ronald reagan had to -- video u economics. ronald reagan had to sign some laws. despite what george bush said... >> read my lips, no new taxes. >> he raised the tax rates for wealthy individuals. the dye had been cast, and a conversation around supply side economics and tax cuts dominated american domestic politics for the next three decades. perhaps no one person epitomizes the anti-tax movement than grover norquist, his organization for tax reform came up with the taxpayer protection pledge, a promise to oppose tax increase. it's arguably become an influential american document for the 20th century. today 1 cks 358 law mickers, including -- 1,358 lawmakers, have taken the pledge not to raise taxes, making norquist a powerful nonelected individual in washington. over the past few years critics charged that norquist's iron clad pledge contributed to gridlock in washington. some republicans tried to distance themselves from him. line to what house speaker john boehner -- listen to what house speaker john boehner said. >> all thought i was asking about a random per

it makes no sense the way they're genuflecting to ronald reagan. think they're in love with the fact that the country did love reagan and his presidency. but the things you mentioned are total opposite of what these candidates stand for. it makes no sense. ruth, what's your reaction to rand paul leading this cpac straw poll ahead of walker? what does it mean if anything to win this straw poll? >> i think it shows the straw poll doesn't mean a whole lot when the general election is concerned. this is the far right base and these are candidates many of whom are not going to make it in a real nationwide race with lots and lots of people who live in reality. but, you know like you said, walker is running as reagan. he's constantly invoking reagan. the party has been invoking reagan since the first bush. he was their most popular leader and that continues to be the case. >> my view has changed. i'm flat out saying it. candidates can say that. sometimes they don't. >> so you have changed from 2013? >> absolutely. i look at the problems we have experienced

wilbur matus on the sidewalk where the shooting took place, to tell his story of that day. >> ronald reagan was leaving this hotel after delivering a speech to the afl-cio. reagan, a long-time union man was kind of excited to give this speech. he actually rewrote it by hand. [ applause ] >> at 2:25, 2:26, 2:27, he emerges from this entrance behind this area, this is new, they built this after the shooting. it's a bunker, and if you look inside over here, you'll see the entrance, the door, a steel door, where the president emerged and left. they built this actually this entrance especially for the president. when they built this hotel in the 1960s, they built this wonderful grand ballroom and they knew that for vips, they'll want their own security special interests, so they built it right here, ease of access for limousines. what's interesting about it is, if you look uphere and see the curving driveway, the architects didn't consult the secret service in building the entrance. so they realized, the secret service, if they came up this way, stopped here and kept driving up, if they just kep

rawhide is ronald reagan's code name.t's where i got the title of the book from. >> rawhide is ok. follow-up rawhide is ok. [inaudible] >> you want to go to hospital or back to the white house? >> we're going to crown. back to the white house, back to the white house. rawhide is ok. >> so they're heading back now towards the white house. and drew is flying, the driver is just hurtling down connecticut avenue. it's closed to traffic, there wouldn't be here in 1981, march 30th, because they closed the streets for the limousine's expected ride back. as they're driving along now remember the limousine is alone. they have no support. they've left the motorcade behind. the follow-up car, the armored follow-up car with two guys brandishing uzis finally catches up behind them. and they're going along. and the police cars are starting to now follow up and the police motorcycles are getting ahead of the limousine. as they're going through, right about here, jerry parr realizes that something is wrong with the president. because he'

anybody like ronald reagan? i can make you ronald reagan by midnight. i can go to boston and get you a social security card. if control gets a job, you will cut off the flow. if you don't increase legal immigration, you'll put every employer in a box. the high-tech community needs workers because we are not producing enough engineers in america to service the high-tech community. if you are a meatpacking plant you need workers because you cannot find people to work those jobs. i come am a big tourism state. -- i come from a big tourism state we needed 600 service workers to service a tournament. under a law, you have to advertise with benefits. we advertised within the community had 12 applications and three of them failed a drug test. we are 500 and 90-something workers short. you need high skilled labor because we are not producing enough people to service the industry..you need low skilled -- you need low skilled labor to make sure the economy works and agriculture does not move to mexico or another place. you will not get what you want unless the ot

this is exactly what they did to ronald reagan. stuart: that put down is a form of senior of him. >> they will try to take him out. you would agree if ted cruz is so conservative, you would agree that barack obama is the single most liberal candidate. how many times was he called a liberal in the entire campaign?

teddy roosevelt, fdr, jfk, ronald mildred -- ronald reagan, bill clinton, and barack obama. what did they have? host: charisma. the ability to connect with american values -- not all of, it depended on the time and what people wanted. fdr was optimism. theater roosevelt, his distant cousin the idea of vigor and taking on powerful interests. there was also the sense -- an aura about them. they seem to understand that americans have got through it a series of phases and defining a president. today, the president needs to be an entertainer. needs to be part in the culture to keep people interested. our most effective presidents understand that. are released or unable to act on it or do not understand. the other presidents i talk

that's ronald reagan. take a trip back to the start of the 1980s with a scandal during the reagan administration. the iran scandal. which feels lost to history. leftists had just taken over the government in nicaragua. a coalition of right wing rebels wanted to overthrow the left wing and ronald reagan who was staunchly anti-communist was exceedingly supportive of the contra's efforts. referring to them to the moral equivalent of the founding fathers. the contras became known for brutal tactics including executions of other soldiers. congress took issue with reagan backing the contras and passed a series of amendments to stop from funding them. it was illegal to fund them. meanwhile in iran the country had been taken over by religious hardliners was being led by ayatollah komeni. dozens were held hostage in tehran starting in 1979. that event is what destroyed diplomatic relations between our countries and that extends to this day. yet iran in 1985 turned to the united states in its help for the war against

fact from day one, when i was elected, i want my attitude on compromise is exactly the same as ronald reaganreagan said what do you do if they offer half a loaf? answer, you take it and then come back for more. >> shortly after you were elected you said, i don't think what washington needs is more compromise? >> because what washington does not often is that it compromises going backwards. >> i don't know what he means. ronald reagan cut a pretty good deal, a everyone appeared saved social security, and compromised with o'neal, my boss, and others. i don't know what -- >> biggest difference is ronald reagan served as governor for eight years, so he knew how the place worked. he knows nothing. he's been in the senate three years, he hasn't gotten any bills passed at all. this is not a guy who truly understands government. you may not like reagan's conservative politics, but he understood government and understood what it was to be ceo. >> he ace could youed obama being under communist influence. >> didn't ted cruz go to harvard? >> he resisted it somehow. he goes after chuck hagel with two pu

. >>> new overnight, a fresh look at ronald reagan showing the onset of dementia likely started before he left the white house. the clever method researchers used to come up with the conclusion. >>> and epic roast. comedians, athletes and martha stewart skewering justin bieber. the awkward moments and the biggest laughs. >>> and good tuesday morning, everyone. i'm bazi kanani in for reena ninan who is on assignment. >> and i'm t.j. holmes. thank you for being with us. and we do start with indiana's religious freedom act and the firestorm spreading coast to coast. more states, cities and businesses are now promising to boycott. >> well, indiana is feeling the heat. the front page of "the indianapolis star" this morning pleading "fix this now." abc's susan saulny has the latest. >> all: no hate in our state. >> reporter: the backlash against indiana's new religious freedom law rages on this morning. peaceful protesters gathered in indiana to voice their concerns that the law will legalize discrimination against gay men and women. >> if we don't speak out, then we're letting them think th

anybody like ronald reagan? i can make you ronald reagan by midnight. i can go to boston and get you a social security card. if control gets a job, you will cut off the flow. if you don't increase legal immigration, you'll put every employer in a box. the high-tech community needs workers because we are not producing enough engineers in america to service the high-tech community. if you are a meatpacking plant you need workers because you cannot find people to work those jobs. i come am a big tourism state. -- i come from a big tourism state we needed 600 service workers to service a tournament. under a law, you have to advertise with benefits. we advertised within the community had 12 applications and three of them failed a drug test. we are 500 and 90-something workers short. you need high skilled labor because we are not producing enough people to service the industry..you need low skilled -- you need low skilled labor to make sure the economy works and agriculture does not move to mexico or another place. you will not get what you want unless the ot

i think ronald reagan made a similar comment.ealing with jack warner, of the warner brothers studio, the russians can't be any tougher. that was reagan's sense of humor. and of course, the same people that are caterwalling about scott walker. how can you say this? it was an offhand comment. this is the way cpac is seen through the media lens. i'm not saying it's definitive. we know it's not for picking things. i think matthew's right. it's taking a bit of a pulse of where the grass roots are. a little bit more libertarian at cpac. but it was interesting. jeb bush had to bus in people. "the new york sometimes" did an amazing story on this. the buses left from k street. i wouldn't have wanted that if i were him. physically organized people. left from k street. bused people in for cpac. i think it's very smart. the bushes are playing varsity. they're not playing jv here. it's really really smart for him to do that. let me just finish. i think jeb showed up. i think, he did -- he acquitted himself very well. the problem is, the probl

we saw tip o'neill working with ronald reagan. i'm looking for the next ronald reagan and tip o'neill to come forward and find a solution to challenge us in this country. and they are out there, you just have to have the will. i am abundantly optimistic. i shared with you that the best days of this country are in front of us. economically, foreign policy-wise, and it will require men and women to put aside their differences and find things that they can work together on. >> two last questions. >> bob from massachusetts. i appreciate what you are saying relative to bipartisanship and working. over the weekend, a letter was sent by republican colleagues that was highly criticized by secretary kerry when he testified yesterday. my question is hypothetically, relative to the spirit of doing business in d.c. these days, if you were a u.s. senator, would you have signed on to that letter, and if not in the spirit of timonium and ronald reagan what would a better , approach have been to try to get the republican senators message across t

it empowered a young actor and aspiring politician named ronald reagan.t's coming up next. >>> what many people may not know is that the free speech movement is an organized group technically dissolved in early 1965 but legacy spans the political spectrum to the anti-vietnam war and occupy movements. >> it was kipd of a ref lugs because it created this enormous expectation. >> the counter revolution was different. part of the thing that fuelled that was -- >> the anti-war movements, the other movements with the abilities and women's rights and so son. and that common core was a sense that america had to change. >> we had unleashed this enormous force, the force of student protest. >> it's won rights and made a reputation of this university. it may have led to the backlash. and eventually presidency. >> it began a year ago when the so-called free speef advocates have no appreciation of freedom. >> free speech was a perfect foil for ronald reagan. he gained a lot out of that confrontation. >> part of that speech is when he attacked berkley. >> the universit

anybody like ronald reagan? i can go down to boston and get you an illegal social security card. we control who gets the job i having verifiable documents, you will cut off the flow in the future. if you do not increase legal immigration you will put every employer in a box. the high-tech community needs workers because we are not producing enough engineers to service the high-tech community. if you run a meat packing plant you need workers, because you cannot find people to work in those jobs. i am from south carolina. a big tourism state. we put on the pga in 2012. we needed service workers for the tournament. you have to advertise locally above minimum wage above health care benefits before you can get a guest worker. we had 12 applications, three failed the drug test. we were 500 workers short. i had to beg for a waiver so that we could to get workers to service the tournament. we are not producing enough people for the service industry. you need low skilled labor. and agriculture does not move to mexico that we have abundant labor. you will not get what you want, unless the

professor feller: i don't think ronald reagan would have liked that. [laughter] professor feller: and that point i would be tempted to say that rogan is -- >> it is a vivid metaphor. professor feller: what it does bring out nakedly as this. that is this. -- is this. my guess is rogan did not particularly like ronald reagan and did not mean that to become -- like that to be complementary, so that clarifies the point he does not like jackson. [laughter] professor feller: jackson is the hero in schlesinger's story. i will go ahead and say it. he is a villain in rogan. the only reason i hesitated villain is, with the fascinating neo-freudian or crypto freudian or plain old freudian analysis and those passages you just go whoa. and by the way, i think most historians today would just kind of go, whoa. and now i lost my train of thought. >> i wanted to mention -- professor feller: now i remember. somehow describing jackson's , you know, feelings about his mother and his feces -- >> his first possessions. [laughter] >> personal property. professor feller: yea

charles: is there a ronald reagan waiting in the wings if it's like the late 1970s. >> ronald reaganidn't look like ronald reagan in the 1970s. they were critical of him. charles: not too late to throw your hat in the ring. help us out. on that note, let's blow the whistle. open up the first page from payne's investment playbook. here's the question, is there too much government intervention in the free market. we talk about the fed every single day. they've been a blessing for the stock market. easy money has made it easy for big businesses to use these low interest rates. they bought back billions and billions of dollars of their own shares. yet, all that money printing has not helped the economy. we're like 2% annual. many point the finger to the fact that so many laws have not been signed. few laws have been signed under obama's reign at the white house. either way, the bottom line is there's a lot of dysfunction. it goes both ways. what is the economic cost of dysfunction in washington? scottie, we see what happened today. with netanyahu, i think 56 democrats didn't show up. the

we thought ronald reagan mastered the media of his time, and he did. but in those days it was the three television networks. he was a former television and movie star himself. he understood how television worked and was able to dominate the dominant media of his time, television. since then, there have been so many changes and our media world -- in our media world. today, president obama mastech the social media, using the white house website sarah promote his agenda and himself. using television shows that other presidents disdained, like the late-night comedy shows, and shows that presidents did not even have the opportunity to go on it like "between two ferns," the zach galafinakas comedy show. president obama understands that different electorates draws different things from different media. presidents will have to do the same thing to carry their agenda from now on. host: 202 is the code if you want to talk to ken walsh. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 four public and's. (202) 748-8002 for independence. we will start taking those call

coming up, snoop dogg is attacking president ronald reagan and his economic policies. ls. coming up next. ♪ alix: snoop dogg says president reagan is to blame for the demise of los angeles in the 1980's. the wrapper is developing a new show for hbo that will depict families struggling to the era of reaganomics. joining me is washington bureau chief john allen. what is the case here? why does he blame reaganomics for l.a.'s problems? john: certainly, rhetorically from president reagan that is what he is looking at. president reagan was governor reagan in the 1970's, the time when i think mr. dogg things were better and l.a. and the reform act, the government services. the comparison of the 70's and 80's may not be a perfect one. alix: what was so difficult in the 80's? john: the cutback of government services is the reasoning from snoop dogg. and if you look at what was going on a nerve in the at that time. that epidemic, the rise of aids a lot of problem's -- not only in urban areas. but if you look at some of the decay at that time in american society those were things

it seemed that ronald reagan ran on the campaign of missile defense for america strategic defense initiative, as they called it then. reagan became president dr. teller couldn't get in to see him. david stockman was keeping him away from president reagan because it would cost too much money. dr. teller knew dr. edwards and began to complain to jim edwards. so over a series of various meetings edwards came up with a plan. he said, at the department of energy we keep the original letter that albert einstein wrote to president roosevelt proposing a manhattan project. dr. teller, i want you to write a let to president reagan proposing the strategic defense initiative for america. i'm going to get that letter that albert einstein wrote to franklin roosevelt. we'll go around david stockman and good to president reagan and the rest is history. i call him the unsung hero of missile defense. one other key thing i want to talk about, too, is energy. this country has got to be 100% energy independent and be able to sustain it. the u.s. energy information agency tells us that between now and 2014 we'll

ronald reagan swept to victory. his battles had on begun. ats in the house were determined block reagan'sax plan. but, as reagan preparedis program he found some new friends and some new ideasfor his tax ckage. congressman barber conable added a carrotor business in t form of faster depreciation of capital iestment. the sic reagan idea was to have a simple prosal of two parts-- rateuts ancuts for business that would be given in a way to encourage investment and therefore improve productivity. the acrs 10-5-3 jones-conable bill was the second half of the proposal. i felt it was very necessary in short to encourage productivity growt to encouge savings. i am not a keynesian. i don't believe that you can handle economic policy solely by taking those stepsthat will stimulate consumptio i think you've got to give somencentive to savings, too. for months republicans hammered away at democra in congress tryingo pry loose enoughotes pass the tax package, e opposion held. agan's program was going where. the tax bill was amended to attract more votes.

that's a different issue. >> i think it happened with ronald reagan. i think the left was so angry that his so successful. so furious about it that they despised him you know what? we are going it get in the mud now and stay in the mud. >> i ran contra. they didn't impeach him. i ran contra. >> we're not talking about the same things here. iran contra was a problem. >> republicans are held to. >> that's a different animal we are talking about. >> i feel like this is something that has gained traction, you know, a much stronger traction in the last, you know, five or six years. >> since the internet. there is no doubt about it. >> they can now smear anybody and the acolytes in the mainstream pick it up. ladies, good debate. thank you. one footnote. i will be discussing senator cruz with dave letterman tonight on his program. next on the rundown, glenn beck says he is leaving the republican party but will the entry of ted cruz change his mind? mr. beck will be here. and then later is it legal investigating chaos in the immigration enforcement. after pres

richard nixon didn't come every year but at the end, jimmy carter, ronald reagan was here every year, loved it. his wife performed famously, singing. she turned her image around. people had an image of her being stuffy and standoffish. everyone agrees that america appreciated her more afterwords. that was one case where photos did leak out somehow. that was delighted to have that image of nancy reagan put out. >> the present of the gridiron club this year, thank you for your time. >> thank you for visiting. [indiscernible conversations] >> we have been live from the renaissance hotel in washington, d.c. the 130th year for the formal white tie event. the event close to cameras but we have been watching some of the arrivals, some of the members of the club. 65 members. they are arriving tonight read speakers include the president barack obama, governor scott walker, and terry mcauliffe in attendance. we have seen members of congress arriving. current and former cabinet members as well. for more baseball homerun king arriving for tonight's gridiron club dinner. here on c-span the communi

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his presidential nomination, influence on ronald reagan, and affinity for photography. this is about 40 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our honored guest, arizona secretary of state member of the united states house of representatives, a member of the united states senate, and the speaker of the united states house of representatives. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. >> ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to statuary hall. this place was once the chamber of the house of representatives. it is where lincoln served as one term in congress and where madison, monroe, and andrew jackson were sworn into office. since the 1860's, the tradition has been for each state to send to dope statues here in honor of their favorite sons and daughters. some were veterans, summer authors, some are veterans, some are pioneers and some are just great people. our honoree was all of these things and more. today is a dedication of barry goldwater from the great state of arizona.

when he started talking about forced busing what happened with ronald reagan and it is that point you see any qualities got to get to start skyrocket but we haven't seen in 100 years what happened there and i want to say this isn't just about conservatism in fact in some ways i think we are witnessing the conservatism and i think that when rick describes conservatism as a sense of slow but steady social change that attempts to respect important social institutions and preserve them and to honor them, that sounds like conservatism to me. that is not for the conservatives today are saying. but the conservatives today are saying here are your fellow americans, here the minorities, fear gays and women who want to work and have access into government, too because they keep coddling those people so vote against the government and don't pay attention to the fact when you vote against government you are turning it over to the coke brothers. don't worry about that. you will be okay if the richest 1% control 30% of the wealth of the whole country. that isn't what controls the whole society it i

anybody like ronald reagan? i can make you ronald reagan by midnight go to boston and get you an illegal social security card. if you control who gets a job pweuby having very much believe documents you will cut off the flow in the future. if you don't increase legal immigration you will put every employer in a box. the high tech community needs workers because we are not producing enough engineers in america to service the high tech community. if you are running a meat packing plant you need workers because you can't find people to work in those jobs. i come from south carolina a big tourism state. we put on the p.g.a. in 2012, steve. we needed 600 service workers to service the tournament. under the law you have to advertise locally above minimum wage with health care benefits before you can get somebody to come in as a guest worker. we advertised in the community, had 12 applications and three failed the drug test. we were 590-something workers short. i had to beg the department frof labor to give us a waiver

we saw tip o'neill working with ronald reagan. am looking for the next ronald reagan and tip o'neill to come forward and challenge us with the country. and they are out there. you just have to have the will. we can do it. i am abundantly optimistic. i shared with you that the best days of this country are in front of us. economically, foreign policy wise, and it will require men and women who put aside some of their differences and find the things that they can work together on, and deliver that for t american people. hebob: i am bob from qualified health centers of massachusetts. i appreciate what you are saying relative to bipartisanship and working. over the weekend, a letter was sent by republican colleagues that was highly criticized by senator kerry -- or by secretary kerry when he testified yesterday. my question is hypothetically, relative to the spirit of doing business in d.c. these days, if you were a u.s. senator, would you have signed on to that letter or not, what would a better approach have been to try to get the r

ronald reagan, his jobs growth was double.er this is morning and if you adjust for the size of the economy, ronald reagan's jobs growth was 90% higher than barack obama. well growth was 4.7% for his recovery. >> you can't touch this. >> and obama's was 2.3%. [ overlapping speakers ] >> this is a joint venture with the republicans and democrats. >> and would the world be better if president obama was president reagan instead. >> super. >> it is an apples and oranges. under -- remember the president came into office with a deepest recession since the great depression and i remember because i was there and to trot out and say we lost 700,000 jobs and he can say we just got 300 jobs and good for him. and the federal reserve has played a key role. but we are all over pulling this forward. >> wait a minute. >> no just a second. and i mentioned the federal reserve and we talk about wage and reaching folks left out. very important points. it is key that the federal reserve not hike interest rates too soon. you mentioned the stokt mark

bush, ronald reagan and jeb bush. >> guest: right.l, we'll take them in order, the caller referred to the 2000 election where, of course, the supreme court decided that in a 5-4 decision awarding the state of florida to president bush after a huge and complicated fight over who had won florida,al gore v. george w. push. and the caller or's right, al gore actually won more popular votes than george bush, about 500,000 as i recall. and the democrats really could not get past that for a long time when the supreme court made its ruling because they felt al gore had actually won the popular vote, which he had. but in our system, this is the way it works, the supreme court is the arbiter in close cases like this, and that's what happened. and then as far as reagan goes president reagan had been an actor in movies and on television and had a lot of skills that are very valuable for presidents to have. reagan was once asked about a reporter sort of in conster or nation -- consternation said you know, a lot of people think you were a b movie a

some are outside leaders like ronald reagan.ernity -- we all know who are the stand-out leaders. we knew in my era scoop jackson, sam nunn on defense were good for seven or eight votes in a tight vote any time. we knew that dick lugar on foreign policy was good for six or seven votes. they were leaders in their area. all of you on this committee know who the half-a-dozen leaders of this committee are. i don't know who they are but you know. and certainly the ranking member and chairman know who they are. and a coalition of those can be put together. but the key is not do you have the leadership. there is a does the little leadership group agree on the goal that they want to reach. if they don't agree on the goal, no quantity of leadership is going to make any difference. >> all right. thank you. second question deals with, you did all this work in '86. no sooner was the ink dry on all that legislation and we started clanging it. a whole lot over time. did you ever think at a time that we'd see this kind of change that quickly an

anybody like ronald reagan? i can make you ronald reagan by midnight. i go down to boston or some place and get an illegal social security card. if you control who gets a job by having verifiable documents, something like e-verify, you'll cut off the flow in the future. if you don't increase legal immigration you're going to put every employer in a box. v-1-vs. the high-tech community needs workers because we're not producing enough engineers in america to service the high-tech community. if you run a meat packing plant you need workers because you can't find people to work in those jobs. i come from south carolina a big tourism state. we put on the pga in 2012 steve. we needed 600 service workers to service the tournament. under the law you have to advertise locally above minimum wage with health care benefits before you can get somebody to come in as a guest worker. we advertised in the community. had 12 applications and 3 of them failed the drug test. we're 590-something workers short. i had to beg the department of labor to give us a waiver so jamai

remember ronald reagan did that. if robert f.te ronald ray gone wob he would debate rfk. he did that across the country. he wrote he refined his thoughts. he studyiedstudied. he was a strong conservative. a strong conservative can explain his or her positions in a language that is precise and clear. we also need a candidate who is proud to be called a conservative. proud to stand with you. not a conservative who comes to cpac to check a box but a conservative who comes to cpac because they are conservatives. [ applause ] not a so-called conservative who nodded with the elite as few years ago back in 2008 when the elites were saying that conservatism was over, was dead. a full conserve tiff would kind of scratch his chin and kind of nod his head or her head and say, you know i didn't like the tone of what they were saying. i didn't like the message was too harsh. it was too blunt. my friends, when republicans join the democrats at the alter of big government, and they might call it one year compassionate conservatism, they might c

since ronald reagan began 35 years ago it had been four years since there is a democrat in the house and senate. when you have branches of government in the hands of -- it doesn't work very well. we were in a vicious cycle. there are people who think government should protect them. i don't see well put some of you are member. winchester cathedral you are letting me down. you didn't do nothing when my baby left town. you could've done something you didn't do nothing. that's the way these people think about the government. they believed they could have done something to alleviate their economic distress and didn't so they punished this government. gay is not an issue anymore. i think the alienation and anger of white workingmen who continue to read about things are going well. there is one issue and its controversial my plan to pursue it at one issue in addition to guns which is one that liberals have to cope with his environmental is in. there are times where there's a conflict between environmental issues and we have to put a hierarchy on some environmental issues that are more impor

in this modern era, you not run for president unless you invoke name, memory or quote from ronald reagan. but the senator cruz did that today in his coming out party? >> past few days, i thought, a bit of the shining stay on a hill. >> american exceptionalism that made this nation's clarion voice for freedom in the world, a shining city on a hill. >> well done, ted, only chance ted cruz has for winning nomination is to not only appeal to life and legacy of ronald reagan but he has to clone the 40th president, since we don't quite have that technology yet, ted will have to settle for reaganesque hologram by his side, remember that tupac hologram in coachella? remember? cruz is in. it is on. now we'll see how the rest of the file shapes up -- field shapes up, rand will take libertarian, huckabee social conservatives, lindsey graham, the neoconhawks, but will ted cruz take america? only time will tell. tonight starbucks pulls plug on its race together initiative. darn, just when the conversations were getting intresting, and what your doctor won't tell but surgery, obamacare is 45 years old

since ronald reagan began 35 years ago it had been four years since there is a democrat in the house and senate. when you have branches of government in the hands of -- it doesn't work very well. we were in a vicious cycle. there are people who think government should protect them. i don't see well put some of you are member. winchester cathedral you are letting me down. you didn't do nothing when my baby left town. you could've done something you didn't do nothing. that's the way these people think about the government. they believed they could have done something to alleviate their economic distress and didn't so they punished this government. gay is not an issue anymore. i think the alienation and anger of white workingmen who continue to read about things are going well. there is one issue and its controversial my plan to pursue it at one issue in addition to guns which is one that liberals have to cope with his environmental is in. there are times where there's a conflict between environmental issues and we have to put a hierarchy on some environmental issues that are more impor

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washington despised ronald reagan. if you see a candidate who washington embraces, run and hide. [applause] cruz: it came from the american people and swept up as a tsunami. and turned the country around. we went from stagnant growth to booming growth at 7.2% a year with millions lifted out of poverty and into prosperity and the american dream. i want you to imagine for a second, for some of you who might think some of the things i am saying our audacious. abolish the irs, really? >> yes! >> really! cruz: in washington, that is viewed as out there. repeal obamacare, really? i want you to imagine we are all in the room in 1979 and ronald reagan walked up to the podium and told each of you we are going to take the top marginal tax rate of 70% and cut it to 28%. we are going to take the stagnant economic growth for four years averaging less than 1%, and bring it to 7.2%. we will bring hostages from iran. they will be released when i am in office. we will end the cold war rebuild the military, and tear the berlin wall to the ground. according to washington reasoning, that is nuts. yo

it's something going back to fdr and coolich, ronald reagan. >> stephen, his point is that the democratic party. they play the race card and they get people all worked up. al gore saying republicans don't want to count black people in the census hillary clinton goes into his accent. al gore into hissing a sent. erick holder making the case. the president has been wrong on trayvon martin, ferguson, i'm asking why does the democratic party have this hold on black americans' vote if they are not prospering under prattic policies? why? >> i this i the democrats have dem gock dem demagoguesed the issue if it wasn't for republicans, sean, who pushed it through. lbj didn't want to do this. he got it done under expediency. he said if it wasn't for us, you owe your political allegiance to us. we actually got these things for you, which is a lie. look what they have actually done. >> this is the voting rights? >> reagan cited 25 year voting rights, g.w. bush cited it. 50 years. now, it's all still there. it was extended by 60 years by reagan. >> i will give you one more chance. >> a small thing goi

we saw tip o'neill working with ronald reagan. i am looking for the next ronald reagan and tip o'neill to come forward. they're are out there. you just have to have the will. we can do it. i am abundantly optimistic. i shared with you that the best days of this country are in front of us. economically, foreign policy was -- foreign policy wise, and it will require men and women to find things that they can work together on. and deliver that for the american people. guest: >> bob from massachusetts. i appreciate what you are saying relative to bipartisanship and working. yesterday, over the weekend, a letter was sent by republican colleagues that was highly criticized by senator -- a secretary kerry when he testified yesterday. my question is hypothetically, and to the point you just relative to the spirit of doing may, business in d.c. these days, if you were a u.s. senator, would you have signed on to that letter, and if not what would a better approach , have been to try to get the republican senators message across to the presi