reagan. and then a service for former prime minister ariel sharon. that is followed by a discussion of the midterm elections. >> thank you for your support. and to the kids for just saying no. >> my hope is that the women of the future will feel truly free to follow whatever >> i think they thought that the white house was so glamorous, and that what you did was so glamorous, and your life was so glamorous. all they saw were the parties and the greeting people. i have got to tell you, i have never worked harder in my life. >> nancy reagan was ronald reagan's fiercest protector. she was active in key staff decisions and in campaigning. she had a signature white house issue with her "just say no" campaign. welcome to "first ladies: influence and image." let me introduce our two guests. judith woodruff is the coanchor of cbs' news hour. she coproduced a documentary about the first lady. thank you for being with us. he is the washington bureau chief. he is a californian who has been covering nati

but until ronald reagan is finally layed to rest, nancy reagan can be found where you can find her anytime in the last half century. standing by her husband. >>> when we come back on a second look. george watson will recall the events that made the news in 1988. >>> well back -- welcome back everyone. today we're taking a look at when ronald reagan was in office. george watson had a recap of the events that make news in 1978 railroad -- >> reporter: how do we measure the true look of catastrophe. 1988 gave a number of opportunities for you to apply a yardstick to any sight of grief. hurricane gilbert was the biggest storm to ever hit the hemisphere. gilbert caused almost a million dollars damage in mexico and in its wake left hundreds of people dead. was there ever a nation that had suffered as much -- as much as bengladesh. 25million were left homeless. the nation opened its arms and offered help to armenia. there a tremendous earthquake swallowed homes whole and claimed the lives of 5,500 people. at this writing the cause of the crash is still being investigated but we know that on a

nancy reagan was ronald reagan's fiercest protector. she was active in key staff decisions and in campaigning. she had a signature white house issue with her "just say no" campaign. welcome to "first ladies: influence and image". let me introduce our two guests. judith woodruff is the coanchor of cbs'news hour. she coproduced a documentary about the first lady. thank you for being with us. he is a californian who has been covering national politics since 1984 and cowrote a book with his , a reagan biography. we looked at hundreds of hours of video about the reagan presidency in the c-span library. we decided to start with the closing chapter. funeralfootage from the when mrs. reagan says goodbye. we thought that it symbolized the partnership they both covered. then we will talk a little bit more about the relationship. hard to believe it was nearly 10 years ago. as you look at that, as we have worked our way through the series, especially in the 20th century, many of the first ladies were political partners with her husband. was this a

"the shooting of ronald reagan," next. >>> on january 20, 1981, ronald wilson reagan was sworn in at the 40th president of the united states. >> i, ronald reagan, do solemnly swear -- >> as with most new administrations, reagan's first couple of months are rocky. >> this is the 70th day of reagan's presidency. things were not going particularly well. he had a very low approval rating, the lowest of any president that early in his first term. it's a monday. reagan has one deal, deliver a speech to the afl-cio. it's 2:00, reagan's the motorcade's just arrived at the washington hilton hotel, which is behind us. this is the special entrance, the v.i.p. entrance reagan walked into when he first arrived. >> governmental duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. >> the event is covered by all the major networks. for abc news photographer, hank brown, it's a routine job. >> we were with the crew that travels with the president wherever he goes. he wanted to get the picture of the president walking out of the hotel and getting in the limo. >> 15 feet from that door was a rope line.

and reagan must have many democratic ones. they clearly each possess some quality that continue to resonate with americans and this has caught the attention of those most attuned to public opinion and politician but every presidential election cycle we hear republicans search for the next reagan while democrats look for someone who can rekindle kennedy's camelot. respective presidential candidates of each party go to considerable length to show their worthy of inheriting one or the other man's mantle from policies to haircuts, from the eloquence to the optimism. my book which is the first dual biography of both men who were, after all, contemporaries were just six your support, uncover some surprising parallels in both men's lives and their policies and which may dismay some people, as well as some key differences that continue define what separates our two major parties today. i hope you read the book to discover more about those surprising similarities. tonight want to bring to discuss how they became larger than life in a w

reagan had been president bare hi ten weeks when he was shot. but he was in a situation similar to where kennedy had been nearly 20 years before. like kennedy, reagan had not won a great mandate in his first election to the oval office. reagan had won 50.175 percent of the popular vote, and only 11% agreed with his conservative principles. 38% said they voted for him just because he was not jimmy carter. now, democrats held a 53-vote majority in the house, and speaker tip o'neill and majority leader jim wright were confident they could thwart the president's plans for massive reductions in income tax rates which they believed unfairly benefited the rich. finish reagan's job approval rating was 59%, the lowest of any president at such an early point in his presidency since such surveys had begun in the 1940s. and on the very day he was shot, roland evans and robert novak had a syndicated column published that was headlined the reagan honeymoon is truly over. but a month after ray taliban was shot by a deranged young man outside a washington, d.c.

reagan. she helped push him with gorbachev. she was very good in that respect. yes, she was extraordinarily powerful people were terrorized of her. >> host: did you ever meet her? did she ever consoled -- and sent to an interview currently no. she never consented to an interview. as i said, none of the subjects have. but i did meet her very, very briefly when i went to the white house with a photographer friend of mine, and he was taking pictures of president reagan and mrs. reagan for the cover of "people" magazine. and they were having a hard time getting the president to relax. he was upset about what was going on in congress. and i still member when we went to the white house, we got out in the back and they were sharpshooters on the roof. because this was a few months after the assassination attempt. guns, policemen all over, and i'm holding the light for the photographer, and he continued to argue with the president. he said, mr. president, i want a picture of you like this, strong and

reagan national around 22 degrees.e have seen a lot of deicing of lanes and also beyond the planes a lot of the orange lights, those are trucks that are working feverishly trying to clear this tarmac which still has a lot of snow and ice this morning. of course inside, a lot of folks experiencing some major delays and cancellations among the three local airports. we can tell you at last check 54 flights were trying to leave have been canceled this morning. 23 of them here at reagan, 70 a local arrival flights have also been grounded and again the majority of them here at reagan, 35 at last check, not to mention dozens and dozens of flights had been canceled around the country, especially in the northeast which is getting pummeled with heavy winds and snow and ice. we can tell you nearly 10,000 flights have faced with the delays in the past 24 hours. most of those cancellations at chicago o'hare where hundreds of passengers have been stranded overnight at a boston logan airport. all the flights there have been stopped u

we have all these conservatives reagan, reagan but guess what? who was the genius of ronald reagan? who was conservative ideologically but he was moderate temperamentally. he was a hero to the right and he was friends with tip o'neill and yes he was friends with tip o'neill. tip o'neill sunset the only thing that ronald reagan and tip o'neill hated more than each other's philosophy was getting nothing done in washington. they had a hard and fast rule. we are going to fight like hell all day and at 6:00 we become friends. and they were true to their word ronald reagan used that not just for his advantage but for the country's advantage. when 241 marines were killed in beirut on that terrible sunday morning back in the early 1980s, all the democrats were called together by tip o'neill. richard reeves writes about this in his book. it got mentioned as well in mine they were called out and they thought tip o'neill was going to give them strategy about how to move forward during this tragedy and talk about how the democratic approach would be so much better than ronald reagan's approach.

ronald reagan abraham lincoln washington we heard jefferson as well i mean it's a leadership quality. a lot's going to pen on what prism he will be viewed through and i think that's very important to understand it he styles and self after abraham lincoln the you now it's his campaign a very audacious campaign in four years from the unknown state senator to a united states presence a pretty bold move and you know i think one of the things we might want to look for . bob mentioned social justice is the equality of opportunity the american creed and else in the declaration of penance as equality of opportunity he is the first african-american president in some ways completes the constitution but he's taken some pretty bold stances on gays in the military and also same sex marriage and a generation from now that actually could be a very significant moment in his presidency ok doug how would you reflect about that because again you know it is a lot of people will look at obamacare for example do you think that will be the centerpiece of his presidency and if it is that still the jury is ou

nancy reagan, hillary clinton.arbara bush talks about her approach to the job. >> if you ever wanted to give advice or talk about policy with your husband, how would you do that? >> if i wanted to, i would just tell him. the truth is, i did not want to. he had great advisers. i never called his office to say, if i had something to say, i would say it to george bush. but i did not call jim baker. i have never had an office except in the house. at the white house, i had an office, but i never went to it. i did not get into his office affairs. >> describe her approach. >> as she became first lady, she wanted to do something positive every day and she set out with her staff to do that. she looked up potential for her literacy project, some of the other thing she was interested in, and it was full speed ahead to try to do that one good thing every day. >> as you look through the documentary, where can you see through historical documents evidence of her influence on the white house? >> very little evidence of her influe

bush and ronald reagan were closer than nancy reagan and barbara bush.ecommendsh did not that her children go into politics. when george w. bush came to his parents and told them he was going to run for the governorship of texas, barbara tried to talk him out of it. the same thing happened when he decided to make a run for the presidency. barbarawe will discuss has been not a particular fan of jeb running in 2016. >> barbara bush became the public face of the administration. she spent a lot of time on the road. was that time spent talking about literacy? how did she use her time on the road? she becomes more popular in terms of public perception. her political role increases as her popularity does as well. source of here popularity? >> i think people could relate to her. that looks like somebody i know. there is a wonderful advertisement for a furniture says, get someone nancy reagan furniture at barbara bush crisis. woman. bush was a rich she had this image of being the average woman. >> people felt like they could sit down and have a cup of coffee with

the topic i fighting reagan come a great communicator. the great irony is that grew up liking reagan. without likes him. he of course is the gipper. speaking of catholic school, one thing they did in catholic school in third grade they prevent a movie projector to show you the all-american said they can begin the indoctrination. this is your orientation as a catholic. you got to know the importance of notre dame. it's all about the team. they're never changing the name, by the way. it's always going to be the fighting irish. some people say it makes us look bad. well, we do fight. i was going to call this book donnybrook. i thought two irish guys fighting wasn't very newsy. two guys want to fight? that's interesting. no it's not. they always fight. but they did fight a lot. i thought that was the story. then i realized when i began to study it, i looked back on it. they thought, but the only ended up making a deal. today they just buy it. it's like they got down to the car dealerships to hacker without any intent of buying a car. imagine

just a moment i would give my state of the union pick up where the president left off and ronald reagan hasn't been in the white house for nearly twenty five years but thanks to conservatives our nation is still addicted to fail reaganomics policies is the time we close the book on the reagan era for good and put america back on the path to success that and more tonight sloan liberal rubble. you need to know this last night president obama took to the halls of congress to give his fifth state of the union address the american people and while he did touch on many key issues that our country is facing today there are many things he should have mentioned that he did. so here's what i would have said to americans last night our state of the union is strong but its politicians are stupid and are bought off by big oil tycoons wall street billionaires and giant transnational corporations and that's the first problem with america right now our conservative controlled supreme court has said that money is protected by the first amendment thanks to the disastrous citizens united decision the cons

reagan national just shy of two. windchill index is in the single digits across the metro area here. the little better in gaithersburg. you get those costs and that drives it down very quickly. as you look at martinsburg it is at negative one. our forecast for today is windy and cold. the snowpack much done, skies will be clearing. temperatures are going to hold steady in the 20s. the windchill factor will stay in the upper single digits to low teens throughout the day. i'll have more the weekend forecast with some improvements in just a couple of minutes. right now we want to get the latest on those roads and blustery conditions in a few spots. up, butnow has wrapped we're seeing some of the blowing gusts. the wind i want to focus on the roadways. we are in chevy chase on connecticut avenue intersecting with manor road at jones bridge road third connecticut avenue ready good, in fact you've seen a lot of plows up and down the road. the side streets earlier. i traveled from wisconsin. the roads were still snow- cover

his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who would systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression joining me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone excellent to have you both on thank you very much all or i want to start with you it's clear that you're serious j.f.k. apart from other presidents what makes you think he would have been different if you let. he was different in those three years he came into office after thirteen years of national security state build up a monstrous build up we had we had thirty thousand nuclear weapons by the sixty mandated by eisenhower and national security complex that was basically had a first strike capability of the soviet union and could get away with it and that is the basis for which the cuban missile crisis and the berlin berlin crisis of nine hundred sixty one two brought us to the edge to the brink of war i'm sure now as secretary of state dulles it called it brinksmanship going

hardly the arrest by conservatives ronald reagan again backs are back. to the state of iraq. you know yeah but. we're still we're still hooked on reagan over it so your sins are ok is it time to change that and i think we should start by rolling back the reagan tax cuts larry beinart points out over the he opposed he says the truth is that tax cuts cause crashes where we cut taxes but that what follows is a cycle of boom bubble boom bubble and bust economy goes into freefall unemployment soars the american people suffer well the fact the matter is that if you look at the history the united states whenever the income tax top income tax rate after about three million dollars a year of income whenever the top tax rate goes above fifty percent then you don't have hot money flowing around in the system and so people don't gamble with that money and you don't get these bubbles and you don't get these crashes you know we had the period from night from the one nine hundred thirty s. until the one nine hundred eighty s. no bubbles no crashes top tax rate was ninety percent and then re

on the other side, ronald reagan.onald reagan was the former governor of california and he gets a lot of criticism for being isolated and being too much in the pockets of the wealthy and corporations and so on. but there was another side to reagan to be fair and i covered the last two and half years of reagan. reagan had a tremendous, first of all he had tremendous pollster of sprewell from california and utah but he had a tremendous correspondence with people. thousands and thousands of letters. as i say president obama talks about the letters today but president reagan conducted this incredible letter writing that was kept private. there was one case i will share with you just to summarize this to show he was trying to keep in touch in his own way, he went to a grammar school in washington d.c. and asked the principals to give them the name of the student he could be a penpal with so they came up with the name of rudy hines a young african-american students at hines. we didn't know any of this in the press corps at

his murder the torch was passed back to an old generation the generation of johnson nixon ford and reagan leaders who had systematically destroyed the promise of kind of these last year as they returned the country to war and repression joining me now to discuss j.f.k. and their five year long project oliver stone excellent to have you both on thank you very much although i want to start with you it's clear that you're serious j.f.k. apart from other presidents what makes you think he would have been different if. he was different in those three years he came into office after thirty years of national security state build up a monstrous build up we had we had thirty thousand nuclear weapons by sixty mandated by eisenhower and national security complex that was basically had a first strike capability of the soviet union and could get away with it and that is the basis for which the cuban missile crisis and the berlin berlin crisis of nine hundred sixty one two brought us to the edge to the brink of war eisenhower's secretary of state dollars had called it brinksmanship going against the so

of ronald reagan the same. me sending a sporting death squads in central america supporting the mujahideen and afghanistan he's talking about american benevolence and altruism and how we're so different but you see it in everybody you see madeleine albright the secretary of state and clinton says if we have to use force it's because we're the united states where the indispensable nation has a reclaimed says the same thing obama says the same thing it's not a set for obama it's different obama recently again but over and over again the beginning was the ministration he said well i believe in american exceptionalism just as the brits believe in british exceptionalism and the greeks and greek exceptionalism he got it but now he got attacked they got pilloried by the right wingers led by mike huckabee for saying that now he's out there waving the flag talking about american exceptionalism due to our standing as an ocean. do you think there's an arrogance implied in your purse you know it's the problem is that we've

when she first met ronald reagan and demand 1970's, ronald reagan originally expected the meeting to be just a few minutes. they spoke about two hours and he was usually impressed with margaret thatcher and was usually impressed with ronald reagan but as the relationship was built upon trust and 100% loyalty to exemplify the special relationship that is why you really worked so successfully. margaret thatcher was a tremendously hard worker and all of her achievements were underscored by a tremendous work ethic which gained. she was asleep just five hours a night. she used to reach through the policy papers and tremendous detail among the personal staff and was meticulously prepared and i saw that one as myself, she would prepare the speech in order to ensure that the yet fantastic speeches that would stand the test of time. and so she demonstrated that to be a truly successful leader, you have to be. you have to work very, very hard. and that is not the case for a lot of politicians today actually. her speeches leading were i think the greatest ever given by the british politician. s

unbelievable and this brings me to reagan's obsession with the star wars fantasy and. and i think it was almost the most despicable part of the story was seen that there was actually a once in a lifetime chance for nuclear disarmament and he just started under it. because they were at regular times and at reykjavik reagan clung so fiercely to his fantasy about star wars gorbachev was proposing that we give up all nuclear weapons and he said that as long as you keep star wars testing in the laboratory rather than do outside testing for ten years we'll sign off on eliminating nuclear weapons and reagan refused to do it shops and the others were so heartbroken because they saw how close we came but reagan would not let go of that and gorbachev was furious i mean let's go right to now are we in this situation exists now we are back in that position we were nine hundred sixty we have you know the bush father made a deal with gorbachev to that he would not expand nato eastward next nato was originally a defensive organization or put your america into europe and that was a bi

reported from reagan national airport, kendis gibson, abc 7 news. how much to hear about colder was growing up in wisconsin that it was here. temperatures like this were nine-month out of the year. >> we are not used to it. it is a rapid decline. the good news is it will be a rapid ascent on the other side. the middle of the week you will feel very comfortable. let's get started. current temperature around the area have been dropping all afternoon. for below already for the air temperature. those numbers will continue to drop. the darker blue are the relatively warm areas right now. they're going to drop. they have done that all afternoon. the winds have been increasing. look at the winds we have had over the last few hours. you combine those strong winds that are not going to relent -- combined with falling temperatures and you get the double whammy here. you get pure arctic air moving into the area. reagan national is 20 degrees. it feels like eight. it is going to be one of those nights. the numbers are tough. you get a feel. we are certainly not

nancy reagan did that for presidents reagan. for president carter. this does happen a lot. the big advantage is key to to his daughters. the doctors see him not as a president, but dad. so i've got a young mike tyson i should've gotten ana. that's basic invaluable to grab the president. they don't particularly care about his great speeches on health osier news conferences. they are talking about his own worlds. it is important for the president to get inside of that because they lose contacts with the everyday life in the country. so where does this leave us? i think basically this isolation of the president is a very important problem in the presidents have to use as many avenues as they can. that includes polling. that includes getting out of washington. that includes keeping contact with family and friends out of the country, paying attention to the media, congress and so on. it has to be a priority and a sustained run the presidents keep doing. i don't want to read want to effeminate other constituents from the analysis because we the media are isolated in many ways in

it was 1 in gaithersburg, 9 at reagan national. at the hotspot. we made very little progress at all. what is most important it is that hour winds are so strong that are windchill factor is the subzero. the windchill factor expires here at the noon hour, for the metro area, then it holds onto the north and to the west. it feels like -4. records will likely be broken this afternoon. our forecast high is only 60 degrees. the cold as high temperature we have ever had on this day is 21. dell is airport forecasting 13 degrees. also about 13 at bwi. i think all those records will likely be broken this afternoon. if you are traveling today, it has been very challenging not just the roadways but the byways. there have been so many cancellations, problems and did the northeast. the rest of the country is doing pretty good, but notice this little clipper system that could bring in some changes by tomorrow. we will talk what those chances and a few snow showers back into the forecast and how long does bitter cold will last coming up in a few minutes from a be

nationals at reagan airport. dulles at 22. the windchill factor -- what it feels like out there -- only eight at dulles. it feels like six at gaithersburg. it feels like three degrees in hagerstown. our skies have cleared out. that has allowed our temperatures to tumble really fast. thanks to a fresh coating of inw out there -- five inches damascus -- that is going to really help our temperatures plummet. if you have activities this evening, temperatures will only be 15 to 20 degrees. to single waking up digits. early tomorrow morning -- monday night into tuesday, we could see some of the coldest temperatures -- are you ready for this? in 20 years. details in just a few minutes. steve, very much. as you said, this cold we are experiencing is dangerous cold. especially those without heat or with exposure to the elements for extended time. jeff has more on how people are dealing with these temperatures. jeff? >> i am in arlington along 23rd south. the power is back on for those who lost it. this is a consistent problem they deal

reagan stopped enforcing the sherman antitrust act. if we start enforcing that, if we were to reinstate glass-steagall and separate commercial banking from gambling banking so they can't take your paycheck deposit and gamble with it on wall street, if we were to do that, and undue phil gramm's terrible legislation and and this phony baloney derivatives market. if we were to bring back a manufacturing, changed in our trade policy back to what alexander hamilton put in place in 1793, and stood until the beginning of the reagan revolution, now to all these other now for, captain mack, all these things, iverson to go back to the fundamentals. it's not like we have to call of sweden and tell us how to run a country, we did this in this country. in fact, we have done it three times since 1776. we had three your cycles and each one we got better. we figured it out. it's all right there in history books. occasion you will find someone who holds it up nicely tells you about it. so that i think, frankly, is the good news. the bad news is that th

to make matters worse, a pipe burst in the baggage area of reagan national airport. he water did not cause any serious damage. just an inconvenience. you can keep track of the weather any time on our website. we will have the school closings and delays, and the latest problems caused the cold. , why major bank is paying out major dollars to victims of bernie made off. >> tough words for members of congress while they were to >> taking steps to restoring benefits to more than million people. >> this is after obama tries to put a human face to the issue. >> all politics are local and personal. on tuesday, to drive home its point about a hot button issue, president obama allowed one military mom to tell her story. >> i'm working hard to find a position. unemployment benefits have been essential to cover my bare necessities. my cuts include hating my house to 58 degrees, wearing a hat to stay warm. tuesday, president obama offered sympathies. >> is the only source of income they have to support their families where they look for a new job. these are your neighbors. it co

then reagan came along. there's been no 50 year war on poverty. >> when you have something, you don't recognize how important it is. when you're denied it. like right to choice. then it's a big issue. social security is the greatest anti-poverty program this

. >> nancy reagan was the first sitting first lady to address the united nations and the first to address the nation in a joint appearance with the president. >> so to my young friends other, life can be great but not when you can't see it. so open your eyes to light, cnn visit covers that god gave us as a precious gift to his children. to enjoy life to the fullest and to make it count. so yes to your life, and when it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say no. >> first lady nancy reagan as our original series "first ladies: influence and image" returns tonight live at nine eastern on c-span and c-span3. also on c-span rated and c-span.org. >> next summer addiction for

the reagan approach included helping people find jobs. the welfare reform program, that we passed in 1996 led to the largest increase in children leaving poverty in american history. the late '90s was the best period of moving children out of poverty into a much higher income status, and nobody on the left wants to study it, because it requires work. frankly, on unemployment compensation i would extend it, but i would attach a learning component, apresentishships tied to businesses, and i would try to say, if you can't find a job, we want to help you acquire the job skills to enable you to find a job. in terms of poor children, i think school choice is absolutely central. we trap poor children in terrible schools to pay off the teachers' union. we ruin those childrens lives and wonder why they have a hard time finding a job by the public bureaucracy. >> nice to see you. >>> coming up, a prediction from facebook's founder. nchtsds commuter science or basic programs will be as important a skill as being able to do basic reading and writing.

so yes to your life, and when it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say no. >> first lady nancy reagan as our original series "first ladies: influence and image" returns tonight live at nine

is twenty fourteen barack obama is president ronald reagan is dead but for thirty three years we have continued to live in an era of reaganomics in every meaningful way reaganomics is alive and well and still controlling our economy. and what has thirty three years of failed reaganomics brought us it's brought us record levels of financial instability it's brought us trade policies that have destroyed the working class union policies that have destroyed labor america but most importantly has brought us tax policies that have made any quality worse that have wrecked our economy and put us at the mercy of cycles of boom and bust when ronald reagan stepped foot inside the white house the top marginal tax rate was seventy four percent and a third of the federal government's income came from corporations today the top tax rate is sitting at thirty nine percent most rich people pay a maximum of twenty percent the capital gains rate and corporations are only paying around eleven percent of the total cost of running the federal government thanks to thirty three years of failed reaganomics man

as a lot of how do is not close because there is actual law this in all cases this is like reagan you know with the senate needs to i mean by a late at the law there is something to that but there's way to downsize jail for now ok but we're stopping there are some ways you could he could change the way that it's still military he could do because he controls the military if he could pull all the personnel out of guantanamo yes and he would say ok that's it we're going to depopulate it kuantan were to leave the prisoners there right we're going to open the doors and we'll let castro take care of well but i understood that that's what he said during the campaign that we were going to get out of this war he's used executives' action he's been forceful on certain things with prosecutorial discretion but he's done nothing in the drug war there's been a few symbolic things and the changes he could legalize there by pot to begin with absolutely i mean he could do a lot of things so i think in one way i understand where he's going with this he's going to be able to blame somebody else more th

then came reagan. he dropped the top tax rate back down to twenty eight percent leaving within a year of the worst recession since the great depression followed by the savings and loans crisis. bill clinton took the top income tax rate back up to thirty nine percent and presto the economy boom but then bush jr came into office cut it back down again and we got another crash and lots of unemployment. simple point effect four times since one nine hundred thirteen we've had big tax cuts on the rich to lead to major crashes the other two would lead to stagnation for working people all of them made the rich a lot richer. and when taxes have gone up as author larry buying our points out since one nine hundred fifty we have had five tax increases on the rich four out of five times unemployment went down things got better in other words for working people the flip side is buying our points out is that since nine hundred fifty we've had ten cuts to the top marginal tax rate cuts six out of ten times unemploymen

all they see at reagan national is a sea of red. american airlines and hours of delays have her seeing red. it has been a full 48 hours since the storm. the ripple effect is more like a tidal wave. 5:30 and then they canceled it. >> they have been trying to get back to massachusetts since lunch. my dinner, they were feeling more than hunger pangs. they were outraged that u.s. airways canceled the flights. he has got to come out of pocket with more money. >> i just got a rental car. >> now comes the hard part. hundreds of delayed passengers landed, whatnot their luggage. -- but not their luggage. >> it was so bad. to the united carousel, sort of. resident saysing that it is insult to injury after being rerouted to new york. >> i had to sleep in the airport last night. >> the flight to reagan was also canceled. how did they get here? amtrak and metro. unacceptable says rodney. several passengers go on to say that their flights were delayed because they did not have pilots. it just so happened that a new faa regulation went into place

reagan was a strong critic of detente. reagan had a debate involving the panama canal.those debates are not bad. it tends to be somewhat undisciplined. you have these kind of back-and- forth. some of these issues will be resolved once the republican party dominates -- nominates a candidate in 2016 and the party and the movement will unify behind them. host: dave in florida. independent line. caller: good morning. good morning, sir. [indiscernible] and theg the tea party people who are not that educated , but are totally fed up. going back to george bush. you keep knocking president obama. the main reason obama got elected in the first place is because that people were so fed up with the moderate conservatism -- i would almost say liberalism of george bush -- and the madness that went on then. around --ed right they totally went directly opposite of what he campaigned on. people went ballistic. it is not an antigovernment -- it is an antiestablishment. host: thank you. guest: thank you for the call. let me try to untangle this. i do have some criticism of the tea party.