and this time we're going to let ronald reagan be ronald reagan. >> the mantra let reagan be reagan was let's take advantage of what we've got. the strongest thing, our best political asset is ronald reagan being himself, communicating with the american people. when he was showing his personality, his ideas and rhetoric, he generally succeeded. >> going into tonight's debate a new nbc news poll indicates the race continues to narrow. >> i think the audience out there tonight will be looking at ronald reagan in a new way. i think in louisville the myth or the mystique of the great communicator was dented, perhaps irreparab irreparably. >> president kennedy had to go days on end with very little sleep during the cuban missile crisis. is there any doubt in your mind that you would be able to function in such circumstances? >> not at all. mr. truitt. and i want you to know that also i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> it brought down the house, and it was his house by then. >> there were sev

they are, in fact, the antithesis of ronald reagan and are against everything ronald reagan stood for, and you certainly could talk about big government. the fact that these so-called conservatives in congress along with donald trump have passed the largest spending bill ever. have the largest federal debt ever. exploded the deficit, the yearly deficit. have been more fiscally irresponsible than any congress in u.s. history, and yet -- and yet -- still claim the mantle of reagan while being demagogues. do we have that to run? mika, let's go to break on it and i'll tell all of my conservative friends, take a good, close look at what ronald reagan said, because it's very telling. he didn't say this in, like, june of 1986. this was his farewell speech to america. still ahead on "morning joe" what do we have, mika? >> we'll tell you about a mother and daughter deported to el salvador, but a judge steps in and orders the plane turned around nap story is coming up. you're watching "morning joe." >> and here's reagan. >> -- and since this is the last speech that i will give as president i th

have to say something about ronald reagan. the reality in american politics is that if it is perceived as impossible, if you listen to ronald reagan, it becomes commonplace. the election of abraham lincoln and donald trump. when pat brown was running against reagan, he beats -- he makes light of him. he said he has no experience. don't worry, i am really interested in aviation. reagan one that election by almost 1 million votes. immediately, he became a major figure in american politics. he let his guys basically run him in these various states. he picked up 11% in new hampshire. he picked up 22% and nebraska. he picked up 100% in california. that gave him of base going into the convention. the only way as we heard, the only way he could possibly get the nomination is to deny nixon on the first ballot. nixon was not in a great position of strength going into that convection. -- convention. it was largely because of strom thurmond. >> our guest robert merry is the editor of the american conservative and matthew dallek was a pro

and he studied what he's done, and he also studied ronald reagan. and in his library there were these boxes of research that he did on ronald reagan. and he observed reagan was really effective in using television to connect to the emotion of viewers, of voters. and there's this really compelling speech where you have nixon's writing on it and he says reagan appeals to the hearts, we appeal to the minds. are we missing something by not invoking this media strategy? and he gathered this team and they all agree what wept wrong in 1960 is he did want use media effe effectively. he completely revamped and followed what kennedy did and reagan did. and this is really significant because at the end of the day he believed and the people he surrounded himself with believed that the difference between nixon the loser and nixon the winner was that embrace that show biz politics style. >> paced on that there were no debates in 1968 but richard nixon, the man in the arena inthies televised settings, and i put that in quote because they were carefully orchestrate

t ultimately found a champion in ronald reagan. president reagan challenged the centrist policies of gerald ford in the 1976 presidential campaign and he won the presidency in 1980 on a pro-defense anti-communist platform. this is about 50 minutes. ♪ >> that was david bowie's classic song "heroes" released in 1977, which features two young lovers who meet at the berlin wall, a wall that separated east and west germany. and had come to symbolize the divisions of the cold war. we've now looked at the declining trust in government that had been a central part of post-world war ii america that resulted from the war in vietnam and from the shocking scandal of watergate. and we've also looked at the erosion of the growing economy, which had brought so many americans into the middle class during the 1950s and '60s. we learned about the rising voices, both on the right and the left, that sought to fill the void that was being created in american politics. and for the third part of my trifecta today, we're going to look at the failed effo

ronald reagan wanted everyone to come of. then they forget the part about the wall and the country without borders isn't a country. >> it oh could toured me while you were talking to craig, maybe two, three, four elections in the future we will see videotape of donald trump saying, the liberals saying now those were the days when people had a heart and soul laf last. >> laura: i don't think so. >> just a fun experiment here laura, could it possibly be worse, until it gets worse? but, no. >> he might be right. >> but there's sto much the two share in common. craig was saying or maybe i read it did in his book. the commitment to a defense build up, which was so essential to both of them. focus on the wall, reagan wanted to tear one down, the right one, and trump wants to build one up and that's the right one, too. they're very different permits and yet very much going in the same direction, it seems to me. the thing i think, i would be interested in craig's point of view on this, having served proudly for ronald reagan, i think

i have to say something about ronald reagan. there's a reality in politics, things happen that are perceived as impossible, inconceivable, couldn't happen and the emergence of ronald reagan is one of those things and as soon as they happen they become common place and the election of donald trump are examples of this. when pat brown was running against reagan and he dismissed reagan and tried to make light of them. i've never flown an airplane, but don't worry because i've always been interested in aviation. >> reagan won that election by almost a million votes and immediately, he's a major figure in american politics. >> he was a stealth canned ad. he let them basically run him in 11 states and he picked up 11% in new hampshire and picked up 22%, maybe in nebraska and picked up 20% in oregon and 20% in california because he was the favorite son. that gave hem a base to go into the convention and the only way as we just heard, the only way he could possibly get the nomination is deny nixon on the first ballot, the nomination and

this is about the future of life. >> ronald reagan thought the freeze movement was ridiculous. that the number of nuclear weapons, some 40,000 in the world were way too high, that to freeze them would lock in soviet superiority in certain numbers that he wanted to eliminate. >> when your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals i urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of declaring both sides equally at fault. to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire. to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. >> reagan delegitimized the soviet union. now the trouble is you're both poised with these weapons at each other, which is a terrible way to live. mutually assured destruction. so reagan said why don't we do something and put a protective shield between us so i can have some other option. and that was the birth of the strategic defense initiative, called sdi, or unkindly called star wars. >> what if free people could intercept and de

he also studied ronald reagan and in the nixon library, their boxes of research that he did on ronald reagan. he observed that reagan was really effective at using television to connect it to the emotions of voters. there is a really compelling speech where you have nixon's handwriting on it. he actually says, and reggina -- reagan appeals to the heart. we missing something by not invoking this strategy? and he gathered a team of media advisers and advertising executives, roger ailes, notably. they all agreed. what went wrong in 1960 was that he did not use the media effectively. he did not put himself into celebrity the way that kennedy had. so he completely revamped his media strategy called media central and followed what kennedy did and followed what reagan did. this is significant, because at the end of the day, he believed, and the people that he surrounded himself with believed, that the difference between nixon the loser and nixon the winner was that the showbiz politics style. >> basement, there were no debates in 1968, but richard nixon, the man in the arena in these televis

and he also studied ronald reagan. and in the nixon library there are these boxes of research he did on ronald reagan. and he observed that reagan was really effective at using television. to connect to the emotions of potential voters. there's this really compelling speech when you had nixon's handwriting on it. and he actually says reagan appeals to the heart. we appeal to the minds, are we missing something? by not invoking reagan's strategy. he gathered this team media advisers, advertising execs and television producers, roger ailes notably and they all agreed that what went wrong in 1960 was that he didn't use media effectively and he didn't turn himself into a celebrity the way kennedy had. so he completely revamped his media strategy. made television central. and followed what kennedy did and followed what reagan did. and this is really significant, because at the end of the day, he believed and the people he surrounded himself with believed, that the difference between nixon the loser and nixon the winner was

on ronald reagan. he observed that reagan was really effective at using television. to connect to the emotions of potential voters. and there is this really compelling speech when you have nixon's handwriting on it and he actually says, reagan appeals to the heart, we appeal to the mind is. -- minds. are we missing something by not invoking reagan strategy? together this team of media advisers, and -- advertising executives and television producers, roger ailes notably and they all agreed that what went wrong in 1968 was that he didn't use media effectively and he didn't turn himself into the celebrity the way kennedy had. he made television central, and followed what kennedy did unfollowed what reagan did. this is really significant because at the end of the day, he believed and the people he surrounded himself with believed that the difference between nixon the loser and nixon the winner was that embrace of that showbiz politics style. >> based on that, there were no debates in 1968. but richard nixo

matthew: in some ways, the ronald reagan campaign was a template for richard nixon. the idea that the country was unraveling, that there were the berkeleyes, protests, antiwar demonstrations, april 1968, the andmbia university unrest, nixon was able to hit this theme that the non-shouters as he called them, the quiet americans, and he was primarily appealing to white, middle-class suburbanites, white, working-class americans, that we have got to crack down, with got to crack down on the supreme court justices who are too lenient, on the politicians who have raised expectations and but i to calm the cities, isnk that the caller absolutely right that we can see -- as aa kind of event from the post-1945 order where the country emerged as a superpower untouched by the bombing, the economic growth, a senseexpansion, of military strength nobody could challenge, and a sense that there was abundance for all, all these fundamental, and then of course issues of race and gender which spilled into primarily race in 1968. those things spelled out in that year and we are still liv

me ask you about ronald reagan. he was in the race in 1968, but primarily as the favorite son in california. what was his role in a primary process, if any? guest: had just won the governorship of california, his first political campaign. in november of 1966 he did with richard nixon could not do, he be pat brown in california. a boom among some of his aides and supporters on the west coast that this was the rising star of the conservative movement. this is a more electable goldwater. he had just gotten into office. aides said was that the aides did much more work than reagan did in the primaries. they try to draft him. reagan really only declared a candidate at the convention itself in the hopes that they could deprive richard nixon of nomination on a first ballot. while nixon's forces were somewhat concerned that reagan could be a credible threat, nixon had, before reagan even announced at the convention, nixon had wrapped up endorsements from very goldwater, strom thurman, many of the southern conservatives that

from g mccartney -- from g mccartney to ronald reagan? >> at the new york city -- at the new york said, i worked in open market operations, which is where the control the money supply and manipulate interest rates. that had a big impact on me. you learn a lot about market economics. i want to go back in time, because at princeton i remember 1971, paul about o talk in theme t auditorium. everything was falling apart in the economy. inflation had jumped, we were in the session, this was the first of the shocks. president next and imposed raise and price controls. it was a big mistake. import tariffs, etc. i was watching volcker and listening to what he was talking about. i said i want to do that. time, maybe this is still true, but at that time i was the to go to the federal reserve. if you train to be a diplomat or a foreign service officer, it is a very high-quality place, but i want to work at the fed. i got a job offer and took it. i started learning about macro economics, that was my big graduate school extension. i learned a lot. time

a wonderful book you all should read called the education of ronald reagan. it's about the tears that he spent at general electric and had as a mentor the general relations. i worked with him for years and when i read this book i understood what he was doing for the first time. through the blu the blue-collar audiences with q-and-a andit picture taking by the time he'd been interacting with blue-collar workers talking about ideas that the guy that hired him was a very conservative person and he wouldn't fly back then. he refused to fly. he had a very bad airplane flight and i think they got caught in a thunderstorm and he decided that was it. he didn't fly again until the fall of 65 he gets a call one evening from his brother in san francisco who says there's a group of guys that would like to have breakfast with with you in the morning andhe talk about support for governor. he said i can't get from here to san francisco this past. you get to decide if you are going to be governor and hung up on him. >> the first time he gets on an airplane which tells you ho

reagan government is not the solution to your problem that is the problem. >> in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem. [applause] >> what i hope people get from this book, one of the reasons why i wrote the book is historians and political scientists and journalists have been trying to study and understand political change, especially what is driving history is that goldwater is crushed in the 64 election losing to a liberal texan running on the great society platform of bigger government fulfillment of the new deal we trust our government and government is good and by 1980 ronald reagan began his career as a goldwater conservative is winning a landslide election in 1980 as johnson when in 1964. so for 20 or 30 years historians try to figure out the personality, locations of the issues. what i really wanted to do was take a step back to say all of these historians are right. and they are looking at different facets of political change is world war ii. they are all right but not exclusively it is about these things together but

ronald rang -- ronald reagan challenged gerald ford. after experimenting with social policy issues early in the primary that did not gain him any traction, reagan came to the issue. the former hollywood actor turned conservative activists and also two-term activists of california was a product of post-world war ii conservativism . he was reading and following intellectuals like william buckley in the 1940s and 50s as he shed his previous loyalty to the democratic party. he gained national standing in 1964 when he found one of the most popular commercials for barry goldwater, the republican who lost to lyndon johnson in a landslide election. in march 1976 in the heat of the primary, reagan discovered that farm policy should be a winning issue and mobilize the conservatives. reagan said under kissinger and ford this nation has become number two and military power in a world where it is dangerous if not fatal to be second best. a. on meet the press where he attacked day talk. we are making the convention. we ask for nothing. as for try to

now your book, "ronald reagan" -- i was reading a quote and ronald reagan said, any person in the united states who requires medical attention and cannot provide for himself should have it provided for him. that's from 1961. would republicans today work, they embrace ronald reagan? i know we look at him as this wonderful myth of a creature. do you think the real ronald reagan today would go over? >> that's really an interesting question. he might have a challenge. in a primary today. but ronald reagan was amazing at articulating his message. now remember, i mean, he was not exactly welcomed in washington. he was an outsider at the time. >> jimmy: right. >> he was considered kind of a bomb-thrower during that time. if you translate to this time, it's a lot different. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, no, he would not be considered a bomb-thrower. [ laughter ] he'd barely even be a thrower, yeah. [ laughter ] >> he had a sign on his oval office desk that says, you can accomplish anything -- there's no limit to what a man can do or where he can do it, as long as he doesn't care who gets credit for it.

ronald reagan came from the conservative wing of the republican party. it was a race that battered afford politically. it made it impossible for him to focus on the democratic nominee early on. he said he had to wait for his nomination before he could focus on his rival. ford declared that there was no soviet domination of eastern europe. then, being stubborn, he refused to clarify what he meant by that , only compounding his error. there was an economic downturn shortly before the election that hurt him. last but not least, it was the portrayal of ford as a klutz. i think many of you have seen the videos, maybe you remember seeing it on tv. in 1975, ford went to salzburg, austria. it was raining outside. ford is walking down the stairs of air force one and slips down the stairs. next thing you know, any slip, any trip, any fall or near fall became fodder for the media and for popular culture. the best example of this was the portrayal of gerald ford on saturday night live. he was portrayed as a nice individual but someone who could not walk straight and

ronald reagan got plenty. nothing compared to what donald trump is getting. if they can use ronald reagan to beat up donald trump, they will do it and they will do it with a straight face i don't know how they pull off the straight face. >> laura: you remind us that the left will do anything to regain power. i want to play flash back sound from some of our favorites in the media. i believe this was during the administration or right after the president -- right after he passed away. let's watch. >> did his vision include extraordinary deficit and cutting the budgets for education and back of the hand in terms -- are you saying -- we have been unkind to him? >> i don't think history be kind to him or have any reason to be kind to him. >> i thought if you got into the oval office, mr. president i'm down on my luck he would give you the shirt off his back and he would sign legislation throwing your kids off the school lunch program. >> laura: he wanted grandma to eat alpo. remember that? >> and catch ketchup was a vegetable too. >> and he becomes a paragon of vi

after jfk, the presidents who mentioned him the most were bill clinton and ronald reagan. i mentioned him all the time. that's what trump is doing, i think it is working. we are getting good results. i know it is early, but i think we will be headed back for that long run path 3.5%. on the way, we will score quarters that are much higher. steve, that's what i think is the ultimate way to solve your debt problems and your deficit problems. again, i am a limited government guy, but you show me subpar growth, and i will show you big budget deficits. if you show me strong growth, i will show you either lower deficit or even surpluses, like we had in the late 1990's. the states should do this, federal government is starting to do it again. as the percentage of gdp, i believe deficits will be coming down. the omb budget is showing that, it will take a while. you will lose revenues in the short run, but the tax cuts will pay for themselves. already, i am seeing estimates from places like cbo's that don't like tax cuts. by virtue of growth and expanding more revenues. that is terr

. >> this is a district hasn't been in democratic party hands since ronald reagan was president. this is why i think democrats are heavy favorites.

i was there in the glory days with ronald reagan. >> it's much worse now. ed: the democrats, the only new name that's surfaced and he rolled it out tonight. that's maxine waters. she is the only new voice of the democratic party which a vicious, vile voice i have known for 30 years. if she is the best they can do, brit on. let her be speaker. lou: to be speaker they would have to win the election. ed: maxine said the mere thought that she'll be a major player sends shutters through most of republicans that know her. lou: harmeet, as you travel around the country, the mood in the country seems to be for the most of part upbeat unless you happen to be on the left, then you are sort of captured and they keep talking about a blue wave. it looks like a blue convulsion, as awareness dawn on the dimms and the left. that their old coalition isn't work. the democrats' coalition is in utter disaway, and they haven't got -- utter disarray. >> that's what i hear when i leave california and come to america. whether they are taxi drivers or uber drivers. people in grocer

i was there in the glory days with ronald reagan. >> it's much worse now. ed: the democrats, the only new name that's surfaced and he rolled it out tonight. that's maxine waters. she is the only new voice of the democratic party which a vicious, vile voice i have known for 30 years. if she is the best they can do, brit on. let her be speaker. lou: to be speaker they would have to win the election. ed: maxine said the mere thought that she'll be a major player sends shutters through most of republicans that know her. lou: harmeet, as you travel around the country, the mood in the country seems to be for the most of part upbeat unless you happen to be on the left, then you are sort of captured and they keep talking about a blue wave. it looks like a blue convulsion, as awareness dawn on the dimms and the left. that their old coalition isn't work. the democrats' coalition is in utter disaway, and they haven't got -- utter disarray. >> that's what i hear when i leave california and come to america. whether they are taxi drivers or uber drivers. people in grocer

he tweeted paul manafort worked for ronald reagan, bob dole and highly prominent and respected political leaders. he worked for me for a very short time. why didn't government tell me he was under investigation?

for many decades since ronald reagan, states were given the rights in particular, california, were able to continue to innovate and move forward. in california, states push the envelope along with epa in the early days to build cleaner and more efficient vehicles. that has not changed. this is getting at a national program that is already established, that was negotiated with the states, the federal government, with the ot, with epa, with the car companies. instead of happening -- having a national program that we have today that is beneficial all around for everyone, instead, they are achieving a national program by stomping on states rights. that is not how you create a

but in terms of major moments where we see a developing republic conservatism sir tim ronald reagan and 66 as the governor of california, john towers election in 61 and kind of fast forwarding to one of these other elements that pushes the development a traditionalist conservatism in the 1970s added to these political cultures. it's a renewal of the family values politicized after roe v. wade 1973 which is a case that originates out of texas and there is an accompanying case without also that is out of georgia. the case in 1973 the supreme court to sanction of abortion after 1973 mixed with decisions on school prayer, tax-exempt status which many have developed after brown v. board of education and then you have the flight that adds to the development in the sunbelt. i would say that the developments in the 70s of the religious will be a part of the majority and the christian right which has been written about her 76 win over georgia first politician to embrace the label becomes the year of the so-called evangelical now all of a sudden 76 and 80 they attract a new evangelical vote is al

ronald reagan came very, very close. there'll -- there were several states and the governor reagan came within one to two votes of breaking it open. close, but close is not good enough. host: this is brad from kentucky, democrat line. i only wish to bring up the would of been the democrats 1968 nominee in sen. roberts: at -- senator robert kennedy. he had a true compassion for the american people that has not been seen since. it is a most laughable to most recentto our nominee, mrs. clinton. ethel kennedy who is still alive, i would just like to thank her and i hope she is in good health. thank you. there is no shortage of people who believe given the momentum that senator kennedy had coming out of the california primary. it might have been in fact enough to carry them all the way. the entrance to forces if you will of the party machinery that rallied around vice president humphrey was very powerful. they called a lot of shots. host: how is humphrey as a candidate? guest: it was the wrong year, you know. humphrey talked

he was with ronald reagan. he was with a lot of different people over the years and i feel very sad about that. it doesn't involve me, but i still feel, you know, it is a very sad thing that happened. nothing to do with russian collusion. had nothing to do with russian collusion. we continue the witch hunt. thank you very much. >> mr. president, what about

ronald reagan who came from the conservative wing of the republican party. it was a race that battered ford politically and made it impossible for him to focus on the nomination or focus on the democratic nominee early on. instead he had to wait to secure the nomination before he could secure his democratic rival. ford famously made a gaff during a second debate with carter -- i'm sorry, i'm getting ahead here. ford made a gaff undin a second debate with carter and then being stubborn he refuse today clarify what he meant by that only compounldiding the error. i think many of you have seen the video, in 1975 ford went to austria to meet with the president of egypt. it was raining outside, ford's walking up the stairs of air force one and slips down the stairs. and next thing you know any slip, any trip, any fall or near fall on the ski slope became fodder for the media and popular culture. best example of this would be chevy chase's betrayal of ford on "saturday night live" where he depicts ford as a nice individual but someone who could not walk straight an

you covered ronald reagan very closely. do you agree with that. what would he say about what president trump? >> ronald reagan was sure of himself and happy with himself and knew what he said or didn't want to say was what he wanted to do and let the devil take the hind post. he never yelled or screamed or no expletive at a reporter i ever heard of. for instance, sarah mcclendon, very aggressive, in the wax in world war ii said you did that and that. he replied, sarah, how can you say that about such a sweet fellow as me and it broke the room up. i said during a deep recession, mr. president you blamed this recession on the congress and mistakes of the past. doesn't any of the blame belong to you? he replied, yes, for many years i was a democrat. we all sat down laughing. he could handle me and questions and he did. >> always great to get your wise perspective. >> a pleasure to be with you, thank you. >>> coming up next, an occasion, a sad one, a deep appreciation of aretha franklin, who died today. flonase relieves sneezing, itchy, watery eyes an

from gene mccarthy to ronald reagan? that the new say york fed, i worked in open market operations, which is where they control the money supply and manipulate interest rates. that had a big impact on me. you learn a lot about market economics. i will not say i want to go back in time, because at princeton i remember -- this was about 1971, 1972,k i was there 1971, 1973, something like that. paul volker had come to talk in the auditorium. i was there. everything was falling apart in the economy. inflation had jumped, we were in recession. this was the first of the shocks. president nixon imposed raise and price controls. it was a big mistake. across-the-board import tariffs, etc. i was kind of watching volcker and listening to what he was talking about. i said, you know what? i want to do that. i want to do that. i think at the time, maybe this is still true, but at that time , i was the only student to go to the federal reserve. you are trained to be a diplomat or a foreign service officer, it is a very high-quality pla

ronald reagan came from the conservative wing of the republican party. it was a race that battered ford politically. and made it impossible for him to focus on the nomination of -- focus on the democratic nominee early on, instead, he had to wait to secure the nomination before he could focus on the democratic rival. ford famously made a gaffe during a second debate with carter, i'm sorry, i'm getting ahead here. ford made a gaffe in his second debate with carter when he declared there was no soviet domination of eastern europe. and then being stubborn, he refused to clarify what he meant by that only compounding his error. there was an economic downturn shortly before the election that hurt him. and last but not least, there was betrayal of ford as a klutz. i think many of you have seen the video, maybe remember seeing it on tv, in 1974, ford went to meet with the president of egypt anwar sadad. it was raining outside. ford was walking outside of air force one and slips down the stairs. and next thing you know, any slip, any trip, any fall or near fall

there are so many fun stories and insights into the white house, nancy reagan, ronald reagan. what goes on behind the scenes as. i think it is a little bit different than it is today. we didn't have messages going out in the middle of the night or social media that we had a great deal of respect. we didn't have cell phones, we have pagers that we knew that you probably were not going to hear back from someone on till the next morning unless there was an emergency. it was never so happy as to get rid of it. the radios we literally called them bricks. i suppose we had fake news. i think all of you for coming and i hope you will come back for the next event in a couple of. weeks. if you don't have a copy yet you can get one before you go into the line or you can get one outside of the store. she will take questions as you are going through. she also brought a few things. you can ask her questions and talk about them a little bit and we will see you in a few minutes. thank you all for coming. [applause] i can't explain the feeling feet you have during a school shooting. one thing

he was with ronald reagan. he was with a lot of different people over the years, and i feel very sad about that. it doesn't involve me, but i still feel it's a very sad thing that happened. this has nothing to do with russian collusion. this started as russian collusion, this has absolutely nothing to do — this is a witch—hunt, and it's a disgrace. worth saying this was on the way to a campaign rally where he said nothing about this. no, this was a very typical donald trump rally, talking about his achievements while being an office, but significantly and noticeably not tackling what has happened over the last three hours, these past extraordinary hours where in the space ofjust a few moments, a view —— as you have just been reporting, into two separate courts, two figures certainly in the life of donald trump, his personal lawyer and campaign manager during the 2016 election, during the crucial summer months about election, both in court, one being found guilty and the other admitting guilt. very serio

i like ronald reagan. [cheering and applause] and then it got bigger and bigger and wilder and wilder. and then we won by a lot. don't forget, it was 306-223, that's a lot. there is no way according to fake news cnn. there is no way for trump to get to 270. there is no pathh. remember the expression? ladies and gentlemen, there is no path for donald trump to get to 270. there wasn't but real sex was no problem. [cheering and306 was no problem. [cheering and applause] after years of rebuilding other countries, we are finally rebuilding our country. [cheering and applause] >> in the numbers just released, the reporters didn't cover this one. to me, it was better than the 4.1 because we will be doing better than the 4.1 as things go. for the first time, maybe ever, the trade deficit just fell. think of that, for the quarter, $52 billion. . nobody reports it! why don't you report that? just fell by $52 billion. and because of our economic planning and our charging taxes on tariffs to all of the dumpers of stee

he was with ronald reagan there. he was with a lot of different people over the years and i feel very sad about that, because it involved me, but i still feel it isa it involved me, but i still feel it is a very sad thing that happened. this has nothing to do with russian collusion the. it started as a russian collusion, this has absolutely nothing to do, it is a witch—hunt and it is a disgrace. this has nothing to do what they started out, looking for russians involved in our campaign, there were none the. i feel very badly for paul manafort. he worked for goal, he worked for ronald reagan, he worked for many people. this is the way it ends up and it was not the original mission, believe me. —— bob dole. it was something very much different. it had nothing to do with russian collusion, we continue to witch—hunt. thank you very much. speaking outside of the court after the verdict, we heard from paul ma nafort‘s the verdict, we heard from paul manafort‘s lawyer, who told reporters the 69—year—old is d

so reagan went out and raised the money and aired the speech himself. >> ronald reagan: and this idea that government is beholden to the pele -- that it has no other source of power, except the sovereign people -- is still the newest and thmost unique idea in all the long to man. of man's relation this is the issue of this election -- whether we believe in ourel capacity forgovernment or whether we abandon the american revolution and confess that a little intellectual elits in a farnt capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselve >> mann: the speech was called "a time for choosing," which mag be ronald 's best speech ever, and that's saying a lot for ronald reagan, 'cause he a gaot of great speeches. but this speech was a masterpiece. and it probably made the best case for barry goldwater that anybody, including for himself.ter, had made >> our democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issu. they want to make you and i believe that this is a contest 'rbetween two men -- that to choose just between two personalities. well, what of this man thathey wo

a former speech writer for ronald reagan, he is a key advocate of the proposal and has been an adviser to the government on how to bring it to life. he invited me to the unconventional little school he runs with his wife in the capital, tegucigalpa. there's a contract. all the students here have all signed this contract. there's a concept of self—governance. uh-huh. 15 points on the contract. that's right, that's right. the students actually wrote this. it wasn't imposed on them. they had a — they had their own constitutional convention, as it — as it were. it all feels like a microcosm of how he sees the world, where the right rules can be the key to progress. mark has been developing his version of the private cities idea for years. he says, using the anglo—saxon legal system, favoured and understood by investors, would reassure them and provide a key incentive that would also work for hondurans. it's to create a place for hondurans, it's to give hondurans a place that provides hondurans with what they want by creating also a place where foreign investors and foreign capital

kennedy, richard nixon, ronald reagan, george romney, nelson rockefeller and third party candidate george wallace. our guests are pat buchanan who worked on richard nixon's presidential campaign in 1968 and barbara perry, presidential studies director at the university of virginia miller center. first, president lynn done b. johnson in a televised oval address from march 31, 1968, when he surprised the nation with his announcement that he would not run for reelection. >>> on the last evening in march, 1968, the stage was set. shortly before 9:00 p.m., washington time, in the midst of last-minute electronic preparations, president johnson put the finishing touches on his address to the nation. finally, with the reassuring presence of his family, seated nearby, the president was ready to deliver one of the most important speeches of his entire life. a speech that would alter the course of world history. >> good evening, my fellow americans. tonight, i want to speak to you of peace in vietnam and southeast asia. no other question so pre occupies our people. no other grief so absorbs the 250

ronald reagan's daughter, patty daif davis has an opinion piece titled my father, ronald reagan would never have to do for this. >> good evening. thank you for having me. >> you just heard president carter's comments. president trump seems to be testing that practice. what do you think your father would have to say? >> i think my father would be appalled. i think he would also be really heartbroken at where this country has come to and where we have sunk to. i think he would be frightened at the use of the word enemy toward the media. you know, the word enemy is really a very strategic word, if you think about it. if you call someone the enemy, you've dehumanized them. you've married thde them into a. i think it's broader than calling the media the enemy. you've spoktoked fear in people. you've stoked fear in this country just been invoking the word enemy. i heard a quote that i believe was attributed to the romanian dictator executed in '89. i'm not 100 positive but the quote was you can do whatever you want if you keep the people frightened enough. i think that is the agenda of this

he was with ronald reagan. he was with a lot of different people over the years. and i feel very sad about that. it doesn't involve me, but i still feel -- it's a very sad thing that happened. this has nothing to do with russian collusion. this started as russian collusion. this has absolutely nothing to do -- this is a witch hunt and it's a disgrace. this has nothing to do what they started out, looking for russians involved in our campaign. there were none. i feel very badly for paul manafort. again, he worked for bob dole. he worked for ronald reagan. he worked for many, be many people. and this is the way it ends up. it was not the original mission, believe me. it was something very much different. so had nothing to do with russian collusion. we continue the witch hunt. thank you very much. >> so, wolf, i don't know if you caught it, but there at the beginning, the president said i feel bad, i feel badly for both. that was in response to shouted questions, not just about paul manafort, but also about michael cohen. but the president didn't say anything else ab