reagan. so i'll be right back. [inaudible] >> senator brown has been kind enough to agree spend 10-12 minutes with us answering questions. so we have a list of questions from you -- >> i haven't seen them so here we good. >> i think you'll find the first one interesting. >> who is going to win the nba -- i'm sorry. celtics. con on. boo! go ahead. i know everyone is hungry. >> what do you think about what is happening in wisconsin now? >> the question is, what is happening in wisconsin. obviously the people of wisconsin are trying to get a handle on their $3.6 billion structural deficit, and they elected a new governor to teal with that -- deal with that problem, a new legislature to back him up. he september -- sent his plan to the legislature. i encourage the lawmakers to come back and do the people's business, and everything is on the table right now, folks. we're in very deep fiscal trouble-not only federally but in each individual state as well, and everyone needs to get in a room, sit down and hammer things ou

initially thinks reagan's okay. he says on the radio "raw hide is o.k. " on the way back reagan starts looking not so great, ashen, complaining of pain in his chest. frothy blood on his lips. parr makes the decision that they're going to the hospital instead of the white house. that decision saved reagan's life. >> woodruff: how prepared was george washington hospital to handle a president who had been shot and how clear was it that he had been shot? >> well, it was very prepared. we had training for four years, since 196, 1980 setting up the trauma system at g.w. and everyone was well trained that the point in time. the president was treated like any patient. we were notified right before he got there that somebody was on the way and he came in through the main door, he collapsed he was brought back to the resuscitation area. the trauma team was there and they assessed him and treated him accordingly. >> woodruff: we know that there were humorous comments that the white house put out later that he said to mrs. reag

so this day in american politics we speak of reagan republicans and reagan democrats. and that's the legacy of a man who respected everyone, and spoke to everyone. now, a lot of all political subjects fell away in his time, because his convictions were so clear and his integrity was so obvious people of every background and even many who had never considered voting for republicans sized of ronald reagan and thought you know what? this is my kind of guy. he understands the country. he wants everyone to have a chance. and he knows that in this world the united states of american is a force for good. the american people, reagan said, are hopeful, big hearted, idealistic, daring, decent and fair. he was all of these things himself, and everyone could see that. we can all think of leaders throughout history who had qualities of greatness, i came up a little short in the qualities of goodness. and somehow when we remember this great man, we think of his goodness. he was engaged in the biggest events of his time, the kindness and courtesy were never, ever beneath him. it's ju

for ronald reagan, i think it was an event -- and the reagan presidency, i think it was a seminal eventremember, president reagan only in office about 10 weeks at that point. he had been elected, to be sure, decisively in 1980. but there was a sense that in some ways he was elected in part because it represented a change from the status quo. a lot of people did not really know ronald reagan. or at least a lot of people thought they knew ronald reagan. what we saw on march 30, whatever you think of the man's politics and what ever you think of his historical legacy, you saw an extraordinary display of what hemingway called grace under pressure. you saw this man, who we now know was close to death, who was making jokes, who demonstrated remarkable courage. there are personal qualities that people saw that day that no political campaign, for example, had brought out, that no political commercials had brought out. it is it for a moment -- the great irony, people talk about ronald reagan as an actor, but the great irony is that it was that day when he was not acting. we get all put ourselves

reagan, i feel like i'm dreaming. it's so honored to meet you, you and your husband were such role models for all of us as americans. and it's truly been my privilege to join each and every one of you at this beautiful place that bares his name. so thank you, god bless and have a wonderful dinner. thank you. [applause] specs before. please, sit down. i just want to say hello to mrs. reagan for just a minute so i will be right back. [laughter] -- senator brown has been kind enough to agree to spend about ten to 12 minutes answering some questions we got the questions from you as you came to this evening. >> and i haven't seen them so here we go. >> i think you'll find the first one interesting. >> noeth thanks, come on. [laughter] >> what do you think about what is happening in wisconsin now? >> the question is what is happening in wisconsin? obviously the people of wisconsin are trying to get a handle on the $3.6 billion structural deficit and they elected a new governor to deal with that problem. they elected the new

from president since reagan. first lady is similar is on what would probably be considered a fundamental measure of publicty religiosity and that is the the indi indications ofca god and the implications of the faith more broadly in your major publicm aj speeches.u so as i said, presidents reagan and those sense had used about three references to god to god in the presidential address. obama is right there with him. he's used about two and a half so that puts him below ronald reagan and george w. bush and just above george h. w. bush and bill clinton. so he's right there in the mix with the presidents. very similar in that way of expressing public faith. in terms of the state terms, the broad terms, bible, pray, blessings, so on he's the highest of any president in modern history just slightly higher in bill clinton who used about 12.5% in the average speech. barack obama uses 13. ronald reagan and george bush were right there as well. so he's very typical, very similar to the most recent presidents in the new mo

democrats you know they were blue collar people that had voted for ronald reagan because they want to see america be respected in the world you know that sort of thing and look at what's happening to them now this was and they you know they recognized the contradiction and it was a. sort of moment of awful and light in it for them you know it was a disastrous event in their lives but it was also a moment of enlightenment and it was a moment of enlightenment for me as well because i suddenly went from you know everything being about culture everything being about the media about the rhetoric that we use to being a ha. about manufacturing about work about trade you know this is this is what so much of american life is really about is merely it's about the money you know it's about the money power and politics if you had to boil it down to one word yes and in fact i mean you know facing a four hundred ninety three million dollars budget shortfall in kansas senator sam brownback the new governor republican has called to eliminate the corporate income tax are proposing fifty million bucks

it turns out that since reagan presidents have. they roughly quadrupled the number of times and christmas communication that they reference priced specifically. we saw this pattern again and again. what helped us make sense with some of the changes in the electorate that were happening just before ronald reagan took office, and those changes were largely driven by a group in society that for a long time felt like their views were being marginalized, and this group has come to be known as the religious right, politically conservative christian citizens who felt like they needed to start engaging in the political world in no way they had not been because they felt that was going to be a means to shape society in a way they felt was appropriate. groups such as the moral majority emerge in the late 70's, and ronald reagan is the first politician who finds a way to harness the shifting attitudes among that voting bloc and speak to them and a way that they respond to. presidents cents have follow that model and tried to speak to those ci

through ronald reagan, we changed that and now tax reform means revenue neutral tax reform. our pledge is the defender of that. we feel very strongly that nobody should poke holes in that line of defense against tax increases. the commission that obama put together which was not ratified by congress. , some for henpecked guys like simpson who he knew would support increased taxes, they came up with an idea, a plan that promised to reduce spending by $3 trillion in the future and raise taxes by $1 trillion. that was their numbers. paul ryan looked at their plant and said there are tax increases. it would actually be a $2 trillion tax increase. it is a big tax increase. we led with their lower number. two is worse than three is worse than that. i understand the temptation of trying to get the democrats to come to the table to reduce spending. democrats say they will come if you put tax increases on the table. i have had conversations with each of these senators on the phone. they assured me that everything is on the table but we will never agree to a tax increase. they sent me

one bullet nearly penetrating ronald reagan's heart.0th anniversary of that day, his press secretary, james brady, remains paralyzed but he's anything but inactive on capitol hill and at the white house. >> i used to be a track runner. no more. but i'm not going to run away from this. >> reporter: brady spent the anniversary of the shooting asking members of congress to pass a new gun control bill, banning high-capacity magazines holding more than ten bullets, like the one used in the tucson massacre that killed six and wounded 13, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> how could you look yourself in the mirror and say, i believe in large capacity magazines, for god's sake? >> reporter: the national rifle association says it can. the group is backed by most republicans, some democrats and many gun owners who say the constitution forbids the ban. >> i don't stand for any political action that would strip me of any of my rights. >> reporter: three decades later that's an argument james brady says he's paid dearly to win. since rea

airliners call the control tower at reagan national airport, and nobody answers. >>> severe storms. tornadoes, heavy rain and hail cause all kinds of damage from california to pennsylvania. >>> and losing a legend. the life and legacy of a hollywood original, elizabeth the life and legacy of a hollywood original, elizabeth taylor. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody, thanks for joining us, i'm betty nguyen. we begin with an incident at rag an national airport just outside the national's capital. if you're an anxious flyer, well, this will not help. because early wednesday morning, two airliners trying to land at reagan were unable to contact anyone in the control tower. it's reported that the lone air traffic controller on duty was apparently asleep. susan mcginnis is in washington with the latest on this. good morning, susan. tell us what happened here. >> hi, good morning, betty. this is something aviation officials say they have never seen before. first, one pilot calls in to air traffic control at reagan airport here in washington, then a second one does, lookin

reagan was gravely wounded but he would survive.y the secret service released ten minutes of dramatic audio tape from that day. bill plante, who covered the reagan white house, has the sound and the story. >> reporter: seconds after president reagan exit's the washington hilton comes the radio call the secret service dread. >> reporter: agent jerry parr, head of the presidential detail shoves ronald reagan into his armored limo. as it speeds off, parr first reports that the president-- code-named rawhide-- was not hit. then, a telltale bloody foam on the president's lips. agent parr knows that means a punctured lung. >> reporter: as the limo with no police escort rushes to george washington university hospital, the president's condition appears to deteriorate. agent parr remains dead calm. >> reporter: three and a half minutes after he was shot here, president reagan walked into the hospital. the president collapsed in the emergency room, far more seriously wounded than we knew then. bill plante, cbs news, washington. >> couric: ari

he now admits he fell asleep after four consecutive night shifts. >> at an airport like reagan, it iseally imperative to have two air traffic controllers on duty. >> reporter: reagan national is just miles to the white house, a stone's throw from the pentagon and capital, the main airport for members of congress. >> we need to change procedures to make sure it never happens again. >> reporter: transportation secretary ray lahood ordered a second controller on reagan's night shift and has directed the faa to study stopping levels at airports around the country as passengers now contemplate -- >> that just put a little more extra fear in me. >> reporter: -- their own safety in the skies. kristin dahlgren, nbc news, washington. >>> now here's a look at other stories making news early today in america. in nevada, a courtroom camera captured a vegas woman lashing out at court officers after a judge remanded her into custody for evaluation by a mental health professional. the defendant became so combative after the judge told her the process could take up to two weeks. the woman is currentl

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reagan she's not easy to control. so here's this agent thinking he's going up the ramp thinking i've got to break this news to her how to do it in a way she doesn't just run to the hospital? she basically is already booking towards the stairs trying to catch her and she says i'm going you've got to get the car i'm walking. so he says i'm leaving for the hospital and they are on the road it's only six blocks. there at the traffic at the washington circle and this is reagan grabs george off the shoulders and starts shaking him and says georgia and getting all of the car and walking there now. i'm going to go now. because they were very close, all the people that new reagan, there is an enigma to so many people, and the one person who really knew him was nancy reagan, and there's a moment when she's walking to the hospital and mike is there, the top aide, closer than anybody come and she says mike, you have to let me see him, they don't know about us. islamic and we can talk about this in a minute but this could go on to

he's at reagan national tonight for us with more. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. in fact that supervisor, a 20-year veteran, has been suspended and effective immediately the faa has ordered that at all times there must be at least two controllers in that tower behind me. it was just after midnight wednesday morning when an american airlines flight from miami arriving at washington's reagan national airport couldn't get anyone in the tower to answer the radio. >> washington tower, american 1012. washington tower, american 1012. >> reporter: no response. a nearby radar facility even tried calling the tower on the phone. >> i tried to call on the land line and tried to call on the commercial line and there's no answer. >> reporter: on board, john from the nbc station wrc in washington, who says the pilot kept the passengers updated. >> sorry, folks, we can't land right now. i can't get in contact with the air traffic control tower. >> reporter: after going around, the american pilot landed on his own, radioing his position to other pilots as he approached. soon a uni

reagan didn't wait for international stamp of approval to move. and number two, with reagan, there was a clear mission, a clear strategy, and clear american presidential leadership. we've had none of that in this case. >> that was before 9/11. >> it doesn't matter! you can argue -- >> all right, all right. somebody -- let me move in. >> need leadership. >> you don't need leadership! [everyone talking at once] >> quickly. >> you don't need leadership that goes into a muslim country all alone. this was an international coalition, post-9/11, and post- george w. bush era, where we created a war in iraq that was unnecessary and left in utter results. [everyone talking at once] >> okay. one well-known member of congress raised the question of whether or not obama has committed an impeachable offense who was that. >> dennis kucinich. >> what is his argument about this being a possibility? >> notice how many -- >> hold on. >> line up with dennis kucinich, zero! >> really made his case. >> here's the reasoning. >> he doesn't have a case! >> that's right. >

we're waiting to board that flight to the "uss ronald reagan," the massive u.s. aircraft carrier off the coast of tsunami-ravaged japan. more on that in a moment. first, the most pressing news, the fear of nuclear fallout from that ravaged fukushima daiichi power plant, where last night another explosion and fire prompted the prime minister to take to the national airwaves with this warning. "the leaked radiation level is now rather high and there is a high chance for further leakage from now on." and for the first time tonight, the japanese confirm that all three containment warms in the shattered reactor have been damaged, which means radiation leakage is almost certain. inside the plant, 75 0 technicians were told to lead, and only 50 remained, staying behind to try to get the reactor back under control to avoid a chernobyl-like disaster. they used fire pumps to flood the reactors with water to cool the nuclear core. b hours later, the radiation levels spiked so high, they stopped work altogether, at least for now. but those who live within the 12-mile evacuat

we only had reagan was proposing those but we're spending twenty five percent of g.d.p. we're only collecting eighteen percent we're not anywhere near two percent right now yet right. collection's know we need to lower the spending we need trillion dollar stimulus which are terribly you go to rallies the banks you've got guys on wall street who are earning two billion dollars a year on average that's the average pay for that's not the average for the top that's just like your trillion dollars on storms the last ten has been totally destroyed minnesota just a. mansion i'm seated which is a rehash of the whacked out newspaper you just quoted a trillion dollars on star wars and that was totally wrong totally bogus kyoto you made up you got to get the top hedge fund managers on wall street making two billion dollars a year and then paint fifteen percent maximum income tax fine it's their money this is it it's their money it is a are big they did not earn anything what do you think of value according to one of these guys to do other than creating collateralized debt obligatio

so reagan watson, jury is in the limousine, jury trust to help them out, reagan says no, the jury thinks, he wants to be a cowboy. reagan hitches up his pants leg he always does, the other aides do not think he looks so good. ronald reagan viewed his role as president has brought light. he was an actor. he was not going to get care to the doors. he walks in, it's in 15 feet, collapses like a rock. her bobnandez is there. he sees reagan fall to the ground. he says, it is cold city. "city means that he is one to die. they're having a nightmare thoughts about the president is going to die. they did not think he was one to make it. >> what did you think, gerry, when he collapsed? >> well, i really thought he was going to die too. but before the first three or four minutes, because he looked so terrible. one of the first nurses said, i thought she said no blood pressure but what she said was low blood pressure. i did think he was going to die. but he kept living on and living on and they kept doing the right things to him. >> doctor, let us go back to that page. in those days i guess it was a

it takes its title from reagan's secret service code name, raw hide. >> raw hide is okay. follow up. raw hide is okay. >> reporter: wilbur petitioned the secret service to release these audio recordings of radio calls from the president's limo. >> do you want to go to the hospital or back to the white house? we're going to crown. >> they're so calm. i think that's the training, the discipline the secret service put into those guys. >> from first shot to the door being shut is three or four seconds. in about six or seven seconds we've started moving. because i told the driver, move out. >> schieffer: as the armored vehicle raced across washington, agent jerry par 's mind was racing too. could this have been a so-called decapitation strike by the soviets? were other gunmen still waiting in ambush? although the shooter, 25-year-old john hinkley, jr., was in custody, not until late that evening were authorities certain that hinckley had acted alone. back at the hilton, press secretary jim brady was gravely wounded, as were secret service agents tim mccarthy and police officer

i blamed president reagan. he was always on me, you should be a republican, but. the democrats at this date by strangled. there was no debate. i decided that we needed a debate. i decided louisiana needed to be -- the polls were horrible to do that. they said he will lose your reelection, and i did by a whisker. it was a tough battle. edwin edwards and david duke, how would you like to campaign against them? we lost it by a whisper, and they both went to the penitentiary. [applause] for the last 15 years, i have been building banks, community banks, main street banks, banks that come to their greatness one loan that time, one person at that time. the old-fashioned way. main street, not wall street. this is not about my past. it is about our future. i think america is in trouble. the debt is amounting, and is resting on the chests of my grandchildren. spending is out of control. we spend $300 billion of month, and we'd borrow $120 billion of that. we've borrowed from our enemies or our competitors -- china, japan, and the tyrants in the middle east. there is no end

at first reagan, whose secret service handle is rawhide appears unharmed. >> rawhide is okay. follow-up. rawhide is okay. >> spots were fired at president reagan in washington as he left the hilton hotel. he was not injured. >> reporter: then everything changes. >> he started spitting up bright red, frothy blood. >> roger. we want to go to the emergency room of george washington. >> that's a roger. >> go to george washington fast. >> reporter: dr. joseph giordano was in charge of the e.r. >> when they brought him in the emergency room, he collapsed. there was no discernible blood pressure. we knew that he lost 40%, 50% of his blood volume. a couple of more minutes i think he would have crashed. i don't think he would have survived, to be honest. >> reporter: shelly fieldman was nbc's cameraman. >> there were people who were not press standing alongside of us, behind us. >> reporter: in fact the gunman, john hinckley, was right next to him. >> i saw him holding the gun with two hands and then a bunch of people jumped him and it was like a pyramid of people on top of him. >> rep

did the same thing reagan raising taxes is not going to mention the fact that there is at least fifty trillion unfunded liabilities that are going to come in. effect over the next year or years if you're sort of a social security medicare and medicaid as a social security is not part of the budget and you know. you have to you have to account for it we have to pay for it you have to do is right now if you make over one hundred six thousand eight hundred dollars a year if you're going to need and secondly we're going to secure securities all you have to do is say bill gates you've got to pay the same amount that jamie he wanted so i see any problem with any medicare and i have more years if you just adjust their rate on which people you say can be like to say that you know we've already funded social security but they are counting ious you know i watch dumb and dumber and i know that they say that i users are just very curious but that is not how it works in real you know if you treasuries are any good it's an iou it's very sure that we'll say we have to pay there so ourselves yeah so

trillion dollar debt as a nation right now so this is just because reagan gave all that money to. president obama's budget and he thirteen trillion dollars in new debt in the next ten years oh i think you know he gave in and he kept the bush tax cuts if you rolled back i mean before the bush tax cuts clinton actually had a budget surplus does anybody remember there is a raise and you're these are not rich people who like three fourths yes ground searches are easy it is easier it is just more government regulation and i place a raise taxes taxes too don't forget and reagan did the same thing reagan raising taxes and mentioning the fact that there is at least fifty trillion unfunded liabilities that are going to come in. in fact over the next year if you're years if you're talking about social security medicare and medicaid and social security is not part of the budget and. you have to you have to account for it and have to pay for it all you have to do is right now if you make over one hundred six thousand eight hundred dollars a year and you already believe and secondly any we're

(music) >>catherine: the washington airport, reagan's national airport. the air tower was not responding in the only controller on duty was totally out of touch. >> radio silence from the loan traffic controller at reagan national airport. two different planes were coming in for a landing. several administration said 12:1:00 a.m. american airlines from miami with needed to touchdown but could not contact the controller. >> i'm going to take a guess and say that the comptroller got locked out. the-controller got locked out. >> that is the first time i've heard it. >> yes, it happened about one year ago. >>reporter: 50 minutes later, a united flight wanted to land from chicago a 15-minutes later with no response. both flights landed safely. the investigation is underway from the ntsb and also changes are on the way. and " i directed the faa with two different air traffic controllers at ronald reagan control tower. on the midnight shift it is not acceptable to have only one in the tower. managing air traffic in this critical airspace. also studying staffing

we had a brutal and difficult election but ronald reagan won the presidency. [applause] the country had almost seemingly insurmountable economic challenge. we had trouble abroad and security concerns, many of the same challenges we are facing today and in that january day that was overcast, ronald reagan came from out of the capital and he stood at the podium and said later he felt even though the day was overcast and that moment, he thought a beam of sunshine had hit him and warmed up the podium in a way in time for his swearing in. he put his hand on the bible and took the oath of office as president of the united states of america and that bible was open to the second chronicles, 7-14. the passage says this. if m people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turned from their wicked ways, i will hear from heaven, and forgive their sins and heal their land. and now reagan who could not have known, his mom wrote in the margins, "a great passage for healing the nation's." that was great direction. it is great direction

it was hinckley's gun that he had used to shoot reagan. he was stunned that it was in this test and not in a museum. he then went off -- and that was a spur that did this research. he dedicated to me -- he then came to me and asked me if this would be a worthwhile book -- the assassination of britain. he spent the next few months -- the nearest fasciation of reagan. then in the fall if you months later he came back with one of the most compelling but proposals i have ever read. and 30 pages, he had laid out a story of an account of that one day, march 30, 1981. it was one of the wild moments that agents in this business. a fresh book idea in the hands of a skilled reporter, a proposal that left us wanting so much more about how the story unfolds. it soon enough i submitted the book to publishers, we had an incredible book auction. after four or so rounds, it came between a tug-of-war. what sense did was the editor at -- someone name sterling. we have worked together with a notable writers in dav colludingid simon, the creator of "the wire.

this goes back to president reagan. i know this is the anniversary of the time he was shot, but if we can remember the trickle-down policy started under his administration, although he had a democratic congress that he worked with, he got a lot done that he wanted to get done. he drove up, started this deficit trying to drive the russians out of the military. moving on into the 1990's, i ith we look at theoo people with the money, the greed is what got us into this position here yen guest. guest: it was trickle up in terms of what reagan did. that is why silicon valley came into effect. apple and oracle flourished. they became the giants' they are today. that is what you want to do now to get the future of them starting from a very small base. in terms of spending, heally did democrat congress for most of the time he was in. in terms of the military, he did ramp up military spending after a drastic slowdown in the 1960's in 1970's, which was critical in enabling us to win the cold war, which is why we have budget surplu

reagan, of course, survived and went on to serve two full terms in office. three others were wounded that day, including reagan's press secretary, james brady. today, he visited the white house and met president obama. senior white house correspondent bill plante reports brady is still fighting for his signature cause. >> reporter: in the press room where he once briefed reporters, jim brady was asked if this president was pushing hard enough for gun control. >> you can never push too hard. >> reporter: the bullet in his brain changed jim brady's life forever. brady was so seriously wounded that news wires reported his death. this recording was made in the white house situation room that day by national security adviser richard allen: >> reporter: brady survived hours of brain surgery but it was months before he left the hospital. and despite years of painful therapy, he never walked again. brady is 70 now and blind. what have the last 30 years been like? >> i have had good days and terrible days. >> reporter: he finds it difficult to talk about what might h

but i'm very fortunate in t support that the reagan foundation has provided the reagan library. i think it benefits all citizens. whether you visit or come virtually, it's a biflt. i was on the plane with you and it's extraordinary. but that's a perfect example of what the foundation has done. it was $35 million that they support to build the air force one pavilion. in addition, they maintained it on a regular basis. so there's zero cost from the government standpoint on that. in addition, there was another $9 million they raised and spent for the discovery center, $15 million they spent for the current -- the recent renovation. as i relates to an overall foundation, i think that's a concept that shld be developed. you'd have to go to each of the foundations to see what each of their support might be. because i liken our organizations to a family. we have 13 kids and similar -- same parents with different needs, different wants, and different expectations. i think it's worthy of looking in to. >> ms. roosevelt, perhaps not the oldest, but the longest standing of the libraries. y

reagan didn't wait for international stamp of approval to move. and number two, with reagan, there was a clear mission, a clear strategy, and clear american presidential leadership. we've had none of that in this case. >> that was before 9/11. >> it doesn't matter! you can argue -- >> all right, all right. somebody -- let me move in. >> need leadership. >> you don't need leadership! [everyone talking at once] >> quickly. >> you don't need leadership that goes into a muslim country all alone. this was an international coalition, post-9/11, and post- george w. bush era, where we created a war in iraq that was unnecessary and left in utter results. [everyone talking at once] >> okay. one well-known member of congress raised the question of whether or not obama has committed an impeachable offense who was that. >> dennis kucinich. >> what is his argument about this being a possibility? >> notice how many -- >> hold on. >> line up with dennis kucinich, zero! >> really made his case. >> here's the reasoning. >> he doesn't have a case! >> that's right. >

two passenger jets flying into reagan international airport can't reach air traffic control after the controller reportedly falls asleep on the job. >> so you're aware, we just had one aircraft go into dca. the tower is apparently unmanneded. >> reporter: now the federal government is stepping in and laurching two investigations into the incident and the secretary of transportation says the rules need to be changed immediately. >>> targeting libya. u.s. and allied forces continue air strikes for the fifth straight night. but fail to stop moammar gadhafi from attacking a key rebel held area. in washington the speaker of the house takes on president obama asking why he didn't talk to congress before launching the attacks. >>> remembering a legend. fans, friends, and some of hollywood's biggest stars honor elizabeth taylor's work both on the screen and off as the nation mourns the passing of the big screen icon. we will look back at her life and her loves "early" this thursday morning, march 24th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everyone. welcome to "the early show." >>

or when reagan talks about the evil empire, clearly an enemy. we did not go to war -- >> but this is different. if you go to kill the king, you have to kill the king. if you leave them in place, what you have? you have a partition the east and west libya, an ongoing, eternal civil war where we have to stay in the air. in iraq, we were in the air for 12 years. >> we have been at this thing for a few days. what they are doing is degrading, as i follow it, his military. >> we could easily get a stalemate. gaddafi controls as capital -- >> continue to degde his capabilities. what happens is some of his own people start to -- >> that should be our objective. i heard you kill him directly or you encourage -- either you kill them directly or you encourage -- >> it doesn't happen overnight. b, i am not quite so anxious to have open a third front in the war. i think we did see in iraq that it was very difficult with saddam hussein still there. kurdistan is the most prosperous part -- >> if you want 12 years of no flies on -- >> i would rather have 12 yea

we wrote this book, reagan's ruling class, which profiled the top 100 people in the reagan administration. because the assistant to casper weinberger, the secretary at the time, because he had been a raider in the 1970's, he got us an interview with casper weinberger, we used that to get interviews with everyone from william casey to frank carlucci. we got probably 60 interviews outf that. >> whoas the mayor's raider that worked for wineberg? >> it was robert taft. >> iv? >> yes. >> grandson? >> yes. we put a lot of energy in this, the enormous energy you have when you are young, and we ce up with this book. we were 23 years old. it was a terrific opportunity. >> how did it come that ron bern stein placed the ad and how you met and got married. >> he included the berkeley thing at the last minute as a chan. and those things happen. he came out to washington, and we wrote that book together, and that's how we -- >> whatas he doing? >> he was working for ralph nader as well. >> now, "the los angeles times" gets in there somewhere. >> yeah, i worked for ralph and i decided i needed to be a j

before reagan started union busting about a quarter of all employees in our nation belong to a union today in the private sector only seven percent that means only seven percent of the private workforce in america enjoys historically middle class benefits like good health care and pension plans are high wage because he's basically a comfortable middle class lifestyle courtesy of organized labor the rest of the people are growing more and more poor and angry. but instead of focusing their anger toward the c.e.o.'s who are under pain them and taking away their benefits and instead of focusing the anger on republican politicians who promote laws to let c.e.o.'s get away with these abuses that anger is focused on their fellow workers their neighbors and middle class america who work for government that's what we see going on it was we in wisconsin today republican governor scott walker and his cohorts are trying to mr direct that anger and divide the middle class and pick corporate workers who are desperate against government paid workers the private sector union membership has steadily

income and since he didn't cut spending at the same time in fact he radically increased spending reagan ran up a national debt it was larger than every other president in american history from george washington jimmy carter combined but in his mind that wasn't a bad thing it was all part of the plan it was the first piece of the puzzle enormous debt and as you know today that plan is working is local state and federal governments are all facing deficits and going deep spending cuts the second piece of the puzzle was massive financial deregulation and bankers knew how much money they could bake if they were able to kick government regulators out of wall street and turn our markets into basically high stakes has seen no games and thus these same radicals who engineered starving the beast drafted multiple pieces of legislation over the last three thirty years less three decades with the help of an army of corporate lobbyists to slowly free the stock market from governmental oversight and thus the age of market bubbles begin and with the wealth of the financial sector group exponentially as

it's like a chapter title for my book rebooting the american dream we need to roll back the reagan tax cuts. when we come back as promised a full breakdown of what's happening in japan right now and the consequences for the united states. twenty four seven live streaming newstands like to do about the ongoing financial heart of unlimited free high quality videos for download. and stories you never find. a. political. post aren't touched. as the death toll soars of last friday's nine point zero earthquake and tsunami in japan fifty japanese nuclear plant workers are quite literally putting their lives on the line. on another catastrophe a nuclear meltdown but there's another and potentially more serious problem unfolding at the at the daiichi nuclear plant sitting on top of each reactor our pool of nuclear waste they contain a larger amounts of harmful radiation than the reactors themselves and there are reports of those pools of waste are over eighteen catching fire and spewing that highly toxic radioactive waste of the atmosphere it's like a massive dirty bomb being constantly detonat

i don't get it if you say i'm trying to mislead the audience the fact of the matter is when when reagan cut taxes we started going into debt and the middle class went into collapse when when. you're saying if we raise taxes we would get rid of poverty and all of these social ills i am actually yes saying that in our heart i'm saying if you look at european nations and i encourage you to check out the website equality trust or org www dot u.k. that's the lays out the statistics the thirty years of research from david wilkerson and kay pickett and their book the spirit level that shows that those countries were tax rates on the very rich are over fifty percent and there is a redistribution of wealth in those countries absolutely that that you have lower rates of not only just lower rates of poverty lower rates of crime lower rates of change pregnancy lower rates of suicide lower rates of depression lower rates of drug abuse lower rate i mean you name the social ill they go away when you reduce inequality there's only one problem with these statistics and these figures they're false they'r