two house members said the reason they voted for the bill was ronald reagan. n congressman scott klug opposed the assault weapons ban right up until the day before the vote. but then he got a handwritten note from president reagan. dear scott, as a longtime gun owner and supporter of the right to bear arms, i too, have carefully thought about this issue. i am convinced that the limitations imposed in this bill are absolutely necessary. i know there is heavy pressure on you to go the other way but i strongly urge you to join me in supporting this bill. it must be passed. sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the as

ronald reagan and bush in 1980. e know as ronald reagan, who was sunny and optimistic, his charisma cured the malaise. >> i identify myself as a reagan conservative. it was simple. he was magical. >> over three decades have passed since ronald reagan was elected to the white house. yet the impact of his leadership is still evident today. >> as i have reported in this space before, there is no republican who republicans lie about more than ronald reagan. they refer the way to reagan the way bible refers to god, as the font of all wisdom. but republicans never actually quote reagan anymore, because they have rewritten him to the point that reagan wouldn't recognize his party. which, by the way, was the second political party that reagan belonged to. the actor ronald reagan was a democrat when he was president of the labor union representing actors, but he switched on the way to becoming president of the united states. ronald reagan didn't like taxes but he was willing to raise them when necessary, which is why he signe

but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver, and he was sitting there drinking, like, there wasn't any secret service people there and i were standing there and he was just kind of standard and it was made a couple people. been a photographer. it's not like now everybody is like this, you know. unless they had some twitch. so i, like did what i would normally, i went up and i said hello to but i didn't say hello to him. i said i'm not. [laughter] >> and he just looked at me and bobby have -- it's nice to have those people cto the dinners. w compassionate. anyway, i endedup in h kitchen. i ate his dinner, tied to the secret service guy. it was raining. it's fitting i'm here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. [laughter] he was once a democrat. i once bought a counterfeit watch from times square. same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor, he starred opposed a three-foot every chance named bonzo. i worked with bob dougla

i named my third child after ronald reagan. and i'm fighting for smaller government. eagan's most famous saying the nine worse words in the english language i'm from the government and i'm here to help. i think i honor him every day by fighting for smaller government. that's my biggest philosophy. it isn't greedy for the american people to keep more of their own men. the definition of greed is ask government steal it from the guy working and give it to you for isn't working. that's greed. someone has to be willing to say. entrepreneurers work longer hours strong jobs like government employees. we don't get summers off. we don't get weekends off. we don't get nights off. i go home and answer e-mails. in the morning i answer e-mail. on my birth someday and holiday. i work eight hours a day instead of the usual 16. it i deserve my money. i worked for my money. i earned my money. and i create jobs and invest and pay taxes and i make america go with my money. i'm not a timid republican. i'm proud to tell america the people that make the money deserve keep more of the own mo

>> ronald reagan tried to do that. it amazes me how reagan has become one of the most beloved presidents. but people forget the stuff that happened there wanted to make sure civil-rights laws were not enforced the way they were supposed to be. so he decided to replace the commissioners they did not want anybody to watchdog them. then we got into of big fight i sued them and i won the lawsuit the court said the commission should be a watchdog and i said it should be a watchdog and not the lap dog but they succeeded to change the direction and even though we could get some traction like bush be gore, going out of the voter suppression it has never been the same. reagan succeeded to listen to ordinary people and is not independent. so they should endorse whatever the administration said. so those political appointees, their job is to monitor them. and to make suggestions. in the most recent election with the activity taking place the civil-rights commission should have been at the center of the debate based on history, and

ronald reagan, we have this great video reagan said at one point my feet are in concrete. and he could get away with going to the conference one morning and saying the sound you are hearing is concrete breaking. as the governor he concluded in order to make the state's requirements he had no choice. but in the cost he was totally up front in a totally honest and he went to the people of california and said it's a bigger mess than i thought it was. i can't fix it any other way. i think we have to do this. but she did that after creating a connection which fundamentally cut the cost and dramatically cut spending. ronald reagan to the caribbean was raising the taxes for the government. they figured out if he needed their must be really serious. what we have today is no innovation camano reform, no new thinking, no creativity, no hearings on waste or hearings of better ways of doing this. you live in the age of the ipad and the iphone and google and facebook and trevor and face the federal government that runs up the pace. [laughter] and you have no serious effort in either pa

the book is a collection of personal writings from throughout ronald reagan's life and reveals that many of his positions were developed long before he became president. this is about an hour. c-span: kiron skinner, co-editor of "reagan in his own hand," what do people get if they buy this book? >> guest: they see unvarnished ronald reagan, long before the presidency, writing, reading, thinking about every major issue facing the united states, and also drafting a strategy, quite surprisingly for many, to end the cold war peacefully without a major hegemonic war. c-span: can you remember the first time you ever heard of all this? >> guest: what do you mean, the radio broadcasts, his writing? c-span: the radio broadcasts, where you--you got yourself involved in it. >> guest: i was working in the reagan library. i'd written nancy reagan, i believe it was in 1996; i wrote her a--a letter about my research on the end of the cold war, and i said, 'i'm deeply fascinated by the american side of the story. most of the research in the 1990s that i saw in the scholarly literature focused on the sov

i don't think ronald reagan was hip. you know what's funny, if people talk about ronald ray began to this day -- reagan to this day of how conservative he was, he raised taxes, this and that, but for some reason he exemplified what was special about the american idea. and i do think that, i mean, no one would ever describe ronald reagan as hip, but he could articulate something that nobody else could. i had a strong feeling that mitt was getting there after the first debate, and i saw it when he said that one line like i've been doing this for 25 years, and i have no idea what you're talking about. [laughter] [applause] like, whoa, that was an amazing line. his mistake, and i said this over and over again, why did he drop libya? i don't know why. he got scared after the foley thing, and then i think that, you know, he had a glimpse of what he could do and the aggression and that stuff, and maybe he was too nice a guy. but i agree with you, i think like when you remember back in the primary and there were 13 people, by the

ronald reagan, you have in your are kentucky -- are give the great video. my feet are in concrete he said and being reagan, he could get away with going to the press conference one morning and saying, the sound you're hearing, is concrete breaking. because as governor, he concluded in order meet the state's requirement he no choice. but it never cost much. he was totally unfront and honest. he went to the people of california and said look here is where we are. it's a bigger mess than we thought. i can't fix it any other way. ic we have to do this. he did that after create agency -- nobody thought ronald reagan was raising taxes to create a bigger government. they thought if he needed it, it must be serious. what we have today is no innovation. no reform, no new thinking, no creativity, no hearings on waste. no hearings of better ways of doings things. you live until the age of the ipad and the iphone, and of google and a facebook and twitter, and you're faced with a federal government which currently runs at the pace of manual typewriter. [laughter] you hav

ronald reagan, you have in your archives this great video. reagan campaigned at one point and said my feet are in concrete. and being reagan, he could get away with going to the press conference one morning and saying the sound you're hearing is concrete breaking. [laughter] because as governor he concluded in order to meet the state's requirements he had no choice. but it never cost him very much because he was totally up front and totally honest, and he went to the people of california and said, look, here's where we are. it's a bigger mess than i thought it was, i can't fix it any other way, i think we have to do this. but he did that after creating a commission which fundamentally cut costs and dramatically cut spending. i mean, nobody thought ronald reagan was raising taxes to create a bigger government. they figured out if he needed it, then it must be really serious. what we have today is no innovation, no reform, no new thinking, no creativity, no hearings on waste, no hearings on better ways of doing things. you live in the age of the

ronald reagan also cut taxes as president. so what was reagan? a tax raiser or a tax cutter?is both. and the tax raiser side of reagan would be condemned in today's republican party. much was made this year on this program and elsewhere that ronald reagan could not possibly have won the republican nomination for president in 2012 without changing his positions on everything. bill clinton left nothing after his presidency. no democratic legislative monument. bill clinton had a cooperative congress, democratic congress for only two of his eight years. in those two years, the most important legislative achievements he accomplished were two trade bills and one budget bill. the two international trade bills had been mostly negotiated by the republican presidents before him and had strong support from republicans and democrats. the north american free trade agreement and the world free trade agreement that created the wto are the most important things left standing today from the clinton presidency. in his first year, clinton bravely pushed through a democratic congress with no rep

>> guest: yes, ronald reagan tried to do that. it always amazes me. icann has become one of my most beloved presidents in all the polls and everything else. people forget some of the stuff that happened. he wanted to change the direction of civil rights. he wanted to make sure civil rights passed in the 60s weren't enforced the way they're supposed to to be enforced, so he decided to replace all the commissioners because they were standing up and watchdogging at restorations so they said okay, they got into the fight because when they got to be ready to change me, i see them. i won the lawsuit. the court said the commission is supposed to be a watchdog. i used to say should be a watchdog, not a lapdog for the administration. they succeeded in changing the direction of the commission. even though we were able to get some traction during my time, things i wish ricoh are, out of the 20,000 election about the commission has never been the same. so reagan in a sense succeeded in making it a body that couldn't listen and was not independent and kept trying

be on the mountain. >> and he looked good up there. >> i think the cuban missile crisis. >> and ronald reagan>> and president reagan, who i think was a natural step in finding what we've always found in the country, which is a kind of democratic lower-case d synthesis. >> i'm surprised by jfk. obviously a martyred president who really -- whose assassination shaped how a generation of historians and writers have looked towards him as a fallen good-looking president. do you really think that jfk will fare well 50 years from now? >> i -- yes. and i base this on my friend ev evan's treatment of the cuban missile crisis in his book about bobby kennedy, because when you think about a young president in his 40s, the son of an appeaser, sitting around in a room having his manhood and his courage challenged by generals over nuclear missiles and his having the courage to compromise and to make the deal me made to avoid what could have been a nuclear war in october 1962, yeah, he yao get on the mountain. >> so when is it going to matter how a president treats women? >> soon. >> yeah? >> no. >> that is a

i had a fight with ronald reagan even though i was a commissioner one of my latino women was the only other minority we would dissent when they would try to do something that was terrible. we had a big fight with him but i went to all of those. >>host: but president carter appointed you? >> yes. then there is a new department of education and i went back to teaching and that i was appointed. >>host: when did the clear it would be a permanent

to do that i'm joined by jim stokoe yank and kevin powell author of the new book barack obama ronald reagan and the ghost of dr king blogs an essay so jim i'm going to start with you i know that you're going to say that gun control is not the answer but i want to show you a chart before i get your answer i mean this this chart that we're showing right here is a list of just a few of the shooting massacres that we've seen in twenty twelve alone so if gun control isn't the answer what is well what's really and truly on the chart is this shooting back the mass shooting the last twenty years virtually all of the big one at the democratic national convention which might as well be gun free zone have occurred and what we call target rich environment to go where the victims of mass shootings were able to defend the. idea that the common denominator in all the.

>> ronald reagan was the first, 1981, the first one to be on the west side of the capitol. mike understanding is that there was a center of oregon, ronald reagan fought and was a good idea, he was beginning to discover for the that way. he liked that idea but the biggest factor was the fact that now so many more people can view that. now they're there for you obama add delete your inauguration four years ago there were a thousand tickets and they still live tv commercials up and they stand there. but when it used to be on the east side there were about 20,000 people who could see the actual ceremony. and a lot more of course could be present for the parade and oftentimes there were more than a million but not for the ceremony itself. >> are all of the pictures you showed on the slides were those pictures in your book? >> not quite all of them, but many of them coming yes. i have many pictures in my book that are not part of the slide show that were sent here that are not in the book. >> if you take a look at the book you will see there's more than 50 pictures in the book. y

it doesn't stop the ronald reagan to stop supporting the 2nd amendment. to us about his dad's stance on 2nd amendment. he will be here at 10:35 this morning. >>> federal investigators issued subpoenas to several major solar panel companies. they want to know if the companies overcharged for work to get federal stimulus money. this comes after solyndra, the solar company that declared bankruptcy last year after getting about a half billion dollars in your taxpayer money. monica, what do you make of this? >> incredible. here we go again. every time i appear on the show, we seem to be covering the same green energy scandal. yeah, and the real scandal here is we've had billions of dollars in taxpayer money being poured into these companies, all for not. most of those companies have gone bust. others are faltering, and still the administration pursues this. the reason it is not so much green energy per se. this is all part of is a broader strategy, stuart, of radical wealth redistribution, and they are doing it in the energy sector as they are doing it in the

>>> and new revelations about ronald reagan's relationships with two of the most powerful women in the world, the queen and margaret thatcher in documents released three decades later. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening, i'm natalie morales in tonight for brian. it is down to the wire now with about 80 hours until the fiscal cliff deadline. and on what is a holiday weekend for many, that is not the case for congressional leaders in washington. there was a sense of urgency today as the president met with house and senate leaders along with the treasury secretary and vice president a short while ago at the white house to try and forge a last-minute deal. the president says he is optimistic, but at this hour, the fiscal cliff still looms. we begin our coverage with nbc's white house correspondent, peter alexander who has been watching the developments all day. peter, good evening to you. >> reporter: natalie, good evening to you. after his first meeting with all of the top four congr

my fact in 1982, ronald reagan passed the greatest tax increase in american history. true or false because the same question shaun asked you. >> i talked to the president about it. >> let me go on. let me ask you the second question. >> hold it, lanny, because this is an important point. he was offered $3 in spending cuts for every dollar in taxes increased. he got the reverse. >> the answer is true. secondly, john kennedy was shown on television because shaun liked the speech. you said a reduction from 90 to 71%. bill clinton increased taxes from 35 to 39%, started with a $300 billion deficit. ended with a trillion dollar surplus. all of you and i think you on television predictedicted thered be a recession. 23 million jobs later, there was no recession. >> lanny, if what you say is true, that the clinton tax cuts did it, why doesn't barack obama say let's have back all of the clinton tax hikes? let's have back all of the clinton tax increases object on everybody and we'll have a boom because he knows in his heart what he knew in 2010. you raise taxes on everybody, a

and we will also hear a timeless message from president ronald reagan recorded 32 years ago but still just as meaningful tonight. first, pastor rick wa warren hs book the purpose driven life has been read by more than 60 million people worldwide and currently bel rereleased to celebrate its 10th anniversary. i sat down with pastor warren to talk about the meaning of christmas. what does christmas mean to rick warren? >> the very first christmas the angels said three things. those three things are the three purposes of christmas. celebration. salvation. reconciliation. here are the three things. the first thing the angel announced is is i bring you good news of great joy which will be for all people. christmas is a time to celebrate and america right now needs to sel celebrate. people are down and discouraged. we had four, nearly five years of bad economic news. we need a party. [ laughter ] >> we need to celebrate. >> when pastor warren says you need a party, all right. >> i bring you good news of great joy. by the way which shall be for all people. >> sean: can we turn the water into

the reason we need another supply-side revival of the same kind we had under ronald reagan. >> would you change anything you wrote in the original "wealth and poverty"? >> i would've changed quite a lot. there's all kinds of details that a changed. but i found that to try to change one thing would be to change everything. so you know, you get into the morass of editorial work. so instead of changing an essentially retained the old look and added 40,000 new words at the beginning and kind and revision of my monetary policy in the middle. it's a new book, but it contains the old book veered >> pennysaver bishop monetary policy, what do you mean by that? >> i failed to make clear in the original version of "wealth and poverty" that i believe can stable currencies. i don't believe including current these. i agree with steve forbes that flow currencies, which is the standard value by which every entrepreneur has to guide and has decisions it's like floating our so that people wouldn't have to work so much. one man could have the power worth 50 minutes. the next come the 70 minute and need

same with ronald reagan, paying his visit to capitol hill. why do we not see that any more? is it two sides or environment is so hardened? >> i think so. i also think that personality of these two men would not be best described as anti-social they to. but we're seeing this weird culture of bipartisan, you know we were supposed to put it away after the elect, and think about what is best of the country. i think they are staaing separate, they should be eating at the same table now. neil: they are not doing that. there is so much you could dodo with a serogate, and say surprise it seems to me, dr., doctor when ronald reagan heard things come up out of capitol hill, or tip o'neill he brought him over to the white house, said how can we compromise on this his famous line, i would rather get 80% of a loaf or no loaf at all, we don't see it, it is either my way or the highway, and i blame motorcycl both side. >> i do too, you said the word, compromise that is what works in great marriaging and even politics. meet in the middle. neil: why not have it at the white house? i think th

and british p mi but >>> well, they defined a special relationship, president ronald reagan and british prime minister margaret thatcher, but now the classified documents released just this morning shed some new light on their very special partnership. cbs news reporter barry peterson has more now from london. >> reporter: this was her public life. >> the united states came down firmly on our side on the falklands and we're very grateful for them. >> reporter: a tiny british ruled island off south america invaded by original -- argentina in 1982. the british sent troops and warships to overtake it, but behind the scenes there was conflict with mr. reagan urging her to negotiate a truce which she angrily rejected and her asking for his support. you are the only person who will understand. she was not always happy with his responses describing one of his late night messages regarding the falklands invasion as so vague i didn't think it was worth reading, but one letter shows the woman the british nicknamed the iron lady could have a velvet side adding a p.s. to the president who w

ronald reagan, first term, great people everywhere. then they shuffled the chairs, some people left. second term, it's on the bitberg, selling arms to iran. chris: the second team sometimes is second rate? >> that's correct and if he falls down that same rat hole, he won't do what he wants to. chris: i think sometimes they pick people they're more comfortable with. i think it's time for him to swing for the census, middle east peace, something he hasn't touched in years and how he goes about trying to assemble -- chris: looks like he's getting ready to do that? >> no. >> i wish we could end on a positive note. chris: your chance is now. >> they are so preoccupied with the middle east, iran is part of that but on the national security side, it's iran, the state of egypt, syria. there's a ton of stuff he has to look at. chris: should we warn our grandkids that in the news when you're getting older there will be a topic called middle east peace process. >> in the history books. chris: it will always be there. >> i'm with the first one. i

. >> in an exis ambivalent way i want to talk about stability for my former boss, ronald reagan. he would have tim o'neill, his partisan, fierce opponent of the speaker of the house come in and try to work on the same sort of deals being discussed now, but ronald reagan also had the republican leaders of that same house and that same senate in. he had to mash them all together. he had to make it work. one of the surprising things about president obama in this crisis, i think, is that he walked in as a winner. he just won an election. he had everything going for him, much higher popularity ratings than the congress itself has. the republicans were humiliated. they had no leverage. so you get those republicans in. you get nancy pelosi in. and you shake it up. you give the republicans something so that they can save face pup make them raise taxes. at the end of the day, nobody's happy. but stability occurs. and the thing goes forward. i am continually surprised by president obama that he lets it become these dreadful enervating dramas. >> could i just say that when ronald reagan was

which sort of messes up inauguration plans here in washington in the answer is james monroe and ronald reagan the inauguration date fell on a sunday was 1821 and most recent, reagan reelected, president obama's second inaugural will fall on a sunday, which means he will take the oath and do it all for the public the next day. if you have got a political trivia question for us, e-mail us at dailyrundown@msnbc.com. we will be right back with prediction and plugs from our gaggle. apologies to mr. mclaughlin. we will be right back. ♪ constipated? yeah. mm. some laxatives like dulcolax can cause cramps. but phillips' caplets don't. they have magnesium. for effective relief of occasional constipation. thanks. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. >>> let's bring back the gaggle. final thoughts here. if i posed this question to you, kevin, a year from now, 2013, we will say 2013 was about what in washington? >> i think a lot of it has to do with the numberen party's going to be trying to modernize their message, but i think the two parties are now at an effort to sort of energize thei

romney won a higher percentage of the white vote since any candidate since ronald reagan in 1984. he won by 20 point with whites, he won with women, 56% to 42%. but he lost the election, why? as the obama campaign predicted, the white portion of the electoral dropped. the president carried nearly 8 in 10 non-white voters including 71% of latinos, 73% of asian voters, a whopping 93% of black voters. it remains a real question whether the democratic nominee no 2016 will be able to hold the coalition closer. finally, lesson four. don't ignore the data. the polls matter, more of them are right than wrong. though public polling in the swing states showed the president ahead, the romney campaign sincerely believed until election day that romney would win. why? romney's pollsters assumed the electoral would be wider and older than it turned out to be. the enthusiasm numbers did favor them, but they didn't have enough voters. more than any cycle in recent memory, many republicans bought into an alternative poling universe. in 2016, much of the emphases in both parties will be to match and

press president ronaldpresident ronald reagan and margaret thatcher. now declassified documents released this morning shed new light on their partnership. >> reporter: this was her public line on the falklands. >> just came down terribly on our side over the falklands and we're very grateful to have been such staunch allies. >> reporter: a tiny british ruled island off south america invaded by argentina in 1982. the british sent troops and warships to retake it. but behind the scenes, there was conflict with mr. reagan urging her to negotiate a truce which she angrily rejected and her asking for his support. you are the only person who will understand. she was not always happy with his responses. describing one of his late night messages regarding the falklands invasion as, so vague i didn't think it was worth reading. but one letter shows the woman the british nicknamed "the iron lady" could have a velvet side adding a ps to the president who was a bit under the weather, warm personal regards and a rapid recovery to full health and strength. the world

. >> glor: margaret thatcher and ronald reagan-- once-secret documents reveal their uneasy lianance next. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. >> glor: a spokesman says president george h.w. bush is improving and is now even winging with doctors and nurses at a houston hospital. . . bush, who is 88, is in the intensive care unit with bronchitis and a high fever. president bush's predecessor ronald reagan once famously called margaret thatcher the best man in england. meirs was an enduring friendship but barry peterson reports on documents that reveal fnother side of their alliance. t reporter: in front of the cameras, it was all smiles. >> britain and america will stand side by side. bu reporter: but the documents released today by the british national archives reveal some tempestuous moments. aft

james baker was ronald reagan's most important lieutenant. so who better to tell us how to get a deal done in washington today? i spoke with him at the baker center at rice university in houston. mr. secretary, pleasure to have you on. >> thank you so much. pleasure to be with you. >> so you've been chief of staff, secretary of treasury, you know this moment. the president is negotiating with congress over a budget. what would you do if you were to put yourself in the place that tim geithner is or john boehner is. how would you play this? >> well, i think it's very important that the -- that the top levels of both parties are involved in the negotiation and that they get together as soon as possible because what we really need is grand bargain to deal with the state of our economy. we're fiscally bankrupt. if we didn't have the dollar, we might be greece. we have a deal with our debt bomb. giev tot face the fiscal cliff that's coming in a couple of weeks. >> so you know what both sides are saying. the president is saying there's no way to mak

>> and just released papers from margaret thatcher revealing a new side to ronald reagan. a new scandal involving the queen of england. we've got the details. >> kelly: the growing controversy in the wake of the newtown school massacre. we'll take a look at both sides of the debate again. >> and carrying guns and-- unload it-- questions? >> p each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'. till you finish your vegetables. [ clock ticking ] [ male announcer ] there's a better way... v8 v-fusion. vegetable nutrition they need, fruit taste they love. could've had a v8. or...try kids boxes! if we took the already great sentra apart and completely reimagined it with best-in-class combined mpg, and more interior room than corolla and civic? and a technology suite with bluetooth, navigation and other handy stuff? yeahthat would be cool. introducing the all-new nissan sentra. it's our most innovative sentra ever. nissan. innovation that excites. now get a $169-per-month lease

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good news everyone after more than thirty years of searching by the news media ronald reagan's end for most welfare queen has finally been found she lives in bentonville arkansas as reagan warmed to during his one nine hundred seventy six run for president about the nameless cadillac driving woman who's conning the social safety net. the names thirty odd rosen is just medicaid getting food stamps and she's collecting welfare or underage of her names are tax free cash income is over one hundred fifty thousand dollars. for more than thirty years republicans have used the existence of that welfare queen to justify their attacks and public spending and prove that the welfare state has run a lock yet her identity has never been revealed after decades of searching the best and brightest minds in the field of journalism were never able to discover who was behind the wheel of that welfare queens cadillac or even if she or it even existed that is until now we now realize our mistake we should have been listening to the supreme court in our search for the welfare queen we were looking for actual

that was kevin powell activist and author of the book barack obama ronald reagan and the ghost of dr king blogs and essays and also gems to co-ax constitutionalist and freedom advocate. and we have left off earlier today the russians built of solar use spacecraft blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan it's mission to carry a new crew to the international space station the additions including the u.s. astronaut mash tom mashburn russian cosmonaut roman romanenko and a canadian agency flight engineer chris hadfield once there the crew will join three others who have been manning the one hundred billion dollar research center since october this launch marks a bright spot in a recent rough patch for the russian space program just last year a profile meant to collect soil samples from mars successfully launched but failed to make orbit story and another mission involving a cargo ship carrying supplies headed toward the space station failed to leave earth crashing into siberia instead for the next five months the crew is scheduled to undertake two spacewalks and continue re

i am a flat tax supply sider and i worked for ronald reagan. reagan compromised.e compromised in 1982 over a lousy deal which he regretted. he compromised in 1983 over a very good social security fix. and then he compromised again in 1986 over a very good tax reform fix. >> right. >> so if you blame -- >> i agree if the other side wanted to compromise, i would say we should. >> you've got to learn how to work a little bit here. >> what does obama want that's not in the fiscal cliff -- he wants what's in the fiscal cliff. it's defense cuts and tax hikes. we're compromising with someone who doesn't want to compromise. he likes that stuff. i know he doesn't want to raise taxes on the middle class. but we have to give up everything in this deal. we should articulate our principles or give him what he wants. we're going to vote present and say -- >> boehner's doing the best he can. he's playing a short deck right now. >> you really think he's the best spokesman for conservatism. >> no, no. >> we should put a paul ryan -- we need younger leadership. >> paul ryan came ou

after the act is board of inquiry halted aspartame approval ronald reagan became president in his transitional team which included donald rumsfeld c.e.o. of cereal then hand picked dr arthur a whole his junior to be the new f.d.a. commissioner and and one of his first official acts the new have to commissioner overruled the public board of inquiries recommendations and authorize aspartame to flood the food market later arthur hole left the f.d.a. and took a position with burreson marcel or the chief p.r. firm for both monsanto and g.d. cyril conflict of interest much revolving door politics at its best and over the last thirty years aspartame has made its way into thousands of food products despite its sort of past weight conscious americans will likely still opt for products containing aspartame because it's marketed as a weight loss aid but ironically studies have shown that consuming artificial sugars actually increases appetite sugar intake and weight gain because empty sweetness makes your body expect food and when food doesn't arrive your body gets hungrier and you tend