not ronald ragan, margaret thatcher, me. >> what was the.of the lecture. >> i explain how it is the there are so many good generous smart loving people like my cousins and neighbors and democrats and how do they reject back in reason, and in doing so, invariably side with evil failure and wrong. you look at ferguson missouri. and decide the this racist cop shot down an innocent young black child in cold blood. how do you get it so wrong. but how you look at the middle east and decided not only is the tiny liberal democracy in israel the problem, not all of the homophobic and a little bit anti-semitic muslim nation, the all of the nations on the planet, that is the one nation you're going to boycott and sanction. how do you look at the facts and get some wrong. i explain it in a way that is satisfied so many. my history is an educator and a television writer and a comedian. the movie writer and a documentarian. i don't usually get involved in politics. is my first time in washington dc as a speaker. it continues to go viral this day. smith who is your illustrator. >> cartoonist. the funny

so did ronald ragan. non-catholic, a guy from illinois, ronald ragan, he saw this as providential as well.th they both see it as what ragan called the divine plan. the acronym is a phrase that ronald reagan in his closest friend advisory, clark and they talked about the divine plan so often that they had an acronym, the dp. he became like a grandfather to me.. so many times he would say the dp, paul. i would say, what's the dp, the first time i heard it. the divine plan. strong sense of god's providence. the forces of freedom that we are trying to reverse communism's hole on the soviet union and eastern europe. >> what's the connection between march 30 and may 13, 1981? >> ronald reagan was shot. here in washington, not far from where we are right now. up by the washington hilton, he was shot by john hinckley. he was never part of any international conspiracy. he was trying to get the attention of jodie foster, the actress that could have shot somebody else. that day, he looked in the newspaper, they beat

he brought what is now ronald ragan national airport. the correspondence between the two in valley forge, advising his adopted son not be taken. after we succeeded in yorktown and the country celebrated, the washington was horny there remain son. there were four young children. george and martha adopted two of them. they raised them as their own. by this time, there's no longer current washington. he was the greatest living american. the farm and ranch and lived out his life with martha and adopted grandson and granddaughter. in the 1780s, as our young patient struggled, our founding fathers found we needed a new constitution. george washington presided over him. his young adopted grandson observed this. then we ratified the constitution. most of the constitution's were written with george washington in mind. then george washington will solve the rest for us and his successors will follow his example. it was a great year as our first president. from mount vernon to philadelphia and back, he watched his grandfather. not just having one in

in a way that would kind of inspire in a way ronald ragan. we think of reagan is the initial d regulator. a lot of it began under jimmy carter. his administration was extraordinarily hostile. organized labor and publicly so. one of his top officials said look at what the ua to feel pain. uaw makes too much money. it needs to be paid los. that was not kinda gassed that was not out of the ordinary the carter administration. so then comes ragan bringing in what we now call ragan democratic. connor had for stuff organized labor to such an extent that ragan comes in and not only does ragan not an see the sitting president but democrats lose 12 seats in the senate. that's an extraordinary number considering that only a third of the senate 33 seats are every. we lost some of the biggest names. of the 20th century. frank church, these are the kind of people they represented the liberals the epitome of the achievements of the 20th century. they felt like they had saved the world from fascism. they had ever seen three years of economic expansion probab