on what would have been president reagan's 102nd birthday, we will honor reagan with a look at many of resonate today. we have more of his best comments for you and we have reagan biographer craig shirley who will join us later this half hour. first up, major automatic spending cuts set to kick in march 1. republicans are gearing up for another big spending fight with the white house. president obama is urging congress to delay the cuts and smack us with another big tax hike. earlier i had a chance to speak with eric cantor from virginia. i asked for his response by the president t. take a listen. >> here we go again, larry. all they want to do is take more money from them so it can be spent in washington and, two, kick the can. that's what this country doesn't need. we want to get the fiscal situation under control and start growing the economy again. >> would you say the house republican conference is behind the across the board spending cut sequester? about $85 billion in 2013. is your conference behind it? >> what you could accurately say about our conference, we have tried two tim

rusher about reagan's, ronald reagan's second term. and earlier you said he considered the reagan presidency an unmitigated success. were there any reservations about the second term developments, ie, iran contra and president reagan's alleged declining intellectual capabilities? >> i apologize. i was wearing ear plugs earlier today. would you mind restating the question for me? loud. >> the question was regarding if he had any reservations about reagan's second term in terms of his mental capacity declining or the iran contra issues. >> okay. rusher on reagan's second term including iran contra. rusher was one of reagan's most consistent defenders among ideological and leading movement conservatives during the reagan administration. as richard brookhiser who's still a major figure at "national review" and was a writer for it then and pretty good friend of rusher said to me when reagan was elected, rusher decided he would defend him on every single thing. and his reasoning was in terms of presidents, this is the best guy we're going ge

three killed by reagan. and then there is what happened in texas on monday or misplaced dog led to the deaths of two more americans by guns seventy five year old dallas man accused his neighbors of dumping dog poop on his patio and since he had a gun on him you cited use it walked out of his to his patio looked up saw one of his neighbors standing on the patio above him and shot her dead then walked up the stairs into the apartment a shot her boyfriend dead two the couple had four kids luckily three were away for from the home at the time of the shooting and the infant in the apartment was either ignored or missed. these four kids are now going to be growing up without parents in part because of ronald reagan right now congress is considering gun control legislation there's no question more background checks will lead to fewer weapons in the hands of criminals and fewer gun deaths there's also no question that a ban on high capacity magazines could save lives and future mass shootings but one thing no one's

it is goldwater who approved reagan's famous time for choosing television address, which made reagan a political star overnight and led to his running for governor of california and eventually president of these united states. david recounts how bill dick short of the goldwater committee when money ran short conspiracists act. skillfully guided young americans for freedom in his early chaotic days and for some order and also plan on this dresser-rand national review, expanded the conservative movement through the tv program, the advocates, his newspaper column and his lectures in champion ronald reagan were neither conservatives were somewhat skeptical about the actor turned politician. bill rusher loved politics, traveling to distant lands and national review's effervescent editor, bill buckley of whom he once said, quote, the most exasperating people in the world are so often the most beloved and he is no exception. david frisk has captured all of this and more in this splendid overdue biography of the other bill, bill dick. dr. frisk is an award-winning reporter who received his p

and hagerstown at reagan national. your express forecast, it will .eel cold lots of sunshine with temperatures rising to about 35 noon and 41 by 5:00. high temperature of 42. a wintry mix by this time tomorrow morning. first, less a check on traffic jimmy sullivan. lane closed in both directions. they're working on a building fire. you can see the activity. yourself an extra few minutes in this area. you will be able to get around. avenue is closed. no problems in rockville. moving very well. 270 at falls road, no problem. the same thing at middlebrook road. and the beltway, no delays and new hampshire. back to you. >> thank you. some sad news about a country hit the top of charts before personal problems sidetracked her career. old mindy mccready shot and killed herself. her two sons were in foster care .nd the time >> authorities discovered the of the 37-year-old country theer on her front porch, sample is your friend david month in anlast apparent suicide. it appears she died of a self- wound.ed gunshot >> ♪ heaven

but, ronald reagan stuck with him. he said, this wild massive inflation we had in the 1970s, was caused by too much money, too much money printing, too much ease of the fed, it had to be reversed and stopped. it would be painful to get from here to there. but, he saw it through. and that is the main reason we had a recovery in mid 1980s, because we defeated inflation, and we allowed the private sector to have at least a few years before we got into the wild money prints of the greenspan era. charles: we're there is talk of somehow not lets sequest raising -- sequesting going through. and it gets back too again to the idea then, if we can't accept even a small pause, sort of a pinch in the way we live, then are we destined to make this a bigger problem? i always said weiujump off a one story now or 10 story building later. >> it is inevitable. and opposite of principle that reagan had, he understood there is no gain without some pain, if policy is way off track, you have to reel it in, it may be difficult to de get from

they think ronald reagan was great, just great. >> well, i really liked to know ronald reagan a littleit. and i really liked him. >> mitt romney understands, like ronald reagan did. >> ronald reagan flew this plane. >> to paraphrase ronald reagan, there's so much manure around here, there's got to be a pony someplace. >> today would have been his 102nd birthday. but republicans aren't rolling out the birthday cake. instead, they're spending the day ignoring his famous 11th commandment. thou shall not speak ill of any fellow republican. that's right, they're at each other's throats. karl rove and the gop elites are trying to take down the tea party. and the other side is fighting back. >> our object is not to be for the blirkment. it's to be for the most conservative candidate that can win. >> our biggest problem is barack obama. and we're being stabbed in the back. >> karl's filled the void. somebody's got to be, to some extent, a gate keeper keeping morons from running from office. >> so what the tea party people is now they've got two political forces gunning for them. obama and the

and he advised reagan did you this. the new reagan and the first president bush pretty well. had known reagan since the mid '60s. both reagan and then vice president bush some years later to do this. he was successful in that, although i don't think reagan really needed to be. i'm not sure that reagan really needed to be told that, but certainly it is encouraging to hear from someone to be respected as much as he respected russia. rusher also wanted reagan to be ahead of this new conservative party. well, to make a long story short reagan refuses, probably prudently. most political scientist, and that the training, that if a third party is going to be on a national level, it cannot start small. it's got to start big. probably a superstar like reagan. so once reagan refused in the 75, made 75 to join this third party project rusher got going and wrote a book about, it was probably targets for that particular idea, but rusher had succeeded in getting conservatives to think more about the need to expand the republican party, and for the republican party to be more coherent. not

reagan is your favorite? caller: ronald reagan created a lot of jobs. he got rid of most of the soviet union's power. he answered all of my mail every time i send him a letter, he would return it, he would sign it. mr. obama, i did send him a lot of letters about the economy and he never answers. we are in big trouble if we don't renew the capital gains taxes, the corporate tax, the real-estate taxes, and school taxes. if obama does not do any of that, the country will go broke. it's already broke. when mr. reagan was there, he was a lovely president. him.ve host: what did you think of ronald reagan's foreign policy? caller: he had a good foreign policy. the increased our navy, our air force. that's how he defeated the soviet union. nobody ever did that. host: june 12, 1987, ronald reagan, in a speech to the people of west berlin about communism. [video clip] >> we welcome change and openness, but we believe freedom and security go together, that the in advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. there's one sign the soviets c

history but putting aside weak gun control laws the gun lobby and gun manufacturers under ronald reagan really helped these men to pull the trigger and take so many american lives also is the american government have the right to kill potentially dangerous american citizens without the due process requirements of the constitution that and more and it's big picture politics and. you need to know this ronald reagan helped kill those twenty first graders in newtown connecticut and in the roughly two months since then he's helped kill more than fifteen hundred others who died by guns in the united states two of those gun deaths happened in boynton beach florida over the weekend forty five year old is such a seed rosa vall went to the home of his wife and two children on saturday armed with a pistol and a semiautomatic tec nine last year his wife had filed for divorce so cedar zero armed with two handguns decided to kill her two kids and their two kids right in front of her he told her he was going to kill or that he was going to. that he wanted her to stay alive and suffer through watching

right now at reagan national. around the freezing mark. a meeting that is elevated will be the big concern. 34 and gaithersburg, 32 in frederick and hagerstown, 30 in manassas and culpeper. a little fog has been developing south and east of the metro area. half mile visibility in fredericksburg. use caution. 6 miles visibility in d.c. the area of low pressure that brought the wintry mix has pulled off shore. we are watching a clicker across the upper midwest that will be headed our way for tomorrow evening. a beautiful day today, a great day for valentines. lots of sunshine, temperatures pushing 50 degrees. tomorrow the clouds will move in. light rain or even snow mixing in a specially to the north will be possible in the evening and late night but it will be very light. mostly sunny expected today, 47 to 52. low temperature between 31 and 37 tonight, partly cloudy. 54 and partly sunny on friday. the big trend this weekend cooler. 37 degrees on sunday would very breezy conditions this weekend. happy valentine's da

that's going to be next week on ronald reagan's birthday, rand paul. but, you know, it's fitting, because we're coming up on reagan's birthday. and did you hear about the horrible obama muslim marxist thing about his kenyan home? did you hear? >> this is one wall that probably shouldn't be torn down. this apartment building used to be the home of a young ronald reagan. it was denied landmark status, and the university of chicago is ready to demolish it. the university is also trying to become the site of president obama's presidential library. that's drawing strong concerns the university might turn president reagan's former house into a parking lot for an obama library. >> did you hear about that? chicago close ties with the obamas, all of them, tearing down ronald reagan's boyhood home in order to make a parking lot for barack obama's presidential library. did you hear? did you hear? see, here it is on drudge. reagan's home could become parking lot for obama library. here it is on something called newsmax. reagan's childhood home to become parking lo

. >> ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan. >> who had to make a very tough deal with dan rostenkowski andlly but figured out how to get along personally. that seems like such a quaint notion. >> it does. >> social security was going under, and a conservative republican and liberal democrats got together and fixed it. >> and in 1986 in the second term, which is supposed to be so troubled, got a big tax reform act. going through what was called gucci gulch. so the emergence of lobbyists, the emergence of great financial problems is not particularly new. and they were able to cut this deal without mythologizing too much the mafia of that period. it is true, as mrs. reagan will remind you, that o'neill is the first person they had to the white house, to the family quarters. and they were -- there was more of a sense that they had to cut a deal without, again, not kumbaya, to use tom's image, it wasn't that. when things really mattered and you had to cooperate, they were able to get these two deals. >> tom? >> chris matthews likes to talk about what it was like when he worked for tip o'neill o

charles: interesting because, ronald reagan worked with volcker. at the time he of a question mark to his policies, but do you think one essential thing that that changed is the inability of americans to accept any form of pain, the notion there should always be a soft landing delivered by whether monetary policy or fiscal policy, because

john gonzales is lighter reagan national airport this morning. it will affect everyone, including people who fly. >> it affects pretty much every industry. we're talking job cuts that includes curbside check-in. with the clock's ticking democrats and republicans will introduce proposals to stop across-the-board spending cuts to the tune of $85 billion. many say reaching the deadline is nearly impossible. >> unless the republicans are willing to compromise and do a balanced approach. >> to the snag has to do with tax cuts. -- the snag has to do with tax cuts. >> thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off, and parents will have to scramble to find child care for their kids. airport controllers and security will seek cutbacks. >> most government departments are slated to receive 5-7% cuts over the next seven months. >> across-the-board cuts are the worst and most cowardly way to approach the situation. >> the potential for logger security lines or flight delays. later this morning congressman will be here at reagan national to talk about t

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ronald reagan parts of the dream act that ronald reagan would not support and he has president would bring people in the white house and find areas of agreement and sign that legislation and sign on to that piece of legislation. we don't need to talk about this in an angry way. we need to figure out a right way to deal with it. start with the border and secure the border and deal with the immigration policies that are not allowing people into this country and make them wait in line 10-15 years. i have a friend of mine who waited in line 17 years to become a citizen of the united states of america. that is outrageous. you just go to another count ripe . the whole policy needs to be fix then you dial with the 11 million and to think that pime are willie nilly coming forward . people are showing up and be shipped home are stupid on its face. that is not going to happen. something else needs to be done. >> and let me ask you in terms of your thoughtless of why you think the white house is bringing up the issue now. there are concerns about widge issues to stark contrast between the gop a

and about ronald reagan and tax hikes, that's wrong.gan pushed for the greatest tax cuts in american history. when he took office, the top marginal rate was 7%. he got as down to 28%. host: when it comes to social issues, how should the party address it? guest: the republicans have traditionally been opposed to same-sex marriage. that is an assertion. we do not know whether it's fact. same-sex marriages with us. nine states, including the district of columbia, have ratified it. the republican party has to be able to speak to the issue of the breakup of the family and marriage in a way that makes its own inner peace with same-sex marriage. whether you agree with that or not, it is a reality that is here to stay. as time goes on, i suspect more and more will pass a law for same-sex marriage. if republicans do not get off the obsession are fixation on this issue and feel like they cannot talk about the disintegration of the family without dealing with same-sex marriage, i think it's going to be a problem. it's important that republicans be

why that reagan national airport, john gonzalez. -- live at reagan national. >> the country's first medical marijuana conference wrapped up on capitol hill. it's the largest national organization promoting illegally accessing marijuana for therapeutic and news and research. hundreds of advocates for patients met with president obama on changing policy. >> these are things the majority of people agree with. i think it is something that can unite conservatives and liberals and red states and blue states. i think we can make progress in congress this year. medical marijuana retailers will soon have to pay hefty taxes. the irs has ruled the the dispensaries cannot deduct standard operating expenses, like rent and payroll. we started off this morning below freezing but we are headed into a pretty nice afternoon. jack tdr's has a look at our forecast. >> a beautiful day to day overall. lots of sunshine with a few high clouds moving in. 45 degrees is our temperature, 5 degrees shy of the average high. it's 38 in hagerstown, 33 in manassas 41 in quantico. clear skies for the most part. two disturba

his son, michael reagan is here, a political chairman of the reagan group.g because ronald reagan believed in, i don't know if you want to call it amnesty or what do you want to call it, but in accommodating illegal immigrants in this country and yet, he did not wind up believing that he went about it the right way. tell us more. >> well, you know, part of that also, if you look at simpson, they weren't happy with the end result either because as usual, you take a good piece of legislation and throw it to the house of representatives with the senate and they add things onto it that undermine what that bill was supposed to do. and you know, what my father was concerned about, later on, is that the second half of that bill never took place. the closer to the building, the building of the fence, that didn't happen until my good friend congressman duncan hunter, congressman from san diego started putting a wall up in the 1980's and 1990's. so, ronald reagan didn't get all of what he wanted in the bill just like with taxes 3 for 1. never got the 3 for the 1. and

at reagan national, just a handful of cancellations so far. that is expected to change. reporting live, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> we invite everyone to stay with abc 7 news for complete storm watch coverage. for instant updates, turn on wjla.com and our social media web sites on facebook and twitter. jacqui will have another look at the forecast in a few minutes. we have breaking news from southern california this morning. brianne carter has been keeping an eye on the manhunt of a former lapd officer. >> a bizarre story with several people killed. police believe the man is targeting their own and their families. let's get the latest on the search. >> following new developments. we understand from our affiliate in san diego, that police are searching an area of rugged terrain along an indian reservation. we're just getting word from the affiliate's in san diego that they are looking in that area for possible sighting of christopher dorner aircraf, but they may believe it's a false alarm. something they will continue to follow. more than 100 officers went door to door

you know compared to you know say when reagan took over and. you know wages stagnated since then the price of real estate has skyrocketed so you know how is a person supposed to achieve the american dream. if you are if you can't make a livin to start with and then you can't afford to buy houses well what you're what you're pointing out paul and thank you for doing so is the consequence of moving from what's called a manufacturing economy to what's called a fire economy used to be that about a third a little over a third of our total economy about twenty percent of it is government about a third of our total economy was actually caused it was manufacturing and then you got you know another twenty percent fifteen to twenty percent that's medical and you got you know retail portions but. we have moved from a third of our economy being manufacturing and about ten percent of our economy being finance real estate and insurance find it finance insurance and real estate f.-i are those fire we've gone from mostly manufacturing and a little bit of fire

just at 6:00, reagan national at 30 degrees. in montgomery county, arlington, fairfax, prince george's, most locations are in the upper 20s. it's dipped into the low and mid-20s the rest of virginia. including parts of prince william, fauquier, stafford, spotsylvania, culpeper. just the low 20s there. meanwhile, much of southern maryland in the upper 20s, near 30 degrees. temperatures a little above freezing. here's the rest of the morning. by 7:00 a.m., ought to be in the upper 20s. by 8:00, a little above freezing. by noontime, we ought to be, though, into the mid-40s. sunrise at 6:46. sunset at 5:57ment hometown forecast, vienna, fairfax county, in the low 40s with bright sun by noontime. a look at traffic now with danella. >> good morning. checking the situation on metro. if you're taking the red line, expect delays because of an earlier track problem at friendship heights. still delays in both directions. the roadways, i-66 had morning and take a live look at 66 at route 50 where we'll find chopper 4 live on the scene. trav

his comeback was ronald reagan he was the ronald reagan architect in 1976. >> what is he doing today? >> john is in miami. he is basically retired. he is now 70. he still has his hand in his practice. he has had a very successful law practice. >> at the top of my list, one of the clips i have of you, going back to 1992. you're at the national press club saying some strong things. >> what happens to the republicans was that they reinforced that perception and that prejudice against the republicans as the party of the wealthy by nominating george bush. in spite of the country and western music and all the trappings we have heard, this is a guy who will have a dash of coffee and his biggest social -- event is the house chablis. -- offense was ordering the house chablis. that works pretty well in good times. it kills you in bad times. it absolutely kills you. >> did they pay you as speaker? >> no. i would do anything for the notre dame club. this is -- they are blue and gold. having been vanquished by them so many times. the two parties, the perception of the democrats is they are downsca

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are we going to see you speaking at any league and reagan dinners -- lincoln-reagan dinners?>> i lived in iowa. i lived there from 1971-1977. lane field, iowa. my representative was chuck grassley. >> his grandson is now in the statehouse. you obviously do not want to talk about your white house ambitions just yet, which is fine. i am happy to have you make news today if you would like. more broadly about the party, you were at times a pretty candid critic about governor romney's campaign. more often than they liked. and senator mccain's campaign took more than its share of criticism. is the problem just a candidate problem? is it a packaging issue? >> i think the core sense of what our principles are for, what we stand for, is a compelling message. i just think we need to do better in a couple of key areas. we need to be more optimistic. it is not enough to hold a referendum on the opposition. you need a viable tentative -- alternative. there are 30 states today with republican governors. for other states where there are republicans elected state letters governors, we offere

reagan.k about number 44 for a moment. i'm interested in what you think about this tiger woods golfing weekend. the idea of barack obama slipping away with tiger woods on a secret weekend is actually quite alarming given what we know about how tiger woods has spent many weekends over the years. when it comes down to whether he should release a picture, i have a bit of sympathy. i wonder if you do. in the end, in the skeet shooting picture, for example, when he didn't release it, he got hammered. when he finally released it, he got hammered even harder. can you win as president in this sort of thing, and should the american media on behalf of the public, cut the president a bit of slack? >> well, the governing principle with all presidents and the media is transparency. and keeping open lines of communication. and it certainly -- the problem that president obama ran into isn't that he went golfing with tiger woods, and i'm certainly not worried about president obama. he and michelle have a ver

reagan wanted to lower rates. it was a great compromise. let's get rid of these tax shelters that favor those at the higher income distribution in exchange for lower rates. happened wasg that inflation had moved many of the ppor of the tax -- of the poor out of the tax [indiscernible] and lead to a high increase in the taxes paid by families with children relative to families without children. because of the erosion of things like puck -- erosion of things like personal exemptions. \ here is one where those who started favoring pro family whod unite with liberals did not want to tax the poor. that led to another compromise. people look back and say why can members of congress get along today -- why can't members of congress get along today? they do not remember the 1980's as much as those who live through it. congress burst out in laughter. democrats distrusted reagan given previous enactments, they did not expect a steady to come out of treasury. they found through proposals that dealt with principles that appealed to both sites that they

stopped in one thousand anyone ronald reagan and well no ronald reagan stopped the justice department seriously enforcing the sherman act i mean the last one to deal with a. shutdown and i believe he may have cut a deal with i.b.m. eighty eight was carter was when a ok but the i.b.m. thing was shutdowns initiated under nixon but the point is that there was no there was no suit there's been no serious of course was her back since reagan and before reagan you could walk in any know all talk or any downtown misrata you saw will be a different stores bill gates all of the locally own building now in use and normally in the house chains on his knees bill gates had to crawl on his knees to plant and for permission to release windows. ninety five national because the justice department would not allow microsoft to release windows ninety five in part because your the justice to europe was going to shut it down as well and in fact you know why i understand antitrust laws we understand that that was absurd right twenty years later we say that was ridiculous no i don't think so i think that the

being like ronald reagan.aid famously, when they came in and told him that he was going to have to make another round of cuts, he said, i don't wear the black hat. you guys forget, i'm the guy that wears the white hat. they don't understand, you know, it's not just substance. it's style. chris christie's got it going. >> james said, they're talking to themselves. the echo chamber, i think, is getting smaller and smaller. as people like chris christie emerge and go their own way. >> you know, christie, and something that joe and i have seen, and we've seen what happens when a hurricane hits. >> right. >> in a place you grew up or a place you loved, and it's gone. and your first reaction is oh, my god, what can i do? so the president of the united states comes in and says -- he puts his arm around him and says governor, we're going to work on this together, we're going to get people in here, you're thankful. the last thing you think when a storm surge comes and knocks something that you've seen all of your life

ronald reagan to nancy reagan. i'm not whole without you. you're life itself to me. i'm waiting for you to return so i can start living again. and george herbert walker bush, the first president bush to barbara, you give me joy few men know. i've climbed perhaps the highest mountain in the world but even that can't hold a candle to being barbara's husband. beautiful letters but how about this for a valentine's day from hell. this is one our mischievous producers dug up, the valentine's ad monica lewinsky placed in "the washington post" newspaper. a year before their affair became known. how is that? a year later in late january 1998, the scandal broke and that valentine's day, "saturday night live" played up this one. >> today's valentine's day, white house spokesman said the president and mrs. clinton will honor the holiday by observing a moment of silence. expected to last the entire evening. chris: and when we come back, barack obama replaced troops on the ground with drones in the sky. >> the administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties w

reagan has become one of our most beloved presidents. people forget some of the stuff that happened and he wanted to change the direction of civil rights. he wanted to make sure the civil rights laws passed in the 60s weren't enforced the way they were supposed to be enforced. so he decided -- first thing they decided to do is replace all the commissioners because the commission was standing up in watchdogging a ministration, so they said okay, we'll change the numbers and then we got into a big fight because when the copper didn't change me, i sued them. i won the lawsuit. the court said the commission is supposed to be a watchdog. i used to say he should be a washout and not a lapdog for the frustration. so they succeeded that when changing the direction of the commission. even though we were able to get some traction during my time, things like bush v. gore, going under the 2000 election but the voter suppression, but the commission has never been the same since that time. break-in and a sense succeeded making it a body that couldn't