he's like right here and he sees reagan right about there. >> where is reagan? >> reagan is right about where you're standing right there. >> so this far away? >> yeah, about 15 feet. they say 15 fweet, they measured it and reagan was 15 feet from hinckley when the shots were fired. if you go to a basketball court, any basketball court in the country and you get on the free-throw line and you look at it, you're, it's just the distance of a free throw, that's how close he was, that's 15 feet. he also got the secret service did, there are a lot of great reports they did on this. they interviewed all the agents who were there that day and a lot of witnesses. i forwarded those and got those. i was able to know what everyone said they did. that usually kind of matched up with what the video and the pictures showed. that was helpful. but it was helpful to get in their heads of what was happening. i interviewed them all, too. and i also got some fbi reports. there's a great fbi report, no one has seen reagan's fbi interview shortly after the shooting. that was sealed.

reagan's where. jeb bush, you talk about the e-mail situation, he did try to help his rather win florida. i think when it looked like florida was going to al gore, jeb bush was upset because he was governor at the time and thought he let his brother down. the problem there is dynasty. our people ready for a third bush in the white house? that something jeb bush has to use in terms of using his own celebrity. host: ken walsh do any of the people in 2016 have that je ne sais quoi? guest: i have been thinking about that lot lately -- that a lot lately. hillary clinton is the most famous of anyone running for president -- she has not announced but we are already expecting her to run. in terms of the e-mails you talked about and the last segment, anything she does is channeled through our perceptions of her as a celebrity. she has a unique resume. she was first lady. a senator from new york. secretary of state. people know her. she has astronomical name identification. people have ingrained perceptions of

ronald reagan had to -- video u economics. ronald reagan had to sign some laws. despite what george bush said... >> read my lips, no new taxes. >> he raised the tax rates for wealthy individuals. the dye had been cast, and a conversation around supply side economics and tax cuts dominated american domestic politics for the next three decades. perhaps no one person epitomizes the anti-tax movement than grover norquist, his organization for tax reform came up with the taxpayer protection pledge, a promise to oppose tax increase. it's arguably become an influential american document for the 20th century. today 1 cks 358 law mickers, including -- 1,358 lawmakers, have taken the pledge not to raise taxes, making norquist a powerful nonelected individual in washington. over the past few years critics charged that norquist's iron clad pledge contributed to gridlock in washington. some republicans tried to distance themselves from him. line to what house speaker john boehner -- listen to what house speaker john boehner said. >> all thought i was asking about a random per

. >> let me say this. >> reagan reagan reagan.ing of reagan by conservatives has almost reached the site of parody. argued that president obama should follow reagan's lead in dealing with iran we began to enter the world of surreal. she cited the way he spoke with soviets. there is one you should not be invoking when it comes to iran. that's ronald reagan. take a trip back to the start of the 1980s with a scandal during the reagan administration. the iran scandal. which feels lost to history. leftists had just taken over the government in nicaragua. a coalition of right wing rebels wanted to overthrow the left wing and ronald reagan who was staunchly anti-communist was exceedingly supportive of the contra's efforts. referring to them to the moral equivalent of the founding fathers. the contras became known for brutal tactics including executions of other soldiers. congress took issue with reagan backing the contras and passed a series of amendments to stop from funding them. it was illegal to fund them. meanwhile in iran the count

but, you know like you said, walker is running as reagan. he's constantly invoking reagan.he party has been invoking reagan since the first bush. he was their most popular leader and that continues to be the case. >> my view has changed. i'm flat out saying it. candidates can say that. sometimes they don't. >> so you have changed from 2013? >> absolutely. i look at the problems we have experienced over the last few years. i've talked to people all across america and the concerns i have is that we need to secure the border. we need to put in place a system that works, a legal immigration system that works. >> they all talk about protecting the border. president obama has four-fold on resources and manpower and on the border technology. we have seen more security on the border than any administration in the past, but they love to go back to that. but where has been the big shift on the part of scott walker as you see it? >> well walker is trying to shift now so that he can run in the republican primary nationally, so he's taking all these right wing positions. he really was o

reagan's were. then jeb bush um you talk about the e-mail situation, he did help, you know, try to help his brother win florida i think when it looked like florida was going to go to al gore jeb bush was very upset because he was governor at the time and felt he had let his brother down. but i think the big problem there is the dynasty is are people ready for a thinker bush in the white house and that's -- for a third bush in the white house and that's something jeb bush has to use in dealing with his own celebrity as the member of a dynastic family. >> host: do any of the 2016s have that je ne sais quoi that celeb hi in -- celebrity in chief -- >> guest: right. that's a very good question, and i've been thinking about that a lot lately as we're moving into that cycle. hillary clinton, of course is the most famous by far of anybody running for president in 2016. she hasn't announced yet, but we're all expecting her to run. and you can see just in this whole issue of the e-mails that you talked about

reagan says he will send the terms forward. sherman and johnston reached the bennett place around noon. johnston probably tells sherman that he has official authorization for this all-encompassing surrender. he would like to bring breckenridge into the discussion. sherman says he doesn't know about that. johnston replies yes but breckenridge is also a major general in its confederate army. sherman says, ok. at that point reagan's basis of pacification arrives and johnston begins to lead it -- read it aloud and sherman looks disapproving and johnson points out the only thing we disagreed on is amnesty for davis and the. otherwise, -- and the cabinet. otherwise, we have a basis of agreement. sherman waves it off. he gets out and and paper and begins to write his memorandum for a basis of agreement. it troops to be twice as long. he ends up giving the confederates more than they asked for. the confederates get to keep their arms. they take them back to their respective state capitals to deposit them into their arsenals to maintain

ke the reagan x cuts x of the early 1980s.upply-side enthusiasts argued that lowetax rates lead to higher productivity, which would lead to a greatly increased gnp. this greaternp would actual result in higher governmentax revenues. we'det such increases in productivity and growth we wouldn't even have to think about government deficits. the less enthusiastic view was that lower tax rates would cause big budget deficits, that government borrowing would cause high interest rates, and thisould result inower business investment and growth. the effects of the reagan x cutsare ry complicated. ma of these effectsare still with us. ife compare 1981nd 1984, wean sayyes, productivity did increaseyes,here was gwth.total ferataes did increase slightly. but yes, there were huge buet deficits, analerest rates stayed at damagily high levels. rhaps on one point bothides might agree. if you're going inr massive tax cuts to spur productivity gwth, it would be prudent to do somethingto kee e government speing si of the equation in check. ring t

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

reagan's where.ush, you talk about the e-mail situation, he did try to help his rather win florida. i think when it looked like florida was going to al gore, jeb bush was upset because he was governor at the time and thought he let his brother down. the problem there is dynasty. our people ready for a third bush in the white house? that something jeb bush has to use in terms of using his own celebrity. host: ken walsh do any of the people in 2016 have that je ne sais quoi? guest: i have been thinking about that lot lately -- that a lot lately. hillary clinton is the most famous of anyone running for president -- she has not announced but we are already expecting her to run. in terms of the e-mails you talked about and the last segment, anything she does is channeled through our perceptions of her as a celebrity. she has a unique resume. she was first lady. a senator from new york. secretary of state. people know her. she has astronomical name identification. people have ingrained perceptions of her.

president reagan was governor reagan in the 1970's, the time when i think mr. and l.a. and the reform act, the government services. the comparison of the 70's and 80's may not be a perfect one. alix: what was so difficult in the 80's? john: the cutback of government services is the reasoning from snoop dogg. and if you look at what was going on a nerve in the at that time. that epidemic, the rise of aids a lot of problem's -- not only in urban areas. but if you look at some of the decay at that time in american society those were things the president was not doing a lot to address. alix: you made the point that ronald reagan was governor of california during the golden age that snoop dogg was talking about. what is the influence on federal policies? or is it the day-to-day management of the governor's office? john: it may be the state government where president reagan passed the federal reform bill that a lot of democrats in particular in california thought was unfair. too harsh. it was one that he was able to pass, but at the federal level was unable to do it.

ronald reagan knew what he was doing, or better yet, dr. edward teller who sold ronald reagan on the idea of missile defense, knew what he was doing. so many of these threats today, so many of these threats today we can deal with with a good missile defense system for this country. we do not have on the west coast here -- you have a good -- fairly good missile defense capability. there is no land-based missile defense system on the east coast. so in the book i talk about things we can do in the near term to make up for that so that we at least have a radar capability that can talk to interceptors and that we can deal with. when i was doing research i went to see the late dr. jim edwards, ronald reagan's first secretary of energy. he was a dear friend of mine. i went to see him to talk about energy security and how it tied in. i went to see dr. edwards and i noticed in his den hanging up was a picture of dr. edward teller who had been the director of the lawrence livermore national lab and the guy who sold reagan on the idea of missile defen

and instead, he said i don't blame president reagan. he made a mistake. he misspoke. >> he blamed the press. >> eventually what he did, as he says in the film he lost 8 or 10 points within a week. he challenged the press to what he called a rigorous 3-mile power walk. and he would do this thing where, it's 1988 you pull your socks up to your knees, you got the short shorts and he had these what he called the heavy hand weights, right? so he was in denver colorado and to push back at this idea that he's physically and mentally weak he does a power walk. now, i don't know if that was, you know enough to put that to bed, but the press certainly stopped asking him about it. >> we'll be back. more from will robbie in this interesting documentary in just a moment. thank you, cable for taking longer to upload our family movies. for the slower internet upload speeds. for taking longer to upload my files to the cloud. for making me wait longer to share my photo albums. and for never upgrading to 100% fiber optics thank you cable... thank you cable, because if we n

. >> it was a rough day for travelers here at reagan national airport. as you can see behind me there is activity and lanes are >> we are back with breaking news right now out of virginia where the northbound lanes of the g.w. parkway are closed. and this is at spout run parkway and we're told it's due to icy conditions. we'll keep you updated on the situation there at the g.w. parkway as soon as we learn more. leon? >> quite a scene at laguardia airport this morning. a delta flight coming in from atlanta skidded off the snowy runway during landing. that plane punched its way through the chain link fence and hit a berm and it barely missed the water. passengers had to slide down on inflated chute to safety. authorities say six people suffered some minor injuries. the ntsb is investigating. airlines canceled the majority of their flights out of b.w.i. marshall dulles and reagan national airports today. >> with amtrak running fewer trains in the northeast corridor, that limited at least one alternative there. chris pabst picks up the stormwatch team covera

some are outside leaders like ronald reagan.ernity -- we all know who are the stand-out leaders. we knew in my era scoop jackson, sam nunn on defense were good for seven or eight votes in a tight vote any time. we knew that dick lugar on foreign policy was good for six or seven votes. they were leaders in their area. all of you on this committee know who the half-a-dozen leaders of this committee are. i don't know who they are but you know. and certainly the ranking member and chairman know who they are. and a coalition of those can be put together. but the key is not do you have the leadership. there is a does the little leadership group agree on the goal that they want to reach. if they don't agree on the goal, no quantity of leadership is going to make any difference. >> all right. thank you. second question deals with, you did all this work in '86. no sooner was the ink dry on all that legislation and we started clanging it. a whole lot over time. did you ever think at a time that we'd see this kind of change that quickly an

by the reagan era, they are decrying kissinger. john lehman: part of it was because they felt that in the salt ii, the effort to get salt ii deals that were done under the next and administration were not honored. specifically, the cruise missile, the tomahawk deal, the building -- the rebuilding of the navy. things like that. a lot of it was, i think, politics. when carter won, many of ford's people blamed it on jackson's blocking of salt ii which they had high hopes would turn the tide in the election. i don't think that is the case at all. many of the ford people blamed the effort to block salt ii as the reason that ford lost. >> you were not in the ministration? john lehman: i was. during the salt ii agreement, i was the director of the arms control and disarmament agency. i was at the nsc meetings where they were blocked. the blockers were basically jim holloway, who was the acting chairman of the joint chiefs, and donald rumsfeld. and i argued against it. they were disappointed, and president ford particularly chastised me at

reagan? it was reagan's work. reagan clearly didn't conduct the war on his own. he clearly did not fund it. that is the job for congress to do but more importantly let me give you this small example. a lot of people looked at the entire drug abuse act of 1986 that is the legislative centerpiece of the war on drugs, people look at that and say the penalty structure whereby one is penalized excessively for crack cocaine offenses where people who use parrot cocaine are not so much the 100-101 riccio. people look at that and the thinking is mostly minorities and for our using crack cocaine. and this is clear evidence of the rationalized intentions behind this bill. why would you do 100-1. the bill that reagan introduced that is introduced on behalf of the reagan administration by former senator bob dole september 23rd, 1986, you want to know what that calls for? that called for a 20-1 ratio. it was congress that increase it to 1-1. the 20-1 even though that disparity is there and we are still buying into this thinking that the pharma logical effect of crack cocaine h

reagan would use the alcohol photo op. he would often be photographed with a beer, usually in an irish bar, working-class bar, that sort of thing. as i said, he would have maybe half the glass, and that was it. he also did like some california wines, being from california. weirdly enough, reagan having been a hollywood actor, he did not like to do makeup. when i had to go on tv for a couple of things on the book tour, i had to do makeup. i don't like doing makeup either. his aid was distressed about this. reagan was very pale. you didn't want that president going on national tv looking ghostly. what beaver came up with was he would put a really nice glass of red wine on the table before reagan would be due to go on tv. he would see it, drink it, bring the capillaries out in his face and he didn't look quite as pale. it was a really good trick. one of the things i love is reagan has one of the best presidential toast speeches of all time. he invited his adversary, tip o'neill, to the white house for -- i figure was his 69 t

in 1981, president reagan described the national debt as a stack of dollar bills 67 miles high.ce then, we've seen stacks considerably higher. and we've used a good part of our annual budgets to pay off the ious on previous years and to continue accumulating debt. but not all deficits are bad. the increased deficit helped offset the effects of the recession that got underway in 2001. so, were the deficits hurting us? not always. had weearned to like deficits? no. but could we live with them? we learned to. for "economics u$a," i'm david schoumacher. nenberg media ♪ for information about this and other annenberg media programs call 1-800-learner and visit us at www.learner.org. ♪ meet cathy, who's lived most everywhere, from zanzibar to barclay square. but patty's only seen the sight, a girl can see from brooklyn heights, what a crazy pair! ♪ cathy: oh my, patty. did you find all your files? patty: finally! who knew it would be this much work when richard and i decided to retire! cathy: well, what are you going to do first? patty: we're heading down to brooklyn heights and start

some are outside leaders like ronald reagan. everyone in the senate -- there is a small fraternity -- we all know who are the stand-out leaders. we knew in my era scoop jackson, sam nunn on defense were good for seven or eight votes in a tight vote any time. we knew that dick lugar on foreign policy was good for six or seven votes. they were leaders in their area. all of you on this committee know who the half-a-dozen leaders of this committee are. i don't know who they are, but you know. and certainly the ranking member and chairman know who they are. and a coalition of those can be put together. but the key is not do you have the leadership. does the little leadership group agree on the goal that they want to reach. if they don't agree on the goal, no quantity of leadership is going to make any difference. >> all right. thank you. second question deals with, you did all this work in '86. no sooner was the ink dry on all that legislation and we started changing it. we started changing it a whole lot, over time. did you ever thi

that's where reagan connected it to the individual.e asked individuals to think personally, about where you are. forget about the rhetoric from washington we know they lie. we know it, so you have to ask yourself not what the tv news is asking you, or telling you, but what your personal experience -- i think every candidate, especially like mia love, who embodies and has the personal story of that kind of remarkable life experience. so voters could look to her and think, yeah i can relate to that. every candidate has a personal life. we've got i think to reinforce that as conservatives that it's the personal that matters. >> let's give our panel another round of applause, and we have a minute left, we're going to show you some quick slides, i think they're up on the screen. these are some things that were submitted for you guys as a summary. if you want to take a picture and save it, go ahead. there's two more slides with resources as well as how to move forwards forwards. >> practice when you're talking to someone, talk in such a way,

look at the numbers now. 75 at reagan national. warmer than that

during the reagan years. >> i was close to reagan. it declined -- tend to be not very ideological. that is why you work across the aisle. thank you but there was a time when tip o'neill and ronald reagan were not an exception. i have many friends on the other side of the aisle, not just personal friendships but working together. society was different than. society, our culture today. you see it on c-span, you see it with the call ins. so many people today are so full of a anger and hatred for people on the other side i must tell you i sent a note to brian lamb saying why do you have a democrat call in line at the republican call in line, why not just americans call in? there is this polarization. it is much worse. there was one studies it said today an increasing number of people would really hate it if a member of their family married somebody of the other party. it is ridiculous. >> host: on booktv we use the east central pacific time zone numbers. marshall in illinois is calling from the east central. >> caller: what to you said about the polarization, from my personal point of

reagan. it was reagan's war. reagan clearly didn't combat the war and his own, clearly did not fund it. that is a job for congress to do. let me give you a small example. a lot of people look at the antidrug abuse act of 1986. by the way that is the legislative centerpiece of the war on drugs. people say this penalty structure whereby one is penalized excessively for crack offenses where people who use powder are not so much. recall that the 100 to one ratio. are you familiar with? the thinking was mostly minorities and the poor are using crack this is clear evidence that the racialized intentions behind this bill. i wish you do 100 to one? the bill that reagan introduced for that introduced for them is introduced on behalf of the reagan administration by former senator bob dole on september 23rd 1986 do you want to know what that called for? it's no mystery because i have it up there. it called for a 20 to one ratio. it was congress then increased it to 100 to one. the 20 to one even though the disparity as they

and then on reagan, you know, he was very keen on reagan and had a lot of kind of minor personal contactwith him. not as mump as with -- not as much as with george w. bush, let's say, but i think he saw reagan entirely in positive terms not least just because of his strong anti-communism. and i think on that -- and i think because reagan was probable more open than not that religion's place in public life. and because neuhaus could tell in '84, he was kind of johnny on the spot in a sense. i get the sense that the moral majority movement which was so important in some ways to the 1980 election, that's still argued by scholarses '84 comes up again, and i think neuhaus showed up and became a kind of welcome figure in the reagan white house. and that's the soul -- angry that he's not allowed to speak at our event. but i think he saw a certain openness to john paul ii's anti-communism and morally against the soviet union, and he was supportive of that. but i wouldn't say he was nearly as interested in e reagan as he was in jimmy carter or george w. bush. >> tell us about jimmy carter because

. >>> new overnight, a fresh look at ronald reagan showing the onset of dementia likely started before he left the white house. the clever method researchers used to come up with the conclusion. >>> and epic roast. comedians, athletes and martha stewart skewering justin bieber. the awkward moments and the biggest laughs. >>> and good tuesday morning, everyone. i'm bazi kanani in for reena ninan who is on assignment. >> and i'm t.j. holmes. thank you for being with us. and we do start with indiana's religious freedom act and the firestorm spreading coast to coast. more states, cities and businesses are now promising to boycott. >> well, indiana is feeling the heat. the front page of "the indianapolis star" this morning pleading "fix this now." abc's susan saulny has the latest. >> all: no hate in our state. >> reporter: the backlash against indiana's new religious freedom law rages on this morning. peaceful protesters gathered in indiana to voice their concerns that the law will legalize discrimination against gay men and women. >> if we don't speak out, then we're letting them think th

he was keen on reagan.i think he saw a reagan in i think, entirely in positive terms not just because of the strong anti- communism. more open and not to questions of religion in public life. neuhaus was johnny on the spot. i get the sense the more majority movement which was important the media perception of it a term still argue by scholars. it comes up again. he showed up and became a welcome figure in the reagan white house. angry. but i think i think he saw and reagan as certain openness to john paul ii, anti- communism and more generally against the soviet union. supportive of that. i would not say he was nearly as interested in reagan as he was jimmy carter or george w. bush. >> about carter. >> in the mid- 70s he wrote to a precursor of 1st things in some ways. he was excited about carter. this was in part a reaction to watergate. here was someone who could openly and confidently speak out of the question for morality about matters of public significance. for kayseven,. for neuhaus, you no, ironical

they will diminish later. 66 degrees now at reagan national. winds sustained at 17 miles an hour but higher gusts to 43. almanac page 73. beautiful spring day with the sunshine. then the clouds came in. 44 was the morning low. 61 and 42 are the average high and low for this last day in march. cold front coming through. but the really chilly air is lagging well behind to the northwest and the north. we'll see the changes in temperatures later tonight. now, we continue to see some pretty good downpours indicating yellow on the eastern shore and north and east of frederick and westminster but no lightning, just rain. but gusty winds and heavier showers especially come down and tend to bring stronger winds with them from a couple thousand feet up. strong winds and wind advisory are a good deal. drive a couple hours north into pennsylvania, you're dealing with snow now. there's that much of a difference in temperatures between pennsylvania and our area. here's the wind advisory until 9:00. everybody west of the chesapeake bay out to the appalachians

officially, 65 is the high at reagan national. fewer degrees above average. right where we should be for the final couple of days of march. temperatures are in the 50's north and west of the metro area. it's comfortable. few 60's elsewhere. 61 at lexington park. so a little pocket that you can tell by the blues and greens. a little cooler weather through the great lakes. nothing cold. cold air what it is for it is way up to the north and east of boston. that's a good sign for spring weather lovers. it's indicative of a pattern shift that's under way. when you have pattern shifts from winner weather patterns to spring weather patterns it's not like that. it takes a while but certainly you can see the signs and already look to the west st. louis, kansas city, 72 and that weather pattern is heading here for thursday and friday. this morning, the front went through. a little rain, a little sleet and a little snow. sunshine and remember whatter temperatures. don't get used to it. another pattern is coming in. upper air disturbance on the leading edge of another co

actually, now at reagan national, winds are calm. 25 degrees is the current temperature. winds between five and 10. a lot of sunshine and sun this time of year will help to melt some of that snow and ice. there's a lot that needs to be melted so it's going to take a few days. at this current moment 20 degrees at dulles. 21 in lexington park and 17 degrees in hagerstown. highs in the mid to maybe upper 20's? but overall, things looking a lot better as we head into the upcoming weekend. we spring forward as well. who's ready for some more daylight? i know i am. we'll break down more of the weekend forecast and near 60 degrees, jummy in a little bit. >> see you then. right now, the truck wedged under a bridge on the inner loop of the beltway has been pulled out as you can see in this video right here. officials say the truck bed somehow got up too high when it hit the linden lane bridge around 5:30 this morning, the truck was carrying salt by the way. three lanes of the beltway at maryland route 97 in silver spring had been blocked since 5:30. crews had to cut the bed away f

that was reagan's sense of humor.course, the same people that are caterwalling about scott walker. how can you say this? it was an offhand comment. this is the way cpac is seen through the media lens. i'm not saying it's definitive. we know it's not for picking things. i think matthew's right. it's taking a bit of a pulse of where the grass roots are. a little bit more libertarian at cpac. but it was interesting. jeb bush had to bus in people. "the new york sometimes" did an amazing story on this. the buses left from k street. i wouldn't have wanted that if i were him. physically organized people. left from k street. bused people in for cpac. i think it's very smart. the bushes are playing varsity. they're not playing jv here. it's really really smart for him to do that. let me just finish. i think jeb showed up. i think, he did -- he acquitted himself very well. the problem is, the problem is, the grass roots doesn't like him. he can bus in as many people as he wants. he'll get the donors. he'll get big money donors

the high temperature today, 49 degrees reagan national. it felt so nice, but we were still a few degrees below average, which is 53 this time of year. 67 the high today in st. louis, 70 degrees kansas city. we are not pushing that any time soon, but we will be approaching 60 the middle of the week. satellite radar, quiet. a little weak weather front to the north bringing portions of snow to northern new york and pennsylvania. rain through parts of west virginia but a lot of that has dissipated. other than patchy clouds, it is quiet. 34 degrees the low temperature in d.c., upper 20's the far northwest suburbs. remember to turn your clock ahead one hour before going to bed as we switch to daylight it will be darker in the morning at sunrise, but the sunset will be 7:08, so extra daylight to enjoy. overall, the forecast looks nice. we start in the 30's, climbing to 47 degrees by 1:00 p.m. lower 50's. a breeze out of the northwest between 10 and 15 miles per hour. we start the work week off quiet monday, 55 degrees, 52 tuesday. the next weathe

reagan. it is reagan's war. rating clearly did not conduct fund it. that is a job for congress but with a small example the anti-drug abuse act that is the legislative from the war on drugs. that the penalty structure for the crack cocaine offenses, and that the 100 / one ratio. that mostly minorities are getting a crack cocaine with the recent rise in tensions? why would you do 100 / one? the bill that reagan introduced by former senator bob dole to you want to know what that calls for? it is no mystery a 20 / one ratio. congress increase it at 100 / one. even though that disparity is there. of crack cocaine are much worse that it just put in place the 18 / one ratio. clearly not as bad as reagan. sova to offer that as a way to think about the fed is plaint about this it was senator sashes to introduce the first major bill to equalize drug sentencing. to republican senator from alabama. he continues to be active and use his role there to equalizes sentencing. we see the politicians on the left contributing to this. but at the time congress was chargi

in the media telling reagan was stupid, george w.ush was stupid, dan quayle was stupid, by the way stupid is better. if you're picking one or the other, stupid is better. >> better than evil. >> yeah. i guess i take it as a little bit of a backhanded compliment that the media has to some extent invented a third caricature. >> which you went to harvard -- >> yeah. they do anything they can to paint me as a wild-eyed lunatic. >> you know who says nice things about you? alan dershowitz, austin guls by said you were probably his most formidable debater he ever had to go up against. but you've got this -- we hear it's a coronation, probably hillary clinton is going to be your opponent if you win this primary. they have a machine, they have a war room, what do you think of hillary? and how do you deal with her campaign? >> listen i think the way you deal with the war room and the media chatter is the same way reagan did. the media's always been a disaster disaster. they hate republicans now they hate conservatives even more. reagan went ov

richard nixon didn't come every year but at the end, jimmy carter, ronald reagan was here every year, loved it. his wife performed famously, singing. she turned her image around. people had an image of her being stuffy and standoffish. everyone agrees that america appreciated her more afterwords. that was one case where photos did leak out somehow. that was delighted to have that image of nancy reagan put out. >> the present of the gridiron club this year, thank you for your time. >> thank you for visiting. [indiscernible conversations] >> we have been live from the renaissance hotel in washington, d.c. the 130th year for the formal white tie event. the event close to cameras but we have been watching some of the arrivals, some of the members of the club. 65 members. they are arriving tonight read speakers include the president barack obama, governor scott walker, and terry mcauliffe in attendance. we have seen members of congress arriving. current and former cabinet members as well. for more baseball homerun king arriving for tonight's gridiron club dinner. here on c-span the communi

we saw tip o'neill working with ronald reagan. i'm looking for the next ronald reagan and tip o'neill to come forward and find a solution to challenge us in this country. and they are out there, you just have to have the will. i am abundantly optimistic. i shared with you that the best days of this country are in front of us. economically, foreign policy-wise, and it will require men and women to put aside their differences and find things that they can work together on. >> two last questions. >> bob from massachusetts. i appreciate what you are saying relative to bipartisanship and working. over the weekend, a letter was sent by republican colleagues that was highly criticized by secretary kerry when he testified yesterday. my question is hypothetically, relative to the spirit of doing business in d.c. these days, if you were a u.s. senator, would you have signed on to that letter, and if not in the spirit of timonium and ronald reagan what would a better , approach have been to try to get the republican senators message across t

>> president reagan was so important. is it essential that the president be there from day one and pushing, i don't know, it's like saying this committee could not reach testit's own conclusion without the president. one morning there was a small breakfast, and the bill had passed before congress, and the president took danny and me aside and he said if you can keep the revenue neutral and keep the rates you got, you can sound on my support no matter how you get to those rates. we knew we had his backing. had absolutely. but that was about the treasury. jim baker was up to his nec in the negotiations with us and especially his assistant treasury secretary because in the last seven days they talked about where this was all done baker wasn't here. he was in tokyo with the president on one of those economic multination meetings. and all of the final negotiations were done and you will see an interesting exchange. so is it critical? i don't know if it is critical. is it immensely helpful and was it? yes. >> senator bradley? >

we are honored to be joined by secretary of state from arizona, michelle reagan. and members of the arizona delegation and members of the goldwater family. thank you all for being here. i hope you enjoy today's program. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the colors by the united states color guard. the performance of our national anthem and the retiring of the colors. ♪ [national anthem playing] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as a chaplain gives the invitation. >> let us pray -- god of the universe, we give you thanks for the gift of life and for the many blessings that life brings. today, we gather in this hollow temple to human freedom to honor one of arizona's most favorite sons. senator barry goldwater. few american figures have projected such a broad swath of insolence on our nature -- nation's political landscape. his strong and conservative force in his day led it to one of the great landslide losses in electoral history, yet pivotally gave way to the emergence of a new generation of republic

reagan said what do you do if they offer half a loaf?nswer, you take it and then come back for more. >> shortly after you were elected you said, i don't think what washington needs is more compromise? >> because what washington does not often is that it compromises going backwards. >> i don't know what he means. ronald reagan cut a pretty good deal, a everyone appeared saved social security, and compromised with o'neal, my boss, and others. i don't know what -- >> biggest difference is ronald reagan served as governor for eight years, so he knew how the place worked. he knows nothing. he's been in the senate three years, he hasn't gotten any bills passed at all. this is not a guy who truly understands government. you may not like reagan's conservative politics, but he understood government and understood what it was to be ceo. >> he ace could youed obama being under communist influence. >> didn't ted cruz go to harvard? >> he resisted it somehow. he goes after chuck hagel with two purple hearts from vietnam, saying this guy is taking 200

professor feller: i don't think ronald reagan would have liked that. [laughter] professor feller: and that point i would be tempted to say that rogan is -- >> it is a vivid metaphor. professor feller: what it does bring out nakedly as this. that is this. -- is this. my guess is rogan did not particularly like ronald reagan and did not mean that to become -- like that to be complementary, so that clarifies the point he does not like jackson. [laughter] professor feller: jackson is the hero in schlesinger's story. i will go ahead and say it. he is a villain in rogan. the only reason i hesitated villain is, with the fascinating neo-freudian or crypto freudian or plain old freudian analysis and those passages you just go whoa. and by the way, i think most historians today would just kind of go, whoa. and now i lost my train of thought. >> i wanted to mention -- professor feller: now i remember. somehow describing jackson's , you know, feelings about his mother and his feces -- >> his first possessions. [laughter] >> personal property. professor feller: yea

if a windchill making it feel like 2 above at reagan national at the moment.t be too bad today as we said good-bye to the storm yesterday. had some totals up near fort richie and camp david. had about a foot or so cascade. maryland. here in town four to six inches and even seven i believe at the arboretum. tuesday a chance of showers and it looks like better chance south of d.c.. 34 today. should be more record cold tonight. 18 in town with a few single digits in the suburbs. tomorrow, finally, the warm up begins 46. sunday even better. near 50. don't forget clocks ahead an hour saturday night. daylight saving time begins and there's that shower threat tuesday and your golfable wednesday. larry miller, man you've been just telling us all sorts of problems today. >>> yeah, and unfortunately it is not over just yet. we're still keeping the close eye on that situation on the southbound side of 95 between u.s. 1 and occoquan. sky 9 is there. we can see that emergency crews are working to get those lanes back up and open but we understand at least from drivers ther

the reagan tax cuts caused the reagan deficits.s resulted in the aids epidemic. and as for reagan ending the cold war, what pure nonsense. bill clinton declared this, gorbachev is showing the west by showing that the soviet threat isn't what it used to be and once more that it never was. through the common core program they're teaching children that george washington was no different than palestinian terrorists. and that thomas jefferson should be declared as a hypocrite why writing the declaration of independence while he owned slaves. it labels those who fought in the revolutionary war american mobs and faced the tea party too radical for some. if a palestinian suicide bomber kills several dozen israeli teenagers in an israeli restaurant, is that an act of terrorism or wartime retaliation against israeli government policies and army actions? david roberts writes for the radical left wing blog grist. he doesn't much care for conservatives who question global warming. when we've finally got serious about global warming, he writes,