reagan said he was going to do when he became president. i was active duty navy running the white house situation room. had nothing to do with the parties involved. i had been recruited to come of rivera and take over the situation room which is not just the conference room. is the president's intelligence center, his alert center with staff working 24/7 they write twice daily summary world events for the president. they call people in the middle of the night when things happen all those communications and head of state calls and it is the nerve center of the white house. i have a perspective only a few people at and i had a front row seat in the reagan administration and that experience allowed me to gain interviews with heavyweights from previous and succeeding administrations. i spoke to two former presidents like bob mcnamara from the kennedy administration before they died and on and on, henry kissinger, plus cabinet secretaries and they all told me what happened in those crisis meetings. they left minutes and god bless john kennedy, h

i love love, loved reagan but we don't have anybody like reagan. i wish we did. if we had somebody like reagan it would be a wonderfully exciting race. we don't. neil: you know what i find, we find them after the fact or see it after the fact. if you were to look at ronald reagan early when the mainstream was pooh-poohing him with the challenge to president ford in '76, who would have envisioned the conservative ranks would have become the mainstream four years later and led him to a landslide. in other words could any one of these guys be that guy? >> you know, reagan always is a dynamic, exciting guy. something about reagan you should know. when he was a young actor voted the best looking man in the world by some kind of movie star poll. a movie magazine poll. we don't have anybody like that right now. reagan was dynamic in the 64 convention, you weren't born then when he spoke in favor of barry goldwater. we don't have anyone like him. neil: who do we have that at least the people you talked to, and you know the tea parties and the mainstreamist, the money guy

i got this from the reagan library. but a two ncos in the basement of the white house in the east wing who ran the white house and of the hotline. they made rudimentary russian which they needed to make up their dictionary out and they were on it translated the handwritten letter. ever since then, it has been mostly text messages. here is the picture that i took at the pentagon terminal of the hotline. the pentagon of the hotline. the white house was just a consumer. i forget what ford is fun but they gave me a tour and they had an old telephone that wasn't connect it to anything. anyone that comes in polled said. must've been as a joke. what they do is use a chat protocol to coordinate with moscow in the text messages or e-mails back and forth. it's come a long way but it still going on at still there. we've had some opportunities to use it recently. there is a separate line to secure back from hot line that goes over by satellite and fiber optics and on and on. so their stories kind of led me and what i did was i pick

so that was reagan's three. and then the persian gulf war which you know was successful in pushing the iraqis out of kuwait, but much more complicated than that. i just want to read you because bush 41 stop before a lot of people thought he should've stopped. just 100 hours into the ground were. i want to read you the titles of some books to tell you that a renewed actions to this crisis. won by james baker come he called it a triumph for american diplomacy and military might. u.s. news and world report called it a triumph without victory. michael gordon and bernard trainor in their book called it an incomplete success. brzezinski called it strategically inconclusive and then you get a little farther out, theodore draper, an american history who said politically it was a botched war. and then brown university professor stephen bovard said it was a nothing more, it resolve nothing and settled that the. so everyone can look at the same situation and make a different conclusion about how successful it was. and bush

and nancy reagan with michael jackson. a lot of people were taken up shortly this because michael jackson showed up in full regalia. presidents have tried to capitalize on other people's fame for many years at franklin roosevelt was the brilliant pioneer in this spirit there are pictures available at his library in other places with huge numbers of hollywood stars. more than any other president to had to know what to do some presidents try to do it or unable to succeed. it is one of the most solid pictures of any president in that it's mattis richard nixon with elvis presley. people might be familiar with the picture where nelson and was a fan of law enforcement and he wanted to get a law enforcement out so you could help law enforcement track down the bad guys. he went to the white house and he also showed up in regalia. of course nixon was a straightlaced guide and he had on a cave. he had a shirt open to his waist and he said something like elvis, that is quite a get up you have on. elvis said you have your audience and

the other part was intel reagan was inaugurated. they wanted to release before he got into office but it was to complicated. and then sitting on the runway when reagan was inaugurated. i talked to the guy who was on the phone petri in the cockpit and the tower is soon as he said so help be gone -- god there that can go. then the space engine that they have he raised his glass to toast the release of the hostages as if he had done it. to just depends who you want to believe then that gets us into the tricky part of reagan. syracuse had to questions. with the hostage release could you project that? >> everyone had the view of that. it was an -- terribly risky. going from the helicopters and special forces with the rest of the force then in the middle of that they lost three helicopters and due to recant local problems then one ran into a fuel ship setting everything on fire. it was a terrible outcome. it appears as if he put the risk of side with the potential to the yen toward circumstances because he thought he had to share a backbo

who did that there reagan makes it a standard practice he invokes a silent prayer at the end of his acceptance speech and in folks that imagery of one nation under god in his politics. >> how has this been an ineffective political tool for the republicans and how has it hurt the democrats? >> originally bull's-eyes embrace it but it becomes polarized when nixon tries to replicate from eisenhower and literally had a front-row seat so he is a little more ham handed with it. so he has a massive public rally with billy graham to calmed down public unrest about that there is a huge event on the mall. he has a church services inside the red house which according to insiders or all complete the political events. it is about raising support for certain bills. so it takes a turn and becomes patriotism as a row us the partisan right to so to mention what reagan had done or bush but also with this when greenwich of a christian nation in georgia view bush was the same democrats tried to race this but they see the politics and their motives are called into question. barack obama has spoken about

i love love, loved reagan but we don't have anybody like reagan. i wish we did.e had somebody like reagan it would be a wonderfully exciting race. we don't. neil: you know what i find, we find them after the fact or see it after the fact. if you were to look at ronald reagan early when the mainstream was pooh-poohing him with the challengeo presentord in 6, w wod henvion the consvate ranoulave comehe minsteamour year lat aedimo a lanlide in therwor cld a one the guye tt y? >> y knw,eagalwas dyami excinguy. somhingbouteaga you shld ow. wh hewas you actor votedhe best looking man in the world by some kind of movie star poll. a movie magazine poll. we don't have anybody like that right now. reagan was dynamic in the 64 convention, you weren't born then when he spoke in favor of ba anyone neil: who do we have that at least the people you talked to, and you know the tea parties and the mainstreamist, the money guys who were they saying stands the best chance to recapture the white house? >> well that's an extremely good question and i don't really feel much enthusiasm

david: didn't reagan produce -- i shouldn't say reagan produced during reagan's time 20 million jobsced. >> something like that. 18-20 million. and re-created another 20 million. under bush and obama we have seen very little job growth, and by the way, we haven't seen almost any wage growth and i think for a lot of people. that's the bigger problem. where is the pay raise? you know, reagan used to talk about real take-home pay. remember that when he was campaigning. real take-home pay is not rising and it's not rising now, that's why when barbra streisand says how wonderful things are, maybe for rich people like her, not for working class folks. david: again the fundamental difference between barack obama reagan believes the government takes, obama believes the government gives. but the government can't give anything and can only redistribute what other people have given it. that's a very fundamental different view. >> you know and baton rouge, louisiana, you can see my purple tie for the lsu and gave a lecture at the college, and made exactly that point. that this natural experiment

>> reagan's rhetoric was very powerful but reagan they say, was a great salesman. he said i can cut your programs and you will feel a loss of programs. that was an intellectual sell. it's reality, is the problem. the fact is for economic reasons, international and domestic the nature of things shifted. there is an inherent mechanism that has worked recently to the disadvantage of working class people people who work for wages and don't have a high-end degree. and they are reacting to that and all the rhetoric in the world isn't going to change it. that's why i think we need to go to them with programs and say, we're going to make it easier for your kid to go to school and not be totally in debt. we're going to take the burden of economics off you and the only thing that will work here is reality. we have to show people -- and then be explicit it. that's a government program, and you're better off because we're able to expand that government program, but we have to find the funds to do. >> keep your hands off my medicare. >> exactly. >> one of the ways you want to p

once again, i guarantee they will not say that reagan -- nancy reagan was not into astrology. host: ok, we get the point. it has been well documented. guest: it has been very well documented, absolutely. and we look at another first lady who did the same thing mrs. lincoln. i think it is hard to judge anyone whose person they love most in the world, if someone tried to take their life. and what they do to help support them and to get through that and try get through the public life where they feel they are fearing for their husbands' lives. none of us that -- would say that didn't happen. host: by the way the "first lady -- ladies" series, that will begin to re-air next sunday at 8:00 eastern on c-span three. it will continue through december. the full schedule online. and the book, published by public affairs, "first ladies." available as a hardcover this week. also available as an e-book. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. if you look at this field and you look at the role that bill clinton will be playing on the democratic side, what stands out? g

nancy reagan had -- she had the reagan -- nancy reagan foundation, and she gave awards and she gave one our -- at that time it was the center to prevent handgun violence. and we went out for that. and she had a tennis tournament, and charlton heston was there. and jim tells the story even better than i do. he walked toward us and he saw

nancy reagan, know. i would say nancy reagan, worked in a sense behaved fulfilled a function that might be similar to a west wing aid maybe senior advisor, you know, but not assuming the role of the president. >> we realize that first lady while the husband is in office is kind of stuck with the role. what happens to first ladies afterward? how much privacy do they have? how much can they go off script? what's life like for them? >> i spent a little time with laura bush last year. she was eager to talk about how much she is enjoying life post-presidency. it was interesting to watch her because she was very much shaped by sort of i wouldn't use the word reluctant necessarily, but a quiet behind the scenes spouse. that we see are traveling more than the former president. she's working on launching a global program that will bring first ladies around the world together and test them with some of that in africa. she's been in washington with michelle obama. she disorder talks about the freedom of still havin

reagan makes it a standard practice without the signoff. he books a silent prayer and acceptance speech. it constantly invokes one nation under god, in god we trust and wraps his politics and piety in future. >> host: how has this been an effective political tool for republican and how has it hurt the democrats? >> guest: originally, one that both sides embrace. democrats are responsible for putting a lot of it in place. it becomes polarized during the nixon years. nixon tries to replicate what he did under eisenhower and the light of events had a front row seat. when he is president, he's a little more ham-handed than eisenhower then. he uses it more as a part of the club. he has massive public rallies after the invasion of cambodia to try and calm down public unrest. the university of tennessee that is honoring mary today which is by all sides and as a affair. church services in the east room which according to insiders at the white house are all completely political event. an effort to lobby congressmen and measures they walk past the co

wilson and nancy reagan. is that true? mr. anthony: i would say, quick response -- when you say presidency, you have to look at the different components. one of it is making the final decision on things, sometimes it is approving things, sometimes it is making a decision to not make a decision, firings hirings. yes, partially. edith wilson assumed some of that during the days of crisis. her agenda was to protect her husband from getting worse. nancy reagan, i would say -- she worked, in a sense, the filled a function that might be similar to a west wing aide, maybe a senior advisor but not assuming the role of the president. ms. swain: question? >> we realize that the first lady is kind of stuck with the role. what happens to first ladies afterward? how much can they go off script? ms. thompson: i spent a little time with laura bush last year and she was eager to talk about how much she was enjoying life. it was interesting to watch her because she was very much shaped by -- i wouldn't use the word reluctant, but a quiet behin

neil: since the reagan revolution. everyone thought it was crazy to cut tax rates and expect to be an economic boom. you didn't. ronald reagan didn't. but that was then. a lot of folks say that can never happen now. what do you say? >> i say they're wrong. i mean, it's prime time right now for a major tax revolt. spending revolt as well. this free education person -- college it's amazing how people think that something free doesn't cost twice as much as something you pay for. which it does. neil: but if you don't pay for it, you don't care. someone else is treating to dinner, at least in my case i'm ordering a couple of appetizers and a couple of desserts. everybody doesn't mind spending someone else's money. >> they ultimately get a bad economy like what we have right now. employment at its lowest level. sitting there down at the floor for eight or nine years. gdp growth is anemic beyond beneath. just like it was under jimmy carter. it's perfect time to have a fiscal revolt and bring this economy back. and i look at t

there would have been no reagan had they succeeded. and we talk about the next reagan. look, it doesn't matter if we have a next reagan. the next fresh-faced conservative who will connect with the american people, but we're not going to have that chance as long as we keep getting these long-in-the-tooth dug-in republicans these corporatists who really are perfectly happy with big government as long as they're running it. >> yeah. let me ask you and dovetail here into the president's comments that he made on npr. it's amazing to me that the iranians in the middle of negotiations with kerry and obama say the destruction of israel's not negotiable. i want to play his answer. listen to this. >> the notion that we would condition iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on iran recognizing israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the iranian regime completely transforms. and that is i think, a fundamental misjudgment. the key here is not to somehow expect that iran changes. >> wait a minute. so we can't get the iranians at t

and then on reagan he was very keen on reagan and had a lot of personal conduct george w. bush let's say but i think he found reagan entirely not in the least just because of his strong anti- communism. and at that. the questions of public life and because knew house could tell he was johnny on the spot. i get the sense the moral majority movement was so important in some ways media it still argued. it comes up again. it it showed that and became a welcome figure of the reagan white house. historical providence. but i think he found in reagan openness john paul ii come and more generally against the soviet union. he was supportive of that. i would not say he was nearly as interested in reagan as he was. >> fascinated. yes. one of the kind of precursors. new house he was excited -- the reaction to watergate. someone who could openly and confidently speak out of the christian informed morality about matters of public significance. and for new house and ironically years later. very excited. a few really big pieces of the carter presidency and then everything fell apart over t

tried to kill president ronald reagan his life has been under a constant microscope. is he cured as his team of lawyers and doctors suggest or is he still a danger? >> i'm worried that he stopped taking his medication. >> it's up to the judge and the course -- federal courts make that decision. scott: while his brother and sister who testified today wouldn't comment, hinckley's lawyer arrange argued that treatment at st. elizabeth hospital has worked and there's been no dispute that in that period of time, there's been not a hint of violent behavior. while spending time with his mother in williamsburg 17 days a month, they say he volunteers at a church paints and composes music. even has a girlfriend he met through the national association for the mentally ill. much of the arguing today about finances. would the hinckley family be able to support him for the rest of his life should he be released considering they're currently paying $5,000 to $10,000 a month in doctors's fees. government attorneys argue the hospital's plan isn't safe and argue what they call deviant c

bush but i think he saw a reagan reagan entirely in positive terms not least is because of the stronganti-communism. i think he was more open than not to questions of public life and because neuhaus and 84 he was johnnie on the spot. i get the sense that the moral majority movement which was so important some ways in the 1980 election or the media perception of it and that's still argued by scholars. i think neuhaus showed up and became a welcome figure in the reagan white house and that's the soul of the angry speech right now. i think he's on reagan a certain openness to john paul ii anti-communism and more generally against the soviet union. he was supportive of that but i wouldn't say he was as interested in reagan as he was in jimmy carter or george w. bush. that would interest people. >> fascinating. >> in the mid-70s he was writing for one of the precursors of first things which has a history of its own. neuhaus was really excited about carter. this was in no small part a reaction to -- but here was someone who could openly confidently speak out of a christian form to morality

joining me now, a former economic adviser to president reagan.sir. >> thank you, carol, if i may call you that. e you may, and thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> it's a pleasure. >> you worked on the administration on both of reagan's terms and both campaigns, and tell me about your time in the white house and that horrific day. >> well i am not a lawyer nor a psychiatrist but i did work very closely with jim brady and ronald reagan and loved them both very much. that day was a huh kwreuforrific day, and i can't tell you the sense of disspare, and for brady, things never got better and it was horrible for him for the rest of his life, and for ronald reagan america was very fortunate. he came back to full stride and in some sense you could say this event made him stronger and made him more capable of governing well and he did a great job afterwards and there were a couple fun stories about him when he was refusing his rowing machine and exercising and coming back to full health and he would have people check at how just how big h

ronald reagan, gnash review assumes a new importance in american life. we've become as it were an established organ. and we feel that only appropriate to alter or demeanor accordingly. this is a therefore the last issue in which we shall indulge in levity. connoisseurs of humor will have to get their yuckers elsewhere. we have a nation to run. this last should have been label would a j for joke because a number of more sober readers took it seriously. [laughter] perhaps my favorite of all paragraphs was tim wheeler's lighthearted comment on the mt. st. helens eruption in 1980 quote, i'm sorry i made an ash of myself. lava come back to me. love, helen. i would call my book living it up with "national review" so that no one would confuse it bea serious historical work and add to the title the words a memwar which would allow me to include in it a number of nonmagazine related trips and adventures that had come my way in the six weeks vacation i took every year. some of them such as exploring of ankara walk -- the ruins of an kara -- ruins of angkor wat. fl

wilson and nancy reagan. if that's true or not true question arc >> i would just add in quick response to that that when you say the presidency, you have to look at the different components of the presidency. one of it is making a final decision on things. sometimes it's approving things. sometimes making a decision to not make a decision. sometimes his firing hiring. so partially they assume some of that during the days of real crisis in her real agenda was to protect the president from getting worse and hopefully getting better. i would say need to make it worked in the same to fulfill the functions that might be similar to an aide maybe senior adviser. but not assuming the role. >> question over here. >> we realized the first lady while the husband in office is kind of stuck with the role. what happens to first ladies afterward? how much privacy do they have? what is life like for them? >> she was eager to talk about how much he's enjoying life. it is interesting to watch her because she was very much shap

if you're anywhere near this around the beltway or route 50 you can see it from reagan airport. what we understand at this point is that it is a roofing company. that would explain the thick, black smoke that we're seeing. actually, too, if you're driving around this area, it's like hard to your eyes start stinging. it's a lot of smoke. prince george's county has also lost two fire trucks. two fire trucks to this fire. we understand no injuries. and we don't know exactly how those fire trucks were destroyed in this fire but prince george's county is down two fire trucks. more fire trucks arriving on the scene as we speak. maureen: thank you so much. get back to you in a little bit to get an update on this. a weekend party too big to control and tonight an apology from the d.c. government. it happened late saturday along emerson street northeast near the north michigan park recreation center. that's where sam ford joins us live with the new developments. we seem to hear that city officials were both surprised and sorry about this. >> i've never seen nothing like that in my life.

unless we elect somebody like reagan continuing down this path. >> we're fair and balanced here. we go after republicans as well as democrats. go ahead. >> the first thing ronald reagan did when he left office was sign up and give paid speeches in japan. so let's not turn that into something it's not. i think the difference between hillary clinton and mitt romney and the reason why it's not going to be easy for somebody in the republican party to try to turn her into mitt romney is the policy she is supporting are not ones that people are going to say they're just benefiting people that make a lot of money. everyone that runs for president has been unbelievably blessed. if you look at the net worth of our candidates for president over the last century, they're unbelievably -- >> well, as a privilege -- >> she's not supporting tax cuts for relationship people in the way mitt romney -- >> she admits she hasn't driven a car in decades, by the way. living so long in this rarefied environment. you think of scott walker for example. a governor who didn't even graduate from college. he

. >>> the man who shot president reagan 34 years ago is trying to get more freedom. craig boswell is outside federal courthouse in washington, dc where hearings are under way. >> reporter: john hinkley, jr., spends most of his time living with his mother at her home in virginia since he shot president rebegan and three others 34 years ago -- reagan and three others 34 years ago. now he is fighting for more freedom. since a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity, hinkley has lived at a mental hospital. for the past year, he has been allowed to spend 17 days a month in his mother's gated community in williamsburg. he has been following strict requirements including meeting with a psychiatrist and therapist and getting a volunteer job. sandra worked with hinkley at a local hospital. >> i don't think they should fear him because i don't think, you know, that he is a danger to anyone. >> reporter: hinkley was 25 when he shot president reagan. now nearly 60, reagan's daughter patty davis wrote this week she believes hinkley is still a danger and others agree. >> a

since he shot president reagan and three others 34 years ago. now he's fighting for more freedom. since a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity, hinckley has lived at a mental hospital. for the past year he's been allowed to spend 17 days a month in his mother's gated community in williamsburg. he's been following strict requirements, including meeting with a psychiatrist and therapist and getting a volunteer job. sandra worked with hinckley at a local hospital. >> i don't think they should fear him because i don't think, you know, that he's a danger to anyone. >> reporter: hinckley was 25 when he shot president reagan. now at nearly 60, reagan's daughter wrote she believes hinckley is still a danger and others agree. >> any time you know your community that's committed the types of crimes hinckley committed, it's a concern. >> reporter: several doctors have testified that he no longer suffers from psychosis or depression but still has a narcissistic personality disorder. >> from now until the day john hinckley dies, there will -- the secret service will be a part of his

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

more than 30% refer to it as just reagan. 13% call it dca. 12 thrs of 12% of you call it reagan nags pl. >> probably depends if you're from this area. i grew up here. national. but as a reporter you have to learn that once it was changed to reagan, you have to include reagan national. >> and i'm on thefully side where you grew up in another area and i've never known it anything other than reagan. it's always been reagan to me until i moved here. and i remember the first massnasty phone call i got when i called it reagan. >> if you're a frequent traveler, dca is a code for the airport. so that might be for people who are on the go. >> there you go. >>> well he confessed to killing an opponent of putin's, and now he's taking it back. why the accused killer says he claimed responsibility for the death of boris. >>> a new push to keep you safe on the records. what is getting under way to discourage distracted driving. >>> and take a live look outside. pretty clear out there, but don't expect that to last. when tom says we could see some rain. >>> the man who claimed he killed a russian p

now reagan's daughter patty davis has written. if john hinckley is haunted by anything i think it's that he didn't succeed in his mission to assassinate the president. last year when brady died his death was ruled a homicide caused by the injuries he suffered from hinckley's gunshots. >> john hinckley should be paying for that. >> reporter: the judge will decide if he goes free. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> a major development tonight in the brain injury crisis facing the nfl. a federal judge has approved a settlement with former players that could end up costing the league $1 billion. it works out to an average of $190,000 for players who develop alzheimer's disease or moderate dementia. for players diagnosed with parkinson's or als in their 30s or 40s, the awards could reach as high as $5 million. >>> turning now to that incident that has the city of baltimore on edge. the death of freddie gray who suffered a serious spinal injury in police custody. an attorney for the six officers suspended in the case alleges tha

. >>> just yesterday we told you about new plans to expand reagan national airport. tonight there is concern that that growth could hurt dulles airport. both are operated by the metropolitan washington airport's authority, but recent improvements are attracting more domestic flights to reagan. so much so that the washington business journal is reporting traffic at reagan will top dulles this year. virginia lawmakers say part of the problem is congressional support for more flights out of reagan. >> members of congress who have to fly home they would rather leave the capital and race over to national rather than make the longer drive to dulles. over time you weaken the financial viability of dulles. >> a new concourse is under way at reagan. >> the national park service tells news 4 it will work expeditiously to install new security measures at the white house. the agency is planning to install steel spikes atop the fence to reduce the threat of people jumping the gate and on to the white house grounds. these are images of those spikes here. it's a temporary measure f

have brought more domestic flights to reagan.hington business journal reports that traffic at running game listen surpass dulles this year. virginia lawmakers say this is a blow to the dulles area. >> we have got to guard against making more and more exceptions to allow long-haul flights to be fly out of reagan because if we do we weaken dulles and that is going to hurt the whole region. >> now the expansion plans include a new concourse that you can see in purple there. >>> it is 4:57. we are getting an idea of some of the changes that could be impacting you in prince william county. the board of supervisors wants to move ahead with plans to reduce class sizes. they took a straw vote yesterday ahead of next week's final vote on next year's budget. the board voted to fund 500 police body cameras that straw poll is not official but is usually a good indicate over what will happen. the official vote is expected next week. >>> the ahead of north carolina's community college is headed north. he will become the president of northern v

eileen: 84 degrees today at reagan national. i wish i had the same forecast tomorrow, but that is the way the weather is herein d.c. and the mid-atlantic. the weatherbug camera at weatherbug headquarters in germantown almost looks like a fall image, but as i put this into motion, lots of sunshine all day. the cameras looking so much greener -- the scenery i should say is looking more green. a good bit of sunshine followed by late day clouds. 84 degrees today at reagan national 82 frederick, 72 annapolis, a little cooler along the bay, typical this time of year. 68 at reagan national. we have dropped to 58 dulles, 57 manassas mid 50's the lows tonight in the city. the suburbs will fall into the 40's. some of the clouds that we had earlier this evening, i think the skies will be partly cloudy overnight. yes, rain will move in late tomorrow, but most of the day will be dry. in fact showers probably not moving in until after dinnertime tomorrow. mid 40's in the suburbs overnight, dry weather. there will be clouds thickening through

. >>> the man who shot president reagan is fighting for more freedom. john hinkley, jr., appeared in federal court today requesting full-time leaving from a mental hospital. he was 25 when he shot four people outside the hilton in 1981 including president reagan. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. he currently lives 17 days a month with his mother in virginia. >> i don't think they should fear him because i don't think, you know, that he is a danger to anyone. >> anytime you know you have someone in your community that's committed the types of crimes that mr. hinkley committed, it's a concern. >> reagan's daughter patty davis wrote this week that she believes hinkley is still a danger. the secret service says it will continue to monitor hinkley. the hearings are expected to go on for days. >>> dry land never look so good for thousands of it australian cruise ship passengers. the carnival spirit finally docked in sydney's harbor today after a wild night at sea. cell phone video shows powerful 30-foot waves slamming against the ship. it's part

as far as high and low officially today at reagan national airport, 76 and 52. not that far off the mark for this time of late april. and at this moment we're still very pleasant. 75 now at reagan national. 73 at andrews and frederick. 73 in manassas. 73 degrees right now at quantico and the cooler temperatures well, they're actually south of washington. i'll show you in a minute. overnight hours, we'll drop into the 50's. increasing cloudiness and maybe a stray shower west of the area tonight. tomorrow during the day especially through the midday and afternoon is when we'll see a better chance of rain. so this is indeed one of those rare occasions where the farther south you go through the carolinas to georgia, it's actually cooler and that's because the winds are coming off the ocean. there's a lot of cloudiness and some rain. 61 degrees in asheville, north carolina, 62 in atlanta. 63 in raleigh-durham though. mid atlantic in the mid 70's. we have a lot of sunshine. what's responsible for the rain and cooler temperatures down south is an area of low pressure t

roy, utah. 2-year-old freya and 3-year-old reagan, are about to grace the stage at their first ballethings heat up when reagan's next door neighbor, freya, gets oh so restless under the bright lights. >> she wants to do her own thing and no one is going to tell her otherwise. >> freya and reagan's squabble starts innocent enough with the tiniest of shoves. ♪ >> her friend was trying to tell her to go back to her start. but she -- she is very stubborn. she doesn't like to listen. >> the real trouble begins when freya starts to push back. >> me and freya kept on pushing, because i wanted freya to go back in the spot. >> meanwhile, freya's dad is having all kinds of trouble keeping his camera steady. >> reagan's dad is also videotaping the tutu tussle. >> from where i was filming, i could kind of hear a little snicker over here, a little laugh over here. >> oh, no, reagan. >> and then i'm like, oh, no. the whole time i'm like, should i go out there, should i do something? >> freya's mom is thinking the same thing. >> i was like, maybe i'll walk to the stage and call her name and coax her

reagan cared for pie and chocolate cake. she said to me once, roland, we in california don't eat cheesecake. funny, she did, but that's another story. but again, i knew she was looking for something extraordinary. can i deliver? can i do it? i do not know. but i am surely going to try like hell. and we also had very interesting man in the white house, the head decorator of the white house, and he was very close to the family and he had a good eye for food and everything and colors, and he did work with us a lot and he did ask me a lot -- so you get your sources from wherever you can. and i think this is when desert took off on mrs. reagan and the white house in those years, because she definitely wanted to take a different look, and if you study the desert, you want to do something different from what was done before. you want the truth. i am giving you the truth. [laughter] simple as that. it was such a pleasure. i learned one thing. mrs. reagan -- she told me that the days that are the worst, you do not have eight hours. y

reagan as well. i think she is a misunderstood character. i will leave you with a humorous response she had. she was criticized for all the clothes she brought. a dramatic change from the carter administration. the hard truth campaign i mentioned, one of the presidential libraries we went to to talk about the heart truth campaign there was an exhibit of nancy reagan red dresses as part of this advocacy and awareness. there were hundreds and hundreds of people there to see it, lined out the door. nancy reagan said to laura bush, i was vilified in the white house for my close. now they are lining up to see it. she made fun of herself in an event where she showed up wearing secondhand clothes. one of the things patricia said, which is true, was the timing of releasing the china. which id way was privately funded, but it did not matter. the fact that it was a huge price tag and came at a time we were in a recession the timing was terrible. she suffered from bad press that was very hard for her to ever recover. still referred to often times as qu

you know what reagan did? many of the neocons that are still around today criticized reagan for talking to the russians. realize the sort of loud i think juvenile voices putting pictures of bombs -- these are people who are so reckless it would be gravely a danger to our country to have these people in charge in our country. >> i guess my question is this. should there be requisites -- there's a lot of money at stake for the iranians here. should there be some prerequisite, acknowledge israel's right to exist, stop funding terror? >> yes. >> and then negotiations can begin in earnest. >> that's what benjamin netanyahu did when he came here. not just about the nuclear weapons it's about intercontinental ballistic missiles, about the threat of the spread of terrorism. credibility and sincerity, will they adhere to what they say the agreement is. when they're immediately tweeting out it isn't what they say it is, it gives me a doubt they're negotiating at all. >> the president said today, they don't have to ackno

reagan's son, our friend ron reagan echoed that sentiment in 2011 on this program. >> i don't much care if he gets to visit his mother and go to movies and things like that but the idea of leaving a guy who did what he did and who has the psychological profile that he has unsupervised in society strikes me as monumentally unwise. >> spencer, what are you allowed to say? >> i can say that the prosecutors have said no other man in this courtroom has shot a president. no other patient in st. elizabeth is in there for shooting the president and three other people. what his doctors say they are confident he's clinically stable and clinically ready to be released. he's not posed a threat for decades, they say. he's not shown any interest in weapons or acquiring weapons, and they believe that with appropriate conditions that as the law says he can be released consistent with -- to the least restrictive environment consistent with public safety. it's up to the court to decide what that means. >> let me go to dell with this. what happens when he gets out in the public and wanders around starbuck

this one from our 40th president ronald reagan. greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. it's the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. be sure to vote in tonight's poll. has president obama forever damaged us relations with israel by agreeing to this nuclear with iran? you can cast your vote at loudobbs.com. coming up next, president obama focuses with deals with iran. disappointing domestic news. we'll tell you about it coming up. and one price is rightow expensive a mistake on the set of a long running game show can cost. it's all coming up. ♪ cheryl: on wall street markets closed for good friday. new data showing the economy faces headwinds. 126,000 jobs in march the fewest since december of 2013. while the unemployment rate wasn't changed at 5.5%. americans continuing to leave the work force. americans employed are looking for a job matching a 37-year low. now with his outlook for the markets and the economy, sky ridge capital founder and fox business contributor anthony scaranthon