jimmy carter and ronald reagan. it took an event to sort of propelled me to pay more attention to what was being said and i began to volunteer for ronald reagan and change my registration and voting for him and it was one of the greatest decisions i made in my life. i'd been registered -- necessarily know when i was led astray what was registering for. i followed what my family did but then i began to understand and became more of a participant in the process and understanding the candidates and what they were saying. i think you've got to pay attention to what people are saying. >> kevin is from dixon, illinois, and we have two of our students both from dixon, president reagan has a home town. we talked about the importance of remembering where you are from. president reagan was certainly true to that. he never lost the midwestern values and influence of smothers family and the community had on his life -- influence of his mother's family. how important is it for a congressman, senator, president of the united stat

democrats you know they were blue collar people that had voted for ronald reagan because they wanted to see america be respected in the world you know that sort of thing and look what was happening to them now this was that and they you know they recognize the contradiction and it was this sort of moment of awful enlightenment for them. you know it was a disastrous event in their lives but it was also a moment in lightman 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 with 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 it's 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 dollar budget shortfall in kansas senator sam brownback with you governor republican has called through a limit at the corporate income tax we're proposing

so did ronald reagan. ronald reagan was trailing oil, and i'll -- ronald reagan was trailing walter mondale by 11 points at this point. the economy went down in bush 41's case. you are a prisoner, a captive of economic events. >> one of the interesting things is that some of this is going on in europe, and some economists are beginning to wonder -- everybody agrees we have to cut the deficit. but people are beginning to wonder whether you put in these kinds of a draconian measures at the time of a recession, that it could exacerbate problems, and that we should perhaps think about doing this in a slightly different way. >> we are not thinking about doing it at all, that is the problem. the central fact of life is debt. we had been living beyond our means, europe has been living beyond its means, social

reagan proved him right.e that ofmism, franklin roosevelt, linked him to the deepest chord of the american spirit. practically speaking, that optimism kept his focus firmly on the future and on the past. it brought him especially close to young people. that is no small feat for america's oldest president. it also enabled him to compromise because he believed that if his ideas could prevail over time, if he could get more time to convince people in the can see what was coming, the future could be better than the past. as long as he could get the 80%, he could advance in the right direction. finally, reagan never stop learning and growing. he had four to six careers depending on how you count. that was very unusual in his time. it will be customary for young people today. his first run for elected office was when he was 55 years old. when he became governor, he had just turned 56. his first run for the presidency was when he was 57. he finally became president as he was turning 70. from as journey took him smal

one example, the idea of the unitary executive comes out of ronald reagan. anything is in the national interests. the nation looked with concern when no matter what the president does is legal, couple years later ronald reagan was saying this to great fanfare and in our presidential politics this metastasizes into stuff like this. you have george bush and nobody blinks an eye when he says god wants me to be president or he says i am the commander, somebody wants to explain to me why they say something but i don't know anyone an explanation for anything. also becomes barack obama. we have similar examples. this is a direct quote. i am a better speech writer than my speech writers and i know more than my policy directors and i am a better political director than my political director. here are the 80s coming at you. when a staff -- you are more plush than michael jordan he says give me the ball. these are just examples but i highlight this because of much of our politics today is about saying i won't asked a citizen questions. i will not ask questions about wh

we always like reagan. nonsense. look at the coverage, the contemptuous coverage from 1964 through 1980 and indeed, through his administration. they don't -- the reason why they dislike sarah palin is not that she does not like the meeting, it is because she is a strong conservative. some of criticisms of sarah palin may have been correct in some other criticisms of right and have been correct. to throw and howard dean to make it look like it is bipartisan. first of all, howard dean got very good press coverage in 2003 and was a favorite of the press for quite a bit of that time. no, the mainstream media does not like conservatives, they don't like successful conservatives and they don't like conservatives threaten their control of the narrative. they like jon huntsman for now. -- he will help them paint a lot of the grass roots of the republican party as a little bit crazy and extreme. they hated the tea party in 2009 and in 2010, then the real white -- rewrite history and they say if only a reasonable conservative

ronald reagan had to compromise on everything. ronald reagan put forward good policy. but at the end of the day, he took the best that we could get. i think raising taxes is bad for the economy. i think it's the worst thing that we could do. but if you've got enough spending cuts, enough good policy, enough growth, would you take that as a compromise? well, i wouldn't say i won't support somebody for president who would do that because, like ronald reagan, that may be the best we can get for the country. >> schieffer: let me ask you about medicare and what paul ryan said. i mean, i think everyone concedes we're going to have to do something about medicare. it's going to have to have serious reforms. it will go broke in its present state. he says let's do away with medicare and replace it with government subsidized private insurance. now, when he said that, democrats began licking their chops. they said, "boy, i hope that that's what the republicans are going to run on because we can beat 'em on that." can republicans run on that and win or do you have to make some modi

drops to third in world economies then you can we finally admit that three decades of reagan tax cuts have exploded our debt at three decades of free trade policies have killed our manufacturing base and the three decades of shredding our social safety net have decimated the middle class parents talk more about these issues our democratic strategist erick nudie and george jr casey chairman of the national eagles and angels association erica george welcome. thanks for having me. jarkesy right i mispronounced your name george you're sure oh george is a great thank you yeah the talks are breaking down there's fear about race is this is this about george first to you eric cantor walking away is this because he thinks that there might be a possibility that they're going to have to raise taxes and doesn't want to be the guy who has to deliver the news or is it because the tea party caucus in the house and cantor really are going to hold the line and they're willing to blow up the u.s. economy in order to be ideologically pure. but i don't know anybody that likes to deliver bad news. so you

bush in my own reagan service estimate and reagan absolutely i think you know there are a big disappointments that's not with that was the change we voted for then and we certainly don't like it now so i am in agreement with you on that them ok well you should take it up with jude when scheme is the strategy is to wait it out reagan you know bankrupt the government and then the government and then the democrats will have to stop giving out money again santa clause and you know t.j. thanks for being with us tonight it's always good to see it thank you and truth is in less than five months republicans are on our nation frankly have worn out their welcome with the american electorate paul ryan's plans privatized medicare were soundly rejected by voters last week in the special election in new york's twenty sixth district where a democrat won the seat for just the fourth time since eighteen and if the seven elsewhere a whole bunch of republican governors are facing a much different electoral landscape after a half year union busting and screwing over working families this wave of voters remorse i

because ronald reagan was the great communicator. think huntsman is not a great communicate artery this point. b but what he was trying to do is channel the inner reagan. being above the fray. optimistic. not talking about people's resentments, rather talking about their hopes, and show a more positive side to the republican party. because you haven't seen a lot of that so far. >> a very different speech than reagan gave in 1980. >> but reagan was more partisan because that was the kickoff of the general election where he was really taking aim at jimmy carter. this is just the sort of kickoff of his campaign where he clearly chose not to take off after other republicans. >> now, bill bennett, you served as secretary of education in the reagan cabinet. could you or anybody else that was in a room around that table imagine running -- leaving the administration to run against your boss or is that just a bridge too far? >> i just can't imagine leaving the administration for any reason. but that aside jon huntsman before taking the campai

reagan used to say -- remember, reagan used to say, remember a fellow who agrees with you 80% of youritor. now, we're going to nominate somebody for president that doesn't agree with you on everything and you're not going to agree with them on everything but i'm going to tell you what, they're going to agree with you a lot more than you agree with barack obama. [laughter] [applause] >> yeah, i'm from mississippi. and one of our great mississippians, fred smith, fred smith is the founder and ceo of fedex. fred has a great expression. fred said the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. [laughter] >> the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. and in political campaigns, in great crusades in the effort to get our country back on the right track, we got to stay focused on the main thing. the main thing is winning the election. >> yeah. >> we can't change the country like we want it unless we win the election. okay? remember, purity in politics, purity is the enemy of victory. okay? we can't start out with the ideas, the faith and freedom coalition that our cand

reagan saw that said hey we could do that anger needed help reagan in the same way bush sr went to war in kuwait to kick out the iraqis it was mostly over oil and even set it up by having the u.s. envoy to iraq april glaspie tell saddam hussein that if he invaded kuwait the u.s. would consider it an internal affair and not get involved. so much for april's assurances saying to bush senior's q. and gave bush the excuse he needed to have his own war although it was short only a few days long clinton went to war in kosovo a war that was very popular but is still being debated and then george w. bush came to power thanks to the supreme court in two thousand and like reagan bush had plans to start a war for political capital that he told his biographer mickey herskowitz back in one thousand nine hundred ninety before you even started running for president and if he became president he was going to invade iraq to earn enough political capital to privatized social security. but then i'm eleven happened instead and instead of a one time war as bush had intended he and his handlers like donald

did with their largest bank they basically just seized it they did what reagan did with the us now and by that i worked out well and by the way what we did with the two big housing finance fannie and freddie so it's not like this idea of conservatorship or taking over of a failing institution it's not for now we thought that the insolvency route going the conservatorship or taking over the liquidation route was going to be too destructive for the global system and i actually think that events have proved that to be a good decision the banking system. it's largely a back up and running with some important still some important. problems still in the system particularly the smaller banks but again we can history's going to have to review that why it is her and what it is and will be seeing more of that right after the break we'll continue our conversation with economist dr jared bernstein in our conversations with great minds. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realize

did in 1980, it only highlighted the difference between him and reagan. it was a fairly shallow speech. it was not much in it, and there is no compelling reason you want to elect him president he spoke about reagan as being leadership in troubled times, but the difference is reagan's leadership was underpinned by a coherent set of ideas and policies. if huntsman has them, he is not display them yet. >> colby? >> he cannot anti-obama the other republicans. you have been bridge there, michele bachmann -- have gingrich there, michele bachmann. he and mitt romney are the two ken dolls in the race. you have michele bachmann, barbie with fangs. just like a caricature, no substance. >> good to see how simple and non-ad hominem we are, in that huntsman spirit. [laughter] >> is fascinating, the mormon experience of being a missionary does really open up a people. he spent two years in taiwan, lifelong interest in china, decided to learn mandarin. kind of a fascinating aspect. rick perry is the one republican right now, according to my republican sources, who could

ronald reagan -- love ronald reagan.ng i remember about that was that the person that i looked up to the most, the person that i would listen to anything that he said, love america. he loved this country, and he was not from here. i can promise you on my life that did not run for chairman of this party, and i would venture to guess that not what -- not one single one of you in this crowd is here because you have some great concern about the future of the republican party. i love this party. of course, we all do. but i ran for chairman, and you are here today listening, because you are worried about the future of this country. this is about america, not about the republican party or the democratic party. this is about america. [applause] we have an opportunity in this country, if we work together. we could disagree on a lot of things. i am sure to squabble about a thing or two here or there. but we have all been blessed, everyone of us, in a different way. god has blessed us all differently. but we are unified in one thin

>> i am. >> the secret of governor reagan and president reagan's political success is that he was alle saw him as a grade b movie actor, and he always exceeded expectations. >> the president of the united states! >> in 1981, ronald reagan came to washington with three goals. >> he wanted to revive the american economy. >> the inflation rate, the interest rate, the country was in disarray. >> not just that he was great communicator. you have to communicate the right ideas. growth and hope and opportunity. >> he wanted to restore the american morale. >> president reagan believed in the american people and their ability to pull themself out there these problems. >> you ain't seen nothing yet. >> and president reagan wanted to end the soviet oppression of millions in eastern europe. >> we all knew how ronald reagan felled about -- felt about the communists and the soviet union. >> the west won't contain communism, it will transcend communism. >> lie, create crimes. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall! >> ronald reagan alone believed and said that communism amounted to an evil empire and

college and college was free and that's the kind of think that that's what built america and when reagan became governor of california california had a completely free public education system people did anybody go to college there it was what thomas jefferson had in mind and created with the university of virginia a free education system let's invest in the intellectual infrastructure of a country where reagan bill. that up when he was governor of california and then when he became president he put in charge of the education part of bill bennett the guy who when he had in his one attempt to run for the presidency had run on the campaign platform of abolishing the department of education of course he was the guy reagan but charges so we just basically stopped with reaganomics and we're almost out of time if you could sum it up what is the biggest or. some of the biggest takeaway lessons that we can and we can take away from from germany's operation and its economy and well i here in the last number one the demand is not supply is what drives an economy and the demand is money in people's

license for failure it's hurt the local community well in in fact in eighty seven when from when reagan stopped in force in there and start him in the entire history of c c they're all one challenge right about there being a lack of fairness you know i worked in news back in the seventy's and you know we would station would run an editorial and we would invite somebody from the local community to have a rebuttal but the station can still have seven minute editorial the rebuttal might be thirty seconds talk show might run like i produced a talk show for a while and seventy three seventy four that ran for an hour every afternoon with the host bloviating about his opinion and if somebody called him that was. a fairness doctrine was rather toothless when it came to saying you know who's a liberal who's conservative and like that what it really focused on was that as as the as the news director ultimately that radio station i would get fired if i talk to anybody from sales it was the separate was it was making news news how do we get back to that now while we think if he had an opportunity t

the mythology the reagan years to try to justify his suspension of the sherman act the numbers don't bear that out we've seen a newsroom shrinking and basically disappearing into from two thousand section two thousand i knew papers which had twenty five percent of their jobs network news it's down fifty percent this report finds you have a number of reporters on the beat since the 1980's and also local radio news the all new station that are disappearing around the country and we see it as a wave of consolidation where the infotainment you talked about earlier it's more profitable and hence that's what plays good matt thanks so much for the great work you do in charge thanks so much for being with us here tonight abraham lincoln knew how important an informed electorate was to the survival are they of our nation and he famously said let the people know the facts and the country will be safe unfortunately since ronald reagan blew up the fairness doctrine people are no longer getting the facts of what our nation is facing so many challenges today. after the break a daily take on why go

that is a direct quote from our reagan.t happened just a couple of years after the nation looked with concern when richard nixon said whatever the president does is legal. just a couple of years later ronald reagan was famous to great fanfare and in our presidential politics this metastasizes into stuff like this. you get george bush now and nobody blanks and i or not enough people blink an eye when he says things like this. god wants me to be president or when he says i'm the commander. somebody needs to explain to me why they something i don't feel i need to 20 anybody an explanation for anything. unfortunately becomes barack obama. we have seen a similar example. this is a direct quote from barack obama. i'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. i know more and policies than any particular issue in my policy directors. here stayed is coming right at you. look at this quote. one 11 sf related send and in all saying you are more -- make the michael jordan he said just give me the ball. these are just examples, but i

get where we are you know how did america from from one hundred forty to until you know basically reagan reversed it was stuff build this great industrial powerhouse in this extraordinary country with all this incredible infrastructure that was working so well when reagan came in and kind of reversed oh well what happened to that i mean it seems like the real building blocks of developing an economy is investing in infrastructure investing in innovation research and development focusing on job creation and we're not really doing that anymore and what's changed what changes reaganomics reagan came along and said you know government is bad and government does it's bad so if government is investing for example in infrastructure that's bad one of the most important infrastructures the government used to invest in the united states and did hugely in the one nine hundred fifty s. and one nine hundred sixty s. in the late one nine hundred forty s. is in a lot. infrastructure we you know my dad went to college on the g.i. bill you know if he was paid two hundred dollars a month to go to college

investing in economic opportunity you remember in one thousand nine hundred eighty we had ronald reagan came in and they were both tax cuts for the rich and also kind of a shift in priorities so i think that that's you could kind of date the beginning of those policy changes that been led to really thirty years of growing inequality and a piece of the story behind that graph i think is the middle class so if the if the wealthiest one percent share of wealth more than doubled over those thirty years what happened to the share of wealth owned by the middle and that's where that's where when people say the middle class is shrinking or collapsing that's an active description that incomes that share of income that went to the middle has has declined and that's so that's the other piece of that story but that's where the income went it went for the top walter mosley was on this program last week and he made what i thought was a really interesting comment i've never seen or heard of before said exactly this way that the middle class are people who if they lost their jobs could probably get by

. >>> reagan reagan who passed away seven years ago this weekend. there's a new image of nancy reagan paying quiet homage at her husband's gravesite. she placed flowers and sat for a while on sunday. a private moment for a former first lady. >>> a story for all of us coffee drinkers here. we all know that coffee can wake us up. but too much of it can also perk up our ears. a new study found that five cups of coffee a day could be enough to make you hear voices. researchers in australia said that high levels of caffeine made them think they were listening to bing crosby's "white christmas." even though that song was not being played. experts describe coffee is the most commonly used psychoactive drug. what would we do without it overnight here? >>> you can almost hear the fans in vancouver crying in their beer because in hockey's stanley cup finals, one team scored more goals than 20 of the 22 major league baseball teams that were also in action. the details from espn news. >> good morning. cole wright here with your espn news. let's head to boston f

offer his take this blue spot a gruesome find the deputy attorney general under president ronald reagan and the author of her book american empire before the fall welcome to the program thank you so much for being here. in the white house did a response to congress today and they sent a nice little letter saying that basically they're not in violation of the war powers act because libya isn't really a war so we don't have troops on the ground nato is leading the operation so it can't possibly be in violation of the war powers act what's your take well it's an example of orwellian speech the obama administration when the secretary of defense was testifying for congress mr gates and was asked if you throw a. missile into a new york city is that what he basically said of course i mean if libya was doing what they were going to live yes yes of course they would understand that was war also they're there they're caught in this kind of legal paradox if it's not war then we are committing murder because it's only war that makes on the side legal so if we're not fighting we're there we're killi

debt from george washington until today from literally from george washington till till ronald reagan it was all pretty manageable i mean we had a spike during world war two we paid that off within a decade without cutting anything i mean you know eisenhower just threw a lot of money at highways and the g.i. bill and things and poof we grew our way out of it now we've got these republicans running around saying we've got to squeeze all this blood out of the middle class of the poor and we can't raise taxes when tax rates are at historic lows i mean lower than than even been since the great depression. what we do about this is how do we wake people up to the fact that really it's this explosion in in wealth and in national debt all began with the reagan administration and what is the meme the thinking the thought by or is that in fact that our nation with the reagan administration that hasn't left us that we needed to extract or cure. well i think that they did a good job sort of selling the idea that everybody's on their own and get out there and get your own and any increases in taxe

with reagan well i'm usually with reagan i mean i think naturalizations is in almost all cases a bad idea worked there were there were some people serious economists for instance nouriel roubini who was the one who predicted what would happen one of the few economists who called for nationalizations early on he still is i do i haven't i haven't seen a reason but he may very well maybe it is news that he very well may be i don't i don't think nationalizations are generally a good idea for almost anything so i stand for freedom and the government out of business i will say this time you know there's a lot of republicans on the hill who would be with you they didn't like carp if it was a terrible idea they did not to nationalize the banks where they would be supporting a bailout of the banks i on the other hand i think that and that crisis something had to be done so the banks were would have a massive collapse which would dry up all liquidity so i think it was a necessary move at the time but the big problem with the banks going bust was not that the banks themselves would go bust i do

we could break a few records tomorrow afternoon. 98 is the record and reagan national baird -- reagan national. warm and muggy tonight. increase in humidity first thing as a step out tomorrow. then a lot of sunshine tomorrow but very hot and humid repeat of last week with highs anywhere from the mid- to the upper 90s. we could see 100 degrees, which could possibly hit the century mark for the first time of this year so far. it friday and into the weekend we actually cool down as a whole -- cold front is overhead. the timing of the storms of the weekend -- we could use it. >> a lot of orange on that map. ok, thanks. >>> remember the dance protest at the jefferson memorial over the weekend? now d.c. delegate eleanor know -- eleanor holmes norton said she reached out to the producers of "so you think you can dance" for a national dance day on the mall. it would allow for a flash maag dance as long as a permit is issued. right now it is illegal for people to dance at memorial sites. >>> an academy award-plans to join va's governor this afternoon to launch a campaign to feed hungry childre

ronald reagan campaigned on that in 1980. he had tax cuts, deregulation, an american energy policy and he praised and entrepreneurs and innovators and job creators so they felt good about doing it. [applause] if you translate seven years of recovery from november of 1982 to the end of his term, that seven-year recovery, translated into the size of our current economy and the size of our current population, it would mean that seven years after we take over, eight years at the outside but he did not pass the tax cut until august but we would try to pass it the fourth week of january after the inaugural. we would create 25 million new jobs. the economy at the end of seven years would be four trillion dollars per year bigger. federal revenues would be of $800 billion per year because so many more people would be at work paying taxes so you have a huge step toward a balanced budget if you just control spending. the sheer momentum of the economy would start to fix everything. that is a parallel from what really happened in history.

was president reagan reagan institute a revolution today he would be considered an economic liberal the rich people are running roughshod over this country and bloomberg is one of them and what's necessary is first of all to make the rich pay a fair share of the taxes another thing to do would be to stop the wars and cut back the pentagon taxes from new yorkers to the pentagon are about sixty billion dollars which is somewhere between three and four times the combined shortfall in the budgets of new york state and new york city do you think that. change the conversation and you think there's any political will to do the kind of things that you're doing when many politicians don't like a bloomberg have the interest you're talking about you know wall street big banks corporations that are major political donors well that's why we're hanging that's why we are camping out. in. city hall we have to force them to develop the political will to recognize the need to do justice instead of just supporting the rich really quickly richer and a good way with murder ok really quickly our reporter

federal government just says oh we can make more money i know they're going to start actually ronald reagan said it's exactly what george herbert walker is that we're back on george w. bush that this is this is been the plan ever since ever since you know seventy four when and when what's his name came up with his is three are two santa claus theory and said you know we borrow like crazy when you're in power and scream about the debt when the democrats go by the way and this idea of republicans voting for getting increases and democrats also opposed getting reasons at one time party switch power and you know there's some time to this political game changing but the reality is right now we need to start cutting we need to start reforming republicans have a plan where is the democrats' plan. that's that's a really good question we'll see where we're at where it goes voters remorse a sweeping the nation a new poll by public the public policy polling shows that seven republican governors including wisconsin scott walker and i was john case they would lose big of last year's election were held a

you know the time that ronald reagan did his his amnesty for three million people we had about a half million people come north into the united states every year for the basically the crop picking season and then they go back down south and you know just continue that way and it's been it's been basically reagan did the amnesty and then stopped in force in the laws against employers president obama has done more about illegal immigration than any president in recent history more troops on the border or deportations but one thing he hasn't done and what reagan didn't do and what no president has done is put rich c.e.o.'s in jail so he got his magnet for you make good plans and you know why not why are we going after human beings why are you so so worried about somebody's going to get money out of them. women and infants and children program when we show you we should be we should be as a stead saying that that this is it is wrong you know being a meat packer used to be a career in the united states the union built the green bay packers football team now you the meat packers union the c

was president reagan reagan institute a revolution today he would be considered an economic liberal the rich people are running roughshod over this country and bloomberg is one of them and what's necessary is first of all to make the rich pay a fair share of the taxes another thing to do would be to stop the wars and cut back the pentagon taxes from new yorkers to the pentagon are about sixty billion dollars which is somewhere between three and four times the combined shortfall in the budgets of new york state and new york city that was the night with different solutions for the budget crisis in new york he spoke for new yorkers against budget now it is not just the thing these challenges believe and the nation eight. trillion dollars in debt or anything to struggle to pay their bills and their creditors residents are paying a price not just cut and jobless. this but cities and states have increased fines and fees to raise revenue in new york for example police are accused of going on a bicycle ticketing blitz to meet quota this next guy maybe one victim he got a ticket for not writ

the only one to one was ronald reagan. 9.1% unemployment -- mitt romney wants to make the economy the issue and make this about the incumbent's record. are you better off than you were four years ago? romney will try to rely on his credentials as a businessman. the soft spot and that is that been capital took over companies and at truck them, downsize -- bain capital took over companies and closed them, shot them, downsize to them. >> on sunday, sarah palin begins work toward it may make, even beets in manhattan. in a -- eating pizza in manhattan. she was in new hampshire, too. >> i don't think mitt romney is offended at all. >> is palin running? she won't say, and if she won't say, nina, why bother covering her? >> well, because people are interested in her. but i don't think it is a particularly good for the republican party to have her sucking the oxygen out this way. people don't think she is running. obviously, they don't think that at fox, because they've not taken her off the air. >> how does the pawlenty or romney combat this? >> i blame the press for this. she has said nothin

thank you you know since reagan took office over two and a half trillion dollars about a fifth of our economy has been bought out by foreign investors are you concerned that our economic sovereignty is being chipped away. oh absolutely not you know i was living in japan in one nine hundred eighty s. during the reagan time and i remember back then i was selling american products in japan one of the few people doing that if i remember that we were all trying to turn ourselves into japanese were buying japanese management books we also look at the way of the future when through tokyo that we all had to be more like japanese we had to run our companies as if we were japanese the japanese were in america they were buying pebble beach they were buying rockefeller center you know they were buying the being goes into picasso's and guess what japan full of that they could manipulate as what they still own it hits and they found out that they could not in a bubble burst and they've been cooling going to build these ever since so if they want to invest in america god bless them you know the same

his very similar well he's compared himself to ronald reagan most notably in a taped phone call that he got pranked with david koch so i mean it's not abnormal to think that he has cut taxes for millionaires billionaires and corporations and raise taxes on the working poor and then propose a slew of cuts that go right after the poor and the working class the. the the recall elections yes the six republican senators in wisconsin have been certified by the secretary as have the recalls that the republican party tried to initiate against a number of democratic senators have not been certified what's the deal what's going on here well the reason the recall elections against the republicans have not against our three democrats and been certified is because we have found and have hundreds of affidavits confirming thousands of fraudulently obtained signatures you know there is a signature of people in there and. one district they went to a native american reservation and said that the people that sign this form or signing a form for tribal rights some people were told they were signing a fo

reagan said this. >> reagan chose a reclaimed landfill park in the shadow of the statue of liberty to policy. >> it is his fifth new economic program in 3 1/2 years. listening to him he talks as if someone else has been in charge for the last 3 1/2 years now that two months to go until the election, he rides to the rescue with a crazy quilt of obvious election year promises which he last scored next year. it's cynical. it's political, and it's too late. >> so i assume jon huhsman was trying to recreate that ronald reagan magic. >> it's interesting to hear because he was attacking jimmy carter. while huntsman was trying to channel his inner reagan, he was not as partisan. he was really focusing on trying to be less partisan, more optimistic, getting people to focus on their hopes rather than the resentments. when you give a speech at the same place, you have to understand that the bar is set pretty high. i think as far as the great communicator is concerned, jon huntsman has a way to go to match ronald reagan >> that's not easy. he was unique in that area. it was a nice lofty tone and

today as a result of reagan's changes, reagan abottle issued the fairness doctrine in 1988 which helped him get re-elected and take over am radio. and the big studio heads helped him get re-elected. now you have five giant corporations that control over 14,000 radio stations in our country, 2,200 tv stations, 80% of our newspapers, all of our billboards and large content providers. five guys are deciding what you hear as news. they no longer has an obligation to serve the public interest but to their shareholders. they don't tell us things we need to understand, but by entertaining us. they appeal to the interests that all of us have in the brains, so we are the best entertained and least informed people on the world and got rid of their investigating reporters, 85% of them lost their jobs. rid their foreign news bureaus and the bush and cheney administration can say, we are going to go into this fist fight and meet us with rose petals in the streets. the americans believe them. fox news can't go to canada. illegal to lie on the air in canada. so fox news can't go there. and in england,