, dutch reagan. so play clip number three, please. let the boy that's been threatening you every day. he'll be there tomorrow to. that's what bullies do until you stand up to them it's time for you to settle this dutch on. so tell us about that scene amanda what's going on how did you approach it? what what was what was embellishment or what was in the historical record? so the reagans moved a lot and dutch got picked on a lot and he was bullied quite and i think it got to a point in his that he was old enough to to grow a backbone and. she really sort of helped kick him over that. and get to that place where he needed to stand up to the bullies in his life that coming up against him and giving him a hard time. so i, i don't know it's it's a tricky scene it's a it's a it's a funny to walk. you know it's it's it's in love. but it's also little bit ruthless. so i think, you know, my approach was she was a very loving mother. and so i wanted it to still have it come from a place of love, not from a plac

what did reagan say? that people never three toward totalitarianism and in the 40-some years since then that's always been true, that ordinary people are free toward a chance for a say in their own lives. i know some of you have questions and you're not this shy normally. many he should not seek reelection. and then only a couple >> so you mentioned some statistics about reagan's approval rating in '82 and that many said he should not seek reelection, and then only a couple of years later he wins in the landslide. so do you think that that is due to the things he's talking about here, the war on totalitarianism and the shrinking of government or something else? >> okay. reagan was always eloquent, but this -- he won reelection mostly because the economy came back very, very strongly, but i hear an implicit question there about the relatively similar political situation that president biden finds himself in, a little bit later that when the speech was. i think one thing you have to say that if the economy

reagan. what do you know about him now over the past 40 years that you didn't know when you were working for him. when i was in my early thirties, working for ronald reagan, the sheer pace of life was so quick and dense and demanding, and i did not always have time to reflect. luckily, i kept notes, but i simply didn't always have time to reflect and think about ronald reagan. he was always someone i was trying to understand politically. you know, i came into the reagan white house not knowing him. i knew exactly who he was politically and exactly who he was philosophically. i'd been following him since i was a kid. i met him when i was in college. i interviewed him for a college magazine so that i knew that i was confident then. but the personal reagan, who he was, was not a mystery to me, but not a full picture. one of the things i've come i've really thought about him a lot in the decades since we were there with him when he would walk down the hall and, you know, the old executive office

it was reagan. and i. i trace the evolution beginning world war two one as a highly paid movie actor. he was irate at having to pay rates of income taxation of about 90% on his income and then in the years immediately after the war, when his movie career was on the wane, he was getting more, as i mentioned briefly on the in the hothouse politics of much of hollywood in the mccarthy era, becoming an fbi informant, testifying before the house un-american committee, administering the blacklist, he was convinced largely by the fbi and other right wingers that there was this communist plot to take over hollywood, that he was preventing the kremlin from controlling the american movie, which, as i show in the book, vastly exaggerated, largely mythical, was no huge communist plot to take over hollywood. but reagan it. and that made him into a staunch conservative. and then as i mentioned earlier, it was really his time as a spokesman. in the 1950s, i completed his transformation into a right winger who espoused fr

and of course, credit reagan understood that -- president reagan understood that. as he said in 1983, the starting point and cornerstone of our foreign policy is our alliance and partnership with our fellow democracies. so, here is a start military fact. our allies and partners are huge force multipliers. in today's world, any policy of peace through strength depends by definition on alliances. american power projection depends by definition on our friends abroad. and american security depends by definition on those who freely join us in common purpose. our alliances and partnerships have always been rooted in shared interests and in shared values. ultimately, america is weaker when it stands alone. and america is smaller when it stands apart. there is no such thing as a safe retreat from today's interwoven world. for our men and women in uniform standing shoulder to shoulder with allies and partners is just how we operate. during my decades in uniform, everywhere i went on the battlefield, our allies and partners stood alongside us making us stronger and more effe

smith: governor reagan? mr. reagan: yes. mr. president, once again, i happen to be against the amendment, because i think the amendment will take this problem out of the hands of elected legislators and put it in the hands of unelected judges. i am for equal rights, and while you have been in office for four years, and not one single state, and most of them have a majority of democratic legislators, has added to the ratification or voted to ratify the equal rights amendment. while i was governor, more than eight years ago, i found 14 separate instances where women were discriminated against in the body of california law, and i had passed and signed into law 14 statutes that eliminated those discriminations, including the economic ones that you have just mentioned, equal pay and so forth. i believe that if in all these years that we have spent trying to get the amendment, that we had spent as much time correcting these laws, as we did in california and we were the first to do it. if i were president, i would also now take a look

and the honor of being the reagan institute as mentioned. here we work on taking reagan ideas, principles and values and making sure that those engaged in public policy, be it in the congress, the executive branch, thought leaders in town are really looking at reagan ideas and principles as they advance the u.s. public policy. >> how long has the foundation been around? how are you funded? >> 405 c3 since they started the library back in 1991. the institution has been around six or seven years and we have our presence across from the white house. >> when and why did you start surveying their views on international engagement and these defense issues that we're going to talk about? >> president reagan had strong legacy in terms of advancing legacy in the world and particularly on peace through strength and we for sometime have been engaging with america's thought leaders and elected officials on these issues and we found that it really was a gap in the discussions, where the views are of the american people. and oftenteams you hear the electe

the reagan administration, the birth of the reagan. and it's added found nation was what call a treasonous cover or operation. that sabotage urged american presidential. that sabotaged our foreign policy and sabotage the election. and if let that go, if we don't push back at that, it's going to happen again and again and again. and that's why i think the book is so important today. you know, we hear a lot the october surprise when bob woodward says that that trump has had seven contact with vladimir putin. what's going on there? is he making foreign policy without us? he's also doing it with bibi netanyahu. i don't know. we have one president at a time. and if we let that slide, really, i think our democracy is lost. i think that's what's happening now in a much more way. it was extraordinarily covert back then, it was, you. i finally got in touch with one of bill casey, had a secret network, a secret intelligence network. and i finally sort of got people to talk to me from it. there was a guy named robert sensi, and i tried to get him

the director of the reagan institute mentioning here we work on taking reagan's ideas principles and values and making sure that those engaged in public policy, thought leaders here in town are really looking at reagan ideas and principles as they advance u.s. public policy. >> how are you funded and how long has the foundation been around. >> it's a 501(c)(3) since they started the library back in 1991. the institute in d.c. has been around for about seven years. we have our presence right next to the white house on 16th street. >> when and why did decide to start surveying americans on these defense issues we are talking about. guest: president reagan had a strong legacy on leadership in the world particularly on advancing peace through strength and we for some time have been engaging with american thought leaders and elected officials on these issues and found it really was a gap in the discussion of where the views are the american people. oftentimes your elected officials talk about americans believe x or y but it is not backed up by a lot of evidence. we sought to do with our s

>> to advance president reagan's legacy broadly speaking in washington, d.c., the director of the reagan institute, as you mentioned. here, we work on taking reagan ideas, principles and values, making sure those involved in public policy, whether it be congress, not leaders here in town are looking at reagan's ideas and principles as evidenced public policy. the foundation, it is a 501(c)(3), since they started the library back in 1991, the institute in d.c. has been around about six or seven years. we have our presence right next to the hotel across the street from the white house on 16th street. >> and wendy decide to start surveying americans or their views on international engagement and the ravings we will talk about? >> president reagan had a strong influence on american leadership in the world, particularly on advancing strength. and we for some time had been engaging with america's thought leaders and american officials on this issue and felt there was a gap in where the views are because the american people often times you hear elected officials talk about the american people x

plus a look at president reagan's final resting president reagan's final resting place. take you there next. is such a rewarding job. every day i make a difference in the lives of those who matter most - our seniors - who may need a little extra help. if you have more to give, and compassion in your heart, begin a new career as a visiting angels caregiver. apply today. ♪ visiting angels america's choice in home care ♪ >> ronald reagan belongs to the ages now. >> shannon: more than 20 years ago and june 11th 2004 president reagan was held to rest with the heartbreaking kiss goodbye from his wife nancy. the former first lady was right laid to rest by her husband's side. the sight was personally chosen by the presidents with the georgian gray granite headstones of the center of a 20-foot wide horse shoes shaped a memorial. carved into stone this quote from reagan when he dedicated the library i know in our heart that man is good. >> of what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose to each and every life. >> shannon: certainly has. moving words from the 4

but the last one i mentioned is the reagan library and the reagan library. when it first opened, it didn't much information about carter, but for some reason that i know not what someone convinced and nancy reagan to open the papers on the 1980 election the election where when carter was defeated by reagan and where the october surprise took place the time it took place. i don't think nancy reagan knew was in those papers. i think somebody's food, because that was a vast collection of papers and of them weren't very complimentary of ronnie. and so it was he had there was a lot of have which had said that i'd like the reagan people not been i had not been totally honest about jeannie went with me as she often did but have friends in dallas that we were we had lived for a while. we had friends who wanted to go to we sometimes travel together. one of them was an attorney. the other one was i was a medical doctor. they were people who knew a lot research and i never forget it. the archivist on duty was a young woman named amanda. i don't remember the rest of her

back live at the reagan national defense forum in simi valley of the reagan library. through strength during a time of transition. so trump's return to the white house obviously top of mind for leaders gathering here this weekend. there's also a big emphasis on national interest beyond our planet. let's bring in the director of the space development agency, doctor tran17. doctor, thank you for coming on. we appreciate this -- doctor tran17 when you talk about rapid defense acquisition, what are you saying, that we need to build our space abilities or our overall abilities? >> primarily our overall abilities which are tied to our space abilities. when i say rapid acquisition, i'm talking about fielding hundreds of satellites to be able to provide war fighter capabilities and do that every other year. hundreds of satellites every other year. >> trace: the reagan survey asked the following question and i found it instructive. in the next five years do you think china will extend it's advantage or will the u.s. close the gap? the numbers there, china will extend it's adva

it is consistent with reagan.o an acceptable resettlement until he believes he is losing. i would say step a, provide the kind of support that ukraine has always needed. waiting out the assistance little by little. tags, no tags, missile by missile. how about give them what they need to defend themselves. you will lose this war. >> i want to make sure that we get to china, to. the number one concern that americans think that. that is our biggest adversary. on this issue of whether or not we should be helping taiwan, 61% said they support increasing in the region and 55% say they are for increased armed sales by the u.s. to taiwan. we know that there are billions of dollars in outstanding sales that, you know, taiwan has made a contract. how does he come in and manage that situation. >> president trump was pretty darn consistent. sometimes you do not know. what will happen in ukraine. some things are really clear. he understands the need to build up our defense space. increasing our military capabilities. i think o

history, ronald reagan was great in second term reagan, 86 was -- but first term donald trump was bestactually we're already overtime scott, but focus on what will happen now, there are a lot of people that want to delay tax extension to point it edges up to deadline. if it goes every, we get a tax hike, it will be a killer for the mid term elections. in 2026. but worse, americans want money in their pockets now, they have had money stolen from them by inflation, should it be job number one of president trump to get those extensions. >> absolutely, americans need in addition to money is stability and predictability in tax code, having spector of fiscal cliff out to end of 2025, makes planning whether you are a business person or individual very difficult, they need to move quickly to make it permanent. >> particularly those small businesses, they have to be able to prepare for the future, otherwise they can't deal with the present, love you both, very much scott hodge, and art laffer, have a wonderful new year, thank you for coming in appreciate if. >> thank you, david. >> coming up ho

. - [margaret] peggy noonan was there as a speechwriter for ronald reagan and george h.w. bush, and her writing helped presidents meet the moment again and again. - these are the boys of pointe du hoc. these are the heroes helped end a war. - we will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them as they slipped the surly bonds of earth. - for an endless, enduring dream and a thousand points of light. - [margaret] she went on to become a bestselling author and one of the most influential columnists in america. a lifelong conservative who never voted for trump, she won a pulitzer prize for commentary in 2017. donald trump has called her a "simplistic writer" and "stuck in the past glory of reagan." - a lot had to happen for donald trump to win. the entire republican establishment, and i would say the democratic establishment, would have to blow it big time for about 20 years. and that is what happened. - [margaret] as she reflects on the transformation of the republican party, and the country, (supporters cheer) what does peggy noonan say now? - [announcer] "firing line w

ronald reagan was great and in the second term, reagan the 86 tax act was spectacular but in the first term i think donald trump was the best-ever in u.s. history. david: well, we only got, actually we're already over time, scott, but i've gotta focus on what's going to happen now. there are a lot of people that want to delay the tax extensions. maybe even to the point where it just edges up to that deadline on december 31, 2025. if it goes over, and we get a tax hike, it's going to be a killer for the mid-term elections in 2026 but worse than that, americans want money in their pocket now. they've had money stolen from them by inflation. shouldn't that be job number one of president trump to get those extensions? >> absolutely. what americans need in addition to having money in their own pocket is stability and predictability in the tax code, and having this fiscal cliff out of the end of 2025 makes planning whether you're a businessman or an individual very very difficult. that's why they need to move quickly to make them permanent so that americans have stability and predictability

the challenge by ronald reagan how did the ford people view reagan and this is also an opportunity think for us to talk about that race. well. but i want to i don't know how the ford viewed ronald reagan, but i do think that it was a really important part of republican political history that reagan came very, very close to taking taking the republican nomination and in 1976, it was a sign that the republican party was moving very much to the right even to the right of, richard nixon. one of the big issues of the primary season was right wing criticism of henry kissinger's foreign policy detente. you know, became kind of a dirty word for. a lot of conservative republicans, they a more aggressive foreign and. i think that we were talking about reasons why gerald ford did not win his own presidential term. and i think one of them was the extremely strong primary challenge that did lay the groundwork for. reagan's eventual victory in 1980, i just was in 80 at the convention, and we have covered russell, who did this oral history for bush 41, who obviously the choice then to become the vice p

reagan will win and give you a better deal. and the plan worked. the hostages were not released, reagan won the re-election, and in a final twist to carter the hostages were released just after the new president was sworn in. they were actually forced to wait on the tarmac in iran to ensure that reagan would get the credit. in the end carter had undone and pardoned the exact politics he'd been elected to reform. it's great to have you here. >> hi, chris. >> let's talk about the hostage crisis and its role in that election. i'm always sort of struck by how gross it was both at the political level but also the human level that you had an ally of reagan going around the region telling people to, you know, send to messages to iranians to hold onto them. that hostage crisis was interesting because if you look at the polling his approval rating goes up in the midst of it, and then it becomes a total albatross. >> after their seize there was a rally around the flag phenomenon, and he beats ted kennedy who challenged him for the nomination. but then as the

reagan. charleston. jewelry. >> reagan. charleston. mine's tyrus jewelry. check it out. you're an alpha male. >> that is right. you're back. baby, i'm. >> and better than ever. >> yes, i'm going to open up. >> i see the scruff. >> yeah, because that's what you do right before you open up your own jewelry store. >> no, because i got to. i want to be matchy matchy with you guys. i had to throw out my whole argument and whole point of view out the window after i saw that clip of chris zylka and van jones, because, like, chris zylka was doing the active listening thing, and just at one point he just launched like, what? >> what was that all about? >> i was just watching that going, cocaine's a hell of a drug. >> i tell you what, i'm just going to do in a couple rails of adderall and talk about how trump just and they're all perplexed by like, how did trump do this? how did he outwit us? what did he do? and it's like he was normal. >> yeah, right. >> it's crazy how like common sense america respon

, i think. >> how close did queen elizabeth and ronald reagan become over the years?the reason for their es which was real,was on several leve, but the main one was, we talked about the horse ride they shared that took of organizing. it was a lot of transatlantic traffic between the men in suits, the civil servants to arrange what type of course, what type of saddle, what are they going to rare -- where. how are they going to protect the president when he is trotting around the grounds of windsor? but simultaneously to this, argentina had invaded our british territory in the south atlantic. when reagan was making his visits, the british task force was on its way to do battle with the argentinian occupiers of the islands, which is a crown territory, but moreover, the queen's son andrew is serving as a helicopter pilot with this task force and british troops are getting killed and injured. helicopter pilots are being shot at. you've got this remarkable split screen that, on the one hand there is this seemingly frivolous spectacle of the horse ride being organized betwee

peter: how close did queen elizabeth and ronald reagan become over the years? mr.harter: the reason for their closeness, which was real, was on several levels, but the main one was, we talked about the horse ey share took a lot of organizing. thereotf transatlantic traffic between the men in suits, gaain, the civil servants, to arrange what type of horse, what type of saddle, what are they going to wear, what are they going to go, where the secret service agents going to do? but simultaneously to this, argentina had invaded a british territory, the falkland islands in the south atlantic. and when reagan was making his visit, a british task force was on its way to do battle with the argentinian occupiers of the falkland islands, which is a crown territory. but moreover, the queen's son andrew is serving as a helicopter pilot with this task force. and british troops are getting killed and injured. helicopter pilots getting shot at. and so, you've got this remarkable split screen that, on the one hand, there's this seemingly frivolous spectacle of the horse ride being

but for her own greatest generation, if you like, she really did get on with reagan.nd probably what viewers will know, if they know anything about the relationshipen the queen and presidents, there was a fams horse ride range between the queen and reagan in wind wn he visited in 1982 that was realboli i don't think you would see anywhere else an american president sharing a horse ride with another wool leader. or any leaders going through the trouble or perhaps having the delight of doing such an event for the cameras. but it was pretty clear to me that she got on famously with the bushes, especial george h.w. bush. that was partly because of barbara bush. i think she really liked and respected this dog loving, animal loving matriarch with a big family and slightly troublesome sons. that perhaps was something they had in common. and they got along famously, just because of that similarity. then i also say from the younger generation, the postwar generation,t's pretty clear at a really nice relationship developed with the obamas late on in the queen's life of . it was

i absolutely knew ronald reagan knew that poem.t really know it, but i just felt he did, and i knew that if that perfect phrase, that beautiful phrase were included, ronald reagan would use it if he knew that poem, which it turned he did. it had been a very important poem to his friend, tyrone power, and had been a very famous poem during world war ii. and in the years after, and it happened to be written on a plaque outside reagan's daughter patty's school, and he used to sometimes read it and flekt on it in the morning. anyway, that was quite a day. it was a dreadful day. it started out as a busy day for -- for everybody in the office because the state of the union address was scheduled for that night. peter, were you there? were you a young reporter then? >> i was up on capitol hill then. yeah. >> so you know about just the suddenness of stuff. we all knew the state of the union address was coming. so in speech-writing, my boss and the people who had written the address were taken last-minute changes and making last-minute addit

in the new reagan institute survey shows americans may want more u.s.tion on the world stage, they want the u.s. to take the lead on major international issues but what precisely does that mean. president-elect representing messages without firing a single round of ammunition president-elect term valve that there would be hell to pay if those in captivity are not released before his inauguration and in response hamas reportedly threatened to neutralize hostages if israel tried to get the rescue operation. there are significant developments in syria that may impact the region more broadly. >> this regime brutalized, tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent syrians at the moment of historic opportunity long-suffering people of syria. to build a better future for the prague country. it's also a moment of risk and uncertainty. as we all turned to the question of what comes next, some of the rebel groups that took down assad in the human rights abuses, they're saying the right things now but as a take on greater responsibility we will assess not

probably when reagan came in, it took probably 30 years behind.king about all these different issues that seem to be kind of rushed in now with the image of carter and all this stuff. but there is the positive stuff about his legacy, and my own family, we appreciate the opportunity he gave my father to work with his engineering degrees and stuff, especially in those days when black americans were not really being promoted. i think you did a good job, at least with that. thank you. host: brian in rhode island, good morning. caller: good morning. yeah, i think he was a great guy. his massive presence on between street, especially -- on tweed street, especially the alert systems he helped integrate with the u.s. government, especially with -- trying to think the tweed street bathroom incident. host: to russell in south carolina. good morning. caller: yes, i just want to say that jimmy carter is the reason i was able to attend college. my father had a stroke, and because of the things he did at the department of education, it allowed me to get basic e

you could see the pain on ronald reagan's face. think he was a little disappointed somehow, there were no words that were going to be equal to that moment and no words to help, you could only do your best but he was not feeling so great about it when it was over, i could tell, the way he looked on tv. i went home that night not feeling so good but by the next morning, i did not come into the office early, i was not one of those people love -- people in at 7:00 a.m., i cruised in arnd:15 and there were messages from peopleikthe speaker of the house, tip o'neill, and secretary of state george schultz, people i had never met or talked to. i called them back and they just said, we heard you worked with him on that, good work, you did what needed to be done. i thought, how nice of tip o'neill to track down speaker of the house a kid in an office and then the president called, he was very frank, he said, that was some kind of day. he talked about the speech and he said, at first at the end i felt we hadn't, he didn't say this but what he

i want to recognize the reagan foundation for awarding president zelinski the reagan freedom award. zelinski has demonstrated his bravery to the world by his willingness to speak truth and fight for freedom for the ukrainian people. may god bless him and may god bless the people of ukraine. it might seem ironic the first freedom award was presented to kel gorbachev by president reagan south. what a hopeful time that was. decades later the successor is attempting to destroy his legacy. make no mistake vladimir putin is an evil man. who like other dictators throughout history despise freedom and he hates those who seek it. we are watching daily assaults on democracy and they are a reminder to all of us of president reagan's famous words "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we didn't pass it on to our children in our bloodstream. and must be handed on for them to do the same or one day we will then our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in the united states that's why in 2020 more than any other governor in am

this is my 11th reagan national defense forum here at the reagan library in simi valley.will be having a fireside chat with the commerce secretary, gina raimondo. and you may be why a commerce secretary is here at the reagan national defense forum where executives and the pentagon's top brass, she is the tip of the spear in count erring china and is responsible for implementing president biden ace ai safety executive order and overseeing the bipartisan chips and science act with $53 billion in grants and subsidies to help bring manufacturing for advanced military, chips needed for advanced military weapons, to smartphones, cars and dishwashers, back to the united states. so, the u.s. economy would literally come to a halt if the supply chain of these advanced semiconductors, which are mostly testified right now in taiwan, were somehow cut off from the u.s. almost every member of the joint chiefs will be here, there are panels with the current heads of the army, navy, air force, marines, as well as the head of the u.s. special operations and the admiral at the tip of the s

that's what reagan did when reagan passed his tax cuts.t is the heart of president trump's first two years. getting no later than july 4. earlier is better. no later than july 4, a tax cut and deregulation bill to give the economy real growth. david: joining me now is new york congresswoman claudia tenney to talk about newt's idea of getting it done right away. the key is, of course claudia, can republicans get together long enough to do this? because i know there's some among the republican team who want to put other things besides the tax cuts and regulatory cuts first. >> yes, well that was a great hit by newt gingrich and what you didn't show in the clip is what he said just before it. he said there's some people that get up and say we're voting no so what's the bill say, so we can't have that. look, we had almost a member i think almost 25-30 member majority when we passed the tax cuts and jobs act and i think 12 or 13 members didn't vote for it but we don't have that kind of luxury this time and we really have to stick together as a

it is very different, it is not ronald reagan. tenor of -- inside the republican party apparatus right now? >> yeah, the other thing that was, i think, central to the reagan era was the importance of character and ronald reagan, for whatever you thought about him, clearly believed in character and i think it showed there in talking about political adversaries. donald trump's statement last night didn't attack jimmy carter or anything, but it wasn't especially graceful. character just seems to be something that people are much less concerned about in the party these days and i frankly hate that. you know, there are -- politics can be ugly but we should all recognize the humanity in other people and we should all realize that we are striving to do good and that the people across from us are not frankly our enemy and that seems to have gotten lost and probably the only reason that the statement on jimmy carter wasn't uglier was because he hadn't actually made an enemy of jimmy carter in the way that he has other people. i don't know