ronald reagan meets walter mondale.erybody is calling it a major opportunity for mondale. >> he doesn't need just to win by a nose. he needs to win to stay with it by four or five lengths. he needs to do well because he starts from so far back. >> the question of ronald reagan's age had always been in the back of minds of a lot of people. he was by this time the oldest american president, and he was well into his 70s. >> i -- as i say, i feel that we have a problem here to resolve. >> reagan in the first debate against walter mondale looks confused. speaks too long. gets lost. it's not just that walter mondale won that debate. it's that people fear, is ronald reagan lost? and for the first time they start talking about the age issue. >> it showed without cue cards and teleprompters the great communicator doesn't always communicate all that well. >> we had six dress rehearsals last time. plus loading him with computer statistics. the man was absolutely smothered by extraneous material. and this time we're going to let ro

in fact was a big supporter of walter mondale when he ran for office and she classified herself as an independent. ray called her a patsy. he felt that she was way too left-wing for his tastes. she was smart enough to keep the tour itself while he was alive but the minute he died she let it all hang out and that's when she became a major peace activists. i write in the book about norman cousins, you rate -- may remember the saturday review editor who was quite as ray would call it bleeding heart. an old mcdonald's executive who i interviewed for this book just by the concept of norman cousins and the antithesis of a hard driving hard drinking businessman but that's the interesting part. that's what i find so fascinating about this story. they were very similar in some ways but they were so different in others and in politics not the least. >> thank you. >> thank you. that's a great question. >> i think we will wrap up if there were no other questions. so you will be signing books, correct? there are many more stories where this came from. lisa will be available to sign books so thank

in fact was a big supporter of walter mondale when he ran for office. and late ray called her a pass he. he felt that she was too left-wing and that she was smart enough to keep it to yourself while he was alive. the minute he died she let it hang out. that's when she became a major peace activists. i read about norman cousins were right about this review editor is ray was a bleeding heart. they just despise the concept of norman cousins. this antithesis of array crack. a hard-driving businessman. that's the other thing i find fascinating is that they were very similar in some ways but so different in others and in politics not the lease. >> thank you think will wrap up that there's no other questions. so it's a great there more stories for these came from. copies are available outside. lisa will be available to sign books. thank you and i hope you've had a great day it will come back tomorrow and see us. [applause] >> thank you once again for everyone for attending. the books are being sold and will be signed outside the auditorium. [inaudible] >> here

melissa, remember 1984 when walter mondale famously used where's the beef, wendy's slogan in debate with. he won the nomination. with pop culture cachet is not bad why. the current president proves that more than any other example. >> i didn't hear anything you said, i was smelling melting cheese. >> do you want my crust? melissa: i would take anything at this point. is there anything else in the box? what else do you have in there? do you have another slice? >> more pizza. melissa: send some our way. >> don't discount this idea from the dems. they're out of ideas now. but this has some choosy merit in my opinion. melissa: you're the best. rest of the day. david: you can tell it was chicago pizza too. special crust of chicago pizza. biggest event of the year, fans of comic books, sighness fiction, superheroes, pop culture, "comic-con" is underway in san diego, california, hillary vaughn is standing by with must-see events moments. hi, hillary? reporter: this is not your typical costume party. this is comic-con. fans come dressed to impress. we gathered together greatest cost players we c

also pointed out president carter himself, went to debrenan to make the pitch to the soviets for walter mondale. so yeah, it's been done before. >> do you think it's appropriate? >> i honestly don't think it's that big a deal. you know, should it be publicized? sure. i said this to you the other night, if we're going to have an investigation, let's open up the whole thing, the whole can of worms about russia. the clinton foundation and hillary clinton and john podesta, let's get it all out there so everybody can see what the involvement was or was not. >> you're saying -- but saying that implies that that stuff hasn't been reported, and the fbi has had plenty of opportunity to look into any of that. and i would assume if there was any there, there would be investigations, because that was looked at and litigated a lot during the campaign. >> well, of course, the question is, why -- >> what there is, there is a real fbi investigation into russia now and the trump campaign. there is not one -- >> the decision was political. >> you're saying the fbi back then, it was intentionally not investigatin

course of my four books -- six books, i've interviewed many, many people from jimmy carter to walter mondale and jim baker and nancy reagan and other people like that. there were only three people i couldn't interview, is and one of them was alice cooper. and you say, well, why would you want to interview alice cooper? well, it turns out alice was a reagan supporter in 1980. so i contacted his office out in arizona. reagan had -- alice had contributed to reagan. alice had voted for reagan. no, alice didn't want to do a debate or do an interview. and i said, why? and his aide says rather sheepishly, well, alice was drunk. [laughter] and i said, what do you mean alice was drunk? and she said alice was drunk from 1976-1983. [laughter] and i said do you mean all the time? she said, yeah, pretty much. [laughter] so i think henry may have discovered there's a lot of joy in book writing as well. i've certainly enjoyed it. someone once asked me what's the most profitable form of writing, is it op-eds, letters, speeches, book writing, and i thought for a moment and said the most profitable form of wr

other is, this is the political second question, you are not old enough to remember but i am, walter mondale promised to raise taxes in 1984. most democrats saw this, democrats saw this at the time as a big mistake. reagan certainly went after him on that. i know a very few political consultants to suggest to their candidates they go out and tell voters i'm going to raise your taxes. what is that analysis in light of your findings? put those two political questions together i would be grateful. . . no do better when you make it clear where the money is going. that seems very straightforward for something that was unclear. obviously it is the case but it is not quite reasonable, where it was going to go. they do well, tax increases what people really like. things that are most popular, local services and things like schools and roads and bridges, less remembered but significant, meditation and all those things and public safety. these are issues people think taxes should pay for and are willing to pay for, pay more for services. that is the take away in terms of measures that do well, make su