this is no reagan -- this is nel reagan and him. i realized i couldn't ask got for help while having hatred for the mixed up young man who shot me. isn't that the lost sheep? i began to pray for his soul, that he would find his way back into the fold. john paul ii would forgive his assassin, too. in prison, he would meet with him. when john a -- when ronald reagan died, washington post published a letter to the editor. it was john hinckley psychiatrist, his doctor, who said ronald reagan contacted me in the 1980's and asked if he could meet with john higley to forgive him. i told him i don't know if that would be good for hinckley. and reagan said, doc, if it isn't good for the patient, i won't do it. if we can do it, i will. so reagan never met with him. louis evans, the pastor at the presbyterian church over here, he talked to ronald reagan about this and reagan told him -- reagan had the sense that, if he didn't forgive his assassin, his would-be assassin, he was going to die. got was going to take his life. reagan felt his survi

the reagan point is the most controversial, the high priest of reaganism that ronald reagan is littlemore than barry goldwater and the man dedicated of the overthrow of the new deal as goldwater and are today's libertarians. in fact, nothing can be further from the case. from the earlier days of conservative ronald reagan, exhibited fidelity to the core innovations of the new deal in the sense that government at local and state level, if necessary, but in federal level possible that a federal level if necessary should ensure that americans have hand up in american life and that everyone has a chance to live a life of their own choosing even if it requires government assistance. i will move to the second part, explaining why republicans have lost their way and how it is that in a very odd sense donald trump has recaptured some, not anywhere all, but some of the original reagan insight and consequently it's no surprise that ronald reagan and donald trump are the only two people who were republican nominees in the last 40 years to win dramatically among whites without a college degree an

reagan did that. i was having lunch with fred barnes and he was in one of those washington movies, little role, think it was "dave" and was telling me about the movie had been rebroadcast in hungary or something like that, and he got a residual check for $12.98. and i said, you know why you got that check? he said no. i said because ronald reagan gauched that with the studios. so, any point is that the had very good executive skills and very good negotiating skills, long before he even ran for governor. but of course, his movie career had faded. he liked hollywood. he loved hollywood. but by 1962-'63. pretty much over with. the only made one movie after that called "the killers" and hated the movie so much he never saw it. he did 57 movies and it's the only time where he is depicted as a bad guy and slaps angie dickenson in the movie and hated that. he would never see the movie. but he was kind of -- he himself was in the wilderness several times, including after '63, and he is kind of like a professi

[laughter] i am ronald reagan. i am ronald reagan. [laughter] the problem is if he were alive today he would be 106 maybe it doesn't have the best grasp of politics today requires but one of their problems the g.o.p. is caught up bid is it is assessed with purity and principles. don't get me wrong i am dedicated to those principles. but once you get into a contest then you lose sight what politics is supposed to be about and it is supposed to be about persuasion. go back to paris, with reasonable logic that is politics to say i am the purist guy on the stage by definition you are excluding rather than enticing people to bring them in and they have lost their way to the art of persuasion and this gets me to my key point about ronald reagan his success had a lot to do with his ideology but the big part is he was a really good politician. and one thing they he did is he told the stories he was really good at telling stories there is a story how he brought a speech to ronald reagan and reagan said it is a great speech but not how why woul

and reaganism has health and let's talk about reagan and reaganism.one thing that i one of the central point i think of henry's book and i realizes under dispute here at this panel is there's a difference between reagan and what's known as reaganism. according to henry, the reagan approach, you could think of as a loyal opposition to the welfare state. his view was according to henry, don't take away the new deal, don't disparage it, improve it and above all, whatever you do, don't take away from people because they don't like it and it's not right. though that was according to him where reagan was coming from. now the reaganism approach that more is today's gop and i think henry would argue is not really reaganism, it's neil libertarian goldwater with perhaps a soupcon of rachel he tends populism. on top of that in the general philosophy seems to be as let's get as close to the nightwatchman state as possible. the government should taxes little and spend as little as possible. the new deal is basically a bad idea, there's nothing more important than

reagan had -- alice had contributed to reagan. alice had voted for reagan. no, alice didn't want to do a debate or do an interview. and i said, why? and his aide says rather sheepishly, well, alice was drunk. [laughter] and i said, what do you mean alice was drunk? and she said alice was drunk from 1976-1983. [laughter] and i said do you mean all the time? she said, yeah, pretty much. [laughter] so i think henry may have discovered there's a lot of joy in book writing as well. i've certainly enjoyed it. someone once asked me what's the most profitable form of writing, is it op-eds, letters, speeches, book writing, and i thought for a moment and said the most profitable form of writing is ransom notes. [laughter] history is written backwards but lived forward, and i think henry has written that in his book. what i'm going to do is talk about what first surprised henry is what i like about his book. first of all, he opens up a new discussion about ronald reagan, one that has not been thoroughly and completely examined as well as it should have been. we don't f

and this time we're going to let ronald reagan be ronald reagan. >> the mantra let reagan be reagan iswhat we've got. the strongest thing, our best political asset is ronald reagan being himself, communicating with the american people. when he was showing his personality, his ideas and rhetoric, he generally succeeded. >> going into tonight, a new poll indicates the race continues to narrow. >> the audience out there will be looking at ronald reagan in a new way. i think in louisville, the myths or the mystique of the great communicator was dented, perhaps irreparably. >> president kennedy had to go days on end with very little sleep during the cuban missile crisis. is there any doubt you'd be able to function in such circumstances? >> not at all. and also, i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. [ laughter ] >> he broug down the house, and it was his house by then. >> there were several times during his first term when i thought this man is not going to be re-elected president. i guess what i

meese and reagan appear together. reagan appears only briefly. after a few minutes, he leaves and says the attorney general will answer questions. what does meese tell the public? he says, well, there was something bad that i have to tell you that people don't know about. they know about the arms sales to iran, because that was revealed in november. they know about the contra thing because of the shoot-down of the plane in october. what you don't know yet is that the two operations actually were connected, because i found this memo about a diversion of funds from the iran arms sales to the contras. i just thought i should let you know. because it's going to come out. clearly, meese realized that this was explosive, and if he found the documentation, north had not destroyed all the documentation, all evidence relating to the diversion of funds, other people were going to find out. because meese knew. his informal weekend investigation was not going to be the end of the investigating right? , he knew that. he clearly calculated. what he had said. t

with president reagan's speech. from president kennedy's visit, it might he better known in germany and the u.s. foreign policy nerds know that there is nothing like resident reagan's secretary-general gorbachev and his call to tear down this wall. interestingly, the speech received very little coverage at the time. however, the chancellor immediately realized the impact. president reagan was a stroke of luck for the world. he would say after the speech. and the rather hysterical reaction, german leadership also gives us an indication of the strength of the speech. i myself refresh memories a couple of days ago. i was in new york at the time in 1987. i did not have a chance and it is indeed an impressive testimony, first and foremost to president reagan's unconditional will to stand behind and side-by-side with his european partners, with germany, and with the citizens of religion. i still have something back in berlin and how he describes very special ties. every american president since 1945, to the city of berlin

reagan knows. i will brief reagan. here.ot to move along the big blockbuster of my book, the biggest issue in it, which convinced me that i had to write this, that i had to pursue this project, is the book's longest chapter. i was told that the cia, under casey's direction, a truly supersecret, extraordinary investigation outside of the institutional cia and the cia establishment terry's this is -- establishmentarians. there was a dogfight in the cia. there were some in the cia who thought that there is no way the soviets whatever put a bullet in the pope, never do something like that, especially because some people in the cia were even arguing -- bob gates writes about this -- some people argued that the soviets saw the pope as offering stability in the communist empire, which i think is insane that anybody would think that. but some people believed that. so this was a dogfight in the agency. the intelligence -- the italians were invest getting the shooting. people wanted to know if we were investigating the shooting.

so reagan had to constantly let the right know, i know what i'm doing. >> reagan was being accused alreadyg soft on communism, but he hadn't forgotten the problems we still had. europe was still divided, there was still a berlin wall. >> there's one sign the soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> it was perfect. it was beautiful. he had to insist on keeping it in the speech. and he did it. don't let anybody tell you it was a staffer or anybody else that did that. >> meanwhile, in the soviet union, gorbachev decides to do something bold and he says let's separate sdi from reducing the nuclear stockpile. once he does this, it opens up the possibility for a third summit. >> this week's summit may prove especially important, even historic. for the first time since the onset of the nuclear age, the united states and soviet union will sign a treaty actually reducing the number of nuclear missiles. >> the inf involved the elimination of an entire class of wea

ronald reagan? >> ronald reagan's mother. >> what?other, nelle, was hired by the studio to answer her son's fan mail, and she tried to sound like him, and she tried to write like him, but all these people that wrote to reagan in the '40s who thought they were carrying on a correspondence, they were talking to his mom. >> talk about trust, but verify. so how can you tell if the reagan signatures in david's collection are the real deal? >> these are perfect examples of reagan's signature. the angle from the top of the "l" to the "d," there's an angle like that every time. and the thing that i always look for in "reagan" is the "e." his "e" tends to be straight up. it doesn't lean to the right, ever. it's either straight up or it leans 45 degrees back. >> i see it -- here and here. >> you always look at the "e." >> time to put the whole shooting match on the auction block? well, not so fast. what happens when you try to sell five or six of each of these people? >> there's not enough demand for the supply. strategy is extremely important.

reagan, our nation is so grateful to you. you have shared in your husband's great life, and today you share in the pride of this tribute from the people of the united states of america. [applause] v.p. cheney: may this ship find safe passage in all the voyages ahead, and may almighty god watch over the officers and crew of the uss ronald reagan. [applause] >> you're watching c-span's look back at aircraft carrier commissioning ceremonies. president trump speaks saturday at the ceremony for the uss gerald ford. remarks by george w. bush on a ship bearing his father's name. george bush senior also speaks of the event which launched the last nimitz class carrier. powered by two nuclear reactors, the george h.w. bush can operate for more than 20 years without refueling and carries more than , 80 aircraft. president bush: i want to thank you all for coming. laura and i are thrilled to help commission an awesome ship, and to honor an awesome man, president george h w bush. [applause] mr. bush: to prepare for this day i went up to s

i didn't know reagan at all.my personal views can to be more on the obama side than the reagan side but i looked at it as an opportunity to document history. i think with reagan, reagan was much more formal than president obama in that he would always wear a coat and tie. never take his suit coat off. president obama was much more informal. he would take his coat off. if he was having a meeting with staff, with heads of state you would always leave his coat on so he's much more informal. he would do things that work on the schedule all the time and reagan pretty much stuck to his schedule. he was much younger than president obama was much younger than president reagan so he had a young family, two young girls there was that whole aspect of documenting that part of history. there were those kind of things. the one thing that they were both similar in is that they had similar dispositions in that it took a lot to get ronald reagan mad or angry. the same is true with president obama. and i saw both of them get mad a

and ronald reagan epitomized all those things. >> between '76 and '80, reagan's building a coalition,istian fundamentalists, and law and order nixonian people. >> reagan is realizing to sell conservatism, you've got to do it with a smile. you have got to do it in a way scold them.ople feel good, not >> we can turn this country around. we can turn our economy around. and the time to do it is now. [ chanting ] >> there are many democrats who are worried that carter is not going to win. so ted kennedy, a senator from massachusetts, decides to take him on. >> today i formally announce that i am a candidate for president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> many democrats believe carter moved too far to the center and he abandoned the traditional ideal of the parts of the party. >> jimmy carter and kennedy became the polar opposites within the party and jimmy carter on top of that had a feeling that the kennedys felt that they were above we southerners. >> it's a nasty contest. when some one asks jimmy carter in passing what you think of being challenged by ted kennedy, jimmy c

we'll continue to follow the situation from reagan national. melanie alnwick, "fox5 local news". >> thanks, mel, 4:2. eldest son of president trump hired an attorney to represent him after donald trump jr. admitted during the presidential campaign he met with russian lawyer with alleged ties to kremlin and russian president vladimir putin topic alleged dirt on hillary clinton. >> donald trump jr. en jared kushner and paul manafort met with the russian lawyer. he offered trump jr. damaging information on hillary clinton. the meeting did take place and they claim it's being blown out of proportion. trump jr. trying to down play the meeting saying the conversation went nowhere. he intend to cooperate with meanwhile urging koption greg to move on when it comes to russia role in the 2016 election. he accepts vladimir putin claim during the summit that they did not tam were with the election. lawmakers on both sides of aisle say they are not bunling yet. >> i don't think we can move on or expect the russians to be any kind of credible partner in cybe

one big difference with reagan was republicans were on reagan's side.has his entire party against him. they aren't part of his agenda. making fun of the other republicans in the primaries, all these guys can do is compare themselves to reagan. how about william mckinley? he was a good republican president too. >> allen: i don't call them rhinos anymore. everyone talks about being in the middle-of-the-road. the only thing in the middle of the road is roadkill. you have a republican party agreeing with the expansion of medicaid, keeping the taxes from obamacare. when you get paul ryan to sam going to back away from the border adjustment tax. why would they come up with it? >> eric: health care is a great example. >> eboni: i put obstruction, question mark. this sounds similar to president obama in 2008, 2009. they are obstructing, i can't believe it. what did you expect? he would think everyone want the same common interest but you don't. we live in a country so deeply divided among the partisan lines that the obstruction has got to be anticipated. at thi

gingrich initiates -- defeatto defeats reagan's budget tax proposal. they are negotiating for republican leaders in the senate to raise taxes and gingrich opposes that and gets in enough votes to defeat it. it is a pretty bold move for a second term republican in the house of representatives to cope against her -- against ronald reagan. it's about party differentiation. also this would muddle the picture. so he tries to defeat them. for the remainder of the time i want to talk about gingrich's third congress in 1983 to 1984. this is a period when gingrich takes some initiatives to expand his resources or strength and resources in order to achieve his strategic objectives. in 1983 he forms the conservative opportunity society, which is a group of a dozen like-minded republicans who agreed that the party needs to take more assertive action to differentiate the parties and embarrass democrats in the coal of winning control. a few things to say, the first is a key strategic resource for gingrich. also in memoirs that have written by staff and others is tha

reagan says they called police who told them to follow.dillon reagan, fired from home depot: "let us is going so we know where to go when we get there."he says they followed... but it took them off property, down the street...he says police arrived -- stopped the man -- and returned the child to the mother...reagan gave a statement to police....then went back to work where he says he was chastised.dillon reagan, fired from home depot: "i broke the safety violation of leaving the store premises while on duty."a number of weeks later, he was fired..he admits he had a prior incident on his record.... but doesn't think he should be fired for what he considers the right thing.dillon reagan, fired from home depot: "it's kind of a catch 22 situation, i had to break the rules in order to do the right thing, i couldn't do the wrong thing, because it was the wrong thing."a spokesperson for home depot said this was a very complex situation, so we're taking another look at the decision. we always want to be certain that we're treating any associate fairly.even now -- the knowing consequences tho

to ronaldul ii said reagan that i am praying for you. ronald reagan sent a cable to the vatican saying i am praying for you. as for moscow, if they are worried at this point about kinship between the pope and the president, now they better really worry about it. >> american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. on cure day, -- q and a, 1968, 1 of the longest and earliest battles of the vietnam war. me because the military command was so out of touch with what was happening industries that they literally got a lot of young americans killed. general westmoreland denied the city had been taken. denyntinued to the -- it for the entire time the battle was being fought. small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> each week, american history tv's real america brings you archival films. >> on thursday, august 3, general john throckmorton arrived at the white house to repor

reagan can touch to the cable dutch the default world's most exclusive prayer society. if they're worried about a between the pope and the president, now they've got to really worry about it. american history tv, weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. ♪ >> we are flying over washington, capital of the united states. the beautiful city the pride of every american from the cloud from the ground. up about savannah. we saw over the top of the senate and house of representatives office buildings and the congress and alive. branches of the government. and the law going to land the plane an here's a close up of the house office building. mendo their heavy thank you and this structure eight representatives as an office and which a government official both in. the senate office building is just across the capitol grounds both buildings are constructed of beautiful white model and are connected with the capitol by underground railway we abandon flights to. families who first knew it as a marshy lane. and not a proud nation is great for the dog of the capital. this magnificent struct

live at reagan national, tom roussey, abc 7 news. in -- thes just former coo of anheuser-busch under investigation after appearing too intoxicated to fly his helicopter. iv was bush th arrested as he tried to take off from an office park in st. louis. he failed a field sobriety test. alison: police departments put the brakes on the atv's and dirt likes, police in arlington have made an arrest. stephan williams is being held without bond on charges including reckless driving and eluding the police. atv drivershese drive recklessly, th when know they are coming through each of the jurisdictions. alison: d.c. police are looking for 98 people involved in a similar incident june 25. they have posted dozens of suspect photos online. you can check them out at wjla.com. nancy: fauquier county, a bridge collapsed right under a ups truck. these photos are from the scene. the good news, nobody was hurt. a 7 on your side consumer alert -- the takata airbag recall is expanding again, this time including cars the company said were part of a safe s

again, this was reagan, dulles and bwi. we spoke to people here at reagan about what this meant for their plans tonight. >> never get on the plane. >> how long have you been wait >> probably about an hours ago. tried to get there in time to board. there's no boarding. >> reporter: what's next for you now? >> wait till 11:00 12:00, then if not, go back to the city and get a hotel room. >> reporter: stick around one more day >> why not? washington is great. >> i came here to pick up my daughter and was coming to visit me and i came to pick her up >> where is she? >> reporter: she told me she just landed in philadelphia. so that's where she is, i guess. >> reporter: they rerouted >> she said something about a fire or something here and i said i'm here at the airport and there is no fire. so, just assumed she was kidding me. >> reporter: and we did let her know what was going on. there was confusion about what was causing that situation at the faa center in leesburg. some initial reports that a fire was to blame. we saw quite a

like reagan's speech and once. this is a war about civilization. we are in a struggle. i thought he was courageous in pointing out that not only are we in a struggle with terrorists, but bureaucratic secularists. i thought it was a really remarkable speech and covered an extraordinary amount of history. it's a landmark. people will be able to seep philosophically a lot better who donald trump is with the speech and i think from the standpoint of the polish people, it was great to see that they have a president with them. >> we have a enemy and those who wish to vanquish freedom. it was this moment with trump and the shared interest we have in defeating the terrorists. >> we must stand united against these shared enemies and stripped them of their territory, funding, and networks and any form of ideological support they may have. we will always welcome new citizens who share our values and love our people, our borders will always be closed to terrorism and extremism of any kind. >> i was wishing at the audience was

he is not reagan. nobody is reagan.ave the will to confront the challenges before us? i say we do. it was optimistic. "new york times," "atlantic" or "new york times" said it was, "washington post" saying its with a dark speech. it is a speech based in real hety. the west has major challenges. military, on military, economic, cultural religious front. the fact that he went back to the power of prayer in 1979 when the pols first saw john paul ii as their pope, the first polish pope, they didn't ask for more government. they asked for the ability to pray publicly. they did, and prayed in ones of thousands of people in -- hundreds of thousands of people in prayer. if the church and religion cedes to the background a lot fills vacuum. it was real in your face to the secular progressives. brian: rule five, i'm there for you. russia stop your meddling. >> cyber mid-link. brian: one thing i walked away from it, no one talked about they were chanting his name. they said usa, but mostly said donald trump. >> they see someone sta

we hit 90 at reagan. dulles and bwi 89.ten, if we hit 97 tomorrow, that will be the hottest day we've had so far in 2017. in june, we had two days in which we hit 95. so if we hit 97, it won't be a record, but it will be the hottest day we've had. we want you to be ready. you think you're ready and you're not. you can get a heat illness quickly on days like what we'll have tomorrow. temperature at 11:00 is 82 degrees. of we've had a few cooling showers out to the west and you can see that winchester cooled down to about 72. still humid out there and when we factor in the humidity, it still feels like 87 in the district and about 72 in winchester, i wanted to show you if we had a weakening line of showers affecting some western suburbs but as we put them in motion, look how they're shrinking up. if you see anything pushing into loudoun or frederick maryland, portions of fact ker, it will be pretty light. bottom line, more showers maybe a thunderstorm possible tomorrow. as the bermuda high bushes our temperature into the mid

now reagan sent a cable to the vatican saying, i'm praying for you. it developed the world's most exclusive prayer society. as for moscow, if they're worried at this point about a kinship between the pope and the president, now they better really worry about it. >> american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >>> the "new york times" reports after six months of deliberations and occasional quarrelling, the top republican tax neglectors in congress and the trump administration declared thursday that they had united behind a set of common principles that would guide them as they move to complete the first overhaul of the tax code in three decades, and saying that they would do it by the end of this year. treasury secretary steven mnuchen testified on capitol hill this week on the 2018 budget for his department, along with irs commissioner john koskinen. this is an hour, 40 minutes.

price at the reagan library here before. once when she was here with her memoir about her life and family entitled extraordinary ordinary people come and once more when she had just penned no higher arm, a memoir about her years as the first woman to serve as security advisor to the president and as first african-american woman to serve as secretary of state. her newest work is a book i think any decent construction manual accompany it would clearly state dr. price had to write. it subject matter goes far beyond her personal memoirs and into the realm of how she thinks democracy can play, can and must play a fundamental role in the lives of people all over the world. when i say the book she had to write what i mean is this. i think that she detected some years ago that someone wise needed to frame for the american people and freedom lovers around the globe how the effective democracy could be understood in the context of a very complicated and confusing world order. or disorder as the case may be. from the time the united st

the suburbs it's what's happening in this time as well and so you know if you look at the so-called reagan democrats phenomenon one of the major studies of that was of suburban detroit and they noticed that again a lot of blue collar white voters were shifting their loyalties from the democrats to the republicans in the age of reagan in large measure because of their antipathy towards detroit becoming a majority black and politically empowered black city and so the democratic party was associated with with what many of these suburban white voters saw as reverse racism they saw that there was a real backlash of the civil rights movement and there was this new opportunity this really new opening that reagan was quite skillful at seizing up on you know reagan of course talked about welfare queens and the welfare queen who was very much both a gendered and racialized subject became the stereotype that was used to launch the attack on so-called big government and then the first speech he gave after he got the republican nomination was in philadelphia mississippi the the the the county were form

to form alliances with nancy reagan. and with michael deaver who a deputy chief who was like a son to reagan. yeah as a result he was able to prevail even when the the hard right ideologues came after him. but you know it's it's it's not at all clear that john kelly is a jim baker. story klee how have generals down and they struggle. i think the record is not encouraging the last third general to be white house chief was alexander haig under gerald ford. and who've stayed on after richard nixon resigned. he lasted if couple of days over one month. then interestingly gerald ford one of the reasons is that ford had a. a white house a model that was very much like donald trump so it was a free for all with people coming and going. in and out of the oval office it was a disaster called it spokes of the wheel with. gerald ford at the center. are within a month he was begging his old pal don rumsfeld to come in and and to exert. a assert this a plan which he did. what james baker is a legendary chief of staff said it's good to

. >> good morning, guys, yesterday quite a night at reagan dulles and bwi. they do misery map based on delays and cancellations and our three area airports ranged 2, 3 and 4 in the country yesterday as far as the misery index. >> this morning looks like there will be delays and cancellations and hopefully they'll be able to get airlines and silt ago long as long as yesterday and faa says operations got back to full speed 9:30 last night and there will be a little residual effect this morning. this was all because of fumes hazmat situation at the faa washington centsner leesburg. apparently they came from construction maintenance and they filled the control rool. he everybody had to evacuate. this was 6:30 p.m. with dozens of flights headed to reagan, dulles and bwi and dozens more scheduled forte-off and facility handles high altitude over the d.c. region and this emergency vaction meant a full ground stop at airports. incoming flights had to be diverted and paerm where s scambleing to find plans. >> they reroute the plane and said something about a fire or

. >> he's not reagan. nobody is reagan. i'm not trying to say he is reagan. but the moment where he said, "does the west have the welter survive," do we have the will to confront the challenges before us? i say we do. it was very optimistic. >> eboni: okay, kat, we know he's not reagan. >> kat: i had no idea. >> eboni: i know. breaking news. but, what do you think about the historical parallels? >> they are fine. i think that right now, it would be stupid to completely trust russia. and i don't think that we have to completely trust them to work with them and try to have a relationship that would work out best for us. we are facing issues like north korea and syria, especially with, again, china and russia. if they become best friends forever and we are left out of it, then we are going to have a lot of options off the table for north korea. nobody should have a problem with that unless they are being petty. >> eric: i think what that was all about, gorbachev, if you remember reagan saying, "tear down this wall," that being that in germany, east and west berl

reporting live at reagan national, tom roussey, abc 7 news. alison: what a mess, and the issue also affecting bwi. we will keep a close eye on a are as things return to normal. stay with us at wjla.com at and on "good morning washington" starting tomorrow at 4:24. nancy: in northeast, one-year-old boy has been shot. anna-lysa gayle has the latest. nancy, the one-year-old boy was shot at about 9 p.m. chief newsham said he has been to the hospital. there is police activity in this alleyway. he was hit by a stray bullet during a the new condos surrounding the block. the roads are blocked from 13th and h to 13th and i streets. the descriptions are vague. one of the suspects about six feet, the other the same height, one with dreads and a baseball cap. back to you. breaking in this mississippi tonight, a marine corps transport plane crashed late today, killing at least 12 people. are searchings several miles for any survivors or dish and all victims. air traffic controllers said the plane had some sort of structural failure at 20,000 feet. we will

you have spoken with compelling eloquence about the reagan doctrine. as laudable as that doctrine may be, it will not succeed unless it has the support of the congress and the american people. secondly, with regard to process, let me talk about accountability. what i find lacking about the events, as you have described them, is accountability. who was responsible for these policies, for beginning them, for controlling them, for terminating them? you have said that you assumed you are acting on the authority of the president. i do not doubt your word, sir. but we have no evidence of his approval. the president says he did not know that the national security council staff was helping me -- the contras. you thought he knew. and you engaged in such activities with extraordinary energy. you do not recall what happened to the five documents on the diversion of of funding to the contras. those documents radically changed american policy. they are probably, i would think, the most important documents you have written. yet, you do not recall whether they were r

john paul ii, ronald reagan and the jub told story. >> john paul ii sent a cable to reagan when reagan was shot. and reagan sent a cable to the vatican saying i'm praying for you. and as for moscow, if they're worried this point about a kinship between the pope and the president, that would have been really worried about it. >> american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. earlier today president trump talked about the gang ms-13 and immigration policy. he spoke to an audience of mostly police officers at suffolk community college in brentwood new york. >> good afternoon, i'm the you of director of i.c.e. as a career law enforcement officer, i want to begin by saying thank you. the work we have chosen, the job we do is tough and i'm honored to serve along side so many patriots. to my fellow i.c.e. officers and agents in this room, thank you for the privilege of serving along side you. i want to recognize the suffolk nypd for ., nassau, operation mata dor, which is dedicated to combatting ms-13 in new york city and long island and has resulted in over 100 arrests. here in

toler: nancy reagan used make me mad when she called you a wimp.she was pretty tough. , i point that gets me today don't believe think democrat and republican means anything anymore. that is why i am an independent. it is like oklahoma. i have business here with my uncle and come here occasionally. they are closing schools. this is run by republicans. trump very well. what i say about mr. trump is this. when things get, he is gone. i remember when the casinos opened, he made a few bucks and got in and got out. you will be praising me, money will be coming in, doing all this stuff. this is what we have to watch. i do not want democrat or republican to have the kind of power he searches for. he wants total control. watch him and his history. host: thanks for the call. what is your response? guest: i think politics is more polarized today. all of the polling and anecdotal information suggests democratic and republican voters are farther apart on most issues than they have been at any point in our history. i think this reflects the difficulties with th

called it reagan economics. in fact, the national debt tripled under ronald reagan.rge w. bush cut taxes, the national debt increased again. bill clinton by contrast actually raised taxes and ushered in stronger growth and higher tax revenues, but the mountains of evidence has not stopped republicans from using dynamic scoring. predicting there would be a broos -- thousands of new jobs would be created. except the promised growth never material'sed. instead between 2013 and 2014, the state's budget of 6 billion was butchered as revenue fell by $713 million. this caused lawmakers to pass tax hikes, in 2015, the economy grew at 2%, while the rest of the nation jumped to 1.6%. the rest of the nation experienced a -- sam brownbeck has been nominated to be the state department's ambassador at large for religious freedom. says the dynamic scoring is not about honest revenue estimating, it's about using smoke and mirrors to institutionalize republican ideology into the budget process. steve mnuchin, garry cohen and others in the administration know better. instead of smoke

reagan national airport is right over here. we are going to lock for that rain to continue to move across the area. it won't last long. 15 to 20 minutes or so. but we expect to see delays in terms of the air traffic. as the cell moves across the district to upper northwest d.c. in the warned area until 5:15. that does include seat pleasant and silver hill. repeat it for me one more time, i would appreciate that. addison heights, bailey's crossroads and old town alexandria. that is where we are seeing the strongest storms. we are hoping to pause this for you. if you are watching the in silver spring, cabin john, mount pleasant, this is the heaviest rain located now. let's show you the cameras we see, the bottom screen is tysons. that is where we are looking at and the conditions are going to improve a little bi screen shaded in yellow. that means the rain is not falling as hard. but walker chapel and brookmont are the areas still looking at the heaviest rain as they advance off to the east. around 20 miles per hour. seat pleasan

reagan's chief speech writer are. among the many memorable and historic speeches ken wrote for the president reagan, was his stirring and moving farewell address to the republican national convention in 1988. ken then worked also worked then in vice president bush's successful campaign. today, in his veteran of 9 presidential campaigns. he's been an advisor and strategist for governors and jurors of many of california's most distinguished public servants. he served for many years on our richard nixon foundation board of directors. and continues to advise and contribute in his current ford capacity rule. thank you, ken. [applause] ken still lives in san clemente and remains active in law and politics, and in community life. we're delighted that ken and his wife meredith are here todays. and don't get me started on meredith's impressive biography. [laughter] now please join me in welcoming great american, a great californian and great friend of the nixon family and nixon foundation, ken. [applause] >> 50 years ago as a

it has been more so since reagan.ill bere hoping trump what reagan was for mine -- host: explain what you mean by what the economy was like during that time and how it is different from now. caller: you got paid to work. you got paid enough money to pay your bills. usually the men would work in a factory that covered the family health insurance, it covered all the basics. if a woman work also, she had the luxury of choice to some extent but if she chose to work, which most did part-time at least, then you had maybe a second car or more comfortable, you are not rich but you could make it. now, you cannot make it unless you are a professional. everybody else is kicked to the curb, i worked in 13 states over the years and i know what it is like working and making money. i was working in the telephone business going from job to job. , nothing will get right until we do what bernie sanders said. corporations do not want a democracy and that is that. half of what donald trump is doing, pulling out of the paris agreement, i

that was ron altd reagan's genius. to link economic faith to faith in america. >> no sitting president had visited the new york stock exchange before. no president would have beaten him for the honor had a vote been taken. they gave him round after round of cheers. >> we're going to turn the bull loose. >> the whole world, from reagan's white house on, was basically saying wall street is the engine of our economy. it represents growth. it represents opportunity. it represents the american dream. so these guys were basically saying, we're going to go do it. >> this is the big draw on wall street, the smell of money. >> this is where the action is. this is the over the counter trading. more than 17,000 daily transactions involving millions of shares and millions of dollars, made and lost here every day. and it's a game for young people. when you get home at the end of the week and you look back at what you've done, what gives you a sense of satisfaction? >> i guess making a lot of money. >> for yourself? >> myself and fo

so had you get reagan to change his mind? some such things like "the new york times" or a the holocaust update. we're more vicious comments like that in to cultivate that you wish intelligentsia in he said that was rubbish. >> did he also excommunicate black -- pat buchanan?. >> yes. but what was brought back from the ash heap of history was the statement from 40 or 41 the only people advocating against hitler was that jewish interest of the roosevelt administration still basically the israeli government but buckley went ballistic and he is still exceptionally bitter about it. been there were many others. to have a dispute and he gets a letter that basically says you have to stand up to these people but the only problem is that you don't amend your ways. you are not helping me. so that attack was also made earlier. >> but you brought up the immigration. ronald reagan was the great amnesty president. and that was with the issue that you raise. >> so let me just announce he will be signing copies of his new book so thanks for c

he worked for reagan.ext. 7 . >>> what sense do we have a regulation in government that says we'll pay $6,000 a month to keep someone in a hospital that we believe would be better off at home but the family cannot afford one-sixth of that amount to keep them at home? >> ronald reagan always had a good story to tell. maybe not always perfectly accurate, but they weren't dull, especially when a real person was caught up in the tangled web of government regulations. >> we just recently received word of a little girl who has spent moefrt of hst of her life hospital. now two cost $1,000 a month for her particular ailment to send her home. her parents have no way that they can afford that. and the regulations are such that medicaid now cannot pay for that if she goes home. the alternative is, medicaid ka continues to pay $6,000 a month to keep her in a hospital. >> sounds like a reason to do something. we can tell you, a day later, reagan's secretary of health & human services issued that waiver he was talking a