joining me is stuart spencer, former ronald reagan campaign manager and a friend of the reagan family, it's an honor to have you on. my god. >> good to talk to you again, chris. >> the stuart spencer. the. tell us about ronald reagan and nancy reagan as they went for governorship of california and blew everybody away with that big win and then, of course, going into the presidential races in '76 and '80. >> well, 51 years this may when i first met them. they wanted to run for governor, and they came to my partner and i, bill rockeberts, and we spen the first three months in the living room because they were really green and really naive and we talked politics 101 for months. nancy was a great listener, she absorbed, she analyzed, and she asked good questions and she really never changed from that over the years. >> who had the idea to have him go up and down the coast north and south of california in sort of a try out run before announcing? i don't think it's been done since. let the voters decide whether they like you and then come back and say, i guess they like me, i guess i'm goin

manifort to run his campaign's delegate tracking operation while ohio governor john kasich turned to stuart spencer, the veteran gop strategist who helped president gerald ford stave off convention challenge from ronald reagan in 1976. in nailing down the second ballot support, the various gop candidates are having to do something they find very distasteful, to break bread with that much reviled yet frequently consulted the beast, the republican establishment. melissa: this certainly turned out to be very interesting one to report on, james, to say the least. thank you. appreciate your time. david. david: i can see james writing his novel as we report on all this. melissa: that's true. david: senator marco rubio has new strategy to stop trump from getting the nomination. florida senator won 171 delegates from 21 states before he dropped out of the state. he wants to make sure they vote for him in the first round of contested convention. here to break down rubio's role, bret baier, host of "special report" on fox news. we we go into the weeds, pull back to look at broad picture. if trump does not ge

stuart spencer, when he worked for ronald reagan at the 1980 convention, he asked one hurts ok and thathow is nancy with this? and he said it was her idea. >> we will have more time to talk about the white house years. we are going to go back and talk about the nancy reagan biography. before that we will talk about how you can be involved. if you have been watching this series, you now your questions make it so much more interesting for us so we can take the conversation in the direction of your interest. you can see us on facebook and find c-span's page. there is already a discussion going. you can also tweet us at firstladies. you can also use the good old phone. we will get the calls and probably about 10 minutes or so. let's go back to where she was born, in 1981. -- 1921 in new york city. but her early days were not easy. >> it was not the smoothest childhood. her mother was an actress. her father was a salesman. she was born in new york city. the marriage between edith and kenneth did not last long. nancy was around two years old when they divorced. her mother really wanted her ac

for attempted murder, had a brass sheet back to 2001, pulled up next to spencer, pulled out a handgun and blew his brains out. stuartrdinary story. i have to add something to this. 124 illegal immigrants were arrested and then released. each of those 124 illegal immigrants went on to murder someone. i do not know if they are illegal or another immigrant american, but they murdered someone after being arrested in the first place. why do you now support trump? >> the reason i support donald trump is because i believe he has the option that no other candidate has. that is to not have to pander to cheap illegal wavering dummies. he does not have to, you know, make campaign promises but turn around while he is in office the peas the donors who do not want their cheap labor pool compromise. >> what reaction? when you tell your story in the media, i know you have told your story, what is the reaction? >> it is totally shocking. i do not have to do that. the story, itself, is pretty far out there. it is true. the guy went on to issue two more people and try to kill a police officer. it was random. >> did anybody ever explai

. >> is unification marks & spencer bread messaging, long time to develop comfort and get some predictability. stuartbig-name spare but watch them every day for you. apple over 100 yesterday. by late afternoon and is now 100 right now. facebook had a great day in backup a fraction today. 109, almost 110 based the good netflix not a fraction this morning holding steady at 98. amazon all the way back. 584 as we speak. amazon -- i'm sorry, also that otherwise known as google. i'm going to call back dead flat. please show me microsoft. two dollars. i am smiling because i own a little bit of microsoft. hillary, do you own any of those big-name stocks? >> apple, facebook, amazon. the relationship between sports authority going under an amazon going up. we will see big box stores. not all of them, but many go wonder and amazon continues to grow. amazon is a threat to netflix. the program and everyone turns to his really given a run for not looks money. everyone should watch the relationship and even the relationship between ups, fedex and amazon. amazon will have their own bluebird to deliver your packages.