reagan a shot. people didn't know what to think about reagan. this actor is president and the last four presidents have been failures. they did good things that lyndon johnson didn't seek a full second term and richard nixon resigned in the watergate. jerry ford had three years and carter was a -- and put it the country turn to? 69-year-old ronald reagan, former actor to pull us out of trouble. the economy was in great. we had just suffered this humiliating moment with the iranian hostage crisis and were impotent on the world stage. we are turning to a former actor for health and then you shot. let's remind everyone the last four sitting presidents, shot while in the -- office all by. here is reagan, shot, great. than we then we learned, he sees his wife in emergency room. she comes in and if you know anything about nancy and ronald reagan there was no one in their lives but nancy and ronald reagan. they love each other that much even to this day. and i was at the reagan library i overheard nancy reagan talking to jerry pryor because jerry parr

ronald reagan's grasp at the start power of the favorite son. american's future rests in the 1000 green says inside your heart come the president exhorted. the rest of the message of hope and songs of a man's so many young americans admire the new jersey zone bruce springsteen. in a warm gesture of appreciation, reagan summarized, helping you make those streams come true is what this job of mine is all about. then segued into a call response with the audiences rating ticked off a list of his administration's achievements, supporters were prompted to reply, u.s.a. eyes and ears, the spectacle resembles 13 so much enjoyed their performance is with their impassioned rituals of audience participation. more savvy onlookers recognized the irony in the president's attempt to float himself in the popular recognition. why should a cold warrior value that traits you guys a working-class hero rockstar? sympathetic chronicle or a serial murderer laid out autoworkers turn criminals, downtrodden vietnam veterans and nostalgic losers. and so i go on to sort of

i borrow a great deal from ronald reagan. i know you are especially commemorating at this meeting the idea that we should reduce the size of government, get government spending out of control. i learned that from having the honor of working with ronald reagan. the president appointed me as associate attorney general. before i was appointed but after i was designated that went for my senate confirmation hearing, before they were -- i had breakfast with 19 other people including president reagan and got to know him. the day i had that breakfast was the day he was almost assassinated. i have a picture of my shaking hands with ronald reagan that morning on the day he was shot. i spent rest of that day trying to get hinckley out of the hands of the washington metropolitan police and turned over to the fbi because we were very worried maybe something would happen to him. the idea of lee harvey oswald and what happened to him was fresh and everybody's memory. the attorney general at that time was william french smith who believe hin

over the last two weeks to these reagan republicans these political cancer cells led by paul ryan a town hall meetings across the nation. if you absolutely hammered by medicare calmly playing back or in there that you are al gore that they don't have not and that you're a guy that he said nothing in the campaign that i'm going to change medicare now you're here. for i am that will destroy. the earth. at the very worst there have to. be really question today is will this public outrage last and help america cut out this cancer or will the millionaires and billionaires who view the cost of buying republican politicians as simple investments to get more corporate welfare and massive tax cuts will they be able to spend enough on political advertising and think tanks and right wing pundits at philcon be able to continue to convince americans to vote against their best interests will they convince us all to be just complicit in this illness. well we continue to lie cheat and steal the wind moral actions in the future this is the challenge in front of us and we organize and fight back nati

from the president reagan. the first way that he is similar is on what will be considered the fundamental measure of public religionocity, and that is the invocation of god and the invocation of the state's moreai broadly in your major publicr speeches. eeches so, .as i said, president ronald reagan in that sense had used about three references to god in the average major presidentialpe address.address. them to right their use and have said that puts him jusf below ronald reagan and georgelo w. bush and just above george h w. bush and bill clinton 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 i

i should say the cancer stages of reagan's capitalism it's lingered for thirty years and has now gone malignant in the united states republicans on capitol hill this week are calling for the privatization of medicare and the dismantling of critical social safety net programs part of their efforts to make or to finish reagan's revolution started back in one thousand nine hundred one to make it complete today it was a revolution the try to render the greatest invention man has ever come up with a democratic self rule government into a nasty evil beast government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem. all of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states the states created the federal government the answer to a government that's to be used to stop feeding its groove an ancient chinese philosopher now truth. govern a great nation and as you would cook a small fridge he would not do it even after i leave office i would never stop campaigning for the tools needed to limit the insatiable appetite of government well you may have stopped cam

ronald reagan found the size of government ridiculously large. he was a new deal democrat who converted to republican is them, because he thought the new deal and the great society went so far the extent became an -- so far that it became counterproductive. many people were locked in poverty, and he did everything he could to change that, which he did by lowering taxes, beginning the ideas that eventually led to welfare reform, changing the way government reacted with our economy, moving much closer to a free-market economy, and he did something else we badly need today puree get all of that led to a resurgence -- we badly need today. all of that led to a resurgence of american pride, the idea that we were not at the end of the american empire. in the late 1970's, a lot of books were written and a lot of speeches were given about how america was out of gas and we would be overtaken by japan. we would be overtaken by other countries, and that we had to run our course and our country of unlimited possibilities -- and we are a country of unlimited p

it used to be that seven in fact before reagan became president seventy eight percent of americans had defined benefit pensions in other words they could retire and they got a check until the day they died i mean that's down into the twenty's or thirty's now it's just wiped out before reagan became before basically what we're looking at is thirty years ago it's before reagan became president we were the largest importer raw materials in the world we brought iron ore into this country we made it into things like radios t.v.'s cars we were largest exporter of finished goods and we really are as well world's largest creditor we are now we've completely reversed that in thirty years we are now the world's largest debtor we're the largest importer of finished goods and the world's largest exporter of raw materials we've become the mining operation for the world and the consumer and and as productivity is can steadily increase in the last thirty years wages are flat and this is a radical change from the previous two hundred years of those numbers always tracked in a film that gap people use

ronald reagan. while we remember him more as the 40th president than a comic, he didn't get that great communicator title for nothing. in getting ready for the centennial celebration, the reagan library came across a treasure. his material, jokes, quotes, one-liners, all kept in a box. author and historian douglas brinkley has edited a book out tomorrow called simply "the notes." tonight, he tells us what he found. >> thank you. >> anybody who knew ronald reagan knew he kept the note cards because he would keep them in his desk, he would pull them out, and they were the tools of his trade. he would record the jokes he heard and liked the best. some he invented himself. in speeches, it wasn't done with the teleprompter like you do today. these note cards are reagan's security blanket, if you like. >> it is said that politics is the second oldest profession, and i have come to realize it bears a great similarity to the first. >> some of the jokes have a conservative flavor to them, about the wastefuln

became before basically what we're looking at is thirty years of things before reagan became president we were the largest importer raw materials in the world we brought iron ore into this country we made it into things like radios t.v.'s cars we were largest export of finished goods and we would lars what world's largest creditor we are now we've completely reversed that in thirty years we are now the world's largest debtor we're the largest importer of finished goods and the world's largest exporter of raw materials we've become the mining operation for the world and the consumer and and as productivity is can steadily increase during the last thirty years wages of flattened out this is a radical change from the previous two hundred years almost numbers always tracked in a film that gap people use their credit cards and they use their home equity and now the middle class is tapped out there come a point there i mean it kind of interesting that you point to president reagan who seems to be the one good old calway that a lot of conservatives point to as the best president of our genera

the joke that much and so i was going to say it all started with reagan it's when reagan was brought into power by two groups of people to groups of conservatives there were the russell kirk conservatives who wrote nine hundred fifty three a book called the conservative mind that is still the bible of the movement it was it animated william f. buckley motivated barry goldwater it was. still today it is like most one of the most important books and and and kirk's worldview and that conservative worldview back then this was in the fifty's kirk was predicting that within the next twenty or thirty years because of this growth of the middle class we've seen enormous social instability. and that that social instability would be a bad thing for america and sure enough it happened to us that this book came out in the fifty's this is my favorite teacher so ok parents are with the rights movement right but that's right out of the anti war the year before brown versus board of education and he basically predicted these things and so in the seventy's you had people like william f. buckley jr and

it's right here with with reagan where to go right over the it's when reagan took power and when george w. bush put reaganomics on steroids in the two thousand for two law republicans of right wing should be history ronald reagan hiding the fact that he added more debt to our nation that every single other president in history combined from george washington to jimmy carter hiding that he actually raised taxes eleven times most that working class americans claiming that is honorable distinction of being the first president in history to cut taxes for the rich and raise taxes for the working class and poor at the same time and hiding the reality that our nation's infrastructure is crumbling today because of reagan's star of the beast economic philosophy republicans got away with a rewrite exalting reagan to the heights of american saying. i'm going to let him get away with rewriting the presidencies of democrat harry truman the republican white eisenhower then who employed truly progressive fiscal policies to grow the middle class in america and to pay off our debt at the same time the s

see reagan. -- not made see reagan. there's always something i always loved come in the weeks leading up to the inauguration she was doing an event in washington and mrs. bush says my mail tells me there's a lot of that white-haired ladies that are tickled pink, that i'm going to be first lady. and she also got a great kick out of the fact that her image showed up on the side of the d.c. bus for an i.t. going to add that i said nancy reagan style at barbara bush price. what's really funny about this is that barbara bush was always really very wealthy, very aristocratic. she probably was more affluent and nancy reagan, but no one seemed to necessary react to that. but as i mentioned, she was really quite an excellent public communicator. she is the last first lady who did not have to deal with 24/7 coverage. that begins with hillary clinton, because cnn really begins legitimate covering the persian gulf war in 1991 and they are off to the races. not only that but there were no blogs, there was no

reagan had a pretty firm rule of get 80% and keep moving. don't go for 100%. >> is that how you approach it, try to govern from the center? >> center-right. i don't think people on the left would be very happy. but i've always said publicly and reagan believed this, you can't have a hard right presidency succeed because the country -- there's a center-right majority that will isolate the left. there's not a right-wing majority in this country. but clearly, reagan was a great conservative overall and i think my record is pretty extraordinarily conservative in the same tradition. >> who's the front-runner right now on the republican side? >> oh, i suspect governor romney is, just because of the scale of money he has and the amount he can raise, but candidly, since governor huntsman probably has equal amount of money, he may be. and if donald trump comes in -- >> is he a serious candidate? >> who knows. this is a free society and anybody who wants to can come play. all three are capable of providing enough money on their own that they're very f

reagan as far as we know were true blue carded after. the bell at the end of the. no evidence annex and. what does this say about america. may extend there as you know. more than china that it a chinese fish. which here goober maintained a file on. never really became public but we do cover it in the book well that's interesting richard nixon. summaries i always figured he was probably the last guy what does this say about americans that we feign outrage by what publishes a pornography like you do but we love politicians who are supposed to be the embodiment of morality and get away with much worse. many many americans speak with . the europeans are much more laid back than the. thought of creation album fair that's why they take those three hour lunches but america has theirs need. me. about sex but when you consider that other than those are thirty five all the strongest single desire we have is that of which sacks so you examine something we use to communicate with more than any other medium you know make that effort and . we don't need saying they aren't saying

reagan as thoughtfully and. true blue card was a pillar of. the bell it's kind of that marriage. no evidence and nixon. what does this say about america and their nation next in their. you know we are not more than china that it i chaired the. switch here goober maintained a file on. never really became public but we do cover it in the book that's interesting richard nixon first summers i'd always figured he was probably the last guy what does this say about americans that we feign outrage by what publishes a pornography like you do but we let politicians who are supposed to be the embodiment of morality get away with much worse. larry many america they speak with . a european and they're much more laid back than the america. they're a part of gave them fair that's why they take those three hour lunches but america has serious need a marriage needs. about sex but when you. are other than the others are sort of survival of the strongest desire we have is that what saxo you examine commonly used to communicate with more than any of the medium you know make that effort and the only

only 48 at reagan national. have a little bit of fog in the air here now with sprinkles in washington now. that next wave of rain will be coming through. and a few more waves of rain until noon time. we'll dry out this afternoon. highs near 60. then tonight here's your night planner. it will be in the low 50s through the evening. and low 40s by dawn tomorrow. starting off with a clear sky thursday. big changes on the way into the week and weekend. 6:51. we'll tell you about that. jerry, how is traffic? >> fairfax county off the beaten path along route 7100 at the fair lakes parkway, fair links parkway. things moving along pretty well on the wet roads. just be very careful particularly coming up into the intersections. outer loop at colesville road. delays after new hampshire avenue on the outer loop. inner loop, no hangups to report. travel lanes open. i-95 through springfield, slow. all travel lanes as you begin the long commute north from the river. out on the rails, good news to share with y as far as metro a

c-span: there's a photo in the book of ronald reagan--not actually of reagan, the president, but a--a poster that he's holding up--a woman--or a woman is holding up. it just brings up the whole issue of ronald reagan. his impact eight years as president? what do you think? >> guest: will continue to be debated. i--after the years of doubt which proceeded ronald reagan, we call--we call our reagan chapter, if you will, a new morning. and i think that's a pretty easy description. i think they'll go on debating forever whether the end of the cold war is a result of ronald reagan or happened on his watch. but there is no question whatsoever in anybody's mind that--or there should be no question, in my view, in anybody's mind that ronald reagan gave the country, after a very dark period of time, a new sense of feeling good about itself and feeling strong about itself. and i keep thinking about the hostage crisis, which is at the end of jimmy carter's watch and at the beginning of--you know, and ends with the beginning of ronald reagan's, how at the time of the hostage crisis, we thought am

ronald reagan obviously is your honoree for your meeting. he charmed us with his humor and blessed us with his leadership. my task as chairman of this party is to help elect a republican president who shares ronald reagan's vision, his vision of an america that removes the government's intrusive obstacles to opportunity, an america built on principle and purpose, an america that is strong, safe, and free. that is the america ronald reagan created, and i fear that is the america we're losing with each passing day under our president barak obama, and that's what -- [applause] and that's what i want to talk to you a little bit about today. there's no doubt about it. the president is a gifted politician, but good politics do not inherently yield good policies. good speeches do not create good jobs, and winning debates does not implicitly mean that you're winning the future. the president says that he wants an america to live within its means. the president says we need to reduce the deficit and address the debt ceiling. the president says that w

was a one of those good republicans i mean this this guy was a white eisenhower republican ronald reagan brought in to run the s n l's and run the resolution trust corporation that was created to resolve the crisis he was one of the heroes in the story he saw at the great depression because he just died in his eighty's and he saw it in two thousand and eight and he had better the vehicle during the time that he was working in the reagan administration that led to the crash of two thousand and eight as he points out right here. mark it. is almost impossible to believe there were almost two million sub prime mortgages written in a year and. that means somebody had a probably am. a couple million homes all. of subprime mortgages. so. why did anybody put their money why would anybody knowing that these sub prime means that they are not prime. well that that goes back to something called securitization and something called traunch credit rated securitization. that was invented by. people who. were operating in the dark easy and namely it was invented by many in our group. so you can start wit

and also snow banks you know in the us know when reagan deregulated the s n l's and then a couple years later they crashed after a whole bunch of people like neil bush had made a pile of money. basically you know they took them over to put a guy named william seaman in charge of the resolution trust corporation the took over basically nationalized the s n l's and over about a twenty year period actually made a profit selling them back into the private business and the second one is that the banks just took our money and they will not rely on that they paid themselves one hundred thirty five billion dollars which was about what we loaned out and you get that at the end of the h.b.o. special is really quite shocking we have seen this movie before know it william siegmund who died just last year easy he was a one of those good republicans i mean this this guy was a adroit eisenhower republican ronald reagan brought in to run the s n l's and run the resolution trust corporation that was created to resolve the crisis he was one of the heroes of the story he saw in the great depression as he

and that, too, offered an interesting counterpoint to nancy reagan because nancy reagan and gorbachev did not get along and all. so it was quite a bit different. sir. >> the comment i was waiting for you to talk about was the rhymes with which comment. could you put that in context? >> i certainly could. you know, i just ran out of time. i'm sorry. i did have it here. the comment that this gentleman is referring to came about in 1984. it was mr. bush running for reelection as vice president. he had a debate with geraldine ferraro, the democratic nominee for vice presidents. in the debate ferrara said that he had no idea when normal people were going through because his wealth and so it is him from normal life. so mrs. bush was on the campaign trail, the campaign airplane the next day. she was talking to reporters. she was obviously really unhappy about that comment. 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. then she said, and i can say with that woman is, but it rhymes with

it's partly cloudy at reagan national. feels like 55. winds are south/southwest at around 5 miles per hour. here's a look at the national picture. severe weather going through parts of arkansas and texas, including some tornadoes and severe thunderstorm warnings as well. but in our area, you can see the entire east coast generally under high pressure and really seeing nice conditions. for sunday afternoon, we're expecting increase in clouds. that means passing showers possible. they'll be light in nature. then we're cooling down eventually tuesday and really into wednesday. for the middle of your work week. all right, here's a look at your 9 futurecast, show you what's happening, when and where. tomorrow morning there's the clock at 10:00 a.m. we'll be dry. there's no green on the map. we've got clouds out here coming in from the north and west. by 3:30, looks like we'll see showers out for the potomac highlands, shenandoah valley. this kind of clips d.c. a little bit here by the evening hours. by 6:30, frederick and north of baltimore w

that is the america ronald reagan created.assing day under our president barack obama. [applause] >> that's what i want to talk to you a little bit about today. there's no doubt about it, the president is a gifted politician. but good politics do not inherently yield good policies. good speeches does not create jobs. and winning debates does not mean you are winning the future. the president says that he wants an america to live within its means. the president says we need to produce the deficit and address the debt ceiling. the president says that we need to reduce wasteful washington spending. i agree. we all agree. in this debate in washington, the president has said a lot of things. but here's the problem. the results don't match the rhetoric. the president says and he says and he says but this is what we've seen. every day washington borrows roughly $4.5 million just to pay it's bills. 43 cents on every dollar spent in america is borrowed. when my children are my age, get this, when my son jack who is 6 is my age, we will

the reagan presidency about a half a million people would come north from mexico during the picking season and about a half a million people would go south every year there had been a verity of programs to try to accommodate them or legalize them the berserker program for example back in the sixty's was essentially exploitative but it was an attempt but that's how it was then reagan did two things number one he granted this amnesty the brought you know millions of people three million four million depends on whose number you're looking into the workforce but in addition to that he basically stopped enforcing the law against employers who were hiring illegal immigrants the consequence of this is no president since then has started in forcing those laws actually throwing employers in jail and i say this is somebody who was an employer before during and after reagan and i can tell you and and i've had immigrants working for me and i've had to go through what used to be called the ins and convince them that i wasn't exploiting this worker that i couldn't find somebody else and things ha

a new display unveiled at the reagan library, a notebook brimming with index cards, quotations in reagan'sinspiration from jfk to churchill to jefferson. his personal library of words for speeches to help you live. >> president kennedy wrote on the day of his death that history had called this generation of americans to be watchmen on the walls of world freedom. he liked to laugh, president lincoln. he said, if i couldn't laugh, i couldn't stand this job for 15 minutes. one of my favorite quotations about age comes from thomas jefferson. he said that we should never judge a president by his age. only by his work. and ever since he told me that, i've stopped worrying. >> he apparently kept the notebook in his desk, and after his death, it was boxed away, only rediscovered in this past year. >>> and, the last known combat veteran of world war i, anywhere, has died. claude choules was born in a small town in britain. he started training with the navy a month after turning 14, didn't tell them his real age. he never lost his love of the water. he swam in the sea until he turned 100. claude cho

hundred five grover norquist founded americans for tax reform at the request of president ronald reagan they organized the taxpayer pretext fire protection pledge which simply asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose tax increases and this congress two hundred thirty seven house members and forty one senators have taken that pledge and when i was a congressional candidate i signed the pledge and was even a invited to attend one of grover's infamous wednesday morning breakfast as a candidate but as much as i try to avoid being mistaken for a serious journalist i guess as part of the the media i'm no longer welcome but his weekly wednesday morning meetings bring together the best minds of the conservative movement takes place off the record at the americans for tax reform conference room right here in washington d.c. he serves on the board of directors of the n.r.a. national rifle association of america the american conservative union the nixon center and go proud he is a contributor to the american spectator magazine president of the amer

which means in 1980 ronald reagan was undeniable and no longer willing to run against incumbent but to succeed against the unpopular republican and in 2008 to when you try to succeed it is almost never done that when a person in power and you have a headache. on the democratic side they assume carter is the nominee and here i turned 22008. the most prominent figure and everybody assumes this person is a nominee could i find the equivalent of the first-term young firebrand senator who could be the change candidate? and maybe if you take a poll to do it is, i think it is gary hart. believe me, i talked to his aides to figure how that is plausible you can judge that for yourself but to wrap up and he was not put the missiles in cuba and not been for the nomination anyway or four would have lost. the whole purpose of the exercise of the then be accumulating enormous wealth. [laughter] is to give the altered history that what they could concealed from us that history could just as easily have gone this way or that way. so to shake your head you're not your head i have done what i have set o

and sun was up 25 minutes ago. 46 at reagan national. mid 40s.es, the mid 40s. central virginia, just near 40. we've got a clear sky this morning. and temperatures by 9:00 should be near 50. by noontime to 60s. a northwest wind gusting to 20 to 25 miles per hour. >> it's going to be chillier. so you'll node to wear your fleece this morning. dress for a mild afternoon. up to 70. by then, the wind should diminish. we'll have lots of sun this afternoon. clear evening. a look at your night planner. that will come up in ten minutes. eun and joe. >>> northbound lanes of the bw parkway are closed near the beltway. >> police are investigating a double shooting around 3:00 this morning. and tracee wilkins is live on the scene. she has the latest. good morning, tracee. >> we have daylight. let me show you what the crime scene is looking at right now. this is why we have the northbound lane of the bw parkway shut down right now. they are still investigating. you can see, the pickup truck is here on the scene. they're wrapped up with that vehicle and prepari

when i suddenly became a vile beast because ronald reagan told us it was time to end this toxic strain of thinking and reassert ourselves into our own government again and kick out the transnational corporations the millionaires and billionaires who ruined democracies good name for the last thirty years. let's once again trust ourselves with self government and tell the loonies of fox news to find a new country where there isn't democracy to push the crazy theories like the libertarian paradise of somalia and do the whole the afraid thing they're frankly here we have more important things to do. and that's the big picture for tonight for more stories more information on the stories we covered visit our website thom hartmann dot com and. also check out our you tube pages if you tube dot com slash the big picture and slash tom martin and this entire show is available as a free podcast. and don't forget democracy begins when you show up it begins with you tag you're it so the. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger

we are live at reagan national airport. >> here at reagan national, they did not miss a beat today. one passenger said that we have learned that you cannot let your fears paralyzed. the jubilation of the news of the death of osama bin laden was tempered most of the nation's airports today. >> i am flying today. of course you are nervous. >> could there be a retaliatory attack? that is in the back of her mind as she prepares to board a plane headed for denver. >> you cannot let it interfere with your plans. >> it is business at usual at the airport today. government officials will increase security at airports, train stations, and subways. >> i think it will try to do something. i just do not know what. >> should we be looking for an attempted terrorist attack now that bin lavin is dead? experts say, you bet. >> they will use this as an excuse to speed up an attack or plan one. >> the secretary of state issued a special alert to americans traveling overseas to be extra careful of the next few days and weeks. reporting live reagan national airport for abc 7 news. >>> much more ahead o

ronald reagan added great communicator to the job description. but after reagan the best communicators have won, and now obama is everywhere. has he added availability to the job description? he's doing it again this past week. and his numbers go up. >> his numbers go up but he's very good at the oprah appearances. but i would make the case that i think we've actually sometimes seen a little bit too much of barack obama. even ribbon cutting. you can devalue the currency a little bit. i would argue we see him more than any president but we feel we know less about who the guy is. chris: let me go back to a thought i've strangled to death already. howard and i noticed this. it seems like when he does these flurries of regular people interviews, like oprah with the brackets and the sweet 16 in basketball. he reaches an audience that normally don't watch. but it seems like that gets his numbers up to about 50 and then he fades for a couple of weeks his numbers go down. >> my explanation, maybe its influenced by the fact i'm totally online with the huf

reagan did deregulation. let me talk about a project -- on deregulation -- i would abolish sarbanes oxley which is a destructive bill which particularly hurts small and medium-size companies and has produced no useful information. i would also abolish the dodd- frank bill from last year which is a disaster for the banking and finance industry and will further cripple job creation in the united states. i would fundamentally replaced the environmental protection agency which has become an anti- jobs, anti-local control ideological said radicals trying to impose their views on america. i would create an environmental solutions agency which is a science and technology incentives to solve the problems and it would be instructed to cooperate with local communities to apply common sense to have a good economy and a good environment but not to impose from washington a set of rules written by radicals. [applause] finally, and deregulation -- i would create a 21st century food and drug demonstration which was assigned

whether it's bush monkey picture, reagan this, clinton this, whatever. the birthers are out there on the fringes. the one thing i'm happy about, if you want to call it -- >> you don't question the president's citizenship? >> i don't. the extreme elements are off the table. the one good thing about donald trump did, it brought it out and it's been shown and now we can get back to the policies is. as far as the extreme elements, i have a hard time calling people racist and throwing that word around easily, unless they're specific action tells me they're a racist. i -- >> that's a problem i have with -- not just the white/black dynamic. but with any dynamic. >> i think it was pat enltly offensive, it was absurd, ridiculous. clearly it was established long ago he's a citizen. and it smacks of racism because it's consistent with this idea that we're always being questioned, right? the legitimacy, the skill, along with it were these attacks often his academic record that were completely unfounded. >> his transcripts? >> they want these transcripts, and the dyn

look at ronald reagan. he was optimistic, positive. >> alaska is very authentic. this whole thing movie out there of total upbeat optimistic stuff. she knows this and she is going to work on that. chris: before we break speaking of sarah palin one person praying for it is the sat nightlife superstar tina fey. >> i'm going to be running for president every four years for the rest of my life. it is my olympics and i intend to win a whole bunch of silvers. chris: seriously, palin recruited a conservative film make tore make a full length movie to resuscitate her reputation. it opens soon it iowa and is entitled the undefeated. producer says it will catapult her back to the front ranks of candidates. it was shot in deep secrecy it alaska and uses her most out spoken critics as foils and relies on loyalists in alaska to retell the story positively of her giveship and uses graphic images to attack those that brought the ethics complaints. this is how it apparently ends. there is a suggestive message from here i can see november and it winds up with this vintage combativ

with this enormous concentration of wealth what is it after a period i mean if you go back to for reagan the average c.e.o. is making twenty eight times with the average worker is making now it's three hundred something or whatever the numbers what is it that accounted for this change from are you ready to post reagan or to now. well we embarked on this experiment basically to see if we could a race from remember our memory everything we learned during the new deal during the new deal we learned in after the crash of twenty nine that you had to sit on finance it had become boring enterprise not a vast scale and speculative. part of the economy and. very tight controls were established and they were reinforced during the bretton woods agreements in one thousand nine hundred four and they they dominated the post world war two era during our most prosperous era i believe ever especially for the middle class we created the middle class it dominated all the way through the nine hundred seventy s. and then the academic establishment the policy establishment said you know what we have too many

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tearing down the walls separating church and state reagan started laying the bricks to build a new will one that would separate the government from the people who refer to the government as the beast and famously said that the nine most frightening words in english language are i'm from the government and i'm here to help. and very few people along the way of the say wait a second we are the government and we're not beasts are great and did this so that he could turn the government against the working people and cut taxes for the rich busted up labor unions and one by one shot down regulations that kept banks gambling with our money to the point that the s n l's collapsed and we had the worst recession since the great depression as a result of this conservative world view putting incompetent people in charge of government agencies and then saying see it's all of this so in this government agencies screwed up our government in many ways change from an institution that was looking out for the benefit of us all and is something that was more and more looking out for just rich people it see

done to hold the banks was accountable or no we'll start throwing bankers in jail for fraud like reagan did with the s. and ls so far every one of us' voted yes tragically log on to target not convalesce know what you think the polls. up until tomorrow morning. crazy alert crazy alert watermelon mine fields acres of watermelon fields in eastern china have a ruptured spewing watermelon and that asses barda wide in the hopes of making extra money for their watermelons farmers spray their crops and growth chemicals unfortunately most of applied too much causing the melons to grow and grow and grow until it finally exploded over one hundred fifty eight years or watermelons of solid detonated one farmer told a local television station couldn't sleep terrorized by dreams of exploding watermelons and for those of you think who think we don't have to use this chemical we don't use this chemical it causes for it to explode in america think again the growth chemical known as for poorer than your own is also legal in the us so the next time you bring home a watermelon anywhere of spontaneous combu

you know american politics i've always been about kid somebody around and reagan started this whole thing with his other welfare queen story you know the new york times spent six months trying to fact check it so you know it shows that one woman who shows up at her cadillac you know but you know the implication was class and very solidly a story. they never found the person but this is been going on for a while i first have to comment on south carolina you know that is. a state with one of the highest unemployment rates one of the other states with the highest unemployment rates as michigan in fact has got pretty much the same thing and how silly is it to deny people unemployment benefits because it has two effects one it obviously helps those who are unemployed and unemployable long time but also we keep spending in the economy and creates jobs for everybody else and congressional budget office has rated unemployment benefits the single biggest job creator brain you're in every session so we don't know that start that was there was my second question. i just i just is are are we do

you remember what happened when ronald reagan survived john hinckley and survive with humor. i hope you adopt this role in public and i don't care what your politics where you had to hear an enormous sense of relief for him and the country that we were scared another one. robert kennedy had a sense of humor and he responds to this with humor and the dynamic of that primary changes. had there been nothing like that hubert humphrey would have won and my argument is that shakes things loose. if you imagine, as one history of that campaign that mayor richard daley was prepared to endorse bobby, he thought the war a disaster on every ground including political. what happens to the demonstrations? you don't have thousands of people. you have marginalize radical protests. that is very different. what about president johnson? would he have been so angry that his nemesis was repeating that he might try to get the nomination back? that sounds pretty absurd except in real life he did. there were five johnson operatives at the chicago convention including postmaster general and chief pol

reagan beat carter, reagan carried more states against carter than fdr carried against hoover in 193 2. and the reason was reagan spent years getting to a very clear message. and the american people looked up -- reagan had a great line. hard times then. not as bad as this. reagan campaigned saying, you know, a recession is when your brother-in-law is unemployed. a depression is when you're unemployed. a recovery is when carter is unemployed. [laughter] >> now, you might imagine, as an historian, that phrase may come up with one name change sometime next year. and i think we'll take one more question. and then go to the news media. >> thank you so much for being here. i'm judy and i live in new hampshire and i just received my medicare card through the mail, and so i've become very interested in medicare, and i was wondering how you tweak pau ryan's plan. >> that's a good question. to show you how i think despicable is the right word -- the democrat medicare campaign is, showing a cartoon of ryan pushing a grandmother off the cliff. i think every american should condemn campaigns desi