a huge victory for ronald reagan.3 years old, about to enter his second term as president of the united states. >> you ain't seen nothing yet. >> in 1984, ronald reagan's second landslide was even bigger than his first. winning 49 states. it was the largest electoral vote victory in history. >> the unemployment rate in america is now lower than it was when president reagan took office. >> times are better now than they've been in quite a while. >> reagan's domestic agenda seems to deliver as promised. the recession was over, employment was on the rise. america was reclaiming her role as a beacon of progress and prosperity. however, the international stage was less than settled. and reagan's war in nicaragua continues. >> i've spoken recently of the freedom fighters, you know who they're fighting and why, they are the moral equal of our founding fathers, we cannot turn away from them. >> acting as the point of reagan's nicaraguan spear? oliver north. he was running the contra operation with relentless zeal. north's cla

a huge victory for ronald reagan.is second term as president of the united states. >> you ain't seen nothing yet. >> in 1984, ronald reagan's second landslide was even bigger than his first. winning 49 states. it was the largest electoral vote victory in history. >> the unemployment rate in america is now lower than it was when president reagan took office. >> times are better now than they've been in quite a while. >> reagan's domestic agenda seems to deliver as promised. the recession was over, employment was on the rise. america was reclaiming her role as a beacon of progress and prosperity. however, the international stage was less than settled. and reagan's war in nicaragua continues. >> i've spoken recently of the freedom fighters, you know who they're fighting and why, they are the moral equal of our founding fathers, we cannot turn away from them. >> acting as the point of reagan's nicaraguan spear? oliver north. he was running the contra operation with relentless zeal. north's clandestine operation was called

reagan will have to leave office. and now a joint congressional committee prepared to convene public hearings. senator george mitchell sat on the committee. >> it was by that time obvious that much of what had been said in public by the president, by members of his administration, was untrue. and our objective was to find out and lay out for all americans what had actually happened and let americans make the judgment on it. >> after months of investigation and anticipation, the congressional hearings into the iran contra affair opened this morning. >> in a packed room, on live tv, the hearings began in early may, 1987. >> the senate select committee s on secret military assistance on iran and the nicaraguan opposition will come to order. >> the enterprise's money and logistics man, richard seacord was the first to testify. >> am i correct, mr. seacord, that you were engaged in selling arms to the contras for profit? >> that's correct. >> with millions watching, a parade of witnesses began to unpack a story of global i

once reagan gets his full attention in the campaign. bush wound up being the last man standing against ronald reagan. he gives us some of our most important historical phrases and criticisms about ronald reagan. bush is the one who comes up with the term voodoo economics to describe trickle-down economics or supply side as reagan would have preferred. we still use the term voodoo economics and we forget it ultimately was reagan's vice president to use that as a criticism against him when they were both going for the top job. brian: what was their personal relationship before he was picked to be the vice presidential candidate? dr. engel: i would argue they had no relationship except for a somewhat antagonistic one. they were not close. i'm not sure how often they had been together except on the campaign trail. something that does not breed camaraderie when your competitors. in the 1980 convention, it was a weird one historically. there began to be talk that perhaps ronald reagan would choose gerald ford to come back and be his vice pres

the rebels called themselves the sandinistas. >> reagan saw this as an attempt

[inaudible] was a friend of mine that i knew and ronald reagan. ronald reagan is very simple. freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream, it must be bought for him a protected and handed on for them to do the same. he left us with a strong messa message. [applause] okay. hello. >> welcome to california. it's my birthday and this is the best day ever mac thank you. happy birthday. >> i wanted to no, i'm from california and i feel like we are drowning as far as the politics are concerned with newsom and brown it's like how do we survive? ... >> if you live in a state where illegals have more rights than american citizens of the kate stylings of the world can say help me before they die or a state where a guy receives sanctuary and came to san francisco because i was sanctuary you should feel helpless. what can you do? it's simple. everything is grassroots. everything, you have social media today. it's incredibly powerful. like ronald reagan, donald trump believed in messaging. donald trump with twitter and

obviously, ronald reagan reagan little bit more. donald trump had a number one show for years. both of them believed in the military. they believed in a strong dissent. $700 billion in the military. ronald reagan a strong. both of them, law and order. law enforcement. all of the things that you and i grew up to believe in. what is hard about this. nothing. just say what you are going to do and do it. [applause] notice i just said just say what you are going to do it and do it, not just do it. we will get to that later. [laughter] now, all of them were in their 70s when they became president both of them were divorced. amazingly, hooked right into the evangelical community. people saw that they were not talking out of both sides of their mouth. they said what they meant and they meant what they said. there is a realism to these men. these are guys and i know donald trump in a way that a lot of people don't. it is not the caricature that you hear about in the news. this is a guy who would go on a construction site with a hard hat and shake their hand and thank them for their work

reagan retro cool. against all odds. >> tonight it's my turn to say thank you. >> you can change the world. >> so, now what? >> the avenues to political leaders ship seem more unpredictable than ever. we have gone from a leadership style where we look up to our president. to a more pop ewe listic where we want to see the president as one of us. >> we'll bring the united states of america back. >> donald trump in many ways it was his familiarity to the american people achieved through his years on television that i think enabled his success. the way of seizing the nations attention in ways that might be more direct and immediate. than working up in the traditional political ladder. >> it could be that trump is the most entertaining president in history. because he understands that all people really want in these days of short attention spans, is to keep people constantly stimulated. we love entertainment so much. it changes our journalism and it changes politics. so, is it conceivable that future preside

then president roosevelt, winston churchhill, president reagan. and the incumbent understands the vernacular of reality tv and social media. we know that the presidency has not changed the incumbent, right? we don't know whether the incumbent has changed the presidency. i think one thing he has changed is it's hard for me to imagine a successor not having an authentic ongoing social media communication with the country. >> you think that's permanent? >> i do. >> twitter, the whole thing. >> i think that if you start -- if you look at -- i think going forward, if you look at something that comes out from a candidate or an incumbent and it looks as though it went through four layers of people, i think that's going to have an affect. i could be wrong, but we are all the media now. >> so if you're thinking -- i don't want to get -- i was trying to focus on the past but let's bring it -- >> sorry. >> let's bring it up to now. are you saying jon meacham, that in order to be successful in electoral politics in this country, you've got to be able to maste

this man just said, like ronald reagan, although ronald reagan certainly was the governor, when the state was great -- [laughter] [applause] i am going to run for president. what's the similarities? why did people say they are similar? for me they were similar right off the bat. they were strong men who had charisma, who had a certain magnetism, who could bring you along. they had both in fact and the entertainment industry. obviously ronald reagan a little more, but donald trump had a number one show for years. both of them believed in the military. they believed in a strong defense. $700 million in the military. ronald reagan, a strong defense. both of them law and order, law enforcement. all of the things that you and i grew up to believe in. what is hard about this? nothing. just say what you are going to do and do it. [applause] i just said, just say what you're going to do and do it. not just do it. but we will get to that later. [laughter] now, both of them were in their 70s when they became president. both of them were divorced and amazingly hoped right in for the evangelical comm

steve: president reagan. president trump is out there talking tough on the world stage and i think people appreciate that. but the economy is the driver. it will be a tough election. i think we will keep the house. when they lose some seats but i think we will keep the majority. with: your dad worked president reagan. when influence has he had on the republican party over the last 30 or 40 years? nationalter: i think security us certainly place were ronald reagan had a tremendous talk tough,that is be prepared to talk to people, be prepared to negotiate, but peace through strength. i think that is something ronald reagan really late down for the party. the other thing is about the tax cut. he had large tax cuts the turned the economy around and i think an economic standpoint we learned from him. one place we didn't learn from ronald reagan as the highway trust fund. he increased that gas tax at the pump, so ronald reagan understood the need for keeping america's infrastructure strong. steve: when was the firs

president reagan did. and so -- i swear to god. and so i never met president reagan and one of my great regret regrets, but i did have lunch with mrs. reagan and the only woman i know who ate one-third of a cobb salad. it was huge next to her. it is terrible because she knew more gossip about the obamas than i did, and i don't know, ma'am. and he had a terrible, whatever. and so we were talking about that and i said, i just noticed that president reagan coin and has had such an effect on the language and the national identity and i said people actually think that jesus said that we live on the shining city. and she looked up and said, that is just the thing that ronnie would do. >> what a great note to end on. >>> tuesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern watch the live coverage of the judiciary committee a hearing of the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. day one includes opening statements by the committee chairman senator chuck grassley and all of the committee members. then introductions of judge kavanaugh from the former s

reagan, this is beautiful, i do agree. and remember, i was the only pastry man at the white house in those days. and i would have to make 15, 16 of those. and sunday noon. so i told mrs. reagan, i said, this is beautiful. but madam, there's only two days left before the dinner. here comes the challenge. roland, correction, you have two days and two nights. you know, still have the chill in my back today, right now as i speak. and i said, yes, madam, thank you very much. after i went back to my kitchen and started cooking sugar. for some of you that don't know what a sugar basket is, it is all made of sugar. weaved like a basket. you can look in my book of desserts, there's a sketch that shows you how to make sugar baskets. and then you have to make four tulip baskets, so at the time, 15, you can count how many sugar baskets that is. and plus i had to make many other things. the head of the business don't stop because of that. so she said, i have two days and two nights. now, ladies and gentlemen, here is when you know how

anyway, i already had told nancy reagan -- nancy reagan, i studied her very early on. she is very interesting. she was going to give you -- she even did that to the reporter on television. when the reporter would ask a question and i would see nancy going and i was thinking oh you don't know what is coming. i feel for you man. >> [ laughter ]. >> sure enough, she was good. i loved her. you know i say that i became the pastry chef that i am be -- because of nancy reagan and i mean it every time. she was so sure on what she wanted. that time, send a -- sunday noon, again, the dinner was going to be tuesday night. too many things were going on in my head at the same time and she is having lunch in the solarium at the white house. there is a very long table there for some reason. the president was eating on one hand and nancy was eating on the other. when i came with the desert, nancy reagan looked at the dessert and i said man, brace yourself man. oh that is not going to do. she could never tell you why. president reagan came to my rescue. he said honey, leave the chef al

reagan did not get him onto the court. and everybody started to trying to figure out who they're going to blame in the reagan's white house for the political disaster. >> president reagan suffered his second defeat in trying to fill a seat in the u.s. supreme court when the man he dominated asked that his name to be withdrawn. it was an embarrassing admission of marijuana use. officials knew he could never win confirmation. the front runner to become the new nominee considers to be judge anthony kennedy of california. with or nbc news correspondent robert lloyd. >> reporter: it happened quickly for ginsburg, less than 48 hours from the time he disclosed that he had smoked marijuana and at the white house calling it quit. >> i asked president reagan to not forward my nomination to the supreme court. >> reporter: the president commended him for his clear thinking. late this afternoon, the attorney general pushed hard for the ginsburg's nomination and dodging any blame. >> together we provided the information to him and he ul

president reagan came to my rescue. he said, he said, honey -- he was talking to his wife, not to me. he said, honey, leave the chef alone. that's a beautiful dessert. and so, nancy reagan looked up to the president and said, honey, eat your soup. this is not your problem. so he went down and ate his soup. well, i don't care. that's not my thing. although they did have a wonderful marriage, you know that. so then i went down to the kitchen and you know, one word came to mind, suicide. i said, if there is a stockpot on the stove boiling hot, i am probably going to jump in. because i don't know -- and i was fairly new in the white house, maybe a year, year and a half. and i said, you know, it's going to be a short stay. so i am really in despair. i mean, despair. and the phone rings, it's mrs. reagan. she said, roland, come back to the solarium, i know exactly what i want to do. i said, oh, man, i rush upstairs. i get there and she says, roland, here is what you're going to do. she said, you know netherlands is nope for t

reagan didn't get him on to the court. and immediately everybody started to try -- everybody started trying to figure out who they were going to blame in the reagan white house for this political disaster. >> president reagan today suffered his second defeat in trying to fill a seat on the u.s. supreme court when the man he nominated only nine days ago, douglas ginsburg, asked that his name be withdrawn. it was an embarrassing admission of marijuana use that doomed ginsburg. white house officials knew he could never win confirmation. the front-runner to become the new nominee is considered to be judge anthony kennedy of california. with more on the ginsburg withdrawal, white house corresponde correspondent. >> reporter: it all happened quickly for douglas ginsburg, less than 48 hours from the time he first disclosed he had smoked marijua marijuana, he was at the white house calling it quits. >> i today have asked ronald reagan not to forward my nomination to the court. >> late this afternoon, attorney general ed meese, who

reagan came along with his policies of cutting taxes, reducing regulation and as reagan used to say, reaganomics is not the solution, government .s the problem i do not buy the argument that it did not work, it created an incredible recovery. reagan was slightly reelected with 49 states so the american people loved what reagan did for the american economy. lot of what donald trump has done is out of the pages of reagan's policies. different than reaganomics. trump is more of a populist but they both wanted the american economy to expand and boy, has it. host: the president has been critical of the chair jerome powell because he says he doesn't like the interest rates. is that appropriate? guest: there is a big debate about that. the president has the right to speak out about said policy. the president is the ceo of our national economy and why shouldn't he be able to express an opinion? everyone has an opinion about what the fed should do. if you watch fox business news are you watch cnbc, that is all they talk about. i think the president should weigh in. i happen to think the fed d

somebody who was on just this morning from reagan, from the reagan white house, he said this is one of the great economies in history. so we are very happy. [inaudible] >> i can't hear you. [inaudible] >> welcome the fbi has been very involved with respect to justice scalia. they know, very well. they have investigated him i guess six times, and they've investigated him for this hearing. look, if she shows up and makes a credible showing, that would be very interesting. we'll have to make a decision, but i can only say this. he is such an outstanding man, very hard for me to imagine that anything happened. [inaudible] >> we had very good news from north korea, south korea. they met and we had some great responses. i got a tremendous letter from kim jong-un, as you know, was delivered three days ago. we are making tremendous progress with respect to north korea. prior to becoming president it looks like we're going to war with north korea, now we have a lot of progress we've gotten our prisoners back. we're getting our remains back. they continue to come in. a lot of tremendous things,

grassley: you want. >> you mentioned president reagan. that's reagan invoking executive privilege. this committee simply can't accept in letter approval. republicans and democrats on this committee went to president reagan. i recall does very well because -- this very well because in those discussions, president reagan said ok, you want it, this was on the nomination. we were given it. i also note that one republican who voted for the injustice once -- justice rehnquist once it's all the records, he voted against justice rehnquist. the point is we did not have an executive privilege there because president reagan, when this committee did what it should do, republicans and democrats together saying you can't serve executive privilege. president reagan said you are right and withdrew the request. >> can we make our motion to subpoena the 100,000 documents as well as if any law exist where they assert the privilege so we at least know why they cannot be released? sen. grassley: to correct chairman leahy, reagan waved some privileges and others he did not. the clerk will call the roll.

we remember reagan and ford and mrs. reagan and mrs. bush. what is it about these moments of death and focus on a former president or a living president? one of my probably earliest memory of a living president was four years old sitting in front of a blk and white television of the kennedy funeral and being transfixed and scared about this, really. what is it about death and presidential funerals or first lady funerals that brings home to us who they are to us and what we remember them to be? >> sure. we are naturally divided as a nation, this will answer your question. but we are naturally divided. we were divided from the very beginning when founding father is came to philadelphia to forge the nation. they were divided by cultural, ideological differences, and they found common ground into which they planted the seeds of democracy. that's the story of our kintry country. we are naturally divided but there are moments when we all come together as americans. one of them is when we have the death of a president. we don't lose a republican pre

among them ronald reagan and george hw bush. >> paul had great success are reagan and bush. and ford. and great success. >> when you have a convention or fight, the guy you want with you on your side. hoefs the guy that could figure out a strategy. >> people were drawn to him in politics. he operated by his own rules and he operated in the universe of manafort. >> his influence extended far outside the u.s. border. in the former soviet union he worked with some of the most powerful oligarchs. linked to russian president vladimir putin. >> we don't know whether there was a conspiracy between trump campaign and the russians. if there was it stand to reason paul manafort was in middle of it. manafort came to the campaign with the russian connections. >> in august after a trial in virginia. manafort convictions on bank and tax fraud made him the first trump campaign associate found guilty as part of muellers probe. >> he happens to be a very good person. i think it's very sad what they've done to manafort. thank you. >> the president appeared to believe manafort would never betr

reagan learned the lesson. what did. >> what did reagan do when he won? >> he was also an experienced who had jim baker, kim he was george hw bush's chief of staff and made all the different. >> he is the first democratic president in the ears and congress controlled by the democrats and the democrats did whatever carter wants, was that right? or did not happen that way? >> maybe if it was republican but this is a democrat. >> why did they like him better? >> first of all, they did. one of the things that i try to picture is that he was unsuccessful in congress. congress passed almost 70% of his legislation and just under the% of the legendary lyndon johnson. the problem was however that he proposed david so much at the same time so many priorities, tax reform, health insurance and so forth, panama canal, treaties that he got lost and he had not the capacity of showing that half of [inaudible] was a victory. compromise became difficult to be achieved enormous amount but there was always paled in comparison to what we had proposed. the democratic party was

the other quick point is that when i started covering reagan, reagan's people understood -- even though he was a conservative, he could get decent coverage because they understood access works two ways. when a white house staff and a president talk to the media, they not only give information out, but they also learn what we're doing. you don't get much of that with the trump presidency now. they don't really care much of what we're doing, they just are constantly streaming out, as richard said, twitter and other things to -- always on the offensive. >> richard, we were talking about the relationship between roosevelt and the president and pictures and illustrations of the press coming. there is a very famous picture of lbj walking the grounds with a group of reporters. and there was a time when presidents and reporters could sit down or walk or -- and the idea was for the president to be able to speak directly and share a thought process or whatever. does that happen now and -- because it doesn't -- have we lost something? >> yeah, we've certainly lost that personal relationship that r

president reagan said okay,, you're right, and withdrew the request. >> mr. chairman, can we make our motion to subpoena those documents, the 100,000 documents as well as if any log exists with the assert the privilege so we at least know why they're claiming that they can't be released? >> first of all, to correct chairman leahy. reagan waved some privilege and others he didn't. are you ready for the previous question? the clerk will call the roll. >> what was the question, please? >> the question is a subpoena for the constitutional privilege of the documents. >> and in a privilege log. >> privilege log. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> the motion loses. senator cornyn. >> mr. chairman, i just want to add briefly the reasons why i think the committee appropriate voted no on, well, where we find ourselves. this is as i've observed before not a court of law because different rules would apply if we were actually in a contested court case. but where we find her cells is now absent legal compulsion to subpoena, we rely upon the goodwill of the custodian o

you look at all of the events that a president has where he speaks and looking from a presidents reagan through trump, a third of at least a third of the occasions where he speaks are ones where a president is answering questions from reporters. so it is an important relationship for us simply because of what information we get from them. from the sessions that they have. the relationship is naturally a somewhat broad one. a woman who was writing about washington correspondence during the roosevelt administration talked about the nature of the relationship and the way in which it is a contest over information. the newspaper man motivated by the ancient values of journalism is interested in precisely that type of news which the official, the presidents, is least eager to reveal. in the final analysis, press conference -- conferences have reduced itself to a contest between reporters and officials adept at straddling. so the parroting and the straddling is something that you will always see in the relationship between the white house and the press. writing in the early 20th century and --

i remember june one thousand nine hundred sixty four three civil rights activists by force and reagan and james chaney had been found dead their bodies riddled with bullets in the small town of philadelphia mississippi. the state refused to prosecute the alleged murderous cooped up scan members or the federal authorities have to intervene before they get ten yet sentences. i mean obviously the value on black lives is something that we have to constantly be fighting for but we've come a long way i think in that space i do you know. i think about my parents you know my parents married it was against the law for them to marry my father was why my mother's back was against the law my father was a civil rights attorney they were trippin out of town by the klan by the police constantly. i remember the question threatening to burn our house down. just because my father was working to desegregate schools to bring you know sanitation to black communities so there was a kind of. you know there was no safe space. there. my family is from alabama from the south my father's from tennessee my mothe

that's not reagan.rson is standin by with your full forecast. >>> changes coming to one of the most inic approaches to the most inic approaches to the nation's capital this weekend kaine: my dad ran an ironworking shop. i learned hard work and a trade from him and his workers. then i went to honduras as a missionary and taught kids to be carpenters and welders. our economy works best when everyone has a skill, like shipbuilding. that's why i created career and technical academies across virginia and passed a law to expand job training for young people. i'm tim kaine, and i approve this message. here in virginia, we have to build an economy that works for all. not to the finish.t. but to the beginning. a fight that can only be won, if we stand together for one cause. him. expert care for every new beginning. >>> you're watching news4 at 6:00. >>> park police are trying to figure out how a carp ended in a creek in northwest d.c. a car went into the water near the rock creek parkway and p street area.n' th

reagan and mrs. bush, what is it about these moments of death and focus on a former president for a living president? one of my probably earliest memory of a living president was four years old sitting in front of a black and white television of the kennedy funeral and being and scared about this. what is it about death and presidential funerals or first lady funerals that brings home to us who they are to us and what we remember them to be? >> we are naturally divided as a nation. we were divided when our founding fathers came. they were divided by ideological differences. they found common ground in which a plant the seeds of democracy. that is the story of our country. we are naturally divided as a nation but there are moments in our nation's life when we all come together as americans. one of them is when we have the death of a president. we don't lose a republican president or a democratic resident. president. it takes us back and we think about that time and we become united as americans. there

ronald reagan emerged as the new leader of the republican right in california the very place where all the protests were going on became the basis of reagan's ascendancy because he ran against all of that he ran against the student protesters against the rioters in watford against those who wanted to have open housing laws that would end discrimination and in neighborhoods rankin opposed to all of that and became the leader of the new right in america. and then. when the weight of the regime.

we gave you richard nixon and ronald reagan and there were many republican statewide republicans office holders in i -- and i think it's not the demography that changed the shift of the state, eliminated bilingual education, eliminated affirmative action and launched to a much deeper criminalization than any other state between 1980 and 2008 while in the rest of the state the state prison population went up for four fold in california it went by six fold. so we were america fast-forward in terms of the bad and i think part of what happened in california was something that i have seen happen nationally too. the left got tired of losing, we are proud when we win with values, we lost but we were really clear about our values and people's lives get messed up in the process and so people really begin to develop a different way of doing voter engagement. something we talk about in the book, basically community organizing meets electoral politics when you are trying to engame people between elections and sort of maintain the context, you can get occasional voters and try to use the civic act o

everybody was scrambling to try to get the story straight. >> top officials in the reagan white housevidence. >> "this happened," secret war, secret deals, airs this sunday, september 9th, at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that's tonight's last word. the "11th hour with brian williams" starts now. intensifies his hunt for the author of that anonymous op-ed. he's now asking his attorney general to find the leaker under the guise of national security. >>> plus, sentencing day for george papadopoulos, the man at the table with candidate trump, who offered to broker a meeting with putin. tonight, his lawyer is blaming president trump. >>> 44 goes after 45. obama is back. he's calling out trump by name. he's rallying the dems and wondering what has become of the republican party. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a friday night. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 596 of the trump administration may well be remembered as the day the

what reagan did in the 1980's was lower taxes. t is possible to grow your way out of debt by becoming a more wealthy country. a lot on the left have criticized the tax cut that was ut of debt by becoming a more proposed by president trump. that was put into place by the republicans in the senate, the republicans in the house. in the short term, there was an increase to the deficit. but what this has led to now is the highest rate of economic growth in decades. proposed by president we have the lowest unemployment rate in this country. we are only eight months in to his tax cut and already we

he was with ronald reagan. he was with bob dole. he was with mccain. he was with many, many people. that's what he did. paul manafort's was with me for a short period of time. you did a good job. i was very happy with the job he did, and i will tell you this. i believe that he will tell the truth. and if he tells the truth, no problems. [inaudible] >> i do want to talk about it now. [inaudible] >> because we want to be able to take what we can handle. [inaudible] >> well, i would have to see what she has to say. i've given a lot of time. the senators have dinner a lot of time. we continue to give her a lot of time. we held up the whole hearing. what i don't like is that senator feinstein had this

it after reports reagan was in mental decline.er agreed to observe the president for deficiencies and when he didn't find any the 25th amendment was never mentioned again in the reagan white house. it was invoked twice more, both by george w. bush for colonoscopies and that's it. the question we're confronting today is whether the 25th amendment could be used to remove a president who some feel -- as the unnamed white house writer puts it -- is, quote, detrimental to the health of our republic. the short answer is not easily. the amendment was written primarily to address physical incapacity but it does include a section never used on removing a president deemed unfit and that section ree section reads like a rube goldberg machine. the vice president can send a letter to the president pro tem claiming the president is nutty as a fruitcake and as soon as that letter is received, bam, the president is out, the vice president becomes the acting president. not so fast. the president can then write his own letter and send it back to co

writing speeches for president reagan cabinet and for president george h to be bush, i saw how aides within and outside the white house policy , a conservative, commissioner baseball, and roosevelt, a liberal hated one another. the commissioner closed fdr's agenda. eleanor and franklin roosevelt held he was a segregationist. crucially aides helped each other's letter overcome, suggesting that one did not exist. roosevelt replied again with my dear judge, he said he was responding personally not officially, and became known as the green light letter. fdr stated, i honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going. there will be fewer people unemployed, and everybody will work longer hours and harder than ever before and that means they ought to have a chance for recreation and for taking their minds off their work even more than before. baseball, he continued, provides a recreation which does not last over two hours or two hours and a half, and which can be got. low-cost. as for the players themselves, i know you agree with me and individual players of active

everybody was scrambling to try to get the story straight. >> top officials in the reagan white housection of evidence. >> "this happened," secret war, secret deals, airs this sunday, september 9th, at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that's tonight's last word. the "11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> tonight, the president intensifies his hunt for the author of that anonymous op-ed. he is asking his attorney general to find the leaker under the guise of national security. >>> plus, sentencing day for george papadopoulos, the man at the table with candidate trump, who offered to broker a meeting with putin. tonight, his lawyer is blaming president trump. >>> 44 goes after 45. obama is back. he's calling out trump by name. he's rallying the dems and wondering what has become of the republican party. all of it as the 11th hour gets underway on a friday night. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 596 of the trump administration may well be remembered as the day the previous president got in the game. >> the politics of division and resen

that he was mimicking reagan's act and this is going to change the course of history. in fact they didn't vote for donald trump. many people feel that act ten has decimated union membership in wisconsin contributed the environmental laws. a lot of these environmental laws that are being drafted. that has really changed.. maybe most visible in a place like wisconsin. it have a very different past. it such a stark contract. any and all, which like to take it next. when you see the state of resistance you might think it was prompted by an election. and it was but not by the election that you think. it was prompted by the election of president obama in 2008. when it seemed to me like a lot of progressives and liberals bum rushed dc thinking that policy change could take place there. instead of going back and doing the community organizing and social movement mobilization that would've provided the wind to obama sales. into that vacuum was the tea party. the money that you are talking about. they actually spoke to the grassroots. in it your of the presidency 900 seats in st

joining me, advisor to president reagan, david stockman.most of part had been impervious to all the tensions as they have been rising going into this year. >> i think the market has its head in the sand in terms of the overall thrust of protectionism coming from trump. on the other hand, this whole thing about nafta is much ado about nothing. there wasn't anything wrong with nafta, and what's going on now is negotiations because trump wants to have some kind of big p.r. stunt. the fact is what we have on the table will help mexican workers get $16 an hour. it will bring some jobs from china to mexico to make auto parts to send north. we'll raised the cost of you a toes and cars to american consumers and will be a real windfall for what i call the trade nanny in washington who will be businessing look at 30,000 auto parts for cars and ballistics and glass to see if 45% was made at $16 an hour or more and 75% was maid in north america. dagen: many people will argue it needed to be modernized baits was old going back to the 1990s and it does d