i remember where i was when ronald reagan was shot. was in college and the university of maryland. how was there, i was very sad and -- while i was there, i was very saddened by the shooting of from reagan. it would've been more tragic if he had actually died or had been killed, because many of the policies that he established during his presidency are still with us today. including, not the least of which, you're reminded us of the constitution how really saying as opposed to the way is being misused -- it is being misused by virtually every area of government today. he is reminded us of that today. i think he was the greatest president of the 20th-century. host: why do you remember where you were on that date? how does it have to do with more of your political leaning toward on reagan? caller: he was the first president of that i voted for. it was definitely my pedicle innings. i was 21 years old at the time. -- my political leanings. how was 21 years old at that time. quite honestly, i cannot believe that someone takes that kind of d

through ronald reagan, we changed that and now tax reform means revenue neutral tax reform. our pledge is the defender of that. we feel very strongly that nobody should poke holes in that line of defense against tax increases. the commission that obama put together which was not ratified by congress. , some for henpecked guys like simpson who he knew would support increased taxes, they came up with an idea, a plan that promised to reduce spending by $3 trillion in the future and raise taxes by $1 trillion. that was their numbers. paul ryan looked at their plant and said there are tax increases. it would actually be a $2 trillion tax increase. it is a big tax increase. we led with their lower number. two is worse than three is worse than that. i understand the temptation of trying to get the democrats to come to the table to reduce spending. democrats say they will come if you put tax increases on the table. i have had conversations with each of these senators on the phone. they assured me that everything is on the table but we will never agree to a tax increase. they sent me

the number of times in an average presidential term since ronald reagan came to office that the president would go out and speak to a religious of the -- audience roughly tripled from presidents that precede reagan. the number of ties presidents would issue a proclamation of roughly triple as well. in terms of looking at christmas communications retract just the number of references to jesus christ, not caught in general, but specifically jesus christ because certain members of the public have had a concern that christ has been taken out of christmas and we wondered if presidents had responded to this. it turns out that since reagan presidents have. they roughly quadrupled the number of times and christmas communication that they reference priced specifically. we saw this pattern again and again. what helped us make sense with some of the changes in the electorate that were happening just before ronald reagan took office, and those changes were largely driven by a group in society that for a long time felt like their views were being marginalized, and this group has come to be known as th

for the very warm welcome and john, i appreciate kind introduction and the chance to visit the ronald reagan presidential library. this is my first time here, and what an honor it is for me to meet a living legend, obviously and nancy reagan herself it's wonderful to be with you, thank you. [applause] it's a tremendous thrill for me to be here and it was great to meet so many of you the book signing i tried to get pictures and learn about you and your families and you said such nice things i just hope the reviewers are just as a charitable. and as you may assume there is a lot of pressure especially when you are out there talking about your life story. i haven't felt so exposed since i appeared in cosmopolitan magazine. [laughter] in 1982. now it's just -- i guess you could imagine also that you do not see too many massachusetts republicans coming out this way. [applause] so in this year and centennial i'm proud to note the connections between the 40th president and debased state. for starters mrs. reagan and i were talking in the hall and she is a distinguished graduate of refine massachuse

the country held its breath and learned something about ronald reagan. at the hospital, the stricken president, a bullet lodged an inch from his heart, in shock, with no discernible blood pressure faced the moment with grace and humor. >> he's on the operating room table. he said, i hope you're all republicans, with a big smile on his face. >> reporter: that night, after the three-hour surgery, nurse joann bell remembers she had to gently tell the 70-year-old president to stop chatting away. >> i finally had to say to him, mr. president, in the most polite way i can tell you, i want you to shut up and go to sleep. >> reporter: time passes. most of it fades into the history books. but on that awful day 30 years ago, it wasn't what ronald reagan did that is so memorable. it's who he was. terry moran, abc news. >>> and when we return, the megamillion dilemma. if your coworker didn't kick into the office pool that day and you hit the jack pot, should you share? and you hit the jack pot, should row share? for strong bones, i take calcium. but my doctor told m

that's the cause that earned my loyalty long ago, in the days of president ronald reagan. and the way of examples to follow, there is still no finer example than president reagan. [applause] >> and let me just say in closing, because i know i hear some grumbling stomachs out there. thank you for braving the weather and coming. i think i'm going to run in my shorts later. truly, mrs. reagan, i feel like i'm dreaming. i'm so honored to meet you. you and your husband were such role models for all of uses a americans, a it's been my privilege to join you at this beautiful place that bears his name, so thank you, god bless, and have a wonderful dinner. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, please. i want to say hello to mrs. reagan. so i'll be right back. [inaudible] >> senator brown has been kind enough to agree spend 10-12 minutes with us answering questions. so we have a list of questions from you -- >> i haven't seen them so here we good. >> i think you'll find the first one interesting. >> who is going to win the nba -- i'm sorry. celtics. con on. boo! go ahead. i know everyo

>> i learned that ronald reagan was really lucky to have survived.ean, he was a total beneficiary of circumstance. there's... hingally unleashed six shots in 1.7 seconds and he would have killed reagan, he would have hit him, maybe really wounded him badly if jerry para, the lead secret service agent, hadn't acted so quickly and had the training to do so. and he was... sorry. >> warner:. >> woodruff: what did parado? >> par thrust him into the car so fast, we've seen that iconic video so many times. his quick action got reagan out of direct fire and in between the shielded lem seen door. that wasn't enough. because the sixth shot to that no one new for hours or minute had hit reagan ricocheted off the side of the limousine and hit reagan in the side and he tumbled into the car. >> woodruff: there was another fateful decision parr made. in the car on the way back to the white house. >> jerry parr on the way back to the white house are reagan initially thinks reagan's okay. and he says on the radio "raw hide is o.k. " on the way back reagan starts look

one bullet nearly penetrating ronald reagan's heart.0th anniversary of that day, his press secretary, james brady, remains paralyzed but he's anything but inactive on capitol hill and at the white house. >> i used to be a track runner. no more. but i'm not going to run away from this. >> reporter: brady spent the anniversary of the shooting asking members of congress to pass a new gun control bill, banning high-capacity magazines holding more than ten bullets, like the one used in the tucson massacre that killed six and wounded 13, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. >> how could you look yourself in the mirror and say, i believe in large capacity magazines, for god's sake? >> reporter: the national rifle association says it can. the group is backed by most republicans, some democrats and many gun owners who say the constitution forbids the ban. >> i don't stand for any political action that would strip me of any of my rights. >> reporter: three decades later that's an argument james brady says he's paid dearly to win. since rea

s assassination attempt of ronald reagan. throughout the weekend, from the

. >>> recuerdan al ex presidente ronald reagan. >>> el presidente barack obama anuncia un ambicioso plano de ellos y dejando a varios más heridos, se reportó un arresto y aún está bajo investigación el tiroteo. >>> hoy se cumplen 30 años del intento de asesinato del ex presidente ronald reagan. >>>el presidente barack obama anunció un plan para reducir la dependencia de petróleo extranjero, aunque el costo de la gasolina continúa aumentando. >>> con precios que superan los 4 dólares por galón el llenar el tanque duele. >>> no veo razón por qué los precios son tan altos. >>> reducir la dependencia en el petróleo extranjero es una parte central. >>> su objetivo es reducir las importaciones 30% en 10 años, su plan , vehículos más eficientes, fuentes alternativas de energía, petróleo y gas natural en estados unidos, y también usar energía nuclear. >>> aunque se agregue un poco más de ethanol a la gasolina, el total de la flota vehicular sigue siendo de gasolina. >>> la respuesta republicana no se hizo esperar, se aseguró que el presidente está diciendo lo que la gente quiere escuchar, se cul

. >>> recuerdan al ex presidente ronald reagan. >>> el presidente barack obama anuncia un ambicioso planta 5.600 dólares del irs. está tan cerca que casi lo puede tocar. visite www.irs.gov/eitc. que el tuyo. - no hay ninguna señal extrema. - pero estamos luchando todos los días. - preocupándonos. - chequeando. - tratando. - luchando contra la diabetes. - la diabetes ha sido llamada una epidemia silenciosa. es hora de llamarla lo que realmente es. únase con nosotros y ayúdenos a ponerle alto a la diabetes. (♪ ♪) >>> otra tragedia, escolar en houston texas, donde al parecer un estudiante abrió fuego contra varios jóvenes, matando a uno de ellos y dejando a varios más heridos, se reportó un arresto y aún está bajo investigación el tiroteo. >>> hoy se cumplen 30 años del intento de asesinato del ex presidente ronald reagan. >>>el presidente barack obama anunció un plan para reducir la dependencia de petróleo extranjero, aunque el costo de la gasolina continúa aumentando. >>> con precios que superan los 4 dólares por galón el llenar el tanque duele. >>> no veo razón por qué los precios son ta

here's ronald reagan, who faced exactly the same hostile setting that president will respond. self-defense is not only our right, it's our duty. >> pat, you were there when raking on. >> i wrote the speech. the final -- >> give me thing with and show mow how -- what is going on today. >> it's different for this meaning. we were attacked at the discotheque. >> in berlin. >> berlin. they killed american soldiers and wounded about 50 of them. this was a response for what they did, a single action by oregon in response. this comes under the war powers act, i think. no doubt about it. but this is a different thing obama is doing. he is going after a nation that didn't attack us and didn't threatening us, in a civil war, and he attacked it! >> he's also killing civilians. >> and he's killing -- >> gates is laying excuses over killing more -- [everyone talking at once] >> no right to kill! >> hold it! >> let him finish! >> you've got no right to kill libya's soldiers. what are they doing, defending their country and putting down an insurgency of a government they're not known firm th

the nurse who treated ronald reagan after he was shot supports this. the fiance and family of gabe zimmerman, one of our own staffers who was killed in arizonaer, support this bill. you know, you mentioned our police officers, bill. and if anybody would be interested in, we've had more police officers killed since january of this year to now than we've had in the last number of years. we say that we are there for our police officers. you were a mayor, i know you stood by your police officers. and i know that police officers around the country know when they're facing these large capacity clips and they're outgunned, as they were when we passed the assault weapons bill, so, you know, bill, i know you are where i am and i thank you for the support that you have

francois mitterand was not francois mitterand until after he took office, and ronald reagan was not ronald reagan until after he became president. i accept that. we at least have to look for people that give us hope, and we ought not to stick with people who have demonstrated that they can't. it is too critical. it is too critical. our economy is at a tipping adds. what is going on around the world is seriously in turmoil. this is not easy times that we all thought we would have after the soviet union collapsed. this days of euphoria, the end of superpower conflict, happy days are here again. it did not work out. so now let me talk of the labatt about what i think is going to happen as a sickness of a fence politically as we move to 2012 and to talk about some of the cast of characters that will come knocking on your doors asking you to support them. you don't live in new hampshire. the one knock on your doors. you will see them on television. 2012, two parties, and republicans and democrats had tried to make this a little bit more orderly than it used to be. two national committees, democ

count me in because that's, that's because the earned my loyalty long ago in the days of president ronald reagan. and the way of examples to follow, there is still no finer example of president reagan. [applause] >> let me just say in closing, because i know i hear some grumbling stomachs out there, thank you for braving the weather and coming. [laughter] >> i think i'll go run in my shorts a little eight or. but truly, mrs. reagan, i feel like i'm dreaming. i'm so honored to meet you. you and your husband were such role models for all of us in america. it's truly been my privilege to join each and everyone of you, you at this beautiful place that bears his name, so thank you, god bless and have a wonderful dinner. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. please, sit down. i know we're getting hungry. i just want to go down as a hello for mrs. reagan for just a minute. i'll be right back. >> senator brown has been kind enough to spend about 10 or 12 minutes answering questions. we get questions from you. >> and i haven't seen them so here we go. >> i think you'll find this for some interes

we had a brutal and difficult election but ronald reagan won the presidency. [applause] the country had almost seemingly insurmountable economic challenge. we had trouble abroad and security concerns, many of the same challenges we are facing today and in that january day that was overcast, ronald reagan came from out of the capital and he stood at the podium and said later he felt even though the day was overcast and that moment, he thought a beam of sunshine had hit him and warmed up the podium in a way in time for his swearing in. he put his hand on the bible and took the oath of office as president of the united states of america and that bible was open to the second chronicles, 7-14. the passage says this. if m people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turned from their wicked ways, i will hear from heaven, and forgive their sins and heal their land. and now reagan who could not have known, his mom wrote in the margins, "a great passage for healing the nation's." that was great direction. it is great direction

has confirmed that the aircraft carrier ronald reagan and helicopters flying eight missions in japanave been exposed to radiation but no military personnel are recorded sick. we'll get the latest from japan. >> an exposure ripped through another reactor, something officials warned could happen following the first explosion on saturday. the container reportedly wasn't damaged. the radiation leaked but the levels were low. still there's reason for concern. >> we are at a reactor tipping point. either the next 24 to 48 hours they'll get control or you'll get meltdown on more than one reactor, an unprecedented situation. >> hundreds of thousands have been told to evacuate. the message for survivors of the disaster was clear sos. but the mission to deliver help has been difficult. how many numbers of people are stranded and homeless sleeping in makeshift shelterers. there was a shortage of water, food and power. lines stretched for ten city blocks. one mother said i didn't know what to feed my baby. i didn't want to dehydrated. waves showed how fast and terrifying it was. but amid destruc

what we used to call reagan democrats you know they were blue collar people that had voted for ronald reagan because they want to see america be respected in the world you know that sort of thing and look at what's happening to them now this was and they you know they recognized the contradiction and it was a. sort of moment of awful and light in it for them you know it was a disastrous event in their lives but it was also a moment of enlightenment and it was a moment of enlightenment for me as well because i suddenly went from you know everything being about culture everything being about the media about the rhetoric that we use to being a ha. about manufacturing about work about trade you know this is this is what so much of american life is really about is merely it's about the money you know it's about the money power and politics if you had to boil it down to one word yes and in fact i mean you know facing a four hundred ninety three million dollars budget shortfall in kansas senator sam brownback the new governor republican has called to eliminate the corporate income tax are proposing

as a conservative democrat he broke ranks with his own party to vote for president ronald reagan. he was louisiana governor from 1988 until 1992, both a democrat and republican. during his tenure, unemployment in the state dropped by half. the state budget was balanced in all years. teacher pay was leaked to proformance street -- was linked to performance. since leaving office, he has been involved in a number of ventures, recently serving as the founder and ceo and president of business and first bank. it took no bailout money from the federal government. governor roemer the father of three children. it is my pleasure to introduce you governor buddy roemer. >> thank you, and three grandchildren. i love those kids. i am honored to be with you in iowa at faith in freedom. i have always been a church- going methodist boy. from a cotton field in north louisiana. after a long. as a divorced man, 12 years i remarried some 10 years ago. i married a piano player in a church next door to my own. scarlet. thank you, jesus. i now go to first methodist church nearly every sunday, said in the

we're waiting to board that flight to the "uss ronald reagan," the massive u.s. aircraft carrier off the coast of tsunami-ravaged japan. more on that in a moment. first, the most pressing news, the fear of nuclear fallout from that ravaged fukushima daiichi power plant, where last night another explosion and fire prompted the prime minister to take to the national airwaves with this warning. "the leaked radiation level is now rather high and there is a high chance for further leakage from now on." and for the first time tonight, the japanese confirm that all three containment warms in the shattered reactor have been damaged, which means radiation leakage is almost certain. inside the plant, 75 0 technicians were told to lead, and only 50 remained, staying behind to try to get the reactor back under control to avoid a chernobyl-like disaster. they used fire pumps to flood the reactors with water to cool the nuclear core. b hours later, the radiation levels spiked so high, they stopped work altogether, at least for now. but those who live within the 12-mile evacuat

few people knew back then how close ronald reagan came to dying after a bullet from john hinckley's gun caused great internal damage and bleeding, and it all happened just a few months into the reagan presidency. it was a day few people who were alive back then will ever forget. and our very own washington veteran, andrea mitchell, has a look back tonight. >> reporter: march 30th, 1981. a routine stop a mile from the white house, until a gunman fires at the president of the united states point blank. special agent jerry parr's training takes over. he shoves the president into the armored car. at first reagan, whose secret service handle is rawhide appears unharmed. >> rawhide is okay. follow-up. rawhide is okay. >> spots were fired at president reagan in washington as he left the hilton hotel. he was not injured. >> reporter: then everything changes. >> he started spitting up bright red, frothy blood. >> roger. we want to go to the emergency room of george washington. >> that's a roger. >> go to george washington fast. >> reporter: dr. joseph giordano was in charge of the e.r. >> when t

we had a brutal and difficult election but ronald reagan won the presidency. [applause] the country had almost seemingly insurmountable economic challenge. we had trouble abroad and security concerns, many of the same challenges we are facing today and in that january day that was overcast, ronald reagan came from out of the capital and he stood at the podium and said later he felt even though the day was overcast and that moment, he thought a beam of sunshine had hit him and warmed up the podium in a way in time for his swearing in. he put his hand on the bible and took the oath of office as president of the united states of america and that bible was open to the second chronicles, 7-14. the passage says this. if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turned from their wicked ways, i will hear from heaven, and forgive their sins and heal their land. and now reagan who could not have known, his mom wrote in the margins, "a great passage for healing the nation's." that was great direction. it is great direction

in other news, it was 30 years ago this month that, ronald reagan, just 70 days into his presidency, hot by john hinckley, jr. reagan was gravely wounded but he would survive. today the secret service released ten minutes of dramatic audio tape from that day. bill plante, who covered the reagan white house, has the sound and the story. >> reporter: seconds after president reagan exit's the washington hilton comes the radio call the secret service dread. >> reporter: agent jerry parr, head of the presidential detail shoves ronald reagan into his armored limo. as it speeds off, parr first reports that the president-- code-named rawhide-- was not hit. then, a telltale bloody foam on the president's lips. agent parr knows that means a punctured lung. >> reporter: as the limo with no police escort rushes to george washington university hospital, the president's condition appears to deteriorate. agent parr remains dead calm. >> reporter: three and a half minutes after he was shot here, president reagan walked into the hospital. the president collapsed in the emergency room, far more serious

it was one of the reasons, for example, that in 1980 the weekend before ronald reagan's election against jimmy carter, when everybody thought that was going to be -- everybody here in washington thought that was going to be a close election, and when his own newspaper polled, "the washington post's" poll showed carter slightly ahead in the national vote, broder wrote a front-page piece saying, it looks to me as if ronald reagan is going to win this thing. and it was an act of brilliance -- gwen: defiance? >> courage. courage on the part of the editors. but the important thing for david was, he was right. >> the thing about david too was that in politics, he was a political reporter but he was never -- politics to him was never a game. it was never about keeping score. and if he had a true bias, it was that he wanted to see things work. i keep on my desk at the office a copy of a book that he wrote with his colleague johnson called "the system." it was the most remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the failed clinton health care effort in 1994. but it was really extraordinary in that as yo

here's ronald reagan, who faced exactly the same hostile setting that president will respond. self-defense is not only our right, it's our duty. >> pat, you were there when raking on. >> i wrote the speech. the final -- >> give me thing with and show mow how -- what is going on today. >> it's different for this meaning. we were attacked at the discotheque. >> in berlin. >> berlin. they killed american soldiers and wounded about 50 of them. this was a response for what they did, a single action by oregon in response. this comes under the war powers act, i think. no doubt about it. but this is a different thing obama is doing. he is going after a nation that didn't attack us and didn't threatening us, in a civil war, and he attacked it! >> he's also killing civilians. >> and he's killing -- >> gates is laying excuses over killing more -- [everyone talking at once] >> no right to kill! >> hold it! >> let him finish! >> you've got no right to kill libya's soldiers. what are they doing, defending their country and putting down an insurgency of a government they're not known firm th

declare war my fellow americans my fellow citizens for president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty six a familiar attack on a familiar enemy despite our repeated warnings gadhafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of terror he counted on america to be passive he counted wrong turns out so did saddam hussein just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait for his successor president clinton the target was slobodan milosevic today our armed forces joined our nato allies in airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo president george w. bush said it was weapons of mass destruction that threaten the world and invaded iraq in what was supposed to be a quick and limited campaign on my orders coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein's ability to wage war most thought it would end there with president obama running on an anti-war platform he has spent most of his presidency trying to end the wars started by his pred

resolved fairly quickly we basically had no functional budget deficit it was under a trillion dollars ronald reagan came in at reagan cut taxes on billionaires down to twenty eight percent and the budget deficit or the budget the debt exploded clinton raised taxes on billionaires to thirty nine percent and we had a budget surplus bush cut taxes back down to thirty six percent and we're back to budget deficits why would anybody talk about this really simple math instead of always ranting about spending well tom got some excellent point and you're quite right the republicans clearly have won the narrative when you talk about you talking about two things spending and revenue coming in we have given hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks that the top two percent today the effect of the real pacs rate for the richest people in this country is the lowest on record corporations who in general are in drawing record breaking profits in case after case after case are paying zero in taxes very little in taxes or in many cases they're actually getting refunds from the i.r.s. it seems to me

jail for any of this is a travesty but it's also the natural outcome of the kind of economy that ronald reagan set up for us in the one nine hundred eighty s. this is this is not a surprise or this shouldn't come as as some quote sort of incredible horrible surprise for all of us this really started with richard nixon going to china on behalf of pepsi actually turned out a lot of soap and things of a known friedman in the libertarians came along with his crazy idea of free trade we don't need no stinking trade barriers we don't need to protect america the whole free trade idea went on steroids with nafta gatt in the w t o and you know we're you're you may be wondering now how do i bring this back to housing what that lead to is that we now have an economy that based on manufacturing which is what i mean go back to adam smith seven hundred seventy six wealth of nations the literally the wealth of nations is the ability to transform raw materials the stuff of the soil of the earth into finished goods but we've abandoned that so now and you know we've gone from thirty thirty five percent manufact

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proposed and promoted them during the george washington administration until the time ronald reagan started dismantling them and then nine hundred eighty s. protectionism they say it's a bad word i say it's the thing that can save this country. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question maine ohio and new jersey are giving tax cuts to rich for the rich and at the same time raising taxes on the middle class well let's fly your options are a yes cuts to children's hospitals and pay millionaire welfare that's just fine or no just say no to the new robin hood's for the super rich the reverse robin hood's steal from the poor give to the rich so far the majority of you have said no he's still a time tell us what you think log on to time or not come cast your vote poll be open until tomorrow. coming up what's the real reason why every american president recent history has thrown us into a new war i'll explain in tonight's daily take. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. one well. we never government says they're confused s

we had a brutal and difficult election but ronald reagan won the presidency. [applause] the country had almost seemingly insurmountable economic challenge. we had trouble abroad and security concerns, many of the same challenges we are facing today and in that january day that was overcast, ronald reagan came from out of the capital and he stood at the podium and said later he felt even though the day was overcast and that moment, he thought a beam of sunshine had hit him and warmed up the podium in a way in time for his swearing in. he put his hand on the bible and took the oath of office as president of the united states of america and that bible was open to the second chronicles, 7-14. the passage says this. if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turned from their wicked ways, i will hear from heaven, and forgive their sins and heal their land. and now reagan who could not have known, his mom wrote in the margins, "a great passage for healing the nation's." that was great direction. it is great direction

ronald reagan which was stationed nearby at the day higher levels of radiation were detected it to u.s. military bases in that region japanese government has instructed people living within nineteen miles of the mill functioning plant to stay inside their homes and close the windows so just how deadly is radiation poisoning if the worst case scenario does occur what can we expect on the west coast of the united states here to speak to this issue when they're going through international specialist invalid or nuclear and city folk or specialist radiation also beyond nuclear or. silly welcome to the program. let me start with cindy with a question for you how does radiation harm people well radiation can harm people by hitting their cells and the cells in our body which makes it who we are. can be dividing or going through various prophets and during some of the process is there more. able to be harmed by radiation entering other processes but in general it will take the cells of the body and perhaps cause them to reproduce themselves incorrectly and that can recall no he says the d.n.a.

when president ronald reagan famously defeated an air traffic controller strike at that time and the public was broadly supportive of that and the proportion of the american public the police unions had too much power was considerable i think around sixty percent now and that percentage has dropped dramatically in a new york times poll this week it was about half of that so i think you're seeing a broad swathe of the public feel that perhaps it's not excessive union power that causes paid problems for the united states fiscally or economically but instead they look back at the crash of two thousand and eight they see on regulated financial power and big banks and big industry having a lot of followers and i think they look justifiably to that sector of society as at least as culpable as any suggestion that there's some kind of union barons as they used to be called and sort of holding the government or private employers hostage you know. if i'm going to for now brought up ronald reagan like remember the welfare mothers there were so many motor mothers out there was bankrupting americ