that is what reagan was. he also said your handclaps that that meant more to me than anything during my entire stay. so i think businesses deserve a hand. and adding some are here. [applause] absolutely. the nurses never get the credit they deserve. >> this is true. so much more that we could talk about, but i think we have come to the end of our our. i want to think this extraordinary panel. this amazing book. i have been privileged to be part of this conversation. thank you all for coming to be part of this conversation. good night. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> del quintin wilber discussing the assassination attempt on president ronald reagan with jerry parr, the secret service agent who pushed the president into a waiting limo and dr. joseph giordano, the surgeon who operated on the president. if you would like to find out more visit the books website rawhide down dot com. >> grace elizabeth hail, in your book and nation of outsiders you devote an whole chapter to j.d. salinger and the catcher i

to this day in american politics we speak of the reagan republicans and reagan democrats, and that's the legacy of a man who respected everyone. and spoke to everyone. now, a lot of old political assumptions fell away in his time because his convictions were so clear and his integrity was so obvious, people of every background, even many who would never consider voting for republicans sized of ronald reagan. in fact, you know what? this is my kind of guy. he understands the country. he wants everyone to have a chance. he knows that in this world the united states of america 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 i called of greatness, but 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, but kindness and courtesy were never ever beneath him. it's just the way he carried h

reagan last year extensively for a documentary about her. she was in the white house and had come back from somewhere and was going about her business. . . the situation and he is read a lot she's not easy to control so here's this agent thinking he's going up the ramp going i've got to break this news to hurt how we do it in a race she doesn't run to the hospital? she basically is looking towards the stairs and he's trying to catch her. you have to get the car and walking. so they are in the car and leave for the hospital and they are on the road only six blocks. they get stuck in traffic in the washington circle and mrs. reagan joins the office holder in starts shaking him and says george, i'm getting out of the car and walking now. i'm going to go now. with all the people who knew ronald reagan there's this enigma to so many people and the one person who knew him was nancy reagan and there's a moment she's walking into the hospital and mike is there, the top aide, and she says they have to let me see him, they don't know about us. >> we c

it's a secret that every republican president since ronald reagan and even to a certain extent bill clinton didn't want us to know about and that secret is that supply side economics that we sometimes call trickle down economics or reaganomics doesn't work in fact it only works to do one thing create a massive wealth inequality this screws over ninety eight percent of us and rains down money on the other two percent we use that extra cash to speculate on wall street and crash our economy supply side economics has never ever worked anywhere it's ever been tried anywhere in the world it's never worked trickle down economics only produces a nation of it's yet here republicans are trying to pass a budget that will embrace an even more radical version of reaganomics further slashing the tax rates for america's oligarchy and leaving the rest of us to pick up the tab by dropping our health insurance taking food off our tables and letting us retire in poverty but for the first time in more than thirty years we now have an american president who is actually refusing to embrace reaganomics perhaps th

oddly enough, not everyone on the right was happy with ronald reagan. i mean, they hated the panama canal treaty, some of them didn't like the concern. concern -- [inaudible] they were upset about sandra day o'connor's appointment to the supreme court. but i guess partly because of roe v. wade really got organized so that there was more of a, you know, mobilization on to the right of the reagan administration. >> um, that's one of those things that, as they say, is outside the scope of the book. but will say that in one review that's out already that the reviewer says that's the story that really needs to be told is the, you know, the organization on the right during that era as well. >> [inaudible] >> yeah. could be, could be. okay. thanks. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this event was hosted by books on the square in providence, rhode island. find out more at booksq.com. >> we're here talking with lindsay boyd of the independent institute about the upcoming books they have coming out. >> yes. we've got a number of exciting new books coming ou

bottom line we need to roll back the reagan tax plans that's it. it's time for our daily pull your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question was president obama's speech the beginning of the death of reaganomics in america your choices are yes in thirty years no president has laid out a more thoughtful and sharp criticism of the way we're reagan took our nation or no reaganomics celebrity tarnished more than half of you voted yes so far i got it on harvard dot com let us know what you think but will be open until tomorrow morning . coming out they've suffered some recent defeats in the past weeks so will the g.o.p. the grand old party rise to the occasion a time to twenty four all presidential election campaign. but. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think rock bottom feeder one well. we never government says they're very conclusive a few get ready because their freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see som

all the way up into the race up until the reagan time we had a time of incredible stability and then boom reagan crash the taxes and what has happened we've had bubble after bubble burst after burst it's just nuts now let's take a look at the average income for the richest four hundred americans our nation's oligarchy. this is from one thousand nine hundred five to two thousand and seven we started six this is income in billions of dollars the average income for each one of the four hundred richest americans from six billion dollars in one nine hundred ninety five up to twenty two billion dollars in two thousand and seven so their income is going up these the four hundred richest are the american oligarchy their income is going up dramatically you would think maybe their taxes would go up think again but the richest of the richest of the rich in america have seen more and more money what's happen to their tax rate bingo nine hundred ninety five they were paying almost thirty percent in and this is what actually was paid this isn't like the formal tax rate this is what's actually paid

and of course the the peak there is world war two and then we paid off our debt and then ronald reagan came into office and put into place about halfway through his presidency is notorious tax cuts on the rich and clinton then raised taxes on the rich the debt went down bush cut taxes on the rich the get went back up obama continued bush's taxes on the rich tax cut on the rich and the and it continues to go up doesn't this suggest something like really kind of fundamental and basic like cutting taxes on the rich is stupid and it leaves the gods know it says nothing of the sort naturally if you had revenue as a percent of g.d.p. across this period you would see that even when rates go up and down the top marginal to. it has no more almost no impact on the revenue that's collected which is the flat line of about eighteen to twenty percent of g.d.p. no matter what the tax rates are the big variance here were changes in spending levels particularly the military buildup on or under ronald reagan in the one nine hundred eighty s. and the big surge in think you're the spending post nine eleve

one of which is john michael reagan now for the first time reagan. who be gets jack reagan, john edward, that's my father's father. so what did i find when i actually started looking at my father? getting past all of the family history and stuff. well, we think of him, i think, i do, as a sort of big strapping, confident kind of guy. you know, not afraid of anything. what would scare him? but when he was a little boy, it turns out, he was a little boy. he was undersized as a youth. his family moved around a lot. he was the new kid in school. perennially. he was picked on my bullies, he was chosen last for games in the playground, and he spent a lot of his time alone. he spent a lot of his time in places like the attic of a rental house in gailsberg where they lived, where the previous owner had left strange artifacts as he saw it up in the attic. he would spend his time in the dusty sun beams in the attic, going through all of the stuff birds and strange plants. many who had seem to come from the west. there he began to form the impression of the wes

recognition of president reagan. i want to thank chairman issa, ranking member cummings, along with their staff for their assistance in helping bring this bill to the floor today. i also want to express my appreciation to speaker boehner, majority leader cantor, minority leader pelosi, for all the help in bringing the bill forward today. and i would urge my colleagues to support this legislation and i thank you, mr. speaker and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. i don't believe that i have any additional requests for time. i reiterate my support for this measure and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois yields back his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. kelly: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, in closing i want to leave this body with a simple, eloquent quote from r

under age nancy reagan wrote "say no to 65." chris: all the kings of late night have continued the carson tradition. hear's one from bill maher ripping george w. bush. >> president bush filed. he's paying $207-k. wow. of course, president bush's tax return different. he claims the christian rights as dependents. he declared the 2000 election as a gift. [laughter] chris: a little more bite there, wasn't there? when we come back, enough about taxes. let's turn to debt. there's a hot debate among young evangelicals right now. is there a hell? what if there is no hell? plus, scoops and predictions. be right back. chris: welcome back. this week's "time" magazine has this cover. "what if there's no hell?" it talks about a michigan minister, a pastor, who rocked evangelicals with a best-selling book. pastor bell argues there is no hell, thank god is a forgiving god. here's the video talking about why the traditional roots to salvation may not be necessary. >> you need to be initiated or baptized or take a class or converted or being bo

we were a peak of unionization as over forty percent and then a kind of slowly slid down until reagan overtly declared war. in eighty two eighty one. when when reagan declared war on organized labor there was a lot of talk within the republican party and pretty much of it was right out front i mean like in the pages the wall street journal about defunding the democratic party organized labor was a big funder of the democratic party and this was just pure partisan there were also people who were saying that the average working person had too much money that the reason why the instability of the cities and seventy's happened and this was something william buckley was very very open about russell kirk wrote a book about a conservative mind reckoned if you keep the reason why was because we had the women's movement the civil rights movement the kids saying no to vietnam things like that was because they felt safe economically safe and that it was important to disempower that middle class economically to provide for a stable society with their vision of a stable america. do you think that

that the average person understands this stuff will start with the with the holocaust a nice work reagan came along and trickled out you know if you a lot of money rich people how do you get us there are hard to hire people you talk about what really drives an economy and how to me and it drives. a little of a star back in one thousand forty six from from one thousand nine hundred sixty one nine hundred seventy three productivity in this country doubled and so did wages and the most interesting thing about that period of time is the people in the bottom two quarts their incomes were rising faster than the people at the top so the income gap was closing and the. middle class was born interestingly during that period of time almost forty percent of the american workers were represented in a union at collective bargaining so the money that we were getting was being distributed evenly and everybody got some of it so the economy could grow from forty six seventy three to date productivity's continued but wages are stagnant so back in the seventy's the reagan period of time early eighty's they

seventy four percent as it was the year before ronald reagan took office in one nine hundred eighty and by the way we had no debt crisis at that time if we can get this bill passed or even just get a paid we can fix americans america's problems so call your congressman tell him or her to vote for the simple solution the right solution to roll back the reagan tax cuts i mean we saw how this could be done bill clinton newt gingrich were on the floor of the house of representatives and said if this big three percent tax increase clinton's tax increase is passed we're going to have a great depression. he was not only wrong we had a huge surplus that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website at tom hartman dot com and our. entire shows available as a free podcast on i tunes also check out our argue to page you tube dot com slash the big picture on t. and need to be accomplished don't forget democracy begins with you your it will see them all. down to your social. your i pulled touch from the abstract.

revolution in fact the intent of these this network was to bring the reagan revolution to the state level to influence the legislators and get you know the kind of policies that they wanted a union anti-tax implemented in the states whether they're starting to accomplish that i think there are there are thirteen states i believe that that have republican governors and legislatures something close to that i mean we've seen this without michigan indiana. and it's moving around the it's moving around the country this is exactly what the network was put there for the the state takes that i chronicled in the story in there in all fifty states and they're all basically pushing the same agenda you know the board of the state policy network said we're comrades in arms they were there they've been laid the groundwork for quite a while for this legislation but when you had a wave of republicans elected around the country as you said you saw this legislation gets passed tracked and now the kinds of bills that they want the reforms that the right wants are now moving their way really quickly th

actually not true if you look at the new york times reported that when president reagan looked. at the loopholes that they were taking advantage of and what they were doing in this he would get it exactly as he previously worked for g.e. and then he cracked down on g.e. and he said and i quote the president supported change that. g.e. to pay for higher effective rate up to thirty two know why he was so reagan's rhetoric was the waterfall but over his actions i think we should take a lesson from reagan we should we should not think that high but i think because i think that will still discourage people who will still be one of the highest in the world but i think we should i think it's time for all sure let's close the corporate titles like i did you know the thing is when politicians go to vote they think of two things their constituents and whether it's in effect their bank accounts their campaign bank accounts and until we change that system we're never going to change the way washington works it seems that the cancer at the core of this is money and as i said this i don't see

>> ever president in modern times, going i think in model reagan -- ronald reagan -- george w. bush, we're going to make a switch grass into oil. this was not much better and i stopped paying attention. >> the gas tax -- you have to have a big revenue jump on energy or nothing good happens. >> charles has been talking about this or as long as i have known him. >> 1983, my first piece on that i have given up. >> i guess i've been around longer. richard nixon was the first on this. >> you are right. >> it might have been the same teleprompter. [laughter] energy independence, nationalism has become some of the underlying premise -- >> i would make two points. it looks as if the president's policy on oil is a drill in brazil. second, he said that we would cut oil imports by one/league starting from the day of my swearing in. why did he take that day? today we import 9.7 million barrels because of recession. he has not lifted a finger. the man is hope and change. [laughter] >> no comment. >> they want to shut the government down and turn you into their scapegoat and to say is that t

reagan took it seriously things like tarp are not free market economics this is quote you know this is better. call the better term for it is corporatism what free market economics would simply do would be reducing regulation reducing caps the rates and getting the economy going that way i mean things like tarp things like obama's stimulus plan has suddenly lost in regulation you're in favor of for example football games without referees maybe it would be more exciting though if you think i've played i mean i would just like football gets a period. of ok. let's move toward a bit of it gas prices or by the way i just put a punctuation point on that i'm just curious if either one of you i've heard this conspiracy theory on some of the conservative web sites that president obama released his birth certificate today so that nobody would notice ben bernanke he's . i've heard someone say that about the economy has no i don't think anyone noticed them anyway and so there you go it's mind numbingly boring ok gas prices are still spiking so of course republicans are criticizing president oba

bloodbath was quote neurotic after killing off free college education in california as president reagan cut the federal education budget helping kids through school from twelve to six percent of the federal budget and in the process paved the way for profit making businesses to get into the business of offering college educations in a big big way that had never before been seen in america for example the head of the for profit university strapped wire robert silbermann made forty two million dollars in two thousand and nine an average c.e.o.'s like silberman make more than twenty six times what traditional heads of real universities nonprofit universities make in america and yet this ninety percent of the funding for these for profit so-called universities comes from you and me the taxpayer and a top it all off despite the fact that for profit universities only account for eleven percent of higher education in america just eleven percent they make up nearly half of all student loan defaults that's because they're now focused on educating your job placement they're only focused on profit

we reduce government under reagan then it was two thousand and six with george w. bush and his moves here controlling hiring and firing people in our companies and everything else this is where we are. total government in our case what we have to look at is the growth of government and the waste in government and that's we're going to do. more tax and that way you act because you are really part of the long few somebody else everybody else if you've got your income your property your inventory your investments were ours how do we really quickly belong here everybody but they're running banks insurance companies car companies that mess was a student loan business taking over health care. we don't need the government taking equity position to ownership position to anybody or private sector businesses is this growth of government a good idea and this center for freedom and prosperity video we're going to analyze the economic impact of government spending i'm dan mitchell of the cato institute there are eight ways that government spending can undermine economic perform

to pay a far higher effective rate up to thirty two point zero i sent his i know reagan's rhetoric is wonderful but it was his actions i think we should take a lesson from reagan we should we should i'm not saying that i but i think because i think that would still discouraged me because they'll still be one of the highest in the world but i think we should i think it's right for sure let's close the corporate titles you know the thing is when politicians go to vote they think of two things their constituents and whether it's going to affect their bank accounts their campaign bank accounts and until we change that system we're never going to change the way washington works so it seems that the cancer at the core of this is money and as i said i this i don't see a solution other than changing the supreme court but or or amending the constitution but that's a whole conversation for another time. at. and daniel both of you thank you very much for joining us thank you appreciate it if only a few of these incredibly profitable corporations by the way had paid their fair share everybody hug

gerber shafted not get along at all with nancy reagan. so that was different. >> the comment was waiting for is the which comment could you put that into context? >> [laughter] yes. i just ran at a time. i have that here. the comment that the gentleman is referring to came about 1984 mr. bush was running for reelection and vice president and had a day with geraldine ferraro the democratic number row and in the debate furrow said that he had no idea what normal people we're going through because his wealth insulated him from normal life. said mrs. bush was on the campaign airplane the next day and talking to reporters and was obviously very unhappy about the comment and said geraldine ferraro and her husband probably have more money than george bush could probably buy and sell george bush and said i cannot say what that woman is but it rhymes with which i am sorry. it rhymes with rich they looked at each other than i am sure they ran for the telephones. by the time they landed the comment was all over and it happened to be halloween. the r

hand on reagan and reagan would stop speaking. [laughter] but he talked a lot about the great thing they were able to do together. it was inspiring. he was a really interesting guy. i have met a lot of fascinating people. but in terms of foreign leaders, that was really an interesting moment. >> what is that neatest high- tech benefit of being at the white house and traveling with the president? the you get a bank account under the guise of national security? how good is the fun reception on the air force one? >> on that subject, i owe you a few thousand dollars. i was a little short. [laughter] no, we did not sneak into people's bank accounts. but obviously air force one is air force one, but the ability to reach anybody in the world, if you pick up the fun and want to talk to somebody, they will find that person, and that is kind of, that is a benefit. [laughter] but you know, when you are in the white house, if any information you want, you can get fairly quickly. and you know, with events breaking all of the world, that is not

and that, too, offered an interesting counter-point to nancy reagan because nancy reagan and raisa gorbachev did not get along at all. so it was quite a bit different. sir? >> the comment i was waiting for you to talk about the rhymes with witch comment. could you put that in context? >> i certainly could. yeah, i know ran out of time. i'm sorry i did have it here. the comment that this gentleman is referring to came about in 1984. mr. bush was running for re-election as vice president. and he had a debate with geraldine ferraro, the democratic nominee for vice president. and in the debate, ferraro said that he didn't -- he had no idea what normal people were going through because his wealth insulated him from normal life if you will. so mr. bush was on the campaign airplane the next day, and she was talking to reporters. and she was, obviously, really unhappy about that comment, and she said, well, you know, geraldine ferraro and her husband -- they probably have more money than george bush. they could probably buy and sell george bush, and then she said, and i can't say what that woman is

cutting and spending but it's about the kind of future that we want to benny's regularly called our reagan not by name unfortunately but directly called out the republican strategy of trying to bankrupt our nation in order to have an excuse to destroy our social safety net. but as far back as the one nine hundred eighty s. america started amassing debt at more alarming levels and our leaders began to realize that a larger challenge was on the horizon then he pointed out that it didn't need to be this way you know without a single republican vote all of the president didn't point out that in fact we knew gay marriage warning that it would lead to a great depression bill clinton raised taxes on the rich and bingo gave us not just a balanced budget but a surplus until george w. bush became president of course and reverted back to full blown reaganomics we went from deficit to surplus america was actually on track to becoming completely debt free and we were prepared for the retirement of the baby groups but after democrats and republicans committed to fiscal discipline during the night we los

his hand on a ronald reagan paused and and reagan would stop speaking. he talked a lot about the great things they were able to do together, and it was inspiring. he was an interesting guy. i've met a lot of fascinating people but in terms of foreign leaders, that was an interesting moment. >> a truly pedestrian question -- what is the neatest high-tech benefit of being at the white house and traveling with the president? the get to sneak into friends bank accounts? how good is the phone reception on air force one? >> i think i owe you a few thousand dollars -- i was a little short. [laughter] we do not sneak into people's bank accounts, -- obviously air force one is air force one, but the ability to reach anyone in the world, if you pick up the phone and say you want to talk to someone, they will find that person and that is a benefit. [laughter] when you are in the white house, any information you want, you can get fairly quickly. with events breaking ball over the world, it's not read just interesting, but a valuable. >> since we're just among friends

. >> so reagan walks in, right? jerry parr's in the limousine, and jerry tries to get his hand to help him out. reagan says, no. and jerry thinks, he wants to be a cowboy, i guess. reagan hitches up his panels like he always does, and his aide right behind him goes, oh, yeah, i think he's going to be okay. the other aides don't think so, he doesn't look so good. ronald reagan was not going to get carried off. he gets in the about 15 feet, he collapses like a rock just like that. there's a paramedic i interviewed who's right there, he's kind of a source of mine, i guess i shouldn't have said that too loud. [laughter] not a secret one. bob is there, and he sees reagan fall to the ground, and bob fernandez thinks, my god, he's code city. and that means he's going to die. the other nurses there, their hands are shaking, they're having nightmare thoughts about the president's going to die. he looked that bad. >> what did you think, jerry parr, when he collapsed? >> well, i really thought he was going to die to for about

put into place at a power workers and built the middle class reforms or ronald reagan blew up an aids in our economy will continue to serve only the richest in america and the rest of us will continue to work each and every day with little hope of ever achieving the american dream not a dream of riches their dream for will life there's a very simple reality here just a very simple reality demand equals wages supply equals productivity i learned this from robbie bach a professor of economics at southern methodist university very straightforward stuff when wages go up so does demand and so does the economy if productivity however goes up without wages going up what happens is that person with that explodes and profits explode take a look at this graph this is one nine hundred fifty. three twenty ten the blue line is output per hour another was productivity the red line is wages for nine hundred fifty s. through war world war two right up until the reagan presidency as workers became more productive they were rewarded by that for that productivity by their wages being increased then reag

we stopped that manufacturing process or begin to slow it down starting with reagan it went on steroids we're now through a gap with you know during the clinton ministration and now there's virtually nothing left that we make here anymore this is this is a true disaster that that needs to be fixed by breaking our addiction to the military and bringing home our jobs by changing our trade policies. and that's the big picture for more information on the stories we covered please visit our website at thom hartmann dot com and also our team at dot com and if you're driving and i want to listen to tom this entire show that's available as a three part cast on i tunes and also check out our youtube page at youtube dot com slash the big picture our team that's tom always says the modesty begins with you get out there are getting active and tag you're it. used today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. oh gracious room today.

led to the disaster of nine hundred twenty nine after the reagan tax cuts led to the bubble and crash of nine hundred eighty seven after the bush tax cuts led to the bubble and crash in two thousand and eight when i scratch. it wasn't always like this i remember when wal-mart opened a store near where we lived in atlanta in the early one nine hundred eighty s. when sam walton was still alive running a business had this huge better across the doors saying made in america which by the way was the title of his autobiography good luck finding one item in the wal-mart still made in america today now that we've looked at the chamber of commerce by congress and passed legislation to give tax breaks to c.e.o.'s who ship american jobs overseas and close down factories that operated for generations in the united states are non-war manufacturing base is largely gone and this is the first time our country has tried to climb in our history the way back to george washington has tried to climb out of a depression or near depression we've had a number of them without having a non-defense manufacturin

with reagan something interesting happened. he started quoting paine quite often. he also appropriated the notion of common sense. he often spoke of his own ideas as stemming not from, you know, his political wisdom or his advisers, but from the people's common sense. and he opened the way for a kind of -- as opposed to a left-wing populism adoption of paine and beck is, therefore, now the last in a long line of reappropriaters of paine to new effect. but it was again a best seller. but i think beck writes a book pretty often. >> host: professor sophia rosenfeld, in your view was ronald reagan's adaptation of thomas paine purposeful? >> guest: i think he recognized in paine, very cleverly, certain themes that continue to have a really good american rez advance. resonance. a kind of tomorrow will be sunny outlook, a sense we can do this. and in paine a kind of folksy quality that didn't have to necessarily be applied to the set of ideas that paine did, but could be adopted and used for a lot of different purposes. the interesting thing about populism as a whole and

about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in america ronald reagan's own budget director said there's nothing serious or courageous about this point and nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. and i don't think there's anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don't have any clout on capitol hill. that's not a vision of the america i know. because what he's referring to obviously was not his plan but the republican plan with these words president obama became the first american president since one thousand nine hundred. six that it doesn't work so this is the beginning of the end of the thirty year reign of reaganomics in america but we're bumping don't mix doesn't work i mean president obama what he did i was right it's been tried for the last couple years and you can amuse not doing well in employment is very well president obama's been president for quite a while now i mean he's at some point he's going to

president reagan once about to make stove also a reality but is this process this one of our homes projects back on the agenda or for a special plug coming up next here on alt. the tough. time becomes. completely come up. that we want to see us as it was the world's first earth battle what if won. the cold war launched a space race that would capture our imagination and feed our dreams of cosmic exploration for decades to come. but crossing the frontier the on the speed of the space but also revolutionize life on earth. out of sight hundreds of kilometers above our heads a fragile network of satellites manages are interconnected society. of the one thousand satellites in orbit today almost half belong to the united states not only making the united states the most advanced space nation but also the nation's most dependent on its assets in space space is the backbone of our national security there is no substitute and there is no alternative to military dominance in space and this conviction should drive our course for the next fifty years. the us air force academy in colorado springs where

mid and upper 30s. 39 at reagan national. we look at the other temperatures, western maryland 30 degrees, and it is near 40 on the eastern shore. the view from space, showing the rain from a developing area of low pressure. deepening near long island. new england will get hit with heavy snow, flight delays out of boston and maine. maybe a few sprinkles this morning, strong winds, and we may have sun trying to break out, near 50. changes on the way. how is traffic now. jerry? >> we are loading up on interstate 66, both directions for that matter. eastbound, toward the beltway, westbound, out toward fair oaks or centerville. no accidents. be careful. over in greenville. on the beltway, coming up from greenville, college park. one more sampling. over at the key bridge, from the district side. out on the rails, metro, vre and marc, no delays. >> a police chase ended in a crash in the district. police say they chased suspects connected to an armed robbery from maryland into the district. police arrested one suspect. another ran aw

gobierno está investigando cerca de 8 aeropuertos que incluyen torres de control en el aeropuerto reaganton, dc. en tennessee. nevada y miami florida. >> después de lo ocurrido, la agencia ordenó que 2 trabajadores en vez de uno

gobierno está investigando cerca de 8 aeropuertos que incluyen torres de control en el aeropuerto reaganhington, dc. en tennessee. nevada y miami florida. >> después de lo ocurrido, la agencia ordenó que 2 trabajadores en vez de uno trabaje el turno coco turnoctur >> la fatiga de los controladores es realmente un problema. >> el gobierno que el riguroso horario de trabajo que los controladores aéreos les obliga a trabajar en extremo de cansancio se fue arrestando desde el 2007 cuando expusieron la situación mediante una carta. >> es negligencia sin duda. en

two thirds majority for any new tax increases on rich people basically all provisions that continue reagan supply side economics that have thrown our nation into this is aster in the first place. even the chamber of commerce is begging the republicans not to play games with the debt ceiling so where are they doing this and will it end up hurting them more in the end or more on this i'm joined from new york by erica payne founder of the agenda project and former senior strategist at the roosevelt institute erica welcome thank you nice to be here great to have you with us when push comes to shove do you think if the republicans will really bring down the global economy if they don't get what they want i don't hear really matters that push comes to shove i think what they've done already is really problematic they've clearly demonstrated that they have no business running a country this is this is not this is not something that you play with raising the debt limit is not an option you know if a tree falls on your house and you need to raise your credit card limit another few thousand dollars

room with the phone while a new morning free speech with the cia daily intel briefer to president reagan ray mcgovern and find hope with charlie beach british love you say you want to revolution that's in the news for you the revolution will be televised and a lot of aleutian will be televised and you're watching versus the man. george washington neatly summed up the nature of government when he said government is not reason it is not eloquence it is force like fire it is a dangerous servants and a fearful master unfortunately most commonly used definitions of government are useless and amount to little more than the people in charge of providing precise definition would look more like this government's fictional and city used to describe the group of people who have been granted by consent of the population a monopoly on the use of force in a specific geographic area the founders of this country and i don't say founding fathers to honor the essential role that women played i understood this and set out to form a government based on the ideals laid out by thomas jefferson and the declara