president and america not being able to do anything with the uranium hostage crisis to the next day ronald reagan being sworn in and the iranians saying take him. we don't want him anymore. and reagan came in and was just so confident. that's one part of it. also i grew up in the shadow of the ill effects of the 1960s. my sister who is fine. but my sister had a lot of friends you know, she'd listen to jefferson airplane and my parents would go downstairs and find different things in her room every night and i'd hear the screaming and yelling which all very natur things but things that seemed very radical in 1971 and 72 and 73 and we were very coervative baptist family. but i saw not in my sister because my sister is just doing wonderfully and has done wonderfully but in all of her friends. some of them getting knocked out by drugs. some of them itetting knocked up. getting pregnant. just the chaos. and see, i was six years younger tha my sister. i saw everything through my parents' eyes. i saw them looking out the window. even in atlanta, georgia. looking at kidsho had been boy scouts three years

why ronald reagan won't make it. his biography of reagan was the triumph of imagination, i commented on the review that you could have gone lloyd's of london in 1997 to imagine richard reeves puttin the words reagan and triumph in the same sentence. others conclude brinkley more recently, his esteemed val, dwight eisenwer, a decade after he left office, as has been suggested by john, this admiration tends to be limited to the cold war story, the foreign policy story and the other part of it is the revelation srting ten years ago of reagan's extensive personal ratings in the 70s, letters in office which made us realize he did lot of thinking for himself, not merely speechwriters and staffers advisers. however, we tend either to ignore or get wrong his domestic policy story. to paraphrase reagan's famous movie line, we are left with the question of where is the rest of you, the conventional wisdom still nds to be set the rest of reagan's presidency was a fiasco like his domestic economic policy, every other column in th

it's similar to ronald reagan's in another aspect. you talk mucking things up. neo-cons have tried to claim reagan as they're own despite the fact that neo-cons trashed reagan from his first daysn 19 81 until the time he left office in 19 89. they said he loved to trade eore than he loved human rights, that he dealtith the soviets too much. they were enred that he was sitting down with gorbachev trying to strike arms control deals. but reagan's rhetoric was opposite of obama's, but reagan knew what we needed after jimmy carter showed weakness across the globe. reagan kw we needed to talk tough. but reagan was realist. he oy sent our troops into battle two times. >> host: you always say this in speeches. talkedbout the evil empire. he had a small revolution of candor. he was speaking truth as an american president for the first time in a generation about who the soviets were, etc., but let us remember he did not invade eastern europe, you know? [laughter] he knew diplomacy, honesty, words, the force of going forward and explaining the way to go. >> guest: well, an

a new book about ronald reagan, "the age of reagan" the conservative counterrevolution 1980-1989 i steven hayward. andanways ronald reagan continues to inform our politics. after the 2006 elections just to recall one way which also happened after the 1992 elections some members of congress were quick to declare the end of reaganismr the end of the reagan era. reagan has also found sometng of an admire an oval office. the current holder of the presidency said quote ronald reagan change the trajectory of america in a way that richard nixon did not and a way that bill clinton did not. president obama'sesire to be like reaganite think it's evident in his been much remarked upon. the last timi hosted a book forum about reagan was for john patrick diggins's book on the former president and many of you may know professor higgins has passed some but i recal his central thought of that event which was rond reagan had changed the world o foreign policy and therefore international affairs but he had accomplished very little at home in the way of liberalization of the a society which was as you may r

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and in doing so we need to look no farther than the example of ronald reagan. reagan instantly understood that american conservatism must be of the people, it must be for the ideal of liberty and it must be nonideological. and we can see this from the moment that some of the clinical stage in his famous speech a time f choosing, the goldwater campaign, he says quote you and i are told increasingly have to choose between a left or right. well, i would like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or a right. there is only up or down. reagan's conservatism was not beaconsfieldism. that almost the just a ideology that is very much like cannon use. it was what he believed was human freedom. the national review asked him to write a columnriting on the debacle turkey said the conservatives had only lost the battle in the continuing war for freedom and that voters would rally to the conservatism once they realize that conservatives won't represent the forgotten american that simple soul who goes to work, and knows there ain't no such thing as free lunch. i think the

he's got more votes than ronald reagan had, and ronald reagan got his package through. obama's got 59 in the senate, and he's got a 70-vote margin in the house. he's got to pull his party together, and he can win it. >> i love seeing pat buchanan doing the chop at the reagan presidential library. there's something beautiful about it. it is a beautiful day today. we'll talk more about it. we'll talk more about frank rich. president obama was on "60 minutes" last night explaining why he has every incentive to get this health care bill right, and also, of course, the public option issue and a big speech today on wall street. what does he need to do? we'll talk more about that as well coming up. >> okay. but first let's go to new york and get the latest news. >> guys, thanks a lot. by the way, i don't want to make anybody jealous. we also have an audience here. we've got two guys smoking cigarettes right here in the corner. >> thanks for coming in early. >> welcome to new york. i'm willie geist. good morning to you. mike barnicle. we are known as the guys who weren't invite

are they going to be like the ones who opposed ronald reagan during the early days? what? >> i would not mind if the republicans who really liked this bill went for it, if in the same breath, those democrats who really truly oppose it do not vote for it, but i think a lot of democrats are going to vote for this just based on partisan loyalty, and they do not think it is right or good for america, but they want to be in unison, and it is the worst partisan politics i have seen in a long time. it does not make sense, neil. neil: in 1993, they were largely in unison with bill clinton with health-care reform, and it got off track, and they did not vote for anything. here, they could vote for something. what do you make of that? >> heck in 1993, they did vote on something, if you remember -- back in 1993. there was the income tax. neil: you argue that that is what killed them. >> that will kill them this time. i do not want to win that way, because they altogether vote for a lousy bill. i would much rather have a good democrats in their voting for good bills, and then i would s

hasn't worked, and that wasn' the way when ronald reagan cam to power. as he often put it, you know, if you hold up the high standard, articulate your position the voters will come to dond the voters will come to us. we have to run chasing them for leadership. and finally, yes, washington is mostly the problem, not the solution. and i certainly hope that from the states and cities around the country we doet some looking different from t tired old leers the repubcan party has no >> thank you tom phillips. tom fuentes? >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, joy to be with you today as a republican county chairman for 2years let me tell you it kills me to be in a group of this large and not be a fund raiser. [laughter] negative -- >> we could pass the hat. [laughter] hope for the conservative movement and it is in the republican party and for those of you that see it differently, i really do think if we are going tbe a movement of hope that hope has to be placed in the party that is the vehicle of the great party system at h proven itself to be the best of sys

bush, to ronald reagan to destroyed the economic basis of the country. >> jimmy carter was terrible. >> a. b., i want to ask you, did the former president put the white house in an untenable position? everybody is talking about this right now on the heels of yesterday's house action. you know, where's the good news here? >> there's not a lot of good news on health care today, as you know, ed. it's really -- today was a momentum killer as we'd like to say. >> wait a minute, a.b. four out of the five bills out of the house -- or out of the congress are for the public option. so i will say that we've got great momentum. finish your answer. >> not over yet. >> okay. in terms of getting votes for a bill that actually becomes law, that will be a different question, ed. now, back to jimmy carter, obviously jimmy carter is an important person and they're not going to come out -- robert gibbs, the president's spokesman did try to come out and disagree politely with that statement. it is exactly what they do not need. it fuels the fire. after this week of -- one solid week of joe wilson, they

not one rson i knew voted for ronald reagan, as a matter of fact but i did hear about conservatives. i heard that it did not believe in progress. i heard that the were generally grumpy, and that they we essentially stuck in permanent nflict with the changing society. now, as i grew up i noticed that certain themes around me did not appear bit these banks. the liberals seem to be generally the ones who were anding i history talking about entitlements and 50 year old grievances. meanwhile the conservatives and new attended to be wild eyed radicals. they were school reformers, entrepreneurs and crusaders agains the public seor that they believed made life harder for most americans on tax day, on payday, for that matter on almost every day. when it came to a eii found that it was the most buoyant spirit of reform and utopia that i could possibly have imagined. a place with an abiding belief that the world can be a better ace with the tools of the individual opportunity and free enterprise if we chgose to make it so. so here is what i wonder. i wonder whether i had it wrong abt conservati

right now if ronald reagan showed up we wouldn't be prepared to support him. the infrastructure isn't fair. we don't have the organizations right now at the grass-roots level, state level, a national level. when reagan ran for president in 1976 and then 1980 we had something called the new right, the old right a when we had a big movement out there that could support him he could come into oshkosh at 11:00 at night and made huneds of people that ha gotten together in a few hours to welcome him to oshkosh. so the first that has to happen is we have to at the grass-roots level reild the movement and then the next leader will appear. >> i think of someone on the scene right now that control this type of crowds, she's very controversial. we know her name is sarah palin. do you see her as someone who can potentially built that grass-roots movement now that she's leaving the governorship of alasks? tom? >> she didn't call me before she made the announcement. i don't have much to share. i don't know what that agenda is. >> fielder, we have a question. >> can you hear

what would ronald reagan say? these guys do remember ronald reagan, don't they? here's what he did say about medicare when it was just a twinkle in some socialist, fascist, community-hating organizing democrat's eye. >> we can write to our congressmen, to our senators. we can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these individual liberties and freedoms and that the moment th key issue is we do not want socialized medicine. write those letters now. call your friends and tell them to write them. in you don't, this program i promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow rs and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day, as norman thomas said, we will awake to find that we have socialism. and if you don't do this and if p i don't do it, one of these days you and i are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in america when men were free. >> that was ronald reagan, 1961, on a rec

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ronald reagan's top economist says think again. way. neil: i remember the revolution vividly. >> with the people are saying is they want to make sure that money is not too tight. if it is too tight, that is what caused the great depression. it is not true. not that monetary policy did not affect the great depression. i am sure it did. it was led by a terrorist. you have these huge tax increases in 1932. neil: it essentially started a worldwide trade war. >> it was the biggest tax increase in traded products in the free world during non wartime. they raised the tax rate to 63%. they put in the estate tax. they instituted a gift tax. they increased all sorts of other taxes. it is amazing what they did. in 1936, they've raised the highest personal income tax rate from 63% to 79%. this is the biggest tax increase ever. these people are all worried about monetary policy. what you also see what happened is during the great depression, from 1932 until 1937, because of very easy monetary policy, increasing the monetary base, we had a total infl

it was in the spring of 1977, just a few months after ronald reagan lost the republican nomination by a hair's breath that reagan met with his staff and advisors, a reunion. they were depressed. reagan came before them and said, i'm here to tell you where we're going to go and i'm not just saying it it because i believe it it, i'm saying it because i know it. we are conservatives. we are people who believe in free enterprise. we believe our principles properly applied will lead to prosperous, peaceful, better country. liberals, no matter how sincero patriotic, they may be. we as conservatives tend to lose elections when two things happen. the people representing us are claiming to represent us, make mistakes. richard nixon being an obvious example. and liberals temporarily run as moderates to get elected and convince enough people they have changed their stripes. reagan said, what has jimmy carter done? he campaigned moderate, i he will govern from the left? why people who pay the bills to the democratic party won't have it any other way, special interests and their party. if he gover

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and ronald reagan... the things that were said about f.d.r. were similar to the things that were said about me. >> reporter: he blamed the media for whipping up controversy. >> the easiest way to get on television is to be really rude. to be rude to somebody. >> reporter: especially on the issue of race. >> this is catnip to the media. >> reporter: but on letterman today when asked about jimmy carter's assertion that president obama's critics are racist, the president opted for comedy. >> first of all, i think it's important to realize that i was actually black before the election. (laughter) >> reporter: tomorrow, the president gives his health care media blitz a rest as he turns his attention to a three-day summit at the united nations. katie? >> couric: chip reid here in new york city tonight. thank you, chip. coming up next, the h1n1 flu vaccine. will your child need one shot or two? still haven't tried activia? listen to this story. my problem was occasional irregularity. my commercials didn't convince you? i am definitely a skeptic. actu

he's rad chasm ronald reagan is a right wing nut. americans could look at him and say no, he's not. >> exactly that's what i'm saying. reagan would sit there and smilend go oh, there they go. barack obama temperamentally is doing the same exact thing he seems cool. temperamentally seems cool down the middle. >> are we going to look back and think of his time -- >> far left. >> yeah. listen, this guy has moved aggressively to take over the auto industry. he fired the ceo of gm. he has passed a budget that racks up more debt over the next eight years than all 43 his pred ses or thes -- predecessors combined. mbined. he has passed budgets that the director of the cbo says, again who a democrat appointed the director of the congressional budget office says his budgets are unstainable. i.e. they will wreck the economy. wreck it. that the top democrat in the senate budget committee said these deficits will destroy america. whatoes the president do? he pass these budgets. people like me say these are unsustainable. they're going to cripple t

they certainly made a profound difference in the life of ronald reagan. in mid-october of 1965, my wife and i spent two days traveling with reagan in southern california when he was considering whether to run for governor of that state. at the end of the second day, reagan took us up this steep, winding road to his home at the pacific palisades overlooking los angeles, to service some ice tea and cookies. while he and nancy were in the kitchen, i walked over to the bookcases in their library didn't and begin examininghe titles. they were almost without exception works of history, economics and politics. they included consertive classics such as the road to serfdom, witnesseconomics in one lesson, and a book i had never heard of. fredric bastien, the law. well, that wasn't good enough for me so i began taking out the books from the shelves and looking at them. and my wife said no, don't do that. i said it's okay. looking around. and they were dogeared, these books, annated. and here i realized was the personal library of a serious, thoughtful individual. wh

in many ways, ronald reagan continues to inform our politics. afte the 2006 elections, just recalled one way, which happened after the 1992 election some members of congress were quick to declare the end of reaganism , the end

this was ronald reagan's dream. and i don't see how anybody could have trouble with the idea of trying to protect yourself against somebody who is trying to nuke you. that defies common sense. what we are seeing is the obama administration stepping away from the requirement to defend ourselves and president bush did the heavy lifting. he went into europe and said to the russians, you have six months and we are going to develop missile defense. the democrats say it is too expensive and can't do it. we developed the technology. not only do we hit a missile with a missile, but we have demonstrated at incredibly high speeds we hit a spot on the missile with a missile. we have the technical ability to do it and no will to follow through. and what frightens me, particularly gentlemen, this decision is not made in a vacuum but a pattern we are seeing in the armed services committee and some of these things from a security point of view we can hardly talk about. this is not one decision by itself, we are also seeing a very

he is the first man that ronald reagan hired when he ran for governor. what is this all about?this is a grass-roots effort. these people are here because they oppose what they see happening in america today. >> i could not sit on the couch any longer. i could not watch our country go down the tubes. >> give us our country back. >> take back america. >> take america back. that is exactly what these people were saying. everywhere i go, these folks are handing me the constitution. they feel very strongly about it. they are about to write to this tea party that is under way. tomorrow they're heading to new mexico. albuquerque first and then lost purses, new mexico. do you guys watch sean hannity? they made me do it. back to you. sean: we now turn to a story that may explain why harry reid is tanking in the polls in his home state of nevada. bob brown, the director of advertising for his home town newspaper, "the las vegas review journal" was in attendance. as he shook his hand, he said that i hope you go out of business. the review journal was not about to stand for that sort of bu

that is what ronald reagan knew. it was a negotiating tactic. it was one of the biggest boldest bluffs of the last century, but president obama caves in, while he's holding all of the cards. why, why would we do that? oh, by the way in a totally unrelated story, several massive corporations, some of which part of his, you know, financial team there in the oval office announced right after the russian fiasco that they would be meeting with vladimir putin about some lucrative new business opportunities in russia. wow. what a coincidence. so, president obama had time for all of that, but general mcchrystal, submitted his 66-page report on august 30th. check the calendar. that's when the president was, of course, vacationing on a $20 million estate in martha's vinyard. obviously he couldn't decide then. i mean, look at him. you know, these guys over here, sure, they got to do that, but he's playing golf. it's been nearly a month. we can't commit to doing what our own general, mr. president, your general deemed necessary in afghanistan. whose side ar

temperature at ronald reagan washington national airport 60 with a light southeast wind. rain, just under an inch after reagan national, just over an inch at dulles international and .75 inches after thurgood marshall, bwi international airport. the rain is coming down and the temperatures are holding steady. upper 50s to 60s. 59 in fairfax, 59 in manassas, 61 in annapolis. now nearly an inch in the washington area, almost an inch at dulles airport. 1.21. culpepper, over .75 inches and .67 many hagerstown. raining along the i-95 corridor. a break in the action in loudoun county. by and large, most of the area is going to continue to see rain in the overnight. be ready for that. the rain is now ending in far southwestern virginia. the rain will taper off early on our sunday morning, but nonetheless, you need to be ready for a cloudy and wet start. the earlier you get up, the wetter it is going to be. gradually tomorrow we will see an end to the rain showers. a saturday night soaker for certain across our area. one main area of low pressure coming through tomorrow. most of

if you don't like any -- let's say you didn't like ronald reagan and the kids are singing about ronald you know, would that be fair for the kids to be forced to support and endorse and. >> no. sean: sounds like a song of praise for crying out loud. >> i'm not saying this video is ok it certainly should not have been on youtube and shouldn't have been taped. these parents are horrified for good reason. how you can let children -- not what you are saying. we have hundred distances of children or students admiring barack obama and they are compared to the third rite. >> where does that happen? >> i'm saying this has been compared to the third like and that's an exaggeration. >> i described what it was owe cullive personality. we have the video that's been seen by millions of people. the stuff we know or the stuff we learn or whatever. which is -- which says the country should be represented by a tank, which the tides foundation funding. we had the think with an nea. this is not an accident going on. >> teacher who doesn't know what she is doing. >> the principal should be fired. sean: sho

in 2002 or 2003 that bush's policies on all the major issues, his positions were identical to ronald reagan's. and in 2003 we were hearing much about bush as from the right as a president who would complete theeagan revolution. so, you know, that's important to remember as well. as far as the czars in the obama administration, man, i'm with you there. you know, it was jfk who came into office, you know, fearful of the permanent government wanting to circumvent actually roosevelt before him because you couldn't get things done if those government bureaucrats got in the way. andne of the interesting sort of reversals in our politics is that conservatives want to recognize the value of having bureaucrats running much of government because they would slow things down. it's not in the nature of a bureaucrat to speed change along, but quite the opposite, to involve it alln red tape. that's why when you go back and look at herbert hoover, you see his defense. herbt hoover was a progressive, too, if you'll remember, a bull mser. his defse of efficient government. you know, he didn't underand why cool

the former deputy assistant secretary of defense under ronald reagan will join us. as i mentioned moments ago, folks in bedford are pretty upset about qaddafi's presence there. at least one resident of that town went to school with some of the victims who died in flight 1 03 -- 103. how he feels about how the libyan leader welcomed home the man convicted for that attack. sfx:racking of a taillight. shepard: back to the visit of the libyan leader. keep in mind, taxpayer dollars are used to keep these dictators save for their visit to the united nations. last year, at least $20 million was shelled out for security. extra secret service, police, and u.s. marshals are all being called in this week, but in the town of bedford with libyan officials have pitched that tent we showed you, folks there are furious over qaddafi's visit. now, they are taking away the welcome mat. with us now, two people who live in that town. david singer, who graduated from syracuse, lost many students on that flight. good to see you both. david, i guess let's start with you. what can the peopl

except that kind of thought, and not disqualify a candidate because they were not and lockste ronald reagansaid nephew would curry with may 80% of the time, you are a darned good republican. we have to practice what he was willing to preach. spend my life supporting candidates on these issues that i disagree with professor it did not keep my support not just meant that we disagreed. we have to get back to that mindset. >> i am a former u.s department of state forei service in turkey, swede and the u.s. embassy under richard holboke. i have been getting beat up around town because i kept asking for a military presence. >> [inaudible] >> i keep proposing we have a military presence on governors island i feel that we are sitting ducks and a harbor i would like to know you commented also like to encourage you to run for president. >> a military prison on governors island, i do not know enough aut the security requirements out there to comment. i can undstand why people not want to have the military roaming around their parker presumably you want them there for security purposes. i member under

another example came in 1980 when ronald reagan was elected. in his early years he had been an extremely hard-line conservative. what we would call a right wing conservative. he opposed medicare and social security. he opposed the income tax. but once he actually became president and reached out to the broader base of voters, he saw the country expected those policies and programs to stay in place and so he left them untouched. that's a true conservativism. >> reporter: when did this schism happen that almost seems like there is way to go back to where it was in the history. i remember being on the hill for the contract with america congress and outgoing congressman bob mike ams said the atmosphere up here is poisonous now. is that a turning.in conservativism or did it happen before that? >> it has always been a struggle in conservativism. whether they want to be realistic or undo everything but the example you point to is a very important one. the contract with america. politically it is fine. the republicans found a clever way to win. what wa

if you don't like any -- let's say you didn't like ronald reagan and the kids are singing about ronald be forced to support and endorse and. >> no. sean: sounds like a song of praise for crying out loud. >> i'm not saying this video is ok it certainly should not have been on youtube and shouldn't have been taped. these parents are horrified for good reason. how you can let children -- not what you are saying. we have hundred distances of children or students admiring barack obama and they are compared to the third rite. >> where does that happen? >> i'm saying this has been compared to the third like and that's an exaggeration. >> i described what it was owe cullive personality. we have the video that's been seen by millions of people. the stuff we know or the stuff we learn or whatever. which is -- which says the country should be represented by a tank, which the tides foundation funding. we had the think with an nea. this is not an accident going on. >> teacher who doesn't know what she is doing. >> the principal should be fired. sean: should the teacher be fired for not understandin

understanding first president bush did this, ronald reagan did this. if obama's going to deliver a fundamentally important message, one that conservative in delivering often about personal responsibility, why would you oppose that? but i think, you know, david's hit on something here. i think the white house for some reason's been unable to really defend itself and doesn't seem able to figure out how to come at some of these issues and present them in a way that disarms some of this opposition for the same of opposition. >> candy, it's interesting. we seem to hear a different tone today. you mentioned earlier that the fire we saw in the president today when he was speaking to union members in ohio, i want to take a quick listen to a little more of what he had to say first. >> eye got a question for all those folks. what are you going to do? what's your answer? what's your solution? and you know what? they don't have one. >> more reminiscent of what you might call his campaign speeches from last year. is the white house getting the message and are they

when i talked to gorbachev years later when we were doing an interview with him after ronald reagan'said, what made you get together? why did you trust him? you were the communist at that point. he said, i liked him. >> reagan said this. >> gorbachev said this. >> when you said i am the anti-communist -- >> i'm sorry, i'm the fervent communist and i said you were the fervent communist and why could you communicate and gorbachev said, i liked him. personal diplomacy matter. >> exactly right. reagan looked at him and said i really believe i could do business with this man. i remember after that first meeting and reagan took a walk with him and told him, said i'm nothing but a hollywood movie actor. those are very good movies, mr. gorbachev. >> is that what we're talking about. >> that idea of gorbachev going back in and saying, look, it's reagan, this is not a monster. this is a decent, nice man and that goes not all the way, but goes a long way. a rougher meeting a year later -- >> you're right. >> and i think people respond to obama almost in a similar way because he's a very good lis

ronald reagan is many great things. in chief who inspired and uplifted the country, somebody that brought us the longest sustained round of economic prosperity. i will tell you a story that i don't think you have heard before. the lessons that he taught us have direct relevance to our time today. in 1976, the republican party was in more dire straits than today. watergate was only two years in the past. the republican suffered historic losses. they had 173 seats in the house. they only had 38 senators, 12 governors. they were in even worse shape than today. it was in the spring of 1977 just a few months after ronald reagan lost the nomination, reagan met with his staff and his advisers. they were depressed. reagan came before them and said i am here to tell you where we are going to go. i am not just saying it because i believe it. i am saying it because i know it. we are conservatives. we believe our principles properly applied will lead to a better country. liberals, no matter how sincere they may be, their policies w

and a moment of geek that features ronald reagan and a 1959 chevy bel air. best ever coming up.st time for a couple stories. those things usually referred to as enhanced interrogation techniques that people for centuries considered store chur like waterboarding and stress positions have long been considered illegal and long been considered by many to be immoral. now they've been proven in terms of biology to be counterproductive. in a new report in the scientific journal, scientists looked at the ways that bush era interrogators tortured people and looked at the effects on the brain. the physical effects, particularly on memory. the conclusion? not only doesn't torture coax useable intelligence out of people but physically inhibits memory and distorts it and mixes false memories with actual possibly useful information. torture is "biologically counterproductive to eliciting quality information." the mixing of memory with false memory is known as confabulation. which i will admit is a very fun sounding word. confabulous. it is also a terrible side effect if what you want to do is

. >> you say a couple of times in your book there's a big statue of ronald reagan outside of the adm plant inecatur. how did that get there? >> guest: reagan came for a visit tohe plant in 1984 and dwayne andreas decided it would be a wonderful idea to basically build a monument so that basically solidifying his very close relationship with reagan. reagan had been raised in dixon, illinois which really is a t not mucunlike decatur, so dwayne andreas who like to talk about how when the president and he were boys from the midwest and when it came to decatur, ey built this multiton statue of reegan which stands to this day. the vit from reagan was one of the biggest things that hit decatur in terms of famous peoplend to gorbachev came to visit dwayne andreas years later. c-span: there a several mentions of a mhattan apartment for dwayne andreas. >> guest: dewayne is not, you ow he lives in decar illinois but he is not a h. this is a guy who has an enormous amount of power and an enormous amount of money. he has homes and multiple locations. the home in manhattan ithe reflection of the f

, we designed all of these things about ronald reagan. them to him. i don't think everybody in the class ended up a republican because of that. >> did you sing a song praising the 1981 kemperal tax cuts? we sure didn't. i had history teachers who were very biased. >> i don't see anything about tax cuts. i see this more nationalistic than political. it's about praising the president and making our country great again. i don't see anything as -- anything about, you know -- >> the concerns from the -- >> let's give health care to everybody or no more tax cuts. there's really nothing in there that's actually that controversial. >> they talk about all his great accomplishments, which, of course, is a reference -- that is a reference to his policy. >> why can't we respect our leaders, whether they're democrat or republican? >> i'm great in respecting leaders. you should ask your friend mike stark about respecting leaders, how he runs off and harasses politicians on the streets. the fact is, it's great to respect leaders. it's great to praise ba

that's what we loved about ronald reagan but we are talking about the whole experience of the human racewe cannot expect the whole experience of the human race to be changed. >> here is where us american humans will get savings out of this. we had a doctor on the fox business network who pointed out that doctors don't like having the conversations with patients that you need this procedure or this test, do you have health insurance? well, doc, i don't have insurance, would i would rather not do the tests. that person gets sicker. that adds expenses into the system that are run necessary. the less expensive way to treat that patient is to do it right the first time. if we get people insured, then we have a chance at saving money down the road. that's what this is about. that's why we have to do something now. that's why the president is expending his political capital on this. >> that is a fantasy. that is a pure fantasy. in fact, the doctors say don't make us do so many tests. what most doctors say is you are wreafting money on unnecessary tests. you have it exactly backwards. o i got to

on politics, kennedy found ronald reagan charming but removed from the details of policy.the "time"s says he also wrote critically of jimmy carter, with whom kennedy had a chilly relationship after a bitter primary fight. kennedy accuses the former president to be too timid to address any substantive health care reform. he did not really listen. the 532-page memoir is scheduled for sale september 14th. kennedy did not plan it this way. but they are his final words on ted kennedy, the successes, the failures, and everything else. "our sins," he wrote, "don't define the whole picture of who we are." candy crowley, cnn, washington. >>> speculation is swirling around the supreme court, mid rumors that the oldest justice, 89-year-old john paul stevens has hired only one clerk for the upcoming term. that is seen as a signal that stevens may soon retire. the newest justice, sonia sotomayor, will be formally seated next week and in a fascinating group of interviews, her colleagues actually confessed to feeling, well, a little suppressed out by the change in their ranks. they spoke

medicare, which is one of the more popular programs in this country, that when it was proposed ronald reagan said would lead to socialism, that it would lead to doctors being assigned to where they could practice and what states they could live in. none of that has happened. we have happy seniors actually getting healthcare. >> of course they're happy, because when they started it, people resigned at 62 and the life-span was 68. now we have $30 billion of unfunded liability, promises we have made that we have not funded yet. that's why they're happy, because they will be dead by the time $37 trillion comes around! >> but we have to look at ways to treat people better and smarter. >> we have 78 million boomers who are hitting the rolls that we haven't even paid. for you can be efficient and god and not make this thing work. >> pat, you wanted to get in a point, too? >> i think it is wrong to tax the insurers rather than taxing the plans themselves. the insurers have been a force for cost containment. remember the hmo problems and people hated them years ago because they rationed care? they ha

what i think you're going to hear his critics saying is first that we have abandoned the ronald reagan vision of a shield for the continental united states. and secondly, that we have abandoned any hope of ultimately building the shield against a resurgent russia. and that was always a subtheme of what was happening in the bush administration. it is not a subtheme of what's happening here. >> let me read what senator john mccain said in response to this decision. he said, "this decision calls into question the security and diplomatic commitment the united states has made to poland and the czech republic and has the potential to undermine perceived american leadership in eastern europe. given the strong and enduring relationships we have forged with the region's nations since the end of the cold war, we should not, i believe, take steps backward in strengthening these ties." he's concerned about a relationship with the czech republic and poland. a lot of folks will look at this and say, are we coddling russia? russia has made no secret of its distaste for this plan. when we were all in

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even ronald reagan gave the speech. george h.w. bush gave the speech, although he got -- his officials got hauled in before a congressional committee for spending $26,000. i'm sure republicans will find out how much obama spent on this. it's really a product of our time and it's very sad. >> do you feel like this is just an example of reflective attack mode that you can sort of just attribute to the individual people who made these attacks? or do you think that there's something going on in terms of the standards for what counts as an appropriate political attack? what counts as a smart political allegation right now that there's something wrong either on the right or on both sides of this particular time? >> well, i think it's reflective and i think it's part of the proliferation of media and cable content, and i think people like pawlenty saw it as an opportunity to get out there quickly before he had been really thoughtful about it. he wanted to get points with the right, with the base, and he wanted to get on tv. the way to do

the president is addressing is that he is a theme, a movement that started or was cabslated by ronald reagantaught us big government is bad. it is necessarily bad, the most dangerous words of the english language is i'm from the government and here to help you. that's the opposite of what barack obama believes. he believes that big problems require big government solutions, that government can be a positive force, a force for good. that is who he is. and if he can't sell that, then he cannot sell his presidency. >> i agree. and i think that -- what i think the white house has not done a good enough job at is pointing out is that the government already is a solution to a lot of big problems, and so when people show up at town halls with medicare cards in their pocket and say i don't want any sort of government health care plan, there's a contradiction there. and i think there should have been a way or should be a way for the white house to point out the ways in which government is involved in people's lives and to their benefit. >> the question of the media blitz and overexposure, full disco

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personal belief the soviet union collapsed under the fatigue of the system as much as it did by ronald reagan's opposition. apartheid in south africa largely collapsed because of people being fed up with the monster. likewise, people are fed up with the horrible situation, but we do not see that in the middle east, do we? >> the problem in the middle east is that you have all th ese authoritative regime is in place using the arab-israeli conflict as an excuse to remain in place. they have martial law, states of emergency, you have countries like libya that has had the same leader for 14 years. -- for 40 years. in egypt, mubarak has been in power for 21 years, i think. >> that is job security. çógil traditionally there has been support for israel in congress. do you detect any change in that? >> there has been añr subtle sht going on here,Ñi especially aftr the last incursion into gaza. there seems to be more talk about, well, these palestinian people, the people that somehow they are really getting trounced. there is nothing being done for them. they do have a few legitimate -- they have many l