these years to reagan. peter hannaford said last week at the reagan library that reagan early on, he and b--o'connor said this, made a commitment to arrange his life around his taping schedule. so although he was giving 10 speeches a month around the country on behalf of conservative causes, he was always in the radio sta--the studio to do the broadcasts. so he would write them on planes, at the ranch, in the back of cars, wherever he could write them. and i don't know if you'd like to play the second one, but he describes how he writes them in his final radio broadcast in the fall of 1979, the very day that he announces he's going to run for the president of the united states. c-span: and this is also--i mean, this is from the o'connor collection. it's at the hoover... >> guest: right. it's at the hoover institution that's now preserved on cd. c-span: yeah. well, let's--let's run this one, ok? >> guest: ok. mr. reagan: (from radio broadcast) for the last time, i'm cleaning up my desk with a few items you s

sincerely, ronald reagan.w hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the killing of children and women in newtown, connecticut. newt gingrich doesn't blame the easy availability of assault weapons in this country for the murder of 26 at the sandy hook elementary school. he blames this. >> an anti-religious secular bureaucracy, and secular judiciary, seeking to drive god out of public life. >> newt gingrich was one of the members of congress who received that letter in 1994 co-signed by president reagan, asking him to vote yes on a ban on the domestic manufacture of mili

reagan or themselves. say one-term president george h.w. bush and everyone will be right about that. democrats will say bill clinton and they will be wrong. that leaves the last man standing, newt gingrich. i think that i can safely assume that none of you chose newt gingrich as the person who had the most lasting and influential on our politics and governing. and that is because the american media covers the presidency the way the british covers the monarchy. they pretend that we have a king, that nobody could possibly be more important than the president. the media simply refuses to comprehend how powerful congress is and how powerful the speaker of the house can be, something that the founding fathers discovered. why are republicans wrong when they say that reagan was such a great president? because nothing of reaganism survived his presidency. there is no reagan legacy. republicans lie to themselves and they try to lie to history about reagan being an anti-tax fanatic like republicans have become but t

exactly what president reagan assigned to delay tactic. i would say people at the time, reagan didn't pay that much attention to details. his eyes would glaze over, numbers of missiles and warheads and stuff and fruit, didn't look at those things. he concentrated on basically how do i understand a fellow? how do i convince him to do something that is in his own interests? his current policies are not. we spent much more time and i think effective time talking to reagan about where gorbachev was coming from. what his pressures were, and one of the things we needed to do was in this process to convince him we are not out to do them in. among other things, reagan said in the same memo human-rights was too important to carry out entirely as a public policy. we are much too upfront. if we confront him publicly no politician can back down. we got to handle this more privately. he began to move off the shouting at each other, condemning each other. not that that stopped totally but more and more putting it into a dialogue and a reasonable dialogu

library was president reagan. so join me for a minute. we want to show you part of president reagan's farewell address. his last speech in the oval office but i think this captures perfectly why we have an american legacy book tour. >> there's a great tradition of warning in presidential farewells, and i've got one that's been on my mind for some time. and hardly enough, ma it starts with one of the things i'm proud enough in the past ages. the resurgence of national pride that i called the new patriotism. this national feeling is good. but it won't count for much and it won't last unless it's grounded in thoughtfulness and knowledge. and informed patriotism is what we want. and are we doing a good enough job to teach our children what america is and what she represents in the long history of the world? those of us who are over 35, grew up in a different america. we would talk very directly what it means to be an american. and we have a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. if you didn't get the

and f i can get reagan to quote reagan. there's a power that he did that is remarkable. i50 prptd of the explanation why we're in the mess we're in. nose of us who are conservative lacked the courage to take on the school board, the teachers union, the local academic elite, the news media, the entertainment culture. we seeded ground which has crippled this understand's of itself. part of what we have done her case for 4 to 8-year-old with the ellis the elephant and my case writing novels to try to get across to the american people. it's a country worth knowing and you know it by learning the history. you become an american. any other place in the world you can claim genetic pattern geography. you can come here from haiti, somalia, in cast list my case they came from places like scotland and ireland. you can come from anywhere and learn to be ab american. to do that you have to learn to be an american. if you an academic aleet and news media elite and opposed 6 teaching you how to be an american. you literally cut off the li

reagan. one of them was when the dog sniffing bob's came in and urinated on my boss' briefcase. [laughter] to this day he thinks it's me. [laughter] and it might have been. [laughter] the great thing about dogs, they don't live long enough to tell stories. move the unicorn over here. so the dinner, i often tell people that i shared an intimate dinner with ronald reagan. that's what i tell people, and it is true. it is true. because after the dinner was over i actually took the dinner and took it to the kitchen and i ate it. and i'm not kidding. so technically, i shared an intimate check and then with ronald reagan. -- chicken dinner with ronald reagan. the embarrassing part of our meeting is how do you have this amazing opportunity and you screwed up. i was in the living room in virginia, and you're watching this and say motorcade coming up the street. on all the neighbors are in lawn chairs outside drinking. this is a huge deal, even if they hate ronald reagan, which they probably did becaus

who is this in a reagan mask but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver and he was sitting there drinking. there weren't really any service people there and i was standing there. he was kind of standing there and they had a photographer there. it's not like now where everybody is like this. so why did what i would normally do, at one up to them and said hello to him but i didn't say hello. i said -- [laughter] he just looked at me and said -- it's nice that they have those people come to these dinners. how compassionate. anyway i ended up in the kitchen. i ate his dinner and talk to the secret service guy, played the piano. remember her? don't worry. it's fitting i'm here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. [laughter] he was once a democrat. via once bought a counterfeit watch in times square. the same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor, i opposed a three-foot hairy chimp made bonzo. i worked with -- no, no, no. that was cheap. that was cheap.

if i could get reagan to quote reagan. i think all of you will now agree that there's a power of what he did and how he did it just remarkable. i think that's at least 50% of the explanation randomness we are in. those of us conservative black the courage to take on the school board committee teachers union, the academic elites, news media, entertainment culture. when we ceded ground which has crippled the country sandor standing and part of what we've done with alice sent in my case and writing novels to get across the american people as a country worth knowing and you know it by learning its history. he become an american. can claim genetic patterns, geographies. somalia, china, mexico. in calista's case, her parents came, her grandparents came from switzerland and poland and in my case from places like scotland and ireland. you can learn to be an american. to do that, you have to learn to be an american. do you have an academic elites and news media elite who were opposed to teaching how to be an american company litera

-- who is this in a reagan mask? but it was ronald reagan and he was drinking a screwdriver. there wasn't any -- secret service people there. he was standing there. and the photographer there. unless they had some switch. i did what i would normally -- i went up and said hello but i didn't. i said -- [mumbling] -- and he looked at me and probably -- it is nice that they have those people come to these dinners. how compassionate. anyway, i ended up in the kitchen and i ate his dinner and talked to secret service guys, someone who played piano, it is fitting i am here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. he was once a democrat. i once bought a counterfeit watch in times square. same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor he starred oppose a three foot harry chimp named bonds so, i work with bob beckel. no, no, no, that was cheap. that was cheap. the only reason i i can make the joke about bob is he is a lovable guy. are we going to make this

>> ronald reagan tried to do that. it amazes me how reagan has become one of the most beloved presidents. but people forget the stuff that happened there wanted to make sure civil-rights laws were not enforced the way they were supposed to be. so he decided to replace the commissioners they did not want anybody to watchdog them. then we got into of big fight i sued them and i won the lawsuit the court said the commission should be a watchdog and i said it should be a watchdog and not the lap dog but they succeeded to change the direction and even though we could get some traction like bush be gore, going out of the voter suppression it has never been the same. reagan succeeded to listen to ordinary people and is not independent. so they should endorse whatever the administration said. so those political appointees, their job is to monitor them. and to make suggestions. in the most recent election with the activity taking place the civil-rights commission should have been at the center of the debate based on history, an

type of clocks should the reagans be given as a gift.washington, they were much more relaxed about the visit. among documents, there is frustration that the white house is taking weeks and weeks to reply to the queen's invitation to great britain. the british ambassador notes the president's staff is not well-organized and confusion prevails in the white house. the president had his own concerns. how should he dress for riding with the queen? the answer, whatever the president finds most comfortable. he took their advice. relations with britain's other leading lady were famously warm. prime minister thatcher called the president "ron" he addressed her as "margaret." together, they were political soul mates. >> i think they had a quite congenial, personal connection to each other. although what these documents show is that margaret thatcher wasn't always so full of praise for reagan. >> reporter: britain was at war with argentina, trying to hold on to its islands in the south atlantic. >> the united states came down firmly on our side, an

degrees in fort washington and effective freezing mark in reagan national reagan national. beautiful to be temperatures high in the 40's. be in the midl 40's on christmas. but after, a strong storm system should pass through our area. that will give us areas of rain. on wednesday morning you could into a few wet snowflakes. otherwise you're looking at every event on wednesday. a pretty good soaking of rain. let's go to steve hershorn for traffic. >> american legion bridge, on the beltway between maryland and virginia, looking good, light .olume pretty typical of what the s like all around. silver spring on the beltway near colesville road, looks very with hardly anybody on the road. 270 near 118 in germantown, moving smoothly. all the hov restrictions are in effect today. in virginia heading up 95 and 395, everything is normal in of the pattern of traffic, much lighter than usual. springfield all to the beltway and n 395 to the 14th street bridge. there's no vre service. penn and brunswick lines are on a reduced s schedule. camden line service today on marc rail. back to yo

the passage have tartly in forty seven but they really started dropping fast after the after the reagan presidency. so has the middle class a sure of income you know wealth goes down and as you know the wealth of individuals in fact we have a chart so we've unionization rates here we go you notice the the red line is union membership rate the blue line is aggregate income of the middle class those two follow each other and then the green line is the income of the top one percent about the percentage of sitcoms on radio i think that also felt the same rates this is starting in sixty seven by that time all those accounts were going to radio jean shepherd you know he was tottering by that point but this is this is a really important thing is it not i mean that when workers have a say in the workplace when there's democracy in the workplace you have a middle class when you don't have democracy in the workplace you have the world the charles the charles dickens wrote about and you know please mr graduate urban mr scrooge we have a lump of gold already not elastic bands but if manufacturing l

>> guest: yes, ronald reagan tried to do that. it always amazes me. icann has become one of my most beloved presidents in all the polls and everything else. people forget some of the stuff that happened. he wanted to change the direction of civil rights. he wanted to make sure civil rights passed in the 60s weren't enforced the way they're supposed to to be enforced, so he decided to replace all the commissioners because they were standing up and watchdogging at restorations so they said okay, they got into the fight because when they got to be ready to change me, i see them. i won the lawsuit. the court said the commission is supposed to be a watchdog. i used to say should be a watchdog, not a lapdog for the administration. they succeeded in changing the direction of the commission. even though we were able to get some traction during my time, things i wish ricoh are, out of the 20,000 election about the commission has never been the same. so reagan in a sense succeeded in making it a body that couldn't listen and was not independent and kept trying

ronald reagan. every single president. george h.w. bush. >> it's a brutal job. >> they all leave broken. >> well, i mean, look at obama, he's not broken but his hair is graying. they visibly age before -- >> joe's not broken. >> but you know what, he refused to leave. remember? bill clinton still in the hanger four months later. >> they're broken when they leave, but then they rehabilitate themselves. i mean, even nixon. you couldn't leave more broken than dicks nixon. he becomes the sage of saddle river, having journalists at the dinner, rewriting history books. even nixon can come back. there is life after the presidency if you handle yourself. but history is like -- >> another reason this is so much fun and so important ultimately is remember the way the founders described -- i think it was washington described the senate as the saucer in which -- >> where the tea cools. >> right. >> that's what history is. and it takes our friend michael beschloss as a rule, you can't write about a president in full until 25 years after they leave

reagan didn't ounce the budget. actually during the reagan administration, there is a dollars increase in government debt overall. he was winning the cold war. but the private sector increased its assets by some $17 trillion under carter we had pretty much a balance budget and a balanced trade. but the people, the private economy was all in the rad. but really not hers is not just the account. that is bad and ultimately too much to his unfortunate. but what not hers is not so much the liabilities of the economy. it's the assets. under reagan's supply-side movement, the private assets of the american economy boomed. so the liabilities became less significant. our economy thrives throughout this period. >> george gilder, a lot of fellow travelers turn the supply-side have look at theory. >> a lot of them have become embroiled in the silly analyses of what happened after quick contact states. clinton drastically lowered the capital gains tax and that was where most of the new revenues came. but in general, 50 nations a

reagan, 1986, eight and five seats. not so bad.ore about that in a minute and did cost the republicans control of the senate in the process. president clinton is the big outlier here if you will recall. because he didn't lose anything in the second midterm. winning five house seats for the party. staying even in the senate and then president bush was hammered. republicans lost 30 seats in the house, 6 in the senate and more importantly control of the both houses were gone from the republicans. a couple things to note here. the 1998 election, of course, under president clinton marked the only time a sitting two-term president saw gains in the second midterm in the modern era. in addition, two-term presidents typically have a bad midterm and one not so bad. truman's party was much worse in '46 than it was in '50. reagan split decision after losing big in the house and gaining a senate seat, republicans lost seven senate seats in -- lost a bunch in '86 and the control but did better in the house. so, let's take a look at our next one.

our second conversation tonight is what i had with bruce bartlett worked in both the reagan and george h.w. bush administrations and currently writes for the new york times in the financial times in our conversation we talked about whether or not conservatives are ready to face the facts and do what is necessary to become a relevant and mainstream political party once again it's my conversation with bruce partly. right we have a special edition of conversations with great minds with bruce partner who served in the staffs of former congressman ron paul and jack kemp and former senator roger jepson he's been the executive director of the joint economic committee of congress a senior policy analyst in the reagan white house and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the treasury department during the george h.w. bush administration reeses a columnist for the fiscal times and the author of several books including the new york times best seller impostor how george w. bush betrayed america and betrayed our bankrupt excuse me the american betrayed the reagan legacy his latest book

bush betrayed america and betrayed our bankrupt excuse me the american betrayed the reagan legacy his latest book is entitled the benefit and the burden tax reform why we need it and what it will take restrains me now in the studio welcome happy new year pleased to have you with us in the american conservative view you recently wrote an article in which you suggested that the modern republican party is suffering suffering from epistemic closure which sounds like a latin for. what if well so i'm nicer than saying what i really think which is that they're all either crazy or stupid i mean it's the things have changed so dramatically since the days when i first got involved with the republican politics when the republican party was the party of ideas and now it's the party of crazy people ignorant tea party people people who know nothing and are proud of it and who get all their information from specified sources of fox news rush limbaugh crazy websites and nutty ideas circulate it. in this universe within this bubble without any contradiction whatsoever now i thought and i think a lot o

exactly what president reagan was trying to do tech tickly. time, i know some of martin's colleagues would say well, reagan really did pay that much attention to details. his eyes would glaze over bb gun into numbers of missiles and warheads and stuff. and true, he didn't look at those things. he'd concentrate on the basic thing. how do i understand this other fellow? have i convinced him to descend and that's actually in his own interest because his current policies are not. so we spent much more time and i think affect your time talking to reagan about for gorbachev is coming from. when his pressures were and of course one of the things that we needed to do was in this process to convince them to do then and. in other things he said in that same about the human rights is too important to carry it out. he said were much too upfront. after confronting publicly, no politician can back down. we've got to begin to handle this more privately. so he began to move off the shouting at each other, condemning each other, not that that stopped totally,

in 1988 he play at the reagan i. throughout his career, brubeck was an ambassador for music. in 1988 he play at the reagan /gorbachev summit in moscow. >> all these people that almost hated each other was swinging. >> in 1994 clinton awarded him the national medal of the arts. >> i'll never forget in high

reagan's aides asked for fashion advice. what should the president wear for a horseback ride with the queen? the answer: nothing formal, more smart casual. and so a president, famous as a star of hollywood westerns, rode out looking like anything but an american cowboy. barry petersen, cbs news, london. >> glor: we also learned more today about the f.b.i.'s secret files on marilyn monroe. they reveal some of her friends were suspected communistes, and she once considered traveling to the soviet union. the f.b.i. kept files on her from 1955 until her death in 1962. how much will some people do for a stranger whose life is on the line? road" next. ra ght ragu for years. [ thinking ] wonder what other questionable choices i've made? i choose date number 2! whooo! [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it reliev

reagan should wear for a horseback ride with the queen during a june, 1982 visit. the answer, smart but casual, not formal riding attire, advice the president took. picnic. and we >> smart but casual. that was barry peterson reporting by the way. >>> after the break something that can ruin your picnic and we're not talking about rain, talking about this critter right here. what is it? we'll tell you when we come back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, arkansas got quite a shock an uninvited guest joined t picnic at a florida park. >>> today we're talking about peaches. it's december and the chilean fruit season has already started. this is the first of the peaches. they're small, expensive. they don't have a lot of sugar to them, but if you want peach right now, they're here. if you wait a couple weeks, they'll get bigger, sweeter and juicier, but if you can't wait, pick them up. let's talk about selection. when you buy them, this is okay. it's got that light yellow color to it with some red which is fine, but try to find the ones that have more red to them and they should be f

michael reagan is here in a must-see interview.higan man is head to court after he decided to make a citizen's arrest of a police officer. here he is trying to pull the cop over. >> i said sir, you need to wear your seat belt. and it set me off. i was mad as hell. since i've lost weight i have so much more energy than i used to, when i'm out with my kids, my daughter'like, "mom, wait up!" and i'm thinking, "shouldn't you have more energy than me? you're, like, eight!" [ male announcer ] for every 2 pounds you lose through diet and exercise alli can help you lose one more by blocking some of the fat you eat. simple. effective. advantage: mom. let's fight fat with alli. have a healthier holiday at letsfightholidayfat.com. megyn: days after the tragedy in connecticut both sides in the gun debate are talking about the rules governing our weapons. both sides are invoked the memories of president reagan who was himself shot by a crazed gunman. we'll get to trace gallagher who will set the scene for us. >> reporter: it was 69 days after h

joining us now, ronald reagan's son, mike reagan, who joins us as he often does.w, i'm trying to get the sequence of events clear here. he remained a firm supporter of the 2nd amendment, but then got behind the brady bill, which put some restrictions on the ownership of handguns, is that an accurate statement of what your father did? >> yeah, you've got to put it in context. 1991, 10th anniversary of the shooting that took place in 1981 on march 30th. 1991, for my dad, there was a nostalgic moment there, the fact that it was the 10th anniversary. and my father also at the same time, stuart, never forgot that day he looked out the window of that limousine as he pulled away from the hotel, the hilton hotel and he saw people laying in their own blood with bullets that were meant for him on that day. he always believed in the 2nd amendment to the constitution. as a young boy, i remember him buying me my first 22 single shot and then my lever action. i remember his semiautomatic rifle. we used to go out in the afternoon and shoot ground squirrels at the ranch. every sa

ronald reagan brought it up to the mid 30s.bob dole in the midst of the anti-immigrant sentiment of the 1990s took it back below 30. george w. bush got it back up to the magic 40% that karl rove thought was the jumping-off point for neutralizing all these questions. so, you know, how -- we're talking about a fairly small margin of voters here. so if you, you know, a 10% shift in latino votes, moving a million two, million three, you know, the actual -- what the turnout is we don't really know yet. it's going the take a while. the exit poll numbers are losing credibility as time goes on, but that's -- i don't want to get too -- >> john king. >> geeky with you. yeah. [laughter] but the shift of a million voters, million and a half voters and romney would have been in the mid 30s in terms of his share. and everybody would have said that was a pretty good night for a republican. now, what would have happened in terms of actual states, i knew you were going to ask -- [laughter] >> and then i want to go down the row to get everyone.

s honest reagan and reagan put an end to both of those when he stopped in force in the sherman antitrust act wife you know most of america's small and medium size businesses and when he kicked off the modern war on unions by firing the patco union strikers you can see the result most clearly at any shopping mall or any downtown in america what before reagan were all locally owned businesses are now big chains from food to jewelry to clothing. here also used to be the c.e.o. share the pain. lee iacocca famously took a dollar a year as pay when he was working to turn around chrysler steve jobs did the same when apple was in trouble pretty much everybody who's ever started a small business knows what it's like to make payroll for workers while taking little to nothing for themselves during the early years of the company but in today's post reagan bain model american capitalism there's never any risk for the c.e.o. class instead all the risk is carried by the workers you know karl marx famously wrote in das capitale his analysis of capitals that capitalism contains within itself or at least

at the last five two-term presidents, truemamen, eisenhow reagan, clinton and bush.'s put up the numbers. in truman's second term, let's look here. as you can see, in that midterm in the 1950s, the house lost 20 seats, the senate six. eisenhower, house lost 48 seats. 13 for the senate. reagan's 1986 re-election, house lost five seats in the house, and eight in the senate. president clinton is the big out-liar here if you recall, because he didn't lose anything. he gained five in the house for his party and staying even in the senate. president bush got hammered. republicans lost 30 seats in the house, six in the senate and control of both houses were gone from the republicans. the 1998 election was the only time a two-term president saw gains. in addition two-term presidents typically have one really bad midterm and one not so bad. truman was much worse in '46 than in '50. reagan, split decision after losing big in the house and gaining a senate seat in 1982, republicans lost seven seats in '86 and control, but did better in the house. so, let's take a look at our ne

reagan, split decision. a senate seat in 1982, republicans lost seven seats -- a bunch in '86 and the control, but did better in the house. let's take a look at the next one, the two most recent examples of midterms. bill clinton's democrats lost 54 house seats and 8 senate seats in 1994 before turning the tables with the surprise wins in 1998. they said it was due in part, maybe in whole, to the public backlash on the republicans who focused on the lewinsky scandal. bush had a good second first term, not a second term. the halo effect, before losing big in 2006. what is behind the truth of the six-year itch? it seems logical the political pendulum would swing from one party to the other over the course of six years, but when you look at each case, there are extenuating circumstances. by the time his second term rolled around, harry truman was six months into nrlt vention in korea. eisenhower was struggling with a post-war economy. in 1958, u.s. unemployment spiked to 7%, which was double when he was elected

about the treatment of the working class today and after years of searches and false alarms ronald reagan's welfare queen has finally been filed i'll tell you where she's been hiding all these years and tonight's daily to. in the most of the rest of the news we all know it was a tough election for mitt romney but it was an even tougher election for sheldon adelson because you know mogul who spent more money on this election than any american in any election in history actually spent more than we all previously thought according to republican fundraisers able to drop as much as one hundred fifty million bucks into the selection and today he has absolutely nothing to show for it is currently facing two federal investigations into his international business where it's allegedly violated the foreign corrupt practices act by bribing chinese officials had previously ended that he was supporting romney to in hopes of putting an end to president obama's justice department investigations ultimately he failed however thanks to the supreme court citizens united decision we the people have an even more

-- no no gorbachev and no reagan? >> i want to go back.nk there were three participants in a sense. there was reagan, gorbachgorbact there were also the allies. that was a critical aspect to this. without somebody who was prepared to tough out the deployment piece of this -- and here i agree with jack -- without demonstrating the credibility of the u.s. administration but the alliance as a whole, you couldn't have gotten the treaty, in my judgment. and i think we underestimate the political defeat the russians experienced with the successful deployment. they saw this as an opportunity to divide the alliance. they threatened in the early 1980's -- jack will remember this -- an ice age if nato went forward with deployments. so, i think the fact that you had the credibility of deployment and you had this unique guy gorbachev -- i'm not a sovietologist but when you think of leadership before gosh chef -- gorbachev and also after, certainly if you look at today's leadership and direction that president putin is moving, he certainly would have b

michael reagan is a political consultant and chairman of the reagan group.ichael. >> how are you? you know my father also said, the only guaranty of eternal life is a government job. alisyn: well -- >> boy was he right when he said that one also. alisyn: interesting that you say that. when you are you were, referred to new quote, government class, what is that? how do you define it? >> the government class. look you have 47 million people on food stamps. you have two million people now working for the federal government. there is over 100 people a day being hired by the federal government. so more and more people are becoming dependent on the government. look at the unions. look what is going on right now in michigan. it was going on a year ago in wisconsin. i mean, you lock at the situation where in michigan you've got, what, 7% proficiency rate in reading? 4% in math. and the unions are upset because the state wants to change things? i mean that is outrage just. they are that class will be bigger january 1st, 2013 when obamacare kicks in. that will become

reagan to britain. >> the file revealed how much stress the visit cost.e is frustration that the white house is taking weeks and weeks to reply to the queen's invitation to great britain. the british ambassador notes the president's staff is not well organized and confusion prevails in the white house. the president had his own concerns. how should he dress for riding with the queen? whatever the president find most comfortable. he took their advice. relations with other leading lady were famously warm. prime minister thatcher called him ron, he addressed her as margaret. >> i think they had quite a congenial, personal connection to each other. but these documents show that margaret thatcher, not always so full of praise for reagan. >> britain was at war for argentina, trying to hold onto islands in south atlantic. >> the united states couple down firmly on our side over the f k falklands. >> but in private there were tension. she wanted victory. mrs. thatcher said she was sure that the president would act in the same way if alaska was threatened. >> she

truman, eisenhower, reagan, clinton and bush.luding truman because he took over after f.d.r. died. president nixon is out because he resigned before the second midterm sha lacking. she lacking. but let's put up the numbers. truman's second midterm, in 1950, his democratic party last 28 in the house. in ike's second midterm, the gop got wiped out. reagan, 86. republica republicans lost five seats in the house, eight in the senate. not so bad. but it did cost the republican's control in the senate. president clinton is the big out liar, here, if you'll recall, because he didn't lose anything, winning five house seats, staying even in the senate eight years later, 2006, he got hammered. republicans lost 30 seats in the house, six in the senate and control. both houses were gone from the republicans. a couple things to note. the 1988 election marked the only time a sitting, two-term president saw any kind of games. in addition, two-term presidents have one really bad midterm and not so bad. for instance, eisenhower did much better in

widespread 20's and 33 at reagan national. we will have a little precipitation today around lunchtime so expect a light wintry mix. there will be a few wet snowflakes and that will shift to mostly rain into the afternoon hours. 42 will be the high temperature and no accumulation. >> we will take all look at a map where we have an accident northbound on 210 -- this is 95 northbound in springfield moving well. hov restrictions are in effect today. very light volume of traffic and marc trains are not running camden blind service today for brunswick line service. >> let's check in with john gonzales. >> this happened a couple of hours ago and last we heard there were two armed suspects that people are looking for? >> the description is very vague and they did not leave behind the weapon. police have reason to believe that not only two suspects but two armed suspects are on the list this morning. this happened after 3:00 this morning and this is a residential area. not only do we have homes here but we also have a church. this is a

was there carter had a much smaller reagan say that his way to prosperity that rate of people out of the money but he spent what we're all everybody is borrowing the money we're sixteen trillion in debt carter had a much smaller pie with a much higher tax rate reagan had a low tax rate a bigger pie again it's not just about splitting the pie we need a recipe for a new party ok. well it's. i wish the president had the republican party of great eisenhower we could really rebuild this economy but instead he has a very intransigent republican party that's going to fight him every step of the way the amazing thing to me is that how much of a backbone the president's head in terms of putting his plan on the table rallying his troops the people who voted for him in the in the election and asserting i won this election it's time to raise taxes on the very wealthy and roll it back. and cut taxes for everybody else it's a very very strong hand he has and we'll see how long he can keep it going yeah well and the essentially what what you know it when i was harmonizing our what i was saying was

reagan national airport kicked in at 44 degrees. dulles at 45 and b wait a minute thurgood marshall at 42 degrees. current temperatures at reagan national is 40. 4degrees at bwi thurgood marshall. the winds are light as well today. not a lot happening there. if i were a cloud salesman, i would be very rich today. we have plenty of clouds out there. not a lot of sunshine. our high, 51 degrees. a chance of spotty showers later on. >> getting a little bit back to normal. thank you. >>> let's check in with julie wright now with the latest on our on-time traffic. >> good morning, tony, bright and early. >> a little sunshine. >> there you go. >> off to a quiet start with no issues report here coming across the american legion bridge. traffic flowing freely headed out towards tyson's. inner loop of the beltway off tie quiet start. northbound 395, all systems go headed across the potomac for the southeast-southwest freeway and construction still in place. inbound canal road here it the m street and the key bridge. got swing wide with very l

a high of reagan national airport. and then overcast skies tonight a little bit on the chilly side though as we go back down into the 20s and 30s once again. >> >>> nfc east division champs, wrap your mind around that. the redskins completed a mission that began seven games ago. it culminated right here at fedex field with a 10 point dramatic win over the cowboys. >> everything that was on the line, feels good for us. but you know, this was definitely for the coaching staff, mike shanahan, he deserves it. >> nobody goes into a season thinking oh we just want to make the playoffs. the goal is to win it all. if you don't win it all, everybody is losing. >> we are going to enjoy this. it is something that probably i was once afc champions when i was in new york. to be here as long as i have and fighting man it feels good to really you know, finally get over that hump. go in the playoffs and do damage. >> reporter: as the fourth seed the redskins will host seattle right here next sunday at 4:30. rg iii versus russell wilso

safe place to invest so when reagan came along they were like ok if we do the tax cut thing then the deficit is going to go up now how can that be a good thing because we're republicans we're not supposed to be in favor the deficit going up but when when and if the deficit goes up you know if we can really drive the deficit up then when the democrats come into power is inevitable it will we can start yelling and screaming about the deficit and force them to cut back on the on the social programs we can force them to shoot their own santa clause and that's exactly what they did reagan took that one trillion dollar deficit it was about eight hundred billion dollars when he came into office and took it up to about three trillion by the time he left and then george herbert walker bush after him took it up to about five and then of course bill clinton brought in balanced budgets because for eight years you had a democrat in office and so the republicans were all screaming about the debt in the deficit you know and and then george bush comes in and takes it you know up to ten trillion just