but he sent reagan a letter saying that he endorsed his idea for this crime-fighting academy, and reagan then used that letter during his campaign. >> microphones? >> yeah. my name is liz, and i have two questions. i'm wondering, is there any possibility aoki is milking the fbi for information and manipulating them? [applause] and then my other question, the most shocking thing i heard you say tonight is that in the middle of the cold war, j. edgar hoover can't just say fire clark cur and everybody falls in line. i'm curious to know, i mean, pat brown and everybody else, how they managed that. >> right. well, in regard to aoki as i've stated before, the fbi redacted all the summaries, so we don't know what information he did or didn't provide, and we don't know if the fbi even knew he was arming the black panthers. so i can't speculate on that. as a journalist, i don't want to speculate on that. i just wanted to report the facts that i could determine. and then in regard to hoover, i think things are more complex even at the height of the cold war. hoover could not simply issue an edict

treason until years later reagan went to his grave with a secret as did his campaign manager who he made head of the cia by the way bill case perhaps for the same reason that l.b.j. told ever dirksen in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight that he wouldn't out nixon as a traitor. i don't act. like it was shock america back spokane a good bush playing where george strike on a matter of this importance. so again the american people were kept in the dark this time about the republican candidate being a traitor. the next republican running for president in a serious way was george w. bush and his brother who was governor of florida knew that the only way george could win was of tens of thousands of democratic voters were purged from the voter rolls suggest ordered secretary of state katherine harris to produce to me to purge tens of thousands of largely african-american voters from the rolls which she did harris could nearly sixty thousand mostly african-american voters off the rolls claiming that those people who comprise three percent of the entire african-american electorate in flor

it was surprisingly in formal, nancy reagan told me. we had to walk through their bedroom and line up on a table where boxes of cereal, i said to prince charles, what do i do? and he said help yourself. it wasn't anything like i imagine, she said. the most famous part of that visit was the ride on horseback by ronald reagan and the queen which was a photo opportunity that had taken months of orchestration by white house officials and british diplomats. reagan told reporters afterwards that the queen was charming and down to earth and he observed that she was really in charge of that animal. reagan returned to favor the following february when they invited the royal couple on a ten day visit to california, fulfilling the queen's long-held dream of seeing the west coast of the united states. but instead of the fabled california sunshine, it poured from san diego to san francisco. it even rained out in the desert in palm springs during their emotion at their home of former british ambassador walter adams. when the queen insisted on braving

it's president reagan, their hero.e also said this. >> we're going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allowed the truly wealthy to avoid pay their fair share. in theory, some of those loopholes were understandable but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing while a bus driver was paying 10% of their salary. that's crazy. do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes or less? >> a millionaire should pay less in taxes than a bus driver. that's what this whole debate in washington right now is all about. joining me now is e.j. dionne from "the washington post." thank you for your time tonight. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> what do you think when you compare reagan in clips like that kind of talk we're hearing from john boehner today? >> you know, i do sometimes think that ronald reagan might well lose a republican primary these days because he's too moderate. somebody once said it's better than it sounds. and reagan governed in a far more moderate way than he

did just fine although their wealth root about the same rate as everybody else's next came ronald reagan who began the complete reversal of the previous fifty years of highly successful progressive policies for the first time in history the department of labor was headed up by a man who hated unions and the rights of working people came under such an oppressive entered to solve a union representation in america's private sector has gone from over thirty percent to around eight percent today same thing happened with the department of education and while before reagan eighty percent of the cost of college educations nationwide were picked up by the federal government and many colleges were free today there are no more free colleges and only twenty percent of the cost of college education is picked up by government grading killed free college education and california's governor there and then presided over the death of it nationwide as president reagan halted the growth and maintenance of our infrastructure so completely it is now crumbling into third world status it is strong in the growth

it was surprisingly informal, nancy reagan told me. we had to walk through their bedroom and line up on a table where boxes of cereal were. i said to prince charles, what do i do? and he said, just help yourself. there wasn't anything like i had imagined, she said. the most famous part of that visit was the ride on horseback by ronald reagan and the queen. .. when they invited the royal couple on a 10 day visit to california, fulfilling the queen's long-held trained in seeing the west coast of the united states. but instead of disabled california sunshine, airport from san diego to go. it even rained in the desert in palm springs during their lunch ends at the home of former british ambassador walter annenberg.braving the when the queen insisted onhe bringing elements to tour the for granted is 208-acre estate,e she hopped into the maintenancel car that was filled with mops and brooms. reagan had promised the queenren horseback at his rancho del see yellow on a mountaintop near santa barbara. the relentless downpour fd of drive vehicle

when ronald reagan was reelected in 1984, ronald reagan won this many states on the electoral map. you can stop your counting. he won 49. ronald reagan, 49 states. it was a landslide. look at the electoral vote tally. ronald reagan, 525, walter mondale, 25. president reagan decided what he was going to sail toward, what he would prioritize after that overwhelming endorsement of him as president, what he would work on was war in central america. >> president reagan warned of a new danger, support for the leftist government from nicaragua. the president sees that as still another reason we should renew our support of the rebels. >> a new danger we see in central america is the support being given by gadhafi's libya and most recently iran. >> the iranian connection was brought up as he put pressure on congress to resume funding for the rebels in nicaragua. >> countering this by supporting freedom fighters is essentially acting in self-defense. >> self-defense, which would be true if he were the president of nicaragua. but as president of the united states of america, president reagan

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president reagan appointed her in 1981. >> president reagan appointed the first woman to serve. a couple of people were asked to check my record. there was plenty of old newspapers and stuff about me. so they had to check it all out. >> no -- that the time. >> no no -- at that time. not too long after i was sitting in my chambers at the court of appeals in arizona, and the phone rang and it was the white house calling. president reagan said, sandra. yes mr. president. i would like to announce your nomination for u.s. supreme court, is that all right with you. well-- gulp. what do you say to that? i don't know. i guess mr. president. and i had to go home that afternoon and then tell my husband. you won't believe the phone call i had today. certainly affected his life even more than mine. and so, that was how i got appointed. but i think what interested ronald reagan was my life as council. he loves riding horses. and he kept some horses, even in the white house he had some horses for he and his wife. now the place where the parkway is. i even borrowed them a couple of types to go

reagan.hat you want, you should tax. what you don't want as a society, what you don't want is a society, rather, you should tax and what you do want you should subsidize. my god, if there's anything we should be subsidizing, it's medical devices and research and medicine and science. and here is the administration coming with a 2.3% tax on companies, many of which are not profitable. shannon: yeah. and that's just one of many, many taxes tucked into the bill, but, of course, more than 3,000 pages and most members of congress admitted they didn't read it. it's good to see you, thank you so much for weighing in. >>> the resignation of the nation's spy chief has the pentagon releasing its version of events of the terror attacks in libya that left four americans dead. we're going to show you that timeline. and what looks like a joke is growing bigger. [ male announcer ] when was the last time something made your jaw drop? campbell's has 24 new soups that will make it drop over, and over again. ♪

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say this, say this about ronald reagan.olitics and understood compromise. republicans, to call him their hero should take a page from his book. understand you don't get anywhere listening just to wingnuts. don't abandon your principles when you do it. >> dana: oy.

didn't happen and the reason why mitt romney really was no ronald reagan is because ron reagan connected with voters he was an actor he had that ability to even you know even though he. might not understand or or voters might not be able to connect with his his life style ronald reagan's life style i mean obviously he was he was very well off but at the same time he was able to to connect with them on a very personal level that twinkle in his eye they feel that they like to able to connect with democrat was democratic crossover democratic independent voters who he appealed to mitt romney didn't have that appeal so it wasn't the same kind of you know steve i mean i'm kind of neutral here on this one ok but i'll give. you're a man what credit for he's a great campaigner i don't know if he's a great president i don't know if he's a great politician but he's a great campaigner he was just more likable than romney i think you'd agree with that but the third point at least. actually i think he's personally much much more likable than mitt romney but the final exit polls actually showed that ro

we talked about this and the classic case ronald reagan. >> don reagan his chief of staff. >> absolutelyassive jim baker as chief of staff went to don reagan secretary of treasury came to the president and said we've agreed to trade our jobs is that okay with you? reagan said fine. >> someone your own age to play with you. >> what do you think of that, doug? >> well, i just don't think it's as big of worry about a cabinet shuffle and white house shuffles compared to what reagan did with his diplomacy with gorbachev. the ronald reagan that margaret thatcher won the cold war without firing a single shot. >> howard baker -- because howard baker, came in and saved his bacon. >> they did. that's a point -- >> chris -- >> doug? >> and also, i was just going to say in the pipeline or a lot of first term obama has a lot of things in the pipeline. you can do in a second with things you can't do with executive power. sign off today on 15 national monuments for the interior department ken salazar has not been able to touch because of politics. there's a strength to a second term. i agree generally

reagan doubled his. clinton doubled his. bush increased his. i was very happy with the number. not every republican not to win, but most took the pledge. to people who took the pledge and broke it either cannot run again or were defeated in the last election. we played a role in focusing on that. we do want to argue if you promise you we're not going to raise taxes and you do, i am sure people in your district is aware that he made the commitment and that you broke it. >> as taxes play a key role, if people break the pledge in the next two years, what does that mean? >> we saw what happened when people break the pledge with the senator from nebraska who cannot even run for reelection because he cannot get his numbers up enough to run. ben chandler ran, saying he would be conservative and government as a tax increase and was defeated by a district that was made more democratic. then you have george herbert walker bush is the example of the guy that was elected and made a commitment not to raise taxes. he defeated the soviet union. he defeated iraq. and did not get stuck occupyin

droids in this car two generations ago the right was whipping up hysteria about taxes and regulation reagan told us that even though the decades of the fifty's sixty's and seventy's were the strongest in american history in terms of g.d.p. growth and growth of the middle class still taxes on rich people were so high and regulation of industry so bad if we didn't do something about it now then disasters would happen they got us to spend trillions giving tax breaks to billionaires and deregulated giant corporations so that they could destroy most of america's small and medium sized businesses in the great mergers and acquisitions frenzy of the eighty's and they made a fortune doing it and in this generation the right is whipping up hysteria about our national debt they want to be afraid very afraid that because of their war on drugs and the war and communism in their war on taxes their war and regulation our country is now trillions of dollars in debt it becomes particularly ironic when they get hysterical about a program that goes into effect at the end of his year it will modestly raise tax

that comes out of the economics of ronald reagan.th america is decimated by the international monetary fund and world bank. the people turned against it. these are democratically elected new leaders in the 21st century. they came in because of the disastrous policies of ronald reagan. >> i want to get to president obama. in the last chapter of your book, it is called "obama: managing and wounded empire." you are fiercely critical of him, but he also supports him. >> i support him because the military was more frightening. it is a limited choice americans have. we no longer live in a national security state. i think it is a global security state. obama has made it clear, as did romney, it is about american power. we are the "indispensable" nation in the world. it is a form of american exceptionalism. he made it clear he was going to take trips and so forth out of afghanistan and iraq, but committed on a full spectrum dominance to a containment of china. he said it. hillary clinton has said the 21st century will be america's pacific ce

ronald reagan interested him a lot, particularly that reagan could do business with people like tip o'neild kennedy, and he felt with mitch mcdonnell there was nobody to do business with, perhaps now with boehner you'll see him -- boehner taking a historic role with his -- the fiscal problem we have. maybe they'll be able to work together, better in a second term. >> was his interests more on the personal characters and personal trades of the preceding presidents and their weaknesses and strengths? or was it more on policies and how they dealt with the crisis at their time? >> i think more on the crisis in policy. these are very relaxed dinners action it's said, like i said, as a book club. he was very gracious, just going around and letting people talk about what they're working on, and ask different questions, realizing he can't repeat the past, that things are different, but what can you learn from them? you realize that someone like franklin roosevelt is endlessly talking about. can we have a conservation corps now? is that doable? there's a lot of things -- he's looking at history, yo

if you think of ronald reagan and george bush sr., clearly the asians, certainly asian elites preferredhem. what's the mood right now among asia's elite? >> well, let me emphasize one point. both romney and obama will be acceptable to the asians. you know, the day that both are very careful, pragmatic souls. romney has surged to the center after he got the republican nomination, and you're right, in general republicans have done very well in asia. at the same time to be absolutely accurate, there's no doubt there's a clear preference for obama in the region. how many presidents do you know have spent their childhood in asia. especially like indonesia, how many speak the asian and have a sensitivity that obama has. so i guess the clear preference, too, would be for obama over romney. >> the one country, i mean if you had a survey in which they asked countries whom you'd prefer, i think all the countries were polled. except one that preferred obama, that one country was pakistan, which i assume thinks it will have fewer drone attacks if romney is president, which i think may be a mistaken

can afford to pay that was over two hundred years ago have we forgotten that yeah well and ronald reagan actually had in eighty seven i believe it was had for one year had both the earned income and the unearned income or the capital gains rate both the twenty eight percent and famously said to a group of people get the paper out or someplace you know should a millionaire pay a lower tax rate than a bus driver i don't think so that's crazy yes but the modern day republican party of the twenty first century republican party that wants to lead us back to the eighteenth century they're the ones who think that somehow or other ronald reagan was wrong and that rich people should pay less than poor people one taxes even though they have a vastly greater ability to pay that's incorrect i'm told we have the reagan clip i'll just lay riff off this here it is. it's a letter from a man out here in the country an executive loser earning him six figures well above one hundred thousand dollars a year. he wrote me in support of the tax plan because he said i am legally able to take advantage of the pre

or that they were in the wreck during the time the reagan radio who knew of primary had a one hundred day ross perot is not talking about the rally going to the jack raid well yeah george testbench w. bush tries talking about but he was talking about the trade george not the not the know you start of the federal budget and george h.w. bush actually wanted to assert the line item veto you know that you cut really well for him doing it well you didn't get it but i don't want about our republican primary voters is this a drudge today pew has a poll out for the first time with fifty four percent of americans saying that health care is not a responsibility of the federal government who do you think is making up the lion's share of that fifty four percent of republican primary voters that pushes very dramatically on these you know related story we have the so-called fiscal cliff which i think is just a scam we're hearing from republicans in the media that you know we have to have a balanced approach this seems to me like one of these false equivalency things if billionaires are going to pay

election to get those eight years of clinton and four years of obama they didn't count it's reagan's fault that black friday people are killing themselves at victoria's secret for a shot if you going to attack me as a portion of my program in the process at least get the right. rant was from november twenty sixth not the twenty seventh but more importantly if you really think that the decline of the american middle class is a laughing matter do you really think that millions of americans struggling to survive as they live paycheck to paycheck is a joke if you do well it's just very fair. coming up the phone lines are now open for our your take my take it live segment so if you want the chance to ask me a question live on the big picture give us a call it two or two nine zero four twenty one thirty four i be talking to you after the break. you you. you go for you. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you. see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm tom are welcome to the big picture.

"saving the school" tells the story of reagan high school in east austin. it opened in the 60s as pride of the city, a place that won consecutive championships war europe, big blue banners all over town and 40 years later not much more than a generation, a place that rated academically unacceptable by the state four years in a row. a lot of families fled for the escape hatches of charter schools and other public schools across the highway and the year representative strama is referring to is the 2009-2010 school year and what the book traces is one year deadline teachers and administrators reagan had to for lack of a better term saves the schools. it follows the principle, a dynamo, chemistry teacher, basketball coach, and has they tried to raise scores which involve a lot of gaining of a broken system and data analysis and number crunching and realize they are not going to be able to save the school in a sustainable fashion with bringing numbers up. a new group of kids will come through needing a bunch of tutoring. and put into place the thing that a lot o

if you thing of ronald reagan and george bush senior, clearly the elites preferred them. what's the mood right now among its elite? >> well, let me emphasize one point. both romney and obama will be acceptable to them. you know, the day that both are very careful, prak mattic souls. at the same time there's no doubt there's a clear preference for obama in the region. how many presidents do you know have spent their childhood in asia. how many speak the asian agents and have a sensitivity that obama has. so i guess the clear preference, too, would be for obama over romney. >> the one country, i mean if you had a survey in which they asked countries whom you'd prefer, i think all the countries were polled. one country was pakistan, which i assume thinks it will have fewer drone attacks if romney is president, which i think maybe be a mistaken assumption. one place not polled that would also be possibly true, israel. would you say in israel romney would be preferred to obama? >> it's not that simple. i think they're just as divided. it's absolutely true that the israeli cent

let us look at the temperature. 52 at reagan national. lookout drive the air is. the wind is at 21 miles per hour. that is a steady wind, not the cost. where gusting at 30 miles per hour. 48 in winchester. off to the west, 46, cumberland. right at the freezing point and garrett county and oakland. feels like 41 in winchester. feels like 25 in garrett county. and 46 at reagan national. a blustery day outside. transitioning into that time of year. not too cold this morning. winds of the northwest steady at 22 miles per hour in culpeper. the gusts in excess of 30 miles per hour and a few locations. here is the nor'easter now. basically moving right over and just to the east of cape cod. this is responsible for an average of about half a foot of snow in new jersey, central park and 4.7 inches. parts of connecticut had a foot of snow. that was an exception. it was not the norm. very strong system that produces a heavy snow. parts of new england here. xing and moving on out. that is why it is a gusty outside. and yesterday as well. let us focus here. the big old high pr

show last into the weekend. 36 of reagan national.with the exception of annapolis on the day at 42. 32 at dulles. 30 in gaithersburg. 36 and fredericksburg. temperatures may stay in the 40's with clear conditions which a top out around 50 in the district. your seven-day in a minute but let us get a check on traffic. >> thank you. a traffic moving pretty well. 395 and from springfield into the district. as a matter with your alexandria and arlington across the bridge, no early incidents. we look pretty good all the way up through 95 in the main lanes. and the express lanes. a problem in prince william county, an accident and earlier this hour closing the southbound prince william parkway at wellington road. the other direction is open. watch for the southbound closure. and over to springfield up to springfield, it looks pretty good. traffic on your left good and the hov lanes good. back to you. >> thank you. we will begin with the scandal involving david petraeus. president obama expected to make his first comments on the scandal, dest

two deputies opened fire on reagan's suv.y stopped in charlotte hall and arrested. >>> coming up next, some high- tech buffs bat it would out in d.c. have you ever heard of a hackathon? >> never. >> it involves web sites and apps. we'll have details of the competition coming up. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back. web site and app developers have gathered in d.c. for what is called a hackathon, all part of a large are event for techies taking place in the district this week. >> what exactly is a hackathon? lauren demarco explains. co exp >> reporter: this week, d.c. is also the nation's digital capital. there is a festival under way focused on bringing together designers, developers and entrepreneurs. coproducer peter corbett says it is a meshing of some of the brightest minds in the field. >> if they pump into each other, they come up with better ideas, form companies and hope any, they stay in washington, d.c. and build that creative economy that we know is all important for the future of the area. >> repor

should hope so. >> i'm getting a reagan tattoo on my face. but what i want to tell you is that ronald reagan agreed to tax reform that led to lower tax rates but also higher tax revenues from rich folks because it got rid of loopholes and deductions. >> stephen: you lower tax rates, revenues get higher. i already said that earlier. >> it's a complicated thing. >> stephen: it's not complicated lower/higher. >> you can get revenue gains from making it cleaner and fairer and more transparent and that's what republicans --. >> stephen: wait, simplifying the tax code, closing loopholes, is that not raising taxes? are those two things different? >> you have hit on a very tricky and important issue, stephen, which is that, yes, there's a way to raise average tax rates on high earners without raising the marginal tax rate on high earners. >> stephen: wow, i'm interested in what you just said and yet it's incrediblebly boring at the same time. (laughter) >> fair enough. i'm trying to say that you can industrial a 35% top rate and say wait a second, ri

their release came minutes after reagan took the oath of office. here's our coverage now from that day and the following day when details of the hostage ordeal became public. >> the scene you're seeing now is live in frank ford. as i said that plane landed just moments ago. the hostages are walking off. they'll be taken to the american hospital there. the president's inauguration was to be the big event of today but within hours of taking office came word that after 444 agonizing days of captivity the 250 american hostages have been flown out of the iranian airport. two planes had just landed at frankford west germany. they just landed a few moments ago. buses will take the hostages the last few miles. this journey began this morning as two algears jets lifted in tehran airport. >> the hostages have been waiting hours, some have known for days they were to be freed others were told just minutes in advance. the americans had to pass of lengths of american students chanting death to america. each hostage was carefully held at the bus until the studen

had brought jude wineskin as a as an advisor to the reagan administration when askew in one thousand nine hundred seventy six wrote a piece for i think it was human events. go on i'd have to go back and look but and he. was in earlier in the investor this is at the tail end that grover did this dude was out of their skin and in one thousand nine hundred one right he was one of the early guys but in seventy six he wrote this piece in which it was it was titled do you know the to santa claus there and his his it was the national observer sees me and his hypothesis was that the democrats had always been santa claus they brought you know soul security medicare on employment workplace safety unions all these things food stamps democrats are sad because they're giving people stuff republicans always said no can't do that can't afford that republicans were scrooge republicans a had to figure out how to become santa clause so let's become the tax cut santa clause and that's where grover comes in and b. they had to figure out how to force the democrats to shoot santa clause their own set of l

what we're seeing here at reagan national, just wet tarmac. no problems here. but in new york, we are seeing cancellations. take a look at the board here. sort of hit or miss. this is laguardia airport. the 6:00 a.m. is on time, but the 6:15 has been cancelled. if you look down the line, it's a similar situation. the 7:00 on time. the 7:59 is cancelled. the advice is that you're just going to have to call your airline. yesterday they were recommending that passengers actually cancel or rearrange their flights to avoid that area if possible. it really depends on your need and when you need to be to your destination. but keep in mind that there is a possibility that you could see cancellations and delays today. if you are flexible, you might want to do that. certainly you're going to want to call your airline ahead of time. the flights in the new york area, they had many, many cancellations yesterday. as of 4:00 p.m. yesterday, 1,300 flights cancelled. 40% of them were at the newark airport. still expecting big problems there today. whenever you see cancellations

worked reagan landslide.and it. >> right. >> learned how to what lessons should johnhn his staff draw from what and whathould the president learn? >> there's a line i'm on. when tip gorbachev before reagan metchev said what are you? i'm the leader. he was delivering a message from reagan.[ he said no ly i'm the so the gorbachev is think's going to be, "itdisagree about ever profoundt. whichht off foreign policgs like that we can agree reform. just start working togetheroviet union. argue what the division is butz@60/40 democrat. vp[ulc so when you cut and then when tip won the'8k]2 as you remember they had aolution on social security, whicespeknow? you caucuses and by the people. you've got to respect them. and both of youte. so you cut a you dooing to cutime but you've got a deal. the trouble is if you have to deal with the tea party people, they're not the mak around them do. if they're not going to cu deal, you've got to work around them. that his ronald reab tip o'neill that writes that after the marines

with reagan's revolution in the one nine hundred eighty s. alexander hamilton eleven point plan was not totally scrapped at least dented badly terrorists were ditched and then bill clinton moved into the white house in the one nine hundred ninety s. continued reagan's trade policies and then even went even further committed the united states to so-called free trade agreements like gatt nafta and joining the deputy o. removing virtually all the protections that had kept our domestic manufacturing industries safe from foreign corporate predators for two hundred years in the one nine hundred ninety two presidential debate third party candidate ross perot famously warned about a jar and sucking sound of american jobs going south of the border to low wage nations. first i have to do is get all these folks we've got these want to trade agreements that we've negotiated over the years and say fellows will fight the same deal we gave you. and they are good rock right at that point we have got to stop sending jobs overseas there will be a job sucking s