ron reagan, i want to start with you. this has been a concerted effort. it's like when you read about lincoln coming to washington through baltimore and into town because the secession movement has begun. they didn't give this guy a honeymoon. they didn't give him nothing. they started going after him from the beginning. >> no. and they haven't learned their lesson. they just got their hat handed to them with their government shutdown and the debt ceiling, and you'd think they'd be chasing it a bit, but they're going to keep this up. it's an ideological war they're fighting where these tea party members, they think the government is bad. not only do they think that obama's government is bad, any government is bad. so they want government to fail. which is a pretty outrageous thing. imagine when the iraq war was getting underway if democrat who opposed the war, weren't crazy about george w. bush to begin with began denying troops body armor or denying them armored vehicles or things like that. that's the equivalent to what republicans are doing to the heal

naked attempts to nullify the results of the last presidential election. >> ron, this is -- ron reagan, this is what's going on now. this is clear. it's a reality you can't ignore. they're kbasically saying you can't be president, mr. obama. you can't even pick judges. we're not going to let you do that. of course we have a reason for that too. not just to make you irrelevant. we want to make sure money runs politics through united citizens type of decisions. >> well, they're going for a two-for here. this began on the eve of his inauguration, after his first inauguration where they met together in a hotel in washington, d.c. and decided whatever he's trying to do, we're going to be against it. but the two fer is you not only nullify his presidency, but you also -- you delegitimize all of it. then people get the idea the government can't do anything. then, of course, you're playing right into the republicans' hands. >> and they're doing that in affordable care as well. republicans have also tried to sabotage every major part of the president's agenda. politico recently reported that --

naked attempts to nullify the results of the last presidential election. >> ron, this is -- ron reagan, this is what's going on now. this is clear. it's a reality you can't ignore. they're kbasically saying you can't be president, mr. obama. you can't even pick judges. we're not going to let you do that. of course we have a reason for that too. not just to make you irrelevant. we want to make sure money runs politics through united citizens type of decisions. >> well, they're going for a two-for here. this began on the eve of his inauguration, after his first inauguration where they met together in a hotel in washington, d.c. and decided whatever he's trying to do, we're going to be against it. but the two fer is you not only nullify his presidency, but you also -- you delegitimize all of it. then people get the idea the government can't do anything. then, of course, you're playing right into the republicans' hands. >> and they're doing that in affordable care as well. republicans have also tried to sabotage every major part of the president's agenda. politico recently reported that --

what's he talking about, ron reagan? >> well, he's talking about people who take advantage of tea partiers and their presumed good will merely to raise money. he may have been discussing two different things. one is the sort of magical thinking on the political side where they only read their own polls. imagine the rest of the country is really also part of the tea party. and the other may be that he's identified the reality which is that the tea party today is really what the moral majority, we used to call them couple 20 years ago, was the religious right. these are the same people now wearing tri-cornered hats car carrying muskets. they're old, white, and fading into the sunset. >> thank you. we appreciate your being here. >>> up next, the latest from the parallel universe from congressman steve king. and if you want to follow me on twitter, all you need do is figure out how to spell smerconish. [ brent ] this guy's a pro, herbie. [ herbie ] no doubt about it brent, a real gate keeper. here's kevin in the nissan sentr

ron reagan, i want to start with you. this has been a concerted effort. it's like when you read about lincoln coming to washington because the secession movement has begun. they didn't give this guy a honeymoon. they didn't give him nothing. they started going after him from the beginning. >> no. and they haven't learned their lesson. they just got their hat handed to them with their government shutdown and the debt ceiling, but they're going to keep this up. it's an ideological war they're fighting where these tea party members, they think the government is bad. not only do they think that obama's government is bad, any government is bad. so they want government to fail. which is a pretty outrageous thing. imagine when the iraq war was getting underway if democrat who is opposed the war and weren't crazy about george w. bush to begin with began denying troops body armor or denying them armored vehicles or things like that. that's the equivalent to what republicans are doing to the health care bill with not expanding medicaid, leaving millions of people t

ron reagan is an msnbc political analyst and former talk radio host. michael, a naive question, why didn't rick perry reference chris christie, what is going on there? >> he doesn't like him. he doesn't like the brand of politics. he think es he's a squishy moderate. i think chris christie has a big problem with the base of his party. >> with raud to tuesday, between purity and pragmatism. pragmatism had a good day. >> chris christie's ascension, if you will, his ascension into the main stream of being mentioned is a front-runner for the presidential race coming up highlights the division of the republican party. we have two parties now and they're taking shots at each other. it's on in the republican party now as long as chris tristy takes that position. that will continue to be highlighted and the only people that win in that are the democrats. >> here's the question i would like to know. the iowan who voted for him, let's not forget rick santorum won the iowa caucus. are they thinking, christie is not as pure as i like, but, hell, this time i want t

ron reagan would have been an extraordinary speaking out about the devastation of the popular culture. he never did. looking back at the anthology of ronald reagan and looking forward into the future to find the next great ronald reagan where every might be. many years. an admirer. he is gone in different ways. not your father's gop anymore. and he said, my father is 91 years old. the very high if the gop. miles from here, almost 3,000 a yorkers were murdered. and september 2001. and that is a whole new ball game. you know, i can say was that day, but that we can realize this is the rest of my life. this is the new 30 years' war. i will probably not see the end of this. whole new set of challenges and tasks. giving the briefing is now. and sure he had at least some inkling of what's out there. got speed to him, but new things come up. you just have to deal with it. >> i agree about our principles and values are enduring. if you look at the three key elements of conservatism in the market has the best way to allocate capitol, the world as a dangerous place require a tough-minded approa

ald reagan was still president and we put in a series of cutting edge technologies for communications. this is a series of relays that were installed in 1988 that provide the source of communications from our control center to our bosses and to our transits. on september 3rd of this year, at some point mid-day we lost communications with our equipment and service. it required us to take a series of fail safe measures and guiding the trains through with the controllers and all of that and amazing in a short period of time -- come on up -- i didn't fix anything. this is lawrence who was alumni for the award, but lawrence took a look at this re lay board which some of you may remember. this one is in the control center but some of the toys we've taking, some have aluminum foil around them and in the relay system. mr. chow was able to figure out which power supply shut the system down, identify the relay, replaced the power supply and me thoth cally we brought the city back. he built in a redundant system, would we couldn't be more pleased and honored to have someone of his technical skil

he referred to president reagan as old ron and predicted the term when he was reelected. he said tottering around in his 70s i would guess he would be in the do nothing eisenhower model. he corresponded with clinton and wrote about the whitewater scandal. he told president clinton i am sure that you will learn valuable lessons from this ordeal as jfk learned from the bay of pigs. later he faced more pressure surrounding the lewinsky scandal. he offered this advice. this is to restore bit clinton's credibility as a president and a man. he was a critic of john boehner before he became speaker. he misquoted him. i am sorry to see them give this forgery new currency. do you really think those quotations sound like abraham lincoln. come o. those are a fraction of fascinating writing of a true insider. they have been published in a new book. the letters of arthur slessinger and they have been edited by two sons. oh, bill clinton and lauren ba call. let me start with you. did you have any nervousness about doing this, making these public? did you say to yourself, hmm, would my f

. >> on the other hand the reagans seemed delighted by their son ron's turn in the spotlight. he appeared in this sketch on saturday night live. >> he was very poised, he was very charming, he did a dance in his underpants. >> i thought he was very good. >> you enjoyed it? >> yes. >> no white house is complete without a pet or two or three. through the years there have been parrots, and ponies, even alligators. a cat is optional, but a dog is a must. >> every president has to have a dog, right? >> anytime a president needs a best friend, a distraction, or a warm and furry photo-op, all he has to do is whistle. >> president reagan had ranch dogs, and white house dogs, like rex. >> he is quite a scene stealer. didn't anyone ever tell you not to do scenes with dogs? >> or children! >> like children, pets can occasionally be disobedient. >> why don't you call him and see if he'll come. >> come here, barney. hey, barney. >> he's too interested in all those sheep. >> come here barney. little boy. >> he certainly does listen to you. >> when we returned two years later, barney was sti

joining me, professor from american university, the author of going to thai ron. why to go to terms with iran. and the president for security and the former pentagon official under president ronald reagan. i'm trying to get your thoughts on where things stand. hillary, what do you make of this? >> they are very close. closer than they have been in over a decade. i'm not that optimistic and i think it will come down to whether or not the united states and its so-called allies can recognize iran's right to enrich the rights as a sovn country. i'm not sure the united states can do it. they are driving toward negotiation, i'm not sure they can seal the deal. >> i'm with hillary. i'm getting a feeling they are not going to do it. what is your feeling? >> you could be right. one of my experiences of negotiating in these kinds of settings a long time ago now is if you want it bad, you get it bad. the idea, i think most americans can appreciate this. the idea they are going to spend the night thrashing around with iranians and the good outcome is going to be achieved is u

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reagan i think the president didn't have any close relation except for nancy, which is as close that you can be with another person, but he really likes according to ron who i'm friends with, told me he would always get off on he was of tip around the house. i was impressed with the. to but always say their differences. you could carry on -- tip was very tough. really tough. i know, i worked for him, tough guy. the good thing about it was a had the sort of old school rules which i would like to see resuscitated. remember when a new president got a honeymoon ask there's a phrase we all grew up with. and it's a dead. now you have to start plotting the day the guy gets nominated. let's get rid of this guy. the voters vote ought to count and it ought to be hey, we went to the polls and we made a decision get that out to mean something. that's my belief. you can disagree with. what tipped it, what he said, the tax cut, this been cut, the increases, he promised reagan early on you get a boat and everyone of them by august 1. he did and reagan won every time. tip gave him his schedule. no g