reagan. he was not available. and i felt some of that as i started to write the book. reagan is never in this book, except for the very end in an epilogue. he's never seen from the inside out. you know, what's called a point of view character in the creative writing biz. he's always seen from the outside. sort of the way gore vidal presents lincoln. never goes inside him. i don't know what it says about me, but i never in the previous book, when i was writing "watergate", i never felt uncomfortable being inside richard nixon. it may not say the best thing about my character but i could relate to him in a way. >> evan: yeah. harder to access -- right. >> thomas: absolutely. didn't attempt it. i think it had a lot to do with the way the administration operated. everybody in any organization always wants to figure out what the boss is like, how to please the boss, etc. but he was so mysterious, so opaque to so many people that i think a great deal more of his subordinate's energy went into that

part but i played the reagan part not because i was a reagan supporter but because there were no reagan supporters in my very liberal progressive high school and someone had to take a bullet and i did it. but i was thinking about reagan at that point. i was 16. i have been thinking about it and following it but i never fully engaged with it. i think sort of reading and thinking and research part of the book with a couple years. the writing of the book i think i did in under a year. >> i think it's understood question because it points to the answer which is i don't think he had a sophisticated or detailed understanding of what the government did in most cases the it's a little bit bifurcated. as a governor and some extent as a president, reagan was very practical about government. and worked with the other side, with compromised. if you look at what he did in california, ended up in some ways a very strong progressive liberal. he doubled the state's funding for higher education, helped to build although he was often seen as being at odds with the states great university system. he was a

that reagan and his brother. one was the optimist, the other was the pest mist, and at some -- pessimist, and you say this is a view of the world and that's true. reagan was by nature an optimist but he had to figure out how to preserve that optimism in these really tough circumstances where he was growing up. at one point his father left the family for a mistress in another town. the parents never ended up splitting up. they got back together. this was a tough, tough, poor childhood, that went into the depression era. when they just didn't have enough to keep body and soul together, and what i think reagan did -- this is a little built of a psychological theory that explains some of his behavior, but to be an optimist, having the kind of life, you learn to tune things out. you learn to not see things that were unpleasant to him, that made it hard to maintain that he was not having a happy childhood. he would choose not to hear certain things. he was very isolated kid and didn't have a lot of friend because he wa

i am going to read from my chapter about ronald reagan because i think reagan remains this huge figure in american history and politics. i think this moment continues to raise questions for historians and how we explain the rise of reagan and what does reagan mean for politics and house does the administration shape the future of politics? i will start there and again i make a different argument than historians have tended to make and that is in the moment of reagan i don't see so much unity among religious conservatives as i see this is a point in which a lot of tension starts to merge. this is from my seventh chapter called the promise land. reagan wins reads the religious right in 1980. it was hard to show humility or patients after such a big election. the religious conservatives quickly learned their agenda wouldn't be the first priority of the reagan white house. instead the white house explained reagan had to address the nation's poor any and tackle the tax burden. once the president's tax package passed it became clear the reagan administration would give little attention to th

reagan.his is 40 minutes. r opposed that policy. our guest now is matt lewis, the author of two them to fail. b to fail. he is the cohost of the dmv show. he is also a cnn political commentator. thank you for joining us this money. this is the book "too dumb to -- thank you for joining us this morning. guest: somebody says something dumb or crazy or controversial in the republic and primary, they go up in the polls. that is what too dumb to fail is. it harkens to the too big to book appeared in both cases, you have these perverse incentives. you had financial institutions who took risks that we the people ended up picking up the bill for. we have a similar phenomenon taking place in politics right now where you have politicians and pundits who do or say things that have perverse incentives. it helps them individually, they go up in the polls, they sell more books, to get more buzz. collectively, it hurts the republican party and conservative movement. speak.laying out as we right now, there i

michael reagan, a good friend of mine.y show over the years that people are reaching back in the republican party and i get it. i adore the presidency of ronald reagan. i have no shame in saying that publicly. the man was a great president. he and george bush did things re-center the 20th century on the values of reagan, free markets. he got so much right. his leadership is something to be referenced but the republicans continue to reach back and it seems as if in every cycle, every candidate finds a connection. it's a word that triggers but what does it those 40 somethings besides simon!? 40 years ago they were 10 years old. they didn't knowreagan. they didn't live through the reagan era so that tricky comparison is to move forward and talk about the principles , less about the name of throwin . >> jenna: what about that, simon? to make the comparison then move forward.and what about the fact that the candidates are using different parts of reagan that they like. it's not like the republican party this is the one unifying

, what does reagan mean for american politics-- politics and how does that reagan administration shape the future of american politics. so, i will start there and again, i make a different argument and historians have tended to make that in the moment of reagan, i don't see so much unity among religious conservatives as i see this as a point in which a lot of the tension and disagreements and the fracturing search emerge. okay, this is my seventh chapter called the promised land. reagan wins exclaimed the headlines across the media outlets of the religious right in 1980. it was hard to show humility of patients after such a huge election. they had helped bring about. the religious conservatives quickly learned to their agenda would not be the first priority of the reagan white house. instead, the white house explained reagan first had to address the nation's poor economy and tackle the tax burden. once the president's tax package passed, it became clear the reagan administration would give little attention to the conservative moral issues the religious right had expected the new presid

think about what reagan did. he did not get on a plane and fly to washington and sit down with the old bulls and say, you've got to stand for something. he knew it was hopeless. there was nothing he could say that would persuade them. he took the case to the american people and build a grassroots title wave that became the reagan revolution. and he change the rules in washington. there is an old joke that politics is hollywood for ugly people. my wife says i resemble that remark. if you want to change washington change the incentives so it is , politically more risky to do the wrong thing. and newly elected president 1981, reagan, tip o'neil, a democrat, was speaker of the house. he said, don't even bother sending your tax plan over to us. it is "dead on arrival." i have 20 votes to kill it. reagan did not saunter over to the capital, pour him a drink, and use the legendary irish wit. what he did, he went over congress's head and went straight to the american people and made the case. we need to reduce taxes. the

i remember that we were ,urrounded by reagan delegates the utah delegation on her right, which was reagan, north carolina in front of us, which was reagan, and on the left was texas. --as was so conservative senatorservative could knock it in the delegation. they would not let him in. every time reagan would come in, the delegates from texas would viva, reflecting the mexican influence in texas could i pass the word among my delegates that every time reagan comes in, you will yell out "v iva" -- [laughter] and reagan did not hold a grudge -- 1980, he asked me -- we really deprived him of the nomination, but he never held a grudge. i began to think of him as everybody's grandfather, a very nice person. in 1984, he asked me to do it again and i became fond of him. i was standing with him one time in new york at a hispanic gathering and people were coming in and out and i knew some of the folks. i would tell reagan the names and what have you. some but he dropped their comb on the floor, which amused me greatly, because i did not use combs. [laughter] richard: reagan picked up the comb and g

everybody loved to do president reagan. we did a sketch once called "the family feud" with richard dawson, where we had the reagan family against the windsor family of england. uh, we did, umm, "mr. ronnie's neighborhood". we did, umm, reagan reading the christmas carols. we've done a translation when gorbachev visited. we had yakov smirnoff, the comedian, as a translator. but the favorite sketch we've done goes back ten years. and, i understand, it was ten years tonight that we aired this. and when you see this sketch-- i have to point out, we did this live. we don't pre-tape them because we like the audience reaction. kind of a dangerous sketch to do because of the timing was it's an old comedy device that you'll see in a moment. the actor was fred holliday, who plays reagan's chief of staff, jim baker. and i should point out, as a form of reference ten years ago, that james watt was the secretary of the interior in the reagan administration. so here is the reagan sketch from 1982. watch the monitor. [ applause ] >> well,

with ronald reagan was the opposite. you have a wealth of material and so much stuff to digest down so they are paralleled. >> were you limited to 200 pages or some amount of? of >> it wasn't by much. they're supposed to be in the range of 40,000 to 50,000. i will answer the other question briefly because i think it's interesting and relevant. i think it was one of the things that helped produce the dynamic i was talking about at the beginning where they didn't hear things or see things that the failure was a result of that. she sort of felt he wasn't completely there and couldn't get through to them. she couldn't tell the difference between fact and fantasy that i think that both of those relationships surprised him and left him even more feeling he couldn't trust people, he was on his own come he didn't want people to understand him and it's part of this impenetrable quality and the sense people can't understand what was going on inside his head. it's not because there was nothing going on but because he became very se

reagan. the last time i voted republican was for george h.w. bush. i think he is a vastly underrated president. we will recognize that come only after he dies. partyan evolution of the that is almost a direct line from roger ailes to newt gingrich to the tea party. had the tea party been in place when the economy collapsed in 2008, we might not even have an auto industry because the idealists reject everything. that concerns me greatly. i don't see myself voting republican anytime in the near future. with your knowledge, would you share your view of the evolution of the party? guest: thank you. go get that book. do not delay. it is a huge topic in the book of what has happened to the party. reagan -- a lot of the books that are critical -- that examine what is up with the republican party and the mistakes and problems are written by liberals. back toe to go eisenhower to find a republican they like. because i'm a conservative, i live have to go back to ronald reagan -- i only have to go back

we always hear them say ronald reagan, i was proud to serve in the house during ronald reagan's term. i did not agree with him on a lot of things but guess what, i agree with him on this. you know he said. i look forward to prompt hearings conducted in the spirit of cooperation and bipartisanship. i of cooperation and bipartisanship. i will do everything in my power as president to assist in that process, president ronald reagan, november 12, 1987. what did he say? did he get up and say oh it's an election year, which was, no. no. kennedy was voted on and an election year and president reagan made the case, this is what else he said, ronald reagan said every day that passes with the supreme court below the full strength and parents the people's business and that crucially important body. let me say that again. ronald reagan who is pushing for a vote on a supreme court in an election year said the following, every day that passes with the supreme court below full strength impairs the people's business and that crucially important body. now, i don't get where the republicans are coming

. >> we also sat down with ronald reagan biographer lou cannon. >> reagan was smart. he didn't comment on books about him like he did say, i interviewed him, and he said well, i hear you are writing another book about me. and i said yes, governor, i'm going to write about you until i get it right. he said good line, which is about as much praise or, as you're going to get. >> first we visited the archives at the old mission santa barbara. this was founded in 1786 but the church structure has been rebuild several times over the years. the current one that we occupied was rebuilt after the earthquake in 1820. it dates from about the 1830s. california mission system historically was established to help the spanish government extend its colonial control into what was the front you for them, in this case the california frontier, especially in light of the 18th century of incursions by other european powers, english, french and russian. not just this territory but other frontier territories. so with the mission system working hand-in-hand with the colonists who were expecte

president reagan was not a lawyer. kind of bold conservative, catchy, clear message of a scalia opinion really caught his attention. it's important to realize that in '86, the republicans controlled the senate. when that opening came open on the court, they could have had any justice they wanted. if ronald reagan had nominated robert borke in '86, he would have been confirmed by a republican majority. by the time did you -- but he nominated scali instead. if he waited to in that nature him until 1987 even though the senate was controlled by democrats, he would have been appointed overwhelmingly and we would have had a very different court. his ability to speak to ordinary people, i think, is what distinguished him from a figure like bourke. >> okay, professor. thank you. scalia really deemed a conservative hero. we will be hearing his name quite a bit on the campaign trail. just yesterday t marco rubio was asked: who was his favorite supreme court justice and here is what he had to say. >> what kind of people would you

reagan didn't do that. >> stephen: no, he did not promise. >> he raised taxes when he had to, but reagan was pretty straight on what was going on and straight talk is what we need which is pry sanders and trump are doing so well. you don't have to like them but you know where they stand, and i like that. >> stephen: well, bill. i know where you stand. >> no, you don't. >> stephen: really? you have no blanking clue where i stand. >> stephen: everything you >> it's all true. >> stephen: i trusted you, bill o'reilly. >> i'm a problem solve around each problem can be solved, i think, with good common sense. >> stephen: you're not a problem solver. superhero. bill, thank you for being here. >> i'll take that as compliment. >> stephen: you're a great mod toll do an impression of for ten thank you so much. inspiring. "the o'reilly factor" on fox news week nights at # 8:00. that's bill o'reilly, everybody! we'll be right back! (cheers and applause) roughtis new car. to keep things unbiased, we removed all the logos. feels like a bmw. reminds me a little bit of like an audi. so, this car supports

reagan.n 2000, he sided with the majority in bush versus gore, giving the white house to george w. bush. he wrote the majority opinion in the landmark decision that a friend gun rights. we are taking your calls on whether the senate should vote on president obama's nominee or weight. terry, what do you think should happen? caller: thank you for taking my call. -- young man from tennessee after hearing all the comments, i always get a coffee break to listen to you at mcdonald's here. he said a couple of things that i said to the young lady, the operator, and i want to tell the family of the chief justice that i'm very sorry. the great individual. that and maybe i will say it in the wrong words, like theg people politicians in washington have not even buried the body yet and they are fighting over it. moreld wish they were the decency and let things calm down and let the family grief. about the the justice vote and i say don't do it. have had a socialist communist changing the whole country fra

but "the new york times" is up with an op-ed, the core that got reagan elected and reelected, reagan was also a pramatist, able to pursue his goal and eager to expand his party's appeal. and then it goes on to ask how did the inclusive forward looking party become the crass xenop xenophobic party. >> by the way, i don't know if it's a reflection of the rather than party, i have written a lot of this, i am sort of for the republican party that can appeal to a new generation. just a point to think about. the millennial generation, the ones born at the end of the reagan under, they outnumber the vote, more will be eligible, the oldest were eight years old when reagan was leaving office. the majority of them were not alive when he was leaving office. i love ronald reagan as much as the rest. you have to represent the sensibilities of where the country is, with different demographics, and if you're going to bring a new wave of people into the republican party you have to represent what a conservative solution would be to climate change, to the evironment generally, to immigration reform a

not too far from the reagan ranch. i grew up in a small rural town in the central coast of california. my dad's a dentist. my mom worked in his office. we had a couple acres and my brother and i used to spend our weekends weeding corn and picking berries and trimming trees. we had a small business of bread baking. we wanted to make a little extra money. we thought we should be paid for our chores. probably just a like a lot of your kids, that's just part of being the household. my dad said, you need to do something, have a product, sell a product, add some value. and we learned so much from doing that together. but i was in a very conservative christian home, in a small town, and i'm not a big risk taker. and i have to tell you, when i met ted cruz in 2000, it really was love at first sight. but ted was compelling, as i got to know him, for about the next year and a half, before we got married. the first thing was, could you tell when you spent just a few minutes with this person that he really knew what he believed. h

reagan responded amazingly well to his chemo. so well that he was declared cancer free just three months later, something that's rarely seen. 5:34 it was a few months. we only had to walk in the shoes of cancer for a few months. so to know it didn't have to be a really long alissa and though reagan's been cancer free for six months now, he won't dare miss camp this year so he can support those who are getting a week-long respite from their cancer battles. 13:42 it just felt like a place to have a blast. battles. 13:42 it just felt like a place to have a blast. it was a blast. 13:46 mike and reagan jack: come join me for a very special event -- it's camping the night away. this is the biggest fundraiser of the year for children's cancer connection. and as the name suggests, it helps raise money for the kids to go to that fabulous week-long camp this summer. it's thursday, february 25th -- all the information is at the website children's cancer connection. jack: coming up on local 5 news at ten, the hawks face a tough opponent on t

(cheetos crunching) reagan, where are we? hey, sarge. we got the sketch artist over at the hospital with the rape victim. she's innd out of consciousness, but they're working on a likeness. all right, put it up in the media. put it up in the neighborhood. i'm on it. what do you got? nypd argus footage, and, uh, the university's own surveillan. hopefully, somewhere in here i get a look at this escalade. i think of my own daughter. patrols have been doubled on campus. additional foot-posts have been added. and anti-crime units will be running regular sweeps through the area. does nypd have any suspects? do you have any suspects? not yet, willis. wee in the early stages of the investigation. both: do we have a description of the rapist? white male, medium build, in his 20s or 30s. do you have any firm leads, commissioner? i think i already answered that question, miss davidson. thank you. that's all for now. commissioner! one more question! (monitor beeping steadily) danny: mr. ryder? (knocking) i'm detective reagan. they jusgave her a shot

reagan i want to work for you.ding him away, what are you doing, who is this guy he echo ronald reagan said, hold on, if he slept in my backyard and let me at least talk to him. and he became one of ronald reagan's key speechwriters. for many years he has represented the state of california in congress and he is a man who values liberty and the constitution more than going along to get along in washington. [applause] there is a reason dana and i both need food tasters in the dining room. [laughter] and i will say one of the striking things, if you look at the people, the courageous conservatives that have come together behind our campaign, whether it is dana, whether it is adam, whether it is glenn, the consistent pattern is that these are men and women who love this country and are committed to the constitution, and are willing to speak the truth no matter what the price. the truth has power. and speaking the truth with a smile drives washington crazy. >> [indiscernible] sen. cruz: thank you, sir. i tell you, i co

front-runner ronald reagan blew it off. on the following day ronald reagan stayed in california. he didn't show up in iowa. maybe he was just taking it for granted. he was the front-runner and expected to win. on the ground, in iowa, that year, something went wrong. something really specific went wrong. iowa public television went back to it recently. they did an autopsy of what happened there. a moment by moment reconstruction of what went so wrong and had such dramatic consequences for the country. on the ground, at the iowa caucuses in 1980. >> republican party of iowa reporting system was built on brand new computers technology designed to compile data phoned in from rural and urban corners of the iowa. >> we did it in an effort to get a fast response to the many people who wanted to know what happened in 2500 and 3500 different meetings or what the strength was. a day or two later wasn't fast enough. this was the fastest way we could come up with. >> despite the best intentions of reliability, the system ultimately failed on caucus night. >> we haven't been able to get much

washington despised ronald reagan.n right here in new hampshire in the live free or die state and it changed this country, changed the world. why am i so optimistic? because the same thing is happening again. it took jimmy carter to give us ronald reagan. i am convinced the most long-lasting legacy of barack a newis going to be generation of leaders in the republican party who stand and fight for liberty, the constitution, the judeo-christian values that built this great nation. [applause] ted cruz: with that, i am happy to answer or dodge any question you would like. yes, ma'am. i understand that you are a big supporter of president reagan, and so i want to ask you, if like him he would work to keep a secure by sitting down with the russians and negotiating mutual reductions in weapons. ted cruz: thank you for that question. from my perspective, i am happy to sit down and negotiate with practically anybody, but the key is how you negotiate with the enemies. what we have seen over the last seven years as an illustratio

reagan? thank you. reagan, baez. you guys got a strange break. what are you talking about? i fielded an anonymous phone tip that a white supremacist group called, uh, volks vanguard is taking credit for the killing. location? cyberspace, so far. well, what's the break? the guy who says he's their supreme commander or something ca in 20 minutes ago, wants to speak with the investigating detectives. where is he? in the box. all right, thanks. detective reagan. my partner is detective baez. you wanted to talk to us? i do, yeah. okay, well, let's start with this. who the hell are you calvin benton, i'm head of the new york ausschuss of volks vanguard. what's that? the people's front. oh. people's front. someone's out there on the internet posing as being from my organization, claiming responsibility well, that's funny. 'cause somebody just called us, giving us an anonymous tip of the same thing. you want to tell us about that? nothing to tell you. wasn't us. maybe someone from your group acted alone. couldn't happen. says you. yes. danny: well, isn't wanting to eliminate the en

reagan, people didn't like reagan? >> even people who dislike reagan agree that he was likeable.s where the happy warrior comes in. >> that was the context of being unlikable. >> but i worked for the president, and i can tell you, reagan shocked us, it wasn't that we just liked him, we in awe. we had no idea he would do as well as he did. he almost took the nomination away from the sitting president. but everybody liked him. >> what does that mean? what does that mean to you? you think it means to the voter that his assertion, cruz's assertion on trump and abortion. it was true, but misleading. >> it was so misleading. >> tom says it was true but misleading. >> that they are an abortion factory that trades baby parts like oughauto parts. that is what trump has said. and we see something totally opposite coming out of ted cruz. >>ive thi iv think it's a legit charge. >> that who -- >> that cruz says. many conservatives will look at that question as one, you either stand with or against. and for them to make, i think what happens is they judge donald trump very harshly when they se

so it was a bunch of trees and birds and it was really cool. 7:50 reagan and then something reagan responded amazingly well to his chemo. so well that he was declared cancer free just three months later, something that's rarely seen. 5:34 it was a few months. we only had to walk in the shoes of cancer for a few months. so to know it didn't have to be a really long drawn out process was just surreal. 5:46 alissa and though reagan's been cancer free for six months now, he won't dare miss camp this year so he can support those who are getting a week-long respite from their cancer battles. 13:42 it just felt like a place to have a blast. it was a blast. 13:46 mike and reagan jack (adlib) toss back to stephanie thanks jack! if you'd like to make a donation to children's cancer connection, you can visit their website - children's cancer website - children's cancer connection dot org. stephanie: coming up on local 5 news at six... polling numbers out of florida are shedding republican contest there as candidates prepare for the next debate tonight. "your watching local 5 news at 6 in hd with jack m

then i ran for congress in 1982 in the reagan agenda. i was now 29 years old and iran with reagan. everybody was running away from reagan in 1982. interest rates have come down and the economy was coming. nobody would even appear with him which was great because i got to spend more time with reagan and i was the only republican in america to defeat an incumbent democrat in the country and then i did not have a great district and i was reelected and then i decided to quit. nobody could dig out why i quit. it was time to get out of politics for a while but i decided to run for governor but i've never been on the ballot. we have 11.5 million people in our state. i have never run statewide. nobody knew who i was anywhere in the state. except for my start them on fox business but anyway the last time that somebody who had never run statewide had been an incumbent was 96 years ago. i won that and then i won re-election and i had a pretty good re-election. i won 86 out of 88 counties including cuyahoga county which the president won by 40 points. i won the county and i received 26% of the

washington despised ronald reagan.will take on washington? just ask the simple question, who is washington attacking. the reagan revolution came from the american people, and it turned this country around. why am i so optimistic? because the same thing is happening again. all across this country people are waking up. and let me tell you, nevada has a powerful voice in that process. we are 30 hours away from the nevada caucuses. tomorrow night nevada has a voice. now, listen historically not that many people come out. last cycle it was 32,000 people came to the caucuses. that means every one of you has a voice, where you are speaking for hundreds if not thousands, if not millions of courageous conservatives across this country when you come out tomorrow night and cast your vote. and so if you agree with me that it is now or never, that the stakes have never been higher, that we are standing at the edge of a cliff staring down, and if we keep going the same direction, we risk doing irreparable damage to the greatest coun

during the reagan administration. talk about lifting people were facing challenges, making it easier for them to face the american dream, when the economy is booming, it helps the most vulnerable. right now, the most vulnerable are getting hurt because they do not have the opportunity. that is the solution to income inequality. [applause] sir? >> congress is addicted to spending. with a balanced budget and term limit, would it hope? -- help? ted cruz: both would help enormously. i think we need a strong balance budget amendment that mandates -- most of the states have a balanced budget amendment. it also requires a super majority in congress to raise taxes. it also limit the growth of spending in gdp. on term limits, i used to support term limits until i got to the senate. now i really support term limit. [applause] now, how do we make them happen? i think we need to things. iesidential leadership. intend to push hard for both term limits and ballast budget -- balanced budget. congress likes spending money. one of the

not too far from the reagan ranch. my dad is a dentist, my mom worked in his office to quit a couple acres to my brother and i used to spend our weekends weeding corn and picking berries and trimming trees. we had a small business of bread baking. we wanted to make extra money. without we should be paid for our chores. that's just part of being hostile. my dad said if you want to mix money you need to get out and do something, have a product, have some value. we learned so much in doing that together. i was in a very conservative christian home in a small town and i'm not a big risk taker. when i met ted cruz in 2000, it really was love at first sight. but ted was compelling as eye-catching of them for about the next year and half before we got married. the first thing was you could tell when you spent just a few minutes with this person that he really knew what he believed. he had the power of his convictions. he could articulate why he was there, when he was doing, what the president should run on. the reason is ted

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detectives reagan and baez. what's going on? professor benjamin daniels was a friend of yours, right? yes. mind if we come talk inside? wow, pretty nice place you got here. thank you. baez: better than living in a dorm. and so close to campus. can't be too cheap though. i didn't know scholarships covered private housing. you know about the winifred o'daire scholarship? yeah, we do. there's no law against friends with benefits, is there? there is against prostitution. yeah, this wasn't that. how so? he cared about what i had to say. he was romantic. he took me on dates. how many guys have ever written you a love poem? yeah, i'm sure the money didn't hurt, either, though, did it? that was separate. right. when was the last time you saw mr. daniels? uh, we were together the night before last. the night he was murdered. he came over around 9:30. i was cramming for a mid-ter he brought me sushi. and left around 11:00 when my friend came by to study. we're gonna need the name and number of your friend for starters. sure. we're gonna n

reagan family rule number one: reagans can talk smack all night long. outsiders talk smack, there's gonna be a fight. way to get my back. glad to help. hey, frank. rning, norm. i didn't think you'd take me up on that fishing trip so soon. yeah, well. i was thinking about what you told me, about how randy cutter always wanted to work for the nypd. yeah, yeah. what about it? why did he wait six years to make the move? you'd have to ask him that. i'm asking you. why would a solid cop like cutter-- close to making detective-- and start from scrat with another department? you know, i always considered us colleagues. friends, even, in that "from work" kind of way. you? yeah, sure. there was an allegation that went away with a quick settlement and a quiet resignation. how did you know? i didn't... till now. what i told you about cutter's reputation, that was all true. he was a good cop for us. but it wasn't the whole truth, was it, norm? cutter and his partner collared a couple of kids; possession of narcotics. no weapons. one of 'em ran. cutter took off after

to nancy reagan. it was 11-12:00 and they decided to take a break and these offices. there is athere and rolodex on her desk and somebody started looking at it and said, oh here is the private number four the reagans. -- for the reagans. number.e, i called the i was 24 years old. i thought that an assistant or someone would answer the phone. they picked up the phone and there was the unmistakable "hello?" up and just hung hightailed it out. i was certain that we were all going to get it. nothing ever happened. so, that is the time. that is the time i hung up on the president. >> one last question to finish this off. >> that will go in the next book, maybe. hi. excellent presentation. i have not been to the white house in 40 years. would you consider giving a behind the scenes tour to a few of us? >> i think that i just did. there,t way to get in with security so strict now, is to go through your congressperson. that process is laborious. weeksve to start 6- in advance. to be on thepeople gate and i do

reagan, but i wanted to thank you. i was just doing my job. it was more than that; you were the only one willing to find out what really happened. i'm just glad they're putting you back to full duty. i need some time. i hope you're not thinking of resigning. marcus green was a troubled kid, but he was still just a kid. you did what you had to do. yeah. now i need to find a way to live with it. baez: you think damiri's going to give up his russian friends that killed kramer? if he thinks it'll keep his ass from rotting away and growing old in a prison, he will. (sighs) teri damiri. let's check his office. reagan. they shot him in the head. i guess his russian friends got to him before we did. yeah, i guess they didn't want him naming names. he's cold. danny. (sighs) (sighs) damiri's black book. with the pages ripped out. yeah. they cut his throat. it's what the russians do to snitches. which means yeah. gary was in the wrong place at the wrong time. i'm gonna go call it in. i did a stupid and reckless thing that could have put our good name in

reagan's justice department nominated -- pat:mrs. reagan was the one who reagan agreed with it. john: issue two, pontiff, prophylactics and trump. pope francis returned to the vatican following visits to cuba and mexico. while traveling he observed that condoms could be justified in regions afflicted by the zika virus. but the pontiff insisted that abortion can never be justified. the pope believes condoms can help stop the suffering caused by microcephaly, abnormally developed heads in babies, which scientists believe zika can cause. the pontiff also said that republican presidential candidate, donald trump is quote/unquote "nonchristian" in his stance on immigration. question -- is the pope right? i ask you, clarence? that trump's attitude of building walls instead of bridges is not christian did not startle me. it's the kind of thing that ministers say, that a liberal, progressive minister would say, off-the-cuff conversation. and it was something that trump reacted to, of course, as he often does, with thin-skinned, overreach, and this suddenly becomes a feud between the pop

when was it in the reagan administration. president reagan took office in january of 1981 when did they put the finger on justice scalia to become an appeals court judge? >> i said he left in '76 but he left in '77 and goes to a conservative think tank and works his way to the university of chicago. he wanted to go into the reagan administration sooner than he was able. and this is someone you know, william prince smith, was on the look out for a solicitor general, that is as you know because you held it, the government's top lawyer before the supreme court and office viewed with dignity. and all of men who have done that, and we have the first lady doing it, but it is a brainy and intellectual job before the correspondent. then professor sckalia wanted that job and thought he would get it. but rex thorn was up for the job as well. and as bill smith writes in his m m m m m memoirs he said it was a close call but i didn't chose scalia. and scalia used the word bitter was he was so close and it was a job that was taylor made. t

one day their 8 year old son reagan was the picture of health. the next, his life was threatened and he was dealing with the unpleasant affects of chemotherapy. 4:14 "well i wasn't really happy because i hated the taste and i just did not feel good." 4:19 reagan but children's cancer connection swooped in to help another family understand childhood cancer and support them in the many ways their lives were about to change. maybe the biggest thing they do all year long is provide the kids a free summer camp. 12:38 it didn't cost us a dime. and what they got out of it is so much more than any other camp we could have sent them to 12:45 (((butt to))) 9:14 he was able to go to camp and people who care and other kids who are going through cancer just like him 9:23 mike the week-long camp each summer is the best week of the year for most kids with a diagnosis. and even though reagan found out about his cancer only a couple weeks before camp, this intuitive eight year old knew right away that he was somewhere special. 8:43 i was glad because i knew that

during the reagan administration. you will to talk about lifting people were facing challenges, making it easier for them to face the american dream, when the economy is booming, it helps the most vulnerable. right now, the most vulnerable are getting hurt because they do not have the opportunity. that is the solution to income inequality. [applause] sir? >> congress is addicted to spending. with a balanced budget and term limit, would it hope? -- help? ted cruz: both would help enormously. i think we need a strong balance budget amendment that mandates -- most of the states have a balanced budget amendment. it also requires a super majority in congress to raise taxes. it also limit the growth of spending in gdp. on term limits, i used to support term limits until i got to the senate. now i really support term limit. [applause] now, how do we make them happen? i think we need to things. iesidential leadership. intend to push hard for both term limits and ballast budget -- balanced budget. congress likes spending money

drivers should avoid the area by using i-275 or the ronald reagan cross county highway to southbound i-75 or westbound i-74. breaking now our jordan villines has been talking with police all morning, learning about that deadly has been talking with police all morning, learning about that deadly accident on i-71.. jordan what can you tell us? one person died in a 3-vehicle accident on southbound interstate 71 south of dana avenue early wednesday, cincinnati police officials said. a male driver was in one of the crash occurred said lt. tim brown, minutes later, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. at least one other person involved in shaken up and likely cincinnati police's traffic unit was called to the investigate. they oversee fatal and serious injury crashes. new this morning new this morning... a mount airy man is new this morning... a mount airy man is accused of trying to flee from police with children in the state, kevin choate refused to stop for officers near colerain and galbraith roads... nearly hitting a police officer while driving away, before stopping on bahama te

but so did reagan.out as a democrat and, you know, then converted over to being a conservative. [ overlapping speakers ] >> trump said, well, planned parenthood does do a lot of good things for women's health, and he is in favor of that part of it. not the abortion part of it. >> there's other organizations that provide those things for women that do not support abortion. >> but let's be fair. by the way, where are my trump people here? there are more people voting for donald trump than any other candidate in this room. for the record, you all are silent. why aren't you standing up for him if >> i'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, because sure he might have thought that years ago, but i'm hoping he said he has changed his mind and i hope it's true. because if he is president and he goes back to those views, he's going to have a lot of trouble on his hand from the american people. >> people can change. she said reagan was a democrat. he changed. people can change. >> reagan had an eight-year record

president reagan said if i can get 70% of what i want i'm happy.like you want 100 percent of what you want. >> no, that's not what i'm saying. >> rules are so arcane. >> fight. when you have the democrat president you can't always get what you want. >> when you say fight, i don't know is that a pr thing? look, we try to get kate's law passed, okay? and i think the the majority of americans believe if you are aggravated convicted foreign felon, all right? that should be a fiver if they grab you for anything. you are in federal prison. harry reid is an evil man in my opinion blocked it on the senate floor. they couldn't stop reid from blocking it. >> right. i was the first one on this program to predict, bill, when you put out. >> what would republicans do. >> stopped it for ideological reasons. >> he did. what could republican does to stop that? >> there are certain things legislatively, even if you are just putting up a moral fight to do that. >> you want a more visible p.r. >> for example, ebony's point defund planned parenthood. how difficult is

president reagan wanted them brought to the u.s.ary academy in west point and held in high regard for historical significance. and the idea was to have an opportunity outside of the glare of the camera to meet up with family members. they road buses for the short trip to west point. >> one of the things that the iranians would tell us, that this was a big deal in the united states, and we were not sure andus embassy overseas no one cares. >> they thought they were forgotten until the bus roadway where the impact their captivity had on the nation was on full displays. >> americanses with signs welcome back and yello ribbons and waving and they just for the opportunity in january in this part of the country to come out and see the bus go by and wave to us. wow, that made an impreg. >> their arrival coin soyeded with the super bowl. that year in new orleans in a super dome bedecked with a giant yellow ribbon. the raiders took on the eagles. most of the freed hostages watched the game with their families, except for don who had pressing

reagan. danny reagan. gary heller. looking good. stepping out? actually, i'm on the job. do you mind? this is my partner, detective curatola. oh... new york's finest. would you knock it off? what are you doing here anyway? working the, uh, roofie concession here? narcotics in the 2-1 for years. mmm. jamaicans were running millions of dollars through the streets. but they never lost an ounce on your watch, did they, gary? that's right. yeah. see you around, regan. yeah, not if i see you first. flopped cop? he flipped on some jamaicans in exchange for immunity. guy never met an angle he didn't like. (sighs) you know what? i'm seeing a lot of these bracelets. i'm not seeing any bills. you think we got duped? i don't know. yes? not sure how this works. damaged? all right. go ahead.