primetime, wein are bringing you encore presentations of the c-span q and a program.onight, our interview with the former reagan budget director and recent author, david stockman. here is a look. think the success attributed to reaganomics is totally unwarranted. we had a gated -- the greatest deficit between reagan and the first bush administration. we did have an economy that rebounded because fulcher killed inflation and the deficits were enormous and they stimulated the economy but they established a president for continuous chronic massive peacetime deficits and put the republican party, the old defender of the treasury that, into the position dick cheney so in eloquently said that deficits don't matter. that was the beginning of the end. if there is no conservative party defending the taxpayer, you will have a free lunch competition between tax cutters the republicans, and spenders, the democrats, and that's why you have $17 trillion of national debt today and why it's out of control and why we have a doomsday machine. >> you can watch the entire interview with