and then the rated transport the reagan administration says we had to do something. so clearly they said we have to save students and this runway will be used -- he sent in the force of about 8000 people. he said it was a military disaster because we did not have joint operations. commanded by a really tough terrific navy vice admiral. metcalf is getting pounded by the white house. same for students, same to students. and finally he wires back the students are not in danger. what? we have just launched an invasion, and by the way, the night before the invasion, they said you're not going to invade and he says no i'm not going to invade. which he later records in his autobiography, i had no other choice. so the students were not in jeopardy and guess who is building the airbase?the british government. back in the 1950s, britain had decided that grenada is going to be the centerpiece for tourism and the contract was held by the british corporation, a family owned and that to the right of genghis khan. and what being good s did they do? cheap labor. was the cheapest lab

establish us these weapons program under the reagan administration which the wastage of hundreds of billions of dollars that the cumulative militarized species this is can't amount to train to kneel raindrops to the wall america's problems start or do not know they won't be solved by trying to colonize a militarized space spearfish surely is the final frontier not regard. while the u.s. defense secretary has been very generous with the compliments he's given to the united states allies talking about how important they are for the u.s. national security at the same time washington's has a bit of a situation over in syria where their so-called border defense force initiative has had turkey really hoping mad just how sincere do you think the pentagon is talking about how how important those allies for the united states are. well i think i think the trumpet ministration is going to step into a real mess it's kicked over our hornet's nest with regard to this. announcement of a border security force turkey's not going to have a sit ins are not going to have are and the cons are making a huge mista

if you jump to reagan administration, you have beirut in october 241 marine and service personnel kill master's degree arm blast and went many for wrong reasons several days later you go through iran where we illegally harm and jump forward to furs u day of the clinton administration in somalia black hawk down in 1993, we go to -- 199 9 when it took 78 days to get this bombing took us 100 hours to across saddam many 1991 and big areas iraq war, afghanistan, the encourage into libya in 2011 which prompted the civil war. now why? i argue there are three overarching reasons first president we elect and jack kennedy was very careful to say there's no school for president. presidents we elect are not ready for prime time. take the last four. bill clinton, george w. bush, barack obama, and now donald trump who was probably least qualified experienced person. they are not ready and usually they rely on advisors who are good at getting them elected but not good at govern second they exercise poor strategic judgment and i'll come back to that poor strategic judgment and third their knowledge an

getting back to the revenue from the tax cuts, back during your era in the reagan administration, after the tax cuts kicked in in 1983, there was increase for the reagan era of 51.4% of revenue. if there is that kind of increase in revenue because of this tax cut it ain't going to be so bad? >> no, that is mythology about the reagan era. david: wait a minute. you're dumping on your own era? >> yes, i am, because i want the truth to be known, that is there was huge recession. there was six quarters of bounceback. david: david, david, please. >> david i have to get the facts out david. >> the fact is that the tax cuts did not kick in until after the recession. once the tax cuts kicked in in 1983, the recession was pretty much over. in 1983 we grew by 4%. that was a hell of a juxtaposition from a recession. >> well i was there, i think i know more about it than you do. david: just quoting the facts from the treasury department, david. you know that. >> the facts during eight years of the reagan administration, real gdp grew at 3 1/2%. david: but the tax cuts did not cut in until 1983. >> i

i worked for george schultz in the reagan administration. the policy of the united states as to oppose the creation of a palestinian state, clear stated policy. and then we changed. so the notion we could say, we changed since the world changed. so we want to have another look. we could change again. in the short run, it seems to me next five or 10 years, i wouldn't predict much of a change. we all know that the the line. the israeli occupation is unsustainable. 50 years is a long time for something to be sustained. it strikes me if we do this back in five years, will you invite us, please. things will not have changed all that much. things can get better. the palestinian economy can get better. governance in particularly the west bank can get better. the attitude of the united states and more broadly donors can improve and help improve palestinian politics. we see this in the taylor force act, which is a statement to the palestinians that the world is tired and no longer permit paying money to people who have committed terrible crimes of te

during the reagan administration, this was a high priority as well. this was the segue into the nuclear forces treaty. that didn't happen so much with the number of arms but to limit the range of them. inf treaty was witnessing the illumination of certain classes of missiles. this piece tells a little bit about that story. it is a beautiful piece. it inspires works of art. as a result of the 1987 inf inaty in causing stein -- onse extend -- cause extend -- this was the diplomat who went out to a limit rush to watch the elimination of the last of these missiles. they were laid out for display and measurement and verification and the entourage would go to a safe location and they were destroyed. observedt military had some of the debris from previous elimination activity and contacted a local businessman to create these fantastic sculptures. the soviets gave the sculptures to their american counterparts as a celebration of the destruction of these missiles. you can see the soviet flag, the -- what was once a weapon is now a beautiful piece of art. this

that's a pattern that you have seen in these speeches since the reagan administration.ed no disasters. but meanwhile what's happening behind the scene? you've got a president that's facing obstruction of justice charges. you've got a president who has said nothing of any substance whatsoever, that our russian adversaries interfered with the democratic process with the democratic elections. >> trevor: even voting against the advantages saying he's not going to impose sanctions against russia. >> he opposed the regime of iran and -- >> trevor: it's mmentf 18 and . we're running out of time. good to see you. you could also hear david every weekend ton new yorker hour. david remnick everybody, we'll be right back. >> trevor: well, that's our live show for tonight. that's our show. stay tuned..."the opposition with jordan klepper" is coming up next. now, here it is... your moment of zen. >> that night our new administration had already taken very swift action. don't laugh at that. forget everything you just heard. for the last minute this adorable man has been delling you di

california, does anyone anybody george duke -- and he was a speech writer for ed mees in the reagan administration he us now the head policy person at pri, on the education track, and delighted to welcome him become. ladies and gentlemen, mr. labs izumi. [applause] thank you for that very kind introduction, thank you for all of us for welcoming we back here to the silicon valley. the biggest group therapy session in the bay area. and so i started my career after law school -- i'm a recovering lawyer. started my career as a speech writer and for those of you who the governor, i was the guy who gave the duke all that charisma. i was the speech writer for the governor, speech writer for ed mees when he was the attorney general of the united states, and behind every great man there's a little japanese guy at a keyboard. i'm glad to hear from joel that the bar is going to be open because i always sound better after a couple of drinks. so i hope all of you partake. i want to thank erica for reaching out and inviting me back here, and thank joel and the conservative liberty forum now, of silicon valley,

administration. when ronald reagan became president and then his successor, h.w. bush, they were focused on the palestinian conflict. this was very important that not only was it given in bethlehem, in palestinian territory, it was an important shift in thinking about american foreign-policy and how they could mediate the settlement between the israelis and palestinians. katie: this particular box came with a personalized note to secretary baker. and it is from the mayor of bethlehem, and you can see that he writes, "welcome to bethlehem. we pray that secretary of state, mr. baker, will succeed in helping us to have peace between palestinians and israelis." it is dated march 12, 1991. alison: continuing with priorities, during the clinton administration, extreme violence broke out in the bosnian region with the breakup of yugoslavia. it was kind of the last gasps of the cold war. the americans were very much involved in the peace process in dayton, ohio. the dayton accord ended that war. the region was a hot spot, and the secretary of state, madeleine albright, wa

when he was talking to gorbachev during those famous summits during the course of reagan's administration, he would say repeatedly, trust but verify. so much that he got sick of it. in fact he stood on the stage and talked about how sick he was of ronald reagan saying trust but verify with donald trump, his policy toward russia is trust. trust felt. not trust his own intelligence apparatus. that is remarkable. that is absolutely astounding that a republican would say this whole business about russian meddling with our election is over because my counterpart denied it. think about it. that sound you hear is ronald reagan rolling in his grave in simi valley california. >> john was just on steven colbert. you articulated this so well. talk a little bit about your views. >> actually, we might've' to switch chairs. this is very deflected for me. but, honestly, you had spoke very eloquently about your views on the republican party. i would love you to share that with the audience if you would. >> sure. look. if you look at the party of lincoln, that is a nice notion , the party that george h to

we are joined by dennis ross, an ambassador from the reagan administration through the obama administration. thank you very much for joining us. i want to ask you snag she brought up in her report. the goal of the protesters. have you been able to gain inside and to yell death to the ayatollah people do that open 3 in the street. >> it's a very good question. what's the goal other than venting and frustration? some of the other chants we have seen has been out of syria and out of lebanon. there is a sense that their keep economic grievances and they are costing iranians at home. there needs to be from the stand point of the protesters, you want to see some response to what are the frustrations they are expressing. they always manifest control. one other point is worth noting. because these are widespread and precisely because they include people who are not necessarily part of the urban elite, in many ways they remind the regime of what produced the fall of the shah. i'm not saying we are on the brink of anything like that, but control the paramount for the regime and in a sense not being i

walker bush or even if the reagan administration people are still around from there this would have a mix of luck it is not there it is pointed out here with. a point on many go ahead richard go ahead go ahead richard. i'm saying mohler robert muller who is the head of this was a ronald reagan appointee to a top law enforcement position he was at george h.w. bush appointee to a top law enforcement position he was at george w. bush to a top law enforcement position moeller so this notion about who is on the staff you know the contribution or to a political party is it or thought you were just appointed to the supreme court well i'm not i mean i just i don't know i'm not so worried about democrat or republican guys i'm more worried about the deep state that's what i worry about ok you know john one of the yes exactly one of the things i really worry about here is if you look because the way things are going man a ford in flint seem to have been unfairly treated because they said something that wasn't true i think a whole string of people. in the obama administration didn't work forthrig

i worked as jim mentioned for george schultz in the reagan administration. the policy of the united states was to oppose the creation of a palestinian moon state. clear stated policy. and then we changed. so the notion that we could say, well, we changed because the world changed and the world keeps on change. so we want to have another look. we could change again. in the short run, i'll close with this. it seems to me short run meaning next five or ten years. i wouldn't predict much of a change. we all know that the, you know the line. the israeli occupation is unsustainable. 50 years is a long time for something unsustainable to be sustained. it strikes me if we were to come back and do this in five years, things will not have changed all that much. things can get better. certainly the palestinian economy can get better. governance in particularly the west bank can get better. the attitude of the united states and more broadly donors can improve and help improve palestinian politics. we see this in the tailor force act which is a statement to the palestini

reagan agenda. it was a reaganite agenda. but the trump administrations been a pretrump agenda as well. >> in 2018 we are going to be looking certainly international but i think domestically at this question of does donald trump believe trumpism? i don't think we know the answer to that. >> let's unpack mark meadows, what did you learn about daca? he wants big. it sounded like to me they want a big -- and come preens comprehensive is defined by a lot of border security money money. >> and thane migration. >> but the wall. and symbolically, democrats will walk away from anything that's a wall. >> i think they will. >> how can they get anything done. >> it's going to be a big blow up. and his desire to push this off until march and to not have it be part of the spending fight, i think that that's what i would do if i was mark meadows, but i wouldn't necessarily give my vote to other things if i were democrats. and they have got a very cranky hispanic part of the party who waited for too long to get this done from their point of view. >> it does seem both s

getting in nato to pay mor, and i would add iran, supporting the iranian protesters, back to reagan administration. supporting solidarity in poland, and lead to end of cold war. >> this is very significant, he is advocating democracy. he wants the people toes that their own form of government. >> and he is actually working on, i mean one thing that the fake media is right about, he is promoting a kind of way of looking at world that we have not seen in 50 years. he is against doing what reagan did, turning upside on its head conventional wigs do wisdom abot what can and can not be done in world. >> doing this with news media, with excep exception of fox andw others who are opposed to him. he continues to do it. david: ed rollins thank you. >> vote in poll, do you believe time for a new and unbiased investigation of clinton team's reckless handling of classified state department e-mails? cast your vote on twitter @lou lobs, and follow lou on twitter, and like him on facebook. on wall street, stock starting 2018 in record territory. dow up 105, s&p gained 22, nasdaq up 103. volume on big board 3.4 b

specifically recommended a group of congressional state department leadership similar to the reagan administration. fourth international atomic energy agency to safeguard the architecture it is doing a very good job to monitor iran compliance with the jc poa with the new verification tools indeed that is the heart of the jc poa and does not sunset over time we could consider involving the verification regime to a universal application and fifth we must make worldwide progress comprehensive commercially based fuel services with fuel supply and without this progress additional problem could present themselves in the future. so i will make a few comments on iran and north korea. obviously we are on the precipice of a new crisis if the president refuses to approve the sanctions waivers and united states fails to meet its commitment under the deal. it puts a straitjacket on the activities with the jc poa misses the most important feature such as 15 year limitation of the tee11 where iran could have no more than 300 kilograms of uranium enriched. this is a very tight constraint. and then to cover every

never card that's not true false the greatest what happened in two thousand in the reagan administration the next biggest one happened in bush forty three and the tax cuts became permanent god forbid i should say that in two thousand and ten with barack obama in fact there were seven other tax bills that were better than this one same goes for black unemployment it started in two thousand and ten this was a mere continuation and not to be a totally magic level that you got to give him credit for when he only point no one more and more it's been going or it's really going up the eakin make believe like it happened overnight that's the problem all the platitudes of fact checkers will come out tomorrow we'll see how much is true or not it sounds great i hope somebody is know the road appeals occur i'm not convinced they will i think the polls will stay with the way they are and dats because of the first year we've gone through all right we've got to talk about foreign policy now jim chatteris is with us but this is what the president tonight had to say about north korea like no regime has o

could you comment on the incident during the reagan administration with the bombing of the airlines inrenada? >> barbados? >> no. grenada. that : powell and his people are from grenada. so what would cause him twice about bombing the airport? with that airstrip? so the second question is you mention in belgium and that also was bombed working diligently and began to have relationships to talk to nikita khrushchev so they saw perhaps they were leaning towards socialism so if you mention the black star line did he have any serious relationship where he could cultivate a relationship that could have bridged the gap? and if so with that political wizardry would he have to think it would be easy for him to be deported? it was very easy for the united states to classify him to be subversive and to be deported. i am trying to put myself in that frame of mind to see if he thought about that and what was his options what was articulating those legitimate aspirations? lastly,. >> no no no. [laughter] when the lieutenant goodman probably was shut down -- shot down in syria he was captured and jes

government was reagan administration, to my recollection that was not bear marketby a big or recessionither u.s. nor japan, which was the target back then in the 80's. the japan bubble did not burst until 1990, which was well after know,otectionist -- you the americans forced the japanese to move their factories to the united states. so i don't know. it is a great vote-getter talking about protectionism. isactually make it happen very dangerous thing for the economy and market. people realize that, and ultimately if you look at the constitution it is congress that decides the commercial relationship between the united states and other nations, not the executive office. one of the other risks addressed is the idea of complacency settling into the markets. you have trade potentially materializing this year as a major challenge, that it did not last year. i want to throw a quick chart. gauge of 18his different assets to look at risk appetite. earlier this week, we had a jump to the highest levels since mid-2015. last time it happened, we had a 7% drop in the s&p, the worst quarterly perfo

during the administration they said about the soviet union and communism and also what ronald reagandepicted communism is the evil empire. what about the people that have that viewpoint. that should be scary. only a quarter of millennial stink that democracy is an essential for living in this country. like they say on those tv commercials, but wait, there's more. there's also things such as school safety, violence in the classroom. when you look at the latest federal statistics it's actually shocking to see the amount of violence that's taken place across america's school campuses. according to these federal statistics, 65% of the schools reported more than one incident of violence that translates to more than three quarters of a million crimes committed on public school campuses and it's even worse than the sum, nearly nine in ten public middle schools report that there've been crimes of violence reported on the campuses. let's put some faces to these statistics. one of the things i tried to do in the book is not only to talk about the data but to also tell the human story behind th

but i will say this, steve bannon was in the pentagon during the reagan administration, he is a navalde of the sort of media obsession over how many facebook adverts they took out and so on. he understands the geo political threat and he takes that very seriously. so when he remarks that these people should not probably have been in trump tower taking meetings with campaign, senior campaign staff without lawyers in the room, edwards said that that i would say that is a bad thing to say. did he say that to trump and his son? i wasn‘t privy to what was going on in trump tower at the time, i don‘t know who learned what, when. i cannot imagine he would stay silent if he knew that was going on. but again, go ahead. a couple of other things that were said, which you might shed some light on, although you were not with him throughout the campaign. he said trump‘s ultimate goal was never to win, was that your understanding? he calls him befuddled and horrified, quoting bannon each time. yes, i think there was a point at which the campaign advisers had sort of conditioned the candidate, trump,

and, david, your comment about the reagan administration leaking a lot. david gurgan will take you up. >> of course something else that's hurting the current president is that his genuineness about liking these questions flies in the face of his own behavior. when was it. >> 2014 he tweeted this. i'm starting this think there is something seriously wrong with president obama's mental health. why won't he stop the flights. that's when the ebola was happening. psycho! >> yeah. this will all be taken care of when it's donald trump against oprah winfrey in 2020. >> glad you brought that up. we are going to be discussing that coming up. gentlemen, thank you very much. >>> all right. so the author of this "fire and fury" that is causing so much of both in the white house, michael wolff, he will be on cnn tonight with don lemon 10:00 p.m. eastern. >>> okay. oprah winfrey sparking talk of a possible run in 2020 after a rousing speech at the golden globes last night. she issued a call to action for an entire nation. brian stelter joins us tonight. what a night. wh

. >> i'm an alumnus of the justice department and i've worked there in the reagan administration.e enormous respect for the street agents and the guys who pound the bricks at the fbi, but there something wrong at the top of the institution. i don't think that the director understands that yet. i don't think's attorney general jeff sessions, a longtime friend of mine, has taken an aggressive enough action. the only way we will cure this product within the borough is to get all the facts out. it will be on president to unpleasant for a lot of people. the american people need to have faith in their law enforcement system. right now, that faith is corroded. >> laura: i think it's shattered. either we learn everything we purge. >> too much distrust at this point to say we are going to release a little bit but not this and not the other thing. this is a time to get back on track. i hope sessions does it. just open it up. >> laura: great to see you. it's always great. just a minute, we will tell you how california is planning to register illegal immigrants to vote. my question is, what t

leadership, simile -- similar in spirit to that formed around arms control issues during the reagan administration. fourth -- the international atomic energy agencies safeguards architecture need strengthening in the 21st century. the iaea is doing a good job monitoring iran's compliance with the jcpoa using an array of knew verification tools provided by that agreement. indeed, verification is really the heart of the jcpoa and it does not sunset. over time we may be able to , consider involving the jcpoa verification regime to more nearly universal application. and fifth, we must make worldwide progress in developing comprehensive, based kabbalah advanced nuclear fuel services, including fuel supply, waste storage and disposition. without this progress, additional courts, iran's, are likely to present themselves in the future. let me make a few comments about iran and then a few on north korea. on iran, we're on the precipice of a new crisis in iran if the president refuses to approve the sanctions waivers and if the united states, not iran, that fails to meet its commitments under the deal. the

david: speaking of messages, i want to switch gears to iran because you back during the reagan administratione chair of a board that was responsible for radio free europe, for radio liberty, for some very important outlets that sent messages behind the iron curtain. had tremendous effect on dissidents in eastern europe and russia. they were it not for these organizations, these messaging services they wouldn't have the success creatingdown fall of the soviet union. can we do the same in iran? >> the answer is yes. winning battle of ideas, you can do on a day-to-day basis as we did during the cold war. radio free europe and radio liberty acted as if they were radio stations inside of those communist countries. voice of america talked about the america and the u.s. government. so we should do the same today. now these organizations still exist but they are a fraction of what they should be. david: media changed dramatically. >> this is where you can do it. not just through interest additional radio and tv but internet. they have very few internet programs at voice of america and radio liberty.

listen, it was one of the massive failures, one of the few, thankfully, of the reagan administration with amnesty. i would say this, caution people on team trump upset with the president. believe in him. if we show compassion toward daca, we can show heart there and toughness everywhere else in terms of end the visa lottery. at least severely restrict, if not end chain migration. control the border which we've done a lot of by the way, a lot of hard work f we do that in one grant deal then we're going to, by the way, not only do great work for the mesh people but also -- american people but win the hispanic vote in 2020. >> president trump, let me make the following point. i'm not worried about president trump. i'm worried about the status quo in washington, particularly in congress. we have to remember, negative effects of illegal immigration and our come eyed legal immigration. it's depressing wages. it's costing jobs. it's 130 billion each year. >> we have to fix that, chain migration. >> they just put out a score and it is expensive the program flou. thank you all very much for y

disaster for conservatism in america, at least the one i recognize from growing up under the reagan administration. >> there's a free choice involved here. donald trump had to choose between apologizing for unfortunate word. all people make mistakes. he could have said i meant poor countries in great economic difficulty. he could have said anything except that word because he made fun of the people of those countries. or by denying it, he's taken away the chance to apologize for it. he's stuck with it. this word is now attached to the republican party. i'm going to ask brett about that. if i were a moderate african-american voter who occasionally votes republican, i would feel embarrassed by this guy. >> what could happen to the republican party is what happened to the california republican party after 1994 when pete wilson signed on to an initiative that offended minority voters in a fundamental way. >> hispanic voters mainly. >> now in california, there's not a single statewide elected republican. they may not even be fielding candidates after tprimary. >> they might not come in second. so as br

i was back in fisa in a prehistoric age in the reagan administration as a young intern. i have opposed that court because the standards are so low in terms of engaging in surveillance of u.s. citizens. so it always raises alarm when people go to the fisa court as opposed to a regular federal court to engage in surveillance. if you add to that that they used dossier, if it is true, that was funded by a political candidate, and a political party at the dnc, the basis for the fisa, you are talking very serious allegations. now, we don't know for sure, there are other serious allegations here that should concern others. the suggestion of money laundering. >> martha: that's what i just wanted to ask you about. the issue of money laundering that's something that steve bannon also raised in the book. he said i think this is where the mueller investigation is going. what do you make of it? >> i think he may be right about that. that mueller brought on his team notably, a number of people whose specialty is to follow computer and financial lines. we know that there have been subp

in the '50s and '60s, inequality was increasing slightly but it really dropped during the reagan administration and never really recovered. progressive tacks. during the eisenhower administration the highest tax bracket was 90%. now the corporate rate is 35%, and the new tax proposal knocks it down to 20%, and you can see just basically from this graph that the top 1%'s share of the total income has been going up, up, up. now, i want you to focus on that picture for a little bit. for selfish reasons. that's my beautiful granddaughter, and i wrote this book and dedicated it to her. the affirmative state indeed narrowed economic inequality, expanded civil rights, and maintained a prosperous economic order. the role of the state is to maintain a balance in public policy, not privileging one part of society over another. good government strengthens each citizen and with it the nation. the gifted generation is the abiding proof of that maxime. the policies to regenerate the nation and people are will known, and i talk about them throughout the book. the accomplishments of government in the decades a

as a reporter at the associated press in the 1980's, he helped exposed how the reagan administration was secretly sending arms to iran in what became known as the iran-contra scandal. bob parry also revealed the role of the u.s.-backed nicaraguan contras in drug trafficking here in the united states. >> the contras became involved in drug trafficking in the 1980's, it was done poorly to help raise money for themselves. a were in a very unique position , working with the united states government on one side and then also becoming a way for south american drug dealers to move their supplies, their material, the contraband, up into the united states. became an the contras intermediary for that, they also had some protection because they were working for the u.s. government and the u.s. government was very hesitant to blow the whistle on them. amy: that is robert parry speaking on democracy now! in 2006. since 1996, parry ran the news website consortiumnews.com. in 2015, he received the i.f. stone medal for journalistic independence from the nieman foundation. and the times up and #metoo

. >> i wouldn't say the biggest most significant tax reform, biggest since the reagan administration. the companies, they love the tax cuts. and i would say this, a lot of economic numbers there he was throwing around, they were true. the economy is doing well, the stock market is really doing well. and there is something to be said for president trump, what his critics don't like about him is his big mouth. his big mouth is cheerleading the stock market in the american economy and resonating with blue collar workers, hey, we are number one. >> even if they don't have money in the market, so many told me and you, they feel like it trickles down to them. the president couldn't resist bringing up his opponent in the election. >> i know. >> hillary dclinton. >> what if the stock market if his opponent had won. >> had the opposing party to me won, some of whom you backed, some of the people in the room, and instead of being up almost 50%, the stock market is up since my election almost 50%, rather than that, i believe the stock market from that level, the initial level, would have been do

point out there was a korean airliner that was shot down by russia decades ago during the reagan administration because of mistaken communication, thinking that it was incoming rather than understanding. this was the height of the cold war. >> there are consequences for these kinds of errors, particularly in an era where we have instant communication. there's not been an ability to communicate so quickly. so the stakes are really high. >> or instant taunting as well. >> that's for sure. >> i want to also ask you about something a lot closer to home, which is that the president had his first physical since becoming president. dr. ronny jackson, whom you know very well, who has treated two previous presidents, george w. bush and president obama, is going to be briefing the world tomorrow, but he did put out a statement saying that this president is in excellent shape. there have been questions raised about his exercise, diet, fast food. >> andrea, i do know dr. jackson well. he traveled everywhere with president obama when president obama traveled around the world. i got to know dr. jackson well.

that's a pattern that you have seen in these speeches since the reagan administration. they wanted no disasters. but meanwhile what's happening behind the scene? you've got a president that's facing obstruction of justice charges. you've got a president who has said nothing of any substance whatsoever, that our russian adversaries interfered with the democratic process with the democratic elections. >> trevor: even voting against the advantages saying he's not going to impose sanctions against russia. >> he opposed the regime of iran and -- >> trevor: it's mmentf 18 and . we're running out of time. good to see you. you could also hear david every weekend ton new yorker hour. david remnick everybody, we'll david remnick everybody, we'll be right back. ♪ hello. smack-smack-smack (laughter) oooh. doritos. crunch (elephant roars) are we gonna talk about this? nope. smack my name's dustin. hey, dustin. grab a seat. woman: okay. moderator: nice to meet you. have you ever had car trouble in a place like this? (roaring of truck) yes and it was like the worst experience of my li

a man who is a top economist at harvard and worked in the ronald reagan administration is saying it,n cannot be controlled, he's marty feldstein of harvard. and i want to bring in somebody who's got billions in the market to comment on that and to say whether marty's right or wrong. bruce biddles. first your comment on the market at this moment. nine minutes left of trade, bruce? >> well, it is a great moment for the markets and i think a lot going for it. as you mentioned, it's not just the dow going. this is a very broad-based rally, and a lot of confidence in the economy, a lot of confidence overseas and i think momentum is obviously on the side of the bulls. liz: yes, martin feldstein feels the fed has fumbled. we've had in an exclusive interview, mike jackson, runs a company. he knows exactly what he's doing at auto nation when it comes to figuring out what interest rates will do. he said hikes in interest rates will not derail the stock market. marty thinks it's not going to work. we should have done this long ago. where do you stand on that? >> i kind of agree with that. rates

no way democrats are trying to do this, it is, tip o'neill shut down the government in the reagan administration three times on president reagan, reagan was blamed for the shutdown every time. we get the narrative, we understand what happens with this. no one wants a shutdown, destabilizes every federal employee, everyone trying to get a permit, they have to connect with the federal government. shusn't save money. we constantly get the blame. >> laura: and i have to tell you, senator langford, not even as fun as 2013, because we don't have any doctor sues readings scheduled as far as can i tell. unless you share with us. any poetry, any songs? >> it is bed time for a lot of children around the country but not a story from me, get it from your own dad. >> laura: senator langford, thanks for joining us. let's get the latest from the reporters on the ground. so many aspects of this story. some of the other networks i've been watching, checking in throughout the day. they're giving you a sliver of what's happening. understand the fum context. leland witter is on capitol hill, ed henry at the white h

there was a lesson learned from the reagan administration, michael deaver, control the message of the day kinds of things that i think are old-fashioned today and do not work with the news cycle and social media, and there is more opportunity to talk a lot more, to get a whole lot more access. i was not a fan of the increased reporting on things like visitor .ogs i understand the point of it, i always thought it created for an old u.s. treasury department hand. i wanted the treasury secretary to be able to meet with a person or the head of a business or some people in the sector of an economy without speaking markets, or the head of a country without speaking markets, that there is information that is important for policymakers to get that you do not necessarily want in public, and the same with negotiating. you cannot negotiate anything in the public. something as comics as a nuclear deal or a trade agreement -- something as complex as a nuclear deal or a trade agreement, because all negotiations involve give and take. first.volves people give activists go crazy, so you do not get to