where ronald reagan was speaking and obviously ronald reagan would have been notable to people in california at the time due to being in movies. so paul ax salt and ronald reagan as respective governors of their neighboring states, california and nevada one of their big initiatives that they work together on was was really the the conservation of the lake tahoe basin and lake tahoe the lake itself. they formed what was called the tahoe regional planning agency trpa. and that was just that that was to try to stymie some of the development. try to make better water quality in the lake and and that kind of created a friendship that lasted basically for the rest of their lives the rest of their careers. in 1976 the the presidential election was coming up. so you have gerald ford running as the incumbent of the republican party and then you have jimmy carter who is running for the democratic party. paul laxalt again, like i said a minority within a minority there thought it would be a good idea. for ronald reagan, maybe to throw his hat in the ring and run for president. to run the primaries he t

when ronald reagan survives that he has a religious faith. he believes that god preserved him for a reason. god has a purpose for him that really gives him sort of a piece. nancy reagan doesn't really have that kind of religious faith. in fact her father her adoptive father that she so worshiped was an atheist. so she is looking for essentially anything that can give her a sense of control because she is just racked by anxiety. she is wrapped by the fear that anytime her husband sets foot outside the white house. there's somebody out there waiting to finish off the job that john hinckley. so one day her good friend merv griffin, big talk show host entertainment executive someone with whom she shared a july 6th birthday and an interest in astrology says, you know, there was this woman in san francisco. she knew march 30th was going to be a bad day. and i really in her desperation. it's completely irrational. it's it's understandable on some levels but completely irrational. turns to an astrologer jung quickly and really gives her. a lot of powe

ronald reagan is denying that so it is it becomes nancy reagan's job. it's important to her in doing that. she wants to make sure that it has the resources that it needs and she also finds other ways to make sure history remembers ronald reagan in a way that is true to ronald reagan. she does something that i found fascinating which is while on the one hand, conservatives ronald reagan becomes this icon. but she also knows that there is still this perception among the liberal scholars and historians that he was just an actor reading lines other people wrote for him. his value and belief in his own handwriting so you see he begins to publish his diaries, something very few presidents have ever done in keeping real-time diaries so people can see in his own hand at the crucial juncture. he publishes his letters and all the speeches that he was writing as he was getting ready to run for president and you can see in his own hand that these were his thoughts and values she didn't want it to be a monument just to the past but also to point to the future which

ronald reagan is denied that. it becomes nancy reagan's job to make sure what nancy sees in him is true to him andjo true to his values and page on - - vision. the library becomes extremely important. she wants to make sure it has the resources that it needs she also o finds other ways to make sure history remembers ronald reagan in a way that is true to ronald reagan. she is suspicious of those reagan wannabes that want to co-opt him and use the image for their own agenda and she does something that is fascinating while on the one eshand among conservatives ronald reagan becomes an icon not only in ways that makes her comfortable knocking fdr off that she knows there is still this perception of himrs among the liberal scholars and historians and opponents that he was just an actor. he was reading lines that other people wrote for him. and she decides to put out they are his thoughts and values and beliefs in his own handwriting. so you see her decide to publish his diaries something that very few presidents have

ronald reagan is denied that. t really becomes nancy reagan's job to make sure that what history sees of him is true to him and his values and his vision. so the library becomes extremely important to her in doing that. she wants to make sure it has the resources it needs. she also finds other ways to makeke sure that history remembers ronald reagan in a way that is true to ronald reagan. she is suspicious of the reagan wannabes that want to use his name and image for his own agenda and she does something that i found fascinating which is while on the one hand, among conservatives, ronald reagan becomes an icon. she resist with this perception among liberal scholars and historians on - - historians. he was reading lines that other people wrote for him. to be perceived as an actor. so she decides the very best is to put out there his thoughts and values in his own handwriting. very few presidents have done is real-time diaries so people can see in his own hand what he was thinking at these crucial junctures. she pub

yes this is ronald reagan signature. agan later the next month is bouncing his checkbook at his desk in the oval office and he noticed this woman he donated the check to not deposited the check. so he got on the phone course the white house gives indication office's famous essay i knew this girl she had brown hair and get on the phone five minutes later. without a name, address or anything like that. same as for checking on people. track this womanot down, got her on the phone and asked her why and she said i'm sorry mr. president i want to keep it asir a souvenir reagan to look at him and send you another check, don't catch both of them. they were moments of great tenderness he would donate personal effects to the college we went to school, so many times he showed affection and warmth and kindness to peopleli. like for instance white house staff is big things like that. one department was the speechwriting department. he probably had the best set of speechwriters in the history of america with the exception of ted sorens

government so it's an interesting time for the i american conservative movement led mostly by ronald reagan definitely was on a panama canal treaty in 1980 nomination so now i'm working on two more books on reagan including his real true ideology andru another one reagan's skill negotiator, under valued and that were under appreciated so he was skillful his whole life and all his life he was underappreciated in many regards as a negotiator but it's been a fun ride there are a number of good reagan stories, i'm proud to be amongst the ranks. >> what you mean when you talk about his real ideology the new book you have coming out? >> that's a good question. he was never as conservative avenues conservatives wanted him to be. there's much more pragmatic and temperate in his outlook on the world than a lot of conservatives wanted him to be. there's a great warrior who negotiated treaties, the elimination of thousands of nuclear warheads, he ran on the missile cap in 1980, his campaign behind the soviet we need, we need to catch up to the negotiating table and agree to reduce nuclear arms and it

to use ronald reagan's turn. and we were any generational, multi generational conflict. he viewed every foreign policy issue through that prism. that cold war prism. he's constantly you can see him in the archives telling carter to be tougher. do something militaristic. say something nasty about the russians. use some -- send a signal by using a little force. any one of memos you can see in the margin he scribbles use sports like midas? a reference to henry kissinger and ford's disastrous use of force in cambodia that led to unnecessary deaths of hostages that had been taken aboard his ship. what was astonishing to me turn down the advice for a particular during the first three years. they had a different attitude about the cold war and about the third world in particular. he did not think the soviets were behind every little revolution and the third world. he took him with a large grain of salt. they were sided with the world view but the mystery is why did he put up with that if he disagreed with him so often? i asked him this in one of my interviews. he's that you kno

by any means but he does remind you when i of ronald reagan's description of government and businessand stops moving subsidized it that is joe biden in this demonstration all in one gap i will be reminder viewers that the president compares himself to ronald reagan and i look back in a more recent president the last six months of president trump's 2020 some during the height of covid the president added 4.6 million jobs and that's 43% more than president biden added this year in truth job growth is slowing in america 2021 which makes no sense given the life-saving vaccines in trillions of covid in the reopening of economy and joe biden is no ronald reagan. larry: it's funny to say thatu the discretion but i wanted to grasp with you, we had a brutal contraction because of the pandemic it was a national disaster and had nothing to do the economic policy but it lasted two f months, we forget e third quarter was up 37% in the fourth quarter of 4.5% in the first quarter of six and half% in the second quarterer and 21 s going to be up six, seven, 89% this v-shaped recovery is going well in

ronald reagan was talking about government being the problem itself as often as the solution. the interesting thing is we are at a crossroads. 40 years later, the reagan consensus. bill clinton was an activist by temperament, but he recognized that he was operating within the limits set by the reagan era consensus. the assumption was when barack obama came the president, that was the end of the era of reagan. i would argue right now we are at a crossroads. there is a real debate going on. there are clearly different views held by the millennial generation. american history is cyclical. it may be after 40 years reflective distrust of government and its capacity to address problems. the problems -- not surprisingly overtime, public attitudes may evolve along with those problems. host: about 45 minutes left in this segment. we have been spending the last few hours of our program talking about the historian survey. letting you call in to ask about those results. out of chico, california is wanda. caller: you guys are long-winded. yesterday, there was supposed to be a rally on youtu

when that fell through, he considered being ronald reagan's running mate that same year. although that idea fell through as well because ford wanted more power than reagan wanted to give him. ford having decided now, i'm going to step out of politics, became, well, he remained a loyalist to the gop and became also increasingly a republican critic. he felt reagan spent too much on defense over too short a period. he worried about the debt reagan was incurring. he opposed george w. bush's decision to invade iraq. he worried about his party moving further and further to the political right. he worried about the partisanship on capitol hill. and he became more liberal on a variety of social issues hill. and he was -- became more liberal on a variety of social issues, including abortion, homosexual rights, and passage of the equal rights amendment for women. and i think it could be argued that, if ford was alive today, he'd be received by many republicans, given the environment today, as a rhino. a republican in name only. meanwhile, ford being an individual who was pragmatic a

joining us tonight john high bush, executive director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation andgan would have been today. when you look back at his life, there are many different accomplishments. but what do you look at? >> you know, bret, probably her number one accomplishment was ronald reagan and, you know, what i mean by that is to this day he is one of america's most admired presidents and nancy reagan is one of the key reasons for that. she was just everything from his confidante to adviser to behind the scenes in front of the scenes and 24/7 she was a first lady, a first class first lady and i really think she spent a lifetime helping to ensure her husband was just a phenomenal u.s. president. >> bret: she also spent some time behind the scenes adjusting maybe how he thought about things. i have come to think about the aids crisis, for example. his stance on that. she changed his thinking on that. the brady bill and guns. a number of different things where she had her hand basically in policy behind the scenes. >> yeah. that's a good way to put it, bret, behind the scenes

the last time the economy grew at this rate was 1984 and ronald reagan was telling us it's morning ino afternoon here. the sun is coming out. >> biden's comments came after the labor department announced 850,000 new jobs created in june. more than economists expected and the strongest month for job gain since last august. biden says number like that and the cow economy projected to gr 7.4% show the american rescue plan is working. president and ceo of the federal reserve bank of san francisco. mary, good evening. >> thank you for having me. nice to be here. good evening. >> you just heard the president very happy and echoing ronald reagan but the economy is still down 6.8 million jobs from, you know, before the pandemic. is it time for a victory lap? >> well, it time to celebrate. we should celebrate good news and we can string together a series of victories and when we do that, we'll do the job fully and completely. the good news is yes, let's celebrate this nice jobs report. we need it. and let's recognize the hard work we need to do ahead. i was doing a simple tabulation. if we gro

ronald reagan was the previous oldest to serve.e left office about a month before his 78th birthday. president biden took office after his 78th birthday. if he were to run for reelection, he would be over 80 years old seeking a second term. we have really never had that happen before. president trump was also over 70, an older man by historical standards, for the presidency, but he has raised a lot of questions. i think president biden has performed in big moments when that has been expected of him, so his major speeches i think of gone well as debate performances in the general election. they certainly went well. his speech at the joint session of congress went well enough. but there is a sense that maybe he is not quite as that's not quite firing on the same number of cylinders as when he was vice president. this is a man who has been in the public eye for decades, so the public is familiar with him, and they know his speech patterns and what he is like. so there is going to be some scrutiny of him in this position at this age, o

um when that fell through we considered being ronald reagan's running mate that same year. although that idea fell through as well because ford wanted more power than reagan wanted to give him. ford having decided now. i'm going to step out of politics. became it while he was remained a loyalist the gop also increasingly republican critic. he felt that reagan spent too much money on defense over too short a period. he worried about the debt reagan was encouraging. he opposed george w. bush's decision to invade iraq. he worried about his party moving further and further to the political, right? he worried about the growing partisanship he saw on capitol hill. and he was became more liberal on a variety of social issues including abortion homosexual rights. and passes the equal rights amendment for women and i think it could be argued. that a ford was alive today. he besieved by many republicans given the environment today as a rhino. a republican and name only meanwhile forward being eight individual who was pragmate pragmatic and one which will cross party lines developed a

ronald reagan was the previous oldest to serve. office about a month before his 78th birthday. president biden took office after his 78th birthday. if he were to run for reelection, he would be over 80 years old seeking a second term. we have really never had that happen before. president trump was also over 70, an older man by historical standards, for the presidency, but he has raised a lot of questions. i think president biden has performed in big moments when that has been expected of him, so his major speeches i think of gone well as debate performances in the general election. they certainly went well. his speech at the joint session of congress went well enough. but there is a sense that maybe he is not quite as that's not quite firing on the same number of cylinders as when he was vice president. this is a man who has been in the public eye for decades, so the public is familiar with him, and they know his speech patterns and what he is like. so there is going to be some scrutiny of him in this position at this age, older t

steve: the movie reagan follows the unique journey of rand reagan from his -- ronald reagan from his od morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. steve: it's great to have you today from oklahoma. dennis, you've had such a long and illustrious and honored career, but this is the first time you've ever played somebody who you actually voted for. [laughter] >> well, i don't know about that, played three president types, but okay. ronald reagan was my favorite president, bar none, of the 20th century. he was the first person that, first president that i really voted for that -- in fact, i voted for him, i came home, and my roommate said who'd you vote for, this was 1980. i said, reagan, he said you are kicked out of the hippies. [laughter] steve: i think that's a headline, dennis quaid was a hippie. just saying. [laughter] okay. so, david henry, you play ronald reagan as a young man. you were born during the last year of his presidency. what do you remember or what have you learned about ronald reagan? >> i mean, i've had to do tons of research for the role, i've watched a

ronald reagan was talking about government being the problem itself as often as the solution. teresting thing is we are at a crossroads. 40 years later, the reagan consensus. bill clinton was an activist by temperament, but he recognized that he was operating within the limits set by the reagan era consensus. the assumption was when barack obama came the president, that was the end of the era of reagan. i would argue right now we are at a crossroads. there is a real debate going on. there are clearly different views held by the millennial generation. american history is cyclical. it may be after 40 years reflective distrust of government and its capacity to address problems. the problems -- not surprisingly overtime, public attitudes may evolve along with those problems. host: about 45 minutes left in this segment. we have been spending the last few hours of our program talking about the historian survey. letting you call in to ask about those results. out of chico, california is wanda. caller: you guys are long-winded. yesterday, there was supposed to be a rally on youtube. it

the last time the economy grew at this rate was in 1984 and ronald reagan was telling us it is morning in america. well it is getting close to afternoon here. at the time, the cbo revised their projections down. the american rescue plan is strengthening our financial position and it grows our economy. in the strength of area economy is helping us flip the script. instead of workers competing with each other, employers are competing to attract workers. that kind of competition doesn't just give the ability to earn higher wages, but also the ability to demand dignity and respect in the workplace. more jobs, better wages. put simply, our economy is on the move and we have covid-19 on the run. we have more work to do to get america vaccinated and everybody back to work. we are aiming for full employment and that means keeping pace for jobs growth for black and hispanic workers but this progress is testament to our commitment to grow this economy. the american rescue plan provide resources to get shots in arms and checks in pockets. schools were struggling so we made vaccinations for teache

>> i would and it's ronald reagan. kennedy: you are at zero now. it was james monroe. 80.61%.r] >> ridiculous. kennedy: jessica. >> the first time you answered with something other than zero. kennedy: which presidents face is on but 2-dollar bill? thomas jefferson, john adams, franklin roosevelt or martin ben brown what you like to put tried your look before your answer? >> no. kennedy: you don't want to press your luck? >> well, i don't really know. kennedy: really? >> well text me a picture and then i will answer t the questi. >> she probably will. >> fdr? kennedy: oh my god, no. spike. all right. the last question. you are up against not neil patrick harris. jesus, jim. >> i'm already quitting, rights? i am in the lead. kennedy: yes. >> i'm a libertarian so i will press my luck. kennedy: who's the only president to serve as priest chief. justice of the supreme court? james buchanan, william herrick taft or ruth bader ginsburg? >> oh man, can you say them again? kennedy: franklin pierce, james buchanan, william howard taft or ruth bader ginsburg? >> owa man. i thought was cl

the second is they think they can secure the situation in the withdrawal with one carrier, the ronald reaganre countries over an extended time. the third problem is pulling the carrier out of western pacific which means for the first time since 2003, the south china sea and western pacific, opening the door to china and i will add the biggest long-term problem beyond terrorists reestablishing a platform for a potential 9/11 again and pray we never have that again but that is what happens when the terrorists control afghanistan. the last big issue is you about china to move in which they are planning to do, they are working with the talent and to control $3 trillion worth of minerals including 17 rare earths that are in afghanistan. a public relations disaster, physical security disaster and foreign-policy disaster. i would argue they didn't think this through. the notion of pulling out on or by 9/11 seems like iron he. 9/11 was a formidable life-changing event for the united states, the last thing we want to do is open the door to terrorists in china commensurate with anniversary. jillian: f

last time the economy grew at this rate was 1984 and ronald reagan was telling us it is mourning in americato afternoon. the sun is coming out. >> if the sun were coming out it would be don. the president is fixated on this idea that july 4th is about going to ballgames. he was practically stuck on this notion today. >> we should you all a happy fourth of july, people will go to ballgames, sit in stadiums, all across america people going to ballgames and doing good things. >> i'm trying to figure out what ballgames have to do with economic recovery. you were in congress? is this a leading indicator of economic prosperity, attendance at baseball games? >> and president biden's world i have no idea what he thinks the metrics are. did try to attempt to tell his own baseball story when the dodgers were at the white house today. >> he tends to latch onto one idea and phrase and repeats it, this is called perseveration. it can be a sign of cognitive trouble. in case you need to notice the phrase, you know, you know. >> i hit one off of the right centerfield wall, bounced off the wall, 368, i don'

the last time the economy grew at this rate was in 1984 and ronald reagan was telling us it's morning in america. well, it's getting close to afternoon here. the sun is coming up. at the time cvo revised their long-run deficit projections down as a share of gdp that they just have done. so the american rescue plan is strength in our financial position and it grows our economy. it's continuing to grow our economy. the strength of our recovery is helping out -- helping as flip descriptor instead of workers competing for jobs that are scarce, players are competing with each other to attract workers. that kind of competition in the market doesn't just give workers more ability to earn higher wages. it gives them the power to demand to be treated with dignity and respect in the workplace. more jobs, better wages. that's a good combination. put simply, our economy is on the move and we have covid-19 on the run. yes, we have more work to do to get america vaccinated and everyone back to work. we are aiming for full employment, and that means keeping our pace on job growth including for black

. >> last time the economy grew at this rate was in 1984, as ronald reagan was telling us it is mourningis getting close to afternoon, the sun is coming out. jillian: the offer of that op-ed, liz peek, good to see you. let's pull up the numbers and as we look at first quarter gdp growth you see a difference as well as a difference in the june unemployment. what do you say about this? >> the reason the economy is coming back has nothing to do with president biden and everything to do with the vaccine that started to roll out before he was president. we know this because in the fourth quarter of last year the economy grew over 4%. it was already beginning to accelerate, governors and mayors across the country began to lift restrictions. this was an economy ready to burst out. consumers had $2 trillion of excess savings ready to be spent and the minute they were allowed to go out of their houses and spend it that is what happened. for president biden to compare himself to ronald reagan who basically set off an entire decade of growth and prosperity and job gains by cutting taxes and lightni

ronald reagan's presidential memoirs -- he got an advance of around $7 million.te a bit of money on that one. since about 2000 or so, publishing has figured this out. you mentioned the obama's advance, which was astronomical. michelle obama's books is one of the best-selling in american history at this point. i have to imagine that barack obama's book will do equally well. even better. publishers have started to realize they can sell these books in a certain way. blockbuster publishing is working for them, which is why i don't think it is going anywhere anytime soon. susan: you mentioned donald trump's "art of the deal.” we have a clip from peter osnos. this is him telling the story of signing the book "the art of the deal.” [video clip] >> it's one of the few times someone has intervened at random house. he said, we ought to do a book with this fellow. i arrived at random house with a mandate of doing books of this kind -- biographies of high-profile figures. so i was, i like to put it, tasked. i went to see trump with this publisher. i took a big russian novel

joe biden challenged ronald reagan. strom thurmond to challenge ronald reagan for being too soft on crime. joe biden was bragging about every minor drug offender. kennedy: chris hahn --. >> joe biden has evolved on this issue. another right-wing conservatives in this country. >> i'm not a right-wing conservative. >> let's be clear. kennedy: they did not reschedule marijuana and you know that. >> chris -- you just want people to love you. please love me. this woman should be allowed to raise. c chris i didn't claim that this was his current position. i'm saying she is responsible for what she did in the past and what she did in the past is evil. it may not mean anything to you but it does mean something to people. and dave i agree. i agree a position of the past is run. he has evolved in that position. kennedy: actually not. are you out of your mind? he had some of the most consistent positions on freedom and liberty of anyone. he does not have to come on the show or any other show i like you because you are peddling fal

only after he had beaten back a divisive challenge in the primaries from conservative champion ronald reagan of california. >> mister chairman, delegates and alternates of the republican convention, i am honored by your nomination, and i accept it. [applause] we will wage a winning campaign in every region of this country, from the snowy banks of minnesota to the sandy plains of georgia. >> badly trailing democratic candidate jimmy carter in the polls, fort knew he had his work cut out for him. >> he was a very good governor and he had broad views on a number of national and international problems and challenges. but again, it was a race of an outsider against the establishment in the nation's's capital. and because of watergate under nixon, because of the war in vietnam during the kennedy johnston nixon period, outsiders had some advantage. they could be very critical of the national scene because they had not been a part of it. >> betty ford and the rest of the family would all pitch in. together, they reached out to touch the nation. the president had yet to receive a mandate that comes w

i had the privilege of serving yates attorney under the ronald reagan administration, to serve in the congress, to serve in the bush administration in d.v.a. and homeland security and i came back and i ran for governor of arkansas and and i lost the first time and many of you have had similar experiences. but eight years later, i've had another opportunity and it's been a great, great privilege for me to be governor and to my second term of governor of arkansas. and as i look at my life, i've helped guide the security of my nation after 9/11. i've prosecuted neo-nazi thugs and now to work with my colleagues across the nation on the critical issues facing our nation is indeed, a high privilege. now let's talk for a moment about the upcoming year. first of all, we plan to meet in person. i know the necessity of our virtual meetings but it is important that we meet together. and we have to be together to share experiences, ideas, and to encourage one another. substantively, we will focus on information sharing within the administration from pandemic planning and recovery to american resc

and then with the ronald reagan library in california, , and now the bush library museum. trained as an archivist he was detailed to the bush white house in 1992 to assist with the move of the bush presidential materials to texas, and has been at college station ever since. now let's hear from jean becker and warren finch. thank you for joining us today. >> hello, jean. >> good eating, , warren. great to see. >> thanks to the archivist for the kind introduction. also i would like to shout out to our partners in crime, the george and barbara bush foundation, max, my colleague from l.a., lower alabama, and then also to the dean of the bush school and the staff at the library have been so helpful here during the covid and also to the staff of the former president's office. it's a great organization we belong to you we have been very lucky to be a part of it and be a part of the life of george and barbara bush for all these years. my first question, so you kind of came to the bush office in kind of a curious way. can you just talk a little bit about, you work for "usa today" a

so the ability, you know, in the past, we've seen and whether it was, whether it was ronald reagan or richard nixon winning huge land slide victories, on the other side, lyndon johnson, winning a land slide, '64. whether it is 49, 48 states, and winning big percentages of the vote. toward 60%. that can't happen now because, because each party has a higher floor. because they've got so many people who will vote with them no matter what. but a higher ceiling because of people just like that on the opposite side. so our two parties are just, they're locked in with high floors, low ceilings. and we're small things that can happen, a little slice of independence in the middle. push them over one way or the other. i think that's what we saw in the last month before the last election. it certainly looked like it was headed toward a certain outcome. and then i think for these independents who again, remember they don't trust politics or political parties. they're thinking, they're all talking about a democratic wave. and democrats taking over everything. and building up a bigger majority in t

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in 1983, ronald reagan sent rumsfeld to baghdad to try and broker closer ties with saddam hussein. two decades later, it was defense secretary rumsfeld who argued saddam had to go. >> the iraqi regime has chosen more peaceful disarmament. reporter: in the u.s. led war was to make that happen. he and other officials accused iraq of helping to plan the september 11 attacks which it did not. he also accused iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction which it did not. he was wrong, but rumsfeld refused to say so. >> we believe the intelligence was correct. it turned out it was not correct. reporter: at first, rumsfeld embraced neoconservative ideology, but in his 2013 memoir, he changed his tune. i did not think resolving other countries internal political disputes remissions for our men and women in uniform. more important, rumsfeld refused to plan for the chaos. again, he would not apologize. >> there are known knowns. things we think we know, some known unknowns. reporter: critics say rumsfeld's desire to spend as little money as possible to fight the war meant u.s. troops did n

the result is disco dancing comes back and we find ronald reagan to be president, i'll take it. ay with worth the price. elizabeth: got it. >> not that disco -- [laughter] getting a president to perform like reagan. elizabeth: okay, andy puzder, great to see you. >> great to see you, liz. elizabeth: we're so excited to welcome to the show the member of the house foreign affairs, florida representative the maria salazar. you're in surfside right now. how are things going? we've got a storm coming. what's happening in it's good to see you. >> wonderful to see you again as a congresswoman. thank you for having me on your show. you know, it's -- this is a major tragedy that has happened to south florida of biblical proportions. i was there a few hours ago where everything indicates that we're going to have hurricane elsa hitting our shores in the next 72 hours. there's another situation that i was talking to the search and rescue expert that the second building, that structure that is standing out of the four towers, a couple are still up, and the engineers believe that it's pretty u

ronald reagan elected twice by landslides, george h.w. bush elected by a land side. win with over a majority of votes two times since fdr. the guy was rolling up tallies of 53%. there were massive shifts. these last two elections, though, people seem to have their political feet stuck in cement. not a lot of crossover voters. >> yeah, i mean, i think jon meacham brings up a really good point, which is is this going to be what makes up some republicans, maybe some who actually supported the insurrection or some who have been with trump twice, is this going to actually swing them back our direction? because not only is the economy good, joe, as you know, but joe biden has created more jobs in the first five months under his administration in the history of job creation in america. so really great stuff on his side. what does that mean for his re-election? of course, that's a couple years away. it means it's a very good sign for the midterm elections which biden needs to keep the majority in the house and the senate in order to get this landmark legislation through. >>>