it's also clear from your book that you admire ronald reagan. how did it happen that you became his foreign policy assistant adviser? the reason i am asking is you were a career for an officer. you were known as a pragmatist. you were registered a democrat and the image of reagan was here was an ideologue. why did he turn to you to hold this important position? >> guest: first of all my being registered democrat was irrelevant because i never considered foreign policy a partisan issue. yes i was considered a very strong hardliner dealing with the soviet union, but also had lived there. on a new russia and the other nationalities and i knew the soviet ideology is not the whole story. and i found in ronald reagan aide leader who understood how to deal with people, understood that you need to stay in communication, understood if you wanted to convince other people to do what you would like them to do you must convince them that is in their interest. so in working with reagan, and i think that he picked me probably because george shultz recommended

reagan said we are not going that route. we do not walk away from negotiating tables and if there are problems in the tension that is all the more reason to talk to them because we are not going to get anywhere by walking away from negotiation. >> host: again if i understand correctly while reagan strongly believe in dialogue with whomever was in power as the states could be he also was not my deep enough to think that the great communications skill alone, accommodation, sincerity would bring results. how did he want to persuade the soviets to move into the direction? >> guest: he believed in negotiation from the position of strength and that was the reason for his initial buildup, military buildup because he felt we needed more strength to negotiate effectively. he did not think of this as something to use to start a war, but he understood that you need strength to negotiate. you might need poker chips on the table to trade if it comes to that. but in particular he felt he needed the cross to the soviet leader's that number

and, of course, reagan said sd.i. was, quote, the single most important reason for the historical breakthroughs of his later years in his presidency. i think the school lacks an essential ingredient. and that is what was happening on the other side in moscow? if you recall reagan announced sdi in march 1983, the same month he called the soviet union an evil empire. and while the soviets geared up a lot of propaganda about it, the documents, the records of the central committee suggest that actually they weren't that worried about it. there were 20 meetings of the military industrial commission in the third quarter of 1983. not a single one of them was devoted to reagan's strategic defense initiative. but several of them were devoted to the threat of the pershing 2 missiles that nato was about to deploy in europe. the person whose frightened about the russian leadership and they went to the point of discussing him about thinking about how they could turn the moscow abm system to become an intercepter to stop them from

>> reagan. >> the big guy over your shoulder. [laughter] >> that one. >> who would like to tackle that? >> i think one way to get at this is -- recapitulate a little bit of what i said. there is -- allan carlson and others brought this up -- there is a certain, or did mean for putting it this way -- there is a certain narrative of maternity that sees the progress from the traditional family to the state-run, custodial or rearing of children, and the inevitable track of history. inevitably moves in the direction of a greater integration and consolidation of a world governed by experts. this is actually the dialectic of enlightenment. to fight that, one has to have an alternative vision of the human person, of the nature of freedom, of the ways in which we can organize ourselves in smaller, more natural units of various sizes. we have to have a counter- narrative. reagan was extremely effective in laying the groundwork for that. there is a whole different vision that he offers. i think we can and should build on it. >> allan, a com

so in a sense, reagan i think had it exactly right.you must convince the other side that they will gain nothing by their military buildup. this gives them an incentive to build down, which was our goal. >> host: i want to ask you about when he began to see real changes in the soviet union. in the spirit of full disclosure, i initially did not expect gorbachev to go very far. i thought he was another russian soviet leader, like nikita khrushchev, like alexander the second, who would try reforms. but at the second point he would discover that reforms lead to decentralization. this threatens the entire. and then they would stop and then they would begin drawing back. i went to moscow for the first time after my immigration in october 1987, actually accompanying secretary shultz as a journalist that i was working at the time with the cbs news. and i was in moscow for very short period of time. but what impressed me, and i could not see it from distance, i could see only in moscow, what impressed me was gorbachev perhaps got started much bi

the two topics on which reagan have far less lasting success. though he discredited socialism and bigger government, he did not succeed in limiting government along smaller ones. the state's proved too entrenched. assumptions dating from the new deal proved too powerful. at bottom these involved the introduction of a new kind rise into politics. in addition to the uh the liberties based on our rights one finds in the first bill of rights and declaration of independence, starting with the new deal, social and economic rights -- entitlement rights -- became central to american politics. fdr talk about these as a second bill of rights. he implied it would not replace the first, but were needed to supplement and maybe redeem the promise. the problem is that there were contradictions and the two kinds of rights. they have emerged in politics. social and economic rights purported to make americans at least feel secure in the new-age dominated by economic insecurity and depression. fdr expected the new rights would make existing civil and political lib

ronald reagan whom i regard and whom i served, both ronald reagan, there was nancy and her circle and there was a world. >> host: with reagan you always felt there was a slight shield or pisa plexiglas, what he would last into a jack warner movie studio, a story for you, but he wouldn't really engage. whereas george h. w. bush was always eager to engage. >> guest: there is always a distance. ronald reagan i can't do all the time because i asked him about things that he had a tremendous interest in education. and he did use a story that you love to use the story. that was the way he communicated. but president bush had this one is robert louis stevenson a natural geniality of the world's greatest men. and easy familiarity. president reagan was very friendly and accessible. but there was always a distance. bush always broke down, everybody sitting in the room, off the oval office, got another name during the clinton administration. we will go through that. ross perot was on and ross perot was writing about president bush, president bush, you not disrupting his daughter's wedding and the

. >> coming up, a discussion about the legacy of president ronald reagan. later, remarks from the author on the politics of homosexuality. >> the minute that the wall street firms were in the business of harvesting middle- class to lower middle-class americans for their home equity value in making loans to them against it, there was a natural risk of abuse. >> sunday, michael lewis on the subprime mortgage crisis. his latest is "the big short." he is also the author of several other books. 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> tomorrow, clark ervin talks about airline security and good do not fly list. representative don edwards discusses midterm politics. and william minnix president of the american association of homes and services for the aging. live it 7:00 a.m. eastern on c- span. >> up next, a discussion about the future of american culture and the impact of president reagan on contemporary things. this is two hours, 30 minutes. [no audio] >> speakers this morning. each year i leave thinking no way can we talk that one. each year they get better. so, your presence he

the rise of the political career of world reagan -- that spurred the rise of reagan in the 1970's. coming from a man who was uncredentialied into paid for by being constantly just a creighton. a man of obscure, midwestern origin who parlayed his odd jobs as lifeguard and radio announcer into a minor acting career and then into a california politician, and service as a spokesman for general electric. that is the disdain with which ronald reagan was treated and seen. one sees the same response emerging now in the tea party movement, not entirely political, but a feeling of outrage and expression of outrage specifically directed at the political class. this is an example of energy from below, of the on credentialed asserting itself, even if sometimes looking like an unguided missile. and the very name tea partiers represents an effort to claim for such energy the mantle of a kind of major american historical precedent, a revolution itself. i think that claim has some validity. the renewal of american life will not be administered from the top down. that is not the nation's history. no

as ron reagan knows, for example, ron reagan against george h.w. bush. >> yeah, but reagan won that. >> yeah. >> and i'm wondering more like 1980 or it's more like '68? which years more like. >> go to the center right or to the hard right. >> '68 no real competition. >> you had romney. >> '64 year where you get goldwater versus rockefeller down to the final. >> i think that the current romney could fall victim to the romney of the past. i'm not sure he has the political chops. here's more on palin today. our story today is really about the rise to the top of the republican party of palin and bachmann. of course, sean hannity and talk show radio people like limbaugh we've been talking about before. these two women have grabbed the stage here today and more than just today. here they are. here's palin welcoming the crowd. let's listen. >> it is really good to be here in the land of 10,000 lakes with pate patriots who love your country. you're so proud to be americans. and you who love your good hunting and fishing and some of you proudly clinging to

they will still be true when we reassemble for reagan's symposium next. [applause] >> we shall take that up lost as applause for you -- applause as applause for you, the audience. i would invite all of you, i fyou -- if you have suggestions for topics for next year, please let us know. once the decision has been made , we will solicit ideas for speakers. bear that in mind and let us know. we want to thank our seven outstanding speakers. charles asked to get on an airplane to fly to los angeles. why anybody would want to do that -- [laughter] >> i am insulted by his attack on california. i am leaving. [laughter] >> having worked with each of the symposia, this has been a remarkable group. the chemistry is fantastic. their presentations that we've seen and experienced. thanks to everyone for making this, for me, a really wonderful day. i bid all of you godspeed. >> thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> this year's c-span2 studentcam competition asked middle a

of which reagan -- are in the liberal -- with reagan, a liberal in the good sense of the word. -- i'm a liberal in the good sense of the word. i benefited from the fortune 500 companies and then i researched to find why. as americans, first off, both linear divide between conservative and liberal must stop. we are in a crisis of terrorism and nuclear warfare. we have to put our talents together and unite, and really have conferences. and analyze objectively. i hated reagan and i did not even know why. i have read his diaries and i see a couple of his kids and he can be a bad guy. host: was just stop right there. guest: i remember distinctly in 1986 we had just passed a number of amendments to the defense authorization bill that would have cut funding for for some of the key nuclear programs. and we have a conference in the office of then speaker tip o'neill about this and a lot of the liberal members of the house at that time wanted to stay with the amendments, but to o'neil overruled them. he said the president was flying in air force one to meet with the head of the soviet union. we

you go back to the reagan era as far as the war on drugs is concern. take us back there and how did that play into your thinking as far as developing the themes for your book? >> most people assume that ronald reagan announced the drug war in response to the emergence of crack cocaine in inner city communities. and that's just false. actually, president reagan declared the drug war in 1982 a few years of about crack hit the street in inner city communities and became a sensation in the media. the reagan administration seized on the drug war with glee as an opportunity to build public support for its new war. and actually, hired of staff, whose job it was to publicize crack in inner city communities, stories about crack babies, and crack dealers and inner city communities and those images quickly flooded the evening news, and really forever changed kind of our racial conceptions about who drug users and drug dealers are. but the drug war was actually launched in response to racial politics, not drug crimes. when the drug war was announced, drug crime wa

we see that with the reagan and gorbachev in iceland. we also see this with the israelis and egyptians in 1949, and with teddy roosevelt in the treaty of portsmouth. it can be useful to have world leaders gather in a major world capital, but in different types of negotiations, you want to isolate the negotiators, so that they can sit down with each other and in an atmosphere of calm. host: were you surprised that president reagan and gorbachev had such a hands on experience, that they were negotiating with each other? >> it was one of the more negotiating things about those negotiations and was not designed to be as dramatic as it was. it was originally a quick pre- conference before a summit in washington, but because of the informality, low expectations, they were able to talk with each other and that led to these breakthroughs. it was a surprise success. host: st. cloud, minnesota. david. caller: the question i have, but i am appalled with is the number of nuclear weapons we have and the number of weapons [unintelligible] i would like

when you go to the reagan library, for example, you get to see the view of the hills that ronald reagan so loved and would horseback ride in. you get to see air force one, which they have there, people queue up for it. carter library, they have an oval office the way it looked when carter was there, as many of them are redoing it. it helps people have a sense of pride that a president came from their particular state. >> what about -- what library -- which is your favorite library in the country and you've run three or four of them. >> that's like asking, which is your favorite child? i mean -- >> well, maybe i'll ask you this way, what makes -- >> i'll tell you the model. i wish -- i wish there was a way that we could go back to the original model, where the libraries relatively modest in size, were put in the middle of a cornfield in iowa or down the street from harry truman's home on delaware street in independence or above all at franklin roosevelt's estate in hyde park. the idea being that these organically grew out of the surroundings that produced the presidents, their characters

reagan came in. busted up unions.did everything to disable the working class and weakened them to the point where he's so busy trying to make ends meet they can't be informed. and the reason that someone as young as you has the voice that you have is because we get no news. there is no news. we have corporate -- corporately owned networks that created not a news network. it used to be a time if you said you were a news network you had to by regulation supply some kind of service to the public. now it's infotainment. and they don't have the time to research. although they could pick up a newspaper. it would be good. >> host: maggie you covered lots of bases. let's see what jason mattera has to say. >> guest: information is more available than anytime in american history. people can get their news -- i hope they're getting their news from c-span and straight shooting news outlets. and just explosion of the blogosphere. and what maggie is typical pedestrian left wing talking points. reagan did not control the congress. c

reagan did not control congress it was democrats. and ray again cut taxes 70 percent down a 20% but the biggest tax cut of american history if you look at the 25 years since having the biggest upward mobility swing economic progress we have ever seen and the net worth of america as a whole have more than doubled from 1981 through 2007 after the reagan tax cut. tax cuts across the board spur investment. i'd like the marxist class warfare. with top employers against employees. if it weren't for rich people i would be out of a job. quite frankly i think rich people because i do not want my paycheck to bounce every two weeks. my book is published by evo publishing. >> host: she was talking about the media outlets did you have a chapter on the new media muzzle and you write about google and also apple and. >> that the relationship with silicon valley became with it is the google presidents were watching six google executives including larry page and eric schmidt donating $25,000 apiece to fund the swearing-in party as one of the largest c

his effort is a lot like former president ronald reagan. so why are so many republicans criticizing him? keeping him honest. >>> plus, senator mccain tries new tactic to beat his conservative challenger, jd hayworth, but is his new ad going to work or backfire? >> i'm j.d. hayworth and i'm running for u.s. senate to take on the most pressing challenges facing arizona, america, and indeed, the entire human race. first, i've committed to exposing the secret kenyan birthplace of the president of the united states. gecko: quite impressive, yeah. boss: come a long way, that's for sure. and so have you since you started working here way back when. gecko: ah, i still have nightmares. anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >>> president obama is hosting a two-day nuclear security summit in washington. and hours before it kicked off today, ukraine, which is one of 47 country attending, announced it is going to give up all its weapons-grade uranium within the next two years. now, this follows the nuclear arms reduction

the irony is reagan and goldwater could not pass the litmus test today. goldwater was pro-choice and in favor of in the military and ronald reagan signed in abortion law. he presided over tax increases when necessary as governor and president. all principle people, leaders of the conservative movement that when you try to dumb down our politics and make it one-size-fits-all, history has a sense of humor and the reality is that goldwater and reagan wouldn't be considered conservatives today by the people who were acting like such ideological absolutist in the sentinel of the conservative movement. >> the young lady here, just wait for the microphone. go ahead. >> i hate to ask. >> what is your name? >> arianna from the area. i hate to add such a glib question,

if you elect me i promise to lead the charge to reagan's shining city on a hill. ronald reagan said let us be sure that those who come after us will save us in their time that in our time we did everything that could be done. we finished the race. and we kept the faith. i hope you will vote for me on may 4. god bless indiana and god bless the united states. >> thank you for a spirited discussion. i know our viewers across the hoosier state enjoyed it and enjoy listening. thanks to all of you for çwatching to our u.s. senate debate sponsored by the indiana debate commission. our thanks to the staffs. a special thanks to the voters to ask the questions. speaking of voters, primary day is tuesday, may 4. go vote for one of these five individuals. look for news from the indiana debate commission at that debates coming this fall. from indianapolis, good night. ho[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> this week of america and the courts, discussion on the media and national security issues. am

reagan made the difference.dmire the kind of politics that has taken the terror out of old age through social security and medicare. the kind of politics that rebuilt a war-torn europe through marshall plan and restored democracy that terribly o pressed and beleaguered continent. the kind of politics that is sed to everybody in this country, you will have the chance to go as far as your able and your initiative will take you. the kind of politics that knocks down obstacles for women, that knocks down obstacles for those minority groups, that knocks down all obstacles that prevent us from reaching what we can collectively and individually reach because while you're here, and i know you're busy and i know your schedule on the hill. if you have a moment, you ought to sneak away down to the mall to the monument to franklin delano roosevelt. franklin delano roosevelt, only american elected four times to the white house. frank length roosevelt was inaugurated for a second term, he gave us words to live by. it was simp

>> mike reagan, the son of president ronald reagan told me once -- what -- would my father not have given for a republican house? if he had the house elected in 1994 i do believe he would have done exactly that. in his own autobiography he said his biggest regret in prison and was he never got a handle on entitlements and cut spending. >> but i think it goes beyond that. i think that rather talk about only -- let us just take washington, for example. let us take congress, for example you have over 500 forces. that is, said, members from each has a individual constituency and each has its own preferred contributors and that type of thing. it makes it extremely difficult to cut back on anything simply because somebody benefits from the existence of that program. so you end up with a government that is repetitious, redundant, which is flabby to an extreme and that is what i think is the problem. to just have an over all -- >> what do we think about productivity in this of all sorts -- civil service? we all live in washington and we know people who work for the government. abeyant work very h

officially this afternoon, 83 reagan national. the low today was 59, at the top of the hour. big change is coming. temperatures dropping into the fifties. upper 60's south and east, the wider view shows cooler temperatures in pittsburgh, 52 state college. this is a cold front, strong, very dynamic. limited severe weather, but enough wind to cause damage. at that moves out overnight. as the storm system moves up the st. lawrence river valley, it will bring an the gusty northwest wind. it is a good-looking day, just a lot different than recently. nice and fresh air, getting rid of the pollen one day. it will be back over the weekend. the next seven days, cooler, bright sunshine, 60 tomorrow. i will take that. 64 saturday, even better, right on the button with normal. upper 70's on sunday. monday through thursday, looks fine, sunshine, upper 60's, about 70 on thursday. >> looks good. >>> we will be right back. >>> a homeless teenager in california is quite an inspiration with a 4.2 gpa, class president, captain of the football team, and he is homeless. >> i try not to use excuse

but it doesn't have the humor or the benignness of reagan.nd there isn't this sort of collegial attitude any more. so it's really i think a philosophical battle going on now. and to touch on something jon said i was surprised president obama earlier hadn't packaged what he is doing in a way. i mean you did have with fdr the new deal right out of the gate and harry true man's spare deal or the new frontier. it has been bailout general motors. economic stimulus, you know let's get some money to finance banks and wall street, but it hasn't been as coherent so there has been a kind of defensive crouch by ot bama administration. they are kind of defending new dealism in a great society measures, extending it further. and i don't think it's been able to have the offensive swing and part of that pite be about race. barack obama might not want to be become the angry fist-pounding president because he's worried about white middle class blue-collar workers which the democratic party need to keep in places like ohio, pennsylvania. if they are going to m

reagan was all about america. obama is we are above that now. we are not just parochial.ot just chauvinistic, we're not just prevention, we stand for something. i mean in a way, says evan thomas, i mean in a way obama is standing above the country. above the world. he's sort of god. he's going to bring all different sides together. now even for the mainstream media, the reference to god is a little bit over the top. but leaveing that aside, the notion that obama stands above the country and that into do his view of his role of president is above the country is something i think we should find very troubling. it's doesn't reveal itself in everything that he says. but any stretch of the imagination or in all of his policies. but that basic attitude, i think, is there and should be troubling when we consider it's implications for american sovereig some of them fairly evident, some a continuing question of erosion of sovereignty. they showed the challenges that the u.s. constitutionalism and

but if you compare where president reagan was and where president clinton was at similar points in their presidency this president is at least eight points higher than either of them were in popularity, and president reagan only lost 26 seats in the house and didn't lose any seats in the senate. president clinton lost the house and the senate. so i suspect president obama would be happy with something in between, and i suspect that's what he'll get. >> you are seeing this mass exodus because a lot of the democrats are seeing the writing on the wall. the writing in the wall is in their own hand. a lot of this is by their own doing. look, the ones that are choosing to remain and run for re-election in november and beyond are really, really worried because they are incredibly vulnerable. when you look at the rasmussen poll, it is unheard of for republicans to be running that far ahead. on the gallop poll shows a four-point spread with republicans running ahead. last time that happened and the margin was a lot smaller at that time was 1994 when the republicans took over the house. but look,

>> until ronald reagan is resurrected, all we can hope for is gridlock. it would newter the juggernaut. that's the best we can hope for, and it's going to happen. >> you sound mildly bullish. >> i am. i am. >> michael farr, you're going to play it from the long time? >> i am, but senator bob corker has a different take. he thinks a bit of a close ever match of democrats and republicans, red and blue, in the house and in the senate, that then they can force each other to build consensus. you get better policy out of a closer race, and perhaps that would be a real benefit from the republicans upping their seats in november. >> you know, michael, as an admirer of senator bob corker and a personal friend, i guess i like consensus, if it's the right kind. >> exactly. >> a deal for dale, say, does not really do it for me. you know what i mean? ronald reagan created consensus, because he got compromising to rye deuce tax rates across the board and cut spending and give us a little free market capitalism. consensus for consensus sake, mr. farr, i kind of am under

reagan is 5 feet, and weighs 120. she has her name tattooed on her neck. so far leads have been hard to come by. >> she went missing on the 24th when she left her house. she went to the area in the wood lawn area of baltimore county near route 40 and rolling road, and she vanished. >> reporter: anyone with information on her whereabouts are encouraged to contact crime stoppers. you could be eligible for a reward up to $4,500. that number 1866-7-lock up. of course, they're hoping to find new leads here this morning. around 8:00 that is when the 40 police cadets from baltimore county, police and the chesapeake search and rescue team will be here. search dogs and the whole works. we do hear that many family members will not be here. they will wait it see if anything comes out of search today. live if wood lawn, fox 45 early edition. >>> councilman carlos stokes says that the department is not transparent enough with its funds and says it's imperative considering the budget crisis. the city announced a proposed budget plan that would close 29 of the city's 55

reagan signed a liberal abortion law, grew the size of government and preside over tax increases when necessary but as governor and president and principled people, leaders of the conservative movement but when you try to dumdum politics and make it one-size-fits-all history has a sense of humor and the reality is goldwater and reagan wouldn't be considered a conservative today by the people acting like a logical absolutist and the sentinels of the conservative movement. >> the young lady here just wait for the microphone. go ahead. >> i hate to ask -- >> what is your name? >> arianna. i hate to ask and glib question -- >> there are no such thing, just click answers. [laughter] >> if we don't give these people attention -- with a diffuse their power? and how do you see your book as changing the discourse around this issue? >> it's a question i've gotten in one form or another white people who do believe that you only see these folks with attention. i take a different view. i think that politicians will pander to the outer reaches of politics particularly if they feel like they can get

live for now at reagan national, craig melvin, news4. back to you. >>> joining us on the phone is roger cresse, nbc news terrorist analyst. i assume all the appropriate steps were taken there tonight? >> reporter: jim, that's right. i think what you have here is a case of a very young diplomat from qatar. he did something very stupid. as a result of that, he caused not only a security incident but probably international diplomatic incident between u.s. and qatar officials. i think the key point now is he will undergo extensive questioning via local law enforcement and take apart his shoe and look at everything else he was traveling with. was it a giant misunderstanding by him making a stupid move trying to light a cigarette on a plane? >> so far we can assume that the security measures at the airport as it regards detecting explosives in shoes and things like that, all those things are working as far as we know? >> that's right. even a diplomat has to go through security screening. if you're flying on u.s. commercial flights. woe have to

we'll talk about temperatures from yesterday. 76 was the winning number at reagan national.peratures well above where they should be. 78 was the temperature yesterday at dulles and bwi. we'll be a little cooler today. hay cold front moving through the last couple of hours. that will keep our temperatures back into the upper 60s to about 70. 59 right now at reagan national. that is not a bad start. 5 # in gaithersburg. cool weather. cooler weather -- 52 in gaithersburg. quantico, you were 54 to start the day and leonardtown. showing you the wind because we've hi wind shift. there is the cold front. there is the cloud cover and if you are waking autopsy close portions of southern maryland, lower eastern shore, you will see some rather thick clouds but it will dissipate quickly and i think we'll be back into a decent amount of sunshine. a few more clouds than yesterday but decent amount of sunshine today. no problems out to the west though. the rest of today should be nice and dry. as we get into tomorrow, this cold front will try to slide back on top of us as an area of low pr

going back to ronald reagan -- is horrific.k to ronald reagan to today want a world without nuclear weapons, fine. what does it do to broadcast our intentions to somebody who might be using chemical or biological weapons against us? james baker in 1991 on the eve of the persian gulf war went to iraqi foreign minister and said to him, and suggested to him, if they use chemical weapons against our troops, guess what we might use -- >> sean: and it worked. you leave the threat hanging. . >> while we don't want to use nuclear weapons there is a rule for the threat in keeping peace. >> the president is on a trajectory to keep his nobel prize he has to earn it. you can relay what your strategy is to the world -- it is probably one. most short-sided destructive things that i've seen in a while. >> sean: deeper analysis, why? why would he do it? i have my theory. >> this only makes sense if you believe united states is the primary threat to the world and to worm peace. >> sean: thank you. >> what they are saying is, when we get rid of

this new video shows reagan with actor james dean.and family from dean a law breaking teenager trying toç find medical treatment for his friend. take a look. >> i want you to you take your hands off my wife and get out of this house. get out of the way. >> sure. i'll get out of the way. but you're going out of here alone sonny radio >> don't you call me sonny, you got five seconds to get out of the way,4s6u [ vrrroooooom ] black one! where? [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one! where? [ vrrroomm! ] black one! ow! where? [ male announcer the volkswagen tiguan. the only compact suv with a turbocharged engine, standard. [ vrrroooooomm! ] black one! where? there. [ male announcer ] lease the 2010 tiguan for just $269 a month. it's a whole new volkswagen. and a whole new game. >> sean: during an event yesterday joe biden decided to go off script yet again. >> i'm off the teleprompter. i'm off the teleprompter because i want to tell you, the statistics don't tell the whole story. >> sean: mr. president, buy him his own teleprompter and make him us

and jelly belly owes a great deal to president ronald reagan, don't they? >> yes, they do.  hi, may i help you? yes, i hear progressive has lots of discounts on car insurance. can i get in on that? are you a safe driver? yes. discount! do you own a home? yes. discount! are you going to buy online? yes! discount! isn't getting discounts great? yes! there's no discount for agreeing with me. yeah, i got carried away. happens to me all the time. helping you save money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> all i know is i acted just terribly, poorly. made justin he had -- just incredibly bad decisions and hurt people close to me. >> that's tiger's comments yesterday. >> he's making his return at the masters this week and justin gray joins us live from augusta with more on tiger's big week. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that was the moment everybody was waiting for, was to hear tiger, to have this give and take. he's had the sort of staged media events since november. this was the first time for reporters to be able to ans

as you know, ronald reagan's solicitor general has said this lawsuit is preposterous, absurd. lt. governor of missouri doesn't understand that congress can regular even intrastate commerce if it is part of an overall regulatory scheme and the regulation of intrastate commerce is necessary to make that scheme work. mitt romney did it in massachusetts the courts upheld the mandate there. this lawsuit has no foundation it is a total waste of the taxpayers' money. i wrote tom corbet and said you are too good a lawyer for this you are doing this in part because it is the politically feasible thing to do. by the way i think it is backfiring on republicans all over the country. even the republicans in congress who were yelling about repealing now they are saying we want to amend or change it. why would you as an attorney general want to take away from 400,000 pennsylvania seniors the right to get a $250 check to fill the doughnut hole in medicare part d? why would you want to take away the right of pennsylvanians who can't get care to be put immediately into a high risk pool? the right o

we see that with the reagan and gorbachev in iceland. we also see this with the israelis and egyptians in 1949, and with teddy roosevelt in the treaty of portsmouth. it can be useful to have world leaders gather in a major world capital, but in different types of negotiations, you want to isolate the negotiators, so that they can sit down with each other and in an atmosphere of calm. host: were you surprised that president reagan and gorbachev had such a hands on experience, that they were negotiating with each other? >> it was one of the more negotiating things about those negotiations and was not designed to be as dramatic as it was. it was originally a quick pre- conference before a summit in washington, but because of the informality, low expectations, they were able to talk with each other and that led to these breakthroughs. it was a surprise success. host: st. cloud, minnesota. david. caller: the question i have, but i am appalled with is the number of nuclear weapons we have and the number of weapons [unintelligible] i would like

karp, ronald reagan's top and. here is somebody coming he still alive, he is 78 years old good it will be 79 this year. he has parkinson's disease and he was really reagan's, sounds dramatic, but secret weapon so to speak. he's a man who throughout 1982 and 83 work to reagan's national security council and laid out, considers a paper trail of this, very explicit directions with the intention of these police taking a soviet union to bring down democracy are as they put in the document, political pluralism through the soviet union. that was a joy because myself, my family, we spent a couple summers saying that karp's ranch, interviewing him daily, getting to know him and his family. and that's the case where he was in a matter of just looking at documents and looking at books and other things that people have written. i actually got to know the figure and spend a lot of time with him. .. hillary clinton would be president frankly. i really did. so, that came out, and god and hillary clinton in 2007. another fascinati

high temperatures today reagan national 83. not a record. dulles international 86.record high temperature. bwi 84. that was a record high temperature. the high temperature for bwi tomorrow 90. don't think they're going to get there. dulles high temperature tomorrow 86 degrees. think they're going to be above that. so probably another record set foredulles. at reagan the record high temperature is 92 degrees. don't think it's going to get there either. i think temperatures at reagan tomorrow should stay mid- to upper 80s for high temperatures. that's pretty warm for this time of year, especially considering we should be about 63 degrees for a high temperature. 68 now here in the city. you can see everybody is slowly falling into the 60s. hagerstown usually the warmer spot this time of night is sitting at 72 degrees as well. i want to show you this. there's a lot of warmth through the southeast but there's already cooler temperatures for montana down into wyoming and just scooting over here for fargo -- to fargo. this is important because late in the week this cool ai

white mentality because he was raised in a household with his grand mother this building that ronald reagan garbage. threat least 60 years black south africans and americans have seen in one another their avatar bono's leaves from that country ever land ashore in the united states. jim-crow laws were not very different from apartheid structures. the catechism of the assassinated african-american icon malcolm x was the model for that preached by the assassinated south african icon steve. with mandela and the king the fund inspiration from gandhi and the liberation hero. america's anti-apartheid movement was largely set in motion by black americans like randall robinson and south africa's afrikaners white settlers of dutch and french extraction who initiated the formal part by state or the spending architectural image of

at reagan national airport, it is warmer. the cooler air will eventually settle across the area. daytime highs only in the lower 60's. we are watching a cold front that is drifting from the north to the south. you can see this line across pennsylvania. now, the frontal system heads across the delmarva peninsula. this will stall across the virginia-north carolina border. as the area of low pressure moves off, tuesday afternoon, some rain. temperatures are around 65, 70 degrees. the high pressure will eventually moved out of here. some clouds in the overnight, temperatures in the 40's. a bit colder out in the mountains and the higher elevations. get your sunglasses out tomorrow. you will need them. by afternoon, it daytime highs 65 to 70 degrees. you will see temperatures in the low 70's later in the week. here is the extended outlook. not so bad. showers late in the day and into the overnight hours. by thursday, back to the low 70's. friday, we and the workweek, and the upcoming weekend looks dry. temperatures above average for this time of year. no record breakers on the way this

some form started under president carter and impetus under reagan and it's a big part of reagan revolution. some parts for sensible and some parts i would not want to roll back. i like cheap air travel for example. but deregulation in this applied finance has led to great danger. if you look at what has happened to compensation in the financial sector the past century it's interesting, some good work done and we will show them aplington as key figures in the book. facial enough rich compensation compared to the private-sector wages in the 40's, 50's, 60's and into the 70's banking was not particularly well paid. there was a 363 banking which was a 3%, when the 6% and go play golf by 3:00 in the afternoon. also known as foreign banking. now what was in that lifestyle, don't get me wrong i don't think there were a lot of poor bankers but it wasn't sexy fast-moving huge fortune being made like what began to happen in the 1980's. michael lewis of course is on the news now with his interesting book the big short-term but we site at length and my favorite book is still a wonderful moment he capt

reagan was going to speak at a college.dent had hung a sign on a tree that said "cut me down before i kill again." [laughter] it was a remarkable time. reagan, we only had two presidents who served eight years and left office at 65% approval. they could not have been more different. ronald reagan, and bill clinton, a democrat and governor from arkansas, five terms. each of them in his own way represented what i think is central to our political reality of what americans are looking for. it was talked about earlier by your president and vice president of the united states. that is the element of hope. . . >> things could be better. if one thinks about american politics, there is nothing more important than optimism. it has been the key to successful american projects, presidencies and leadership. that was certainly embodied in the great depression when the country had lost one-half of the gross national product and ronald reagan, a man in a wheelchair, lifted the country of its knees and put it on its feet again. it was the

won't be a bad looking day all in all. 58 now at reagan national. fredericksburg, 51. these are nice temperatures. pleasant to start the day. take a look at the cloud cover. you kind of pick it out here moving through in the last couple of frames. there you go. you see the very light sprinkles and the clouds pushing off to the south and east. they will get out of here. not too concerned about any rain shower activity and what is going to happen is our front will fade out across the carolinas and we'll watch an area of low pressure develop during the day tomorrow. that will move a little closer to the washington area. if you want rain this week, if you want to time the rain, i think best chance will be late in the day tomorrow and tomorrow night and then we'll start to quiet down towards the middle and end of the week. we should be very pleasant this week. we are not expecting any extremes as far as heat, not going to be too cold. it will be just right. tonight, we'll go way cool one overnight, partly cloudy. 45degrees. we claude up tomorrow. there are your showers. bes

. >> when this happened during the reagan years reagan cut taxes and unemployment went up beyond 10%,ook him 28 months to reel in the unemployment numbers. this was never a discussion back then. why should it be now? >> well, the fact of the matter is the republican party has changed a great deal from the gop that ronald reagan dealt with. you know, in your previous segment you were talking about this 24/7 news cycle and the pressure of the right wing talkers on the gop. and this is one of those places where you see it in play. the fact of the matter is there are people who really do want, not just president obama to fail, but to have a real economic mess because they know an economic mess makes it easier for republicans to say that obama and the democrats are failing. and that game has clearly moved deep into the political process. right into the senate with tom coburn. >> the point i'm make is that this country, we as americans, don't have the patience we used to have. maybe the 24/7 cycle has something to do with that. i mean, is barack obama -- i mean, he has been under siege with

astonishing, 71 degrees at reagan national. fredericksburg is 7 # degrees. fredericksburg is 76 degrees. high temperature, 90 degrees. the humidity will stay in check today. how about temperatures 30 degrees cooler than today by friday. >> thank you. >>> we begin this morning with breaking news, word that four people have been shot in laurel, maryland. this apparently happened about 1:00 this morning. police say two victims were found on hitching post lane. two others were found on alma avenue about one mile away. not clear whether the victims are men or women or how old theare. we do have a crew headed to the scene and we'll bring you updates as they come in. >>> four miners are still missing after monday's explosion following the explosion at the mine in west virginia. the safety record of the coal mine is being called into question. it has been repeatedly cited for improperly venting methane gas. >>> is it a done deal in almost d.c. schools and the teachers union reached a tentative contract agreement. it still has to be ratied and approved by the d.c. co

if you elect me i promise to lead the charge to reagan's shining city on a hill.ld reagan said let us be sure that those who come after us will save us in their time that in our time we did everything that could be done. we finished the race. and we kept the faith. i hope you will vote for me on may 4. god bless indiana and god bless the united states. >> thank you for a spirited discussion. i know our viewers across the hoosier state enjoyed it and enjoy listening. thanks to all of you for çwatching to our u.s. senate debate sponsored by the indiana debate commission. our thanks to the staffs. a special thanks to the voters to ask the questions. speaking of voters, primary day is tuesday, may 4. go vote for one of these five individuals. look for news from the indiana debate commission at that debates coming this fall. from indianapolis, good night. ho[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> today, a discussion on the role of the media and national security issues with a panel. the univer

with a lot of reagan, whom i revered and i served in both model reagan, there was nancy's inner circle and there was the world. >> host: maybe because i covered both the and i did know them as well as you but with reagan he always felt there was a slight shield lord pisa plexiglas where he would lapse into a jack warner movie studio story for you but you wouldn't really engage. whereas george h. w. bush was always eager to engage in. >> guest: there was always a distance. ronald reagan i talked to all the time because i asked him about things. he had a tremendous interest in education. and he did use the story, he loved to use the store, that's the way he communicated. but president bush had this, what is robert louis stevenson say, a national genie out of the world great man and an easy familiarity. president reagan was very friendly and accessible. but there was always a distance. bush always broke down the distance. i was sitting in the room, refer to it as the oval office, got another name during the clinton administration. we won't go into that, but we were watching the today show