wanted reagan to beat his old boss, walter mondale. >> but i had worked for mondaler in 1980.ked him and had respect for him and as a personal matter, a matter ofrnd of honor. i didn't want to vote against the man for whom i had respect and affection. >> so you have a vote, reagan or mondale? >> that's the only presidential election where i left that line blank. >> left it blank?el >> but if i had been the swingbl vote, i would have obviously haw voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in his transition from the political left to the political right. >> just a few months after the election, i wrote something called reagan doctrine. >> it was a time magazine column and it was provocative. for a while, he had praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cola war. >> i realized what reagan had done without a great master plan was to challenge what at the time was called the brezhnev doctrine and that was whenever we take over a country, it's ours and all of a sudden, whatci reagan ha

krauthammer says he privately wanted reagan to beat his old boss, walter mondale. >> i worked for mondale in 1980. i liked him and had respect for him. as a personal matter. as a matter of honor i didn't want to vote against a man for whom i had respect and affection. >> reporter: so you have a vote -- reagan or mondale? >> that's the only president's election where i left the line blank. if i had been the swing vote i would have had to vote for reagan sthrks it was a turning point in his transition from the political left to the political right. >> just a few months after the election i wrote the reagan doctrine. >> reporter: it was a time magazine column. it was provocative. for a while krauthammer praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. >> i realized what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to channel what at the time was called the breshnev doctrine that when we take over a country, that's ours. reagan said, no, you don't get to keep it. we're going to challenge you

people ask me as you can imagine how do you go from walter mondale to fox news? i was young once. the answer is simple. [laughter] then there is that psychiatry parched. it is true i once was a psychiatrist technically speaking i still embed in reality i am a psychiatrist in remission doing very well thank you. [laughter] i have not had a relapse in 25 years. and of course, as a political analyst i tell people it is not that different from what i do every day. the the only difference is the paranoid have access to nuclear weapons. that makes the stakes higher i am honored and delighted to be here to see the bushes did i am happy to be among you. but i am happy to be anywhere where one williams can i interrupt me. [laughter] [applause] i will be sure to tell him how you feel. [laughter] the one it to say how much i appreciate how your straightforward to rally the nation against a new barbarism in never afraid to use that word and that idea. recognizing islam as a great religion but see no contradiction one dash contradiction to rally the nation to fight the perverted bridge that at

long to a capitulate here, but krauthammer says he privately wanted reagan to beat his old boss, walter mondale i had worked for mondale in 1980. i liked him and had respect for him and as a personal matter, as a kind of a matter of honor, i didn't want to vote against a man for whom i had respect and affection. >> so you have a vote, reagan or mondale? >> that's the only presidential election where i left that line blank. >> left it blank? >> but if i had been the, you know, the swing vote, i would have obviously had voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in krauthammer's transition from the political left to the political right. >> and just a few months after the election i wrote something called the reagan doctrine. >> it was a "time" magazine column and it was provocative. for a while, krauthammer praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues, he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. >> i realized that what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to challenge what at the time was called the brezhnev doctrine. and when

you goat from walter mondale to fox news? answer is i was young once. that's the short answer. but, that path from left to write trodden by many including if i can be so sacrilegious ronald reagan who also was a new deal democrat. in the end very simple. revelation. overtime the results of the great society of the liberal social experiment came in, the empirical fact. and i'm trained as a doctor, so i'm pretty open to empirical evidence. turned out the great society. war on poverty, no matter how well intentioned ended up not harming the communities it's intended to help. i began to think other ways to organize society and i moved to a different view of politics which was smaller government, with a safety net. >> you mentioned the war on poverty. you know, when ronald reagan came to office, he said about the cold war, why don't we just win it, it seemed preposterous, silly. he couldn't win the cold war but he did. i would love to hear run for office and say we started the war on poverty in 196 a. we have lost it we failed. we

people ask me as you can imagine how do you go from walter mondale to fox news? i was young once. the answer is simple. [laughter] then there is that psychiatry parched. it is true i once was a psychiatrist technically speaking i still embed in reality i am a psychiatrist in remission doing very well thank you. [laughter] i have not had a relapse in 25 years. and of course, as a political analyst i tell people it is not that different from what i do every day. the the only difference is the paranoid have access to nuclear weapons. that makes the stakes higher i am honored and delighted to be here to see the bushes did i am happy to be among you. but i am happy to be anywhere where one williams can i interrupt me. [laughter] [applause] i will be sure to tell him how you feel. [laughter] the one it to say how much i appreciate how your straightforward to rally the nation against a new barbarism in never afraid to use that word and that idea. recognizing islam as a great religion but see no contradiction one dash contradiction to rally the nation to fight the perverted bridge that at

with walter mondale was heavily influenced i go to union halls there were posters of ft are. he was ubiquitous. i have always been fascinated by presidential history in their decision making. and this is what this book is all about. i did not understand him and telling started to research this book and i found out he was a very complicated man and nobody saw that more clearly the and frances perkins with the most under recognize people live first female cabinet member in the united states had known fdr 30 years here is what she had to say. were franklin roosevelt was not a simple man we think that marks a great and noble was not his. but out of this complicated nature that brodeur achievement but to have the imagination into the most varied human experience is. with the economic and strategic circumstances thrust upon him thousands of books have been written about fdr. why do we need another one? almost everything that has been written is either the new deal years or the war years virtually nothing written about the connective tissue between those achievements. trying now to

during the 1984 campaign, walter mondale made a self-deprecating way to get in on the fun.e was wearing the mondale mask. only to be outdone by the press corps that was wearing mondale masks. he lost that year to reagan. a boom of masks from bush to bill clinton to highlight just a few. and in 2004, the george w. bush campaign staff used halloween to mock their opponent john kerry who had famously gone duck hunting just a week before. that means that ted cruz who went pheasant hunting last weekend should also be fair game. after all, he's the face scaring a lot of trick-or-treaters this year. >>> up next, rand paul was caught plagiarizing wikipedia by rachel maddow. now he's attacking her for catching him. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. a federal appeals court has blocked the decision that ruled the stop and frisk unconstitutional. >>> a massive storm system moving from texas to the northeast this halloween. back to "hardball." ♪ >>> we're back now with a follow-up to that story we brought you yesterday about my colleague rachel maddow catching senator

for domestic policy for president bill clinton and work on the presidential campaigns of both walter mondale and al a gore. al gore. his field is political philosophy and political institutions. he's the author of eight books, the most recent "public matters: politics, policy and religion in the 21st century." published in 2005. and then we will hear from mona charen who is a nationally-syndicated columnist, a journalist and political analyst. following the pattern here, she worked in the white house as a speech writer for nancy reagan during nancy reagan's husband's administration. and a political campaign working for jack kemp in his presidential quest in 1988. her most recent book -- and i want to mention that mona's most recent book is called "do-gooders: how liberals hurt those they claim to help," and jonah's most be recent book is "how liberals cheat in the war of ideas," but i want to make it clear mona and jonah exempt bill galston -- [laughter] just to try to maintain a comity among our panelists. but our subject today is not partisan, it is far more elevated. we will begin with ou

for domestic policy for president bill clinton and work on the presidential campaigns of both walter mondale and al a gore. al gore. his field is political philosophy and political institutions. he's the author of eight books, the most recent "public matters: politics, policy and religion in the 21st century." published in 2005. and then we will hear from mona charen who is a nationally-syndicated columnist, a journalist and political analyst. following the pattern here, she worked in the white house as a speech writer for nancy reagan during nancy reagan's husband's administration. and a political campaign working for jack kemp in his presidential quest in 1988. her most recent book -- and i want to mention that mona's most recent book is called "do-gooders: how liberals hurt those they claim to help," and jonah's most be recent book is "how liberals cheat in the war of ideas," but i want to make it clear mona and jonah exempt bill galston -- [laughter] just to try to maintain a comity among our panelists. but our subject today is not partisan, it is far more elevated. we will begin with ou

white votes in 2012 as president clinton did in 1992 and more white votes than jimmy carter, walter mondaleeorge mcgovern. if by disrespect she means resistance to the affordable care act, his attorneys point to the push for health care spear headed by hillary clinton. oprah's show ended two years ago. her network has been on the air two and a half. still struggling in the ratings. can't get the same magic the show had. >> trace, thank you. >>> alan west is a fox news contributor and congressman from florida. good to see you. >> my pleasure. >> amazing to see someone as successful as oprah winfrey, a billionaire thanks in large parts to american viewers loving her -- white, black, brown, you name it -- loving her, talking about racist americans. >> yes. thanks and pleasure to be with you, megyn. it's appalling and un k unconscionable that you would have oprah winfrey, a billionaire, and the first african-american president and they are both continuing to try to use the race card to talk about the failures and faults not in his racial content but in the content of his character and the failu

. >> in the 1980s he was working for walter mondale. >> there's a deep division amongst republicans andayed by lead who are cowardly. it's 100% impossible to repeal something like obama care when you only control the house. i think it's detached from reality. in the past i would encounter people to attach on reality. i know it's unpopular but it's my job to call it a folly. >> do you think you'll ever stop writing? >> no. i intend to die at my desk. >> really. >> i would like to. i'm not sure i can arrange it. (dad) just feather it out. that's right. (son) ok. feather it out. (dad) all right. that's ok. (dad) put it in cond, put it in second. (dad) slow it down. put the clutch in, break it, break it. (dad) st like i showed you. dad, you didn't show me, you showed him. dad, he's gonna wreck the car! (dad) he's not gonna wreck the car. (dad) no fighting in the road, please. (d) put your blinker on. (son) you didn't even give me a chance! (dad) ok. (mom vo) we got the new subaru because nothing could break our old one. (dad) ok. (son) what the heck? let go of my seat! (mom vo) i hope the s

the other obviously lane is the gary hart/walter mondale candidates.meone can combine both, they could cause disruption. >> i don't want to do this because he's related to one of our anchors here, but governor cuomo, when you look at those numbers, especially if you take hillary clinton out of the equation and show joe biden on top, governor cuomo does not look too badly. he only has 5% when hillary clinton is in the field but take out hillary clinton, he's now at 15% right below elizabeth warren. i just kind of wonder what that's all about. obviously martin o'malley suffers from name recognition issues. >> he does suffer from name recognition issues, definitely. i think this is a name recognition, the cuomo name is very much out there, very much a name everybody knows in the democratic party. i think you will see those numbers fluctuate as we go forward. >> but for christie and cuomo, the reality, the theory we elect each president in part to rectify what we saw as the deficiency in the predecessor and obama is only the third sitting senator ever elec

white house as deputy assistant for domestic policy and work on the presidential campaign of both walter mondale and al gore with political policy institutions the most recent public matters in the 21st century published 2005 then we will hear from a nationally syndicated columnist, a journalist and political analyst following the pattern this speech writer for nancy reagan administration and a political campaign working for jack kemp in 1988. of her most recent book her book is called do-gooder's. and jonah's most recent book is how liberals cheat in the war of ideas. i want to make it clear they exempt from all versions just to maintain comedy of mound of our panelists but we begin with the author. >> host: franklin foer the presentations then will talk about it to everyone in the room. the podium is yours. [applause] good afternoon. thank you for that nice introduction into the hudson institute for sponsoring this yvette. the book "what jefferson read, ike watched, and obma tweeted" i mention it because tweet is important you may tweet that at your pleasure it is a tweet happy event we also t

bill clinton lost off walter mondale lost.icans are going through the same soul searching now. who do we want to do? chris christie won and won big. he can point to exit polls and say i did much better among women, african-americans, and latinos. we'll have a great laboratory next year. look at the governor races in pennsylvania, florida, ohio, a lot of states around the country. the national republican party and some of the state politicians sometimes not always on the same planet. >> if you look at the political realities of it, he didn't have a race in jersey. it's easy for him to be the benevolent dictator because he squashed the competition. you have christie, santorum, ryan, all saying we all can't be the opposition. what do you mean we can't be the opposition party? of course you can. it's probably the most effective poison in politics, attack your opponent, be effect knife doing it and, therefore, come to power. >> what date are you looking at? you can see, president obama is at an all-time low. our opposition has driv