in the reagan administration did not have an agenda world hitchin to me. they did not have an agenda of building a police state. i mean it would have been in comprehensible to president reagan had he had he been told that he had the power to assassinate americans without due process that he could by late the constitution ignore the constitution indefinitely detain people imprisoned without due process reagan would have thought even so this is not to say to germany we don't do those things but today it's just become standard tests and no one seems to really be that much upset about. because it hasn't happened to them. so that's a huge difference another huge difference is there was still it was still possible in the reagan years to have cooperation in the congress between republicans and democrats they couldn't always come together to deal with everything but they could come together on big things to do. much of the time today they don't see they don't seem to be able to work together at all. it's quite a huge difference right well divide and conquer. mr rob

you're absolutely right and all you had to do to look at it during the reagan administration reagan basically was going to see in the economy was stimulus he was doing good old fashioned keynesian stimulus he borrowed three trillion dollars and spent it and it created jobs and he left the debt for i mean you are still paying off reagan's death he left the debt for everybody else but bush. cut taxes also and everybody thought oh cutting taxes during the reagan time that most are created some prosperity because there was you know. the economy kind of grew during the reagan presidency although there was a pretty severe recession in the early years but you know as i said it turns out it had nothing to do with tax cuts it had to stimulate a spending bush was unable to do that stimulative spending as the as the market was disintegrating and then we saw a you know tax cuts don't do anything you're absolutely right betty in staten island new york betty thanks for calling. yes thank you oh i'm sorry i'm in and i wanted like you know to enjoy your show. the reason is i mean how. could you all preach i

of my in my book rebuilding american dream from seven hundred ninety three until until the reagan administration as workers became more productive their wages went up they've had to track each other continuously i mean there were bumps here and there but they track together and then it changed because reagan changed the rules. the game change taxation policy change and i was fine live through the eighties i was a worker and so easy what happened oh well exactly it takes a while it takes awhile i so look at what happened here this gap opens up and in that gap is a whole pile of money and where does all that money go that's in that gap that used to be going to the workers it's going to the top one percent in fact it's going to top one tenth of one percent well that's probably a lot of that your bailout paid for that we had to borrow start nothing to do with bailouts in one nine hundred sixty six time magazine at a cover story called talking about the leisure society that was coming where they said that by the year two thousand if productivity continued to increase and wages continue to track produ

them that they're going to be fired and there's virtually no recourse hasn't been since the reagan administration i mean here's this is another amazing statistic marc i'd like to get your take on this you know historically corporate profits and wages have been similar portions of g.d.p. right now wages make up three percent of g.d.p. corporate profits make up fifteen percent of g.d.p. so there's nothing more important in association right unionist ok i'm sorry no this is unions are great i like unions i think very important i think that there is a collateral relationship between huge the middle class all i've ever said about unions is the government should be refereeing there should be no laws that either from their own those unions that literally or you have it both ways so you can't have it both ways because you need the collective bargaining of the unions the people these people need workers. larger the company that you're talking about with the one percent in the in the c.e.o. he needs workers and those workers have value and they can someone stopping a c.e.o. from just firing all the workers

whether there was anyone inside, the reagan administration that considered that, i don't know.but i know there are many that.that could work. ultimately the ballot that o'connor, they saw somebody who had this goes on predict it will. they didn't want unpredictability and breaking news that rehnquist was going to be just completely predict the bull. the usual suspects for a tear at the time and conceivably could have been considered, but in this case it is really rehnquist to lose and so they didn't have anybody else on the list at that point and he came in and of course whatever thought he had formatted data by retiring is out the window because even though soon after he gets here come the rest of his family, one of his children that he just loads the administrative burden on him and doesn't know how he's going to handle that. >> host: he turned out to be good in it. you write in your introduction to you wanted to set the record straight. what are some of the most common misunderstandings about william rehnquist? >> guest: the anecdotal stories that he was alive because it's e

vietnam veterans against the war back in the seventies then in the eighty's he challenge to the reagan administration's policies on central america in one thousand nine hundred one he voted against the u.s. involvement in the first gulf war but later over the years john kerry has morphed into a pretty much mainstream politician with a record which casts a shadow on the antiwar image that he's been trying to build for himself in two thousand and two he voted to authorize the iraq invasion and since then he has made a slew of conflicting statements which might have cost him the election in two thousand and four when he was running as the antiwar candidate so while criticizing george w. bush for the war in iraq in two thousand and four in august of that year when asked if he would still of gone to war knowing saddam hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction john kerry said yes i would have voted for the authority i believe it was the right authority for a president to have in september that year in direct contradiction to that statement john kerry said we should not have gone to war knowing the

oberstar: but even a decade after it was enacted, the reagan administration came in and cut the grant program to a loan program. and funding diminished over a period of time. now, we still have 1/3 or more of the nation's streams and lakes that don't meet the standards of the clean water act. we have to advance the cause. that is the big challenge ahead of us. you just don't think of raw sewage in waterways in a developed country, and yet, that's what we have, and not just in pittsburgh, but all over. narrator: pittsburgh is situated at the confluence of the allegheny, monongahela, and ohio rivers. these three rivers are vital for industry, recreation, and drinking water. and each year, billions of gallons of combined sewer overflows discharge directly into those rivers. hecht: we're now having to face the consequences of the choice that was made to put in combined sewer systems. narrator: in 1994, the government adopted a combined sewer overflow policy to reduce csos nationwide. cities with combined sewer overflows now face an enforcement action called a consent decree. under a conse

you'll remember in previous years, during the reagan administration, his second inaugural was a lot worse. so cold they had to go inside. snow filling the stands. in 1937, it was the wettest january on record. fdr decided if the crowd could handle the elements, so could he. he rode through the streets in an open car. just before we came on the air, we checked the forecast. they're expecting 30s, chilly, but not bad. we're grateful for that. rain or shine the abc news team will be here throughout the day with live coverage starting with "good morning america" and continuing throughout the day. the entire team along the parade route. we'll see you tomorrow. >>> in the meantime, we continue on the note about weather and bitter cold freezing a big stretch of the country tonight. blowing arctic winds along with it and clayton sandell is tracking the front for us. >> reporter: a weekend weather mess across the plains and midwest. >> this year definitely the worst i've seen. >> reporter: around fargo, north dakota, roads were barely drivable. sub-zero blizzards bringing 50-mile-an-hour winds. >>

around the time the corporate leaders saw their income tax rates slash dramatically by the reagan administration and began looking overseas for cheaper and cheaper labor a giant gap opened up between productivity at red line going up and workers' wages their green line flat flat lining their productivity went up considerably this time . magazine predicted but wages flattened the leisure society for the middle class began to die and in its place the billionaire class came into being as corporate leaders sucked more and more wealth from their now far more productive workforce while refusing to share any of those gains for the fruit of those productivity gains with their workers or with their community after all with a new low personal income tax rates is a lot more incentive for executives just keep the cash rather than pay their workers well as a result the typical hourly wage wage for an american worker has increased a measly dollar twenty three an hour over the last thirty six years after accounting for inflation meanwhile the top one percent have seen their incomes increase by two hundred seve

that been the result of successful union busting the you know the the legacy of you of the reagan administration or of a large number of immigrants coming into the country and being willing to work at a low the prevailing wage well actually if we look at what the majority of economists say on the issue of immigration and they say that it generally speaking immigrations tend to compliment the american workforce and. david no no no is that why do we have a system where legal immigration channels haven't been working but when the economy was strong employers still needed folks and folks who are coming in what we have in for a number of us is an opportunity to put all this in check to put hot air aside and to actually create a solution. that overhauls our immigration system so that it works for the twenty first century in a way that responds to our economy but also the standards of the american worker and having eleven. people who are undocumented who employers can exploited and pitted against american workers is something that really doesn't help anyone and david isn't that isn't that undocumented

the warmest and coldest inaugurations of the traditional being january are both reagan administrationwas 1985 when it was d noontime, but the morning temperature had been four degrees. indoors.the ceremony warmest was in 1981 and 55 noontime. going to be a cold day. probably a little blustery, just like what we have right now. wind chills currently at 28 degrees. that's the latest. back to you. >> thank you. stick with abc 7 news for your of the eventsage up to the presidential inauguration as well as the ceremony itself. instance of states, long and go togh wjla.com our social network web sites as well on facebook and twitter. >> looking at 37 degrees. coming up, a new spin on one of station's weather graphics. >> still ahead, lincredible somo of hi. we are committed to ending chronic homelessness in d.c. find out how you can help, our website. chicken.org. >> good morning, washington. >> a very creative improvisation by a weatherman in tulsa. his weather graphics were not o andrew created his .orning show weather report this drawing is how he felt, apparently, after the computer cra

dollars you know what happened it became more prosperous the prosperity is not only under the reagan administration you know and he was there and he let him in there should business people know what happened was people said you know we had more people who had more money in their pockets they were buying more things there were more people they could afford to go out for dinner there were more to be the waiters were making more money to restaurants are making what they also raise the minimum wage for waiters from two dollars and twenty five cents to eight dollars and fifty cents i mean now it's a major change and where they were the result of that prosperity. tom god knows that i want people to have a better life but you do that by creating prosperity by having a group really interested me just your billionaire isn't in your last segment you said that the economy is shrinking well that's right it's because of the obama policies that shrinking is because business is cannot afford to do business under the obama policies health care taxes regulations no winner gee actually one of the one of the things t

together and get past the partisan divide and i thought one of the one of the high points of the reagan administration was when he said let's destroy all nuclear weapons or let's have peace let's talk about peace absolutely and one of the one of the most consistent voices for peace from establishing a department of peace to campaigning on where are we at today seems like the world as we claims. we we've come to accept the inevitability of war but war is not inevitable peace is inevitable for willing to put in place structures to make it happen now i've run into people as i talk about the necessity of working towards peace would say dentist that's just not practical and i would say was the war in iraq practical was based on lies we did not have to go to war in iraq we did not have to lose the thousands of soldiers at a cost of trillions of dollars with the perhaps a million innocent iraqis perish and we've proliferated proof aerated war around the world we need to pursue state craft as a science of human relations. to enable us to not only reconnect with what lincoln called the angels of our better nat

in one thousand nine hundred seven profits are two times as high as their peak during the reagan administration and the annual average corporate profit growth under. obama is the highest since one thousand nine hundred so a serious question why do republicans insist on saying that obama is a socialist oh. well first of all i don't know if the president would even want to be celebrating this big businesses are growing at such a rate in here's another surprise it's why would he not want to be their income has increased twenty percent in the last three years from like two thousand and two thousand and eleven so what's not increasing that we're seeing is employment especially with small businesses it's done kind of a slow gradual decrease since two thousand and nine there are a lot of things that are that are just not doing better that's what we need to be looking at yeah. i agree pretty bad and i agree i agree i do love you i think that's you know the flip side to the corporate profits being so high is that workers' wages as a percentage of g.d.p. are lower than they've ever been so since record k

earned-income tax credit is a measure passed during the reagan administration which said that we would give working families a tax benefit for working. earned-income tax credit. and that is probably, as president reagan described it, the best way to eliminate reduced poverty in our nation. so the earned-income tax credit has been extended for five years. the child tax credit, which does exactly what it says, says to families with children, we will give you a tax credit to help you raise those children, that too was renewed for another five years. and a provision in the law which was added by senator schumer of new york years ago which helps working families to pay for college education, that too was included in this measure. so from a working family perspective, there are many good and important elements that were included in this measure. we also considered a lot of other tax measures, some of which i liked and some i didn't like. one of them in particular, the estate tax, is a tax that is widely misunderstood. this is a tax which applies to the very, very small fraction of a percenta

going to miami, going to grow sugar, because sugar is something that is protected under the reagan administrationnd we really shouldn't be growing sugarcane in florida. so it affects farmers in areas like the midwest. parts of the midwest had such minister outs this year. people won't be able to make their mortgage payments. really, that is the challenge great it is just tremendous. i think that's why it is so important with these policies. we need a more regional food system. where farmers have the ability to get into markets that they can't get into today. because farmers have to have someplace to sell their crops to even sell their animals that they want to raise. >> thank you. even though there are no perfect solutions, would it be a success if we got the country to shop at whole foods stores? [inaudible] >> absolutely. >> most people are not shopping at whole foods type basis. there are more people that are pushed up. >> i really appreciate that point. i think my point is that we don't want one grocery store chain that sells natural food. that is one of the reasons that organic food is so ex

bush, and as a staff economist for the council of economic advisers during the reagan administration. in 2003-2005, she was chief economist of the u.s. department of labor. she's also the author of this past july of women's figures, a guide to the economic progress of women in america. please join me in welcoming senior fellow diana furchtgott-roth. [applause] >> thank you very much, howard, for that very kind introduction. and thank all of you for coming. i'm really grateful that you could be doing so many of the things today and coming to listen to me, but yet here you are, listening to me talk about green jobs and the fallacies of green jobs. i'd like to thank the manhattan institute not only for supporting this research but for organizing this talk. i'd also like to thank john, a mechanical engineer, who is here and to advise me on the technical aspects of energy in the book, and to read the whole manuscript to check on the scientific details of it. well, this is an appropriate day, talk about regulating the disaster because last night president obama promised once more to develop

the first was, of course, jim baker during the reagan administration and his second term in 1985. there are two candidates for lew's job. deputy national security advi r adviser. and ron klain. more political experience in washington. he helped run debate prep important the president this last go-around. president chooses mcdonough, could be about personal familiarity. also yesterday labor secretary solis, first latina to serve in a cabinet announced she is stepping down. though expected her departure compounds this white house perceived white house diversity problem. that was splashed on the front page of yesterday's "new york times." though the white house quickly broadcast that hhh secretary sibila, and shinseki and eric holder, it didn't announce what's happening with the other cab they secretaries. stream of nominations of white men to keep posts so far. "the new york times" photo showing the president surrounded by all male adviser is an economic team mostly men. valerie jarrett. apparently in the room as "the new york times" noted. had you to find her leg there. ruth marcus

during the reagan administration. as richard brooke kaiser, a major figure at "national review" was a rider than and pretty good friend of rusher said to me when reagan was elected rusher decided he would defend him on every single thing. his reasoning was this is the best president we will ever have. it will never be better and it will never be as good. you have to back him on everything. he had some concerns about reagan's for steve staff, james baker who had come from the other wing of the party. he questioned whether someone like that could put his heart into a reagan program. a couple years after that, rusher is very upset about i guess you could call them technical pr mistakes on the part of communications people in the white house, so and so are to be fired, didn't happen. his main concern in giving advice to reagan which he didn't do a lot of, his main concern seemed to be let's make sure we are effectively communicating with the american people in getting around the liberal media which is a great but of rusher