is the republican party anti-immigration? i don't think so. is the republican party into name calling? i don't think so. this will be a test to determine where the party is. and i think that's very, very healthy for the republican party. frankly, the conservative movement can't just sit back and attack progressives and say all their ideas are crazy without offering some sort of alternative on the environment, on the difference between the rich and the poor, on immigration, on the -- all these things. ideas are wh

any -- almost any republican at this point, short of a pat buchanan or someone who's a native would berump in my opinion. >> but that's only because of the constitutional threat that i feel that donald trump poses. and that to me, trump's everything. all of the social issues, the taxes, everything elsewhere we may agree on republican policy, none of that matters if there's a constitutional threat. and i think donald trump today his declaration of an emergency is a perfect example of how this presidency continues to push the constitutional envelope. in my opinion, that is more important than anything else. >> thank you. >> you'll have much more to learn. we have amy klobuchar. don lemon is going to moderate a cnn presidential town hall. 10:00 eastern next monday night as we continue into 2020. >>> breaking news. from the supreme court. a case involving a census question could mean for the trump administration. i thought i was managing my moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. but i realized something was missing... me. the thought of my symptoms returning was keeping me from being there

gore that election is a poorly created ballot in broward county that some 10,000 votes went to pat buchananal gore. >> neil: we'll never know. >> we won't know. this is competition. if they can't get the votes fair and square in competition, they don't deserve them. >> neil: thanks, russ. he changed the way we look at third party candidates. no wall funding, no way. i want you to meet the democrat that says no, nancy, not quite. or something like that. i'm a bunch of wind. and just like your stomach after that strip mall sushi, well, i'm a bit unpredictable. let's redecorate. whatsyamatter tanya, i thought you loved being spontaneous? i do. and if you've got the wrong home insurance coverage, i might break the bank too. so get allstate, and be better protected from mayhem, like me. not long ago, ronda started here. and then, more jobs began to appear. these techs in a lab. this builder in a hardhat... ...the welders and electricians who do all of that. the diner staffed up 'cause they all needed lunch. teachers... doctors... jobs grew a bunch. what started with one job spread all around. be

bush was challenged by pat buchanan.ush folks felt buchanan was one of the reasons that bush didn't end up winning re-election. others say buchanan was a symptom of the problem bush had. jimmy carter and ted kennedy was a famous one. ford was the unelected president. nixon got from the left pete mcclass can i. from the right he got john ash brook. mccarthy embarrassed johnson. johnson dropped out of the race after that. here's the thing to keep in mind. all these presidents, what was their approval rating with their own party? the folks voting in these primaries when these challenges came into being? today trump is 89% with republicans. you think back, jimmy carter, that was a serious primary challenge. carter at 40% with his own party. ford was at 60% inside the republican party. trump's sitting 89% approval rating. that's what bill weld is up against. still ahead, chris matthews talks with spike lee about hisses oscar nominated film "blackkklansman," and issues of race and politics in america. you're watching "hardball

he did the same thing with pat buchanan.m a hitler lover before and then he's like, oh, i'm going to tweet about him and endorse him. donald trump is playing footsies with the radical right, the far-right, and pretending like he's not giving aid and comfort to them. when the time is convenient, he goes off and does more stuff to give them aid and comfort. this is just not helpful. it's typical for donald trump is and sad. >> als, when minnesota representati representative ilhan omar was reprimanded for using anti-semitic language in a tweet, the president called for her resignation. said her apology was lame. watch this. >> congresswoman omar, it's terrible what she said and i think she should either resign from congress or she should certainly resign from the house foreign affairs committee. >> so he doesn't know about a fellow republican, but he knows about a democrat. why the double standard, alice? >> it's convenient amnesia, don. this is typical donald trump. he's been this way all along. he always has a tendency to ele

bush was somewhee in the 70s when pat buchanan announced his run.s is about 80% around republicans. so there's not an obvious path for republicans to take. you don't want as an incumbe president to have to spend your time and money and energy on this. but we'll sec, elly in new hampshire which is a swing state, a battleground state, one trump barely lost in 2016, is theristhere a group of republics there that are so disappointed with this willing to support a candidate on the other side for president and that it wil tell about these voters and where do the voters go, do they go with the democrat, stay at home, at the side to stick with the president attend of the day? >> woodruff: this is unfair. we have less than a minute left. you, too, have wanted to talk about not only is there a presidential campaign in 2020, obviously the senate and the house is up, these senate candidates in a number of states where the cycle is their tn, it's a huge concern to republicans and democrats. democrats want to pick up control. >> yeah, whereas the last midterm was

he is a long-time republican party and conservative activist going back to his role on the pat buchananampaign in 1992. this indictment against him tonight describes alleged crimes that on the surface don't appear to be russia-related. they're basically just accusing him of being a crook, although there are some intriguing clues here. let me read you a little piece of the indictment. quote, from on or about 1996 to august 2018 in the district of south dakota and elsewhere, the defendant, paul erickson did knowingly and unlawfully device a scheme and artifice to defraud and obtain money by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises. paul erickson was a resident of sioux falls, south dakota, who solely owned and operated a number of business entities, including compass care incorporated, investing with dignity, llc, and an unname adventure to develop land in the bakken oil field in north dakota. the obvious purpose of the scheme was for the defendant to unjustly enrich himself at the expense of people he defrauded. the indictment goes on to explain that erickson

republican for what could turn out to be the first viable primary challenge against an incumbent since pat buchananorge h.w. bush back in 1992. the trump presidency has caused a major rift among many of the republican party's longtime stalwarts, some of whom have left the party all together in protest. that could be an opportunity for weld, but despite some high-profile dissenters, trump remains popular among self-identified republican voters right now. at least for now. joining me now, larry sabato, the director of the university of virginia center for politics and the founder of sabato's crystal ball weekly political analyst. larry, good to see you again. thank you for joining me. >> thank you, ali. >> when we talk about a viable potential challenge, there have been names that have come up. larry hogan of maryland. john kasich gets talked about. a lot of people wondering whether mitt romney's re-entry into politics is about this. where does weld sit in that pantheon? >> where he sits is he's serious about it. the other ones, i haven't seen any real signs they're serious or making moves to do it.

and because for a lot of the people from the labor people and ralph nader on the left and the pat buchanans, this is a time when they feel they have to stop the growth of international trade and internationalism before it gets out of control and becomes a consensus. >> explained to me how we can possibly survive by letting other countries charge is what they want to and we are the good guys all the time. >> thank you for your call. we have survived pretty well for the last 50 years with very little tariffs compared to the rest of the world. >> imitations come in different flavors. well tos have reacted serious demonstrations. i would expect the labor march to be a serious affair. americans do not react well to people blocking traffic area or even worse, destroying property. people are deeply concerned about the environment, human rights, and the impact of local poverty. so are we. there's a concern that the protests are going to take place this week in seattle will overwhelm the work that might be done. >> there is important work that will go on. >> as a farmer, i can see huge to the wto t

rewriting it entirely is basically having the same facts set and pat buchanan, the quote -- is that really more honest? i should have just quoted it and review.erson in the end, i wish i had done that more and not denuded the actual text of the book. >> watch book tv, this weekend on c-span two. there are over 100 new faces in the u.s. capital. ,fter last year's elections including missouri senator josh hawley. he previously served two years as the state's attorney general. earlier in his career, he worked for a nonprofit that does legal advocacy for religious freedom issues. and taught at the university of missouri law school. he is now the youngest member of the u.s. senate. kansas representative sharice described as a former mixed martial arts fighter, but she is also an attorney who worked on economic development and tribal issues. she is the first openly gay gay person to represent kansas in washington, d.c., and one of the first to native american women elected to congress, along with deb haaland. the second district of kansas elected republican steve watkins, a former u.s. army capt

all of that, just last month, donald trump quotes a tweet supporting and embracing a tweet by pat buchan buchananrump is the one who needs to apologize and resign. >> so alexandria ocasio-cortez is jumping into the fight. her point is, unlike the president, congressman ilhan demonstrated the capacity to acknowledge and apologize, right? which she obviously did. you know, the president said it was lame and she didn't mean it, but if he has such an issue and thinks it is deep-seated in someone's heart if they make a comment about joews and money, then, well, let's play him. >> i know why you're not going to support him, and you know, you're not going to support me because i don't want your money. but that's okay, you want to control your own politician. >> how is that any different, scott? >> yeah, i recall president trump back then telling a lot of donors, i know i'll never get your support, because you'll want to donate to other candidates and that's fine. >> okay, that was at the republican jewish coalition where he was speaking. you can't act like that's not relevant, scott. >> well, i'm saying

although, it's interesting, we riting it entirely but basically having the same fact aid and pat buchanan the quote, is that really -- no, i and d have just quoted it aid, you know, ryerson review and, you know, in the end, i done that more and denued the text of the book. announcer: the white house did not release a presidential address. the democratic address is given by senate appropriations vice chair patrick leahy. he talks about border security and

although, it's interesting, we riting it entirely but basically having the same fact aid and pat buchanan, the quote, is that really -- no, i and d have just quoted it aid, you know, ryerson review and, you know, in the end, i done that more and denued the text of the book. announcer: the white house did not release a presidential address. the democratic address is given by senate appropriations vice chair patrick leahy. he talks about border security the trump administration. senator leahy: this week epublicans and democrats from both the house and the senate together, the distraction coming from the white house and to fund d an agreement our government and make responsible for the american people. it's not the agreement either released byuld have ourselves but it's a good agreement, there are things in here that i support, things i may disagree with, but that's the nature of a negotiation. that's the american way. everyone had to give something bipartisan compromise. e had to deal in reality, not rhetoric. now democrats have always supported border security. negotiations with that in mi

it's interesting, rewriting it entirely but basically having the same pat buchanan quote. is that really -- >> no. >> more honest? >> no. i should have just quoted it and said ryerson review. end, iu know, in the wish i had done that more and not diluted the actual text of the book. >> watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> former massachusetts republican governor bill weld has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2020. he spoke at the politics and eggs series in new hampshire. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> thank