ronald reagan, maybe that person lives a blue city or in a blue state. why they see this film? well there were a lot of reagan democrats to get out and. it's, you know. it's kind of funny in a way. after 40 years. really, even like with roosevelt who i consider to be the second greatest president of the 20th century, are really up. i don't really remember politics. you remember the deeds and. you know what? we did all that americans and how we came together and, you know, democrats and republicans were at each other's throats then, you know, bind each other's backs, you know, doing things, whatever. but you the politics fade. and it's amazing how we make with the ghosts of the past and what we remember is the man and remember story of us and you know, thank god for ronald reagan that he came along. i heard it said one time that you. i heard it said one time that america deserves the president, that they get it reflects what the president what's going on in our society in a way, not the other way around. you know, it's we the people and so that's why this is such an important ele

let's talk a little bit about the young ronald reagan. and his mother his mother, nellie reagan. a man that what was it like preparing to beat ronald be ronald reagan'smom? [laughter] >> they are really big shoes to fill. [laughter] but there is not about nelly in terms of -- i think for dennis there is plenty on youtube to search for ronald reagan and be able to embody a physical attribute and work from the outside in. and for nelly there wasn't that kind of. >> she died in 1962. she was on a public figure. >> correct. >> of most of my research and most of things i found out about her were from reagan's hand. i was reading his autobiography in some biographies that were written about reagan that his mother sort of found her way into the stories. god and ronald reagan actually was the, the most poignant part of the research because that was the most information about her. and also really the impact she had on his life. and what she instilled in him as a young boy he really carried with him for his life. >> so, what were some of those things? did you start out with essentially a bl

and that was ronald reagan. thank you. we want to go? so i'd like to explore not only how he governed president reagan as a communicator, how he used that power, and how his impact is still felt in this today. andrew card has had more jobs in federal government than anybody else i covered in my 41 years with abc news george herbert walker bush, ronald reagan's vice president. but, andy, the the president reagan organized the west wing were the triumph triumvirate. his two california of royals, loyal californians and a texan who was best friends with the vice president. was a good idea. did that work? the that ronald reagan came into the presidency? did he put an operation that was effective? president reagan, when he was for president of america, was pretty depressed and we were not confident of ourselves. we were challenged because policies were coming from washington, d.c., and they were imposed on governors and the people in their states than having the governors decide what was best to their states. and i watched ronald reagan come an

and he campaigns on lowering taxes, as you would expect ronald reagan, to campaign on. and the first thing he does in office is raise taxes. so bring us into that episode of the book it showed i'll defend reagan of course always defend reagan and show this flexibility of thinking when he ran for governor he did not realize how bad the situation was in sacramento, how the budget was losing $1,000,000 a day, which, you know, the government, that's just chump change, right. but in 1966, it was a lot of money and they were losing it every day. and they also had a $500 million deficit. and reagan came in was told by meese and others said governor, we've got a serious problem on our hands. so he met with jesse unruh is then the speaker of the house who is a very powerful democrat out there very famous. and unruh was urged to run for office. and he said he said means i'm going to have to give up drinking and women and he also said it was funny guy he also said if you can't take their money you can't take their money and. and drink their liquor and sleep with their women, you sh

"the new yorker" said i achieved my ambition. >> you said an unbiased view of ronald reagan. things that the president, president reagan did, was -- you write about this honestly. going to the county fair -- let me read to folks what you wrote. ronald reagan's first post convention campaign stop was at the county fair in mississippi that would haunt his historical reputation. the fairgrounds long used for white supremacists were located a few miles from the spot where in 1964 civil rights workers had been murdered. it was there at the county fair where he uttered the words i believe in states' rights. is that part of how you say reagan prepared the ground for the 45th president of the united states? >> well, i want to make clear that reagan and trump are very different political and personality types. as liz cheney suggested, there are huge differences between ronald reagan who was pro trade, pro immigration, pro nato, anti-russia, vastly different from trump. nevertheless there are some historical consistencies that led us to the current situation with republicans embracing t

doug bondo former special assistance to us president ronald reagan. he is a senior fellow at the washington. think tank the cato institute dog, thanks so much for coming on as well as the debate between the 2 is really bankrolled candidates. that was the anniversary of $911.00 chile, of course, and the world trade center and the pentagon. what did you make just prior to that debate? all of us. oh, cool. well, certainly, muslims in michigan would call a holocaust harris, saying she was proud to get the endorsement of dick cheney george w bush's vice president. and someone who, you know, probably i was never a fan of the katie. i call him, you know, dick, i had other priorities, j, d, this is somebody who got 5 deferments to avoid going to vietnam. but then once you became a exceeded draft date, you suddenly became quite a hawk. so i think it's an embarrassment for the harris. i can pay, you know, democrats are rightly vilified to dick cheney back when he was running for office, and he was promoting more all over the globe. now all of a sudden they've d

i feel the same thing about people who claim mantle of ronald reagan. >> it's amazing, the number of l believe and say that trump is an heir to reagan is amazing. there's a remarkable con job taking place within the republican party where a very many republicans actually still believe that the current republican party is part of that reagan legacy. when it is a direct repudiation of that legacy. and this gap, this gap between what trumpism is and what ronald reagan and who ronald reagan was and what he believed is immense but it's pricing to me constantly that ordinary every day republicans often don't recognize that. and i think one question i would have for max would be, is he seeing any element of that reagan legacy still remanent still remaining in a way that could be ignited again. >> there are certainly aspects of the reagan legacy that are still around. but i think we need to be fair and objective and this book i wrote is not meant to be-- it's trying to tell the story of reagan in a fair and balanced way and we have to see that it was not all positive. it was not all sweetness

i didn't work for ronald reagan because he was hawk. i worked for him despite the fact he was a heart. like i'm a political libertarian. i'm very much it. i bought like free markets. i like to restrict, you know, a small or your government. you know that from that standpoint a lot of what he said is i liked, i thought he was the best of the candidates who was out there. i wasn't happy with his foreign policy when i left the regular administration, i edited the inquiry magazine. if you can find it. i mean, we came out with a nuclear phrase, for example, we were against the invasion of grenada. so i've always been very much on the non intervention and side, you know, along the way i worked with a lot of different groups on economic policy. i disagree with them on other things . i've long believed in drug legalization run. a lot of people have believed in that before recently when pop marijuana has been legalized. so i work with whoever i find, you know, these day over the years i've just come to believe much more that the issue of one pie

it was just who ronald reagan was.t was, again, impenetrable for most people. >> the new book sfwielted -- >> you know, joe, the funny thing -- sorry. >> go ahead. >> the funny thing is people said he had no friends, but i discovered he had a couple of friends when he was president, and they were his ranch hands, his former california police officers who used to protect him. those were the people he was closer to, not the alfred bloomingdale's and the other tycoon's he hobnobbed with. that was nancy's crowd. what he liked to do was go out and chop wood, ride horses and be one of the guys with the two blue collar friends he on the ranch and those were the people he was close to. >> the new book entitled "reagan: his life and legend" goes on sale next tuesday, september 10th. "new york times" best-selling author, max boot. thank you very much for sharing that with us this morning. we appreciate it. congratulations. >>> "new york times" opinion columnist david french, thank you as well for your piece. >> david, any final

i would argue what was the nature of the ronald reagan nancy reagan relationship? an intense early close marriage and she did he rely on her for personnel advice and things like that? it was a wonderful love story. and, you know, sitting at the reagan library could go through box after of of of letters and of holiday cards that that ronald reagan sent to reagan. you know, every every valentine's day, every birthday, every thanksgiving, every christmas, every new year. how much loved her. very, very sweet to read. and you know what? he was a wife. she was away for even a few days. he would be writing in his diary how desperately he missed her. and so had a very close bond. but it wasn't. and and, of course, their marriage was primarily about love. and in a way that almost made even their kids like they were left out because she really his top priority but she was also a very effective political partner for him although she did not and want to again this is another myth. some suggest that she pushed him to the or she pushed him into politics. neither of that is true,

that is not the platform of ronald reagan. i think if you're talking about national security issues and you care about america's leadership role in the world, a vote for vice president harris is the right vote to make this time around. >> jonathan: it is an extraordinary reordering of the whole political systems when it comes to national security. who would ronald reagan be supporting in this race do you think? >> there is no chance he would be supporting donald trump. donald trump doesn't stand for any of the things that ronald reagan did, and it's another place that i would urge my republican colleagues both in the congress, but across the country to really look at donald trump's policies, to really look at the danger that he presents, to look at, you know, what he was willing to do to stay in power. it's a firm rejection not just of traditional republican policies, but of the constitutional order on which this country depends. >> jonathan: so what do you say to those republicans, and there are a lot of them they are absolut

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and this it's cnn ronald reagan was one of the dominant political figures of the 20th century, which makes it all the more surprising that his life was not reflected in a definitive biography until now. >> and that's thanks to max boot, the historian foreign policy analyst, senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and of course, the washington post columnist. he spent more than a decade researching and writing all 700 plus pages of reagan, his life and legend. and he joins me now. congratulations on the book max, read it, loved it. you traveled to places special to the reagan story. which of those locales? put you in his shoes well, i think it was really his ranch near santa barbara. >> michael that really told me more than any other location about who ronald reagan really was. i mean, if anybody has been there, you'll see that it's a very modest brett. i mean, it's got a beautiful location, lots of land, but the house itself is very pretty modest. i mean, it has for micah counters that has ge appliances. the books are these wealth thumbed volumes that reagan actually read.

is ronald reagan and bill clinton ronald, reagan in the film reagan and bill clinton in the 2010 hbo film, the special relations reagan, yet is not bad. they must eat hit the ronald reagan note and all of that and nancy reagan has played by dyson vacuum cleaner the blowjobs and rose. >> but next up we've got super super seniors, which two people both got their high school diplomas as adults. as adults i'm going to say dick van dyke and fuzzy bear i was literally going to say the same thing. pete davidson and dick van dyke. i think we should always go with tick mandates he seems like a squared away guide to me though. i feel i feel like we should always go with fozzie oh, yeah. >> it fonzie's on the list as they were answering. >> yes. >> it turns out dick van dyke and eminem, dr. high school diplomas as the goats, marshall mathers got a ged and dick van dyke got an honorary diploma. and yes, both of those counts i didn't know that m&m got his ged later on in life. that's probably why he never wrote stand back and that's all know how to read or write span was mad at that man embrace c

not clade ii tip. >> the ronald reagan note sinaloa that and nancy reagan has played by dyson vacuum cleaner blowjobs michael michael and rose. but next up we've got super, super seniors, which two people both got their high school diplomas as adults. >> as adults i'm going to say dick van dyke and fuzzy bear i was literally going to say the same thing. >> pete davidson and dick van dyke. i think we should always go with tick mandates he seems like a squared away guide to me though, thickness i feel i feel like we should always go with fozzie. >> it fonzie's on the list. >> we're answering. yes it turns out dick van dyke and emunim got their high school diplomas as the goats, marshall mathers got a ged and dick van dyke got an honorary diploma. >> and yes, both of those counts i didn't know that m&m got his ged later on in life. that's probably why he never wrote stand all you didn't know how to read or write? stan was mad at that man embrace charlie. next. it's worked for taco bell which two people. >> okay. >> both made a living making a run for the border i want to say davidson an

he told me , is a ronald reagan. he told me, a professional comedian. >> why is that funny?s that funny? >> that's not funny. >> that's not funny. >> follow him on twitter. >> follow him on twitter. >> okay, i'll bring you in. the clowns. let's go. let's go back to paul with the front page of the telegraph. how am i supposed to do these stories with him? >> an nhs in decline for the first time in 50 years. which is brilliant, isn't it? because they're saying it's good news. it's saying that the nhs is no longer it's no longerjust bad. longer it's no longer just bad. it's progressing backwards, which is great. i hope it gets to about 1985, which was the last time i saw my bloody doctor. >> is that true? it's ridiculous, isn't it? >> well, no it isn't obviously. obviously i've been kept alive by medical science is basically a news story. >> he was lying to the people and then he didn't go to the doctor. in 1945. whether it's obviously because people are getting more and more unhealthy because they're eating carbs, they're eating sugar, they're eating plants, they should just s

he gave a speech which was by ukraine and standing up with our allies, he quoted ronald reagan. i really thought that i had died and gone to heaven, ronald reagan quoted by the pen ultimate speaker at a democratic convention just before the nominee. it was even better in the debate when kamala harris herself at one point went out of her way and it was pretty clear she planned this and to quote, quote, the late great john mccain, so i thought, wow, what a great democratic campaign this is, very good, mccain. i'm pretty comfortable there, you know. >> yeah, yeah. so we are 47 days out. i have to ask you guys while we are together what do you think is going to happen, what is the trajectory of this race given where we sit today, there have been a number of polls over the last couple of days if you pay attention to this that has been a little off beginning with new york times poll that had popular vote tied. a lot of what we have been seeing, the need to write a story, yes, we know this is weird. take what's going on here and is it possible to even know what's going on here, 47. >>

max, america has a collocated relationship with ronald reagan. his time that people loved or hated an overtime they came to take a different view. let's talk about the moment today versus the moment reagan was elected. a time in which americans were tired and frustrated and he offered for better or for worse whether he believed it or not a vision of a brighter future. that feels like the moment we are in now with americans looking for something that feels brighter. >> i think that was a lot of genius of ronald reagan. he was often a poor manager and a lot of problems in the 1980s that festered under his watch. he had the scandal and a lot of things went wrong. there were some things that went right. i think one of the big things that went right was he helped america to move past the turmoil and traumas of the 1970s. watergate, the vietnam war, the iran hostage crisis, it was a dismal time. he had the sunny optimistic faith in america as a shining city on the hill. they use his unparalleled communication skills to imbue that faith in the entire co

ronald reagan.itics when everyone who was there was there because of ronald reagan. now you have the reagan team throwing in behind kamala harris. your thoughts. >> yeah, look, it's not surprising to me in part because one of the things that is happening as donald trump cements his takeover of the republican party is that it increasingly looks a lot less like the party of ronald reagan. or of george w. bush or john mccain. think about all the ways that it no longer holds to the principles we were taught growing up in the shadow of reagan. do we support our democratic allies abroad? the republican party is no longer clear on this. a big chunk of the party, if not half of it, is not only not supporting ukraine but seem to have thrown in with russia. it is committed to free markets with donald trump's tariffs comes into real question. donald trump is not a pro-free-speech candidate. he is not a candidate who talks warmly about the way ronald reagan did. he loved the country so much. he understood why p

ronald reagan wanted to win a second term. and he told you why because he was proud of his record.ember this? >> it is morning again in america. today -- more men and women will go to work more than ever before in our nation's history. with interest rates at half of the record highs of 1980. nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes. more than any time than in the past four years. this afternoon, 6500 young men and women will be married and with inflation at less than half of what it was four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future. ♪ ♪ it is morning again in america. and -- under the leadership of president reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better. why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago? ♪ ♪ gives you chills that ad doesn't it reagan was proud of his record he was tout his record whenever he went and wherever he could kamala harris lies about about her record if she talks about it at all here we have on the federalist 25 lies kamala harris told in her debate against trump here we have breitbart 21

in retrospect it was moving to ronald reagan at that time but it didn't hurt that he presented himselfot the wild cowboy bomb throwing idiot they presented him to be. do you think the same worked in a reverse cents for kamala harris? >> i do. she had to be presidential, dodged a lot of questions. pressuring on the details, good at dodging, trump has got to say let's have not only one more debate but multiple debates, it was smart for her campaign to say let's have more the bait, you can't coast to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. you need to be aggressive and that's what she did and she will take him on again in the debate, that's a good move. trump has got to accept it really quickly. neil: the first time in six presidential debates am a this one at least, you are the expert here, he decisively lost. he might have made good presentations on where the economy was but it was all over the map. this is the first occasion where, not just a close call but sideways. >> the first 10 minutes he did okay, he was calm but as it went on he got more and more defensive, mentioning the cats and dogs, that'

diddy, and dick van dyke and on the other side, there's fozzie bear, eminem, ronald reagan, and pete side and right side. there's two people that have something in common. first up an brynn charlie, which to have been portrayed in a movie by dennis quaid oh, no reagan, i think is that okay. well, what about laid reagan? >> it would be amazing if dennis quaid played p. diddy at some point i got to go with dick van dyke also y'all trash for using that picture so many but dick van dyke does yellen because he's an extra p bidding out here i want to go with ronald reagan and dick van dyke that can't be right i think it's the correct answer. >> is ronald reagan and bill clinton film reagan and bill clinton in the 2010 hbo film, the special relations not bad. then not play each hit to the ronald reagan no, now all of that and nancy reagan is played by dyson vacuum cleaner oh because of the blowjobs michael michael and rose. but next up we've got super super seniors, which two people both got their high school diplomas as adults it's a dolts i'm going to say dick van dyke and fuzzy bear i was

ronald reagan wanted it. you remember ronald reagan wanted it. they all wanted it.proved. the first week in office, they turned it back. they said no. it's the biggest site in the world. bigger than saudi arabia. we will start that up. we will become the energy capital of the world. we will pay down our debt. we will reduce your taxes further. your groceries are come tumbling down. your interest rates will be tumbling down. you will go out and buy a beautiful house, ok? a beautiful house. that's called the american dream. the american dream. thank you. [crowd cheering] ms. gabbard: i want to ask you a question about national security. it's important to point out what luke is talking about. the cost of groceries, gas, housing, mortgages, rent. everything has gone up. , leclair us -- kamala harris's plan is government price controls. what will happen if she institutes price controls? mr. trump: that's a communist plan. it's never worked. it's been tried by others. richard nixon tried it. a lot of people tried it. it's been tried many times. it leads to the same failur

from that site guided gave the american people a chance to see ronald reagan portrayed as a sort ofs cowboy with little experience, but that he was in orillia after the job. in that debate seemed to kind of calm american fears. do you think in reverse this could have done the same for kamala harris? >> well, i think she made some points. she attacked president trump relentlessly, kept putting him in a position that -- you never win when you're in responding, only when you're on the offense. from that standpoint, she had a pretty good night. i do not believe it will change in moving the needle in terms of votes and i do think in the next eight weeks she will be exposed for what she is which is a pretty radical individual who's been part of an administration responsible for not only the 40 year high inflation but open borders and all the damage installed from that. >> neil: senator, always wait to have you on. a thank you very much. >> thank you. >> neil: ain't louisiana, where they are facing a lot of rain, let away end and potential a lot of damage. reminding us that hurricane seaso