>> where is our ronald reagan? i think the republican field is still amateur and broadening i don't think anybody who will ultimately be in the race is in yet and what i hope is whoever the candidate is, really takes the idea is saying characterization of this generation that i tried to crystallize two heart because i hope the reagan will emerge. we all do. >> as you were elaborating in the point* was well taken there is youth that is lost and has no idea what is going on with politics. i am thinking to people the republican party ought to embrace because they have the charisma and that is mario rubio and bobby jindal those two people and i am sure there is more but to me probably have the ability to reach that group. >> i absolutely agree. but paul ryan is remarkable. nobody can explain the intricacies of the completely boring budget policy. [laughter] in the absolutely understandable and accessible way. paul ryan is one of those people he is not ideological a very pragmatic and you understand and also can connect

this was the reagan revolution. he won the youth vote in 1980, he won it decisively by 20 points in the 1984. it's just simply not true that republicans won't vote -- or that youth won't vote for republicans. and even the very first millennials when they came to the polls, the first millennials that were eligible to vote in 2000 split their ticket evenly between al gore and george bush. i think it's fair to say that because youth don't have as much experience as older generations their political views are formed as much by the failures that they have known in their lifetime as they are by any vision that is espoused by a particular politician. and i think reagan was aided by the failures of the carter administration. but he also was able to communicate conservativism so beautifully that an entire generation rallied to this vision. and i think that's also what barack obama was able to do. the youth, they first started breaking from the republican party in '04 because they believed john kerry's mantra that the iraq wa

>> where is our ronald reagan?i then they should think the republican field is immature and broadening. i don't think everybody who was in the race will be in is in there yet. and whoever the candidate is really takes the ideas and characterization's of this generation that i have tried to crystallizes two heart because i hope that a reagan emerges. we all do. >> i think that point* was will take 10 there is a lot of youth out there that has no idea what is going on with politics. thinking to people the republican party ought to embrace because they have the charisma to reach out to those and that it is bobby jindal and marco rubio. i am sure there is more out there with the very group you are talking about. >> i absolutely agree. but paul ryan is remarkable nobody can explain the intricacies of those completely boring budget policy in the absolutely understandable and accessible way and paul ryan is one of those people. he is not deeply ideological but a very pragmatic and also can connect to the next generation a

like ronald reagan, the werner dethroning the establishment, mitt romney in the way reagan pushed aside george bush 41. reagan found a way to play a big debate moment in new hampshire to make bush look too small for the role. >> i am -- for this microphone -- chris: democrats hope barack obama won't be like jimmy carter, whose economic times were so tough they got reagan elected and reagan's far right views weren't even in focus. could the same be true for rirk perry? if he were the republican nominee, would his controversial views get ignored? >> i'm not real sure you're a bunch of right wing extremists, but if you are, i'm with you. >> john is this what the republican parties wants? a guy wo -- who kids around and embraces the far right? >> certainly i think that the republican party right now is a very it logical party. the story of reagan is a guy with extraordinarily good skills, with deep conviction, with a degree of certainty about himself that was lacking on the part of any other candidate. all those things are present in rick perry and not as pretty in mitt romney and they give

bottom line we need to roll back the reagan tax cuts that's. crazy or meet the friendly fracking talisman energy a company that specializes in fracking blowing toxic chemicals underground to extract natural gas launched a new campaign to make what they do more appealing to children it's a coloring book for kids starring talismans barrett a friendly franken soros and his adventures around a pristine environment with. eileen sun at the animals and trees that the pictures depict but the only different thing between that fracking does the environment is produce a vibrant rainbow yes fracking causes rainbows according to talisman energy it know that overall i guess the friendly frack resource is a better p.r. strategy than touting how your company contaminates water supplies all over the country it's unclear if other industries plan to jump on board with similar campaigns i could see the nuclear industry as radioactive racoon be a big hit or b.p.'s oil yacht or. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime. i think it may be the oil. we have the

after reagan. one thousand ad from one thousand nine hundred to basically today their incomes went up. by nearly twenty two million dollars that's a four hundred and three percent pay raise for people who are already the wealthiest americans so thanks to reagan the bottom ninety percent of us got a one percent pay raise all the top one one hundredth of one percent already read of already rich people got a four hundred and three percent pay raise. this is already happened. this is what the republicans don't want you to know. but there's more you know republicans are always saying that the wealthy pay the most taxes and that almost fifty percent of the country doesn't pay any charges at all because it over going to. so why. a large group of poor people indeed don't pay any federal income taxes they still pay tons of other taxes in fact of the include payroll taxes gas taxes sales taxes property taxes they pay more taxes than the rich as a percentage of their income take a look at this chart. showing

reagan. [applause] i tell people all the time that i was born and raised in ronald reagan's america. he was elected when i was in fourth grade. he left office when i was in high school. those are very important years, fourth grade through high school. those are the years that formed so much of what i believe and know to be true about the world and our nation. his era can be defined in most people's mind by the end of the cold war and the strong principles he stood for. he did not to believe that the soviet union and communism could fail, he believed it was inevitably destined to fail. he believed it was our obligation to accelerate the process. all we had to do with the americans and that would happen. that defined his presidency. that define his america -- defined his america in the time i grew up. there was something else the defined in. that was defining the proper role of government. he did that better than any american has done before. [applause] it has always been important for american

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you see the reagan administration. the debt more than doubled. the bush administration to get much further. the clinton administration actually started bringing down the debt, paying off the debt during the clinton administration. then we saw what happened in the second. administration. the debt absolutely skyrocketed going up over 2-1/2 times. when we look at the record of economic growth is very interesting. reagan who more than doubled the debt had a pretty good record of economic growth. 3.5%. . i who ran the debt up even further, 2.1% economic growth. clinton who actually paid down the debt had the best record of economic growth, 3.8% on average. bullish ii in place the massive tax cuts that. and deficits into debt had the worst record of economic growth averaging 1.6%. let's connect the dots. let's connect the dots. big increase in debt during the reagan administration but pretty good economic growth. . 1 --bush i economic debt faltered. clinton administration has the best record on deficits and debt and the best record on economic growth a

during the reagan administration, deficits expled. and you had -- you can see on the graph, deficits that averaged about $200 billion a year. during the first bush administration, the deficits actually got worse and ended up still in the range of $200 billion a year. president clinton inherited deficits of $200 billion a year, but yo can see by the end -- the last four years of his administration he was in the black. the budgets were balanced and for, i think, two or three of those years he actually stoppe using social security money to fund government operations. so -- and then of course we see what happened in the second bush administration. deficits absolutely exploded. absolutely exploded. the second bush administration was, b far, the worst on record of deficits and debt of any of these administrations. but by ft was the clinton administration. we can look at it a different way. this chart shows in dollar terms what happened to the debt. you can see the reagan administration, the debt well more than doubled. the bush administrati

ronald reagan gave me my start in politics. him that when i was able to vote -- i registered to vote and i worked on the campaign of ronald reagan as a volunteer. there was something just so inspirational and so positive about the way he approached our country. and it inspired me to get involved and i hope you can feel that same way about candidates that you will see in your future that want to lead our country. and with that optimism. i think that drew others and drew people from a variety of parties or the multiple sectors around our country. and felt that ronald reagan cared about the nation and dealing with the congress most specifically. you refer to the poll today that was in politico, that 85% of the american people think we are at a such low of civil discourse in our country and i think about president reagan whose arch enemy politically issues was the speaker of the house tip o'neill yet that never blended into how he spoke about him personally and vice versa. so there was a personal relationship between the two of the

ronald reagan. you look at reagan, his father was an alcoholic.ing on the frontier like lincoln but he described having to drag his father who was drunk and fainted off the front porch. he became president, he hated nuclear weapons. lincoln was famous were pardoning deserters, didn't want to kill these poor kids. you can see the same aspect in re began. his advisors feared if there was a nuclear attack on the united states he wouldn't retaliate because he couldn't bring himself to cause that kind of mayhem and mass murder. we now know reagan wrote his own radio scripts and had thoroughly thought through his conservatism and of course he had a wonderful sense of humor. one of my favorite reagan stories comes from when he was governor. he went to a meeting of the board of truss trees at the university of california. protests -- this was in the 1960's. protests broke out and his advisors wanted him to avoid the demonstrators by going out a back door. he said no, i'll walk right through them. he walks through hem, gets into his car, and the hippie typ

reagan is here.distinct honor to welcome former first lady nancy reagan, escorted by her special guest, senator marco rubio. [applause] [cheers and applause] [applause] [applause] [cheers and applause] >> now in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands. one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [applause] >> thank you all very much. please be seated. i would like to take just a quick moment to recognize some people who are with us today. from our board of trustees, governor pete wilson and his lovely wife and better half, gail. [applause] united states representative elton, and his wife janice. [applause] the honorable ga g-20 y vazzkezz. he was eighth u.s. ambassador to the united nations' agencies for food and alculture. [applause] >> from the ventura county board of supervisors, peter fo

reagan is here. it is my distinct honor to honor former first lady nancy reagan for escorted by her for -- her guest, senator, " rubio. -- mark rubio. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> in honor of our men and women in uniform, who defend our freedom around the world, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flight of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands on one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [applause] >> thank you very much. please be seated. i would like to take a quick moment to recognize some people better with us today. from our board of trustees, governor pete wilson, and his lovely wife and daughter half, gayle. -- better half, gayle. the hon. gaddy vasquez he was an ambassador for food and agriculture. from the ventura county board of supervisors, peter. all of your representatives from the city council's. -- councils. . last, but certainly not least, a special thank you to

so the first thing you want to do is in my judgment is what reagan did. reagan came in -- president obama acts as though he was the first president hu ever inheritehis country from the predecessor that wasn't perfect. think ofhat reagan -- remember the misery index under carter, added the inflation in unemployment and you were over 20%. reagan came in and said well we're goin to lighten the load of government on the private sector. we're going to cut taxes. we're going to cut regulations. this president has not done that, and i think it's time to try that. >> charlie: he also said we're going to increase the defense budget. >> you want the world program. coorate tax rate which is now even stagnant, japan has lower its corporate tax rate ours should be radically lower. >> charlie: can i startle you by saying the president of the united states is in favor of at. >> so he now says. i would lower it to zero because i don't believe corporations pay tax, they click taxes. they have to pass taxation on as a cost of doing business. i would eliminate the death tax

reagan's presence.lear to all of us that she was there as a protection for her husband. she really felt she had, um, her antenna there in support of her husband. people that were around him. so i think she had an enormous influence. i think she also was able to very effectively use the, um, diplomatic tools at her disposal to help present president reagan on the world stage whether it was through their, um, large number of wonderful state dinners where people, important relationships to us around the world were hosted in a way that was very respectful and that was beautifully done. so i think she's used the tools at her disposal to really help put her husband in the best light that she possibly could and using the venue, the stage of the white house around the world was one very effective way where she did that. >> she was also a great champion of the just say no campaign. >> yes. she had issues. >> working with young people around the nation. >> that's right. and foster grandparents. so things that she

reagan, for example, came up with the whole idea of what became the powell doctrine. that was sort of a gestation of sort of like 10 years. he thought about that and then his -- the next guy in line, george h.w. bush, picked that theme up, absolutely, 100%. when you got to clinton, the lesson he learned from that was not to take it and double and triple it, but to take it and drop it like a hot potato which is what he did with somalia right after black hawk down, that episode, so the answer to your question, yes, they do learn from another. when bush 2 came in, he said vietnam be damned. he took a harder view and he wasn't going to deal with vietnam. and yet when his second national security advisor steven hadley came in, hadley told us he would not take the job until he had gone to see president bush and he told him that he was worried that we're facing another vietnam in iraq and hadly didn't want to have any part of that. so he told bush if that's what you're thinking of -- if that's the way you see our policy evolving, i'll say no to the job offer. and this is a v

that's what reagan did. he is felt the correlation of force was against him and he had to take a knee and surrender. he did it on taxes in 1988. after his big tax cut, there was a revolt in congress, the deficit, helping the rich, the house was against him, the senate went south and there was no alternative. liberals point to that and say, reagan was in favor of increased taxes. which is absurd. it was entirely a tactical maneuver in being forced to give in. same thing with the soviet union. they say, reagan negotiated with gorbachev, this shows that reagan was in favor of negotiating with the enemy. yes, sometimes but he spent his entire first term not negotiating with the soviets because he wanted to build up our arms so we had the upper hand and the soviets knew we had the upper hand and wait until there was someone worth talking to, which there finally was in gorbachev. this is just a constant effort to beat this stuff back. the other person they're going to do it to is bill buckley. by the time his biog

it did work under reagan. i also got involved because a friend said to me i should join the republican party, the briefing delegates. at a time when michigan was going through a caucus ship, tried to make the determination between george h. walker bush, jack kemp, and robertson supporters, so my friend was a jack kemp supporter, and he got the ball in the party appeared much to his chagrin, i wound up being a bush supporter. >> in the 1990's, you wound of the and in local politics. when did you decide to run for politics? >> that was much later. that was in 2002, post- september 11 because as a state senator, you cannot affect national policy, and clearly this was a threat to the nation. it was a significant proportion to anything we have seen in the past, except for pearl harbor. to me, it was a place you could make a difference in terms of the national security of united states and protecting your community and moving it forward. in michigan, we also had some of the economic challenges that still confront us

reagan negotiated with gorbachev. reagan was in favor of negotiating with the enemy. sometimes. he spent his first term not negotiating with the soviets because he wanted to build our arms so we had the upper hand and he wanted to wait until there was someone worth talking to which he had in the form of gorbachev. this constant effort that you have to beat this back. the other person who will do it too is bill buckley. by the time his biography was written he will be a great liberal figure. they always want to engage in body snatching with our people and one reason they can do it is they have been so successful. the reason everyone can accept reagan's ends is because he achieved them. we realized he could drive the soviet union into the ground without a major war that cause nuclear armageddon. now they can all -- even liberals can accept it and try to make the case that he wasn't fundamentally one of us is just absurd. >> i am the founder of tea party and i am reading the national news. i have a question. for you a curve ball first. can you -- >> can you throw a soft curve ball?

maybe obama can look for lessons in reagan. >> well and his demeanor is rea.is a little bit like reagan meaning he's a very genial person. he's not very good at.at creating.he doesn't like enemies. he doesn't -- he kind of wants to not .you know maybe it's from having to negotiate the white/black racial divide so long, he's kind of a.likes to bring people together around him and in.so there's.even though they seem like opposite characters i see some reagan characteristics in obama. >> are you hopeful as much as.of history as you have read and studied and written about, are you hopeful for the place we are now? there are an awful lot of people who look at the state of our politics and the state of our society, we're sitting of course in the shadow of this horrible series of events in arizona, and people are just without hope. they.they.how are we gonna square people who don't wanna even talk to people they don't agree with? help us understand that. >> the late historian arthur schlesinger, jr. used to say that the point of history is to remind us that our times are not uniquely oppressiv

president reagan was true to that. we never lost the midwestern values and the influence that his mother's family and community had on his life. how important is that as a member of congress, congressman, senator, president of the united states, staying in tune and in touch with that home base, the home port, those people that you not only represent, but molded you and made you into who you became as an elected leader. >> it's very important. members of the house of representatives go home almost every weekend. there are a lot of weeks that they spend in their districts and the reason they do that is to stay connected with their constituents so that they know sort of so they have their finger on the pulse. so it's very important to remember where you are from and that probably helped form the values and the way you've made decisions about your politics and the way you are going to vote or vote in a presidential election or vote in congress. and so it's tremendously important and i think if you asked a lot of members of

thank you, michael reagan.day seizing on this remark from romney. >> we can raise taxes. everything corporations earn goes to the people. >>neil: corporations are people. how is that play out on the campaign trail? [ male announcer ] imagine all of your missed opportunities in one place. the winning horse you could have picked. ♪ that "old flame" you should have called. ♪ that leap of faith you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event, with exceptional values on the lexus is. but only until september 6th. see your lexus dealer. >>neil: and presidential candidate romney getting flak from the left over this remark. >> we have to make sure the promises we make in social security and medicaid and medicare are promised we can keep. they are various ways to do. we can raise taxes. that is not the way. corporations are people, my friend, we can raise taxes -- of course they, everything corporations earn goes to the people. where do think it goes? people'

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after reagan library. that is not what they wanted me to do. they just wanted -- they did inculcate in the simple, but profound, you will have the chance to do things that we never had a chance to do because you are an american and you live in america, and that is a powerful thing. now, that is the hope and dream of all americans. it is especially true in the of americanse oup of hispanic descent. there is a reason in all these other countries, the same family, the same people dominate everything came decade after decade. hear, an employee can put their boss out of business if they have a better idea and work harder. we have -- american free enterprise system is the only system in the world where that aspiration that i have outlined to you as any chance of succeeding. we've got to do a better job of communicating that, and if we do, the rest will take care of itself. [applause] >> it gives the years -- it gets easier. >> what position do you take from the defense hawks for higher military spending and the

reagan came up with the whole idea of what became the power doctrine. that was a period of gestation of ten years. he thought about that and then george h. w. bush picked that theme up 100%. when you have got to clinton the lesson he learned from that was not to take it and double and triple it but to take it and drop it like a hot potato. which he did with somalia after black hawk down. to answer your question they do learn from one another and when bush ii came in he was vietnam be damned. he took a very negative view. wasn't going to deal with vietnam. and yet when his national security adviser stephen hadley came in, had they told us that he would not take the job until he had gone to see president bush and had told him that he was worried that we are facing another vietnam in iraq and hadley didn't want to have any part of that he told bush if that is what you are thinking of, is that we you see our policy evolve and i say no to the job. this is a very honorable lawyer who never says no to a president but he did. bush assured him that he recognized

reagan didn't listen. in 1936, the economy was improving, but still bad, but they didn't believe the federal budget absolutely had to be balanced in that year, and in 1937, the government tried to do that, cutting spending radially, raised taxes, stock market crashed, unemployment skyrocketed to 19 years and world war ii to get a fully out of the depression. in some ways, i think, you know, the push towards austerity, the reluctance to do more is actually understandable today. it's a psychological and emotional reaction, and it's happened before, but we really, really need to struggle against it because it is ultimately an emotional reaction, and it's leading us towards very bad policies. >> thank you. >> hi, thank you very much for the most compelling discussion. i wanted to address more of the situation of professionals. you talked about the lawyer who can't find a job. we're seeing a shrinking of options for professionals. not the least of this is the fact that in india there's many college educated peo

most of us to pay more than that and we have been now for a decade since president bush put the reagan tax cuts on steroids back in two thousand and one and two thousand and three and as a result of the richest of the rich getting massive tax breaks and you and me getting screwed the wealth inequality in america is enormous so much so that back in october of two thousand and five report came out of citigroup suggesting that banks should stop worrying about what happened to the bottom ninety nine percent of americans all the action they wrote was with the top one percent more and more than the entire bottom sixty percent and who were richer than the bottom ninety percent citigroup even coined a new word for our economy forget about quaint notions like the american dream or the middle class we are now a plutonic me working people drove the engine of our economy from the one nine hundred thirty s. to the one nine hundred eighty s. when the reagan revolution turn the economy upside down not only did all growth for the middle class stopped but it went into reverse wages for most working peo

and certainly president reagan. when he came to office there was one fax machines. >> we had electric typewriters. >> the first fax machine i ever saw was in 1989 in the new bush administration was coming in. it's sort of unbelievable that you are connected as rachel said by the internet and can make the connections between young people in the middle east rising up over a dictatorship, wanting freedom, wanting the ability to have this kind of thing that you are participating in and to make that connection between them and yourself. i agree with rachel you're doing a lot more than you think you're doing but how you share this and, you know, help to proliferate the message that you're learning here, i think is really, really important. >> i'm from virginia. and this discussion is for any of you, but what about ronald reagan's beliefs and ideals do you think enabled him to have such a close relationship with house speaker tip o'neill despite their differing views? >> one thing that i think is important and then i'll le

is even if someone else wrote it reagan said this is by the way in the debate against walter mondale is brilliant stroke of genius because people were at the time as they should have been according to the history that came out of his all simers concerned about his age and he said i will see he was asked by the moderator if age was an appropriate issue for the campaign and reagan replied i will not use my opponent's youth and inexperience for political gain i yesterday we had the lemonade stand three here and the two beautiful women that joined me in studio have . seem to have had quite an effect on our audience as terror backdoor wrote made mclean i have had a crush on you since i saw you dancing at the jefferson memorial and c.f.r. b. writes wow these girls are smart bold and super hot i couldn't agree with you more but what really makes them such amazing women is that they were protesting for a beautiful cause i should just as long as i'm naming them made mcclane the other was catherine bill of course will duffield join us from pennsylvania the next comment is from the foot girl se

to this day in american politics, we speak of reagan republicans and reagan democrats, and that is the legacy of the 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 had never considered voting for a republican sized up ronald reagan and five do you know what? this is my kind of guy. he understands the country. he wants everyone to have a chance and he knows that in this world, the united states of 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 who wrote -- throughout history they came up a little short in the qualities of goodness and somehow when we remember this great man, we think of his goodness. he was engaged in the biggest events of his time, the kindness and courtesy were never ever beneath him. it is just the way he carried himself with

they're not reagan republicans.d their position is totally irresponsible and is really a shame that they try to rewrite and reinvent history when the facts speak so clearly, as i think we've outlined them here. >> well, washington's debt showdown cost american tax pairs more than $1.7 billion. that's the amount of additional interest that the u.s. had to pay to investors on monday to sell treasury bills to finance its operations. but what about the consequences of spending cuts resulting from this new plan? some of america's seniors who depend on social security and medicare are woifred. >> very worried because i put a lot of time into social security and medicare, and that's why i depend on medicare because where it is now, if i didn't have med character i wouldn't be able to go do the doctors and stuff, so i'm very seriously concerned about that. >> i am concerned because i've never seen this country turn its back on seniors. that's how i feel. no raise, no cost of living, nothing's going down, everything's going

administration and elevated billionaires to to very high status people you know starting with reagan's inaugural ball and you know it's i kind of like jimmy carter working for any our next comment is also from the brand this viewer called to share her outrage about the lack of shared sacrifice from wealthy corporations and the millionaires and billionaires who become the patrons speaking of today's republican party but look at them illegal no we don't tax the corporations that are well take the fifth i don't believe a lot of this picture is getting away with the republican sham it they put upon the cadre of the people we didn't do this to a get the majority of analysts agreed today that the debt deal struck between the white house and the republican leadership is overall a win for the g.o.p. because the republicans achieved drooled rules they avoided tax increases and they got a dollar for dollar cut in spending to match the amount by which the debt limit is going to be raised so you know this is a this is a real problem and if president obama was going into this full tilt boogie gun.

you can see the same aspect in reagan.is advisers feared that if there was ever an attack on the united states, that he would not be able to bring himself to cause that kind of mayhem and mass murder. we know that reagan broke his own radio scripts and had thoroughly fought through his conservatism. of course, he had a wonderful sense of humor. one of my favorite stories of his was when he was at a meeting with a board of trustees in california. protests broke out everywhere. advisers had wanted him to avoid this. he walked through the room and got into his car. dirty, hippie-types, they started pounding on his car, he's -- chanting "we are the future." reportedly, reagan cracked his window and said "in that case, i will sell my bonds." these were deeply modest men, lincoln and the reagan. deeply grounded men. they understood human nature. they were realists. peggy noonan writes a joke about reagan that she thinks captures his aspect. a man's wife runs away with a gardener. a neighbor comes by to try to talk to her and say

worker today is making twenty seven hundred dollars less per year than he was making when ronald reagan came into office they've been stealing us blind it's an insane theory it's time to put it to bed it's time to put it to you and you know give it a nice funeral let's go back to classical economics. and . we have another new segment for you and i regular listeners of my radio show are familiar with the geeky science segment i've been doing for eight years my chance to share what i think is a really interesting science story every week science news is reporting this week that stone age this is the story by the way the stone age human ancestors living in south africa's pinnacle point they have learned to keep track of the tides it was from tides in order to harvest shellfish and their access to this food source which is bringing food extraordinarily may have played an important role in human evolution archaeologist from arizona state university their phone artifacts in a cave in south africa that attests to complex thinking and behavior including lunar literacy in other words you know wh

says she is okay and that's after an apparent tumble and the slip happened in reagan's library. you can see they caught her there. she was kept on her feet by marco rubio and he had been invited by reagan to speak at her husband library. >>> and as soon as today now he has been cleared to leave the united states and a judge in new york sighted he dropped sexual assault charges the leader against the monetary funds. they can no longer accused dominique strauss-kahn of attacking her and he says he plans on heading back home. >> it is the end of an unjust time. i am relieved for my wife and friends and all those who supported us through this period. >> now the accusations forced dominique strauss-kahn to resign as head of the ems and derailed his plans to run as president of the france. >>> and in the decades old cold case, jeanine disappeared in 2001 and her body has never been found. she was killed by harm's brother who then killed himself. further discussion of this case will be today during the announcement. >>> his car plunged over a cliff and spent two days waiting to be resc

. >> stephen: what about reagan? he handled the united states beautifully in a time of crisis going up against the soviet union, obviously the invasion of grenada, and he was perfectly normal. his idea of, you know, being wild was to put two different flavored jelly beans in his mouth at the same time. (laughter) >> stephen: do you see anything in reagan, was there anything in his past that would suggest the kind of creative opportunity that a mental illness might bring? >> i would agree with you that reagan was perfectly normal. i'm not sure i would agree with you about his great leadership. i think we have had-- . >> stephen: you he personally kicked down the berlin wall, sir. >> did he? (laughter) in the list of normal average leaders who we've have had who many people would say have to the been very successful, the ones that i think there would be little debate about would be people like general george mcclellan and neville chamberlain in world war ii and maybe in recent times a lot of our recent presidents inclu

. >>> former first lady nancy reagan took a tumble during an event at the reagan presidential libraryly florida senator marco rubio was there to save the day. he caught the 90-year-old as she stumbled. mrs. reagan was not hurt. >>> hot on the web today in one of the top google searches this hour. legendary tennessee women's basketball coach pat shum mitt facing her toughest opponent. she said she's suffering from early on set dementia. summit has more wins in college basketball history, men or women. she is 59 years old. she's been at tennessee for 37 seasons and has won eight national championships. >>> as if there wasn't enough diet books out there, now comes one aimed at children ages 6 to 14. doctors say it just sends the wrong message. that the book may actually make things worse for kids strug wlg their kid. they worry it could end up leading to eating disorders. it's called maggie goes on a diet. kids aren't supposed to diet. it's the story of a girl who transforms hrs from a chubby teen to a slender soccer star. >>> i just really -- are they or aren't they splitting up? a repo

ronald reagan was called a dummy. one of the most eloquent presidents we ever had who could speak spontaneously far better than our current president. no insult intended. it is just a fact. he was called stupid. so they had a dilemma. it turns out he wasn't a dummy. he was quite bright. what did the left do? a professor of history at stanford named sanford bernstein -- perfect. we have it. it is from a terrific new biography. the next speaker following me gave us this book. if you listen to him he is terrific. and arthur brooks when we visited him. this is a biography by peter wallace and. left page. scholars still puzzled by this contradiction have reached for some highly unlikely explanations. historian barton bernstein, professor of history at stanford has speculated that perhaps reagan learned as a young man to hide his intelligence because it was not valued in the midwest world in which he grew up. is that amazing? that is how they can't deal with the idea that we might be as intelligent as they or as kind as the

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and -- in front of nancy reagan at ronald reagan library.y did say something very simple and profound. you will have a chance to do things we never had a chance to do because you are an american and you live in america, that as a powerful thing. that is the hope and dream of all americans. it is especially true of americans of hispanic descent. the only economic system where that is possible is the free enterprise system. there is a reason that in these other countries, the same people dominates a decade after decade. hear an employee can put their boss out of business if they have a better idea and work harder. the american free enterprise system is the only system in a world where that aspiration has any chance of succeeding. we have got to do a better job of communicating about, and if we do, the rest will take care of itself. [applause] >> they get easier. >> in the upcoming budget battle, what position do you take between the defense talks for higher military spending and the anti-tax and groups? >> on the tax front, our tax code is bro