he said if you want to understand ronald reagan what you need to remember is that ronald reagan was the son of an alcoholic father. now, when he told me this it was no particular news. reagan himself reported on this in his memoir. and so memoir. and so i was waiting for him to send more because this wasn't -- he wasn't giving me new information. he went on to say i speak of the subject as the son of an alcoholic father. father. and i will tell you that there is a characteristic emotional style that people in that situation grew up with. and here is the way works. this is what is telling. he. he said, one day your father is your best friend and you're throwing the baseball around in the back way to the backyard and is tell you a funny story takes you a freshman. the next day he is beating the living daylights out of. and every day of your boyhood when you wake up you don't know which father you're going to be dealing with. and as a result of this you grow up keeping people and emotions at a distance because the one person who is your father should be a role model, the one who should be

ronald reagan ran before and did not win. i think the time that god put him in then was the time we needed him. we needed to transform. what advice would they give to all of us? i believe they would both say -- believe in the exceptionalism of this country. do not be shy of it. there is a reason why we are exceptional because our country was created differently than any other country before us. i say lincoln would say this based on the gettysburg address. have you ever read the on "four score and seven years ago"? he went on to say if we fail the government, the people shall not perish from the earth. he did not say that france or england would pick up the torch. he said we would make it. no other country was created with the idea of liberty and that everyone is equal. ronald reagan knew this better than all the rest. you know why? ronald reagan understood something very fundamental. that america is more than just a country. america is an idea. an idea that free people can govern themselves. that government powers are derived

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and he said if you want to understand ronald reagan what you need to remember is that ronald reagan was the son of an alcoholic father. now, when he told me this, it was no particular news. reagan himself reported on this in his memoirs. and so i was waiting for him to say more because he -- this one he wasn't giving me new information. he went on to say however, i speak on this subject as the son of an alcoholic father. and i will tell you that there is a characteristic emotional style that people in that situation grow up with. and here's the way it works. so this is what he was telling me. he said one day your father is your best friend, and you're throwing the baseball around in the backyard, and he's telling you funny stories, and he takes you out for ice cream. and the next day he's beating the living daylights out of you. and every day of your boyhood when you wake up you don't know which father you're going to be dealing with. and as a result of this my host was saying, you grow up keeping people and emotions at a distance. because the one person who is your, who should be your

wanted to believe and trust ronald reagan. some presidents think their job is to build consensus in washington. ronald reagan's view was he needed to build consensus in america in order to get washington to act. so, he sold some ideas to the american people. i think it is timely to remember that reagan in the last two years was able to pass the canada free-trade agreement, which now looks easy because it is canada. but yet it was tough as nails. every trade deal is rough. welfare reform. the japanese internment debt. all 13 appropriation bills on time. my god. i think it has been done once since, if that. and he got a supreme court justice, not only nominated but confirmed through a democratic senate by the name of anthony kennedy. not bad for somebody who was not 37% and left at 68% job approval. we replaced the national security team with carlucci and a little-known general at the time, known as colin powell who brought fresh energy and fresh ideas to the white house as ronald reagan built those two years. john: a general ov

. >>> president obama as ronald reagan? the current president reportedly suggests he can be a transformative leader just like the gipper. this is "special report." welcome to washington. i'm shannon bream in for bret baier. the june unemployment report shows a gain of 223,000 jobs last month. the unemployment rate fell from 5.5% to 5.3. that is a seven-year low. that coupled with big supreme court wins on obama care and same-sex marriage plus mostly positive receptions for initiatives like cuba and new overtime rules have led the president to make a comparison that many republicans will find tough to swallow. correspondent kevin corke has our top story tonight. >> reporter: if the american economy is a work of art, today's jobs report was more or less paint by numbers. nothing to write home about. >> the unemployment rate is now down to 5.3%. [ cheers and applause ] >> keep in mind when i came into office it was hovering around 10%. >> reporter: while it's true the unemployment rate is down to 5.3% that continues a trend da

. ♪ ♪ >>> former california governor ronald reagan is about to hold a press conference in washington where he is expected to announce that he is a candidate for the republican presidential nomination. >> one of the thing that was a problem for ford the fact that his party was coming apart at the seams. reagan was able to mount a formidable challenge to ford in the '76 nomination contest. >> i am running because i am growing increasingly concerned about the course events in the united states and the world. >> reagan was the great two term governor of california. and he goes after gerald ford as being weak. >> i am quite critical of our foreign policy right now. matter of fact i think that it is all most anchorless and all most aimless. >> he is a good actor. but he also is a formidable challenger. >> ronald reagan was challenging a sitting president in his own party, relatively conservative president and basically calling him a liberal sellout. >> in the texas primary reagan wiped out the president in a stunning victory. >> in august of 1974, this country had some very difficult, form

. >>> former california governor, ronald reagan, is about to hold a press conference where he is expected to announce he is a candidate for the presidential nomination. >> one of the things that was a problem for ford is that his party was coming apart at the scenes, and reagan was able to mount a formidable campaign. >> reagan was the great two-term governor of california and he goes after gerald ford as being weak. >> i am quite critical of the foreign policy right now, and i think it's almost anchorless and aimless. >> he's a good actor, and he is also a good and formidable kh challeng challenger. >> he was calling him a liberal sellout. >> in the texas primary, reagan wiped out the president in a stunning victory. >> there are difficult and formidable obstacles ahead of us. we go in the right direction, young man! >> this was a period of time right in the wake of watergate. americans were very, very suspicious about government and about people that spent too much time in washington, d.c., so jimmy carter could run as somebody as an outsider and somebody not tainted by washington, d.c.

bush is not the orator orator or the visionary that ronald reagan was. george h. w. bush understood the mechanics of the government and how things work and so i and so i think that they complemented each other very well. >> host: you also get a sense versus 1976 when gerald ford selected bob dole and the moderate senator to be his running mate and went on to serve as the secretary and his administration. but that has changed over the last 15 to 20 years. >> guest: in the case of the republican party has become more activist. it's become less establishment. and i think that is -- there's a number of currents that run through that. part of it is geographical area that used to be the main state or the republican party was like pennsylvania which republicans dominated for generations. not so much anymore. the new england states of course prescott bush, george h. w. bush's father, pretty rare when you see republicans having a statewide office in some of the new england states. as of so the party migrated south and it migrated west. and i think that's contributed that cont

this to be again candid about ronald reagan. this was said about ronald reagan. he didn't have specifics, details. that frankly went on when he was president. so i don't really see anything startling here. >> paul, donald trump did not like when i referenced the swing state poll unfavorability ratings which i should point out hillary clinton did not do well in at all. they both have pretty big unfavorables in, in that poll. the only scenario where someone is favorables outweigh favorables, is jeb bush in virginia. not like he is a loan with the problems. the numbers, how difficult is it for clinton and for trump to turn around those unfavorables. they're almost 2:1. >> not very. >> not very difficult. >> not very difficult. here's why. we are all most 500 days away from the election. none of the candidates have had the time to spell out in detal what they want to do. i noticed in the interview. he has a message. core message. world view. core message is i am going to make america great again. he need to fill in. i hope for his sake he does. same thing with hillar

is president obama the ronald reagan of the left? is he living up to his promise to be a transformative enough to keep the white house under democratic control for another four years after his eight years. i'm joined by ruth marcus. can obama be a democratic reagan, meaning hits the history books as someone who change history? >> no is the short answer. the longer answer is in terms of having an effect on the country, the type of effect that we heard the president talk about, changing the direction of the country, creating there working majority. we haven't seen it happen in the first six years of his presidency and we won't see it in the remaining time. that's not to say he won't have an important legacy and a reasonably good shot at being succeeded for the first time since reagan by his successor of his own party after two terms. but he's not transformative. >> reagan didn't create a republican congress. he didn't change politics. >> he cemented it. obama does not leave office having created a new vision of a democratic party or wh

you knew ronald reagan. donald trump said he was a fan of ronald reagan's obviously do. you believe that donald trump has the qualities that reagan had? >> well they are different people. no two people are alike. but i do believe he is drawing the same kind of critics saying the kind of things. when heap is is called a divisive force. rockefeller said he was a minority in a minority. chapter and verse on this kind of thing. >> anna go ahead. >> sure go ahead. >> i don't know what to till you. i think comparing donald trump to ronald reagan should be sacrilege for any republican. the governor of the largest state in the union the today we, have governor scott walker a guy who has within election after election announce. here we are talking about a carnival barker who offers no solutions. and just points out everything that is wrong with america. >>> whoa whoa whoa. >> without showing optimism or an agenda. he is sucking up the oxygen. certainly it is great ratings. people look us are on tv fighting about it. but we're not talking about the really important things that tha

i met ronald reagan after he left the white house in 1994 in his office in los angeles. i think sort of looking back certainly saw a and little bit of the forgetfulness the king with age with alzheimer's but we had a 30 minute meeting, it came as a result of a book i had written on ronald reagan and the cold war called victory, that is the result of the book being published. >> what was your impression of him even though he had stages of alzheimer's? >> he had presents. i have met other presidents corresponded with former presidents, he had presence, he was very engaging, he certainly still had an understanding of the core issues. reagan always struck me as somebody who had a sense or understanding of a few very important things. eyesight in one of the books on reagan from oxford, talked about foxes and hedgehogs and sort of talk about the way people think, you have foxes who know a lot about a lot of things you could look at somebody like richard nixon or bill clinton and say they are fox's. they understand the minutiae of a lot of issues so you have foxes on the one ha

the difference ronald reagan scared the soviet union. ronald reagan maintained offensive pot ture. ronald reagan used credible threat of military force and aggression around the world to keep the soviet union at bay. ali khamenei of iran has the president's number. rolled him on all major con kegs session. this program is not dismantle. ed it is being expanded joe, the stock pride documents were 100 pages long. almost led to implosion of the united states. one hundred pages don't mean it is a good agreement. jenna: we're all working through it. it is tough. we'll find out a lot more about this agreement over next several days and weeks it takes a lot to go through. our viewers will have access. what happens, joe, mark, do you go out for coffee after this? is this normal day in the office? i know you guys are friends. >> you bring it all to the show, jenna. bring it all to the show. afterwards we shake hands. >> i know you will. great to have both of your opinions. no matter which way you see it is historic day. we take it all in have you back as we always do. thank you to you both.

with ronald reagan and i got to travel with ronald reagan. [applause] yes, i actually knew the guy ok, the real guy, not from the history book. he lost at that convention. i had been managing, i think five states for him at that convention. talk about lightning striking me. i walked in and they said, can you manage this. i said, of course i could. ok? i had no idea about it. well, he lost, as you know. and i was there when he met with his closest advisers. and he said we've lost the battle. but we have not lost antiwar because we will -- but we have not lost any war, because we will be back. and of course, he did and it further cemented my notion that big ideas -- big ideas change the world. big ideas change the world. [applause] so i came back -- i came back here to ohio and i was all charged up and i was working as an aide. and i came back and i remember meeting with one of -- one of my buddies, and i said, you know, i think i am just going to run for the state senate. and i remember he was thinking something and he fell on the floor when i

ronald reagan, the actor, would have attacked paul ryan for saying those words but ronald reagan the president became just as supportive of medicare as the socialists who voted for medicare and all of the socialists who voted for ronald reagan. we are back with our panel. joy reid, this is one of those moments. medicare's birthday where it is time to pause and consider all of the crazy things candidates say on their way to getting these jobs in government. >> yeah, absolutely. so as a fundamental matter of conservative dogma, what reagan said when he was actor ronald reagan is what the right professes to believe. to your point, once they begin to govern they note the percentage of seniors who vote. it's very high. seniors vote very specifically on things like medicare and social security. so even the tea party, who profess to hate government turn around and say government hands off my medicare. so it becomes third wheel politics. what is interesting is you have these politicians who even now are attempting to kind of make real and make manifest for the tea party the idea of rolling t

so i appreciate the ronald reagan analogies, but donald trump is not ronald reagan. >> well the choir has beenis going to select the nominees to use your phraseology here. i mean he's pitching to the republican electorate first. >> that's correct. >> that's what anybody has to do. >> >> brett, what would you tell the other candidates about dealing with -- it's one thing trump has to do. i'm very curious to see what all the others have to do about donald trump. what is your advice to them? do they take him on? >>ening that's a great question. and i think the one thing that we have been doing or the media has been doing is we are making trump all of the focus. if i was advising other -- and i am. i'm advising lindsey graham. my advice would be you know, the two people that are most celebrating every day we talk about donald trump in the republican party are hillary clinton and president obama. and so my advice to any candidate would be you know, take on trump when he takes you on but don't make him the center of attention. this is about running against a president that has failed our co

i saw ronald reagan speak at the 1992 convention, but i never met him. that is one of my great regrets. mark: obviously, being a senator is a qualification for president. talk about anything before you ran for elected office you feel helps prepare you in terms of experience or temperament to be president. >> before i was in the senate, i was the solicitor general of texas, which is the chief lawyer for the state in front of the u.s. supreme court. that's an executive position i held five-and-a-half years. during that time, over and over again, we led the nation fighting to defend conservative principles, winning on a national level. we defended the 10 commandments monument on the state capitol grounds. we went to the u.s. supreme court and won 5-4. we defended the pledge of allegiance, the words "under god," and won unanimously. we defended the second amendment. mark: all that has prepared you to be president how? mr. cruz: because it was walking the walk and defending conservative principles. i think the central issue in the republican primary is trust.

>> well, you look at ronald reagan and ronald reagan actually was elected to something before he was elected president of the united states of america. there is massive difference. one had to run campaigns. ronald reagan had also lost before he won the presidency as well when he was running at that level. he understood issues in a completely different level on a totally different playing field than donald trump. in the screen actor's guild when he was taking on communism in russia this is something he was hyperfocussed on. he was focussed on the iranian hostage crisis. he was involved with politics all the way through governor all the way through his first loss and winning and going to the white house. to compare the two men, the only thing they may have in common is they did well on camera. that's it. here's another thing, ronald reagan who is not out there writing six figure checks to democrats four or five years ago before he ran for the white house. >> and, ben, let me say if you go to youtube, you'll find ronald reagan -- it's an audio tape of ronald reagan giving the 1948 speec

who is most like ronald reagan? >> each has qualities that could blossom into a ronald reagan-like figure. lou: chris, the donald, are you a fan? uncomfortable or like a reince priebus, dynamic leader of the republican party. mr. electricity he's known as, i understand. do you think trump should tone it down? >> he should pay attention to phrasing, ventured into new arena here, and it's a different arenthan the one he's accustomed to, and brazenness has always served him very, very well and many respects service him well right now. he lacks a couth, finesse, he's got rough edges when it comes to the arena of politics. but he's striking a chord with the american people, you're hearing this also lou, and hearing it from the radio and a lot of people. he's striking a chord with people, he's a no-nonsense, we're on your show. he is no-nonsense, he cuts right to it. what he's saying is from the heart, it's essentially the truth, and he doesn't sound like one of the politicians who holds his hands just so and refuses to u

going to give you a quote from ronald reagan that he set himself to think it could be said of all 14. he once said i never thought of myself as a great man can adjust a man committed to great ideas. i've always believed that individuals should take priority over the state. history has taught me that this is what sets america apart. so there you have it. 14 liters, jefferson to reagan. i want to thank you all for letting me come today. and if we've got time we will have a few questions. [applause] >> as long as i know there's nothing biblically about 14. seven is a member so maybe there is something difficult. but as i went through there was something that i thought about it and took out and then there were - as i went through there were couples i didn't know so much about and he deserves to be in there so somehow it just wound up as 14. but i didn't start off by saying i've got to find 14. >> for those that didn't quite make the cut and didn't quite get into that. >> i started on the chapter they were great friends mentioned in the book. there were some quotes and also from carter gl

>> ronald reagan was ronald reagan but i have to say i do think that donald trump is tapping into something here that people should be paying attention to. the republican party should be paying attention to. there is a lot of unrest and anger at the republican establishment in washington, feeling that they've elected these folks and then they don't do anything. they don't take tough stands. they campaign on them and then they get there and they just don't do it. he's certainly tapping into that. there's no question, and so did regen in the day. >> you can see that in the polling, at least right now. he's also not ruling out a third-party run if he doesn't get the nomination. would you advise him to do that because obviously the mainstream in your party, they think that clearly would undermine your party's candidate. >> well, i will say this, the third-party runs, the best ever in terms of getting close to the white house was teddy roosevelt in 1912 and ross perot for a while there in 1992. but neither of them made it. so i do think that that's something that when we get to that point, mr. t

on that note. >> jeffrey says trump is the next ronald reagan. he didn't say that but that's how it will be construed by some. >> thank you. >>> there is information about the troubled past of the 24-year-old shooter who carried out two attacks in cha noottanooga military. we begin our coverage with evan perez, live in washington d.c. what have you learned? >> a more complicated picture of abdulzeez. family members interviewed by the fbi said he was abused drugs and suffered from a manic-depressive bipolar disorder. that's why his family sent him to jordan to get him away from friends that were bad influences on him. the fbi is looking into the mental health and drug issues. and evidence they suggest that would radicalize before the shooting. that includes his time visiting relatives in the middle east. they told the fbi he had a hard time keeping his job. they said they thought he was improving more recently. the family members knew about abdulzeez's purchase of high powered weapons, but despite the mental issues it wasn't a problem because he w

but ronald reagan got things done, you know? he found a way to get things done and to find some compromise. so i do think that we have great leaders that we should look back on and maybe try to model what they did because washington's really broken right now. and it doesn't serve any of us if they're not going to get anything done. and by the way, we don't like any of them. the polls show they have a 13% approval rating. so, you know, i really feel like if we actually did get some things done in a bipartisan way that we would have a better feeling about our country in general. just my personal opinion. >> right over here. >> hello. we were wondering when you said that you told your counselor that you were leaving stanford? when did you end up going back to school? >> oh, thank you for asking. it was so important for me to go back to get my degree. and i did have tv opportunities after i was miss america where i would not have gone back, and that just wasn't an option for me. the greatest joy in my life from the scholarship money

i had the honor of being at the ronald reagan presidential. if you please stand in judgment for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. before we get started there's a few people in the audience that i would like to make sure we recognize tonight and i'll begin with the state of california's gail wilson. [applause] we also have witnessed dr. gary shepherd, vice president of strategic communications for general electric. gary. [applause] tonight is a special night as we have witnessed a very special group of students from around the country. 20 ge reagan foundation scholarship winners and their families. if you want, please stand. they will be attending universities this fall back down one of the country's greatest companies and of course one of its greatest presidents. thank you all for coming. people often ask me whether there is a criterion for someone who'

so i would put, for example ronald reagan as a hedge hog. he was not a technocrat, not a detailed guy but he understood human freedom he understood human schooling when it came to freedom and that made all the difference for the world and the type of leader he was. >> host: one significant moment in his second term was his meeting with mick kell gorbachev in like vic. >> guest: the meeting was to come to an arms controlled agreement. possibly seeking the elimination of nuclear weapons which had been a concern of ronald reagan's for a while. a lot of people fail to recognize he had profound moral concerns about nuclear weapons so he was prepared to potentially come to some sort of agreement on the eventual limits limits and elimination of nuclear weapons. the problem is that gorbachev's real going was to end the u.s. strategic defense initiative, sometimes called star wars and that became very apparent when you look at even though russian transcripts of the meetings that was really gorbachev's objective, and reagan was not prepared to give th

pataki: ronald reagan proved that peace through strength is more than a slogan. peace through strength is a policy that works. weakness, equivocation, leads to brutality and war. the world is a better place when america is strong, and a champion of liberty and freedom. [applause] mr. pataki: allies and friends of america must know that our word is our bond. we will stand with our ally israel. [applause] mr. pataki: we will stand with our allies in nato and the free baltic states against a resurgent russia. we will make sure the number one sponsor of state terror in the world, iran, never has a nuclear weapon. [applause] mr. pataki: we will provide whatever aid is necessary to those already fighting isis on the ground, to stop their barbarism and inhumanity. and yes, if necessary, american forces will be used to defeat and destroy isis so they can pose no threat to us here. [applause] mr. pataki: we will not spend a trillion dollars on a decade of nation building overseas but i will never forget the lesson of september 11. we will destroy a radical islam's ability

. >> this is ronald reagan. he was wonderful. yes. >> what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear ronald reagan? >> wasn't he an actor. designee cared about this country. >> what's his most famous line >> the broccoli. no that's george bush. >> i do not like broccoli. >> nixon. >> is she right? >> oh, my god that is so embarrassing. my parents if they see this. >> off with her head! >> ever watch "the o'reilly factor." >> all the time. >> anything you want to say to bill. >> keep on trucking. >> keep speaking the truth. >> i love o'reilly. >> gave you a speaking part, nobody cares. >> what is o'reilly lying about. >> not that he lies but he holds back on truth. >> our ran paul guy? >> i like rand paul. >> i knew it. >> bill o'reilly is very charming. >> ever watch water's world >> no. >> ever watch o'reilly factor? >> your going back to time. >> i need to get back to 1985. >> how are you doing? >> i'm a patriot. >> this young man is a fine patriot. >> there's actually a poll taken about who was the best american

they said you can't compare the two because ronald reagan came out as a vanilla recession hit when ronald reagan took over he said it was a catastrophe when obama took over. >> all the more reason for us to have better growth. we should be selling and showing a stronger job growth that we are right now. >> you know as well as i do pay the difference is a different administration putting in policies that would grow the economy. tax cuts, less regulation, more clarity from washington. it doesn't take a phd to figure out that will help grow the economy. stuart: before you go, i want you on this story. the 99% hillary clinton, got a $600 haircut. i would say that was bad at the very least. >> who on earth gets a $6 -- i know manhattan is expensive but i'd never even heard of that. apparently that is what they charge. for that amount of money is bad optics. if you want that expense of a haircut she could've got a stylus to come to her hotel room. instead she shout down half of manhattan to get her hair cut there. >> how good do you have to be to charge $600? insane. absolutely insane. i am use

they said it all about ron reagan and we know what happened. >> you knew ronald reagan and donald trump talks about reagan -- >> let me. >> i think what donald trump talks -- let me follow up with jeffrey. jeffrey, you knew rond reagan. donald trump says he is a fan of his. do you believe that donald trump has the qualities that reagan had? >> well they are different people. offensely, no two people are alike. but i do believe that he has drawn the same kind of critics who are saying the kinds of things. when he is being called al divisive force in the republican party, and nelson rockefeller said he was a minority in a minority. >> okay. >> chapter and verse on this kind of thing. >> anna go ahead. >> sure g go. >> i don't know what to tell you other than i think comparing donald trump to ronald reagan should be a sack are lij for any republican. ronald reagan was the governor of the largest state in the union. today we have governor scott walker announce and here we are talking about a carnival barker who offers no solutions and just points out everything that's wrong with america wit

and saying rond reagan two ronald reagan two or three times that helps and when he says i will repeal obamacare that works. >> again, scott walker becomes the 15th prominent republican to enter the race. we'll have more on our news at 7:00. i'm david schuster. the news starts. >>> hello, everybody, this is al jazeera america. live from new york city i'm david shuster. ahead this hour leaders from greece and the european union have agreed on a debt deal but it has painful strings attached and now the prime minister has to convince his people to accept the deal. >>> el chopo has broken out of prison. >>> and scott walker has now entered the presidential race. we'll show you the impact he is already having in the

ronald reagan was second. barack obama third. president obama ranked higher right after he was elected then placed first ahead of jesus. are any of those people your heroes? [ cheers ] >> some for jesus, but not the politicians, but the list is politicians, george bush is on the list. hillary clinton, fdr, elizabeth warren. why politicians? what is so heroic about what they do? when i look at them i see self-serving panderers who say anything to win. and once elected dole out favors and money to their cronies. but that's not how the hollywood left sees politicians. they see them as inspirational heroes. >> let the american people explode into this new millennium with the exhilaration of being true to the glory of this democracy. thank you. [ applause ] . john: the music swells. this idea that the right politician will lift all of us up, bring us together, save the country is just stupid. and worse, it's dangerous because it encourages people to turn to politicians for answers, and the way politicians do things, the way government

it turned into ronald reagan thank goodness. >> well that's what i wanted to ask you about. you know directly and personal from your own personal experience what the impact of this as you point out in the late '70s happened and then what did it take from your viewpoint and what did history record as the defining moment when reagan stepped in to make a difference? >> you know what it really took was it took johnson, nixon, ford and carter to give us ronald reagan. what i refer to as the four stooges, the largest assemblage of bipartisan ignorance probably ever put on planet earth. once we corrected that balance, which is also like the last 14 years, it took ronald reagan to come in and it was in very short order. we brought the economy back to its feet and bursting with growth and optimism. and it went on through bill clinton by the waybill clinton was a great president. and reagan through clinton was a terrific period of time for the u.s. and i think we're on the verge of another huge turnaround. if you see the election results in '14 in november the republicans took the sen

. >> reporter: you got married on ronald reagan's birthday? >> we did. i don't know if i knew that at the time. >> reporter: he counts on her for guidance. they don't always agree. nor do the boys. after the supreme court ruling on same-sex marriage. they were on one side dad on the other. >> reporter: you called it a great mistake. not everybody agreed. >> her cousin married her partner. one of the governor's son a witness at the ceremony. roichl when >> reporter: when your husband the governor says it was a great mistake. what do you say? >> i was more concerned that i got calls from both the boys upset about what scott had said. and so my advice to them was don't come to me. go to him. he said it. >> reporter: you haven't changed your stance? >> no no. we love them. and for us you know love is going to be the focus of everything we do with our family. >> reporter: they talk a lot about family. his mother and father a baptist preacher. he might share his idol ronald reagan with someone else. >> one of your college professor professors said you wore thr

it was at a speech to a packed house in the ronald reagan library. adam house has more. >> reporter: in three recent polls as you know. she has moved in the top ten including one in new hampshire showing her in the top ten. even though it is difficult to overcome the donald trump media frenzy and the sheer number of candidates. she is making a move. she is the only woman in the gop field. it is not deterring her as she is focusing on international experience and former head of hewlett packard and crit otherwising the administration. she goes after hillary clinton for her lack of knowledge especially the e-mail server. >> we were not worried about it being stolen as you were. we were worried about it being hack or used as a back door in the state department system which is what appears to have happen in opm. >> fiorina said her information was taken in that attack. and she's following the famous reagan command canment and saying little about the other candidates and taking direct aim at hillary clinton. and she was attacked for women's groups and turn

with ronald reagan and i got to travel with ronald reagan. [applause] yeah i actually knew the guy, okay? the real guy. not from the history book. he lost at that convention. i had been managing i think five states for him at that convention. you talk about lightning striking me. i was 24 years old. i walked in. they were one man short and could you manage five states for the governor? i had no idea what i was saying. i said of course i could. i had no idea about it. he lost, as you know. around i was there when he met with his closest advisors. and he said, we've lot the battle. we haven't lost any war because we'll all be back. and i'm going to fix america wall of your help. and of course he did and it further cemented my notion that big ideas, big ideas change the world. big ideas change the world! [applause] so i came back, i came back here to ohio and i was all charged up. i was working as an aide. i came back and remember meeting with one of my buddies, i said i think i will run for the state senate and beat that guy we've been watching

i am moderate in my tone just as ronald reagan was reagan never demonized people. he offered a set of proposals that were big and bold and conservative and rather than ran as a dpreev vans candidate. can you imagine ronald reagan in the environment that we are in today having to say how bad everybody is? he never did. that he talked about the things that he was for and that tone i think is how conservatives win. we need to win again. we can't be losing elections and winning everything else. imagine if we had a republican conservative with a conservative congress? i think we can fix these things and our country will rise up like nobody's business. >> the tea party, mostly good or mostly bad? >> i'd say mostly died as far as the eye can see, unsustainable deficits that we've abandoned constitutional principals that we have given way too much power to waulgdz, i think on by a big margin it's been a positive force. >> most analysts will tell you jeb bush's hard sell will fought be to the party leaders but to base voters. >> if you ask republican leaders behind the scen

. >> this is ronald reagan. he was wonderful. >> what is the first thing that comes to your mind when i say ronald reagan? >> wasn't he an actor? >> what is his most famous line? >> the broccoli? >> no, that's george bush. >> i do not like broccoli. >> nixon. >> is she right? >> oh my god. that is so embarrassing. my parents, if they see this. >> >> ever watch the o'reilly factor? >> all of the time. >> just keep speaking the truth. what up? >> i love o'reilly. >> he's a lawyer. >> going to give you a part. nobody cares. >> what does o'reilly lie about? >> not that i lies. he holds back on the truth. >> you like rand paul? >> i do. >> i didn't know you wanted to get involved on the passion. >> bill o'reilly is very charming. >> you ever watch watters' world? >> no. >> owe rile factor? >> yes. >> i need to get back to 1985. >> how are you doing, bill? >> this young man is a fine patriot. >> there is actually a poll about who was the best american president? who took it and how did it turnout? >> ronald reagan is