reagan believe. this poster boy, this face of conservativism, the sort of standard bearer and icon of the republican party, what did he believe, what did he actually believe? all right, so with that reagan, reagan never really gave a definition of conservativism. i think he was afraid to try. as soon as he tried to do this, you've got all sorts of critics and so fort. but february 6, 1977, which was his 66th birthday and he spoke at cpac, the conservative political action conference, reagan spoke there, i think, 13 times. i give the data if my book. every year of his presidency reagan spoke to cpac. and here in this particular address -- which in the back of the book i have the full february 1977 reagan cpac speech, it's a gem. he said conservativism can mean different things the those who call themselves conservatives, and it can. really, the essence of conservativism be you want -- if you want kind of a definition from me and then i'll give you reagan's sort of definition, but conservatives seek to

they took reagan. unlike gallup does up president's day poll, reagan placed first among the american public who's your favorite president? reagan got it 2001, 2005, 2011, 2012. greg unusually finishes in the top three. typically beat lincoln. imagines that. in new june of 2005 there was a poll done by a o l and time warner. a o l online which surveyed americans and didn't give them a choice, put in whatever name they wanted. who is the greatest american of all time. not the greatest president, who is the greatest american of all time. 2.4 million people responded with any status far and away representative sample. maybe 500 people to do this polling and reagan won greatest american of all time. what republican wouldn't want to be like reagan? who would aspire to that success? you now have republican groups all over the county, state groups, they have been holding these annual lincoln day dinners for years, changing the names of many of those to reagan day dinners because the lincoln day dinners were in

and ronald reagan was both. he was a total complete conservative not just conservative on some issues and tax cuts and so forth but on social and economic issues. so as ashley said in this book i laid out 11 principles of the conservatism and i don't know how i came up with the love and other than i laid out the principles and stopped and counted and there were 11. some people said you should do ten and make it the ten commandments. i would have to combine them but there's lots time, there's 11. there is 12, make it a dozen. even within is an odd number. i got 11 and i don't want to combine any of them. so here they are in the there will be a quiz at the end of this. make sure you take notes. you have a cheat sheet in the book and on c-span you can rewind it. but i will rattle them off. freedom, faith, family, sanctity of human life, american exceptionalism, the founders, wisdom and vision, lower taxes, limited government, peace through strength of anti-communism and a belief in the individual. those are the 11.

reagan could not disagree more. the comments are reflective of a long-held progressive believe that the constitution is too rigid and ultimately undemocratic. for progressives, the constitution is an unnecessary restraint on progress. progress is -- neither the public nor leaders are accountable to anything or anyone beyond themselves. for true progressives, truth is the majority vote of the nation that can lick all others. at its core, the theory rejects timeless and fixed natural rights articulated in the declaration of independence. the notion of the constitution being an impediment to progress is not new. as early as 1914, it was described as an imposition on the people. another point, he referred to it as an as a monarchy of words. woodrow wilson argued that a charismatic president can help overcome the impediments of the constitution's rigid separation of powers. another has called our constitution imbecilic. it is in this. that we see the birth of an aggressive court using its power to advance liberal agenda

he came to that relatives asian as reagan did her -- relatives as reaganealization did. it is also about public-sector unions. reagan was a union guy. that unionse he saw can be thuggish. coolidge as a young man was a progressive. do withd intensely to employers in massachusetts. he came to see that public-sector unions could be thugs and they did not help the individual, though they might help a named group. when you want to ask, what it is about the outlook sector unions, it is about they pretend to represent all but only represent some. that bothered them both. coolidge said that it would appear that our problem of economic justice in massachusetts is not quite so simple assuming we can take from one class and give to another. there it is. i am concerned. the catalyst for coolidge's choice was a dramatic situation in 1919. he was governor of massachusetts and by an anomaly of the law reported boston police to someone who reported to the governor. n were getting ready to protest. they had a very compelling -- by the way, this is not an easy situation. the police were a

reagan became more than just a leader. he became an educator for the american people and in so created his majority in the country, simultaneous to his success in office and as a candidate. it seems to me that that scenario may be presenting itself right now as well with the failures of the current administration, growing discomfort, growing disillusionment among the american people. and we are all hungry for that messenger who is going to clarify principles for the country and do so in a way that establishes a certain level of credibility. the frustration i think we see right now and this discussion about the tea party is the tea party does very well articulating what is very wrong with the health care plan is bad. what is the plan we should be for? we can all agree that the u.s. department of education, no child left behind, the obama strategy with race to the top and so on, is a bad idea. what is the conservative message we can rally around? no one has really articulated that particularly clearly. tax policy, consumptio

it was passed by reagan.u are near an emergency room in this country they must treat you regardless of your ability to pay. was president obama speaking truthfully when he said that if you are denied and the individual market, where there is no protection for pre-existing conditions, does that mean you're left with no options? no. who is responsible for pre-existing conditions anyway? where did it come from? as is the case with most of our problems, it comes from right here, right here in washington , d.c. back in 1996, a bipartisan group wrote a law called hippa. when we hear that we think a privacy. but there is a far more important clause. it was portability. from oneort coverage plan to another, as long as they find a new job within 63 days. how do we know that is true? has any employer ever said, boy, you can lose a few pounds? how many medications do take? does your family have a history of heart disease? it is illegal to do that because of those laws. that protects 90% of the american injured. -- insur

reagan got on 2001, 2005, 2011, 2012. an reagan you recallly finishes in the top three. typically beats lincoln. [laughter] and imagine that. imagine that. there was in -- in june 2005 a poll done by aol and time warner that survived americans and didn't give them a choice but put in whichever name they wanted. who is the greatest american of all time? not who is the greatest president. who is the greatest american of all time 2.4 million people responded. which any status will tell you is far in a way a representative. you only need 500 people to do some of this polling. and reagan won. >> you can watch this and other programs online, and book tv.org. >> you're watching book tv, next elisabeth colbert argue as we're undergoing a fixed max extinction five others occurred over the past 500 million years. likely that one is the result of human action, and be the most devastating. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much, i too am very impressed that such a large number of people are here on a friday night, and i really, really appreciate it. so thanks very

in the middle of the conversation with jody, reagan called home. >> hi, hone. >> reagan, my name is adam may, i'm going to ask you a few questions. after you had the c section what happened to you? >> after, i found out it was coming open. so i needed to be seen right away. >> back up for a second. how big was the wound? >> it was big enough for me to be able to put my fist in it. the worst pain i ever have been through in my life. >> reagan confirmed the details about what her mother had told us about the kitchen sugar. >> they were ripping open packages of kitchen sugar and putting it in the wound. >> what do you think needs to be done here? >> i don't know. what we say doesn't really matter. >> reagan is not the only inmate alleging mistreatment. the aclu filed a class action lawsuit against the arizona prison system. it allegation that prisoners are at, quote, substantial risk of pain, amputation, disfigurement and death. >> the general attitude and far too many in this society is who cares? >> dan pikoda of arizona's aclu, says in his 40 year career he has never seen a worst prison

in the middle of the conversation with jody, reagan called home. >> hi, hone. >> reagan, my name is adam may, i'm going to ask you a few questions. after you had the c section what happened to you? >> after, i found out it was coming open. so i needed to be seen right away. >> back up for a second. how big was the wound? >> it was big enough for me to be able to put my fist in it. the worst pain i ever have been through in my life. >> reagan confirmed the details about what her mother had told us about the kitchen sugar. >> they were ripping open packages of kitchen sugar and putting it in the wound. >> what do you think needs to be done here? >> i don't know. what we say doesn't really matter. >> reagan is not the only inmate alleging mistreatment. the aclu filed a class action lawsuit against the arizona prison system. it allegation that prisoners are at, quote, substantial risk of pain, amputation, disfigurement and death. >> the general attitude and far too many in this society is who cares? >> dan pikoda of arizona's aclu, says in his 40 year career he has never seen a worst prison

our reagan is a lack of a bird. and i started to notice a pattern as i get involved in public policy that republicans would win when they stood for something when what they said when they ran for office was by and large what they tried to do when they won office. it was certainly true with. it was true in 1994 when newt gingrich was taking on his gop establishment in this permanent minority mindset that the house of representatives had under bob michael, and it was true again in 2010 when grassroots activists started organizing in large part due to opposition to all of the broken promises from the obama administration. now, there has been a lot of revisionist history on this, but in 2010 the chairman of the senate republican committee, john gordon, was publicly arguing to things. one, we should not run against obamacare. it is a loser for republicans. we need to back off. to, if we are lucky senate republicans might pick up once the. one. today all of these experts within the gop lecture as for losing the senate maj

-- opt for the 1983 reagan rule. they don't like it because the 2008 rule will provide clarity and certainty in the smcra process which, of course, will free up job creation and meaning there is going to be some certainty in coal production. rather the environmental community would like to use loopholes that they found in the 1983 rule making to take team to court. -- take people to court. that's exactly why from my perspective that this amendment is offered to go back to the reagan time so that there can be probably more litigation and less certainty in rule making of surface mining. the gentleman mentioned, for example, the 100-foot buffer zone. the bush rule has 100-foot buffer zone just like the reagan rule. nothing changed there. what only changes in the long run in rule making is certainty. those that like to go to court don't like certainty. that is why i believe we have this improbable defense of anything that reagan did because they see that over a period of time there are ways that you could manipulate that

to reflect reagan's glory onto themselves.itbart.com, rand paul rewrote the republican speech writers ronald reagan template and used ronald reagan not to reflect glory on himself but to attack ted cruz. rand paul wrote, every republican likes to think he or she is the next ronald reagan. some who say this do so for lack of their own ideas and agenda. reagan was a great leader and president, but too often people make him into something he wasn't in order to serve their own political purposes. then rand paul did something republicans never do. he specifically said he is not the next ronald reagan. i don't claim to be the next ronald reagan nor do i attempt to disparage fellow republicans as not being sufficiently reaganesque. but i will remind anyone who thinks we will win elections by trashing nominees or holding oneself out as some paragon in the mold of reagan, that splintering the party is not the route to victory. let's see. who does this? >> all of us remember president dole. and president mccain. and president romney. th

of president reagan's economic predictions come ue.ny, it seemed we had improved productivity of president reagan's ecoby cutting taxes. come ue. workers anbusinesses were investing more. but the relationship was not that simple. we asked richard gill to summarize. how does a tax cut stimulate productivity? e ways in which lowered taxes caimprove productivity are ir obvious higherake-meay may encourage workers ork rder. lowexesmay ovide sisseswiore e xngreateinceives of t early 198.ks. the al issues the supply-side enthusiasts xngreateinceives argued that lower tax ratesssues lead to higherroductivity, which would lead to a greatly increased gnp. this greaternp to awould acally result in. higher governmentax revenues. we'd get such increases in productivity and growth,es. we wouldn't even have to think about government deficits. the less enthusiasc view was that lower tax rates would cause big budget deficits, that government borrowing would cause high interest rates, and thisould result in lower business investment and grow. the effec

>> reagan is very -- she holds her emotions very well. but once she's talking to me alone, it's you know a complete devastation. >> reporter: but that was just the beginning. reagan was transferred from county jail to perryville state prison where jud jody says her daughter was denied prenatal care. >> and the baby was born small? >> yes, small. it just infuriates me. >> after 48 hours in labor, reagan had to have a c section. and the medical staff didn't stitch it shut. they just dressed it with butterfly bandages. >> bit about day 3 she's -- by about day 3 she's noticing it's oozing, and getting in effected. shin effect -- infected. to be able to look inside her body was just freaking her out and she would just sit and cry and say please please take me to a hospital. you know? i feed them to stitch it up. it needs to be closed. and they told her, if you come back we're going to start giving you tickets. >> and a ticket is a bad behavior notification? >> it's a bad behavior notification. i truly believe i could have lost my daughter had

ronald reagan -- [applause] ronald reagan made that famous speech in 1964 that was called "a time forosing." i think we are at that point again, and we can do this. thank you. police departments. [applause] >> i regard myself as a reagan republican when people ask me to define myself in the public in terms, that's the description i use. ronald reagan was one of my heroes, so is margaret thatcher. margaret thatcher did a phenomenal be job in turning around the trajectory of the united kingdom. and her reward for that, much like the reward for winston churchill, was that ultimately she was turned out of power. classic example of someone who was right, by my perspective and by, i suspect, everybody in the room -- i don't mean right of center, i mean correct -- who was eventually rejected by the british body politic. there's a bromide going around that a conservative who stands on his or her principles, the most conservative will always be elected. how'd that turn out in 1964 with barry goldwater? how'd it turn out with sharron angle and christine o'donnell or todd aiken? that sum my isn'

it was passed by reagan.f you are near an emergency room in this country they must treat you regardless of your ability to pay. was president obama speaking truthfully when he said that if you are denied and the individual market, where there is no protection for pre-existing conditions, does that mean you're left with no options? no. who is responsible for pre-existing conditions anyway? where did it come from? as of the kids with most of our problems, it comes from right here, right here in washington dc. back in 1996, a bipartisan group wrote a law called hippa. when we hear that we think a privacy. but there is a far more important clause. it was portability. that you can move your plan as long as you find coverage within 90 days. has anywhere looked you up and down and said, boy, you can lose a few pounds? how many medications do take? does your family have a history of heart disease? it is illegal to do that because of those laws. that protects 90% of the american injured. when they wrote this law they

>> what do you mean, the reagan involvement? >> you gave a very robust and good defense of ronald reagan's work -- >> right. >> -- to rid the world of communism and break down the wall. he thought it was in our interest to be there. why now today in 2014 do you not defend our right to be involved. i don't understand. >> i think the strategic defense initiative, right, defense initiative? >> i think it was more than that. economic freedom, property rights, the right to self govern. >> we called it a defense. you want to put something in the air -- >> if i buy into the argument just briefly, i know reagan really did bring down the soviet union, which i don't, but ukraine was part of that. >> let me point something out to answer dana's point. we had a cold war going on with russia, right? that was us and russia. this is ukraine -- >> it was a belief in democracy and self-governance and belief in freedom to protect america's security later on. >> i gotta go. they're yelling at me. >> don't yell at me. >> i'm tired of being yelled at

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one in four democrats voted for ronald reagan in 1980 and 1984 and reagan's election begins a republican ascension to the presidency. reagan's america was really about on young, on poor middle-aged middle and americans gravitating to ronald reagan who wanted this restoration of order if you will. the person who understood that the best ironically is a rock obama. obama actually wrote once about reagan's election and reagan's the field that it was an appeal for order. a obama noted that he had seen the military bases in hawaii in the men and women in their crisp uniforms and so forth. he thought that was an essential part of reagan's appeal. he is quite right about that actually. what has happened now is when i was a teenager there was a book called the real majority and the real majority was described as being unyong, i'm poor and i'm black so i grew up thinking that's the real majority in the united states. you know that's the lack drift that it lacks presidents. their real majority today is the real minority because white and middle income middle-class middle-aged suburbanites, that's

ronald reagan -- ran before. he's more optimistic. he's not attacking. >> and he's got those cool glasses. right? i think we sort of look back on the rick perry race and republican it for that terrible oops moment and sort of theorized that was his big problem. but he had a big problem around immigration. it is not clear that that wouldn't play in the same way in 2016 that it played in 2012. >> i talked to more than one strategist working for potential republican rivals who have said to me -- i actually envy rick perry's space in this race because he is underestimated, he has run before, he's been governor, he will have been governor for 14 years. he has a zone her netwo e e er network. >> people talk about scott walker as the dark horse in the republican race. >> perry left a lot of friends behind in iowa. he flamed out but he left a lot of friends. >>> so you're hillary clinton and you are thinking about running for president. you want to know, do the american people think you are strong, tough? look at these numbers. is she a stron

reagan national, 18. prince george's county, 9 degrees. the big weather story this morning, we are dealing with slippery travel. we have a lot of the schools still closed. the entire region, many roads are snow covered with these subfreezing temperatures. also icy sidewalks and icy steps and a cold day today. afternoon high temperatures, many locations make it to near freezing. and parts of north central virginia may hit the mid-30s. but we do have a milder weekend on tap. that's going to be moving in and giving us a feeling of spring. saturday aught to make it to the mid-50s. on sunday, might get a few sprinkles in the morning, otherwise partly sunny with highs on sunday into the low 50s. we still have many snow covered streets. and now traveling around is chuck bell in northwest. good morning, chuck. >> reporter: good morning, tom. current temperature here on nebraska avenue in northwest washington, we are at 13.9 degrees. so it is cold outside this morning. check some of the local road temperatures and roadbed temperatures in the single

reagan talked to russia.talked to the soviet union. why can't we talk to iran? but there is a difference. reagan dealt with the soviet union because they had nuclear weapons and he wanted peace, but he never accepted the soviet union. >> our biggest national security crisis is barack obama. we're going to get what we see today in the ukraine where vladimir putin has a strategy and obama has nothing, where putin has a growing defense budget, and ours is shrinking. we do not accept an american president who is weak and indecisive and apologetic about our country. >> well, add bobby jindal, marco rubio to hit president obama for being weak. in fact that. >> love to compare our weak president to vladimir putin, who by comparison they say they almost seem to admire. ted cruz wrote that, quote, it is almost as if the russians have a renowned grand master playing chess and the united states is playing checkers. meanwhile, it was rudy giuliani who just hates how president obama has to think about things before he mak

the high reagan national, 32. the low as 14. the low temperature was two degrees colder than what our average low is. our high average is 52. 20 degrees below average. just make you feel better, in 1983, reagan national and 82 degrees. what about the records this ?orning the all-time temperature of one below zero. the lowest temperature ever recorded for baltimore. going back to 1873. coldreally unprecedented air out there. temperatures are going to fall quickly. 7-20 degrees. mostly clear. a study angle. cold a remains along the coast. 34. that is it. gete are signs that we will a change in the wind direction. a couple of systems to watch. come on it'sill heels here. going to keep the precipitation south of our area as well. we will see the moisture creeps northward. beyond that, warming numbers. we turn the clocks ahead saturday night. >> now, the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. >> we trust tim brant is safe and warm of the comcast center. >> he looks that way. he is there for a big game tonigh

ronald wilson reagan was born in tampico, illinois -- what? still not doing reagan? fine. deal's a deal. after his loss to reagan, president carter became "former" president carter, a title he has successfully defended for 33 years, including a 1987 split decision against hector "macho" camacho. i lost a "lot" of money on that. within years of leaving office, jimmy carter founded the carter center, a humanitarian organization which has fought for human rights and disease prevention. and for three decades, he has worked with habitat for humanity, building houses for the poor all over the world -- in an obvious attempt to launch his hgtv show, "nail to the chief." [ cheers and applause ] in 2002, jimmy carter was awarded the nobel peace prize, making him the only native georgian besides martin luther king to have won the award. but good luck next year. hulk hogan. in summation, when talking about our nation's presidents, history will recognize jimmy carter was one of them. congratulations, sir. back to you, stephen. [ cheers and applause ] thank you, stephen. when we return,

>> i think ronald reagan was.omebody who was both glamorous and charismatic, which is fairly unusual in a politician, but the main reason he was not as glamorous as president kennedy is that he did not die. he took an assassin's bullet. it is part of what makes kennedy so glamorous, that we remember him as his life cut short and the potential that could have been, so he was glamorous in his day, because he represented guy, a naval war hero, and he had a wife, and he also indren, but memory, he can take on whatever views you want, and i wrote about this. the assassination. have people who are hawkish neoconservatives who say if kennedy had lived, he would have done what i wanted. you have people who are former vietnam war protesters who said if kennedy had lived, he would have done what i wanted, and they have completely opposite views. always that potential. and then ronald reagan is another. he was older when he became president. and then we know how it came out. >> let me show you something from 1977 of senator

that sort of happened with ronald reagan, too, right? the reagan of the 1980s was a lot different.ot different from the caricature version of him, conservatives celebrate now. i wonder if those two are not linked. right? like -- >> yeah. >> you know, ronald reagan to become the heroic figure they've built him up to be had to succeed as president somebody who was absolute total fail wur. you can't have the reagan legend without carter being the worst thing ever. >> on top of that, this is something i write about some in the "center holds" is the romney people in 2012 were certain right up to election night that this was kbroigoing to be a repf 1980 with obama as carter and mitt romney as ronald reagan and would be this huge wave. people forget that carter was expected to get re-elected until very close to 1980 election and then there was this human wave of disgust with him and reagan was swept into office. so they would actually talk explicitly in 2012 about the carter/reagan analogy and, of course -- >> that's right. in 1980, there was the assumption that reagan was too conservativ

the reagan administration resisted this approach. economists-- i'd say 99.9% of economists-- believe we all gain from free trade. this administration believes we gain from free trade. therefore we are not going to lead the world down a protectionist road which will reduce our standard of living and reduce standards of living abroad. in may 1985, heads of state of the free world's industrial nations met in a summit in bonn, west germany, trying to resolve differences in economic policy. europeans and the japanese urged the u.s. to control its budget deficit. we urged them to expand their economies to create markets for american goods. no firm decisions were made, but international cooperation remains a promising economic approach. beryl sprinkel speaks for the reagan administration. when governments recognize a particular set of policies are in their interest, they're very likely to move in that direction. the difficulty is getting them to do something which is against their interest. they won't do it. we won't do it. but working toge

here now former reagan adviser and my dear friend, art laffer. art, i read your article this morning. jumped out of my chair because i think it has so much truth to it. i got to be honest with you, i put it on twitter. i know i shouldn't have, but i want the whole world to read what you wrote. you don't think militarily we have a chance, you don't think sanctions will work. where should we be going to deal with the russian threat? >> the problem that obama's speech had was he was blaming everyone else except he us. our economic weakness emboldened putin to move. and we weren't aware that he would move. my goodness. with the change in government in ukraine there pro russian to anti-russian, and crimea's historic relations with russia, it's a natural that putin would move there. ukraine has all those lines going through. yet obama blames every else except himself. our economy is weak. our military has been dissipated dramatically in wars all over the world. and now we don't have the ability to stand up to putin and to stop him from doing this. and

ronald reagan is right. he predicted the mess we would be in with the ukraine crisis, and it's all about energy. and microsoft is hitting highs not seen since the dot-com boom. thii'm ali velshi, this is "real money." >> all right, this is "real money." you are the most potter pan of the show. join our conference for the next half hour on twitter @aj real money, @ali velshi, facebook.com/aj real money. we read all of them. inflation only rose by a pinch in february. food prices overall are up about 1.4% in the last year. the government says americans should expect to see food prices rise by as much as 3.5%. in 2014 if that's true that would be the biggest increase we've seen in a few years. okay, much of the rise will come from higher meat and dairy prices. drought conditions in california and texas force farmers and ranches to cull their herds, but demand has been constant, so prices have been increasing. meanwhile, prices for coffee and sugar are up because of dry weather in brazil. coffee furthers have dr

go after reagan. george h.w. bush got elected in 1988 largely because, as anybody in here over, you know, 30 would remember, largely because it was of the best people could do, they thought, to get a third term of reagan, right? he won one term. that was it. he lost in 1992 to bill clinton. clinton wins with 43% of the vote roughly, that was it. because of the third party candidacy of who?

reagan library, bush library, dana perino. that's a great mix.on being uncool and writing about it. greg, good job, guys. greg, i'll keep the seat warm until you're healthy. >> that sounds very weird. don't keep it warm. >> bye, guys. >> thanks. coming up straight ahead. one federal judge and self-professed dirty old man has taken it upon himself to tell female lawyers what they shouldn't wear in the courtroom. is he out of order? that story next. bring up the music. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> a federal judge in nebraska has some fashion advice for female lawyers in a controversial blog post. it's titled "on being a dirty old man and how young women lawyers dress." senior district judge richard coff writes, quote, there's a wonderfully talented and very pretty female lawyer, she wears short skirts and shows a lot of her ample chest. word had gotten around about this lawyer's dress, close quote. three rules for young female lawyers on what to wear. one, you can't win. men are both pigs and pruds, get over it. two, it's not about you. that goes double when you're a

a disaster. >> ronald reagan. >> reagan. >> lincoln and reagan. >> ronald reagan's 103rd birthday.ch with michael reagan, his son. >> he didn't want a free lunch. he wanted his own lunch. >> the media doesn't even notice. they're too busy trying to fix benghazi for hillary. >> some days you come to work and get the electric slide. republicans at cpac did have one new single to play for the faithful this year. while it wasn't "back in the ussr," it was pretty close. >> vladimir putin has a strategy and obama has nothing. >> you look at what he's doing with president obama. he's, like, toying with him. he's toying with him. >> we have a president who believed by the sheer force of his personality he would be able to shape global events. >> also marked the triumphant return to cpac of new jersey governor chris christie not invited to cpac last year because he was seen as too liberal. seems once you start to face scandal and criticism from much of the country, conservative faithful have got your back especially when you attack the press. >> we have to stop letting the media define who

ronald reagan is a whacko bird.i noticed a pattern that republicans would win when they stood for something. when it was by and large what they did when they won office. that was true with ronald reagan and his true in 1994 when a newt gingrich was taking on his gop establishment and this permit -- permanent minority mindset. it was true in 2010 when grassroots activists started organizing in a large part due to opposition to all of the broken promises from the obama administration. there's been a lot tougher revision. in 2010, the chairman of the senate republican committee, publiclyyn, was arguing to things. we should not run against obamacare. we need to back off. lucky, senate republicans might pick up one seat. one. today, all of these experts within the gop, losing the sent majority in 2010. they said with the pick up one. we picked up seven. in my world, that is called winning. aretheir world, they diminishing expectations and telling us what we should not talk about and suggesting that there is some sort of

this is video from reagan national airport. these are their efforts to get the runway is back open today. they need to get a certain amount of snow off the runways before they have the industrial lowers, to clear it out. they are trying to get the runways reopened at reagan national. no flights are coming and going but the airport remains open. they are trying to get a situation where that will be easier for flights to come and go. that is pretty cool video. let's talk about video that folks have sent 10. metro ridership is relatively low but people are out there. these are conditions on solomons island, maryland. this.iewer sent this is a look at some video from montross as the snow is coming down earlier this morning. we appreciate if you send video and pictures to us at wjla.com. this is falls church. it is dicey driving conditions and we have seen pictures of accidents in waldorf and on the beltway and i was asked to find a cute dog pictures so here is friedrich the snow shepherd wanted to play frisbee. please send your pic

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the reagan administration obsessed over how to thwart the deals. this cia memo warned the protection in most likely circumstances they would use the gas as a blunt pressure for western europe because it needs the revenue badly, it could exert subtle political pressure. despite reagan's warnings, western europe went ahead with the pipeline contract and a web of pipelines grew across europe. three decades later russia is an energy superpower. the european union now depends on russia for a quarter of its natural gas supplies through that very pipeline network. so many has changed in three decades. the fall of the berlin wall, the fall of communism, the end of the cold war. yet, so much remains the same. all these years later, reagan's warning that the west's room for maneuver with moscow would be hamstring by reliance on russian energy is now proving true. >>> home builders in america are still reeling from the recession. coming up i talk to one of the biggest in the country about housing recovery. >>> later, witches for hire. the ancient art used to