reagan said -- remember, reagan does not believe in mad. that makes him different from -- i mean, carter had talked a little bit about it but because the soviets were so opposed, he abandoned it. reagan believes in arms reductions. we talked on monday about the whole issue of sdi and reykjavik. how that initially makes reykjavik a disaster. but, remember, this is 1986. reykjavik, about a year later, because gorbachev gave up his demands that the u.s. abandoned sdi. and now, of course, just a reminder, we do not know exactly why, was he convinced that the u.s. was going to outspend him? and that he said, i'm going to give up? or, did it fit in already with his ideas of perestroika. and there is an argument to be made for both. we will see whether or not the reagan documents show a conscious strategy for this. it is one thing to say we want to defeat the soviets. it is another to say, we are going to do this by outspending them into bankruptcy. that could have been just another thing that we thought of or that reagan thought of or his advisor

there is a meeting of the minds, at least on the surface, where gorbachev needs reagan and reagan needsgorbachev. because, remember, the three guys who reagan theoretically could have met with, had they all been healthy, it not believe in reducing nuclear weapons. parodycepted salt, the of equality. sideands of nukes on one and thousands of nukes on the other. that keeps the peace. remember, reagan does not believe in mad. that makes him different from -- i mean, carter had talked a little bit about it but because the soviets were so opposed, he abandoned it. reagan believes in arms reductions. we talked on monday about the whole issue of sdi and reykjavik. how that initially makes reykjavik a disaster. is 1986.mber, this later,ik, about a year because gorbachev gave up his demands that the u.s. abandoned sdi. and now, of course, just a reminder, we do not know exactly why, was he convinced that the u.s. was going to outspend him? and that he said, i'm going to give up? or, did it fit in already with his ideas of perestroika. and there is an argument to be made for both. we will see whe

reagan: so i became ronald reagan. debates continue about fdr's impact on his age and hours, but to my mind, james macgregor burns got the core of president roosevelt's contribution when he included in his list faith in the people. the months before fdr took office are far behind us now. we forget what they were like, pink slips handed out at factories across the land no jobs anywhere if you lost your spirit the soup kitchen in every major city, the look of desperation in people's eyes, and we forget that in the unprecedented economic crisis, many people had begun to question our basic institutions, including our democracy itself. then along came fdr, who put his faith, as he said, in the four gotten man, the ordinary american. i remember that voice of his, as we heard it today, coming over the radio. its strength, it's optimism. i wonder how many of us in this room know that to this day, no program in the history of radio has ever equaled the audience he had in his fireside chats. i remember how a light would snap on

ronald reagan. they started tossing it and i will never forget the scene top man said it over and over. ronald reagan, ronald reagan. he paused for a long moment and declared i like it. so i became ronald reagan. debates continue about f.d.r.'s impact on his age and hours, but to my mind james mcgregor burns caught the core when he included in his list faith in the people. the months before f.d.r. took office are far behind us now. we forget what they were like. the pink slips handed out at factories across the land but no jobs anywhere if you lost yours. soup kitchen in every city and look of desperation in people's eyes and we forget in the unprecedented economic craves crisis people were questioning democracy itself. and then along came f.d.r. who put his faith as he said in the forgotten man, the ordinary american. i remember that voice of his as we heard it here today coming over the radio its strength and optimism. i wonder how many of us in this room know that to this day no program in the hi

, tom brady does yell inaudible, reagan reagan and the commentators booth says if he's calling reagan mean run to the right. collectively as a nation we laughed and smiled at the political reference for the first time in a long time and nothing ronald reagan would have loved more. >> it comes the week of the state of the union. listen to the president and those reaganesque flourishes i mentioned a moment ago. >> a second holocaust survivor who is here tonight was a prisoner at dachau. i began this evening by honoring 3 soldiers who fought on d-day in the second world war. one of them was herman zaczic k zacziczyk, they are seated side-by-side in the home of american freedom. >> it seems like one of the best moment of the night. >> ronald reagan loved the military, made them strong and confident in who they were. we were proud of americans on the world stage, not just liberty, in dark corners of the world, for so many reasons we love ourselves in america when reagan was president. he was on the right politically and he was on the right personally as well, civility and patriotism and op

reagan, reagan, reagan. as he's walking back he again trips over the dog. and he looks down, says that's a cute dog. what kind of dog is it? a bagel. [laughter] so this is ronald reagan's approach. and it characterizes sort of a large part of where i'm going to be going with my talk because by the time reagan was president, humor was considered a necessary part of the political arsenal of a president, of a candidate. and this because well i told you this story and no one would say it's an enormously clever story but it's enough to get a ha, ha, ha. reagan covered that if there's an audience that doesn't know you, if there's an up and audience might be kept cal about the message you're conveying, if you can get them to laugh it loosens them up. it makes them feel like they're a real person. it worked for regan as governor. for reagan as president of the united states. and it represented something of a culmination of a trend that had been going on for a long period of time. so i'm going to cover some of that trend. now, while i was -- after i told gleaves the

, reagan," tony romo and the commentators both come is that if he is calling reagan, he must mean run, collectively as a nation, you laughed and smiled at a political reference. for the first time in a very long time. there is nothing that ronald reagan would have loved more especially on the week of his birthday. >> ed: also comes on the rico course of the president's state of the union. listen to the president and some of those reaganesque flourishes i've mentioned a moment to go. >> second holocaust survivor was here tonight, joshua kaufman was a prisoner at dachau. i began this evening by honoring three soldiers who fought on d-day in the second world war. one of them was herman. herman and joshua are both together in the gallery tonight, seated side-by-side here in the home of american freedom. >> ed: seems like one of the best moments of the night. >> ronald reagan loved our military, he made them strong and confident and we were proud of americans on the world stage, for shunning the torch of liberty to dark corners of the world where oppression still existed. for so many reaso

ronald reagan. recognizing that vitality, the optimism, the hope, the courage, the determination to make the future better for their children and the next generations, and those are american traits. those people, all of our ancestors, parents, grandparents, maybe some of you in the room, make america more american with that optimism, hope, courage and determination. he goes on to say, we must not close doors. you really have to read his speech. it's just remarkable. and he, george herbert walker bush, president clinton, president george w. bush in his heart, in his head was all there with immigration but we couldn't convince others in his party at that time. he really -- maybe the best in terms of his full appreciation personally as a representative, as a governor of a border state and, of course, barack obama. and so this administration is a departure from the bipartisanship that has always existed, the recognition of who we are by and large a nation of immigrants unless we are blessed to have been

-- >> ronald reagan. >> in 1964 made the promise and donald trump should throw ronald reagan under the conservative republicans base and he should say reagan was for, you should be for it, let's make it happen. >> that's really -- i'm thrilled -- that's why we need henry here to tell us that history. that's really, really interesting. [laughter] >> i didn't know that, that's fascinating. >> he said it for years before and that's what unearthed on my research my book, the commitment to the idea that everyone should be able to have health care even if funded by the government, shouldn't be government run. >> that's right. i used that phrase. universal free market healthcare, contradiction, no, the universal is everyone covered but delivered to the market. >> ronald reagan was there in 1961. >> you know, the medicare for all, that's popped up this week as an argument among the democratic presidential contenders, what does that really mean? does it mean that government is throwing the whole thing and closing down private insurance and, you know, there's this argument going on about that, i

common president reagan turned his focus to the resource rich countries of central and south america central america do directly affect the security and it will be. and central america is much closer to the united states than many of the trouble spots the concerns we knew. three months to change the system because for one hundred years two hundred years. three dollars. for every to her reason the us has so it's been true in the source code for the. for forty years the united states received first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the us government supported the dictatorship of the some most of dynasty the family used land confiscation and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the samosa was were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sandinista for. led by daniel ortega. one thousand nine hundred two in an attempt to thwart president reagan's plans to overthrow the nicaraguan government congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras nineteen eighty

reagan was forced to admit that the u.s. was actively working to overthrow ortega's democratically elected government. to gain political support the president presented the contras as a people's democratic movement as a condition of our aid i would insist on civilian control over all military forces but no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid go only to those committed to democratic groups. what i want to know god when one thousand and six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper chairs each to rest early and killed eleven eleven compazine oh. i saw five of those compazine i was coming on horse drawn wagons to us to the rest of the cemetery and open caskets and horse drawn wagons. the main contra targets of consistently been civilian homes buses or trucks which is help destroy any pup. of course they may have. eight civilians were killed in this truck when ambushed by culture mach

reagan new that. he reached across the aisle. there were reagan democrats, blue dogs. and remember the relationship that he developed with tip o'neal, the speaker. that was perhaps the most important relationship that he had congressionally as president. >> neil: it's interesting, because reagan would say whatever we get out of a teal, don't make the other side look bad. each side has to walk away they got something. don't rub it in their face. john kennedy the same way. when negotiating tax cuts that came to fruition after hits death. i'm wondering whether the president was taking a page from history there. >> i hope so. it was on the eve -- today would be reagan's 108th birthday. so maybe president trump was thinking about him a little bit last night. i sure hope so. you're right. you can't spike the ball. you have to -- everybody has to go home and declare victory. that's the only way they come back the next day. >> neil: of course, he is tip o'neal, ronald reagan, developed a personal relationship that often meant negotiating in the night of the white house residen

>> which advisers like david gergen sometimes thought was too much of a good thing. >> reagan was underut and give a press briefing. we wanted to get the news out but we didn't want him out there for an hour taking questions. >> enter david gergen and nancy reagan with cake. >> we got past the requisite 15 minutes, we opened the door widely and had this great big birthday cake. ♪ happy birthday to you >> and he shared the cake, he shared the ice cream. the press briefing was over. >> we won't sell out for a piece of cake. no deals. >> you sold out for less than that. >> it was david gergen who took the briefing room podium first. >> good afternoon. >> on one of the darkest days there, the day ronald reagan was shot. >> his condition is stable. a decision is now being made whether or not to operate. >> and gergen was present that day when secretary of state alexander haig made an infamous briefing room blunder. >> as of now, i'm in control here in the white house. >> he said i'm in charge here, as if the constitution put him next in line, which was not true. it became an albatross for al

neil: i loved it. >> reagan, reagan. >> is that ronald reagan reagan? he said reagan.ut they're going to run to the right. i had no idea what that meant. but what did you make of that? >> i thought that was great. i enjoyed that. i jumped up, not a football fan to be honest with you, i jumped up, got really excited, expected them to go to the right, go to the good. there was no good side of the field, figured it had to be the right. bernie sanders needs to get lessons from reagan. so do all the others. it is just silly what they're saying. you can't love jobs and hate job creators. that is just silly. neil: it is interesting, too, obviously something that, you know, the base, the democratic party feels very passionate about to even things up, some even proposed this is a way of forcibly narrowing the gap between the very rich and average folks that you could argue if you tax someone to hell you will forcibly bring their net income down. but there is not to albert way of doing that? >> yeah. got to be a better way of doing that. low rate, broad-based flat tax, neil. the

the deicingflanes has started right here at reagan national. happening as we speak.ea of the american check-in counter. inned out a little bit, but these fliers are keeping their fingers crossed that things will go okay for their early morning flights. want you to look at flight aware map. this is what we are seeing in the skies and planes in the skies and when you go in a little bit closer and you zoom in and you see not uch happening around the washington area because we have seen lots of cancellations and all three major airports with the mostro coming reagan national and bwi. had a chanc to meet a young lady who was excited to go fly into hawaii today. but when she got here at the airport, she got quite a surprise this morning. >> i got my boarding pass late and then i get here and its s canceled. and there was no snowr anything. >> so, things will be changing throughout the day here at the airports. so, before you leave home, you need to check in with your airline before you arrive at the airport this morning. and throughout the day. back into you. >> all right,

ronald reagan this is the last speech year 02 young. this is the last speech i will make as president of the united states. he talks about the statue of liberty and what it meant, what it meant to his -- to families in look and say that what's my grandparents, my grandparents my ancestors saw when they came to the america and there she is. what it means to newcomers still coming to america to see this beacon of hope to the world of welcome to newcomers to america. and then he goes on to say, you have to read the speech directly because i most certainly will not do it justice. but then he goes on to say, the vital force america must recognize that the vital force of our preeminence in the world is every new generation of new immigrants coming to our country and once america fails to recognize their contribution we will fail to be preeminent in the world. ronald reagan recognizing that by vitality optimism and in hope to make the future better for their children in the next generations and those are american traits. those people, all of o

reagan heard that.illing to do that at the last second the north korean bolted or may not put on a commitment. reagan assistant press secretary mark weinberg, joining us right now. mark, that was a famous historic moment when even those about ronald reagan were shocked to learn that he was ready to go and would go and it got everyone back at the table. >> it sure was that he was ready to go when he said i don't know what else i could have done a gorbachev said you could've said yes. reagan wasn't when you say yes. he knew what his position was that he felt ambushed by the russians. president trump would be well advised to be willing to walk away if he doesn't like what's happening in hanoi. trade you refresh my memory on that, mark. that was something snuck in at the last minute for the russians were pushing this thing about the "star wars" defense plan and they thought if they snuck it in their been recommending the president would feel i've got to go with this beard he immediately said no, forget it.

ubertaccio: president reagan adding this element. bringing in honored guests and introducing them from the floor. these are stories of great american heroes. he is turning the state of the union into something we might expect on television, great stories, great people to introduce. it has very little to do with the constitutional directive, but it has a lot to do with the small c second constitutional presidency which demands popular leadership. we see these things starting to flourish in the 1980's and 1990's. in this particular instance, more often than not, the folks who are being introduced are nonpartisan. everyone has a reason to want to applaud and to recognize them. presidents do not miss opportunities to score partisan points. something similar occurred during the presidency of bill clinton in the 1996 address. see if you can spot the difference. >> i would like to give you an example. his name is richard dean. he is a 49-year-old vietnam veteran who has worked for the social security administration for 22 years. last year,

during reagan's presidency? >> when reagan was governor of california.n college, in 67, '68, i was attracted to him and things he said, he went to cal berkeley one day and got up on the steps of the administration, and told these punches t punks to get bao class. once a politician now breaks the wall of being you know talking to me in a stern, parental way, i want to say wait, i want to hear more about what he says. i met him, and maureen was running for office in los angeles, she invited me to come down to the rally, i did, and her dad showed up, he say so great to see you, we talked about the rams and great games, and so on, it of great to meet hymn. him. but for most part. >> you liked him? >> his common sense, reasonable. not unlike trump. i like trump initially because he was combo composite -- he was common sense and reason, he was a self-made guy, you have to be doing something to put a hole n the ground on fifth avenue and put a building up there there are helicopters lands there all of the title, people coming in and out and that is one building

some presidents, like ronald reagan, have chosen a farewell address. but none since carter have formally had a state of the union in january of their final couple of weeks in office. but note also the wilsonian conception here. not only is he moving it into primetime so that millions of americans can watch him, and while he acknowledges, you know, it's never get together perfectly, total respect is important, and what that means institutionally is respect for the presidency. and its policy initiatives. and in 1969 of course we're coming off of pretty significant legislative enactments by johnson in previous congress. so this is really the height of an activist federal government during johnson and the state of the union was designed in part to harness the power of the executive. well, the opposition party wasn't going to allow an increase in viewership to happen without a response. literally. in 1966, republican congressional leaders gave the first official response to a state of the union address. a 30-minute, televised address by republican senators

and reagan an gorbachev had a defined spectrum.hey were redry to announce kind of a going to zero in terms of nuclear weapons. >> but gorbachev threw in there, by the way, whatever you're doing with this star wars defense initiative, that has to stop. that was like a paragraph added and reagan bolted. how do avoid that? >> you avoid it by doing the preliminary work. goes to my first point. had there been something that looked like an out line of agreements or at least points of disagreement, the president new that and his team was meeting in a structured way to deal with him, it's different than sitting down one and one and say let's talk about a deal. you have to avoid that to get any type of comprehensive agreement. we have to get the maximum pressure campaign. now the north koreans walk away thinking they have won. they have met twice with the president of the united states. kim jong-un is a world leader. nothing can take him off of that pedestal. they will see their sanctions erode and they have won. >> neil: we're not there ye

i edited ronald reagan's diaries and done three books on president reagan. all these right-wing people that call in here act like any time you try to be a centerist or try to talk honestly on president's day -- presidents' day that you have an agenda, part of their tree-state paranoia. reagan would fabricate things and he would read or misremember and say things that took place in a hollywood studio and act like he was there. i don't think it was malicious but just became a rt 5 of his personality and persona. donald trump, i don't mean to criticize him but i don't know who would not say he's been a blow hard a lot of his life and being a blow hard, you have to sell things. you know, you're selling a building and you call it a mansion. and that's what he did as a developer and he's continued that practice into the presidency. but i'm not making a critique on how that plays out in his presidency. and i think there's -- all presidents don't like newspapers and all feel they're getting a raw deal but only donald trump has called the press the enemy of the peopl

one of the things that people don't fully remember about the reagan era is that reagan raised taxes withoute changed his policy toward the soviet union without people saying he was a flip-flopper. he had that and. he had t he had the ability of bringing americans together. he had in a sense other than time a soothing effect on the american people. donald trump is always divisive, always seeking to make his base happier and everybody else angrier. if he chooses to be reaganesque, i'm not sure it would be all that believable, but if he chooses to be reaganesque, we might see his numbers go up about. if he talks about infrastructure and actually did something, he might find democrats supporting him. but so far he has approach incapable. >> thank you for choosing greatness and deciding to be with us. >> choosing "early start." nice to see you. >>> the inaugural committee has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors in new york, the move escalates a wide ranging inquiry into how a record $107 million raised. a copy of the subpoena reviewed by cnn demands documents related to donors, vendors and fi

it is really interesting to be here at the reagan library because so much of what president reagan did inspired me and my team to do what we did. i remember when i first moved to washington a few years after i got the federal society certificate. they really love me. i had the federalist society thing hanging on the wall. even at a young age, i was edgy about working on wesley. it on my sleeve. i did not know anyone that was walking around looking for a seat at the dinner. somebody pulled up my jacket and said, i don't use it here? i thought, that guy who worked for reagan had that name and i realized it was sent. right across the table, a person said, i am ed nice. i felt, of course you are. it only went downhill from there. since i am on the west coast, i can record to take this story. ,hen i came in the front door there was his name displayed. story --personal personal history -- personal hero of mine. remember when neil gorsuch was invited --court, we i said we are going to pick up where you left off. i think he didn't quite believe me. who are you? we go way back, 1995. [laughter]

roll tape. >> reagan! reagan! reagan! >> is that ronald reagan?nto the arms of johnson. obviously reagan means run to the right. stuart: very good. he yells reagan, run to the right. very good. well done, mr. brady. >>> check this out from bud light, making fun of its competitors for using corn syrup in their beer. roll that tape. >> that's not ours. we don't brew bud light with corn syrup. >> miller light brews with corn syrup. >> if something did happen, we need to win this first, right? >> yes. stuart: i thought it was funny. that man is jeff flock. you always have a smile on your face. the corn lobby is not happy about that ad. tell me more. reporter: everyone thought it was funny, unless you happen to grow corn, as a matter of fact. you know, bud light is trying to set itself up as the healthy beer. they are putting nutrition labels on the bottles now. but corn farmers, they are not too happy. in fact, they tweeted immediately after that ad aired, america's corn farmers are disappointed in you. our office is right down the road. we would love

new 4z molette green is at reagan nation pretty empty right there now, right?ually quite the opposite. people are coming in pretty steady and stopping right here at the rddeparture's b behind me checking out their flight. as you can see on this board, lots of cancellations there. so folks are trying to get in get onaaron, so they can their flight and get to their destination. i want you to take a look at what we're seeing right now on ivightaware.com. this is a tracker of the flights in the air. we have seen lotsf cancellations into and out of e washington airports. all three major airports, but most of them a coming here reagan national airport where we are this morning. and the airports have been bracing for this bad weathe for part e, which is the snow, for part two which is the ice. doing what they can to make sure that as many people get to their destinations ass le. we were able to speak with many pele who are happy to get out of town early this morning. one gentleman says he is happy to go to warmer conditi in the miami area. let's hear what he had to sa

i am wondering, i was wondering about, i remember ronald reagan , i remember ronald reagan put wars in the sky to stop the nuclear missiles from russia from coming in to america back in the early 1980's. i was wondering, can y'all do that? prevent this from happening? do another star wars to block the missiles from coming into america like ronald reagan did a long time ago? wondering if that could work, you know? pedro: thanks. daryl: the quick answer is no. first of all ronald reagan had , the concept of building a shield to defend the united states against the soviet union's many nuclear arms missiles. that never came to fruition even though the united states has spent billions of dollars on strategic missile defense. we today have 44 strategic interceptors that can hit a small number of missiles from a country like north korea. as i said before, the success rate is not 100%. so you know, missile defense is not in the long-term our defense against north korea's ballistic missiles. and north korea's response to a more robust defense would be to build more off of ballistic missiles tha

reagan: it is my intention to nominate dr.eenspan to a four-year term as chairman of the federal reserve. alan: i just wanted to say that i am deeply grateful to the president for this opportunity to serve my country in one of its most sensitive economic posts. david: so you graduate summa cum laude from nyu, you have given up your music career. what did you do when you graduated? alan: well, first of all, i went to the national industrial conference board. for the first time, i went into the business world. i wasn't really all that interested in it, and found myself fascinated. and i, at a fairly young age, like 22, i was writing articles for the conference board magazine. and i was fascinated by it. i was getting quoted in the new york times. david: ok. alan: at a very early age. david: ok, so the new york times is quoting you and you are in your 20's. you ultimately became a well-known consultant on wall street. and on the side, you become close to or get to know a very famous writer named ayn rand. and what was the appeal

it's hard to imagine with nixon as president and reagan as governor that that would ever happen. and as a matter of fact, they were very staunch in their resolve not to cooperate with terrorists. >> what about the release of the two prisoners? do you think that if it came to that, that they should be released in exchange for patty hearst? >> no, because i think if you start doing anything of that kind, you might as well open the prison doors. where would it stop? you would have just signed a warrant, if you did that, it would make kidnapping become a common occupation. >> i was put in a closet and blindfolded and being interrogated, assaulted. just that over and over again. >> i mean, what would you do? you're in your apartment one minute, and the next minute you're in a closet blindfolded for days on end with these radical revolutionaries. the fear must have been overwhelming, absolutely overwhelming. >> good evening. patricia hearst has sent her parents a message and her captors have sent them a unique and high priced ransom note. >> there was a crowd outside berkeley radio sta

in december of 2018 you received the ronald reagan peace through strength award at the reagan library. the first military official to ever receive that. that's a big deal. >> that was quite a humbling experience. you get a number of awards when you're in a position like me and you're certainly grateful for all of those, but about award really got to me. i have tremendous regard for ronald reagan and what he stood for and what his legacy is and i was honored. >> are you impressed with the foreign policy of the current president. >> yes, generally speaking. i do have some difficulties with certain aspects of it but what the administration truly got right is they set the strategic framework for how it really is. that was expressed in the national security strategy they published in their first december which even then was unprecedented. they set a strategic framework that laid out that we are really in an era of big power competition, namely with russia and china who want to destroy the international order that has existed for 70 plus years to prevent conflict like world war iii and i th

it damaged the reagan presidency to where it nearly brought the presidency down.m and tel aviv, imposing casualties on the israelis that they have never seen in their history, rather significantly. that would lead to major confrontation. i believe the israeli response to something like this, they would go full throttle intol lebanon. if that wasn't enough, they would go to iran as take as much of their military capabilities out. that is war. the iranians are serious when they say every single year, drive the united states out of the region is our objective to accomplish our ultimate goal to destroy the state of israel. they t are about that business. i think the leaders of israel know it. this president is very much aware of it and tuned into that. mark: who wins that war? >> israel does, aided by the united states. they have never asked to us fight with them. they asked to us help them in terms of military capability. mark report arab countries probably won't sit on the sidelines. they will probably right as an opportunities as well. >> the relationship between i

i was in reagan. a couple people who did not look republican. they were doing that is like one of those guys. i get this sometimes. i met at a social gathering and someone said you are one of those people who work in the white house. all the time.hat i don't look like that guy at all. they said you are sean spicer. i said no. this is at a party. this is in the airport. fast forward to last night. these folks did not come up to me. plane, i amoff the in los angeles. a couple people waiting at the seemed to recognize me. they came up and they were very nice. talking about all the wonderful work i have done. they want to take pictures with their kids. i said ok. i am there taking pictures. they are saying how wonderful it is. my public service come a great career. i am thinking i love these people. they said thanks so much for the pictures. all irishmen do not look alike. bluelp your we all wear ties and part of our hair on the wrong side otherwise, i don't see the resemblance. i occasionally get called brett kavanaugh. kind of cool because people

it's ironic that you know kind of thirty five years later did lyrics apart from the specifics of reagan you know if you change a couple of words here and there it's actually been picked up as a month in various american anti fascist protests you see various plot cards and we don't mean a fascist we don't need a special group thing and in fact i would be considering doing a new version of it so in a sense nothing nothing changes our history will repeat itself in the lyrics it will be you don't have many complements to pay to our current has that i think we should move parliament into a giant aircraft hangar somewhere near i don't know them and go milton keynes or somewhere take all the glamour out of it because i don't know who said it but somebody once said that politics is rock n roll for elderly people and. really they get starstruck a lot of m.p.'s i believe is incredibly glamorous they have support has a problem and they think they've made it and all of a sudden they gain cheap drinks treat cheap food they get in massive expenses you know charging thirteen pay for the trip to the po

reagan is a master of stage craft and master of story telling. and so in 1982, he adds something that we hadn't seen efore. just two weeks ago on the tragedy of the potomac and we saw the heroism of rescue workers saving people from icy waters and saw the heroism of one of your young government employees, dives into the waters and drags her to safety. [applause] >> you see there president reagan adding this element, bringing in honored guests and introducing them from the floor. these are stories typically of great american heroes. and so he is turning the state of the union into something that we might expect on television, these are great stories and these are great people to introduce. very little to do with the constitutional directive, but it as a lot to do with that small sea, second concxds con staugs national presidency which demands popular leadership. we see these kinds of things starting to flourish in the 1980's and 1990's. in this particular instance, more often than that not, the folks that are being introduced are nonpartisan, ever

thing going here -- the reagan sanders comparison.ike democrats in 1980, cheering on the nomination of ronald reagan, donald trump was cheering on bernie sanders. one of the few democrats he's had something nice to say about. what do you make of that? >> well, i think he's cheering him on, because it helps us as republicans to highlight how the democratic party is moving to the extreme left. i mean, consider that one of the leading candidates in the democratic primary right now is a democratic socialist. and as jennifer was saying, this time around, he's not the only one. there are other candidates with similar views. medicare for all, government controlled health care, free public college. supporting green new deal that calls for a massive government involvement in the economy. i think it really helps republicans. i think -- my interest is, how does that impact the more moderate candidates like klobuchar or joe biden if he gets in? when you have all these candidates that are are moving to the extreme left, are they going to be able t

out of a major reagan-era arms treaty with russia and the rather od statement the white house put out about it. we will bring you the latest news from the russia information including trump advisor roger stone in court today. >>> and the field got bigger today when kocory booker annound his 2020 run for president. >>> and the governor in virginia, ralph northam is facing calls for him to resign. this first surfaced on a right-wing news sight and quickly made it's way to the press. the page is from his medical school yearbook in 1984 when e was 25 years old. it shows him and a friend, one dressed in black face, the other dressed as a member of the klu klux klan. the guys that ran the site used to run roy moore's campaign. the washington post and the virginia pilot were the first news organizations to authenticate it. they say yes, this is the 1984 year book, but i should tell you we still don't know which photo is northam and which is his friend. the governor has not said. he released a statement tonight in print and moments ago on video. >>> my fellow virginians. earlier today i relea

founders about the human league and having seventeen is politically judge music that satirize the reagan era is now most famously remembered in a song we don't need this fascist groove band by the b.b.c. due to concerns it libeled reagan a new collection of having seventeen's work played there when the virgin years is out on the twenty nine the much more often where joins me now and welcome to going underground you don't even have had here haven't seventy and you just need to look at the album a lot of. penthouse and pavement realize that your resume. book wolf perhaps into blairism you had no time for it yeah we grew up in a group in a very working class environment dad was a shop student everybody used to be called a socialist republic of south yorkshire sheffield. we grew up in a socialist environment we thought was completely normal for us it was based on an adverse to him are found in the sheep bread and we just like the binocular of this you know optimistic kind of bread and a corporate thing the irony of three young poor lads from sheffield pretending they were super rich and of c

violations of the geneva conventions and we don't need this fascist groove thing on the day one all reagan would have been one hundred eight we look back at the song banned by the b.b.c. the name checking him with it's all seven seventeen months and where the news find out who's bashing who about the brac sit back stop under the british army really have a shoot to kill policy against civilians in afghanistan all this and more coming up in today's going underground fast a reminder that you can catch up with the story of british intentions to deport former u.k. army veteran train morgan today on a flight to jamaica on a you tube channel but now to even more sinister deportations in a country which like france has witnessed mass weekly protests against neoliberalism serbia it's women to old they feed despite not knowing the language or anybody there has been put to serving fifteen years of the u.s. torture camp in occupied cuba guantanamo without any charges following his release he has been contacted by former inmates in saudi arabia's prisons with claims of torture claims echoed in this wee

we hear people talking back to reagan and gorbachev and you hear reagan walking away, this is a big failurebehind closed doored and a year later they had a deal. >> and recent legal, in christmas, president trump walked away from the handed to him by dong keep the government open. said in the in the art in the l and other books, sometimes the best deal is the one you walk away from. he ended up with a worst deal than he had back then. i don't know if he wants to apply that history. but i spoke to the ambassador, one of the lead negotiators in the six party talks, i spoke to him yesterday. i said, what is different this time around. >> he said kim jong un really wants this plum of normalization of relations in the united states. he wants to be recognized on the world stage, he wants normal relations would like to have an embassy texas is what that takes to get there that is the sticking point and this idea, too the north koreans still don't trust the united states and they worry if they got rid of all of their nuclear weapons, suddenly the united states would make a play for regime change. t

you have the reagan likerhetoric, the reference to world war ii which is a ronald reagan tactic, but in the middle, you have the long dark passage about immigration, and you had, i think one of the big lines, which is this foolish partisan investigation. he made a reference to that which in many ways is a harken back to the fact that nixon made the same reference in one of his state of the unions. i think that's a big take away because he said i'm only going to work with you if you don't investigate me. >> all right. your impression? >> you know why america is so divided. this was an optic speech. this was given where you saw, and i've been studying politics now for 40 years, i've never seen both sides in a divided congress stand this much and applaud. that's why they crafted this speech. it was very light on actual new initiatives. it was mainly a here's what we can do together kind of speech. they said he wanted to be unifying. yes, he pushed for the wall, that's what he has left to do in this presidency, but what you saw tonight was an effort by the white house clearly to demonstr

it's interesting to be here at the reagan library, because so much of what president reagan did inspired me to do what i did on my team -- inspired me and my team to do what i did. a few after -- for years after we got the federalist society certificates, i hung it on the wall. even at a young age, i was kind of edgy on wearing it on my sleeve. i remember a federalist society dinner at the mayflower. i remember i didn't know anyone. i was looking for a seat at the dinner. someone pulled up my jacket and said why don't you sit here, son. this person said i am can grip -- ken crip. i was very excited. this very nice person said i'm ed neese. i said, of course you are. i thought washington, d.c. was going to be like this every night. it was not. [laughter] mr. mcgahn: when i came in the front door, they have the trustees and -- and ed's name was there. i really look back to what they did and i remember when neil gorsuch was put on the court, we invited mr. neese to the white house and said we will pick up where you left off. this is when justice gorsuch was nominated. i don't think he quite

corps turf at reagan and private. and there was one crew member the parachuted to shake the. new regime props many of them for its. wisconsin cure me after we arrived in. the nick an arm when your dish or tribunals were to take i suppose out to the crash site and asked us to events we wanted to go on a helicopter with our supplies to the crash site house and question mark yours about all the points you've been on all these covert flights of army air corps and he would course angry because he had been abandoned by the reagan administration he was basically a covert operator mercenary he would proud of. his capture would reveal a complex web of covert operations run by us colonel oliver north reagan's administration had bypassed congressional control and funded the contra insurgents through drug trafficking and secret arms sales to be wrong. all secret but the house in question down blew it out into the open to make a mistake it's really hard to tehran sir no and i'm not taking any more questions and it's just a second i'm going to ask a journey general meese to brief you on wh

the president and reagan going with "star wars" in 1984. nothin will matter and the explan too fractured and leader for anybody to thing speech was one of the few that the entire country watches will have any policy implications >> you can't show yourself to be too cynical. what's the line. there new democrat who is said they would work with the presid what is the line that democrats have to be careful of? >> when you saw that statement from the state of the union, i could sworn i saw that in one of obama's statements. >> you mean the president himsel year. i want to see our country united the year before that, i look forwar to what we can do to come together. state speech 101. >> democrats have to be careful as to not be partisan, but they hold all the cards. 60% of americans don't want this wall. the president's big thing is build a wall. nearly 60% of people think the countr is headed in the wrong direct immigr is not the top econom concern for most of middle america, but it continues to be the focus of this presid the democrats from a p

reagan was the governor and a sighted, and agree, but if you are blaming ronald reagan for homelessness you are not looking at yourself in the mirror and admitting may be my dumb ideas have something to do with it, i mean, honestly. >> ethan: now we have new ideas. a new bill has been passed experimenting with conservative ship and mayor london buried in san francisco and in los angeles addressing head on. actually got funding to finally build some housing that was a requirement from the federal courts before we could do something about getting people off of the streets. >> tucker: just because, so you are saying, hold on, very quick the driving problem profound mental illness, but we want to put profoundly mental ill, schizophrenics and their own housing unsupervised? that is a good idea, do you think? >> you have mental illness on one hand but you also have the issue of severe shortage of housing and the courts prohibit anything beingd done. so we have housing built in the mayor is working on this. >> tucker: great to see you, ethan, thank you very much. the u.s. is winding down milit