and second, ragan had high approval ratings and donald trump. and most of donald trump's philosophy is derived from ronald reagan the idea for this conservative of the judges or tax cuts, not just the stimulating the economy that would expand personal freedoms. increase the power of the individual. that was what he was really doing, there is a time in 1981 just after he was elected president, he was one end, he was meeting with a group of servers and he said and talk about creating jobs. and about extending personal freedoms. he knew the power is finite. you can't put it here or there. she there with the government or the citizenry and he wanted a tech go back to a time when the framers kept or give them more power the way to do that was more rent money so that was real motivating force than the tax cuts. that was expanding the powers of the individual. he was very committed. if you look the speeches and how many times he uses the words individual or individual allergy or something other than and this was the core of his philosophy. it was a sma

every weekend and today and noon eastern, on in-depth, polite conversation with historian and ronald raganing and mary ball washington predict tonight at nine eastern on afterwards, cindy mccain talks about her life to the late husband senator john mccain in a row, stronger. she's interviewed by former senator. watch boutique today on "c-span2". as part of our ongoing interview series with members of congress, the tv asked senator tina smith, the democrats representing minnesota. what are you reading. >> all i don't know about you but during this covid-19 world, i like have a balance of books that i read. c they have lot of serious things read but id also like to have things that are covid-19 tourism. so just finished an amazing book, the color of law and the forgotten history about how her government segregated americaou written by richard - and it's an incredible in-depth look at federal government policies literally led to contributing to and supported segregation. and the housing and it was shocking to me to see the systematic this was. i'm really glad i read it. and i was on the banki

ronald ragan started a verify program where if employees -- with employers are hiring people, they have to make sure they are legally allowed to work in the u.s. sadly, a lot of corporations are not following that law. some states have made it more difficult to follow that law. in north carolina, i vetoed a bill that would begin that law. -- as opposed to raising wages. i'm not just saying corporations should not raise wages, i'm saying there is any impact when you raise wages, especially in the travel and tourism industry. they are bankrupt. think about a rental car company raising their prices for employees when they went bankrupt or a hotel that is barely hanging on to life and has no more reserves having to raise their prices. they are in a real bind and just trying to keep alive. a lot of these restaurants and people associated with the travel and tourism industry that either went under or bankrupt or barely survived during this covid shut down we had in so many states. for those corporations making a lot of money like amazon, you are right they ought to be paying their employees a

i also heard of the girl reporter through a book by leslie ragan called when abortion was a crime. put those two stories together. and there's this wonderful book called front-page girls which talks about some reporting as a genre. the combination of those three books, reckons book includes book where bill is this was not one person during these kind of things for this is a decade of women doing these kinds of things. suspect that maybe some good future reading to do after this one. i think we are almost out of time part always like to end with a question and i will ask us for both of you too. what are you both of you reading right now? what is on your nightstands? >> i just finished stephanie's bug. [laughter] thoughts what i'm reading right now. right up until this morning. it is really wonderful. i cannot stress that enough how much i enjoyed learning about tarbell and hersi journey. which was again demographically like these women but so dramatically different. >> i keep wishing this happened but i wish i would've nobly read yours while i was researching my book. i think that w

are there any final words you'd like to leave with us today about nancy davis ragan? legacy, her love and her fascinating life, please do. >> it encouraged people to read the book income to its way i came to it when i was researching it and when i was writing it. set asideto sort of what you think you know about and francis robbins later nancy davis and later nancy reaganan. hers is a complicated and often very painful story. but i think that ronald reagan chose well and his partner for life. and i do think the country owes him a debt for that. >> what you say about someone who gives your life meaning? what do you say about someone who was always there with support and understanding? someone who makes sacrifices so your life will be easier and more successful? what you say is that you love that person and treasure her. er[applause] 's >> i simply cannot imagine the last eight years without nancy. the presidency would not of been a joy it is been for me without her there beside me. and the living quarters in the white house would have seemed a big and lonely spot witho

. >> site might i say ragan. was richard nixon he signed the national cancer act in 1971 before sent people into the watergate hotel to break in and steal stuff. okay this is question number six. [laughter] what was george washington's presidential salary? was it $100, 25000 big ones, 200,000 or $2 million? happy first answer. >> $200 i think. kennedy: know you are wrong gives $25000.1789 congress voted to pay the president's salary of 25 grand a year. vice president only got five large. so was able to percent of the total federal budget that seems like a lot. he'll imagine how much a president would bake now? [laughter] that will be great. right tim carney you can "prez your luck" and w . total. or you can just take this normal. abram liked was the first president to drive an assassination. who is the second? was it james a garfield, van buren, or jeremy? [laughter] >> "prez your luck" james a garfield. kennedy: james a garfield is correct you now have four points. good job. that was the time to do in your confi

it is, there is nobody whose shadow that is cast more over the republican party than ronald ragan. he is the uber leader. he is equipped, in my opinion, abraham lincoln as the epcot of the republican party. >> somewhat argue that ronald reagan newt gingrich and donald trump are the outside figures of the moderngu republican party. what do you agree with that? >> i would absolutely agree with that. they certainlyev are. 1984. trump and his populace revolution of four years ago, all of them represent different periods of times and philosophies of republicanism which is, actually, the big ten of ideologies. t going back to abraham lincoln. >> when did you first meet ronald reagan? >> i first met ronald reagan in 1978. i was working on a campaign in new hampshire. one of the u.s. that were considered by a everyone at the time as a long shot. actually ended up winning by 6000 votes. reagan came up to campaign or, obviously, new hampshire shows a very important primary state. reagan winning new hampshire in 1980. he came up to campaign. he came to the hotel and what film commercials for

. >> the author of four biographies on ronald ragan, a couple more in the works. written about world war ii, another one in the works and newt gingrichth and mary ball washington, the mother of george washington. he's been our guest on in-depth the past two hours. thank you. >> thank you very much. ♪♪ >> book tv on c-span2. every weekend, latest nonfiction books and authors. funding comes from these television companies and more including comcast. >> you think it's just a community? no, it's way more. >> partnering with 1000 community centers to create wi-fi so students can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. >> comcast and television companies to support book tv on c-span2 as a public service

the math, maybe the cicadas are partial to who is in the oval office and they were there for ronald raganhey do not come back the next time. but that is probably just me. i am afraid of bugs. >> you are in full disclosure i promise him to bring one in i am fascinated. and i don't think that i would eat one. it doesn't look like it's enticing to me. would be good for your stomach. so much fun jacky to have you. >> "fox news" live continues. >> egyptian mediators press on with talks of both sides trying to hammer out a longer-term. hello everyone and welcome the "fox 5 news". and i eric. >> i think you for joining us on the saturday. in the smokers clearing middle east after the cease-fire began before dawn yesterday. but the zero and terrace of hamas claiming victory in their limiting conflict. and hamas targeted issue in from israel with more

let's get over to courtney ragan.hi, court. >> reporter: good morning, becky. big beats here on the top and bottom line for walmart. the retailer putting up earnings of $1.69 adjusted. that's estimates on revenues of $138.31 billion versus $131.97 billion. walmart updating the forecast. not actual numbers, ranges there. walmart's u.s. comparable sales up 6%. that's about 6 times as strong as analysts had forecast it's also pretty impressive if you note that the prior year's first quarter comp, that was that big pandemic stockup quarter saw comps grow 10% that's 16% on the two year stack. net ecommerce is back down to earth at 37% i spoke to walmart's cfo brett biggs who said stimulus helped in q1. because of that we increased profit and revenue guidance. what we are seeing in q2 is part of the reasoning as well biggs also said i think overall the consumer is in good shape. there's a lot of money out in the system we're seeing spending rates healthy. savings rates near all-time highs. we still believe there is pent-up

courtney ragan is here she has much more on that.g, becky good to see you. many retailers don't report until later in the earnings season but there are signs that the recovery is in bloom new spending from master card shows u.s. retail sales shows in store and online grew more than 23% in april compared to last april's record shattering online growth and 11% more than april 2019 now spending at department stores is up more than 200% but also nearly 10% compared to april 2019, pre-pandemic jewelry spending even stronger now many retail ceos have said that vaccinations are the key to the sector's recovery, but stimulus checks are clearly helping, too check out this stat from adobe they say when the american rescue plan was signed online spending surged. an extra $8 billion was spent between march 11th and 31st. that's nearly the size of a black friday ecommerce number. toys, furniture, bedding, video games and auto parts were the top categories in ecommerce. overall for april auto sales up 29% this year. that's stronger than 2020's gro

i remember in the '80s, arnold schwarzenegger and ragan were trying to get us fit and there is time in the tools at our disposal especially if there's research showing health effect. we have to go back to the constitution and how this society is supposed to be structured there's a certain group of people that makes laws, it's not judges and cops. >> i'm glad we thought of all of this before we opened up the flood gates for the social media, jon what could go wrong? that was a good one today, jon thanks >> sure. >> see ya. >> yeah. just let our kids be lab rats, right? >>> when we come back, another big hour of "squawk box. we'll talk to pete buttigieg bom kim and rick rieder and we have masa son. stay tuned, "squawk box" will be right back cal: our confident forever plan is possible with a cfp® professional. a cfp® professional can help you build a complete financial plan. visit letsmakeaplan.org to find your cfp® professional. ♪♪ >>> we've got a big final hour pete buttigieg coupang's bom kim, rick reader and soft bank's masa son nasdaq and s&p futures positive. dow futures are well o

those who make $50,000 or less you're not taking into consideration that the coalition that elected raganans say they oppose reversing it, they are not standing on top of their soap boxes like they have historically used to push against democrats. it is popular with fundamentally self-identified republican voters. >> sorry to keep talking over you. >> don't worry welcome to the emanuel family dinner table. >> arie represents me. >> nobody should have that much pain in their life. >> he says he by far has eclipsed you in success and -- i said that to him and he did not push back on that, that he is the most successful -- >> that's exactly what his medication tells him to say. >> so you're watching what's happening in the market today. there are those that think that raising taxes is troubling to investors, troubling to people that want a strong economy, troubling to people that want the private sector to be as private as possible. does it give you pause to see what's happening >> i think you start -- take a step back, which is do you want to continue to have a 21st century economy that's b

ronald ragan started a verify program where if employees -- with employers are hiring people, they havemake sure they are legally allowed to work in the u.s. sadly, a lot of corporations are not following that law. some states have made it more difficult to follow that law. in north carolina, i vetoed a bill that would begin that law. -- as opposed to raising wages. i'm not just saying corporations should not raise wages, i'm saying there is any impact when you raise wages, especially in the travel and tourism industry. they are bankrupt. think about a rental car company raising their prices for employees when they went bankrupt or a hotel that is barely hanging on to life and has no more reserves having to raise their prices. they are in a real bind and just trying to keep alive. a lot of these restaurants and people associated with the travel and tourism industry that either went under or bankrupt or barely survived during this covid shut down we had in so many states. for those corporations making a lot of money like amazon, you are right they ought to be paying their employees and l