in other words just in summary what teddy roosevelt proposed in one thousand nine hundred twelve was that a minimum wage a living wage should be enough to live on enough to raise your kids enough to put them through school and i think have a vacation and enough to have retirement we used to call that the united states of middle class and the debate on the viability of social security is another issue that has many of you talking all over the past few weeks i've said several times that despite what republicans want you to think social security is not bankrupt it's not either bankrupting us as a nation nor is it itself bankrupt but some of you are still not convinced but here you have senator sanders who say that so she. serious flushing is like two point four trillion dollars of tax. cuts funded. then if that's the case why isn't there going to be checks to the people who get so security checks that forward your file cabinet full of ious. that's not funded put forward or as a paper there's no cash there if there were sick cash and checks for it go out or present demagoguing you know u

teddy roosevelt had gained weight and had heart disease.ease or aging of the arteries. clinton has it, too. why are these guys running in this society, right? it is a very tough job. >> they get such great medical care while in office. do they not exercise the option to make sure they are being well maintained? >> well, the best medical care can't replace friends. they have a purpose in life, which helps them, obviously. they have a driving force, but they realize how tough it is to get their mission done. and so then they end up with -- most of them will exercise and eat reasonably, although you showed, if you will, teddy roosevelt, who went from 210 pound to 340. all of them gain weight, usually. don't eat as well. and they really end up with arterial disease. >> they can reverse it. president clinton is looking better out of office. it probably helps now that the office has ended. >> we get to change it. he's on a diet and has changed his diet radically and is getting more friends. >> maybe you should send a note to this president about

journalists who are doing what you are doing today, like sinclaire and you had politicians back then, teddy roosevelt, who was willing to stand up to what he called the benefactors of great wealth and put the bit into the mouths -- they passed a graduated income tax that forced corporations to pay their fair share. they passed union laws and allowed unions to organize which created the middle class in this country and created the prosperity and stability that made american democracy the envy of the world and they created drerkt election of senators and they created in 1907, a law they passed that forbade corporate contributions to federal political candidates. and that law has been in place for 100 years. now we have a supreme court -- it's not a right-wing supreme court. there is no coherent philosophy. the only coherent philosophy, the corporations always win. if it is government against an individual, the government wins. if it is corporations against an individual, the corporations win. if it is corporation against the government, corporations win. show me one exception in any decision written by

this book is a book, not surprisingly, about teddy roosevelt.ut one of the really unique things about it is it includes 200 plus original vintage political cartoons. and so we feel there are a lot of people out there of course your big pete -- tr fans and there's a lot of wonderful books about teddy roosevelt. but this bookish and make and these cartoons are unique because most of them have never been seen since they were published in a magazine or newspaper 100 years ago. so we really feel like this is a wonderful way to illustrate his life, at times he was living in, and to give some flavor to a biography of one of the most interesting and beloved presidents. said this is going to be a lot of fun for us. >> and we've been talking with marji ross who is the publisher of regnery, getting a preview of some of the upcoming books from regnery publishing. >> thank you very much. >> from frankfort, kentucky, booktv talks with connie crowe, manager of the kentucky book fair. >> kentucky book fair was started 30 years ago by karl west, two of our found

park is the bison which has a history dating back to the turn of the last century when president teddy roosevelt launched an initiative to save the bison from extinction. during the summer myself and other members have been concerned about during our visits to the paddock that this seems to be a considerable disappointment by other park visitors in that the bison are not particularly visible. this is due to the fact that the herd has been reduced from 20 animals to only three rather gare yacht trick -- geriatric animals and they generally repose in the back of the exhibit back in the trees. i brought these concerns to the joint zoo committee last month and was happy to receive assurance from the zoo managers that planning is being done to add animals to the exhibit and to improve the handling of the animals in that exhibit. i took that -- those comments back to my meeting last week and we resolved that we commend the zoo's efforts that we really believe that the bison herd deserves better attention and support from the wreck and park department which has ownership of the exhibit. we recommend th

you would make sure that it was safe. 100 years ago, teddy roosevelt was president, and your pipes were brand new. now, our infrastructure is old. 100, 200 years old. it's not been upgraded or fixed or replaced, sometimes, ever. man: if these systems are not maintained, sooner or later they're going to fail. they all have a life expectancy. if you don't maintain them and constantly check them and then do what's necessary to rehabilitate or repair, you're going to have a big problem. and they're going to collapse. they're going to fail. and all of a sudden, the water, or the sewage that normally goes through them, will not have any place to go. it'll back up into homes, it'll back up onto the street. it's normally out of sight, out of mind. once it comes to the surface, it's a whole 'nother animal. melosi: you're talking about system-wide problems that would take tremendous human resources to correct. this is true with drinking water, as well as wastewater. man: first, our top story. thousands of people are without water tonight. woman: a flash flood of the manmade kind. apparently, a 12

dollars and congress then limited them in eight hundred eighty one with the sherman antitrust act teddy roosevelt one further with the inheritance tax and president taft after roosevelt busted up standard oil and twenty six countries companies so we don't really have to say that republicans built america the democrat in just the promise is flawed you're right people with great wealth are hanging on to it as much as they can but. the beginning to the next comment comes from our message board over it's on carbon dot com thanks to the tea party in the army of young people who support ron paul and the resurgence of iran's philosophy that greed is the highest good libertarianism is now back in the mainstream political debate in america and dominick on our message board had this important question to pose to libertarians a simple question for libertarians and wrote if the libertarian model of government's governance is so great if not perfect why have we never seen a prosperous ants example of this in the history of humanity well really simple it has never worked anywhere it's been tried i mean basical

this is teddy roosevelt, 40 years old then, a decade later, in the white house. you can see him, how he aged at 50. bill clinton, his boyish looks and brown hair at age 40. but then, hitting 50, in the white house. 2006. and, president obama as he looked before, and as the white house has changed him, on the eve of his 50th birthday. the last three years, and those experiences, etched on his face. >>> and now, our washington watchdog report. president obama isn't the only one heading out of town tonight. congress is heading home, too. summer vacation with pay. even though they left behind thousands of faa employees who are not being paid. and some of them are being asked to work anyway. all because congress could not reach a a ending decision. abc's jon karl set out to get answers. >> reporter: some 200 airport construction projects have been stopped. thousands of workers sent home. >> well, this time, everybody wants to play hardball and hard ball hu hardball hurt us. >> reporter: also cut off, 40 airport safety inspectors. the folks who keep runways safe. the f

and teddy roosevelt wrote about that and it isn't committed never bait am to my memory but he said that any race that doesn't care enough about itself to reproduce itself will become extinct and he said, i for one will not lament their loss and i shall welcome the advent of a new generation, a new group of people who will care enough to have their own babies and now we have a federal government that has not just subsidized contraceptives but has written an edict that every health insurance policy will include contraceptives because they consider it to be preventive health care. now, none of us would have health to prevent us. it is or wellian, it's not even counterintuitive. that's an example of what's going on in this country today and a reason, one of the reasons why we have to reverse the political power that's in the white house and in the senate. and, mr. speaker, the 2 dds -- $2.6 trillion in the first full 10 years of outlays of the obama administration is just -- it's a piece of this irresponsible spending that we've been involved in. and now with the administration driving that

. -- teddy roosevelt.nd it includes 200 plus original vintage political cartoons, and woe feel there are a lot of people out there who are big t. r. fans and a lot of wonderful books at teddy roosevelt, but this book is unique, and these cartoons are unique because most of them have never been scene since they were published a hundred years ago so this illustrates his life, the times he was giving in and gives a flavor to a buy ago agree -- by biographyy of one of the most interesting presidents. >> we've been talking to maggi ross, getting a preview of upcoming books. >> thank you very much. >> one of the great beauties of your book is the actual unfolding othe gunfight, in step-by-step fashion, and in a way that seems boast inevitable and a total accident, if that makes sense, and you get to the final moment, and virgil has whats to me to be an "oh crap" movement, like custer got on the ridge and saw all the indians in the world down there or travis had when he realized nobody was coming to save him at t

jefferson one and franklin roosevelt and the other there were several presidents jackson rose teddy roosevelt lincoln who had battles of the supreme court where they of the same nature well they were of similar nature in terms of the balance of powers among the branches of government and there has traditionally tended to be a clash between progressive presidents and conservative supreme courts and robert jackson who was roosevelt's attorney general and became as you know justice of the supreme court he wrote a book about this called the struggle for judicial supremacy back nine hundred forty one to describe this is the most persistent rivalry in american history which is that rivalry between progressive presidents and the conservatives work or. the balance of power between the legislative executive branches of the judicial and the third among equals as become the first among equals i want to get into you know what. kind of round this out and what happened in thirty five thirty six thirty seven in then. and wrap back around to what might happen with the obama presidency and what this means for

suggesting or whatever might be inspired by things like hamilton or like franklin roosevelt or teddy roosevelt for that matter you know just busting up some of the too big to fail organization some of those old old ideas that ever actually worked we we have about three minutes left or right. well i think the ideas are inspired really across the board ordinary americans are the ones who are going on and uploading ideas like us that we were hoping they will get five hundred even and thousand ideas you look at our papers we'll probably get thousands of missions and we you know we have more than twenty thousand and i'm sure there's a mix the fundamental i think inspiration is that any one particular thinker is of particular value is a value that the last century but the so called american century was a century that the progressive patriots like you and i one. ok in one thousand nine hundred we didn't have a middle class we didn't have you know black people couldn't vote women couldn't vote children were working in the factories and by it was being trashed and some patriots looked around today that

regulators it's a topic i explore in my book an equal protection in one thousand ten president teddy roosevelt said there could be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains over the last ten years the energy industry in america that includes oil coal gas and nuclear has spent nearly three billion dollars that's three thousand million dollars lobbying four hundred thirty five members of congress and thanks to all that political activity as roosevelt warned we've lost our ability to effectively control energy corporations in america just like the way tepco was ineffectively controlled japan regulations have been carved up mishaps overlooked outright crimes dismissed. and this has disastrous consequences as we see today in fukushima as we learned in america with the coal coal and mining disasters with the b.p. oil disaster last year when corporate capture of oil drilling regulations was so rampant that the regulators were literally in bed with the oil industry remember they were attending sex and cocaine parties the regulators and the industry executives so when

think there was the defied it was that you is like the second world war but it was the word from teddy roosevelt that the human rights verses capitalist this is also a language that appears and for those who remember the kind of arguments that march and is there keating, jr. made -- more in the third king made that unless we have the peace movement or they come together if they cannot come together, that is the core of those germane thoughts. >> you have begun to describe as the bit more precise how they have devolves because if i understand it correctly, we can talk about this for what the government has been doing in part of the human rights movement especially the ngo movement has been doing in how they have come together and how much of it has occurred but it is a different kind of movement in the reagan years saying clinton years until now that terminology changes the democracy. can you sketch out this evolution? >> i will try. but what i hit town was the civil-rights but i was trying to breed -- bring back and was a wide range of things that were global have also have issues to do with rad

e old teddy roosevelt saying, speaks softly and carry a big stick. instead of waiting for the revolution to repair arrive and then being drawn into an effort to protect the libyan people. >> you talk about spending on education and looking closely into the data. you also talk about the thin spendi as something that needs to be twice as lar as china or russia. why not apply that same sort of approach to how much we spend on defense? >> i will look at the defse budget very carefully and look at the weapons systems we have and the amount of waste at is there. the statistics i have seen suggest we could do a lot better with the money we are spending. wh secretary gates indicated, it shows there is a lot of spending that is not necessary. i don't want to count on that money to pay for social programs. my expectation is we will use those funds to rebuild our navy, to rebuild our air force, to take care of our veterans in the way they deserve to be cared for. those coming back from conflict are going to need our help. i am not going to count on reducing our

incidentally the republican party has the good history teddy roosevelt, richard nixon, we can talk about climate change in the knowledge it is happening but also the inexact science to know the cover of "newsweek" 1975 showing the global increase over to a knowledge and talk about it in a reasonable way without embracing the left solutions to levy enormous tax burdens for energy consumption and frankly only reduce carbon emissions by a minimal amount without touching indiana and china. good deal with conservative environmentalism is to put forth the agenda that says the eight government has an important role to protect the environment but could not and should not be trusted to deliver low carbon future. this has to come from individuals working together driven by the realities of the marketplace. i talked about a couple of other issues which i am happy to talk about a new republican feminism nine interfirst -- wonderful new crop of women leaders at that the national scene has not necessarily taken no. we have seen sarah palin and michelle bachmann but three new governors thanks to 2101 i

so we've had this fight in the country since the time of teddy roosevelt, and we'll continue to have it, and our elections are designed to settle a question each time about whether we think there ought to be some rules here, which paradoxically, by the way, take the honest corporations who would actually like to sort of care about the public interest in the common good. >> e.j. dionne of the washington post, i appreciate you making good sense of that very interesting clip for us. >> thank you, good to be with you. >>> christine o'donnell is talking a new book after walking out on two interviewers she said were being sexist. is there a double standard about sex in politics? that's next. >>> and later, the onion always gets a great laugh, but do the jokes also tell the truth about our nation's ludicrous politics? i >>> we reject pedestals, queenhood and walking ten paces behind, to be recognized as human is enough that from a feminist organization, but in politics, are women treated equally? that discussion is next. >>> and while we are quoting people, gandhi once said those who think

teddy roosevelt, richard nixon. think that we can talk about climate change, and we can acknowledge that climate change is happening, but it's also an inexact science. we know the cover of "newsweek" in 19 # 75 showed the globe was going to freeze over. we can acknowledge and talk about it in a reasonable way without embracing the left's solutions which would levy enormous tax burdens on middle class for energy consumption, and frankly, it would only reduce the carbon emissions in the united states by a minimal amount over the next 100 years without touching india and china, so i think the deal with conservative environmentalism is to put forth an agenda that says the government has an important role in protecting the environment, but it cannot and should not be trusted to deliver a low-carbon energy independent future. this has to come from individuals working together and driven by the realities of the marketplace. i talk about a couple other issues in the book which i'm happy to do more in q&a. i talk about a new

teddy roosevelt is correct. >> he was a rough rider. >> bill: how did you know that?. >> bill: thought and pondered which is why you didn't raise your card. >> yeah. >> bill: paid off. >> it wasn't eisenhower. >> bill: put the program behind by two and a half minutes. >> i'm sorry. >> bill: mcdowell wins and doocy fifth question the movie american carroll had a funny part dealing with terrorists. >> mohammed. >> yes, of course, i must remember to use last names. >> bill: that movie is from david zucker, he directed it. one of the guys behind the classic comedy what did he do? that's correct. airplane is the right answer. mcdowell you have beaten him three times in a row; is that correct? >> yes, it is. >> bill: i have to get somebody smarter than him maybe kilmeade. >> bill: kilmeade is not smarter than you is that possible? max lynch, rochester, indiana wins -- heidi we will send you stuff. too. pinheads and patriots on deck. the manager of the chicago white sox hammers sean penn because is he a friend of hugo chavez. p and p up >> bill: pinheads and patriots in a mo

took over the republican party and the end of the dispute that really driven the party since teddy roosevelt split with william howard taft in the912 election. the conservatives took over the party and without goldwater there would not have been a reagan presidency in my judgment. in that sense ihink the tea party has the same kind of potential political confundity that they can change the way we talk about our politics. they have said let's go back and read the documents, let's go back and understand the madisonian architecture and the project of limited government. and let's understand that what got us into this problem was a comprehensive disregard of any sense of limits on the part of what government can do and how much it should claim of the national wealth. >> charlie: there is a sense of limits before the tea party came along. there were even limits within what was wanted in the stimulus program. you have larry summers and us saying we believe that the stimulus progm would have been much better and much more effective which it was $1.3 trillion rather than 800. there was a limitation

if you don't step up and do what teddy roosevelt would have advocated, get in the arena, it says something about you. >> what is the jon huntsman for america? >> preemminence with the united states. the world works better with a strong united states. we are the only beacon of hope, the only safe haven for people who are fighting oppression abroad. we speak to democracy, we speak to human rights, we speak to liberty, we speak to free markets. our core is weak in this country. >> is the american dream still the same? can it be the same as it used to be? >> of course. >> or should the american dream be slightly reinvented for the modern world? >> the american dream is the same. we aspire to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. the pursuit of happiness is jobs, it's entrepreneurship, it's the creative class in this country. the problem is we have an environment that doesn't speak to perpetuating the creative class and entrepreneurship. bogged down in regulation, bogged down in taxation. because of that what america has always been so good at and the ways in which we've always inspired t

teddy roosevelt. history shows presidents, as i think they should be, are very much aware of where they are in polling. pay attention more what the public is saying. there is a lot of wisdom out there in john and jane dough across the land. >> laura: very sour on afghanistan for years. ron paul was pretty much saying pulling more quickly out of afghanistan. >> that's right. at the moment that's way down the list of priorities. you said it a moment ago. it's the economy. and then it's jobs. the deficit but also americans have a a lot of disdain for how congress is working in general. >> laura: congressman terrible numbers lower than obama's. that's lumped in together both republicans and democrats. republicans scoring terribly. >> that's right. after the debt crisis debacle or debate or agreement or however we want to define it congressman approval dropped to 13%, which is tied for the lowest in gallup poll history, goes back many decades on that, but, you are right, it's kind of a pox on all your hous

i'm going to abandon the congress, like teddy roosevelt did and go to people of the united states and say, you've got to block congress. and until we get rid of the blocked congress, jimmy williams' constant point. get the money out of politic, and until the president says that's the problem and says he's going to fix it, there is no policy i can possibly see no matter how brilliant your ideas or my idea or her idea or your idea at home is that idea will not happen as long as there's a capacity to basically fire a politician who disagrees with me by taking funding away from mere. was that a fair assessment? >> money and politics is the root of all political evil. it corruption at its worse. until we step up and kick that out of the park, it's going to be the same system all -- >> and only the president can do that. >> no, no. yong la to do it, too. >> how bad does it have to get? how much money has toish extracted? >> physically, what do you do? >> you go and give a speech. >> right now? >> yeah. right now. >> right now? then what happens tomorrow? >> tomorrow what happens is you begi

can you talk a little bit about how conscious teddy roosevelt was the shaping of vintage, even in these early years? we know he was contemplating his return to politics and how this. we plan to that. >> politically coming in now, he kind of gave up his career and thought his career was over because he opposed going and laid back 10 so the reform politicians were really angry for backing lane. the roosevelt felts you have to have party loyalty. there's no point in having a convention picket, if you will support the guy you want. so he decided to support a point after all. he thought that pretty much killed his career. at least that's what he said. at the same time, there were people trying to get them to run for congress so i'm not sure how much of that was his own drama. but in fact come you don't see evidence of that. you think even at this time the photo was taken when he was 24, 25, he was deplaning to come back to his political career. when he was in the dakotas come a newspaper reporter said you could president someday and roosevelt said yeah, i could hear he didn't treated as a su

[laughter] but other delegates there said teddy roosevelt is never going to sign a law with that in the constitution, so they backed away from that and simply created oklahoma. and then the first act of the oklahoma legislature was to segregate the railway cars of oklahoma. >> will you, please, discuss the relationship between thomas hart benton and john fremont in california and also maybe brigham young in utah and the mormons? >> fremont was a real, i think it was a son-in-law of fremont. so benton was a backer of fremont who was a general in the united states army in the mexican war and a bit of a loose cannon. and without benton he probably wouldn't be, i guess, in history books at all because there were efforts to court-martial him. i don't pursue them much in this book because they don't ultimately affect a boundary. you asked about someone else? >> brigham young. >> brigham young. he was a mormon leader. he led the largest contingent of mormons from illinois to utah in the 1847-'48. he envisioned a creation of a state called desiree which would have filled pretty much everything