on the cover of my book i have billy graham, ronald regan, eleanor roosevelt, and thurgood marshall.ople talk about the founding fathers you have about 50 people who signed the declaration of independence and others at the constitutional convention. but when you think about the america you and i are living in in 2016. it's such a different place. you see it playing ow in the politics when people say, "this is not the america i grew up in." or "i feel like a stranger is it my own country." the idea of the book is who shaped america the way we live in it today, and to do that in 2016, you have to understand, like, black lives matter. where does that come from? it's not just the headlines, trevor. it's the background. a lot of people in black lives matter say, "hey, this is not your mother's movement." guess what? somebody gave birth to this movement. in the book i look at people like jesse jackson. but you also have to look at why is policing done the way it is and in the book-- and people are surprised by this-- i put bill bratton. because of his tactics, the surveillance, the stop an

it is what ronald regan would do. >>> welcome back. time to find out what we got wrong and what we missed from rob long in the "red eye" news desk. >> i have to remove my glass dramatically. this is incredible. i found a small thing of ointment all over my body. >> that was used. >> it is certainly used now. if it starts to itch or burn it will return out. >> you said he would support breastfeeding? what is the right age would you say is to stop that? >> i would stop at six months. >> six months? >> i did it for six months with all three of my kids. >> how did you get them to stop? >> i just stopped feeding them. >> you stopped feeding them? >> basically. >> may i then recommend you read the article that bernie sanders wrote on childbirth and child raising. it is pretty good. it is on-line. it is not bad. chris what would you have said? you said i wouldn't have put it that way. >> with the breastfeeding? >> what would you have said -- >> this is an r-rated show. >> when ted cruz said when america is on the mat -- lying flat on the met.

convention just three weeks away, president gerald ford is hanging on to his lead against the ronald reganrepublican nomination. he supports holding but desperately needs northern delegates or it's over. he makes a history unprecedented move. >> good evening. the news tonight begins with a big surprise. ronald reagan says he won senator richard schweiker of pennsylvania as his running mate if he gets the nomination. >> richard schweiker is as republican as can be but needs to broaden the candidate's base. >> he was good for this reason. he changed regan's image from being a hard right winger to being somebody that would not tolerate but happy to have the left wing of the party in. >> maybe so but his conservative miss missippi delegates are thunder struck. >> what in the world? how can this be? he'll take him down. surely, he'll put his name down when he sees what he's done. >> i didn't see it coming. i had no idea they would do it and did not think it was helpful if regan were president and he succeeded him, they were not comfortable that schweiker would be like regan. >> schweiker can br

highs hour, ronald regan, george w.h. bush. saw very little of that balance and restraint today. what he did was cast a series of ultimatums and threats mainly against our alierkz nato, japan. he was very soft on russia. i thought it was a very unwise speech. >> woodruff: walid phares, a lack of knowledge and a lack of humility. >> i would not opine on his lack of humility. i would look at mr. trump's new policy that he is proposing that it is something new. his contribution usually try to put him in a box. either they accuse him of being an isolationist-- and he's not. precisely, he spoke about many alliance he would like to develop. or they would criticize him that he is an interventionist, precisely, because the fact that he has opined on many regions and what to do about it. in my view, this speech is revealing a new school of thought which will develop soon and other speeches which is functionalist. meaning the question he has always asked, "why are we doing this? why are we, for example, drawing this policy in syria and f

. >> when we entered the show, we got telegrams of congratulations from henry kissinger and ronald regane size of the response and the emotional nature of it was hard to understand. >> the last call for the pre-cable world of television. it's like they are the last time that huge audience will all turn up for one event. >> all right. that's it. let's roll. hey, let's be careful out here. >> dispatch. 911. >> when quality does emerge on television, the phrase, too good for tv, is often heard. one network offering that deserves that phrase is "hillstreet blues". >> it's one of the turning points of the entire industry. >> we had all watched a documentary about cops and it had this real hand-held, in the moment quality that we were very enamered of. >> the minute you looked at it, it looked different. it had a mood to it. you could almost smell the stale coffee. >> we didn't want to do the standard cop show and you catch the bad guy and sweat him and he confesses and that's it. cops have personal lives that impact their behavior in profound ways. >> we're working on it. >> how's this for la

ronald reagan has talked about doing. banning nuclear weapon. >> it was criticized by nixon and kissinger. it would be a profound mistake, they say, to eliminate missiles in europe. >> many thought that regan by gorbachev. he had more time dealing with the hard right than the left. he had to let the right know, i know what i am doing. >> ronald reagan was being accused of getting soft on communism. he had not forgotten, that europe was divide, there it was still a berlin wall. >> there was is one sign that soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance the cause of freedom and peace, mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall! >> it was perfect, it was beautiful. he had to insist on keech keeping it in the speech. he did it. don't let anyone tell you, it was a staffer or anybody else that did that. >> meanwhile, in the soviet union, gorbachev said, let's separate sdi, from reducing the nuclear stock pile. once he does this, it opens up a third summit. >> it may be historic, for the first time since the on-set of the nuclear age, the united states and the soviet union will sign a treaty reducing the number of nuclear missiles. >> it involved reducing

ronald reagan says he wants senator schweiker as his running mate if he gets the presidential nomination. tom brokaw was there when the announcement was made. >> regan's announcement came after interviews in which he said he had not decided on a running mate, but this morning he made a decision. >> since i now feel that the people of the delegates have a right to know in advance of the convention who the vice presidential choice would be i am today announcing my selection. i have chosen the distinguished honor able schweiker. thank you all very much for coming. >> reagan left immediately after the announcement he would not take questions on his decision. >> that was the end of july 1976. ronald reagan was on track at that point to lose the fight for the republican presidential nomination at a contested convention just a couple of weeks from then. this announcement, this surprise announcement that he pulled out of the hat about who his theorial running mate would be, it was a shock. it was a surprise. by rattling the news cycle like that it was in fact an interruption to a news cycle and a political trajectory that was otherwise not going his way. the

regan was not cut out for that job. he liked the sound of chief but not of staff. >> i am not the president. i am not taking charge of anything. ronaldgan is in charge of this country, and like a good caddie, i tee up the ball for him to take a good smack at. >> reagan needed good advisers. he doesn't have the same quality of people surrounding him. it has huge political effects. >> from nbc news, this is "today." >> good morning. former hostage david jacobsen is a step closer to u.s. soil at this hour. jacobsen was freed sunday after seven month of captivity in lebanon. >> because we're still negotiating for the other hostages, we're not going to say anything more about what process we went through to get mr. jacobsen out. >> the policy is that we don't negotiate with hostage-takers. we don't make deals. we don't pay ransom. reagan hammered on his staff to find a way to get those hostages out. >> today the story from middle east sources is that iran has helped the united states free a hostage from lebanon. >> in a bizarre tale worthy of a thriller, iran's news agency reports robert mcfarlane, president reagan's former national secur

regan was not cut out for that job. he liked the sound of chief but not of staff. >> i am not the president. i am not taking charge of anything. ronaldcharge of this country, and like a good caddie, i tee up the ball for him to take a good smack at. >> reagan needed good advisers. in the second term he didn't have the same quality of people surrounding him, and it has huge political effects for the president. >> from nbc news, this is "today." >> good morning. former hostage david jacobsen is a step closer to u.s. soil at this hour. jacobsen was freed sunday after 17 months of captivity in lebanon. >> because we're still negotiating for the other hostages, we're not going to say anything more about what process we went through to get mr. jacobsen out. >> american policy is that we don't negotiate with the host e hostage-takers, and we don't make deals or pay ransom, but president reagan hammered on his staff to find a way to get those hostages out. >> today the story from middle east sources is that iran has helped the united states free a hostage from lebanon. >> in a bizarre tale worthy of a thriller, iran's news agency reports rob