a thank you letter from ronald reagan from 1981, after reagan won the 1980 election. thank you a lot for all of your support and your exemplary assistance as a speaker on my behalf. it is signed by ronald reagan. i'm assuming that is an original signature. there, it is a series of photographs and other notes from the president. check like the automobile from the inauguration. luncheon.e it at this they were having despite show -- gezpacho.cho -- ok. sayourse you are going to yes to the president. often wrote in black felt pen . that is how i know it is his hand rising -- handwriting. photographseries of . i went to see if i can find a picture of them. -- cowboy boots are very prominent in this image. the feature of being a western senator, i guess. one of them in the oval office with an inscription. , and they say we were just sitting around. seriously getting some work done. i think it is that. it says, discussing the summit. this is great. there are almost 200 scrapbooks. this one obviously is my go to scrapbook for showing people. it has 70 great photos and notes a

people liked ronald reagan, they gravitated towards him. they knew who he was because he was a national figure. he had been popular as california's governor. he had a good campaign. did not think it was possible he would even stand a chance. they were right, he did not win. but, his insurgency against the ford campaign, probably contributed to gerald ford not winning for the republican, probably attributed to jimmy carter winning for democrat in 1976. served as thet chairperson of that campaign in 1976. they realized they had set the foundation for the upcoming election in 1980. they had established something, they had thrust ronald reagan into the national spotlight, which consequently thrust paul laxalt into the spotlight as well. they double down and in 1978 started planning for their next campaign. is really a giant of nevada politics. laxalt made the decision he wanted to give his personal political papers to the university of nevada reno. the first shipment started coming in 1983. memoranda,es briefings,nce, anything you would have in

but mark, before you leave, he been here before we've given you like a reagan hat and a reagan jacket we are not going to let you go. >> i use those by the way. >> i know you do. mark has a studio called the reagan studio and it's filled with some extraordinary things and i was trying to think, what can we give to mark as a gift for coming all the way out here and we decided. >> oh. >>. [laughter] >> if you could uncover that. there is a statue. >> wow. [cheering] [applause] >> when you visit the united states capital and you go into the great rotunda you will see this statue of ronald reagan that's going to stand there for their thousand years. this is a replica of that and on it it says " to mark levin, a true american." thank you mark. >> thank you, that's beautiful. >> there are not many of those. >> no, thank you. [cheering] [applause] i don't know if tsa is going to let me bring that on the plane. [laughter] this is a magnificent institution. this is a great library. i love coming here. the history of ronald reagan is so crucially important, he turned this country around. he def

it starts with a thank you in er from ronald reagan reagan won 1980. for all of k you your support and it is signed by ronald reagan. assuming that is his are some because there squiggles there that you won't get from an automatic pen. there are things like the atomobile check, you can see he luncheon in 1981 they were having gazpacho. you run through thousands of invitations. the you get one from president, obviously you're laxalt's go, and paul is right there, and, of course, you will say yes to the president. what's interesting and i will show you more, paul laxalt did a hand in writing his material. pen,ten wrote in blue felt but in this there is black felt pen. i know it is his handwriting, it is in blue felt pen. there is a series of photographs in the oval office talking. i can find a if picture of them wearing, like ll western senators, you can boots l laxalt's cowboy are prominent, the feature of being a western senator, i guess. one of them in the oval office with an reagan.ion from ronald and it is just signed ron. we were , and they say jus

reagan: thank you. thank you. thank you, general watts, distinguished guests, faculty, families and friends of the citadel class of 1993. thank you for that gracious welcome. i'm delighted to be here on this glorious day of hope and promise. it is indeed an honor to have the privilege of speaking to you today and to receive an honorary degree from this distinguished institution. surely my service record alone can't explain my presence here. more than half a century ago i was made a 2nd lieutenant in the horse cavalry reserve. not enough to warrant the honor you do me today. but i do have to confess to you that during my presidency, i had an idea that i could never get anyone to support. i wanted to reinstate the horse cavalry in the armed services. [applause] pres. reagan: frankly, my being here cannot be based on my academic achievements, either. yes, it's true that my alma mater, eureka college, awarded me an honorary degree 25 years after my graduation. that only aggravated a sense of guilt i'd nursed for 25 ye

gave ronald reagan in the 1940 s. there was a dinner. of the communist party russians. operatives at ita latino's house who was a who was the a female director she wasn't a communist herself but there were many comments at this dinner by sterling hayden the actor from the godfather played the police captain who was the head of the communist party in hollywood there were tons of operatives at that time and they were recruiting people the actor william holden had actually told reagan about this meeting and reagan who at that time was a bleeding heart liberal he says himself went to that meeting sean and wanted to speak and none of them wanted him to speak except one actor john garfield great actor he was a probably the 1st method actor was the leading man and working class act got up and said he should speak garfield then got a lot of throwback from the left of hollywood so it's been around and it's absurd to me that during this stalinists years hollywood embraced this stalinists as we said how many russians were killed

reagan comes in and sweeps everything aside. there was a real stickiness to liberal ideas and institution that is survives the reagan revolution and there is a real preservation of some of those old values and old policies so rather than conservative -- it's a conservative versus liberal type of war. >> you're on social media with more than 240,000 followers on twitter. how did that come about? >> i have no idea. i think it's because i had a willingness, and i'm not alone but a willingness not just to provide historical antidotes but rather to take on people who were propagating falsehoods, whether knowingly or unknowingly spreading mistruths about american history. >> so give us the history of social media. when did it really begin and where are we today? >> that's something we talk about in this book fault lines. it really begins with the rise of the internet in the 1990s,very crude forms of interaction. it takes off in the early 2000s, with sites like -- later on facebook and it comes into the world we know today with the ris

that's like reagan. reagan was about the people. it's about and you your future, that's a total winner. >> sean: it's so interesting. you talk about this and jesse mentioned this. i will let you decide what our story is going to be. he went back to his inaugural speech. it's about giving this back to the people and to clear this disgusting swamp out. i don't think in all of the years, 30 years in this business in radio and i have been on fox since from day 1. we have the best audience. we thank you all. laura, you and i were an anomaly. seriously. >> laura: i remember. >> sean: we were there early and to the last day. newt gingrich was another. then there were phonies that now

the reagan family and reagan shows that hand the kennedy family and the kennedys showed that.way from everything. that's remarkable. >> neil: i remember the great story here, being half irish, you have to indulge me. a great story of ronald reagan that he told those that he was meeting with at this pub about people who had recognized the family name and earlier on remembered what the reagans mane. somebody said whatever happened to him? ferri ferringing to ronald reagan himself. maybe there be more in the president's waning hours in ireland. always a pleasure. >> thank you. >> neil: forget china. if things don't go right south of the border, they might go south at the corner of wall and broad. we're on it after this. this is the ocean. just listen. (vo) there's so much we want to show her. we needed a car that would last long enough to see it all. (avo) subaru outback. ninety eight percent are still on the road after 10 years. come on mom, let's go! i have heart disease, watch what i eat, take statins, but still struggle to lower my ldl bad cholesterol. which means a heart att

in reagan's word, you raised a banner. i have long treasured your books, your writing, and anytime i get a chance to listen to you speak as the raw material of a philosophically sound conservatism. you are not only my friend, you are a hero to millions of people. you are without question a national treasure. presidented to join trump, vice president pence, and all of the people at faith and freedom in celebrating your life of public service as the 2019 recipient of the winston churchill award. bill, congratulations. if anybody deserves it, it is you. [applause] >> i don't think bill knew that one was coming. bill, you have been lotted this week by the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, and rush limbaugh. 2 people with us tonight, great friends of bill and our movement, who are here with us in person to say a few words on his behalf. the first i want to welcome is jean scalia. a speechwriter for bill bennett in the department of education under ronald reagan. he is a well-known attorney and -- at a promi

former reagan economist and just about two hours ago, the medal of freedom recipient, mr.ions. well deserved. >> thank you very much, trish. i have never been so overwhelmed in my life. i'm pleads and honored. i don't deserve it, but i'm not giving it back. trish: the laugher curve is laur curve is something students of economics studies. >> if you raise tax rates too high there is no incentive for people to produce. even though you collect a lot of taxes, there is less work being done. what you want to do is get in that sweet spot where tax rates don't destroy the incentives so much that you lose revenues. that's the whole point of the laffer curve. trish: president reagan understood it, and it's something president trump understands as well? >> reagan said that it caused him to stop making movies because the tax rate was over 90% on him. he said it wasn't worth it makinga another movie. trump is wired for sound on this and understands it. trish: he has put in a lot of good economic policies i'm sure as far as you are concerned. one of the things i always loved about you

next from our c-span video archive, president ronald reagan speaks at the normandy cliffs overlooking omaha beach on the 40th anniversary. president reagan: we are here to mark that day in history on the allied armies reclaim to this continent to liberty. for four long years, much of europe and been a terrible shadow. free nations had fallen, jew

reagan was speaking.rom the national telegraph newspaper and this is what happened. >> could you turn that microphone up, please? >> i am paying for this microphone. [ applause ] >> ronald reagan, the actor turned politician. he knew how to deliver that line. you heard the response. bush had pulled ahead in the poll. that debate happened. 27-point win for reagan in the primary. the rest, as they say, history. >> the rest is history. i did not know that debate was on our air. i just learned something new. love when you trot things out from the vault. thank you so much, mr. kornacki. >> thank you, craig. >>> two days away from that showdown in miami. so big it will take up two nights, wednesday and thursday night in prime time. jose diaz-ballart, savannah guthrie, lester holt, chuck todd and rachel maddow. it will air here on msnbc, nbc, telemundo and streamed live on air and sirius xm radio. >>> word of the announcement of new sanctions that will be happening momentarily. president trump promising that. wh

[applause] president reagan: these are the men who took the cliffs. these are the champions who helped free a constant. these are the heroes who helped end a war. i look at you and i think of the words of stephen spender's poem. "lives"men who in your fought for life and lived breath of vivid air signed in your honor. i think i know what you may be thinking right now thinking we , were just part of a bigger effort. everyone was brave that day. well, everyone was. do you remember the story of the bill millen of the 51st highlanders? 40 years ago today, british troops were pinned down your bridge, would industrially for help. suddenly they heard the sound of bagpipes. some thought they were dreaming. they weren't. they looked up and saw bill millen with his bagpipes leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of bullets in the ground around him. ett was with him. when he announced, " i was a few minutes late." as if he had just been delayed by a traffic jam, when he had come from the bloody fighting on sword beach, which he and his managers taken.

i think president reagan's full heart was in it. with tears a momentum ago when that spontaneous applause broke out. they had been 20 years old or 30 years old, 40 years before and now they were graying fellows. no one had paid attention to them in pretty much in the 40 years that had passed since their great day. those were the men who took the cliffs in, i hate to say, icon, but iconic moment in world war ii. what they gave, by the way, 225 rangers went there that morning at dawn to take those cliffs. pretty quickly they were being fired down upon by german soldiers who were launching grenades against them. they got to the top which was amazing enough but about two days of fighting, only 90 of them out of 225 could still bear arms. that day 40 years ago, a bunch of them were there. it just pierced your heart to see. >> the fact that it was an al allied response. you had the canadians and the brits and it was occupied france. then 40 years ago it was the first time the germans participated. it was being together at a time with grea

neil: you don't think he's a reagan? >> he's the opposite of reagan.olates every rule of the conservative free market economics i have ever heard of and i have been at this business since 1970. neil: but didn't ronald reagan violate a lot of that with deficits that you warned would take him to the woodshed moment, he went too far? >> he went too far but he didn't intend them. when it comes to trump, he doesn't care. he thinks debt is good. he calls himself the king of debt. neil: you hate debt. >> i hate debt in general but at this stage -- neil: we are doing just fine with it. >> at this stage -- of course, everybody is doing just fine with debt until they file for bankruptcy the next day. remember that old saying, how did you go bankrupt? slowly at first, then all of a sudden. okay. neil: you think it's just a matter of time, the debt is building up. give me an idea of exact time. >> in three years, there are going to be 11,600 people retiring, the welfare state cost is going to soar in the 2020s. we should be now putting away -- neil: they never do

art aadvised ronald reagan and helped shape his agenda. art served on the president's economic policy advisory board and played a vital role in the 1981 and 198 of 6 tax rates cuts which lowered the tax rate from 0% to 28%, that's not bad. the reagan economy soared and shrinking poverty and increasing revenue. sounds very, very familiar. our economy has never ever been stronger than it is today. [applause] president trump: his policies expanded opportunities but spurred economies and lifted untold against poverty. depret er march thatcher. and we passed laws. and unemployment has reached its lowest level in 51 years with fast-growing wages and real g.d.p. and this is g.d.p. growth than anybody thought. first quarter was 3.2 and everybody said the first quarter isn't going to be so good. it was not only good but doubled and tripled what people saw. we will see surprises when the trade deals are coming along. in tax cuts created zones distressed communities. and in 1999, "time" magazine named him one of the greatest minds of the 20th century

reagan. 1976. ford the unelected president. nixon had to resign. reagan challenged him. primary season started off as a disaster for reagan. ford won iowa, ford won new hampshire. they went to massachusetts. vermont. ford won them both. florida. illinois, ford win. this was the scene in the middle of march of 1976. newspapers across the country saying republicans want reagan out of the race. give me one more chance. if i can't win in north carolina i'm out of race. he fought on. and it was a big upset. ronald reagan knocked off ford in the primary there in north carolina. and got hot. he didn't win the nomination. he came as close as you can and when ford lost the general election. republicans looked to reagan and said there's the guy for 1980. wouldn't happen if he hadn't turned everything around in north carolina primary. he might have been an after thought. try imagining that. democratic race in 2008 in iowa. obama won iowa. then new hampshire. clinton won new hampshire. then this war of attrition ensued for months. obama wins sop states. they came to north carolina.

it is a ronald reagan policy expanded and reiterated and it prevents taxpayer funds from going to -- and this is grant that o foreign n.g.o.'s perform abortion as a method of family planning. he shocking number of unborn children killed in america is unconscionable. a death toll that will equates the entire population of italy. all of this when our knowledge about unborn children and the breathtaking miracle is unparalleled. any parent or grand parent knows that first baby's pictures of the child in the womb, the ultrasound pictures that go up on our refrigerators and so proud. if you are not a parent, you are a parent during those nine months. the pro-abortion movement, like a modern day flat earth society lings to outdated arguments. even seemingly denying word choice withers under scrute think. choice to do what? dismember an unborn child by piece. anyone who watched the movie "unplanned" showed where a child was decimated right off the screen for all to see. starves the baby to death. and then there is injections of chemical poisoning. that's the choice, the choice to kill an inn

reagan carried 49 states. if we continue the strong economic growth, tax cuts, and the deregulation process -- i think deregulation here is almost as big as the tax cuts and getting economic growth continuing to move forward and strengthening, but if the democrats are going to run, we are going to tax middle income people and make everything you buy more expensive, and shut down mines in pennsylvania and indiana and ohio, state that might have thought you could get an electoral college win -- it is unwise of the democrats to take this approach and thresh and -- threaten to tax the american people. or two more calls before the house comes in for the day. william in hillsboro, north carolina. the credit line. good morning. caller: -- democrat line. good morning. morning.ood i thought it was a good show when norquist started out his discussions on the frivolous to apply a tax to all imported goods. but then he interjects the idea that benefitscy the middle class. trillion thate $1 went into the tax reduction went

john high bush is the executive director of the reagan foundation.t one small town looks back at losing so much on that day 75 years ago. >> well, sandra, the eloquence of our vice president quite similar, i think, to what we saw 35 years ago today when president reagan spoke at normandy. the theme of the vice president's quite similar to that of president reagan all about not how not only these boys protected our freedom but what our men and women in uniform do every day, every decade. it is incredibly vital for that message to continue to ring through. >> sandra: as we were heading into the vice president's speech there we played the words of ronald reagan in his d-day speech. how did those words move the nation on that day, june 6th, back in 1984? >> you know, sandra, when you look at president reagan's diary, he spoke to this very issue of freedom, our men and women. i think the central core to reagan's speech as he looked at these 62 boys of this place were not only representative of the greatest generation then but also how the united states of

attacked -- reagan takes office. i'm going to interrupt myself and tell you, the tip of -- you often hear the tip of the spear, special forces. the tip of the tip of the spear is assassination, and it is the ultimate guerrilla warfare capacity that's cia has and has existed since 1947, since title 50 was created. lots of mythology around it. i explain very clearly through declassified documents and first interviews -- first-hand interview with sources how this has evolved over time, but to give you an indication of how specific it is, president eisenhower called his assassination capacity the health alteration committee. so you can -- i have located documents in national archive that refer to -- this is a mission for the health alteration committee. president kennedy called it executive action. jumping forward to reagan, he called it preemptive neutralization, bush called it lethal direct action. and obama called it targeted killing. so, going back now to after the vietnam war, you had president reagan developing a c

of reagan at one point. -- gary hart was ahead of them, the same kind of emergency appeared ronald reagan won 59 to 40. so bottom line numbers move quickly for the president get to go out and articulate what it is he is about and not have this harassment he's had for the last two years. it's what a campaign is about. he goes out and sells himself. lou: okay. ed rollins, as always, thank you. >> thank you. spoon a former u.s. diplomat going to bat for good old -- communist china! complaining about the treatment of the espionage organization. also known as techno huawei. more on that after these quick messages. stay with us. >> joining us tonight, one of my favorite people to talk with at any time. paul bracken, professor at yale university. good to see you. >> good to be here. lou: let start with, if we may, craig allen. suddenly in the business of lobbying for china.for a company charge clearly and unequivocally by this government with espionage activities against the united states and our allies. >> okay, t

reagan challenged him in the primaries.mary season started off and it started off as a disaster for reagan. ford one iowa. ford won new hampshire. they went down to massachusetts and vermont. ford won both. illinois. ford win. this was the scene in the middle of march 1976, newspapers all across the country saying republicans want reagan out of the race. he said give me one more chance. give me one more chance. if i can't win in north carolina i'm out of the race. so he fought on to the 1976 republican primary in north carolina and lo and behold it was a big upset. ronald reagan dmokd off ford in the republican primary in north carolina. he got hot. he did not win the nomination but he came as close as you can in '76. and when ford lost the general election republicans looked to reagan and they said there's the guy for 1980. wouldn't have happened if he hadn't turned everything around in the north carolina primary. he might have been an afterthought. try imagining that. the other one we say, it was in 2008. democratic race

of reagan at one point.art was ahead of them, the same kind of emergency appeared ronald reagan won 59 to 40. so bottom line numbers move quickly for the president get to go out and articulate what it is he is about and not have this harassment he's had for the last two years. it's what a campaign is about. he goes out and sells himself. lou: okay. ed rollins, as always, thank you. >> thank you. spoon a former u.s. diplomat going to bat for good old -- communist china! complaining about the treatment of the espionage organization. also known as techno huawei. more on that after these quick messages. stay with us. -and...that's your basic three-point turn. -[ scoffs ] if you say so. ♪ -i'm sorry? -what teach here isn't telling you is that snapshot rewards safe drivers with discounts on car insurance. -what? ♪ -or maybe he didn't know. ♪ [ chuckles ] i'm done with this class. -you're not even enrolled in this class. -i know. i'm supposed to be in ceramics. do you know -- -room 303. -oh. thank you. -yeah. -good

we also would not have had a reagan movement later on. he did represent that strain of conservatism. coalesce helped conservative thought. what is interesting and what most people might not imagine is that the mill you -- the milieu in which "the conservative mind" came out was very different than we kind of offer for political shorthand at this point. we think about conservative and liberal and we think about these things on the opposite extremes. we have pretty entrenched ideas about what those terms mean. they are convenient shorthand at this point that often lead to at the time but "the conservative mind" came out, conservatism really was not a thing in america. >> that's right. part of what kirk had to do was bring together these disparate strands and give it some kind of coherence, so what he decided to do in his this occasion -- when he wrote the dissertation, he longed to be a well published author. he never anticipated he would have the kind of success he did. the timing was perfect and he was a good writer -- a very good writer,

of reagan at one point.- gary hart was ahead of them, the same kind of emergency appeared ronald reagan won 59 to 40. so bottom line numbers move quickly for the president get to go out and articulate what it is he is about and not have this harassment he's had for the last two years. it's what a campaign is about. he goes out and sells himself. lou: okay. ed rollins, as always, thank you. >> thank you. spoon a former u.s. diplomat going to bat for good old -- communist china! complaining about the treatment of the espionage organization. also known as techno huawei. more on that after these quick messages. stay with us. get it! get that butterfly! you know those butterflies aren't actually in the room? hey, that baker lady's on tv again. she's not a baker. she wears that apron to sell insurance. nobody knows why. she's the progressive insurance lady. they cover pets if your owner gets into a car accident. covers us with what? you got me. [ scoffs ] she's an insurance lady. and i suppose this baker sells ins

and what i found fascinating about this, largely unknown, is that starting after president reagan was almost killed by an assassin in 198, the cat team began to shadow the president 24/7 and they still do, and all of those cat team operators are tier one trained. so some of them that would go over to the cia's pair are military, in -- pair military instead go to cat team. lie louis and billy wall was a green beret in vietnam and wall is working offensive operations for cia. and louis is with the secret service what i fine interesting is that we as citizens kind -- tend to think that republican presidents act one way and democratic presidents act another way, and i found in reporting this book that was not true. the cia's pair are prayer military worked at the president's behest so there's such thing as a rogue cif operation. they're directed, the order comes from the president how to the it could director on down. and there was one exception and that was president clinton who opposed executive action, preemtestify neutralization, health -- and based on interview with the cias attorney

of reagan at one point.gary hart was ahead of them, the same kind of emergency appeared ronald reagan won 59 to 40. so bottom line numbers move quickly for the president get to go out and articulate what it is he is about and not have this harassment he's had for the last two years. it's what a campaign is about. he goes out and sells himself. lou: okay. ed rollins, as always, thank you. >> thank you. spoon a former u.s. diplomat going to bat for good old -- communist china! complaining about the treatment of the espionage organization. also known as techno huawei. more on that after these quick messages. stay with us. is an urgent message from the international fellowship of christians and jews. there is an emergency food crisis for elderly holocaust survivors in the former soviet union. - this is a fight against time. what we're dealing with is coming out, meeting someone who's 85, 90 years old, can't get around, has no food, has no water, and just wants to give up and die. and that's where we come in. we

look he's not reagan personality walks but again reagan was 10 points down to mondale not nationally at this point. so i'm not really or were actually are a bit later so i'm not really worried about the polls except he's a known quantity. and maybe they don't like him enough, which means he's got to go out and get up there's no 2 ways about and there's a question about coattails but we'll save that for later and we're going to be on the 6 o'clock and 6.50 more that we talk about coattails mine very long tonight town the carl again thank you, thanks tom. >>and next time. a shocking video as a suspect tries to get away dragging an officer with his car will ha >>some scary moments for an orlando police officer he was dragged in a car. our by a suspect was trying to get away at times that driver going 60 miles an hour and the officer was a hanging out of the window eric's and the ball has the body cam video. >>i see a little bit shake their it there on center console or it was just past one in the morning on may 9th when orlando police officer sean murphy says he noticed marijuana residu

followed by ronald reagan in 1984. bill clinton in 1994. george w. bush in 2000 four. and barack obama in 2014. ,t 4:00 p.m., on real america the 1944 film, from d-day to germany. >> we thought we could use it as a port. but we found that cherbourg was badly destroyed by the germans themselves. they destroyed the docks, which we thought we could use. and it took them, if i recall,

no one said it better than ronald reagan, ronald reagan has the biggest voice for welcoming people tour country and that we cannot close the door or else we won't be the country that leads the world. >> i was here when ronald reagan was here in 1984. for all the disagreements over how to handle missile deployments, there were a lot of tensions then. we didn't have the divisions with europe that we have now. america is less respected in europe than at any time in post-war history. >> let's throw on the positive possibilities. i think every one should re-read ronald reagan's speech of that day. it's beautiful. it talks about the importance of alliances and working together. the largest delegation for international travel for this visit, we have nearly 60 from the house and around 20 from the united states senate, bipartisan delegatio delegations. one third of them are veterans. it's pretty exciting to be able to acknowledge what happened then with the ability to thank those who have more recently fought for our freedom. then we had so many people want to come. we had to get two then thr

of reagan at one point. and -- gary hart was ahead of them, the same kind of emergency appeared ronald reagan won 59 to 40. so bottom line numbers move quickly for the president get to go out and articulate what it is he is about and not have this harassment he's had for the last two years. it's what a campaign is about. he goes out and sells himself. lou: okay. ed rollins, as always, thank you. >> thank you. spoon a former u.s. diplomat going to bat for good old -- communist china! complaining about the treatment of the espionage organization. also known as techno huawei. more on that after these quick messages. stay with us. loyalty, so rare! so rare. the lexus es... ♪ ...every curve, every innovation, every feeling... ...a product of mastery. lease the 2019 es 350 for $379/month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. renenow i'm anythingsaw turtle, mybut lonely.full. ahnya: we have this like deep connection, this heart connection. brian: he just wants to be close to you and part of your l

reagan visitedd normandy in 1984 for the 40th anniversary. he talked about the allied victory and continued role of the u.s. in europe. president reagan: here to mark that day in history when the allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. for four long years, much of europe had been under a terrible shadow. millions cried out for liberation. the world trade for europe's rescue. here in normandy, the rest began. a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history. on a lonely, point of northern france. years ago, the air was dense with smoke, the cries of men, the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of can. -- cannon. at dawn, 225 rangers jumped off a british landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. their mission was one of the most difficult and the daring of the invasion, to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. the allies have been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here, trained on the beaches to stop the allied advance. the rangers looked

and a farewell address to the nation ronald reagan warned us of his concern about the eradication of the american memory and the erosion of the american spirit and encouraged us to start with some basics, american history and civic ritual. that is what we are going to do today. isn't it wonderful that we can come here like this? we are so fortunate in our country we have freedom to go to school, get together here at the ranch center. we can say what we think, go to church, worship god and one day pursue any job you want to. it doesn't matter what you look like or where you come from or who you know. as americans we all have the same freedom. many, many people in the world don't have these freedoms, so we are fortunate that this is a special thing. because of this and most of the adults in the room know this already there are a few things we do every time we get together at the reagan ranch center. first thing we do is say a prayer. we like to begin by thanking him and asking god to bless our time together. so to do that i would like to invite marty to the stage here. they are wonderf

when i was on ronald reagan's cam pin. john glenn was ahead of ronald reagan 57 to 39 at one point.ondale was ahead of them. same kinds of margins here. ronald reagan won 59-40. so the bottom line is the numbers move quickly. this president when he gets to go out there and arctic pate art is it that he's about and not have the harassment that he's had for the last two years, that's what the campaign is about. he goes out and sells himself, the numbers move drastically. lou: thanks for being here. >> up next, new numbers show how effective president trump has been in pressuring iran. >>> also, we'll tell you why this man, this man right there is waving a balloon in front of an alligator. nice alligator. what do you figure, 11, 12 feet long? oh my gosh. stay with us. we're coming right back. termites, feasting on homes 24/7. we're on the move. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. lou: a new gallop poll shows the iranian people feeling pressure from presiden

joining us peter wehner who served in the reagan and h.w.y speech writer for george w. bush. i do want to ask, hearing ronald reagan, giving a speech, that a speech you could ever imagine president trump giving? >> no, i couldn't. the benality of donald trump's works has been the hallmark of his words by ronald reagan were particularly elegant and really exceptional. but they also fit the man and it's important when it comes to speeches as well. the words matter, but the person delivering the words matter, too. and it helps to give a dignified speech if the person who is delivering the speech is himself or herself dignified. in the case of donald trump, that's not possible without dignity. >> i want to play what the president had to say yesterday about the protests that have taken place over the last couple of days. listen. >> as far as the protests, i have to tell you, because i commented on it yesterday. we left the prime minister, the queen, the royal family, there were thousands of people on the streets cheering. and even coming over tod

in reagan's word, you raised a banner.reasured your books, your writing, and anytime i get a chance to listen to you speak as the raw material of a philosophically sound conservatism. you are not only my friend, you are a hero to millions of people. you are without question a national treasure. presidented to join trump, vice president pence, and all of the people at faith and freedom in celebrating your life of public service as the 2019 recipient of the winston churchill award. bill, congratulations. if anybody deserves it, it is you. [applause] >> i don't think bill knew that one was coming. bill, you have been lotted this week by the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, and rush limbaugh. 2 people with us tonight, great friends of bill and our movement, who are here with us in person to say a few words on his behalf. the first i want to welcome is jean scalia. a speechwriter for bill bennett in the department of education under ronald reagan. he is a well-known attorney and -- at a prominent washingto

and congress wouldn't approve it because they feared arming saudi would threaten israel surround reagan handed the deal with are effectively to his political soulmate margaret thatcher un seen nothing yet. very tough act to follow. when we stumbled on the saudi arms. deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years highness prince has been at the heart of many of the great world events of the past 30 years i was always pleased to see him when i was prime minister because he brought me extraordinary insight and bold proposal was. she informed us she considers saudi arabia as a strong friend and would be willing to support taking them with whatever the kingdom needs and of discussion from there on everything else was going to get he explained to mr thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and therefore things were done differently. they wanted $43000000000.00 worth of weaponry that was $6000000000.00 pounds in commission. the false majority of most people understand this bribes. we'll continue to work together against the terrorists who t

encroaching hot war scenario is upon us of course the notion of going postal started under ronald reagan and this is when he began neo liberalism and deregulation and privatization or well the whole proposition of profits in the socialization of risk so that really started under reagan and became a 0 sum game if you were a loser by the time you were 25 people went postal they went into the post office and they shot their coworkers this is the same thing as the american empire they have a mentality and they're the ones that spread this notion of 0 sum game and trump even says that when he goes into negotiations on these so-called trade deals he said well why did they sign this trade deal with us under obama or under clinton or anybody else why did they sign this trade deals unless they thought they were winning so if they're winning then we're losing so this is his whole way he approaches these things is if if china is. you know exporting more than we are if they have a huge trade surplus if they're way ahead of us in 5 g. technology that's because we obviously are the losers but this is

>> well, i mean, let me start with ronald reagan.nt ronald reagan, and you keep going through president bush one, president clinton, president bush two, on through president obama. i would say they were all pretty good executives, in my observations. >> stephen: as commanders in chief. >> yes, and good leaders, and very asiduous about their work and decent people. that was true of president obama when i was working for him. he was hard working, he was a demanding guy, but that was okay with me. and i know what you were going to ask is the current president, whom i don't know well, i met him a few times, never really worked for him, so i can't really say what his habits must be. it doesn't seem like he pays attention to his cabinet secretaries, which would have bothered me. president obama didn't always listen to my advice, but i always got a chance to give my advice, and that was true going back to secretary weinberger, he used to be listened to by president reagan, you could see that, and that was a good thing. >> stephen: did any o

listen to what ronald reagan said. ronald reagan even reminded us, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we don't pass it down in the blood stream. it has to be passed, it's got to be fought for, protected and passed on so they can do the ame thing. or one day in our sunset years we'll be telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in america when women and men were free. folks, that can't happen. you and i have to ensure that socialism never comes to america. god bless you. thank you for being here. god bless america. thank you. cheers and applause] >> and now remarks from senators rand paul and marco rubio in florida in washington, d.c. this is 30 minutes. >> hey there, everybody. you can all grab your seats real quick.