reagan. we have two more quotes here. would you be a forceful first lady in your opinion? >> oh, i -- it depends what you mean by forceful. >> it's 1980 and with her husband running for president, nancy reagan was in the spotlight. >> i have a feeling president carter doesn't have a foreign policy. >> nancy is tuflt more than an adoring wife. >> i don't think i'm tough. >> where some see a good wife standing by her man -- >> she's always pushing to make sure that he succeeded. as any good wife would do. >> we can make america great again. >> others see her as the power broker in the relationship. >> all right. go on. the brains behind her husband. you've read that. >> no. my husband is the brains of the family. >> nancy reagan was seen as a retro grade traditional figure. yet, it is hard to think of someone who was just so comfortable with her own power and so unafraid to use it. >> speaking of nancy, she's been the first lady in my life for a long time. >> nancy davis and ronald reagan met i

smith: governor reagan? mr. reagan: yes. mr. president, once again, i happen to be against the amendment, because i think the amendment will take this problem out of the hands of elected legislators and put it in the hands of unelected judges. i am for equal rights, and while you have been in office for four years, and not one single state, and most of them have a majority of democratic legislators, has added to the ratification or voted to ratify the equal rights amendment. while i was governor, more than eight years ago, i found 14 separate instances where women were discriminated against in the body of california law, and i had passed and signed into law 14 statutes that eliminated those discriminations, including the economic ones that you have just mentioned, equal pay and so forth. i believe that if in all these years that we have spent trying to get the amendment, that we had spent as much time correcting these laws, as we did in california and we were the first to do it. if i were president, i would also now take a look

. >> reagan and i did talk about it. and there was a couple that occurred near downtown where -- where reagan worked. it was just, "be careful." apparently, i think everybody was pretty certain that it was one individual that was creating this havoc around town. >> reporter: now, in his fog of grief, reagan's father didn't make any connections between the attacks and his daughter's death. but one of the victims did. >> as soon as they announced that reagan tokes was missing and then they found her body, you know, my friend called me and said, "this is too coincidental. it's all within a three-mile radius. i guarantee you that that individual that had murdered reagan tokes is somehow connected to your case." >> reporter: were they connected? the attacks happened miles away from where reagan's body was found in a different police district. so maybe not. lt. davidson had been on reagan's case non-stop for more than 30 hours when he thought about getting some rest. he'd barely been home when his phone rang at 10:30. one of h

we've always known reagan's started it. we never knew that the idea came from a letter from richard nixon. but his real contributions came from bigger matters of substance. when gorbachev comes to power, nixon meets with gorbachev. he finds that this could be a man that reagan could do business with, as margaret thatcher said. he senses there is an opportunity to move forward and end the cold war, and he wants reagan to meet with gorbachev, strength. position of when reagan announces his intentions to build the strategic defense initiative nixon immediately doubts the , science. he doubts it will ever work but , he loves the idea of using it for leverage in a negotiation, and almost from the beginning he as a key bargaining chip. when gorbachev threatens to pull pull out of -- to pull out of negotiations -- remember in reykjavik, gorbachev walks out because he tells reagan, this is contingent on you getting rid of sdi. reagan says no. nick and -- nixon helps come up with a solution. nixon suggests to bud mcfarlane, reagan's

governor reagan? >> i don't know if the president is supposed to be replying to me but sometimes i have a hard time in connecting what he's saying with what i have said or with what my positions are. sometimes it's like the witch doctor that gets mad when a good doctor comes along with a cure that will work. my point i have made already, mister president, with regard to negotiating, it does not called for nuclear superiority in the part of the united states. it is calls for a mutual reduction of these weapons as i say to the point i neither of us can represent a threat. to the other. and to suggest that the salt-2 treaty that your negotiators negotiated hoisted continuation based on all of the preceding efforts by two previous presidents is just not true. it was a new negotiation because, as i say, president forward was within 10% of having a solution that could be acceptable. and i think our allies would be very happy to go along with a fair and verifiable salt agreement. >> president carter, you hav

reagan: mr. stone, i have submitted an economic plan that i have worked out in concert with a number of fine economists in this country, all of whom approve it and believe in a five-year projection that this plan can permit the extra spending for needed refurbished spending on our defensive posture, that it can provide for a balanced budget by 1983, if not earlier, and that we can afford, along with the cuts i have proposed in government spending, we can afford the tax cuts i have proposed and mainly because mr. carter's economic policy has built into the next five years and beyond that a tax increase that will be taking $86 billion more next year out of people's pockets than was taken this year. my tax cut does not come close to eliminating that $86 billion increase. i'm only reducing the amount of the increase. in other words, i am not talking about government getting less money, but cutting the increase in spending. >> the same question now goes to president carter. would you like to have the

was his thought and he said it to reagan when reagan was in the white house, he said if reagan 76,not challenged ford in then ford might well have won the 1976 election. if he had, than reagan never would have been president because if a republican had one in 76, ford would not have been -- the incumbent would not have been challenged by another republican and reagan would have waited until 1984 by which time he would clearly have been too old to run for president. next question. hello. this, who have not addressed the media yet, changes in the media over the years. the other question is, you know the bushes, is jeb bush going to run? prof. brands: i'm going is put that into two parts, i will let jonathan deal with the media because he is media, and i will let chase weigh in on whether jeb bush is going to run. we talk a lot about how the media is so much tougher on presidents today than the media was back in the day and it is often cited in terms of their private lives or sex handles -- scandals, and i think that is true. if you actually spend a lot of time looking at the way the pre

president, governor reagan. we now go to another question -- a question to president carter by barbara waiters. >> thank you. you have addressed some of the major issues tonight, but the biggest issue in the mind of american voters is yourselves -- your ability to lead this country. when many voters go into that booth just a week from today, they will be voting their gut instinct about you men. you have already given us your reasons why people should vote for you, now would you please tell us for this your final question, why they should not vote for your opponent, why his presidency could be harmful to the nation and, having examined both your opponent's record and the man himself, tell us his greatest weakness. >> barbara, reluctant as i am to say anything critical about governor reagan, i will try to answer your question. first of all, there is the historical perspective that i just described. this is a contest between a democrat in the mainstream of my party, as exemplified by the actions that i have taken i

reagan and william f. buckley, did they ever have any difference of opinion as far as conservatism or they were pretty much in accord? and with that i thank you for taking my question. >> thank you. >> william f. buckley was shut out of the goldwater campaign. late in 1963 by a power play by a fellow by the name of bill barude. he was the head of the american enterprise institute. it was power politics. he leaked the story that bill buckley was trying to take over the campaign. william f. buckley on several different occasions said he didn't think barry goldwater would make a good president. that he wasn't ready to be president, that he wasn't smart enough to be president. that -- in our now, ronald reagan's relationship to william f. buckley is fascinating, complicated, they went to logger heads on a lot of major issues. for example, the panama canal, they had famous debate in which william f. buckley argued the panama canal treaty of the late '70s was a good thing. ronald reagan had basically run his 197

one of his principles was, people think that ronald reagan is a bigot, they fear that ronald reagan is a bigot but they might have sympathy with his ideas, they might even harbor a little bigotry themselves, so the most important thing they had to do about that was to convince all voters supporting ronald reagan was not an act of bigotry. the way they realized they could do that was a template that all republican campaigns have repeated since, in which in fact the trump campaign repeated in spades last week at their convention, which is to speak as often as possible for african american audiences and have as many african-americans as possible speak on his behalf. that this was not an attempted outreach for black loaders but an outreach toward what we would now call suburban moderate. that was why when they decided where they were going to open their general election campaign they decided to do it before the urban league. the big african-american mainstream civil rights organization, in fact, probably the most moderate of all the civil rights organization. but there was a scheduling sna

i noticed governor reagan mentioned the reagan kemp roth proposal which his own running mate, george bush, called it voodoo economics. business week, not a democratic publication, said this reagan kemp roth proposal and i quote them, i think, was completely irresponsible and would result in inflationary pressures which would destroy this nation. so our proposals are very sound and very carefully considered to stimulate jobs, to improve the industrial complex of this country, to create tools for american workers, and at the same time would be anti-inflation nair in nature. so to add 9 million new jobs, to control inflation and to plan for the future with an energy policy now intact as a foundation is our plan for the years ahead. >> mr. ellis, do you have a follow up question for mr. carter? >> yes, mr. president. you have mentioned the creation of 9 million new jobs. at the same time the unemployment rate still hangs high as does the inflation rate. now, i wonder, can you tell us what additional policies you would pursue in a second administration in order to try to bring down that i

it speaks a lot about reagan and it speaks a lot about reagan about the marriage of man and moment. bakerare guests, peter and susan glasser and their new book about james baker. we welcome your comments. (202) 748-8001 four republicans. for democrats, (202) 748-8000. for independents (202) 748-8002. texts, encourage your (202) 628-0184 -- (202) 748-8003 . we talk about white house chief of staff for ronald reagan, secretary of state for george h w bush, and also white house chief of staff. what brought him into washington in the first place under the presidency? guest: it was not a normal trajectory. wasn't normal for it now or ever. after one year of his arrival in washington, he went to run the presidential campaign. that is the surprise for peter and i was to realize during this time, much jim baker was an indispensable man in washington. he didn't even get there until he was 45 years old, making him the world's most successful midcareer change. his story of the previous two decades in houston i think really was a fascinating one for us to learn. it began with an unlikely friend

reagan says no. nixon suggest to bud mcfarlane, national security advisor, i feel very strongly the president could pull off a coup by offering to mutually share with the soviets the results of our research on sdi. --s would undercut her child which of -- gorbachev's position. he was right. he pops in men and brought him back to the negotiating table. displayed a role in getting the soviets to agree to the inf treaty. nixonresident bush, privately went to china after the tiananmen square tragedy. he met with chinese leadership and spoke brutally blunt language to him. tiananmen, i told him would be " the death of the relationship with the u.s. if it happened again." on returning home, he reported to the president who was faced with a political crisis in washington. democrats and many republicans weren't put sanctions on the chinese. but the fact that nixon deliver the message helped defuse the situation. he worked with boris yeltsin to assist to be -- to assist the emerging democracy. president clint

reagan: yes. i have so many things there to respond to, i'm going to pick out something you said earlier. you've been all over the country repeating something that, i will admit, the press has also been repeating, that i believed that nuclear missiles could be fired and then called back. i never, ever conceived of such a thing. i never said any such thing. in a discussion of our strategic arms negotiations, i said that submarines carrying missiles and airplanes carrying missiles were more conventional-type weapons, not as destabilizing as the land-based missiles, and that they were also weapons that, or carriers, that if they were sent out and there was a change, you could call them back before they had launched their missiles. but i hope that from here on you will no longer be saying that particular thing, which is absolutely false. how anyone could think that any sane person would believe you could call back a nuclear missile. i think is as ridiculous as the whole concept has been. so thank you

reagan for the republican nomination. you disagreed with him on such a issues of vague limits amendment, abortion, and you even labeled his economic policies as voodoo. now you're pretty agree with him on every issue. if you should be called upon to assume the presidency, would you follow mr. reagan's policies down the line or would you revert to some of your own ideas? vice pres. bush: i don't think there is a great difference between my ideas and president reagan's. one of the reasons i think we are an effective team is that i believe firmly in his leadership. he has really turned this country around. we agree on the economic programs. when we came into office, inflation was 12.5%, interest rates wiping out every single american, 21.5%, if you can believe it. productivity was down. savings was down. there was despair. in fact, the leadership of the country told the people that there was a malaise out there. this president turned it around and i have been with him every step of the way. and, of course, i would continue t

well as a conservative that goes all the way back to working in the reagan white house i would definitely say that president trump is a conservative probably the most pro-life president and american history and ronald reagan obviously was the 1st leader of the pro-life movement in america if you look at his efforts to try to secure our borders that's something that i've been fighting for for decades lowering taxes slashing regulations that is going to be the legacy of this president not to mention putting 3 supreme court justices that are constitutionalists on the supreme court and 300 constitution with non. courts across the country i think he has the definition of a conservative president and he has a populist just like ronald reagan was a popular and he you ran as a populist i will give you that he ran as a populist ok but jim you know before i go to chris here but the chamber of commerce is into endorsee joe biden ok and shot no he said no but you do mention all the culture stuff ok that's not securing the border that's not your illegal orders and stopping illegal immigration is not a

trump has a lot of the reagan people. lighthizer. he was the number two trade guy with reagan. larry kudlow was for reagan. you have the speechwriter that road bring down that wall. a lot of the same people. attention is them is a bipartisan affair that has been around long before populism. michael, i should recommend, look at the tariff list. download lighthizer's tariff list and take a look at what's there. the stuff you are talking about to that even relative list. we have a number of prohibitions have been around my entire lifetime when there has been no populist president. you cannot make pickup trucks in a foreign country because there is a massive tariff on it that has been there forever. obama and bush never one stringed about eliminating. they said we have import prohibitions, the jones act, bush, obama, reagan, they all promised the special interest that we are going to keep that prohibition on importing social ship. trump is the first one who has not promised to that lobby. as i explained in the book he tries and so far has failed to get rid of it, but he is not tell

to oust of him before and or did sure he's dangerous for life as was ronald reagan on trade run rate and almost all post room were 2 republicans were adamantly pro free trade in favor of nafta in favor of things like the true pacific partnership in terms of protections gratian ronald reagan and george bush and george bush and john to keep supporting the past illegality for the 11000000 people. we're here again illegally. roots and are now working and living in america on trucks and nativist wants deport everyone and stop every form of immigration. see trump is a is america 1st isolationism is a radical departure from the crowd globalism of the republican party under white eisenhower and reagan and nixon and ford so yet done trump has dramatically changed the republican party which is why millions of republicans like me have left ok well i don't see the republican party really fighting the charge for donald trump here i mean when you look at foreign policy they've turned against them almost every single way here and i'm going to go back to ted here you know dick responding to what chr

bush, obama, reagan. they all promised the special interest that they were going to keep that prohibition on importing the cultural shipments. trump is the first one that hasn't promised that he would keep it. as i said in the book he tried and so far has failed to get rid of it, but he isn't telling the special interests that they can keep that. so, i think to settle this debate we need to be grounded in what's actually said, and what's actually what the policies are. they are brilliant people with lots of things they say and lots of things they do, but i think as quantitative social scientists, we have ways to bring that together and you will see a different picture. >> mike, do you agree that the trade war -- maybe it isn't nearly as important as what you make it out to be particularly versus some of what he views as successes? >> no, i don't. you know, i agree with casey on the record that republican presidents have imposed trade protections. there's no question about that. president bush, president r

under the reagan administration. under the reagan administration, and i am not going to be found wrong on that. i'm sure of my facts. we are trying to help, and i think we are doing a reasonable job, but we are not going to rest until every single american that wants a job, gets a job and until this prosperity and this recovery is benefiting many americans, benefits all americans. bush, one ofdent the most emotional issues in this campaign has been the question of the separation of church and state. what are you views on the separation of church and state with regard to abortion and do you believe it was right for the archbishop of philadelphia to have a letter read in 300 five churches urging catholics to fight abortion with their votes? vice pres. bush: i do believe in pluralism. i do believe in separation of church and state. i don't consider abortion a religious issue. i consider it a moral issue. i believe the archbishop has every right to do everything he wants in that direction, just as i never faulted jesse j

reagan talk about trade. i explain in the book and once i wipe the tears away, and look at what reagan did, reagan as just as much protectionist as trump. reagan is the iconic republican. he was so protectionist. what he did different and the reason there weren't reagan trade wars, did he quotas, and he protected the industries with quotas, instead of tariffs. extra money that people pay go to the foreign companies rather than america. >> then it was japan and now it's chinament it was japan and east asia that reagan was threatening protectionism, and quotas to try to deal with that. in his second term reagan got the japanese and some other southeast asian country to agree to some copyrights and so on. same thing with trump. in fact, trump has a lot of the reagan people and the lead trade guy now. you have kudlow there from reagan. you have the speech writer, bring down that wall. he was there. so there are a lot of same people. protectionism, i think, is a bipartisan affair that has been around long before p

well, it was a very important to ronald reagan, back in 1981, to ronald reagan, back in 1981, to demonstrate he wasn't in trouble. he wasn't on live television when he did that, right? in fact, television when he did that, right? infact, it television when he did that, right? in fact, it happened so quickly after the assassination attempt, three minutes, but he arrived at the hospital, he was doing it mostly to send a message to those around him. like, ican message to those around him. like, i can do this. and then, as we know, he got into the hospital and managed to walk 35 feet before he collapsed like a deadweight into the arms of his agents. and we learned he had been shot and nearly killed. reagan lost more than half his blood that day and a bullet was extracted just one inch from his heart. but to your point about it being important for donald trump to be seen walking to the helicopter, it goes, actually, to the next day after reagan had been shot, after he had been shot, he had to sign a dairy bill, and it is kind of crazy, dairy bill, but if he didn't sign the bill it wouldn't go int

kate, nancy reagan has been credited as being the political brains behind her husband ronald reagan. how instrumental -- you have done a lot of reporting on this. how instrumental was she in getting his career going? >> she was the engine behind the machine of ronald reagan. everything he did, nancy either approved or thought of or she was right by his side. when you look back on pictures -- this program tonight is great. we see her inside the oval office, in the situation room. she's more in the west wing than she was in the east wing. that really goes back to her protecting ronald reagan and wanting him to shine. she was involved. she was really a part of the entire political machine. >> she certainly was. nancy reagan tried to emulate jackie kennedy in some ways, her attempt at bringing glamour to the white house. she was highly criticized at times for her decorating, the way she dressed. why was the media and the public so tough on her in those areas? >> this was the '80s. two things were going on. there was this super wealthy dynasty moment and then there was a country in financ

i learned a heckuva lot from ronald reagan. i know he cared passionately about education and about working across the aisle and i just would like people to say that we made a difference and that we have improved the lives of our children and worked hard to improve education and the state is better off. i'd be happy with that. >> thank you so much again for your leadership and really the impact that you've made towards both the state and our country and i really look forward to hopefully getting to do something like this in person with you in the not-too-distant future. just like you are taking the time to be at this important event today and again for all you do. >> thank you for the opportunity, i've enjoyed it . >> night on the communicators, tech freedom founder baron soak up in free press co-ceo jessica gonzales on issues that may play a role in campaign 2020.>> what demonstration is trying to do is narrow the protections for content moderation so that websites would no longer be protected if they tried to remove content bu

when hinkley shot him and jerry parr through reagan in the back of the limousine, reagan didn't know he was shot. he thought he cracked a rib. he saidierry get off of me. he sat up in the back of the limo. and parr saw that the foamy blood was coming from his lips. he ordered it to go to george washington hospital. probably that decision that saved reagan's life. reagan was bleeding internally and his lungs were filling in blood. he could have drowned in his own blood if they went to the white house. the day was a disaster in terms of communication. frank reynolds and announced the death of jim brady and had to retract it while on national television. >> laura: craig, to bring it to a parallel to today, of course, question didn't have social media in 1981. thank god. a better time. >> yes. >> laura: we didn't have social media. take to us present day and how the recriminations and the nastiness. that might have happened in 1981. they hated reagan in 81. might have happened if they had social media. >> yeah. well, here's the way i best contrast 1981 with today, laura. ten o'neal, who

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ron paul and ronald reagan. i think he compares to ron paul and that ron paul is a very straightforward speaker who does not really care what the press thinks, but he just speaks from his heart about his ideas. it is his downfall. it was part of barry's downfall. also reagan likened that the core of his ideas that barry goldwater ran on ronald reagan letter implemented. ronald reagan had a smoother style. he was mr. hollywood. he had that wonderful smile and people loved him and he made people laugh. he ran basically on the same ideas that barry goldwater did and it brought one in a landslide. sometimes when people say people did not like barry goldwater's ideas are there were not ready for them, i do not think that was a fair assessment. i think the assassination plan a key role at that time. i think the poor messaging barry goldwater barry did was a factor. i don't think it was the ideas. i think it was the way they were sold. >> >> i think the liberal congressman from illinois speaks with equal forthrightness

ilya: he had worked with reagan when reagan was the governor of california, and kind of previewed the judicial selection process he would take to the white house in california. that is to look at people who were not simple he loyal republicans, but look at what kind of intellectual or jurisprudential commitments they might have. at the same time, with robert work and scalia and other academics, originalism was a burgeoning area of intellectual fervent. meese gave a famous speech in 1985, halfway through reagan's two terms, talking about the need for appointing originalists. at the time it was original intent of framers but that has been refined since nobody cares or knows what james madison had to say about violent video games, but what the words on the page meant when they were enacted. meese played an important role in linking intellectual develop into the sort of judges that president reagan and subsequent republican presidents wanted to appoint. susan: in addition to scalia, reagan also brought anthony kennedy and sandra day o'connor to the court and elevated justice rehnquist to

had worked with reagan when reagan was the governor of california, and kind of previewed the judicial selection process he would take to the white house in california. that is to look at people who were not simple he loyal republicans, but look at what kind of intellectual or jurisprudential commitments they might have. at the same time, with robert work and scalia and other aademics, originalism was burgeoning area of intellectual fervent. meese gave a famous speech in 1985, halfway through reagan's two terms, talking about the need for appointing originalists. at the time it was original intent of framers but that has been refined since nobody cares or knows what james madison had to say about violent video games, but what the words on the pavement when they were enacted. -- played an important role in linking intellectual develop into the sort of judges that resident reagan and subsequent republican presidents wanted to appoint. susan: in addition to scalia, reagan also brought anthony kennedy and sandra day o'connor to the court and elevated justice rehnquist to chief. of's focus

it was very important to reagan, to demonstrate that he was not in trouble. he wasn't on live television when he did that. in fa ct, television when he did that. in fact, it happened so quickly, three minutes after the assassination attempt that he arrived at the hospital, he was doing it mostly to send a message to those around him, and even himself, i can do this. as we know he got into the hospital and walked 35 feet before he collapsed like a dead weight in the arms of his agents and we learned that he was shot and nearly killed. he lost more than half his blood today and a bullet was extracted nearly an inch from his heart. in terms of it being important for trump to be seen walking to the helicopter, it proves that actually, to the next day after reagan had been shot, but i after he had been shot, but i after he had been shot, he had to sign a dairy bill. it is kind of crazy, but if he didn't sign the bill it wouldn't go into effect. and it was “— wouldn't go into effect. and it was —— they were desperate to make sure that he could sign it, his

hear reagan talk about trade. i i explained in the book the website like the tears away, reagan was every bit protectionist as trump, okay? does that mean protectionism is populist republican? i don't know. breaking is like the iconic republican. he was so protectionist. what he did different and the recent there were not reagan trade wars is heated quotas. he protected the industries with quotas rather than tariffs, which means the revenue comes the extra money consumers pay, goes to the foreign companies rather than to our treasury. .. >> trump has a lot of lead trade guy number two and you have the speech writer who work on bring down that wall. he was there so a lot of same people protectionism is a bipartisan affair that has been around long before populism. i recommend look at the tariff. download tariff lift and take a look there. the stuff you're talking about is tiny even relative we have a number of outright proition bees about that around my entire lifetime with no populous president you can't make pick

ilya: he had worked with reagan when reagan was the governor of california, and kind of previewed the judicial selection process he would take to the white house in california. that is to look at people who were not simple he loyal republicans, but look at what kind of intellectual or jurisprudential commitments they might have. at the same time, with robert bork and scalia and other academics, originalism was a burgeoning area of intellectual fervent. meese gave a famous speech in 1985, halfway through reagan's two terms, talking about the need for appointing originalists. at the time it was original intent of framers but that has been refined since nobody cares or knows what james madison had to say about violent video games, but what the words on the pavement when they were enacted. meese played an important role in linking intellectual develop into the sort of judges that resident reagan and subsequent republican presidents wanted to appoint. susan: in addition to scalia, reagan also brought anthony kennedy and sandra day o'connor to the court and elevated justice rehnquist to chi

oh he did i mean just going to be canceled welfare reform to be clear he voted for reagan's landmark a budget to cut or eliminate health education and social services programs you're saying by the mediating things he's writing a plan to cut $100000000000.00 more more than reagan slashing medicare and social security i mean how is it that he has now seen hey how is it that someone like angela davis could be on this show saying vote biden i know he's not great but you know he's the best hope you say that is he had a friend that strong thurmond was his friend that's the racist they're legit rapist and segregationist. yeah that's part of biden's kind of view of the senate's in the senate told this he's kind of clubby culture where the ideas the political differences are really important even if they're really vile and terrible political differences what's really important is is kind of being civil to each other and so he made a big coin and big show of the fact that he was friends with strong of them and when thurmond died he was one of the few that actually went to his funeral. that the

reagan was a very humble person. he showed a lot of grit and courage when he was shot. when he saw his wife, she walked into the emergency room and he was in the trauma bay with a chest tube jammed into his side, draining all this blood, he looked at his wife and the first thing he said was, "honey, iforgot to duck." he wasn't worried about himself, he was worried about those around him. those messages and the quips he issued that day got out, and it formed a bond with the american people because it reinforced the image of who ronald reagan really was. he was a cowboy. well, to recap the menus, president trump, who has been diagnosed with coronavirus, has been admitted to walter reed hospital, nearwashington. this was the moment many people have been studying throughout the day, the moment president trump left the diplomatic reception room of the white house, having been diagnosed with coronavirus, wearing a mask and walking towards marine one. he then flew in a shortjourney towards walter reed hospital, and this is the seen live outside walter reed, where in the last f

you know saying by the may day things he's writing a plan to cut $100000000000.00 more more than reagan slashing medicare and social security i mean how is it that he has now seem hey how is it that someone like angela davis could be on this show saying vote biden i know he's not great but you know he's the best hope you say that he had a friend that strong thurmond was his friend that's the racist spin that ray preston segregationist. yeah that's part of biden's kind of view of the senate's in the senate told this he's kind of clubby culture where the ideas the political differences are really important even if they're really vile and terrible political differences what's really important is is kind of being civil to each other and so he made a big point and a big show of the fact that he was friends with strong of them and when thurmond died he was one of the few that actually went to his funeral. that the reason that people are saying now you have to have a biden is not because people have any sort of illusions about revive knows it was regulars and you know. so many people have trie

mashich, between my ideas and president reagan's. one reason i think we're an effective team is i believe firmly in his leadership. he's really turned this country around. we agree on the economic program. when we came into office, why, inflation was 12.5%, interest rates wiping out every single american were 21.5%, if you can believe it. productivity was down. savings was down. there was despair. in fact, the leadership of the country told the people that there was a malaise out there. and this president turned it around, and i've been with him every step of the way. and of course i would continue those kinds of programs because it's brought america back. america is better off. people are going back to work. and why mr. mondale can't understand that there is a new enthusiasm in this country that america is back, there is new strong leadership, i don't know. he has one answer to the problem: raise everybody's taxes. he looked right into that lens and he said out there in san francisco, he said, i'm going to raise your taxes. well, he

and god bless you nancy reagan for your moving transport to president reagan. by the way i spoke to president reagan this afternoon and i made him a promise that we would win one more for the gipper. are you ready? he appreciated it very much. ladies and gentlemen, del gaits -- delegates to the convention, i cannot say it more clearly than in plain speaking, i accept your nomination to lead our party again for the presidency of the united states. thank you. thank you. thank you. i will. thank you. i am profoundly moved by your confidence and your trust. and i look forward to leading america into the next century. at this moment -- this is not my moment. it is yours. it is yours, elizabeth. it is yours, robin. it is yours jack and joann kemp, and do not think i have forgotten whose moment this is above all. it is for the people of america that i stand here tonight and by their generous leave. and as my voice echos across darkness and desert, as it is heard over car radios on coastal roads, and as it travels above farmland and suburb, deep into the heart of citie