during the presidential years of ronald reagan and beyond. while reagan runs for the presidency for the third time in the late 1970's and during that era, one of the hot button foreign affairs topics for our nation was whether or not we turn the panama canal, which we built under theodore roosevelt, back to panama or not. reagan did not want to turn it back. others did. listen to his analysis of it. this is nine years after dwight eisenhower has passed away. >> i also know the president was engaged in the problems and -- in panama. president eisenhower. president eisenhower told me the idea he had for the treaties and it was far different for anything contained in these treaties. as a matter of fact, he was toying with a very interesting idea of forming an international corporation, a shipping -- of shipping nations all the , nations in the world. a quasi-corporation for the panama and suez canal and thus, , with all participating and using those canals, there would be no possibility of one jumping the tracers. he told me that in the golf cart

the ronald reagan presidential foundation and >> good afternoon. my name is john heubusch. i have the honor of being executive director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute. thank you for coming out. if you would, in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. [in unison] >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty >> john: thank you, please be seated. in the fall of 1988 when president ronald reagan broke ground at the sight of his future presidential library, i'm not sure he could have imagined that his foundation, the one bearing his name would one day also be operating a robust institute in washington dc, one just steps from the white house he would soon leave behind for his beloved homeland ranch in the west. however, i do know that today's celebration honoring justice sandra day o'connor is exactly the type of gathering in his name that he envisione

johnson to ronald reagan. >> welcome. we're going to have for the next 75 minutes is a kind of meeting of two cultures. one culture is represented by the people on this stage who are scholars associated with the miller center here at the university of virginia, and who study the presidency is broad, longterm in perspective, balanced, and of course, expressed in words, in the written word. the other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant. so please greet pat. >> but even more by the work of pat which yowu'll see on the screen. the culture he reptde esreprese highly specific. daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons, five days a week for the denver post, for several years, for the washington star for several years, and then along the way, pat oliphant became the first 20th century cartoonist to work independently of any newspaper. that's how popular his work was, and it was syndicated through newspapers a

and she -- this is her version of the meeting with ronald reagan. she said that, when we got in there -- and she was anxious about this -- he said to me, you know, there's been a lot of debate about when life begins. and i think we should give the benefit of the doubt to life beginning at conception. she thinks he's warming up to a question on abortion. but he left it at that. he never asked the question. she was on the record saying that she found abortion personally abhorrent, but she had not said anything about where she was on roe v. wade, on the abortion decision or what she would do about the courts. and she finessed that in her confirmation hearings. but when the president himself brought the subject up, he did not ask the question. she gave a little sigh of relief, didn't answer it, and they started talking about horses. now, i think that's because the president, and maybe general meese has a better sense of this, really didn't want to know in a way, didn't want to get into it, didn't want to have a fight over this. and truthfully, i don't t

it meant that at 1976 the door was wider than it had ever been for ronald reagan or another challenger to take him, on reagan had been elected governor of california two times. he'd been on a much larger stage. the movie start for years. he knew how to relate to the mass public in a way i don't think ford could ever learn. this gives us a chance to move on to the reagan, sorry carter presidency, then reagan presidency. >> well, the first thing you notice is that carter's teeth are larger than the donkeys teeth. that is saying a lot. jimmy carter must have been a big problem for political cartoonists. normally when you run for the presidency of united states they've been drawing you for years, from the senate career, various things you've done in the political arena. he comes from almost out of nowhere. then there was some issue, i presume among cartoonists about how he was properly drawn. some of them drew his body as a peanut. it's the good people of planes georgia erected a 15 foot high peanut with this on it in order to hopefully stop passing by cars and have them visit planes and t

on one of -- on ronald reagan. alk about mr. eisenhower and echoing his political views. mr. kopelson is the author of reagan's 1968 "dress rehearsal." the pepperdine school of public policy hosted the event. [crowd conversations] >> ok, we are going to get started. good evening. i am pete peterson, dean of the pepperdine's graduate school of public policy. it is a pleasure to welcome you here this evening to our calabasas campus for tonight's discussion with dr. gene kopelson on the relationship of -- between

he was not a fan of ronald reagan. his moderate conservative sensitivities, the way his parents brought him up, take care of the poor. take care of the little guy. what he saw in ronald reagan was someone who was turning a blind eye to the poverty and hunger and other issues that were happening in the united states in the 19 eighties. so we have a depiction of a homeless person asleep on a great in washington d.c. as ronald reagan drives by in his limousine. thinking those people haven't made a bad choice in their lives by not choosing to be rich. that really underscores mr. blocks opinions that you really had to help the poor and you had to understand the poverty as an institution and not make assumptions about why people were poor. he drew a lot cartoons about the need to support the poor by providing better housing, better nutrition, better medical care. we can see by the end of his career that herb block had some great ideas. but his drawing is getting a little weaker. the line is not a steady. he's relying a lot m

has just been elected. >> i think you mention what did he hear and ronald reagan. >> the call.> there he was working for then associate justice at the supreme court in a very super tedious courtship, he's wondering what to do next and he listens to ronald reagan in january of 1981 and he hears him speak about his agenda, economic and social and john roberts says i heard the call, i wanted to be part of that and going back to can start again, throughout this entire book strangely, at the time he was already working for ronald reagan and justice rehnquist at the time called up can start and said i have a young man who i think it would be important if he did summer government service before coming a private practitioner and they hired john roberts on the spot and the rest is history. >> i was curious if you can describe everybody what the chambers are like at the supreme court. because as you and i know that justice chambers are often a reflection of who they are, what their background is, what their interest has been, you going to justice ginsburg chambers, there is bart rodarte

the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute hosted the program. [ applause ] >> good evening, everyone. on behalf of the reagan foundation institute thank you for joining us this evening. i have the pleasure of introducing our two panelists and ted olson in just a moment. we have a number of distinguished guests with us. i would like to take a moment first to thank justice brett kavanaugh for joining us this evening. an honor to have you with us. thank you. [ applause ] today has been a time to celebrate the legacy of the first woman appointed to the united states supreme court. this evening we have the privilege of welcoming the second and the third. we're extraordinarily grateful to justices ruth bader ginsburg and sonia sotomayor for joining us to honor sandra day o'connor. it turns out that justice ginsburg and justice o'connor share an unusual distinction and that is interesting nicknames. when justice o'connor was confirmed she earned the moniker f.w.o.t.s.c., for first woman on the supreme court. justice ginsburg meanwhile has been crowned the notorious r.b.g. so i'll

minutes minutes interview with ronald reagan, who had just announced his challenge to carter. we thought 69 was really old. now you would be the youngest major party candidate. i was just enraptured. i thought he was a fascinating figure. i'd always been interested in politics and ragan nationalized that for me. i used to stuff envelopes for him. i got an invitation to the inauguration in 1981. and prevailed upon my grandmother to take me up there. i was standing there on the capital lawn. at that point i was done. so there is a direct line between that story an hour talking this evening. for joining us. good evening. caller: how are you doing, john? john: i'm in one piece, how about you? caller: i'm 30 years old and i'm not -- yet. i'm happy that i have not caught this yet, the coronavirus. i've got no symptoms from it. i'm 30 years old and they say there are people that are young that have died from it. and there's young people out there and the death total has gone crazy, going up every day -- when do we think we can get back to normal life with sports, just in general, for

then a look at what led to her appointment by president ronald reagan. afterwards, six former law clerks recall working with justice o'connor. you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. supreme court justices ruth bader ginsburg and sonia sotomayor talked about the impact sandra day o'connor had on the judicial system as the first woman to serve on the u.s. supreme court. they spoke at an event commemorating the 38th anniversary of justice o'connor's senate confirmation. the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute hosted the program. [ applause ] o

in 1966, outlining his decision in creative society, ronald reagan advanced an initiative to take judges out of politics and articulated his vision of an ideal judge. he called for judges to be "men with ability come up men of honor and men who are fair-minded". when it came to his first nomination to the supreme court, president reagan delivered a nominee who realized his vision. listening earlier today, we have gotten a taste of justice o'connor's remarkable ability and the earnest and decent the with which she approached her life and her life and her craft. as one of justice o'connor's clerks wrote, "without fanfare, she hones her craft, deciding individual cases, answering concrete questions and in the process of providing clear and enduring answers to the most important questions of the day". she was honorable because she judged and ruled without fanfare. she was fair-minded and able to decide individual cases answering concrete questions and her ability allowed her to provide clear and enduring answers to the most important questions of the day. it seems to me that the legacy presi

i saw a 60 minute interview with ronald reagan, who had just announced his challenge to carter. we thought 69 was really old. now, you would be the youngest major party candidate by a significant chunk if reagan were running. enraptured by it. i thought he was a fascinating finger -- figure. i can't put my finger on it even 40 years later what it was, but i had always been interested in politics, and reagan nationalized that for me, so i used to stuff envelopes for him in tennessee, and i got an invitation to the inauguration in 1981. i prevailed upon my grandmother to take me up there. i was standing there on the capital lawn, and first time the inauguration was on the rest front -- west front, when reagan gave his inaugural address. at that point, i was done. there is a direct line between that story and our talking this evening. host: blair is joining us from maine. caller: how are you doing, sir, how are you doing, john? guest: i'm in one piece, how are you? caller: i'm 30 years old, and -- i have not caught this yet. i have no symptoms from it, and i'm 30 years old. they say

johnson to ronald reagan. >> welcome.e're going to have for the next 75 minutes is a kind of meeting of two cultures. one culture is represented by the people on this stage who are scholars associated with the miller center here at the university of virginia, and who study the presidency is broad, longterm in perspective, balanced, and of course, expressed in words, in t

to justice kennedy the third and final appointment to the high court by ronald reagan. then justice gorsuch is the first clerk to serve alongside his former boss as a fellow supreme court justice. david i hope you are taking notes. [laughter] for this lineage to the supreme court reflects the reagan legac legacy. it is no secret were president reagan wanted that legacy to be. america's courts he said, "should interpret the law not make it. the role of the supreme court in his view was, "make sure the principles of law are based on the constitution. justice gorsuch new book is practically a user's manual with a faithful interpretation of the constitution. it's also a wake-up call if we steer too far from the constitutional principles. the title is a republic, if you can keep it. that phrase is how benjamin franklin answer questions a type of government they created at the constitutional convention. his response was trying to convey just how fragile the constitutional liberties are and how diligent the citizens must be to preserve them. but freedom is never more than one

even ronald reagan with all of his great breakthroughs with gorbachev and diplomacy started trailing off. people had their reagan quota. brian: do we have cards? do you know where they are? we want to make sure you have a chance to ask questions. you can fill out some questions on these cards if you have them, pass them down the row. let me go to people that are here in the audience and also watching at home. maybe some young people. what would you advise them to do if they get interested in history? i know it sounds simple, but we at c-span, we would not be doing history if it was not for these terrific historians. 44 of them in this book. and over the years, all of the interviews they have given us. but what would you advise a younger person to do or someone that is not so young if they want to get started in all of this? edna: other than come talk to me? enter my class. [laughter] i would tell them to read, read, read. read everything. not just the kind of history that you are personally interested in, but all history. if i live long enough, some day i am going to write a book on e

ronald reagan you know pressure sports are very much on a break in the seasons are on hold so what about our times you go look at some of the amateur sports around the world and in russia they took soccer and played it in a dirtier way than is normally seen on the pitch it's called swamp soccer football and yes the field is actually supposed to look like that the game is played net least kneedeep mud with a pretty early pretty heavily set of modified rules games are played into 13 minute halves and the 2 teams consist of 6 players on the field at a time there are no offside rules corner kicks penalties and throw ins are made with dropkicks players can't cheat your shoes if they get too muddy during the game and it has a surprisingly large following in europe russia hosts the swamp soccer world championships every year and over 2000 players representing over $165.00 teams are willing to participate in this dirty sport thankfully the athletes do get a chance to relax and get clean at a sauna afterwards. there is more news or good regarding sporting events postponed or canceled a

but there are a few to give us more of a private side of ronald reagan.to see the president in unguarded moments i think is priceless. when we have had a chance to listen to roosevelt, for instance. roosevelt is as staged as any president we can remember. our image of him, which is, of course, the image he wanted everybody to see, not in a wheelchair, but the audio as well through the fireside chats, we hear roosevelt in conversations with civil rights leaders saying things that are a little surprising today, perhaps not for the time. again, it's an unguarded roosevelt we never get a chance to hear that. >> there's an incredible degree of democratic accountable, transparency to the recordings. because of the associations with watergate, we seem them in a dark light, some of the revelations. if you think about it, this is really a remarkable legacy to history for these few administrations that we can go back and do this kind of research not just in a memo that can be maneuvered but what was said in the room. >> i want to put in a plug for the students that

but there are few to give us more of the private side of ronald reagan. and to see the president and unguarded moments, i think is priceless. when we have had a chance to listen to franklin roosevelt, roosevelt is as staged as any president you can remember. certainly our image of him which is of course the image that he wanted everybody to see, not in a wheelchair, but the audio as well, through the fireside shots we hear roosevelt through conversations with civil rights leaders, saying things that are a little surprising today, perhaps not for the time. that unguarded roosevelt? we never get the chance to hear that. >> there is an incredible degree of democrat or amount of count of accountability transparency because of the associations with watergate we see. them in a dark light with the revelations if you think about it this is a remarkable legacy to history for these few administrations not just in a memo that can be shaped what was actually said in that? room >> i want to put in a part for the students who worked in the center. i say, if you want to

powell and ronald reagan. they came to stand in for a kind of american common sense. and that brings me to my second introductory point, which is that unlike the pioneering cultural historian robert darnton who taught that historians should write about the joke we don't get, the things that are opaque. i'll read this short passage. best points of entry in an attempt to penetrate an alien culture can be those where it seems to be most opaque. when you realize you are not getting something, a joke, a proverb and so on that is particularly meaningful to the natives, you can see where to grasp a foreign system of meaning in order to unravel it. and my approach is almost the exact opposite. rather than studying the joke we don't get or the o oe ppaque thi want to study the things that are so obvious, common sensical that we don't examine them at all. free enterprise falls into that category. when i ask my students how many have heard the term and have a sense of what it means, almost all of them raise their hand, and then the fun begins. so, i'll just make one more point,

appliances can of like the ge kitchen for the actor to live in and he schooled the actor who was ronald reagan in adamas smith, friedrich von hayek, john locke and tocqueville with little essays added by henry had luck. he gave little books just at the manhattan is it and hoped they would be red. this actor, reagan, wasn't exactly popular across ge either. thee younger executives didn't like having some kind of western propagandist, and they complained about reagan. but for the few remaining years, they couldn't stop him and his actor and he sent reagan all around to hundreds hundred of s with mimeograph pages to explain all about the tva and future of industry and the industry move west and so on. the actor he wrote speeches about the dangers of socialism and socializing medicine was a bad idea. tva was a bad idea. power could innovate faster when it was free to make its own decisions. maybe hydropower wasn't the only kind of power in the future of the united states. >> amity shlaes is the author of great society am one of many authors you consume booktv every weekend here on c-span2. you can

to mark the tradition, we will feature past speeches from presidents ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, bill clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. white house correspondents dinner speeches tonight on c-span and c-span.org. or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> former secretary of state john kerry and former u.s. ambassador and state department officials talk about the global impact of the coronavirus. this is hosted by yale university. >> welcome to the more than 1000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. this is the fifth of these discussions. these discussions have tapped the exceptional leadership in knowledge that resides in the jackson network. today is no exception. all of our panelists today are senior fellows who teach here at yale. our moderator today, secretary john kerry graduated from yale, and like jackson's founder, john jackson is joining us today, secretary kerry, left new haven to serve in vietnam. he then served more than two decades in the u.s. senate before becoming the 68 secretary of state under president obama. you probabl

ronald reagan tried to get it approved. every president tried to get it approved, know when did but i did. people don't like to talk about it. that is why i talk about it. anwar is perhaps the largest find in the world. one of them. it has been talked about for years, probably the largest find anywhere in the world and we got it approved a year ago. you are working on it and it is incredible. ronald reagan could not do it. he said that was one of his big disappointments. and we got it through. and it was a great achievement for everyone in this room and for the two of you, the big oil guys, right? and i have to say these senators and the people in this room, they love energy. they love the jobs it produces and what it represents and it gives us total independence. it is very important. reporter: [indiscernible] president trump: because you have the mask on. just for a second. do you see the man in front of you? are you worried about her? reporter: [indiscernible] president trump: it could be that they further cut. i think i

powell junior, and ronald reagan. what these people did, they were not intellectuals but they crafted and enduring political language, that in spite of its extremism came to stand in for kind of american common sense. that brings me to my second introductory point, unlike the pioneer and cultural pioneer who taught that cultural historian should talk about the joke we don't get, i will read the short path itch, the -- when you realize that you are not getting something a joke a proverb that is particularly meaningful to the natives you can see where the grass before and system of meaning in order to unravel. it my approach is the opposite. instead of studying the joke that we don't get, i want to study the things that are so common sense, so obvious, that we don't examine them at all, such as free enterprise. when asked many people who has heard free enterprise everyone raises their hand. and then the fund begins. i will make one more point, a key theme is how often free enterprise was paired with common sense. you ha

ronald reagan tried to get approved and cannot do it. every present tried to get -- every president tried to get it approved and they did not. people do not talk about it. that is why i talk about it. [laughter] more, the alaska -- anwar, alaska national wildlife refuge is probably the largest in the world. one of may, the largest fines anywhere in the world. and we got it approved -- largest fines. anywhere innds the world. ronald reagan cannot do it, he could not get the alaska national wild life refuge approved and we got it approved and we got it past. -- passed. a great achievement for everyone in this room. and it the great achievement for the two of you, the big oil guys, right? and the senators, the people in this room, they love energy, right? the jobs it represents and gives us total independence owed is very important. output of the saudi's or do you want further cuts in production? [indiscernible] pres. trump: the men in front of you, he's not worried about you, he is protected. >> are you satisfied with the current cuts from

ronald reagan could not do it. he said that was one of his big disappointments, could not get anwar approved. we got it through. that was a great achievement for everyone in this room, a great achievement for the two of you, oil guys. these senators, the people in this room, they love energy. they love the jobs it produces and what it represents, and it gives us total independence. any other questions? >> [indiscernible] >> because you have the mask on. just for a second. are you worried about her? he is protected. >> [indiscernible] it could be that they are further cut. it will be natural at this point. , think i got them to cut maybe, they say 10 million, but i think it is 15 million barrels. i even heard 20 million. it is good to be natural. texas, oklahoma, north dakota, all of our places, going to be natural. canada is cutting. they have got to cut. supply and demand is a beautiful thing. what happened was, one day, all of our demand -- 50% of our demand disappeared with this virus. 40% to 50%. you are produc

may we all sunday be loved and nancy davis love ronald reagan as it turns out.nwood, and fallen into the kind of squares bill. hazlett oakie was about. and was really an affirmative cultural statement that patriotism could be popular again. we can make that case is a speech going to be the case in the campaign we would run america when these things stand up, when he sings that, when people center. and particularly military. it. tim: and is always a pleasure to sing that song. especially when john and i do hard things together with a highlight of the evening to do that song. see what it means to people. and this will music does and music has always been a part of in my life and marks moments in your life and sometimes you'll hear some some of the picture right back into the situation and sometimes it can be just a mundane situation. here, it puts me in seventh grade laying in a hammock half-asleep with my netbook on my chest. jon: is feigned explains a lot with your accounting credits betook but when you start talking with the idea, music shows up in places, big

in 1981 president ronald reagan said a new morning in america the american dream wasn't over but to achieve the dream the united states needed lower taxes to shrink the size of government some call it the reagan revolution. and the well-educated extremist working for a very different kind. they spend the entire adult lives protesting against the vietnam war. and with that us imperialism. us aggression and domination many are involved in the late 19 sixties or seventies. and that generation 1868. to embrace drugs and sex in revolutionary politics with enthusiasm. and i quote in the 1970s the revolutionary those charcoal that's a substantial part of the american culture. and then to become a common mod mode. and then to operate on the far left fringes and with those dozens of bombings of targets. and by the late seventies the leadership exhausted from nearly a decade on the run surface underground and then they surrendered to the authorities. and i know that i am dating myself but these weather people and then they start to surface and that got me to think and is passing them. and then to hid

ronald reagan tried to get approved. could not do it. every president tried to get -- i did. people do not talk about it. that is why i talk about it. [laughter] >> pres. trump: we love it. pres. trump:but anwar, alaska national wildlife refuge is probably the largest in the world. it has been talked about for years, probably the, one of the largest fields anywhere in the world. we got it approved a year ago. you are working on it and it is incredible. ronald reagan cannot do it, he said that was one of his biggest disappointments, he could not get anwar approved. they could not get it through. we got it approved and we got it passed. a great achievement for everyone in this room. and it the great achievement for the two of you, the big oil guys, right? and the senators, the people in this room, they love energy, right? not that they love it, they love the jobs it represents and gives us total independence, so it is very important. >> are you [indiscernible] current output of the saudis or do you want further cuts in production? pres. trump: i wish you would -- just for a sec

president trump is the first president and a lot of your lifetimes, the first president since ronald reagan to put the left ondefense . to push back against them where there are disoriented and confused and we call this the trump derangement system and there's a lot of truth to that, you saw that in the justice cavanaugh fight which was one of the most important cultural moments since i need a hill or especially in the supreme court where that fabricated accusations that were elevated to legitimacy by the media, aman that had a sterling record that was the most boring person in the history of maryland . the guy had his journals from high school. his calendars toprove his innocence, it was unbelievable and they put him , i don't even know, that should have been a nomination, 100 to nothing vote and he still had his journals from high school. on june 18 and in 1974 iwas at carl's house . it's like really amazing. it's actually impressive. you deserve to be on the supreme court for that and nothing else. [applause] and then the gallivanting leftist apparatchiks senator harris and senator coomb

was john tower, george bush, spero agnew, and one more -- ronald reagan. wouldn't that have been something? so then now comes 1989. at this point tower is former senator tower, former chair of the armed services committee in the senate. bush names him, his old friend, to secretary of defense. and it comes out that there is concern about his, as herb parmitt put it his love of women and booze and also some sort of conflict of interest investigation as well and it was the first time since 1959 that a cabinet officer was not confirmed. the senate at that point was 45 republicans, 55 democrats i believe. and the vote went down 47-53. 53 no. so to me, that means i believe two democrats crossed over. and voted yes or more republicans voted no. it was due to the fact the democrats were in the senate, in control of the senate. and that is why tower did not get through. the larger point to make here, though, is george bush felt very strongly that loyalty goes down as well as up. and was tremendously loyal to john tower despite all the flaws that were exposed. in me

was john tower, george bush, spiro agnew and one more, ronald reagan. wouldn't that have been something? so now comes 1989, and it is former senator towers and former chair of the senate committee and bush names him, his old friend, to secretary of defense. and it comes out that there's concerns about, as herb parment put it, his love of women and booze. and there was a congressional investigation and it was the first time since 1959 that a cabinet officer was not approved. the senate at this time was 45 republicans and 55 democrats, i believe, and the vote went down 47-53. 53 no. so that, to me, means -- i believe that means two democrats crossed over and voted yes, or more republicans voted no. but it was due to the fact that the democrats were in the senate, in control of the senate, and that is why tower did not get through. the larger point to make here, though, is george bush felt very strongly that loyalty goes down as well as up. he was tremendously loyal to john tower despite all the flaws that were exposed. in meachum's book, he tearfully says

but as ronald reagan taught us, and i consider myself to be a reagan order affection, we are happy.e are fueled by love, love of country, love of literacy but i feel on the left that's another reason that i wrote this book is because the movement that has become if eyeing and feta fueled by hatred. that is hatred itself. this is psychological underpinnings but with thinking american's. which is not in a colonial force, we are the freeze nation. we have of the democratic party, the left, the fake news industrial, tried to manufacture china gives the president of other it was regards to russian collusion or extortion and bribery in ukraine, every single time it was redundant back to them. reminiscent of that final scene when bennett soviet launches those torpedoes thinking he's going to sink the distance and strong subgrade, but what happens, the torpedoes circle back and seek his own vessel. the fact that hillary clinton a former super agent to give the dossier of russian propaganda and use in a secret or two spinous and trump campaign white house and then to come off or after us. it

coronavirus cases have beeeen repported on the "uss ronald reagan" stationed south of tokyo. >> the numberf people who filed for unemployment benefits in the united states last week remained close to the record high marrked in the previous week. the department of labor says the figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was a little over 6.6 million for the weekended april 4. the total for the three weeks since midmarch has now topped 16 million. a broad range of businesses including restaurants and manufactures have been laying off workers. the government expanded unemployment insurance in its stimulus package enacted last month allowing claimants to receive more payouts for a longer period. but authorities across the country are struggling to process the influx of applications for benefits. >>> the head of the international monetary fund said the worldld can expect to experience the worst economic downturrn sincee the grgreat depression in 1929. >> just three months ago, we expected positive per capita income growth in 160 of our member countries in 20220. today, that number has been

this extraordinary deal between the united kingdom and saudi arabia in which ronald reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment. stopped it and congress wouldn't approve it because they feared saudi would threaten israel so ronald reagan handed the deal with or effectively to his political soulmate margaret thatcher un soon enough and there was. a very effective fall. when we stumbled on the saudi arms. deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years. has been at the heart of many of the great world events. i was always preached to see him when i was prime minister because he brought me extraordinary insight. she informed us she considers saudi arabia as a strong friend and would be willing to support the king them with whatever the kingdom and of discussion from there on everything else was going to get he explained to mrs thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and therefore things were done differently. they wanted $43000000000.00 worth of weapons that was $6000000000.00. homes in commission

they took a leap of faith and elected ronald reagan. that's what this feels like to me today. >> and, phil rucker, the president looks at these protesters in the states wanting to get back to work, wanting to reopen society. one comment he made about the scene, he's never seen as many american flags. talk about the dicey relationship, as the rest of the country views it, that he has with these protesters. they are protesting trump administration guidelines. he has given them more than just his tacit blessing. >> that's right, brian. and the other thing that the president sees when he looks at images of these protesters like the ones playing right now is he sees his own campaign banner. he knows that these are his supporters. they may not all be his supporters. we're not sure who they all are going to vote for in november. but many of them are trump supporters, are waving trump flags. and trump, the president, knows that he needs to show in solidarity with them. it's one of the reasons why, for example, after the charlottesville attack,

and infectious diseases in 1968 has been the director since 1984 devising every president since ronald reagan. sailors began returning to the uss theodore roosevelt today for the first time since they were moved to shore because of a coronavirus outbreak. the navy says sailors can return after completing a period of quarantine and testing negative for the virus twice. those who remained on the ship at least 14 days to make sure they test negative for corona virus. once all of that happens. the navy hopes to send the ship back out to sea. the handling of the outbreak led to the firing of captain brett crozier from santa rosa. the ship's commanding officer, the navy announced today it is launching a broader inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the outbreak. if you have been missing starbucks coffee during this pandemic you might soon be in lock up next when and how many plans. the store has starbucks says it plans to start reopening its stores next week with 90% of company own stores in the united states up and running by june as of now roughly half of the coffee giant's us locations are

he should win in a 1972 richard nixon style landslide, 1984 ronald reagan style landslide.ing to happen. whether he is going to elect really in a majority way i don't know. that remains to be seen. they will not be taken by surprise. bloomberg is going to spend whatever he is going to spend, tech companies will do what they are going to do. i want to see in animated and engaged in worried conservative base, not are confident conservative base. you can be quietly certain of what trump has done but you should be worried because they are working their tails off. i see it every day and that is the sense of urgency i want all of you to leave with because the year from today he could not be president. i want you to realize that. it is conceivable. i give it a 50-50 split right now. it is a coin flip. you could be here gathering and it could be president joe biden. i see a lot of people laughing but it could happen. that is why we need to operate with a sense of urgency. and honored to be here, thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, charlie. we have time for a couple question

minutes minutes interview with ronald reagan, who had just announced his challenge to carter. we thought 69 was really old. now you would be the youngest major party candidate. i was just enraptured. i thought he was a fascinating figure. i'd always been interested in politics and ragan nationalized that for me. i used to stuff envelopes for him. i got an invitation to the inauguration in 1981. and prevailed upon my grandmother to take me up there. i was standing there on the capital lawn. at that point i was done. so there is a direct line between that story an hour talking this evening. for joining us. good evening. caller: how are you doing, john? john: i'm in one piece, how about you? caller: i'm 30 years old and i'm not -- yet. i'm happy that i have not caught this yet, the coronavirus. i've got no symptoms from it. i'm 30 years old and they say there are people that are young that have died from it. and there's young people out there and the death total has gone crazy, going up every day -- when do we think we can get back to normal life with sports, just in general, for

sailors have tested positive aboard the "uss ronald reagan." it is docked at the naval base. u.s. defense secretary mark esper says the u.s. navy has more than two aircraft carriers in its fleet. he says the outbreaks will not affect military readiness, but concerns are rising that the spread of infection would impact its operations. >>> the number of coronavirus infections in the united states has now topped 160,000, and president trump is warning the death toll could exceed 100,000 in coming weeks. the state of new york is the epicenter of the outbreak. governor andrew cuomo disclosed that his younger brother, cnn television anchor chris cuomo has also tested positive for the virus. he reiterated his call for new yorkers to stay at home. >> everyone, everyone is subject to this virus. it is the great equalizer. >> the state reported 332 deaths in a single day on tuesday. the number of cases is approaching 80,000. the state has begun using a u.s. navy hospital ship as an emergency medical facility and filled a field hospital in central park. it has also ordered 17,000 ventilators