and this time we're going to let ronald reagan be ronald reagan. >> the mantra let reagan be reagan iswhat we've got. the strongest thing, our best political asset is ronald reagan being himself, communicating with the american people. when he was showing his personality, his ideas and rhetoric, he generally succeeded. >> going into tonight, a new poll indicates the race continues to narrow. >> the audience out there will be looking at ronald reagan in a new way. i think in louisville, the myths or the mystique of the great communicator was dented, perhaps irreparably. >> president kennedy had to go days on end with very little sleep during the cuban missile crisis. is there any doubt you'd be able to function in such circumstances? >> not at all. and also, i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. [ laughter ] >> it brought down the house. and it was his house by then. >> there were several times during his first term when i thought this man is not going to be re-elected president. i guess what

eastern block and with russia, the early challenges for the foreign policy of the president elect ronald reaganeagan spent much of his career blasting the soviet union, attacking any republican or democrat who said we can negotiate. he had been the leading opponent of detente, the policy of trying to ease relations with the soviets. what he disliked about detente, they were hitting the negotiating team as equals. reagan thought there are two super powers, but we have moral superiority because democracy is inherently good and sovietism is inherently bad. >> the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause, meaning they reserve under themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat. i think when you do business with them, even at a detente, you keep that in mind. >> and everybody was like oh, this cowboy is shooting from the hip, actor, doesn't he understand that's not diplomatic. boy did he get the soviets' attention, but there was a lot of tush tushing about whether this was appropriate for the president to say. >> ronald reagan had a more racal view of american goals

patty are heard from davis, ronald reagan's daughter. she says she hasn't forgiven john hinckley junior for trying to assassinate her father, but he should not be set free. finally a reaction from michael reagan, ronald reagan's son. he says his father forgave john hinckley junior, and may be else should do the same. michelle: thank you very much for bringing us up to date with that story. 's" philip crowther reporting their. braderie which takes not takelille will place due to security concerns. the move to scrap it from the calendar comes barely three weeks after the deadly terror attack in nice. take a listen to the mayor martine aubry. aubry: it is very difficult. i think we have to suspend the 2016 [indiscernible] it is clear we cannot ensure optimal safety. and after all the decisions we , this is a question of more responsibility. cancellations like the one in lille is good news for france's tourism industry. other countries to have suffered recent attacks, suggest turkey, -- such as turkey, are also seeing visitors staying away. i

i mean, ron paul and ronald reagan. i think he compares to ron paul in that ron paul is a very straightforward speaker who doesn't really care what the press thinks. but he just speaks from his heart about his ideas. it is his downfall. it was part of barry's downfall. but also reagan-like in that the core of his ideas that barry ran on reagan later implemented. but he just had -- you know, reagan had a smoother style. he was mr. hollywood. not only did he not have a tenure, but he had that wonderful smile and people loved him and he made people laugh. but he ran basically on the same ideas that goldwater did and brought over, you know, won in a landslide. so sometimes when rick says people didn't like barry's ideas or weren't ready for them, you know, i don't really think that is a very fair assessment. i think that the assassination played the key role at that time. i think the poor messaging that barry did, was a factor, but i don't think it was the ideas. i think it was the timing and the way that the ideas were sol

and, did ronald reagan really work hard for him after the convention through the election? > from what i understood, yes. reagan did work for ford to try to get him elected. he did. he absolutely did. that is a good question on the constitutional >> i don't know. [indiscernible] >> you have to remember ronald reagan was 65-years-old at the 1976 convention. the assumption by other politicians and the media was that he was too old to ever run again. >> thank you for doing this. i wanted to ask you what -- if the end of the vietnam war had any role in the convention rhetoric or did it come up? >> i think pardoning -- well that was the watergate with nixon -- yeah, i think it did. i think the republican party in and we talked about it a little bit, was struggling. and it was watergate, vietnam. ford was taking the middle road and promoting detente and some of that. reagan was coming out and saying we need to be militarily strong. we need to be the strongest country in the world and sort of that kind of thing so that, i believe it did. >> i would say it absolutely did because i t

ronald reagan: a wall of bullets.was not so long ago these men were students in a university, workmen in a shipyard, just plain citizens from everywhere, u.s.a. they changed jobs, they changed clothes. they took a train into the future. they did not know what the future would be, but many hoped they would get the chance to fly and fight in the air. some wanted that chance more than anything in the world. deep inside alabama is a famous school called the tuskegee institute. it was founded on july 4, 1881, and since that independence day, it has graduated many thousands into agriculture, into science, into industry. this school was the first of its kind, and its founder, booker t. washington, was a pioneer who broke open a road for others to follow. this man had a dream. and the dream became stone. he lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry. this school, close to the work this man had done, the united states government an airfield. build three years ago

we will see what we can do for the new book about ronald reagan called appropriately ronald reagan. this book is part of the american presidential series of concise biographies written by some quite accomplished authors and published by times book. until nine years ago if he edited the series and the point of the project was to produce volumes that were compact enough for the busy reader, lucid enough for the student, authoritative enough for the scholar. his work certainly fits that mold. he's managed in a 154 pages of text not only to capture the extraordinary life but also to weigh in on several issues of particular significance among them the role that he played in ending the cold war and the seemingly impenetrablthusseeminf ronald reagan's mind. jake brought to the task a long career in journalism that includes "newsweek" and the new republic, pieces for the magazine, the financial times and "vanity fair" and editor and now chair man of the group. now it's true the political leanings towards the liberal and conservative, but that didn't keep him from approaching the subject wit

ronald reagan. stated by ronald reagan. pretty good. we will be the big tent party. >> what's your reaction to that? >> it was pretty rough for him to be able to get that out. somebody must have drilled it into his head what he needs to say, because it didn't come out -- >> i'm glad you said that. glad i'm not the only one. he did not veer from that paper. he's like kelly ayotte, i support. >> looked like a hostage video. >> ronald reagan spent the campaign burning down half the tent to make it a bigger opportunity. he kept trying to fill that tent. i think it's great to mention my father. it's wonderful i had ronald reagan as my dad, we had him as president for eight years, but the reality is those reagan democrats he's talking to are 90 years old. he has to find a message that's going to bring in the millenials, bring in others to the tent and make that tent his tent. ronald reagan's tent is gone for all purposes because people age out of that tent and they die and they go away. my daughter ashley, 33 years of age, a millenial. she sa

six years later after irritating ronald reagan mightily over those 6 years, ronald reagan swallowed hardendorsed him, came into pennsylvania, endorsed him, did a fund-raiser for him. exerted his influence to getting a conservative challenger out of a primary situation. so, this is what party leaders do. and this is donald trump's moment. >> you say this is donald trump's moment. how long is this iteration of trump and the campaign going to last? i imagine -- i mean, i know that sitting in this chair, we've asked at least a dozen times, christi? i don't know. is this the presidential shift? is this the turn toward preparing for the general? are we all being fooled? is this going to change went we see him in new hampshire this weekend? >> well, donald trump is going to continue to be donald trump. there's no question about that. but, yeah win mean, we're now in the general election. it may be august and the olympics may be attracting a little bit of attention here, but, you know, the game is on here. so, donald trump understands full well what the stakes are. he's very enthusiastic -- i me

ronald reagan. great man. great guy. remember he included reagan democrats and independent, and republicans. a lot of people. we are going to have the same thing. there are a lot of democrats perhaps in this room? are there democrats in this room? raise your hands. i don't think we need too many to be honest. i embrace the wisdom that my 80% friend is not my 20% enemy. ronald reagan. stated by ronald reagan. we'll be the big tent party. we'll have a lot crossover. we'll have a lot of bernie sanders coming in because of trade. bernie sanders knew we were being ripped off by trade. trade is a disaster with china and with japan and mexico. with vietnam. with so many countries. with he country, every country. we don't win at any level with anything. and as a unified party, we'll lead our country to unity as well. very important. we need the unity. we have to win this election. well, we have to win it. have to win it. otherwise our big movement was not as big as we thought. and that's not good. that's why november 8 you have g

. >> as a public school administrator my question is do batf under ronald reagan and to the secretary of registration he said what we need to do with the department of education began as a director we need to eradicate the department of education it didn't happen that was his thought but i of course, to be a member of the california teachers association that the largest contributing group of the democratic party is socialist. realize you don't have a magic pill but education goddess here but we are due to repeat that so how do we steer the aircraft carrier? >> i wrote five books in university law how to reform them. they just fell into a whole. republicans control 30 states i have spoken to the chairman of the education committee's, republican leadership of various states it isn't a money issue for them. i didn't get any real support at the republican party. and until that happens able want to continue to feed universities that will:see you have to be prepared to actually fight. eating countdown the figures of one hands and that has got to stop late befriend who was a democratic party

the winner would go to the which ronald, reagan was staying at the alameda. they would sort of makeup and come together. and from that point, from what i understand, gerald ford presented his list of possible candidates, bob dole being one, but there were a lot of others as well. at 1:30 in the morning, gerald ford has won the nomination and he is coming up with a vice presidential candidate. how many hours is that to make a decision that is literally one heartbeat away from the president? crosby: he had senior staffers talking to him before he went to see reagan, and the list was bounced around. he had some favorites, like armstrong, who had abbasid are had been -- who ambassador to great britain. he said that he thought a woman on -- he thought a woman as a candidate on the ticket wouldn't be of benefit. but the president's own favorite was a guide like that was a guy -- favorite was a guy named -- also had been an assistant attorney general involved in watergate. letprobably governor reagan him know he was not a fan. baker was also on the list. candidate o

is, gene, ronald reagan wasn't ronald reagan until he was ronald reagan. i can tell you, he wasn't ronald reagan until everybody looked up and saw all the states blue because they were still blue if you were a republican. i remember frank reynolds asking, what the hell is going on out there. >> look, i remember 1980. and i remember that dynamic. and you certainly have historical point about how that election worked. i'm just saying, ronald reagan was, in fact, the two-term governor of california who had, who had a natural credibility, which jimmy carter tried and for a while successfully to shake. to undermine. but he was a much more substantial political figure than dawned trump. he was different. >> andrea, just i don't want to confuse our viewers. i'm not saying donald trump is ronald reagan. i am saying on this question of suitability, these same questions that are being asked about donald trump were being asked about ronald reagan through the fall of the 1980 campaign. and it's in print. >> absolutely right. through the debates. we lived through that.

. >> ronald reagan. >> ronald reagan. >> u.s. a!larry: romney 2012! in fact, the d.n.c. was so republican, you even had a surprise appearance by the constitution itself when khizr kahn, the father of fallen muslim-american soldier humayun khan, delivered one of the evening's most memorable lines. >> donald trump, you are asking americans to trust you with their future. have you even read the united states constitution? (cheers) i will gladly lend you my copy. ( cheers and applause ) >> larry: wow, if khizr kahn didn't move you, then i don't know. you must be the republican nominee for president. in fact, kahn's burn upset trump so much, we actually have footage of his reaction. >> khaaaaaan! ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> larry: or cameras catch everything. so pretty much everything you heard leading up to hillary's speech was something you would have expected to hear at past g.o.p. conventions. well, except this kind of star power. >> here's katy perry. >> how you doing? >> larry: now, at a republican convention, it would have been,

there's some scar tissue there on that guy. >> donald trump is no ronald reagan. >> did you like ronald reagan, stephanie? >> i disagreed with him but i tell you, donald trump -- >> did you like him? >> well, i'm going to be honest with you. i was in elementary school. >> did you like him? i need to know. you can't get away with this. you can't say he's no ronald reagan whether or not you say if you liked him or not. >> i really was a great communicator. >> great. thank you. you are discernible in your politics. thank you for coming on. stephanie, robert and michael, thank you. have a nice weekend, everybody, with all your opinions. >>> coming up, quid pro quo. the state department says that $400 million payment to iran was quote, leverage, close quote, to get the american prisoners back. the people being held over there. critics are calling the payment ransom because money for people sounds like ransom. the white house is on defense. let's watch this one next. >>> vladimir putin, all in for trump in 2016? vlad the impaler? i have the former ambassador of russia here to tell us why that

ronald reagan, great man. great guy. remember, he included reagan democrats and independents and republicans. a lot of people. we're going to have the same thing. there are a lot of democrats perhaps in this room. are there a lot of democrats in the room? raise your hands. i mean, i don't think we need too many, to be honest with you. so i embrace the wisdom that my 80% friend is not my 20% enemy. ronald reagan. stated by ronald reagan. pretty good. we will be the big tent party. we're going to have a lot of bernie sanders people coming in because of trade. because bernie sanders knew we were being ripped off by trade. trade is a disaster with china, with japan, with mexico. with vietnam, with so many countries, with every country. every country. we don't win at any level with anything. and as a unified party, we will lead our country to unity as well. very important. we need the unity. we have to win this election. well, we have to win it. have to win it. otherwise, our big movement was not as big as we thought. and that

items that belonged to ronald reagan and nancy reagan items include these right here.boy boots that belonged to the psident and jelry and mrs. reagan's collection. the items expected to bring in $2 million. nancy reagan died 12 days after president reagan. their personal items are being sold by the family trust to benefit the ronald reagan foundation of my brain california. the auction will be held september 21st and 22nd in new york. we were handed over to warnings with maria. which is thought that there is across the board for the dow, nasdaq and s&p. the s&p has gone 31/m. smith out a 1% or more. very sight of something thin trading volumes. dow futures up 45. you are watching "fbn:am." ♪ ♪ [announcer] is it a force of nature? or a sales event? the summer of audi sales event is here. get up to a $5,000 bonus on select audi models. . . . lauren: thank you so much for getting up early and joining us. nicole: mornings with maria starts now, welcome sandra smith. sandra: good morning, it is tuesday august 23rd, here are your top stories at 6:00 a.m. eastern. the clinton

gerald ford and ronald reagan were in a close race. they did not have the number of delegates when the race began. the panelists member the role played by republican senator bob dole, who was contemporary convention chairman and was selected by president ford to be his vice presidential running mate. the kansas city public library hosted this 90 minute event. >> so ladies and gentlemen my , thanks to bill lacy and audrey coleman and dole institute for putting this on and creating this exhibit and helping us to put on this panel. and also to senator dole and mrs. dole. senator dole of course famously said, when president ford picked him and they did the press conference right after they picked him, he said, dole is a four letter word you can say in public. [laughter] >> so our panelists now as we get the chairs arranged our jerry fogel, who is chairman of the jackson county republican party, the boy wonder chair of the jackson county republican party of 1976, and part of the host committee for the convention. he is a graduate of southwe

we saw this with ronald reagan.kacus and bringing him back when it was too late to get aggressive. i know kelly ann conway knows her stuff, the fact that he's recruited her. the big question is whether she can steer and sharpen the campaign where it needs to go. can trump win back the waivering republicans who were with them before. can he convince republican women, he has a heart to be president. he possesses that minimal level of compassion he like all presidents worthy. we're seeing signs that he does. his comment about having regrets about things he said that have hurt people. we're talking about positive today about race relations. no matter how successful this turned to campaign. it's when the newly expressed sentiments are genuine or not, why because the minimal standard of getting elected president of the united states is not standing and looking like an sob. the that's "hardball." for now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> i'm always careful with clients. >> donald trump's campaign chairman quits. >> my father di

jfry often invokes ronald reagan when he says he supports donald trump.nk ronald reagan would say? >> i don't put words in people's mouths. reagan stood for a republican party that was inclusive. donald trump does not. reagan believed in working through allies through a treaty structure. donald trump has rejected that view. at least on two very fundamental organizing principles there's a considerable view between ronald reagan's view of politics and donald trump's view of politics. >> glad to have you both with us. >> good to talk to you, frank. >> thanks, jeff. >>> member of the bush family going rogue, son of donald trump's favorite punching bag, swreb bush. how it came to be when 360 continues. in the white box!l film-coad relief doesn't get any faster than this. advil. wi probably got that question 3 to 4 times a week. i'd always get asked if i was asian or moroccan or something else. so i jumped at the chance to take the dna test through ancestry. and my results ended up being african, european and asian. it just confirmed what i guess people had see

when ronald reagan and it was a terrible mistake in the end, but ronald reagan's advisers were tryinglly do a nixon. only nixon could go to china. only reagan could go to tehran and the whole point was to establish a strategic relationship and reagan focused on the hostages and ultimately it became a game and the iranians played us and it was a complex effort to find a way around the problem of iran. every one of our government his to do that, if we had just focused on the drama of that late night transfer -- >> it is relevant. the optics do matter. that is the reality. optics do matter. >> when you are sending over $400 million in cash, in essence, this is a big deal. it is a very big deal. >> but they only do it in cash because it was illegal to do it any other way. >> hold on! >> this is why this is a good conversation. i hit pause for only a moment because you will be with me on the other side of the break. florida launching an air war with the zika virus. we have two babies born with intr zika. how fast is it spreading? and angry often vulgar people at trump rallies caught on tap

moment. >> dana: live in rio, we no that the opening ceremony is tonight >> kim: the man who shot ronald reagan may be released today. it was ruled he is no longer a danger to himself or others. he was declared after trying to assassinate president reagan. he's spent the last 35 years at st. elizabeth hospital in washington, d.c. when he is released and if we find out during this broadcast, we'll make sure you know, he is going to be required to live with his elderly mother who lives in a neighborhood in virginia. >> dana: lot of pressure on these young ladies. u.s. women's gymnastics team expected to win the gold med country. late they are morning they are live on "the today show" talking about their experiences in rio. >> you guys have having fun. tell me, are you enjoying yourself? >> we are having a really good time. every time we're in the room we're screaming and laughing. outside of the gym it's important to relax your mind a little bit. d at all. i'm sure they will be once they get into competition. simon is really god. maybe the best gymnist ever. that little girl is expected to win a

ronald reagan, we think of ronald reagan as a movie actor, we remember him in his second term, ronaldreagan was a leader of the conservative movement in the united states, he has a coherent view of government and politics which he brought with him to the white house and he was a two-term governor of california, the biggest state in the union, a state that's the size of many countries in the world. in other words, when reagan came to office, he had behind him a rich background in actually doing and trying to implement his conservative philosophy. so he had both philosophy of government and he had some experience in trying to make that philosophy actually happen. so that's one way to look at it is you have to look at the whole package. what about this person, what about this candidate makes us think that he or she can deliver, oops, can deliver on what they're saying and that's one of the pleas i'm making in the book, sandi. >> but are you setting an impossible situation for a candidate? [inaudible] >> hillary clinton is making promises about -- [inaudible] >> if she doesn't make those

ronald reagan told the joke that became famous with respect to his and i and turned everything arounda fano second. the -- in a nano second. the debates are coming up. the emails are going out. maybe she has the moat around her because of the main real media, but that moat is full of dangerous things. >> donald trump is not ronald reagan. charles: why would you say that? i can't remember the base of the republican party being this energized since ronald reagan. >> i can't believe the number of white voters he's losing. white women are fleeing from donald trump. >> ronald reagan offered an optimistic picture of america. "u.s.a. today" had a poll that says 27% of millennials identify with the republican party and 80% said no. charles: don't discount the economic dan that has ravaged this country in obama's second term. don't underestimate these folks when it's time to pull the lever. we have seen her move up and even ahead of him on these. charles: i think that's all temperament. the economy and tear rim are his wheel house and that's his strength and i think he focuses on it. don't cou

ronald reagan. [cheers] stated by ronald reagan. pretty good. we will be the big tent party.will have a lot of crossover. a lot of bernie sanders people because of trade. because bernie sanders knew we were being ripped off by trade. trade is a disaster with china, with japan, mexico with vietnam. , so my countries. with every country. every country. we don't win at any level with anything. as a unified party, we will lead our country to unity as well. very important. we need unity. we have to win the election. [cheers] we have to when it. -- win it. otherwise our big movement was not as big as we thought. that is not good. that is why november 8, we have to get everybody you know and all this voter id nowadays, a lot of places aren't going to have voter id? what does that mean? you will just be walking in and voting? yet to be vigilant. but we will have disagreement, but we will disagree as friends and never stop working together toward victory. and very importantly, toward real change. so in our shared mission to make america great again, i support and endorse our speaker o

so reagan went out and raised the money and aired the speech himself. >> ronald reagan: and this ideat has no other source of power, except the sovereign people -- is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. this is the issue of this election -- whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the american revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. >> mann: the speech was called "a time for choosing," which may be ronald reagan's best speech ever, and that's saying a lot for ronald reagan, 'cause he gave a lot of great speeches. but this speech was a masterpiece. and it probably made the best case for barry goldwater that anybody, including barry goldwater, had made for himself. >> our democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. they want to make you and i believe that this is a contest between two men -- that we're to choose just between two personalities. well, what of this man that they

gloria, even though she is a liberal republican committed to civil rights, she backs ronald reagan, who is the heir to barry goldwater and the face of modern conservative politics. she does so because she believes she can influence him and she can push the direction of his platform and be a trusted at iser. -- advisor. she does become part of his inner circle. even as she is saying she doesn't support legislation like that, her candidate is aggressively endorsing policies and programs that do just that. >> did your research face any additional questions you would like to pursue? prof. rigueur: there were a lot of lingering questions that came up. one of the most pressing issues that the modern republican party increasingly turned to black women and placing them in high profile positions, surrogacy, think of donald trump and the campaign which is supported by a number of black women, have proved that he uses the black women's story to talk about anti-federalism, taking an antigovernment approach, antigovernment involvement approach. if you think about the high-profile roles a lot of thes

stuart: remember early october 1980, ronald reagan was behind in the polls. in front four weeks later than fight for reagan. there you have it. i'm not going to ask you for your predictions. >> trump is in a bad cold now. absolutely no doubt and no one has come back from this kind of deficit after the convention to actually win. there had been big changes in polls that you are referring to. there had been big changes and we don't know what will happen if trump stops shooting himself in the foot. he has not been capable of doing not. but if he were. stuart: we always appreciate your daily coverage. that's great stuff. thanks for being with us. check the big word. this is not a rally. we're up seven points. 18581. donald trump now calling himself a new name. mr. brexit. here's a question. what should hillary call herself? first base. heather mills x has been, that would be a beatle treating this picture up with hillary clinton simply saying she is with me. ♪ ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options unt

someone who has advised presidential candidates in their debates going back to richard nixon, ronald reagan, george w. bush. and of course this is something in which he brings a great deal of expertise. the two of them talk frequently, have talked frequently even before roger ailes left fox news. formal debate prep has not

ronald reagan. great man. great guy. member, he included reagan democrats and independents and republicans. a lot of people. we're going to have the same thing. >> we're going to have the same thing. he does not have at the moment. the stylistically watching trump reading so much, that's not the trump at the rallies who won the republican nomination. but it is the donald trump that his campaign says is necessary to keep him on a more disciplined message. >> that's the question is can he stay on message. >> long pause when you raise the question of discipline in donald trump. >> that's the question. he can be disciplined. he obviously can be when he wants to and focused to and maybe when told he has to. but people -- somebody in the clinton campaign told me months and months ago when we were talking about trump, you know, what is the -- what's the most damaging thing he has done. they said the most damaging thing he's done is the thing he hasn't done yet. because he doesn't have the discipline to stay on message and there

take out ronald reagan and you will lose the incumbent to keep. you will lose the incumbent charisma key. george bush charismatic, forget it. five down. big party contest, he will lose that. -- you will lose back. you'll go from three keys in a sure win to six keys in a loss and he says, thank you so much professor. and the rest is history. the other call i got was in 1991 after published my first book from the special assistant to governor bill clinton and she asked me, based on your system, and george h.w. bush really be beaten? his approval rating was 90% and i said look at my book. it shows he is a sure loser. i sent a book to clinton and a memo and the rest is history. no matter what your partisan affiliation, he can blame you for something. let's turn our attention to this election are the toughest election i've ever had to call. 2008 i called in 2005. i was notorious for saying the democrats could nominate someone out of a phone book and win 2008. that's what they did. who had heard of barack obama? i called 2012 in 2010. why is this electi

clinton got ronald reagan's lines. he understood them perfectly. he understood they were overwhelmingly popular with the public, as your polling showed, at that time and he took over the issue. meantime, the bush administration was sitting there saying, waivers, waivers, waivers, thinking bush allowed clinton to take away reagan's issue from them, allowed clinton to flank him on the right. from my perspective, that is the issue that put clinton in the white house in 1992, took it right from ronald reagan, maybe with a little arkansas spin on it, and putting in their -- put it in there. and then what happened was, you did not do welfare reform. you did gays in the military, hillarycare. when you tried to do your bill, you ran into this stupid budget law. cbo said anything you had to do would cost more than the status quo, so any bill up to the contract for america, the work requirements did not take place until you are outside the budget window, right? you are 8, 9, 10 years out before the actual work requirements occur so you can get beyond this ri

remember ronald reagan? brave man. brave guy. remember he included reagan democrats and independents and republicans. a lot of people. we're going to have the same thing. there are a lot of democrats perhaps in this room. are there a lot of democrats perhaps in this room? raise your hands. i mean, i don't think we need too many to be honest with you, but -- so i embrace the wisdom that my 80% friend is not my 20% enemy, ronald reagan. stated by ronald reagan. pretty good. we will be the big tent party. we will have a lot of crossover. we'll have a lot of bernie sanders people coming in because of trade. because bernie sanders knew we were being ripped off by trade. trade is a disaster with china, with japan, with mexico, with vietnam and so many countries, with every country. every country. we don't win at any level with anything and as a unified party, we will lead our country to unity, as well. very important. we need the unity. we have to win this election. no, we have to win it. have to win it. otherwise our big move am was no

but i'm not just comparing him to ronald reagan. i'm comparing him to every single other president in history. >> compare him to the rest of the world. >> to continue on this point, you know -- but i'm comparing him to every single president that has ever served the united states of america. so -- >> that's really not an apples to apples comparison. >> i understand what you're say. that we're going through trying times. >> say this in england, canada, germany, or china. the point is we're not comparing ourselves to 40 years ago. compare america to any country. you choose any one you want. and tell me how america has fared compared to that other country. >> do you believe that -- >> i think that's a more relevant comparison. >> okay. so let me ask you a question. do you believe that obama and hillary's path toward socialism is the answer for the united states of america? because that's where they're headed. >> i dispute the premise. i don't know what the -- >> by taking away -- >> okay. talking about obamacare? >> the premise is -- >

before they brought into the spotlight it was ronald reagan's childhood home. the town has three full-time employees and as the controller and the treasurer the majority of the employees held other jobs to keep their financial heads above water for example, the $9,000 he had a cadillac showroom or something. they started as the secretary in 1974 and was appointed to the city financial post in 1983. it was a sweet deal for her and eventually became what was one of the best in the country. her business took up several months going after horse shows and the like. it was certainly more than the paid vacation allowed. but they have a luxury motor home all tricked out and she was generally on-call even if she was away. everyday she took a day off and was still available for work. no one was quite sure how they afforded the home and in addition to some clothes, jewelry and annual salary minus all the days that he was being unpaid for taking the day off. but that is where all of her money came from and the homes she had. others assumed she had inherited money from some

director jamison: if you go back historically a look at fdr and ronald reagan, you find there was a lot of opposition from the other side and it was really heated. we have had polarized politics are ever. the question is -- what were the characteristics? to the extent that there were moments in those presidencies in which the country could come together, we presidencies that unite us. for example, we were united in our effort with the great depression. we were united in our efforts in world war ii. it is a moment in which the country comes together united against the attack on pearl harbor. the republican or democrat, you are someone who is proud of the in a very difficult when the shr exploded, again, the country is not full of republicans and democratthere are people who lio ronald reagan's words and are grateful that he is expressing something powerful to the nation and to the nation's children. when people say those are unifying presidencies, they are remembering moments in which the country came together around moments of rhetoric, in which the country needed a president to step up

take a look at ronald reagan, look at the new entrepreneurship under ronald reagan. under president obama it's the lowest it's been in the last 15 years. some would argue that even bill clinton was more reaganesque than what hillary clinton is going to debut on thursday. the country is still in the d l doldrums but still in our dna to be great. >> what do you expect when hillary clinton speaks on thursday? >> she has a big problem. charles put his finger on it. first of all she trying to give this morning in america speech at her convention speech out in philadelphia. and i'm like, what country are you talking about? yeah, for very rich people who get $250,000 to give a speech, it's a good economy. if you just talk about to average people on the street, they're nervous, financially stressed out. it's almost insulting to say to them everything is wonderful. the second thing, the second problem she has is, all of the policy prescriptions, charles, are exactly what we've heard from barack obama for the last seven years, more minimum wage, more government spending to sti

are you ronald reagan? >> ronald reagan's right. >> there you go. you nailed it. >> yeah, but i couldn't have done it. you're the one who scored the big interview. do you remember that one in 1974. >> oh that one. the big one. we made some news on that. >> i have never been a quitter. >> so then how will you spend the remainder of your second term? >> i must put the interest of america fit. months ahead for my personal vindication. >> you do realize we have the missing tapes and deep throat will be joining us tonight. >> therefore i should resign the presidency effective tomorrow. >> charlie was directing that night. remember how he left? >> i remember the big way he left the studio. he said good-bye, craig, it's been real. i remembered that was going to >> he seemed a little miffed that night. >> but we've had worse. >> remember that one with president bush? >> there's a back story. it was the night beof the rehearsal. let's show that clip from the 1980s. >> mr. vice president, dan quale, really? >> everybody's admitted mistakes. i've admitted mist

i predicted the reelection of ronald reagan. now you may say the reelection of ronald reagan is easy but here is your next pop quiz. what was the state of the economy in 1982? horrible. asryone is talking about it a one term presidency so that was not an easy prediction. it caught someone's attention. i get a call from a man with a heavy southern accent who says is thesor lichtman, this political director of the ronald reagan white house. we want you to come to the white house." i said i think you got the wrong guy. if you don't know who we help water was, he died young of a brain tumor. he was karl rove before there was a karl rove and karl rove was a pale carbon copy of lee atwater. he didn't ask me to the white house to talk about history. he looked me in the eye and we got to what he really wanted to know. "what would happen if ronald reagan did not run again in 1984? " remember, six keys in your out. takeout ronald reagan, you lose the incumbency key. you're going to lose the incumbent charisma key. he's five down and then