office of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute. and here in d.c., we promote president reagan's ideals, vision and leadership example through substantive issue driven forums like one we have today. and we're. and honored to co-host this event and partner with the center for strategic and international studies, where we're going to have an opportunity now to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the strategic defense initiative sdi. what reagan said, quote, let me share with a vision of the future which offers hope. this, of course, was in the speech telling country and the world about sdi. he went on say, quote, it is that we embark a program to counter the awesome soviet missile threat with measures that are defensive. let us turn to the very and technology that spawned our great industrial base and that have given us the quality of life we enjoy today, end quote. reagan's words in 1983 inspired here at the reagan institute, our national innovation base report card that we released last week. it is with that vision that we sought to d

so speaking of people ronald reagan worked with, you know, ronald reagan office. he knows he wants to bring an end to the cold. he know he knows what he he's got such mission. the assassination attempt. and as he's recovering in the white house writes a letter to brush off that pretty much is ignored. and then russia dies. and then reagan tries it with the next soviet leader and he dies and then tries it again and dies. so finally, you know, gorbachev takes office. what do you think made gorbachev than his predecessors that allowed to be opened? and obviously, if you know, when you read the book and if you know a lot about the different summits, you see it wasn't easy. it still took a lot of negotiate. but he obviously was open to that. what do you think made him different? yeah, so and again, i to to clarify, i don't speak i didn't do research in the russian archives. and so certainly spent a lot of time trying to read and study and understand gorbachev, you know, based on a lot of time translated documents and interview and other people who worked for them. but

donald trump was not a perfect president but he was the most perfect president we had since ronald reagan. bottom line, and of conversation. one more thing, the woman in wyoming, can we expel her from the country because she is as stupid as a box of rocks. host: brenda is in indiana, benson vania, democrat. -- pennsylvania, democrat, good money. caller: i want to talk about the possible indictment on january 6 and i would like to point out what happened on january 6 2021 could have very easily happened january 2017. trump supporters want to conveniently forget the rally after rally in 2016 donald trump condemned the electoral college, he condemned it, rally after rally. he said it was rigged, it was unfair, it needed to be done away with, it should be one person and one vote. "washington journal" had at least one call in show on the electoral college. every trump supporters said it should be done away with. days before the 2016 election, donald trump stepped up to the microphone and he said if crooked hillary clinton gets in the white house by the rigged, unfair, electoral college system

it's really an honor to be at the ronald reagan library. and as i was coming here, i started to think a little bit about president reagan and about some of the issues that we're facing now. and, of course, you know, president reagan had a great sense of humor. and i thought about a story that there was a debate between three of our founding fathers, dr. benjamin rush, thomas jefferson and ben franklin. and the debate was about what was the world's oldest profession. and dr. rush said as a physician, he said, the world's oldest professions, the doctor, because eve was cut out of adam's rib. so it has to be the physician. thomas jefferson, who, you know, design monticello said no. the world's oldest profession is the architect act after all. was the architect who brought order out of all the chaos in the universe. and ben franklin said, no, you're both wrong. the world's oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place? and president reagan understood this. his famous quote that the most terrifying wor

you know, as mentioned, i was appointed by president ronald reagan as united states attorney, very proudnection with president reagan. and i was the youngest in the nation at the time, age 31. one of the response middle east i had was invest getting a terrorist group in northern arkansas in the hills. they had 280 acres of a compound. they were truly violent, they were armed to the teeth, they were committing murders, one pawn shop owner simply because they perceived that person was jewish, and they were treading upon rights and violence. and so, i had an arrest word for them. we had a search warrant for the property. the fbi, the hostage rescue team was there, surrounding the compound, the leader refused to come out. and the fbi said for me and said we need you to help with the negotiation. so i went up there and i got out of the vehicle, and as i was going to the forward operating negotiating center. for the hostage rescue team. they threw me a bullet-proof vest and said you might need this. and i said this is not why i went to law school. after three days of negotiation, they surrende

and i think that was when ronald reagan was the actors guild in president. i mean, yeah, i think he's back to me to have looked at them. yeah. because he wants to run it. that's, you know, at other aspirations, but yes. can you believe that ronald reagan was, wasn't in a sag, uh, a union back then. so lots of things have changed and that's really what a lot of the writers and especially now the actors are saying is that we have streaming platforms. we didn't use have streaming platforms decades ago. so a lot of the rules and regulations and policies in terms of how they got paid, were mainly for networks and build studios. there really is nothing out there. now this charter reads the territory for the streaming platforms. and mainly a lot of them are complaining that, you know, when you have a hit show on television, on a television network or you have a film, it's out of the box offices, you know exactly how much money that they owe me. likewise for television, you know, how many viewers you have? well, when it comes to streaming, it's been very hard, accor

his name was ronald reagan. to charlton houston. reagan was serving his second stint of as president of the screen actors guild, and he had helped spearhead a strike with the writers guild of america against seven major film studios. that is correct. two decades before he ushered in the modern era of conservatism, rooted in the idea of small government and slashing the social safety net and diminishing the power of organized labor, two decades before that, ronald reagan led the actor union, actor's union, through bitter negotiations, once that ultimately secured investment dollars for a new union health insurance plan, a pension plan, and residuals for films produced after 1960. that was ronald reagan's handiwork. and today, residuals are once again at the core of the demands of the actor's union. they are asking to be compensated for their work appearing on streaming services, and they're also demanding safeguards from artificial intelligence, as well as better composition and better working conditions and bett

if ronald reagan was alive today, i would not be in this race. i would be helping him lead a national reviver as he did -- revival as he did in 1980. but he is not and now is our moment to do for this country what he did in 1980 when he led us out of our last national identity crisis. we are in one today. patriotism, hard work, family, they have disappeared and we can revive them again and i think tomorrow is a celebration of what is possible when a state like iowa without fear leads the way and speaks the truth. mr. kauffmann: great. give me a scenario of 20 years from now in our interaction with china under terrible leadership and then give me a vision in 20 years in our relationship with them under good conservative leadership. mr. ramaswamy: there is some debate even within our own party on how to deal with this. i will speak on eight years of leaving this country. if you put me there, if i leave office eight years later, let me tell you what i would hope we did. the finish line, january 2030 3, 1 thing i would tell you we are no longer depen

ronald reagan was governor. i knew growing up with a certainty to the core of my soul, i could do and be whatever i wanted to be. so far, i have had a chance to do that, but not everybody does. i hire young lawyers, they work for me at my law firm. they will have $200,000 in debt. they start life with bills around her neck. that is not what it is supposed to be. i think we can come back. what made america great is not completely dead. i think there is a beating heart there, i think we can do it but it is not for sure and it is going to be hard work. what happened between your childhood, ronald reagan's governorship and today in your view? >> what i talk about in the fall and rise of america, i was there at the pinnacle of american power, both in time and place. the time and place was a place called hopper up a teeny outside of saudi arabia at the end of the gulf war. i was a lieutenant. i was assigned there at the headquarters that destroyed be republican guard. i mean at 100 hours, we did a job that hannibal --

it's a long ways away and get that past 2024 and get that back from being a little younger and ronald reaganin the 1980s and this worked. may take a year or two and 1980 big deal and 1924 hugely important election. going the reagan way or social way. stuart: there are things with the 1970s and you and i remember them very, very well. extreme inflation and kind of out of his depth and the economy that wasn't performs and income with ronald reagan and i guess you're hoping for something similar today in 2024 and who's the conservative and more with the republicans. >> we'll get a good feel for it next month when there's the first debate and debate following and so far the candidate haves put forth a reagan escambia kind of flat form like in 1980 and forward looking and great to criticize what's been done and what will you do in the future and they've been concerned about foreign policy in the early 1980s and u.s. weakness and getting crisis around the world and who's got a foreign policy as well the way reagan did in 1980. stuart: donald trump really slammed bidenomics in his interview with ma

ronald reagan said to them at that time, how do you make vaccines safe? they are unavoidably unsafe which is true of most medicines. i am not anti-vaccine. we need to be honest. that is all i ever argued. lauren: 1 opera to f kennedy's message at the time was covid vaccines that were out there were medically unsafe, hadn't been tested enough, rushed on the markets, something he found in unison with many republicans on that committee asking questions today. i thought to get a politician about this, would get a genuine doctor and a very good one. st. joseph's art institute for auto immune diseases, a very calming presence not only before through covid and after covid. good to have you. part of what is coming now in the vaccine wave is we didn't need to get vaccinated. other issues came up with, didn't need to be locked down. may have been a separate day but robert f kennedy junior was among those who questioned the efficacy of these vaccines and their threat to the public. what do you think of that? >> the first thing is vaccines are not a threat to the pub

that was ronald reagan's handiwork.residuals are once again at the core of the demands of the actors union. they're asking to be compensated for their work appearing on streaming services and also demanding safe guards from artificial intelligence as well as better compensation and better working conditions and better benefits. right now production has already shutdown on abbott elementary and yellow jackets and stranger things because of the writers strike. and we're going to find out in a few hours if even more shows have to stop production and whether this might be the summer of strikes. that's our show for tonight. we'll see you tomorrow. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> we will not waver. we will not waver. i mean that. our commitment to ukraine will not weaken. we will stand for liberty and freedom today, tomorrow, and for as long as it takes. >> president biden closing out the nato summit with an impassioned speech in support of ukraine. we'll have his remarks and preview the final leg

the election of ronald reagan in 1980.ms - which now confront us. and, after all, why shouldn't we believe that? we are americans. applause. god bless you, and thank you. at which there was a big pushback against what the �*70s had been doing, particularly in the expansion of — of women's rights. so, �*70s quite expansionist. you could have your own credit card. chuckles. stuff like that. and then, you get this pushback, and that was when they started activating the evangelical religious right as a political force. significant also is the fact that i had studied 17th century american puritanism as a graduate student in the early �*60s, and i get to say bad things about those people because they are my ancestors. so, the family... literally. literally, yes, literally, they were puritan new englanders. but it's interesting that you witness what's happening in germany, ronald reagan is elected, so you start imagining the possibilities of a future totalitarian american regime but then, you reach back. well, these regimes are n

i can make a case that ronald reagan would not have gotten the nomination in 1980 without direct mail, because when john connally and george h.w. bush were getting the thousand contributions, he was getting hundreds of thousands of ten, 15, $25 contributions funded campaign made all the difference. mr. viguerie what makes an effective direct mail letter? talk about one that you've written. well direct mail is used to be, until recently, the second largest form of advertising in the country. television number one now is number three, because the internet, internet's number one, television number two. direct mail is number three. and i recognize that early on. and i recognize that it's not a when i write a letter that goes to a million people, i don't write it to a million people. i write it to one person. had one person in mind, i'm writing that letter and i have a conversation. well, for most of my political life it was my parents, my mother, my dad. i would have them met. they didn't give every time, but they were occasion a gift. so you don't want to write to somebody that gives it'

that was ronald reagan's message, that was donald trump's message in his first election. the finkelstein birnbaum duo to hungarian politician viktor orban in 1998. then in opposition, orban and his party won the 2010 election and have stayed in power ever since, using the techniques they taught him. it is not just it is notjust a way of simplifying your own message, but identifying an enemy, one that the public is told they ought to fear. first a suitable candidate needs to be found, one that cannot fight back. george birnbaum once said that viktor orban and benjamin netanyahu were their best pupils. he won in 2010 with a landslide, then he faced a problem, he had annihilated the opposition. you helped him find a new opponent, george soros. tell me about that. i have a problem with any leader in any country staying in powerfor too long. the other thing that i have come to learn over all of these years of working around the world is... i also have a real problem with outside money influencing elections. where there are it is a foreign national going into another country or

have something forward-looking like ronald reagan did in 1980 #.idate, came with a lot of fresh ideas and won. jackie: yeah. no, that's a great point. looking forward saying here's where we are, here's how i'm going to pick it -- fix it, whoever that person is. great to see you, steve. >> great to see you, jackie, thank you. jackie: the biden administration calling tech executives to the white house to address artificial intelligence, and coming up we have congressman dan bishop from house judiciary on democrats under fire for trying to censor 2024 presidential candidate rfk jr. during a censorship hearing. stay with us. ♪ the numbers, we see the people. when i first started the company i was excited to empower people of all abilities. you've made something that people find invaluable. it fuels you to keep making a better impact with your business. i don't have to think about the pathway to the ocean, i just know i'm going to be able to surf again. that's why we're here... to help make it happen. (man) what if my type 2 diabetes takes over? (woman)

, it is obvious that ronald reagan was remembered for the fact that he knew how to take responsibility make decisions, and it was his determination , along with his obvious diplomatic talents, that made it possible to bring down soviet union to its objective end it would have collapsed anyway, but reagan's policy helped him without a doubt, that's why i think that uh , if uh, no, no, this is not about criticism of president biden, but if so, well if there were people like reagan at the head of the western countries of the leading western countries, it seems to me that the situation would be resolved much, much faster, and i repeat once again in favor of these countries. it seems that some western politicians simply deny themselves the pleasure of making profits at the same time, the dividends in all parameters are due to the fact that russia will collapse, well, this is already, as they say, their problems, really look at volodymyr today in the dutch gas and ah , such a significant event is happening there a center for the study of russian crimes and crimes of russian aggression in ukr

when ronald reagan was president that's what you need a republican governor from a blue state who willgton, what did he do he fix social security and immigration to problems our economy needs fixed and border security that we don't have right now. part of the immigration problem, they don't have border security you cannot fix the immigration system. if you don't have a border. he built 47 miles and four ye years. they are over ever, biden made it worse. speaking of joe biden and data we skip together that was a big headline, is joe biden mentally physically fit to be president. >> he is past the sale by date. we can have an 80-year-old president. i heard nikki haley say mental cognitive test, you don't need one, just watch. did you watch them come down the stairs at air force one, we both did, he is too old nobody beats father time and by the way if the nominees and one of the reasons i'm running if it's donald trump in joe biden the combined age will be 160. i think we could do better. cheryl: there is a big gop primary, obviously the polling at this point we know what the polling is

i think he would harbor different attitudes later on in his relationship with ronald reagan. but that's that's how it began in anyway. in 1965, the party was desperate for change and. so ford, good old jerry, you know, the don and sergeant, they get along, go along. guy. what you see is what you get surprised everyone by taking on the current republic. minority leader charlie halleck and beating him, beating him with the help of donald rumsfeld, congressman from illinois. and bob dole, congressman from kansas. dole delivered the four votes that provided the margin of victory. as i say, 11 years later, ford repaid the debt with compound interest when he put forward on the ticket in 1976 and ford really came to national prominence then with the evan jerry show. what was his relationship up with everett dirksen? yeah, everett dirksen was great showman. and as a young boy, he'd met william jennings bryan and they never got over it. i mean, he was william jennings bryan reincarnated. you know, he'd get up and give these great full throated speeches extolling the virtues of the bar

i met ronald reagan when i was 15 years old in 1980. i was in college. i worked in the reagan campaign in 1983. i graduated from the university of washington. i did all my belongings in the back of my mustang, and i drove to d.c. because i wanted nothing more than to be part of what was then called the reagan revolution. and so that was a wave election where a whole group of people came to washington intent on changing what was going on. since then, i was involved in 1994 running citizens united. that was the huge contract for america wave election. and then, of course, tea party when the tea party came and the 2010 election cycle, i traveled all over the country with andrew breitbart and joseph fair and other people speaking at tea party rallies. and then, of course, i was involved in the whole maga wave election. so that's four major republican wave elections that have happened in in my adult lifetime, i believe 2024 is going to be another one of those wave elections. is it going to be a maga wave election? so i don't really, you know, i'm not going to

[applause] ronald reagan understood this. i remember sitting in my dorm room in 1980, september at the university of delaware voting for president for the first time in my life. i was 18 got my absentee ballot. it wasn't rigged, it was a real ballot i only got one of them and i only filled up one of them. i sat there and i put the x in the box next to ronald reagan because he was the person who told me i know how to run this and i know how to fix this and i am going to make your life full of hope and aspirations fulfilled. i trusted him and i voted for him and he it was the greatest vote for president i've ever made in my life because he kept his word to us. [applause] we need to do the same thing again. we need to take a chance on somebody who knows how to govern. that's why i am in this race. one last thing -- all of my colleagues who are in this race as well -- i have to tell you i did an interview before here and they asked me if i could be senator from the state and i thought he was a formidable candidate. i like him and

president ronald reagan called a strike illegal he threatened to fire any controller who didn't return. and reagan followed through on that promise. two days later, he began firing over 11,000 air traffic controllers who did not return to work. and he banned the strikers from ever being re-hired by the federal aviation administration again. a lifetime ban was rescinded by the clinton administration 12 years later. this extreme scenario is unlikely to play out in 2023 because none of these strikes were proposed against a federal government. even if they, where president biden is a pro union president. the sentiment toward labor unions was different in the 19 80s. the public supported reagan's action. 57% agreed with how he handled the situation, according to a gala pull at the time. today, there is much more of an appetite for the free treatment, the fair treatment and compensation of workers. a 2022 gala poll found that 71% of americans now approve of labor unions. we might just be on the precipice of a renaissance for the american worker. with 20 grams of protein for muscle health ver

and actually it was of the areas where they actually some real overlap where goldwater and ronald reagan in the mid sixties talking about law and order, you know, pro blue right this is one of those parallels to like black lives matter. blue lives matter. yep. you know, that's in our recent history, this has had predecessor in the support your local police was a real thing and in their magazines they would publish photographs of police officers who were beaten like badly bludgeoned by you know supposed communist or supposed communist writers, you know, visceral stuff. and and so they had a series of these things committee against summit and tangled since when eisenhower was going to meet with khrushchev, the soviet premier. they launched this a case committee against them some entanglements sent, i don't know, many thousand of postcards to members of congress. it got a lot of play. they ran newspaper ads on one of the interesting moments here in the book, i think for me was after john f kennedy's assassination mission in dallas. dallas was a hotbed of bircher ism. and so initially there

you might add, you pointed out earlier that ronald reagan and the air covered controllers.ke with the writers was when ronald reagan was the head of sag-aftra. you look at business having a battle here. there's some realities here. the industry is changing, the notion of the industry is changing, and the contracts need to change as well, and when you hear some of the behind the scenes stuff of people cancelling meetings, basically saying, and you know, people have talked about it like fran mentioned earlier, a notion of people losing their homes. that's a big thing to say but the reality of it is this. the studios are looking at this in a long picture, cold-hearted way because it's called show business. not show friends. they are looking at this and saying if we give in, and that was what one person said to me, if we give in to the writers now, every contract cycle will become a strike. next time we talk to the teamsters and nor and more and more. this is where they have decided to plant their flag. i don't think they expected the actors to go. i think they thought the acto

the last president who did it was ronald reagan, who said, i will not let social security go down. e thing reagan did in the 1980's to preserve this until 2034, 50 years. i want to preserve it for another 50. his who says they will not discuss the issue or we do not need to do anything, or i will come up with something, be aware. i will tell you what donald trump said to me eight years ago, i came out with a plan, and trump came up to me on the debate stage during commercials -- if the rnc really wanted to make money, they would sell pay-per-view for what is going on during commercials. there are 6-7 minute commercial breaks, and on stage what do you do? you cannot talk to your advisors. you basically have to talk to each other. by this time everybody hated trump except for me. jeb, marco, ted wouldn't talk to him. the only person he had to talk to was me. he said, i saw that thing you put out on social security and medicare, he said it is really smart. he said, i will never do it because it is not popular, but it is really smart. is that the kind of person you want? if you reelect