william buckley was such a brilliant commentator and great group of writers that he assembled. when the trends were going the other way, the big government trends went full force and they were just a little group of intellectuals that appealed to me. and captured my imagination. i was interested in it. i kept up with it. you wouldn't be here if you didn't have some of the same approaches to life. they said it was such a tough time, really in many ways,'s conservatism had left that's less influence than it does today. truly. so they thought they were standing before history and battling against the forces that seemed to be inevitable. the liberals tended to gain every year. things began to change, i got the liberal arts college in montgomery and we formed the first young republicans club ever formed and that college. i had gotten excited about barry goldwater some years before. i was able to tell mr. buckley later that when i met him as a united states senator that you warped my brain when i was in high school and i haven't changed since. that's the way i feel about it. we took

so i scraped up my nine dollars and i was reading it with my dictionary, william buckley, such a brilliantommentator and great group of writers he assembled when the trends were going the other way. that the government trends were in full force. and there was this little group of intellects that appealed to me and captured my imagination. interested in it. i kept up with it. interested in it if you did not have some of the same approaches. they said it was such a tough time. in many ways, conservativism had much less influence than it does today. truly. they thought they were stand history and battling forces that seem to be inevitable. the liberals tended to gain every year. things started to change. i went to a little liberal art college and montgomery. we formed the first young republican club ever formed and that town and that college. i got excited about barry goldwater and told mr. oakley you workedi met him, my brain and high school and i've not changed since. that is the way i still feel about it. ways aere facing in many circumstance similar to yours although i do not think the ho

i script that might nine dollars and started reading it with my dictionary, william buckley, such a brilliantommentator and a great group of riders, and the trends were going the other way, the big government trends were in full force and there was just a little group of intellectuals that appealed to me. and captured my imagination. i was interested in it. i kept up with it. you wouldn't be here if you didn't have some of the same approaches. they said it was such a tough time, really in many ways, conservatism had less influence than it does today. truly. they thought they were standing on history, battling against the forces that seem to be inevitable. the liberals tend to gain every year. but things began to change. i got to the liberal arts college in montgomery, and we formed the first huntington college young republican club ever formed in that college. .mac -- [applause] i had gotten excited and was able to tell mr. buckley later when i met him at the united states senate that, you warped my brain when i was in high school and i haven't changed since. that's the way i sort of feel abo

>> yes, i do, honestly. >> but william f. buckley didn't. he was not interested in their success.actually was not invested in their success at all. he had a lot of doubt that those programs would work. >> this was how many years ago? this is the beginning of the war on poverty. at the 50th anniversary on the war on poverty, which was a few years ago when i was chairman of the budget committee, as you mentioned, we decided to do a deep dive on federal poverty programs 50 years after and see if they really won the war on poverty, made a difference. fast forward, we learned that it was a stalemate, trillions of dollars spent, effectively the same poverty rates, so the question isn't "is there a role for the federal government in alleviating poverty?" we've all come to the conclusion that there is a role. the question is "what's the most effective way to do it, and how do you stop displacing local solutions that are actually really effective at fighting poverty? how do you go from an input-based approach to an outcome-based approach, a results-based approach?" and that's where conserv

they kidnapped william buckley.embassy's contact man for the rival christian and muslim factions. he is the third american to be kidnapped in beirut in six weeks. >> and it kept happening. it was not all at one go. they were taken many months apart but kept adding up and adding up. it consumed the reagan presidency. >> every day, almost every day he'd ask his national security teams, intelligence briefers, any news on the hostages. is anything happening? is there something we can do? >> there's a chink in reagan's armor. he was soft-hearted and felt a sense of obligation that he had to do something to get them out. >>> government economists have with an ingredient n originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. i was on the fence about changing from a manual to an electric toothbrush. but my hygienist said going electric could lead to way cleaner teeth. she said, get the one inspired by dentists, with a round brush hea

barry goldwater, william buckley, what he is is the most effective anti-liberal in american history but it's not because he's conservative. it's because he applies common sense and so much of the liberalism is nuts if you apply common sense it just falls apart. i take seriously the story he tells about the woman he got to know who'd been advised to have an abortion and her daughter was with her and she was telling him the story, that was the decisive moment. so i give him that one. there was a story that he would contemplate legalizing marijuana. you can't assume he's going to walk in the room having spent 30 years thinking this stuff through. he was an fdr democrat and as late as 1948 made commercials for harry truman and hubert humphrey and hubert humphrey was the anti-communist liberal running against the procommunist liberal in minnesota we tend to forget just how bad that was and reagan became the anti-communist and then when he married nancy, her father was a very right-wing medical doctor and gradually through the series of conversations he began to be more and more anti-tax and

william f buckley.for me, the guy that most people, he's not a household name anymore but irving kristol who was ill crystal than and a profound influence. id and abiding influence on me. i have abiding disagreements with all of them but those i thought , counsel is a big influence on me. the biggest influence was my dad. my dad was a cerebral guy. one of the reasons i love irving kristol so much was he reminded me of my dad.he had a vacation and was going from one side of the couch to the other to read a different book or magazine or going to europe to look at museums and one of his only favorite hobbies was going on long walks with his son to talk abouthow bad communism was . but those guys for sure. i could come up with other names pretty easily but you brought up charles. i don't want to talk about him too much because it's probably a bad book to cry on c-span but the news about charles krauthammer is devastating and i know charles had this doctor strange persona on tv.he's kind of ride and stirred

if you mean barry goldwater william buckley or reagan he is the most effective anti- liberal and americanhistory not because he is conservative but he applies common sense so much of modern liberalism is not one -- nuts if you apply common sense falls apart. i take seriously the story he tells about the woman he got to know who was advised to have an abortion and her daughter was with her but that was the decisive moment. i give him that one but also that he contemplated legalizing we are one. you cannot assume he will walk in the room having spent 30 years reagan originally was the fdr democrat and as late as 1948 made commercials for harry truman and humphrey but humphrey was the anti-communist liberal running against the procommunist liberal that is how bad. was. reagan became the anti-communist and then when he married nancy her father was very right wing medical doctor and gradually through conversations reagan began to be more and more anti- tax and then more working with general electric there is a book called the education of ronald reagan about the time the eight years he spent a

based on my marriage with rick, at our wedding -- william buckley was present, his enforcer -- the mccarthy right hand man gave a reading and to the person walked me down the aisle removed from his job as a professor by -- forces in new york. and this at the time politics -- anyway. so that's been our history, and i've lived as kind of the mascot of the right and national review from many, many years. and it has been a very -- eye opening -- you're very liberal. >> yes, yes i'm a liberal democrat. and, in fact, i think there is -- where have we ever -- we both voted for him the first time, and we both believe in the death penalty for overcell phone use but other than that -- we have no -- literally no position in comments. none. abortion is suicide -- gun control all of the big hits we are on the opposite side. >> how many years have you been married? >> 37 -- 37 in september. >> how many years happily? [laughter] >> i would think i would honestly say 37 but you the firt you know there were issues about how we were going to deal request this. and not little did i know that at that point 20%

who formerly had your job, whose sname is al shanker, who on a previous "firing line" with william f. buckleymilton friedman, and thomas sowell debating the privatizion of public education. lets take a look. >> but it seems to me that we, in this country, have always believedhat education should not be the kind of thing that's better if you've got more money or that you don't get if you don't have it, that it's something that's very basic, that enables people who are far behind economically or in the social strata, enables them to get a chance to move ahead >> there's very little that al snker there said that i think either of us would disagree with. >> mm-hmm. >> but i think what we see in the contemporary debates about education reform is that people are voting with their feet. and certainly, in the school-choice movement -- right? -- people are,, especialnority children, minority families who come from incredibly challenged economic circumstances, overwhelmingly are, to the extent that they have the option, choosing to go outside of the normal publ-school choices that the have. and i'd lik

william f. buckleyired it for 33 years, and he talked about exactly these issues with some of his guests. so i would like to share with you a clip from an original "firing line" and his guest, who's now governor of california, jerry brown, about what they said about the supreme court in 1975. >> i think the court is carrying on in the best way they can in a very difficult time. we are in a society where it is very hard to find the consensus. we are fragmenting. we're proliferating at every level of economics and morality and politics, and the court is a unifying mechanism and a beacon of light if it acts wisely. and i think by and large, given the complexity of our country, the heterogeneity of our people, they're doing an excellent job, and i would not try to second guess this or that decision, because i have complete confidence that over time, that through the changing of presidents and the changing of the judiciary, there is this balance between the momentary perception of what needs to be done and t

william f. buckley was present. the person that walked down the aislme downthe aisle is one of e that gave me a job as professor and at the time these politics anyway so that's been our history and i've lived as kind of the mascot of the right and the national review for many years and it has been -- >> i am a liberal democrat. and in fact i think there is we both voted for giuliani first time and believe in god death penalty for cell phone use, but other than that we have no position in common. abortion, assisted suicide, gun control, all of the big hit we are on the opposite side. how many years have you been married? >> 37. >> how many happily? [laughter] little did i know 20% of people were made across party lines and now it is 9%. i was adopted by the national review and it was a very eye-opening experience because i learned people who disagree can be good friends, can be thoughtful, people i want to spend time with them even more than people i disagreed with. the last boyfriend i had before that, we were in pe

certainly since william f. buckley founded national review.ir putin personally in a way that does, does tim carney, briefly, let me push back a little bit. does suggest that vladimir putin's relationship with donald trump is different than anybody else because as donnie pointed out he certainly was very critical of the little rocket man as he called kim jong-un, attacked him, threatened to bomb him, said his button was bigger than un's button. you'll snow other than stormy daniels there's no one in donald trump's three years in political life that has escaped his wrath other than put. can you not find one negative thing he said about vladimir putin even going back before election when he was on our show talking about how american soldiers in iraq killed a lot of people too so we could be critical of vladimir putin. >> the bottom line i agree with what brett said is that to some extent the explanation doesn't matter this attitude is bad and transforming the american people. again i'll point out that he, the fondness towards the strong man is un