talking were just about ronald reagan. let's listen him speaking in june of 1987 calling on president gorbachev to tear down the berlin wall. [video clip] >> mr. gorbachev, open these gates. [cheers and applause] ,r. gorbachev -- mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. [cheers and applause] i understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict this continent, and i pledge to you by country's efforts to help overcome these burdens, to be sure that we in the west must resist soviet expansion. so we must maintain defenses and unassailable strength. yet we seek peace. we strive to reduce arms on both sides. host: i was ronald reagan, 40th president of the united states. shreveport, louisiana, homer is on the line for democrats. caller: yes, i guess my favorite is barack obama. i think barack obama because everything is no and he is still getting the job done. as far as abraham lincoln, he didn't free the slaves. slavesthe fight with the -- the rich was were getting harvests off of the slaves in the south. that is my co

i think it's appropriate to end my comments with a true wisdom from president ronald reagan which is k liberty and tierney, which most of you have heard by now. but i'm going to repeat it anyway. for those of you that haven't. reagan wrote and said this many times. freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same. for one day we will spend hours on a years time our children and our children's children what it was once like in the united states when men were free. ..

[applause] mark and ronald reagan's biographer, craig shirley, certainly remembers as i do that in marchn was on the way to winning the republican nomination for president, former president gurled ford went to the new york times to say governor reagan the kinds of things that are said of the tea party today. ronald reagan said president ford was too extreme. he was a sore loser because -- and i'm quoting here, a very conservative family, and as you recall, lost to carter years earlier, and not only ballet carter in a land slide in 1980, four years later won reelection by 49 votes, 49 states, not votes, sorry. [laughter] sorry. [laughter] which lastly brings me to president reagan and his great friend, margaret thatcher. there is a reason ronald reagan won two lands slides and thatcher was the longest serving prime minister winning three elections in a row. both believed with the tea party in drawing a line in the sand that clearly separates right from left, that is not only the key to victory, but they were right about this in the establishment was wrong. president reagan referred to est

particularly and including the nuclear weapons placed in europe by the united states and they knew -- >> ronald reagan did -- >> he put 2,000 troops in lebanon, got more marines killed in one single day than anybody else, reagan did invade grenada and saved 400 rich american students. >> we had a 30-year cold war going back and forth, when ronald reagan developed sdi, whether it was real or not, strategic defense initiative, that's when it happened, they decided enough is enough, and ronald reagan dissolved the soviet union, so this wouldn't be going on -- >> are you really saying that? >> yeah. >> you're saying ronald reagan dissolved that. >> the russians will tell you that. >> the russians will tell you that. history will tell you that. >> gorbachev -- most intelligent russians would not tell you that. it was an accumulation, the mobile nerf weapons the united states put in and the russians couldn't keep up with it. >> the one thing president reagan could have done, because he had such good personal relationships with many leaders around the world, to do something -- and in fact call upon the u.n.

but the leisure society was doomed and then it ronald reagan came into power and decided to slash taxes on the very rich in america. it's time to undo the damage is done by reagan and roll back the reagan tax cuts for the rich. these tax cuts that have let the wealthy elite prosper wall working people and got screwed only when the reagan revolution is reversed every american again reap the rewards of increases in productivity and technology let's step out of the flintstones age and hop on board the jets. and that's the way it is tonight monday february seventeenth two thousand and fourteen and don't forget democracy begins with you at their get active take your. i would rather questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question or. i've got a quote for you. that's pretty tough. stay with sob story. let's get this guy like you would smear that guy stead of working for the people most issues the mainstream media are working for each other bridegrooms days you know. it's. a good read th

be courageous, like ronald reagan. >> say that again. >> be courageous, like ronald reagan. >> thank>> back in 1978 he joined the fight against a nutty ballot initiative that would have banned gay teachers in california. that anti-gay measure actually lost and two years later the gipper went to the white house. i'm just saying. now, sir, does it bother you that you've heard nothing from champions who love to snuggle up to you, they want a good rating from you, but they're completely missing in action? does it offend you to not hear anything from the front-runners in the republican party? >> when there's so much misinformation about this out there, i can understand them not wanting to jump into the fray on something that is a state issue not a federal issue. if it were a federal law -- >> people from that state are not talking about it. >> mccain has come out the other way. >> or come out to oppose it. >> let me ask you this. you supported -- i'm sorry, senator flake, you gave him a 100% rating. flake has now abandoned you to the wolves and is now saying this is a horrible, horrible b

what would ronald reagan do? ronald reagan would lead the free world. ronald reagan would take a moral position. ronald reagan would rally people to his support. he would speak to the people in the street demanding freedom and liberty and pushing away from the tyranny. they want to join the west. they like our political, economic system. this is about individuals massacred in the street. the idea the president of the united states is a bystander who should do nothing while thugs like vladimir putin -- >> i have to go. this is a heated policy. foreign policy on the front burner. you never know. all right. i've got to wrap it up there. >> thanks, gretchen. >>> minimum wage debate with white house rejecting new partisan cbo report on raising minimum wage. half a million americans could lose their jobs if minimum wage is raised. former ceo director saying it also want help those most in need. >> the really striking part of the cbo report was this does nothing for poverty. it raises $31 billion for low wage, 45 million americans in poverty, 900,000 gets help

with the leisure society was doomed and then it ronald reagan came into power and decided to slash taxes on the very rich in america. it's time to undo the damage is done by reagan and roll back the reagan tax cuts for the rich these tax cuts that have let the wealthy elite prosper wall working people and got screwed only when the reagan revolution is reversed every american again reaped the rewards of increases in productivity and technology let's step out of the flintstones age and hop on board the jets. and that's the way it is tonight monday february seventeenth two thousand and fourteen and don't forget democracy begins with you they're good i could tell your. america is joining me. for it seems that impartial and financial reporting carry on for news and much much. only on bombast and. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. as they were it's about story. let's give this guy look good smear about john stead of working for the people most missions on the beach were pretty cheap. bridegroom stays true to. the dead rather. wealthy british soil. is no time to write a. story about

i think ronald reagan was the best president we ever had. i think that barack obama is the worst president. he hasple reason is that given everything away to the poor. he is taking from the working class and the well-to-do. to breakacare is going this country. thank you. guest: not really a pop-culture question, but let me talk about ronald reagan and his use of pop culture. reagan was an actor, obviously. for that reason, quite skilled in the use of pop culture. ande is one story where he nancy were arguing about filming a spot. nancy was telling him what to do. he said no nancy, i have done this before. he knew what he was doing. his people said he always hit his mark. when it came to movies, he was not that excited or interested. he told the white house projectionist that the golden oldies were the one for him. he liked those from the 30's, 40's, and 50's. he likes the other stuff. host: next call is from anchorage, alaska. frank is on the line for independence. i would like to say that george washington is the best president. he was the

help all of us walk up that hill toward the shining city the ronald reagan pointed to we all need to steven so well said thanks so much for being here and thanks for the great work you're doing. to the winter olympics in sochi it was a wild crazy in a shocking day yesterday american snowboarder extraordinary shaun white was trying to become the first american man to win three winter will go into gold medals in a single about what was a heavy favorite going into the men's halfpipe competition. fell multiple times during his first run and failed to even land a spot on the medals podium instead switzerland's lurie. can. also known as i pod took home the gold after successfully competing his infamous yolo trick meanwhile in women's freestyle skiing american devin logan captured the civil silver medal in the women's ski slopestyle with canada's. capturing the gold and in a historical moment for the u.s. team aaron habla won bronze in women's singles luge it was the u.s. its first ever olympic allusion that after last night's events not accounting for today's events norway is leading the m

ronald reagan just a couple of miles away from the fukushima coast and it's been our concern that they were there to lay a power line from the ship's nuclear reactor to the fukushima daiichi reactors which were in station blackout and they were trying to repair our up the cooling system so they had to get the the the this aircraft carrier in really close and as a result there was there were the explosions which lofted radioactivity into the atmosphere but there was also the radioactivity flowing into the ocean water that was being sucked into the ronald reagans desalinization plant and so the ship was was taking in radioactive water. and then it was going into the drinking water bathing cooking ship service systems and a lot of crew members got exposed were only seeing initially you know under one hundred right now but we expect this exposure rate to go up this this is a nuclear powered carrier that i mean they they have lander steady i mean from from watching the tom clancy movies is that when you've got a nuclear reactor on board like on a submarine or an aircraft carrier you've got

>> remember ronald reagan. strategy of the peace through strength.ve to say, one of the prime responsibilities of the federal governmen is to safeguard our security and our freedoms. the way you do that, you say to yourself what are the problem out there, and how are they evving in to the future? and what do we need to deal with them effectively. taking advantage of opportunities. then you build our military capacity based on that strategy. you don't go at it the other way, say we only have a nickel now, what can you do with that nickel. you have to fight for the strategy. neil: do you believe as president does or at least defense department no seems to, that we don't need this membership soldiers because they are around from the war in afghanistan, and war in iraq. we're unwinding from those areas, we don't need to be staffed to the degree we were? >> that may very well be true. on theother happened, i don't get the feeling that we he started from the sense of strej, th streablg, the world is awash in chae, there are threats and ago fabulous opportu

. >> just what it says about the office and about them, ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan, in retrospecti think we have to say that if ronald reagan were not resident in the 1980's, the cold war would not have ended when it did, and it certainly would not have ended under those circumstances, a circumstance that only harry truman harry truman could only dream of. and that it's back to what i was saying about self-confidence. reagan was -- we were talking about introverts. he did not seem that way, one of the most introverted people to become resident, but he did not get emotionally engaged, so once he became president, he can say, a lot of people may think i am a war monger, and this is dangerous, but i think we can end the cold war in this generation. even in the republican party. yet, he had the self-confidence, but that kind of courage led him to succeed. >> you know, when reagan became president, everyone in new york had dinner parties and were making fun. they had been to the white house. so i was trying to write something about the state of the union speech. i had never seen a stat

simply acted. >> jon: yes, i should know because my name is oliver north and when i worked for ronald reagan i illegal sold weapons to iran and illegally took that money and illegally gave it to nick rawgan death squads or as we called it back then simply acting. [ laughter ] but point taken. reagan would not let these freedom-hating russian ukrainians push us around. the soviet union invaded afghanistan, reagan simply acted. >> when the soviet union invaded in 1979 [explosion] a group of afghan muslims declared a holy war. they were known as the mujahidin. both the carter and reagan administrations gave them $3 billion in military aid to fight the off iset. >> jon: problem solved reagan style. >> the most militant extremist faction of the mujahidin turned into the taliban. [laughter] >> jon: right. [laughter] but we didn't have to fight those guys for at least 12 more years and reagan was simply gone by then. and when the freedom-loving iraqis got into a war with iran, reagan simply acted. ayou log saudi arabia to sell saddam hussein american-made weapons. [laughter] but we didn't have to f

this is a letter that was written on november 16, 1983, by president ronald reagan, addressed to then senate majority leader howard baker. president reagan, i believe, my good friends on the other side of the aisle, have deified him as a fiscal warrior, a true conservative. yet we know that ronald reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times during his presidency and in this letter to senator baker lace out in bold, uncompromising terms the consequences of a failure to raise the debt ceiling. this is not a partisan issue. we as democrats are not standing here on the floor of the house of representatives because we want to beat up the other side. we're here to defend the best interests of the american people. east, west, north, south, rural america, urban america, and suburban america, because the consequences of a failure to raise the debt ceiling will hurt everybody. so if the distinguished gentleman from nevada could just react to the notion that this is somehow a partisan issue that needs to be discussed, so that president obama is being fiscally irresponsible by requesting that congres

he is the former chief of staff to president ronald reagan, andy levy. i had month idea. very quiet and behind the scenes. he makes us laugh while hating white people, sherrod small. >> hash tag red eye. who loves you baby? >> and she is so sharp that knives call her for tips. it is fox news national security analyst kt mcfarland. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. a lot of people say you are dark and handsome, greg which is short of true. when it is dark, you are handsome. >> we will try and get through this without joanne burping. >> i'm sorry. >> we are staring down a shortage of clown. it is day 46 of -- >> it is happening just as i predicted, only months ago. we are facing a national clown shortage. the new york daily news reports membership at the country's largest trade organization for the jesters has plummeted in the last 10 years. explained the president of clowns of america international or cai, what is happening is the older clowns are passing away, end quote. as the dead drop the young scoff. the younger generation is not interested in filling thei

and the game got more from ronald reagan. if you watch that movie about newt rockney, there's a sense at which notre dame they were not only building young bodies on the football field but they were building character. they were basically building young men. it was a real kind of propaganda coup for notre dame. and what i mean by this, if you watch the movie, there's a gambler, a bookie who stumbles in the room and kicks him out. you have ruined baseball and horse racing. we're not going to let you ruin this clean game and throws him out. at a later point in the movie, there's some politicians that want to do away with football because of the corrupting the academic -- corrupting academia, essentially, and he says that any player who flunkses his classeses of no use to his coach and any coach who plays a flunky as player is just a fool. and reagan gets into the act. reagan has this speech, really kind of ham-hand speech where he says there will never be but one knut rockney, here at notre dame or anywhere else. he gives us so

you know, ronald reagan was -- fication oflebri america yeah go you know, ronald reagan was a bit ofrailblazer, but more celebrities appear to be publicted in holding office. >> they are used to being in the public eye and when they go to big events they rub elbows with politicians. politics is glamorous when viewed through the hollywood lens. you see people like arnold schwarzenegger becoming governor in california. other celebrities look at that and think why not me echo >> does it actually makes sense, because when you speak to business people for example, who business --reat great political leaders, they say they would not want the spotlight on their personal life. but for somebody who goes from reality tv to politics, it is not a big jump. >> they are used to it, and what's more, they like it, so yes, bring it on. onple say we are hollywood the potomac. everything crazy rolls east eventually. now we have many more ronald reagan's. ronald reagan seemed like a serious person, having been in politics at least through the union out of politics -- out in california when he ran. peopl

. >> ronald reagan and george -- >> the plan is not, the plan is not a guaranteed path to citizenshipf those 11 or 12 million people. >> use every existing pathway -- >> --20 or 30 -- >> you just saw what happened at the house republicans. >> you mean i was there. [laughter] >> let's talk about debt ceiling. do you think that this is a surrender maneuver with complicated language. >> i don't know if i would use those words. i think here is what is going to happen. it's why mr. cantor didn't really want to come out but they're going to use this to highlight some issues that they care about obviously. one will probably be this question about a bailout for obamacare and they're going to send it to the senate and the senate's probably going to send it back to them stripped of anything else and that's a bit gawlingalling. they want the president to go with the past which in the most we have actually had the big debates and passed something with the debt ceiling but in the end they got a better hand talking about obamacare and everything else so they're not going -- >> you lost the leverage

i do not think you should be allowed to invoke ronald reagan's name unless you act and talk and think like him. he had strong beliefs on the social issues. he was not judgmental about the people in the party who had different police. if you think of what we had done in the past couple of years in terms of the issue of abortion, some great friends of mine, women who are pro-life, have said, that is my choice. the notion that we have made more judgments against people who are gay, and i do not read the bible but i think there are a couple of passages that say, judge not lest ye be judged. the whole political is asian of immigration is morally wrong, socially wrong, politically wrong, and ronald reagan had -- he was pro-life but that was not at the epicenter of his appeal to our base. republicans will always be the pro-life party. let's not be judgmental about other people. i want a nonjudgmental conservative message with solutions. you do not like obamacare. there are three or four components in obamacare. let's give a republican alternative. we will change the debate. you have to say m

the only one close to him was ronald reagan.he question any historian has to ask is, why is this is the case? he was there for only 1000 days. it was the seventh briefest presidency in american history. the answer, i think, is on the one hand people don't much like his successors. johnson was vietnam, nixon was watergate. ford's truncated presidency. jimmy carter's presidency which people see as essentially a failure. the only one is reagan. bushes don't register. >> what about clinton? >> yes, but he had the monica affair. the only president in the country's history to have been sort of a black mark against his record. kennedy, of course dying so young at the age of 46, having only been there for 1000 days, it is a blank slate on which you can write anything. and he was so young. the country identifies with that. , to have a sense of loss this day i think, over his assassination. he gives people hope. what they remember are his words. ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. his famous pie

ronald reagan was a pretty old guy. go around all the time and where my ronald reagan batch. i have had 16-year-old cost -- goss girls with weird haircuts come up to me and say wasn't he great? how do you think they would get along with gerald ford? not so good? the point is, young people love idealists and people who stand for something. that's why they love ron paul. you people put reagan into power and he did so much. right now, we are carter on steroids. we really are. everything carter screwed up, these people are doing deliberately. and they mean business. again, thereower will not be another turn for the republicans or any other conservative party ever. this is it. this is the turning point. , therethe next election is only one political force that can stop the democrats and take them out. and whether you like it or not, it's the gop. but the real important question is the character of that gop. now if they give you a fat boy ,rom new jersey or a jeb bush you're going to lose, right? you are going to lose. and even if they win, you still lose, because her aggressive is

and ronald reagan had not been around for a whole time.o republicans is try to find somebody new to cut their own path. >> he was viewed as extreme. viewed as shaking up the establishment. he was the tea party member at its time. >> all right, i think that is a fair point. >> good to see you, my friend. >> you bet, thank you. >> always sean. >>> former host. great show, dirty jobs, quality jobs no longer exist in america. tonight, we set the record straight. plus? >> you better be ready friday to meet with -- to just let you know how i feel about what a rogue little pig you really are. you are a rude thoughtless little pig, okay? >> all right, former father of the year candidate alec baldwin is done with the entertainment business, he says, also done with new york. >>> stop what you're doing, time to set your dvr so you never miss an episode of "hannity." that is why you will be here every night with us. we know we're not the center of your life, but we'll do our best to help you connect to what is. life's an adventure and it always has be

he has already one twice. >> ronald reagan had won twice before. is precedent. >> obviously ronald reagan did it but we're in a different era. mitt romney said when you lose the presidency, they'd brand loser on your forehead. this is from the donor class because they thought that chris christie was their guy and now that bridgegate occurred they're scheme misch and they're going to take a look at jeb bush but bush's last name makes him squeamish as well so they don't have a candidate to back. >> there's a flip of this. because mitt romney didn't say no seven times and he can bring to the table a familiar face, financial favorite, and what happened to chris christie might be short-lived -- and a more likeable persona given this netflix documentary. not heaven as seen it but even when americans are polled today if the election were a do-over, he would win. >> neil, no. please. no. and as a national fundraiser, to me -- >> all right, smarty pants. you are you putting your money on? >> okay. i tell you what. it's too early to tell. >> you're not answe

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ronald reagan used it to build self-confidence during a time of the conflict and difficulty with attitudes to americans. what do people think globally about us and our dream? because as i travel that we just aren't exploiting some one or the global situation to get our wealth which might be the definition of the dream for some. on the a very and i would like to see other countries have a version of the dream that is a unique but in falls they hope. to have freedom and opportunities. i did a preview show with people calling in. what i love is everyone can connect. it immigrants, and a small business owner with a totally different spin. he said take away the regulations. i cannot run my business. and the immigrant who was a mexican said it is those regulations that i came here for. i want the safety of a government that i can trust. i and of how everyone connects in a way with their own history that connects to the larger history of this nation. >> host: have we ever lost our faith in the american dream? >> guest: it is down now with the mortgage crisis, the great recession the numbers are t

is a culture it has its folkways and says this is this is a culture right now that it's faddish ronald reagan and tip o'neill at the moment in history when they were able to agree on something it's taken two individuals and a moment in time and made that a totem of some kind but what they forget is that both ronald reagan and tip o'neill were rhetorical firebrands for two very different points of view what with is missing from the debate now is that you know where reagan was a firebrand for conservatism o'neill was a firebrand for old school liberalism what we have now is a rhetoric of washington that that fetishizing talks are just compromise for compromises sake and what gets lost in that idiology has become a dirty word in law washington but idiology is the set of values and ideas we represent when you go before the. orders so did the extent that they get soft pedaled or backtracked the voters lose out democracy loses out so i would say that this president lost a golden opportunity he said some good things but he lost a golden opportunity to draw a very clear line between to do it now we c

thank you, ronald reagan. thank you, joan walsh.e right back. >> thanks. >>> up next, the latest efforts by republicans to keep democrats, especially minorities from voting, and what democrats are trying to do about it. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." we made a concerted effort here to shine the light on "hardball" in efforts to suppress the vote, to draw attention to this inherently undemocratic strategy, let's be honest about it. already there are bills to restrict voting that are working their ways through legislatures in some 19 maps. look at in ohio. a bill to trim early voting moves forward. there is also a movement to end same-day registration and put new limits on absentee ballots. in florida on the state's gulf coast, the commissioners down there have okayed the closing, catch this, of 30 polling places, which amounts to 1/3 of the county's total. the local naacp president said of the shutdowns the more affluent community was left alone. and as far as their polling place, they didn't suffer some kind of

s ronald reagan, but saying "some" manifests to many people that any exposure to radiation is going tos actually not the case. >> reporter: dallas said the navy's calculations suggest the radiation exposure of the sailors and marines was about the same as taking a transatlantic flight, or not very much. he says health effects from radiation such as cancer take years or even decades to show up. for dallas and other experts cnn consulted, these illnesses have happened too soon to have been as a result of the exposure at fukushima. >> you have an exposure to radiation and then there's a pause, a certain period of time before the health effects start to come. >> reporter: so what is the reason dozens of sailors and marines exposed to radiation are having these health problems? does the navy and do these experts know everything that went on at fukushima? getting to the truth cannot come quickly enough for steve and summer simmons. say somebody's watching this report and they say, look, i'm really sorry that you're going through what you're going through, but the navy and the pentagon don't

what athlete should you be a tension level for breakdown later on the show and believe it or not ronald reagan actually did something right to tell you what that something is and tonight's doomsday. you need to know this tens of thousands of people from all over the country gathered in raleigh north carolina over the weekend to protest the policies of the republican controlled state government but the mainstream media almost entirely ignored them since the g.o.p. took over both houses of the north carolina state legislature back in two thousand and ten the tar heel state has become ground zero for tea party extremism republicans have blocked obamacare as medicaid expansion. slashed away at a number of essential social services things that only gotten worse since governor pat mccrory took office in january of last year in two thousand and thirteen alone north carolina republicans pushed through one of the nation's most restrictive voter suppression laws cut taxes to the state's richest residents and raised taxes for poor and working people they also withdrew their state from federal unemploymen

campaign and a big part you have this kurt yeah it is what he was when he was running riot at ronald reagan's from the direct mail campaign in one nine hundred eighty about voting. how many of our christians have what i call but goo goo syndrome good government they want everybody to vote. i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now i don't matter of fact our leverage in the election is quite candid like go drop out go bowling populist go down. so you know isn't this i mean that was one nine hundred eighty this is today that doesn't changed very little has changed and i think that we have to be a little fair to our friend paul there and say that that historically both parties have understood this they've understood that that if you can figure out ways to make it easy for your people to vote hard for your opponents to vote they will get a better that is a structurally sound of a private party was the party of racism in the south that is where the they were the party that was pushing pol

majority of americans support raising the minimum wage that is worth about 20% less than when ronald reagan took office. there is a bill in congress that would boost america's min wage to $10.10 an hour. that is easy term member -- -- easy to remember, ten ten. most low-wage jobs are held by women and raising the minimum wage would not just raise their wages, its affect would lift wages for about 28 million americans. it would lift millions of americans out of poverty and help millions more work their way out of poverty without requiring a single dollar in new taxes or spending. businessese more more customers with more money to spend. that means growing the economy for everyone. you deserve to know where the people who represent you stand on this issue. if they don't support raising the federal minimum wage, ask them why not. the opponents of raising people postural wages have deployed the old arguments for years. time and again, they have been proven wrong. let's prove them wrong again and give america a raise. let's make opportunity easier to come by for everyone was willing to work for.

the republicans make to ignore the unions that could help to turn out those purple birder's that ronald reagan did so well with. lou: on a guess i understand the history that starts with reagan but or they don't care that they're so comfortable. >> either one is not good. lou: it is time to change. great to see you. >> great to be with you. more than 100 million votes on the east coast hit with their second day of snow and sleet and freezing rain some of the heaviest accumulation of kansas and missouri up to 1 foot of snow nationwide airlines cancelling more than 3,000 flights from accordion and a new jersey and boston logan. forecasters warning temperatures to remain low freezing wet and if slushy and the third storm expected to move into the region this weekend. questioning if so she is ready for with the winter olympics including of black of drinking water and no heat. one german photographer tells the associated press3 running rampant all those spending $51 billion president putin and his comrades neglected the few minor details. next the report on obamacare headlines that the debt is just

ronald reagan was able to be conservative because he had extraordinary personal skills that didn't scarers. >> you're absolutely right. there is no other reagan. men like that don't grow on trees, neither do men like eisenhower, franklin roosevelt or other great presidents we've had. the next compelling leader, there can be a compelling leader with a reagan-esque type of message but ronald reagan was unique. >> mike? >> what you just said is kind of interesting. hadn't really occurred to me. >> just kind of? >> tad bit. >> the selling of a program, whether you're talking about trying to sell reduction in welfare, whether you're trying to sell welfare reform or trying to sell eliminating the carrying interests, hedge fund guys pay more in income tax, the language and demeanor of the person selling it makes a huge -- for instance, ronald reagan, ted cruz could never do what he's doing today -- if ronald reagan sounded like ted cruz, what am i saying here? >> well actually -- >> mike, may i help you -- >> you'll underline this for me too, it's even more important for conservatives to be bet