the reagan administration resisted this approach. economists-- i'd say 99.9% of economists-- believe we all gain from free trade. this administration believes we gain from free trade. therefore we are not going to lead the world down a protectionist road which will reduce our standard of living and reduce standards of living abroad. in may 1985, heads of state of the free world's industrial nations met in a summit in bonn, west germany, trying to resolve differences in economic policy. europeans and the japanese urged the u.s. to control its budget deficit. we urged them to expand their economies to create markets for american goods. no firm decisions were made, but international cooperation remains a promising economic approach. beryl sprinkel speaks for the reagan administration. when governments recognize a particular set of policies are in their interest, they're very likely to move in that direction. the difficulty is getting them to do something which is against their interest. they won't do it. we won't do it. but working toget

the official word from the reagan administration was that absolute not, this was a miniscule quote-unquote amount as reagan said in one of his speeches they could easily fit into the cargo bay of a single aircraft. oliver north acknowledged he was tasked to go find a plain big enough to make it real and, of course, it is a c-5 transport which could fit northern virginia in it, but that's okay. airline is really had no effect whatsoever. when you go back and talk to iranians, and even some american officials, will acknowledge their belief that infected did have some effect. i've talked to several iranians who were in the war, were at some of these battles in early 1987, and scholars who have studied this, have done their own interviews with revolution and guard commander and soldier their belief is it did have an effect, that it helped against tank counter attacks at that operation. and also there is the view, one guy who was the highest level official in the foreign minister i talked to said he was pretty sure that the hawks that they were getting, not just from, they were getting from oth

the major problems. meanwhile, the administration here changed. president reagan had different agenda. the initial formula was they are not illegal as many administrations have in mind. on this basis many were talked about with the united states. in any case mistakes were made and i don't have the time to go into all of that, but let me just mention, again we have the beginning of strategic dialogue with the u.s. he didn't have a great relationship with sam i presume. in any case at some point he decided to apply the law to the heights in the middle of the autonomy talks and the u.s. froze that strategic cooperation. we have a period which was not too great. then comes lebanon. lebanon was a period of very, very heavy american involvement including sending people there. and then as america began with the readiness to involve itself with peace keeping there. but then there was the major terror attack on the american soldiers who were unfortunately killed and the u.s. pulled themselves from there. a lot of thijs happened during the period of the summer of '82-'83. there was another point

royals fans, first post season game since the reagan administration. really got quiet in the third quarter when brandon moss hit a three-run shot. 5-3 oakland. they led 7-3. kansas city cut the lead to 1 in the 8th inning and in the 9th inning, dyson scored on a sacrifice fly. the game was tied. alberto callaspo, a base hit, reddick scores, as lead 8-7, but the royals kept coming back. eric hosmer. he legs out atrip l and scored on an infield hit and tied the game. with two outs, he tries to steal second. the as pitch out, but derek norris drops the baseball. a huge mistake because two batters later, salvador perez, base hit off jason hamel's curve ball. josh donaldson couldn't make the play, colon scores easily. they eliminated the as 9-8. >> i'm not feeling pretty good. i mean, it was a great game. both teams played well and hard, but uh, the short answer to your question is not great at this point. >> it was impressive to hear the confidence that they had in their voice. and the intensity they had in their voice and the will that they had in their vo

ethiopia 1978, for the next several years of the administration, there were a whole series of secret meetings in washington, new york, atlanta, mexico and then havana itself. the reaganistration, who you would have expected to do cuba, saidssible for secretary of state alexander haig to mexico to meet secretly rodriguez. and then to sign a migration agreement to try to resolve the abnormal migration relationship between the two countries. finally during the reagan administration, cuba was invited to participate in negotiations that ended the war in southern africa, leading to cuba's withdrawal from angola. during the bush administration, there wasn't so much success in terms of reaching agreements, but there was a dialogue around central america as well. during the clinton administration, there were a series of talks with the most important word -- normalized our migration relationship with cuba and the agreement in 1994 in which president jimmy carter and president salinas of mexico served as intermediaries between the two governments. been a migration agreement in 1995 that was held so secretly for fear of domestic opposition in the united states that the national

even the reagan administration was urging the fed to relent. volcker and the fed board, determined to bring inflation down, held tight. finally, in late 1982, the fed saw inflationdropy and eased the money supply. this last week, the federal reserve bank the fed saw inflationdropy decided to lower its discount rate to 9.5%, the first time this key interest rate has gone below two digits since 1979 and the fifth reduction in just four months. this demonstrates the fed's confidence that inflation and market rates will continue coming down and its confidence that we can work together for a healthy, non-inflationary recovery. schoumacher: throughout the recovery that followed, inflation held at . though inflation had been substantially reduced, the monetarists criticized the fed for t adhering to a strict growth rate of the money supply. in my opinion, the actions of the federal reserve have added to the uncertainty, have added to the instability of the economy rather than reduced it. and let me emphasize, stable monetary growth is not a guarantee

. >>> the astrologer described as the reagan administration's most closely guarded domestic secret has died. joan quigley first began advising first lady nancy reagan on her husband's schedule after the 1981 assassination attempt on the president. the consultations by phone were revealed seven years later by a former chief of staff. quigley is also remembered for claiming she convinced the first lady to press the president to soften his stance toward the soviet union after reading soviet leader gorbachev's horoscope. joan quigley was 87 years old. >>> now to something you rarely hear, gas prices are dropping fast. good news, cnbc's sharon epperson tells us what's behind the fall. >> gas prices are dropping fast and could be below $3 a gallon for the national average. in the next few weeks. that's according to to aaa. we're already seeing drivers able to purchase gas below $3 a gallon at at least one station in every state except for hawaii, alaska and montana. this slide coincides with the slide that we're seeing in oil prices. we have a price war going on between international oil pro

anti-panafricanist revolutionary and changes his name and becomes by the 1980s in the contex of the reagan administration the counter revolution that transforms the dreams the radicals carried with them. in that context he believes in the idea of a global political revoluti revolution. one of my parent parts of studying kwame ture is reading about obama's reaction to seeing him at columbia in the early '80s. and young obama in his early 20's talking about kwame ture was talking about pan africanism and critiqued capitalism and he is speaking words of fire. and obama recounts from dreams from my father he says his eyes blazed as he spoke. the eyes of a mad man or a saint, right? and i am hear to say that kwame ture was neither a madman or a saint. he was a radical political activist who was unapologetic in pursuing cultural and social and economically freedom for blacks. he had flaws and shortcomings and i can spell them out. but what is so important is he provides us with a blue print to understand american race relations in a different and expansive ways from the cast of ic iconic characters who we usua

in the '80s he served in the reagan administration as an assistant secretary of defense and secretarythe navy. in 2006, he switched partied and was elected as a democratic senator from virginia and served one term before opting not to seek re-election. he is a successful author and screenwriter and has written eight books over the years. my wife helped him in his senate campaign. welcome back to "meet the press." >> good to be with you. >> i want to begin with any reaction you have to clay hanna, because how politicians use phrases like boots on the ground and politicize the issues of combat troops, that does have an impact on soldiers, doesn't it? >> it does. having watched the beginning of your show, i think it's fair to say right now that we are at a crossroads as a nation in terms of how we view ourselves, how we say these things to ourselves and the way that these issues are going to be resolved in the next couple of years will affect us for a very long time. it's true in domestic policy as well. when you see the arguments about economic fairness. the truth is, it depends where y

schoumacher: but in one area the reagan administration was calling not for less spending but more. illion dollars in higher defense spending and $750 billion in tax cuts proved to be an explosive combination. and the deficit shot up. over $100 billion for the first time in 1982. over $200 billion in 1985. that, in combination with a very deep recession just caused the deficit to explode and the debt began to grow much faster than our incomes and ultimately reached about 50% ofuromes by the early 1990s. we must have a new economic policy. no more trickle-down not tax-and-spend, but put the american people first, invest in our jobs, control our health-care costs, provide education to all of our people, and we can be the greatest country in the world forever. schoumacher: president clinton's campaign mantra was, "it's the economy, stupid." by the late 1990s, thatdea started to pay off. a combinat of factors accounted not only for reducing theeficit but actually creating budget surpluses. cutsn spendi including defense, helped, but the overwhelming reasons were a booming economy and a h

one way is a basic principle of the reagan administration and the principal reason why the cold war ended on the bargaining table and not on the battlefield. another path to peace is to rely on statecraft, grounded in liberty and equality and articulated in the declaration of independence. sometimes the americans early statements approved military intervention overseas. and they took the lead from the adage that if you want peace, prepare for war. but how far have we strayed from these principles a map have we become the policeman of the world? with our laudable desire to extend freedom, has it adopted a policy of nationbuilding regardless of the nation's wishes to rebuild. in his newest book, to making key piece, angelo codevilla argues that are 20th century and 21st century leaders have confused peace and war, as well as america's interest and the world's wishes. they have forgotten that they ever knew the lessons of the past and affected the wisdom of the founders. the doctor offers no easy answers and insist that peace requires that we make friendship with each other at home and avoid

i have had talks to us in a cabinet member that was close to president reagan during the reagan administration. reagan with this decision to go into granada if you remember that. the beirut bombing had just occurred and of course the president was getting slammed and the administration administration said that or we doing in beirut with troops just sitting there? 240 summer rains and others that we lost there. the stomach and the political pressure going into a place like grenada just wasn't there. this cabinet member or the cabinet had told me the president was giving me advice. mr. president did not go into granada. this is the worst thing you could do right now. you will never sell it to the american people and it's going to be politically damaging. he told me the president turned around and said his very potential for american lives to be endangered in the intelligence officer that was briefing said sir there are american medical students that could be at risk. he said the decision is clear, we go in. no ifs, ands or buts of my job is to explain it to the american people. he had clear purp

as early as the 60's with the emergence of reagan, or was it close to the time he joined the reagan administration? >> my actual origins were not with reagan but is vice president, george h. w. bush. i was always interested in politics, going back to junior high school. the opportunity to get involved required working in campaigns which in those days was a generally hopeless cause for republicans. therefore, it was a delight to find this young oil man named george bush running for congress on the west side of houston, which drew my time as a campaign volunteer. so i did address envelopes and campaign research. and it was a great throw when he invited me to be an intern on his staff. that led me to go to washington with him. at that time was working as a member of the texas house representatives when the vice president-elect asked me to join his staff in the west wing of the white house. i realized that was the end of my active career in texas politics. i torture of this it -- tortured over the decision for about two tenths of a second before resigning my seat and going to washington when i arrived

and he was talking about iron contra, the reagan administration. not about him saying he had never cheated on his wife. he never said that. so the question is, can moral people do immoral things. is every lie the same as he have other lie. and tom has basically said he believes it is. and i respect him a lot. i'm not looking for a fight with tom or anybody he is. because what i'm trying to do, really, is not -- is to tell the story, this amazing story. and, of course, that, you know -- that particular issue, that lie, is what leads paul taylor from the "washington post" to stand in a ballroom of crowded reporters in new hampshire a couple days after that incident in the alley and says in front of a national audience, senator hart, have you ever committed adultery. that's what they're really trying to get at. >> matt. >> and it's shocking to people, because it's never been asked before. >> matt, a minute left together. what i worry about are those who are on the sidelines who could be competent public servants, who maybe have a skeleton in their clo

. >> the reagan administration wanted to be proactive in sticking it to the communists around the worlddent ronald reagan authorized the cia to spend hundreds of millions of dollars building, supporting, directing the contras against those in nicaragua. the moral equal of our founding fathers. we cannot turn away from them. while the cia attempted to topple the democratically elected government in nicaragua, webb discovered the contras had ties to the crack explosion in los angeles. violence in a small central american country was far more important than stopping drug from flowing into our cities and communities. after a year-long investigation, webb's story was published on the front page of the san jose mercury news. >> the central thing we tried to show, and it wasn't particularly that the cia know about it, but how crack came to be such a problem in america that it was connected to the nicaraguan cocaine lab. >> webs report broke new ground by becoming the first major news investigation published both in print and on the internet. >> as a consequence, even of the san jose mercury ne

mcfarland is a security analyst and former deputy assistant secretary of defense during the reagan administration. 20 to 30 former gitmo detainees. weren't these supposed to be the people that were just perfectly fine to leave that situation in cuba and go back home? they would never commit acts of terror again, right? >> in the presence of baghdad where the sunni and military officers were sent and they shared cells with a lot of the radical imams. they then got together, and that's the birth of isis. we know that al qaeda grew up in the prisons -- >> president obama's very first order -- was to close gitmo, and that has never happened. so, first of all, why and would that have been an even bigger problem? >> well, first of all, i think we should say that the bush administration also released prisons from gitmo. >> sure. >> they were supposed to be rehabilitated. they were not going to go back and join the fight. we were sending them to friendly countries where they would be imprisoned. well, it turns out they went in one prison door and outer the other to go rejoin the fight. part of it is both

the field. can you imagine another sort of reagan like build up the necessary in the next administration?>> absolutely. two things. we are not calling for getting to 4% of gdp overnight. for example, to do that in 2012 numbers you be looking a proximate $80 billion increase. i don't think the pentagon is capable of spending that money. even if were to give them that money today. i think wrapping this up over the short-term, over a number of years, we also one of the things we also called for is changing our procurement process. we've got to develop and deploy technology much more quickly. our goal should be a seven-year window, otherwise with the f-22, with some of the modernization programs at the been suspended or even canceled, by the time it is taken so long to develop and deploy technology, by the time it is deployed its obsolete or i'm calling for more investment in the pentagon come in our forces and technology and also talk about changing the procurement process. get projects approved what does ago to 100 different views. we need more accountability. i'm calling for multi-sourcing

republicans in the congress and democrats in the congress and a republican president ronald reagan worked together with significant help from others in the reagan administration to achieve tax reform. that's what we have got to do and that's what we'll try to do and i think we can do when the democrats are elected and we have leadership on the ways & means committee. somebody who believes that working together is in fact what you need to do. >> sometimes a lame-duck session is used to approve free trade policy. is there any -- in any -- and this lame-duck? >> i don't think so. probably leadership has not mentioned it at all and i doubt that it will come up in either the pacific or the europeans. i doubt that will come up. >> from the standpoint of the hospital that is the prospect of the senate elections securing a democratic majority? >> we have been the matured -- the majority in the question is can we keep that majority of course in the answer is yes. there's a long analysis in the "washington post" today about 13 districts. i believe the senate democrats will hold their majority. there's an interesting race going on in kansas as you know, or you may know,

i was in the reagan administration and we came into the pentagon in early 1981 and we saw the effects of the carter defense cuts. we had ships that couldn't sail because there was no fuel. we had planes that couldn't fly because pilots weren't even certified, hadn't had enough training hours. for every tank that worked there was another one sitting right next to it that was cannibalized. but worst of all we had vietnam vets who were homeless and didn't have adequate medical care and our current active duty at the time -- >> do you think it will be that fast? >> i do. >> in the near future it is that bad for the u.s. military. you think that? >> if we continue to have these missions that the president continues to -- >> what do you think of what the president just said? he said our allies are united in a long-term effort against isis. ed henry comes on and says that isis has now surrounded two more towns including one with an important air base. what do you make of what the president said? >> i don't know who believers him. i mean, we're succeeding? the allies, the coalition is succeed

i do not know if you remember or not, but on a staff basis, we had to promise the reagan administration -- i am sorry, the bush administration, over and over again that no democrat would ask a question about financial support or new legislation of mrs. quayle, the democratic members would only talk about breast and cervical cancer. and you stuck to the deal and open to the questions and talked about what a hard problem breast cancer was. and republicans had question after question after question for mrs. quayle about why the administration do not support your legislation. it was an embarrassment, but we stuck with the deal. >> i remember that and your involvement. i want to share an anecdote about you. >> oh, dear. [laughter] >> he came to work for me when i first became chairman of the subcommittee. was this your first job? like my first job out of law school. >> he was working on public health issues. he said to me, i am worried about all these budget cuts during the reagan administration on a lot of public health efforts here at we have to be prepared for whatever may happen. so what

>> i haven't seen my ribs since the reagan administration, please. that's weird. >> no, it is weird. >> so, but, she writes that designer clothing does look better on, you know, more of stick figure. >> we have staying figure models and stuff, working the can you. >> absolutely. and most of us think they look fantastic. but when you go high end fashion, they will usually say that the woman's body because they're selling the clothes, not the body, the woman's body fits really curvey kind of doesn't let you see the line of the clothing necessarily. >> true. >> like they would like t i'm not saying it is right or wrong, that's their justify at this case. >> aren't they supposed to be like human hangers? >> that's how they describe them. i'm not saying seeing ribs is great or good message for young girls, but she is selling clothing she finds putting on that particular manaquine is the way that she sells the most. we didn't buy it, she wouldn't sell it that way. >> by the way, you have body like an hour glass. >> and i can give it to you all the time. >>

actually, this war is that righted during the reagan administration with the bombing of the marine barracksing on a long time and maybe more than a thousand years and we have to think through exactly how to structure this in such a way that we don't get bogged down in another middle east war to the detriment of this nation's wealth, to the detriment of our standing across the world and quite probably to make the problem worse. >> congressman, let me ask both of you, you first, john. the trust issue. do you feel confident that we're getting the kind of help we need to get. the kurds are saying that the air strikes are not working. >> of course, they're going to need more. there's never been a jgeneral that didn't need moring some, more time, more something. this is very, very much their fight and their boots have to be on the ground ask and iml la similarly turkey sitting on the sidelines and who knows? it appears that saudi arabia is playing the sunni-shia card. this is a complex situation, but we should not get bogged down in another war. >> colonel, your thoughts on that. >> i agree with

the royals go on to the american league championship series for the first time since the reagan administration. if our morning crew hasn't told you, three, four, five times, the giants this afternoon at 2:00. my sportscast will emanating from at&t tonight. it's going to be a great day, everybody. see you it evenin . >> i think ten times now. >>> our play definitely from the national football league. carolina's billy brown picked up the loose ball on a punt return, ran it 79 yards right into the end zone. panthers beat the visiting chicago bears 31-24. >> nice. >>> all right. 6:25 now. another american infected with ebola has arrived in the u.s. how the outbreak could air travel in the near future. >>> a driver is caught on tape slamming her suv to a doughnut shop. what should he is now blaming for the crash. ,, ,,,,,, ♪(themstan! ! !om cheers) hey guys! stan the man! hey, how's it goin stan? can i get $55 on pump three? you got it, stan! gas stations. just that. where nobody knows your name. the chevrolet cruze eco. with an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon highway. it's the new efficient. >>>

the royals going to the american league championship series for the first time since the reagan administration. if our morning crew answered told you three, four, five times, the giants this afternoon at 2:00. my sportscast will be from at&t tonight. it's going to be a great day everybody. see you this evening. >>> here we go. play of the day from the national football league. carolina's brown takes picks up a loose ball on a punt return and ran it 79 yards into the end zone. the panthers beat the chicago bears 31-24. >> and the panthers' defense in my fantasy football team, they did me proud yesterday. >> we have sports for you here. >> yes. 5:25. two fans are taken to the hospital after a brutal bathroom attack at levi stadium during a 49ers game. the latest on the investigation after the break. >>> plus, an american diagnosed with ebola is traveling back to america for treatment. the latest on the effort to treat patients here in the u.s. >>> game time is 2:00 as the giants try to sweep out the nlds. ,, insurance companies are spending millions of dollars trying to mislead you about the eff

look, you worked in government, you worked in the reagan administration, you were ed nees's chief of staff. you know how government works. the intelligence community is now fighting back. that tells me they're fed up. and now all these reports have come out that the president was warned in granular detail about everything involving isis and warned specifically about the consequences of pulling out of iraq too early. what at this point can we possibly do even if you get the information showing he knew? >> i tell you exactly what we can do. it is time, once and for all, to find a leader in the united states congress who will stand up. it's not going to be boehner because he won't stand up. but somebody has to stand up, call for a commission, find out -- get fot bottom of this while he's still president. not 30 years from now when everybody's looking back and wringing their hands. i want to know, did the president of the united states know about the creation, the development of isis and this caliphate? i believe he knew about it for years. i believe he knew about it when he was running f

talking about the reagan administration when he said it. is not about him saying he never cheated on his wife. he never said that. the question is can moral people do immoral things. is every lie the same as every other lie. and thomas basically said he believes it is and i respect him a lot. i'm not looking for a fight with tom or anybody else. what i'm trying to do really is to tell the story, this amazing story. and of course that, that particular issue, that lie is what leads paul taylor from "the washington post" to stand in a bar room of crowded reporters a couple days after that incident in the alley and he says in front of a national audience, senator hart, have you committed adultery. that's what they are trying to get at. it's shocking to people because it's never been asked. >> we have a minute left together. what i worry about are those who are on the sidelines who could be competent public servants who maybe have a skeleton in the closet and say i'm not getting involved in that. i'm not putting my family through that. could this

royals fans first post-season game since the reagan administration and kauffman stadium got quiet in e third when brandon moss hit a three- run home run second homer of the game 5-3 the a's eventually led 7-3. kansas city cut the lead to one in the this. in the ninth, dyson scored on a sac. fly to tie the game. stayed that way until the 12th when callaspo drove in reddick. a's lead 8-7. but the royals kept fighting. eric ripped one off the wall, gomes and sam fuld collide in the outfield. a triple scored on an in field hit to tie the game. with two out, colon tries to steal second. a's pitch out but norris drops the baseball. a huge mistake because two batters later salvador perez roped jason hammel's curve ball. donaldson couldn't come up with it. colon scores. the royals steal 7 bases, they drop down 4 sacrifice bunts and they eliminate the a's 9-8 in a tough game to swallow for a's fans. but there's still one bay area team left. the giants play the pittsburgh pirates tonight in the second wild card game. i'm dennis o'donnell. see you tonight. >>> now ladies and gentlemen, time for

these types of books from former aides and cabinet members go back to the reagan administration.i think make a great contribution to history. we can agree that leon panetta clearly is a great patriot and a tremendous public servant and he also praises president obama in many respects in terms of rebuilding the economy, the war on terror, his steps against the war on terrorism. you may have missed those chapters, kevin, in your talking points. >> robert, i'm not offering talking points. >> if i could finish my point. >> carol asked me about my opinion. >> there were some issues here, though, for example like don regan, president reagan's chief of staff who wrote a book about gossiping about nancy reagan. that's an a cheap political spot and an important distinction to draw there. >> why are these critics coming out of the woodwork that used to be president obama's friends? is it for the good of the country or as kevin said they're expressing their frustration or do they want to make money? >> carol, i think one -- in fairness they're patriots and i though the credit of panetta or

states was supporting duvalier and haiti, and a number of dictators were were intortd by the reagan administration have subsequently had to face justice for crimes against humanity. >> okay. reid brody, we appreciate it. coming up tonight, we will take a different look at baby doc's life and legacy at 8:00 p.m. eastern, 5:00 pass i know. coming up on "al jazeera america," the political battle in brazil. two candidates, we are live in sao paolo. what sparked a stamp ped in india that left dozens of people dead. on the edge of eighteen only on al jazeera america >>> bulgarians will go to the polls tomorrow. eat earn european state has struggled with fragile coalitions. tim friend reports outrage over a bad economy with an influx of syrian did he have uj ease dominated campaign season. >> a few kilometers, this is a haven for those who have escaped syria's brutal conflict. not everyone is happy that these people are here the care that's been offered has created resentment among some bull gaines facing growing economic hardship in the european union's pooret countries. >> it's hard to major how anyone

it happened during the reagan administration and decided to put up or coast for sale to the highest bidder for oil sales and i remember going insane, what the heck are you doing. so i understand that you have to sell some of these areas for oil drilling. but what about these national treasures? you want to protect them for the future and he said no, no, let's just make the process. so that is when we were able to put legislation together to stop that process from moving forward and ultimately what i did was introduce legislation to create this national marine sanctuary in monterey bay to protect that area for the future. so was a very great fight. [applause] >> thank you so much for being here. i'm curious about the tensions between short-term response when it comes to security and i'm just wondering how do you strike that boundary to respond in a way that appears effective and especially in regards to sustainability and security. >> it's a very good question. the reality is that when you are implementing a defense strategy, it has to contain both of short-term element and the long-term el

national security analyst and searched as the deputy assistant secretary of defense during the reagan administration. are those fair questions to ask john kirby? >> i admire him. he is a really great guy. he is doing a very good job in an almost impossible situation. why does it matter? look, the kurds are getting slaughtered. they are our only friends in the region. they'reotology fight. they don't want american troops on the ground. they don't want american money. they want american heavy weapons. we've promised it to them. we haven't given it to them. we've said, well, we'll give it to the iraqi army, and they'll give it to the kurds. guess what, the iraqi army doesn't give it to the kurds where are our only friends in the region. the only group that's willing to stand up and fight isis. the only group in the region that's willing to take in christian refugees and, yet, we're going to watch them be slaughtered. >> what about turkey? the last few days when i have spoken to greg palcott, can you see the turkish tanks, but they're not doing a darn thing. why? >> they're holding our coats. the presid

. >> woodruff: david you are too young, you weren't around in the reagan administration.k, you and i were around, to be gentle about it. talk about jim boeheim. h -- talk about jimbrady. he was a very special guy. >> jim was a special guy. 1974, in washington, there was a class reunion where republicans and democrats and politicians and journalists used to meet and laugh and tell stories and jim brady was sort of the unofficial mayor of that place. he was a great company. what i remember about joe biden, joe biden knew him well because he was the press secretary for joe biden's delegate from delaware bill ross. in the campaign in 1980, the reagan cal pain was challenged. the pollution on automobiles -- jim brady was the press secretary over a plane, they're flying over a small forest fire and jim says, look, killing trees, killing trees! he was mahe was indispensable, e and good and wonderful man. >> woodruff: one of the best press secretaries in the white house ever. mark shields, david brooks, two of the best that have ever been at the "newshour". thank you. >> thank yo

he served in the role for eight years of the reagan administration because ronald and nancy reagan were only 70 days. that's not a long time. short as it was, jim brady's tenure was as impactful and important and inspiring as any in history. best ineagan said it 1982. , now jim brady was a major everybody knows about the depth of his courage. always knewfriends of this strength of character. " that was 32 years ago. thank you. [applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> by mike mccurry. i am on the successors to jim brady. to ourselves as the human piÑata's for the white house press corps. jim brady was a great role model. he knew when to growl like a bear at the press when he had to. he understood the value of the --an and kinder chechen touch. the relationship between the white house and the press corps which covers it must always be an and the serial one. that thisproved adversarial relationship could be an amicable one. i'm going to collect up for distinguished people who can speak to that. first the me read a letter we have received for this occasion. where --i coul

mcfarland, national security analyst who was former deputy assistant secretary of defense in the reagan administrationare you startled by this report sf. >> it's a weird report, and it really to me brings up more questions in an answers. the "new york times" claims there were old chemical weapons stockpiles. the administration at the time the bush administration said, look, we've come across some old stuff. we're looking for new stuff. the new york sometimes spins it to say obviously it was a coverup on the part of the bush administration, and, yet, the real story is the troops. was there a gag order? the story makes it sound like the united states military came across chemical weapons, they were exposed, they were damaged, they health issues, and because it was a political coverup, somehow the military was given a gag order and, therefore, never got medical attention? >> you want to know what the real story is about these members of our military who may have become sick. >> and a gag order. my experience when i have worked at the pentagon and experience with the military, you know, the -- they don't